Adeptus Ridiculous - Origins of The Sisters of Battle, or Why The Age of Apostasy sucked so much?

Episode Date: February 3, 2021

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Welcome everyone to another episode of The Adeptus Ridiculous. And today, I don't want to waste too much time on the intro. I mean, I want to shout out the patrons at patreon.com slash adeptus ridiculous for all their amazing support. We're now doing weekly episodes. And if you join at patron or you offer any donations at patron or whatever those things are called, you'll get access to the Discord, you'll get behind the scenes stuff, you'll get HD posters that are really cool.

And at 1,337,000. on Patreon. We will be doing an episode on the Lamenters. Now, me, I don't know what the fuck that means. Apparently, the Lamenters are pretty important, and the Discord thinks that I'm going to be hella depressed after hearing about the Lamenters. So I got a hot take.

I'm not a big fan of the Lamenters. I don't think being extremely sad is a good character trait. but the lamentor is kind of like a man how how bad can your life get kind of episode and people like it's kind of it's half a meme half like well this isn't a meme this is just depression and some people like it that's why we have one three three seven for that episode i was gonna say now i get it like if they're just a giant meme no wonder it's the lead goal yeah it has to be lead speak oh yeah it has to be leet speak absolutely and then at 2000 we'll start making some more Warhammer content like mini painting. We'll do some games, some Warhammer games,

obviously for the channel and stuff like that at $2,000. So I didn't want to waste too much time on the intro. I realized I actually did waste a shitload of time, but today's episode, I'm sure Bricky, you are very excited about because we're talking about your girls. We are, mostly. Today is the age of apostasy. Which I actually don't really know what apostasy means. You know what? I'm going to look that up right now. Definition.

Isn't apostasy like religious crimes or like being tried for religious crimes? The abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief, which I would argue is ironic because this is like the exact opposite. This is like too much religious belief. I was going to say, aren't the sisters like just anything that's heretical is just. just burned in hellfire or, well, not hellfire, but you get the idea. Pretty much. Now, naturally, this, of course, is not going to be a sisters episode. We'll probably have a whole episode.

Like, you know, how we had like our Necrons War and Heaven type thing? We'll probably later on have like an episode on the Necrons in general. Their hierarchy structure, the different dynasties, where they're at right now. Same thing with the sisters. This is more the founding of as opposed to like a dedicated episode on. them. But we're talking, this is actually,

I'd argue one of my favorite pieces of Warhammer lore. Because, okay, so we just did Avengers Endgame, right? We just did the Horace heresy. And anything past that

feels like minute. This is the exception. I'm actually going to be skipping over a ton of stuff. After the heresy, you have all of this shit. You've got the great scouring.

Mr. Robot Girl of Man is coming in he's riding the Codex of Starties and then he's like breaking up the Space Marine chapters and they're hunting the chaos traitors and they like they hunt them all the way like they have to like flee to the warp

you know Magnus is gone doing his thing like there's like all this stuff but as far as I'm concerned this is like the Spider Man far from home like it came out right after end game like was it bad no but It wasn't amazing.

It's just not, you can't live up to it, you know? You just can't reach that level. It's the Horacee. How do you live up to that? I was going to say, like, what, what's there to talk about now? Like, what's everybody doing? How does, like, you know, what's chaos doing? What's the corpse emperor doing?

Like, where do you go after you've, I was literally about to say, where do you go after you climax? But anyway. Take a drag out of the old cigarette and you get back to business, right? You go to fuck to bed. Yeah. Take a long... Boy, that was a tedious three minutes, right? Anyway, that's...

Go ahead. The tedious three minutes. You know, when you're at, like, when you're on the porn site and you're, like, like, it's a 30-second ad, but it's really, really good quality, and you're, like, fastest hands in the west. That's not my ass to let for my buddy, but God damn was a good one. You okay, D.K. If that stays in the fucking episode, I will be shocked. If that is removed from the episode, I'm going to raise hell. Metaphorically, that is...

Oh, man. Okay, so with that aside, the age of apostasy is a fantastic and a very interesting period of time. I think it's because it's not about fighting chaos. It's not about the Xenos aliens, not about the tyrannids. It's about just what horrible things one man can do and how like the selfishness of a single person's actions can really topple an empire. And we're going to talk about arguably one of the most evil and horrible people in the Imperium in ever. and this is a man known as Goge Van Dyer

The most evil fucking name I've ever heard G-O-G-E V-A-N-D-I-R-E Gose van Dyer I mean like if you're a parent And you're like, oh, it's a baby boy What should we name it?

Gose Gose Like you know what future You've set up for your poor child Like they're gonna grow up to be an evil bastard This is like the epitome of evil bastards. So we're at about the 34th millennia at this point. So the Horace heresy happened like flat out year, like early 30th or sorry, late 30th, early 31st millennia.

