Adeptus Ridiculous - WORLD EATERS: BACK WITH A VENGEANCE | Warhammer 40k Lore

Episode Date: March 29, 2023

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tasteful club. Mm-hmm. Also remastered Mankind. Oh, man. I'm only like an hour into that thing. Oh, boy. All right. Is it pretty who boy? oh no it's not bad or anything it's just there's only 11 and a half hours left you know i find you just like if you segment like an hour of your day each day it goes by pretty decently yeah that's usually what i do when uh we're coming up to uh you know talk about it's like okay i'll i'll do an hour a day and yeah if i'm really into it maybe i'll get in two hours or something but yeah all righty then um so you had an idea what this episode was going to be about.

What was your thought process? I mean, I was pretty sure this was going to be, what, the World Eaters Codex? Yeah, yeah, all right. I don't really have anything to go from there. Yeah, I know you got that right. Hell yeah, brother. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. I got to be honest, the World Eaters Codex cover art is some baller shit. Oh, I have not seen it. But honestly, the G-dub's been pretty spot on with their codec, codecs, codecs and book artwork lately. So I'm ready to see it. Their various codices, one might say. Mm-hmm, codices, yep.

Mm-hmm. Do you have anything else to say after the word codiceses has been uttered by M's? Codice's nuts. There it is. There it is. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome.

Everyone clap. Thank you. Please clap. Shai, put up the say the line bart meme. I think that's appropriate here. Say the line, Bart. These nuts. Yay!

I can't believe anyone would ever give. Oh, there's the artwork. Yeah. Yeah. It's a thing, dude. It's a thing. That is so metal. Oh, my God.

Who are they getting to do this artwork? Because I need, I, I, um, praise them. Praise be. Praise be to the master of mankind. So, yes, we've talked about the world eaters. We have talked about Angron, the Red Angel. Actually, that picture is kind of neat. Though, of course, like we've done before, it's a lot of fun to go through the actual

codex, and it's fine, any, enjoy. tidbits of information. Oh, sure. Also, do they actually call Angron the Red Angel? Yeah, he always hated the title because he thought it was too much like Sanguineus. Yeah, I kind of figured he would hate being called the Red Angel. Well, I wasn't thinking

Sanguineas, but just because he's so like crazy and battle-hardened that he wouldn't want to be called an angel. He'd want to be like the Red Destruction or like the Red Annihilator or something like that instead of just like the red angel, you know. It's certainly

not his kind of doodad, not his kind of cup of tea. He does not like the name. But he's the red angel and it's stuck. Oh, okay. Well, he could be the angel that makes it rain red, I guess. I don't know. He certainly makes it rain red.

That's no, that's no fucking... When he paints the town red, he paints the town red. So if you look at this overall image right here, from left to right, it's some pretty interesting groups. The mortals you see on the left are actually

cultists. Those are corn demonic cultists often referred to as jackals, chaos jackals. Okay. They're just like super corn base. You can see like that lady down there has like a metal spiked jaw

that's protruding out of her jaw. She does. She does. The other guy's been blinded, so on. You can see some more. The jackals on the right hand side of the frame. between all of the, oh, you know, 40 million skulls that proliferate this thing. It's the world eaters.

If it wasn't just skull mountain, it would not be the world eaters. So, I mean, you gotta, you gotta. That's very true. The gentleman in the dead center of the bottom. The gentleman, the kind gentleman, I believe, is one of those many exalted eight bounds. As you can see, he's cool. quite weird looking. A little bit, a little bit.

He's got all the, all the little tendrils coming out of his face. Yeah, and the big, the big tongue and stuff. And I'm, I'm not sure if it's technically supposed to be Karn up there. It's certainly a world eater. I don't know if Karn looks a little different. Wait, that has to be Karn, because he doesn't have a, it's just that one buff arm with no armor. Well, yeah, but I'm not quite sure if the, I don't know, like, there's a, a lot of, there's a lot of armless dudes in this goddamn book. There's a lot. Oh, they just have only

one side armored? Like, yeah, but like, you know, Karn normally is one axe plus plasma pistol and, and the helmet's a little different. And normally he has the chain around the arm because he's running with Gore Child and he's got two axes that don't quite look like Gorechild. So it might not necessarily be Karn, but it's certainly, gives you Karn vibes. Definitely. Now this episode probably won't be too long, and it's probably because the book itself is a bit light on reading material.

