Adeptus Ridiculous - SALAMANDERS: WE ARE BORN OF FIRE | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: December 29, 2021

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for fucking high quality on topic lore, they've set themselves up for failure. That's okay, that's fair. You're right. You're right. I think this is... I think as far as I'm concerned, D.K., this podcast is fire.

Hot fire. Speaking of fire, Whoa, Dean K. Yes, the greatest. All right, shy, put this segue, have them go across the screen, let's go. Or she'll just post the picture of her drinking coffee and just say no again.

Yeah, probably. That's the same thing. Salamanders! Yay! I was hoping you try and do a quote and I could interrupt you at the beginning of the quote and be like, no, it's salamanders. I got it.

All right, all right, here we go. Okay. Death to the false emperor. It's the salamanders. I knew it. We got it. You did it. Damn it.

You baited me, you son of a bitch. You son of a bitch. See, getting off the rails is half of the enjoyment of these episodes. That's fair. Okay, fine. All right. Well, actually, I do have a, I do have a quote. I think someone like that, like a, do I have a quote?

Where is it? There it is. Oh, it's the war cry. Well, because, you know, every Marine Legion has a war cry. Sure. You know, Ave Dominus Knox, a Hydra Dominatis, Iron Within, Iron Without, do your taxes. You know, it was a good one And for the salamanders

It is into the fires of battle Unto the Anvil of War Oh, that's pretty cool Yeah, and it works with them Because fire and anvals So Salamanders What was it? Mount Deathfire is on there?

Mount Deathfire, you know, something I didn't know about Until a little bit ago Apparently Vulcan is the name Of the largest scariest salamander How did you not know that? I don't know because I just didn't know that. Oh, you mean like an actual

like reptilian salamander, the biggest baddest one is called a Vulcan? No, like on Nocturm, like the biggest baddest salamander is called Vulcan and therefore Vulcan was named after the salamander. Oh, okay. Yeah, it's neat. I thought you were like, I thought you were like, yeah, did you know of the salamander space marines? Vulcan was the biggest. I was like, well, yeah. This is a fucking Primark, you idiot. How did you not know that?

We did a whole episode on him. What are you talking about? Oh, my God. I was so confused. I was like, what? How did you miss that, dude? You just, he's your favorite. Why is this so funny to you?

I don't know. It just is. Continue with the sounds. Oh, my God. All right, Salamander. So Vulcan was our last episode. Talked about Vulcan. And mainly, as we know, the exciting parts of Volkium are really his personality and how he deems and talks about battle.

And some of his involvement in the Horace heresy getting tortured and nuked by Peter Turbo. So he got him. Yeah. Peter Turbo, Laser Vision. But everything around that, I'm not a huge fan of the whole John Grammatics. his thing. I mean, War of the Beast is cool, but that's something we'll do on a different time. Yeah, it's separate. I'd like a book

of Vulcan, most of Vulcan's books aren't good. Most of the Salamander's books are just not great. And I think it's because they're written very space marine-centric. And often the best way to do is, you know, put a human in there

or something, kind of like go a little bit of back and forth. But the, I think, I don't know why, but maybe it's very, like, bland, which if the Salamanders didn't have all their fire, flame, and sacrifice thing, they would probably be a little more of a bland Space Marine chapter. Yeah.

They're kind of Boy Scouts, right? Yeah, well, not as Boy Scouty as, Gilliman and his Eagle Scouts. And his bitches. Yeah, you know, the Gilliman, all of them are Eagle Scouts at 15, like me, because I was an Eagle Scout at 15.

Okay. But Vulcan, those are the guys who just started the boys. scouts just to like, you know, they're chilling, they're going on campouts, but then they're just putting whatever they can in the fire because they're curious. Like, ooh. Do you think this will burn?

What can burn? Ah, uh, wait, what the hell? What's this, Shai? Uh, quote, okay, Shai has something for me. So speaking of which, quote, everyone wanted you to cover was confrontation between Vulcan and Magnus, right? I remember that. When Mag, yeah, there's a conversation.

It's like, when Magnus learned the price of emperor taking him back despite the heresy was sacrificing all of his sons he looked at Volkim asked if he could pay that price in Magnus's shoes and Vulcan said not even for one Oh wow so Vulcan is a

good good boy I needed a more I needed more punctuation in that because I legitimately thought that Vulcan that Magnus was like how much would you pay for my shoes like my shoes like my fucking

Do you think Magnus wears Jordan's DK? No. Magnus wears Crocs. I was going to say Magnus probably wears Birkenstocks. He probably wears the Jesus sandals. That's, or is that Lorgar? Oh, well, you know, yeah, he probably does because, you know, he's kind of walk around and all that dust. That's true.

But Vulcan would not even pay for a single shoe, which means that Vulcan, unlike our mascot, Doge Van Dyer, is not in defeat. Heretic. No, good boy. What the fuck? Heretic. He's a heretic. He doesn't, he doesn't, like, feet like Doge Van Dyre? Heartic.

Basically, Vulcan is like, you know, like, Magnus is like, hey, if you were in the same shoes, sacrifice to sons, you know, for this thing, like, what'd you do? And Vulcan's, like, not even a single one. Yep, he's such a good boy. Yeah, he's such a good boy. He's a very, very good boy.

He's a very nice boy. Anyway, that's Vulcan. Salamanders. Salamanders 18th Legion, of course. The main dood I know about the Salamanders is that especially during the heresy in times and before the great, and during the Great Gusei, they were always the smallest. Yet despite being the smallest, they always had the largest tendency for suicide. And not actually suicide, but like self-sacrifice, you know. Right, right, right. Like suicidal fights because there's an old quote, and I don't remember who said it. But it was like the sign of a true soldier is not to hate what's in front of him, but to love what's behind him. That's a nice quote. That's a nice soldier quote. Yeah, like you don't fight to kill what's in front of you.

