Adeptus Ridiculous - URIEL VENTRIS: Least Depressed Named Ultramarine | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: June 17, 2026

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://shop.orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousUriel Ventris is the young captain of the 4th Company of the Ultramarines Chapter of Space Marines.Captain Uriel Ventris was born in the subterranean cities of the Imperial Civilised World of Calth in the Realm of Ultramar and chose to become an Ultramarines aspirant when he came of age to participate in the Chapter's trials. He succeeded in his quest and became an Ultramarines neophyte and then earned his way into the ranks of the Ultramarines' officer corps through his bravery and devotion to the ideals of the Ultramarines primarch, Roboute Guilliman.However, some of his battle-brothers, like Sergeant Learchus, questioned Uriel's commitment to the Codex Astartes because his friend, mentor, and predecessor Captain Idaeus, though a hero of the Chapter, was known to break the Codex 's teachings regularly.00:00 Lengthy Intro, Book club, Merch11:00 URIEL VENTRIS LoreSupport the show

Welcome, everyone, to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous Podcast. My name is D.K. Diamantis, and on this podcast, I am professionally clueless. And these are my co-hosts. Oh, yeah, I'm Bricky. I'm the guy who sells merch, and I'll be doing that in a moment. But I'm also the guy who's late to this podcast because the Internet ISP monopoly in America must be destroyed. Oh, yeah. Also, they wouldn't have known if you didn't tell them. well

like it's not like we launched the podcast 15 minutes late because you were 15 minutes late well they yeah but like we should you know we now man man we should fire dk we should fire what did i do i'm trying to make you look better i mean i'm i'm i'm kery off and i think we should actually start it 15 minutes late on the premiere i think that's what we should do i think we should commit to the bit we should just go straight in. I think it's doable, you know? Yeah, 15 minutes late and then just start blaming Bricky in the chat.

I like it. I like it. What is that image? Is that, is that shy casting a beam of death on possum? It's the shy plushy casting a beam of death on possum. Yeah, same thing. Is it? I mean, I think it's pretty funny, personally.

It is. It is. I like that one. It's good. She says it's from the ad-a-brick Reddit. I did not even realize we had an ad-vick Reddit. I knew we had one. I was just too scared to visit it because it's Reddit.

And Reddit scares me. Yeah. Yeah. They're going to be like, God, that bricky guy is so cool. And Kiryoff is definitely not a good addition to the podcast. And Possum gets everything wrong. My favorite is shy. I know that there's been, because I've been, for some reason,

And people like to link me those ones specifically. They never link me the nice ones. They just link me the ones going, who's this dickhead? And why is he here? I liked my American Warhammer podcast. Oh, yeah, Shai has a super cool announcement she needed to make. What is your thing, Shai? Okay.

I'm going to read this one because I feel like it. Hello, Skum. Shy here. I am making an executive decision. I am retiring the book club series. It's been difficult for all of you to come out of the time for the books, and the book club videos themselves aren't as popular as the non-book club ones. So the best course of action is take good books and convert them into possum-style episode scripts.

Some people will definitely be unhappy with this, but this is the best way we still have good books discussed on the podcast, but without a two to four-month wait process and constant lies to the audience. I have no clue what she could. be referring to on that last one. Yeah, no idea. I have no idea. But yeah, I feel like that's a fairly... Sensible?

I would agree. I would agree. I think it's sensible. I think if anything, having a book club series always did kind of feel a little odd to me because our podcast is like foot in the door style thing. And I feel almost as if it would be better to have the episode. push people to the books instead of talk about and then therefore spoil slash review the books. I feel like we had thought about doing that before, but it was like, well, it's good supplementary, like, lore info too. So it's like, do we really want to just like, so yeah, I feel like this was

potentially in the in the cards for a while. So, yeah. We did do it with the new orc book recently. And that episode, not only, only was very fun, but also got a ton of our viewers to go read the book. Yeah. Which I think actually does quite a bit for it. Plus, in honesty, you know, not all, like, it's hard for us sometimes to agree on which book we want to read. It is.

I usually just defer to your and shy's taste, honestly. And usually you're both pretty spot on. I'm like, you know. I haven't, like, I don't think there's been a book that we've read that I didn't like enjoy at least a little bit. I think that it's only fair that we do a possum red episode on the Carcadons then as a as a redo slash redux to my not very good original one back when and then on the books specifically with some chapter stuff because let's be perfectly honest, the books are mostly talking about

how the chapter is like. well that's debatable but yeah in as much as the caradans are in the books named yeah well that that is that is fair but yeah so are are we gonna do the outer dark book club or is that going to be sort of like oh no we'll just start with that one and we'll let possum do a script on that and yeah no we'll have possum do an episode on that we'll do it in july because we already have because june's already been set up and uh we'll have it done for that. That's fair.

Sometimes, sometimes you gotta, sometimes you gotta save yourself from yourself. Yeah. And by that I mean mostly me. Well. Anyway, orcidate.com. Check it out.

Link in the description. Let's go ahead and start the episode. Wow. Hey, did you like all that? Do you like the episode? Maybe I had it over to patreon.com slash adeptus ridiculous where you can get access to the discord. Screw that, D.K.

Screw that. What the hell? What the hell? The app was too long already. The ad was too long already. Let's just get into it. Okay, fine. Just start the damn episode, Kerry off.

Jesus. Shy's going to do that thing with that guy who gets sitting, Mr. Bean's sitting there waiting for us. Let's just get going. Okay. Yeah, Kiry, start the episode. Quick, quick, go, go, go, go, go. Quote time. No, he repeated.

Unfleshed, not bad. You were used. It wasn't your fault. Emperor must hate us even more now. He does not hate you. He said, the Emperor loves you. Look. He pointed to an aquil a fashion from beaten steel hanging on the wall,

the early light making it gleam like silver. The Lord of the Unfleshed looked up at the gleaming eagle, his reflection thrown back at him. The Lord of the Unfleshed gave a cry as he saw the image. Emperor loves me! He moved to stand behind the Lord of the Unfleshed and raised the scy cannon. Ledegarius had given him. Yes, the Emperor loves you, he said, and pulled the trigger. Oh.

This is Cycadling? Yep. borrowed Sondcommon specifically. Wait, as in a Scycanon, as in like a Grey Knight's Scycannon? Yep. How do you borrow that? He was Lenton. He was Lenton.

God, this is very, uh, tell me about the rabbits. Why don't you? Right in the back of the cheapers. Well, tell me about the rabbit situation. Who do you think it might be, D.K.? Well, I feel like it's either like an inquisitor or a commissar or someone shooting a heretic, unfleshed mutie in the back of the head.

You need to think of someone blue. Blue? Wait, blue? Yeah. Like, towel? Armour blue. Not skin blue. Oh, oh, oh.

I mean, I know, I think I know what it is. The broken English that you use for it makes me assume that he's shooting an abhuman in the back of the head or something. Yeah. That's kind of what I assumed an unfleshed. was, right? Like abhuman, mutant, you know,

the Imperium does not suffer mutants unless they have angel wings. Then it's by design. Okay. Do you want me to put you out of your misery or are you going to go for it,

Bricky? Oh, I'm assuming it's ab humans. I'm assuming it's abhumans, you know? Oh, is it just a straight abhuman episode? No, it's a super specific quote.

So shall I, shall I give you the Give you the goods. Oh, yeah, please. Today, we're going to talk about the man, Uriel Ventris. Oh, you mean that blue? Yeah, that blue. Oh, I would have never guessed that

because the only thing I put Uriel Ventress to is, you know. Yeah, no, I know, I know. But I've heard that the Ultramarines trilogy is a really, really good trilogy of books. That's actually fascinating. that when you said blue, I was like, oh, an abhuman, like a bull grin, because they wear blue armor. Oh, that's fair, actually. I'll give you that.