Yeah, so it's more about like their tabletop rules and new adjustments and stuff rather than like a lot of lore and background stuff. No, no, not quite. More so just if you're going to pick the simplest legion, you might, you might, have found it. Okay. I mean, so the beginning is they have this little thing in the world leaders, the first words of the book, which is, they are the eternally blood soaked.

Theirs is a rage that burns harder than a million stars stoked by the butcher's nails pounding in their brains and the waxing wrath of the immaterium itself. Beneath the whirring teeth of their chain weapons, 10,000 worlds and more have been drowned. in gore, yet no amount of slaughter will ever state their lust for butchery, nor satisfy their bloody deity. They will never, ever have killed enough. Wow, that is easily the most world eaters introductory paragraph or whatever I have ever heard in my life.

It's pretty up there. Like, you don't need to know a whole lot about 4K to be like, yep, that's the world eaters are right. Mm-hmm. There is another quote right after that, which goes as follows, blood for the blood god, skulls for the throne of corn. See, in these words, a purity of simplicity. No devious tricks, no indulgent excess, no ponderous rot, only rage, blood, skulls, and death. What kind of warrior seeks anything else?

One who is distracted, weak. Ooh, also very, very on the nose world eaters, but, you know, it fits. It does fit. It does fit. They're not tricky. They're simple-minded people. They just go in and stir up shit. There's honestly, as I read through this codex, there's quite a bit of, like, sadness.

I actually started to really feel for the world eaters. is in kind of a weird way. I mean, they're already kind of a sad legion because of, you know. Of their origin, sure. Their origins. You start off with Angron being forced to be a slave and then having his head mutilated by the butcher's nails. Yeah.

And then finding his sons, proceeding to beat the ever-living shit out of them until Karn came here and he's like, hey, stop it. Stop it. And then they all put the nails in their head to, hopefully, you know, appease their father, which never really worked. No. And then that's driving them worse and worse and worse. And it's rough.

As far as a lot of the reading stuff here material is about the Legion just being rather divided. You know, due to their want to constantly murder and maim and kill, they're often doing it to each other. and it's just You can never really have like more A huge group of world leaders Working together The only people who could really ban them all together

Would be like Angron Maybe Karn Yeah But even then So it's very similar to like An Ork vibe Where it's like They're so bloodthirsty

That they don't really care Who they kill As long as they kill Oh 100%. The difference is is that while orcs do it for fun, the world eaters seem to do it to no peace. Oh, they only know peace in battle and in killing and, oh.

It's the only time their nails will ever not. Yep. Right, right. The nails will do that to you. Oh. It's the only time they will ever not know the stoke of the nails is in just mindless butchery. Yeah.

And like there are moments in this book where they talk about how certain members of the world eaters have committed such savage butchery on a planet that they would get shot down. And then after getting shot down, like their arm would regrow in blood because corn himself was favoring them. It's like, oh, I finally, they're like, like, can you imagine a chaos space marine world eater? Like, like a genuine one guy that can like remove cities who just maybe kills and maims. 70,000 people. And then you finally blow his arms off or something with like a last cannon. And they regrow from blood because corn is like, damn, dude.

Good work. Keep it up. Yeah. Get back out there, son. Oh, man, that's, that's, that's brutal. Can they regrow like anything? Like, if they say, like, they get their head cut off. Well, like, corn be like, no, and then, borg.

No, this is, this is war. Limbs. This is warp-fuckery stuff. There's no, there's no specificity to it. They may get disintegrated and then just trudge out of a pool of blood later. It entirely, it's warp magic. It's weird bullshit. That's another one I want to see animated,

because that seems like a creepy horror thing to see. Just this space ring getting blown up and then just suddenly out of nowhere, all of that gorge just starts crawling and slinking back together and space marine. Yeah, people forget that corn. is corn, like he still does weird nefarious warp shit. He disdains sorcery, but it's not that he has no magic, so to speak. Yeah, he can still do some funky shit, but they like to keep it a little more on the down low. Yeah, and serving corn will just flat out make you a murderer anyway.

Yeah. Like, so, for example, but, but yeah, like, that's the kind of concept of knowing peace. Like, Angron, there's a whole section on Angron, obviously. Of course, there should be. The fact of Angron is that, like, it's really sad because Angron hates everything, but he hates no one more than he hates himself. Yeah. He has always craved for freedom.

