my favorite bit about how psykers work is that invisibility as a psychic power is done through the most roundabout moon logic possible. you don't actually turn yourself invisible, you use telepathy to erase yourself from other people's perception. it's literally "you saw me? nuh-uh."
Reminds me of the orc Rogue in DnD who put his stats into max intimidation. Instead of rolling stealth he would just shout 'You do not see Thog' into their faces and they would invariably agree.
@@beastalchemistVAProbably. Bending light would require a lot more focus and energy, whereas passively effecting someone's mind? Especially someone who's not another psyker? A lot easier
Imagine you're severely schizophrenic. You hear voices from nowhere, and shadowy people are at the edge of your vision at all times. People are always looking at you funny, but you don't know what's wrong with you. You feel like your mind is coming apart one thread at a time. But hey, sometimes you can light your own lowstick. Small victories.
In the 9th Ciaphas Cain book, The Tau accepted a Astropath to accompanied them, in order to keep up communication with the Imperium,during their alliance against the Tyranids The seemed cautiously and aware of his powers,but not actually afraid of it
yeah, and in basically all of the tau books there's psykers of some kind, be them human or an alien race confederated into the Tau. The tau themselves seem to see using psyker powers as a weird thing they know some other races can do, but not much beyond that, and look down on people for using it blatantly and openly. I feel like it probably has more to do with how the Tau are pretty reserved in their displays and don't want individuals to draw too much attention to themselves, so throwing out magic fireballs is just too much.
@@lostsonofcyric "heheheeeeheheeehehhhe... Skin skin so disgusting but liberating, I. CaaAAn FEEL EVerY LiTtLe mIcrrObe oN MY FaCE....piss is but a form of cleanliness that feeeEEEds my soothing song."
Pre-psyker spacetravel might be quite similar to Votann space travel. Using AI or very powerful computers to calculate routes either in realspace or with very shorts dips into warp. Votann fleets were generation-ships and I think the rest of humanity might have used similar.
Some Grey knights actually do retire, when too old or too hurt. We meet one of those in the book Emperors Gift. A retired Grey Knight might tend to some honorable tasks in Titan, like tending to their cemetery of other marines
The Psyker has so many great lines in Dawn of War. "Must we travel on foot again?" - When ordered out of the Chimera IFV, ""WITNESS YOUR DOOOOOOM!" - When mind blasting things outside of the IFV, "I will not falter again!" - After they falter and have to be picked up by the IFV again... Good times.
The Psykers have great lines in Darktide as well, my favorite being when being picked off the floor: "Whoops, you touched me. You're DAMNED NOW!" He just sounds so gleeful as he says it.
To answer DK's question about the Tau empire having human psykers, the answer is hell yeah. one of the main characters in the farsight books is a ordo xenos inquisitor lady who is a biomancy psyker that eventually decides to fully join the tau empire instead of just being a spy in their ranks. she even shape-shifts into a Tau body using her biomancy at one point
@@beastalchemistVA yeah! she's a rad character with a really interesting character arc that goes from "hey wait maybe the tau are onto something and I can bring it back to the imperium to improve life there" to "oh the imperium is fully unsalvageable but I don't know if I'll ever forgive myself for abandoning it" which is just SO GOOD
There is also an older lady in the shadowsun book. I dont remember her field at all but she was on the elemental council(?) She took the place of the kroot elder.
@@keybladeking7155 both of them. She's a member of the main cast and one of Farsight's confidants. She is even the perspective character for a few chapters here and there, mostly during epilogues as she writes letters that sum up her experiences during the books.
Well technically khorn technically has psykers in the blood pact called the gore mages, and their was that blood raven librarian/chapter master who fell to khorn. In fact khorn doesn't hate psykers just sorcerers who gain their powers through others and not with their own power he despise
Korn: "listen here nerd, you are going to master YOUR brain and FLEX that noggin...Observe~" *He clenches every abstract concept of muscle he has and nukes a planet by staring at it*
Wasn't it the other way around Bricky? The Age of Strife with its warpstorms was going on, and the birth of Slaanesh blew the storms apart allowing the Emperor to get going with the Great Crusade. I'm fairly sure I read that somewhere, but that doesn't mean that GW hasn't retconned it at some point, because it was a while ago.
The Thousand Sons have a great psychic power where instead of mutating people directly, they mutate the landscape, turning it into masses of fleshy and living crystal tentacles that start attacking their enemies.
I'd like to think that the Orks' Great Green is a realm in the Warp, similar to the Realm of Chaos or the echo of Caliban that the Lion uses for travel. Also, Wave of Penance is literally "taste the pain".
Remember that the Warp is like an ocean. If you stay close to the surface, you can make some relatively safe warp jumps. It's faster than not having FTL, but it's not the instantaneous travel that most think of in 40K. The 'deeper' you go into the Warp, the faster and longer jumps you can take, but you also increase your chances of running into something that thinks your ship is a tasty snack, or you can get stuck in warp storm that spits you out a 1000 years in the future or the past.
The bit about geller fields being made of psykers is no longer canon I believe. Also in some sources you can fly a ship without a navigator, but you have to do micro jumps that take forever.
In the NIght Lords Books A Chaos Marine Psyker pilots one of two ships as they only have one navigator. it works but is brutally tough to dominate the machine spirit and see a path through the warp.
