You have to admit , an army of genetically stable thunder warriors fighting a horde of orks would be a brutal and bloody conflict worthy of a short animation movie.
@@joseeduardomagadan9728 They aren't. That'd be the Custodes. Custodes are chemically treated for their entire life. Thunder Warriors are Chemically treated when adults. Astartes, both True and new/false are basically Bioborgs, with organ rejection and everything.
Well the thing is that most of the "techno barbarian" the Emperor stomped out were actually more civilized than before the fall. Their only fault was they did not join when FIRST "asked" (not really asking when the alternative stated up front is "we kill and erase you from the Earth"), were able to put up any kind of real fight, and had the pride in themselves not to fly the Emperor's colors. Many to them would have joined willing if ACTUALLY asked and allowed to say no. This was al the Emperor being needlessly unilateral and in too much of hurry. A key indication he was running on his Prophetic visions and not any real reason outside of how he make his visions come to pass. "If you only look toward your destination, you miss the boons and banes journey has in store for you."
Currently in an extremely difficult situation in my life ATM. The utter privilege of content creators like yourself is an unimaginable help. Thank you Baldemort, you are a treasure to us.
Every time I hear him say thunder warrior it takes me back to the tale of the last thunder warrior...one of my favorite stories of all time told by a true master of storytelling!
Baldermort, once again with much skill and verbosity, has delivered to us some of the best grim darkness human language and writing can provide. I can't tell what is more mighty, the Mark 1 Thunder Armour of Old, or the raw power, skill, competence and gargantuan reverence the masterful voice of the little Servo Skull-That-Could has delivered to upon us this day. Emperor's blessings to you Baldermort. Long may you scribe and chronicle in the Emperor's name.
Anything related to the thunder warriors intreges me, we know so little about them, giants of men in mark1 armor, the sight must have been awe inspiring
He is THE EMPEROR of not just this continent, not this world, not this system. HE IS THE EMPEROR OF MANKIND ! Every time is I am led astray and end up rooting for the Necrons, Boldemort manages to take me back to the light of master of mankind. Emperor truly does protect.
My brother's, all dead. Killed by command of the Emperor himself. It was a nightmare, but it was real. They betrayed us, turned their weapons onto us, as we marched forward into the palace grounds, the bullets of the bolter tipped polearms of the Emperor's elite and personal guard had ripped and tore their way into and through our lines hurling our 8 foot, 600 pound frames into one another, sowing chaos amongst us. We had no choice but draw our bolters and swords and return fire, so we did just that. But we were too overmatched and outnumber, outgunned and outflanked, leaving us with only one option... Run. So we did. We ran. We ran our enhanced asses off, clad in full thunder armour, full battlegear, but it mattered not. We were running for our lives, covering our retreat with both smoke and covering fire. For as long as 3 days and nights, we bound back as our numbers slowly dwindled and withered until I was the last one alive. I stayed hidded, held my position in a embedded position, though overcome with grief from the sudden lost of my brother that had been taken from me... killed off in the most unfathomable and disrespectful way possible... and confusion, I knew what needed to be done. I had to focus, I clapped back and quickly adapted as well as assest the situation. I knew I was the last one, they will be hunting for me, they will never stopped until they have completed their mission. With me being the last one alive... I am their mission, I don't know how long I can hold out or how long I can evade the infinite forces the Emperor has fully to his disposal, but I will promise this: I may not kill the Emperor. I may never see him again. But every day I survive, is a big chunky loogie hawked into his face; a slap to his face from a hand of solid iron. I will send him a message in blood. There will be no forgiveness for this, no mercy, never will I forget my brothers being gunned down around me. The Emperor himself, may not pay for this directly... But this betrayal, will cost him. This is the story of Kahne, the very youngest but also the most dangerous of them... The story of "The Last Thunder Warrior". Bless you, sir. Thank you for this. The Thunder Warriors are very underrated and undercovered.
Indeed, the Emperor DOES provide ........ Just all too often it's a shallow grave and a redaction from history that those most loyal earn in his service.
@@Blowfeld20k I agree. You serve and pledge your loyalty to him, and in the end you get nothing but F'ed over. I know they lost but I would have gladly taken my chances with Horus against the Emperor.
