I love how an actual she-wolf is arguably a better parent than the Emperor

Fenrisian wolves: *growling with murders intent* Vulkan: *Jamaican accent* “I would like to pet this creature.”

"Leman Russ is a man playing the part of a beast; the Lion is a beast playing the part of a man."

My daughter chose the Space Wolves because "My pups will protect me" So she painted up the Thunder Wolves to look like the dogs we have IRL. Thank you gor providing me more stories to share with her ❤

Bricky completely undersold the fight between the Lion and Leman. The Lion killed a man who had insulted Leman which angered Leman which resulted in the fight. After a while fighting Leman began laughing because the reason they were fighting was stupid however the Lion took it as an insult and knocked him out with one punch. After the siege of terra the lion sought out Leman to finish their fight out of anger because of his constant failures during the Hersey and Lemans inability to make it to terra in time. Leman refuses to fight but the Lion consumed with rage doesn’t care and attacks him moving his blade at the last moment so it wouldn’t kill him. It was one of the rare moments where either of them shed there masks and showed the real versions of themselves.

$20 says Leman comes back with a full Viking beard, one eye, and the wisdom he attained from hanging from the world tree in the warp. The spear he wields is already a motif to Odin's spear!

"Every quote I have is too obvious" "Space Wolves"

DK: “Ultramarines coming from Ultramar and their name sequence is so dumb and I hate it” DK following the Blood Angels and Space Wolves episodes: “Thats sooo cool! I’ll allow it!”

Big E: Let's have a challenge. If I win you have to join me, if you win I'll leave you alone. Yes, you can choose the activity "Leman Wins" Big E: You know what? F my rules! You'll join me whether you want to or not! "I CAST FIST!" I love how after everything is said and done, Big E will straight up throw a temper tantrum and result to "might makes right" when something doesn't go his way or when someone pulls the rug under him. We know where Perturabo took this from.

It should be made clear the Russ won the actual fight with the ascended Horus and had him at his mercy, but when the spear brought back the real Horus, Leman tried to save his brother which ended with Horus revealing that despite chaos he still thinks the Emperor is a monster that needs to die and sucker punches him. Though the wound Russ dealt Horus would end up devastating the traitor war effort. Horus was put into a coma which cost the traitors months and the loyalists gained time to reinforce. It stopped the loyalist from being completely destroyed and routed at Beta Garmmon. It caused the Word Bearers coup and cost the traitors their biggest legion, their daemon summoners and a primarch. It also made Horus a non-entity for most of the siege. Also Guilliman and the Lion would have never made it in time to threaten Horus' rear forcing the gambit resulting in the loyalists complete destruction.

The single best line in Rogue Trader is you talking to a Space Wolf about how they say wolf a lot and he laughs and says "You are not wrong there. It seems like every other word out of a Fenrisian's mouth is wolf"

I know, I know Entertainment over accuracy. So I try not to sound bitchy, but Bricky missed the really funny part from the scene when Russ and his Barbarians had the dinner with horus and some imperial nobles. Becaus Horus send EVERYBODY except Leman out to berate his "embaracement of a barbarian brother" but when the door closes, Leman sits upright in his chair, full etiquette, like he was raised on Terra. Picks up a fork and eats a piece of food from the plate, all propper, gives the suprised Horus a shit eating grinn and asks him in gothic "So, what you wanted to talk about?" Because he learned all this over the dinner. I love the moments when Leman shows that he is only playing the Barbarian King

Russ did stab Horus. That spear did work. Briefly. It was a very disturbing scene and I think bricky completely misrepresented what happened

Fun fact, PETA tried to destroy warhammer because the space wolf minis have wolf pelts.... yes, the plastic minis have platic wolf pelts... the horror.

That bit about the lion and Russ being opposites is really interesting. Lions look like regal lords of their domain, but are often kleptoparasitic, let the lionesses do everything, and infanticidal. Wolves look more...mangy(?) but are actually more likely to do their own killing, the largest wolves take on the hardest roles, and almost never kill their kids. Also, "That'd be a pretty dope place where humans and wolves live together." Dogs. You are thinking of dogs.

36:55 a little bit of correction there: Yes, Leman and the Lion were fighting for an entire day out of a dispute. But here’s the thing, while Leman was laughing at the whole situation, Lion took it as an insult and kocked Leman out with a sucker punch (like Father like Son). But now to where Bricky got the stab part. After Dorn and Kahn put Big E on the Throne, Lion was emotionally filled. He was sad and angry and to release it, he wanted to fight Leman again, but he refused to fight another brother in a time such as this. Lion then stabbed Leman to provoke him, but Leman continued to deny him the fight and so the Lion left. Just wanted to clear up a misconception.

