@@brhino3708got you beat. Don’t know if this makes me a good dad or not, but I got my five year old saying it. Little dude busted out his first waagh! the other day too since now he wants me to paint him an ork army. My wife at least knows who Sanguinius is. That’s enough for me.
Vulkan is the largest primarch, his geneseed makes all of his space marines huge as well, and they actually rule. One of their marines once said, "how can you hope to carry the weight of the entire imperium and yet cannot burden yourself with one innocent human being?"
I think the only exception to this is that all of the Alpha legion are very large for marines while having the shortest primarchs so they can copy being Alpharius more accurately
@@wellhiyadude1 Pre Heresy encounters between the Alpha Legion and ... literally any other legion are uniformly hilarious, and this is one of the many reasons. "Your name, Brother?" "I am Alpharius!" :sigh: "... Let's get on with it." "It's already done." "What?" :"Alpharius" is no longer there somehow: "I really hate them all..."
There are actually nice parts of the Imperium, they are called "Garden Worlds" there are probably 10's of thousands of them, which means billions upon billons of people experience a really nice life in 40K....but they are probably 1 or 2 % of the empire LOOL...but the re is SOME fragile hope
yeah there are so many worlds that some of them wont even know there is a constant war going on lol. They just live their normal lives. Also you know, daemons, chaos, and hell and all that dont exist you heretic.
Incorrect agri worlds take up that role and probably around 0.01% of people live on garden worlds which are known for luxury goods and likely supply entire sub segementiums so likely there are only a few hundred at most
4:18 why do I get the feeling that this is a way to ease into the whole “so I bought an army starter set” conversation. The key is to avoid discussing the price at any cost
Probably why he doesn't want to say his favourite faction yet. Because she just heard that collecting Guardsmen is expensive. It'll be better to break the news he started playing them afterwards when she forgot.
^This. Also, the Ciaphus Cain series, which also has the benefit of being more light-hearted and comedic. (Very useful, given the general dour tone of 40K).
And another one sinks into the rabbit hole. Can't wait for you to get into the Space Marine legions, the animations and audio books (Astartes, Secret Level, Helsreach, Guardsman, Hammer and Bolter...), Luetin's in-depth lore videos etc. 😁
Nurgle is going quietly into the night it is brainwashing and delusion it's not happiness (just because you were drugged into happiness doesn't mean it's the best fate it is a twisted abusive love)
it's funny to consider the grimdark subgenre came from or was driven by "this is a battle game and if life gets better there's no reason to have battles so nothing gets better so we can keep playing the tabletop game."
Hello. I just discovered your videos about Warhammer 40k and am thoroughly enjoying them. I've been curious about the lore so seeing you two reacting to Bricky's explanations and introduction to the lore has been quite interesting. I might not ever play the tabletop version, because I understand it is an expensive hobby, but I do like learning about this universe and look forward to your next installment.
If you find it interesting and think about starting. It is expensive. There are alternatives. Check Out one Page Rules. They have free Rules that are competible to the Models, so you save in those expensive Rules books. Or Check Killteam. Kill Team is directly from Warhammer but uses 10 Models per Side, so you pay 50$ for all Modells plus Paint and some Equipment. In that Case your oponent should have a rulebook. Or 150$ for two killteams and everything except Paint. Share the cost with a friend and you can Play rather cheaply.
1:15 yes sis, "mulling" is a fitting way to describe a newer person's state of mind once introduced to this world lol. There are many, maaany things that get your mind spinning and thinking on. The why's and how's and then repercussions etc. Wondering about the living conditions and psychology of the normies of the universe is, imo, a very common question in the minds of a lot of people getting into this this lore. How do they cope and what makes life worth living? Indeed this is something Ive gone back and thought about at several times over the decades. Sis is not alone and if you have decent empathy/social awareness it can kinda be a downer lol . Nice vid fam 🤙🏽
My D&D group and I LOVE Warhammer - but the subject of whether or not we'd play a D&D style game in the setting of 40k has come up, and most of us are against it because of how depressing the universe is.
This always confused me. Is fantasy and 40k happening at the same time? Is fantasy the past earth before we reached intergalactic civilizations? Its gotta tied to each other somehow.
@@BLaCkKsHeEp Not necessarily, they are two different universes. But within Fantasy, there is Age of Sigmar and Warhammer Fantasy/The Old World. Age of Sigmar is the newest universe that was spawned from the remnants of Warhammer Fantasy. The only thing really tied are the Chaos Gods of all three universes.
@BLaCkKsHeEp GamesWorkshop was doing a Multiverse before it was cool. The only thing truly tying Warhammer Fantasy/Age of Sigmar to Warhammer 40k is the Chaos gods and the demons.
Being an Astra Militarum soldier is already a relative rarity. Among the countless trillions of humans, most of them are stuck in hereditary positions within the ridiculous engine required to supply the war machine. Odds are, if you were born into 40K, you don't get any choices to make. Soon as you get sufficiently schooled to join your parents' "career," that's where you end up. Probably neck deep in paperwork 18 hours a day until you die.
Well, you're most likely not a scribe, but some poor sod working in a factory floor or a in a mine or on massive, muddy field farming algae slurry or something.
What you say may be true for places in which the grip of the Adeptus Administratum has a strong grip on, and also for those of the Ecclesiarchy and the Mechanicus. But each of the million planets in the Imperium is... well, it's own world. There's every level of technology and every kind of system of government, so there's as many slaves and serfs as there are free citizens. It is implied that the average world has about as much military population as modern day Earth, sometimes in fractioned hive cities, nations, kingdoms or tribes but more often in an unified planetary government that organizes the soldiers into a Planetary Defense Force (PDFs). The Astra Militarum then takes away the cream of the crop from that organization as taxes (the Imperial Tithe).
Found you warhammer series with your wife by random but i love this content! Keep up the good work and i'm excited to see more of her still naive reactions to the grim dark
You guys are awesome! First we got him hooked on the vast universe of 40k and now he's doing the same with his lovely wife! The more you look into the rabbit hole, the more you crave. May the Emperor protects you both.
