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  • @majorkill
    @majorkill  Рік тому +463

    I'll honestly never get sick of making Custodes videos
    Ill also never get sick of having perfectly shaved family jewels : manscaped.com/majorkill
    However I am sick of plugging the 2023 Majorkill Calendars : majorkill.com/
    100 left, help a brother out

    • @huwwatkins6736
      @huwwatkins6736 Рік тому +2

      your next piece of merchandise should be BJJ gi

    • @Prophetofthe8thLegion
      @Prophetofthe8thLegion Рік тому +2

      Kharn could butcher a Custodes

    • @withlovefromlightindust591
      @withlovefromlightindust591 Рік тому +1

      Hello Majorkill,
      Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you.

    • @SvenTviking
      @SvenTviking Рік тому

      Who could kill a custodes? Logan Grimnar.

    • @askani21
      @askani21 Рік тому

      Do a new Custodes cosplay shooting video! You look hot AF in Custodes uniform.

  • @Kinoksis
    @Kinoksis Рік тому +2209

    The reason why the Custodes are so warp resistant is that their soul has a psychic ward called Aegis of the Emperor, and it's powerful enough to banish lesser daemons in their proximity like Nurgle's Rot Flies.

    • @Ally.Cat.252
      @Ally.Cat.252 Рік тому +69

      Sick, I did not know that

    • @Hereforthelols
      @Hereforthelols Рік тому +14

      What about the post heresy custodes? Do they have them too?

    • @joshuaashkar6644
      @joshuaashkar6644 Рік тому +38

      Didn’t know custodes had aegis thought it was just grey knights

    • @anon_lulz7334
      @anon_lulz7334 Рік тому +8

      @@Hereforthelols Yes

    • @rootsnootthnute8598
      @rootsnootthnute8598 Рік тому +16

      Rot Flies? Are you sure you don't mean Battle Flies or Eyestingers, or some other obscure daemonic breed like the Destroyers of Typhus? Rot Flies are the gigantic Dreadnought sized fly Daemons that the Plague Drone elite ride on, I think even a Custodes wouldn't be able to simply ignore a Daemon of that power.

  • @trimeerious4349
    @trimeerious4349 Рік тому +2961

    Getting a video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would react to being in Guillimans situation would be pretty cool ngl , getting to see how they would either rule the imperium or lead a rebellion to destroy it 🤷‍♂️

    • @slanneshipope8700
      @slanneshipope8700 Рік тому +92

      This is actually such a good idea for a video good job man

    • @lolbots686
      @lolbots686 Рік тому +8

      Yes

    • @customerservice1565
      @customerservice1565 Рік тому +66

      Assorted individuals when -Guilliman- Konrad is resurrected: 💀

    • @faroukshaaban1140
      @faroukshaaban1140 Рік тому

      Kurze would probably laugh manically and kill himself, since his vision had come true.

    • @Rocormo
      @Rocormo Рік тому +5

      Yes bro

  • @Blackmage2222
    @Blackmage2222 Рік тому +2148

    I think the best answer I've heard to whether a Custodes could take on a Primarch was:
    "No, but they wouldn't embarrass themselves trying."

    • @angryknif100
      @angryknif100 Рік тому +69

      Valdor fought alpharius

    • @Nukefandango
      @Nukefandango Рік тому +327

      @@angryknif100 Valdor is....special.

    • @ismaelsantos5378
      @ismaelsantos5378 Рік тому +406

      @@Nukefandango You guys dissapoint me.
      It's not just "Valdor". It's CONSTANTINE VALDOR! **bombastic orchestral music** **ominous latin chorus**

    • @readyjoe6427
      @readyjoe6427 Рік тому +204

      @@angryknif100 valdor is pretty much a primarch himself in all but name

    • @thatotherguy8138
      @thatotherguy8138 Рік тому +51

      @@Nukefandango Appropriately... so is Alpharius.

  • @TheSniperGTO
    @TheSniperGTO Рік тому +1646

    The Custodians are supposed to be to Astartes as an Astartes is to a baseline human. I wish it worked out that way on the Tabletop.

    • @kompatybilijny9348
      @kompatybilijny9348 Рік тому

      Doesn't it? Basic bitch marine has 1 more WS and BS than a basic guardsman, better armour save, 1 more attack, 1 more wound, wounds him on a 3+, while guardsman wounds the marine on 5+. Basic bitch custard has 1 more WS and BS than a basic marine, better armour save, 1 more attack, 1 more wound, wounds him on 3+, while marine wounds him on 5+.

    • @jolo6767
      @jolo6767 Рік тому +78

      No then a custodesplayer had almost no models at all

    • @UnderseaPumaKing
      @UnderseaPumaKing Рік тому +193

      Problem is balancing. If someone shows up with guards and someone else custodes, why play if you already know you're getting curb stomped?

    • @Mastercio
      @Mastercio Рік тому +82

      @@UnderseaPumaKing Well... even a custodes cant take shot from baneblade in face :P

    • @bloodangel19
      @bloodangel19 Рік тому +34

      @@Mastercio they could probably dodge it...

  • @sherlockwayne5407
    @sherlockwayne5407 Рік тому +1058

    To me, the Custodes are the Apex of human evolution that's why they're so awesome, so if you pick and open the human DNA code and max out all the qualities and achieve the full potential and evolution of the human species you will get a custodian each and every time, making them so rare and special

    • @juliane.mfarias9285
      @juliane.mfarias9285 Рік тому +66

      And the Emperor the Apex of Apex.