Russ gets an episode the week my city gets the 9th highest amount of snow recorded in its history after a snowless winter....how interesting

The eating and drinking contest between the Emperor and Russ is just the best thing ever

Space Angel drinks blood wine to fill their thirst. Space Wolves drinks Mjod to fill their buzz until the next battle. Admit it, you all want to party up with Wolves instead of Angels.

The theory I've heard that I like the concept of about the true nature of the Primarchs is that they're literally Greater Daemons of the Emperor bound in human bodies. Which is why Corvax becomes what he becomes spending so much time in the warp, and the great trick played on the Daemon Primarchs: Becoming a Daemon Prince doesn't actually upgrade them, it just strips off the human layers.

I love that one difference between Leman's challenges and Thor's is that Thor had to lift a cat, but Leman had to lift a wolf because wolf.

One bonus point I heard was that, when Leman woke up after being punched out by the Emperor, he blamed his headache on his drinking instead of, you know, *being one-punched unconscious.*

Fun fact: Despite cultivating his brash personality, Russ was secretly kind of a nerd. He secretly read most of Lorgar's writing, but had no one to really talk about them to.

The point about Leman being a Knight with the outward appearance of a Savage is actually so on the bloody nose. And it's always great when he lets how smart and controlled he is shows through. Like when he was talking with Kaspar Hauser in Prospero Burns. Or even in his first conversation with Horus when there's that moment where Horus realizes that Leman's teasing him and is nothing like he's presenting as.

A quote I like about Russ is from Guilliman during the Plague Wars. He's messing with a custodes, being intentionally obtuse, and he says to the custodes: "be glad I returned instead of Leman Russ - for humor's sake, he would punch you, then scold you for not laughing."

the 4 trials thing that Rus had to do are literally just references to the things Thor had to try to do in the myth of Utgard Loki. But there were only 3 in that. The bowl for the myth was the seas, the crone was old age, and the wolf was a cat in the myth, but it was the world serpent in reality. It's one of my favorite norse myths actually

Fun fact: Fenrisian krakens are theorized by the magos biologious to be of tyranid origin after examining hide the wolves had, I do not remember if that hide was from the elder kraken that Russ alleged to fought with.

Fun facts about leman He viewd the emperor as hes creator not his father He saw malkador kind as a father He wrote the omega codex , a book describing how to destroy a space marine legion He always knew exactly what rune priest are They are two versions of his final words The space wolfs during the heresy worshipd the emperor Edit When guiliman told him to separate the chapters he said that he will decide the legion into 13 great company's with a (wolf) lord in charge of every one, the trick... The space wolfs were already separated in 13 great company's that were set up like chapters and the lords were all loyal to the great wolf So even today the wolves are a legion pretending to be 12 different chapters Only fenrisians can become space wolfs Caul fixed it somehow The current chapter master master double wields a spear made by the emperor and an axe made by khorne Edit 2 Just remembered the original name was the rout The wolves were one of the "secret legions in the unification wars , the other we're the dragon warriors ( salamander's) the alpha legion ( of course) and the thousand sons If leman hows loud enough psychic powers nearby stop working If leman doesn't return with a beard i will not be able to express my disappointment Edit 3 leman and magnus spoke to the emperor defending lorgar thas saving him from obliteration Konstantin valdor liked russ He and leman owned twin spears from the emperor, Konstantin always used it as the emperor said to him, leman touched it once and then never ( this is the one that I think the chapter master has) When leman left Valdor felt it and also left real space to do things ( Two metaphysical spears/ the departure)( i haven't read penitent but heard that something happens with Konstantin)

I'd like to see Leman come out more Odin. Than wolf

In slight defense of Leman's actions on Prospero, there is a precedent for the Emperor ordering complete annihilation, Russ would know of the fate of the Lost Primarchs and their Legions, so being told the Emperor wants all the Thousand Sons dead wouldn't be a huge stretch

You can also describe the Russ vs Lion dynamic as Russ being a dog and Lion is a cat.

Leman's got two books, pretty much. Wolfsbane is the Horus Hresy book about him, whereas Wolf King is his specific Primarch book, similar the Kurze's or Alpharius. Wolfsbane is just another HH book.

You may have missed something important about Russ vs Horus. The spear wound briefly removed the chaos influence and he felt hollow after. Russ tries to convince Horus to return to Terra with him but Horus refuses.

Bjorn is tactically the oldest living space marine if you count dreadnoughts

Actually Leman and Lorgar both head very spiritual legions and they were ultra loyal to the Emperor (pre-Monarchia). So they actually do have a lot in common. There's a hilarious moment where Magnus tells Lorgar that the only thing he and Leman both ever agreed on was that they liked Lorgar lol

It's so nice of Rus to provide fresh raid content and dailies for his boys via visions.

