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What else do we got?

We got our book club.

The next episode that comes out will probably be our book club discussion on Fulgrim Horus Heresy Book club.

That is Horace Heresy book number five.

You don't need to read one through four to understand what's realistically going on in Fulgrim.

We've already announced what our next book club is though.

Angel Exterminatus.

Another Horus Heresy book.

I don't actually know what number it is, but you can listen to it or read it and eventually we'll do a book club on it.

That's all the sort of show notes.

Probably wondering if you didn't read the title.

What are.

Well, not what are we.

What am I going to be talking about today?

Whenever you know, Johnny has not been available in the past.

My usual co host here on the TTP field manual.

I just pulled out an episode that we've held in reserve.

Actually, no, that's only happened once.

This will be twice.

The only other time that's has happened where he's been unable to make our recording.

I put out Lord Invocatus, a episode of Lore around just a singular character that was left over from our scripts and recording sessions last year when we're doing an end of year Advent calendar of sorts.

Today I'm going to be talking about another character that I had written a script for that was never recorded.

What that means is this episode is probably going to be a little bit shorter.

Those advent Episodes were short to begin with, and now when it's just me talking to you, without Johnny to weigh in on some commentary, probably won't be too long of an episode.

But who am I talking about?

I'm going to be talking about Gabriel Seth.

Gabriel Seth is the chapter master of my favorite of the Space Marine chapters, the Flesh Terrors.

The Flesh Terrors are successor chapter of the Blood Angels and they are possibly my favorite.

I'm going to just say they're my favorite because I already said that.

I'm just going to keep that claim going.

So who are the Flesh Terrors?

Friends?

The Flesh Terrors are one of the most, if not the most infamous of the loyalist Space Marine chapters.

They have existed all the way from the second founding.

Which if you're not too sure what that means, that is just shortly after the Horus Heresy, when all the loyalist legions gather themselves and they sort of think, hmm, Horus Heresy, real bad.

How can we avoid this?

Let's split everybody up.

And the Flesh Tearers were one of the first to be shoon off of the normal Blood Angels legion.

Since then they have garnered an incredibly violent range reputation.

They were founded in reverence to Nasir Ammit, the Blood Angel's fifth captain throughout the Horus Heresy, who had the nickname of the Flesh Terror.

Nasir Amit was a viciously violent, anger driven Astartes with almost no fuse to his temper.

When the Blood Angels Legion were instructed to split up, he basically swore off Guilliman, Ultramarines primarch who set about the whole splitting of the legions.

He swore him off for doing exactly that, and then led his newly formed chapter on a crusade to hunt down the traitors.

Doing so for hundreds of years and suffering many casualties along the way before settling the death world of Cretacea.

Cretacea would be kind of like a primal tribute to the chapter.

Cretacea is a planet filled with natural predators, some even rivaling the Imperial Titans in their size.

These predators would be hunted of course, for security, because they pose quite the risk.

But there's also a bit of fun to be had in hunting something huge, isn't there?

The Flesh Terrors would discover humans with an almost prehistoric nature to them.

Upon the planet, a race of humankind determined, pure and with minimal mutation, but relatively no linguistic intelligence.

Through space marine indoctrination, you could essentially teach these people.

Despite the lack of language, the savages of Cretacea would become then the chapter's recruits.

You know, pretty athletic, pretty resilient people surviving on this world of dinosaurs.

And whatnot.

I have a quote here from Nasir Amit.

We named it Cretacea, from the ancient baal.

Sanskrit, meaning birth of wrath.

Like us, Cretacea was a consummate killer.

Violence lived in its very air.

Its winds were the lash of a terrible beast striking out to flay us from the skies.

Its clouds void dark phantoms whose acid tears stripped the crimson from our warplate.

Death met us at every turn, tested our resolve and measured our strength.

We were as the angels from old Terran legend, trapped in hell itself.

Yet for all of our trials, cretaceous wrath was far from spent in Nasir Amit, Chapter Master of the Flesh Terrorist during the declaration of conquest.

Cretacea 238m31.

Now, Nasir Amit wasn't long for this world.

His eventual death was mysterious and without public reason.

But the twilight of his life was filled with such anger and despair, you know, sorrow from the loss of his primarch, Sanguinius, anger at the, you know, breaking apart of the Blood Angels boy band.

Despair for the deaths of his own chapter over the years.

And his chapter was more so likely to fall to the Black Rage than the other chapters of the Blood.

