Thanks for the vid! There's still part 2 but take your time. Let it sink in, a lotta people get overloaded with just 10 minutes, how much more an hour 😂.
Pretty funny how when guessing the Chaos gods you got them accurately and then Tzeentch just confused the hell out of you…..which is completely in character for him 😂. He’d probably be snickering going “ *YES! Just as plaaaaanned! Nyeeeheeheeheearhahshagaaaaaa!* “
They were designed very well! And I guess that means the other one , Tzeentch is like the god of chaos/randomness or confusion? I hope to learn more in the next part!
The 2nd and 11th legion and their primarchs were expunged from history and everything about them were erased by malcadore. The old man even choked the hell out of Horus when he was loyal and the primarchs were mad that the two legions and their brothers were being erased and Horus was going to say his brother’s name. Cadia was destroyed when Abbadon raged quit and crashed a Blackstone fortress into the planet, destroying the planet because he couldn’t break the cadian’s defending the planet. Knights are piloted by 1 person similar to gundams while Titans are a group of people piloting the gaunt mech
Oh so they were like completely lost to history, damn! Omg I didn't hear that part of Cadia yet! It keeps getting worse and worse, I'm understand the tears thanks to the comments more and more Oh so they have both kinds of Mecha awesome!
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy In-Lore, Its a bit of being lost to History, But in the real world and tabletop its for Player Interactivity, The 2nd and 11th Primarch and thus, Legions, Were basically an open spot so that players could participate in the "Horus Heresy" Part of the Setting with a custom army, Either as the 2nd "Loyalist" Legion, Or the 11th "Traitor" Legion.
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uyAnother thing about Cadia is that it's been in the lore for 40 years and it's been the shield making first contact with every one of the 13 Crusades that came from the Eye of Terror. Cadia was a symbol. Another reason it hurts so bad is because even when the fortress already got launched on the planet and cracked it, it was said that the extraction ships could still see streaks of red lasers going off on the surface from the guardsmen they had to leave behind. Their planet fell apart and died around them and they still fight on! So if you ever hear the phrase "The planet broke before the guard!", it's literal and refers to the fall of Cadia.
"Was he not religious?" No. In fact, he was a militant atheist. He tried to eradicate religion from humanity. Which is what makes it deliciously ironic that he's their god now.
7:08 So a little bit of lore context: there are millions of worlds in the Imperium, and around 80% (might be a wrong number, but it’s up there) of these worlds are Hive Worlds. Hives are massive cities that house between 8 and 30 BILLION people, and a hive world is covered in dozens of hives. Humans are everywhere in 40k, and it’s awesome since it lets people tell nearly any story imaginable: medieval adventure, it’s possible. Super sci fi thriller, it’s possible. Detective stories with intrigue and murder, it’s possible. This simple fact alone is part of the reason I love 40k as a universe
30,000 planets have hives on them. Each of them needs to be fed by number of agriculture worlds and then you also have the mining worlds. Most of the world's are, not that high population compared to a hive, but our resource extraction for the hives. Which manufacture everything, or for the mechanicus, which also manufacture everything. In the Golden Age, this was very different, but there are still quadrillions of humans in this Galaxy.
its more like hive worlds house 80% of the total human population. Agricultural worlds are probably the most common, and in that category mostly Feudal Worlds (basically middle age technology-wise, except for the planetary government in low orbit)
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy It's often said that the most plentiful resource in the Imperium is manpower. As an example, the space-faring warships of the Imperium use manual labor to load their weapons because it's cheaper and easier to round up a few dozen slaves than design a mechanical loading system.
It's even more chaotic than I thought! But I like that, it's never been realistic in sci Fi when all individuals of a race fight as one all the time, so it's a nice change of pace
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy Apt choice of words, as Chaos is one of the main dividing lines. Even among the forces of Chaos there is the Great Game, where the four Chaos Gods attempt to outmaneuver each other and vie for supremacy. Khorne (the Blood God of rage and battle) hates Slaanesh (She Who Thirsts, the god of decadence, pleasure, pain, and perfection), and Nurgle (The Grandfather, god of decay, entropy, and nature) hates Tzeentch (the god of magic and plots).
for the sake of the tabletop at least that is certainly true, though the degree of infighting does vary faction by faction. orks are the ones that do it the most, whereas tyrannids or tau hardly ever would. Eldar are fairly rare, unless you include every type (and even the evil ones would rather go for easier targets most of the time). Humanity is... complicated, considering half of the space marines defected to chaos and the like. Then there are imperial guard commissars which just shoot the most cowardly soldier in their unit to get the rest back in line and restore morale.
Even Chaos Marines fight each other because of the Gods hate each other. If you put a Thousand Sons and World Eater in the same room, they won't be friends, they will kill each other.
Don’t worry about Cadia. There was an Avenger’s Endgame event at Cadia, it’s pivotal to the current state of the galaxy in 40K. It’s a big thing, and there’s no concise way of saying what happened.
It's not just a grimdark, it invented the term grimdark. THIS is where grimdark comes from. That first quote, "In the grim dark future, there is only war." is what invented the term grimdark.
@joshuamattingly1232 That's reliant on two factors - that they're couple-of-months-trained conscripts, and that they're hurled into the kind of battles Space Marines would be expected in. I'll point you towards Guard Veterans, who cost less points on tabletop to field than Storm Troopers, can pick from a wider selection of gear than them and also are tougher than them. That is the true face of the Guard.
This guy is very noob friendly. He has a podcast with his friends thats weekly. (You don't have to react to it, but if you want to learn more, that's a good podcast to check out.)
For the Aquilan Shields, there is a group of specialised Psykers within the Imperial Palace called Doomscryers. They aid the Custodes by picking up currents in the Warp and predicting threats as well as the futures of special individuals, who then get the protection of an Aquilan Shield Custodian.
Nah there's multiple things that seems to be being missed here. The first is that everyone that is killed daily are psykers, brought there by the black ships. They are led back to Terra from all sorts of far off locations and put into large chambers surrounding the Golden Throne. They are a powersource to the golden throne. Which does far more then allow for warp travel.
From what I've understood It's basically that Emperor has hundreds of thousands if not millions of Psykers he's spiritually bound to who he is constantly draining and every day, on average, a thousand of them will "run out" of steam and die.
@@GamerGrovyle No I'm pretty sure it happens instantly. Like they throw you into the soul-sucking chamber and you instantly turn into Emperor Gasoline.
Im gonna be honest with you my guy, I don't normally watch the whole VTuber thing, but you ask some pretty good questions and seem genuinely interested in learning. A lot of people who react to this kind of stuff don't really have as much insight as you do. You earned another sub :D Also, recommend watching Bricky's explanation off all the Space marine legions. He goes way more into depth about each one
That means so much to hear! I usually don't watch reaction videos either so I want to pay as much attention to the content I am watching and give it the respect it deserves. And for vtubers, i understand, they aren't for everyone, I'm trying to just be a normal stream that happens to use a Vtuber model since a lot fall into the lewd content trap haha (not to say I dont make lewd jokes or comments obviously) I am glad ya enjoyed the video!
My favourite Culexus assassin bit is when a brash Guardsman decided to rush into battle against his superior's orders , and accidentally stepped inside the Radius of a Culexus Assassin deploying his Blank Aura. The Guardsman immediately blew his brains out without a second thought.
A bit of a correction on the mechanicus. The Emperor IS The Omnisiah. The machine god is a different entite, and the machine spirit also. They believe the emperor is the omnisiah because when he met with them he repaired "healed" a piece of tech just by touching it.
Basicaly the Mechanicus believes the Emperor is Machine God's prophet and physical incarnation, the Omnissiah. In their eyes' he's divine, but not god himself
As someone who has never watched your content before but has been emersed into 40k for more than a decade. This video was just a treat, you did so well making guesses and speculating! The lore is around 30 years in the making, it's INSANE. But its always heartwarming for me to see new people try and delve in despite that and especially from the people who genuinely appreciate it.
1:03:55 - Kaldor Draigo was sucked by Chaos into Warp a few millennia ago. And he was toward demons like: "You think I'm stuck here with you? No, it's you that are stuck here with me!" and he goes full-on Doomguy on Chaos.
Imperial Knights are piloted by 1 person and they are actually the smallest walkers. They also have titans who go from tge size of houses to skyscrapers. An emperor class titan is a literal walking cathedral and as holy as a piece of technology can be.
54:15 A Melta is a type of weapon. You know welding and plasma torches? Imagine a handheld weaponized shotgun version of that. Absolutely devastating against armor, tanks, walls, and people. However it has the downside of having a rather short range, like "videogame shotgun" levels of range issues. On the other hand you have a pretty decent chance of destroying an enemy tank in one shot if you get in range, so it's a tradeoff.
@@KingZolem there are guardsman and inquisitors that have used them but..... Warhammer 40k scaling is all over the place both sensibly and nonsensically. Some worlds might make multimeltas more effectively and in a smaller package, where some ... don't. Maybe. I dunno. Consistency can be hard with the non lasgun and non bot gun weapons in 40k.
For how Custodes find out how someone will become great fingures can be assumed in 2 theories: 1. The Emperor just straight up tell them through their minds since they are guarding his body. 2. The Shield Host department can somehow calculate someone fate through hours of discussions.
The best way to describe a melta is like this: imagine a watergun, but instead of water it shoots a stream of plasma and, as the name suggests, melts the target.
Meltas actually don't use any sort of physical projectile. Meltas are energy weapons. They fire extremely powerful but short-ranged beans of thermal radiation produced by a miniature fusion reaction that vaporizes organics & turns metal to molten slag. It's why they're also referred to as 'Fusion Guns' and 'Cookers'.
For an idea on how long the emperor has been around. I had a classmate and friend who was super into this series and he explained to me the emperor had basically been around since the time of the ancient Romans. So yeah he's been around a while!
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uyyeah, the main reason he’s only been the emperor for the past 10,000 years is because he kept himself hidden, just watching humanity and he only came out and became the emperor because humanity went to shit and they needed guidance.
The Sisters of Battle are one of favorite non-space marine armies there just so awesome. Also if you think the regular Imperial Guard are WW2 German inspired… Just wait will you meet my favorite all time Guardsmen regiment.. The Death Korps of Krieg.
