My favorite thing about 40k is that no one can count. They destroyed a hiveworld with 20 hive cities of 5 billion each, that's like 2 million dead. There are 20 primarchs, except there's 18, except one of them is 2 people so 19 There are 4 chaos gods and Vashtoor is attempting to become the 6th There are 9 high lords in the High 12

Tonite on Ridiculous Gear: Shy becomes the new Abbess Sanctorum which gives her full control of the Purgator Mirabilis which worries the rest of the high lords. DK begins smoking a ton of the Devil's lettuce to literally become the highest lord of terra and Bricky becomes the Grand Provost Marshal of the Adeptus Arbites so he can become the Law so he can try to limit Tedd zero's power

I love when 40k really dives into the Gothic aesthetic. The art of the High Lords looks like someone kidnapped the performers at a Renaissance Faire and surgically attached some metal bits, but somehow the look really works.

Here are a few examples of how the High Lords of Terra work: "Should we outlaw the use of laxatives to everyone but us?" "WhaaAat? They can't do that! That's ILLEGAL!" "I'm the law!"

The fabricator general is describe in The Beast novels to be a brain inside a machine the size of a 10 story building. He usually sends a representative because its hard for him to move.

The Fabricator General is indeed enormous, he needs a special lifter, and multiple grav sleds to move... He is currently missing (Vaults of Terra 3)

The first Eisenhorn book has a character who’s part of the Arbites. Basically they’re above the local space cops who only have authority on one planet or system, but they’re not quite on the level of the Inquisition whose authority is basically beyond question. “Space FBI” is a good description.

Mad respect to the inquisitor for finally breaking down the arbitrary boundaries between personal defense and air defense. Also, I literally simp for the Lord Solar.

I had a dream that i was one of the guards to the entrance to the High lords table. I escorted a VIP into the room and loudly proclaimed: "Behold The High-Lords of Tera". They were old smoking their joints I laughed myself Awake.

the master of the administratum: "you think you can do my job better than me? do you even know the protocols and regulations involved in administering this grand imperium?" roboute fucking guilliman: "do not cite the administratum's interplanetary and intersystem protocols and functions, whelp. i wrote them myself."

The high Lords of the Terra have a chapter called The minotaurus to take down renegade space marine chapters, who may have iron warrior Geneseed.

The Grandmaster of Assassins killed the other high lords because they were about to surrender to the Beast. He killed everyone just to make sure no one would betray the Imperium.

Bricky saying "Synoid" instead of "Synod" makes me giggle everytime.

The brief tangent about actors playing primarchs and Charlie Day had my brain flash to: Charlie/Cruze: I mean like, okay, I did betray the imperium and eat those people, but he DID nuke your mom when he caught me... Mac/Guilliman: He- Wait, did you actually nuke my mom dude? Dennis/Lion: Okay, yes, I nuked your mom, but it wasn't my fault she was in your city when I was nuking it. Mac/Guilliman: YOU NUKED MY CITY AND MY MOM!? *Title Card: The Gang Nukes Guilliman's Mom*

On Trajan losing most of his hair, my personal headcanon? He’s been pulling his hair out dealing with primarch’s coming back. I remember in some of the books he DOES NOT like or trust Guilliman or any of the primarchs. He knows he has to work with him, but he is constantly thinking “When is the mother fucker gonna push me to far?”. And for actors to play Lorgar, I vote Nick Cage. No one can do bat shit crazy like him.

“High Lords of Terra, we are gather here today to discuss the most pressing matter to the Survival of the Imperium of Man, such as we have never seen before. Should we outlaw the use of laxatives to everyone but US? Because my poo has been really hard and dusty lately.” -casual High Lords meeting in the 41st millennium.

I really need to suggest the book The Emperor's Legion to you guys. It's set on terra during the great rift and guillimans return. It focuses around the high lords, the custodes and what happened on terra and its reaction to the rift opening. It is an amazing book (and its sequel is awesome too as it involves the coup attempt) not to mention there is a character that I just know you two will absolutely simp over.

