THE CARCHARADONS - THE SPACE SHARKS CHAPTER OF SPACE MARINES
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- THE CARCHARADONS - THE SPACE SHARKS CHAPTER OF SPACE MARINES
A lesser known chapter of Adeptus Astartes, space marines, who prowl the dark void of space at the edges of the Imperium.
A straight read through of the information, as I am working on some major projects and did not get time to make a full tale for this one. We shall in the future through. They are too much fun not to see on the channel in the future.
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Space Sharks: Remember Brothers! Loyalists are friends not food.
the red tithe suggest otherwise
They were mean to the Lamenters.
Define "friend"
Yeah, yeah. Let just hope they don't smell any blood.
Well the Flesh Tearers eat their enemies raw but they cook their allies before eating them because they care
"These guys get it."
- The Hive Mind
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the void...
*Jaws theme starts*
This was no warp travel accident...
@@johntaylor7029 we're going to need a bigger battle barge
You go in the void, barge in the void, shark in the void, our shark.
Sharknado in 40k
"It's the Carcharodons"
"The whaaaaaat?"
Sharknado producer: "Space sharks?....bit out there innit?"
Don't give them any ideas.
A fast attack specialist Carcharadon captain known as Ziering the Sharknado
Stewpid innit
@@emmanuelmorris7653 didn't they do that already
Supersoldier sharkmen with giant chainsaws and power armor? Yeah. If 40K didn’t exist, I’d say that sounds like some shit off the SyFy channel.
I remember when I was new to 40k, I saw a piece of artwork that depicted Tyberos the Red Wake towering over a Mantis Warrior. I thought that it was a loyal space marine facing down a mutated chaos terminator. I later realised that that hulking monster is the “good guy.”
The balls on that Mantis Warrior to stand in the face of his unavoidable death, armless with a monster stalking toward him, so sure of the kill that he only activated a single lightning claw. Perhaps though, it was out of some ancient sense of chivalry, having already relieved his opponent of one arm that Tyberos did this; granting his opponent a fairer fight and honorable death.
@@Bigweave74 balls of adamantium!
Giants, without mercy, sharp teeth and ink black eyes. Even the void fears them, they practice the red tithe. These are, I tell my friends, what are considered the good guys.
@@amorphoussolid8512 perhaps the greatest of the good guys. Who knows what skinless, blood soaked nightmares they have encountered in the depths of the void and been forced to find a way to keep their sanity?
@@Bigweave74 pretty sure its the other way around... poor void must have been scared to death
The Carcharadons, A.K.A. I Can't Believe It's Not Chaos Space Marines.
"I fear no man. But that thing.... It scares me." Abaddon t. D., Wardaddy of Chaos.
"WarDaddy" 🤣🤣🤣
He’s hardly a father, much less a daddy.
Sigismund: "Am I a joke to you?"
what is the source of this sentence plz ?
@@vandrall8007
Well *obviously* it's Abaddon finding out about the Carcharodons after the destruction of Cadia.
*Obviously.*
Who could ever forget the how-are-they-loyalists
One word: Mortifactors
@@TheSilversepiroth Okay, maybe the death culty chapter takes the cake
Orcus... Orca... uh huh so says the mortal enemy of sharks
Indeed
Hehhahahaha!
I was just thinking how cool it would be if Baldermort covered the space sharks! The Emperor provides! Thanks Baldermort!
We’ll get stories of them soon.
@@baldermort Oh I’ve been looking forward to this since you mentioned them in the anti-grav tanks video!!
I have recently been thinking of the potential connections between bipedal shark units within storied battles of ancient terra and how warhammer fantasy could make those connections gradually within its new presentation..
one can dream..
Same hear, I was dreaming that Baldermort did detailed lore videos on the Minotaurs, Red Scorpions ands the Carcharodons
A character that I can only see Baldermort doing justice for is Jago Savatarion, AKA Sevatar, AKA The Prince Of Crows and reportedly the first to utter the words 'Death to the False Emperor!'.
