The 40k Lorecast - Episode 49 - The Talons of the Emperor pt 2 - The Sisters of Silence

Episode Date: August 26, 2024

On today’s episode, we dive into the Sisters of Silence. We start with an in depth dive into the Pariah gene. From there we talk about the mysterious rise of the sisters from the unification wars into the great crusade with the daughters of the Crow. We then talk about what a sister of silence is and how they function as an organization. We then move onto their growth during the great crusade and their “disappearance” after the fall of the emperor. We then close on their resurgence since the return of Guilliman. PatreonMerchandiseDiscord Link:Our WebsiteRetro RecallOur Sponsors:* Check out BetterHelp: https://www.betterhelp.com* Check out Pebl: https://hellopebl.com* Check out Pebl: https://hipebl.ai* Check out Shopify: https://shopify.com/loreAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Welcome to the 40K lore cast. Welcome to the 40K lore cast with me, John Varsati and Bradchester. This guy. Today's cast, we're going to continue our dive into the towns of the emperor with the focus on the Sisters of Silence. Scary people. Yeah. As always, before we begin, let's please follow and comment on the cast.

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50 something episodes of people trying to email you off of your fault anyway sisters of silence All right. So let's talk about the Sisters of Silence. So before we jump into them, sisters are kind of, of Sons are kind of a weird one to me because their lore is epic level awesome. And they're just lost in the table time.

It's a horror movie. Their power level, the things that they can do, the only time that they were actually power level where they should be, scary level with they should be, is in the dark times of seventh edition. at the end of seventh, no, because they shut off all those broken-ass seconds.

I know, but like I'm putting, you guys can't see my, I threw my arms in the air there. Seventh edition, and we're going to do a cast on this. Maybe like our 50-second cast will be like our one-year anniversary. It would be us just bitching about 40K on the tablet. Seven-the-diction sucked a tornado. Yeah, anything that was good in seventh edition was also bad. Because everything that was good in seventh edition is a bad thing for the game. Sisters at least shut that shit down.

Yeah. What was, I think I saw a statistic. I think the player base by the midpoint of 8th edition was 4,500% above where it was in 7th edition. Because so many people quit the game. Yeah, because it was terrible. If you were playing in 7th, I'm sorry. It was awful. I played since 2nd.

Second is when I came into the game. Yeah. 7th edition is laughably the worst time. Yeah, we can't do a cast on what's the worst edition of 40K because it's a three-minute cast. Seventh edition and both of us go, yeah, it's 7th edition. Have a nice night. Like first round knockout. Not even close.

So, and we probably will do a cast on why it sucked, because that'll be fun. But anyway, so we're going to the sisters. So we'll start off with, we're doing this whole cast today. It's going to be really just the history of the sisters because it's not really much else you can do. We're kind of going to go start from the beginning and then finish with modern. So we'll start with the rise. And the rise of sisters is pretty cool to me because their origins actually go back even beyond that of the custodes. Let's talk about what the, let's set up the world, though.

Yeah. Because we're getting more and more psychers. Okay? But we're also getting, I guess, the opposite of that. Yeah. Which is going to be the sisters of silence. Yeah, let's do the pariah gene. You know what?

Let's just jump straight in because we can't talk about the sister about the pariah gene. The pariogen is one of the most important parts, honestly, of 40K in a sense of like, it does things that change. They break the game. Yeah, they break the galaxy. Yeah, they break the galaxy. So no one knows where the pariah gene came from,

but we do know that it's a mankind only thing. Other species have... I didn't actually... I looked it up. Do me honest with you, I forgot. I knew, but I didn't really... Obviously, it's not an elder thing. Nope, yeah, because the LDAR, the Harlequins are soulless,

but they're not blanks. And the only thing that's close to the pariah are the Necron pariahs, which are actually made from captured, human pariahs. So the pariah gene... And they're made by necrone technology. Exactly. Which emulates what that is. Exactly. So the pariah gene, we don't know

when it came in from mankind. I'll dive into that in a little bit here. But the expectation is that as the warp grew, the pariah gene probably grew a little bit with it and has been... As the eye of terror, it happened. Yeah. Well, no, it breedses that

by a long margin. No, I'm saying. Exploded, though. Because we had very very few pariah gene people. Maybe. That's, well, that's, that's,

maybe because the problem is, it's also possible the pariaging may have been man manufactured before, I was, during the, as I was saying,

then I was about to pause them like, yeah, but I still think that, yes, that might have been, that that is a theory. Yeah. But also,

I think that even if that is true, the fact that the eye of terror expanded. Oh, that expanded psychic powers everywhere. So the odds of the price of, a price of, some sense. The prigene exploded because of that.

So let's talk about the prigene a little bit. So all mortal things create a presence in the warp. Even the necrons, we discovered, a necronteer created a presence in the warp in the tau. They don't interact with the warp, but they do have... You don't have to be aware of the warp to create a presence in the warp. Exactly. Now, there is an exception. And so on, you know, episode 36, which was our cast on the Blackship, Nationalcom, we talked about this a little bit.

It's a scary. It's a terrifying thing about how, like, the more powerful, the psychic power, the more presence they have within the warp. The pariah gene is the inverse of this. They're the black hole of the warp. So a person with a with a pariah gene doesn't appear within the warp. However, they can become more and more powerful with that pariah gene to the point where they actually become a negative void.

They become basically a negative number. And that number can be a lot, negative a lot. They can go exponentially more. Exactly. And it's a big thing on this because it is disconcerting. It is also shows up as a, when you're searching, it is legit, like if a psycher, yeah, Tigarius, he's like, I need to find something. And he looks out into the warp.

He will actually find people with hygiene because it is. It's a black hole. A black hole in the search. Where it's really cool is that they actually. actually can hide those. We talk about the black ships. If I put someone with the pariah gene, which is also as a blank,

next to a siker, I can't see the siker. Depending which one of them is more powerful, one will either, it'll either dim the siker down like a light candle, or could you actually make them completely gone? And if you do it perfectly,

which will be, the black ship and other people are- designed to do, they designed to do is they pair blanks with powerful sikers exactly in the same level. So no one knows they're there. It's a really cool thing.

