I legit lolled at 20:05. Erebus? Requested an audience with a Primarch like he's some sort of peer? He's just some random Chaplain from a flea-bitten legion. Know when you're in the presence of your betters, Erebus.
Based. Erebus needed to fuck off, I hate that dude about as much as I hate Kor Phaeron or Ignatius Grulgore (both for different reasons but God they really grind my gears) But I guess that's the sign of a good villain!
tbf he had just come off years of campaigning with the wolves where he was basically Horus's unofficial sidekick...then again that ended when he tried to shit on Horus to his face and got his face ripped off for his trouble
Horus was the one speaking to his betters. Horus the Failure. Horus the Manipulable. Horus, whose son Abaddon the Despoiler is outstripping him despite not having that good Primarch DNA. Horus, who is quite dead, while Erebus is still gleefully causing mischief and causing loyalists to slobber in rage. That's the one you back? Now THAT is funny.
I know the Ultramarines get all the play in the novels, but reading the Calth books, watching them get over half their legion annihilated in basically the first hour of the Betrayal, only for Guilliman to bring it all back and send the Word Bearers packing, then to go on the most aggressive balls-out offense against Lorgar and Angron chasing them all the way to Nuceria, then hard carry the Scouring… I mean come on, they’re worth it, right?
the ultramarines are great in the heresy novels which dose a lot to correct the issues they had in 40k and give them far more of a distinct personality.. it helps that gulliman is a generally likable and interesting character.. and thats carried over to a fare degree in his return to 40k
@@awakeandwatching953 He's something rare in 40K, a reasonable dude. Even when the WB were firing on his ships he tried incessantly to talk to Lorgar to clear up what was going on. Only when he figured out how far ahead this was planned did he go full on aggressive mode. No other Primarch would go into such detail to confirm the treachery after the first shot.
I, unironically, think Guilliman is the best written, most relatable Primarch. The Ultramarines are just a million times more relatable (and therefore interesting, to me) than anything like the Space Wolves or something.
"Aaand let's check back in with our buddies on the fleet tender Campanile, tell the audience, are you guys still screaming?" *_[̵̦̫̐̀͌̉̉̐̑̔̕͜͝Ą̸̘̗̩̦͚͍̣͒͠Ȧ̵͍̯͙̺̣̪̞̺̻̩̜̼̻̾̓̑̍́̎͒A̴̡̡͉̍̉͂A̴͈͛̃̆̒̽́́̈́̉̎̓̽͝Á̷̢̡͎̟͎̻͔̪́́̔̇̔̆̋͝ͅͅA̶̢̭͖͎̯̫̮͙̽̏͜Ạ̷̧̻̥̫͍̫̦̍̍̇̔͊̐Á̸̹͙̘̭́̋̃̋̉͋͋̿̈̈́̚ͅA̴̧̳̗͓͔̹͈͍̞̯̖̤̽ͅḀ̸̝̥̺̘̤̹̭͎̮̣̹͕͋͂͛͐͋̌͒͛A̴̠͓̻̮̳͛̓͜͜ͅA̴̡̧̳͚̤͎͖̠͔͓̻̎̅̅́̋̿͌͂̉̀̐̿̚ͅÄ̵̢̡̪͓̙͈͛̈́̅̂̀͘͝͠Å̶̢̨̤̘̟̥͚̫̫̻͓̭͒̉̿̂̇̔ͅA̴͙̾̃̉̏́́͑̅̈́͝ͅȀ̵̬̊̀̓̆̾̔H̴̢̡͎͈͎̩̦͈̀͋̾́͒͆͆̊̔͆͑͘H̶̖̮̼͖͙̘̱̪̲̟̫̿̇̈́̇̉H̶̖̝͓̾̀͐͂̌̒̀̋̏͘͝H̴̭̟̰͉̩̔̑̆̅̃͘̚͘H̷̢̛̜͈̲̰̜͎̣̮͙̞̽̔̿̍͠H̵̪̺̳̰̔̌]̶̧͎̗͎̙̙̥̂̌͆̇̄̍͑̉̇͂͋͝_* "Sounds like a yes to me! [Canned audience laughter]. We'll check back in after the break!"
