"Chaos doesn't want you to know this, but warp powers are free. You can just go to the warp and take them" - Corvus, probably

To Corax's credit, he didn't just order the execution of all his mutated sons, he went to each of them one on one, apologized, and killed them with his own hands

The one Primarch who went, "You know this system is complete trash," and didn't go traitor.

Corvus Corax, Primarch of the Raven Guard address the remnants of his legion shortly after the Isstvan V dropsite massacre. Corax: "In terms of Astartes, we have no Astartes."

Corvus Corax is so stealthy that even GW didn’t realize he is still there.

Bricky is underselling the final fight. Lorgar is immensely powerful now, like incredibly so as a demon primarch... and Corvus absolutely bodies him.

Bricky: What do WOLVES have to do with Halloween? Werewolves: Am I a joke to you?

Corvus once got so bored stalking a patrol of Iron Warriors that he picked up a pebble and flicked it at them, instantly exploding one of their heads from the impact. He did this two more times before they noticed him and started firing at him.

“Post ascension Angron is a different beast” The Lion: “Still nothing but prey”

Brick, you cannot say the Space Wolves have nothing to do with Halloween when they have literal werewolves

In regards to the Corvus vs Konrad stuff, Corvus' biggest fear is that deep down he is as bad as Kurz. Since they share the same flaw, of being unable to let go of injustice and see them go unpunished.

Raven guard: You don't see them, you don't know they are there. Alpha legion: You see them, you don't know they are there. Nightlords: You don't see them, you do know they are there. World Eaters: You see them, you know they are there.

I love how the latter part of Corax's lore can be summed up as "Corvus plays among us with lorgar and the word bearers"

Wearing skull facepaint under a skull mask seems like the kind of thing a harlequin would think is funny. "And underneath the face paint??? There's ANOTHER skull!"

Once upon a battlefield dreary, where I cowered, spent and bleary, Within an Imperial bunker, darkly stained with dust and gore - As I cowered, nearly shuttering, suddenly there came a sputtering As some weapon quickly stuttering - firing at my bunker door. "`Tis some bolter", I murmmered, "firing at my bunker door - Only this and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December, And the brightly burning bastions lit the horizion by the score. Eagerly, on freedom drunker; - vainly had I sought to hunker In this heavy Imperial bunker - with perhaps a tunnel in the floor - A safe and empty fortress with perhaps a tiny tunnel in the floor - Only this and nothing more. And the mad raving howling of each distant Space Wolf prowling Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before. So that now, to the beating of my heart, I stood entreating "`Tis some Space Wolf there repeating, firing at my bunker door - Some common Grey Hunter rapid-firing at my bunker door - This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer "Marine," said I, "or Scout, your attention I implore; The bunker walls are thick - they are made of tempered brick And your bolters do not nick the slightest scratch or tiny score - Not a dimple, dent, depression, dip, scratch or tiny score - Away now, and fire no more." Then in the bunker slumping, presently I heard a thumping A pounding - rattling many times fiercer than before. And soon I began to screech - the bunker wall grenades did breach; The very gods I did beseech as the ceiling fell upon the floor - Through the wounds poured light which danced upon the floor - Danced amidst the sounds of war. Then at once it stopped the violence - I was left alone with silence Confused, I spied the reason why the shells did drop no more - For as I began to shutter, then with many a flit and flutter a psyber-Raven flew through the clutter to perch above the door - Perched on the two-headed eagle just above the bunker door - Perched and sat and nothing more. At this I grew more craven, for the talons of the psyber-Raven Were all over covered with bright red blood and crimson gore. "Wretch!" I cried, "Njal hath lent thee - into this fortress has he sent thee So that remotely may he here be - and this bunker then explore - Scry out my exact location and this bunker then explore -" Quoth the Raven, "Eversor" Then, methought, the air grew darker, the bunker now a little starker For the uttered word brought terror as I had never felt before. As for weapons, I knew I had none - no bolter, sword or lasgun; No arms to stop the war's son fated to break soon through the door - The blood-mad crazed assassin fated to break soon through the door- Quoth the Raven, "Eversor" "Be that word our sign of parting, machine or bird!" I shrieked, upstarting - "Get thee back into the fire-fight and here spy on me no more! For as you came unbidden - I would otherwise be here hidden - Leave my location in this midden - quit that icon above my door! Take thy shining metal eye, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven, "Eversor" And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting - still is sitting On the pallid two-headed eagle just above the bunker door; His metal eye has all the seeming of a psyker that is scheming, To have my guts lie steaming in a pile upon the floor; And now all hope has left me, crouched here upon the floor I await the Eversor!

