Adeptus Ridiculous - SISTERS OF BATTLE: MATRIARCHS & MARTYRS | Warhammer 40k lore

Episode Date: June 30, 2021

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Welcome everyone to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. And I used to be a Warhammer 40K newbie. But thanks to our Warhammer 40K veteran of the streets, Bricky, I've learned a lot. And we hope you have too. And before we get into today's episode, if you enjoy the podcast, have it over to patreon.com slash adeptus ridiculous, where you can support the podcast and get a bunch of bonuses, you know, stuff like bloopers,

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Well, if you remember in our Scola Progenium episode, we made our little joking fan fiction idea. And someone brought it to life in which we retweeted on Twitter and, you know, showed all of you. I got to be honest, it's pretty harsh in the sense of just, I'm just like, oh my God, someone made this. But in classic adeptist ridiculous fashion, we chose the path of most idiocy and hired said artist. to make us more comic panels. And if you'd like to see these comic panels, they will be on our Patreon and will be exclusive to said Patreon for the first week.

And after that, it'll go up on the main website for everybody else. Man, we've seen the new one. It's, I think I like it, even though it's so, like, cringially cute. Yeah. Well, the thing is, like, it's cringially cute. right? Like you said, but the dialogue is so

fucked up. Like, the things these two say to each other about what's going on in the Scholar progenium oh boy, it's rough. I love it. I love the backgrounds. It has no right to be this good at the same time. It is

still awful. In the best way. But, you know, we're paying artists. And that's always a good thing, you know? Yeah. So if you want to see at patreon.com slash adeptis ridiculous. I think it starts next week. Give a take. Give or take. I don't remember. Yeah. Schedules depending. It should. Schedules depending. Besides that, there's merch, merch, merch and description, go to town. Whatever, man. D.K. Yo, I don't know what's going down this episode again. This is going to be some good shit. You're so hype.

I'm so hype. We're literally recording this like 15 minutes early because Bricky was so high. Hyby's like let's do it I'm ready let's go you're gonna love this this is gonna good shit so I'm so so we gotta do the Alpha Legion that's not today we're working on that I that's one of our major Patreon goes don't worry that's in its that's in its it's in its work I need to read the book so give me some give me some time on that one we're doing our full episode on the sisters today DK oh oh no wonder you were so excited you're girls I know I know Your girls, let's go. Oh my God, that's a good thumbnail whiff.

Oh, that's so, that's so good. We just saw the Work in progress thumbnail in the chat, and it's, boy, that's a, that's a banger. That's actually great because the character in the back is actually one of the newly released models called the Dog Mata. And she's got this big old, like, staff, and it looks like you can bong someone with it, so it's fantastic. large no hornie written on it love it hell yeah so now as we discussed prior and how now that we're doing with the new legions is that

we had like the origin story which we did the age of apostasy the original doge van dieyer starting meme where it all began which is always great and of course we know how they came about but this is more of a discussion

of the overall faction some characters some of the orders, things like that, because, you know, similar like what we did with the necrons and the world leaders and works and stuff. Sure. When you mention the birth of Doge Van Dyer, I think we should refer to that as the birth of a god, because, you know. He's such a shit hit.

He really is. The fact that we've been able to, like, put Doge Van Dyer on a pedestal is incredible. Ghosh Van Dyer was so bad. He was literally worse than Hitler. Literally worse. He was on like the five Hitler scale. But he's a cute toge now. He's a cute dog now.

Yeah, he's a good boy. In a sense, the thing he would hate the most is us turning him into an adorable mascot. Like, no sororitus, don't turn me into marketable plushies. That's true. When is that happening, by the way? Dude, I don't, dude, I, I gotta do research if we want Dogevanty or Pushies.

That's gonna take a while. So you're saying there's a chance. So you're saying I have a chance. That's saying there's a chance. That's not a no. That's not a no, but it's not a yes. Actually, that is a great segue. Just call me Dean Kamen.

You know, Dean Kamen's dead? Really? Yeah. I thought he was still kicking. I don't believe so. Oh, that's grim dark, dude. Oh, wait, maybe he is still alive. Oh, no.

No, wait. Oh, wait. He is still alive. Oh, no. Yeah, he is still alive. Never mind. I lied. I thought he died. I don't, I keep that in shy. Don't put that in the bloomer in. Oh, shit. All right, he's still alive.

Emperor has his graces. Anyway, did I ever tell you why all the sisters have white hair? Oh, you did, but I can't remember why. I think it was like, was it Alicia Dominica that talked to the emperor? Yeah, okay. I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure if I mentioned that. Wants to look like her.

It's not that their hair is actually white. They all just want to like mimic her or something. Pretty, pretty close. I don't think I mentioned this in the age of apostasy episode. But when good old Alicia Dominica, St. Dominica, went to go into the empire, or the empire, the emperor's throne room with the custodian. she actually had like regular brown black hair or something but when she emerged from the throne room her hair was like completely bleached white either due to the psychic power of the emperor

or some reason so it's actually an unknown fact or a little known fact that you don't need white hair to be in the sister celestine has like black hair you know like you actually don't need to have white hair but by dyeing your hair white you're kind of of paying homage or more so paying respect to St. Dominica and to the idea of purity of faith. So you actually don't need it if you don't feel like it, but often they do because, you know, it's a good thing to have. I was going to say, I don't think I've ever seen a sister that didn't have white hair, though I haven't really looked into it.

Well, a lot of them are like bald, too. Oh, that's true. That's also true. They either don't have hair or it's just like white. Yeah, I mean, they have plenty of colors. Actually, in the Sisters of Battle Codex, the newest one, they have a couple of the order minorists, which are some of the lesser orders. And some of them have black hair, some of them have gray, some of them have red.

