MORTARION - Pale King | Warhammer 40k Lore

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

Mortarion is one of the best Primarch's story wise. I especially love how he became the very thing he hated

[@adrienwatson2179]

His Character is great He was actually one of the softest and most loving Primarchs Having wept openly for his sons more than once Its almost as if the Deathgaurds impossible will and unbreakable forward movement..unfeeling, uncarinf efficient killers without any embellishments.... Was all to mask Mortarions kind character

[@_Rijolin]

@@adrienwatson2179 That sounds super interesting! Which books? I wanna read more about the Death Guard.

[@daviewizzle]

And yet the Emperor, did say he might save him 1 day

[@adrienwatson2179]

@@_Rijolin The Buried Dagger Its the book where Mortarion and the Death Gaurd actually fall to Chaos. It explains a lot about them and reqlly fleshes out their characters Its pretty much thr only book in thr HH series that is legitimatly DeathGaurd only

[@savagex466-qt1io]

I love him to ! Hes so cool ! Any idea why he hates physkers so much ? If I ever play him I might not include any physkers just lore wise haha unless I lose a few games and need to step up my list cuz physkers for death guard are not to bad at all. I love 40k. Its my favorite sci fi.

[@cranch5648]

I never blamed the death guard for being so loyal to mortarion. They were given a debt they could never repay when he saved them from the pale kings

[@eavyeavy2864]

Thought Mortarion and pk are same?

[@gamechanger8908]

​@@eavyeavy2864 I assume he means Necare, Mortarion's adoptive father back on Barbarus. He and Mortarion shared the title of "pale king"

[@calid_greko]

its the same for the world eaters they wanted approval from their Primark

[@BrandonGiordano]

I like to think Morty was basically chosen by Nurgle from birth. Nurgle placed him on Barbarus with the explicit intent of corrupting him. Perhaps if his brothers had treated him different and the Emperor treated him with less apathy he could've been protected from corruption

[@texasallstar6969]

I love how every step he takes he just takes 3 steps back.

[@Duppyman695]

"My ManReaper is bigger than your ManReaper" said Mortarion to Typhus!

[@synergy8879]

his man reaper is literally the size of typhus

[@tothewin5388]

@@synergy8879 what is manreaper?

[@goldentechmahroop3935]

The scythes the death guard use

[@TraciPeteyforlife]

Morty really needs some anti depression meds and much hugs. Many many hugs, perhaps one million in a row.

[@1996limas]

I reckon he needs a few anti biotics as well 🤗

[@nonimport-ante]

here we have Vulcan's opposite number. both were sent to death worlds beset by inhuman foes. both where issued a challenge by the Emp, both almost died (though vulcan wouldn't have stay dead) and where save by the emperor. both would suffer from being unable to die, V tortured to madness by Kurze, M tormented by nurgle their legion where both known for being extra durable, even the methods of war were similar the Death Guard using poison in place of fire. then the contrast Morty resented the Emp where vulcan respected him V embodies compassion M implacability.

[@LordGrantius]

And the foulness of weapons favoured by the Death Guard countered by the horrifying yet purifying flame of the Salamanders

[@PodreyJenkin138]

Vulkans deathworld wasn't as bad as M's tho and his challenge was a pure contest while M's challenge was his long held goal to kill his adopted psyker father (doesn't help that big E is a psyker so M would naturally mistrust him) Whereas vulkan had a back and forth with big E and only had to forfeit his pride (and a large lizard corpse) and service M had let go of everything his life has struggled to amount too so far for a stranger psyker who claimed he was his real dad (already had daddy issues) The devil is really in the details, I agree overall with your point

[@etinarcadiaego7424]

Perhaps the coolest looking Primarch, in my opinion. I've always wanted to buy and paint a Nurgle army, my favorite Chaos god. BTW, your voice acting is great and really enhances these videos! 👍

[@inquisitorgarza312]

Mortarion and his Death Guard were not foul worshippers of Chaos, but instead they normal rebels that had many grievances against his Father Imperium though it was his First Captain betrayal that doom him and his Legion.

[@stormbringer2840]

Hum to be fair his grievance are kind of petty and he himself is an hypocrite. Edit : compared to someone like Konrad kurze or Angron for exemple . I would say he is as petty as perturabo but at least perturabo wasn’t an hypocrite.

[@robertdotson2210]

Mortarion's main grievance was wounded pride, He NEEDED to be the one to control the liberation of his planet. A tyrant from the start. A weak primarch.