@@American-Royarch hmmmmm am Emperor critical. But am not pro Chaos. TBH my main issue is 40K has been part of my landscape since the early 80's, and 4Ok has always been a highly ambiguous and inconsistent. The ambiguity and the inconsistency is 100% intentional, it's there for fans to notice, and pick up on, to then question the assumptions they started with. But over the past 15 years the scene has just been flooded with people who just buy into the power fantasy and ignore any of the subtle nuance, and IMHO that's NOT understanding 40k or being a real fan.
Bro. This is very good writing, very detailed. It gives you an idea of what these great amd honorable warriors had to deal with as they were being killed off.
The Armor that started the birth of the Imperium of Man. Thanks so much Lord B for this. Love the unification wars lore. Thanks for another masterpiece.
Thunder armor is late Unification invention after the union with Albion. Thunder warriors would still use lasgun by that time. Bolt gun was really new when UNITY completed and TWs got done in.
Great video and I agree the horror was worse for the Unification Wars then 90% of the Great Crusade minus the things like the Ullanor campaign, Rangdan Xenocide's, Hrud Wars and such.
I love the front loaded narrative pieces, they inject a sense of fun and context you just don't get from other lore videos that just regurgitate a list of facts
Would love to see a full series on the marks of power armour. It’s a good road for giving snap shots of the crusade era into the Heresy and aftermath. Great work as always Balders.
Balders, your format and delivery are soooo good for this kind of lore, it's like hearing a fragment of some dusty old treatise that's been part of the scholam syllabus for the past 10 millennia, superlative stuff!
Thank ye brother Wolfley. One of my first subscribers, and excellent advice along the way. Thank you again for helping me make this channel what it is!! (All errors or shortcomings are mine of course. You don’t get that blame. 😁🤣🤣). Hope things are going well for you brother.
@@Baldermort not sure if you're familiar with FNT, I will repeat advice given by Ryan. The rest of the panel tease and say he's like Thanos with the infinity stones but collecting 100K channels. Short 5-15 minute videos daily, that difficult for 40K but people are always looking for news rumors and updates. A great way is having a livestream with talking points, keep time stamps and cut them later for easy upload videos. Every livestream can give you several bit sized videos you can upload later, twice the content half the work
I love this presentation. Extremely refreshing compared to the plethora of people whom just read wiki articles or recite the Codex ver batum. Your voice acting is top notch, and helps immerse me into the perspective of whoever unfortunately is experiencing this.
Rad. I always enjoy dips into the "before-the-grimdark." The Thunder Warrior are very fascinating. I do wish there was more literature about them. Such incredibly legendary stories they could tell.
The real reason Corvus Corax is almost as emo as Conrad Curze: "The Desire for Beakeyboi Power Armor!" He really wanted to call his Legion the Silver Beaks Legion, but those tossers in the Mechanicus wouldn't make enough beaky helmets!
Primaris, in my own personal head cannon, are space marine/thunder warrior hybrids, that will invetably start dropping dead or turning to chaos to escape their genetic instability.
Well done! Always interesting to hear about Unification. A *very* different time in many ways. Bonus points for the appropriate cold, deliberate ruthlessness of the Thunder Warriors.
How I wish we had more unification wars novels and perhaps even a game! Something more melee focused, the flavor of that period of the lore is exceptional
Another banger, Baldy. I’d love more stories on Terra’s Unification, vague as the sources are. It was a different war for a different era, one even more brutal and ugly than we’re used to.
It's so very cool to have you illustrate moments from this, most occluded and well forgotten era of Unification with such clean confidence. Shades of Brilliance in fits and starts. Well spake, bardlin.
I’d absolutely love more lore on the Unification era. GW really has a goldmine of possibility there. The stories would be both epic and tragic as is fitting for the setting.
An exceptional video even by Baldermort's standards, it's a powerful companion piece to the classic last Thunder warrior story, the juxtaposition of the moving end of the last warrior with their heinous brutality.
My lord, again you amaze me with your ability to read my mind and hearts desire for 40k knowledge!! Seems as soon I become curious about a peculiar topic a video is posted within mere hours.. lol thank you!
