FABIUS BILE: GODS ARE FOR THE WEAK. I AM NOT WEAK. | Warhammer 40k Lore 

“Win or lose, the gods feast on our deeds. A man pets a stray, and his small pleasure in the act of kindness feeds Slaanesh. A woman strikes her crying child and that awful moment of elation she feels feeds Khorne. A Munitorum drone considers suicide. Nurgle grows fat on his despair. A merciful strategist devises a plan for bloodless victory, and Tzeentch is content. The Word Bearers think the gods crave worship. But the gods care for nothing save filling their bellies with our sorrows. Intentionally or not, we are all meat for the beast. Even you.”

Fabius Bile. The only Chad in 40k Chad enough to look Slaanesh in the face and go: “Nuh-uh.”

“Ok, we need to talk about this shit your doing, Bob. It getting out of hand.” -Lucius the Eternal When Lucius is being the sane and rational one, a line has been crossed.

Listening to Fabius and Cawl talking to each other is one of the most surreal yet oddly humorous things you could hear in the 40k setting

Bricky: "you are referring to *Fabulous* Bile" DK: "AH, *FABIUS* BILE!" Notice how DK DIDN'T fall for the trap and did indeed say his name right when Bricky baited him. DK truly did know his name

Bile is one of the beings who can actually make demons afraid. Let’s that sink in. *HE. MAKES. DEMONS. AFRAID!*

Fabulous bill is the epitomy of "fuck you your cringe" then whenever someone else pipes up like "YEAH GET OWNED GOOD SHIT BRO" then he just looks at them and says "when the fuck did i say i was on your side? Your cringe too"

Yes! Fabius Bile is a personal favorite of mine but his books were my first introduction to the wonderful universe of warhammer so I might be biased. Not really though because he set a pretty high bar. He also attracts some interesting characters like a female in chaos space marine armor or a world eater that uses meditation (and drugs) to control the butchers nails. Also, he was in Flight of the Eisenstein because he was the one that saved Nathaniel Garro after he encountered a Slaneesh war singer

The real story with the Fulgrim clone is a lot more complicated and emotional than you break it down to be. You really should read the trilogy, it makes you sympathize with Fabius. And it has a World Eater who is a professor who likes gardening

I believe the slaanesh marine with the slave twins was in the short story 'The Masters Bid' (idk if that's the exact name), and iirc one of them was blind and one of them was deaf, so they couldn't communicate with each other. I seem to remember the marine getting super pissed off when the twins died, because they died hugging eachother and he hated that they should feel any happiness.

Would love a Fabius Bile bookclub.

God i need an episode of Ahriman… hes my fave and i need itttt.

Huge shout out to burialgoods, dude does pretty sick covers.

I can’t believe I’ve been listening to you guys for a year by now!! Im so glad to have been listening to you guys for so long, and I have listened to the same episodes over and over again! Thank you, for making the amazing content you do!

The irony that the gene flaw being cancer when the chapter homeworld is chemo

After this we absolutely need AdRic to do a book club on the Fabius Bile trilogy, some of BL's best writing and a constant reminder of how much of a shame it was that they alienated Josh Reynolds, that man got Fabius and the Emperor's Children like nobody else. So many of the iconic moments explained here (Meeting Trazyn, the Perfect Fulgrim Clone, his time in Commorragh, meeting 'Slaanesh') are portrayed so amazingly. Plus the supporting cast is excellent; from the other member's of Bile's Consortium (Arrian Zorzi, Skalagrim, Saqqura) to the 12th Millennial (Savona my queeeeen) and the New Men. Daemon Fulgrim and the current day 3rd Legion also has an excellent appearance.

You guys should do the Fabius Bile book club! It's soooo good.

My favorite Fabius Bile moment is this one throw-away moment in a book I can't remember the name of where he's like on a ship and they've decorated a room or something in the hides of their slain enemies. Of course he complains that they've wasted so many resources on something that's nothing more than a vain display piece... Only to then chide himself since his own vanity display is a skin suit fashioned from Loyalists back on Istvan that he considers quite stylish.

I don’t know where I heard it so I don’t know if it’s true or not but I heard someone say that do to his constant proximity to chaos “The Chirurgeon” on his back came life and consistently lays eggs that produce copies of itself for good old Fabulous Bill to keep using and replacing, and the only thing he questions about it is “What and When it’s its breeding with to have it produce these eggs?”

30:35 imagine giving that treatment to Angron so now he's in a loop of anger pain and pleasure

The whole galaxy goes crazy all the while Trazyn and Fabius are trading Primarchs and Geneseed like pokemoncards

A little sad Bricky didn't read any of his trilogy. He missed out on the MEGA cranky old man vibe Fabius has.