[@paimonisfood4986]

Mortarion was one of the biggest hypocrites among the Primarchs up there with Leman.

[@stormbringer2840]

@@paimonisfood4986 … you are a magnus fan aren’t you ?

[@paimonisfood4986]

@@stormbringer2840 I don't really like Magnus but Leman's hypocrisy is undeniable

[@jrr7031]

Its so ironic a while lot of the traitor legions follow the Sith Rule of 2. The 1st Captain's or leaders either turned against their primarchs or abandoned them in favor of chaos.

[@paimonisfood4986]

Kharn is fighting under Angron currently and who knows whatever the Emperor's Children incompetent first Captain is doing.

[@Eckskalibur]

@@paimonisfood4986 The funny thing is not all traitor forest captains follow the pattern. Sure, Abadon, Erebus, Typhus, Ahriman, and Kharn struck on their own and made a name for themselves, but the other first captains essentially went a different route. Sevetar essentially abandoned his legion and potentially became a founder of the Grey Knights chapter. Perturabo’s is so forgotten or it was Dantioch and he went loyalist. Alpharius legion is Alpharius. And Fulgrim’s first captain was killed my him, replaced by a tryhard with hax ability to hides his failures.

[@paimonisfood4986]

@@Eckskalibur Alpha Legion First Captain is actually in the final Siege of Terra book and I think Emperor's Children first Captain is still alive when his head got stitched back to his body when Fulgrim killed him. Emperor's Children will receive the spotlight next edition so I'm gonna wait for that.

[@Eckskalibur]

@@paimonisfood4986 Haven’t read or have gotten a fuller summary of Siege yet, but as far as I’ve heard Alpharius is basically made of its Primarch and his body doubles. And Emperor’s Children’s First Captain became a shambling corpse or a ghoul at best.

[@adrienwatson2179]

@@Eckskalibur Yet Lord Commander Eidolon is an absolute bewst in combat, killing Astartes with his voice alone

[@Cmdtheartist]

Real nice job, man. Everyone who does these tales has their own style, yours fits right in. Thanks for grim.

[@Matt-md5yt]

glad you covered Morty today, like I said before I love the color scheme of the pre-Heresy Death guard

[@winterknight4307]

This is such an underrated channel! I love your videos a lot and I can't wait for the Magnus video!

[@lolbots686]

Typhus:no...inpossible....how...how are you standing here alive!? Mortarion:how did i return from dammnation? With dificulty. How do i stand here? With pleasure. *Summons silence* you led me and my sons to dammnation,You betrayed everything you once stand for...YOU,BETRAYED ME,LEFT ME AS THAT CREATURES VESSEL OF DEATH AND DISEASE! Know this typhus. I will leave you as i did necare,and as sigismund did to abbadon. Broken. Weeping. Shameful. And a corpse. Typhus:corpse emporor worshiper! Morty:oh you mistake me for another fool. Father can rot for all i care. When i leave here,i will serve noone. I will bring life where i walk,and with my blade,all who stand aganst me shall die.

[@jarrydharris1016]

That was good!

[@lolbots686]

@@jarrydharris1016 Later. Gman:so its true...He saved you. Mortarion:not quite. I dont have to answer to you. *Proceeds to leave* Gman:mortarion wait! ...im glad you live. Morty:...i am too. Be well...brother. *leaves*

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

That was good!

[@synergy8879]

“i will bring life where ever i go.” “now, do you have some flower seeds, fertilizer and a watering can?”

[@lolbots686]

@@synergy8879 ha ha dude. No but regarding what mortarion meant,with isha and the big e cleansing his daemonicness,isha would,with reluctant concent be claimed by isha Wherever morty and future death guard walked,nature would bloom with every step,there indomitable will and resilence being the near all persistence of nature incarnate, with morty aditionaly able to produce either his aura of exaustion,or an aura of healing that cleanses disease and heals those within his presence

[@casiusjames9117]

Dude... your content is phenomenal. I hope the community realizes how dope this channel is. All the best with your next vids man

[@krel3358]

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[@casiusjames9117]

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[@MrAssassyn86]

Great work as always!

[@TheRemembrancer]

Thank you for your support Brother!

[@SamueL-td7fb]

I mean, if the Amber King made me like Ferrus Manus, I might be surprised here too, can't wait!