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy there’s a really awesome 5 minute animation here on UA-cam that shows you what there about and plenty of lore videos on them as well, I’d love to see you react to the animations of the Kriegsmen
the throne was originally a part of a project the emperor was working on, i won't spoil it unless you want me to, but there is another reason that the emperor must stay on the throne
There's a lot of lore to cover, so I'm trusting my fellow fans to give you answers to different questions. I will answer the nature of The Golden Throne. Now this will get very long, so grab a chair and drink. The throne is depicted as a literal golden chair. The truth is the throne is rested atop a massive warp gate where the Emperor attempted to create a crude method of getting better and safer FTL travel that did not rely on the Warp. What was attempted was to breach the Eldar webway, which is faster and safer than warp travel. You'll learn about that later. The Webway is like a river within the warp that is impervious to Daemonic incrusions and chaos influence, so you could go through it without the threat of Daemons or the Gods. The Emperor was effectively trying to build a path into it through the warp via the warpgate and create a tunnel leading directly into the webway using wards and warp resistant materials. From there, you could open up pathways to anywhere in the galaxy. I won't spoil why this attempt failed. But this is considered one of the greatest mistakes of the Emperor. I disagree for the reasons that follow. The Imperium relies on Warp Travel to exist, and to use Warp Travel, you need two things. A Warp Drive and a Navigator. The Navigator Houses, the Navis Noblite, are Mutants who are hated throughout the Imperium, but their mutation makes them the only means by which Imperial ships can navigate the Warp. So, the Navis are content to be hated and left alone while their abilities are utilised. They have a monopoly on interstellar travel for the Imperium. You can see where I'm going with this. The Navis Noblite are easily the most powerful organisation in the Imperium. All they have to do to make a point is sit down and do nothing. The image of absolute power the Emperor had would disappear if the Navis just said 'nope'. Killing them is not an option, and if they learned of the Webway project, it would have been an existential threat to them. The reason the Emperor took the approach he did is because the Navis Noblite were also in leagues with other psykers who could read minds. It would've taken a solar week for the Noblite to find out about the Webway project if even a Primarch had a stray thought alluding to the Webway. That's why the Emperor told no one of the webway project. It wasn't a matter of trust. It was a matter of imperial security as he tried to usurp those cemented in power, in which their rebellion would be an existential threat to the Imperium. The webway would have ended humanity's reliance on the warp for FTL travel. The Golden Throne controls the warp gate. Again, I won't spoil what happened, but one of the events of the Heresy, something happened that broke down the warp barriers that would jave connected the warp gate on Terra to the webway, it forced the Emperor to hold back the collapsing warp gate with his Psyker powers. The collapse of the Warp gate was effectively akin to the opening of a Black Hole that threatened to swallow Terra whole, but also Daemons could pour through. The webway project was a failure, and the byproduct of this threatened the Astronomicon. The Emperor, realising just how bad the situation is, used his psychic abilities to keep the collapsing warp gate closed and preventing it from swallowing Terra and destroying the Astronomicon. But the problem is that he can't leave. He has to continually focus his attention on keeping the warp gate closed while holding back demonic hordes on the other side while also powering the Astronomicon. The golden throne, useless in its current state, was repurposed into life support for the Emperor to keep him strong. The 1000 souls a day are specifically psyker souls, and they give more power to the Emperor, its the equivelent of a morning coffee at this point. The Emperor is at an impasse. If he leaves, humanity is doomed, but without his guidance and the primarchs and humanity's military forces reduced to third of its original size, humanity's fate is left in the hands of chance. What's worse is that the hostile xenos of the galaxy have started creeping back. I was not kidding when I said the Imperium is what a famous last stand feels like. It is a literal last stand against a hostile galaxy that has been held back for 10,000 years.
the giant mech you were describing as skyscraper-sized (you were spot on btw) is an imperial titan of the warlord class, they have weapons that can do enormous damage and are basically walking fortresses, some of the larger Imperator titans carry churches on their back, titans are seperate from knights but they do often work together since they both have affiliations with the adeptus mechanicus
@9:12 those are Titans. They belong to the Imperium of Man. Depending on the Class they range between 10 Meters (smallest Titan / Scout Titan) to 50 Meters (biggest Titan / Imerator Class), in TABLETOP Lore. In the BOOKS, some Titans are bigger than Mountain Tops and the biggest ones are so huge, that they could be seen from Orbit. And their "big Guns" are just riddounculus. Quake Canon (which causes literal Earthquakes beyond the Richter Scale, Vulcano Canon (which turns everything into molten stone), dual Avenger Mega Bolter (Imagine a GAU 8 Minigun from a A10 Warthog and you are in the right direction but scale it up in size and speed about a few dozen times) and a Plasma Annihilator (basically turn cities and continents into solid Glass). @10:08 they sacrifice 1000 unsanctioned Psykers. Their Souls and Psychic Energy is transferred to the Golden Throne, to keep it functional and the Emperor "Alive". @10:48 some bad ass Marines don't need Helmets. Also they so massively genetically engineered that a Sniper Bullet would ricochet from their Skull. In some cases. @34:03 Cadia was the best and biggest Military Planet in the Imperium, guarding Real Space from the Eye of Terror (huge Warp Rift in Real Space). Cadia repelled 12 Chaos Black Crusades. On the 13th Black Crusade, Abbaddon the Loser couldn't take another loss and yeeted a Black Stone Fortress (Huge Ancient Star Station) right into Cadia, ripping it appart. While the Planet was dying, the remaining Guardsmen on the Planet, formed a last Stand against an unending Hordes of Chaos Demons, to make sure that the Space Marines, Mechanicus and Sisters of Battle could escape from impending Doom. And when the last line was getting slaughtered they screamed a War Cry that became a legacy. "CADIA STANDS." This is why it's said "The Planet broke before the Guard did." @42:29 don't worry, the Space Wolves ride Gigantic Wolves into Battle. @1:01:33 no that's a Stormbolter. It's a Standard Weapon for Space Marines in Terminator Armor and Centurion Armor. Infact all Grey Knights use modified Terminator Armor. A Stormbolter fires like a regular Bolter .75cal, rocket proppelled, diamond tipped, explosive Warheads in full auto or Burst fire. A Stormbolter is just 2 Bolters combined, wrist mounted with a 60 Shot Box Magazine. Altho The grey Knights don't use Explosive Warheads, they use PSY Rounds which are specifically made to kill the Souls of Demons because Chaos demons are nearly immune to any Real Space Kinetic or Physical Weaponry and even if you manage to kill one without destroying it's Soul, it goes back to the Warp and comes back later. Also the Grey Knights / Terminator Armor need to be versatile and use Range Weapons (Stormbolter) and CQC Weapons like Thunderhammers, Power Axes, Power Swords and Power Glaives at the same time @1:09:49 that "Walker" in the Background is an Imperator Class Titan. It's basically multiple Gigantic Cathedrals and Churches on Legs with several Planet Ending Canons, Guns, Anti Air, Void Shields, etc... @1:26:18 the Inquisition can basically walk up to you, shoot you in the Head for no reason and no one would dare to question it.
He completely glazed over the thing that, in my opinion, is one of the craziest things about the Eversor assassins. If and when they die, these extra organs/stimulant pods in them rupture and become volatile, and they literally EXPLODE with enough force to pulverize not only themselves, but everyone and everything around them.
The quote "Stare Into The Abyss And The Abyss Stares Back" is very literal with psykers when they try look at a Culexus assassin with their psychic powers. Try to imagine seeing a literal hole in existence and it is approaching you with malicious intent. It is the scariest shit a psyker can ever experience. The HQ of the Culexus is called The Fortress Of The Soulless. Soulless is another way people refer to pariahs/blanks. Interesting point. (To me at least) In one of the books a sister of silence was pondering the nature of daemons and their appearance, blanks having no presence in The Warp are not affected by it. They see daemons differently from what normies describe them to blanks. The Warp is dimension that mirrors our reality and the thoughts and emotions of all sentient beings with souls/warp presence so having personal demons can be very literal thing. With blanks there is no psychic power altering their perception but daemons are beings Warp energy. So who is seeing what they really look like?
The Arbites are pretty much just a Judges from Judge Dredd so he got that reference just right! That's the main thing about 40k, it's just been stealing from every scifi setting ever.
He skipped over the titans. Basically they are imperial knights but the size of skyscrapers and small dwarf planets that have a cathedral on top of them.
34:06 - THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD! (Cadia was the main point of defense against the Eye of Terror, a physical gateway between the real world and the warp. In taking down these strange alien pylons around the area and finally Cadia itself, it ripped open the Cicatrix Maledictum, aka "The Great Rift.")
Since you talked about Star Wars , I recommend the channel : AFanWithTooMuchTime , he is making a series of videos where he imagines the forces of the imperium in the Star Wars galaxy
Oh if you want more WH40k crossover then go check out PancreasNoWork channel, where one of his video explain why the Covenant from Halo would be a great faction for 40k, oh and also watch his video about Ciaphas Cain as this is one of more short but simple and more detailed about this character then well any other 40k video talk about this character.
"The planet broke before the Guard." Fall of Cadia It's a good book that one needs to read to understand the reaction of many Warhammer 40k fans when Cadia is mentioned.
Yes it's like hyperspace but slower and more random and sometimes demons eat you or you time travel or you end up in the wrong place. Also they could still do it without the emperor but they would need to do a lot of smaller jumps or the risk would go up a lot.
That guy laying at Horus’s feet is the (Former) primarc of the Blood Angles, he died trying to protect the the imperium, now the blood angles are unstably depresso expresso.
There's one story where a Culexis was sent after a high priority Tau target. He encountered no resistance whatsoever from ANYONE. He parked his ship, walked through Town, hitched a ride on the local monorail system to the Building the Tau in question was at, walked right in there, and shot the guy. He then walked out and went back to his ship and rode on outa there. Everyone KNEW he was there. But just his PRESENCE was so unbelievably terrifying that the Tau civilian and military personnel he was around were literally frozen with fear to the point of mental incapacitation. They really are Slenderman-esque figures in lore and it's sick.
22:45 - Yep, exactly. 1:8 is the ratio you're looking for, but just like you don't want to go through the Nether unprepared and it's really good to be shielded (you wall off your walkways in MC), you need something called a Gellar Field to shield your ship from the badness of the Warp.
You aren't far off with the White Castle bit. The joke is that White Castle isn't open at 2 AM, so even if there was a line, you couldn't see anybody there because it's pitch dark in there, and even around the building depending on how many street lamps are up in the surrounding lot; in my area, resturants like that are usually surrounded by trees and bushes, so once the lights go out, you'd be lucky if you could even see the building.
Cadia was cracked in half during the 13th black crusade due to Abbadon the despoiler throwing a giant death laser space station at it Nocturne is not a dark world that's Nostramo aka the world of the eternal night, Noctorne is a volcanic burned world with a lot of volcanoes so powerful it'll make Yellowstone blusj
Something he didn't mention about imperial knights (the mechs) is these are ancient pieces of technology humanity has forgotten how to build, so they're pretty rare, they date back to before the Emperor rose to prominence and became the master of mankind. They are piloted by 1 guy, often passed down through family lineage (but not always), only a small amount of humanity can even pilot these mechs because you need specific genetics to link to the mechs, these individuals are known as Princeps and are more precious to the imperium than spacemarines, given enough time piloting imperial knights a part of the pilot's personality is transferred to the mech's machine spirit (mentioned during the Adeptus Mechanicus section), and a part of the machine spirit's personality traits can be passed onto the Princeps. Eventually the Princeps can go senile or mad and literall lose their minds inside the mech. But something he didn't mention was the Titan legions, Mechs so large they can disrupt tectonic plates on planets
I'd recommend "If the Emperor had a text to speech device" series. I'm not sure how canon it is now (what with GW and 40k being really bad at maintaining that) but it does give you an overview of a lot of stuff, and is fucking hilarious to boot.
Cadia is like the planet Reach from Halo. It was super important and when it fell it was super devastating for humanity. During the fall you had almost all the factions fighting on Cadia in an Avengers end game style battle so a lot of popular characters were there as well
You should check out Old man Five(ish) Minute Lore . Like Tuska Daemon-Killa the Ork that went to ork heaven, Rylanor the bad ass , ciaphas cain the coward... I mean hero of the Imperium and Trazyn the infinite Pokemon master.
