Ten Thousand years of unrelenting war and Imperial decay. *Belisarius Cawl siting on Legions worth of Super Space Marines.* "This is fine." *sips coffee*

I wonder if there is some huge department on Terra responsible for the color scheme of new chapters discussing hundreds of years til they decide if it's going to be a pine green or rather a sea green for their shoulder plates.

"Okay the 13th Founding was pretty bad, but we shoudn't have too many problem until we the 666th one at least!" * 7 founding later " "Come on!"

"Chronological putrefaction" This is peak Oculus right there, chefs kiss

Currently recovering from a heart attack in the hospital. The Emperor protects. (Thank you all for your prayers to the Emperor, turns out I was incredibly Lucky, all the symptoms and signs of a heart attack, but it turns out to be an "Acute Pericarditis" I'm recovering quickly, I'm going to use this chance to purse my passion and dream.) That of course putting the holy book onto pages, and sharing with the world our Emperor, and his dream of unity. "There is no end, no doom of man. Only the dream of countless children following in the steps of their forebears, into a glorious future." One that we all can stand together, in his service.

Eagerly waiting for the Lamenters entry. Poor guys just can't catch a break, but they must be one of the most selfless and true of all the Emperor's servants.

So fabulous bill was involved in this mess, weird cuz i always figured the cursed founding was Cael's 1st attempt at primaris.

F in the chat for the Lamenters.

This simply makes me desperately wish for novels on the Exorcists, who Emperor help us all, are a hairs breadth away from heresy.

This is basically "At the mountains of madness" set in 40k. I for one endorse and appreciate this.

Ah, perfect timing! Just started painting some Necrons.

The tragedy of the Space Marines was that before the revival of the avenging son of the Emperor, the Space Marines were a dying race. The genetic material of the Geneseed was the upmost importance to the creation of space marines, but over time the geneseed was started to fall to corruption for overuses and flaws inherited by the Primarch own genetic code.

I applaud your courage Historitor. The Imperium rarely allows the illumination of it's failures.

Primaris looking real shifty right now

Ave Imperator

when he said they were reviving the third guy< for some reason I expected himt o step out of the tube, and immediatly trip and break his neck, and turn out to be a prototype lamenter.

I think Fabius Bile had a hand in this, he had his own 'Homo Novus' project in his book series.

Love the Black Dragons. My Fourth favourite non first founding chapter. Like an army of Wolverines!

Sees oculus imperia video pop up, says it was uploaded 1 minute ago. Welp! My research paper writing shall now be aided by the soothing voice of a great imperial chronicler! *Huzzah*

This Black Dragon Space Marine looks real badass. Thank you for your work Oculus, as always :-)

Pardon my low Gothic but I fucking love this channel and the presentation of every video, it feels so immersive and gripping it keeps me coming back every upload. PS: the choir is a nice touch really ties it all together.

I felt like I was listening to an actual Black Library publicae the quality of the logs were so amazing. Many thanks for doing the lore justice from a fan of both the Lamenters and The Sons of Antaeus.

As a major fan of the hallowed 9th legion/chapter, the Lamenters make me sad. Such kind and selfless sons of Sanguinius afflicted by a long series of tragedies, this truly is a cruel universe.

The 21st founding makes you lament doesn’t it?

Praise be the Emperor’s Avenging Son’s Historitor..

Yeah, it's a huge problem when someone starts messing with the genes and organ implants of the Astartes... Looking at you Cawl.

Right in time for my lunch break. Oculus, your timing is impeccable, and your work doubly so.

Some of your best work to date - I hope for such beautiful writing when it comes to my dear Lamenters getting said entry.

Aot ended but Oculus will be forever with us. Perfection as usual.

Them Chaos Gods really loving their rhyming

Love this story. it's in one of my old chapter approved books from the 90s 😊 👍

This was one of your best! The logs read like that gave it a horror/mystery vibe

My boys of the 21st! My space marine army that i am building are The Sons of Antaeus! Aka: DAMN THEY THICK! Run counts as death guard Personal canon is their geneseeds are ultramarines, not Death Guard, as ultramarines are very stable. What makes then big is the start with candidates from a planet whose population is proto-ogryn. Huge by human standards but still with baseline mental facilities. Then during the implementation of the first 5 organs they use some techniques that are refined and less intense versions of the treatments used on the Thunder Warriors. So I'm kind of modeling the units on thunder warriors. Model size they will be larger than primaris

Perfect way to start an evening of painting. My Warhound is finally assembled and I can start the color job. I feel like a vegan, telling anyone who will listen I got a Titan.

