_"I was never a Son of Horus. I was and remain a Luna Wolf. A proud son of Cthonia, a loyal servant of the Emperor, beloved by all. I am your enemy."_ - Garviel Loken
Even now I can picture Loken during the siege of Terra His battle plate white as the moon the black wolf head with its yellow eyes beaming for all to see sowing terror in its sight. hHs waste adorned with past battle honors along with grenades and ammo packs and on his chest plate gleaming in the blasts of battle a golden two headed Aquila a gift from the Sigilight at the request of the emperor.
It had to take one incredible character to start off the Horus Heresy. From an interview with Graham it seemed like they never planned it to be more then like 8 to 10 books. They maybe thought Loken was going to be the focus the entire way though. Loken like many of the Imperiums greatest was nothing ever special, No real great talent in anything unique(not saying a Captain rank is minor), but he was duty bound above any sense of personal glory. Yet what he did and his voice would reverberate though the millennia.
TBH he was one of the 4 of the most inner circle of the whole legion, and a company captain - he was far and above one of the greatest legionnaires within one of the greatest legions. He was far from ordinary. Saul Tarvitz could be called ordinary, but Loken was exceptional from the very outset. And yet he wasn't infallible. For example he was responsible for the trampling of dozens of humans when they brought the wounded Horus back on the ship and he didn't really feel any regret (it was quite justified in his eyes). That makes him a balanced and very real/human-like/believable character and that's why we like him so much.
And yet, if it wasn't for Saul Tarvitz, the loyalists, may not be so loyal anymore! Of course, in the grand scheme of things, he really was ordinary, but still, ordinary people in warhammer 40k can make a huge difference. Wasn't it a normal everyday soldier, that gave the emperor the mindset to kill horus?
@@willzer6915Euphrati Keeler was just your ordinary remembrancer, who was a flawed individual. Yet she was venerated as a saint for being seen as the definitive founder of the Imperial Cult.
@gamechanger8908 exactly my point! She was probably a better example, as she did more after her initial introduction, tarvitz was killed at istvaan 3 , so no glory really....or was he killed lol no no I'm sure he was!
Never have I been so heartbroken for a character, in a genre that tells you in its first breath of how much it cares for its own creations, to see suffer the grimdarkness of the latter 31st millennium. When war was at its most prevalent, this most skilled and martial prepared of Space Marines, unquestioned in his loyalties- died, only to come back under the monicher of a three headed hound of hell, and become the lynch pin for the greater future of the universe.
Loken is such a chad. I loved the moment of pure vulnerability he showed in front of Horus and in that scene alone who Loken is as a person is laid completely bare.
Every single video gets somehow better than the previous one. The time and passion you put into these video's is self evident. Nothing but praise, keep it up mate, you deserve all of your success and so much more.
2 things: 1. Happy 1 year anniversary to this amazing channel Andy. 2. Seeing the chad loken still at it is an awesome thing, if there was any other bits of lore on the luna wolves I would've loved to explored, it's definitely the one luna wolf who awakened from a stasis pod Millenias after the heresy happened and left to go do....we don't know but something big lol, via flesh tearers coming aboard and the wolf taking one of their ships to go do important shit. (Potential secret luna wolves successor loyalist chapter confirmed for future lore perhaps?!)
@@Matt-md5yt reminder that before horus got corrupted due to chaos fucking with his doubts, he and sangy were up there with ferrus and fulgrim in the best bros section of all the primarchs.
I found your site about 2 months ago and have been viewing your content since. As with this video, your work is fantastic and the voice overs phenomenal. After having read the Horus Heresy books, this one episode hit me hardest as I really liked and felt for Garviel Loken due to what happened on Istvan
I’ve listened to many hundreds of 40K lore videos down the years, and hardly ever comment. But I feel I must for this one: it was excellent. Well done!
Loken has easily become one of my favourite 30k characters. With his fate still open to interpretation I'd like to think that he is somewhere in the galaxy, still hunting his traitor brothers and will one day slay his old pack.
