(Video) By Blade and Bolter Pt. 8 - Additions, Amendments and Questions

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 120 minutes

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*Ad Free Version available on Lorehammer Patreon, link below.*In this episode, we turn our focus to the War-Forge, the hidden industrial heart of the Crimson Armada, and the force that sustains its endless wars. We break down what the Forge is, how it functions, and the role it plays in shaping not just weapons, but the doctrines and limitations of every faction it supplies. From there, we introduce a series of amendments, refining key ideas, clarifying its relationships, and tightening how it fits within the wider structure of the Armada. We then move into a Q&A segment, tackling core questions about its purpose, control, and long-term intent, exploring what the War-Forge truly wants, if anything at all. Finally, we close the episode with a set of short narrative pieces, bringing the Forge to life through moments of calculated brutality, cold experimentation, and the relentless logic of war without end.Lorehammer Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/c/lorehammer/membershipOne Time Donationshttps://paypal.me/lorehammerpodcastLink to all Linkshttps://linktr.ee/Lorehammer40k

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0:00.0	The Welcome back to the final episode of By Blade and Bolter, brought to you by Lorhammer.
0:31.6	Oh, that's the worst central I've done a long time. You know, you do do hundreds of these
0:35.6	and you just get rough a little every now and again.
0:38.3	Hey, welcome. I'm your host, Mark. Today we're doing the final episode of my homebrew lore, you know.
0:45.3	You've heard lots of my lore over the years, but this one I feel like is like if I actually was giving something to GW, this would be it.
0:52.3	It's not just kind of funny, gimmicky meme lore, or it's not just like lore that I wrote because I want to troll my friends with some tabletop army, so I wrote some gimmicky lore. Yeah, this was like an actual, like well thought out edition. So in this episode, we're gonna be going to be going over a couple more things. We're going to be doing some additional additions, amendments, questions.
1:13.0	And I got some more short stories for you as well.
1:15.8	No one else is here with me.
1:17.8	We will have more people on after these, really.
1:23.2	This is just like a solo journey.
1:24.8	You know, we did do like one episode.
1:26.6	Technically now we've got nine nights of slaughter episodes. uh the first one they've come a long way since then
1:32.3	and we had people on then and yeah whatever anyways just me uh come join the patreon and we'll get into
1:37.4	it so this episode we are going over one big addition to the lore, and that is the War Forge.
1:45.4	We have heard about it a bunch.
1:47.6	You know, I've hinted at it a bunch, but now we've given it a little more detail while
1:51.6	still keeping it very mysterious.
1:54.8	My goal is not to reveal the mysterious benefactor, the War Forge.
2:00.5	But also at the same time, it's still fun to talk like
2:02.3	input, output, like, do we think it has other fleets out there potentially that it's supplying as
2:07.4	well? Just stuff like that's always fun to get into. Then we'll go through some amendments.
2:12.4	If you've listened to this series, you've definitely heard me like, oh fuck, I need to change that
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