When a heretic finds him self alone on the fringes of the know galaxy it is the Carcharadons that makes him look over his shoulder on those silent nights
Imagine being one of the last survivors of a traitor insurrection on the fringes of space. Your small craft detects something nearby, something large. In the dark depths of space no light from any sun reaches and so their is only void. You gaze through the deck of your ship looking to make out any object. But you see that while you see stars all around you their is a large area where their are none but then more appear as if they pop into existence while others disappear on the other side of the blank space. Something is moving, terrified you slowly turn on sensors again, the detected object is larger than a cruiser. Slowly you go to turn on the spotlight, fearful you almost don’t want to find out what it is but you persevere. As the switch flies, your light doesn’t even reveal the entirety of the figure, it’s a ship, a massive one. You feel the craft shake, alarms ring, lights flash, and then you here it. Those slow metallic foots steps, you lock the door to your deck. The crew mates scream, lazguns fire, bolters let loose a hail merry but to no avail. In less than a minute the sound of overwhelming combat, it all goes silent. Again you hear those metallic foot steps. They approach the door and you grab your bolt pistol, you have two options you think to yourself as they begin to peel at the door. You raise your bolt pistol as the lights flash and fumes fill the room, through the dents in the door you see those red glowing eyes. The barrel reaches your temple as you accept your fate, close your eyes and…..
In the grim darkness of the future, there is nowhere to hide.
@@rubricaisanctum6662 Good story man. Some of the words you used weren't correct though. Like persevere means to survive basically but I liked it it got my attention and I really wanted to know what happened next.
Ahh safe at last....
Why do I hear Jaws theme ?
When the minotaurs and carcharadons agree, it’s about to be a brutally loyal time
And the Death Company.
*_[HEAVY METAL INTENSIFIES]_*
Minotaurs? Loyal? More like the lapdogs of the old terran lords.
Least the space sharks owe their allegiance to our glorious Imperium and not the faded glory of rambling pencil pushers
@@oreo-postraphe fucking love that comment!
@@-VOR Appreciate it brother, Ave Imperator. En Excelsus Terra!
I'm getting too loyal for this crap brother!
They really need to make a book all about Tyberos, the largest space marine ever and chapter master of the carcarhadons
What we really need is an original Baldermort story where the Carcharadons are in conflict with the Minotaurs that climaxes in Tyberos and Asterion Molec going toe to toe.
I dare you to tell me that this would not be the greatest non-canon 4k tale!
Another hour-long entry. The madman has done it again 😳
Less jazz this time I’m afraid. But hopefully useful.
@@baldermort I BELIEVE TYBEROS IS A FORMER NIGHT LORD AND THE CHAPTER IS A NIGHT LORDS - RAVEN GUARD MIX, WHAT YOU THINK ?
@@baldermort My good Sir.... you could read the DICTIONARY and make it sound interesting! Love you brother!! LOVE FROM AMERICA!!! FOR THE EMPEROR!!!
@@bryantherocker tyberos is secretly Konrad Curze.
@@vasilikozhushner7208 or an imperfect clone
Tyberos the scariest guy that even Khorne thinks his too scary
That guy has be the biggest space marine are you sure he's not a thunder Warrior.
@@mikecampos1193 now wouldn't that be awesome! TTFN!
Puny Abbadon... Tyberos would snap him in half of it wasn’t for the thick GW plot armor Abby cloak himself with...
* looks around nervously, all clear *
I hear they need to cannibalise dreadnought parts just to make his power armour. He still says "it's too tight!"
@@malin1140
"That would indeed be awesome."
BLOOD FOR THE EMPEROR!! SKULLS FOR TERRA'S THRONE!!-Rejected Warcry of the Carcharadons
They don’t bother with war cries.
I’d believe it if they didn’t just outright tell standards to fuck themselves
BLOOD FOR THE EMPEROR!
SKULLS FOR THE GOLDEN THRONE!
Counter cry whenever those Khorne-flakes start screaming.
I like to imagine that the majority of the Carcharodon Astra mute and speak using sign languages and stuff. And now I imagine a Sister of Silence and Carcharodon Astra having a conversation.
*The majority of the chapter treats them like little sisters. Luckly their Null effects don't bother us that much.*
*Others have....another tipe of bond*
@@tyberostheredwake6153 yey
"Comissar, they was flashing some mad gang-signs."
@@ShadeUnderTheSoul these made me cackle like a mad man .. 😂😂😂
"Ooooh! The Thunder Warriors are too unstable, they must be culled! THAT ASTARTES LITERALLY HAS SHARK TEETH!"
What a lore twist it would be if they turned out to be descendants to the Thunder Warriors, exiled to the edge of the galaxy to face foes that would make an astartes experience fear.
