"Infamous for his brutality, paranoia and malicious nature and he's a highly disciplined master strategist with an aptitude for siege warfare" That's an overtly descriptive way of saying he's a son of Perturabo.

When Cortez was told to be seated because he had just lost an arm he said "I have not lost my arm, it's right over there" Badass line if any was ever uttered.

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. IRON WITHIN!! IRON WITHOUT!!

The answer is simple: Asterion is canon Angry Marine. He's _literally_ too angry to die. Also possibly part Ork. That's the only way I can explain the whole 'decapitation' thing.

He survived because he too is Alpharius.

I see more of my MooMarines the Minotaurs, I click, again

Did you hear about Morloc having his whole left side cut off? He is all right now

Moloc is like Courier Six, rising from the grave. However he's the one rigging the game; just look at what they did to the Lamenters. Never piss off your local milkman just like never piss off your local mailman.

Thanks for covering this guy. Some think he could be a Custodies officer because of this Spear weapon or maybe a Lost Primarch. To me, he is too stubborn to die.

Asteron Moloc has the most powerful power: plot armor with cheat code

Pedro Kantor: Look at you, youve lost an arm Alessio Cortez: No I havent, its right over there *Points over Pedros shoulder*

In an alternative heresy, Burning another galaxy, Deep bellow the imperial palace walls, In the total darkness, sons of one of the most bloody and brutal of the Emperor's Legions were preparing themselves for the coming conflict with raising anticipation. They walled off all accessways into the palace and started to destroy all landmarks to make the battleground all the more disorienting. Their plan was simple and straight to the point: hit and run tactics while making the enemy split up over the vast network of tunnels/galleys and paths, denying them use of their greater numbers while gaining local numerical superiority. All that would enter this section of the underground war would be considered an enemy and to that end they sent a last voxcast reporting the situation, warning all allies to stay away and that they: "Would be His monster in the dark depth" As the Emperor heard the last bit he chuckled and declared that if they would be his minotaurs in the labyrinth then he atleast would send them a guiding light and among his Custodians he choose one whose wrath and preferences for melee combat resonated with the legioners of the XII. After the horrific conclusion to the herresy no conter-order could be given by the Emperor and the named Minotaurs refused to leave holy Terra without their leader. And so it comes to pass that even after 10 millennia the Chapter Master of the Minotaurs is a warrior of the Adeptus Custodes, a new one chosen each time the old Chapter Master falls, forevermore binding their fury to the Captain-General's command and throu him, The Emperor's will.

Custodian for sure. the Emperors Will alone can sustain him for 10 thousand years or 10 thousand wounds.

Boars often ignore mortal injuries to fell their enemies. Maybe their Gene seed is spliced with boars, much like Leman Russ' own Gene seed was spliced with a wolf? Either that, or he's literally too angry to die? I mean, look at Grimaldus of the Black Templars.

"Reports of my death were greatly exaggerated."

For everyone complaining about decapitation, there is a very simple explanation. For everything that is weird about him. If Asterion has his skull armor plated, with the implants we see being part of a life support system, then he could theoretically "pilot" his power armor even if his body was too damaged to move properly. That would allow him to keep fighting no matter how damaged his body got, since his brain would be the only thing he needs to keep fighting. This would involve tweaking the mind-machine interface, but the existence of dreadnoughts proves such feats are not only possible but accepted by the Mechanicum. Him coming back from a decapitation would be a simple as recovering both his head and body, reattaching them together, and possibly some cybernetics to reconnect the spinal column to the brain stem

Minotaur gene seed: World Eater plus Iron Warriors plus Death Guard

Yeah he's definitely a Custodes, he's way too strong and tall to be an Astartes. He's said to be 3 feet taller than his brothers in the chapter.

He's actually a perpetual who took part in the 2019 Area 51 raid. Which is where he got the fancy tech.

Brother, you've lost your arm! Cortez: No I haven't, it's right over there. Grimdark never made me laugh so hard

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My headcanon explanation is that Asterion is indeed an astartes, but he is heavily augmented to the grade where only a little part of his body remains non-cybernetic.

Watching lore bits as i build a minotuar army. I personally think hes a modified Thunder Warrior

Seeing as how he survives being decapitation. I guess you can say he got AHEAD in life. Edit: Apologies for any confusion. Scrolling through the comments and jumped the gun without finishing watching the video

They may have forced the lamenters to surrender, but the glorious bastards kept going until it was impossible to keep fighting after hours, and against a chapter specifically designed to kill other chapters, thats impressive

Oh come one, we all know what's going on, they just keep replacing the last dead one with the current captain of the 1st Company and they all take the name Asterion Moloc to give the impression that it's one dude that's just that bad ass.

Much like Marneus Calgar, he is more bionics than biological. It's much easier to disregard damage that you literally can't feel. There was a great line about that in the book Damnation of Pythos: the sergeant punched it hard enough to break every bone in his hand. But he has no bones in left his hand, for it had been replaced with unyielding steel.

