The creepiest thing about the video is how the narrator sounds almost glad about the current state of the Imperium. As if he wouldn't have it any other way.
It would be perfect if narrator started laughing right after the laughter of gods line which would suggest that he is in fact one of the chaos gods, probably Tzeentch.
Or instead of the narrator laughing there is just some laughter in the background, four voices laughing for that matter before quickly going silent. And/or the camera panning to show the narrator is Lorgar or something.
@@elysiankentarchy1531 For me it would be better if it was Tzeentch, the only being smart enough to break the 4th wall. He would explain it so well, put into it so much atmosphere that it would hook up new fans, make GW sells increase and by that they would keep going with grimdark Warhammer 40k and the war and suffering never ends in this universe. Just as planned.
If there will ever be a W40k movie, all the trailers/teasers should be like this. A brief introduction to the lore instead of your usual inane trailer that spoils much of the fun of the movie.
The space marine’s intro text would be sooo good in a trailer of that format, just a deep, commanding voice stating his will to create the ultimate soldiers on a background of astartes rites and battles.
I like that the intro for the Emperor, with all its vivid descriptors of him and his inexhaustible armies, would normally be reserved for the most evil faction of any other setting.
I will never get over how this is the first video in the TTS playlist. A literary masterpiece of description concerning the appalling and depressing state of the Imperium of Man. Then you get TTS. Never has a juxtaposition been so fucking hilarious.
The happy tone of the sad state of the Empire of man. The speaking of how he says the emperor has been given power via the will of the gods and never calling him the God Emperor. The speaking of the progress that has been erased from history books and thus no man would know. The narrator is Tzeentch
@@jonniedoe8658 It can't be Lorgar since he would not speak happily about mankind possibly going extinct. It is either Tzeentch or an outside onlooker.
I reckon it is the Emporer's official Narrator who is duty bound to narrate his every move. The last 10,000 years have pretty much been "And so the glorious god king of the Imperium sits interred as a corpse upon his golden throne... He continues to sit perched upon his mighty chair... Still sitting, while his mighty physic presence continues to hold his imperium together...".
If there is to ever be a true 40k film or tv series, this very thing would have to be played at the beginning. It is so integral to the literature and lineage of 40k, and also the best possible primer on the place of humanity in the far future.
In a TV series, the very first episode (S1E0) should basically be something like this, explaining all the lore within one episode, then the story starting in the next one.
I wish there were a version of this intro for every faction/species in 40k. Mainly because I really want to see the Orks' one, which would be incredibly upbeat. All they care about is fighting, and there's stuff to fight EVERYWHERE! They aren't pining for some lost golden age, or slowly going extinct, or being eaten by the torture god, or fighting tooth and nail to prolong their slow slide into stagnation and death. For the Orks, the grim darkness of the far future isn't only war, it's also WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
Fer longa dan even da WEIRDBOYS can rememba, da ORKS 'ave rampaged across da worlds o' da Milky Way Galaxy. We iz da biggest and da strongest by da will of GORK AN' MORK and da bosses of a billion grots by da might of our inexhaustible DAKKA! Our boyz are right proper orky an' STEAMING FER A FIGHT, clad 'ed ta toe in 'eavy metal an' choppy bits courtesy of da MEKBOYZ! Travellin' through space is boring. Unless da hulk yer on is full of dem GENE-SNEAKERS, or a base fer da CHAOS LADZ WIV DA SPIKES, or already has Boyz on it. Or if HUMIE LOOTAS come callin', dat's always good fer a bit a sport. Or unless yer have a mutiny or two to pass da time, or unless strange fings start happenin', which dey usually do when yer out in da WARP. One time we had some bloody great ugly FING come straight out of Weird Lugwort's 'ed! It butchered half da lads, that was pretty entertainin'. Come ter fink of it, space is a pretty good larf. An' dat's before yer find yerself a nice world ta CRUSH! Great big WAAAAAGHS! get stuck in on loadza worlds. Biggest an' best among us iz da WARBOSS, an' nearly as good iz da MEGANOBZ: boyz dat 'ave grown 'UGE on WAAAAGHS and gotten EVEN MOAR ORKY dan me boy Sagbutt de Orky Boy, doe' I krumped 'im ter def when 'e sat on me favourite squig. Crushed iz 'ed inta jelly, 'e did! Tasty, doe'. I put it on me sandwiches. Dere's also yer regular Boyz, an' yer WEIRDBOYZ 'oo do weird stuff wiv da warp an' shit, an' dere's PAINBOYZ 'oo can stitch someone's arm back on if ya lose yours, an' da MEKBOYZ, but I fink I mentioned dem already. Dere's also SQUIGS an' SNOTLINGS an' GRETCHIN, dey ain't much use in a REAL FIGHT but dey are comfortable ta sit on! Oh yeah, and we also gots da SQUIGGOTH! Dey's right big an' orky! One o' dem once knocked all me teef out! I made a right bundle on dat, I did, but I couldn't eat anyfin' but SQUIG JELLY fer a week while dey grew back. I sued da RUNTHERD fer damages when I smashed all da teef outta his 'ed too! Den he got et by da squiggoth and we 'ad ta get a new runtherd before da snotlings started crappin' all over da Mekboy's new GARGANT. An' we gots more dan enuff boyz to handle anyfing da galaxy can frow at us, and dere's plenty o' fightin' to go around! To be alive an' breavin in dese times iz to be alive for da BEST FIGHTIN' DERE EVAH WOZ, an' not a day goes by I don' thank Gork and Mork fer dat! Forget da power o' dem POINTY-EARED GITS, an' da BLUESKINZ, an' da METAL BOYZ, an' da BEAKIES an' da SPIKY GITS, for in the green krumpin' of da far future dere is only WAAAAAAAGH!!! Dere is no boredom among da stars, only an eternity of lootin', and da laffta of FIGHTIN' BOYZ! WAAAAAAGH!!!
