Halo’s Brutal Faction - The Banished | FULL Halo Lore & Origin Story 

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I love how humanity is back to being at the bottom again, but I will SERIOUSLY miss calling the enemy The Covenant. The banished is a good name, but the Covenant name is unmatched.

The Banished are such a unique and cool faction. Makes me wish they had been the main villains of 343’s games instead of the diet Covenant we got in 4 and 5. Nevertheless I can’t wait to see them in action in Infinite and future Halo titles.

I still don't get why Atriox didn't side with humanity early on. He clearly hated the Covenant and said that he thinks killing humans was a waste of time, the whole "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing would have worked wonders here. Not to mention his forces probably would have been treated better under humanity then the covenant, like do you think some E3 marine is gonna speak down to a 2 meter tail, hair gorilla soldier known for being brutal? Hell no

A great soldier. Betrayed by his nation. So he formed his own. For soldiers,by soldiers. Punished Atriox..

I personally love the fact that they don't really care who they take into their ranks. I've been wanting to fight renegade spartans for so long, the banished might make it happen.

I wonder if Atriox will recruit humans to his cause.

I wish there were 3 post-game DLCs for Halo Infinite. 1st one was about the Flood & the Created, 2nd one was about Locke & the Arbiter & the 3rd one continues Red Team's story from Halo Wars 2.

Reminder that an outdated UNSC military ship was able to deal more damage to the Banished than an updated forerunner inspired UNSC ship. Captain Cutters was without a doubt a strategist in a league of his own with a legendary crew of he calls family.

honestly, i don't understand why the Banished are the enemy now. they hated the Covenant as much as humanity did. Atriox himself saw the war with Humanity as pointlessly cruel... i know humans killed many of his packmates, but he should know that they were only defending themselves. I honestly wish that Atriox would accept some kind of negotiation with Human authorities, to work out some kind of agreement...

Yk what's truly rough imagine making an ai that was supposed to help you but ultimately turning on you crippling you allowing for another faction to take you down? Kinda reminds me of a certain bias, maybe a mendicant one

Fingers crossed we get an Atriox boss battle in infinite. I’m sure theyre saving that for a future title but it’ll be awesome fighting someone potentially equal to the Chief

It would be really cool if there was Rouge Spartans that joined the banished, like maybe Spartans who didn't like being kidnapped and forced to become a weapon for humanity by the UNSC

Atriox gives me some Genghis Khan vibes

I like Atriox. He is a Spartacus or Ceasar like figure. I suspect that he has an ultimate goal that is yet to be revealed. Perhaps he wants to free the endless because he feels kinship with them as they both were both subjugated by a different self righteous race.

I'm just glad he let his foe arm herself, that's honor you rarely see in brutes

Now I know how important “Eshaurum” (Sorry If I spell it wrong) really is to the Banished. He is Atriox’s Teacher. It truly makes sense for me now.

I like how a brute thought that fighting humans was unnecessary

A fantastic video as ever, I didn’t actually know the more detailed origins and details so thanks for shedding light on them

Tbh you missed a bit of context, the Banished raided and harrassed the covenant during the war but were able to gain such power because the covenant was fracturing. Volir signed himself up with Atriox as he knew his fleet couldnt sustain itself after the end of the war and atriox had resources they needed. Saying the Banished were now equal to the covenant after taking a CAS is quite a reach, moreso they would be later after uniting many of the brute factions sometime in the years leading to infinite. Also side note to me it now seems like the Banished dont just want the Halos and Ark to use as leverage, rather they realize that the forerunner installations are basically unguarded depositories of insane weapons, wealth, tech and tools to empower their burgeoning empire. Just having the ark and being able to disassemble then build new halos as you wish means they essentially have infinite resources and weapons in their grasp. They werent lucky that the sentinels showed up to fight the flood, they actually were the ones to reactivate them after they disabled the arks defenses.