Thumbnail looks like they're abouta drop the hardest album on why they should outlaw the use of laxatives to everyone but them

Bricky says Admech are his second favorite Cover When the Chaos Knight codex exists

Also in that artwork I really do think that thing on the left out of frame is the fabricator general, it looks like it's made of torn up fabric and definitely has one of those spike legs seen on techpriests. Also if Cawl can dwarf guilliman I don't see why the fabricator general wouldn't also be that large.

It should be noted that "the Fabricator-General" is the Fabricator-General of Mars; sort of like how the Pope is the Bishop of Rome, different Forge Worlds have different Fabricator-Generals, although some Forge Worlds have different titles.

*10:16* I just really appreciate how Shy helps out Bricky in moments like this. Shy has a very nice way with words.

The idea that they are convening on the Fabricator-General is explored in depth in TTS, where the Fabricator-General is absolutely massive...

Just a fun fact Bricky didn’t mention: Lord Solar is just another name for Warmaster most Warmasters prefer in 40k because of Horus.

Bricky, in the throne of terra book series, the high lord of the Mechanicum is in fact several stories tall, so your assumption of him being the walking steam train might in fact be correct

30:16 bro sends you to the emperor same day shipping

So we know that Titans are supposed to imitate the Holy human form… is the inquisitorial representative’s outfit with its little shoulder cherubs supposed to imitate the form of a blessed Titan?!

I'm kind of impressed that the Lored Solar has no augmentations, in 40k that makes him a legend.

Casualties of civilians in war. Its called Civilian Casualties.

Skaven Episode?! YES YES YES! THE SKAVEN ARE AWESOME! From the plagues of Pestilens to the Magitek of Clan Skyre, they have variety and each one of then is a funny, scary sneaky asshole.

"We must make goblin clowns IIIILLLLEEEGGAAALLLL!" [Old Folks Home Sound here]

A fun idea for an episode could be seeing who would be cast as the primarchs if a 40k movie did come out

A minor *UMM ACKSHUALLY* about Leontis. He doesn't command the entire Imperial Guard. Each segmentum of the Imperium has its own Lord Commander, five in total. Leontis is a High Lord because the Segmentum Solar is home to Terra, so he is directly responsible for directing the Guard in defending Mankind's homeworld and the Emperor.

I agree that the war of the beast was probably inconsistently written but the scene where the space marines come to take him to face justice was pretty good to me. I think around 150 marines went into the temple to get him but the detail Bricky skimmed over is that it was an EVESOR temple. Guys come in, he gives the villain monologue and 100 tubes containing frozen evesors pop up. The tubes are basically leaking liquid nitrogen so the room becomes all foggy too which is the last place you want evesors jumping out at you from given the assassins had been in the nitrogen and didn't show up on thermal imaging while the the space marines definitely did.

Alfabusa destroyed Highlords for me. I am the lawn and Oily margaritas serving toster banger mechanicus fabricatir general ar unseeable. Greetings custodies how are you this day I hope you brought some cool tech to display!!!

Y'all put this out at just the right time. I started Watchers of the Throne 2: The Regents Shadow which starts off with the reformation of the High Lords

Reading Nemesis, it’s interesting that Malcador was the first Master of Assassins. He wasn’t an “assassin” as they are, but I guess he was more powerful than they all could be, so I guess that tracks. It’s a really fun novel btw, if you enjoy Assassinorum or Execution Force, it’s an intimate look at the first “execution force” of assassins, as well as an early Crime novel intertwined. If anyone tells you that you can skip some of the Horus Heresy but you are enjoying the setting, read the “side quest” novels, like Battle for the Abyss, Damnation of Pythos, Nemesis, Descent of Angels, etc. as they flesh out the setting waaaaay more than the “main” HH novels. Oh and the Garantine, the Eversor assassin is fucking terrifying.

