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🎉🎉🎉 Since you made Seth‘s video about warp entities that aren’t aligned with chaos. I’d like to propose a video idea of my own. About what remains of and references to ‘our’ era and earlier things from earth in the time of 40K. That’s something I’ve been interested in for a long time. PS: Majorkill please tell me if you see this comment. So I know the idea is in your head.
The Modern 40K Nightlord’s do have Aspirant trials, similar in that to how the Assassinorum makes their recruits wittile down recruits on their black-ship voyages to the temple. Where only the most cunning, skillful, or lucky are left alive at the end and are then chosen from.
The Alpha Legion's recruitment process has only one requirement, the aspirant must convince the rest of Alpha Legion that they're already a member, the exact process is up to the aspirant and no one is ever told about this process, you just have to know about it This is also why Alpha Legion has two primarchs, they originally only had one until the day one exceptionally convincing aspirant managed to gaslight the entire Imperium (including the Emperor) into believing he was the primarch's twin brother
@@ccarroll4339 Assuming you didn't try out for one of the chapters that turns failed aspirants into Servitors. Even then being a Chapter serf just guarantees you'll be one of the people who gets massacred whenever the Space Marines ships get attacked or sucked into the warp unexpectedly. Still, probably beats living on a Hive World or toiling your life away in an Imperial factory. I mean most normal Imperial citizens are gonna die horribly eventually no matter what happens. Might as well live out the rest of their short lives around the Emperor's finest.
@@fredriktomte80 yeah for real. It was said that those salamanders can breathe fire hot enough to melt a ceramite armor instantly, big enough to quake the land and durable as fuck that a chainswords bounces off
@@OmicronX-1999 I mean, even if you end up as chapter serf for Salamanders it's still kinda decent as they are quite nice to regular humans and if the ship you serve on is attacked, there is a chance they'll protect you (assuming they manage to repell the attack) so out of every option, this one is propably the best
One of the cool things about the Imperial Fists recruitment process...if an aspirant passes the final trials and becomes a scout marine, a fully fledged battle brother rocks up to the aspirants family home and announces 'Congratulations! Your son is now a son of Dorn'. Imagine some 9 foot tall armored yellow giant ringing your doorbell as you're making the dinner, before you open the door with a half-drained saucepan of carrots!
Seven to eight, not nine. Custodes are nine feet tall and yellow, and Astartes, aside from exceptions like Tyberos, are typically between seven to eight. But yes, the image is quite hilarious.
I’m imagining an Imperial Fist with a voice like an enthusiastic Vader shouting “Congratulations!” as loudly as he possibly can. In full battle-rattle. In the middle of a hive block.
@@rahma4thread revival, but I searched imperial fists recruitment, and on the Lexicanum page, this statement is made with the source claimed to be the novel Space Marine, however without a chapter of the book as a reference point
The sensible part about Ultramarine's recruitment is that they do the compatibility test first. And they're not exactly begging for recruits as most families treats one of their sons joining UM as a badge of highest honor. Rich families even hired retired Ultramar auxilia nco to train their sons to have a better chance at succeeding.
"Yes Saint Peter I know making servatores would be a major sin, that's the point, every one is battle mace 40M is a ... can i swear here? ... Major asshole."
'The Brightest and the Best' short story covers a type of Alpha Legion's recruitment process. They send representatives to a Schola Progenium, pretending to be a loyalist chapter. They select the brightest and the best students and recruit them via deception or by force if necessary. The recruits come with good understansing of the current state of the Imperium and with some pre-established connections through the Schola. This is actually similar to one of the ways for real-life intelligence services to recruit people from abroad through international Master's degrees and MBA's.
@@benjamintim3542 Oh I absolutely think it was a compliment! In only the way two of the closest brothers can do, “they’re a bunch of twats but they are true heroes all the same” As a Son of Russ myself I take pride in taking the piss out of the Dark Angels because they’re a bunch of cunts! But they’re OUR cunts and only we can fuck with them! If anyone else dares talk shite about our mopey boys they’re in for a beating! And it’s the same reversed, that’s what makes our brotherhood so strong.
The alpha legion recruitment was all about teamwork they put there aspirant together in squads and told to complete whatever mission they were assigned, but will only make them astares if the team could work together and not individually because alpha legion is all about working achieving the goals of the legion not seeking glory
@@MrFallenone I also feel like the Alpha Legion treat their human companions well since it would be difficult to explain why the governor's secretary is 7+ feet tall and built like a brick house.
@@btrando1 Alpharius's Primarch book goes into that a lot. Was really neat seeing a Primarch and a room full of Astartes and regular humans all talking and disagreeing about plans and strategy and none of them went 'I'm a god or demigod puny mortal' or 'rolled their eyes' at the morals... but Alpharius and the Astartes all listened to the council of the normal humans and their info and ideas as much as they did the stuff the Astartes presented. As long as you were good at your job and did it well, Alpharius and any of the Alpha Legion seemed to treat a human as one of their own.
@@btrando1 they are the CIA of warhammer, i bet they are loyal, they invented the double agent strategy and mastered it 10k+ years, they went so rogue, i bet even the chaos gods forgot about their existence
Seems that even Marjorkill misunderstood the important part of the Daemonculaba, the fact that it was a recent practice by one Warsmith named Monsu or whatever. It seems that there has not been other Warsmiths utilizing these practices. It is always a pet peeve of mine whenever I hear that the Daemonculaba is considered the sole or main recruiting process for the Iron Warriors.
@@andreibalaban3643 i might be wrong on this one, but wasnt there another warsmith who had a beef with honsou and was also planning on destroying the daemonculaba? the bit i do remember was something about office politics and warsmiths turning on eachother from time to time.
The Lamenters: "Are you sure you want to be an Astartes? No seriously... Are you SURE you wouldn't rather be a baker, or an accountant or something?... *sigh... Alright, don't say I didn't warn you."
I've been saying that there can only be a tiny handful of original World Eaters left at this point for a while now. In one of the Blackshields books, they talk about how one of the old War Hounds-era apothecaries streamlined the marine building process in such a way wherein the successful aspirants ate the failed ones so the combat experience wouldn't be wasted, but made them....somewhat less stable than your standard World Eater.
We know that khorne can revive his followers (kharn, the demonripper ork etc) also we had in the lucius book one champion of the 8 legion that got killed by lucius and revived fought him again and was used as a sacrifice for a greater demon. We also have from the nightlords book the fact that since time behaves different they did not lived throu the same time as others. For them the siege of terra was merely hundreds of years ago. Not thousands. And as a last point: Khorne is a god of war. Of all aspects of it not just suicidal frontal charges. So there might be some world eaters full on the ligistical part of it that are more level headed than the rest.
@@uwesca6263 It's kind of hard to say as different authors impact the lore from different perspectives. The butchers nails basically drives them all to madness but at times rational thought can still break through. Just how often seems to be a mystery to me.
I feel like what could've helped the Iron Hands be a little less stupid was have their hatred of flesh be a warp spaghetti blowback from Ferrus' death, like the Black Rage for Blood Angels. A deep psychological paranoia that maybe if they were stronger they could've saved their dad.