    • @zaczane
      @zaczane Рік тому +84

      I always liked the idea. I came up with her how they were created. Which was that they are a work of art so they are made by a team of super biologists and anatomists who spend however, long it takes placing each and every single piece of DNA cells etc. in the perfect organization.

    • @Romuluz369
      @Romuluz369 Рік тому +80

      Kinda close, thats actually what the emperor is, the max physical evolutionary potential of mankind before we simply transcend the need for a physical body all together.

    • @Catou1992
      @Catou1992 Рік тому +29

      @@Romuluz369 cool all we now need is mass sacrifice ritual a bunch of psyker to create a bunch of perfect emperor lvl guy!
      I'm rly just trolling here; wasn't the emperor created from the sacrifice of a bunch of shamans(OG Psykers) in the like... stoneage or something? i don't think the empror is the max evolution of mankind since he is... not even human to an extent? idk i'm theoricrafting here but i'm sure i've read that somewhere in the recent years that he was basicaly fused to life... Well now that i think about it u may be right and it happened to be the one on a billion chance the corps coming out of that sacrifice would have perfect stats xD

    • @jonsnow2555
      @jonsnow2555 Рік тому +12

      @Catou yeah, like a thousand shaman psykers knew something, and sacrificed themselves to reincarnate their power into a single being or something lol

  • @RedFoxGrappler
    @RedFoxGrappler Рік тому +901

    Old lore: Astartes are a pack of wolves and Custodes are lone lions
    New lore: Astartes are a pack of wolves and Custodes are a pack of Sifs from Dark Souls

    • @midrovar5811
      @midrovar5811 Рік тому +45

      Old lore: Astartes are a pack of wolves and Custodes are lone lions
      New lore: Astartes are a pack of wolves and Custodes a lion pride

    • @ZerglingLover
      @ZerglingLover Рік тому +15

      @@midrovar5811 new lore works for old lore too considering how disorganized lion prides are

    • @azariyelvarro6271
      @azariyelvarro6271 7 місяців тому +8

      Thunder Warriors: *sad extinct Bear noises*

    • @durrangodsgrief6503
      @durrangodsgrief6503 2 місяці тому

      @@ZerglingLover the fuck are you on about lion prides are organized

    • @ZerglingLover
      @ZerglingLover 2 місяці тому +1

      @@durrangodsgrief6503 -someone that clearly really doesn’t know much about lions. they’re organized, but in the same way that America is: only barely.

  • @rexlumontad5644
    @rexlumontad5644 Рік тому +2862

    Custodes dealing with the Thunder Warriors: "We erase those brutes easily!"
    Custodes dealing with Harlequins: "Help! The clowns jump and move weird!"

    • @a.N.....
      @a.N..... Рік тому +1

      As stated sometimes the lore is a bit "retarded"

    • @piercethroughheart5700
      @piercethroughheart5700 Рік тому +404

      Bs writing bro😑

    • @GreaterGrievobeast55
      @GreaterGrievobeast55 Рік тому +381

      Harelquins: *bounces about as Jevils theme plays throwing random shit around the place.*
      Custodes:
      *get killed trying to keep the house tidy before dad notices.*

    • @piercethroughheart5700
      @piercethroughheart5700 Рік тому +114

      @@GreaterGrievobeast55 Like how they are gonna protect The Emperor if dozens of harlequins can do that.

    • @cnut7383
      @cnut7383 Рік тому +315

      @@piercethroughheart5700 I heard that the author confused the custodes with the lucifer blacks, who also help protect the palace.

  • @rexlumontad5644
    @rexlumontad5644 Рік тому +587

    Custodes enjoy their enthusiastic walks while asking their enemies how is their health plan.
    Apparently it was great.

  • @sphyre1196
    @sphyre1196 Рік тому +328

    They are as powerful as the writer wants them to be. Aaron Dembski Bowden made them about the same a Primaris is to a firstborn and that might have been a little too weak. Others have written them on a level close to Primarchs.

    • @__-tp4tm
      @__-tp4tm Рік тому +37

      Honestly, it would make sense if they were somewhere in between normal Astartes and Primarchs. Like, not really close to a primarch, but a group of 10-20 or more being a decent fight for a primarch - where I imagine, the same amount of Astartes would be a good laugh for most Primarchs.

    • @Notbatman374
      @Notbatman374 Рік тому +14

      Also seems to depend on the individual custodes and how much plot armor they have. Whats-his-face got bodied by argel tal and 2 normal ass space marines. They hadn't even become gal vorbak yet.
      Then valdor goes into the web way with the Emperor and just starts slaughtering daemons like crazy.
      Valdor is probably a decent fight to your average primarch. But would likely lose to the highly combat specialized ones. (El'johnson, corax, horus, the khan, russ etc.) And valdor could probably body the less combat oriented ones. (Lorgar, alpharius, I'd argue probably dorn and perty too.)

    • @sphyre1196
      @sphyre1196 Рік тому +5

      @@__-tp4tm Also heavily depends on which Primarch. If he has Psyker Powers like Magnus or ascended Lorgar than only a lucky cheapshot would allow the Custodians to win.

    • @__-tp4tm
      @__-tp4tm Рік тому +2

      @@sphyre1196 Of course, these are eventualities.
      I mean, if we think about it, most primarchs would be screwed to begin with if they were on a planet getting Exterminated.
      So yeah, of course the situation plays heavily into such event. From which Primarch is faced, to which situation he's in. Im sure it wouldn't be a problem for Custodians to bring some Blanks along in case their target were to be one of, if not the, most powerful Psyker.

