Jokes on you they're into that. Remember that ritually dying is what gets them promotions (no it doesn't count if they get a back massage from a Flayed One but it probably gets you in the mindset where you aren't phased by these things after literally pulling your soul back to your body through the warp.)
The Lion: "Well, Horus is off to get praised by the Emperor and my brothers for the Ullanor Crusade. Boys, I think it's time for a vacation! Off to the Ghoul Stars!"
I think the best possibility apart from a surviving C'tan affecting the Ghoul Stars is humanity. There are a lot of completely empty human planets. There's a so-so human-looking xenos species with highly advanced tech... What if humanity there back in the Dark Age of Technology unlocked something they should not have and that ended up murking the entire region. That could be funny...
I don't think its a surviving C'tan contributing, but the one that died. Like the Ghoul Stars is where it died, so this is an effect of its death like the Flayed Ones are
@tokaygekko5135 i feel like a necrons dynasty that's more worried about keeping man kind away and safe from shit it shouldn't go near would be hilarious as that would just make the imperium more curious and now everyones fucked cause if the necrons DIDNT fucking try it the eldrich thing from beyond the darkest stars probably wouldn't have been found and now everyones gotta pay
I like the Cythor Fiends, weird alien inhabitants of the Ghoul Stars. "According to the Death Spectres [chapter], the Cythors are not alive in the sense humans would understand it."
Now that the T'au have tech that allows them to open wormholes, now I kinda want them to open one straight to the ghoul stars. It would give us a way to learn (and freak out)about the stuff there at the same time as the T'au do.
Wait, the T'au have developed technology that allows them to create wormholes that they can use to travel anywhere in the galaxy, and I assume in an instant. Two things: - If knowledge of this tech's existence reaches the Imperium, I can at least foresee the Mechanicus having some major debates over trying to learn it so that the Imperium can finally replace Warp Travel with something much safer and reliable. - The T'au opening one such wormhole directly into the Ghoul Stars is going to be a must-see
"Surely the Sixth Sphere Expansion into what the gue'vesa call the "Ghoul Stars" will not end in the same tragedy as the Fourth Sphere Expansion did, Aun'Va"
muttproductions2536 It was made by accident. Originally a bunch of ships were equipped with a new drive that was gonna make them travel faster and safer. However, Aun'va like an idiot didnt listen to the Earth caste engineer that told him that it shouldnt be used en mass and ordered the entire 4th expansion fleet to make the jump together. The results were : A) the fleet went straight into the warp (on live TV no less) with no gelard fields and was almost decimated by daemons and a good chunk of the Tau survivors that were rescued by the Greater Good Goddess went insane. B) The Wormhole (Startide Nexus) was created and the Tau used it to launch the 5th Sphere Expansion. C) The Greater Good Goddess seems to reside inside the pathway of the wormhole and it even destroyed a death Guard fleet that went in while allowing Tau forces to come and go. D)Currently the T'au have perfected the technology and are planing to use it again to launch the 6th expansion. (However, T'au sightings have been reported throughout the galaxy so they might have been using it for a while)
@@_NIKOS9_NIKOS And by insane, we mean they would murder all non-T'au allies on the ships and would go on to kill any non-T'au they were ever deployed with until Shadowsun herself had to step in and basically executive order that they never be put with non-T'au allies again.
Want to know something even weirder. Ive know about them for years but thought Id search the name on UA-cam today on a whim and this video was here. Crazy.
I definitely think the death of thay C'tan is at least in part what messed up the Ghoul Stars. Like, wouldn't be surprised if that was the area where it was killed.
Here's a fun thought: C'tan can't die in a way we can understand and Llandagor isn't dead, it _is_ the Flayer Curse and that's why the way it spreads is so weird.
