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It is not enough. We stand in the dust at the end of centuries of useless sin and endless failure. The Legion was poisoned and we sacrificed an entire world to cleanse it. We failed. We are the sons of the only primarch to hate his own legion. There, again, we failed. We swore vengeance on the Imperium, yet we run from every battle where we don't possess overwhelming force over a crippled enemy. We fail, again and again and again. Have you ever fought a battle you'd struggle to win, with no hope of running away? Have any of us? Have you ever, since the Siege of Terra itself, drawn a weapon with the knowledge you might die? I will not see my life whored away without meaning. Do you hear me? Do you understand me, prince of cowards? I want vengeance against a galaxy that hates us. I want Imperial worlds to cower when we draw near. I want the weeping of this Empire's souls to reach all the way to Holy Terra, and the sound of suffering will choke the corpse-god on his throne of gold. I will cast a shadow across this world. I will burn every man, woman and child so the smoke from the funeral pyres eclipses the sun. With the dust that remains, I will take the Echo of Damnation into the sacred skies above Terra, and rain the ashes of twenty million mortals down onto the Emperor's palace. Then they will remember us. Then they will remember the Legion they once feared."~Talos Valcoran
I tried getting into 40k a couple years ago but I couldn't do it, there were too much for me to navigate on my own and every youtuber I watched put me to sleep. Your delivery and energy helped me get into the hobby and now my neckbeard is stronger than ever so thank you I guess!
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I highly recommend reading the books too! There's a flavor for anything you're looking for In the universe, from crime dramas to horror/thrillers and plenty of big autistic killing machines popping things heads
Hueron and the red crossairs are the perfect chaos legion. Straight up villians but with good reason and sound tactics. The red crossairs are not mindless antagonists and mislead fools. Love those guys
As much as I love Seth and the Flesh Tearers, Astaroth is a man with a hard and thankless job to do. Any lesser composed marine would've killed Seth during that fight.
Seth had a great point though. They are not the Blood Angels. Astaroth had no right to slay Flesh Tearer marines. If anything it's a smack in the face for Seth. As if Seth would be un-able to do the deed himself. Seth isn't stupid, he knew his chances for beating Astaroth was slim at best but still showed up and put in a good shift. Gotta respect him for that.
More criminally underrated characters (to me at least): Urien Rakarth- the Drukhari who may or may not be the first of the Haemonculi, the one who actually taught Fabius Bile some of his stuff, and possibly one of the oldest and most horrifically evil entities in the galaxy. He has died and come back to life so many times now that even it is boring to him. Pedro Kantor- one of the few Space Marines defined not by triumph, but by defeat, and by how he and his chapter survived despite the odds and rose to become better after their defeat The Deathleaper- a Tyranid that literally toys with its victims, driving them to paranoia and terror before finally finishing them off Aun'shi-- an Ethereal who actually got into melee with Orks and won; one of the few Ethereals whom even the Farsight Enclaves have any respect for Nork Deddog- the most loyal Ogryn in the Imperium, who once headbutted an Ork Warboss to death Also, in memory of awesome characters who are no longer with us: Duke Sliscus, Kheradruakh, Lady Malys, Lukas Bastonne, Mogul Kamir, Captain Al'Rahem
Man Talos WAS a dope ass character. The way the third book ended I hope his Gene seed recipient get a book continuing the great story that the nightlord books told
@@Mrbiffthebiff1 the whole ending of that book had my mouth open like could not believe what I was reading and then when they said his name at the end I needed closure I needed to know what happened to Septimus and Octavia cuz I'm not going to say just in case cuz spoiler reasons but you obviously know who got his Gene seed so many unanswered questions and I I have literally been dying to find out more that series was amazing
I was literally upset finishing the Night Lords trilogy. I’ve never gotten so invested in characters and story, especially not in 40k anyway. The way Aaron writes feels like watching a movie to me as well haha. I don’t really get that from other writers. It’s like he ends a chapter suddenly and then the next chapter gets straight to business. Only way I can describe it is like a scene cut to a new scene in a movie. I would really hope he continued on the story but he has said himself he is a slow writer. Plus with the pace 40k lore moves at and is refreshed I can see it being an issue that Black Library pushes him in other directions for the larger scale “plan” if there is one haha.
honestly, night lords are pretty likable if you move past the “flay people alive for surrender”. like, for a cool story, they should have let sevetar take the little girl he saved from the overseer and raise her outside of the horus heresy.
I think you missed Hlaine "Mad" Larkin from the Tanith First-and-Only. I mean he is the best sniper of a regiment known for it`s sniper and scout. Also his friendship with "try again" Bragg is really wholesome.
@@jonmcgee6987 spoiler alert man. some folks might have not gotten far enough. even if, happy end are rare in 40K, some do get them. but still ouch for them.
@@lordhamster9452 If the events were very recently written within the last 2 years. I would be concerned about dropping spoilers. Considering that it's been at least 15 years since those books came out. I'm not really concerned about spoilers.
Talos is one of my absolute favorite characters in the setting. Ive been waiting for a while to hear your opinion on him I hope he one day gets his own lore video cuz the mate honestly deserves it.
My personal favorite underrated character in 40k is Ortan Cassius, the Ultramarine senior chaplain and master of sanctity who has a famous Deathwatch kill team because he's not your typical goody two shoes by the book Ultramarine. He reminds me of a 40k version of Cato the Elder; a Roman senator during the Punic Wars who was famous in his speeches ending with Carthago Delenda Est (Carthage must be destroyed in Latin), but instead of Carthaginians he hates with a fiery passion it's Tyranids lol
Gotta agree Talos is the shit and he is the reason why the Night Lords are my favorite legion. He perfectly embodies that Machiavellian pragmatism that I believe Konrad wanted before his legion was twisted and he went mad.