I know its months old, but on the "why is he literally pitch black?" - That is Vulcan, Primarch of the Salamanders Legion. Their homeworld is super radioactive and UV-blasted by its sun, so they have a mutation to deal with that environment. Its not the greatest lore tbh because its literally just "african genetics, but make everything more extreme because 40k", but that is the lore explanation.
I recommend his video where he explains well the legions ,9:40 russia , Maybe try to see the trailers of the Warhammer 40k games that will be released this year : Spacemarine 2 , Warhammer 40k Roguetrader , there is also Boltgun but it has already come out , And if you want to understand the philosophy of the emperor I recommend: The Last Church, sorry for too many suggestions😅
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy if you want to see a film from which they took inspiration from warhammer 40k I recommend event horizon, what happens in the film is very similar to a demonic possession in warhammer 40k
"They should make a movie!" Well a certain witcher is working on something like that right now, though nobody knows whether that is going to be about the Inquisition or some other Imperial faction just yet.
Something about imperial guard I love is the commissars because even tho your soldiers are trained from literal birth to charge head first at the universes horrors, sometimes you still need a dude holding a handgun to the back of their heads to make sure they get out of the trench
there is a strangely large amount of engineers, IT guys and Maintenance crew who tell stories of their shit miraculously working after a quick prayer to the machine spirit in their machine.
I've heard a few too, maybe they're on to something. You hear similar things from some car guys who ran on empty and somehow still made it to a gas station just by telling their car "Cmon baby you can do it" or "Just a little bit more we're almost there". Funny coincidence.
13:40 - That's a rather well fleshed out theory. It's a way of expressing and owning Shadow content (in the Jungian sense) without actually acting it out. We need these faculties because we may need to call on them in emergencies. If you're threatened, it's a damned good thing to be able to be ruthless to survive.
5:15 him wondering how much those models cost and saying "that's like, hundreds of dollars" made me think of the line I heard a youtuber use to describe this game. "Even in debt, I still serve".
Agreed whilst Chaos are running rampant with actual gods from hell, the tyranids are constantly evolving so they’re even more powerful tan before, necroms can more or less one shot you at any range where even a glancing hit is an instant death. Eldar are slippery creatures due to having holographic projection fields and have access to magic and advanced technology to boot, tau can more or less snipe you from two continents over whilst heavily relying on drones and AI, as well as having mech suits that can fly, dark eldar are the same as the normal eldar but would result in an incredibly unpleasant and prolonged death, orks would either rip you to pieces then eat you, or simply surcumnavigate table manners all together and would simply shove you down their gullets whole and still alive, as well as kill you with weapons created from bits of scrap and imagination and are extremely resilient. All the while the average joe is given a high powered laser pointer as a weapon, a combat knife and if lucky a flack jacket, made not to stop any actual incoming attacks but more for incase something goes off near you and you’re barely able to survive but be useful enough, either to be converted into a servitor or given the emperors peace of lucky enough, although 9/10 times you’re useless body isn’t worth the extra shot and would simply be abandoned and it’s up to you or the emperor on whether or not you live or die, for the less fortunate people, if wounds were superficial then they can be easily patched up and then thrown back onto the frontlines, but the really luck ie the 0.000000000000001% of people are more than able to live a relatively peaceful life in retirement, but considering that the most common phrase is ONLY IN DEATH DOES DUTY END. Has never summed up how terrible being an average person is on the 40K universe.
I'm not sure if another comment clarified, but Bricky saying 20 Primarchs, then 18 is because there are 2 "lost" Primarchs who were the Primarchs for the 2nd and 11th legions of Space Marines. There is very little information on what happened to them and they are kept intentionally vague
8:20 Rave: "*tons of honest questions*" Me: "Yes... Yes... Yes... That is also correct... Yes... He's about to get to that... Yes... You are good at inferring these things..."
If you want to get into imperial knights there's a good book called Assassinorum: Kingmaker by Robert Rath. It shows you how both assassins and knight houses work.
So you CAN Warp travel without the Astronomicon, but it'd be like trying to sail the open ocean without a compass on a cloudy night; you can barely see around you, you don't know where you are and you can't tell where you came from or where you're going, so you're at the mercy of the winds, tide, sheer luck, and the predations of whatever lurks in the deep. Orks do interstellar travel by sheer blind luck. They take a busted Warp drive or a pile of scrap they _think_ is a Warp drive, slap it onto whatever scrap heap they have that constitutes a ship, and then the power of their own hype to go somewhere for a fight disturbs the Warp and allows them to go where the action is, even if it's not always their intended destination. If they even had one to begin with... The Eldar have the Webway, which is basically a tunnel network through the Warp with fixed entrances and exits. It's far safer than regular Warp travel, but it's exceptionally difficult to navigate the network of tunnels and avoid any obstacles the Eldar may have placed inside of it. Also the Eldar have essentially lost the ability to create new Webway tunnels, either through a lack of means or a loss of knowledge since the fall of their empire thousands of years ago. Fun Fact: The Emperor originally planned to tap into the Webway, but some shenanigans from the Horus Heresy caused him to have to use the Golden Throne to seal the Webway portal he'd been working on so it wouldn't swallow Terra and the Sol System, and the strain of doing this, running the Astronomicon, guiding the Imperium via psychic visions and 'holy miracles', AND contending with the Chaos Gods is so taxing that he needs 1,000 psykers to assist him and burn up their souls in the process every day. And that number has increased to as much as 10,000 souls a day at this point, all of which have to be psykers of some description... The Tyranids use conventional travel and gravity manipulation to launch themselves between solar systems, but they can only use the latter outside of tge gravity well of the system's star and they need to send scouts centuries or even millennia ahead of their main fleets. The Necrons have long-range teleportation technology, but like the Webway it's reliant on fixed points, and we don't really know the full breadth of what the Necrons can actually do technologically speaking. They CAN however breach the Webway and use it to travel, although this tends to destabilize and collapse the tunnel behind them, so it's not optimal. The Tau use Warp travel, but they don't fully understand it and have only really managed to develop a technological means to do so in the last few centuries, so their Warp drives 'skim' into the Warp very briefly over short distances. The Tau also have a 'member species' of what are essentially space whales that can Warp travel, but they cannot rely on them for large scale transportation, hence the need to develop artificial Warp travel. Also the Tau currently lack a substitute for the Navigators, a strain of Abhuman psykers that can naturally see into the Warp and can use the Astronomicon as a reference point to guide ships through the Warp. While some Navigators have undoubtedly defected to the Tau over the centuries, the Navigator gene is difficult to reproduce, naturally or artificially, and because the Tau have only just discovered the importance of a Gellar Field generator to try and shield the crew of the ship from strange energies and horrors of the Warp, most defected Navigators would probably refuse to operate on Tau ships and stick to whatever human vessels are available. As for Chaos? It's somewhere between the Imperium and the Orks really. Daemons can just appear wherever the veil between reality is thin enough, but the mortal worshippers of Chaos have to copy what the Imperium does using Warp drives, Gellar Field generators and Navigators, or they have to put their faith in the Chaos Gods to not fuck them over for a lark and send them where they need to go.
So, he doesn’t explain this but the Emperor actually hated religion. When he was uniting mankind, he actively shut down all religions claiming that “religion was the only thing holding humanity back”. And then when people started to worship him, he made it an illegal practice and burned down a church dedicated to him that one of his son’s (Lorgar) built for him. So when he’s on the throne now, people worship him despite him telling everyone that he is not a god. But if irony there.
Also, Cadia was destroyed by chaos. Cadia was essentially holding back chaos for YEARS. But the planet was destroyed before the Cadian’s overall morale was. They deem themselves failures for it.
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy Sorry for the huge wall of text. Here’s the bad part: not only did he destroy entire cultures and massacre billions, but it wasn’t just a a church, it was Monarchia, the ”perfect city“. And he just razed his sons life’s work to the ground despite knowing that the belief wouldn’t actually do anything bad because it was directed towards *him.* (the reason he didn’t like religion is because y‘know faith goes to the warp and empowers or created deities) Not to mention that he ounly found out about this because Lorgar didn’t conquer as fast….because he actually invested in the worlds he conquered. The Emperor was never a good guy, there’s an animatic on YT called ”The Last Church“ wich is a whole animatic of the book by the same name, about the Emperor confronting the last priest on Earth. Great insight into the Emperors character, definite recommend.
Part of the reason for his ban on religion was that he knew about the Chaos Gods and hoped to starve them out of existence by ensuring that they had no believers. He was wrong on this point, because they feed more on the concepts they represent than on worship.
The warp acts like the nether from Minecraft yes but also sometimes you arrive where you going before you left. Or you arrive multiple thousands of years later
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy they where removed and or killed for unknown reasons by the emperor and their space marines where integrated with into other legions
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uyThe 2 Lost Primarchs, the Primarchs of the 2nd and 11th Legions, are referred to as The Forgotten and The Purged. Whatever happened to them, it was so bad that any knowledge pertaining to them outside of the fact they existed has been deleted from all record, and anybody who knew them was forced into a vow of secrecy or had their memories of them erased. Even Chaos Marines and Daemon-Primarchs don't talk about them, and the fact that 9 Primarchs betrayed the Emperor and fell to Chaos is considered not worthy of the same level of Imperial censure is baffling.
59:50 thats from that one episode on The Fairly OddParents where the guy with the glasses gets all buffed when he gets the glasses (then gets oneshoted by the dragon)
20:01 - You are actually stupidly close on the last one, since both the Rod of Aesculapius and the Staff of Hermes are magical/alchemical/hermetic symbols.
For Custodes, they not only have the best weapons, armor, blanks, and responsibilities. They also have what are called 'doomscryers', powerful psykers whose only duty is to have visions of the future. Using these visions, Custodes can plan accordingly for incursions/infiltrations into the imperial palace. It also allows them to assign members of the Aquilan Shield to guard special people throughout the galaxy. The current chapter master of the Ultra Marines was given multiple custodes to watch over when he was a kid living in the slums, knowing he would one day lead his chapter to glory (even tho it was mainly because the author at the time was a HUGE Ultramarine SIMP).
So..... Cadia (starts sobbing uncontrollably), the ones who destroyed it had to literally ram one of the most powerful space ship classes of that universe into Cadia to ultimately win. Even then while the planet was crumbling around them you could easily spot lasgun fire on every piece. in other words: The planet broke before the guard did!
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy Luetin09 is another great source of warhammer 40k stuff on youtube. If you want in depth explanations of specific topics or factions (like the adeptus mechanicus for example). As in: origin, background, ideology, context on how said faction has become what it currently is, etc. Luetin makes some really great stuff. Certainly recommend.
