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  • The Silver Skulls are said to be scions of Roboute Guilliman, despite all records regarding their genetic heritage being locked away. Could there be another source for the Chapter’s gene-seed?
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  • @daemonofdecay
    @daemonofdecay Před 4 lety +184

    “We need to hide the heritage of these loyalist Iron Warriors from the Imperium. What color should their armor be?”
    “Silver.”
    “Excellent. It looks entirely unlike burnished iron. How about a symbol for the chapter?”
    “A silver skull.”
    “Perfect! A silver skull and silver color scheme, which is entirely unlike the heretical Iron Warriors and their iron skulls and iron color scheme. Nobody will suspect a thing.”

    • @richardlucero165
      @richardlucero165 Před 4 lety +21

      As long as there isn't any hazzard stripes, right?

    • @daemonofdecay
      @daemonofdecay Před 4 lety +15

      Richard Lucero That would be a dead giveaway. No, as long as we keep them in silver armor with a silver skull symbol, nobody will mistake them for the totally different looking iron warriors.

    • @Audiotrocious
      @Audiotrocious Před 4 lety +9

      You are right, these are obviously Iron Hands with a Skull Fetish XD

    • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
      @TheSmart-CasualGamer Před 2 lety +12

      You say there's no hazard stripes, but the tactical marine at the opening of the video has a yellow arrow on a black background.
      Remind you of anything?

    • @TheMadYetti
      @TheMadYetti Před rokem +2

      Would you choose this chapter because dark and mysterious past? Or because one of the easiest to paint?

  • @derekdrake8706
    @derekdrake8706 Před 4 lety +80

    *Primaris Marine walks through the halls*
    "So, why are you called silver skulls?"
    *Looks at a wall*
    "Ohhhhhhhh......"

  • @monkeghthirtyfour2845
    @monkeghthirtyfour2845 Před 4 lety +393

    I like the part of the book ‘Dark Imperium’ is where an Iron Warriors and Silver Skulls are shooting at each other, it reminds me of the Spider-man meme where he is pointing at the other Spider-Man.

    • @Maxibon2007
      @Maxibon2007 Před 4 lety +36

      Monkegh Thirtyfour At least Ahriman and the sentient 1000 sons weren’t hostile and actually politely complimented that Blood Raven Librarian about his colour scheme and fetching Cordivae insignia (!) then some “knife eared sweat goblin made out of failure” jumped out of nowhere and be headed him before the genuinely upset and nostalgic Ahriman could help him clear up some family genealogical mysteries as a favour for helping him invade the Black Library :(

    • @SilverSkullGamer
      @SilverSkullGamer Před 4 lety +3

      @@Maxibon2007 what book is this story in?

    • @monkeghthirtyfour2845
      @monkeghthirtyfour2845 Před 4 lety +4

      SilverSkullGamer Dawn of War ‘Tempest’

    • @ramsuryaprasath1381
      @ramsuryaprasath1381 Před 3 lety +1

      @@Maxibon2007 who is that wretched .....beheaded the librarian

    • @georgevanderslice9720
      @georgevanderslice9720 Před 2 lety +6

      Iron Warriors fighting Iron Warriors. Nothing even out of the ordinary. Ha

  • @zoromastergaming7806
    @zoromastergaming7806 Před 4 lety +203

    I do love the Sliver Skulls and I do firmly believe they are Loyalist descendants of the Iron Warriors since the similarities are very close to each other

  • @AGS363
    @AGS363 Před 4 lety +166

    I think this makes the IV Legion the only one with two loyalist chapters: The Minotaurs and the Silver Skulls.
    Perturabo really pissed his sons of.

    • @thesmilinggun-knight9646
      @thesmilinggun-knight9646 Před 4 lety +32

      Actually I think it has been speculated that the gene-seed of the Minotaurs might be world eater or night lords mainly how brutal the chapter is.
      Also it occurs to me that the only traitor legion that has not been speculated to have loyalist successor chapters are the Luna Wolves/sons of horus/black legion.

    • @tigersympathiser2265
      @tigersympathiser2265 Před 4 lety +17

      I mean he wasn't the only Primarch who's Legion who hated him, but he was the only Primarch who's Legion basically felt abandoned even with him there.

    • @PandorasFolly
      @PandorasFolly Před 4 lety +12

      @@thesmilinggun-knight9646 I know this has been 8 months but I literally watched a discussion on Minotaurs gene seed origins and you are half right The speaker concluded since the Minotaurs have "Chimeric" gene seed and are part of the Cursed founding the two most likely origins are preheresy world eaters and Iron Warriors.
      Brutal
      Vicious combatants
      Do not deviate from the goals despite hardship and casualties
      Disregard non Minotaurs pretty utterly in their battle plans
      Follow security protocols obsessively
      Paranoid
      So about a 50/50 mix.

    • @thealaskanseparatist6786
      @thealaskanseparatist6786 Před 4 lety +3

      @@thesmilinggun-knight9646 I don't see minotaurs being night lord scions, but do see iron warriors and world eaters

    • @christophersmith8848
      @christophersmith8848 Před 3 lety +12

      Well, at least some of them must've seen the irony of Perturabo rebelling against what he considered an uncaring father who treated his sons as tools

  • @Amatsaru29
    @Amatsaru29 Před 4 lety +74

    Really liked Dantioh in Unremembered Empire. Especially the part where he reconciles with an Imperial Fist to turn Macragge into the ultimate siege work.

  • @professorsponge1554
    @professorsponge1554 Před 4 lety +353

    We need a scene where Guilliman meets the Silver Skulls, and just KNOWS they aren't really his sons but decides to ignore that fact because they're good, loyal Astartes.

    • @FireRevanShadow
      @FireRevanShadow Před 4 lety +40

      That would be hard as he even had a hard time seeing the ultramarine as his sons.

