"THE PASSION PART TWO : BLESSED ARE THE MARTYRS" - WARHAMMER 40K AUDIO - THE WORD BEARERS

[@NateTheNarrator]

5:11 - Damn, imagine having the very warp itself telling you that you get no bitches. Brutal

[@JudicialBrat]

lmao

[@jeremytitus9519]

Gonna die maidenless, adrift in the howling hell-sea

[@richardpoad-baker5554]

Being rejected by Slanesh because you’re too vanilla 😂😂

[@alvinlin8140]

I mean he was a priest so shouldn’t he be a virgin?

[@negadoge]

So I did understand that properly... I was hoping that I misheard it. With the emperors blessings, there will be more of this wayward astartes as he remains loyal whilst speaking so heavily.

[@kakukoya]

if only there can be part 3, maybe the Word Bearer finally finds his martyrdom.

[@HellFox83]

I wasn't disappointed. Truly the Word Bearer was true to his word, but like the universe it is it was not to "save" the priest. But in a twisted way, the wayward Astartes did help the man to find his courage. It was something, even if it was not in the way some who deigned to hope wanted. Still, once again the true bearer of the word remains alone in the lion's den, continuing his vigil. A very poetically dark tale Vox and thanks to Stephen Duxbury for writing it! 👍

[@nix-cipher]

Never trust a Word Bearers word

[@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447]

@nix-cipher but the word bearer kept his word. completely.

[@secondarytrollaccount666]

​@@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447 diocles was extremely pleasant to his acolyte aret. He genuinely comforted him against the insanity of the warp. It didn't seem he did any of that to torture people but actually offer them safety until they gained the courage to martyr themselves for the emperor. He let aret live In safety until he gained the courage to try and take his life. He let him take the first blow while he was wounded and the blow aimed for his wound. Yeah he killed him but that's the point of Martyrdom he got to die fighting a heretic astartes for the emperor which I would imagine has some weight to it. The fact that he wasn't mutated to hell and back from what I can tell could prove that he hadnt completely given himself to the ruinous powers meaning he wasnt lying in the first story.

[@MrCorny77]

"Tolerance is the Greatest of Evils" I like that line

[@firstbornIV]

:^)

[@40KBoss]

An excellent representation of the dark nature of the Imperial faith.

[@chaosincarna]

@@40KBoss And life.

[@bradleyunknown319]

​@40kboss56 the dark nature of multiple irl religions. I almost feel like if I introduced a few people i had gone to Christian school with to warhammer they might think more critically about their own beliefs.

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

@@bradleyunknown319 theology was one of my best classes, almost became a priest, the amount of religious motifs in 40k is pretty funny not gonna lie. That being said I doubt it would that ground breaking to any well educated Christian out there.

[@thedemonhater7748]

Listening Aret talk about his weakness for tolerating the evils around him must have struck a heavy chord with Diocles. Both he and Aret are surrounded by evil, and on their own they’re entirely powerless to stop it. Diocles has spent 10000 years tolerating and living with the same evil that Aret has been surrounded by, and has likely felt the same feelings of weakness and guilt that the acolyte has. It must be so, so much worse for him, having personally betrayed the emperor millennia ago.

[@imtoogoodatpvp1252]

He did more than save his life, but saved his soul, truly worthy of the Emperor’s legacy. May this wayward son find the path to redemption, Ave Imperator.

[@synner707]

These videos blow my mind. This story deserves to be Canon. A word bearer potentially recovering his faith ? Having a dark twisted redemption for acolytes ? Using the torment of the warp in a chaos marines ship to lead people to holy redemption? This channel deserves far more views and subscribers. Sorry Henry Cavil but I want this channel to write any Warhammer irl adaptations!

[@AVoxintheVoid]

This is a wonderful message of support my friend. Really gives me the drive to keep going when I read comments like these. Vox

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

Grimdark doesn't need to be huge battles, planets exploding and scores of people dying. Grimdark can be one man doubting his faith. Exceptionally well done, Vox. I didn't notice the distance I traveled while listening to this. Beautifully made. The writer also deserved credit where credit is due. Stellar build up and climax!

[@Sevenlynnn]

These stories of loyalist "traitor" marines have been such a fantastic addition to the vast lore of this setting. It single handedly opens the door to such a tremendous amount of depth from what was previously seen as "just more chaos factions". Truly wonderful work done in demonstrating that every coin has two sides and every shadow exists because a light has cast it.

[@brettbourgeois5379]

I remember reading a short story about an inquisitor torturing a Chaos Space marine for information. The inquisitor mentions to himself that once a person has been corrupted by Chaos, it is impossible to bring them back into the light of the Emperor. However, the Word Bearer in this story had never been corrupted in the first place, so this story CAN go along with cannon. Vox puts out the best 40k narrative content by far.

