The EMPERORS CHILDREN Legion in the HORUS HERESY | Legion III : Origins & Lore 

NOTE: No idea where the intro card went on this video, but since it's already got loads of comments and views I'll leave it for now!

I don’t know if it was intentional or not but, I really love how the fall of the Emperor’s Children can be read as a metaphor for addiction. I find them so fascinatingly human in their hubris and arrogance.

Arbitor Ian is back, he's a Perpetual.

The illustration at 4:11 looks like the beakie is cracking into a can to eat a nice post-skirmish snack, and I don't think I'll ever unsee that no matter how much I know that he's meant to be putting away his battle brother's progenoid gland.

I highly recommend the Horus Heresy book, Fulgrim. It goes in to lengthy, gruesome detail about the fall of both Fulgrim and the Emperor's Children, and it reads like a horror novel.

I used to do odds and ends of commercial writing back in the day, and by fluke of being on the right email list at the right time got to do the Emperor's Children's Index Astartes article for White Dwarf 255 (I think it was 255? The one with a bunch of dwarfs in the snow on the cover, I'm at work and it's at home). GW's own folks have added a tonne of layers since then of course, but I'm still a little proud of seeing bits and pieces I made up enduring in the newer works, like the Laer and Eidolon. Even snuck in a passing reference to my chaos sorceress Sylelle; either nobody editing it noticed, or they didn't mind. (Funny thing, I never actually has a chaos army back then, Syl was just a spinoff of some background I'd written for my craftworlders. Since the beginning of this year I've been slowly painting a Slaaneshi army, after 20 years out of the hobby. Not painting them very well, mind you, but I'm not going to fall into the perfectionism trap like they did.)

Fulgrim's fall (and what he did to Ferrus) is a true tragedy. Great video as always!

Slaanesh blessed recovery from Ian after that Inquisition visit in the previous vid..

So glad to see Ian was cleared of charges by the Imperial Inquisition!☺️

The history of the Emperor's Children: A beautiful group of people was scared of deformity and ugliness. Then they learned to embrace their inner beauty

The second they make an Emperors Children codex I'd probably make an army. Always liked them

As much as I love the HH stuff for them I think my favourite character/story to come from the 3rd is Fabius Bile, that trilogy is easily my favourite Chaos pov story in the Black Library.

Even when I tried to created a loyalists chapter embodying the original spirit of the emperors children I felt dirty throughout the process going down a perfectionist rabbit hole trying to find a fitting chapter symbol or color scheme in the end I abruptly killed the project before slanesh could claim me.

No title card?

My favorite faction and army of heart. I give you a PERFECT like before even watching the video.

I appreciate that the LED colour in the case matches the legion being discussed.

My first ever painted army was Emperor's Children chaos marines, all done in pastels. I do hear the siren call of 40k tabletop if only to redo my Emperor's Children as during the Heresy.

I like these guys. Wish there were more people playing and painting Emperor’s Children.

Some fun III Legion facts that I enjoy: The IIIrd were (as far as we know) along with the Ist, the only legions to fight during the Terran Unification Wars. Famously leading the campaign to take Antarctica. AFAIK no other legions we're deployed until the sack of Luna. The IIIrd had sent a batch of clean gene-seed to Terra during the early days of the gene blight. This significant portion of their gene reserve never made it to Terra, further increasing the speed at which the IIIrd dwindled. The Palentine Aquila is ANY two headed Imperial eagle. It symbolizes the alliance of equals between Terra and Mars and became the symbol of the Imperium after the treaty of Olympus Mons. Prior to this the Imperial symbol was the single headed Raptor Imperialis with lightning bolts. In Greek mythology this bird was known as an Aquila. The term "Palentine" is to distinguish these two eagle symbols. This tells us that the IIIrd legion were granted the title Emperor's Children after the unification of the inner Solar System.

This is the best I've heard the story of the Emperor's Children told! Looking forward to the next one

This channel is awesome in many ways, and the intro and outro music are a trigger of dopamine for me

Brilliantly summarised! Certainly amongst the most interesting Legiones Astartes. Looking forward to Perturabo's metal boys!

This is the best series EVER

This is a wonderful series and one I look forward to as the week goes on. Bravo!

Loving your style with these videos Ian!

very cool video, I've been playing them for over two years and I really appreciated the attention to detail!

If there is one common theme of the Traitors it is that they held there were no limits. Whether it be artistic perfection, rage, knowledge, fear or raw ambition, the Traitors held there was no line they shouldn’t cross. The loyalists by comparison were those who held they would pass their power onto humanity, that their time as warriors would end, or simply there were things they shouldn’t f*ck about with. They knew there were lines that shouldn’t be crossed.

Great intro for this video. Glad to see you eluded that purgation kill team.

Those flying highest fall the lowest. Excellent background, great video, thank you!

I can't imagine how much work it takes to put these together but I am delighted you do it.

Great as always !

Loving these videos.

I really enjoy that you bring new or original art to accompany your vids.

This is a great series, can't wait for the Alpha Legion!

My favorite Heresy Legion. Another great video!