Much better if the death of Ferrus made them much more dependent on Mechanicus and inherited their mindset along with the passed down story of the death of their primarch. "For you see the Omnissiah allowed the death of our primarch for he abhorred the strength of steel and worshipped the weakness of the flesh. Therefore, brothers, we must learn from the mistake of our Primarch who have let his emotion, one of the great weakness of the flesh, take control of him that caused his death."
@@littlejohn8435 I'd be ok with that too, but hating flesh is also the listed flaw of the Iron Hands geneseed so it could use ties to the soul of Ferrus himself. It's also said that it differs from the admech who see cyberdongs as just superior to meaty bits. Sons of Ferrus have an inherent self loathing in them that they think can only be cured with bionics.
Also, I know it's their whole meme but I just wanna add that Iron Hands don't just chop themselves up willy nilly. Their chaplains are specifically trained to judge what level of bionics each brother can handle and only give them more when they're deemed worthy.
The World Eaters have a deal with Fabius, but overall they pick renegades or whoever they can get, now they use demons to accelerate the process with mix results, Kharn himself gets like 1000 recruits but kills like 99% of them, so is a mystery how they keep numbers.
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 Its not a mystery at all. They are so crazy angry that they split into multiple little World Eaters and grow in a matter of hours.
I honestly would say it’s a mystery as a whole how Chaos kept its numbers up, even without looting manpower from the Imperium and daemons, they always seemed to outnumber the Imperials even before the 13th Black Crusade
For some renegades to traitor warbands in the M41 . Some of them due to the planets they control they use the population to recruit from. As per the case for the Iron Warriors during the Beast arises crises before the orks took over a planet that the legion ruled over. As for a current now traitor's Red Corsair's they recruit from the planet's they govern now or through other renegades or traiter legion warband signing up with them and swearing loyality to them. As in the Night Lord trilogy set there were a few Night Lords who were in the Red Corsair force. As they saw more opportunity for selfish gains with them then in a Night Lord warband or in the Black Legion.
I think there's a short story where an Iron Warrior warlord meets emissaries from the three old legions, the Thousand Sons, Emperor Children, and the Night Lords. The warlord ended up disappointed since those three aren't veterans of the long war but instead they were recently inducted. The majoroty of the story was about how each envoy being recruited into the warband and how from an aspirant into an astartes.
I read up on this for a Black Crusade game. Thousands very rarely recruit new marines, one of the ways they don't lose members is they've actually mastered resurrection. So if a sorcerer falls, his mates just bring him back from the dead. Also regarding the death guard as, they'll survive anything that doesn't outright kill them, the apothecarys only job is to take geneseed from enemy fallen, which is why the death guard is I think the largest chaos legion.
The thousand-sons do recruit. Its just super rare because of the intelligence and mathematical prowess the Aspirant must have… There is a part in this book: The Masters Bidding, where a recent/post heresy Thousand Son sorcerer explains his ascension into an astartes. You can listen to the audio-book here: ruclips.net/video/BlQBF24FIgg/видео.html But basically it amounts to being intelligent and lucky enough to follow all the tzeentchian plots through random hints and clues left around. That could easily be interpreted in almost any way…
@@brianpj5860 Also they have to be a psycher because they can only get new gene-seed from the sorcerors that die and that gene-seed is only compatible with psychers
I saw somewhere that the defense for the iron warrior massive amount of casualties is that their gene seed is designed for it. There isn’t any fancy abilities and it’s easy to reuse the Gene Seed. I don’t know where this is citied but I did see it somewhere
In the Fabius Bile series he travels with a firstborn apothecary of the World Eaters named Arrian Zorzi that got excluded from his legion because, during the seige terra, he went into a trance and killed his squad. He now carries the skulls of the brothers he killed and talks to them, uses drugs to dampen the nails just enough so he can think and is some what of an philosopher warrior. Real interesting character
just a small note about the iron hands recruitment, the way you get noticed by the legion is to 1 wander the cold as hell deserts of medusa till you find their moving land fortresses OR take part in the iron moon ceremony where your expected to be thrown in a cage and fist fight one of the native beast of medusa, there isn’t any art of said beast but one of the books describes one almost like a mix of a dear, a lion and a bear
On Majorkills 11th legion theory, could it be that the best legion at stealth was originally the 11th but upon their dissolution their successor marine were divided in to the Nightlords (8th) and the Ravenguard (19th) [19-8=11]
Thing about Dorn is that the harshness of Inwit, and Necromunda gangsters is _who_ he is by temprament. Dorn's greater achievement for his character is that he's a stoic in the truest sense; that he _overcame_ his nature to give us the cold stubborn Dorn we know. Every scold he has ever levied has been to admonish those for succumbing to their nature/design. It's why he hates Sigismund, because he is what an Imperial Fist is at a basal level, and what Dorn is trying to overcome in himself.
Alpha Legion is one of few renegade legions, that can still create Space Marines normally, since their geneseed is not corrupted (they didn't run through the Eye of Terror after the Horus Heresy) and thanks to Omegon not turning into a Chaos - something, they still have an acces to geneseed material.
I like the idea of the alpha Legion using that style of recruitment because Omegon has identified the loyalists in a doomed chapter and is trying his best to save as many potential renegades/chaos space marines as possible from their fates
Another thing about the Night Lords: Konrad Curze originally wanted the brightest children of the Nostraman nobility to be the recruits, but those nobles, along some Astartes in the legion like Skraivok, schemed to send their people’s worst instead. From that, all of Nostramo’s prisons were emptied, thus creating the legion of murderers we know and love
Majorkill: Now if you are currently eating, i recommend skipping... Me looking at my tortilla wrap: *pauses video and finishes eating before continuing to watch*
First major kill video I saw I was kinda in the air, didn't know if I liked him or not. But now I find myself watching tons of his videos. Always enjoyable videos.
I have a question... One that's only slightly on topic because the loy/etic Alpha Legion was mentioned in the video... Tzeench chose Magnus and the Thousand Sons because of things like their psyker abilities. Which makes sense with how sorcery is part of his portfolio. But wouldn't the Alpha Legion be just as good, or an even better choice, due to his obsession with unnecessarily complicated plotting? Because the concept of the unknowable and the nonsensical seems to fit both the Chaos god and the XXth perfectly.
Thats what the World Eaters where doing during the Heresy… dunno if they kept up the process, but they would use vat grown clones and memory transplantation to make Berserker monstrositys that already had the battlefield memories of thousands of battles.
In the comic book about Marneus Calgar, the process to select Ultramarine recruits is show with some details. Spoiler alert: Squid Game, in comparison, looks like a walk in the park in spring.
Also keep in mind, it was a planet in Ultramar Empire. So maybe varied from planet to planet, even background stating that the planet they recruited has low success rate compared to 499 worlds (or at least ones not destroyed in Horus Heresy). Also many nobles having instructors for preliminary training in the comic, but unfortunately Spoiler: one happened to be a Chaos cultist who killed Marneus and his friend Tacitan took on his name.
I I say the iron hands should have a unique servitor unit. I mean if they fail at the end of their trial they'd still have a lot of space marine augmentations in them making them still super human before they get lobotomized, also servitors are a major part of 40K lore and are said to have limitless customization options and can be pretty powerful at times. I just think it's weird that such a defining part of the setting has only one model (I've got similar feelings about necrom flayed ones.) Also, this is an opinion coming from a guy who hates space marines and thinks they get too much company favoritism. I'm tired of hyper specific space marine units especially ones that only work for one chapter, and I'm asking to give one to the iron hands because they don't have anything.
some Space Wolves don't wear helmets, and it IS wise because their senses give them a great advantage. they can smell enemies that don't show up on an auspex. they can hear a squad leader giving orders just before telling his men to attack, and thus be waiting in the exact way to efficiently counter the attack and destroy that squad.