    • @professorsponge1554
      @professorsponge1554 Před 4 lety +39

      @@FireRevanShadow Right. He treated Calgar horribly despite everything Calgar did for the Imperium. I was certain Calgar was going to turn traitor from the abuse before he opted to cross the rubricon. I chalk that up to Guilliman being extra hard on his sons, hating the idea that even his sons could sink to dogmatic thinking without him leading them.
      As for the Silver Skulls, maybe by the time Rowboat Girlyman meets them he'll be a bit past that shock of finding the Imperium and Ultramar in its present state.

    • @Sandrock999999999
      @Sandrock999999999 Před 4 lety +73

      "I wish to speak to my 'sons' alone."
      The room clears of all minus him and the skulls.
      "Your father was an ass... But you are alright. My 'sons.' "

    • @Toto-95
      @Toto-95 Před 4 lety +6

      @@professorsponge1554 he can't turn traitor because that wouldn't work with marketting for now

    • @professorsponge1554
      @professorsponge1554 Před 4 lety +16

      @@Toto-95 Its where I thought Calgar's story was going before he went Primaris. Guilliman was treating Calgar like dirt after he got done with his ultra-nap.

  • @LordBloodraven
    @LordBloodraven Před 4 lety +269

    All Space Marines descend from a Primarch.
    All Primarchs descend from the Emperor.
    'Nuff said about their heritage.
    Let's get back to purging Xenos!

    • @leaderofstars8774
      @leaderofstars8774 Před 4 lety +53

      give this man a planet to start raising soldiers

    • @NinthRomance
      @NinthRomance Před 4 lety +18

      Lord Bloodraven preach !! This man speaks the truth. May the Emperor himself bless you for your noble actions.

    • @truckerallikatuk
      @truckerallikatuk Před 4 lety +6

      Agreed. # Signed by a still loyal member of the XV #

    • @johnnyscifi
      @johnnyscifi Před 4 lety

      And this marine corps descends from which primarch?

    • @TheKing-qz9wd
      @TheKing-qz9wd Před 4 lety +1

      Ah, but WHICH primarch?
      (Cocks boltor)
      They don't like working with potential traitors.

  • @Warrior-Of-Virtue
    @Warrior-Of-Virtue Před 4 lety +246

    "Until the stain has been lifted from our chapter's honor, the truth of our genetic heritage must remain a secret."
    "And when will the stain be lifted, Brother?"
    "When every last one of our traitorous brothers has been slain and our gene-sire's skull has been crushed by his own hammer."

  • @WarriorNoldor
    @WarriorNoldor Před 4 lety +95

    I don't care were the gene-seed comes from as long their loyal to the Imperium and The Emperor of Mankind.

    • @DocWolph
      @DocWolph Před 4 lety +3

      Unfortunately, the IoM itself is far from being so forgiving.

  • @Maxibon2007
    @Maxibon2007 Před 4 lety +169

    We need a scene in TTS where an innocent silver skull wanders past Rogal Dorn politely hailing him and He goes all “Magnus when Space Wolves are mentioned” and has to be ironically calmed down by Magnus

    • @DocWolph
      @DocWolph Před 4 lety +19

      Drop that on Alfabusa.

    • @d.n5287
      @d.n5287 Před 2 lety +7

      "WILL YOU BALL AND SHRIE- Why am I so angry?"

    • @mcchicken1849
      @mcchicken1849 Před 2 lety +5

      This sadly didn't age well.

    • @marcialhd
      @marcialhd Před rokem

      frankly considering that the Silver Skulls are meant to be founded by those Iron Warriors under Barabas Dantioch, then it is more likely that they would be cool with the Imperial Fists and with Dorn in general as they hated Perturabo more far more for being an awful father, a horrible commander and a traitor (specially considering how Dantioch had a close frienship with Alexis Polux an Imperial Fist Captain and the founder and first Chapter Master of the Crimson Fist Chapter).

  • @jadedkratos5528
    @jadedkratos5528 Před 4 lety +86

    Its most likely the Silver Skulls are the loyalist remnants of the Iron Warriors traitor legion who fled to Ultramar to rejoin the Imperium. Guilliman most likely would have accepted these newcomers, gave them new weapons, armour and asked them what they would want to be known by. Dantioch probably looked at his own helmet and said "How about the Silver Skulls?" Guiliman would have then contacted Terra, told Malcador he has loyalists from the Iron Warriors legion who have pledged their services to the Imperium and they have taken up a new name. He probably would have also asked if it were possible if the Silver Skulls could be labelled as an Ultramarine's successor army to ensure the newly created Chapter could be safe from prosecution.

    • @Kameth
      @Kameth Před 4 lety +16

      Depending on the timing, the order could of been:
      'Oh these guys? Totes a brand new Ultramarine successor chapter, yep, don't question it, they're definitely my guys, not Iron, so codex compliant, HEY WHATS THAT OVER THERE IT'S A XENOS LET'S GO.'

    • @SilverSkullGamer
      @SilverSkullGamer Před 4 lety +12

      Unfortunately Dantioch doesn't live to see the second founding. So if anything maybe they are named in his honor but I don't think he would have any direct connection in their founding.

    • @jadedkratos5528
      @jadedkratos5528 Před 4 lety +11

      @@Kameth Guilliman probably didn't want to see good men die so he decided to lie about who their primarch was and claim them as a successor chapter to allow them to serve the Imperium as loyal astartes once more.

    • @SgtThiel
      @SgtThiel Před 4 lety +3

      it is all but confirmed that he absorbed the remnants of the 2nd and 11h legions. business as usual I guess...
      Also, Malacador died way before the second founding

    • @SilverSkullGamer
      @SilverSkullGamer Před 4 lety +4

      @@SgtThiel it's EVERYTHING BUT confirmed that the Ultramrines took in any lost legion troops. That rumor was started by a butt hurt traitor Legionaire. The author of that particular book even came out and said the character had no basis in fact to make that conclusion.