I trust you all know that Loken is going to be the 'lone Astartes' that stands between Horus and The Emperor at the final of the siege of Terra....I'm taking bets if anyone's interested lol
@@vicstanfieldshire7754 I would love to see Cavill play Garvi my good man but I got a feeling he's gunna play a baseline human maybe iesenhorn or my personal preference Ciaphas Cain 'heeeero of the impeeerium!' lol
@@briharrisWarhmmer40kfan in one of his interviews Eisenhorn came up and he didn’t seem too enthusiastic. I feel as a Custodes he would be wasted, he can’t be any of the Primarchs. I could see Cain too despite his self admitted attempts to REMOVE himself from action and danger lol I feel as Loken / Cerberus you see SOOOOO much pre/post Horus Heresy. You get the Mourneval, The Serpent Lodge, Murder, Lucius and Tarvitz, The Half-Heard and The Remembrancers, Technocracy, Istvaan, then the team up with Garro and Ancient Rylanor and everything else.
@@vicstanfieldshire7754 you make a great point but no way will GW and Netflix touch the heresy when they first dip their toe into the Warhammer setting,it just ain't happening
Sometimes i just re-listen to the first 2 Audiobooks for the Heresy series, it truly was a different time and vibe where Humans and Space Marines just chilled and talked to each other. Garvel and Euphrate's sorta kinda relationship thing they were having was the most adorable thing ever (until fucking Samus) Garvel's friendship with the other remembrancer (can't remember his name) its so different from the 40k books of now where the Astartes are so emotionally detached from humanity its rare a joke let alone friendships is made between the Marine and Humans.
He is a true legend and hero in Warhammer lore. His father turned traitor ! Yet he remained loyal ! No matter the cost ! “The Emperor protects” utter legend
I remember reading that after little horus and Ezekyle "Dealt" with mah boi loken and beheaded mustasch man:( Aximand looked totaly deppresed, he knew he choose wrong.
At first glance I read the title as Erebus and immediately thought: “Screw that guy! I don’t even want to be reminded of that bastard.” …but Loken is alright.
so yall tellin me, ol Garvy, lives past Istvan 3? i thought he got clapped by Abbadon after Aximand killed Torgaddon does that mean Tarvits also lives?
You know what'd be the greatest Full Circle? Its something that GW has to earn, now, it can't be ill-executed at all. Up into the 42nd Millennium, where the battle goes full pitch across the Galaxy, but the Sons of the Emperor return and each of the Chapters from their progeny push back against the Xenos hordes and all that's left is to finish the fight with Chaos. As Abaddon goes out of his way to do greater evils, the retaliation begins. The forces of Chaos get sought out by an emboldened Imperium, and there, holding a Power Sword and Bolter with the Warp Force of the Emperor's Will behind it.... Is Garviel Loken, staring down Abaddon and full-blooded enough to take down a goddamn Chaos God.
I just re-read the first books of the heresy (currently book 3) after many years. Wow, how well written and with fantastic characters like Loken.. So different to the "normal" 41th century space marine book (which are mostly describing the same fights and kill moves again and again and again, so boring)
and yet, "Cerberus" would meet his end, stabbed in the back by a certain "Erebus".... this has been a tale of another betrayal, enacted by The Backstabber.
I’ve only just gotten the Emperor-Damned Xenos off my transmissions! So long as I have control, the only Elucidating we shall do to the Greenskins is with purging flame!
i really need to know in which books this took place if there are more than "vengeful spirit"... cause they are missing from my library. :D Can anyone aid me here? I also love, that this channel started with loken and celebrated the 1st year with more of him. since ... that is basically also where the biggest part of this amazing neverending journey of warhammer started. with the first horus heresy book ... at least "historical" to "today" :D
@@QuayNemSorr isn't Cypher still around in 40k? Also Custodes are still around in 40k from 30k (Constantine Valdor).. I know they aren't marines.. Well dreadnaughts like Bjorn the Fellhand are around in 40k still but yeah he's special .. is there no chance some of these marines are still around ?