I'll give you that. I don't know. I don't even know what a bull grin is. Big lad. Big, chunky, lad. Just sounds like an ogren cross with a bull. You're not too far off. Let's go.

Context clues, baby. Just slightly different organ, isn't it? Slightly different war gear. And then you send. him out and he smacks people in the face. Oh man, that's the most British you've ever sounded. Oh, I suck an auguriting it. Hell yeah, dude.

Fair, fair. It really came through kind of hard there. All right, let's go. The ultramarines are known for being rational, logical, and deeply by the book that was written by their prime mark. Of course, this gives them the illusion of being the perfect, infallible boy scouts of the adeptus Astati's.

But doing the right thing doesn't necessarily mean doing the correct thing. And some members of the ultramarines know this better than others. Uriel Ventures followed in the footsteps of his mentor, Captain Idias, and learned how to not only embrace the Codex Astartis, but also how to make it work for you situationally. He is a man of honour that deeply cares about the average person and has put himself actively in harm's way to protect an otherwise disposable human soldier. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and decisions that Uriel made would result in him being exiled from the ultramarines.

For lesser men, this would be a path directly into the ruinous powers while embracing defeat. For Uriel, though, it would become a career-defining path where he could finally prove his worth not only to everyone around him, but also to himself. So today, we're going to talk about Uriel Ventress and his story is outlined in the classic ultramarine books. Emphasis on the classic ones for now, but we will get to that. What do you mean by emphasis on classic ones? There is non-classic ones?

There is a more recent entry that Possum has described to me as being slightly questionable. So we're going to focus on the other ones for the moment. Oh, okay. Well, now it makes sense as to why. Oh, go ahead. Sorry. Oh, I was saying we're focusing on like dead eye black sun, that one, right? We're doing the, basically the story history of Ventress, but not so much focusing on the most recent one.

Gotcha, gotcha. or dead sky. Yeah, okay, gotcha. Yeah. So, Ventriss. The announcement earlier made sense when Shai was like, oh yeah, by the way, no more book club. We're just letting Possum do it. Suddenly makes so much sense.

So Ventriss was born on the planet of Kalth in Ultramar in 876 M41. The surface of the planet is notably completely uninhabitable due to its very aggressive and deadly blue sun. And many who look at this world would think its other. otherwise dead and barren outside of its beautiful orbital shipyards. However, it's one of the most productive and successful worlds in the entirety of Ultramar due to its thriving industry, which is underground. He was born to a family of farmers and ever since he was able to lift up a tool or stand on two feet, he was working alongside his family. His impressive adaptivity and fortitude resulted in him being recruited by the Ultramarines at the age of six, where he was transferred

to the Aegisius Barracks on McCrack. He would grab. graduate at the age of 13, which meant that it was time for him to finish his training at the fortress of Herra. Every now and again, I don't know if you do this. I don't forget that Astati's are effectively child soldiers, but you'll get to a character and it's like, he was taken away at the age of five or six or whatever. And I go, oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, mentally, I was like, he was taken away at what age? Six? Yeah. And he finished his training at 13?

Jesus. And it's like, oh, right, Imperium, Space Marines. Yeah. Yeah. They love that. I love kidnapping kids, Charlie. I love kidnapping kids. They probably didn't even have to kidnap him.

He was born on Calth. He would probably happily did it. That's true. That's true. Born on Calth is gave them to the Legion. They were like, what an honor. A parent saluted them as they took the kid, probably. It'll be such a crisp salute as well.

In Ultramarines territory, you know it would be. Codex Astardy's Appliant Salute. In 898 M41, he would join the Scout Company, where he'd stay for about 11 years before being inducted into the fourth company. His experiences with Captain Ardeus would hone his natural tenacity and battle prowess until eventually he'd become a veteran sergeant. At some point, after retaining his veteran status, he would be succonded to the Death Watch,

which allowed him to gain even more expertise in the... field of Zenos eradication. On the planet of Trachea during the Battle of Bridge 2-4, Captain Ideas was sacrificed himself while pushing forward in order to hold a key objective point. The passing of Ideas meant that Ventriss was now in command, so he would wield Ideas's power sword and ensure victory in the honour of the fallen captain. These position as acting captain would result in him being permanently placed as captain of the fourth company by Marnius Calgar, and his first true mission as captain was to the world of Pavonis. So, Pavonis was a mining world, which normally was pretty solid when it came to

the expected tithes. Ties that are good means that there are supplies to be had, which will inevitably draw in a whole bunch of raiders. In this case, Dracari pirates. Unfortunately, due to the overworked nature of the world, the Dracari inadvertently had some degree of aid. Disillusioned workers and the actions of rogue terrorist groups allowed them to sweep in seemingly with ease. However, not everything was as it seemed. The mining operations on the world of Pavonis were handled by various industrial cartels and one of the most powerful ones was the DeValtes cartel. The head of this cartel was Kazimir DeVolters and during a trip off world, he was captured and tortured relentlessly by the Dracari pirates. Oh, it's a bad day, yeah. Sick, excellent. That sucks. Yeah. All round

awful. They didn't kill him though. In fact, they let him go and he attempted to return to industry, but his mind and body were truly broken, and he needed to fix himself. He did this in two ways. He would kidnap people and torture them. Yeah, there we go. Okay, well, sure, why not? And he would also get surgical procedures done by the Dracari that had initially tortured him. Oh, boy. Also, I was going to say, when you were like, oh, yeah, the Dracari didn't kill him, I was like, oh, really? So fork found in kitchen, they just kept torturing him, huh? Huh? That's the Dracari way, right? Of course we're not going to kill him.

We can drag a little more pain and suffering out of him. Yeah. Well, him surviving the torture and becoming a bit of a monster himself, made the, I've got to say, possum, made the Dracari go, bro, I knew I liked you, dude. Come here, bring it in. Bring it in, brother, before dapping him up. Okay, so the way you said that was way worse than it should have been, but that is. That is Pawsome doing a smiling friends reference. Okay.

Oh, I've never seen smiling friends. Mr. Boss says, like, Pam, I knew you liked you, man. Come on, bring it in. They're like that, and it's like really weirdly overly animated. It's kind of a meme. I get the reference. I got it. And I butchered it.

I'm assuming is what I'm hearing here. Yeah, there, there's the, there's the gift. Yeah. I knew I like you, man. And then he just said, you know, see. Oh, that is. That is a historic Dap too. Like, golly.

That's got more frames than the entirety of the last season of Invincible. I'm pretty sure. That's a lot of animation. Right. You watched Invincible past season one? Apparently it's really good, D.K. Apparently it's great. It's just decent.

Oh. It's just the animation budget keeps getting smaller. Yeah. There's a lot of like this PNG is going to move across the screen now as time goes on. But it's otherwise, it's pretty decent. I really like the one frame of drag coming up behind him really fast Yes

There's a few of those They're good So he also got really into ancient scrolls Because you know anything but therapy And the scrolls insinuated That there was something of great power on this world The Nightbringer If he unearthed it

It would result in him being freed and becoming immortal That's a name you don't really want to here, but sure. Yeah, now that sounds ominous. Yeah, in 40K when something's called the Nightbringer, I'm like, ah, I'm going to leave that buried. It's so much worse for this era as well, which we will get to. So all the chaos happening on the surface, it was his fault initially, and further his fault when he staged a coup. When Uriel and the Ultramarine show up, along with Ordo Xenos inquisitor Ario Berzano, who was sent with them by Calgar, he immediately calls bullshit. The Dracari attacking doesn't make much sense.

and they likely have a different motive for being there. He begins to uncover the extent of DeValter's corruption, thanks to the help of Borsano. However, after investigating, the Inquisitor believes that they may be too late and that exterminatists might be the only way to stop the awakening of something like The Nightbringer. The planetary governor, Sean, I, objects and pleads that there must be another way.

