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Terminus Decree: "If you open this, then all hope is lost. Disconnect the Golden Throne and let me draw my final breath. The Imperium will cease but it will reborn from it's ashes... ...also everything is Magnus' fault" Signed, Big
Considering he's a perpetual, this may actually work, his true death might trigger his respawn and return him in prime condition, just leaves the question if he'd respawn in time to restart the Imperium and astronomican which would collapse with his death
With how much his soul is fractured, how much worship he's getting, and how many psychers are sacrificed to him every day, he might become a chaos god.@@sentionno.4553
@@sentionno.4553 the thibg is he doesnt just keep the lighthouse running, he is also non stop keeping chaos gates around Terra closed so if he does die, u less literally every primarch thats loyal plusbtheir full legion plus all grey knights are on terra, itll just be overrun within seconds
Fine Isyander, fine, you have covered the one chapter of Space Marines I've been obsessed with since I heard their name whispered in the forbidden corners of the Imperium where no good Loyalist should ever dwell. I'll respect my end of this dark bargain and join the Patreon.
I imagine the grey knights hearing about the doomslayer, and doing the imposible to recruit him, and try to use him as a weapon to fight chaos for the Imperium. Also, greetings from Chile.
@PsychoticFruitfly khorne loves his demons dying as much as he loves then killing. Blood is blood and khorne would absolutely love the doomslayer. Just ask tuska daemon-killer
They do have an anti tyranid force it's called the Deathwatch, all things Xeno are subject to Deathwatch investigation and extermination as they actually bother to learn and even adapt xeno weapons to kill them more efficiently.
and the death watch is comprised of the most zealous xenos hating spacemarines to ever grace the galaxy, probably why a large portion of them are either Dark Angels or Black Templars
Yeah but thats self contradictory and shows the first statement is nto true and indeed what was said in the video is true. There is no anti tyranid force. Yes there is the deathwatch and we will ignroe that the deathwatch are no match for the greyknigths since they deathwatch are a WAY smaller force than the non-code-compliant grey knigths and a single greyknight could kill countless deathwatch. There still is still the original totally being missed. The greyknigths are an anti chaos force because that is all they do, all they train for, all the focus on, all they get deployed for etc.pp. The Deathwatch is by definition not an anti-tyranid force, just like the ordo xenos itself etc. is not, because they are ot singularly focused on tyranids. They are focused on the xeno, not just tyranids and there is countless thousands of totally unrelated species of xeno, probably more. A great example how they are not an anti-tyranid force is their engagement with the octavius war, where mainly orcs figh vs tyranids, but also eldar and dark eldar and other factions. They did not solely focus on the tyranids, they did the opposite, they fought literally everything there. Which is the opposite of what grey knigths owuld do fi they showed up there and saw some chaos, because they would COMPLETELY ignore everyone and everything if it would not somehow help them defeat chaos locally. xoxo
I gatdam love the Deathwatch. They're the single coolest group of Space Marines there is. There are so many things about them I love that it couldn't fit into a reasonably-sized comment. Highlights include: - Their starting lineup was comprised of Traitor Legion loyalists (something they share with the GK) - Their members are taken from chapters across the Imperium (though I forget if they're volunteers or a tithe system) - They're the single most practical, pragmatic SMs in the Imperium Their induction process begins with strapping the new member into a VR system where they're forced to watch their chapter get slaughtered *specifically* because of that chapter's hangups, *repeatedly* until the point is made. To repeat, they PURGE SMs of their Chapter's flaws. Black Templars learn to be snipers. Raven Guard learn CQB. Space Wolves learn patience. Blood Angels learn to take cover. They learn everything there is to know about 'Nids, Orks, Eldar, Tau, Hrud and every Xeno the Imperium knows about. They're as monstrously effective against Xenos as the GK are against Daemons. They become flawless, omniskilled generalists capable of doing any job competently and *still* retaining their strengths. I love Deathwatch.
My favourite grey knight is Castellen Crowe. He’s a grey knight (believe it or not) and he has literally a near chaos demi god as a sword. And he literally has no friends because anyone else would be corrupted by it. He has to carry it around on his own so he doesn’t turn the rest of the imperium to chaos… THATS THE START OF HIS STORY. Anyone he’s pretty cool :) (Also if I’m wrong sorry this is just the stuff I’ve seen)
The grey knights are so awesome to me because they all give off Gandalf vibes. They consistently just fight actual massive demons 12 times their size with their normal sized swords and staffs. It probably looks crazy from the perspective of a demon: something the size of your foot leaps in the air and shoots a lightning bolt at your face and then tries to chop off your head with something that you could use as a toothpick.
the grey knights are brutes. one carved mortarion's true name on his primary heart, putting him to bed for a long time. they've put angron to bed for awhile before as well
I adore Custodes. Listening to the books “Valdor: Birth of the Imperium”, and the two Watchers of the Throne books, it gives you a true feeling of dread when you look at them. Like when a single custodes starts hefting up a 5 ton elevator by pulling the cable *hand over hand*, gets within arms reach, then *throws it* with a *single arm* across an entire warehouse floor. Or when a mercenary is looking on with awe as he sees a custodes *kicking over a tank*
41:40 legit, this happened in a Rogue Trader session I was in. Demon possessed a PC, worked at summoning another demon, and rolled a 100. It summoned Kaldor Drago, and got duffed in the face so hard it shot out of the guy, hit a wall, and splatted before KD just peaced out like a meme.
