Fun Fact: On that croneworld mentioned in the video, the very first noise marine, and a fairly high-ranking officer of the 3rd legion, a guy by the name of Marius Vairosean, was killed by a deaf Iron Hands Terminator named Ignatius Numen, who had lost his hearing on Istvaan. Marius hit Numen with that Lord Commander Eidolon scream and knocks him on his ass, then Numan shrugs it off, stands back up, charges his Volkite cannon to max power and yells in a manner so typical of the classic old-man-with-shitty-hearing-aids archetype, "WHAT?! I DIDN'T QUITE CATCH THAT!" And then erases Space Marine Skrillex from the face of the galaxy.
That was a good book, but might I point out that sonic weapons kill by pulverising your body with kinetic waves. Not being able to hear won't somehow stop that from happening?
@@oscarainekeaneMaybe not, but I imagine that the sonic weapons do cause a lot of sensory overload initially: as this Iron Hand wasnt affected, he was able to return fire and kill Marius before the kinetic force could build up to a point where it could kill him.
It should be noted that Marius sonic weapon was damaged and unusable at the time and that his scream is no where near Eidolon tier, Eidolons will break through ceremite and send landspeeders out of the air while Marius' will only disorientate his enemies.
I love him because he gradually and then rapidly realizes how fucking stupid his brothers are for joining Chaos and is just like "Guess this is my life now"
I'm guessing Fulgrim was an extremely quick learner even for Primarch standards (revolutionized the entire Chemos factory setup/schedules, without being Guilliman) but probably had really bad intuition, just accepting things at face value. He looked at the Emperor's grand presence for like 1 minute and uncritically allied himself, and the whole super chaos sword that somehow corrupted him.
@@Haispawner A Keeper of Secrets is a highly intelligent creature, a being whose silvered words and languid gestures belie its true power. It is claimed these are the most entrancing of all immortals, and that to look upon one is to surrender every last shred of self-will. A Greater Daemon of Slaanesh knows the most intimate desires of every mortal being, and will use this horrific knowledge to gain power over its foes, seducing them with whispered promises they cannot hope to resist. 🤗
Fulgrim had one of the most tragic Traitor Primarch falls. The perfect clone could have been a redemption of sorts, but is now locked in the collection of Trazyn and no one can use that.
Clonegrim probably won't come back and definitely won't get a model but I think it'd be really funny if he did because so far a lot of returning Daemon Primarchs have coincided with returning Loyalist Primarchs who they then fight, and imagine how silly it would be if they made a massive event out of "Fulgrim vs another Fulgrim"
I won’t say that Ferrus isn’t a rather bland Primarch, his name is literally “Iron Hands” in Latin for God’s sake, but his tragedy of his sons doubling down on the cyber-initiative and the fact that ALL of his clones always rebelled against the Snake-Twink that is Fulgrim. I can’t help but like the guy, dude baptized a Wyrm in lava, can you blame me?
When I think about the fact that Fulgrim was meant to be a direct rip-off of Griffith and Ferrus Manus was probably then supposed to be their version of Guts, I take much more of a liking to him. Plus, the Iron Hands army, units and weaponry in the heresy are actually way more interesting than I thought, and their aesthetic from Forge World’s early days was top-tier. Both the legion, and the Primarch, have grown on me.
Not at all. Ferrus was a turbo-chad. He mentored his brothers on all technological aspects of war, pretty much training and leading by example on how to use the myriad weapons of the Imperium. He and his legion were actually the first to get Terminator armor after Horus publicly backed the project, and they were primarily responsible for field-testing and drafting tactical doctrine concerining its maintenance, deployment and usage in combat. That's right. The Justaeran of the 16th, the Deathwing of the 1st, the Firedrakes of the 18th, the Death Shroud of the 14th and the Devourers of the 12th, none would be anywhere near as famous or impressive as they are if it weren't for them taking pages DIRECTLY out of the Iron Hands' playbook. Ferrus Manus and his legion wrote the book on Astartes grade mechanized warfare and combined arms engagements. Every time the Mechanicum put out a new piece of equipment intended for Astartes use, the Iron Hands were the first to use it, and report the findings of their field-testing back to the Mechanicum.
Isn't he also the guy who routinely had the factions of his home world openly war against each other in order to weed out weak because he was a turbo Social Darwinist? Kinda hard to like a guy who seems like he would approve of eugenics.
The Amber king's video on Ferrus had a pretty funny example of that with their voiced excerpts from various books. With the voice actor for Fulgrim pouring his heart out with his performance, enough to actually make you believe that the Emperor was the one who betrayed them, while the book's prose/narration says shit like "Fulgrim smiled wickedly, watching the pained expression in his brother's face"
8:40 I now have the imagine in my head of the Emperor managing all of the Imperium from the golden throne with a gaming computer with stellaris open and headphones on
It always felt like he was written to be a prick that easily fell to chaos instead of the original idea of "really cool and awesome guy that got corrupted against his will with subterfuge that shows the true danger of chaos corruption"
Yeah, Baldemort’s depiction of him as a really earnest and well-meaning runt of the litter, with only 300 marines at first, working insanely hard to make up for it and be a stand-out and cultured legion- right up until the fateful landing on the Laer planet- really solidified the Legion as an unlikely favourite of mine. He is, as many people rightly joke, like Griffith from Beserk. The aesthetic, the skills, the intelligence and grace- you WANT him to be good, which is what makes it more frustrating and tragic when he goes off the deep end.
Right? He was cool until he suddenly was this arrogant fruitcake before he ever got that sword. He was always trying too hard to be cool and shiny and was seen as insecure by Jaghatai. Which means he wasnt as perfect and prodigal as he seemed. Takes the power out of the blade if he was already a bit of a douche
@@maltheri9833We're also dealing with four decades of character drift and flanderization. In the same way more recent lore paints The Emperor as always just a useless asshole, Fulgrim gets twisted away from that first, deeply engaging concept into "Oh he was always a shitty insecure fop who happened to be good at swords and nothing else." It's a shame, and it weakens the overall writing; the entire point of the 40k Imperium is how much they do EVERYTHING wrong. If the 30k Imperium was exactly as bad, why the hell should anyone *care* about the lore?
@@Pyre I wonder how much the current lore drift is the result of GW getting frustrated with half their fanbase acting like the Imperium is something to aspire to, and throwing up their hands and saying "Alright _fine,_ they were always shitty and the Emperor was an idiot who succeeded through strength rather than smarts, will you stop idolising them now?" That said, there's definitely room for the current version of the 30k Imperium to still have the flawed but ultimately noble versions of the Primarchs originally presented. They could easily _start_ as these ultimate paragons, but because their father is a lacking parent and the leader of the genocide factory, their worse traits get encouraged, opening them up more and more to the corrupting power of chaos.
@@ToaArcan Leaning away from the Emperor being gung ho for mass genocide for literally no given reason (or even just, competent at anything besides science) feels like it could have helped too. I kind of get the feeling your take is correct, even without it having to be *intentional* on GW's part.
Fulgrim is who I want to come back as the third loyalist primarch. He really was the best of the primarchs: he had the compassion for humanity like vulkan, with the self discipline of ferrus mannus. A tactical mind and a desire for perfection that, if not destined to fall to chaos by sheogorath, would likely dignify and ascend his worlds into places of beauty and skill. What good is charisma and strategy when your troops are scheming cliques of resentful children? Rlyanor was not an outlier for the emperors children, he was one of many each with the personal development beyond the other chapters. I think if loyalist fulgrim and his interactions with snakegrim was given some chance to shine, it would be one of the most fascinating reads in 40k. The tallest heights vs the most depraved lows. A battle of the self vying for dominance. The interactions he would have with the other loyalist primarchs too, a man repentant for a side of him that he does not even associate with. How would the imperium even react to a fallen son being resurrected, and how much will this new fulgrim need to prove before he even comes close to forgiveness. Stuff like this makes me wish I was a writer so I could do a plot line like that it's justice.
