Istvaan III The End

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  • Istvaan III, also spelled as Isstvan III in Imperial records, was an Imperial Civilised World in the Istvaan System of the Segmentum Obscurus. Its population was destroyed by a virus-bombing ordered by the Warmaster Horus during a major deployment of Space Marine Legion forces at the end of the Great Crusade in 005.
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  • @grantkruger3689
    @grantkruger3689 ปีที่แล้ว +2009

    Every loyalist who died there were better men than any traitor who survived.

    • @nowhere474
      @nowhere474 ปีที่แล้ว +128

      The EMPEROR knows their names

    • @Lycurgus1982
      @Lycurgus1982 ปีที่แล้ว

      Don't mourn their loss. They were built for war and are a farcry from men as we know them to be.

    • @kynangoddard68
      @kynangoddard68 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      It is better to die for the emperor than live for yourself

    • @zerospurgatoyabyss
      @zerospurgatoyabyss ปีที่แล้ว +90

      no one was born cool *flips down thingy* except for: members of traitor leigons who stayed loyalist

    • @the_emperor_of_mankind
      @the_emperor_of_mankind ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@nowhere474 of course I do

  • @wolflordgio6320
    @wolflordgio6320 ปีที่แล้ว +2255

    Saul Tarvitz choosing to go down to istvaan 3 knowing the outcome was one of the most beautiful moments in the Heresy and my hate for lucius will never diminish.

    • @NoMercy40k
      @NoMercy40k ปีที่แล้ว +206

      The sad irony that Lucius would have died that day had it not been for Tarvitz.

    • @Yorvics
      @Yorvics  ปีที่แล้ว +174

      Ngl this for me was the definition of “Emotional Damage”

    • @QBall1964
      @QBall1964 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      This cueball can anybody tell me what's the music in the background of the Estevan three Massacre itay is so moving my wife and kids love it

    • @chenbeixuan9184
      @chenbeixuan9184 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      There were only two true heros of Emperor Children Rylanor and Saul Tarvitz

    • @wolflordgio6320
      @wolflordgio6320 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      @@chenbeixuan9184 Don’t forget Solomon Demeter his death was also devastating he deserved better.

  • @flamaster1757
    @flamaster1757 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +558

    The "lost looking world eaters" breaks my heart. At the end of the day theyre all just kids who don't understand why their dad hates them

    • @DominionSorcerer
      @DominionSorcerer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Considering the World Eaters had the most loyalists out of all traitor legions they understood something.

    • @Bread-nx9fo
      @Bread-nx9fo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      Ironically, Angron had more respect for those that fought on Istvaan 3 against him then he did for his own traitor forces

    • @feIIas
      @feIIas 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Bread-nx9fothat's probably why he charged down there, despite knowing how much it'd piss horus off and delay the heresy. Couldn't stand to watch his sons die in ignominy instead of glorious battle.

    • @epiceg9464
      @epiceg9464 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      @@Bread-nx9fowatching him respect his sons for fighting him hits different after the ‘courage and honour’ speech

    • @andrewryan4417
      @andrewryan4417 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ​@@epiceg9464Who's a slave at that point, and a slave to whom?
      Tragedy at every corner.

  • @Ahriman13
    @Ahriman13 ปีที่แล้ว +949

    These brave sons of the Emperor were no longer Emperirors Children, World Eaters, Death Guard, or Sons of Horus. They were True Emperors Children, War Hounds, Dusk Raiders, and Luna Wolves.

    • @travzac619
      @travzac619 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      Loyalists to the very end

    • @CoolSmoovie
      @CoolSmoovie 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      Damn this comment hits diff😔

    • @frogblasttheventcore69
      @frogblasttheventcore69 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@CoolSmoovie Who's Diff and why are you hitting him?!

    • @40kFan
      @40kFan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@CoolSmoovie This video and comment hit me to the very bottom of my heart.

    • @justinmendoza2019
      @justinmendoza2019 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@frogblasttheventcore69Dorn moment

  • @Whispurer
    @Whispurer 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

    *Let it be forever known there were more loyalist World Eaters on Istvaan III than all the other legions...*

  • @uberfeel
    @uberfeel ปีที่แล้ว +1134

    The Tragedy of Istvan III was so great that Roboute Guilliman, primarch of the Ultramaries was on verge of tears when he learned about this massacre.

    • @RenMagnum4057
      @RenMagnum4057 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Wait really? What book is it from?

    • @cinnamonape3045
      @cinnamonape3045 ปีที่แล้ว +132

      @@RenMagnum4057 the Bible

    • @BlackSRaziel
      @BlackSRaziel ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Really? What book is it from?

