they will, there isn't a proper time for it yet. They only come in the most dire of situations or a last bastion, which would make it rare since you have people like Caedo, Titus, Marbo, and many other unknown chads out there (sisters and guardsmen included) running around
Well it would turn a wildly underused, almost one off character into somebody that actually mattered. (Sorry mannus bros, he existed just to die apparently)
@@FormerGovernmentHuman GW wanted that Worf effect 😢. Having Powerful characters get defeated in ways that seem too easy, just for the enemy to seem stronger
There's a random short story where a ship is transporting an Inquisitor with a terrifying sarcophagus. When the ship gets attacked it gets opened and a legion of the damned marine breaks out and proceeds to wreck absolutely everything.
Don't forget that the power needed to keep the thing shut meant sucking the life out hundreds (i think) of people including the inquisitor. Also, the presence of the Damned caused the lady in the story to go into a battle frenzy. Such a great read.
Perdition's Flame. Notably, the Inquisitor was a member of the Ordo Chronos, as they are heavily involved in investigating the Legion of the Damned, due to their seeming ability to appear defy the contiguity of spacetime at will.
What I love about the Legion is how they're the embodiment of the mythical status of the Astartes. The average Imperial believes them to be these glorious angels who will descend upon the enemies in holy fire and bring the Emperor's vengeance in their most desperate hour. And, lo and behold, at their most desperate hour, the Emperor's Angels appear and bring fiery death upon the enemies of man. It's why I chose to interpret them more as Imperial Angels rather than just normal Astartes. However, the idea that the betrayed at Istvaan would have their souls burning so hot and bright that they could manifest in real-space to seek vengeance? That shit is sick AF.
fulgrim: where did ferrus soul go? fabius: if my calculation was correct, his soul would undergo a phenomena called having to take a ''walk'' into the warp. -Ferrus did have a walk..a very enthusiastic walk-
Legion of the Dammed are gonna come back next year. With Ferrus Manus, be confirmed as their Primarch. Good counter to Fulgrim and his Emperor's Children. Calling it right now
I like to think the Legion of the Damned as the souls of the purest fallen Brothers of each facton tasked to help at the absolute worst times of each chapter of the loyalist legions
My theory is the Legion was created (initially) by the loyal Astarties of the traitor Legions killed at Istvan and has incorporated those Space Marines who wish to continue the fight.
I've always liked the idea that the legion of the dammed is one of the original missing legions. Could be some interesting writing to finally flesh out that part of the lore
There is also their appearance in the last book of the Ultramarine omnibus where a Legion of the Damned Remus Ventanus saves Uriel Ventris from Honsou and his warband on Calth which is the only instance of named LoD character beside Ferrus Manus himself
Ferrus is Never names as a LoD character and ADB (the author of Master of Mankind) straight up said he'd never considered ferrus when he wrote the part about the Emperor's psychic might manifesting as the souls of those murdered on Isstvan. They weren't the literal souls incarnate, it's just rhe form the Emperor's psychic attack took...
I think GW could start sprinkling in hints ferrus manus leads the legion of the damned. If he were to come back this should be how it is done but It should just be hints of it for a long while.
Ferrus as the leader of the Legion of the Damned with Rylanor the Unyielding as his right hand dreadnaught. So awesome it's almost guaranteed to NEVER happen. Because it is GW we are dealing with after all.
Thanks for bringing these 3 origins of the Legion of the Damned together. I had assumed that just like how corrupted soul can be claimed by chaos after death and become demonic, loyalist souls can be claimed by the emperor after death and continue to fight for him in the afterlife, including as Legion of the Damned.
Man-Emperor of Mankind: "LEGION OF THE DAMNED! ... Go for a walk." Legion of the Damned: "When hope is gone, undo this lock and send us forth for a moonlit walk! *Release Restraint Level... ZERO!"*
The speed at which my head snapped to attention on my phone when he said "gives us legion of the damned minis or I will" was painful but worth it. I'd buy the shit out of that. They've been my favorite unit in the whole setting since getting into space marines at the age of 10 because of the battle of macragge box
im a bit of a fan of the idea they are Marine's from a far , and more horrible, future, using a warp current that goes back in time, to do everything they can to prevent said grimmer future coming to pass
I support the theory that the Legion of the Damned are fallen loyalist Astartes who strongly believed, more so than dreadnoughts that even in death, they still serve. One such tale was that Ultramarines observed one of the legionnaires having an upside down version of their insignia and had other regalia exclusive to their chapter
That story including the Ultramarines and Tigurius was from the 2nd Edition Codex (That is to say the ULTRAMARINE SPECIFIC Codex) - With the first ever "Official" LotD models also coming right near the END of 2nd ed. (They were based on the half-metal half-plastic "Tactical" squad of the time).