@steweygrrr my impression from TDK was that Llandu'gor was the only C'tan to actually be killed (apart from ones consumed by other C'tan), and it was it's dying thrashing combined with some "that which is dead may eternal lie..." shenanigans that created the curse. Which is also why the overwhelming majority of flayed ones are from the dynasties that took part. (Maynarkh, Ithikas, etc)
Dk: "They're basically the same person..." Bricky: "They're nowhere even close... one is "awwraght awwraght awwraght"... the other is "WAA-OW!"... LOL, Now THAT needs to be a poster... maybe with Fulgrim as McConauhgey, and I dunno... Lorgar(?) as Wilson....
So the Ghoul Stars are basically just a place to relive the early days of the Great Crusade, when the Expedition Fleets would find all kinds of bullshit from the Dark Age of Technology and every kind of alien fiend you can imagine.
I like the idea of a no-no space that's so ancient and weird that even chaos has no goddamn idea what it is. Something so powerful the Warp is even at it's mercy there.
12:36 "The black templars are probably the most...how do I put this?..." (Legally distinct nu metal music starts playing) 🎵 *PUUUUUUUURGING WIIIITH MY KIIIIIIIIIIN!* 🎶 Complete lunatics.
I actually had my Guardsmen in the Goul Stars. They, along with other ships, were all supposed to be reinforcing Cadia, but didn't make it before the Cicatrix Maledicum opened and bounced them clear across the galaxy due to warp shenanigans. Now they're stuck in Nihilus trying to get back home to the other side. Taking small jumps so they don't get lost due to the dimmed to non-existent Astronomicon.
Deathwatch is the only 40k novel I've read, and it made me love the death spectres, even though you learn diddly squat about it lol. Love my boy Lyandro Karras.
It's a bit of a weird one for me because it's definitely a bit icky on things that really should have been left vaguer (looking at you oh purloiners of denim) but it does an interesting job of doing things with marines that are a little bit different from the norm like a Raven Guard marine who loves giving people nicknames and never shuts up, an Imperial fist wide enough to be his own fortification, the Death Spectre librarian of course and an Exorcist marine. If I might try tempt you to Chaos on account of there not being much in the way of good Raven Guard or their successor books, I think Shroud of Night might be an interesting follow up read for you. It doesn't have the Inquisition presence of Deathwatch but that along with slightly distasteful usage of Genestealers were the only parts I wasn't huge on in that book so I count that as a net positive. (They're not even trying to say they're doing the right thing, they're literally the corrupted Inquisitor stereotype which appeals to me less than the ones who do the wrong things for the right reasons and keep slipping deeper. I give the book a pass because they focus on the marines who were personally much more interesting.) Plus Shroud of Night features some fan favourite factions namely the Alpha Legion and Sisters of Battle. Most of the book is PoV Alpha Legion as they form their own mini kill team to sneak through a hive city under siege so it should be structurally similar to Deathwatch. Otherwise, you can definitely hear it on this channel but some Night Lords Omnibus books are excellent once you have your foothold in 40k
I based most of my space marine chapters and lore in this region. Infact I created a Shadow Aligned Eldar Craftworld, that was corrupted and worships the 'void god' that lives there. They had long fallen from the grace of the other craftworlds. They are called the Mael'von, also known as the Void Breakers. They resurrect others bodies as puppets and use them as fodder. And their armor changes in light to that of pure bone. Was a ton of fun to write for a small campaign to write.
11:00 - looking at the scyther fiends, they honestly look like Flayed Ones but warped through fog of war. 29:00 - also, fun fact (via lexicanum) - this is where Nostramo used to be, which, y'know, tracks.
Congrats on making it around the sun one more time Bricky! Also the ghoul stars telling the tyranids they came to the wrong neighborhood and just completely ruining their millennium with ptsd is absolutely terrifying.
Ghoul Stars is pretty much where people in Warhammer go to play their Call of Cthulu campaigns. It’s never “are we gonna die?,” it’s always “when are we gonna die?” No one comes out unscathed mentally at the very least.
It's reassuring to know that Bricky maintains a continuous stream in his old age. I expected to hear facts of a different nature about the Goon stars though.