You may have noticed that in this and the previous video he refers initially to 20 and then corrects himself to 18 primarchs. This is a sort of inside joke because there were actually 20, but 2 of them were deleted from the records and all but forgotten - and nobody knows why and talking about them is considered heresy, punishable by death. Oh and terra is latin for earth 😉
It is heresy to speak about them, the first lord of the Grey Knights attacked (preheresey) Horus because he was upset that his two brothers were being erased from all imperium records. Also we have some idea of what happened based on small lore tidbits and it appears that one of the erased two fell to chaos early and was slain by the Space Wolves. It’s possible both fell or the one who fell killed his brother. We don’t know why they were erased from the records though
Not true. Cannibalism is a big no in the Imperium, especially in the guard. Cannibalism can lead to Chaos so it's frowned upon and punished severely. Corpse starch as memed would be cannibalism. You'll find it on hive worlds, but even if it's called corpse starch it's unlikely to be humans turned gruel, even though there will definitely be cases where corpse starch is the corpse starch we all think of, just not likely. In all likelihood, bodies are laid out and bio forms like fungus, yeast or algae consume parts of the human to grow more substantially and more nutrition filled, perhaps at least protein wise, than a human corpse could naturally be. If you read Gaunts Ghosts, Ciaphas Cain novels, Straken, Ice Warriors or pretty much any guard specific novel, you'll find a distinct lack of corpse starch spoken of with any seriousness if at all.
@@ChibsterofNurgy Personally, I would argue "the Imperium forbids cannibalism" and "the Imperium does industrialized cannibalism ALL THE TIME" are not mutually exclusive. it's a fascist, totalitarian state. Hypocrisy is part and parcel with its entire shtick. That said, on paper, the Imperium would prefer to not stoop to making people eat people. On the other hand, the Imperium is both so massive and so poorly run, it's very easy for food shortages to be supplemented with the dead, as needed. Unfortunately, because of the aforementioned poor management, that kind of contingency measure becomes increasingly common as centuries turn into millennia. Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution, after all. It's not even that Corpse Starch is always made of human remains. That's probably not its official name. Usually, they put all kinds of organic materials in there (farmed bugs, slime, algae, organic waste, etc.). It's just...well, the rations the state gives you only need to have human remains in it once, before you and all your buddies start calling it "Corpse Starch". (Same logic as: "You can practice medicine for decades, but you f&
@Bluecho4 It happens, but it's not common place as in Imperial standard, much less in the Guard as the other person was stating. Necromunda is the wild west in an already dysfunctional Imperium. I think people look at it as "The" hive city/world, but I don't necessarily think that makes it the standard either. I think it could be an outlier. Considering the number of worlds in the Imperium, it could be one of a thousand others like it and it would still make all of them outliers when you consider the supposed million worlds the Imperium has. I'm not arguing with you wholly, I'm aware of Corpse Guilds, but I just don't think that on most Imperial worlds people are eating Corpse Starch. I think it's joked about it in universe, but I think people are eating spoiled food due to administratum blunders/delays more often than they're eating other humans. I could be completely wrong though.
@@ChibsterofNurgy Fair enough. Goodness knows the 40K fandom tends to make memes of fringe elements of the story, often giving a false perception of the actual lore. Moreover, the Imperium is so vast and varied, anything that might be true is true _somewhere_ in the galaxy.
Dude I love that you love the lore so much and that you have someone willing to listen to your nerding out. I get the feeling you’ve delved deeper and are resisting with every fiber to not pause lol
To answer the question about food: They do have whole agri-worlds who's purpose is to grow and export gigantic quantities of foodstuffs. A lot of Hive worlds; basically think worlds with mega-cities who's spires reach into the stratosphere and go deeper into the ground than some people know; also produce food of all kinds, but the most infamous and horrifically common? Corpse Starch. All the nutrients a human body needs, taken from corpses, collected by Corpse Guilds that harvest the bodies from manufactory floors, halls, pretty much everywhere.
The Emperor and his BFF Malcadore once discussed whether if the Emperor should make sons or daughters. The Emperor wanted sons, so theyd infight and basically race each other to take over the galaxy faster. Malcadore recommended daughters so theyd as sister's would cooperate more and any infighting would be more verbal vs physical. The Emperor at first thought Malcadore was joking... But anyways that's why the Emperor didn't have daughters.
Also, you probably watched that part already by the time this video is out, but you gotta remember the Imperium of Man control a MILLION worlds. Some with multiple Hive Cities, and each Hive can hold 10-200 billions people.
Great series. I'm just getting into 40K and this was helpful and watched it with my wife to also help her get into it. Just preordered Death Korps of Krieg so I'm excited to get it!
Hi Tee! I'm Enter Toby. My other account has issues so I'm using my UA-cam channel account. Just wanted to say It's awesome you got into Warhammer! Your reactions to WH40K animations are great! I'd recommend reacting to the "Siege" WH40k animation. It features my favorite Astartes Chapter, The Imperial Fist! ✊ I wish you the best and may your channel continue to grow and prosper!
Lots of added details explain a lot of what she's asking, like in a previous video it wasn't mentioned that the Eldar used to reincarnate so the boredom was really real. This is really wholesome, I really like these videos.
I love this so much! Request: after both going through the lore, record/live stream both of you going to a Warhammer store and get introduced to the hobby and tabletop side, no one is doing that online yet
7:59 there are paradise worlds and stable planets like McCragge where there is more nature and less direct conflict, and figures like Guilliman and Vulkan hope for a less grim dark future for all of humanity, but they’re in a crunch time right now due to the tyranids and necrons coming back.
There's a hand jester that looks like the double-headed eagle called the Aquila. Basically put one opened hand (fingers together but thump at a 90 degree angle) over your heart. Then place your other hands palm on the back of the other hand at a perpendicular angle. Image the your two sets of fingers as wings of the eagle and your overlapping palms as its body. Now between the outstretched wings interlock your thumbs. And make sure the two tips of the thumb cross so the eagle now has two heads. You can see this animated in the Peraih Nexus series. Anyways customes after this can vary. Like women could curtsy and men could bow to further show respect/reverence.
You guys should check out some of the painting videos. There is a yearly painting competition for Warhammer called the Golden Demon. A lot of amazing artists are into this game.
It's been a joy to watch this series with my own wife, as I've also recently become a fan of Warhammer 40k and I'm painting my own minis now, so my wife can empathize with the journey you're going on. All I wanna know is, we are we gonna play some Warhammer!?
22:01 there's so many books describing the every day life of guardsmen. 'Longshot' is probably the most visceral. It's like the movie 1917 but told from the perspective of a guardswoman.