And this is, again, this is why we call them blanks. So you're going to hear us today mostly call blanks, because it's easier than saying pariaheaging. They're blanks to the work. Yeah. And so the Sisters of Silence are made up entirely of blanks. Every sister's, and not just a mild blank. Like a mild blank might be like a negative one or a negative two.

These are negative 1,000 in some cases. So a couple more notes. on blanks. So one of the big ones is that a blank, a lot of psychers where the blanks become really powerful, and we talked about this again on the black ships, psychers can see with their eyes, but they also can see with the warp. I'm going to do a thing on this because I'm such a huge Star Wars fan, which is force users use the force accidentally all of the time. Yeah. People that use the warp high-level psychers, Eldon, things of that nature. They use their psychic powers accidentally all the time.

Well, it would make sense because the difference is like with your eyes, you can see kind of whatever's unobstructed, for the most part, straight in front of you, right? They haven't given tau eyes on the sides of their heads yet. But with psychers, they can actually see in 360 and ignoring walls, et cetera. So they tend to use that. They also, psychic, when they do psychic, They're looking at emotions and stuff. So they see something that's hostile to me. The blanks. The blanks they can't see.

And so there's some cool stories. This is why, again, black shifts, but a lot of stories. But a blank can walk right up next to a psycher, and the psycher won't see them. The end. Because they're mainly using, because they go, why would I, I know I'm using my eyes, but like, why am I really using? Why bother with my eyes? They don't realize that there's an assassin who are going to cover. Yeah, exactly.

Next to me. Yeah, why would I bother? Because psychics are so much better than my eyes are. And what makes, you know, is you guys could probably foreshadow the sisters of silence. This would include demons, chaos gods, you know, any corrupted being, also Eldar. At that a point, like, they're, you could, I'm actually surprised that they don't send more assassins after farcears, but whatever. Because you could just cruise up. Yeah.

Talk about people that use their psychic powers. as a day-to-date thing? They could walk up and just eliminate an Eldar Farseer. And just leave. And no one would even notice. What the hell happened? Yeah, I don't know. So the other thing, too,

sisters, though, take this to a little bit higher of a level. And by a little bit, I mean, an extreme level. Yeah, I would say a little bit. So a blank, as we just said, can't really be seen in the warp. If you have warp sense, you may not see them. But if we take that, like, negative one, negative 10, we make it a negative 10,000,

they actually suck the life effectively out of you if you are a, you know. It's not even just a psych or though. If you're a, a warp being. It's not even war being, though, because regular people, everyone has a psychic presence. Yeah. Even if you have no, you. That's fair.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I see where you're going with this. You don't know it at all. You don't even know the warp exists. Yeah. If a blank, a powerful blank, comes next to you, it is disconcerting. You don't even understand why you're horrified, why you feel terrible. We'll cover this in a little bit some of the stories of the sisters, but effectively,

if you were a powerful cyker and a couple sisters are around you, you actually can just collapse being in their presence because your body stops functioning because they take out all of the power that's moving through you. And I guess we don't really talk about warp enough. Like, we don't, and Eld are a good example. A powerful warp being, the warp energy is not like something that they're just like shooting mind bullets with. It's seeding through all of their body, all their muscle.

Yeah, their whole body. And so you put a blank that's a negative force on that, pulls it out of you. Their body will just shut down. And they collapse into the ground, which you can imagine if you're a powerful warp being makes them really good. Those of you who play grainites are asking, well, wait, wouldn't that be better than what we have? Yes.

Yes. But not the tabletop. Yeah, but not the tabletop. Also, we're going to cover this a little bit later on, but you have to keep the blanks away from other people because of the fact that you ruin everybody else. Yeah, let's talk about that a little bit. Because that's talking about the downside.

So this sounds like all upside. Like, oh, you take a blank, they can shut down psychers. They can shut down all this stuff. except for their life is terrible. They're terrible. And if you've read the Eisenhorn novels, you already know this. But if you haven't read them, read them. But on top of that, blanks have, because, as we just said, every living being touches the

warp in a certain way. And the blank, whether they want to or not, sucks that warp out of you. So when you're around them, they make you unhappy. Not just wildly unhappy. And depending on your level of connection to the warp, it can be as something as simple as a like yeah whenever i'm around person x i'm sad all the way up through like yeah i actually get suicidal and like my stomach doesn't work like i get GI issues being around that person and what this makes is that the blanks live this kind of really depressing

life of solitude where no one will ever befriend them it's wildly yeah you're like your presence that's best case scenario i would say that's that's best case scenario Yeah, I would say that's best case scenario because the, I mean to say, the mildest of the blanks cause wild distress. Yeah. The most powerful of the blanks have people just drop it dead next to them. And then so this, of course, leads to kind of, you know, going back to the Salem witch trials, they also get murdered a lot. Because it's not hard to say, hey, everyone agrees when we're around Eric, we are all sad. So there's something wrong with Eric.

Why don't we just kill Eric? And everyone goes, yeah, let's go kill Eric. Especially when Eric was born on a random hive world. Yeah, who's here? Everything sucks and you make everything suck worse? Yeah, you actually made my life on a hive world worse. Yeah, we're, you know you're getting murdered. Yeah.

So this is where, this is the downside of the psychers. So hopefully that gives us enough background on them so we can dive into the sisters of silence because now. how they know where the pariah gene is and how it affects people, it's either tell the story. So we'll start with the origins of them, which is well before the Great Crusade. We actually don't. Yeah. Basically don't give a number on this, but continue.

Yeah. We have no idea. We just know that. This might have been happening for thousands of years. All we know is that at some point during the wars on terror, terra split into different, you know, warlords. And so you had these fiefdoms run by techno-barbarian warlords. These techno-barian warlords were called that because they used technology and they were barbarians. So they were not less the first, less the second word, more of the first one.