There's actually quite a few different color schemes that you can do with the hair color, which I actually like a lot because it allows you to just kind of color the hair, how you feel like it, and it's technically lore friendly. but it's actually one because it's one of the major factors of the sisters is their white nun type garb yeah so it's kind of a neat concept so not too many sisters players are like painting their hair like green and blue and making like an anime troupe or something just i mean if there was going to be one that there was going to be this would be the faction probably yeah so i guess it's fair there's probably a lot of that's probably a couple people that actually do that so i want to talk a little bit about some

of the more interesting, let me close out of this tab of Dean Kamen, let me talk a little bit more about some of the, the interesting, like, there's one thing that's really fucking cool about the sisters. Now, obviously, this is my favorite faction in the whole game, you know this, just in case that chat and the YouTube comments need to be reminded. There's a reason why I'm a huge fan of this faction. And there's actually a lot of reasons, and I'll probably get into some of the more specific reasons later. But I think that one thing in particular, is is that a lot of people used to harken the sisters of battle to the female variation of the space marines because they wear power armor and they use like bolters and stuff, right?

But when you really look at them, it really couldn't be farther from the truth. Like they have power armor, right? But it's a combination of the two things where I appreciate space marines for what they are. But I'm also a big guard fan, right? I love my guard. Sisters do not have genetic upgrades. They are normal human women. There is nothing about them that's special besides their unflinching, unwavering faith, which can create miracles and stuff.

And the fact that they're afforded power armor. They have power armor. I thought that they did have like some sort of spiffy upgrade. I didn't realize they were just like humans with faith. They're just normal humans. that's kind of why one of the reasons I'm a big fan of them because it kind of combines a little bit of that guardsman feel where they're just normal people but it's this this really awesome concept that through unflinching unwavering mental faith in fortitude that they can create and cause miracles on the battlefield and fight off like greater demons by just shouting sermons and shooting them with bolters and they're just regular fucking ladies. They're just normal, regular humans, but they have this laughably devote feel to them. And of course, I think their style really speaks a lot to them.

You know, we always talk about, and I always mention, you know, taking culture and putting it into the group. Obviously, the volume of nunneries, nuns, Catholic nuns, it's very evident in this one. This is literally nuns with guns It's It actually kind of sounds like They're a nice little mix Of like space marine And guard

Because they've got like the cool armor They've got Bulltor's They've got some powers But at the same time They're just mortal humans Fighting the good fight So it's kind of nice in the mix If you like space marines

And you like the guard You know Put them together and what do you got It's a sister I was going to do the pineapple pen thing, but then I decided not to because, yeah, that's a dead meme. Thanks for not doing the pineapple pen meme. No problem. I was terrified.

But, yeah, I mean, it does kind of feel like they're a little bit of a combination, but they're so different in like their art style. Because they're covered in like the, I don't know how to pronounce it properly. I always am told I'm pronouncing it wrong. The floridly, floridly, I don't know. Flordily, but that's fine. Flordily, whatever. Yeah, they're just covered in those. They have the Inquisition symbols.

But it's a combination of that. And the fact that they're... What might be argued is one of the most evil fucking factions of the Imperium. Like, it's balzy for GW to be like, yeah, I'm going to take the all-female order and make them the most fucking evil. You know, you see all those babies, lobotomize them. Carry my ammo. Hey, that guy, he looked at a piece of hent. He looked at a piece of hentai.

Put him in the penitent engine. Let's take an Arco-flagellin over there. You know, let's take off his limbs, give him some flails. He watched some smacked. Oh, I forgot about the lobotomized babies. I totally forgot about that. I mean, space marines use them too, but sisters have a lot of them. Whereas space marines use them...

Yeah, space Marines use them to carry, like, ammo. The sisters use them to carry fucking incense and shit. Oh, man. That's that... Oh, boy. It's kind of... It's kind of ballsy to make the, like, the all-female... sort of like religious zealots

the most evil part of the Imperium. That sounds like it's straight out of like a JRP. The evil is God and all of his followers and we must kill them. That sounds, it's oof. I mean, if we're being smart, you know, GW, if we're giving GW any credit

to say that they've enjoyed their satirization of religious zealotry and nationalism is a thing. But at the same time, this is also a toy soldier game, so I don't want to look too deep into it. That's fair. But I want to talk about the, I want to talk about the matriarchs, man.

All right. I want to talk about the matriarchs. So this is a really, this is a fucking cool part. And they're starting to flesh it out a little bit more. I think it's awesome. So remember Alicia Dominica went into the emperor's throne room. It wasn't just her. The reason that she is so important is because she was the main leader of the sisters

during the Doge Van Dyer reign of blood, and she was the one who beheaded him. It's actually the six matriarchs, St. Catherine, St. Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Mina, Slavana, and Arabella. And these are the six sisters that were all the major matriarchs that all eventually went to go form

all of the Order Primaris. So there's Order Primorus and then Order Secundus, I think, or Tertia. I forget exactly how it's pronounced. But basically, you know how guardsmen and Marines have chapters, guardsmen have regiments? So sisters have orders. And there are six main orders. So St. Catherine is the order of our martyred lady.

Lucia is of the valorous hearts. Dominica is one of them. She was the Eben Chalice. You have the Bloody Rose, the Argent Shroud, and the sacred rose. Now St. Catherine Well now all these By the way all these girls they're all dead Oh yeah

Well because they're humans They couldn't be alive that long right They're just that and that And they also got killed in battle They've all been martyred Oh okay Because if there's one thing that sisters Really fucking like it's killing themselves

They love martyrdom Well that's fair If you're gonna be a religious zealot chances are you want to be martyred for the cause and that's fair. Okay. That's besides flames and melters, that's one of their big favorites. But St. Catherine, for instance,

St. Catherine was really the military doctrine. She was the smart military leader. And she was the saint of the Order of Armored Lady. This is the one you probably notice the most. It's the black and red color scheme that you see everywhere. Yep. She was the main like military tactician under, Licia. St. Lucia was actually the in a flash they all had these surnames. So the big group, St. Catherine is the martyr, the shield bearer.