Again, fair, fair on that one. Inquisitor, yeah, the planetary governor does not want his planet blown up. More at 11. Crazy. Classic Inquisition as well, isn't it? We might be out of time. Newk it. Now, go.

Let's go. Well, I mean, I don't know about just a Dracari raid, but yeah, I think nuking it is a little premature at this point. Like, I think you could maybe call in some sort of like, maybe a couple space marines to help you out before you, you know, just crack that planet open. I've got a big red button here. mission to use it.

No, we can go now. Uriel, based off his exploits on the surface, is able to conclude where DeValtus is excavating, and after breaking through the defensive forces of corrupted PDF, they are able to descend the mineshaft and find DeValtos. However, they are actually too late. They witness Devaltus plug in the missing component of the Nightbringer sarcophagus, and the ancient Necron, standing silent vigil over it, begin to awaken. Devaldas is very confident that he's still fully in charge here,

so he orders his guards to kill the space marines that just showed up. The Necron's, however, decide to shoot first. They not only kill his guards, but also just shoot the space marines directly, as they would. Yes, they would. The Nightbringer rises, and the remaining human escorts begin to be haunted with visions so horrific that they kill themselves. Wow.

Hell yeah. All right. that's cool. I didn't know Necrons could do that, but okay. Oh, right, Nightbringer. Of course. For a second, I kind of sort of forgot what the Nightbringer looked like. I was like, oh, yeah, the Necron Nightbringer. And I was like, oh, yeah, it was probably just a

big scary necrime. It's like, oh, as soon as shy posted the picture, I was like, right, never mind. Got it. We're on the same page. Yeah. Sorry. Of course, you know, the The Nightbringer. Arguably, he is the big scary. Well,

not Necron, but, you know, close to... It can actually. I mean, if you would have to take a guess on the scariest thing in the galaxy, this is up there. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's like the reason that humanity has a whole Grim Reaper thing going on in the 40K universe. It's definitely up there for sure.

So the Nightbringer takes notice of Deval Tos and makes him feel like. as insignificant as a speck of sand on a beach. Devalos begs for some sort of reward for freeing the Nightbringer from its tomb, and it decides to give him some sloppy head. Waited. Whoops, my lad. It decides to make his head

sloppy by cutting it off with its scyth. Possum, one of these days, we're going to find you. We're going to be in person. Anyway, go ahead. I'll find you at Paxies, Possum. Don't you, I'll treat you to a nice, place in Little Italy before I spike your espresso martini. I'm gonna wake up with some cemois.

And next thing you know, you're gonna be reading nothing but Phil Kelly Tao books till you die. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hey, look. That was, that was a rough pun and a rough joke, but like, let's not, let's not go crazy. That's, that's too much. Was it a pun?

I don't, I guess it wasn't really a pun. That was not a pun. That was not a pun. A sloppy head because his head got cut off. Oh, oh, that's not a pun. That's, I'm not having that. It's, no. How dare you defend this work, bypass him.

Uriel, just shy. It's barely even a joke. Harsh. Uriel, during this conflict, breaks the blade of Idias's sword, causing him to question his ability to carry the weight that his former captain carried. However, he realizes that it's ultimately up to him to stop the Nightbringer before it escapes. It had summoned a vessel and it was planning to vanish,

so he selflessly lunged forward directly to the front of the sarcophagus with a guttural scream. The Nightbringer is currently tearing through lines of Uriel's men effortlessly, and with two ultramarines impaled on its claws, Uriel tears the metal from the sarcophagus, causing the Nightbringer to fling the two battle brothers. Now Uriel had its attention, and the Nightbringer, infiltrated his mind. But Uriel had a surprise for him, and I've got a quote for you here, D.K.

All right. Whoa. I mean, you have a book for me. A chunky quote, but nonetheless. A casual flick of its midnight talons sent him sprawling, but the veteran sergeant's attack had given Uriel the chance he needed. As the Nightbringer swept towards him, he held up the glowing metal, showing the hideous alien

what he had fixed to its surface. Uriel doubted the Nightbringer had any concept of what a melt-a-bomb was, but somehow he knew that it would understand what it could do. The creature drew itself up to its full height, spreading wide its talon fists, the burning yellow of its eyes fixing Uriel with its deathly gaze. This place is filling with explosive fumes, and if I detonate this device, you will be buried beneath 10 kilometers of rock. I don't know what you are or where you come from, but I know this. You're not strong enough yet to survive that. Can you imagine another 60 million years trapped below the surface of this world with nothing to sustain you? You will be extinguished.

Is that what you want? If you can reach into the minds of men's know this, I will destroy us all before I allow you to have that vessel. Is 10 kilometers truly that much? well I'm American I don't know what the fuck a kilometer is I think the Nightbringer could probably blast through 10 kilometers of rock but it's okay

I mean after being weakened by a melter bomb though that I'll knock him about a bit I just love it that's true I just love the casual in that quote Uriel doubted the Nightbringer had any concept of what a melta bomb was

but he figured he'd figure that out you know It's a casual melt bomb. The human is holding a small device and looking really chuffed right now. I should probably be careful. He looks far too smug for how small that thing is. Yeah, that's a great quote, though.

You don't know what a melt-the-bomb is, but trust me, it's bad. In college, I heard the same thing, Karioth. He looks far too smug for how small that thing is. Oh, man. Plus two for the same. deprecating humor. That was a pretty good accent. Yeah, I like that one. Thank you. Thank you.

Anyway, fuck 10 miles of rock to shoot with las guns like I do with lethal hits. It's true. I as shy points out you can shoot a shard of Catan to death, but I mean, we will get to that in a second because there is something to note about that. So the pressure in Uriel's mind would be relieved, revealed, relieved, and the Nightbringer would spin around like a dark tornado before bursting through the ceiling, vanishing for now. Uriel and the surviving marines leave the planet. He's proved his worth as captain and now has unshakable confidence in his ability going forward. He looks at the broken hilt of Idias sword and decides to keep it. On this hilt, he will forge a new blade that represents himself. I mean, it was his first deployment and he encountered death-made manifest.

So hopefully his next conflict would show his worth. Now, before we get to the next section, and I'm super glad Possum put this in here, because I had had a look at when this book was written. And I was like, the Nightbringer stuff is wild with the extra context. This book was written in 2002. At this point in the law, the Nightbringer was the Nightbringer. It was not a shard of the Nightbringer. It was just the actual entity, the God itself, the Nightbringer.

Nowadays, yeah. Yeah. I mean, like back in the day with the first Necron Codex, when you put the Nightbringer down on the tabletop, you were not putting a, like, fragment of him down. You were just putting the, like, here is the manifestation of death. And I've,

did that cost? How many points did the manifestation of death cost, Kariov? The same as the Gash. I can't remember. I do have the codex in this room. I want to say it was maybe, was it 300?

Something like that. It was, he cost a fair bit, but, you know, he was the fucking Nightbringer. So he was supposed to. Nowadays, obviously, the law is quite a bit different, and there is a newer novel that attempts to come to terms with this. Now, a possum's attempts because the Swords of Calf is a very tough and convoluted read that they think would be better to be discussed in a dedicated episode about the Nightbringer than it would be here.

It includes a lot of attempts to rationalise this early novel in the modern canon, but ends up making things a bit more confusing, like having a Catan shard get corrupted by the flayer virus. Which I don't think that's how that works, but sure. No, it doesn't. Yeah. It's also the first novel in your real series in over a decade, so it's a bit rusty. So we're going to steer clear of that one for now. I'm here invalid. Ah, my favorite meme shy, thank you.

