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Kharn: (draws first blood) Erebus: (collapses to the deck, see’s his own blood) 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 Kharn: ah, I just LOVE the smell of FEAR!!!!! (advances, dragging Gorechild along the deck, sending sparks flying) Erebus: (S*#@ING themselves) Kharn: What’s the matter, Life flashing before your eyes? (Kicks over Crosius) Pick it up… Pick, It, Up!
What makes Erebus particularly annoying is that, from his perspective, he wasn't actually proven wrong. He escaped with his life and survived for millennia afterwards. If Kharn just straight-up killed him, instead of playing with his food, he'd have proven that Erebus wasn't. Religious fanatics wouldn't be religious if they didn't have complete and unwavering faith in their beliefs. What's more maddening is that he might be right for the wrong reasons. The World Eaters were pretty deep in the Khorne sauce by that point and Tzeentch really is the kind of jerk to play stupid games like this. Just As Planned.
Khorne: "LOOK AT MY BOY!!!" Tzeentch: "Bro, bro we had a plan. Erebus is still part of the plan" Khorne: "HELL YEA, LOOK AT THAT NERD, LOOK AT THAT!!! LOOK HOW FUCKIN' FAST HE IS, THATS MY BOY, THATS MY KHARN!!!" Tzeentch: "Khorne..." Khorne: "In a minute!" *Erebus gets slammed into the dirt for a 3rd time* Tzeentch: "KHORNE!!!" Khorne: "UGH!!! Fine!!!" Tzeentch: *Teleports Erebus away seconds before its too late*
Hard thing to do for Erebus, seeing as he ALREADY WAS more asshole than man! Kharn just made his outside look like what he was on the inside. Well, he almost did. Horus finished the job, eventually. Just wish that it hadn't taken so long Erebus completely missed the plot.
i mean thats the most searing an hateful kind of anger. the kind that comes from helplessness. Karn can never get his friend back, Erebus has taken something from his life that he will never be able to replace. so the vengeance must be painful and drawn out, surrendering to the rage in this case means seething slowly so you can savor the pain you inflict
Lorgar knew exactly what he was doing. I'd even say he was enjoying telling Kharn what happened. Not for kharn's reaction, but for the knowledge of what would inevitably come next. Even Lorgar hated Erebus.
@@evanhilderbrand8007 I believe that's why he told Kharn, because he didn't like Erebus so why not let the guy who treated Argel Tal like a brother kill him? It certainly would be a fitting and poetic end to have Erebus die by the hands of the one who was a brother to one of his victims
Casual, almost bored stroll: dear God you are about to be maimed 1000 ways to sundown in the Warp, make peace with whatever you call a God, because nobody and no thing will stop what's coming.
When he's acting rabid and violent, he's simply enjoying mental peace as he does his duty as a World Eater When he is calm, even in battle, that's because he ENJOYS maiming you. To the point where his emotion is too cathartic that it offsets the anger in him, allowing the butcher nails to gnaw at his brain
The best part about this scene is the fact that Khârn isn’t enraged by the Nails buzzing in his skull. He’s enraged because his only real friend was murdered. A true rage born from deep within. Not even rage capable of marking his face, nor his voice, just rage from the depths of the Warhound still hidden beneath the hatred he has for himself.
And it was only at this moment that he could’ve actually understood the mind of his father, Angron. The Lord of the Red Sands who would always bear the anger, hatred and shame at having been forced to lived, when all those he loved died.
I like this take. It's a rare moment where the rage of Kharn is legit and not just something triggered by the nails. This scene would have played out the same even if Kharn didn't have the nails.
@@hand8007 or once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door- Only this and nothing more.”
Kharn did what every living creature - from the noblest Custodian to the foulest xeno - wants to do upon waking every single day: Kick Erebus' teeth in. Truly, he is the swellest of guys.
I LOVE the detail, "The crowd, on the edge of cheering for the first warrior, fell silent at the sight of the second." It went from everyone having a good time, showing martial skill, to, "Uh oh, shit just GOT REAL."
I think it’s kind of ironic that Kharn was arguably at his most powerful at this moment when his hate for someone was so powerful that he was a near silent and cold monster. Then at the Siege of Terra he was killed by Sigismund who had also reached that state. Kind of hilarious that when Kharn saw Sigismund like this he was horrified
@@lollikabosso.w.n7153 I read that book a long time ago, but if I remember correctly it was a mixture of emotions: the realization of that killing-like state, fear, awe, and respect.
@@TheCommissarGeneral The most epic lesson of humility in any millennium. Argel Tal is a huge reason I love the Word Bearers, and its always good to see Erebus get what’s coming to him
@@justinterrell7020 the day i learned Argel Tal was killed by Erebus was the same day i swore that tatooed motherfucker would never come to be my favorite, and i will only wish for his death
@@justinterrell7020 It also shows what an idiot Erbus was. Argel Tai was good buddies with Kharn, who was already recognized as a "DO NOT FUCK WITH" Space Marine. But Erbus decided to fuck with him in the worst way possible. TBH it's probably for the best he faced him before falling to Khorne.
Lorgar started to realise Erebus had essentially played him since the beginning over the course of the Heresy. He started to give more trust to his other sons, like Zardu Layak. Erebus is devious and competent, so Lorgar never demoted or executed him even after the Heresy. But I think Lorgar really grew to hate or despise Erebus.
What actually happened: Kharn mutilated Erebus' arm in one strike in the opening fight. In a blur, he put away his chain axe, and proceeded to use Erebus' arm as a weapon instead. Records are unclear, but the Betrayer was reported to have shouted: "STOP HITTING YOURSELF. STOP HITTING YOURSELF. STOP HITTING YOURSELF", for hours as he bludgeoned the Chaplain to near-death with his own appendage, until Erebus managed to teleport himself away.
@@bolrath6984 Like when Kharn got bored then "went for a walk" with a black steering wheel, only to board another Rhino with a dented, and red steering wheel. It was hilarious.
"Beware the fury of a patient man." The nails may be fucking with his head, but he's still a warrior. And Erebus just killed his best and only friend. John Wick/Doom Slayer time it is.
@@VoiceOfTheEmperorBeware the fury of a patient man, but be infinitely more concerned by the patience of a furious man - because sooner or later, their patience is going to run out and they're gonna take that pent up apoplexy out on something, so be somewhere else or it might be you.
Erebus: Kharn: what? You stupid asshole with yeyeass tattoo. Swallowed your own tongue or something?. This is what you have for killing my best friend. Erebus: but I killing him for saving you from redemption path he will lead eventually. Kharn: heh (spits on Erebuses face) better be a lunatic in Loyalist side than yours. Brother Varren and Ehrlen did that. One is now under Malcadors leash other is dead in Istvaan 3. But no matter now. Get up I am not finished yet.
Erebus is the one irredeemable character, Magnus had good intentions, Lorgar got tricked, Horus just needed a hug, Peterturbo just wanted to hold all the sh!tshow together, Erebus is the common denominator that caused everything.
Exactly. The Emperor may not have even exactly realised the entire Heresy was chess between him and this vacuous sack of an astartes, and the Primarchs were the pawns. Lorgar included! It was the Emperor that gave Erebus the prices, and let him take White to make the first move. He played a good game to still push it to stalemate.
nah lorgar wasn't ever tricked they made it clear what the outcome of his actions would be and he still went along with them anyway And pert just had too big of an inferiority complex to ever be nice to anyone if he wasn't actively receiving praise for everything he was doing and too stubborn to realise he wasn't doing anything worthy of praising. And Magnus was set up to fail from the very beginning, so he never had a chance. Horus was the only one truly tricked, since he thought he'd be preventing the 41st millennium by rebelling rather than causing it
To people reading this book at first they see Betrayer and think the books title is referring to Kharn. Skallathrax isnt even close to happening in this book. Erebus is the betrayer.
