Yes please! (for part 2) I loved this story, it was pieced together so well with the narration and the illustrations & character voices. The Emperor's Children & Slaanesh are nothing if not entertaining!
I often wonder what was going through the minds of the Blood Angels when Khornes Champions appeared out of no where and saved them from the Tyrannids then left.
I mean… they were drawn by all the blood from the battles and killed both tyrranids and blood angels alike. They were probably more surprised at seeing the resurrected form of roboute guilliman later on
Khorne berserker after slaughtering a hive tyrant with his bare hands: "GIVE ME HARDER BATTLES" blood angel and neurothrope in unison: "dude what the fuck"
@@Keram-io8hv Yes and it was him/it/whatever that wanted to be the one to defeat and kill the Blood Angels as revenge for the beating he took from Sanguinius
There is one critical point you left out... they were killing the Angels while killing the Tyranids. A whole chapter was wiped out by the daemons during a 300-esque last stand against them.
People forget that Slannesh is not just about sex, murder and gluttony. They are about obsession and perfection as well. This fits within that so well, He may kill maul and mutilate but whatever he builds will be perfection in his eyes.
I've been homebrewing an Emperors Children warband called the Autum Sirens, who have the goal of creating the perfect sunset. When they attack a planet they try to terraform it to be perfect, destroying it in the process and thus never reaching perfection.
Slaanesh is self-indulgence. Self-belief, self-gratification, self-importance, self-promotion, self-improvement, and ultimately self-delusion. The sex, drugs, and gluttony are just the obvious self-indulgences. Then they get bored until they find a way to fuck, like, the very concept of a speedball.
One went insane and helped the Anchorite write and bring the Imperial faith, why.....Because logar made him mad once in passing not even directed at him. Not even to corrupt it at all, he flawlessly made a religious institute that was everything logar wanted and strong in enough resources the Anchorite could keep building up, and flawed In every way logar once looked up too. And it's everywhere, mocking him as it's founder his very vision he cannot lead and must destroy, and they love him until he exposes the lie when tears their cities down like his father did to him. He does it every planet, every station, every ship, and every room it will be there to remind him. Through faiths there's revenge. Is he a traitor influenced by chaos to flawlessly create a religion that opposes chaos for a traitor that actually took it seriously and believed, yes and does that make him a saint.
@@blizzardgaming7070 that is really unexpected, but really cool! i could imagine the band's goal having its seed in some pre-heresy conversation around the table. one of the boys is a painter, and wants to paint the perfect sunset, but lacks the scope to imagine it. he'd visit every world in the galaxy, and even transform worlds, just to paint the perfect sunset. he fell in battle during the heresy, but his brothers that heard it remembered that, and the thought took hold in their minds like a parasite. never mind that none of them really paints...
Slaneesh over tyrannids is still the better side, but even before that for the citizens and the vice treasurer its just a flat upgrade, its only the elites who dislike him
well our marines say for the emperor our sisters say come on bi*ches as servant saids i carry out your despicable wishes yep my lords here that a lot me i am but a vox officer but the people of this planet will soon be saying similar things
It's like that time Bender became a pharaoh after the old pharaoh died and he cheated into becoming his successor. Don't remember the exact wording, but it was in this style: "The tyranny of the old regime is over." *The slaves cheer* "Let a new wave of tyranny run over the world." *Confused noises*
Yeah, a lot of people don't get that the motivation for a good deal of Chaos marines to turn to Chaos is that they believed that it was the genuinely best option to ensure the safety and supremacy of Humanity against all of the other threats in the galaxy. I distinctly recall that when Lorgar found out that the daemon of the Laer Blade was controlling Fulgrim's body, he was enraged because his vision of Chaos was to unite Humanity symbiotically with it to achieve a greater result, like what happened with Argel Tal.
"FOLLOW UP, FOLLOW UP, FOLLOW UP. WesHammer, WesHammer". The crowds screamed "More". The excess washing over the narrator as they realized, "Why not a follow up, who but me could do this tale justice. It must be me, for their is no one else who can "
Emperor’s Children to the Genestealer Cult: You don’t seem to understand. This planet is not yours to consume. (Noise Marines play TomTom by Holy F-word in the background)
I never knew i would like so much the slaanesh marines How they interact with everything is so cartoonish yet still in tone with the setting, how full of themselves they are, while the undertones of how everything is just some words away into spiraling into horrors beyond the senses is also very interesting Probably my favorite story so far
i had a smirk on my face through most of this video. no big plot twist, just a straight and smooth ride with an expected but satisfying conclusion. i wonder if the people of serene are happy now, under such a "kind" and "wise" ruler... so yeah, part 2, please. it's rare that emperor's children get the spotlight like this.
Idk I thought Xantine having saved some of the genestealers just to release and cause a tyrannid invasion all bc he threw a tantrum was a plot twist lol. Like, I didn't expect ANY of them to cause a tyrannis invasion out of pettiness lol
Slaanesh is all about perfection, so I wouldn't be surprised if he was actually striving for the best standard of living for the people. Which is mad in a way, but seeing how he gets off on adoration it wouldn't be a stretch if he wanted to keep his people happy for the sole reason of drinking their cheers
@@MrFredstt which would be perfect from a certain perspectives. Slaanesh is not god of "sex, drugs or "degeneracy" blah blah", it's also embodiement of artistic pursuit, beauty/aesthetics and "love". So they probably would increase living standarts but "a-la Eldar".