    • @TheKalZul
      @TheKalZul Рік тому +2

      For me it makes sense that they are made essentially as physically the same as a Primarch without the warp juice and not built from the ground up like the Primarchs were.
      Besides Valdor. He is just built different from being built different.

  • @geonsilberlicht4632
    @geonsilberlicht4632 Рік тому +325

    A custodian not realizing he is already doomed when suffering a wound would make him a flawed creation. With that much investment going into every single one of them, the Moment one of them is certain to die or have his function impaired severely and permanently, he MUST immediately switch to a self-sacrificial strategy of combat through which he can hope to save as many other custodians as possible while achieving their objective, at the cost of his live. The realization of doom is a powerful weapon when wielded by one not paralyzed by it.

    • @Florkl
      @Florkl Рік тому +87

      Iirc it was a lone custodian, who was found standing on top of a mountain of corpses. It was less that he didn’t realize he was basically dead, and more that he found it irrelevant to his task of “hold this area.”

    • @thefallencog
      @thefallencog Рік тому +39

      Custodian's are aware that they receive mortal wounds. But they don't let the impending death get to them.
      As far as the Custodian's are concerned. Mortal life is meaningless if the Emperors will is not served.

    • @rstarr14
      @rstarr14 Рік тому +5

      I wish GW had as much faith in this Chapter as you, they seem to shit on it with endless Age of Sigmar releases.

    • @Indubidably0
      @Indubidably0 Рік тому

      What you just said is easily the dumbest thing I've seen on the internet in weeks and reeks of a limp-wristed peasant who has never even thrown a punch let alone has any functional knowledge of combat. What you described is the absolute last thing they should do.

  • @AtheAetheling
    @AtheAetheling Рік тому +51

    The Harlequin thing I think was old lore, when the power level of the Custodes was more akin to a Marine as you stated at the beginning. It doesn't feel like the book was released all that long ago, but it was still old in terms of the Custodes as a faction with a solid lore.

  • @themrsandmann8823
    @themrsandmann8823 Рік тому +427

    The Custodes vs the splinter fleet is definitely more a case of Tyranids getting miswritten rather than showing off how strong Custodes are. There's no way an ever adapting foe like the Tyranids, let alone a master tactician like the Swarmlord, would have just mindlessly ran into a choke point... A cool moment for the Custodes, but definitely a blown up feat for them using the bug bois as a sacrifice.

    • @ocek2744
      @ocek2744 Рік тому +75

      Like many things in Warhammer it's probably a lore version of Gartic Phone.
      Because Warhammer lore is so nebulous, and exaggeration so rampant, what *actually* happened is up for debate.
      This is why I believe Ciaphas Cain embodies Warhammer lore the most. He's a complete charlatan, but his legend is so great that it forcibly propelled him to greatness.

    • @adrienwatson2179
      @adrienwatson2179 Рік тому +14

      @@ocek2744 Ill uave to disagree a bit
      Cain is definitly no Charletan
      He might (At thr time of course) be the greatest Human swordsman in the literal entire Imperium
      Or in the Astartes minds, at least the Segmentum
      Sure, his plot armor comes in the way of a Blank who saves his ass CONSTANTLY
      But hes definitely an absolutr monster in combat, the likes of which overshadows pretty much every human outside of Eversors

    • @adrienwatson2179
      @adrienwatson2179 Рік тому +33

      Like the other gentlemen here said
      A lot of 40k is "Stories"
      Like the Harlequins killing the Custodes is a "Story" told by the Eldar
      Or the Hive fleet splinter would be a story tols by a Gaurdsman
      Everything is Canon
      Not everything is true

    • @captaincrum1
      @captaincrum1 Рік тому +4

      Still think a Solataire could fuck a custodes up in a 1v1 but not more than one at a time and probably even then be Ethier to tired to fight another or be to injured.

    • @Nebram2
      @Nebram2 Рік тому +12

      @Adrien Watson "Everything is Canon, not everything is true" *slow clap* that is a boss as hell way to put it!

  • @atheed9426
    @atheed9426 Рік тому +347

    Interesting fact: there are multiple cases in human history where someone HAS had part (up to half) there brain destroyed/blown out of there head and kept going. Forget his name but one of the most famous is a gentleman who was working on the railroad and had a 3 inch in diameter six foot long iron bar go through his head. He had some anger issues after but lived an entire life. Someone in the 90s in the US was shot in the head with a magnum during a robbery... he lived.

    • @iamk7567
      @iamk7567 Рік тому +33

      That would be Phineas Gage you're thinking of

    • @AtheAetheling
      @AtheAetheling Рік тому +37

      There's also Robert Lawrence, a former British Army officer who served in the Falklands War.
      ''Lawrence wrote about his experience at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown when, in his moment of victory on the eastern slopes, he was almost killed when a bullet fired by an Argentine sniper tore off the side of his head. He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery, but he spent a year in a wheelchair and was almost totally paralyzed.
      Lawrence's wound was caused by a 7.62×51mm round passing through the rear of his skull, to emerge at his hairline above his right eye. He lay on the thin cover of snow on the exposed mountaintop for six hours. Airlifted off Tumbledown, Lawrence was left outside a makeshift operating theatre without painkillers. Two weeks from his 22nd birthday on 14 June, he assumed he was the last to be operated on because he was the least likely to survive causing him to wait 8 hours at the back of the operating queue.''
      You can see clips of him on UA-cam on talk shows; you would never know anything had happened to him.

    • @starhammer5247
      @starhammer5247 Рік тому +13

      The human body is quite a curious thing.

