Well, hello there.
Speaker AWelcome to the TTPFM Advent Calendar.
Speaker AToday, Joshi, we will be talking about the wonderful, the wicked, the fabulous Bile.
Speaker BBill.
Speaker BWe're talking about Bill.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AFabius Bile is the man of the day.
Speaker AAnd to start as usual, I have a quote for you.
Speaker BI love quotes.
Speaker BHit me with it.
Speaker AIf a man dedicates his life to good deeds and the welfare of others, he will die unthanked and unremembered.
Speaker AIf he exercises his genius, bringing misery and death to billions, his name will echo down through the millennia for a hundred lifetimes.
Speaker AInfamy is always more preferable to ignomy.
Speaker AFabius Bile.
Speaker BWhy are Chaos so edgelords?
Speaker AHey, hey.
Speaker BSo they have to get.
Speaker BThey have to get so philosophical on why they're a douche.
Speaker ANo, that's just Fabius entire personality.
Speaker BCool.
Speaker BI don't know very much at all about Fabius, so this will be a real treat.
Speaker AWell, this man has been around for a long time.
Speaker AWe have about 10,000 years worth of lore to cover in a brief period.
Speaker BOf time in like 20 minutes.
Speaker AFabius Bile goes by many, many names.
Speaker AThe more popular ones being Clone Lord Primogenitor, the Spider, which he despises and Manflayer.
Speaker AHe is a Chaos Space Marine Apothecary.
Speaker AAlthough he doesn't see himself as fallen to Chaos.
Speaker AOriginally the Chief Apothecary, Apothecary of the Third Legion, the Emperor's children.
Speaker AAnd he has continually used his extensive knowledge of cloning and genetic engineering to create a superhuman beings that he can control.
Speaker AHis end goal and his entire.
Speaker AWhat he sees as reason for existence is to match and exceed the Emperor of Mankind's achievement of creating the Primarchs and the Transhumanistates in the hope of creating the perfect human form.
Speaker BSo he's just a renegade Frankenstein?
Speaker AThat is a very good description.
Speaker AHe is.
Speaker BHe's not evil, right?
Speaker BWell, he's not that evil.
Speaker BHe's just dedicated to his craft.
Speaker AIt's this strange thing where, like, yes, he is doing this thing for what he feels is a noble cause.
Speaker ABut in order to get the resources and do and like everything that he needs, he conspires with Chaos Space Marines.
Speaker ASo he has become a heretic in the process, in the eyes of the Imperium.
Speaker BDoes he like the Imperium, though?
Speaker AOh, God, no.
Speaker AHates him.
Speaker AOkay, yeah, 100%.
Speaker BCool.
Speaker AHe was born on Terra in the mountains of Northern Europe, essentially during the Unification wars, and was an honoured legionary of the Third and was one of the few surviving Terran battle Brothers that travelled with the Emperor to Chemos.
Speaker AWhen Fulgrim was discovered, he was one of the first there.
Speaker AHe was also one of the first Apothecaries to be trained as an Astartes, and one of the first in his legion to be called an Apothecary.
Speaker AHence why he kind of rose very quickly in rank up to chief at the time.
Speaker ADuring his time as the Apothecary of the Third Legion, though, he did a lot of experimentation upon his brothers and enhanced a lot of their physical capabilities to try and create the perfect Astartes.
Speaker AHe used a lot of xenos genetics that he learned from a strange race that isn't really covered much, but essentially he modified the gene seed of his brothers, which isn't a very good thing to have done.
Speaker BWas this the Istvaan race?
Speaker AYes.
Speaker BYeah, I did remember that little book.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker BThe Screaming Maidens or something like that.
Speaker ASomething like that, yeah.
Speaker BThey screamed you into submission.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AAnd it's also part of the technology he used later on to create the Noise Marines.
Speaker BSo I have a question already.
Speaker BHe wants to make the perfect Astartes.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker BBut he wants to rival the Emperor.
Speaker BWhat did he see wrong with the Astartes in the first place that he had to keep working on them.
Speaker AThey are flawed.
Speaker AThey have quite a few things wrong with them still.