One of my favorite parts of the Grey Knight video game, is that this Ordo Malleus Inquisitor comes aboard the ship and they make a video call to the Grandmaster of the Swordbearers brotherhood, and the Grandmaster literally hangs up on the Inquisitor because she commanded him to do something. So we're getting a little bit of progress in the whole narrative of the Grey Knights just bring the lapdogs of the Inquisition.
to be fair, the inquisition isn't one big unified entity. The inquisitor wasn't sure the grey knights existed before she met them and her demanding he send more forces was, although 100% a thing she was allowed to do, a slight breach of etiquette. The only reason the chapter master even let her call was because other grey knights vouched the mission was important
Ill only maake 1 correction. Malcador found 10 space marines to be chosen for the honor of being a grey knight. Gavriel loken and nathaniel garro both opted out of the final selection becuase they wanted to stay and fight at the siege of terra. Otherwise you guys are doing awesome job breaking down lore. Please carry on.
Technically not a planet; Malcador moved Saturn's moon, Titan, into the warp for the fledgling Grey Knights to train and mature into a battle-ready chapter.
Custodes without sisters of silence are a bit "fragile" against psychic powers, so I think it would be quite a fair fight. Obviously a Custodes is much stronger and faster in combat, but a Grey Knight can just snap his fingers and turn the Custodes into pulp inside his armour.
Next in line (I hope) are the golden gods of the Adeptus Custodes and Sisters of Silence. BTW love all your vids its fun to hear you talk about anything really, also if you see this Isyander or Koda what's your favorite faction.
The story about grey knight using the blood of the Sister is the stupidest story about them because who is the guy all about blood... khorn don't care whose blood it's
There is a single grey knight that was corrupted by chaos. His mission was a little bit TOO ambitious and his failing is still pretty cool. They sent a grey knight to END Slan'esh. The fact that they thought he just MIGHT succeed says a ton. There was a possibility. They sent a grey knight to battle a Chaos god and thought it was a longshot but it was worth the risk.
I think the terminus decree is the Killswitch for the emperor. Either it kills him and allows him to ascend into godhood, or it just outright kills him and opens the hell portal onearth and snuffing the galactic imperial lighthouse. Either we are saved by a new god, or the emperor(the literal foundation of the imperium) gets killed.
In my last rogue trader game, and me, an arch militant guardsmen foughts on a choas controlled planet. Random ship guy talking to me. "Hey, did you get to see any of his angels while groundside?" My character: flashbacks of a gray knight 2 man kill team fighting a greater demon. "No, I didn't see any groundside, just a lot of corpses and blood" _'don't have a panic attack, don't have a panic attack, don't have a panic attack'_
Fun fact the chapter paster of the minotaurs once gave a custodes pause because they didnt know if they could take out a fully kitted out chapter master of theirs
Woo. Loved seeing my name at the end. The Grey Knights are interesting as a group. The chainsaw against the demons. I think a Sister of Silence would depower a lot of things with a Grey Knight however they would still be space Marines. Like, the Sisters of Silence have been said to see the Emperor in his true form. I cannot recall the book but they described him as being like "a man who carries the pain of humanity. He looked small and tired." Also, Idaho people represent!
I think there was a Custodes who fought alongside Grey Knights, with Sisters Of Silence in tow. IIRC they thought about how the Grey Knights, even without their psyker ability, are still more effective compared to standard Astartes.
Honestly, doing an episode on the Deathwatch would be a cool partner episode to this. One does purges on heretics, and the other does....pretty much everything else.
if I remember the story with the sister they thought they needed virgin blood to not get processed by a demon despite them being immune from both possession and corruption from chaos
In the Watchers of the Throne series, some Grey knights team up with the Custodes and sisters. The presence of the sisters just turns off the psychic abilities of the knights. They’re still terrifying in melee, but just without their psychic wnhancemenrs
When Gilman fought Magnus for the first time it was also with sisters of silence. I'm sure if the sisters did go against them it would affect them a lot more heavily than it did Magnus.
Just found you guys. So entertaining. Love your perspectives. Even after already knowing everything you covered. You make it all sound so fresh. HORUSY is now a Warhammer word for me.😂
My "favorite" thing about the grey knights is that they just now decided to make figures that show their true size just when they made primaris so now they still look to be the same size
Guys… this is THE BEST 40K lore content out there. Congrats on the well deserved success. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy Adeptus Ridiculous but Brickys ego and controlling nature gets tough to listen to. You guys are perfecting their formula. Well done
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Really love the content! Found ya through the shorts, but I appreciate that the long form is here too! I've never played, but the 40k lore is so meaty. Thanks for the deep dives with charm!
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I believe if a psyker is powerful enough it will cancel out the effect of a blank (severely weakening them). Most psykers are nowhere near powerful enough to do that. I would think a Grey Knight would be very uncomfortable near a Sister of Silence, but still able to manifest very reduced psychic power.
24:50 Here is something. there is actually one instance in which a grey knight was corrupted by chaos. The bastard had charged into the warp alone and vowed that if he ever returned then Slaanesh would be dead. he had made it into Slaanesh's realm of infinite temptations where any indulgence you can think of lies actively beckoning you to take it with entire worlds that perfectly cater to your every desire in a way that you would actually believe you had achieved it yourself. The bastard then proceeded to make his way through, ignoring every temptation and made his way to the palace of Slaanesh in which more temptations lied waiting. he went through until he found Slaanesh her/him/it self. He made an attempt to kill Slaanesh there and then. lets just talk about this real quick though, most would go insane an pledge eternal fealty at just the sight of a direct image of Slaanesh and yet we have this bastard who is so completely filled with righteous fury that he ignores that and goes for an attempt to kill anyways whilst being in her direct presence. After that we hit the singular moment that sealed his fate. Slaanesh had made an active movement and had transformed into the perfect picture of an innocent child. Think of the most innocent child you have ever seen, set that on the dial to be considered a 1, now turn the dial up to 12. Now as you would suspect from that mental image, the grey knight hesitated for half a second before attempting to continue his swing, but in that moment Slaanesh applied a directed presence at him that only managed to infiltrate his mind due to his momentary distraction. just before his blade cleaved of the child's head, he knelt down and swore eternal fealty as her knight. It took the chaos god that most heavily specializes in corruption actually being present and applying a not insignificant amount of active effort to corrupt a grey knight. shall I point out that Khorne merely standing up from his throne allowed his PROXY to cut a PLANET IN HALF WITH ONE SWING. So unless a grey knight finds themself face to face with Slaanesh out of all chaos gods after having to face every trial she has to throw at them to whittle away at their will, they are, for all intents and purposes incorruptible.