    • @RikkiTikkiTavi290
      @RikkiTikkiTavi290 Рік тому +4

      Phineas Gage

    • @formdoggie5
      @formdoggie5 Рік тому +18

      Marines in the opening battles of Iraq kept charging and firing their weapons after taking machine gun fire and losing half their head (literally).
      It was one of the reasons so many of their loyalist guard surrendered.
      There are also several accounts of it happening during Viet Nam, particularly during the battle for Hamburger Hill.
      Now, did they go on like nothing happened? No, usually they fell shortly after -- but the point is they kept doing the last thing their brain ordered their body to do. And when you're shooting someone multiple times and watch their head go poof and they are *STILL* charging you, thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats a bit of a mind fuck.

  • @samalthus
    @samalthus Рік тому +232

    Yea, that book with the bare handed world eater killing a Custodes was one of the worst I've read. It also got events so completely out of order, with word of the Drop Site Massacre reaching Terra BEFORE Magnus screwed the webway project.

    • @a.N.....
      @a.N..... Рік тому +26

      Sounds like they should pull that book then

    • @Nukefandango
      @Nukefandango Рік тому

      Just absolutely awful, outcast dead is absolute ass

    • @mugenokami2201
      @mugenokami2201 Рік тому +7

      Or it can be used as a way to show how chaotic that time was with people misremembering shit left right and center

    • @argeltalthecustodiankiller6552
      @argeltalthecustodiankiller6552 Рік тому

      Custodes got rip apart by gal vorbak

    • @eichler721
      @eichler721 Рік тому

      @argeltalthecustodiankiller6552 the hater is here spreading the few badly written lore peices and ignoring the hundred plus times of the overpowering lore written on them. You are a joke.

  • @Fuskox2
    @Fuskox2 Рік тому +71

    Please do a video on current Valdor and speculation on his "King in Yellow" persona. The dude has been BUSY these last 10,000 years. He created an alternate dimension and built a planet sized auramite city with multiple captured stars to light it. Has thousands of cloned blanks, reverse daemonhosts AKA Graels (putting blank human soul inside warp matter), armies of WINGED cloned blood angels, full auramite warship fleets in a constant war with the eye of terror, and is creating a lexicon of the language of enuncia. What is he doing? Closing the eye of terror? Trying to bring the emperor back to life? Kill the emperor? More or less every traitor legion is trying to stop him along with 5 eldar craft worlds and multiple inquisitorial warbands. Can't wait for the final book in that series

    • @Court_of_Crows560
      @Court_of_Crows560 Рік тому +2

      Is this the Eisenhorn series?

    • @Fuskox2
      @Fuskox2 Рік тому +5

      @@Court_of_Crows560 It's the culmination of both Eisenhorn and Ravenor series in a third trilogy called Bequin. It's a bit convoluted. You have to read Eisenhorn 1-3, Ravenor 1-3, then a connecting novel (the Magos) and finally Bequin series. They're all also audiobooks

    • @Court_of_Crows560
      @Court_of_Crows560 Рік тому

      @@Fuskox2 I was planning on going into 40k with the Eisenhorn novels as soon as I finish up HH and the Siege of Terra (on Saturnine); so this is a really helpful guide to the "abnettverse". Thank you very much, I'll add those to my audible list. 😀

    • @passchen-fail3704
      @passchen-fail3704 Рік тому

      Bro, wtf? That sounds incredible. I guess I have to buy some audiobooks

    • @Fuskox2
      @Fuskox2 Рік тому

      @@passchen-fail3704 I'm a busy guy and they're so convenient. Listening at work or while working out I can easily go through a 30 hour book in a few days. Something that'd take far longer to find time to sit down and read

  • @domc9801
    @domc9801 Рік тому +58

    Some of my favorite quotes are from Valerian, the Custodian noting that space marines are there natural prey and seeing his closest too excitement at fighting along side Imperial Fists was a great read, also during the Horus Hersey it took 16 World Eaters to kill one Custodian. The fight was off panel but the Sister of Silence noted that in particular.

  • @WR288
    @WR288 Рік тому +110

    It's a myth that Argel Tal was able to stalemate Aquilon in sparring. He got trounced every time and his record was lasting a few minutes.

    • @tau-5794
      @tau-5794 Рік тому +32

      Also when Aquillon learned of the treachery going on he killed the five high-ranking Word Bearers protecting Lorgar in just 3 seconds, before being sneak-attacked by Argel iirc.

    • @TenPtJackalope
      @TenPtJackalope Рік тому +4

      @@tau-5794 That was Vendatha, a warrior from Aquillion’s squad

    • @The_Hoss
      @The_Hoss Рік тому +1

      Literally was just thinking that’s not at all how the book portrayed it and started doubting myself.

  • @yoggz
    @yoggz Рік тому +312

    Imagine your an orc just chillin and suddenly the emperor and 1k custodes appear out of thin air

    • @GigachudBDE
      @GigachudBDE Рік тому +55

      Sounds like a proper scrap!

    • @ismaelsantos5378
      @ismaelsantos5378 Рік тому +79

      "Dis gunna be a proppa scrap!" -Famous Last Words of Grok Squigbasher

    • @mrblack5145
      @mrblack5145 Рік тому +72

      "WOTS ALL DIS DEN?" would be the initial response, before the Big E mutters 'ligma' and proceeds to Doctor Manhattan the surrounding 100 square miles.