Technically the book is literred with Betrayals. The Traitor Legions from the Loyalists, Angron being branded a traitor on Nuceria for "abandoning his brothers and sisters", Lorgar giving Angrons soul to Khorne and depriving him of the only thing he wanted, and yes Erebus killing Argel Tal.
When the other-shoe finally drops we'll learn that Skallathrax was actually the last loyalist act of Khârn wherein he punished two legions of oathbreakers.
@@GentlemanBystander You have it totally wrong, its where Kharn gave up all his principles and the World Eaters were broken by his hands. The final death knell of the last remnants of sanity, loyalty and brotherhood of the old War Hounds died by the hands of the Scourge of Skalathrax.
I think what I like about how Kharn deals with the "duel" isn't rage, fury, just...disappointment. I can only imagine the pure bile Kharn felt when he found out Argel Tal was killed by Erubus of all people. A primarch, acceptable, 1st captain, honorable, even an unknown loyalist would have been better then Erubus. It wasn't a duel, not even an excecution, it was what Erubus deserved, simple. Humiliation. And even that was too good for him.
It's almost like Kharn was so disgusted and disappointed that his best friend and someone who he respects as not just a friend and blood brother, but as a warrior and mighty force in his own right, was killed by someone, something, so utterly pathetic. At least if Argel Tap had been killed by a truly worthy foe, Kharn wouldn't have been QUITE as upset. Still devastated obviously. But to have a worm like Erebus responsible (by stabbing him in the back no less) is SO far below what he deserved the rage in that ALONE is palpable.
@@phantomwraith1984 i was going To say that he would be a second sigismund. Hell, kharn is The inspiration as To why Black templar chain their weapons To their wrists. He was such a baller, pre heresy.
I've always wanted to see Erebus's face if someone, hell ANYONE for that matter, whispered in his ear "...who do you think they (the ruinous powers) lied to first?", and Erebus knowing beyond a shadow of all doubt that he had been played for a fool. That he was, in fact a tool, and nothing more.
I'm not sure he'll ever have that kind of self-awareness. The only way I see him realizing this is if he's mortally struck, turns to his neverborn "allies" for help...and only see's them staring at him hungrily.
@@morgant.dulaman8733 Agreed. the four gods could come to him with a presentation of how he's a little bitch and none of them actually like him. and he'd still walk away going "wow. the entire pantheon gathered to try and demoralize me with LIES. EVEN THE GODS FEAR MY POWER AND POENTIAL. I'M THE BEST."
@@TheCreepyLanternto be fair, most of the villainous characters in 40k (like Fabius Bile or the emperor of mankind) have this level of unshakable self confidence paired with an incredible lack of self awareness.
@@seekingabsolution1907the difference is the Emperor had the power to back it up, whereas Erebus will be left out to dry if that’s what’s most convenient for them
Revenge for the only and last friend. A fair fight, face to face, not a stab in the back. You know... Someone hate Abaddon, others hate Typhus. But ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE hates Erebus (also known as "Bastard", or "Asshole")
@@cornixdemetrius7883 kor phaeron and erebus is a biba and boba of 40k( but erebus far more hated). And they are gayfuckers. And lucius actually have fans.
@cornixdemetrius7883 Kor Phaeron is second in line after Erebus gets bodied by literally everyone including a single guardsman. Lucius is just a jerk with ego tendencies and a stupid Warp power.
When I listened to that scene for the first time I was waiting to hear of Erebus’s death. I wished it but reality returned and I remembered he survived only because of his warp sorcery. The wretch
I almost wish I would be there to see gorechild tear into erebus, you bet I would cheer. it would be euphoric. the rest of them maybe silent, but there will be an in comparison a very tiny man screaming "KILL HIM! KILL HIM!" from top of his lungs amongst them.
Never in my life have I known there is one good part of Warhammer 40k that I want to be part of untill you wrote it. To be there and see Erebus have his ass kicked is so glorious, I wish someone made a movie out of it
Erebus is so overconfident in himself that he fails to see that he's not destiny's hand. He's nothing more than a pawn to the Dark Gods. Always was. Always has been. Always will be.
Considering how unlikeable Erebus was, along with how pretentious and boastful Erebus also was, I’d say that daddy said to himself in that moment before he told Kharn, “You know what, the brat needs a slap down… and I’ve got JUST the man to do it.” 😈
Imagine being Erebus waking up one day thinking "How wonderful a day to commit evil acts! Today surely cannot go wro-" Only to then hear "BRING THAT EREBUSSY HERE, YOU LITTLE FUCK" before getting his shit catastrophically pummeled into the goddamned dirt
Kharn and Doomguy would 100% fight. Kharn seeing a powerful warrior whos skull would be a great trophy for the Brass Lord and Doomguy seeing a servent of Chaos working with Daemons. Who would win tho...
@@brightestlight9462 Kharn has already kinda sorta beat Angron. He beat him when he outsmarted him and stabbed him with a teleport becond and imprisoned him on a Night Lord's ship. Kharn is the favored of the blood god, Angron is an afterthought more or less. He really wanted Sangunius.
What absolutly hurts about Argel Tal's death for Kharn is that Argel Tal was the only one he could truely open up to. Not his battle brothers, not his primarch, but some twisted half daemon warrior from another legion. Theres a scene earlier on between the two of them where Kharn is telling Argel Tal about why the world eaters went through with adding the nails in hopes of becoming closer to Angron, Argel Tal asks if it worked before being called away to help the 17th ready for deployment and after he walks away Kharn says "No. It didn’t." He could never admit that to anyone in the 12th, not even Lotara Sarrin who he was arguably the closest too and she wasn't even part of the Legion itself, just the shipmaster of the Conqueror. With the death of Argel Tal, Kharn lost more than just a friend. And in the scene where he absolutely thrashed Erebus he felt a rage beyond anything the nails could ever induce in him, one so deep and powerful that it silenced the nails for just a moment and turned into something even scarier than Angron when he was lost to the nails.
A genuine rage, borne out of being wronged and hurt to the soul rather than crude archaic technology. Angron remarked in his duel against Sanguinius that his nail rage was inferior to Sanguinius true rage and this is the case with Kharn's rage in this duel too.
He's the type of berserker that actually goes quiet when they go TRULY berserk. No screaming bloody murder, no tidalwave of rage, just pure instinct and the desire to kill
@Phantom Wraith it makes you wonder if he ever did become the screaming, slavering ally killer that kills all in mindless rage... or if he stayed like THAT. Focused. Controlled. Unbelievably angry and rage-filled. But entirely sane. That the reason he got the title Betrayer later wasn't because he lost his mind and killed his allies without thinking. No... he was surrounded by bloodthirsty insane fools, and he was just so damned TIRED of them, and their constant bellows. Of course Khorne would bless one like him: he needs no bonuses. He just needs to keep fighting. So every time he fell, Khorne would just prop him up and let him go. The blood would flow, even if Kharn doesn't worship. It matters little. Kharn has a counter in his helmet for everyone he kills. Most think it's a scorecard for himself. But what if it's so he won't forget a single death. Not for glory, but as a reminder that there is one final death to add to it. Erebus.
