Adeptus Ridiculous - War Of The Beast: Waaagh Of The Worlds!

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

https://www.patreon.com/AdeptusRidiculoushttps://www.adeptusridiculous.com/https://twitter.com/AdRidiculoushttps://shop.orchideight.com/collections/adeptus-ridiculousThis episode covers the climatic middle act of the War of the Beast, focusing on three books: The Hunt for Vulkan, The Beast Must Die, and Watchers in Death. The story begins with rising tensions between Terra and a secretive Mars, as Fabricator-General Kubik experiments with Ork teleportation tech, perhaps to flee the system entirely. After a near civil war is averted, information surfaces that The Beast is on Ullanor. Koorland is dispatched to find the only being who can lead the charge: the Primarch Vulkan, who is found fighting an entire Ork army alone on Caldera. Vulkan returns to lead a massive Imperial armada to Ullanor, now a terrifying "Attack Planet". The campaign culminates in a desperate assault on The Beast's "temple gargant," where Vulkan sacrifices himself in a cataclysmic explosion to kill the Ork leader. But the war is far from over. A chilling signal—"I am Slaughter"—emerges from the attack moon over Terra. In response, Koorland proposes a "hamfisted" and heretical new force of unified Astartes: the Deathwatch. As the newly formed Deathwatch battles the moon, Koorland also seeks out the long-lost Sisters of Silence to counter the Orks' psychic power.Support the show

Welcome, everyone, to another episode of the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast. My name is D.K. Diamanties, his name is Bricky. Kariath is here again, so you know what today's episode is going to be on. But before we get into all that, if you want to support us monetarily, head over to Patreon.com slash Adeptis Ridiculous, where you get access to the Discord, bloopers if they happen, $15 to you get you access to all of our oysters in the crispiest digital form, whatever you want to call it, it's whatever.

Oasters aren't whatever. great check it out patreon.com slash adeptus ridiculous. Bricky how is your post Twitchcon life going? Let me tell you, tolerance to alcohol is a real thing.

Oh yeah. It's a real thing. I hadn't drank in a while, not for particular reasons, just never got around to it. And I went to TwitchCon and let's just say the first night was a bit much.

And that set the stage for the entire rest of the convention, which was a very light ringing headache and nausea. Good. Good stuff. But it was okay. Honestly, every Twitchcon will have 40 million twitlongers and craziest things going on in the, on the social medias. But this one was not as good as last year. I think it was actually a bit weak. I'm a little unsure if the line go up is causing problems.

Okay, okay. So, well, I'm not sure what aspect of Twitchcon and Amazon may be failing, but there is clearly a drop of source. And so I'm not sure what it is. But, but, you know, it is what it is. It's all fine. If you don't like that stuff, you can buy. merchandise. It's all in the description. It's a good old orchidate stuff. Check out the link.

And besides that, oh, I don't know, just be around, hang out, read about sharks. Yay, sharks. Yay, sharks. Hello, Kiraeath. Are you here to provide me more pain? I was just going to say that if you were looking for headaches and nausea, then this is going to be another episode that will give you exactly that. So, yay? man what a way to get me really excited about an episode and topic here on Adeptus Ridiculous

Hey guys, are you expecting headaches, nausea and overall discomfort boy do we have the episode for you That's not I'm just going off the reception of the previous two episodes So I'm thinking I think I'm fully I'm fully there Oh that's true

Yeah it's not at least it's not going to be traumatizing there is that that episode of acceptable losses I think gave you like real world psychic damage which this won't do hopefully maybe Bricky have you ever realized

how much we are paralleling the fallout universe and how much it hurts the head it's it's um you know fallout is a fascinating story because a lot of fallout stuff

echoes the same fan-based issues of Warhammer. And yet, I must admit, I will always just look at Fallout and be like, I love retrofuturism. It's just such a great aesthetic. Oh, hell yeah. Also, I just like such a level of my own personal childhood was spent walking around the everlasting gray of the capital wasteland in Fallout 3, running at about 30 frames a second on the, actually probably less than that on the Xbox 360. It was, it's such a

time. Though I must admit, I feel like the fallout vehicles and like general armor is really underrated. I love the vertebrids. They look so sick. There. It's just shy hit me with the U.S.

Annex's Canada fallout picture and I just about died. That was one of my favorite bits of that whole episode. I just so good. I was, anyway, anyway, that's not why we're here. We're here for War of the Beasts, Kariath. I need to know more about the Beast. We need to get beasting before you start spiraling again.

Now, as with previous scripts, Possum has gone to great lengths to provide another excellent title. So this one is labeled War of the Beast Part 3, War of the Worlds. Excellent. Love it. and we're going to start the same way we started last time, which was to ask what you remember from the previous episode. Didn't we get our first mention of the Beast from War of the Beasts? Well, that was the end of the first episode, right?

I thought the second one was when we finally got mention of The Beast. I didn't mention the beasts in the first one at the end. And then wait a thought we ever got the Beast. in the next three the next three books. Well. So I remember the last episode very clearly.

Yeah, that's when you had your just amazing brain crash out, right? I am very familiar. There was Black Templars, Iron War. There was the worst diplomatic Eldar of all time.

There was the best diplomatic orc of all time. There was the poison of the High Lords and then it's the Eldar thing, which goes in the beginning. There is the Imperial Fists. No, sorry, the, the worst,

the Black Templars and Iron Warriors shipping situation. I remember there being badass Sions who are like, what the hell is this? Which was great. I don't remember how it ends, though. I forgot the ending. Well, luckily. I did too, actually.

Because this has become like so much more of an endeavor than I thought it would be just doing like, Possum had to read all of these again and compile all these scripts, which is a huge undertaking by itself. These books are so wildly disjointed and weird that I am having to go back and like reread the previous scripts so that I can remember what's happening for the newest one,

which is not something I anticipated happening, but they're just all over the shop. So the end of the previous episode was the tech priest Eldon Urchidex, sorry, the Majos biologous Eldon Urchidex, and he managed to shout about the fact that the beast arises on Ulnor as he was being turned into a servitor because the Fabricator General was not a fan of his general work.

So we do have proper mention of the beast, and we have a location. Everything you need to sort the issue out, kind of. Yeah. Love having that. And this is book what of War of the Beast? So we are now on to book seven of 12. All right.

It only took seven books to get mention of the Beast. So this time around, so this time around is 7, 8, 9, yeah? Yep, we're into 7, 8, and 9 now. Okay, I was 6 afraid of 7. The Beast has not, like shown up. He has been stated in like, oh God, there's, there's spooky stuff, right? But that, that's it. We have yet. This big orc is around. Yeah, we have yet to come face to face with the beast.

Six books into the series that it's kind of named after. So that's a choice, certainly. Whether you think it's a good one or not, I think that's entirely subjective. I don't know. I think it's probably objectively not great, but we're there now, okay? We know where it's the beast. We know where he is. So at the end of the last episode, Ercadex is being dragged off to be promoted to servitor after he screamed the location of the beast into his subconscious. Did you stay promoted to servitor?

I remember this now. I think that's what that is. It feels like it's a demotion, my guy. Yes, I remember that because he, he, he, broke free of the buy yes yes yes okay that was stupid also much like most of this yeah on brand for this series so we're gonna have to take a step back to get into mars a bit we would have done that in the last episode but uh but but but parson really didn't want to dilute the like magniric calcutor old man i don't know how to pronounce this yoi yaw i yaw i yeah oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

all right. That's so funny that you're just like you I love this curiosity. You're just like you, you, uh, somewhat pure soul reading this and like, what's it? Yowie. Is that like the sound Tom and Jerry makes? Like what is the thing? It better not be what Tom and Jerry are doing. It better not be Tom and Tom and even the context.

I don't know whether to think it's like raunchy as hell or whether it's supposed to just be tender. I don't know which it would be. I mean, it can be both. It's just gay sex, man. What do you want from me? Maybe not gay sex, but like gay stuff in general. I asked what it is. Oh, okay, that's fine.

I still don't think I pronounced it right, but that's, you know, part of the course. Don't worry about it. You're good. So, as touched upon in the past, Mars was acting a bit suspiciously during the various orc invasions, and these activities were at the behest of fabricated general cubic. As the attack moon's been popping up, the admec have been following them around and investigating the messes they've left behind,

which shouldn't be surprising considering the type of tech that the orcs have. On the best of days, the ad mec have been interested in orch tech, but the only thing more interesting than ork tech is when it somehow advances. Significantly, I think it's fair to say for this lot. That, along with their advanced physiology, has really intrigued cubit, so countless piles of tech and Ork bodies have been brought back to Mars to be studied in the Noctus Labyrinth under strict locking key. And although it was not known what was going on in the Noctus Labyrinth, there was some speculation, particularly in the mind of Vanus Temple assassin Clementia Yendell.

So Yendell, she had Clementia? She got to tell all our partners immediately. Wait, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, did you say, um, uh, did you say the Noctus Labyrinth? Yes. Yep. I know what that is. I have, I have question unrelated to Noctus Labyrinth.

Uh, you said they were studying orch tech, right? Yes. I was under the impression that it was nigh impossible to study orch tech because like, anytime you picked up like an orc gun, it just like kind of falls apart because it's just like, because it's just made of random ass scrap that shouldn't work and it only works because they like make it work and if like a human

picked it up it's like why what is this it's I guess it's a gun but it's falling apart at the seams and there's screws where there shouldn't be screws and I like how does one study orch tech same way one one studies like the soul

but just a lot of theory and some good guesses. Also yeah it's it's not quite that heavy Um, most work stuff is functional. It just kind of depends. Like if it's a couple of orcs, you might have like a actually functional slug or shooter. I think it's only when there's like 77 billion orcs and that's when you can have a rock as an engine. Okay.

