Hold on, did you just say FAVORITE TRAITER?! Ha! As if any heretics should be regarded with anything less than contempt and disgusted! But Dantioch is sort of ok I guess
Agreed. The fact those who came after him couldn't accurately recall his deeds, passed it on for multiple millennia. Such a hero of the Imperium deserves better.
Narik Dreygur fits the term more so. He joined Perturabo in the beginning. But after non stop bad luck and losing favour with his Primarch. He proceeded to join Salamander Dreadnought Cassian Vaughn's crusade against the Traitors.
I have always had a weakness for loyal Space Marines of traitor Legions: Locken, Garro and Varren... but the friendship between Polux and Dantioch was one of the best of the Horus Heresy...
Me too, their loyalty was stronger then the bond they shared with their traitorous genefathers. An amazing feat in itself. Massive respect to all of them.
Centurion Mago of the World Eaters is a great example of a loyalitst in a traitor legion. He stood up to Angron and refused to carry out a decimation after not conquering Gehenna under 31 hours. He sought one of the OG War Hounds, who was now a dreadnought, for counsel when he began to see what has become of the War Hounds. Then, when they tried to issue the butcher nails to the entire legion, he stage a coup, but not before pleading to Angron and Kharn before doing so. Sadly the coup failed and he died, but not before telling the World Eaters that they are damned.
It's because it's fun to see legions that are traditionally only seen for their vices getting to show off their virtues. You see someone like Rylanor being a badass and you can actually see why the III legion was so highly respected in spite of their vanity.
Loyalist space marines from Traitor legions are the best. watching them struggle as the culture of the legion changes beyond their control before it's too late. Solomon Demeter, and Dantioch are perfect examples
@@MrFredstt it really was. if i wasn't so angry at a certain somebody, i would have gotten a little choked up. still though, it made what happened at the end of Galaxy In Flames all the more cathartic
Especially when they confront their primarchs. Standing there defiant and cursing their gene-fathers. It always goes something along the lines of “I deny you now and forever, I am loyal” in about the most Gigachad way
The truest iron warrior of all. He bore every burden the universe could place upon him without complaint. He stayed loyal to humanity and stood against the darkness and against his own legion. And yet he found a way to have hope in his final moments. This is why i think he's the greatest astartes in the lore. No other has displayed such strength of character
@@REgamesplayer If you count doing something you know will fail without complaint, failing, and then explaining that you failed due the impossibility of the task, as complaining, you are either really hardcore or really stupid.
This story is really sad. It wasn't the iron warriors and Imperial Fist that hated each other... It was their primarchs own arrogance and pitty grudges that caused the deaths of many of their sons. If only both sides had known the friendship between these two and knew how the came to call each other brothers.
Dantioch, Garo, and That One Loyalist Night Lord that Fit right into My Legion were TRUE ASTARTES...THEY KNEW ABOUT HONOR AND LOYALTY. I Truly smiled when you posted this Brother! Good Show! May his light shine upon you!
Omg the chills and the tears. All these loyalists of the traitor legions, they were more loyal than even the loyalists themselves. Betrayed by kin and father, they stood against the darkness, knowing that they may die in silence for the Imperium but they did anyway.
Loyalist Traitors > Loyalists I remember when I got into the lore a few years back and read the Angron primarch book where we learn about the internal politics of the legion and just how divided the legion was between the terran/pre Angron legion, and the marines that wanted Angron to like them. The HH was at its peak with characters like Mago and Dantioch where there is a satisfying arc instead of just bolter porn and BROTHA
It always put a smile on my face when Astartes from rival legions become friends. Dantioch and Polux, members of two legions with a long and bitter history, are my favorite. A tragic version of this friendship happened between Ohthere Wyrdmake and Ahzek Ahriman, members of the Space Wolves and Thousands Sons, surprisingly, before the Council of Nikaea screwed everything up
Polux went on to become the 1st chapter master of the Crimson Fists. I wonder if any of Dantioch's surviving loyalist Iron Warriors were quietly slipped in to the chapter on its creation.
Brother, thank you once again for reminding me how moving was that final scene of Barabas Dantioch's death in Pharos novel. May he forever be remembered! For the Emperor!