    • @stizzacrizack5050
      @stizzacrizack5050 ปีที่แล้ว +108

      @@RenMagnum4057 Rules of Engagement by Graham Mcneil, apart of the Age of Darkness series I believe

    • @stizzacrizack5050
      @stizzacrizack5050 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@BlackSRaziel Rules of Engagement by Graham Mcneil, apart of the Age of Darkness series I believe

  • @atomichobbit7358
    @atomichobbit7358 ปีที่แล้ว +802

    This makes me wish that the theory that the legion of the damned are the souls of the Istvaan 3 loyalists is true. They were the best of the imperium and deserve another chance to get their revenge.

    • @samuelbaerg5820
      @samuelbaerg5820 ปีที่แล้ว +160

      The HH novel Master of Mankind more or less confirms this theory when the Emperor summons the dead led by Ferrus to hold the web way.
      Regardless the dead of Istvaan will not be forgotten, nor shall their death be forgiven.

    • @spacecaesar7619
      @spacecaesar7619 ปีที่แล้ว

      The legion of the damned are more or less confirmed to be the souls of dead astartes from across all periods of the imperium.

    • @62sy
      @62sy ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That would ruin the conclusion

    • @nakedicaro
      @nakedicaro ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Not only them, but other heroes are counted among them, like Ventanus of the Ultramarines.

    • @SerV689
      @SerV689 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@samuelbaerg5820bruh how does that confirm it at all lol the Legion of the Damned is never name dropped in that novel and the description in master of mankind is vastly different from any other mention of the damned. Lastly he also summon ferrus manus and ferrus is never seen or mentioned in any appearance of the damned legion

  • @Bread-nx9fo
    @Bread-nx9fo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +304

    The world eaters fighting Angron even though they knew that they'd die just showed how much they hated their Primarch and what he turned their legion into.

    • @zachdelozier2133
      @zachdelozier2133 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      The inverse is equally tragic when you recall that according to Angron himself, the only true sons he ever possessed died by his hand that day.

    • @Khorne__
      @Khorne__ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      @@zachdelozier2133 he ever honoured them in their death, from a gladiator to a gladiator

    • @taloscal
      @taloscal หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@zachdelozier2133 Makes sense, they died fighting for what they believed in, much like he himself intended to do back during his gladiator days...

  • @waaagh9936
    @waaagh9936 ปีที่แล้ว +593

    "Even through the pain, Temeter understood. There was a small fracture in the old warrior’s ceramite casing, not enough to have slowed him on the battlefield, but more than the virus needed to reach inside the Dreadnought’s hull and savage the remnants of flesh inside. ‘You… lied.’
    ‘Veteran’s prerogative,’ came the reply. ‘We’ll go together then, shall we?’ Huron-Fal asked, embracing Temeter’s body to him, moving swiftly away from the bunker. It took every last effort from Temeter to nod. Blinded now, he could feel the tissues of his eyes burning and shrivelling in his head, the soft meat of his lips and tongue dissolving.
    Huron-Fal’s systems were on the verge of shut-down as he stumbled to a safe distance, skidding to a halt. ‘This death,’ rasped the voder, ‘this death is ours. We choose it. We deny you your victory.’
    With a single burning nerve impulse, the mind of the warrior at the heart of the Dreadnought uncoupled the governor controls on his compact fusion generator and let it overload. For a moment there was a tiny star on the battered plains outside the Choral City, marking two more lives lost within a maelstrom of murder."

    • @MrAdamske
      @MrAdamske 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      im not crying , your crying!

    • @MALITH666
      @MALITH666 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@MrAdamske seems to be a rain here even if the sun is out.

    • @Help_In_Need
      @Help_In_Need 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The last sentence made me cry when I was reading that book yesterday. It hit way too hard.
      I mean I was not crying of course. It was just fire alarm.

  • @argentward1
    @argentward1 ปีที่แล้ว +557

    *Istvaan III* It haunts my dreams, it haunts me that fathers could so readily slaughter their sons, it haunts me that such men as the Primarch's could so readily abandon reason and fall into twisted echos of themselves.
    The flames of Istvann III, they haunt my dreams.

    • @MALITH666
      @MALITH666 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is why the traitor ideals are wrong. They say the Father (big E) betrayed them, and yet they decide to betray their own sons.

  • @sovnya9140
    @sovnya9140 ปีที่แล้ว +581

    Saul Tarvitz and Ancient Rylanor were pillars of what the Emperors Children were supposed to be. Although the legions fought for mankind, Fulgrim and his Emperors Children and were supposed to be the best of us, showing how mankind must strive to better ourselves, and how beautiful we could’ve become. Those two Astartes make the true Fulgrim proud to call them his sons

    • @juliancalero8012
      @juliancalero8012 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Rylanor did what most couldn't even dream of doing, do permanent emotional damage to the dammed husk Fulgrim became

    • @wavemoon
      @wavemoon ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Well the true lesson about beauty that was supposed to be learned from the Emperors children and more specifically Fulgrim was to learn that your faults are what make you beautiful.
      But Fulgrim was a little too dense to get it.