It never clicked with me before, but Corvus getting transformed by the Warp is kind of fitting after what happened with his mutated sons.

Corax always felt like the one Primarch who you could actually chill and have a beer with like a normal person.

Corvus has a backstory that reads like what Angron would be like if he wasn't a failure

I think what makes corvus so likeable to me is how human he feels. Like the primarchs are all flawed, but their flaws seem supersized because of their status. But corax just doesnt feel that way to me, like for instance his speech from weregeld. "It was a mistake... we were a mistake brother, i know that now. I see it for my self in my own blundering, i see it in the eyes of the mistakes i created" "how could i have been blind to it for so long? Pride? Arrogance, perhaps? To think we were better, stronger, special." "I look at Curze and i see myself. Do you find Angron in your reflection? How thin is the vineer that keeps us loyal, keeps us civilized?" And "i used to think there was righteous justice. That whatever i did, it served humanity. There is only one way left to aid mankind, and it does not include out survival, O King of Wolves." "You often spoke of the fenrisian notion if a good death. If there is such a thing, i desire it. I shouldve taken it on isstvan. Time and again fate presented me an oppourtunity and i denied it. Against Curze and Lorgar. I could have ended their vileness. And Angron. How many has he butchered since i fled his axes?"

My friends and I have a theory that Leman and Corvus will return together. The minimal lore we have of them together shows them being quite close. They’re both in the Warp. The mythological and natural connections between Odin/Wolves and Ravens

When they bring Corvus back into the setting, he’s going to have a very long chat with the Ecclysiarchy

Good way to remember the difference between the 3 "stealth legions". You won't see the Night Lords but you'll know they're there. You won't see the Raven Guard and you won't know they're there. You'll see the Alpha Legion but won't know they're there. Yes I know the Night Lords aren't strictly stealth but they fit for the context

Horus making Corvus go frontline would have me on the spot question his abilities as warmaster. Like I would go "PERTY WOULD BE BETTER AND HE HATES WAR" Even if it ended up with Corvus not joining chaos. Totally played himself.

One thing Corvus has going for his chances to maybe return earlier than others is that whenever they decide to bring Lorgar back, it would only be fitting that Corax just straight up *teleports behind him mid exposition*.

There is a book that has basically all Corvus Corax early life and its called "Deliverance lost" so they didn't need to include it in his Primarch Book

Despite not being that popular. Corvus Corax has the most interesting concept for a primarch for me. A sneaky loyalist 'Daemon' Primach who fought against slavery.

A congress of owls A mischief of rats A shrewdness of apes A convocation of eagles A bloat of hippos A flamboyance of flamingos Just to name a few

Finally, me and the other 16 Raven Guard fans get our day.

Honestly one of my favorite Corax excerpt I've seen is when he and the remaining Raven Guard was escaping after Istvaan and they met a traitor ship (I can't remember if it was Deliverance or Battle for the Abyss). Since the traitors like the Warp so much, he ran next to the ship and activated his warp drive, which dragged the traitor ship into the Warp... without their Gellar fields. It's actually quite funny since the commander of ship took a moment to realize what just happened, said "Oh", looks down and sees a tentacles burst from his chest from warp mutation.

I feel we forgot the mention the fact that upon meeting the Emperor, Corax not only immediately knew him and knelt to him, but also he apparently saw through the psykik illusion that the Emps projects. Which is pretty dope

I'm happy my primarch finally got an episode. Also note, there's new lore that it's believed he mightve never left the raven spire and still resides there.

I think Guilliman, after a few millennia in the Warp would gain a precognition talent. Although more "hyper-simulation" style precognition rather than future-sight. In his domain, *everything* is accounted for. Whatever tactic you try to devise against him, he knew you'd choose to do that already... provided he had the data input to simulate that. Add to that an Emperor-like Presence supercharge where everyone feels a need to kneel around him, and obey his commands. After all, his thing is.. well, logistics, grand strategy, and rallying armies. At least on the combat side of things. Still losing duels, but actually forcing him into a duel that he didn't _"Just as Planned"_ would be the hard part.

Corvus punched Horus and told him never again shall the raven guard work with the Warmaster.