Speaking of the Legion, Which Primarch would be better after the Emperor's Children return with Snake fulgrim? Legion of the Damned Ferrus Clonegrim escaping Trazyn Jaghatai coming out of the webway
I personally think Clonegrim has about as much chance of coming back as the missing IInd and XIth Primarchs and their legions. Because GW is retarded and doesn't pick up on those little throwaway nuggets of lore that fans love. And because I think that writer no longer works with GW. And since GW does jack sh1t with the LotD it coming back with Ferrus in charge is probably too much to hope for as well. It will be Russ, Jaghatai, Corax or Vulcan. Take your pick which.
Hey Majorkill, love the videos you produce. I have a suggestion/request, when you mention a bit from 40k lore referencing whatever the topic is could you also mention what novel or codex that bit of lore comes from? It would make finding and reading about it easier. Thanks. Keep up the great work.
Not sure the lore behind it but the animus malorum was a skull held by sergent centurius, a Ltd ed model back in the 90s released to celebrate the opening of gws 100th store. Noting at the time said it was for converting marines, just that it was an unknown artifact
My personal theory is that they were one of the missing legions, struck from the record not because of treason but because of the nature of their connection to the warp which the emperor wanted to keep secret.
I think a fun idea for a video would be ‘what if one of the ferrus manus clones escaped from fulgrim?’ Majorkill already said in another video that one of the ferrus clones actually came close to killing demon fulgrim, so what if after getting away from fulgrim, the ferrus clone went to the imperium. I understand that clones don’t have the ‘special sauce’ but it would take half of the current issue if fulgrim being dead out of the equation. Then maybe guilliman and the elder can get his soul back. Also ferrus can smack his legion back into order.
I lean toward option 3, with the twist that they are hugely pious latent psyckers. Their innate conection to the warp kept them from dissolving or being eaten on their death. Thus they are a bunch of pious souls floating on the shallow end of the warp. Making it easy for the big E to scoop em up, give em form and appear there he things theyre needed.
One of the theories I heard that I really enjoy about the Origins for the Legion of the Damned is that they were originally Loyal Astartes who fell during the Horus Heresy and came back as Loyal warp demons.
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What If instead of just ripping out his compassion The Emperor had instead fused that shard of his soul with the Angel of Destruction, like when Malcador fused the noble shard of Magnus with the supreme grandmaster of the Grey Knights. Would he still be locked away for the second time like in canon? Unlikely. Will he be kept a secret or revealed to the public? How would the Imperium react? How would Custodes react? If he is still around then how would Gulliman react to a brother that shares his burden but one he never knew? Since his memories have been erased would he believe the Angel to be one of the lost Primarchs? How would the other factions react? Specifically Chaos. Would the Blood Angels see him as Sanguineous reborn? Would he be willing to play into that? Would he be willing to take the Lamenters under his wings after all they've been through?
AoD still rampaging in the naughty corner, only the emperor can open it at the time but with years of being a corpse it must have at least weakened, so AoD getting out is a possibility
I totally agree with your assessment on the way they are created with a mix of all the previous . It makes the most sense to me out of them . Great work my guy 🏴🇦🇺
My headcanon is that they are all psychically compatible Space Marines corpses demonically possessed by "Angels" (loyalist demons) under the Emperor's command. Must suck when you become a partial warp-god, but the Custodies are so anti-warp you cannot recruit them to your warp army. Also, you gotta admit, they got a STRONG "Ghost Rider" vibe going for them.
I may not have the money as someone who is just getting into warhammer (just bought my second miniature kit, the boyz to go with my runtherd and gretchin. (what can i say, it was the cheapest, had to start somewhere)) But i really appreciate what youre doing over here and i just wanted to remind you that you're an awesome person, hope one day ill make my own scenario with some of your mini-merch, might get to make my own horus heresy
I’ve always thought of them as the God Emperor’ lesser Daemons, with the living saints acting as the greater. As his power grows in the warp he has been able to use these shards of his will just like the other 4.