For Word Bearers there is a little bit from, The First Heretic, where Erebus recruited Argel Tal. Nothing about why they were chosen but I am guessing Chaplains were the ones to go get promising candidates. What would the other primarchs would react and rule the imperium if they return before guilliman?
Well, their abilities are very well known, but sadly there are some authors who lack the needed imagination in order to depict the Astartes properly. Basically, whenever they show qualities in battle that could be considered "human-like" it's bullshit most of the time.
They have exagerated them waaaay too much over the years to make sense at some points, both in fighting prowess and tactics.A chapter or two alone shouldnt be able to do a thing without extensive IG support.
This is true. Like in one book a Space Marine can tank 30 pulse rifle shots. And then in another or even the same book, one pulse rifle shot takes the space marine out. Sometimes they can run super fast, sometimes they get easily tracked. Sometimes they have the accuracy of shooting for 80 years non stop, sometimes they seem like they haven’t fired a gun before. Seems like too often they’re manipulated for whatever the author needs to get done, which is not good for consistent lore telling. Like as a Tau fan, I don’t care if it takes 10 or 100 Tau soldiers to take down a space marine. Whichever it is, just stick with it. I hate that sometimes 1 crisis suit can easily take out 1 or 2 marines but then all of a sudden you get 1 marine who is wrecking crisis suits left and right and solos a whole battalion.
@@yonahsefchovich5931 They should die of a plasma shot int the head everytime. Like in the tabletop game, strong and durable, but killable, not anime characters in power armor.
@@tipodeincognito5660 yeah like I’ve read examples of how a Tau rifle can easily punch through SM armor. And then other times when it’s just scratching SM armor.
I've always liked how different most Chapters recruiting processes. It gives flavour to all the chapters. I especially love The Dark Angels recruitment processes.
The Alpha Legion recruitment process is actually dope as fuck: They kidnapp potential loyalist aspirants before they are taken and hypnotise them. Then when they broadcast the trigger word half the victim loyalist chapter shoots the other half and the Alpha Legion has 500 new marines.
A note on the Night Lords: it was the governors of the planet who started sending in prisoners and persona non gratia as aspirants; when Konrad first started recruiting from his home the recruits were harsh, yes, but were still under the Nighthaunter influence of discipline. Kurze grew to hate his legion as they began to be replaced terrible individuals.
The Space Marine Chapters are in no shortage of countless young men from across the Imperium's many world who will be willing to give themselves to be trained and implanted with the geneseeds to become the new warriors of the Man-Emperor of Mankind.
MajorKill does not dare speak of recruitment in my favorite faction. THE GREY KNIGHTS !!! The most badass faction in the Imperium. Watch Luetin09's two-part documentary about the recruitment of Knights. It's awesome.
I guess most of the time chaos legions like world eaters, death guard and Emperor's Children would seek Fabius Bile to built a small army before a raid or attack in the material world
Couple of questions. How can a Space Wolf aspirant turn Wolfen if theyvare an aspirant and not fi ished with genetic manipulation yet? Surely they can't turn as early as the trials! Also, I don't think it's literally Sanguinius' blood that Blood Angel aspirants are placed in.
@💉Pfizer Soze💉 point taken. I took it as implied given how he says it. But don't reply in all bold as though I'm stupid. It's a dick move and all thats wrong with people in 40k. Either way it can't be right. 10,000 years of feeding thousands upon thousands of aspirants his blood? How much would they need? That's was where I was going with it.
@💉Pfizer Soze💉 Yeah and you just sound like a dickhead! I'm happy to take a point it was taken as implied. Filled with blood, fed someone's blood. Implies the blood they are lay in is how they are fed it. With 3 replies to make you point mate, I don't think "stay humble" is in your vocabulary to act out.
In the Ragnar books they drink this weird liquid which kickstarts a process within the Canine helix. I think this is one of the tools given to the S.Wolves Majorkill eluded to. Anyway - They are basically caged up and going feral fighting each other. Some die and some go crazy and a few are taken away because they are turning Wulfen. If I remember correctly this is before any organ implants. Ragnar wakes up in the middle of fucking know here and is basically boosted with power to that of a scout.
I have to say for me it's atie between the blood angles and the space wolves for most brutal recruitment ritual. With the blood angles if you want to join you have to drag your emaciated cancer riddled body across a radiation filled desert to fight in gladiator style combat against other emaciated cancer riddled boys to then be stuffed in a coffin filled with blood to either die, go insane and die, or come out looking flawless. And with the space wolves you have to first prove yourself in battle basically lead a shield wall at like 12 against raiders twice your age to then have your soul offered up to the warp for temptation and if it looks like you might give in rune priest sever your soul and turn your body into a servator and if you pass they load onto a dropship fly you out to the middle of a frozen forest and make you drink the canis helix the gene seed the turns you into a wulfen and toss you out while your trying to fight off the transformation and tell you to make your way back to the fortress by yourself and leave you to either freeze to death because they drop you with nothing, get eaten by astartes size predators, transform into a wulfen, or somehow make your back through all of that before they say you pass.
In the Baal book, Girly-Man squashes the idea that any kind of hardship makes better SMs - he straight up tells Dante to raise the quality of life in the Baal system as the suffering makes no difference to the final marine. Cauls initial batch of primaries likewise haven't all gone through crazy life and selection process. If you have they right genes compatible with the process, job done.
Hey Majorkill. Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, The Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Thank you.
If you watch the intro cinematic for BFG II, the cultist guy you play as who becomes a Chaos Astartes, it looks like he becomes a Word Bearer (armor color scheme and not being a distinct Chaos God aligned Astartes) through some sort of rituals. Also interestingly is that it looks like he is already an adult when he is chosen but that could just be warp spaghetti.
Yo, the nightlords do have a trial…. There is a short story about a 40k Nightlords trial, where they travel to a planet during a specifc night of the year where there is a festival for all the young undesirables and murderous aspirants that are forced outside all night and to gather around a large Chaos effigy at the upper open-air levels of the hive. Then when the festival starts they all fight to the death in a big murderous free-for-all, while Nightlord Raptors rain down from the sky and rocket through the streets picking off weakling aspirants, and antagonizing the rest throughout the night, as they watch and supervise the chaos down below. Where at the end of the festival, they pick their best aspirants based off their kills… The story is incredible, as a [Big SPOILER ALERT] lone aspirant, leading a gang of kids that all get picked off one by one before he finally manages to lead a Nightlord to his death and cuts his face off as proof of kill…
And the Thousand Sons do still recruit. There is a part in a story by the name of: The Masters Bidding, where a Thousand Son sorcerer explains his post heresy ascension into a Thousands-Son Astartes… Dude needs to read more!!! Lol audio-book here: ruclips.net/video/BlQBF24FIgg/видео.html
The Death Spectres literally murder their aspirants, who have to fight to self-resurrect. The Blood Ravens apparently do all their surgeries over a week or so, without anasthetics and never cleaning up afterwards, just leaving the kids to lay there in the filth in between cutting sessions, because real Marines don't die from massive infections or bleed out because their chapter has dumb trials.