Lucia is the endurance of the passion. Domenica was the spirit of holy wrath. Mena was known as St. Mena the Bloody. And then St. Silvana, the intercession. And St. Arabella, the liberator from doubt. because having badass fucking names is a good GW staple. Oh yeah, those are some dope names. The Bloody, gee, I wonder what she liked to do. Jesus. Oh, oh, she's cool. So St. Catherine, you might remember as the Saints of Order of Armour Lady.

The Order of Our Marlady is they love Martyrdom. Oh, do they like it? They almost feel like Krieg. They're like the sister's version of Krieg, where they're really down to, to die for the cause. I was going to say, if you're really into martyrdom, man, it must be really hard to keep your ranks full. Because, I mean, you're going to, like, it sounds like they're going to martyr themselves

before the enemy has a chance to shoot him. So. The dying sisters on the battlefield are being, like, praised. Their other sisters are like, oh, St. Mary, you're dying horribly. The emperor truly loves you for you have been vindicated as a sense. saint, goodbye. Like, they really like it. In game, if you actually gain bonuses for having your people die.

Oh. It's the best. All right. So, like, if you have like a big 20 women squad of sisters, if any squad suffered casualties but isn't fully dead, the entire rest of the squad hits better. They hit on like twos instead of threes. Immediately, I'm like, you know, if I ever play the tabletop, that's the squad I should get, because chances are I'm going to roll like garbage because I have no luck in dice rolls. So if everything happens to go wrong and I get a shitload of bonuses, hey.

Hey, that's a win-man. As we might remember, St. Catherine is obviously dead and they are carrying her bones into battle nowadays with the coolest model ever, the triumph of St. Catherine. Oh, that's right. You've shown me that a couple times. That is a Yeah. Yeah. It's literally carrying her bones into battle with a whole bunch of different matriarchs, which I'll talk about in a bit. But St. Lucia was the order of the valorous heart. Now, and she's also the endurance of the passion, as I stated.

St. Lucia did not live a good life. she eventually was captured by traitors and had her eyes gouged out and she was held hostage and was forced to listen to the screams of the dying innocence that the traitors had so they basically brought a whole bunch of innocent people and murdered them in front of her

in an attempt to make her renounce her faith well on the plus side at least she didn't have to see it I suppose Right? You only had to hear it. Though including other sisters of battle were brought to be tortured in front of her. However, they were tortured without a sound.

They did not make a single sound. And now the heretics stated that Lucia did abandon her faith. But once those heretics were then captured and put to the brand, they eventually, you know, say that they lied. and she never actually renounced her faith after all this time of torture. They're just trying to slander her and make her seem like a traitor

and then the Imperium would do the dirty working killer. Yeah, so she was killed at the hands of these traitors after some time. But this created the concept of the Order of the Valer's heart, which has the idea of impervious to pain. The Valer's heart are brutal. They have a very slow way of warfare.

They like, they do it the tactical way. They cut off a supply line, they mess up different kinds of shipping food, they poison your water supply, they destroy your chemical vats. And so often the worlds that they fight, they usually siege and actually end up kind of fucking up the world. Like the poisons and the chemicals kind of go into the air. And because of that, they tend to trudge on these worlds. And they actually relish in the idea of scarring and pain. No other order bears as many hideous, hideous facial scars as the order the valorous heart does. Their faces are incredibly fucked up.

They are like scratched and scarred. They're missing chunks of tissue or like it's all blistered up and like, and it's really nasty. Because they like walk in like a poisonous world. just destroyed. Shai posted a picture of one of them and holy shit she looks all fucked up. Like she, like, she kind of

looks like a zombie. A little bit. She's just hanging off of her, off her face and she's got this dead eye. She's on fire. Holy shit. Their logo is sick. Their logo is sick. Almost all the logos are really cool looking. That's true. And I'm assuming this is all because like,

oh yeah, um, what was her name Valor? What's the name that got tortured? Lucia. Lucia. I'm assuming they're trying to be like, oh, well, she endured that so we can endure this and we can be stronger and blah blah, blah. Let's emulate Lucia. You are a very smart man.

They believe that pain is actually a vessel to make it so they understand the pain of their saint. Often, if you lose an eye in battle, that's actually a great thing because you are, much closer to understanding the pain

of your matron saint because she had her eyes gouged out. That's true, she did, Jesus. The valorous hearts, no half measures with the sisters. The valorous hearts actually refuse all anesthetic during surgeries and

amputations. Because pain is the holy way of the emperor. Jesus. That's hardcore. It's, It's really hardcore. There's actually a pretty

neato thing where you look at the rules. Where is my little book here? Oh, here it is. So it said, Sister Gerbold is, or however, lips cracked and bled. Her head pounded as the blazing light

from the three sons beat down upon her, and she could no longer sweat. She missed the sting of salty liquid, dripping into the ruptured blisters that covered her face from the sunburn. Pain was precious. It reminded her of matriarch lucia and that she was alive and could serve.

And so they were just, this was a training drill. This wasn't even a battle. This was a training drill. And they were walking up desert dunes and some of the girls would get sandblasted in their open wounds

from the winds and then fall down. down the hill to climb up the four hour trek again. And some of them had either given up or couldn't do it due to weakness. And she's like, don't worry. The, the, um, what is it? Uh, the sweet correction of the whip will be at them soon. Oh.