My theory is more like theory #4 you discussed. That seed was planted by the emperor during the war in the webway, it grew as the untold trillions prayed for deliverance over the years and as their views of the ideal astartes manifested in the warp, and finally it found hosts in the form of not only the fire hawks when they got stuck in the warp and yoinked by the Emperor who merged them with that manifestation in the warp, but also other space marines who’s will to continue fighting allowed them to join as well, thus becoming imperils demons like how the living saints are imperial greater demons.
My head canon says all the brothers lost during the betrayal of the Istvan drop site massacre ended up creating warp manifestations of themselves eternally seeking vengeance against the traitors.
Ahhhh I remember first seeing legion of the damned minis, back in late 2nd edition.... might have been early 3rd. I wss painting some Praetorian guardsmen at the time so was certainly a LONG time ago
I have a head cannon that the legion of the dammed are all dead spaces souls. This also can give a deeper meaning to even in death I still serve, as in even when the space marines die the soul will enter the warp and they will join the ranks of the legion of the dammed.
In two different novels the Eldar literally call them demons. Yvraine even said “a demon by any other name is still a demon”. In my head cannon they are the avenging revenants of the victims of Istvan 3 and 5.
My headcanon is that the Fire Hawks got their shite kicked in so hard by a vengeful Huron that the Legion of the Damned were so happy the try hard got clapped that they nabbed their fortress monastery from the warp and painted some sick flames on it and wrote "Get Clapped" on the side of the hull. -Some Astral Claws fan-boy, probably...
I think the Legion Of The Damned is the Ordo Militarum of the Ordo Chronos, but they may not even know it, popping in at critical times to save the day.
Imagine Fulgrim and his legion have returned to the setting and have been attacking imperial worlds. On one such world the loyalist guardsmen and space marines are holding the walls to the last standing city on the planet, but they’re loosing fast. Before the heretics breach the walls the legion of the damned appear, marines clad in flaming armor ranging from Mk II to Mk X stand behind a tall flaming figure. Both sides hesitate for a moment unsure whose side they’re on. All but Fulgrim, he recognizes the brother he’d slew on Istvan and a familiar ancient dreadnaught standing to Ferrous’s side.
I am fully onboard with the Legion of the Damned being the dead of Istvaan. Not just those of the Loyalists legions at the dropsite massacre, but the loyalists members of traitor legions killed at Istvaan 3. With equivalent of a Primarch Demon Prince to lead them and troops made of an array of different legions, they would easily have enough choice to fill out an entire codex. They would be like demons of the Emperor, empowered to function as a legion, instead of just random squads, by the opening of the great rift and how it empowered the Emperor. This is far too awesome for GW to do though.
Headcanon for me is LOD is the manifestation of the three main loyalist chapters from istvaan but amalgamated into one. On fire: Salamanders Appearing out of nowhere: Raven Guard Non organic: Iron Hands Kinda works into the webway/warp echo and the loyalist daemons theories but my thought is that its an easy way to bring Ferrus into the setting if they wanted too
My head cannon is the third theory, that they are the victims of Istvan III and IV. Seems like the significance of Horus et all sacrificed them as a dedication to chaos gives them their warp form.
You're an absolute legend for keeping the Legion alive in the Warhammer community. Hopefully GW will take some notice and bring them back
they will, there isn't a proper time for it yet. They only come in the most dire of situations or a last bastion, which would make it rare since you have people like Caedo, Titus, Marbo, and many other unknown chads out there (sisters and guardsmen included) running around
ghostrider marines are back on the menu, boys! gotta enjoy some classic horror with bones and hellfire.
Absolutely love me some Legion of the Damned. Ferrus Manus could have an incredible return as the Primarch of the Damned.
would not be surprised to see a video stating that he is
Well it would turn a wildly underused, almost one off character into somebody that actually mattered.
(Sorry mannus bros, he existed just to die apparently)
@@FormerGovernmentHuman GW wanted that Worf effect 😢. Having Powerful characters get defeated in ways that seem too easy, just for the enemy to seem stronger
The damned dreadnoughts Rylanor and Huron Fal.