You fight to protect what behind you. Like that's the concept. So it's a very salamanders-y kind of concept, you know? Okay. As for the salamanders themselves, a little bit more on them, on what they're all about, what they all do. If I could find my damn link, there we go, got it. Obviously, we know about the salamanders in terms of their iconography. They are all in green color, a little bit brighter green they used to be.

Shai, do you have a picture of what salamanders used to look like before GW changed it? now I found it It's two on the nose I think of being like Oh it's a dragon so it has to be green There it is Oh no Oh boy You know this moment right here

Have you seen Robin Hood men in tights before? No There's a moment There's a witch her name is Latrine Because you know like a toilet And the king is like Oh your name is Latrine And she's like yeah

My family changed It's like oh you changed to Latrine What was your name? name before and she's like, Sheathouse! And he's like, oh, could change. So could change. And this feels very similar, where the, whatever that

yellow and black abomination is, that's the name shit house. And the green one is like, latrine. So it's a good change. I wish I had the same, the same gusto that you had that for, for yelling shit house the top of your lungs

at 9 a.m. in the morning. So all that rating, man. it's got me, you know, in the, you know. See, it's the same colors as Imperial Fists. Like, so much just linked in like a crappy salamander scale thing. Oh, it looks so horrible. It's really bad. I have much more appreciation for the green now.

Oh, my God, that's hideous. And the green can actually be done pretty well if it's used in the proper way. But anyway, that's a sidetrack. The salamanders themselves, of course, are, you know, they have all their main aspects of self-sacrifice and that kind of deal. But the most important thing to really be noted when it comes to salamanders, at least in my opinion, is that they're really reliant on self-reliance. Yeah.

So when the salamanders, they spend a lot of time, like, alone and like, like, chill, like, with their own mind, you know, self, like, to be relying on themselves, obviously loyalty, a lot of stuff and, and helping the innocent. But for example, the salamanders are huge with their craftsmanship, of course. We know this. Sure. The forged in the fires of the Anvil, Anvil craftsmanship. They have a lot more tech marines than the average group, mainly because the tech marines

are very, well, they get more chances to craft new stuff. Not as many as like the iron hands, but the thing to note is that, like, if you are salamander, you don't take your bolter to. an artificer in order to get it fixed. You fix your own shit. Yeah. Right. And you, there's no imperial, like there's an imperial standard, but you don't, you don't

do it for yourself. You customize your crap. Like, if you've got your own bolter and your bolter jams, you are a self-reliant person. You fix your own fucking bolter. Yeah. And then maybe you put it with some new parts. You craft a new barrel or something.

And then, so all of their weapons are all literally, like, pretty, much handmade to the user. They're custom adjusted. I'm surprised more chapters aren't like that. Because like if you need an artificer to like fix your armor, fix your gun, like what if you don't have access to an artifice? What if you're in the field and like your weapon breaks down or something and you have to repair your armor? It's like, well, there's no artifice. So I guess I'll just go in handicapped. It's like you'd think more people would be really adept at like customizing and fixing their own shit. I think they do know how. how to fix their own shit,

but there's a difference between fixing your own shit and actually, like, crafting and upgrading your own shit. Like, I may know how to, how to change the oil in my car, but if my engine block breaks,

I don't know how to put it back in. Like you couldn't fix your own transmission. Exactly. You could certainly put some air in your tires. Yeah, the salamanders will fix their transomanders, mission and then and then give it a brand new engine put on a muffler throwing a spoiler on that bastard that's going to look a very ugly but turbo charged turbo they're going to get that gnaws oh no which

actually kind of goes to like actually that that's a very ironic because the salamanders are not fast oh yeah they're they're big and clunky and slow right they're actually a little i mean they can move at the same speed as a regular Marine but there's a concept that they're a little slower on their reflexes that might not actually be true but they're just kind of

they're very like slow and sturdy that's the concept is that their battle tactics really don't often rely on things like speeders or bikes or anything they have some tanks and they move up and they like close range combat

because Meltas are close range and so our Flamers. So they're the tank of the party. They're slow. Yeah, they have a very large amount of Terminators in their chapter. Yeah, I guess that makes sense since they're big.

Yeah. Yeah, and having a large amount of terminators, especially equipped with things like Flamers, and they really like their thunder hammers. Obviously, Vulcan had a thunderhammer, but the Salamander's, yeah,

it is also a hammer. But they like their close quarters combat because that's where they excel with their flamers, their melas, those are the two main weapons, and melee combat. They're not as big into melee as, say, the Blood Angels or the White Scar to the Space Wolves, but they like

their hammers. They like getting in there and getting one clean clunk. Yeah, that makes sense for them. Do you ever hear the story about the guy who got punched by Mike Tyson and what it felt like? I feel like I have, but I don't remember how it goes, so go ahead and tell me. Well, Mike Tyson, obviously, you know, he was known for making you spend a lot of money for a pay-per-view and then not getting anything because it was over and round one.

He would knock you the fuck out. Mike Tyson and his prime was a savage. One guy who got knocked out by him specifically said that it felt like I, I felt like someone put a phone book to the side of my hand and then a major league baseball player hit me with a baseball bat. who yeah that's that sounds about right I'm surprised it wasn't worse I'm surprised it wasn't like yeah it feels like you know a strong man hit me upside to head

with a fucking metal hammer well I mean I think it was trying to be realistic like the phone the phone book is the glove keeping me from dying yeah oh man so I posted a gift of him hitting someone that's like god damn I forgot how hard that motherfucker hit

that was a clean upper cat that was oh man that dude probably was not eating solid foods for a month. I, uh, a slight, a slight shout out to, to my, one of my personal favorite of boxers was Sunny Liston. Good old, good old, good old, Sunni Liston, love watching his old shit. It's so good. Never heard of him, but I'm, I'm sure he hit like a truck, too. Sunny Liston's a really pot. All right, I'm upset with you. Um, sorry, Jesus, I don't know

boxing. Like, Space Wolves, right, they attack a ton, savagery, white scars really fast. The idea for Salmere is that they get the hammerins. I think. only need one or two hits. Yeah. You know, because once they hit you with that thing, like, it's going to hurt. You're knocked out. You're on your ass. Also, because solomanders are bigger than the average Marine.

