The Exorcists Chapter And The Inquisitions Plutonians. The Dark Horror Of The Broken Ones 

Not sure what is scarier. That the Inquisitors even tried this madness? Or that it might indeed be the best weapon against chaos to be found in 10,000 years.

Now all they need to do is to learn how to summon Emperor's Daemons, and Lorgar can sleep well. The most earnest dreams of his youth came true.

I don’t know what is more terrifying. The exorcists or Arch didn’t give me my “greetings and salutations.” 🤔

Thanks, Arch, for not letting this channel die. I need your brand of lore telling like the Imperium needs to burn heretics. PRAISE THE GOLDEN THRONE

"This is the closest a daemon can come to death." *laughs in Celexus Assassin*

I always loved this chapter since the Deathwatch novels featuring an Exorcist. He was put on the team to ensure the team leader never got wacky. He was to ensure this with a bolter to the leader's head

“Yes, yes, what if you made dozens of chapters like the Exorcists? You should definitely do that!” - Definitely not Tzeench whispering into Inquisitorial ears

“If you know The Enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a thousand battles.”

You need to do a video on the Ordo Minorus who thinks Horus was right 😳

So I’m an algorithm nerd, I enjoy checking analytics, and it blows my mind that both of arch’s channels (especially TheArchcast) haven’t taken off If you look at the engagement of his channels views, likes, comments in relation to his sub count Arch is regularly outperforming channels 3-4 times his size. I’m convinced he has to be shadow banned

This is the kind of lore I love Arch for. It's dark, thorough, and presented well. Also, imagine a battle brother has 30 demons trapped inside him and then he dies. The battlefield might get very chaotic very quick.

The impirium: Damn! These guys fight like demons! Inquisition: [Concerned smile]... glory to the Emperor!

"How do we stop rampant daemonic incursions into the Imperium?" "By summoning daemons of course!" Truly, how can one find flaw in such flawless logic?

"This prison cannot hold me forever. I will return and destroy your descendants." Ganondorf, last word spoken in the game Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. That really sent chills down my spine as a kid

technically you can permakill daemons, it's just really fucking hard and normally requires way too much work to be practical. Currently the easiest way to do it is the emperors sword so if Guillimain ever contact the exorcists and they opted to read him in on their daemon prison he could hypothetically just go in there and stab them all, permanently killing who knows how many daemons, hundreds, maybe thousands by now. Of course this is unlikely to happen but it would be funny if they decided to work out a system with him where he just drops by every now and then to execute daemons. He sure fucking hates them enough to go through the trouble.

I feel like the exorcists were meant to be a chill not-mary-sue version but then after they made it gw decided to nerf the grey knights. But cannonically speaking I 100% see them being made to be the diet soda version of the grey knights.

I'd like to see a video on the Xenarite sect of the Mechanicus. I love the aesthetics of admech fully integrating xenos technology.

With what is hinted at what is happening to Dorn at the end of last HH novel. It may well be a power of the line of Dorn, as Dorn may have freed himself of taint of Chaos. We know that Dorn did have pysker abilities, especially when it came to Chaos/Daemons. Just that it was not well understood ability. I suspect the secret of getting the Exorcists (if that was original name or not) to go along, even for those dumped on a daemon world. Was to simply ask them to do this, not order, explain to them the situation and what could be gained. Knowing Astartes not only would volunteered in their 2 heart beats, but by asking, not ordering them, being honest them with what was being asked and especially making it 'their choice'. Well Chaos would find little purchase in the hearts and souls of men given freewill (perhaps for first time in their lives) so to speak. I do wonder if the argument made to Grey Knights, was that they can't be everywhere. But with the Exorcists, the Grey Knights could focus on big threats while the Exorcists could be deployed anywhere and everywhere. Giving the Grey Knights help in their mission like no others could. Finally the best way to fight fire with fire, is to use 'fire fighters'. Also Arch you are not up to date, since an entire Crusade Fleet of Primaris Marines feel to Khorne and his murder curse already. Which wasn't a surprise as the Primaris were never said to be immune to Chaos only more resilient ...or at least that's what Cawl said they would be. How he tested that or if he tested it won't don't know. It would interesting if the story that the Warp was peaceful during the time of the Old Ones is not what people think. That in fact the Old Ones used prisons of flesh to trap the worst entities of the Warp in those ancient days. With the War in Heaven the Old Ones may have even freed them to use as weapons against the C'tan and the Necron. As for your daemon prison concept, it would be better to have said prison on the event Horizon of a Black Hole. Shielded from tidal forces, but also having a Deadman switch keeping it from falling in. At the same time using the time dilation from the Black Hole as part of the security system. As from the prisons perspective very little time would pass, but in reality centuries or even millennia would pass in the rest of the universe. In fact if the daemon prison would fall into the Even Horizon, it would appear to disappear to those on the outside. But from the prisons perspective time would stop and trillions of years would go by in universe before it was destroyed by the tidal forces.