Watched a few of these now and it's great to see your wife is so sweet worrying about the people and the psykers that are sacrificed keep it up she will be painting an army in no time
So to somewhat answer her questions regarding the logistics of the Imperium, it's a matter of scale (and suspension of disbelief). Despite the overall tech level of the Imperium, Imperial worlds can be of various tech levels - some are advanced manufacturing worlds where raw materials are shipped in and the entire planet is dedicated to producing goods, others may be medieval feudal worlds dedicated to agriculture production. You have hive worlds with billions of people in megacities where administration and industry are housed, you have death-worlds that are barely survivable and are frequently used for recruiting the deadliest warriors of the Imperium into the Guard or to become Space Marine candidates. And as for exporting guardsmen in the Cadia bit, that's not meaning exporting as in them being property... it's saying that Cadian recruitment and military service throughout the Imperium was the highest of all planets. This was because of Cadia's location - it was the closest Imperial world to a giant warp rift known as the Eye of Terror... So imagine if Earth was next to a permanent portal to Hell and the forces of Hell want to invade the universe - that's Cadia's position, so it was a fortress world, the first line of defense in keeping the terrors of the Warp and the forces of Chaos at bay, military service in such an environment is a fact of life and the Cadians are renowned for their bravery. The forces of Chaos eventually resorted to a desperate act that destroyed Cadia and it is said that the planet cracked before the Guard did - a testament to the determination and dedication of Cadians. Surviving Cadian regiments are often well-regarded and respected.
It's so cute how she tries her best to find ANY KIND of sunshine through the clouds despite the overwhelming signs of there never being any 🤣🤣. In her mind there must be something positive, no matter how insignificant it could be.
13:24 the imperium of man repopulate to such a degree they are quite literally described as an infestation in the 40k universe. The sons of the Emperor: the primarchs have share their two parents: the emperor and a woman named Erda, the emperor experimented on his sons and then Chaos got their hands on them and scattered the primarchs across the stars in a intergalactic game of keep-away. Some speculate that Erda had a hand in this, but it is still unknown
I'm amazed by how many people don't know 40k is a miniature tabletop game, when it's basically it, all books and lore come from that 80's D&D futuristic satire... And now it has transcended into a cultural thing. Sinply amazing.
I think that was just on one specific world/battlefront, so the average might be a bit higher 😅
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That's from a specific campaign, not the overall average. If that were the case, then even the Imperium would struggle with manpower and training problems.
New to channel so i apologize for not knowing ya'lls names, but a big fan of 40k and Age of Sigmar. With that said.... I love how f'in excited the husband is throughout both videos. Getting your girl into something you are so engaged with is like winning at life, and his facial expression throughout exemplifies that! Dude is so excited she is biting and actually engaged. I love this 40k is amazing. Black Library books are literally over hundreds if not a thousand deep.... tabletop is insanely fun.... enjoy!
One part that is often ignored about the setting is that we only see the dark and evil and war because that’s the interesting part of the setting. The majority of the Imperium are just normal planets. You spend your life on that planet without so much as a single enemy of mankind showing up. In forge worlds, people make stuff, in hive worlds and garden worlds, people live their lives and make families just like they would in modern day Earth. Well, save that once a year, the black ship comes to take psykers to be put on the Astronomicon, and the fleet ship take those who volunteer (or are volunteered) to serve in the Imperial Guard, protecting you and humanity so that you can continue leading that peaceful life. And maybe, if on the right planet, your five year old child is taken away to become a space marine. You will never see them again, but it brings comfort knowing that he is out there, protecting mankind from those who would otherwise destroy you and all you love.
Interesting enough there are some "moments of peace" naturally, between all fighting. I rememeber hearing that, for example, each Legion of Astartes each would have a distinctive hobby. The Ultramarines, for example, generally like to read, the Blood Angels like to dedicate themselves to "the graces" whichbis basically art like painintg, sculpting, etc. This was introduced tk them by their primarch as a sort of therapy to control their own anger, so it's both a hobby and a duty. Space Wolves just party and drink their mead like true vikings, Salamanders like their blacksmithing, even the Iron Hands enjoy their time tending to their vehicles.
Something these videos you've been watching that's been left out (and before I go any farther I want to say they're great lore videos) is that all of this evil and even antiprogress is of absolute necessity for survival of the species. Becoming space faring was like living in a vast lake full of piranhas that are all as smart, if not smarter than you and realizing you've been lucky not to have been noticed yet. The emperor stole some of the power from the chaos gods which is how he is so powerful. The beacon he projects isnt even really a beacon. It is his psychic presence in the warp burning bright as he projects a barrier around the solar system. If he gets up from his throne even for a moment that barrier will fall and the swarms of various aliens and chaos forces will swarm the system to the point the sun wouldn't be visible from outside the system. Ides manifest in the warp, this is why the emperor actually doesn't want to be worshiped the way he is but at least it does give him more power We cant make progress because it it always got out of hand like with the AI rise up that was hinted at in the video The attacks on worlds isn't out of xenophobia, they're preemptive strikes against races and factions that genuinely only want war, some that dont think and use other life forms as organic material to build with, one that once had an empire that spand the galaxy before going into a slumber just to wake up and find unwelcome guests on their planet. And the list goes on. It is truly a world where you have to be this cutthroat and brutal or your entire species is being eradicated. There are no other options
Another wild thing about humanity is that their are planets that are so far removed from the imperium in time that different forms of humans have evolved or don't even know that Terra and The Emporer ever existed.
22:26 She's raising good questions. There are all kinds of planets in the Imperium that provide food, material and every frequently used technology. And a whole lot of them are mostly peaceful, seeing invaders or rebellions just once in a couple hundred years, or maybe even less. War is just what tabletop is about, so books reflect that, but there's plenty of mention about life of regular citizens in relatively peaceful places. People live there, just like we do here on earth today (with some caveats to technological level which ranges from place to place, state enforced religion and some other things). Also no elections into governing bodies that I can recall. The Imperium is feudalistic in it's governance, so governors of planets are in a line of succession by blood (for the most part).
Having watched how little you know teaching someone else. Warhammer 40k grows from such whispers! I remember buying White Dwarf 88! So my lore is long and old. But I love people finding and enjoying it. Give her the Cain books (for you as well) and you will gain even greater insights
😅 I love this. so much fun watching you two get through this. As a little bit of an answer to Tasha (I'm sure others have said similar things by now: There ARE women in wH40k. for example there are women fighting in the Imperial Guard (there are actually some on the pictures Bricky showed). There are no female Space Marines though. Most other factions do have women as well as men (and yea, there's the one all female faction you're gonna get to next time) though.