@@codykaye3600 eisenhorn books are the closest in quality to the night lord trilogy imo, but if u are wanting a Aaron dempski Bowden book check out helsreach, that book is great.
I feel Corswain requires some recognition. As a marine who almost strangled Curze to death, commanded half of one of the scariest legions and possibly saved Terra by relighting the Astronomicon (haven't read the Siege of Terra books to know how this last part is going)
Eldar are a pretty dope faction and they're definitely criminally underrated and the true underdog of the setting. Eldar constantly get worfed almost as bad as their avatar of the God of war. Imagine every time a baneblade showed up in a book it gets immediately destroyed by a named character even tho it's ment to be one of your most powerful units. As far as being the underdog of the setting well they can't afford to throw bodies at the problem like the guard does, they don't have super durable armor and they have to punch above thier weight class constantly while minimizing casualties against forces like space marines, nids and guard. And to make things even worse in order for new eldar babies to be born rangers need to make an expidition to a DAEMON INFESTED crone world to find even a handful of spirit stones for the next generation.
@@FontaineLovers tons of people love the Eldar and are desperate for GW to expand on their rich, deep and complex lore... not me however, can't stand the arrogant, knife-eared basterds.
Leo from the Marchius omnibus is pretty badass for the mere fact he bang a shapeshifting assassin numerous times, and was a personal bodyguard for the Lord Solar, and he fought in innumerable battle and survived throughout ten years of unending war, and by the end of his years he was seen as a legendary hero for the rest of his life.
knock knock. Hi, it's the inqui...incredible tasty pizza delivery service. We would like to chat with you about a totally harmless nurse who was no assassin and had absolutely no role in saint Macharius dying as a martyr of the imperium.
The whole Night Lords trilogy was lit af. The Konrad primarch book is great, also. Never thought I'd feel sympathetic towards him, but Guy Haley sold me on it.
Talos is a competent Chaos Marine who uses real leadership and a reasonable skill set rather then plot armor to say around? Sounds like myth Major... :)
I feel like it's almost cheating to include a character from the Nightlords series, given how ADB seems to basically drain the life force and likability out of every single loyalist and side character, in order to pump it into whatever named chaos character is currently on-screen. Usually Sevatar, who is admittedly pretty fuckin' great.
@@Prophetofthe8thLegion If they're currently frenzying? Sure. When not? They literally actively go out of their way to be noble and restrained in order to avoid getting a reputation as a bunch of maddened berserkers.
@@gso619 not on the battlefield. As much as it may hurt to hear the only difference between the imperium and the chaos marines is that the imperium doesn’t worship chaos
@@gso619 maybe outside the battle but even then as far as the blood angel was concerned she was a heretic. May I remind you that Vulkan torched a child and watched her burn?
@@Prophetofthe8thLegion Really? They're the same? Are you sure, person whose name is a reference to Kurze's boys? Are you entirely sure you may not have some biases in one direction over the other? Just a teeny tiny preference for one side. And the Vulkan thing is such a goddamn meme at this point, cause it's just "AHA! Even the primarch who cares for people more than the rest is a monster!" like, bruh, the "child" was a young adult, AND ELDAR, which means little Timmy was, like, 80 when he got acquainted to the underside of Vulkan's boot, had just raided imperial space killing and torturing the people Vulkan cares about aaaaaaaaaand the big man was fresh off of being psychologically waterboarded by edgier Batman. In context, it's a lot less "OH MY GOD! VULKAN'S A MONSTER!" and a lot more "God damn, Kurze is really good at this whole "torturing Vulkan" thing."
Interesting thing but It seems like Huron has a chance at either getting a new mini, Or Suffering a Vect, Since GW are seemingly putting *BOTH* His Forgeworld and Finecast minis on Range Rotation. Here's hoping the Tyrant of Badab's getting more love!
Honestly I think the reason Yriel doesn't have much respect on his name is because he hasn't done much in years, and so the fans don't really pay attention to him despite his old lore being dope.
I was actually reading "Blood Reaver" yesterday and dude I LOVED the scene between Talos and Huron when Tally-boy just verbally EVISCERATES him and Huron essentially responds with "Lol dude I like you"
I don't like Abaddon, but if I remember right, Abaddon always planned to shoot Talos, he wanted him to pledge himself to one of the Chaos gods and become his puppet seer - cause Talos despises the chaos gods and those who follow them. The fact that he was sassy with Abby was just extra sauce.
Sadly I heard they are discontinuing Huron Blackhearts model. There are images that people believe that they are making a new model of him. But it would be sad if GW decides to just remove him completely from the setting because he isn’t a character from a Heresy Legion.
The will never remove him completely from the setting. Too popular to kill. But yes his old ass model with the grim Lin monkey is getting removed and remade
That claw with the flamer that they teased months ago could be from a new Huron model, just saying. We all assumed that it was a new daemon engine or something like that, but a new Huron model would be sweet af.
Vorx is quite underrated. Death guard chaos warlord who has kind of demented old man vibe to him to fool people but is actually pretty cunning. He's also quite chill and had some cute moments with nurglings, reminding me of Mandalorian and baby yoda XD
Vorx is also an underrated characterfor many of the same reasons as Huron. Vorx isn't interested in any higher status, but he's an excellent commander and quite likeable for a chaos marine.
Bro, I may be an Imperial loyalist at heart, but I do enjoy me some good and well-written Eldar lore. They are criminally underrated, but you're not alone.
Let's gooo majokill keep up the good work absolutely love you're videos defoo make me laugh when I watch them and learn so much about 40k keep it up bro 💪💪
Hell yea Majorkill!!! I bought the spartan. Looks sick. Looking forward to it. Thank you! I first started learning about Warhammer from your videos. And ive been watching consistently for a few months now... I love Warhammer so much after learning about it. Youre killing it bro. By far one of my favorite channels!