14:50 Imma be THAT guy for a second. Technically it was the 140th Expeditionary Fleet with 3 Blood Angels companies that tried to pacify Murder (which was named when the Blood Angels captain said “This. World. Is. Murder” before getting killed). Then Lord Commander Eidolon of the Emperor’s Children (as well as Saul Tarvitz and Lucius) arrived to “support” (read: rescue) the Blood Angels, and they also suffered like 60% casualties until Horus himself arrived to save them, and he and Sanguinius then tried genociding the Megarachnids, saying the famous line “Let us murder Murder” Fulgrim never set foot on Murder, but one of his closest (and most arrogant) advisors played a large part in the battle
You know, for being so well versed in the warp and chaos, and being the most intelligent man to ever live, big E missed A LOT of red flags in the backstory and personality of half of his sons.
Weird how loyalist Emperor's Children like Tarvitz and Rylanor are presented by the fandom as super masculine even though the prerequisite for being in the Emperor's Children is to be a dandy nobleman.
Not dandy, just of noble blood. The legion's culture was 2/3 foppish dandy duelists and 1/3 noble gigachads. The 2/3 ultimately ended up as Chaos marines and the chads made a last stand on Istvaan III. Much like the Death Guard was about 1/2 smelly creeps and 1/2 reliable, hardy soldiers.
I love the quote of Fulgrim in his primarch novel: Your brothers conquered their home worlds, but you were the only one who had to save yours. (Or something to those lines)
The source for Fulgrim trying to re-create Chemos and him playing different roles in its history comes from the third Fabius Bile book "Manflayer." Fabius and Narvo Quin travel across rhe world to visit Fulgrim because Fabius needs some help against the Dark Eldar. Then once the two meet, Fulgrim kinda gives Fabius a proper dad lecture and then tells him to fuck off. 24:34
Its like that simpsons meme. You can actually pinpoint the moment were Fulgrim goes from relatable and tragic to badly written mustache twirling villain thats only there to be made fun of
An Adam&Eve add in a video about Fulgrim is beyond accurate. My hat's off to you for that one. Fulgrim is my favorite traitor primach, next to Magnus, and I fell in love with the lore of the chapter and the color scheme the moment I saw it. Bumping into them in The Horus Heresy novels, and seeing just how ass-holish they were, really put them into perspective for me. I'm one of those whop wishes for a Fulgrim redemption arch, and Rylanor only made me want that more. Good job!
Hard carried the entire Heresy, then singlehandedly finished dooming it once he was screwed over enough. Perturabo's central flaw was never goddamn speaking up for himself. Like, "Yeah bud, anybody would become an asshole in your situation, but you have the greatest engineering mind of an entire species and you never once tried the thing that could solve the problem."
He actually is. He embodies the intellect, strength, artistry, martial and strategic prowess of all the other primarchs combined but misdirects it constantly because he’s only ever been used as a tool for others wishes and never his own
He comes really close to being, but then always have this weird persecution complex and pathological lack of confidence and always expects the worst. It's like one of the core rules for the setting is something like, "The only one that can defeat Perturabo is Perturabo."
That’s really easy for people to say but just try to contextualize it for a second. The guy lands on what is basically diet Macragge and while he had a mindset geared towards innovation and peace, and was instead used as a tool of war by his foster father. The Emperor did the exact same thing, then shat on his talents further by making Rogal Dorn the praetorian of Terra instead of just letting them build shit together. He was more than happy to assist Fulgrims because A) he was unaware of his fall at the time and B) he actually got along with many of his brothers before Horus rebelled, including Vulcan and Magnus. The guy has only ever been used, disappointed, and taken for granted by literally everyone but his sister which he killed with his bare hands out of rage. His pessimism and self victimization are the result of all of these events and even disregarding all of that, name one time in your life where you weren’t your own worst enemy at least once. His flaws humanize him, Whereas Fulgrim was just careless and his bled down to his legion.
@@hunterkillerxyz he is his own worst enemy consistently. I am begging on my knees for GW to let characters learn from their mistakes or from the vast amount of data available to them.
Honestly this kind of hurts me, since I kind of like him and the ideas he stood for when he was a primarch. Like a legion that is a representation on what humanity could be then just being your generic legion sounds so cool.🐱
Baldemort’s video on Fulgrim captures that way, way better than most of the authors did, and it’s why so went from hating him to really liking the legion
9:00 Cannot be _overstated._ 'cannot be understated' is for small, 'cannot be overstated' is for big. In 'the Rouboutian Heresy' fanfic where the Primarchs's loyalties are flipped, Fulgrim actually managed to increase the efficiency of Chemos's society to the point that they *undid the decline* and when the Emperor showed up, Chemos was well on its way to becoming a paradise world. The Emperor's Children's ethos also evolved in a different direction. Due to [spoiler], loyalist Emperor's Children's ethos is 'Perfection is hard work.' - No hypocrisy or superficiality allowed. Needless to say, this timeline's Lucius the Eternal is a _supreme_ badass.
Yup, and it's non-canon. I love Zahariel's work on the RH, but it's moslty unrelated to Canon Fulgrim. I feel like it shouldn't be used in comparision. Back on topic, Fulgrim played too much HoI4 is all I'm saying. X)
That part about Fabius Bile not being able to create a Chaos aligned clone of Ferrus Manus might be the reason why the Emperor or Malchador weren't able to do it to bring him back. His soul and that of his Perpetual self as a warp entity were probably constantly being brought back and killed in those cloning experiments. And now that I put that into words, I really want to see what the Emperor's Children legion and any of their branch off legions/chapters might be like in games like Space Marine and Space Marine 2. Killing in a way that could rival Dark Eldar and with just as much cruel efficiency. Or nearly as much at least. (Thank everything that's holy, none of the Emperor's Children and the Night Lords ever collaborated and created a chaos successor chapter, because then they probably would directly rival the Drukhari. Except they can't heal or feed on from the pain they inflict, or maybe not in the same ways 🤔. It hurts my head to seriously consider so I'm gonna stop for now...if not forever 😅🤕😫. Lol
The Emperor pulled his soul to fight for him in the webway though. He never ha the time to bring him back,he lost the primarch project info as is and he was kind of fighting for humanitys survival so resurrecting Ferrus wasnt possible beyond bringing back his literal soul which he did do.
I like to genuinely think fulgrim is actually still in the painting, so we can have a story about him breaking free of it (and maybe going into a certain clones body who knows) for it would honestly make it so that flugrim and his legion could be redeemed and maybe form a new faction in warhammer which would be great but sadly GW typically leave interesting ideas in the trashcan that change up the setting so this wont ever happen.
Horus's fall to Chaos started as a child. I'll remember the name of the book when I'm done typing. One short story by BL is about a small child growing up in the cave mine underground crime world of Cthonia. Where you earned your name by killing someone else. So Horus was first called "Nergüi" mean "no-name". The "gang" he was a part of were in the wrong spot at the wrong time. The Mechanicus showed up to the planet and started drilling, causing cave-ins, killing gang members and critically injuring the gang leader. As he was dying he told Nergüi to finish him to claim him kill-name. After which Nergüi called himself Horus, and suddenly all his Primarch genes started kicking in, as he was more or less a normal looking kid before he got his kill-name. Horus was raised by horrible people, and a lot probably rubbed off on him. He just used his charisma to make people think he was a good soul.
That was the only ad I've ever enjoyed. Not just because of your delivery... but because someone finally advertised for a product that anyone over 35 is actually going to get, besides drugs.
15:30 gotta be that "akshually" person here: Blood Angels called that planet Murder after they arrived to aid the Emperor's Children and got slaughtered by the megarachnids as well. "This. World. Is. Murder." was their last transmission picked by the Sons of Horus.
By the way, the mere fact that Fulgrim and the Khan were “switched” planets by Cegorach to prevent the Khan from falling to Chaos is not just an odd point in the lore, it is a direct refutation of Erda’s genius plan. Why, you may ask, is the planet a Primarch lands on so important that it is the difference between falling to Chaos and not falling to Chaos? Because the manner and conditions in which the Primarch is raised is super important, even more important than their personalities and abilities. In other words, if various Primarchs were not scattered off to shithole worlds and were instead left to the Emperor, the Heresy is almost impossible. Erda simply jacked up humanity. Of course, if it was the Chaos gods that scattered the Primarchs, well, it makes a hell of a lot more sense. They would want to send Primarchs out to shithole worlds in the hopes it creates personality and mental faults which they could later exploit, which is exactly what happened. But no, we have to have Erda, a super powerful perpetual that lived for thousands of years but lost her shit because reasons.