He was a slave to the high riders of Nusaria, then to the emperor, and now he is a slave to corn. And the thing is, is that he gets to Zeroy. greatest sense of freedom from the moments of like truly mindless slaughter that grant him peace. And he knows for a true fact that he will never ever be free from the pain of life itself anymore. Oh, yeah. That's true.

Because in the, uh, it's the Angron book where he finally knew a moment of peace like right before he sacrificed himself or he died or whatever. And then he just responds and it's like, well, shit, never going to get that. again. This sucks. And yeah. It was the Angron Arks of Omen before he smashed that giant mini-astronomicon they had. Mm-hmm. To let loose the artifact. Yep. And so that's really just the Angron constantly yearns for death because death brings in peace. But since he can't have it, when I say mindless butchery, like I mean mindless.

Like, you know when you get the runners high? Well, being that I am a cave dwelling Herman, no. You know what the runner's high is. Yes. Yes. God, I do. This is literally like the, it's the blood wet high. Like the blooded, bloody blade high.

It's mindless butchery. And because of that, the nails are satisfied. And you almost enter like a trance. of just pure bliss of nothing hurts nothing is anything I don't I don't even know where I am

or what I'm doing but I'm just going and because of that I am happy I would not want to see Angron when he is in the blood high oh boy

I would not want to be anywhere I wouldn't even want to be on the same planet that's oh boy no thank you Yeah, it's a whole world with that. But we talked a little bit about his weapons,

Sam Niaris and Spinegrinder. Sam Niaris is, yeah, hi, I'm a Slanesh demon who think I'm the greatest gladiator known to man. Angron took that personally and beat them to death with a metal pipe. Until it forged into a sword. Mm-hmm. And Spine Grinder was made as a tribute by Dark Mechanicum, and the Dark Mechanicum, and he was like, wow, you're giving me a tribute, and the tribute doesn't involve skulls. Cringe, so he killed all of them with the same axe they made for him. Is that actually why he did it, because it had no skulls on it, or it was just like, hmm, I need to try this out right now.

And just moved it down. It was because the idea of offering piety to him by like, here is your good new axe, my lord, please bless us with your whatever. And he's like, wow, you're going to get my favor by making me an axe and not by killing shit. Fuck you. Die. But he still continues to use the axe that they made for him, of course. Yeah, it's mind grinder. Its other name was something else.

It was Persearch's Folly, which is the name of the planet. Oh, well, yeah, that also apropos name. That's right. We talked about these a little bit. We really talked mainly everything we can talk about for Angron at the moment. There's a little bit of Karn in here, too. Of course, he's the one right after Angram. As we all know, he betrayed a bunch of people on the one planet,

burned all their tents and ruined everything. No way. Is that why they call him Karn the betrayer? Just maybe. revelations. In game, if you, at the end of the fight phase, if there's an ally near you, you roll a dice, and if you roll a one, he just kills them. Pretty great.

Very on brand. I like it. I like how lore went into the tabletop rules. That's cool. That's cool. The weapon he uses is a gore child. Oh, yeah, that's Angron's old axe, right? The one that the teeth got grinded off and you're not supposed to, as a weapon.

world leader, you're not supposed to retrofit old broken weapons of ang run into your own, but Karin was like, ah, fuck it. This is too good to pass up. Pretty much. Shai makes a point, the fact that all world leaders hate each other and can't work together is directly his fault. I think it's like half his fault. There's also the problem where half, they're all like blood mad, so they kind of just kill each other anyway. And it's like, but there's a lack of trust going around in general. And I would argue Karn the Betrayer

might be the guy. Yeah. I mean, I'm sure there wasn't a whole lot of trust before Karn, but he certainly didn't help matters

by doing that either. So, you know, I'd put some of the blame on his shoulders. And his one giant bicep. Yeah, his one massive shoulder.

Mm-hmm. It's interesting. They talk a bit about Karn in here in a weird way. It says, Karn remain or his um when he's not howling with wrath his voice is low and measured even soft. His calm face is long and serious with a nobility that belies his murderous capabilities.