You know, like, and the big one that they used at this time was genetic augmentation. As we said, as I said before, the emperor using genetic augmentation on the custodes and space Marines. Yeah, it was like, this was well-established technology. The Thunder Warriors were the best ones ever, but there was another warlord who did have quite a lot of power, and he actually ran the section of the world, which is about where England is, because of course, that's where it was. Probably in Nottingham. Yeah, exactly. It's where all the best people are from. No one has ever visited Nottingham.

In fact, our knowledge of it are primarily Robin Hood and number one, then a very distant second place is GW. you. Very, very, very distal. I'm going with Disney Robin Hood, the Fox. I don't know. I kind of like the, oh, God, damn it. You go with Kevin Costner?

Yeah, well, I was actually, I was going to go with men in tights, but anyway, Kevin Costner also works. Whatever, man. It's a very early Dave Chappelle, but I digress. So there was a king there called the Unspeakable King,

figure out why. And he was brutal, but he used a special force of warriors who were known as the hollow ones. It's never confirmed, but it's implied that this was an entire army of blanks that he used. You know, real, a random side note, a lot of the armies didn't even realize that they were using a shit ton of psykers. They were just juicing up their warriors. Yeah. They didn't know how they were just up their warriors. And so the hall, so the unspeakable king and his hollow ones warriors,

were exceptionally successful, especially in the battlefront. And, oh, yeah, weird that we should mention, I have no idea why this is the case, but it's written down, so I'm going to say it. It was a lot of hand-to-hand combat. And I think they're copying Dune here, where the whole idea was, well, everyone had to shield. Everyone had void shields,

and so you couldn't shoot them, so you had to stab each other. I mean, this isn't even, look, guys, there's intellectual property violations, and there's some of the stuff GW did with early, early GW was Dune did, but you're like, come on. We did the same thing. Kodor, so we're all good.

When did Kodor come out? 90 something? Right. Probably slightly afterdo. A little bit. You think it might be? You think it may have? I'm bad with time, but I think the decades might have been involved.

Yeah, so anyway. So everything was those hand-to-hand combat. So if you had an army of blanks, which, as we just said, if you get close to them, they make you uncomfortable, they're unnerving. It was a pretty good army. the emperor kicked this guy's ass. So anyway, as, which we talked about in the last cast for whatever, even though we were talking about that, we talked about them three different casts.

When the emperor conquered Tara, holy God, he was 700 and zero. He was only first round knockouts. Like at this moment. So he then fast forward a little bit, and we're going to cover these guys in a little bit. a little bit, become the daughters of the crow. After the emperor defeats this army, he actually folds the hollow ones into his army. Now, I'm going to jump you guys ahead a little bit

because this is how the cannon's written, sisters of silence. There's nothing really there. We're going to jump ahead into the early part of the Great Crusade. There was a hive world in full rebellion, and it's an all-siker rebellion. Numerous imperial ships are sent to this planet, and they just get wrecked.

An entire fleet arrives in orbit of Imperial Psykers and disappears. Well, they do huge rituals. Yeah. I mean, they don't even say it, but this is clearly cast. Oh, yeah, exactly. At the same time, an all-female part of the Imperial Guard, this is again, before-I-Imperian Imperial Guard, called the Daughters of the Crow were deployed. We don't know that much about it.

We know that we know that this is a period. the sisters because of what happened. The Daughters of the Crow are deployed this hive world, and effectively everyone up this point lost, they just land planet side and the rebellion stems. Yeah, because people are on the ground screaming and grabbing their heads because the presence of the Daughters of the Crow is a nightmare. Yeah, they are, all the, it just shut to the point where the Imperium was about to exterminated.

this hive world, and they left with captors. They actually, the Daughters of the Crow landed, walked around, just were picking the psychers up and putting them on black ships. It was a joke. They probably didn't end well for those psychers. I'm going to be honest. No. They probably, they were like,

I really wish someone would have shot me. Yeah. And so this is the Daughters of the Crow. After this, that is the last mention we ever have of the Daughters of the Crow. And a few years later, this sisters of silence just appear. Weird. It might have. have a couple of the people that were in the...

It's entirely possible that there might be some overlap in these two. No one knows anything about this. They just appear one day. We go from Daughters of the Crow winning a battle, and then, oh, there's another army here called Sisters of Silence. No notes. I mean, Valdoor knows, but no one else knows. Because the entire Imperium, as we said before, is on a need-to-know basis, and it's always

you don't need to know. So that's kind of the origin of story of the Sisters of Silence. From there, let's dive into what is a sister of silence? Because, you know, we'll start with the basics. They don't talk a lot. This is weirdly not addressed enough,

and it's compromised. It's contradicted a little bit of why they don't talk because they talk about what could happen. Yeah. And whatnot. But in the end, yeah, the sisters do not speak. They have a vow of sons.

They can speak. This is not something more like it's bred out of them. So the example I use is Monty Python Life of Brian, the guy who has all the juniper bushes. Just. Ow, my foot. That should be enough for the rest that gets to the rest of you off on a memory trip. So instead of communicating with their voice,

use sign language, which only them and the custodes know so they can speak to each other. It's a specific sign language on that. And the thing about, again, with their silence, they don't make enough of why. Yeah. My, I'm saying in a couple of the stories, they said that because of the fact that they're blanks and when they speak, people get anxiety and terrifying, but they don't continue with that. I think it's a badass thing. That's always my opinion. I think it's just awesome. Yeah, this is just terrifying. What if a bunch of, bunch of women show up with a really dumb haircut and a bunch of power armor and they never say a word to you but they actually do it's a dumb thing they how does you have to communicate so

they have a vox which is a gw for speaker on them and if they do their sign language this the speaker will speak but just say your thing it's just dumb i know it's just objectively stupid it's it's fine they're also holding two weapons but continue that's not important anyway i mean it seems fairly important when I want to tell you to go attack a hill and I'm holding a pistol and a bolter. Oh yeah. I mean, look, there's no canon story of this backfiring horribly, but it definitely has backfired horribly. Yeah. Yeah. The person that's trying to do sign language holding a sword and a gun, you're like, yeah. But yeah, the reason I think it's kind of badass is what you get is, we talk about the wriths with the Eldar, what you get is an entire group of warriors.

who don't make, because when I say they don't make a sound, they don't just not speak, they don't yell, they don't scream, nothing. So when they're fighting in combat, you just get the sound of their bolter and their footsteps. That's all you get out of them. And again, this isn't doing it justice, John, because what you have to understand is the voices in your head,

the voice is everything. Yeah. Are alluded to be the warp connection. Your feeling of being in connection, I guess, with the universe, that's cut off. So not only is, Is that not happening? You can't hear anything.