    • @KaitoGillscale
      @KaitoGillscale ปีที่แล้ว +29

      I pity the Emperor’s Children. The emperor gave them such lofty expectations, but never the manpower or the tools to do it. So much expected of them that they wore themselves thin. If Fulgrim had been told about chaos and it’s devious ways…maybe he wouldn’t have wielded the corrupt blade…maybe he would have allied with the Emperor with a sane mind…maybe he would have asked for help instead of choked on his pride.

    • @LongWarEnjoyer
      @LongWarEnjoyer ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The true fulgrim was still a traitor.

    • @TheGreatThicc
      @TheGreatThicc ปีที่แล้ว +30

      ​@@LongWarEnjoyerIf I recall correctly, not really. Shortly before Istvaan III happened when Fulgrim was seperated from that blade for a long time he had a moment of clarity, realizing what Horus was going to and was about to order his ships to open fire on the Vengeful Spirit to stop his madness but then somebody brought the blade to him and it took control of his mind again.

  • @christianblair8663
    @christianblair8663 ปีที่แล้ว +721

    Man, if they made an animation of the battle of Istvaan 3, I would genuinely break down in tears for hours. That shit has so many emotional, glorious scenes of pure loyalty and betrayal.

    • @CoolSmoovie
      @CoolSmoovie 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      The book is one of the best pieces of fiction I had ever read. It was this book that convinced me to read all of the HH books lol

    • @Sorain1
      @Sorain1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Just one Film. Title it simply Istvaan 3. Don't waste time going into how they got there, don't bother to explain to those who do not know. Let it be for those who do know, and let that be enough. End with a zoom out from the prescentors palice, with this narration going as the credits roll up the screen, and the palice collapses into dust. Linger on the rubble being pounded still, and let it end with the dust settling, just as the final credit rolls up. One last lingering shot of that place for a few seconds.

    • @Cernumospete
      @Cernumospete 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just imagine....
      Just imagine they'd pulled a Halo on Istvaan.
      I mean the big ass diorama.
      Where was it....
      Ah, here, th-cam.com/video/40jdpzrpIps/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared , I mean like this.

    • @AkhilMulpuru
      @AkhilMulpuru 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      which book? @@CoolSmoovie

    • @CoolSmoovie
      @CoolSmoovie 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@AkhilMulpuru It’s the third book in the HH

  • @somerandomschmuck2547
    @somerandomschmuck2547 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    There’s something in me that breaks when I hear Saul ask if what they did mattered. This is a Transhuman demigod who’s probably been fighting wars for longer I’ve been alive, but when he says that it’s hard to not remember, “yeah that’s a child solider who probably wanted to be a hero or something once upon a time isn’t he?”

  • @WAcrobat19
    @WAcrobat19 ปีที่แล้ว +249

    Idk why, but the lines about the few lost World Eaters and no present Death Guard is so sad.

    • @theonly802
      @theonly802 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      the world eaters are the most tragic of the legions in my opinion. Warriors trying to do anything to gain approval from a father (angron) who was so wrapped up in his own tragedy and trauma of not dying with his brothers that he tortured his sons and ordered them to have the butchers nails implanted in everyone. They obeyed to gain the approval of him and he killed the ones who refused to turn traitor even after the nails at Istvaan 3

    • @philip8498
      @philip8498 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      i think there were a bunch of death guard marines still out there, but because they were absolute units, they survived the virus bombing outside the safety of the temple. hence why none of them were in the temple with the rest.

    • @malcadorsigilite6120
      @malcadorsigilite6120 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@philip8498there were. Iirc, it was 70 Death Guard under command of Crysos Morturg, a later Blackshield Captain.

    • @andrewryan4417
      @andrewryan4417 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Weren't a few of them fleeing to warn the Emperor of Horus's betrayal.

  • @matthewrolfe23
    @matthewrolfe23 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    "We'll go together"

    • @eggz09
      @eggz09 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      "veteran's prerogative"

    • @megumi9467
      @megumi9467 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Shall we?

    • @waaagh9936
      @waaagh9936 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This death, this death is ours. We choose it. We deny you your victory.​

  • @retributive
    @retributive 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

    Craziest part, the "lost looking World-Eaters" might've looked lost because they had already been implanted with the Butchers Nail by Angron after he took control of his legion, many space marines in the legion dying in the procedure. After surviving all of that, being forced to kill their brothers if they couldn't overtake worlds in 31 hours, and having all their emotions and souls ripped apart and consumed by an uncontrollable rage and unyielding pain...they stayed loyal.

    • @user-wl1sf3fl9k
      @user-wl1sf3fl9k 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      😣😣😣😣

    • @carsoncasmirri3874
      @carsoncasmirri3874 14 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      All they sacrificed only for their father to simply spit on any loyalty he had for his sons. Vistario was more right than he realized when he said to Fulgrim “… he deserves better than you, he deserves better than all of us.”

  • @1Haseo2
    @1Haseo2 ปีที่แล้ว +109

    There's nothing more human than a man on the precepice of death asking if their sacrifice meant anything. Always makes me tear up.