He retains all tactical brilliance he ever had. And when in control of his senses fully, he's able to wield fleets and armies of chaos space marines and their mortal followers with great nuance and skill. Yeah, that actually doesn't surprise me because that's how we wasn't in the books. Like, when he wasn't fully there, though. He was stoic and kind of like

level-headed and, you know, he wasn't just a mindless dope or anything. He wasn't fully like down, bad though, with corn. That's true. He hadn't gone like full force chaos corn worship yet. That's true. He also

wasn't the betrayer yet. Fair enough. Fair enough. Fair enough. He's, uh, yeah, he definitely seems really cold-blooded, as Shai mentioned. They say that very often people who follow him do so of their own free will, as he doesn't really give a shit who follows him. And if they live or die, he just doesn't care. Wow. He's kind of conflicted. It says he believes Legion should not fight against their nature as destroyers and continues to slay for the

blood God and his anger on, et cetera, et cetera. Yet he wonders if the world leader's existence is one torturous never-ending nightmare from which they can never awake. Yes. Yes, it is. From the sound of everything. Yeah, it's not exactly. I guess it's not field day to be any chaos space marine, but yeah. It's not lovely.

No. Wow, that's some artwork. Good Lord. World leaders. Woo. Wow. Now, there's also another gentleman that has just been added to the books. The newest one,

friendship is magic. Lord Invocatus. Have we talked about him? That name sounds super familiar. It was a brand new model that was just out. It's the dude running the brass dog. Oh, it's that. Okay, cool, cool, cool.

Okay, and now I know who we're talking about. So Lord Invocatus has kind of come around rather recently and like whenever they had a new character, he just kind of arrived. And no one really knows where he came from. Very cool mini, God damn. It's a very cool mini. It's him and his steed called Calgaruth, the steed of the burning sky.

Wow, that's so badass. So he's pretty dope. He has a bolt pistol named Tricksters Doom and a chain axe known as Cowards Bain, of course. Great name for an axe. But the interesting thing about him is that he has a war band known as the Firewriters. where he bursts from the embarkation decks of his flagship known as the Red Blade Rider. And these, I can't, there's no better way to explain it. They are like Valkyries.

They are on these big dogs and the dogs are charging mid-air as if there was ground of flame. They are leaving a trail of blood, flame, and oil soot behind. them as they literally fly through the sky on a magical dog. I remember talking about these. I don't know if you were talking about them because like the minia just came out, but man, they are still just the coolest thing ever. Oh, my God.

You like the guy in the juggernaut? Oh, yeah. These are so awesome. Love it. I would want to be a red, red blade writer, is that with it? A red fire writer. What are they called again?

Fire writer. Firewriters. Red fire rider. So cool. Those steeds, the axe, very nice. It's very nice. Very nice. And it goes, it consistently goes even farther than that because

his axe, for example, he's like fully ambidextrous, so he just jumps between his hands as he's carving through folks. But the main method of war he does is a little different. He's like hidden run style. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, but it's not very

corn in your first mindset is the hit and run. You want to stay. You want to get the skulls. Well, yeah, I guess that's true. If you were corn, why would you, why would you run? Just keep hitting. You should hit and hit. Though to him, he deems it like all this time you're wasting, going and rooting out every last skull. You could be just going ahead to the next set of prey and hitting them again and over and over again. He says he gets more kills for Corm because he just goes from thing to thing to thing instead of having to go find someone down who's hiding in a ditch or something.

I mean, that's also a fair mindset. Like, you're not wrong. He's not. It's a concept. It's a way to do it. You know, I'm gonna follow him. I'm gonna follow the red fire writer. I'm gonna follow you, Lord invocatus. He's just, it's just the firewriter. His flagship is called Red Blade Rider.

Man, I know it's too much. Shai, put a counter about how many times I screw that up because it's going to be a lot and it's going to be

in the comments. You might as well do it for him. There's an interesting little part here, though. His helmet is neto. It's called the Blood Storm Helm. And he completed something is a mysterious set of deeds

called the Road of Eight Bloody Steps where there was a demon that once rode his mount. And he killed. the demon and fashioned the demon into his helmet in which if you look at his picture you can kind of see it's got like a like a horns kind of warming into the helmet now that I look at like the full-sized picture of it that's oh that's great he just gets cooler and cooler so he killed he killed

a freaking demon was just like yeah that was fun now your skull is my helmet pretty much but the helmet specifically allows him to note things like ambushes and all kinds of weird trickery. Hence why he'll never run into things like major ambushes or traps and the like because that's the whole point of the helmet. And with the helmet on the demon, he's then able to ride the steed and then etc. So that, I mean, that's perfect for him because like he's never going to like hit and run into an ambush or if he sees an ambush, he can hit and run around it. ruin the ambush.

