I'll be the one guy to shout out my boy Warsmith Berossus. Dude could not catch a break at any point until the end of Angel Exterminatus, and that was due to his bromance with Grendel.
It seems that Rylanor’s rock opera has eclipsed the actual story for the popular perception of the character. And there’s nothing wrong with that. “To strike you down, I have waited for a MILLION NIGHTS!”
I know Bjorn Fell Handed is pretty mainstream for 40k, but I still love that he's the oldest thing in the space wolves, literally fought in russ' wolfguard, you'd think he'd be this grizzled war vet of 10,000 years but he's always just grumpy and annoyed whenever they wake him up
@BM-is5ei Fair enough. Bjorn is the oldest Loyalist Astartes, then. Side Note: one of my favorite 40k jokes goes: Gillyman: "Here, hold this." Dante: "But, my lord, it's half the Imperium....... and it's on fire."
@@thebighurt2495 😂😂😂 good one! Poor Dante is so done with everything. That dude has seen some shit. On the positive side at least he has now 2 Primarchs taking some responsibility off of him. My man seriously needs some days off.
Magneric was a Black Templar martial and dreadnought during the war of the beast, who rarely entered regular sleep cycles, and as a result was batshit crazy even for a Templar; Also, his voice modulator was stuck on 11, so he was constantly screaming.
One of my personal favorite dreadnought stories comes from Helsreach. A templar dreadnought, who i forget the name of saddly, that was deployed to the surface of Helsreach. The story itself revolves around the templars' opinion of the being sealed away in the dreadnought. The story itself ends on the templars' death, laying motionless on the battlefield of Helsreach. However, for the first time in hundreds of years, he can hear things with his own ears. It stands as one of my all time favorite tales of dreadnoughts Edit: the dreadnought was name Thalhaiden. Chapter 13 in the Helsreach novel.
"Going to throw the mic over to a friend of mine real quick and let him do a bit of a dramatic reading to what Rylanor said to Fulgrim in this moment" *Ad plays "Get 50% off your Dominos Order"
I'd like to give a shoutout to Autolochus. He's from the Iron Snakes Chapter in the book 'Brotherhood of the Snake.' The book was published in 2007 so there are some lore inconsistencies, but I look past that as this was one of the first 40k novels that really got me into the lore. Nothing really crazy or over-the-top happens, but the book does a fantastic job portraying how the Venerable Ancients are looked at and treated by their chapters. Everyone looks up to him, including the Chapter Master, and everyone listens well when he speaks. He also has a pretty fun fight scene where he's basically just toying with some dark eldar and enjoying every moment of it. Also, special mention to Chyron of the Deathwatch who thinks he is the last remaining Lamentor. My soul needs a scene where he learns his chapter is not lost.
Davian Thule. A Blood Ravens dreadnought from the "Dawn of War" series. Funny enough, he used to be the protagonist captain during one of the games, and became a Dreadnought during Dawn of War 2, and he instantly became one of my favorites. It really wrecked my heart how confused he was when he first awakened, like a delicate little baby... except he was neither little nor delicate at all.
Bjorn probably didn't lose his hand to a Nurgle Daemon but one from tzeentch during the burning of Prospero. Well so long as Bear and Bjorn are the same Space Marine as I think is implied in "Burning of Prospero". That one Dreadnought from "Know no fear" is also pretty nice as a character since you get to know how a new Dreadnought pilot feels
Bear is definitely Bjorn so he lost his arm on prospero according to the heresy novels. the Nurgle demon story could be part of the "old lore" that's relegatd to myth and hearsay.
Telemechus the sky warrior named such because he fell from the sky in a crate and had to be pried open like a can of tuna by Eikos Lamiad the primarchs champion.
Malthax Thule, Night Lord Dreadnought who was Terran born. Curze, who'd commonly send Terran Night Lord veterans on suicide missions, sent him down to fight the Dark Angels, and Thule suffered from hallucations, picturing he was back on Terra during the Unification Wars fighting alongside the Emperor himself.
I think the best part about Rylanor's story is it hurt Fulgrim's pride and is still a sore spot to him to this day, because when you break it down, as I bet he has, Fulhrim was the least important person in that room, and he was powerless to do anything. Fulgrim thinking about that situation, going over it in his head, obsessing about it, trying to come up with a way to change the outcome, trying to think of a way HE would matter, and coming up with nothing, brings me joy to think about.
The thing about bjorn is what made him special is kinda being taken away as multiple characters who fourght by the emperor's side are poping up in the setting even in the lion book with zabriel the lions second in command being a terran born dark angle and also meeting another fallen who is a terran and said to be of Egyption decent.
I remember that scene. I first heard it years ago but it's over of those things in literature that just stick with you and pop into your head months or years later. Once you mentioned Flight of the Eisenstein I knew immediately what you were going to reference and caused it to pop into my head. Thanks for playing that part. I'm going to start that book up tonight.
Bjorn is a definition of "fear the old man in a proffesion where people die young" Also he's so based that hot headed, mr I don't give a fuck Logan actually listens to him
Huron Fal had one of the most badass deaths you could possibly have, and that's coming from a universe where badass deaths are the norm. He did his absolute best to look the traitors in the eye and tell them to go F#@% themselves!
Berossus of the Iron Warriors. The guy interred for making the mistake of telling Perturabo that something bad happened and was slapped and beaten so hard by his primarch that he nearly died. Has a really cool arc and some good scenes in angel exterminatus that describes what being a dreadnought is like and gets to have a giant hammer for his combat arm
Really hope Bjorn as a model isn’t left in the dust by his now universally bigger interred-brothers. The dude, much like most of the Space Wolves, could use an update
One of my favorite Dreadnought characters is the Anchorite, a former Word Bearer who rejected the heretical teachings of his genefather and defected from his legion by surrendering to the Ultramarines. At first, he had expected execution for his crimes under Lorgar's banner, but was instead left to rot in a cell, a fate which he accepted as eagerly as he would have accepted death as penance for his sins. During this time, he turned back to worshipping the Emperor, as his genefather once did, and would go on to guide the nascent Ecchlesiarchy from within his cell upon the world of Almace. Eventually, when the Word Bearers discovered that he indeed still lived, they attacked the planet in a bid to bring him back to their domain, where they would either try to convert him back to Chaos worship or execute him for his betrayal. At first, the Anchorite insisted that he be killed so that the Word Bearers would give up and leave the planet, their objective denied from them. He had sworn a vow of pacifism, refusing to raise hand against anyone, not even his traitorous brothers, out of guilt for the innocent blood he had shed. But when Cardinal Eamon, an Almacian minister who was with him, insisted that he would rather die alongside the Guardsmen and their Imperial Fists reinforcements than let the heretics even come into possession of his _carcass,_ he gained the resolve to face his estranged brothers. However, instead of fighting with physical weapons, his powerful faith manifested the divine energies of the God-Emperor himself through a forgotten word of the Colchisian language, thus banishing the Word Bearers' Daemonic forces back into the Warp and allowing the planet's defenders to finish off the remaining traitor Astartes and their mortal slave-warriors.