I just want to say I’m loving your videos! I just recently (like in the past 2 months) started getting into 40k after watching Astartes, and I’ve become really interested in the lore. With how much lore there is, I had no idea where to start. Just as in another comment I’ve seen, the other 40k UA-camrs had videos that were very detailed and were long drawn out (not that it’s bad thing, just not for me). I really love your enthusiasm and how to cover the topic in a good summary that makes it easy for my monke brain to understand! Thank you for your work and I look forward to continue watching your videos!
Hey majorkill literally as soon as you said the minis were on sale I went too buy them😂 they are looking badass and amazing as always keep up the amazing work man As always PRASE THE BIG SHARK DADDY!!!
Ay, Talos! Honestly, the Night Lords in the trilogy are great. Talos takes center stage of course, but the general dynamic between all of them is hilarious.
Was so angry to find out that Uzas the insane was blamed for things he didn't do. And Talos had a hunch about it the whole time. All snakes till the end! 😂 Still he managed to humanize Uzas and you got to have sympathy for Uzas give it seems the inner conflict of falling to Khornes rage is a real strain on the soul. And to show it's a risk to the rest of the crew was well done.
@@agentmaine4746 yeah In the end Talos still believed in Uzas that there was some sort of "good" left in that psychotic rage. That's what made them both special in my book. Uzas seemed to listen to Talos in his worst moments. Pretty brotherly stuff.
I made my homebrew chapter a loyalist Iron Warriors chapter because Barabas is so much of a beast. Reading the lore involving the Iron Warriors made me appreciate the legion so much more and allowed me to discover of that absolute unit and all his crazy feats of his service.
The reason why there are many underrated awesome 40k characters is because those characters are not making money for GW in model sales unlike papa G and the ultramarines The reason why Abaddon still relevant is because players love beating him in every way
When talking about under rated Eldar honorable mention goes to Belanna from the lords of mars trilogy, her farseer abilities were second to none and she saved the entire galaxy from Telok the Mad Magos.
Talos and the Soul Hunter books are what made me fall in love with the Night Lords. He and the books really showed how unique the night lords are in comparison to the rest of the traitor legions
Watching Luetins videos (majorkill later) is what got me interested into the 40k universe but it was the night lords trilogy which got me invested into 40k. That trilogy of books were the first 40k books i read and man they were so good. Since then my addiction has only gotten worse.
I'm so happy you included Barabus Dantioch. (don't know if that's spelled correctly, I listened to the audiobook) Little extra Barabus lore for those who don't know him. During his work on the Pharos device, his closest companion was an Imperial Fist. There were hundreds of individuals working on the Pharos, but it was Barabus himself that learned how the Pharos worked and how to operate it; with emotion. An Iron Warrior, learned to use his emotions as a tool to operate the Pharos. He prevented traitor forces from learning how the Pharos worked. And during all of this, Barabus was in a heightened state of torturous agony due to his previous trials and injuries that he wouldn't get tended. He took this pain willingly as penance for his traitor legion, without telling a soul. Barabus is about the only thing from the Iron Warriors that I like and I put him right next to Rylanor in terms of legendary heroes. Did not expect you to mention him here. Big thanks.
I like how you keep bringing up Huron basically being a better war master XD Not only cause they're better written (Like legitimately a Black Crusade was Abaddon literally letting a DAEMON DRIVE HIS FLEET INTO ORKS FOR SOME REASON???) compared to Huron. Plus despite Abaddon's rules on Tabletop, his legion is kinda shit, his army wide bonus is shit, his relics are garbage, and his melee can either be a mix of "Okay" to "Horrible" cause his main weapon is just some underwhelming weapon USED BY FUCKING HORUS OF ALL PEOPLE or a daemon sword that doesn't do shit.
Huron only has 15k Marines at the most. He was a coward who didn't execute an imprisoned Guilliman. Abaddon has anywhere between 565k Marines to Two MILLION
I've found some artifacts to be useful, like Angelbane on anyone with a combi-bolter, or the Eye of Night on Vex Machinator. But I agree, Black Legion's trait is god awful, since CSM have a high leadership to begin with
I just finished Pharos by Guy Haley, the novel where Dantioch operates the Pharos device. The real kick in the nuts is after Dantioch dies, in the epilogue it is revealed that by overloading the Pharos device it results in sending out a pulse so far that is detected by the Great Devourer(the 'nids!), who start their 10k year journey towards the Imperium. The dying pulse of the Pharos device is the whole reason that they even learn of our existence.
I'm gonna nominate the Ultramarine Cato Sicarius, Knight Champion of Macragge, for the most underrated character, as he, Cato Sicarius, is the greatest of them all, a fantastic tactician, and an extremely competent warrior, I know all of this, because Cato Sicarius told me
I think a civil war between the chaos factions with Huron against Abandon would be cool, it could allow GW to focus more on other releases with an in lore explanation, it could also be a great way for new chaos stuff to appear.
So glad my boi Barabas Dantioch was included. Definitely my favourite traitor legion loyalist. Garro is pretty cool too though. And Iacton Qruze; the old bastard too stubborn to turn traitor.
The trilogy of the night lords (Talos) is hands down one of my favorite SM novels. So many of the loyalist chapters its just Brother!-For the emp-Brother!-Kill the heretics-Brother! and just blends together into surface feeling character development. The Night lords trilogy and the eisenhorn/Ravenor novels are so damned good though love the character development in those
I find it interesting how you can see from what times Huron and Abbadon came from. Abbadon uses his SM like they were still a legion and uses power. Huron comes from a chapter, who had limited options and had to micro manage his forces
pleasantly surprised, I watched this video fully expecting that you couldn't show me any new heroes to be praised. But now I need to read up lore on 2 of them. Thank you :D
I don't know if he is underrated but i really like Commissar Cain and i think he is an awesome character and quite unique. but i mainly like to read stories about people who are not spacemarines, even though spacemarines are dope AF. I just like some lighthearted stuff in my stories about death destruction and damnation.
