There is an inherent contradiction in his assertion that he is superior to the other tools because he can think and philosophize, yet he freely admits (and, indeed, revels in the superiority of) his lack of choice. This is why I agree that his perspective is fundamentally delusional. Amazing story.
13:57 "If he had proved a tyrant and a warlord, a sorcerer and a liar it would not have mattered." really sums up how impossible it is for a custodes, for all their faculties, to be anything but what they are.
I think the Custodes' contempt for the thunder warrior is for his failure to be a useful, loyal tool for the emperor. This is echoed on their contempt for Horus Luperchal in this story
@@SnidhogUshotan was right with what he said to Valdor right before he was finished off. The Emperor took everything from them, they haven't actually lived, and i pity them as Ushotan pitied Valdor
A perfect story to represent the walking paradox that are the Custodies and how they hate the very thing their Sovereign gave everything to save. How they hate what I think in some sense is themselves. They are too human, and not human at all. They can never be free, and I think some of their hate for humanity is because they know it, and it eats at them. As he said - What is loyalty?
"They speak of their slavery and the embracing of their chains" is such an unbelievably powerful line from the custodian’s perspective when describing the traitor marines. Well done, my friend this was a pleasure to listen to!
There's a few good ones like the one who laughed loudly when a Remembrancer said someone had designed his shield-captain to be an asshole, and Shield-Captain Valerian. For the most part the other 99.98% of them are like this or worse, yeah.
In the name of the immortal God-Emperor, who is beloved by all, I hereby declare this thread imperial territory. We will not suffer any blasphemy. As it should be.
This narration is incredible, as always. This will likely sit next to the Angron video as one of the audios that genuinely made me sit and process. 40k can be silly and over the top, but moments like this really show how terrible the tragedies can be.
Very interesting 👌 I love the perspective of the custodes as the emperor goes through the motions of his plan. The way he looked at horus was especially juicy. Really good story 👏
A wonderful look through the stained glass yet bulletproof windows of the mind of a Custodian! Excellent work as always, Vox! And of course much praise to the writing talents and skills of Mr. Duxbury.
Well done Vox and Stephen! Thank you for a glimpse into the thoughts and motivations of the Custodians. They’re a really cool faction of the Imperium and it’s nice seeing things from their perspective. This really adds layers to the “For the Emperor!” cheer so prevalent in the setting.
Yet another banger story from Stephen and a phenomenal performance from you. Seriously, this is better Custodes writing than anything GW has ever put out. Did the same with Horus, the Tyranids, the Mechanicus and others. Discovering this channel has been such a great time.
I like how he wrestles with his humanity, and the idea of his granted freedoms... his lack of choice... tho hard coded into him, i think its about understanding there is no other choice, there is no "let them live" its the grand vision, the understanding the nature of reality, going with anyone else, any other choice is failure. They choose the true path...which is why dissenting voices are not tolerated. Humanity does not deserve the Emperor.
The Custodes are such singular entities, I’m always struck by how awe-inspiring and simultaneously disturbing their existence is. For all intents and purposes they are semi-divine living weapons, on a level with the Emperor mentally and spiritually that even the Primarchs couldn’t match. I generally come away, as I did with this piece, equal parts inspired and saddened. Inspired from the Custodes perception of the grand scheme of the human experience across the galaxy, and saddened that at his end the Custodes perhaps was able to see past the gene-coded loyalty built into his essence, how futile the idea of a united human empire was. Awesome work as usual.
@@awolfnamedj1031 what ? Wtf are you saying ? It was the best idea which saved mankind. Chaos is trying to destroy IOM. Because he knows that anathema is strong.
He is not hateful. He is nihilistic. That’s why custodes are Ashamed in 40K. Species as they though would crumble - endured. They betrayed own light and sovereign. In own.. humanity.
Another glorious day, when the superior human culture will be shared with the alien, the mutant and the heretic. Hope they will not die too fast to get a part of it.
"Mankind doesn't deserve the Emperor and the Primarchs and space marines are tools" -A glorified golden automaton who doesn't comprehend betrayal because blind loyalty is all he knows, and disdains humanity because so much of his own was taken away by his oh-so-too-good-for-Mankind-Emperor that he thinks having a free will and a personality is a weakness.
To be one of the Ten Thousand is to be more than just a symbol of the Emperor defenders, but to be a paragon of all virtues of humanity and all of their strengths made true and whole, and they are what the Emperor sees in all of mankind.
Bravo sir! Bravo! You weave a great story that plays into the theatre of my mind. Your videos make the work day fly by and make going to sleep a little easier
The Astartes are not the Emperors Angels, for they are flawed beings with free will. The Custodes are the Emperor's Angels, and you do not deserve them.