The scene in "know no fear", where plenatside on Calth a marine notices that its starting to rain....its raining BANEBLADES, SHADOWSWORDS AND OTHER SUPER HEAVY BATTLE TANKS, is one of the most "WTF!" moments in the entire horus heresy series.....describing them slamming down like miniature comets, SURVIVING REENTRY just to annihilate bunkers had me laughing, crying and shuddering all at the same time.
I had to take a couple passes at the scene where a whole battleship falls ass-first out of orbit and onto the city where they're fighting. The opening scenes of that war were so insanely over-the-top in every way lol
It's so absurd to even imagine the amount of material coming down and the sheer unbelievably of the situation that it's nigh on impossible to put yourself in the head space of any Ultramarine trying to survive this ambush.
Gulliman: "All this death. All this destruction. So many dead sons littering the irradiated soil of a broken world, both yours and mine. All for the sake of a damnable 'truth' and your wounded pride. Was it worth it, brother? Was it really worth it, in the end?" Lorgar: *trumpet intensifies*
Still get chills when the mechanicus lady puts out on all frequencies 'loyalist forces, put your heads down and *prepare for response.'* before unleashing an absolute hellstorm of retributive fire after the Ultras got hammered for nearly a day straight.
The Mark of Calth makes this story so much more chilling. You're racing down a path you know won't end well and there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop.
To be fair that’s basically the whole heresy. I always likened (reading) it to a slow motion train wreck you can see coming from miles away but you’re just a captive audience unable to do anything.
As an ancient High Lord said of a battle very much like Calth, "This was not the end, it was not even the beginning of the end, but it may have been the end of the beginning."
In my opinion the best part of Know No Fear is the 2-3 chapters when the fire ship strikes Calth shipyard and the 2 chapters when everything is exploding. Dan Abnett did a such a good job catching the apocalyptic shock of the attack it’s so good. I love when the one Ultramarines champion and the dreadnaught look up and see a grand cruiser being sucked into Caleb’s gravity well and I wanna say the dreadnaught even say “THRONE OF THE EMPEROR!” and they watch it strike and go off like a massive nuke. One of the best books in HH.
Abnett is really good, imo, in getting the reader in the trenches with the characters In the Ghosts novels you can feel how worned out the First and Only is after years and years in the front, and not only the regiment but the individual soldier
Man, this is such a great comment. I've gotta go re-read this book now. It's got to be at least 11 years since this last time! I do remember how powerful those chapters were, even though I dont remember the actual moments!!!
“The fleet tender Campneil is still moving.” This is possibly my favorite literary device- a repetitive statement used to maintain the momentum of a situation without losing any of its emotional punch.
Damn this book. Bless this book. It single handedly ended a small generation of memes I found hilarious about the Ultramarines from Matt Wards mucking about, and redeemed them to 'actual badasses' status. What a great book.
"The Campanile is still moving." This play by pay in present tense of what is unfolding reminds me of the analytic reports of real-life disasters. It's engrossing. Well done.
That slow motion, clinical analysis of the path of destruction feels exactly like the painstaking reconstruction of events after a horrific attack or industrial accident. Knowing it's going to happen makes all the signs beforehand all that much more dreadful to witness. Feels a little like the courtroom scene from Chernobyl. Or, alternatively, and episode of Well There's Your Voidship: a Vox Cast about Engineering Disasters... With Slides.
Perfect timing. Mom just dropped a big-ass carpet off for me to clean and drove away. 😅 I shall purge it of all iniquity as the Oculus serenades my ears with this new missive.
You know it's going to be good when it spends 10 minutes describing what happened in less than a second, and it's already some of the most riveting shit you've ever heard. (If it's any consolation, most of the people murdered here did not have time to register their deaths. Unlike so many others who perished in this story, those lucky bastards died easy.