If I recall correctly, there is a theory that the Mama Wolf took Leman in because the Emperor put some wolf DNA in Leman so she assumed he was just a very strange wolf.

Bricky totally messed up the Lion VS Russ thing. The Lion Disarmed Russ, Russ admits in his own POV that in a real fight he would have died then and there, but the lion didn't strike, they brawled for 2 days straight, russ laughed and got knocked out by the Lion. The Lion then left. The Stabbing is completely unrelated to this. The Lion stabs Russ for failing to protect the Emperor when he had the chance to kill Hours, but actually the Lion does it because he tries not to blame himself (he is literally copeing). Thats all in Russ own Primarch Book: Horus Heresy Primarchs: Leman Russ

Russ probably didn’t question Horus because he and the Wolves were manipulated into hating the Sons by chaos through the Conservator Kasper Hawser. Chaos hoped that the Wolves and Sons would destroy each other because they couldn’t accomplish their goals with both combining forces. Forgot the exact quote.

My favorite Primarch honestly. He has by far the best character arc in the Horus Heresy. He went through so much growth and his journey to self understanding was honestly amazing to see. To see him move passed his mistakes and become a better man at the end. Great character.

Another super likeable thing about Leman: he *plays* the 'fool king,' it's an act. He'll let people clown on him and *think* he's dumb or whatever, when really he's tactically studying them in ways they wouldn't show if they took him as seriously as they ought to. So like where Lion is very socially awkward because he's like a lion - a feral beast - trying to 'play human' while studying everyone in the room, Leman's succeeded in his ruse of puppy play to get everyone show him everything themselves.

You actually downplayed the Horus fight. Wasn't just a glancing blow it was enough that if Russ followed up instead of speaking to a Horus that came back to his sense for a brief moment he could have killed him. Horus himself literally said Russ could have won.

Btw the whole thing with constests of eating and drinking thats not just for shits and giggles. That Warhammer directly referencing norse Mythology. There is a story where Thor and Loki visit the great hall of a giant named loki and compete in various contests. These ended up including a drinking contest, and an eating constest. So yeah its funny but its also a good omage to true norse mythology. Oh and Russ can be read the way you guys have been doing. Or it can be read as "Rooss" which is the name of one of the great viking kingdoms founded during the high viking era. Its also the kingdom from which the country "Russia" ( land or the russ) derives it's name from. Which is also dope.

On tonight's episode of the Ridiculous Tour: Bricky tells us about floofs and puppers and how they bring joy to our lives DK shows us pictures of the goodest boys he's ever met and narrates videos of their shenanigans. And that howling in the distance, slowly getting closer... Is Shy. All this to come, after this sponsored segment for Braid: awesome hairdos.

Corvus corax and Leman russ had a pretty good relationship from the lore I've read. They seemed pretty close.

There’s a theory that The Tree of Life is Isha and after The Plague Wars and Guilliman/Emperor burning Nurgle’s garden, she got free and Russ is escorting her out of the Eye of Terror.

Bricky, you're forgetting one EXTREMELY important part about the wolfkin on Fenris. There are No Wolves on Fenris! Those are not a wolf off-shoot, the Canis Helix is a thing in the human population of Fenris. "There are no wolves on Fenris" is a literal quote in the older codices, and a quote by Leman Russ himself.

I remember reading somewhere that leman actually REALLY didn’t want to hurt Magnus and the thousand sons like he did. He said to Magnus a version of “ it doesn’t have to be this way, please don’t make me do this”

When Russ comes back i want him to be classic Odin. Y'know missing an eye, massive spear, wise, has learned to become a master of magic. I think it would be an interesting contrast to the loud and boisterous thor equivalent he was originally.

So Big E crashed Leman's party, played some party games, got pissed when he lost, and beat the shit out of his son. I'm surprised Leman didn't try to confront him on his lack of understanding how party games even work. Edit: also the fact that the SW call big E the All-father is really funny to me. Odin, the actual all father of Norse mythology, is notorious for having caused his own downfall because he listened to prophecy. If he hadn't chained up Fenrir, thrown Hel into Helheim, and thrown Jormundgandr into the sea, Ragnarok would not have happened, much like how if Big E hadn't disregarded and disrespected Lorgar, Angron, Purterabo, Konrad, Mortarion, and to a slightly lesser extent Magnus, or better yet hadn't created the Primarchs at all, he wouldn't have been forced into the big yellow chair.