@@gama343except they don't go into the Warp, as the one time they tried that they found a god of the Greater Good and decided to murder all the non-tau for making it. 😂
Yeah, the T'au and Leagues both do it (speculation - T'au got the technology for Warp travel from the Leagues). Both groups have networks of Warp beacons set up throughout their territories, which the Emperor should have done while making the Imperium, but you know, he bet everything on the Webway Project.
Psykers popped up during the age of strife, it was before Slaanesh was born, because there were a ton of warp storms cutting off travel and communication. When Slaanesh was born, the warp storms generally went away and around that point the Emperor revealed himself.
The Great Green / Gork & Mork not being in the warp makes sense to me, because of how the daemon in Brutal Kunnin' felt about the orkz, the "abhorrent" as it called them.
the way I interpreted that was that daemons from the four chaos gods view anything that interracts with realms of the warp that they don't control as "anathema" simply because they have no influence over them. Chaos can't corrupt orks because they draw their energy from a different realm of the warp, and that is infuriating to a being primarily composed of corruptive impulses
iT feels like they should be in their own part of the warp, not a new completely other thing, but something that is in contest with them. Such as how the emperor is fighting them but also has his own little place in the warp.
Cant believe Bricky didn't mention that Blood Angel Librarian Dreadnoughts can also use the Wings of Sanguinius, so you cab have a giant flying sarcophagus
One of the Magos with Cawl's forces in the Nexus incites an Ork Waaagh against the Pariah Nexus to study the effects on the Ork Waaagh field, in comparison to the Sisters of Battle... only to be overran by orbital defense versions the Shokk Attack Gun.
This is the first AdRic poster I’ve considered getting, simply because I still live with my Parents, and couldn’t imagine the shame of them walking into my room and seeing 3 big tiddied Watchers staring at them from across my room.
So a couple of stand outs not covered from skimming the lexicanum list. Inquisitors from the ordo malleus have a psychic power literally called “holocaust” which sets the air around the user on fire incinerating anyone who comes to close. Meanwhile the grey knights have not one but two powers that literally tears a hole in the fabric of reality and into the warp with vortex of doom and warp rift. The flesh tearers have a power called flensing which reads “When the Librarian uses this power he can choose multiple targets to strip their skin and muscle away.” Also you can have librarian dreadnoughts if your playing blood angels. Which means you can have a dreadnought with angel wings fly across the battlefield.
@@Balrog4242 Logically not Psykers since Tau don't have Psykers but their skip drives are warp drives and more importantly humanity had both warp drives and iirc Geller Fields before Psykers.
I heard ir wasn't a full retcon, just one way it works. The Imperium has as many patterns and operating styles as they do planets. The psyker base might be a nee "downgrade" due to lost tech knowledge
If you haven't read it already. In the book 'apocalypse' there is an interesting back and forth between the sisters and the word bearers, as the word bearers commander reflects on how the sisters are basically the other side of the coin. It also has spoilers as to how the adeptus ministrorum became as powerful as it has after the scouring. Great book and would 100% recommend!
I think the correct timeline for the birth of Slannesh is, Eldar begin depravity, men of iron revolt, the continued feeding of Slannesh preparing for her birth causing warp storms to plague real space leading to humanity losing the ability to warp travel. Then, age of strife while dark eldar continue spiraling, causing the emerging human psykers to blow up and release demons on worlds, finally birth of Slannesh collapse of eldar empire, the birth clears up warp storms,Emperor sees the time is now, unification wars, great crusade.
I love how they keep saying the birth of slaanesh creates warp storms that stop warp travel, when it was really the birth of Slaanesh that cleared up the warp storms throughout the galaxy allowing warp travel possible after old night
While I am of the mind psychic power is the same regardless of source I suspect it is difficult to use energy associated with alien thoughts and feelings. This may be why the shadow in the warp is so debilitating.
The best part about Wings of Sanguinius is that Librarian Drednaughts can cast it, so you can have a psychic boxnaught with jump pack movement and a giant force weapon to stab things with.
I find it hilarious that during the Carcharodons episode, DK gave them so much shit for being so on the nose with their Shark psyker powers, but in this episode he calls them cool 🤣
Regarding the golden throne's 'fuel supply', if you scale a moderate estimate of the Imperium's population to modern day Earth, it's very roughly the equivalent of sacrificing one person every three hundred years to keep the Sun from going out. Still awful, but it puts into perspective how small it really is.
The Adeptus Astra Telepathica just sounds like the grimdark version of that one episode of Adventure Time where Finn and Jake learn magic but (spoilers) plot twist they are trained to have magic so they can use their powers to prevent a comet from crashing into the monastery the magicians train at. I'm all here for it. Adventure Time was f*¢!# wild bro I swear 😂
The Emperor, Magnus, and Malcador are all considered "Alpha-Plus," meaning that their powers are all beyond the scale of what could possibly be measured (sort of like the concept of Omega-level mutants from Marvel Comics). Alpha is the highest that the Inquisition will allow among its ranks, and even then, you'll likely be considered a monster by your fellow Inquisitors (but then, they're monsters too, so, what does it matter), as Beta and Alpha level psykers are considered impossible to train by most people, while Alpha-plus is considered impossible to train. Obviously the Emperor and Malcador are both perpetuals, and Magnus had the most intuitive level of control of his powers of any the Primarchs, meaning the Emperor likely hard-coded control into Magnus's DNA.