Damn didn’t realize the custodes where so bitter haha excellent story that really gives some perspective on the big shiny boys! I usually hope for blood, death and redemption ect. But you always keep me interested and surprise me! Keep up the good work out there!!
Custodes deserve monthy python levels of trolling, they take themselves so bloody seriously. I want a 40K Rowan Adkinson roasting them and somehow getting away with it.
This really captures the coldness and distance from humanity of the custodes. They are so far beyond normal humans in ability and lifespan, yet for all their detached aloof perfection they are still jealous and prideful.
I really hope gw hires you to do VO work for their audiobooks. Been listening forever and between you and Naturally RP Voiceover I can't think of any 2 voices I'd rather hear on official work. Great job as always, Vox
How could they not hate humanity? The master of mankind is perfection incarnate and demands loyalty in exchange for the gift of the technology and capability to claim the stars...yet they betray him. He is the emperor, he is the only one who can lead us through the darkness for his light is radiant beyond comprehension. Humanity does not deserve the emperor
100 Knights 100k Astartes 8 million Imperial Troops Chaos: 😳 Look... we don't want any problems. 😅 For the Emporer? 😨 By the Throne of Terra? 😱 Emporer's t i tz!!!
"We are vigilance unending. We are duty unstinting. We are punishment inescapable. We are the Adeptus Custodes, and all must fear our wrath." - Shield-Captain Rothrian Ganyth
Custodes: Humanity does not deserve the Emperor.
Chaos Marine: Humanity does not deserve the... wait, what did you say?
That wax so goddamn GOOD! Well played Sir!
Epic handshake meme template.
Masterpiece
Meme gold
And now Vox gets exactly what he deserves.😊
Wow man, thankyou so much! Always so generous my dude, with messages and donations. 🤘
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Fate Grand Order
Samus
A custodes story read by one of my favorite narrators? Let's go!
@@MadMan-jh8gv hope you enjoyed it my friend!
I like the start of his monologue because it is fundamentally delusional.
He is a socket driver mocking a wrench for being a tool.
idk, i think he considers himself a tool aswell, hes mocking the socket driver for thinkin hes anything but
There is an inherent contradiction in his assertion that he is superior to the other tools because he can think and philosophize, yet he freely admits (and, indeed, revels in the superiority of) his lack of choice. This is why I agree that his perspective is fundamentally delusional. Amazing story.
13:57 "If he had proved a tyrant and a warlord, a sorcerer and a liar it would not have mattered." really sums up how impossible it is for a custodes, for all their faculties, to be anything but what they are.
I think the Custodes' contempt for the thunder warrior is for his failure to be a useful, loyal tool for the emperor. This is echoed on their contempt for Horus Luperchal in this story
@@SnidhogUshotan was right with what he said to Valdor right before he was finished off. The Emperor took everything from them, they haven't actually lived, and i pity them as Ushotan pitied Valdor
A perfect story to represent the walking paradox that are the Custodies and how they hate the very thing their Sovereign gave everything to save. How they hate what I think in some sense is themselves. They are too human, and not human at all. They can never be free, and I think some of their hate for humanity is because they know it, and it eats at them. As he said - What is loyalty?
Loyalty is own reward. Now get in line guardsmen.
He's seen it rise , he now see's it marred by war . Like valdor said , where did they get this monstrous pride .
"They speak of their slavery and the embracing of their chains" is such an unbelievably powerful line from the custodian’s perspective when describing the traitor marines. Well done, my friend this was a pleasure to listen to!
The entire speech could be quoted, amazing writing.
Had not imagined a custodian having such a bleak existence. Pretty powerful short story!
There's a terrible beauty in the certainty of a Custodes.
1:39 - The bell impact and "The long watch begins" was so perfectly timed 😏
Honoured to have another score featured.. keep up the great work, Vox
Man, thank you for creating such emotive pieces. Helps my stories out so much!! Thanks again. Vox
Your voice is gold, keep up the good work man much respect.
You voiced my favourite Primarch in 40k Konrad Curze.
@@dekafrost9071 thankyou so much! Glad you enjoy what I do. Curze is one of my faves too!
@@AVoxintheVoid I love you man🫂
Love you too brother
Nah, it sounds too stable. Konrad was insane
Wow! These Custodes are like a real ray of sunshine are they not?😁
There's a few good ones like the one who laughed loudly when a Remembrancer said someone had designed his shield-captain to be an asshole, and Shield-Captain Valerian. For the most part the other 99.98% of them are like this or worse, yeah.
@@TheGreatThiccThey seem to have mellowed out a bit since the heresy, haven’t they?
Imperial Chads rise up it’s our time!
Keep it moving corpse worshiper 😈
In the name of the immortal God-Emperor, who is beloved by all, I hereby declare this thread imperial territory. We will not suffer any blasphemy. As it should be.