Like the turn of the, of the, what's 10,000 years? Is there like a, I know millennia is 1,000. What's 10,000? Is there a term for that? I'm sure it's got to be a term for that. Not that I'm aware of, but... Well, regardless, it's that, it's at that turn between 29,000 and 30,000. But so now we've skipped basically three to four thousand years right now.

During this period time, Gilman was like, you know, taking all the space marines, boiling them down, having them sent out to different areas. He wrote his coax of Staris, all this kind of stuff. Now, naturally, the emperor was quite the fedora wearer, right? Right. He was quite the atheist. We've established this. Unfortunately, now he is entombed on the golden throne. And you can't, like, it's got a lot of, like, died for our sins energy, you know? Yeah, it definitely does.

The whole thing with him and that he has to fight off the warped monsters forever in all times because of Magnus's fuck up. It definitely does have a lot of died for our sins. always protecting us and always watching over us vibes for sure. Right. So naturally, religion of the emperor starts to kind of show its face, which is quite ironic because the Imperium is now moving directly towards exactly what Lorgar wanted. And was there no one at this point? Because it sounds like they're heading towards, oh yeah, we should all worship the emperor. Was there no one from like the old guard that was like, um, you guys realized. that's not what he wanted, right?

And he, like, did no one remember what happened to Lorgar, or did they not care? Or were they just so, like, enabrid and grateful to the emperor that nobody, they were just like, nah, he deserves it? A couple combinations of all of them. Unfortunately, and in a particular issue of a little bit of bad writing, I didn't really mention this. Like, all the primarks are gone. Besides Gilman doing his thing. and eventually he gets mortally wounded and is forced to go into like a stasis chamber

for a long ass time as well but like they're all gone like we'll talk about this in particular but Jacketai Khan went into the warp so did Lehman Rust they're both gone Corvus Corax is gone Rogal Doran lost his like left arm or was his right arm one of his arms and is like gone

like everyone's gone and so the leadership is quite minimal pretty much every single major prime arc is no longer in the picture. And with that, also, it's when you think about like humans, they do live longer, but they're not immortal. You know, generations have passed. Thousands of years have passed. That's fair. That, yeah.

I guess with Warhammer, it's like, oh, yeah, you know, 10,000 years have passed. And it's like, oh, that's not much for them. And it's like, oh, I guess, I guess things can kind of change. Yeah, for like your regular person, right? Yeah, yeah. So basically, after some time, I mean, there was an original church that started off. And it's kind of, it's hard. It's a lot of like semantics by being honest.

I don't really need to get too far into it because that's not our point here. But as time, you know, Emperor died for our sins, the whole thing. Little pockets of this religious kind of feeling has started to kind of like crop up, right? And that means they eventually started getting a really. into like the worship of the emperor. And the worship of its own right, of his own rights. I think the first one was the temple of the savior emperor, which I believe was actually founded by Lorgar.

But it was like reformed. It's a solid amount of irony because honestly, Lorgar is basically getting what he wanted right now. The word bearers are literally getting what they wanted. And now on the nose. It's just like, yep, this is what Lorgar wanted. it's the Church of the Savior Emperor and it's like, wow. That's what he got massacred for.

Yeah, and I mean, you know, you discuss Lorgar in modern day 40K and he's a horrible heretic, but because, you know, part of the horace heresy, but it's a lot of irony. Because right now, everyone knows the Imperium in modern Warhammer as like the zealotis, you know, prejudice, insanely religious group. And that started both with a little bit of the hand of, of Lorgar and the word bearers, but also, you know, just that's the sheer nature of people, you know, Emperor, I mean, you may have not called himself a god, but God damn it, the 10 foot tall golden plaid armor who's the most powerful guy in the galaxy. Yeah, you know. Who is still protecting us from the warp nightmares?

Not to be seen, though. Yeah. You know, almost like a deity. So all of these churches start popping. up in tons of worlds. And as time has gone on, they eventually do create something called the Adeptus Ministorum, which eventually is led to something called the Ecclesiarchy. The Ecclesiarchy is just, it's the church. Whenever you hear the word Ecclesiarchy, you think the church of the Imperium, the major imperial truth, or the imperial cult, some people

like to call it because, you know, it's kind of what. Whiz, why would it be, um? I do wonder why it seems so culty. Yeah, why would it be so culty? I, you know. Just put that due to the state because he said big E is bad. Nothing cult like about that. That's just Tuesday.

For the Imperium, it is certainly Tuesday. So as this began growing up, as we know in old school literature and all, the church held tons of power. I remember when I was when I was younger, we were learning about history. There was always one position over the king. And that was like, was like the bishop or like the pope or something, right? Bichup, archbishop, pope. Yeah, he was always the one guy who had more power than the king.