But the teeth and tactics point to mutated gene seed.
@@Bigweave74
*Glances suspiciously at the Minatour's.*
"Hmmm..."
Thunder Warriors are too unstable for a single lifetime. Space Marines are a lot more stable, but even the gene seed seems to be less stable than just human populations.
@@garouHH does it help the Carcaradons make liberal use of cryogenics? Their base battle brothers often spends hundreds if not thousands of years in stasis and their chapter master is considered to be one of if not the oldest og Astartes alive next to Dante
@@TheDubDisciple That just means that their gene seeds had less time and fewer clonings than those of other chapters, and still accumulated more mutations.
The fusion of Raven guards and night Lords you better watch yourself before you wreck yourself with them
@@Marinealver > Warhounds
> Pale Skin, Exiled, Has literally the same tactics of the Night Lords
ok
I have to disagree slightly I dont think they have any aspect of the night lords they show a level of discipline to start with XD.
I think their tactics are too similiar to the pre-corax raven guard from when they were seconded to the lunarwolves.
carcharodon battle tactics are terrifying because of how bluntly pragmatic they are. take the war of badab for example when they couldnt get the mantis warriors to come out of their hidey holes they targeted the civilian populace. not because they was wanted to sow terror specifically but because pragmatically speaking it was the most efficient way for drawing the slippery buggers out!
@@Helljumper012 then who you think which legion their form 😏😏😏
@@vontheunknown7982 I'm pretty sure I answered that question. I think they are the remnants of the Terran raven guard. Corvus sent all the terran born marines on nomad predation missions prior to the heresy and by all accounts never recalled them.
Their tactics are very similar to the tactics they used while under horus' command before corax took over the legion.
night lord tactics are not pragmatic by any stretch of the word. Efficient? Perhaps in some people's opinion but as efficient as carcharodon tactics
@@Helljumper012 dude you do realize that I meant that the two Geneseed are fused together and the night Lords and Raven guard both black eye and pale skin
How “Jawsome” isn’t one of the space shark war cries is beyond the Emperor’s knowledge...
Well, I'm sure they use a variation of it in High Gothic.
It obviously would have been, had they used war cries. As it is though, they scare the living shit out of their prey by fighting in complete silence
I’m pretty sure now that space marine chapters are the evolution of hockey teams over 41 millennium. The space sharks have the puck and he shoots and he scores!
Lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When will we have a Mighty Ducks Chapter? Screw it, I'll make it myself!
Boldeort and Majorkill took my love for the tabletop and expanded it into the lore and for that I am thankful
For me. It's backwards. I'm actually really interested in the lore. Never crossed my mind to play
Should check out a vox in the void channel
Majorkill is cringe
@@MkZuO12345 I understand he isn’t for everyone and if it isn’t your thing, is very cringe edgy for the sake of it. I’m sorry you don’t like him, you may like the remembrancer if you haven’t listened to him
Sharks with laser beams on their heads. Someone needs to make them
I agree
I’ll drink to that
Big E be like hold my beer 🤣
All I can think about reading this is that scene from the Lego Movie- “President Business lurks up on the infinitieth floor of the tower, and each floor leading up to his office has only the most terrifying and genius defences! LASERS! SHARKS! LASER-SHARKS!”
Let's do better with Sharks with Freaking Melta Guns on their heads!
Great fighters, but having read some of their books I can see why Corax did not want them around. You want them there to kill the enemy and then go away, preferably very far away, afterwards.
which book?
*Bump*
Which books?
@@BloodFireDeath_ Red Tithe and Outer Dark. There is another but I do not remember its title.
@@andrewniehoff8612 much obliged
@@BloodFireDeath_ Welcome
I still think these are the Raven Guard from Earth that Corvus exiled when he took over. The bloodthirstiness seems like it would be offensive to Corvus' sensibilities who has always struck me as the most humane of the Primarchs behind Vulkan.
Night Lords.
@Adeptus Astartes I always feel like he's fair and humane strategically though. Kind of like that manager after going to an HR mandated communications course.