The Emperor, due to warp shenanigans and worship is definitely *becoming* a god. Also, he was Moses. And the thousand people are specific sacrifices, and not just normals but psykers, who are like 1 in 10 million. They then get shipped to the palace from thousands of lightyears away on specific anti-psyker ships. The dumbest shit about this is that they sacrifice the most powerful because they have the least control over their power, even though training even one of those would be a huge deal. The Throne was meant for Magnus, one of the other Primarchs because he was meant to power the Webway of man, based on the Eldar webway, you’ll hear a bit about that in part 2. However his secrecy about this is one of the reasons his sons mistrusted him, so now it’s unfinished and the Emperor had to power the Astronomicon to help Mankind. The other races don’t do it like humans, Eldar have the Webway, Orks don’t care where they land, Tau on,y lightly skim the warp, they still sue generation ships, and Necrons have some goofy ass tech. And of course chaos are the warp so they know everything. Also, it’s commonly held in the AdMech that the Emperor IS the Omnissiah, who is the physical incarnation of the Machine God. They also have something called the Motive Force. So yeah they are Catholics. Kaldor Draigo is the Doomslayer of 40K. He was sent into the Warp, and he decided to murder deamons for eternity. He is super broken even by 40K standards.
Not sure if this has been covered in the comments. The Golden Throne, was originally meant for the Thousand sons' Primarch Magnus to sit up on. Not sure if it had been retconned or not ( or could just be a fan theory my f'ed up brain picked up and shoe horned into cannon) , as I dipped on the Horus Hersey books ( TLDR for those that love the books , I hit one book, found it boring af, and then my life went down the toilet, leading me to be unable to afford the books now even if I want to start reading again.) , but each Primarch was meant to for-fill a role after the Great Crusade . In regards to the Emperor not wanting to be thought of as a God, he was basically a atheist and believed religion was dragging humanity down, plus I think it was hinted that he was aware of the Chaos Gods, and wanted to "starve them" of followers, so to speak. Like I said my knowledge about that time period is fuzzy at best, but ask me about the life and times of "The Hero of the Imperium" Commissar Ciaphas Cain , Or The Tanith First and Only AKA Guant's Ghosts and I have you covered. 😁😃
The most random note: The Emperor has been alive for about 60,000 years. He is only rotting because he is expending so much effort and energy into the Golden Throne that his body is not regenerating properly. _(Doesn't help that he had just fought his son immediately before sitting on that throne. An ass named Horus that was empowered by all 4 Chaos Gods.)_ If he could ever get OFF that throne, that he has sat on - sitting on the throne was described as endless torture - for just over 10,000 years, he would heal back to his old self in like an hr. The Emperor was, before being worshipped for 10,000 years as a God _(in a universe where belief actually does make things real thanks to the Warp),_ already powerful enough to drag something called a C'Tan (a star god) off Earth - only to dump it on Mars. Back in like the 1500s. Long before mankind had space travel. Edit: Your question about the heretic being punished? He is being turned into a Servitor. A half robot slave that will likely live forever... or until destroyed.
Omg I assume they don't know he would regenerate? Seems they were so worried about ever losing him the over prepared and at the first sign of losing him they jumped the gun into using what they prepared, damn And that sounds like the worst torture for that heretic, in other torture methods at least you have death
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy He actually told them to stick him into the golden throne... It holds back an endless tide of demons from being able to spill directly onto Earth. It's a... pretty fucked story, and it's why people say Magnus did everything wrong. _(As opposed to the meme of Magnus did nothing wrong.)_ His son, Magnus, severely screwed up. Sadly he screwed up while trying to warn his father about Horus' betrayal, so he basically condemned the Emperor to this endless torture by acting without thinking. Like a teenager, really. _(this also resulted in the death of the Emperor's right hand man who was also 1000s of years old)_ The rest of that? Yeah. The Emperor could have out regenerated the damage the throne does if they wouldn't have stuffed a Stasis field around it. Dorn, another of his sons, didn't know he was a Perpetual _(Perpetual are like living fixed points. They can not die... even when people think they've found a way to kill one they end up coming back.),_ and so ordered the stasis field erected instead of letting his father just heal. Admittedly Horus DID leave their dad in a really, really bad way. Missing an eye, throat slit, back shattered.. yeah. Tl;dr: The Emperor HAS to be on that throne, at least for now, because one of his sons accidentally made it so if he stands up all of Earth will be comsumed by hell. _Another_ one of his sons panicked, and instead of just putting him in the throne - he put him in the throne, AND started a stasis field to slow everything down a ridiculous degree. Thus, thanks to his kids, he went from ruling most of the galaxy (with a way for humanity to stop using the warp in his back pocket - the throne was the key), to being mortally wounded 5x over, strapped to an endless torture device, and locked in agony for 10 millennia.
It’s the Fairly Odd Parents episode where they went back to Camelot. That specific sound clip is from when they gave the kid Artie glasses and because he could see he transformed into a muscle bound King Arthur to go fight a dragon.
When they mentioned lost technologies that's because mankind's golden age is long past. They once ruled the galaxy with ai and tech that could alter the universe around them but then the AI known as the men of iron revolted and wiped out most of humanity.
Also the reason he says 20 primarchs then changes to 18 is because 2 of the legions are left completely vague so that people can create their own legions and have it make sense in universe.
Really?! Omg I love the detail they put into this franchise! Cause it makes so much sense for their skin to be like that to protect them from the environment a volcano planet would have. The heat, the chemicals in the air, the winds, etc. Would require a tough skin, likely composed of minerals usually found in rock, and volcanic rock is black like that so their skin is similar. Omg I am nerding out!
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy Yeah dude. Also I hear the sun of the system that planet is in is radioactive i think so the dark skin would be protective against that as well. In fact all space marines have an organ that makes their skin darker depending on the intensity of the radioactivity in their current battleground. I even recall an instance where Earth/Terran-born salamanders had their skin turn full black when they visited Nocturne (homeworld of their primarch, Vulkan) because of this organ. There's some interesting lore implications with this because since space marines get their geneseed from their primarch how could the emperor have designed Vulkan to have the black skin thing if he didn't know that he'd land on Nocturne when the primarchs got scattered. Oh and on another note, I highly recommend watching Helsreach. It's a fanmade project, much like Astartes was, but is an adaptation of a 40k book of the same name. There's a 13-part series on the creator's channel (forgot the name, i recall "Justin Roylan" but i'm not sure) or you can watch a full compilation of that series which effectively makes it a movie.
its getting scary how good he is at guessing/predicting things. Yeah warhammer is really expensive (atleast for what it is you are buying), the big guy at 45:20 costs 49 usd Also (im kinda biased as a necron player) but i also highly reccomend watching TIMELINE of the 40K UNIVERSE by Trazyn the Infinite : from warrior tier, its quite interesting as it explains the history of warhammer from one of the arguably most famous warhammer characters point of view. oh and the boss you are thinking about is Radahn not radagon,
I was so happy when I could call something (like the warp being like the nether) I think it's cause Warhammer has inspired a lot of media (and also been inspired by even old media that also inspired new media) that I can see similarities to things I have seen and make a guess based on those Still a lot I got wrong or have no idea if I was right or not but looking forward to learning more!
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Thanks for the vid! There's still part 2 but take your time. Let it sink in, a lotta people get overloaded with just 10 minutes, how much more an hour 😂.
Thanks! I with I'm gonna do a video in between part 1 and 2 cause yeah I need to digest what all I am just learned haha
I’m pretty sure that audio clip was from fairy odd parents
He also did a video specifically on the space marine legions, if you wanted to check that out
Btw, 59:40? FairyOdd Parents, ;)
"Do they have caskets with guns on them?"
Yes, they're called Dreadnoughts.
And they’re used by the space marines
And there's one so old it once stood along side the Emperor during the crusades.
@@djphroop several of them, actually
Pretty funny how when guessing the Chaos gods you got them accurately and then Tzeentch just confused the hell out of you…..which is completely in character for him 😂. He’d probably be snickering going “ *YES! Just as plaaaaanned! Nyeeeheeheeheearhahshagaaaaaa!* “
They were designed very well! And I guess that means the other one , Tzeentch is like the god of chaos/randomness or confusion?
I hope to learn more in the next part!
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy yeah pretty much. Anything to do with change, confusion, fate, contradiction, etc.
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy yeah, basically change, manipulation and trickery
You have channels Alphabusa marvelously. TTS is a treasure.
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy….yes? No? Maybe? Tzeentch is the god of magic, lies, schemes and knowledge.
Who else laughed when he said "orks not fighting against themselves."
Especially for orcs.
Same, I laughed like “Orks not fighting themselves?” 🤣🤣🤣
There can be other people around to fight and they’ll still fight each
oh i was on the floor laughing
Orks not fighting against themselves? CALL THE MAGOS BIOLOGIS BEFORE THE INQUISITION EXTERMINATUS THE PLANET!
The 2nd and 11th legion and their primarchs were expunged from history and everything about them were erased by malcadore. The old man even choked the hell out of Horus when he was loyal and the primarchs were mad that the two legions and their brothers were being erased and Horus was going to say his brother’s name.
Cadia was destroyed when Abbadon raged quit and crashed a Blackstone fortress into the planet, destroying the planet because he couldn’t break the cadian’s defending the planet.
Knights are piloted by 1 person similar to gundams while Titans are a group of people piloting the gaunt mech
Oh so they were like completely lost to history, damn!
Omg I didn't hear that part of Cadia yet! It keeps getting worse and worse, I'm understand the tears thanks to the comments more and more
Oh so they have both kinds of Mecha awesome!
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy In-Lore, Its a bit of being lost to History, But in the real world and tabletop its for Player Interactivity, The 2nd and 11th Primarch and thus, Legions, Were basically an open spot so that players could participate in the "Horus Heresy" Part of the Setting with a custom army, Either as the 2nd "Loyalist" Legion, Or the 11th "Traitor" Legion.
And he STILL failed to break the Cadian Guardsmen. CADIA STANDS!
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uyAnother thing about Cadia is that it's been in the lore for 40 years and it's been the shield making first contact with every one of the 13 Crusades that came from the Eye of Terror. Cadia was a symbol. Another reason it hurts so bad is because even when the fortress already got launched on the planet and cracked it, it was said that the extraction ships could still see streaks of red lasers going off on the surface from the guardsmen they had to leave behind. Their planet fell apart and died around them and they still fight on!
So if you ever hear the phrase "The planet broke before the guard!", it's literal and refers to the fall of Cadia.
@@marcusreading3783not anymore!
Now Cadia SITS BITCH lol
"Was he not religious?" No. In fact, he was a militant atheist. He tried to eradicate religion from humanity. Which is what makes it deliciously ironic that he's their god now.
7:08 So a little bit of lore context: there are millions of worlds in the Imperium, and around 80% (might be a wrong number, but it’s up there) of these worlds are Hive Worlds. Hives are massive cities that house between 8 and 30 BILLION people, and a hive world is covered in dozens of hives.
Humans are everywhere in 40k, and it’s awesome since it lets people tell nearly any story imaginable: medieval adventure, it’s possible. Super sci fi thriller, it’s possible. Detective stories with intrigue and murder, it’s possible.
This simple fact alone is part of the reason I love 40k as a universe
Man we really are just ants covering everything! And yeah it sounds like with just so much in the universe, any kind of story could be told
30,000 planets have hives on them. Each of them needs to be fed by number of agriculture worlds and then you also have the mining worlds. Most of the world's are, not that high population compared to a hive, but our resource extraction for the hives. Which manufacture everything, or for the mechanicus, which also manufacture everything. In the Golden Age, this was very different, but there are still quadrillions of humans in this Galaxy.
its more like hive worlds house 80% of the total human population. Agricultural worlds are probably the most common, and in that category mostly Feudal Worlds (basically middle age technology-wise, except for the planetary government in low orbit)
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy It's often said that the most plentiful resource in the Imperium is manpower. As an example, the space-faring warships of the Imperium use manual labor to load their weapons because it's cheaper and easier to round up a few dozen slaves than design a mechanical loading system.
