40K Lore - Why Female Custodes CAN'T Exist. 

Horus was right.

So they can retcon whatever they want but they can’t give us a good codex

“I WAS THERE THE DAY GW KILLED 40K”

“They’d be hot” said some guy with his hands down his pants

"Are you sure this will help us improve the lore?" "Lore?"

"Now that women can be Custodes I will start playing Warhammer 40k." -Said nobody ever.

A custodian to bleed throughout the halls of terra even when there are no hostilities. The Blood Games now make sense. It was never Alpharious it was Kesh.

As an American, this is what I think a disgruntled Italian should sound like. Subbed.

Thing is for me it's not the female custodians being part of the setting that makes this bad. It's that it's an obvious marker for how shit things will be further down the line because this wasn't made with the idea of improving the lore but made with the idea of furthering a political cause. Edit: For those of your arguing you do realize there's a much better way of adding Female Custodes? Literally just label the Sisters of Silence as Custodes and give them new units. it's so obviously not made for the sake of lore. It's made for the sake of modern-era politics.

40K are stories WITHIN a setting. The setting has rules, if you break the rules then you break the setting.

A reminder that Vanguard group and Blackrock are shareholders for GW.

Gw wants those sweet esg loans

GW doing full on Palpatine moment with "Female Custodians somehow exist"

They don't even hide the fact that they are doing this only to ruin Warhammer 40K: all this text about the woman from the codex is very stupid and impossible for the lore. It's already clear that they made her a stupid strong Mary Sue. How could she teleport the bomb to the Emperor if the shields above the Emperor's palace are always on??? Why hasn't anyone done this in 10 thousand years? Why didn't the Alpha Legion itself, which had a bunch of hidden agents on the planet during the Siege of Terra, just do this if it's so simple?

Horus: "If I can't save it from your failure, Father, then let the galaxy burn."

Just a quick look at Games workshop shareholder list and its immediately clear why this retcon happened. ESG.

Another issue with this is that the Emperor doesn't want the Custodes or Space Marines to reproduce and potentially outcompete the rest of mankind. Sure he could theoretically make them all infertile but there's still _potential_ for something to slip through the cracks. So why take the risk at all? He would only make male transhuman super soldiers to eliminate even the most remote possibility of there being even a chance at reproduction. Thus there would never be a female space marine or Custodes _ever._ The closest you'll get is the Sisters of Silence and Sisters of Battle.

So 40K is turning into Star Wars, time to get a 3d Printer.

The lore quite specifically states "first born sons of nobles" when talking about the recruitment process for custodes

Cawl is more like the smartest kid who got a "how to" note from the teacher than a genious.

It makes female custodian hentai more canonical

Doing the Bud Lite move, let us make GW feel how Bud Lite felt. Let their Galaxy BURRRNN!

When Custodes were anounced. The White Dwarf magazine had a Custodes on the cover. The title was Brotherhood of Demigods. Not Order of Demigods, not Chamber of Demigods, or even fraken Army of Demigods. BROTHERHOOD. It has always been implied that Custodes are all male.

"Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia"

I just don't like the that with this establishment that the chances of the sisters of silence are gonna get shafted even harder than they already are is so much higher

As a primarily Sisters of Battle player, I am awaiting our codex with an ever increasing dread.

We should have gatekept more. Listening to tourists instead of the people who actually enjoy the hobby is always the downfall. Happened to Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, and pretty much every major franchise that got mainstream attention.

I don't recall making a female custodian.

These types of lore-changes are never meant to make sense. Ideological subversion is the goal.

What does it add? Golden muscle mommies! lol. That's about it. I already cancelled my custodes preorders.

step 1. get 3d printer step 2. play 8th edition and never give GW another dollar. step 3. let GW kill 40k and the true fans will keep it alive an well. THE EMPEROR PRTECTS

Just wait until the tourists discover Chess and want that retconned for inclusivity. Next the Vatican will be saying "Since the beginning, there have always been female Pontiffs."

They found a breach in the wall, on the side of the fort that the gatekeepers left unguarded.

The Plague claims another franchise.

