Why Do the Iron Hands Embrace the Machine Over Flesh? l Warhammer 40k Lore

[@Duppyman695]

Ferrus Manus "The Flesh is weak" Vulkan "But Deeds Endure"

[@KingLich451]

also Vulkan: shot ur dum gosface, you are not firend

[@bw5020]

🙌🏾 Yesss

[@kaidorade1317]

Because the flesh is weak. Only in the strength and certainty of steel can we draw closer to the Machine God

[@donshipman8441]

Beat me to it!!!!

[@SaraSara-oe6il]

Blood always rusts iron.

[@Fetecheney]

Remember battle brother, the rest of the call. "The flesh is weak, but deeds INDURE!!" For the Emperor!

[@SirWalrus80]

Flash or steel… no matter. They all have nice skulls for the throne! Our Khorne wont discriminate. All skulls are welcome👊🏼

[@derknusperhase_ivi]

@@SirWalrus80 our khorne? u like abusive realtionships. are you the women there i guess^^

[@Peep215]

36:30 Dark Eldar experienced "Fuck around and find out"

[@vincentthekeeper2163]

Thanks just found this. Hands down, my absolute favorite chapter. Alot more interesting and deeper chapter than many much more popular chapters. Oddly misunderstood to the point that I'm unsure about people's comprehension.

[@mog-myownbestfriend]

This must be the first time I've heard a Warhammer channel answer the posed question immediately *before* getting into the exhaustive minutia

[@LucilleBrooks-p4c]

That f 3:35 ace on the other side made of flesh is beautiful. The other half of his cyborg face is symbolic of his inner strength and total commitment to the warhammer world. It is a spiritual sacrifice that only a few will make. He leaves behind his human nurtured soul to make way for a fearless exsistence. He is a braveheart as well

[@TheRealBelisariusCawl]

From the moment they understood the weakness of their flesh, it disgusted them. They craved the strength and certainty of steel. They aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg their kind to save you. But they are already saved, for the Machine is immortal… Even in death the Iron Hands serve the Emperor

[@codysing1223]

Ferrus Manus was capable of minor time manipulation with the iron hands he has, caught a Las beam in his hand and crushed it (Kylo Ren style)

[@kbo8029]

I have to say iron hands are one of my least favorite chapters. They're one of the only chapters I root against in anything.

[@TheSchematican]

Ferrus Manus literally translates to Iron Man haha, love it Ferrous meaning "of consisting of iron" And manus.. well 😂

[@JLM-y5g]

The flesh is weak. You have to wait for biological processes to do their thing; if you go in on machinery and Cybernetics, you don't have to worry about that. You can just replace the part and keep going. You do not *need* the flesh to do great deeds in Warhammer.

[@peterkallend5012]

I really hope the Iron Hands never saw Conan The Barbarian. They wouldn't take the revelation that steel isn't strong, flesh is stronger very well. They clearly never learned the riddle of steel.

[@hingemachine]

That thumbnail is just straight up Tom Brady when he makes his comeback

[@ironwolf2277]

I wish GW would add Iron Hands their own faction units.

[@unwise_TW]

Finally somebody else gets it

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

They used to have Medusan Immortals (basically the most badass breacher squads ever) and Gorgon Terminators.

[@marcushaynes843]

On the thumbnail, that machine looks like the Terminator.

[@thecl0ck30]

Bro what did GW do to the iron hands chapter around the 40 minute mark, they go from this bad iron collective of cold logical steel while then being able to utilise their suppressed rage and hatred in battle, giant roaming barrages of battle trophies for their clans on a gray, dark and ever changing landscape with a steel ring of defence holding back the great rift To all of a sudden “we can’t make up our mind” bickering and infighting in the iron council, the voice of iron does his own thing (when he was literally just a voice of the collective they used when someone wanted to talk to “the man in charge” like smug imperial nobles) to this religious zealots somehow managing to almost cause a civil war, idk man, Son of Medusa ain’t it

[@austintaylor1378]

Because machines are badass there saved you an hour lol Jp amazing Ty

[@Ozmmn]

Thanks for the video

[@Seraphim-h3q]

Do a video on marines malevolent next please.

