THE HIGH LORDS OF TERRA BETRAY GUILLIMAN?

hey everyone wolf lord rowe here first off happy thanksgiving to all my friends across the pond i know things aren't exactly normal this year with the coronavirus and the lockdowns but i hope you all managed to have a great time with your loved ones and secondly wherever you are in the world i hope this video gives you a small break from the stresses we are all going through but without further ado today we discuss something i've been meaning to get around to for a long time as we discuss rebutta gilliman and the high lords of terror oh yes this is going to be a good one spoiler warning to begin the events we are discussing today are from the warhammer 40k novel watchers of the throne the emperor's legion by chris wrait as always i really recommend you read the story for yourself first as that's the best way to enjoy the law for yourself not only that we help to support the great games workshop and black library because without them we don't have this amazing law to talk about as always i'll put a link in the description but with that said let's just jump straight in so as we know the avenging sun the returned primark returned to life at what was undoubtedly the most pivotal moment in the imperium's history since the days of the siege of terror itself some ten thousand years ago but in truth the unrest and darkness had been gathering momentum long before and the petitions and the calls for aid to terror had been growing at an alarming rate year after year the high lords had been debating which war zones deserved more men thrown into the meat grinder which could hold out longer alone themselves and just which war zones were already lost and no war zone was more often discussed than the world of cadia with every report that came back from this far-flung world the situation only grew more bleak over the last 200 years the high lords had devoted an ever increasing amount of time to that one world regiments had been thrown into the void to bolster it space marine chapters had been petitioned to reinforce its approaches armor rights and strategios had been seconded to augment its walls and its fortresses there were other battle zones of import armageddon badab in which we were stretched but in truth none of them mattered besides cadia for if that world fell then the balance of power we had cultivated for ten thousand years would be ended at a stroke these were the words of lev tehran chancellor of the imperial council essentially the man responsible for overseeing the meetings of the high lords and though not one of the high lords himself it was he and he alone that seemingly realized just how grave the state of cadia had become and he took the very real risk to his own personal safety at secretly trying to broker the impasse between the high lord's vote on the dissolution of the edict of restraint the law that kept the adeptus custodies bound to terror the golden legion the ten thousand the watchers of the throne the greatest and most lethal fighting force in the imperium's arsenal now more than ever the emperor's legion were needed amongst the stars once more not chained and bound to the depths of the imperial palace if any could turn the tide it would be them and when i say tehran took the risk that's no small understatement for politics on terror is more dangerous than any battlefield any of the high lords could have him removed in the blink of an eye let alone fedex the grand master of assassins whose deciding vote could break the deadlock and change the fate of the entire imperium being the difference between its continued survival or possible doom now i've raved about the amazing job chris wraith did in the emperor's legion before but tyron is the perfect example of this he's such a brilliantly crafted character he's one of the most influential men in all of the imperium who could happily live what's left of his life in oblivious luxury but he cares this old man shielded from the horrors of war oblivious to the struggles of the simple citizens of the imperium and not once does he come across as unbelievable this simple aged old man denied an audience with trajan velores captain general of the adeptus custodies goes to the length of setting up intruders into the palace to draw out the captain general and despite being utterly terrified by the master of the custodies at war he still finds the resolve to plead with him beseeching veloris to attend the high lord's next meeting to cast his vote and for his fortitude he succeeds and veloris does attend but it was this meeting of the high lords that was to be fateful for as the final vote was about to be cast once more declining to unleash the custodies amongst the stars despite everything tehran had tried the doors to the chamber flung open and the confides of the high lord sparked into erratic life because it was all too late cadia had fallen the chaos no pun intended that ensued across the imperium was total the forces of the ruinous powers run rampant across system after system world after world with the astronomican abruptly failing even the very soil of terror began to give rise to cults and worshipers of evil as the grey sky turned to a sickly red now i want to discuss the failure of the astronomican another day but there's a really great description from the custodian valerian about the astronomican about how it's so much more than just a beacon it's a symbol for the emperor himself that he still lives i mean just imagine it having an actual physical symbol that your god is still alive and not just alive fighting for your very survival and then to just have that fail to be taken away can you imagine the sheer panic and terror that this would cause across the imperium even for the basic person the non-psycho though they can't see the astronomican they can feel it like a comforting security blanket across the imperium's shoulders bolstering your heart and your spirit and this had been abruptly pulled away and it was during this time of darkness that a legend of the past returned with readings of power spiked off the scale coming from luna adeptus astati's ships and even custodies began to take flight from terror towards its moon tyron finally having enough travelled to luna himself to see what latest malady had come their way stumbling over the uneven ground as he crested the rise before him his view fell upon the crater at least 20 kilometers across an ended battlefield filled with wreckages and slain but most importantly living too thousands upon thousands of them adeptus astartes chapter heraldries from across the imperium from black templars to nova marines forces of adeptus mechanicus and even a living breathing saint celestine and there's just a great little line of the custodies custodians taller than all others could be spied amongst the vast host surrounded by the highest heaps of broken corpses what a line you just don't mess with the custodies late to the battle and still racking up the kill count they're just a level above and it's lines like this that just compound the sin of the high lords all the more for not releasing the emperor's legion but amidst the survivors and corpses of ally and foe alike at the center of this vast crater something dominates tyron's attention i never thought it would happen i did not believe it possible i thought the masses were ignorant and weak and that our salvation would come only from those powers