and yet people will say that retconning the grey knights to be the genesons of the prototype primarch would be bad writing, hes an autist, and so are they
I like to imagine Crowe just puttering around, going about his day in a completely ordinary fashion with the sword resting against his pauldron, whistling like Mickey Mouse on his boat all the while.
The funny thing is, the daemon sword is learning what it is to be a mortal in the clutches of a wholly indifferent or cruel being. Imagine how much it would give up just to be used just a tiny bit. Not too different from a slanneshi cultist who needs a taste. But they always need more and the thing they want it from doesn't care and holds all the cards.
Thr Grey knight xcom game shows Crowe does have a personality of sorts, and isn't a simpleton. He's just... more of an automaton when it comes to safeguarding chaos contraband.
@@andrewgause6971 that's what I've always thought, cause no "simpleton" can survive something that can just brute force through someone's natural mental barriers. This man is more of a living robot so deeply ingrained in his mental barriers that he simply dosent have a care for emotions or ideals.
As many authors have said in their works. For an immortal there is no greater punishment than an eternity of boredom. And this might be the purest form of that statement.
I imagine Crowe sitting there with paper and quill, nodding as this weapon of obscene power hurls insults and hate. Then in a moment of silence he turns the paper around and it's just "He mad, brothers."
I can definately imagine the Crowe does have more than a little fun at the fact Antwyr just can't taint him he doesn't rub it in of course but I can see him flashing a little satisfied grin at him now and again to say my will is stil intact.
Grey Knight: "Ah, brother Crowe! How goes your task of keeping the Daemon blade in check?" Antwyr: -audible weeping- Grey Knight: "Understood. Keep up the good work, brother!"
Crowe slowly turns to face his brother purifyer. Crowe has never been seen without the daemon blade for over 100 years; and his grip never loosened, and only grew tighter as the screeching blade began hurling such vile insults and obsenities that it'd make a slaaneshi daemon blush. Crowe let the blade tire itself until audible weeping can be heard; before turning around and continued walking towards his chambers...a small satisfied smile on his face beneath his helmet.
I can only imagine the God Emperor watching and absolutely laughing his ass off at this, while gork and mork cheer in approval. "Don't need no demon powers, jus gotta hit the git with unbreakable bonky stick."
I believe the guy was just simply extremely authistic, cause if you are intelligent there is no way you would not yield in some sense to something like that, its not force of will, for him it was just, meh
The Virgin Fulgrim: I-I couldn't help it, I couldn't stop myself from killing my b-brother. That blade... it was just too powerful... too cunning... The Chad Crowe: Yeah I just take it to the bathroom with me. I remember there was one time we were out of toilet paper. Antwyr: *daemonic screaming*
@@justinjohnson1695 Reminds me of a scene from some cartoon or comic I read years ago but forgot where about that sort of predicament. Where the incredible sword was stuck between a giant’s butt cheeks and left to whine about it. But the real scene that comes to mind from your comment is in the Marvel Zombies Evil Dead Crossover comics where Ash convinces the evil and ancient book the Necronomicon to send him to another universe because the zombies might eat the book because it is made from human skin and written in blood. Except when the zombified heroes of Marvel find the Necronomicon; Cap America just tosses it to Zombie Hulk, who would go on to use it as toilet paper. TLDR; an ancient tome of pure evil and malice was going to be used by a zombified, rotting version of The Hulk as ass wiping paper.
@@AdeptKing Are we sure on that? Because the sword Fulgrim picked up was able to eject his fricken soul out of his body, depending on where you read about that canon, and stashes it inside a painting of Fulgrim. The fact Fulgrim steals his own body back is just goes to show how damned powerful the soul of a Primarch is.
I wonder if at some point Skulltaker thought that Antwyr was purposefully holding his power back just to rub salt in the wound, and to this day has no clue that Antwyr was raging the entire time LOL
@@ronardojohn1057oh you *know* Khorne had to find the whole thing hilarious. "Look, I am the literal anthropomorphic embodiment of rage and hate and fury and mindless bloodshed... but I am also a God of martial prowess... and I just watched a metaphorical grandson of The Anathema beat one of my dudes into a pulp with a dull sword over the course of half a day through nothing more than the power of raw determination and spite! I have to give credit where it is due."
“Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.” Garran Crowe is exactly who Rick Priestley had in mind when he penned this frequently quoted thought of the day for the Lex Imperialis.
Some of the points of this video had me laughing my head off. Thanks arch. I Love the idea of a grey knight sat in his living room with a tape measure just trolling a demon sword "I'll let it have another 10 cm before I stuff it back in the scabbard, that will piss him off"
I'm in a battle playing Forgotten Hope (a mod of BF1942) on a new map I had never played on and I had just pushed up to the last capturable area in front of the enemy's main spawn point and getting myself comfortable for a bit of KDR padding with a scoped rifle when 😵 and the weapon I was ☠ with was a "Noob Stick"...😑 Took me a bit but I eventually found that thing. It was a pickup kit/weapon just laying on a table in that one area and only on that map. That "kit" had no grenades, no pistol, no rifle, no landmines, no plunger and explosives, not even a knife,,, nothing but a two foot piece of wood with a single nail driven through one side and out the other. The fights to claim that thing were epic.😁
I imagine the blade is getting close to a breaking point of desperation where it will reveal it's own true name just so it can face absolute onlivion rather than this fresh hell, or driven so insane and desperate it switches side, fully, and links to the Emperor's side just so it can be "free" with heavy quotationmarks.
Considering that Daemons do not understand time as mortals do, and that this sword-bound spirit now faces very possibly what must feel like eternity in the hands of an autistic brick... I can see it.
Even better, it reveals its true name, but Crowe continues to ignore it through his pure, unadulterated autism. Antwyr can't even commit suicide because it's held in unending captivity by the smoothest brain the universe has ever birthed.