Please please PLEASE! Do an episode on Commisar Ciaphus Cain soon! I have been BINGING the audio books at work and they are incredible. Cain is genuinely the character that I want to see Henry Cavil play as!
You guys might be a "foot in the door" podcast, but I still tune in and have fun with you guys despite constantly consuming warhammer books and the wiki.
Its hilarious how many powers are just "i cast inflict crippling depression" and im just sitting here like "hah, nice try but ive built up an immunity" 😂 .... 😢 Life is suffering. 😂
I think the best example I got of a powerful psyker was in the inquisitor martyr game. Going a pyromancy psyker is cool, but my favorite thing to do is to massively buff myself with divination and biomancy to buff my speed, crit rate, attack speed, and proceed to Usain Bolt my way around the map with a power sword and bolt pistol. Enhanced battle psyker is super cool, because it doesn’t just mean fireball, but like knowing exactly how and where to shoot, exactly where to block and slash. Like a cooler Jedi.
My theory is that since WAAAGH! energy and the ork psychic field was made by the Old Ones during the War in Heaven, it was made when it was the Sea of Souls. When the Warp was broken during the war and turned into Chaos, the WAAGH broke too. What the orks have become and how their power works is a result of their software getting fragged eons ago and the hardware is just trying it's best.
My favourite tragic psyker was Agun Soric from the Gaunt's Ghosts series. Just a tiny little power, weird but nothing compared to what we would think of a psyker being. But the imperium is harsh and there is no leeway ever.
You kind of covered space marine psykers here, but I’ve been wondering recently how librarians get to be librarians. Like, normal space marines go from recruit>scout> SM, but what’s the progression for librarians.
I'm pretty sure it happens at about the same time that they're aspirants, which is about the time they test them for psykery. From the Salamander books I got the distinct impression it's pretty uncommon for a full-blown Space Marines to start manifesting psyker powers. Then again I haven't read every single 40K book ever published (yet.) So it might be different from chapter to chapter.
Grey knights can retire! I remember hearing somewhere that when a grey knight deems himself too old or getting too slow for battle that they go to either Titan or another planet where they watch over a cemetery for grey knights and become blanks to protect their fallen brothers from the warp.
HELL YEAH IM FINALLY CAUGHT UP AND CAN PARTICIPATE IN BOOK CLUB ON TIME! Anyways if that girl shown from the Rogue Trader game ( 10:58 ) had her normal eyes instead of them being gouged out like that, her nose was a little bit longer, and her skin was slightly less pale she would be kinda cute. Shit now i have to learn how to draw more than cars so i can make fanart of that. Man i dont have time for that. Oh well, the prices paid to experience emotion when one has no empathy is only a small issue in the grand scheme of things, right? Eh, It'll probably get done before i start the performance car brand im working on, i'll figure it out eventually
With sponsor funding of course. (Please for the love of the Emperor help me this shit is so expensive why do bills take 74% of my income I hate it so much)
So you're saying when a bunch of Sisters get together and start rubbing their faith up against each other ........... what were we talking about again?
19:23 Remember the Choral Engine from the Arks of Omen story? A psychic navigation beacon that dated back to the Dark Age of Tech...it strongly suggests that the DAoT humans had some tech or something that did the same job as psykers in astronavigation.
Hey @Bricky, turns out the thing about ironstriders (Admech) being used on giant treadmills is canon, it’s written in a small part of the 8th edition codex for them on their background stuff
About T'au and Psykers : In both the Farsight books by Phil Kelly, an Ordo xenos inquisitor is sent to infiltrate the T'au hierarchy as human auxiliary. She ends up beeing Farsight counselor about "psychic science" as the t'au call psyker's ability. She is also a biomancer and can basically shapeshift into t'au anatomy to enter a broadside exosuit towards the end. She is a pretty good character, it gives a human perspective on xenos naivety about the warp. 100% would recommend "faith in crisis" and "empire of lies"
15:14 With the opening of the Great Rift and the Golden Throne accumulating defects the Adeptus Mechanicus is unable to repair the number of psyker sacrifices needed to keep the Emperor alive has increased considerably, up to 4000 are now needed on a daily basis. Also, a medium-densely settled human world may have maybe one psyker. At least that was the case before the Great Rift opened, for it also increased the number of psykers (and warp shenanigans of any kind) throughout the galaxy.
When DK said was is 10k or 1k I really hoped Bricky would tell him how the throne is fucked and more and more psykers are being thrown at it. But perhaps Bricky doesn't know about it
No, no it's not. It was about 1 in a million were powerful enough to be detected and that was before the 13th crusade. Considering the majority of worlds have at least 1 hive city and thier populations are over 1 billion that city alone would have 1000. manufacturing worlds or hive worlds normally have 5+ major hive cities. On top of that you have millions of ship fleets with millions of people. You have entire houses that breed psykers.
"MY MIND IS NO FORTRESS, IT'S AN OPEN PASTURE RAVAGED BY INTERNECINE CONFLICT AND CHICKEN!".