Speaker AAnd even after seeing the work of the Primaris, he was like, they're just.
Speaker AYou just repeated the same work.
Speaker AYou didn't actually make anything better.
Speaker AYou just added more muscle.
Speaker AHe feels that the Astartes aren't perfect because of all the flaws, especially the flaws in a lot of their gene seed.
Speaker AIn particular, the Emperor's children, who had a fairly brutal gene seed mutation.
Speaker AWhich we are about to get into.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker ADuring the early days as an Apothecary, the gene seed stores of his Legion were attacked, destroying much of the genetic stores and infecting those remaining with the blight, causing the decay of the gene seed, crippling the ranks of the Third Legion.
Speaker AThis began Fabius Bile's research looking to rid his legion of this infection that unleashed tumors in their gene seed, ultimately destroying it.
Speaker AAfter working on the corpses of many of his battle brothers, he discovered a way to test for the blight.
Speaker AAnd true to their ideals, every infected Astartes was executed.
Speaker AOh, yep.
Speaker AThe Legion just purged a large portion of them to try and kill the infection.
Speaker BAnd they're also perfectionists.
Speaker AExactly right.
Speaker AIt's like, you're not perfect.
Speaker AYou're not good enough.
Speaker AIn their testing, Fabius Discovered that he was infected.
Speaker BOh, no.
Speaker ABut his ego is massive.
Speaker AHe seed himself as way too important.
Speaker AHe's too important to kill.
Speaker BSo I'm not that sick.
Speaker ANo, no.
Speaker BI don't need to wear a mask.
Speaker AIt wasn't so much of that.
Speaker AI'm not that sick.
Speaker AIt's.
Speaker AI'm the only one with the power to fix it, so I have to survive.
Speaker BThat is a very valid point.
Speaker ASo he swapped a test with a perfectly fine battle brother who was executed in his stead.
Speaker BUgh, Bill.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AThis was like the first step to both his corruption and his whole legion's corruption.
Speaker AAs a lot of the Emperor's children see Fabius as the reason they fell.
Speaker BTo Slaanesh, he forced them more into the perfection seeking, excessive mindset.
Speaker AYes.
Speaker BAnd then he's like, but not me.
Speaker BI'm out of here.
Speaker AThis led him down the path of creating the Noise Marines, which were super enhanced sonic marines that could screen a hole in a ship.
Speaker AIt also started his secretly stealing genetic material from his brothers to prolong his life.
Speaker AAnd at Isvaan 5, when Fulgrim was turned, Fabius kind of broke down to him and confessed everything he had done up until this point wrong and basically said, my science has failed.
Speaker AI can't fix myself.
Speaker ACan you help?
Speaker BOoh, it's pretty selfless.
Speaker BOr not selfless, but very selfish.
Speaker BYeah, I didn't mean to say that.
Speaker BBut that feels exceedingly honest.
Speaker BFrom what I understand of this guy.
Speaker AFrom what I gather, from everything I've learned of Fabius, he is pretty honest.
Speaker AHe might be sneaky and secretive and backstabby, but.
Speaker ABut he's pretty honest.
Speaker AEspecially with Fulgrim.
Speaker AHe adored Fulgrim up until the point of his transformation because he was designed to be perfect.
Speaker AYeah, he was supposed to be the best of them.
Speaker AAnd after Fulgrim fell, Fabius was very disappointed and ended up leaving.
Speaker AWe will do some quick fire notes of some of the things that he managed to accomplish in the earliest stage of his life.
Speaker ASo these will be kind of like quick fire dot points.
Speaker APlease jump in if you have any questions or input.
Speaker ASo on the request of Fulgrim, Fabius made multiple clones of Ferrus Manus so that Fulgrim could attempt to convince him to join the traitors.
Speaker AAnd every single time, the clone refused and Fulgrim was forced to kill them.
Speaker BAh, poor Ferrus.
Speaker APoor Fulgrim.
Speaker BWell, poor both of them.
Speaker AFulgrim adored Ferrus Manus.
Speaker AThat was like his closest brother and the best relationship he had.
Speaker AAnd the real Ferrus Manus was killed after Fulgrim tried so hard to turn him and he refused.