@ZackarySchejbalCODBO2RGM2 Nothing much yet. It didn't happen in one of the books that's supposed to be advancing the main plotline, so it's entirely possible that nothing will come of it for years or decades.
Damn you should talk about the absolute based Anchorite. A word bearers dreadnaught who wanted to kill ultramarines but saw what his legion had become and worked against the word bearers.
Fun fact, it's implied that another dreadnaught is older than Bjorn. Skara Brae is implied to have already been a dreadnaught at the drop site massacre
I have no idea how Rylanor is below Titus. I've been playing Warhammer video games off and on for a decade and absorbing wikis and this is the first time I've heard of him.
Personal fave obscure Dreddy is Appius, Father of Dreadnoughts. Before Sigismund was in charge of the Templar Brethren, Appius was. Not sure what happened but he got put into a Dreadnought (the wiki says Contemptor but the actual story mentions a vision slot and leg cables so almost certainly Castraferrum). He had a giant dreadnought sized shield and hammer combo. When it was decided that Sigismund had to take his place, Siggy had to fight and beat 200 of his fellow Templar Brethren to take the post (which Appius might have also had to do in the past?). Appius was the 200th and almost killed our boy Siggy, but he pulled the W by cutting Appius leg cables. No clue what happens to him (he’s not mentioned again I think) but I want a decked out Templar Brethren Dreadnought with the hammer and shield now please.
I’ll always have a soft spot for Lhorke of the warhounds, poor bastard had to watch the denegration and damnation of his beloved legion while trying at every opportunity to steer them away from the edge.
I LOVE dreadnoughts too! And I really, I mean REALLY want to read an interesting story, or at least small story with reflections of a loyal dreadnought of the Luna Wolves (Sons of Horus) on the topic of Heresy. I would just give all money in the world for a whole story.
Fun fact about Bjorn? He loathed the idea of being interred in a Dreadnought sarcophagus. And another interesting character is Telemachon, a Dark Angel who was interred less because of his notable skills as a warrior, but because he presented an appropriate image. It was a political statement more than saving his skills, even if he was counted among the best marksmen the Dark Angels had produced
I really like Davian Thule a lot mostly because he gives an overall arc of how a marine earns enough honor and respect to be interred into a dreadnought. Also just because in DW2 he's like stupidly overpowered with shit like autocannons and lascannons. Also note in Chaos Rising he's the only character that won't be corrupted by Chaos and go rogue if you use relics, instead he just leaves disappointed in you.
You did a really good job on this one if anybody else wants to learn more about the fell handed listen to the Audio Drama parting of the ways you learn more about how Bjorn actually became entombed inside the Dreadnought and it was a chaos spawn that wounded him
Rylanor being reborn as a member of the Legion of the Damned would be such a beautifully sick burn to Fulgrim in every way imaginable. The ultimate mental breakdown at hearing that all too familiar voice booming with "I rebuke you always and forever, once proud father of our legion"
A minor but still worthy mention is “Cassor”, a Dreadnought belonging to the Blood Angel’s ‘Death Company’. It never occurred to me that there could be a Dreadnought consumed by the Black Rage, screaming about heretics and traitors as it mows down genestealer swarms, saves the protagonist on more than one occasion and is pretty much the MVP of that story. Appears in “Deathstorm” by Josh Reynolds
You should read about Warmonger from WORD BEARERS omnibus. His Death scene is amazing when he is fighting emperor ( ;) ) also he is pretty sane for a hellbrute or dreadnaught
My favorite dread is thalmax. A nightlord dreadnought who was hallucinating that he was still in unification wars. During the horus heresy konrad sent him to die against the dark angels, it was a sad story
The first of my Top-tier Dreadnoughts was Bjorn (based on the order of meeting) and then Rylanor showed up. BOOM! Both of them share the first panel in my heart.
He’s one of the newer ones, but Brother Agastus of the Ultramarines is a pretty cool idea. What happens when a legendary chaplain with a penchant for smacking things is laid low in battle? You slap him in a Brutalis Pattern Dreadnought of course! He has such a strong relationship with the lieutenant in charge of the fire team, which is named after Brother Agastus rather than the LT, at the LT’s request no less, and the two seem to trade leadership back and forth whenever one or the other has more experience with a specific situation. For only having a short story written about him in a booklet in the Fireteam Agastus box set, he just stands out to me as a very interesting character.
Correct, istvaan 5 was where several legions were dispatched to deal with the Sons of Horus, Death Guard, Emperor's Children and World Eaters but became the drop site massacre when the Night Lords, Alpha Legion, Word Bearers and Iron Warriors turned on the Iron Hands, Salamanders and Raven Guard.
Istvaan III is the first atrocity where Horus, Angron, Fulgrim, and Mortarion killed 1/3 of their own in a disturbing betrayal to get rid of loyalist element from their legions. The Istvaan 5 drop site massacre on the other hand is where the iron hands, salamander, and raven guard got betrayed and got caught right in the middle of both traitor armies of Horus, Fulgrim, Mortarion, Angron, and Perturabo in the front. The Legions of Konrad, Alpharius, and Lorgar on the other hand shot the 3 loyalist legion in the back when they thought they were allies when they attempted to retreat and resupply.