What so how bad was the monster in the emerald cave? I remember hearing like 60 Grey knights and a whole butt load of others just to lock Papa Nurgals pet away
For the squad of Grey Knights,let me correct it. It was not a squad of Grey Knights but rather a squad of Deathwing Terminators. *The best of the Dark Angel’s best*. And they fought a Dark Cells Warden Custodes (basically WH40k’s pocket version of the SCP foundation) and struggled *Immensely* The Warden cut through those Elite Deathwing terminators like butter,killing like 3-5 of them iirc,and they only won because the Librarian they had with them was *basically killing himself* with the amount of exertion he was committing to his warp spells to restrain the Custodes,just for a few seconds,in order to let another terminator let a missle fly and hit the banana boy. I can’t remember if they actually killed the Custodes or not but that’s basically how strong Custodes are. This was when the Dark Angels picked up a trace of Cypher’s location in the Dark Cells in the Imperial Palace,and sent unmarked Deathwing Terminators to try and get him. They damn near all died to that Warden and most likely would’ve if they hadn’t had that Librarian since Custodes only really have one weakness and it’s *extremely* strong psykers,which is why they have Sisters of Silence with them to negate any strong psykers. Reg psykers would probably just implode trying to stop a banana boy,and even one of the best Librarians the Deathwing had,damn near failed to keep the Custodes still.
Key points missed or wrong: 1. Grey Knight have demon possessed weapons 2. The Terminus Decree is to destroy Terra using the golden throne rather than let it fall to chaos 3. Grey Knights actually take the inverse of a demon's true name so that they are ideally optimized to fight them. 4. A Grey Knight can absolutely beat a custodes in combat, but it depends on which custodes and which grey knight. Psykers are OP and there are psychic powers that would simply delete custodes
Uh.... 1 - yes 2 - We don't know, lot's of fanfiction, but no concrete lore as far as I'm aware 3 - not really, they get giving new names when doing great deeds, these are added to their current name and inscribed into their armour. The longer the name, the more difficult it is for a demon to have power over them. 4 - Absolutely not. Custodians go through Space Marines like butter and Grey Knights are NOT any better than normal Space Marines, they just get fancier gear and have some powers. They are hard counter to Demons and warp based enemies, they would get killed in seconds when fighting Custodians.
Bolter rounds arent red bull can sized. .75 caliber for regular bolter rounds and .998 for heavy bolter rounds. So 3/4 inch and basically one inch in diameter respectively. Roughly equivalent to 19mm or 25mm rifles or cannons. Still strong as all hell and bolter rounds are probably more powerful pound for pound. Basically Space Marines are walking Light attack vehicles. Like a bradley fighting vehicle for example
Ah yes the grey knights, the knights who've sacrificed sisters of battle to purge the blood god knorne with the holy blood of their loyal aforementioned sisters. Great writing...love to see. Heretic out
I'd love if the Tyrannids that are getting all demon-fed and evolving from Chaos end up within the purview of the Grey Knights just to get to see even a small offshoot of them fight the Nids. It would make sense that Nids taking on more and more Chaos traits might eventually lead to them falling under what Grey Knights are supposed to handle. Just getting enough Chaos traits and features that its basically just Chaos bugs.
What Big E didn't realize is that the Chaos Gods don't need worship. He actually killed (most) human gods, depriving humanity of a natural defense against Chaos.
Gray Knight: sons and daughters of the Emperor. We are here to save you…. Random guardsmen: Oh yea. It’s the Holy church of the Emperor. Grey Knight: From yourselves. Guardsmen: oh no it’s the Holy Church of the Emperor
The terminus decree will probably either summon all Grey Knights to the emperor to defend and protect him or will be a NUKE EM ALL type deal. Just my fun take :)
Or better yet: the same ritual that created the Emperor. And Grey Knights are all psykers like those several hundred shamans were, just much much stronger.
20:34 I actually just finished Dead Sky Black Sun. Holy Emperor that book is insane, and the Daemonculaba is *so gross,* but the book wouldn't work without it, and the rest of the book is just bonkers. There's a literal Daemon train!!
Canonically the reason the ultramarines almost always win is because orks believe blue is supernaturally lucky which is hilarious Also can you please do a video dedicated to Sanguinius like please show the golden hawk boy some love.
I love the Grey Knights, and I love the way you guys do this info. Lots of data but in a nice, conversational manner. Wish you had more on their homeworld of Titan! One thing you missed that I think is hella cool: upon officially becoming a Grey Knight, each man is given a name that is _literally anathema_ to a particular demon. Like if you named a Knight Michael, his very name would be painful and repelling to a demon named Satan. Names and words have power, as you said about the words of banishment; so in a way, every single knight becomes the dedicated antithesis to a particular demon. So damn cool.
19:51 hey you say what you will I don’t want them to stop till I know the name of every ultramarine I wanna know where tf kevin is and what he do and his hobbies outside of purging and bleeding I need to know where my bro bob at and if his ass is on the frontlines I need to know all their names no question 😂😂(for real they do name them all and it doesn’t help with space marines 2 they literally announced Titus like ffs I love him and he is an exceptional for me but please give me anything else give me a named salamander or imperial fist or spice it up and give me a dark angel or a new black Templar or even announce a first named character for some of the really unknown ones like the shark space marines PLEAAAAASE I BEEEEEG GW )
Apologies boys, but at 19:16 you said a Grey knight would summon a deamon to fight a deamon. That's Rogue inquisitors that do that, and the Grey Knights won't work with them, and have been known to attack them on sight.