And so as it started gaining this just huge amount of power. And I mean, it's a point where it even got a major seat in, there's a thing called the High Lords of Terror. They're like the major individuals that run everything. It got its own seat. as like the Ecclesiarch. It's the Ecclesiarchy, and then there's the Ecclesi arc, which is like the main guy on the High Lord's Terra.

So as this began, you started around the, I think the 35th millennium was where we were at. And as time came on, the church started gaining its own like military. It was called the Fratteras Templars. Basically imagine like a religious,

like militia. Oh, like a Templars type of deal. Yeah, I mean, it's called Fratredist. is Templars, so I guess it really works out that well. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, okay. Yeah, well, duh. Easier. But as, as it moved up and as it got more and more powerful, it started getting really powerful, and then the church that's getting really powerful now has its own militia, and it became its own, like, its own, like, kind of bloated force. And then we began to probably one of the more crazy issues, which is where we get into Mr. Gose Van Dyer, walking into the

room. So, do you remember those warp storms that cut off areas? Yes. Well, it happened again. In the early 36 millennias, around like 35,000-ish. That started becoming a real problem. Certain plants were getting cut off. That was becoming an issue. You know, other areas of humanity we're getting stuck. Orks were coming around being a, being a problem. The Jukari, we're coming around being a problem. Everyone's, everyone's being a problem. Those are big problems. Tons of worlds started going straight into religious anarchy. They started like flagging themselves and doing like more worse acts of like penance for what they've done wrong.

Because they consider like the emperor punishing them. Okay. They started going a little, little Dracari-ish where they're like, except they were, you know, murdering and hurting themselves due, you know, as penance for their sins. Yeah, because they got bad. cut off because the emperor was mad at them and they like did something to anger him exactly so the current ecclesiarch was a man named paulus the third and he might have been the weakest baby-back bitch of all the ecclesiarchs he was like such an absolute weak horrible leader but this was kind of placed there on purpose

Ghosh van Dyer, master of the administratum, had made his way up into the ladder through just bribes, assassination, threats. He has just moved himself up the ladder. And he specifically appointed this palace guy as Ecclesiarch, knowing full well that everyone was going to hate him. And so in a muster of stress, strength. Van Dyer

went into Paulus' throne room and like, like, busted before, before you say this, please tell me he breaks his back. Please tell me he lifts him over his head and break the back. No, no, he does not break his back unfortunately. That'd be fucking great.

Van Dyer walked his way directly into like the Ecclesiarch's throne room and was like, I denounce you as Ecclesiarch and I denounce everything that you've done and had him immediately executed. without trial, without appeal, nothing. And it's a coup. You know, it was a daring coup.

And with that, Van Dyer himself proclaimed himself master of the administratum and the newest ecclesiarch. He was not only, it was like, imagine like the president, but then he considers himself the president of like all departments of America, like the judicial branch that all like he, he, he, he, he. He is like, he has taken up both positions. Wow. He is number one. That's a big deal. It's a big move. That's a big power move, yeah.

And so now that he has, therefore, taken up both the title of Ecclesiarch, you know, like leader of the church and master of the administratum, which is like the more organized part of it, basically a lot of people would consider this pretty awful. But, you know, they hated the other guy so much because he was such a bitch. They probably thought that was a big step up from the baby back bitch. Some of them did. Some of them were not so happy. Now, I'm not sure how much of this might be used as like a major basis, but I'm not quite sure which leader it was. But I think it was like Saddam Hussein. There's like that really famous horrible video of like him staying on the podium and he kind of like asks who opposes me.

me and then the people who stand up get like shot or something. Yeah, they get taken out back and executed, yeah. Yeah, something like that. That's basically what happened. The next few days, many, many people stood up to Van Dyer and his actions. And

well, they were executed, I assume. They were immediately executed. They were either, they were declared traitor, declared a heretic, and immediately killed. And this guy was such a little baby.

Anyone who was like, you know, Van Dyer, you know, I believe in you, but I'm not quite sure this is the best idea. And he would go into like a petulant rage and would just slaughter people in the thousands. And like a guy, like a high lord from a different

like a hive city would be like, you know, Van Dyer, I'm not, you know, we're with you and all, but we're not quite sure about this exterminatist thing. And he would like take out their civilians and like gun them down. in front of him and be like, you sure about that? Wow.

Like, if your high lord is mean, your whole city pays penance. He's a straight up terrorist. He's like, he's straight up. Like, I, boy, I will murder your civilians if you disagree with me and fear you into agreeing with me. Basically, like, we don't really know if he was, if he was like super unbalanced mentally before he became chief of everything, but

it became way worse. He claimed that he spoke with the authority of the emperor himself, which is what a big fucking deal, but he like, he communed, he spoke to the emperor, like personally. He says he does the thing, these things.