I would love a Necromunda episode sometime, I think Bricky and DK would get a kick out of all the gangs and shenanigans

I like to think that Russ didnt go into the warp, and is instead travelling the Imperium Odin style as a cloaked, unassuming old man, observing the highs and lows of the passage of time as a Wolf in Sheep's clothing, and wherever he comes across something that could be a significant threat he causes a vision that draws the Space Wolves in on a hunt for him, trusting they'll handle the problem

Russ and the Lion are the only primarchs you could actually call brothers opposite sides of the same coin brawling each other and respecting each other more for it and out of all the primarchs they actually look related

Why do I get the feeling Russ is in the warp and has been turned into a MASSIVE Werewolf

18:15 I like that neither Bricky nor DK consider that Leman might have been wearing the furs of literally any animal his wolf packs might have hunted. There are dire wolves on this planet. Obviously, there's got to be prey animals big enough to feed them. Leman probably skinned and wore one of those.

I would love to see Leman come back as an Odin-like wise old warrior, telling tales of victory against the daemon in the Warp

Brickybgot a lot of stuff wrong! Like damn. He won the fight with Horus. The Lion and Russ fight ended when the Lion sucker punched Russ. And this resulted in the 2 legions having a punch challenge everytime they meet.

I now see Leman as a disney princess for wolfs and nobody can tell me otherwise.

Rowboat: were gonna go with the codex astartes Leman: YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD

Leman Russ is the jock in high school who was actually like a good kid, Lion is the kid everyone genuinely thought was gonna do *something* one day so everyone was kinda nice to him like out of self-preservation.

DK: Horus is a filthy traitor. Me: Was. Was a filthy traitor. The entire Death Company: IS!! YOUR LIES WON'T DECEIVE US, HORUS!!!

Fun fact: leman actually didn't want to burn prospero. In fact he begged Magnus to simply turn himself, have his people leave the city and have the thousand sons turn themselves in because he didn't want this fight despite what he was asked to do. The only reason he did it the way he did was because after attacking outside the city the thousand sons attacked the space wolves and thus forced their hands even further. It was actually a sad bad decision from both: Magnus for choosing to doom himself and leman for not choosing to stay peaceful.

"And Leman, never one to be sober" Is probably the best description for the man I've ever heard.

Wait, did Bricky not read Russ’s Primarch book? Leman Russ - The Great Wolf?

I had a feeling there was gonna' be a host turnaround on Leman and the Wolves once their lore was covered. Prospero was BAD, but it's hard to hate these guys' vibes. While I look forward to the soldiers' episode, I'm also excited to get to the Thousand Sons soon. Both because I'm interested in hearing how Chaos Sorcerers tick, and because it'll be a channel milestone once all of the main Space Marine legions are covered. Heck, this episode technically marks the end of the Loyalist Primarchs! Great job, team!

Thor did indeed do these, despite being from the Frozen North myself I'm not entirely sure I remember the whole thing but I seem to recall him and Loki teaming up in that story, to take on a raid boss level threat called Utgårds-Loke. So this guy has the same name as Loki, but they are not related in any way.

Guys its happening!

Embraces TTS Magnus: *Fucking FURRIES!*

Weird how the Wolves are all about Norse mythology, and at the same time Valhalla is just a planet. Funnier is the fact that it's in the Ciaphas Cain books - the emperor's silliest clown fighting his funniest battles.

Lion: Beast in a man's clothing Leman: A man in a beasts clothing

Fun fact: The reason why Fenris has krakens is because legends of the krakens originated from Norwegian sailors

I think Viking Werewolf Space Marines are cool actually

This is timely, just when I was about to start writing a Space Wolves fic lol. Thanks guys!

Giant wolf: what you? Baby Russ: don't know !? Gaint Wolf: you is baby! Baby Russ: yey!

Oh my WOLVES, a new Adeptus Rediculous episode.

We are the wolf that stalks the stars in the sky and swallows the star-fire, We hide amongst the night when light is gone, The Light is within us. We run the ruins of fire in the darkness, Foes burn in our passing. For Russ! For the Allfather!

Finally the Space Wolves and the guys who properly punished magnus when he definitely did something wrong!

I really like that the space wolves refer to the emperor as the all father because even without the Viking theme the fucker was literally the father of ALL the Primarks.

My favorite fight between the Lion and Leman was when they got into a fist fight over a miscommunication. In the middle of the fight Leman stops because he realizes how stupid it is and busts out laughing. The Lion thinks Leman is mocking him and knocks him out cold, then storms off. This sparked a fierce rivalry between the Dark Angels and the Space Wolves, and every so often they get together to have this big knock-down, drag-out brawl in memory of their two primarchs getting in a fist fight.