I want to add another boi who is one of my favorites of the chunky lad who went by the name Cassian Vaughn. Before being entombed, he was the chapter master of the Salamanders during the Heresy and beasted so hard against that orc waghhh that big E had to help with Vulkan went out of his way to invent the ironclad dreadnought. The dude was at Istvaan 5 and was turning the tables against the traitors so hard that the human serfs in orbit over the coms heard Space Marines knowing genuine fear. Horus was shitting his pants over this supreme badass, then decided to orbital Lance Cassian's location, glassing a continent. After the battle, the survivors of the loyalist dug him up using just their hands. They found Cassian, who was still perfectly alive with just the limbs of his dreadnought being destroyed. The SMs who found him took him to a nearby forge world to do repairs, but right after fixing him up, the world was attacked by Alpha Legion and Iron Warriors, who got set up and were wreaking house. Cassian, now able to move, ran through the miles wide forge world monastery at them. While running through the heart of the forge world, his fury infected every servitor he passed, causing them to drop everything they were doing and follow him into battle. It's not said where he dies, but the Salamanders still have his chassis and entomb the biggest baller of the generation in it because if they don't have the coolest dude in it, the strange machine spirit who has a strangely similar personality to Cassian kills the new occupant.
I’m honestly surprised that you didn’t mention the Anchorite, the loyalist Word Bearers contemptor dreadnought that helped found the ecclesiarchy. As a Salamanders player though, Bray’Arth Ashmantle is a really cool dreadnought with a great design.
Dreadnoughts? I click. There is a Black Templars short story revolving around a Dreadnought. He and his Battle Brothers drop onto an ice world and mess up some orks. Moving to their next target, they find an Ancient Crimsom Fists Dreadnought frozen in the ice, a last remnant of a lost battle, and a survivor of a nearly extinct Chapter. Instant veneration from the young Templars, instant bromance between the fellow Sons of Dorn, and impending adamantine clad doom for some orks.
I read one Greyknight book that had Bjorn in it. The point of view character was a knight and he was acting as bodyguard of an inquisitior that was fighting the Space Wolves. They were sieging Fenris when the Chapter Master was away, so to parlay they brought Bjorn. There was this junior fenrisian inquisitor (that wanted to stop the fight) that had this profound religious experience about how she knew Bjorn was real. The Grey knight that was there to protect the inquisitor from Bjorn just knelt to him. The leader inquisitor (that wanted to make the wolves comply) just had this existential crisis about not knowing how to deal with the situation, wanting to make threats but also kneeling to the demigod.
Davian Thule! Guy was amazing in Dark Crusade and was entombed during the Tyranid invasion of Sector Aurelian. His dialogue with Eliphas was also amazing.
I mean in the space wolves defense, it’s not llike they crammed a wulfen into a dreadnought. Probably. Hopefully. As far as I know he was already insane after getting put in one, and they just found him like that.
Bjorn the Fellhanded is cool. I love the idea of them waking him up, and him lumbering into tell the newest recruits stories, and they're in awe, and then he starts talking and just tells them worldly wisdom. Also I think it'd be neat if he somehow became a regular marine again, like a homunculus takes him out of the dreadnought, and regenerates him fully with dark eldar tech, to try to use him in some plot to fuck over the space wolves. But it goes wrong, and the homunculus becomes the now regenerated Bjorn's rival. So its just ancient as dirt meth space elf Vs ancient as dirt wolf-space marine guy.
Bjorn is the most down to Terra marine. He is really chill, and even in the middle of a battle, sat down with a guardsman (or guardswoman, I can’t remember.), and just had a chat with them about the state of the imperium.
Oh I loved gnome in that book i remember randomly finding that audio book on UA-cam during a cross country road trip so i listened to the whole book during my turn to drive at night. Great book the lords of silence, great book.
He's known as Bjorn The One-Handed after losing his arm on Prospero until in "Wolfsbane" Leman Russ learns from his skalds that Bjorn is destined for great things. Russ drags Bjorn around everywhere almost like a good luck charm and is the first one to call him "The Fell-Handed". Bjorn thinks this is an insult because he does not yet have a bionic replacement and thinks Russ is mocking the fact that he cannot even hold his bolter steady, but Russ says the skalds and their fortune telling bones told him when Bjorn rises to greatness in his future he will be known as Bjorn The Fell-Handed. There's a character they made up for the Burning of Prospero set called Geigor The Fell-Handed who makes an appearance in the various accounts of Prospero and desparately tries to council Bulveye away from following the Thousands Sons into their warp fuckery labyrinth out of which they eventually re-appear as the wulfen of the lost 13th company. There's a short story about Bjorn aboard the Hrafnkel as the Legion is preparing to disembark for battle. He does not want to be left behind and goes down into the armory to find something to replace his arm. The forgemaster basically tells him to fuck off and get in line then Bjorn spots this fancy lightning claw. A tech adept tells him it's intended for someone else, presumably Geigor, but Bjorn says fuckit and steals the lightning claw starting his path of fortold greatness. He is pissed off at Russ, but Russ told him (because of the afformentioned fortune-telling) that he knew Bjorn was destined to stay behind and keep watch over the chapter in Russ' absence. And that's what Bjorn did.
I felt like a dreadnought when I joined a 2015 reserve civil affairs unit from a surge era infantry unit I left in 2011. "Have you considered killing them more to make it work?"
Hey Arthur, cool vid. Tbh I've only heard of Bjorn but then I don't know much about lore. I was curious on this as im currently in the middle of making my own chapter and I loosely based one named character off Bjorn and Rylan without knowing. A contemptor that was saved by my chapter to find out he the sole survivor of his chapter, he agrees to join their ranks. He slumbers in a garden area and serves as an advisor or when truely needed. When he wakes he tends to find trinkets left to him (by children) and children napping by him, the grandfather of the area as it were. He found it irritating at first but grew accustomed to it and enjoys waking to the little gifts and slumbering children. Yeah I know weird. But any who. Great stuff sorry being late to this vid by like 8 months I just stumbled upon you recently and I too find Dreadnoughts awesome.