  • @TK199999
    @TK199999 Před rokem +4

    FYI, the Iron Warriors had the largest number of surviving loyalists at the start of Heresy. Perturobo tended to exile those who often times refused to die pointlessly for him (as Dantioch said when retreating against the Hrud time warping/aging a planet to literal dust, 'Iron that does not bend, breaks and shatters'). When Istvaan III happened there very few loyalist Iron Warriors left in main Crusade fleets. So when the Heresy came there were garrisons of exiled/banished Iron Warriors all over the galaxy. Working hard to fulfill their duty of protecting their worlds as ordered. When orders came down to betray the EoM, some followed their Primarch into damnation. Others stayed neutral, but the majority stayed loyal.

  • @viewernewest
    @viewernewest Před 4 lety +121

    The Blood Ravens feel your pain loyal warriors of mankind.

    • @kevinshort3943
      @kevinshort3943 Před 4 lety +28

      I bet they feel "their" pain, because they stole that too !

    • @nicholasfallbrook9810
      @nicholasfallbrook9810 Před 4 lety +9

      @@kevinshort3943 Hm. If the Blood Ravens stole the Chaos-ness of all the Daemon Primarchs, would that lead them to returning to their father's side? Or at least choosing to oppose Chaos?

    • @Jeff_D421
      @Jeff_D421 Před 3 lety +1

      How could that ever occur oh great marine...how could one ever feel pain through that imposing and extremely thick plot armor 😂

    • @ramsuryaprasath1381
      @ramsuryaprasath1381 Před 3 lety

      Yes......we feel ur pain.....

  • @TimeTravelisBoring
    @TimeTravelisBoring Před 4 lety +13

    I remember reading somewhere that the Silver Skulls' spiritual aspect comes from the fact that they almost exclusively recruit from feral worlds. Back in the day, I thought it was cool that the homeworld's of the warriors could have such a deep impact on a chapter's identity. Even if they were Ultras, I liked that they stood apart so dramatically because they weren't civilized like their genebrothers.
    Them being Iron Warriors works too, I guess.

    • @marcialhd
      @marcialhd Před rokem

      Well Dantioch already worshipped the Emperor back during the Horus Heresy and the Silver Skulls came from his loyalist Iron Warriors, so it is very likely that he influenced them and that they carried on these practices maybe even mixing them with the cultural practices of the recruits of their homeworld.

  • @SgtThiel
    @SgtThiel Před 4 lety +12

    Good guy Guilliman, covering-up for standing-up astartes

  • @earltheartist3697
    @earltheartist3697 Před 4 lety +44

    whoa my art was used in this video COOOL

    • @williamsouthworth9707
      @williamsouthworth9707 Před 4 lety

      Which art was yours?

    • @andrewvincent89
      @andrewvincent89 Před 4 lety +2

      You have beautiful art

    • @earltheartist3697
      @earltheartist3697 Před 4 lety

      @@williamsouthworth9707 this one www.deviantart.com/earltheartist/art/Space-Marine-Rogue-Trader-40k-Silver-Skulls-742459770

    • @earltheartist3697
      @earltheartist3697 Před 4 lety +3

      @@andrewvincent89 thank you it still blows my mind

    • @PandorasFolly
      @PandorasFolly Před 4 lety

      Been 8 months but I love the design of that chain sword! Really stands out, Like it could be a relic of the dark age of technology with its smooth futuristic look vs what we usually see.
      Also go Beakie Gang

  • @fbussier80
    @fbussier80 Před 4 lety +7

    18:17 "...with many chappels dedicated to him being errected..."
    That is some upstanding dedication ;D

  • @spaceninja7687
    @spaceninja7687 Před 4 lety +6

    Swear I've seen this video uploaded before. Edit: Love that you got Snip to voice Prognosticator Bhehan at 15:06

    • @40KTheories
      @40KTheories  Před 4 lety +7

      It's an update and remaster (as stated in the video description) :)

  • @MrSickDoggy
    @MrSickDoggy Před 4 lety +27

    I’ve long want to know what happened to those marines who stayed loyal to the Emperor there must of been thousands despite the traitors best efforts .. even if the Silver skulls where iron warriors descendants they have been redeemed in the eyes of the imperium so what dies it matter ?

    • @Amatsaru29
      @Amatsaru29 Před 4 lety +3

      The inquisition or Eclesiarchy might not like it. Especially in the "Carrion Throne" the way the Eclesiarchy twists the story of the Hersey would just mind break their followers. Remember even with a primarch being active in the Imperium it's still multiple organizations working with each other.

    • @Kameth
      @Kameth Před 4 lety +6

      Drop Site Massacre happened unfortunately. While the loyalists that survived seem to increase with each book release, I believe canon states the vast majority died there.

    • @constrainedanacronysm1370
      @constrainedanacronysm1370 Před 4 lety +3

      Most either died in the war, were adopted by the Grey Knights, were purged in the scouring or died peacefully without ever being able to create a chapter

    • @zenoblues7787
      @zenoblues7787 Před 4 lety +9

      I really do enjoy this idea, especially since it would mean the loyalists Primarchs knew these hidden loyalists would be judged for their genatic heritage. So aforementioned Primarchs willing became there "adoptive parents" so they would be accepted into the wider Imperium.

  • @fraserwatson1723
    @fraserwatson1723 Před 4 lety +13

    love the channel 40k theories, got a particular soft spot for genetic heritage videos/theories, find them so interesting. keep up the good work! :)

  • @mrspeigel3593
    @mrspeigel3593 Před 4 lety +11

    Spoiler Alert :
    They are the descendants of loyalist Iron Warriors.

  • @olandewgamers9573
    @olandewgamers9573 Před 4 lety +18

    It may matter from a historical record's perspective but does it truly matter given that they are the loyal soldiers of the Emperor?

    • @Damo2690
      @Damo2690 Před 4 lety

      Well it matters because *BLAM*
      =][= *REDACTED BY ORDER OF THE INQUISITION* =][=

    • @Zaprozhan
      @Zaprozhan Před 4 lety +2

      The Imperium can be backwards feudalistic and superstitious, "Sins of the father..." "tainted blood", etc. With the Horus Heresy fresh in memory, a convenient lie may have preserved more fighting men and unity than a sincere, rational explanation.