It truly is amazing how dark 40k is for this chapter to be a "goog solution" against chaos 😂😂😂

I forget where but there was a mention of Demons being trapped in a Necron Tesseract vault. The idea that the demon cannot exist without the warp but cannot return to warp because the Vault does not permit it. It was the most complete and utter torture a demon could endure, eternally trying to die but being unable to live.

"So hear me out. We take Astartes, an infinitely rare and precious resource in the endless wars of the Imperium. Right? Right, so, we take them... and we start stuffing the ENTIRE EXPANSE OF THE FOUR DARK GODS OF CHAOS INTO THEM, one at a time!" And someone in the Inquisition nodded their head and said "Yeah! YEAH, this sounds like a GREAT idea! There's NOTHING about this I don't like! Let's try this! Let's actually spend the resources on trying this!" Yep. That sounds 'bout right for the state of the Imperium.

If you ever thought Lorgar's "crash course" method to create new Gal Vorbak was ruthless the Inquisition came to this without any outside influence. And sadly in both cases the results were useful enough to justify it. Though hopefully with less "about to cream their pants" joy in the Inquistion's case.

i can imagine the Lion learning of this and going. "Hmmm i know how to make this more effective." Then a loud screech is heard across the galaxy as Chaos goes berserk. With Angron being forced to lead an attack and ends up walking into a trap he nearly murders his way out of as the last message Angron receives from Khorne before being sealed is. "You are pathetic." Than you now have a special time bomb.

This is the truedark heirs to antichaos forces within the imperium besides the blanks. I always thought the Grey Knights as too.... Nible and Bright for 40k, where the Exorcist were both Eldritch and desperate enough to rightfully fit not just the lore but for what they are fighting against.

There is an interesting trivia regarding chapter master Enoch. Trismegistus is the name of a mythical mystic, Hermes Trismegistus, supposed founder of hermeticism. And he's sometimes identified with the biblical Enoch. Geedubs loves to do the occasional "subtle" nod to some obscure historical (or not so historical) figures, so if someone knows more than me on this then there might be some interesting parallels between the hermeticists and exorcists or plutonians. One might be the plutonians not existing on paper, since hermeticism is not its own ideology, it's practiced by members of all kinds of different mutually exclusive religions and schools of thought, just like the plutonians have to be hiding within various factions of the inquisition.

A shame all that warp resistance seemingly does nothing against Lucius' curse

I don't know about doing that "repetitive process" on the Broken Ones is such a good idea, seems to me like is just one bad day away from creating a gestalt daemonhost with the power of an entire legion of daemons at their fingertips (in short the idea of putting them orbiting a star sounds like the most sensible part of this plan.)

Honestly that's some potent irony that the "Exorcist" chapter is focused on keeping demons locked in a body rather than their namesake.

My biggest question is why don’t the grey knights send an elite force to kill, like truly destroy, the thousands of demons, inside the broken ones. As this way the demons are truly destroyed, like they keep summoning demons and then have the bound bodies, have their spirt destroyed.

One of the many videos I've been hoping for from Arch. Imagine if their secret was to ever be leaked?

I can imagine a broken exorcist marine dying and blowing up like the ghost vault in Ghostbusters

I am a Raven Guard player but MAN - I love the Exorcists. I may do a single army to just put in the shelf if I can’t play them.

"Fight fire with fire" a phrase no one should think about in terms of 40k. But here we are, the most terrifying Space Marines chapter. But one I would not mind helping me out with how loyal they are. It might be a nightmare with them summoning daemons, but they are immune to daemonic possession. So that's some good in a sea of "Fuck no!"

Maybe the Inquisition should have a Pariah breeding program to combat Chaos

The fact that a chapter having 5 more marines than necessary or telling an uppity inquisitor to get bent causes them to be declared excommunicate traitoris but THIS is A ok gives perfect reasoning why people don’t trust the inquisition.

Blessed are those who walk in the light of our ethernal Lord Inquisitor Arch, may his light lead our way to a more Interesting future.

A really radical move would be trying to power the emperors Golden throne with the unstoppable tides of daemons trying to enter through the web way portal...

The exorcist "broken ones" reminds me the "legion" demon from the bible. The whole "we are legion for we are many". So the broken ones being able to contain a legion of demons each, especially if we are talking about the 40k definition of "legion" is ALOT.

what if you stored a thousand daemons in one exorcist then had a blank kill him would it also kill all the daemons?

