There's a part in some book where some Word Bearers learn that worship of the Emperor has become the standard, and they say "we won!" and start laughing

Tonite On Ridiculous Gear: Bricky goes bald with faith, DK becomes a half daemon, Kirioth learns about the truth of Chaos and Shy is just a little Erebus

one of my favorite word bearers moments is when a word bearer marine is fighting a black templar one and the black templar begins saying battle prayers to the Emperor and the word bearer keeps finishing every single prayer before him. The black templar is like "how the fuck do you know these prayers traitor!!!!" and the word bearer just replies "i was there when my father wrote them". The revelation that a chaos primarch wrote those prayers causes the black templar to kind of freeze in shock and confusion and then the word bearer kills the black templar

‘My lord,’ Sergeant Arkus said, saluting. He was carrying his company’s standard. ‘At ease, Arkus,’ Guilliman told the Ultramarine. Arkus’s armour glinted in the sunlight. ‘You’re trying too hard,’ he added. ‘My lord?’ ‘When I arrived last night, your armour was in perfectly respectable condition, as was the plate of the other battle-brothers in your company. I remember these things. This morning, you’ve buffed your plate to the point of insanity.’ ‘My primarch is here,’ Arkus said, offended. ‘A surprise inspection of this post. What else would I do?’ Guilliman got up and faced him. ‘I’m sorry, Arkus. My remark was petty and uncalled for. Your armour code is perfect.’ Arkus nodded, and rested the base of the standard on the ground. ‘My lord,’ he said. ‘I am an Ultramarine. Trying too hard is the entire point of us, isn’t it?’ Guilliman smiled and saluted Arkus.'

id love to see the first time Lorgar hears a guard shout for the god emperor and he's just like FOR THE FUCKING WHAT !!!

When the Word Bearers defeat Roboute Gulliman in the battlefleet gothic 2 chaos campaign, they rechristen his ship as the Monarchia Redeemed

When Abbadon was hiding out in the warp and finally coming back his forces captured a Black Templar patrol. This is the first contact they'd had with mainstream space marines in thousands of years. Upon learning that the Imperium as a wider whole revered the Emperor as a god the whole room including Abby burst out laughing saying stuff like "OMG Lorgar of all people actually won, that's hilarious"

I would love Logar to reflect on the literal miracles conjured by the sisters of battle. Like “ I am even more right since Emp’s is literally answering faith now like a god.”

Word Bearers never fell to Chaos, they dove in. They accepted it, and so remains uncorrupted. That's the scary/fascinating thing about them. They truly understand how twisted their universe is, how it operates, and knows how to exploit it for their advantage.

54:11 Having been in a server with shy and interacted with her I can confirm the ominous "shy is typing" is a very real thing

Oh, the Word Bearers aren't so bad! I mean, you never hear about *them* lighting eldar children on fire. That's something, right?

Best end of any Adeptus Ridiculous? Absolutely the best end of any Adeptus Rediculous. That whole bit was superb and genuinely made me laugh.

"It's all Erebus's fault, no one else." Kor Phaeron outside like "Hey, I did my part!"

I feel like Lorgar would look at modern 40k, like they said, with acceptance. I can imagine him saying "my God punished me for worshipping him, I turn my back on him, and now you all worship him as I did. Glad to see I was right in the end, but he lost my worship long ago. You can die for your God, and I will kill for mine."

"Okay, the the war is over, the emperor is dead. I will now go to my demon hell planet where Intend to spend the next 10,000 years commiting blasphemy in peace, and also build like 12 thousand cathedrals or something idk." -Lorgar, probably.

Fun fact about word bearers: they're the only traitor legion after the heresy to stay as a unified faction. Sure, they backstab each other constantly, but they have a hierarchy and systems in place (e.g the Dark council giving orders). Also, Marduk betrays his superior because he knows for a fact that his superior was going to have him killed. Basically he backstabbed Jarulek before he could betray Marduk.

