I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of alcoholics suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Guys don't die doing this please lol.
In the Rogue Trader game, (SPOILERS IF YOU CARE) The Space Wolf that you can recruit speaks about the Emperor being seen as a god and views it almost demeaning to the Emperor. He says that "Gods killing gods is nothing. A mortal man killing gods, now that is what sagas are made of."
It makes sense that at least certain parts of the Wolves would not believe the Emperor is a god since they have Bjorn waking up every century or so to set things straight.
@@kieranadamson3224 It is the norm for Space Marines to _not_ worship the Emperor of Mankind as a God, but to "just" venerate him as the most important human being ever, which often is an unsettling transition to new recruits. There are many exceptions though, especially those Space Marine chapters that are closely associated with more fervently religious organizations of the Imperium.
@@Nickname-ef9tv ah I see. So I'm guessing that's another reason why sub-classes of Marine like Tech Marines or Apothecaries are at least sometimes shunned socially. Because they delve into active worship of the emperor due to the indoctrination in their training.
The Greeks and Norse both had their version of The Fates, the Greek three sisters are most commonly known as The Fates, the Norse three sisters of Fate are The Norns.
To be fair, on a surface level there are a lot of similarities; you really only appreciate the differences if you're a huge myth nerd (hi, that's me, I'm one of those nerds). I still remember that one time the Disney Hercules tv show had a Norse episode and there was a gag where the Fates were pulling "double duty" as the Norns.
The Greeks have two sets of fates. The first is the three fates( Anthropes, Lanchiesis and Clotho), and the three grey ladies who are mistaken for the three dedicated fates sisters.
There's a point to be made that norse myths were more than likely directly influenced by greek mythology. Like, the roman empire spread all the way to britain, and with them spread their beliefs, understandings, and their pantheons influenced by the Greeks. Would it be any surprise then that the people who lived across europe would have bits and pieces of greek myth that were incorporated over generations as their own myth? I'll be honest, I'm not a historian, I'm not a mythology nerd, I'm not a qualified person, I don't even work here. This is just a vague guess.
If I remember correctly, Russ considered the impact he had on his legion as his greatest achievement. When he first met them, they had developed a reputation as bloodthirsty men who would slaughter everyone, much like the World Eaters would also develop. Displeased with this, he worked to make his legion believe they were heroes. He instilled the values of honor, glory, and valor so deeply that they hold them above even most other space marine chapters in modern-times 40K.
@@sklaWlivE There needs to be a story made on some of these working together saving civilians and how they go about it differently. Space Wolves: Boasting and laughing while smiting the enemies of mankind. Salamanders: Calm, grim fury onto those who make innocents suffer. Raven Guard: Not even getting noticed by most. Also slight emo vibes.
Rune Priests know they are psykers, it is the way they use that power that is different: Hawser stared up at the rune priest in quiet alarm. He could hear Aun Helwintr’s voice, but the priest’s lips were not moving. ‘The measure of your surprise, Ahmad Ibn Rustah,’ the rune priest murmured without using his mouth, ‘reflects the unconscious contempt you have for the Sixth Legion Astartes.’ ‘Contempt? No-’ ‘You cannot hide it. We are barbarians, arctic savages, gene-fixed and dressed up with war-tech, and sent off to do unseemly labour for our more cultured masters. It is a common belief.’ ‘I never said that-’ Hawser protested. ‘Or even consciously thought it. But deep down inside you, there is a patronising sense of superiority. You are a civilised man, and you’ve come to study us, like a magos biologis observing some primitive tribe of throwbacks. We live like animals, and we follow shamans. And yet… Great Terra! Could it be that our shamans have real gifts? Genuine powers? Could it be that they are more than just bone-rattling, bead-jangling gothi, out of their heads on mushrooms, howling at the sky?’ ‘Psionics,’ whispered Hawser. ‘Psionics,’ Aun Helwintr echoed, smiling. He used his real voice. ‘I had heard that some of the Legions actually had psyker contingents,’ said Hawser. ‘Most of them have,’ replied Helwintr. ‘But the occurrence is so very rare,’ Hawser said. ‘The mutation is a-’ ‘The psyker mutation is a priceless asset to our species,’ said Helwintr. ‘Without it, we would be condemned to captivity on Terra. The Great Houses of the Navigators allow us to expand our reach. The astrotelepaths allow us to communicate over the gulfs. But caution must always be exercised. Control.’ ‘Why?’ ‘Because when you gaze out with your mind, you never know what will stare back.’ - Prospero Burns
So an interesting bit about this is that it's inspired by a real conversation. The only records we have written contemporarily about viking funerals come from a man named Ahmad ibn Fadlan, a Muslim explorer from the late Abbasid golden age islamic order of scholars. While he was studying the Russki Vikings, he did write about how their shamans were strange and how he felt they were uncivilized. He'd treated them with great respect and gotten respect back and both sides agreed it was a difference in culture. He did record a conversation he had with one of the Vikings which was basically this word for word without the 40k stuff.
A good fan explanation why they name everything "wolf" is that they have their own Fenrisian words for all their units, but the imperial scribes who only speak low gothic just translate it as "wolf x" and "wolf y"
Garviel Loken was actually instructed not to say "Space Wolves" prior to meeting Russ. They are "The Rout", and during the Great Crusade/Heresy members of The Rout considered all of the "wolf wolf wolf" stuff to be something ignorant offworlder's did
@@Writh811 wolf priest was Skiald wolf guard had a different name too. It always seemed like GW realized their mistake in calling everything wolf and were trying to retcon in the 30k books
Let be honest if guilliman, Dante, and Bjorne all meet they’d probably be completely distracted by the fact that someone sane from the pre Hersey is still alive
Bricky if you’re going to talk about Bjorn you have to talk about why he has the saddest story ever. When he was injured he was in the wolf halls with his fallen brothers feasting and preparing for the great hunt but when he went to go back to the hall it was empty, all the candles unlit and he tried to follow their foot prints but couldnt because they had just turned on the dreadnaught
Do not forget that Bjorn was a Lone Wolf. His pack died to a bloodthirster. Russ went to kill it, only to have Bjorn kill it first by ripping his throat out with this fucking teeth.
Krom Dragongaze got his eye because Lukas challenged him into a staring contest with the sun. Krom stared for so long that he burned his retinas and Ulric had to pull him away. He then had to convince Krom it was a tie. Also Logan’s axe is a war trophie that he pulled off a Korne demon prince. He then hit Magnus with said axe and Korne thought it was one of the funniest things he’s ever seen.
I can see Khorne on his throne just browsing his hard drive for old classics, continually going back for that wolfpup bonking the stupid red one with a Bloodthirster axe. Quiet, booming chuckles ensue.
my favorite thing is when the Blood Ravens looted Bjorn...and he was ok with it: "Now, mighty Bjorn, we can explain,” the Captain began, but Bjorn silenced him with a shout. “SHUT UP! I’M THINKING.” This was not something they had expected. All stood worriedly as they waited for Bjorns thoughts to reach a conclusion. “…HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT WOLVES?” There was some conferral. Eventually the Brother-Captain stepped forward again and said “We… are… neutral on the subject of wolves?” “GOOD. I HATE THE FUCKING THINGS.” Bjorn leaned forward, as much as was possible for a Dreadnought to do, until he teetered precariously over the Brother-Captain and the slightest tremor from the engines of the ship risked condemning the unfortunate marine to a crushing death. He spoke. “NO WOLVES. NO QUESTIONS ABOUT LEMAN RUSS. ABSOLUTELY NO REFERENCES TO FELL HANDS. ANYBODY WHO ASKS ME A QUESTION ABOUT THE OLD TIMES IS GOING TO BE USED AS PAINT TO HELP FIX THIS SHITTY JOB YOU’VE DONE ON ME,” Bjorn rumbled. “THOSE ARE MY TERMS. AGREE AND I’LL PRETEND NOT TO NOTICE WHAT YOU THIEVING LITTLE BASTARDS HAVE DONE. DEAL?” The Captain nodded frantically. “GOOD. NOW WHERE ARE THE FUCKING ASSAULT PODS?” Bjorn demanded, spinning his power claw and returning to a normal stance, mirth creeping back into his voice. This could turn out to be a very good century indeed.
I wish they talked about bjorn's origin story more.. He got his title by saving a remembrancer from a tzeentchian changeling who infiltrated their ship and tried to kill him.. The daemon touched bjorn's left arm and surged warp fire through it forcing the remembrancer to help bjorn cut it off before bjorn could kill the changeling.. when leman saw bjorn missing an arm, he asked him if it would impede his fighting prowess and bjorn said that he kinda liked it coz it would make a great story.. leman joked that "one-handed" sounded silly so he proposed "fell-handed" instead and bjorn agreed laughing with his primarch.. then another time, bjorn's pack got attacked by a powerful daemon leaving bjorn as the only survivor.. Leman vowed to hunt down the daemon to claim its skull to hang in the halls of the fang but when he found the daemon, bjorn was already there fighting it.. Leman was furious at first being robbed of the kill but then could only look on in pride as his son clambered up the daemon's back using his new lightning claw and proceeded to rip out the daemons throat.. After the battle, leman raised bjorn's fell hand proclaiming him as a worthy entry into the wolf guard.. But bjorn wasn't happy with the kill coz he had survivor's guilt being the only one in his squad at the time to have survived..
The fun part about Lukas the Trickster is that he has been an Astartes for centuries, but is still in the new recruit units because he's such a jerk he keeps getting demoted.
@@parkermaisterra8532 if I remember correctly that's more or less why Grimnar tolerates him: like "Well yes he's a dick but he sort of embodies the Wolves' rebellious nature and he does serve to check the worst excesses of boastfulness"
@sarnicholas4053 He makes the best trainer for the Bloodclaws because he knows how they think and can mold them into proper Marines Doesn't he have a stolen Dark Angels stasis grenade where one of his hearts was?