    • @argeltalthecustodiankiller6552
      @argeltalthecustodiankiller6552 Рік тому +2

      I just use gal vorbak

    • @thomasbullins
      @thomasbullins Рік тому +4

      Don't the orc just have to believe he can beat them?
      Or he could just start thinking "Brass means super kill"

  • @sirrobertwalpole1017
    @sirrobertwalpole1017 Рік тому +97

    I always like the idea that the emperor had the custodians to be able to put down a rebellious Primarch without being forced to ask one of his brothers to do it

    • @peterpan4038
      @peterpan4038 Рік тому +8

      Well, that makes sense.
      Big E always focused on his crusading business, there simply wasn't much time in his schedule to care for those pesky traitors. Hence creating his golden boys to handle those issues would make sense. xD

    • @MarkSmith-rs660
      @MarkSmith-rs660 Рік тому

      Didn't the space wolves do that?

    • @nurtaytulegenov7431
      @nurtaytulegenov7431 11 місяців тому +1

      That literally diminishes role of Rus, since he is considered the slaughterer of Primarchs and was the main force in erasing forgotten legions from history

  • @withlovefromlightindust591
    @withlovefromlightindust591 Рік тому +156

    Hello Majorkill,
    Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you.

  • @veteran673
    @veteran673 Рік тому +32

    In defense of horus getting stabbed, it was a special sword that is destined to stab anyone its pointed at at by the power of nurgle himself

  • @thedudeabides5
    @thedudeabides5 Рік тому +32

    It really depends on the writer. In the book the Regens shadow, two minotaurs took down a custodies, while 1 custodie took down a group of primaries in a short story I can't remember the name.

    • @markcoroneos7811
      @markcoroneos7811 Рік тому +1

      It can really be said for any facet of 40k lore haha depends on who is writting it 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • @mcnuggets2825
    @mcnuggets2825 Рік тому +31

    Pretty sure there is an excerpt in plague wars going over the amount of Custodes assigned to Guilliman. It’s like 20ish plus one of their dreadnoughts. The reason it’s that many is because they think that’s how many it would take to kill him if he started acting a bit odd.

    • @passchen-fail3704
      @passchen-fail3704 Рік тому +7

      Holy crap, guilliman, one of the weakest primarchs, can take twenty and a dreadnought? That’s awesome.

    • @omarsabbouh1237
      @omarsabbouh1237 Рік тому +5

      @@passchen-fail3704 imagine what it would take to kill sanguinuis or vulkan

    • @Wyatt-kj7ou
      @Wyatt-kj7ou Рік тому +1

      ​@theredditexperience1 Combat wise he is on the lower end compared to the other primearchs.

    • @hateme5010
      @hateme5010 Рік тому

      @theredditexperience1 not by sheer talent . But yes, his pecularities make it so it is as if one is fighting against a well oiled dreadnought.

    • @flabbergaster1011
      @flabbergaster1011 11 місяців тому +4

      ​​​@theredditexperience1just human? brother even if he cant shoot lava out of his penis it doesnt mean he isnt one of the strongest living things in the setting, hes a primarch. and i am quite sure all primarchs have psychic abilities even if they dont tap into it, like G man and jagatai
      he cant trip balls like angron or leman but he is enough to take on multiple custodes and that says something
      first thing he did after a 10 millenia coma is crush a khornite berserkers head and clear his bedroom of an invasion

  • @TheMatch93
    @TheMatch93 Рік тому +47

    Absolutely love your videos I’m glad there’s someone out there just saw the lore how it is but there own way

  • @PelinalDidNothingWrong
    @PelinalDidNothingWrong Рік тому +20

    I'm listening to this while painting my Shadowkeeper Custodes 👀
    I got the combat patrol and battleforce box at Christmas and now I've been on a huge Custodes binge since.

  • @Julian-jh2rq
    @Julian-jh2rq Рік тому +18

    Awesome that you're backing up Squidmar's Titan Diorama project, I'm so excited to see how it turns out!

  • @Cifer77
    @Cifer77 Рік тому +233

    What if Custodians like the Astartes thinking they can somehow beat them. The enemy having the perception they are better than you, when they are not, is an advantage in itself.
    "When you are strong, appear weak" - Sun Tzu

    • @jacobaugustine6249
      @jacobaugustine6249 Рік тому +9

      You know it would make sense if the custodians put out that the Space Marines were better, deception and whatnot I believe it

    • @KarpetBurn
      @KarpetBurn Рік тому +7

      @@jacobaugustine6249 Nah, the Custodes need to appear to the public as the mythical resplendent god warriors who win every battle no matter the odds.
      If they were to just say that Astartes were stronger, that would definitely hurt the morale of humanity, thinking the supposed defenders of the Throne are weaker then the average Space Marine.

    • @capadociaash8003
      @capadociaash8003 5 місяців тому

      @@KarpetBurnit would be a tad difficult but maybe they could ‘leak’ information about how the Custodes aren’t as strong as people think they are to the enemy

  • @imjustchillman
    @imjustchillman Рік тому +10

    Classifying Custodians as soldiers is such an understatement. Each of them were meant to be rulers of clusters of planets to manage them since the imperium was getting too big for Big E to handle. They are masters of all aspects of human endeavour.

  • @Hightree
    @Hightree Рік тому +5

    I wish this man made more videos about custodies and their lore. They are GOOD.

  • @Mr._Galaxywide
    @Mr._Galaxywide Рік тому +35

    My reaction to Majorkill not mentioning Kitten
    *My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined*

  • @dawix2001
    @dawix2001 Рік тому +8

    1:50 End of sponsored fragment

  • @geherrit1989
    @geherrit1989 Рік тому +9

    My favourite part is when every few weeks majorkill discovers that he still has stock, calendars etc to sell

    • @passchen-fail3704
      @passchen-fail3704 Рік тому +3

      He has made enemies with the elves and they are dancing around a publishers office, making more. He needs to put a bowl of milk and honey out.