Damn son. Of all the weeks to have to replace my alternator, it’s when a limited mini is beastly looking and pretty damn cheap 😂another amazing vid though man!
The reason why Talos was so likable is not because of GW but because of its original author, Aaron Dembski-Bowden. Talos, Argel Tal, Lotara Sarrin, Cyrene Valantion, Lhorke, Esca... So many nuanced and interesting "evil" characters that guy created. Also some of the most memorable and well written female characters in 40k. Even Kharn and Erebus became enjoyable, even fucking Angron made me feel for him in the novel Betrayer. Can't wait to see what new badass characters that guy is gonna create in the coming years ! btw cool video content, dude ;) I appreciate your humor.
The Avatar of Khaine is a criminally underrated character. A cool idea I have is that the Ynnari (or another Eldar faction like the Harlequins, hell maybe the shards themselves) could try to reassemble enough shards to fully restore the Bloody-Handed God to break into Slaanesh’s palace. We could have an epic duel between Khaine and Slaanesh, maybe even a round 2 with Khorne.
Mephiston cheif librarian of the Blood angles is an actual goat during the events of The Devestation of Baal and i highly recommend people read it hes so fucking badass
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I want to add Saul Tarvitz to this list, because I think he is the only emperors children to in body the strive for perfection correctly. He was a line officer who while being competitive didn’t feel the need to rise in the ranks and wanted to be the best officer he could be. And willingly flew down to istvan 3 when he knew it was gonna get virus bombed to warn the marines.
Big time vibing with this list. Friggin love the Blood Angel storyline in present-time Wh40k, Astorath the Grim is a BA. Huron for warmaster! So when/where are we having that JO sesh bae?
Majorkill, you need to get on the Yesugei hype train. One of the greatest and wisest astartes psykers of any era. And after that, Shiban Khan, one of the most rugged and tested Marines of the heresy.
I've been a subscriber since the very beginning I'm talking before sonic the autistic hedgehog era. You are my favorite UA-camr you clearly put so much passion and energy into this. Keep at it MajorKill! You're doing the Emperor's work.
It pains me this list is 80% Space Marine but that's the world we are living in
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When u said night lord I thought u meant zso sahaal
lore on every space marine squads
The one bad thing I can think of is Barbarius is probably the reason the Tyranids noticed the Milky Way.
It is not enough. We stand in the dust at the end of centuries of useless sin and endless failure. The Legion was poisoned and we sacrificed an entire world to cleanse it. We failed. We are the sons of the only primarch to hate his own legion. There, again, we failed. We swore vengeance on the Imperium, yet we run from every battle where we don't possess overwhelming force over a crippled enemy. We fail, again and again and again. Have you ever fought a battle you'd struggle to win, with no hope of running away? Have any of us? Have you ever, since the Siege of Terra itself, drawn a weapon with the knowledge you might die? I will not see my life whored away without meaning. Do you hear me? Do you understand me, prince of cowards? I want vengeance against a galaxy that hates us. I want Imperial worlds to cower when we draw near. I want the weeping of this Empire's souls to reach all the way to Holy Terra, and the sound of suffering will choke the corpse-god on his throne of gold. I will cast a shadow across this world. I will burn every man, woman and child so the smoke from the funeral pyres eclipses the sun. With the dust that remains, I will take the Echo of Damnation into the sacred skies above Terra, and rain the ashes of twenty million mortals down onto the Emperor's palace. Then they will remember us. Then they will remember the Legion they once feared."~Talos Valcoran
oh and maybe lore on saint ollanius pius/persson/piers
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Sounds like an infomercial lmao thanks Majorkill 👍🏾
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I highly recommend reading the books too! There's a flavor for anything you're looking for In the universe, from crime dramas to horror/thrillers and plenty of big autistic killing machines popping things heads
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Hueron and the red crossairs are the perfect chaos legion. Straight up villians but with good reason and sound tactics. The red crossairs are not mindless antagonists and mislead fools. Love those guys
Astaroth beating gabriel seth was one of my favourite stories the flesh tearers are awesome but sometimes being cheeky gets you spanked
Astaroth is genuinely one of my fave characters lol, just a badass
As much as I love Seth and the Flesh Tearers, Astaroth is a man with a hard and thankless job to do. Any lesser composed marine would've killed Seth during that fight.
Oh which story? What's name is it ?
Seth had a great point though. They are not the Blood Angels. Astaroth had no right to slay Flesh Tearer marines. If anything it's a smack in the face for Seth. As if Seth would be un-able to do the deed himself. Seth isn't stupid, he knew his chances for beating Astaroth was slim at best but still showed up and put in a good shift. Gotta respect him for that.
@@andrewdowner822 the short story: Gabriel Seth, the Flesh Tearer by Andy Smiles
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real bro's jack it together
More criminally underrated characters (to me at least):
Urien Rakarth- the Drukhari who may or may not be the first of the Haemonculi, the one who actually taught Fabius Bile some of his stuff, and possibly one of the oldest and most horrifically evil entities in the galaxy. He has died and come back to life so many times now that even it is boring to him.