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ah yes, corvus corax, the primarch named after both the genus of crows and ravens, as well as the ancient greek word for raven, and leads the raven guard

In late M42, The Raven Guard discovered an intact STC containing all singles of the ancient Terran band "Linkin Park"

Corvus is consistently underrated amongst the best melee combatants but combining his stealth, FLIGHT, speed and the fact he continuously bodies Lorgar who got to the point that he warp-bitch slapped Horus, then fought the combined 6 army forces that defeated Vulkan; then held off Angron while not only his people escaped but the Salamanders and Iron Hands that were with his people… Corvus honestly might be the single scariest Primarch especially now that he’s a Daemon Prince of Big E

So the Terran raven guard marines often would serve with the Luna wolves before Corax was found. Because of this many of the worlds they conquered were over shadowed by Horus which Corax grew bitter about. Corax also struck Horus after the gate 42 battle due to the loss of his marines.

"Fresh air upon my skin is like the flensing daggers of a thousand thousand menial urchins going at a sack of potatoes!" - TTS Corvus Corax after being (unintentionally) released from the Engine of Woes "I'm sad. It's too bright. I want to go back in the box." Also TTS Corvus Corax.

Always find it kinda funny that they always forget about Sanguinius when they talk about Primarch vs Primarch stuff. He DID take Angron. And Leman Russ called out Sanguinius as the one brother he didnt think he could take in a fight. Dude was baller so they had to kill him so he wouldnt trounce the traitors after Horus died

How can you forget Corvus and Leman having a little brother vibe and coming to make a last stand to save Leman after he tried to take down Horus himself?

Corax when finds Lorgar: “Hey bro, wanna be a dead body?!” Corax when he sees what the imperium has become: “The pain and depression I feel is *so* transparent that I’m pretty it has become its own Chaos god by now.” Local Ogryn: “Aaagh, what’s a chaos goud?”

Corvus feels like the guy that's willing to get shit done in the most efficient means possible, but is a huge softy on the inside. His loyalty is measured equally to his strong sense of justice and compassion for his compatriots and civillians. Perhaps not on the same level as say Vulcan, but noticeably more than most primarchs. On top of his suprisingly excellent combat performance, Corvus is a very underrated primarch. And in spite of the hardships faced by the legion (and all their brooding), their chapter and it's offshoots still continue to faithfully follow Corvus' will in 40K.

One thing I really love about corvus is his connection to russ. He saw him as big brother and when corvus found out about what they're made of her got dropped and loved to russ for answers as he was dying. Not even guillimon was allowed to see him but corvus was. Russ told him who cares. We have a mission, a duty, and doesn't change how we will die. That puts him straight into action and even 40k, they work together like real life ravens and wolves do, but raven guard also know fenrisian.

Ever since the story Deliverance Lost, I find that Corvus will do what is necessary, but will hate himself in equal measure.

Corvus's return would pose a very interesting situation and moral conundrum: would the loyalist freedom fighter join the imperium in its tyrannical state? Could Guilliman talk him down?

Personally I believe that Corvus’s stealth works the same as Tyberos of the Red Wake. Hes just so terrifying that he rolls a nat 20 and automatically intimidates the people looking for him into believing he wasn’t there.

I still believe Corvus is out there and will return, along with Vulkan and Jaghatai Khan.

The thing is that Corvus Corax feels like that one sibling everyone forgets about only to realize that their the real favorite of the group.

THANK YOU AD RIC!!! I know almost nothing about Corvus Corax or the Raven Guard and want to like them. Now I just need to wait for the Thousand Sons and Space Wolves!

Corrupted marine: “fAtHer do yOU love mee?” Corvus; “Stay strong Douglas, stay strong for papa.”

DO NOT BOOP THE MERRY SUICIDE BOMBER -corvus corax to his brother vulcan

Honestly corax was probably the primarch was most curious about, can't wait to learn about the VOID CROW

Corax's final speech could have been a good starting quote Also Deliverance Lost gives us glimpses into his early life and shows his meeting with the Emperor. He also has a Primarch book. But Deliverance lost, while it isnt just his origin story, most Primarchs Origin Stories are split between their upbringing and later events. Angel Exterminatus gives us Perturabo's upbringing and the time he spends with Fulgrim during the Heresy. Burried Dagger gives us Mortarions Upbringing and Meeting the Emperor and also shows us how he fell to Nurgle during the Heresy. Angrons Primarch Book shows us his Upbringing and the events showcasing why his Legion had a bit of a mini-civil war just before Angrons famous fight with Leman. Deliverance lost as mentioned. The only ones that dont split Origins with another story line are Descent of Angels, about 70% of which is Lions Origin Story from the perspective of one of his Knights and Alpharius's Primarch Book, which is Alpharius's Discover, Upbringing and then his quest to find Omegon. Havent got round to Sanguinius's so I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure we see his meeting with the Emperor, so I'm not sure how much of his upbringing we get and whether or not it's shared with another plot-line. Also not sure if Kurze's Primarch book is shared but I do know it contains some of his life on Nostramo.