Let's be honest, Bricky is the High Lord of Foreheads and Neckbeards

50:31 The Chartist Captains are the Rogue Traders. The name relates to the Imperial charters they operate under.

I don't think the Spear of Illumination is a Custodian's Weapon per se, but an ancient relic that the custodian kept

“ Lord Commander Solar” is the replacement position for “ Warmaster” In the Imperium. Since SOMEBODY had to go and ruin that position with their diaper baby shit fit.

The office of those fired High Lords very much remain. They just got new people in those rolls.

At least it was Guilliman who reach Terra to reform the High Lords. If it was 30K Lion, lots of heads will be lopped off by him personally. The more mellow 40k Lion have more pressing issues to deal with in Imperium Nihilus. Guilliman did appoints his own sets of people (include those he knew would turn).

To give a slightly more detailed happening of the beheading. High assassin guy was placed in charge of the high lords by the then chapter master of the imperial fists (who was actually the chapter master of the fist or first exemplars because the the last chapter master of the imperial fists and last actual original imperial fist was killed by the beast) and told to keep them from in fighting which caused huge problems for the war. Well the second the fists were gone and peaced the infighting and plotting happened again which kind of broke the assassin leader because they literally just saw what they could do together and that the infighting had caused… so he set up a plan to kill/control/replace the high lords. Those he couldn’t control he had killed (assassination and tricking into committing suicide) those he could control he did (he kept the inquisition rep he was in love with prisoner and legitimized the fabricator general who did tech heresy and moved his mind to a computer.) and then replaced them all with people loyal . This lasted for a century until assassin leader went insane. Fists came back to deal with it. Where yeah.. 1 man standing.

32:09 Now... here me out, if Macharius with the winged helmet was Alexander the Great in space. That means Lyontes is going to be Aurelian, aka the unificator of a divided empire.

Honestly it would be great if whoever the current Mars Fabricator General got a Mini, it would be nice to have a major named mechanicus character other the Cawl. Or they could bring back Kelbor Hal as a daemon prince of the dark mechanicus, that would be nice too.

"the nundam is kind of goofy" *Points at the entire rest of 40k*

My favorite guardsman voice is my internal monologue's accent as I read paper backs.

Wait...what are yall dusty butt cheeks doing? Nobody: Absolutely Nobody: Fabricator general: BUUUUUUUUUTCHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE- (Explodes)

🎵Greetings Custodes! How are you this day? Have you brought me any cool ancient tech to displaaaaaay?🎶

what a fun and interesting episode, thanks Adric. i actually never knew much about the highlords outside of tts

Anti-air gun shoulder pads is one of the most 40k things ever.

/Shows picture of High Lords of Terra Me: ..... Is Ron Perlman a High Lord of Terra?

They are sitting in the hand of the Fabricator general, and he's also the painter of the portrait. "Stand still in my hand, Meatbags. We must immortalize this moment in the name of the Omnissiah."

Wait what did Decius do? All I know about him is his portrayal as the Manclesiarch in TTS and he seemed like a good boy there.

"Astartes-pattern baldness" broke me.😂

The captain general of the adeptus custodies is Kitten otherwose known as Sun Cat, and you cannot change my mind.

I absolutely LOVE the kingmaker, such fun book, almost done with it

Looking on CSM and Mechanicum covers, I just can't wait how Dark Mechanicum would look like

about the artwork of the highlords of terra, i also love that immensly and i really want to see a lord solar painted in that colour scheme. not sure if they later talk about it, but i am pretty sure Leontus is not a high lord of terra. while a lord solar technically can become highlord its usually the Lord Commander Militant that fullfills that role and contrary to morvenn vahl which was in her community reveal directly called highlord, they didnt call leontus a highlord in any media i could find. i think the artwork is more supposed to represent the leaders on terra preparing for the new front of tyrannids. since thats what the trailer the artwork is from is also about.