  • @_jaska
    @_jaska Рік тому +7

    Let's also not forget that Valdor can finger gun people out of existence like that fun scene from Nemesis!
    I'm still relatively new to the lore, but I think something else that makes the Custodians so interesting is not only their physical capability but their adeptness at all sorts of other capacities. For example, in the Blood Games short story, you see that the Custodes also operate as a top level intelligence organization and undercover spy agency as well. They seem to be generally far smarter (and wiser) than your garden variety Astartes, and in general have much better personalities. That kind of lends itself to their ability to fight 'separately, but together', their communication and awareness likely dwarfs even that of Astartes.

  • @Mangko
    @Mangko Рік тому +7

    > *skips ad because majorkill doesn't have his gear off*

  • @AevasHouse
    @AevasHouse Рік тому +6

    The lawnmower 4.0 can still cut you if you dint use the guards and it never says it doesnt cut you just that it reduces the nicks it can give you if used right

  • @MrEyescream
    @MrEyescream Рік тому +1

    Nice of Squidmar Miniatures to mention Majorkill in his last Video with the Warlordtitan Diorama

  • @hypertier
    @hypertier Рік тому +23

    Waking up to seeing a half naked majorkill is crazy

  • @clink-at-war2
    @clink-at-war2 Рік тому +2

    9:32 way to catch me off guard with that awesome quote that i will forever take out of context

  • @Triumvirately
    @Triumvirately Рік тому +3

    If there are 1 million space marines and 10,000 custodians, one very experienced custodian should be worth 100 space marines. Which supports the claim that space marines are custodians natural prey.
    Let me clarify though, it’s more likely that the emperor judges worth not just by battle effectiveness. But all around worth, like a combination of intelligence, and other desirable traits.

  • @TheFirstRoyale
    @TheFirstRoyale Рік тому

    I love how consistent your ads are, I can always skip over them with ease.

  • @NP3GA
    @NP3GA Рік тому +16

    Day thirty six of asking majorkill to compare Abaddon and Archaeon

  • @TheTribunate
    @TheTribunate Рік тому +4

    @majorkill On the subject of a world eater punching through a Custodian, back at the time it was written, custodians wore artificer grade ceramite, as auramite hadn't been introduced into the lore yet.

    • @sciarpecyril
      @sciarpecyril 4 дні тому

      I don't think this makes it much better.

  • @theworldsgreatestjidiot9667
    @theworldsgreatestjidiot9667 Рік тому +3

    No, the custodes could not kill a primarch because they have armor made out of the toughest material ever, PLOT. Which basically makes them unkillable

  • @Vaille32
    @Vaille32 Рік тому +2

    Anecdotally speaking, it would prolly take 4 to 5 Custodes to drop a top-tier Primarch like Horace, Johnson, Sanguinius, or Russ. 2 or 3 might be able to take a lower-tier Primarch like Lorgar, Alpharius / Omegon, and maybe Guilliman, or Magnus. This is assuming it’s straight up melee combat.

  • @codyray909
    @codyray909 Рік тому +7

    0:13 Please tell me you painted those minis, they look sick but I want to give credit to the right bloke 😂

  • @themasterchef9784
    @themasterchef9784 Рік тому +1

    Yo Majorkill!!! ACTUALLY BRO??? $20,000?!?! Holy shit. I didn’t realize my boy was as stacked like that $$$

  • @darth_elsa6681
    @darth_elsa6681 Рік тому +7

    Was wondering if you were going to mention the Eldar incident....we all know how you feel about that.

  • @Zenphoshen
    @Zenphoshen Рік тому

    Lord Kitten is back in his Custodies Cosplay. The Might Golden Kitty.
    Great work my dude.

  • @MaxUltimata
    @MaxUltimata Рік тому +6

    As the Talons of the Emperor, the Sisters of Silence use their Blank powers to bind a daemon to this reality, and the Custodes kill it. As in "actually kill it" kill it; with its connection to the Warp severed, the Daemon dies a true death instead of merely being banished.
    Beyond that, Custodes are a lot more than just Better Than You warriors over the Astartes. Where the Astartes were built for war, the Custodes are the Emperor's personal bodyguards, but also his personal artists, poets, musicians, confidants, diplomats, etc. They are the Ultimate Snowflake Army, as each Custodian is effectively meant to be a character in their own right, each with their own skillset that goes beyond their ability to shoot a gun or swing a sword. They cover a broad range of skills meant to serve the Emperor and Imperium as a whole, be it contributing to the overall culture (such as it is as of the 42nd Millennium) or protecting the Imperial Palace (and by extension, Holy Terra) from all manners of threat and infiltration.
    These skills of defense are honed in the Blood Games, a series of live exercises where a Custodian will act as an infiltrator, and spend months or even years finding a way to breach the securities of the Imperial Palace and enter the Sanctum Imperialis (should be noted that the Eternity Gate leading to the Throneroom is guarded by two War Titans that have basically been made part of the wall on either side of the doors, and is basically a massive, kilometers-long hallway with little to no cover in between). If the infiltrator wins, then his methods and tactics are reviewed, and the securities of the Palace are refined to address the discovered vulnerabilities.
    So far no outside forces have ever been able to enter the Sanctum Imperialis. During the War of the Beast, an Aeldari raid managed to get within sight of Eternity Gate before they were mowed down by Custodes, and some time later, a group of heretics tried to bumrush Eternity Gate with some hijacked atmospheric barges, but were also stopped.