If the novel Lords of Silence is anything to go off of, the Death Guard accept any Astartes that accepts Nurgle’s gift. There are two major character that are not originally from the legion, both holding high ranks in the War band. The main one doesn’t even remember what chapter or planet he was from or why he turned traitor. However those not from the original legion do get looked down on and have to work harder to prove themselves
I'm pretty sure in a white scars book it talks about a recruit being placed 17th on the list of top performance. The top 16 were sent directly to the Luna Wolves, and the bottom however many being divided up. I'm fairly sure this was super early in the process on Terra, and the now Terran white scar was met with a huge culture clash joining the Khans culture.
Thousand sons fan here 🤓 heh actually major kill that’s a common misconception. Thousand son geneseed is totally fine thanks to the rubric. Thing is it will only work in potent psyker kids. The souls for ‘rubrics’ can come from basically any dead low lvl thousand son guy across time. The trials are just wizard school.
I think I remember that the DeathGuard do not recruit mortals at all. Nurgle chooses their recruits amongst CHaos Astartes and turns those into Plague Marines. These Plague Marines then eventually turn up at the Death Guards doorstep. I remember a passage in the 7th edition CSM codex, or a novel, I cant remember, that Abaddon gifted the Deathguard 250 Astartes to secure their loyalty.
I think most Guardies would be too old to become marines but my idea for a homebrew chapter is the Warborn who look out for promising young men who for militia and fight to defend their home world. PTSD before you join the military, now that's grimdark.
@@gerardmontgomery280 I like the idea of a chapter who recruits those, who have already shown bravery, honour & faith in the Emperor, even before being selected to become an aspirant
I think I've read on the wiki that modern Death Guard makes fighting games for the desperate and diseased tribesmen that live on the plague planet, and the winners will become new Death Guard members. Surprisingly logical for a chaos legion, but the geneseed stability question still stands. I guess they just incorporate whatever mutation it gives them into their already horrible form
There is something just so beautifully noble and tragic with the blood angels recruitment. Doesn’t matter how deformed malnourished or fuck up you are on the outside of your will is and character the stuff that matters in the inside is strong and able make it through the trials the blood of Sanguineius will cleanse your impurities and make you a angel.
13:38 the Ultramarines were the largest legion during the great crusade with about 250,000 Astartes (due to absorbing at least partially the II an XI Legion) followed by the Word Bearers with about 160,000 Astartes. That is also one of the reasons, why Lorgars boys were sent to Calth, as no one else would have had the numbers…
The world eaters train human slaves to perform the duty's of geneseed extraction. I can't remember her name but there is a story about a slave with a staff with the tools for it on it.
"and fed some of Sanguiniuse's ..." and at this moment my Internet connection died for a bit. For a couple of minutes, I wondered what part of Angel boi they were fed.
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Turns out there's more to making a Space Marine than shoving geneseed down your orifices
As long as the Death Guard don't try recruit me I'm happy
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Since you made Seth‘s video about warp entities that aren’t aligned with chaos. I’d like to propose a video idea of my own. About what remains of and references to ‘our’ era and earlier things from earth in the time of 40K. That’s something I’ve been interested in for a long time.
PS: Majorkill please tell me if you see this comment. So I know the idea is in your head.
The Modern 40K Nightlord’s do have Aspirant trials, similar in that to how the Assassinorum makes their recruits wittile down recruits on their black-ship voyages to the temple. Where only the most cunning, skillful, or lucky are left alive at the end and are then chosen from.
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The Alpha Legion's recruitment process has only one requirement, the aspirant must convince the rest of Alpha Legion that they're already a member, the exact process is up to the aspirant and no one is ever told about this process, you just have to know about it
This is also why Alpha Legion has two primarchs, they originally only had one until the day one exceptionally convincing aspirant managed to gaslight the entire Imperium (including the Emperor) into believing he was the primarch's twin brother
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You see this process is so effective I nearly believed this for a while
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Honestly the salamander's is probably the best. As if you fail to make the entrance exam, you still have a pretty nice job as a blacksmith
That salamander you have to kill isn't dangerous?
In that case, the Raven Guard sounds better. Killing birds can't be that dangerous... 😅
Or chapter serf. Hardly the worst job in the imperium.
@@ccarroll4339 Assuming you didn't try out for one of the chapters that turns failed aspirants into Servitors. Even then being a Chapter serf just guarantees you'll be one of the people who gets massacred whenever the Space Marines ships get attacked or sucked into the warp unexpectedly.
Still, probably beats living on a Hive World or toiling your life away in an Imperial factory. I mean most normal Imperial citizens are gonna die horribly eventually no matter what happens. Might as well live out the rest of their short lives around the Emperor's finest.
@@fredriktomte80 yeah for real. It was said that those salamanders can breathe fire hot enough to melt a ceramite armor instantly, big enough to quake the land and durable as fuck that a chainswords bounces off
@@OmicronX-1999 I mean, even if you end up as chapter serf for Salamanders it's still kinda decent as they are quite nice to regular humans and if the ship you serve on is attacked, there is a chance they'll protect you (assuming they manage to repell the attack) so out of every option, this one is propably the best
One of the cool things about the Imperial Fists recruitment process...if an aspirant passes the final trials and becomes a scout marine, a fully fledged battle brother rocks up to the aspirants family home and announces 'Congratulations! Your son is now a son of Dorn'. Imagine some 9 foot tall armored yellow giant ringing your doorbell as you're making the dinner, before you open the door with a half-drained saucepan of carrots!
Do you have a source for that? 'Cause that sounds like an epic read :D
Seven to eight, not nine. Custodes are nine feet tall and yellow, and Astartes, aside from exceptions like Tyberos, are typically between seven to eight. But yes, the image is quite hilarious.
Probably with the typical Astartes' complete lack of indoor voice. Like Darth Vader on a megaphone.
I’m imagining an Imperial Fist with a voice like an enthusiastic Vader shouting “Congratulations!” as loudly as he possibly can. In full battle-rattle. In the middle of a hive block.
@@rahma4thread revival, but I searched imperial fists recruitment, and on the Lexicanum page, this statement is made with the source claimed to be the novel Space Marine, however without a chapter of the book as a reference point
The sensible part about Ultramarine's recruitment is that they do the compatibility test first. And they're not exactly begging for recruits as most families treats one of their sons joining UM as a badge of highest honor. Rich families even hired retired Ultramar auxilia nco to train their sons to have a better chance at succeeding.
This is why I'd want to be an Ultramarine if I was a Space Marine. Stable Geneseed and logical recruitment makes for the best Space Marines.
@@inductivegrunt94 Not grimdark enough for me. I want the full Masterchief origin story
Majorkill is the kind of guy who doesnt die, he simply goes to explain 40k lore in the afterlife
@The shy one then lucifer banishes him to and unlife and captures people and explaine warhammer 40K lore
"Yes Saint Peter I know making servatores would be a major sin, that's the point, every one is battle mace 40M is a ... can i swear here? ... Major asshole."
@The shy one the final step to Dante's inferno 😂😂
Nah, hell is just the ancient Hebrew graveyard known as the Valley of Death.