  • @Mr._Galaxywide
    @Mr._Galaxywide Před rokem +2

    I would like to point out another similarity between Dorn and Perturabo. Both have supper badass and loyal sons whom the gene-fathers absolutely despise.

  • @darkranger116
    @darkranger116 Před 4 lety +2

    You'r voice sounds like it has a lot of body! Listening to your videos over the years, listening to you get better and better with a presenters voice!
    Sounding really good dude!

  • @jamesbenedict7516
    @jamesbenedict7516 Před 4 lety +2

    Khorne gladly accepts their contirbution to the skull throne.

  • @cmdrblaster
    @cmdrblaster Před 4 lety

    Gotta love these lore videos man absolutely hooked on learning more of the 40k universe. Though I gotta ask what is the music in the background as you start narrating the silver skulls lore I know I heard it somewhere before but would love the title of it.

  • @averyspencer4483
    @averyspencer4483 Před 4 lety +1

    Wouldnt be a good morning without my dose of 40k theories!

  • @randallsmith3986
    @randallsmith3986 Před 4 lety +1

    Best channel by far

  • @WarpXIII
    @WarpXIII Před 4 lety +37

    Could also be from the second or eleventh legion, since they were absorbed into the Ultramarines who were later split up into chapters. That would make a lot of sense with not only Silver Skulls but others as well.

    • @zenoblues7787
      @zenoblues7787 Před 4 lety +1

      The only issue with that is we don't know what specialization those two Legions had.

    • @mouseketeery
      @mouseketeery Před 4 lety +2

      Yes, that was my thought too. There must be quite a few 'descendant' chapters of the Ultramarines who were in fact from the 2nd or 11th. As the Emperor and Guilliman knew of and approved the original absorption into the Ultras, The Silver Skulls and others, would simply be Guilliman's adopted sons, as it were. No shame necessary.

    • @zenoblues7787
      @zenoblues7787 Před 4 lety +2

      @@mouseketeery We don't know that either, for all we know the 2nd and 11th did something beyond mere betrayal. Something so awful the Emporer wouldn't even need to enforce an edict of silence for the Primarchs to never want to discuss it again.

    • @SilverSkullGamer
      @SilverSkullGamer Před 4 lety +2

      Please stop spreading that rumor. Even the BL writers said that this 'rumor' was spoken by a traitor Legionaires out of jealousy of the Ultramarines.

    • @SgtThiel
      @SgtThiel Před 4 lety +1

      @@SilverSkullGamer the word bearers discuss this rumor among themselves in the first heretic. it is a rumor even there but if it exists it might have a bit of truth to it

  • @MiddleAgedGuy73
    @MiddleAgedGuy73 Před 4 lety

    What a great video. Not big on the Silver Skulls but I may change course after this video

  • @randombencounter263
    @randombencounter263 Před 4 lety +2

    With the Ultramarines' habit of adopting loyalist elements of traitor legions as their own successor chapters and the fact that the distinctly not Ultramarine-y Rainbow Warriors are somehow a 2nd founding chapter I have a theory that one of the missing primarchs was fron a planet of Space Aztecs and the Rainbow Warriors are remnants of his lost legion.

  • @saintbrodee8021
    @saintbrodee8021 Před 4 lety +1

    The Silver Skulls are Loyalist Iron Warriors and you can't change my mind.
    They are my favorite chapter and no amount of GWS descending on high and just making all the cool chapters 'akcutchllley' part of the Ultramarines is horrendous.

  • @DoomStarRequiem
    @DoomStarRequiem Před rokem +1

    These guys would be a peek into what could have been if Peter Turbo had some decency along with his genius and had stayed loyal.

  • @hughgedney3393
    @hughgedney3393 Před 4 lety

    Very great video as always 40k Theories.

  • @AsterixCodix
    @AsterixCodix Před 4 lety +2

    Could you do a theory based around the 21st Founding? Like, how the Chapters created were perhaps prototype Primaris? Sons of Antaeus and Lamenters strike me as the most prevalent examples of it.

  • @elricengquist9989
    @elricengquist9989 Před 4 lety +2

    Here is a interesting idea with some of these legions that either have unknown/undisclosed heritage, or ones that seem to share characteristics with two or more legions (not really sure we have seen that yet though.). What if some of these were chapters that had the gene-seed of several chapters of different Primarchs spliced together, this would warrant them being harder to pin down a heritage on, and why the records either would be hard to find or sealed to many people.

    • @GrantJRix
      @GrantJRix Před 4 lety +1

      Yeah that's been discussed; it's called Chimeric Gene-seed. It's been all but confirmed that the Carcharodons are a mix of Night Lords and Raven Guard.

    • @SgtThiel
      @SgtThiel Před 4 lety +1

      it sounds over complicated. only chaos marines do this thanks to warp corruption making gene seed unusable.
      it is more likely that they have marines from different primarchs in the same chapter. either that or they are 2nd and 11th legion descendants

    • @GrantJRix
      @GrantJRix Před 4 lety

      @@SgtThiel It is quite over-complicated; the creation of Chimeric Gene-Seed is one of the theories as to why most of the Chapters from the 21st founding are defective in one way or another. It is likely the Adeptus Biologicus did some tampering with Gene-Seed during this time

    • @elricengquist9989
      @elricengquist9989 Před 4 lety

      @@SgtThiel it might be complicated, but we do have the primaris marines as well, which is kinda complicated. it could be interesting if it was shown,or hinted at that the chimeric gene-seed project had ties to these marines, like attempting to use them to weed out the defects in the existing gene-seeds an improve on them. Both have been around or possibly done for awhile in lore.

  • @weldonwin
    @weldonwin Před 4 lety +1

    "13th Legion of the Legiones Astasrtes, Ultramarines" Remleiz has been spending time with Occula Imperialis I see

  • @citizendisco
    @citizendisco Před 2 lety

    Really useful, I’ve been thinking of using the silver skulls for my kill team. If I also make an iron warriors team there is a good grudge match there.

