Adeptus Ridiculous - THE HIGH LORDS OF TERRA: TYRANNY IS ALWAYS BETTER ORGANIZED THAN FREEDOM | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: May 17, 2023

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousThe Senatorum Imperialis (officially the Lords Temporal, Martial and Ecclesiarchical of the Most Divine and Righteous Imperium of Mankind) collectively form the Council of the High Lords of Terra. The Senatorum is an Imperial governing body led by twelve leaders of the most powerful organisations of the Imperium. This body rules the Imperium in the Emperor's name. The Senatorum itself is composed of tens of thousands of Imperial dignitaries, nobleman, lords, and other officials, but these rarely meet and instead the "High Twelve" conduct the vast majority of affairs.The task of the High Lords is to interpret and enact the will of the Emperor. Accordingly, the position of High Lord was the most powerful in the Imperium until the reemergence of Roboute Guilliman, who declared himself Imperial Regent, or the Emperor's Living Voice.Support the show

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And yeah, sounds like a good time. 10th edition, good time. to learn 40k. I probably won't, but if you've been waiting for it, you know, wait a little longer, I guess. It appears to be significantly easier. Oh, that's always good. Very good. Um, anyway, D.K., I don't actually have a quote for you today, unfortunately. Yes, I don't get to look like an idiot. It's a good day. Ah, don't count your, don't count your blessings too quick. Oh, no. You never, you never know. I mean, It certainly could definitely change. Sure, I might look like an idiot, but I won't look like a super idiot.

I'm always kind of stupid, but, you know. So it's just the difference between being a super idiot and an idiot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm an idiot 24-7, but at least this time I don't miss an obvious quote. It isn't quite so obvious. People might be fooled a little bit into thinking I know what I'm talking about this time. Gotcha, gotcha. Well, that's a little dumb, but it's okay.

All should be fine. Um, this is an episode that's going to be rather simple. Uh, it will probably not take that long, I say as shy immediately starts typing. Um, I am assuming under an hour. Um, and, uh, every time we say that I cannot help, but just be like, yeah, nah, this is going to be like an hour and 20 minute video is it. Perhaps. Um, but it's mainly to fill in a gap of something that we've often discussed, talked about

referenced and so. on and never really discussed. There's certainly like this whole thing where we'll always talk about this detail. We'll always chat about this particular thing. But we never like have actually covered it. And that today is going to be the senatorum imperialis also known as the high lords of Terra. Ooh. Okay.

Okay. That's true. I know of their existence. I know they're really important. Don't know a lot about them, though. Isn't the, is the Nundam a High Lord of Terra? She is. We will talk about her in a bit.

This entire idea for this episode was sparked by this brand new artwork, GW has posted him for 10th edition Warhammer. This is an image of the High Lords of Terra. Wow. And this is probably the most up-to-date image. of the High Lords of Terra out there, as this is the 10th edition variant. And me looking at this image alone,

I was like, goddamn, this artwork absolutely slaps. It does. It really does. It just pukes 40K in all kinds of manners. And so I thought it would be a fun idea if we decided to go ahead and take a look at it and generally just, you know, talk about it

and talk about who's who and what the High Lords of Terror really are about. Boy, that is, it's such a wide variety of like people. Like, there's this one giant in the background that looks like,

you know, if Thanos was a regular person. There's a little slothy, he got a guy with like, you know, neck folds and a jester's looking cap on. He's got a, It is everybody, people that look like they're either political or people that look like they're war heroes. War heroes, political, and religious figures, all kinds of combinations like that. So I thought we'd talk about that a little bit and discuss.

So I'm sure if I've asked you, what are the High Lords of Terror? You could easily answer that, like what they do. The High Lords of Terror, they make all the important decisions. right? Yeah, pretty much. They are the governing body of the high lords. Don't worry, shy. I'm actually going to go through the ranks real quick. If you want to post them afterwards, I see we have a reference. That could also be good. And so the High Lords of Terra are also known as the Lord's Temporal, Marshal, and Ecclesiarchal. Oh my goodness. All right. Hold on. The Centaorum Imperialis, officially the Lord's Temporal, Marshall, and Ecclesiarchial of the most divine and

righteous imperium of mankind. The word ecclesiarchal is just so, oh, I don't. It's a mouthful. Ecclesiarchical is like, oh, come on, come on, you're not that important. Collectively are known as the Council of the High Lords of Terror. They are also often known as the High 12, which has changed a bit in the recent situations. that occurred in the galaxy, which we'll talk about. I was going to say, it doesn't look like there are 12 of them, so what happened?