His channel in the afterlife will be named Majorkilled.
'The Brightest and the Best' short story covers a type of Alpha Legion's recruitment process.
They send representatives to a Schola Progenium, pretending to be a loyalist chapter. They select the brightest and the best students and recruit them via deception or by force if necessary.
The recruits come with good understansing of the current state of the Imperium and with some pre-established connections through the Schola.
This is actually similar to one of the ways for real-life intelligence services to recruit people from abroad through international Master's degrees and MBA's.
"Fenris breeds heroes like a bar breeds drunks - loud, proud and spoiling for a fight."
Grand Master Belial of the Dark Angels
I mean as Belial goes, that's a compliment.
@@benjamintim3542 Oh I absolutely think it was a compliment! In only the way two of the closest brothers can do, “they’re a bunch of twats but they are true heroes all the same”
As a Son of Russ myself I take pride in taking the piss out of the Dark Angels because they’re a bunch of cunts! But they’re OUR cunts and only we can fuck with them! If anyone else dares talk shite about our mopey boys they’re in for a beating! And it’s the same reversed, that’s what makes our brotherhood so strong.
The alpha legion recruitment was all about teamwork they put there aspirant together in squads and told to complete whatever mission they were assigned, but will only make them astares if the team could work together and not individually because alpha legion is all about working achieving the goals of the legion not seeking glory
They had a massive network of human operatives any I bet they recruited from among them and their kids.
@@MrFallenone I also feel like the Alpha Legion treat their human companions well since it would be difficult to explain why the governor's secretary is 7+ feet tall and built like a brick house.
@@btrando1 Alpharius's Primarch book goes into that a lot. Was really neat seeing a Primarch and a room full of Astartes and regular humans all talking and disagreeing about plans and strategy and none of them went 'I'm a god or demigod puny mortal' or 'rolled their eyes' at the morals... but Alpharius and the Astartes all listened to the council of the normal humans and their info and ideas as much as they did the stuff the Astartes presented. As long as you were good at your job and did it well, Alpharius and any of the Alpha Legion seemed to treat a human as one of their own.
@@Fordo007 That sounds so cool. I kinda wish the AL was declared loyal because I want to see how they would operate with the Imperium.
@@btrando1 they are the CIA of warhammer, i bet they are loyal, they invented the double agent strategy and mastered it 10k+ years, they went so rogue, i bet even the chaos gods forgot about their existence
Seems that even Marjorkill misunderstood the important part of the Daemonculaba, the fact that it was a recent practice by one Warsmith named Monsu or whatever. It seems that there has not been other Warsmiths utilizing these practices. It is always a pet peeve of mine whenever I hear that the Daemonculaba is considered the sole or main recruiting process for the Iron Warriors.
Yep it was just an experiment of Honsu. One that backfired badly.
@@bloodangel19 Didn't they work and were stopped only because they were destroyed by some Space Marines?
@@andreibalaban3643 i think the book not clear state if work, only describe the destruction of the experiment and all the research in the fortress
@@andreibalaban3643 i might be wrong on this one, but wasnt there another warsmith who had a beef with honsou and was also planning on destroying the daemonculaba? the bit i do remember was something about office politics and warsmiths turning on eachother from time to time.
@@elchipoclevengador This seems very familiar, and ive only read one iron warriors book, the omnibus. it must be in there somewhere
The Lamenters: "Are you sure you want to be an Astartes? No seriously... Are you SURE you wouldn't rather be a baker, or an accountant or something?... *sigh... Alright, don't say I didn't warn you."
I've been saying that there can only be a tiny handful of original World Eaters left at this point for a while now. In one of the Blackshields books, they talk about how one of the old War Hounds-era apothecaries streamlined the marine building process in such a way wherein the successful aspirants ate the failed ones so the combat experience wouldn't be wasted, but made them....somewhat less stable than your standard World Eater.
Less stable than standard World Eaters. They mustive been totally batshit.
@@gerardmontgomery280 I believe the medical term is "Pants on head psychotic".
We know that khorne can revive his followers (kharn, the demonripper ork etc) also we had in the lucius book one champion of the 8 legion that got killed by lucius and revived fought him again and was used as a sacrifice for a greater demon.
We also have from the nightlords book the fact that since time behaves different they did not lived throu the same time as others. For them the siege of terra was merely hundreds of years ago. Not thousands.
And as a last point:
Khorne is a god of war. Of all aspects of it not just suicidal frontal charges. So there might be some world eaters full on the ligistical part of it that are more level headed than the rest.
@@uwesca6263 It's kind of hard to say as different authors impact the lore from different perspectives. The butchers nails basically drives them all to madness but at times rational thought can still break through. Just how often seems to be a mystery to me.
@@uwesca6263 I'd love a novel about a logistics-obsessed world eater....
You are still the 40k RUclipsr with the best humor.
Most definitely
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@💉Pfizer Soze💉 he's not a 40k RUclipsr he just has a 40k series
@@Anthony05171998 He created 40k content on RUclips
I dont see the confusion here
I feel like what could've helped the Iron Hands be a little less stupid was have their hatred of flesh be a warp spaghetti blowback from Ferrus' death, like the Black Rage for Blood Angels. A deep psychological paranoia that maybe if they were stronger they could've saved their dad.
Much better if the death of Ferrus made them much more dependent on Mechanicus and inherited their mindset along with the passed down story of the death of their primarch.
"For you see the Omnissiah allowed the death of our primarch for he abhorred the strength of steel and worshipped the weakness of the flesh. Therefore, brothers, we must learn from the mistake of our Primarch who have let his emotion, one of the great weakness of the flesh, take control of him that caused his death."
@@littlejohn8435 I'd be ok with that too, but hating flesh is also the listed flaw of the Iron Hands geneseed so it could use ties to the soul of Ferrus himself. It's also said that it differs from the admech who see cyberdongs as just superior to meaty bits. Sons of Ferrus have an inherent self loathing in them that they think can only be cured with bionics.
Also, I know it's their whole meme but I just wanna add that Iron Hands don't just chop themselves up willy nilly. Their chaplains are specifically trained to judge what level of bionics each brother can handle and only give them more when they're deemed worthy.
The World Eaters have a deal with Fabius, but overall they pick renegades or whoever they can get, now they use demons to accelerate the process with mix results, Kharn himself gets like 1000 recruits but kills like 99% of them, so is a mystery how they keep numbers.
so is a mystery how they keep numbers. - Act of plot.
@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 Its not a mystery at all. They are so crazy angry that they split into multiple little World Eaters and grow in a matter of hours.
The World Eaters just go into a Time Warp and pull them back through time, that way they can kill the same aspirants everyday LOL
I honestly would say it’s a mystery as a whole how Chaos kept its numbers up, even without looting manpower from the Imperium and daemons, they always seemed to outnumber the Imperials even before the 13th Black Crusade
For some renegades to traitor warbands in the M41 . Some of them due to the planets they control they use the population to recruit from. As per the case for the Iron Warriors during the Beast arises crises before the orks took over a planet that the legion ruled over. As for a current now traitor's Red Corsair's they recruit from the planet's they govern now or through other renegades or traiter legion warband signing up with them and swearing loyality to them.
