The Blood Swords & Star Dragons The Ultimate Space Marine Bros - Went On A Penitent Crusade Together 

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"Bro, I'm going on a pentient crusade." "Bro... You did nothing wrong, bro." "I love you, bro, but I fucked it up." "Nah, bro. Can't let you do it-" "Bro!" "Let me finish, bro. I can't let you do it... *Alone."* "Bro..."

I do love the idea of the Blood Swords showing up to the Devastation of Baal and the conversation going, Dante: "Are you guys one of ours?" Daggan: "Well we are called the BLOOD Swords." Dante:"...screw it, that's good enough for me."

When your battle brothers ask you to go to war... you only ask " who's battle barge we gonna take " ( the town reference)

The star dragons are probably what Ferrus Manus wanted his sons to be.

"Are you seriously crusading alone" "No, I am with my battle brothers"

Congrats you Just unlocked coop campaign. Xenos/heretics/traitors : *scream in agony*

Ah yes ritual scarification the Salamanders have never done that.

There is something to be said for the possibility that the Star Dragons being uncommonly nice for Iron Hands is a result of intentional selection by that parent chapter to be rid of a faction of their own membership who significantly deviated from the norms of the chapter in a fashion now unlike the Black Templars being selected from among the Imperial Fists. They were entirely too nice, so the Iron Hands sent them off to found a new chapter simply so they could be rid of the non-conformity in their ranks.

Well to be fair, Stormwalkers aka pre-Ferrus Iron Hands might have not been the most chill dudes but they were known to coordinate really well with mortal auxillia. I lot of legions worked very differently before meeting their primarchs and a long separation should be able to do the same. After all Silver Skulls exist.

Yes you really know who the good guys are when they stay that way even in hell.

That inquisitor made a huge mistake, the other three's servants rely on warpfuckery heavily. Khorne does not.

bacon on a fat mans dinner plate \ that cut me deep Arch that cut me deep lol

Once more, the power of friendship is proven implacable

Blood Dragons not being real Blood Angel but being accepted among them despite this is probably due to how chill they are.

Simillarities to another lizard-related chapter? Oh, of course! Hydra dominatus, brother, Hydra dominatus.

"Get in loser we're going on a crusade"

7:20 Definitely Iron Hands descendants, who else would willingly turn themselves into a modded RGB PC case.

Aren't they technically cousins? Let's go bowling!

I love the Star dragons they don’t get enough love

Ferrus definitely needs to get a paternity test i feel like vulkan owes him a lot of child support

I wouldn't think that being a humorless dour individual is a genetic trait within the iron hands. That's just how Medusa is. And even then you get guys like sabak Wayland who has humors with his raven guard buddy cop that goes above and beyond what you expect from the iron hands.

Ah! I remember these two chapters in from the short story 'Accursed Eternity' - a part of the 'Architect's of Fate' anthology. (Great Anthology of the old 'Space Marines Battles' series - really recommend.) Even though it was, as I said, short, it really did a good job conveying the comradery between them. It's great to see a video about these lesser known heroes. 🤟

So the blood swords and star dragons basically have a chapter wide bromance??

Even the Star Dragons’ sigil looks like a barely edited Salamanders sigil.

Oh the obscurity, the sweet obscurity

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The Blood Swords aren’t the only ones to have a Dreadnought chapter master, Carab Cullen of the Red Scorpions is currently a dreadnought chapter master

The canonical "Bro Trip"

Take an ironhand a salamander apinch of ultramarines scatter over bed of rice, and you have StarDragons

The Star dragons are said to be from the iron hands, crazy when you think about it?

*insert picture of Ahnold shaking carl powers' hand

"We´re going on a penitent crusade" "Oh? Hold up we´ll get the big guns, it´ll just take a moment" "You dont have to lending your relic weaponry to aid us" "Who´s said lending? we are coming along." "... LET`S GO BROTHER!"