Women are in every human faction save two (but one is bring retconned to include them). In old lore there were no women Space Marines or Custodes. In new lore there's now women Custodes, but theyre so bio-upgraded they nearly look like men... so its not going over well with fans. As to make them that muscular they basically lose all their feminity. Plus like over 100 books always referring to them as a male only group called a Brotherhood, but now suddenly their was always women in their ranks... so fans went da f***?!? There's also an equal two factions just for women with no males allowed, the Adepta Sororitas (of which one of their many orders in the Sisters of Battle) and Sisters of Silence. Both of which are super badass. We're talking armies of Sarah Conner, Ellen Ripley, and Black Widows dialed past 10 to 32 instead. Both are super popular with the entire fandom. But women are in the Imperial Guard, every branch of government, the Adeptus Mechanichus, even the Inquisition. In 40k, no one cares about gender or race. Only social status (low born/high born) and if you serve the Imperium/Emperor. 40k also really doesn't care about sexual attraction either. 40k purposefully shifted all current day prejudices onto other things. So replace race, sex, orientation with mutant, heretic, alien. Plus do yoy worship the Emperor or not. This way you can go full on metaphor on topics without offending anyone... the Space Marines Legions the Dark Angels are literally named after a poem about being in the closet and it driving you crazy, their Primarch is even named after the poet who wrote it. Now Space Marines don't have sexual drives (the Emperor removed it so theyd just fight for him rather than want lovers and to retire from fighting). So they replaced their sexual urges with some of them possibly being closet heretics instead... mind you in 35 years since their creation the lore has moved on from just being a closet gay metaphor but thats where they originated.
There are planets where guys get murdered for exam0le but I have only heard th3m mentioned from a character that has never left his homeplanet. So that might also not be true. What is true is that there are a lot of different cultures and variations in the imperial cult so it's not unthinkable.
Like a quarter of the Sororitas codex is male, and the faction has always included male units as far back as 2nd edition. The Sisters of Silence have one squad kit, one character, and one vehicle if I recall. Female Custodes is less of a change than Necrons in 5th for example, which fundamentally changed the history of 3 entire factions lol. GW does retcons all the time, they're nothing to get twisted about.
It's so fucking funny how enthusiaticly that dude is explaining 40K to his wife. We got him hooked boys.
I do the same thing to my wife and kid she walks around saying for the emperor she’s 11
@brhino3708 your wife's 11,shit man that's fucked up
My 12-year-old boy blames the fact that his room is dirty on Horus @@brhino3708
@@brhino3708got you beat. Don’t know if this makes me a good dad or not, but I got my five year old saying it.
Little dude busted out his first waagh! the other day too since now he wants me to paint him an ork army.
My wife at least knows who Sanguinius is. That’s enough for me.
Praise the emperor brotha
Someone: Is Warhammer Satanic?
Me: It doesn't have the devil - it has _four of them._
and we fight their army's on a regular basis!!!
Sometimes more than four! 😂
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There is fun... If you're an Ork! They love living!
Some people have their hobbies... The Drukari (Dark Eldar) are into making furniture...
hobbies.. thats one way of putting it :)
Yeah with a very nice feature of biological movement very eco friendly
"furniture" hahaha
No moar fun Dan fightin n killin wit duh boyz.
like that bamboo furniture the humans make!
Watching people being introduced into this universe of 40k is a beautiful thing to behold.
Agreed, as someone who's learning.
For the god damn Imperium! LOL
A dude I used to party with was very shocked when I told him 40k stuff. You too? Lol
@ Yeah pretty much, it's well....an ocean to swim in as a tip of the iceberg comparison.
fr. Some of my favorite videos are just recordings of normies getting baptized in the lore.
Tasha: "I had a glimmer of hope"
Heretics: "see that's where ya goofed"
"hope is the first step on the road to disappointment" - imperial thought of the day
Vulkan is the largest primarch, his geneseed makes all of his space marines huge as well, and they actually rule. One of their marines once said, "how can you hope to carry the weight of the entire imperium and yet cannot burden yourself with one innocent human being?"
I think the only exception to this is that all of the Alpha legion are very large for marines while having the shortest primarchs so they can copy being Alpharius more accurately
@@wellhiyadude1 Pre Heresy encounters between the Alpha Legion and ... literally any other legion are uniformly hilarious, and this is one of the many reasons.
"Your name, Brother?"
"I am Alpharius!"
:sigh: "... Let's get on with it."
"It's already done."
"What?"
:"Alpharius" is no longer there somehow:
"I really hate them all..."
Based take from that Salamander.
@@srbrant5391 I know, I thought it was an amazing quote, as the emperor himself told his sons that humanity is what they were made for
He and his guys also like burning people alive.
3:50 Him casualy dropping tabletops on her to foreshadow why they don't have grocery money for the next couple of months while building his army.
😂😅😂😅😂😅😂😅
Tee's smile the entire video. Dude is so into it.
There are actually nice parts of the Imperium, they are called "Garden Worlds" there are probably 10's of thousands of them, which means billions upon billons of people experience a really nice life in 40K....but they are probably 1 or 2 % of the empire LOOL...but the re is SOME fragile hope
Yeah, until the Tyranids invade...
Then there's the pleasure worlds
yeah there are so many worlds that some of them wont even know there is a constant war going on lol. They just live their normal lives.
Also you know, daemons, chaos, and hell and all that dont exist you heretic.
Incorrect agri worlds take up that role and probably around 0.01% of people live on garden worlds which are known for luxury goods and likely supply entire sub segementiums so likely there are only a few hundred at most
@@Asterion_Mol0c I waas gonna say, "billions upon billions" of ppl living a happy life in 40k sounds hella wrong. 😂
4:18 why do I get the feeling that this is a way to ease into the whole “so I bought an army starter set” conversation.
The key is to avoid discussing the price at any cost
Probably why he doesn't want to say his favourite faction yet. Because she just heard that collecting Guardsmen is expensive. It'll be better to break the news he started playing them afterwards when she forgot.
So I've got a Visa subscription to forge world now.... And don't look in the mail... And we need to take another loan on the house....
food? dont forget the corpse starch LOL
Came here just say to stay away from it 😂
Top it off with a wonderful round of sandpaper cigarettes!
