The government in marvel should be treating mutants like they do in 40k solely for the fact that a solid amount of mutants have enough power to destroy the world and that around half of them turn evil
As a father, this has to be the most emotionally evocative introduction tale from Baldermort. Unfortunately, like most well written and articulated tragedies, it's so good I don't think I can bring myself to listen to it again. Kudos.
At about 3am that will change temporarily. Or when they hit raging teens age. Or when the little monster starts driving. Bite your nails to the bone worrying if they get to school and back safe. When they enlist in the army. God that's the worst. Wouldn't change a thing tho. Do it all over again.
If the Thousand Sons never went traitor they’d have that planet in the intro story as a recruiting world. All those kids that are cloud touched would be amazing Librarians.
I won't lie, I was half expecting an addendum to the opening narration where the child has survived by mind controlling the hungry fish, and now returns to the village as a grown man
@@Baldermort If wind control is such a common outcome that an entire culture has grown around it with wise elders teaching them to use their powers then that can't really be a random mutation, it has to at the very least be something buried in the genes of the population of that planet, some recessive genes that can be triggered by the right pairing of parents similar to how certain genetic diseases propagate, possibly some epigenetic element. In that case the children of the clouds could be a result of ancient gene modding from before Old Night, possibly there existed a research station on the world experimenting with the warp based powers that at that point were a mere curiosity. And when the battle lines were drawn they used their experimental gene mods to bolster the population to fight back against the Men of Iron?
That was a really strong story. I keep forgetting mutants can be more than Minotaur looking guy, and the negative impact it can have on a planet. Also I really liked the Overgrown Tomb art work, I only a couple copies of that. I am super cool with more art work like that popping up in this videos. As always great video and I hope you are feeling well!
Being a real life mutant myself (born with syndactytly; on my right hand which only has two fingers), I still enjoy Warhammer 40k immensely. My first army has been an abhuman regiment with ogyran, ratlings & squats & if I survived into adulthood within 40k, I'd fight for the Imperium of Man alongside them if I was able to that's for sure. Your videos are awesome as always, Baldermort!
Until now, I did not realize mutants were such an existential threat, not just to the Imperium but the whole galaxy. Until now, I had woefully underestimated what a mutant even was, or could be. By the Emperor..
Damn...a beautiful story as always but I couldn't help but choke up. You've really knocked this out of the park. Haven't felt like this since the landrader vid. Keep on tugging those heart strings brother Baldermort.
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I been playing this game almost everyday since your first time you talked about it, it’s a fun game. I spend like 20 minutes a day it’s really relaxing
Hey, Baldy! Have you talked about how the Necron get around the galaxy in any video? I found precious little info on the inertialess drive in my late night google adventure the other day. Many thanks for the stories and knowledge good sir! :)
Brother Baldermort - This is the perfect way to handle this sponsor. A lot of people toss the company grief (and rightly so for some of their practices), but the way you frame it makes it clear what it does for the channel, you handle it immediately at the beginning and then delve into the main content of the video itself. I can respect that. It's also a vote of confidence by them in your channel that you have a solid enough channel with a large enough audience to be worth the investment, and you show yourself worth their time with how you treat them like any other sponsor and fulfill your obligations with respect and class. Well done, brother.
1: suffer not the mutant 2: great job as always, that aren’t a audio book narrator or va is a crime 3: you need to play more games with majorkill 4-10: Suffer not the mutant
Don't you ever doubt how much I love you and what you do. I can't remember the last time I actually sat through an advert without clicking past it. Absolutely worth it.
How fitting that a fiction that leans so heavily on the "Necessary Evil" narrative would have its most talented ambassador find sponsorship from Raid. Your work is incredible Baldermort. UA-cam wouldn't be the same without you.
There is a mention about mutation in Tau. In Deathwatch an Inquisitor and a Tau Sha'sho were experimenting on Tau that did not embrace the greater good and turned them into Tyranids. The local Ethereal was also in support of that.
Imperial preacher: We have to hate and not tolerate the mutant, otherwise they will rebell and try to overthrow our society. **Mutants rebell because they are hated and opressed** Imperial preacher: Told ya!
Honestly any Necron mutation is probably just the influence of the warp causing necrodermis to be damaged, thus needing to be repaired and replaced. It'd be interesting to see if a daemon could possess one of the more basic Necron forms
@@Darqshadow Isn't it less lacking a soul but having no psychic potential? I have heard the Tau are little touched by demonic incursions due to them not having any ability to access the warp.
@@SPINCTDAILY But Nurgle now has all these cool daemons that infest technological constructs so I'd say it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say they probably could go after Necron tech. The granddaddy of which would be the Gellar plague, this almost sounds like an experiment meant to go after Necrons since it's literally a daemon plague that targets the Gellar field generators of terran vessels, so it probably just needs some refinement to work against blackstone...
I think if the Necrons are influenced by any of the dark gods it would be that of Tzneech. The hope the Silent King has to reclaim their organic forms and souls can probably lead the more desperate Necron Lords to maybe strike a deal with the changer of ways for knowledge on how to do so. Plus I’d love to see Tzneech tainted Necrons give the Thousand Suns a run for their money on who could wear the Egyptian aesthetics better. Cease and desist that Magnus, you nerdy, one eyed, kilithikadya fried chicken.
Gary Symons thanks brother. It’s a jolly little distraction I find. Pick up and put down. I have life stealing stuff now. It helps a LOT! But I’m awful at games these days. Lol. Doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them.