Im calling it , the deal the grayknights made whit traizen says" you can have as many pocked super fingertraps as you whant but the moment you got angron in one you hand him over cus that mutherfucker belong in a museum!!! "
I really tossed around with adding this in but I was really worried it would get too off topic. Will definitely mention it in the inevitable Malcador or Magnus episode
Yea it’s really funny how the Supreme grand master the only person who can open the box is the one in the warp Fun fact, in the game Chaos Gate daemon hunters you play as Grey knights fighting nurgle eventually you send 8 knights into the garden of nurgle to save the supreme grand master from the overwhelming forces that have converged on him which was a plan of mortarian which was eons in the making and it was derailed completely by 8 knights coming to save him 8, it took 8 to do the job even then half fight mortarian the other half literally just stand in the way of the army trying to get to mortarian
You guys are doing great, nice long epps and targeted. Finished all of luetin and but can never go wrong with another channel :) had a great laugh on one of your other videos about the *REDACTED* where you just dont look it up as its horrible even for 40k. If you know you know :O -"Compassion is reserved for servants of the Emperor: aliens deserve only our scorn."
If Magnus had accepted the Emporer's offer of forgiveness, how would that had changed things? The Grey Knights were the legion proposed to replace the Thousand Sons, so would that have denied Chaos a legion?
I did it! I finally caught up all the way. Saw you guys on TikTok and loved the Warhammer vids. I never knew anything concrete about 40k but am glad that I have caught up on what you guys have dumbed down for me. Please keep it going.
Grey knight horror game needs to be, the first half of the gamr ur a regular gaurdsmen, and youre trying to escape a lesser deamon, but you eventually die, then you takeover the deamons body and you start finding more of your deamon buddies ripped to shreds and shit, and youre using clues to figure out what is doing this, then a grey knight finally starts slowly hiding in the background of every area, and they slowly get closer and closer every new level area, and eventually they srart messing with you and hunting you quietly
To make them truly grey Knights, will not use silver to paint any grey knights. (Edit): I have questions 1. If I directly Throw money at you does it bypass the patron? 2. When Vulkan?
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purge the heretics
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Dealing with bots is as difficult as exterminating every demon that exists.
I've seen this happen on other channels I commented on. Thing is I'm a skeleton with a death wish and a bone to pick with braindead scams. I went the effort to get in contact for the give-away and threatened them to donate the winnings to a cause of three legit choices and "they" folded like a sofa-bed that's only ever opened when that cousin you hate comes to spend the night.
@@the1stdarkjester PURGE! PURGE! PURGE! PURGE!...
Terminus Decree:
"If you open this, then all hope is lost. Disconnect the Golden Throne and let me draw my final breath. The Imperium will cease but it will reborn from it's ashes...
...also everything is Magnus' fault"
Signed, Big
I could totally see the terminus decree being orders from big e to just turn off the golden throne.
Try putting me off and I will put myself on again
Considering he's a perpetual, this may actually work, his true death might trigger his respawn and return him in prime condition, just leaves the question if he'd respawn in time to restart the Imperium and astronomican which would collapse with his death
With how much his soul is fractured, how much worship he's getting, and how many psychers are sacrificed to him every day, he might become a chaos god.@@sentionno.4553
@@sentionno.4553 the thibg is he doesnt just keep the lighthouse running, he is also non stop keeping chaos gates around Terra closed so if he does die, u less literally every primarch thats loyal plusbtheir full legion plus all grey knights are on terra, itll just be overrun within seconds
Fine Isyander, fine, you have covered the one chapter of Space Marines I've been obsessed with since I heard their name whispered in the forbidden corners of the Imperium where no good Loyalist should ever dwell. I'll respect my end of this dark bargain and join the Patreon.
And so the pact has been sealed.
Necron enjoyer passing by….
Interesting guy, you shall join my collection….
I imagine the grey knights hearing about the doomslayer, and doing the imposible to recruit him, and try to use him as a weapon to fight chaos for the Imperium. Also, greetings from Chile.
Doomslayer is a space marine called Nassir "the Flesh Tearer" Amit.
I think Doomslayer would be Khorne's new champion
@@dolphinerofachero3159 nah, doomslayer was about eliminating demons, not joining them.
@PsychoticFruitfly khorne loves his demons dying as much as he loves then killing. Blood is blood and khorne would absolutely love the doomslayer. Just ask tuska daemon-killer
@@colewyatt5298 nobody is questioning that, I'm simply saying that the doomsayer did not get corrupted, this he's NOT a khornate champion
They do have an anti tyranid force it's called the Deathwatch, all things Xeno are subject to Deathwatch investigation and extermination as they actually bother to learn and even adapt xeno weapons to kill them more efficiently.
I'd love to see a video on the Deathwatch, one of my favorite factions.
and the death watch is comprised of the most zealous xenos hating spacemarines to ever grace the galaxy, probably why a large portion of them are either Dark Angels or Black Templars
Yeah but thats self contradictory and shows the first statement is nto true and indeed what was said in the video is true.
There is no anti tyranid force.
Yes there is the deathwatch and we will ignroe that the deathwatch are no match for the greyknigths since they deathwatch are a WAY smaller force than the non-code-compliant grey knigths and a single greyknight could kill countless deathwatch. There still is still the original totally being missed. The greyknigths are an anti chaos force because that is all they do, all they train for, all the focus on, all they get deployed for etc.pp.
The Deathwatch is by definition not an anti-tyranid force, just like the ordo xenos itself etc. is not, because they are ot singularly focused on tyranids.