This is horror summed upped. Solders on space crafts unaware that their genetic cousins and brothers in arms are chanting and doing rites of hellish deminsons,calling for their destruction. Their kin brushing off little hints here and there because that very thought is beyond their own nature. Then, a visible horror of a long dead spaceship crashing in to them and all they can hear is screaming from Dead men and women. This would be a horrifying sight and event to experience. The only more chilling thought is that there had to be ultramarines not only asking for help but seeking aid from those that would cause horror to them.
its a shame the film industry disappeared up its own arse as the heresy would have been the greatest epic ever committed to film.. oh well we may still get an anime style animated version that fits the bill
If you havent read it, read "know no fear", its what this video is based on. The scene of a group of ultramarines seeing word bearers coming towards them, thinking theyre allies, just to all get gunned down almost made me feel sorry for the smurfs. Almost. Also the description of whats left of one of the ships slamming 9/11 style into an entire city and obliterating it was chilling....
It is interesting to note that the Renegade chaos warband The Purge often employ this style of suicide attack on a planets surface, loading a ship with as much armaments as it can hold then crashing it into a planets surface at high speed. It is a testament to the sheer durability offered by worship of Nurgle that some of their space marines emerge from the atomized wreckage of these craft to continue the attack on the surface.
The opening of the Battle of Calth is by far my favorite start of a space battle. It's just such utter carnage pulled off so masterfully by the Word Bearers.
The Oculus, truly blessed with the God-Emperors Favour, continues to fascinate this humble Acylite by the work of his presentation. May he stay safe of any potential visits of persons of an inquisitorial nature.
I JUST FINISHED KNOW NO FEAR A FEW DAYS AGO, so the timing of this video is impeccable! I'm reading Unremembered Empire now :) Hope you're doing well, Occy!
Honestly I think Know no Fear is the gold standard for heresy stories (among several of course). Abnett gets a single story within ONE star system to play with, which give him the space and time to **just tell a good story**, too create and flesh out a believable story about people in the greatest crisis they will ever experience, and to worldbuild naturally without necessary exposition and loredumps. Forget the wider strategic implications, the politics of the imperium, the great game of chaos. None of it matters as the Campanile screams towards the surface of Calth and billions of lives are extinguished in hours.
I absorbed this work in a single sitting and was glued by my ears to my buds. Your demeanor and parlance of story telling ever increases in talent, scope, and depth. This tale broke my heart, And it was a pleasure to have done to me. You offer a slow burn that builds with an excellent pacing to the classic descent of traditional horror. Thank you for your exceptional and brilliant capacity for communicating these true and vital narratives back in time to us, channeling them merely from our shared future. Gloria in excelsis Terra Godspeed Liked and shared 🙏🏼🌟
That horrifying moment when you read a full page of dozens of ships and tens of thousands of people being vaporized and the book goes "we're not done yet," and just keeps going for 2 more pages. Then it reminds you all of this happened in 1 second. And it's just the opening volley for the rest of the war.
thank you again for the amazing content. I often turn to your videos when i am dealing with my health problems. just listening to you talk about 40k lore is relaxing and helps distract me from what pains me. THANK YOU.
Greetings, Oculus. I wish to begin by congratulating and thanking your for another chilling work of ancient history brought to light. This humble scribe waits for future chapters upon Calth and the Great Betrayal with anticipation and dread equal. I would like to enquire you as to the status of your previous chronicles upon the Badab War and Siege of Vraks. These have been immeasurably valuable to my own research into the subjects. But alas several chapters of both seem to be missing from the archives as their last updates hang from the proverbial cliffs. My assumption is they've somehow been corrupted and await recogitation, for certainly no acolyte of the Logos Historica of your caliber would leave such works unfinished? I shall eagerly await any future chapters upon these, and upon the Great Betrayal. Yours truly, a humble scribe.
Know no Fear is a big part of the reason I actually like the ultramahrerens now. Not only do they seem pretty cool in 30k (tbh the tech and styling in 30k is some of my favorite) but how they fought back against this tragedy was also badass.