They, they, because they have the gene seat of their father, Vulcan. They're a little bit taller, a little bit wider. They're a bit chunkier than the average Marine. They're a bit tougher. Yeah. And then combining that with like a little slow moving kind of advance of these tough, tanky, close-range monsters with the thunderhammers. It really adds a pretty neat feel to their combat, where it's, instead of being too fast,

they're very, they're stoic. But they're okay with, like, shooting bolters and stuff and then getting in close. It's not like they'll just like, oh, bolter dishonorable, throw that away and just like slow charge with a hammer or something. Oh, no, they're, like I said, they're a very classic Marine chapter where they have their bolters, they have their companies, they have their. There's strike squads and scouts and all that, but they have a preference for flame weaponry

and things like hammers. Yeah, okay. As now, that's like the main way they do a lot of their combat and they're fighting, of course, forging their own weaponry, but I mentioned a few times before that the salamanders actually are some of the only Marines that actually can chill with their families. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I remember that, yeah. Very rare in the Imperium. I think they're the only ones? I don't think, I think when you become a Marine, you get through all the genetic stuff and you're shipped out and you're gone. But the salamander is actually a little bit like, I think a little bit like real military.

When they're off duty, they sometimes even like live with their family. Whoa. So you really want to be a salamander then? Well, it goes into the concept. Well, I don't know. when you hear about some of the rituals you might consider otherwise. But it really adds more to that like sacrifice for humans.

Like it makes it really easier to want to save humanity and civilians when you live with your mom and dad. Yeah, I mean, you're, you are with humanity all the time. So you'd have a much bigger appreciation for it. Not that this is on topic, but who would be the best chapter to be a. part of? Being a space marine is a great job in general. It's one of the best jobs

in the entire world of 40K. But it's also, unless you're like a fucking aristocrat in some fancy fancy hive city or whatever. But the process to become one is never fun. Oh, that's true.

It's grueling, horribly painful and involves you getting chopped up by surgeons. and implanted with crap, right? Yeah, extra stomachs, extra hearts, all that stuff that makes your blood coagulate faster and, yeah. Yeah, it's not a great feeling. Now, I guess the best thing that would be

with some kind of hoity-toity aristocrat in some world, that would be the strongest thing for you, but... But if you were dead set on becoming a space marine, because, I mean, it doesn't sound like it's a bad gig to be a salamander. Like, obviously, you are still in it to fight, and you are still in it to be honorable. And like, you're still protecting people,

but at least, like, you can still chill with your family and you're not just completely, like, brainwashed into being like, nope, don't have a family. I'm Talos. I'm going to shoot my mom. So it doesn't sound that bad. As far as Space Marine chapters go, it doesn't sound like the Sallys have it too bad.

Okay, I hate to actually you. Oh, no. I hate to actually you, but Talas didn't shoot his mom. It was some person on the side. He just didn't realize there was his. Yeah, whatever. Yes. I like how the only reference you have to anything Space Marine is the Nightlord's books,

which are some of like the least Space Marine e-book in Space Marines. Because they're chaos, I mean. Yeah. Well, also they're criminals, whatever. I don't really know. I don't really know because a lot of the way you become a space marine is depending on the world. Like, I would imagine the ultramarines is probably an easier one than some of the others. No pain glove.

But like there's a lot of. lava involved and fire involved in the Salamare's ones and you probably grew up on Nocturn, which is a death world. True. You know? Ultramarine might be easier, but then you have to be an ultramarine and, ugh. Yeah, exactly. You get to have fun.

You get to have the largest legion. Ah, whatever. You know, Emperor, Shai makes a point. Emperor's children are having the most fun. Most definitely. Then you're a heretic. And? Well, your soul is, you get, you get.

You gotta be all Slenish, I think, is Emperor Tseman, right? That's got to be Slanesh. Yeah, exactly. You're having endless drugs and music and sex. Hmm. Death to the emperor. And like that. Death to the false emperor.

All hail Slenish. The she who thirsts and D.K. was thirsty. Yeah, I was thirsty. Give me that tall glass of Slanesh. Ew. Anyway, anyway, fucking, anyway, Sally's. Sally's. Yes, so often they

have this very close-knit feeling of family, which is also why that self-sacrifice is so important because their brothers are, you know, they're brothers. They understand this family concept a lot more. And when they live with their family, they understand, and they can craft, and they have their own stuff, they can craft.

They have a lot of, it's the same reason, why on the other side of the fence, I like the Night Lords, because there's a lot of personality in the Legion. Yeah. You know, the Salamanders chapter has a lot of personality. Everything from their physical appearance, which looks different. The way they do war and the way they conduct themselves is all very different, just like the Nightlord stuff,

which is why I find these two as my favorite factions of Marines is because a lot of effort and time was put into the, like, the culture. and all that. And speaking of, you want to, so becoming a salamander. Becoming a salamander. Becoming a salamander.

There's a very large amount of stuff you got to do in order to become a salamander. But one of the main things is you have to do a lot of the trials that Vulcan had to do when he was going against the emperor. Oh, you mean those things that he tied the emperor with when they were doing that little contest? Well, like, for example, yeah, basically.

Like, when you are a young lad, you need to be taught how to work in the forge. You know, where a ferris manse of the iron hands like to craft weapons using technology and stuff, Vulcan liked a good fire and a good hammer and a good anvil. He liked to craft a legitimate, like a sword, you know, or a real ass hammer. Yeah, that makes sense for the Sally's, yeah. And so when, as you're growing up as a wee lad, You are working in the forge, you are learning how to craft stuff, and perhaps you might be selected to join the legium. And if you are, which, you know, sounds horrible, but in terms of 40K, it's an honor.