I don't know why. I thought like most of their weapons were just like weird and awkward and not actually functional. And once it's out of like orc range, the thing just like falls apart and doesn't work. then that's one of those things where the idea of their tech being affected by how many orcs there are around them has kind of got overblown a bit so it's kind of become sort of just the accepted thing of none of the orc stuff should work but actually a lot of it does a lot of it's just fine it's the really complicated stuff that maybe is affected by their their kind of the psychic presence that they have whereas your standard just, a gun, normally shouldn't be a problem. It should work for just one orc. You wouldn't need a whole horde to get there, their stuff to function. Like, I know that's like sort of like the power of belief is like, yeah, it's not one

orc can't make some weirdly impossible thing happen. You need like 70 billion of them, but I wasn't really sure like how their weapons functioned like that. Cool. Yandel, this Vanis Templin satin, made note that the majority of the tech being brought to the Noxas Labyrinth was a tech that was related to the Ork's teleportation abilities, which really they probably shouldn't have in that sort of scale. And she outlined her thoughts to Vangrich quite early on. Van Grich thought that maybe Kubik was just trying to learn its secrets, but Yendell didn't

think that was the case. I've got your first quote, D.K. Yay! My lord, Yendell continued, with respect, you are not thinking broadly enough. We believe that the fabricator general's interest lie not in what is best for the Imperium, but what is best for the Mechanicus. You're saying that, I'm saying, my lord, that in the event of a threat to the inner core, to the sole subsector, from the invader or anything else, he means to remove Mars from the path of annihilation. Move the planet, Van Gritch said, his mind struggling with the enormity of the proposal. Save Mars, Yendell said, and leave the Imperium to the ravaging. of the enemy.

Surely not. Surely not. The fabricator general acting with self-interest above all else. You actually just yanked the script I was about to rattle off out of my head. I said, oh, what do you? Oh, look at that. Mars, once again,

being really interested in their own stuff only, which is not at all unfair because the Imperium does the same. But damn those damn mechanicus, I say, It's, it's, like, the two of them, the fact that they've got on as well as they have in the weight that they have for as long as they have is kind of miraculous. Let's be honest. They're not really that compatible, but somehow. So, Shai said it's really funny in Big Dacker book, Ork Teleporters horrified Dark Eldard because Ork's using advanced tech is bad.

Orks using advanced tech that Foxwood the Warp is a thousand percent scarier. Oh, yeah. 100%, yeah. Yeah. really scared of it. And they're really scared because they were using that tech in Comorah. And they were like, no, no, no. No. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. We don't want warped signs in here, buddy. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

The sheer fear on, on, like, the Dark Eldar Arcon. Say, like, are they teleporting in Comerah? Oh my God. What the fuck? Yeah. That was a great book, actually. We did mention last episode that there was a botched assassination activation in the presence of artisan August Van Orkin. I hate that guy's name. And it was, funnily enough, Clemencia Yandel, who was past tense by his Scutari entourage. And a combination of a dead assassin and a dead covert operative was not really great in the eyes of slaughter, aka Lord Commander Corland.

especially to people who might know something. So he sent Maximus Thain of the fifth's exemplar to Mars to put Eldon Orchidex into their custody. However, instead of a nice and polite welcome ceremony, the fist's exemplar were met with a fairly formidable force of Lidio Cybinatica and Skittari under the direct command of Argus Van Orkin. Orkin told Thane to turn back immediately

and that they were overstepping their boundaries by being there, was one Majos worth the cost they were facing? Yes. Funnily enough, the chapter master was like, absolutely it is. Yeah, yeah. I mean, okay. Yeah, 100%. Fair trade, honestly.

What information that he had, it would potentially outweigh any potential conflict with the Admec. So Orkin knew they could not permanently hold back the Astartis, and the Astartis just began to push forwards. Not with weapons raised or anything. Guns facing down, just walking through the ranks of Skittari. If the conflict was going to start, it was not going to be at the hands of the fist's exemplar. The lines started to hold firmer against the Astartis, and the chapter master ordered the drop of drop pods as a show of intimidation. The Admec didn't like it, and they decided to fire warning shots.

past the drop pods without any intention of hitting. But you can already see where this is going, can you? They hit one, don't they? I believe Basm has described it as a bit of an oopsie-whoopsie, which came in the form of two June crawlers, who, while firing warning shots at the final drop-pod, landed a direct hit with an eradication beam and destroyed it. Just fire a warning shot off its bow.

Whoopsy-boopsy, direct hit. Could they have not used the Cognos heavy stubbers? Did they need the eradication beamers? Fire a warning shot with the eradicator beam. Fire a warning shot across her nose. Careful, you idiot is said across her nose, not up it. Launch the warning nuke, sir, I don't think that's good idea. I really don't think that's great.

Once the warning death strike missile launcher, Castellan. Launch the warning exterminatus cannon, please. Sir. Just fire past the planet. It'll be fine. Don't worry about it. They'll get the idea, don't worry. You will be amazed to learn that this caused instant conflict between the space marines and the ad mech.

Shocked. Absolutely befuddled. I knew you would be. Word of the conflict was given to the 12, and Kubik said it was merely a skirmish, attempting to underplay it, knowing. what Orchidex knew. This was not the answer that Corland or any of the other members wanted, and Kubik was reminded that not only was he a high lord, but this had the markings of a civil war, and in short

time, the ground conflict turned into an orbital one. Kubic demanded that it end, and Colin said, it's up to you, buddy, before adding, and this one's for you, Bricky. Oh, lovely. The Imperium is tested as it has not been since the emperor ascended to the Golden Thur. throne, he said. If we fail this test, we fail through disunity. We fail the trust the emperor has placed in us. If division defeats us, we deserve no better. And if we fall in the name of what? I stand for Terra and I stand for Mars, because I stand for the emperor. I stand for the

Imperium. I will walk the ramparts of the galaxy. I will repel all enemies. I know my duty. He dropped his voice so only cubic could hear. Do you? Do you go a high pitch like that, too? Yeah, that's what I'm assuming. It reminds me of the always sunny episode where he's like, do you have such certificate? Which is a specific,

it's a specific poll that you probably won't get, but I remember it. Oh, as someone that does not watch only sunny and has only seen viral clips, yeah, I wouldn't. actually it was pulled straight from the audiobook. It was quite a good, quite a good pull that. I would love it if that was true, but it probably isn't. Kubick, taken aback by this, demanded that the admec forces ceasefire and slaughter followed suit. Sure enough, the report of the partially servitorized Majos was on Coulon's desk, and it was time for a quick chat with Kubik about what they've been up to. Colin asked if the attempts to replicate or rework the orc teleportation technology had been successful.

Cuba confirmed that they were able to teleport Fobos to the opposite position of its orbit. Colin pointed out that it was, I know, that's pretty, it's pretty severe, pretty good. That seems like a success. Not like a big distance, but still, still up there. You teleported Fobos, you teleported a moon. What do you mean that's not a success? They lack ambition Halfway across the galaxy

That's what they really want surely It's pretty good For a first try There's no way it was a first try I bet there's a whole heap of like partially dismembered servitors Where only like half the chest got moved or something It's got to be one of us than that right

In the buildup They just didn't document it yeah They somehow reverse engineered I mean That's impressive To be fair that they can reverse engineer that. That's just a mess of nonsense, isn't it?

That looks so cool, though. I got to say, you are correct. It is a mess of nonsense. They're all messes of nonsense and fairness. It's true. Colander pointed out that it was Zenos tech they were messing with and was curious as to what Miles' goals were with this tech. Kewick said that their hope was to potentially teleport the attack moons away,

destroying them in the process. Totally not trying to teleport Mars out of there. Now, don't worry about that. Not the goal. All about the attack moons, honest. The ad mech were not close to completion. Despite transferring Fobos, the mass of that moon is significantly less

than that of an attack moon, so they needed more time to do more work. Seemingly satisfied, Colin then asked the obvious, which was did the adeptus mechanicus truly believe that the beast was on Ulius? Colanore. Kewick said that there was no doubt and stated that their silence and secretive nature was based on information verification and not trying to Tokyo drift the red planet out of there.

Corland brought the information about Olinor to the 12 and the prospect of Orch's returning to Ollinor chilled the members. The name itself was that of a past cataclysm and this coming back in the modern era was fairly frightening. But Inquisitive Veritas saw this as an opportunity. He spoke to Colin separately and said that he was planning an attack on a myth and that the only thing that could conquer a myth was another myth and he had just the myth that Colin needed in the form of one Vulcan. This is for you, D.K. Oh, Corlin focused his gaze on Veritas with effort. By invoking myth, the old man seemed to have moved into its realm. He was less real and more formidable. There were immense

depths here to be approached with extreme caution. And where will I find him? He had no doubt Veritas would have an answer. On Caldera, fulfilling an ancient oath. Damn, Vulcan. I mean,

Vulcan's always outdoing stuff, you know? It's just so weird to hear about Vulcan actually like alive and not on his respawn timer. Yeah. That's true because we haven't entered respawn mode yet. That's very true because all the primarks kind of started fading out like time by time after the heresy.

So, you know, I'm sure Vulcan will live through this fine. Oh, sure, sure. I've seen no issues. He totally won't yeat himself into the atmosphere. This is fairly big news to Corland. understandably so. He immediately put the word out as far as he could that the great chapters of Astartees were to return to terror to form a line so that they could make way for Ulanor. This message was received and answered by the Blood Angels, Space Wolves, Dark Angels, and Ultramarines who presumably at this point had cleared their calendars for the occasion and were now just readily available, even though they weren't before. So, yeah. Well, you know, this is an important thing. Of course, they just happened to catch them. when they were not busy, right?

I mean, attack Moon over Terror, not important enough to drop everything and defend the home world, but going to Olinor, they're there. Well, you know, I don't know what to tell you, man. They just happen to be freed at this point, all right? I love that.

They just happened to be free. Call them on some downtime. When Tara needed you, we were off doing a thing. Like, we're free now. We're, you know. Oh, actually. that's a very good point, Shai.

I can't, there doesn't seem to be a mention of salamanders. Oh. Even though, like Shai said, even though it's Malkin? That's a very, you know what? We've mainly only talked about the fists. You know what? I'm going to double check something here. I'm going to DM Possum right now.