There's a random short story where a ship is transporting an Inquisitor with a terrifying sarcophagus. When the ship gets attacked it gets opened and a legion of the damned marine breaks out and proceeds to wreck absolutely everything.
Don't forget that the power needed to keep the thing shut meant sucking the life out hundreds (i think) of people including the inquisitor. Also, the presence of the Damned caused the lady in the story to go into a battle frenzy.
Such a great read.
OUT! OUT! OUT!.... Good times. 😄
Perdition's Flame. Notably, the Inquisitor was a member of the Ordo Chronos, as they are heavily involved in investigating the Legion of the Damned, due to their seeming ability to appear defy the contiguity of spacetime at will.
Yup heard that on wee hammer
What I love about the Legion is how they're the embodiment of the mythical status of the Astartes. The average Imperial believes them to be these glorious angels who will descend upon the enemies in holy fire and bring the Emperor's vengeance in their most desperate hour. And, lo and behold, at their most desperate hour, the Emperor's Angels appear and bring fiery death upon the enemies of man. It's why I chose to interpret them more as Imperial Angels rather than just normal Astartes.
However, the idea that the betrayed at Istvaan would have their souls burning so hot and bright that they could manifest in real-space to seek vengeance? That shit is sick AF.
As a ferrus mannus, iron hands, and legion of the damned fan I am extremely happy with the content recently.
Legion of the Damned: "Hey, heretics! How's your health plan?"
Forces of Chaos: *attacks!*
Legion of the Damned: "APPARENTLY IT WAS GREAT!"
fulgrim: where did ferrus soul go?
fabius: if my calculation was correct, his soul would undergo a phenomena called having to take a ''walk'' into the warp.
-Ferrus did have a walk..a very enthusiastic walk-
Top tier reference
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can anyone explain to me the health plan thing?
@@jacobo320 Watch Hellsing Ultimate Abriged - you'll get it haha
Legion of the Dammed are gonna come back next year. With Ferrus Manus, be confirmed as their Primarch. Good counter to Fulgrim and his Emperor's Children. Calling it right now
Gonna be back here in a year
@@josephbrunt7678me too
I like to think the Legion of the Damned as the souls of the purest fallen Brothers of each facton tasked to help at the absolute worst times of each chapter of the loyalist legions
Rylanor, The Ancient of Rites, Emperors Children.
8:22 - I'm announcing my Fire Hawk Tuah coin, buy in now to join the Legion of the Damned Braincells, no heretical rug pulls here!
...what are the guarantees the value wont get lost in the warp?
LOL She is apparently in trouble for some sort of crypto scam.
@@jeddpires You'll have to purchase our "Bored Tau" Non-Corruptible Token (NCT) for that, yours might even have a silly hat!
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I just love the idea of a burning army of fallen souls that want revenge 😅
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My theory is the Legion was created (initially) by the loyal Astarties of the traitor Legions killed at Istvan and has incorporated those Space Marines who wish to continue the fight.
I've always liked the idea that the legion of the dammed is one of the original missing legions. Could be some interesting writing to finally flesh out that part of the lore
There is also their appearance in the last book of the Ultramarine omnibus where a Legion of the Damned Remus Ventanus saves Uriel Ventris from Honsou and his warband on Calth which is the only instance of named LoD character beside Ferrus Manus himself
Ferrus is Never names as a LoD character and ADB (the author of Master of Mankind) straight up said he'd never considered ferrus when he wrote the part about the Emperor's psychic might manifesting as the souls of those murdered on Isstvan. They weren't the literal souls incarnate, it's just rhe form the Emperor's psychic attack took...
I think GW could start sprinkling in hints ferrus manus leads the legion of the damned. If he were to come back this should be how it is done but It should just be hints of it for a long while.
Ferrus as the leader of the Legion of the Damned with Rylanor the Unyielding as his right hand dreadnaught. So awesome it's almost guaranteed to NEVER happen. Because it is GW we are dealing with after all.
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Thanks for bringing these 3 origins of the Legion of the Damned together. I had assumed that just like how corrupted soul can be claimed by chaos after death and become demonic, loyalist souls can be claimed by the emperor after death and continue to fight for him in the afterlife, including as Legion of the Damned.
Video starts 2:25
That's a bit based
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Brother is really testing even my patience with the 2:22 lasting ad.