Speaker BYep.
Speaker AFabius was instrumental during the heresy, reviving both Lord Commander Eidolon and Lucius.
Speaker BAh, I remember that.
Speaker AAt the demand of their primarch.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AEidolon specifically had his head removed by Fulgrim, who then immediately regretted it and was like, please fix this.
Speaker BEidolon's got a book coming out soon.
Speaker AHe sure does.
Speaker ADuring this time he also created his first generation of Terata, or enhanced warriors.
Speaker BTerata?
Speaker AYep.
Speaker AThat's what they called these like buffed up super Astartes that he made that were physically stronger than an Astartes, but were prone to rampant mutation and mental instability.
Speaker BWasn't going to be a perfect solution, was it?
Speaker ANo, this was Gen 1, remember that he experiments.
Speaker BHow experts has he done?
Speaker AOh, I don't think anyone knows how many he's done at this point.
Speaker BYeah, sorry.
Speaker BPlease continue.
Speaker ADuring his experimentations on his many brothers over the course of his time, he managed to rewire their senses of pain to stimulate brain's pleasure centers instead.
Speaker AWhich really helps you see how they got drove into Slaanesh.
Speaker AWhen pain is pleasure.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker AAnd is another reason why a lot of people think he was completely responsible for their legion falling to Slaanesh.
Speaker BSure.
Speaker BCompletely.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AMidway through the War on Terror during the final act of the Horus heresy.
Speaker ABut.
Speaker ABut before Horus's defeat, Fabius up and left.
Speaker AJust abandoned everything.
Speaker AAnd Fulgrim managed to place a bounty on his head.
Speaker BOh, okay.
Speaker AYep.
Speaker AHis own father.
Speaker AIsh.
Speaker AFabius then moved through the galaxy, offering his assistance in exchange for prisoners.
Speaker AGenetic material and ancient tech.
Speaker AAll of which he was using to help develop his cloning and improvisation of the human race.
Speaker AEventually he found the Aeldari crone world of Urum, within the Eye of Terror.
Speaker BOh no.
Speaker BOh no.
Speaker AWhich became his home.
Speaker AAnd Apothecaryan that he started himself.
Speaker AThis is where the traitor legions would come to him so that he could get help with extracting progenoid glands and creating new space marines.
Speaker AHe was instrumental in keeping the forces of Abaddon at a point where they could continue their war.
Speaker BThat checks out.
Speaker BI was always curious how chaos kept resupplying.
Speaker AYeah, well, Fabius was kind of the one.
Speaker AHim and his apothecaries.
Speaker AHe would teach and train apothecaries for the other legions so that they could then continue the fight.
Speaker BWas he teaching them so they could continue on his work?
Speaker BOr was he actually just happy to teach?
Speaker AThis was like a side project and more of a passion project.
Speaker AHe was doing this kind of as his day job, while his night job was cloning and recreation and improving.
Speaker AThere's 10,000 years here.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker AAnd he still hasn't perfected what he was doing.
Speaker ASo there would be times where he'd be like, okay, cool, I need to do this for a bit, and then I'll come back to what I was doing.
Speaker BYou've read or listened to most of the Fabius books?
Speaker AMost of them, yes, most of them.
Speaker BBecause warp time is iffy at best.
Speaker BHas he actually been around for like 10,000 years, or is it like a couple of thousand and he just pops in and out of real space here and there?
Speaker BOr do they not really touch on it?
Speaker ATime works a little differently around the warp and in the Eye of Terror, but for the most part, it's slower.
Speaker BAh, okay.
Speaker AIt's kind of like the intense gravity and shifting.
Speaker ASome places will be quicker and slower, but there's a lot of him coming out and being like, okay, what's changed?
Speaker AHow long have I been gone?
Speaker AAll of this, like, rediscovering what's happened around the Eye while he was gone.
Speaker AThere's also a lot of periods where he was dead for a while or, you know, re establishing his body or, you know, in recovery, because the dude dies a lot.
Speaker BHe's just a guy.
Speaker AYeah, yeah.
Speaker AAt some point after the heresy, Bile managed to steal the body of Horus from the Sons of Horus Legion World of Malium and use that genetic material.