They are focused on the xeno, not just tyranids and there is countless thousands of totally unrelated species of xeno, probably more.
A great example how they are not an anti-tyranid force is their engagement with the octavius war, where mainly orcs figh vs tyranids, but also eldar and dark eldar and other factions.
They did not solely focus on the tyranids, they did the opposite, they fought literally everything there.
Which is the opposite of what grey knigths owuld do fi they showed up there and saw some chaos, because they would COMPLETELY ignore everyone and everything if it would not somehow help them defeat chaos locally.
xoxo
Deathwatch is to xenos as grey knights is to daemons
I gatdam love the Deathwatch. They're the single coolest group of Space Marines there is. There are so many things about them I love that it couldn't fit into a reasonably-sized comment.
Highlights include:
- Their starting lineup was comprised of Traitor Legion loyalists (something they share with the GK)
- Their members are taken from chapters across the Imperium (though I forget if they're volunteers or a tithe system)
- They're the single most practical, pragmatic SMs in the Imperium
Their induction process begins with strapping the new member into a VR system where they're forced to watch their chapter get slaughtered *specifically* because of that chapter's hangups, *repeatedly* until the point is made. To repeat, they PURGE SMs of their Chapter's flaws.
Black Templars learn to be snipers. Raven Guard learn CQB. Space Wolves learn patience. Blood Angels learn to take cover.
They learn everything there is to know about 'Nids, Orks, Eldar, Tau, Hrud and every Xeno the Imperium knows about.
They're as monstrously effective against Xenos as the GK are against Daemons.
They become flawless, omniskilled generalists capable of doing any job competently and *still* retaining their strengths.
I love Deathwatch.
My favourite grey knight is Castellen Crowe. He’s a grey knight (believe it or not) and he has literally a near chaos demi god as a sword. And he literally has no friends because anyone else would be corrupted by it. He has to carry it around on his own so he doesn’t turn the rest of the imperium to chaos… THATS THE START OF HIS STORY. Anyone he’s pretty cool :)
(Also if I’m wrong sorry this is just the stuff I’ve seen)
I love him in chaosgate
That’s pretty fuckin rad
The grey knights are so awesome to me because they all give off Gandalf vibes. They consistently just fight actual massive demons 12 times their size with their normal sized swords and staffs. It probably looks crazy from the perspective of a demon: something the size of your foot leaps in the air and shoots a lightning bolt at your face and then tries to chop off your head with something that you could use as a toothpick.
the grey knights are brutes. one carved mortarion's true name on his primary heart, putting him to bed for a long time. they've put angron to bed for awhile before as well
And then they frickin smote their foe onto a mountainside.
@@PsychoticFruitflythat is metal af, I need to read more about them. Any book recommendations?
@@DrAlchem01the castellan Crowe series was phenomenal.
We did it bois, they got that plaque.
we the brazilians salute you
Emperor Protects
I adore Custodes. Listening to the books “Valdor: Birth of the Imperium”, and the two Watchers of the Throne books, it gives you a true feeling of dread when you look at them.
Like when a single custodes starts hefting up a 5 ton elevator by pulling the cable *hand over hand*, gets within arms reach, then *throws it* with a *single arm* across an entire warehouse floor.
Or when a mercenary is looking on with awe as he sees a custodes *kicking over a tank*
Yep. They're freaks, love them for how freaky they are. Astartes are cool, but they're not golden statues that parries bullets.
@@SeanCrosser Astartes are budget Custodes and that is a stance I'm not changing
@@thebighurt2495you’re technically not wrong given how they’re handmade by the Emperor himself while most space marines are (sorta) mass produced.
41:40 legit, this happened in a Rogue Trader session I was in. Demon possessed a PC, worked at summoning another demon, and rolled a 100. It summoned Kaldor Drago, and got duffed in the face so hard it shot out of the guy, hit a wall, and splatted before KD just peaced out like a meme.
So what I'm hearing is TTS' Kaldor Draigo invaded your Rogue Trader game...
One of my favorite parts of the Grey Knight video game, is that this Ordo Malleus Inquisitor comes aboard the ship and they make a video call to the Grandmaster of the Swordbearers brotherhood, and the Grandmaster literally hangs up on the Inquisitor because she commanded him to do something. So we're getting a little bit of progress in the whole narrative of the Grey Knights just bring the lapdogs of the Inquisition.
Grey knight video game?
@@iworshipM40A3Chaosgate Deamonhunter
@@Kinl178the game that literally treat the GKs as cannon fodder.
@@NF-nv3xwReverse ninja trope.
Alone, a ninja is an unstoppable war machine.
In groups, ninjas become dollar-store mooks.
That applies to 40k.
to be fair, the inquisition isn't one big unified entity. The inquisitor wasn't sure the grey knights existed before she met them and her demanding he send more forces was, although 100% a thing she was allowed to do, a slight breach of etiquette. The only reason the chapter master even let her call was because other grey knights vouched the mission was important
Ill only maake 1 correction. Malcador found 10 space marines to be chosen for the honor of being a grey knight. Gavriel loken and nathaniel garro both opted out of the final selection becuase they wanted to stay and fight at the siege of terra. Otherwise you guys are doing awesome job breaking down lore. Please carry on.
Technically not a planet; Malcador moved Saturn's moon, Titan, into the warp for the fledgling Grey Knights to train and mature into a battle-ready chapter.
Imagine a d&d session in Warhammer 40K you roll a nat one as a warlock and you summon the Grey Knight.
Roll a nat 20 and you summon your God. Roll a 1 and you summon a Grey night
Roll a 1 and get possessed by the demon that’s been knock knock knocking at that Psyker’s door, just a visitor, nothing more.