Power Armor from the Unification Wars were primate compared to modern power armor, for Old Night destroyed any glory and strength that technology had before the arrival of the Emperor. It was a prototype of what would come, but during those early blood-soak days of the Unification of Holy Terra it was vital for the Emperor warriors to have this armor for it already augmented the superhuman abilities the Thunder Warriors possessed to greater heights.
Yet deepdown every CRAVES to experience its snarling angry power. My BIL doesn't get how i can love my old Nova the way i do. He wants things like "ride comfort"......i merely crave to hear the cars machine spirit roar its power.
"Afflicted by a genetic flaw, Brother Baldermort was cursed by immortality, so for millennium he has recorded the struggle of mankind, from the very time of the 'Dark Age of Technology ', thought e Golden Age, to the present grim darkness, when there is only time for war." Ennnnd QUOTE! - It's a cruel world.
You have to admit , an army of genetically stable thunder warriors fighting a horde of orks would be a brutal and bloody conflict worthy of a short animation movie.
Don’t worry. The Primaris will provide
@@keingdougie24 primaris are basically perfected thunder warriors
@@joseeduardomagadan9728 They aren't. That'd be the Custodes. Custodes are chemically treated for their entire life. Thunder Warriors are Chemically treated when adults. Astartes, both True and new/false are basically Bioborgs, with organ rejection and everything.
A much more "interesting" and illustrative narrative would be an animation about how the Thunder Warriors meet their end ...............
@@Blowfeld20k bah, everyone knows they all retired to some pleasure world after their service was done.
Nothing to see here….
Does this mean Baldermort is going to cover all the Power Armour variants and patterns?? I'd love an entire series on it
I second that!
He already has. EXCEPT NOW...HES GOING ALL INTO THE FINE LITTLE BITS AND BOBS. LOVE YA UNCLE BALDY!
Can’t wait for him to cover the infamous, “Plot Armor”
I like to imagine if we keep watching, and he keeps making delightful videos, he'll eventually cover everything 40k has to offer.
Yes please!!!
The sheer amount of emotion you manage to put into a simple line "You did not bend the knee" is pretty damned impressive.
The Thunder Warriors are what happened when the Emperor decided that this "Mad Max" thing had gone on long enough.
Well the thing is that most of the "techno barbarian" the Emperor stomped out were actually more civilized than before the fall. Their only fault was they did not join when FIRST "asked" (not really asking when the alternative stated up front is "we kill and erase you from the Earth"), were able to put up any kind of real fight, and had the pride in themselves not to fly the Emperor's colors. Many to them would have joined willing if ACTUALLY asked and allowed to say no. This was al the Emperor being needlessly unilateral and in too much of hurry. A key indication he was running on his Prophetic visions and not any real reason outside of how he make his visions come to pass.
"If you only look toward your destination, you miss the boons and banes journey has in store for you."
Currently in an extremely difficult situation in my life ATM. The utter privilege of content creators like yourself is an unimaginable help. Thank you Baldemort, you are a treasure to us.
I am so sorry to hear things are rough brother. I hope that changes very swiftly.
You got this.
@@Baldermort "we are judged equally by the illumination we bring to the blackest nights" - Grimaldus. Thank you brother Baldemort for this reply.
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Every time I hear him say thunder warrior it takes me back to the tale of the last thunder warrior...one of my favorite stories of all time told by a true master of storytelling!
Opening Line already gripped me to my seat.
Baldermort your videos are just what the doctor ordered, thank you!
Your Thunder Warriors video was what hooked me to your channel.
"How could he?"
Keep up the amazing work!!!
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Me: sleeping.
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Me: must watch!
Baldermort, once again with much skill and verbosity, has delivered to us some of the best grim darkness human language and writing can provide. I can't tell what is more mighty, the Mark 1 Thunder Armour of Old, or the raw power, skill, competence and gargantuan reverence the masterful voice of the little Servo Skull-That-Could has delivered to upon us this day. Emperor's blessings to you Baldermort.
Long may you scribe and chronicle in the Emperor's name.
That was probably as good as The Last Church.