Man-Emperor of Mankind: "LEGION OF THE DAMNED! ... Go for a walk."
Legion of the Damned: "When hope is gone, undo this lock and send us forth for a moonlit walk! *Release Restraint Level... ZERO!"*
You're not funny.
Is...this from TTS?
@@DeludedOne Hellsing Abridged by TeamFourStar
The legion of the damned are literally so fucking cool dude I'm glad you gave them their own video
launches video -> instantly skip 2mn of ads this is the day
The speed at which my head snapped to attention on my phone when he said "gives us legion of the damned minis or I will" was painful but worth it. I'd buy the shit out of that. They've been my favorite unit in the whole setting since getting into space marines at the age of 10 because of the battle of macragge box
8:08 that face screams "peanut"
Brother sergeant captian chapter peanut
Hawk Tuah has reached 40k, God emperor help us all
im a bit of a fan of the idea they are Marine's from a far , and more horrible, future, using a warp current that goes back in time, to do everything they can to prevent said grimmer future coming to pass
Be the change you want in the world, make the models and give people what they want.
Love the Hawk Tuah reference!
Video starts at 2:22
I support the theory that the Legion of the Damned are fallen loyalist Astartes who strongly believed, more so than dreadnoughts that even in death, they still serve. One such tale was that Ultramarines observed one of the legionnaires having an upside down version of their insignia and had other regalia exclusive to their chapter
That story including the Ultramarines and Tigurius was from the 2nd Edition Codex (That is to say the ULTRAMARINE SPECIFIC Codex) - With the first ever "Official" LotD models also coming right near the END of 2nd ed. (They were based on the half-metal half-plastic "Tactical" squad of the time).
Speaking of the Legion,
Which Primarch would be better after the Emperor's Children return with Snake fulgrim?
Legion of the Damned Ferrus
Clonegrim escaping Trazyn
Jaghatai coming out of the webway
clonegrim imo
@@cbev1249he will not escape my Collection
He is a Limited Edition
I personally think Clonegrim has about as much chance of coming back as the missing IInd and XIth Primarchs and their legions. Because GW is retarded and doesn't pick up on those little throwaway nuggets of lore that fans love. And because I think that writer no longer works with GW. And since GW does jack sh1t with the LotD it coming back with Ferrus in charge is probably too much to hope for as well. It will be Russ, Jaghatai, Corax or Vulcan. Take your pick which.
@@trazyntheinfinite imagine trazyn summoning things in that middle of a battle and he accidentally throws out clonegrim.
@ thh i think thats exactly what will happen. Mindshackles wont work and thats how he escapes
Calling the legion of the damned minis ugly is an... interesting choice. Those minis are awesome.
Hey Majorkill, love the videos you produce. I have a suggestion/request, when you mention a bit from 40k lore referencing whatever the topic is could you also mention what novel or codex that bit of lore comes from? It would make finding and reading about it easier. Thanks. Keep up the great work.
I know MajorKill is teasing me with these Legion of the Damned/Ferrus videos, making me wait on my Burning hand model. God it's so beautiful
Fulgrim enters the battlefield seeing a Legion of the Damned Reylanor and shitting his demonic Slenishy pants
Slenushy
Slenussy
I kinda want custodians to be in the legion of the damned like imagine flaming custodians spearheading a huge legion of the damned strike force
That is a fantastic and concise explanation of the LOD. New head cannon acquired!
They stride in silence wreathed in flame.
Yeah I Ike that 4th one and that makes complete sense on how they came to be
2:17 when the video starts
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Thanks king
2:25
Hey Mr Majorkill! Love the videos, mint as always! A video on the organisation of space marine legions and chapters would be super cool!
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Not sure the lore behind it but the animus malorum was a skull held by sergent centurius, a Ltd ed model back in the 90s released to celebrate the opening of gws 100th store. Noting at the time said it was for converting marines, just that it was an unknown artifact
This was epic, majorkill you’re looking jacked
In time for pitch ;)
Iron hands are too angry to die
Friday is payday and majorkill drop day, always a double banger.
My personal theory is that they were one of the missing legions, struck from the record not because of treason but because of the nature of their connection to the warp which the emperor wanted to keep secret.