Things have adjusted. With the resurrection of Gileman, things have kind of changed a little. But of the high 12, basically it comes down to there being nine consistent bodies on this council, and the remaining three are kind of swapped in and out depending on other powerful leader positions and what's needed. the High Lords of Terra for the most part basically run the Imperium before Gilliman's resurrection. I was going to say once Gilman shows up,

I think there's going to be a little bit of a power shift. A tiny bit of a power shift. Yeah, so for the most part, they run the Imperium. But much like the Imperium, it is rotten to its core. And each of the High Lords of Terra has their own things,

that they are trying to get done, their own agendas. It's politicking to the endth degree. I was going to say, so this is sort of the parody take on government. Governments corrupt. Everybody's out to do their own agenda. Nobody's actually looking out for the people. It's just what I want and sort of the power struggle to get it done. Oh, I mean, there is, I mean, there is so much American,

maybe not America, it could be British, but like politics in Assassin Norm Kingmaker, Strider is the color of blue, Rao is the color of red, and they only get a single representative that has to govern the entire planets. Yeah, you know, I didn't make that connection somehow. Somehow I hadn't made that connection until you said it, and then it just fell on me like a ton of bricks, and I was just like, oh, God, you're right.

Oh, no. Well, I have been. for my bricks. I should have said, should have said like a 10 ton safe. That's all right. So these are the nine that, I mean, again,

I'm just going to say this real quick. So, Gilman resurrected. He's back. He is now Lord Commander of the Imperium. And he basically cut out like six of the 12. He was like, I don't need you anymore.

It's my job. Yeah. So that was all. also known as the primark scourge. When Gilliman was resurrected, he basically went on this massive campaign to root out political corruption, cultists' hive issues on terror

and just, like, had massive, massive casualties. What's the way they call that again? Where you actually kill a civilian in, like, a war, something casualties. Casualty of war? I don't know. Yeah, it's like, unnecessary casualties. There's like a word for it.

I forget what it is. I'm sure Shy will tell me in a moment. Also, God, yeah, I have to imagine. Plateral damage. Oh, yeah, I get it. Plateral damage. Good call, good call. Thank you.

I have to imagine when Gilliman woke up and he saw the high lords of terror. If they're just like super corrupt and just in it for themselves, he must have been pissed. Like, not only, he was probably already pissed just seeing how the Imperium was and that they're worshipping the emperor as a god.

Then he's like, wait. our leaders or that. Oh, God, what happened? Ooh, he must have been furious even more so. Yes, there were many people who he kicked out from the entire area, and he was, they were not particularly stokes about this. When is a corrupt politician ever stoked about being stripped of the power that they've been using to benefit themselves, right? Oh, thank you.

Thanks, Gilliman. I really needed that wake-up call. I'm going to become a good citizen now. So four of the high lords were actually removed by him. Those were the mash. Well, I'll tell you about the 12 first and then we can discuss it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll get to that later. Yeah, yeah. So the main nine are the master of the administratum, the inquisitorial representative, the ecclesiarch of the Adeptus minister. The Fabricator General of the Adeptus Mechanicus. The Grand Provost Marshal of the Adeptus Arbides. The paternal envoy of the navigators. The master of the Astronomicon. The master of the Adeptus astrataepathica.

And finally, the Grand Master of the Officio Assassinorum. Okay. So... Those are names, all right. They are. So somewhere easier. Now, I kind of like playing guessing games. between looking at the names and looking at the image and be like, all right, who's who?

Oh, boy. Now, granted, some of these are probably not there anymore because good old Gilliman has kicked out quite a few of them. Because he kicked out the Master of the Aministratum. So the Master of the Minestratum probably is not here on the image. And if it is, it might be the person on the far right, but I'm guessing it probably size. Can you spot the custodian? Hmm Hmm

Is it the cherub Hanging on that one guy's shoulder polishing his armor? Is that the custodian? Is that? Is that him? Is that the custodian? Yeah, pretty obvious

that the big hulking guy in gold armor with the lion paldron is the custodian. Are you sure? Are you positive? I'm, you know, I'm going to lock it in. As final answer,

locked in, that's the custodian. Looks like you want to be a millionaire. That's called. Oh. But Master of the Administratum is one of the ones that was removed. This was your classic. I'm going to do all the administrative tools. I'm doing logistics and resources, all things that a Primark is very good at, especially

the one that's Gilman. So the Master of the Manistratum is one of those main ones. Was he just kicked out because Gilman was like, no, no, this is my forte and I'm a prime mark, so. So you. Or was like, was he actually like corrupt? and doing like really, really awful administrative stuff just to benefit himself. Well, he might have led a coup against Gilliman after being kicked out,

so maybe he was necessarily originally doing that, but he didn't take it well. Okay. All right, all right. Good to know. Good to know. Also, I'm sure his coup went just swimmingly. I'm sure he really, really caused problems for Gilliman, right? Yeah, he's dead.

Mm-hmm. And everybody in his car. Koo also very dead, I assume. Perhaps. So the next one was the inquisitorial representative, the representative from the inquisition. And I originally thought it was the lady on the left due to her gigantic inquisitorial rosette on her chest.