And if you are selected, you go through a lot of those same tests. In fact, one of the tests, I believe, is in fact finding a salamander and hunting it and killing it. Oh, just like emps and Vulcan did. Yeah, we're... That's no easy thing, is it? That's... Well, Vulcan blew his head off with one swing of its hammer because he's an enormous son of a bitch.

Yeah, but that's Vulcan and that's Big E. Like, not everybody is going to be able to do what they can do. Exactly, which is why it's a grueling task, a hard task. But once you are, then, you know, you become, after that, you get, you know, the usual thing where you're carved up and organs are put into you. Sure, the usual becoming a space marine thing, yeah. Yeah. And then the gene seat, of course, which also does give you a fun little dood, which gives you something called fire sight, which allows you, that's the glowing red eyes or not just aesthetic.

They let you, I think, like, see infrared. Oh, that, that probably comes in very handy. It's kind of neat and different and weird, but kind of neat. Yeah, that's pretty dope, actually. And having that ability to see like that is super, it's just kind of a cool thing to. add to a little bit, like an actual ability to go along with their red eyes. Yeah, and very useful, because, like, they can...

So then they can do, like, night operations because they, if, like, well, I guess assuming that they're fighting warm-blooded opponents, they can't hide from them. Like, they're gonna know where they're hiding, because, you know, they get the... Well, unless they're hiding in a volcano. Well, yeah, it's a big red chunk.

But, yeah, that's very handy. It's neat. it's neat to just have that along with all the other facets of being a space marine as like a little additional doodad Yeah, but also going along and kind of becoming one of these major space one of these major space Marines You work a lot with the Promethean cult which is their little A little religiony thing I guess Okay, the Promethean cult that sounds like a cult of fire makes sense Well, I talked about it a little bit before where it's like the non-heretical one

done by the Inquisition? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Inquisition's like, yeah, it's cool. So basically, they use fire a lot to go through their rituals. Like, for example, very often Salomon or Space Marines will have ritual branding,

where frequently there are trials of them walking over burning coals or carrying hot metal bars. Because if you're going to have any kind of physical appearance change for the salamanders is going to be fucking branding. Of course. And there are a couple rites or rituals. And this shit fucking gets me, man.

All right. All right. So there's one. It's an ancient ritual called the Burning Walk. And normally, this is used for the really old or crippled as a way to end their final days and fire. It's like a walk and never return. Oh.

Fun. So you take a solitary pilgrimage to the Pire Desert of Nocturn. Okay. Well, you know, some of them Salamers take the journey to restore a troubled soul or hopefully die in the attempt. Yeah. And so far, only one salamander has ever come back. Oh. Who came back?

Are they like a super important one or? Apothecary Fugus of the third company. I don't know. I don't know them. Oh, okay. But they didn't die in the desert They just came back and were like, hey guys, I'm great I'm better now

So the other one The ritual of internment and ascension Ah, that sounds not fun When a captain of the salamanders is slamed He is placed on a vast slab of black marble And then he is lowered into a lava flow in this giant volcanic rock, right? The slab is lowered by two separate space marines

in the traditional garb of a metal worker of Nocturum who have these enormous chains, the size of their fists, etched with symbols of their forge, the flame, anvil, and hammer. And when they lower the chains into the lava, the chains will then heat up due to being near the lava, and they need to grip the chains in such a way, where the red hot metal chains

will then brand their hands to perfectly brand their hands and arms with the symbol of the hammer anvil and flame. And then, after that, the ritual of internment, then comes the ritual of ascension, where the new captain to take their place will be stripped naked besides a sash

and then have, will then have the brand of the marks of the captain upon their chest and right shoulder and then step into a dais in which the ascendant will be subjected to a blast of flame from below surrounding them with a pillar like inferno for a few seconds.

Oh, that's fun. In which the regent then says Vulcan's fire beats in my breast, and then the person in the flame says, with it, I shall smite the foes of the emperor. And then he takes a nice bath. Oh, boy, that's, I mean, I guess that's a very salamanders thing to do. You're all about the fire and, and the dragon and the salamanders. So, yeah, that sounds very salamanders.

It sounds very painful. Oh, boy. I mean, I was like, oh, the branding thing. Boy, that sounds awful, you know, holding those. like, you know, molten, basically molten chains, boy, that sounds painful. That's child's play compared to

just being consumed by flames for however long, well, stark naked. That's, that's, hmm, hmm. There's also another one where when a salamander dies, if the body is not returned to nocturn and

ritually destroyed a burden in Mount Deathfire, they may have elected to cremate the body locally in the campaign where in that situation as the fallen person burns the fellow Salamemares will then thrust their arms into the flames

of the pyre as a very personal ritual where torches may be out of the ceremony some maybe a lament will be sung some words of remembrance but they will all shove their flames in the fire to be like I love you brother I mean so that obviously

that sounds very weird and very painful, but there's a sort of grace to it. There's like a sort of like a camaraderie to it, because that's, that's their brother's final like moments. That's like, the flames are literally his last essence and they're just very close. That's, that's kind of, that's kind of nice. Aside from, you know, the self-immolation. Yes, besides the self-immolation.

Yeah, but aside from that, I mean, it's kind of a, it's kind of a heartwarming moment, no pun intended, but You know, because you're so, you know, that's kind of cool, actually. Let's talk a little bit about some Salamander's characters, Maddo. Sure, let's do it. So the number one main one you'll be looking at in terms of the chaptermaster is the guy named Tushan, which I believe is memed on in the Em, protects his speech very heavily. Tushan is very, he's the chapter master of the salamanders.

Um, he's, he's got a pretty notable, notable, uh, history under his belt. Um, he looks dope as hell. He's got this giant fire Drake, like mantle and cape. He has a hammer, some flame weapons, of course. His hammer is called storm bearer. Pretty cool. Yeah, I just posted a picture of him and he does look very dope. Um, is that a, that's not an iron. is it iron halo that gives you a little barrier shield thing that's not what that is is it uh i think that that is an iron halo but it's like a flame version of it so it gives them like a flame shield no i think i think it does exactly what's supposed to do but it's just a fire a fiery version of it it's a salamanders because you're a salamander because you got to have that stuff so it's like

the same thing gilliman has i think gilleman has one right correct he has an iron halo right and Did Doge have one? He had a Rosarius, I believe. Oh, right, right, okay, yeah, yeah. Which is basically the same thing in terms of gameplay, but I don't know about lore. Right, so this guy is a tanky motherfucker. Well, he's the chapter master. He is the Marnius Calgar of the Salamanders, the guy who fought the Swarm Lord.