“I preferred it when you were silent.”
"Duely noted..."
@@AnimatedTerrorgod I fucking miss TTS
"pie pie chicken pie our lives are about to end..."
Tfw your mind is like the Imperium itself.
If I ever become a Psyker, i hope I'm one of the laughy ones and not one of the screamy ones
Whilst humming "Do you believe in magic", as you flay your pursuers with your mind.
@@LovelyCenturibear Nah for me it would be "Lollipop" by the Chordettes
@@DeliveryDemonLOLLIPOP! *SCHLWUP as someone turns inside out* budumpdumdum
@@DeliveryDemonif I’m a pyromancer I’d be singing here comes the sun as I throw mini suns at them
@@GabrielLopez-mo2xo OH god
Everybody gangsta, until enemy's psyker casts "POWER WORD: SCRUNCH "
"POWER WORD: SKRUNGLE"
POWER WORD: TWIST OF FATE!!!
*[target collapses, succumbing to the pain of testicular torsion]*
TESTICULAR TORSION
NEWTON'S KNACKERS!
THE FUCKING SUN!
my favorite bit about how psykers work is that invisibility as a psychic power is done through the most roundabout moon logic possible. you don't actually turn yourself invisible, you use telepathy to erase yourself from other people's perception. it's literally "you saw me? nuh-uh."
I wonder if that's easier to a psyker than just psychically shifting the light around you.
It's called a perception filter.
Reminds me of the orc Rogue in DnD who put his stats into max intimidation. Instead of rolling stealth he would just shout 'You do not see Thog' into their faces and they would invariably agree.
Antimemetic field
@@beastalchemistVAProbably. Bending light would require a lot more focus and energy, whereas passively effecting someone's mind? Especially someone who's not another psyker? A lot easier
*The better alternate timeline*
"Shy's got a quote for me, you'll know exactly what we are talking about when I say it.....WITNESS YOUR DOOOOOM!"
"Do you KNOW what you ASK?"
I was waiting for it, and I was so disappointed
It really says something that the psyker was the leader I used the least, but whose lines I remember more than basically any other unit in the game.
"OUr FATE...is...ForeTOLD!!!"
"I... ALREADY KNOW WHAT YOU WAAAANT!"
Iron hand Librarian: I cast volley of lead!
*Opens fire with storm bolter*
"WITNESS YOUR DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!"
Man, Dawn of War was such a great game. Still is, all these years later.
The Psyker in Dawn of War had such amazing voice lines. "I will split your thoughts open!"
Imagine you're severely schizophrenic. You hear voices from nowhere, and shadowy people are at the edge of your vision at all times. People are always looking at you funny, but you don't know what's wrong with you. You feel like your mind is coming apart one thread at a time.
But hey, sometimes you can light your own lowstick. Small victories.
And sometimes you conjure snakes to rain down from the heavens because of nightmares.
If you know, you know...
Hydra Dominus
@@lostsonofcyricactually its "Hydra Dominatus" 🤓
@@SercotaniNo, it's always been "Hydra dominus"
I am Alpharius.
What is, methamphetamine. You can achieve the State of mind in this realm very easily
Ultramarines Librarian: "I CAST ULTRA-DEPRESSION!"
In the 9th Ciaphas Cain book, The Tau accepted a Astropath to accompanied them, in order to keep up communication with the Imperium,during their alliance against the Tyranids
The seemed cautiously and aware of his powers,but not actually afraid of it
yeah, and in basically all of the tau books there's psykers of some kind, be them human or an alien race confederated into the Tau. The tau themselves seem to see using psyker powers as a weird thing they know some other races can do, but not much beyond that, and look down on people for using it blatantly and openly. I feel like it probably has more to do with how the Tau are pretty reserved in their displays and don't want individuals to draw too much attention to themselves, so throwing out magic fireballs is just too much.
Decided to do the math : The Emperor has had atleast 3.65 Billion psykers over the 10000 years since his internment into the Throne...
Only another 10000 years to get to about our population.
Yes and? He is a god.
@@Ashtor1337Bro what weird shit are you larping right now?
Not really that many in the grand scheme of things.
How many calories is that?
Psykers:”stay in the box no, stay in the box no, GET OUT OF MY SKIN!”
Shadow in your head: " Are you sure this skin is yours...?"
@@lostsonofcyric"YESS, I PISSED ON THIS SKIN...SO I MARKED IT, YOU CANT HHAAaaVe IT..."
@@evilsclone2499Shadow: Ooohh... yep thats yours, dont let Grandfather Nurgul hear about your filthy habits.
@@lostsonofcyric "heheheeeeheheeehehhhe... Skin skin so disgusting but liberating, I. CaaAAn FEEL EVerY LiTtLe mIcrrObe oN MY FaCE....piss is but a form of cleanliness that feeeEEEds my soothing song."
Being a Psyker isn't a phase. It's a lifestyle that will change your destiny.
****may also include a lord of change using your soul then your physical body as a midnight snack/fleshlight/front door 3-in-1 combo
Or it is a phase, and the next phase is death.
Pray you are worthy enough to become the Emperor's daily sustenance
It’s not a phase anymore. Shoutouts 10th edition.
It was a phase in 9th edition, but it isn't anymore in 10th edition.