Pedro Kantor- one of the few Space Marines defined not by triumph, but by defeat, and by how he and his chapter survived despite the odds and rose to become better after their defeat
The Deathleaper- a Tyranid that literally toys with its victims, driving them to paranoia and terror before finally finishing them off
Aun'shi-- an Ethereal who actually got into melee with Orks and won; one of the few Ethereals whom even the Farsight Enclaves have any respect for
Nork Deddog- the most loyal Ogryn in the Imperium, who once headbutted an Ork Warboss to death
Also, in memory of awesome characters who are no longer with us: Duke Sliscus, Kheradruakh, Lady Malys, Lukas Bastonne, Mogul Kamir, Captain Al'Rahem
Man Talos WAS a dope ass character. The way the third book ended I hope his Gene seed recipient get a book continuing the great story that the nightlord books told
Right, like i want a follow up on the human/navigator baby
@@Mrbiffthebiff1 the whole ending of that book had my mouth open like could not believe what I was reading and then when they said his name at the end I needed closure I needed to know what happened to Septimus and Octavia cuz I'm not going to say just in case cuz spoiler reasons but you obviously know who got his Gene seed so many unanswered questions and I I have literally been dying to find out more that series was amazing
I was literally upset finishing the Night Lords trilogy. I’ve never gotten so invested in characters and story, especially not in 40k anyway. The way Aaron writes feels like watching a movie to me as well haha. I don’t really get that from other writers. It’s like he ends a chapter suddenly and then the next chapter gets straight to business. Only way I can describe it is like a scene cut to a new scene in a movie.
I would really hope he continued on the story but he has said himself he is a slow writer. Plus with the pace 40k lore moves at and is refreshed I can see it being an issue that Black Library pushes him in other directions for the larger scale “plan” if there is one haha.
honestly, night lords are pretty likable if you move past the “flay people alive for surrender”. like, for a cool story, they should have let sevetar take the little girl he saved from the overseer and raise her outside of the horus heresy.
Warhammer40K is the story of one Necron's struggle to build a museum amidst a war torn galaxy.
The rest is just background dressing.
necron daddy trazyn S.I.M.P
you, i like you
Trazyn would metaphorically shit his pants should he meet the Changeling, Skulltaker or Shalaxi
Trazyn's rival Orikan is deeply afraid of Slaanesh
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I think you missed Hlaine "Mad" Larkin from the Tanith First-and-Only. I mean he is the best sniper of a regiment known for it`s sniper and scout. Also his friendship with "try again" Bragg is really wholesome.
Bragg and Corbec's deaths really hit hard. Since over the course of reading the books, you really liked those 2 characters.
ah yes! most of the ghost troopers deserve some love and attention.
I especially like Corbeck and Brag. with Milo being close runner-up.
@@lordhamster9452 they deserve more than only love they deserve a whole new world.
@@jonmcgee6987 spoiler alert man.
some folks might have not gotten far enough.
even if, happy end are rare in 40K, some do get them.
but still ouch for them.
@@lordhamster9452 If the events were very recently written within the last 2 years. I would be concerned about dropping spoilers. Considering that it's been at least 15 years since those books came out. I'm not really concerned about spoilers.
Talos is one of my absolute favorite characters in the setting.
Ive been waiting for a while to hear your opinion on him
I hope he one day gets his own lore video cuz the mate honestly deserves it.
My personal favorite underrated character in 40k is Ortan Cassius, the Ultramarine senior chaplain and master of sanctity who has a famous Deathwatch kill team because he's not your typical goody two shoes by the book Ultramarine. He reminds me of a 40k version of Cato the Elder; a Roman senator during the Punic Wars who was famous in his speeches ending with Carthago Delenda Est (Carthage must be destroyed in Latin), but instead of Carthaginians he hates with a fiery passion it's Tyranids lol
Every book from Aron Dembski Bowden is bonkers my dude
Gotta agree Talos is the shit and he is the reason why the Night Lords are my favorite legion. He perfectly embodies that Machiavellian pragmatism that I believe Konrad wanted before his legion was twisted and he went mad.
@@stevewarren9316 same the night lord books were so good. I haven't found anything as good
@@codykaye3600 eisenhorn books are the closest in quality to the night lord trilogy imo, but if u are wanting a Aaron dempski Bowden book check out helsreach, that book is great.
As a Tyranid, I appreciate Dantioch for showing us where all the food is. It was borning in the void.
Drawing you in like a moth to the flame... Just as planned.
Same
I feel Corswain requires some recognition. As a marine who almost strangled Curze to death, commanded half of one of the scariest legions and possibly saved Terra by relighting the Astronomicon (haven't read the Siege of Terra books to know how this last part is going)
He caused the tyranids to come to the galaxy and broke up/cheated a 1v1 duel against primarchs
@@CyrodiilCome weren't the tyranids attracted from the pharos's device dantioch activated?
@@sajadhoxhaj6603 he was the one who gave the order
Eldar are a pretty dope faction and they're definitely criminally underrated and the true underdog of the setting. Eldar constantly get worfed almost as bad as their avatar of the God of war. Imagine every time a baneblade showed up in a book it gets immediately destroyed by a named character even tho it's ment to be one of your most powerful units. As far as being the underdog of the setting well they can't afford to throw bodies at the problem like the guard does, they don't have super durable armor and they have to punch above thier weight class constantly while minimizing casualties against forces like space marines, nids and guard. And to make things even worse in order for new eldar babies to be born rangers need to make an expidition to a DAEMON INFESTED crone world to find even a handful of spirit stones for the next generation.
who cares about eldar?
@@FontaineLovers tons of people love the Eldar and are desperate for GW to expand on their rich, deep and complex lore... not me however, can't stand the arrogant, knife-eared basterds.
@@somethinglikethat2176 See, screw that other guy but I respect your opinion.
I have the nightlords omnibus but haven't read it yet this video has made me want to read it
you should really read it, also don't read my spoilery comments
@@SpectralArrow I just havent quite got into the mood yet maybe if I get some chaos marines and paint them like nightlords that will help
@@alfieingrouille1528 audio book trust me
@@willyschwerin good to know
They are my favourite book series in 40k, ( without including the Horus heresy) eisenhorn is in a close second.
