Perturabo, The Most Human Primarch | Warhammer 40k Lore | Uncle Sam

the primarchs are interesting characters for a lot of reasons but my favorite one out of all of them would have to be Perabo and if I had to come up with one word to encapsulate him in his entirety that word would be spite Perabo is almost entirely fueled by Spite and angst and more than just that this is a whiny stubborn self-righteous Manchild who due to no fault of his own was never once listened to or had the skills to properly articulate his wants and needs from others without resorting to extreme acts of violence is many things but he's most of all human in a truly tragic character who never once got his due from either the Emperor or his brother primar and unlike the other primarch that really struggle like lorgar mortarion or even Magnus the difference between Perabo and them is those three complained he didn't he had a sheer strength of character and determination that just didn't exist even amongst most of the primar and this sheer grinding will combined with his character Arc is why I love him so much babo landed on the planet of Olympia and unlike all of the other primarch he instinctively knew his name was Perabo showing in like his brothers he had a better instinctive grasp on who he was than anybody else after some alling about he was found by dakos leader of the city state Locos on the planet and adopted Pavo as his son you see olymbia was very much so a Greco Roman derived planet with the lack of a centralized planetary government leading to many wars between the various city states on the planet and perso due to the fact that he was a primarch became damic cos's personal lap dog sent to fight various governments and Warlords to expand their territory along with being shown to various Lords and Ladies on the planet because of how impressive Perabo was look how cool Perabo was look at this he can build this cool thing isn't it great Perabo hated this with an unbridled passion because Perabo doesn't like being shown off and hates War he was not inspired by conflict but by creation he would rather sit in his room all day with schematics and blueprints creating house project or revitalizing the city infrastructure and fight a needless War for his adoptive father but something important to note is that dakos genuinely loved and appreciated Perabo he did not see him as a tool but has his actual son and he wasn't just showing off his skills because it made him look good which often did as a side effect but because of the fact that he was proud of him not just for his capabilities but who he was and Perabo never returned to this kindness because he thought his father viewed him as little more than a tool and honestly I don't blame him for having that impression his Perabo is incredibly smart he is a glorified Savant he had an identic memory he could learned things instantly he was incredibly proactive and intelligent but he thought his skills were valued not who he was as a person and the only person he thought actually valued him as a person was a stepsister cfany who he had quite a close relationship with and often acted as a grounding Force for him but despite all of these positive influences and good things that were trying to approach him he would reject them and proceed to act out violently in an incredibly insolent manner going as far as to go on Rants and ravings attacking and berating anyone and everyone that he disagreed with especially the religious order of the the planet in an r/ atheism level rantings that would make orarion blush because in his mind if he couldn't see it it wasn't real which is kind of funny because he would perpetually be able to see the eye of Terror just out of the corner of his eye no matter where he was in the Galaxy just staring him in the face which is something he told next to no one so I guess Gods aren't real to him but demon wormholes those seem perfectly fine this insufferable and insolent mindset would eventually quiet down into a bitter angry silent spite that would basically be the staple of his character going forward and after the Emperor of mankind made his presence known his ideas about him having a higher purpose and there being no gods were immediately validated and submitted to the emperor immediately doing whatever he thought his true father would want him to do but after meeting his Legion the iron Warriors and seeing their somewhat lackluster record he proceeded to punish them in an extremely brutal fashion but doing something called decimation what is decimation well basically he had the legion break into groups of 10 each guy in that group pretend would draw straws the guy with the shortest straw would get beaten to death by the other nine this would give him this reputation of being an incredibly Cutthroat and brutal individual putting him at odds with most of his brother primarch outside of fulgrim Horus and Ferris Manis but it gets worse for him as the emperor would constantly stick him with odd jobs that no one else wanted putting him right back into the place he was on Olympia but instead of throwing temper tantrums he would just grind his teeth shut up and do everything in his power to win even pulling victories out of thin air that should not happened he received no accolades not a thank you not a good job just an expectation of perfection and criticism everywhere else even if he did the exact thing he was told to do he would still get [ __ ] for it but there was another Primark who is incredibly similar to Perabo who did not get this treatment that being rogal Dorne Primark of the Imperial fists and a particular sore spot for Perabo as he would become incredibly jealous of Dorn's accomplishments especially considering the fact that they would complete very similar tasks and one of them would get praised for it and the other would not but the main reason why Doran saw far more success is while both were incredibly stubborn bricks Doran was easier to work with half the time and wasn't constantly trying to justify his own existence but the final nail on the coffin for per chabo's relationship with rogal Dorn was when