You know, I'm, I'm sure people say this a lot about 40K, but I would not want to be in that faction. Uh, even. The valorous heart, no way, man. Nope. Do not want any, I guess you could say they're a bit of an eye. sore. Ah, drum roll,

put the drum in, put the drums in. Yeah, let's go. Stupid. So stupid. So the next one is St. Dominica, of course.

This is the order of the Eben Chalas, my personal favorite order. This is a, Dominica, we don't need to go too far into her. They're the spirit

of holy wrath. They particularly hate psychers. It's the Eben Chalice, so, you know, obviously. Yeah. Though she used to carry this thing.

This was like the goblet of the Eben Shalas. There was this giant goblet she would carry around. And by pouring a teeny amount of the contents out on the battlefield, it's basically like having a pariah next to a cyker. All the enemies would just start like screaming. And their eyes would like burst in their heads and their skin would like start to melt. And psychers would just combust.

And she's just like, dip, dip. And they all start fucking losing their mind. dip dip dip pour poor poor so what's what's in this chalice actually I have no fucking idea anyone who knows has been labeled a heretic and even their own scribes set a flame for writing about it

whoa the goblet's gone it died with Dominica but at the time she was like poor screaming poor screaming you know that you know that meme where the guy like presses the bus is like all right If you press this button, a hundred people will die.

But they just keeps on sliming the button. It's like, dude, stop. It's like, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor, poor. Stop, man, you're killing everybody. I'm curious about the chalice. I'm curious about what the hell could possibly be in it. And how, like, how did she get it? I have no fucking idea.

I have no clue. And I feel like I- Super OP relic that she got, that she just tripped. I mean, this is like 8,000 years. ago, so I honestly no clue. But it was something else. St. Mina is the Order of the Bloody Rose, as she is St. Mina the Bloody Rose. As she is St. Mina the bloody.

St. Mina was a very angry person. She was, she was basically the champion. So normally whenever there's like a space marine check, you have a champion, which is like your dedicated fighter man, you know? Sure. This is her champion.

And she was quick to anger. She was very angry all the time and just consistently, and that's the bloody rose thing, it's the melee order, they're just constantly, constantly angry. They're always just infuriated at all times. In fact, this lady was so nuts that it is said that when the emperor's custodian, the captain general came to go say what's up to them and talked to them, she immediately lashed out and ran at him and started beating on him with her weapons and it said that the two of them fought for

like an hour before they were both at a standstill now it said that I do not believe for a second that a sister could hold her own against the captain general of the custodians but I am I can assume that the custodian in this because he didn't want them to be against them that he probably went

Uh, point being... He didn't really want to kill her because... Yeah. That's an assumption. Point being, she was very angry and she was quite the swordsman. All right. In fact, she's got a, this got a good, a good little quote in the book. Not only quote, but a, uh, like a little thing here.

It says, let's go bricky quote. It's not cool. It's more just me reading a passage from the book. Uh, but it's, the heretic screams were louder than the roar of the flamer. Sister Bertha did not release the trigger until the traitor dropped to the floor Only as burning corpse lit the bunker The stench of cooking flesh blended with that of burning promethium

Bertha breathed deeply The smell never got old The only sound that remained was the crackling of the fire And the popping of boiling fat And purged the unclean she said As she pulled the trigger again And flames engulfed them all So descriptive

It's just I know Can you imagine that you're like, you're a regular guardsman, you're just chill him. And then the nun lady, like the nice nun lady, is just like burning a fucking heretic and his skin is popping and boiling like melted cheese. And she's just like, oh, yeah. Yeah. That's not, that's not the campfire you want to attend. That's not the, nobody's singing kumbaya after that one.

Someone's singing kumbaya. Yeah, she probably is. You know what these Bloody Rose sound like? They sound like the sister variant of the world eaters. They're the or the sister variants

of the blood angels, I suppose. Either work. The dedicated melee, all in red, yeah. They strangely love burning people alive. Well, all sisters love that. Well, Karn did do that, yes.

But all the sisters love the Flamer in general. That's their main weapon. Oh, okay. Well, kind of. So, the Holy Trinity. The Bolter, the Flamer, and the Melta. Wait, so what's a Melta? It is a lance of like superheated light

of like the heated the sun that burns through tanks. Oh, okay. Because I was like, Melta sounds kind of like it should be a flamethrower because it's going to melt you. So I was wondering Put the drums in shy Put the drums in

More drums I want more drums I had not intended to make that pun But I will take it It is it's basically a giant Anti-Tank beam But they love their flamers They love their bolters And love their melters

It's literally called the Holy Trinity There's also the next one is Saint Sylvana This is a cool one This is the Order of the Argent Shroud She's also known as the intercession. The arch and shroud are speechless. Their whole thing are deeds, not words. Now, they still pray and have hymns and all that stuff, but when they're on the battlefield, they say nothing. They, like, Silvana was always known in Alicia's group as being quiet and stoic,

barely ever speaking. There are no written records of her speaking besides her hymns. Basically, they're like first in, first out group. They're incredibly fast. And so often what they would do is they'd take like large contingents of jetpack troops and things like that. And they'd fly in incredibly quickly, deal with the problem, and then just leave without a word. Often to the annoyance of like governors and planetary rulers is like, hey, the sisters are here to save us.

Let's do battle plans. And they just wouldn't speak to them. And then they're like, where's the battle plans? They need the battle plans. And then the sisters would just leave. like what the fuck? Then they realize the threat's been destroyed. Like, oh, I guess they did it.

Yeah, guess we didn't need any plans after all. Yeah, I mean, you can stay quiet as long, you know, if you just go kill everybody who needs, who needs battle plans. Good for them. They sound dope. They sound hardcore as fuck. Deeds, not words.

I would not want to piss one off. I'm not sure how you would piss one off. Be a heretic. Well, yeah, like, I suppose. The last. one was Saint Arabella, the matriarch of the sacred rose.