13:45 i have never been more down bad for a primarch in my puny mortal life.

37:01 I love Corvus's crusade era wargear since its just so practical. Lightning claws for CQC Paired archeotech pistols for close/medium range Sniper rifle for long range. Whip. Whip.

Only appropriate that my favorite primarch gets talked about on my birthday

Fun fact: Corvus Corax is the actual scientific name of the common raven. GW and their total hatred for the concept of subtlety

Bricky also never mentioned the bit of when he mercy killed his sons, there was that one that tried crawling to him and he broke his neck. My man corvus has been through it and I love him

Ce-Ce has a book about his early life, and it in my opinion pne pf the best ones. It showed how Corvus could see through Big E's magical appearance and see him for what he truly was. A normal man, nothing special about him.

surprisingly, guilliman is considered one of corvus's true friends, should have talked about their wargames against each other

Strangely enough, the Raven guard are the equivalent of ork's stealth with more thought put into it. The ork tactics of attacking the rear flank of an enemy is hated by other orks as it's not orky enough. The raven guard typically ambush, hit and run, flank assaults, and do anything to shoot and not get shot at. It's not really stealthy considering they are space marines, but it's stealthier than other space marines. So they are seen as the stealthy dishonorable space marines.

I have been waiting years for this thank you adeptus ridiculous 🙏

“Bird up” -Corvus Corax

"Its Halloween, why would it be Leman Russ?" Me: "Because his chapter literally has werewolves in it?"

A decade sounds like a long time until I remember that GTA 5 came out 10 years ago.

So excited for this episode, it was great! But I knew you were going to leave out the conversation between Corvus and Big E when he first found him. He talked about his brother's and gave a small explanation about the 2 that shall not be talked about. It really showed some form of emotion from Big E. He also admitted to the Warp and Chaos if I'm not mistaken.

New lore from the recent "First Founding" book implies that Corax might still be in Raven Spire, locked in stasis, so his Warp presence is just psychic manifestation, and Lorgar is correct in assuming that he's not a daemon.

"It might be more than ten years.." Quoth the raven. Nevermore.

In DK's defence, Sneaky Guy, Furry, and Wizard are all valid choices for a Halloween Episode.

Corax was found later in the great crusade because he was only woken up when September ended.

They finally did our hot topic prince

If Konrad is a psychotic batman then Corax is Spawn. This guy is Edgy done right and my favorite primarch alongside Vulkan

BIRD UP!

One of my favorite moments from Corvus was when his ship got stopped by Imperial Fists who demanded the ship be searched. The Ravenguard with him were like "no, who have a Primarch on board, you don't have the authority", Corvus cut in and told the fists "no, its fine, you may come aboard and search my ship" When the Ravenguard then asked Corvus why he gave into the demands of the Imperial Fist, saying the fist was being an idiot, Corvus just responded "He's an Imperial Fist, he can't help it"

When Corvus began attacking the Word Bearers on their daemon world, they first thought it was strange warp phenomena because they'd turn a corner and find several of their battle brothers scattered about completely mangled, then when the attacks started becoming more and more frequent and brutal, they thought a sorcerer had summoned a daemon and the binding ritual had failed, now it was rampaging about. During an especially fierce fight when trying to contain what they thought was a rampaging daemon, the sounds of the fighting brought Lorgar out of his sanctuary and he immediately recognized Corvus. Corvus and Lorgar faced off momentarily, and Lorgar wound up fleeing. Corvus shouted that he would not stop until Lorgar lies dead at his feet. Lorgar might be juiced to the gills on the chaos 'roids, but he is still lacking when it comes to dueling skills. It's kind of the equivalent of a guy who can easily flip cars with his bare hands, but doesn't know how to properly throw a punch getting into a ring with a boxer.

In defense of DK’s Russ choice, he is basically a werewolf so he had the Halloween part down

So glad they finally listened. Such a cool character and complete badass

Wordbearers in the warp: hey is that bird getting larger?