we still retained not the legends of a half-remembered past alone of all those assembled there he noticed me limping amid the giants he looked past the custodians who stood there their spears streaked with blood he looked past the captains of the space marines and the grotesque lords of mars and fixed me with cold blue eyes i could feel my heart racing out of control the whole place was like an intoxicated dream a phantasm sent to drain the last sanity from our tortured bodies and yet i could not deny its reality when he spoke the voice was accented strangely almost unintelligibly the voice of another age despite my attire he knew instantly who i was from the sigils of office on my environment suit and was careful to address me with the utmost precision cancellarius sanatorium imperialis he said it was only then that any of the others turned towards me there was a shield captain close by in burnished gold one i should perhaps have recognized but by then it was a challenge merely to remain conscious i fell to my knees the lord gilman i said using both the given name and the ceremonial one speak for the high lords he asked i nodded i could hardly bear to look into that face there was something both beautific and horrific about it an abundance of power that was almost obscene he was of another age he was a myth that had died he took a single step towards me extending a vast gauntlet chased in gold and cobalt then it is good you are here chancellor robute gilman said i have been away a long time perhaps if your offices still extend to such things you would be good enough to show me to your masters and just like that the true power base of the imperium changed man what a passage so simple yet so much to unpack legends of half remembered past how true this is it's so often overlooked but the heresy was ten thousand years ago ten thousand i mean just how we refer to say the roman empire it's a history so long ago that what isn't dug from the ground is left to nothing but speculation and myth and that was only two thousand years ago let alone say ramesses the great of ancient egypt nyon 3000 years ago how much these characters from our very real history are left to so much of speculation and legend yet here gilman and the rest of his brother primarks were 10 000 years ago that's an incomprehensible distance this is a true figure of legend standing before tehran and it's no wonder of his reaction even for a man as important as him and then the small details his voice having a strange accent and being almost impossible to understand again there's been ten thousand years for the language to evolve or de-evolve as may be the case and it's these small details that just make stories like these all the more real really making these moments feel like they are truly alive and the final line i have been away for a long time perhaps if your offices still extend to such things you would be good enough to show me to your masters oh snap self-indulgent playtime's over high lords the lord commander is back and he is not happy but after returning to terror and seeing for himself just what had become of the from world the palace was almost immediately assailed by the forces of corn as the blood god unleashed his demons against the lion gate in what in truth was truly a futile effort despite being a great battle indeed and many heroes being slain the forces of chaos never remotely came near the eternity gate with gilman tossing a bloodthirster from the very battlements of the walls and the combined force of custodies sisters of silence and grey knights simply being too much for even corns legions to handle after the battle however the high lord's fate became the focus and as gilman entered the throne room to speak with his father the high lords already began to scheme hematalian master of the administratum chief amongst them calling tyron to a private meeting he begins with vague comments and references of disturbing rumors before out and out saying it the primark is a problem and when tyron remarks he is the lord commander hematalian merely replies he was the lord commander and there are others among the council that feel this way too though he's careful not to share any names the primark will take their power even claiming gilman entering the throne room is temerity itself for none of them have ever dared to do it it's a classic example of being corrupted by power they have a demigod returned before them the best hope the imperium has had for salvation since the last primark disappeared and all they can do is worry about their own power the council must remain strong he repeated while the lord gilman remains within the sanctum we have our chance to act i have already agreed with periph to forbid all fleet movements off world arcs has instructed those close to her to cordon off the sights on luna and begin to limit the fallout from the lion's gate encounter we can have a million more troops here within days if the orbital defenses are now deemed overmanned they all owe their allegiance to us the titans are within raskian's purview as are the skittari manipules in system and he's with us i could hardly believe what i was hearing we had been reduced to this it seemed squabbling over the conduits of power even as the throne world disintegrated into starvation and lawlessness with respect lord i do not think this is the time to this is the only time we will ever have he is a primark you know your forbidden history they were fratricidal lunatics prepared to tear the entire galaxy apart to pursue their feuds we designed the lex he designed the lex precisely to stop them doing it ever again he cannot take control and so the seeds of treachery are sown amongst the high lords gilman barely just returned already having to have fought to defend the from world and now seeking to see his father is already being betrayed by the imperium he loves and it's surprising just how close to civil war the whole debacle came a high lord of terror actually discussing how many troops he had under control how quickly they could be brought to the surface of terror it's almost unbelievable but i guess is there any better representation of the imperium as it's become what of the fates of the high lords well now that's a discussion for another day but as always guys what do you think are you surprised at the treachery of the high lords of terror that some of them truly conspired to prevent gilman from reassuming his role as lord commander that they truly believed themselves above him to be better positioned to rule in the emperor's name and just what do you think was going through giliman's mind as he set eyes upon the from world for the first time in 10 000 years as always leave your thoughts in the comments below i love to read them huge thank you to all my subscribers your support truly means a lot to me it really does and if you're new please consider subscribing to help the channel grow and if you enjoyed this particular vid then why not drop a like on it too but with that said i am off and i'll see you all again real soon you

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Keywords: roboute guilliman, high lords of terra, warhammer 40k, games workshop, primarch, horus heresy, khorne, chaos 40k, space marines, custodes, emperor of mankind

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Length: 21min 26sec (1286 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 26 2020