Speaker ABile cloned Horus, hoping to curry favor with Abaddon.
Speaker AInstead, Horus was kind of completely mad, and Abaddon was forced to destroy his own father yet again, and then proceeded to crack the homeworld of the Emperor's children, leaving it in pieces again.
Speaker AThe Emperor's children do not like Fabius because they blame him for a lot of things.
Speaker AAnd it's kind of fitting because he is probably the problem.
Speaker BYeah, I'm putting that together.
Speaker AHe does these things very selfishly, and everyone around him kinda suffers.
Speaker AAnd no one suffers more than the Emperor's children at the hand of his need and drive.
Speaker BSo what.
Speaker BWhat did he do next?
Speaker AAt one point, Biles studied under the tutorage of the Homunculi of Commera.
Speaker AOf course, after impressing the coven of the 13 scars with his abilities in improvisational torture.
Speaker AYep.
Speaker ASpecifically, that was what impressed them.
Speaker BDid he realize this and really, like, focus that, or is it just he's just a torturing bastard.
Speaker BAnd they're like, hey, come over.
Speaker AI think.
Speaker ANo, he.
Speaker AHe went there looking for other knowledge.
Speaker AHe wanted to know more from the Homunculi about their genetic skills, because they are very skilled genetic modifiers.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker AHe kind of snuck into Komura and then got caught and was a prisoner for a little bit, and then impressed them with his abilities and knowledge as he was basically like, shit talking.
Speaker AThem being like, you could do that better, as they're torturing people to the point where they were so impressed, they decided to teach him what they knew, thinking that he was stuck there forever.
Speaker AHe helped them create what they call the Tower of Flesh, which is a living, breathing fortress made of the remains of those that have wronged the coven.
Speaker BYeah, that's nice.
Speaker AHe then managed to escape, and the Homunculi of the coven of the 13 scars tracked him down across the universe.
Speaker AThere's like a whole novel about that.
Speaker BYeah, that's one of his trilogy books.
Speaker AOne of the trilogy books which ended up with Bile dying yet again, but not for the last time.
Speaker BPoor guy.
Speaker BRip.
Speaker BBut when he dies, does he have, like, a cloud, save for his knowledge?
Speaker AYes, that is exactly what he does.
Speaker BOh, my gosh.
Speaker ASo he has done some research, and the people at, comma, helped him as well, into Wraithbone technology.
Speaker AAnd he essentially has a Wraithbone organ within his brain that every now and then will upload his consciousness, essentially, it will upload all of his knowledge, all of his personality, everything.
Speaker AAnd then when he dies, he essentially has, like, a brain scan that gets implanted into wherever it needs to go.
Speaker AThere is definitely some.
Speaker ASome lost memories, because if he hasn't had a chance to back it up in a while.
Speaker AHe's done a lot of work with Wraithbone and assisted some of the Noise Marines in the cacophony in the harvesting and growth of Wraithbone forests.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker AWhich, for those who don't know, Wraithbone, is essentially solidified warp energy, which means that it reacts really well with the cacophony's harmonic songs and chaotic essence.
Speaker ASo they can use their gifts, given by Fabius, to cultivate and grow and nurture this stuff.
Speaker AAt one point, he captured an Aeldari prisoner, tortured and genetically modified them to become essentially a key, and named it Key so that he could go into.
Speaker AOh, no, I'm blanking.
Speaker BWebway.
Speaker AThe Webway.
Speaker AIt was essentially a webway Gate Key.
Speaker AAs a person, but a person.
Speaker BOh, that's gross.
Speaker AHe had no eyes, could barely talk.
Speaker AHe Was essentially just a living key that just sent out a wraithbone resonance that would open up the portals whenever he was near one.
Speaker AAnd then he explored the webway.
Speaker BIs this the homunculi science he picked up?
Speaker AAh, this was before that dude's got skills.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AThis was when he found Urum at one point.
Speaker AAnd some of these things aren't necessarily in order because there's not a lot of order to what he's doing, because everything's a little weird when it comes to time.