She was known as the Liberator from doubt. Now, St. Arabella was calm as all shit. She was the one who was really good at negotiations, and she was very contained. People are just getting murdered

everywhere, and she's just like, the emperor is with us. Yes, yes, of course. Indeed, you will be saved. Okay. The Sacred Rose, they don't just believe that they serve the emperor. They legitimately believe themselves to be a vessel of his divine will. They have the most miracles of any other order. And specifically, Arabella was that way.

She would, like, hold her, like, ecclesiarchal seal or whatever that little pendant is to her chest. And she just walk in the battlefield saying hymns and sermons, and then just, you know, One's gun in front of her would just malfunction And they would all just jam Or the bullets would just happen to not hit her Or tanks would stall You know, just that faith That the miracles would just occur

As she would just strove through the battlefield That's sick That's cool Oh yeah Um So how How did these miracles work exactly? Like so

GW doesn't even know I was gonna say I think I don't know if we talk about this in one of the previous episodes, it feels like a conversation that we've had were like, are they maybe a little psycher-e? And they just think that they're praying and they think that the miracles are happening, even though it's not like from the emperor and they're not actually.

So, okay, so sisters of battle hate psychers. They despise psychers. There are so many rules that are anti-psycher in the game. but the sisters themselves the concept is like with most with the orc it's a smaller version of the orcs ideas where they believe it so zealotously so furvously that it will become a thing

they're so devoted in the emperor that these miracles manifest very similar to the orcs power of imagination they just believe it'll happen and also like with the orcs when there's so many sisters because orcs, they yell, they waw, they do all this stuff,

and they believe things will happen. But imagine you have an entire fighting force of sisters and they are literally every single one of them chanting sermons and hymns and praying while firing. Like they are all there simultaneously gunning down the heretics while being like, by his grace the emperor protect me,

by his grace you die. And then you have all the chicks in the back Who are like the the imagifiers and the dialogue eye Who are screaming out their sermons and their prayers And then you're raining holy water from the sky And your pipe organ tanks are playing hymns with their giant organs And Like it's imagine Wa power

But for the sisters in its own way And then of course you have Celestein who's basically a demon So is it like Wa in that they actually do have like a power? Like they actually do like, because it's... No, I think the orcs, because the orcs I think are very minorly psycher because they were old one created and stuff. Right, right.

The sisters don't have that, but which is why their powers are a lot less than orcs. Like their ships still need a function like normal ships. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. It's miracles that occur. It's the concept that, you know, like I mentioned before, you fired, a lucky bolter shot and it happened to ricochet on a bad part of a tank and it hit the fuel line and the tank exploded. You know, or you just happened to get a grazing shot or the enemy's power armor malfunctioned and then they fell over and it allowed you to get the final hit. It's, it's things that you could rationalize as coincidence, but by golly, it's a lot of coincidences.

Yeah, the first time is a coincidence. The second time, maybe. Third time, it's not a coincidence anymore. The 40th time you should join the sisterhood. If it happens often enough that you have destroyed a tank in one shot several times, I don't think that's a coincidence anymore. So, Shai says, in theory, the warp works through people's beliefs, emotions, and feelings. Thousands of years of fucking in pain creates flesh.

So thousands of years of believing the emperor as a god sort of turned him into a god. So as chaos worshipers can get powers from chaos, emperor worshippers can get powers from chaos, Emperor worshippers can get powers from the emperor in theory It makes sense in theory But I will say if the emperor actually does become a god It definitely makes the whole imperial truth Or the type of thing a little bit rough Because the emperor is such a douche bag

Yeah, sure is, sure is But that makes sense The concept makes sense Especially when you're the sisterhood Which is just so angry I do That's a theory I can get behind for why their miracles happen. Okay.

It's a workable theory. There's a couple other things. Those are the six orders, actually. They're all pretty cool. They've all, you know, all the saints have eventually passed, but all those ors are the ones you can play in the tabletop. There's also the various troops. There's like the regular sister troop.

We talked about the penitent engines, which, you know, we know about the penitent engines. They strap them up to it. You stick a bunch of stuff in your cerebellum and your cerebral cortexes, and you pump them full of drugs and things that make you experience excessive pain and self-loathing to the point where you power the engine to death. Oh, there is also... Super 40K thing. That thing is awful. There's the heretic in there.

Well, their version of a heretic. Yeah, that's true. There's the archoflagellants, which of course we know they have their limbs rip. off replaced with flails. They have a clockwork orange device placed on their head, and they are shown never-ending imagery of prayers and saints. And then they are just drooling, walking, lobotomized people until that someone says the secret word, they're like, Disneyland.

And then they just go into a crazy fucking, like, murderous rampage, and then they go Universal Studios. And then they turn off again. In my head, I imagine that actually being the code word and it's hilarious. Disneyland. Disneyland. Universal Studios. Okay.

Sweet. That's weird, but all right, cool. Now, there's also the Repentia, of course. Now, the Repentia, also known as most looted of the mall, are the girls who have either, well, they fled. generally. They fled the battle. They ran away. And so they are now given a hood and they are given basically just scripture. Well, they're a little more than that now. Back in the day, it was literally like fucking fan art, fan fiction crap. Now they're significantly

worse looking. Now they've got torture devices. Like they wrap barbed wire in their mouths. And they, what's that thing you put on the, on the thigh. Oh, I know what you're talking about. It's so you feel like the constant pain of like Christ or something like that, right? I know what you're talking about. I don't know what it's called, though. And you make it real tight.

It's kind of like spikes on it. Yeah, here's a picture. Shai has the old versions. I don't like the old versions, but there's the new version up there. The new version is nuts. Can we just take a second? like, Shy, please, like, put these two old and new ones right next to each other, and what the fuck happened? We got Grimdark.