Yeah. But I don't think that is. I think that might actually be the stand-in for the high abbess. I believe the inquisitorial representative is the gal on the right in the background with the big inquisitorial rosette on her head. Right, and the big old paldrons and all the scrolls and stuff on her? Have you noticed the paltrons having candles and tiny cherubs manning what look like anti-aircraft guns? Oh my God, I did not notice that.

Well, hey, she's got to defend herself, right? I mean, it's a... They're probably not real, but what is that? I don't know. I couldn't tell you. Look at how big her shoulder pads are. They're so large. They're so wide.

I mean, she must be ripped under there. Carrying all that weight around, just every day, just walking. She's got to be ripped. I mean, she looks like an inquisitorial representative. Yeah, she got that scowl on her face that just like higher than thou sort of always suspicious look. Yeah. Got that that puffer. hair kind of thing going on.

It's pretty crazy. Obviously, the inquisitorial representative is a major representative from the Inquisition should be very unsurprising there. You probably really don't want to mess with that. You don't want to mess with a major representative from the Inquisition, do you? No. She is our most likely the most, well, the second most, secretive on the council.

No way. Well, actually, I would have assumed she was the most secretive. Who's more secretive than her? A grandmaster of the officio assassinorum. Ah, fair. Okay. Yep. Yeah, that checks. Yeah, that tracks. Okay. So the third one was the ecclesiarch of the Adeptus ministorum. Do you remember the name of an ecclesiarch, D.K.? In the past.

I should, but I don't. Oh, come on. He loves... Oh, oh, oh, is it, is it Mr. Van Dyer? There you go. He was the Ecclesiarchy, right? Yes. Also, I wasn't, I wasn't looking at the sticker, shy post.

I swear to God, I got that on my own, all right? I think you did. I believe you. Okay. The Ecclesiarch, of course, is the Pope. The main founder of... Not the founder, but the main leader of the church. killed by Doge Van Dyer

for quote heresy became Doge van Dyer then killed by Alicia Dominica The most recent Ecclesiarch was someone named Deceus who was decapitated by Celestine For treachery

These nuts These nuts D's nuts Anyway sorry I couldn't help it That's fine And was decapitated by Celestim And now there is a new Ecclesiarch Who has also had their position

revoked by Lord Commander Gilliman. Capital B-based. That does, I mean, it doesn't seem like there are many good people in that position and that, you know, they're either super corrupt or getting beheaded or, well, or they're just all getting beheaded. Yeah, it doesn't. Now, granted, in fairness, a lot of these positions have still been, they're still there. Like, like, there is still a master of the.

and Estrada, they're still an ecclesiarch. They're just not like a major part of the governing body of the high lords of Terra. And also there are standings because Gilman's out there cracking heads sometimes. Yeah. And so because of that, he does need someone to like sort of kind of take his place as a stand in. And I'm sure he picked people he thought were the least corrupt and wouldn't do any shady nonsense. Yes, his own decisions. Yeah.

Next up. Tram Marines, because we're special. I think he actually picked one of the administraum people came from Ultramar, so, you know, of course he did. Homefield turf. Yeah. There is the Fabricator General of the Adeptus Mechanicus. This is a consistent and solid position that will not be vacated anytime soon.

Okay. You know what the Fabricator General is. We've discussed that plenty. Yeah. Yeah. The guy. The man. I wondered if the guy on the far right of the image is, in fact, the fabricator.

The one with the goofy hat and the the tube going into his cheek. No, no, no, no, no. The one with the scroll, the far right. Where you can just barely see a skull on the top right corner with one eye. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I, well, that's... I was thinking either that or it would be extremely 40K if you look to the left of the custodium and you can see like gears

if that's like just him and he's enormous. I was gonna say if all the metal gears you see to the left and to the right are just all him the fabricator general

and it's just he is so all encompassing that he just surrounds them. I'd be kind of cool actually. It wouldn't be too surprising I won't lie like there I mean what was that thing in Master of Mankind

that crazy Mechanicus thing that was taken over by Dracnion. Oh, I don't, the, like the big robot thing? Yeah, yeah, the big robot thing. I don't remember what it was called, but it was, that was a problem. It killed a couple, it killed a couple Stodys. So that's why I'm like, it could make sense. Yeah, well, it killed everything.

Well, until what's his face showed up at the end. True. And of course, yeah, there's the great cover art of the Mechanicus Codex, which never ceases to be amazing. That is so dope. Holy see. Tell me, D.K. How truly faithful are you to the point where you have your robot hands classed in prayer and your tiny actual human hands behind it also classed in prayer with other larger hands holding a giant axe? You know, I got to say, I am not that devoted. Oh my God, that's, that picture is so rad. Dude, the dude's on the right-hand side, though.

They're so creepy. The eye is just staring in the gloom was, oh, my goodness gracious. Oh, gee, that is, hmm, I. I love the coolest cover. Holy moly. This is my, like, I think my second favorite Codex cover of, of, of 9. edition. What's your favorite? Chaos Space Marines.