Since you guys have done Fabius and earlier did the Robert Rath Cadia book, have you considered Lord of Night by Simon Spurrier? It's a bit of an older book (2005) but it has an insanely cool depiction of hive cities, xenos, chaos corruption and Bricky's darling Night Lords. I just finished it and I gotta say it's probably the best BL book i've ever read.

He’s my warlord for my army. Building an agents of bike army has been slow but I have a great vision and like the Pater Mutatis I am focused and determined to get it done

Describing the differences between Bile and Cawl is more difficult than one could imagine.......

Great work with the discword reference

I'd recommend burialgoods reading of fabiuses daemon encounter

Get rid of that doubt in your voice Bricky and say it again, It's up there with the NightLords trilogy. I understand why more and more viewers like Detective ridiculous better.

The Fabius trilogy is funny got some issues on third one but I would categorise them as Introduction, emotional trauma and belief to unite 3 legion with fulgrim clone, and last book is just goofy and funny shit happens My fave part in trilogy is book one Where bile summon greater demon of slanesh and the demon like what’s the bargain and after back and forth and then talk about fulgrim comes up as bile is his favorite son he never stop talking about him then bile basically just say how about I give you an recorded contract about my disgust and hate of fulgrim to make him sad and the demon like an crack addict accept the bargain 😂

Dude was stared at by Chaos God, had a multiple internal hemorrhages and heart failures and went: NUH UH

DK nailed the quote in his own way.

guys i just sat down and reseached Fabius like yesterday... do you have acces to my cokkies???? are you communicating with the Inquisition???

Bile knows that warp beings exist, but thinks of them as just the warp reacting to realspace stuff and reflecting the emotions of sentient beings, but he does not think of them as gods nor will he ever worship them.

Fabius Bile: the only thing more impressive than the depravity of his experiments, is the depths of his self-denial.

The Myth is that Hope is the only good thing to come out of Pandora's box.

Why would he need to make a clone copy of a copy of a copy? If he kept some parts of his original body or just a few cells he could make a ton of clones who'd all be the second iteration and the same level of degadation - worse than the original but not further deteriorating..

Bro seriously saw God in 4K IMAX 3D, pissed himself a little, and decided to do drugs about it Me fuckin' too, man

Blight is not what you think it is. Also the trilogy goes hard

It just occurred to me: if Fabius had a perfect clone of Fulgrim, wouldn't that be better than the gene seed he got from Trazyn, since a Primarch is a limitless supply of geneseed

Good ol Fabulous Bill

Dark freaking eldar 46:40... I gave you the props earlier, but then you failed me DK

14:42 IS THAT A CODE MENT REFERENCE?

Vile: * being stared at by Slaanesh and having every organ in his body destroyed from within* Slaanesh: " he's a man of focus ,commitment ,sheer FUCKING will"

Ah, Fabulous Bill

Fabulous Bill

Is muriel sabatheil cannon cause if she is than emporers children are the only people to torture a battle sister into joining chaos

Fabulussy Bile, Primo-seminator of the Emperor’s Children.

Theteras Marines? You mean Tetris Marines

Fabulous bile made skaven in 40K

Marvel used the exact same spare clone body to be used ypon my death thing themselves in a comic book spiderman spider verse huge company wide event. I'd love to know who used the idea 1st ? WH or Marvel maybe someone else ?

Omg Shy is a Terry Pratchet fan 🥹

The 🅱️ in 🅱️ile stands for 🅱️ased.

Fabius big bile balls had achived what many onlyfans payers could only dream and hes just like "nuh uh"

from 1d4chan: "I was building another science, my science, wild science, robots and lasers and disembodied brains. A science that buzzed and glowed; it wanted to do things. It could get up and walk, fly, fight, sprout garish glowing creations in the remotest parts of the world, domes and towers and architectural fever dreams. And it was angry. It was mad science." - Dr. Impossible - Soon I Will Be Invincible

1:10 "...comes out april 3rd, so we can't do any jokes..." You guys can't do jokes anyway. We all know Shai is the one pulling the cables behind the scenes. [sass]

Thousand sons when

Funny enough I’m reading Primogenitor rn

Is it so bad to wear a flesh coat i mean almost any leather coat is a flesh coat and i do love leather

Genefather is easily my favorite 40k book. And I absolutely hate Fabius bile.

I can’t tell if Fabius Bile’s atheism makes him one of the smartest men in 40K or one of the dumbest and at this point I’m too afraid to ask

Damn it Bricky. Now I gotta buy 5 more books. THANKS.

Let's remember everyone: Fabius' Atheism is so strong that demons are weakened in his presence.

I imagine trazyn and fabius being like kids trading pokemon cards “ill give you my PSA 10 fulgrim if you give me your limited edition emperors children gene seed”

Chaos Gods manifesting in real space. Fabious Bile: "Aurora Borealis."