My personal favourite quote by Corvus Corax is 'It's Corvin time'

I wonder how a book of Gaunts Ghosts + Ravenguard vs Shadowsun and a couple of Tau stealth suits would go

They should release a Corvus mini in the GW Shops and not advertise that they have. Just have his model hidden somewhere in the Space Marine section: it feels very on brand 😂

So happy that AR finally made an episode on my favourite primarch :D It's such a shame that both Corvus and the Raven Guard got so little attention from GW in the lore and have considerably fewer fans than they deserve... In their second fight, it's not that Lorgar couldn't beat him...as a demon primarch, he's very sure of himself: "I'm not the same you fought on Istavaan, brother" "Neither am I..." to which Corvus proceed to absolutely murder Lorgar. The thing about Lorgar is that he's usually referred to as the weakest of the primarchs...he was never meant to be a fighter, as his job was to spread the Imperial Truth. Nevertheless, he was able to hold his own against Guilliman (sure, Bobby G is not a particularly good duelist, but it showed that Lorgar is not useless in a fight) and he is a very powerful psyker (arguably second only to Magnus). The problem is that he had the brilliant idea of challenging (twice) one of the strongest and most dangerous duelists among the primarchs. People tend to forget how good of a fighter Corvus is...I'd say that, in a 1 v 1 situation, few primarchs are as good as Corvus. The Lion and Sanguinius are probably the overall best, but Corvus was roughly at the same level as Konrad (though the latter's premonition is quite the bonus), and slightly better than other top-tier duelists such as Dorn, Fulgrim, and the Khan. And speaking of Lorgar, in terms of overall power and potential, would have been better as a loyalist...sure, as a demon primarch, he is very powerful (though I wouldn't say he's the most powerful...Mortarion is very powerful, while Angron is terrifying). Nevertheless, imagine a fervent zealot loyalist Lorgar powered up by his faith in the God Emperor...he would be insane, a saint primarch or something lol (although, after Monarchia it would have been quite difficult keeping Lorgag loyalist...especially considering that he was surrounded by dickheads) The whole Corvus - Konrad thing is super interesting; they are very similar, being creatures of the night but both with a strong sense of justice...kinda the two faces of the same coin. Konrad, after all, could have turned completely different if he had met the only good person in Nostromo, but instead, he was alone while being tormented by his crazy visions. At Istavaan, Corvus didn't retreat because he was afraid of Konrad per se...he just didn't want to fight two primarchs at the same time. Also, Konrad is what Corvus could have become, which is what terrifies Corvus. At the same time, Konrad's hatred of Corax is driven mostly by jealousy. As he said himself: "I had to haunt the night, while he owned it"

Bricky saying that the werewolf marines have nothing to do with Halloween, like WHAT?!?!

In DK's defense. I see more werewolf related merch around Halloween than i do crows.

We all talk about the Primarch's, "Bad dad." But Corax answers with "What about a good mom?"

Corvus is still my favorite, and has my favorite first meeting with the Emperor out of all the other primarchs. I like the Raven Guard vibe a lot, so they were the first books I went in with when getting into the universe.

Bricky: It’s not Leman Russ. How does a werewolf have anything to do with Halloween?

Halloween, i would of guess soace wolves to, they turn into werewolves

Ravenguard are actually really cool. If the ultramarines are the marine core, the raven guard are like spec ops.

Finally!! I started looking the podcast in hope of finding more corvus content and find what novels I need to look for. Victoria aut mortis!

Best Primarch and best legion/chapter! Stealth focus space marines that are loyalists? Hell yeah! Also, I’d like to think that Corvus is indeed a daemon, but of course a loyalist daemon.

Did you know that a group of Iron Hands is called a "Beheading"?

Bricky and DK joke about Raven naming scheme of the spire but Bricky forgets to mention that Corus Corax'es name translates to "Raven Raven"

I was JUST thinking about when you guys would cover the bird boys. I was not disappointed

Corvus being a loyalist daemon primarch is cool as fuck tbh, it's so weird that they haven't brought him into the tabletop

I've been waiting for this one! Damn it's exciting to finally have my favorite primarch and chapter get their day in the sun. I do have to say, there is some VERY recent lore that suggests that Corvus never actually left his room in the Ravenspire. I am pretty sure that this doesn't decanonize Corax's battle with Lorgar in the warp. Which implies that Corax has developed the ability to astral project a VERY power warp form into the warp

Also I think the reason why corvus decided to use his teran born RG for frontal assaults was that they were slavers compared to the corvus and the Deliverance born RG who were "liberators". It was a huge culture clash and if Horus demands corvus to walk into a meat grinder who would you think he would pick?

My wednesday is never Complete without watching This podcast!

I fucking love Corvus. He’s my second favorite after Vulkan and the fact that we have to wait for like 15-20 years for him to return makes me depressed. *sad bird noices*