I'm building a Legion of the Damned army (lots of kitbashing) and ordered the Burning Hand of Vengeance mini to use as my centerpiece.
I think a fun idea for a video would be ‘what if one of the ferrus manus clones escaped from fulgrim?’ Majorkill already said in another video that one of the ferrus clones actually came close to killing demon fulgrim, so what if after getting away from fulgrim, the ferrus clone went to the imperium.
I understand that clones don’t have the ‘special sauce’ but it would take half of the current issue if fulgrim being dead out of the equation. Then maybe guilliman and the elder can get his soul back. Also ferrus can smack his legion back into order.
I lean toward option 3, with the twist that they are hugely pious latent psyckers.
Their innate conection to the warp kept them from dissolving or being eaten on their death. Thus they are a bunch of pious souls floating on the shallow end of the warp.
Making it easy for the big E to scoop em up, give em form and appear there he things theyre needed.
One of the theories I heard that I really enjoy about the Origins for the Legion of the Damned is that they were originally Loyal Astartes who fell during the Horus Heresy and came back as Loyal warp demons.
“Or maybe I will…” lmao legend
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What If instead of just ripping out his compassion The Emperor had instead fused that shard of his soul with the Angel of Destruction, like when Malcador fused the noble shard of Magnus with the supreme grandmaster of the Grey Knights. Would he still be locked away for the second time like in canon? Unlikely. Will he be kept a secret or revealed to the public? How would the Imperium react? How would Custodes react? If he is still around then how would Gulliman react to a brother that shares his burden but one he never knew? Since his memories have been erased would he believe the Angel to be one of the lost Primarchs? How would the other factions react? Specifically Chaos. Would the Blood Angels see him as Sanguineous reborn? Would he be willing to play into that? Would he be willing to take the Lamenters under his wings after all they've been through?
Yes please
AoD still rampaging in the naughty corner, only the emperor can open it at the time but with years of being a corpse it must have at least weakened, so AoD getting out is a possibility
Great way to bring back ferrus manus if they decide to go inn in the legion
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I totally agree with your assessment on the way they are created with a mix of all the previous . It makes the most sense to me out of them . Great work my guy 🏴🇦🇺
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My headcanon is that they are all psychically compatible Space Marines corpses demonically possessed by "Angels" (loyalist demons) under the Emperor's command.
Must suck when you become a partial warp-god, but the Custodies are so anti-warp you cannot recruit them to your warp army.
Also, you gotta admit, they got a STRONG "Ghost Rider" vibe going for them.
I may not have the money as someone who is just getting into warhammer (just bought my second miniature kit, the boyz to go with my runtherd and gretchin. (what can i say, it was the cheapest, had to start somewhere))
But i really appreciate what youre doing over here and i just wanted to remind you that you're an awesome person, hope one day ill make my own scenario with some of your mini-merch, might get to make my own horus heresy
Majorkill makes me wish I had infinite money to buy some of these amazing minis he’s putting out.
2:25 this is when it starts... Bro's intros are as long as anime intros
I made a LoD back in 3rd Edition and used CSM rules for it. Gave everything but a Ghost Rider bike mounted lord infiltrate. It was hilarious and fun.
Haven’t even started the video yet but I can answer why everyone loves them-cause they’re fuckin badass is why
I’ve always thought of them as the God Emperor’ lesser Daemons, with the living saints acting as the greater. As his power grows in the warp he has been able to use these shards of his will just like the other 4.
Ferrus is their leader
i somehow watched all of your videos numerous times before realizing i am not yet subscribed
My theory is more like theory #4 you discussed. That seed was planted by the emperor during the war in the webway, it grew as the untold trillions prayed for deliverance over the years and as their views of the ideal astartes manifested in the warp, and finally it found hosts in the form of not only the fire hawks when they got stuck in the warp and yoinked by the Emperor who merged them with that manifestation in the warp, but also other space marines who’s will to continue fighting allowed them to join as well, thus becoming imperils demons like how the living saints are imperial greater demons.
Here's a video idea!
What chaos faction would the loyalist primachs join (chaos undivided not an option, they have to choose one of them)
I'm fully on-board with the theory that they're bought into existence in our darkest hours by the combined psychic energy of all mankind
Ive been waiting a long time for this🙏
My head canon says all the brothers lost during the betrayal of the Istvan drop site massacre ended up creating warp manifestations of themselves eternally seeking vengeance against the traitors.