  • @cncmne7404
    @cncmne7404 ปีที่แล้ว +317

    To me , the events of Istvaan III diminishes any justification for the Heresy. Any personal grudges and pains that the fallen 9 have suffered fall apart because of this. Both the loyalists and the traitors lived in an equally ungratefull galaxy , the difference is the traitors gave up and chosen the path of least resistance where the loyalist choose to push on and live with the pain. Hence why the traitors are eternaly damned , and that all their reasons of treason have lost their weight.

    • @Cptraktorn
      @Cptraktorn ปีที่แล้ว +7

      to be fair the traitors arent traitors simply because they want to, but because of chaos influence.

    • @Tiggy110
      @Tiggy110 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Cptraktorn We can all agreed that most traitors were either tricked, or force to become chaos puppets. Even Horus himself was tricked...but we can all agree...FUCK EREBUS!

    • @averagetachyonlanceenjoyer1129
      @averagetachyonlanceenjoyer1129 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      @@Cptraktorn Not all. Many of them simply followed their primarch. And many primarchs fell due to their own stupidity.
      Horus: because he didnt resisted Chaos corruption.
      Fulgrim: because he didnt resisted daemon inside layer blade.
      Magnus: due to his arrogance
      Lorgal: because he was a stupid idiot, not understanding that Emperor wasn't a god.
      Mortarion: he was salty about that "kill steal" (Emperor saved his life)
      Konrad: just insane
      Alpharius: believed some xenos that Emperor want him to betray Imperium.
      Perturabo: he was jealous.
      Angron: OK, he was right. Emperor just left him to die with butcher's nails.
      Just blaming chaos is bad excuse. You can resist Chaos in most cases, and at start many traitors weren't Chaos-corrupted at start. Out of all primarchs, only Angron was right to betray Emperor.

    • @impguardwarhamer
      @impguardwarhamer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      I remember really thinking this during Angel Exterminatus. There is an attempted assassination on Fulgrim by a Raven Guard, and Perturabo screams about how dare the loyalists sink to such a low, and how horrid and without honour they must be.
      All this, after he mowed down his brothers in the back at istvaan.
      Pathetic.

    • @EMan-1920
      @EMan-1920 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      To be fair, Horus technically died on Davin 4, and a form of himself held up by Warp corruption of his "soul" animated his corpse. I believe it was Fulgrim that stated Horus died back on Davin to Lorgar in Slaves to Darkness. That's why the Emperor vaporizes Horus from existence to prevent that from happening again at the end of the Heresy.@@averagetachyonlanceenjoyer1129

  • @pocketinfinity6733
    @pocketinfinity6733 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    "A few lost looking world eaters..." oh wow just destroy my soul will ya?

    • @jeffcancel9645
      @jeffcancel9645 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Its sad because they problay came down off their butchers nail high and put together that this was the end.

  • @Paralysisbyanlysis
    @Paralysisbyanlysis ปีที่แล้ว +73

    Toby Longworth’s voice is the epitome of Warhammer. In my opinion he is much better than Keeble or any other narrator

    • @vimictus7033
      @vimictus7033 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed..

    • @joseffranz3872
      @joseffranz3872 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      For 40k, for sure. I like Keeble a lot more in Warhammer Fantasy though, like in Gotrek and Felix. Something about Keeble doesn't fit Space Marines to me.

  • @vergil8833
    @vergil8833 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

    "The Stars shun down on the Choral city in time to watch the city die."

  • @BoogiesFakeCancer
    @BoogiesFakeCancer ปีที่แล้ว +206

    All who stood against the traitors were....World Eaters, Sons of Horus, Emperor's Children and Death Guard....no
    They were the Dusk Raiders, Luna Wolves, War Hounds and the Third...they were the emperors chosen...they were his shining light in the darkness....they were his avenging angels.
    Captains...
    Saul Tarvitz
    Solomon Demeter
    Garviel Loken
    Tarik Torgaddon
    Ullis Temeter
    Captain Ehrlen
    The Imperium's finest.

    • @barryhunt3541
      @barryhunt3541 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      And they shall know no fear

    • @mitrion301
      @mitrion301 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And so many more, who's name noone will ever know but their sacrifice will never be forgotten

    • @breadogi7118
      @breadogi7118 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@barryhunt3541 and they knew no fear

    • @jacklang3314
      @jacklang3314 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Don’t forget Captain Solomon Demeter.

    • @BoogiesFakeCancer
      @BoogiesFakeCancer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jacklang3314 sorted it

  • @ULTIMATZEKROM
    @ULTIMATZEKROM 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Tarvitz was right, you know. The Loyalists at Istvaan did hurt the Traitors. Horus had wished it to end quickly, and thanks to the Loyalists, it took far longer and took far more resources than Horus wished to use. Plus their efforts allowed some of the Loyalists, like Nathanial Garro, to escape and warn the Imperium. They died better men than any traitor that survived.

