THE GREY KNIGHTS: KNIGHT HARDER feat. DRAIGO & CROWE | Warhammer 40k Lore

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The Grey Knights are the legendary Chapter 666 - and although nominally a Chapter of the Astartes, they are in the Chamber Militant of the Inquisition. Each member of the chapter undergoes a grueling selection process, and even once inducted, their harsh training regime is without equal. In battle, they move as an army of silver ghosts, surrounded by awe, and equipped to the teeth to deal with the worst foes that Chaos can raise to meet them.
Kaldor Draigo is the 48th and current Supreme Grand Master of the Grey Knights. He wields the legendary Titansword.
Garran Crowe is Castellan Champion of the Grey Knights' Purifiers order and the bearer of the Blade of Antwyr - a daemon sword that cannot be destroyed, nor wielded by lesser mortals.

[@cursh6898]

I imagine whenever Crowe has a conversation with a Grey Knight they casually keep trying to hold the blade but Crowe slaps their hand and they continue talking like nothing happened

[@YoBen100]

"No! You can't have it!" While slapping the hands

[@zerillisguren7720]

and it's usually like a weak limp wristed slap too.

[@exzyyd392]

Occasionally he lets out an exasperated "Just...just don't"

[@ouchiegiverjr]

“By the throne get you’re grubby hands off it!”

[@samwisethe5th112]

Like the "reach for the officers service weapon" memes😂😂

[@masonbrockman1563]

I like Kaldor Draigo for the simple reason is that he’s the only one I can think of that can and has shit on Chaos’s lawn

[@oilmargarita6436]

The thing is, can the sword affect a blank? Just imagine Crowe, getting up back to his feet after a Bloodthirster slapped him across the room, looking around panicing as he dropped the sword - just to see this dirty valhallan next to him, offering him the blade like its nothing "You dropped this sir."

[@DINOROAR2912]

Based Jurgen moment

[@zirconiumaloe]

Probably. Keep in mind that blanks suppress the warp, not silence it. They still have souls and what not and can affected by more powerful psykers.

[@jagnestormskull3178]

Sure... it's a Power Sword. An enchanted Power Sword is still a Power Sword, which can rend steel (and possibly Ceramite) like a hot knife through butter, so Jurgen and other unarmored Blanks would still be helpless. As for the issue of whether they could quiet the Daemon, I'd imagine that since the Culexus Temple's assassins are a more powerful type of Blank, one of them (possibly a Black Pariah) could quiet the Daemon.

[@cadenmcerlean4920]

My money says it's a very possible yes, but the Grey Knights being all psykers means that not only do they not want blanks around because it will mess with their abilities, the effect blanks have on the personalities of psykers means most wouldn't survive long enough to do anything with the sword

[@jagnestormskull3178]

@@cadenmcerlean4920 An alternate solution could be for a Culexus Assassin, the blankest of blanks who can eat souls, to eat the daemon. Souls and daemons are made of the same stuff, after all; if it ends with a Black Pariah, then the daemon will simply become easier to contain. Blessed chains, possibly made of phase-iron, in a blackstone (polarized to negative Warp) cell.

[@MrKOLCOO]

Garran Crowe finds himself under constant attack of Blood Ravens trying to steal his sword.

[@Kameth]

Blood Raven: (steals sword) Crowe: (notices, but continues meditating) Blood Raven: (returns 20 minutes later) Alright. How do I get it shut up? Crowe: It doesn't. It talks. Forever. To everyone within range. All day. All night. And will move, unbidden, to find people to talk to. Bloody Raven: No, no, hard fucking pass, fuck this noise, I'm leaving it here.

[@MrKOLCOO]

@@Kameth Bloody Raven got me XD

[@gundamforreal]

Prolly as a reward for their guts to try stealing that of all things that the Blood Ravens are the only chapter to not only not get mind-wiped, but also actively helped by the Grey Knights in Dawn of War.

[@CaptainFirespitter]

I just imagine that scene from Tarzan with Clayton and Tarzan arguing and bickering over the chalk! 😂

[@jagnestormskull3178]

@@Kameth Sounds about right, LMAO.

[@ryantice1186]

One cool thing about the Grey Knights as opposed to other chapters is normally an initiate who passes a normal chapter's trials still doesn't have a full set of power armor and are usually regulated to scout roles until they have gotten experience/proven their worth. Grey Knights? With how obscenely rare it is for an aspirant to pass all the trials, once done they are given EVERYTHING. Full power armor, all the weapons, everything.

[@BigBoi237]

It also makes sense cause why do you need scouts when you have Prognosticars and future vision Warp shenanigans?

[@augustgurtisen]

Other chapters do that to be codex compliant. Black templars are not codex compliant, don't use that method, and give the power armor as soon as the 'aspirant' is ready. Long story short I don't think there are precisely 1000 Grey Knights. Could be way more.