Because I don't remember mention of salamanders, and they're not here. I mean. I will be honest with you That would not be the weirdest And most off-putting thing That has happened in War of the Beast If it's like, oh yeah, we need Vulcan But not those alamanders

That is true It would be pretty far for the course I mean Every time someone show up in a book They're extremely boring So I don't know Maybe this will actually upgrade The War of the Beast

is this a blessing in disguise ah good no salamanders won't be boring damn bricky salamanders fans will hear this you know it's true it's true I've message

I like salamanders I'm a fan of salamanders they're cool they have a great aesthetic Vulcan's dope the problem is the same problem with Kraft World Eldar where all their books are shit it's not my fault okay shy shy has got back

before passum um salamanders come up once on the War of the Beast wiki only to mention they were too busy I knew I couldn't like I've said before I did read this series but I feel like you know that thing where like the human brain can sometimes

just repress memories that are too much for it. I feel like that when I'm when I've been going through these scripts. I'm like, this is all very like vaguely familiar, but I feel like I stop. Like at some point I feel like I didn't actually read the words. Instead, I saw them and then they just passed through like ethereally without really touching on the brain. But even then, I was like, I'm pretty sure I don't remember reading anything about salamanders and yeah. You know, uh, being like, you know, I don't think I actually read the words, me when I

talk about lore. Okay, so anyway, Vulcan. We have clarification. Salamanders are there, but Vulcan refused to see them. So that's that's again, wholly unsatisfying. That is entirely

that is entirely not fun. So when they're on route to all or not he's informed that some salamanders want to board and he says, I don't want to put them through that. And that's the end of that. So no closure for them. None of that. They can just not see him, even though they've been told he is definitely still alive,

but he doesn't want to talk to him, which, I mean, I don't have the words for how bad that is, but it's not great. No. Moving right along. No, that is really not great.

No, it's not good. Oh, Jesus. Right. They're fairly far out. Fairly far out from Illinois at this point. And they had time to form up some troops and go and retrieve Vulcan from Caldera. When your dad comes back from buying milk

but hang out with your friends family instead. Pretty much, yeah. Caldera was once fueled with great cities and incredible jungles. Now it's a total mess. The orcs are literally tearing the planet apart, seemingly attempting to terraform it into an attack moon. But somehow, the city of Torrens was still standing. Its survival was improbable. There was no way a city like this existed and was not completely overrun by the orcs.

When Corland landed and asked the survivors how they were able to hold off the orcs, a woman said that they didn't do anything to drive off the orcs. They were all saved by one guy, one giga. guy. I have another quote for you. All right. He fought so many. He should have died. I saw an entire habfall on him. A rocket landed where he was standing, the scared man said. Every one of them had witnessed these

and other moments that would have meant death for any being who fell within these mortals conceptions of human. He never died, the first woman said. We all saw him die, and we were always wrong. He always returned. Damn, Vulcan. He really tried it. This is where he dragged out the respawn timer. That's why it's so goddamn long now.

He kept respawning here. Wait, I'm sorry. Okay. Kiriak, please don't tell me that's him doing Control F. That is directly from Potsam. We have, you know, we have our law master on speed dial. And yeah, there you go. Salamander Strike Cruiser arrives in system.

They request an audience. No, Vulcan replies. They will operate as part of the force without favor. Seeing me will only distract them. They will be disappointed. Is that all? The Primark said, turning to Thane. Wow.

Wow. Would you like to see your sons? No. Yeah, well, no, that'll just make them like distracting. What? What? He has no, he has less faith in his sons than Curris did. What do you mean?

Like just seeing me We'll get them distracted. Like, do we be distracted? They're spying. And I love how the guy's just like, oh, yeah, you know, they're going to be really disappointed. And Vulcan's like, the fuck do I care? What the hell? That is wildly out of character.

I don't know if, I don't know if this is too abridged or something, but that is very strange. Holy God. All right. Well, see, this is, the thing is, this bit of writing, I think they, This is like, this is, this is why it's so hard to hold on to memories of this book. Because every part of it that you read is a part that you think, I feel like that could have been editing into something better. But it's, it's like that for almost the entire series.

It's like the, the, I've read a critics quote for Megalopolis where they said that every scene in that film felt like one that had been retrieved from the cutting room floor. this series is like the book's equivalent of that quote where it's like there's something here but I don't think anyone really nailed it you know yeah so they find Vulcan and he's so effective that the orcs decided that he was their only objective they ceased attacking the city in favor of just going after Vulcan and upon learning that Vulcan was literally the only army on the planet it was time for the space Marines to find him

which wouldn't take long as they were able to see a massive conflict happening from orbit. I mean, one dude versus a horde of orcs, and you can see it from orbit, that's pretty good. It was pretty easy to assume that this was likely where they could find the lost prime arc. Bursting through the forest, Corland and his ranks engaged with the orcs. The last wall, however, really underestimated how bad the orcs wanted this planet, and the conflict was overwhelming. Through the horde of orcs, a particularly large battlewagon was barreling toward Corlan, and before it could hit him, something hit it, so hard that the battle wagon exploded in an outward manner,

staggering the space marines around it. The thing that hit the battle wagon was a massive hammer held by a colossus of a man, and Corland was face to face with Vulcan. No words. No words were exchanged between the Primark and the Marines. which honestly, based off that little excerpt we'd had just there, makes sense. There's just silence for a few moments before Vulcan turned around and went back to laying waste of the orcs around him. Finally, he did decide to say something, but it was directed to the orcs. More, send more, still more, will you never be enough? Vulcan was quite literally the Give Me Stronger Battles meme manifested in flesh.

Damn. I mean, that's pretty okay. That sounds like Vulcan to me. Yeah. Yeah. So he is literally soloing all these orcs. Before they show up, he has been soloing a literal planet of orcs. And making sure this one little city is untouched.

Yeah, he's got a job today. That's all right. Yeah, yeah. He's like master chef. My name, Cheff. My name, Cheff. John has said by. John Halo.

It was probably in the live action series, honestly. Oh my God. My name is Chef Cortana, please sexy me. So stupid. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I had a stroke.

I'm sorry. I had a stroke, man. My bad. My bad. James Brink is having a strong all the brinkulence. Okay. So I mean,

you know, Vulcan arriving like that is a little cool, I have to say, with the big hammer and shit. That's pretty cool. It is. It's a good introduction. The space marines obviously decide to follow Vulcan and start tearing through line after line of orcs until it was actually quiet enough to talk. At which point Vulcan thanked them for the help, but knew they weren't here just to help him out. After explaining how they found him, Colin stressed that the Imperium needed him.

Vulcan stated that there will be a time where he must return. but this was not the time. Ah, cryptic bullshit, we love it. Corland then stated that orcs have stood in the great chamber and they are back on Ulanor. Vulcan had an immediate say-that-again moment before Corland explained that the fists were gone and that they needed to rebuild.

Vulcan clearly amped to potentially kill even more orcs, asked what was needed, and he was told they were to leave for terror right away so that he can lead everyone to Ulanor. Vulcan said not now and stress that though he wouldn't turn away from his duty for his father, he needed to settle things here first. Also, just a quick note on the new toy, Vulcan had forged a new Thunderhammer that he called

Doom Tremor. No, man, no, he stole that from the guard. That's just another Bainblade name. It really is. Yeah, the Doom Tremor. Doom Tremor was able to absorb the power of incoming energy attacks and direct it outward back to the attack source.

And it was also exceptionally massive and heavy. Later on, Vulcan challenges his fellow space marines to see if they can lift it and one in Terminator armor is barely able to lift it more than a few centimeters. Meanwhile, Vulcan is able to swing it with one hand and throw

it like a javelin. What an absolute... You could say he's an absolute beast. You could say that. You could. Unfortunately, we haven't seen that yet, so... Yeah, we don't know. So his hammer's made out of vibranium.

It absorbs the impact and then it's back. I mean, it sounds like a combination of Thor's hammer mixed with some kind of like repulsion field in a way. He's literally doing the Mielnir Lyfts thing.

I'm all in a fan that aesthetic cool, like, yeah. Thor's hammer wrapped in Black Panther suit. Mm-hmm. That's actually pretty good. Yeah, that's the way to put it, actually.

Yeah, yeah. The, I mean, you know, Vulcan is like the strongest physical primark. I'm pretty sure when everyone was flesh and blood. Yeah, that checks out. Unless Magnus was, she was pretty big too. Yeah, but he was a dork. So true. Where do you go to the gym at the library?

How much did he bench? Did he even know? Did he even bench? I bet he didn't. Did Magnus even bench? Yeah. Yeah, he was on the bench. He was on the bench at Dodgeball.

Damn. He started in Benchwarmers, the hit comedy from 2005. Oh, that's that. But, okay, I'm going to need shout outs in the comments for if that was a real thing or whether I'm big. No, dude, Benchwarmers was a super real thing. Yeah. Was it? Okay.

It may not have been peak. I was a young, I was very young. I remember his peak. That's your nostalgia glasses. But yeah, go on, Karioth. I don't know that that made it over here. I'm not going to lie. We've got quite a bit more to talk about.

So we'll kind of go over Vulcan settling things on this planet nice and quick. With the energy embedded in his brand new hammer, Vulcan quite literally flung himself into a gravitic beam that the orcs were using to drain the planet. And with the force of a gathering storm, slammed it directly into the control mechanism of the generator of the machine, causing a gigantic explosion that tore the world. remaining orcs and himself apart and saved the planet from being turned into a weapon, which is nice. Perhaps it's due to how invigorated he felt about the imminent battle of Ulanor, but Vulcan almost immediately respawned in the city of Torrens. He told the people that

he once brought a deluge of flame to this planet and swore to fight for it and to not bring such fires again. He has kept his oath and he hoped that the people would keep their faith in Caldera as he did. That's nice. Very nice. Wow, that's a very quick resolution to oh man, I've been fighting this planet of orcs. Wait, did he just... Yeah. Did he just respond? Or did I get that wrong?

He fully just like through the... He did the full thaw and sort of rode the hammer through this big generator, then told the people of Caldera, there you go. Sorted. We're all good. Oh. Oh, shy. I don't know.

Vulcan is defending planet Caldera. Caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in the eruption of a volcano. So it's a pun. That's fine. This one's fine. If you're going to name a fire planet Caldera, that's fine. That's very acceptable. I don't have to be sure with that one.