They're not saying anything. You're like, what the hell is going on right now? Well, yeah. So I had a theory on this. And I forgot I had the theory on this because I wrote these notes about a week ago. But anyway, my theory on this is that blanks, a sighter can't reach into their mind to read their mind, right? So the only way that you could know what they're saying to each other, if you're a

psych or you're trying to spy on them would be to listen to them and they don't speak, I use a sign language, unless you're a sister or something like goes, oh, you don't know. They effectively can move anywhere and do their thing and no one knows what their purposes. Undetected by psychers. Yeah. So I'm like, that's actually kind of badass. The other interesting thing about them is where they fit within the Imperium is a little bit goofy. This is trash.

I'm sorry, but you know what? You usually are the person that yells this out. The Sisters of Silence are technically part of the Astriga. Astralapathica? No. Well, they are. Sure. But they report to the emperor.

Exactly. That's the whole point. Yeah, they are 100% under the astratelopathica, except they do not listen to the astrotelapathica in any way, shape, or form. It doesn't even make any sense. Oh, it gets worse. I mean, if we really want to dive into where the sisters

actually feel about the astralopatica and some other elements of the Imperium. They make, whatever. Yeah, it's. That's like if you went, hey, the U.S. tracking field is underneath

the department of shuffleboard. I feel like we don't belong here, guys. Yeah, you're there. Yeah, I mean, that is important. The sisters are completely independent of the acetylopathica.

They can do whatever they want. They choose to do things that align with ash telepathica. So, like, they actually, they choose to be on the black ships. They love hunting down rogue psychers. So they're doing stuff for that's telepathica,

and they tend to kind of be pretty close to the Inquisition for this reason quite often. Also, the Sisters of Silence may or not be kind of psychos. But they're out of their damn minds. Yeah, I mean, like, they really, I mean, the stuff they do in the black ships is creepy, crazy, and wildly torture. They are. And they are signing up for it. They are true believers.

I mean, we haven't a Sisters of Battle cast yet. The Sisters of Battle believe the Emperor is a God. Very much. 100%. So much so that they get powers from it. The Sisters of Silence believe the Emperor is correct. And it's a very different powerhouse they get from this. But the sisters of battle are trying to do right by the Emperor.

The Sisters of Silence are a different level of crazy. It's just crazy that they have a sign-up board and half the things are, you should torture people until they die. And they're like, I'm in. I'm in. Put me on the top of the board. You're like, you have problems. We'll be right back after a quick break.

One of the weird things about them, and I say weird because a lore standpoint, so there's not a lot of stuff on the sisters. So I get a little bit confused by some of this and correct me wrong. So according to the codexes, there's only been three of them. so I don't have a lot to work off here. They and the custodes are the only ones who have access to the Imperial Palace. They do not have full access.

I don't care what you're going to throw on this. Right. That's a problem. It doesn't say limited. It says that they can wander the Imperial Palace kind of at their own discretion, which would mean they would. No chance because they got too close to the emperor.

Bad things would happen and people should, the custodes would cut them down at a moment. That's what I'm trying to figure out. Are they allowed to the Imperial Archives either? Because it's probably some weird psychic crap down there. They would just make not work ever again. literally break protections down.

Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Imagine, like, three sisters accidentally stumble into the Astronomicon, and that thing goes black. Like, and the three sisters walk into the fact that they still have a portal to the abyss in the fucking basement. Well, that might be a good thing. Actually, like, to be fair, actually.

They could close it. Yeah, maybe you should put the way. They do have a lot of wards around it. Yeah, maybe we should just shell a bunch of sisters. Hey, just stand here for how long, eternity. Yeah. Sorry, girls. We're going to tie you to the.

this chair. You saw this coming. So with their creation, which is more just kind of sudden appearance, they form a base on Luna, which is the moon in case you couldn't follow. I don't know why the GW does this crap. And they name it the Somna Citadel, which I also just hate it. Which is weird to me because Luna is already a giant military. It is basically a bunch of guns pointed.

in all directions. Yeah. So I was kind of like, where are you even putting this? It's just somewhere there. It comes up in the flight of the Eisenstein. So. Yes, it's cool. And sorry, I try to use logic and sci-fi.

I don't know what the hell is. Well, because Brad's right. We all can look up and see how big the moon is. It's not that big. It's just not. And so apparently the moon is a giant fortress of guns. It's also the citadel that all the sisters of Sons are from. and it's where every black ship departs and arrives at.

It's constantly because you don't want to bring the psychers all the way to Terra. You do a stop first. Because it's also thunder-doned. Yeah, it's a little bit odd. I will say that Somersetel is going to come up a lot and we call it about gray nights because it's where they come from. It's where originally, it's where the formation of them. But the sisters have this, and this is right around the end.

end of, this is during the Great Crusades, this pre-heresy. They've got this fortress there. They're probably less than a thousand of them at this time. It's never written down. But it's, there's less than, there's more of them than custodes and a lot less than everything else, because they're easier to make that custod. Yes, but they're also harder to control. They also just die a lot. Yeah, that was the downside because they are mortal, but they also were well protected. So their attrition, it's hard to figure because you've got a high recruitment rate because, well, genetic engineering. And you've got a low attrition rate because they only get deployed against low-ish. Yeah, comparatively, yeah, because, well, you're only going to deploy them into,

like, oh, there's a bunch of psychers here. Okay, what happens when we get there? Oh, they can't do shit. Huh. Okay, well, that makes it easier. So let's dive into kind of the next chunk of them, though, which is where the sisters really, their original heyday, which was during the Great Crusade up into the Horace. Every single engagement was chaos. And chaos had tons of...