I love how it's now canon that Bricky and DK are either cloned or resurrected to record the new episode every week and then immediately murdered after

blood packed soldier. “ this was your home?” Word bearer. “yes and it was beautiful” Picture of monarchia

"Just a little..." I would not be surprised if Shy turns the high pitch(chipmunk) dial on their voices next time! (Lasting as long as the "little" joke)

Some fun facts about Blood Ravens: - Planet of the system they recruit from is called Aurelia (Lorgar *Aurelian* ) - Another one is called like Blessed Lady of the Word Bearers: Cyrene - Eliphas of Word Bearers called Blood Ravens brothers, while marines from different legions called each other "cousin" - Word Bearers fought on Kronus during Horus Heresy - Blood Ravens found relics of their chapter there, that were later destroyed by cpt. Davian Thule who found them too be damning and swore silence. - Ravens seek "truth" about their primarch almost fanatically and focus on the emperor more than other chapters. - They are gifted with warp powers - Magnus and Lorgar were both powerful psykers (and afaik Lorgar was mainly into divinitation which is strong side of Blood Ravens psykers) - "Knowledge is power" is quote of Erebus (but also many other characters so it's not that indicating, but it's there) - There is at least one loyal Word Bearer in 40k "The Anchorite" that can manifest psychic powers like light of the Emperor to shitstomp demons - Blood Ravens in DoW II fell mainly to Khorne and Nurgle there was no indication of Tzeentch showing any interest in them - It was hinted that Blood Ravens forgot about their past purposefully Because of that I like to think we might have loyal chapter made of some loyal remnants of Word Bearers like Anchorite

40:45 Personally DK, I think Lorgar would either feel a sense of smug satisfaction or keel over from laughing so hard at the irony and hilarity of the situation.

I would LOVE to know what Guilliman is going to say to Lorgar when they inevitably meet again. I imagine Guilliman has quite a lot to say to Lorgar after seeing what the Imperium has turned into during the past 10,000 years.

"you cannot just look at Angron and not be sympathetic." *Majorkill has entered the chat*

Shy was already my favourite member of AdRic for her seemingly neverending assortment of memes and having to edit Bricky's and DK's ramblings, but putting NEFFEX in the outro? A+ Shy, A+

If my options are Snake Fulgrim or angry Angron, I'll take Perturabo.

“Kharn?” Said Lorgar, “would you like to know who killed Argel Tal?” I smile and tear up on that line every time.

Quality episode with a quality ending. It’d be great if this carried on into the next episode and DK and a Ricky’s characters were a translucent blue as if they were ghosts continuing to haunt Shy.

That the Malefic Tome bearing the birthmarks of those whose skins were used to bind it is worse than "merely" a book bound in human skin, is because it reminds us jaded 40K fans that these skins belonged to a *person.* A fictional person, but a person. A person with thoughts and feelings, hopes and dreams, friends and family and lovers and enemies. They were once like us, alive and aware. Now nothing remains but their tanned and defiled flesh, used to house blasphemies. We recoil at the thought of their birth marks because it eradicates the mental distance we build up between the skin and its origins, and reminds us in a visceral way that someone was _victimized_ to make that tome. That "human skin" is not just an edgier version of animal leather, but a person's desecrated mortal remains. We are horrified by the birthmarks because it reminds us they were _born._

A lot of the discussion in this episode, especially about the engineered loyalty and the Word Bearers extremism reminds me of a part of the 1d4Chan article about the Word Bearers, that i think sums it up pretty well: "There is a phenomenon of psychology that some people are prone to zealotry. It does not matter what they believe in, when they come to believe in something they believe in it with all their heart. This type of individual who is likely to end up becoming a fanatical member to a certain ideology will, if they somehow become disillusioned with it, often find it easier to adopt an opposing or opposite ideology and be just as fanatical to said new cause rather than simply moderating their commitment to their first ideology as needed and making caveats and exceptions to its general principles. The Word Bearers and Lorgar in particular are this phenomenon at its most extreme."

Curze's crown had an Eldar soulstone in it. Curze named Talos soul hunter and he alone kills Mshen and retrieves the crown with Curze's soul. Talos' successor has fantastic foresight, he can learn of Curze's scheme and possesses the means and material to bring him back.