Nice, electric horror, you fucking dipshit. Now check this out. Classic. Ah, it's so good. Anyway, Tarsis Ultra. Tarsus Ultra was an agri-world that was personally reclaimed by Rebutte Gilliman during the Great Crusade. During his reclamation efforts, he was surprised attacked, but his saviour was not one of his own men. He was saved by a native of this world, and he made a promise that he would return personally if it was ever in danger.

His oath would be immortalized in the planet's capital city of Erebus. Oh no. Fuck Erebus. It wouldn't need to be fulfilled for quite some time. This would change in 999M-41 with the arrival of High Fleet Leviathan, or 997 M-41, or date unknown. There's so many contradictions to this battle that is kind of silly, so we're just going to ignore that part and carry on. Just before this, Ventris and the fourth company were dealing with a spacehawk and a slew of gene stealers. Things were going about the way you'd expect, but something bad was on the horizon.

The astropaths began to sense a shadow in the warp, a tendril from high school. High Fleet Leviathan was crawling through space and heading directly for Tarsis Ultra. Due to the oath sworn by Gileman, Calgar assigns Ventris to honour it. Ventris goes to the system with the fourth as well as a company of mortifactors, led by Brother Chaplin Astador. Though not super consequential, there's a really good bit where Uriel observes a mortifactor ship for the first time while being shown around by Astador, and Uriel's reaction to the halls full of skulls and darkness is essentially, damn bitch, you live like this. So I've got a quote for you here, Bricky.

Brother Ashtador began Uriel. I do not wish to cause offense, but has your chapter suffered a great loss in its recent history? Ashtonor shook his head in puzzlement. No, we have returned from the world of Armageddon with much honor and the bones of our fallen. Why do you ask?

Uriel's search for the right expression. They needed the help of the mortifactors and the wrong words could dash any hopes of aid. The halls of your monastery suggest your chapter is in mourning. Is it not like this on McCrack? No, the fortress of Hera is a place of celebration, of joy in the service of the emperor. It echoes with tales of courage and honor.

Typical ultramarine. What a fucking dweeb. Yeah. He's never been in a goth girl's bedroom before and he just doesn't know how to cope with it. you're just shutting down. It doesn't know what to make the whole thing. You listen to Bring Me the Horizon?

I say that. I love Bring Me the Horizon. I was going to say that. I actually love that. It felt like a specific pull. The space marines, of course, are accompanied with various members of the Astromilitarium, but the real issue is the Inquisitor that joins them. Lord Inquisitor Fidus Cryptman.

He was there due to his extensive history and knowledge of the Tyrannids, and it was thought that he would be a brilliant resource. The arrival of the tyrannids was marked with the consumption of the planet Barbarus Prime. The retaliation attack was successful, but Cryptman wished to do something preventative. The next world on route for the tyrannids was the world of Cordellus, and Crippman felt that they should preemptively invoke exterminators on this world. I'm sure you remember Krypton from before D.K. Yeah, he's a swell guy. just truly of the most upstanding of the Imperium.

Nothing goes bad with him. He got that dual Iimonical swagger, though. He's got that evil scientist drip. I love we're two for two on the Inquisition, suggesting glassing planets as a first resort. What an organization. The idea behind the external artists would be that it would disrupt the path of the tyrianids and cause the numbers to shift back a bit.

Uriel hated every second of this and felt that there was another way to go about it. A secondary proposed plan involving the detonation of a space refinery was something that he felt was more feasible. Kriptman seemingly agreed with this plan instead and the detonation of the refinery resulted in a hive ship's destruction.

However, a suspiciously exterminated artist Cordellis revealed to Uriel that Kripman had in fact lied. Sure. The ultramarine plan was successful in all, but he didn't need the ultramarines to unleash his plan. The exterminators was assisted by the mortifacers instead. Oh, God. What? You went over my helmet?

Nice pole. Nice space balls, pull, brother. Let's go. Thank you. Also, I love the suspiciously exterminatist planet. Like, it's just kind of sneaky, sneaky. I imagine the kind of thing where he looks one direction and it's normally, turns around and looks back that direction.

It's just like black and shard. Empty space. Yeah. He's just like, where that come from? What the hell happened? I just went to get a copy. I read one memo.

What are you doing? How? Yeah, but it's a 40K memo. So it took him at least three hours. It's true. Yeah. He had to sing the appropriate hymn before he even. got to it. By that time, easy. Uriel felt nothing but rage at this, and he decided that he could

never forgive Cryptman. As for the mortifactors, they were a product of their homeworld, something that we will discuss in a second. When it came to the continuous flow of tyranids, the tactic of strategically detonating another refinery would be attempted again, but one time is more than enough for the tyrannids to pick up what the Imperium is putting down. They adapted to this strategy rapidly, and they would severely damage the imperial flage. Tarsis Ultra was now extremely vulnerable and it was time for them to eat. Now, Uriel is having trouble coming to terms with everything that happened with the whole exterminate artist thing.

Veteran Sergeant Pusanius Lysan is Uriel's closest friend and he joins him in his quarters to have a drink. Prior to this, the two of them had bonded back on Pavonis, but Pusanias had taken quite a bit of damage courtesy of the Knight Bringer's scythe which cut off his right arm. I mean, yes, that is quite a bit of damage. give him that one. Could have been a lot worse considering it was the manifestation of death. Yeah, yeah, you could argue he got off relatively lightly there actually, couldn't you?

He probably saw it as a massive success that he only lost an arm. Now, fortunately, he does have a shiny and new bionic arm, but it's a bit too shiny. Uriel is going through what's happened, trying to rationalize the ends just to find the means with so many dead for a slight strategic advantage. He'd been able to stop an Inquisitor from overreaching back during the whole Nightbringer thing, and he failed here. He believes that he should have seen the mortifactors siding with Crippman coming, as the culture of contempt in their ranks meant they'd file right in line behind someone like the Inquisitor. Pisanias would tell him that hindsight was a wonderful thing. With another quote for you, D.K.

I know, but look what happened to Cordillas. We broke with the Codex Astardis to send that refinery into the storey's. swarm. The mortifactors followed an inquisitor's direction and an imperial world died. But I know we did the right thing morally in trying to save Cordelus, despite the logic of Crippman's argument. Yerio slammed his goblet down on the table, spilling wine across his data crystals and bedsheet. I feel like a blind man who cannot feel the path before him. Well, nobody ever said that the Emperor's service was supposed to be easy, said Pisanias, pouring another two goblets of wine.

Aw, he spilled his wine. I don't know why. The idea of a space marine spilling his wine because he's having a tantrum is, I don't know if it's funny or a bit scary. I feel like this is a justifiable crash out, rather. I don't know that this is just to, oh, he's just having a tantrum because, you know,

exterminatus and such. Yeah, that's fair. It is an entire world. All right, you know, you know. I mean, a valid crash out on his part. I kind of forgot the context. for a second. I was like, dude, chill out. No, yeah, no, you're right.

Like the loss of potentially buildings of lives because one dude was like, yeah, nuke it. It will slow down slightly. Okay. I was like, he didn't get a toy stolen. Brother, that planet is gone. I take it all back. You're absolutely within your rights to be annoyed by that.

Fair. Yeah. What the hell was that one, that one meme where it's like, inquisitors commit two exterminatuses every day. It's like, that's not true. Wizard of Kripman has done 40 million exterminatuses and should have been removed from the data pool for skewing results. I never heard that one. That's good. After refocusing, Uriel works alongside a Death Watch kill team led by Captain Bannon to assist in a seemingly impossible task. Capturing Elytta alive.