@@connormcgehee9349 I fell like a Nat 20 would be a Greater Demon like the Fateweaver
I AM THE HAMMER
For those who don't know, 1 SQUAD OF SPACE MARINES IS 10 OF THEM!!!! The Custodes are equal to/GREATER than 10+ GREY KNIGHT ASTARTES.
Allegedly
Wtf is a Astartes
@@weouthere4933 Space Marines are called Astartes.
10 gray Knight's ya maybe 10 knight's in terminator armor ie tactical dreadnought armor don't think so
Custodes without sisters of silence are a bit "fragile" against psychic powers, so I think it would be quite a fair fight. Obviously a Custodes is much stronger and faster in combat, but a Grey Knight can just snap his fingers and turn the Custodes into pulp inside his armour.
Commissar Harvey, who has sufferred so much damage in countless battles so that he can only shout "Kill!" should be canon.
Next in line (I hope) are the golden gods of the Adeptus Custodes and Sisters of Silence. BTW love all your vids its fun to hear you talk about anything really, also if you see this Isyander or Koda what's your favorite faction.
The story about grey knight using the blood of the Sister is the stupidest story about them because who is the guy all about blood... khorn don't care whose blood it's
There is a single grey knight that was corrupted by chaos. His mission was a little bit TOO ambitious and his failing is still pretty cool.
They sent a grey knight to END Slan'esh. The fact that they thought he just MIGHT succeed says a ton. There was a possibility.
They sent a grey knight to battle a Chaos god and thought it was a longshot but it was worth the risk.
Dude deserves a cookie
I think it was more that he got lost in the Warp, ended up in Slaanesh's realm, and got through all of the layers until he fell at the doorstep.
It wasn't a grey knight as they retained memories of their past, didn't have any psyker powers, and a few other things
No one knows if it really was a Grey Knight, The Demon Codex only says a knight in silver armor, and there are several Chapters that have Silver armor
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“2016 or nineties Doom?”
Great work as always. Thank you for covering the Grey Knights. Florida USA here.
1. Black Templars
2. Death Watch
3. Legion of the Damned
Would love to see then do the legion of the damned
I’m all for this especially the last two. Those two are my favorite legions
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I think the terminus decree is the Killswitch for the emperor. Either it kills him and allows him to ascend into godhood, or it just outright kills him and opens the hell portal onearth and snuffing the galactic imperial lighthouse.
Either we are saved by a new god, or the emperor(the literal foundation of the imperium) gets killed.
That's the ultimate Hail Mary. A Hail Mary but the ball has a pocket nuke with an impact detonator attached.
20:43 “Don’t research the daemonculaba”, immediately researched the daemonculaba and immediately regretted it
In my last rogue trader game, and me, an arch militant guardsmen foughts on a choas controlled planet.
Random ship guy talking to me. "Hey, did you get to see any of his angels while groundside?"
My character: flashbacks of a gray knight 2 man kill team fighting a greater demon.
"No, I didn't see any groundside, just a lot of corpses and blood" _'don't have a panic attack, don't have a panic attack, don't have a panic attack'_
Fun fact the chapter paster of the minotaurs once gave a custodes pause because they didnt know if they could take out a fully kitted out chapter master of theirs
Woo. Loved seeing my name at the end.
The Grey Knights are interesting as a group. The chainsaw against the demons. I think a Sister of Silence would depower a lot of things with a Grey Knight however they would still be space Marines.
Like, the Sisters of Silence have been said to see the Emperor in his true form. I cannot recall the book but they described him as being like "a man who carries the pain of humanity. He looked small and tired."
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I think it was the novel "Master of Mankind"
I think there was a Custodes who fought alongside Grey Knights, with Sisters Of Silence in tow.
IIRC they thought about how the Grey Knights, even without their psyker ability, are still more effective compared to standard Astartes.
Honestly, doing an episode on the Deathwatch would be a cool partner episode to this. One does purges on heretics, and the other does....pretty much everything else.
The Grey knights would love the doom guy, they’d get along so well!
Could we get a video on the abhumans? I feel like the ogryn and rattlings get overlooked and their lore is so fun.
if I remember the story with the sister they thought they needed virgin blood to not get processed by a demon despite them being immune from both possession and corruption from chaos
In the Watchers of the Throne series, some Grey knights team up with the Custodes and sisters. The presence of the sisters just turns off the psychic abilities of the knights. They’re still terrifying in melee, but just without their psychic wnhancemenrs
Im not a gaurdsmen, im the stain on some orks choppa
When Gilman fought Magnus for the first time it was also with sisters of silence. I'm sure if the sisters did go against them it would affect them a lot more heavily than it did Magnus.
"horusy" is actually a cool word. This needs to be a thing
Horussy
@@Rellikan ah yes. The forbidden horussy
Just found you guys.
So entertaining. Love your perspectives.
Even after already knowing everything you covered.
You make it all sound so fresh. HORUSY is now a Warhammer word for me.😂
My "favorite" thing about the grey knights is that they just now decided to make figures that show their true size just when they made primaris so now they still look to be the same size
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Completely agree. Honestly, these guys’ podcast is usually leaving me wanting more.
Which is a great position for them to be in.
I’d say we love the grey knights, but i’d rather not ever know they exist
Malcador sent Nathaniel Garro to find the gray knights. He didn't find them himself.
The Garro books are some of the best imo.
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I believe if a psyker is powerful enough it will cancel out the effect of a blank (severely weakening them). Most psykers are nowhere near powerful enough to do that. I would think a Grey Knight would be very uncomfortable near a Sister of Silence, but still able to manifest very reduced psychic power.
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24:50 Here is something. there is actually one instance in which a grey knight was corrupted by chaos. The bastard had charged into the warp alone and vowed that if he ever returned then Slaanesh would be dead. he had made it into Slaanesh's realm of infinite temptations where any indulgence you can think of lies actively beckoning you to take it with entire worlds that perfectly cater to your every desire in a way that you would actually believe you had achieved it yourself.