  • @PinkBroBlueRope
    @PinkBroBlueRope ปีที่แล้ว +142

    This was a maddeningly cool book, from the hopeless and confused battle against their own legions, to the terrifying appearance of Angron tearing through ranks of astartes, to the real-time description of the planet’s virus-bombing, to the betrayal and battle between best friends Tarvitz and Lucius. The final quarter of this book made it worth slogging through some of the other Horus Heresy books that could have easily been shortened to pamphlets

    • @anirudhashok3332
      @anirudhashok3332 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Which book
      Tell me

    • @patrickrutledge4660
      @patrickrutledge4660 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@anirudhashok3332 Galaxy in Flames

    • @SalTarvitz
      @SalTarvitz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      There are abridged versions of the early books. They are actually pretty good. They change some roles and eliminate some characters. They reach the same conclusions. Different narrator but I like him equally.

  • @UserRedZero
    @UserRedZero ปีที่แล้ว +57

    The algorithm has brought me here. Not as a blessing, but as a curse, so goes my soul with Isstvan III.

  • @donavanhelltaker7548
    @donavanhelltaker7548 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    “Will go together then. shall we?” -Death guard DreadNought Huron-Fal

  • @MatthewBester
    @MatthewBester 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    I remember this scene. It was the lost World Eaters that stuck in my mind. You can picture their faces, contorted in an expression of "Why!?". Great scene, great book. There is nothing as wretched or as hated in all the world as a Traitor.

  • @46dbennett
    @46dbennett ปีที่แล้ว +118

    This made me shed a tear. I have listened to all of the HH books and primarch books to hear this part again after so long damn it just hits.

  • @NuclearSunshineSB
    @NuclearSunshineSB ปีที่แล้ว +66

    how this community is aching for great adaptation. If anyone is ever able to turn this into something deserving it will be some of the most bombastic entertainment ever created

    • @carsoncasmirri3874
      @carsoncasmirri3874 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I honestly think that Henry Cavil could do it if he was given what he needs

  • @InquisitorXarius
    @InquisitorXarius 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    Saul Tarvitz and Nathaniel Garro two people in 40k I have nothing but respect and admiration for.
    Perfect examples of loyalist paragons, both individuals who had more Humanity than most of the Primarchs.

  • @Alpharius-Omegon
    @Alpharius-Omegon ปีที่แล้ว +203

    Yes Istvaan III was a dreary campaign indeed, we many lost many sleeper agents during that conflict but they died nudging the game in the right direction…

    • @malvagio-hc3gg
      @malvagio-hc3gg ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Hydra...Dominatus...

    • @KingLich451
      @KingLich451 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      for the 🅱emperor...

    • @96soup
      @96soup 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@KingLich451We are Being Attacked by. boy!?!?

  • @vicstanfieldshire7754
    @vicstanfieldshire7754 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Ancient Rylanor stands sentry, and Cerberus emerges!

  • @theemperorschosen7607
    @theemperorschosen7607 ปีที่แล้ว +241

    This brings the emotions out of me.
    And I've listened through this book time and again.
    Forever shall the Fallen be the Emperor's Finest.

    • @StJohn-kf3xb
      @StJohn-kf3xb ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What book

    • @theemperorschosen7607
      @theemperorschosen7607 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@StJohn-kf3xb
      Galaxy Aflame.

    • @Yorvics
      @Yorvics  ปีที่แล้ว +16

      They truly were the best of the best

    • @theemperorschosen7607
      @theemperorschosen7607 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@Yorvics
      I'm a big UM simp. But Istvaan III made me fall in love with the Loyalists from the Traitor legions.
      I'm glad the Algorithm led me to finding this too.

    • @mitrion301
      @mitrion301 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This is why I believe, that the Legion of the Dammned is made up of especially the victims of Istvaan.

  • @commissarblitz9480
    @commissarblitz9480 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    The fact that everyone of them knew the odds and still chose to stand against the traitors was valiant

  • @Xxbenjee41xX
    @Xxbenjee41xX 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    No other story in 30k/40k makes me as emotional as the last stand of the remaining loyalists of the traitor legions. They didn’t even have the benefit of believing in a God-Emperor to protect their souls after death, only the adamantine love for each other, and the glory of spitting horus in the face for his treachery. They were true heroes of the Imperium.

  • @superperfectcell3rbs677
    @superperfectcell3rbs677 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Never Forget. There were more Loyalist World Eaters on Istvaan III than any other Legion…

  • @inquisitordave2751
    @inquisitordave2751 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Istvaan III is the perfect way to write a tragedy. Write a character, make them likeable, build them up over your story, then stab them in the back.

  • @lasttemplar9160
    @lasttemplar9160 ปีที่แล้ว +141

    We need a long animation of istvaan III

    • @Yorvics
      @Yorvics  ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I’d watch that

    • @kerk7102
      @kerk7102 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      both III and V

    • @user-sq5mr8ut1o
      @user-sq5mr8ut1o ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Janovich recently did a retelling of istvaan 3, you may like it

    • @benjamintim3542
      @benjamintim3542 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I only have so many tears...