Cryptoman had been studying the biology of the tyrannists during this whole time. What a sentence. During this whole time. and he had a radical theory that he wanted to prove correct. One was in the capital of Erebus, and after successfully capturing it, Cryptman and Majos Locard were able to extract genetic information and concoct a biological weapon they could use. The venom was designed to forcibly turn an early generation tyranid

into a state of uncontrollable hyper-evolution. This venom would have been given to the Norn Queen directly, and it would require an infiltration on a hive ship. However, the kill team was in a bit of a state. Captain Bannon would be killed during a mission where they had to reactivate a defensive laser behind enemy lines in order to take out another hive ship. In honour of Bannon's sacrifice and due to his prior side service to the Death Watch, Uriel would cede command of the Ultramarines 4 to Leocas Abantes and would assume command of the kill team

and paint his armour to reflect it. Something that we will get more into in a bit. that's a hell of a maneuver for an ultramarine. So am I understanding this plan right that they captured a lictor to make a serum that will cause a hyper evolution in a tyranid? Effectively, yeah, it's going to mess up the norn queen something horrendous. But they need to then get it to a norn queen to have it effect. Okay, got you. I was like, why would you superpower a tyranid to get the tyrant?

What the fuck? This fight isn't challenging enough. Let's go. Jesus. I'm always unsure about these plans because doing weird things to make tyrannids like genetically different normally doesn't work. So it's always a bad plan. It's trying to find fresh ways of doing the MacGuffin plot, isn't it? There has to be a MacGuffin to fix the problem.

But there's only so many MacGuffin. the entire opening of Space Marine 2 was delivering a tiered poison that they adapted to in 48 hours. And so, you know, it's always kind of the, always a little bit like uncertain. Yeah. So the raid would be conducted and the Norn Queen would be taken down with this poison. Unfortunately, it would get a parting jab on Uriel and poison him, causing the blood and his body to rapidly clot. Thanks to Pusanias's quick thinking,

Uriel survives. He begins to perform blood transfusions with his own blood to sustain Uriel long enough so that they can get back to Tartis Ultra for more dedicated medical treatment. The death of the Norn Queen would cause a psychic shockwave that would sever the link to the hive mind, causing the tyranids to tear themselves apart. The day is saved and Uriel is confident about his duty to serve as the captain now more than ever. However, he had made a mistake. The abandonment of his post to assist the Death Watch directly was a breach of the Codex Astartes. Of course.

Of course. You can't just be painting your armour a different colour and pissing off to do a mission with a different bunch. There's no way Gilliman thought that someone would do that. There's no way. How dare you? Despite, however, Avanter's calm demeanour,

he would report this breach and Uriel would face the biggest challenge that he had so far as captain in the form of chief prosecutor Cato Cicarius. Cato Cicarius is there. Oh no, it is I, Cato Cicarius,

here to tell you about how you misuse the... Emolco, sorry, is I, etc. Cicarius. It is I, Cato Cicarius. I hear you did not follow the Codex of Stardis because I, Cato Cacarius, I'm here because you did not.

Oh, Jesus. All right, go ahead. I'm here to shout ass you. This is asshole Cato era, isn't it? So this is acceptable Cato posting. Yep, yep. Oh yeah, he's in his prime at this point, and he is unrelenting. Both Uriel and Lysana charged with 17 counts of heresy.

Pissania says that this trial doesn't do much to honor those who sacrifice themselves, and Sicarius very loudly tells him to be quiet and only speak when spoken to. What a guy. Holy shit, Cato, God. The trial continues, and though Uriel stays quiet and accepting of things, Pusanius is exceptionally vocal. He states loudly that it worked. Doesn't anyone see that?

And Sikarius would say that that assertion was irrelevant. A victory is not a victory unless it is won with Gelleman's principles. He says that the Codex is a fortress and even a small crack can cause it to be breached. and this is why the captain needed to be punished. Do people like Cato Cicarius? They do now. Yeah, sure. But like at this point, was everyone just like, hey, brother, go fuck yourself.

Because, man, what a pretentious prick. There's got to be a lot of this fucking guy. Again. Come on, man. Yeah, you destroyed a high fleet. Yeah, cool, but you didn't sign a permit and that's a felony. It is literally. It's literally that.

Also, a victory is not a victory unless it is one with Gilliman's principles. I mean, that is incredibly short-sighted in the best way. This is why...

Oh, go ahead. That's why people didn't like Ultramarite. That's exactly what I was going to say. I was going to say like, oh, no wonder everybody who's fucking hates

these blueberry sons of bitches. Great minds think of like. Let's go, Kerry off. Oh God, it's true though, it is. Thanks to a rather secretive suggestion from Calgar himself, Uriel and Pusanias waived the right to defend themselves so as to prevent any form of potential unrest or anarchy in the ultramarines,

which also kind of suggests that Calgar is like, oh, God's sake, like clearly this is not the move. You know, we don't want the chapter having some sort of civil war because of how fucking stupid this whole thing is. So let's deal with this quietly, yeah. Well done, Kato, you prick. Even if they faced extreme punishment, they would be an example of acceptance.

Despite the extreme nature of their crimes, they would not be sentenced to death. Good. That benevolent. Jeez. They would instead be bound to a death oath and would be exiled. They would be stripped of the symbols of their chapter and any company tattoos would be burned from their skin.

Chief Librarian Varro Tigerius would have a vision of a book released in 2004 by Graham McNeil called Dead Sky Black Sun and Marnius Calgar would order Uriel to experience the plot of this book first-hand. Wow, all right, glowing grace. That's pretty good. That might be one of my favorite things you've written there, Potsam. Not bad, Possum. Not bad.

Of course, we have the whole dead sky black sun saga. And at the very end of it, both Uriel and Pusanias are able to escape Medrangard and, of course, the watchful eye of Hansu, who famously doesn't hold grudges, as we'll see in a bit. They escaped the cursed world in the Onfellus Demonium, a demon engine that of course shares the name of the demon prince itself. Also, whatever you do, don't Google who was the conductor of the Onfellus Demonium. Who was the conductor of the omphalus delvonium? Oh, no. Yes. Who, who is it?

Who is it? What was it? It's the slaughter man. Oh, you got to be kidding me. It's actually called the slaughter man. Oh. Yep. Yeah.

That's crazy, brother. his ass This is way better than learning the NATO name for the MIG-15 I did the exact I did the same thing when I was reading the script earlier

and in fact I even I even told Possible off for it because they knew we were going to do it of course yeah 100%

well well if it isn't the consequences of your actions So at the very end of all of that, Dead Sky, Black Sun, escapes on the Onphilistemonium. Both former Ultramarines are accompanied by a group of unfleshed, and it was believed that the Onphalistemonium was back to being a regular old ship.

However, instead of going someplace safe, the ship took them to the battered world of Salinas. The war-torn surface was not quite the place they were looking for, and after putting out a transmission to figure out how to get to McCrack, they got a visit from the grey knights. Yay. That's... That's it to go well, isn't it? Uriel and Pisanius are immediately captured by the grey knights

and forced to go through extreme trials both physically and spiritually to prove they weren't actually tainted by the ruinous powers. This included a bit where they both have to fight one singular grey knight and you get this banger of a quote which is your one, Brickie. rituals are for heathen corpse worshippers and sorcerers, said Leo deGardis. Assuming a fighting pose, I prefer a more direct action. Uriel let his mind and bodies slip into the rhythm of combat, allowing his metabolism to speed up and heighten his senses and reaction times.

So what are the rules, he asked. You are such an ultramarine, grinned Leo de Garius, launching a thunderous jab at Uriel's face, The Grey Knight's fist was like a steel piston, bludgeoning Uriel backwards as though struck by a dreadnought. I like that quote. What are the rules? Ultramarines. Jesus. It's so good.