Thanks for sharing the back story of the 3rd Legion.

Great video, great content!

My favorite legion

loving this series!

Haven't played or collected 40k in years, I have a bunch of stripped Berzerkers that I first bought over 15 years ago, but I have to say, these videos are doing a lot to reignite my love of the hobby. The lore is really interesting and has progressed a lot since I was into it as a teenager (the prime of 3rd Ed), but these small explainers are definitely reignigthing my interest. The lore is so deep and complex but your videos do a fantastic job of giving the important info and the "feel" of the topic of each video. Really good work man.

I always liked Noise Marines, and the HH models do look neat, but if I built an army it would be a Loyalist faction

Thanks for the video.

Well done! My second favourite legion👌

This was a great analysis of how the Emperor's Children fit into the narrative of 40k. It would be totally awesome if you started to mention significant appearances of these different factions in the fiction. Knowing which books different factions show up in makes it easier to find books about the faction(s) you play.

Very good video!

So good Ian wish I could thumb this up 5x

as I mentioned before in comments to your previous videos Ian I haven't been into 40K since 4th edition, so it's interesting to see what has been added to the background since then... I remember their extreme perfectionism and the war against the Laer but not that the gene-seed corruption started before their fall to Chaos nor that they started Fabius Bile style experimentation on the geneseed, let alone the extreme tactical specialisation

I think you forgot the title card.

Thanks these are very interesting so far I like the 1st a lot more than I did before. Like everyone else I want to know more about the 2nd and the 3rd I’m even less interested in than before but awesome videos

Emperors Children, once heard “The Aristocrats” joke and made it their game plan.

Dam evil chaos sword ! 😳

Brilliant Chanel, you offer a very different thing to other 40k youtubers

Please cover the Scouring and the legion wars within the Eye of Terror. It's fascinating watching the traitors after Horus' death.

Can’t wait for the night lords AVE DOMITUS NOX

Fabius Bile is easily my favourite CSM. The book trilogy is awesome it sucks Josh renoylds moved on from BL

When I first heard about 40k, it was about the loyalist Emperor's Children and how amazing they were, and I fell in love. Imagine my shock when I found out my favorite legion turned traitor. So pissed. Thought about making a chapter of unknown geneseed that was suspiciously like the EC, but went with Flesh Tearers instead.

Ah, Fulgrim. You coulda been best boy, but that's the tragedy isn't it?

Dubstep slowly grows louder

I don't believe for a second that Fulgrim in any way beat the demon that possessed him, I assumed that was a lie he told Perturabo.

The emperors non malcador aquilla was single headed (possibly stylised as the single wing talon/beak and legs were familiar with) Eagle with loads of lightning up to as recently as the interview with a custodeii/valdor pov book/s and possibly even the primarchs:alpharius one.

So the reason why the Emperor's Children changed their colours from metallic purple to black and pink, in canon, is _because they ran out of purple paint._ Or at least they were unable to obtain the rare pigment needed to make the purple they used.

Everytime I think I'm over the Emperor's children, I see a gorgeous painted mini and feel the temptation again

Those placed on the highest pedestals have the farthest to fall.

Da Party-Bois!!!

Your the only one to mention that taking a sword it part of a duel, fulgrim killing the lair and taking the blade was signifying there end. But having known nothing of choas lacked the proper defense

Who wants there to be a Chaos Fulgrim vs Clone Fulgrim box set?

Emperor’s Children: The pre-Fall Eldar of the Imperium

The Ancient awaits.

First in here to give it a like!

What's the book that you pull those quotes from? Seems like a cool book to have a flick through

For the Emperor/Engagement!

I'd really like to know what legion came from Merica lol

If these videos are too help getting started with the HH, what I could recommend is not just the showing off models/conversions from the fandom, but also some general/vague guidance on what can be done to better invoke the diversity of each legion. A prominent example would give right now is combining peices of the heresy legion and 40k csm bits for the sons of horus

"whole batch" lol

I think it would cool if the IG could use an Astartes as commander.

uh oh, looks like something screwys going on with the graphics?

I'm pretty new to 40k, so maybe someone can help me out. What exactly happened to the 3rd legion recruits that had to be diverted to other legions when the gene-seed of the 3rd was corrupted and lost early in the crusade? Did any of these diverted recruits become notable figures in other legions? I hope someone can direct me to a book or some other lore that has an answer

The Phoenician approves

Slaaaaaa nesh

So I have a way on giving a justifiable reason on fulgrim choosing to be a demon prince and it won't change the lore that much. Fulgrim wants to become a demon prince so that he can become perfect enough to overthrow slaanesh and take its place.

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word bearers next please

7:41 , guys wearing a 2 in the art and not a 3 lol

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emperor’s children… or boss’s babies 🤔

I wanted to pat you on the back for making "Gothic" sound more like Latin.

Having just read Saturnine saying that Rogal defeated Fulgrim feels like imperial propaganda. Did he defeat him? really?

*Slaanesh Dance noises*

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"Hope you're gonna do a video on US once you're done with the Astartes Legions!"

It's like GW foretold Instagram and plastic surgery obsession

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