[@Blazo_Djurovic]

Space Wolves do the same thing. They do put you among the Blood Claws, which are basically packs of new Wolves to get expirience, but you are a full bro and are expected to brag about your accomplishements on the battlefield come the customary intoxication night.

[@jagnestormskull3178]

@@augustgurtisen But it should be noted that the Black Templars do sometimes still deploy Scouts, and those Scouts are usually Aspirants. The Grey Knights just ignore the concept of Scouts altogether.

[@jagnestormskull3178]

@@BigBoi237 Every other Chapter (yes, even the Space Wolves) except the Black Templars have diviner Librarians that serve the function of Prognosticars, that doesn't mean that they don't know that actual field reconnaissance is necessary. Farsight is rather unreliable, as you can often see the destination, but not how to get there.

[@khylerbane4523]

Kaldor Draigo: *the most esteemed grey knight ever, and space marine equivalent of Doomguy.* Also Kaldor Draigo: “Have you seen my sword anywhere, I cannot find it?”

[@garretthochmuth4522]

literally everyone: *annoyed* "We've been over this Draigo, it's in your hand."

[@H_Hold]

​@@garretthochmuth4522ah hA! No wonder I thought this sandwich was horrible. Shocking my teeth What sandwich does that?!

[@migrivp2672]

​@@H_Holda tzenches thousandwitch in is khorn sauce.

[@Corsair2092gaming]

"Have you had a Tangerine?"

[@Stitched_up]

​@@garretthochmuth4522THAT IS A LIE!!! hands do not exist in my reality...

[@jacobfelix7215]

Crowe is literally the embodiment of “You deny your weapon it’s purpose” 😂

[@Knight-Bishop]

The way it is always colored makes me think it leans Slaaneshi, in which case if it did, it is only right to deny it its purpose. 💀😂

[@TrenchCrusade]

Don't mean to _achtually_ here, but Skulltaker is not a bloodthirster. He's a bloodletter, one of the lesser demons of Khorne. And what makes him fun lore wise is that the literal moment he was spawned out of one of Khorne's blood rivers, he immediately decapitated the nearest demon to him and was granted the title of executioner for Khorne.

[@gerald2508]

Is he the one with a cloak of skulls, the cloak that *Khorne himself* begrudgingly only takes a *few skulls* from because he is *that good?*

[@TrenchCrusade]

@gerald2508 he does have a cloak of skulls. I'm not entirely sure about Khorne taking skulls from it, though. All I know for sure is that some of the skulls go to Khorne and others belong to Skulltaker

[@gerald2508]

@@TrenchCrusade Thanks.

[@Archon3960]

I thought he had to behead 888 demons for that. For those wondering, Khornes loves the number 8 because he _hates_ everything. B)

[@xanmontes8715]

Dang... I see nepotism is alive and well in the Blood Realm.

[@tomjackson4021]

Ordo Draigo present: WE WILL PROVIDE THE HAMS

[@williamrosen3179]

HANDS DO NOT EXIST IN MY REALITY

[@hcollins9941]

Have you ever eaten…a tangerine? WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY ONE!?!

[@CQBlitz0]

“I HAVE COME TO VANQUISH ALL DEMONS AND LOW-QUALITY RAZORS IN THIS REALM!”

[@hcollins9941]

“I AM THE FIREMAN WHOMST SHALL PUT OUT YOUR FLAMES OF ASPIRATION!”

[@CQBlitz0]

@@hcollins9941 “ROCKET BOOTS, ACTIVATE! DRAIGO-GO-GO-GO!”

[@Pragabond]

Yoooo I laughed way too hard finding out that Grey Knight names literally hurt demons. Just calling to your buddy Jim from across the battle and a demon grunts and falls to his knees because your brother's name is the equivalent to punching a demon in their balls

[@SirDinoz]

crazy that they got the actual Kaldor Draigo as a guest

[@bludhuuntr4946]

True, that was crazy. The part with the eggs was insane.

[@Knight-Bishop]

I mean it's not too hard to summon him, start your typical daemon-summoning ritual but offer high quality shaving razors and tangerines instead, and the probability of him "accidentally" being summoned instead increases a hundredfold.

[@eduardodiaz9942]

Purifiers really be like: "What is your fascination with my forbidden closet of mystery?"

[@wonkybiscuit2760]

Audibly laughed reading this comment 😮‍💨

[@khylerbane4523]

Driago when he beats a daemon: "I must go. My planet needs meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" *Teleports away* Imperials: *confused* Local Imperial Fist: "I suspect he was high on narcotics."

[@valantisalatsas7249]

if by "local imperial fist" you mean the literal primarch of the fists, rogal dorn, then yes

[@JD-bk4zi]

I miss TTS

[@nastynatethe3rd]

Have you ever eaten...a TANGERINE!?!?!?