Oh, I love him. I love this guy. Dude, it gets so funny, though. There's a little excerpt right afterwards of the Hawk Lords chapter. No, I do who they are. I guess it's probably Raven Guard. And they're flying around in the air on their, just their like Storm Hawk interceptors.

Just like classic space marine aircraft. And they're shooting down because they had a corn, like, cultist infection in their planets or whatever. Yeah. So they're going around, removing the infection, killing all the people down there, trying to stop the cold, et cetera, et cetera. Then they look in the clouds and they like, what is that, that ball of fire? Oh, no.

And it's him just like, riding his way through the sky at them. And like, that's really bizarre. And then through the clouds comes an entire armored company. I'm talking. It's him and multiple other dudes on steeds, right? But then there's like a rhino. And like a rhino, not like a physical one, like a troop carrier, a tank,

and like a land raider, a tank flying in the sky on a ground of fire. That's, that's, that's, the imagery of that is so stupid. love it. It is literally them just like driving as if the air was the road and like there's just tanks driving in the sky. And I so, oh man, these might be my new favorite 40K dudes because I, there's nothing about this I don't love. I, I, I, I might have new face. It's really dumb, but in a fun way. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And of course, aesthetically amazing way. And so, of course, you know, they attacked and the dude jumped on his steed and jumped in the cockpit and, you know, carved the dude in two as, as classic.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Anywho, that was just, that image was so funny to me. Just an armored company. It's like four tanks, troop transports, and then all these, like, unicorns, sons of bitches flying in the sky, shooting people and then, like, stabbing them. It's so dumb. Is there any limit to like where they, like, could they just fly tanks in space and use them for a void battle if they wanted to? I feel like they might push it a little bit that way. I know Angron doesn't abide by the laws of space, but he's also a demon primark of corn.

True, true. And I guess you wouldn't have void shields for like just these regular troopers, so they'd probably have a pretty hard time doing space battle. Yeah, it could be a little bit of. difficult. But either way, it's still pretty funny. They've got little Gellerfields on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, on the, uh, oh, it's, it's just, it's just really funny. It's so silly. Yeah. Um, past that though, uh, after Lord of McCatus, there was a talk of a whole bunch of

various war bands of the world eaters. And it says a legion broken and divided, you know, um, they talk about the jackal cultists, which are pretty needo. But there are some of these legions that are just really interesting. There's the Gladiator Cadre 331, which goes back to the old days of Nusaria, where if they would want a duel, they would let it heal normally. But if they would put a cut in themselves and let it heal normally. If they lost the duel, they would rub dirt in it, making it a black streak, which was something with the something rope. I forget what the triumph rope. Yeah, yeah, they did that in the in the book too, right?

And what was it, Karn had this rope that went around like his entire body or something because he just kept winning duels or wait. Yeah, it wasn't Karn. I think it was Angron. Yeah, because I was going to say, if I remember right, Karn didn't actually like fighting in the arena because it was like, eh, this isn't like a real fight. So who gives a shit? Yeah, a little bit. It was, I think, Angron, because I think it was a new Sarian tradition way back in their home world. Yeah.

Okay, let's talk about the eight-bound. Hell yes! I have to talk about the eight-bound. Hell, yeah. Give me a moment. There's a, I have to put this in the Adrick chat on Discord, not the private chat. Okay, okay, okay. Here it is.

It's just a picture of the guy. And it, who, man. Oh, mama. That looks like the Final Fantasy 14 thing where the guy is about to get enveloped in fire, but the chaos version of it. Oh, mama. I don't know what the hell you're talking about, but all right. I don't worry about it.

Shai probably knows what I'm talking about. Whoa, the art on the... Jesus Lord. Yeah, I know, right? Oh my God, that's... That is absolutely on brand. On World Eater. God, that's so cool.