Oh, right, you're right. Okay, got you. So he's the big boy. He's a big guy. He's the car. the betrayer of the salamanders. He's the big guy, the typhists of the death guard. He's no car. He's got both arms armored. Damn fucking straight. He's no car.

But no one's carne. He was the Lamow, lull. He was also there during the Second War of Armageddon, where the Commissar Yark fought Gaskell on that world. If you remember that one, mainly helped

getting the respect of other space Marines like the Blood Angels, and mainly went there to go save the citizens. Because of course he did, and obviously he didn't, duh, because that's what they do. He's a Sally. Come on, yeah. There's actually not a whole lot talking about Tushan that I see here.

There is another character known as Adrax Agatone. Oh, is that where Adrax Earthshade comes from? Yes. Agrax, right. Yeah. Oh, wait. You're right. Agrax. Agrax. Oh.

Oh, shit. Well, Adrax is a redrax recent edition. This guy is actually one of the Primaris Marines as of recently. And he is a very new model, too, a pretty good-looking model. I'm not going to lie. He looks super dope. But he is also known as Nocturns Hammer.

He is the captain of the third company known as the Pyroclasts. And he's a little bit of a weird salamander. Adrax is a... pragmatist. All right. In more ways than one. Now, originally he started off as a scout, as they always do. Scouts and he knew, you just do his usual thing.

But Adjax kind of has this way about him where he's very, like, I will protect the innocent, and I will do whatever I have to to do so. So he's very cold and a little dower. and a little dark. Huh. But he has, he looks like a baller. You,

you would think he'd be a little more upbeat if he's all about like, uh, if he's all about like wanting to save everybody. Yeah, but he'll save, that dark. He saved anybody

in whatever he has to do, anything. Oh. Oh. Okay. Got it. Yeah. So even if,

even if, even if it was something involved him getting fucked up, if it was to save a bunch of people, he'd do it? That's the idea. Yeah. Oh, okay. Now maybe

I understand why he's a little more. He's a little more worrisome, but he looks really cool. Oh, yes, he does. His mini also looks great. This is what his mini looks like right here. It's actually one of the better-looking minis, I'd argue,

for the salamanders. That is very cool. I like the way it's painted. The other pictures I've seen of the armor makes it look. But I think it's because it's a much darker tone and it has that big silver salamander on the side. Yeah, that looks great. That's fire, if you will.

Oh, look at this. It's a funny guy. I know. Oh, my God. Adricks is actually pretty good on tabletop. I like him a lot. As for the other character we have, we have Brahearth Ashmantle. He is a dreadnought.

And he is actually the one currently residing in the Iron Dragon dreadnought. He's a little, like I said, there's not a whole lot of Salamander's stuff in terms of like, the books don't really give you a whole bunch of crazy ones or anything. It's a little like, are the salamanders dreadnots? any cooler than the other ones or are they all just boxes? Um, I think that these are all just boxes. It would be super cool if the salamanders, instead of having boxes, they had like mechanized dragons, like the shit from Mega Man, where you had like robot dragons.

Oh shit. That would be kind of dope. I won't, I won't lie. That would be so cool. And everybody's like, oh my God, if I die in battle, it's okay. I'll get a fucking robo dragon to drive around and in the afterlife. I'm just getting a robo dragon. You can run Ash Mantel as well on the tabletop.

But the main character, the main person we want to talk about is someone named Volcan Histan. Oh, who's that? Vulcan Histan is someone known as the Forge Father. And this is a very special title. The Chapter Master is the big one who leads the chapter. But being the Forge Father, he is tasked with a very specific journey. and that is to find Vulcan. Right.

And Vulcanistan is actually named Vulcan because of, like, to take the name of the greatest of the Salamanders because he is the forged father. Right. And so for him, he was one of the best foragers at his time as young youth where a lot of the Salamara space marines would actually come to his, his like metalworking area to watch him work. as a young lad

because he was that talented with what he was making. He eventually was able to slay, you know, the usual slay the giant lizards. He rose to his ranks as a scout was eventually promoted to Forgefather and he was given

something known as the Tomb of Fire which is actually a mysterious little book written by Vulcan and it showed up right before Volcan. disappeared. Okay.

For the last time. Right. When he showed up as an asteroid? No, no, no. This is after the War of the Beast. Oh, okay. Gotcha. So this tome carries a, well, as a forge father,

his job is to understand the tomb perfectly. Like, know the whole thing, but in the tone are a lot of, like, words of wisdom, guidance for everybody. But there's also lots of, lots of volumes where secrets are revealed with clues, riddles, and tests that Vulcan wrote for his sons.

Oh. And this is why he's like only the most intelligent of his chapter would be able to figure it out. Is it bad that as soon as you said that I just imagine this big fucking space frame looking through. He's like, oh, what's the next secret?

There's just like a big crossword puzzle with the numbers below it. And he needs to figure it out. And he's like, hmm. Guys, what's a 10? 10 letter word for immolation. I don't know, boss. Wait a minute.

He's like, I gotta figure through that. I don't know if that's actually a word. Wait, immolation. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Ah, nine. So close. Oh, no, there is, there is 10. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Nine, ten, there's ten. Immulation is a ten letter word. Let's go, DK. Let's a ten letter word for emulation. It's emulation. It's emulation. Wow, Vulcan, you. sneaky son of a bitch.

What's a 14 letter word for immolation? Self-immolation. Oh, wow. This is great. The wisdom. The wisdom of Vulcan. What's this? In this book, it says the only way to true ascendancy is to light your feet on fire.