‘…For too long, you have suffered!’ The Apostle’s voice rang over the vox-speakers, fighting with the rising bleats of the herd. Azmedi strained to listen. Comprehension was slipping away into animality. He considered the part that listened his human half. The other part, the beast part, jerked against the leashes of shame. Soon it would break free and consume his reasoning mind, but for now he could still understand. ‘You have been cast out and consigned to the fringes of ten thousand worlds, fit only for the noisome places where pure-bloods will not go,’ the Apostle said. ‘You are the lords of ruin, for ruins are all you have ever had to call your own. The citizens of the Imperium, those upright tyrants who shun you, have another name for you, a shameful name, a name that is soaked through with their contempt.’ Azmedi didn’t need to hear the word. It was uttered the moment he was born to his horrified mother, and chased him out of the bright places into the haunts of freaks and criminals. There the word had been shouted again, and he had been driven further on, despised even by other creatures who bore the stigma of mutation. The word. The Apostle was going to say the word. ‘No! No! No!’ Azmedi shouted, his speech losing its shape, becoming a warbling, caprine bleat. ‘Beastmen,’ said the Apostle. The hold erupted with shouts and cries; there were those who raged, but most voices cried out in despair. ‘They call you beastmen.’ There had been Imperial iterators, down in the deeps where Azmedi had found his own kind, who had come to teach their secular religion to every branch of mankind, no matter how devolved, in mean schools they carved out of compressed, hive-bottom junk. The Apostle’s words evoked those lessons, fifteen years ago. So long, for one of his kind. The lives of the beastkin were short. ‘In the beginning, when man left the world you will soon conquer, he had but one form. Many places moulded the genome of our species, and one form became many!’ Azmedi’s breaking mind reeled with the sermon. His memories intruded into the present, words said to him, words that were more than sounds on the air, but chains to bind him. ‘Homo sapiens variatus,’ the smiling man had said, as if that explained everything. ‘Others retain the name of human, but not you. Not you!’ the Apostle railed. ‘Your dignity was taken from you. You were decreed as less than human, abhuman, mutant. Undesirables on worlds you called home for hundreds of generations! The Emperor meddles with mankind’s form, and they call His monsters heroes, yet you - you, the rightful children of change - are branded beasts!’ There were those who tried to follow the rules. There were those who tried to understand. There were those who tried to atone for the sin of being born. It made no difference. All Azmedi’s kind were hated. Though their forms were no more aberrant than other human strains, their appearance evoked folk-memories of devils and they were treated accordingly. ‘If a man is treated as a beast, then he becomes a beast!’ The beastmen roared out their pain. They locked their horns and butted heads. The hold reeked of droppings and rage. ‘Beasts!’ shouted a beastman close to Azmedi. ‘Beasts!’ bleated another. The cry spread through the herd, until the hold shook with stamping hooves and the chant of ‘Beasts! Beasts! Beasts!’ The Apostle’s sermon rose in volume to compete. ‘But to the Pantheon, you are holy beings! You are pure! You are the children of Chaos! You are the living example of mutability! Go out! Go out into the fire, and cast down those in thrall to the False Emperor! Trample His works beneath your feet, wet your horns with the blood of unbelievers!’ ‘Beasts! Beasts! Beasts!’ The stink of aggression filled the world. Azmedi’s nostrils flared to breathe it in. He resisted joining the call for violence until the very last. His senses reeling, memories of oppression crashed upon him in waves, threatening to drown his sanity in misery and injustice. He would not drown. He wanted to remain a man. He wished to stay human. He could not. His muzzle shaking, Azmedi opened his mouth and threw back his horned head. ‘Beasts!’ he roared. His human mind sank into rage. There were two colours to the world: red and black. All other hues existed to be drenched in the former or cast into the latter. The first came with violence, the second with the end of life. There was nothing in between blood and death. Azmedi welcomed such oblivion, for there was no pain there. When the clamps released the herdship from its carrier, and the nose pitched down for the desperate rush to Terra, the beastmen were already fighting each other…’ '...GUNN SLAV WORKED the chain to the magazine, hauling on the rusted block and tackle to raise another crate of shells for the gatling cannon on the starboard cliff of the Black Basilica. His hunched back and grossly swollen shoulder muscles gave him a simian stature that kept him from the battle lines, but made him an ideal loader for the diabolic guns. It was a task he relished, for it allowed him a chance to strike back at the Imperium that had cast him out as a mutant and wanted nothing more than to see him burn. His physique was massively out of proportion, twisted and ungainly, but incredibly powerful and enhanced by muscle boosters and a hissing, pneumatic lifter harness. It had been so long since he had escaped from the gibbet outside Confessor Malachai’s temple that he no longer remembered how long he had served in the armies of the Eternal Powers. He remembered the long flight into the wilds of his home world and the baying of his hunters, but beyond that, there was little other than their vengeful shrieks turning to terrified screams as the star warriors descended from the skies to butcher them. He’d almost died too, but one amongst the star warriors had seen a use for him, and he had served them with absolute loyalty ever since the day they had reduced his home world to a smoking wasteland. His old name was a thing to be shed, like a diseased skin, for it was an Imperial name. His masters hadn’t deigned to give him a new one, and simply called him gun slave. In their guttural accent, the second part of his name was rendered as Slav, and that had become his new identity; one he bore with perverse pride...'
I'm really glad you got a sponsorship. I mean...not a fan of Shady Raidy but you're one of my favorite channels. I've been watching (listening?) to your old videos nonstop since I found them in May. Your gravel and honey voice has kept me company through tough times. Thank you. I wish you nothing but success. Glory to the Emperor, victory for the Imperium.
Vinny Graves I hope it gets better soon brother. Each day should get easier when you are over the worst. Sorry to hear it’s so tough right now. Hold on in there!
I hope you are back fighting for the emperor brother. She/he was obviously a courtesan of The Masque and unworthy for such greatness as one who gives his all for the emperor 🙏🏼
Wow, the opening story to this video was beautifully tragic and struck a chord with me so powerfully. Having only just had my first child recently I was floored by this entry. Thank you Baldermort for taking me to places I never would have imagined.
Well made, Great Bald Lore Bearer... I stand insignificant in the glory you bring to the Lore bearing legion with these works..... being humbled is a farcry from what i feel after your fabulous oratory...seeming so insignificant yet being also equally inspired to Black Templar levels of fervor.... keep up the good fight and remember, Facts care not about your feelings! FOR THE EMPEROR!