And before settling the planet, he witnessed many of these, you know, brothers of his, his brethren, succumb to the black Rage, wherein you lose all sort of faculty and go into just a mindless, berserk fury until eventually you die in battle or someone puts you down.

I have another quote for you.

Men crave food.

They crave flesh.

They crave power.

We are not men.

The Emperor's angels, his space marines crave honour.

They crave retribution.

They crave justice.

We are not angels.

We are the blood.

Sons of Sanguinius.

We crave only violence, bloodshed.

There is no void deep within our souls, only the hunger.

An insatiable call to slaughter.

From the final dialogues of Nasir Amit.

So that was a bit of an intro, you know, a bit about the Flesh Terrors, a bit about Nasir Amit, the founding, the early days, their homeworld, yadda do.

Now, for the millennia that followed, the Flesh Terrors gained a few fearsome reputation.

Across the battlefields of the Imperium.

They displayed extreme carnage against their foes, plunging themselves without really any sort of strategy into their foe and letting their battles just play out as they will.

Whether they fell in battle or they were victorious, survivors would be observed wielding grisly trophies.

You would have Imperial commanders shunning the chapter for their actions.

And those that had fought with them in the past began to avoid them as allies in following conflicts.

Some chapters of Space Marines even deciding, nuh, not doing it.

I'm not working with the Flesh Terrors.

They are psychos.

Now where does Gabriel Seth fit into all this?

So much of Warhammer 40K happens in, well, the 40K, if you were paying attention.

The founding of all of the Flesh terror stuff was 31,000.

A lot of the gap between the Horus heresy publications and 40k is left relatively unexplored.

It's a bit of a myth, a bit of a mystery of time.

But Gabriel Seth has definitely been the chapter master of note for the Flesh Tearers for their presence within the 41st millennium.

Now, Gabriel Seth was inducted as chapter master almost 200 years before the eventual devastation of Bhaal, which we'll talk about.

And Seth inherited quite the burden.

Now, the chapter was pretty much in ruins.

The reputation we've already touched upon, not good.

The Black rage, very common.

The attrition rates in battle, pretty darn high.

The chapter had quite little life in it.

And even the various sanguinary priests, which are a Blood Angels version of a medic or an apothecarian, basically confirmed this.

They were on their last legs.

But Seth, quite a quite a hot headed, you know, force of will.

This fellow Gabriel Seth aggressively decided, aggressively being the keyword.

He would not let his chapter go quietly, but not at the cost of their honour.

He's very loyal to his chapter, he understands his chapter, but he was going to do all that he could to make sure they would be as okay as they could be.

What this entailed was that he would actually deploy the Flesh Tearers extremely far from other loyalist forces, so that his chapter could go about their own manner of war uncensured.

There would be no other Imperial forces who could observe and therefore criticise the Flesh Terrors because they were yonks away.

But because the Flesh Terrors are pretty bloodthirsty, Seth could not keep them idle for very long.

And so he decided to essentially continue the chapter as a bit of a crusading force from world to world to world.

But he would obviously need more recruits.

So the homeworld of Cretacea under Seth's decree became a lot more industrialized, producing more weaponry, more recruits.

And as the somewhat crusading fleet of the Flesh Tearers would save various systems, dealt with pretty testing foes, and obviously not doing too much in the way of collateral damage anymore.

More on that later.

The sort of reputation of the Flesh Terrors did slowly improve.

Not really to dissuade the People they'd already wronged in the past.

But newer faces on the block weren't, you know, too displeased with them.

But Seth would, you know, take a lot of the brunt of censure.

He would actually be ridiculed by other Chapter Masters of the Blood, meaning other Blood Angels and their successors.

But he could care less.

At some point, a chaos orchestrated civil war befell the Blood Angels.

This would be so impactful that the chapter itself would sort of be crippled.

And Chapter Master Dante of the Blood Angels requested a tithe of meereens to be transferred from the Flesh Terrors to the Blood Angels.

And instead of honoring the tithe, the Chapter master Gabriel Seth would basically tell them to F off and said, if you're so weak, you may as well step aside and let us take over.

Oh boy.

But you know, that's just another day in Blood Angels politics.

At some point, Gabriel Seth would even have to fight the notorious Astaroth, the Grim.

Astaroth the Grimm is sort of the Grim Reaper of the Blood Angels, a winged jet packed individual carrying a bloody axe whose whole purpose is to travel the galaxy following the sort of psychic beacon of more Blood Angels Marines and their successors succumbing to the black rage and obviously really aware of the Flesh Terrors.