I do like that the Primaris Marines are starting to have some flaws shown with them. Unless I missed something this kinda implies that while Primaris Marines are compatible with the Exorcist's methods the first born Marines might actually be better suited for the job long term.

Would lorgar be proud of his wayward sons? They are on the opposite sign from him, but they are doing what he would want as well.

This reminds me of a very nice short fanfic. An inquisitor currently in control of a space marine strike force tries to prevent a chaos cult from summoning a deamon using some cursed set of armor. e's just barely too late, the ritual is interrupted but one coltist makes off with the shield and manages to summon a daemon of khorne. Being born from a shield, the inquisitor advises not to attack but to subdue, as attacking a shield would only strenghen it. He then kinda just wrestles the deamon to the ground. Daemon is them imprisoned. The argument for lack of purge is, as mentioned in the video, it's just gonna come back and be more pissed. Throwing the containment cell into a random moon's core will delay the issue, butsomebody's gooa be dump, release it and deamon is now über-pissed. So the inqusitor tries to tame the deamon. The marines dislike the thought. Random Orks happen. Not gonna spoil how it ends, however: The deamon is a girl and the taming includes pancakes.

As always in everything the solution is "I'm not trapped in hear with you, you're trapped in here with me"

Finally, lorgar’s kids get a chance to prove they are loyal after all.

Could one not weaponize an eldar soul stone to trap demons in an inert rock? Just curious. Not like he imperium knows about the eldar's little soul traps, but you'd think someone would have tried this idea.

Noteworthy that their ritual is pretty much how Big E locked Drach'nyen in a sword. That his sons can manage to achieve this with less powerful daemons is... to be expected.

Arch, we have Chaos Primaris now. Arks of Omen: Angron had him corrupt a whole lot of them.

Trazyn somewhere in a dark corner: "These will make a fine addition to my collection."

For when you don't need your elite cannon fodder to survive the war.

If the Grey knights were the Spartan 2, the Exorcists become Spartan 4, basically budget Grey Knights, a lot more available, a lot easier to put together, and reasonably capable to produce similar results except very FUBAR cases...

There was one group in one of the novels. Not sure if it was the plutonians or another one but they came up with a technique to split a daemon into pieces and then instead of possessing a person they would use pieces of the daemon to make several different daemon weapons. And then would scatter them to the astral winds. As long as a single weapon was intact the daemon it was made from wouldn’t reform and would just keep the pieces hidden away for as long as possible

Turns out the only true way to defeat chaos was to exploit GMOD spawn camping and walling them in Stgggs style.

I did read somewhere that a chapter of thousand sons joined the fists. Perhaps the Exorcists could be "fists successors" using the geneseed from these legionaires.

This sounds like something your average possessed chaos marine would be profoundly offended by. "Don't ever talk to me or my daemonnette again."

So they tried to make Imperial Solitaire's this can only go well, wonder when the absolute worst moment for all the demons they "banished" will reinhabit their Astartes motel and compel them to turn on other forces.

I still stick by the Earlier Canon stated in the Deathwatch Books by the Great Steve Parker. Exorcists are Grey Knights Successors and the Reason they can fight off Deamon Possession is due to the Purity of the Emperors Gift Gene-Seed.

"the imperium found the silver bullet against chaos but cant fire it because it looks to much like chaos" Just summed up my current relation to the world

I started an Exorcist army right before the White Dwarf came out was planning on making them sons of Sanguinius so threw off all my plans ordered bits from all over the world to make them my own but...details. They are on hold for the moment but still going to finish them. Even though at the time not much was known they were still bad asses and wanted that army.

More good stuff! Thanks Arch!

While everyone else is glaring at the mountain, praying, and telling it to go away, one man grabs his shovel and pick and attacks the mountain. Sure, the mountain is hurt, but it is still a mountain. The man will never kill the mountain…. but if he had a child and they also dedicated their life to the mountain’s destruction, as did their children, and theirs, and so on, and so on…. Even mountains may die.

considering their affinity, it would make sense that damaging a tzeetch demon in a psychic battle would give you 'secrets' it knows, as such knowledge is their biggest strength. it would be an interesting twist to them because that would also create temptation in the entity that fought them to use that knowledge... and even if they don't it just gives that faction more power because now here's one more person with specific knowledge of chaos and more importantly belief in it.

I wonder what happens to a daemon if you throw it into a supermassive black hole. The gradient of the gravity field isn't so strong as to rip the physical forms of the daemons apart, and so they wouldn't be destroyed in the usual sense. As long as whatever happens inside the event horizon doesn't tear their flesh prisons apart, you could just toss the Broken Ones into Sagittarius A* and call it a day. Or I guess you could toss them into stasis cells, that could work too.

They were better suited to being a Grey Knights successor than the abomination retcon that GW did.