Baldermort, never good ser, only in death can you fail, and tbh, we would probably just re group in the warp and all of us become the Extermanitus of the Emperor upon Chaos. I could think of alot more not so fun Eternal Endings.
Good Baldermort, I find that with these longer videos I must pause and go for a smoke and absorb/ponder over the topic. You have been the cause of many a fun smoke/coffee break sir. I thank you for it. Signed, A guy who doesn't play the game but loves the lore (and the painted models)
Me too, I truly believe Baldermort might just be the single best narrator on this platform. Games Workshop needs to hire this man to do audio books. That BASS. The POWER in his pipes.
The opening story is extremely sad especially when you think about how some hypothesize psykers to be the next step in natural human evolution and this child with great and talented parents in a loving community with seemingly unfathomable potential while still a baby has to be sacrificed because of imperial creed and its teachings to avoid a potential chaos incident. Great potential and a live forsaken because of the shortcomings of the greater society he grew up in and the inability of that same civilization to appropriately handle and nurture him for which his light gets snuffed out. No my dear Lord Inquisitor, something flew in my eye just now, i´m not sympathizing with mutants, I would never, my life for the Imperium, sir.
If only the black ships were in orbit, the boy would either be a potentially sanctioned psyker when old enough or like one of many psychic flavored crisps for the emperor to snack on.
@@sessy01 Even if there is no black ship around, it's usually the duty of local authorities to put psykers under arrest and containment until the next visit by a Black ship. I realize that on a backwater world where there's barely any voidship traffic, this isn't the best course of action but still. If hypothetically this had been a civilized or hive world, then there would be little justification not to contain the child. Ironically it would have been grimdark as hell, as the kid would have lived literally his entire life in a cell of the planet or in the cargo hold of the black ship that inevitably arrive.
What an epic story! I always enjoy your writing and your longer standing charakters are so much fun, but this one was amazing! To me, one of the best ways to set up horror is the quiet way, the unavoidable kreeping up to you kind and this just carried so much weight, I could taste the dread. Thank you for that.
Another gem, Baldermort! The intro conveys so much emotion and as a result quite compelling, even tragic. great job visually as well. You animate and lend a perspective of compassion to a subject that has indeed been overlooked. Well done!
I really appreciate that you don't put ads in your videos. I have nothing against in video sponsors, hope you're getting something back for all your hard work. Massive love from the Aussy crowd
Baldermort, you truly are a gifted story teller. Only a few months has it been since I found the grimdark world of Warhammer. Your bitter tales and the gloomy tone with which you tell them... I should perhaps have commented sooner to tell you my appreciation. What you do is amazing. Keep doing it.
Hey man, you don't need to apologize for not doing this 100% for free. Being broke sucks, and I'm glad you're finding a way to make money doing this. If people don't like it, it's their problem. Please keep the content coming.
Im not sure if this would technically fit the title of "mutant", but I think the flayed ones of the necrons would be their races "mutant". They are hated, feared and usually destroyed unless they are being useful in battle
So talented narator... Youre amazing. I played Warhammer 40k 10-15 years ago and now reading books like crazy- tnx to you. But I always have smile on my face when I see notification of your new video. I know ill have my heart touched...
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Not a fan of raid ads, but GOD DAMN you made it sound epic. I'm glad you're getting sponsors because you deserve it for your great work. I sincerely hope to see more raid shadow legends ads from you!
The parallels to real world racism/caste systems/genocide/etc. really add to the grim darkness. Anyone know any good mutant stories? Those shark men have me interested.
daverage47 heh! Thanks brother. I like to Chuck in a few nods for ya older chaps. Loved Johnny Alpha and Wulf. Been an age since I read 2000ad. I really should get some back issues. :) b
I can not say with or express with mere human words how privileged I am to have gotten to know this incredible channel! Baldermort.....you truly are the best 40k lore channel on holy Terra!
I’d like some feedback on this idea I had. I’ve been saving up and might finally be able to collect a few models but couldn’t decide between my love for the death guard & my more recent interest in making a chaos are sisters of battle unit, so wt I came up with is an OC blightspawn( which by the way baldermort u should definitely do a video on them)like Fabius obsessed with his work but more loyal to nurgle then he is to his Primarch and his goal is to create something that would put him closer to the grandfather a plague that could turn a perpetual(the emperor)into a loyal servant of nurgle,but he split with his blightlord terminators from mortarion‘s main force attacking the ultramarines which had no interest. He realized he needed more “help” and stumbled across a squad of sisters of battle being wiped out by khorn berserkers. He “saves” them,Corrupts /convinces them that his work could “save” their emperor & they join him(maybe saying their trainees would make that make more sense Idk) so now him,his terminators, and his nurgle inflicted sisters r on the hunt for The only thing he still need,a perpetual to test on so their mission is to either find Vulcan or collect enough salamander gene seed as to make the difference irrelevant( which would probably mean most of it) i’d probably also get a helbrute or great unclean one down the road and add to the story
Hunter Waguespack it’s not really possible on the board as it stands at the present. But!! If you agreed to proxy the sisters for Nurgle marines you could get away with putting them all in one force? I think most players are more worried about stats than lore, but it’s always going to be a sell to get anyone to think out of the box. Would play against it? You bet your ass I would. Many would. ;)
Jakob Lystbæk thanks brother. I know people are saturated but they’ve been good to me. Patient when I wasn’t well. It helped a lot. Thanks for your kindness. ;)
Far out Chaplain Bald, you've caused a mutation in my tear ducts that can't stop leaking right about now... this hits so hard as a father and you have done such a justice to the heartbreak of such a tragedy.
Haha My favorite part is you're like "hey everyone hates how much people are sponsored by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS, but their paying my electric bill! Are you going to do that!"
Hello hello Baldermort, I love your content it's well.... fascinating, exciting and damned well pleasurable to experience. so pleasurable that I'd let the night lords torture me for years just so I could watch, listen and soak in the pleasure and honour of your videos. I've never heard a voice such as yours never thought something like it could exist. I don't know how old you are but I hope you live for centuries you are amazing at what you do, you sir are unique and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for you being you and existing.