@@konigstiger3017 A lot of 40K fans forget how dark it is supposed to be. It's supposed to be UNCOMFORTABLY dark. like watching Event Horizon uncomfortable
"He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods" Okay that's HERESY twice over, for saying gods exist and also daring to suggest the Emperor is beholden to any but Himself.
But not inaccurate since the Horus Hersey went "Just as planned" for the Chaos powers. They wanted the stagnant empire full of fearful superstitious zealots. An empire ruled over by an perpetual Emperor who is forced unto the Golden Throne forever as a prison never being allowed to regenerate his body to its previous potential its previous threat to them.
Am I the only one who thinks warhammer 40k is at its strongest from a literary/narrative form of story telling? Sure the video games and future films/shows that come out will be great but I think prose works well for the setting. Everything becomes much more grand, big, and horrifying when you let the readers imagination piece together the 40 first millennium.
Fully agree, for how grandly the setting can be portrayed nothing can compare to the vastness of the imagination that paints from such a grand description of the universe
I think they work well in tandem. For small skirmishes between individuals or squads, animations are great. But for epic, long campaigns and conspiracies? Yeah, prose is unmatched.
I had a friend new to warhammer ask to the effect of: Friend: “so I keep hearing about how terrible the imperium is but I can’t find the rebels.” Me: “rebels?” Friend: you know the rebels, like the Rebels in star wars, Hunger Games, exc. I can’t find anything about them. Me: you mean...like chaos? Friend: no I mean like the good guys ya know? The people overthrowing the evil imperium Me: well first off there are no ‘good guys’ but that doesn’t matter...there probably all over their just so insignificant they don’t matter. Friend: what do you mean? I’m sure the empire thought the Rebels were so small they were insignificant and we know how they turned out for them Me: no I mean they literally cannot matter...like at all. Seriously if there was ever a wide scale rebellion where 1,000 worlds would rebel against the imperium...it would still be so insignificant the Imperium might not even bother fighting them. Friend: what do you mean they’d just let them secede? Me: well no but the amount of worlds and even entire solar systems the imperium just ‘loses’ do to how big the imperium is, is practically an entire meme in the community. A thousand worlds going up in rebellion might not even be noticed by anyone for decades after they seceded. Then some random guy notices the Imperial Tithe hasn’t been paid in awhile so they send a fleet show up and annihilate the planets in rebellion, leave and forget those worlds existed in the first place. Friend: wait they have Death Stars? Me: what? Friend: you said they annihilate planets they have Death Stars? Me: oh no, pretty much any single one of their ships can destroy a planet. Friend: ...Jesus. Me: yeah.
The truth is painful, but even Tau are minor inconveice for Imperium. They can be anihilated with one potent strike - but that means the Imperium need to focus and combine all powers at once, which in fact - they cannot do. Not without loosing other fronts. The Imperium is streched thin. They salvage everything they can. Terminator armours, ships, resources. The only thing that they have plenty are man. Billions of man equipped in primitive technology (compared to the earlier eras).
@@mariuszsobolewski9839 yeah when the Imperium sent a “small” and “ragtag” Crusading Force that barely got started and only took out a few Ta’u Planets The Ta’u considered it to basically be their “End Times” but then some Tyranids showed up nearby and the Crusading Forces were sent to fight some ‘Nids IIRC
In darkness, I shall be light In times of doubt, I shall keep faith In throes of rage, I shall hone my craft In vengeance, I shall have no mercy In the midst of battle, I shall have no fear In the face of death, I shall have no remorse
I've accidentially read "Horus Heresy" book few monthes ago. Before it, I had no idea what Warhammer 40,000 is. Now I've watched this and my blood is chilled in my veins. Thank you.
This is great and all but I can’t be the only one who can’t take THAT image of the Big E seriously anymore because of Alfabusa’s Text-to-Speech verse using it for all the wacky hijinks portrayed therein?
Everybody is talking about how great the narrator is (rightfully so), meanwhile the thing that really sends chills down my spine is the ambience in this video
This video would be perfect if narrator started laughing after "Laughter of thirsting gods" line. It would be really creepy and awesome because it would suggest that the narrator is in fact a chaos god, most likely Tzeentch who wants to drive us in to Warhammer 40k so the grimdark future may never end. Just as planned.
This was THE video that made me get into 40k. Never touched Warhammer before. I now own 56 Orc models, have spent countless nights hobbying/painting said orcs, played the Only War ttrpg, as well as the 4th edition fantasy ttrpg, I own all of the original Dawn of War games, and have finally begun the daunting task of making my way through the Horus heresy novels. What a wild year it's been. I cannot express this enough, thank you for giving me my new favorite hobby.
i like how the narrator doesn't refer to him as the "god-emperor", he says that the emperor's power was given to him by the gods, and he sounds happy that humanity is in such a state. i'm thinking that this narrator is chaos!!