@Kalebfenoir imagine if we ever get a 40k endtimes, and in it Kharn finally achieves his goal and kills Erebus. Then he leaves. Renounces Khorne and just leaves the war. That the only reason he embraced Khorne to become his champion was so that one day he could avenge his best friend
@@phantomwraith1984 The Betrayer and The Red Angel ride off into the sunset, each free of their own burdens. The Nails had been removed from Angrons head, their incessant screaming finally silenced. Erubus lies dead, Argeal Tal avenged. The World Eater asks Kharn only one simple question: “Now what?”
@@phantomwraith1984”what? but, what about your glories in battle, the joy you felt when serving me and the art of slaughter?” “oh, that was all to kill erebus. i’m good now. later.” “well, alright. but what will you do now? you can’t go back to the physical realm, the imperium will murder you and your brothers will hunt you down.” “nah, ima be a farmer on some back water planet. later.”
Arguably one of the best moments of the entire Heresy, one of the most rage filled characters in 40k, having a pure form of rage, one that comes from his emotions, his love for Arghal Tal. It was no hot anger that we are so familiar with the World Eaters, but a cold rage. It was such a great moment for Kharns character but also it was just nice to see Erebus get his shit kicked in.
This is what my kitbash for Khârn will be. The severed hand of Erebus on the ground, Gorechild sloppily attached to his arm, and grimly walking away from the blood soaked arena floor.
"...carving a CANYON of flesh over the dense sub-dermal armor of the warrior's black carapace torso implant" Such a wonderful way of describing it. Both in writing and in voice.
Kharne had problems b4 he was khornes champion below angron but he was atleast reasonably honorable and loyal to the point he was willing to die by a roid raged sulking angron to get things moving. Considering he beat the brakes off erebus for all the cowardly backstabbing and manipulation and argel he was def loyal until the butchers nails took his mind.
..but the nails never took kharn. Even in the siege of Terra; he is the only one still rather lucid through the whole endeavor. Even in his new book that covers the new lore of Skalathrax, he is still almost meancingly calm and collected compared to his kin
@Jason Burke even in modern 42k, he's basically the obly world eater left where he still has some semblance of sanity. The nails have not fully taken him,and that's why he's the most dangerous world eater and Khorne's champion. Not only is he a ruthless warrior but he's also smart about it
@@phantomwraith1984 Oh there's a still a couple of saner World Eaters out there, one example is the one in Fabius Bile's merry band of Astartes. Dude's pretty chill for a follower of Khorne, meditation worked out pretty well for him.
@@infectedumbrellagrunt3682 Also that one guy (forgot his name) who suddenly snaps out of khorne's influence and the influence of the nails, to realise what he became and remembers his time as a War Hound, way before he was a world eater, how honorable he was, then the nail kick back in, filling him with rage, but this time, he turns on his bretheren and slays the whole invading World Eater squad and their cultists, saving the settlement they were attacking, looks up at the people in the windows, and just fucking leaves to find more World eaters to kill, also looking for Angron. Dude was a terminator Beserker too. F-ing legend!
@@jasonburke1671ou right. He wasn't loyal to the empirium after chaos got them but he was loyal and honorable enough to try and get vengeance for argel tal.
I would love to read an anthology of Erebus stories, set over the last ten millenia where in each story Kharn just shows up out of nowhere and runs him down, ruining whatever master plan he's currently running. Especially if each scenario gets more and more absurd.
Eh I don't see it. Know no Fear, Flight of the Eisenstein, The first Trilogy, A thousand sons, Fear to Tread , Angel Exterminatus and a few others are better IMO. It's certainly good, but not top 5.
This was the moment that Kharn stepped past red, screaming bloodlust rage. This was when he entered cold Fury. I keep thinking he stayed in that cold fury: exacting, every movement deliberate for the destruction of his enemy. Not frothing at the mouth and babbling insanity. Not screaming to gods he never cared for. Silent. Any words he says are short. Clipped. And ice cold. For my own headcanon, that day was the day the Nails stopped working on Kharn, because he so far surpassed the rage they wanted to inflict that they were rendered pointless. They had no need to activate anymore, because he was so full of rage. His fellow World Eaters scream and drool and rend everything with blind red Fury. But when Kharn walks into a room... he's already decided who will die and who will die... later. And one day, he will get Erebus. Erebus won't hear him screaming about Khorne, or "Kill! Maim! Burn!" The last words Erebus will hear before his misbegotten head is taken is "... This is for Argel Tal."
@TheCommissarGeneral I always figured the difference between a Khornate Berzerker, and Kharn was... if Khornate Berzerker walks into a war room, there's a high chance everyone will die for no reason. But if Kharn walks into that room, he immediately judges the usefulness of everyone in the room. Out of 10 people he might immediately kill 4 without speaking. Then he looks from one survivor to another, dictating how they'll die. To person One: "open your mouth once and you will die painfully." To person Two: "...if you do not speak your concerns, I'll kill you now." To another: "If you're not out of this room in 15 seconds, you will die." And then finally, curiously, he'll pause at one, pointing idly at them. If he had his helmet off he'd have an odd, bemused smirk. "... and you. YOU will live to a ripe old age. Congratulations." And that person will: they'll either become favored and end up immortal one way or another, or they'll age naturally, unharmed by war or mutiny or ambush or anything like that. Just by living their life whatever it is, they LIVE their full time. It's not that Kharn spared them or anything. But he would recognize someone who isn't a fool, is capable, or hell, just Lucky, and it would amuse him for a moment.
@@TheCommissarGeneralyet Kharne found Sigismund to be the single worst outcome for their conflict. In sigismund he saw the imperium that would come, the same black Templars who would rather sacrifice billions and ruin the best chance out of a thousand years of chances to deal a critical blow to chaos all just to spite one Eldar. Not for some noble cause or vendetta, not for loyalty or reason or justice, just because it was the only thing they knew how to do and they had lost the ability to do anything else. In sogismund he saw the annihilation not just of chaos but of humanity and of all living things. He fought so hard to stop that from happening but sigismunds cold mechanical lethality cast him down before the imperial palace. Despite Kharne channeling the power and hatred of a demonic warp god at the time, somehow his defeat still managed to seem like a loss for humanity because it was the loss of humanity.
Always a pleasure to read of good Kharn's exploits... I remember the satisfaction I felt when I read of one time he buzzsawed through a Slaaneshi shrine
Rather than killing Erebus himself as many Primarch's would have Lorgar instead honors Tal's memory by handing the task to the one most suited. Wisest of the wise.
Characters Khârn needs to obliterate. Erebus….again. Micah Bell. Xavius. That priest from Castlevania. The Hunter that killed Bambi’s mom. That’s all I got y’all can add to it.
Celestine just so the counter can roll back by one when she re spawns Luscious the eternal, only to the resurface and overtake the Luscious re spawn thing
Imagine having the skill to back up being so full of yourself and winning duel after duel. Feeling like a hard ass and then Khan just steps in and drops you 3 times before you can even realise he has launched an attack. That fight went down as if mummy’s new boyfriend Khan just came home drunk and in a bad mood beat Erebus ass like a red headed step child.
this and Perturabo's smack down on Fulgrim have to be some of my favourite "smack some sense into them" moments in the series, of course unfortunately no sense was gained by either of them.