@@KillerOrca Yup, Drukhari ripped his heart out and chucked him into space but not before Lukas ripped through dozens of raiders on the pirate's own main ship.
At the beginning of his book. 2 wolf lords are fighting. Lukas is just sat there petting 2 wolves a space wolf comes up to another one and asks why there are fighting. The other space wolf looks at him and says. "Whoever loses has to have lukas in their unit for the next season." Lukas just look at them both and grins
So with the eating thing, in the saga of the volsungs the hero Sigurd eats the heart of a dragon and gains some of its abilities. But also all space marines gain knowledge from eating people, notably the particular organ that does it is highly active in the blood angels
I like to think Space Wolves being a more human-protecting chapter has a lot to do with the way Space Wolves marines are allowed to be more than just living weapons. They feast and drink. They laugh and sing songs. These are things that humans do. For that reason, they have more points of similarity between themselves and base humanity than most space marines. They haven't been hollowed out until all they feel is hate and loyalty to the Emperor.
And they're one of the most fervently loyal chapters with almost no traitorous offshoots. Weird, almost like separating humans from their humanity is how this shitshow started I the first place
Fenris 100% has a world spirit and if the Eldar has taught me anything in their books is it’s a really good idea to have something in Between you and the warp when you’re using it. Like runes or some freak philosophy about wolves and Fenris or both
The Warp reflects reality, DAoT shenanigens might have accidentally created a world spirit out of sheer ignorance. Gotta love DAoT humans, all the power in the world and absolutely zero restraint and/or prudence!
The world spirit thing is part of why people think Russ was a hypocrite with the Rune Priests. Russ (and the Khan) never really embraced the Imperial Truth. Due to their world's long held traditions of warp manipulation, they both knew more about the warp than their other brothers (aside from Magnus). The issue Russ had with Magnus's practices was that Magnus was playing with the warp directly and without any restraints. Both the Rune Priests and Stormseers followed their home world's psychic traditions which were based on limited accepted practices that were all mediated, and viewed the Thousand Son's as recklessly doing whatever they could with the warp just because they possessed the ability to do it. "your scientists (psykers)were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” That quote and the original context in Jurassic Park is a good representation of how Russ and the Rune Priests viewed Magnus and the Thousand Son's manipulation of the warp.
I would love a Necromunda episode. I think DK and Bricky would have a hilarious time learning about the various gangs and if they have time some of the Necromunda game rules are some of the funniest things in the world
I just happen to enjoy the WH lore and don’t play, but loved hearing about the hive cities and tempted to build a Necromunda diorama that could work as terrain.
In the old lore, Long fangs, where the heavy weapon range unit, because as old wolfs, they where able to not storm into close combat. And one of the things that is different with wolf priests compared to other chapters chaplins, is that the wolf priests are apothecaries in addition to chaplins, while other chapters split those jobs into 2.
I'm mostly familiar with the old (pre Gulliman resurection) lore, and it felt like the whole "wolves are all about CQC" was mostly down to Leman's propaganda about how monstrous he is and their bloodclaws (which Bricky did not mention). The older a Wulf gets the more tactical and HUNTER they are. In ther wild youth they are a wild bloodclaw that only an olf wolf can lead. In their middle age they are a tactical marine. In their old age they consider even bolters to be not big enough and take up the biggest guns to hunt the BIGGEST GAME. Pretty sure some of them dream of hunting smaller titans :D
I always figured it was because if they reached that age, they'd either learned to be patient enough to not just charge into melee or have gotten killed by something
Don't Forget that Bjorn calls Logan pup and Logan is the only one that Logan listens to. Also, there is a short story out there where a Space Wolf squad is under attack from a bunch of Orks, and one flips a rhino over this lava river so his pack can cross. He then turns to face the Orks so his pack can get away. When they come back to him, he sets on a makeshift Orkish throne on a mound of dead Orks. He killed so many by himself that they thought he was an embodiment of the Emperor and that they didn't kill him, he was just a sleeping, small, war god. The Space Wolves left him because they thought it was a good enough tribute to him. Cannot remember the name.
If memory serves, that thing is an actual demon weapon…and the only reason the Khornite demon hasn’t tried to take over Grimnar or otherwise caused problems, is that’s it’s happy enough to just be used to smash in the faces of Tzeench forces that always target the Space Wolves whenever possible (thank you, Magnus)
@@sklaWlivEit's quite the contrast to castellan crowe. Who uses his demon sword like nothing more than a tool. Accepting none of it's temptations which really upsets it.
@@sklaWlivEthat’s something I do love is daemon happy as it is and instead of wanting to corrupt it just let’s what is already happening to be done and done more effectively. It’s so cool and could come for an interesting lore piece later
@Wolfbroa let's be honest, khorne loves when the wolves get let loose. Logan being the great wolf, of course the daemon would be happy to help them slaughter everyone.
Space Wolf Long Fang units are made up of older and more even tempered astartes. Thier age and experience make them reliable and disciplined enough that they are trusted to be given destroyer squad long range weapons and not charge into everything like a reckless blood claw. I also would not be surprised if the term longfang was a play on words for both 'getting long in the tooth' as well as long fang as in long-range bite
Yup, the Wolves never adopted the Codex Astartes, so they still structure themselves into the 12 Great Companies that can range from a few hundred to over a thousand marines (depending on the Wolf-lord). They also don't field ANY scout marines.
@@draochvar9646The wolf scouts are full sworn battle brothers not neophites. The canix helix does something in their minds making into the archetypical lone wolves among their forces.
@@davidfrancisco3502I wouldn't count those as scout marines, since they are (as you mentioned) fully elevated Battle Brothers, hell, they even have a separate term. But you are correct, the Wolfscouts are indeed a thing.
UM AKSHUALLY! DK was remembering the "Omophagea" when talking about eating things and gaining their memories (not just kroot). It's been played down in recent editions as it seems they're trying to sloly retconn it out, but according to the "Creation of a space marine" phase 8 section on the Lexicanum "This implant, also called "the Remembrancer", allows a Space Marine to 'learn by eating'. It is situated in the spinal cord but is actually part of the brain. Four nerve bundles are implanted connecting the spine and the stomach wall. Able to 'read' or absorb genetic material consumed by the marine, the omophagea transmits the gained information to the Marine's brain as a set of memories or experiences."
Also, the idea that eating people gives you their powers is a real historical belief in many cannibalistic societies around the world. You could say it's a shared magical concept in our species. It's not really a prominent thing in the Norse sagas, which usually depict cannibalism as a monstrous thing, either a heinous crime or an act done by literal monsters like giants and trolls. There are a few instances in less known stories where powers are transferred from person to person through eating an organ or drinking blood, though, but I'd be very surprised if anyone at GW was even aware of them. It's probably a more general "superstitious barbarians be eating people" trope at work.
You sort of beat around why longfangs are the long range units. They are more disciplined and even tempered than blood claws, so they resist the urge to galivant into combat.
Interesting thing about how Space Wolves differ significantly from Codex-compiliant chapters: instead of being put in Scout companies, new marines are given actual power armor and basically become Assualt Marines (bloodclaw) with chainswords and bolt pistols. ...which probably means a new Space Wolf has a higher life expectancy then most newly minted marines in other chapters. Space Wolf scout companies (Wolf Scouts) instead are usually filled with veterans who prefer the solitude of the wilds and wastes to the boisterous large groupings of their peers...they give up their power armour because their introverts and have just had enough of all the singing and boasting of the rest of the largely extroverted chapter. XD "I've been a bloodclaw, a longfang, and a grey hunter...and by the All-Father, they are all just. So. Damned. Loud! And Impatient!" ...unlike typical neophyte-filled scout companies who field snipers, Wolf Scouts prefer working up close and personal with combat knives and silenced/suppressed Bolt Pistols...they're basically the prototype for the Primaris Reivers. ...and because they prefer stealth, encirclement, and diversions, they are also basically the unit that hunts most like an actual wolf. ...actually, because of the "neophyte Space Wolves get put right into actual power armour", most of the other unit types of Space Wolves are described as "veteran" equivalents...Grey Hunters (tactical marines), Longfangs (heavy weapon/devestator marines), Wolf Guard (Terminators), Lone Wolves, Wolf Scouts...the numbers of "veteran" troops that the Space Wolves can put out, does seem to indicate that better arming their neophytes from the get-go instead of making them earn it by service in a scout company, does have a positive effect.
It does increase the induction time though, since they can only field them once the transformation has taken its full course. This is where the Chapter's far-above-stipulations size becomes vitally important because it means there's always enough troops around so that the Wolves don't HAVE to use their aspirants on the battlefield.
@@sklaWlivEread again, there's an apostrophe there 🤣 And yes, I know they call their companies the Great Companies, although they are closer to the Chapters of the Legio Astartes days than moder Adeptus Astartes Companies
@@draochvar9646 I mean, that's how they got around the whole Codex Astartes thing...a lot of OG Legions found similar loopholes: The Imperial Fists and their succesors (and after getting wiped out to a man in the War of the Beast, their predecessors) had the Last Wall Protocol. ...and the Blood Angels have that thing they invoked to defend Baal, summoning all of their nearby successor chapters to form up...wiiiiiith the exception of the Angels Carmine/Vermillion (I forgot which colour), who everyone agreed were absolute assholes and it was less disagreeable to fight alongside a Flesh Tearer in full cannabilistic rage mod, then those blood ritual vampires... ...I think the Iron Hands may have had a similar protocal too, but it went sideways when they got drawn into that one mechanicum schism over the nature of the Omnissiah and the divinity of the Emperor, and now Clan Rukaan and the Sons of Medusa don't talk to each other anymore (I might be misremembering the chapter names, it's been a while).