And also, this is the Eldar burning planet, shy. He was like, I brought fire to this planet before. Okay. Okay. Nice. Nice. That's pretty funny. I thought when you said he threw the hammer, I thought you said he got caught by the

gravitic beam or whatever. and like, like incorrectly, and then just died and respond immediately. And I was like, that seems a little quick, but then I realized I missed. Oh, he definitely, he definitely got splatted by the gravitic beam. So he wrote the hammer up in. He did instantly respawn because he was so excited about the fight, right? Yeah. He lobbed himself in.

He got ripped apart along with all the orcs and then just immediately was back in the city. Yeah, he had like an immediate respawn. Isn't, isn't the point? That seems a little quick. He's excited. I've heard too often for a thousand, Alex. I, I, I, I, okay. Yeah.

Look, when he's, when he's, when he's all amped up, his, what is it, like, refractory period is lower or something. He's, he can just, he can just, he's back up. He's back, he's ready to go. He's ready for action, ready for round two, straight off the bat. Oh, sure. Apparently. I'm saying that like I wrote it, but that's clearly not the case. By the time Vulcan and the last war returned to terror, the gang was all there.

The Great Chamber was occupied by Vallifor of the Blood Angels, Macrinus of the Ultramarines, Asger of the Space Walls, and Adnachial of the Dark Angels. God damn, some of these names, I specifically remember Adnaciel, because I'm still not sure I'm saying it correctly. as Vulcan walked in, Master of the Administratum, Tobris Eckarth essentially said, this is straight up a coup. First, Colin kicks out Lord Oudo, then he brings the space marines back, and now a prime arc. Don't you see the pattern here? Vulcan had very little to say,

except the following, Bricky, if you would do the honors for Vulcaneer. Oh, of course, of course. I have spent day, nope, I have spent a day and a night in contemplation of the word, and deeds of the high lord spoken continue you should give thanks for the orcs and for the threat they represent he spoke calmly and with infinite disgust if not for the need for unity i would kill you all myself strike van gerich wanted to say strike now purge the rot and make something new that is something a legend can do he said nothing vulcan spoke again we made ready we make ready for uhlunor you will do your duty in the preparations and Van Gogh's side. I love Van Gogh.

He's my, he's my favorite character. What a great quote. He's like, God damn it, man. Logan's like, man, if I didn't need you,

I'd kill you in Van Gogh. It's like, do it, do it, do it, do it. He's so sick. I hate these stupid. I'm going to kill him. Kill him. And he's like, oh, no, prepare.

He's like, ah, fuck. He's so. It's so funny how like the most suss character in the entirety of 40K, the grand master of the officio assassinorm is like, oh, please just do it, man. I'm so tired of these people. He's the most relatable one in the books. You really is. It feels like most of his, most of his like page time is him going, I'm surrounded by idiots and I hate it. And I read like, you get the feeling, you know, I could.

do something about this, but that would look highly suspect. But really, they do need to die because have you seen what they're playing at? I love him. He's great. It should come as no surprise to anyone that the force that was amassed to take down all and all was quite the sight to behold. The last wall was joined by the aforementioned Ultramarines, Blood Angels, Space Walls and Dark Angels. They also brought with them a pretty large naval force as well as the guard. The Mechanicum provided plenty of Skittari and Ligio Cybinatica, as well as tight as. and knights from house to Rannis. However, one notable figure didn't seem a bit preoccupied with joining in on the fun.

Throughout the trip to Olinor, Vulcan remained mostly in his quarters, like quietly keeping to himself and working on mending his armour and his weapon. Despite Vulcan being the technical leader in all of this, it was Corland who was given the duty of direct response at the behest of the Primark, and conversations with him were difficult. Coland wasn't helping with this. Each time Vulcan spoke to him, Coland would correct him and say,

I am slaughter, my wall name. And Vulcan would reply, you're not on the wall now. You are Lord Commander Corland. You took the title, now live up to it. All right. I say everything, I take everything back about Vulcan's

attitude. He's riding this ship. He is 100% riding this stupid ass ship. Yep. You're telling me. me that this guy goes up to Vulcan. Every time Vulcan doesn't call him Slaughter, he's like, um, excuse me, it's slaughter

actually. That's what this is a court. Vulcan. Primark Vulcan of the salamanders. He's like, no, calling by my name X, X, X, X, X, Slaughter 3, 3,7. What the hell, man?

It's a goddamn Vulcan, dude. Shut up. This is a professional setting. The dude, like, call me by my game a and his boss effectively are like, no, why would I do that? I will not you. Oh my

God. Wouldn't mind to slaughter just threw him out the window, just defend us. Just give him the Javik treatment and right out to airlock. Throw it out the airlock commander. Hell yeah. So upon arriving in the system, the space around Oll and all prime looked as if it was a massive ship

graveyard. Survivors were found on these ships, but their minds were completely warped, and they were acting almost orcish in nature. The sheer wire energy radiating from Ulanor drove the survivors trapped in space. Mad. The energy itself, of course, permeated all-known space. Orkish chance of I Am Slaughter had been heard since the arrival of the first attack moon. It's so confusing and silly. Well, yeah, but I Am Slaughter, the Orks, right?

Because it's a... Yeah, the Orks is a sick, man. It's also slaughter. Yeah. Yeah, but someone's tried to go for a parallel there and they have not achieved, you know, they just haven't managed it. Yeah. No, no. You know, you know, in Lion's son of the forest, they did a parallel.

They had the good fallen and the main villain was also fallen and it played off the parallels of the fallen. They didn't name both characters, Zabriel. They didn't do that to our boy. giving them the same name is basically the same as having subtext. I'm pretty sure that's true. I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards. Yeah. Oh, God.

So things around Olinor turned up to 11. One other thing was noticed. There's almost no orbital defenses. Despite the seemingly massive orc presence on the planet, it was not defended as far as they could see. It was estimated that orbital superintendents, could be taken around all and all within 10 hours. Vulcan, despite being suspicious, authorized Corland to give the command to do so. Of course, Vulcan and the rest did gather that this

was some sort of trap, and the librarians on the ship were tasked to commune together to break through the massive fog of orc psychic power that enveloped the planet, so that they could get a better idea of what was going on. However, the wire energy overwhelmed the librarians, and they were stuck in a state of primal anger and rage that became a bit more clear the longer they were enveloped. Here we go. I have another quote. Is this you, D.K.? I think this is me, yep.

Yeah. The city croaked Vaniel. His gaze moved slowly around the room, his body turning with it. The citadel, Gorkograd, Temple of the Great Green, a throne of rage, a blade awaits. Cannons lie slumbering. As one, all of the librarians jerked, straightening suddenly with throaty roars.

Thane started in shock and the clatter and whine of warplate betrayed the reactions of the others. The beast arises! Vaniel hunched arms hanging like an ape's limbs, lips drawn back to reveal teeth and gums, darkened by psychic power. He threw back his head, lifted his hands high, a wordless howl bursting forth. Damn. We finally. We finally got him. He's here.

He's here. Truly. It's happening. Need the gift of the old man. He made his hands around. The librarians on the back of this lunged at the space marines around them and were taken out quickly to prevent a massacre.

One rune priest, however, was able to fight back and remember. According to him, the wire energy was being amplified planet side in the city of Gorka Grodd and within the chambers of a... Such a silly name. Sorry, that's great, though. I like that. That's better than all the imperial cities so far. It's true.

It's also the easiest to pronounce name that we've had so far of literally anyone other than Corland and Vulcan. So that's a nice change for me. Within the chambers of a towering edifice, the great beast was waiting. Out of fear of further psychic pollution from the orcs, Corland ordered any of the psychers or astrophaths on the ships to go into the librarian's sanctums or navigator safe chambers for the duration of the operation. Initial readings determined that, oh hang on,

it's funny to hear this right now since wire energy does not work like this at all anymore. New Orpux completely separate wire energy is a product of collective fungal realm from galactic network of orcsbores and human chaos, eldar, psychic power. So, wait. So since this series, it's just, it's just, it just does not work like that. Now, cool. That's aged really well then, hasn't it?

So these librarians got fully converted to, like, I don't want to say they got converted to orc, but they've all been, like, tainted by the Wa and turned against Imperium, right? That's what that quote was, right? Is librarians that were just like, well, shit, I guess we're orcs now. Yeah, they went That's kind of a cool idea, though, when the Wawa was actually a warp-ish thing. It's dumb, no, it's not. No, I like it, Chad.

You're wrong. Ha. Damn. And he was never seen again. Initial readings. Oh, so I go ahead. I was just saying, I just like the name of the city. What did you call it?

Gorka Gorka Grod, right? Gorga Grodd. Wait, wait, oh, Gorga Grodd. Oh, that's a little worse, actually. The Gorka part I like, the Grod, I'm not as a fan of a fan of. I need to have Gorketown in Mork City. And then, and then it's like blood and crips. Who would sire you on?

I don't know. Oh, I love the immediate pivot there. And then we have slaughtered town, of course. Let's not forget it. Yeah. You can't get infected with green energy with ox being around. It's cringe. I mean,

I think you've had your opinion and I'll have mine. Oh, yeah, that's it. Yeah, grad is Slavic for city. So Gorgograd is effectively Gorktown. They should have just called it Gorktown. Gorktown is way better. Just be upfront about it, you know? That's true.

Gorktown is kind of sick. Something about that sounds wrong, though. Gorktown? I'm going to take it to Gort town. Grod is slat of a fresh city. So, you know, like, Stalin Grodd, etc. But like, like, this is just, that is true. So it is just technically Gorktown.

But I don't know. Gorktown just sounds funnier to me because it's a little bit more like basic. There's, it's very orky. Yeah, there is something weirdly suggestive about Gorktown though. I just, I don't know. It, it doesn't, it doesn't sound right. It just sounds. It sounds off about Gorktown.

Yeah. I'm not, I don't know, maybe Gorka Grad is better than Gorktown. I don't know. I like it. I don't know. I like it. I'm dumb. I mean, to be fair, this whole series is dumb, so we're doing well on that front. So initial readings determined that the surface of Ullnall was as close as you could get to a full-blown urban sprawl as Orcs would allow. Utterly covered in ramshackle architecture as far as the eye could see. And Gorka Grodd was the epicenter. Its location was also not a coincidence. You know that one picture with nine of the Primark standing together on a balcony?

