Halo Lore | Morphology of Jiralhanae (Brutes) | Biology, History, Covenant Role | Brutes Explained 

If brutes are that powerful, I even have more respects for elites. The fact that they can competitively fight against monsters is somewhat mind-bobbling.

Nothing like a spartan laser won’t fix

The brutes in Halo 2 were really strong bullet sponges and they barely even had armor on, imagine fighting a banished brute with the really heavy armor they have on, i imagine they would come in a pack of like five and act as a mini-boss like the hunters

Ok now i want to see a Brute fist fight a Librarian from metro

I wonder if jackals taste like chicken

If I remember correctly, the Spiker in particular (the main weapon you talked about) uses similar technology to T'au pulse weapons from 40k. The magazine contains a set of ferrous slugs, which are mechanically fed into the "chamber", which is either a magnetic coil or rail, where it's induction heated to near its melting point and then fired, drawing it out into a spike as it's fired. You do biology, I do weapons. Keep up the awesome vids, I'm always watching for your uploads and I'm eager to learn more!

The brutes are one of my favorite members from the covenant. They seem like the only ones vicious enough to be on par with elites and Spartans

You did say Doi-sac correctly

If the brutes are customer to an atmosphere with several times more oxygen than earth, they should technically become extremely exhausted as soon as the do anything at all in an atmosphere such as ours. chances are that they might even die from suffocation

In the second level of Halo 3 a Brute Captain can be heard saying, "Ah, a fresh scent. Spread out, track it down." I believe this supports your hypothesis about theyre hunting by smell.

Jiralhanae are absolute powerhouses. They're already physically tough enough to simply IGNORE standard UNSC gunfire for a few moments, and when they berserk? THEY BECAME EVEN TOUGHER AND MORE PAIN RESISTANT! Firing into a berserking Jiralhanae's face will do little more than piss it off until it finally dies from blood loss.

Brutes: If bears could walk and had a human brain...scary! Now this is how jacked i want Isaac clark to be in the next Dead Space! Kicking Nechromorph Behind!

Brutes are in every sense of the word beasts

Ah, nothing like waking up to a lore video. I guess you could say I'm living the life.

Considering they would have evolved on a planet with higher gravity, their height adaptations make sense. A longer lever is more efficient (can generate more force easily), and bones and joints are basically levers. Longer bones would also allow for longer muscles and greater muscle cross-sectional area, further increasing force output and their ability to withstand higher gravity. I think the misconception that higher gravity would produce shorter creatures come from the fact that astronauts become “taller” in space. This is because the very low gravity reduces the compression on the skeletal system, adding a small amount of length to the body. However, this isn’t really an adaptation to this environment so much as it is a consequence of it. If a human were born in space or on a considerably low gravity planet and brought back to earth, they would be too weak to function. Why? Because their bones and muscles wouldn’t have had nearly the amount of stimulation they would have received on earth. Bone and muscle are highly adaptive to force stimuli, and if there basically is no stimulus they wouldn’t have the stimulus to grow to normal sizes. That being said, it would more likely be that such a person would not develop properly at all, not just being shorter and weaker, but dysfunctional. They would most likely have to be exposed to a different level of gravity over a longer period of time for adaptations to be permanent or functional.

I remember there being an animation where a brute rips a marine's arm or leg with no effort. I wonder why the devs didn't implement that.

I wanna play as a Brute.

Necromorphs vs flood that's very intresting seeing that they can only be defeated one way well for a bit

The arbiter from Halo Wars has to be as big as a brute right? Ripa Moramee is huge after all.

Man I love how the Covenant species all have long, nearly alien names. Great video as always, keep up the good work, been playing Halo since the very first and have mostly loved each moment.

I fucking love Halo! Can’t wait for Halo: Infinite honestly. Hope they bring back the brutes again, well, ig they did since in Halo Wars 2, the brutes did take over and now call themselves “The Banished”.

If they have a radically higher O2 level in their atmosphere, wouldn’t that present significant problems breathing elsewhere?

