"SACRED GEOMETRY" - A WARHAMMER 40K STORY - ORDO HERETICUS 

Could not have said it better myself

Is he your… little blue marble ? Who gives you everything and asks for nothing in return

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Isn't it magnificent Hail Lord Vox!!! ✨✝️💫

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Yea but on other hand maybe it's not the first agent they dispatch

I would imagine that would depend on whether his absence of a report is even noticed. Don't forget that the Imperium is a massively bloated and disconnected entity. They are collapsing under the burden of their own empire and their logistics is a nightmare.

Honestly Inquisitors getting "dissapeared by accident" is not as uncommon as one might think, heck Catachan has practically made a sport out of it.

The death of an Inquisitor won't go unnoticed,as they tend to have colleagues who know where and when they go. I would have to say these heretics are doomed.

Wait I got a very different message from this... I got the idea that this was an Imperial agent who was so ready to prosecute that he had become blind to all else. The two people who ordered his death, Aiesha and Weram, are his allies who have realized he's beyond saving. Weram was talking to him at the beginning, so is also clearly an acolyte of the same Inquisitorial warband. The Imperial Creed doesn't care HOW the Emperor is worshipped, as long as he is worshipped. A lot of religions take this and symbolize the Emperor as the sun, a season, or even a box with weird geometry. So the villain in this story was Godwin, he was blind to the fact that he was ready to massacre innocent Imperial citizens on the chance that they might be heretics someday. Like he reached the cube, and it was literally just a cube. No magic, no warp, nothing. The people being "saved" are the other agents of the warband, since Godwin is unhinged and putting them all at risk. They probably set this whole thing up with the bishop to test him.

@@hawkshot867 I can see this going both ways. The Inquisitor is definitely approaching this situation far too bull headed and it cost him. However, he is correct in the the worshipped artifact is nothing but just some mundane object *for now* and could be corrupted in the future, plus the sister is a psyker (hazy on lore if that is bad or normal). I think the best approach to this situation would have been to not go full purge mode, keep calm and play along with the show. Afterward either speak directly with the priest in private or go back to your team and weight options. There is no clear heresy now, but definitely some things that are not best practice and leave openings for heresy the future. Lay out a plan, make some adjustments and everyone is happy and heresy free or you can deal with the heretics WITHOUT the diplomatic incident. All in all, I agree that the inquisitor was too purge happy but the traces of heresy can be seen. Poor fool just wasn't inquisitive enough.

​@@catwithsomeears2206 Sure I agree for the most part. I just don't think there actually was any signs of heresy... Like the bishop explained that the box was their symbol for the Emperor, and even by Godwin's admission it was just a normal box. If worshipping icons/idols was against Imperial Creed I'd agree that they were heretics, but it isn't and they weren't... And one of the big points of Eisenhorn is that an over eager and over zealous puritan eager to prosecute good imperial citizens is arguably just as bad, if not worse, than a chaos cult. Like, the most heretical thing in this story was Godwin.

@@hawkshot867 I'd also say that while his death won't go unnoticed, he is still just an acolyte. the inquisition sometimes intentionally send young inquisitors like him on various missions to test if they got the right stuff to do their duty. This incident could be seen as him failing a test of patience and subtlety, or even a test of faith. With such unwavering power at their fingertips, nothing polices the inquisition more than other inquisitors. Such bloody filtering is needed to keep the ordos pure, like how the pool filtered out his unclean blood to become pure once more.

That's how it starts...

Corruption was inevitable, the church needed to be removed. Godwin’s failure was being too hasty and arrogant, he should have kept calm and quietly left the church so he could return with reinforcements to purge the church and it’s practitioners before it becomes heretical.

They were gonna attack him regardless, the psykers didn't actually know his intentions because he was warded they only tasted a small scent of his intentions but they assumed so regardless he was gonna be attacked He should've fled the second the witch lashed out at him and then returned with reinforcements

I would strongly recommend John Keeble. His ability to narrate is incredible. Especially Seige of terra. He's why I like nightlords now he did the Konrad Curze book incredibly well.

Profile icon checks out (but you're no Word Bearer, that's for sure).

@@johnd2058 Very true :) I always thought one shouldn't throw themselves into slavery just to escape slavery.

Sounds like heresy to me

tf you talking about the emperor was always an atheist.

@@josephjagusah8668 The Emperor knew about the ruinous powers and hid that knowledge with the Imperial Truth from nearly everyone, even his own mutant "sons". Try not to forget the deal he made with CHAOS to increase his own powers nor the influences he used on Mars and its "god" the Omnisiah. Welp, thanks for the chat.

Shoulda sent him the wrath of kharn, such a wicked story.

@@AngerOfTheLand nah this person likes more creepy stuff. Wrath would have been too much for her. I agree though it's an awesome story 😎

Chilled me to the bone the first time I listened to it

Since they were willing and stupid enough to kill a member of the Inquisition, maybe he wasn't so paranoid? When the virus bombs hit, we will see who really FAFO-ed.

From the decay of flesh Steel preserve us. Ave omnisaiah

They are unworthy.

Their mere presence will degrade the quality of his work and his buddies.

No no they will silence him. Keep preaching the emperors word

GW wants to turn him into a servitor...

@@robinderoos1166 over my molten dreadnought chassis brother.

I'm on it tonight

So was I

Haha! I'll take it. Always loved the voice over guy. Trust me, my voice ain't that special day to day!