OBSCURE SUCCESSOR TIME YEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH

Sounds like someone's fanfiction that made it into canon. Which can be fun, occasionally.

Merry Christmas Arch, glad to help spread some cheer even in the 023.M3 and thanks for all your hard work on your content. One other thing on Daggan. At Baal he stepped between Gabriel Seth and Mephiston to stop them from going at it. Being between those two is a position not even an Astartes would want to be in.

Bjorn the Fell Handed lead the Space Wolves for Centuries as a dreadnaught. As the First Great Wolf after Leman himself, the Wolves consider Bjorn to be the "Soul" of the chapter and stubbornly refused to let Bjorn die, even going so far was ignoring their own protocols as the Space Wolves tend to save the Dreadnaughts for marines far less damaged than Bjorn was.

Went on a Penitent Crusade together, no homo

My headcannon is their both loyalist alpha legion descendants that began as trained Blood Angels and Iron Hands mimics, and when the heresy happened they just kept doing what they were doing since they never got told to do anything else and eventually the Empire just assumed they had made them in one of the many lost/forgotten/hush-hush foundings.

interesting lore on these two chapters, we could sure use more about them.

the cheeky little salamander image poking up was great

LORE FOR THE LORE GODDDD!!!!!!

Just loved a Salamander sliding out of the corner :D

So we have two later founding chapters that act like two separate chapters combined who are buddy buddy with eachother. My first thought is cursed founding chapters where they tried to combine geneseed.

Buuut.... Do the star dragons also listen to space hiphop whilst eaten salamander fried eldar? Or start breakdancing when facing a harlequin? Or hug any creature they encounter? Do they excel at basketball?

Bloods and Crips... but with more blood, guns and chest hair.

So glad you covered this one, Arch! I saw it mentioned in comments and wondered. Reminded me of Baldur's Gate 2 when Minsc dies in the fight with Irenicus, but choose to leave the Lodge to join the PC in Hell merely because the PC called him.

Another Point for the Star Dragons Being sons of Vulkan. Is that the Salamanders do practice ritual scarification if a sort.

My little Astates, friendship is magic.

What if they are both hybrids? Like the star dragons are obviously iron hands, and salamanders. Then the blood swords are blood angels, and thousand sons. Makes the combined penitent crusade all the cooler

15:44 there’s been cases of dreadnoughts being active for thousands of years. The venerable ancient Rylanor is an example. It’s just very rare. So an active chapter master dreadnaught doesn’t stretch of the imagination too terribly much.

Blood Swords and Star Dragons: BESTIES!

The artwork at 8:05 is amazing, I would love to make a model based entirely and purely off of that

[libationes deis algorithmi]

Rouge trader game is amazing..... when it works.

"like bacon on a fatman's dinner plate" not even a minute in and their is a reason to laugh.

Even if they are related to the Iron Hands, there are successors chapters who are the opposite to the parent character. Just look at the Ultramarines.

I got your back brother...

Thank you for the lore, Arch!

My suspicion is that the Blood Swords are of Angron’s stock

Ahh yes, Friendship is Magic: Warhammer 40k edition

Great video and 2 cool chapters with not enough lore. A book featuring these 2 would be amazing.

Merry Archmas

Star dragons and blood swords and their remarkable friendship….. Why am I picturing one chapter all having handle bar moustaches and the other all having personalised leather New York policeman’s hats with chain wrapped around it.

Bjorn was a chapter leader and dread for 6 centuries till he decided to start going to sleep.

Was listening to you in the background, glanced over at just the right time XD that salamander.

28:50 i disagree, if GW makes it so that the galaxy only gets darker and darker then eventually people start calling out, ok how much darker can it get before this ends. I personally like things getting better. And just because things are getting better doesnt mean it cant be grim dark, it can be slower, it can be painful, there can slip ups and mistakes. Things can be better and good while also grim dark.