The closest thing to Necron mutation would be the Flayed Ones. Basically an infectious madness that is contagious, so while the Necron's can't control the movements of the Flayed Ones or contain them (they show up wherever and whenever they want), they stay well away from them.
One of the main points of contention in the 40k universe. Understanding that Psykers and mutants are dangerous: yes. Ostracizing and culling them for a fluke of genetics: no. Those caused by Chaos, definitely an issue. But if it's just a quirk of birth, then it's a moral dilemma. But the 40k universe is a time of intolerance, religious wars and genocide. Exploring humanity at its worst survival mode is one of the reasons I love this series. Wouldn't want to live there, but from an outside perspective, fascinating.
X-men: We got it rough....
40K mutant: OH YOU POOR SAD PRIVILEGED DOLTS...
Kargath Bladefist (WoD) yep. In buckets. ;)
Lol.
And they thought genosha was bad
The government in marvel should be treating mutants like they do in 40k solely for the fact that a solid amount of mutants have enough power to destroy the world and that around half of them turn evil
@Modustollens1 You mean Hong Kongers. Taiwan doesn't have that oppression.
As a father, this has to be the most emotionally evocative introduction tale from Baldermort. Unfortunately, like most well written and articulated tragedies, it's so good I don't think I can bring myself to listen to it again. Kudos.
At about 3am that will change temporarily. Or when they hit raging teens age. Or when the little monster starts driving. Bite your nails to the bone worrying if they get to school and back safe. When they enlist in the army. God that's the worst. Wouldn't change a thing tho. Do it all over again.
By the Emperor's shiny Golden throne, a Raid Shadow Legends advertisement worth listening to.
Mark Mueller-Rougier lol. Thanks brother Mark. :) :)
Thats a first
If the Thousand Sons never went traitor they’d have that planet in the intro story as a recruiting world. All those kids that are cloud touched would be amazing Librarians.
Kargath Bladefist (WoD) yep. Can’t argue with that.
Children of the clouds. Sounds like recruits for white scars stormseers.
Uno Fonseca the WS and TS could share the world.
Hello UA-cam algorithm. Am I the only person who does not play video games? Congratulations on the sponsorship! Welcome to the big leagues!
Jason Ulysess thanks brother Ulysses. I’ve done a couple now. RAID hand been patient and supportive. I honestly couldn’t ask for more. :)
@@Baldermort Good to know. RAID is supporting a bunch of UA-camrs I like but since I do not play other than looking pretty I know nothing about them.
It's the reason why it's so expensive to go to see a movie now and is quickly becoming the #1 form of digital entertainment😂😁
Not the only one, but the vast majority of people play video games these days especially in the year 2020.
@@UNSCMarine117 Thanks for letting me know I am not alone.
I won't lie, I was half expecting an addendum to the opening narration where the child has survived by mind controlling the hungry fish, and now returns to the village as a grown man
Gorbz lol. Anything can happen I gues. :£
And he looks exactly like Jason Momoa.
@@Baldermort If wind control is such a common outcome that an entire culture has grown around it with wise elders teaching them to use their powers then that can't really be a random mutation, it has to at the very least be something buried in the genes of the population of that planet, some recessive genes that can be triggered by the right pairing of parents similar to how certain genetic diseases propagate, possibly some epigenetic element.
In that case the children of the clouds could be a result of ancient gene modding from before Old Night, possibly there existed a research station on the world experimenting with the warp based powers that at that point were a mere curiosity. And when the battle lines were drawn they used their experimental gene mods to bolster the population to fight back against the Men of Iron?
Sven Hallgren yep. Plot hole. Ah well. Maybe I’ll get it done better next time round. :)
@@Baldermort Any apparent plotholes are in fact The Changer of Ways working his schemes in inscrutable ways, don't worry about them.
You have a voice that could literally sell ice to eskimos.
Lmao amazing comment and very true
Bit racist.
@@Cynocehali Would you prefer ""Selling Sand to Arabs?"
Let's not use that last word.
@@sitchreapotere1073 You get to decide that do you?
I love seeing you having sponsors! It makes me happy to know you are getting some compensation for your wondrous story telling and entrancing writing.
Isaac Clodfelter I couldn’t really do it without them. Them and the Baldermarti. I’m lucky. Very. :)
I was just rewatching your sisters of battle vid for the like the 10th time when you posted this. May the emperor bless you Baldermort.
That’s a good one, I have his Black Templar’s video on repeat when I lift weights. Such a great Chanel
I have a playlist for warhammer lore and several of his vids are on it he’s just amazing when it comes to the lore
I've rewatched Baldemorts Land Raider video like that, it makes me tear up every time.
I just watched that one last night :D
@@jamesvowell291 the three part video on rogul always gets me :"(
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*sigh*
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*Ok, maybe just ONE minute can’t hurt...*
I have to say thanks to the game devs, because they sponsor a lot of creators who might be too edgy for most sponsors.
@@crudkick Dankula by any chance?
Orc girl? Wait... YOUR A HERETIC!
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Awww yeah, the faithful servant getting that RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS money! Get it dude!
Ya boi, Raid: Shadow Legends never lets down.
*narrows eyes* Call the Salamanders, we’re gonna need more flamers.
Book Sabaton for the music score
Hug 'em, then burn 'em!
That was a really strong story. I keep forgetting mutants can be more than Minotaur looking guy, and the negative impact it can have on a planet. Also I really liked the Overgrown Tomb art work, I only a couple copies of that. I am super cool with more art work like that popping up in this videos. As always great video and I hope you are feeling well!
Being a real life mutant myself (born with syndactytly; on my right hand which only has two fingers), I still enjoy Warhammer 40k immensely. My first army has been an abhuman regiment with ogyran, ratlings & squats & if I survived into adulthood within 40k, I'd fight for the Imperium of Man alongside them if I was able to that's for sure.