High concentration of fallen to the rage fall into the music.

And Seth would at some point, snap, be like, nuh, not having any more of this, and would fight him.

He would fight Astraf and tell him to f off.

And then once upon a time, not once upon a time following that, Seth would eventually be called to, you know, defend his chapter, defend his reputation because he's told Dante to F off, he's told Astaroth to F off.

And people weren't, you know, particularly pleased about all of this, as you could imagine.

Some even within his own chapter would think he's really sabotaging the whole chapter.

They're going to be forfeited, they're going to be annihilated, they're going to be assimilated.

Something's going to happen if they keep this up.

Despite the good that Seth is doing, defending their honor, improving their reputation.

There would even be members within the Flesh Terrors that would, you know, conspire to lock him in a sort of holy place.

But he was not alone.

He was trapped with a, you know, Imperial Assassin, very good at killing people.

And well, Seth dealt with that.

He dealt with the conspirators.

He told them to F off with his fists and all this sort of stuff.

Does eventually lead the man to be called to sort of answer for all his bad behavior.

He gets sent to the.

The principal's office, you know, and, you know, despite what he does, despite helping the Blood Angels deal with the whole chaos civil war or the chaos orchestrated civil war, you know, despite, you know, fighting people left and right, there would be several people, including Astaroth, that would actually say, you know what?

He's all right.

He's just doing his best.

But as of yet, Gabriel Seth has not crossed the Rubicon Primaris, which is essentially mumbo jumbo for being one of the brand new fellows on the block, the more beefed up space Marine.

He's not done it yet within the lore, but despite that, he's huge.

He's an immense figure.

He's over a head taller than most marines.

So he's like, what, eight, nine feet?

And if you can't tell by now, Gabriel Seth is a blunt, vicious, fearless, weapon made man.

He would one day explain to Dante that the nature of the flesh terror is to seek conflict, to never be idle, to never be predictable.

You know, Seth lords over his chapter not with disdain for what they are, but with acceptance.

He leads his forces from the front.

He keeps them in line.

You know, he reins them in.

He focuses them as an icon of war himself.

He focuses his brothers, even when they begin to lose themselves to the black rages, Grabs him by the shirt and he says, you're not doing it.

We're fighting like relatively sane people.

But Seth isn't a stranger to the black rage.

For his whole lifetime, he is aware that his.

His sort of viewpoint of the world is slipping away.

His demeanor is darkening.

He knows he's becoming more violent.

He knows the black rage is creeping in.

He's even towed over the line a couple of times, only to pull himself back.

He holds his rage suppressed as long as possible, but even when he's not, you know, towing into the black rage, he is infernal.

But rather than a hot and loud unfocused rage, he is cold and precise, like a collared animal more than a rampant force of nature.

And he wages war in an impressive set of wargear.

His armor incorporates the serrated iconography of the flesh terror, a blood drop on a serrated sawblade.

And his armor also incorporates the golden wings of the Blood Angel.

His cape is cut from the banner originally wielded by Nasir Ammit, the founding father, if you will, of the chapter.

But what he's most renowned for, of course, is his ginormous Two handed weapon, a chainsword, when wielded two handed, like a bit of a greatsword, is no longer just an ordinary chainsword, my friends.

It is known as an Eviscerator.

His is even bigger than that, almost twice the size of a standard Eviscerator.

And it is named Blood Reaver.

It's an ancient weapon, a weapon that's actually retooled from the Chain Fists, a sort of Chain Blade Power Fist amalgamation once wielded by Nasir Ammit, wielded during the Horus Heresy during the Scouring, which would take place after Nasir Amit's wargear and banner, has lasted almost 10,000 bloody years to be wielded still by Gabriel Seth.

But what are some more specific conflicts of Gabriel Seth?

Well, during the Third War for Armageddon, if you've been listening to previous episodes, we.

We've been talking about Armageddon.

But during the third war for Armageddon, over 500 flesh tearers would be deployed in conflicts against the Orcs.

But boy, oh boy, they were so beyond savage that the Orks themselves labelled them Aiders of the Dead and would flee battles against the Flesh Terrors.

That's how violent these people are when they're actually in battle.

They are no longer somewhat civilized, slightly emotionless, you know, demigods.

No, they are violence incarnate.

The Flesh Terrors, however, would become so overwhelmed with battle.

Armageddon.

Everything's going on.

You can hear more about it in our previous episode, Armageddon.

Out of here.