Fun Fact Games workshop in the 1990s actually produced a death metal Album by the band Bolt Thrower and Bolt Thrower ofyen used 40K art for cover art they also produced the British reliance of Saxon's Forever Free eitch had a Space Marine Attack bike on its cover

I remember what happened when the earliest iteration of the Black Legion found out that The Emperor was now referred to as The God Emperor. They were all stunned silent except for the one guy who started laughing so hard, blood started pouring out of his mouth. "The Word Bearers won. They eat dirt and drink shame. They chant prayers to the unwanted truth through bloodied lips. They lost everything. And yet they still won. There is no greater insult"

Wild take: neither Kurze or Ferrus are truly dead. After all why would a Primarch die just because you killed them? My flimsy claims to back this up are that M'shen was specifically ordered to bring back Kurze's head, which ostensibly was to confirm the kill, and his crown contained an Eldar spiritstone but if you put both of those factors together then that very much sounds like the ideal way to both take a Primarch into custody alive and rehabilitate them. Primarchs are very much capable of regrowing their entire body even if they aren't perpetuals and we haven't seen any evidence either way that Vulkan was the only one of those particular walking plot holes. Same goes for Ferrus, the warp entity that was bound to him to provide his soul just needs a new vessel. If Cawl can replicate the full Immortis Gland I can fully see him making a comeback.

World bearers Pre-Herasy: Oh no, you burnt down our Home city you bastards World bearers in the 40k: We will burn down a city for our gods

I like how the Iron warriors are the exact opposite of the word bearers. Instead of worshiping demons they just capture them enslave them and then stick’em in a machine!

Fun fact: The Word Bearers used to be known as the 'Imperial Heralds', and said name was given by the Emperor himself for their zeal and commitment to his cause. However, they were also known by their Astartes cousins as 'The Iconoclasts' due to the same fiery zeal that led them to burning many enclaves of superstitions during the Unification Wars. They were the Legion that knew what they're made for and they did it with unrelenting, fiery zeal. Now the Legion has become what they would've stood against once upon a time, their fiery zeal has been twisted and redirected to slavishly serving Chaos, and all of this can be traced to Kor Phaeron and his corrupting influence on Lorgar. This is why I will always hate Kor Phaeron more than I hate Erebus. The root of the corruption that plagued Lorgar, the Word Bearers and the rest of the Imperium through them has always been Kor Phaeron.

regarding Marduk....he also had to kill his apostle cause his apostle had also a prophecy where he would reach his great goal by killing Mardhuk...so its kinda self defense

The Word Bearers are like Ned Flanders when Homer pretended to be God with a loud speaker. XD

The outro was awesome, the gunshot like last time and then the atmospheric walkout to the car with the drive of, slowly starting this perfectly fitting song, I loved it.

To keep on theme with the podcast: Word bearers: Let's just do a little sacrifice...just a little one...yeh...just a little sacrifice Lorgar: Sure...just a little sacrifice

5/10 I was promised word bears. No bears, only words were provided

Hell yeah, time to get obsessively interested in yet another 40K faction! The whole part of the dark apostles handing out books of Lorgar to random slaves is killing me, just handing em out like "Here. Have a book of Lorgar because you're epic. Epically fucked if you don't take it, I mean." Thanks for pushing me towards yet another army lol, I think Bricky, DK, Shy and Kirioth have sent me towards like at least 6-7 small growing armies at this point.

The Word Bearers are VERY good at their job. It just so happens they're doing the wrong job.

I started watching because of Bricky and DK's shenanigans, but at this point, Shy has my adoration.

57:35 Shy knows what the Curse of Monkey Island is, and that's made her a million times more amazing in my eyes.

It would be really interesting for Lorgar and the word bearers to come in contact with Celestine because in a way she is an example that faith in the emperor does conjure miracles.

Lorgar doesn't feel regret, they actually feel disgusted and find it hilarious that the emperor is a god now. He does find it funny that the emperor is now revealed to be a god,it ironic because now he's a broken god screaming and dying in a hell the exact opposite of what he wanted.