Speaker ADisguised as an Adeptus Mechanicus Magos, he managed to infiltrate the Blood Angels chapter on Bhaal, who were attempting to use cloning to replenish their ranks after.
Speaker BYep, yep.
Speaker AThe decimation of bile.
Speaker BI read about this last night for one of my character research.
Speaker AOh, I look forward to jumping back into this then.
Speaker AWhere he corrupted the experiments, creating the blood fiends that broke free and terrorized the fortress monastery, Giving bile the chance to steal a vial of blood containing the mingled blood of sanguinary priests and Sanguinius himself.
Speaker BBill, Bill, Bill.
Speaker BHow does he keep getting away with this?
Speaker BHe must be, like, really adept at combat as well.
Speaker AHe is.
Speaker AHe's.
Speaker AHe is still a veteran that has been fighting for the last 10,000 years.
Speaker AHe's one of the originals.
Speaker AHe.
Speaker AEvery time he gets into a fight, he is very proficient.
Speaker ASkills honed over, you know, millennia.
Speaker BHe's a veteran of the Long War?
Speaker AYes, very much so.
Speaker AOne of his crowning achievements is the creation of the new men, which are a hardened cadre of enhanced humans who exhibit strength, speed, and intelligence many times higher than normal humans, but are bred in such a way that they're kind of depraved psychotic killers.
Speaker BOoh.
Speaker AHe kind of taught them overarching survival instincts and used a lot of survival of the fittest to help breed stronger and better versions.
Speaker AHe essentially accelerated the evolution of the human race through genetic mutation, disease, introduction, and just letting them kill each other to a point where these are now, like, pretty close to what he wanted to accomplish, but he's still obviously working on it.
Speaker BThat's a key statement there.
Speaker BIs it genuinely what the human race would evolve to or what he wants them to evolve to?
Speaker AWell, part of his problem is all of the iterations seem to not be solely autonomous.
Speaker AThey always seem to rely on him or worship him, and they're not quite where he wants them to be.
Speaker ABut what he does is he'll take some of them, drop them off on a planet, and just leave them alone, then take some More drop them elsewhere.
Speaker AHe will drop them in here and use them to infiltrate their entire society so that he can take over a world.
Speaker ALike, they're very close to human, but they're just so much better in every regard.
Speaker ASo he kind of uses them, but at the same time, he wants them to not be used by him.
Speaker AThis man is batshit crazy.
Speaker BI'm getting that.
Speaker ASometime in the 41st millennium, he finally succeeded at cloning a primarch.
Speaker AThis time it was Fulgrim.
Speaker BOh, Clone Grimm.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BAs the memes would have it, unlike.
Speaker AHis previous attempts, this Fulgrim was exact.
Speaker AAs pure as the original, but with none of the taint of Slaanesh.
Speaker BHow'd he manage that?
Speaker AHe doesn't remember.
Speaker BWell, that's just lazy writing.
Speaker AHe goes back to the Emperor's Children homeworld, where he originally.
Speaker AOh, no, sorry.
Speaker ABack to Urim after a very long time, and his apothecary is in ruins.
Speaker AAnd he goes downstairs and he finds a room locked away by a bunch of mutants.
Speaker AAnd he unlocks the door, and there's a baby Fulgrim in a tank.
Speaker AHe's like, this has been here for thousands of years.
Speaker AIt shouldn't be alive or sustained.
Speaker AAnd he takes the baby out and is like, holy shit, it's alive.
Speaker AAnd then it just grows up into an actual Fulgrim in a very short period of time, because that's what primarchs do.
Speaker BCan't imagine he really maintained a lot of Fulgrim identity, though.
Speaker ASo this clone grew quickly, and due to the way that primarchs are made, they actually have a genetic memory.
Speaker ASo he had all of Fulgrim's knowledge of the events of the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy.
Speaker AHe knew everything he had done.
Speaker AThis version of Fulgrim expressed great regret for his actions during the conflict and swore to atone for his sins.
Speaker ABut Bile got in the way.
Speaker BOf course he did.
Speaker ABile saw this version of Fulgrim as so exact that it was doomed to fall to chaos.
Speaker AEventually he was like, it's so close.