OMG......U ARE IN MY EYES THE TRUE LORE MASTER......YOUR VOICE,YOUR DETAILS, AND YOUR MUSIC IS UNBEATEBLE..... SRY FOR MY ENGLISCH, IM FROM GERMANY BERLIN.....PLS KEEP ON UPLOADING.....IM A PLUMBER....AND I HEAR YOUR VIDEOS EVERY DAY AT WORK , WHILE IM DRIVING FROM CUSTUMOR TO CUSTUMOR...... LOVE YOUR WORK AND DEDICATION......IN MY EYES U ARE EVEN BETTER THAN LUTEIN

God I love this channel. Is there any chance you’ll do a video on any of the knight houses? I would love to listen to it while I paint

One of your finest productions :) WH40k lore but with in context character and context... which brings it to life and death in the grim dark future

4:18 I mentally added to this line “and it is therefore surprising it manages to happen at all”.

This has made my bad day better. Thank you Oculus

There's a fun short story called The Virago Fastness, about a group of marines solely pulled from the Cursed Founding all getting put on a squad within the Death Watch. It made me want to read more about that ragtag little group of misfits.

The Cursed Founding is one of my FAVORITE topics, the Black Dragons and the Flame Falcons especially. The Flame Falcons are a story of immense tragedy, taking to a warzone with an Inquisitor in tow, and during battle some of their kin were engulfed in flame... and yet this flame didn't burn THEM. The Flame Falcons rejoiced, thinking this was clearly a blessing of the Emperor... but the Inquisitor saw it as clearly the sign of heresy, knowing or unknowing. He contacted the Grey Knights, who sent a force to purge the Flame Falcons in their entirety. When I first read it as a teen I thought it was arrogance or purtanical choice on the Inquisitor's part but... now, as a full fledged adult, I can only imagine that while that could be true, the Inquisitor could have also wept. For what he did was no less than exterminate an entire chapter of the Emperor's finest, for what seemed to be mutation beyond their control. But such is the heavy weight of the duty of the Inquisition.

Very creative. And a great performance, as always. I really enjoyed this one! :)

Another amazing video Oculus and more phenomenal voice acting by both oculus and das_man

perfect timing as i am pacing my front room with my poor unwell snotling

Listening to you explain the history of the empire is glorious

Biologis: "Okay, so the good news is that we made some new and improved space marines that should be even stronger than the previous iteration. The bad news is that some of them may or may not have the geneseed of traitor Primarchs in them like Horus or Perturabo or, Omnissiah forbid, Konrad Curze or Lorgar. So... Yeah. Whoops. At least, if any of them are sons of Magnus, then we'll know when they start randomly mutating into piles of braying flesh."

Very nice! Thank you for the greatly narrated lore!

Brilliant video, keep up the great work mate

Thank you for keeping it unique and creative!

VERY well done and most impressive, Thankyou for the effort.

New to this channel so far really loving the in universe presentation

Fantastic work as always 🙂. You never disappoint me Oculus!

Excellent work. Kudos to the voice actor. An excellent choice.

Great timing I needed something to listen too while working.

You've really outdone yourself here! Captivating listen!

Another spectacular video. Keep on keeping on

This is such beautiful work and the product of someone who cares much about his subject.. All power of Cawl to you sir,

Really enjoyed the format

While there are patterns of videos I'd like to see (Ultramarines Origins and Tactics, Prelude to Heresy), when you put up surprises I love them as well. Such good narration to work to, or just to hear.

Truly this founding was just on my mind earlier today. The Black dragons in particular.

Excellent video as always. I'd be curious to learn more about the Nova Terra Interregnum, assume sufficient information exists to warrant a video.

The stamina of the imperial choir is impressive

Words cannot describe how much I love listening to your videos.

Your prose is beautiful. Rabbithole or not this channel is one of my only distractions I allow myself.

Absolutely mint, as ever.

Ok i love your work, If i had to could i say Oculus: zenobiologus Bladermort:remebrancer/highlord ABorderPrince: Inquisitor Majorkill: some catachan badass with krieg genes Luetin: secret old one Tactica: most likely a Necron Also Oculus: super heretic Forgot about das_man: litterally just found his channel a few days ago hes probably the star child... or horus...

Brother, you need to write a book out of Fabius Bile doing this!!

Perfect thing to watch while hungover.

Great stuff man 👍

Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne, carrots for the Sterling!

What an appropriate year to do the 21st founding.

A welcome and undoubtedly educational distraction, Historitor. Hail!

Right off the bat, Administratum personel, presumably.

Cursed founding is the no-name brand version of Primaris

Painting wracks and this was perfect to bust some minis out! 🤘🤘

With your style of narration, I'd love to hear you make a video on the Idoneth.

Another great video, thank you

Random Thought: Please more content like this, original or otherwise. Thankyou for doing the cursed founding justice.