@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 The Custodes, as grand as they are, are not soldiers, they are a legion of bodyguards, created from the Emperor's own genome (as opposed to the Astartes, who are created from their Primarch's genomes, who intern were created from the Emperor's genome, with certain strands of DNA removed/replaced/added depending on the Primarch). Each Custodes is an individual work of art and craftsmanship, a unique warrior who fights with his own style, an army of one, even as he stands alongside his brother Legiones Custodes in defence of their Emperor. The Astartes were mass manufactured for war on a grant scale, punched from the same mould and engineered to work together in squads, companies/centuries, great companies/chapters, legions. They were bred to be cannon fodder for the Great Crusade and lead from the front against the enemies of man. They are the finest soldiers of mankind, but they are there to die for their Imperium!
@@greypilgrim228 actually custodes arent made from jimmy spaces genome, thats reserved for the grey knights, it is currently unknown how custodians are created.
This is by FAR the best take on this. I love this video so much that I have to watch it every other day to not forget how fucking awesome this video and the described universe is.
When that show being made by Henry Cavill eventually comes out in who knows how long, this whole intro paragraph should be read right at the start, to let the audience know they’re stepping into a very different kind of sci-fi world…
Heroes. The symbols of virtue and good. They suffer hardships, fight exhausting battles, and work to provide a future through example. They take a stand to protect the innocent and fight to preserve honor and deliver justice unto the world, and bring about a sense of humility and humanity. They inspire many to protect the present and look to the brightness of the future. They seek to make right the wrongs of the world, and some will even seek out to remedy their mistakes and shortcomings. And above all, they fight under the unified ideal that man is good, and that hope will prevail. Villains. The symbols of evil.They work to seize power or control, to satisfy their greed and goals with no concern of the suffering of others. Some allow pride, vanity and selfishness to define their very lives, and they will always put themselves first. Some are driven by flawed and terrible ideals. Some simply enjoy the suffering inflicted on others, a grin across their faces as tears falls and cries sound off. Above all, villains seek to impose their selfish, maddening will upon the world, and that there is no meaning to this world, and only victory is worth anything. *In the grim, dark future of mankind, they see that there is no good and no evil. Only an eternity of darkness and emptiness.* If they ever found the dark, uncaring world that is the 41st Millennium, they will be greeted not with admiration and intrigue, but with suspicion, carnage, slaughter, suffering and bloodshed. Even the most hardened heroes and callous of villains are taken aback by the grimdark world of the Imperium of Man, and the wondrous yet terrible worlds beyond it. This dreary, superstitious, fanatical and uncaring universe they have stumbled upon may very well claim the lives of many a hero and villain before their first day in this awful future is even close to ending. Heroes will be overwhelmed by the horror and struggle for survival in this world, and try to make sense of this brutal reality that they now stand in. They will try to benefit the Earth they once knew, but much of Terra will strike them down out of religious zealotry. Even the most skilled and determined of heroes will be undone and defeated by the stagnant yet surrender-less nature of mankind, and that is only the least terrible of their fates. Mutants, heretics, inquisitors and far worse will hound and battle them, or they will fight before inevitably falling to the might and unstoppable strength of alien races, such as the battle-bound Orks or the unbreakable Necrons. They will find no allies with the saviors and gods of old, for the darkness of these worlds, races and the evil of the Warp and of Chaos will have overwhelmed and consumed them. Even the most secret and secure of realms will be corrupted and taken into the bowels of the Warp, their secrets and memories lost forever. Those powerful and resilient enough to survive will have their wills crushed either by the forces of terror and destruction, or the overwhelming, soul-wrenching reality of this new world, before they too will succumb to death, pain and despair. Villains will find themselves faced by a darkness and emptiness even they cannot find purpose or refuge in. Heroes have always faced the evil of the Abyss, and in this vile world, villains will be forced to look into the depths of depravity, one which they will soon realize will absorb them regardless of their station. The vain and egotistical will be rendered broken and purposeless by these fiendish worlds and their inhabitants, forever indifferent to their delusions of self-worth and false superiority. The controlling and intelligent will be rendered forever defeated, for they now face a collective willpower from mankind that bows to no single man or monster, a will that will stand long after the planets and worlds they inhabit are broken, before humanity even considers the idea of surrender or submission. Like the heroes, the villains too will be ostracized and hunted down, slaughtered by an unyielding army of soldiers that fight not for justice, but victory, order and survival. Even the most sadistic will be utterly destroyed by the unimaginable savagery of the 41st Millennium, their sanity and souls left at the whims of the viciousness of indescribable evil, such as the hellish, insidious demons of the Warp, the monstrously unstoppable Tyranids, or the sickening torturousness of those of the Dark Eldar. Many excessively powerful and god-like villains may yet survive, finding a place among the horrid roles of this newfound evil, but even they will become eroded and succumb to the emptiness of the Warp, becoming nothing more but carnal, savage monstrosities. Many villains will be forcibly humbled by this unforgiving world they are now trapped within, reduced from powerful criminals and warmongers to barely sentient masses of animate flesh. Worst of all, within the deepest recesses of their mind, they can hear the mocking laughter of true, uncaring, heartless gods, and they know that even in death, they will not be spared of agony. In the depths of the hell that is the Warp, they will find a new definition of true despair as they are reduced to nothing more than tormented husks, no longer comprehending of the lives they once lead, their faintest traces of humanity forever extinguished. It is within this Abyss of violence and despair that heroes and villains alike will drown, never to see the light of day again, forever left to fall into nothingness, where their pain will never stop growing. For within this uncaring Millennium, no one will remember them, legacies reduced to non-existence, their deeds forgotten and forever undone. It is here that they will forever know that they and all they held dear is meaningless, swallowed by the emptiness. *_Forever._*
The only thing I can feel about your comment and the entire warhammer 40k galaxy is nothing more than hate, hopeless and more hate. The warp will devour their entire galaxy on the End of times, putting end to this pointless and worthless war. And the last light of hope for the survivors and true heroes of this will slowly creep into another galaxy, where everything will have to start again, but now, without making the same mistakes as before.