Oh you know Korne was laughing his ass off watching his champion get dominated by a guy effectively hitting him with a rusty metal pipe, knowing full well the actual strength of the weapon and how his hated rival was begging to allow the knight to use it’s full strength for nothing in return legitimately binding itself to a contract it couldn’t go back on or turn the tables on the Grey Knight something a demon never in it’s wildest dreams of total desperation and failure would offer and yet the knight was still not move, and not so much as a grunt of refusal just more thwacking sounds. And at the same time while unable to make Korne’s champion bleed, but just hitting him so hard and quickly Skull Taker was forced to basically sit there and take it. The discussion between Skull Taker and Korne after that fight had to be utterly hilarious Krone laughing hysterically and Skull Taker probably not even mad just standing there staring at the floor utterly flabbergasted he just got his ass handed to him by a being that could even hurt him 😂.
i imagine its something along the lines of skulltaker talking to korne like hey boss how'd you like that battle and korne is just laughing his ass off with gork and mork because the whole time the greyknight skulltaker was fighting was using a top tier demon blade like a tire iron because the man was too set on keeping antwyr in check to even think of letting go of it's leash
Khorne: *laughing* oh man never i could have imagined that lil shit antwyr being humiliated like this! Skulltaker: Glad you´re having fun boss.... ow... everything hurts.
We know Khorne has humor, because when Tuska the Demonkilla crushed one of his Daemonprinces balls as a last "fuck you", he was so impressed he made orks be reborn everyday to fight an eternal battle. It's an ork valhalla, effectively.
I can only imagine the duel between the Skulltaker and Crowe: Skulltaker: *roar* Antwyr: *"HEEEELP!!!"* Crowe: *keeps bashing* Skulltaker: *roars louder* Antwyr: *"HEEELP!!! HEEEELP!!!"* Crowe: *just keeps bashing harder* Skulltaker: *"Does that thing ever shut up?"* Crowe: *"Nope."* Skulltaker: *raging roar* Crowe: *keeps bashing some more* Antwyr: *"This man is a freaking maniac!!! HEEEELP!!!"* Skulltaker: *"This is starting to get annoying! You cannot defeat me! Your attacks don't hurt me!"* Crowe: *continues bashing regardless* Antwyr: *"This man can't be reasoned with! I have tried for years already! HEEEEELP!!!"* Skulltaker: *"No blade can parry my blows this long without breaking! What the hell is that thing?!"* Crowe: *"I don't know really."* Antwyr: *"I just want to go home!"* Oblivious Skulltaker when he suddenly realizes that the warp rift has started closing: *"Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull... Throne? Ugh? Oh, Khorne! WHY!?"* Few centuries pass and Skulltaker has returned to Khorne's realm, explaining what happened: Skulltaker: *"... So there was this Grey Knight guy wielding some weird Chaos blade with PTSD..."* Khorne: *"The Grey Knight had PTSD?"* Skulltaker: *"NO! The damn Chaos blade was the one with PTSD!!!"* Khorne: *"WTF!!!!"* Meanwhile in Tzeentch's realm: Tzeentch: *"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I almost feel sorry for poor Antwyr... almost."*
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus statements of ''facts'' and vanity go hand in hand, no one knows if his brain is the smoothest in the universe ,crowe can,t possibly know that. nor could antwyr, so that would make antwyr curious as to why crowe would make such a statement. if there is one thing demons like this one can,t stand its humbleness. but this is just how i percieve antwyr (doesn,t mean im right). antwyr simply doesn,t have an answer for the stoic silent humble nature of crowe.
@@RedSampler It’s a grey knight, there’s decent odds of him being goth when he says that, we don’t know if there’s a line of grey knights who are just perfecting being a root vegetable or not.
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus i understand, but to make that statement of fact, while we ourselves even don,t know for sure and therefore not a fact..., would give antwyr a foothold. maybe valdor the emps , some blank, or another greyknight could be able to keep the sword without it being a problem.(but because crowe keeps it we will not find out) for sure we know that fulgrim can,t🤣 😂🤣
Sword: Fine I will just out live that damned fool! Crowe(to himself): "Should I tell the sword that I am a perpetual? Nah, It'll figure that out on it's own ..."
Thanks to the smooth-sphere reference by Arch, I was imagining that Garran Crowe basically deaf to Chaos. The Grey Knight was so full of the Emperor's words and "love" that anything that Antwyr sent at him just bounced off. He could hear the sword but only in the most literal way... the offers and threats were just normal speech to Crowe's ears. I bet that he almost certainly could not see illusions and enticements. Crowe wasn't blind, mind you, the imagery was just so-much TV snow to him, but mostly transparent and not a bother.
Blade of Antwyr: "Use my power." Garran: "No." Blade of Antwyr: "Use my power!" Garran: "Nope." Blade on Antwyr: "Do it!" Garran: "Lol, no." Blade of Antwyr: "Fucking do it!" Garran: "Lmao, not a chance." Blade of Antwyr: "DO IT DAMN IT!!!" Garran: "Let me quote Rogal Dorn, 'No'."
The scene with Skulltaker is beautiful. Blade: LET ME AT HIM! NOW! LET ME ****** THIS ******* AND *********...! Crowe: Hm. *Bonk Blade: NOT LIKE THIS! WITH THE POINTY END YOU *******...! *Bonk Blade: NO! YOU *******, ***** ***** **********, UNLEASH ME! *Bonk Skulltaker: Dude, stop! I'm thirsty! Crowe: Hm... *Bonk...
I love this story because the main man played 10D chest. He worn out the demon to the point where he's willing to confess and snitch on his homies. So now he just got to wear them out even more to the point he just snitches genius!
"I'll escape! Just you wait! You can't keep vigil over me forev... Wait, what is that? Is that... duck tape? With a purity seal? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" *Secures sword to scabbard with holy duck tape*
The author tried really hard to make him incorruptible. Succeeded in making him sound like he was so deep into the spectrum he was at the bottom of the Marianas trench, shovel in hand. Shoulda talked to him about trains.
I can just imagine the small smile tugging at the corner of the man's mouth every time he that hears it's screaming and begging and knows he's winning the battle of wills.
"You cannot tempt me. My brain is the smoothest there is. Anything you say simply slides right off. Smoother than a shark's skin, my brain is. Not gonna wrinkle it, either, it doesn't like that. Seems you're stuck."
I like to think the sword is just screaming and Crowe is writing, “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh” over and over again. The sword did get to him at least on one occasion that I know of. See the lore in Hexfire box.
It honestly reminds me of the One Rings experience being owned by Gollum; trapped in a cave under the mountains in the hands of a simpleton who couldn't access it's full power, not being used for anything beyond minor mischief.