[@ArchArturo]

@@nastynatethe3rd "Would you like to try one?"

[@tomjackson4021]

@@valantisalatsas7249don’t you mean Lord Adorable?

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

"Have you ever eaten...a Tangerine? WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY ONE?!"

[@Zivon96]

Castellan Garran Crowe: "I must constantly live on my own, holding the blade which killed my master after a mortal stole it from him and ascended to daemonic power. I now constantly endure the whispers and screams, taunts and temptations of the daemon within the blade, words which even whisper to those around me, and that which only my most powerful brethren can withstand for more than moments at a time. And yet I must still venture forth, for the daemons of Chaos which threaten the realms of the Master of Mankind must be stopped before more harm can be done. Pray that you have no need of me." Supreme Grand Master Kaldor Draigo: "I killed a daemon prince in my first battle, and now I run around the warp itself, doing whatever I damn well please and stealing the lunch money of any daemon I come across."

[@jagnestormskull3178]

Kaldor Draigo: "And I also operate as Supreme Grand Master/Chapter Master, despite having little communication with my Chapter!" As for Castellan Crowe, I just... he's based on the Eternal Champion from Moorecock (probably more specifically Elric of Melnibone), who constantly fights over his soul with a sentient demon Black Sword and is tasked by... _something,_ with keeping the balance between Order and Chaos. It's stupid to me that he is therefore anti-Chaos all of the time, rather than being both anti-Chaos and anti-Imperial.

[@thegiantcrow7416]

“Just a fancy Bloodthirster.” Khorne has a list, and your on it now Bricky

[@worldeater2414]

Agreed

[@4_mana528]

He's not fucking Santa! He's Khorne!

[@worldeater2414]

@@4_mana528 He still has a list 😎

[@somekindofmonsterbug]

THAT'S GOING IN THE BOOK!

[@4_mana528]

@@somekindofmonsterbug ASMODAI!!!!!!!

[@Reddotzebra]

I'm pretty sure that this is one of those "They always die because if the wilderness doesn't kill them, we send out a guy with a shotgun to take care of them after a few weeks, so they always die." situations...

[@SamueL-td7fb]

I can't help but imagine a GK with a regular gun, not a 40k "soul oblitestroyer of the Emperor" but a regular 12 gauge just blasting them away 😂

[@PhoenicopterusR]

@@SamueL-td7fb he's got a pair of overalls over his armour and a big straw hat.

[@KeyfurDragon]

@@PhoenicopterusR- ​​⁠- “Sssh! Be vwery vwery quiet. I’m hunting twainees. Hah hah hah hah hah!”

[@Aceshot-uu7yx]

Skitor the grayknight, Sergent and caretaker of the recruits.

[@2Potates]

I just realized something about Kaldor Draigo. His origin story sounds kinda like the opening to Samurai Jack.

[@KeyfurDragon]

Gotta get back, back to the Materium, Kaldor Draigo (Go go-go, go go-go)

[@thewerdna]

TTS is probably a big reason the 3ed group of people who like Kaldor Draigo exist, since TTS leaned into how ridiculously OP he is while also making him an insane lunatic spouting nonsensical lines. Really helped make him a massive meme. We can blame the OP Mary Sueness of him, however, on a certain writer who shall not be named (who no longer works at GW) who was also responsible for the Ultramarines also once being OP Mary Sues. At least he gave us Trazyn though, so its not like he did nothing good.

[@pathfindersavant3988]

He was already a massive meme before TTS, all TTS did was double down on the memes that existed due to /tg/ and Flashgitz

[@leachofsouls]

As the last guy said , Flashgitz showed me the way Of Kaldor

[@henrypaleveda7760]

an arcane ward

[@CEOofFriendship]

I hate to break it to you but the certain writer you are speaking of actually still works at GW, he just isnt a lead writer anymore.

[@Knight-Bishop]

​@@CEOofFriendship Hey, I don't mind if they kept him for the potential Trazyn-esque content if they demoted him for the sheer volume of Gary Stu.

[@0100-u7k]

Demon blade: *corrupts even gray knights* Crow: shut up, you shiny pointy metal pipe

[@IdioticSynergy]

Tonite on Ridiculous Gear: Bricky is packing the Hams, DK's brain goes haywire when he's given the quote ''We are the Grey Knights and It's Grey Knight time for we are Knights of Grey'' and Shy throws tangerines at people like they were zesty hand grenades

[@valantisalatsas7249]

hands do not exist in shy's reality

[@robertforsythe7613]

Imagine being the one in a million to survive grey knight training only to get hit by a melta gun from some traitor guardsman who was high and just die lol

[@nicholassulfaro1727]

Since a lot of this episode was covering the exploits of one Mr. Kaldor Draigo, allow me to extoll for a moment the exploits of my boy Oxyotl from OG Warhammer Fantasy. Basically he accomplished most of the same feats Draigo did, but rather than being an 8ft tall psychic demigod with the best arms and armor that mankind had ever made, he’s just a little lizard guy with googly eyes and a blowpipe. And yes, that includes killing a Greater Daemon solo, and surviving in the warp alone for a long ass time. TLDR; Oxyotl is just a little guy, and he goes just as hard as Kaldor Draigo.