It's heavily implied tarik toggardon is the real deal He mentions something wrong had been done to him Part of his body was resurrected as a monster tormageddon Tarik is clearly real not a delusion
too bad the great character writing of the first books did get wasted with the whole cerberus turn. loken had so much personality. the whole character driven writing of the first heresy books gets never reached again. still love some later heresy and also 40k books, but none match the depth of the astartes and their interaction in the first few
Great character - should have died on Istavan. His actual demise was horribly executed. Abnett doesn’t know how and when to let his characters go…just like gramáticas
"Eee-zee-kee-al". Like the biblical prophet. Who was very dedicated to his traditions and beliefs over God (like his dedication to Horus over the Emperor). So much inconsistency in the audiobooks. Black Library shouldnissuea pronunciation guide. Maybe it's just me, but it irks the shit out of me when some books in a series have "Ez-eh-kyle" with others "Ee-ze-ke-al", or "Ro-boot" and others "Ro-boo-tay".
_"I was never a Son of Horus. I was and remain a Luna Wolf. A proud son of Cthonia, a loyal servant of the Emperor, beloved by all. I am your enemy."_
- Garviel Loken
Fuck yes
Chill ass turtle said it.
@@ChillAssTurtle 👍
just finished reading vengeful spirit a few days ago, awesome speech from loken.
that stuff in my head now
Garviel Loken is probably my absolute favorite space marine
Same here, he is the one that make me fall inlove with this Universe.
Him Tarvitz and Garro! the Great Crusade marines were so much better characters
Same he is the first character I fell in love with when I started my journey into the Horus heresy and my first dip into the universe of Warhammer 40k
@@darkhavok4226 tarvitz....another hero of the Imperium
Yes
The crazed, lone Space Marine recruited into Garro's 'Knights Errant' this will be good!
Loken and Garro and so well written and amazing characters of the Heresy era and brought real memories and depth to the Astartes
Even now I can picture Loken during the siege of Terra
His battle plate white as the moon the black wolf head with its yellow eyes beaming for all to see sowing terror in its sight. hHs waste adorned with past battle honors along with grenades and ammo packs and on his chest plate gleaming in the blasts of battle a golden two headed Aquila a gift from the Sigilight at the request of the emperor.
I already was. It was called...the great crusade. Oooooh that line hits so hard. Knowing what horrors are to become of the imperium
After everything that happened to him, even with the honeyed offers of horus, he still remained a loyal servant of the emperor....truly beautiful.
I loved the banter between Loken and Torgaddon... that whole thing on the bridge with Torgey and Eidelon tho 👀
I loved all there interactions even the serious ones
there is nothing like the comraderie you have with others you consider your brothers, they hit the nail on the head.
It had to take one incredible character to start off the Horus Heresy. From an interview with Graham it seemed like they never planned it to be more then like 8 to 10 books. They maybe thought Loken was going to be the focus the entire way though. Loken like many of the Imperiums greatest was nothing ever special, No real great talent in anything unique(not saying a Captain rank is minor), but he was duty bound above any sense of personal glory. Yet what he did and his voice would reverberate though the millennia.
TBH he was one of the 4 of the most inner circle of the whole legion, and a company captain - he was far and above one of the greatest legionnaires within one of the greatest legions. He was far from ordinary. Saul Tarvitz could be called ordinary, but Loken was exceptional from the very outset.
And yet he wasn't infallible. For example he was responsible for the trampling of dozens of humans when they brought the wounded Horus back on the ship and he didn't really feel any regret (it was quite justified in his eyes). That makes him a balanced and very real/human-like/believable character and that's why we like him so much.
And yet, if it wasn't for Saul Tarvitz, the loyalists, may not be so loyal anymore!
Of course, in the grand scheme of things, he really was ordinary, but still, ordinary people in warhammer 40k can make a huge difference. Wasn't it a normal everyday soldier, that gave the emperor the mindset to kill horus?
@@willzer6915Euphrati Keeler was just your ordinary remembrancer, who was a flawed individual. Yet she was venerated as a saint for being seen as the definitive founder of the Imperial Cult.
@gamechanger8908 exactly my point! She was probably a better example, as she did more after her initial introduction, tarvitz was killed at istvaan 3
, so no glory really....or was he killed lol no no I'm sure he was!