The ring, though, is much more terrifying, as nothing short of eru or morgoth could resisit it, no matter how smooth brain you were it would corrupt you, no matter how long it needed to wait it would wait, worst part? It could cause things to happen. It got stuck in the bottom of the ocean? Welp time to cause a nearby fish to eat it, get either caught by a fisherman or wind up on the shore, it got stuck in a box and thrown deep underground? Well, well, well, it's time to cause an earth qauke that'll unearth the box and maybe crack it open. It's got taken by some rando? And he isn't wearing it? Welp those orcs are useful, got taken by a hobbit and now stuck in a cave? Well, now isn't this interesting. there's another hobbit nearby who can take it, the ring is dangerous cause its will is to find its master and thats it, and God forbid you find yourself at mt.doom where its at its strongest, the only reason why golum fell in is cause he made a promises on a magic item and that in tolkiens universes pretty much binds you to said promises and golum broke it and allowed eru to intervene... yep, you heard right eru, who is tolkiens version of GOD in his story had to intervene and it wasnt the first time either, he had to intervene against sauron twice at this point, so yeah the sword has agency and its own plan but cant do much in bigger scales in reailty, the ring on the other hand (hehheheh) is dangerous cause how it can work with reailty to manipulating events to cause its escape, and no matter how pure, how strong, how smooth brain you are, you will indeliblely be over taken by the ring and its power unless your eru or morgoth but thats unfair as eru is just God in another name and morgoth is lucifer in another name
2:41 "Angron the demon Primarch only warranted the deployment of one [Grey Knights] Brotherhood". Though I did hear he's got 100 Orks coming for him as well.
To add insult to injury, whatever was happening on vraks warranted the deployment of 3 brotherhoods or companies of Grey knights. So Angron and the forces he commanded taking over a world were less of a priority than whatever was happening in a pocket on Vraks during its seige.
@@theclonelieutenant5976 To be fair, Angron is a known quantity for the Grey Knights to deal with. In Vraks' case, everyone didn't have a clue WHAT was coming other than "pretty fucking bad", so overkill is warranted.
Arch let me tell you, I have heard analogies from the best. Military school for one the instructors were very creative lol. You're analogies and Synonyms are so good and funny. From fornicating lava too, Explaining what the dark elder will go through when entering it's eternal hell. They are top tier, i and many others appreciate the entertainment and lore thank you for bringing us these great videos.
Ok, Crowe has entered my top 5 40k characters! I love characters like this. So extreme it borders on parody but just grounded enough that they could exist in the 40k universe
This is not the imprisonment of a demonic sword or a divine sword. This is the interrogation of a spirit inside of a sword. It also appears that the techniques he used are very reminiscent of the techniques the Carcaradons use to interrogate dark Eldari.
Im sure at some point skulltaker was joining in, screaming insults at antywr "How dare you hold back your daemonic sword, use it! fight me like a real man!" "Please, i swear not to corrupt you i promise on skulltajers true name, let me kill this bastard for you, just use my power!! Crowe: "No."
For such a Mary-Sue'd chapter, they do have some awesome fluff. Also, my favourite 40k/fantasy duo has to be Crowe and Aborash : two superlative warriors holding madness and corruption at bay just by being badass. *brofist
Grey Knights are my guilty pleasure. Sometimes it’s nice to have a group of perfect little goody-two-shoes’ fighting against pure “evil”. Grey Knights are fun
Honestly, kinda wondering how Pariahs would work as daemon containment. Pretty sure this sword would be even less happy in the headquarters of the Sisters of Silence or Culexus.
I reckon they’d be mighty annoyed at why the weird sword in the reliquary is constantly breaking it’s scabbard, because I imagine that they’re connection to the warp is so cut off that they probably can’t hear it’s raving mad pleas for someone to end it’s torture. And then, with a loud dull thud, it falls over on the floor.
This tale is such an Awesome take on the "Power Always Corrupts" but with the HILARIOUS twists of the "Not this time, Bro" kind. Thank you for taking on this one. Keep up the Great Work.
I feel like this is how the sword would feel around Fabious to considering deamons are terrified of the shear weight of atheism he brings to bear against them.
I'm curious if Antwyr would consider "self-shattering" to release himself from being wielded like a jedi hack lightsaber bat. Also, if Crowe maintains the blade or if that would make things awkward.
@@sessy01 I feel like it doesn’t have the ability to break itself else it’d have done it to escape before now. If it’s indeed the shard of a former god, I could see the other Chaos Gods taking many precautions to avoid that very scenario if they were the ones who sealed him away.
And so, after eons of war, terror and ruin, Antwyr discovered a soul it could not control. And in that free soul it found something it had never known before. A friend.
Antwyr: I'll give you unlimited power and knowledge to defeat all that stand before you. Just let me out from my horny jail once in a while, would you? Crowe: Nuh uh. Antwyr: FYM "Nuh uh"?
Just imagine the agony of antwyr fighting against the skulltaker. There's almost nothing it wants more than to have the pleasure of biting into the skulltakers flesh and ripping apart his soul. And it is right there, in the battle, a once in tenthousand years opportunity and antwrys blade is clashing against the skulltakers skin but it's not allowed to bite in. So close, yet so far away.
Holy shit, I'm not even done watching this, but he got the sword to narc on other daemons? Please tell me that it will eventually start fervently praying to the god emperor for help.
Crowe would probably write what it said down word for word in silence, pass the book off to his boss, who would read it, assume he is lying, and ignore it.
Even though the Gray knights try to make off their members fit into the same mold because people are unique individuals you can have exceptional people like the gray knight that is able to keep this possessed blade at Bay.
Just thought of something. If the Blade is indeed a shard of an ancient god…what if this isn’t the only one but the only one found so far? What if it’s like the C’Tan where all its antics are in reality about finding & reuniting its lost fragments to become whole again?
I imagine the Skulltaker fight having an exchange like the one between Archer and Lancer in Berserker's Day Out. Skulltaker: "...What are you doing?" Antwyr: "I DON'T KNOW"
Just imagine if the necrons hear about this, it would put a smile on their faces. Not only that can you imagine the shire amount of rage Korn has as he could possibly sense the the being in the sword, waiting for the master move that the Grey knight would use it in a single powerful stroke or a contest of strength between his best deamon to only have his best just get pinged by the equivalent of an indestructible straning sword, his hot blooded battle was reduced to an open seige waiting game. The other gods won't let him live this down. And who could say that Traizen wasn't there just waiting for an opportunity to just nab them both. Or maybe with this feat, he would make a special joke exhibit for his museum just for the laughs for other necrons, including himself, would have.