Love this. For next book club let’s do BlackStone. The book that features Drake of House Drake the Rouge Trader!

From that artwork, Lord Solar reminds me of Karl Franz from fantasy

I need an alternate Warhammer storyline where the imperium is based off of America; all the Astartes legions are just Die Hard for freedom; The baneblade is now the Freebrams, every time they deploy by gunship Fortune Son blares from all vox systems

"Morvenn Vahl's mech suit is kinda goofy" says the guy whose favorite model is a bunch of Sisters hauling a corpse around the battlefield

I feel like the solar guy is what the emperor would love. The pinnacle of a normal human. Just pure and absolute and powerful

DK really should have been leading with skaven, that's where the cheese is my boy. Feet pics are like mold spots for added flavor

“That’s Paul Rudd, But he’s BALD!” needs to be a sticker!

Wait, Decius is dead?? Oh my, first Dominique and now him too?? 😢

1:13 We've all experienced firsthand that level of "Oh no".

I cannot be the only one who was yelling Shaft Hat at the screen when Bricky was asking about the Ecclesiarch

Malcador the Sigilite was Grandmaster of the Assassinorum and Drakan Vangorich took over the High lords after killing them off, he was very effective but mentally unstable which considering he was basically running the Imperium on his own isn't too surprising.

Bricky in and out knowledge trips me out sometimes. He didn't know who Pauly Shore is lol

dude, noticing the Fab-Gen in the top-right corner legitimately startled me, i thought it was just ambient metal joints you see everywhere in 40k art

Love your podcast!

RATS!!! RATS!!! WERE THE RATS!!!

*That's* Kitten? Damn. He got that Dad of War bod

that custodes is not a custodes, thats an ogryn from darktide in gold armor.

I think it has been awhile since I've laughed as hard as I did in regards to Paul Rudd and Lorgar...goodness me! Always enjoy your contents and I shall endeavor to continue to listen and support for as long as I can. Unfortunately my hearing loss is getting worse and you're beautiful voices are going away...lmfao.

As a White Scars fan, I fully support Jaghatai being played by Tony Soprano

*distant noises of the shattering of an ancient intestinal tract*

All in favor of a dedicated morvenn vahl episode say "I"

And again, Shy on point with the meme because I was literally just thinking “Wow, 40K has Landmates?!”

New episode that fast?! Nice!

The fact that decius got decapitated by celestine will now always make me sad when i rewatch tts

DJ corrected Bricky about navigators 😮

4:04 Wow I never realized discussed and digust are the exact same sound

DK needs to hit up PancreasNoWork for that skaven lore. That man knows fantasy like knows about the imperial guard

''pAUl rudd starring as Lorgar Aurelian'' ...Will my mind recover?

I was rewatching the episode on the navel fleet just the other night while i was in bed. Passed out right when they were speaking about the high lords of terra in that episode too and thought they should get to that episode soon. Then bam what happens. The very next one is on the high lords. In my head much it seems.

I cannot believe they refrained from any “just a little guys” when talking about the lord solar

Steve buscemi as Cawl

The Lorgar meme is good. Needs the rune dome.

Honestly looking forward to DK taking a crack at Skaven Lore!

Damn, DK really whipped out the "Bubblegum Crisis" reference, that is some vintage quality.

Hell ya bubblegum crisis reference!! Way to go

The art looks like when in a shonen manga when the group of big bad guys are introduced.

Bless Shy for the fast edit

47:52 Maybe it's a weapon designed and hand crafted BY the custodes and not craft FOR the custodians. Like "hey you're not allowed to eat my cake but I baked this one for you."

If you could go more into detail on the hexarchy or Guilliman's scourge I'd love that! We'd get a lot of 'JESUS' out of DK

If Cawl gets named Fabricator General, we'd have models for 4 High Lords of Terra, the other 3 being: Lord Solar Leontus Abbess Sanctorum Morvenn Vahl Captain-General Trajann Valoris