I hope we see banished human enemies, also explain why they are fighting the unsc

glad you covered this faction, they are pretty cool

what i love most about the human-covennant war is that the period directly considerd part of the human-covenant war (or the great war) only lasted 10 months

Atriox is everything Tartarus isn't, not just a Heretic, THE Heretic. How ironic that Truth trusted the Jiralhanae to lead the Covenant during it's waning days, yet he seem to forgot about Atriox and not only that, he was the first who got away and outlived him. If Truth was at Atriox's mercry rather than the Arbiter's, it would've been even more ironic as well as even more bloody in the process for Atriox is many things and merciful was never one of them. How Ironic that Jiralhanae rose up when the Covenant fell and by wittising that, Atriox got the last laugh. Truth thought the Brutes were loyal and the Sangelili were starting to question the great journey, yet it was a Jiralhanae who was the first to defy the Covenant and survive it through the war and so on. Truth never seemed to admit that the Covenant's fate would've been sealed either way, regardless of who would the escort of the Prophets as both races trusted by them ended rebelling against them and outliving them.

You forgot about Operation Spearbreaker from the UNSC Spirit of Fire

This got me more hyped for infinite, been playing all the old halos again on pc, starting with halo reach all the way to halo 4, brings back such good memories, great vid! Infinite can't come soon enough.

This channel just gets better and better

Did you know that humans have joined the Banished too? You didn't seem to mention it on your video.

You are quickly becoming one of my favorite channels. Keep up the good work

Once again never disappointed with one of your videos!! Great job

I think someone summed it up best when they said. The banished are to the covenant what the first order is to the empire.

So what happened to Cortana creating an army of giant Guardians to control the galaxy? Banished are cool and all but seems like much smaller stakes than I was expecting.

Him knowing about how the spartan 2's came to be and seeing killing all humans seems brutal, I think he wasn't really bad, but he pushed those feelings away to make himself look fearless and powerful. It seems scary that he might feel some sympathy for some people. I think he's too scared to Express that sympathy.

Please do more halo videos your real easy to listen too and very good at explaining things!!

Banished is the best thing to happen after the Covenant. Atriox is a really cool character and has great character development.

I love the Banished as a faction, the one thing I hate though is how they were introduced. The way they were introduced kind of takes away from the Elite-UNSC alliance and what they did. It turns the whole war from a 2 front war to a 3 front war.

I always get hype when I get into the mood for a lore video and your name comes up haha. Great video! I always thought the banished was so freaking cool aesthetically but Atriox background story is pretty awesome.

4:06 that brute on the left has many tasks ahead

This is the future of Halo Infinite campaign and i cant wait! *Need more videos like this

First video I’ve seen by you and expect you to catch traction soon, great video👍

First of all, amazing job, I loved the video. Second, OMG I wish i had played Halo Wars 2 but I suck at those kinds of games. i Always found Halo Wars stories super cool though

Great video bro keep it up💪🏽

Who would win in a fight? A force to match the covenant or one out-of-date ship.

Wonderful video

Love this!!!!

Watching this I’ve realized that where elites vs brutes are concerned, the brutes are definitely the better guys. It’s insane that the Silent Shadow would start exterminating brutes for their “betrayal” when the elites were the pawns of the prophets and threw brutes under the bus forever until the end of the war.

I like how atriax insults the covenant for mindlessly slaughtering humans and proceeds to mindlessly slaughter humans and he does it for no reason too

YES!!! I have rewatched your Covenant-Human War video everytime I eat breakfast since its release. We need more Halo content!!!!

The banished.... because we.disnt want to design new races.of enemy

This makes me more hyped for Halo Infinite.

Also the Jiralhanae were the only other members of the covenant to show the unggoy any respect.

The Covenant will always be in my heart for nostalgia but for me the Banished are soooo much cooler! The way Atriox built his army. He didn’t need a “journey” to earn the loyalty of his followers and he sure as shit doesn’t need an army to be bad ass

the main theme of the banished is so cool

I like your voice bro. Subbed.

I’m very invested in this group for some reason

Man I can’t wait to play halo infinite ty for the lore

Random brute:”atriox is among us”

I hope in future Halo games, I would like to see a Human Banished character.

Cannot wait to wipe the floor with these guys ,H2 gravemind trained me for this moment lmao

Great video! Came for the Halo lore ahead of Infinite but I love the look of the rest of your channel! Time to go through the backlog 🙂 Instant subscribe after this and the Covenant War video you made

Amazing video! Only unfortunate thing is the constant adverts. >_

I may have to check Halo wars out

Wow such gaming watches u, sick

i wonder how Isabel knew the story of the banished and Atriox...