I'd like to think that Crowe isn't a smooth brain, but just a massive trollish prick. The other Grey Knight thought that either he'll drive the Blade mad with his trolling, or they'd just get tid of him.
So basically the 40k equivalent of Patrick star in power armor was the only indevidual in existance capable of bullying a unfathombly powerfull God like entity and keeping him imprissoned as an iron stick
You'd think that if he used an overpowered daemon sword as a regular sword, he could do much better with an actual sword and used the daemon as a walking stick or back scratcher or some such.
@@sessy01considering the blade doubles as a prison it probably repairs itself to a degree. After all. The Grey Knights originally tried to destroy the blade figuring Antwyr would slightly less of a threat to humanity if they could boot it out of material universe if they couldn't kill it.
"The very powers of hell itself are as nothing compared to the weaponized autism of the righteous man" the grey knigts, probably
exterminatus grad autism
@@trip9845 🤣🤣
and yet people will say that retconning the grey knights to be the genesons of the prototype primarch would be bad writing, hes an autist, and so are they
@@TS-jm7jm I like the sound of that actually, I really like the sound of that.
In Garran Crowe we see the true might of humanity:
Sheer, stone cold indifference. The ebodiment of "No fucks are given this day"
Passion is superfluous to requirement. There is no want, only need. There is a sword that needs to be contained. It will be. That is all.
'witness the field in which I grow my fucks, Antwyr. Witness it, and notice it is barren.'
Pure distilled Generation X
This model should be allowed to keep the armor of contempt rule.
A weaponized simpleton drives a chaos blade of limitless destruction to a muling, pleading wreck. Such fine wine in 40k.
I like to imagine Crowe just puttering around, going about his day in a completely ordinary fashion with the sword resting against his pauldron, whistling like Mickey Mouse on his boat all the while.
The funny thing is, the daemon sword is learning what it is to be a mortal in the clutches of a wholly indifferent or cruel being. Imagine how much it would give up just to be used just a tiny bit. Not too different from a slanneshi cultist who needs a taste. But they always need more and the thing they want it from doesn't care and holds all the cards.
@@akuinator6350 i kinda pictinring as the indiferent janitor, " well the sword is speaking but i gotta clean that floor" "i dont get paid to care"
Thr Grey knight xcom game shows Crowe does have a personality of sorts, and isn't a simpleton. He's just... more of an automaton when it comes to safeguarding chaos contraband.
@@andrewgause6971 that's what I've always thought, cause no "simpleton" can survive something that can just brute force through someone's natural mental barriers. This man is more of a living robot so deeply ingrained in his mental barriers that he simply dosent have a care for emotions or ideals.
When skull taker was banished the sword screamed "Take me with you, please save me!"
I love this thought. Hilarious.
As many authors have said in their works.
For an immortal there is no greater punishment than an eternity of boredom.
And this might be the purest form of that statement.
I imagine Crowe sitting there with paper and quill, nodding as this weapon of obscene power hurls insults and hate. Then in a moment of silence he turns the paper around and it's just
"He mad, brothers."
“Bros he mad fr fr.”
Hoes mad
Hoes mad
He angy
I can definately imagine the Crowe does have more than a little fun at the fact Antwyr just can't taint him he doesn't rub it in of course but I can see him flashing a little satisfied grin at him now and again to say my will is stil intact.
Grey Knight: "Ah, brother Crowe! How goes your task of keeping the Daemon blade in check?"
Antwyr: -audible weeping-
Grey Knight: "Understood. Keep up the good work, brother!"
Crowe slowly turns to face his brother purifyer. Crowe has never been seen without the daemon blade for over 100 years; and his grip never loosened, and only grew tighter as the screeching blade began hurling such vile insults and obsenities that it'd make a slaaneshi daemon blush. Crowe let the blade tire itself until audible weeping can be heard; before turning around and continued walking towards his chambers...a small satisfied smile on his face beneath his helmet.
I can only imagine the God Emperor watching and absolutely laughing his ass off at this, while gork and mork cheer in approval. "Don't need no demon powers, jus gotta hit the git with unbreakable bonky stick."
An unbreakable tool is a weapon onto itself
Imagine having such an iron-clad force of will you make a chaos god go through all the stages of grief.
that sword really need a hug and a cup of coffee
It's gotta be either willpower or such a sheer amount of autism.
I believe the guy was just simply extremely authistic, cause if you are intelligent there is no way you would not yield in some sense to something like that, its not force of will, for him it was just, meh
I think it’s still working on acceptance. It seems to bounce around the first four steps pretty wildly.
@@aureliogialluca704I suspect that the 666 "mind ra-" errr "trials of the emperor" scouring away all his prior memories and personality helped.
Now I’m just imagining Crowe as being so smooth brained he can’t be corrupted by the sword lol
Counter point, his brain has so many wrinkles that in practice it has become smooth.
“Blessed is the mind too small for doubt”
🎶 Grey Knight in the rain 🎶
....................works.
@@goingforgold_8536 where does that come from?
I can imagine the sword looking up to Crowe, and Crowe saying '' It stays silent and motionless or it gets the scabbard again''
Goodbye horses starts playing
I can imagine Crowe writing down the insults, passing it on to his brethren, and chuckles, "Here's the next volume of Daemonic Insults Weekly."
The Emperor: “this makes my bones rattle in overwhelming joy and amusement”
This is "What if Jurgen was a Grey Knight?" and it is absolutely glorious.
COULD YOU IMAGINE?????HAAAAA
Always with sandwiches and tanna leaf tea on hand and DOESN'T forget the marshmallows.
Brother Jurgen, please stop tormenting the tech priests.
Would you like some tea sir..
Maybe Jurgen is chopping sandwiches with the sword somewhere, right now. That or it’s strapped to a melta like a bayonet.
Imagine actually being tempted by a sharpened metal stick lmao. Virgin Fulgrim vs Chad Crowe.
Lol. Lmao perhaps. Kek even.
The Virgin Fulgrim: I-I couldn't help it, I couldn't stop myself from killing my b-brother. That blade... it was just too powerful... too cunning...