Alpha Legion messing with the 21st as they did with Corax's attempt rebuilding his Legion?

Praise him upon holy terra, for the historitor has once again channeled his divine will into another elucidating record! About to enjoy my friday night beer. Hope it lasts me for the entirety of the video.

Well done. Thank you

Lost Chapters are the Validictors and the Rainbow Warriors GW made a break back in the day with some people involving certain creativity.

So, I am interested to see how messing with the gene seed of an astartes chapter could cause ill luck, A-La the Lamenters. Genetic issues for the Black Dragons, The Flame Falcons, The Blood Gorgons are all very evident. But ill luck? Since the Lamenters are sons of the Angel, I wonder if some psychic backlash causes the coin flipped for these unfortunate marines to always fall ill...

GREAT STUFF!!!!!

I really like the log entries

So this is where Fabius Bile found the Perfect Clone of Fulgrim.. And Where the Black Dragons got their "Weapon X / wolverine " Bone Blades.... 👍

Very good vídeo! Thx

Truckin love this guy

The Imperium never lost the Fire Hawks

However, on that note ive really been considering running Lamenters, instead of flesh tearers

DAS MAN, DAS MAN, DAS MAN, DAS MAN

Ahhhh! Das!

This occurred 10k ago? Well that kinda lines up with the beginning of the Ultima Founding? As a Casual fan my knowledge of lore is nascent at best so forgive my ignorance if I'm mistaken. But going with that something occurs to me, with the Ultima Founding being created by the Mechanicus it seems Logical that one or even more Redundancy Plans would have been started. If all I've read years back and gleaned in the recent years on the creation of Spacemarines, several foundings being lost to time as this one in your record here demonstrates, then it can be inferred that known and perhaps lost facilities or built for purpose like the one here, would have been set up and were working towards the same overall goal, but perhaps with a partial foundation of inter project Competition. The record and your gatherings from it suggest Fabius Bile, a known Cloner with facilities of his own, as the culprit behind the attack. Depending on the Timeline for this attack would place Bile's Career of Cloning Spacemarines and Primarchs into perspective. Establishing that and comparing that to Bile's record could also indicate possible interests in Other facilities. The likelyhood of this will be inferred by the number of lost foundings and facilities created or reused for those purposes. We know reuse is one thing as the Primaris and the Grey Knights are both created there. Both in secret, one a massive project and the other Chapter scale operation. Each Chapter has the human upgrade to Spacemarine technological capacity which contains a majority of the necessary gear save for the incubation equipment and related gear and personnel requirements. As Bile has cloned himself to extend his existence several times, he has to maintain the means to continue his work. Not All of which he can make himself and the rate of conflict his work gets him into causing his own death, destroyed labs etc, he Can't go back to the same facilities and raid and pillage them for what he needs. This record and examination from the archeologists state the place had only been attacked the one time. So Bile didn't return or take over the facility, took what he needed, killed everyone to cover his tracks and left. If any of his Clones, of him or his favorite Clone primarchs occurred before this attack then there are Other Clandestine Facilities for the same purpose. So many thousands of worlds in the Imperium, so many lost forge worlds and the like. And now the possible riddle of the Yellow King suggesting Another Force built in secret by one of the Adeptus Custodes and the Yellow King himself, Rumored to be Rogal Dorn. Guilliman returns with the Primaris, it can now be Inferred that Rogal Dorn returns, he's coming back with an Army of his own, solely trained by Dorn and the Custodes. THAT is an AWESOME thought. Dorn has been gone for approximately 10k years. He'd need to be perceived as dead to go off and build what he's been building with the Custodes. The likelyhood of him coming back with a sizable Force knowing his disdain for breaking up the Legions while Understanding it, I can infer would be quite High indeed. I wonder what other of the Loyal Son's who are M.I.A. could Trusted with perhaps doing the Same. Because there's one thing that's always bugged me about the missing and living primarchs. IF Dorn is Alive and shows up with an Army, Who Else will do the similar? From a marketing perspective if One primarch coming back is good for business, then so should others as well. And for Balance...well who's to say none of the Traitor Primarchs who haven't been seen in a while shouldn't get the same rollout treatment. The next popularity and growth expansion spurt for GW is on the horizon so it makes sense that there's a lot of building up going on to that effect from what I'm seeing anyways.

Wait.. Are these proto primarus? And they were taken by the ruinous powers? That's.. Not good.

Would you do a video about civilizations/planets not yet reclaimed by the imperium (such as the severan dominate or the civilization on Adrantis Five that Macharius encountered in M41)?

Yay! More Oculus!!!

I love found footage stuff. Very lovecraftian

You're brilliant, thank you

Amazing

Awesome!