Heroes in History: Varangian Guard

[@HavokYT]

Raven with the meme edits 😂😂 brilliant

[@oofieodyssey4349]

Pretty cut and dry where this character's inspiration comes from.

[@HavokYT]

2:53 "Can you hear it" Yes, we can definitely hear it 😅😅😂

[@mungus9427]

"HEUGH-AAHHHHHH"

[@Christopherson2006]

​@@mungus9427"YEEEEÉÉÆÆÆÅÁHH"

[@robzilla8084]

These are the voices that drove shaman insane

[@CallanElliott]

​@@robzilla8084That and female Tiandi.

[@HavokYT]

Been waiting for this one 🔥🔥

[@scrimpsy]

Shout this guy out PLEASE - HE DESERVES IT

[@aaronrowell6943]

I'm just glad he mentioned that trying to fight with a shield and ax would be hard lol This is also likely the closest we will get for Normans.

[@RavenKnightYT]

I mentioned how the Black Priors are Normans

[@marsaeternum1003]

Normans were the enemies of the Varangian guard.

[@VibeDPyro]

@@marsaeternum1003 Varangian Guards will become the Black Priors of the Chimera

[@xenowolf3090]

The rage quit at the end *chef kiss* 👌

[@Wanderer-nw2so]

That hito at the end was the textbook example of Dying is cringe, I'm out meme

[@bait644]

I'm never bored with your history lessons. Matter of fact their fucking fabulous. Shortened to simplicity but complex enough to give a far more open view of the subject that most schools can't/won't teach when it comes to history. Every single Hero's in History video has prompted me to look closer at a lot of not just the inspired warriors but the cultures and histories attached to them more in depth like. You're absolutely fantastic as a teacher, which given your past job as one gives prudence, but you're not a run of the mill kind. You have a flair and talent for making this stuff sound alive. Delete the hater comments and keep on going Raven. My best wishes and prayers are with you. ⚔❤

[@TechGurl12]

As always, love your videos and your historical take is amazing. The new hero is just awesome

[@giggityskull8986]

Love you so much Raven!!! Id love a video of the historical analysis of the mythic and illustrious effects in For Honor!! Hopefully the community does too

[@geoshark12]

Something people tend to forget is its a game with its own story and its own lore , and while i feel they try to show respect for the people and cultures they are portraying , they have the right to deviate for gameplay and lore reasons ( i e making them female ) a mechanical example is the huge swings and telegraphs of most heroes, in real life those would be seen as horrible form. One thing that i did find interesting is the guard runs out of stamina fast if you keep swinging , while probably more of a balance thing it also lines up with the idea of “ getting tired due to the weight of there armor”

[@cavaleirosemnome8882]

Nice vídeo! Full on historical info!

[@ragnarphillips1957]

I've been waiting for this video to come out finally

[@Wolven1651]

The editing at the end 😂 *chef kiss*

[@agentedofbiquestionavel]

I think they should try to release one non-gender-locked character and one gender-locked character per year, maybe that way it'll be easier to suppress player complaints now, who will or won't be gender-locked is another story

[@firehazardfox159]

Or at least give good reason why they are gender locked, I can understand with peacekeeper and warmonger why they are gender locked but if there reason is that they think it will attract more female games it should be the last thing they should be worried about

[@FranconiaForever]

@@firehazardfox159 Its budget issues

[@chocolatechipbiscuitsauce6646]

​@@firehazardfox159warmonger being gender locked doesnt make sense cause in the lore they talk about male warmongers

[@magmamymanz128]

Love your videos man! I've been watching for a little while, I listen to you while I'm at school, you help me get through the day without stressing out and I thank you for it

[@lefteron6804]

Now I wish they'd give the centurion a Byzantium outfit.

[@ronnieman87]

Today in Greece the Varangian legacy lives on through the family name Varangopoulos or "son of the Varangian".

[@dontbothertoreply9755]

0:01 simply for the love of battle.

[@lonelyboy2738]

gender locking the varangian guard was a weird choice. i understand that the reason they did was because they wanted you to imagine you were playing the specific character of Katla but at the same time she brought a bunch of members of the guard with her so you could easily make the varagian guard non-gender locked so that you could imagine you're playing as one of the members of the guard that came with Katla instead of Katla herself.

[@Phoenix6942-7]

They genderlocked her because otherwise, they'd have to pay two VA's and the character before her was locked to male.

[@nomercymanagement2316]

@@Phoenix6942-7should of made her male then, nobody asked for a female Varangian guard

[@X_Spence]

Exactly, no female was ever a Varangian guard in real life anyways​@@nomercymanagement2316

[@FranconiaForever]

@@nomercymanagement2316 Lastr hero was male, so this one is female. That´s been the pattern for a few years now.

[@FranconiaForever]

@@nomercymanagement2316 *should have

[@the_cowpoke]

As it turns out, Raven is VITANEON's accomplice.

[@dragonvonwolf5978]

Very good vid like usual.