Your videos are awesome as always, Baldermort!
Until now, I did not realize mutants were such an existential threat, not just to the Imperium but the whole galaxy. Until now, I had woefully underestimated what a mutant even was, or could be. By the Emperor..
Damn...a beautiful story as always but I couldn't help but choke up. You've really knocked this out of the park. Haven't felt like this since the landrader vid. Keep on tugging those heart strings brother Baldermort.
Inquisitor Longshadow *bows*. Many thanks brother. :) :)
0:39 When Slaneesh embraces the Waaaagh!
Its great to hear the longer stories.
Jesus dude i almost cried your voice carries so much emotion
Jangus the destroyer *bows*
Baldermort's Guide to Warhammer i am honoured to be your gentle listener, thank you
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A chaos defiler video, please 🙏😊
I been playing this game almost everyday since your first time you talked about it, it’s a fun game. I spend like 20 minutes a day it’s really relaxing
Hey, Baldy! Have you talked about how the Necron get around the galaxy in any video? I found precious little info on the inertialess drive in my late night google adventure the other day. Many thanks for the stories and knowledge good sir! :)
Brother Baldermort - This is the perfect way to handle this sponsor. A lot of people toss the company grief (and rightly so for some of their practices), but the way you frame it makes it clear what it does for the channel, you handle it immediately at the beginning and then delve into the main content of the video itself. I can respect that.
It's also a vote of confidence by them in your channel that you have a solid enough channel with a large enough audience to be worth the investment, and you show yourself worth their time with how you treat them like any other sponsor and fulfill your obligations with respect and class.
Well done, brother.
Brother Baldermort have you ever heard of the Saruthi? Their entire race and society have been permanently mutated by chaos corruption.
1: suffer not the mutant 2: great job as always, that aren’t a audio book narrator or va is a crime 3: you need to play more games with majorkill 4-10: Suffer not the mutant
NoTimeAllTime definitely. Thanks boss. Gonna try - see if he survives the night! Oh most definitely. ;)
@@Baldermort Well I think as a Aussie he is uniquely equipped for just that sort of trial!
"I have terrible news."
"Your child, he, he has been afflicted with the 'happy'."
*Gasp*
"Death is the only cure, i'm afraid."
Don't you ever doubt how much I love you and what you do. I can't remember the last time I actually sat through an advert without clicking past it. Absolutely worth it.
How fitting that a fiction that leans so heavily on the "Necessary Evil" narrative would have its most talented ambassador find sponsorship from Raid.
Your work is incredible Baldermort. UA-cam wouldn't be the same without you.
Super Cosmic Space Magnet thanks for all your kindness brother. Thank you. ;)
There is a mention about mutation in Tau. In Deathwatch an Inquisitor and a Tau Sha'sho were experimenting on Tau that did not embrace the greater good and turned them into Tyranids. The local Ethereal was also in support of that.
Imperial preacher: We have to hate and not tolerate the mutant, otherwise they will rebell and try to overthrow our society.
**Mutants rebell because they are hated and opressed**
Imperial preacher: Told ya!
Honestly any Necron mutation is probably just the influence of the warp causing necrodermis to be damaged, thus needing to be repaired and replaced. It'd be interesting to see if a daemon could possess one of the more basic Necron forms
They dont have a soul so they really cant
@@Darqshadow Isn't it less lacking a soul but having no psychic potential?
I have heard the Tau are little touched by demonic incursions due to them not having any ability to access the warp.
@@SPINCTDAILY But Nurgle now has all these cool daemons that infest technological constructs so I'd say it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say they probably could go after Necron tech. The granddaddy of which would be the Gellar plague, this almost sounds like an experiment meant to go after Necrons since it's literally a daemon plague that targets the Gellar field generators of terran vessels, so it probably just needs some refinement to work against blackstone...
What about the Flayer Curse? That actively causes the necrodermis to reshape and mutate a Necron’s form.
I think if the Necrons are influenced by any of the dark gods it would be that of Tzneech. The hope the Silent King has to reclaim their organic forms and souls can probably lead the more desperate Necron Lords to maybe strike a deal with the changer of ways for knowledge on how to do so.
Plus I’d love to see Tzneech tainted Necrons give the Thousand Suns a run for their money on who could wear the Egyptian aesthetics better. Cease and desist that Magnus, you nerdy, one eyed, kilithikadya fried chicken.
Somebody lay down a towel! This is gonna get messy...
RockSplitter went for less visceral today. Going to be heavy stuff coming up. I assure you. ;)
@@Baldermort Much visceral viscera. Excellent.
This story is truly *GrimDark*
Carlos Pomares in a good way I hope. :)
By the Emperor, that lead in story..... You could make the phone book sound good😆
Btw, thanks for dragging me into Raid.
Gary Symons thanks brother. It’s a jolly little distraction I find. Pick up and put down. I have life stealing stuff now. It helps a LOT! But I’m awful at games these days. Lol. Doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them.