He would go into trance-like states where he would like pretend to speak to the emperor like he would like walk around the palace just talking to himself as if he was talking to the emperor himself often he would enter insane rages insisting that everything he said be transcribed every word be written down but at the same time to not like like spy on him like orders that defied logic that would contradict each other and anyone who is like

we can't do that it doesn't make any sense he would have executed You're literally like you're the secretary to the president and the president is like go get me a diet Coke But with but like it has but it has to be Pepsi Like sure I can't do that and they're like kill him Wow when you you weren't kidding when you said he was like the worst He is the the worst Often he would go to other worlds either worlds that were like stranded from the warp storms or something and he would expect a full blown parade a full blown like like when they when they arrived he

expected them to already know of his arrival without any given warning and if they were not prepared to give tribute often he would slar the population sometimes he would even exterminatus the fucking planet sometimes if you didn't if you if you weren't like hey goge it's so great to see you here, God love the emperor, the moment he arrived and you provided to him money, food, wealth, and especially women, he would just fucking, like, gas your planet. Holy shit. Just for not having a parade ready and not, like, offering him tribute as soon as he arrives, he would just exterminate as the planet?

He's such a petulant bitch. He's the worst. Yeah, that's putting it mildly. is, oh boy. This is known as the reign of blood, by the way. Gose van Dyer's reign of blood. Who would have guessed? Though I knew he was pretty awful, but like imperial officials doing exterminated

and killing people is not a very uncommon thing. But there was one thing in particular that I really, really was like, wow, what a piece of work. And it was the breaking of law. Lord Fadris. So one of the biggest issues that he had was bringing the adeptus astralapathica under his control. This is like the contingent

of psychers. Now, Lord Fadris was the master of the adeptus astraterpathica, which is a fucking mouthful. But he was a, like, this is all psychers. And the telepathica has them like, you know, travel the warp and stuff. He was a super potent psycher.

And as such, he, like, Van Dyer might have had, like, some charisma and shit to some people. Because, obviously, he was a horrible liar. But being a psycher, you can kind of remind us if you're smart enough. And so he saw everything. He saw his high intentions, his, like, veil of lies and his corruptness. And after enough of this, he used his psychic abilities to constantly stay a step ahead of him. And obviously, Van Dyer couldn't just kill the guy because he'd be replaced by even more powerful psycher. So he had to remove him.

And in order to do so, he lured the siker, the master of the siker into a trap. And he took a Colucusis assassin. Remember those sisters of silence that were like blanks? They had no soul? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So there's a special assassin temple called the Colucus Assassins, which are, described by the Eldar, the Eldar, the Eldar as being as being the embodiment of pure evil. Oh, wow.

They take those, they take those no soul people and they outfit them with a fancy fancy rig, which like amplifies their blank gene by like 10 times. It is often seen that just them existing on the battlefield, just them being near psychers has them like, gouging their eyes out and like ripping their skin off. Oh, no. Like constantly attempting suicide just because anything is better than being near this horrifying monstrosity. Oh, no.

This is not going to end well for the, uh, the leader of the, uh, adeptus, a star telepathica whatever is that. The big words. Yeah. That is a huge. I was like, oh, I got this. Nope. The, um, so he lured him into a trap using this assassin.

and being able to completely nullify all psychic powers in the area, he strapped him into a life support machine where the assassin permanently severed his ability to tap into the warp, permanently making him unable to be a psycher anymore, which is basically akin to, like, cutting your nuts off as a man. Like, that's like your thing, you know? That's your life. Imagine being able to read everyone's minds

and just having it shut off Oh man That might be worse Like that might be worse than castration for a psycher Because like I mean Yeah it sucks if your balls get cut off But like you're still You can still live for stuff

If you're a psycher and you just fucking lose that That's a big deal That's not It is horrendous In fact it got so bad that normally this operation would kill the psychor because these cluxuses are so insane.

But they used a Majos, Magos, I can never pronounce this properly. Basically, like a adeptus mechanicist guy, like a tech priest, used a biologist to keep him alive. And so he survived the operation, which made him insanely

depressed. And he attempted to kill himself multiple times afterwards. He attempted to take his own life like like five or six times. Jesus. But every time he tried to, every time he tried to take his own life, Van Dyer was always there.