It’s weird how this is used as the prologue for TTS. It gives you mood whiplash when you go from this, to episode 1 of TTS, where a techpriest is asking for toasters in exchange for installing a communicator into the golden throne.
And canonically: Yes, it is. It was the site of one of the first major battles during the Solar war period of the Horus heresy and still stands as the Sol systems first line of defence against invading fleets
Witted Acrobat19 Yep. The Battle of Pluto, where Alpharius tried to destroy the astropath array on the fortress moon Hydra and got his shit rekt by Rogal Dorn, took place on Sol IX.
@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 I think it was either The Truth of the Imperium, In Conversation with the Ordo Hereticus, or The Emperor's Lie, but I can't quite remember.
This is the "Star Wars descending letters intro" or the "War Never Changes" or "There was a time when the Old Gods DIED!" of WH40k. Fantastic work! Perfect tone setting! If this is not how a WH40k movie begins, it would be a deep crime.
I tried explaining WH40K to my wife. At first I wanted to say, "There's a race of sentient fungus genetically engineered to fight and build, who can make a jet fly faster through their collective psychic will because that jet is painted red." After realizing there's no way to introducing someone to WH40K without sounding like an insane person, I explained it as, "Peter Griffin fighting the giant chicken would seem like an unremarkable scuffle on your average day in the Imperium."
Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. ^this part has been forgotten by modern GW
The start to the behemoth. Marks the beginning of my watchthru of the full series after the most recent announcement. Hope some people are joining me in one last hurrah.
Absolutely breathtaking. I got goosebumps after the first 10 seconds. It takes a lot for me to realise something as truly epic, but you've done it. Great work. Absolutely grade A amazing.
This is what 40k is, not the new cartoony stuff that flows out of GW. like some of their new stuff is cool but the feeling is much less grim than it used to be or needs to be for 40k
One year ago, this video arrived in my feed. And now I'm paying hundreds of dollars for audiobooks, and have a hobby that no one else in my life can ever appreciate or relate to. And I am forever grateful
That, is a fantastically harrowing entry, one of the best "trailer-ettes" I've ever seen. Pacing, feeling, overtone of oppression, hopelessness, over bearing bureaucracy and everlasting strife. Great voice. I don't specifically recognize it, but if you don't do voice work, you should. Just brilliant.
Introduced to 40k universe so messily and in a not so chronological order of things, reading books. I saw this video first and only then actually started to read books and as i read intro to one of em i instantly recognized the lyrics, such a blast
This is, honestly, the best intro to the setting I can possibly imagine. Massive kudos to shakespeareman for his reading, it's all delivered perfectly.
The auto generated subtitles capitalize "emperor".
Looks like the google machine spirits know what''s what.
THIS IS HERES...
*THIS IS GLORIOUS*
It also says "Racists among his soldiers are the..." of the Astartes.
I think they're more speciesist, Black Templars excluded.
No kidding. Really shows the skill of the narrator that he is able to speak so clearly that only the fake words hung the auto-caption up.
@@Oliolli3 ...adept to asses our taste to the space marines
Oliolli3 Nah they’d be xenophobic
"So to sum up. Everything has gone to shiet." - TTS Emperor
In every worse way possible...
*Record scratch*
🎵AYEAYAYYYEEEEE....🎵
It just got worse...
[ESSENTIALLY, YES]
Why do I hear GGGManLives?
What a nightmare, life in this timeline must be.
I love how the narrator sounds like he’s bursting with pride. Like he’s reviewing his own magnum opus.
He's reading his grand children a bed time story.
@@mcchicken1849 Probably because Fiverr are assholes and ban people for nothing then steal their money
Because the narrator is Tzeentch
9 and a chocolate bar baby 8 08
@@mcchicken1849 7
The creepiest thing about the video is how the narrator sounds almost glad about the current state of the Imperium. As if he wouldn't have it any other way.
Indeed, for the alternative is heresy
It would be perfect if narrator started laughing right after the laughter of gods line which would suggest that he is in fact one of the chaos gods, probably Tzeentch.
just rember you only have 1000 round before you need to replace any parts.
Or instead of the narrator laughing there is just some laughter in the background, four voices laughing for that matter before quickly going silent.
And/or the camera panning to show the narrator is Lorgar or something.
@@elysiankentarchy1531 For me it would be better if it was Tzeentch, the only being smart enough to break the 4th wall. He would explain it so well, put into it so much atmosphere that it would hook up new fans, make GW sells increase and by that they would keep going with grimdark Warhammer 40k and the war and suffering never ends in this universe. Just as planned.