As a tau (and Dark Angels) player I can assure you that GW does not give a fuck about established lore. Especially when you have the 'good fortune' of being handled by Phil Kelly for a decade. The Gravitic Drive that enabled the entire empire to happen in the first place? Nope. Kelly says; "No FTL. Entire empire is a few lightmonths long." so now all 30+ star systems fit into the Oort Cloud. Kroot joined the empire in 956.M38 at the latest? Nope, 100 years or so, as per Kelly in Shadowsun: The Patient Hunter. Farsight is a selfish, impetuous, and xenophobic renegade that exemplified the 'dark side of the tau' and who's top acolyte, Brightsword, was responsible for the Koloth Gorge Massacre that saw him recalled to T'au to answer for his crimes? Nope, Kelly says; "Aktchually, Farsight represents the ~~best~~ in tau and he has done literally nothing wrong ever never ever." Don't even get me going on his dogshit portrayal of Ethereals as comically evil caricatures that would be too stupid to tie their own shoes if they had any feet, in stark contrast to literally every portrayal of them prior (and no they weren't always depicted as being good- rarely were they anything less than unsettling). Phil Kelly was the top narrative guy for the better part of a decade at GW, so a lot of his garbage was stuck into the codex(es) because he was the one writing them. Of course, they didn't say who wrote them anymore, but you start to recognize his handiwork. Remember War Zone Damocles? Remember how fucking stupid all of that was? Remember how, for some reason, the High Lords of Terra sent FOUR Imperial Assassins to Agrellan to go after the tau command structure? Including a Culexus assassin? Remember how they sent a CULEXUS ASSASSIN to kill a TAU ethereal? That was Kelly's work. If you're wondering why I didn't comment on Dark Angels, it's because I had the good sense to read my 4th edition Codex and then literally never touch another piece of lore outside of it. And just so no one decides this is an opportunity to respond and express your personal disdain for tau; don't. I really don't fucking care about why you don't like one of my factions. I don't talk shit about other peoples factions, and I don't clap when GW shits on your faction, so take your kvetching elsewhere.

Dude i agree with this rant. Not even a hardcore huge fan, but use simple logic. 1. The emperor made primarch 2. The emperor made thunder warrior 3. The emperor made space marines 4. The emperor made custodes. All these projects have 1 thing in common being male. Im not sexist but look at it, the emperor himself have been working on 4 seperate project(you could also say some of the project are similar), that is the XY chromosomes. Female XX and male XY are two different ball games, now why would he turn his attention on XX while he already have difficulties on XY. Would the logic be easier to increase XY from 50 to 100 per year made more sense, instead of starting and tinkering with XX. Now the emperor is basically a battery and only 1 custodies are made per year, ....... who in the right mind would put resources into something that even the emperor did not bother touching. Instead turning male to female, gw should focus more on nun with gun and sister of silences, or mayb create a whole new women army that specialises in, o i dun know mayb "healers", so basically priestess...... look not my job to be creative. Basically this is a bitch move to be inclusive for all the wrong reason, and i find it stupid that "oh look the woman play the blood games so seriously that she want to teleport a nuke into the imperium palace to show how much better she is", its basically rey palpatine all over again. The female custodies is soooooo much better and smarter than the male counter part. What moronic bullshit is that. Well there goes my rant. "Nevermore"-Primarch Corvus Corax

funny italian man this was most useful information (why do people forget about the sisters of silents

Lore matters. Female Spartans work in Halo because the earliest lore established that the augmentations to create Spartans work on both men and women, with similar failure rates. We know because of established lore that some Spartan IIs whose augments initially failed were later rehabilitated and achieved Spartan status. Halsey's research was canonically recorded by ONI, and therefore could be further studied and improved upon, with the Spartan III program reducing the failure rate at the expense of the strength of the augmentations, and the Spartan IV program improving MJOLNIR armor to compensate. Female Custodes do not work in Warhammer because the lore established that the Custodes were selected from the *sons* of noble families. Only the Emperor fully understood the process of creating a Custode in the first place, and he never really taught anyone the full process, or wrote it down, presumably to keep the process from being misused. Even if the Imperium decided to open the recruitment pool to women, they might not be able to create a viable femstode because they do not understand the process and thus cannot improve upon it. In Halo, the knowledge to create a Spartan was retained and thus could be improved upon over time, even then it took four generations of Spartans to realize what the UNSC was trying to create with the original Orion project. In Warhammer, the knowledge was lost, and the only person who fully understood how to create a Custode is in no position to teach anyone. To improve the process to work on women, you would either have to redevelop the procedure from scratch, or reverse engineer the process from a living custode, neither of which is happening in a society where the idea of improving upon the design of your immortal God Emperor is seen as heresy and blasphemy. That little bit of lore alone ensures that the genesmiths never improve upon the limited knowledge they do have, even after 10,000 years. The loss of knowledge even made creating new Custodes a slow and dangerous process. Games Workshop tried to lie that femstodes were a thing since the beginning, but the oldest 40k lore does not support this statement. This was a deliberate retcon to cater to a "modern audience" that has been repeatedly proven to not exist.

This is just as bad as grey knights killing sob and take their blood and cover their armour to stay off the deamons.