So yeah, you are also right here. Liviing standarts would rise but for people to pleasure themselves and pursue artistic perfection etc. more, so Slaanesh would be more powerful (kind of). Slaanesh came to existence because of Eldar's being kind of high-civillisation in the end
@@noumena9463 Xantine pretty much does think he is creating a perfect artistic society. In the book he mentions wanting to make it the cultural gem and the most beautiful civilization in the galaxy. The book actually runs the gambit with obsessiveness. Xantine wants perfection in combat, in art, and to be the perfect ruler loved by all. Torachon is obsessive about his combat ability and his buffness. Lordling is obsessive about eating people. Sarquil is obsessive about logistics. Vavisk about music. You get the gist. Though I will mention one thing they ALL have in common is being drug addicts and torturers
Slaanesh apologists are deluded jnto thinking slaanesh would create a perfect pleasure planet. In reality they would be first to be skinned alive by daemonettes.
I honestly love the idea of a traitor chapter/warband/whatever that goes around saving planets and building societies that are similar but subtly opposed to the imperial creed, instead looking like what the Emperor was going for with his Imperial Truth. Sounds like some real Alpha Legion games.
Yeah. Maybe a khorne one when a khorne champion "encourages" certain enslaved people to tear apart some marauding dark eldar with their bare hands. Sounds cool.
There should be more of those type of war tbh, it added layer of morality to the faction. After all, chaos do exhibit traits that is positive like Honor from Khorne or change from Tzeen
It's not ENTIRELY implausible. There may be a EC warband who gets it in their head for a challenge of "Can you do what big E did...but BETTER?" and seek to turn a world into an idealistic paradise just because it's something no one has done before and once they get the idea in their head they can't let it go until they do it.
I will NEVER say no to more Grimdark Story Hour. Zantine is such an amazingly twisted character, and when you said this was only the first half of his journey on Serene I got genuinely excited.
Upside of Emperor’s Children is that they might want to experience being big damn heroes and save you, down side is that they have a very short attention spans and at any moment decide to get back to their “hobbies”, just for the lols.
Fighting to save an imperial world as a member of Chaos slaanesh space marine warband that is truly an extreme that you can’t get anywhere else. Not to mention you’d throw the inquisition for one hell of a loop when word gets out.
They would most likely short circuit and decide to play it safe. Exterminatus safe. I mean, „Who knows what sick chaos plan this is but I will have nothing of that!“
This is kinda "wholesome" in a way. These emperor damned space marines getting a reminder of how good it feels to be cheered on by thankfully citizens calling them their saviors. Im sure eventually this world will be ruined and defaced, but maybe not. Maybe the guy in charge of this group of emperor's children might uphold his word and do exactly what he said he would. If thats the case I would be surprised if they would request a tide of civilians every year for "entertainment purposes". These are emperor's children after all. I feel like there's two ends for the planet, either the emperor's children deface and destroy the planet when bored. Or they actually become pretty decent rulers and the imperium finds them and exterminotis the entire planet seeing it as chaos corruption
As you mentioned, the planet would likely be fine until boredom sets in for the company. There is no way that Zandine (almost certainly not the right spelling), could keep his company in check, even if he wanted to - the moment they got bored (which would not take long at all), all hell would break loose. Also, this is likely just the latest in a long line of things to create temporary satisfaction for him, before he needs to move onto the next (the demon inside him would not keep quiet for long if he wasn't acting slaaneshi enough....)
@@CyberUK so he's bouncing around finding new things to entertain him, gets satisfied, then bored, "tosses out" what he was messing with and tries finding something else? Guess even space marines can have ADHD lol
Assuming she is calling on Slanneshi warp energy in order to pull off the interrogation. Perhaps the incredibly disturbing manner is a sort of “fuel” for the power she is using.
I believe she had to break into his mind, to cause his pain and inability to scream the horrors to consume and delight in his suffering, to know as to what he desperately now wished to tell and scream to her
Oh no, if it ever came to light and the Imperium got back, the only explanation they need here is some form of resignation of the self-termination variety. It'll be quick and painless by comparison.
I believe 2 Chapters dating to the tine of Legions would just get sad. It means the good marines are still in there, but the corruption is still too deep to be saved.
Quick question; if a gene stealer cult has matured to the point of breaking out in revolt, doesn’t that mean that a hive fleet is approaching? Does defeating the cult somehow cause the hive fleet to lose interest and change course or is this planet still basically doomed?
As far as I know they will only show up once the Genestealers have secured the planet and the Patriarch psychically calls the hive fleet to come harvest. Being that he was still in hiding that probably didn't happen yet.
Spoiler Xantine keeps some of the genestealers in stasis. At the end of the book he is upset that the people no longer love him and that his brothers betrayed him so he releases them. They're then able to send out the signal to the hive fleet and it shows up and invades the planet as Xantine tries to escape in the midst of it.
I kinda like that this emperor's children warband is portrayed as a fairly competent fighting force that still has enough sober braincells to use basic strategy and tactics. Sometimes, I think it's easy to get lost in the sauce of 40k memes and dismiss all emperor's children marines as mindless marauding crackheads in power armor.
Well......I hate to break it to you but they are not competent. Later in the book they're pretty much all at each other's throats and betraying one another bc they think they're strongest and most perfect
I have a homebrewed Emperors Children warband that basically showed up and liberated some worlds from a corrupt government, because the land was beautiful and a lot of the worlds cities had gorgeous marble structures and spires of twisted perfection piercing the clouds. They basically just liberated the world then declared it under their management and are so far actually running the system quite well for now. But that’s just my home brewed warband.
I like to picture the Noise Marines, as looking, and sounding, like Dethklok, from Metalocalypse, with them, and their allies headbanging, rhythmically, heads bobbing, up and down, with one hand up, index finger, and pinky, sticking up, thumb sticking out, and the other fingers curled up, while, with their other hand, they shoot, slash, or otherwise deal with their enemies. I would love to see them animated, that way, even if it’s a totally different band, with different music, so long as it’s hard, and heavy, metal, it would be great to see.