‘…For too long, you have suffered!’ The Apostle’s voice rang over the vox-speakers, fighting with the rising bleats of the herd. Azmedi strained to listen. Comprehension was slipping away into animality. He considered the part that listened his human half. The other part, the beast part, jerked against the leashes of shame. Soon it would break free and consume his reasoning mind, but for now he could still understand. ‘You have been cast out and consigned to the fringes of ten thousand worlds, fit only for the noisome places where pure-bloods will not go,’ the Apostle said. ‘You are the lords of ruin, for ruins are all you have ever had to call your own. The citizens of the Imperium, those upright tyrants who shun you, have another name for you, a shameful name, a name that is soaked through with their contempt.’ Azmedi didn’t need to hear the word. It was uttered the moment he was born to his horrified mother, and chased him out of the bright places into the haunts of freaks and criminals. There the word had been shouted again, and he had been driven further on, despised even by other creatures who bore the stigma of mutation. The word. The Apostle was going to say the word. ‘No! No! No!’ Azmedi shouted, his speech losing its shape, becoming a warbling, caprine bleat. ‘Beastmen,’ said the Apostle. The hold erupted with shouts and cries; there were those who raged, but most voices cried out in despair. ‘They call you beastmen.’ There had been Imperial iterators, down in the deeps where Azmedi had found his own kind, who had come to teach their secular religion to every branch of mankind, no matter how devolved, in mean schools they carved out of compressed, hive-bottom junk. The Apostle’s words evoked those lessons, fifteen years ago. So long, for one of his kind. The lives of the beastkin were short. ‘In the beginning, when man left the world you will soon conquer, he had but one form. Many places moulded the genome of our species, and one form became many!’ Azmedi’s breaking mind reeled with the sermon. His memories intruded into the present, words said to him, words that were more than sounds on the air, but chains to bind him. ‘Homo sapiens variatus,’ the smiling man had said, as if that explained everything. ‘Others retain the name of human, but not you. Not you!’ the Apostle railed. ‘Your dignity was taken from you. You were decreed as less than human, abhuman, mutant. Undesirables on worlds you called home for hundreds of generations! The Emperor meddles with mankind’s form, and they call His monsters heroes, yet you - you, the rightful children of change - are branded beasts!’ There were those who tried to follow the rules. There were those who tried to understand. There were those who tried to atone for the sin of being born. It made no difference. All Azmedi’s kind were hated. Though their forms were no more aberrant than other human strains, their appearance evoked folk-memories of devils and they were treated accordingly. ‘If a man is treated as a beast, then he becomes a beast!’ The beastmen roared out their pain. They locked their horns and butted heads. The hold reeked of droppings and rage. ‘Beasts!’ shouted a beastman close to Azmedi. ‘Beasts!’ bleated another. The cry spread through the herd, until the hold shook with stamping hooves and the chant of ‘Beasts! Beasts! Beasts!’ The Apostle’s sermon rose in volume to compete. ‘But to the Pantheon, you are holy beings! You are pure! You are the children of Chaos! You are the living example of mutability! Go out! Go out into the fire, and cast down those in thrall to the False Emperor! Trample His works beneath your feet, wet your horns with the blood of unbelievers!’ ‘Beasts! Beasts! Beasts!’ The stink of aggression filled the world. Azmedi’s nostrils flared to breathe it in. He resisted joining the call for violence until the very last. His senses reeling, memories of oppression crashed upon him in waves, threatening to drown his sanity in misery and injustice. He would not drown. He wanted to remain a man. He wished to stay human. He could not. His muzzle shaking, Azmedi opened his mouth and threw back his horned head. ‘Beasts!’ he roared. His human mind sank into rage. There were two colours to the world: red and black. All other hues existed to be drenched in the former or cast into the latter. The first came with violence, the second with the end of life. There was nothing in between blood and death. Azmedi welcomed such oblivion, for there was no pain there. When the clamps released the herdship from its carrier, and the nose pitched down for the desperate rush to Terra, the beastmen were already fighting each other…’
'...GUNN SLAV WORKED the chain to the magazine, hauling on the rusted block and tackle to raise another crate of shells for the gatling cannon on the starboard cliff of the Black Basilica. His hunched back and grossly swollen shoulder muscles gave him a simian stature that kept him from the battle lines, but made him an ideal loader for the diabolic guns. It was a task he relished, for it allowed him a chance to strike back at the Imperium that had cast him out as a mutant and wanted nothing more than to see him burn. His physique was massively out of proportion, twisted and ungainly, but incredibly powerful and enhanced by muscle boosters and a hissing, pneumatic lifter harness. It had been so long since he had escaped from the gibbet outside Confessor Malachai’s temple that he no longer remembered how long he had served in the armies of the Eternal Powers. He remembered the long flight into the wilds of his home world and the baying of his hunters, but beyond that, there was little other than their vengeful shrieks turning to terrified screams as the star warriors descended from the skies to butcher them. He’d almost died too, but one amongst the star warriors had seen a use for him, and he had served them with absolute loyalty ever since the day they had reduced his home world to a smoking wasteland. His old name was a thing to be shed, like a diseased skin, for it was an Imperial name. His masters hadn’t deigned to give him a new one, and simply called him gun slave. In their guttural accent, the second part of his name was rendered as Slav, and that had become his new identity; one he bore with perverse pride...'
Man baldy! I'm loving your stuff. Glad you're sponsored and doing well. Happy for you :)
Craft of Gaming thanks brother Gaming. A lot. :)
I'm really glad you got a sponsorship. I mean...not a fan of Shady Raidy but you're one of my favorite channels. I've been watching (listening?) to your old videos nonstop since I found them in May. Your gravel and honey voice has kept me company through tough times. Thank you. I wish you nothing but success. Glory to the Emperor, victory for the Imperium.
This man is helping me get over a bad break up just with his ability to tell a story. Amazing.
Vinny Graves I hope it gets better soon brother. Each day should get easier when you are over the worst. Sorry to hear it’s so tough right now. Hold on in there!
I hope you are back fighting for the emperor brother. She/he was obviously a courtesan of The Masque and unworthy for such greatness as one who gives his all for the emperor 🙏🏼
Wow, the opening story to this video was beautifully tragic and struck a chord with me so powerfully. Having only just had my first child recently I was floored by this entry. Thank you Baldermort for taking me to places I never would have imagined.
That first part...really grabbed my heart and shook it. Right to the core ...
Well made, Great Bald Lore Bearer...
I stand insignificant in the glory you bring to the Lore bearing legion with these works..... being humbled is a farcry from what i feel after your fabulous oratory...seeming so insignificant yet being also equally inspired to Black Templar levels of fervor.... keep up the good fight and remember,
Facts care not about your feelings!
FOR THE EMPEROR!
BeatingClownz thanks brother Clownz. I hope I don’t let you down. ;).
Baldermort, never good ser, only in death can you fail, and tbh, we would probably just re group in the warp and all of us become the Extermanitus of the Emperor upon Chaos. I could think of alot more not so fun Eternal Endings.