Yeah, where the rules gets punched in the face. Just cold clocks it. It's phenomenal. Phenomenal quote. The Grey Knights have a vigil over this world, and they've had it for thousands of years after brother Captain Ignatius wiped out the demon Prince Usuroth in around M37. Even though the demon was successfully defeated, the barrier between this world and the warp is exceptionally thin, so they are very much all over this planet just in case.

They're hands off though, because on the surface it's a bit of a hellscape. The fighting and vying for power on this world has been nightmarriage for decades, and the current governor is Leto Barbaden. Barbaden was placed into power after the execution of the previous governor at the hands of the Ackermann Falkatus, which are a guard regiment from the nearby world of Ackermen. So, the arrival of two random space marines with a bunch of unfleshed in a very volatile world was deeply concerning. Even more concerning is when the unfleshed start to kill people and the dead start to rise. Apparently, showing up in a demon ship was actually something of a bad call.

The spirits possessing the unfleshed, combined with the spirits that were unable to rest, caused a gateway to the warp to essentially tear open. The situation, was pretty bad, to the point where the Grey Knights considered just blowing the whole thing up. Fortunately, since Ventris and Pisanias passed their test, they were deemed A.O.K. to go and take care of the unfleshed that had been unleashed. The campaign to take care of the chaos forces was devastating to the Grey Knights, but the chaos incursion was quelled. The Grey Knights enacted a ritual which required the overthrowing and killing of the Governor, and they gave both Pisanias and Uriel a ride back to McCrack.

Yay! a lot worse for them, let's be honest. Their oath had, despite all odds, been completed. After going through yet another interrogation, this time at the behest of librarian Varro Tigurius, Uriel was once again captain of the fourth company, and now he had a chance to show his worth. This time, back on the world of Povonis.

However, Pesanias was not so lucky. Remember earlier, we mentioned he had a shiny new right arm that seemed a bit too shiny. Well, it's been a bit of a weird experience for him over the past few campaigns. The arm was kind of unusual to the touch, to say the least, and as time went on, it still seemed to have its glistening silver hue. After the battle with the Norn Queen, he noticed that his arm did something unusual. It repaired itself.

Oh. Oh, that's not like a mechanical, Imperium standard Codex Astardi's arm, is it? No, it ain't. Oh, boy. Nope. His arm had absorbed some of the living metal of the necrons, and it had embedded itself into it. Hmm. Bad times for him.

He would be disgusted by this and view this arm as a corrupt piece of himself that needed to be kept secret. Unfortunately, this secret would prevent him from rejoining Uriel on Povonus as he needed to do an additional penance for keeping this secret. Pavonis has, in the years since Uriel was last there, struggled. The struggle was so bad that the arm. aunt of the governor attempted to establish a trade deal with the Tao without him knowing. His aunt was the former governor who was replaced by her nephew after a civil war. Her influence remained, but her decisions were questionable. The attempt to trade with the Tao caused her nephew to freak out and would end with him

being kidnapped by the Tao. Uriel's tasks were to deal with them whilst also rescuing the governor himself. A brief but brutal campaign broke out between the space marines and the Tao, but of course Yoriel would be successful here. the biggest loss was the governor who was killed during the war. Out of fear that this planet would collapse again, the administrator decided to place it directly under their respective control. Now, we've kind of breezed through that one a bit,

so that we could get to text-based evidence that Honsu does not hold any grudges whatsoever. Honsu, after the destruction of his life's work at the hands of Uriel, amassed an exceptionally large force to directly attack Ultramal. Yeah, no grudge. Like, interesting. Like Ultramar, yes. No grudges, remember.

Yeah. No grudges. But I'm a stable individual. You can't say no grudges and iron warriors in the same sense. I refuse to allow you to do that. Yeah, that's kind of tough. Sometimes you've just got to attack Ultramar, all right? Easy if I.

It's as easy as that, you know, we'll just attack Ultramar. Yeah, this is the other thing. He's a half-breed, I think, in Storm of Iron he's referred to. So he's got 50-50 Iron Warrior, 50-50 Imperial Fist. We need to get that Lord of the Rings meme up where it's like, one does not simply attack Ultramar. Anyway, go ahead. To be fair, he was helped by everyone's favorite tax evader Huron Blackheart,

who provided him with a whole lot of ships to get this done. He also had a bit of help from someone else, Uriel Ventris himself, but not his actual self, his clone. So Cadet Samakan was fed to the Demoncula and was infused with the gene seed of Uriel Ventris, creating a mutant clone known as the newborn. The newborn was trained by an ex-raving guard and participated in the skull harvest that assured that Hansu would have enough nonsense to make an attack on Ultramar at least somewhat plausible. The newborn knew it was an abomination that was the clone of a brave and noble man, and the idea that it existed as a mockery of Uriel drove the newborn mad. It loathed its painful existence, but its existence was vital for Honsu.

Hansu helped the newborn focus this hatred outward to Yoriel while Honsu accessed its latent memories. Not only was this a biological clone, but it also held the memories that Ventris had. Oh, that's impressive work. Yeah, that is a good thing we destroyed that demon Kalaba because that's not good. That is, I mean, that is your prime A-grade warp-fuckery nonsense, isn't it? How does this work? Warp stuff. Magic.

Classic warp stuff. Yeah. Hansu's first strike would be the world of Tarsis Ultra, which Yoriel had previously saved. Destroying something that Yorio had put so much work into as a way to antagonize him, and it worked. the newborn would become so focused on its hatred of Uriel that it would repress what it was, which then led on to the invasion of Ultramar. So the invasion would begin with Hansu standing back and allowing a demon to do the legwork. Prior to the attack, Hansu would track down Makar, who was a demon prince that had been imprisoned by Calgar.

Its hatred towards Ultramarines was an incredible asset for this attack, and when a demon force attacked Terencius alongside the Star Fort the Indomitable, Calgar would know that something was horrifically wrong. The revelation about Macar being around was a pretty big shock for everyone that gathered hastily at the Fortress of Herre for a war council because, as far as everyone else was concerned, Macar had been killed by Calgar aboard the indomitable. They all believed Macaar was killed because Calgar said that he killed it. Which, I mean, that's on him.

Fair. Really. He didn't tell them what had actually happened. Macaar was not dead. McCar was imprisoned in the warp core of the indomitable. The Star Fort would be sent far away on a random course in the hopes it would be lost in the warp forever. Now, it's right here too. And as you might be able to guess, the fact that a chapter master had lied really fucked up the groove from the get-go.

They had lost so many men during that assault and the morale was properly shaken. I want to know why he lied. It's not in here, but that seems like a quite, the oversight from someone who historically has been pretty, you know, on top of things. Yeah, also kind of weird. They trapped him in the warp core and they were just like, yeah, we'll just send this shit into the warp. And I guess it'll probably never get back because why would it?

Surely this will never come back to bite me in the butt. Why not just destroy the fucking ship? I think it's because, I mean, if you hate them that much, make sure you send them into a billion years of torment instead of just killing them. I guess. But like, it's the warp. You can always come back and bite you in the butt, right? Because Goldfinger needs the slow-moving laser going up Jay's Barth's clutch, okay?

It's not about the use of it. It's about the message it sends. You're right. You're right. Okay. Oh, God. So, Jesus. After the siege of trenches,

Hansu would begin to split up his blood-borne fleet to throw the ultramarines into disarray. The indomitable would rush in and over entalusage. because McCar wanted Calgar to 1V1 him. While this was happening, the Corsair Queen Cargarsalambar would bring her gigantic pirate fleet to Espandor and the Dark Mechanican addict Tothia Tark, sorry Vothia Tark, would deploy to Quintan to start fuelling the chaos war effort. Lastly, Hansi would take his grand company to Calth in order to destroy the secret tomb of Ventanus, but this was also far more symbolic due to the fact that this was Uriel's homeworld.