  • @brianaguila6925
    @brianaguila6925 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    Saul Tarvitz: we hurt them,they'll remember this.
    Horus Aximand: You're a dream. No, a nightmare.
    Garviel Loken: That, perhaps.
    They did remember it.

    • @Hot_Garbage__
      @Hot_Garbage__ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      which book?

    • @kingskelett6265
      @kingskelett6265 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@Hot_Garbage__ Siege of Terra volume 4, Saturnite. Context/Spoilers below:
      Loken is taking part in the defense of Terra.
      Dorn learns of a weakpoint in the foundations in one section of the imperial palace (not in the center, the palace is basically a large city, but still behind the frontline). He, correctly, assumes that Perturabo would learn of this and assumes, correctly again, his counterpart would send the best he had available in a strike force using assault drill pods to try and create a breach there.
      These best are the elite of the Sons of Horus, with the entire Mourneval (Abbadon, Horus Aximand, Torgaddon, Kibre) and terminator elite. Maybe Perturabo expected the trap or not, the Sons of Horus walk right into it. Nearly three companies of elite SoH are wiped out, either killed directly or sealed in liquid ferrocrete. Only Abaddon can escape, Torgaddon and Kibre die in the battle.
      Horus Aximand, after having the crew of his drill slaughtered by Blood Angels, manages to escape through the combat zones of the underground basement system they were fighting in. He is confronted however by Loken, who in preparation has styled his armor in colour and livery of the old Lunar Wolves.
      Aximand, already suffering from claustrophobia and madness, mistakes Loken for a ghost, then a nightmare, which is the quote above. He dies at the hands of Loken.

  • @genericdreamers831
    @genericdreamers831 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Becky: I can't believe he didn't cry during The Titanic!
    Goth Becky: Do men even have feelings?
    Chad: [Watching this]

  • @capsizemoonz2251
    @capsizemoonz2251 ปีที่แล้ว +129

    While this is all happening as the last of the loyalists are bombarded
    Somewhere on the planets destroyed and desolate planes
    Roams the last luna wolf the one who hunts down the brothers that betrayed him who hunts down the father that betrayed him
    And even deeper in the planet the ancient rests for a plan of vengeance blooms for a billion nights

    • @Yorvics
      @Yorvics  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Indeed

    • @Yorvics
      @Yorvics  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Btw I saw the meme you made using this video and I really like it
      Never thought that would ever happen xD

    • @juliancalero8012
      @juliancalero8012 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      That plan of vengeance gave a wound so deep to a twisted shell of a man that is immune to most harm, that of a wound to the pride of a thin skined and prideful husk who only had his ego left

    • @Kor-Phaeron
      @Kor-Phaeron ปีที่แล้ว

      Cerberus

  • @s.s.swankking67
    @s.s.swankking67 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I actually was listening to this audiobook at work and once it got to this point I was actually tearing up

  • @imperialservitor6612
    @imperialservitor6612 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I just finished galaxy in flames this evening and oh my emperor is it a beautiful book.

    • @lukef6878
      @lukef6878 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I just finished it. That is literally a work of art

  • @Irishbroadsword
    @Irishbroadsword ปีที่แล้ว +72

    What i would give to find out Trazyn collected Tarvitz’s squad for his collection before the bombing and that they still lived

    • @lachlanmacrae1779
      @lachlanmacrae1779 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      In 'The Infinate and The Divine' Trazyn explains that he collected astarties and recreated various battles from the Horus heresy, it's likely he also witnessed the Rebelion of Istvaan, but I doubt he would have taken anything from the final bombing, focusing more on the bigger battles.

    • @fernandorivera4719
      @fernandorivera4719 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@lachlanmacrae1779 He didn't care for Humanity until after the Heresy started, and was so surprised that he rushed to collect, so he would not have been in time to cop the Chads from Istvaan III. His biggest expo is that of the Dropsite Massacre.

    • @epiceg9464
      @epiceg9464 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@fernandorivera4719he even said that he had more ultramarines then any other, so I think he started collecting at the battle of calth

  • @bd5024
    @bd5024 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I weep

    • @Yorvics
      @Yorvics  ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Same

  • @vicstanfieldshire7754
    @vicstanfieldshire7754 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    I’m on Fallen Angels, but I have listened to this novel 4 times now. It is SO friggin good!
    #cavillasgarvielloken

  • @parkerstange851
    @parkerstange851 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    It's crazy how, in the end, their humanity comes through, and all they can feel is if any of it mattered. Did anything they do matter.

    • @MALITH666
      @MALITH666 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes. It mattered all. They kept the Traitors tied down so Dorn could prepare defenses, for Sanguinius to rally the defense again and again, and finally the time Roboute needed to make all the way back to avenge the fallen.
      Isstvan 3 was a loyalist victory and everyone traded their lives for it.