[@nix-cipher]

Vox's channel produces content that makes black library green with envy.

[@aceriverpirate9795]

*Ave Imperator Sanctae.* We must believe in redemption, brother.

[@kwazooplayingguardsman5615]

for without that belief, one is truly lost :(

[@TMEAN037]

Part 1 was one of the first Vox-casts I had the pleasure of listening too. Certainly part 2 will continue this twisted story of faith and damnation, and leave us begging for more!

[@Nomadith]

In the end he was true to his word, in a sad, twisted way. Even if this was always how it was going to end. Fantastic work

[@BobblinTheGoblin]

the plan for sundays has been killer its something to look forward to on a lazy day

[@AVoxintheVoid]

I think that's when I'll be mainly uploading from now on!

[@HuevoBendito]

Man, I wanna keep learning about Diocles. I love the heretic loyalist stories you've uploaded. Hope to get more like them!

[@MrCitizen0]

Gonna start working out so I don't smash something when my adrenalin gets going . Let's gooooooooooooooooooo

[@Meczyk]

He saved his soul. Ave Imperator

[@alexanderg.s2652]

This made me feel a great deal of sympathy for both marine and acolyte. The amount of care and love you put into these is incredible. You’ve made me feel so much for World Eaters and Word Bearers, at this point it would not chock me to witness you create a heartfelt story about Iron Warriors.

[@kilometersmetzker4516]

Damn man this one made me emptional. We must believe in redemption, brothers. We must.

[@TVdinnermasterchef]

The writing is brilliant; I felt I was right there watching from the shadows, understanding the torment of both characters, a powerless observer watching both the end and deliverance of one, and the lonely continuance of the other's torture. The voiceover conveyed a flicker of warmth and acceptance in the cold, apathetic tones of Diocles. Glad I found this channel, keep up the stellar work.

[@nassahexxofficial]

Another tale brought to life. It's nice to see that he kept his word. I'd like to think the acolyte did indeed find the emperor that night. Another martyr the Imperium will never know about. And what of our Word Bearer friend here... how will he take this? Will he him self ever turn on the evil around him and martyr himself against the tainted traitors he has allowed himself to accompany? All things I will think about for the next few days. Thank you so much for another great tale vox

[@alesterphoenix]

Love these two characters so much. Thanks you guys for bringing them to life.

[@MrCitizen0]

Oh man can't wait the highlight of my day

[@willogsdon7092]

Oooh nice still have time to give the first one a relisten!

[@corvusscottwilliams4751]

Excellent, thanks. For saying about. I can't remember now like that myself but couldn't focus either. Doing it when if the time could be anywhere. Well pushing up like it you know all grey, to stand on feet and no pain or sore in the bottom inside mouth. Be like,, making good time please. Having to get there.

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

My walkies tomorrow just got a lot more epic!

[@AVoxintheVoid]

I hope you enjoy it boss man! You feeling better?

[@ChaoticVoicesofAndreas]

@@AVoxintheVoid Better every day, thankfully. Cheers for asking!

[@crimsonlion5356]

Swerved me I’ll admit, was expecting Diocles to be liar who gets the acolyte’s hopes up only to dash them at the zenith. But no, he really is a light in the darkness even if it’s only to bring some measure of comfort to those who have no other chance. Hopefully he finds his martyrdom at the end of his journey.

[@samuellabarre7924]

Those two videos made me appreciate word bearers so much more, the complexity of their faith is genuinely so interesting. Incredibly well written and amazingly voiced!

[@fahadhossain5705]

Loved part one.

[@samuellabarre7924]

The passion was already one of my favorite video so I couldn't wait for this one

[@brooklynkeith2877]

Part 1 was dope 👌

[@alastor8091]

5:13 HUH!?! I wasn't ready for that one. Total flash bang.

[@robbabcock_]

Thanks for a wonderful performance!

[@AVoxintheVoid]

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@grimmity9240]

Fantastic stuff. Those word bearers mess with your mind! Love it. 👍🏻✌️💨

[@greatamazinga]

Bravo my friend! Spectacular!!

[@connorriggs1518]

How did I miss this story I thought I had notifications turned on

[@elethilluvitar3818]

Incredible work vox. I discovered your channel a week or so ago and Ive pretty much gone through every single one of your videos.

[@cepboom1892]

You killed bob

[@sergiocrowe9848]

Great work, especially loved the section featuring the torments of the warp - really brought the warp to life for me.

[@davebowman9000]

Another masterpiece of both writing and voice-acting. Love the deep conversation they had. Hope there's more like that soon in other stories!