Its actually not a point in the lore at all, at no point its ever said Cegorach did it, all Magnus say in Scars is that one force switched them, nothing else
@@marrvynswillames4975 Person X did it, therefore the statement changes because Person Y didn’t do it. Ahh, the internet, where half you chuckle fucking heads have to disagree to agree.
@@marrvynswillames4975 A meaningless detail. They could have been switched by Carl from Gary, Indiana, and it wouldn’t change a thing regarding the stupidity of the Erda theory.
Maybe them being raised by Big E would have been even worse and instead of half falling to chaos, all of them would have. Either by collectively deciding that there's 20 of them and only one big e so shy shouldn't they be in charge, or because all that power would have turned big e into a chaos God. It's also not definite that erda would have had specific control about where they land. Maybe she was trying to send them all to planets like mccrage but the chaos gods fucked with their routes.
I dunno man, the little voice in the back of my head that says "hey, coke would be fun, let's 'play some 8ball'" is probably the most human thing ever. Same voice that says " you could just jump" when standing on a ledge...
I was surprised to hear the segment with your sponsor in this video. I have now replayed it three times to make sure the "90 day no asshole returned - policy" statement was misheard on my part.
I almost NEVER listen to sponsorship ads, so good job on getting me to sit through this one, I was flabbergasted anyone would advertise something like this on *TH-cam*. You sir, have my respect.
Perhaps not, but he managed to get two Thousand Sons marines to have a change of heart, and he died dealing a blow to Fulgrim's pride that can never heal.
I think you should do a video on The Night Lords and Konrad Kurze. Their reasons for turning traitor are actually pretty understandable. Or even better read the Night Lords trilogy, it could very likely make you a like a traitor Legion all by itself.
... Dat add... ... the subject... ... the theme... ........ I just... i can't even..... i.... just... .... wow. I am completely speechless. I mean, i'm expecting add because, one way or another you gotta pay the bills, man. But still, i'd have expected something "classic", like "Raid" or whatnot. But then you bring a sex toy add, on a Fulgrim video... it's both completely surprising and at the same time, so like you to do so, it HURTS that the outcome is so obvious i should've seen it coming. Damn the fuck it, Pancreas, have my like just for that.
The Whole theme surrounding Fulgrim is Despair, specifically for him. Pleasure and doing whatever he wants sure is one theme but that only serves to reveal how fall down that pit of despair he is fallen into. Also the fact that he too is also human at the core of things but trying to live up to this impossible figure would drive someone slowly crazy. Fulgrim can be saved however he needs to hit rock bottom first in despair, and that means being denied or getting his ass kicked a few times while also hamulating his legion as well. Then one of his brothers needs to offer the hand to pull him out. It can be done but would take 3 primarches levels of bullshit to pull it off.
To be fair, Fulgrim never stepped onto Murder. He got a message from Horus for a bit of assistance and while he was finishing wiping up the Laer, he threw Eidolon and a couple other companies Horus's way.
No fucking shot you got an actual Adam and Eve sponsor for this episode. How did you even land that? Did you just tell ‘em “I’m doing an episode on the twink who worships the god of Sex,Drugs, and Rock and Roll” and they just said “We’re in.”?
That scene on Armageddon when jaghatai and sanguinius are talking to like mortarion and some of the other primarchs and completely burns both mortarion and fulgrim. He looked like such a badass in that chapter and I believe calling fulgrim a peacock was one of the best burns in the heresy
Man... That's... Certainly a series of words... Kind of like the khan (honored be his name) straight up making up the whole "I hear you do strange things to your sons."
@@xanmontes8715 lol think he spends some of that time away from the other legions just making fun of them? He had those loaded and ready to go. You may have hit it on the head tho. The one you quoted might be even better. You think the khan chose the side he did just cause the ones who sided with horus were just..... a little..... weird?
@@whitlocktherevanchist5236 honestly? 100%. The khan (honored be his name [yes I will always say that]) was described in almost every book he is in as a quiet man with eyes like a hawk. The man sees everything and only then makes a decision. Like he is the embodiment of "fools talk, wise men listen". Fulgrim, bless him he is my favorite mainly because out of 20 primarchs he was the only one that saved his planet while everyone else conquered theirs, tried too hard to reach perfection. The khan (honored be his name) was the best swordsman among all the primarchs. I speak from a place of absolute neutrality. If the primarchs decided to hold a series of duels pitting everyone against everyone in a lot of 1v1s, the khan (honored be his name) would win, I'd say, 15 out of 20 times and Fulgrim is NOT one of the other 5. Horus isn't one of the 5 either. Fulgrim was always so obsessed with his image, being perceived as a perfect warrior, poet, artist, diplomat that he was easily thrown off balance. "I hear you do strange things to your bikes" said Fulgrim, speaking truth because the Khan (honored be his name) DID do strange things that bordered on tech-heresy in the eyes of the Martian Priesthood. "I hear you do strange things to your sons" was a blatant lie but who cares? It was sensationalist, and a lie, if sufficiently juicy, will be remembered for far longer than the more tame truth.
@xanmontes8715 outside of liking fulgrim, as he's among my least favorite primarchs, I agree with literally everything else you said. And my issues with fulgrim are mostly post laer blade. You're right about those duels. I know fulgrim is spose to be a master swordsman but I think the khan is on another level. From everything I've read and understood, the few who would be toughest are the khan, lion, angron, and corvus. With possibly vulkan and curze on the edge. And I'm sure I'm leaving one out too. It's awesome to hear someone else has actually read the books. Sometimes people commenting on lore pages, you can tell their knowledge doesn't come first hand from getting to know the actual characters, but rather just from being told things by youtube channels. You pick up a lot more if you take the time to read them, as I'm sure you already know
@@whitlocktherevanchist5236 I get you, I absolutely do. I'm just sad the artist primarch ended up becoming the degenerate. If anyone was doomed to fall, it was Fulgrim. (And Kurze. And Angron but that wasn't Angron's fault)
I have to say…. This was the first channel I found when I started going hard into 40K and now that I’ve found all the other “big names” I have to say this is still my favorite channel. I love your take, demeanor, everything; and found it appropriate to verbally pleasure you with compliments in the comments of the Fulgrim episode. xx
You should look at some of arbiter Ian’s videos on the development of the lore. One of my favourite things in 40k is that some half thought out, bizarre, throw away lore created to sell goofy table top figures has become the cornerstone of one of the deepest most extensive universes. The reality that there’s throw away deliberately vague/over the top/satirical nuggets of lore aren’t really known by a lot of the new fans and I feel it’s important to acknowledge this so that you understand you cannot take 40 completely seriously
I really hate this stupid meme of 40k having the deepest lore you must understand to enjoy it, when at least half of it garbage that makes Magic the Gathering look well written.
@Calvin_Coolage Some of MTG was well written, but a lot of it is just weird stuff and manipulating genes/DNA "for the greater good"... like Warhammer 40k
I just wish they saved the whole "Fulgrim trapped in the painting" bit for later use in the lore as a possible redemption arc. Feels like a squandered opportunity to have that issue solved relatively soon after the demon fully took over.
"It's at this point that the Eldar decide that now is a great time to remind these silly primitives that there's a damn good reason why they ruled the galaxy for 65 million years." Yep, it's cause the Necrons were all asleep... 🤣
You know the reason necron went to sleep is because they weren't up to stuff at the end. And I have no doubt Eldeari in some cases help shattering of C'tan.
Who the FUCK at adam & eve's marketing department said "do you know who would make a great demographic for our sex toys? A majority male community that is several thousands of dollars deep into buying and playing with minifigures!"
I am still utterly convinced the “Fulgrim but not Fulgrim but actually is Fulgrim” was legit just the demon going well this is getting interesting and then it got bored so it lied meanwhile Fulgrim was still in the painting.
I was listening to this video on my way to work and at 3:53 while you were talking about why Fulgrim was probably spared I glanced down expecting, idk, an artist rendition of baby Fulgrim or something. Instead it was Neco Arc. I think that's beautiful.