I feel like Bjorn living long enough to meet Leman again would be just an awesome tale to tell amongst the Space Wolves. Especially if they got to fight together again just "I hand them back to you, Lord" and then he'd probably die knowing GW lol But also Leman reacting to how Bjorn is now would also be interesting! Or if they JUST missed each other because Bjorn died bringing him back 😢😢
Bricky: so there's this dread wulfen called Murderfang. DK: ohh! I remember *you* telling me about Murderfang! Kirioth, the one who actually told DK about Murderfang in the dreadnought episode: it's okay.. ; -; it's fine..
Odd that they have picture of Lukas the Trickster up for so long and didn't get into the ludicrous deed he achieved, and the fact that the Captain of each Great Companies are trying to pass him on like a hot potatoes. The 'loser' of conclave have to take him on their Blood Claw (technically he NEVER advance beyond that rank) for a Fenrisian year.
So there's one space wolf who I feel needs to be brought up called Ranulf the strong. Supposedly, he was the largest Astartes in the history of the space wolves, rivalling Russ himself. He does have a mini, but it's one of the old ones and it's goofy af. But the main reason I personally love him is because he had the respect of the Orks. At his death, he and a group of his wolf guard fought against the Orks in a narrow pass to let their brothers get to safety. They fought for several solar hours and one by one the wolf guards fell, but Ranulf remained standing for a while longer. Eventually the Orks got through and killed Ranulf, but he put up such a good fight that when the Space Wolves retoook the pass, they found Ranulf and his wolf guard propped up on shrines made of Ork wargear. One of my favourite space wolf stories and something I just felt like mentioning.
Love the episode and glad you are finally covering my favorite faction. A little more information about Lukas The Trickster though! He is what I would arguably call, the most petty loyalist marine to have existed. To the point where despite being a veteran of many battles he is still a bloodclaw. At one point he had a tactical nuke surgically installed in his chest so that if he would fall in battle, he is sure to take his foes with him.
I feel like aktualli, but maybe it's just a different example. The way Ragnar Blackmane was recruited was that his tribe was attacked by another, and in the middle of a fight Wolf Priests came down in their aircrafts (we're those Valkyries? Would be fitting) and watched them battle, and the tribesmen were so stoked cos in their belief that means those who are to fall in this battle as heroes are going to local analog of Valhalla to have eternal feast at Leman Russ'es table. In fact the Priests took those who has done most impressive feats and were gravely wounded, healed them from the brink of death with advanced space marine medicine and then took them as aspirants to join the Space Wolves. Badass
What i like about the space wolves recruitment. They tend to get aspirants well into their late teens and early adult hood. Prospero Burns is also a great lore development piece for their culture.
Imagine a Chaos Warband called the Ultra Wolves, made up of Ultramarines and Spacewolves that fell to chaos. And they have Ultra Wolf priests and Ultra Wolf Cavalry.... that rides on Ultra Wolves.... because of course they would.
Biggest thing for DK that he will probably never learn, Magnus has to be written so horribly stupid because if he was written as he should, he’d just chuck armies to space and win wars solo.
Second only to the Emporer in his knowledge and power of the warp. While the Emporer tried to protect the primarchs from the knowledge of chaos, Magnus has shown he should have been educated on it if nothing else knowing the dangers would have helped him not get blind sided. From the pact he made to save his sons to his final moment on his home world he knew how to play chaos against it self.
Regarding Primaris and the recruitment into the Space Wolves, the first group of Primaris to arrive, one of them basically put himself through the trials in a fit of rage at not being accepted. Nearly died a few times, but won acceptance and won the right for trials to take place anywhere sufficiently dangerous (such as space hulks) The more fun fact about the Vylka Fenryka is that when they're in their ships or within the Aett, the sons of Russ wear intricately carved leathers and leather masks. Which has terrified a number of people and managed to confuse and vaguely freak out Garviel Loken during the Heresy. Even the humans around them wear the leathers, a famous example being Kaspar Hausar the skald of the Legion during the Heresy.
So with the gaining memories from eating people thing, all Space Marines can do it. The Space Wolves and the Blood Angels are just the most well known Loyalist chapters that practice this. There's another chapter that's not as well fleshed out, but they practice eating their own dead to preserve tactical knowledge and honor them by living their stories in a way
The blood angels before their reunion with Sanguinius had the practice when a captain was killed in combat his successor cannibalized his dead body to absorbe all his knowledge and genetic memory, he inherented the gear of the deceased captain and even his name creating the illusion Of immortality.
I've been a fan of the Space Wolves for a while now, because I'm a fan of the Imperium factions that go out there, protect the Imperium, get the job done. Salamanders, Wolves, White Scars, Guard. These are the forces of Humanity I like. As for Xenos, I'm the exact opposite. I like the factions that go "Imma do the thing because the Galaxy is mine too mess with", aka the Necrons and the true Eldar, the Drukhari.
A fun little sidefact: after the Lion knocked out Russ with that sucker punch, the 2 Legions immediately started to bicker and argue who was the actual winner of their fight. The Wolves saying Lion won via cowardly cheating while the Angels say it was a fight nonetheless and Leman is at fault for laughing in the first place. And so now they basically have the tradition where the Space Wolves and Dark Angels meet each other each year on a day where they pick a fighter of both teams and they fight it out between each other as akin to see who‘s right in the argument of „who won in that fight, Lion or Leman?“. And whoever wins is „the right one“ for the year.
Funnily enough the Lion doesn't count it as an actual win, something he comment's on in both Leman Russ: The Great Wolf and The Lion: Son of the Forest
Didn't a space wolf get absolutely dumpstered once because he pestered the lion to appoint a champion for this duel so the lion said "ok i'll do it myself"?
@@bonogiamboni4830yep, Faffnr Bludbroder. His axework is weirdly good - it just happened, without any cues or tensions beforehand. Guilliman was shook, but the Lion blocked it millimeters from his face.
@@bonogiamboni4830yeah, he was like a Sergeant or something and nearly managed to cut the Lion before getting one punched. Even Guiliman was shook by how close he got.
Honestly I don't care for them and these past episodes didn't make me want to collect an army like every other one episode, but I'm also gonna pick up Bjorn
Keeping with the Ork comparisons, I like to think they treat Bjorn like a Deff Dread. Deff Dreads literally eat and drink through a straw put through the vision slit. Bjorn has his Fenrisian Ale through a straw, and makes vox-boosted slurping noises as he drinks, prompting the entire hall to stop and watch in awe as he chucks whole barrels of the stuff without stopping.
I look forward to the Months of Shame episode. Also lets be honest Magnus was utterly confused by the armless Bjorn coffin slamming him over and over again.
Bjorn is really baller, but also sad. He wasn't just one of the marines who fought with Russ during the Great Crusade and the Heresy, he was one of Leman's personal retinue... and the only one who wasn't brought with when Russ dipped out to the warp for space milk and cigarettes and never came back. And beyond that he just wasn't even told they were leaving, they just up and left him in the night because Russ himself intended for Bjorn to lead the Space Wolves in his absence and knew that if told about it Bjorn would refuse to stay behind. So despite being the favored and chosen successor of Russ, he himself believes he wasn't good enough and that's why he was abandoned and left behind.
I just finish "Prospero Burns" book of the HH series. Honestly I thought it was going to be a boring listen and a repetition of the Thousand Sons prequel of it. Instead I got a nice introduction to Space Wolf culture. The whole story is told from the perspective of a normal human which makes it way more interesting too and not feel like "yet another" space marine story. I think it's worth a listen and a book club in the future
I don't know if it has been retconned since 5th ed, but the story behind the Blood Claws were that the first pack you were put in was also the only pack you were in. Losses don't get replenished over time and that is why many Grey Hunter squads aren't ten man squads like in the codex chapters. When a Blood Claw has become a Grey Hunter it usually means that he has grown past the initial bloodthirst that Blood Claws usually feel when they become full Space Marines and have grown wiser. The Wolf Priest aren't only the chaplains either. Lore wise they also work as the chapters apothacary. But like I wrote first, those things might have changed since I stopped playing back in 6th ed. There was so much fun lore in that old codex about why they were as they were. Like Sky Claws, who are just Blood Claws that wanted to get in closer to the enemy faster, so they were given Jump Packs by the Grey Hunters and then flew towards the enemy in a happy glee. (Very orkish as well there when I think about it.)
I am so happy I was working from home today because Bricky going over Bjorn talking with the inquisitor near the end had me dieing. If I was at my desk the whole office would have heard me cracking up 😂
10:17 Oh. Oh god. I just had a thought about how the Orks are devolved, and it went to that their ancestors may have literally spoken with a posh british accent. This will live in my brain rent free forever.
One time I was playing in the tabletop. And this mad lad pulled out all of the named characters And I was just doing poger's face. As we had an epic battle. My night lords were massacred
Something I really like about the Space Wolves are how they recruit their Iron Priests (tech marines). Normally, chapters just send any technologically adept recruits to the mechanicus and get tech marines that way. However, the Iron Priest's recruitment process is entirely separated from the main chapter. Young blacksmiths will travel to an Iron Priest's forge and craft a weapon to prove their skill. If its masterful work, they'll get to become an apprentice and will become a space wolf that way. If it isn't, they'll be turned into a servitor as punishment for wasting the Iron Priests time. Its interesting, because its one of the few instances where the Techmarines actually get to have their own unique practices and culture within a chapter, and are more than just the space marines mechanics/tech support. Aside from the Iron Hands.
I love the space wolves, they've won a place in my favorites just due to being rambunctious battle frenzied louts. Like on paper they are just viking astartes but... Also on paper in the books that is they have so much personality. Lukas, Ragnar and the Jarnhamar pack, just fantastic characters.