  • @RaderGH
    @RaderGH Рік тому +3

    I always chalk up inconsistencies in Warhammer 40K as different people throughout the galaxy hearing different things. Imagine the same story being told across the galaxy with various accounts and over time and it is easy to see how stories may get dissorted.

  • @Thomas-gs8ug
    @Thomas-gs8ug Рік тому +21

    Hello Majorkill, great video a always. Could you do a video about the imperial navy, it's ships, and their role, as well as warfare in the void? Thank you!

  • @confused4971
    @confused4971 Рік тому +2

    It's always good to see Majordaddy in Custodian aesthetic.

  • @howizee
    @howizee Рік тому +6

    I can't remember if it is official or fan made but I remember when they revamped the Custodes the line about recruitment was something like "That while one in a million may be capable of becoming an Astartes, only one in a Billion could even hope to become a Custodian."

  • @Peanutbutterhole
    @Peanutbutterhole Рік тому +1

    You should do a video on the similarities of the dark glass ship and the event horizon ship. That would be sick and a nice dip into the horror element of 40k.

  • @udp1073
    @udp1073 Рік тому +2

    In one of the book about the Indomitus Crusade, the Stratarchis Tribune Colquan, define a force of 34 custodian guard a “world capturing” or “world conquering” (i dont remember right now) force..

  • @savagelunch
    @savagelunch Рік тому +2

    at 0:47 I like how we can measure time skips based on how saggy that lasgun's barrel is >

  • @custodianguardofthemagyari216
    @custodianguardofthemagyari216 Рік тому +15

    The emperor enjoys your content majorkill keep going
    Also ty for putting me into the thumbnail

  • @animemanXLK
    @animemanXLK Рік тому +1

    I thought he would've mentioned that short story were the big E teleports Angron aboard his ship and Angron just straight away grabs and rips in half a fully armoured Custodes with his bare hands. There's also a part in one of the dark imperium trilogy were Roboute is fighting traitors and urgle daemons and his custode guard is struggling just to keep up he's moving g and killing that fast. Another tidbit is the custodes are performing two roles in both guarding Roboute as the newly appointed regent but also to act as his executioners if they believe Roboute has plans to take the throne of Terra.Based off those bits I'm not convinced 20 custodes would be enough.I think they'd need around full company at least or even a full on war depending on how many ultramarines successors were yo join him.

  • @davidmendez9256
    @davidmendez9256 Рік тому +12

    For anyone wondering, the thumbnail is of captain commander Alexandrius. I commissioned him from the artist Bachzim. Not an actual character unfortunately, I though him up :)

  • @ramsesbams
    @ramsesbams 28 днів тому +1

    in the horus heresy, horus kills several of them. so you know, pretty clear

  • @vitevius
    @vitevius Рік тому +3

    Hey majorkill, also a huge custodian fan, but the Tyranid situation went down slightly different, they Survived the fleet and only survived because a space marine fleet of MM drove off the Tyranid splinter fleet.

  • @TalonKarrde03
    @TalonKarrde03 Рік тому +1

    Actually laughed out loud when Majorkill said “pick up my merch so I can stop Plugging it”

  • @MikiWarhammer40k
    @MikiWarhammer40k Рік тому +3

    Well the malnourished one ain't killing no primarch.

  • @Peanutbutterhole
    @Peanutbutterhole Рік тому

    And such a great idea investing in the Squidmar diorama, for the betterment of the hobby!

  • @captainl-ron4068
    @captainl-ron4068 Рік тому +6

    Your list of Astartes who could handle a Custodian was missing the High King of Fenris, Grimnar the Old Wolf.
    The guy sprints in terminator battle-plate and casually eats Grey Knights for both first and second breakfast

  • @sullenSniper
    @sullenSniper Рік тому

    Majorkill will do anything for a custodes video

  • @coltonstergue7079
    @coltonstergue7079 Рік тому +4

    Shadow keeps are made up of veteran custody’s, they are the custody’s of the custody’s lol. They also are custody’s of the dark cells so it’s even more ironic.

  • @bloodhunter07
    @bloodhunter07 Рік тому

    A work of art exist
    -a certain cleptomaniack : a fine addition to my collection

  • @codyt.1905
    @codyt.1905 Рік тому +3

    Coming into 40k more from fantasy because of our giga chad Henry. One thing that you will never be able to convince me is that the world's are not connected in someway. A pocket dimension of some sorts where only slivers of the warp and chaos can enter?

    • @thehermitman822
      @thehermitman822 Рік тому +1

      Sigmar protect.

    • @codyt.1905
      @codyt.1905 Рік тому

      @@thehermitman822 he protec, he attac, he brings the empire back.

    • @thehermitman822
      @thehermitman822 Рік тому +1

      @@codyt.1905 May his hammer ever clear the path to justice.

  • @shivadityasarkar501
    @shivadityasarkar501 22 дні тому +1

    The gigachads of the war hammer universe

  • @heyho495
    @heyho495 Рік тому +3

    Hey Majorkill, do you have a video or can you tell how you did the lighting for your shelf in the background?
    PS: where did you get the Dark Angels helmet? Asking for a friend... 😇

  • @Ryukachoo
    @Ryukachoo Рік тому +2

    I uh
    Strongly recommend putting a few carbon fiber support rods in that custodes staff
    It'll make it a lot less floppy without adding any weight

  • @MrSkillns
    @MrSkillns Рік тому +8

    Man, I didn't know MajorKill was a Custodian himself!

  • @tylerdavis3394
    @tylerdavis3394 Рік тому +2

    It’s been a while since I’ve read The First Heretic, but I could have sworn that Custodian Argyll Tal dueled/trained with was toying with him in the sparring ring. The only time he actually won was after he became a demon host and they killed all of the custodians.