Let's go before then, because the bigger one is the Great Crusade. Sorry. Even in the Great Crusade, most of the places we're going had some level of psychic. Some level of psychic. Yeah, the biggest problems that Imperium has during the Great Crusade are the psychic races. either humans where you've got a psychic warlords who've taken over a system during the dark the dark age of

technology because people we basically left these planets alone and people with psychic powers went i can blow people's heads up with i'm a god yeah i'm a god you can't do anything to stop me and they took they took control and the sisters could just land there and go yeah you're done you're now dave yeah you also worked on zeno species like the ragdans we discovered are heavily psychic powered orcs they use the scissors against the orcs quite a bit because it would actually shut it down. These guys all utilize sucking powers massively. You just bring some sisters of silence and they go, oh. Nothing works anymore.

Yeah, this sucks. So having this level of force really helps it out. And the cool thing about this is, as we covered earlier, this is a human gene. No other species has ever seen this. So when you deploy the Sisters of Silence to some of these Xenospecies or even some of the humans have been well removed, they've never encountered this. power before. You know what? I'm going to go into the completely, hold on everyone. This is the Brad and John randomly like wild theories about 40K. Did we completely engineer this

chain? Because they allude to this several times that we make this. Is this a thing that we just made here? I don't think so only because the knowledge of the warp doesn't appear to have been there. and it predates, because it's dating back to the warlords. It predates before the eye of terror, obviously. I could see it being something where, so let me say it differently, my expectation or my belief, my belief is that it was a trait that was detected and then it was cloned. That's what I think it has. I think some warriors had this.

They identified the gene and they cloned the ever-living hell out of it. When I think about sisters asylum, it feels like a, a wildly convenient coincidence that I found the perfect counter to my main adversaries. GW hints a lot of times at, you know, using cloning technology. We're talking about like the Kriegs. They were in the underground. They were in the underground. They were using cloning technology to increase their numbers, right?

I wouldn't be surprised if that's what the sisters are. because there's also all-female force. They also look identical. The odds are pretty good. This is actually a cloned force. I can see that more so then. Because, like I said, it felt very, wow, you just happened to stumble upon the exact counter to my army. Yeah.

Okay. The sisters are, that's my belief. My belief is that they're a cloned force heavily, although that changes. We'll get there later. So the fun thing about sisters, though I do like, is that they're just humans, which if you listen to our last cast, the very end of our last cast where I pointed out that all of the custod models are the same size to the human. They're actually thinking about the same size of the sisters. Which is so crazy. And their sisters are humans.

So, oopsies. But anyway, the sisters with the girls, what's the girls? Yeah. Yeah. What I love about the sisters is that they're in power armor, but they don't really have to do very much. They just show up. And the power armor is really to just don't get show. Yeah, yeah.

Don't lose the sisters. You land them on the planet. And because they embody the tenets of my space wolves, almost none of them wear helmets because it would interfere with their psychic powers. They got masks, though. They wear a mask. They don't get poisoned. No, screw.

It's just their head is exposed, which is just dumb. The models are stupid. Hey, you have to make sure everybody's got that bob. Yeah. But this does lead to during the Great Crusade, some of the most powerful beings in the galaxy were brought to heal by the Sisters of Silence, just showing up and saying,

what's your job? Stand fairly close to the dude. Should I engage him? Oh, God, no. Yeah, you will lose terribly. Just stand in his general area, and then we will go take care of it. I mean, this is, screw it,

we're jumping ahead a little bit. When they sacked Prospero, they brought them. Oh, yeah. And all of the thousands on psychers just power just went, just like just wet noodleed out of the lightning bolts out of their fingers. You're like, you guys kind of suck at everything else, right? You're like, sadly yes. Sadly, yes. But if we stand kind of near these guys, watch this and then space holes just went so they can't hit me with a mind bullet, no. And I can hit him with my sword. Yeah. And I'm really good with the sword. And I really like hitting this with that sword too. I'm so much better than this. Yeah, this is, this is going to

go well for them. Around the same time, though, Malcador and the emperor decide that the Astronomicon needs to be powered by a bunch of psychers, and the sisters happily. Well, actually, no, sorry, I'm jumping ahead. They start off without the sisters

on the black ships. And shit goes a ride. Turns out this is not a great idea. Can it just shows up. Yeah. Thousands of unsanctioned psychers, put them on a ship, have that ship do warp jumps. I just assume that chaos went, this has to be a trap.

There's no way. There's no way they're this stupid yet. They cannot be this stupid. So, yeah, needless to say, all of a sudden, the sisters get deployed in the black ships. And the Astronomicon gets a much more consistent flow of soldiers. So sisters have problems, because again, they sign up willingly. they're excited about doing this. This is going to be fun.

What are you talking about? I can hop on this ship, which is basically a slave ship, and we're going to move around the galaxy. I'm sorry, you just said slave. I meant to say, torture slave ship.

You're right. It is torture slave ship. Yeah. Slave is only so bad. Yeah. It would be a step up. A slave would be like a cruise ship compared to what this actually is.

Yeah. The sisters, it's a little dark. I'll admit, it's a little dark. However, then we get the outbreak of the Horace heresy, which does significantly shift this. Because as much as the Imperium doesn't one would admit that demons are a thing, the emperor, the custodes are well aware that they're 100% a thing. And they need to shift over the sisters.

We discussed that they use them to wreck Magnus's day. They're also better. They can fight warp beings. they actually just placed them around the galaxy, which also helped for Dorn. Well, they also didn't just place them on the galaxy. When the Horus Heresy, they just placed them whether they wanted to be or not

around the palace and around Terra itself because they didn't want warp gauge scrying. Yeah, they didn't want. Dorn used them, Dorn and Valdor, used them to actually shield off soul from the visions of chaos. They also didn't treat them right all the time. They kind of did a Rick and Morty.

