The Word Bearers were one of the few Legions with a specific task at the start of the Great crusade, but as they came to know their Primarch, they turned from this path and instigated the Horus Heresy
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Another great episode. Really enjoying this series.
Loving these videos you are making! Would be really cool eventually if you do these kind of videos but also for each Primarch.
It's sad that instead of Big E taking the sons that needed his tutelage most like Curze, Lorgar, Magnus, Pertarabo~ I'll exclude motarion and Angron cause they have personal vendettas with him that is hard to put aside. Had Big E thought out how unstable they could become and so giving them abit more time to understand him as well as him understand them~ but truly he did see them more as tools than as sons. He played favorites to Horus, Dorn, and Lion. At Nikea he didn't notice the taint of chaos on Magnus? Fulgrim?, Lorgar? the fuck…
At some points Big E is written to be this 400IQ master planner that can get almost nothing wrong. Then at other times he makes the most obvious and dumb mistakes, maybe because he is looking so much at the bigger picture he misses the small anthills- w/e the reason sometimes the Horus heresy is abit silly.
Revenging will never not sound like a fake word lol.
The Imperial Truth really is just a lie, and that's the point of Lorgar and the Word Bearers. They'd rather accept the terrible truth – God is real and he hates you, than live in a lie of secular rationality in an insane universe. The First Heretic really nails this and turned the Word Bearers from a "huh, okay I guess" legion into my favourite Chaos Legion overnight. They've actually got a good, non-petty reason to turn to Chaos unlike many of the other traitors – they believe in truth, and they're idealists. Finding out that the Imperial Truth was a lie, and that their ideals were futile madness, they turned to accept that truth despite it's terrible nature.
I think it's a really cool idea, and given that Marines are kinda developmentally stunted, it makes sense that they'd be so black and white about it. Adolescents will often want to take a side very strongly and do not like ambiguity, and I see shades of that in the Word Bearers response to what they learned.
I love this videos and think it would be great to see on the overall themes throughout the Horus Heresy – hubris seems to be a common one for the Primarchs!
Around 10:00 : this makes it sound like Lorgar needed something to worship, or that Lorgar actually worshipped them.
Instead a more accurate description would be that Lorgar found the truth of how their universe worked. Lorgar doesn't worship the gods, more that he accepted them as en intrinsic part of the universe and knows which rituals gives what results.
If Lorgar is dedicated to anything is giving humanity a future free from the stagnation of the Emperor (which would end in the same way the eldar empire ended). A future where humanity lives in symbiosis with the Warp.
Hopefully Lorgar gets eaten by a Crow or something, idk.
The Emperor needs a good slap… To the face.
He was a self-absorbed numpty and a total hypocrite.
What were the other legions created with a specific purpose in mind? All I can think of is the War hounds
should have order 66´d them right there
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The First Heretic was a great book! Also enjoyed Betrayer. What book covers Lorgar's attempted coup and subsequent exile? I'm not that far in the series yet and I'm at the point where I'm skipping some of them, but I want to make sure I read that one.
You think of lorgar planned the whole worshipping the emperor differently and spread his ideas amongst the lower dregs of imperial society. You'd think he'd be able to establish himself in a place where such belief can be if not accepted then at least tolerated.
Another informative vid, good stuff 👍
Tragically ironic how it ended up wasn't it lol.
Gotta say I was really surprised to learnthat thier story begins in the unification wars on terra.
I love that you use Black Rainbows as your end song clip, I look forward to it on all your videos and your condensed informational style on the lore. luetin's great, if you have the time. Major Kill's good for a some cheeky fun, Baldemort's amazing for the imagined paths one can explore outside the cannon. You are Leutin if he didn't get lost in the lore but with that silky smooth British accent. But concise, to the point, with a a tinge of humor that's just the right amount. A cooked to perfection dish of information.
I've read many books on the 40k, but the Word Bearers' story just seemed to stick with me. My personal favourite legion. They end being one of the most influential legions in the 40k universe.
I’ve always seen the dark gods as much more preferable to the emperor, Lorgar is a winner in my eyes.
Fantastic video. I love that you are making this well detailed and concise with fantastic pacing. The pre-heresy information is fascinating because I know so little of the era. Looking forward to the next video. Keep up the good work.
Great Stuff
Thank you .
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Looking forward to the Raven Guard video! I play then in 40k but I always found their lore a bit bland, so maybe I can get a new perspective on it.
I’ve been watching your channel from its beginning and I have to say as someone who plays 40K but knows nothing of the lore you are absolutely the best at articulating how complicated it all is. You’re doing the Emperor’s work.