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The Carcharodons are easily one of the most feared and popular Space Marine chapters in the entirety of Warhammer 40k’s lore, and it’s easy to see why. They are an exiled space marine chapter that has lurked within the outer dark for 10,000 years acting as the Imperium of Mankind’s first line of defense against the alien, the witch, and the heretic. Also they all look like shark people with jet black eyes, pale skin and razor sharp teeth! It doesn’t get any cooler than that! On the other hand though, the chapter has a shady past and some super grim dark secrets the inquisition wouldn’t look to Fondly on… but what is this notorious chapter of seemingly loyalist Renegades all about? come with me as we dive head first into the Grim dark and learn everything there is to know about the space sharks, The Carcharodon Astra
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Time Stamps
0:00 Intro
3:44 “From The Outer Dark They Come…”
9:49 Who Are The Carcharodon Astra?
16:21 Combat Tactics and Strategies
27:36 Equipment And Psychic Abilities
30:31 Appearance, Personality and Beliefs
35:55 “The Blindness” I.E. Their Blood Rage
40:34 Religious Beliefs And Warrior Culture
43:49 Nomad Predation Fleets
50:35 The Red Tithes
1:01:10 Tyberos, The Red Wake
1:06:27 “Darkness There And Nothing More…”
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Yeah, your intros are too much…. Put the thesaurus away bro…. It just seems like you’re dragging it out… Always skip. The “meat and potatoes” of your vids are always worthwhile though. Sorry (not trying to be a d!ck).
Headcannon is that there may be a bit of nightlord heritage in there, and that Sevatar may have been a founding member. their penchant for terror tactics definitely match the nightlords MO
Yea I still dont really know if you can call the enslaving legion "good guys."
We always got to remember that there are no Good Guys in Warhammer 40,000
The Imperium is the most "palatable" of all the evils of the galaxy. No need to justify atrocities, just accept your favs are not nice people
This is my 3rd favorite Space Marine Chapter 🙂
Possible Raven Guard successor chapter?
I wonder if these guys and the ShadowKeepers would get along.
Great video , honestly liked it , the only thing I think you forgot is that in recent lore they have been seemingly brought into the fold to some degree . They were gifted the Raptors home world post Badab. I don't think they've gotten much lore since so I don't think we know what they're up to nowadays. Only reason I remembered that nugget is cuz I was deep diving myself recently as I was thinking of painting a Shark Army
They call me doctor sexy, STD.
I love your videos Wes, but it’s pronounced car-care-uh-dons. It’s an actual word based on the Greek word for shark. You did such an amazing job with this, but didn’t take the time to check the pronunciation. Like if someone made an incredibly detailed video of Chevrolets sports car, but kept pronouncing corvette as kor-vee-tay. Still, good video, still giving a thumbs up.
“In complete silence, without so much as a tasteful war cry.”
Tying this in to the previous video ranking all the war cries, I think Wes would initially give them an F, but then raise it up to a D because it adds to their creepy factor. Tho regardless, not having something along the lines of “Blood in the water!” is a definite shame.
The Space Sharks are like a sign post to me. How do I create & justify a disassociated home brew chapter that's not traitorous? Ah I got it … A Chapter made doo doo on the floor during the Great Crusade. Then autistic daddy & his daddy sent them on perma crusade.
On top of it. All of their gene flaws make sense too. I bet they took in renegades & stole gene seed.
Car
Care
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Dawn
so shark legion of the damned
Wait wtf.. I was sponsored by into the am like 5 years ago when I was in the dancing scene. Crazy that I was reminded by a random YouTube video on warhammer. Lol
They seem like a mix of kurze and sanguinius or maybe just kurze and they are the part that turned against their primearch and followed the red wake but still that wasnt enough so they were exiled made too survive on their own until they die too the great enemy but the sharks did way better then any ever could have expected also the way u talk they seem like a giant legion couse how else do u just enslave a whole planets population
Bail Shar fighting a world eater gladiator style at the ashen claws fortress is easily one of my favorite moments. Hopefully Robbie Mcniven is the writer of the third book falling Bail & khauri along with the 3rd company. The first 2 books were awesome
Car-care-uh-don. After the scientific name for white sharks.
Where they get their navigators tho?
One of the Grim-Dark aspects I think the sharky-bois are good candidates for is being the survivors of an alternate, but now extinct, time line.
Nearly every time time-travel is explored, few have the courage to engage in the concept of non-causality. Whatever version of events they came from is gone, gone for good, and now they're stuck.
For those unaware, if you look at time as merely an arrangement of matter then, you could in theory, go back in time and kill your grandfather and still exist, as you'd simply be a collection of particles located at a point in space time. If you went back to the future, you'd find a timeline where you never happened, as if transported to an alternate reality. When in truth, the timeline you came from has been 'overwritten' so to speak.
Maybe the space sharks were exiled because they fell to the ash blindness, sorta like the blood angels death company
Epic!
Kai tangata intensifies
there have always been female carcharodons 🤣
Space Sharks!!!!
your deep dives are not long man, I love listening to them, from my pov they arent long enough
That was a perfect description of my second favorite Space Marine chapter but you did leave out a few things 1 they have Mind Broken a Dark Eldar Drackon Lieutenant. 2the Space Marine of the Carcharodons are known taller and larger than most other Space Marine Chapters so Tyberos would be taller the closest someone got was around 11 feet.
They don't talk because baby shark in on repeat in the vox
I think if I was more passionate about Warhammer I'd be one of their fan boys… WesHammer deep dives is about how passionate I go, but, would love to start collecting the models again due to you Wes
You’re not even going to mention that they potentially have a fucking megalodon on their command bridge of the Nicor?????????
Alright. That’s cool
So basically Salamanders but very quiet and slightly rude
Take a drink everytime he misppronounces Carcharadon! Fun game lol
Tyberos small space sharks boring
As a very early player I see they messed up the Legion of the Damned lore
My favorite faction
*knocks on door* "Hi, I was told this was the 40k faction meeting for Gawr Gura fans."
The Carcharadons are clearly descended from Night Lords. Its so obvious, the black eyes, the pale skin, the sheer brutality of them. Chances are, they were exiled for being a successor of the Night Lords.
Vulka Fenrika = Space Wolves… Charcaradon Astra = Space Sharks… it's not really difficult logic to follow… some people like to argue just to argue, maybe they made a head canon home brew and now they are caught in their feelings… lol…
I love these videos, on the one hand Wes has thesis level research, but also includes phrases like the weight of the balls on this guy and hold my beer 😂
I dont care my head canon is that Tyberos is 15feet tall and hes one of the missing primarch
I'm convinced that it's pronounced "shark-arodons".
Just want to add that the little known Executioners chapter are the only known force to fight the Space Sharks to a standstill in hand to hand combat. They also prevailed over the Minotaurs multiple times in similar engagements. I wish we had more lore on them…
Also unlike the two "asshole" chapters, the Executioners apparently have a pretty close bond of brotherhood with the Salamanders