I love this guy and still think the Silver Skulls are his kin because he was friends with Guiliman and Guiliman adopted him into his Legion, that and the Skulls Emblem looks like his face
My (unconfirmed) theory is that the Scythes of the Emperor and the Silver Skulls chapters were comprised of Iron Warriors loyalists who were garrisoned throughout the galaxy at the time of the heresy but remained loyalists, that they were adopted into the Ultramarines prior to the Codex Astartes and deliberately chose to erase their true Legion heritage out of shame
>Holds fortress against overwhelming odds for a year >Kills countless traitor legionaries >Drops the entire fortress into a hole when it's about to get captured >Steals enemy flagship >Refuses to elaborate >Leaves Dantioch is the biggest chad in all of warhammer.
Bloody hell that recitation of Pharos made my eyes water at the end. So well written to convey such emotion from taciturn super soldiers for bonds of brotherhood and loyalty. Thank the emperor for the Black Library.
May his dream live forever even though we are forgotten.. A very fitting epitaph for an Astartes... Long may he rest in peace and his hope forever be redeemed in Mankind..
Loyalist traitors are always the best. Loyalty over favor, defiance over compliance, duty over brotherhood, no matter how tragic, make the best characters in warhammer.
I love these stories of loyalist marines from the traitor legions, it’s like they’re fighting against the fate of their brothers and father to be something greater
I know of what you speak brother. Sadly enough it is the grimdark of the far future. No time for peace. Only time for war. As always we must hold the line!
"What brought you so low Brother? Did the iron in your skull finally refashion your loyalty into madness?" "Hnngh. It lets me dream. It gives me peace. What would you know of struggle, Empathetic Son? Hnh? When have you fought against the exploitation of your mind? When have you had to do anything more than train soldiers and polish your armor?" "Childish," Angron sighed, gesturing to the burning, dying city. "Does it really come down to this? So pitiably childish." "Childish?! The people of your world named you Champion. The people of mine called me Slave!" Perturabo stepped back, chainspear revving harder. "Wich one of us created a spartan civilisation in memory of a foster father Angron? Wich one of us was given armies to lead after training in the arenas of the Nucerian gladiators? Wich one of us inherited a strong, stoic kingdom?" Perturabo sprayed bloody spit as he frothed the words. "And wich of us had to fight for a tiranny with nothing but a horde of armored slaves? Wich one of us was a child enslaved on a world of monsters, with his mind cut open by wicked lies?" The two Primarchs met again. Angron's powered chainaxes should have easily deflected Perturabo's chainspear, but the Iron Warriors's strenght drove his Brother back step by step. Chain-teeth sprayed from the weapons as eagerly as the saliva coming from Perturabo's lipless slit of a mouth. "Listen to your red-clad wretches yelling of courage and honour... Courage and Honour. Do you even know meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the tyranny that enslaves you, no matter that their armies overshadowed yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage. Honour is restraining a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You...know nothing of honour..."
Imperial fist member here I shall indeed remember the name Dantioch for all the days of my life within the imperium. For Dorn! For Dantioch! For the Emperor!
Awesome! Love the Pharos book, one of the best in the series. Keep up the great work, you are easily becoming one of the best 40k CZcamsrs! I really mean that 😊
Tales like this are the reason I find Loyalists from traitor legions and their stories so fascinating, and are why I love 40k, and will until judgement day. Petty rabo wishes he could be HALF the man Dantioch was.
I also love The Iron Within Short story audio book. I love the mic drop moment at the end before he teleports and blows up his own fort! Such a great book!
Yes, my favorite loyalist from my favorite traitor legion. *IRON WITHIN IRON WITHOUT*
IRON WITHIN!
IRON WITHOUT!
Loyalist all the way
IRON WITHIN IRON WITHOUT!
*Iron Within! Iron Without!*
Hold on, did you just say FAVORITE TRAITER?! Ha! As if any heretics should be regarded with anything less than contempt and disgusted!
But Dantioch is sort of ok I guess
"Traitor Redeemed" hurts so much for a man that was never a traitor. I actually felt a kick in the gut when I heard that.
Agreed. The fact those who came after him couldn't accurately recall his deeds, passed it on for multiple millennia. Such a hero of the Imperium deserves better.
Loyalist or traitor redeemed, his actions will be remembered forever...
Narik Dreygur fits the term more so. He joined Perturabo in the beginning.
But after non stop bad luck and losing favour with his Primarch. He proceeded to join Salamander Dreadnought Cassian Vaughn's crusade against the Traitors.
Traitor of iron
I have always had a weakness for loyal Space Marines of traitor Legions: Locken, Garro and Varren... but the friendship between Polux and Dantioch was one of the best of the Horus Heresy...
