The Abyssal Crusade - When The Imperium Invaded The Eye Of Terror At The Behest Of A Chaos Saint 

"What part of 'No world beyond my rule. No enemy beyond my wrath' you didn't understood?" - Emperor of Mankind

FAILABBADON!!! (Kharn kicks down the door!!

​@@shadowofhawk55Abbadon: *girlish scream*

His lore-friendly (non-memey) reaction would probably have been laughing his ass off. That, or the "Crusade" was a blimp on Chaos' radar. ;/

What's he gonna do? Cry to his daddy. 😂

If the Crusade was legitimate, a better idea would have those 30 chapters wait around Cadia so they could help stop future Black Crusades.

Its far from pointless, but the issue is that the marines in question didn't really know what they were doing. I mean originally the Eldar actually successfully captured the Eye of Terror during the 13th black crusade before it all got retconnium.

​@robertnelson9599 the Imperium already tried that. Something like a third or a fourth of the involved chapters went Chaotic.

@@elysiankentarchy1531 I believe that would be the Astartes Praesus founding, which _"only"_ 1/10 fell to chaos corruption

The story makes no sense to me. Trying something like this with say the Dark Templars would result in a immediate revolt. They've been known to disappear inquisitors that pried where they weren't wanted. Going to war with them has been done before,by the Space Wolves,and that didn't end well for the Inquistion.

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Honestly it wasn’t a net loss. Its a huge symbolic show off that even those who hide in the darkest reaches aren’t fully safe from Imperial retribution.

Given how much the inquisition lies about their own history, for good reason, i have a feeling they realize that them burning the enemies backyards might just remind them “oh hey those bastards are still alive”

@@KalashVodka175​​⁠it’s one of if not the largest ever gathering of Astartes since the Horus Heresy with just about the combined strength of three entire legions being almost entirely wiped out/getting corrupted (also the largest corruption of loyalist Astartes since the Heresy). Chaos would welcome the Imperium trying to enact this sort of retribution more often

Maybe we'll soon get the video on Malekith that he mentionned in... What... 2018 I think ...? Edit : I checked he actually mentionned in november 2019 when doing the Shadow Warriors so it's been merely 4 years

Hey, you kept track. Congrats! 😊

Well, he's been a little busy doing little things, short videos like... Vraks.

The Loremaster is never early, this is an established fact.

Someone needs to tally up every time Arch has done this lol ngl it's a nice Easter egg everytime I listen to one of his older videos 😂

Or the "Heretical" Chapters in the Badab War. 😎

Laminators

⁠@@Marinealverwho the heck are the Laminators??? Do they laminate things?

​@@Azorees-oj5zrlet's just say they have a run of bad luck....

@@mbp1652 so they’re cousins of the Lamenters?

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The greatest woman moment in the 40k universe

"Erda?" Sounds like cringe fanfiction to me. Don't bring up non-cannon please.

I think her being a bad parent fits well in the Big E family

because growing up in comfort to wage a war to unite humanity was cruel and unusual

​@@fus132 Erda is definitely canon. She's in the Siege of Terra series.

What makes it great is only two chapters from that Crusade are still loyal. Vorpal Swords is the obvious but the other one i believe is the Doom Legion. Who didnt send their entire chapter, i think they had 400 marines left or something. So if one of their guys survived he would be the doomguy of the doom legion who survived his own doom.

Noice TTS reference. Outstanding. Love it.

If emps had heard about this from Kitten...well Terra probably would have ceased to exist

the space wolves at the very LEAST would have laughed the demand away. And the Dark Angels, especially so close to the heresy.. oboi

They didn't. The Head of the Church was a heretic and condemned them to do it. Most fell to Chaos.

You'd be surprised at how quickly most Astartes Chapters accused of Heresy would jump on the chance to clean their name. Short story, Warp Storms occured in their home turfs, and the Ecclesiarchy accused them of being impure. Their Chapter Masters proposed a Crusade of Penitence, and Basileus said "Good idea, but you'll have to go into the Eye of Terror!" And then, hijinks ensued. 😂

@@thorveim1174 it´d be in the lines of "Oh look he mysteriously died. what a shame." and that would have been the end of it.

The chosen of the Dark Princess are blessed with supernatural charisma.

Nah, they had just been playing a lot of DMC and were hyped up on boomer white Monster.

@@KyleJordanGaming DMC's OG Dante (not the 2013's DmC donte) would permanently killing chaos gods like boss stages against Mundus since DMC1

"Wait. What do you mean by 'Huron was right?'"