The Flesh Terrors would turn their aggression, unfortunately against Imperial defenders once they had slain all nearby Orcs.

This would lead to pretty much their downfall, politically speaking, when they pushed the Orcs into the guns of the Adepta Sororitas, only to tear apart all the nearby Imperial garrisons once the Orks were defeated.

Now, the Sisters, of course, seeing this horrified, but refused to fight them because there's still Space Marines.

Like they're still our allies, you know, they retreated, but they would declare them traitors excommunica.

And then that brings Gabriel Seth into that sort of political censure.

The Chapters of the Blood, led by Dante would then hold him for, you know, a measure of his character and to essentially, you know, be put to trial.

The trial of Blood.

We talked briefly about this already, with Astaroth the Grimm standing up for him.

But most of the Chapter Masters present were like, nuh, this guy sucks ass.

He's not cool.

He's too wicked, he's too violent.

He's insane.

No, better than a dog.

But you know, at some point there would be a little effort.

Fabius Bile.

Fabius Bile.

I'm so sad that Johnny isn't here to talk about him.

Fabius Bile, a Chaos Marine, Apothecary flesh, Crafter, mutant maker, Frankenstein of Chaos would be trying to steal some of that juicy blood Angel's gene seed, the little organ that makes Space Marines.

Space Marines.

He tries to get him some.

And if I'm not mistaken, shortly after the trial of blood, there would be the attack from Bile.

And you know, not.

Nasir.

I mean, I was going to say Nasir.

I meant Gabriel Seth is obviously defending it.

He's not a, not a douche.

He's violent, but he's not a douche.

You know, it was stuff like this.

Defending Bhaal against Fabius Bile.

Dealing with the mutant abominations he unleashed, Teaming up with Dante in these vaults.

You know, despite the whole, you know, if you're so weak, let us take over.

Despite all of that.

Dante really would take a sort of a keenness to him.

Like, I don't, I don't love him, but he's pretty cool, you know, he's pretty fun to have around in a scrap.

Which unfortunately a scrap wasn't too far away.

We now get to the devastation of Baal.

So we have 200 years of Gabriel Seth boosting the chapter up.

He's fought in the wars for Armageddon.

He's really unified his chapter.

He's been declared traitor, got over it, helped deal with Fabius Bile.

But now the NIDs are here, the Tyranids are in system.

There's a whole book, I've read it before, it's pretty good.

The Devastation of baal.

The Tyranids decide.

We've been on some front lines and we've been eating some bodies.

These red colored Space Marines are annoying, but when a Tyranid eats this sort of biomass, they get a bit of a, they get a bit of the memory imprint, you know, they find out vaguely whereabouts the Blood Angels homeworld is after fighting Blood Angels a fair amount and eating them.

And so they go straight for the Homeworld.

Dante says, all right everybody, everybody who's bloody, we need you back home to reinforce the world.

We're talking 20 to 30,000 space marines come to defend Baal.

Of course, Gabriel Seth and the Flesh Tearers, not super well liked.

So Dante assigns them to the moon.

He says, oh, you take the other slightly suspicious members of our, of our family and go defend the moon and I won't really Spoil too much about the book, in case you want to read it.

But it's bloody.

There is a lot of war, there's a lot of fighting.

And just when all hope seems lost, of course, deus ex machina, you know, Dante's obviously not looking too good.

Gabriel Seth sort of rallies the defenders and then Guilliman shows up.

At this point in the lore, Guilliman has woken up, gone back to Terra, been declared Imperial regent, and has started his Indomitus crusade.

He's going about reinforcing all the various space marine chapters with their new hot freshness Primaris.

And he arrives just in time to help push the tide of the Tyranids.

If you've read the book, you know I'm not entirely saying the truth, but if you want to know the truth, I suggest you go read it.

So Guilliman reinforces all them chapters in a bit of a, you know, honorific to Nasir Amit.

Gabriel Seph basically told him to F off.

You know, they're not really Flesh Terrors, they're just ultramarines painted red, you know, and even Guilliman would sort of think, I remember the Flesh Terrors, those bastards.

But all good now the chapter's back.

Through all these wars, through all of these political censures.

Gabriel, Seth and the Flesh Terrors are back to full strength now.

They've been Primarisified.

Since then, they've been on cleanup duty.

They've been going around to nearby star systems fighting Remnant Tyranid splinter fleets, including fighting a huge hulking psychic style Tyranid that was feeding on little conclaves of astropaths and other Psyker humans.

So Seth and the Flesh Terrors are on cleanup duty post Devastation Abar.