  • @kenju2268
    @kenju2268 Před 4 lety +4

    Personally, I really like the idea of them being descendants of loyalist elements of the Iron Warriors because it shows a genuine brotherhood and sense of comradery. So often now it's heretic this traitor that, the thought of some people high up enough in the chain of command having enough honor and integrity to do something to dignify those who stood with them and fight on their side makes the 40k universe just slightly lighter shade of black.

  • @AleshaM30
    @AleshaM30 Před 4 lety +2

    When in doubt, and they don't have weird eyes, weird skin, or weird growths, call them smurfs.

  • @DogKacique
    @DogKacique Před 6 měsíci

    One thing that has to be mentioned is Alexis Pollux friendship with Dantioch. The obvious IW imagery of the Silver Skulls can be explained by how Pollux would never allow Barabas Dantioch's heroism to be hidden from the imperium

  • @mihaisemenescu4957
    @mihaisemenescu4957 Před 4 lety +1

    Besides the case of Barbarus and the second dude there is the third case of Narik Dreygur called "The Gravewalker" he remained loyal to the Emperor with help from the Iron Dragon or Cassian Vaugh of the Salamanders
    I don t know exactly if besides him there were other astartes under his command but i don t think there were

  • @lordilluminati5836
    @lordilluminati5836 Před 4 lety

    I didn't know this chapter existed and they're so badass

  • @Calmaressurgebat
    @Calmaressurgebat Před 3 lety

    my theory is an amalgamation of several groups of loyal iron warriors formed the chapter. My guess is most of them had joined with the ultramines, but some had joined with other legions (the white scars especially) and thus the chapter has influences from those legions.

  • @dajerkfromurk8713
    @dajerkfromurk8713 Před 4 lety +1

    I do love to assume the Silver Skulls were seeded by the loyalist remains of the Iron Warriors, Dantioch's legacy. ...and the fact that the gene stock is so stable and pure, makes me laugh a little. Theoretically, a pat on the back could have turned the tide of the entire Horus Heresy and reshaped the Imperium as we know it.
    “From iron cometh strength
    From strength cometh will
    From will cometh faith
    From faith cometh honor
    From honor cometh iron
    This is the Unbreakable Litany. May it forever be so"

  • @lieutenantdan9337
    @lieutenantdan9337 Před 2 lety

    Loyalists from traitor legions are always the coolest lore to delve into in 40k

  • @docvaliant721
    @docvaliant721 Před 4 lety +18

    I want it allowed for the creation of traitor primaris chapters. Like have some we dont know but it becomes to lame that thats what they always do. I get it. Its mysterious but at some point thats weak. Crawl make some traitor chapters and let us and the empire know.

    • @nicholasfallbrook9810
      @nicholasfallbrook9810 Před 4 lety +3

      We have Primaris Blood Ravens, don't we?

    • @snakeyman5560
      @snakeyman5560 Před 4 lety

      Why would Chaos need primaris?
      Chaos doesnt need primaris when the chaos gods can just empower their Astartes with boons and chaos artifacts/chaos enchanted gear, DUH!
      Chaos basically already have primaris in the form of the possessed (Chaos Astartes that have been possessed by daemons).
      But I think it would be cool if you took some traitor legion geneseed (nightlords) and used them to make primaris night lords that would be loyal to the imperium of man.

    • @nicholasfallbrook9810
      @nicholasfallbrook9810 Před 4 lety +1

      @@snakeyman5560 Scary Marines time

    • @docvaliant721
      @docvaliant721 Před 4 lety +2

      I mean traitor stock used for the creation of loyal chapters.

  • @zenlarrushiro3607
    @zenlarrushiro3607 Před 4 lety +5

    It was the redeemed iron warriors

  • @chriswright3448
    @chriswright3448 Před 4 lety

    One other possibility is that they are Ultramarines from before the Heresy but not actually scions actually one of the two lost chapters seeing as all the theories concerning Ultramarines having absorbed those legions (having 3 times the marines than other legions etc). Then that leads to the idea that maybe the Silver Skulls are showing some of the traits of their original legion.

  • @mohammedimran3670
    @mohammedimran3670 Před 4 lety

    You should do the steel Confessors next

  • @MrGrim
    @MrGrim Před 4 lety

    There really needs to be way way way more white scars stuff, just everywhere generally. They're so cool and interesting

    • @Damo2690
      @Damo2690 Před 4 lety

      Like in the Heresy they had a civil war

  • @Lubetube111
    @Lubetube111 Před 2 lety +1

    Ask Cawl He knows all the chapters nasty little secrets

  • @hyfryd6677
    @hyfryd6677 Před 3 lety +1

    I really want them to be genetically Iron Warriors, it's the main reason I started collecting them.

  • @HooDie-Trench-GoTh2022

    The silver skulls : prognosticators, Divinations and trophy head takers . Melee beasts ?

  • @docvaliant721
    @docvaliant721 Před 4 lety

    Is the funeral moon the same as a tomb world?

  • @KaiserAfini
    @KaiserAfini Před 3 lety

    Maybe they are descendants from Angron. They honor their opponents, take battle trophies, recognize the importance of tactics without being bound by it. Sounds a bit like the way they implied Angron would be had the Nails not mangled his mind.

  • @SkaerKrow
    @SkaerKrow Před 4 lety +8

    I know that the evidence doesn't seem to support this, but they sound like descendants of the Word Bearers to me.

    • @MishraArtificer
      @MishraArtificer Před 4 lety +4

      Given their devotion to the idea that the Emperor of Man is a God, that was where my first guess ran to, as well.

    • @SilverSkullGamer
      @SilverSkullGamer Před 4 lety +1

      Fuck you and all that nonsense! Hell no!