As in the Night Lord trilogy set there were a few Night Lords who were in the Red Corsair force. As they saw more opportunity for selfish gains with them then in a Night Lord warband or in the Black Legion.
I think there's a short story where an Iron Warrior warlord meets emissaries from the three old legions, the Thousand Sons, Emperor Children, and the Night Lords. The warlord ended up disappointed since those three aren't veterans of the long war but instead they were recently inducted.
The majoroty of the story was about how each envoy being recruited into the warband and how from an aspirant into an astartes.
That sound interesting. Do you by any chance remember the title of the short story?
@@bogdanlevi I do know it's in either the tales or legends of the space marines short story collections.
@@bogdanlevi The Masters, Bidding
I read up on this for a Black Crusade game. Thousands very rarely recruit new marines, one of the ways they don't lose members is they've actually mastered resurrection. So if a sorcerer falls, his mates just bring him back from the dead.
Also regarding the death guard as, they'll survive anything that doesn't outright kill them, the apothecarys only job is to take geneseed from enemy fallen, which is why the death guard is I think the largest chaos legion.
The thousand-sons do recruit. Its just super rare because of the intelligence and mathematical prowess the Aspirant must have…
There is a part in this book: The Masters Bidding, where a recent/post heresy Thousand Son sorcerer explains his ascension into an astartes.
You can listen to the audio-book here: ruclips.net/video/BlQBF24FIgg/видео.html
But basically it amounts to being intelligent and lucky enough to follow all the tzeentchian plots through random hints and clues left around. That could easily be interpreted in almost any way…
@@brianpj5860 I mean he did say it was rare as well but I do like the more in-dept answer so thank you.
@@brianpj5860awesome lore point, really cool
@@brianpj5860 Also they have to be a psycher because they can only get new gene-seed from the sorcerors that die and that gene-seed is only compatible with psychers
Promoting good hygiene might become Majorkills greatest contribution to this hobby.
I saw somewhere that the defense for the iron warrior massive amount of casualties is that their gene seed is designed for it. There isn’t any fancy abilities and it’s easy to reuse the Gene Seed. I don’t know where this is citied but I did see it somewhere
It would explain how they kept up their numbers and why Olympia was pissed about all the kids being taken away.
too bad they turned traitor then kreeg would have made a great recruitment world for them
The Horus Heresy Book Three - Extermination. It's the old 30k campaigns/lore books that introduced the Iron Warriors rules
@@Sarindanvelor yup
@@MrFallenonenot just kids, back in the great crusade era even full grown up can become astartes
In the Fabius Bile series he travels with a firstborn apothecary of the World Eaters named Arrian Zorzi that got excluded from his legion because, during the seige terra, he went into a trance and killed his squad. He now carries the skulls of the brothers he killed and talks to them, uses drugs to dampen the nails just enough so he can think and is some what of an philosopher warrior. Real interesting character
Video idea: How would each Primarch react and rule the imperium, if they were the one to return first instead of Guilliman
The righteous shall prevail
Amen
just a small note about the iron hands recruitment, the way you get noticed by the legion is to 1 wander the cold as hell deserts of medusa till you find their moving land fortresses OR take part in the iron moon ceremony where your expected to be thrown in a cage and fist fight one of the native beast of medusa, there isn’t any art of said beast but one of the books describes one almost like a mix of a dear, a lion and a bear
What would the other primarchs would react and rule the imperium if they return before guilliman
I don’t think Vulcan would rule the imperium. He did return during the War of the Beast, but just decided to go on a crusade to the Ork Capital.
On Majorkills 11th legion theory, could it be that the best legion at stealth was originally the 11th but upon their dissolution their successor marine were divided in to the Nightlords (8th) and the Ravenguard (19th) [19-8=11]
8 comes before 11
@@damascus1111 clearly this was not a real theory
Thing about Dorn is that the harshness of Inwit, and Necromunda gangsters is _who_ he is by temprament. Dorn's greater achievement for his character is that he's a stoic in the truest sense; that he _overcame_ his nature to give us the cold stubborn Dorn we know. Every scold he has ever levied has been to admonish those for succumbing to their nature/design. It's why he hates Sigismund, because he is what an Imperial Fist is at a basal level, and what Dorn is trying to overcome in himself.
Alpha Legion is one of few renegade legions, that can still create Space Marines normally, since their geneseed is not corrupted (they didn't run through the Eye of Terror after the Horus Heresy) and thanks to Omegon not turning into a Chaos - something, they still have an acces to geneseed material.
Majorkill is the only content creator that makes his sponsor plugs enjoyable to watch haha
Just got off work and I’m blessed with this YES the emperor smiles upon me
In a successor chapter of the salamanders, one of the trials is to kill a sea monster
A yes the Dark Krakens. Basically just Salamanders but on and ocean planet instead of a fiery deathball
1:07 this is why I never skip Majorkills sponsor time
Only RUclipsr I sit through the ad for
I like the idea of the alpha Legion using that style of recruitment because Omegon has identified the loyalists in a doomed chapter and is trying his best to save as many potential renegades/chaos space marines as possible from their fates
Another thing about the Night Lords: Konrad Curze originally wanted the brightest children of the Nostraman nobility to be the recruits, but those nobles, along some Astartes in the legion like Skraivok, schemed to send their people’s worst instead. From that, all of Nostramo’s prisons were emptied, thus creating the legion of murderers we know and love
Majorkill: Now if you are currently eating, i recommend skipping...
Me looking at my tortilla wrap: *pauses video and finishes eating before continuing to watch*
Uncle emperor wants you...
But thousands will die for just 1 to be selected to be an astartes
First major kill video I saw I was kinda in the air, didn't know if I liked him or not. But now I find myself watching tons of his videos.
Always enjoyable videos.
I have a question... One that's only slightly on topic because the loy/etic Alpha Legion was mentioned in the video... Tzeench chose Magnus and the Thousand Sons because of things like their psyker abilities. Which makes sense with how sorcery is part of his portfolio. But wouldn't the Alpha Legion be just as good, or an even better choice, due to his obsession with unnecessarily complicated plotting? Because the concept of the unknowable and the nonsensical seems to fit both the Chaos god and the XXth perfectly.
If you think about it space marine chapters might need lab grown clones because Astartes recruits are super rare and prone to failure
Clones seem to be cosmically cursed in 40k it’s even worse than what happens to lamenters
@@blingsing5383 they dont have a soul and they arent universaly cursed the most of the skitarii are clones but theyre doin alright
@@The_Lute777 I’m pretty sure the skitarii have a lot of Vat grown people but that’s different than being a clone
Thats what the World Eaters where doing during the Heresy… dunno if they kept up the process, but they would use vat grown clones and memory transplantation to make Berserker monstrositys that already had the battlefield memories of thousands of battles.
It would be a primarch clone then, and so far, only Fabius Bile managed to do it (and they were imperfect)
In the comic book about Marneus Calgar, the process to select Ultramarine recruits is show with some details.
Spoiler alert: Squid Game, in comparison, looks like a walk in the park in spring.
Also keep in mind, it was a planet in Ultramar Empire.
So maybe varied from planet to planet, even background stating that the planet they recruited has low success rate compared to 499 worlds (or at least ones not destroyed in Horus Heresy).
Also many nobles having instructors for preliminary training in the comic, but unfortunately
Spoiler: one happened to be a Chaos cultist who killed Marneus and his friend Tacitan took on his name.