Yeah I agree
Me too, their loyalty was stronger then the bond they shared with their traitorous genefathers. An amazing feat in itself. Massive respect to all of them.
Centurion Mago of the World Eaters is a great example of a loyalitst in a traitor legion. He stood up to Angron and refused to carry out a decimation after not conquering Gehenna under 31 hours. He sought one of the OG War Hounds, who was now a dreadnought, for counsel when he began to see what has become of the War Hounds. Then, when they tried to issue the butcher nails to the entire legion, he stage a coup, but not before pleading to Angron and Kharn before doing so. Sadly the coup failed and he died, but not before telling the World Eaters that they are damned.
It's because it's fun to see legions that are traditionally only seen for their vices getting to show off their virtues.
You see someone like Rylanor being a badass and you can actually see why the III legion was so highly respected in spite of their vanity.
Bruh, same. They tend to be the more interesting and dynamic characters in the Heresy era.
Dantioch was more of a man than Perturabo the petty ever could be . He was what the iron warriors were supposed to be.
Barabas Alexis bromance is what Imperial Fists and Iron Warriors should have been.
The dude had more stubborn than the entire IV legion had.
So you mean a crippled failure?
Damn right!
@@ThatDragonGuy and still superior.. isnt that something
The silver skulls carry his memory on even if they are unaware of it themselves
agreed
Agreed
Loyalist space marines from Traitor legions are the best. watching them struggle as the culture of the legion changes beyond their control before it's too late. Solomon Demeter, and Dantioch are perfect examples
Oh man Solomon was tragic. Not to spoil anything but what happened to him was soul crushing
@@MrFredstt it really was. if i wasn't so angry at a certain somebody, i would have gotten a little choked up. still though, it made what happened at the end of Galaxy In Flames all the more cathartic
Especially when they confront their primarchs. Standing there defiant and cursing their gene-fathers. It always goes something along the lines of “I deny you now and forever, I am loyal” in about the most Gigachad way
Hell yeah. Iron warrior and an Imperial fist being bros? Count me in
This and rylanor needs to be a series
Goddamn, almost starting bawling with that last excerpt.
The Emperor knows his name
i was a blubbering mess when i read this the first time. hearing it again had the same effect a year later
The Emperor Knows His Name.
The truest iron warrior of all. He bore every burden the universe could place upon him without complaint. He stayed loyal to humanity and stood against the darkness and against his own legion. And yet he found a way to have hope in his final moments. This is why i think he's the greatest astartes in the lore. No other has displayed such strength of character
MW: But what about our Lord and savior Calgar or I-Cato-Sicarius? They are after all, the pillars that all space marines strive to be after all
Except when he went complaining about how hard his life was to his Primarch?
why you do my boy Loken like that
@@I3erzerker Loken went crazy. Dantioch held it together. Loken is still great but not to the same level.
@@REgamesplayer If you count doing something you know will fail without complaint, failing, and then explaining that you failed due the impossibility of the task, as complaining, you are either really hardcore or really stupid.
This story is really sad. It wasn't the iron warriors and Imperial Fist that hated each other... It was their primarchs own arrogance and pitty grudges that caused the deaths of many of their sons. If only both sides had known the friendship between these two and knew how the came to call each other brothers.
if the other legions shown the irpon warriors in genral love most wpiuld of turned on purturabo
I want Gulliman to bring up Dantioch and his deeds to the current imperium
The Lion did
Dantioch, Garo, and That One Loyalist Night Lord that Fit right into My Legion were TRUE ASTARTES...THEY KNEW ABOUT HONOR AND LOYALTY. I Truly smiled when you posted this Brother! Good Show! May his light shine upon you!
the head librarian of the night lords?
Don't forget Saul and Rylanor
Fel Zharost
Omg the chills and the tears. All these loyalists of the traitor legions, they were more loyal than even the loyalists themselves. Betrayed by kin and father, they stood against the darkness, knowing that they may die in silence for the Imperium but they did anyway.
It takes an exceptionally loyal individual to go against your kin (legion) and then risk it all to split from them and join loyalists.
Loyalist Traitors > Loyalists
I remember when I got into the lore a few years back and read the Angron primarch book where we learn about the internal politics of the legion and just how divided the legion was between the terran/pre Angron legion, and the marines that wanted Angron to like them. The HH was at its peak with characters like Mago and Dantioch where there is a satisfying arc instead of just bolter porn and BROTHA
The Salamanders would disagree.