Why is everything about this codex so... Mel? It's so metal and amazing and just, oh, it's pure aesthetic and I love it. I think I think I'm going to start worshipping the blood god. It's simple. It's simple and it's so cool. So the eight bound are trapped in something called the eight cage with probes and needles plunged into their butcher's nails. And the moment the cage is bolted shut, the mind is thrust directly.

directly into the fringes of the warp. And it takes as long as it needs for them to either be defeated or emerge victorious in a spiritual battle with the soul-thirsting corn entities. Those who are not in the cage will hear inside the cage them thrashing, screaming, rattling chains. But no one actually knows what happens. Some say they experience a battle in a blood-soaked arena Among vast dunes of bleached bones Or battles on mountains of skulls Their rage is like axes in hands

Some are subject to endless torture By sadistic cackling demons You don't really know what goes on in there It's always different depending on the person Sounds like a big weird drug trip However, those who lose their battle suffer pretty awful fates. Some are...

That's not fun if you lose. Some are turned into chaos spawn, which are the big fleshy, tentacle things, where there are flesh erupts from the cage. Others are killed. And when the eight cages open, all of their body parts are sliced to ribbons. They just pour out.

Oh! Sometimes they'll be able to, in the cage, and they're just gone. Oh, they're just, there's nothing in there? They're just gone. Ooh, those are, oh, boy, that's a, that's a big gamble you take. That's, uh, that's a big, oh my God, that's a chaos spawn? Chaos Spawn is just like an amalgamation of flesh.

Holy shit. Look, look at that. What the, Jesus Christ. Nah, you got to throw out your, your, your line there, buddy. Yeah, I had to. For that? Look at this thing. Caspon are just big

fleshy weirdos. There's no form or function. They just are. That's a JFC. That's a Jesus fucking Christ. That's So, those who emerge victorious from the eight cage are eight bound. Giant muscle warriors

with eight demons bound inside them, vying for control over their own soul and body. However, over time, sometimes all these nine souls, them and the eight demons, can synthesize into a single

metaphysical entity as like some kind of coalesced equilibrium. And those are the exalted eight bound. I was going to say, like an exalted eight bounce sounds like a problem.

Yes, I think, I remember once I fought World Eaters in one game and exalted eight bounds come in squads of three. And I remember that well, because the exalted eight bound champion was there,

and I killed all, I killed his two friends. And my whole squad was still alive. And he, the exalted eight bound, by himself, killed my entire goddamn crew. And he was like, oh, my,

I think it was like six guys. My six guys killed your two dudes. Yay. He killed all six. I'm like, okay. that's cool I guess sure whatever

so like if they're that strong they've got to be stupid expensive then right because that that sounds a little bustum they're pretty pricey yeah I was gonna say they kind of have but it sounds like they're worth it it sounds like they are more than worth it

but I had a I had one exalted eight bound with a heavy chain glave tear apart 10 an entire squad of 10 guardsmen in one go. These things rip. Whoa. All right.

I mean, corn must love the exalted eight-bound. Those have got to be just his favorite dudes. He do like him. Past that, there are a couple other funky stories that have gone on. There's the eight sons, which is kind of cool. Basically, it's eight world eaters that were all brothers, same birth mother. and they tore their way through all kinds of stuff, Tyrannids, orcs, so on.

Oh, boy, I thought you're going to say they tore their way through the womb or something. I was like, oh, no. No, this isn't the Iron Warriors. Oh, no, thank God. No more chalbasa. They were, they had all these slaves and stuff, and they were tearing through these orcs,

and they were throwing their skins in a pile, and they started to see the, the, it starts to bubble and boil. And they're like, oh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, corn. Corn likes us, corn saying cool things. So they murdered all of their slaves and threw them in the pile. Okay. And then it created a warp portal in which all the eight sons stepped into the portal and appeared on a totally other city. And then they went to work again.

Oh, God. Okay. And with that, they basically go from place to place, murdering enough for corn to make them a new. portal going in and then doing it over and over again. Oh, boy. Oh, so they just kill so much until Korn is like, oh, good job, boys. On to the next one. That's, okay, cool, cool.

Is there anything, like, special about them, or are they just, like, murder party? They're just murder party. Okay. Where will the magic murder must take us today? Yeah. Come on, quick adventure. in and out two minutes. Oh man.