Pre-psyker spacetravel might be quite similar to Votann space travel. Using AI or very powerful computers to calculate routes either in realspace or with very shorts dips into warp. Votann fleets were generation-ships and I think the rest of humanity might have used similar.
Basically, how normal people do stuff.
I'd wager that it's the same tech.
Some Grey knights actually do retire, when too old or too hurt. We meet one of those in the book Emperors Gift. A retired Grey Knight might tend to some honorable tasks in Titan, like tending to their cemetery of other marines
You know, that makes sense given their views of dreadnoughts and the like.
The Psyker has so many great lines in Dawn of War.
"Must we travel on foot again?" - When ordered out of the Chimera IFV,
""WITNESS YOUR DOOOOOOM!" - When mind blasting things outside of the IFV,
"I will not falter again!" - After they falter and have to be picked up by the IFV again...
Good times.
The Psykers have great lines in Darktide as well, my favorite being when being picked off the floor: "Whoops, you touched me. You're DAMNED NOW!"
He just sounds so gleeful as he says it.
"My mind bears a great pain!"
@@ReddotzebraMy favorite by far is “Oh look! We’re winning!”
DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ASK? - Psyker when told to do literally anything
@@eduardodiaz9942or “My… fate… is… foretold!” (I have no idea if that’s what he actually says; he’s kinda hard to understand sometimes)
To answer DK's question about the Tau empire having human psykers, the answer is hell yeah. one of the main characters in the farsight books is a ordo xenos inquisitor lady who is a biomancy psyker that eventually decides to fully join the tau empire instead of just being a spy in their ranks. she even shape-shifts into a Tau body using her biomancy at one point
I remember her. She was cool! I'm glad she didn't suffer from you-know-what in the book.
@@beastalchemistVA yeah! she's a rad character with a really interesting character arc that goes from "hey wait maybe the tau are onto something and I can bring it back to the imperium to improve life there" to "oh the imperium is fully unsalvageable but I don't know if I'll ever forgive myself for abandoning it" which is just SO GOOD
There is also an older lady in the shadowsun book. I dont remember her field at all but she was on the elemental council(?)
She took the place of the kroot elder.
@@keybladeking7155 both of them. She's a member of the main cast and one of Farsight's confidants. She is even the perspective character for a few chapters here and there, mostly during epilogues as she writes letters that sum up her experiences during the books.
@@Jleot true.
Well technically khorn technically has psykers in the blood pact called the gore mages, and their was that blood raven librarian/chapter master who fell to khorn. In fact khorn doesn't hate psykers just sorcerers who gain their powers through others and not with their own power he despise
Korn: "listen here nerd, you are going to master YOUR brain and FLEX that noggin...Observe~"
*He clenches every abstract concept of muscle he has and nukes a planet by staring at it*
Khorne has psykers, it's just that the only spell they can cast is FIST
Wasn't it the other way around Bricky?
The Age of Strife with its warpstorms was going on, and the birth of Slaanesh blew the storms apart allowing the Emperor to get going with the Great Crusade.
I'm fairly sure I read that somewhere, but that doesn't mean that GW hasn't retconned it at some point, because it was a while ago.
Can confirm that was canon at some point. Don't know if that's current canon. Idk. I stopped paying attention to new lore.
Can you hear the voices sing~ Singing the song of angry gods~ It is the music of a people who shall soon be slaves again~!
"It's raining snakes"
"Holy shit!"
"It's raining snakes"
"What the hell!"
It’s raining orks
WAAAAGHluya
It’s raining orks
@@eviljoshy3402didn’t tzeench do this at one point?
@@samhescott348 Maybe?
The Thousand Sons have a great psychic power where instead of mutating people directly, they mutate the landscape, turning it into masses of fleshy and living crystal tentacles that start attacking their enemies.
I'd like to think that the Orks' Great Green is a realm in the Warp, similar to the Realm of Chaos or the echo of Caliban that the Lion uses for travel.
Also, Wave of Penance is literally "taste the pain".
It's is in the older books. The warp is the other side. The chaos gods control a lot of it but they are only the biggest fish right now.
Remember that the Warp is like an ocean. If you stay close to the surface, you can make some relatively safe warp jumps. It's faster than not having FTL, but it's not the instantaneous travel that most think of in 40K. The 'deeper' you go into the Warp, the faster and longer jumps you can take, but you also increase your chances of running into something that thinks your ship is a tasty snack, or you can get stuck in warp storm that spits you out a 1000 years in the future or the past.
The bit about geller fields being made of psykers is no longer canon I believe. Also in some sources you can fly a ship without a navigator, but you have to do micro jumps that take forever.
In the NIght Lords Books A Chaos Marine Psyker pilots one of two ships as they only have one navigator. it works but is brutally tough to dominate the machine spirit and see a path through the warp.
Doing micro jumps that take forever to get you anywhere is literally what the tau do.
@@gama343except they don't go into the Warp, as the one time they tried that they found a god of the Greater Good and decided to murder all the non-tau for making it. 😂
Yeah, the T'au and Leagues both do it (speculation - T'au got the technology for Warp travel from the Leagues). Both groups have networks of Warp beacons set up throughout their territories, which the Emperor should have done while making the Imperium, but you know, he bet everything on the Webway Project.