I *_love_* stories and lore abou the Thunder Warriors, they're so mythical and legendary both inside and outside the setting itself
Anything related to the thunder warriors intreges me, we know so little about them, giants of men in mark1 armor, the sight must have been awe inspiring
He is THE EMPEROR of not just this continent, not this world, not this system. HE IS THE EMPEROR OF MANKIND !
Every time is I am led astray and end up rooting for the Necrons, Boldemort manages to take me back to the light of master of mankind.
Emperor truly does protect.
My brother's, all dead. Killed by command of the Emperor himself. It was a nightmare, but it was real. They betrayed us, turned their weapons onto us, as we marched forward into the palace grounds, the bullets of the bolter tipped polearms of the Emperor's elite and personal guard had ripped and tore their way into and through our lines hurling our 8 foot, 600 pound frames into one another, sowing chaos amongst us. We had no choice but draw our bolters and swords and return fire, so we did just that. But we were too overmatched and outnumber, outgunned and outflanked, leaving us with only one option... Run.
So we did. We ran. We ran our enhanced asses off, clad in full thunder armour, full battlegear, but it mattered not. We were running for our lives, covering our retreat with both smoke and covering fire. For as long as 3 days and nights, we bound back as our numbers slowly dwindled and withered until I was the last one alive. I stayed hidded, held my position in a embedded position, though overcome with grief from the sudden lost of my brother that had been taken from me... killed off in the most unfathomable and disrespectful way possible... and confusion, I knew what needed to be done. I had to focus, I clapped back and quickly adapted as well as assest the situation. I knew I was the last one, they will be hunting for me, they will never stopped until they have completed their mission. With me being the last one alive... I am their mission, I don't know how long I can hold out or how long I can evade the infinite forces the Emperor has fully to his disposal, but I will promise this:
I may not kill the Emperor. I may never see him again. But every day I survive, is a big chunky loogie hawked into his face; a slap to his face from a hand of solid iron. I will send him a message in blood. There will be no forgiveness for this, no mercy, never will I forget my brothers being gunned down around me. The Emperor himself, may not pay for this directly... But this betrayal, will cost him. This is the story of Kahne, the very youngest but also the most dangerous of them... The story of "The Last Thunder Warrior".
Bless you, sir. Thank you for this. The Thunder Warriors are very underrated and undercovered.
Indeed, the Emperor DOES provide ........ Just all too often it's a shallow grave and a redaction from history that those most loyal earn in his service.
@@Blowfeld20k I agree. You serve and pledge your loyalty to him, and in the end you get nothing but F'ed over. I know they lost but I would have gladly taken my chances with Horus against the Emperor.
@@American-Royarch
hmmmmm am Emperor critical. But am not pro Chaos. TBH my main issue is 40K has been part of my landscape since the early 80's, and 4Ok has always been a highly ambiguous and inconsistent. The ambiguity and the inconsistency is 100% intentional, it's there for fans to notice, and pick up on, to then question the assumptions they started with. But over the past 15 years the scene has just been flooded with people who just buy into the power fantasy and ignore any of the subtle nuance, and IMHO that's NOT understanding 40k or being a real fan.
Bro. This is very good writing, very detailed. It gives you an idea of what these great amd honorable warriors had to deal with as they were being killed off.
@@royalgloveriv1510 Thank you for that, bro.
The Armor that started the birth of the Imperium of Man. Thanks so much Lord B for this. Love the unification wars lore. Thanks for another masterpiece.
My fav story(not sure where from) is the story of the Tempestus galleries.
Thunder armor is late Unification invention after the union with Albion.
Thunder warriors would still use lasgun by that time. Bolt gun was really new when UNITY completed and TWs got done in.
I had no idea that Thunder Armor was to be found anywhere let alone be kept for ceremonial purposes! Thank you, most faithful servo skull.
Of all of the stories I've heard Baldermort narrate, I think this one is the best.
What a wonderful welcome home video I really wasn’t expecting MK1 power armor to be the topic of todays video
I don’t see enough about the crusade on Terra or the Thunder Warriors thank you brother :)
Great video and I agree the horror was worse for the Unification Wars then 90% of the Great Crusade minus the things like the Ullanor campaign, Rangdan Xenocide's, Hrud Wars and such.
