His Return To The Imperium And The Future Role Of The Custodes | The M3 Podcast with @QuipsterNerd

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The “Eyes of the Emperor” always strikes me as hilarious. Like there’s an office building where the “new guy” is an 8-foot tall demigod that’s just like, “Hi, I’m Greg, I am normal doer of job at place.”

I miss Kitten...

I remember a null looking at the emperor while he was alive as she marched past him… and she saw a normal looking bored man on a throne.

I believe the King in Yellow is Valdor and the reason for his army is to enter the webway and take, occupy, and then hold the abandoned city of Calastar (the sight of the war in the webway). Holding this city means if the Emperor were to leave the golden throne, demons would not enter Terra because to get to Terra they have to pass through Calastar. Even the composition of the army supports this in my mind. If you were to imagine the perfect army to hold the webway it would be what Valdor has amassed. Just my 2 cents.

Within the first 6 min, I already realized that the Emperor literally made his own friends.

Being a person who was EXTREMELY discociated from any feelings for my whole life, that is the perfect kind of people to become zealots and phenomenal philosophers. When people have feelings, they experience things in ways where they know WHY they are the way they are. They know what they like, they know what they don't like, they know how to empathize with others who also have feelings. When you can't relate to those experiences, when I couldn't feel feelings, I observed my surroundings and came to my own conclusions on why people interacted the way they did, I studied religion to try to figure out why people felt like they deserved to live, I was full of curiosity because nothing was logical around me and I thought there had to be a reason why. Instead of being able to relate to people, I was collecting data on what it meant to be alive and going over why people seemed to believe they deserved it more than any other living thing. Hell, why they felt like it was special to be alive was not something I could understand at all. It's not like we can chose it or have control over existing. We're all cause and effect. A chain of decisions that are not, inherently, special. There is no richness of purpose that forms organically and fills you up from your core. Many people like me either find a leader, god, or philosophy to tell them what their purpose is. They will follow those things to the letter to as evidence to themselves that they are accomplishing purpose. They will excel in chasing whatever they can to fill the void that the absence of emotional connection leaves. They become junkies for the feeling of purpose and can violently lash out at anything that causes them to question it. When I was younger I always felt like an alien. I've done work on myself and found ways to connect, but it's still off. I only, truly, feel comfortable around other people like me and see "normal" people as "others" in some small pocket of my brain that still feel alien around every living thing. I feel like When you started talking about how the Custodies and Primarchs detachment from feelings in the Vaults of Terra section of this video, it really clicked with me why some of them are the way they are if they don't have access to certain feelings. Or why the Emporor is the way he is a bit.

He is collecting his army to patch up break in webway that Magnus created. Blanks are perfect counter to demons assailing it. This also would explain why eldar are after him, he must have been stealing eldar secrets to figure out how you patch up webway. Why is he looking for Emperors true name? My guess would be to get his shattered mind together. We have seen that big E is scattered after 10.000 years of throne sitting. Valdor could try using his true name summon all of him and to mend it together again.

I read a good theory he’s going to invade nurgles garden to break out isha so she can heal the emperor The book makes it appear that he’s invading the Eye of terror

the city of dust/ imperial palace map in the end and the death holds the answer as to why the king in yellow needs an army. if the golden throne fails terra gets sucked into the warp, right? and the city of dust is a place in the warp inextricably linked to the palace itself. when bequin goes to pandemonium at the end of Penitent, we see the vast defenses and military resources continuously battling the forces of chaos to keep them away from the area surrounding the city. if the emperor is keeping the throne alive not the other way around, then the only way to free the emperor without damning him and terra itself is to ensure that both he and the palace remain safe in the warp when the emperor is separated from the throne

Great talk. Much fun. I'm going crazy for book 3 of Bequin. It's got to be the Captain General.

I would love for this to be the next major storyline evolved

You should not forget: Valdor had a special relationship to at least three Primarchs: Dorn, Russ and Alpharius. The Palace of Thaumeizin looks like something, that has Dorn written all over it. I guess, they might even bring back multiple characters in the last Bequin novel. My money is on Dorn and Valdor.

To be honest, Valdor owes no alleigance to the imperium in it's current form. As a matter of fact, no custodian does. So long as the master of mankind is safe, that's all they care about. All they do is to keep him safe. Or further his agenda. Knowing that the custodes keep him safe, he probably stepped down as captain general and did the second part of their duties, he went out to further the emperor's agenda and does not give a damn for the imperium. The culmination of Penitent clearly shows the sophistication of the operation, the resources he commands are what we would call state level resources. Either he managed to create a shadow state over the millennia or he's still connected to the custodes and they provide him with what he needs. A little like the war in the webway. No one knew about it, but it required immense resources that were in fact, used.

If Henry Caville is cast as Alpharius, he can play everyone

Valdore is basically Primarch and given his close connection to original Big E's idea - I'd expect some groundbreaking movements. Also, I wonder how many Custodes still remember him and are left after 10 millenia and war in WebWay. On the other hand, we might see confrontation between Captains Generals.

I remember the Emperor commenting on “Sagittarius Malache” when in a memory slaying the last techno barbarian warlord saying something along the lines of “Sagittarius, ever the barbarian”

I love the idea that Henry Cavill has Emperor level foresight that he put toward his favorite hobby. 😂

Really enjoyed this. Fantastic company while painting

I think there's also, in addition to the Emperor being the ruthless soul he is, another point behind why Custodes don't have a whole host of human emotions. Imagine a Custos who actively enjoys fighting and, when put in front of the choice, at least considers fighting more than not, because he likes it. Now, imagine a Custos who likes fighting that bit too much. That means inviting a whole bunch of Chaos-related stuff that, at that high and fine of a level, could be ruinous, even at the faintest amounts.