  • @michaelhowell2326
    @michaelhowell2326 Рік тому +3

    I think in an attempt to make the Custodes' lore awesome, GW made them too OP to make them good on the tabletop. In-lore they can possibly take on a hive alone.

  • @real-lomas-chenko
    @real-lomas-chenko Рік тому +1

    Kudos on the squidmar offer majorkill 👍

  • @TheKalZul
    @TheKalZul Рік тому +4

    The Eldar Incident has been put down, even by the author himself, as being a mistaken use of Custodes instead of he mortal guards of the Emperor, Lucifer Blacks. So we can call it an outlier like Outcast Dead.

  • @Uploaded1995
    @Uploaded1995 Рік тому

    My guy, just imagine the absolute blender that must have been the Custodes on the top of that volcano. What a sight to see.

  • @doublethebenjamin8185
    @doublethebenjamin8185 Рік тому +7

    What if Magnus had the special gene that makes one immune to blanks, like the Emperor and Hyperion? Also, what what happened after different Primarch aside from Guillimaine returned first?

    • @raptorxrise5386
      @raptorxrise5386 Рік тому +2

      I dont think emps is immune to blanks. Hes literally just too powerful

    • @doublethebenjamin8185
      @doublethebenjamin8185 Рік тому

      @@raptorxrise5386 from what I remember from a previous Majorkill video, he stated that the Big E Money and the Grey Knight Hyperion are the only two individuals in the galaxy who are immune to blanks/pariahs.

  • @argosvinandi5064
    @argosvinandi5064 Рік тому

    Love the cosplay, shoulder piece looks dope af. I know Henry would be proud.

  • @ProffessorYellow
    @ProffessorYellow Рік тому +1

    Hello Majorkill,
    Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Pretty please? Thank you. (I second this notion)

  • @ferociousfuture2110
    @ferociousfuture2110 Рік тому +3

    Majorkill Being the average Custodes enjoyer against the average chaos fans.

  • @ethankopiness3915
    @ethankopiness3915 Рік тому +1

    "Tyberos because uhhh just look at him" killed me

  • @HanmaCaleb
    @HanmaCaleb Рік тому +9

    I think maybe Logan Grimnar could kill a Custodian, and maybe give named Custodians a good fight before he will die

  • @sinarius3669
    @sinarius3669 Рік тому +2

    There is an inquisitior book where the Minotaurs have to literally swarm a custodian to take them down, even considering they had brand new power armor. That shit was riveting!

  • @MNVinela
    @MNVinela Рік тому +3

    You mentioned ‘matching Argel Tal’ however Aquillon was pretty consistently beasting on him, defeating him in seconds in sparring matches. It wasn’t until Argel Tal accepted a demon inside of him that the gap closed

  • @weenieboi9824
    @weenieboi9824 Рік тому

    Everyone's talking about how cool the custodes are, but I can't find anyone talking about the sick ass shoulder pauldron he wears. Sick as

  • @AndrewsArachnids
    @AndrewsArachnids Рік тому +4

    lmao what a sight to open on.

  • @ZooKeeper-pk2xq
    @ZooKeeper-pk2xq 6 місяців тому

    i love the look on my opponent when Russ one shots a 5 man custard squad every time before moving on to Valdor and carving him a new breathing hole. There's lore, and then there's game.

  • @savageblood466
    @savageblood466 Рік тому +3

    Majorkill and Luetin09 are the best lore masters ever👍🤘

  • @szxnv
    @szxnv Рік тому +2

    Keep up the great work you're doing!

  • @Just_Pele
    @Just_Pele Рік тому +2

    No, the Custodes who guard Robooty Guillichad can't beat him, and they're high AF if they really believe they can. In M41 he's become a legit badass and one of the toughest primarchs still around, because he never stops learning and he's always getting better.

  • @apostleoffate2028
    @apostleoffate2028 Рік тому +1

    I think the world eater punching a hole through a custodes makes sense taking into account chaos juice defies logic and reason and as such chaos characters can be as powerful as the plot demands

    • @apostleoffate2028
      @apostleoffate2028 Рік тому +1

      @@SwedishBroManDude It's 40k afterall and pretty much the factions that can go "super sayan" and enforce their will upon reality "because I said so" are: chaos, orks and the necrons from what I've gathered more or less

  • @muzanjackson8827
    @muzanjackson8827 Рік тому +3

    I'm sick and tired of people saying that Constantine Valdor beat Horus in a sparring match. It literally never happened. Majorkill even acknowledged that in an older video.
    Edit: Also, a Grey Knight was described as only fractionally slower than Valerian, Hero of the Lion's Gate and definitely above the average Custodian. They would only be more effective than the Grey Knights with Sisters of Silence, with it even being stated that together it was literally impossible for them to be defeated (although I guess that would be different if they tried to fight a C'tan Shard)

  • @inquisitormaddox8581
    @inquisitormaddox8581 Рік тому +1

    Can wait for a similarly topic but focused on space marines

  • @ImperatorCaracalla
    @ImperatorCaracalla 6 місяців тому +3

    Watching this video again and trying to picture these absolute bad asses as women 😂😂 kill me now

  • @MixieCheek
    @MixieCheek Рік тому

    Majorkill.
    MAJORKILL.
    You're finna make me act up.

  • @xxpostitxx4843
    @xxpostitxx4843 Рік тому

    good timing. I just read the first heretic and have been searching about this exact topic all morning.

  • @Ally.Cat.252
    @Ally.Cat.252 Рік тому +1

    An unarmored Angron ripped one in half with his bare hands..