I played 40l from Rogue Trader until the start of 3rd Ed., and have only recently (1 year) started watching lore videos about the setting again. I've bits and pieces in the middle 20ish years. I've never heard of Rylanor until now.
Hey Mr.Bones can you do a video on the mentors chapter? They're so mysterious with their homeworld being top secret and how they're all nerds that somehow know more than most veteran space marines.
@@prophetisaiah08 Lol no. Have you read the court documents or the case study of his which appears in the Florida Strategic Plan on Human... something which cannot be said without being redacted because of filters? Or did you just take him at his word? He's lying to you about rescuing people when he was actually perpetrating horrific crimes. Where are your libertarian principles?
@@jessl1934 Ok, one thing: this has nothing to do with the video. Second thing: Any action taken to protect people's human rights given the blatant criminality of the American INS, DHS, and Border Patrol is just fine with me. Third thing: What the hell makes you think I'm stupid enough to be a "libertarian?" I'm not dumb enough to do whatever my "corporate betters" tell me is right.
@@prophetisaiah08 Would you call out someone who supports a person who breaches human rights? Or would you just ignore it? He wasn't rescuing those people from the US government nor was he helping refugees. You don't even know the history of the political heritage that you're claiming smh. You _still_ haven't read the court documents or the Florida Strategic Plan on Human (something) and yet you're spouting off about it as if you're knowledgeable on the subject.
It's Rylanor's speech to them about "Marching in parade on ancient Tera..."and everything he says, its chilling and unforgettable. They will never know what being a space Marine really means, but he knows, and they will NEVER reach that level of honor. It's what all Dreadnaughts carry with them, the past.
Yeah, as cool as lore pieces where the books have dreadnoughts fighting are, the books that have dreadnoughts speaking to their brothers and emparting wisdom and advice are my favorite. If a dreadnought chooses to speak, you better get a pen and paper and take notes cause it's interesting, insightful, and valuable. There's usually a lesson worth knowing. They're just fascinating. The idea that the biggest baddest dudes on the block are among the wisest too. It's very cool
i remember there's a dreadnought of the word bearers Anchorite, who started to preach and live now in penance for the sins of the word bearer, also he help in stoping a world bearer invasion to the world he was being prisioner
The only other Dreadnaught of note that i recall is one who I don't recall if was named, probably was but I don't remember it, was this Word Bearer Dreadnaught that thought that the heresy was still going and his young brothers who he was talking to realized he had started to lose himself and if I recall seemed kinda sad when they had to lie to him about the heresy still going or being won or something to that effect.
There was also this Blood Angel Dreadnought that fell to the Black Rage due to being "killed" by an Eldar - reminder that Dreadnoughts CANNOT fall to the Black Rage - and also fell to the Red Thirst. Seeing as he's a literal spasming killing machine, there was little to do but modify his chasis in order to drink blood. Somehow.
Sad that my boy Chyron isn't here. Hopefully one day GW gives Chyron some closure and lets the big boy see one of his Lamenter brothers.
Chyron is my favorite Dreadnought
@@Stormeris same here brother
I'll be the one guy to shout out my boy Warsmith Berossus.
Dude could not catch a break at any point until the end of Angel Exterminatus, and that was due to his bromance with Grendel.
The sad part is any Dreadnought under the Deathwatch couldn't return to their chapters so he couldn't confirm if his brothers are still alive.
Chapter Master Daggan was badass too. He broke up a fight between Mephiston and Gabriel Seth by using his giant form to get between them
It seems that Rylanor’s rock opera has eclipsed the actual story for the popular perception of the character. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
“To strike you down, I have waited for a MILLION NIGHTS!”
That's how I first learned about Rylanor! Loved that to bits!
I swear the bloke that wrote the song was a nonce
@@SUNKENCOMET Oh? O.o Did I miss some drama?
@@dalekdalek4324 Oh yeah.... Stringstorm ended up coming out as a groomer from what I recall. That was early this year.
@@Onua118 ...fuuuuuuuuck.
"Dreadnoughts are cool."
- Arthur
"Yes."
- Me
“I got some jelly beans. You like jelly beans?”
I know Bjorn Fell Handed is pretty mainstream for 40k, but I still love that he's the oldest thing in the space wolves, literally fought in russ' wolfguard, you'd think he'd be this grizzled war vet of 10,000 years but he's always just grumpy and annoyed whenever they wake him up
Dude met the Emperor once. He remains the oldest not-Primarch/Custodes person in the entire Imperium.
@@thebighurt2495 Cawl is older and he was awake all the time.
@BM-is5ei Fair enough. Bjorn is the oldest Loyalist Astartes, then.
Side Note: one of my favorite 40k jokes goes:
Gillyman: "Here, hold this."
Dante: "But, my lord, it's half the Imperium....... and it's on fire."
@@thebighurt2495 😂😂😂 good one! Poor Dante is so done with everything. That dude has seen some shit. On the positive side at least he has now 2 Primarchs taking some responsibility off of him. My man seriously needs some days off.
@@BM-is5eibro has had the memory's and knoll of 3 people and had mind wipes. I like cawl
Magneric was a Black Templar martial and dreadnought during the war of the beast, who rarely entered regular sleep cycles, and as a result was batshit crazy even for a Templar; Also, his voice modulator was stuck on 11, so he was constantly screaming.
Sounds like typical BT behavior
I MUST HEAR MORE what books is he featured in?
@@henrypaleveda7760 He features in the 5th and 6th books of the Beast Arises series.
"Malcharion!? You're awake?"
"I. HEARD. BOLTER FIRE."
One of my personal favorite dreadnought stories comes from Helsreach. A templar dreadnought, who i forget the name of saddly, that was deployed to the surface of Helsreach. The story itself revolves around the templars' opinion of the being sealed away in the dreadnought. The story itself ends on the templars' death, laying motionless on the battlefield of Helsreach. However, for the first time in hundreds of years, he can hear things with his own ears.
It stands as one of my all time favorite tales of dreadnoughts
Edit: the dreadnought was name Thalhaiden. Chapter 13 in the Helsreach novel.
I think they turned that into an Audio Drama. The Glorious Tomb, I think it’s called.
I think they turned that into an Audio Drama. The Glorious Tomb, I think it’s called.