I'm going to line my walls with Morty's. Yeah. They kind of did that with a lot of the sisters. Yeah. But it worked. I mean, the good thing. I mean, it did work. And this is why the truth is when Horace came into Seoul, he kind of had to creep his way in because he didn't know what was waiting for him because he couldn't see it.

Correct. Sort of not really, I don't know, you read the books. It's not. It was gruesome, though. They did some real weird shit. Oh, yeah. They just strapped them to a ship and flew the ship around in a circle. That's what it was.

The Sisters of Silence went, you have a really good power, and I don't care about you. That happened. Wait, Juan, Kerry, every time. Yeah. Now, the part of the story of sisters and the heresines, the last part of the history of the heresy,

which I found incredibly stupid, is at one point... I love that. We had to go with, where are we going to go with John Schitts and stuff? Yes. So you've got an army of blanks who they can shut down any psychic power. And we've got an invasion of chaos, which is full of psychic.

Oh, God, who let them against? There's one. So we should put them against the Legion. Great. Which Legion? How about the world eaters? You mean the ones who killed other psychers and have no psychic powers whatsoever? And also they murder the shit.

Well, no, it gets worse. So we're taking regular humans whose only ability is to fight psychic powers, and we're putting them against super humans with no psychic powers, but a real solid joy in chopping things in half. Also, loving killing psychers. Yeah. So anyway, didn't go great. I feel like slight understatement. Didn't go great. Magnus attacked.

Like, there was a thousand places they could have used them. And they went with, hey, how about you go fight the world eaters? This is... Remember the demonic incursion that happened? You know, I'm gonna call it. I'm six foot four. I'm almost 220 pounds. Me too.

Yeah, sure. This is like taking, like, me and saying, you know, you go fight the big guy, but your five-year-old son, we're going to go have him fight Magnus for Magnuson. If you don't have that reference is, you should. And it's like, but I could probably fight Magnus. I might not win, but at least it's a fight. No, your five-year-old sons is the one who should go fight the physical God. Maybe Max has it.

Yeah, he's got this. What the ass? Anyway, so that ends, not great. And the sisters post-heresy just kind of fall into disarray. I mean, this could be because, again, murdered by World Eaters, strapped the ships, strapped the walls. Yeah, in the ships.

Yeah, thrown at things to make sure that people couldn't do things. So, like, shit is going, also, wow, they stay wildly loyal. Well, only in one spot. They stay, well, actually, you're right, wildly, so the first thing they do is so. As a whole, yes.

Yeah. So we're going to kind of talk about this out of both sides of our mouth a little bit, unfortunately. The sisters, disappear from the galaxy except for those crewing the black ships who are totally still there

and active every single day. And they keep like making more of them. So like the this is called the Chamber Astra. The sisters who are part of Chamber Astra are just kind of good to go. They make more of them. They keep crewing the ships as the ships increase

as more sisters. So we're going to not talk about them for a little bit because that's what GW chose to do. A very small group and actually no one knew about this until fairly recently in the lore um seventh edition yes stayed actually in the imperial palace no one knew they were there they also made them into fighting groups and this this is the seventh edition at the end of seven edition by the way because we had all the broken shit gilliman yeah that that's later what i'm saying what i'm saying is that there were a small

oh true true i'm saying they didn't or they didn't organize them that and do something yeah there was just a small little section within the imperial palace, which were obviously being used by the custodes to shield. You know, they basically go. They're still really good at stopping chaos from looking into stuff. Yeah. All right. We'll keep some of them here. And so, which is fine.

But for the most part, they just scattered to the stars. And this story I actually find interesting because the sisters were really abject believers in the emperor and his teachings, namely chaos is bad and deities are bad. and deities are bad. Yep. The Ecclesiarchy starts rising, and they don't like the sisters of silence. Because they are straight up saying that there shouldn't be gods. You guys are wrong.

Yes, exactly. Powers of the basically organized religion, which they consider chaos, are wrong. And this is where we can all see this coming, if you understand the concept. as we said before. The sisters have a pariah gene. The pariah gene means everyone around them

is uncomfortable and doesn't like being in their presence. So the ecclesiarchy, they never officially call them witches. They completely inquisitioned Salem trial. Yeah, and they begin persecuting them. And so the sisters of sons have to disappear in the stars. No one steps in and goes, we should help all these poor people.

including the custodes, I want to point out. Because they have a bunch of them in their palace. Well, I guess they're not really out of the palace, but still, they're like, hey, we're murdering girls out here. I mean, I got another stuff going on. Yeah, we got some in here. I got my black coat. It's bingo night on Tuesdays.

I'm going through my goth phase right now. I don't, I don't have time. I don't really have time for this. I got a black robot also again. Yeah. The cure just released another album. I mean, this is where I'm going to be. I'm just going to sit here and listen to the Smiths all day long.

There you go. Man, those are so long references. We are old. Yeah. And I'm actually, they're before my time. I was just trying to make you feel like you're a part of something. I might still have the Smith's album in my house.

Sure, you have a record in your house, not in a hipster fashion. They're like, this is how I had to buy music when I was young. Dude, I like Final Screw you. It's a pain in the ass.

Spotify's so much better. You're not wrong. What do you want to listen to? This song, When? Now. So I don't have to get up and go. find a sleeve and then put it in a thing and press sleeves. But my brother's a hipster.

That's why I'm shit talking right now. He doesn't listen to the podcast so I can make fun of him. But he's got a collection of vinyl records. He's tried to explain how it's better than Spotify. And I'm like, it's not. It goes, well, the quality is better. And I was like, you don't listen to classical music. How the hell would you know?