[@wilsun3638]

2 parts to a beautiful story. Evil is but an opportunity for faith, I hope this line stays with me next time I think about eating that extra donut. For real though, I love that line.

[@kayvaanmcsharrowkyn6901]

My brother, you of all people know that I Shadow captain of the Ravens as I am, cannot abide stand or even think of the word bearers in any way shape or form without literally wanting to unload at least 40 clips of bolts into some Heretics! HOWEVER......THIS SERIES HAS BEEN SOO WELL DONE AND HAS ACTUALLY GRIPPED MY INTEREST AND SPARKED MY GREY CELLS WITH INTRIGUE! As always my friend you've done a hell of a job and I applaud you and I applaud the author! Good job all around! HUZZAHS x ♾️!!! BEARING PRIOR STATEMENTS IN MIND..I WOULD BE REMISS IN MY STATUS AS A SHADOW CAPTAIN OF THE RAVEN GUARD IF I DID NOT MAKE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT... "FUCK EREBUS" !!!!!! I MAKE NO APOLOGIES NOR DO I DISHONOR MY LEGION XIX, OUR SUCCESSOR CHAPTERS, NOR OUR PRIMARCH AND GENE FATHER , CORVUS CORAX... FOR IN HIS OWN HIGHLY ESTEEMED WORDS... "YES MY SONS...FUCK LORGAR.. FOR MY BROTHER IS A WHINY LITTLE BITCH BOY ....AND AS FOR EREBUS....FUCK EREBUS INDEED!! THAT MAN IS A PEDO AND IS ON ALL THE IMPERIUMS WATCH LISTS!!! SO YES...TRULY.. FUCK EREBUS"... "VICTORUS AUT MORTIS "

[@MrCitizen0]

Fav fav damn channel.

[@asfhsalekhgjerbned]

Incredible as always. A blessed day indeed.

[@AVoxintheVoid]

Thankyou my friend! 💪💪

[@bencarlos2555]

Helps me face the madness of the warp, Thank you!

[@sneedfest3399]

Was enthralled the whole duration

[@AVoxintheVoid]

Thankyou my friend 🙏

[@CBRN-115]

The amazing voice acting is just one of a kind.

[@davebowman9000]

Hope there's a part three sometime soon, but do understand if this is the end.

[@elliottosterholm2672]

Amazing to listen to this. Its so vivid in writing. The sound effects descriptions and the dark choir setting the dark intense church tone to it all. Thank you for the work you do!

[@AVoxintheVoid]

Many thanks Elliott!

[@Redsebt]

Bittersweet, Diocles kept his word in a sense

[@Bikeadelic]

So the word bearer was a legit loyalist? That's cool I expected a dumb twist that made him secretly evil as always

[@krissteel4074]

Throw this bloke some likes people, he does good work

[@KingManga360]

I couldn't help but feel bad for the word Bearer

[@AVoxintheVoid]

That's a true sign that Stephen is a fantastic author!

[@lastmanstanding5423]

uuuh.... can't wait to find out what happens with that priest from part 1 How will Diocles trick him? What is his real motivation? Where is the twist?

[@morgs456]

Legend Awesome Love it

[@callusmaximums]

I catch myself almost every day checking for a new episode, Nothing else to say but great work and keep it up💪🏻

[@shocktrooper9163]

Praise be to martyr Arat, for finally shanking the traitor marine.....with the holy cheese knife

[@AVoxintheVoid]

Or at least trying

[@SillySpudyRocking]

Please sir can we have some more?

[@LU-nc6oy]

42k SUBS WAY TO GO VOX !! I REMEMBER THIS CHANNEL WITH LESS THEN A LEGION OF US !!! !!!!! A VOX IN THE VOID !!!!!

[@AVoxintheVoid]

And I remember you being there my friend! !!!!!!! L U !!!!!!!

[@LU-nc6oy]

@@AVoxintheVoid congratulations VOX !! You deserve it !!

[@xvbd6067]

Damn this channel is good, please don't let GW buy you out. They need to give you at least a milion dollars fot this channel

[@ElPorpoise]

Fantastic work as always!

[@michaeletheredge7920]

I loved this one.

[@funbro99]

Ngl bit of a anticlimax to already see it go so fast. Atleast it was with a smile.

[@AVoxintheVoid]

It's ok to have this opinion. I really liked the direction this took. It was another great character study piece by Stephen in my books. Thankyou for listening though

[@funbro99]

@@AVoxintheVoid its a good vid, 9/10 imo

[@negadoge]

By the emperors blessings, there will be more of this wayward astartes as he carries the Emperors true word.