"These mortals have too many arms..." dude your patron deity has too much of everything
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'The Emperor's Children are some of the most deranged and sadistic groups of space marines to have ever blighted the galaxy,' Ironically accurate for both the legion, and for the Emperor's actual children.
Love the Emperor's Children, they just always seemed so much more human in some aspects, but completely divorced from reality in other's... also, finally a really fun example of how strong a daemon can be... always hated that any shmuck with a pencil could kill a daemon
@@nickkorkodylas5005 Guilliman is an absolute beast when needed, I wouldn't be surprised if he could take in some of the stronger enemies alone... but when unnamed Guardsmen #86 beats a khornate daemon in a fist fight or beats any daemon more often than not... just makes the literal manifestation of evil in the world look like it's really not that bad of a threat😋
It's good to finally get some good EC content that isn't just Fabius doing Fabius things! I'd like to hear the second half and learn how crazy Zanten goes
I would love to ether see the ECs go totally nuts with the governing strategies or see some kind of escalation as a tendril of the great devourer nears the planet. Will the EC flee with their tails between their legs? I do not think so. Maybe they could try to forge an alliance with other traitorous chapters - there will definitely be blood in abundance. Or they could teach the citizens the way of the warp to defend their planet. The possibilities are endless!
An emperors child losing intelligence is interesting. We normally see them as narcissistic and hot headed but they're generally described as being incredibly intelligent from spending decades perfecting their minds as well as their bodies.
Emperor's children: We're here to save you. Planet militia fighting the Tyranids:....Naaaaa, we'll take our chances with the bugs. At least they will just eat us and not fuck, torture, rip us apart, eat and then kill us.
Firefly reavers come to mind “if they catch us they will rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sow our skin into their clothing.. and if we are VERY VERY lucky, they will do it in that order.”
Nah, that's more of the Wordbearer's gig. Getting saved by Emperor's Children is more like being saved by an army of Social Media Influencers composed of Van Life'ers, Trustafarians, Fashion Haulers and Poverty Tourism travellers.
@@Ideo7Z It can always get worse, like getting stuck in a Mexican standoff better them "In the name of Slaneesh we claim these mortal souls" "No no no, the Archon wanted these fine morsels of torture meat." "Sevetar sent us here to reap these servants of the corpse emperor"
At 27:30 is she interrogating someone afflicted by the gene stealers kiss but the others in the room are unaware? I’m 99% they are sure due to the fact aware of the location of the Queen.
Yes that's exactly what's happening. She could smell the xenos corruption in the room immediately and since outside it had been determined that they were dealing with a gene stealer cult she knew exactly what to look for.
@@weshammerTHE LEGEND HIMSELF RESPONDED TO MY COMMENT! Thank you so much for the confirmation! I showed your channel to a friend who was battling addiction and he’s not been clean for over a year and still listens and is now reading books and he just started painting figures so we can have our first game! We still both listen to your videos together especially while painting our figures now!
That's really cool to hear! I hope your friend is doing better, addiction runs in my family so I know what it's like seeing someone you care about struggle. I hope the hobby proves to be a great outlet for him!
Please cover the second half! Itll be interesting to see how badly it goes for the planet. (To be honest, xantine sounds so up his own ass I can fully believe he’ll forget the people need basic things like food and water, expecting them to worship him as they starve)
No, lol. It's remarked by some of the others that he is fueled purely by pride. He wants to outdo what Fulgrim did with Chemos and make a planet more perfect. There was a funny line bc as he's on his spiel one of his brothers says that Fulgrim doesn't even know who Xantine is lmao
the amount of art that u hand pick to complement the story sets u apart from most others dude. i gotta give it up and admit i been sleepin on u but no more, binging the whole catalog
Maybe… just MAYBE, there’s a small glimmer of hope that my favorite formerly loyal legion can get their shit together and become loyal again (you know, somewhat)
Just how many sensible people did you see in this story? Also, as an aside, sensible is relative. To anyone who knows anything of the wider universe but is also born into it and a part of it, this isn't abnormal to them. May they wish things were different? Sure, but so do a lot of us in our own world.
My lord please do more. I love this twisted savior haha. One of my biggest grips is the lack of good Emperors children lore videos. Fantastic job with the narration
I've always thought GW picked the Slaanesh-marked Legio to get the name "Emperor's Children," and have them keeping it in-character, as a reference to the Freudian Id.
@@peterallen5575No, this is another author In fact..this book is the first black library (and I am pretty sure actual first) full fleshed novel he has ever written I checked..and he wrote some small stories for black library as well beforehand.
Please make the part 2 Wes. I've been waiting for some Emperor's Children stories and loved the part 1 you made. Anything with Slaanesh and Noise Marines please
In concept, The 3rd Legion is my absolute favorite chaos marine band. But I've always been underwhelmed about the noise marines. Oh, but no longer. The description of the noise marines exploding the skulls and " liquefying bones" made my appreciation of them grow in leaps and bounds and have become some of my favorite marine types now. Thank you for this story and keep up the good work!
Strangely Vavisk was one of the more sane members which isn't what I would've expected from a noise marine. I mean of course he DID convert a cathedral into a gigantic orchestra using humans as the living instruments but ya know outside of that he was pretty cool
I always love hearing stories on the Emperor's Children. It's my main army alongside my Slaanesh turned House Taranis Chaos Knights, and the main reason I play EC is pretty much easy to divulge from their lore and any story with them in it. They have TONS of free reign to act in a wild series of fun ways that makes creating a back story for any army made with them truly diverse and a joy to expand on.
I loved this book, to the point I wanted to make an Adored army by the time I had gotten to the end of this part. But this quote from sandman has never been truer. All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories-if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death. Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)
I'm a massive fan of the emperor's children, and my God, this is definitely the right book for anyone who's trying to get into them and would definitely love a second part to see how our favorite boi, does for himself!