@@AVoxintheVoid As a side, I particularly like these arcane/esoteric topics for your stories, I go back to your grey knights reading frequently. Much love from Yorkshire

Really? I’m pretty sure he’s the same guy who keeps calling me about my cars extended warranty.

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@@TVdinnermasterchef 🤣🤣 Brilliant!

Vox definitely has a talent to provoke ones imagination!

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I always get nervous when attempting any accent other than my own! Thank you for giving me some confidence!

@A Vox in the Void no worries man! I didn't hear a single mess up at all

Depends on the time and place.

he is just an acolyte, meaning a young inquisitor. They tend to have a high attrition rate to keep the ordos from being filled with schmucks

I don't know. But as a first step, i'd try looking and asking around on his discord. You can find the link to it in the 'about' tab on his youtube channel.

@@pizzaelf thank you very much fellow man, may the emperor bless you

@@negadoge Good luck and i hope to listen to your 'friend's' story on this channel in the future.

And yet... they have total freedom to acquire things that make Rogue traders envious. Space Marines and even some Xeno's at there call. Even the power to Destroy a planet. Now if some group was "tasked to face some of the horrors and nightmares of the Grim Darkness of the Future alone". I'd give that to the Imperial Guard. But you do make a Valid point.

and often they make things worse out of spite

I'll take that as a compliment! I've heard that a few times now 😎

Praise the Omnissiah!

It's from epidemic sound my friend, I'll have a look when I can and let you know 💪

@@AVoxintheVoid Please and thank you much. It sounds top notch :3

Hey, should be "Johannes Bornlöf - We Trust". Vox used it in a previous video and I similarly looked for it

@@aris1841 Thank you so much!

Why thankyou m'lady

Glad I can be there with you!

It's a Christian thing.

No, they are not screwed, because the Ecclesiarchy is a *powerful* institution within the Imperium. The Ecclesiarchial representatives on the planet will close ranks, and can easily offer a convincing cover story for what happened to Interrogator Godwin. Remember that the Interrogator went into the cathedral alone, and out of vox contact with his retinue. It wouldn't be the first time a foolhardy Inquisitor (or Inquisitor-in-training) met a tragic and untimely demise in an ancient aedifice of the Imperium. Old buildings and catacombs can be unstable, even at the best of times, you know. The Emperor protects, but no amount of armour of contempt can protect a man from several thousand tons of crumbling masonry. Or a fall into a bottomless pit. And Inquisitors _have_ gone rogue before. Who outside of that Cathedral could refute the narrative that Godwin was lacking in faith, and was struck down by the God-Emperor for his apostasy upon coming face to face with a holy relic of one of the Emperor's saints?

That's what I like about the stories I get sent!

In the height of Stalin's "Godless campaign" it was widely propagated that all faiths, the Eastern Orthodoxy in particular (because of their relative power in Russia) were merely "cults". And in an effort to prove the Soviet point, they drug their native faith down to the same level as any and all other faiths including paganism. Doing this ultimately bent the greatest faith within the Russian Empire towards the will of their self-conceived "proletariat" that was the USSR, but to and including driving the common people towards war in WW2.

Its called the Imperial Cult in multiple books from black library though. Also is called the imperial faith too, so its either or. Take it up with GW writers lol.

I think you could make a point about it being a bunch of local cults following rather loose guidelines from the official church. Since there are some rather exotic versions of imperial believe that are canon seen as true believers of the emperor, be it the Cult of Sacrifice on Krieg or the "orthodox" teachings on shrine worlds or even the Allfather religion on Fenris

thats because all religions start out as cults and a cult is nothing more than a small gathering of people who belive in the same religous ideology. based on this, the imperial relgion started out as a cult and indeed it was a cult before it became the only acceptable religion in the imperium. what their getting wrong is denomination which is probably a word that dosent exist in high or low gothic.

@@ryanf4106 no, not all religions start as cults, there are, as I recall, six key identifiers of a cult. I don’t remember all of them, but key ones are: secret worship rites that nonbelievers are not allowed to see, a charismatic leader whose preaching can change on a whim and is expected to be followed no matter what, and the separation of families from nonbelieving family members. The Imperial cult, so-called, doesn’t fit this definition, that was my point. It’s more along the lines of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages with its charge in rooting out heresy. Compare that to an actual cult, like Jonestown or the weird alien ones.

Gotta open your third eye with scopolamine to understand the Sacred Geometry.

@@bickyboo7789 So were they heretics, or no? It was too vague.

This is my interpretation: An inquisitorial acolyte waits hours to see a ritual firsthand, by the time he gets inside his mind is made up and no amount of proof, or lack of evidence would dissuade his conviction, hence why he took the box of bones from the shine. Recognizing that he intends to call everyone present heretics, dispite having no real proof, Aiesha and Weram (also Inquisitorial acolytes) feed Godwin to the crowd in the belief that one death now is better than the countless later.

@@wReid-ts8bc **Arrives with chainsword revving** "Not vague enough. I'm here to chop up some Tzeentchian nerds."

I think it's left up to the listener a bit. The author's intent may be that Godwin, so eager to find corruption everywhere, became corrupted himself - and was purified in the liquid after death. Or... this happens all the time, and today, he was the sacrifice to the temple! but im a noob to WH so other comments certainly have much better ideas :)

The hint is in the end. He may give a part II but that is all.

Most of the stuff they do here are self contained Short stories. But some are longer and released in parts ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Gy--UhuXPfM.html this is the first one I listened to and it got me totally hooked on this channel. All the gods are dead was wild too.

@@HalcyonDaze149 yeah i know. I am more of a fan of preysight

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