Don't bitch, don't whine, don't fret. We've done it before, we'll do it again: Vote with our wallets lads. The consumer 'always' wins.

Games Workshop broke before the fans did.

Also. If I remember correctly, the Emperor didn't make female space marines alongside males because he did not wish to make a superior version of humanity that could replace the original.

This makes a surprising amount of sense. Unfortunately all we can do now is hit them in the wallet and wait to see what happens next.

glad the Dreadnought was gone before this happened,the old warrior didn't see the imperium fall to This

The GW twitter said there have always been female space marines, ever since the first 10k. What a joke. I hate this so much.

If the custodes are not sterile, and you can make a female custodies, when does the superhuman breeding program start?

Whoever greenlighted female custodes at Games Workshop deserves the highest honor and award and the ceromany should be taken care of by Night Lords personally.

Never go full woke or you go home empty handed. Gamework shop will see how much damage they just did to there product.

Ave Pontius. Keep gatekeeping!

I'm so tired of this....these tourists need to go home.

"Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal."

I'm rejecting this and going with the idea of either. Someone didn't understand they were talking about a female janitor. Which is the funny idea. Or some scribe messed up and, for whatever reason, labeled a Sister of Silence as a Custodian and got a bunch of things wrong. Hopefully they are able to catch such a horetical scribe.

Hold the gate

It feels like there's nowhere safe left to run. They took star trek, they took star wars, they took comic books and the mcu, now they are taking warhammer. Japan, manga and anime feel like the last bastion, and even they aren't safe due to entitled English translators, who feel that they have the right to change the scripts of creative works they were hired to just translate. No where in the world feels safe and after the last stand at japan, it will all be over.

It's more simple than that and way shorter: in one of the Heresy book, Malcador suggested that Big E should have given a sister or two to the Primarch. Big E laugh, thinking it was a good joke. That summarize what the Emperor think about gene engineered Female super soldier. Plus they are created by him (the original ones) and so there can't be an heretic Custodes. Lorewise, it's not possible to have a female Custodian. End of story.

GW trying to "sell more minis" by wiping out all importance from the Sisterhoods:

I guess the female Custodes were away getting a manicure when the Imperial Palace was under seige by Horus.

we consider the true female custodes are the Sisters of Silence.

My only problem with female custodians/space marines is that they devalue the actual sister of battle/silence. Like you already have kick ass women, don’t make them less kick ass

Hold the gate my friends, the plague cannot spread

Guess I'll play Helldivers. Not one more cent to gw

GW has tweets saying they've always existed. So apparently they've just been so bad at being custodes we've just never heard of them to now. Well. Better get back to work on my own setting again.

Remember always that the cult does things like this not to gain for themselves, but solely to take from you. All the cult cares about is exercising power against others, and the cultists will gleefully tear themselves apart with a smile on their face if it means an opportunity to harm you.

If they wanted to do some DEI stuff without pissing the fanbase off they could have made new sister models...emperor knows they need it...

Henry Cavil doesn’t stand a chance at this point :( I bet this confirms they will demand these female custodians be apart of the new show.

It’s a retcon that was made so more women buy models. Also known as the squid man having a laugh.

You know, back when I was first getting into 40k, I distinctly remember reading somewhere, or maybe I heard it, regardless, I was given the impression that the creation of space marines is something women don't possess the biological fortitude to survive the augmentation process. That's just for space marines. The custodians would've been something else entirely.

the fact that on the Adeptus custodian wiki page the first thing you see is a quote by the emperor saying "These men are my bodyguards, their lives forfeit to the guarantee of my physical safety. Of their loyalty to me there shall be no question nor doubt. I, and I alone, shall have the authority to stand in judgement over them. No other commander shall they have in battle nor in service. None shall bar them from me and none shall hamper or stall their mission. So it is decreed!" - Ancient declaration made by the Emperor of Mankind during the Age of Strife" should be proof enough that custodians are man.

40K is already dead and GW killed it. This is them just continuing to violate the corpse.

I commented on something before about perhaps the gene crafting procedure was so thorough that it would work on male or female but result in the same end product. I had not considered the necessity of standard PURE human breeding to continue the base population pool growth to continue having Custodians. Let along the ramifications this would have on the rest of the settings. Thank you, Danny, for correcting my ignorance.

man i wish i had a 3d printer company right now the sales would be crazy

All hail to Danny Fortuna, the chosen one, the primarch of the Adeptus pastartes. Great video, straight to the facts and points.

“And if I cannot save it from you failure Games Workshop, then let the franchise BURN!!!”