In this universe of only war everyone fights everyone, so yes, humans fight humans and orcks fight orcks and so on...
It's even more chaotic than I thought! But I like that, it's never been realistic in sci Fi when all individuals of a race fight as one all the time, so it's a nice change of pace
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy Apt choice of words, as Chaos is one of the main dividing lines. Even among the forces of Chaos there is the Great Game, where the four Chaos Gods attempt to outmaneuver each other and vie for supremacy. Khorne (the Blood God of rage and battle) hates Slaanesh (She Who Thirsts, the god of decadence, pleasure, pain, and perfection), and Nurgle (The Grandfather, god of decay, entropy, and nature) hates Tzeentch (the god of magic and plots).
for the sake of the tabletop at least that is certainly true, though the degree of infighting does vary faction by faction. orks are the ones that do it the most, whereas tyrannids or tau hardly ever would. Eldar are fairly rare, unless you include every type (and even the evil ones would rather go for easier targets most of the time). Humanity is... complicated, considering half of the space marines defected to chaos and the like. Then there are imperial guard commissars which just shoot the most cowardly soldier in their unit to get the rest back in line and restore morale.
Even Chaos Marines fight each other because of the Gods hate each other. If you put a Thousand Sons and World Eater in the same room, they won't be friends, they will kill each other.
Don’t worry about Cadia. There was an Avenger’s Endgame event at Cadia, it’s pivotal to the current state of the galaxy in 40K. It’s a big thing, and there’s no concise way of saying what happened.
Cadia Stands!
Planet broke before the guard did.
This is the way to explain.
It's not just a grimdark, it invented the term grimdark. THIS is where grimdark comes from. That first quote, "In the grim dark future, there is only war." is what invented the term grimdark.
And also the quote "There's never enough DAKKA"
Or DAKKA in general.
Fun fact: The average lifespan of an Imperial Guardsman in combat is around 15 hours.
Honestly that's longer than I would have assumed from the little I have heard about what they fight haha
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy You also aren't seen as a true Guardsman by other Guardsman until AFTER you survive your first firefight
or to put it in another way, they have around a 90% mortality rate in their first battle.
Fear the old in the profession where men die young
@joshuamattingly1232 That's reliant on two factors - that they're couple-of-months-trained conscripts, and that they're hurled into the kind of battles Space Marines would be expected in.
I'll point you towards Guard Veterans, who cost less points on tabletop to field than Storm Troopers, can pick from a wider selection of gear than them and also are tougher than them. That is the true face of the Guard.
This guy is very noob friendly. He has a podcast with his friends thats weekly. (You don't have to react to it, but if you want to learn more, that's a good podcast to check out.)
That would be a nice thing to have on while I do work and stuff, thanks for letting me know!
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy no problem. It's called Adpetus Ridiculous
@@philiphamel8504Best Warhammer podcast imo because Bricky DK and Shy are just so awsome people and the humor is amazing in every way XD
For the Aquilan Shields, there is a group of specialised Psykers within the Imperial Palace called Doomscryers. They aid the Custodes by picking up currents in the Warp and predicting threats as well as the futures of special individuals, who then get the protection of an Aquilan Shield Custodian.
"Does he mean a THOUSAND people a day?"
Yes.
"Or does he just mean like "In war"?"
No they kill them. With like, a big wood chipper I think.
Nah there's multiple things that seems to be being missed here. The first is that everyone that is killed daily are psykers, brought there by the black ships. They are led back to Terra from all sorts of far off locations and put into large chambers surrounding the Golden Throne. They are a powersource to the golden throne. Which does far more then allow for warp travel.
From what I've understood It's basically that Emperor has hundreds of thousands if not millions of Psykers he's spiritually bound to who he is constantly draining and every day, on average, a thousand of them will "run out" of steam and die.
@@GamerGrovyle No I'm pretty sure it happens instantly. Like they throw you into the soul-sucking chamber and you instantly turn into Emperor Gasoline.
Im gonna be honest with you my guy, I don't normally watch the whole VTuber thing, but you ask some pretty good questions and seem genuinely interested in learning. A lot of people who react to this kind of stuff don't really have as much insight as you do. You earned another sub :D Also, recommend watching Bricky's explanation off all the Space marine legions. He goes way more into depth about each one
That means so much to hear! I usually don't watch reaction videos either so I want to pay as much attention to the content I am watching and give it the respect it deserves.
And for vtubers, i understand, they aren't for everyone, I'm trying to just be a normal stream that happens to use a Vtuber model since a lot fall into the lewd content trap haha (not to say I dont make lewd jokes or comments obviously)
I am glad ya enjoyed the video!
My favourite Culexus assassin bit is when a brash Guardsman decided to rush into battle against his superior's orders , and accidentally stepped inside the Radius of a Culexus Assassin deploying his Blank Aura.
The Guardsman immediately blew his brains out without a second thought.
A bit of a correction on the mechanicus. The Emperor IS The Omnisiah. The machine god is a different entite, and the machine spirit also. They believe the emperor is the omnisiah because when he met with them he repaired "healed" a piece of tech just by touching it.
Basicaly the Mechanicus believes the Emperor is Machine God's prophet and physical incarnation, the Omnissiah. In their eyes' he's divine, but not god himself
This
So it’s the Trinity 40k edition.
@@NaviRyanThat is a pretty good way of thinking about how they believe it.
That is the mecanicus’s vision yes but wasn’t there a theory about the fact that the Omnisiah is actually the void dragon ?
As someone who has never watched your content before but has been emersed into 40k for more than a decade. This video was just a treat, you did so well making guesses and speculating! The lore is around 30 years in the making, it's INSANE. But its always heartwarming for me to see new people try and delve in despite that and especially from the people who genuinely appreciate it.
Wow, thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it, I wanted to give the content the respect it deserved and pay extra close attention, it was awesome!
1:03:55 - Kaldor Draigo was sucked by Chaos into Warp a few millennia ago. And he was toward demons like: "You think I'm stuck here with you? No, it's you that are stuck here with me!" and he goes full-on Doomguy on Chaos.
Death Corps of Krieg is jealous.
Imperial Knights are piloted by 1 person and they are actually the smallest walkers. They also have titans who go from tge size of houses to skyscrapers. An emperor class titan is a literal walking cathedral and as holy as a piece of technology can be.
That single brain cell saying "Yeah we're totally halfway to 40,000 AD" for a few moments. Never change, that cheered me up.
🤣🤣🤣
54:15 A Melta is a type of weapon. You know welding and plasma torches? Imagine a handheld weaponized shotgun version of that. Absolutely devastating against armor, tanks, walls, and people. However it has the downside of having a rather short range, like "videogame shotgun" levels of range issues. On the other hand you have a pretty decent chance of destroying an enemy tank in one shot if you get in range, so it's a tradeoff.
also if it overheats too much you and everyone nearby is annihalated by a plasmic explosion.
@@mickyflint me when the tau already fixed that issue in 4 thousand years of exsitance
EXCEPT when it's a multimelta, then it has range but is fuck off big and clunky
@@Dodsodalo To the point where it is more of a vehicle weapon, though some astartes are tough enough to use them as heavy weapons.
@@KingZolem there are guardsman and inquisitors that have used them but..... Warhammer 40k scaling is all over the place both sensibly and nonsensically. Some worlds might make multimeltas more effectively and in a smaller package, where some ... don't. Maybe. I dunno. Consistency can be hard with the non lasgun and non bot gun weapons in 40k.
For how Custodes find out how someone will become great fingures can be assumed in 2 theories: 1. The Emperor just straight up tell them through their minds since they are guarding his body. 2. The Shield Host department can somehow calculate someone fate through hours of discussions.
The best way to describe a melta is like this: imagine a watergun, but instead of water it shoots a stream of plasma and, as the name suggests, melts the target.
yeah, just slugs of molten slag crossed with thermite essentially.
Meltas actually don't use any sort of physical projectile. Meltas are energy weapons. They fire extremely powerful but short-ranged beans of thermal radiation produced by a miniature fusion reaction that vaporizes organics & turns metal to molten slag. It's why they're also referred to as 'Fusion Guns' and 'Cookers'.
For an idea on how long the emperor has been around. I had a classmate and friend who was super into this series and he explained to me the emperor had basically been around since the time of the ancient Romans. So yeah he's been around a while!
Well that explains his love of the Roman themes haha, but damn that is OLD
Earlier. He was born in Anatolia in 8000BC. Twice as old as the ancient Egyptians.
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uyyeah, the main reason he’s only been the emperor for the past 10,000 years is because he kept himself hidden, just watching humanity and he only came out and became the emperor because humanity went to shit and they needed guidance.
The Sisters of Battle are one of favorite non-space marine armies there just so awesome. Also if you think the regular Imperial Guard are WW2 German inspired… Just wait will you meet my favorite all time Guardsmen regiment.. The Death Korps of Krieg.
👀 I look forward to seeing them
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy there’s a really awesome 5 minute animation here on UA-cam that shows you what there about and plenty of lore videos on them as well, I’d love to see you react to the animations of the Kriegsmen
Always great to see fellow Death Korp fans ☺️
Except.... Krieg is WW1. If anything the Steel Legion is more WW2.
* gasmask noises* finally, more kriegsmen
You were remarkably on the money with a lot of your predictions throughout the video. Mad respect.
the throne was originally a part of a project the emperor was working on, i won't spoil it unless you want me to, but there is another reason that the emperor must stay on the throne
There's a lot of lore to cover, so I'm trusting my fellow fans to give you answers to different questions. I will answer the nature of The Golden Throne. Now this will get very long, so grab a chair and drink. The throne is depicted as a literal golden chair. The truth is the throne is rested atop a massive warp gate where the Emperor attempted to create a crude method of getting better and safer FTL travel that did not rely on the Warp. What was attempted was to breach the Eldar webway, which is faster and safer than warp travel. You'll learn about that later.
The Webway is like a river within the warp that is impervious to Daemonic incrusions and chaos influence, so you could go through it without the threat of Daemons or the Gods. The Emperor was effectively trying to build a path into it through the warp via the warpgate and create a tunnel leading directly into the webway using wards and warp resistant materials. From there, you could open up pathways to anywhere in the galaxy.
I won't spoil why this attempt failed. But this is considered one of the greatest mistakes of the Emperor. I disagree for the reasons that follow. The Imperium relies on Warp Travel to exist, and to use Warp Travel, you need two things. A Warp Drive and a Navigator. The Navigator Houses, the Navis Noblite, are Mutants who are hated throughout the Imperium, but their mutation makes them the only means by which Imperial ships can navigate the Warp. So, the Navis are content to be hated and left alone while their abilities are utilised. They have a monopoly on interstellar travel for the Imperium.