For anyone wondering, the book this is based on is over 400 pages, and there's an audiobook available, so it's well worth listening to the whole thing.
Ok now this is interesting. While I hope this guy might make things better (somewhat), optimist at heart that I am, I know in my heart it will only end in tragedy. Please do a second part, as I'm genuinely interested to see if this takes a more fruitful take on what a chaos chapter might to pragmatically, or if it falls into the same repetitive narrative of things always getting worse.
Yes! Let us have a Part 2! After all, what could _possibly go wrong_ with a world ruled by such a magnanimous and sensible leader? Have you ever considered doing VA work Wes? I feel like a career in WH40k audiobooks would work out well for you if YT ever lags for you financially.
I actually stopped and audio’d the book and finished your video now. The book was good and I like how it talked about the rivalry and connection between Slaanesh and Khorne.
Please do a follow up to this story , your delivery was amazing and I am truly impressed and intrigued, p.s: I am definitely going to to read the whole thing now because of you
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I commented without watching the video just to type 1st before anyone else. I am the very thing I swore to destroy
@@milkman1818Disgusting.
Yes please! (for part 2)
I loved this story, it was pieced together so well with the narration and the illustrations & character voices.
The Emperor's Children & Slaanesh are nothing if not entertaining!
please do a part 2
@@milkman1818Fortune favors the bold
I often wonder what was going through the minds of the Blood Angels when Khornes Champions appeared out of no where and saved them from the Tyrannids then left.
I mean… they were drawn by all the blood from the battles and killed both tyrranids and blood angels alike. They were probably more surprised at seeing the resurrected form of roboute guilliman later on
Khorne berserker after slaughtering a hive tyrant with his bare hands: "GIVE ME HARDER BATTLES"
blood angel and neurothrope in unison: "dude what the fuck"
Wasn't it Kabandha and his bois?
@@Keram-io8hv Yes and it was him/it/whatever that wanted to be the one to defeat and kill the Blood Angels as revenge for the beating he took from Sanguinius
There is one critical point you left out... they were killing the Angels while killing the Tyranids. A whole chapter was wiped out by the daemons during a 300-esque last stand against them.
People forget that Slannesh is not just about sex, murder and gluttony. They are about obsession and perfection as well. This fits within that so well, He may kill maul and mutilate but whatever he builds will be perfection in his eyes.
I've been homebrewing an Emperors Children warband called the Autum Sirens, who have the goal of creating the perfect sunset. When they attack a planet they try to terraform it to be perfect, destroying it in the process and thus never reaching perfection.
Slaanesh is self-indulgence. Self-belief, self-gratification, self-importance, self-promotion, self-improvement, and ultimately self-delusion.
The sex, drugs, and gluttony are just the obvious self-indulgences. Then they get bored until they find a way to fuck, like, the very concept of a speedball.
One went insane and helped the Anchorite write and bring the Imperial faith, why.....Because logar made him mad once in passing not even directed at him.
Not even to corrupt it at all, he flawlessly made a religious institute that was everything logar wanted and strong in enough resources the Anchorite could keep building up, and flawed In every way logar once looked up too.
And it's everywhere, mocking him as it's founder his very vision he cannot lead and must destroy, and they love him until he exposes the lie when tears their cities down like his father did to him. He does it every planet, every station, every ship, and every room it will be there to remind him.
Through faiths there's revenge. Is he a traitor influenced by chaos to flawlessly create a religion that opposes chaos for a traitor that actually took it seriously and believed, yes and does that make him a saint.
@@blizzardgaming7070 that is really unexpected, but really cool!
i could imagine the band's goal having its seed in some pre-heresy conversation around the table. one of the boys is a painter, and wants to paint the perfect sunset, but lacks the scope to imagine it. he'd visit every world in the galaxy, and even transform worlds, just to paint the perfect sunset. he fell in battle during the heresy, but his brothers that heard it remembered that, and the thought took hold in their minds like a parasite. never mind that none of them really paints...
@@robertlogan5354 the colour scheme I have so far is an orange to green gradient going top to bottom with black trim.
"The emporer's children is coming to save you" is a chilling line i thought id never hear.
It still has that vibe like "I'm with the government and I'm here to help"
Almost as funny as im from the government and im here to help
what is interesting is that because people don't know a thing about the Horus heresy and who fought shit like this can happen
Eh, I'll take Slannesh over tyranids any day.
Slaneesh over tyrannids is still the better side, but even before that for the citizens and the vice treasurer its just a flat upgrade, its only the elites who dislike him
When the meth head saves you from a mugger because you bummed him a cigarette that one time.
Yeah
Bummed and wienered
Bummed and wienered
💯
More like the meth head kills the people robbing your house and then is like "the house is nice, the pets like me, this is mine now"
"You saved us! Were free!"
"More like... under new management..."
*translated from whatever the hell the wildly screaming emporers child was saying*
well our marines
say for the emperor
our sisters say
come on bi*ches
as servant saids
i carry out your despicable wishes
yep my lords here that a lot
me i am but a vox officer
but the people of this planet will soon be saying similar things
I knew this would be the first comment I would see😭
It's like that time Bender became a pharaoh after the old pharaoh died and he cheated into becoming his successor. Don't remember the exact wording, but it was in this style:
"The tyranny of the old regime is over."
*The slaves cheer*
"Let a new wave of tyranny run over the world."
*Confused noises*
@@the-answer-is-42 ua-cam.com/video/PwRIW_SGLF0/v-deo.html
"My Lord, what is your name? . . ."
Why did I imagine Xantine replaced by Tigtone at that moment?
This story can be summed up of an Emperor's Children war band committing one heck of a PR stunt.
"Death to the corpse emporor! Death to the false god! Oh wait, i like this planet. Alright fine, we'll help." 😂😂
Do you mean "death TO the corpse Emperor"?