@@hydradominatus3641 founded by our boy Sev
@@totallynotalpharius2283 They are actually Raven Guards that Corvus sent away due to his disgust with their enslaving. The books mention it a few times. Corvus grew up a slave and led a slave revolt of his homeworld. He wasn't a fan of his Terran borne sons, to say the least haha
@@matthew92604 I thought that was that Ashen Claws, not the slave sharks
Don't mind me I'm just going to recite the "Litany of Algorithmn Apeasement" for this video.
"The soul of the Algorithmn God surrounds thee.
The power of the Algorithmn God invests thee.
the Algorithmn God endows thee with life."
What is your duty? To serve the algorithm’s will!!
What is the algorithm’s will? That we like and comment!!
What is a comment? It is our duty!!
WHAT IS YOUR DUTY??
Praise be to the Algorithm
Brother I hate the fact I am on mobile and struggling to copy this beautiful litany, damn my 3rd world tech-illiteracy!
This is a chapter that recognizes a universal truth. The aggressor always sets the rules.
Baldy uploads an hour long video and says he's saving his energy for a more lengthy video... brother you spoil us
When there grandmaster can literally eat a custody
*Done that, they taste of entitlement and shit*
Imagin carcharadons having a new Zealand accent
“Hey brudda, I gotta kill real quick for being a heretic!”
he tino whakamataku tenei
I Have always imagined them having Polynesian styles tattoos
Hey bro. We got some heretics to kill. Wanna come?
Cocktail nuts, check.
Beer, check.
Showered, done with chores, weekend, check.
Baldemort video spanning almost an hour? Oh am I ready for the weekend, perfect.
Baldermort... This is my favorite chapter. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
bruh same.
Dido
Same!
I’ve never played the table top game, Dawn of War was my first experience in 40K, but the LORE!! What lore it is! And the Carcharadons are the cherry on top. The ultimate anti-heros of the emperor’s finest; unerring in their loyalty, brutal combatants, merciless against His foes. Despite all this, they are barbaric to outsiders as they massacre innocents to draw the traitor and harvest aspirants for their lonely crusade.
I'm saving this video for the Weekend, when I can really cherish it, so I don't know if he mentioned it, but I love the implications in their novel "Red Tithe" that the Charcaradons are the descendants of Loyalist Night Lords, or even perhaps Chimeric Geneseed of Night Lords and Raven Guard.
The Red Wake is an absolute unit
Lord Baldermort I Arrived as requested.
Either Tyberos is Sevatar or their founder is. Change my mind! That dude is Primarch sized.
Charcharodons Black Templars Minotaurs , warhammer 40k the only fantasy setting where the "good" guys are more cool and badass than the bad guys.
May I point at doom?
@@yeetbeam2273 you may, good guys with brutal natures
@@ChazWalser *Define "good"*
Citizens of Badab: I hope the Imperium shall be merciful...
Carcarodons: Count on it... **loading a bolter**
Not a bolter "starts chainsword/axe"
**REVVS HUNGER AND SLAKE**
This is what happens, when Ravenguard marines are disliked by their dad and become obsessed with sharks and loneliness.
LOL!
Not ravenguard. Nice try though
@@-VOR although it's not confirmed, the lore heavily hints, that they are the offspring of those terran Ravenguard, that Corax semi banished from his Legion, when he took command of it. Fans speculative about a Ravenguard-nightlords mix, but the Ravenguard part is easy to argue for.
@@Kristian.B.Kristiansen great logical fallacy there 🙄
@@-VOR but then who are their progenitors? They share a mix of traits from the raven guard and night lords with their tactics matching more in line with the raven guard. Their chapter lore also hints towards raven guard.
seriously mate, you making a lore video about these madlads is priceless.
Thank you very much!
Also if you would ever make a 40k Audiobook reading I would 100% buy that and listen from start to finish in one sitting.
Your voice is perfect for the setting!
Fascinating chapter!
Raven Guard recon + blitzkrieg tactics + Space Wolf savagery, all done in cold, calculated silence... terrifying.
Just when you thought it was safe to enter the void...
My favorite Chapter, their lore really got me into Warhammer. A loyalist space marine chapter that make the Night lords look soft by comparison. Thank you Baldemort, awesome video as always.
Does this mean Minotaurs are next
Omg please? You love them too?!
It's weird how most space marines usually come with a few adeptus mechanicus in order to find ancient artifacts such as machines from the dark ages, and the Space Sharks, considered one of the most violent space marine chapter, usually just do it themselves
I kinda feel like the Space Wolves and Space Sharks would get along pretty well
Love it when lore channels give successor chapters some some love. Fingers crossed that at some point balders can lavish some of his narration on my favorite chapter from the war for badab, the Raptors.