[@KeyfurDragon]

I like this lizard already 😁👍

[@slaymarbo8713]

Lizard guy is badass. But draigo is more memes because uts rorshach situation. When they would like to throw him out but they cant. And they would like to

[@TheLordofMetroids]

Wait, Grey Knights can be recruited from the Black Ships? So like, someone is issued to be basically executed, and devoured by the Emperor, and then they just go missing to become a Grey Knight Aspirant? That's insane.

[@araaraaura1887]

Pretty much all psykers go on the Black Ships, even sanctioned psykers are chosen from there. Basically the Black Ships are just transportation to wherever they're sorted to.

[@gabrielespana319]

The black ships take all psykers not just the ones to be fed to big E. The more promising ones are trained and the less promising ones are batteries

[@tomjackson4021]

Congratulations, you are being rescued… Please do not resist

[@lweaver2988]

Yeah. The inquisition in general recruits from the blacks ships alot.

[@TheLordofMetroids]

@@lweaver2988 Did not know that, I thought if you were on a Black Ship, you were basically already dead. Which I assume is still true for like 99.99% of people on them.

[@isaacfransonfilm2139]

I like Kaldor Driego the same way I like Doom Guy. It's nice that the Big Bads of Warhammer have something to fear. It's also hilarious to slap Kaldor on the table and shout "IM NOT STUCK HERE WITH YOU! YOUR STUCK IN HERE WITH ME!!!"

[@ethanr3480]

On chapters that have over 1k space marines, the space wolves have over 1k marines since they have never been able to make a successor chapter outside of one that didn’t make it a day outside of fenris. Also the imp fists have an unknown since they have a ton of watch station filled with “retired” space marines

[@thegiantcrow7416]

Aren’t like the Dark Angels now one since the Lion is bringing in his Risen or Redeemed whatever they go by now

[@YOGI-kb9tg]

They have successors now

[@ethanr3480]

@@YOGI-kb9tg was that a primaris/8th lore addition, I started focusing more on 40k/hh custodes and iron hands after 7th so I’ve been missing out on a lot of current 40k. I thought the whole thing is that the wolves speed run to wulfen if they don’t live on fenris, and that even primaris can be afflicted by the curse

[@tfan2222]

@@ethanr3480Nope, primaris can get it but at a normal rate. So yeah, successors.

[@YOGI-kb9tg]

@@ethanr3480 yes they got primaris successors basically cawl "fixed" there gene seed but they still ended up having wolfen but they are more stable now. I know one of them is called wolf spears.

[@RiffSilverthe1andonly]

I like Draigo because I just imagine him being like Sly Marbo where he’s just OP because the writer wants to for memes and that’s funny

[@Archon3960]

Too bad he wasn't written like this intentionally. x)

[@ilyana1126]

This was a fun episode. I do wish that Bricky had pointed out that the Black Blade of Antwyr can literally slice through anything. This is the Vorpal sword of Vorpal swords, it’s Vorpal 2: Electric Boogaloo!

[@henrypaleveda7760]

what's a vorpal sword?

[@consolescrub4031]

@@henrypaleveda7760 The magic sword from Lewis Carrol's writing used by a knight to kill the Jabberwocky. Kills monsters really easily and generally cuts without obstruction.

[@henrypaleveda7760]

@@consolescrub4031 THE JABBERWOKY! That's where it was from! Does the word vorpal mean anything or have a more specific association, or is it exclusively a descriptor of the sword?

[@consolescrub4031]

@@henrypaleveda7760 In my incredibly brief internet search it apparently means deadly, keen or fatal. I don't think it has much meaning in regular speech but vorpal weapons in D&D have a chance of instant decapitation of the target when used.

[@PhoenicopterusR]

@@consolescrub4031 Don't forget that it goes snicker-snack, very important feature.

[@YoBen100]

Leman Russ on grey knight: "You're the Inquisitorial equivalent of spoiled, rich children. Also, yer accent's weird and full'a waffles." Saying this while his best man Draigo somehow multiplied and providing hams for everybody.

[@SamueL-td7fb]

he's not wrong

[@arykaas]

*WHOT*

[@darthchungus9964]

Probably because greyknights are covered in books and russ can't read

[@CQBlitz0]

@@arykaas[waffles]

[@Rogerv1032]

There’s also a grey Knight known as Anval Thrawn who is said to be/ known as the last perpetual. In short, he was an impressive grey knight who destroyed countless daemons across many campaigns. It was only ended after being dealt a mortal wound after fighting on a craftworld by a greater daemon of Slaanesh. When his ceremony was in action, he said to have emerged from his tomb perfectly fine. He was then interrogated and found no taint of chaos on him. And so he went back to his position. In which there have been multiple instances of him dying but coming back, one of these is when a great unclean one ate him whole, but just a few moments later he carved his way out of the belly of the daemon. Though due to this perpetual status, the grandmasters forbidden him from rising in the ranks, and so he forever remains Justicar Anval Thrawn, the last perpetual.