Fulgrim having wives is shocking and new to me! It makes me want to know more. Did the other primarchs get married? Did any of them ever actually get laid? Were any of them good in bed? I know that the astartes are impotent, but I thought the primarchs were too. Or are they but Fulgrim didn't care and still wanted to get married anyways? If THAT'S true, then wouldn't that make Fulgrim the biggest simp in the entire galaxy?!
Astartes aren't impotent they just completely lack a sex drive. It's why so many Emperor's Children focus on sound and drugs rather than sex. I think the only astartes who fuck are Space Wolves since there's tons of example of them hitting on women or apparently even having kids but that last one was claimed by a dude nicknamed "the trickster" so who knows.
DreadAnon also made a Fulgrim video today and everybody in the comments was talking about how PancreasNoWork and DreadAnon both made Fulgrim videos on the same day. And then the YT Algorythm had the good sense to make this video next on my feed so I didn't even have to go looking for it.
My head cannon is that the laer blade was practically warp crack or at least the syringe to an endless supply to it. Just one taste and he was hooked. With stuff that good, you would make any excuse to keep it going. Idk but that's how I make sense of it. Now why didn't he just resist it? Well if you've been working for your entire life that any form of pleasure is appreciated and if you get shot with the ultimate pleasure while being sober for all of your life, it's going to take titanic willpower to drop it. Very few people could do it. That's my mental gymnastics
And how has he insulted you?’ ‘By comparing me - comparing us - to these… primitives,’ Telmar said, glancing at Thorn, who nodded. Fulgrim frowned. ‘And why should he not?’ Fulgrim looked around, noting the mood of the crowd. They were on the cusp of flight. Telmar’s sudden burst of violence had frightened them, shaken them to their very cores. Stories would spread, flying through the city, and from there, the rest of the continent. Awe would turn to fear. Fear to resentment. And resentment to resistance. He has seen the same story, repeated ad nauseam, on a dozen worlds. Fulgrim had always preferred love to fear. Love was stronger. Fear could be conquered, but love - never. It waned and swelled, but it never truly faded. He had made himself loved on Chemos. And he would do the same here. The primarch sank to one knee and reached down to help Telmar’s victim to his feet. The man stared at him with mingled fright and awe, his mouth working soundlessly. Fulgrim smiled and stood. ‘I came from nothing’ he said, fixing his sons with a steady gaze. ‘I scrabbled in the quarry pits, and down in the deepest mines, carrying buckets on my shoulders because the ascender blew a gasket,’ he said. ‘I broke my fingernails on raw ore, and grew blisters from heat and labour. You look down on them, blind to the beauty of their struggle. Blind to what they might become, if only someone would scrape the filth from their faces.’ He reached down and lifted a child onto his shoulders. The girl laughed and clapped, unafraid of the giant, even as her mother wept. Fulgrim indicated the crowd. His voice had driven many of them to their knees. ‘Look at them, my sons. You are the highest, and they, the lowest. It is your duty to raise them up, as high as they will go. Anything less is not worthy of you.’
Just a minor note, the planet was called Murder by the Astartes who ended up fighting on its surface: it wasn't already called Murder when they got there.
I will say besides the Lair there is also the Rangdan, Slaught, Enslavers, Khrave, Hrud, Nephelim, and Ork empires that all needed destroyed completely.
I think something people forget is that despite fulgrims powers and tricks,fulgrim also wasnt a half bad techy himself,but he was practically a novice compared to vulkan,ferrus,perty and to a less extent dorn
For me Fulgrim is held back a lot by GW being unable to write his perfectionism in more intelligent way than just contently repeating "perfection" in every sentance.
That recreation of his childhood piece I believe was near the end of book two of The Fabius Bile trilogy Clonelord. He does meet with Fulgrim himself at one point and remember mention of him talking about Chemos.
Very late, but regarding planet Murder, it was the Emperor's Children first contact team that named the mega-arachnid planet Murder, just before they were all eaten alive by said monstrous spiders.
4:53 "We all lift together" is one of the best Warframe songs, and "For Narmer" is one of the absolute most hautingly horrible because it takes place in the same location, with the same people singing, now mind controlled by the bad guys. It fucking rattled me first time I heard it while playing through. Another good Warframe song is "Sleeping in the Cold Below" from the quest about the ghost spaceship. It fucking slaps.
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Ok now do a Bad Dragon sponsor for the Vulkan video
@@Plague_Crowhe's covering a pretty degenerate primarch
I thought you were joking? How is this not against the user guidelines? Lmao
Collin is the Chaos God of Ungiven Fucks, The Prince of "Horny On Main", and I can't help but appreciate this fact.
The use of an Adam and Even sponsorship in a Fulgrim/Emperor's Children video is quite frankly the best "YouTubing" I have ever seen
Too tame for fulgrim, should be advertising a pringles can filled with fire ants
I was waiting for the punchline to hit and it never did.
Not even gonna skip the ad the presentation is so based
The only Problem ... 40K Fans only get f+cked by GW
Ironic
- the senate
Fun Fact: On that croneworld mentioned in the video, the very first noise marine, and a fairly high-ranking officer of the 3rd legion, a guy by the name of Marius Vairosean, was killed by a deaf Iron Hands Terminator named Ignatius Numen, who had lost his hearing on Istvaan. Marius hit Numen with that Lord Commander Eidolon scream and knocks him on his ass, then Numan shrugs it off, stands back up, charges his Volkite cannon to max power and yells in a manner so typical of the classic old-man-with-shitty-hearing-aids archetype, "WHAT?! I DIDN'T QUITE CATCH THAT!" And then erases Space Marine Skrillex from the face of the galaxy.
That was a good book, but might I point out that sonic weapons kill by pulverising your body with kinetic waves. Not being able to hear won't somehow stop that from happening?
@@oscarainekeaneorc logic: he didn't knew that, because he did not heard that fact..
@@oscarainekeaneMaybe not, but I imagine that the sonic weapons do cause a lot of sensory overload initially: as this Iron Hand wasnt affected, he was able to return fire and kill Marius before the kinetic force could build up to a point where it could kill him.
It should be noted that Marius sonic weapon was damaged and unusable at the time and that his scream is no where near Eidolon tier, Eidolons will break through ceremite and send landspeeders out of the air while Marius' will only disorientate his enemies.
@@jamesmacken9501 Marius’s sonic scream killed a few members of Numen’s squad. It’s pretty damn close to Eidolon tier.
how do people not understand that purturabo enjoyers love him for his unbearable personality
If he had long ears pancr would love perty
Peter Turbo has absolutely strong moments that wins your heart for the lord of Iron.
I love him because he gradually and then rapidly realizes how fucking stupid his brothers are for joining Chaos and is just like "Guess this is my life now"
I love his compotency
Indeed. I like Peter Turbo because he's such a shitty person. He is so unlikeable he circles back around to being likeable
Fulgrim's interesting because he really is the only Primarch who had absolutely zero experience in warfare by the time the Emperor pulled up.
I'm guessing Fulgrim was an extremely quick learner even for Primarch standards (revolutionized the entire Chemos factory setup/schedules, without being Guilliman) but probably had really bad intuition, just accepting things at face value.
He looked at the Emperor's grand presence for like 1 minute and uncritically allied himself, and the whole super chaos sword that somehow corrupted him.
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@@Haispawner in the Laer Blade was a Keeper of Secrets
Being down bad isn't a choice, it's a lifestyle
God damn right
a calling if you will
white hair: check
handsome: check
zesty: check
Fulgrim is the lightskin primarch
"You can't just have your Primarchs announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!"
- Angron
So his usual emotion
@@jarlathquinn2628no, there’s hate, anger, -guilt- and petulant anger
Am now imagining Philip Fry with the robot devil's hands as Ferris Manus.
This lore is as lousy as it is brilliant.
IIRC TTS never gave Angron a voice so I shall Imagine the Voice of Angron to be Skarbrand's voice
@@Lunch_Meat And now I'm imagining Zoidberg as Fabius Bile.
It's pretty great.
Fulgrim had one of the most tragic Traitor Primarch falls.