Dorne got the job to build the Imperial Palace a Pabo and the iron Warriors got sent to fight the herud a Xeno species so overpowered that they can control time and age things instantly and this fight would be so bad that it would almost completely sour per Robos view of the emperor entirely and by this point Perabo was beyond pissed but he got even more mad when he realized that Olympia began rebelling against the Imperium and after failed negotiations he began personally assaulting the planet with his Legion the climax of this event Revol in him having a verbal spat with his steps sister who after seeing what her step brother had become decried him calling him weak on the inside and saying everything that he has ever said to himself 3 Ines from the mirror enraged he killed the sister and ordered what can be described as little more than a door too exterminatus with Millions dying on the planet the rest of the population being used as slaves this would be the point of no return for him as his senseless act of violence gave him a sense of clarity that he never had he is fearful of censure from the emperor rightfully so because of Conrad K's couldn't get away from this crap neither could he and even though his Legion followed his orders they were highly disturbed by the actions of themselves and their Primark resulting in Perabo crying like genuinely crying not like like sexy crying with one one TI like no he actually genuinely cried and he realized deep down that his sister was right but in his mind he could never come back from what he did and would have to accept his fate regardless of how he felt about it and that is when Horus swooped in and took advantage of the situation because by this point Horus had been corrupted by chaos it was beginning to sew the web of the traitor allegion that he needed for his coming war and given how effective the iron Warriors had been through most of the great Crusade the iron warriors were a pretty good option in horus's mind and seeing per robo's emotional vulnerability decided to manipulate him by giving him the one thing he had never gotten appreciation he said that he did a good job that what he did was tough and took guts but by golly he did a good job doing that door to door exterminatus business and this would put him directly in horus's pocket and combined with his resentment towards the emperor he was perfectly fine with rallying to his side when the heresy would begin during the lead up to the dropside massacre he would Swindle some Siege weapons from Lionel Johnson something Lionel Johnson would sorely regret as Baba was the one responsible for planning major parts of the dropsite massacre along with the iron Warriors artillery being the main reason why the Salam man were completely annihilated and sat out most of the heresy and that's the thing about the Horus heresy ber Robo potentially more than anyone else on the traitor side really carried the war hard and by the time the siege of Terror rolled around he was basically the only one left who had any sense of what was actually going on and honestly the heresy was kind of good for him it allowed him to grow and mature as a person and realized a lot of things that he wasn't able to when he was under the emperor's thumb But continuing forward fulgrim approached Pavo and said hey there's this thing called the angel exterminatus we should go get it which in reality it was little more than a ruse to allow fulgrim to ascend to being the snake demon that he is today and honestly he was kind of an ass about this the entire time because he's FM and that's what he does but there's one particular moment that I need to mention you see Perabo liked modeling his battle plans with basically Miniatures like 40K Miniatures he had a massive table setup of like a battle plan with models and such and such of units in his army which is honestly kind of funny to me and he beckons fulgrim over to look at his battle plan after a battle occurred where the Emperor's Children who by this point were completely lost in their sauce and were uncontrollable abandoned the battle plan that they had planned and this resulted in the deaths and failure of a push per Chaba wanted to make and to teach fulgrim a lesson he proceeded to smash fulgrim's face into a giant Titan miniature breaking several of his teeth and basically saying you suck your legion sucks you're an [ __ ] and I am taking over this because you can't do anything right got it fulgrim after his face pummeling naturally agrees but after he tricks Perabo and becomes a demon just like I said before this would result in Pabo losing his health because in the process of becoming a demon Primark fulgrim sold Pabo Soul not only meaning that Perabo lost his last actual friend he was truly alone and very very mad and while the two were fighting the salamander Raven guard and iron hand showed up with the conflict ending with an extremely bitter and wounded Perabo contemplating his potential mortality for the first time trying to find a way not to die with little success and after all of these events the war is starting to come to a close as the iron Warriors and the other Trader Legions begin their massive push towards terara and Baba would be vital during these events but just in a capacity that he didn't like because instead of leading the push like he should have been he was left to fortify certain areas to defend against the ultramarines potential arrival which would begin the trend of Perabo being screwed over by Horus now with him getting constantly sidelined for everyone else resulting in him getting even more pissed off than he already was he also didn't like that the other Legions were relying heavily on chaos corruption and considering the fact that he thinks for all religion is cringe he saw anyone giving themselves over to the ruinous Powers is little more than just a useful [ __ ] and this included Horus who by this point was little more than a pawn for all four chaos Gods by the time the siege ended but due to the fact that he was basically just dying of old age as a Primark something that should have been impossible he was strongly