That picture shows the primarks at the site of the massive imperial parade at the end of the Ulanor Crusade that was called Ulanor Triumph. That spot is now the home of that monstrous tower where the Great Beast waits. One other thing that was found while analysing the surface, although the orcs seemingly lacked any sort of orbital offence, they were certainly packing heat defensively. Gorka Grod was protected by an exceptionally powerful energy shield, and the volume of surface to orbit battery relays across the surface of the planet

made any sort of orbital attack impossible. If the Imperium was going to deal with this, they had to do it on the ground. That is a great piece of artwork, and I love the fact that that got turned into an orb tower. That's fine. That's also funny. I do like that that's an orc tower. now. You know, you can imagine inside the palace you have like this photo and then they're all just like scratched out with green marker and a bunch of like grots have like written like their names on it or something. Put mustache on fulgum. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, put moustaches. Just simple stuff like that, you know, or a squig is just like eating the paper for no reason.

I had never seen this, uh, this artwork before. It's very good. Fulgram's armor is just, have you never. ever seen this artwork? It's a pretty popular one. Yeah, this is like a very, very popular art piece. Or if I have, I've, I don't think I would forget this. I forget a lot. Don't get me wrong. It's, it's, it's, it is, it is very commonplace on ad rig for me to forget things. This doesn't seem like a thing I'd forget and, and, and not remember, like a dope artwork like this. I think this is the first time I'm seeing it. I was going to ask like what the picture It looked like if someone could post it. But yeah, it's great.

That's great. This is a very popular one. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sucks what ended up happening to it, but, you know. Nah, it's funny that. It's funnier that way. Not wrong. Unfortunately, the ground was not safe here either, as Eleanor had its own secret.

The initial landings on the planet were met with heavy resistance from the surface batteries, and the damage was devastating. But those who were able to land success. successfully in the first few volleys, experienced incredible tremors and a quicksand-like surface. Thousands of soldiers died as they were consumed by the surface itself.

Ollanor was not just the home of the orcs, it was also an attack planet. Because of course it is. Of course it was. Of course it is. If they've got attack moons, why wouldn't they have attack planets, right? It's the logical progression,

if you're using War of the Beast logic. They had to land in the more densely populated areas and then make a push towards the big old tower. But Vulcan viewed this as a small boon. Despite the destruction in orbit, the crashing debris on such a densely populated and inhabited world caused even more damage to the orcs by proxy. A statistic that Thane responded to with,

Forgive me, my lord, for taking little comfort in that fact. I love that. On the downside, we'll lose. losing a lot of ships and drop pods and all of that. But on the upside, every time we lose one, it does fall to the surface and kill orcs. So silver linings, all of that. Which, of course, then go into spores and then become more orcs. That's just big clouds of them drifting around.

Yeah, but it takes a little time for the spores to maturating. It's fine. Don't worry about it. We'll deal with that problem later. Yeah. Much later. That's a future me problem. Yeah.

The mission on the surface, very direct. Find the beast as fast as possible and kill it before getting overwhelmed. What could possibly go wrong? They could not risk an entrenched battle on the surface, so they needed to rush in and out as quickly as possible, especially because the beast most likely was hoping for an elongated battle and would rather the forces of the Imperium bleed themselves dry against an endless wall of orcs,

as opposed to something quick. the Admec forces were tasked to find a way to disable the defences and the orbital weapons, while the space marines and ground infantry were to not only push, but be prepared to push harder once the defences fell. While all of this was happening, Vangarich had a separate task for his close confidant Venenum assassin Isad Wire. Vangarich, as a means of providing assistance to both Vulcan and Corland, sent out Esad to get ahead of everyone and find the beast and potentially kill him first. A covert kill will be of great assistance to those in the conflict, so Isad made his way through the city into the supposed home of the beast to scope it out.

The inside of this tower was the size of a hangar, and it was filled with orcs. But not just any orcs, tens of thousands of heavily armored warlords were chanting in unison in front of a massive statue of an orc, an icon that Isad assumed immediately, was a tribute to the beast himself. But there was also lots of bodies. Humans, grots, and orcs. Though the creatures inside were massive, something was immediately clear. The orcs were starving on Ulanor and despite the massive defences, they did not have the resources to sustain themselves. There was something else in there that was pretty big, something that the Imperials were about to encounter firsthand. Isad would hijack an orc ship and escape as a means

to warn the Imperials that they were rushing into a massive trap. Oh. So there's like this big temple where orcs are warlords are just chanting to piles of dead bodies and a big effigy of the beast and something else that Isad's like, oh, fuck that I got to go and warn everyone. Just to summarize real quick, because I'm just want to make sure I'm on the same page. So he didn't actually kill anybody. He's just like, oh, oh, this is, oh, no, no, no, no. Yeah. We got to get out of here.

Took one look and went, I should tell someone about this and then left because that was the best option. A reminder also, Vanis assassins would assume they might be venom-related or poison because of the V, but that is in fact the Venom Temple. and the Venice assassin is the one from Assessanorm Kingmaker. They're like the cyber hacker ones. And they're very cool. Oh, yeah. Shai just posted a picture of one.

They're so badass. They're very neat. They feel a lot more like your traditional assassin, but that could also be because of the Etsio blade this drawing has. Yeah. Yeah. So with the assassin making their escape, eventually the shields would crash down and the push was made inward to

toward the city. The streets of Gorka Grod were slowly being taken, but almost with too much ease. This was, of course, its own form of a ruse as the Knights of House Tyrannis would see something approaching that caused destruction unlike anything they'd come across before. Launching cataphrons and battle tanks like chunks of debris, the beast had unleashed his gargans. Column after column of them pushed their way through the streets towards the Imperials and took no heed to those retreating. The Admec desperately tried to hold off the gargans while the space marines moved inward with Vulcan,

but time was running out. I love the idea of the Imperals being drawn in, and then it's just surprise. We have thousands of gargans. Enjoy that. Yeah, good luck with columns of gargans. Yeah, you're screwed. They ended up having to resort to something a bit more abstract

to be able to get out alive. Abstract is the key at this moment as Vulcan had an idea and he needed a Thunderhawk and as many librarians as he could get. To the space marines this seemed a bit odd but Vulcan said that this might be a chance to fight fire with fire.

His idea was to have the librarians use their psychic abilities to potentially contain or stall swathes of orcs so that he could beat them to death. Which solid plan. Yeah, why not? Vulcan like reminisced of his time during the Great Crusade

and how he and his brothers knew little of psychic power due to the Emperor's choice of keeping them ignorant but in time he learned some enemies could not be beaten by bullets and blades some could only be beaten by the mind and there was a force that was particularly good at it another quote in we go I think this is me

but the Emperor had a secret army to combat the threat of the psychic and the demonic. His sisters of silence, we called them, anti-psychers trained as warrior maidens, one in shrilliant, each of them. But across the great vassas of humanity, they were number enough. What I would give for a company of the Silent Sisterhood now.

I do not think the Silent Sisterhood has survived, Lord Primark, said Gandorum. We will do what we can, said Thorold, but we risk further ruin if we dare too much, Lord Primer. Mark, to threat too long, or to treat too long with the powers of the great beast is to open ours. Do not speak to me of temptation and powers ruin. Weilder, Vulcan said heavily. Damn, you just, okay, one, there's a lot to unpack there.

One, the off comment of like, yeah, I think all the sisters are dead is, uh, is a little wild to just say. And two, I love how he's like, it's kind of a dick thing. to say. It's like, don't talk to me about temptation and stuff, you psycher. Like, what the heck, man? To be there, though, Vulcan at this point, like Horace fell, Logar fell, like half his brothers were like, ooh, how is temptation. I'll have that. I've been, I, you know, I could go for a bit of, a bit of hardcore, the Nash action, because I picked up a weird sword. I feel like he's got a right to be a little bit, a little bit wary of that side of the final push. Sorry, go on. No, I was just, I was, I was literally just going to say, yeah,

but fuck him. That was the entire, that was all I was going to say. So I'm sorry, I didn't know if you wanted more than that. I'm sorry if you thought I had more to comment. Keri, I was trying to move on, bring like, wait, wait, wait, I have something important to say, yeah, but fuck them. Continue. All right, yeah, then now we can move on. Oh God, that one got me. Okay, the final push being made with the help of Vulcan's shockingly effective psychotechnic technique when a rogue orc ship flies towards them attempting to signal them. It was ESAD and he conveyed the news to the Primark and Corland

about what lay for them inside the Great Tower. There was no way to get to the beast while he hunkered down there. He needed to come out with the revelation that they were cannibalizing orcs within the tower, Vulcan and Corland came up with a plan. Destroy the storehouses around Gorka Grot. If those were hit, the forces would be forced out to defend it, allowing them to go inside with less resistance. And so they did. Various members of the Blood Angels would bomb the remaining storehouses, and sure enough, swathes of orcs would vacate the palace and rush to their defences. Fortunately for the Imperium, the Admec were able to cook something up, and with a bit of

MacGyvering on their side, they were able to build a make-ship. Ordinatus to protect the forces and allow for their advancement towards the tower. What's an Ordinatus? A massive gun on a carriage, basically. Oh, okay. Like massive gun. Massive, massive gun on tracks. Okay.

What's the, okay, I already don't know my history, but now I have very interesting question. what is the name of that giant gun from like world war two or maybe world war one it was like the germans had it was really big and like if i recall correctly didn't function great because of how big it was what was it the the sphere gustav yeah hang on i i i know this and i can't remember what it was got that was it Yeah, yeah. Wait, isn't this the do with the metal arm? Oh, look at that. Sorry, sorry, that was stupid. Wow, I've never seen that, actually. Oh, Gustav, like from Expedition 33.

That's what you were going for. Oh, man, that was an awful one. Yeah, that was terrible. That was terrible. Yeah, I could have sworn, this is a weird poll. I could have sworn there was like a call of duty, World War II multiplayer map

that was entirely surrounded around this gun I remember it being kind of bad I'm sure someone in the in the comments can help me with this one but yeah it was I always remember this thing I guess it's just really really big that'd be a cool map though to be fair

like also I'm assuming obviously they didn't bring any like knights or Titans with them because... House of Tyrannis is there. They've got engines. They've got... They've got knights and the like.