    • @gottmttunsk3502
      @gottmttunsk3502 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      because they are. they have a human soul and that will always shine through. even the primarchs, warp-infused demigods, are fundamentally and painfully human in their character and flaws. it's one of the finest themes of the setting imho. keeps things grounded in a sense

  • @NkGaming-1101
    @NkGaming-1101 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Istvaan 3, where fathers betrayed their sons

  • @callanpepper9920
    @callanpepper9920 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Sauls message to Garro was a huge win for the loyalists.

  • @TheAlinator88
    @TheAlinator88 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Man I wish Richard Boylan (Maker of the Helsreach animation) would make a short animation about this.

  • @thatfrog05
    @thatfrog05 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    May the fallen be forever remembered as the emperors finest

  • @linussvenson5726
    @linussvenson5726 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This will be my last stand against the globalist

  • @kerbal666
    @kerbal666 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    If this was a tv show this would be a red wedding moment no?

    • @theinsidioushat7543
      @theinsidioushat7543 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Istvaan III would be very red wedding but there would be alot of buildup, Istvann V is alot more shocking.

    • @uberfeel
      @uberfeel ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Much worse and brutal IMO

    • @aerosdacillo1227
      @aerosdacillo1227 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@theinsidioushat7543 Istvan V is more like Teutoburg mixed with battle of Cannae

  • @swolbrohamlincoln9659
    @swolbrohamlincoln9659 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    With so much unlimited amount of lore and content, it is easy to forget this tragedy, so i have to go bsck every once in a while to not forget, Tarvitz is one of the greates unsung heroes of the Imperium

  • @barrelwimp2698
    @barrelwimp2698 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Thank you for this it's an amazing way to remember this scene

  • @SuperConmon
    @SuperConmon 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I've watched this many times

  • @Titanscreaming
    @Titanscreaming 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    And that... sublime miracle, is why warhammer 30k is beautiful. Something to be said, about the difference between horus heresy space marines and space marines as seen in 40k.
    40k has some great character, and its really great but space marines are often just colored as just being stubborn, brutal, violent, maniacs that refuse to learn anything at all.
    Where as, before and at the start of the heresy, space marines we meet are actually...Humans. This video hits me where I live man.

  • @kazmark_gl8652
    @kazmark_gl8652 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I don't know if this will make anyone feel better.
    But Trazyn stole a whole bunch of randoms from this battle.
    so no matter what, exactly 1 skeletal boi built a gallery to remember this conflict, it and they accompanying Istvan IV peice are very impressive portions of the Gallery dedicated to the Herasy.

  • @Russiansism
    @Russiansism ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I watch this video every day so that my hatred for Lucius may never waver.

  • @Not_Real_
    @Not_Real_ ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Legit can’t stop listening to this and visualizing it

  • @JohnWayneLOL
    @JohnWayneLOL 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Always brings a tear to my eye thinking about the LADS who held it down.

  • @justinian47th
    @justinian47th 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Where Boys cried: "Old Yeller"
    Where men cried: "No Country for Old Men"
    Where Astartes died:

  • @mcchicken1849
    @mcchicken1849 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Was it ever explained why there were no Death Guard among them?

    • @Seraphim227
      @Seraphim227 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      The Death Guard and World Eaters Loyalists were deployed in trenches far away from the fortifications that the other Loyalists were in, and only had a few bunkers to fit into before the virus bombs struck, so mostly perished and far away.

    • @mcchicken1849
      @mcchicken1849 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@Seraphim227 Thank you for clarifying, makes sense.

    • @chronicles7899
      @chronicles7899 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Mc Chicken the Traitor Death Guard made a point of eradicating their loyal kin

    • @hatartshop1098
      @hatartshop1098 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      The few of the death guard who survived did not reach the Palace and rather chose to remain in the trench system and mount their resistance there, it took month for the traitors to dislodge them, they actually set up artillery positions and gave back the traitors a taste of their own medicine.

    • @philip8498
      @philip8498 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      they were deployed further away from the temple and were too far away to make it to the temple.
      didnt stop some absolute giga chads from the death guard to walk of the virus bombing and fight on from the trench lines anyway.

  • @crabexe
    @crabexe ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This video alone actually got me to start reading the Horus Heresy series.

  • @warithalghul4578
    @warithalghul4578 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "There were not death guard in their numbers"
    That almost makes me cry

  • @hgen0899
    @hgen0899 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    tobi longworth is the goat

    • @ThatRatBastard
      @ThatRatBastard ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Absolutely, his narration of Gaunts Ghosts kicks ass

  • @Black_Knight1241
    @Black_Knight1241 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    “COME ON THEN! YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THAT!” captain saul tarvitz to a imperator titan.

  • @megumi9467
    @megumi9467 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Emperor cries

  • @stertrack520
    @stertrack520 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I recall when i was a stranger to 40k. Telling my bro it was silly little figurine and that there was no reason to be so in it.
    Man i was so wrong.