Finally, time for the space wolves!

Need ideas for nightmare for Bricky posters? Have you considered Necron Flayed One wearing a catgirl for skin?

I feel like Russ' epiphany about not blindly killing whoever he's told was a major contributing factor to the Space Wolves' decisions leading to the Months of Shame.

The original background actually has the Emperor DIRECTLY tell Russ to destroy Magnus and Prospero. The retcon in the HH is just another example of the HH writers shitting on Russ.

Great show! I think Fenrisian Wolves are theorised to be humans succumbing to the Wulfen genetic disease, while Thunderwolves are Space Marines suffering the same fate.

I think the Dauntless Few was in fact a bunch of legions alongside which Guilliman believed could win any war/battle if he was paired up with them. At that point in time Chaos wasn't yet a factor.

This is a great vid! As a die hard Russ and space wolves fan I'd like to thank you for actually doing the research and not just spouting the same BS most KZfaq 'lore' channels excrete. I appreciate it! He's one of the most interesting characters in the setting imo

Remember Murderfang from the Dreadnaught vid with Kiroth way back? Yeah, the Space Wolves found Murderfang on the *Hell World* named *Omnicide*. A planet. Named Omnicide. Is were they found Murderfang. Subtlety 100. The only way they could subdue it was *freezing it with Helfrost tech*, and they still have to freeze it after every use.

Leman did not walk away from his fight with the Lion. Lion punched him and knocked him out while he was laughing I believe. The Lion stabbing him came waaaay later so you kinda combined two different events into one somehow.

Russ did more than deliver a glancing blow. He stabbed his spear through horus taking out one of his kidneys. This wound opened up later and took horus out of the war for a while causing a major delay in the chaos advance. The delay allowed sanguinius time to make it through the ruinstorm to terra. It also made the threat of guillimans arrival cause horus to lower his shields and invite the emperor aboard for their duel. If not for the delay caused by russ horus crushes the imperium before sanguinius, guilliman, and the lion arrive.

One thing that I hear people don't like so much about Space Wolves lore is this idea of the "Wolf Time", I admit it sounds a bit silly out of its context, but in its original context, in the closing lines of an old norse poem describing everyone going mad and killing each other at the end of the world, it goes quite hard. "Axe-time, sword-time, brother shall not spare brother. Wind-time, wolf-time, ere the world falls."

I also like the bit, when Horus thought that Russ is dumb, but then Russ learnt High Gothic faster than Horus or smth and Horus was pissed about it

Legit just Viking wolf Tarzan. Cool 😎

In Norse the are called the Norns the fates are the Greek ones also space wolves is what the imperium calls them as fenrisian is too hard to grasp same with all the wolf unit names, the call themselves Vlka Fenryka which is a cultural and poetic reference as in the sagas the closet you can get as a translation is We are the Wolves that stark the stars or more common but less poetic Wolves of Fenris. The codex is written from the imperial side but if you read the novels they use the real word more like Aett instead of the the fang or jarl instead of wolf lord. The wolves is interesting because they are so misunderstood just like the Norse mythology and the Norse people of the Viking age. Russ will hopefully come back in a Odin impersonation

46:50 if anyone is interested there is a 3 hour video on just the burning the prospero from oculus imperia. it's awesome

I am so excited! , I’ve been waiting for you guys to cover the space wolves for so long and you drop this episode on my birthday!?!🎉 pretty solid present.

I think everyone can agree we don’t want a pure Wulfen Russ when he returns. Want badass Odin like Russ but I personally still want some features like bit more hairy, taller maybe one arm bit more mutated after fucken 10 thousand years of warp shenanigans would be great

There are three figures in both Greek and Norse mythology that do similar things, they are called the Fates in Ancient Greek mythology and they are called the Norn sisters in Nordic mythology, where also the Tyranid Norn Queens get their name. The Fates are called Clothos, Lachesis and Atropos, and the Norns are called Urd, Verdandi and Skuld. Not sure whom ripped the other off because at this point it's all ancient history.

I now have the headcanon that Malcador was laughing his ass off while watching Emps get hammered and drunkenly knocking out his son.

Wolf time has come! Thank you. This IS the episode I have been waiting from the start of adeptus ridiculous :D

For the Vylka Fenrika, May the Rott hunt the Stars for ever! I really hope that you Guys give Lucas the Trickster(Lukas der Schakalwolf in German) give in the Legion Episode Justice. This Dude really deserve some some Words for his Pranks and Shenenigangs on the Space Wolves and Enemies of the Empire. Fucker really mess up Magnus on Prospero or the Story with his 2.Heart. Hilarious!