You can see where I'm going with this. The Navis Noblite are easily the most powerful organisation in the Imperium. All they have to do to make a point is sit down and do nothing. The image of absolute power the Emperor had would disappear if the Navis just said 'nope'. Killing them is not an option, and if they learned of the Webway project, it would have been an existential threat to them.
The reason the Emperor took the approach he did is because the Navis Noblite were also in leagues with other psykers who could read minds. It would've taken a solar week for the Noblite to find out about the Webway project if even a Primarch had a stray thought alluding to the Webway.
That's why the Emperor told no one of the webway project. It wasn't a matter of trust. It was a matter of imperial security as he tried to usurp those cemented in power, in which their rebellion would be an existential threat to the Imperium. The webway would have ended humanity's reliance on the warp for FTL travel. The Golden Throne controls the warp gate.
Again, I won't spoil what happened, but one of the events of the Heresy, something happened that broke down the warp barriers that would jave connected the warp gate on Terra to the webway, it forced the Emperor to hold back the collapsing warp gate with his Psyker powers. The collapse of the Warp gate was effectively akin to the opening of a Black Hole that threatened to swallow Terra whole, but also Daemons could pour through. The webway project was a failure, and the byproduct of this threatened the Astronomicon.
The Emperor, realising just how bad the situation is, used his psychic abilities to keep the collapsing warp gate closed and preventing it from swallowing Terra and destroying the Astronomicon. But the problem is that he can't leave. He has to continually focus his attention on keeping the warp gate closed while holding back demonic hordes on the other side while also powering the Astronomicon. The golden throne, useless in its current state, was repurposed into life support for the Emperor to keep him strong. The 1000 souls a day are specifically psyker souls, and they give more power to the Emperor, its the equivelent of a morning coffee at this point.
The Emperor is at an impasse. If he leaves, humanity is doomed, but without his guidance and the primarchs and humanity's military forces reduced to third of its original size, humanity's fate is left in the hands of chance. What's worse is that the hostile xenos of the galaxy have started creeping back.
I was not kidding when I said the Imperium is what a famous last stand feels like. It is a literal last stand against a hostile galaxy that has been held back for 10,000 years.
Thanks for all the detail! And yeah it seems like the lore will never end and I love it
well, that is the official explanation.
Apparently the true explanation was that the Emperor needed Booty and he wanted some eldar prostitutes
SO Navis Noblite is basically the Spacing Guild from Dune. Love how Sci-Fi settings burrow from each other. :D
the giant mech you were describing as skyscraper-sized (you were spot on btw) is an imperial titan of the warlord class, they have weapons that can do enormous damage and are basically walking fortresses, some of the larger Imperator titans carry churches on their back, titans are seperate from knights but they do often work together since they both have affiliations with the adeptus mechanicus
The gun the largest titan's carry that you want to be scared of is the giant plasma gun, its shots have the same amount of energy as a star.
"Top right is god of... I have no idea." Actually an apt description of Tzeentch.
If you've ever watched The Event Horizon, their warp engine is reminiscent of how ships travel thru the demonic essence of the Warp
@9:12 those are Titans. They belong to the Imperium of Man. Depending on the Class they range between 10 Meters (smallest Titan / Scout Titan) to 50 Meters (biggest Titan / Imerator Class), in TABLETOP Lore. In the BOOKS, some Titans are bigger than Mountain Tops and the biggest ones are so huge, that they could be seen from Orbit. And their "big Guns" are just riddounculus. Quake Canon (which causes literal Earthquakes beyond the Richter Scale, Vulcano Canon (which turns everything into molten stone), dual Avenger Mega Bolter (Imagine a GAU 8 Minigun from a A10 Warthog and you are in the right direction but scale it up in size and speed about a few dozen times) and a Plasma Annihilator (basically turn cities and continents into solid Glass).
@10:08 they sacrifice 1000 unsanctioned Psykers. Their Souls and Psychic Energy is transferred to the Golden Throne, to keep it functional and the Emperor "Alive".
@10:48 some bad ass Marines don't need Helmets. Also they so massively genetically engineered that a Sniper Bullet would ricochet from their Skull. In some cases.
@34:03 Cadia was the best and biggest Military Planet in the Imperium, guarding Real Space from the Eye of Terror (huge Warp Rift in Real Space). Cadia repelled 12 Chaos Black Crusades. On the 13th Black Crusade, Abbaddon the Loser couldn't take another loss and yeeted a Black Stone Fortress (Huge Ancient Star Station) right into Cadia, ripping it appart. While the Planet was dying, the remaining Guardsmen on the Planet, formed a last Stand against an unending Hordes of Chaos Demons, to make sure that the Space Marines, Mechanicus and Sisters of Battle could escape from impending Doom. And when the last line was getting slaughtered they screamed a War Cry that became a legacy. "CADIA STANDS." This is why it's said "The Planet broke before the Guard did."
@42:29 don't worry, the Space Wolves ride Gigantic Wolves into Battle.
@1:01:33 no that's a Stormbolter. It's a Standard Weapon for Space Marines in Terminator Armor and Centurion Armor. Infact all Grey Knights use modified Terminator Armor. A Stormbolter fires like a regular Bolter .75cal, rocket proppelled, diamond tipped, explosive Warheads in full auto or Burst fire. A Stormbolter is just 2 Bolters combined, wrist mounted with a 60 Shot Box Magazine. Altho The grey Knights don't use Explosive Warheads, they use PSY Rounds which are specifically made to kill the Souls of Demons because Chaos demons are nearly immune to any Real Space Kinetic or Physical Weaponry and even if you manage to kill one without destroying it's Soul, it goes back to the Warp and comes back later.
Also the Grey Knights / Terminator Armor need to be versatile and use Range Weapons (Stormbolter) and CQC Weapons like Thunderhammers, Power Axes, Power Swords and Power Glaives at the same time
@1:09:49 that "Walker" in the Background is an Imperator Class Titan. It's basically multiple Gigantic Cathedrals and Churches on Legs with several Planet Ending Canons, Guns, Anti Air, Void Shields, etc...
@1:26:18 the Inquisition can basically walk up to you, shoot you in the Head for no reason and no one would dare to question it.
He completely glazed over the thing that, in my opinion, is one of the craziest things about the Eversor assassins. If and when they die, these extra organs/stimulant pods in them rupture and become volatile, and they literally EXPLODE with enough force to pulverize not only themselves, but everyone and everything around them.
The quote "Stare Into The Abyss And The Abyss Stares Back" is very literal with psykers when they try look at a Culexus assassin with their psychic powers. Try to imagine seeing a literal hole in existence and it is approaching you with malicious intent. It is the scariest shit a psyker can ever experience.
The HQ of the Culexus is called The Fortress Of The Soulless. Soulless is another way people refer to pariahs/blanks.
Interesting point. (To me at least)
In one of the books a sister of silence was pondering the nature of daemons and their appearance, blanks having no presence in The Warp are not affected by it. They see daemons differently from what normies describe them to blanks. The Warp is dimension that mirrors our reality and the thoughts and emotions of all sentient beings with souls/warp presence so having personal demons can be very literal thing. With blanks there is no psychic power altering their perception but daemons are beings Warp energy. So who is seeing what they really look like?
4:52 - That's an Arbites, a police officer basically. "STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!"
The Arbites are pretty much just a Judges from Judge Dredd so he got that reference just right!
That's the main thing about 40k, it's just been stealing from every scifi setting ever.
A good WH40k cinematic to watch is the Darktide world intro trailer. It gives a pretty cool introduction to the Warhammer universe aswell.
Darktide sounds like an awesome title! I'll check it out!
And that traveling the warp isn't funny :D
“The Dark Eldar… are they like elves?”
Oh you sweet summer child. You’re in for a hurricane of information.
He skipped over the titans. Basically they are imperial knights but the size of skyscrapers and small dwarf planets that have a cathedral on top of them.
317 is the number of the Imperial Guard Regiment that soldier is a part of. So probably something like the "317th Cadian Infantry".
34:06 - THE PLANET BROKE BEFORE THE GUARD! (Cadia was the main point of defense against the Eye of Terror, a physical gateway between the real world and the warp. In taking down these strange alien pylons around the area and finally Cadia itself, it ripped open the Cicatrix Maledictum, aka "The Great Rift.")
Since you talked about Star Wars , I recommend the channel : AFanWithTooMuchTime , he is making a series of videos where he imagines the forces of the imperium in the Star Wars galaxy
For real!? That sounds amazing! I love combining franchises!
Oh if you want more WH40k crossover then go check out PancreasNoWork channel, where one of his video explain why the Covenant from Halo would be a great faction for 40k, oh and also watch his video about Ciaphas Cain as this is one of more short but simple and more detailed about this character then well any other 40k video talk about this character.
Just started the video and the question at 1:17 do Orks not fight each other made me spit my bourbon out I laughed so hard
Well I am happy to have made ya laugh haha. The comments have informed me how silly that question was haha
"The planet broke before the Guard."
Fall of Cadia
It's a good book that one needs to read to understand the reaction of many Warhammer 40k fans when Cadia is mentioned.
Cadia stands!
Yes it's like hyperspace but slower and more random and sometimes demons eat you or you time travel or you end up in the wrong place. Also they could still do it without the emperor but they would need to do a lot of smaller jumps or the risk would go up a lot.
That guy laying at Horus’s feet is the (Former) primarc of the Blood Angles, he died trying to protect the the imperium, now the blood angles are unstably depresso expresso.
I mean pretty sure the blank assassin can literally walk through walls. That’s just terrifying like idk how they do that.
There's one story where a Culexis was sent after a high priority Tau target. He encountered no resistance whatsoever from ANYONE. He parked his ship, walked through Town, hitched a ride on the local monorail system to the Building the Tau in question was at, walked right in there, and shot the guy. He then walked out and went back to his ship and rode on outa there. Everyone KNEW he was there. But just his PRESENCE was so unbelievably terrifying that the Tau civilian and military personnel he was around were literally frozen with fear to the point of mental incapacitation. They really are Slenderman-esque figures in lore and it's sick.
my favourite part of this entire video is how often rave predicts exactly what bricky is about to say. Brilliant.
22:45 - Yep, exactly. 1:8 is the ratio you're looking for, but just like you don't want to go through the Nether unprepared and it's really good to be shielded (you wall off your walkways in MC), you need something called a Gellar Field to shield your ship from the badness of the Warp.
You aren't far off with the White Castle bit. The joke is that White Castle isn't open at 2 AM, so even if there was a line, you couldn't see anybody there because it's pitch dark in there, and even around the building depending on how many street lamps are up in the surrounding lot; in my area, resturants like that are usually surrounded by trees and bushes, so once the lights go out, you'd be lucky if you could even see the building.
Ohhhhhh now I get it
Cadia was cracked in half during the 13th black crusade due to Abbadon the despoiler throwing a giant death laser space station at it
Nocturne is not a dark world that's Nostramo aka the world of the eternal night, Noctorne is a volcanic burned world with a lot of volcanoes so powerful it'll make Yellowstone blusj
Something he didn't mention about imperial knights (the mechs) is these are ancient pieces of technology humanity has forgotten how to build, so they're pretty rare, they date back to before the Emperor rose to prominence and became the master of mankind.