Yeah, is like, whoa, the one shy posted is like a pinup model. Yeah. Jesus. Yeah. This is why the new one is so fucking cool. Because look at her just, look at all the shit on her. The thigh, like, shanking into the lung. leg, all the

little ports around her, the damn gag. It's just awful. And so, naturally, repentia are sent because they've sinned. They've fled. And there's also a mistress of repentance with a whip who goes like,

to get them into battle. And also, because the concept is that either they die and therefore they serve the emperor or they live. And if they live, they're actually welcomed back into the sisterhood with huge open arms

because they feel like they they've fully repented they have experienced both the downward sin and forgiveness of the emperor. They believe they are fully forgiven by the emperor himself. So it's actually a really big deal for them.

Sometimes, and this is a rare case, but sometimes sisters will even self-exile themselves to become repentia because they deem it so important. Yeah, I remember you telling me that in the other episode that they would sometimes exile themselves because it was like a way to get closer to the emperor because, you know, it's

just you, you go into battle with nothing but a sword and some scripture on you and it's like, well, if the emperor really loves me, I'm gonna come out. Yeah, I'll live. St. Celestine was a repensia. Oh, really? St. Celestine was a repensia who survived. Oh, well, good for her. Well, no. I know. I amper does love you. Yes, he does. There was also another thing you could do.

It's even worse. If you flee as a repentia, now that's a big no-no. And you become something called a mortifier. Oh. And a mortifier is basically a penitent engine for sisters where they drill spikes into your bones to force you to be stuck on the thing.

And they fuck with your spine and brain so that you have an excessive feeling of self-loathing and lack of faith and pain, of course. But they also put a gear dude on your head so you actually can't hear anything. And so the sermons of your fellow sisters are muted to you. And so it's like denying you of repentance, denying you of the ability to redeem yourself. Damn. If you're a repentia, though. Like, you're already real close to the bottom of the barrel.

Why the hell would you flee at that point? Like, like, no idea. Just go in, go in hard. They can even get worse. If you, if you betray your sisters, if you betray them somehow,

you can be put into an anchorite, which is a mortifier, but inside a giant iron maiden. coffin. Oh. So have fun with that. That's worse. That's, oh, God. So I don't think I even need to talk about Celestein anymore. We've discussed so much Celestine.

But another cool thing, the tribe of St. Catherine model, so St. Catherine's bones are there in the middle, right? But the model being a funeral procession has six separate people, and they all carry a relic of the, their various order because it's the six main orders. Sure. The main lady in the front is the shield bearer. She is of St. Catherine, of the spirit of St. Catherine.

The spirit of St. Dominica has a little mini version of her goblet. And then there is the saint of the Bloody Rose, which is the petals, the rose petals. It looks like a little pizza on the left-hand side. They have a sensor of the, I think it's the censor. of the Argent Shroud. They all have their own, like, trinkets to go along with it. And so this thing has, like,

9,000 rules for each of these trinkets. There is Ephraal Stern, who is the heretical saint. She's almost like a psycher. Basically what happened is that Slanesh created a gigantic human pizza ball of a thousand sisters into a giant contorting mass.

And all of them killed themselves and sent their energy to Friyel Stern to have her defeat the Slonesh demon. And so now she almost acts like a cyker. She has this really insane power. I don't want to get too far into that. Long story short, they consider her both a saint and a heretic.

She's weird. I want to talk about the new chick, though. The new main character that just came out, the new model. So this is actually kind of neat Now let me go ahead and send you a little image here This is more than VAL She is the High Lord of Terror right? Is that what that model's called? Nice! She looks sick

They actually just dropped some new art for her For the new Warzone book Check this fucking shit out man It is so cool I am I'm so like Whoa. It's so dope. She looked like a zombie in there.

Like, what is it with the sisters and looking like straight up fucking zombies? Because pain is the... It's the... It's true. Holy shit, they're so fucked up. It's amazing that these are the chicks that keep getting looted on. Because they are just all kinds of just ravaged and torn. And they look like the Walking Dead.

Now, you're starting to understand why I get... upset when I see Wifu sisters because I really like how disgusting they look. I'll get into this later, but Morven Vaughal. Basically, there is a position, the highest position in the sisterhood called the Abbas Sanctorum and or the Abbas. I don't really know how it's pronounced. And the original one during the fall of Cadia was actually lost to the warp because of the Great Rift.

And because of that, they needed a new one. and so the high ecclesiarchs were looking for a suitable person for it and they decided to find Marvin Vall who was a I believe Selection Superior of the Order of the Argent Shroud the ones that are really quiet yeah and they saw her and she was incredibly young very young like maybe like 20s oh and they looked at her and they thought excellent she it can be a really good pawn because they want a little bit

more of a of kind of like a control of the sisters they the ecclesiarchy wanted a lot more of the ability to kind of have their hands in the sisterhood a bit more and kind of have a bit more political power with them so they're like okay morvin vall is a perfect one we can she's young she's naive we can use her for it so they asked they went to her and it was after a battle and she stood there with like gashes on her on her body her armor bloodied and chipped and chipped and charred and they they asked her to become the abbess and she stood there just staring at them stone dead eyes and after they finished it she waited a little bit and said i'll think about it and then she left and went to do uh three days of personal prayer alone to like personal meditation to think about what she wants to do. And this entire time

the Ecclesiarchs are like, oh my God, oh my fucking like pacing back and forth. Like, ah, Jesus, what is she doing? And she eventually emerged from her area and said, okay, I'll do it. And go ahead. I was

going to say she probably doesn't talk much, so I mean it's pretty amazing to get her to say even that much. It was. to think about it that much. So, that's a pretty big deal. So she accepted. and then she was actually they were like okay you're going to join the abbess and all the kind of stuff