It's just... This is a hellhole planet covered in old tech. I was going to say, when you're trying to deal with thousands of gargans, like, it's kind of hard when all you've got are like... I mean, space submarines are great and foot soldiers are great, but gargans, you know... They're a problem for sure. Thousands of them, right? Morker... It also gets worse.

it actually does genuinely get worse because we've mentioned gargants, columns of gargants is they got closer to the tower it turns out that the tower itself is a gargant one that was so gigantic and powerful that it defied any definition Oh Would this be?

We would mean defy definition That doesn't make any sense Wouldn't that just be like a mega gargant Right? Because there are mega gargans right? Oh yeah Yeah, this is just a just, Just a massive, massive gargant. Just a mega-gagrgan.

It's an Omega-Gargon. This is 100%. Omega-garten. This is the, what is the Sigma gargans? Also, yeah, I got to be honest. I may be a little bit of a, you know, pots and kettles here, but you not knowing that Primark image decay, but then remembering mega-gargans is just, it's such an interesting. I actually think it's a shy's fault.

I don't think I was shown that that. famous picture. You've absolutely been shown that picture. I. It is the photo. You know, this falls perfectly in line with with D.K. Brain Rott, though, on 40K stuff. Right? I personally believe this is Shai's fault because, because Shai has so orcified this podcast that you only will remember the orc details.

Yeah, Shai. How could you do this? Unbelievable. Some of the blame has been Shai has ruined all of your hard work in teaching me proper lore, Bricky. Unbelievable.

Hard work is a bit strong. But whatever. Yes, I love not being blamed for my own stupidity. Let's go. Now I'm just looking at a giff of orcs rocking out. This massive gargant, the eyes of the temple,

gargain and powered up, unleashed two beams of energy so powerful that it immediately destroyed the makeshift ordinatus. And this is a quote, turned it into an artificial sun that engulfed an area half a kilometer across turning buildings, men, and orcs to vapor. But, wow.

Again, you got to look at the silver linings because it revealed that it needed to charge up again to do further damage. Cool. So Vulcan was like, okay. Yo, good. so can fire more than once. Excellent. Great news.

I guess at least it can't rapid fire suns at us, I guess. Okay, you've got. Oh, ladies. Vulcan viewed this as the perfect time to just rush it for a final assault. So in a Storm Eagle, Vulcan was joined by Corland, Thane, Beaumont, the other chapter masters, and the remaining space marines inside. inside the temple gargant, the Marines found the defaced and torn remnants of the Ulanor triumph, redesigned to mock the Imperium.

Two disguised stompers sprung out at the Marines as they observed the ruins, and despite taking them out, the losses were how do you disguise a stomper? Dude, thank you. Thank you for saying that out loud, because I was crashing out. I mean, I get maybe because there are so big, the areas in the palace are so big. But it reminds me of the old memes from like seventh edition where creed in the imperial guard could like use his tactical genius to hide a titan.

And so it's like pop behind like a road sign. I don't know. I remember that. Do you remember this? Okay. Okay. Yeah. This is a curious.

This is particularly a curioth. Um, this is, okay, I, I have to, I have to do this now. Uh, so Creed, you know, like, uh, Usikar E. Creed, the old, um, uh, Lord Kestan, whatever his name, I forget his title. Um, he had this ability where he just like, hide anything. And it was like, oh, his tactical genius made it so powerful that he hid stuff. And it created the most like, the most like early 2000s boomer level memes that you could ever possibly have. It, um, it spawned so.

many because there was no like there's no like keyword limitation or anything so it was just like yeah sure reva titan no one knows it's there it's like yeah you mean what some of them were really good like like this me this one here but but my my personal favorite one by far is always this one right this meme right here this one will always get like an actual just of Warhound Titan. This is a very old meme, but the the hidden stompas just harkens back to that. I can't

believe there's no Titan with like a lamb shade on its head pretending it's hidden or something. Oh, in the in the porno? Yeah. Yeah. Right. Also like couldn't couldn't the reasoning just be like, oh yeah, how do you disguise stompas? There are a lot of orcs on Ulanor, right?

If all of them believe that those stompas are well hidden and well disguised, there's a lot of orcs they could make something like that happen right? I mean, okay. Maybe to an extent. I get that, but I do think, yeah, like there's the smoke. If there's smoke, there's fire type thing.

And we've had so much bad storytelling already that I think we're, we just got to deal with the fact that that's probably what it is. Yeah, it's true. I tried, war of the beast lovers. I tried. You did your best. We appreciate it. I've also just noticed something about, uh,

the two war hound hiding memes you can also sort of tell the age of them because you can't get the Lucius Pound Warhound anymore you just fully can't buy that it's simply not available so even the picture used this

like yeah even the picture's like well you can't buy that now it's gone they do they do destroy the stampers but a third of the forces were lost to them, and the sounds from behind made it seem like time was short. The orcs were advancing, so they had to be quick and kill the beast once and for all.

Eventually, the space ruins would make their way to the centre hall where East had seen the massive orcs chanting to the statue in the centre. Around the statue were cables and wires plugged directly into the stone throne it was sitting upon. The wire energy was being amplified and generated in this place. The energy was so potent and so powerful, that the librarians collapsed and died screaming in terror. Bowland, because he's a legend, yelled out for the cowardly beast to face them,

and mechanical wiring was detached from the stone statue with emerald sparks. The statue rose almost in a mechanical way, its height twice that of Vulcan. Thane yelled that they've destroyed all the other Ork engines, and this one would be no different. Corland, however, was the first to realize what was happening. This wasn't a statue. It also wasn't a war machine. It was an orc in a suit of armor, and they were finally face to face with the beast. We made it.

We made it. We're there. Which book is this eight? It's like eight, I think. Eight or nine. Late eight early nine. I'm not sure which. I mean, that is quite the distance.

The Ultramarines chapter master yelled, The great beast must die, whatever the cast. Mea moments before a flame-wreathed fist crashed down on him, smearing his remains across several meters of granite. Wait, he's a little smearing chapter master. Yep, he got, he got comedy splatted. So, so, so he literally was like, the beast must die and then just, just, like, that's so, that's so funny to, because to make this clear, this is the title that Marnius. Algar currently holds. Yeah.

This is a piddling weak little guy. This is Marnia's Algar level ultramarine. This is an Algar. Oh, man. Smeared, smeared across several meters. Jesus Christ. At least it was quick. I don't know.

Vulcan yelled for the others to destroy the generator that the beast was plugged into while he gave the beast exactly what it wanted. A good scrap. The beast and Vulcan would exchange massive hits against one another, the shockwaves of which would toss the space marines around as if they were flies. I mean, as the battle proceeded, the attacks against the generator were ineffective and Vulcan yelled for Colin to leave. He yelled that if he couldn't end it, then no one could. Vulcan knew what to do, but it would be the end of the Imperium if the others were to stay. he told Cawland not to let the High Lord squander the victory or make his sacrifice be in vain

Corland was Lord Commander, the last wall and he had to protect terror. So, Cawland ordered the forces to evacuate and everyone complied except the Black Templars. Bowman said that, obviously, I mean, come on. I mean, I say that. I say obviously this is the same chapter that forced an alliance with the Iron Warriors like three books ago.

So is it obvious at this point? I don't know. That's fair. I will say, though, Black Templar's refusing to retreat is on brand, even if everything else they've been doing lately is not. Yeah, that's fair. Bowman said that Vulcan needed their help and that they would not retreat. This prompted call into punch Bowman directly in the face and yell, I am your lord commander, refuse me again and your life is forfeit by my hand or word.

If you want to die, stay here. If you want to serve the emperor, come with me. So he did. God, love a man, he ceased to his convictions. Vulcan continued his fight with the beast and goaded him, saying that the beast acted too soon, and that if he were a true leader, he would have been patient and waited to strike.

Instead, the beast roused a different beast, one that will see you crushed. The beast managed to catch Vulcan off guard, punching him in the chest, before speaking to him in Imperial Gothic. Your empire is on its knees. We shall be its death. I'm sadly didn't yell.

I'm slaughter. Oh, shy. Don't worry. Carlin, quick, you have to retreat. Sir, I'm slaughter. The beast goaded him further, asking if he was feeling tired yet, and asked if he was hitting him as hard as he could. I mean, that's orky. I do like that. Vulcan retorted that he didn't have to hit harder. He just had to think quicker. The fighting pushed them further into the throne alcove and Vulcan began to absorb massive amounts of wah energy. The overwhelming feeling of the energy made him see things. He saw the scale of the or conflict. He saw their hatred and their rage. And for a brief moment, he felt hopeless. Humanity proved itself to being capable of fighting back and the battle could not be fought conventionally.

He shook the thoughts off and let his own thoughts flow through his body, tapping into the warp-borne part of himself that had been both a blessing and a curse for each prime mark. He allowed his thoughts to mix with the wah energy and further absorb it like a sponge. I'll be honest, I can't remember which of you're supposed to do this bit, but there you go. I think this one is decay. Yeah, I think that's me. Yeah. He allowed the pure orkishness that had killed so many librarians to infuse his body.

Vulcan felt the great beast tense, its thoughts moving to him with tectonic slowness as it realized something was amiss. It tried to pull back the wah to wrest the raw, orcish power from the mind of the primark. Vulcan only had a moment before he lost the battle, before the power of the orcs and the last dregs of his life were both spent. With failing muscles, he thrust doom tremor into the face of the great beast and dead. The power field generator. Damn. Okay. So anime.

It really is. It's the most anime thing. I'll use my own swirling mass of power with the orcish power to make a new power to defeat you. Power powers combined, et cetera, et cetera. Mm-hmm. The resourcing explosion, it tore through the temple gargain. the shockwave passed over everything around Gorka Grod. The orcs were thrown into disarray and the Imperials left the planet in a state of ruin.

The prime mark of the Salamandus was gone and he had taken the beast with him. Upon arriving back in the Terran system, however, things took a turn for the worst. Because of course they did. The derelict attack moon was transmitting a signal that repeated over and over again. Can you guess what three words it's saying? I am slaughter. I am slaughter. I am slaughter.