Daemons, upon "false death", are banished for a long time from my understanding. From their perspective it's not that long, but from the perspective of realspace its quite long. I don't think killing a daemon near a warp rift is pointless : the daemon won't be able to come back in time to see the end of the battle.

The first Dawn of War basically implies this was the Eldars approach to Demons. They try to stop Angelos from destroying the Maledictum, which contains an imprisoned greater demon.

Can't believe I'm endorsing this.... but do it, in mass! Capture all the greater demons with willing martyrs.

You make a Demon into a sword that eats Demons.

Recongregationists would be an interesting group to cover as well.

Thanks for the video, Arch. Love every piece of your content, and I hope you're doing well.

Hey Arch. Do you have plans for any longer lore series like the war for badab? I know that the war for badab never reached its full potencial due to the channel deletion thing but still wondered if you might do another similar lore series in the future. Also keep up the good work, i love all of your videos!

As far a I know the exorcists are the closest thing to blank/pariah/untoutchable Astartes.

They are the Ghostbuster's Ghost Trap in Space Marine form.

Re: the Broken Ones. Sounds like those Exorcists function similar to how the old Ork "Possessed Warphead" Weirdboy (read: Ork psyker brains becoming outright roach motels for daemons dumb enough to go inside), except the Exorcists don't use their Broken Ones as weapons/fighters (because all those daemons stuck inside the Ork Weirdboy's head give him a YUGE boost in Warp-based abilities (different from Ork 'WAAAGH!! reality-warping psyker shenanigans'.)

Man arch makes the best 40k lore videos, only 40k content i still regularly cosume

Quite interesting to say the least, would love to hear more about your speculations for both daemon and maybe even which chapters could fall to chaos or heresy in the future

I know Arch hates the idea of Cawl making better space Marines, but I wonder if it would be more palatable if you thought of it more as Cawl failing to create Custodes?

45:40 yeah, this all stinks of a long term sceam by Tzeentch

These guys are like the 40K Ghostbusters of Grimdark. They are both the proton packs, and the containment grid.

The Exorcists are my favorite chapter. B/c when the Grey Knights talk about being the best at fighting Chaos the Exorcists say "hold my beer".

After watching this, I want to introduce the Exorcists into my Dark Heresy game. A dark, disturbing... brooding presence to be around even. Commanded by inquisitors who have the demeanor yet, still technically absolutely loyal.

5:50 "Who you gonna call?" "GHOST BUSTERS!"

Rather scary purposefully getting people possessed by demons and hoping the person can fight there way back and rid themselves of the demon. Have to wonder if a demon was ejected into a black hole, could it escape back to the warp then?

6:30 (Deep under the red sands of Mars, for a brief moment, there was heard deep, pained, angry, laughter.)

Lol, they're the Space Ghostbusters.

Ya know the more i think about it, the more sense the grey knights giving the exorcists acess to restricted info and even encourageing the project makes sense. The grey knights are at most a couple chapters worth of marines and likely far fewer then a normal chapter and are beyond valuable. Having a chapter of "disposable" marines that are to them (grey knights) as guardsmen or even augmented humans are to space marines makes sense. Send the "lesser" chapter after day to day threats that even you yourself said that otherwise they grey knights would need to destroy. Then they can focus their limited resources on real threats while also making sure that "minor" threats dont spiral out of control and fuether divide their limited resources. And with the method working so well, it would shock me if there went at least a few hidden chapters that do exactly the same thing and are spread out to stomp out moderate fires that normal forces cant. And if its beyond THEIR abilitys then you call in the grey knights and delay until they get there or slow down the advance as much as posible otherwise.

Great video and love the Exorcist's chapter as an idea.

Grey Knights: Let's say we give you all this stuff. What do we get out of it? Plutonians: Baby brothers. Grey Knights: Say no more.

My lord inquisitor, there IS a way to stamp out chaos!!! Exterminatis EVERYTHING!

Good that boys in grey where introduced to the idea from the begining. Otherwise their meeting could be rather heated.

I liked Oculus’s version of it, and was excited to see your take on the lore. Both are good. Well done Arch.

So just like metaphorical demons, the best way to combat them is to face them.

Always happy to see these via Arch

Even this guy's can't even defeat Lucius's curse in the Hammer and bolter series it looks like it's up to the grey knights to do the job.

Oh boi arch 40k vid. Hyped

What if.. Hear me out.. We make a demonic sticky wasp trap?

Rogal Dorn would be utterly horrified that some of his gene-sons were involved in this horrorshow.

Lorgar's bastard sons. Thanks for the video!

Literally fighting fire with FIRE!

So glad the Loyalist Gal Vorbak are getting an episode. Thanks for the video.

Danke Arch!