and then Gillamim promoted her to being a high lord of terra now that the Abbas Saint-Toramol is now a position of the high lords of terra and the ecclesiarchy was like we're going to try to use her for our game the first thing she did was immediately leave

of course she immediately bailed and went on a crusade I love it I love her even more now. And so basically her whole deal is that she hates, despises politics. She leads from the front. She will go through all of her battles leading the charge in her giant suit,

her Hernandez-Paragod war suits. Whenever she goes to a planet to help them, all the planetary leaders are like, Miss Vaugh, Miss Vaugh, let's talk. You know, like we must discuss our battle plans. and she's like, out of my way, I got to battle to win. Go talk with them. And she has like 50 of these diplomats and dialogue guy behind her

that do all of her political work for her. Because she just doesn't, she can't be fucked. She cannot be dealt with. She's so sick and tired of politics. So I got a battle to win. And so. Considering she comes from the, what is it, the Argent shroud that don't talk? Yeah.

So politics would probably be absolutely fucking poisonous, garbage. to her because it's like she's all about just like oh it's it's time for action not words and politicians are literally the exact opposite where politicians like it's time for words not action so yeah i get her absolute fucking disdain for politics deeds not words and in fact it's she's so like okay i don't know if you know this but her giant warsuit is obviously a big mechanic um it was a gift from the mechanic um because that took like two centuries to get fixed because I guess the sister

is helped out of Forge World but her spear is actually a spear from the Adeptus custodies it's now I need to impress upon you this this is a big fucking deal the custodians do not share

ever they do not give their tech away ever but her spear is called the lance of illumination and it was a finely crafted artifact of the custodians because as we remember the sisters and the custodies are actually kind of tight.

Yep, yep, yep. They're the ones that led them to the emperor through the secret passages. Well, not just that, but not just that, but the sisters naturally, they like, they like guardsmen a lot because they believe in the imperial creed of the emperor being a god.

But the sisters also really don't like space marines. Because they're corruptible. because half of them kind of went to chaos and they're also mutants I remember we talked about that a little bit yeah we did and the custodians are literally crafted by the emperor and also basically what's it called? Like they've never turned to chaos once

yeah so they're actually kind of bros and sisses makes sense so it makes sense that they would kind of share a little bit of that But yeah, Morven Vall is just like, I've been elected, cool, let's go on a crusade. I have to wonder, like, did the Ecclesiarchy really think they were going to be able to use her? Like, of all of the people that you could have picked to try and be like a political pawn, you literally pick someone from the order that hates talking and just wants to get the-christ.

Like, did they really not think this through and be like, you know, this probably isn't a word? They apparently didn't. Apparently. It's like the worst person you could pick if that's what you want. I mean, she's a really cool character. Some people don't like the suits. I actually like the suits. I was a little bit iffy on them, but then I got them in real life.

And I'm like, they actually look kind of cool. She herself in the... Yeah, well, she got the fancy suits. That's true. So, it's one of that I, a lot of people kind of forget. Sisters are actually not all warriors. The adeptus sororitis, the sisterhood, has a lot of diplomats, the order of familialists. The dialogue, which are, the order dialogue, which are all about understanding languages,

both of alien and even heretical languages and scribes. And there's also the order hospitaler, which is all about medics. Like, sisters, the medical nuns do go into guardsmen areas and ships. like the classic sister nurse nun are all across the Imperium, not just in sisterhood. But often sisters are also like relief efforts. They bring food. Yeah, they're like Peace Corps.

They bring food and important things like that. And there's a lot of those non-military-based sisters in there. It's just we play as the military ones, so we know the most about them. Of course. They're the most. One of the... Of course. Of course. One of them is the Zephyrum. There's the girls with the jet packs. These are girls with jet packs with swords. And they are a higher tier to the point where they believe that the emperor speaks through them. So much so that they don't speak English. They speak in tongues.

Oh, I do remember them now. Because all the sisters believe that they actually have the divine word of the emperor themselves. So, You know, they walk around the shavers, they're just like, um, blah, blab-d-blah-d-blah. And it's, oh, my God. I just can't understand his, his words. You know, you. His words are truly through you, of course.

And they're just babbling. They're just babbling bullshit. How could I forget that? Oh, I love it. I love that. I love that so much. They're not saying anything in particular, but everybody just fucking believes it.

Sure, why not? It's an imperative thing to do. So, DK, I'm gonna take a risk here. I'm gonna take a big fucking risk here, okay? I haven't watched SpongeBob, no. Still, still. That was a good guess. That was not what I was talking about.

That's a good guess though. I'm gonna, I'm gonna get a little political. Alright, you could start sweating. It's okay. Let me grab a shovel and we'll start digging. I'm gonna get a little political. Shai doesn't want me to keep this. Shad doesn't want to keep this in.

I'm positive, but I'm going to get a little political. All right. All right. I'm ready. I'm ready. So, have you ever heard of the whole people about, like, female space marines and stuff? You ever heard to talk about that? I don't think so.

If I have, I've forgotten it. So for a long time, people are like, you know, where female space marines, there are none of them. And there's two, people think, like, okay, no speed, female. space marines because of women, icky, sexism, that kind of stuff, right? Now, there's a couple of things about that,

because people talk about, like, they want female space marines. And naturally, the way it was, is that way back of the day, late 80s, early 90s, there was like a statement from one of the old GW guys, and he was like, hey, we had female space Marines back then. No one fucking bought them.

Like, so we, so we just had normal space Marines. Marines and then they built the lore around that, which is why the emperor has 20 sons. And, you know, the gene seed will, it is of a guy, so it's all male space marines. Sure, sure. Makes sense. And, you know, military forces tend to have a majority male, all that kind of stuff. Fair, okay.