@@ivarramirezpaulsen8212 fixed it
FYI, EC´s battle scream is "For the Emperor!!!" EC´s are lil edgelords with humor....
Impururs
Like you’ve never done something just for the lolz before.
54:22 yes I do want a part two
Yes second one please
Gimme. This will be fun.
We need a part 2.
As an Iron Warrior fan I still appreciate diversity
It's almost an hour long ?? Damn it, was too good I thought it was shorter
Same
Despite all the corruption. They are still saving planets from Xeno's as the Emperor planned.
They are still *human* after all
Even the most corrupted of humans are superior to xeno scum after all
@@unclesam5230at least 10% of that daemon infested walking speaker is still human
Yeah, a lot of people don't get that the motivation for a good deal of Chaos marines to turn to Chaos is that they believed that it was the genuinely best option to ensure the safety and supremacy of Humanity against all of the other threats in the galaxy. I distinctly recall that when Lorgar found out that the daemon of the Laer Blade was controlling Fulgrim's body, he was enraged because his vision of Chaos was to unite Humanity symbiotically with it to achieve a greater result, like what happened with Argel Tal.
For some is better that than be eaten alive by aliens
Palace guards trying to arrest a space marine is a pure comedy
The Palace gaurds likely never saw actual combat . Puffed up show pieces they were.
"FOLLOW UP, FOLLOW UP, FOLLOW UP. WesHammer, WesHammer". The crowds screamed "More". The excess washing over the narrator as they realized, "Why not a follow up, who but me could do this tale justice. It must be me, for their is no one else who can "
perfection
More more more
Mooooooorrrrreeee!!!
@@MisaelIgorBarbosa he confirmed, that he is making the second part.
Follow up would be awesome, i like your style of storytelling and curious to see where this goes
Emperor’s Children to the Genestealer Cult: You don’t seem to understand. This planet is not yours to consume. (Noise Marines play TomTom by Holy F-word in the background)
Damn I’ve been trynna remember the name of that song for weeks now hahaha. Thanks g!
I never knew i would like so much the slaanesh marines
How they interact with everything is so cartoonish yet still in tone with the setting, how full of themselves they are, while the undertones of how everything is just some words away into spiraling into horrors beyond the senses is also very interesting
Probably my favorite story so far
Couldn't agree more It's the reason I love them so much. I find them genuinely hilarious well also being complex and super interesting to read about.
@@weshammer They and the Orks are the only ones having any fun 🤣
#76 Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies. - Ferengi Rules of Acquisition
i had a smirk on my face through most of this video. no big plot twist, just a straight and smooth ride with an expected but satisfying conclusion. i wonder if the people of serene are happy now, under such a "kind" and "wise" ruler...
so yeah, part 2, please. it's rare that emperor's children get the spotlight like this.
Idk I thought Xantine having saved some of the genestealers just to release and cause a tyrannid invasion all bc he threw a tantrum was a plot twist lol. Like, I didn't expect ANY of them to cause a tyrannis invasion out of pettiness lol
Slaanesh is all about perfection, so I wouldn't be surprised if he was actually striving for the best standard of living for the people. Which is mad in a way, but seeing how he gets off on adoration it wouldn't be a stretch if he wanted to keep his people happy for the sole reason of drinking their cheers
Well, not to spoil anything, he strives for a "perfect" society in the way you can expect from what a Slaanesh worshipper would consider "perfect"
@@MrFredstt which would be perfect from a certain perspectives. Slaanesh is not god of "sex, drugs or "degeneracy" blah blah", it's also embodiement of artistic pursuit, beauty/aesthetics and "love". So they probably would increase living standarts but "a-la Eldar".
So yeah, you are also right here. Liviing standarts would rise but for people to pleasure themselves and pursue artistic perfection etc. more, so Slaanesh would be more powerful (kind of). Slaanesh came to existence because of Eldar's being kind of high-civillisation in the end
@@noumena9463 Xantine pretty much does think he is creating a perfect artistic society. In the book he mentions wanting to make it the cultural gem and the most beautiful civilization in the galaxy. The book actually runs the gambit with obsessiveness. Xantine wants perfection in combat, in art, and to be the perfect ruler loved by all. Torachon is obsessive about his combat ability and his buffness. Lordling is obsessive about eating people. Sarquil is obsessive about logistics. Vavisk about music. You get the gist. Though I will mention one thing they ALL have in common is being drug addicts and torturers
Slaanesh apologists are deluded jnto thinking slaanesh would create a perfect pleasure planet. In reality they would be first to be skinned alive by daemonettes.
I honestly love the idea of a traitor chapter/warband/whatever that goes around saving planets and building societies that are similar but subtly opposed to the imperial creed, instead looking like what the Emperor was going for with his Imperial Truth. Sounds like some real Alpha Legion games.
Yeah.
Maybe a khorne one when a khorne champion "encourages" certain enslaved people to tear apart some marauding dark eldar with their bare hands.
Sounds cool.
There should be more of those type of war tbh, it added layer of morality to the faction. After all, chaos do exhibit traits that is positive like Honor from Khorne or change from Tzeen
Isn't there a Thousands Sons warband going around doing exactly this?
@@servit0r Honestly, no idea. If there is, I would find that hilarious.
It's not ENTIRELY implausible. There may be a EC warband who gets it in their head for a challenge of "Can you do what big E did...but BETTER?" and seek to turn a world into an idealistic paradise just because it's something no one has done before and once they get the idea in their head they can't let it go until they do it.
Ya boy walked up to the governor and pulled a Bane. Just went right up and hit him with the "do you... FEEL in charge?"
I will NEVER say no to more Grimdark Story Hour.
Zantine is such an amazingly twisted character, and when you said this was only the first half of his journey on Serene I got genuinely excited.
