The EXORCISTS Chapter: Origins & Lore & DAEMONS | Warhammer 40,000 Index Astartes

The Exorcists are a totally normal and codex-compliant chapter and any rumours around Daemonic Possession you might have heard are heresy!
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[@wolf-xf6hf]

Yes inquisitor I have never seen this video or its content before

[@JACKXK]

I don't want to give Ian a big head, but this is the best lore channel on youtube.

[@JACKXK]

Sorry Majorkill.

[@Victorious_Battle]

​@@JACKXK1😂🤣😂🤣

[@OkonkwoBigYams]

When VaatiVidya gonna start doing Warhammer lore?

[@Silvofox]

Maybe! but Ian needs KZbin income to buy all those colour coded shirts with each chapter with each episode. All for it that’s for sure!

[@alastor8091]

The Remembrancer is probably the best for a straight overview, the Amber King is the best for long form, and Oculus Imperius for LOOOOOONG content. Arch is decent. Major Kill is a major sell out.

[@silvle01]

I feel like I’m getting Deja Vu

[@AdamPriestleyWargaming]

Me too. Deja Vu all over again

[@billdefranza4927]

I feel like I'm getting Deja Vu

[@billdefranza4927]

Here it is. RE-UPLOADED to remove copyrighted imagery!

[@AdamPriestleyWargaming]

@@silvle01 Me too. Deja Vu all over again

[@Victorious_Battle]

​@@billdefranza4927 good eye

[@collecter343]

Ah yes, loyalist Word Bearers “Oaths of Damnation” was rad as hell.

[@andeejaym]

The Exorcists also featured in a short story “The empty place” by Graham McNiell in the Successors Anthology. Really well told story and great insight into the chapter’s capabilities.

[@jackmikesell9453]

Man, what I wouldn't give for a lore video like this about the Crimson Fists. Amazing video, as always, Ian

[@dekuswagg]

Might seriously be my favorite chapter. They’re like if Grey Knights were actually cool.

[@Bluecho4]

Ooooh, Spicy!

[@Lancersilva]

As an Exorcist, I second this. (Totally not biased)

[@Nick-xg8ly]

What if they're both cool

[@Megalordsalmon]

Hey look it’s that chapter that makes the Grey Knights so jealous they had to copyright strike the last video!

[@TheHIOJK]

Grey Knights would consider this heresy and would wipe them out

[@dolphinerofachero3159]

The one who made the strike? The one and only Mathew “Spiritual Liege” Ward aka Kaldor Draigo #1 fan

[@WozWozEre]

Love the Exorcists, although it's kinda hilarious how they were called the 'Exorcists' well before the whole Possession thing became a thing for them. Providence? Big E works in mysterious ways? Lazy writing? Your call. Anyway have a few squads of them, great painting and conversion potential!

[@TSInfiMa-r6z]

Can't wait for Lamenters.

[@a.h.1358]

Can’t get rid of a curse without being cursed…

[@TheMrFishnDucks]

Super fascinating chapter. Really ingenious use of the warp against the chaos forces. Love the inscriptions on the armour and the demon skull symbol. Hopefully they have some audio-books of this chapter for those long car rides. Nice video. Keep up the good work.

[@omnissiahGaspar]

I think you should make a video on the Crimson Slaughter, they have more lore than most Chaos warbands and could make for a great retrospective look, as they were the poster Chaos faction for a little while and you can still see them in secondary unit pictures as pretty much every csm unit before the release of blackstone fortress got a crimson slaughter paintjob

[@Zazuzozu]

They were so cool! Wish we got more from them.

[@micahfloyd1974]

I've been loving your channel as I dive into Warhammer. The episode on Secret Level was excellent, and really helped me appreciate the story and setting. Your older episode on the best books to start reading and the timeline of the tabletop game are immensely helpful too. As I'm going back through old videos, do you have any reviews of video games in the Warhammer universe? Space Marine 2 has very positive reviews. Just thought I'd see what your take on it is. Thanks again!

[@Stonewalls13]

Death Spectres were also from the 13th founding I think

[@francois2449]

I read "The racists" instead of "Exorcists" and for a second I thought that was a little too much on the nose, even for 40k standards…

[@robling1937]

Everyone knows the White Scars are the best racists. At least that's who I'd put my money on to win a race.

[@stevenharrison151]

The Magamarines, purging dark skinned "heretics" in the Americanus system. Their chapter symbol is the burning cross...

[@enisra_bowman]

and yet, a certain kind of people still wouldn't get the message *sigh*

[@Lancersilva]

Yeah, the Racists chapter just seems like the Deathwatch

[@robling1937]

I kind of want to do a project of making one marine from each badab chapter. If I do, these videos are going to be SO HELPFUL! As usual, another great video.

[@robert2pkt0]

Amazing video, such a vast vollection of intel about this fascinating chapter. Thanks!