Well, all right. If Vulcan says so, turns to the page, lull your foot's on fire, fucking idiots. Now I just imagine the tome of fire It's just like crossword puzzles It's a jumble puzzle There's a page, it's like a coloring book It's like once you color this in You'll know the location of the blah blah

It's like purple They want to color in It's like a space marine and they want to color it in In order to understand the location of the next artifact They need to color it in properly But they only own orange and red crans And a green one And one green one

and they keep on like, damn it, how do you color in the bolter? We only have fire crayons. Maybe if you mix, anyway, yeah. That's all I can imagine

this tome being now. It's so stupid. They're pondering their tome. To ponder the tomb. So there are currently, so they found out is that there are nine artifacts of Vulcan. And of the nine,

the idea is that they find all nine and then Vulcan will return to them. And so it is Vulcanistan's entire purpose to find these artifacts. It is his entire job to search for them. Okay. And so he currently has five. Uh, a five of the nine and three of them he personally wears on his person. Oh, which three does he wear?

Well, first things first. Did they give him any powers or are they just literally artifacts? Well, first things first, his mini is very old and shit. Oh. I mean, it's not that bad. I mean, I think it's resin, so it's bad. Oh, I was going to say looks wise. Actually, it's okay.

It's, I mean, it's not as bad as some of the Necromons. It's not as good as, what's his face? I already forget what the other dude's name was. What? The bald guy, he tries to save everybody. What's his name again? The bald guy he tries to save him. Yeah, the guy we were just talking about before Histan.

Adjerkatoad? Yeah, that's, that's, he's. way cooler. Oh, well, yeah, he looks better because his model is like super new. Yeah. They, like, Hestan just kind of looks like a space marine. Like, there's nothing very special about him. With a cape and his spear. Yeah. And Adrax is just like, look at how beefy I am. My armor is cooler. I have this big flame thing and I have this giant gold puldron and I have a gas mask thing on because I'm too hardcore to wear a helmet. Ooh, like, I would think that these two minis should be swathing. Hestan should look the way Adrax does and Adrax should look the way Hestan does.

I think it's mainly just because the fact that, uh, old model and, and then Volcan new, uh, Adrax's a new model. Is there any chance Hestan is getting a new model? Sorry to interrupt again. I hope. Yeah. I hope. I want, I want, like, there's some cool kit bash is out there. I just hope it gets a better model because he's a big deal and he's got some, he's a shitty fucking, he's a shitty fucking model.

But regardless, um, the three he currently wears, he has slain calls. the Kessaray's mantle, which is that gigantic cloak he has on the back. It's a scaled cloak from the skin of a Drake slain by Vulcan himself. Oh, okay. Is it the Drake that he slayed with the emperor, or is it just a different one? I'm assuming it's a different one. Okay. Um, he also has something called the spear of Vulcan, which is a weapon forged by Vulcan himself, which is apparently so damn strong that if it hits enemy space marine power armor it will set their armor on fire whoa that's a big deal it melts through seramites it just goes right through it whoa and then his other hand he has the gauntlet of the forge which is a male fist uh which allows him to summon fire

at is his knee. It's basically like a flamethrower hand. Oh, that's so dope. So he's like Boba Fett? Yeah, sure. Why not? Sick. He actually is really proud of that one because he likes to tell the tale of how he recovered it from an Eldar corsair.

Someone named Lord Ayeth Blood Weaver. Whoa. It's pretty cool. I don't know why, but aesthetically that one is the coolest. Having the flame thrower fist is just, that's That's top tier fantasy aesthetic.

A flamed gauntlet like that is super awesome. Oh, hell yeah. So Vulcan has stoned's quest a simple hunt for the remaining relics. Now, on about three occasions, I think, Trayson the Infinite has attempted to steal the spear. Of course he has. It's a priceless artifact that'll maybe bring back Vulcan. Of course he wants it in his gallery. Mm-hmm.

So occasionally he's been stabbed by the spear and then teleported to his surrogate. And he's like, damn it. Damn it. Not again. So, so Trayson knows how much that spear hurts. Oh, yeah. But at the same time,

he's also like, I want it. And I'm gonna fucking get it. I mean, that's a hell of a thing to have. Like, even if it wasn't just for the gallery, it'd be a hell of a weapon

to just straight up use. Yeah, it's super nuts. And it's pretty cool in the tabletop, although I might need an upper rules upgrade. Yeah. On another side note, salamanders like many space marine chapters,

do have librarians. Okay. And they are, you know, psychers. And can you guess what they do with their psychic powers? Uh, something, something, summon fire? Fireball! Makes sense to me. One of them creates a giant conflagration of a gigantic flaming dragon

that flies towards the enemies and fucks people up. Whoa, they literally summon a dragon made a fire and just fly it at people? literal dragon made of fire Oh my god That's so fucking metal dude I love it One of the librarians will Fire of the flame so hard

That it reeds his entire body In veins and fire And if you get too close to him You will blister and set a light So he just like walks into the fucking room He's like What's up? What's up? Can't touch me Boom

Damn That is great They got One that's so powerful that the, called Nocturn's Fire, it is so incredibly strong, it's actually a little terrifying and they don't like to use it very often. They like to, it's basically a gigantic inferno that goes in every direction around them and they can't move while casting it. It is just a gigantic fire storm from all directions. Damn. I mean, I guess when you do something like that, you wouldn't need to move because you, you're, you wouldn't need to move.

because, you know, it's everywhere. Oh, shit, is this what their librarians look like? Yeah, librarians generally are painted a bluish color throughout every Space Marine, like, Legion. Oh, okay. The blue librarians, just like the blue is the color of the librarian, but they have some of their decals and shit on there. Right.

That one with the librarian that's got the sword pointing at you with the blue eye. Why does he have blue eyes? Shouldn't they be red? Maybe he's casting a power or something I don't know. Oh, okay. Magic, magic. Okay, but that's a very cool picture.