I am slaughter. Yes. Yes. Let's go! Easiest guess the quote that's ever been done, and I'm including the one that was simply me quoting Bricky from three years ago. At this point, the chanting heard through the transmissions made it very apparent to call and that despite the presumed death of the beast,

that this conflict was not over and that either this wasn't the actual beast or a new beast had already taken its place in a very short amount of time. Tactics needed to be changed and something had to be done that was a bit different, especially considering that the numbers of space marines had been thinned substantially. Corland had two ideas. The first and less pressing idea had to do with something Vulcan had mentioned on Ulinaw, the Sisters of Silence. They'd not been seen in quite some time and as far as some chapters were concerned,

they were gone for good. The idea of countering their psychic warfare seemed to be a potential starting point for the future of the war but the more pressing idea would help with this and would likely help out with things in the time being and potentially for the future of the war as well. He needed to convince the High Lords but this idea by all accounts was heretical.

Even after Wood broke through the chamber that the attack moon had fully reactivated and orc ships had been seen landing on the moon through the fixed wire gate, some of the High Lords continued to decline the necessity of this. Now, I'm going to do something a bit different here. Bricky, can you read this bit? Yeah. This isn't actually a quote from the book. This is simply a quote from possum.

Sure, okay. You may have noticed I am dancing around what this is, and there's a good reason for this. You may have been listening to this whole series and felt, quote, wow, Kirioth is holding up pretty well. He hasn't really had a massive crash out yet, unquote. Well, dear listener, when I reminded Kriyath of what the specific plan was, Keriath crashed out spectacularly in our DMs, to the point where he said, and I quote,

please, sir, may I have more ham? I need more ham to cram into my fist, unquote, due to how ham-fisted this is. Keep this in mind as I outline the following. What the fuck? All right. I got genuinely, I got genuinely annoyed. When I was reminded of this, I was like, yeah, no, I do remember this.

I blocked it out fully, but I do remember reading it, and I remember being angry at the time. It's a very, it's a very you thing to say, Curiaf. Please, sir. May I have more ham? Is it bad that I could totally imagine care thing? Please, sir. My name's more ham. Oh, no, need more him to cream into my fist.

Great, Kariath impression. I realized. Is that my accent? I didn't know. A little strong there is a little strong there. You're a little strong there, buddy. I could imagine it, though. That's the point I'm trying to get across.

At this point, right, the numbers of space marines were low, and Corland felt that a force was needed that was slightly unified to fight back. These kill teams would be made up of members from multiple chapters under the direct command of Corland and Corland alone. Initially, Master Tobris Eckarth screamed that this was treason, and Ecclesiarch measuring felt it was heresy. After the attack moon activated, the others were slightly swayed, but measuring remained undeterred. With enough in agreement, though, the kill teams would be formed. These kill teams would be made up of members of assorted chapters. Though they would hold a sliver of their original chapter markings, they would be clad in black in remembrance

of those who died on Ulanor. And I specifically in the script, it says read it, carry off in caps. So, uh, you know what? I'm going to give you, there's a shorter version. I'm going to give you

the slightly longer version because it contains some of the worst writing I think ever put to page. And I'm not, I'm not even being hyperbolic about that. I genuinely believe that some of the things written in here are, Y'all really hyphen this up, by the way.

This better be some spectacularly awful, right? This is a literary crime. I like the Death Watch a lot. I think they're really cool. So the foundation of Death Watch is neat. Yeah. I don't understand what you're getting at. I'm a little scared.

Yeah. All right. I'll read this. This is all a quote. I'll tell you when the quote is finished. What is this thing we are becoming? Born of death, forged in death, living memory of lost brothers, returning in anger. What are we?

we, war-fist, roared. The question demanded an answer, but it was shouted with the certainty of the inevitability of that answer. We are witness, said Forecast, and Abathar heard his thoughts present and past being spoken by others. Here, now, we are one, he thought.

We are this new weapon. We watch from death, said the ultramarine in black. I couldn't tell if that was like the audio clip or actually Bricky loose in his mind. The thing is it gets worse. It actually gets worse. So. Oh, man, you killed him.

You killed him. Take a moment, Ricky. Catch your breath. Take a sip of water. buddy, you know, you're, you're going to be okay, buddy. It's going to be okay. Uh, continue, curiosity.

Oh, my God. Okay. We watch from death, so you know what's moving in front. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm going to mute. I think it might be better if you don't, actually. We forced him.

to shut down. We are vigilance. We are vengeance. We are the judgment come for the Zenos challenger. There was such clamour in his mind, in his soul, and in the hall that Abithar could not tell if the words had come from within or without. Perhaps they were both. Internal need, I fucking hate this, internal need had led to an external manifestation on his armor. and on that of other Battle Brothers,

they were the example. Now, I listen to these next six words, and when I've said them, if you can explain to me what the fuck this means, I will be eternally grateful. They were. The preface of that is just great. Go ahead.

Go ahead. I'm trying really hard. They were the clarity of black. What the fuck does that mean? Well, I guess there's no clarity in them at all, right? That means that it is just there's... I'm literally writing it down so that you can see it in text, and maybe that'll help. They were the clarity of black.

Well, then they have no clarity, right? that that is, you, you, you just, yeah. What clarity does black provide? And were they the vision of what? What? I, I genuinely remember reading that, like, as soon as I went through this, this section again, I remember reading that the first time and being weirdly angry about it. And then I read it again. And I was like, you know, it's been several years.

and it's still it's still just stupid. It doesn't mean anything. It's just word salad. It's absolute bollocks. Like there's nothing in there. The only thing I can think for the clarity of black is like, oh yeah, you know, black is a very simple thing to understand. It's a color. You always recognize it.

The idea of something, that's all I can think of for like the clarity of black. It's like, oh yeah, black is the most easily underspud, understood clear message. It's, it's black. It can be nothing else. It is what it is. I guess.

That's all I got, brother. That's the, that's the only thing that comes to mind for, it's, that's, yeah, that's rough,

man. Maybe it's a morning thing. Like when, like at funerals, it's all about, it's all about like, it's all about black clothes. And,

and, and, like, that's such a reductive way maybe, funerals. But then what else make sense. What else makes sense

in this context? And they do watch from death, Keriath. So... He was so high when that was written. He was so high. Oh my God. Crazy. Okay. We're nearly done. We're nearly done. Space Wolf,

dark angel, blood angel, and Ultramarine had spoken with a single voice. We are the death watch. The words rang out above the others Given strength by their iron truth It was a moment before Abathar realized The voice was his

Death Watch wall fist repeated Death Watch said forecast Death Watch The word, the name, the truth Was shouted by every warrior in the monitors It was the moment of creation That which had been shattered on Ulanor Had taken on a new shape

Renewed of purpose Death Watch. It was a blade aimed at the throat of the beast. I got to be honest. This has genuinely reduced my interest to making my Death Watch army. I'm still going to do it because I think they're cool. But I genuinely have dropped my intrigue. But Bricky, if you make a Death Watch army, you can go to tournaments. And before the match starts, you can literally be like, hey, good game, good luck. and we watch from death. Right? Come on, the memes, man.

I'm distressed. I am genuinely distressed by this. Now, now, now that you know what the quote is, do you, do you think I was, I was like completely off the mark with my please, sir, may I have more ham? I need more ham. I need more ham. We need more ham. I absolutely need more ham.

Lord Almighty. Oh, yeah. Also, Shai says no offense to the writers, but Mr. Slaughter seems to me like something. No offense to the writers. I'm sorry. Listen, I will accept horrible and evil things said to myself on my projects. They need to have a couple.

and this is one of them. But Shai said, Mr. Slaughter seems to me like something as we refer, Mary Sue. He's the only survivor of Imperial Fis, Lord Commander, talk shit to Vulcan, creates Death Watch, and he isn't afraid of anything.

He does kind of seem like a... I think Gary Stu is the term they use for a guy. It doesn't really matter, but... Yeah, Mr. Slaughter does kind of come across like that, Donie. He does come across as sort of that... He's got that main character syndrome, right?

But to be fair, but he just is the main character. To be fair, the writing of his character is still the way to hear as bad as we watch from death. Yeah. That is true. That's tough. That's tough, man. That's tough. I'm pretty sure those four words have added like 10 minutes runtime onto this episode.

Maybe. It's so bad. It's just atrocious. someone wrote that and went nice and then someone was editing it and went solid what what is wrong with you just on a fundamental level come on you're better than this I can't remember who wrote up

they're better than this you are they are we've read their other projects they are better than this they 100% there's some great books from all of these authors so I mean what the fuck were you playing at like what happened I mean, then again, what was it?

Like 12 books in the space of 10 months or something stupid? I think that's what happened. No, that's exactly what happened. 100% that's what happened. It still was public. First drafts only. Nothing else. First draft, you're off.

We've got to get this shit printed now. Go, go, go. What do you mean? It's 2 a.m. And you've still got 18 pages left and you have to submit it by 6am. Go, do it. We watch from death. That'll do.

That's fine. Yeah, I mean, like, if Stephen King can get all their shit done on a on a 14 lines of Coke, you know, like, yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm gonna, I'm with shy on this. People, people, people got annoyed at like the first and second episode because we weren't like fully on board with the series. Yeah, I'm sorry.

You lose the right. If you think we watch from death is fine, no. Yeah, I'm never, I'm never going to, I'm never going to take someone seriously when they say, what happened to you guys, ad, Rick, I was super excited for the War of the Beast. You know, if you're gonna, if you like shit, I'm sorry, but I'm gonna, when I smell it, I'm gonna make a mean face. Yeah. I mean, there are, there are good ideas.

It's just the execution. It seems like it's very, very off. I will say. It's just, again, when you try and write 12 books and connect them in a year, year and a half, this is going to happen. The thing as well is that, like, that is something that I have seen a couple of times

where it's like, the story is interesting. That's absolutely correct. You're not wrong. If you're saying the story's interesting, I'm 100% with you. But, but you can't,

you can't be like, okay, the writing, the writing wasn't great, but the story is interesting. They're books. They're books. That's what writing is.