So hype for this episode! Also I’ve been binging all your content, and y’all are the definition of my last two brain cells on WH40K and I’m so here for it lol
Ah, the part where Bricky is retelling the Death Spectres' founding story is just making me miss Karras from Steve Parker's Deathwatch books lol. I like him, he is shockingly chill for a Death Spectre. And of course I adore the cousin bond between him and Zeed, who is possibly the most un-Raven Guard son of Corax that I have ever encountered in any Black Library book lol.
Ran a Horus Heresy Campaign set in the ghoul stars. I had the sort of 5th chaos god Malice being held at bay by the artifice of a golden age humanity in the ghoul stars. It was pretty fun. My friend that plays word bearers got to have a character ascend as a champion of Malice. Good times.
Bricky, as a 31 year old husk of my former self i must let you know that it actually only gets worse. But YOU get better at handling the suck so at least theres that. Solidarity,brother
Old (4th ed?) codexes/core rulebook mentions got it in my head: Hateful Undead vibe coming from the stars there. Everything is warped/pushed to ghoulish undeath. Hive worlds, Necrons, Tyranids, Crusades. You name it, the star's light in that region touches you... and is chilling. One might say its a pale.. wasting. Stellar intelligences? C'Tan hiding in the stars out there? Some Warp theme? Why is it about the pale starlight? Dunno. The Vibe holds up tho even today.
I can just see Shy hitting the "end episode button" while rolling her eyes and sighing as Bricky and DK go on about birthdays, turning to dust and whether or not to be nice.
I think Scyther Fiends make a small appearance in the novel Requiem Infernal as well. I don't think they're ever named, but a unit of Navy Breachers get absolutely fucked up by a crystal maze with razor disks, etc.
their is indeed such a thing as a stupid question. they often follow one another, like "what could go wrong?" and "how could things get worse?", and "why not?"
Lol, i was thinking of this when they were talking about the necrons, but the flayed ones are essentially "I have no mouth, so I must acquire one to scream"
Huh, where you got that, I'm genuinely curious, I thought the web way gates connecting to web way that is "present where the gate is" rather than connecting to a selected part of it got reconned a few dozen years back. And with comorragh being supposadly extremely hard to find too in the web way too
@@cultistofdarkness1661on the giant map they used early in the episode. To be fair now that you mention it I'm not sure that's not just fan made though
@@cultistofdarkness1661 If you look at the Ghoul Stars there's 2 warp storm identified nearby called "Malefactus" and "Fleet Wrecker". It's immediately to the left of Malefactus. But re-reading the legends it just says its a webway gate. As you say most likely its a tentative placement for the city since its in the webway.
I know DK raises this point many times, but ultramarines are "flawless" poster boys exactly because their geneseed is pretty much the purest and does not have physicals or psychological effects on the space marines (except perhaps some minor or personal cases)
I cant believe they didn't mention ghoul star devices, which guarantee mortals extreme intelligence, strength and immortality with a 9/10 chance of turning you into a cannibal monster after a few hundred years. Extremely rare and only found in the ghoul stars
intresting fact supporting the idea it might be a intact ctan. from the ultra rare "good" ending of the new rouge trader rpg where you create a new child ctan. shows how truly op they were it CUTS OFF THE ENTIRE SECTOR over a 100000 stars with and i quote "dimensional barriers so strong it made the great rift look like nothing" so the ghoul stars being about a sector across would fit perfectly with it being a full power ctan running the show,
I prefer to think it’s Elaine abominations.preferably not a known thing like the warp or a CTan, but long as it’s weird, alien, and not normal, it’s good.
I want it to be a non warp eldritch horror. similar to the original conception of c'tan but possibly feeding on black holes or dark matter. Edit: random thought right after I posted. the killing is incidental, this hypothetical being feeds on the vacuum created by the destruction of life.
I think THATS the place where Llandagor got mulched by the necrons and as it died (Well I think the being that is Llandagor died, the ego to never rise again but the energy of it turned into flayer virus. In Twice dead King it is decribed as The Longing Disease. LLandagor was the C'tan seemingly burdened with it too)
"The Tyranids went in, and they came out with PTSD."
Fuckin' EXCUSE ME!?