Erebus meeting Lorgar after this fight: WHAT THE HELL DID U TELL HIM FOR!!!!!!!!!!!? Lorgar: 🤨 (sigh) such a disappointment, (waves hand) your dripping blood over my new carpet, get out and have your injuries tended to. Erebus: 😫- Lorgar: and before you say another word, please do remember I have the good Captain on Speed Dial… I would rather NOT need to tell the servants to replace half of my furniture with ones that don’t have your blood coated across them. Erebus: 😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰 (leaves quietly)
Erebus: "ENOUGH! I'M DESTINY'S HAND YOU DULL CREATURE, AND I WILL NOT BE BULLIED BY-" *He gets btfo and his actual hand chopped off* Khârn: "Puny hand..."
Unfathomably based of you to add a citation at the end of the video 🙏
Holy shit someone who actually saw it before asking what book it’s from.
YOU, my friend, are the based one here.
@@TheCommissarGeneral I am many things. Media illiterate is fortunately not one of them.
I thought I recognized Johnny Keeble, the man killed it as Gotrek
Okay but is there a link for the image at 4:10? I, too, appreciate the citation but I *need* this.
@@ElijahDarts You could probably download the video and then rip it from there
Kharn says a total of eight words in the arena. The sacred number of Khorne.
I might be reading into it too much though.
Yooooooooo
(Let me) "you are going to need an augmetic for that". Not 8 words, but it would have been cool though.
Hmmm after listening again, he may not have said "you are" that would put the count to 8
@@bobloerakker7010 Kharn didn’t say that part, that was someone in the audience.
@@bobloerakker7010 it… wasn’t Kharn dammit lmao
Kharn: Pick it up.
*kicks crosius*
Kharn: Pick. It. Up.
For The GLA
To be fair I run like hell too.
Kharn: (draws first blood)
Erebus: (collapses to the deck, see’s his own blood) 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
Kharn: ah, I just LOVE the smell of FEAR!!!!! (advances, dragging Gorechild along the deck, sending sparks flying)
Erebus: (S*#@ING themselves)
Kharn: What’s the matter, Life flashing before your eyes? (Kicks over Crosius) Pick it up… Pick, It, Up!
Pick. It. Up.
Erebus: "I am the hand of destiny!"
Kharn: "Destiny has poor reflexes"
xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
That is great
"Oh, this hand?" *picks up*
What makes Erebus particularly annoying is that, from his perspective, he wasn't actually proven wrong.
He escaped with his life and survived for millennia afterwards. If Kharn just straight-up killed him, instead of playing with his food, he'd have proven that Erebus wasn't.
Religious fanatics wouldn't be religious if they didn't have complete and unwavering faith in their beliefs.
What's more maddening is that he might be right for the wrong reasons. The World Eaters were pretty deep in the Khorne sauce by that point and Tzeentch really is the kind of jerk to play stupid games like this. Just As Planned.
"I am the Hand of Destiny !" Said Erebus with immense spite.
"Lol." Said Khârn after severing Erebus' hand. "Lmao"
'Destiny is bad at catching hands...'
"Since you decided not to do the galaxy a favour and kill yourself. I guess I'm going to have to do it for you." Yep, that's Kharn.
If only I were lucky enough for him to do that 😔
As if he’d ever be satisfied with being robbed of the chance to kill him himself
Khorne: "LOOK AT MY BOY!!!"
Tzeentch: "Bro, bro we had a plan. Erebus is still part of the plan"
Khorne: "HELL YEA, LOOK AT THAT NERD, LOOK AT THAT!!! LOOK HOW FUCKIN' FAST HE IS, THATS MY BOY, THATS MY KHARN!!!"
Tzeentch: "Khorne..."
Khorne: "In a minute!"
*Erebus gets slammed into the dirt for a 3rd time*
Tzeentch: "KHORNE!!!"
Khorne: "UGH!!! Fine!!!"
Tzeentch: *Teleports Erebus away seconds before its too late*
when in the video did he say that?
@@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 4:57, the meme
Erebus: "I challenge you to a battle of wits"
Kharn: "When I'm done with you, you're going to be more asshole than man."
Hard thing to do for Erebus, seeing as he ALREADY WAS more asshole than man!
Kharn just made his outside look like what he was on the inside. Well, he almost did.
Horus finished the job, eventually. Just wish that it hadn't taken so long Erebus completely missed the plot.
@@centric3125erebus never died
@@djwillza3295 but his face certainly got made to look like what ye always was beneath the surface.
Because Horus skinned it off of him.
@@centric3125 oh yea I think I read the Ahriman book n he litterly thought he was a a strange bloke never liked the way he operated
A calm and composed World Eater is one of the most terrifying things ever
i mean thats the most searing an hateful kind of anger. the kind that comes from helplessness. Karn can never get his friend back, Erebus has taken something from his life that he will never be able to replace. so the vengeance must be painful and drawn out, surrendering to the rage in this case means seething slowly so you can savor the pain you inflict
Lorgar knew exactly what he was doing. I'd even say he was enjoying telling Kharn what happened. Not for kharn's reaction, but for the knowledge of what would inevitably come next. Even Lorgar hated Erebus.
@@evanhilderbrand8007 Lmao nobody likes Erebus
@@evanhilderbrand8007 I believe that's why he told Kharn, because he didn't like Erebus so why not let the guy who treated Argel Tal like a brother kill him? It certainly would be a fitting and poetic end to have Erebus die by the hands of the one who was a brother to one of his victims
Can you imagine Angron walking up to you ans calmly putting one word at a time without laying a hand on you?
Like how Kharn is just exponentially scarier the less angry he looks.
Anger: he is having fun
Calm: Panic
Total silence: End yourself
Casual, almost bored stroll: dear God you are about to be maimed 1000 ways to sundown in the Warp, make peace with whatever you call a God, because nobody and no thing will stop what's coming.
just like gus
When he's acting rabid and violent, he's simply enjoying mental peace as he does his duty as a World Eater
When he is calm, even in battle, that's because he ENJOYS maiming you. To the point where his emotion is too cathartic that it offsets the anger in him, allowing the butcher nails to gnaw at his brain
Kharn got him@@Maxisamo1
Not even Erebus' own Primarch loves him. #fuckerebus
A face not even a Primarch could love, literally as it turned out in Horus’ case 😂
Dude not even the fucking Chaos Gods like Erebus.
The best part about this scene is the fact that Khârn isn’t enraged by the Nails buzzing in his skull. He’s enraged because his only real friend was murdered. A true rage born from deep within. Not even rage capable of marking his face, nor his voice, just rage from the depths of the Warhound still hidden beneath the hatred he has for himself.
Dude really said "alright listen here your little shit" to erebus
Which is the most correct reaction to the existence of erebus whitin your presence
@@RainbowGod666that, and peeling his face off.
@@KingLich451 true
And it was only at this moment that he could’ve actually understood the mind of his father, Angron. The Lord of the Red Sands who would always bear the anger, hatred and shame at having been forced to lived, when all those he loved died.
I like this take. It's a rare moment where the rage of Kharn is legit and not just something triggered by the nails. This scene would have played out the same even if Kharn didn't have the nails.
I love the fact that during half of the heresy erebus is just getting his ass kick by everyone from Kharn to Hours. Its pretty dam funny
despite starting it all
Hours
Hours Heresy.
Well thats what happens to uppity little backstabber bitches
Destiny’s catch these hands
Erebus hasn't spent the last 10k years scheming. He spent it hiding from Kharn 😂
Like father like son. Bitch-Made to the end
@@randomcenturion7264 I thought you meant hiding. I love the meme of lorgor hiding in his tower from Corvus.