    • @hectorandem2944
      @hectorandem2944 Před 4 lety

      That and the fact that they hide information about their origins from Inquisitors. It just gives the air the faintest hint of *Heresy ™* don't you think? 🤔

    • @Damo2690
      @Damo2690 Před 4 lety

      The Word Bearers were slowly purging their loyalist members for over 50 years before the Istvaan. They didn't have any significant Loyalist factions left by the time they officially turned traitor

  • @VincentNeal-od3ph
    @VincentNeal-od3ph Před 9 měsíci

    I think maybe they are a chapter from Magnus maybe? They use future sight and omens and they put pshykers on a pedestal. I dunno just a theory

  • @MrJara1018
    @MrJara1018 Před 3 lety

    I imagine Barbarus’s surviving loyal ironwarriors founded Silverskulls...... but used ultramarine geneseed in subsequent generations in aspirants , and phased out iron warrior geneseed....... so genetically they are ultramarines , but culturally have a degree of ironwarriors in them.

  • @40KWill
    @40KWill Před 4 lety

    I think that final scene is just the paranoia in the geneseed flaw.

  • @thesmilinggun-knight9646

    I wonder if the Silver skulls are (in the current timeline) fully iron warriors or entirely ultramarines or a mixture of both.

  • @mizuhokusuha
    @mizuhokusuha Před 4 lety

    Personally, they should go ask the ultramarine primarch himself since he no doubt was there when the second founding occured and can very well verified or disprove their fears. I am surprised they didn't ask when or if he has met them to provide them Primaris forces.

  • @snakeyman5560
    @snakeyman5560 Před 3 lety

    These guys and the mortifactors would get along so well.

  • @wcs9582
    @wcs9582 Před 3 lety

    The Silver Skulls really do be that one chic with a closet full of crystals who you invited to a party but goes "the tarot cards say..."

  • @ritwiksarker5466
    @ritwiksarker5466 Před 4 lety

    The head thingy, kinda makes me think of the white scars. -_-'

  • @robertrutkowski4946
    @robertrutkowski4946 Před 4 lety

    Your chain of evidence is most convincing. I see no clear flaw in the reasoning, other than the reliability (in world) of some of the sources.

  • @BlizzardofKnives
    @BlizzardofKnives Před 4 lety

    If they are Iron Warriors descendants, I'd like a story where Guilliman meets those Silver Skulls in the know and privately adopts them as his sons due to their 10'000 years of loyalty.

    • @Damo2690
      @Damo2690 Před 4 lety

      Fuck Guillimans Loyalty, Emperor first and always

  • @box1del1idiote
    @box1del1idiote Před 4 lety

    Did the video about the Charcaradons taken down?

    • @40KTheories
      @40KTheories  Před 4 lety

      Yes. The updated and remastered version goes live next week. It'll be almost 3 times as long.

    • @box1del1idiote
      @box1del1idiote Před 4 lety

      40K Theories neat

  • @caos1925
    @caos1925 Před 4 lety

    As soon as that bit about the chapter master changing his name came up Alpharius came to mind. I swear I'm not trying to meme but come on. Still there are more points in favor of the Iron warriors but it does beg the question, where did that name come from.

  • @VoiceOfTheEmperor
    @VoiceOfTheEmperor Před 4 lety

    My money is on them being a Chimeric Chapter of White Scars and the Word Bearers.

  • @Minderz
    @Minderz Před 4 lety +1

    Part of one of the lost legions?

  • @Voodoochild-xu9fd
    @Voodoochild-xu9fd Před 4 lety +2

    Am I the only one who thinks it’s dumb the place the spiritual well-being of your chapter in the hands of someone who is literally always at risk of being influenced/possessed by demons??

    • @SilverSkullGamer
      @SilverSkullGamer Před 4 lety +1

      Some in the chapter are starting to feel the same way. In 'Portents' that is left as a future point of contention for the Chapter.

  • @sarekalexander5178
    @sarekalexander5178 Před 4 lety

    This makes me wonder if a chapter originally descend from from one legion but claim a different heritage, wouldnt that mean they would have chimeric gene-seed?
    Assuming that they have harvested gene-seed from both fallen and living space marines from the Horus Heresy that would be pure 4th legion stock. They then get absorbed by the 13th and then get shipments of their gene-seed. Meaning that if they might have chimeric gene-seed.

  • @curtisshaw1370
    @curtisshaw1370 Před 3 lety

    Any thoughts on them being constituted by Loyalists from the XVII Legion-the Word Bearers? While Lorgar had thoroughly purged his legion prior to the Horus Heresy, it is possible there may have been some members at some distant outpost, that escaped those purges. A more likely possibility, though, is that it may have been founded by Word Bearers abandoned on Calth. Part of the reason for the assault on Calth was to cull those elements of the legion Lorgar felt to be unreliable.
    What aspects of the Silver Skulls are reminiscent of the Word Bearers. The most obvious one is worshipping the Emperor as a literal god. The Tri-Fold Crown chapter had a skull as their insignia and specialized in attritional warfare, much like the Iron Legion. Post-Heresy, the Dark Apostles hold a great deal of influence and use divination to determine what course of action they'll undertake. The Word Bearers also liked grandiose and symbolic actions: the taking of skulls and plating them in silver fits with that.
    I find it plausible that a group of Word Bearers might not have been fully on board with Lorgar's new direction for the legion. While not obvious enough to be purged in the decades leading up to the Heresy, they were deemed unreliable enough to be sent to Calth to be culled. Perhaps they believed that the admonishment from the Emperor was a test and came to believe on Calth that the XVII Legion had failed that test, turning against their brothers.
    Of course, that's all speculation. I know that many feel that the Word Bearers are the one Traitor Legion which is least likely to have any Loyalist elements due to their fanaticism and connection to Lorgar, Zardu Layak betrayed Lorgar at Ullanor, showing it was possible for some of his gene sons to doubt his vision. While I wouldn't expect many of the XVII Legion to maintain or return to their worship of the Emperor, rejecting Chaos, I do think the Silver Skulls are a candidate for such a group.

    • @daltonbecker4494
      @daltonbecker4494 Před rokem

      You know they could be made up of World Bearers from Terra, before they found Lorgar, and after he was found and tried introducing religion just bailed.