Speaker AIt'll end up in the exact same situation.
Speaker ASo he betrayed his primarch yet again and trapped him in the hands of Trasin, the Infinite.
Speaker BMy boy.
Speaker AAt one point, he just falls into Trazin's gallery.
Speaker AYep.
Speaker AAnd Trazen's like, hey, you're Fabius.
Speaker ABile, you're with me forever now.
Speaker AAnd he's like, how about.
Speaker AHold on.
Speaker AYou let me go, I will give you literal Fulgrim.
Speaker BHe Just fell into the Solumnus Galleries.
Speaker AQuite literally.
Speaker ALike crack in the Earth fell into it.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BThat sounds like Trazen.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AHow he ended up on the planet, specifically.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker ANah, it's.
Speaker AIt's just a whole lot of read.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker BRight.
Speaker BWas that one of the more recent things that Fabius has done?
Speaker AWas one of the more recent things in more recent lore.
Speaker ASo coming into what we're actually doing in the more current scheme of things.
Speaker ABile stole a Death Guard artifact called the Ark.
Speaker AQuarno.
Speaker AContagious.
Speaker BOkay.
Speaker AWhich is capable of causing catastrophic mutation and uncontrollable growth on a scale that could easily corrupt entire worlds in a matter of days.
Speaker BBut it's nurgle magic.
Speaker BIsn't it something that Fabius wouldn't be into.
Speaker AAh, mutation is.
Speaker ARemember, Mutation is a thing he needs.
Speaker AHe's using it to mutate the human gene.
Speaker BUh, I guess because he doesn't really accept nurgle.
Speaker ANo.
Speaker BAs a concept.
Speaker AI haven't really touched on that much, and I should probably jump to that.
Speaker AHe is an atheist in a world full of literal chaos gods.
Speaker AHe sees the warp as just entropy.
Speaker AHe sees chaos demons as just emotions made manifest in a physical form, but they are dumb and just an emotion.
Speaker AHe sees the chaos gods as nothing more than balls of chaotic energy.
Speaker ABut not gods.
Speaker AHe sees them as just entities out there.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BLike gestalt energy.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AAt one point, he's reflecting on everything that's going on around him and everything that's going wrong.
Speaker AAnd he looks up and he sees a face in the sky, and that is the face of Slaanesh.
Speaker AAnd he basically is like, you're not real, and turns away.
Speaker BIs he saying that?
Speaker BBecause he.
Speaker AHe desperately has to believe it.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BSo he knows in the back of his mind that there's something deific about them, though, doesn't he?
Speaker BLike, he.
Speaker AYeah, it's strange.
Speaker ALike, I don't think he sees them as deific.
Speaker AHe just sees them as very strong entities.
Speaker AAnd he's just like, you are not a God.
Speaker AYou cannot have control of me.
Speaker AI've seen what you've done to Fulgrim and my legion.
Speaker AAnd I don't care.
Speaker AYou're not real.
Speaker AGo away.
Speaker BClassic, classic 30th millennium philosophy there, Fabius.
Speaker AAnd it really comes to show, like, a lot of people will say that Fabius is the last of the space marines loyal to the Emperor's true intentions.
Speaker AHe doesn't worship gods.
Speaker AHe's only looking to establish the human race in a further way.
Speaker AAnd I think that kind of plays into this, like wanting to do what the Emperor did, but better.
Speaker BI can see it.
Speaker BHe is just doing whatever he can to further what he feels is right.
Speaker BThe Emperor himself wasn't exactly a good guy.
Speaker ANo.
Speaker ABut this guy looked up to the Emperor to the point where he's like, I want to be better than you.
Speaker ABut continuing back to the Arc Corner Contagious.
Speaker AHe stole it off the Death Guard.
Speaker ATyphus got really angry and sent a plague fleet after him.
Speaker BTyphus Known subtle guy.
Speaker AKnown subtle guy.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker ABile then had to team up with the Shriven and a guy named Argento Corian in a conflict known as the War of the Spider, AKA Bile.
Speaker BAh, I know about this.
Speaker BYep, go on.
Speaker ABile managed to manipulate all sides of the war and escaped with captive custodies and Sisters of Silence.