@@hand8007 tbf I think most would ‘meditate’ while daemon Corax keepe knock knock knocking on their chamber door
@@gideonmele1556 Knock knock? I think you meant peck peck. hehe.
@@hand8007 or once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door-
Only this and nothing more.”
Kharn did what every living creature - from the noblest Custodian to the foulest xeno - wants to do upon waking every single day: Kick Erebus' teeth in.
Truly, he is the swellest of guys.
"Destiny extends its hand..."
*_"And pulls back a stump."_*
I LOVE the detail, "The crowd, on the edge of cheering for the first warrior, fell silent at the sight of the second."
It went from everyone having a good time, showing martial skill, to, "Uh oh, shit just GOT REAL."
there is something touching about Kharn denying Chaos and going against their plans for a simple pain of losing a friend.
Khorne was probably cheering him on
Khorne on his throne with his skull-popcorn
"He's not just a betrayer, he's a sorcerer and a NERD. GUT HIM!"
@@KaiCalimatinus KICK HIS ASS, SEABASS! - Khorne
@@KaiCalimatinus Khorne has definitely shoved Tzeentch into a locker before
@@Not_actually_a_commie hahahaha that made me burst out laughing on the train and got some odd looks!
Erebussy: Runs the fuck away.
Everyone: Expected that.
hahahahahah ereguss
Unless you are Sigismund, Kharn is an enemy you should definitely run from.
NO
I SAW VEZIMIRA'S CURSED WARHAMMER CONTENT, "EREBUSSY" IS FORBIDDEN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Erepussy!
"This was a Kharn they'd never seen before, not even on the field of battle." Considering how Kharn was in a fight, that has to be rather chilling.
In that moment he was a Warhound, not a World Eater
I think it’s kind of ironic that Kharn was arguably at his most powerful at this moment when his hate for someone was so powerful that he was a near silent and cold monster.
Then at the Siege of Terra he was killed by Sigismund who had also reached that state.
Kind of hilarious that when Kharn saw Sigismund like this he was horrified
Was he?
@@lollikabosso.w.n7153 I read that book a long time ago, but if I remember correctly it was a mixture of emotions: the realization of that killing-like state, fear, awe, and respect.
I read that book like a week ago. It's true.
@@lollikabosso.w.n7153 Oh yes. Yes, _he was._ B)
His last words to Sigismund were:
*_"NOT... as... damaged... as YOU."_*
He was killed.. yet Kharn didn’t die. Because he is motherfucking Kharn!
I always loved this excerpt, but was not aware that it was Lorgar who told Kharn. Vengeance for Argel Tal
Lorgar was kinda pissed off that his favorite son was murdered by a jealous prick and wanted to teach him a lesson in humility.
@@TheCommissarGeneral The most epic lesson of humility in any millennium. Argel Tal is a huge reason I love the Word Bearers, and its always good to see Erebus get what’s coming to him
@@justinterrell7020 the day i learned Argel Tal was killed by Erebus was the same day i swore that tatooed motherfucker would never come to be my favorite, and i will only wish for his death
@@justinterrell7020 It also shows what an idiot Erbus was. Argel Tai was good buddies with Kharn, who was already recognized as a "DO NOT FUCK WITH" Space Marine. But Erbus decided to fuck with him in the worst way possible. TBH it's probably for the best he faced him before falling to Khorne.
Lorgar started to realise Erebus had essentially played him since the beginning over the course of the Heresy. He started to give more trust to his other sons, like Zardu Layak. Erebus is devious and competent, so Lorgar never demoted or executed him even after the Heresy. But I think Lorgar really grew to hate or despise Erebus.
Only thing better this is when Horus got sick of Erebus and flayed the flesh from his skull with anathame blade.
Also Horus stated that if he screamed he’d be killed by Him
Wait what when did this happen? I thought erebus survived the heresy
@@Guaguadeath oh he did, this is shortly before Horus banish Lorgar and the Word Bearers from his crusade against Terra I believe.
@@Guaguadeathflaying the face is nothing to a space marine they can endure way more damage than that.
@@MrHellsing76 oh shit I never knew that lmao well serves his ass right then did he kill him after or no?
What actually happened: Kharn mutilated Erebus' arm in one strike in the opening fight. In a blur, he put away his chain axe, and proceeded to use Erebus' arm as a weapon instead.
Records are unclear, but the Betrayer was reported to have shouted: "STOP HITTING YOURSELF. STOP HITTING YOURSELF. STOP HITTING YOURSELF", for hours as he bludgeoned the Chaplain to near-death with his own appendage, until Erebus managed to teleport himself away.
Its true. I was the appendage
this is awesome.
@@Hereforthelols its true I was the appendix
what a funny joke, this is why kharns such a swell guy
@@bolrath6984 Like when Kharn got bored then "went for a walk" with a black steering wheel, only to board another Rhino with a dented, and red steering wheel. It was hilarious.
'Get up.' Not delivered with rage, not even delivered in anger. Just cold, hard words. 'Get up.'
I may be a loyalist scrub but I can damn well appreciate someone trying to kill fucking Erebus. Thank you Kharn
"Beware the fury of a patient man." The nails may be fucking with his head, but he's still a warrior. And Erebus just killed his best and only friend. John Wick/Doom Slayer time it is.
@@VoiceOfTheEmperorBeware the fury of a patient man, but be infinitely more concerned by the patience of a furious man - because sooner or later, their patience is going to run out and they're gonna take that pent up apoplexy out on something, so be somewhere else or it might be you.
Me at the start of the book "I don't really care about the world eaters"
Me at the end" GET UP!!"
Kharn: What’s wrong Erebus? Life flashing before your eyes?
8 words, perfect.
You think Kharn ever learned to whsitle? you think that's what Erebus hears at night?
Erebus:
Kharn: what? You stupid asshole with yeyeass tattoo. Swallowed your own tongue or something?. This is what you have for killing my best friend.
Erebus: but I killing him for saving you from redemption path he will lead eventually.
Kharn: heh (spits on Erebuses face) better be a lunatic in Loyalist side than yours. Brother Varren and Ehrlen did that. One is now under Malcadors leash other is dead in Istvaan 3. But no matter now. Get up I am not finished yet.
Erebus is the one irredeemable character, Magnus had good intentions, Lorgar got tricked, Horus just needed a hug, Peterturbo just wanted to hold all the sh!tshow together, Erebus is the common denominator that caused everything.
Exactly. The Emperor may not have even exactly realised the entire Heresy was chess between him and this vacuous sack of an astartes, and the Primarchs were the pawns. Lorgar included! It was the Emperor that gave Erebus the prices, and let him take White to make the first move. He played a good game to still push it to stalemate.
nah lorgar wasn't ever tricked
they made it clear what the outcome of his actions would be and he still went along with them anyway
And pert just had too big of an inferiority complex to ever be nice to anyone if he wasn't actively receiving praise for everything he was doing and too stubborn to realise he wasn't doing anything worthy of praising.
And Magnus was set up to fail from the very beginning, so he never had a chance.
Horus was the only one truly tricked, since he thought he'd be preventing the 41st millennium by rebelling rather than causing it
I guess we can't let Erebus take all the thunder , Kor-Pheron is a total cuck lord as well
Horus 100% just needed hugs. Angron too.
Typhus is up there aswell
To people reading this book at first they see Betrayer and think the books title is referring to Kharn. Skallathrax isnt even close to happening in this book. Erebus is the betrayer.