"And far, far worse"
*shows a daemon of slaanesh*
I love that part
Khorne Berzerker
But arent Khornate daemons much more terrifying?
No humble guardsman slaanesh daemon come with ...... how do i put it .... some "joy" i suppose...
siberia 77
I see..
TheBandOfBastards
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The Ordo Grammaticus does not approve your spelling, you shall be handed over to an Inquisitor for “re-education”.
@@jnb_110 Would you believe me if I said I was sorry, and was a fan of 40K?
The definitive intro to Warhammer 40,000.
Agreed
High praise from the creator of TTS. Grand job, Garrot.
Bruva Alfabusa I got chills from watching it, very fucking good
Same here. Hope we'll see more episodes of TTS soon. :D
If there's a movie by Hollywood on the way, this should be the intro, slighty altered.
If there will ever be a W40k movie, all the trailers/teasers should be like this. A brief introduction to the lore instead of your usual inane trailer that spoils much of the fun of the movie.
Was thinking the same.
The space marine’s intro text would be sooo good in a trailer of that format, just a deep, commanding voice stating his will to create the ultimate soldiers on a background of astartes rites and battles.
If there’s ever a 40K tv series the first episode has to open with this monologue or it sucks
@@dustyboi8975 Or even being the opening, like those 80's cartoons that had a brief introduce in its opening.
Hollywood can't do a Warhammer movie. They don't have the imagination or the balls!
THIS is how you introduce someone to 40K in style. The narration is top notch in particular.
A lot of 40K fans forget how dark it is supposed to be. It's supposed to be UNCOMFORTABLY dark. like watching Event Horizon uncomfortable
i am new to 40k and someone just introduced me to this video just now
I like that the intro for the Emperor, with all its vivid descriptors of him and his inexhaustible armies, would normally be reserved for the most evil faction of any other setting.
Yea obi wan you ne right and who does this remind us off palpetine yo
Oh you think you had it bad Ben huh....in this universe..it gets much worse......
Obi Wan never dealt with the Yuuzhan Vong
@@Riken The YV are basically The Nids, but humanoid shapes and without a way to automatically cut off all your comm
It is here too.
I will never get over how this is the first video in the TTS playlist. A literary masterpiece of description concerning the appalling and depressing state of the Imperium of Man. Then you get TTS. Never has a juxtaposition been so fucking hilarious.
"There is only war."
20 seconds later...
"ABOUT FUCKING TIME. I HAVE SO MUCH TO COMPLAIN ABOUT."
This is what I would send to anyone who wants to know what Warhammer is. Bravo, this is just incredible!
Keep up the great work dude!
Now, when are the Iron Hands videos coming? XD
Hell some Word Bearers vids would be great too!
Iron Hands very soon, Word Bearers will be a 'miniseries' with the XIII and Calth!
Yeah, this and the lore in a minute thing.
This scares the everloving shit out of me and idk what Warhammer is lol
@@kawaiiempoleon8721 War, which sometimes involves hammers
_Greatest among his warriors, are the Adeptus Astartes. Space Marines._
*shows picture of Black Templars*
At least it isn't the Ultramarines..
Untied Status Marin Crops (Chanting in background)
Ultramarines are great, cut them some slack
You cant cut them with their absurd plot armor
Krasimir Dimitrov *Ultra-nod*
_PUUUUUURGING WIIIIIIITH MY KIIIIIIIN_
Dark Millennium? Good thing I got a flashlight!
flashlight, you mean a lasgun?
Lasgun? You mean the guardsmen peashooter?
This isn't your everyday average darkness, this is GRIM DARKNESS
Many milllion men die a day holding their flashlights.
Sam I CAST PSYCHIC MISSILE
Friend: So who are the good guys?
Me: *No.*
Lamenters
And maybe salamanders.
Tau
Imperial
Sly Marbo
"Life in the 41st Millennium is hard."
what a fucking understatement, my dude.
Warhammer Adventures should be renamed to Warhammer Underage Heretics
TL;DR
Life in the 41st Millennium can't be called life.
Yeah, no shit
haha lol great video alfabusa thank you for your great work
Well that was unexpected
*DO IT*
@@Garrot Aih get it.
All kidding aside terrific stuff.
The quintessential 40k primer.
Alphariusa
Double posting lol
The happy tone of the sad state of the Empire of man. The speaking of how he says the emperor has been given power via the will of the gods and never calling him the God Emperor. The speaking of the progress that has been erased from history books and thus no man would know.
The narrator is Tzeentch
Perhaps Tzeentch...
Or perhaps it is Uriah, the last priest of Terra.
The narrator is Lorgar.
@@jonniedoe8658 It can't be Lorgar since he would not speak happily about mankind possibly going extinct. It is either Tzeentch or an outside onlooker.
Your narrator was none other than I, Rogal Dorn...
I reckon it is the Emporer's official Narrator who is duty bound to narrate his every move. The last 10,000 years have pretty much been "And so the glorious god king of the Imperium sits interred as a corpse upon his golden throne... He continues to sit perched upon his mighty chair... Still sitting, while his mighty physic presence continues to hold his imperium together...".
I love how the narrator's voice sounded like he was shivering when he said "far, far worse"
Well it almost seems like he was shivering with exitement.