  • @DjuraValtr
    @DjuraValtr หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fuck can you imagine how great a live action Istvaan 3 would be if they build it up? Like that would be one of thee greatest story telling of film making of all time if done right.

  • @codyh.2847
    @codyh.2847 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Well made

    • @Yorvics
      @Yorvics  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks I honestly didn’t expect this to get any views xD

  • @lockout6896
    @lockout6896 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I feel like this is when the Horus heresy books kinda ended for me.lost all the homies and now we just have survivors and ghosts 😢

    • @62sy
      @62sy ปีที่แล้ว +4

      3-5 books in? I agree that there were some mild books and some that didn’t even interest me enough to buy… but 5 books is way to early to call the series end.
      There are still masterpieces like legion, prospero burns, know no fear, fear to tread, betrayer, the unremembered empire, Pharos, the master of mankind, Ruinstorm, wolfsbane… not to mention pretty much every book in the siege of terra being utterly amazing!

    • @collecter343
      @collecter343 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I think the authors planned to stop around this point but it slowly expanded way past that.

  • @the1sthamster81
    @the1sthamster81 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I feel empty. no images just words and music make it all. I don't know when my tears will flow but i'm sure they will. Remember brothers FOR THE EMPEROR!!!

  • @midgetydeath
    @midgetydeath 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Girls: "Do boys even have feelings?"
    Boys:

  • @beevers93
    @beevers93 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome share there Joe

  • @nickolmate4728
    @nickolmate4728 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Here on Istvaan 3 hero's rest

  • @yukinalight4541
    @yukinalight4541 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Sons of Horus did not die in that temple, only Luna wolves. The Emperor's finest

  • @yungsun2
    @yungsun2 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    damn somehow every time i hear here i somehow get sadder

  • @theoldrussian3837
    @theoldrussian3837 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Brother it’s our time and it was an honor to fight with you

  • @ShadowLurker334
    @ShadowLurker334 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Man loyal from the birth to death, for the emperor!

  • @Mino-mg7ef
    @Mino-mg7ef หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bro the betrayal in combination with Snowfall from Oneheart destroyed me 😭😭

  • @pepelepew4676
    @pepelepew4676 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I hate that this is so well written and well narrated, and all I can think is that the narrator sounds like he should be reading Thomas the tank engine.

  • @darksageasura5805
    @darksageasura5805 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Its Written so dang well! I want so badly for the loyalist's to somehow win.

  • @j.tastic9132
    @j.tastic9132 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This vid got me crying in the club (the walk-in freezer at work) rn

  • @honestkyn718
    @honestkyn718 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Many forget the first victims of the heresy were the traitors own sons

  • @user-jf4if6vx9e
    @user-jf4if6vx9e ปีที่แล้ว +2

    a few lost looking world eaters hits diffrent

  • @gabrielm.942
    @gabrielm.942 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Toby Longsworth is easily the second best Warhammer narrator. He also did a good job with the Elite dangerous novels.

  • @ThatRatBastard
    @ThatRatBastard ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Just listened to this part last night. It really hurts.

  • @MikeP5830
    @MikeP5830 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    AAAAAAAAAA I HATE LUCIUS AAAAAAAAA

  • @El_Presidente_5337
    @El_Presidente_5337 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    It is a tragedy.
    Maybe the biggest tragedy I've ever come across in fiction.

  • @lukegeraci1743
    @lukegeraci1743 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I hate lucius almost as much as erebus

  • @morthosmaxori5354
    @morthosmaxori5354 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I like to think that at least a few of the Legion of the Damned are loyalists from the traitor legions.

    • @mitrion301
      @mitrion301 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think this is still the best theory. Not just that one Chapter from the cursed founding

  • @Your_Average_Warlord_Titan
    @Your_Average_Warlord_Titan ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Just incase anyone doesn't know, the song is **snowfall**
    Edit: fuck sorry, thanks for telling me commenter, the songs name is actually snowfall

  • @lightnighl7220
    @lightnighl7220 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The very last being within this broken planet was the ancient of rites. The ancient awaits

  • @MegaOtter31
    @MegaOtter31 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Hearing all this happen as sad as it as that all these amazing men, brothers in arms who chose loyalty to a greater cause over that of their gene father makes the revenge that rylanor gets for all of them so much sweeter

  • @thomastlol4762
    @thomastlol4762 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    this made me cried

  • @theskywookie929
    @theskywookie929 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    im not crying youre crying

  • @TheHAZMAT221
    @TheHAZMAT221 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Never Forget

  • @recarlos8074
    @recarlos8074 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    nunca voy a superar esto nunca, Horus jamás voy a perdonarte.

  • @ToBeFrank_.
    @ToBeFrank_. 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Did you make this all yourself? I love this reading, and wish you would do more. I've come back to this video many times, and I finally got round to reading the Horus Heresy. When I reached the end of Galaxy in Flames I listened to your video as I read along this passage.