"Going to throw the mic over to a friend of mine real quick and let him do a bit of a dramatic reading to what Rylanor said to Fulgrim in this moment"
*Ad plays
"Get 50% off your Dominos Order"
I'd like to give a shoutout to Autolochus. He's from the Iron Snakes Chapter in the book 'Brotherhood of the Snake.' The book was published in 2007 so there are some lore inconsistencies, but I look past that as this was one of the first 40k novels that really got me into the lore. Nothing really crazy or over-the-top happens, but the book does a fantastic job portraying how the Venerable Ancients are looked at and treated by their chapters. Everyone looks up to him, including the Chapter Master, and everyone listens well when he speaks. He also has a pretty fun fight scene where he's basically just toying with some dark eldar and enjoying every moment of it. Also, special mention to Chyron of the Deathwatch who thinks he is the last remaining Lamentor. My soul needs a scene where he learns his chapter is not lost.
could you say hes solid?
Im still learning about dreads, and I was woefully unprepared for Huron Fal 😭 Bubble Blowing Bs unite
"We deny you your victory."
Nightlords are cool. Every opportunity must be taken to talk about the Warsage.
Ave Dominus Nox brother
Davian Thule.
A Blood Ravens dreadnought from the "Dawn of War" series.
Funny enough, he used to be the protagonist captain during one of the games, and became a Dreadnought during Dawn of War 2, and he instantly became one of my favorites.
It really wrecked my heart how confused he was when he first awakened, like a delicate little baby... except he was neither little nor delicate at all.
All I learned is you can't keep Gaz'thrakka down.
Funfact: Rylanor was initially written as a castaferrum dreadnought, but he was retconned to a contemptor when those became famous
Bjorn probably didn't lose his hand to a Nurgle Daemon but one from tzeentch during the burning of Prospero. Well so long as Bear and Bjorn are the same Space Marine as I think is implied in "Burning of Prospero".
That one Dreadnought from "Know no fear" is also pretty nice as a character since you get to know how a new Dreadnought pilot feels
Bear is definitely Bjorn so he lost his arm on prospero according to the heresy novels. the Nurgle demon story could be part of the "old lore" that's relegatd to myth and hearsay.
Telemechus the sky warrior named such because he fell from the sky in a crate and had to be pried open like a can of tuna by Eikos Lamiad the primarchs champion.
Malthax Thule, Night Lord Dreadnought who was Terran born. Curze, who'd commonly send Terran Night Lord veterans on suicide missions, sent him down to fight the Dark Angels, and Thule suffered from hallucations, picturing he was back on Terra during the Unification Wars fighting alongside the Emperor himself.
God I love GW’s naming conventions, of course the hungry dreadnought is named Naum
I think the best part about Rylanor's story is it hurt Fulgrim's pride and is still a sore spot to him to this day, because when you break it down, as I bet he has, Fulhrim was the least important person in that room, and he was powerless to do anything.
Fulgrim thinking about that situation, going over it in his head, obsessing about it, trying to come up with a way to change the outcome, trying to think of a way HE would matter, and coming up with nothing, brings me joy to think about.
Wonderful working with ya! (Also he said we’re friends it’s canon now)
The thing about bjorn is what made him special is kinda being taken away as multiple characters who fourght by the emperor's side are poping up in the setting even in the lion book with zabriel the lions second in command being a terran born dark angle and also meeting another fallen who is a terran and said to be of Egyption decent.
And the anchorite.
@@fluffywolfo3663 isn't that the word bearer dread that sided with the loyalists and the ultra marines kept hidden and safe?
@@YOGI-kb9tg the very same!
@@fluffywolfo3663 neat
@@YOGI-kb9tg Fun anchorite fact: it’s also implied he’s been writing a lot of the scripture lol
I remember that scene. I first heard it years ago but it's over of those things in literature that just stick with you and pop into your head months or years later. Once you mentioned Flight of the Eisenstein I knew immediately what you were going to reference and caused it to pop into my head.
Thanks for playing that part. I'm going to start that book up tonight.
Bjorn is a definition of "fear the old man in a proffesion where people die young"
Also he's so based that hot headed, mr I don't give a fuck Logan actually listens to him
Burst out laughing at the "remember me bitch" lmfao
This dudes stale act makes his humor that much more unexpected and hilarious 😂
Naum! You added Naum, that's bloody cool! One of my other favourites is Honoured Telemechrus.
Thanks for shouting out gnome he reminds me of me grandfather. Completely lucid until the moment we need his help.
He said " Let's go together" I need to cry right now
Huron Fal had one of the most badass deaths you could possibly have, and that's coming from a universe where badass deaths are the norm. He did his absolute best to look the traitors in the eye and tell them to go F#@% themselves!
Berossus of the Iron Warriors. The guy interred for making the mistake of telling Perturabo that something bad happened and was slapped and beaten so hard by his primarch that he nearly died.
Has a really cool arc and some good scenes in angel exterminatus that describes what being a dreadnought is like and gets to have a giant hammer for his combat arm
You think it's okay to make me cry by playing that clip from Flight of the Eisenstein? Now I'm having to blow my nose.
Really hope Bjorn as a model isn’t left in the dust by his now universally bigger interred-brothers. The dude, much like most of the Space Wolves, could use an update
One of my favorite Dreadnought characters is the Anchorite, a former Word Bearer who rejected the heretical teachings of his genefather and defected from his legion by surrendering to the Ultramarines.
At first, he had expected execution for his crimes under Lorgar's banner, but was instead left to rot in a cell, a fate which he accepted as eagerly as he would have accepted death as penance for his sins.
During this time, he turned back to worshipping the Emperor, as his genefather once did, and would go on to guide the nascent Ecchlesiarchy from within his cell upon the world of Almace.
Eventually, when the Word Bearers discovered that he indeed still lived, they attacked the planet in a bid to bring him back to their domain, where they would either try to convert him back to Chaos worship or execute him for his betrayal.
At first, the Anchorite insisted that he be killed so that the Word Bearers would give up and leave the planet, their objective denied from them. He had sworn a vow of pacifism, refusing to raise hand against anyone, not even his traitorous brothers, out of guilt for the innocent blood he had shed.