Adrathic weapons sound a lot like the Necron gauss ones, maybe that's why the Mechanicus isn't allowed them?

I like the idea of having custodes in their ranks, as it fits with other lore that calls out the Minators for having physically larger Astartes than other chapters... I'm thinking they are an unofficial offensive wing of the Custodes.

He is actually Just a group of children wearing powerarmour. Every once in a while they have to replace a dead "limb" with another Kid and Just continue in their merry way.

Random Minotaur: You know who I hate? Those bitchass Custodes. Asterion: Say sike right now. Minotaur: What? Asterion: ... Nothing

the drawings of this guy make him look like the biggest chunkiest fucking marine I've ever seen, what a fucking unit.

He obviously went to the Yarrick School of Testicular Possession. Duh!

he's got those resilient Thunderwarrior genes. ups. I said nothing.

Plot twist He's just kitten, blowing off steam after too much crap from the other custodes.

Could he be a Perpetual?

Speaking of Moloch, did you hear about Jeff Epstein?

Great video as always 40k Theories.

Love your content, unrated channel.

Yey, been waiting for this one

Always thought we was that Thunder Warrior, Arik Taranis. Huge dude. Tough as fuck. Probably hates marines/wants to prove something because they replaced the Thunder Warriors. Might explain why the Minotaurs were originally said to have World Eaters gene seed, since Arik Taranis harvested the progenoid glands from the marines killed in the Outcast Dead. Maybe the High Lords know about this and that's why they listen to the High Lords of Terra so they don't get BLAM'd by the Inquisition. Also thought he might be the Golden Warrior Dante dreams about in front of Emps. Though that could be a returned Rogal Dorn, Sanguinus, or Dante himself. Coincidentally the Minotaurs are heading back to Terra to replenish their gene seed stock in the current story line.

Thanks for the vid sir.👍🏼👍🏼

I'm sure he is a Custodian or a perpetual Also this dude and Tyberos (chapter master of the carcharodon(? The space sharks)) Are just so insanly hardcore

"I remember when I replaced my finger with this auto quill... Aw, I just made myself sad" -Random High Lord of Terra

You mistake being "too stubborn to die" for being *"literally too angry to die"*

I'm betting on LORD Asterion Moloc being a Custodian. For his honey badgerness, noticeable height differential, modified Guardian Spear, and the possibility the High Lords (of which the Captain-General of the Custodes is one) wanting one to keep tabs on their lapdogs. *clicks play* Yeah...yeah, pretty much. Perhaps the Minotaurs started off with a regular marine as Chapter Master when the Chapter was founded, then changed to a Custodian when the High Lords' rotation led to the Captain-General getting a seat. Get one of their boys off Terra to stretch his legs, exert influence amongst the Astartes, etc.

Perhaps it's a title like the dread pirate Roberts

I see one possibility that you missed. He could have been a Perpetual. Thus even if he died he would just return back to life.

Resilient, strong and unyielding. But can he tell us why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch?

I have an odd question, is it the waaagh! a skill that a psyker Could learn? if for example the emperor used a vehicle made of gold and skulls would this be faster than it should be? (in the same way that orc vehicles painted red would be faster than they should be.)

Sounds like his spear might be inspired by the Spear of Longinus, the spear tip that pierced the side of Christ and is said to give the bearer long life and invincibility. It would fit with the Grecian and ancient history themes of the chapter, and at this point it could be a subconscious writing choice because of its appearance in popular culture. And "black swords" always provide power and longevity in fantasy stories starting with Elric.

He's either a thunder warrior survivee or a alpharious level custodes

Asterion Molec is Arik Tanaris, Taranis was able to clone a new set progenitor glands from the geneseed of dead astartes. He then implanted the geneseeds into some of his soldiers and probably himself to preserve and heal his dying body. Tanaris was/is probably the only other person to know how to do this besides the Emperor and Cawl. With this knowledge plus his knowledge and experience of warfare, he could have the means and the will to create a chapter of Astartes, it also would give him the power to command an immense amount of fear, respect, auctoritas, among the high lords of Terra. It could explain how he's been alive for over 10,000 years. The fortunes he won in the unification Wars plus his illegal gangster empire, then the tech that came out of the geneseed cloning, plus the help of a select few of the high lords and or noble houses, would give him the means. Also, he got the original geneseed from either Artharva's body or one or both of the World Eater twins Subha and Asubha. Probably the worldeaters, it would explain the Minotaurs berserky disposition. This would be awesome and is already canon in my mind.

He could also be a chimera gene seed with Deathguard and Iron Warrior traits. We would know for sure if he started to dig holes

Who were the Men of Gold??

Chapters from Badab Wars are good examples of a good successor chapter variants.

A Dread Pirate Roberts and that James Bond fan theory sorta deal.

Interesting take. I personally think it's the same person. Just one tough mother.