The Chad Crowe: Yeah I just take it to the bathroom with me. I remember there was one time we were out of toilet paper.
Antwyr: *daemonic screaming*
@@justinjohnson1695 Reminds me of a scene from some cartoon or comic I read years ago but forgot where about that sort of predicament. Where the incredible sword was stuck between a giant’s butt cheeks and left to whine about it.
But the real scene that comes to mind from your comment is in the Marvel Zombies Evil Dead Crossover comics where Ash convinces the evil and ancient book the Necronomicon to send him to another universe because the zombies might eat the book because it is made from human skin and written in blood. Except when the zombified heroes of Marvel find the Necronomicon; Cap America just tosses it to Zombie Hulk, who would go on to use it as toilet paper.
TLDR; an ancient tome of pure evil and malice was going to be used by a zombified, rotting version of The Hulk as ass wiping paper.
The sword Crowe has might actually be worse than the sword Fulgrim picked up too.
@@AdeptKing Are we sure on that? Because the sword Fulgrim picked up was able to eject his fricken soul out of his body, depending on where you read about that canon, and stashes it inside a painting of Fulgrim.
The fact Fulgrim steals his own body back is just goes to show how damned powerful the soul of a Primarch is.
I wonder if at some point Skulltaker thought that Antwyr was purposefully holding his power back just to rub salt in the wound, and to this day has no clue that Antwyr was raging the entire time LOL
You know that blade was screaming that entire time. Skulltaker probably left when the blade started to beg him to kill the grey knight.
Better yet skull taker was to busy laughing in his own head to focus on killing the gray knight.
@@ronardojohn1057oh you *know* Khorne had to find the whole thing hilarious.
"Look, I am the literal anthropomorphic embodiment of rage and hate and fury and mindless bloodshed... but I am also a God of martial prowess... and I just watched a metaphorical grandson of The Anathema beat one of my dudes into a pulp with a dull sword over the course of half a day through nothing more than the power of raw determination and spite! I have to give credit where it is due."
@@andrewgause6971 damn that was highly specific and true.
“Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.” Garran Crowe is exactly who Rick Priestley had in mind when he penned this frequently quoted thought of the day for the Lex Imperialis.
Some of the points of this video had me laughing my head off. Thanks arch.
I Love the idea of a grey knight sat in his living room with a tape measure just trolling a demon sword "I'll let it have another 10 cm before I stuff it back in the scabbard, that will piss him off"
Deamon sword: I'll give you riches and power beyond belief if you just let me help you
Crowe:The Emperor and Duty are enough for me
Soy Daemon Sword
vs
Chad Grey Knight
Blade of Antwyr: *offering up monsterous powers*
Garran: Nah, I’m gonna use you as a beat stick.
I'm in a battle playing Forgotten Hope (a mod of BF1942) on a new map I had never played on and I had just pushed up to the last capturable area in front of the enemy's main spawn point and getting myself comfortable for a bit of KDR padding with a scoped rifle when 😵 and the weapon I was ☠ with was a "Noob Stick"...😑
Took me a bit but I eventually found that thing. It was a pickup kit/weapon just laying on a table in that one area and only on that map. That "kit" had no grenades, no pistol, no rifle, no landmines, no plunger and explosives, not even a knife,,, nothing but a two foot piece of wood with a single nail driven through one side and out the other.
The fights to claim that thing were epic.😁
Blade of antwyr is aquired by ork Bozz. Blade offers up monstrous powers . Bozz just uses it to skratch his arse.
Ha ha metal stick go WHACK.
@@sadwingsraging3044 Using emotes to replace words in that comment made me more violent.
@@Yorkington 🤷♂️👏🏻
I imagine the blade is getting close to a breaking point of desperation where it will reveal it's own true name just so it can face absolute onlivion rather than this fresh hell, or driven so insane and desperate it switches side, fully, and links to the Emperor's side just so it can be "free" with heavy quotationmarks.
Considering that Daemons do not understand time as mortals do, and that this sword-bound spirit now faces very possibly what must feel like eternity in the hands of an autistic brick... I can see it.
Even better, it reveals its true name, but Crowe continues to ignore it through his pure, unadulterated autism. Antwyr can't even commit suicide because it's held in unending captivity by the smoothest brain the universe has ever birthed.
Oh you know Korne was laughing his ass off watching his champion get dominated by a guy effectively hitting him with a rusty metal pipe, knowing full well the actual strength of the weapon and how his hated rival was begging to allow the knight to use it’s full strength for nothing in return legitimately binding itself to a contract it couldn’t go back on or turn the tables on the Grey Knight something a demon never in it’s wildest dreams of total desperation and failure would offer and yet the knight was still not move, and not so much as a grunt of refusal just more thwacking sounds. And at the same time while unable to make Korne’s champion bleed, but just hitting him so hard and quickly Skull Taker was forced to basically sit there and take it. The discussion between Skull Taker and Korne after that fight had to be utterly hilarious Krone laughing hysterically and Skull Taker probably not even mad just standing there staring at the floor utterly flabbergasted he just got his ass handed to him by a being that could even hurt him 😂.
i imagine its something along the lines of skulltaker talking to korne like hey boss how'd you like that battle and korne is just laughing his ass off with gork and mork because the whole time the greyknight skulltaker was fighting was using a top tier demon blade like a tire iron because the man was too set on keeping antwyr in check to even think of letting go of it's leash
Khorne: so..... how'd it go ^_^
Skulltaker:....I don't want to talk about it. I'm going to bed.
Khorne: *laughing* oh man never i could have imagined that lil shit antwyr being humiliated like this!
Skulltaker: Glad you´re having fun boss.... ow... everything hurts.
We know Khorne has humor, because when Tuska the Demonkilla crushed one of his Daemonprinces balls as a last "fuck you", he was so impressed he made orks be reborn everyday to fight an eternal battle. It's an ork valhalla, effectively.