The Eisenhorn trilogy and the Gaunts Ghosts books do a great job of showing the day to day life of imperial citizenry 21:53
^This. Also, the Ciaphus Cain series, which also has the benefit of being more light-hearted and comedic. (Very useful, given the general dour tone of 40K).
“Chuck em in the deep end” “it’s all the deep end”
And another one sinks into the rabbit hole. Can't wait for you to get into the Space Marine legions, the animations and audio books (Astartes, Secret Level, Helsreach, Guardsman, Hammer and Bolter...), Luetin's in-depth lore videos etc. 😁
Can't wait to see Tasha react to my boy - Nurgle!
Oh, the gifts, the stinky delights and the constant chatter of playful Nurglings...
Papa Nurgle loves you
Nurgle is going quietly into the night it is brainwashing and delusion it's not happiness (just because you were drugged into happiness doesn't mean it's the best fate it is a twisted abusive love)
@@venomfuryx3250 Papa Nurgle just wants you to be happy. And he brought presents!
@@blasthardcheese2981 It's airborne super herpes! Just what I always wanted!
it's funny to consider the grimdark subgenre came from or was driven by "this is a battle game and if life gets better there's no reason to have battles so nothing gets better so we can keep playing the tabletop game."
Just seeing the smile on your face as he explains this to her is great!!!
What is your duty? To serve the Emperor's will. What is His will? That we fight and die. What is death? It is our duty. What is your duty?
Hello. I just discovered your videos about Warhammer 40k and am thoroughly enjoying them. I've been curious about the lore so seeing you two reacting to Bricky's explanations and introduction to the lore has been quite interesting. I might not ever play the tabletop version, because I understand it is an expensive hobby, but I do like learning about this universe and look forward to your next installment.
If you find it interesting and think about starting. It is expensive. There are alternatives.
Check Out one Page Rules. They have free Rules that are competible to the Models, so you save in those expensive Rules books. Or Check Killteam. Kill Team is directly from Warhammer but uses 10 Models per Side, so you pay 50$ for all Modells plus Paint and some Equipment. In that Case your oponent should have a rulebook. Or 150$ for two killteams and everything except Paint. Share the cost with a friend and you can Play rather cheaply.
as someone who simple just digests its lore, do it. its wiiild and with henry cavil making a 40k series its a good time to learn as much as you can
1:15 yes sis, "mulling" is a fitting way to describe a newer person's state of mind once introduced to this world lol. There are many, maaany things that get your mind spinning and thinking on. The why's and how's and then repercussions etc.
Wondering about the living conditions and psychology of the normies of the universe is, imo, a very common question in the minds of a lot of people getting into this this lore. How do they cope and what makes life worth living? Indeed this is something Ive gone back and thought about at several times over the decades. Sis is not alone and if you have decent empathy/social awareness it can kinda be a downer lol . Nice vid fam 🤙🏽
I don't have empathy so Warhammer makes me the opposite
My D&D group and I LOVE Warhammer - but the subject of whether or not we'd play a D&D style game in the setting of 40k has come up, and most of us are against it because of how depressing the universe is.
I played regular Warhammer, but knew nothing about 40K. I'm learning with her and it's way more enjoyable to learn this way.
Subbed.
You mean Warhammer fantasy then?
@Asterion_Mol0c Yeah. Expensive hobby but I have some cool armies. It wasn't even close to balanced when I played it. Chaos were way OP.
This always confused me. Is fantasy and 40k happening at the same time?
Is fantasy the past earth before we reached intergalactic civilizations?
Its gotta tied to each other somehow.
@@BLaCkKsHeEp Not necessarily, they are two different universes. But within Fantasy, there is Age of Sigmar and Warhammer Fantasy/The Old World. Age of Sigmar is the newest universe that was spawned from the remnants of Warhammer Fantasy. The only thing really tied are the Chaos Gods of all three universes.
@BLaCkKsHeEp GamesWorkshop was doing a Multiverse before it was cool.
The only thing truly tying Warhammer Fantasy/Age of Sigmar to Warhammer 40k is the Chaos gods and the demons.
1:02 ‘how do they find happiness?’
That’s the neat part, they don’t!
Being an Astra Militarum soldier is already a relative rarity.
Among the countless trillions of humans, most of them are stuck in hereditary positions within the ridiculous engine required to supply the war machine.
Odds are, if you were born into 40K, you don't get any choices to make.
Soon as you get sufficiently schooled to join your parents' "career," that's where you end up. Probably neck deep in paperwork 18 hours a day until you die.
Fuck it, make me a Space Marine
Well, you're most likely not a scribe, but some poor sod working in a factory floor or a in a mine or on massive, muddy field farming algae slurry or something.
@@BLaCkKsHeEp The issue is survive the probations. Even if you pass, you may die my the enchancements on your body
Sometimes, you luck out and get to live as a medieval serf farming grox
What you say may be true for places in which the grip of the Adeptus Administratum has a strong grip on, and also for those of the Ecclesiarchy and the Mechanicus. But each of the million planets in the Imperium is... well, it's own world. There's every level of technology and every kind of system of government, so there's as many slaves and serfs as there are free citizens.
It is implied that the average world has about as much military population as modern day Earth, sometimes in fractioned hive cities, nations, kingdoms or tribes but more often in an unified planetary government that organizes the soldiers into a Planetary Defense Force (PDFs). The Astra Militarum then takes away the cream of the crop from that organization as taxes (the Imperial Tithe).
27:46 That was a ballsy f*cking joke.
Nobody has ever called him out on it.
Bricky is like the WH version of RDJ.
7:50 that's like the quintessential response when you start learning about 40k, "i had a glimmer of hope"
31:38 hey don't worry maam. ur gonna see the sisters of battle pretty soon and a couple of other similar factions.
I always enjoy seeing people learn about Warhammer 40k lore for the first time
Where is part 2? did u just forget to upload it?
Found you warhammer series with your wife by random but i love this content! Keep up the good work and i'm excited to see more of her still naive reactions to the grim dark
It's good to have specific questions about specific things you noticed, to prompt her thinking and conversation
You guys are awesome! First we got him hooked on the vast universe of 40k and now he's doing the same with his lovely wife!
The more you look into the rabbit hole, the more you crave.
May the Emperor protects you both.