Leo from the Marchius omnibus is pretty badass for the mere fact he bang a shapeshifting assassin numerous times, and was a personal bodyguard for the Lord Solar, and he fought in innumerable battle and survived throughout ten years of unending war, and by the end of his years he was seen as a legendary hero for the rest of his life.
knock knock. Hi, it's the inqui...incredible tasty pizza delivery service. We would like to chat with you about a totally harmless nurse who was no assassin and had absolutely no role in saint Macharius dying as a martyr of the imperium.
The whole Night Lords trilogy was lit af. The Konrad primarch book is great, also. Never thought I'd feel sympathetic towards him, but Guy Haley sold me on it.
He was the only Primarch to receive no nurture.
Talos is a competent Chaos Marine who uses real leadership and a reasonable skill set rather then plot armor to say around? Sounds like myth Major... :)
I just finished the Night Lords Omnibus earlier this year. Good call on putting Talos in the list. ADB wrote some likeable bad guys for sure.
I feel like it's almost cheating to include a character from the Nightlords series, given how ADB seems to basically drain the life force and likability out of every single loyalist and side character, in order to pump it into whatever named chaos character is currently on-screen. Usually Sevatar, who is admittedly pretty fuckin' great.
Do you think a blood angel wouldn’t rip apart a traitor legion serf even if they were a child?
@@Prophetofthe8thLegion If they're currently frenzying? Sure. When not? They literally actively go out of their way to be noble and restrained in order to avoid getting a reputation as a bunch of maddened berserkers.
@@gso619 not on the battlefield. As much as it may hurt to hear the only difference between the imperium and the chaos marines is that the imperium doesn’t worship chaos
@@gso619 maybe outside the battle but even then as far as the blood angel was concerned she was a heretic. May I remind you that Vulkan torched a child and watched her burn?
@@Prophetofthe8thLegion Really? They're the same? Are you sure, person whose name is a reference to Kurze's boys? Are you entirely sure you may not have some biases in one direction over the other? Just a teeny tiny preference for one side.
And the Vulkan thing is such a goddamn meme at this point, cause it's just "AHA! Even the primarch who cares for people more than the rest is a monster!" like, bruh, the "child" was a young adult, AND ELDAR, which means little Timmy was, like, 80 when he got acquainted to the underside of Vulkan's boot, had just raided imperial space killing and torturing the people Vulkan cares about aaaaaaaaaand the big man was fresh off of being psychologically waterboarded by edgier Batman. In context, it's a lot less "OH MY GOD! VULKAN'S A MONSTER!" and a lot more "God damn, Kurze is really good at this whole "torturing Vulkan" thing."
Interesting thing but It seems like Huron has a chance at either getting a new mini, Or Suffering a Vect, Since GW are seemingly putting *BOTH* His Forgeworld and Finecast minis on Range Rotation.
Here's hoping the Tyrant of Badab's getting more love!
The Night Lords trilogy is just one of the best trilogies ever. It’s the sole reason why I like the Night Lords.
Heyyyy! I'm one of those (checks writing on hand) wo-wamen. And i thank you for the shout out!
Honestly I think the reason Yriel doesn't have much respect on his name is because he hasn't done much in years, and so the fans don't really pay attention to him despite his old lore being dope.
I was actually reading "Blood Reaver" yesterday and dude I LOVED the scene between Talos and Huron when Tally-boy just verbally EVISCERATES him and Huron essentially responds with "Lol dude I like you"
Prince Yriel has been one of my favorites but I didn’t know about the rest of his story which now that I do makes me like the badass even more!
I wasn't expecting Talos. Talos is easily one of my favorite 40k characters hands down.
I don't like Abaddon, but if I remember right, Abaddon always planned to shoot Talos, he wanted him to pledge himself to one of the Chaos gods and become his puppet seer - cause Talos despises the chaos gods and those who follow them. The fact that he was sassy with Abby was just extra sauce.
"be my little psyker bitch boy" "fuck you" *BANG*
Sadly I heard they are discontinuing Huron Blackhearts model. There are images that people believe that they are making a new model of him. But it would be sad if GW decides to just remove him completely from the setting because he isn’t a character from a Heresy Legion.
The will never remove him completely from the setting. Too popular to kill. But yes his old ass model with the grim Lin monkey is getting removed and remade
m.ua-cam.com/video/phEM4S2DwcY/v-deo.html
That claw with the flamer that they teased months ago could be from a new Huron model, just saying. We all assumed that it was a new daemon engine or something like that, but a new Huron model would be sweet af.
Dante who wished he didnt have plot armour and could finally die.
Yep, that pretty much him in a nutshell haha
Vorx is quite underrated. Death guard chaos warlord who has kind of demented old man vibe to him to fool people but is actually pretty cunning. He's also quite chill and had some cute moments with nurglings, reminding me of Mandalorian and baby yoda XD
Vorx is also an underrated characterfor many of the same reasons as Huron. Vorx isn't interested in any higher status, but he's an excellent commander and quite likeable for a chaos marine.
I love getting off work to find a new Majorkill video fuck yeah man
man I subed to you when you were at 25k subs it's crazy how far you have come in such short time
A few names to add to the list:
Asurmen
Urien Rakarth
Illuminor szeras
Morvenn Vahl
Kairos Fateweaver
Malakin Phoros (and the Lamenters,) exists.
The W40K Universe: And I took that personally.
Bro, I may be an Imperial loyalist at heart, but I do enjoy me some good and well-written Eldar lore.
They are criminally underrated, but you're not alone.
Let's gooo majokill keep up the good work absolutely love you're videos defoo make me laugh when I watch them and learn so much about 40k keep it up bro 💪💪
Hell yea Majorkill!!!