considering giving himself over to one of the gods or all four in an effort to save his life something he was very disturbed he was considering but felt like it was his only option because because he didn't want to die but the final straw for The Siege came when Horus gave mortarion command of his position at The Siege he just told him to do whatever and Pabo said [ __ ] it I've had enough of you would blow several holes in the Imperial Palace and abandon The Siege realizing it was a lost cause and after he left the entire Traer offensive on terara completely collapsed resulting in the siege of terara being lost and this was the first real moment where Perabo had any legs to stand on and his character AR from going from a needy man baby to a self-actualized spiteful brute was complete because of this action but we're not done because rogal Dorn is still up and kicking if there one thing Perabo isn't above it's giving rogal dogly a good [ __ ] kicking Hero set up a fortress on the planet of sasas 4 invaded rogal Dorn in the entire Imperial fist Legion to come attack it this would be an obvious trap with 75% of the entire Imperial fist Legion being lost during the battle and honestly rogal would have died along with the rust of the Imperial fist if it wasn't for Gillman and the ultramarine showing up pushing back the iron War but not before the iron Warriors sacrificed 400 Imperial fist Gene seed to chaos allowing Perabo to ascend to a demon Prince saving his life although in a way I am certainly sure he did not like it all and we haven't seen him since I mean he's apparently ping around with Vash to the arane and loading soldiers in weapons to abidon but Pat that he's just been absent the last 10,000 years and I hope that he comes back in some capacity because I really want to see what he does but Perabo out of every Warhammer character that I've read has my favorite favorite character Arc which says something since Warhammer has some incredibly well- written and fleshed Out characters but Perabo is human in all aspects he reacts like a person in his situation would someone who is raised and only valued for their talents in their mind won't grow up to be a pleasant person but a bitter person driven by self-imposed servitude and Spite and I relate a lot to Perabo not in all aspects but enough to where I can really feel for the guy he just wanted nothing more than a thank you not praise not accolades just but appreciation during his confrontation with sister she states that he's a hypocrite and was so unaware of his surroundings that he spent so much time in his head spinning that he didn't consider his actions had any sort of consequences she called him badly forged iron stating that he had sulked his way to power practiced indifference in place of modesty and awareness and was totally unwilling to accept any sort of responsibility as he would say that it wasn't his fault that he did what he did kurs was totally worse but that doesn't excuse the fact that he still decimated his entire Legion the first time he met them he is just as guilty and is a complete hypocrite and he knows this he completely knows this and what's even worse is the fact that when given actual love he dismissed it because they weren't like him it's cuz they quote never understood him when in reality they did understand him it was his brothers who didn't understand him it was his own father who didn't understand him but the one person that did was his stepdad who turned out to be a pretty decent guy all arounds which makes it even more tragic because in reality babo is no one to blame but himself he spent so much time crying out in the dark while blinded by his own self-imposed superiority that it made it impossible for him to relate to anyone else even if he tried and even worse is that he was valued and honestly when the emperor would give him jobs it was because the emperor trusted him because he was really the only one qualified to do them except he just proceeded to try to do them in the hardest way possible not one once did he consider any sort of flexibility or adaptivity just throwing men into the meat grinder Space Marines Guardsmen doesn't matter and that only hurt his Legion and his reputation his pride rented him from doing anything of substance where others like Gillman and Dorne while incredibly stubborn aren't pridefully stupid even fulgrim and his massive ego aren't that naive in essence Perabo is someone screaming from the Shadows brooding and crying for attention while never giving any indication that he wants it blaming everyone else for his problems without realizing the greatest less in life is to realize you can only fix things for you and nobody else will care if you don't speak up and communicate he didn't need to be a hammer you didn't have to do any of the things he did during the Crusade get recognition because he never seemed like he wanted it in the first place he is just as much to blame for his issues as anyone else and that is why I love him I love him because he falls he fails he starts at the bottom and then achieves a sense of identity when out out his Zone and when finally fa with his own mortality because of fulgrim's actions he fully comes into his own and becomes a three-dimensional character thank you all very much for watching and if you would like to learn a little more about Perabo and I have a few reading recommendations Angel extor manatus was per robo's first real character driven novel it was honestly quite good Perabo the hammer of Olympia is one of the Primark books and it's honestly really quite good slaves to Darkness is also really really good and almost all of the siege of Teran novels have him show up somewhere but the two I'd recommend are the First wall and mortise thank you very much for watching I really hope you enjoyed the video if you'd like to support the Channel please consider becoming a member and thank you very much for the YouTube channel members your support means the world to me thank you all very much for watching have a great [Music] night

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Published: Wed Mar 06 2024