[@ShotofDespresso]

Great video! Speaking of historical accuracy, though, what do you believe to be the most historically accurate armor set/mixed set + color swatch combination for the Varangian? (If you've managed to grind up enough levels to get all the armor sets)

[@pike7090]

Considering the colors of many rich Byzantine clothing examples that exist, you’d probably see a lot of reds, greens, and blues, heavily patterned silks and linens, maybe

[@CaptainCoin858]

Very interesting and great video raven

[@Skyzaros]

That hito at the end 💀

[@mak2-j6d]

YES

[@xr9790]

That’s 2 Greek EXPLICIT Greek References in for honor, please Ubisoft just put a hoplite or something out 🙏 next outlander has to be a Greek hero

[@Mallcop-t6p]

Or a Valkyrie skin

[@giggityskull8986]

FINALLY!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@peryshko1273]

The montage omg 😂

[@damianbeard2505]

the description for why they fight sounds equal to horkos

[@jaksautsendari]

I love this serie, great work! 💪

[@gunnarhassing5875]

We need more heroes with realistic looks like this. Honestly it’s time for for honor 2 to exist. Revamped gameplay, more realistic looks, and maybe a more coherent story.

[@Hiro_Otie]

I want to see raven redo gryphon's video to see if there may have been a different inspiration for him. I'm not big on history so I cant give suggestions but it would be fun to see

[@sharkchaos5160]

Great video Raven.

[@wash016]

Is female Varangian accurate? No. Do I find the idea of a badass, viking, warrior woman keeping me safe and brutalizing my enemies with a Dane axe extremely attractive? Yes!

[@FranconiaForever]

Aren´t Dane Axes the ones Raider uses?

[@wash016]

@FranconiaForever Yes. It was a fairly common weapon the Norsemen would use. Varangians were said to carry many weapons, including a Dane axe, a sword, and a spear.

[@strangemitten655]

less go

[@JTliveon]

Hey Raven don’t know if you’ll see this but I like this style of gaming from you (the end of the vid). Perhaps you could make this style of video as another form of content perhaps?

[@Vulpecula-Enfield]

What version of My Mother Told Me is this song? I''ve trying to find it.

[@O_Naitis]

Ok fine…I’ll play For Honor again

[@robzilla8084]

Will you be re examining griffin?

[@Snapshot_the_Mad_Hatter]

You said Sviatoslav wrong

[@RavenKnightYT]

@@Snapshot_the_Mad_Hatter Okay.

[@Snapshot_the_Mad_Hatter]

@@RavenKnightYT Nothing wrong with that

[@Snapshot_the_Mad_Hatter]

@@RavenKnightYT sorry if it sounded like an insult

[@gabrielgorilla9604]

It would have been great if this character was not gender locked. Also, had a superior deflect to add to their defensive counter meta. But, with Ubisoft you get what you get. Love the video my dude!!! 👏👏👏

[@HelghastTrooper]

_Karl carved these runes_

[@FlayedCrusader]

While the devs stated that Varangian speak Norse and Greek, the hero has atleast two lines in generic slavic languange! One is "Wracaj ty" (wich translates to "get back here") Varang shouts when they do a headbutt after unblockable lands. There was also one during staredown with enemy and after a dodge, but couldnt hear them well.

[@justcast1429]

This just makes the gender lock even more confusing and cheap

[@ulfberht4431]

It’s all to do with Ubisoft wanting to keep “consistency” with releasing heroes. I find it bs since they’ve been very inconsistent in other years. In year 3 all but 1 hero were heavies. Then they release 2 knight heroes in year 4, only 1 samurai in year 5 and then all of a sudden start releasing a new faction for the next 2 years. Not very consistent.

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

Not sure how it's cheap.

[@dragonbornexpress5650]

@@ulfberht4431 If you have a problem, take it up with them.

[@ulfberht4431]

@@dragonbornexpress5650 I agree. What does make it cheap? But I highly doubt @justcast1429 is gonna answer so… the world may never know.

[@justcast1429]

@@dragonbornexpress5650 Ubisoft can’t do 2 genders cause reasons

[@gunnarhassing5875]

People complaining about women being in these games haven’t seen female martial artists. Back in my karate days there was this woman. She was maybe 5 foot 4 and hit harder than the 6 foot 5 dude I usually got paired with. It’s all in the training. What’s in your pants doesn’t matter so long as it’s protected rofl.

[@dontbothertoreply9755]

False, any woman I have faced is weaker than me, of course you have seen what happens when men fight women, stamina, intelligence, length, upper body strength, spacial awareness, adrenaline production, stress management etc, women should not fight against men they will be just free ammo and war brides for the enemy.

[@thewhitewolf7909]

There is no reason they can't go back to change some heros. They do it all the time with their moveset and the assassin guards. They can go back and change astetics like the gender lock. They would just need a lot of time.

[@geoshark12]

Something people tend to forget is its a game with its own story and its own lore , and while i feel they try to show respect for the people and cultures they are portraying , they have the right to deviate for gameplay and lore reasons ( i e making them female ) a mechanical example is the huge swings and telegraphs of most heroes, in real life those would be seen as horrible form. One thing that i did find interesting is the guard runs out of stamina fast if you keep swinging , while probably more of a balance thing it also lines up with the idea of “ getting tired due to the weight of there armor”

[@dontbothertoreply9755]

Yasuke in AC and every Ubiwoke release, no excuse is worthy.