Oh, that's the one that looks like a metal cover. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This, this dude, I am, the, the ad mech are still have like one of the best aesthetics in 40K. They are so unique. I have no, I have no complaints with that. I would agree wholeheartedly. So, yes, I mean, they're 1.101010. next up is the grand provost

marshal of the adeptist Arbides. The Arbides are, we haven't talked much about, but they're basically the law, the judge dread-looking dudes. And so the grand provost marshal is basically just, hey, I am the,

I am the law. I am the top lawmaker guy. And, well, you know, I don't know if there's like the biggest cop. The FBI's, the director of the FBI.

Right. Whatever it is. But the main Judge Dredd dude. I'm curious if he would be listed. He should be listed as one of the main still operating high lords. So he could be in the image. And yeah, they are more like an FBI kind of thing. Local police is like a planetary thing.

It's like just your local cop. But they're when the federal gets involved. I could see him being like the, sort of a gray silver hair dude kind of in front of the giant custodian. Yeah, the one that's dead center. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I kind of think he would be him too. He kind of has the the Arbides vibe more than the rest do. Yeah. He gives me the vibe of a cop as opposed to the rest. Yeah, griseled cop that's seen some serious stuff and he's just

he's got the snarl and everything and he takes no spit from anyone. Yeah. Yeah, it could be like the guy in the bottom right maybe. Yeah. So on that that. Next time is the paternal envoy of the navigators.

They are the main envoy of all the navigator houses and acts as a representative of the Navist nobility. Okay. The Senate of the High Lord of Terror. Basically, they are a, normally a member of the most powerful navigator house just to be able to bring navigators. Because without navigators, you have no ships. And with no ships, you don't go anywhere.

Yeah, I was going to say this person must be very important. Because navigator is crucial to going anywhere. Literally the way you travel faster than light. I think it's probably the big nose one. My mind says the big nose one. Well, I mean, yeah, I could see that, sure. But I thought they were a navigator. And don't all navigators have the third eye that you're not supposed to open?

or is that just what's her face from the books? It was a special case. No, you probably are right because it was elected as one of the ones from the house. So the only person that the... I thought it was the person in the dead set middle with the chair of polishing the armor, just because I was thinking maybe the armor

is kind of covering the third eye and that's why there's that... I guess that's just the skull in the middle, isn't it? Yeah, that is... That's a good point. But no, it's not... I know it's not him. I know what three of these are, definitely.

Okay. But I was, I think it was kind of was shy, the kind of the chubbier guy with the big hat and the, um, the jester looking guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, mm-hmm.

That makes sense because his third eye is covered. I was thinking maybe the guy on the bottom right with the, um, the, the mask and the bandage over his head. Like, like it's like a do rag. Oh,

yeah, yeah, could be. But I, but I think, I think maybe the chunky jester guy, just because, it is covering his forehead.

That's true. The hat is covering his forehead, sure. And that is a big part of it. Also, Shai does say, dude, it's closed eyes and pipes going into the nose and mouth, which seems like a Dune reference, which is indeed where navigators came from because 40K.

That's a lot of stuff came from Dune. But yeah, I mean, sure, we can go with that. Yeah. So we have the Master of the Astronomicon. That makes me think it's the pointed nose guy,

actually. Oh, the master of the Astro. Astronomicon. Just handles the Astronomicon, the Adeptus Astronomicon, overseer of the Astronomicon, makes sure it's working well, makes sure the Golden Throne's working well, keeps a close lock with the Adeptus Astro-Teleopathica. Really just makes, you know, it handles the Golden Throne and the entirety of the Astronomicon. I would definitely go with you that the long-nosed guy, definitely.

Then there is the master of the adeptist astrotelopathica. This is the one that is entirely dedicated to overseeing the psychers of the Imperium. Ooh, what a job. Yes, the scholastic psychona, the leagues of black ships. The masters, I said, often a very powerful cyker in their own right and an expert on all matters of psychic. Yeah. I would imagine they'd have to be. If you're going to wrangle the psychers, chances are you've got to be a psycher yourself and a pretty damn good one.

I was thinking it's maybe the guy that's talking with him with the big hat, bottom left, to the left of who we think is the cop guy. By this point, we're kind of running low on people, and they might just not be placed. Yeah, they might just not be there. Because, like, I figure if you're the master of the psychers, wouldn't you be a little more prominent in a picture of the High Lords of Tara? right? Like that's not just some ho-hum, ho-hum, let's just put him

kind of very nonchalantly behind, you know, this big ladies coat thing, this wolf coat. You know, he'd be more prominent, right? That's probably true. And also,

it isn't, you know, with the changes being made and stuff, it's thrown some stuff for a loop. Last but not least, for the main nine

is the grand master of the officio assassinorum. Most definitely not pictured because the Grandmaster normally never, ever is in counsel with them. The Grandmaster of Assassins is very rarely talking with them, but is almost always the tiebreaker for decision making. Okay. Is the most secretive of them all and has more than once been dispatched themselves to kill another high lord of terror. Oh, okay.