The perfect clone could have been a redemption of sorts, but is now locked in the collection of Trazyn and no one can use that.
Nah. That's chekovs gun to the extreme. It's gonna get used at some point.
@@rev0568the guy who wrote about it no longer works for gw
But they did just make them audiobooks and bile is in the newest big bl book so we can hope
T. Night lords fan
@@Grimsowerartyeah but the info is still there. Anyone else could use it
@@Grimsowerartdoes that mean other writers can't write about it?
describe a primarch quickly:
Fulgrim: Space Griffith
Clonegrim probably won't come back and definitely won't get a model but I think it'd be really funny if he did because so far a lot of returning Daemon Primarchs have coincided with returning Loyalist Primarchs who they then fight, and imagine how silly it would be if they made a massive event out of "Fulgrim vs another Fulgrim"
If 40K still had a sense of humour, they'd do it in a heartbeat.
Sons of the Phoenix vs Emperor's Children boxset.
That fight would be fire to see though.
I won’t say that Ferrus isn’t a rather bland Primarch, his name is literally “Iron Hands” in Latin for God’s sake, but his tragedy of his sons doubling down on the cyber-initiative and the fact that ALL of his clones always rebelled against the Snake-Twink that is Fulgrim.
I can’t help but like the guy, dude baptized a Wyrm in lava, can you blame me?
When I think about the fact that Fulgrim was meant to be a direct rip-off of Griffith and Ferrus Manus was probably then supposed to be their version of Guts, I take much more of a liking to him. Plus, the Iron Hands army, units and weaponry in the heresy are actually way more interesting than I thought, and their aesthetic from Forge World’s early days was top-tier.
Both the legion, and the Primarch, have grown on me.
Not at all. Ferrus was a turbo-chad. He mentored his brothers on all technological aspects of war, pretty much training and leading by example on how to use the myriad weapons of the Imperium. He and his legion were actually the first to get Terminator armor after Horus publicly backed the project, and they were primarily responsible for field-testing and drafting tactical doctrine concerining its maintenance, deployment and usage in combat. That's right. The Justaeran of the 16th, the Deathwing of the 1st, the Firedrakes of the 18th, the Death Shroud of the 14th and the Devourers of the 12th, none would be anywhere near as famous or impressive as they are if it weren't for them taking pages DIRECTLY out of the Iron Hands' playbook. Ferrus Manus and his legion wrote the book on Astartes grade mechanized warfare and combined arms engagements. Every time the Mechanicum put out a new piece of equipment intended for Astartes use, the Iron Hands were the first to use it, and report the findings of their field-testing back to the Mechanicum.
@@toastle8005wait is Fulgrim actually inspired by Griffith? I mean, it makes sense but I never knew that…
Isn't he also the guy who routinely had the factions of his home world openly war against each other in order to weed out weak because he was a turbo Social Darwinist? Kinda hard to like a guy who seems like he would approve of eugenics.
Then you don't like the Imperium at large if you find eugenics as a distasteful feature in sci-fi @@Rukdug
Thanks for covering my favorite primarch: Sephiroth
Hehe true
That’s a weird way to spell Griffith
Ferrus was just Aerith all along
Fulgrim really suffers from being a bad guy from the start, and the early "hey, we're actually writing 30K stuff now" weirdness.
The Amber king's video on Ferrus had a pretty funny example of that with their voiced excerpts from various books. With the voice actor for Fulgrim pouring his heart out with his performance, enough to actually make you believe that the Emperor was the one who betrayed them, while the book's prose/narration says shit like "Fulgrim smiled wickedly, watching the pained expression in his brother's face"
>"you will never feel pleasure again!"
>still rails the elf
once again fulgrim is cucked
There has never been a more well planned sponser than doing an adam and eve sponsership for fulgrim. Unless it was Slannesh. Who os both Adam AND eve.
Slaanesh is the serpent as well
@@Hugme778 The full package if you will
Slaanesh would also fuck Adam, Eve, and the Serpent.
I can't ever forgive Fulgrim for what he did to my boy Ferrus
Fulgrim and Ferrus being bros before Fulgrim's fall is one of the saddest parts of the extended Horus Heresy lore.
He can never be forgiven for the things that he's done
So for who does it comes, to end the prodigal son?
(Couldn't really fit "hands" in it, také it or leave it)
@@vitaliitomas8121I dunno man but that guy probably cannot imagine the beautiful bounty of Chaos
@@vitaliitomas8121"so it falls in whose hands, to end the prodigal son" ?
Really wish we'd get Clonegrim back in the narrative given that he holds the uncorrupted part of Fulgrim's soul and despises his Daemon self.
That would be too intelligent or creative for 40k, loyalist good chaos bad end of story.
It would be excellent, but I just don't think that GW has enough writing talent that is able to do it justice and write an actually nuanced story
You need to pitch it in a GW manner for them to understand. Money over art.
Thinking of making an AU where Clonegrim joins Deathwatch and recovers Ferrus Manus firesword
@@karlwikman3874 if you ever write that, please let me read it
24:08 I mean, Sigismund showed just why he's so awesome by landing several solid hits of Fulgrim, despite only being a Space Marine.
8:40 I now have the imagine in my head of the Emperor managing all of the Imperium from the golden throne with a gaming computer with stellaris open and headphones on
I had a terrible Friday, thanks for uploading another golden piece of content that genuinely makes me laugh
Same
Hope it gets better for y'all
Same, hope it gets better
Same here too brother. ngl pancreas's vid are so theraputic to me everytime I listen to them. Dude's got a talent in writing scripts.
He has! I needed a laugh today and he provided :D@@lucianaryeh3001
It always felt like he was written to be a prick that easily fell to chaos instead of the original idea of "really cool and awesome guy that got corrupted against his will with subterfuge that shows the true danger of chaos corruption"
Yeah, Baldemort’s depiction of him as a really earnest and well-meaning runt of the litter, with only 300 marines at first, working insanely hard to make up for it and be a stand-out and cultured legion- right up until the fateful landing on the Laer planet- really solidified the Legion as an unlikely favourite of mine.
He is, as many people rightly joke, like Griffith from Beserk. The aesthetic, the skills, the intelligence and grace- you WANT him to be good, which is what makes it more frustrating and tragic when he goes off the deep end.
Right? He was cool until he suddenly was this arrogant fruitcake before he ever got that sword. He was always trying too hard to be cool and shiny and was seen as insecure by Jaghatai. Which means he wasnt as perfect and prodigal as he seemed. Takes the power out of the blade if he was already a bit of a douche
@@maltheri9833We're also dealing with four decades of character drift and flanderization.
In the same way more recent lore paints The Emperor as always just a useless asshole, Fulgrim gets twisted away from that first, deeply engaging concept into "Oh he was always a shitty insecure fop who happened to be good at swords and nothing else."
It's a shame, and it weakens the overall writing; the entire point of the 40k Imperium is how much they do EVERYTHING wrong. If the 30k Imperium was exactly as bad, why the hell should anyone *care* about the lore?
@@Pyre I wonder how much the current lore drift is the result of GW getting frustrated with half their fanbase acting like the Imperium is something to aspire to, and throwing up their hands and saying "Alright _fine,_ they were always shitty and the Emperor was an idiot who succeeded through strength rather than smarts, will you stop idolising them now?"
That said, there's definitely room for the current version of the 30k Imperium to still have the flawed but ultimately noble versions of the Primarchs originally presented. They could easily _start_ as these ultimate paragons, but because their father is a lacking parent and the leader of the genocide factory, their worse traits get encouraged, opening them up more and more to the corrupting power of chaos.
@@ToaArcan Leaning away from the Emperor being gung ho for mass genocide for literally no given reason (or even just, competent at anything besides science) feels like it could have helped too.
I kind of get the feeling your take is correct, even without it having to be *intentional* on GW's part.
Fulgrim is who I want to come back as the third loyalist primarch. He really was the best of the primarchs: he had the compassion for humanity like vulkan, with the self discipline of ferrus mannus. A tactical mind and a desire for perfection that, if not destined to fall to chaos by sheogorath, would likely dignify and ascend his worlds into places of beauty and skill. What good is charisma and strategy when your troops are scheming cliques of resentful children? Rlyanor was not an outlier for the emperors children, he was one of many each with the personal development beyond the other chapters.