There's the 66th armored company, also known as the Gore Treads, who have decided to meld their bodies with their tanks that they drive, and in doing so, have outfitted the tanks with blades, spitting saws, chain flails, rollers, and more,

because they feel the ecstasy of murder when their tanks kill stuff, crushing someone under a charge, Tread is like crushing them under a boot. That's pretty cool, though. You got a whole armored company of dudes fused to their tanks rolling through. So are they like mini versions of what is, is it the, what's the, what's the big corn thing that's on the trest of Lord of Dis. Lord of Skulls.

How did I miss that name? It's a corn thing and it's covered in skulls. Okay, its name is literally corn, Lord of Skulls. Skulls. Shut up. Just shut up. But yeah, are they like mini versions of that where they're just kind of like,

their bottom half is just like treads with like blades going everywhere and whatnot? No, no. It's more like take that land raider that shy posted. Imagine a dude fused inside and then just add a million spikes and solace of the landrater. Oh, okay. So they're fused inside of the, okay, gotcha. They're like fused in like the pilot seat.

Right. Okay. Yeah. Like I said, I was thinking about the Lord of Skulls, that kind of fusion where they're just like, yeah, fuck my legs. Let's get a tank tread down there. Okay, gotcha. There's actually a really funny little excerpt here that gave me such a giggle. It was just, I don't know, it just was really humorous.

It tickled me pink. Few can appreciate what Macer Krasik can appreciate. Fused with the core of his flagship as he is. He feels his vessels kills as if they were his own axe slings. Crassick's ignorant underlings in the Bloody Dawn Warbam did once demand to be deployed, to feel ground beneath their feet and the spray of warm blood upon their skin. Crassick felt much contempt for them and conceived a plan. For seven campaigns, he forbade his warriors from attack,

instead bombing worlds from orbit. On the eighth, he unleashed the Bloody Dawn. When the last warrior made planet fall, he opened fire upon the world from above. Jesus. Why don't the world eaters get along? Well, yeah. Why would they not trust each other? Come on, guys.

It's the eighth day. Go on. Go get you some. You've been waited. So there's two final things I want to mention here because they're really interesting. Okay. The first is the purity of slaughter. So corn.

Oh, my God. This is actually really fascinating, though. Okay. There is a mental idea. called the sages of slaughter. They are individuals who fully align themselves with the base aggression. Uh-huh. And, like, from a philosophical point of view,

they think that losing yourself to slaughter and violence is the only way to find true peace. Okay. That falls in line with some corn thinking, sure, sure. Kind of how Angron goes in his little murder. trance and yeah, okay, I get it. It's a bit nihilistic. They talk about how, like, it says to his worshippers, corn is uncomplicated, for he cares not from once the blood flows. To a select view of the intellectual capacity and presence of mind to articulate this, accepting the inevitability of death and suffering is a recognition that nothing truly matters. Oh, well, that, that is definitely

an interesting take. The idea that if you fully believe in the undercurrent of base aggression that's driven all living things from the dawn of the universe, there is no longer suffering. For to them pain and misery are merely inevitable results if one attempts to resist the ways of reality. So, for example, you take the followers of Zinche. The more they go into the concepts, they fall more and more into, you know, it's a a complicated and elaborate life.

There's no peace and training and manipulating the strands of fate. It gets more confusing the farther you devote into Zinche. Slanesh is hedonism and excess. It's all about feeling every sensation to its extreme. And so, escaping from suffering to find peace is the exact opposite of what they're even trying to achieve in the first place. Yeah? Yeah.

That does seem needlessly complicated for someone that's worshipping corn, though. So the path to glory, basically, the road of skulls to follow corn is an experience to have the presence of mind to become one with this baseless violence, to become this sage of slaughter. You do not have any kind. It's almost like a monk of blood. You have no, it's pretty funny sounding, but like you have no material possessions. you don't have a following, you don't have a care. You are, and then your murdering is beating with the pain of the butcher's nails simultaneously. So much so to the point where you find yourself in this psycho-spiritual journey to where you're basically a warrior hermit that lives entirely on the base instinct of killing.

I mean, that's actually a really cool idea. I imagine they don't have too many friends, but... They have no friends. They're alone. Warrior hermits, yeah, that indulge in just baseless violence. Yeah, I imagine they don't travel in packs. No, it becomes, it's finding true enlightenment is basically accepting the simple fact that blood and death and murder is the base functions of the world and of life. and to engage in it is to engage in, well, life.