That's all we really know.

But the Flesh Tearers are pretty well beloved.

They have an extremely engaging dark red with black color palette, green eyes, green plasma, the bright white serrated saw with the blood drop on the top for an icon.

They're sick.

They don't have rules specifically.

In previous editions they had supplements to make them more of their own thing.

But in 10th edition, Warhammer 40K, the flesh tearers are just.

Just fall under Blood Angels.

You're not really, you know, you're not locked in or out of anything.

You could bring your Flesh Terror army, pick up Blood Angels, ruleset and Happy Days.

But if you have been listening to our previous lore episodes that were from this Advent Calendar era, you might be aware that we've only picked characters that have a model and Seth does.

Well, at least he did.

In 2010, during what I believe was the fifth edition, Gabriel Seth got a miniature.

It was released alongside other characters such as Lematis, Astaroth, the Sanguinar.

Hilariously, those theory I just mentioned all got a brand new model in the last year.

No Seth.

Seth is unavailable to purchase.

He has been moved to Legends.

Legends is the sort of PDF only extra rules.

It's not tournament legal, but you can play it in your casual home games.

Legends doesn't really get updated.

It's more of a.

Ah, if you've got the model, here's the rules.

If you were to play Flesh Terrors specifically and you want to bring Gabriel Seth, you can't bring other Blood Angels characters on the tabletop.

You could, you could and probably should ignore that rule because Gabriel Seth rules doesn't really.

Doesn't really glow up a Flesh Terror's army by himself.

Unfortunately, his sort of rule set is pretty good in a sort of a melee threat capacity.

His weapon does a fantastic sort of a blast if you will.

If you're familiar with the game blast extra attack.

For every five models in a unit he gets that.

But in melee and I don't know if any other unit does so his melee weapon has a.

Can have quite a number of attacks with a nice sustain hits one profile.

So for every six on a D6 you get a bonus attack.

So this guy could pretty much cleave most Space Marine models down.

He does damage three that could take out Terminators if I'm not mistaken.

So his actual melee threat is quite good.

In previous editions he even got such things as fighting again, two fight activations in a row.

Which if that were the case still, I would actually maybe encourage you to give it a go in some of the more detachments, focusing not really around characters and see what happens.

But his model has existed.

It doesn't scale well to the new era of Space Marines, but if you have him, you can still sort of play him.

Not as good as he was.

Maybe next edition will get a bit of a flesh tear as supplement.

I really.

I really am hoping for one.

If you've listened to one of our previous episodes, what should every faction get Next in Warhammer 40,000?

Yes, I know.

I endlessly plugged in.

I'm vouching for Flesh Terrors to get a supplement for Blood Angels.

I think it's high time they get a lot of praise.

They're probably the most well known of all the Blood Angels successors.

Just do it.

But hey, that's all the information I've got except for another quote.

Here it is.

I remember the day Seth left a world to die.

I remember the voices of our brothers of those he left behind to die with it.

I remember the day Seth proclaimed our lives worth less than the planet of the legion that shunned us.

I remember that day.

It was the first day I believed him to have the strength to save us.

That was Flesh Terror's Chaplain Apollos.

That was Gabriel Seth.

The Flesh Terror presented by Joshi of the TTP Field Manual.

Bom bom bom bom nah.

But hey, thank you very much for listening to this small solo produced episode of the TTP Field Manual.

I'm Joshy.

Normally I have Jonny with me.

I almost guarantee he'll be back just in time for the next one.

Adult jobs can be a little tricky when combined with a hobby project, like a little podcast will admit.

Felt a little awkward to record on my own.

There were plenty of times where I paused, waiting and expecting a reply to which there was none.

But I've enjoyed talking to myself for the most part about one of my favorite characters in the setting.

Well, one of my favorite characters within the Space Marines, you know, mini universe of characters and stories.

It's been cool.

Flesh Terrors are great.

Read more on them, play them, paint them.

I have, I have a squad of assault intercessors painted in a nice slap.

What's the word?

Not slapstick, slap, chop, paint style, where you grab a model, you paint it black, then you dry brush gray, then you extreme dry brush white.

And you've got already a sort of a natural hue with a little bit of grit to it, you know, and then use contrast paints, sort of a wash like paint, and you just sort of go over the panels you want.

Looks gorgeous, Looks grungy as heck.

But hey, that was the Flesh Terrors episode presented by me.

Next episode will be a Fulgrim book Club.

I think if it's not, it won't be too far away.

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