One would argue that the grandmaster of the assassins might be the most dangerous person in the Imperium, like, flat out. As well, they should be. I mean, they're the leader of, like, the assassin cult. I mean, they should be very dangerous, very secretive. And, yeah, there's no way they should be in this picture. There should be very few pictures of this person, right? There is an old grandmaster called Dracon Vangarich, which was out during the War of the Beast.

And during this, he did something called the Beheading, in which he assassinated every single High Lord of Terror. And escaped into an assassin temple into hiding. And space marines came to kill him, and only one space marines survived. and he was like, hey, Space Marine, you want to know how Conrad Kerr's is going to die?

And then the Space Dream just doesn't listen and shoots him in the face. Wow. That's, that's, that's, that's,

that's a lot. Yeah, he killed all of them. Apparently it's not a particularly well-written part. Apparently the War, the Beast fluctuates heavily in terms of its

quality. But, yeah, He killed every single High Lord. So yes, the grand match to the assassin's arm outside of maybe Gilliman might be the most dangerous individual on Terra. Jeez. So they needed to do some serious elections after that. They need to replace a lot of people.

Oh my God. That's like a designated survivor type situation. Everybody's dead. Who do we go to? In fact, currently there is the grand mass. Master of the Assassins is a guy named Fedix, or F-A-D-I-X, Fadix. I thought you said FedEx. I was like, is he great at delivering stuff?

Maybe. Well, he delivers death. Yeah, well. When the ex-Matchel the Administratum and other people removed by Gilman held up a giant coup, the actual, five of them, that is, the Grandmaster cited with them the entire time until the end in which he turned out to have been lying and actually serving Gilliman the whole time in which he murdered the entire coup.

Ooh. So don't mess with the Grandmaster of the Assassins. No, definitely not. He's the Grandmaster of Assassins. Why would you mess with him? Especially if you're like staging a coup against Gilliman, are you really going to be like, oh, yeah, well, sure the Grand Master of Assassins would have.

Oh, sure. Are you crazy? easy. Hi, Lords of Terror don't think great when power is involved. That's true. That's true. And so out of the 12 positions, the last three are often filled kind of in and out, depending on what's needed, by these final groups.

We have the Lord Commandant of the Segmentum Solar, the Lord Commander Militant of the Imperial Guard, the Cardinals of the Holy Sinoye of Terra, the Abyss of the... the Adeptus Sororitus, Captain General of the Custodies, Chancellor of the Estate Imperium, Speaker for the Charter's Captains, or Lord High Admiral of the Imperial Navy. And currently, three of these positions are pictured in the image. The gentleman in the middle is, as Shai put it earlier,

the current Lord Commander Solar of the Segmentum Solar, also known as the New Imperial Guard guy, Lord Leontes, Arcadian Leontes. Oh, is he the, is he, oh, he's the dude on the horse. He's the horsey boy, yeah. Oh, okay, that's why Shy posted that picture in chat. Yeah, yeah, he's the horsey boy. And there is the chair of polishing his armor because Lamow.

He looks so much cooler in this picture than that mini. I think that mini looks stupid. Well, he's just, okay, I kind of like the mini because it's, well, because remember, It's guard and guard do the old school. Yeah, I really like his horse, but I don't know. Something about his face looks dumb to me. They actually did post of this one of the emperor. Yeah, well, that image looks great.

Well, yeah, that image does look great. You're right. Here's him again as well. Yeah, that one's cool. I guess it's hard to make a good face on a mini, isn't it? because it's so small and minute that, yeah. Yeah, I can look a little dumb. Yeah, but all the artwork of him looks great.

Like, especially in this one, the main one that you gave me, oh my God, he looks great. He looks amazing. He looks, it's kind of crazy to think about how he shares the same position as the dude to his left. Yes, yes, that is a little hard to believe. But, so he, so shy said he's in charge of just completely. defending Tara, period? He is the Lord Commander Solar.

He is basically, um, I mean, he is basically like the main guy of, he controls the imperial guard. The, the imperial army, which is,

you know, it's the highest known military rank within the imperial hierarchy outside of the emperor and outside of Giliman. Yeah. So he's very important. Yeah. He, he is,

and I would assume he is very not corrupt. just looking at him, I would assume he's a very upstanding, serve the emperor, I'm a good boy type of person. And I mean, what's interesting is that with the exception of the, you know, most expensive bionics known to man in rejuvenant surgeries and all that kind of stuff, he's still just kind of a normal guy. Yeah, he just looked, he looks like he's just a very upstanding dude in armor, which in 40K is like, wow. That's it. You've just got a sword and a horse. Yeah, I think he actually has no bionics or like very, very little. That's impressive.

His face is clean. There's nothing in it. There's no fancy eye. There's no like tube. There's nothing. He's just him. Is there anything special about his helmet? Because it kind of looks like, it kind of sort of looks like a smaller iron halo a little bit.