Just see an entire hive fleet with a smoking and drinking problem
Yep. Bascially stopped Hive Fleet Moloch & Jormungandr in their tracks.
Not just that, the fact the hivemind itself had some sort.of issues
Meanwhile, an Ork Waaagh conquers most of it with seemingly no ill effect 😅
Yeah they came out more feral then usual
"Excuuuse me for having massive character flaws that I refuse to work on!" - Peter turbo after dorn called him dumbass
petition tuberculosis is my favorite
Death Spectres Chapter: "Let's go, in and out 20 minutes of adventure."
Travel to region full of dead worlds, Necron Lords, and space bugs.
Not just any Necron Lords, the Flayed Lords of the Bone Kingdoms.
Jokes on you they're into that. Remember that ritually dying is what gets them promotions (no it doesn't count if they get a back massage from a Flayed One but it probably gets you in the mindset where you aren't phased by these things after literally pulling your soul back to your body through the warp.)
@@thejestor9378 OLTYX MY BABY! AND HIS BF YENEKH! please everyone read TDK (Twice dead king duology)
Bricky: none of these words are in the Bible.
DK: I don’t know, have you looked?
Lmao that caught me off guard 😂
truly the most flawless comeback he could have given.
I think I spotted “cat girl” somewhere in Revelations.
@@cesly87 I believe there were mentions of lion-men in the Old Testament. I am not responsible for what you do with that information.
The Lion: "Well, Horus is off to get praised by the Emperor and my brothers for the Ullanor Crusade. Boys, I think it's time for a vacation! Off to the Ghoul Stars!"
The Throne of Glass also acts as an Astronomicon for the local ghoul stars area
And IIRC, it works the same way, as in the current Chapter Master has to sit in it until he dies from all his psychic energy being drained.
It seems liks there are multiple thrones in the galaxy, with the golden throne just being one that the Emperor found and modified
I think the best possibility apart from a surviving C'tan affecting the Ghoul Stars is humanity. There are a lot of completely empty human planets. There's a so-so human-looking xenos species with highly advanced tech... What if humanity there back in the Dark Age of Technology unlocked something they should not have and that ended up murking the entire region. That could be funny...
I don't think its a surviving C'tan contributing, but the one that died. Like the Ghoul Stars is where it died, so this is an effect of its death like the Flayed Ones are
@@thewerdna A little column A, a little column B?
@tokaygekko5135 i feel like a necrons dynasty that's more worried about keeping man kind away and safe from shit it shouldn't go near would be hilarious as that would just make the imperium more curious and now everyones fucked cause if the necrons DIDNT fucking try it the eldrich thing from beyond the darkest stars probably wouldn't have been found and now everyones gotta pay
I like the Cythor Fiends, weird alien inhabitants of the Ghoul Stars. "According to the Death Spectres [chapter], the Cythors are not alive in the sense humans would understand it."
“You can not kill me in a way that matters.”
They Don't fulfill the seven functions of biological life?
@@SeekSeekLestmaybe its like the hive from d2, you have to kill them where their home is, like a dimension similar to the flayer necrons.
The Lapis in Genesis Rising (Cruciform).
Cythor Fiends are not made from Organist matter. They are more or less a living mineral
Now that the T'au have tech that allows them to open wormholes, now I kinda want them to open one straight to the ghoul stars.
It would give us a way to learn (and freak out)about the stuff there at the same time as the T'au do.
Wait, the T'au have developed technology that allows them to create wormholes that they can use to travel anywhere in the galaxy, and I assume in an instant. Two things:
- If knowledge of this tech's existence reaches the Imperium, I can at least foresee the Mechanicus having some major debates over trying to learn it so that the Imperium can finally replace Warp Travel with something much safer and reliable.
- The T'au opening one such wormhole directly into the Ghoul Stars is going to be a must-see
"Surely the Sixth Sphere Expansion into what the gue'vesa call the "Ghoul Stars" will not end in the same tragedy as the Fourth Sphere Expansion did, Aun'Va"
muttproductions2536 It was made by accident.