Upside of Emperor’s Children is that they might want to experience being big damn heroes and save you, down side is that they have a very short attention spans and at any moment decide to get back to their “hobbies”, just for the lols.
Fighting to save an imperial world as a member of Chaos slaanesh space marine warband that is truly an extreme that you can’t get anywhere else. Not to mention you’d throw the inquisition for one hell of a loop when word gets out.
They would most likely short circuit and decide to play it safe. Exterminatus safe. I mean, „Who knows what sick chaos plan this is but I will have nothing of that!“
Inquistor :"Are you sure its not the Alpha legion?"
Nah they'd be like "Weird. Now Exterminatus it."
"No one will ever believe you." 😂😂
"I bet they'll be beautiful like the angels of legend" there's a reason angels always said don't be afraid
Ophanim- 🖐👁👁👁👁👁🖐
This is kinda "wholesome" in a way. These emperor damned space marines getting a reminder of how good it feels to be cheered on by thankfully citizens calling them their saviors. Im sure eventually this world will be ruined and defaced, but maybe not. Maybe the guy in charge of this group of emperor's children might uphold his word and do exactly what he said he would. If thats the case I would be surprised if they would request a tide of civilians every year for "entertainment purposes". These are emperor's children after all.
I feel like there's two ends for the planet, either the emperor's children deface and destroy the planet when bored. Or they actually become pretty decent rulers and the imperium finds them and exterminotis the entire planet seeing it as chaos corruption
The ending is pretty grimdark
@@marqofthedwyne as to be expected lmao. Oh well. Was fun while it lasted
As you mentioned, the planet would likely be fine until boredom sets in for the company.
There is no way that Zandine (almost certainly not the right spelling), could keep his company in check, even if he wanted to - the moment they got bored (which would not take long at all), all hell would break loose. Also, this is likely just the latest in a long line of things to create temporary satisfaction for him, before he needs to move onto the next (the demon inside him would not keep quiet for long if he wasn't acting slaaneshi enough....)
@@CyberUK so he's bouncing around finding new things to entertain him, gets satisfied, then bored, "tosses out" what he was messing with and tries finding something else? Guess even space marines can have ADHD lol
@@zelithfang2365 😆
“I wouldn’t say saved. I’d say under new management”
“Their reign of terror is over. My reign of terror begins!”
I like to believe that the witch could've just read the spy's mind, but the gruesome torture was just her having fun.
i want her as a model, and i want her to be a precision unit xD
she probably could of just read his mind but was like nah lets rip out some guts
The dude was part genesteeler she was right to make him tear his guts out.
Assuming she is calling on Slanneshi warp energy in order to pull off the interrogation. Perhaps the incredibly disturbing manner is a sort of “fuel” for the power she is using.
I believe she had to break into his mind, to cause his pain and inability to scream the horrors to consume and delight in his suffering, to know as to what he desperately now wished to tell and scream to her
2:15 The shocked and amazed faces Wes makes while jabbing his finger toward the sponsor product or while playing RAID or whatever always cracks me up.
Imagine trying to explain what happened to some inquisitor or other chapter of space marines
Good thing for the inhabitants the Imperium has lost track of the planet.
💭(Exterminatus!)
Oh no, if it ever came to light and the Imperium got back, the only explanation they need here is some form of resignation of the self-termination variety. It'll be quick and painless by comparison.
I believe 2 Chapters dating to the tine of Legions would just get sad. It means the good marines are still in there, but the corruption is still too deep to be saved.
Sounds like some heresy to me brother, the inquisition has been informed
The words "Kicking and screaming": *Exist*
Weshammer: "I can milk you"
🤣
A Part 2, YES, PLEASE!
Yes
Quick question; if a gene stealer cult has matured to the point of breaking out in revolt, doesn’t that mean that a hive fleet is approaching? Does defeating the cult somehow cause the hive fleet to lose interest and change course or is this planet still basically doomed?
As far as I know they will only show up once the Genestealers have secured the planet and the Patriarch psychically calls the hive fleet to come harvest. Being that he was still in hiding that probably didn't happen yet.
I would assume they still go for it because it now weakened
Spoiler
Xantine keeps some of the genestealers in stasis. At the end of the book he is upset that the people no longer love him and that his brothers betrayed him so he releases them. They're then able to send out the signal to the hive fleet and it shows up and invades the planet as Xantine tries to escape in the midst of it.
I kinda like that this emperor's children warband is portrayed as a fairly competent fighting force that still has enough sober braincells to use basic strategy and tactics.
Sometimes, I think it's easy to get lost in the sauce of 40k memes and dismiss all emperor's children marines as mindless marauding crackheads in power armor.
That last bit got a good chuckle.
Memes have ruined the image of the EC.
@korniestpatch To be fair the EC ruined the image of the EC first.
@@MaticustheRed I mean in the lore yes. But people really focus on one or two things about slaanesh and ignore everything else.
Well......I hate to break it to you but they are not competent. Later in the book they're pretty much all at each other's throats and betraying one another bc they think they're strongest and most perfect
I have a homebrewed Emperors Children warband that basically showed up and liberated some worlds from a corrupt government, because the land was beautiful and a lot of the worlds cities had gorgeous marble structures and spires of twisted perfection piercing the clouds. They basically just liberated the world then declared it under their management and are so far actually running the system quite well for now. But that’s just my home brewed warband.
I like to picture the Noise Marines, as looking, and sounding, like Dethklok, from Metalocalypse, with them, and their allies headbanging, rhythmically, heads bobbing, up and down, with one hand up, index finger, and pinky, sticking up, thumb sticking out, and the other fingers curled up, while, with their other hand, they shoot, slash, or otherwise deal with their enemies. I would love to see them animated, that way, even if it’s a totally different band, with different music, so long as it’s hard, and heavy, metal, it would be great to see.