So I know, you know, every character in every. in every 40K thing normally has some relic from the dark age of technology that makes them insane. But yes, Lord Solar Arcadian Leontis has the artificer refractor

refractor helm. So yes, it gives him in game it's an invulnerable save and also in game it halves the damage he takes. Oh! Which makes him a problem. It makes him like tankier than

than like, quite a few things. Yeah, I was gonna say he's probably tankier than a tank. He basically has like a knight's ion shield in his head. Ooh,

he's just like, he can just stand there on his horse and just take like cannons of fire and it bounces off. No wonder he's okay with just riding a horse into battle.

He's got a knight shield. His horse is his trusty steed. I'm sure it is. His horse is all, also been rejuvenate multiple times. It has tons of bionics. Look at its legs. Oh yeah. It has tons and tons of bion.

It looks very cool. Even the mini, well, the mini looks great. I guess oh yeah, the mini does have robotics, doesn't it? The way it's painted, I couldn't really tell at first glance, but yeah. His weapons are a pistol called Soul's Righteous gaze and

his sword known as Conquest. Uh-huh, good for him. Yeah, he's honestly like he is army man you know he is army man and compared to the old army man compared to the old high lord of terra um so there's an old artwork that's actually kind of they're famous but kind of old just old school of the high lords of terra this one it's used a lot in the text of speech series oh yeah i've seen this one definitely old school. It's the guy second from the left is who he's spot he's taking over.

Wow. Yeah. They have really cool armor, but boy, do they look like the bourgeoisie that would be corrupted very easily. Yeah, Fabricator General on the right, administratum second to right than him.

And I think left is astrotelopathica or maybe Inquisition. I can't quite tell. God, even though that's old school art, I do love it. I love how, like, intricate and detailed everything is, like, the armor and how just all the little, so, so detailed. Yeah, all the bibles and stuff. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. But, uh, but yeah, Lord Solar Leontas is like, it's kind of a weird feeling of restraint. Uh, where the High Lord of Terror is just a really down-to-earth, strong of soul army guy who rides a horse into battle. in front of a column of tanks and infantry. It's just kind of, it's a weird situation where less is more.

Yeah, in terms of 40K, that is so much restraint. Because in this universe, you could kit him out and make him look over the top. I mean, just look at everybody else

in this picture. He is the shining beacon of restraint. He's just got a plate of armor and some gloves and a helmet. Don't forget the cherub cleaning his armor. True. He does have the cherub cleaning his armor.

That cherub is creepy, too. It's got like a demon lower half. I ain't just like a baby. That's like a baby demon thing. Yeah, it's a robotic bottom half. Yeah, it's weird. Yeah, it's very creepy. Next up to the left of him is, of course,

the captain general of the adeptus custodies. No way. No way. Fricking, no way. Ron Perlman has entered 40K. I tell you, if you gave Thanos a normal skin color, that's what he looks like. He looks like Thanos, except if it wasn't purple. It's a little weird.

That's the only part of this artwork I feel kind of dumb with because that's supposed to be Trasian Valoris, which is an actual playable character in the tabletop. And let's just say his artwork before that has. more, well, has more hair? Oh. Like, a lot more hair? Oh, yeah. Well, yeah, he does.

I mean, in that, in that last picture you post, he does have a sick fade. He does have a sick fade. And like, even, even the, sick fade with the ponytail, too. Even the mini has hair. So I don't know what happened to his hair. I guess it's just, he's just gone.

He might have just shaved. He'd imagine like, I'm tired of dealing with this and just, you know? Maybe. Or maybe he suffered like a head wound and like to operate. They needed to shave it, you know? Or maybe he just got really old.

I mean, it's kind of interesting because much like all the, much like our boy Leontis, he is also the completely normal-faced person. True. But at the same time, it's not because he's a regular guy. It's because he's perfect.

Yeah, that's true. He was designed to be. perfect as possible, right? Made from a tube. Yeah. He's a test tube baby made to be the most perfect thing imaginable.

Yeah. So, with a starboardness, I think, shy. Where's that key sponsorship? Yeah. And last but not

least, it's the gal on the left. Mm-hmm. Who is she? Now, that would normally be the abyss sanctorum of the adeptus sororitus. But that is not Morven Vall. No, Morven Vall's in a nundum.

Morven Vall is busy. Yes, she is. She got stuff to do. Because Morvin Vall was when the Abbas of Sanctorum, original one, was trapped on the homeworld of the sister, San Lior, to deal with a demon incursion. They needed a new one. The high lords were like, let's find a gal who we can easily manipulate. And they picked Morven Vall. And then she was like, okay, and it hired someone to do her job on Tara while she goes out and everyone's days up.

I'm going to lead a crusade, she says, and leaves. And leaves, yep. She's, oh, man, that mini is really cool. I really like Morven Vall. I like her with the helmet more, but yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's right. There is a version of her what the helmet isn't there.

Like, yeah, the helmet looks nice. Don't forget about the other Baller shit Mini which is the zombie Morvenval Oh no, Epic Emmett fail? Oh no, we're good, we're good. Whoa! Why is there a zombie morven vall?