I think if loyalist fulgrim and his interactions with snakegrim was given some chance to shine, it would be one of the most fascinating reads in 40k. The tallest heights vs the most depraved lows. A battle of the self vying for dominance. The interactions he would have with the other loyalist primarchs too, a man repentant for a side of him that he does not even associate with. How would the imperium even react to a fallen son being resurrected, and how much will this new fulgrim need to prove before he even comes close to forgiveness. Stuff like this makes me wish I was a writer so I could do a plot line like that it's justice.
I like how you mixed up Sheogorath and Chegoragh.
I'd do the exact same why are they so similar.
anyone can become a writer. it just takes varying amounts of time and effort from person to person.
@@christopherbravo1813man, I wish that was true...
@@xanmontes8715 It is. It might take more to be a *successful* writer, but anyone can write something.
14:50 Imma be THAT guy for a second. Technically it was the 140th Expeditionary Fleet with 3 Blood Angels companies that tried to pacify Murder (which was named when the Blood Angels captain said “This. World. Is. Murder” before getting killed).
Then Lord Commander Eidolon of the Emperor’s Children (as well as Saul Tarvitz and Lucius) arrived to “support” (read: rescue) the Blood Angels, and they also suffered like 60% casualties until Horus himself arrived to save them, and he and Sanguinius then tried genociding the Megarachnids, saying the famous line “Let us murder Murder”
Fulgrim never set foot on Murder, but one of his closest (and most arrogant) advisors played a large part in the battle
Side note: this is why I prefer to get my 40k info from the Lexicanum instead of the wiki
You know, for being so well versed in the warp and chaos, and being the most intelligent man to ever live, big E missed A LOT of red flags in the backstory and personality of half of his sons.
I mean, it's not like he'd be able to make more of them at the drop of a hat
Weird how loyalist Emperor's Children like Tarvitz and Rylanor are presented by the fandom as super masculine even though the prerequisite for being in the Emperor's Children is to be a dandy nobleman.
Not dandy, just of noble blood. The legion's culture was 2/3 foppish dandy duelists and 1/3 noble gigachads. The 2/3 ultimately ended up as Chaos marines and the chads made a last stand on Istvaan III.
Much like the Death Guard was about 1/2 smelly creeps and 1/2 reliable, hardy soldiers.
I love the quote of Fulgrim in his primarch novel: Your brothers conquered their home worlds, but you were the only one who had to save yours. (Or something to those lines)
The source for Fulgrim trying to re-create Chemos and him playing different roles in its history comes from the third Fabius Bile book "Manflayer."
Fabius and Narvo Quin travel across rhe world to visit Fulgrim because Fabius needs some help against the Dark Eldar. Then once the two meet, Fulgrim kinda gives Fabius a proper dad lecture and then tells him to fuck off. 24:34
Its like that simpsons meme. You can actually pinpoint the moment were Fulgrim goes from relatable and tragic to badly written mustache twirling villain thats only there to be made fun of
An Adam&Eve add in a video about Fulgrim is beyond accurate. My hat's off to you for that one. Fulgrim is my favorite traitor primach, next to Magnus, and I fell in love with the lore of the chapter and the color scheme the moment I saw it. Bumping into them in The Horus Heresy novels, and seeing just how ass-holish they were, really put them into perspective for me. I'm one of those whop wishes for a Fulgrim redemption arch, and Rylanor only made me want that more. Good job!
Pancreasnowork and Dread anon release a Fulgrim video within an hour of eachother?
Slaneesh, you truly are the God of excess
perterabo seems like one of the more interesting primarchs tbh
Hard carried the entire Heresy, then singlehandedly finished dooming it once he was screwed over enough.
Perturabo's central flaw was never goddamn speaking up for himself. Like, "Yeah bud, anybody would become an asshole in your situation, but you have the greatest engineering mind of an entire species and you never once tried the thing that could solve the problem."
He actually is. He embodies the intellect, strength, artistry, martial and strategic prowess of all the other primarchs combined but misdirects it constantly because he’s only ever been used as a tool for others wishes and never his own
He comes really close to being, but then always have this weird persecution complex and pathological lack of confidence and always expects the worst.
It's like one of the core rules for the setting is something like, "The only one that can defeat Perturabo is Perturabo."
That’s really easy for people to say but just try to contextualize it for a second. The guy lands on what is basically diet Macragge and while he had a mindset geared towards innovation and peace, and was instead used as a tool of war by his foster father. The Emperor did the exact same thing, then shat on his talents further by making Rogal Dorn the praetorian of Terra instead of just letting them build shit together. He was more than happy to assist Fulgrims because A) he was unaware of his fall at the time and B) he actually got along with many of his brothers before Horus rebelled, including Vulcan and Magnus.
The guy has only ever been used, disappointed, and taken for granted by literally everyone but his sister which he killed with his bare hands out of rage. His pessimism and self victimization are the result of all of these events and even disregarding all of that, name one time in your life where you weren’t your own worst enemy at least once. His flaws humanize him, Whereas Fulgrim was just careless and his bled down to his legion.
@@hunterkillerxyz he is his own worst enemy consistently.
I am begging on my knees for GW to let characters learn from their mistakes or from the vast amount of data available to them.
Honestly this kind of hurts me, since I kind of like him and the ideas he stood for when he was a primarch. Like a legion that is a representation on what humanity could be then just being your generic legion sounds so cool.🐱
Baldemort’s video on Fulgrim captures that way, way better than most of the authors did, and it’s why so went from hating him to really liking the legion
9:00 Cannot be _overstated._ 'cannot be understated' is for small, 'cannot be overstated' is for big.
In 'the Rouboutian Heresy' fanfic where the Primarchs's loyalties are flipped, Fulgrim actually managed to increase the efficiency of Chemos's society to the point that they *undid the decline* and when the Emperor showed up, Chemos was well on its way to becoming a paradise world.
The Emperor's Children's ethos also evolved in a different direction. Due to [spoiler], loyalist Emperor's Children's ethos is 'Perfection is hard work.' - No hypocrisy or superficiality allowed.
Needless to say, this timeline's Lucius the Eternal is a _supreme_ badass.
Yup, and it's non-canon. I love Zahariel's work on the RH, but it's moslty unrelated to Canon Fulgrim. I feel like it shouldn't be used in comparision.
Back on topic, Fulgrim played too much HoI4 is all I'm saying. X)
I'd really like to see Pancreas talk about the Roboutian Heresy one day, cause there are some awesome parts of it that I think he'd very much enjoy.
What a lovely, efficient and kind artist Fulgrim is, I wonder what he’ll do in the second half of the video
"We have Griffith at home. The Griffith at home:"
That part about Fabius Bile not being able to create a Chaos aligned clone of Ferrus Manus might be the reason why the Emperor or Malchador weren't able to do it to bring him back. His soul and that of his Perpetual self as a warp entity were probably constantly being brought back and killed in those cloning experiments. And now that I put that into words, I really want to see what the Emperor's Children legion and any of their branch off legions/chapters might be like in games like Space Marine and Space Marine 2. Killing in a way that could rival Dark Eldar and with just as much cruel efficiency. Or nearly as much at least. (Thank everything that's holy, none of the Emperor's Children and the Night Lords ever collaborated and created a chaos successor chapter, because then they probably would directly rival the Drukhari. Except they can't heal or feed on from the pain they inflict, or maybe not in the same ways 🤔. It hurts my head to seriously consider so I'm gonna stop for now...if not forever 😅🤕😫. Lol
The Emperor pulled his soul to fight for him in the webway though. He never ha the time to bring him back,he lost the primarch project info as is and he was kind of fighting for humanitys survival so resurrecting Ferrus wasnt possible beyond bringing back his literal soul which he did do.
Oh so _that's_ why the Legion of the Damned appears so rarely
@@maltheri9833 Wait so how the hell did he bring back his soul and not the body? I thought him and Malchador tried doing cloning too? 🤔
'while the keeper of secrets takes over his body like a full-body fleshlight'
bruh my keyboard is covered in tea, goddamn it Pancreas.