They are piloted by 1 guy, often passed down through family lineage (but not always), only a small amount of humanity can even pilot these mechs because you need specific genetics to link to the mechs, these individuals are known as Princeps and are more precious to the imperium than spacemarines, given enough time piloting imperial knights a part of the pilot's personality is transferred to the mech's machine spirit (mentioned during the Adeptus Mechanicus section), and a part of the machine spirit's personality traits can be passed onto the Princeps.
Eventually the Princeps can go senile or mad and literall lose their minds inside the mech.
But something he didn't mention was the Titan legions, Mechs so large they can disrupt tectonic plates on planets
It is a lot to take in at once. I find it easier to focus one faction and learn about the others as they interacted.
This video dropped BEFORE the Leagues of Votann dropped.
I'd recommend "If the Emperor had a text to speech device" series. I'm not sure how canon it is now (what with GW and 40k being really bad at maintaining that) but it does give you an overview of a lot of stuff, and is fucking hilarious to boot.
I watched one episode and they got a lot wrong.
49:14 - Remember in Astartes when the dude was moving the incense burning censer over his bolter? That's what's up with that.
Cadia is like the planet Reach from Halo. It was super important and when it fell it was super devastating for humanity. During the fall you had almost all the factions fighting on Cadia in an Avengers end game style battle so a lot of popular characters were there as well
You should check out Old man Five(ish) Minute Lore . Like Tuska Daemon-Killa the Ork that went to ork heaven, Rylanor the bad ass , ciaphas cain the coward... I mean hero of the Imperium and Trazyn the infinite Pokemon master.
Angron the Primarch of the World Eaters was one of the shortest of his brothers at 9ft tall.
I know its months old, but on the "why is he literally pitch black?"
- That is Vulcan, Primarch of the Salamanders Legion. Their homeworld is super radioactive and UV-blasted by its sun, so they have a mutation to deal with that environment.
Its not the greatest lore tbh because its literally just "african genetics, but make everything more extreme because 40k", but that is the lore explanation.
I recommend his video where he explains well the legions ,9:40 russia , Maybe try to see the trailers of the Warhammer 40k games that will be released this year : Spacemarine 2 , Warhammer 40k Roguetrader , there is also Boltgun but it has already come out , And if you want to understand the philosophy of the emperor I recommend: The Last Church, sorry for too many suggestions😅
I can never have too many suggestions, thank you!
And I am dumb I thought it was France hahaha
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy if you want to see a film from which they took inspiration from warhammer 40k I recommend event horizon, what happens in the film is very similar to a demonic possession in warhammer 40k
The Emperor is actually well over 30,000 years old as he was born in the 8th Millennium before the birth of Christ.
Dang, he's probably seen all the cool events the
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy He helped to spawn the legend of St George and the dragon.
"They should make a movie!"
Well a certain witcher is working on something like that right now, though nobody knows whether that is going to be about the Inquisition or some other Imperial faction just yet.
He'll probably have to take the Arcane approach, paring the story down to a micro-focus because the setting is just too big.
@@everforward5561 yeah, that's what I'm thinking too.
Bless Mr. Witcher Superman!
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy There was an official movie, but it's kind of meh.
Something about imperial guard I love is the commissars because even tho your soldiers are trained from literal birth to charge head first at the universes horrors, sometimes you still need a dude holding a handgun to the back of their heads to make sure they get out of the trench
If you exited for the gigantic walkers you should see "Warhammer The Horus Heresy Cinematic Trailer" - 2 minutes of badassary!
👀👀👀
I need to see this!
there is a strangely large amount of engineers, IT guys and Maintenance crew who tell stories of their shit miraculously working after a quick prayer to the machine spirit in their machine.
I've heard a few too, maybe they're on to something. You hear similar things from some car guys who ran on empty and somehow still made it to a gas station just by telling their car "Cmon baby you can do it" or "Just a little bit more we're almost there". Funny coincidence.
13:40 - That's a rather well fleshed out theory. It's a way of expressing and owning Shadow content (in the Jungian sense) without actually acting it out. We need these faculties because we may need to call on them in emergencies. If you're threatened, it's a damned good thing to be able to be ruthless to survive.
You need to both keep your room clean AND fight the dragon to rescue your father.
@@CordovanSplotchVT Well fucking said. It's odd that Joseph Campbell, JBP, and CG Jung have been on my mind this last week. XD
5:15 him wondering how much those models cost and saying "that's like, hundreds of dollars" made me think of the line I heard a youtuber use to describe this game. "Even in debt, I still serve".
Agreed whilst
Chaos are running rampant with actual gods from hell, the tyranids are constantly evolving so they’re even more powerful tan before, necroms can more or less one shot you at any range where even a glancing hit is an instant death. Eldar are slippery creatures due to having holographic projection fields and have access to magic and advanced technology to boot, tau can more or less snipe you from two continents over whilst heavily relying on drones and AI, as well as having mech suits that can fly, dark eldar are the same as the normal eldar but would result in an incredibly unpleasant and prolonged death, orks would either rip you to pieces then eat you, or simply surcumnavigate table manners all together and would simply shove you down their gullets whole and still alive, as well as kill you with weapons created from bits of scrap and imagination and are extremely resilient.
All the while the average joe is given a high powered laser pointer as a weapon, a combat knife and if lucky a flack jacket, made not to stop any actual incoming attacks but more for incase something goes off near you and you’re barely able to survive but be useful enough, either to be converted into a servitor or given the emperors peace of lucky enough, although 9/10 times you’re useless body isn’t worth the extra shot and would simply be abandoned and it’s up to you or the emperor on whether or not you live or die, for the less fortunate people, if wounds were superficial then they can be easily patched up and then thrown back onto the frontlines, but the really luck ie the 0.000000000000001% of people are more than able to live a relatively peaceful life in retirement, but considering that the most common phrase is
ONLY IN DEATH DOES DUTY END.
Has never summed up how terrible being an average person is on the 40K universe.
I'm not sure if another comment clarified, but Bricky saying 20 Primarchs, then 18 is because there are 2 "lost" Primarchs who were the Primarchs for the 2nd and 11th legions of Space Marines. There is very little information on what happened to them and they are kept intentionally vague
16:25 - You intuitively guess most of the lore you encounter. Impressive AF.
20:15 _"What is the level of detail here?!"_
*YES.*
8:20
Rave: "*tons of honest questions*"
Me: "Yes... Yes... Yes... That is also correct... Yes... He's about to get to that... Yes... You are good at inferring these things..."
LOL Thanks! I love scifi and 40k seems to have inspired a lot so I think that helped,
The main reason why Warhammer is so expansive well as of this moment there are like 400 novels on top of a bunch of other side things
If you want to get into imperial knights there's a good book called Assassinorum: Kingmaker by Robert Rath. It shows you how both assassins and knight houses work.
So you CAN Warp travel without the Astronomicon, but it'd be like trying to sail the open ocean without a compass on a cloudy night; you can barely see around you, you don't know where you are and you can't tell where you came from or where you're going, so you're at the mercy of the winds, tide, sheer luck, and the predations of whatever lurks in the deep.
Orks do interstellar travel by sheer blind luck. They take a busted Warp drive or a pile of scrap they _think_ is a Warp drive, slap it onto whatever scrap heap they have that constitutes a ship, and then the power of their own hype to go somewhere for a fight disturbs the Warp and allows them to go where the action is, even if it's not always their intended destination. If they even had one to begin with...
The Eldar have the Webway, which is basically a tunnel network through the Warp with fixed entrances and exits. It's far safer than regular Warp travel, but it's exceptionally difficult to navigate the network of tunnels and avoid any obstacles the Eldar may have placed inside of it. Also the Eldar have essentially lost the ability to create new Webway tunnels, either through a lack of means or a loss of knowledge since the fall of their empire thousands of years ago.
Fun Fact: The Emperor originally planned to tap into the Webway, but some shenanigans from the Horus Heresy caused him to have to use the Golden Throne to seal the Webway portal he'd been working on so it wouldn't swallow Terra and the Sol System, and the strain of doing this, running the Astronomicon, guiding the Imperium via psychic visions and 'holy miracles', AND contending with the Chaos Gods is so taxing that he needs 1,000 psykers to assist him and burn up their souls in the process every day. And that number has increased to as much as 10,000 souls a day at this point, all of which have to be psykers of some description...
The Tyranids use conventional travel and gravity manipulation to launch themselves between solar systems, but they can only use the latter outside of tge gravity well of the system's star and they need to send scouts centuries or even millennia ahead of their main fleets.
The Necrons have long-range teleportation technology, but like the Webway it's reliant on fixed points, and we don't really know the full breadth of what the Necrons can actually do technologically speaking. They CAN however breach the Webway and use it to travel, although this tends to destabilize and collapse the tunnel behind them, so it's not optimal.
The Tau use Warp travel, but they don't fully understand it and have only really managed to develop a technological means to do so in the last few centuries, so their Warp drives 'skim' into the Warp very briefly over short distances. The Tau also have a 'member species' of what are essentially space whales that can Warp travel, but they cannot rely on them for large scale transportation, hence the need to develop artificial Warp travel. Also the Tau currently lack a substitute for the Navigators, a strain of Abhuman psykers that can naturally see into the Warp and can use the Astronomicon as a reference point to guide ships through the Warp. While some Navigators have undoubtedly defected to the Tau over the centuries, the Navigator gene is difficult to reproduce, naturally or artificially, and because the Tau have only just discovered the importance of a Gellar Field generator to try and shield the crew of the ship from strange energies and horrors of the Warp, most defected Navigators would probably refuse to operate on Tau ships and stick to whatever human vessels are available.
As for Chaos? It's somewhere between the Imperium and the Orks really. Daemons can just appear wherever the veil between reality is thin enough, but the mortal worshippers of Chaos have to copy what the Imperium does using Warp drives, Gellar Field generators and Navigators, or they have to put their faith in the Chaos Gods to not fuck them over for a lark and send them where they need to go.
So, he doesn’t explain this but the Emperor actually hated religion. When he was uniting mankind, he actively shut down all religions claiming that “religion was the only thing holding humanity back”. And then when people started to worship him, he made it an illegal practice and burned down a church dedicated to him that one of his son’s (Lorgar) built for him. So when he’s on the throne now, people worship him despite him telling everyone that he is not a god. But if irony there.
Also, Cadia was destroyed by chaos. Cadia was essentially holding back chaos for YEARS. But the planet was destroyed before the Cadian’s overall morale was. They deem themselves failures for it.
Damn now I'm crying 😭
Wow this emperor sound awesome when alive, not wanting to be worshipped and all, and yeah that's some terrible irony
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Sorry for the huge wall of text.
Here’s the bad part: not only did he destroy entire cultures and massacre billions, but it wasn’t just a a church, it was Monarchia, the ”perfect city“. And he just razed his sons life’s work to the ground despite knowing that the belief wouldn’t actually do anything bad because it was directed towards *him.* (the reason he didn’t like religion is because y‘know faith goes to the warp and empowers or created deities) Not to mention that he ounly found out about this because Lorgar didn’t conquer as fast….because he actually invested in the worlds he conquered. The Emperor was never a good guy, there’s an animatic on YT called ”The Last Church“ wich is a whole animatic of the book by the same name, about the Emperor confronting the last priest on Earth. Great insight into the Emperors character, definite recommend.