Originally a bunch of ships were equipped with a new drive that was gonna make them travel faster and safer.
However, Aun'va like an idiot didnt listen to the Earth caste engineer that told him that it shouldnt be used en mass and ordered the entire 4th expansion fleet to make the jump together.
The results were :
A) the fleet went straight into the warp (on live TV no less) with no gelard fields and was almost decimated by daemons and a good chunk of the Tau survivors that were rescued by the Greater Good Goddess went insane.
B) The Wormhole (Startide Nexus) was created and the Tau used it to launch the 5th Sphere Expansion.
C) The Greater Good Goddess seems to reside inside the pathway of the wormhole and it even destroyed a death Guard fleet that went in while allowing Tau forces to come and go.
D)Currently the T'au have perfected the technology and are planing to use it again to launch the 6th expansion. (However, T'au sightings have been reported throughout the galaxy so they might have been using it for a while)
@@_NIKOS9_NIKOS And by insane, we mean they would murder all non-T'au allies on the ships and would go on to kill any non-T'au they were ever deployed with until Shadowsun herself had to step in and basically executive order that they never be put with non-T'au allies again.
@@_NIKOS9_NIKOSSoo...the Tau Accidentallied(tm) a makeshift Webway?
"Well Excuse me for having massive character faults that I don't work on"
That line sums up everything and everyone within 40K
Kinda weird how I just heard of this yesterday and now heres an episode
This channel and majorkill brought back my love for warhammer 40k and wanting to get into table top again
That sounds a lot like unsanctioned psychic abilities. Please report to the nearest black ship for processing
bricky is in your walls
Want to know something even weirder. Ive know about them for years but thought Id search the name on UA-cam today on a whim and this video was here. Crazy.
@@JSkippi wallet: ruined
the positioning of the Adeptus Ridiculous logo in the Yvraine poster was no accident.
I definitely think the death of thay C'tan is at least in part what messed up the Ghoul Stars. Like, wouldn't be surprised if that was the area where it was killed.
Here's a fun thought: C'tan can't die in a way we can understand and Llandagor isn't dead, it _is_ the Flayer Curse and that's why the way it spreads is so weird.
Hey, according to lore, Ghoul stars is where Necrons homeworld is located. So guess what has happened in that area
@@SaviourSword995its like old ones cursed the place
@steweygrrr my impression from TDK was that Llandu'gor was the only C'tan to actually be killed (apart from ones consumed by other C'tan), and it was it's dying thrashing combined with some "that which is dead may eternal lie..." shenanigans that created the curse. Which is also why the overwhelming majority of flayed ones are from the dynasties that took part. (Maynarkh, Ithikas, etc)
"Crazy Felinid psyker in a maid outfit who believes shes a magical girl," poster!
;3
I'll take your entire stock!
Just stop
@@earlgrey2130 Let him cook
A mutant psyker?! Yes, Arbites, this one right here.
My realtor told me this was very vibrant and exciting area of the galaxy to live in
Man oh man do I love this channel as much as Krieg guardsmen love their shovels
They sure do love using their shovels
My love for this channel equals the kriegmens’s hate for themselves
Kriegsman and their shovels is the most honest and wholesome of love
Have I spotted someone who came from the poorhammer memes video???
Dk: "They're basically the same person..."
Bricky: "They're nowhere even close... one is "awwraght awwraght awwraght"... the other is "WAA-OW!"...
LOL, Now THAT needs to be a poster... maybe with Fulgrim as McConauhgey, and I dunno... Lorgar(?) as Wilson....
"isn't scyther a snake?" i think you're thinking of seviper
"Get on that, random fanfiction writers."
Sigh. * Adds "Ghoul Stars adventure" to the list *
Elster is not going to have a fun time.
*prepares to send my silly little guy there during their K.I.A era*
I only write perverted
So the Ghoul Stars are basically just a place to relive the early days of the Great Crusade, when the Expedition Fleets would find all kinds of bullshit from the Dark Age of Technology and every kind of alien fiend you can imagine.