[@jacobthompson9181]

My favorite relic from the Grey Knights is the severed flayed skull of Iremn'ath, the Daemon Raja of Nalu, that lies within the Hall of Champions. Which the Grey knights trapped his soul in his head and is forced to watch the celebration of the Grey Knights against their enemies.

[@Archon3960]

Ah, so I guess Drago isn't the only one who likes to T-Bag the corpse of his ennemies. B)

[@germanmandalorian3514]

Random Chaos Cult: "Oh please, by the Chaos, let it be a Keeper of Secret... Please. Great Gods! Not a Unclean One... or at least a Blood Thirster!" *Silver shiny Draigo plops up* "Oh crap..." PS: Hell, I hope you Guys give Lucas the Trickster his fair Part in a Space Wolve Episode.

[@MeredithLikely]

The AI voice for Draigo was phenomenal 👏

[@sergiogp12]

I wish we could get a Black Templar Re-do with this much in-depth lore rather than the meme-rak episode we got

[@chrishooker7671]

Yea. DK and Bricky are more for the laughs and less for accuracy. The Black Templar episode was a total joke

[@SamueL-td7fb]

​@@chrishooker7671and not even a fun one

[@jamieenoshima5147]

Always gonna be the case when ppl are starting out and developing their skills. Like how I'd love Deathguard in more detail as it was one of the first episodes.

[@Pink.andahalf]

Didn't Bricky do a real video on his own channel about Black Templars?

[@skullsquad900]

I'm the complete opposite, I didn't even know he existed but now I love Draigo and wish there were more ridiculous characters like him. He fits the ludicrous stupidity of the setting perfectly 👌

[@Archon3960]

I think he's a bit too OP, even for 40k standards. Which is saying a lot. B/

[@Amrehlu]

Draigo is a great character explicitly BECAUSE he is trapped in the Wrap. I love insanely overpowered characters that either just truly do not fucking care and won't lift a finger to do anything and really just end up being dead weight or causing more problems. Or that have something that makes all that potential be only available in very tiny, hyper-specific, bursts and then they're gone/useless again and those hyper-specific windows are totally and absolutely random. I like when the bad guys have a boogeyman to be afraid of, it makes them feel more grounded when even THOSE guys are afraid of someone/something like that. Just this force of nature that just exists for the fun of it within the universe but never actually does anything meaningful, just a ton of meaningless crazy horseshit. Draigo is the space marine version of the entire Ork lore, just complete bullshit meant to be over-the-top and fun. If Orks can make an empty gun fire cause they believe hard enough, Draigo can walk around the warp committing property damage.

[@Will_Parker]

If Kaldor were an unnamed Grey Knight champion similar to the Sanguinor and not the freaking absentee Supreme Grand Master of the Grey Knights I think everyone would at least like him

[@Beandealer]

Have you ever eaten...a tangerine?

[@doctorjimmy16]

I am so glad someone said this

[@williamrosen3179]

WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY ONE?

[@petulantpeterturbo]

Caldor drago's power is so ridiculous that I choose to believe that he's also cannon that hes batshit insane like in TTS

[@bl1ndrag3]

Salt Warning: Unfortunately, GW in their infinite wisdom have decided that Grey Knights are no longer a Psyker army. We are a weak Space Marine army with teleporters. While the new Army Rule is awesome, we no longer have the tools to capitalize on it. Also, while we still have the Psyker keyword, it's more of a hinderance than a boon since we gain little from it but many armies now have rules that let them mitigate effects from it or outright ignore it. So until the Codex comes out, probably late next year, I'm gonna shelve them. Shame, love my Grey Knights. Great vid as always guys. Thanks. Salt over.

[@patsutherland6853]

To be fair, having grey knights brain blast you, shoot you, charge you, and then teleport away was kind of overpowered when used right. Almost as bad as fighting a deathskulls beast snagga army using knights or pre codex guard.

[@bl1ndrag3]

@patsutherland6853 true, but it feels like they went too far with the balance into outright nerfed into Exterminatus territory. They could have simply given us Dev Wounds on all weapons with the Psyker keyword to reflect us channeling our might through the weapons, which when looking at other armies, would not have been that OP in all honesty. But hey, time will tell. Hopefully, the Codex will help

[@RMD00]

One of the Grey Knight's favorite game is "Where in the Warp is Caldor Draigo?"