You may have noticed that in this and the previous video he refers initially to 20 and then corrects himself to 18 primarchs. This is a sort of inside joke because there were actually 20, but 2 of them were deleted from the records and all but forgotten - and nobody knows why and talking about them is considered heresy, punishable by death. Oh and terra is latin for earth 😉
People don't even know about the missing 2 at the highest level it cant be heresy if not a single person know about it (you made it the heck up)
It is heresy to speak about them, the first lord of the Grey Knights attacked (preheresey) Horus because he was upset that his two brothers were being erased from all imperium records. Also we have some idea of what happened based on small lore tidbits and it appears that one of the erased two fell to chaos early and was slain by the Space Wolves. It’s possible both fell or the one who fell killed his brother. We don’t know why they were erased from the records though
22:25 Your average guardsmen is usually fed Corpse Starch... yes it's exactly what it sounds like 😅
Not true. Cannibalism is a big no in the Imperium, especially in the guard. Cannibalism can lead to Chaos so it's frowned upon and punished severely. Corpse starch as memed would be cannibalism.
You'll find it on hive worlds, but even if it's called corpse starch it's unlikely to be humans turned gruel, even though there will definitely be cases where corpse starch is the corpse starch we all think of, just not likely.
In all likelihood, bodies are laid out and bio forms like fungus, yeast or algae consume parts of the human to grow more substantially and more nutrition filled, perhaps at least protein wise, than a human corpse could naturally be.
If you read Gaunts Ghosts, Ciaphas Cain novels, Straken, Ice Warriors or pretty much any guard specific novel, you'll find a distinct lack of corpse starch spoken of with any seriousness if at all.
@@ChibsterofNurgy Personally, I would argue "the Imperium forbids cannibalism" and "the Imperium does industrialized cannibalism ALL THE TIME" are not mutually exclusive. it's a fascist, totalitarian state. Hypocrisy is part and parcel with its entire shtick.
That said, on paper, the Imperium would prefer to not stoop to making people eat people. On the other hand, the Imperium is both so massive and so poorly run, it's very easy for food shortages to be supplemented with the dead, as needed. Unfortunately, because of the aforementioned poor management, that kind of contingency measure becomes increasingly common as centuries turn into millennia. Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution, after all.
It's not even that Corpse Starch is always made of human remains. That's probably not its official name. Usually, they put all kinds of organic materials in there (farmed bugs, slime, algae, organic waste, etc.). It's just...well, the rations the state gives you only need to have human remains in it once, before you and all your buddies start calling it "Corpse Starch". (Same logic as: "You can practice medicine for decades, but you f&
@Bluecho4 It happens, but it's not common place as in Imperial standard, much less in the Guard as the other person was stating.
Necromunda is the wild west in an already dysfunctional Imperium. I think people look at it as "The" hive city/world, but I don't necessarily think that makes it the standard either. I think it could be an outlier.
Considering the number of worlds in the Imperium, it could be one of a thousand others like it and it would still make all of them outliers when you consider the supposed million worlds the Imperium has.
I'm not arguing with you wholly, I'm aware of Corpse Guilds, but I just don't think that on most Imperial worlds people are eating Corpse Starch. I think it's joked about it in universe, but I think people are eating spoiled food due to administratum blunders/delays more often than they're eating other humans.
I could be completely wrong though.
@@ChibsterofNurgy Fair enough. Goodness knows the 40K fandom tends to make memes of fringe elements of the story, often giving a false perception of the actual lore. Moreover, the Imperium is so vast and varied, anything that might be true is true _somewhere_ in the galaxy.
I saw the previous video and it was super cool, I then talked to my wife about W40K and it was incredibly fun. You guys rocks!
I have watched bricky's videos at least a dozen times through reaction videos and it always holds up and doesn't get repetitive
Dude I love that you love the lore so much and that you have someone willing to listen to your nerding out. I get the feeling you’ve delved deeper and are resisting with every fiber to not pause lol
To answer the question about food: They do have whole agri-worlds who's purpose is to grow and export gigantic quantities of foodstuffs.
A lot of Hive worlds; basically think worlds with mega-cities who's spires reach into the stratosphere and go deeper into the ground than some people know; also produce food of all kinds, but the most infamous and horrifically common?
Corpse Starch.
All the nutrients a human body needs, taken from corpses, collected by Corpse Guilds that harvest the bodies from manufactory floors, halls, pretty much everywhere.
The Emperor and his BFF Malcadore once discussed whether if the Emperor should make sons or daughters. The Emperor wanted sons, so theyd infight and basically race each other to take over the galaxy faster. Malcadore recommended daughters so theyd as sister's would cooperate more and any infighting would be more verbal vs physical.
The Emperor at first thought Malcadore was joking...
But anyways that's why the Emperor didn't have daughters.
I looove watching new people reacts of WH40K and you knowing more then her def. make for a cool watch along !
Also, you probably watched that part already by the time this video is out, but you gotta remember the Imperium of Man control a MILLION worlds. Some with multiple Hive Cities, and each Hive can hold 10-200 billions people.
Great series. I'm just getting into 40K and this was helpful and watched it with my wife to also help her get into it. Just preordered Death Korps of Krieg so I'm excited to get it!
Hi Tee!
I'm Enter Toby. My other account has issues so I'm using my UA-cam channel account.
Just wanted to say It's awesome you got into Warhammer! Your reactions to WH40K animations are great!
I'd recommend reacting to the "Siege" WH40k animation. It features my favorite Astartes Chapter, The Imperial Fist! ✊
I wish you the best and may your channel continue to grow and prosper!
Lots of added details explain a lot of what she's asking, like in a previous video it wasn't mentioned that the Eldar used to reincarnate so the boredom was really real. This is really wholesome, I really like these videos.
Love the 40k lore dives! Should definitely do Luetin09 Space Marine Creation video.
Came here to say this. Leutin does some massive deep dives into lore that encompasses a lot of what Tasha was asking about.
Tee looks like the kid that knows the funny part of the movie and cant hold it back! Its perfect!
I love this so much!
Request: after both going through the lore, record/live stream both of you going to a Warhammer store and get introduced to the hobby and tabletop side, no one is doing that online yet
7:59 there are paradise worlds and stable planets like McCragge where there is more nature and less direct conflict, and figures like Guilliman and Vulkan hope for a less grim dark future for all of humanity, but they’re in a crunch time right now due to the tyranids and necrons coming back.