I was on the fence before but now imma do it, I’m converting Moloc to be a Iron Warriors Warlord

I have another theory. I believe that Asterion may have fallen to Khorne. Asterion is said to have died 7 times. If I remember correctly 7 is Khornes number. he and his chapter are also said to be extremely agressive, even more so than most other astartes, similar to Khornate berserkers. Additionally as stated in the video he has multiple cybernetic augmentations, and at 13:23 or thereabouts he is pictured with what looks like the Butchers Nails protruding from his scalp. Isn't it possible that one of these implants could have been the Nails?

What a magnificent " WOOR RE EH"

1:25 Khorne says hi

My favourite Chapter Master of all. I heard that rumour sinse the Custode Codex dropped that he might actually be a mind wiped Custode.

Maybe the Minotaurs were a test bed for the primaris marines

I think option 1 is he just is unnaturally resilient due to his augmented Geneseed. Option 2 is that the Custodes formed that chapter as a arm for them to use since they where bound to Terra during the cursed founding and since they had better access to Geneseed they succeeded where others failed. Then Moloc could be a Warden who was promoted to take up the role of Chapter Master and complete the Custodes and High Lords will

This just in: local space marine literally too angry to die.

*His resiliance must come from HERESY*

You should do a videos discussing possible reasons why the emperor didn't simply clone the lost primarchs or the very damaged ones like the nighthaunter and angron. especially if he had the unaltered perwarp samples that wouldn't have had the memories that primarch clones seem to have. one is that clones seem to be weaker, Fulgrim seemed to be able to effortlessly kill the ferrus clones and abaddon was able to kill the Horus clone. Recall lorgar, the least skilled combatant among the brothers was able to mow down space marines like wheat at the drop site massacre. Horus who was considered the strongest even before the choas gods boosted him should be untouchable. my theory is that the emperor added something metaphysical to the originals that he could recreate, like part of his own essence.

Moloch is one tough bastard among tough bastards

I swear this guy has the most badass armor

Can't remember where to find it but I remember reading a fanfic where basically asterion soul is transferred to a battle brothers body every time he nearly dies.

I know obviously, the marines take inspiration from various societies & human civilisation but I really think it’s unique the inspiration drawn from Greek Spartans & The Minotaur of Greek legend called: Asterion He is the literal legend

I think they need to write more novels with the Minotaurs.

Moloc is Constantin Valdor. So how are the last three High Lords selected?

Honestly would love to see a fight between moloc and tiberos the red wake

Any book recommendations that focus on the Minotaur Astartes? Also anything on the Executioners would be dope too :)

Can we give some attention to the supreme daemons of Chaos? (Ex. The Prisoner of the Emerald Cave). I would honestly appreciate some light being shed over them since,except Kairos and Skarbrand,I don't see too much being spoken of them .

Forgot to ask the question of how long as asterion been chapter master? Then it would either be a very recent tradition they have come up with or he is just badass depending on the answer

Well I like the quote 1d4chan gave about him being such a spiteful bastard that he just refuses to die

Moloc is Valdor

I think he was a custodian that was super bored of killing rats and did not want to remove his armor and be covered in bodyoil only instead of kitten his reaction to being asked to wear nothing but a loincloth and bodyoil was answered with violent headbutts so when the minotaurs were founded as a lapdog for the highlords he was simply given the chapter so he could kill things that needed killing and stop headbutting his brothers.

If I didn't also play Custodes, I'd find a way to make my marines Minotaurs. That armor is badass

As soon as Rem said that he'd been written off as dead on several occasions but always turned out to have survived, the truth became clear! It's all just exaggeration and misunderstanding. In truth, he's the Space Marine equivalent to Ciaphas Cain. He's just been having to have a quiet and comfortable life but he keeps on getting into these tricky situations then somehow coming out on top despite the odds. It'll all come out when he gets his memoirs published.

Cool.

I think that it's safe to debunk the Custode theory after reading Watchers of the Throne: The Regent's Shadow.

Moloc is Constantine Valdor of the custodes. It just fits. 😉

He's just too angry to die

Custodian heed to no one except to the Emperor and Custodes Captain General right ? So its impossible since the Minotaurs are basically the High Lord's attack dog, taking orders and following the pointing fingers from High Lords of Terra. Impossible, he is no custodes.

He a tough boi

I know that Autek Mor is dead and all but if he and Asterion met, it would be badass.

Custodes were made to hunt Astartes

He's just lucky and blessed by the Emperor

Moloc vs Tyberos, who would win ?

Greek themed with spears and a leader who has multiple rumors of being slain? Sounds like Alpha Legion to me. I wouldn't be surprised if they were an Alpha Legion/Iron Warriors hybrid

I see nothing posited here that definitively says anything besides "tough old Astartes in a Chapter with a lot of resources."

Does anyone know how tall Asterion is? Can’t find a single source.

Can you do the Big Boss of the Cacharodons, Tyberos "The Red Wake"?

This sounds a lot like other accounts I’ve heard of how a perpetual works.

Alternatively, he is the High Lord of the Custodes ^^

"The severity of his injuries was so severe..." Really?