Taking the, taking the blade out of his hand or not allowing him to like hang himself. In the end, this guy was completely broken. And in that respect, Van Dyer specifically said he would not tell the rest of the adeptus telepathica

that he lost his psychic ability. who would therefore have him replaced or, you know, have him killed. And he would not tell anyone so long as he did everything he asked. Oh, wow, that's so fucked up. And so he did. Oh, that's so fucked up. Mm-hmm. That right there for some reason feels so much worse than all the exterminatuses,

maybe because it's more personal. But, yeah. Like on a scale of things, like the exterminating, of a planet because they didn't have a parade should seem worse. But like the deliberate just savagery of this just feels so like, oh, and it's so deliberate and it's so long lasting. Like at least, oh boy, this is going to sound really bad. At least when he exterminatis as a planet, it's just like, it's over, right? It doesn't, it's not like prolonged suffering. Like, oh, yeah, that I get, well, there's like virus. There's like virus. There's like virus. There's like

virus bombing and stuff, but I mean, regardless, yeah. This is so much more personal and prolonged and deliberate and just, it makes your skin crawl. It really does. But now on the other side, let's get into a more fun topic. Let's talk about the brides of the emperor. Hey. Hey.

So through a lot of like manipulation and some more Van Dyer stuff, he heard of the existence of of a small group of, I wouldn't say like primitives, but like not Imperium level. Not like more than 21st century, but not like anything crazier. Now he heard of a small sect of warrior women on a planet known as San Lior. And he decided that to radio ahead to them and be like, hey, give me the parade and all that shit. I thought that's what you were going to say. Get the parade ready. Basically. So he went to this planet and they had a full blown parade, flowers and and food. And, you know, he was kind of going on his little thing and waving and everything. And all of these women at threat of gunpoint where we're singing his praise and, you know, all this wonderful stuff. And he found eventually there was the gigantic church, like the main temple. And at the temple, all these major.

these warrior women had the doors shut and said no like man is allowed to enter this holy ground and the main woman went to Van Dyer and said you are barred from entering this place and all of Van Dyer's associates like immediately cringed like I bet they did no no do that you're all gonna Jesus Christ but Van Dyer was calm some fucking reason. And this woman right here was named Alicia Dominica, one of my favorite characters in Warhammer lore. And he calmly stepped off his like platform

and went to her and handed her a bolt pistol. And walked back and said, I am graced by the emperor himself. You do not have the right to either bar me or harm me. And he put his hands out and he said, shoot me. Now, this is, this is like an old school, you know, they're like not primitives, but they're back in the day.

So he had a thing called a Rosaria song, which is basically like a, like a force field, like a fancy and vulnerable field. So this, this woman, Alicia Dominica, shoots him in the head and it just like a big invisible force, like a ricochets, it blows up or whatever. Yeah, yeah. As proof that the emperor himself is watching over him. Oh, what a fucker. I know, right?

And so they were like, oh, my God, he is. And so they got on their knees, they, you know, clas their hands together. They allowed him entry. Like, oh, he obviously is now the true, like, voice of the emperor. And so then he took them in. They were originally known as the daughters of the emperor, but he has now renamed them to the brides of the emperor. And they had become his personal retinue of soldiers and bodyguards.

Now, so that's, they were his like, his actual personal fighting army. But they also had like the fraternus Templars. But that was like, imagine like the sisters were his Marines and the Templars were like his imperial guard. Oh, okay. Gotcha. That's the best way I could explain it. Yeah, yeah. But they were trained by the, by the Imperial Guard with all of the skills and weapons of war and stuff.

and constantly would keep them as like really well-trained warriors. And they were also his like silent assassins too. Often if he if he said, hey, this guy's a heretic, kill him. They would just immediately go up and gun the man down. They were not a single one. He's like they're like his like you can't get more loyal than that. You really can't. Yeah.

He truly, they truly were the like the epitome of all of that. Man, I'm just waiting for this goge fucker to get his. Like, I really, I'm hoping at some point, it's just like, yeah, he gets his eyeballs taken out and shoved up his ass, so he has to constantly look at himself or something. There's a great quote in the Emperor Text to Speech episodes. The series were, I don't know if you've heard much about that, but basically, basically it's like a comedy thing, but they give the Emperor text of speech device so he can talk now.

And he's like a douchebag. It's kind of good, but he's suck. He's like, you gave it to the most evil-sounding guy ever, Gouge Van Dyer. That name just screams, I'm going to take your eyeballs out and put my penis into them. And you saying that made me think of that. The irony, right?

I know. The irony. I see what you did there, eh? Oh, I'm done. Oh, boy. But they not only did the sisters, the brides, whatever, they not only were his servants,

but they were also like, companions. They tasted all of his food in case that was poisoned. They fed him when he when he was sick. They nursed him to health, which is why they have like that kind of nun like, you know, hospital kind of vibe,

you know? They entertained him with like they were entertainers. They sang, they danced and they, you know. Wow. Yeah, I got you. You know what else they did. I know what you're throwing down. Gochventire is a bad man. Fastest hands in the West, right?