This is really fun to watch. How you introduce yours wife to Warhammer 40k with real patience. We definetly want more of this.
31:56 the most evil daemonculaba face ever XD
13:24 that image of Angron is insane. He's swimming in that armor. And I'm pretty sure that is pre-demon Angron.
I was looking forward to this one. Thanks for sharing your wife's impressions!
There's a hand jester that looks like the double-headed eagle called the Aquila. Basically put one opened hand (fingers together but thump at a 90 degree angle) over your heart. Then place your other hands palm on the back of the other hand at a perpendicular angle.
Image the your two sets of fingers as wings of the eagle and your overlapping palms as its body. Now between the outstretched wings interlock your thumbs. And make sure the two tips of the thumb cross so the eagle now has two heads.
You can see this animated in the Peraih Nexus series.
Anyways customes after this can vary. Like women could curtsy and men could bow to further show respect/reverence.
I love how you're just sitting there grinning like a maniac as Bricky goes through everything and Tasha just looks really concerned.
"We just gotta throw you into the deep end"
"I can't swim"
LOL this woman is a joy.
You guys should check out some of the painting videos. There is a yearly painting competition for Warhammer called the Golden Demon. A lot of amazing artists are into this game.
It's been a joy to watch this series with my own wife, as I've also recently become a fan of Warhammer 40k and I'm painting my own minis now, so my wife can empathize with the journey you're going on. All I wanna know is, we are we gonna play some Warhammer!?
22:01 there's so many books describing the every day life of guardsmen. 'Longshot' is probably the most visceral. It's like the movie 1917 but told from the perspective of a guardswoman.
Watched a few of these now and it's great to see your wife is so sweet worrying about the people and the psykers that are sacrificed keep it up she will be painting an army in no time
The Husband just cheesing the whole time is soo good :)
17:10 (Door knocked off its hinges) "Have you heard the good news of salvation by our Lord Emperor of Mankind, xenos?" >brrrrrrrrrrrrt
"It's the next level of the hobby" he says whilst adding a box of warhammer to his basket.
So to somewhat answer her questions regarding the logistics of the Imperium, it's a matter of scale (and suspension of disbelief). Despite the overall tech level of the Imperium, Imperial worlds can be of various tech levels - some are advanced manufacturing worlds where raw materials are shipped in and the entire planet is dedicated to producing goods, others may be medieval feudal worlds dedicated to agriculture production. You have hive worlds with billions of people in megacities where administration and industry are housed, you have death-worlds that are barely survivable and are frequently used for recruiting the deadliest warriors of the Imperium into the Guard or to become Space Marine candidates.
And as for exporting guardsmen in the Cadia bit, that's not meaning exporting as in them being property... it's saying that Cadian recruitment and military service throughout the Imperium was the highest of all planets. This was because of Cadia's location - it was the closest Imperial world to a giant warp rift known as the Eye of Terror... So imagine if Earth was next to a permanent portal to Hell and the forces of Hell want to invade the universe - that's Cadia's position, so it was a fortress world, the first line of defense in keeping the terrors of the Warp and the forces of Chaos at bay, military service in such an environment is a fact of life and the Cadians are renowned for their bravery. The forces of Chaos eventually resorted to a desperate act that destroyed Cadia and it is said that the planet cracked before the Guard did - a testament to the determination and dedication of Cadians. Surviving Cadian regiments are often well-regarded and respected.
It makes me really happy to see more and more ppl discovering WH40K
Love that you did this one after the last vid
True 40K enthusiast right there... Bricky citing how bleak and hopeless the Imperium is, and my guy just grinning with bliss over all of it hahaha.
y'all cant make these fast enough! i cannot wait for the next one 👍
It's so cute how she tries her best to find ANY KIND of sunshine through the clouds despite the overwhelming signs of there never being any 🤣🤣. In her mind there must be something positive, no matter how insignificant it could be.
13:24 the imperium of man repopulate to such a degree they are quite literally described as an infestation in the 40k universe. The sons of the Emperor: the primarchs have share their two parents: the emperor and a woman named Erda, the emperor experimented on his sons and then Chaos got their hands on them and scattered the primarchs across the stars in a intergalactic game of keep-away. Some speculate that Erda had a hand in this, but it is still unknown
Your facial expressions were so different during that reaction. One looking disgusted and horrified, and the other smiling with glee! Loved it
8:10 "Abandon all hope ye who enter here." 😂😂😂
I just want to say I love these. It makes me remember when I was going through the same things lol!
7:49 "You know, I had a glimmer of hope-"
Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.
I'm amazed by how many people don't know 40k is a miniature tabletop game, when it's basically it, all books and lore come from that 80's D&D futuristic satire... And now it has transcended into a cultural thing. Sinply amazing.
Where is part 2? :(
It is so great she is taking part in this. Miss, your man has a gem in you.
The life expectancy of a guardsman on the battlefield is 15 hours. Anyone who’s been on the front longer than that is considered a veteran
I think that was just on one specific world/battlefront, so the average might be a bit higher 😅
That's from a specific campaign, not the overall average. If that were the case, then even the Imperium would struggle with manpower and training problems.
@@HistoritorJimaldus very true, but it’s at its worst case scenario
New to channel so i apologize for not knowing ya'lls names, but a big fan of 40k and Age of Sigmar. With that said....
I love how f'in excited the husband is throughout both videos. Getting your girl into something you are so engaged with is like winning at life, and his facial expression throughout exemplifies that! Dude is so excited she is biting and actually engaged. I love this
40k is amazing. Black Library books are literally over hundreds if not a thousand deep.... tabletop is insanely fun.... enjoy!
The husbands smile and her “what the hell even is this” face at 6:41 is gold
Hey, im just glad Tasha's asking the right questions, eventually she will get all of these
fantastic vid guys! planning on doing the same thing with my wife and introduce her to the wold of 40K too.
Oh I can't wait for them to get to Corpse Starch. Fun times!
The one phrase that everyone has heard of one way or another when it comes to Warhammer 40,000: There is only WAR! :D
I love this series! More!!!
love these last 3 vids reminds me of when i got my wife into Warhammer 40k even though it took 5 of our 8 years to convince her.
Tasha: Isn't there any hope?
Me: No, there is War.
"why are you laughing?"
"it gets worse..."