"Nuh Uh" Fabius Bile, chief apothecary, and general commander of the III legion, as his organs are shutting down from the strength of the ruinous power's gaze

I love the image of Slaanesh looking directly at Fabius Bile, and in response he just chants “GOD NOT REAL” and chugs every sedative known to man, and several that aren’t known

DK: I almost said semen. DK, my guy, the hungry man thinks of bread

I cannot believe that you didn't even pause at how hard of a line "I think therefore I am, they do not therefore they are not" truly is Not only is it just cool, but it also encapsulates WHY Fabius doesn't believe in the chaos gods - Chaos is just an amalgam of mortal emotions and aren't sapient beings in their own right, demons do not think for themselves and are just driven by the emotion they are made out of. That's why, to Bile, magic and demons are logically explainable phenomena, because the warp is its own "universe" with its own laws (which is explicitly molded by the thoughts of mortals), and as a result, the chaos gods (and demons) are equivalent to, like, gravity and magnetism To him, people are "corrupted by chaos" in the same way an alcoholic is corrupted by alcoholism - it's just a personality flaw (or a dedication to being angry). Which, with how chaos works, is kind of the case anyway

Bile would collect Skaven miniatures

Bile: "All I want is to make new race of human race and future for them." Meanwhile, the clone of Fulgrim started his own crusade in Bile's name in which Bile began to make a call to certain a Necron Overlord.

Im upset Brickford didn't expand on the Spider thing Fabulous Williams spider arms have come to life through Warp nonsense and occasionally lay eggs. The thing that bothers Bile the most about this is he has no idea what the legs are mating with to produce eggs

"Gods are cringe" - Fabius Bile

The Fabius dressing up mice in costumes bit is likely a reference to an 1800s mini terrarium from France that featured two preserved frogs in human-esque posture and garb, frozen in a dramatic pose dueling with rapiers. Just goes to show they had memes long before the internet, and Fabius would 100% be the kind of guy to note that

Don't forget that Fabius Bile straight-up looked Slaanesh in the eye and denied its existence. Edit: I'm glad Bricky brought it up. It's a great scene.

Minor nitpick, but when Slaanesh was judging Fabius, he wasn't having a panic attack; his body was literally starting to stutter and shut down from the direct attention of a CHAOS GOD on him. He pumped himself full of drugs to keep his hearts from stopping. Would recommend burialgoods for a reading of Slaanesh's judgement of Fabius. Great reading, dude's got talent.

Fun fact, a big reason the Blight was such a big deal is a ship carrying most of the Emperor's Children Geneseed vanished. This happened because Trazyn stole it. This whole thing was Trazyn's fault.

Funny thing about Bile: despite constantly talking trash about the Chaos Gods, it's very likely that his work is gestating a nascent Warp entity that his creations call "Pater Mutatis". To explain further, I should probably describe the Aetheric Dominions, the mechanics of the Warp, and the potential fifth Chaos God. When I first got into Warhammer, a big question I had was why the Chaos Star had eight points if there were only four gods. The use of phrase like "the Eightfold Path" only deepened my confusion. Turns out that there are indeed eight component concepts to the Primordial Annihilator. Four of them correspond to the Chaos Gods: Infernal Tempest (Tzeentch), Rapturous Sensation (Slaanesh), Putrid Corruption (Nurgle), and Heedless Slaughter (Khorne). We all know what these are about, but there are four others that reflect other aspects of Chaos, each with an associated entity that people often call "the fifth Chaos God". Encroaching Ruin is what we think of as Chaos Undivided: destruction for the sake of destruction, entropy without end. In Age of Sigmar, the Great Horned Rat fills this dominion, while 40k has the Dark King (who I don't really understand). Malevolent Artifice is easy, because it's just Vashtorr and his evil engineering shenanigans. Ravenous Dissolution is Chaos's propensity for self-defeating actions, and it explains why the Traitor Legions fight each other more than they fight the Imperium. Also cannibalism, to complete the metaphor. The being associated with this domain is the Renegade God, Malice (Schrodinger's Canon says he's real for the sake of this argument). That leaves Formless Distortion, the dominion of mutation, metamorphosis, and inconstancy of form (in my opinion, these rightfully belong in Tzeentch's portfolio, but whatever). At first blush, there are no entities that solely embody these concepts. Then you realize that Fabius Bile is worshipped by Chaos devotees across the galaxy as Pater Mutatis: The Father of Mutants. Granted, worship alone does not a Chaos God make, but consider the sheer scale of Bile's work: a new humanity, seeded across thousands of worlds, all wrought by a single fleshcrafter whose deeds have inspired numberless copycats. He even found a way to cheat death. And guess what Formless Distortion involves? To paraphrase its flavor text from the Burning of Ohmn-Mat: "death is simply one component of eternal metamorphosis." All this from a guy who personally met Slaanesh and refused to acknowledge the existence of the Chaos Gods, even when it nearly killed him.