"We come from the world of ice and snow, From the Eye of the Wolf, where the Warp tides flow! The will of the Emperor, will drive our ships to new worlds To fight Chaos hordes, and sing and cry "Holy Terra, I am coming!"" (Led Zeppelin if 40K existed back then, probably)
I´m a die hard Space Wolves fan, and al I can say about this episode is... beautiful. It's so refreshing listening to people that don't love them being able to admit that certain parts of this legion are cool, most channels hate them so much that will avoid talking about anything that could be interesting about them. So, thank you both!
An Ork deffo uses chuffed in their vocabulary; ERE BOIS, LOOK AT ME BIG SHOOTAH, ITS GOT MORE DAKKA DEN URS YA RUNT, BAH AM CHUFFED TO BITS WI DAT, LETS GO KILL SOME STUFF, ERE WE GO DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA
I highly highly highly recommend you guys read wolfs bane for the next book club after ork, because it really makes the space wolves interesting and gives a great look into russ, horus, and sangiunuis. Tho not so much Sangy sadly
According to Space Wolf book by William King, they literally add fuel to the ale lol. It is also a great book to get the recruitment process correct. Rest of the book is also nice, a little bit of Rubic Marines to add flavour
Oh man... Being a Space Wolf Librarian[Skáld] would be fun! Collecting stories from the Guard and the Sisterhood, etc. to tell as a way to boost morale and bring back home to share with the others sounds like some much-needed positivity.
I think one of my favorite interactions with Bjorn is when he legit Rizzed up a Fenrisian Inquisitor. It was really funny to see a space marine, let alone an entombed one, wax on about how beautiful she was. To be fair, Annika was gorgeous. Cannot blame the guy. As far as Space Wolves go, they’re tied with Salamanders as my favorite chapter. I think one of the coolest quotes is when a group of Space Wolves are talking to themselves and they talk about guardsmen and that “who do you think they’d rather fight beside, the silent Blood Angel, stoically slaughtering or the howling, cursing, laughing Space Wolf who actually talks to them and acknowledges their existence while truly inspiring the men.”
Long Fangs are usually the heavy weapon teams cause by the time they reach that age there usually greatly calmed down from there youthful Blood Claw days and can keep there cool and stay back and fire on the enemy, its kinda similar to the blood angels cause there heavy weapon teams are of blood angels who have learnt from experience to best control there red thirst and wont run into battle abandoning there positions
I kind of want to see Lukas the Trickster face off against Lucius the Eternal because it would be a martyrdom battle. I don't think there's any chance Lukas would avoid getting possessed if he killed Lucius but he does have a grenade where his second heart was so if Lucius kills him, gloats and then dies to the grenade presumably he can't resurrect from the exploded pieces of Lukas.
@@dovahfett5919 You're correct, as annoying as that lore is. I was kind of hoping culpability would revert to Lukas as the one who placed the grenade there or Lucius could just respawn off the guy who made the power sword or daemon weapon or C'tan phase blade which killed him which generally doesn't seem to be the case. That said, with the exception of the Guard and gretchen, an imperial civilian making grenades is probably one of the lowest life expectancy situations in the setting so there's every chance the guy who made the grenade is just dead already.
There is a norse myth about Kvasir, god of knowledge, who was killed and who's blood was used to make mead which Odin drank and gained his knowledge from. That might be what DK is thinking of.
Really happy these episodes weren't like some other youtubers where when the Wolves come up they immediately shit on them. Loved the episode, wish yall touched on more but it's alot for one video so understand. FENRIS HJOLDA.
Long Fangs are heavy weapon specialists because they're the only ones the chapter trusts to not drop them and charge the enemy as Long Fangs are so old that age and wisdom have tempered the fire in their hearts that hungers for glory.
Ok so mentioning that Morkai is a two-headed wolf was interesting for me, cos in AoS there is a dude called Radukar the Wolf, whose claim to fame was that he slew a two-headed wolf called Vilnas, who guarded the tomb of a vampire emperor called "Morkan". He also has a second mini called Radukar the Beast, which I think is his werewolf form, despite the fact he is a vampire.
Didnt Lukas create the fenrisian ale because he missed getting drunk? Wulfen aren’t mindless creatures there are those in the space wolves that realize they have memories of old life and such and can remember there old life which is why they will fight with space wolves but it doesnt happen tooooo often because most space wolves kill Wulfen on site and some times go on hunts for them to just eradicate them because they are seen as evil or chaos tainted by some successor chapters of the Space Wolves
Wasn't this a plot point in one of the Ragnar's books. That Wolf Priests can somehow make wolfen remmber what their true mission is and lead them into battle. And also that pretty much any Wolf is just couple steps from being a Wolfen they are just able to control that side and could possibly even step back.
Take a drink every time you hear them say "wolf", if you survive you got what it takes to become a space wolf.
I’ll be back from the hang over, if not well… you know
Ran out of booze and cuddling the toilet
Ooops. that was the mjod/mead cup, that was the Cup of the Wolfen...I am about to be yeeted out into the frozen wilds, aren't I?
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of alcoholics suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Guys don't die doing this please lol.
Nah, man. Unlike Space Marines, I only have one liver and I'm kinda attached to it.
In the Rogue Trader game, (SPOILERS IF YOU CARE) The Space Wolf that you can recruit speaks about the Emperor being seen as a god and views it almost demeaning to the Emperor. He says that "Gods killing gods is nothing. A mortal man killing gods, now that is what sagas are made of."
It makes sense that at least certain parts of the Wolves would not believe the Emperor is a god since they have Bjorn waking up every century or so to set things straight.
That's why we must praise Him as a man. All hail the Manperor!
@@kieranadamson3224 It is the norm for Space Marines to _not_ worship the Emperor of Mankind as a God, but to "just" venerate him as the most important human being ever, which often is an unsettling transition to new recruits. There are many exceptions though, especially those Space Marine chapters that are closely associated with more fervently religious organizations of the Imperium.
@@Nickname-ef9tv ah I see. So I'm guessing that's another reason why sub-classes of Marine like Tech Marines or Apothecaries are at least sometimes shunned socially. Because they delve into active worship of the emperor due to the indoctrination in their training.
They venerate the allfather.@@Nickname-ef9tv
Bjorn's fluid gauges:
Promethium.
Oil.
Hydraulic.
Stasis.
Ale.
They make double-sure the last one never gets below half.
They make sure to check it hourly
I actually love that
The Greeks and Norse both had their version of The Fates, the Greek three sisters are most commonly known as The Fates, the Norse three sisters of Fate are The Norns.
frfr this, like I googled to be safe and therefore didn't um-acktually last episode
To be fair, on a surface level there are a lot of similarities; you really only appreciate the differences if you're a huge myth nerd (hi, that's me, I'm one of those nerds). I still remember that one time the Disney Hercules tv show had a Norse episode and there was a gag where the Fates were pulling "double duty" as the Norns.
The Greeks have two sets of fates. The first is the three fates( Anthropes, Lanchiesis and Clotho), and the three grey ladies who are mistaken for the three dedicated fates sisters.
There's a point to be made that norse myths were more than likely directly influenced by greek mythology. Like, the roman empire spread all the way to britain, and with them spread their beliefs, understandings, and their pantheons influenced by the Greeks. Would it be any surprise then that the people who lived across europe would have bits and pieces of greek myth that were incorporated over generations as their own myth?
I'll be honest, I'm not a historian, I'm not a mythology nerd, I'm not a qualified person, I don't even work here. This is just a vague guess.
Do any of you watch David Lightbringer? Good channel for game of thrones and going through where these myths cross over.
If I remember correctly, Russ considered the impact he had on his legion as his greatest achievement. When he first met them, they had developed a reputation as bloodthirsty men who would slaughter everyone, much like the World Eaters would also develop. Displeased with this, he worked to make his legion believe they were heroes. He instilled the values of honor, glory, and valor so deeply that they hold them above even most other space marine chapters in modern-times 40K.
This goes perfectly with the previous episode that described Russ as an honourable man masquerading as a savage.
Space Wolves, Salamanders, and Raven Guard...the big 3 of "We're not actually assholes, we give a damn!" Space Marine legions.
They were pretty much the only legion that needed commissars to beat and kill discipline into them.
@@sklaWlivE There needs to be a story made on some of these working together saving civilians and how they go about it differently.
Space Wolves: Boasting and laughing while smiting the enemies of mankind.
Salamanders: Calm, grim fury onto those who make innocents suffer.
Raven Guard: Not even getting noticed by most. Also slight emo vibes.
@@sklaWlivE White Scars too. Khan cared about civilians and had his legion run ahead to evacuate places before battle happened there.
Rune Priests know they are psykers, it is the way they use that power that is different:
Hawser stared up at the rune priest in quiet alarm. He could hear Aun Helwintr’s voice, but the priest’s lips were not moving.
‘The measure of your surprise, Ahmad Ibn Rustah,’ the rune priest murmured without using his mouth, ‘reflects the unconscious contempt you have for the Sixth Legion Astartes.’
‘Contempt? No-’
‘You cannot hide it. We are barbarians, arctic savages, gene-fixed and dressed up with war-tech, and sent off to do unseemly labour for our more cultured masters. It is a common belief.’
‘I never said that-’ Hawser protested.
‘Or even consciously thought it. But deep down inside you, there is a patronising sense of superiority. You are a civilised man, and you’ve come to study us, like a magos biologis observing some primitive tribe of throwbacks. We live like animals, and we follow shamans. And yet… Great Terra! Could it be that our shamans have real gifts? Genuine powers? Could it be that they are more than just bone-rattling, bead-jangling gothi, out of their heads on mushrooms, howling at the sky?’
‘Psionics,’ whispered Hawser.