I bought the spartan. Looks sick.
Looking forward to it.
Thank you!
I first started learning about Warhammer from your videos.
And ive been watching consistently for a few months now... I love Warhammer so much after learning about it.
Youre killing it bro.
By far one of my favorite channels!
I just want to say I’m loving your videos! I just recently (like in the past 2 months) started getting into 40k after watching Astartes, and I’ve become really interested in the lore. With how much lore there is, I had no idea where to start. Just as in another comment I’ve seen, the other 40k UA-camrs had videos that were very detailed and were long drawn out (not that it’s bad thing, just not for me). I really love your enthusiasm and how to cover the topic in a good summary that makes it easy for my monke brain to understand! Thank you for your work and I look forward to continue watching your videos!
Hey majorkill literally as soon as you said the minis were on sale I went too buy them😂 they are looking badass and amazing as always keep up the amazing work man
As always
PRASE THE BIG SHARK DADDY!!!
Majorkill is By far my favorite warhammer youtuber
Ay, Talos! Honestly, the Night Lords in the trilogy are great. Talos takes center stage of course, but the general dynamic between all of them is hilarious.
Was so angry to find out that Uzas the insane was blamed for things he didn't do. And Talos had a hunch about it the whole time. All snakes till the end! 😂 Still he managed to humanize Uzas and you got to have sympathy for Uzas give it seems the inner conflict of falling to Khornes rage is a real strain on the soul. And to show it's a risk to the rest of the crew was well done.
@@MrPiccolop The fact that Uzas was actually one of my favorite characters by the end really speaks to the quality here.
@@agentmaine4746 yeah In the end Talos still believed in Uzas that there was some sort of "good" left in that psychotic rage. That's what made them both special in my book. Uzas seemed to listen to Talos in his worst moments. Pretty brotherly stuff.
Thanks again major for the great content.
Much needed attention to some great characters. Great work as always 👏
I made my homebrew chapter a loyalist Iron Warriors chapter because Barabas is so much of a beast. Reading the lore involving the Iron Warriors made me appreciate the legion so much more and allowed me to discover of that absolute unit and all his crazy feats of his service.
The reason why there are many underrated awesome 40k characters is because those characters are not making money for GW in model sales unlike papa G and the ultramarines
The reason why Abaddon still relevant is because players love beating him in every way
And he is pretty good on the table-top while also being a really good model for conversions.
@@smugron1101 that's why it's good to beat him by making a strategy in focus
@@rheynilcalderon4246 Y E S
@@rheynilcalderon4246 Abaddon is as weak as paper mache.... Or Raditz!
When talking about under rated Eldar honorable mention goes to Belanna from the lords of mars trilogy, her farseer abilities were second to none and she saved the entire galaxy from Telok the Mad Magos.
13:22 that could be cous he also brought the great devourer into the galaxy....but hey details details...who's counting mm...
Epic video, and a very appreciated look at some great characters
Talos and Xarl from the NL trilogy are by far the best traitor characters from any book I’ve read
I thought Lemartis (spelling) was the one that lead the Death Company (he’s a chaplain that has fallen into the black rage)
Talos and the Soul Hunter books are what made me fall in love with the Night Lords. He and the books really showed how unique the night lords are in comparison to the rest of the traitor legions
Watching Luetins videos (majorkill later) is what got me interested into the 40k universe but it was the night lords trilogy which got me invested into 40k. That trilogy of books were the first 40k books i read and man they were so good. Since then my addiction has only gotten worse.
I'm so happy you included Barabus Dantioch. (don't know if that's spelled correctly, I listened to the audiobook) Little extra Barabus lore for those who don't know him. During his work on the Pharos device, his closest companion was an Imperial Fist. There were hundreds of individuals working on the Pharos, but it was Barabus himself that learned how the Pharos worked and how to operate it; with emotion. An Iron Warrior, learned to use his emotions as a tool to operate the Pharos. He prevented traitor forces from learning how the Pharos worked. And during all of this, Barabus was in a heightened state of torturous agony due to his previous trials and injuries that he wouldn't get tended. He took this pain willingly as penance for his traitor legion, without telling a soul. Barabus is about the only thing from the Iron Warriors that I like and I put him right next to Rylanor in terms of legendary heroes. Did not expect you to mention him here. Big thanks.
I feel like Valerian has the potential to become one of the coolest 40k characters(not that he isn’t already but you get it)
I like how you keep bringing up Huron basically being a better war master XD
Not only cause they're better written (Like legitimately a Black Crusade was Abaddon literally letting a DAEMON DRIVE HIS FLEET INTO ORKS FOR SOME REASON???) compared to Huron.
Plus despite Abaddon's rules on Tabletop, his legion is kinda shit, his army wide bonus is shit, his relics are garbage, and his melee can either be a mix of "Okay" to "Horrible" cause his main weapon is just some underwhelming weapon USED BY FUCKING HORUS OF ALL PEOPLE or a daemon sword that doesn't do shit.
Huron only has 15k Marines at the most. He was a coward who didn't execute an imprisoned Guilliman.
Abaddon has anywhere between 565k Marines to Two MILLION
I've found some artifacts to be useful, like Angelbane on anyone with a combi-bolter, or the Eye of Night on Vex Machinator. But I agree, Black Legion's trait is god awful, since CSM have a high leadership to begin with
This aged like milk, lol
I love that model, bet it would look great as a Minotaur chapter marine
Solid work, always worth a a watch thank you.
I just finished Pharos by Guy Haley, the novel where Dantioch operates the Pharos device. The real kick in the nuts is after Dantioch dies, in the epilogue it is revealed that by overloading the Pharos device it results in sending out a pulse so far that is detected by the Great Devourer(the 'nids!), who start their 10k year journey towards the Imperium. The dying pulse of the Pharos device is the whole reason that they even learn of our existence.