Psykers popped up during the age of strife, it was before Slaanesh was born, because there were a ton of warp storms cutting off travel and communication. When Slaanesh was born, the warp storms generally went away and around that point the Emperor revealed himself.
The Great Green / Gork & Mork not being in the warp makes sense to me, because of how the daemon in Brutal Kunnin' felt about the orkz, the "abhorrent" as it called them.
Gork and Mork are in the warp tho, there's a human who sees them in the warp in a vision iirc
the way I interpreted that was that daemons from the four chaos gods view anything that interracts with realms of the warp that they don't control as "anathema" simply because they have no influence over them. Chaos can't corrupt orks because they draw their energy from a different realm of the warp, and that is infuriating to a being primarily composed of corruptive impulses
They are in the warp they just don't hang out in the chaos realms. Other entities have claimed Territory in the warp.
@@Ashtor1337 this
iT feels like they should be in their own part of the warp, not a new completely other thing, but something that is in contest with them. Such as how the emperor is fighting them but also has his own little place in the warp.
The best power is obviously the one in dawn of war where the psyker blows out your computers speakers shouting
WITNESS YOUR DOOOOOOOM
Cant believe Bricky didn't mention that Blood Angel Librarian Dreadnoughts can also use the Wings of Sanguinius, so you cab have a giant flying sarcophagus
One of the Magos with Cawl's forces in the Nexus incites an Ork Waaagh against the Pariah Nexus to study the effects on the Ork Waaagh field, in comparison to the Sisters of Battle... only to be overran by orbital defense versions the Shokk Attack Gun.
Slanessh alligned rouge psykers get access to some truly terrifying powers.
Like "mend buttcrack" and "instant brazillian wax"
Ah yes, shitting out a nurgling, truly an example of the taint of chaos.
Yeah great unclean ones do it all the time
@@trajanfidelisSo do certain cultists. In Fantasy and in 40k
This is the first AdRic poster I’ve considered getting, simply because I still live with my Parents, and couldn’t imagine the shame of them walking into my room and seeing 3 big tiddied Watchers staring at them from across my room.
I just hope they stop being cowards and embrace the fact that Slaanesh is singlehandedly sponsoring their patreon goals at this point.
So a couple of stand outs not covered from skimming the lexicanum list.
Inquisitors from the ordo malleus have a psychic power literally called “holocaust” which sets the air around the user on fire incinerating anyone who comes to close.
Meanwhile the grey knights have not one but two powers that literally tears a hole in the fabric of reality and into the warp with vortex of doom and warp rift.
The flesh tearers have a power called flensing which reads “When the Librarian uses this power he can choose multiple targets to strip their skin and muscle away.”
Also you can have librarian dreadnoughts if your playing blood angels. Which means you can have a dreadnought with angel wings fly across the battlefield.
Adeptus Ridiculous AND PancreasNoWork video in the same day?! The Emperor truly protects
Anytime I hear the Sisters of Silence mentioned, all I can think of is:
"NOOO DO NOT PUNCH GRAND-UNCLE IT IS A VERY NON-MALFUNCTIONING GUN"
I FEEL THE WARP TAKING OVER ME! IT IS A *GOOD* PAIN!
-last words before succumbing to Chaos.
Malcador: I cast Testicular Torsion
Emperor: *BALLS OF STEEL*
*Metal clang*
Malcador: Eh! Me nuts weigh a ton.
I can feel the warp overtaking me. It is a good pain!
get him sisters !
I regret this in advance.
"I feel the Warp coming inside me"
Bricky forgot Thousand Sons most powerful spell, Testicular Tortion
Gellar Field being something made by sleeping psycher is still one of STUPIDEST changes in the lore.
Yet, it is very Imperium. Humans are just cheap batteries.
Agreed, it doesn't make any sense.
You know what's powering the warp drive right?
@@Balrog4242 Logically not Psykers since Tau don't have Psykers but their skip drives are warp drives and more importantly humanity had both warp drives and iirc Geller Fields before Psykers.
I heard ir wasn't a full retcon, just one way it works. The Imperium has as many patterns and operating styles as they do planets.
The psyker base might be a nee "downgrade" due to lost tech knowledge
Hey Shy, do you never talk because you're not supposed to, you just don't want to, or because, you're... well, *Shy*?
i've been told shy is mute. Can't tell if that's true however.
Once again the white scars are forgotten…
Who?
who?
THE VOICES THEY ARE SINGING TO ME! THE VOICES! THE VOICES!!!!!
IF I RUN OUT OF AMMUNITION I VILL HAVE TO SHTART SHTABBING! OHHH SHTABBING
If you haven't read it already. In the book 'apocalypse' there is an interesting back and forth between the sisters and the word bearers, as the word bearers commander reflects on how the sisters are basically the other side of the coin. It also has spoilers as to how the adeptus ministrorum became as powerful as it has after the scouring. Great book and would 100% recommend!
I think the correct timeline for the birth of Slannesh is, Eldar begin depravity, men of iron revolt, the continued feeding of Slannesh preparing for her birth causing warp storms to plague real space leading to humanity losing the ability to warp travel. Then, age of strife while dark eldar continue spiraling, causing the emerging human psykers to blow up and release demons on worlds, finally birth of Slannesh collapse of eldar empire, the birth clears up warp storms,Emperor sees the time is now, unification wars, great crusade.