Part of the reason for his ban on religion was that he knew about the Chaos Gods and hoped to starve them out of existence by ensuring that they had no believers. He was wrong on this point, because they feed more on the concepts they represent than on worship.
The warp acts like the nether from Minecraft yes but also sometimes you arrive where you going before you left. Or you arrive multiple thousands of years later
16:42 he started with 20 because the other 2 primarchs where "lost" so to say
edit: hes getting so close and some outright guessing some of the lore
What do ya mean lost? Like can't find them or lost like they lost their way as a person/primarch?
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy they where removed and or killed for unknown reasons by the emperor and their space marines where integrated with into other legions
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uyThe 2 Lost Primarchs, the Primarchs of the 2nd and 11th Legions, are referred to as The Forgotten and The Purged.
Whatever happened to them, it was so bad that any knowledge pertaining to them outside of the fact they existed has been deleted from all record, and anybody who knew them was forced into a vow of secrecy or had their memories of them erased. Even Chaos Marines and Daemon-Primarchs don't talk about them, and the fact that 9 Primarchs betrayed the Emperor and fell to Chaos is considered not worthy of the same level of Imperial censure is baffling.
59:50 thats from that one episode on The Fairly OddParents where the guy with the glasses gets all buffed when he gets the glasses (then gets oneshoted by the dragon)
20:01 - You are actually stupidly close on the last one, since both the Rod of Aesculapius and the Staff of Hermes are magical/alchemical/hermetic symbols.
30:46 - Exactly. Handy reference, since the Austrian painter's forces were dressed in uniforms designed by Hugo Boss - dressed like a Boss.
An imperial knight can easily be 50ft tall, while Imperial Titans range anywhere from 100ft to 400ft tall.
After watching part 2 you should try watching every Space marine faction explain for he gets into deeper details about the Space Marine Legions
For Custodes, they not only have the best weapons, armor, blanks, and responsibilities. They also have what are called 'doomscryers', powerful psykers whose only duty is to have visions of the future. Using these visions, Custodes can plan accordingly for incursions/infiltrations into the imperial palace. It also allows them to assign members of the Aquilan Shield to guard special people throughout the galaxy. The current chapter master of the Ultra Marines was given multiple custodes to watch over when he was a kid living in the slums, knowing he would one day lead his chapter to glory (even tho it was mainly because the author at the time was a HUGE Ultramarine SIMP).
“Why’s he sad about Cadia?”
Because the planet broke before the Guard did.
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CADIA STANDS!
So..... Cadia (starts sobbing uncontrollably), the ones who destroyed it had to literally ram one of the most powerful space ship classes of that universe into Cadia to ultimately win.
Even then while the planet was crumbling around them you could easily spot lasgun fire on every piece.
in other words: The planet broke before the guard did!
Warrior Tier is another great channel for 40K content. One of his videos goes into the 40k timeline.
Oh I love timeline videos! I'll add that to the list!
Glad, I was able to help.
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy Luetin09 is another great source of warhammer 40k stuff on youtube. If you want in depth explanations of specific topics or factions (like the adeptus mechanicus for example). As in: origin, background, ideology, context on how said faction has become what it currently is, etc.
Luetin makes some really great stuff. Certainly recommend.
"This God Emperor sounds like a pretty cool dude" Errrrr, weeeelll. About that....
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The Emperor, due to warp shenanigans and worship is definitely *becoming* a god. Also, he was Moses.
And the thousand people are specific sacrifices, and not just normals but psykers, who are like 1 in 10 million. They then get shipped to the palace from thousands of lightyears away on specific anti-psyker ships. The dumbest shit about this is that they sacrifice the most powerful because they have the least control over their power, even though training even one of those would be a huge deal.
The Throne was meant for Magnus, one of the other Primarchs because he was meant to power the Webway of man, based on the Eldar webway, you’ll hear a bit about that in part 2. However his secrecy about this is one of the reasons his sons mistrusted him, so now it’s unfinished and the Emperor had to power the Astronomicon to help Mankind. The other races don’t do it like humans, Eldar have the Webway, Orks don’t care where they land, Tau on,y lightly skim the warp, they still sue generation ships, and Necrons have some goofy ass tech. And of course chaos are the warp so they know everything.
Also, it’s commonly held in the AdMech that the Emperor IS the Omnissiah, who is the physical incarnation of the Machine God. They also have something called the Motive Force. So yeah they are Catholics.
Kaldor Draigo is the Doomslayer of 40K. He was sent into the Warp, and he decided to murder deamons for eternity. He is super broken even by 40K standards.
There's a lot of info ya shared and I appreciate it, but I keep coming back the fact he was THE MOSES?!?! OMG
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Yeah. Apparently he tried similar shit several times and got mistaken for a prophet most of the time.
Not sure if this has been covered in the comments.
The Golden Throne, was originally meant for the Thousand sons' Primarch Magnus to sit up on.
Not sure if it had been retconned or not ( or could just be a fan theory my f'ed up brain picked up and shoe horned into cannon) , as I dipped on the Horus Hersey books ( TLDR for those that love the books , I hit one book, found it boring af, and then my life went down the toilet, leading me to be unable to afford the books now even if I want to start reading again.) , but each Primarch was meant to for-fill a role after the Great Crusade .
In regards to the Emperor not wanting to be thought of as a God, he was basically a atheist and believed religion was dragging humanity down, plus I think it was hinted that he was aware of the Chaos Gods, and wanted to "starve them" of followers, so to speak. Like I said my knowledge about that time period is fuzzy at best, but ask me about the life and times of "The Hero of the Imperium" Commissar Ciaphas Cain , Or The Tanith First and Only AKA Guant's Ghosts and I have you covered. 😁😃
Ohhhhh ok, thank you, I don't think I knew that yet
The most random note:
The Emperor has been alive for about 60,000 years. He is only rotting because he is expending so much effort and energy into the Golden Throne that his body is not regenerating properly. _(Doesn't help that he had just fought his son immediately before sitting on that throne. An ass named Horus that was empowered by all 4 Chaos Gods.)_ If he could ever get OFF that throne, that he has sat on - sitting on the throne was described as endless torture - for just over 10,000 years, he would heal back to his old self in like an hr.
The Emperor was, before being worshipped for 10,000 years as a God _(in a universe where belief actually does make things real thanks to the Warp),_ already powerful enough to drag something called a C'Tan (a star god) off Earth - only to dump it on Mars. Back in like the 1500s. Long before mankind had space travel.
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Your question about the heretic being punished? He is being turned into a Servitor. A half robot slave that will likely live forever... or until destroyed.
Omg I assume they don't know he would regenerate? Seems they were so worried about ever losing him the over prepared and at the first sign of losing him they jumped the gun into using what they prepared, damn
And that sounds like the worst torture for that heretic, in other torture methods at least you have death
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy He actually told them to stick him into the golden throne... It holds back an endless tide of demons from being able to spill directly onto Earth. It's a... pretty fucked story, and it's why people say Magnus did everything wrong. _(As opposed to the meme of Magnus did nothing wrong.)_ His son, Magnus, severely screwed up. Sadly he screwed up while trying to warn his father about Horus' betrayal, so he basically condemned the Emperor to this endless torture by acting without thinking. Like a teenager, really. _(this also resulted in the death of the Emperor's right hand man who was also 1000s of years old)_
The rest of that? Yeah. The Emperor could have out regenerated the damage the throne does if they wouldn't have stuffed a Stasis field around it. Dorn, another of his sons, didn't know he was a Perpetual _(Perpetual are like living fixed points. They can not die... even when people think they've found a way to kill one they end up coming back.),_ and so ordered the stasis field erected instead of letting his father just heal. Admittedly Horus DID leave their dad in a really, really bad way. Missing an eye, throat slit, back shattered.. yeah.
Tl;dr: The Emperor HAS to be on that throne, at least for now, because one of his sons accidentally made it so if he stands up all of Earth will be comsumed by hell. _Another_ one of his sons panicked, and instead of just putting him in the throne - he put him in the throne, AND started a stasis field to slow everything down a ridiculous degree. Thus, thanks to his kids, he went from ruling most of the galaxy (with a way for humanity to stop using the warp in his back pocket - the throne was the key), to being mortally wounded 5x over, strapped to an endless torture device, and locked in agony for 10 millennia.
“I-I can breathe! I! CAN! FIGHT!”
Audiobooks are a great way to get into the lore
It’s the Fairly Odd Parents episode where they went back to Camelot. That specific sound clip is from when they gave the kid Artie glasses and because he could see he transformed into a muscle bound King Arthur to go fight a dragon.
When they mentioned lost technologies that's because mankind's golden age is long past. They once ruled the galaxy with ai and tech that could alter the universe around them but then the AI known as the men of iron revolted and wiped out most of humanity.
Also the reason he says 20 primarchs then changes to 18 is because 2 of the legions are left completely vague so that people can create their own legions and have it make sense in universe.
Dude you are right on the money with a lot of these guesses lol. Especially with volcano planet and the 4 gods thing.
Really?! Omg I love the detail they put into this franchise! Cause it makes so much sense for their skin to be like that to protect them from the environment a volcano planet would have.
The heat, the chemicals in the air, the winds, etc. Would require a tough skin, likely composed of minerals usually found in rock, and volcanic rock is black like that so their skin is similar. Omg I am nerding out!
@@RaveSpecterReacts-qr5uy Yeah dude. Also I hear the sun of the system that planet is in is radioactive i think so the dark skin would be protective against that as well. In fact all space marines have an organ that makes their skin darker depending on the intensity of the radioactivity in their current battleground. I even recall an instance where Earth/Terran-born salamanders had their skin turn full black when they visited Nocturne (homeworld of their primarch, Vulkan) because of this organ.
There's some interesting lore implications with this because since space marines get their geneseed from their primarch how could the emperor have designed Vulkan to have the black skin thing if he didn't know that he'd land on Nocturne when the primarchs got scattered.
Oh and on another note, I highly recommend watching Helsreach. It's a fanmade project, much like Astartes was, but is an adaptation of a 40k book of the same name. There's a 13-part series on the creator's channel (forgot the name, i recall "Justin Roylan" but i'm not sure) or you can watch a full compilation of that series which effectively makes it a movie.
its getting scary how good he is at guessing/predicting things.
Yeah warhammer is really expensive (atleast for what it is you are buying), the big guy at 45:20 costs 49 usd
Also (im kinda biased as a necron player) but i also highly reccomend watching TIMELINE of the 40K UNIVERSE by Trazyn the Infinite : from warrior tier, its quite interesting as it explains the history of warhammer from one of the arguably most famous warhammer characters point of view.
oh and the boss you are thinking about is Radahn not radagon,
I was so happy when I could call something (like the warp being like the nether)
I think it's cause Warhammer has inspired a lot of media (and also been inspired by even old media that also inspired new media) that I can see similarities to things I have seen and make a guess based on those
Still a lot I got wrong or have no idea if I was right or not but looking forward to learning more!
"Have we gotten past that point?". Not reaaallly... more like embraced it fully.
Wait until you start learning about specific characters. Weshammer's top ten of the darkest characters in 40k is a good place to start
Omg what did they do to be in the top 10 of this universe?! I gotta watch and find out!
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@@JtDrake372he is a fucker thow but he is a good doctor