Technically the book is literred with Betrayals. The Traitor Legions from the Loyalists, Angron being branded a traitor on Nuceria for "abandoning his brothers and sisters", Lorgar giving Angrons soul to Khorne and depriving him of the only thing he wanted, and yes Erebus killing Argel Tal.
Thats a fair point actually. And Kharn was loyal to the end which is the best thing they could have done in a world eaters book called betrayer.
Kharn only truly became the betrayer after khorn resurected him
When the other-shoe finally drops we'll learn that Skallathrax was actually the last loyalist act of Khârn wherein he punished two legions of oathbreakers.
@@GentlemanBystander You have it totally wrong, its where Kharn gave up all his principles and the World Eaters were broken by his hands.
The final death knell of the last remnants of sanity, loyalty and brotherhood of the old War Hounds died by the hands of the Scourge of Skalathrax.
I think what I like about how Kharn deals with the "duel" isn't rage, fury, just...disappointment. I can only imagine the pure bile Kharn felt when he found out Argel Tal was killed by Erubus of all people. A primarch, acceptable, 1st captain, honorable, even an unknown loyalist would have been better then Erubus.
It wasn't a duel, not even an excecution, it was what Erubus deserved, simple. Humiliation. And even that was too good for him.
Argel was a good boi :(
It's almost like Kharn was so disgusted and disappointed that his best friend and someone who he respects as not just a friend and blood brother, but as a warrior and mighty force in his own right, was killed by someone, something, so utterly pathetic. At least if Argel Tap had been killed by a truly worthy foe, Kharn wouldn't have been QUITE as upset. Still devastated obviously. But to have a worm like Erebus responsible (by stabbing him in the back no less) is SO far below what he deserved the rage in that ALONE is palpable.
As the humans once said in the 21st century: "a certified hood classic"
merican classic
Kharns true potential. Imagine if he didnt turn to chaos
He'd be up there with Sigismund
@@phantomwraith1984 i was going To say that he would be a second sigismund.
Hell, kharn is The inspiration as To why Black templar chain their weapons To their wrists.
He was such a baller, pre heresy.
Didn't the writer imply that he was moving so fast due to Khorne's touch? "He moved fast, surely faster than muscle can"
I dont think that he has fallen to khorne just yet
@@punec I don’t think so either, but by this point it’s been mentioned that his fate is to be khornes chosen. Not sure if that means anything
This was not a beating. It was a single person massacre.
Monopersonal genocide
@@lollikabosso.w.n7153 THAT sounds significantly more metal. Imma use that.
@@vinbingamesgo for it
@@lollikabosso.w.n7153monocide
Erebus: "I am the hand of destiny!"
Kharn: "I have severed that hand."
I've always wanted to see Erebus's face if someone, hell ANYONE for that matter, whispered in his ear "...who do you think they (the ruinous powers) lied to first?", and Erebus knowing beyond a shadow of all doubt that he had been played for a fool. That he was, in fact a tool, and nothing more.
I'm not sure he'll ever have that kind of self-awareness.
The only way I see him realizing this is if he's mortally struck, turns to his neverborn "allies" for help...and only see's them staring at him hungrily.
@@morgant.dulaman8733 Agreed. the four gods could come to him with a presentation of how he's a little bitch and none of them actually like him. and he'd still walk away going "wow. the entire pantheon gathered to try and demoralize me with LIES. EVEN THE GODS FEAR MY POWER AND POENTIAL. I'M THE BEST."
@@TheCreepyLanternto be fair, most of the villainous characters in 40k (like Fabius Bile or the emperor of mankind) have this level of unshakable self confidence paired with an incredible lack of self awareness.
@@seekingabsolution1907 you're absolutely right. but Erebus is unbearably smug about it is the thing XD
@@seekingabsolution1907the difference is the Emperor had the power to back it up, whereas Erebus will be left out to dry if that’s what’s most convenient for them
Revenge for the only and last friend.
A fair fight, face to face, not a stab in the back.
You know... Someone hate Abaddon, others hate Typhus.
But ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE hates Erebus (also known as "Bastard", or "Asshole")
Or gayebus.
Kor Phaeron? Lucius?
@@cornixdemetrius7883 kor phaeron and erebus is a biba and boba of 40k( but erebus far more hated). And they are gayfuckers. And lucius actually have fans.
No, Asshole is an Angry Marine Captain.
@cornixdemetrius7883 Kor Phaeron is second in line after Erebus gets bodied by literally everyone including a single guardsman.
Lucius is just a jerk with ego tendencies and a stupid Warp power.
When I listened to that scene for the first time I was waiting to hear of Erebus’s death. I wished it but reality returned and I remembered he survived only because of his warp sorcery. The wretch
I knew Erebus had to survive he is still kicking around in 40k in some petty squabbles with Kor Pharon, they deserve each other
I almost wish I would be there to see gorechild tear into erebus, you bet I would cheer. it would be euphoric.
the rest of them maybe silent, but there will be an in comparison a very tiny man screaming "KILL HIM! KILL HIM!" from top of his lungs amongst them.
You may get their respect for showing such thirst for blood lmao
And then you on the spot became a demon of khorne. Congrats.
absolutely and inconceivably based
I believe it actually goes something like “KILL! MAIM! BURN!”
Never in my life have I known there is one good part of Warhammer 40k that I want to be part of untill you wrote it.
To be there and see Erebus have his ass kicked is so glorious, I wish someone made a movie out of it
Erebus: *Hiding away and licking his wounds.*
Karn: G e t U P!
Erebus is so overconfident in himself that he fails to see that he's not destiny's hand. He's nothing more than a pawn to the Dark Gods. Always was. Always has been. Always will be.
To be fair, EVERYONE is.
To them(the chaos gods) at least
This is not just some of the best schadenfreude in fiction but also a good demonstration of just how insanely strong kharn is.
this ass whooping was legendary
For once Lorgar did something commendable good on him.
Considering how unlikeable Erebus was, along with how pretentious and boastful Erebus also was, I’d say that daddy said to himself in that moment before he told Kharn, “You know what, the brat needs a slap down… and I’ve got JUST the man to do it.” 😈
Kharn: "Which arm?"
Erebus: "...Huh?"
Kharn: "Disarm!"
Erebus: "What?!"
Kharn: *laughs in Gorechild*
Erebus: "oh shite. Wtf I done!"
Kharn: Get....up. I will finish you off now.
Imagine being Erebus waking up one day thinking "How wonderful a day to commit evil acts! Today surely cannot go wro-"
Only to then hear "BRING THAT EREBUSSY HERE, YOU LITTLE FUCK" before getting his shit catastrophically pummeled into the goddamned dirt
Kharne was always my favorite warrior. like Doom-Guy, he speaks more with body language and actions, rather than words
Kharn and Doomguy would 100% fight. Kharn seeing a powerful warrior whos skull would be a great trophy for the Brass Lord and Doomguy seeing a servent of Chaos working with Daemons.
Who would win tho...
@@TheCommissarGeneral I dunno, but the Soundtrack would be out of this Galaxy!
@@TheCommissarGeneral kharn is a worthy for, but more of a boss fight who inevitably loses. Angron is where doom guy is actually challenged.
@@brightestlight9462 Kharn has already kinda sorta beat Angron. He beat him when he outsmarted him and stabbed him with a teleport becond and imprisoned him on a Night Lord's ship.
Kharn is the favored of the blood god, Angron is an afterthought more or less. He really wanted Sangunius.
Have you ever heard of one named “the red wake”?
Look em up… you’ll find that there are more than a few guys who might as well be Doomguy
"My name is Kharn, you killed my brother, prepare to die."