Sir Baldemort you are legit one of the few CZcamsr's I would gladly watch at least half an hour of content at any given time.
when you want to scare even a tech priest you send these guys in because the red wake will kill you 3 times over with one punch
Brother Klepto? Of the blood ravens, no doubt.
Theres no kill, like Overkill!!!!!
@@ufc990 yes and thank you for your gift
@@scurrystopthat9985 Youre welcome. You can take all of deez that you want.
@@ufc990 I have taken the dreadnought
It's their chapter Master the biggest Marine to ever exist he practically a primarch he a big boy.
Kinda like Endryd Haar of the late warhounds. Perhaps both are or were thunder warriors who remain loyal and continue to serve, hiding their past to work towards the emperor's vision for humanity. (Perhaps, would be awesome lore wise) TTFN!
Let’s just say some big marines either use terminator armor or modify their power armor with terminator bits. Tyberos uses *Dreadnaught armor* to modify his *Terminator armor*
Combine that with the fact he’s also got 2 fists with electric claws and chain blades on them, and he comes from the deep of space to husk you and yeah he is terrifying
It's just a shark wearing a mammal suit.
A big bull shark
Man, I didn't think anyone could replace the Black Templars and Fleshtearers as the most scary badass loyalist successor chapters. Then these guys showed up. Their books and lore are awesome.
Even in the blackest corners of the void, the cold embrace of the emperor's vengeance is never far...
And when it strikes, you will probably never see it coming
I just finished "Silent hunt" and o my God , just when you think that Charcharadons couldn't be more badass they surprise you
At this point I'm convinced Baldemort has his own golden throne. It's the only logical way someone could put out over 6 hours of content AND a podcast in the past 2 weeks while still remembering to make sufficient time for fun!
Also here is a short excerpt of the Ancient Itako who is entombed in a dreadnought for the Charcharadon Astra.
"Sharr had seen him in action once, decades ago. It had been years since any of the Third Company’s Ancients had been woken from their deep, cold slumber, years since they had faced a threat so dire that Nikora and Uthulu had dared to drag one of the resurrected heroes back to full consciousness. Itako screamed. It was a horrible noise, part human, part machine, grating and grinding from the vox-grille set in the war machine’s breastplate. It was something inimical to the void brethren in the cathedra, a shattering of traditions, a reminder that whatever was now nestled within the Contemptor’s armoured shell, it was far removed from the warrior that had once been. Such was the price of waking one of the Wandering Ancestors. Once unleashed, there was little that could be predicted, bar that they would wreak devastation."
He then proceeds to fucken wreck tyranids. This was so hype when I read it in the Outer dark book.
That's a great book, I love how the carcharadons essentially slaughter a whole city of genestealers and cultists (with a little help from the Ashen claws)
What books are there, where we can read of the deeds of the Shark bretheren?
@@Kimchiboy08 Read in this order: The Reaping Time (short story), Red Tithe (Novel), Death Warrant (short story), Outer Dark (novel), Silent Hunters ( novel)
@@Killeraholic gratitude brother, may the Emperor's light guide you ⚡
@@Killeraholicyou have my thanks Void Brother. May the Emperor guide your Bolter and silences your step.
My favorite chapter, like a Klingon bird of prey hunting in dark space
Too true brother Wolfley. :) :)
By the Emperor this man nearly has 100K subs! Let’s help out our humble servant and get this man to 100k!!! 💯
Amazing a whole hour dedicated to the Space Sharks, GW should sell shoulder pauldrons for the Space Sharks and Blood ravens!
Preach is brother! This is what we need more of
Blood Dragons would be neat, too.
Get some bone shanks.
I always love when the lore covers some of the more reclusive and mysterious chapters that aren’t mainstream like the DA.
The Red Teeth book quote at beginning nice one
My headcanon sez they're the forgotten 19th Legion, sent into space in perpetuity to protect the Great Crusade's flank and as a mobile reserve that could strike from *outside* the galactic plane.
So there could be way more Space Sharks than we know.
A really underrated chapter.
Thank you, Great Chronicler, I am honored and so happy to see these warriors honored by your words.