[@Overanalyse_This]

So do they wear black or that silver/grey/steel of the Iron Warriors?

[@Jimmy-p9n]

Why do everyone have to be the same in a chapter? Why not a mixture of all chapters? Harder to strategise when each member has different strengths

[@SeaBass215AM]

A day will come when I will strip it from me, lest I lose the power to master myself forever. Already my Legion's warriors replace their shield hands with metal in my honour, and so they too are learning to doubt the natural strength of their bodies. They must be weaned off this practice before it becomes a mania for them. Hatred of what is natural, of what is human, is the first and greatest of the corruptions. So I record it here: when the time comes, I will strip my hands of their unnatural silver. I will instruct my Legion to recant their distrust of the flesh. I will turn them away from the gifts of the machine and bid them relearn the mysteries of flesh, bone and blood. When my father's Crusade is over, this shall be my sacred task. When the fighting is done, I shall cure my Legion and myself.

[@TheSpicyLeg]

Because they - and Ferrus Manus - did not understand the meaning behind, “The flesh is weak”. Vulkan schooled his brother on the topic.

[@user-yf4gx4rf8h]

Can I get an explanation? What did Vulcan say ?

[@TheSpicyLeg]

@@user-yf4gx4rf8h Sure. Here’s the excerpt from Deeds Endure. “You will fail. Your sentimentality will be your undoing. The flesh is weak." "I have heard you say that phrase on several occasions since our first encounter. I am not sure that you really understand what it means." "You may have spoken with the Gorgon but do not think to school me in the teachings [of] my own primarch!" "Perhaps I must if the lesson was not learned properly," Ari'i snapped back. "What you say, the flesh is weak, is only part of the saying. In forgetting the end you have lost the meaning. Vulkan said it in praise of Ferrus Manus, after the One Hundred and Eighty-Fourth Expedition when our Legions jointly liberated the ork-dominated worlds of the Shoxua Cluster. The fighting had been fiercer than anything we had expected. Your primarch said in jest that his arm was tired from killing so many orks, and Vulkan retorted with "the flesh is weak, but deeds endure". It was a celebration of what they had achieved, and a remark that even primarchs can die but what they do will last beyond their lifespan. It was a message of humility, not condemnation. Flesh is weak because it knows it must come to an end, and so we must rise [above] the concerns of flesh and leave a legacy that others will be proud to inherit. Ferrus Manus understood that. He was a harsh master, an unforgiving ally, but he was also a maker of things - a builder, not a destroyer.” Vulkan points out that the way to master weak flesh is not to replace it with iron, but to carry oneself in a manor that sees our deeds live on long past our lifespans.

[@VaanJoku]

​@@user-yf4gx4rf8h"but deeds endure"

[@elitreat6759]

“The flesh is weak, but deeds endure”

[@plastikloser]

I wonder wh8ch is worse. Iron hands or minotaurs? I'm the militarum is screwed either way really, but who's worse

[@Cthulhuwarlord]

Minotaurs straight up murdered Astartes that were loyalist but surrendered to the Minotaurs during a dispute

[@ChristopherDwiggins]

Say high to our war vets in like 20 years😂 They about tired of the shit😂

[@LucilleBrooks-p4c]

Goodbye my brothers.

[@GenuinelyHorriblePerson]

You okay?

[@VaanJoku]

he dead?

[@williamcroniken151]

PRAISE BE THE OMNISSIAH

[@Eleonora_16p]

💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@mykelengieza7057]

ALGORITHM

[@Cthulhuwarlord]

Comment to please the algorithm machine spirit

[@VaanJoku]

arsestain!!

[@ksisniper1601]

first for shaggy

[@LibreGlider]

Sounds like it sucks to be an Iron Hand...

[@codysing1223]

Not for the faint of heart, Grim-dark grief and sorrow prevalent throughout. An allegory for one's loss of humanity through technology.

[@TOUGHEYES]

But at the same time, it sounds like they have the best tanks.

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

@@TOUGHEYESoh they’ve got far more than just the best tanks. Look up Gorgon Terminator armor. You’ll love it.

[@nb7015]

1 minute gang

[@mfreed40k]

Tighten up your scripts. You keep using squad for company. Also work on the pronunciation.