‘Psionics,’ Aun Helwintr echoed, smiling. He used his real voice.
‘I had heard that some of the Legions actually had psyker contingents,’ said Hawser.
‘Most of them have,’ replied Helwintr.
‘But the occurrence is so very rare,’ Hawser said. ‘The mutation is a-’
‘The psyker mutation is a priceless asset to our species,’ said Helwintr. ‘Without it, we would be condemned to captivity on Terra. The Great Houses of the Navigators allow us to expand our reach. The astrotelepaths allow us to communicate over the gulfs. But caution must always be exercised. Control.’
‘Why?’
‘Because when you gaze out with your mind, you never know what will stare back.’
- Prospero Burns
So an interesting bit about this is that it's inspired by a real conversation. The only records we have written contemporarily about viking funerals come from a man named Ahmad ibn Fadlan, a Muslim explorer from the late Abbasid golden age islamic order of scholars. While he was studying the Russki Vikings, he did write about how their shamans were strange and how he felt they were uncivilized. He'd treated them with great respect and gotten respect back and both sides agreed it was a difference in culture. He did record a conversation he had with one of the Vikings which was basically this word for word without the 40k stuff.
@@noabsolutelynot3660I will count this as a win on the “Today I learned” boards.
Thanks, that’s really cool.
A good fan explanation why they name everything "wolf" is that they have their own Fenrisian words for all their units, but the imperial scribes who only speak low gothic just translate it as "wolf x" and "wolf y"
Another quick way of describing it is the same thing as how Eskimo have like 30+ different words for snow
@@HyperboreanJihad But so does English, when you realize most of those words are just compounds, like wetsnow, coldsnow, windysnow, drysnow, etc
Garviel Loken was actually instructed not to say "Space Wolves" prior to meeting Russ. They are "The Rout", and during the Great Crusade/Heresy members of The Rout considered all of the "wolf wolf wolf" stuff to be something ignorant offworlder's did
That is very much the case. I can't remember all the proper names but a "Wolf Lord" is a Jarl. A Rune Priest is a Gothii.
@@Writh811 wolf priest was Skiald wolf guard had a different name too. It always seemed like GW realized their mistake in calling everything wolf and were trying to retcon in the 30k books
I'd love for a scene of Guilliman going to Fenris, and Robute and Bjorn basically have a "Oh shit, you still kicking, fellow old timer?" moment.
Guilliman at a bar with Bjorn as a Bartender constantly filling out his tankard as he cry sobs about the state of the imperium.
@@Thought_Processing_they modify his autocannon to fire out shot glasses filled with mead.
Let be honest if guilliman, Dante, and Bjorne all meet they’d probably be completely distracted by the fact that someone sane from the pre Hersey is still alive
@@rungunninja1289 Dante is not that old.
bjorn is the oldest of all marines except the primarchs correct?@@Thought_Processing_
Bricky if you’re going to talk about Bjorn you have to talk about why he has the saddest story ever. When he was injured he was in the wolf halls with his fallen brothers feasting and preparing for the great hunt but when he went to go back to the hall it was empty, all the candles unlit and he tried to follow their foot prints but couldnt because they had just turned on the dreadnaught
Why :
Also, since I haven't seen the end of the episode yet, the fact that Bjorn is the oldest living space marine.
@@TheArgusApocraphex1 I would love to see cawl and Bjorn talk to each other .
I would like to see Bjorn awoken to speak to the Lion.
Do not forget that Bjorn was a Lone Wolf. His pack died to a bloodthirster. Russ went to kill it, only to have Bjorn kill it first by ripping his throat out with this fucking teeth.
Krom Dragongaze got his eye because Lukas challenged him into a staring contest with the sun. Krom stared for so long that he burned his retinas and Ulric had to pull him away. He then had to convince Krom it was a tie.
Also Logan’s axe is a war trophie that he pulled off a Korne demon prince. He then hit Magnus with said axe and Korne thought it was one of the funniest things he’s ever seen.
I can see Khorne on his throne just browsing his hard drive for old classics, continually going back for that wolfpup bonking the stupid red one with a Bloodthirster axe. Quiet, booming chuckles ensue.
@@Backstabmacroor bjorn tearing a bloodthirsters throat out with his teeth
@@aaronstorey9712 "Ooohhh shoot... Did NOT see that one coming..." Khorne, probably...
@@todddelevan9488 he definitely spilt his popKhorne for that one
my favorite thing is when the Blood Ravens looted Bjorn...and he was ok with it:
"Now, mighty Bjorn, we can explain,” the Captain began, but Bjorn silenced him with a shout.
“SHUT UP! I’M THINKING.”
This was not something they had expected. All stood worriedly as they waited for Bjorns thoughts to reach a conclusion.
“…HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT WOLVES?”
There was some conferral. Eventually the Brother-Captain stepped forward again and said “We… are… neutral on the subject of wolves?”
“GOOD. I HATE THE FUCKING THINGS.”
Bjorn leaned forward, as much as was possible for a Dreadnought to do, until he teetered precariously over the Brother-Captain and the slightest tremor from the engines of the ship risked condemning the unfortunate marine to a crushing death. He spoke.
“NO WOLVES. NO QUESTIONS ABOUT LEMAN RUSS. ABSOLUTELY NO REFERENCES TO FELL HANDS. ANYBODY WHO ASKS ME A QUESTION ABOUT THE OLD TIMES IS GOING TO BE USED AS PAINT TO HELP FIX THIS SHITTY JOB YOU’VE DONE ON ME,” Bjorn rumbled. “THOSE ARE MY TERMS. AGREE AND I’LL PRETEND NOT TO NOTICE WHAT YOU THIEVING LITTLE BASTARDS HAVE DONE. DEAL?”
The Captain nodded frantically.
“GOOD. NOW WHERE ARE THE FUCKING ASSAULT PODS?” Bjorn demanded, spinning his power claw and returning to a normal stance, mirth creeping back into his voice. This could turn out to be a very good century indeed.
Gotta love the magpies
Might not be *true,* but frak it’s canon to me
I wish they talked about bjorn's origin story more.. He got his title by saving a remembrancer from a tzeentchian changeling who infiltrated their ship and tried to kill him.. The daemon touched bjorn's left arm and surged warp fire through it forcing the remembrancer to help bjorn cut it off before bjorn could kill the changeling.. when leman saw bjorn missing an arm, he asked him if it would impede his fighting prowess and bjorn said that he kinda liked it coz it would make a great story.. leman joked that "one-handed" sounded silly so he proposed "fell-handed" instead and bjorn agreed laughing with his primarch.. then another time, bjorn's pack got attacked by a powerful daemon leaving bjorn as the only survivor.. Leman vowed to hunt down the daemon to claim its skull to hang in the halls of the fang but when he found the daemon, bjorn was already there fighting it.. Leman was furious at first being robbed of the kill but then could only look on in pride as his son clambered up the daemon's back using his new lightning claw and proceeded to rip out the daemons throat.. After the battle, leman raised bjorn's fell hand proclaiming him as a worthy entry into the wolf guard.. But bjorn wasn't happy with the kill coz he had survivor's guilt being the only one in his squad at the time to have survived..
The fun part about Lukas the Trickster is that he has been an Astartes for centuries, but is still in the new recruit units because he's such a jerk he keeps getting demoted.
He’s a prank god who humbles any great company that gets arrogant/needs a lesson
@@parkermaisterra8532 if I remember correctly that's more or less why Grimnar tolerates him: like "Well yes he's a dick but he sort of embodies the Wolves' rebellious nature and he does serve to check the worst excesses of boastfulness"
@sarnicholas4053 He makes the best trainer for the Bloodclaws because he knows how they think and can mold them into proper Marines
Doesn't he have a stolen Dark Angels stasis grenade where one of his hearts was?
@@KillerOrca Yup, Drukhari ripped his heart out and chucked him into space but not before Lukas ripped through dozens of raiders on the pirate's own main ship.
At the beginning of his book. 2 wolf lords are fighting. Lukas is just sat there petting 2 wolves a space wolf comes up to another one and asks why there are fighting. The other space wolf looks at him and says. "Whoever loses has to have lukas in their unit for the next season." Lukas just look at them both and grins
So with the eating thing, in the saga of the volsungs the hero Sigurd eats the heart of a dragon and gains some of its abilities. But also all space marines gain knowledge from eating people, notably the particular organ that does it is highly active in the blood angels
I like to think Space Wolves being a more human-protecting chapter has a lot to do with the way Space Wolves marines are allowed to be more than just living weapons. They feast and drink. They laugh and sing songs. These are things that humans do. For that reason, they have more points of similarity between themselves and base humanity than most space marines. They haven't been hollowed out until all they feel is hate and loyalty to the Emperor.
Yeah it's not about bragging rights, the Wolves are able to genuinely connect with humans in a way few astartes can.
And they're one of the most fervently loyal chapters with almost no traitorous offshoots. Weird, almost like separating humans from their humanity is how this shitshow started I the first place
Fenris 100% has a world spirit and if the Eldar has taught me anything in their books is it’s a really good idea to have something in Between you and the warp when you’re using it. Like runes or some freak philosophy about wolves and Fenris or both
Wait wasn't Fenris supposed to be literaly "Jusrasic Park" planet ? (during the dark age of techonology)
The Warp reflects reality, DAoT shenanigens might have accidentally created a world spirit out of sheer ignorance. Gotta love DAoT humans, all the power in the world and absolutely zero restraint and/or prudence!
@@curiousinquisitor59 THIS, so much this.
@MrKOLCOO Based on the Emperor's statements in Wolfsbane, Fenris was deliberate attempt to create a Norse mythology themed planet
The world spirit thing is part of why people think Russ was a hypocrite with the Rune Priests.