Did she actually die? Does she die? No, Dingus, you called her a zombie Morvenvol when I showed you this image The first time. I was just repeating what you said. Oh my God, that's, wait, that's She's not, that's just what she looks like?

Yeah, she's in the middle of war. Oh my God, she looks like a... Damn, she has seen the horrors of war, man. The horrors of war. Good God. The horrors of war, he says. She looks like a zombie. Not realizing she's the one who's the horrors.

That's true. That's fair enough. She is the horrors of war with all... I mean, look at that image down below. Like, there's a whole... congregation of sisters firing bolters as she's in the back with her heavy bolter and uh custodian spear gifted by the stodys i realize she's a nundom but damn she's big like even just the normal body parts you can see she's a big girl yeah she morvin vall is uh yeah i mean some people don't

like the whole nundum thing they think it's kind of goofy i i also kind of agree i think it's a bit goofy. But if you're gonna, if you're gonna walk around with a suit of armor that looks like a church, that's okay. Like, I, that, I get it. I was gonna say like there's way goofier and weirder stuff than just like a nundom. Oh, I agree. But, uh, it is still a little goofy, uh, for, for my, it's one of those things where like, it totally fits the character. But at the same time, I'm also like, eh, it's not like my favorite model ever. Yeah, I think I'm so behind it just because I'm such a weeb for like mech anime and just piloting robots and stuff. So like my perception of it's, oh yeah, that's normal, that's cool.

You love these things. Giant robots, robots that humans pilot. It's like, I don't want to say, it's like bubble gum crisis because it's not. But yeah, you know, I dig it. I dig it quite a bit. I'll dig it quite a bit. I do. That's, you're okay.

Can I say something silly? Yes. I like how when I read 40K books and there's a narrator and it's just like I'm listening and listening and then they eventually do an accent for like an imperial guardsman. Because like when you do a narration, your narration is normally like kind of this more monotone. You know, you can't really tell the ethnicity of the narrator until they pop into like a guardsman voice. Like, oh yeah, the guy who's narrating this is British. He's really British because they just, they hit that guardsman voice. They really, yep, yep.

It's very fun. It is, it is always, it is always fun when they, uh, they pop into accents. Yeah. But, uh, yes, the gal on the left is most likely, uh, Morven Vall's stand in at the high, in the area of the high lords of Terra. Um, it could, you could say it's all, it could be the, the inquisitorial representative and the who are swapped, but she's got the Florida Lee on her shoulder pad and on her helmet, which really looks like sisters, not to mention her helmet is a church. Her helmet is indeed a church.

It is actually a church. It's really cool armor, though. I got to say that armor is, that is a drip check. Oh my God, yeah. Between the animal, the pelt on her side, the church helmet, the servo skull, on her back and left side. The the skull on her her like crotch area.

Yeah. Yeah with with like gold filigree and chains coming out of the nose. It is a lot. So she's just a stand-in for Morven, Morvenvol? Or is it Morganval? Morbin'val.

Or fin. Right, yeah, yeah. It's Mormon time. It's Morven time. Kills demons. So she's just stand in. Like she doesn't, She appointed someone in her place.

Right, Morven Vol appointed this lady. I'm assuming because she's worth it. Or did Morven Vall just be like, I don't give a whatever who takes my spot. Just go handle it. I have heretics to kill. I mean, I'm assuming there's a nice little bit of an in-between. I would assume that she wouldn't just flat out be like, hey, here you go. here's a random lady, go do my job.

I'm sure she put some thought into it and some importance and everything. But she was also like, I am, I love my new position as high abbess of the adeptus sororitus. I'm going to lead a crusade. And then she just left. She got a artificer brand new pair of Nundum armor gifted by the ad mech for the sisters saving their worlds from demons. and the custodians gave her a lance, the lance of illumination, which is a weird thing,

because custodians do not give their weapons out, like, ever. That is true. That would probably be big shame for them if they were just like, oh, yeah, here, take my weapon. They are nasty. They are very secretive with their stuff because it's like gene-coated to their bodies

I was going to say, wasn't there a book that was like, oh yeah, you literally just can't use a custodian weapon unless you are the custodian it was designed for or something? I believe that's first heretic is when they were talking about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, with like an aquilon and his stuff or something. Yeah, I liked the custodians in that book. Yeah, me too. They, uh, I wouldn't piss on your corpses if you were on fire. Actual quote from Lorgar played by Paul Rudd. Oh, no, no, no, no.

Do not put that out into the universe, please. I'm putting it out into the universe. No. Viewers, we had a stream a bit ago. When people were talking about, like, Primarks being played by actors, and we were talking about, the whole idea was like, okay, it's kind of an awful idea because then you could only see them as the actor from here on out, and if you pick the wrong one, it's really bad. So, Paul Rudd playing Lord Gar.