This tomb paid tribute to Captain Remus Ventanus, who served as the fourth company captain during the Crusade and the heresy. McCarr knows that there's something in this tomb that it needs, and Hansu needs to get it. I love just the sheer level of spite being displayed here. It's not just, we're going to invade Ultramar. We're going to specifically go after everything that Uriel holds dear. Let's go.

Legendary work. Chief Librarian Tigurius would be able to determine how the invasion force was being split and Calgar would divide the forces strategically for maximum impact. For the sake of this episode, we're going to focus on the Calth front, as this would be the one that Yuri will be sent to resolve. And he would not go alone. He would form his own command squad called the Swords of Calh to join him. Thanks to the presence of the newborn,

the orbital defences of Calth were easily decoded and a ground invasion was fairly straightforward. As we talked about earlier, the population of Kalth are all underground, and the main entranceway to these tunnels was through the aptly named Gilliman's gate. The gate itself is impossible to break down conventionally, even for a warsmith. Honsu, however, would send the newborn, along with some mercenaries and fallen ravengard captain, Ardric Vaines, to scale the wall and enter through a gun port. They'd enter the defensive bit of the gate, and thanks to the newborn's access to Uriel's albemories, they were able to override the command codes and fling the gate. open, allowing Hansu's forces to pour in. I mean, that's just cheating, in it? Come on.

You're an iron warrior. Get some siege stuff on the go. What's this backdoor entrance nonsense? So unlike an iron warrior. You're right. The fourth company was able to capture veins, and the plan to attack the Tomb of Ventanus was uncovered. Hansu was in the midst of preparing for the destruction of the tomb when Yoriel would finally track him down. Hansu would then shit talk for a bit, claiming that Yoriel is the...

the only person who ever came close to killing him, but that he didn't care. Press X to doubt. Uriel would say that he is going to relish in cutting him down to which Hansi would respond by saying, Why the hell would I duel you? You're outgunned and outnumbered. And there's enough explosive material here to blow you back to the age of horrors. He would say they had no reason to fight him personally, especially when he had a perfectly good champion who could do it for him.

Uriel at this point would Yeah, a classic showdown We're going to have to play this clone One Man versus a clone They would fight, obviously During this fight The Iron Warriors would stand by at the orders of Honsu To allow for them to duel

He would scream at the newborn to finish Uriel off and it would come very close It pummeled the hell out of Uriel But Uriel would have a slight advantage During the invasion He would have visions These were memories of a boy named Samakhan

Before a killing blow would be struck, the newborn would say, you see the pain I am in, the memory of every wound stays with me, and Yoriel would realize who the newborn actually was. He would yell his true name before saying, I'm sorry, and ramming a dagger into the chest of the newborn. I've got a very chunky quote for you, I think, D.K.? I think so. The newborn's grips slackened a fraction,

and its eyes widened in horror as the flood of memories were unlocked in a single tumultuous moment. Its hands fled to its face and strangled, sob, tore from its throat, but instead of freeing it from its domination, Uriel only saw fresh fury in its eyes. The realization of what it was and what had become of it. I'm sorry, whispered Uriel, and rammed the dagger into the newborn's chest. He drove the blade up into its innards, through the knitting flesh of the bolter wounds, with all his strength.

The newborn howled and fell back, pulling itself off the blade. It climbed to its feet and then dropped to its knees, clutching its head and screaming. The young boy he had been now saw the monster he had become, and its already fragile mind collapsed under the weight of shame and horror. The light oozing from its body vanished, and the regeneration of its wounds abruptly halted.

The child that had been Samakhan looked at Uriel and said, Thank you. It's slumped onto its side, its legs curling, and hands folding inward into a fetal position. Yikes. I mean, I do enjoy Hansu being like, why the hell would I fight you? I'm just going to kill you with this guy. Sends the clones, like, go ahead, kill yourself. And it's like, hey, that's what?

What? Who are you talking? Okay. Also getting able to just stand around and watch as well. Check this out. I'm about to kill this guy with himself. Crazy. Crazy flex by Hansu.

Almost work, too. I mean, he's, he's pretty good at what he does, Hansu. He's weird and horrible, but, you know, all that was left at this point, though, was Hansu and his men. In order to properly track Hansu to the tomb, Yuri would bring along the Ravenguard Traitor Vaines, and Hansu would brutally kill him. How brutally?

Well, he would say, let's see you fly away now before ripping his arm out with his bare hands. Wow, that's brutal. He wasn't going to let Uriel stop him from getting the thing that he'd been sent there to retrieve. This object, for the record, was a blade known as the Shard of Erebus. There's that name again. Fuck that guy. An artifact claimed by the heroic captain during the heresy, which he kept even in death. He was moments away from destroying it before Uribus.

Orio showed up, and now was his chance to not only destroy it, but also to kill Yoriel too. Yoriel would rush Honsu only to be knocked on his ass. Again, Hansu would complain about how Yoriel always wants to duel and that he just doesn't understand it. He told him he doesn't fight that way, so why does he keep insisting? Because he's an ultramarine. It's actually really funny. I'm not going to do that. Like, idiot.

I get sick. We've been on place. This would be a good time to do him though because he's already, he's got to be beat to hell because he just fought himself and almost died. Like, fight him, beat his ass. Hansu, what are you doing?

Fight me like a man. No. One v.1, me, bro. However, Hansu would learn that the end of duty doesn't always come in death. An explosion would launch him and emerging from the smoke would be a large figure clad in blue-black armour.

It would be holding a golden balter and be robed with an emerald cloak. It would shoot Hansu again before helping Uriel to his feet. Uriel would see the inverted Omega symbol on his armour and see the symbol for captain. Riemann Ventanus would rise from the dead as one of the members of the Legion of the Dam

to protect his tomb alongside the current captain of the fourth. What? What do you mean what? I don't have a lot of experience with the Legion of the Dam, but all right, sure. Apparently, this is a normal thing that happens? That might be, that might be my favorite. I think that might be one of my favorite reactions to anything you've ever done.

I don't think I've ever heard confusion of that level. That's into one word like that before. I wanted to say something, but I thought I just kind of let it roll because, yeah, what? You got a problem with skeletons? Skeletons are dope. This is not the turn I was expecting. All right. Sick.

To be fair, it is kind of a wild one. But, yeah, Van Zana is one of the members of the Legion of the Damned shows up to fight chaos. And yeah, it just, you know, comes back to life for a bit, sort of, kind of, technically, a little bit. And absolutely wipe out everyone leaving Hansu alone. because, you know, they tend to be pretty good, the Legion of the Tams when it comes to combat. I would assume so sure. Now, at this point, Uriel would look and find that Ventanus was gone, meaning that it was finally 1v-1 time. But he provided Uriel one very important thing before he left.

The true name of Macar, meaning full banishment was now possible. Uriel would say Honsu looks as bad as he feels. And Hansu would say that he's not going to let him kill him. And Yoril would reply that there was no escape. Hansu said, who said anything about escape before detonating the demolition charges in the tomb? He's such a baller. He's a real shithead, but he's kind of a baller. Yeah, that is, that's kind of a move.

I'm not going to lie, that's pretty great. Unfortunately, this is not in the script. I've just added, unfortunately. Unfortunately, a fallen marble statue would ensure Uriel's survival and he would pull himself from the rubble. I only say unfortunately, because Hansu giving that statement and then actually successfully wiping him out, I would argue would be funnier, but I understand that Gaines Workshop probably doesn't want to kill off Uriel Ventress just yet. So, you know. Listen, you don't have to sell me too hard on wanting to squash an ultramarine, all right? Kind of my thing.