I like the idea of a no-no space that's so ancient and weird that even chaos has no goddamn idea what it is. Something so powerful the Warp is even at it's mercy there.
You know what else is fun with the Ghoul Stars? Their relative the Halo Stars and their neighbor the Calyxis Sector. Fun times
Nice stars. Didn't know they named an entire constellation in the name of papa Ghoul-iman
12:36 "The black templars are probably the most...how do I put this?..."
(Legally distinct nu metal music starts playing) 🎵 *PUUUUUUUURGING WIIIITH MY KIIIIIIIIIIN!* 🎶
Complete lunatics.
Tyrannids meet Yog-Sothoth crossover.
I actually had my Guardsmen in the Goul Stars. They, along with other ships, were all supposed to be reinforcing Cadia, but didn't make it before the Cicatrix Maledicum opened and bounced them clear across the galaxy due to warp shenanigans. Now they're stuck in Nihilus trying to get back home to the other side. Taking small jumps so they don't get lost due to the dimmed to non-existent Astronomicon.
Deathwatch is the only 40k novel I've read, and it made me love the death spectres, even though you learn diddly squat about it lol.
Love my boy Lyandro Karras.
It's a bit of a weird one for me because it's definitely a bit icky on things that really should have been left vaguer (looking at you oh purloiners of denim) but it does an interesting job of doing things with marines that are a little bit different from the norm like a Raven Guard marine who loves giving people nicknames and never shuts up, an Imperial fist wide enough to be his own fortification, the Death Spectre librarian of course and an Exorcist marine.
If I might try tempt you to Chaos on account of there not being much in the way of good Raven Guard or their successor books, I think Shroud of Night might be an interesting follow up read for you. It doesn't have the Inquisition presence of Deathwatch but that along with slightly distasteful usage of Genestealers were the only parts I wasn't huge on in that book so I count that as a net positive. (They're not even trying to say they're doing the right thing, they're literally the corrupted Inquisitor stereotype which appeals to me less than the ones who do the wrong things for the right reasons and keep slipping deeper. I give the book a pass because they focus on the marines who were personally much more interesting.)
Plus Shroud of Night features some fan favourite factions namely the Alpha Legion and Sisters of Battle. Most of the book is PoV Alpha Legion as they form their own mini kill team to sneak through a hive city under siege so it should be structurally similar to Deathwatch. Otherwise, you can definitely hear it on this channel but some Night Lords Omnibus books are excellent once you have your foothold in 40k
I based most of my space marine chapters and lore in this region. Infact I created a Shadow Aligned Eldar Craftworld, that was corrupted and worships the 'void god' that lives there. They had long fallen from the grace of the other craftworlds.
They are called the Mael'von, also known as the Void Breakers. They resurrect others bodies as puppets and use them as fodder. And their armor changes in light to that of pure bone. Was a ton of fun to write for a small campaign to write.
Let's go! Just got done watching Poorhammer. Can't wait to watch more Warhammer content while I kitbash some shovels to my Kriegsmen.
Everyone gangsta until the orks come out of the ghoul stars as pacifists
11:00 - looking at the scyther fiends, they honestly look like Flayed Ones but warped through fog of war.
29:00 - also, fun fact (via lexicanum) - this is where Nostramo used to be, which, y'know, tracks.
Call your version Irene.
The white haired, punk rock elf girl; with a beef-cake Roman general BF.
A beef-cake Italian-American bf literally called Robert Grillmen, who goes by Bob for extra legal distinction.
A quirked up Ultra chapter with a little bit of personality breaks it down imperial style; but are they goated with the codex?
Congrats on making it around the sun one more time Bricky!
Also the ghoul stars telling the tyranids they came to the wrong neighborhood and just completely ruining their millennium with ptsd is absolutely terrifying.
The end really escalated quickly 🤣
Necron propaganda AND Black Templar slander in a single episode? You guys are spoiling me
The Stormlord approves this message.
The Death spectors : What kills me makes me stronger.
And Happy Birthday Bricky ..now you are one step closer to DEATH..