So for a long, long time, people are like, hey, you know, now we're in 2021, it's a different time. Things are different. Things are more acceptable. There's, people want female space Marines in the game. because, you know, it's more diverse, it's more inclusive, et cetera. Sure, sure. I am against it. Okay.

And the reason for that is because so fucking often, and this is in Hollywood especially, everyone only feels like if you want to do, you want to do like representation, you want to do diversity, you want to do all that stuff, you have to copy what's already there. Old property of this, this is this. We have to remake Ghostbusters. and it has to be all ladies, right? And I'm like, is it not fucking, does it not feel like degrading?

That the only way that you can have something that is so cool and worthwhile is to copy something else. Like, GW has done the impossible. They have made an entire only female faction of this game that is not over-sexualized, that is not.

boring, that is completely different from every other goddamn race on here and is the most evil Imperium faction in the game, GW has fucking done it. Instead of constantly copying everything, instead of constantly being like, we need, if we're going to add like diversity representation or whatever, we always got to make a female version of this, a variant of this, of this. And instead they made a brand spanking, like unique, different, exciting, fucking brutal. And it doesn't feel preachy. Like, if you look at Morven Vaughal, there's a lot of similarities to the whole, like, women in the workplace thing. She was going to be hired into a position and then used.

Like, you could really take it that way. But you didn't think that when I was telling you the story, did you? No, actually, I did not. I was like, the politicians are fucking idiots and there's no way she's going to do what they want her to do because she's too hardcore. And she's, like, you could, yeah, you could take that idea from it.

Like, Doge Van Dyer is the repelling against the oppressor's story. Like, it makes, it makes sense. And that's why I like the sisters so much because they combine so many different things that I love. Like, I'm not a religious person, but it's, like, at all, And so it's interesting at the same time to have characters that are so unwavering in their spiritual fortitude, so unwavering in their mental idea. And then combine that with the guardsman idea where they're all just regular women in power armor. They're not a stereotype.

They are nasty. They look gross. And it's the reason why I don't like, I don't like wifu fucking drawings of the sisters because it's not. Okay. If people want to draw that. that stuff, like I obviously can't tell you what to draw, like, you know, art is arts. I literally spent,

which is ironic, because literally last episode I was like, let's horror Seren abs, let's go. But that was more of me, that was more of me meaming. Like, I legitimately really like the fact that the sisters are scarred. They look like warriors. They're not pretty girls strutting around

in purity seal, repentia like they used to be. They are frightening. Honestly, as far as I'm concerned, why make them the same when you could make them better? And I'm sorry, but I think sisters are cooler than space marines ever will be. I fucking love, I fucking love them. They are so unique and different. And I wish they had more lore because they definitely don't have as much as space marines do. But so there's there's, there's Ricky getting a little political.

A little, a little bit. I know that the Warhammer fan base can be a little. little bit iffy on that kind of stuff, but... Yeah. I don't think that's a hot take, honestly. Like, I don't think that's a hot take. I don't think it's too hot. I'm sure I'm going to get some very mean comments

and all that stuff at some point because the Warhammer fan base is a little bit that way at times. But as far as I'm concerned, I like when more people play this game. I like when people have the representation. Actually, one of the reasons why I enjoy, I think white scars are cool.

because they have like the Mongolian vibe and all that. Yeah. And this to me is just really fucking cool. And it's the most important thing that you can do. And they didn't suck their dick about it. Yeah. So. Yeah.

It's good. I like it a lot. They're not a stereotype. They're extremely scary. They're cool. I love their faith concepts. They're unique. That's why they're my favorite army.

Fucking love them. There we go. Bricky's favorite army, favorite faction. What's your favorite? order, though. The Ebbing Chalice. Oh, that's right.

I like, I like Domenica. That's for, of course. Of course. Of course. Should have known that. You shouldn't. Besides that, I do enjoy the Sacred Rose a little bit.

I like the miracle dice shenanigans. The order of the Amar lady is pretty fun, but it's very silly too. Yeah. Just dying everywhere. Yep. Sisters are cool.

They're hard for. very cool. I am pleased. I am very pleased with how they've been done lately. The last, because back in the day, you know, GW didn't write, female characters too great. And the last, the codex that came out recently with the

model revamp is when I was like, whoa, these are not, these layers are not to be fucked with. And they got a bunch of better lore, they got their new characters. And I think, I think it's a well-timed thing where I don't think it's a coincidence that

GW is getting really much like harder into the sisters now but they're doing it in the right way which is just making it well done and so I am very pleased what a surprise GW doing things the right way the sisters are like they've done almost nothing bad with them

the new models look almost entirely great the rules are good the books are good it's so funny to me that they they pulled this off with all of their problems in the past They pulled this off, like perfectly, which is just so strange to me. It's the most non-GW thing ever. I know. So good for them and good for the sister.

And good for sister lovers. I agree. That came out wrong. That's not. Good for the sister lovers. That's not. I mean, people. Yeah.

D.K. No, no, no. I meant, please end this episode. Thank you so much for watching the listening and watching this episode. That's ridiculous. I look forward to being cancer. sold on Twitter. You may find me at Bricky Everywhere.

D.K. DiMondi's everywhere except Instagram. I'm real D.K. Diamante's there. And it's, it's been an honor. I don't know who Shai's going to find to replace you, but I look forward to my new lore overlaug when you inevitably get canceled.

So it's been funny. I like how we meme on this and it's like, it's like the lightest take. It's so simple. It really is. It's just, It's just, D, games workshop,

40K players have that, have a little underlying of that, that old, you know, they can be, they can be that way. Uh,

you can find shy, quite shallow or quiet shy, wherever you need to find her. And, uh, we'll see you next episode. If I'm still on the show. Yeah.