[@MandoMTL]

Redemption was had.

[@hoplite-1986]

Oh I love those stories so much

[@sendapez]

Damn I was hoping these two would work together to sabotage that ship.

[@dein45d]

I loved this video. And now have so many questions lol

[@patchpatch4008]

It is better to die a mayter in vein than live an eternity of regret...

[@stewartthorpe2533]

Ah. Faith. Nothing can be so pure. And so twisted. As faith.

[@luxordeathbed]

Eh, umm, eh, hmmm... Going to have to think on this one.

[@pipes9878]

flippin epic

[@Scaramangger]

Nicely done sir!

[@maironaulendil4189]

The Emperor Protects

[@AVoxintheVoid]

Thankyou for your support my friend! vox

[@fahadhossain5705]

Incredible

[@chuck2703]

Wow. Just wow.

[@lordpandesan7416]

Good gods this is some good shit.

[@landryponder9597]

Hahahahai just watched the first one again yesterday

[@buck3336]

😭 Part 2 💯

[@awashmanager853tag2]

The Emperor protects

[@IHaveAName1824]

dang i bet you could do a really good prophet of truth

[@hieroglyphics1758]

The Word Bearer himself is a coward and he might be living vicariously through the people he makes into martyrs because he is too afraid to martyr himself against the other traitor astartes. That or this is some wierd psychological self harm feeling bad for himself. He's done this over and over for some reason.

[@luxordeathbed]

Come to think of it we might be seeing more martyrs made from this Word Bearer. Might be a series of him molding cowards and saving their souls to the Emporer's light...hmm...

[@algirdas25pl31]

@@luxordeathbed or preparing tasty souls for deamons to eat

[@andreasmuller4666]

They could have been among the greatest of the Astartes if it wasn´t for Big E not caring enough to accomodate each and every one of his "sons" properly.

[@Ransetsu]

Why did you say Emperor of "humankind" instead of "Mankind"?

[@GrifterX]

Can someone explain to me why he decided to try to kill diocles?

[@jonajo261]

Stop edging me let'sss go

[@nickwilke5717]

I thought all word bearers were all lost to the warp

[@mrbrianbrush]

Wberes part 1

[@AVoxintheVoid]

It's there mate, look through my videos. The passion

[@maximus8671]

So good!

[@AVoxintheVoid]

Thankyou Maximus!

[@RebeccaKindy]

STOP MAKING ME WEEP AT WORK ABOUT TRAITORS WANTING REDEMPTION shout out to "traitor astartes finding redemption" has got to be my favorite gender This makes me confident in some of my Traitor Astartes who have inklings of wanting to go back... my night lord being so /tired/ of the depravity... so tired of living so long and remembering the brief moments of feeling good... feeling like he wasn't a monster when the people of the Imperium saw him as a being of salvation. He's so tired of being a coward.

[@elindvanelian]

Well. Diocles' revenge against his god is really impressive and very clever... in every possible way. Sometimes I wish to know his very own perspective, just to make sure if he's batshit crazy or is really trying to shape and manipulate with Emperor's warp identity. * So, you don't believe in redemption arc? - Not in Word Bearers' ones. Not if they just have their pet projects. You are not penitent, you are someone who wish to shape and cultivate Emperor's character and identity through warp just for "Lorgar was right all the time!" * And was he not right all the time? - Actually no. Actually yes. Actually... it's complicated. * Really? (Never start argument with Word Bearer. You can't win. They have their truth and don't stop until you agree with them.)

[@Devonator2315]

What an anti climax

[@AVoxintheVoid]

Each to their own my friend! Thankyou for listening

[@nachtmacher6237]

😊

[@kocoffgames4144]

Noooooo what the hell. This is so messed up. Of course it had to end that way it's 40k. Man the warp is just such a horrible place to be at. Excelletn story. Ans thank you.

[@bmorebread8993]

U should put pictures in your videos

[@AVoxintheVoid]

It's something I've thought about but that's a lot tougher than it sounds to find suitable, relevant images for stories that aren't official etc

[@bmorebread8993]

@@AVoxintheVoid I understand

[@boaz2578]

Is this fan made?

[@AVoxintheVoid]

Yes mate, fan written and narrated by myself 🙂

[@boaz2578]

@@AVoxintheVoid Awesome

[@luxordeathbed]

Ok, after digesting this one and listening to it again, didn't like it... I think I ruined it for myself expecting something else instead of the acolyte's martyrdom. I suppose there might be more to this story arc IFF we see part 3. Although that line about hoping for redemption that there more to this short story line...

[@nelsondisalvatore9812]

I'll be honest the ending fell a bit flat.