That is the most logical argument I have heard on this whole debacle. Well said, sir.

i think i found a new fav youtuber please be more active

The misters of battle are real now

Not everything has to be relevant, progressive, and modernized with representation. But they aren't ready for that conversation. I remember when Dorn was just a General and the space marines all had buzz cuts. They were also considered warrior monks. Leman Russ had black hair worn in a short pony tail and him and the Lion wore the same power armor as the Marines did. These Ret cons are like the East Palestine train crash. Out of control and the damage can't be undone. They have all female armies. Leave it at that!

Once convergence begins, you can consider the company dead. GW is a walking corpse, and the skinsuit is rotting at an ever-accelerating rate.

Love your work danny keep it up bro

A lot of tourist in the comments lol

This is clearly an underpaid activist writer putting stuff in the codex that nobody quality-controlled. This is just another example of GW hiring terrible writers and making a terrible codex. It's the most shoddily crafted codex they've made in tenth-worse than Admech and Dark Angels.

"Forget the promise of progress and understanding for in the grim darkness of the far future there is only war!"

Next from GW: "Horus actually always had lustrous hair"

Can’t comment on Facebook been banned for gatekeeping but I won’t be buying any longer,no books,no minis or even a single pot of paint Already emailed GW customer service to tell them how it is and reasons why.

This demoralized me so fucking much, god fucking dammit. I mean, we just want our universe to stay as it is. Why are they forcing their fetiches upon us ? This is so disheartening. I could feel your anger in your voice in that video, and man do I understand you. Jesus Christ...

Blackrock's panderstone is shining bright

JUST GIVE US MORE SOS LORE

Its easy to see that there is some "untapped audience" pitch from some random industry consultant pushing the management for this. There is a beleif that every human will buy your product if you appeal to them just right. They do not take into account that the GW customer is a fuccing unicorn because: The GW customer is interested in fantasy Has interest in DIY fantasy Has the skill and drive to assemble a tiny plastic army Has the patience to learn advanced skills in painting Has the capacity to collect and store a wide array of expensive craft materials Has the intelligence to interperet and apply advanced gaming rules and guidelines and most importantly the FIERY PASSION TO SACRIFICE EVERY DOLLAR ON THE ALTAR OF PLASTIC CRACK There will never be a large "mainstream" appeal and chasing it is insane

i wonder how many 40k channels will make videos about how good and resonable the female custodians are for positive points

I am glad someone put it so distinctly. Also just subed to the golden shake

Apparently, it's not GW but Gaymazon trying to force it upon them so that Henri Caville will be forced pre-emptively to have a girlboss in the Warhammer series. Now, to answer your question, while I do not want female Custodes, I do not mind a few female CUSTOS (SINGULAR NOMINATIVE, COMPLY BY KEEP USING IT), because they, the CUSTODES (PLURAL) could have been created during the Great Crusade by the Emperor, presumably for female tasks like diplomacy. You guys don't know, but in the army, female soldiers will always have superior, nigh magical ability to gain the trust of civilians, which male soldiers will never be able to do, even if she is being puppeted by male officers. Would you rather trust Mortarion, Pert or Angron to get a planet to compliant diplomatically, or a vitruvian wahman ? And there are noble bloodlines that the Emperor could have want extinct, such as those of the ennemy techno-barbarian warlords of Terra, which is why he recruited their sons, long before their was a solidified concept of Imperial Nobility. And so, there are bloodlines that the High Lords could want extinct, but find wasteful to kill as they were still terran nobles with millennia old history... such as the Vandire family. What'd this bring in the setting ? Taking what I explained into account, dick moves that further flesh out the Emprah's character.

I cn say I was there when 40K died. It was awful.. We cried from rooftops and from the streets. We howled and raged at the sky. Why? Why did you kill it? For those who will never biy one single model? One pot of paint? Go against ALL logic about sustainability? To appease some bli haired crybaby that jas no skin in the game. Pathetic, but they killed you. The Golden calf was slain. The ability to truly print money, gone. I hope you will be happy, but somehow I doubt it.

It was so hard to find your channel, but here i am. i love your brand of salt, it feels like you actually care about the hobby.

Horus tried to warn us.

Misters of battle xD Now there is some heresy for you

3 days for a new video. I like this new upload schedule.

Next up - Male Sisters of Battle

I think I will start a Chaos army chapter deticated to the erasure of retconning bullshit... I'll be doing it with a 3D printer.

Slannesh and Tzeentch Tag teaming to remove the Golden Menace to their game, Just as planned :p

5:30 big E still talks to people and has only gotten more talkative as time has gone on with the warp stroms allowing him to extend his fractured mind to people.