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the second most beutiful primarch
Nope. Not even third.
Ferrus was the first, thats why he killed him
Number 1 is mortarion
"Except for *one* who we'll get to later"
OOOOOO BOY we are eating GOOD tonight
I like to genuinely think fulgrim is actually still in the painting, so we can have a story about him breaking free of it (and maybe going into a certain clones body who knows) for it would honestly make it so that flugrim and his legion could be redeemed and maybe form a new faction in warhammer which would be great but sadly GW typically leave interesting ideas in the trashcan that change up the setting so this wont ever happen.
Maybe tie him in with The King in Yellow. Valdor and a redeemed Primarch could fit that sort of rogue element well I think.
Horus's fall to Chaos started as a child. I'll remember the name of the book when I'm done typing. One short story by BL is about a small child growing up in the cave mine underground crime world of Cthonia. Where you earned your name by killing someone else. So Horus was first called "Nergüi" mean "no-name". The "gang" he was a part of were in the wrong spot at the wrong time. The Mechanicus showed up to the planet and started drilling, causing cave-ins, killing gang members and critically injuring the gang leader. As he was dying he told Nergüi to finish him to claim him kill-name. After which Nergüi called himself Horus, and suddenly all his Primarch genes started kicking in, as he was more or less a normal looking kid before he got his kill-name. Horus was raised by horrible people, and a lot probably rubbed off on him. He just used his charisma to make people think he was a good soul.
That was the only ad I've ever enjoyed. Not just because of your delivery... but because someone finally advertised for a product that anyone over 35 is actually going to get, besides drugs.
15:30 gotta be that "akshually" person here: Blood Angels called that planet Murder after they arrived to aid the Emperor's Children and got slaughtered by the megarachnids as well. "This. World. Is. Murder." was their last transmission picked by the Sons of Horus.
The Warmaster will betray you all!
“Lol” said the primarch “lmao” *nukes crone worlds while snorting lines*
The one that should have never fallen, the greatest Primarch.
Having Age of Empires music in the background makes this video even better.
By the way, the mere fact that Fulgrim and the Khan were “switched” planets by Cegorach to prevent the Khan from falling to Chaos is not just an odd point in the lore, it is a direct refutation of Erda’s genius plan. Why, you may ask, is the planet a Primarch lands on so important that it is the difference between falling to Chaos and not falling to Chaos? Because the manner and conditions in which the Primarch is raised is super important, even more important than their personalities and abilities. In other words, if various Primarchs were not scattered off to shithole worlds and were instead left to the Emperor, the Heresy is almost impossible. Erda simply jacked up humanity.
Of course, if it was the Chaos gods that scattered the Primarchs, well, it makes a hell of a lot more sense. They would want to send Primarchs out to shithole worlds in the hopes it creates personality and mental faults which they could later exploit, which is exactly what happened. But no, we have to have Erda, a super powerful perpetual that lived for thousands of years but lost her shit because reasons.
Its actually not a point in the lore at all, at no point its ever said Cegorach did it, all Magnus say in Scars is that one force switched them, nothing else
@@marrvynswillames4975 Person X did it, therefore the statement changes because Person Y didn’t do it. Ahh, the internet, where half you chuckle fucking heads have to disagree to agree.
@@marrvynswillames4975 A meaningless detail. They could have been switched by Carl from Gary, Indiana, and it wouldn’t change a thing regarding the stupidity of the Erda theory.
Maybe them being raised by Big E would have been even worse and instead of half falling to chaos, all of them would have. Either by collectively deciding that there's 20 of them and only one big e so shy shouldn't they be in charge, or because all that power would have turned big e into a chaos God.
It's also not definite that erda would have had specific control about where they land. Maybe she was trying to send them all to planets like mccrage but the chaos gods fucked with their routes.
An Adam and Eve ad as the sponsor for a video about fulgrim thats perfect!!!
i like the idea of people naming a planet "Murder" and Khorne, sitting on his throne, simultaneously saying "hell yeah" without knowing why
The khan consistently has the best interactions involving papa sang
I can't decide which is the better one between Fulgrim and Mortarion. 😎
Fulgrim before corruption "I came from nothing"
Fulgrim after corruption "I came alot"
I can’t believe you actually managed to get an Adam and Eve promotion
I dunno man, the little voice in the back of my head that says "hey, coke would be fun, let's 'play some 8ball'" is probably the most human thing ever. Same voice that says " you could just jump" when standing on a ledge...
I was surprised to hear the segment with your sponsor in this video. I have now replayed it three times to make sure the "90 day no asshole returned - policy" statement was misheard on my part.
I almost NEVER listen to sponsorship ads, so good job on getting me to sit through this one, I was flabbergasted anyone would advertise something like this on *TH-cam*. You sir, have my respect.
I weep for Rylanor
He did not deserve the death he got
Perhaps not, but he managed to get two Thousand Sons marines to have a change of heart, and he died dealing a blow to Fulgrim's pride that can never heal.
@@MidoriOfTheShuinsen True, Truly amazing ngl
@@MidoriOfTheShuinsenALL of them. Raptore too. I mean he didn't resist at all.
The death was incredible, better than most get in that universe
Actually, it was the MOST glorious way to die the way he did, but I feel bad for him that's why.
If you guys want the game that is the music it’s from, it’s called : Faster than Light (FTL)
You know, this is the first A&E sponsor I've seen. Good on you for the balls to take the sponsorship (all puns intended).
I think you should do a video on The Night Lords and Konrad Kurze. Their reasons for turning traitor are actually pretty understandable. Or even better read the Night Lords trilogy, it could very likely make you a like a traitor Legion all by itself.
The sponsorship for this video is just great.
... Dat add...
... the subject...
... the theme...
........ I just... i can't even..... i.... just...
.... wow.
I am completely speechless.
I mean, i'm expecting add because, one way or another you gotta pay the bills, man. But still, i'd have expected something "classic", like "Raid" or whatnot. But then you bring a sex toy add, on a Fulgrim video...
it's both completely surprising and at the same time, so like you to do so, it HURTS that the outcome is so obvious i should've seen it coming.
Damn the fuck it, Pancreas, have my like just for that.
The Whole theme surrounding Fulgrim is Despair, specifically for him. Pleasure and doing whatever he wants sure is one theme but that only serves to reveal how fall down that pit of despair he is fallen into. Also the fact that he too is also human at the core of things but trying to live up to this impossible figure would drive someone slowly crazy.
Fulgrim can be saved however he needs to hit rock bottom first in despair, and that means being denied or getting his ass kicked a few times while also hamulating his legion as well. Then one of his brothers needs to offer the hand to pull him out.
It can be done but would take 3 primarches levels of bullshit to pull it off.
To be fair, Fulgrim never stepped onto Murder. He got a message from Horus for a bit of assistance and while he was finishing wiping up the Laer, he threw Eidolon and a couple other companies Horus's way.
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13:39 you're overestimating the intellect of the average human you'll be surprised how dumb we can be
That scene on Armageddon when jaghatai and sanguinius are talking to like mortarion and some of the other primarchs and completely burns both mortarion and fulgrim. He looked like such a badass in that chapter and I believe calling fulgrim a peacock was one of the best burns in the heresy
Man... That's... Certainly a series of words...
Kind of like the khan (honored be his name) straight up making up the whole "I hear you do strange things to your sons."
@@xanmontes8715 lol think he spends some of that time away from the other legions just making fun of them? He had those loaded and ready to go. You may have hit it on the head tho. The one you quoted might be even better. You think the khan chose the side he did just cause the ones who sided with horus were just..... a little..... weird?
@@whitlocktherevanchist5236 honestly? 100%. The khan (honored be his name [yes I will always say that]) was described in almost every book he is in as a quiet man with eyes like a hawk. The man sees everything and only then makes a decision. Like he is the embodiment of "fools talk, wise men listen". Fulgrim, bless him he is my favorite mainly because out of 20 primarchs he was the only one that saved his planet while everyone else conquered theirs, tried too hard to reach perfection. The khan (honored be his name) was the best swordsman among all the primarchs. I speak from a place of absolute neutrality. If the primarchs decided to hold a series of duels pitting everyone against everyone in a lot of 1v1s, the khan (honored be his name) would win, I'd say, 15 out of 20 times and Fulgrim is NOT one of the other 5. Horus isn't one of the 5 either.