I kinda want an offshoot series of DK explaining anime to Bricky and watching Bricky's confusion

In the song at the end, I can only here them singing "So tell me Aurelian believe."

the dark apostle trilogy is what originally got me into warhammer.

I’m a little sad they didn’t discuss my boy Zardu Layak and his blade slaves. The man has a sick mask-oath thing, successfully bound Daemon Fulgrim to himself, and on top of that chose to side with Horus over Lorgar when Lorgar tried to usurp him. Also his mini and his blade slaves are siiiick.

Love the guest host, always nice to have more 40k fans about. Also when you all gonna do a lil' battle report for DK's first game? Its time for him to join us, ....one of us

"THREE HUMANS WERE SHOT BUT WHAT ELSE IS NEW" Damn Shy, calm down 🤣

Seriously, I'm starting to believe that Shy is my spirit animal.

I just had the realization that Eren and the Word Bearers have a lot in common. Justice for Shiganshina! Marley was an act of self defense!

YO! This and "Shy get me out of here" on the bolter episode were the best EFFING endings for an episode. That talented mysterious bisch

The Anchorite is hands down one of the single most bad ass characters 40K has ever had, and of course, he’s a Word Bearer. He believes and has a good argument for his father failing his biggest test. It was The Anchorite, not Lorgar, not only the Divinitatus, that gave the imperium their faith. Absolute Max Chad. He surrendered to the Ultramarines after having a “fuck this perpetual cycle of death I’m out” and was tempted by daemons whilst imprisoned on Terra. The few Loyalists of the traitor legions are almost universally amazing characters, very often overshadowing their fathers. Lorgar and the Word Bearers themselves are such an insane, and frankly one of my favourite sci-fi re-telling of the whole cause and effect of militancy, religious fundamentalism, a lack of supportive father figures and forbidden knowledge. We see it a lot but it’s so 👨‍🍳 💋. Edit: 1:00:03 we all know this is true. Also DK the Ultramarines hate is really a meme man, they’ve been a pretty interesting bunch for many many years and many books now. Hell, they’re probably the ones who would most likely embody the reasonable and humane attitudes you like to see and with how Bobby g was brought back, he openly asked Xenos for a possible alliance so… naw man. :) Really appreciate the response to 1:01:28 onwards. Also, as for Curze being “dead”…. Remember his crown, Bricky?… yeah.

Milestone idea: you and a number of guest just have a roundtable debate about... everything possible for a set time. That'd be hilarious and also insightful.

Dam shy went ballz out with that ending

"THREE HUMANS WERE SHOT BUT WHAT ELSE IS NEW" Topical today, aren't we Shy?

God I loved the credits scene. Thank you Shy!

I can’t believe they ended Adeptus Ridiculous without doing an episode about the blood angels.

I think the reason I’m such an UM fan is cause no matter what topic or faction is up to discussion it always comes back to UM. Hate us cause they ain’t us

The "Shy! Take out the gun!" always gets me xD

The fun thing I found out recently about abaddon on the tabletop..... Ctan shard of the nightbringer bypasses his wound per phase cap and flattens him

The reason the holy beatin' stick is important is it was one of the *first* acts of treachery by the Word Bearers. It's not so much who got beat, but the circumstances around it.

Kirioth is spot on. Noise Marines are the best unit in 40k. They use death metal to kill people to death in the most metal way possible. Riffs that quite literally melt faces. Power chords that destroy power armour. Blasting ghettos with their Blastmasters. They kill with song, warrior poets all.

I do hope that Guilliman has a confrontation with Lorgar rather than Angron now that the World Eaters are getting their own codex. He's already had fights with Maggy and Morty. Lorgar's and Guilliman's history combined with how the Imperium is now would be very interesting, especially after the Dark Imperium books...

What I got from this ep is that the World Bearers are the only legion that gives out pamphlets

It's not the Word Bearer's fault; I blame the Eldar

Now that ending wasn't what I was expecting. Great work shy now we don't have to listen to all this Lorgar defending.

Here in the UK the podcast always goes up just as I get home from work, and I'll be danged if it isn't my favourite night of the week. Thanks guys.