What absolutly hurts about Argel Tal's death for Kharn is that Argel Tal was the only one he could truely open up to. Not his battle brothers, not his primarch, but some twisted half daemon warrior from another legion.
Theres a scene earlier on between the two of them where Kharn is telling Argel Tal about why the world eaters went through with adding the nails in hopes of becoming closer to Angron, Argel Tal asks if it worked before being called away to help the 17th ready for deployment and after he walks away Kharn says "No. It didn’t."
He could never admit that to anyone in the 12th, not even Lotara Sarrin who he was arguably the closest too and she wasn't even part of the Legion itself, just the shipmaster of the Conqueror. With the death of Argel Tal, Kharn lost more than just a friend.
And in the scene where he absolutely thrashed Erebus he felt a rage beyond anything the nails could ever induce in him, one so deep and powerful that it silenced the nails for just a moment and turned into something even scarier than Angron when he was lost to the nails.
A genuine rage, borne out of being wronged and hurt to the soul rather than crude archaic technology. Angron remarked in his duel against Sanguinius that his nail rage was inferior to Sanguinius true rage and this is the case with Kharn's rage in this duel too.
The Kharn/Erebus memes are amazing
Kharn a being who is somehow scarier when pissed
He's the type of berserker that actually goes quiet when they go TRULY berserk. No screaming bloody murder, no tidalwave of rage, just pure instinct and the desire to kill
@Phantom Wraith it makes you wonder if he ever did become the screaming, slavering ally killer that kills all in mindless rage... or if he stayed like THAT. Focused. Controlled. Unbelievably angry and rage-filled. But entirely sane.
That the reason he got the title Betrayer later wasn't because he lost his mind and killed his allies without thinking. No... he was surrounded by bloodthirsty insane fools, and he was just so damned TIRED of them, and their constant bellows.
Of course Khorne would bless one like him: he needs no bonuses. He just needs to keep fighting. So every time he fell, Khorne would just prop him up and let him go. The blood would flow, even if Kharn doesn't worship. It matters little.
Kharn has a counter in his helmet for everyone he kills. Most think it's a scorecard for himself. But what if it's so he won't forget a single death. Not for glory, but as a reminder that there is one final death to add to it. Erebus.
@Kalebfenoir imagine if we ever get a 40k endtimes, and in it Kharn finally achieves his goal and kills Erebus.
Then he leaves. Renounces Khorne and just leaves the war. That the only reason he embraced Khorne to become his champion was so that one day he could avenge his best friend
@@phantomwraith1984 The Betrayer and The Red Angel ride off into the sunset, each free of their own burdens. The Nails had been removed from Angrons head, their incessant screaming finally silenced. Erubus lies dead, Argeal Tal avenged. The World Eater asks Kharn only one simple question: “Now what?”
@@phantomwraith1984”what? but, what about your glories in battle, the joy you felt when serving me and the art of slaughter?”
“oh, that was all to kill erebus. i’m good now. later.”
“well, alright. but what will you do now? you can’t go back to the physical realm, the imperium will murder you and your brothers will hunt you down.”
“nah, ima be a farmer on some back water planet. later.”
Without a doubt one of the best moments in Warhammer
Arguably one of the best moments of the entire Heresy, one of the most rage filled characters in 40k, having a pure form of rage, one that comes from his emotions, his love for Arghal Tal. It was no hot anger that we are so familiar with the World Eaters, but a cold rage. It was such a great moment for Kharns character but also it was just nice to see Erebus get his shit kicked in.
Erebus: *Gets seven shades of citadel red beaten out of him*
Kharn: Meh...
The power of friendship does indeed give us the strength to do INCREDIBLE things.
This ass kicking was a longggg the me coming "my boy"
The definition of 'Fuck around and find out!'
There is no fuck around with Kharn.
There is only FIND OUT.
Jesus, that was an ass whopping felt all the way in the darkest depths of the galaxy.
We're still hearing the echos of "Get Up" 10k years later.
This is why I love Khârn.
This is what my kitbash for Khârn will be. The severed hand of Erebus on the ground, Gorechild sloppily attached to his arm, and grimly walking away from the blood soaked arena floor.
"...carving a CANYON of flesh over the dense sub-dermal armor of the warrior's black carapace torso implant" Such a wonderful way of describing it. Both in writing and in voice.
He wasn't a fallower of Khorne yet but im pretty sure the blood god watched this and said to himself. " this is my guy"
God emperor I loved that part. Argel Tal deserved better and Erebus deserved worse
Man everytime i see the name Erebus, there's this like auto rage that keeps on resurfacing in my well being.
I liked Kharn as I did Angron. They didn't hate the universe. They just hated what the universe turned them into.
Which is honestly Fair.
As you can see, Kharn is a pretty fun guy to be around.
Kharne had problems b4 he was khornes champion below angron but he was atleast reasonably honorable and loyal to the point he was willing to die by a roid raged sulking angron to get things moving. Considering he beat the brakes off erebus for all the cowardly backstabbing and manipulation and argel he was def loyal until the butchers nails took his mind.
..but the nails never took kharn. Even in the siege of Terra; he is the only one still rather lucid through the whole endeavor. Even in his new book that covers the new lore of Skalathrax, he is still almost meancingly calm and collected compared to his kin
@Jason Burke even in modern 42k, he's basically the obly world eater left where he still has some semblance of sanity. The nails have not fully taken him,and that's why he's the most dangerous world eater and Khorne's champion. Not only is he a ruthless warrior but he's also smart about it
@@phantomwraith1984 Oh there's a still a couple of saner World Eaters out there, one example is the one in Fabius Bile's merry band of Astartes. Dude's pretty chill for a follower of Khorne, meditation worked out pretty well for him.
@@infectedumbrellagrunt3682 Also that one guy (forgot his name) who suddenly snaps out of khorne's influence and the influence of the nails, to realise what he became and remembers his time as a War Hound, way before he was a world eater, how honorable he was, then the nail kick back in, filling him with rage, but this time, he turns on his bretheren and slays the whole invading World Eater squad and their cultists, saving the settlement they were attacking, looks up at the people in the windows, and just fucking leaves to find more World eaters to kill, also looking for Angron. Dude was a terminator Beserker too. F-ing legend!
@@jasonburke1671ou right. He wasn't loyal to the empirium after chaos got them but he was loyal and honorable enough to try and get vengeance for argel tal.
I would love to read an anthology of Erebus stories, set over the last ten millenia where in each story Kharn just shows up out of nowhere and runs him down, ruining whatever master plan he's currently running. Especially if each scenario gets more and more absurd.
Betrayer is certainly top 5 of the entire series
Eh I don't see it. Know no Fear, Flight of the Eisenstein, The first Trilogy, A thousand sons, Fear to Tread , Angel Exterminatus and a few others are better IMO. It's certainly good, but not top 5.
Mine would be First Heretic, Thousand Sons, Betrayer, Nemesis, Fulgrim
@@phillipdistel5131 Nemesis has got to be the most underrated Horus Heresy novel
@@stardestroyer19 Flight of the Eisenstein is one of the worst book in the series as well as Fear to Tread. You have objectively poor taste.
@@ZeWrAtH Imagine being this wrong and accusing others of poor taste....
Erebus: *Breathes*
Kharn: *VVVVVRRRROOOOMMMM*
*Kharn said calmly*
😐
🫥
I just die I want no smoke
Even the Traitors hate Erebus. EVERYBODY HATES EREBUS!