The Emperor's Children is like the joke about life being the best for masochists. When it's bad for them they feel good, when it's good for them they feel bad so they feel good!

Bile was in no way panicked when Slaanesh was judging him, the gaze of the god however put such a massive toll on his body that his armor, by itself, decided to pump him full of enhancing drug to keep him ... well ... alive. One of his heart even stops in the middle of it. He is not scared, he is defiant.

You'll remember i told you Bricky and Dk to read primogenitor, clonelord and manflayer novels. They're a Chaos Space Marine Brutal Kunnin, a Warp based Infinite and the Divine. *The best 40k books ive ever read*

I recall Fabius first being in the flight of the eisentsein, with Saul Tarvitz finding out about commander Eidolon’s “new abilities”

Ave Pater Mutatis! Ave Pater Mutatis! Ave Pater Mutatis! The Bile series is one of my favorite trilogy’s!

Fabulous Bob is the kind of atheist to get stared at by a large chunk of Slaanesh, have his organs crushed or start failing by the act and go "nope, just galactic phenomena, nothing there but the wind"

I felt like that one custodes from If the Emperor Had a TTS. I just was left stunned and all I could say was " What the-... what the fuck? " when he got the character right.

20:21 ah, he did the original Palpatine gambit. Interesting topic, as I finished Angel Exterminatus little over a week ago, and Bile was in it quite a bit. It's where Fulgrim says "hey I miss Eiodolon, bring him back". Fsbius is like "ok, his head yaps at me while I try to work, anyways."

The problem with primarch clones isn't that they're genetically imperfect. It's that they are likely missing the warp entity that makes a primarch special.

So Fabius doesn't have clone degradation in the sense of each one getting more and more insane; but a continuous side thread in the trilogy is that each clone seems to be succumbing to the blight a bit quicker than the last. Also, to be fair, we find out the blight isn't entirely biological and some warp shenanigans are to play.

Also Bile’s understanding of the gods makes total sense. They’re not only NOT capital G gods, they’re bloated, parasitic, symbiotic warp manifestations. They do offer power, they can affect the world… but they’re only empowered, if not created by mortals. They aren’t gods in the sense that they create or oversee laws of nature from their inception. That’s where it can be tricky to see a distinction, as they command vast power and influence and have “aspects” that they connect with. His view is basically the same as realising that psykers power isn’t magic in the traditional sense. It is a genetic and psychic ability to use another dimensions power and energy to influence our own. There is a science to it and thus it can be de-mystified and de-mythologised, which removes power and grandeur. It’s not that he doesn’t believe that they exist, he recognises they are a force that exists within the universe. He just doesn’t recognise them as an innate power to the universe. They are just a collusion of energy that mirrors mortal thought and feeling and grows fatter for it.

An hour long segment being described as “foot in the door” is the most warhammer lore statement I’ve ever heard

My dear Bricky, you assume Ferrus is as brick headed as Dorn? Oh dear lord no. He is WORSE THAN DORN!

There was an older story where a sister of battle was corrupted by Slanesh because she took such joys in killing demons. Slanesh gets in not by people accepting them, they get in because you feed them and if you do it enough, they will consume you whether you want it or not.

On tonight's episode of the Ridiculous Tour: Bricky reveals a new 7 day course to make you a _man!_ DK has a chance encounter with an old college professor! And Shy sighs dramatically before activating the sonic transducer and flying everyone into space. All this to come and more, after it's all said and done.

*Emperor's Children gets shot in the spleen* "Brother, I have soiled my jorts, bring me another!"

I love fabius but you should have explained his unique strain of atheism more. Its actually very interesting, he sees the chaos gods as a non sentient force of the universe, a combination of the collective unconsciousness of the universe. He believes in them but he does not believe that they are sentient thinking beings. (Edit) dk actually read or listen to the full excerpt that bricky read like a fourth of. Its beautifully written

Mf got kink-shamed by Slaanesh. That's a lot. That's an achievement right there.

Also worth noting, Fabulous Bill *may* be well on his way to becoming an actual god himself, as the Pater Mutatus

"He is a scientist, he has a -laboratory-" Yeah, technically correct. But after reading the descriptions in Genefather, I think "SAW-inspired warehouse-sized bathroom" would be a pretty fit description of his "lab" aesthetics.

55:00 Slaanesh showing up like "Fabulous Fabius! Loving the work!" Fabius: ;;>_>

Man we should have gotten a warframe lore video as a April fools joke rip

Showing my man Seto Kaiba when talking about denying the obvious transcendent reality before one's eyes is the best editing I've ever seen.