Good Baldermort,
I find that with these longer videos I must pause and go for a smoke and absorb/ponder over the topic.
You have been the cause of many a fun smoke/coffee break sir.
I thank you for it.
Signed, A guy who doesn't play the game but loves the lore (and the painted models)
Honestly, this was the best Raid Shadow Legends ad I've ever seen.
Can't hate on your ads man, your voice work makes it enjoyable no matter what.
Me: sees Baldermort post. Click on vid. Click like button. Watch vid.
It’s almost Pavlovian... ;)
Me too, I truly believe Baldermort might just be the single best narrator on this platform. Games Workshop needs to hire this man to do audio books. That BASS. The POWER in his pipes.
@@Theanomalyof88 Shakespeare crossed with atomic gravel.
This is the channel of the Master Sage... Truth. Love them all
Mmmmm Pavlova....
The opening story is extremely sad especially when you think about how some hypothesize psykers to be the next step in natural human evolution and this child with great and talented parents in a loving community with seemingly unfathomable potential while still a baby has to be sacrificed because of imperial creed and its teachings to avoid a potential chaos incident. Great potential and a live forsaken because of the shortcomings of the greater society he grew up in and the inability of that same civilization to appropriately handle and nurture him for which his light gets snuffed out.
No my dear Lord Inquisitor, something flew in my eye just now, i´m not sympathizing with mutants, I would never, my life for the Imperium, sir.
If only the black ships were in orbit, the boy would either be a potentially sanctioned psyker when old enough or like one of many psychic flavored crisps for the emperor to snack on.
More like the imperial stupidity
@@sessy01 Even if there is no black ship around, it's usually the duty of local authorities to put psykers under arrest and containment until the next visit by a Black ship.
I realize that on a backwater world where there's barely any voidship traffic, this isn't the best course of action but still.
If hypothetically this had been a civilized or hive world, then there would be little justification not to contain the child. Ironically it would have been grimdark as hell, as the kid would have lived literally his entire life in a cell of the planet or in the cargo hold of the black ship that inevitably arrive.
It was the horror of the tyrant that came before that sealed the child's fate.
"He would not die ... He... Would Not... Die.'
Well after that narration I'm gonna go watch the dragon slayer video to cheer myself up lol. Great work, Baldermort!
What an epic story!
I always enjoy your writing and your longer standing charakters are so much fun, but this one was amazing! To me, one of the best ways to set up horror is the quiet way, the unavoidable kreeping up to you kind and this just carried so much weight, I could taste the dread. Thank you for that.
Leandro Bravo thank you for your generosity of spirit brother. It means the world. ;)
Another gem, Baldermort! The intro conveys so much emotion and as a result quite compelling, even tragic. great job visually as well. You animate and lend a perspective of compassion to a subject that has indeed been overlooked. Well done!
The ultimate enemy, the other taken to the extreme. Great vid balders now flee quickly before the Black Templars show up
Joshua Sakai already our the door brother Sakai. ;).
I really appreciate that you don't put ads in your videos. I have nothing against in video sponsors, hope you're getting something back for all your hard work.
Massive love from the Aussy crowd
I literally just found you yesterday, Baldemort, and already I’m gifted with a video on a subject I’m genuinely interested in. Emperor smile upon you.
*Baldermort puts out 30 +minute video*
YES!!!!
If most channels i watch put half the effort in doing that raid ad as you do i probably wouldn't skip them, you made it sound awsome!
When you accept the money you do a good job. Or at least try? Just my opinion. :)
Baldermort, you truly are a gifted story teller.
Only a few months has it been since I found the grimdark world of Warhammer. Your bitter tales and the gloomy tone with which you tell them...
I should perhaps have commented sooner to tell you my appreciation.
What you do is amazing. Keep doing it.
Love that you're making use of sponsorships, all the best.
RVSAU169 thanks brother. Means a lot. :)
Hey man, you don't need to apologize for not doing this 100% for free. Being broke sucks, and I'm glad you're finding a way to make money doing this.
If people don't like it, it's their problem. Please keep the content coming.
coming back to this a year later and i still cried haha sir this is my favorite one of yours
The story in the beginning was so sad but so well written. thank you for this video.
Emperor dammit! Baldermort your story and the telling was almost enough for me to shed a tear, a sad performance but a magnificent one.
Nonarei thanks brother. A lot. :)
Fortunately, Baldermort stated how long the ad would be. A faithful servant indeed.
Im not sure if this would technically fit the title of "mutant", but I think the flayed ones of the necrons would be their races "mutant". They are hated, feared and usually destroyed unless they are being useful in battle
Jesus Christ, you’ve got me all choked up just from the beginning part. You are so good at this
Youre the best narrator loremaster to date on 40k.
So talented narator...
Youre amazing.
I played Warhammer 40k 10-15 years ago and now reading books like crazy- tnx to you.
But I always have smile on my face when I see notification of your new video. I know ill have my heart touched...
As a father myself, hard to hold back tears ! ! !
Congrats of RAID sponsorship, well deserved ! ! !
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Magnificent entry, brother. Quite the heart-wrenching story at the beggining! Also: Congrats on getting sponsors!
David Cortes thanks brother Cortes. I’m feeling a lot better now so will be back on patron in force over the next week. Hold this space. :)
@@Baldermort Yaaay!! So glad to hear both things!! This space SHALL be held!!
Not a fan of raid ads, but GOD DAMN you made it sound epic. I'm glad you're getting sponsors because you deserve it for your great work. I sincerely hope to see more raid shadow legends ads from you!
Love this channel, the narration is more than worth the price of admission!
That first part was heartbreaking! Well done! I always look forwald to these.
What a beautifully sad vignette. A small story from a small corner of the Imperium. It shows the grim dark resolve one must have to be a citizen.
The parallels to real world racism/caste systems/genocide/etc. really add to the grim darkness. Anyone know any good mutant stories? Those shark men have me interested.