But when Cardinal Eamon, an Almacian minister who was with him, insisted that he would rather die alongside the Guardsmen and their Imperial Fists reinforcements than let the heretics even come into possession of his _carcass,_ he gained the resolve to face his estranged brothers. However, instead of fighting with physical weapons, his powerful faith manifested the divine energies of the God-Emperor himself through a forgotten word of the Colchisian language, thus banishing the Word Bearers' Daemonic forces back into the Warp and allowing the planet's defenders to finish off the remaining traitor Astartes and their mortal slave-warriors.
What happened next?
@ZackarySchejbalCODBO2RGM2 Nothing much yet. It didn't happen in one of the books that's supposed to be advancing the main plotline, so it's entirely possible that nothing will come of it for years or decades.
Damn you should talk about the absolute based Anchorite. A word bearers dreadnaught who wanted to kill ultramarines but saw what his legion had become and worked against the word bearers.
Fun fact, it's implied that another dreadnaught is older than Bjorn. Skara Brae is implied to have already been a dreadnaught at the drop site massacre
I've been paying attention to 40k for quite a while, I listen to a lore podcast, played a few games, I have NEVER heard of rylinor...
huron fal's story breaks my fuckin heart dude. that "we deny you your victory" gives me chills just thinking about it
Dreadnoughts are by far one of my favorite things in 40k, such an awesome concept executed almost perfectly across all forms of 40k media
I have no idea how Rylanor is below Titus. I've been playing Warhammer video games off and on for a decade and absorbing wikis and this is the first time I've heard of him.
Personal fave obscure Dreddy is Appius, Father of Dreadnoughts. Before Sigismund was in charge of the Templar Brethren, Appius was. Not sure what happened but he got put into a Dreadnought (the wiki says Contemptor but the actual story mentions a vision slot and leg cables so almost certainly Castraferrum). He had a giant dreadnought sized shield and hammer combo. When it was decided that Sigismund had to take his place, Siggy had to fight and beat 200 of his fellow Templar Brethren to take the post (which Appius might have also had to do in the past?). Appius was the 200th and almost killed our boy Siggy, but he pulled the W by cutting Appius leg cables. No clue what happens to him (he’s not mentioned again I think) but I want a decked out Templar Brethren Dreadnought with the hammer and shield now please.
I’ll always have a soft spot for Lhorke of the warhounds, poor bastard had to watch the denegration and damnation of his beloved legion while trying at every opportunity to steer them away from the edge.
Damn man you knew what you were doing! Now I wanna hear more honestly would love to hear a lot about dreadnoughts and other stuff.
I LOVE dreadnoughts too! And I really, I mean REALLY want to read an interesting story, or at least small story with reflections of a loyal dreadnought of the Luna Wolves (Sons of Horus) on the topic of Heresy. I would just give all money in the world for a whole story.
I surprisingly didn’t hear about rylanor until long into my warhammer journey and that makes him all the more special to me
Fun fact about Bjorn? He loathed the idea of being interred in a Dreadnought sarcophagus. And another interesting character is Telemachon, a Dark Angel who was interred less because of his notable skills as a warrior, but because he presented an appropriate image. It was a political statement more than saving his skills, even if he was counted among the best marksmen the Dark Angels had produced
I really like Davian Thule a lot mostly because he gives an overall arc of how a marine earns enough honor and respect to be interred into a dreadnought. Also just because in DW2 he's like stupidly overpowered with shit like autocannons and lascannons.
Also note in Chaos Rising he's the only character that won't be corrupted by Chaos and go rogue if you use relics, instead he just leaves disappointed in you.
Bjorn the Fell-Handed will always be my favorite dreadnought
You did a really good job on this one if anybody else wants to learn more about the fell handed listen to the Audio Drama parting of the ways you learn more about how Bjorn actually became entombed inside the Dreadnought and it was a chaos spawn that wounded him
Rylanor being reborn as a member of the Legion of the Damned would be such a beautifully sick burn to Fulgrim in every way imaginable. The ultimate mental breakdown at hearing that all too familiar voice booming with "I rebuke you always and forever, once proud father of our legion"
A minor but still worthy mention is “Cassor”, a Dreadnought belonging to the Blood Angel’s ‘Death Company’. It never occurred to me that there could be a Dreadnought consumed by the Black Rage, screaming about heretics and traitors as it mows down genestealer swarms, saves the protagonist on more than one occasion and is pretty much the MVP of that story. Appears in “Deathstorm” by Josh Reynolds
You should read about Warmonger from WORD BEARERS omnibus. His Death scene is amazing when he is fighting emperor ( ;) ) also he is pretty sane for a hellbrute or dreadnaught
My favorite dread is thalmax. A nightlord dreadnought who was hallucinating that he was still in unification wars. During the horus heresy konrad sent him to die against the dark angels, it was a sad story
The first of my Top-tier Dreadnoughts was Bjorn (based on the order of meeting) and then Rylanor showed up. BOOM! Both of them share the first panel in my heart.
“Even in death,” The Blood Angel Dreadnought said, “I will avenge myself”
“You deserve the chance, Raguel.” 13:13
Boxnoughts my beloved
Malkarian’s best line “This boy. Always cleaning up his messes.”
How bout that one dreadnought that taught the tau what a dreadnought really was?
He’s one of the newer ones, but Brother Agastus of the Ultramarines is a pretty cool idea. What happens when a legendary chaplain with a penchant for smacking things is laid low in battle? You slap him in a Brutalis Pattern Dreadnought of course! He has such a strong relationship with the lieutenant in charge of the fire team, which is named after Brother Agastus rather than the LT, at the LT’s request no less, and the two seem to trade leadership back and forth whenever one or the other has more experience with a specific situation. For only having a short story written about him in a booklet in the Fireteam Agastus box set, he just stands out to me as a very interesting character.
Wasn't the culling of the loyalist parts of the legions called the istvaan atrocity? Drop site massacre was istvaan 5
they were both moves to take out loyalist forces within the legions.
Correct, istvaan 5 was where several legions were dispatched to deal with the Sons of Horus, Death Guard, Emperor's Children and World Eaters but became the drop site massacre when the Night Lords, Alpha Legion, Word Bearers and Iron Warriors turned on the Iron Hands, Salamanders and Raven Guard.