Just, I just, I just, what I just want to put it into the universe, it might happen. I just want to think of the concept of like, Paul Rudd writing the, the, was a Latvio divinatus or whatever, like self-flagellating himself

after Gilliman destroys his world. And then, and then Gilliman is played by like Ben Affleck. Oh, no. Why have you done this? I mean, Ben Affleck is probably not the absolute, it's a bad choice.

For Gilliman. It's a bad choice. Chris Pratt. Probably not the worst choice you could have. No, worst choice for Gilliman, Polly Shore. Who's Polly Shore? You know, Polly Shore is like the... What the hell has he been in that?

Like, he's just a really goofy white dude. Tony Soprano as Jagat's icon. Can I get Charlie Day as Vulcan? Yes. There you go. Perfect. Perfect, perfect, perfect. All right, anyway.

So, yes, so that is the final one of the High Lord's picture. There are a couple others that normally come from like the Lord High Admiral of the Imperial Navy, which is, I don't even need to explain that one. There's the Cardinals of the Holy Sinoid of Terra, which is a whole conclave of Ecclesiarchs with, like, it's hoof. This is a bit of a hard one. But it's basically to help disseminate and dictate the ecclesiarchy of the holy cyanoid and enforce the laws of the ecclesiarchy.

Okay, okay, okay. A whole lot of stuff there. And then the chancellor of the estate Imperium and the speaker of the Chartist Captains. Chartist Captains, I believe one of the main things for the merchant fleets, merchant imperial fleets, rogue traitors, things like that. Well, rogue traitors are rogue, but. and the chancellor of the estate Imperium is the departmento munitorum's office and keeping record organization. Cool.

And that's all them. That's the high lords of Tara? For the most part, that is the main governing bodies of the Imperium, the main people who rule the Imperium. Five of them, give or take, have been axed ever since Gilliman has resurrected. Oh, shy. What's that? I can't even tell who that. No.

Who is that? No, that's Paul Rudd, but he's bald. Oh, my God. How does that? Shy, you didn't. Shy, within three minutes time has already photoshopped a bald Paul Rudd on Lord Gar's face. You know, earlier when we were talking about something, I tried really hard not to swear, because I was like, oh, you know, I don't want to give shy any more work.

And then you, you curse us with this? That's truly the biggest cursing was this creation. I, I, oh no. Why are you like this? Paul, you know, I'm going to tweet this out right now during the episode. Oh, no, well, fine. I'll retweet it during the episode, I guess. Paul Rudd, starring as Lorgar Arellian.

Oh, no, I hate it. I... Oh, my goodness. Anyway, so from right to left, or from left to right, we'll go. We have maybe the Fabricator General in the back. Maybe, maybe. The high abbess stand-in of the Adeptus Sororitus, the Captain General of the Custodes,

funny hat man down on the bottom that we don't quite know, possibly the grand provost Marshal of the adeptist Arbides The nuts I've been saving that one all episode by the way I'm very I'm I took so much restraint But after all this Paul Rudd stuff

I was like I don't give a flip anymore Oh goodness gracious Say it one more time Arbides nuts Nice nice Nice then we have the Most likely the master of the Astronomicon Or the paternal

Yeah and then we have Lords commander of the Segmentum Solar, Arcadian Leontis. What a boss. What we assumed to be the paternal envoy of the Navigators. Mm-hmm. The inquisitorial representative with the AA cannons manned by cherubs on the shoulders. And the damn scowl on her face?

Ooh, man, I would not mess with her. Some guy on the bottom that I genuinely just have no idea who that is. Maybe he's just a dude. He's probably some high lord, but I, I don't know. He's so far in the back. Yeah. And then at the end, possibly the Fabricator General again of Mars.

Or just some dude record keeping. Yeah, could be. Yep, sure. I like to believe that all of the mechanics surrounding them are the Fabricator General. It's just massive mechanics everywhere. That's him. They're like convening in basically the palm of his hand. Yes.

Oh, I love that idea. I love it. It's ridiculous. They're literally convening. on a forge world and they're just in his hand. Yeah, I love that. They're convening on Terra. Well, oh, it's right, that the High Lords of Tara, why would they be on

a Forge World? Fair enough. Ha ha. But, yeah, I thought it would be a good idea to chat about that because it's a thing we always talk about the High Lords but we never actually put faces to names and I think we did our absolute

best. Yeah, it was fun. Well, you did your absolute best. I was just here being kind of a, you know, I was long for the ride. I don't know, you know. Yeah, well, Shai posted what she posted, so. Yeah. Also, Brooke, you mentioned

this was going to be a short episode, and once again, the curse has been, the curse has been fulfilled, because we are sitting at 55 minutes, my friend, this was not a short episode. Did you remember what I said after I said short episode? Do you remember the second part of that? No, because I want to

be right and I want you to be wrong. Did I say under an hour? So we've got four minutes to kill here, Shai, because I want Bricky to be wrong. Good, good luck. I'm out of here. Paul Redis, Lorgar.