Speaker BI didn't know that part.
Speaker ASo he managed to escape with the Arc of Corner Contagious.
Speaker AAnd now he has Custodes Gene Seed and the Sister of Silence null abilities.
Speaker AAnd this is kind of where they leave off the story.
Speaker AHe is now in possession of Primaris captives Custodes, as we said, the ability to negate the warp in the Sisters of the Silence.
Speaker AHe has the Emperor's own genetic material in Sanguinius's blood.
Speaker AA Death Guard artifact.
Speaker AAnd a passion to recreate a clone of the Emperor himself.
Speaker BOh, the Emperor himself.
Speaker BHey.
Speaker AUnder Fabius control.
Speaker AHe wants to recreate the Emperor.
Speaker AThis is what he's been doing for 10,000 years.
Speaker AIt all leads back to that original plan of finishing the Emperor's job.
Speaker BWell, I'm curious there because there's a lot of conflicting beliefs on what the Emperor is.
Speaker BA genetic being, a synthetic being.
Speaker BEnergy being.
Speaker BDoes it ever really explore what Fabius finds in his journey to recreate the Emperor?
Speaker ANot yet.
Speaker AThis is.
Speaker AThis is where they've left off.
Speaker ACurrently, this is up to date.
Speaker AThis is where Fabius sits.
Speaker BIs this the new Gene Father book?
Speaker AOr is this is before the events of the Gene Father Books?
Speaker BSo the Gathering Storm War of the Spider era.
Speaker BBut this is the turn of the millennium.
Speaker AYeah, but this is where the law starts to become very recent.
Speaker ABut this is.
Speaker AThis is what he's managed to accomplish over the last 10,000 years.
Speaker AAnd how close he's getting to his end goal.
Speaker AHe's ballin'yeah.
Speaker AMan.
Speaker AThen we move into what this guy does in game.
Speaker AAnd this guy is a pretty cool dude in game.
Speaker BHe is pretty strong.
Speaker BI'll give him that.
Speaker AHe is a pretty cool model with all of his, like little chirurgeon with its little blades and stabby bits and very surgical looking backpack.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AHe has his flesh cape, his little surgeon acolyte that runs around behind him doing whatever he needs.
Speaker AHe has a precision anti infantry weapon, which just makes him really good at taking down enemy leaders.
Speaker AHe buffs his bodyguard unit.
Speaker AHe makes them stronger and tougher so they're harder to take down.
Speaker AHe has an ability to shrug damage once per turn.
Speaker AAnd when he dies, he just gets back up because he's a clone lord.
Speaker BOn a two up, wasn't it?
Speaker AYeah, on a two up.
Speaker ASo it's very rare that it will fail.
Speaker AAnd hopefully you've kept your reroll for it.
Speaker BYeah, there's always a chance of failure.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AAnd Grotmas gave us a Bile entire thing.
Speaker BYep.
Speaker BSo at the time of writing or recording, mid December, halfway through the Grotmas literal advent calendar of detachments, he's back.
Speaker AHe got his own Chaos Space Marine detachment, which allows him to buff all of his allies.
Speaker AAnd if you have him as your warlord, you get to reroll your dice to see what buffs they'll get.
Speaker BI see.
Speaker BHe's a bit of a melee rush.
Speaker BChaos Marine playstyle.
Speaker BBit of possessed, bit of legionaries.
Speaker AWell, yeah.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker ALike, it's a very Astartes focused kind of playstyle in this new way with everyone getting one or two buffs.
Speaker AOne if you pick two at random, with his ability to reroll at random so that you can kind of try and get what you want.
Speaker ABut this is.
Speaker AThis is Fabius Bile.
Speaker AHe's a mad scientist.
Speaker ASome.
Speaker ASome people will relate him to Rick from Rick and Morty.
Speaker BYep.
Speaker AHe and Belisarius Call have some very interesting interactions in the Gene Father book, as they're both kind of doing the same thing, but on different sides of the spectrum in that one of them is trying to genetically modify the Astartes, while the other is trying to genetically modify the human race.
Speaker AAnd there's.