Ngl to you JD at first I was skeptical about you and was thinking that earlier on into ur ty career you’ll be back in prison soon enough. But then I started listening and agreeing with you on a lot of things you’ve said and I had a change of heart and now I enjoy watching your videos and I hope that you will continue doing what you’re doing. So thank you for changing my mindset about convicts that are truly trying to change their life around

Imagine a squad of Banished Brutes dismantling a Promethean Knight.

Yet another fantastic lore video! I just downloaded Halo Infinite multiplayer and am looking forward to getting into that. The story sounds like it's going to be pretty fantastic though! Well played!

Cant wait for Chief to get round two with atriox

Currently I see the Banished as the one unifying force for the Jiralhanea race just like the Swords of Sangilioes is for the Sanghili.

4:35 The Prophets sound like Krell from Star Wars

Pog video

At 13:10 seeing Atriox smile looks creepy as hell

So glad it was halo wars that brought the banished to the halo universe

MOAR

WOOOO 👌

I do really enjoy this backstory, but I cannot see the Sangheili, most honorbound species in the galaxy, literally stabbing their commander in the back even if they did fully agree with Atriox

Is it Dec 8th yet. I can't wait anymore. Got my halo series x I'm so ready to go..

Can’t wait until the halo infinite campaign

its liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Who would win? The San'Shyuum and their Covenant or One angry monke boi

You gotta do a Dead Space video

I’m gonna miss the covenant, because banished doesn’t scratch the same itch as covenant.

Bro atriox has been using speak no Jutsu on the universe?!?! sheeeeshhh

Atriox is actually an honorable leader unlike the Prophets

I thought the Brutes where just big dummies. Changed my mind.

Atriox lives

The first order vs The banished

COOL.😺

Unfortunately, Atriox was right. The war itself was unnecessary, but Atriox himself was rightfully hateful.

Wrong it wasn't bc the number of different species, it was bc the covenant navy was just that damn powerful.

"...Moanyear..."

LORE

I don't believe and ODST would give up info or really give into interrogation. They are Hell Jumpers.

Here to say it first halo wars 2 was the introduction not infinite of the banished cause im really damn sure people playing infinite without hw2 also would be like oooo first time new brute faction! Even tho hw2 had em first

After halo 2 I find it hard to accept any elite would bow to a brute, brutes massacred the elite high council

There is definitely going to be flood.also thank you halo wars for kickSs banished and flood Add-ons

You know who is worse than the Banished? 343 for not giving us co-op at launch.

Halo’s brutal faction lol

Bit of a devil's advocate hot take here: I know hindsight is 20/20 but IMO the Banished is a faction that should've been conceived in Halo 2. Imagine in Halo Wars 2 that the heretical separatists on Threshold WERE the Banished, not some small little splinter group that the Arbiter was sent to deal with. He would journey to Threshold, successfully beat the 'heretic leader' only to learn that leader wasn't even at the top of the chain and that the true size and scale of the Banished were far larger. Perhaps that mission could end with a teaser glimpse of Atriox, the true Banished leader, to be further explored in later titles. The Banished could have even show up in Halo 3 with an uneasy alliance with the UNSC and Sangheili to journey to the Ark to defeat Truth. You know... "enemy of my enemy" and so on. The way they were written into existence only in Halo Wars 2 with zero mentions in past stories makes it look too much like an obvious afterthought, like the writers were simply told "the covenant is dead but Halo Wars 2 is set in post-Covenant timeline, so go invent some new alien foes to fight the human good guys". The Banished appearing so late in the story is what Mass Effect would be like if Cerberus were entirely absent from ME1 and ME2 and suddenly only appeared in ME3 and were suddenly a "big deal". So I'm kind of lukewarm on the idea of fighting the Banished in Halo Infinite. Remind me again why these guys even hate humanity? Wasn't the whole anti-human thing the Covenant's agenda orchestrated by the Prophets? Did Atriox and co. just randomly decide to start hating humans too (remember the Banished came to the Ark and immediately went guns blazing on the humans there, even non-military ones)? What about Cortana and the Created? Weren't THEY supposed to be the next "big deal"? It seems that the Halo story also has a "Mantle of Responsibility" on which alien baddies have the Responsibility to be Master Chief's nemesis, and I don't know how this Mantle suddenly flew from Cortana over to the Banished.

Atriox is a Gary Stu