If there is to ever be a true 40k film or tv series, this very thing would have to be played at the beginning. It is so integral to the literature and lineage of 40k, and also the best possible primer on the place of humanity in the far future.
In a TV series, the very first episode (S1E0) should basically be something like this, explaining all the lore within one episode, then the story starting in the next one.
@@vgmaster9 Pilots are usually S1E1 no matter what network.
The exception being service original series of course
@@ALJ9000 Babylon 5 had something like that.
@@vgmaster9 A pilot, then episode one?
@@ALJ9000 Yeah
I wish there were a version of this intro for every faction/species in 40k. Mainly because I really want to see the Orks' one, which would be incredibly upbeat. All they care about is fighting, and there's stuff to fight EVERYWHERE! They aren't pining for some lost golden age, or slowly going extinct, or being eaten by the torture god, or fighting tooth and nail to prolong their slow slide into stagnation and death. For the Orks, the grim darkness of the far future isn't only war, it's also WAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!
Fer longa dan even da WEIRDBOYS can rememba, da ORKS 'ave rampaged across da worlds o' da Milky Way Galaxy. We iz da biggest and da strongest by da will of GORK AN' MORK and da bosses of a billion grots by da might of our inexhaustible DAKKA! Our boyz are right proper orky an' STEAMING FER A FIGHT, clad 'ed ta toe in 'eavy metal an' choppy bits courtesy of da MEKBOYZ!
Travellin' through space is boring. Unless da hulk yer on is full of dem GENE-SNEAKERS, or a base fer da CHAOS LADZ WIV DA SPIKES, or already has Boyz on it. Or if HUMIE LOOTAS come callin', dat's always good fer a bit a sport. Or unless yer have a mutiny or two to pass da time, or unless strange fings start happenin', which dey usually do when yer out in da WARP. One time we had some bloody great ugly FING come straight out of Weird Lugwort's 'ed! It butchered half da lads, that was pretty entertainin'. Come ter fink of it, space is a pretty good larf. An' dat's before yer find yerself a nice world ta CRUSH!
Great big WAAAAAGHS! get stuck in on loadza worlds. Biggest an' best among us iz da WARBOSS, an' nearly as good iz da MEGANOBZ: boyz dat 'ave grown 'UGE on WAAAAGHS and gotten EVEN MOAR ORKY dan me boy Sagbutt de Orky Boy, doe' I krumped 'im ter def when 'e sat on me favourite squig. Crushed iz 'ed inta jelly, 'e did! Tasty, doe'. I put it on me sandwiches.
Dere's also yer regular Boyz, an' yer WEIRDBOYZ 'oo do weird stuff wiv da warp an' shit, an' dere's PAINBOYZ 'oo can stitch someone's arm back on if ya lose yours, an' da MEKBOYZ, but I fink I mentioned dem already. Dere's also SQUIGS an' SNOTLINGS an' GRETCHIN, dey ain't much use in a REAL FIGHT but dey are comfortable ta sit on! Oh yeah, and we also gots da SQUIGGOTH! Dey's right big an' orky! One o' dem once knocked all me teef out! I made a right bundle on dat, I did, but I couldn't eat anyfin' but SQUIG JELLY fer a week while dey grew back. I sued da RUNTHERD fer damages when I smashed all da teef outta his 'ed too! Den he got et by da squiggoth and we 'ad ta get a new runtherd before da snotlings started crappin' all over da Mekboy's new GARGANT.
An' we gots more dan enuff boyz to handle anyfing da galaxy can frow at us, and dere's plenty o' fightin' to go around! To be alive an' breavin in dese times iz to be alive for da BEST FIGHTIN' DERE EVAH WOZ, an' not a day goes by I don' thank Gork and Mork fer dat!
Forget da power o' dem POINTY-EARED GITS, an' da BLUESKINZ, an' da METAL BOYZ, an' da BEAKIES an' da SPIKY GITS, for in the green krumpin' of da far future dere is only WAAAAAAAGH!!! Dere is no boredom among da stars, only an eternity of lootin', and da laffta of FIGHTIN' BOYZ! WAAAAAAGH!!!
@midgetydeath... Yes they do. Just as much as Humanity... If not more so
@@marcussherlock6318 👏👏👏👏👏 beautiful. Truly, AMAZING
@@marcussherlock6318 Now do Tyranids
@@marcussherlock6318 Now dis is PROPA ORKY! I see youz a boy of kultur and refinin'!
Epic yet chilling to the core, the best introduction I have ever seen for the definitive grimdark that is Warhammer 40k.
I FUCKING LOVE GRIMDARK
@@konigstiger3017 A lot of 40K fans forget how dark it is supposed to be. It's supposed to be UNCOMFORTABLY dark. like watching Event Horizon uncomfortable
"He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods"
Okay that's HERESY twice over, for saying gods exist and also daring to suggest the Emperor is beholden to any but Himself.
Really should have been "he is the master of mankind by his own will" or hand or might.
But not inaccurate since the Horus Hersey went "Just as planned" for the Chaos powers. They wanted the stagnant empire full of fearful superstitious zealots. An empire ruled over by an perpetual Emperor who is forced unto the Golden Throne forever as a prison never being allowed to regenerate his body to its previous potential its previous threat to them.
Burkhart 4192 Also, the emperor was also born as this demigod ... I can accept the idea that some old dead gods were involved in that
That's been in the intro for 40K since it's early days. The script for this piece is straight out of the the rule books.