This really does feel like you cribbed a report directly from an extremely disturbing OSHA or NHTSB investigation. Excellent presentation that captures the understated horror of how those are written.
Looking forward to the continuation of this, your work is really excellent and amazing. Love hearing 40k lore from the view of 40k logging its own history ❤️
Incredible work, as always. I find myself conflicted between a desire to chain you to your desk and force you to make more content faster, and savouring the incredible quality the wait between uploads provides :)
185,000 Space marines, 118 Titans,a whole knight household and 1 Million Imperial Army units wtf literally all issues in current day 40k would get stomped by this force also lead by a primarch
“The Campanile’s crew were long dead… but they were still screaming.”
Such a pitch-perfect 40K line. Bravo.
🤌
“…and the crew screamed with them.” Line, brought up every once in a while, was just *beautiful*.
Oof, that line was so 40k, it was perfect indeed
I legit lolled at 20:05. Erebus? Requested an audience with a Primarch like he's some sort of peer? He's just some random Chaplain from a flea-bitten legion. Know when you're in the presence of your betters, Erebus.
Hey it's you
Based. Erebus needed to fuck off, I hate that dude about as much as I hate Kor Phaeron or Ignatius Grulgore (both for different reasons but God they really grind my gears)
But I guess that's the sign of a good villain!
Does Cyanide know youre a WH weeb? Im gonna tell him Slanesh is your favorite.
tbf he had just come off years of campaigning with the wolves where he was basically Horus's unofficial sidekick...then again that ended when he tried to shit on Horus to his face and got his face ripped off for his trouble
Horus was the one speaking to his betters. Horus the Failure. Horus the Manipulable. Horus, whose son Abaddon the Despoiler is outstripping him despite not having that good Primarch DNA. Horus, who is quite dead, while Erebus is still gleefully causing mischief and causing loyalists to slobber in rage. That's the one you back? Now THAT is funny.
I know the Ultramarines get all the play in the novels, but reading the Calth books, watching them get over half their legion annihilated in basically the first hour of the Betrayal, only for Guilliman to bring it all back and send the Word Bearers packing, then to go on the most aggressive balls-out offense against Lorgar and Angron chasing them all the way to Nuceria, then hard carry the Scouring… I mean come on, they’re worth it, right?
the ultramarines are great in the heresy novels which dose a lot to correct the issues they had in 40k and give them far more of a distinct personality.. it helps that gulliman is a generally likable and interesting character.. and thats carried over to a fare degree in his return to 40k
@@awakeandwatching953 He's something rare in 40K, a reasonable dude. Even when the WB were firing on his ships he tried incessantly to talk to Lorgar to clear up what was going on. Only when he figured out how far ahead this was planned did he go full on aggressive mode. No other Primarch would go into such detail to confirm the treachery after the first shot.
I, unironically, think Guilliman is the best written, most relatable Primarch. The Ultramarines are just a million times more relatable (and therefore interesting, to me) than anything like the Space Wolves or something.
I really like the whole Theoretical/Practical thing they do, too
@@collecter343And then he immediately switched to "I'm going to beat Lorgar to death with Kor Phaeron"
Even when betrayed and forced to war, the 13th Legion makes sure its paperwork is in order and their taxes filed
And that's before the battle
"Aaand let's check back in with our buddies on the fleet tender Campanile, tell the audience, are you guys still screaming?"