I can only imagine the duel between the Skulltaker and Crowe:
Skulltaker: *roar*
Antwyr: *"HEEEELP!!!"*
Crowe: *keeps bashing*
Skulltaker: *roars louder*
Antwyr: *"HEEELP!!! HEEEELP!!!"*
Crowe: *just keeps bashing harder*
Skulltaker: *"Does that thing ever shut up?"*
Crowe: *"Nope."*
Skulltaker: *raging roar*
Crowe: *keeps bashing some more*
Antwyr: *"This man is a freaking maniac!!! HEEEELP!!!"*
Skulltaker: *"This is starting to get annoying! You cannot defeat me! Your attacks don't hurt me!"*
Crowe: *continues bashing regardless*
Antwyr: *"This man can't be reasoned with! I have tried for years already! HEEEEELP!!!"*
Skulltaker: *"No blade can parry my blows this long without breaking! What the hell is that thing?!"*
Crowe: *"I don't know really."*
Antwyr: *"I just want to go home!"*
Oblivious Skulltaker when he suddenly realizes that the warp rift has started closing: *"Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull... Throne? Ugh? Oh, Khorne! WHY!?"*
Few centuries pass and Skulltaker has returned to Khorne's realm, explaining what happened:
Skulltaker: *"... So there was this Grey Knight guy wielding some weird Chaos blade with PTSD..."*
Khorne: *"The Grey Knight had PTSD?"*
Skulltaker: *"NO! The damn Chaos blade was the one with PTSD!!!"*
Khorne: *"WTF!!!!"*
Meanwhile in Tzeentch's realm:
Tzeentch: *"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I almost feel sorry for poor Antwyr... almost."*
That was beautiful 😂😂😂
Fate of that cursed sword is hillarious. I wouldn't be surprised if that sword lost it mind at some point thanks to Crowe.
You just hear crying and wailing from the sword in the midst of battle and maybe calms down being wiped down and oiled or would that be awkward?
It will probably make the deliberate decision to disassociate from reality fully and pretend to be a japanese school girl or some shit.
"Eventually, Antwyr stopped thinking"
Whenever I'm asked to explain a Paladin / Hexblade Warlock multiclass, my answer is "Garran Crowe."
As the echlisiarchy is so fond of saying, "Blessed is the mind to small for doubt."
Crowe is showing Rogal Dorn levels of being a mental brick
Garran Crowe, the "stubborn"
"Try to corrupt me all you wish. My brain is *too* smooth. The smoothest there is. Your attempts simply slide right off"
that would be vanity, and antwyr would have certainly exploited that.
@@RedSampler I think it’s more of a statement of fact more so than bragging.
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus statements of ''facts'' and vanity go hand in hand,
no one knows if his brain is the smoothest in the universe ,crowe can,t possibly know that.
nor could antwyr,
so that would make antwyr curious as to why crowe would make such a statement.
if there is one thing demons like this one can,t stand its humbleness.
but this is just how i percieve antwyr (doesn,t mean im right).
antwyr simply doesn,t have an answer for the stoic silent humble nature of crowe.
@@RedSampler It’s a grey knight, there’s decent odds of him being goth when he says that, we don’t know if there’s a line of grey knights who are just perfecting being a root vegetable or not.
@@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus i understand, but to make that statement of fact, while we ourselves even don,t know
for sure and therefore not a fact...,
would give antwyr a foothold.
maybe valdor the emps , some blank, or another greyknight could be able to keep the sword without it being a problem.(but because crowe keeps it we will not find out)
for sure we know that fulgrim can,t🤣
😂🤣
"Thank you for the warning." When those words were spoken, it knew, it had f***** up!!! 😰🤣🤣🤣
Sword: Fine I will just out live that damned fool!
Crowe(to himself): "Should I tell the sword that I am a perpetual? Nah, It'll figure that out on it's own ..."
You're mistaking him for Anwal Trawn. Then again you only find out you're perpetual the first time you die.
@@DoctorM42Crowe is simply too dense to die.
Antwyr probably wants to be able to drink.
@@cryamistellimek9184Man's soul is as thick as his skull.
21:16 It took me several seconds to notice the sojak there. But when I did, I burst out laughing xD
I didn’t even notice LMAO
I went back to look, and hot damn. Its even funnier on rewatch for it.
Thanks to the smooth-sphere reference by Arch, I was imagining that Garran Crowe basically deaf to Chaos. The Grey Knight was so full of the Emperor's words and "love" that anything that Antwyr sent at him just bounced off. He could hear the sword but only in the most literal way... the offers and threats were just normal speech to Crowe's ears.
I bet that he almost certainly could not see illusions and enticements. Crowe wasn't blind, mind you, the imagery was just so-much TV snow to him, but mostly transparent and not a bother.
Blade of Antwyr: "Use my power."
Garran: "No."
Blade of Antwyr: "Use my power!"
Garran: "Nope."
Blade on Antwyr: "Do it!"
Garran: "Lol, no."
Blade of Antwyr: "Fucking do it!"
Garran: "Lmao, not a chance."
Blade of Antwyr: "DO IT DAMN IT!!!"
Garran: "Let me quote Rogal Dorn, 'No'."
I even read that in the voice from TTS...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I CAN HEAR HIM 😂😂
‘Try to take my mind over. If you can! You’ll find that my mind is quite well *fortified* ‘
who wants a blessed oiling?
Chuck Norris approved 😂😂😂
The scene with Skulltaker is beautiful.
Blade: LET ME AT HIM! NOW! LET ME ****** THIS ******* AND *********...!
Crowe: Hm.
*Bonk
Blade: NOT LIKE THIS! WITH THE POINTY END YOU *******...!
*Bonk
Blade: NO! YOU *******, ***** ***** **********, UNLEASH ME!
*Bonk
Skulltaker: Dude, stop! I'm thirsty!
Crowe: Hm...
*Bonk...
Sounds like a 40k version of Forest Gump being told to watch the blade.
I love this story because the main man played 10D chest. He worn out the demon to the point where he's willing to confess and snitch on his homies. So now he just got to wear them out even more to the point he just snitches genius!
When Antwyr needs to deal with the autism of the average 40k player. Crowe just doesn't want to talk to anything.
When Arch described the staring I broke out into hysterical laughter. This man literally was so stubborn he broke the will of a demonic sword.
Using a shard of an ancient god as a baseball bat is the most ghetto grey knight thing ever
crowe: sword don't talk. it cut and stab
antwyr: no
crowe: fine, then sword bash
antwyr: wait wha-AHH! OWW! STOP IT!