True loyalist not loyalist traitor
It always put a smile on my face when Astartes from rival legions become friends. Dantioch and Polux, members of two legions with a long and bitter history, are my favorite.
A tragic version of this friendship happened between Ohthere Wyrdmake and Ahzek Ahriman, members of the Space Wolves and Thousands Sons, surprisingly, before the Council of Nikaea screwed everything up
@Aung Ramen actually he showed him the evidence that horus had betrayed the emperor first then killed him
In the words of Lord Adorable: “He is not an Iron Warrior, but rather a *Warrior of Iron.* “
Did anyone else cry or was it just me? what a beautiful narrative
Dantioch's death .......😭😭😭😭😭 11/10 , would cry like a bitch again.
Polux went on to become the 1st chapter master of the Crimson Fists. I wonder if any of Dantioch's surviving loyalist Iron Warriors were quietly slipped in to the chapter on its creation.
A running theory is Dantioch's descendants became Minotaurs, who had shown their respect for Crimson fists.
@@kauyanDJ they became the Silver Skulls
Brother, thank you once again for reminding me how moving was that final scene of Barabas Dantioch's death in Pharos novel. May he forever be remembered! For the Emperor!
I love this guy and still think the Silver Skulls are his kin because he was friends with Guiliman and Guiliman adopted him into his Legion, that and the Skulls Emblem looks like his face
My (unconfirmed) theory is that the Scythes of the Emperor and the Silver Skulls chapters were comprised of Iron Warriors loyalists who were garrisoned throughout the galaxy at the time of the heresy but remained loyalists, that they were adopted into the Ultramarines prior to the Codex Astartes and deliberately chose to erase their true Legion heritage out of shame
Man I actually teared up at that one I didn’t expect to get so sad
Bro why did this hit so hard, we don't deserve Dantioch. He is too good for us
>Holds fortress against overwhelming odds for a year
>Kills countless traitor legionaries
>Drops the entire fortress into a hole when it's about to get captured
>Steals enemy flagship
>Refuses to elaborate
>Leaves
Dantioch is the biggest chad in all of warhammer.
Bloody hell that recitation of Pharos made my eyes water at the end. So well written to convey such emotion from taciturn super soldiers for bonds of brotherhood and loyalty.
Thank the emperor for the Black Library.
he wears his mask of shame no more
The Tactical Mind that help Save many loyalist lives
You my friend are a true and noble servant of mankind!
Your service shall not be forgotten.
I never thought I could have a soft spot for a traitor. this was a good episode.
Not a traitor, a true iron warrior of the emperor
A traitor he was not, a true son of the Emperor he was.
@@procar09 Damn right!
Iron within , iron without, iron forever !
May his dream live forever even though we are forgotten.. A very fitting epitaph for an Astartes... Long may he rest in peace and his hope forever be redeemed in Mankind..
It's a perfect 40K story, one of the imperium's greatest heroes lost in the incomprehensibly vast scale of the lore. Brilliantly told, bravo!
Loyalist traitors are always the best. Loyalty over favor, defiance over compliance, duty over brotherhood, no matter how tragic, make the best characters in warhammer.
Emperor's peace brother! Rest now.
Dantioch and Polux....Iron Warrior and Imperial Fist...brothers in arms...the way it should have been!
HONOR THE WARSMITH.
a amazing character
I love these stories of loyalist marines from the traitor legions, it’s like they’re fighting against the fate of their brothers and father to be something greater
Remembrancer, I thank you for sharing information regarding such a marine. May he rest well. And may you live a long life.
New Subscriber.
Great stuff.
Thank you.
Dantioch is one of my favorite characters
Of the many 40k lore channels I've watched this one is now easily my favorite.
May he be remembered
are you out here trying to make me cry?
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Why does their brotherhood almost bring me to tears?
This actually brought a tear to my eye 😢
Simply Glorious 👐🏾
I’m not crying I just…. Have……. Something………….in……………………..my……………. ………….eyes
I honestly start to think the Horus Heresy era is better than 40K.
That was awesome.....
Why do the good ones have to die in 40k 🥺
I know of what you speak brother. Sadly enough it is the grimdark of the far future. No time for peace. Only time for war. As always we must hold the line!
What an amazing video, well done mate and thank you! I've read the books, loved character. You are a hero yourself ;D
Great content! You’re fast becoming one of my favorite WH40K lore channels!