The [redacted] slowly emerging in the [redacted]-[redacted] corner was a nice touch

Sweet sweet lore

Arch said penitent correctly, good job.

Accursed Eternity, was that the story where one of Star Dragons marines gets stuck "out of phase"/backwards in time? Iirc in one of the Space Marines Battles books. For those curious, the artwork artist is John Stone and shows Emperor's Dragons legion(?)/chapter. Got good stuff, check the rest.

The iron hands that are like salamanders.

Keep doing the Emperor's work, Arch.

8:04 is an Astartes from a homebrew Chapter called the Emperor's Dragons. I haven't read up on their fan-lore, but I've seen a number of authentic-looking illustrations done of them. Artist who creates the art for them is named *John Stone* but I'm not sure if he's also the writer for their lore as well.

46 seconds in, and I'm already mentioned in the video. Thanks Arch. 😂

I feel like darkness is currently overpowered in general and not being diminished in any way for a glimmer of hope to shine through. Makes sense, given that GW is now barely even making the slightest effort to conceal the close ties between their lore and their sales...

So basically the OG Iron Hands try to go full tech priest wannabe, and these guys try to emulate the Electro-priests. Except only enough to walk around with cool LED lighting and not to the level of being able to shoot lightning and having Xenomorph vision because their eyes have melted out of their sockets...

Christmas came early, lads! Arch pronounced “penitent” correctly for the first time!

I really enjoyed this.

Star Dragons are just cyberpunk siblings of the Salamders. Vulkan Lives!

As an off question Arch, Is there any instances of exterminatus being deployed against an abandoned ship wreckage? like a hulk (a space hulk if you will) id be very interested to know

Rogue trader is pretty good. That said watch out for a *LOT* of bugs post Chapter 2.

Just my hot take, I love the fact the warhammer universe is looking bright and cheery especially as a whole new fan base is being formed, as when tyranids, necrons, mthat krork that trazyn has...suddenly enters the picture...gazgul mag uruk thraka....and it ends up being a trick of tzeentch all along....this is my hope

Bro’s before ho- ..the emperor’

100 Billion is an insane number of losses. That's at least a paddling.

That fucking bg music.

First I've heard of either chapter. I'm instantly fans of both.

the star dragons a totally not salamanders successor maybe they were iron hands who ended up hanging around the salamanders after the istvan incident and adopted many of their ideals practices and traditions and demeanor or someone at gw is an absolute lazy clown that made these up and just threw a dart at a dartboard of chapters to have them be a successor of

If only the Star Dragons were green instead of blue.... so many missed opportunities for Mario Bros. jokes....

So you're saying I should field a 5 man assault squad of Blood Swords that are just followed around everywhere by a 10 man tactical squad of Star Dragons and see if anyone gets the joke? 😁

Arch is next Friday going to be the sabbat crusade because that would make for a great early Christmas present

Neverending self-inflicted Penitent Crusade? Massive value on honor and loyalty? No blood-curse? And most tellingly, a Dreadnaught with the sheer willpower and drive to stay active for centuries and even ascending to Chapter Master in this state? My dudes, I think the Blood Swords may have a good chunk of Black Templar genestock. Edit: as a later founding aswell, don't put it past Cawl or someone sniffing about in his footsteps to have tested mixing geneseeds, a sort of... "Live Test" of thier genecraft so to speak.

Most Space Marines are like me in anthropology class. I'll just be sitting there thinking you know what? I don't actually like people

Haven't seen bro levels this high since Saul tarvitz bro'd down with Nathaniel garro

Star Dragons can only be Ultramarines or Salamanders successors.

I see Bjorch has finally learned how to pronounce Penitent

Arch I don't know how you missed this but the star dragons have a connection to the Katan, and the dragon of Mars

The 40k buddy cop movie.

Two of the best alpha legion successor chapters.

If yall think loyalist Primarchs are a bad thing to bring back, one question: How does it feel to be WRONG?