I now know why the ultramarines are the best poster boys for the imperium, and the salamanders need more spot light
I I say the iron hands should have a unique servitor unit. I mean if they fail at the end of their trial they'd still have a lot of space marine augmentations in them making them still super human before they get lobotomized, also servitors are a major part of 40K lore and are said to have limitless customization options and can be pretty powerful at times. I just think it's weird that such a defining part of the setting has only one model (I've got similar feelings about necrom flayed ones.) Also, this is an opinion coming from a guy who hates space marines and thinks they get too much company favoritism. I'm tired of hyper specific space marine units especially ones that only work for one chapter, and I'm asking to give one to the iron hands because they don't have anything.
some Space Wolves don't wear helmets, and it IS wise because their senses give them a great advantage. they can smell enemies that don't show up on an auspex. they can hear a squad leader giving orders just before telling his men to attack, and thus be waiting in the exact way to efficiently counter the attack and destroy that squad.
So Night Lords are just super-human hobos rifling through garbage. Love it!
For Word Bearers there is a little bit from, The First Heretic, where Erebus recruited Argel Tal. Nothing about why they were chosen but I am guessing Chaplains were the ones to go get promising candidates.
What would the other primarchs would react and rule the imperium if they return before guilliman?
All of that dark angels artwork was sick
Space marine capabilities
Would be nice to know
How strong are they how fast they are etc it’s very inconsistent
Well, their abilities are very well known, but sadly there are some authors who lack the needed imagination in order to depict the Astartes properly.
Basically, whenever they show qualities in battle that could be considered "human-like" it's bullshit most of the time.
They have exagerated them waaaay too much over the years to make sense at some points, both in fighting prowess and tactics.A chapter or two alone shouldnt be able to do a thing without extensive IG support.
This is true. Like in one book a Space Marine can tank 30 pulse rifle shots. And then in another or even the same book, one pulse rifle shot takes the space marine out. Sometimes they can run super fast, sometimes they get easily tracked. Sometimes they have the accuracy of shooting for 80 years non stop, sometimes they seem like they haven’t fired a gun before. Seems like too often they’re manipulated for whatever the author needs to get done, which is not good for consistent lore telling. Like as a Tau fan, I don’t care if it takes 10 or 100 Tau soldiers to take down a space marine. Whichever it is, just stick with it. I hate that sometimes 1 crisis suit can easily take out 1 or 2 marines but then all of a sudden you get 1 marine who is wrecking crisis suits left and right and solos a whole battalion.
@@yonahsefchovich5931 They should die of a plasma shot int the head everytime. Like in the tabletop game, strong and durable, but killable, not anime characters in power armor.
@@tipodeincognito5660 yeah like I’ve read examples of how a Tau rifle can easily punch through SM armor. And then other times when it’s just scratching SM armor.
I've always liked how different most Chapters recruiting processes. It gives flavour to all the chapters. I especially love The Dark Angels recruitment processes.
Majorkill talking about the daemonculaba is the only time where he doesn’t use enough expletives
The Alpha Legion recruitment process is actually dope as fuck: They kidnapp potential loyalist aspirants before they are taken and hypnotise them. Then when they broadcast the trigger word half the victim loyalist chapter shoots the other half and the Alpha Legion has 500 new marines.
Vulkan - "You must boop the snoot of our big scary fire breathing friend here."
This will always be Canon
@💉Pfizer Soze💉 Stomp Stomp
A note on the Night Lords: it was the governors of the planet who started sending in prisoners and persona non gratia as aspirants; when Konrad first started recruiting from his home the recruits were harsh, yes, but were still under the Nighthaunter influence of discipline. Kurze grew to hate his legion as they began to be replaced terrible individuals.
The Space Marine Chapters are in no shortage of countless young men from across the Imperium's many world who will be willing to give themselves to be trained and implanted with the geneseeds to become the new warriors of the Man-Emperor of Mankind.
I believe that the Alpha Legion recruitment process was a game of Among Us where everyone was the imposter. Sus
MajorKill does not dare speak of recruitment in my favorite faction.
THE GREY KNIGHTS !!!
The most badass faction in the Imperium.
Watch Luetin09's two-part documentary about the recruitment of Knights. It's awesome.
The Blood Ravens recruiting process is an Ocean's 11-style heist. Change my mind.
Majorkill is the only Warhammer RUclipsr whose nuts haryness level is known for sure.
The Ultramarines seem to be the most wholesome out of all of them and white scars
I literally just got out of bed. This is a GREAT way to start my day. Fuuuuuuuck yeeeeaaaah.
R.I.P timmy will be remembered
I guess most of the time chaos legions like world eaters, death guard and Emperor's Children would seek Fabius Bile to built a small army before a raid or attack in the material world
Training for years endureing extreme pain and hardship only to be killed by a swarmlord upon leaving a drop pod.
as long as you have a name and dislike wearing a helmet you'll be fine
Love how MK does the Chris Evans pec-hold after every sponsor he introduces hahaha nice one m8
Couple of questions. How can a Space Wolf aspirant turn Wolfen if theyvare an aspirant and not fi ished with genetic manipulation yet? Surely they can't turn as early as the trials!
Also, I don't think it's literally Sanguinius' blood that Blood Angel aspirants are placed in.
@💉Pfizer Soze💉 Warch it again. Sarcophagus of sanguinius' blood is what he said.
@💉Pfizer Soze💉 point taken. I took it as implied given how he says it. But don't reply in all bold as though I'm stupid. It's a dick move and all thats wrong with people in 40k. Either way it can't be right. 10,000 years of feeding thousands upon thousands of aspirants his blood? How much would they need? That's was where I was going with it.
@💉Pfizer Soze💉 Yeah and you just sound like a dickhead! I'm happy to take a point it was taken as implied. Filled with blood, fed someone's blood. Implies the blood they are lay in is how they are fed it. With 3 replies to make you point mate, I don't think "stay humble" is in your vocabulary to act out.
In the Ragnar books they drink this weird liquid which kickstarts a process within the Canine helix.
I think this is one of the tools given to the S.Wolves Majorkill eluded to.
Anyway - They are basically caged up and going feral fighting each other.
Some die and some go crazy and a few are taken away because they are turning Wulfen.
If I remember correctly this is before any organ implants.
Ragnar wakes up in the middle of fucking know here and is basically boosted with power to that of a scout.
*there’s always a chance that when he blacked out after the wolf juice the Priests did implant something
I have to say for me it's atie between the blood angles and the space wolves for most brutal recruitment ritual. With the blood angles if you want to join you have to drag your emaciated cancer riddled body across a radiation filled desert to fight in gladiator style combat against other emaciated cancer riddled boys to then be stuffed in a coffin filled with blood to either die, go insane and die, or come out looking flawless. And with the space wolves you have to first prove yourself in battle basically lead a shield wall at like 12 against raiders twice your age to then have your soul offered up to the warp for temptation and if it looks like you might give in rune priest sever your soul and turn your body into a servator and if you pass they load onto a dropship fly you out to the middle of a frozen forest and make you drink the canis helix the gene seed the turns you into a wulfen and toss you out while your trying to fight off the transformation and tell you to make your way back to the fortress by yourself and leave you to either freeze to death because they drop you with nothing, get eaten by astartes size predators, transform into a wulfen, or somehow make your back through all of that before they say you pass.