The music, Majorkill speaking and the camera zooming into Huron was fucking epic
I'm gonna nominate the Ultramarine Cato Sicarius, Knight Champion of Macragge, for the most underrated character, as he, Cato Sicarius, is the greatest of them all, a fantastic tactician, and an extremely competent warrior, I know all of this, because Cato Sicarius told me
I love the memes but after reading Knights of Macragge I actually rate Sicarius as the PTSD, Survivors guilt fella that he’s become
@@dbayles3677 true, he's been through a good amount
I can see through your alter-ego, Sicarius..
@@dbayles3677 Bruva made canon, not memes.
Hey Majorkill!
Hey Sanat Kumar!!
I think a civil war between the chaos factions with Huron against Abandon would be cool, it could allow GW to focus more on other releases with an in lore explanation, it could also be a great way for new chaos stuff to appear.
So glad my boi Barabas Dantioch was included. Definitely my favourite traitor legion loyalist. Garro is pretty cool too though. And Iacton Qruze; the old bastard too stubborn to turn traitor.
The trilogy of the night lords (Talos) is hands down one of my favorite SM novels. So many of the loyalist chapters its just Brother!-For the emp-Brother!-Kill the heretics-Brother! and just blends together into surface feeling character development. The Night lords trilogy and the eisenhorn/Ravenor novels are so damned good though love the character development in those
Imma pick up one of those space Spartans, I’m not super into kit bashing, but that’s going to make a great present for my brother.
Talk about Sevetar damn it! He's the Nightlord worth talking about!
I find it interesting how you can see from what times Huron and Abbadon came from. Abbadon uses his SM like they were still a legion and uses power. Huron comes from a chapter, who had limited options and had to micro manage his forces
pleasantly surprised, I watched this video fully expecting that you couldn't show me any new heroes to be praised. But now I need to read up lore on 2 of them. Thank you :D
Talos has long been one of my favorites. The Night Lords series is so good.
Personal I think numinor is really underated.
I don't know if he is underrated but i really like Commissar Cain and i think he is an awesome character and quite unique. but i mainly like to read stories about people who are not spacemarines, even though spacemarines are dope AF. I just like some lighthearted stuff in my stories about death destruction and damnation.
Sevitar, from HH also written by ADB, is another really "fun" Night Lord.
Loyalist Iron Warriors
The best part of waking up, is Majorkill in your sub feed!
thank you for doing something other then space marines, not that they are bad or anything just overdone by everyone else and this shit is cool too
Yriel was one of the things that got me interested into 40k.
Damn son. Of all the weeks to have to replace my alternator, it’s when a limited mini is beastly looking and pretty damn cheap 😂another amazing vid though man!
The reason why Talos was so likable is not because of GW but because of its original author, Aaron Dembski-Bowden.
Talos, Argel Tal, Lotara Sarrin, Cyrene Valantion, Lhorke, Esca... So many nuanced and interesting "evil" characters that guy created. Also some of the most memorable and well written female characters in 40k.
Even Kharn and Erebus became enjoyable, even fucking Angron made me feel for him in the novel Betrayer.
Can't wait to see what new badass characters that guy is gonna create in the coming years !
btw cool video content, dude ;) I appreciate your humor.
I can't wait for Hurons Novel that's coming out in May. It's up for Preorder on Amazon and was a nice unexpected find.
Chapter master Tu'shan and Vulkan Hestan need some love
Talk about a good Wednesday Majorkill and The Rageaholic posting today. Hell Yeah!
The Avatar of Khaine is a criminally underrated character. A cool idea I have is that the Ynnari (or another Eldar faction like the Harlequins, hell maybe the shards themselves) could try to reassemble enough shards to fully restore the Bloody-Handed God to break into Slaanesh’s palace. We could have an epic duel between Khaine and Slaanesh, maybe even a round 2 with Khorne.
This was pure awesomeness in video form.. All hail the great Majorkill
Mephiston cheif librarian of the Blood angles is an actual goat during the events of The Devestation of Baal and i highly recommend people read it hes so fucking badass
Bro I would like to see you do top 5 underrated battles that would be badass
I used to be a normal, well adjusted person. But after watching Majorkill, I am now obsessed with plastic models and sci fi knowledge, work out like crazy, and assault people named Timmy!
Thanks Majorkill! 👍
I want to add Saul Tarvitz to this list, because I think he is the only emperors children to in body the strive for perfection correctly. He was a line officer who while being competitive didn’t feel the need to rise in the ranks and wanted to be the best officer he could be. And willingly flew down to istvan 3 when he knew it was gonna get virus bombed to warn the marines.
Big time vibing with this list.
Friggin love the Blood Angel storyline in present-time Wh40k, Astorath the Grim is a BA. Huron for warmaster!
So when/where are we having that JO sesh bae?
Just ordered my space Spartan can't wait for him to arrive
Majorkiiiiill! Keep doing you!
I loved the Night Lords Trilogy and I really empathized with Talos while reading it. If you haven't read them, highly recommend!
Love these kinds of videos! More underrated character vids please.
Hell yeah more majorkill!
Majorkill, you need to get on the Yesugei hype train. One of the greatest and wisest astartes psykers of any era. And after that, Shiban Khan, one of the most rugged and tested Marines of the heresy.
This was weird timing, Just on the last book of the Nightlords omibus. You fucking legend, you.
Yriel is defiantly my favorite, wish he got some more stuff in the lore.
Talos getting some much deserved(?) love makes me so happy :)
I was just finishing Astorath´s book. I love this badass!
I've been a subscriber since the very beginning I'm talking before sonic the autistic hedgehog era. You are my favorite UA-camr you clearly put so much passion and energy into this. Keep at it MajorKill! You're doing the Emperor's work.