Fastest hands in the West. Yeah, because just, you know, he's a piece of shit. Often, often, often they would be sent out to serve as concubines for other high lords he liked. Oh. So, like, I actually had to look up what a

concubine specifically was referring to, but it's basically like, unlike the first lady of the Lord or something, they would be his, you know, his other servant women. Yeah. So pretty, not a good guy

nope pretty that's goge just mm-mm so uh one time like for all of their like dancing and fanciness they were still

pretty horrifying in combat often a holy a holy signoid of what's what called tried to have van die or assassinated a bit ago and what the brides did

as they went into the meeting chambers locked the doors and about an hour later carried the severed head of every single one of them. Oh. And so the sisters didn't fuck around then, and they don't fuck around now. Yeah, they, Jesus.

It doesn't sound like you could get better bodyguards than that. No, and in fact, it actually made the reign of blood even worse because now he had a fully, extremely powerful fighting force on his side. However, there was one man who hardcore spoke out against him, and that man was Sebastian III. Thor. Now, if we truly had to think of a guy who might be the goodest of guys in Warhammer, this is up there.

Sebastian Thor is basically Martin Luther. Not Martin Luther King, who was also a great guy, but Martin Luther, like, nailing the commandments on like the church, you know? Oh, oh, yeah, yeah. Not commandments, but like the... The, what was it? Common, common sense? Yeah, that whole thing. You know what I'm talking about.

I know what you're talking about. He was just a humble priest. He was a priest, the preacher. And he would constantly, like, he was just such an insanely motivational speaker. And he would constantly go to worlds and talk up the power of the imperial truth. But he would start consistently denouncing the Lord of the Lord, High Lord, Terror, Ghosh Van Dyer. And often many, many assassination attempts on his life were, you know, attempted. but they just, he was always one step ahead of them.

And this became a real thorn in Ghosh Van Dyers' side. And eventually he would practically lead like a religious crusade, Sebastian Thor, that is, constantly gaining his own group of Frouinus Templars and his own, like kind of, I'm not quite sure how to say, I want to say his procession, but, you know, his own, what, what's the group in a church called, like, like the people? Is that procession or is that like? Sure. I don't know. I was going to say, I guess he's more of a Thor in his side, eh? Because he's

Spastion of Thor, you know. Stupid, stupid. But he started getting quite a following. And this led over to both the Adeptus Astardis, which is the Space Marines, of course, and the Mechanicus, who both of them were kind of like, ooh, I don't like this Goge guy. But naturally, they're, too busy, you know, killing chaos and orcs. And they had their own things to deal with. But with time, the chapter planets, like the planets that all the primarks were born on and the forge worlds and the Mechanicus started to became practically fortresses

where you could go to survive the horrible amount of anarchy and death that was basically present everywhere in the reign of blood. It was almost like a safe haven. And because of that, many, many space marine chapter masters and high, fabricators of the Mechanicus found Sebastian Thor and his news and either ally with him or swore to protect him because, you know, they were like, yeah, holy shit, this Goge guy is a fucking asshole. Yeah, that's an understatement, but yeah.

Yeah, they believe that he went against like the machine god and everything he said, the machine god stood for. Often the Van Dyer would like, would ask the Mechanicus like to forcefully make him all this crap and they'd be like, no. However, eventually with enough time, Sebastian Thor gathered an insane following. And that was when another coup, I guess, or more of a revolt would finally spark.

Going over to Terra, which is Earth, if you forget, because some people forget that, going over to Terra with large fleets of space marines and mechanicus vessels, they began practically, trying to get him removed get him getting the fuck out of there there. There was just one problem there was an entire

gigantic military force of Fradus Templars and Sisters of Battle and they were way too powerful in fact they fought consistently and Van Dyer was like yo my generals my high lords of terror guys

go out there and deal with those space marines and mechanicus and And they were like, no, that's fucking suicide. Are you shitting me? And then, of course, they were executed for not doing it. Of course, of course, because this goes, yeah. Yeah, because he's a fucking douchebag. But they're like, all of them were like, fuck that.

I ain't fighting the space marines. Are you shitting me? And, you know, and then every time they said no, a sister, a battle would unsheath her sword and cut his head off. Yeesh. Because, yeah. That's how it works. That's what he does. that's what they do.

That's what they do. So does he have any fighting force left or did they finally? I guess we're going to go fight him. Well, they basically they held up in the ecclesiarchal palace. The imperial palace, I think there's the imperial palace. I'm not sure which palace it was. But basically all of the Templars and the sisters were so trained, so powerful that they couldn't break the siege. I mean, they probably couldn't with enough like power.

firepower, but this was like, this was Terra. This was the holy area of the emperor himself. They were basically held up in the emperor's like, emperor's palace. So you can't just bomb it. That's true, you can't really. And then he had all the issue with like the

human populace and they kept on trying to get through to the palace and they couldn't get past the sisters and they couldn't get past the Templars with, you know, his little militia. But, but during this entire frame of time,

that's my favorite fucking part of the story and I love this. During this entire part, the Adeptus custodies, the Golden Boys, right? The Watchers of the Emperor himself, they were kind of didn't have a horse in this race. Their job is simple.