We *have* to have an episode on the Halo Stars now, it's just as wild of a region as the Ghoul Stars, if not more so.
Bricky: I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul
Ghoul Stars is pretty much where people in Warhammer go to play their Call of Cthulu campaigns. It’s never “are we gonna die?,” it’s always “when are we gonna die?” No one comes out unscathed mentally at the very least.
It's reassuring to know that Bricky maintains a continuous stream in his old age. I expected to hear facts of a different nature about the Goon stars though.
Damn you DK sometimes you show signs of intelligence, then you're just patrick sitting in the fishbowl munchin on freaking rocks lol
So hype for this episode! Also I’ve been binging all your content, and y’all are the definition of my last two brain cells on WH40K and I’m so here for it lol
Bricky: could be remnant C'Tan stuff
Me whispering at work freaking out my coworker: the outsider :D
Time to hear about the templars yeeting in
stricly speaking if your always on crusade its just one crusade and thus your not most likely to crusade
I'd image the firstborn members of the Death Specters laughed at the rubicon primaris.
You need to die and come back to cross the Rubicon Primaris, so they probably loved it.
Ah, the part where Bricky is retelling the Death Spectres' founding story is just making me miss Karras from Steve Parker's Deathwatch books lol. I like him, he is shockingly chill for a Death Spectre. And of course I adore the cousin bond between him and Zeed, who is possibly the most un-Raven Guard son of Corax that I have ever encountered in any Black Library book lol.
Invade a gas giant??? WHERE ARE WE TOUCHING DOWN SIR THERE'S NOTHING EVEN REMOTELY CLOSE TO GRASS HERE!
THE EMPEROR GIVES US THIS DAY IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
Ran a Horus Heresy Campaign set in the ghoul stars. I had the sort of 5th chaos god Malice being held at bay by the artifice of a golden age humanity in the ghoul stars. It was pretty fun. My friend that plays word bearers got to have a character ascend as a champion of Malice. Good times.
YES! This is probably my favorite 40K lore topic. The Ghoul Stars are infinitely fascinating, and made both better and worse by a lack of lore.
Right off the bat, totally legal poster.
Literally finished twice dead king yesterday and now this
Bricky, as a 31 year old husk of my former self i must let you know that it actually only gets worse. But YOU get better at handling the suck so at least theres that. Solidarity,brother
Old (4th ed?) codexes/core rulebook mentions got it in my head: Hateful Undead vibe coming from the stars there. Everything is warped/pushed to ghoulish undeath. Hive worlds, Necrons, Tyranids, Crusades. You name it, the star's light in that region touches you... and is chilling. One might say its a pale.. wasting. Stellar intelligences? C'Tan hiding in the stars out there? Some Warp theme? Why is it about the pale starlight? Dunno. The Vibe holds up tho even today.
I can just see Shy hitting the "end episode button" while rolling her eyes and sighing as Bricky and DK go on about birthdays, turning to dust and whether or not to be nice.
Mom and Dad were fighting again at the end....
If only there were more kriegsman with shovels
this episode inspired me to write a 40k themed horror dnd campaign for my playgroup.
Shovels. Brad.
I've been hoping and waiting for this episode.
Ghoul stars
My beloved
"It's a reference to Cthulhu."
And now I'm convinced Old Ones are involved.
That ending cut of Dk Screaming at the end got me, Happy one year closer to death
'The not knowing is what makes it interesting' and we have found the crux of what makes GW writing seem good lol.
I freaking got it!!! Black Templars! Don’t worry bricky and shy you’re teaching others!
25:00 flaw? Thats perfection.
I think Scyther Fiends make a small appearance in the novel Requiem Infernal as well. I don't think they're ever named, but a unit of Navy Breachers get absolutely fucked up by a crystal maze with razor disks, etc.
"None of these words are in the Bible" had me rolling
their is indeed such a thing as a stupid question. they often follow one another, like "what could go wrong?" and "how could things get worse?", and "why not?"