That would make sense why their armour looks like giant slabs of metal - they would require that armour to offset the negatives of operating in low gravity environments. We make armour light sure to our frame only really supporting 100lbs for extended periods (able even that's awful), whereas they would require that weight to function long term without bone or muscle degradation (as it does is in low gravity), which means covering themselves in about half a ton of armour plate would only feel like their "normal" weight to operate under. Which is insane, as the armour could be twice of that or more.

"Pushed back to their own planet" Ohhhhh boy... There's a reason these guys are the main threats again.

Bro I love your morphology series!

This was a very well put together video and was great to watch. Keep up the great work

The brute's are my favorite!

I really enjoyed this video, I never knew this much about the Brutes! Only the Elites, Grunts, Kig-Yar, etc. I learned more about the Mgalekgolo from you and now the Brutes. I really enjoy learning more about them.

3:11 I’ve heard it theorized that humans born and raised on lower gravity planets would be taller than those born on earth. Perhaps the same applies to Jiralhanae born on exoplanets with less gravity than their homeworld.

Roanoke could you do a series on high level elite or other covenant commanders like you did with gears of war just a suggestion

Great video man its was so cool to learn about the brutes

Dinosaurs could only grow that large for 3 reasons: 1. Hollow bones. 2. An avian respiratory system (much more efficient). 3. They didn't produce nearly as much heat as mammals. A mammal would cook itself from the inside if it grew as large as some dinosaurs.

Atriox has to be one of the best characters in the Halo Universe. He’s cool as hell and is a million times better than Tartarus. Can’t wait to see more of him. And did you say you’re not yet monetised by RU-vid ? So you’re not getting paid for this ?

I like how both the elite and the brutes have a scared weapons to them: Elites: Energy Sword Brutes: Gravity hammer The way they past down their weapons is weird well for the elites anyway, them and there "swordsman genes" can they pls explain that lore better. For the brutes its just if any of the younger can beat the old chieftain in combat the hammer is yours.

The funniest thing is that tall creatures should develop at low gravity places. High gravity means smaller size.

great stuff! The brutes in Halo 3 are my favorite rendition

Hands down my favorite Halo faction I just hope one day we can get playable Brutes, maybe in a new invasion mode or reverse Firefight. Great video.

At this rate you'll be at 100k in no time

my favorite thing about the scene with Atriox defying the elites to form the banished is the large amount of diversity among his pack brothers, having them be visually distinct does a lot to make them seem more like people with identities and lives, rather than heartless beasts

Oh another great video my friend

That's the only thing I like about the brutes is there savage strength.

So imagine brute spartan's dear god that would be a nightmare inducing sight

excellent video bruv

Nice vid bro i love the brutes🔥💯

How is this channel not at 1mil yet?

Do some STALKER morphology!!!

The Brute that grabbed the halo relic in the series; Looked considerably taller than 9 feet tall.

Groovy stuff my man

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The footage at 9:02 is actually from the EVE Online inferno trailer. Just a heads up.

Man i remember when this channel was at something like 200 subs now it's grown into one of my favorite communities out there

I love your ideos! It is like those animals are here living within our world we studied them already completely. love this content

Tbh I never cared much for Brutes, but the Banished made me really appreciate them. Atriox is so awesome. I hope they don't kill him off. Maybe have him team up with the humans, like the Elites did.

You should do a video on the modifications of agent 47

Another Great video! Good job Roan!

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Try the Krogan or the reapers from mass effect games

It would be totally epic if the Spartans encounter easygoing Jiralhanae

You should also do the lore and biological discription of the volitiles in dying light. There's something about them that still is a mystery. the fact that they can talk or evolve into smarter apex predators makes them very unique zombies or mutants or whatever they are.

I mean tartaurus was able to smell the arbiter across that beach when he had keyes captive in halo2 when he's getting off the phantom so I'd imagine they had really good sense of smell

Roanoaoke how long do you think master cheif will survive against the necromorphs

Theres a chance of the banished being in halo infinit since halo infinit takes place a year after halo wars 2

Good video as always really deep analysis.

Awesome video man! Keep it up

If I may be so bold as to suggest a second reason for the height: I was curious about if it was necessary to provide enough places to anchor the muscles to the bone so they don't rip off trying to exert their full strength in such high gravity?