The rest of the war and the various fronts is a tale for another time, but the retrieval of the blade and the true name would mark the end of Makar. He would link back up with Cato Sicarius and ensure its banishment. The war would end and the cleanup would begin. But when the Tomb of Ventanus was cleared of all the debris, the body of Honsu would not be found. Hell yeah. The boy escaped.

He survived. Of course he did. Come on. You just can't stop this guy from talking shit and being a little bastard. He just can't stop him. You can't keep a good man down. Let's go. Nope. And this pretty much brings us to today.

His most notable recent conflict had to do with the planet of Sycorax. This event took place a few months after he became Primaris during the height of the Indomitus Crusade. He realistically should still be recovering from the treatment, but this planet is kind of going through it. But Uriel is too. numerous times that he's feeling a bit more detached after crossing over, and even though he's stronger and faster, he feels like he is slowly becoming detached from his remaining humanity. During this conflict, he begins to gain better footing and a better understanding of his new self. At the conclusion of this conflict, he would seek out Gilliman during the plague wars to warn him

of Mortarians' assault on Ultramar, and he is still active to this day. Boy, Uriel Venture sure has gone through some shit. Oh, 100%. He's had to deal with some stuff. Some real stuff. Yeah. Although, to be fair, Uriel Ventriss was the start of my like, oh, wow. So ultramarines aren't all just like, yep, I showed up and won.

It's like, no, we go through tumultuous amounts of struggle, strife, suffering, torture. And God, why am I still alive? I literally had to fight my own clone and kill it and everything is awful. So, yeah, that'd make sense. Yeah, yeah. I really liked the part where the gray knight was like, you codex Astardy's bitches and then punched him in the head. That was a great quote.

Yeah, it's a great. I made it the very point. It's like, yeah, this is the gray nights. Dude, you're getting jumped. What do you mean? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And shy said the shittiest shit is in our demon collaba episode,

which you can check out right after you're done listening to this one. There's probably a card in the upper right thing. I don't know if shy does that. She probably doesn't. Whatever. Google it. I don't know. Yeah.

There's a, it is kind of humor. I don't know. It's kind of weird because like, Uriel is kind of one of those dudes where he's like, yeah, it's, it's important to be flexible with the codex or whatever. But then like, even when he's a more flexible person with the codex, he gets his shit rocked because he's too, he likes the codex.

He gets punched by the gray knight, Hansu is like, I'm not going to. fight you idiot and then like blows everything up it's really goofy hell and when he does stuff that isn't you know part of the codex having him tried to be flexible everyone else has a go at him as well so it's not even like it's not even like he can feel justified at the end of it because he gets told things like yes you stopped an entire high fleet but you didn't follow the rules so therefore it doesn't count which which is crazy come on uriel be flexible urea is you're is flexible, gets put on trial for being flexible. Make up your mind.

Yo, Uriyo. Duero? Double-stuffed Urios. I never got double-stuffed Oreos. In case anyone is curious about this, also double stuff are not as good as normal. The best Oreo is the classic.

The Uriel Venturous Tabletop miniature showed you at all be curious about that. is that he has his usual, like, gun and whatever. He has this sword, the sword of Idias, which is a pretty decent power weapon. And he has the rules unorthodox strategist because of his stuff, which is basically just making it so command points are harder for any opponents around him,

but it costs more. And he also has the ability called Master of the Fleet, which actually made him a must pick and a broken character for, a while because he gives another unit deep strike, which actually for a while he would do it by giving deep strike to a bunch of centurions, and then you would run it with Ravenguard, and he would drop in a bunch of centurions, blow you to bits, and then just bring him back up and put him back down.

He would do that over and over again, and so Ventrous was a must take for a while. Interesting little guy over there. I'm not sure how I didn't realize he had. had a mini. He does. I mean, you cannot buy it, but he does in theory have a mini. Oh, was it like a

oh, okay. I was going to say, is this like a forge world thing where... It's no black library thing. Yeah, he's not been available for a while now, I don't think. I just had a quick look on the website as well and he's not, he's not around. So if you wanted to use him, would you just proxy something else

in for him and just be like, yeah, hey guys, this is obviously... He's a space marine captain with a sword, a cape, and a bolt gun. I mean, fucking take your pick, dude. Yeah, yeah, that's true. You don't need the specific GW version. Just, yeah, you proxy them with fucking anybody.

Much like literally every other space marine captain, it turns out. Luckily, you've got plenty to choose from. I played a game with like, with, I played a game where I did like a little ultramarine run just of like the side characters. And my chief librarian Tigerius was just like a librarian. and Ventress was just some random captain. And they were like, who's that? Ventress?

Okay. Yeah. And that was the end of it. Yep. Yep. Yeah. I guess you really don't need that GW official mini, right? When it comes to space marines especially, you absolutely do not.

Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, no. It's, I mean, Ventris is a guy. He sure is. A little bit less. of an ultramarine than the ultramarines are, and ironically, that's what makes them interesting. Yeah, yeah, and you know, regularly, routinely gets absolutely shit on.

So he's, you know, he's a proper space marine character. Yeah. Well, and he did come from constantly. I wonder how many people were like me and were like, oh, hey, I'm softening up to the ultramarines because, like, Uriel showed us that they're not perfect. Because, like, that's always the opinion I had of them, right? It's like, oh, they're perfect little Kodix Astardis boys. And you have this guy who is not even remotely close to perfect.

But he still gets the job done, sort of. You know, I got to agree with you, Shia. I do wonder how much Titus is inspired by him because there's the Ultramarine part. Then there's the Death Watch part. Then there's the accused by the Inquisition type part. Then there's the whole like slightly unorthodox kind of sort of part. Yeah. There's a lot of similarities, aren't there?

Yeah. It's actually a lot. Not that I think about it. It's actually a lot of A lot of lots. Yeah. If someone said we pitched the idea of, mind you,

hang on, the first book was what, 2002? When was Space Marine 1? I don't want to look that or do I. 2011? 2010? That was only a couple years ago.

It's going to make me sad when I see the, when I see the actual, oh, wow, wow. Why just Google Space Marine? What an idiot. That's not going to help anyone, is it? 2011.

2011, okay. that's actually not as bad as I thought. I was prepared to crumble into dust, but that's not as awful as I. I don't think Space Marine One looked the best at the time, even then. It was kind of like a little drab and funny looking. But I think that's just very, very brown,

but that was also like the time. All the games were goddamn brown back then. This was like the brown military shooter era in the early 2010s. So, but the, yeah, but I mean, There's a lot of similarities. It's a lot, actually. It wouldn't surprise me if someone somewhere, there's like an email that was like,

can we use this guy? And the response was, no, because what if it bombs and it sucks? What if it's terrible? Oh, well, yeah, that. We don't want the established character attached to this, make your own,

and suddenly went, bet, I'll make my own character. Yeah. Yeah, Ultramarine, doesn't follow the co-elected Staris completely, or is flexible with it. Death Watch service?

Yeah, yeah, there's loads of those. Yeah, easy. I will give them a little bit of credit, though. The Death Watch service didn't come until Space Marine 2. That's true. That's fair. Yeah. It'd be kind of hard to put Uriel in.

Like, if you want to get people that aren't into Space Marine into it, it's like, oh, here's Uriel Ventress who has established backstory in three books, right? Better to just start people off fresh for someone new, right? Yeah, like people joining for the first time. and being like, wow, they are really talking a lot about all this stuff that I have absolutely no clue of. Do I got to go and read the books to know who this guy is or what's the deal here? I could see that being an issue. You want people to be able to jump into the game fresh without needing anything prior.

Yeah. I like it. Just need to know it's a rip off of gears of war. That's cool. Don't, don't even. Oh, boy. I didn't say that. That was all Kiryoff. He's a funny guy. We came. Last.