Psyker powers in 10th are completely superfluous. Every unit has a special power/effect. Psykers just have the 'psyker' debuff tag attached to theirs.
My theory is that Faith powers come from people producing their own warp energy, which is how they can use them in places cut off from the warp itself
Makes sense.
So, psikers can cast testicular torsion?
WOOOOOO
NED FUCKIN KELLY
Pyro and telekinetic abilities. Plus a backpack full of explosive pellets, throw stars, and blade. The Naruto pysker!😂
Fun fact, the term psyker is based off the word psychic.
Holy shit
@@ctirons I would have never guessed that, by the Emperor im mindblown
I love how they keep saying the birth of slaanesh creates warp storms that stop warp travel, when it was really the birth of Slaanesh that cleared up the warp storms throughout the galaxy allowing warp travel possible after old night
listening to this while playing dark tide, this is life
Any game with a class system I tend to lean towards the spell casters and assassin characters. That's just what I prefer.
I wish there was a Psycher human but instead of channeling the warp he just channels the WAAAAGHHHHH
You got the Weirdboyz for that
@@eduardodiaz9942Weirdboz ain't human
@@therudecanadian8068and the waaaaghhh is for the orcs. If you want something to channel the waaaaghhh you are an orc or Vulkin
While I am of the mind psychic power is the same regardless of source I suspect it is difficult to use energy associated with alien thoughts and feelings. This may be why the shadow in the warp is so debilitating.
Sisters of Silence have pre-Vow acolytes along to speak for them
The best part about Wings of Sanguinius is that Librarian Drednaughts can cast it, so you can have a psychic boxnaught with jump pack movement and a giant force weapon to stab things with.
I find it hilarious that during the Carcharodons episode, DK gave them so much shit for being so on the nose with their Shark psyker powers, but in this episode he calls them cool 🤣
DK just bounces off of Bricky.
Regarding the golden throne's 'fuel supply', if you scale a moderate estimate of the Imperium's population to modern day Earth, it's very roughly the equivalent of sacrificing one person every three hundred years to keep the Sun from going out. Still awful, but it puts into perspective how small it really is.
The Adeptus Astra Telepathica just sounds like the grimdark version of that one episode of Adventure Time where Finn and Jake learn magic but (spoilers) plot twist they are trained to have magic so they can use their powers to prevent a comet from crashing into the monastery the magicians train at. I'm all here for it.
Adventure Time was f*¢!# wild bro I swear 😂
1:08:08 Don't forget about The Hell from the soul drinkers books. Pretty rad power even though it doesn't directly delete people
"Grey Knights don't retire, they either die or go into a Dreadnought"
They prefer one of those A WHOLE LOT over the other.
My psyker powers once let me speak to a god. He told me "EY, PUNCH 'DAT GIT IN DA BACK A' DA 'EAD." I think it was Tzeentch.
The Emperor, Magnus, and Malcador are all considered "Alpha-Plus," meaning that their powers are all beyond the scale of what could possibly be measured (sort of like the concept of Omega-level mutants from Marvel Comics). Alpha is the highest that the Inquisition will allow among its ranks, and even then, you'll likely be considered a monster by your fellow Inquisitors (but then, they're monsters too, so, what does it matter), as Beta and Alpha level psykers are considered impossible to train by most people, while Alpha-plus is considered impossible to train. Obviously the Emperor and Malcador are both perpetuals, and Magnus had the most intuitive level of control of his powers of any the Primarchs, meaning the Emperor likely hard-coded control into Magnus's DNA.
Please please PLEASE! Do an episode on Commisar Ciaphus Cain soon! I have been BINGING the audio books at work and they are incredible. Cain is genuinely the character that I want to see Henry Cavil play as!
'The great green' is 'experienced' by the ork shaman in the Baneblade novel.
59:50 For that matter, it could even be a domain within the Warp, like the Garden of Nurgle and the Crystal Labyrinth.
You guys might be a "foot in the door" podcast, but I still tune in and have fun with you guys despite constantly consuming warhammer books and the wiki.
Blood Ravens: Obvious blood powers.
Salamanders: Obvious fire powers.
Raptors: Obvious bird powers.
Ultramarines: Weaponized existential dread.
Imperial Fists: Weaponized generational trauma.
Its hilarious how many powers are just "i cast inflict crippling depression" and im just sitting here like "hah, nice try but ive built up an immunity" 😂 .... 😢 Life is suffering. 😂
My retirement plan is Going in to a Dreadnaught
The Farsight books had a biomancer involved pretty heavily in the story, so there are definitely some psychers among the Gue'vesa.
I think the best example I got of a powerful psyker was in the inquisitor martyr game. Going a pyromancy psyker is cool, but my favorite thing to do is to massively buff myself with divination and biomancy to buff my speed, crit rate, attack speed, and proceed to Usain Bolt my way around the map with a power sword and bolt pistol. Enhanced battle psyker is super cool, because it doesn’t just mean fireball, but like knowing exactly how and where to shoot, exactly where to block and slash. Like a cooler Jedi.