They wrote the books. If the books are, That means the writing was bad. You can't be like the story was good, but the writing was awful, therefore you're not allowed to criticize. What do you mean? It's, that's what it is. You can't read the entire shape of a book and then go, well, the prose was terrible, but I did like the themes and therefore it was perfect. No, absolutely not.

I crash out sometimes when people are like, yeah, the gameplay of the game is really bad, but the story is good. I'm like, you are playing this medium. You are playing it. 100%. You are taking your time to play this medium. If the gameplay is bad, that is a very strong and valid criticism because it is the playing of it. It throws me.

It is actively, actively trying to downplay the negatives thing, which makes worse content. Taking these stories and. and trying to be like, yeah, well, and then like making the but if and the but actually stuff is actively harming and creating worse stuff from it because you're downplaying the severity of the mediocrity of this stuff. What I 100% agree. I just, yeah, that. I refuse, I refuse to, to water down the opinion for, for any of that sake.

What you like is bad. This is bad. I do not want this ever again. So we've reached the end of book nine? Oh, hang. Oh, no, no, no. We've still got like a page in a bit. Oh.

Just the formation of the Death Watch. Oh, I thought, I thought Book Nine, the end was just like, oh, yeah, here's the, here's the Death Watch. This is how they were formed. Oh, no. No, no. There's a little bit more, which we'll go through now. So, I mean, to be fair. Yeah, to be fair, it's just shyness. It's been like too fucking out. It's not been two hours. It's nearly been two hours.

I added the whole quote in, a possum did not thrust that upon us. I just couldn't resist because we had to have we watch from death. Or what was the point of this entire endeavour? So the Death Watch, they go off to attack the attack moon. The Navy tried to hold off against the fleet that was now forming at the Wargate. Though they were fighting back against the Orks, the Death Watch were allowing for something else to occur, which was a counteroffensive from the Admec. and the ADMEC were trying to get the attack moon in a teleport scenario. So they were going to do a full-scale test and send it somewhere else. But their theoretical tests didn't really result in real-world application. The teleportation system was activated and part of the moon was teleported out of there.

Emphasis on some of the moon. because half of it was still there, but cut in half, which meant that it started to rain down onto the throne world. Millions of tons of ash and dust blanketed the sky, cities vaporized millions upon millions dead. Victory was the most terrible destruction for a thousand years. And we'll get into the ramifications next episode, but for now, we've got to deal with the sisters,

and as Possum says, this episode is already very long. playing the part of profit as well as scriptwriter. Is this a Pyrrhic imperial dub again because, yay, we stopped the, the, the, the moon thing, planet attacking us, but. Yeah. Those are the best ones. We love it. Yeah. You know, hey, you know what?

I just spent the whole time shitting on this. That will say, blowing the moon up like that to have a rain, ash, and dust. I'd sweat my rust or whatever the hell. That's, that's good. That's funny. That's kind of cool. That is the most Imperium-coded way to, win ever, right?

Pretty far. Where were the Void Shields? Well, yeah, didn't. Maybe the Void Shields were. We don't have time. Were they overwhelmed by like large chunks of planet maybe? Sure. I don't see that being the case.

Here you're just crashing out with them. We don't have time. Okay, it's fine. Yeah, we don't have time. Yeah, it's fine. They forgot or they got overwhelmed or whatever. Everyone's dead. So the plan about the sisters was brought up to Vanquridge.

And inquisitorial representative Veritas. requested an audience with them. He knew where they were. He took Corland there personally. Corland did not care for the Inquisitor and really preferred Vangarich. Fortunately, Vangrich had an idea. Veritas would take them to the sister's holdout, but he would be accompanied by a baby sister. A baby sister? Baby sitter, Jesus. This babysitter would be the former Inquisitorial representative that Vangrich rescued from assassination. Margaret Wynand. We have heard from Wynand, before, but Marguerith is spelled frankly in an

absolutely insane manner, which I just want you to read. Wow. What is that? Wow. That is, you know what? That's actually not that surprising from G-dub. They do tend to just go a little

crazy with their names. No, her name is Marguerite, but the editor forgot the space between the the thaw and So now it's Marguerite A. Wynand. Yeah, they initially wanted the middle name to be Athea, and they were just like, oh no, the space was broken. Oh, God. So Wynand, I was going to try and use the first name again, but no.

Weinen was there to check and balance against Veritas, so we couldn't keep all this legend-finding stuff to himself. Their journey brought them through the Segmentum Pacificus and the sure amount of orcs they encountered along the way suggested that the orcs were also intimidated by the sisters. They probably had been seeking them out for quite some time now at that. The Inquisitor brought them to the world of Nidaries, which was under siege from the orcs already, and they were getting close to the end of their siege. They had wheeled out a Titan that was 60 metres tall and were attacking the sister's fortress. The Death Watch's goal was to distract and destroy the Titan and orcs while both Inquisitors attempted to go and speak with the sisters.

Just imagine a bunch of dudes beating up a literal mountain in the background while two people knock on a golden door. That is literally how it plays out. That's fine. That's pretty average imperial something or another habit. That's okay. That's Whomewamer. So the Inquisitors make it to the entrance of the fortress and they knew the sisters were watching them, but they weren't doing anything. Wynon told Veritas that he needed to leave. she left, the sisters opened the door a bit and Wynan was able to walk in. As she walked in, one of the sisters did something very unexpected and spoke to her. She asked why she came to the planet. Wynan said that they sought aid. The they being the whole of the Imperium. The sisters

argued and scoffed. I mean, we're just going to, should we just gloss over the fact that the sisters of silence are having full on conversations? Let's, we'll just skip past that. What's in name. Wait, wait, wait. Did they speak or are you, wait, or are you positive? Or, or did they say that because of their, their hands? Like, one of the, I mean, one of the sisters just fully is talking to the inquisitor, just out loud conversation.

Oh. You're shitting me. This is the second you're shitting me in two episodes. Oh, no. That's like blasphemy. Okay. No, we're not having time. I mean, I, I, I, I, I, we really do.

If there was ever a time to have time, this is the time to have time, but we don't have time. Well, now, to be fair, to be fair, I may have instigated somewhat there because the sisters are somewhat different to what they used to be. They said it had been centuries since the Imperium had made it clear that their order was not desired. When told that the Imperium and Terra were besieged by Orks, God damn it, Cavalinera Brassanus, I'm so over the names in this. book, even by the normal standards, it's just horrific. Yeah, no, that's, that's, that's cavalinearer of Rassanus. That is absolutely what that is. Yep, that is, yep, yep, that's how I would have said it.

So hard to say, who is the knight abyssal of purgatory squad, said, maybe it was time for the Imperium to fall. Their vows were to the emperor alone. I mean, you know, she's really broken that, but whatever. And that the Imperium was now not his vision. So to be fair, it could be, you know, scissors of silence, they made a vow, The Imperium is a shithole. They don't believe in it at all.

They hate what's happened to it. It's not what the emperor envisioned. Why bother keeping up the whole sacred vow thing when everything else has been desecrated? I mean, that's fine, I guess. Yeah. I can be worse. I can give them that one. So the sisters.

Yeah. It's, look, we've had, we watch from death. Nothing can be worse than that. and this is borderline comparatively decently done. The sisters chanted let it fall.

So yeah, they don't give a shit anymore and why would they? Wynand then brought up Vulcan saying that he returned to fight for it and if the son of the emperor was to return then the Imperium was still worth fighting for and even she had reasons to fight against it.

I am now too crashed out to remember who went last so yeah Flip a coin, I think it's me now. I too have been betrayed, Wynin Seine. I have seen the corruption firsthand. I know exactly what it is I am defending, and I will defend it to my last breath. I will not let the Imperium fall into silence. Sacred or profane, Dravina said to Brasanis, we must choose our silence.

Now there were other echoes in the hall. they were the ratcheting clanks, nuts and bolts, of magazines slammed home and the impact of boot heels on stone. One by one, the unforgiving saints of the Imperium began their preparations for war. They're back on side. Oh yeah. Okay. So the Titan was eventually destroyed with direct intervention from the sisters,

and in short time, they returned to terror. They marched through the door of the Sancter. Imperialis, inside the sanctum 50 sisters renewed their vows to the emperor, swearing themselves back to eternal silence. Cawland gave thanks for this, because his hope was that through the sisters, that the

beast would at last cease to roar. And we've reached the end of book nine. Only three more to go. One more episode. Oh boy. What a journey. What a journey. What a wild ride we're

on here, folks. Good Lord. Guy's comment is simply, I want to kill myself. So that's... Holy shit. Only once to. Very important. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's true.

Yeah. The flame of resistance is still like, it's still there. Man. Oh, my God. What a journey the War of Beast has been. I apologize for inflicting the whole we watch from death thing upon you. But like, I had to give you the full bit. because you know you need that impact you need to hear that the whole thing for it to really take

root in how incredibly ham-fisted it is i'm sorry i just i can't i can't i can't do this you know i can't i can't be out here i can't be out here downplaying quality i can't i can't be doing it you know you know quality of stuff is subjective everyone has their own opinions on things And my opinion of this is that it is shit, and I hope it never happens again. You can like War of the Beast if you want. We don't. It's absolutely allowed. Yeah.

What you like, it's totally fine. Don't let other people's opinions, you know, sway you from what you enjoy. But at the same time, it's garbage. Yeah, what you enjoy is shit. So, like, you know, I, you, what truly, what you truly need to do is learn. inner peace and realize that other people can hate, despise, and want to destroy the books you enjoy. And that is okay.

Oh, God. Oh, man. So any, any, any, any, any, any, any, any, any, I mean, it's nearly over. That's something, right? Honestly, honestly, despite the absolute malarkey that this has, has been. I have been having a great time. Yeah, the episodes have been very fun to record and these have been just a lot of fun.

I've been really enjoying it. Just like not, not like, I was going to say not because of the books. It is kind of because of the books, but it's also not because of the books. I don't know how to, I don't know how to put it. My most,

my most hyped for, the game I'm the most excited for by far this year is Blackop 7 because I cannot wait to find out what the hell is going to go on with that game. And I get the same feeling like with War of the Beast. Hell yeah. What could it even be?

Mm-hmm. All right. Well, um, is there a way we could watch from death our podcast listeners? Do they, do they listen from death? Do they watch from? I don't.