Russ (and the Khan) never really embraced the Imperial Truth. Due to their world's long held traditions of warp manipulation, they both knew more about the warp than their other brothers (aside from Magnus). The issue Russ had with Magnus's practices was that Magnus was playing with the warp directly and without any restraints. Both the Rune Priests and Stormseers followed their home world's psychic traditions which were based on limited accepted practices that were all mediated, and viewed the Thousand Son's as recklessly doing whatever they could with the warp just because they possessed the ability to do it.
"your scientists (psykers)were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
That quote and the original context in Jurassic Park is a good representation of how Russ and the Rune Priests viewed Magnus and the Thousand Son's manipulation of the warp.
I would love a Necromunda episode. I think DK and Bricky would have a hilarious time learning about the various gangs and if they have time some of the Necromunda game rules are some of the funniest things in the world
Honestly the necromunda trading post has some fucking hilarious implications
Imagine their reaction to a gang that is literally just straight up the DAOT humanity
And the short stories are always interesting
Not to mention if they bring up Kal Jerico in the episode as well.
I just happen to enjoy the WH lore and don’t play, but loved hearing about the hive cities and tempted to build a Necromunda diorama that could work as terrain.
In the old lore, Long fangs, where the heavy weapon range unit, because as old wolfs, they where able to not storm into close combat.
And one of the things that is different with wolf priests compared to other chapters chaplins, is that the wolf priests are apothecaries in addition to chaplins, while other chapters split those jobs into 2.
I'm mostly familiar with the old (pre Gulliman resurection) lore, and it felt like the whole "wolves are all about CQC" was mostly down to Leman's propaganda about how monstrous he is and their bloodclaws (which Bricky did not mention). The older a Wulf gets the more tactical and HUNTER they are. In ther wild youth they are a wild bloodclaw that only an olf wolf can lead. In their middle age they are a tactical marine. In their old age they consider even bolters to be not big enough and take up the biggest guns to hunt the BIGGEST GAME. Pretty sure some of them dream of hunting smaller titans :D
I always figured it was because if they reached that age, they'd either learned to be patient enough to not just charge into melee or have gotten killed by something
One of my favorite non-canon stories was a fanfic where the Blood Ravens stole Bjorn the fell handed and he was just kinda down for it.
Immaculate
I must know the name
@@demondoggy1825 I think it was just titled "The blood ravens steal Bjorn the fell handed". Google it.
@@demondoggy1825 it was on the 1d4chan page for him but idk the name
Don't Forget that Bjorn calls Logan pup and Logan is the only one that Logan listens to.
Also, there is a short story out there where a Space Wolf squad is under attack from a bunch of Orks, and one flips a rhino over this lava river so his pack can cross. He then turns to face the Orks so his pack can get away. When they come back to him, he sets on a makeshift Orkish throne on a mound of dead Orks. He killed so many by himself that they thought he was an embodiment of the Emperor and that they didn't kill him, he was just a sleeping, small, war god. The Space Wolves left him because they thought it was a good enough tribute to him. Cannot remember the name.
I love how Logan Grimnar wields an axe from a fallen Khorne Space Marine. Its power was able to hurt Magnus.
thats such horseshit, he shouldn't be able to use a chaos axe and that shit should result in the Inquisition running his pockets at all times.
If memory serves, that thing is an actual demon weapon…and the only reason the Khornite demon hasn’t tried to take over Grimnar or otherwise caused problems, is that’s it’s happy enough to just be used to smash in the faces of Tzeench forces that always target the Space Wolves whenever possible (thank you, Magnus)
@@sklaWlivEit's quite the contrast to castellan crowe. Who uses his demon sword like nothing more than a tool. Accepting none of it's temptations which really upsets it.
@@sklaWlivEthat’s something I do love is daemon happy as it is and instead of wanting to corrupt it just let’s what is already happening to be done and done more effectively. It’s so cool and could come for an interesting lore piece later
@Wolfbroa let's be honest, khorne loves when the wolves get let loose. Logan being the great wolf, of course the daemon would be happy to help them slaughter everyone.
The fic with Bjorn being stolen by the Blood Ravens is great.
Name of fic if you have it please
@@touketsuaoienkour12 you can search youtube for 'The Blood Ravens stole Bjorn the Fell-Handed' for a very good narration.
Yes, please, sauce?
Freakin bloody magpies
" You're going to let me fight?, Carry on"
Space Wolf Long Fang units are made up of older and more even tempered astartes. Thier age and experience make them reliable and disciplined enough that they are trusted to be given destroyer squad long range weapons and not charge into everything like a reckless blood claw. I also would not be surprised if the term longfang was a play on words for both 'getting long in the tooth' as well as long fang as in long-range bite
The literally get long in the tooth their cainines keep growing and develop into long fangs
I think it would be good to add that the Space Wolves aren't a chapter, they are still a legion numbering somewhere around 7000 marines
Yup, the Wolves never adopted the Codex Astartes, so they still structure themselves into the 12 Great Companies that can range from a few hundred to over a thousand marines (depending on the Wolf-lord).
They also don't field ANY scout marines.
@@draochvar9646The wolf scouts are full sworn battle brothers not neophites. The canix helix does something in their minds making into the archetypical lone wolves among their forces.
@@draochvar9646they have scouts, they just aren’t neophytes.. also, sadly, the great companies have never been at full strength ever.
@@davidfrancisco3502I wouldn't count those as scout marines, since they are (as you mentioned) fully elevated Battle Brothers, hell, they even have a separate term. But you are correct, the Wolfscouts are indeed a thing.
I am sad that this didn’t get brought up at all.
UM AKSHUALLY!
DK was remembering the "Omophagea" when talking about eating things and gaining their memories (not just kroot). It's been played down in recent editions as it seems they're trying to sloly retconn it out, but according to the "Creation of a space marine" phase 8 section on the Lexicanum
"This implant, also called "the Remembrancer", allows a Space Marine to 'learn by eating'. It is situated in the spinal cord but is actually part of the brain. Four nerve bundles are implanted connecting the spine and the stomach wall. Able to 'read' or absorb genetic material consumed by the marine, the omophagea transmits the gained information to the Marine's brain as a set of memories or experiences."
Also, the idea that eating people gives you their powers is a real historical belief in many cannibalistic societies around the world. You could say it's a shared magical concept in our species. It's not really a prominent thing in the Norse sagas, which usually depict cannibalism as a monstrous thing, either a heinous crime or an act done by literal monsters like giants and trolls. There are a few instances in less known stories where powers are transferred from person to person through eating an organ or drinking blood, though, but I'd be very surprised if anyone at GW was even aware of them. It's probably a more general "superstitious barbarians be eating people" trope at work.
You sort of beat around why longfangs are the long range units. They are more disciplined and even tempered than blood claws, so they resist the urge to galivant into combat.
Interesting thing about how Space Wolves differ significantly from Codex-compiliant chapters: instead of being put in Scout companies, new marines are given actual power armor and basically become Assualt Marines (bloodclaw) with chainswords and bolt pistols.
...which probably means a new Space Wolf has a higher life expectancy then most newly minted marines in other chapters.
Space Wolf scout companies (Wolf Scouts) instead are usually filled with veterans who prefer the solitude of the wilds and wastes to the boisterous large groupings of their peers...they give up their power armour because their introverts and have just had enough of all the singing and boasting of the rest of the largely extroverted chapter. XD
"I've been a bloodclaw, a longfang, and a grey hunter...and by the All-Father, they are all just. So. Damned. Loud! And Impatient!"
...unlike typical neophyte-filled scout companies who field snipers, Wolf Scouts prefer working up close and personal with combat knives and silenced/suppressed Bolt Pistols...they're basically the prototype for the Primaris Reivers.
...and because they prefer stealth, encirclement, and diversions, they are also basically the unit that hunts most like an actual wolf.
...actually, because of the "neophyte Space Wolves get put right into actual power armour", most of the other unit types of Space Wolves are described as "veteran" equivalents...Grey Hunters (tactical marines), Longfangs (heavy weapon/devestator marines), Wolf Guard (Terminators), Lone Wolves, Wolf Scouts...the numbers of "veteran" troops that the Space Wolves can put out, does seem to indicate that better arming their neophytes from the get-go instead of making them earn it by service in a scout company, does have a positive effect.
It does increase the induction time though, since they can only field them once the transformation has taken its full course.
This is where the Chapter's far-above-stipulations size becomes vitally important because it means there's always enough troops around so that the Wolves don't HAVE to use their aspirants on the battlefield.
@@draochvar9646 Hey now, not chapters, “Great Companies” XD
@@sklaWlivEread again, there's an apostrophe there 🤣
And yes, I know they call their companies the Great Companies, although they are closer to the Chapters of the Legio Astartes days than moder Adeptus Astartes Companies
@@draochvar9646 I mean, that's how they got around the whole Codex Astartes thing...a lot of OG Legions found similar loopholes: The Imperial Fists and their succesors (and after getting wiped out to a man in the War of the Beast, their predecessors) had the Last Wall Protocol.
...and the Blood Angels have that thing they invoked to defend Baal, summoning all of their nearby successor chapters to form up...wiiiiiith the exception of the Angels Carmine/Vermillion (I forgot which colour), who everyone agreed were absolute assholes and it was less disagreeable to fight alongside a Flesh Tearer in full cannabilistic rage mod, then those blood ritual vampires...
...I think the Iron Hands may have had a similar protocal too, but it went sideways when they got drawn into that one mechanicum schism over the nature of the Omnissiah and the divinity of the Emperor, and now Clan Rukaan and the Sons of Medusa don't talk to each other anymore (I might be misremembering the chapter names, it's been a while).
The Glory of Fenris and the Vlka Fenryka knows no bounds. I highly recommend either Prospero Burns or the Battle of the Fang for a good look at them.