Imperium out here like PLEASE invade my untested weapons world.
Omw to work, lucky to catch the new upload
You'd think the custodes would get off their asses when the phalanx is being hijacked and the palace is about to be blown to bits😅
If the Legion of the damned ever returns i hope a Certain Emperors Children Terminator is among then
I need an SM2 DLC where we fight against Fulgrim, then out of nowhere, this Behomoth of a Chad materializes out of nowhere screaming *"FULGRIM"*
Make a video about the phalanx?
Ahhhh I remember first seeing legion of the damned minis, back in late 2nd edition.... might have been early 3rd. I wss painting some Praetorian guardsmen at the time so was certainly a LONG time ago
My first kitbashing project was Fire Hawks mixed with the skulls and bones off the fantasy setting. The Legion of the Damned minus the fire.
What I wouldn't GIVE for a Legion of the Damned codex. Been wanting that for a LOOOONNGGG time.
Your lore reads are always great and as a straight guy I'm saying, you're a good looking dude, us guys don't compliment each other enough
Orks: Haha! we beatin up da boyz in bloo!
*The Imperial Fire Department Arrives*
I have a head cannon that the legion of the dammed are all dead spaces souls. This also can give a deeper meaning to even in death I still serve, as in even when the space marines die the soul will enter the warp and they will join the ranks of the legion of the dammed.
Good idea for a future video: do Space Marines have willies?
In two different novels the Eldar literally call them demons. Yvraine even said “a demon by any other name is still a demon”. In my head cannon they are the avenging revenants of the victims of Istvan 3 and 5.
Video idea: The Consortium explained.
Hello Majorkill,
Would you kindly make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy? Pretty please? Thank you.
There are few absolutes in Warhammer 40k. One of them is this particular legion’s K/D ratio.
My headcanon is that the Fire Hawks got their shite kicked in so hard by a vengeful Huron that the Legion of the Damned were so happy the try hard got clapped that they nabbed their fortress monastery from the warp and painted some sick flames on it and wrote "Get Clapped" on the side of the hull.
-Some Astral Claws fan-boy, probably...
My head canon is that the legion of the damned are the souls of marines that worship the emperor as a god being reincarnated as imperial demons
I think the Legion Of The Damned is the Ordo Militarum of the Ordo Chronos, but they may not even know it, popping in at critical times to save the day.
Imagine Fulgrim and his legion have returned to the setting and have been attacking imperial worlds. On one such world the loyalist guardsmen and space marines are holding the walls to the last standing city on the planet, but they’re loosing fast. Before the heretics breach the walls the legion of the damned appear, marines clad in flaming armor ranging from Mk II to Mk X stand behind a tall flaming figure. Both sides hesitate for a moment unsure whose side they’re on. All but Fulgrim, he recognizes the brother he’d slew on Istvan and a familiar ancient dreadnaught standing to Ferrous’s side.
Very well done video.
I am fully onboard with the Legion of the Damned being the dead of Istvaan. Not just those of the Loyalists legions at the dropsite massacre, but the loyalists members of traitor legions killed at Istvaan 3. With equivalent of a Primarch Demon Prince to lead them and troops made of an array of different legions, they would easily have enough choice to fill out an entire codex. They would be like demons of the Emperor, empowered to function as a legion, instead of just random squads, by the opening of the great rift and how it empowered the Emperor.
This is far too awesome for GW to do though.
Ur the man majorkill lots of love happy Christmas from Brisbane u heretic !!
Headcanon for me is LOD is the manifestation of the three main loyalist chapters from istvaan but amalgamated into one.
On fire: Salamanders
Appearing out of nowhere: Raven Guard
Non organic: Iron Hands
Kinda works into the webway/warp echo and the loyalist daemons theories but my thought is that its an easy way to bring Ferrus into the setting if they wanted too
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It's been confirmed the Primarch of the Legion of the Damned is the Mysterious Stranger from Fallout 3.
If we ever get a clonegrim vs fulrgrim book, I NEED clonegrim to bring up Rylanor for that added psychic damage
My head cannon is the third theory, that they are the victims of Istvan III and IV. Seems like the significance of Horus et all sacrificed them as a dedication to chaos gives them their warp form.