[@demonkingsparda]

I feel like Draigo is a mix of Doom Slayer and Don Quixote

[@Reddotzebra]

12:41 They also need to stay away from any radios. The bomb collar doesn't like those.

[@CesarTheKingVA]

The Black Blade reminds me a lot of Nightblood, from Brandon Sanderson's books. Black sword that speaks to its holders mind, capable of ripping souls, calls to other people to draw it and requires someone of intensely strong will to resist... The only difference is that where the Black Blade is actually an evil demon, Nightblood is kind of naive, having been created to "slay evil" but its creators forgot to define what "evil" means.

[@burningbronze7555]

They are both likely copying the same old book, the elric saga had one far earlier.

[@saunteringspellcaster]

Stormbringer.

[@brianvanmaanen1897]

There is 1 guy who reaaaaly loves Kaldor Dreigo... his name is Matt Ward.

[@Archon3960]

They skipped him entirely, so I guess they won't talk about him. :/

[@tajj7]

Whilst all the Draigo stuff generally sounds over the top, the bit about him appearing randomly when cultists think they are summoning a demon is hilarious and whoever thought that up deserves some credit, just imagining him as some sort of chaos bogeyman with like cultists checking under their bed incase Draigo is hiding under there makes me giggle.

[@exzyyd392]

I honestly love Drago because it's so stupid. If Trayzin is allowed to have literally anything in storage (He apparently has an actual Thunder Warrior?) then why not have someone who does random stuff? As long as he doesn't do anything extremely canon breaking like kill a Primarch then I don't see the problem. If he had saved Fantasy then it would be different but nothing really changes with him being there except for adding on to the list

[@Duttyboy2402]

Every time DK mentions disliking the Ultramarines I really want him and Bricky to read Know No Fear. Completely changed my opinion of the boys in blue entirely.

[@baddragonite]

"What an Edgelord" -DK talking about a living sword I see what you did there

[@owenlewis6294]

The 'letting go' line during the Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money tangent, is just further proof that Shy is an evil genius and that's why we love them.

[@LichKingg23]

I genuinely like Kaldor Draigo. I mean, a character that is legend lvl on 40k? That is in lore accurate, just think, the legendaries heros of our world, they did things beyond reason. Now think of the Grey Knights, imagine the legendary status of a legendary faction. Also, he is in the warp and the Emperor is strong in the warp. AND I crack myself every time I see a joke about him. 40k is a parody at heart, so be it. At this point, Draigo might just be a avatar of the Emperor in the warp. Carving his domain piece by piece.

[@prometheusRDS]

Yeah, considering his gene seed is the emperors and he's chained into the warp and cursed to eternal solitude due to his sword I can overlook his OP esque nature

[@markgresch9944]

10:15 - Crazed Psykers, those who has been kidnapped who want nothing to do with their kidnappers, those who have some idea of what "training" is and realize that a slow death in the desert is probably the better option, those who are already on the path to chaos. 17:28 - Macho Man appears from the warp and delivers an elbow drop, says "Ohh Yeah!" and then disappears. 52:05 - We shall send them to the SUPER WARP!

[@thisisalie-ft8cv]

As a Grey Knights (and alpha legion, my name is only kinda a lie) fan, i use Draigo and Calidor on the tabletop a lot. Their melee is quite overpowered. Cant wait for today’s episode. Edit: Yooooo, thanks to the 45 of you who liked this, absolute mad lads 👍

[@JD-bk4zi]

I hope you say random quotes of TTS Kaldor Draigo while every time he attacks

[@thisisalie-ft8cv]

@@JD-bk4zi Honestly that is a comical idea

[@Uknon_The_Knight]

Now listen, I'm a grey knights player and I love the lore. That being said Kaldor Draigo is a crack pot of lore, but I still love him.

[@KaitoGillscale]

Playing ChaosGate has helped me like Caldor a LITTLE BIT more. Cuz he’s ridiculous and kinda whacky, but for your team. It helps him feel a bit less bullshit when you benefit from his power

[@nastynatethe3rd]

Man this Kaldor Drago guy sounds like he's really WARD-ed from all harm.

[@raistlinmajere5550]

Kaldor Draigo is more Sly Marbo than Sly Marbo

[@couchpotato5592]

**Crowe fighting Skulltaker** Black Blade: Punch him in the deeek!!! Hahahahaha!!

[@saunteringspellcaster]

Black Blade has to make daddy Strombringer proud.

[@Fenrisaiyan]

Months of shame and space wolves episodes coming cool! Give them a fair shot and if you doing months of shame they should is fair. The Gray knights don't come off that bad the emperors gift is more their book. Annika Yarlsdaughter was cool please don't forget her.

[@jaketheberge1970]

If you wanna do The months of shame at some point maybe hold off and read The Emperor's Gift first. It by ADB and it follows a Grey Knight through the First War for Armageddon and ends with The Month's of Shame. It also has a female inquisitor from Fenris that is just begging for a poster.