I mean ... if you really wanna get to know the Wolves, you kinda HAVE to read the Ragnar Saga. It's petty foundational for so much of their lore.
I feel like Bjorn living long enough to meet Leman again would be just an awesome tale to tell amongst the Space Wolves. Especially if they got to fight together again just "I hand them back to you, Lord" and then he'd probably die knowing GW lol
But also Leman reacting to how Bjorn is now would also be interesting! Or if they JUST missed each other because Bjorn died bringing him back 😢😢
Bricky: so there's this dread wulfen called Murderfang.
DK: ohh! I remember *you* telling me about Murderfang!
Kirioth, the one who actually told DK about Murderfang in the dreadnought episode: it's okay.. ; -; it's fine..
Odd that they have picture of Lukas the Trickster up for so long and didn't get into the ludicrous deed he achieved, and the fact that the Captain of each Great Companies are trying to pass him on like a hot potatoes. The 'loser' of conclave have to take him on their Blood Claw (technically he NEVER advance beyond that rank) for a Fenrisian year.
So there's one space wolf who I feel needs to be brought up called Ranulf the strong. Supposedly, he was the largest Astartes in the history of the space wolves, rivalling Russ himself. He does have a mini, but it's one of the old ones and it's goofy af. But the main reason I personally love him is because he had the respect of the Orks. At his death, he and a group of his wolf guard fought against the Orks in a narrow pass to let their brothers get to safety. They fought for several solar hours and one by one the wolf guards fell, but Ranulf remained standing for a while longer. Eventually the Orks got through and killed Ranulf, but he put up such a good fight that when the Space Wolves retoook the pass, they found Ranulf and his wolf guard propped up on shrines made of Ork wargear. One of my favourite space wolf stories and something I just felt like mentioning.
Armageddon no?
Love the episode and glad you are finally covering my favorite faction. A little more information about Lukas The Trickster though!
He is what I would arguably call, the most petty loyalist marine to have existed. To the point where despite being a veteran of many battles he is still a bloodclaw. At one point he had a tactical nuke surgically installed in his chest so that if he would fall in battle, he is sure to take his foes with him.
Don't forget he absolutely bamboozled Magnus with a blank piece of paper
Stasis grenade. Not a nuke
I feel like aktualli, but maybe it's just a different example. The way Ragnar Blackmane was recruited was that his tribe was attacked by another, and in the middle of a fight Wolf Priests came down in their aircrafts (we're those Valkyries? Would be fitting) and watched them battle, and the tribesmen were so stoked cos in their belief that means those who are to fall in this battle as heroes are going to local analog of Valhalla to have eternal feast at Leman Russ'es table. In fact the Priests took those who has done most impressive feats and were gravely wounded, healed them from the brink of death with advanced space marine medicine and then took them as aspirants to join the Space Wolves. Badass
You are a hundred percent spot on, there is a reason the Wolf Priest's are known as The Speakers of the Dead
What i like about the space wolves recruitment. They tend to get aspirants well into their late teens and early adult hood. Prospero Burns is also a great lore development piece for their culture.
No wayyyyy you, of all people, like wolves, I never would have guessed from your profile picture and username
Imagine a Chaos Warband called the Ultra Wolves, made up of Ultramarines and Spacewolves that fell to chaos. And they have Ultra Wolf priests and Ultra Wolf Cavalry.... that rides on Ultra Wolves.... because of course they would.
There already is a canonical Chaos Wolves Warband. Their name is dumber than what you came up with.
Biggest thing for DK that he will probably never learn, Magnus has to be written so horribly stupid because if he was written as he should, he’d just chuck armies to space and win wars solo.
Second only to the Emporer in his knowledge and power of the warp. While the Emporer tried to protect the primarchs from the knowledge of chaos, Magnus has shown he should have been educated on it if nothing else knowing the dangers would have helped him not get blind sided. From the pact he made to save his sons to his final moment on his home world he knew how to play chaos against it self.
Regarding Primaris and the recruitment into the Space Wolves, the first group of Primaris to arrive, one of them basically put himself through the trials in a fit of rage at not being accepted. Nearly died a few times, but won acceptance and won the right for trials to take place anywhere sufficiently dangerous (such as space hulks)
The more fun fact about the Vylka Fenryka is that when they're in their ships or within the Aett, the sons of Russ wear intricately carved leathers and leather masks. Which has terrified a number of people and managed to confuse and vaguely freak out Garviel Loken during the Heresy. Even the humans around them wear the leathers, a famous example being Kaspar Hausar the skald of the Legion during the Heresy.
Lukas the trickster has a really good book about him that shows what life is like on Fenris
Magnus: "you're still alive!"
Bjorn: *angry canned viking noises*
Bjorn went toe to toe with magnus and alpharious
So with the gaining memories from eating people thing, all Space Marines can do it. The Space Wolves and the Blood Angels are just the most well known Loyalist chapters that practice this. There's another chapter that's not as well fleshed out, but they practice eating their own dead to preserve tactical knowledge and honor them by living their stories in a way
The blood angels before their reunion with Sanguinius had the practice when a captain was killed in combat his successor cannibalized his dead body to absorbe all his knowledge and genetic memory, he inherented the gear of the deceased captain and even his name creating the illusion Of immortality.
@@davidfrancisco3502 Hmm. Could this be what is done with the Sanguinor?
Flesh Eaters, or Dragon Spears?
All space Marines *could* do it if I remember correctly some chapters the organ no longer works
I'm surprised Bricky never touched on the (lack of) Space Wolf successor chapters. Fairly unique with that.
It must be a hell of a job to teach space wolves not to bring back a thrown grenade.
1) Throw granade (not primed)
2) Space Wolf caves a bloody canyon through enemy forces
3) Retrieve granade
4) Repeat
5) profit
Months of shame is gonna be such a good episode. I hope it's the next episode.
Love the story that Ulrik the slayer was so strong and brutal in battle that he got a nod of acknowledgement from demon Antron
Fates are greek, but Norse got Norns, which is functionally the same
Also if I recall correctly, collectively all the Norns are Heimdall's mother
@@AngryHomunculus yes, birthed by 8 mothers (the norns) iirc
@@vaelophisnyx9873I believe there are three norns: Urd, Verdandi and Skuld, Heimdal's mothers were giants
If you really wanna differentiate them cleanly, call the Greek ones the Moirai and the Norse ones the Norns.
I've been a fan of the Space Wolves for a while now, because I'm a fan of the Imperium factions that go out there, protect the Imperium, get the job done. Salamanders, Wolves, White Scars, Guard. These are the forces of Humanity I like.
As for Xenos, I'm the exact opposite. I like the factions that go "Imma do the thing because the Galaxy is mine too mess with", aka the Necrons and the true Eldar, the Drukhari.
A fun little sidefact: after the Lion knocked out Russ with that sucker punch, the 2 Legions immediately started to bicker and argue who was the actual winner of their fight. The Wolves saying Lion won via cowardly cheating while the Angels say it was a fight nonetheless and Leman is at fault for laughing in the first place.
And so now they basically have the tradition where the Space Wolves and Dark Angels meet each other each year on a day where they pick a fighter of both teams and they fight it out between each other as akin to see who‘s right in the argument of „who won in that fight, Lion or Leman?“. And whoever wins is „the right one“ for the year.
Funnily enough the Lion doesn't count it as an actual win, something he comment's on in both Leman Russ: The Great Wolf and The Lion: Son of the Forest
Didn't a space wolf get absolutely dumpstered once because he pestered the lion to appoint a champion for this duel so the lion said "ok i'll do it myself"?
@@bonogiamboni4830yep, Faffnr Bludbroder. His axework is weirdly good - it just happened, without any cues or tensions beforehand. Guilliman was shook, but the Lion blocked it millimeters from his face.
@@bonogiamboni4830yeah, he was like a Sergeant or something and nearly managed to cut the Lion before getting one punched. Even Guiliman was shook by how close he got.
I am not a huge fan of the Space Wolves as a whole and all but Bjorn hits right into my soft spot for Dreadnoughts. I gotta get his model sometime
Honestly I don't care for them and these past episodes didn't make me want to collect an army like every other one episode, but I'm also gonna pick up Bjorn
Keeping with the Ork comparisons, I like to think they treat Bjorn like a Deff Dread.
Deff Dreads literally eat and drink through a straw put through the vision slit. Bjorn has his Fenrisian Ale through a straw, and makes vox-boosted slurping noises as he drinks, prompting the entire hall to stop and watch in awe as he chucks whole barrels of the stuff without stopping.
I look forward to the Months of Shame episode. Also lets be honest Magnus was utterly confused by the armless Bjorn coffin slamming him over and over again.
Great episode for the Wolfy boys, that being said I would love an episode for chaplains, techmarines, apothecaries and librarians
Bjorn is really baller, but also sad. He wasn't just one of the marines who fought with Russ during the Great Crusade and the Heresy, he was one of Leman's personal retinue... and the only one who wasn't brought with when Russ dipped out to the warp for space milk and cigarettes and never came back. And beyond that he just wasn't even told they were leaving, they just up and left him in the night because Russ himself intended for Bjorn to lead the Space Wolves in his absence and knew that if told about it Bjorn would refuse to stay behind. So despite being the favored and chosen successor of Russ, he himself believes he wasn't good enough and that's why he was abandoned and left behind.
Just starting to build a space wolf army so in gassed for this episode
I just finish "Prospero Burns" book of the HH series. Honestly I thought it was going to be a boring listen and a repetition of the Thousand Sons prequel of it. Instead I got a nice introduction to Space Wolf culture. The whole story is told from the perspective of a normal human which makes it way more interesting too and not feel like "yet another" space marine story.