[@finalgirl640]

Your voice has a Michael Cain sounding charm and quality to it. So great to listen to and it's perfect for this lore. Awesome work! ❤

[@ragem8884]

You never miss with these videos, easily one of the best on the platform

[@ConceptsCool4993]

-hates psychic powers -is a minor abstract concept aka warp god, where all psychic stuff is based off of like how real life abstract concepts are the blueprints for everything ever Warhammer irony ladies and gentlemen.

[@peterga3658]

Video Dope Voice Dope Edit Dope overall Dope AF

[@overseastom]

You narrated this perfectly, and I'm really impressed by the 40k lore so far. It's definitely fun getting into it, even if fun is a concept that's probably been obliterated in that world :P

[@Kyser666]

The voice of mortarion is amazing! These voice actors are superb

[@CA-sy1iw]

Outstanding video mate! Great presentation, great content, good story telling! 11/10!

[@Ibian666]

Morty was a whiner. Emp saved his life, and what did he say? Why u steal my kill, dad?!

[@feralprocessor9853]

Right off the bat, struggled message breathing of the ruler of Barberous.

[@eichler721]

Mortarian has the best model of the Deamon Primarch's and a cool story.

[@vontheunknown7982]

There's a rumor going around that Morty is to get redeemed, but what do you guys think?

[@catosicarius3027]

Thats quite dumb, it's pretty obvious he's completely engrossed in nurgles plagues. And he's a daemon, it'd be impossible for him to be redeemed.

[@Malvok]

Mortarion has always been so consumed by "daddy issues" that it would only take the Emperor saying, "I'm sorry my son. I see the harm my callous disregard has done to you. I forgive you, as I hope you could forgive me." Mortarion would eat that up and be on a Terra bound ship to kneel at the feet of the Emperor before nightfall.

[@magikot]

@@catosicarius3027 by becoming the first Primarch version of a living saint. Maybe leading the Emperor's legion of daemons, the Lost and the Damned.

[@catosicarius3027]

@@magikot It's pretty clear Morty hates the emperor, and ferrus is already a major candidate for leading the damned. As he's dead And would be perfect to lead a once dead now reborn legion.

[@brandonlyon730]

I see Magnus being more likely to be redeemed, he's didn’t join chaos willingly, he did it out of desperation and Tzeentch took advantage of that. I also say Fulgrim as well, but even when he got rid of the demon inside him he still kept being Slaanesh’s minion at his own free will, not to mention theirs his clone who is pretty much uncorrupted him. Morty already had issues with the Meperor from the beginning so I don’t see him joining back with his dad's empire anytime soon.

[@tero2535]

Some primarchs have legit reason to dislike emperor mortarion should not be one

[@ayethe4603]

He was weak minded, strong of body weak of mind to let "revenge " becuase it wasn't me to make him betray everyone

[@fracturedbishop]

It isn't fully about the revenge is about the statement it would have been a statement to his people that even the weak can overthrow a tyrant or die trying and the Emperor stole the choice of dying on his terms and replaced it with the Emperor as his new tyrant

[@sanjin8867]

Damn, this channel deserves sooooooooooooo much more subscriptions

[@isengarde9490]

This guy is either voiced by Jason Beghe with a General Greivous style voice filter or just have Jamie Glover do a gravellier Darth Malgus. I refuse to accept any other voice for Morty.

[@thehandofgod2864]

22:17 Such a great line.

[@PrimetimeD]

Love these videos, very well done!

[@TruckingShooter]

I'm glad I found this channel, you deserve many more subs then you currently have.

[@theethicist6981]

Recent sub here, really loving the channel and this series my guy!

[@dantauche7917]

Fantastic video. Amazing work. Loved it!

[@darko-man8549]

Gods I hate “carving into the heart” story as much as Tigerius communing with the Hive and maintaining sanity

[@JulysHobbyWorkship]

Thanks for another great video!

[@kristopherscholefield1723]

I love pre heresy Death guard. Flight of eisenstein, is one of my favorite stories, I'm definitely a Battle captain Garro, simp.

[@CuteLittleGoat]

With friends we will soon start wh40k RPG. I will recommend them to watch Your channel 🙂 Amazing work and gresy voice!

[@Trollioli]

Just another instance where Big E mucks about. Funny that he never extended the same favor to Angron.

[@CaptainMirro]

His deathguard his son's. This is my favorite chaos faction.

[@interogatorasmodai]

AWSOME VIDEO CONTINUE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!

[@mattib10]

Very good stuff🙌

[@coddy212thcommanderorang8]

hey can you tell me where did you get that art because that’s one the best looking versions of mk6 that have seen the minute 6:03

[@TheRemembrancer]

Loremasters - WHtv

[@coddy212thcommanderorang8]

@@TheRemembrancer thank you

[@Overanalyse_This]

Damn! Gurgle got to Morty early!