Early human psykers created him because they sensed the presence of Warp Gods, probably seen demons as well.
Am I the only one who thinks warhammer 40k is at its strongest from a literary/narrative form of story telling? Sure the video games and future films/shows that come out will be great but I think prose works well for the setting. Everything becomes much more grand, big, and horrifying when you let the readers imagination piece together the 40 first millennium.
I mean, astartes is a great short film series to describe just how brutal and inhuman the future is.
Also good when its not matt ward writing
Fully agree, for how grandly the setting can be portrayed nothing can compare to the vastness of the imagination that paints from such a grand description of the universe
I think they work well in tandem. For small skirmishes between individuals or squads, animations are great. But for epic, long campaigns and conspiracies? Yeah, prose is unmatched.
I dunno, Space Marine 2 looks like it might be up to the task. I get what you mean tho
@@wawawuu1514 If only there's 40k manga
With Berserk art and seinen tags
I like the grampa voice! It made it sound more ominous!
Agreed.
Its british not american. Losten to the audio books the brit voices make a huge diff.
it reminds me of the Twelfth Doctor
guy's got a good Capaldi voice
I had a friend new to warhammer ask to the effect of:
Friend: “so I keep hearing about how terrible the imperium is but I can’t find the rebels.”
Me: “rebels?”
Friend: you know the rebels, like the Rebels in star wars, Hunger Games, exc. I can’t find anything about them.
Me: you mean...like chaos?
Friend: no I mean like the good guys ya know? The people overthrowing the evil imperium
Me: well first off there are no ‘good guys’ but that doesn’t matter...there probably all over their just so insignificant they don’t matter.
Friend: what do you mean? I’m sure the empire thought the Rebels were so small they were insignificant and we know how they turned out for them
Me: no I mean they literally cannot matter...like at all. Seriously if there was ever a wide scale rebellion where 1,000 worlds would rebel against the imperium...it would still be so insignificant the Imperium might not even bother fighting them.
Friend: what do you mean they’d just let them secede?
Me: well no but the amount of worlds and even entire solar systems the imperium just ‘loses’ do to how big the imperium is, is practically an entire meme in the community. A thousand worlds going up in rebellion might not even be noticed by anyone for decades after they seceded. Then some random guy notices the Imperial Tithe hasn’t been paid in awhile so they send a fleet show up and annihilate the planets in rebellion, leave and forget those worlds existed in the first place.
Friend: wait they have Death Stars?
Me: what?
Friend: you said they annihilate planets they have Death Stars?
Me: oh no, pretty much any single one of their ships can destroy a planet.
Friend: ...Jesus.
Me: yeah.
Accurate
The truth is painful, but even Tau are minor inconveice for Imperium. They can be anihilated with one potent strike - but that means the Imperium need to focus and combine all powers at once, which in fact - they cannot do. Not without loosing other fronts. The Imperium is streched thin. They salvage everything they can. Terminator armours, ships, resources. The only thing that they have plenty are man. Billions of man equipped in primitive technology (compared to the earlier eras).
@@mariuszsobolewski9839 yeah when the Imperium sent a “small” and “ragtag” Crusading Force that barely got started and only took out a few Ta’u Planets The Ta’u considered it to basically be their “End Times” but then some Tyranids showed up nearby and the Crusading Forces were sent to fight some ‘Nids IIRC
When a StarWars Fan first learns about Warhammer and still hasn’t figured out just how fcked Warhammer is
“There is no Jesus here but yes “
In darkness, I shall be light
In times of doubt, I shall keep faith
In throes of rage, I shall hone my craft
In vengeance, I shall have no mercy
In the midst of battle, I shall have no fear
In the face of death, I shall have no remorse
ScorpianStrike in face of death, they had no remorse to forsake it
ScorpianStrike
Go home boy.
About the only thing good about Dow3
Bigbadwolfen69 ironically it wasn't made by relic
I've accidentially read "Horus Heresy" book few monthes ago. Before it, I had no idea what Warhammer 40,000 is.
Now I've watched this and my blood is chilled in my veins.
Thank you.
Sinitar Gaming I need the book name is it just called Horus heresy
it is an entire series called the Horus Heresy series
First book is called Horus Rising
Alex Plunkett thanks man
Sir Ferdinand Fiddlesticks Flipperbunny thank you
This is great and all but I can’t be the only one who can’t take THAT image of the Big E seriously anymore because of Alfabusa’s Text-to-Speech verse using it for all the wacky hijinks portrayed therein?
Of course you can. Just focus on actual 40k.
everytime i see it i just think of Alfa
Every time I see it I just think "ABOUT FUCKING TIME"
I swear to god i was expecting The Emperor of mankind to speak or throw at least a small one liner.
I was shocked he didn't xD !
Every time I see that image I think of Kitten.
Whoever did the voice, I just have to say congratulations
Sounds like Tom Baker who was one of the early Dr Whos.
Everybody is talking about how great the narrator is (rightfully so), meanwhile the thing that really sends chills down my spine is the ambience in this video
YA FORGOT TO MENTION DA ORKS YA GIT!
Just do the same intro but change the voice with that of an ork (and the wording slightly).
That's what happens when you can't even control where you go among the stars.
He said "aliens".