Fulgrim was always so obsessed with his image, being perceived as a perfect warrior, poet, artist, diplomat that he was easily thrown off balance.
"I hear you do strange things to your bikes" said Fulgrim, speaking truth because the Khan (honored be his name) DID do strange things that bordered on tech-heresy in the eyes of the Martian Priesthood.
"I hear you do strange things to your sons" was a blatant lie but who cares? It was sensationalist, and a lie, if sufficiently juicy, will be remembered for far longer than the more tame truth.
@xanmontes8715 outside of liking fulgrim, as he's among my least favorite primarchs, I agree with literally everything else you said. And my issues with fulgrim are mostly post laer blade.
You're right about those duels. I know fulgrim is spose to be a master swordsman but I think the khan is on another level. From everything I've read and understood, the few who would be toughest are the khan, lion, angron, and corvus. With possibly vulkan and curze on the edge. And I'm sure I'm leaving one out too.
It's awesome to hear someone else has actually read the books. Sometimes people commenting on lore pages, you can tell their knowledge doesn't come first hand from getting to know the actual characters, but rather just from being told things by youtube channels. You pick up a lot more if you take the time to read them, as I'm sure you already know
@@whitlocktherevanchist5236 I get you, I absolutely do. I'm just sad the artist primarch ended up becoming the degenerate.
If anyone was doomed to fall, it was Fulgrim.
(And Kurze. And Angron but that wasn't Angron's fault)
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You should look at some of arbiter Ian’s videos on the development of the lore. One of my favourite things in 40k is that some half thought out, bizarre, throw away lore created to sell goofy table top figures has become the cornerstone of one of the deepest most extensive universes. The reality that there’s throw away deliberately vague/over the top/satirical nuggets of lore aren’t really known by a lot of the new fans and I feel it’s important to acknowledge this so that you understand you cannot take 40 completely seriously
I really hate this stupid meme of 40k having the deepest lore you must understand to enjoy it, when at least half of it garbage that makes Magic the Gathering look well written.
@Calvin_Coolage Some of MTG was well written, but a lot of it is just weird stuff and manipulating genes/DNA "for the greater good"... like Warhammer 40k
I just wish they saved the whole "Fulgrim trapped in the painting" bit for later use in the lore as a possible redemption arc. Feels like a squandered opportunity to have that issue solved relatively soon after the demon fully took over.
"It's at this point that the Eldar decide that now is a great time to remind these silly primitives that there's a damn good reason why they ruled the galaxy for 65 million years." Yep, it's cause the Necrons were all asleep... 🤣
You know the reason necron went to sleep is because they weren't up to stuff at the end. And I have no doubt Eldeari in some cases help shattering of C'tan.
I reckon in the, like, second of realisation fulgrim had that he was about to be in ground zero of a planet-wide nuke, he just went "Well, fuck."
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4:55 That background is from Warframe and yeah, "We All Lift Together" is a baller theme song for Fortuna. All of Warframe's music is baller
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I am still utterly convinced the “Fulgrim but not Fulgrim but actually is Fulgrim” was legit just the demon going well this is getting interesting and then it got bored so it lied meanwhile Fulgrim was still in the painting.
Cant thank you enough for the videos man, theyre genuinely perfect. Enjoy rewatching them all the time.
"Ferris didn't pick up the PorkSword..."
Holy shit, this one blindsided me, I'm fukken' cackling
I was listening to this video on my way to work and at 3:53 while you were talking about why Fulgrim was probably spared I glanced down expecting, idk, an artist rendition of baby Fulgrim or something. Instead it was Neco Arc. I think that's beautiful.
Fulgrim having wives is shocking and new to me! It makes me want to know more. Did the other primarchs get married? Did any of them ever actually get laid? Were any of them good in bed? I know that the astartes are impotent, but I thought the primarchs were too. Or are they but Fulgrim didn't care and still wanted to get married anyways? If THAT'S true, then wouldn't that make Fulgrim the biggest simp in the entire galaxy?!
Astartes aren't impotent they just completely lack a sex drive. It's why so many Emperor's Children focus on sound and drugs rather than sex. I think the only astartes who fuck are Space Wolves since there's tons of example of them hitting on women or apparently even having kids but that last one was claimed by a dude nicknamed "the trickster" so who knows.
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DreadAnon also made a Fulgrim video today and everybody in the comments was talking about how PancreasNoWork and DreadAnon both made Fulgrim videos on the same day.
And then the YT Algorythm had the good sense to make this video next on my feed so I didn't even have to go looking for it.
My head cannon is that the laer blade was practically warp crack or at least the syringe to an endless supply to it. Just one taste and he was hooked. With stuff that good, you would make any excuse to keep it going. Idk but that's how I make sense of it. Now why didn't he just resist it? Well if you've been working for your entire life that any form of pleasure is appreciated and if you get shot with the ultimate pleasure while being sober for all of your life, it's going to take titanic willpower to drop it. Very few people could do it. That's my mental gymnastics
And how has he insulted you?’
‘By comparing me - comparing us - to these… primitives,’ Telmar said, glancing at Thorn, who nodded. Fulgrim frowned.
‘And why should he not?’ Fulgrim looked around, noting the mood of the crowd. They were on the cusp of flight. Telmar’s sudden burst of violence had frightened them, shaken them to their very cores. Stories would spread, flying through the city, and from there, the rest of the continent. Awe would turn to fear. Fear to resentment. And resentment to resistance. He has seen the same story, repeated ad nauseam, on a dozen worlds.
Fulgrim had always preferred love to fear. Love was stronger. Fear could be conquered, but love - never. It waned and swelled, but it never truly faded. He had made himself loved on Chemos. And he would do the same here.
The primarch sank to one knee and reached down to help Telmar’s victim to his feet. The man stared at him with mingled fright and awe, his mouth working soundlessly. Fulgrim smiled and stood.
‘I came from nothing’ he said, fixing his sons with a steady gaze. ‘I scrabbled in the quarry pits, and down in the deepest mines, carrying buckets on my shoulders because the ascender blew a gasket,’ he said. ‘I broke my fingernails on raw ore, and grew blisters from heat and labour. You look down on them, blind to the beauty of their struggle. Blind to what they might become, if only someone would scrape the filth from their faces.’
He reached down and lifted a child onto his shoulders. The girl laughed and clapped, unafraid of the giant, even as her mother wept. Fulgrim indicated the crowd. His voice had driven many of them to their knees. ‘Look at them, my sons. You are the highest, and they, the lowest. It is your duty to raise them up, as high as they will go. Anything less is not worthy of you.’
Just a minor note, the planet was called Murder by the Astartes who ended up fighting on its surface: it wasn't already called Murder when they got there.
I will say besides the Lair there is also the Rangdan, Slaught, Enslavers, Khrave, Hrud, Nephelim, and Ork empires that all needed destroyed completely.
I think something people forget is that despite fulgrims powers and tricks,fulgrim also wasnt a half bad techy himself,but he was practically a novice compared to vulkan,ferrus,perty and to a less extent dorn
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We will hold to your promise my man, great work as always
I can't wait for your Konrad Curze video!
For me Fulgrim is held back a lot by GW being unable to write his perfectionism in more intelligent way than just contently repeating "perfection" in every sentance.
That recreation of his childhood piece I believe was near the end of book two of The Fabius Bile trilogy Clonelord. He does meet with Fulgrim himself at one point and remember mention of him talking about Chemos.
Warframe is not the classified document leaking simulator, unfortunately.
We All Lift Together does go unimaginably hard tho i agree.
Very late, but regarding planet Murder, it was the Emperor's Children first contact team that named the mega-arachnid planet Murder, just before they were all eaten alive by said monstrous spiders.
4:53 "We all lift together" is one of the best Warframe songs, and "For Narmer" is one of the absolute most hautingly horrible because it takes place in the same location, with the same people singing, now mind controlled by the bad guys. It fucking rattled me first time I heard it while playing through.
Another good Warframe song is "Sleeping in the Cold Below" from the quest about the ghost spaceship. It fucking slaps.