[@ezrakandie]

I have to unhear this.... It so classified am sure the inquisition is on my tail now😊

[@Prattical]

Noticing some goos magic artwork hwre ;) it really fits for Morty's early life

[@beerasaurus]

M-m-mbuurrrpMorti! We we we gotta spread the plague morti! Awe jeez Nurgle

[@ludovicfernand2016]

Thx remembrancer for your nice work 🎉🎉🎉👏👏👏👏🍾

[@robertdotson2210]

I am loving watching this channel grow. You are in full stride now.

[@headlibrarian1996]

Is it certain that the overlords were associated with Chaos? I don't recall that being made explicit.

[@Yacovo]

Thanks for the video.

[@p1k4nurxp13sr]

Totally didn’t use a bunch of MTG art throughout… but it all fit very well so I have no qualms 😂

[@Shintigercurl]

"mortarion smelled like shit since day one" the emperor.

[@ayethe4603]

To weak to accept the emperor's help to weak to fight nurgles power So weak he sells the souls of his men

[@lorgaraureliano9896]

El que interpreta a los personajes es Pro

[@notalpharius1841]

Great voice acting

[@AA-bn7tf]

Megaton is one of my favorites. I mean Megatron. I uh mean Morty. No I… I mean Megaman. I … I mean Meagan mommy Markel. I mean mommy. I mean um mommy milky I mean… I uh mommy milkers no um

[@alditory6621]

I see you have found a gap in the market... Was actually looking for this one, I wanted to hear his story. Do sangunious next!

[@catosicarius3027]

The plague lord Cometh

[@guitargangster66]

Always played world eaters, but damn is nurgle tempting

[@Azzie420]

So.... the choice has been made- Mortarion battling the Khan upon visiting the now Ashened Prospero So mortarion was very bitter which was understandable, coming from a Father that never cared, swearing his head will be claimed only for the emperor to save him but also deny him the final victory, not really caring for chaos and just wanting to leave he joined Horus, the betrayal happens and Mortarion sees his sons are still down there more resilient than ever so he makes way to the surface of Istvaan with his Legion at the flanks only for the guerrilla tacticsused by the loyalists to almost take the primarchs life (they’d stolen a heavy tank, kept the livery’s on an attempted to assassinate him with it as they came up to “support” him Back in orbit there was an issue, all their astropaths were dead. Thanks to Calas Typhon who’d secretly been serving the Grandfather in secret and had hidden his psyker powers until now offered to guide the Death Guard Fleet, only to send them straight into Nurgle’s realm and have their service eternally enthralled to the God of the Plauge

[@Lichnaya_pravda]

Each corrupted primarch is a terrible woe. Mortarion, Magnus, Fulgrim, Lorgar - none of them initially was a bad person. Chain of misfortunes and lies of evil gods confused and doomed them

[@dedrr5305]

YES!!! AMAZING VIDEO THANKS DARK GODS

[@tero2535]

I dont like that chaos basically can make you being chaos baddie like mortarion it should be voluntary

[@lonstrickland6571]

Excellent!!

[@suveertatineni3464]

How come saying Mortarian’s name doesn’t banish him to the warp? Isn’t he fully a demon prince? Or does he have a different Demon Prince name? Thank you. I’m new to the warhammer universe. Enjoying it immensely. Just trying to improve my knowledge. Thank you.

[@Mixu.]

Which book is Mortarion origin story told in? I can't seem to find basically any books where he's the main character :/

[@TheRemembrancer]

Mortarion: The Pale King and The Buried Dagger are both worth a read.

[@Mixu.]

@@TheRemembrancer thanks for the recommendations.

[@Mixu.]

​@@TheRemembrancerso I've finally gotten around to reading Buried Dagger and wow I was not expecting it to have that many interesting things in it. Thanks again for the suggestion, I got through it in record time once I'd actually started it.

[@TheBreaker153]

I wonder where he gets the full art from the Horus heresy legion game

[@TomFynn]

Mortarion. Morty to his friends. Or would be, if he had any friends.

[@j.c.huckabay6259]

"Every act matters."

[@WestSideGorilla1980]

Grew up in a broken home. Morty the moth.

[@Chris-dy9gw]

Old Morty sounds a bit like a sith....