Shekelberg?..

I read that he actually was. Then again, 40k lore is often a jumbled mess. 😂

Sometimes his genius.....its almost frightening

I don't get the reference. 😅 I thought it was a Donner Party joke, but there certainly was just as much cannibalism.

@@Thecommander248 A reference to the Top Gear UK car show under it's iconic trio of presenters. They would usually receive a challenge of doing something more or less dumb ( varying from '' find and travel to the source of the Nile '' to '' make a limousine out of a regular car ''). This would usually be followed by presenter Jeremy Clarkson saying '' how hard can it be ? '' with predictable results...

@@victoriencharnot555 Thank you! I appreciate you taking my question seriously.

Whoah, spoilers. Haven't seen that far into any LP that I've watched. I don't mind this spoiler though, just motivates me more to go watch that.

Don't worry they are all wonderfully tended for in the warp under the kind and pleasant authority of the blood god, the bdsm god, and the disease god.

​@@ChazTheYouthfulwhat about the squid god

@@moxtordoki96we don’t talk about Bruno

Especially vs a force that counts that number as initial contact losses

Well, they couldn't send 40k marines. It would be a bit too other nose now, wouldn't it?

You're thinking of The Warp. The Eye cannot just regenerate like The Warp does. While it holds many benefits of the warp, it is not fully the realm of Chaos. It still must obey some rules of reality, that is why corrupted mortals are able to not judt survive, but thrive in that _hellish_ place.

Considering that most traitor warbands/legionares was at the seige of terra. They are by and large warriors, seige masters, master duelists and carrying gifts of the warp to a man. A single chaos marine is equal to most space marine squads in just how dangerous, devious and strong they are. At least that was how it used to be even in the 41st millenium. To many only centuries has passed since the herasy. many of the fleets Chaos wields are by and large the very same ships that they used to run havoc across the galaxy under Horus. The first few black crusades the marines participating the herasy was mere years perhaps a decade past, while for the imperium over three thousand years had passed. So when it comes to numbers, by and large, Traitor Chaos suffers no losses or upkeep costs while in the eye. hence why the black crusades happen so far in between. They build their numbers over what they see as decades, using resources and manpower income thay flows into the eye over centuries and millenia.

Well if not for this, it could have been much less than 500 years, based on what we know that nigh on infinite fleet they ran into could have been the 8th crusade, and they did so much damage to it that they delayed it by hundreds of real space years!

​@@kaplahwormFailbadon the Armless: "It is time to attack Cadia again." 30 chapters of Astartes appearing out of nowhere: "Leeroy Jenkins!"

@@MrEmiosk That is a common misconception. Time in the eye flows unpredictably. However, for the most part it is just like in our world. 1 second = 1 second in warp time. However, in warp there can be storms, currents and anomalies which can slow down passage of time hence traitors only living decades while millennia passes in real time. Likewise can also be true, mere moments can pass in real time while years can go by in the warp. There is a good story in Lorgar book where his fleet set sail and then come back immediately out of the warp. However, it was all battered and seemingly dead with only handful of space marines surviving and barely clinging to life.

My thought exactly. If few chapters almost pacified it, imagine 3 legions.

*_TUSKA KEEPS KRUMPIN' ON!!_* 😂

I feel like it would be more a head nod and just leave each other alone cause they got shit to go kill

To be fair, the inquisition did their whole edict on the man responsible and the guy in question was already dead. As for the space marine chapters that went in, remember that they choose to do this, as a lot folks trusted saint basilicus. So even if the other chapters got mad, what is there to get mad at? The main culprit is dead, and your fellow cousins in a manner of speaking, did this to themselves. As for the mortal admistration, that was 8 centuries ago. Tragic as it is, there is nothing that can be done.

​@@bc9402Plus, the Vorpal Swords had already killed everyone. 😊

It’s a big place To spread word you have to compete with both space and time, so yeah taxation really is the best method to know if a world is in trouble or not And marines don’t pay taxes

Well, it's like getting excommunicated in the Middle Ages. Sure, you can say screw the Pope, but you'll stand alone politically and socially. So imagine how bad it can be in _Warhammer 40k!_ 😏

Afaik a considerable number of chapters do follow the God-Emperor religion in some way, probably most recent chapters. A Horus Heresy venerable dreadnough would short circuit at the notion tho

This wasn't a request it was do or be labelled a heretic openly, they had a small chance of surviving the penitent crusade but less so a purge and no chance to regain their honour which Astartes are so keen on.