Emperor protects
🫲🫱
This narration is incredible, as always. This will likely sit next to the Angron video as one of the audios that genuinely made me sit and process. 40k can be silly and over the top, but moments like this really show how terrible the tragedies can be.
Very interesting 👌 I love the perspective of the custodes as the emperor goes through the motions of his plan. The way he looked at horus was especially juicy. Really good story 👏
For the imperium!!! For the emperor!!! For all of mankind!!! Suffer not the like button unhit.
Compliance
@@davidstickley1801 anything else is heretical
A wonderful look through the stained glass yet bulletproof windows of the mind of a Custodian! Excellent work as always, Vox! And of course much praise to the writing talents and skills of Mr. Duxbury.
Brilliantly narrated! 🤌💋
Thankyou bisto gobbo
Couldn't say it better, myself!🥰
That was perfect. You perfectly showed the bitternes from custodes to astartes and primarchs.
Well done Vox and Stephen! Thank you for a glimpse into the thoughts and motivations of the Custodians. They’re a really cool faction of the Imperium and it’s nice seeing things from their perspective. This really adds layers to the “For the Emperor!” cheer so prevalent in the setting.
Now this is a video you sent somebody that's wanting to learn about Warhammer. I've just been getting into it the last past few months
6:20 "He is not superior to me" and I believed him. Love custodes stories and you always knock it away. I revisit "betrayal" often🔰🛡
Yet another banger story from Stephen and a phenomenal performance from you. Seriously, this is better Custodes writing than anything GW has ever put out.
Did the same with Horus, the Tyranids, the Mechanicus and others. Discovering this channel has been such a great time.
You're one of my favorite notifications, thank you for all your hard work my friend
@@jayallen5599 absolutely my pleasure! Thankyou for the wonderful comment
Really appreciate these. Thanks for putting voices to these stories.
@@tychoMX thankyou so much for the kind support my friend. Glad you enjoy what I do! 🤘🤘
I like how he wrestles with his humanity, and the idea of his granted freedoms... his lack of choice... tho hard coded into him, i think its about understanding there is no other choice, there is no "let them live" its the grand vision, the understanding the nature of reality, going with anyone else, any other choice is failure. They choose the true path...which is why dissenting voices are not tolerated.
Humanity does not deserve the Emperor.
Hell yes!!! My Sunday just got a whole lot better!!
Another masterpiece. Thank you.
Thankyou so much for the support my friend! 🤘
custodes?! yessss!!!
The Custodes are such singular entities, I’m always struck by how awe-inspiring and simultaneously disturbing their existence is. For all intents and purposes they are semi-divine living weapons, on a level with the Emperor mentally and spiritually that even the Primarchs couldn’t match. I generally come away, as I did with this piece, equal parts inspired and saddened. Inspired from the Custodes perception of the grand scheme of the human experience across the galaxy, and saddened that at his end the Custodes perhaps was able to see past the gene-coded loyalty built into his essence, how futile the idea of a united human empire was. Awesome work as usual.
@@awolfnamedj1031 amazing message, thankyou for taking the time to write it my friend!
@@awolfnamedj1031 what ? Wtf are you saying ? It was the best idea which saved mankind. Chaos is trying to destroy IOM. Because he knows that anathema is strong.
This Custodes dude is more bitter and hateful towards humanity than some of the chaos dudes.
He is not hateful. He is nihilistic. That’s why custodes are Ashamed in 40K. Species as they though would crumble - endured. They betrayed own light and sovereign. In own.. humanity.
Always great to hear something from a custodians perspective thank you very much
Amazing like always ! Hope this will help to keep them coming :)
Thankyou kindly boss! 🙏🙏🙏
Another glorious day, when the superior human culture will be shared with the alien, the mutant and the heretic. Hope they will not die too fast to get a part of it.
SUFFER NOT THE MUTANT TO LIVE, BLOOD FOR THE EMPEROR, SKULLS FOR THE GOLDEN THRONE
@@theanti-mule9110 First heretic ;)
Only thing to be shared with a heretic is a bolter round
Souls for the soul throne! @@theanti-mule9110
Can't fuggin wait!!
I've played this video so many times it's always at the top of my youtube when I open it
"Mankind doesn't deserve the Emperor and the Primarchs and space marines are tools"
-A glorified golden automaton who doesn't comprehend betrayal because blind loyalty is all he knows, and disdains humanity because so much of his own was taken away by his oh-so-too-good-for-Mankind-Emperor that he thinks having a free will and a personality is a weakness.
This was badass. Damn i love 40k.
Vox you are an amazing creator!
incredible, from the perspective of a stode. absolutely glorious
To be one of the Ten Thousand is to be more than just a symbol of the Emperor defenders, but to be a paragon of all virtues of humanity and all of their strengths made true and whole, and they are what the Emperor sees in all of mankind.