Thumb tucked in. Thumb out is Spider-Man.
Sorry, my mistake. I’ve never actually done it. I just thought it looked funny. I guess I wasn’t watching closely enough.
"These mortals have too many arms..." dude your patron deity has too much of everything
'The Emperor's Children are some of the most deranged and sadistic groups of space marines to have ever blighted the galaxy,' Ironically accurate for both the legion, and for the Emperor's actual children.
Hey what about the Sensei? They seem to be doing alright.
guys, why is the inquisition at my doorstep?
Please do a part 2! The characters in this story are so good and I want to hear about Zantines interpretation of perfection!
Love the Emperor's Children, they just always seemed so much more human in some aspects, but completely divorced from reality in other's... also, finally a really fun example of how strong a daemon can be... always hated that any shmuck with a pencil could kill a daemon
Do not underestimate the pencil, it is Guilliman's greatest opponent by his own admission!
@@nickkorkodylas5005 Guilliman is an absolute beast when needed, I wouldn't be surprised if he could take in some of the stronger enemies alone... but when unnamed Guardsmen #86 beats a khornate daemon in a fist fight or beats any daemon more often than not... just makes the literal manifestation of evil in the world look like it's really not that bad of a threat😋
54:30 amm yes!!!
It's good to finally get some good EC content that isn't just Fabius doing Fabius things! I'd like to hear the second half and learn how crazy Zanten goes
I would love to ether see the ECs go totally nuts with the governing strategies or see some kind of escalation as a tendril of the great devourer nears the planet. Will the EC flee with their tails between their legs? I do not think so. Maybe they could try to forge an alliance with other traitorous chapters - there will definitely be blood in abundance. Or they could teach the citizens the way of the warp to defend their planet. The possibilities are endless!
An emperors child losing intelligence is interesting. We normally see them as narcissistic and hot headed but they're generally described as being incredibly intelligent from spending decades perfecting their minds as well as their bodies.
Sometimes the warp crack do crazy things upstairs
give it a sniff its good sh*t
Something about doffy saying this is so funny
@@Donquixote_doflamingo164 it's good stuff give it a sniff
We call name that stuff warpstone yes yes
@@strawberrypuddin8919 yo a skaven :0
Your videos have made me a fan of 40k. The lore is great. I just found these stories within the lore. Loving them so far.
Emperor's children: We're here to save you.
Planet militia fighting the Tyranids:....Naaaaa, we'll take our chances with the bugs. At least they will just eat us and not fuck, torture, rip us apart, eat and then kill us.
And if you're very, very lucky, they'll do it in the reverse order.
Firefly reavers come to mind “if they catch us they will rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sow our skin into their clothing.. and if we are VERY VERY lucky, they will do it in that order.”
This would make a sick missions in space marine 2 DLC where you can play as chaos and kill xenos. One could dream.
Or kill your own chaos inflicted brother to further ascend.
The idea of the emperors children that had time with clonegrim becoming good is a really good idea
This planet has genestealers and a myth that a saviour will descend from the heavens. I think i can guess where this is going.
"the Emperor's Children are coming to save you."
The 40k equivalent of "I'm with the government and I'm here to help"
Nah, that's more of the Wordbearer's gig. Getting saved by Emperor's Children is more like being saved by an army of Social Media Influencers composed of Van Life'ers, Trustafarians, Fashion Haulers and Poverty Tourism travellers.
@@Ideo7Z It can always get worse, like getting stuck in a Mexican standoff better them
"In the name of Slaneesh we claim these mortal souls"
"No no no, the Archon wanted these fine morsels of torture meat."
"Sevetar sent us here to reap these servants of the corpse emperor"
At 27:30 is she interrogating someone afflicted by the gene stealers kiss but the others in the room are unaware? I’m 99% they are sure due to the fact aware of the location of the Queen.
Yes that's exactly what's happening. She could smell the xenos corruption in the room immediately and since outside it had been determined that they were dealing with a gene stealer cult she knew exactly what to look for.
@@weshammerTHE LEGEND HIMSELF RESPONDED TO MY COMMENT! Thank you so much for the confirmation! I showed your channel to a friend who was battling addiction and he’s not been clean for over a year and still listens and is now reading books and he just started painting figures so we can have our first game! We still both listen to your videos together especially while painting our figures now!
That's really cool to hear! I hope your friend is doing better, addiction runs in my family so I know what it's like seeing someone you care about struggle. I hope the hobby proves to be a great outlet for him!
Please cover the second half! Itll be interesting to see how badly it goes for the planet. (To be honest, xantine sounds so up his own ass I can fully believe he’ll forget the people need basic things like food and water, expecting them to worship him as they starve)
It goes REALLY bad. It includes a Khorne cult and a bloodthirster, betrayal, a rebellion, AND a tyrannid invasion
I like to think that Xantine has a tiny miniscule flicker of humanity left in him that compelled him to do what he did in on cerene
No, lol. It's remarked by some of the others that he is fueled purely by pride. He wants to outdo what Fulgrim did with Chemos and make a planet more perfect. There was a funny line bc as he's on his spiel one of his brothers says that Fulgrim doesn't even know who Xantine is lmao
They were trying to save them... *from themselves*
the amount of art that u hand pick to complement the story sets u apart from most others dude. i gotta give it up and admit i been sleepin on u but no more, binging the whole catalog
Maybe… just MAYBE, there’s a small glimmer of hope that my favorite formerly loyal legion can get their shit together and become loyal again (you know, somewhat)
So long as there's enough glory and excess, but not too much, I think at least some could become loyal once again.
Never😂
The notion that any sensible person would naturally support the imperium kinda misses the point of the setting.
Just how many sensible people did you see in this story?