Daaaaaamn that last line is soooo cold, "I was, it was called the Great Crusade"
BroOOO
You know shit went downhill when a WORLD EATER convinces another to stay his blade
Never have I been so heartbroken for a character, in a genre that tells you in its first breath of how much it cares for its own creations, to see suffer the grimdarkness of the latter 31st millennium. When war was at its most prevalent, this most skilled and martial prepared of Space Marines, unquestioned in his loyalties- died, only to come back under the monicher of a three headed hound of hell, and become the lynch pin for the greater future of the universe.
Honestly epic video, Garviel doesn’t get enough love from the 40k community, he’s my absolute favourite. Amazing
Also it’d be pretty epic to see a video on Saturnine, Garviel dressed in Luna wolf armour facing down his old friend now enemy little Horus
@@AidC96 the best line is when Loken says "You always were the wrong Horus" to Aximand before Loken cut him to pieces.
Loken is such a chad. I loved the moment of pure vulnerability he showed in front of Horus and in that scene alone who Loken is as a person is laid completely bare.
" I was there, i was there the day Horus slew the emperor. "
- Garviel Loken
You talked about one of my favorite marines, this makes me happy
Every single video gets somehow better than the previous one. The time and passion you put into these video's is self evident. Nothing but praise, keep it up mate, you deserve all of your success and so much more.
Second it.
2 things:
1. Happy 1 year anniversary to this amazing channel Andy.
2. Seeing the chad loken still at it is an awesome thing, if there was any other bits of lore on the luna wolves I would've loved to explored, it's definitely the one luna wolf who awakened from a stasis pod Millenias after the heresy happened and left to go do....we don't know but something big lol, via flesh tearers coming aboard and the wolf taking one of their ships to go do important shit. (Potential secret luna wolves successor loyalist chapter confirmed for future lore perhaps?!)
Yeah that Lone Wolf dude could have been killed by the sons of Sanguinius but they didn't, it's like they knew he was a good lad or something
@@Matt-md5yt reminder that before horus got corrupted due to chaos fucking with his doubts, he and sangy were up there with ferrus and fulgrim in the best bros section of all the primarchs.
@@guywholikesmemes4993 alright
This made my day! Just knowing he survived makes me want to read more 40k books. Great video!
The lore is so rich and the characters are unforgettable, whether hero, or villain, you will find someone, or something to root for, or to despise.
Man destroyed Horus through the whole conversation then turned his back on his Primarch and his old battle brothers. Boss.
And now I need to listen "Atrocity". The delivery at the end was so good and sad.
I found your site about 2 months ago and have been viewing your content since. As with this video, your work is fantastic and the voice overs phenomenal. After having read the Horus Heresy books, this one episode hit me hardest as I really liked and felt for Garviel Loken due to what happened on Istvan
Gavriel Loken many lives nice work remembrancer
Loken is everything in the heresy, Dan be gentle with our greatest hero
I’ve listened to many hundreds of 40K lore videos down the years, and hardly ever comment. But I feel I must for this one: it was excellent. Well done!
What an amazing character Garviel Loken is...
Loken has easily become one of my favourite 30k characters. With his fate still open to interpretation I'd like to think that he is somewhere in the galaxy, still hunting his traitor brothers and will one day slay his old pack.
@@nochancewithoutpasta7637 That would be epic!
These videos are amazing the remembrancer could have been the greatest iterator ever
I trust you all know that Loken is going to be the 'lone Astartes' that stands between Horus and The Emperor at the final of the siege of Terra....I'm taking bets if anyone's interested lol
#HENRYCAVILLASLOKEN
@@vicstanfieldshire7754 I would love to see Cavill play Garvi my good man but I got a feeling he's gunna play a baseline human maybe iesenhorn or my personal preference Ciaphas Cain 'heeeero of the impeeerium!' lol
@@briharrisWarhmmer40kfan in one of his interviews Eisenhorn came up and he didn’t seem too enthusiastic. I feel as a Custodes he would be wasted, he can’t be any of the Primarchs. I could see Cain too despite his self admitted attempts to REMOVE himself from action and danger lol
I feel as Loken / Cerberus you see SOOOOO much pre/post Horus Heresy. You get the Mourneval, The Serpent Lodge, Murder, Lucius and Tarvitz, The Half-Heard and The Remembrancers, Technocracy, Istvaan, then the team up with Garro and Ancient Rylanor and everything else.