  • @Alexandoas
    @Alexandoas Před 4 lety +1

    I believe they are loyalist sons of the iron warriors, but does it really matter as long as they are loyal and praise big E?

  • @mr.depressed886
    @mr.depressed886 Před 4 lety +5

    Is this a reupload, I swear I’ve see this video before

    • @ArturoPR84
      @ArturoPR84 Před 4 lety

      Mr. Depressed yes

    • @jajajja6
      @jajajja6 Před 4 lety

      So im not the only one

    • @crackedhammer4612
      @crackedhammer4612 Před 4 lety +1

      Mr. Depressed the description said that this has updated and additional information

    • @40KTheories
      @40KTheories  Před 4 lety +8

      It's an updated and remastered version with higher quality audio and additional information, making it about 10 minutes longer than the original

    • @Helskorn
      @Helskorn Před 4 lety +1

      It's not a re-upload it's a free DLC pack 😏

  • @NetMoverSitan
    @NetMoverSitan Před 4 lety

    1:45 - Much like an Iron Father is a mix of Chaplin and Techmarine. | 3:36 - (Monotone) All hail Big Papa Ultrasmurf. | Yeah...they're basically loyalist Iron Warriors disguised as Ultrasmurfs, much like the Blood Ravens are supposedly the sons of Spiky Tits...although that's unconfirmed. (they might as well be chimeric between Blood Angels and the Raven guard) | 10:30 - So, he's pale, even by the standards of those psychopathic "Robins"? | That Inquisitor was clearly a radical, as neither the Space Wolves, nor the Grey Knights were sent to wipe them out.

  • @hitomisalazar4073
    @hitomisalazar4073 Před 4 lety +1

    Always love that everyone figures they have to be Iron Warriors descendants. Mostly because "They have a skull icon!". Though honestly their collecting of skulls and dipping them in silver is STRAIGHT out of the White Scars playbook. Which is far more exacting evidence to me than a chapter emblem looking like a skull... which is common iconography in the Imperium.
    But even so, I never buy the fact that a gene seed controls character. The presence/lack of mutations and flaws, yet. But not like everyone who has an Ultramarine Lineage has a Greeco-Roman culture. Quite the opposite in examples like the Red Consuls and Novamarines. So a lack of a mutation or flaw on their part eliminates some like Sanguinius, Dorn, Leman Russ, etc. But beyond that? Anyone who lacks a specific mutation from Salamanders (Their mutations is supposed to be a result of living on Nocturne after all, not a seed flaw) to Dark Angels to Ultmarines, etc.

    • @hitomisalazar4073
      @hitomisalazar4073 Před 4 lety +1

      Though plenty of things I could think of that that the report might have been to result in Civil War beyond Traitor Stock. For example it's revealed that the original Chapter Fortress-Monastery of the Silver Skulls had fallen to a major Nurglite daemonic incursion. Something that required (in a short story) them to team up with their hated Eldar foe to combat (Craftworlders, though it reveals the Silver Skulls had no knowledge of the difference between Craftworld and Dark Eldar when telepathically communing with the Eldar Farseer).
      In fact speaking of that story, the Prognosticator felt such shame over willingly aiding the Eldar to defeat the Nurgle Greater Daemon at the heart of the fortress-monastery that he demanded penance afterwards. Meaning a potential alliance/action along side the eldar the chapter took (or even that the eldar presence in their sector was somehow the Silver Skull's fault considering how much they loathe them completely now) could have been it.
      I dunno, I just see a lot of decent reasons why it wouldn't necessarily be loyalist Iron Warriors but the reasons it supposedly would be suspect.
      Though on the topic of Traitors claiming to be from Guilliman... I do remember an interesting short story. Where a world had found a relic. The bolt pistol of the primarch who had liberated their world during the Great Crusade. Said to be the Bolt Pistol of Guilliman. They were going to turn it into some big pilgrim attraction. An astartes team alongside a Rogue Trader infiltrated that world to capture and destroy that relic. Turns out the planet only thought it was liberated by Guilliman, it was actually liberated by Horus Lupercal and it was Horus's personal bolt pistol uncovered. After the Heresy people just claimed it was Guilliman instead of admitting any sort of connection to the arch traitor.
      So that is points towards the whole Traitors getting claimed as Guilliman line. And it makes me wonder, just because it's me, if the legendary results of the Ultramarines in lore, complying more worlds than any other legion supposedly, was mostly a case of post hoc claiming of worlds that had been liberated by anything from Luna Wolves to Night Lords who didn't want the reputation right after the Heresy.

    • @Audiotrocious
      @Audiotrocious Před 4 lety +1

      Also Chirmarech Geneseed exists as well

    • @CountingStars333
      @CountingStars333 Před 2 lety

      ..... He gave MANY explanations. They are siege specialists.

    • @hitomisalazar4073
      @hitomisalazar4073 Před 2 lety

      Well they're not necessarily siege specialists in their stories. In fact if they had any specialization (they really don't, they're Codex Complaint-ish basically), it'd have been in the use of Librarians as Prognosticators are center to... well everything they do.
      But I was referring mostly to well... look at the other comments in this video who are all like "They use a skull icon. Iron Warriors Confirmed" more or less. It's the common thought line. Even though Skull Iconography they wear has a lot of other possible explanations (including looking like a Dark Eldar symbol as the Dark Eldar are their favored targets and they do have a headhunting theme right out of the White Scars playbook. No one seems to mention or remember their chief enemy is Dark Eldar and the similarity there in the design over the Iron Warriors comparison).