Also, as an aside, sensible is relative. To anyone who knows anything of the wider universe but is also born into it and a part of it, this isn't abnormal to them.
May they wish things were different? Sure, but so do a lot of us in our own world.
@@TheLH86 Not many. Which was the whole point so not sure why you're asking.
Yes, do make a part two. Your content is always a joy to watch
My lord please do more. I love this twisted savior haha. One of my biggest grips is the lack of good Emperors children lore videos. Fantastic job with the narration
Getting a story from the Chaos Marines perspective, and the Emperor's Children no less, is really refreshing!
So far it seems like a surprisingly uplifting story for a chaos marine. Can’t wait to see how they change that
I've always thought GW picked the Slaanesh-marked Legio to get the name "Emperor's Children," and have them keeping it in-character, as a reference to the Freudian Id.
I am convinced that every emperor children except Biles is a comic relief.
Was this book written by the guy who did Brutal Kunnin?
@@peterallen5575No, this is another author
In fact..this book is the first black library (and I am pretty sure actual first) full fleshed novel he has ever written
I checked..and he wrote some small stories for black library as well beforehand.
“We are free!”
“Not free more…under new management”
"We’re the bad guys right ! Right ?"
S’janth: Me inside your head now!
Sarquel: Xantine, you mind telling me what you're doing?
Xantine: Giving the genestealers back their bomb.
I'd love to see a 2nd part! Hearing that this was only the first half was such a joy
Please make the part 2 Wes. I've been waiting for some Emperor's Children stories and loved the part 1 you made. Anything with Slaanesh and Noise Marines please
Just a regular day for a Slaaneshi warband
the emperors children were mearly mad that the genestealer cult stole their colors
In concept, The 3rd Legion is my absolute favorite chaos marine band. But I've always been underwhelmed about the noise marines. Oh, but no longer. The description of the noise marines exploding the skulls and " liquefying bones" made my appreciation of them grow in leaps and bounds and have become some of my favorite marine types now. Thank you for this story and keep up the good work!
Strangely Vavisk was one of the more sane members which isn't what I would've expected from a noise marine. I mean of course he DID convert a cathedral into a gigantic orchestra using humans as the living instruments but ya know outside of that he was pretty cool
I hope you’re recording a part two right now cause I just finished listening and I need more!
0:55
"Massive understatement" was said. Video confirmed for great
Slaanesh raiders suddenly rediscover the principles of agronomy and industry after being outraided by other chaos factions.
Please do the rest of that story... can't wait to see his idea of "Utopia"
I always love hearing stories on the Emperor's Children. It's my main army alongside my Slaanesh turned House Taranis Chaos Knights, and the main reason I play EC is pretty much easy to divulge from their lore and any story with them in it. They have TONS of free reign to act in a wild series of fun ways that makes creating a back story for any army made with them truly diverse and a joy to expand on.
Not doing a follow up to finish the story would just be cruel. Definitely wanna see a part 2!
This was great. Love this story telling.
Can you do a video on the gretchin revolutionary committee
Genestealer Patriarch: "I thought _we_ were the bad guys!"
Yes! Another emperor's children video!
this pleases the prince
And hopefully 1 more with part 2!
I loved this book, to the point I wanted to make an Adored army by the time I had gotten to the end of this part. But this quote from sandman has never been truer.
All Bette's stories have happy endings. That's because she knows where to stop. She's realized the real problem with stories-if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.
Neil Gaiman, Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)
Oh please mighty lord weshammer! Bless us with a second part to this blessed video
I'm a massive fan of the emperor's children, and my God, this is definitely the right book for anyone who's trying to get into them and would definitely love a second part to see how our favorite boi, does for himself!
Please do cover the rest of this book !!!
For anyone wondering, the book this is based on is over 400 pages, and there's an audiobook available, so it's well worth listening to the whole thing.
Ok now this is interesting. While I hope this guy might make things better (somewhat), optimist at heart that I am, I know in my heart it will only end in tragedy. Please do a second part, as I'm genuinely interested to see if this takes a more fruitful take on what a chaos chapter might to pragmatically, or if it falls into the same repetitive narrative of things always getting worse.
Yes! Let us have a Part 2!
After all, what could _possibly go wrong_ with a world ruled by such a magnanimous and sensible leader?
Have you ever considered doing VA work Wes? I feel like a career in WH40k audiobooks would work out well for you if YT ever lags for you financially.
25:00 please abide my friend... he stepped on a land mine... with his face...
Definitely do a follow up, your narration and story telling is the best in the warhammer community
Yes, we definitely need a follow-up.
I’m not even a warhammer fan but I love these lore videos. Plz keep this coming
Bro really said finally a worthy opponent.
I actually stopped and audio’d the book and finished your video now. The book was good and I like how it talked about the rivalry and connection between Slaanesh and Khorne.
This book feels like gw edging us to an emperor's children army
As soon as there's an emperor's childrens combat patrol, I'm buying it.
Please do a follow up to this, I want to hear what happened next.
18:50 lmao dudes so confident in gettin capped 😂🤣
These are slanneshy worshippers. He isn't getting capped but getting clapped.
Yes do a part 2!
Please do a follow up to this story , your delivery was amazing and I am truly impressed and intrigued,
p.s: I am definitely going to to read the whole thing now because of you
the emperors children are coming to save you
ah yes, my favoirate quote copy
straight up "be not afraid" vibes
I just wanted to say thank you for the tip about Into The AM - just got the three Ts I ordered for my hubby, and lo and behold... he absolutely loves them.
Also, we love watching your videos together, even though I am not all that into Warhammer. Even an outsider like me find the videos funny, entertaining, enlightening and you honestly do a great job when narrating. Story videos like these are my favs, please do make the follow up on this - my add brains wants the rest of the story 😂
I would love a follow up on this video. I love hearing about Slaanesh and the God's servants.