Lol, i was thinking of this when they were talking about the necrons, but the flayed ones are essentially "I have no mouth, so I must acquire one to scream"
43:58 SPONGEBOB SPACE MARINE POSTER. WE NEED IT.
Also noteworthy that Comorragh is right near the ghoul stars.... great place :P
Huh, where you got that, I'm genuinely curious, I thought the web way gates connecting to web way that is "present where the gate is" rather than connecting to a selected part of it got reconned a few dozen years back. And with comorragh being supposadly extremely hard to find too in the web way too
@@cultistofdarkness1661on the giant map they used early in the episode. To be fair now that you mention it I'm not sure that's not just fan made though
@@endrof1264 huhh, yeah I couldn't find it on the map, it definitely shouldnt be on the Galaxy map tho, cause it's in the webway
@@cultistofdarkness1661 If you look at the Ghoul Stars there's 2 warp storm identified nearby called "Malefactus" and "Fleet Wrecker". It's immediately to the left of Malefactus. But re-reading the legends it just says its a webway gate. As you say most likely its a tentative placement for the city since its in the webway.
Lowkey thought bricky was sweating until I realised it was a space marine augmentation💀
I was hoping they'd talk about this, the Ghoul Stars are wild
psst bricky
I LOVE KIREG SHOVEL MEME ITS MY FAV!
Dude I fucking love shovels
Next, what about the other collection of "stars"? Like the Scourge stars or the Pale Stars?
I know DK raises this point many times, but ultramarines are "flawless" poster boys exactly because their geneseed is pretty much the purest and does not have physicals or psychological effects on the space marines (except perhaps some minor or personal cases)
Love when Black Templars are mentioned, great day!
I love your videos and I hope you guys have great day 👍
I cant believe they didn't mention ghoul star devices, which guarantee mortals extreme intelligence, strength and immortality with a 9/10 chance of turning you into a cannibal monster after a few hundred years. Extremely rare and only found in the ghoul stars
intresting fact supporting the idea it might be a intact ctan.
from the ultra rare "good" ending of the new rouge trader rpg where you create a new child ctan.
shows how truly op they were it CUTS OFF THE ENTIRE SECTOR over a 100000 stars with and i quote "dimensional barriers so strong it made the great rift look like nothing"
so the ghoul stars being about a sector across would fit perfectly with it being a full power ctan running the show,
i dont know have yopopu looked
xD coming out strong this episode
How dare he not watch that DK should be cancelled
“None of these words are in the Bible” is now my favorite response to horn requests 😂
I just watched the demoncalba episode and saw someone mention ghoul star and did a search and they had just done an episode lol.
I want to see more Hammer of Ridiculous. Warhammer Fantasy and Old World is booming again now
This is where my homebrew chapters are located, one is doing….ok…. The other is heavily corrupted and slowly falling to madness.
I genuinely hope the Death Specters get more love they are macabre for sure but honestly pretty A tier in duty
Thanks for not making an Always Sunny joke about Ghouls, I know that took a lot of restraint
I prefer to think it’s Elaine abominations.preferably not a known thing like the warp or a CTan, but long as it’s weird, alien, and not normal, it’s good.
Yo dk!!! I heard the these nuts joke, I tried looking for a comment about it but couldn’t find one. Such a good slip in my dude
Happy Birthday Grandpa, I'll attend your retirement home party 🥳 🎉 😀 😊 😉 ☺️ 🥳 🎉
It’s crazy how a raven guard successor has to deal with all this
The thing about the Pale wasting is nothing is remembered about what they really had to fight.
I want it to be a non warp eldritch horror. similar to the original conception of c'tan but possibly feeding on black holes or dark matter. Edit: random thought right after I posted. the killing is incidental, this hypothetical being feeds on the vacuum created by the destruction of life.
I think THATS the place where Llandagor got mulched by the necrons and as it died (Well I think the being that is Llandagor died, the ego to never rise again but the energy of it turned into flayer virus. In Twice dead King it is decribed as The Longing Disease. LLandagor was the C'tan seemingly burdened with it too)
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time is circular and a never-ending cycle of joy and suffering