Like, shut up. Rage against the machine sound the same. Anyway. So the sisters scatter. I was a long diatribe. The sisters scatter all around the galaxy. And the challenges, they have is because of the pariah gene, they're actually pretty easy to detect and more easily

detecting groups. So a lot of them end up becoming almost solo. Two things happen. They either become solo living on like a hive world, usually in agro world, so there's less people there, or there actually are little like kind of bastions of them where they, they form like fortresses on random planets. They almost form cabals, basically. Yeah. Oh, that's good. Yeah, it's great way to describe it. Yeah. All around the galaxy. And the. expectation is that, you know, they were on the brink of extinction. And then because they scattered, they actually, you know, start to grow in number again because they partner up with rogue traders, which allows them to move all around the galaxy. Well, the thing is,

is that people that know, especially rogue traders that are in the know. See a lot of value of them. hey, I know that you know that I know that you know that what you want. They do the Princess Bride with it and just go, come on. Here's money and you're, how about this? I'll make your life not suck. Yeah. And I'm going to go ahead and call it out and say what it is. Life and space is lonely and they're all female.

So anyway. I mean, thanks for making it weird, brother. That's what I'm just saying. Like, yeah, you make me physically uncomfortable. But anyway, the pariah gene carries on because it's a dominant gene. It's a 50% of all offspring that a sister, a former sister has will have the gene. All of those offspring, 50%.

So the gene doesn't actually extinguish. And it carries on thanks largely of these rogue traders where they're being spread around the galaxy because they're not in large enough groups. They're harder to persecute. And I want to throw something out. You actually put this out before I did when I, John does write the notes. And by the way, multiple people have said this, yes, there is zero chance that I would ever stay on topic.

But when I was looking at this, there is zero chance that they continue their vow of silence or it would be just really weird and it would never have continued. Yeah, they never mention it, but they had to. It just has to. Yeah. There's so many stories of them being on rogue traders. Yeah. Yeah.

It's where they spend, I mean, almost all the stories of them this time, they're on rogue traderships. Right. You have to be able to speak or everyone knew your sign language that only existed for you in customs. I mean, let's just call it Eisenhorn. I forgot in her name and I don't feel like Googling it right now. But in the Eisenhorn novels, his compatriot is a blank. She didn't even know she was a blank until Eisenhorn found her and then trains her up.

And that's what that would be a result of what we're talking about. Eisenhorn also didn't just find her. Eisenhower and search her. No, no, that she found her because she was. No. When it was a very first, it was Eisenhorn won. He did the, I'll I did it out later. He found her.

Yeah. It was random. He finds her, but he also. Yeah, she was a prostitute. So that's why I did all this out. Yeah. Let you all read that fucking shit in your own. But anyway.

So he knows right away what's going on. Oh, yeah, instantly. So to this end, the sister of silence, the official numbers of the sisters of silence dwindle to the point of basically extinction. But the paria gene actually is growing within the Imperium. Because the, there's the imperial population. population is actually expanding at this point. So it's this weird kind of dichotomy.

We're also carrying them all over the place. Because of the road traders, we're carrying this pariah gene to areas that never were encountered the impariagene. Now, the funny story that we're going to cover in future recasts is this paria gene starts getting farmed by the Imperium, not for Sisters of Silence, but for the officiou assassinorum to make, I don't, is it the second worst, the third worst of the assassins to be one? They're nightmares. Well, no, because the worst is the Eversort.

To be, the worst one that they make is the Eversort. For sure. But they have the Caledus and the, it's Eversor, Coluxus Caledus Vindicare in order. In my opinion. So there we go. That's where they get used for that a lot. Like, holy shit. Like the Eversor, they go, have you,

successively created an episode? Yes, I have broken the mind of someone and they destroy everything in their area. We'll cover that a couple episodes, guys. Give me a minute. Give me a hot minute and we'll do assassins because I love them. All right. So anyway, now we're going to fast forward to kind of right about the edge of the sisters coming back into the lore, which is Gilliman. So this is, man, we have to do this at some point. Gilliman gets revived and he went on a chewing bubble gum and Chaos ass kicking quest. I'm going to give the people that I'm going to give the Ultramarine fans a little bit of a little carrot here. Because G-Man comes back and effectively absorbs 10,000 years of history in about a day and a half.

Yeah, and decides, nope. Instantly says all of this is jacked. Also, I need this, this, this, and this. And I'm going to go whoops some ass. And I'm going to figure out, you guys are ruining everything. I'm going to use all of this shit, and he grabs sisters. Well, yeah, but first, before he grabs sisters, he fights his way back, as we said, he gets stuck on Luna and gets attacked by Magnus

and is losing a psychic battle. And just as he's about to die, out pops, custod's, and a bunch of sisters of silence, which Magnus has, I mean, again, Magnus is, what, the most powerful psycher in the galaxy, top top three for sure easy yeah and then since his thoughts shut him down yeah and then i was saying and he got stabbed and die why are we not using that exactly pop bitchy yeah yeah poppy chief looks at this and goes yeah yeah you know it'd been super cool as if i would have known about this yeah while i was fighting chaos for the last i don't know since i got revived yeah since eight seconds after i got Yeah, it would be nice to have these people who just, they just shut it down completely.

Yeah. Okay, fair enough. Let's use more of them. So Bobby G. sends out the call and says, all right, we're bringing the sister of silence back. And this story is kind of weird, but it's funny. I guess there's been about like two or three dozen sisters who are still at that temple on Luna. They've been keeping these teachings around for the last 10,000 years, just doing their thing.

within a couple months, we've got 3,000 sisters. Because they're cloning the shit out of them. No, they put a call out and they all showed back up, Brad. There is no chance of that happening. Zero percent chance. Again, they have the Rick Lab in the basement

where they're just stamping that one. There's a 0% chance of that being. I mean, basically, I'm just assuming that it looks, that call is Rick from Rick and Morty. He's just pumping them out. Like, what? Oh, don't look around here.

Going around here. It's not important. Nothing to see you. I swear to God, I'm not an evil scientist making stuff. So then we'll go all the way into what is modern 40K. I'm making a sigh because I'm about to get sad. If we mentioned the tabletop for a second. So in theory, sisters are the greatest asset to the imperial war complex.