Istvaan III is the first atrocity where Horus, Angron, Fulgrim, and Mortarion killed 1/3 of their own in a disturbing betrayal to get rid of loyalist element from their legions. The Istvaan 5 drop site massacre on the other hand is where the iron hands, salamander, and raven guard got betrayed and got caught right in the middle of both traitor armies of Horus, Fulgrim, Mortarion, Angron, and Perturabo in the front. The Legions of Konrad, Alpharius, and Lorgar on the other hand shot the 3 loyalist legion in the back when they thought they were allies when they attempted to retreat and resupply.
Malkarian finds he's been revived a second time.
The Mechanicus guy: "You're finally awake . . ."
"I have to do everything for that boy!" - Malcharion the War sage, taken from his work: the Tenebrous path.
for optimal veiwing pleasure the moment he says reylanor play the song join a death match game and then com back after
The idea that dreads get grumpier as time goes by makes them the grumpy, old grandpas of the space marines.
Man the narration of Huron's final moments and seeing the fanart still manages to make me teary eyed.
I want to add another boi who is one of my favorites of the chunky lad who went by the name Cassian Vaughn. Before being entombed, he was the chapter master of the Salamanders during the Heresy and beasted so hard against that orc waghhh that big E had to help with Vulkan went out of his way to invent the ironclad dreadnought. The dude was at Istvaan 5 and was turning the tables against the traitors so hard that the human serfs in orbit over the coms heard Space Marines knowing genuine fear. Horus was shitting his pants over this supreme badass, then decided to orbital Lance Cassian's location, glassing a continent. After the battle, the survivors of the loyalist dug him up using just their hands. They found Cassian, who was still perfectly alive with just the limbs of his dreadnought being destroyed. The SMs who found him took him to a nearby forge world to do repairs, but right after fixing him up, the world was attacked by Alpha Legion and Iron Warriors, who got set up and were wreaking house. Cassian, now able to move, ran through the miles wide forge world monastery at them. While running through the heart of the forge world, his fury infected every servitor he passed, causing them to drop everything they were doing and follow him into battle. It's not said where he dies, but the Salamanders still have his chassis and entomb the biggest baller of the generation in it because if they don't have the coolest dude in it, the strange machine spirit who has a strangely similar personality to Cassian kills the new occupant.
So The guy got so much Brass in his unused balls he become one with his armored wheel chair ?
When you wanna wreck shit so badly unless the next person interfed is a badass you just fucking kill them
quickly becoming one of the better lore channels. excellent work sir
I’m honestly surprised that you didn’t mention the Anchorite, the loyalist Word Bearers contemptor dreadnought that helped found the ecclesiarchy.
As a Salamanders player though, Bray’Arth Ashmantle is a really cool dreadnought with a great design.
i too have a soft spot fit Dreadnoughts. the entire concept got me into warhammer actually.
Where´s my boy Bray'arth Ashmantle?😃
Nice video. Always good to put some much deserved spotlight on amazing Dreads.
Dreadnoughts? I click.
There is a Black Templars short story revolving around a Dreadnought. He and his Battle Brothers drop onto an ice world and mess up some orks. Moving to their next target, they find an Ancient Crimsom Fists Dreadnought frozen in the ice, a last remnant of a lost battle, and a survivor of a nearly extinct Chapter.
Instant veneration from the young Templars, instant bromance between the fellow Sons of Dorn, and impending adamantine clad doom for some orks.
Whats the book/short story called?
I'm a go cry again.... um... I got snacks ready for us guys and lot of pillows and blanket to lay on.... omg! THOSE POOR BOYS!
dont forget Bjorn knows they put shit on him he hates it but gives it the "Fuck it, they'll get pissy if i say take it off so whatever"
I read one Greyknight book that had Bjorn in it. The point of view character was a knight and he was acting as bodyguard of an inquisitior that was fighting the Space Wolves. They were sieging Fenris when the Chapter Master was away, so to parlay they brought Bjorn.
There was this junior fenrisian inquisitor (that wanted to stop the fight) that had this profound religious experience about how she knew Bjorn was real. The Grey knight that was there to protect the inquisitor from Bjorn just knelt to him. The leader inquisitor (that wanted to make the wolves comply) just had this existential crisis about not knowing how to deal with the situation, wanting to make threats but also kneeling to the demigod.
"You lied?" "Veteran's prerogative."
Davian Thule! Guy was amazing in Dark Crusade and was entombed during the Tyranid invasion of Sector Aurelian. His dialogue with Eliphas was also amazing.
Huron-Fal did the unthinkable within the setting: HE DECIDED HIS FATE
The Ancient awaits.
Something about a dreadnought calling someone a bitch that’s absolutely hilarious
I mean in the space wolves defense, it’s not llike they crammed a wulfen into a dreadnought. Probably. Hopefully. As far as I know he was already insane after getting put in one, and they just found him like that.
Not sure they're even %100 on whether it's a Dreadnought or not.
Bjorn the Fellhanded is cool. I love the idea of them waking him up, and him lumbering into tell the newest recruits stories, and they're in awe, and then he starts talking and just tells them worldly wisdom.
Also I think it'd be neat if he somehow became a regular marine again, like a homunculus takes him out of the dreadnought, and regenerates him fully with dark eldar tech, to try to use him in some plot to fuck over the space wolves. But it goes wrong, and the homunculus becomes the now regenerated Bjorn's rival. So its just ancient as dirt meth space elf Vs ancient as dirt wolf-space marine guy.
Bjorn is the most down to Terra marine. He is really chill, and even in the middle of a battle, sat down with a guardsman (or guardswoman, I can’t remember.), and just had a chat with them about the state of the imperium.
Oh I loved gnome in that book i remember randomly finding that audio book on UA-cam during a cross country road trip so i listened to the whole book during my turn to drive at night. Great book the lords of silence, great book.