[@deerezzd]

Been waiting for this, my favourite chapter! You're honestly the best 40k lore channel for the variety of topics you cover and the quality and of your explanations :)

[@Lazrael32]

I like how they were "mistaken as a chapter of the grey knights" when until the recent rebranding it was canon they had grey knight gene seed

[@Mr_Waffle.]

Thanks for the reupload, thought I was crazy. Love this series

[@Msgrimmy]

Love these guys. Currently making an Exorcist dice set!

[@waltergaming6394]

i was watching a video on the Exorcists not too long ago. Cool that you uploaded a video on them. 💪🏻💪🏻

[@Oneinpinky]

i love this series, i’m so gassed when i see a new one on my home page

[@Booyaka9000]

Ooh... two videos within a week. Our cups runneth over! Love it!!

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video

[@tperry101202]

There is a great exorcist character in the deathwatch books, the chapters members are described as being “almost like blanks” in terms of how there lack of soul affects there presence. Making warp and psychic energies less affected on them. There is a nice short story where a killteam(with an exorcist member) confront a weird boy, and its psychic abilities not very effective.

[@BrandonL337]

These guys are great, one of my favorite successor chapters, along with the Raptors.

[@enzovignati]

Hell yeah, my favorite "Dark" Chapter, Im looking foward to build a Kill Team of them using the Legionary rule, each one possesse...hem... I mean... using one of the misterious powers of the Warp! (Thanks for the reuploud)

[@Tomoyuki_Tanaka]

I need to exorcize this deja vu...well, I don't mind relistening to it while hobbying.

[@earnestwanderer2471]

Excellent as always.

[@andrewjamieson7178]

Excellent video!

[@Michael_Raymond]

I'm putting out a vicious rumor now that all Exorcists Dreadnoughts are secretly Helbrutes

[@matthewberryman6609]

This is true!? I'll pass it on.

[@crashingatom6755]

One of the absolute coolest bits of lore out there. Oaths of Damnation was great, and the Exorcists are my next army.

[@PrimetimeD]

Sweet! One of my favorite chapters.

[@alexandr623]

Man, feels.like i have watched something very similar. My brain works in mysterious ways

[@Le_Petomane]

Alright Ian? long time no see or watch. I never paint marines anymore 15 + years, i only have time for printed vanity models and piles and piles of shame but normally focus on skirmish and narrative stuff now, just to keep it concentrated and concise when i have the chance. Killteam pre last years update and Necromunda , bit of Mordheim too. All to say I've been around your channel since early days and I recently got a combat patrol and my first non first born marines, as if i needed new models but i finally folded to accept a long fought war of the reinvention of my old school marines ( very late to the 'game' in that sense). I finally have Primarus. Im running back through some of these chapter videos to decide which direction ill go, if i must make them worth while albeit if they just sit about on a shelf or box. I think we come from a similar era of GW and although this is your living now, well one revenue, I don't have time but have tons of plastic. Im sort of tempted to go with a chapter that previously i 'hated' or wasn't interested in as a sort of basic traditionalist the last time i painted a marine which was a mono pose or white metal specialist stuff for my own potential use in boarding actions etc. I guess just thanks i come back into the hobby every few months and your videos always get me enthusiastic, i could of said this anytime but im saying it now. cheers.

[@ropable]

I just finished the novel Deathwatch by Steve Parker, which included the Exorcists marine character. Had no idea that he'd done short stories about the same characters; I'll have to look those up

[@Aberinkula9]

Just as additional likely information: The "Enoch" of **Enoch Trimesgistus** is likely a reference to the famous "Book Of Enoch", one of the most famous books of Gnostic literature as a whole and that deals with Angels and Demons in a quite untraditional way.

[@TotalTryFails]

Love ur vids!!

[@KomboAndy]

My favorite anektode is when an Ultramarine Psycher tries to look at an Exorcist just to notice that he has no soul...

[@drastikk3556]

Literally reading Robbie MacNivens Excorcists book rn. Thanks for reading my mind Ian

[@bad_narek1419]

Haven't we had a video about them already???? 😮 Not complaining 😂

[@stuartnewman6968]

So let me get this right "limited demon possession" is granted ? So technically if corvus corax comes back wouldn't he come under that rule ?

[@ArbitorIan]

CONSISTENCY? In the IMPERIUM?

[@_R0adki11]

Technically all primarchs are made of warp energy, their bodies were just a means to contain that power. Corax has just decided to use that power to hunt Lorgar better.

[@Hunter12365]

​@@ArbitorIan Crazy, right? 🤭🤣

[@101Mant]

It's not really granted, radical Inquisitors do it. Other parts of the Imperium are completely against it.

[@Hugme778]

@@_R0adki11 doing a terrible job being lorgar is out and about of the warp

[@johnnnysilverhand9819]

Lucius the Eternal single handedly stomped through their Fortress Monastery in that one Hammer and Bolter episode. Not sure how they recovered from the shame.

[@MrTheevilmage]

My Fav Chapter

[@accountnamewithheld]

Love this chapter's lore, I have about 3,000 points of them painted.