Sorry this one is so basic. Apologies. Lots on and working hard.
@@baldermort This...is magnificent! Your voice gives great gravitas to these words Sir. DON'T.SELL.YOURSELF.SHORT! Your work is a treasure.
The chapter with the winning smile.
After enjoying this little meal of lore, I think two things: The Carcharodons are AWESOME, and these guys need a primarch or something, if only we can see which great demi-god of the future laid the bedrock for this chapter
They had one, until an assassin knocked his head off.
My money is on their primarch going into the eye of terror to kick Lorgar’s traitorous ass
I mean they got a chaptermaster the size of a primarch so, thats atleast something right?
I feel this is one of the two exiled companies. Too horrific to keep around. Love them.
1 hour of sharky content, couldn't have asked for anything better today.
Yes, as a caracharadon I am genuinely excited
I’d love to see the Red Wake take Abaddon, one of the largest most brutal chapter masters alive.
Space Sharks: "Jawsome!!!" End quote.
Lol!!!
Sees Carcharadons notification
*Instantly puts on the jaws theme*
OMG Baldermort! Please do the Minotaurs or Asterion Moloc! I love how you do your content! Since you love lore I present you this ^.^
This is from "Regent's Shadow" and it was caused by my favorite Chapter Master, Asterion Moloc. It is a wall of text but I know you love lore so here you go!
[Context: In this scene, Valerian, Hero of Lion's Gate and our PoV custodes sees Asterion Moloc for the first time in person -- during a conference between the Minotaurs, Imperial Fists and the Custodes to discuss the troubles on Terra shortly after Guilliman's departure.]
"Moloc was, of course, the centrepiece of the display. He wore Terminator armour, of the old Tartaros configuration, which made him massive even amid the rest of that heavily armoured company. Whereas Valoris was a picture of grizzled splendour, and Garadon carried himself with a plain kind of martial dignity, Moloc looked like some barbarian warlord out of the legends of pre-Unification Terra. His plate was clearly of the highest quality, but had been engineered with a feral aesthetic, one that conjured up images of sacrificial rites and arcane combat-rituals. To look at him was to catch a glimpse of a world of riddles and myths, of burning braziers and bloodied axe heads, of secrets locked within secrets, bound about with labyrinths of iron and stone.
I have encountered many formidable warriors in my time. Valoris, of course, was reckoned the greatest alive in the Imperium save the primarch himself. And yet, just there, in that place, I can say without hesitation that Asterion Moloc, Chapter Master of the Minotaurs, exuded the most powerful stench of violence I had ever been in the presence of."
[Nearing the end of the book, and without spoiling too much of the story -- Valerian finds himself in opposition to Moloc and the Minotaurs. The minotaurs have him and his party cornered when the Brazen Warlord makes his entrance.]
"The ranks of Militarum troops parted, and the Minotaurs made their way to the forefront. There were thirty of them, with no doubt more making their way from positions further down the long aisles. They carried themselves like executioners, stalking deliberately, bolters trained on us, power weapons crackling.
Once they were in position, just a few meters from the first steps up to the podium, they, too, halted. They formed up in two lines, spread out before us, leaving a gap between to allow their master to emerge.
Moloc wore his Tartaros armour, as ever, the bronze of it near-black, its ornate surface engraved with runes and esoteric patterns. His footfalls were purposively heavy, sending spiderwebs of cracks across the damaged stone. He carried a power spear of a similar pattern to ours, though it was darker and older than any I had borne. His red cloak hung like molten lead across his angular shoulders, and he carried a circular shield with symbols engraved on it that I could not decipher.
I watched him approach, trying to ascertain some weakness, some flaw that I could use against him. I detected nothing. He may as well have been an automaton, a battle-creation forged in some dark and forgotten laboratory and sent into the world of the living. Who could have halted such a monster? Valoris, in all probability. Guilliman, without a doubt. Beyond that, and as for myself, I felt no certainty.
I took a step forward, moving between Moloc and Fadix, angling the tip of my spear towards the oncoming Chapter Master.
‘No further,’ I commanded, gripping the stave tight with both hands.
Moloc always wore his mask. I had never seen him without it. I picked up nothing behind that metallic visage, nothing at all, except maybe that furnace-aura of aggression he always projected, smouldering deep within the rune-guarded heart of ceramite and sinew.