Everybody tough until the dreadnought tells you "it's alright little brother" 😭
He's known as Bjorn The One-Handed after losing his arm on Prospero until in "Wolfsbane" Leman Russ learns from his skalds that Bjorn is destined for great things. Russ drags Bjorn around everywhere almost like a good luck charm and is the first one to call him "The Fell-Handed". Bjorn thinks this is an insult because he does not yet have a bionic replacement and thinks Russ is mocking the fact that he cannot even hold his bolter steady, but Russ says the skalds and their fortune telling bones told him when Bjorn rises to greatness in his future he will be known as Bjorn The Fell-Handed. There's a character they made up for the Burning of Prospero set called Geigor The Fell-Handed who makes an appearance in the various accounts of Prospero and desparately tries to council Bulveye away from following the Thousands Sons into their warp fuckery labyrinth out of which they eventually re-appear as the wulfen of the lost 13th company. There's a short story about Bjorn aboard the Hrafnkel as the Legion is preparing to disembark for battle. He does not want to be left behind and goes down into the armory to find something to replace his arm. The forgemaster basically tells him to fuck off and get in line then Bjorn spots this fancy lightning claw. A tech adept tells him it's intended for someone else, presumably Geigor, but Bjorn says fuckit and steals the lightning claw starting his path of fortold greatness. He is pissed off at Russ, but Russ told him (because of the afformentioned fortune-telling) that he knew Bjorn was destined to stay behind and keep watch over the chapter in Russ' absence. And that's what Bjorn did.
I felt like a dreadnought when I joined a 2015 reserve civil affairs unit from a surge era infantry unit I left in 2011. "Have you considered killing them more to make it work?"
Excellent video man!
Hey Arthur, cool vid. Tbh I've only heard of Bjorn but then I don't know much about lore. I was curious on this as im currently in the middle of making my own chapter and I loosely based one named character off Bjorn and Rylan without knowing. A contemptor that was saved by my chapter to find out he the sole survivor of his chapter, he agrees to join their ranks. He slumbers in a garden area and serves as an advisor or when truely needed. When he wakes he tends to find trinkets left to him (by children) and children napping by him, the grandfather of the area as it were. He found it irritating at first but grew accustomed to it and enjoys waking to the little gifts and slumbering children. Yeah I know weird. But any who. Great stuff sorry being late to this vid by like 8 months I just stumbled upon you recently and I too find Dreadnoughts awesome.
rylanor said he's beloved by all and he's dam right
I played 40l from Rogue Trader until the start of 3rd Ed., and have only recently (1 year) started watching lore videos about the setting again.
I've bits and pieces in the middle 20ish years.
I've never heard of Rylanor until now.
Hey Mr.Bones can you do a video on the mentors chapter? They're so mysterious with their homeworld being top secret and how they're all nerds that somehow know more than most veteran space marines.
Rylanor is not the only one but he is definetly THE GOAT and the coolest!
I enjoy The Warmonger. He's just out here doing his thing, sieging the Imperial Palace and trying to get a whack at the corpse guy.
LOVE the new intro! Made me giggle.
You watch Beau OTFC? Don't you know what he was convicted for?
@@jessl1934 Yeah, protecting people from criminal violations of their human rights by state-sponsored terrorist organizations.
@@prophetisaiah08 Lol no.
Have you read the court documents or the case study of his which appears in the Florida Strategic Plan on Human... something which cannot be said without being redacted because of filters? Or did you just take him at his word?
He's lying to you about rescuing people when he was actually perpetrating horrific crimes.
Where are your libertarian principles?
@@jessl1934 Ok, one thing: this has nothing to do with the video. Second thing: Any action taken to protect people's human rights given the blatant criminality of the American INS, DHS, and Border Patrol is just fine with me. Third thing: What the hell makes you think I'm stupid enough to be a "libertarian?" I'm not dumb enough to do whatever my "corporate betters" tell me is right.
@@prophetisaiah08 Would you call out someone who supports a person who breaches human rights? Or would you just ignore it?
He wasn't rescuing those people from the US government nor was he helping refugees.
You don't even know the history of the political heritage that you're claiming smh.
You _still_ haven't read the court documents or the Florida Strategic Plan on Human (something) and yet you're spouting off about it as if you're knowledgeable on the subject.
I honestly never heard of Rylanor until like a few months ago.
Goddamn Huron Fal is a badass.
Loyalist Death Guards respect.
@@SeanCrosser Loyalists from traitor legions are badasses
Dreadnaughts are just the uncle who has stopped giving a shit what anyone thinks anymore
It's Rylanor's speech to them about "Marching in parade on ancient Tera..."and everything he says, its chilling and unforgettable. They will never know what being a space Marine really means, but he knows, and they will NEVER reach that level of honor. It's what all Dreadnaughts carry with them, the past.
Yeah, as cool as lore pieces where the books have dreadnoughts fighting are, the books that have dreadnoughts speaking to their brothers and emparting wisdom and advice are my favorite. If a dreadnought chooses to speak, you better get a pen and paper and take notes cause it's interesting, insightful, and valuable. There's usually a lesson worth knowing. They're just fascinating. The idea that the biggest baddest dudes on the block are among the wisest too. It's very cool
i remember there's a dreadnought of the word bearers Anchorite, who started to preach and live now in penance for the sins of the word bearer, also he help in stoping a world bearer invasion to the world he was being prisioner
The only other Dreadnaught of note that i recall is one who I don't recall if was named, probably was but I don't remember it, was this Word Bearer Dreadnaught that thought that the heresy was still going and his young brothers who he was talking to realized he had started to lose himself and if I recall seemed kinda sad when they had to lie to him about the heresy still going or being won or something to that effect.
I feel 12 legions Lork deserves a shout out he had to watch as Angron basically killed all that was good in the war hounds 😢
I am a Thousand Son and even I respect the Fellhand. Oldest of the old, greatest of the Dreadnoughts.
We need a part 2 with Murder-fang and the Lamentors dude that is serving with the Deathwatch
There was also this Blood Angel Dreadnought that fell to the Black Rage due to being "killed" by an Eldar - reminder that Dreadnoughts CANNOT fall to the Black Rage - and also fell to the Red Thirst. Seeing as he's a literal spasming killing machine, there was little to do but modify his chasis in order to drink blood. Somehow.
Moriar the Fucking Choosen?