*_[̵̦̫̐̀͌̉̉̐̑̔̕͜͝Ą̸̘̗̩̦͚͍̣͒͠Ȧ̵͍̯͙̺̣̪̞̺̻̩̜̼̻̾̓̑̍́̎͒A̴̡̡͉̍̉͂A̴͈͛̃̆̒̽́́̈́̉̎̓̽͝Á̷̢̡͎̟͎̻͔̪́́̔̇̔̆̋͝ͅͅA̶̢̭͖͎̯̫̮͙̽̏͜Ạ̷̧̻̥̫͍̫̦̍̍̇̔͊̐Á̸̹͙̘̭́̋̃̋̉͋͋̿̈̈́̚ͅA̴̧̳̗͓͔̹͈͍̞̯̖̤̽ͅḀ̸̝̥̺̘̤̹̭͎̮̣̹͕͋͂͛͐͋̌͒͛A̴̠͓̻̮̳͛̓͜͜ͅA̴̡̧̳͚̤͎͖̠͔͓̻̎̅̅́̋̿͌͂̉̀̐̿̚ͅÄ̵̢̡̪͓̙͈͛̈́̅̂̀͘͝͠Å̶̢̨̤̘̟̥͚̫̫̻͓̭͒̉̿̂̇̔ͅA̴͙̾̃̉̏́́͑̅̈́͝ͅȀ̵̬̊̀̓̆̾̔H̴̢̡͎͈͎̩̦͈̀͋̾́͒͆͆̊̔͆͑͘H̶̖̮̼͖͙̘̱̪̲̟̫̿̇̈́̇̉H̶̖̝͓̾̀͐͂̌̒̀̋̏͘͝H̴̭̟̰͉̩̔̑̆̅̃͘̚͘H̷̢̛̜͈̲̰̜͎̣̮͙̞̽̔̿̍͠H̵̪̺̳̰̔̌]̶̧͎̗͎̙̙̥̂̌͆̇̄̍͑̉̇͂͋͝_*
"Sounds like a yes to me! [Canned audience laughter]. We'll check back in after the break!"
How tf did you do that 😂😂😂
@@Jeremy_2147text to speech 😮
@@Jeremy_2147 there are websites you can do it, then you just copy and paste
@@rudolfambrozenvtuber Praise Be the Immortal Emperor
The scene in "know no fear", where plenatside on Calth a marine notices that its starting to rain....its raining BANEBLADES, SHADOWSWORDS AND OTHER SUPER HEAVY BATTLE TANKS, is one of the most "WTF!" moments in the entire horus heresy series.....describing them slamming down like miniature comets, SURVIVING REENTRY just to annihilate bunkers had me laughing, crying and shuddering all at the same time.
LMAO
I had to take a couple passes at the scene where a whole battleship falls ass-first out of orbit and onto the city where they're fighting. The opening scenes of that war were so insanely over-the-top in every way lol
It's so absurd to even imagine the amount of material coming down and the sheer unbelievably of the situation that it's nigh on impossible to put yourself in the head space of any Ultramarine trying to survive this ambush.
Gulliman: "All this death. All this destruction. So many dead sons littering the irradiated soil of a broken world, both yours and mine. All for the sake of a damnable 'truth' and your wounded pride. Was it worth it, brother? Was it really worth it, in the end?"
Lorgar: *trumpet intensifies*
Yes~
Still get chills when the mechanicus lady puts out on all frequencies 'loyalist forces, put your heads down and *prepare for response.'* before unleashing an absolute hellstorm of retributive fire after the Ultras got hammered for nearly a day straight.
Wasn't it Hest's (not sure of spelling) subordinate? She was such a fuckin badass
Technically kinda his wife I believe.@@butHomeisNowhere___
Meer Edv Tawren
The Mark of Calth makes this story so much more chilling. You're racing down a path you know won't end well and there's absolutely nothing you can do to stop.
"The fleet tender Campanile is still moving". Seven little words that the Oculus makes TERRIFYING.
To be fair that’s basically the whole heresy. I always likened (reading) it to a slow motion train wreck you can see coming from miles away but you’re just a captive audience unable to do anything.
“24” countdown sound intensifies
Like those 9/11 documentaries when you know in a minute hundreds of people are going to die
It also works great with this format. Really does feel to some extent that I am listening to an audio book on D-Day
As an ancient High Lord said of a battle very much like Calth, "This was not the end, it was not even the beginning of the end, but it may have been the end of the beginning."
Wasn't that Churchill after the invasion of Normandy? Or was it finally winning the African campaign?