He kept coming. He carried his spear formally, as if it were some kind of sacrificial totem, a curse-warded instrument for the ritual killing of beasts. The lenses in his archaic helm were black, and to look into them felt like looking into the void itself. There was a swagger in his every movement, a rolling, baleful demonstration of pure contempt.
‘No further,’ I warned again, tensing to strike. The moment he took a step on to the podium stairs, I would move.
To this day, I do not know what would have happened if he had done so. I suffer neither from doubt nor from pride, and so can only speculate from the evidence I had before me. Perhaps I would have found a way. I had felled some of the greatest warriors of the enemy in my time, including many who most certainly had possessed the power to best me.
But, with Moloc, I cannot be sure.
We were only prevented from coming together in combat by the sudden spit and crackle of a single teleport column streaking down from the cathedral’s ruined heights. The ether-vortex locked on to Ravathain’s loc-signal, crashing into the nave’s tortured floor, splashing against the flags of the podium and boiling away. As I felt the rush of sudden cold, and saw the white-silver energy reflect in Moloc’s burnished plate, I thought for a moment that Valoris had come, or perhaps Garadon, bringing with them the reinforcements we needed to fight our way out.
I was to be disappointed. Instead, a single figure emerged from the guttering warp-flame to stand by my side. It was a woman, clad in protective gear for the ether-translation but otherwise unarmed. I knew her only by sight - Violeta Roskavler, one of the two who had claimed ownership of the title Master of the Administratum. Except that her rival was now dead, extinguished by an assassin’s bullet, removing all possible doubt as to her legitimacy.
She said nothing to me. She said nothing to anyone else. In front of all those thousands of fighters, in front of all the assembled Space Marines, any one of which could have ended her with a single shot, she walked steadily down the steps. She came up to Moloc, looking less than a child before his colossal frame. I saw her hold up the icon of her office - the sigil of beaten iron borne by its holders since the dawn of the Imperial Age - but otherwise make no gesture.
Moloc let her approach. He waited for her, as if suddenly subject to some hex or enchantment, his mighty limbs bound by unseen forces. When she lifted herself to speak into his ear, he bent down to allow her, so that the words passed between them unheard by any other soul in that place.
Having spoken, Roskavler then withdrew from him, walking back up the steps to join us again. Moloc straightened. He looked at me, and then at Fadix. Silence reigned across the entire cavernous space, unbroken and complete.
Then, slowly, he turned away. He trudged back the way he had come, his cloak flicking around his ankles, and his warriors followed him.
I watched them all go. The whole time, I never loosened the grip on my spear."
[Valerian is a Custodes and a particularly notable one at that. He's the Hero of Lion's gate. Together with Aleya, they took down a full-fledged Bloodthirster during the Battle for Lion's Gate and murdered waves and waves of elite Black Legionnaires for hours aboard the chaos grand cruiser the Heartspite during the events of the Emperor's Legion. In the preceding scene he'd also casually dispatched a Primaris Minotaur with little effort.
As a Custodes, naturally he cannot feel fear, doubt or pride and yet, and yet... the prospects of engaging Asterion Moloc in single combat causes him pause.
Here, Lord Asterion Moloc, is a true monster who is fully aware of just how monstrous he is. He swaggers and revels in his strength and exhibits absolutely none of Valerian's uncertainty at the prospects of facing down one of the Ten Thousand.]
I'be been geeking out about the Carcharodons to my cousins these last few days because I didn't have a clue they existed until recently and fell in love with their design and lore, only for my fav' 40k channel to cover them in a new video. Doing the Emperor's work, brother Baldermort.
Yay, one of my favorite chapters be getting some love. *revs chainaxe*
I was painting a charcharadon when this dropped. Thank you!
Dear enemies of mankind..
If you hear the JAWS theme song while in space or in the warp. Just fragging run and hope they don't follow you.
I'm afraid the Emperor left the shark cage open.
Their level of savagery and the fear they seem to cultivate, their terrifying mutations, in combination with their unfailing loyalty and self-control in avoiding tormenting the loyal and innocent makes them seem less like a standard but mutated Raven Guard successor and more like a chapter sprung from the results of Corvus Corax's geneseed experiments. He reportedly slew the failed Raven Guard inductees at the end of his experiments personally and at great cost to his own heart and mind, but who's to say a chapter apothecary didn't find or keep hidden some of the research, and use it and the experimental geneseed to create successors? Their stocks of seed were desperately low, after all, and few would complain that a new battle brother was more pale or black-eyed than normal in a chapter of pale, dark-eyed Astartes. That apothecary going with the first Shade Lord and applying his research to try and maintain the stability and strength of the geneseed would make total sense.