This was the moment that Kharn stepped past red, screaming bloodlust rage. This was when he entered cold Fury.
I keep thinking he stayed in that cold fury: exacting, every movement deliberate for the destruction of his enemy. Not frothing at the mouth and babbling insanity. Not screaming to gods he never cared for.
Silent. Any words he says are short. Clipped. And ice cold.
For my own headcanon, that day was the day the Nails stopped working on Kharn, because he so far surpassed the rage they wanted to inflict that they were rendered pointless. They had no need to activate anymore, because he was so full of rage.
His fellow World Eaters scream and drool and rend everything with blind red Fury.
But when Kharn walks into a room... he's already decided who will die and who will die... later.
And one day, he will get Erebus.
Erebus won't hear him screaming about Khorne, or "Kill! Maim! Burn!"
The last words Erebus will hear before his misbegotten head is taken is "... This is for Argel Tal."
Kharn is the chaos version of Sigusmund. Both legendary fighters with the ability to just turn off their emotions at times and just wreck shit.
@TheCommissarGeneral I always figured the difference between a Khornate Berzerker, and Kharn was... if Khornate Berzerker walks into a war room, there's a high chance everyone will die for no reason.
But if Kharn walks into that room, he immediately judges the usefulness of everyone in the room. Out of 10 people he might immediately kill 4 without speaking. Then he looks from one survivor to another, dictating how they'll die.
To person One: "open your mouth once and you will die painfully."
To person Two: "...if you do not speak your concerns, I'll kill you now."
To another: "If you're not out of this room in 15 seconds, you will die."
And then finally, curiously, he'll pause at one, pointing idly at them. If he had his helmet off he'd have an odd, bemused smirk. "... and you. YOU will live to a ripe old age. Congratulations."
And that person will: they'll either become favored and end up immortal one way or another, or they'll age naturally, unharmed by war or mutiny or ambush or anything like that. Just by living their life whatever it is, they LIVE their full time.
It's not that Kharn spared them or anything. But he would recognize someone who isn't a fool, is capable, or hell, just Lucky, and it would amuse him for a moment.
“fuck. my belt is full of skulls. uhh, ah, let’s use it as a face plate. ooh, i do like that.”
@@TheCommissarGeneralyet Kharne found Sigismund to be the single worst outcome for their conflict. In sigismund he saw the imperium that would come, the same black Templars who would rather sacrifice billions and ruin the best chance out of a thousand years of chances to deal a critical blow to chaos all just to spite one Eldar. Not for some noble cause or vendetta, not for loyalty or reason or justice, just because it was the only thing they knew how to do and they had lost the ability to do anything else. In sogismund he saw the annihilation not just of chaos but of humanity and of all living things. He fought so hard to stop that from happening but sigismunds cold mechanical lethality cast him down before the imperial palace. Despite Kharne channeling the power and hatred of a demonic warp god at the time, somehow his defeat still managed to seem like a loss for humanity because it was the loss of humanity.
@@seekingabsolution1907Soulless and Mechanical are the words you're looking for.
Always a pleasure to read of good Kharn's exploits... I remember the satisfaction I felt when I read of one time he buzzsawed through a Slaaneshi shrine
Rather than killing Erebus himself as many Primarch's would have Lorgar instead honors Tal's memory by handing the task to the one most suited. Wisest of the wise.
Lorgars favorite son getting killed by erebus pissed Lorgar of to give him to karn because he wanted justice for argal tal.
When you fuck up so badly even your own father throws you under the bus lmao kharns backstory is so good
YES YES YES!!! GET HIM MY BOY!!! I loved this moment I loved Tal and this was my moment of rage unleashed for a fallen Chad
He really is a swell guy. Thanks Khârn.
Skane said it right: "I wouldn't piss on a Word Bearer even if they were on fire"
unless you piss petrol
"Fuck man, I came all this way for THIS???" -bestboi kharn
I had to come back after End and the Death Volume III. Eat shit, Erebus.
Same
Characters Khârn needs to obliterate.
Erebus….again.
Micah Bell.
Xavius.
That priest from Castlevania.
The Hunter that killed Bambi’s mom.
That’s all I got y’all can add to it.
Griffith...
Bring Erebus back to life and do it again
Liijah Fething Cuu
@@gregorthedishwasher6196 Poor Brag Poor Colm...
Gogh vandyre
Cato sicarius
The entirety of the eldar, craftword and dark
*FECKIN ELVES*
Celestine just so the counter can roll back by one when she re spawns
Luscious the eternal, only to the resurface and overtake the Luscious re spawn thing
Kharn being faster then usual is terrifying..you can't even keep him away from you?😱
This is the coolest thing Lorgar ever did
Imagine having the skill to back up being so full of yourself and winning duel after duel.
Feeling like a hard ass and then Khan just steps in and drops you 3 times before you can even realise he has launched an attack.
That fight went down as if mummy’s new boyfriend Khan just came home drunk and in a bad mood beat Erebus ass like a red headed step child.
What makes it better is that kharn never really won on the fighting cages because he never took it seriously, so to everyone present its just a 180
Wow. That was... a quite specific example, kudos.
The greatest and most well deserved ass whooping shit kicking in the entire Horus Heresy series
Kharn is one of my favorite characters of 40K by fare, he is loyalty to a fault.
Anyone else get the feeling Kharn's words of "Get Up" had the same menacing calmness of when Johnny killed Shogo Akuji?
Kharn: I just wanna talk to him.
Even Lorgar was pissed. 😂😂😂
this and Perturabo's smack down on Fulgrim have to be some of my favourite "smack some sense into them" moments in the series, of course unfortunately no sense was gained by either of them.
Kharn: I´m not angry...just bored of your existance
Damn Kharn turned his grief for Argel into coldblodness. I think Kharn when he is not angry he is far dangerous.
This scene still gives me chills. The narration is fantastic as always.
Most satisfying beating in the Heresy. Perturabo smacking the shit out of Fulgrim is a close second.
Dorn beating Fulgrim is also up there
@@3adgamd3rIt is also a hammer is my favorite
Erebus: *breathes*
Kharn: and i took that personally
This was immensely satisfying beyond words..
Erebus: *Start chanting a "sacred Mandala"*
Buddhists: "KEEP MY RELIGION OUT OF YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!!!"
Erebus meeting Lorgar after this fight: WHAT THE HELL DID U TELL HIM FOR!!!!!!!!!!!?
Lorgar: 🤨 (sigh) such a disappointment, (waves hand) your dripping blood over my new carpet, get out and have your injuries tended to.
Erebus: 😫-
Lorgar: and before you say another word, please do remember I have the good Captain on Speed Dial… I would rather NOT need to tell the servants to replace half of my furniture with ones that don’t have your blood coated across them.
Erebus: 😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰😰 (leaves quietly)
Erebus's mistake was looking at only 10,000 futures, instead of 14,000,605 ;)
Literally just finished this book this morning. One of THE best books I've listened to. Cannot recommend it high enough.
Erebus: *Slams the door shut* What the hells is wrong with that man!?
Khan: *Batters the door down with his axe* EREBUS! I DIDN'T HEAR NO BELL!
I'd love to hear Orks talking about philosophy and the meaning of life honestly.
can guarantee someone in that crowd thought *note to self, don't piss of kharn*
Erebus: "ENOUGH! I'M DESTINY'S HAND YOU DULL CREATURE, AND I WILL NOT BE BULLIED BY-"
*He gets btfo and his actual hand chopped off*
Khârn: "Puny hand..."