I love the front loaded narrative pieces, they inject a sense of fun and context you just don't get from other lore videos that just regurgitate a list of facts
Would love to see a full series on the marks of power armour. It’s a good road for giving snap shots of the crusade era into the Heresy and aftermath. Great work as always Balders.
Balders, your format and delivery are soooo good for this kind of lore, it's like hearing a fragment of some dusty old treatise that's been part of the scholam syllabus for the past 10 millennia, superlative stuff!
The armor that tamed Terra. Nice. Thanks again Mr. and Mrs. Baldermort!
The VENERABLE THUNDER WARRIORS, were the First to discover, THAT ONLY IN DEATH, DOES DUTY END!!
Any new Baldamort video is a great day
YEEEES! I love any lore involving the Thunder Warriors, and this was definitely some prime lore!
Another fine example of why I listen to your narrations.
Thank You.
It's been a pleasure, I've watched all three power armor videos back to back
Thank ye brother Wolfley. One of my first subscribers, and excellent advice along the way.
Thank you again for helping me make this channel what it is!!
(All errors or shortcomings are mine of course. You don’t get that blame. 😁🤣🤣).
Hope things are going well for you brother.
@@Baldermort the last couple months have been busy, glad I have time to enjoy my hobby again
@@Baldermort not sure if you're familiar with FNT, I will repeat advice given by Ryan. The rest of the panel tease and say he's like Thanos with the infinity stones but collecting 100K channels. Short 5-15 minute videos daily, that difficult for 40K but people are always looking for news rumors and updates. A great way is having a livestream with talking points, keep time stamps and cut them later for easy upload videos. Every livestream can give you several bit sized videos you can upload later, twice the content half the work
I love this presentation. Extremely refreshing compared to the plethora of people whom just read wiki articles or recite the Codex ver batum. Your voice acting is top notch, and helps immerse me into the perspective of whoever unfortunately is experiencing this.
Ah, the Thunder Warriors a sad story. Well told Sir.
Yes!!! Keep it up baldy loving your other channels too
Rad. I always enjoy dips into the "before-the-grimdark." The Thunder Warrior are very fascinating. I do wish there was more literature about them. Such incredibly legendary stories they could tell.
The real reason Corvus Corax is almost as emo as Conrad Curze: "The Desire for Beakeyboi Power Armor!" He really wanted to call his Legion the Silver Beaks Legion, but those tossers in the Mechanicus wouldn't make enough beaky helmets!
Mate you knocked it out the park again. You make this stuff seem easy and effortless.
(I know it's not!) ❤️
Primaris, in my own personal head cannon, are space marine/thunder warrior hybrids, that will invetably start dropping dead or turning to chaos to escape their genetic instability.
Great way to start my Monday. Thank you sir.
my god your voice acting sends shivers down my body, you are super talented!
'He is the EMPEROR, of not just this Continent, not this World, not this System. He is the Emperor of MANKIND.' Damn, the chills.
Ahhh. I have missed you my dear servitor.
You made sure I remembered
Literally could never disappoint. I get weak knees when you include some thunder🤣
You're a genius and a hero balder
Well done!
Always interesting to hear about Unification. A *very* different time in many ways. Bonus points for the appropriate cold, deliberate ruthlessness of the Thunder Warriors.
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How I wish we had more unification wars novels and perhaps even a game! Something more melee focused, the flavor of that period of the lore is exceptional
I swear this guy could read a takeaway menu and it would be exciting and gripping.
Excellent!
Another trophy piece. Many thanx 👍👍
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Cannot wait for the next installation of the power armour lore, great as always Mr B!
Another banger, Baldy. I’d love more stories on Terra’s Unification, vague as the sources are. It was a different war for a different era, one even more brutal and ugly than we’re used to.
Spectacular dialogue and description. Great information, thank you brother Baldermort. I needed this today, thanks mate.
It's so very cool to have you illustrate moments from this, most occluded and well forgotten era of Unification with such clean confidence. Shades of Brilliance in fits and starts. Well spake, bardlin.
I’d absolutely love more lore on the Unification era. GW really has a goldmine of possibility there. The stories would be both epic and tragic as is fitting for the setting.
I love the pics from Endless Space 1 and 2.
Amazing games.