Only Arch could do this story justice. Its not only, funny but intriguing. ❤😅
A thought I never imagined I would have: “I feel bad for a near-all powerful demon sword.” But here we are…
"I'll escape! Just you wait! You can't keep vigil over me forev... Wait, what is that? Is that... duck tape? With a purity seal? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
*Secures sword to scabbard with holy duck tape*
The author tried really hard to make him incorruptible. Succeeded in making him sound like he was so deep into the spectrum he was at the bottom of the Marianas trench, shovel in hand. Shoulda talked to him about trains.
When you can make a deamon cry. You are a spécial kind of people
I can just imagine the small smile tugging at the corner of the man's mouth every time he that hears it's screaming and begging and knows he's winning the battle of wills.
"You cannot tempt me. My brain is the smoothest there is. Anything you say simply slides right off. Smoother than a shark's skin, my brain is. Not gonna wrinkle it, either, it doesn't like that. Seems you're stuck."
I like to think the sword is just screaming and Crowe is writing, “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh” over and over again. The sword did get to him at least on one occasion that I know of. See the lore in Hexfire box.
Book: * Gives desperate ploy to tell the names of its brethren*
Champion: *Brings out tomb and starts writing*
Book: "It can WRITE?!"
It honestly reminds me of the One Rings experience being owned by Gollum; trapped in a cave under the mountains in the hands of a simpleton who couldn't access it's full power, not being used for anything beyond minor mischief.
The ring, though, is much more terrifying, as nothing short of eru or morgoth could resisit it, no matter how smooth brain you were it would corrupt you, no matter how long it needed to wait it would wait, worst part? It could cause things to happen. It got stuck in the bottom of the ocean? Welp time to cause a nearby fish to eat it, get either caught by a fisherman or wind up on the shore, it got stuck in a box and thrown deep underground? Well, well, well, it's time to cause an earth qauke that'll unearth the box and maybe crack it open. It's got taken by some rando? And he isn't wearing it? Welp those orcs are useful, got taken by a hobbit and now stuck in a cave? Well, now isn't this interesting. there's another hobbit nearby who can take it, the ring is dangerous cause its will is to find its master and thats it, and God forbid you find yourself at mt.doom where its at its strongest, the only reason why golum fell in is cause he made a promises on a magic item and that in tolkiens universes pretty much binds you to said promises and golum broke it and allowed eru to intervene... yep, you heard right eru, who is tolkiens version of GOD in his story had to intervene and it wasnt the first time either, he had to intervene against sauron twice at this point, so yeah the sword has agency and its own plan but cant do much in bigger scales in reailty, the ring on the other hand (hehheheh) is dangerous cause how it can work with reailty to manipulating events to cause its escape, and no matter how pure, how strong, how smooth brain you are, you will indeliblely be over taken by the ring and its power unless your eru or morgoth but thats unfair as eru is just God in another name and morgoth is lucifer in another name
2:41 "Angron the demon Primarch only warranted the deployment of one [Grey Knights] Brotherhood".
Though I did hear he's got 100 Orks coming for him as well.
I'm wondering if there are Orks who paint themselves silver because it makes them extra-fighty against demons.
To add insult to injury, whatever was happening on vraks warranted the deployment of 3 brotherhoods or companies of Grey knights.
So Angron and the forces he commanded taking over a world were less of a priority than whatever was happening in a pocket on Vraks during its seige.
AT LEAST a hundred of them.
Angron seeing on a hud [ The Waaaahg didn't like that] after killing Yarik.
@@theclonelieutenant5976 To be fair, Angron is a known quantity for the Grey Knights to deal with. In Vraks' case, everyone didn't have a clue WHAT was coming other than "pretty fucking bad", so overkill is warranted.
Arch let me tell you, I have heard analogies from the best. Military school for one the instructors were very creative lol. You're analogies and Synonyms are so good and funny. From fornicating lava too, Explaining what the dark elder will go through when entering it's eternal hell. They are top tier, i and many others appreciate the entertainment and lore thank you for bringing us these great videos.
He has perfected his art. Quite impressive.
@@sadwingsraging3044 Especially considering that English isn't even his first language!
Ok, Crowe has entered my top 5 40k characters! I love characters like this. So extreme it borders on parody but just grounded enough that they could exist in the 40k universe
This is not the imprisonment of a demonic sword or a divine sword. This is the interrogation of a spirit inside of a sword. It also appears that the techniques he used are very reminiscent of the techniques the Carcaradons use to interrogate dark Eldari.
In the chaos gate deamon hunters game he goes down to low caliber ballistic fire from random chaos cultists, very true to material no doubt
_The Book_ was some savage trolling on Crowe's part, I can't even imagine the strength of the insult for a greater demon to not be taken seriously
Not even a chaos daemon, a minor chaos god
Im sure at some point skulltaker was joining in, screaming insults at antywr
"How dare you hold back your daemonic sword, use it! fight me like a real man!"
"Please, i swear not to corrupt you i promise on skulltajers true name, let me kill this bastard for you, just use my power!!
Crowe: "No."
For such a Mary-Sue'd chapter, they do have some awesome fluff.
Also, my favourite 40k/fantasy duo has to be Crowe and Aborash : two superlative warriors holding madness and corruption at bay just by being badass. *brofist
Grey Knights are my guilty pleasure. Sometimes it’s nice to have a group of perfect little goody-two-shoes’ fighting against pure “evil”. Grey Knights are fun
Honestly, kinda wondering how Pariahs would work as daemon containment. Pretty sure this sword would be even less happy in the headquarters of the Sisters of Silence or Culexus.
I reckon they’d be mighty annoyed at why the weird sword in the reliquary is constantly breaking it’s scabbard, because I imagine that they’re connection to the warp is so cut off that they probably can’t hear it’s raving mad pleas for someone to end it’s torture.
And then, with a loud dull thud, it falls over on the floor.
This tale is such an Awesome take on the "Power Always Corrupts" but with the HILARIOUS twists of the "Not this time, Bro" kind.
Thank you for taking on this one. Keep up the Great Work.
I feel like this is how the sword would feel around Fabious to considering deamons are terrified of the shear weight of atheism he brings to bear against them.
Crowes mind is simple like Homer Simpsons.
Blade tries to speak
Crowe: "Go away. Eating."
In terms of power, I’m curious if the Blade is the equal or possibly even the superior of Drach’nyen
I'm curious if Antwyr would consider "self-shattering" to release himself from being wielded like a jedi hack lightsaber bat. Also, if Crowe maintains the blade or if that would make things awkward.