The bastard then proceeded to make his way through, ignoring every temptation and made his way to the palace of Slaanesh in which more temptations lied waiting. he went through until he found Slaanesh her/him/it self. He made an attempt to kill Slaanesh there and then. lets just talk about this real quick though, most would go insane an pledge eternal fealty at just the sight of a direct image of Slaanesh and yet we have this bastard who is so completely filled with righteous fury that he ignores that and goes for an attempt to kill anyways whilst being in her direct presence.
After that we hit the singular moment that sealed his fate. Slaanesh had made an active movement and had transformed into the perfect picture of an innocent child. Think of the most innocent child you have ever seen, set that on the dial to be considered a 1, now turn the dial up to 12.
Now as you would suspect from that mental image, the grey knight hesitated for half a second before attempting to continue his swing, but in that moment Slaanesh applied a directed presence at him that only managed to infiltrate his mind due to his momentary distraction. just before his blade cleaved of the child's head, he knelt down and swore eternal fealty as her knight.
It took the chaos god that most heavily specializes in corruption actually being present and applying a not insignificant amount of active effort to corrupt a grey knight. shall I point out that Khorne merely standing up from his throne allowed his PROXY to cut a PLANET IN HALF WITH ONE SWING.
So unless a grey knight finds themself face to face with Slaanesh out of all chaos gods after having to face every trial she has to throw at them to whittle away at their will, they are, for all intents and purposes incorruptible.
I would love to read that book tho, seems an amazing story
What so how bad was the monster in the emerald cave? I remember hearing like 60 Grey knights and a whole butt load of others just to lock Papa Nurgals pet away
For the squad of Grey Knights,let me correct it.
It was not a squad of Grey Knights but rather a squad of Deathwing Terminators. *The best of the Dark Angel’s best*. And they fought a Dark Cells Warden Custodes (basically WH40k’s pocket version of the SCP foundation) and struggled *Immensely*
The Warden cut through those Elite Deathwing terminators like butter,killing like 3-5 of them iirc,and they only won because the Librarian they had with them was *basically killing himself* with the amount of exertion he was committing to his warp spells to restrain the Custodes,just for a few seconds,in order to let another terminator let a missle fly and hit the banana boy. I can’t remember if they actually killed the Custodes or not but that’s basically how strong Custodes are. This was when the Dark Angels picked up a trace of Cypher’s location in the Dark Cells in the Imperial Palace,and sent unmarked Deathwing Terminators to try and get him. They damn near all died to that Warden and most likely would’ve if they hadn’t had that Librarian since Custodes only really have one weakness and it’s *extremely* strong psykers,which is why they have Sisters of Silence with them to negate any strong psykers. Reg psykers would probably just implode trying to stop a banana boy,and even one of the best Librarians the Deathwing had,damn near failed to keep the Custodes still.
Key points missed or wrong:
1. Grey Knight have demon possessed weapons
2. The Terminus Decree is to destroy Terra using the golden throne rather than let it fall to chaos
3. Grey Knights actually take the inverse of a demon's true name so that they are ideally optimized to fight them.
4. A Grey Knight can absolutely beat a custodes in combat, but it depends on which custodes and which grey knight. Psykers are OP and there are psychic powers that would simply delete custodes
Uh....
1 - yes
2 - We don't know, lot's of fanfiction, but no concrete lore as far as I'm aware
3 - not really, they get giving new names when doing great deeds, these are added to their current name and inscribed into their armour. The longer the name, the more difficult it is for a demon to have power over them.
4 - Absolutely not. Custodians go through Space Marines like butter and Grey Knights are NOT any better than normal Space Marines, they just get fancier gear and have some powers. They are hard counter to Demons and warp based enemies, they would get killed in seconds when fighting Custodians.
Bolter rounds arent red bull can sized. .75 caliber for regular bolter rounds and .998 for heavy bolter rounds. So 3/4 inch and basically one inch in diameter respectively. Roughly equivalent to 19mm or 25mm rifles or cannons. Still strong as all hell and bolter rounds are probably more powerful pound for pound. Basically Space Marines are walking Light attack vehicles. Like a bradley fighting vehicle for example
Ah yes the grey knights, the knights who've sacrificed sisters of battle to purge the blood god knorne with the holy blood of their loyal aforementioned sisters. Great writing...love to see. Heretic out
21:37
Wasn't that retconned real quick?
If memory serves they reconned it with one of the grey knights codexes. Though I could be wrong
@@jessec7499 i hope so. All that grimderp was just 🐂💩
I'd love if the Tyrannids that are getting all demon-fed and evolving from Chaos end up within the purview of the Grey Knights just to get to see even a small offshoot of them fight the Nids. It would make sense that Nids taking on more and more Chaos traits might eventually lead to them falling under what Grey Knights are supposed to handle. Just getting enough Chaos traits and features that its basically just Chaos bugs.
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What Big E didn't realize is that the Chaos Gods don't need worship. He actually killed (most) human gods, depriving humanity of a natural defense against Chaos.
Y'alls podcast has seriously hooked me. Love the 40k lore, hope it stays. Your narrative style is great
Gray Knight: sons and daughters of the Emperor. We are here to save you….
Random guardsmen: Oh yea. It’s the Holy church of the Emperor.
Grey Knight: From yourselves.
Guardsmen: oh no it’s the Holy Church of the Emperor
The terminus decree will probably either summon all Grey Knights to the emperor to defend and protect him or will be a NUKE EM ALL type deal. Just my fun take :)
Or better yet: the same ritual that created the Emperor. And Grey Knights are all psykers like those several hundred shamans were, just much much stronger.