In my opinion the best part of Know No Fear is the 2-3 chapters when the fire ship strikes Calth shipyard and the 2 chapters when everything is exploding. Dan Abnett did a such a good job catching the apocalyptic shock of the attack it’s so good. I love when the one Ultramarines champion and the dreadnaught look up and see a grand cruiser being sucked into Caleb’s gravity well and I wanna say the dreadnaught even say “THRONE OF THE EMPEROR!” and they watch it strike and go off like a massive nuke. One of the best books in HH.
Abnett is really good, imo, in getting the reader in the trenches with the characters
In the Ghosts novels you can feel how worned out the First and Only is after years and years in the front, and not only the regiment but the individual soldier
That whole scene was gripping, one of the first books I read, I learned to hate Lorgar very early
Man, this is such a great comment. I've gotta go re-read this book now. It's got to be at least 11 years since this last time! I do remember how powerful those chapters were, even though I dont remember the actual moments!!!
It started raining main battle tanks.
We call it destruction porn
“The fleet tender Campneil is still moving.”
This is possibly my favorite literary device- a repetitive statement used to maintain the momentum of a situation without losing any of its emotional punch.
“The fleet tender Campanile… is still moving.” The way you spoke that line was absolutely chilling!
Damn this book. Bless this book. It single handedly ended a small generation of memes I found hilarious about the Ultramarines from Matt Wards mucking about, and redeemed them to 'actual badasses' status. What a great book.
I'm so happy this was my second story with the Ultramarines (first being with Titus) so I would have respect for the poster boys of the Space Marines.
Hell yeah, I was like "Damnnn, okay! Okay! Where have THESE smurfs been?!"
"The Campanile is still moving."
This play by pay in present tense of what is unfolding reminds me of the analytic reports of real-life disasters. It's engrossing. Well done.
That slow motion, clinical analysis of the path of destruction feels exactly like the painstaking reconstruction of events after a horrific attack or industrial accident. Knowing it's going to happen makes all the signs beforehand all that much more dreadful to witness. Feels a little like the courtroom scene from Chernobyl.
Or, alternatively, and episode of Well There's Your Voidship: a Vox Cast about Engineering Disasters... With Slides.
Perfect timing. Mom just dropped a big-ass carpet off for me to clean and drove away. 😅
I shall purge it of all iniquity as the Oculus serenades my ears with this new missive.
SCRUB THE IMPURITIES FROM EXISTENCE! 😠
You know it's going to be good when it spends 10 minutes describing what happened in less than a second, and it's already some of the most riveting shit you've ever heard.
(If it's any consolation, most of the people murdered here did not have time to register their deaths. Unlike so many others who perished in this story, those lucky bastards died easy.
This is horror summed upped. Solders on space crafts unaware that their genetic cousins and brothers in arms are chanting and doing rites of hellish deminsons,calling for their destruction. Their kin brushing off little hints here and there because that very thought is beyond their own nature. Then, a visible horror of a long dead spaceship crashing in to them and all they can hear is screaming from Dead men and women. This would be a horrifying sight and event to experience. The only more chilling thought is that there had to be ultramarines not only asking for help but seeking aid from those that would cause horror to them.
its a shame the film industry disappeared up its own arse as the heresy would have been the greatest epic ever committed to film.. oh well we may still get an anime style animated version that fits the bill
If you havent read it, read "know no fear", its what this video is based on. The scene of a group of ultramarines seeing word bearers coming towards them, thinking theyre allies, just to all get gunned down almost made me feel sorry for the smurfs. Almost. Also the description of whats left of one of the ships slamming 9/11 style into an entire city and obliterating it was chilling....
I cannot overstate the joy that fills me when your new videos pop up in my notifications. Please don't ever stop.
Maybe its because I'm ill but listening to the lightspeed ramming gave me chills. Was one of the best parts of Know No Fear
One of the best parts in any 40k novel, imo
It is interesting to note that the Renegade chaos warband The Purge often employ this style of suicide attack on a planets surface, loading a ship with as much armaments as it can hold then crashing it into a planets surface at high speed.
It is a testament to the sheer durability offered by worship of Nurgle that some of their space marines emerge from the atomized wreckage of these craft to continue the attack on the surface.