PURGING WITH MY KIIIIIN!

Whether he was innocent of being a servant of Chaos or not, it doesn't change the fact that it was his idea and actions that sent those chapters in there and led to 26 of them turning. He might not have been a full traitor or he might have, but the repercussions of his actions would no doubt be enough for them to want him dead and erased.

Yeah, he probably went whiter for a second reading about this. 😂

For real. From time to time you get some semblance of care and protection. But its mostly just being treated like sht

I agree. Never liked this background music. Not atmospheric enough and annoying.

You’re not wrong. Bad example tho. Giant hanky panky dungeons are pretty much mandatory for the elites in the Ecclesiarchy. Kind of like California.

Leman said he heard rumors of something called the tree of life and that it could revive the emperor from the throne fully healing him back to his Horus heresy levels of power. He headed off into the warp to check it out but that he would return either when he found the tree or when the imperium was about to fall. So basically the 40k end times. If he ever returns before then it’ll be because he gets spit out of the warp to get him to stop beating up demon princes.

I already watched Majorkill's and other loretubers' take on it, but Arch did say he'd cover it eventually.

Low bar indeed

The eye of terror is not the same as the warp. They can create anything they want in the warp. But when it comes to real space they need something to actually be there first.

The Imperium casually just up and tossed thousands of space marines into the foulest pits of hell to fight INFINITY itself. Honestly it's a miracle any of them survived at all.

Considering the way he pronounces “variant”, I’m not so sure.

@@UGNAvalon Yes but surely in all these years he must've realized.

​@@UGNAvalonAt least he's consistent.

chaos is chaotic.. what's more chaotic than a planet with all that ish on it.. there are a couple chaos gods that could have ALOT of fun with that.. god of change and god of sex/drugs/rock lol..

I just assume that their decendents are usually the ones that take over. And yea, I assume they too also took massive losses during that crusade, and were probably down to a bare skeleton crew or randos by the end of it. That be a cool side thing no? “I was born during this crusade in the eye of terror, my great great grandfather was one of the orginal crew that went in with the avenging angels at the beginning.”

well its like the chaos worlds, etc. where do they all come from? "we destroyed 400 chaos worlds, fought and endless chaos armada." no idea where they came from. who is building these endless chaos fleets? how are any regular humans alive in here? you know the writers aren't keeping track of numbers. they just invent fleets and hordes when they want them.

Some of these GW lore topics, like total army numbers, are indeed Grimderp. 😂

@@Cassandra112 On the chaos one, that’s easier to answer, since time works differently than real space, not to mention the logic of demon worlds, it’s very much possible that you can have quite a few populations of lost humans from various points in time that got stuck in the warp and became corrupted. There’s a book I recall that takes place on one of these demon worlds. As for resources, again the whole weird thing about time, can make it so that a few centuries of build up and maintenance, was only a few decades in real space. Hence why black crusades keep happening, but never one after the other, usually spaced out between certain periods.

I imagine the ships keep their geller fields up, it's also a transitional area between the warp and realspace, probably not as corrupty as the full deal

An ill arc of omens. 😂

abysmal naming convention

@@TauShasla that's the imperium in general.

“Let’s call our paradisal worlds ‘Krieg’ & ‘Damnos’ ! Nothing could go wrong with that!”

Pretty sure it got the name retroacrively.

I think he said it’d start earliest about now. Odds are it’ll be a Christmas present.

You just reminded me that I gotta finish the badab war

I'm jonesing man, I need my lore fix, these small hits of loretynal ain't cuttin it no more, I need that GOOD SHIT! 😂

Off the top of my head: Sabbat Worlds Crusade?

He did the Lamentors, and Chapter Master Valrak stole the art.

@@JoshuaKevinPerry He has? Only lamenters content I've seen from Arch was in that one series I just forgot the name of but the Lamenters were just a tiny portion of that series and didn't touch their penitent crusade.. do you happen to remember the name of the video you talk about? Edit: and yeah I remember Arch talking about the stolen art in that series.. such a freaking scummy thing to do..

​@elitereptilian200 Arch made a video about them years ago, just type in Arch Lamenters. It doesn't cover their penitent crusade though.

@@elysiankentarchy1531 yeah unfortunately it is their penitent crusade I would like to hear from Arch, his gift at and style of storytelling would be amazing fit for the Lamenters penitent crusade..