@@vicstanfieldshire7754 you make a great point but no way will GW and Netflix touch the heresy when they first dip their toe into the Warhammer setting,it just ain't happening
@@briharrisWarhmmer40kfan I wish you weren’t right, but I know you are. UGH why can’t he just produce and direct until HH?!?
I approve of this video. My regards Remembrancer.
Sometimes i just re-listen to the first 2 Audiobooks for the Heresy series, it truly was a different time and vibe where Humans and Space Marines just chilled and talked to each other.
Garvel and Euphrate's sorta kinda relationship thing they were having was the most adorable thing ever (until fucking Samus) Garvel's friendship with the other remembrancer (can't remember his name) its so different from the 40k books of now where the Astartes are so emotionally detached from humanity its rare a joke let alone friendships is made between the Marine and Humans.
Really enjoyed this one 👌 well done 👏 I think I have learned something new about Loken in your telling of his story
He is a true legend and hero in Warhammer lore. His father turned traitor ! Yet he remained loyal ! No matter the cost ! “The Emperor protects” utter legend
I always appreciate your videos. I think these longer formatted vids are completely phenomenal, too. Thank you, sir.
Amazing work! I would never have known about the heroes of 30k if it wasn't for your channel.
I remember reading that after little horus and Ezekyle "Dealt" with mah boi loken and beheaded mustasch man:( Aximand looked totaly deppresed, he knew he choose wrong.
Im really enjoying your content my friend,it's impressive even amongst the now saturated Warhammer lore channels
I reading the horus heresy now and this was a spoiler for me but I loved it. I love loken he so dope.
The part of FOTE when Garro is Squaring off with Grulgor / Lord of the flies, is such an epic fight!
Beautifully narrated. Well done good sir. I do love your videos
At first glance I read the title as Erebus and immediately thought: “Screw that guy! I don’t even want to be reminded of that bastard.”
…but Loken is alright.
so yall tellin me, ol Garvy, lives past Istvan 3? i thought he got clapped by Abbadon after Aximand killed Torgaddon
does that mean Tarvits also lives?
Unfortunately not bud tarvits does die on istvan guess you’ll see what happened to Garvy
Epic video!!!! Awesome!! Keep up the great work
Sad I missed the premier, But congrats to 1 year.
Excellent!! Not many things better than Loken…
Happy anniversary brother, fantastic
I was here for the first loken video I was hooked since then. Loken story is the best
You know what'd be the greatest Full Circle? Its something that GW has to earn, now, it can't be ill-executed at all.
Up into the 42nd Millennium, where the battle goes full pitch across the Galaxy, but the Sons of the Emperor return and each of the Chapters from their progeny push back against the Xenos hordes and all that's left is to finish the fight with Chaos. As Abaddon goes out of his way to do greater evils, the retaliation begins.
The forces of Chaos get sought out by an emboldened Imperium, and there, holding a Power Sword and Bolter with the Warp Force of the Emperor's Will behind it.... Is Garviel Loken, staring down Abaddon and full-blooded enough to take down a goddamn Chaos God.
And now Loken is Samus the demon. We will need new lore now. All lore a year or longer we have made or thought is all changed now with TEATD vol.3
Great video, keep it up. Subscribed
Just started reading the horus heresy, book 5 now. Loken is such a great character.
I always get that wrong. I always confuse Istvaan 3 for 5 all the time. Mental block of some kind. Cheers man. Great vid
It was called the great crusade…gave me chills great stuff.
Very nice, befitting the coolest of the loyalists :)
I just re-read the first books of the heresy (currently book 3) after many years. Wow, how well written and with fantastic characters like Loken.. So different to the "normal" 41th century space marine book (which are mostly describing the same fights and kill moves again and again and again, so boring)
Excellent channel and no mistake.
👍👍.
Always Phenomenal! Many thanx Master narrator, Many thanx.