20:34 I actually just finished Dead Sky Black Sun. Holy Emperor that book is insane, and the Daemonculaba is *so gross,* but the book wouldn't work without it, and the rest of the book is just bonkers. There's a literal Daemon train!!
Canonically the reason the ultramarines almost always win is because orks believe blue is supernaturally lucky which is hilarious
Also can you please do a video dedicated to Sanguinius like please show the golden hawk boy some love.
Horror game where you're a psyker/demon getting chased by:
Easy - Sister of Battle
Normal - Space Marine
Hard - Grey Knight
Insane - Culexus Assassin
I love the Grey Knights, and I love the way you guys do this info. Lots of data but in a nice, conversational manner. Wish you had more on their homeworld of Titan! One thing you missed that I think is hella cool: upon officially becoming a Grey Knight, each man is given a name that is _literally anathema_ to a particular demon. Like if you named a Knight Michael, his very name would be painful and repelling to a demon named Satan. Names and words have power, as you said about the words of banishment; so in a way, every single knight becomes the dedicated antithesis to a particular demon. So damn cool.
19:51 hey you say what you will I don’t want them to stop till I know the name of every ultramarine I wanna know where tf kevin is and what he do and his hobbies outside of purging and bleeding I need to know where my bro bob at and if his ass is on the frontlines I need to know all their names no question 😂😂(for real they do name them all and it doesn’t help with space marines 2 they literally announced Titus like ffs I love him and he is an exceptional for me but please give me anything else give me a named salamander or imperial fist or spice it up and give me a dark angel or a new black Templar or even announce a first named character for some of the really unknown ones like the shark space marines PLEAAAAASE I BEEEEEG GW )
Apologies boys, but at 19:16 you said a Grey knight would summon a deamon to fight a deamon. That's Rogue inquisitors that do that, and the Grey Knights won't work with them, and have been known to attack them on sight.
Im calling it , the deal the grayknights made whit traizen says" you can have as many pocked super fingertraps as you whant but the moment you got angron in one you hand him over cus that mutherfucker belong in a museum!!! "
It should be noted that the whole, using the sisters of battles blood because they are holy thing isn't cannon anymore.
No mention of the noble shard 😢
I really tossed around with adding this in but I was really worried it would get too off topic. Will definitely mention it in the inevitable Malcador or Magnus episode
Everytime I listen, I just hear Koda interrupting with nonsense and breaking Lysander's flow.
the true words of banishment is "Pee is stored in the balls" which requires a T-Pose. it's incrediblt difficult with pauldrons
So, when are we going to get an episode on this Horus guy and whatever his Herussy was. Everyone seems to really think a lot about that Horussy.
im in the military already i know id be in the Imperial guard and damn proud of it! And I'd swoon over the sisters!
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Can anyone tell me the name of the book where the Grey Knights actually go after Angron??? I’d love to read that one
im binging all your warhammer videos i love them im just getting into it and you guys explain it so well and make it entertaining
Just seeing a grey knight means death. And space marines get the men in black flash thingie if they are lucky.
We would NOT be guardsmen. We'd probably be PDF or civies
The guy on the rights adds nothing when he speaks. Whatever he says just interrupts the flow of the video
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I love Custode but they let the imperium go to shit. They should have stop the religion crap
Yea it’s really funny how the Supreme grand master the only person who can open the box is the one in the warp
Fun fact, in the game Chaos Gate daemon hunters you play as Grey knights fighting nurgle eventually you send 8 knights into the garden of nurgle to save the supreme grand master from the overwhelming forces that have converged on him which was a plan of mortarian which was eons in the making and it was derailed completely by 8 knights coming to save him 8, it took 8 to do the job even then half fight mortarian the other half literally just stand in the way of the army trying to get to mortarian
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There is one "normal" chapter that the grey Knights will even consider working working with and they are the Black Templars.
You guys are doing great, nice long epps and targeted. Finished all of luetin and but can never go wrong with another channel :) had a great laugh on one of your other videos about the *REDACTED* where you just dont look it up as its horrible even for 40k. If you know you know :O
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Motion to make "Horussy" cannon and push untill GW caves.
If Magnus had accepted the Emporer's offer of forgiveness, how would that had changed things? The Grey Knights were the legion proposed to replace the Thousand Sons, so would that have denied Chaos a legion?
purtarabos put angron in a box during the horus herasy and used him as a very angry missel
Malcadore is a Prepetual, so do you think he will return/reborn sometime soon ?
The Grey knights grand master also is implanted with a shard of Magnus’s soul so that’s cool
I'd be that guardsmen who was killed the second the enemy showed up. Orks wouldn't even finish shouting Dakka and I'd be dead.
better, you're a guardsman trying to survive the gray knights.
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i hate that sisters of battle crossover so much i knew it was gonna come up lol
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I'm brand new into the 40k universe and I've been listening on yr Spotify acct every single ep while at work it makes the lore of the world make sense
Grey knight horror game needs to be, the first half of the gamr ur a regular gaurdsmen, and youre trying to escape a lesser deamon, but you eventually die, then you takeover the deamons body and you start finding more of your deamon buddies ripped to shreds and shit, and youre using clues to figure out what is doing this, then a grey knight finally starts slowly hiding in the background of every area, and they slowly get closer and closer every new level area, and eventually they srart messing with you and hunting you quietly
That would be wild to play co-op with
They snapped into that Sister of battle like Slim Jim.
38:34 Khorneflakes lol
To make them truly grey Knights, will not use silver to paint any grey knights.
(Edit): I have questions
1. If I directly Throw money at you does it bypass the patron?
2. When Vulkan?
Pouring blood into you khorneflakes is an underrated pun
There is a Traitor grey knight the silver knight who is corrupted by Slaanesh. Sometimes they do fall tbh
I'm interested to know how that happend now
Im surprised you did not cover Castellan crowe