30.15....Great video Baldemort. Bonus points for including everyones favourite mutant Johnny Alpha, and Wulf Sternhammer. Nice job me old cucumber! ;)
daverage47 heh! Thanks brother. I like to Chuck in a few nods for ya older chaps. Loved Johnny Alpha and Wulf. Been an age since I read 2000ad. I really should get some back issues. :) b
I like the Abhumans and other human divergents, such as the Voidborn and the Psykers.
I can not say with or express with mere human words how privileged I am to have gotten to know this incredible channel! Baldermort.....you truly are the best 40k lore channel on holy Terra!
Purge the mutant the Xeno and the witch
Great video always look forward to the longer Friday videos
Welcome buddy glad you got to the top keep up the good work.
All hail great Brother Baldy!..it is truly an honor to contribute to your continued growth !
GRATZ ON THE SPONSOR! You deserve an unending ocean of Throne Gelts for the passion and creativity of yr stories.
I’d like some feedback on this idea I had. I’ve been saving up and might finally be able to collect a few models but couldn’t decide between my love for the death guard & my more recent interest in making a chaos are sisters of battle unit, so wt I came up with is an OC blightspawn( which by the way baldermort u should definitely do a video on them)like Fabius obsessed with his work but more loyal to nurgle then he is to his Primarch and his goal is to create something that would put him closer to the grandfather a plague that could turn a perpetual(the emperor)into a loyal servant of nurgle,but he split with his blightlord terminators from mortarion‘s main force attacking the ultramarines which had no interest. He realized he needed more “help” and stumbled across a squad of sisters of battle being wiped out by khorn berserkers. He “saves” them,Corrupts /convinces them that his work could “save” their emperor & they join him(maybe saying their trainees would make that make more sense Idk) so now him,his terminators, and his nurgle inflicted sisters r on the hunt for The only thing he still need,a perpetual to test on so their mission is to either find Vulcan or collect enough salamander gene seed as to make the difference irrelevant( which would probably mean most of it) i’d probably also get a helbrute or great unclean one down the road and add to the story
Hunter Waguespack it’s not really possible on the board as it stands at the present. But!! If you agreed to proxy the sisters for Nurgle marines you could get away with putting them all in one force? I think most players are more worried about stats than lore, but it’s always going to be a sell to get anyone to think out of the box. Would play against it? You bet your ass I would. Many would. ;)
I think Artel W are making a sister model for each chaos god
Bohdan Bilas oooooh. Now that’s going to be epic, Brother Bohdan. Epic. :)
Starting to lose track of the number of Baldermort videos that have hit me right in the feels....
Amazing stuff good sir.
Hi UA-cam algorithm!!
I can’t wait. I CANNOT WAIT! For your talk about the men of iron and long night. It’s literally my favourite part of 40K
TKD Ward I’ll do my best not to let you down. ;)
I am so glad you got sponsorship man, you deserved it big time! Keep on doing great work!
Today was shit, it's a little better now. Thank you brother.
Jeebers, Lord Baldermort!! :'( You write and perform these stories so well!!
Love you bauldy, and great video. Thank you for telling us how long the raid ad was. ;)
You know, even though i had just failed my math assignment over puting a space inbetween my comma... This made my day
zane stewart sorry to hear about your honest mistake costing you so much brother. :(. At least you know! You’ll ace it next time?
Probably the best Raid Shadow Legends read I've heard. And I've heard a lot!
Jakob Lystbæk thanks brother. I know people are saturated but they’ve been good to me. Patient when I wasn’t well. It helped a lot. Thanks for your kindness. ;)
That raid shadow legends intro was so good it almost made me want to play it.....almost
Id like a follow up video describing some of the types of physical mutations that have been documented!
Even if it is RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS!!!! I am supremely happy you are now supported with a sponsor!
Congratulations Baldermort!
kangtheknightx thanks brother Knight. A lot. :)
This man can make a Raid Shadow Legends ad enjoyable
Far out Chaplain Bald, you've caused a mutation in my tear ducts that can't stop leaking right about now... this hits so hard as a father and you have done such a justice to the heartbreak of such a tragedy.
Haha My favorite part is you're like "hey everyone hates how much people are sponsored by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS, but their paying my electric bill! Are you going to do that!"
Actually you put it in a much nicer way but what i said is my head cannon lol
With your voice u can make anything sound awsome. Keep up the great vids
Dammit Boldy, that intro summoned the onion fairy
Gees Baulders you had me in bits with that story. Great work thank you sir 😉👍🏻
First raid ad I’ve watched since he is literally the best voice actor for anything.
16 min in and I’m heartbroken
Hello hello Baldermort, I love your content it's well.... fascinating, exciting and damned well pleasurable to experience. so pleasurable that I'd let the night lords torture me for years just so I could watch, listen and soak in the pleasure and honour of your videos. I've never heard a voice such as yours never thought something like it could exist. I don't know how old you are but I hope you live for centuries you are amazing at what you do, you sir are unique and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for you being you and existing.
The closest thing to Necron mutation would be the Flayed Ones. Basically an infectious madness that is contagious, so while the Necron's can't control the movements of the Flayed Ones or contain them (they show up wherever and whenever they want), they stay well away from them.
Mann of Dober I see it more as a curse than a mutation. But that’s me. :).
Ave, brother Baldermort. Absolutely brilliant as always.
Jacob Valentine thanks brother Valentine. ;)
One of the main points of contention in the 40k universe. Understanding that Psykers and mutants are dangerous: yes.
Ostracizing and culling them for a fluke of genetics: no. Those caused by Chaos, definitely an issue. But if it's just a quirk of birth, then it's a moral dilemma.
But the 40k universe is a time of intolerance, religious wars and genocide. Exploring humanity at its worst survival mode is one of the reasons I love this series. Wouldn't want to live there, but from an outside perspective, fascinating.
Fear the mutant, hate the mutant, kill the mutant! Purge the unclean!
A blessed day it is, that the lore master uploads!