In the Baal book, Girly-Man squashes the idea that any kind of hardship makes better SMs - he straight up tells Dante to raise the quality of life in the Baal system as the suffering makes no difference to the final marine. Cauls initial batch of primaries likewise haven't all gone through crazy life and selection process. If you have they right genes compatible with the process, job done.
Hey Majorkill. Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, The Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Thank you.
If I’m right, the chapter having the toughest recruitment process is the grey knights
Roane Deepers!!!! Ya Roane Drongo!!!!!
You have just been reminded of the daemonculaba. You're welcome.
"If you are currently eating, I would recommend skipping ahead 20 seconds". 'Slowly stops chewing'
I'd be a salamander for sure
If you watch the intro cinematic for BFG II, the cultist guy you play as who becomes a Chaos Astartes, it looks like he becomes a Word Bearer (armor color scheme and not being a distinct Chaos God aligned Astartes) through some sort of rituals. Also interestingly is that it looks like he is already an adult when he is chosen but that could just be warp spaghetti.
That blood angels image was ultra epic, same goes for the DA power fist + power sword death wing 👌🏽
4:25 i was eating, thanks for the warning but hearing about it just made my apetite better
7:57 funny how subtitles say "Ferrus Madness" considering what trial he came up with
Yo, the nightlords do have a trial…. There is a short story about a 40k Nightlords trial, where they travel to a planet during a specifc night of the year where there is a festival for all the young undesirables and murderous aspirants that are forced outside all night and to gather around a large Chaos effigy at the upper open-air levels of the hive.
Then when the festival starts they all fight to the death in a big murderous free-for-all, while Nightlord Raptors rain down from the sky and rocket through the streets picking off weakling aspirants, and antagonizing the rest throughout the night, as they watch and supervise the chaos down below. Where at the end of the festival, they pick their best aspirants based off their kills…
The story is incredible, as a [Big SPOILER ALERT] lone aspirant, leading a gang of kids that all get picked off one by one before he finally manages to lead a Nightlord to his death and cuts his face off as proof of kill…
Audio book right here: ruclips.net/video/SgmdPHm0nFY/видео.html
And the Thousand Sons do still recruit. There is a part in a story by the name of: The Masters Bidding, where a Thousand Son sorcerer explains his post heresy ascension into a Thousands-Son Astartes…
Dude needs to read more!!! Lol audio-book here: ruclips.net/video/BlQBF24FIgg/видео.html
That was the one where the kid quotes to the Nightlord “a kill for true night” right? I read that one too.
A cool video idea would be How Terran Astartes were treated in each Legion
Finally a RUclipsr who isn't afraid to talk about the daemonculaba! Thank you for addressing the most fucked up part of the setting!
I know this is for the legions and not chapters but the most brutal trial I can think of is the exorcists.
Getting a demon shoved into you then having to fight it out of you. Pure savagery
The Death Spectres literally murder their aspirants, who have to fight to self-resurrect.
The Blood Ravens apparently do all their surgeries over a week or so, without anasthetics and never cleaning up afterwards, just leaving the kids to lay there in the filth in between cutting sessions, because real Marines don't die from massive infections or bleed out because their chapter has dumb trials.
If the novel Lords of Silence is anything to go off of, the Death Guard accept any Astartes that accepts Nurgle’s gift. There are two major character that are not originally from the legion, both holding high ranks in the War band. The main one doesn’t even remember what chapter or planet he was from or why he turned traitor. However those not from the original legion do get looked down on and have to work harder to prove themselves
I was eating during the description of the Daemonculaba, and Im not phased bc I remmeber reading about that in HS when I read the Ultramarines Omnibus
I'm pretty sure in a white scars book it talks about a recruit being placed 17th on the list of top performance. The top 16 were sent directly to the Luna Wolves, and the bottom however many being divided up. I'm fairly sure this was super early in the process on Terra, and the now Terran white scar was met with a huge culture clash joining the Khans culture.
Thousand sons fan here 🤓 heh actually major kill that’s a common misconception. Thousand son geneseed is totally fine thanks to the rubric. Thing is it will only work in potent psyker kids. The souls for ‘rubrics’ can come from basically any dead low lvl thousand son guy across time. The trials are just wizard school.
I think I remember that the DeathGuard do not recruit mortals at all. Nurgle chooses their recruits amongst CHaos Astartes and turns those into Plague Marines. These Plague Marines then eventually turn up at the Death Guards doorstep.
I remember a passage in the 7th edition CSM codex, or a novel, I cant remember, that Abaddon gifted the Deathguard 250 Astartes to secure their loyalty.
No lie you earned mad respect from me for adding yourself to the patreon pantheon
Every legion: Last man standing!!!
Das Salamanders: Good work today! Tomorrow, we'll forge cutlery!
I have been waiting for this video for a long time. The salamanders recruitment is very interested for my favorite Legion.
Is it just me or did majorkills eyebrows get like 10 times hotter
Have space marines ever recruited from imperial guard troops they've fought beside? There would be a few good stories right there
I think most Guardies would be too old to become marines but my idea for a homebrew chapter is the Warborn who look out for promising young men who for militia and fight to defend their home world. PTSD before you join the military, now that's grimdark.
@@gerardmontgomery280 I like the idea of a chapter who recruits those, who have already shown bravery, honour & faith in the Emperor, even before being selected to become an aspirant
I think I've read on the wiki that modern Death Guard makes fighting games for the desperate and diseased tribesmen that live on the plague planet, and the winners will become new Death Guard members. Surprisingly logical for a chaos legion, but the geneseed stability question still stands. I guess they just incorporate whatever mutation it gives them into their already horrible form
the book the Lord of Silence briefly discusses how the current death guard recruits.
"If you are currently eating"
Me, takin a bite outta my sandwich: oh shit he knows
Bruh I just finished making myself breakfast when he starts talking about the daemonculaba.
There is something just so beautifully noble and tragic with the blood angels recruitment.
Doesn’t matter how deformed malnourished or fuck up you are on the outside of your will is and character the stuff that matters in the inside is strong and able make it through the trials the blood of Sanguineius will cleanse your impurities and make you a angel.
13:38 the Ultramarines were the largest legion during the great crusade with about 250,000 Astartes (due to absorbing at least partially the II an XI Legion) followed by the Word Bearers with about 160,000 Astartes. That is also one of the reasons, why Lorgars boys were sent to Calth, as no one else would have had the numbers…
Yeah
When Lorgar planned the invasion of Cath he basically built up the legion numbers as a throw away force 👍
*Calth
Ngl if I were to become a space marine I either become a salamander or ultramarine, those seem the most tame compared to all others.
The world eaters train human slaves to perform the duty's of geneseed extraction. I can't remember her name but there is a story about a slave with a staff with the tools for it on it.
Part two on Erda.
Never stopping
I was busy when I heard Daemonculaba and was afraid I can't get to skip it quick enough for a sec there lmao
"and fed some of Sanguiniuse's ..." and at this moment my Internet connection died for a bit. For a couple of minutes, I wondered what part of Angel boi they were fed.
Remember, The salamanders might look wholesome until they burn a entire group of eldar children alive while humming a cheery toon