    • @40KTheories
      @40KTheories  Před 2 lety

      @@hitomisalazar4073 It is worth noting that the Silver Skulls novel "Portents" does state that the reason the chapter was chosen for a particular campaign was specifically due to them being siege breakers.
      _Your Chapter have a good reputation, my lord. As noble warriors and siege breakers. You can provide us with the assistance we need to tear down the walls of Valoris City and then provide Valoria with the strength it needs to drive the shadows from the Emperor’s shining star_
      The novel even shows that the chapter makes use of the (seemingly unique) rank of 'Siege-Captain' for such conflicts.
      _Kerelan had received contact from Siege Captain Daviks that his company had just landed and should be deployed within what the stoic captain referred to as a short time_

  • @Matt-md5yt
    @Matt-md5yt Před 4 lety

    I like these guys

  • @RainMakeR_Workshop
    @RainMakeR_Workshop Před 2 lety

    So Silver Skulls have Librarian/Chaplain hybrids called Prognosticators, Space Wolves have Chaplain/Apothecary hybrids called Wolf Priests and Iron Hands have Techmarine/Chaplain hybrids called Iron Fathers... So are there any other cannon hybrid specialist officers?
    Librarian/Techmarine? Techmarine/Apothecary? Apothecary/Librarian?

  • @kelbyreid7254
    @kelbyreid7254 Před 4 lety

    might be better to post vidieos at a time that isn't 12am/24 EST. for the sake of the algorithm, praised be its name.

  • @ironox8480
    @ironox8480 Před 4 lety

    I definitely think they are Loyalist descendants of Iron Warriors. To many similarities between the two for them to be yet another successor of Rowboat Girlyman

  • @jungoogie
    @jungoogie Před 4 lety

    I can imagine the Word Bearers going REEEEEEEEE!

  • @archonfett
    @archonfett Před rokem

    whenever Crawl classifies a the primarch above everyone's clearance you know he did something sneaky, wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the "Ultramarine" second foundlings were just loyalist members of traitor legions. (some would need a different cover like loyalist Night Lords (AKA Space Sharks)

  • @AlarienEvenstar
    @AlarienEvenstar Před 4 lety +1

    They worship the Emperor as a god, have similar Chaplain-Librarius practices and the use of "Argentius" (deriving from silver), mirrors the use of "Aurelian" (deriving from gold). No comment on the Word Bearers?

  • @dstubby82
    @dstubby82 Před 4 lety

    Any loyal chapters that are confirmed to have come from traitor stock?

  • @SixWingZombi
    @SixWingZombi Před 4 lety

    All hail the magic conch!

  • @maidenlord6663
    @maidenlord6663 Před rokem

    That's what I love about games workshop they leave a lot to us to fill in

  • @SexyTimeWithTaylor
    @SexyTimeWithTaylor Před 4 lety +2

    I have a question about hybrid gene seed anyone wanna help me out.

    • @FireRevanShadow
      @FireRevanShadow Před 4 lety +3

      This question is very deep and complex. It's almost like I can't see it.

    • @SexyTimeWithTaylor
      @SexyTimeWithTaylor Před 4 lety +1

      @@FireRevanShadow good one my question is that, is there any chapter with the hybrid gene seed of a loyalist chapter and a traitor chapter?

    • @a40kweeb36
      @a40kweeb36 Před 4 lety +2

      Capt. Fuzzy The Space Sharks are thought to be a mix of Night Lord and Raven Guard heritage. They could have hybrid gene seed of Curze and Corax.

    • @Fourtytwo4242
      @Fourtytwo4242 Před 4 lety

      @@a40kweeb36 So the most edgy chapter to ever been made?

    • @InquisitorThomas
      @InquisitorThomas Před 4 lety

      42 42 I'd argue that Space Sharks aren't the edgiest chapter. Don't get me wrong they're Edgy but some of the shit descendants of the Bloodangels get up to is pretty fucked up.

  • @jackiesantos2121
    @jackiesantos2121 Před 4 lety +1

    ladies guys are some iron Warriors to begin with I believe the space sharks are sent from the night Lords

  • @oatlord
    @oatlord Před 4 lety

    Space Marine spies seems kinda silly. They stand out.

  • @jackdaalfbrainork6392
    @jackdaalfbrainork6392 Před 4 lety

    If I would get a chance to be a space marine
    It would be silver skulls or star phantoms

  • @NemFX
    @NemFX Před 4 lety +3

    Same name: imperial fists
    Spiritual: could be any, maybe space wolves
    Headhunters: night lords or world eaters
    Zealotry: word bearers
    Purity of geneseed: this can be faked through careful cultivation
    Honestly I'm gonna go for an outside chance and say either Imperial Fists or Iron Warriors. A broken off piece that made their own culture and standards.

  • @TheRastawookie
    @TheRastawookie Před 3 lety

    could they be a word bearers successor? judging purely on the religious connotation

  • @rantymcrant-pants9536
    @rantymcrant-pants9536 Před 4 lety +1

    40k Theroies; are all marine heritage questions the result of the staggering incompetence of the imperium at large and specifically its bureaucracy?

  • @RSBurgener
    @RSBurgener Před 2 lety

    Definitely Iron Warriors. The Imperium plays it really fast and loose with their records, so I bet there are TONS of traitor legion loyalist chapters out there, as well as chimeric chapters having several sources. Somebody burned the records before the secret got out. You don't need to be the son of a traitor to turn renegade, so what does it really matter? We've got shark dudes and werewolves fighting in the name of the Emperor. Is it really a problem that Perturabo had a few sons running around doing some good?

  • @Halfort57
    @Halfort57 Před 4 lety

    3:17
    What are you talking about? The Blood Angels and their sucessor chapters are also true believers of the Imperial Cult. Dark Angels also worship the God Emperor although they do so with a totally active and direct approach to his will.

    • @40KTheories
      @40KTheories  Před 4 lety

      According to their Index Astartes article, the Dark Angels do not follow the Imperial Cult. While they venerate the Emperor they view him as just a man and not a god.

  • @christophersmith8848
    @christophersmith8848 Před 3 lety

    15:03 Hi Wib

  • @joshthomas-moore2656
    @joshthomas-moore2656 Před 4 lety +1

    Personally i like the idea they were in honour of the loyalist Iron Warriors so they are Ultramarines but they are made to honour the loyalist when they were founded and they were also made as a sort of insult to the tratior iron warriors