That's, ooh, that's super dope. That's the picture you should use when we're talking about this because holy shit. There's some really, really dope things. Yeah, the librarians sound very scary with the salamanders. I mean, I guess they're always supposed to be scary because, you know, it's like a, a librarian is essentially a space marine psycher, right? By and large, super simple terms. But yeah, that's, ooh, boy, that's.

They sound not fun to fight. No, they are very scary. There's a lot of fire. That's cool. Yeah. Very cool powers. Want them on my side, though. They have a couple other cool relics. There's something called the Sertrter's Breath,

which is a salamander with a unique modification that was used with a reputation with a death watch. And basically, it's just like a flame with a special propellant that fires at twice the range with an ultraviolet fire. Just kind of neat. Yeah, that's cool. You've got something called The Wrath of Prometheus,

which is a special crafted bolter, which of course is always cool looking. You've got the Salamander's mantle, which is a gigantic drakskin cloak. Oh, nice. Dope-ass cape, nice. Dope-ass capes are always awesome. Yep.

You have, like, the, I mentioned the Gaunt of the Forge already. There's some chips and burning halos, which are burning halos are actually super interesting because they're, Oh, that's what it's called Burning Halo. Yeah, that's what's his face had? Right, so it's called an iron halo.

That is a burning halo, which is basically an iron halo, except when the force field is struck, the kinetic energy is then converted into an explosion of searing flame back at the attacker. Oh, boy, so it's like an iron halo on crack. It is a crack halo. Wow. That's really, damn. Imagine trying to bong someone.

with like a hammer and then it just hits back in you and just gets set on fire you're like oh the risk I took was calculated but damn am I bad at pyrotechnics um is there any proof that like once they find all the relics that Vulcans actually kind of come back and it's not just a wild goose chase no okay I mean maybe there is but I don't know of any and and honestly it probably is better that way that there's just like this Vulcan said this is the way to do it and we'll see I is it bad

that I kind of want them to find all the relics and have nothing happen it would be very it would be very 40K very grim dark yeah it's a very grim dark thing to happen right they go to all this trouble find all the relics and

nothing they also they have a very funny accent they use for them in the text of speech series would they make them all sound like hoity tooty like knights? Oh. Or like they kind of walk like it's like Oh, oh, Doth thou find fire fearful. Ha ha.

Be gone demon. Fires Flamer. It's like, ah, thine foul smuttery. All right. Yeah, sure, sure. I'm just imagining them with that voice being like, what? Doth Vulcan not return? Blasphemy.

Where are thine, Doth Vulcan? Doth Vulcan, where? Alas, poor Vulcan. I never knew him because he's gone. Oh, Vulcan. I'm just assuming shit like that. I mean, well, it sounds like all these relics are like pretty, like they'd be useful in a fight anyway.

So like even if Vulcan doesn't come back, you still have all these really dope relics that, honestly, the salamanders should have anyway, right? Oh, yeah. I mean, the salamanders, the thing is that a lot of their fancy-pancy relics aren't actually that interesting to talk about

because this normally just comes down to really good flamer and really good hammer and really good bolter. Yeah. Because they craft all their shit and that's you know, the whole point of the matter. Yeah.

Shai said salamanders are cool but kind of over-specialized if you ever DM a Dungeons and Dragons game with Salamander just throw some fire-based monsters at them. They'll be like I cast fireball and you're like, it doesn't do anything and they go all Pikachu face. That's uh... That sounds about right. If you want to be a douchebag DM, you could certainly do that.

They certainly are specialized, no doubt. I can see that. Yep. And quickly on the terms of the tabletop, they actually are, they were actually pretty darn good for a while. They've gotten down in popularity a little bit lately, but they've got some pretty dope strategies and stuff.

Like, for example, when you fire a flamer, you roll a dice, like a D6 that's how many shots your Flamer gets like a 3, 4, 1 They have a stratagem called Flamecraft

where you just make it 6 for all of them There's actually a They have a strategy gem called Vengeance for East Vaughn 5 Where if you fight a word bearer Iron Warrior Night Lord or Alpha Legion

You can rerroll your hit roll because they knew They decided to nuke you Okay There's like strength of the Primark, which is a great, what's actually, wait a, wait a, what the

Oh my God, that's actually really strong. Holy shit. Add plus one of your strength in the fight phase and an unmodified wound rule of six doubles the damage. Wow, holy crap. There's stand your ground. There's born protectors. Exemplar of the Promethean

Creed, the fires of battle, self-sacrifice is literally a stratagem. Rise from the ashes. Blah, blah, blah. Horace, of course. All very on the nose Sally stuff. Yeah.

Fire shield. There's one called Drake Skin, which is a special librarian ability. Okay. And for their actual in-game abilities, they get a little bit of bonus to a certain armor penetration, so they ignore it because they're big and tough.

And they get to re-roll a dice every time they attack or shoot because they have master-crafted weapons. Makes sense. And then they all, and they naturally get bonuses due to their thing called doctrines if they use any flamers

or melta-based weaponry. Is there any faction or group that is heavily resistant to fire in the tabletop that's like the salamanders hate fighting them because, oh, I can't use my melch or my flamethrin. You went straight with the British. Well, you know, I gotta keep...

It's all right, I got it. I get you. No, no, because that kind of turns it into a very, like... Oh, yeah, then you'd be meddling. editing people out and you'd be counter-making armies, yeah. No one likes dealing with that kind of stuff. But, I mean, yeah, I do own salamanders.

I don't have them painted up fully, but I played them on the tabletop a few times on tabletop simulator. Oh. I mean, they play like they're supposed to. They get benefits for flamers and melters, so take a lot of them. They're a bit slow.

Unless you take the fast stuff, which sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. It just depends. Could you take a transport to load them into and make up for a? their lack of speed. Oh yeah, you can take like a land raider or something. They're not very good.