"What brought you so low Brother? Did the iron in your skull finally refashion your loyalty into madness?"
"Hnngh. It lets me dream. It gives me peace. What would you know of struggle, Empathetic Son? Hnh? When have you fought against the exploitation of your mind? When have you had to do anything more than train soldiers and polish your armor?"
"Childish,"
Angron sighed, gesturing to the burning, dying city.
"Does it really come down to this? So pitiably childish."
"Childish?! The people of your world named you Champion. The people of mine called me Slave!" Perturabo stepped back, chainspear revving harder.
"Wich one of us created a spartan civilisation in memory of a foster father Angron? Wich one of us was given armies to lead after training in the arenas of the Nucerian gladiators? Wich one of us inherited a strong, stoic kingdom?"
Perturabo sprayed bloody spit as he frothed the words.
"And wich of us had to fight for a tiranny with nothing but a horde of armored slaves? Wich one of us was a child enslaved on a world of monsters, with his mind cut open by wicked lies?"
The two Primarchs met again. Angron's powered chainaxes should have easily deflected Perturabo's chainspear, but the Iron Warriors's strenght drove his Brother back step by step. Chain-teeth sprayed from the weapons as eagerly as the saliva coming from Perturabo's lipless slit of a mouth.
"Listen to your red-clad wretches yelling of courage and honour... Courage and Honour. Do you even know meaning of those words? Courage is fighting the tyranny that enslaves you, no matter that their armies overshadowed yours by ten-thousand to one. You know nothing of courage. Honour is restraining a tyrant when all others suckle and grow fat on the hypocrisy he feeds them. You...know nothing of honour..."
Gave me chills my man.
These videos give me big flashbacks to the 501st Journal from Battlefront 2
The fallen shall be forever remembered as the emperors finest!! honour to the Warsmith Dantioch!!
Why was I choking up a bit at the end there like fucken hell
Stunning, I had not heard this story!
Imperial fist member here I shall indeed remember the name Dantioch for all the days of my life within the imperium. For Dorn! For Dantioch! For the Emperor!
Awesome! Love the Pharos book, one of the best in the series. Keep up the great work, you are easily becoming one of the best 40k CZcamsrs! I really mean that 😊
Amazing!! Love the content!
These bits of lore are extremely interesting. I hope your channel gets the attention it deserves.
Awesome, great telling of the life of Dantioch. Subbed 👍🏻
this has bring tears to my eyes, you do know how to tell the story
That was really good, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Well done!
Tryannids: Hey We Love Dantioch! we even gave his meaning in our Race. "Dinner bell"
Brilliant !really enjoyed this !! Keep it up!!
The voice actor of Barabas Dantioch in BL Lesser Damantyne story deserves an oscar
This was fantastic. I just discovered your channel. I really like your storytelling. Very well done!
Just finished watching.... wel spoken. Keep it up
Youre doing the emperors work, bruva.
Well I'm sure g man could restore his legacy
RIP to the realest one
That last part hit so hard
that video made me like and sub. Very nice stuff
1:39 the music really fits the sad mood
That was amazing!!!
Thats pretty epic! True hero
My favorite iron warrior, his defense of his bastion was such a master stroke of defense
The unbreakable litany of iron made flesh!
Tales like this are the reason I find Loyalists from traitor legions and their stories so fascinating, and are why I love 40k, and will until judgement day. Petty rabo wishes he could be HALF the man Dantioch was.
Shid, that made me choke up painfully, he said my thoughts “The Emperor, still beloved by all”
The Sharinhold was a upside down castle hanging from the ceiling.
Thanks for the video.
Dantioch went to the beach that makes you old.
A right and proper Astartes 🦾
When accoarding to new lore he is far from forgotten. The lion praised him well and even told his story all bit in short to his forgiven fallen.
Quality 👍👍
I wish the would make a movie or TV series about him.
I also love The Iron Within Short story audio book. I love the mic drop moment at the end before he teleports and blows up his own fort! Such a great book!
adore this character.
Women: can you believe he didn't cry during Titanic...
Men: 11:08
That shit made me cry too! Ha ha ha!
Great. Thanks
I really wish they would give him a model
I LOVE this one!
just when i start reading the unremembered empire and confuse af 😅 thanks a lot bro
He made The Petulant Mind Child cry
Damn you’re good!
Let's go. Another banger
Im gonna make a squad of loyal Iron Warriors in the 40 first millennium because I can