One part that is often ignored about the setting is that we only see the dark and evil and war because that’s the interesting part of the setting. The majority of the Imperium are just normal planets. You spend your life on that planet without so much as a single enemy of mankind showing up. In forge worlds, people make stuff, in hive worlds and garden worlds, people live their lives and make families just like they would in modern day Earth.
Well, save that once a year, the black ship comes to take psykers to be put on the Astronomicon, and the fleet ship take those who volunteer (or are volunteered) to serve in the Imperial Guard, protecting you and humanity so that you can continue leading that peaceful life.
And maybe, if on the right planet, your five year old child is taken away to become a space marine. You will never see them again, but it brings comfort knowing that he is out there, protecting mankind from those who would otherwise destroy you and all you love.
Interesting enough there are some "moments of peace" naturally, between all fighting. I rememeber hearing that, for example, each Legion of Astartes each would have a distinctive hobby.
The Ultramarines, for example, generally like to read, the Blood Angels like to dedicate themselves to "the graces" whichbis basically art like painintg, sculpting, etc.
This was introduced tk them by their primarch as a sort of therapy to control their own anger, so it's both a hobby and a duty.
Space Wolves just party and drink their mead like true vikings, Salamanders like their blacksmithing, even the Iron Hands enjoy their time tending to their vehicles.
"where do they get the food from". CORPSE STARCH. THEY GET FOOD FROM THE CORPSES
- you had to prepare me better
- that's the preparation, my sweet child
Something these videos you've been watching that's been left out (and before I go any farther I want to say they're great lore videos) is that all of this evil and even antiprogress is of absolute necessity for survival of the species.
Becoming space faring was like living in a vast lake full of piranhas that are all as smart, if not smarter than you and realizing you've been lucky not to have been noticed yet.
The emperor stole some of the power from the chaos gods which is how he is so powerful. The beacon he projects isnt even really a beacon. It is his psychic presence in the warp burning bright as he projects a barrier around the solar system. If he gets up from his throne even for a moment that barrier will fall and the swarms of various aliens and chaos forces will swarm the system to the point the sun wouldn't be visible from outside the system.
Ides manifest in the warp, this is why the emperor actually doesn't want to be worshiped the way he is but at least it does give him more power
We cant make progress because it it always got out of hand like with the AI rise up that was hinted at in the video
The attacks on worlds isn't out of xenophobia, they're preemptive strikes against races and factions that genuinely only want war, some that dont think and use other life forms as organic material to build with, one that once had an empire that spand the galaxy before going into a slumber just to wake up and find unwelcome guests on their planet. And the list goes on. It is truly a world where you have to be this cutthroat and brutal or your entire species is being eradicated. There are no other options
Another wild thing about humanity is that their are planets that are so far removed from the imperium in time that different forms of humans have evolved or don't even know that Terra and The Emporer ever existed.
This video from Bricky will never be old huh :D
Can't wait for yall to get to the space marine legions in a nutshell
22:26 She's raising good questions. There are all kinds of planets in the Imperium that provide food, material and every frequently used technology. And a whole lot of them are mostly peaceful, seeing invaders or rebellions just once in a couple hundred years, or maybe even less. War is just what tabletop is about, so books reflect that, but there's plenty of mention about life of regular citizens in relatively peaceful places. People live there, just like we do here on earth today (with some caveats to technological level which ranges from place to place, state enforced religion and some other things). Also no elections into governing bodies that I can recall. The Imperium is feudalistic in it's governance, so governors of planets are in a line of succession by blood (for the most part).
Having watched how little you know teaching someone else. Warhammer 40k grows from such whispers! I remember buying White Dwarf 88! So my lore is long and old. But I love people finding and enjoying it. Give her the Cain books (for you as well) and you will gain even greater insights
😅 I love this. so much fun watching you two get through this. As a little bit of an answer to Tasha (I'm sure others have said similar things by now: There ARE women in wH40k. for example there are women fighting in the Imperial Guard (there are actually some on the pictures Bricky showed). There are no female Space Marines though. Most other factions do have women as well as men (and yea, there's the one all female faction you're gonna get to next time) though.
Women are in every human faction save two (but one is bring retconned to include them). In old lore there were no women Space Marines or Custodes. In new lore there's now women Custodes, but theyre so bio-upgraded they nearly look like men... so its not going over well with fans. As to make them that muscular they basically lose all their feminity. Plus like over 100 books always referring to them as a male only group called a Brotherhood, but now suddenly their was always women in their ranks... so fans went da f***?!?
There's also an equal two factions just for women with no males allowed, the Adepta Sororitas (of which one of their many orders in the Sisters of Battle) and Sisters of Silence. Both of which are super badass. We're talking armies of Sarah Conner, Ellen Ripley, and Black Widows dialed past 10 to 32 instead. Both are super popular with the entire fandom.
But women are in the Imperial Guard, every branch of government, the Adeptus Mechanichus, even the Inquisition.
In 40k, no one cares about gender or race. Only social status (low born/high born) and if you serve the Imperium/Emperor. 40k also really doesn't care about sexual attraction either.
40k purposefully shifted all current day prejudices onto other things. So replace race, sex, orientation with mutant, heretic, alien. Plus do yoy worship the Emperor or not. This way you can go full on metaphor on topics without offending anyone... the Space Marines Legions the Dark Angels are literally named after a poem about being in the closet and it driving you crazy, their Primarch is even named after the poet who wrote it. Now Space Marines don't have sexual drives (the Emperor removed it so theyd just fight for him rather than want lovers and to retire from fighting). So they replaced their sexual urges with some of them possibly being closet heretics instead... mind you in 35 years since their creation the lore has moved on from just being a closet gay metaphor but thats where they originated.
There are planets where guys get murdered for exam0le but I have only heard th3m mentioned from a character that has never left his homeplanet.
So that might also not be true.
What is true is that there are a lot of different cultures and variations in the imperial cult so it's not unthinkable.
Like a quarter of the Sororitas codex is male, and the faction has always included male units as far back as 2nd edition. The Sisters of Silence have one squad kit, one character, and one vehicle if I recall.
Female Custodes is less of a change than Necrons in 5th for example, which fundamentally changed the history of 3 entire factions lol. GW does retcons all the time, they're nothing to get twisted about.
i like how there are subtle hints of religion in the Imperium of man faction
The happiest race will be in part 2 where Bricky talks about the xenos
Brother, do I sense Heresy from the maiden? The Imperium is perfection!! FOR THE EMPEROR!!!!