Amazing story telling
More then a Emperor's Children
Raylanor is a true Child of The Emperor
and yet, "Cerberus" would meet his end, stabbed in the back by a certain "Erebus"....
this has been a tale of another betrayal, enacted by The Backstabber.
Absolute Quality 👏👏
That's my chapter master!
Liken is everyone with honors fave character. hell i play chaos legions and Loken is my fave character. greeting writing will do that. Thanks Dan
question : are you going to continue ork videos alongside the imperium videos?
I’ve only just gotten the Emperor-Damned Xenos off my transmissions! So long as I have control, the only Elucidating we shall do to the Greenskins is with purging flame!
@@TheRemembrancer Sir yes sir! *Salute*
i really need to know in which books this took place if there are more than "vengeful spirit"... cause they are missing from my library. :D
Can anyone aid me here?
I also love, that this channel started with loken and celebrated the 1st year with more of him. since ... that is basically also where the biggest part of this amazing neverending journey of warhammer started. with the first horus heresy book ... at least "historical" to "today" :D
can you consider doing one on Aeonid Thiel by far my favorite character
Thank you ✌🏻👊🏻
Garviel Loken is cool, but he'll never be Barabus Dantioch cool.
He's still pretty goddamn cool tho.
If Dorn gives someone the okay, they okay.
What book does Loken meet up with Garro?
i would say in current lore garviel is probably dead but let's be real it's more likely a certain silvery memelord got him
Loken and Garro ❤
Soo good brother
5:59 so cypher is a loyalist?!?
Do we know how, or IF, Loken died?
He needs a mini!
He has one 😉
Is it possible to make a list of all the novels that feature Loken?
Does gavreil survive into the current setting with the grey knights?
No. No (non chaos) marine is that old. The oldest is Dante at about 1200 years of age.
@@QuayNemSorr thank you I'm Very new to this setting, I started at the very beginning with Horus riseing so I'm catching up
@@dominicchammas549 No worries. Welcome to the hobby. I hope you'll come to enjoy it.
Loken might just be a perpetual.
@@QuayNemSorr isn't Cypher still around in 40k? Also Custodes are still around in 40k from 30k (Constantine Valdor).. I know they aren't marines.. Well dreadnaughts like Bjorn the Fellhand are around in 40k still but yeah he's special .. is there no chance some of these marines are still around ?
Shame he died by Erebus back stabbing him...... Such an amazing character to die in such a stupid way.
What book did Garrviel sneak onto the vengeful spirit and confront Horus? I really want to read it
Wolfsbane is the book if I am not mistaken.
found it!
Where is Loken now? M42?
MY G!
I hope Henry Cavill wil play him. Would make a awesome series
what book does this all happen in
Loken is the Chad Marine
It's heavily implied tarik toggardon is the real deal
He mentions something wrong had been done to him
Part of his body was resurrected as a monster tormageddon
Tarik is clearly real not a delusion
So I thought that horus had killed him. He cant still be alive?
I thought Abbadon’s name was pronounced like “Ezekiel”
epic
too bad the great character writing of the first books did get wasted with the whole cerberus turn. loken had so much personality.
the whole character driven writing of the first heresy books gets never reached again. still love some later heresy and also 40k books, but none match the depth of the astartes and their interaction in the first few
What novel does the events of this novel take place
do men even have feelings
Who is Ezakyle?
#HENRYCAVILLASLOKEN
Great character - should have died on Istavan. His actual demise was horribly executed. Abnett doesn’t know how and when to let his characters go…just like gramáticas
Booooiiii Horis didn't slay shit !!!
What's the best book about the knights errant?
I am partial to the Garro series
@@TheRemembrancer yes I am looking at them now gonna start after I'm done with my current book
"Eee-zee-kee-al". Like the biblical prophet. Who was very dedicated to his traditions and beliefs over God (like his dedication to Horus over the Emperor).
So much inconsistency in the audiobooks. Black Library shouldnissuea pronunciation guide. Maybe it's just me, but it irks the shit out of me when some books in a series have "Ez-eh-kyle" with others "Ee-ze-ke-al", or "Ro-boot" and others "Ro-boo-tay".