Speaker AThere's a really fun interaction which I won't spoil too much in the book, where Fabius and Belisarius essentially have a video call and Fabius Bile spends the whole time being like, I'm just doing what you want to do.
Speaker ACome help me.
Speaker AGive me all of the information on creating Astartes and Primaris and help me fix everything.
Speaker AAnd Belisari's like, you're an idiot.
Speaker AI'm not giving you anything.
Speaker BGenius sadist scientist.
Speaker AYeah, it's hilarious.
Speaker BVersus genius sadist engineer.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BAllied Detachment, Bile and Admech.
Speaker AWhen I mean, 2025's not far off, right?
Speaker BYou must Pringle and Bile together, they.
Speaker AWould make a very potent force in the universe.
Speaker BOh, yeah.
Speaker BAlpha Primus would disappear very quickly, though.
Speaker AYeah, but he ain't doing so crash hot.
Speaker BWell, that's Bile, though, eh?
Speaker AThat's what I've got for Bile.
Speaker BHe's a lot more nuanced than I anticipated.
Speaker BI was expecting a bit more of a mad Frankenstein doing things just to do things for the sake of being twisted.
Speaker BBut he seems to be very centric, I suppose, in morality.
Speaker BHe's.
Speaker BHe does bad things, but not to be a bad guy.
Speaker AYeah, he's.
Speaker AHe's kind of like chaotic Neutral.
Speaker BHe's given up on Chaos forces, he's given up on Imperial forces.
Speaker ABut he straight up says to Belisarius call.
Speaker AHe's like, I'm not.
Speaker AI haven't fallen to Chaos.
Speaker AWhat do you mean?
Speaker AI just couldn't come back to Earth and had to do things my own way.
Speaker BYeah, he's a renegade, which is not full traitor, which try explain that to an Imperial.
Speaker ABut he really, really plays into the way his character thinks about both himself and what he's doing.
Speaker ALike, he thinks he's on the higher path.
Speaker AHe is doing the right thing.
Speaker AHe's the only person who can fix the human race, who can help us conquer the universe and do everything the Emperor originally wanted to do.
Speaker ABut in order to do that, he needs to know what the Emperor knew.
Speaker AAnd the only way to do that is to clone the Emperor and use his genetic memory to learn what he needed to do.
Speaker AYou know, like, there's all these steps along the way to what he wants to accomplish.
Speaker AAnd in typical Emperor's children fashion, like, he just keeps failing whenever he tries.
Speaker ABut there's these small successes that are just starting to group up and gather to where Fabius may become a pretty substantial problem in the future for the Imperium.
Speaker BAbsolutely.
Speaker BIf there's one thing these Chaos Chaos Marine characters seem to really showcase for me as a Law fan is what 40k originally was was fantasy in space.
Speaker BYou hear so much of this, like, oh, they went to the Dark Elves land.
Speaker BYou know, they tinkered away in their cave.
Speaker BYou know, they set a little village to the slaughter to advance their goal.
Speaker BBut it's on a sci fi stage.
Speaker AYeah.
Speaker AThey add some zeros on the end of all the numbers.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker BYeah.
Speaker BWhich I really think 40k characters benefit from going into that more fantastical storyline.
Speaker BAnd I think Bill really is one of those fantastical characters.
Speaker AHe's definitely a character.
Speaker BOh, Bill.
Speaker ABut I think that's where we're going to leave that here, because it's going to be a bit longer than some of the others.
Speaker BAnd I think this will be our longest of the batch of this year's.
Speaker AThere was a lot to cover, and I think the rest will be a little bit shorter and more sweet.
Speaker ABut I barely touched on just how much there is.
Speaker AI definitely suggest if anyone is interested in this character, read the novella.
Speaker AIt's decent.
Speaker AGene Father is very well written.
Speaker AI've enjoyed it.
Speaker BYeah, we spoil all the secrets.
Speaker BWhat is.
Speaker BWhat are the listeners going to do in their spare time?
Speaker AThat's it.
Speaker ARight.
Speaker AWell, thank you for coming to our Advent calendar, and we will see you with the next one.
Speaker ABye bye now.
Speaker BCiao.
Speaker BCiao.