Open question, who would win a Brute from Halo or a Krogan from Mass Effect? Like with an average of the species with/without weapons to the best possible level, like Atriox and Wrex

I'm glad you mentioned the bear aspect.

It's glorious bro

I feel greatly insulted that you called my people "animals"

It make me intrigued. In the Halo lore, Human at one time in the long past became the second most power race. How is that possible? There are like probably the weakest specie in comparison to other halo species. I wonder if human had Napoleon syndrome because of their small stature. There are like midget compared to elite or even forerunner.

Large cool looking, brutal, incredibly muscular and physically dominating tall bipedal sentient races are always a win for me both in Sci-Fi and fantasy

Epic video man

You know after making so many videos of halo and titanfall, I have to ask, how would a spartan do in the Titanfall universe, and a Pilot in the Halo universe?

Thanos vs the flood, thanos has all but two infinity stones which he has to get from a flood planet, can thanos and his army be able to take the infinity stones, or would the flood overwhelm them. Thanos doesn't have the soul and time stone.

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My theory is that the Brutes were originally a near carbon copy of humanity but after their interplanetary war period they experienced a bottleneck event and the ones who survived were mostly comprised of what was previously the most violent of their species.

I don't know man they left a pretty big impression on halo wars 2 the cinematic cut scenes.I would bet them coming back in halo infinity meaning if they don't I will be pretty upset and dislike anything halo infinity.Also Isn't that the name of the space ship in halo 5 like the fuck...............

i mean in the banished, some of those brutes are super smart

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Xeno mammals that sounds cool 😎 Man I love biology😎 also I assume if a brute and elite thought a brute would win since desisimus was able to snap an elite’s neck with ease in the atriox’s origin story cutscene

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Putting a napkin down my collar to fine dine this information. Have been looking forward to this!

the brute, an elite, a spartan, a predator and a xenomorph all go to a gym - i'd like to see such a comic

I just beat halo ce today.

Please do the elites

I can’t help but feel like most people portal the Brutes as well... Brutes. Savages who are too aggressive and not smart enough to have been able to get to where they were out without help. This is a reminder that the Brutes were also cunning and strong as a species, and that they could build advanced, sophisticated technologies and battle strategies without outside influences. Thank you for reminding us that the Jirlahane are just as powerful/deadly as the Sangheili.

I love this channel it is amazing the first time I watched you was when you where talking about the biology of necromorph slashers

And if you know Korean, Jiralhanae takes on a different meaning than just a name

They can't make contractions due to their translation devices.

An interesting thing about gravity and spaceflight is that a higher gravity results in an exponentially higher fuel requirement. According to NASA, if Earth had been 50% larger it would have been physically impossible for us to build a rocket capable of achieving escape velocity. As in not only would people never get to go to space, but there'd be no satellites or space-telescopes either. On a related note, it's theorized that the larger super-Earths may be more likely to produce life than planets our size. So, it's actually possible that most aliens never leave their planet.

Brute shot aka The Meta's weapon or as Donut puts it "a kickass broom"

We still waiting for that 2 hour of talking video

Brute punches chief, chief flys backwards, chief immediately counter punches and sends brute to oblivion.

I think an evolutionary explanation for their height could be tall flora on their home world Doi-sac. Tall grass and trees that don't have lower hanging branches may have benefited taller jiralhanae over shorter ones, increasing the average height of the gene pool.

Finally someone made a brute lore vid took long enough

Hiya, I have recently found you on RU-vid and I love all your videos and get hooked in them within minutes. I love your gears of war videos especially. Are you able to do more of those? For example on the queen or the lambent war against the locust please. I would love to see that

some how I found this gem of a channel in "trending," god works in mysterious ways.

Imagine how strong Dutch has to be though, he knocked the hell out of that brute chieftain after Mickey tackled it, even Mickey seemed to hit it pretty hard and make it take a step back. Even with that knife in him it would seem like he’d be able to still be stronger than them but Dutch dropped him like a sack of potatoes

“One more word oracle, and I’ll rip your eye from its socket! witch is nothing compared to what I’ll do to you.” -Tartarus Halo 2