Protect the emperor. Nothing but. But the main guy, getting into Captain General. I don't know if it was Constantine Valador if it was Trajan Valores, but one of the major Captain Generals was kind of sitting there watching.

Now, this is a cool thing. I don't know if I mentioned it before, but it's called the blood games that the custodians would do. And basically, they would take half the custodians and they would attempt to break into the palace and kill the emperor, not actually, but like attempt to do so

as if they were the enemy. And this would allow them to consistently shore up their defenses and figure out stuff. So the imperial palace is just a maze of hidden passageways and secret entrances and all this crap that allow the custodians to traverse because in case of any kind of battle.

Now, because of this, the Captain General used said things to escape from the Imperial Palace and go meet with the Marines and the Mechanicus and ask them what the hell's going on. And they've been basically telling him everything going on, what the hell is happening, all this crazy shit. Because at this point, it's becoming a bit of a danger to Big E,

everything and they kind of need a little bit of a horse in the race. So after learning about everything, this custodian would eventually enter the room with the major contingent of sisters, Alicia Domenica being one of them. And he would meet with them quietly and personally. And he spoke with Alicia and told him her everything, what Van Dyer is, what he's been doing, all this kind of stuff. And she would not have it. she refused

she was so loyal like like you know custodian is obviously extremely like appreciate appreciate but it's not enough right yeah so he saw no other option

so what he did the custodian the captain general he left like four of his personal bodyguard as hostages for the sisters and he escorted Alicia Domenica and her personal five bodyguard warriors named Arabella

Lucia, Mina, Sylvana, and Catherine also, which is the triumph of St. Catherine, which is the model that you can purchase as the sisters now. Oh, okay. That like coffin dance, that's actually the corpse

of Catherine who was here for this. Oh, okay. Which is kind of cool. But he led them directly into the golden throne of the emperor himself. like they stood in front of the corpse of the emperor himself and nobody knows what happened nothing has been recorded

no one has said anything but when they stepped out of the room Alicia Dominica eyes would be would be misconstrued as the center of the sun she was fucking appalled and enraged to a level like never before seen

she was so insanely angry and she took her and her five other women and marched to Van Dyer and I quote You have committed the ultimate heresy Not only have you turned your back on the emperor

And stepped away from his light You have profaned his name And almost everything destroyed almost everything He has driven to build You have perverted and twisted The path he has laid for mankind to tread As your own decrees have stated There can be no murder

mercy for such a crime. No pity for such a criminal. I renounce your lordship. You walk in the darkness and cannot be allowed to live. Your sentence has been long overdue. And now it is time for you to die. And as she said these words to Van Dyer, he like shaking his head and like, his body trembling, in a sense, he might have been like so divorced from reality that he

barely even understood what she was saying. And his last words, and this is the only thing. about Ghosh Van Dyer that I find fucking funny is quote I don't have time to die I'm too busy It is the only Chad thing Van Dyer has ever done Oh I hope she fucked him up something good. I hope he gets like unsheathing Dominica's power sword she took one swing and is and at his head and decapitated his body right there on the spots which is interesting because Van Dyer's forcefield, Rosarius, just happened to fail him at that time.

Oh. Which is kind of a thought process of like the sister's ability to create miracles because of the emperor's will. Oh, okay. It's somewhat assumed that maybe the emperor was like, no Rosarius for you. And right like that, just head decapitator from his body and Ghosh Van Dyer would cease to be. I will be honest with you there was a problem I was like man I really wanted him

to have like prolonged suffering I really hope he got kneecapped yeah I was like man if they could like hook him up to a machine that like constantly tortures him for all of eternity I really dig that but I guess decapitation will have to do it's I mean

it's pretty fucking badass I absolutely love this story like the concept that even the custodian of the emperor couldn't sway them so she had to be taken and her bodyguard personally to the emperor himself. Yep. And then they just emerged from that room with no record of what happened.

Just like enraged. All of the women were like in their own right so excited to fucking like decapitate this son of a bitch. I'm sure they were. I'm curious what happened in that room. What did did ems just commune with them, you think? Possibly. possibly he spoke to them like he has like he still has like a psychic power

he can't pay by how he can't talk because his face probably doesn't work but because it's just you know it's just a skull there's a good chance that he might have honestly I'm not quite sure but that's not really the point this is one of the few points of like subtlety that

Warhammer has somehow she found out and boy did she let him have it she absolutely did all of these six women have been immortalized as saints so this is known as Saint Dominica the triumph of St. Catherine you know

Alicia Dominica is easily one of my favorite characters in all of 40K lore I find her in like she was the one who went to Van Dyre and was like you do not get to go in this room and then you know Oh she's the one that stood up to him Mm-hmm and then she was the one who stood up to him again Yep it's so cool

So after that, Sebastian Thor became the new Ecclesiarch. He dismantled almost all of Van Dyer's quote-unquote reforms and political changes. He segmented the High Lord's position multiple times to the Senatorum Imperialis, the Ministorum, the Ecclesiarchy. He basically created checks and balances. He completely dismantled the Fraderness Templars and issued something called Decree Passive, which means that the ecclesiarchy could not maintain men under arms, quote, unquote, men under arms. Is that how they get around that? Okay.