Ahhhh man i love your takes on the Thunder warriors. You are my only go to for any lore on them!
An exceptional video even by Baldermort's standards, it's a powerful companion piece to the classic last Thunder warrior story, the juxtaposition of the moving end of the last warrior with their heinous brutality.
Brother thank you. You and your work are highly valued and appreciated.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
My lord, again you amaze me with your ability to read my mind and hearts desire for 40k knowledge!! Seems as soon I become curious about a peculiar topic a video is posted within mere hours.. lol thank you!
The Mk1 age stuff when Big E was still finely written and mysterious is the blue stuff of 40k 😁
Once again, an excellent video. Thank you 😊
You would do phenomenally narrating horror stories. Your voice is so soothing and so epic at the same time 🤧💕💕
Definitely miss those longer videos but still praise he the omnisha for the knowledge 🙏
Done 2 videos over an hour in 3 weeks.
Hey yeah I know you have and they have been great 👍 just before these ones I use them at work man so them 20 minute ones fly to fast
Woohoo! First new video as a new subscriber. Your videos are awesome, and the voice acting is just phenomenal! Keep up the good work
Aka the Chad power armor.
Let's goo, thanks Bald
Thank you 😊
Dear Baldermort, what is the soundtrack playing during 13:39? I wish to sleep to it
Power Armor from the Unification Wars were primate compared to modern power armor, for Old Night destroyed any glory and strength that technology had before the arrival of the Emperor. It was a prototype of what would come, but during those early blood-soak days of the Unification of Holy Terra it was vital for the Emperor warriors to have this armor for it already augmented the superhuman abilities the Thunder Warriors possessed to greater heights.
Bear in mind, folks, that for millenia this was the customary treatment of resisting walled cities.
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"What, no cutting extra holes to penetrate? Who's Slaanesh?" -- Genghis Khan @@Unpainted_Huffhines
Thank you , BM .
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Another grand story that, just like the psyker's tale, i'll listen to many times.
Dang yall no power in the legs only in the torso, I knew the thunder warriors were thick but I didnt know they were dat thiccc
They do be packin some bricced up bakeries
Oh
He shot that man.
That's Illegal!
Do we get to hear tales of all the marks by you? That would be so awesome 🩸
A delightful piece as always
Hell yeah Baldy! Just what i need to code to.
Nice. Thank you.
Reminds me that amazing start of the HH series, where Horus face a petty empire with their bootleg space marines.
Damn and the part where the warriors said "It's thundering time" always gets me
Thunder Armor: the Muscle Cars of Power Armor. Does one thing really good and not much else lol
Yet deepdown every CRAVES to experience its snarling angry power. My BIL doesn't get how i can love my old Nova the way i do. He wants things like "ride comfort"......i merely crave to hear the cars machine spirit roar its power.
*Amazing, a stunning pice of art!*
I think GW should do a setting in the unification wars
I Love the Unification era content.
Thank yu lore master Baldermort great FUN thankyu good sir
Great vid as always but I gotta ask will we hear the tall of the primarchs return soon and yes I am a blueberry fan
Would love a game set during the unification wars or just before.
Another excellent video
Love your work.
Man oh man, what an intro. Best one ever
Man I watch major kill and lutin but you sir are a master orator
I really love your vids sir , i think you should really go on Spotify so that I can listen to and work
Oh yeah this is going to be great! Thanks baldy!
Power Armour is so badass
"YES BROTHER!"
Can u do vids for each armor type in ur View which ones the best mrk 3 iron and mrk 7 Aquila are my favorites.
I would love more thunder warrior lore from GW
Wish they'd release a plastic kit of this armor in a 10 man team
149 dollars and they would barely support it...
"Afflicted by a genetic flaw, Brother Baldermort was cursed by immortality, so for millennium he has recorded the struggle of mankind, from the very time of the 'Dark Age of Technology ', thought e Golden Age, to the present grim darkness, when there is only time for war." Ennnnd QUOTE! - It's a cruel world.
The melee of war is kind of romantic, I wonder if we will ever him a part in man kinds eternal arms race where the armor will outpace the bullet.
Oh how I love my lore biscuits. Feed me, Baldermort. Feed me!