I started 40k when the spiritual liege was in full swing, i kept out of games because of grey knights I main traitor guards because ward inspired me to play something not fleshed out I love the man for adding so much to the hobby because he inspired so many people to add to non marines

I thought they were going to talk about Lorgar's pilgrimage this episode, but I guess they had plenty to cover already.

Daemons looking at Word Bearers committing war crimes against Ultramarines: Good, typical stuff. Violence against one random White Scar boi: OH BABY A TRIPLE!

The Purpose of the Burning of Monarchia goes over most people's head. Yes. It was a dress down of Lorgar and his legions efficiency. But the reason why he did that was to teach Lorgar a lesson he was too angered, saddened and shocked to here. "Beware of Gods, for the do not care about you and are capricious and malicious. They would take what you love and burn it for their own amusement. If you wish me to be a god. This is how one would act"! And Lorgar and the legion commits atrocity after atrocity in the dark gods name. Many die because of the amusement of demons. This is the truth Lorgar never wanted to admit. Because he always wanted a god. It didn't matter if it was a benevolent or evil one.

Next Patreon goal so that Kirioth becomes a permanent member of the team? This quartet is just so awesome every time.

Never change Shy, you are my favorite host from the show and thats something considering you are the only one that never talks

Speaking of Perturabo always seeing the Eye of Terror, if someone, E Money or Malcador probably, had told him what the Eye is, he would have stayed loyal purely out of spite.

The ending is great... "Shy take out the gun and kill us all" tree gunshots

I think the important thing to remember about "how would Lorgar feel about being right?" Is that no one gets what they want when they join chaos

I really want to see perturabo as a huge obliterator not as big as magnus and mortarion but inbetween those and guilliman in size

That hour flew by and barely noticed, one of your most fun episodes yet. Great work lads and lass.

Thanks for calling me a cutie in the credit sequence, I really needed that today.

Shy, you had the golden opportunity to make a "in memory of..." statement in the credits, followed by the names of three dead Primarchs. Your editing was superb otherwise, an- what? Alright, I'll leave your house, chill.

Love it when Kirioth stops in!

_"It's just a little gun"._ *~THE END~*

Congrats Shy. This is the hardest laugh you've given me so far in Adric.

Kirioth *approaches severed head of Kurze and presses A* "A quick study of the body reveals that the thug is still alive, and merely pretending to be dead."

Except for the part where its a Daemon saying that the Emperor made a deal with Chaos and when he doubled back they scattered the primarch when we learn in Saturnine and Sons of Selenar that the Emperor DIDN"T make a deal with daemons he got what he needed from the Gene Smiths on Luna

OK.... I was so-so on this episode until the end. Now I love this episode. Adding it to my gonna watch 1000x's later list.

If I had to choose one Traitor Legion to join, it might be the Word Bearers.

The Word Bearers Omnibus is a great series of books for multiple reasons. Marduk is an absolute bastard that anyone who enjoyed the Night Lords books will enjoy.

When you think about it, all the chaos primarch got vindicated. Except Magnus but that's because he didn't exactly leave on purpose.

That outro! Next fucking level shy!

In the battle of calth book they mention that the real nutbags were send to calth on purpose to cull them from the legion. So they at least stayed a bit "normal" even during the heresy.

48:14 When I think about Fulgrim's constant pursuit of self-improvement, and not accepting regression, I start viewing him from a Tzeentchian perspective.

On the topic of the 5th edition space marine codex, it is evident that there was a separate planned ultramarines codex that was likely cut and folded into the space marines codex. The fact that the ultramarines had at the time the most characters and unique units as well as the amount of lore devoted to them in the codex points to a separate release that was folded into a single space marine codex. Not only that there was certain events that needed to happen in the ultramarines favor, the primary one being the defeat of hive fleet behemoth, had they lost that engagement the hive fleet would have gotten the second most valuable genetic material in the galaxy, a primarchs genetic material. If the hive fleets got primarch genetic info they would have consumed the galaxy by now.

I love the ending to the last few episodes of AdRic.

Genuinely rolling with that ending. Worth it.