[@ayotzella885]

Kaldor Draigo kind of reminds me of Gotrek Gurnison from warhammer fantasy, they both have this insanely long list of absurdly powerful things they’ve killed and (as of sigmar) have spent lifetimes in the warp and killed so many demons they can walk around without getting attacked but Draigo lacks that comedic angle of only being in these deadly situations because of a death wish he’s just too badass to ever have fulfilled. Plus we saw Gotrek‘s quest of doom escalate from slaying trolls all the way to bloodying Belakor and surviving combat with literal gods. Best quote “I swore to die in battle and outlived a world!”

[@Archon3960]

There could be some easy explanations for Draigo being OP, like if every GK Supreme Grand Master inherited the loyalist shard of Magnus that Janus had. :/

[@TheSpectator64]

Since this episode talks about some of Kaldor's Draigo antics I'll recommend to play "Chaosgate Daemonhunters" since it depicts some of his ridiculous feats in action. At least in the game his presented as a powerful unit but not as busted as some stories like him to be which is kind of lame.

[@cheeserdane]

GOT IT, Caldor Driago is the Deadpool of warhammer

[@khylerbane4523]

Without the fun. Unless it’s the tts version.

[@nolan92491]

given how often the Grey Knights mind wipe people, odds are if your son is considered a possible Grey Knight, they wouldn't just take your son. they would wipe all memory of you ever *having* a son in the first place.

[@alexanderclegg4854]

I mean... They'd probably just kill you tbh

[@pathfindersavant3988]

"In 'Emperor Text-to-Speech," To be fair, they didn't invent the meme of insane lunatic Draigo. It was created long ago in the bowls of /tg/ taking the piss from the Gary Stu, and was later expounded upon by the Flashgitz video on Draigo having him snorting warp dust and hallucinating. TTS only made the meme more widely known.

[@DakkaScrappa]

have you heard of the BOSNIAN KNIGHT

[@captainpanic3616]

PREPARE THE RAILGUN TO FIRE

[@TheJimPlays]

They said I'd never amount to anything but look at me now, I'm a word of banishment!

[@consolescrub4031]

If memory serves, the lady who defeated the four greater daemons was Erda, the primarch's mum although having read the book I still have no idea how she did it (I'll give her some credit for giving absolutely no courtesy to Erebus but otherwise I understand none of it other than perpetuals OP).

[@allmyself666]

37:38 I was LITERALLY thinking the exact same thing about the sword! Literally 1-1 "do you think the sword ever uses its own power, because every depiction i see is of it rift in flames."

[@joshuadunn2]

In the TTS series, Kaldor Draigo banished a SUN, while INSIDE said sun, by just saying "NO SUN!"

[@snapturtle3253]

Theres 1 trial for recruit where they let them being possessed by demons.if the recruit did not overcome the demons themselves, all other grey knights will start opening fire,

[@RightBackAction]

See, I like Kaldor Draigo because everything he does is pointless. Burning Nurgle’s garden, pointless. Smashing Tzeentch’s city, pointless. Slaying Daemon’s of Slanessh, pointless. Fighting champions of Khorne, pointless. He is a hardened champion turned useless. It’s essentially like having the most competent person stuck as a janitor rather than the ceo. I like the idea that the daemons ignore him not because “he’s ultra powerful and scary” rather the daemons just got bored of him.

[@Denasgurman]

I love Caldor Marbo

[@gabrielathero]

Draigo is like the Honey Badger of the warp. Nobody will ever fuck with him because he's just so badass and he doesen't give a shit xD

[@YourHighnessIV]

Man I was really hoping bricky would mention that theres a possible world eater member who didn't have the butcher's nails and could possibly be a thunder warrior

[@kodydenney6474]

If the Emperor was having thanksgiving what would each legion bring? Grey knights easily bring the Ham, Worldeaters would bring Corn, but what would everyone bring? Have ideas but want see what you all think

[@JD-bk4zi]

Space Wolf the beer Blood Angels the coolay (it's blood)

[@Some_Average_Joe]

Well the Word Bearers would bring pizza obviously. The Death Guard would bring the seasonal flu.

[@carefullytunedrng4062]

Ultramarines would bring rolls and make a seating chart for everyone else. Imperial Fists bring antacids and insist that everyone take one in advance to prevent possible indigestion. White Scars bring a store-bought pie since that way no time is wasted baking it. Black Tenplars bring cutlery and insist upon everyone saying grace. Salamanders bring a spicy casserole baked with love and hug everybody as they walk in.

[@emmahagens]

oxyotl from warhammer fantasy is just kaldor drago but actually based.

[@SamueL-td7fb]

Oxyotl and Draigo are the difference between a smart fella and a fart smella

[@NovusNiveus]

38:30 Now I can't help but imagine the Black Blade in the voice of Beavis. KILL HIM. KILL HIM, AND I WILL STEAL HIS BUNGHOLE FOR KHORNEHOLIO.