The opening of the Battle of Calth is by far my favorite start of a space battle. It's just such utter carnage pulled off so masterfully by the Word Bearers.
This is one of my favorite books in the HH. The scenes where aeonid theil is fighting alongside the primarch through the flagship are incredible.
After he raids the Primarchs personal armory, too! It was so goodddd!
The book solidifed the term "steel rain" for me. Baneblades just falling out of the clouds.....
The Oculus, truly blessed with the God-Emperors Favour, continues to fascinate this humble Acylite by the work of his presentation. May he stay safe of any potential visits of persons of an inquisitorial nature.
I JUST FINISHED KNOW NO FEAR A FEW DAYS AGO, so the timing of this video is impeccable! I'm reading Unremembered Empire now :)
Hope you're doing well, Occy!
My dear Oculus you deserve more recognition for your amazing work
Was just listening to the "Burning of Prospero" for the nth time and then a notification stirred my telescreen to prompt a view of a new record.
Honestly I think Know no Fear is the gold standard for heresy stories (among several of course).
Abnett gets a single story within ONE star system to play with, which give him the space and time to **just tell a good story**, too create and flesh out a believable story about people in the greatest crisis they will ever experience, and to worldbuild naturally without necessary exposition and loredumps. Forget the wider strategic implications, the politics of the imperium, the great game of chaos. None of it matters as the Campanile screams towards the surface of Calth and billions of lives are extinguished in hours.
I've been on a binge of your videos for a few days. This release is fortunate timing 😁
I absorbed this work in a single sitting and was glued by my ears to my buds. Your demeanor and parlance of story telling ever increases in talent, scope, and depth. This tale broke my heart, And it was a pleasure to have done to me. You offer a slow burn that builds with an excellent pacing to the classic descent of traditional horror. Thank you for your exceptional and brilliant capacity for communicating these true and vital narratives back in time to us, channeling them merely from our shared future.
Gloria in excelsis Terra
Godspeed
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Ah , another wonderful report from this Adept. We will ensure the High Lords are notified of the exemplary work
What an incredible choice of dramatic focus. Absolutely gorgeous. Can't wait for the next one.
My favorite 40k TH-camr and my favorite 40k book. And it's not even my birthday!
Same
I genuinely think Know No Fear is one of the best 40K books ever written, so far. Probably in my top 5 or even top 3.
It’s up there with ADB’s Night Lords series
It’s gripping.
Isn't this stuff from "Mark of Calth"?
@@littleman2226 Know No Fear
KNF's description of the surprise attack at Calth is the best thing Abnett has ever written
100% agreed
Thank you for posting this today. My ptsd isnt being kind and suppressed memories are coming out so needed this distraction.
EMDR or CBT might also work :p
Hail the Imperial Talking Lore Vault.
The Betrayal at Calth was like the Red Wedding on a planet-wide scale
*System-wide
Couldn't agree more
Nice simile/parallel.
Throughout this whole thing, there was no line more shocking or horrifying than this: "The Campenile is still moving."
Jesus.
That horrifying moment when you read a full page of dozens of ships and tens of thousands of people being vaporized and the book goes "we're not done yet," and just keeps going for 2 more pages. Then it reminds you all of this happened in 1 second. And it's just the opening volley for the rest of the war.
A wonderful telling of an attack executed to perfection.
Lower the lights set the tone and focus to the dolcet tone of the greatest lore on the internet.
thank you again for the amazing content. I often turn to your videos when i am dealing with my health problems. just listening to you talk about 40k lore is relaxing and helps distract me from what pains me. THANK YOU.
Greetings, Oculus. I wish to begin by congratulating and thanking your for another chilling work of ancient history brought to light. This humble scribe waits for future chapters upon Calth and the Great Betrayal with anticipation and dread equal.
I would like to enquire you as to the status of your previous chronicles upon the Badab War and Siege of Vraks. These have been immeasurably valuable to my own research into the subjects. But alas several chapters of both seem to be missing from the archives as their last updates hang from the proverbial cliffs.