[@jellydamgood]

My favorite part of Mortarion's story will always be how he got mentally dominated by Jagathai before getting physically dominated too during their meeting in terra. Absolutely ass blasted, and all stemming from his own pettiness.

[@dirtyhenry917]

awsome

[@chainsawsubtlety9828]

A wheezing, asthmatic, hypocrite... Morty isn't the Grim Reaper, he's a stinky Darth Vader.

[@johnnyscifi]

I'm pretty sure Mephiston also goes by "lord of death"

[@TheHooft]

Mortarion wasn't a prince until after the Heresy

[@darkage5]

Ummm unless the story was redacted. Mortarion defeated Linus Guranaton. That's name that was carved on Mortaion's heart. Actually I think that is the name of the audio drama where it happens.

[@sbeaber]

I'm eagerly awaiting the Lion. I'm the meantime I'll enjoy the champion of decay Edit: holy crap. You already did guys video. Thank you and be back later to finish this one 😁

[@feralprocessor9853]

Getting some enshrouded vibes from Barberous.

[@Burn_pits]

I am really hoping with GW signing these authors to long term, book deals, giving them a direction to move away from the cyclic story line of never going forward, always coming back to the same spot, as when the story started, that we will see proper novels written about the traders and the loyalist primarchs. I am hoping that we can diverge away from such chaos, heavy stupidity because they can now move the storyline to the right and actual years. I know a lot of people don’t like it but we have to support the movement while putting out that it needs to be more well thought out. I personally think that the primaris marines had a good valid point to be in the plot. Why wouldn’t this new fight that’s being taken to the galaxy need a finer, tuned soldier. We know that the emperor didn’t make the best space marines he made the ones that were capable of being mass produced during the great crusade. Now we have these hyper specific space marines that we can argue about all of the things that should’ve done to flush out how they were created but 10,000 years to create a slightly better version of the space marine. Yeah I think that’s totally within reason considering the emperor of mankind wasn’t doing it. I am hoping, really hoping in the future that meaningful impactful stories can be written about the different traders furthering the initiative of not just chaos but themselves. Trying to achieve leverage and different things to get back at the more objective driven points that have been given to us about the traders to begin with. We saw the traders fall and turn to chaos. We can call that act two with act one being, the great crusade. We saw an act three the emperor defeat chaos not in definitely but put them into a future not set in stone pathway. Then we saw in act 4, RG makes a comeback and the galaxy terrace allowing this plan to get a little closer to coming to fruition. I would say that that’s where we’re at but I’m hoping it gets better moving forward

[@adrienwatson2179]

ADB and Dan abnett have been absolutely killing it lately Especially the End and the Death...man that had me on the edge of my seat

[@Exalt92]

As a biologist I can at least confirm that 10.000 years for the Astartes upgrade is totally legit at the pace we are moving right now (:

[@Overanalyse_This]

For some reason I truly believed that Morty came from Chemos. Probably due to how literal GW are with thing (the name Games Workshop for one).

[@darko-man8549]

Honestly, I think Mortarion is on par with Russ for the most hypocritical d-bag of the primarchs. But still love the video

[@trichroma1820]

Name all of the Magic: The Gathering artwork used in this video !

[@Dafurias]

Brilliant video, loved it, keep them coming😁

[@notjasonbrynn]

Is mortarion a perpetual?

[@7F0X7]

A pathetic cowardly hypocrite. Excellently written in a way that makes me love to hate him. This is one reason I love 40k so much. Even characters I reject are written so viscerally with care and nuanced development that I can appreciate just how much I despise them. There's few factions I'm utterly indifferent towards, that's just how good the world building is!

[@saifakib8346]

Based and glue pilled.

[@SharkNamedGoose]

No cost too great.

[@toomaskotkas4467]

Wait, what? Mortarion got his head cut off during the siege of Terra? What a looser...

[@mikepetersen2737]

That's so cute. It doesen't matter what "gifts" or "blessings" geandfather Nurgle gives Mortarion. He's still gonna get his ass whupped in a verbal duel with the Khan. He's still just a dumb kid who uses a magnifying glass on ants not some tragic antihero.

[@daviewizzle]

Love these, but it’s. So sad that the greatest of humanity were sometimes the weakest.

[@mistyyautja]

Maybe he just needed a tan and some vitamins

[@123mason]

pure🔥

[@Overanalyse_This]

Morty! Ha!

[@LxR7601]

S M E L L Y B O I

[@crismamuerta]

Mortarion is my favorite loser 😢

[@warhawk4494]

Sweet