And to go awry from it is to make life more complicated. And to just go with this kind of warrior nomad thing is to where you find true actual peace, peace that people like the world eaters with the butcher's nails in their heads desperately need. Yeah. So last but not least. It's kind of a weird concept, but I get it. You can see where they're coming from. Yeah, still a weird practice.

Still kind of, how does corn feel about them? Love them? They keep killing. True, he doesn't care what the blood comes from. So it's like, hey, sure, whatever. So the last story of this book is about a chaos space marine, currently in the leg of an imperator titan, killing his way up the decks of this god machine.

Okay. I thought he meant he was just like stuck there. Like he was just got stuck in the way. I was thought it was a normal tightening. It was just like, well, I cut my way in here. I know I don't know how to get out. So he's there to obviously see carnage. He says they are the truth, the only truth.

Killing is all there ever was. Killing is all there ever is and ever will be. He runs his way up. He's killing up Skatari, murdering the ad mech, et cetera, et cetera, kill, death, blood, destroy more, more, more. And the nails, like, he starts to think to himself. It's like, a group of empty-eyed, drooling servitors lurched towards me, tools revving into activity.

Am I so different from them? Once I went wherever the emperor willed, just as they obey their machine-deluded masters, now I pursue my agenda, The only agenda The true agenda The agenda of killing and of blood I am free

But in their mindlessness Are they not free In their own way The nails grind within my skull Enough they seem to say Kill Only kill The spike's like

You're thinking too hard Stop it He eventually just wakes up somewhere else His chain sword is gone with a power axe instead. His chain axe is clogged with meat. He forgets what happened the last couple of minutes. He just kind of reawakens and has his moment of lucidity again.

And he goes killing again, continues and continues. And then he just drops out of consciousness. Not falling out of consciousness, just the runner's high. Like he'll just kind of become lucid again. Yeah. He makes his way all the way up to the viewing portals of the God-Engines Command Sanctum, as the ground swiftly approaches, for he has cut the cabling attached to the chamber of the Titan's body. This head I dedicate to corn as we fall. There is but one life left upon the Titan that must be taken, one that desires to know the

eternal peace that death brings. Mine. As the ground rushes closer, I say, blood for the blood god skulls for the throne of corn wow that is that is a hell of an ending to that Jesus so that's that's that's dope though God kind of see the kind of the kind of tragedy there Mm-hmm oh definitely yeah It's a it's like finally he's done his job

He's finally about to know peace And that will come with his death as he has Cut the head of the titan off the titan and is swiftly approaching the ground. Which impressive feat for him to get to that point and do all that. That's a lot of murder. And that's a lot of work. Like, oh, man, Corn is like, oh, yeah, take a nap, buddy,

because that's some good work you did. Yep, you've done well. You can finally know peace. Not Angron, though. He's going to stick. I was going to say, it wouldn't surprise me if, Corn was like, hey, yeah, that's a good job, buddy. Let me bring you back for a little more.

You know, let me raise you out of the blood and give you another chance to do even more. Because that was, that was quality. That was some great craftsmanship of that killing. He's, uh, I mean, he killed a titan. He worked his way up, leg to said. That's a lot of slaughter for one dude. Like, wow. So that's really the last bit I found.

I thought it was really fascinating seeing this other side of the world eaters, this like weird, like gladiators that hate themselves, but they can only find peace in the mindless killing so they do it. It's really interesting. I like the idea of sort of that warrior's religion.

It's cool. The sage of slaughter. The sage of slaughter and like this is our religion. Bloodshed is our peace and it's like, it's kind of cool. And of course, those, the firewriters are just, oh God, like, sign me up. I want to be a fire writer when I grow up, Dad. Dad. Dad, can I be a fire writer when I grow up?

Ah, anyway. Yeah, that's it for this episode. That's what I got. Hell yeah, I like that. Let's go. Blood for the Blood God. Skoles for the skull throne, my friend. It wasn't that short, no.

I thought I'd be shorter, but we talked a lot of... D.K. liked Lord Invocatus. I sure did. I sure. Oh, what a badass, Chad. Oh, man. Chadass. You get a poster of female Lord Invocatus

with some sick abs and huge knockers. But okay, I'm a little, we're putting, no, no. You know, we're going to end this episode like corn would have this episode.