My assumption is they've somehow been corrupted and await recogitation, for certainly no acolyte of the Logos Historica of your caliber would leave such works unfinished?
I shall eagerly await any future chapters upon these, and upon the Great Betrayal. Yours truly, a humble scribe.
oh boy, a new rabbit hole to descend into
Seriously gotta love how they used a simple fleet tender as a fleet tender-izer!
Know no Fear is a big part of the reason I actually like the ultramahrerens now. Not only do they seem pretty cool in 30k (tbh the tech and styling in 30k is some of my favorite) but how they fought back against this tragedy was also badass.
This really does feel like you cribbed a report directly from an extremely disturbing OSHA or NHTSB investigation. Excellent presentation that captures the understated horror of how those are written.
The sacrifice must have meaning.
Fantastic as always, thanks for sharing your efforts.
Amazing series Oculas and the book by Dan Abnett was so phenomenal.
Reminds me a lot of the court scenes of the 5th episode of Chernobyl. Very nice work.
Oh man this was very good, now I have to go get the book it looks like. Thanks so much.
In the door within ten minutes of publishing, I've never been so early before
Absolutely Amazing Lore
Great Series to Cook to
I Love This Audio
Great Example of Quality Lore Delivery in Character
Excellent content and a great angle to approach this battle with!
Looking forward to the continuation of this, your work is really excellent and amazing. Love hearing 40k lore from the view of 40k logging its own history ❤️
One of your finest episodes
Praise rubber duckin Be! I’ve been waiting for the Oculus account of the Calth Atrocity for years now. This is as good as it gets.
A chilling delivery, sir.
Incredible work, as always. I find myself conflicted between a desire to chain you to your desk and force you to make more content faster, and savouring the incredible quality the wait between uploads provides :)
Man i truly love these and the presentation is always on point
This was excelent. Well narrated. I thank you.
Just home from a 17 hour work day. Oculus is just what I need right now ^^
Hydra Occidental
This is great. Can't wait for the next part.
Cannot wait for part 2. Just amazing.
20:37 "Let them shing!"
Damn, but I’ve been waiting for this ☠️
My thanks, Oculus 🙏🏼
Did I hear 192,000 vessels were in the same solar system as Calth? Wow.
Amazing as usual
Thanks for everything ya do
Guys help. This video has been out 3 days and I'm on my 6th watch.
Seriously though, this is FANTASTIC.
Maccrage Invicta
oh im not emotionally ready for this
NEXT ONE NOW! (but take your time though these are amazing)
My goodness this was amazing to listen to
Cool, and the Amber king is dropping as well. Spoilt we are indeed. The Lion part 2 is on route tonight. 🤯
bro you have such a macabre and grief stricken narrating voice, it truly makes it feel like you{re reccounting a painful event
Do not say i need to wait another 4 weeks for more of this...? :p Awesome vid.
Finally something to watch while eating.
This reminds me of that tragedy.
This was so darned good
He hasn't even started talking yet and I'm already crying T_T
Another reason to love the Word Bearers ^^
By Ultramar, I never clicked on anything so fast since the campanile went into the atmosphere
Pls keep it up your stuff is awesome
good fuckin god, thats a hell of an starting shot.
You pick the finest moments
41:40 gluck gluck
Well deserved after that
Hey, Oc. Are you going to finish the Badab war series?
This is one of your best one's yet, where you actively trying to link the use of scrap code to the book I have no mouth but I must scream?
Fantastic vid
Dude, i was just reading Know No Fear minutes ago. Im pretty sure im far enough into it i can watch part 1 here spoiler free
Nice video !
So Hyped for this….😊
Damn, that was absolutely harrowing.
185,000 Space marines, 118 Titans,a whole knight household and 1 Million Imperial Army units wtf literally all issues in current day 40k would get stomped by this force also lead by a primarch
Not really, though. Given that there are aprox. 1000 chapters currently active.
Thank you chronicler
ooooooooh I've been waiting for this