We will serve you and in return… GRANT US THE POWER OF THE DARK GODS! - random cultist in Dawn of War
Typhus: "You gonna use stream of corruption?"
Chaos Psyker: **Pumps Fist** "YES!!!!" **Bends over and vomits profusely**
My theory is that since WAAAGH! energy and the ork psychic field was made by the Old Ones during the War in Heaven, it was made when it was the Sea of Souls. When the Warp was broken during the war and turned into Chaos, the WAAGH broke too. What the orks have become and how their power works is a result of their software getting fragged eons ago and the hardware is just trying it's best.
Waiting for that “dreadnought is my 401k” tshirt
The opening music being so loud it completely drown DK s first words it my favorite running gag
Sol’s Righteous Gaze sounds like a Destiny sidearm
My thoughts exactly, some exotic sidearm that buffs golden gun or something solar based
My favourite tragic psyker was Agun Soric from the Gaunt's Ghosts series. Just a tiny little power, weird but nothing compared to what we would think of a psyker being. But the imperium is harsh and there is no leeway ever.
You kind of covered space marine psykers here, but I’ve been wondering recently how librarians get to be librarians. Like, normal space marines go from recruit>scout> SM, but what’s the progression for librarians.
Same but they are tested mentally too
I'm pretty sure it happens at about the same time that they're aspirants, which is about the time they test them for psykery.
From the Salamander books I got the distinct impression it's pretty uncommon for a full-blown Space Marines to start manifesting psyker powers. Then again I haven't read every single 40K book ever published (yet.) So it might be different from chapter to chapter.
i hope that you guys cover the thousand sons, my favorite psyker legion of chaos :D. i love your warhammer lore vids, keep up the epic work
Can you guys talk about how the golden throne is failing.
Grey knights can retire! I remember hearing somewhere that when a grey knight deems himself too old or getting too slow for battle that they go to either Titan or another planet where they watch over a cemetery for grey knights and become blanks to protect their fallen brothers from the warp.
Friends on the other side suddenly makes more sense
Im finally caught up. Every other video ive seen on this channel was like 2yrs old.
HELL YEAH IM FINALLY CAUGHT UP AND CAN PARTICIPATE IN BOOK CLUB ON TIME! Anyways if that girl shown from the Rogue Trader game ( 10:58 ) had her normal eyes instead of them being gouged out like that, her nose was a little bit longer, and her skin was slightly less pale she would be kinda cute. Shit now i have to learn how to draw more than cars so i can make fanart of that. Man i dont have time for that. Oh well, the prices paid to experience emotion when one has no empathy is only a small issue in the grand scheme of things, right? Eh, It'll probably get done before i start the performance car brand im working on, i'll figure it out eventually
With sponsor funding of course. (Please for the love of the Emperor help me this shit is so expensive why do bills take 74% of my income I hate it so much)
So you're saying when a bunch of Sisters get together and start rubbing their faith up against each other ........... what were we talking about again?
19:23 Remember the Choral Engine from the Arks of Omen story? A psychic navigation beacon that dated back to the Dark Age of Tech...it strongly suggests that the DAoT humans had some tech or something that did the same job as psykers in astronavigation.
And then 10th edition came along and psychic apparently doesn't exist anymore.
I guess makes sense not talking about space wolves cause nor psyker hahaha, but ghost wolves
The Ravens summon Corvus and they don't even know it
Another great episode of the podcast!
Hey @Bricky, turns out the thing about ironstriders (Admech) being used on giant treadmills is canon, it’s written in a small part of the 8th edition codex for them on their background stuff
Hey Dk I guess you could say Orks work in mysterious Waas
About T'au and Psykers : In both the Farsight books by Phil Kelly, an Ordo xenos inquisitor is sent to infiltrate the T'au hierarchy as human auxiliary. She ends up beeing Farsight counselor about "psychic science" as the t'au call psyker's ability. She is also a biomancer and can basically shapeshift into t'au anatomy to enter a broadside exosuit towards the end.
She is a pretty good character, it gives a human perspective on xenos naivety about the warp.
100% would recommend "faith in crisis" and "empire of lies"
58:51 I hate that change. Who ever is redconing all that stuff better gets redcond before I redcon him
Legitimately, as soon I saw that the poster, I knew I had to buy that poster. I absolutely love it.
15:14 With the opening of the Great Rift and the Golden Throne accumulating defects the Adeptus Mechanicus is unable to repair the number of psyker sacrifices needed to keep the Emperor alive has increased considerably, up to 4000 are now needed on a daily basis.
Also, a medium-densely settled human world may have maybe one psyker. At least that was the case before the Great Rift opened, for it also increased the number of psykers (and warp shenanigans of any kind) throughout the galaxy.
When DK said was is 10k or 1k I really hoped Bricky would tell him how the throne is fucked and more and more psykers are being thrown at it. But perhaps Bricky doesn't know about it
No, no it's not. It was about 1 in a million were powerful enough to be detected and that was before the 13th crusade. Considering the majority of worlds have at least 1 hive city and thier populations are over 1 billion that city alone would have 1000. manufacturing worlds or hive worlds normally have 5+ major hive cities. On top of that you have millions of ship fleets with millions of people. You have entire houses that breed psykers.
Maybe breaking everyone's bones as a biomancy is helpful incombat lol