It’s mentioned that they are equal in different ways. Drach’nyen is a beat stick while Antywr is a sinister crouppter
@@sessy01 I imagine Crowe tried, realized the blade could not be sharpened normally, then stopped.
@@sessy01 I feel like it doesn’t have the ability to break itself else it’d have done it to escape before now.
If it’s indeed the shard of a former god, I could see the other Chaos Gods taking many precautions to avoid that very scenario if they were the ones who sealed him away.
And so, after eons of war, terror and ruin, Antwyr discovered a soul it could not control. And in that free soul it found something it had never known before.
A friend.
Dawww ❤❤❤
Imagine giving a daemon sword stockholm syndrome.
@@MrReich1918... why did my mind go to slaanesh having that for someone wtf
Who would have thought that the most basic of children punishment would work on an immortal and ancient being😂
I come back to this video again after watching it ages ago and it still brings a smile to my face at the mental thoughts of Crowe and the sword lol.
Antwyr: I'll give you unlimited power and knowledge to defeat all that stand before you. Just let me out from my horny jail once in a while, would you?
Crowe: Nuh uh.
Antwyr: FYM "Nuh uh"?
Just imagine the agony of antwyr fighting against the skulltaker. There's almost nothing it wants more than to have the pleasure of biting into the skulltakers flesh and ripping apart his soul. And it is right there, in the battle, a once in tenthousand years opportunity and antwrys blade is clashing against the skulltakers skin but it's not allowed to bite in. So close, yet so far away.
Holy shit, I'm not even done watching this, but he got the sword to narc on other daemons? Please tell me that it will eventually start fervently praying to the god emperor for help.
"Don't banish me bro. I'll show you how to make a complete STC if you don't!!!!" -daemon swords final card to play probably
Crowe would probably write what it said down word for word in silence, pass the book off to his boss, who would read it, assume he is lying, and ignore it.
@@njnjco . If I were the sword, I would do my best to imitate the tide talking stain commercial during important meetings.
Antwyr: I shall grant you with every power in the world!
Crowe: metal stick goes bonk hehe
Brain so smooth. The smoothest brain. Chaos corruption slides right off.
"couldn't destroy it, couldn't even contain it" "tosses it in a black hole"
Even though the Gray knights try to make off their members fit into the same mold because people are unique individuals you can have exceptional people like the gray knight that is able to keep this possessed blade at Bay.
And Kaldor Draigo.
Just thought of something. If the Blade is indeed a shard of an ancient god…what if this isn’t the only one but the only one found so far?
What if it’s like the C’Tan where all its antics are in reality about finding & reuniting its lost fragments to become whole again?
And the combined trauma of Antwyr’s suffering makes him pledge loyalty to the emperor lmao
I imagine the Skulltaker fight having an exchange like the one between Archer and Lancer in Berserker's Day Out.
Skulltaker: "...What are you doing?"
Antwyr: "I DON'T KNOW"
Skulltaker: STOP PLAYING AND FIGHT ME SERIOSLY ANTWYR!
Antwyr: I CAN'T DO IT YOU MORON!
Crowe:....no
When you win a staring contest against a sword lol.
Just imagine if the necrons hear about this, it would put a smile on their faces.
Not only that can you imagine the shire amount of rage Korn has as he could possibly sense the the being in the sword, waiting for the master move that the Grey knight would use it in a single powerful stroke or a contest of strength between his best deamon to only have his best just get pinged by the equivalent of an indestructible straning sword, his hot blooded battle was reduced to an open seige waiting game.
The other gods won't let him live this down.
And who could say that Traizen wasn't there just waiting for an opportunity to just nab them both. Or maybe with this feat, he would make a special joke exhibit for his museum just for the laughs for other necrons, including himself, would have.
Khorne literally got cockblocked 😂
Garran Crowe: "you know, life was boring until I got my hands on you, Antwyr"
You know, we often call the Eversor Assassins 'weaponised autism', but Crowe certainly a close contender for that title-
I'd like to think that Crowe isn't a smooth brain, but just a massive trollish prick.
The other Grey Knight thought that either he'll drive the Blade mad with his trolling, or they'd just get tid of him.
He just used sheathed sword to beat a Champion of Korne like the ultimate stepheaded red child LMAO. You weren't wrong, this was funny AF.
"Scribble, scribble, stop, silence, *STARE*""
Love it.
I kove stories of demons and xenos being bestes like this. In ways that make the humans seem scarier and more unknown than them.
The phrase, "Thank you for the warning." has never had so much gravitas to it
Does this form of Warfare have a spot in The art of war, because it absolutely should.
So basically the 40k equivalent of Patrick star in power armor was the only indevidual in existance capable of bullying a unfathombly powerfull God like entity and keeping him imprissoned as an iron stick
Imagine the size of this gigachads fucking chin as he mentally answers every tempting offer with "No thanks I love the Emperor."
Crowe is basically a dad holding his kids hand while walking past a lego shop lmao
- hot fuzz - Antwyr: LOOK, STOP WRITING!
Garran: - monotone while scribbling - stop...writing.
The armor of contempt made manifest in the most hilarious way possible
You'd think that if he used an overpowered daemon sword as a regular sword, he could do much better with an actual sword and used the daemon as a walking stick or back scratcher or some such.
Would a demon sword unpowered wanna break itself, or are there awkward moments as the blade is maintained?
@@sessy01considering the blade doubles as a prison it probably repairs itself to a degree.
After all. The Grey Knights originally tried to destroy the blade figuring Antwyr would slightly less of a threat to humanity if they could boot it out of material universe if they couldn't kill it.
18:26 this is the funniest part of the video
I almost imagine he’d just tell them how to kill him at this point, just to be free of this torment.
"I will flay you with your own spine and damn your soul to an eternity of boiling plasma!"
"Light work, no reaction."
Whenever it seems like the Emperor has abandoned us, Arch appears with a spot of levity.
The tragedy of Darth Antwyr the Wise
"Tempt me all yo wish, my brain is too smooth (the smoothest there is). Your daemon bullshit will simply slide right off."
Fantastic story telling Arch. I do really like your spin on the 40k universe.
The Grey Knights achieved the impossible: an ogryn battle brother. Truly, blessed are the minds too small for doubt
"Your tricks will not work on me Daemon, my brain is too smooth fir your lies"