[@matthewmcneany]

Calling them The Exorcists is the height of what you might call hiding in plain sight.

[@vinnythewebsurfer]

Damn warp shenanigans at it again.

[@garryame4008]

What was the copyrighted material that was removed?

[@ArbitorIan]

An artist had an image that turned out to be a 40k-ified self-portrait and would rather it wasn't used. Which is fine. I try and credit as much as I can when I know the source of images but sometimes things like that happen! Very happy to just take it down, change the image, and reupload.

[@Victorious_Battle]

This is totally what I'm making my army

[@aleverettes2789]

"I thought I've watched this, mustve been deja vu..?" *Checked description* "Oh right"

[@CrimsonTemplar2]

A very interesting chapter.

[@Drownedinblood]

"Hello there" -Lucius

[@MrFox102]

Flesh Tearers next

[@heycidskyja4668]

Not a Badab war chapter.

[@saulgonzalez3305]

Daemon Deja vu

[@hanshans387]

Loving this series, can you do Mortifactors?

[@stewroo]

My Boys!!

[@1gun136]

Exorcists with purity seals? Hmm 🤔

[@tremolo_painter]

And upon closer inspection, the seals read 'this page intentionally blank'

[@EverianKalim]

Each Week we get Closer to a Doom Eagle Video...

[@jonbaxter2254]

I'm sure with a name like that, these lads are all fine

[@megaszero514]

Raven guard next?

[@Theotherone89]

How do your shipping times look to the US? The Shop app checkout didn’t give an estimate.

[@ArbitorIan]

I'm not actually sure. I get notifications when dispatch happens, and the printing is done locally to the person ordering so it seems that DISPATCH time is pretty much the same all over, but I don't get reports of arrival dates. I haven't yet had any feedback saying it's good or bad!

[@Igod9114]

I guess ill just watch it again while doing spreadsheets

[@Kstaann]

wondered where this was

[@КонстантинИванов-д1д]

Ya Badab Adoo !!

[@humanafterallTF2]

I have to write again that this is the most interesting space marine chapter to me, after blood ravens(i wish someone would come up with cool continuation and/or retcon story for them with or without relic). Grey knights feel boring next to these guys.

[@Lancersilva]

Hey my favorite boys.

[@marjoe32]

Rumors are just that Rumors 😅

[@isaiahsmith6016]

These guys must get on really well with Radical inqusitors. Puritans... Not so much.

[@zep5229]

Lamenters when?

[@obsidianrazor]

Didn't he already did the Exorcists? o_O Not complaining, just confused xD

[@Enoch_Trismegistus]

EXOOOOOOOOORCISTS!!!!

[@gregs7562]

Sooooo, no Primaris for them then ? Or perhaps not. Just finished the video 😂

[@stevebull7105]

For the 13th founding they really ripped up the rule book didnt they?

[@malkomalkavian]

Can't wait for primaris to fall to chaos

[@bigbloke2000]

1ksons sucessor chapter?

[@Siltarius]

"RE-UPLOADED to remove copyrighted imagery!" - Wow... Deja Vu...

[@semjazairl]

Hydra Dominatus.

[@seawurm]

Is this a repost?

[@jponeill2151]

Nice. It is a shame they get no in game benefits lol

[@molly4607]

Woooo

[@jestology1180]

I was wondering what happened to this video

[@mkz3r0]

Well, then I'll watch again 🤷

[@minespawn7938]

Scout becoming Space Marine after proving themselves in battle Meanwhile the Exorcists:"Now get possessed by Daemon and kick it out by sheer will power"

[@knightpaladin9841]

wish the Marines Malevolent had enough lore for a video, I love me yellow dickeads

[@EdFortune]

Did this video fall into the warp?

[@ArbitorIan]

Some images in it were sequestered by the Inquisition

[@saber5785]

Love these guys

[@TheCityofTownsville]

Comments for the Comment God! Likes for the Likes Throne!

[@JayB9137-abc]

comment for the comment god!

[@nickkerton5040]

Ian u are incredible. Please tell us you will keep this channel going til well past 99 addition

[@dekai7992]

Ian simply does lore best.

[@khairilamirulimran6401]

Wooo, its back.

[@Aftar2]

Reupload :(

[@BigBoyBillSneed]

These guys were more interesting when their heritage wasn't confirmed and it was rumored that they were Grey Knight successors. I don't know how the Grey Knights could even have successors but it was interesting.

[@joluoto]

Because that the Grey Knights aren't exactly normal Space Marines is a secret that most of the Imperium does not know.

[@graefx]

I refuse to believe that theyre sons of dorn. High lords propaganda

[@allyliddiard7320]

Yes, we are an entirely Codex compliant chapter who are definitely scions of the noble Rogal Dorn, why do you ask?

[@blaeinger]

Almost every successor chapter feels like horrible fanfic to me. So many are edgy crap like this.

[@radwolf76]

There better not be any anti-vaxxers clowining on this thread.