That said, as always, the mystery is part of the fun of Warhammer, and the Carcharodons are far better for the many small mysteries about them that remain unanswered.
Love the lore reading, as always!
Interesting, but how do we explain their mythology and antiquity otherwise? Why were they banished? If the Shadelord is indeed the Forgotten One,then the Carcaredons are not technically a Chapter of any Founding. They're a nomad fleet of former Raven Guards changed through the millennia from their original Chapter by ten thousand years of divergent evolution and mutation in their gene-seed.
Weren’t the carcharadons established before the experiments or am i wrong??
You miss that the lore says they were inspected and no mutations were found, and accepted on a limited basis to side the Imperium.
So, no, they are not mutated.
MY MAN CAME THROUGH, LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOO, THANK YOU SO FUCKING MUCH BALDERMORT. I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH, THE CARCHARODONS ARE MY FAVORITE
In today's episode of "I can't believe it's not chaos,"
Lol!!!!!
I am still in awe over your Space Wolf video that was an impressive piece of work
"Sorry about the short content everyone" - _video is nearly an hour long_
It's fine really
You are allowed to sleep!
I just read the Carcharadon's novel 'The Red Tithe' I'd seriously recommend that book to anyone who wants something to read about them.
Isnt that the one about Renegade mixed band during Horus Heresy that get task from Malcador to assasinate Horus?
It's just 'Red Tithe', no the.
@@MrGeneralissimus No, that's the Horus Heresy book 'Nemesis'
This made my long walk home go by in a flash
Dude the big lore videos are awesome but we love you content!
Thanks boss. Trying to get out a lot. :)
Like before listening. BECAUSE IT'S BALDERMORT!!
One of the most deadliest Space Marines Chapters that currently resides within the Imperium frontiers, and they are a legendary savage chapter that shows no quarter to their enemies. They are a mysterious chapter, one whose origins are hidden even from them, but one cannot deny that they are brutally effective within the battlefield.
Chapter so savage, it makes people wonder if they came from either Night Lords, World Eaters or both.
*jaws theme in pipe organ plays ominously in the background*
My favorite chapter talked about by my favorite warhammer creator? Yes, please!
I’ve always wanted to know more about this enigmatic chapter. Cheers, brother Baldermort.
I wanted to watch a move tonight, but there's hardly any movies made today that can keep my interest. So I scoured the channels I subscribe to and what a treat I found here for both my entertainment and enlightenment. Thank you Baldermort. I know I will enjoy this.
Many thanks for this entry Brother Balders - a perfectly paced accompaniment for this evenings pictographic remembrancer duties.
Makes me think of Quinn's speech from Jaws
this made me subscribe :"
Brother Baldemort graces us with another lore video! Thank you for this amazing content.
OMGGGGG MY CHAPTER!!!!
THE VOID FATHER WOULD BE HAPPY!
FROM THE VOID WE COME
Your a word bearer not a space shark....?
A Carcharadon, a Black Dragon and a Minotaur walk into a Black Templar bar... with a Space Wolf bartender.
Yes
The entire planet surrendered immediately.
This just made my day! Seeing that you covered my favortie chapter out of the blue in such depth is somthing I'm very grateful for!
Cheers!
You are amongst 3 othesr that make up my favorite 40K channels. No matter what subject you cover, they are always so entertaining, thanks for all your hard work.
Man Boldemort, I've been enjoying your readings such rogal dorm and love them all. I usually listen to 2 of your readings at a time and then stop so that I can enjoy them fully. I rewinded this reading 3 times because I recognize this is the GOOD STUFF. You really excelled here.
When I was first getting into the hobby, it was at the height of the Ultramarine obsession GW had, and I thought that the Space Marines were pretty dull. But the more I find out about them, the more interesting they become, especially the more obscure chapters like these guys and the Marines Malevolent.
Love these videos makes me want to start a carcharadon force
Another chapter that just makes Khorne all too happy. Good. Great video!
Ah yes the loyalist Night Lords remnants one of my favorite chapters.