You're going to get me started on this. Okay, so let's go through all the things, sisters can do. They stop demonic incursions because they go away. Yeah, Tyrannid, hive fleets can't function because the synapse doesn't work. Correct. Also, tyrannins should also stop the demon incursions, but we're not talking about that either. It's not important. That's not important. Yeah. Eldar, Fars, and Warlocks just don't work. Well, they don't work. Matter of fact, they just die because they no longer have in ones. Entire chaos legions would just not function because most, almost all chaos have, have,

had some sort of like boon that comes out of the warp, they turn it off. All of their stuff. Yeah. I mean, to be fair, think about the fact that, oh, yeah, all those demonic engines inside things, if you cut them off from the warp, wouldn't exist. So they would just stop working. Yeah.

Cow. No help needed. Instead of going, they don't have psychers, you just went, nah. No help needed. It doesn't really. It's fine. We don't have to deploy them. The sisters will actually.

beat them and hand-to-hand. Yeah, exactly. Just we just walk up and slap them. Stop it. Stop it. Also, give us your plasma technology. It's so much better. Yeah.

So they end up getting deployed to war zones all around the galaxy. But what's cool about them is that, as we said, there's about 3,000 of them. They can be deployed as like ones and twos, maybe a dozen because just their presence is enough to turn off the opposition. You know, we don't do a good enough job in the game. I mean, there's a ton of stuff that sisters that we don't do a good enough job. The sisters of silence blank powers are wildly different. Yeah.

Like, some of the sisters have a, if you're a couple feet away from me, you feel bad and I suddenly, things start to go awry. They should be doing things like reducing strength and toughness. Yeah, but also they should have a level of them, though, because some of these sisters. Would just turn off second powers. But they also have a huge aura. Wasn't there a time in eighth edition where, like, I think it was custod? like you couldn't cast powers around them. Well, seventh edition is the end.

Yeah. Seventh edition when they came out, at the end of seventh edition, the beginning of eighth edition, Sisters of Silence had a 12-inch aura that would wipe all your psychic powers and you couldn't cast psychic powers. That's what I'm saying.

Like some of the sisters were so powerful. That rule makes a lot more sense. Instead of what they are today where they're cheap chaff used by custodian players. That's what I'm saying. Back in the day, you would just shut off, period, and a huge aura. because some of these sisters...

Oh, like the... Is the Caladius? Collexus. So then the Collexis should do that in... Yes. Right? It doesn't do it now. But it used to be,

it would just turn off psychic powers. You had to target him and... Yeah, you couldn't target him. And you couldn't target them with psychic powers. You couldn't cast that they were in a certain distance of you. Yeah. It was... The thing is that...

So they should be. They do a bad job about going... Some of these sisters are wildly, I guess, more powerful in their auras than others. I mean, you couldn't do it on the game completely because it'd be on. Yeah, this is, I mean, the difference is, this is the only positive on 7th edition. And this is literally the only one is they did make a lot more faction-specific rules that were, like, GW used to have a thing in 40K, for those who's been playing for a while, where like certain armies effectively always beat other armies.

But then that army would always beat different armies. So it was kind of that. And then people hated that. So they got rid of it. And I actually liked it. I like identity. Exactly. It made it better. But the sisters, so we talked about kind of something they did.

There's other stuff that they actually do do, though. The Sisters of Silence are also, they work with, they work with the Inquisition to help root out rogue psychers, because Eisenhorn's a big piece of this. They're actually attuned to the pariah gene to help them detect psychers. This is one of my favorite things in the lore. And there's some good stories about this where a heretic psycher, for example, can hide themselves.

You know, they can hide their powers. So if you want to kind of scry in and find them, you can't. But a sister can just walk around and sense them. Yeah. And so they actually will just have. They bloodhounded too. Yeah. They will wander the halls of Imperial Cruisers.

And just if they're like spiky sense goes off, they can either report it or just slaughter the thing in front of them right away. You can deploy them to hive worlds. Most of the psychics get incapacitated. Yeah. And they can deploy them to hive worlds. It's a really cool trick. about them that they can just wander on and hunt down passively, psychers, which would, in theory,

work, by the way, for Gene's Diller cult. Yes. You would actually be able to find, it would only be the pariahs, but you could detect the J. Zillard cult infection by just having a sister of silence on the planet. Yeah, if you found the Patriarch, you're probably okay, though. Yeah, well, not really, because you found the Patriarch, and then here come two million. Look, man, it's better than just having everybody shoot you in the face. Oh, yeah, you get to determine when they're attacking, but they're not going to be like,

oh, you kill the patriarch, we surrender. What? Yeah. The other one that, the last one I do, though, which is really cool, is they also can find, they can recruit and find blanks. So as we, as we were discussing earlier, there's, the blanks are spread throughout all out of the galaxy. I have a couple weird stories about that, too, because they can apparently just sense if you, have the potential to birth a blank.

Yeah, they can recruit you. I like this idea, though, because if you think about blanks are all social outcast, you're being recruited by a social outcast. The downside is that's a great story if you're female. It's kind of a shitty story if you're male because you're about to become a Colexus. Yep. Yeah. Maybe there's a couple randos in the Imperial Guard, you're going to be a Colexus.

I know we're at the end of the sisters thing, but I am so psyched up for the assassin cast because... All right, let's... You know what? We'll do it live. I was going to do assassins next or... We're doing that card. We're doing assassins.

All right, fine. All right, so next week, we're doing assassins. There we go. You guys... I'm just saying. Welcome to how we figure this out. They wear big hats for a reason, and they are awful, awful, awful reasons. Yeah.

Next week, we're going to do... Well, done in the end. Yeah. Next week, we're doing a two part. Part one is going to be assassins. Part two is also assassins. because it's going to go deep. If you think our story on the Black ships had some kind of really sad, depressing moments,

yeah. Wow. Yeah. Everything that happens in the Assassins, by the way, is Vindicare. Vindicare is fine. Vindicare is just a really, really, really good shot. You can sit really, really, really still. Yeah, that's the only one you want to be.

Every other thing in the Assassins you could be is a nightmare story. Yeah. Oh, so I'm going to, oh. Yeah, we'll get it. Anyway. It's not great. So with that, this has been John Barsodi and Bradchester. This guy.

See you guys next week.