Now, naturally, the church does need a fighting force. Uh-huh. Of course they do. So with this large group of the brides of the emperor, they were then renamed to the Adeptus Sororatos, also known as the Sisters of Battle. and they were now their own group to fight for the church in their own right. And that's about it. That's the end.

That was the age of apostasy. The sisters are now on their own thing. They have their own orders. Alicia Dominica was the saint of the order of the Eben Chalice, my personal favorite order. We'll talk more about them in the sisters episode. But she, She, as well as all the other saints have died, because they're not, they're not like a mortal.

But she actually died to a traitor Lasgun shot. She was under fire in a battle, and she was, I think she was stained like over a hundred gunfire wounds to her armor and everything, and still stood up until one final Lasgun shot pierced her heart because her armor was weakened and broken. and that's how she finally passed. Jesus. That's some armor. That's a badass.

Jesus. Oh, they're so cool. St. Catherine was the same way. They now towed her dead body into battle in the coffin dance model. If you haven't seen that model, oh, my God. It's my favorite model in the whole game. I'll show it to you later, because obviously we're on a podcast they can't see. But for those of you viewers listening, go look up the triumph of St. Catherine model.

It's so cool. But, yeah, no, it's, I love this, this story. I think it's so cool. It's, it's a little bit more like, a little more personal. Oh, yeah, definitely. It's Gose Van Dyer and just how terrible he is. And it's nice that it's not Zinch being an asshole. It's not an orc like, wah.

It's not the Eldar butt-fucking Slenesh into oblivion. It's just, it's just this one really corrupt man who got his comeuppance. And it just feels good. I like those smaller stories. Well, it's not small, but more like hyper-detailed stories. I think this would make for a really good, like, film. Oh, yeah. You start, like, you have Alicia Dominica's the main character,

and you have the big climax ending with her going to the emperor room and shit. That'd be so cool. Yeah, it's set up really nicely where you get, like, this obvious fucking villain, Goge Van Dyer, and this sort of rise to power and how awful, how awful. He is. And then you just sort of, you know, you get to that point and he finally gets his comeuppance.

And I was so happy that he actually did get killed. It's like, oh, yeah, he's still leading today. He's found a way to immortalize himself. And, you know, I was like, oh, if that happens, son of a bitch. No, no, no. Good old Sebastian Thor led the ecclesiarchy all the way to the end of his life. He might legitimately be one of the best, like, the nice. guys around in terms of Warhammer lore he's pretty fantastic cute cute comment section he went um

actually there was someone nicer yeah his name was his name was vulcan and he set an Eldar child on fire I can't wait for that episode when you finally tell that story uh though I will I will say with this episode basically being done I will say I am so excited because on the next episode we are doing what shy once. We are talking orcs. O-W-W-W-W-W-W-W-G. No, don't say W-G. Don't do it. Too late. They're fun guys, right?

They say that because they're saying war, but they have like the Cockney-British bouncer accent. Oh. So it's actually more like a W-W-A. It's like war, war. It's not like, it's not wag. You know, I didn't know that. I thought it was just the wah.

Like that was just some crazy war. I didn't know that it was like, oh yeah, it's just it's just air cocaine way of saying, whoa. I didn't know that. Yeah, it's great. I love it. Ah, you learn something new every day. The orcs all talk in like the bouncered cockney British accent.

Yeah. It's so silly. But that will be our next episode. I'm excited. Until then, to all of our patrons, thank you so much for listening. It was fantastic. I got to have my fun little episode. Shai is getting her next one.

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Which if you'd like, you can visit Adep's Ridiculous on Twitter as well. If you'd like to see some of updates as well as awesome fan art and things of that nature. And all, man, I forgot about the fan art request I wanted this episode. Oh, what's the fan art request? I wanted a little like a doge meme. A doge as Goge Van Dyre. And he's like, Mr. Emperor, I assure you, having all the brides of the Emperor walk around barefoot is essential to the running of the ecclesiarchy.

I'm going to mention that in the beginning of the orcs episode, because I really want to see that. People might not have listened this far. But the best part is then he wouldn't be Gojvindyre. He'd be Doge van Dyer. Let's cut. Let's fucking go. End the episode.

End the episode. I'm done. Right there. Cut it. Cut it.