I think it's worth a listen and a book club in the future
I don't know if it has been retconned since 5th ed, but the story behind the Blood Claws were that the first pack you were put in was also the only pack you were in. Losses don't get replenished over time and that is why many Grey Hunter squads aren't ten man squads like in the codex chapters. When a Blood Claw has become a Grey Hunter it usually means that he has grown past the initial bloodthirst that Blood Claws usually feel when they become full Space Marines and have grown wiser.
The Wolf Priest aren't only the chaplains either. Lore wise they also work as the chapters apothacary.
But like I wrote first, those things might have changed since I stopped playing back in 6th ed.
There was so much fun lore in that old codex about why they were as they were. Like Sky Claws, who are just Blood Claws that wanted to get in closer to the enemy faster, so they were given Jump Packs by the Grey Hunters and then flew towards the enemy in a happy glee. (Very orkish as well there when I think about it.)
I am so happy I was working from home today because Bricky going over Bjorn talking with the inquisitor near the end had me dieing. If I was at my desk the whole office would have heard me cracking up 😂
10:17 Oh. Oh god. I just had a thought about how the Orks are devolved, and it went to that their ancestors may have literally spoken with a posh british accent. This will live in my brain rent free forever.
I wish Bricky would have brought up how the the Space Wolves are SUPER not codex compliant and even still operating as a legion.
One time I was playing in the tabletop. And this mad lad pulled out all of the named characters And I was just doing poger's face. As we had an epic battle.
My night lords were massacred
Something I really like about the Space Wolves are how they recruit their Iron Priests (tech marines). Normally, chapters just send any technologically adept recruits to the mechanicus and get tech marines that way. However, the Iron Priest's recruitment process is entirely separated from the main chapter. Young blacksmiths will travel to an Iron Priest's forge and craft a weapon to prove their skill. If its masterful work, they'll get to become an apprentice and will become a space wolf that way. If it isn't, they'll be turned into a servitor as punishment for wasting the Iron Priests time. Its interesting, because its one of the few instances where the Techmarines actually get to have their own unique practices and culture within a chapter, and are more than just the space marines mechanics/tech support. Aside from the Iron Hands.
Salamanders are kinda similar since their marines are totally capable of doing the work too
I feel ashamed Bricky did not show the TTS Space Wolf clip
The Gate of Morkai?
I love the space wolves, they've won a place in my favorites just due to being rambunctious battle frenzied louts. Like on paper they are just viking astartes but... Also on paper in the books that is they have so much personality. Lukas, Ragnar and the Jarnhamar pack, just fantastic characters.
"We come from the world of ice and snow,
From the Eye of the Wolf, where the Warp tides flow!
The will of the Emperor, will drive our ships to new worlds
To fight Chaos hordes, and sing and cry "Holy Terra, I am coming!""
(Led Zeppelin if 40K existed back then, probably)
You guys need to talk about how Lukas the tricksters old rule allowed him to kill a warlord titan
I´m a die hard Space Wolves fan, and al I can say about this episode is... beautiful. It's so refreshing listening to people that don't love them being able to admit that certain parts of this legion are cool, most channels hate them so much that will avoid talking about anything that could be interesting about them. So, thank you both!
I’ve been playing for 25 years and I haven’t heard half these stories and am now considering a space wolf army, thank you so much
An Ork deffo uses chuffed in their vocabulary;
ERE BOIS, LOOK AT ME BIG SHOOTAH, ITS GOT MORE DAKKA DEN URS YA RUNT, BAH AM CHUFFED TO BITS WI DAT, LETS GO KILL SOME STUFF, ERE WE GO DAKKA DAKKA DAKKA
You guys put a smile on my face even on my darkest days. Thank you for everything you do.
I I'm pleased this is finally happening as a space wolves player they day is finally here
Still waiting for the short story were guilliman and bjorn meet and they go full old grampa on the modern imperium
I was hoping they would talk about the "Consul-Opsequiari". They are the Commissars of the space wolfs before they found Leman Russ.
Damn of course the one I'm waiting for and I'm here for the premier... Got to work at 10, love yah crew!
Would love to hear a book club on Lukas the trickster. Great space wolf book. Dark eldar come to raid fenris 👌🏻 makes for a good time
Honestly, that Lemon Russ episode had a lot of side tangents on space wolf stuff in general and some other distalractions.
I highly highly highly recommend you guys read wolfs bane for the next book club after ork, because it really makes the space wolves interesting and gives a great look into russ, horus, and sangiunuis. Tho not so much Sangy sadly
According to Space Wolf book by William King, they literally add fuel to the ale lol. It is also a great book to get the recruitment process correct. Rest of the book is also nice, a little bit of Rubic Marines to add flavour
Oh man... Being a Space Wolf Librarian[Skáld] would be fun! Collecting stories from the Guard and the Sisterhood, etc. to tell as a way to boost morale and bring back home to share with the others sounds like some much-needed positivity.
I think one of my favorite interactions with Bjorn is when he legit Rizzed up a Fenrisian Inquisitor. It was really funny to see a space marine, let alone an entombed one, wax on about how beautiful she was. To be fair, Annika was gorgeous. Cannot blame the guy.
As far as Space Wolves go, they’re tied with Salamanders as my favorite chapter. I think one of the coolest quotes is when a group of Space Wolves are talking to themselves and they talk about guardsmen and that “who do you think they’d rather fight beside, the silent Blood Angel, stoically slaughtering or the howling, cursing, laughing Space Wolf who actually talks to them and acknowledges their existence while truly inspiring the men.”
Long Fangs are usually the heavy weapon teams cause by the time they reach that age there usually greatly calmed down from there youthful Blood Claw days and can keep there cool and stay back and fire on the enemy, its kinda similar to the blood angels cause there heavy weapon teams are of blood angels who have learnt from experience to best control there red thirst and wont run into battle abandoning there positions
Murder Wolf Wolf-Man. One of best Space Wolf names.
As a fan of Space Wolves with Norse Rune Tattoos, I love this episode.
@@wolflordgio6320 Younger Runes is what Old Norse looked like at the time. It's what I'd go with.
I would love an episode on the crimson fists. I think DK would love the shenanigans of Cantor and Cortez
I kind of want to see Lukas the Trickster face off against Lucius the Eternal because it would be a martyrdom battle. I don't think there's any chance Lukas would avoid getting possessed if he killed Lucius but he does have a grenade where his second heart was so if Lucius kills him, gloats and then dies to the grenade presumably he can't resurrect from the exploded pieces of Lukas.
Im pretty sure Lucius stepped on a landmine, blew up and the guy who made the landmine turned into Lucius because he took pride in making the mine
@@dovahfett5919 You're correct, as annoying as that lore is. I was kind of hoping culpability would revert to Lukas as the one who placed the grenade there or Lucius could just respawn off the guy who made the power sword or daemon weapon or C'tan phase blade which killed him which generally doesn't seem to be the case. That said, with the exception of the Guard and gretchen, an imperial civilian making grenades is probably one of the lowest life expectancy situations in the setting so there's every chance the guy who made the grenade is just dead already.
2:45 It's amazing how you've been hosting this show together for years and are still on such different wavelengths.
Somehow the Valhallans guardsmen in Lone Wolf drank the Fenrisian mjod and survived. Had a coughing fit. Maybe one shot is ok….
To be fair, the ARE Valhallans 😂
There is a norse myth about Kvasir, god of knowledge, who was killed and who's blood was used to make mead which Odin drank and gained his knowledge from. That might be what DK is thinking of.
Really happy these episodes weren't like some other youtubers where when the Wolves come up they immediately shit on them. Loved the episode, wish yall touched on more but it's alot for one video so understand.
FENRIS HJOLDA.
Been waiting nearly 3 years for this episode 🥲, huge love to Adeptus Ridiculous and FENRYS HJØLDA !
Bjorn getting called Bear by Casper for the whole novel and being super shitty about is will always be my favorite thing.
22:10 Bricky being so deadpan sarcastic that DK doesn't even catch it xD
Long Fangs are heavy weapon specialists because they're the only ones the chapter trusts to not drop them and charge the enemy as Long Fangs are so old that age and wisdom have tempered the fire in their hearts that hungers for glory.
So glad i get to hear about my favorite legion and good ol Granpa Bjorn
35:16
DIGGANOBZ!!!
Bricky. as a space wolves fanboy I'm not mad at this video
Makes sense they have so many characters. They broadcast their deeds to the Universe on constant repeat
Ok so mentioning that Morkai is a two-headed wolf was interesting for me, cos in AoS there is a dude called Radukar the Wolf, whose claim to fame was that he slew a two-headed wolf called Vilnas, who guarded the tomb of a vampire emperor called "Morkan".
He also has a second mini called Radukar the Beast, which I think is his werewolf form, despite the fact he is a vampire.
Yall have to talk about Lukas The Trickster. The guys is essentially an Ork with the shenanigans he pulls
Didnt Lukas create the fenrisian ale because he missed getting drunk?
Wulfen aren’t mindless creatures there are those in the space wolves that realize they have memories of old life and such and can remember there old life which is why they will fight with space wolves but it doesnt happen tooooo often because most space wolves kill Wulfen on site and some times go on hunts for them to just eradicate them because they are seen as evil or chaos tainted by some successor chapters of the Space Wolves
Fenrisian Ale was created soon after the first Fenrisians ascended to the Astartes in 30k, it’s been around for a while.
Wasn't this a plot point in one of the Ragnar's books. That Wolf Priests can somehow make wolfen remmber what their true mission is and lead them into battle. And also that pretty much any Wolf is just couple steps from being a Wolfen they are just able to control that side and could possibly even step back.
@@Blazo_DjurovicYes, that constant struggle with their inner beast is a BIG part of the Ragnar books.
"A land battle you say?! Fetch me my boat!"