Oh, okay. But then like, eh, you know, there's certain things. Like, um, I really like Adrex Agatone on the tabletop. I think he's super good. Um, he's got his,

his, his hammer does a mighty four damage, which is insane. Um, he's got, he gives like, uh, he gives a really nice ability where he allows people around him to have a

wound roll of plus one during melee. Uh, Vulcan Hastan is pretty good. Vulcan, Histan lets you re-roll the wound roll for any flamers or melta weapons you have, which is pretty great. Does he do more damage because he has

the relics and he has the spear? His spear is actually really shit, I'm not going to lie. Ooh, that's unfortunate. Yeah, for the people watching, his spear is strength 6 minus 2D3 damage with only four attacks. It's actually really

mediocre. I I feel like he needs an update because Adrax Agatone with his strength 8 minus 3, 4 damage weapon is so much more powerful. Yeah. Would you even, would you run Vulcanistan? Wouldn't you just run Adrax? Uh, Vulcan's okay. Vulcan's a little cheaper, but the mainly reason you would run Vulcan is because he gives you a nice re-roll to wound for, or you can select one core character and re-roll a wound.

The thing, the thing about flame weapons is that because they're flamed, Flamethrowers, normally you have to roll to hit and then you roll to wound. Like accuracy, then strength. Because they're flamers, you never have to roll for accuracy because they're flamers. Oh, right, because, yeah, who needs accuracy with a flamers? So, ironically, flamers are some of the best weapons to destroy aircraft because they don't have to roll the hit. Okay, that's pretty clever, actually. I like that. So, but since you only have to roll the wound, the fact that Volus,

can give one unit full re-rolls to wound with flame weapons. Oh, that, yeah, okay, that becomes pretty good. And then if you're salamanders, if you're in a certain part of the game, all of your flamers and melas get an extra plus one to wound. So if you're, if you're firing flamers, like if you, there's a unit called an aggressor squad, and aggressors are in Gravis armor, and they have two flame throwers on both of their arms.

Ooh, very sally. Very sally. And if you fire these aggressors, so it basically, it's D6, so one dice, but there's two of them. And because they have two with gauntlets. And then there's three in the squads, so it's six dice. And then when you roll it, and it's like strength four or whatever. But then you can imagine if you're firing at other Marines, it would be strength, four toughness force, so you'd be wounding them on fours.

But if you're a sallies, you would. increase the penetration because it's Flamers and then you would get plus one to wound so now you're wounding them on threes and then Vulcan lets you re-roll all your fails so you're wounding them on threes re-rolling all your ones and twos so it can really

it can really compound on itself you know yeah it sure can oh boy that sounds that sounds fucked up and also there's a there's another thing they have they also are equipped power fists which means they

they can run up and punch your ass afterwards. I think aggressors are some of the Salamander's best units. Yeah, they sound really good. They sound like they will ruin your day. Also, those sallies that shy post are actually painted really well. The color scheme looks a lot better,

the darker the green is. I agree. I think the dark green is what makes it stronger. It looks better. The light green of those earlier pictures we saw looks absolutely atrocious, but that dark green painted one looks really spicy. Yeah, there's some really, really good ones in there. I like it a lot.

Yeah. Anywho, I mean, after some gameplay stuff, that's really the Salamanders. General Overview, some Sally boys, they're good boys. They're very good boys. I like Sallies. They're, you know, I don't, well, I was going to say, I don't know that I'd mind being a Sally if I had to be a Space Marine, but their rituals are a little insane. A little.

A lot of that self-immolation and setting yourself on fire and branding yourself and, you know, picking up hot chains and hot molten chains and, oh, boy. But it sounds like once you've done all that stuff, it's pretty great to be a salamander. You get to be with your family, you're honorable. You know, they sound pretty sick. For as great as it is being a person in the 41st millennium. Yeah, as, as, yeah, there are way worse things you could be. Like a chair. You could be a sofa.

Yeah, you could be a desk lamp. Shade. You could be the shade. You might not be the, you might be the shade on the lamp. That would be awful. All right. That's, that's, that's, that's good. We're good.

We're good, we're good, we're good. We did it. Salamators, um, to our viewers real quick, uh, The year is coming to a close. We're about, we're about to roll out 2021. 2021 and 2020 have felt like a blur. Oh, God, yeah. They felt like five years wrapped into two.

They really felt like they were the longest and most confusing years ever. As for us on Adeptus ridiculous, we have a lot of stuff planned for 2021. 2022, I'm sorry. 2020. We've got a lot of stuff planned. we have tons of merch ideas throughout the year we've got some exciting episodes

possibly even some interviews and we even have some competitions we plan on running at some point so with all of that I want to extend a very heartfelt thank you

me and shy have dragged DK to success oh you really have and boy does D.K. appreciate it, by the way. Boy, do I appreciate. I am happy to be here. I said that as a way

to be a dick and then you're like, yep. You're goddamn right. And I am happy to be dragged along. Thank you, one and all. Oh, damn it. All right. It's actually been a pretty substantial thing for all of us.

Not only the financial security for all three of us, but going above and beyond that and the enjoyment that we get to do making a our uh coming out with a podcast that should not have gone as popular as it did but alas i don't know if alas is the right word but thankfully thank you praise v to our fans uh it has indeed blown up in a much more significant way than i think any of us initially thought. And also, I don't have to, you know, I can have a little bit more legal with my content.

Shai does not have to review melee weapons and Warframe anymore. And, D.K., you don't have to be tied to Genshin impact anymore. So thank God. Yes, yes. God. Yeah. The best news. The best news.

Don't have to be tied to Genshin. Don't have to be tied to Warframe. Oh, life is good. Life is good. All right. And with that, thank you, everyone, for watching this episode.

Happy New Year. We will see you in the new year, and we will try to make it a significantly better one than the past. I'm trying to make it a ridiculous one. God, I was going to try to do a normal outro with that. My name is Bricky Thing.

And you ruined it. That's it. That's it. That's it. You've posted cringe. Oh. Get down into the. Crypt.

No, no, no. Alright, DK. Get in the lava. Oh, fine.