[@jmp0102]

I really like how things have changed and the Grey knights are more of a specialist group VS Daemons as opposed to them being a cut above other space marines all around. Also would love to see another Grey Knights episode.

[@thefloridaman41]

The Grey Knights are the (pre-Super) Broly's of 40K. So cool until you realize how stupid they are. No one can convince me 1 GK is worth 1 million potential guardsmen.

[@kerbal666]

I don't know what came first TTS or Flashgitz but they did a very good animation of him about 10 years ago.

[@Kyrobinthian]

In da forty first melleninum, that fine azz warp dust still going strong

[@ExtradaemonYT]

Fun fact: There's 10x as many Custodians as there are Ultramarines.

[@jamieenoshima5147]

Wdym? They cheating the codex astarte by having more successor chapters than anyone else.

[@ExtradaemonYT]

@@jamieenoshima5147 There are only allowed to be 1,000 marines per chapter. The Custodes are known as the Ten Thousand. Successor chapters aren't Ultramarines, they have their own names and iconographies.

[@jamieenoshima5147]

@@ExtradaemonYT Okay that's what you meant. Still Guilliman was accused of legion building in the Dark imperium trilogy. And he has the most successor chapters out of any other.

[@ExtradaemonYT]

@@jamieenoshima5147 Successor chapters are not relevant to my fun fact.

[@Archon3960]

Not if you take the Successors into account. x)

[@Archon3960]

I think that DK stumbled upon some of MW's writing before (other than the Ultramarines and Grey Knights), for he is the one who wrote most of the End Times for Warhammer Fantasy. B/ Fine, if Bricky skips the Months of Shame, he's gotta talk about the Grey Knights/Sisters story, the Eldar spirit stones, and the Castigator Titan. *_(Yes Shy, it HAPPENED!)_*

[@krankarvolund7771]

I mean, all Khorne demons search skulls, but their champion is called the Skull Taker, all demon princes are reborn, but one of them chose to be called the Reborn... it seems that demons don't have a lot of imagination for their nicknames XD

[@ArchArturo]

We shall send them into the SUPER-WARP!

[@rebel1717]

I would love Kaldor Draigo a LOT more if he was something like tts, where he’s crazy, not all there, and just the cosmically powerful comedic relief.

[@Typhoon.703_]

"YOU LOOK LIKE A STARFRUIT!" - Kaldor Draigo, to the Captain General of the Adeptus Custodes.

[@reaperking2121]

Hearing about drago here I kinda like him. Why ? Cause at the end of the day it’s kinda tragic. Here you have this absolute Gary Stue of a character a god amongst men and yet despite all of his strength he is incapable of escaping the warp and thus not only is his fate as a mortal man sealed but it also means he cannot aid humanity in the fight against the TYRANIDS.

[@rvelazquez1986]

“Where in the warp is Kaldor Draigo?”

[@CarespankerGuildslayer]

do another grey knights episode, i have learned nothing new so far lol

[@morpheusbutasasquirtle4431]

I imagine grey knights that become dreadnoughts request for it beforehand or during their last moments.

[@Cursedsama]

To be fair the woman who battled the 4 greater daemons was like Empys ex wife

[@YouCaughtCzars]

The only thing about Draigo that I quite enjoy is the cultists accidentally summoning him. That's hilarious.

[@lordofwolves2147]

Im definitely in the third camp for draigo "Have you ever eaten a tangerine?" (Leaps down into the battlefield blazing with power) "Would you like to try one?". Tts is also awesome

[@codycollins8556]

I must go my planet needs meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Kaldor Draigo after vanquishing Magnus the Red M41

[@vineveer4358]

Kaldor Draigo is that right mix of "technically possible?" and "Ayo, it's Sly Marbo". He's silly but it's okay for Warhammer to be silly in places, that's part of the charm I think. If Draigo actually took a loss in a serious story, that would sort of legitimize all the crazy things he's done and humanize him more, which I think would be a bad thing. He's a hilarious background plot device, not a character.

[@GK_Lucy]

I like Draigo for being the embodiment of the ridicoulusness of 40K. To take serious he would need to be like the Grey Knights Primarch they don‘t actually have or something crazy like that.

[@Awesomotron2k]

Jetsboots: activate! Let's go Draigo-go-go-goooooo! *crashes into demonic village like a ICBM*

[@TheKlawwGang888]

I believe Draigos achievements aren't actually real he just believes they are because it's all a result of his insanity from being in the warp for so long.

[@TheLordofMetroids]

To be fair, Drago in Fantasy probably doesn't rank him as even one of the top 5 Strongest guys on the alliance against Chaos, Hell, maybe not even top 10. I would have loved to see him and Grimgor Ironhide square off though.