"Tremble before the majesty of the Emperor, for we all walk in His immortal shadow."
I sat there for 30 seconds of almost silence, waiting for a scream of vengeance something
I love when vox who plays the role really well has the custodes
Now that's timing! Finished The Emperors Legion audiobook this morning! What a narration!
Bravo sir! Bravo! You weave a great story that plays into the theatre of my mind. Your videos make the work day fly by and make going to sleep a little easier
The paradox of perfection and loyalty bred.
OMG!!! this is so awesome!!! You really hit a cord in me with this one. Keep up the good work!
The Astartes are not the Emperors Angels, for they are flawed beings with free will. The Custodes are the Emperor's Angels, and you do not deserve them.
“Eughh, fucking automaton”
-TTS emperor
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat cringe weirdo
Meh angels had free will, that's why lucifer revolted.
Amazing video. Love your work
I think I've heard it better said: "Humanity and the Emperor deserved each other"
Damn didn’t realize the custodes where so bitter haha excellent story that really gives some perspective on the big shiny boys! I usually hope for blood, death and redemption ect. But you always keep me interested and surprise me! Keep up the good work out there!!
Superb work man as ever!
Custodes deserve monthy python levels of trolling, they take themselves so bloody seriously. I want a 40K Rowan Adkinson roasting them and somehow getting away with it.
@@diegogisbertllorens7416 haha! Take it you're not a fan Diego?
Epic!
Many thanx Supreme Orator, Ave.
Thank you for making a video on my absolute favourite faction. Humanity does not deserve the Emperor.
Absolutely beautiful sir
Love your stuff got my whole work place to sub to you
@@ryancollier661 ah, cheers for the support and spreading the word. Much love
Beautiful!! Kudos to all!!
This really captures the coldness and distance from humanity of the custodes. They are so far beyond normal humans in ability and lifespan, yet for all their detached aloof perfection they are still jealous and prideful.
Absolutely, positively amazing!!!
Golden fury. Unmatch and unparalleled.
This is so much better than anything the black library is putting out!thank you for so true grim dark
Glorious!!!! For the emperor!!! Would love more custodies stories!
Fantastic as always Vox! I’ll catch ya on discord 👍
I really hope gw hires you to do VO work for their audiobooks. Been listening forever and between you and Naturally RP Voiceover I can't think of any 2 voices I'd rather hear on official work. Great job as always, Vox
This needs to be canonized and it's author needs to write for Black Library!
Above that A Vox in The Void needs to narrate Auidobooks for BL ❤
I just started collecting custodes and I love this
How could they not hate humanity? The master of mankind is perfection incarnate and demands loyalty in exchange for the gift of the technology and capability to claim the stars...yet they betray him. He is the emperor, he is the only one who can lead us through the darkness for his light is radiant beyond comprehension. Humanity does not deserve the emperor
100 Knights
100k Astartes
8 million Imperial Troops
Chaos: 😳
Look... we don't want any problems. 😅 For the Emporer? 😨 By the Throne of Terra?
😱 Emporer's t i tz!!!
fantastic as usual
also please we need more Crixus the reborn Warhound content !
Praise the Vox!.....in the Void....
Amazing narration as always 🫶🏾
Fantastic sense of scope, this could have fit easily in TEATD
Amazing as always
EXTRA DOPE
I mean come on guys... Does it get any better then this for 40k content?? Vox never fails to deliver🙌
@@GalaxyBrain88 thankyou for the kind words!!
This...this was amazing...
Fantastic!
Just...mwah! Chef's kiss!
Love to hear the story
Yes!
That was amazing
That was very unexpected and fire 🔥
This hit harder than I expected
Ave Imperator
Masterful
"We are vigilance unending. We are duty unstinting. We are punishment inescapable. We are the Adeptus Custodes, and all must fear our wrath." - Shield-Captain Rothrian Ganyth
Oh boy here I go killing again
We all know why the Custodes kept failing throughout their history...dare I say it?
Remember that time angron just wasted one of them?
@@UCannotDefeatMyShmeat Remember when a couple of marines and ancient cadians knifed one to death?
Please do, I don't understand the implication
Awesome video 😊💯⚡💥💪
The Emperor protects
Happy chap isn't he 😂. Well read as ever Vox.
Fracking epic!
A Custodes story, unofficial in status...
... yet true in its nature.
... loyal to its roots.
... faithfully untainted.
RUclips does not deserve A Vox in the Void.
Apart from Dorn , Valdor my fav loyalists , hes story is so good
That is one bitter MoFo, but he is right.......
How is a Emotionless Fleshbot right?
14:03 badass
Praise the emperor, vox in the void made another drop🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