Go waaaaaggg your self
So much ork garbage get my flamethrower it's purging time
"It's ye boi." -The Man Emperor of Mankind
Turn on subtitles lol
"Racists among his soldiers are the adapt to assess our tase"
...well it ain't wrong
Rended Space They're not racist, xenophobic is a better term
@@qwertyasdfg6145 The mighty Space marines are not afraid of filthy Xenos!!!
And I see nothing wrong with that whatsoever. Are there any objections to be made? That... implying heresy.
That's why they've survived for ten millenia.
This video would be perfect if narrator started laughing after "Laughter of thirsting gods" line. It would be really creepy and awesome because it would suggest that the narrator is in fact a chaos god, most likely Tzeentch who wants to drive us in to Warhammer 40k so the grimdark future may never end. Just as planned.
That would be pretty hard to do withouth the narrator sounding like a twirling mustache villain.
Gave me chills
Robert Wiech
Nope. It would break the gravitas
I actually emitted an evil laugh after the video.
I just imagine the Eliphas the Inheritor laugh there, that is as good as we can get unfortunately.
This was THE video that made me get into 40k. Never touched Warhammer before. I now own 56 Orc models, have spent countless nights hobbying/painting said orcs, played the Only War ttrpg, as well as the 4th edition fantasy ttrpg, I own all of the original Dawn of War games, and have finally begun the daunting task of making my way through the Horus heresy novels. What a wild year it's been.
I cannot express this enough, thank you for giving me my new favorite hobby.
i like how the narrator doesn't refer to him as the "god-emperor", he says that the emperor's power was given to him by the gods, and he sounds happy that humanity is in such a state. i'm thinking that this narrator is chaos!!
There is no peace among the stars, but this piece right here is fantastic!
If your watching this from Bruva's playlist as a primer to his parody series. Get ready for drastic shift in tone once the show starts.
The atmosphere is amazing. Bravo!
Theres a slight joy in his voice that's just absolutely infectious. Like a historian whos just gotten to his favorite part of a retelling.
This should be the opening to the Warhammer 40k series. If there ever is one...
"Greatest among his soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes....The space marines....Bioengineered super warriors..."
I love that part
The Adeptus Custodes: Am I a joke to you?
@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 The Custodes, as grand as they are, are not soldiers, they are a legion of bodyguards, created from the Emperor's own genome (as opposed to the Astartes, who are created from their Primarch's genomes, who intern were created from the Emperor's genome, with certain strands of DNA removed/replaced/added depending on the Primarch). Each Custodes is an individual work of art and craftsmanship, a unique warrior who fights with his own style, an army of one, even as he stands alongside his brother Legiones Custodes in defence of their Emperor.
The Astartes were mass manufactured for war on a grant scale, punched from the same mould and engineered to work together in squads, companies/centuries, great companies/chapters, legions. They were bred to be cannon fodder for the Great Crusade and lead from the front against the enemies of man. They are the finest soldiers of mankind, but they are there to die for their Imperium!
@@greypilgrim228 actually custodes arent made from jimmy spaces genome, thats reserved for the grey knights, it is currently unknown how custodians are created.
@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 For the first 6 editions of the Game? Oh yea!
This is by FAR the best take on this.
I love this video so much that I have to watch it every other day to not forget how fucking awesome this video and the described universe is.
In this grimdark future, no good deed goes unpunished.
When that show being made by Henry Cavill eventually comes out in who knows how long, this whole intro paragraph should be read right at the start, to let the audience know they’re stepping into a very different kind of sci-fi world…
Agreed!
When he really start in 40k. I can imagine that he might start in the Horus Heresy
I would suggest everyone start archiving this playlist, no telling how much longer it will be around
Heroes. The symbols of virtue and good. They suffer hardships, fight exhausting battles, and work to provide a future through example. They take a stand to protect the innocent and fight to preserve honor and deliver justice unto the world, and bring about a sense of humility and humanity. They inspire many to protect the present and look to the brightness of the future. They seek to make right the wrongs of the world, and some will even seek out to remedy their mistakes and shortcomings. And above all, they fight under the unified ideal that man is good, and that hope will prevail.
Villains. The symbols of evil.They work to seize power or control, to satisfy their greed and goals with no concern of the suffering of others. Some allow pride, vanity and selfishness to define their very lives, and they will always put themselves first. Some are driven by flawed and terrible ideals. Some simply enjoy the suffering inflicted on others, a grin across their faces as tears falls and cries sound off. Above all, villains seek to impose their selfish, maddening will upon the world, and that there is no meaning to this world, and only victory is worth anything.
*In the grim, dark future of mankind, they see that there is no good and no evil. Only an eternity of darkness and emptiness.*
If they ever found the dark, uncaring world that is the 41st Millennium, they will be greeted not with admiration and intrigue, but with suspicion, carnage, slaughter, suffering and bloodshed. Even the most hardened heroes and callous of villains are taken aback by the grimdark world of the Imperium of Man, and the wondrous yet terrible worlds beyond it. This dreary, superstitious, fanatical and uncaring universe they have stumbled upon may very well claim the lives of many a hero and villain before their first day in this awful future is even close to ending.
Heroes will be overwhelmed by the horror and struggle for survival in this world, and try to make sense of this brutal reality that they now stand in. They will try to benefit the Earth they once knew, but much of Terra will strike them down out of religious zealotry. Even the most skilled and determined of heroes will be undone and defeated by the stagnant yet surrender-less nature of mankind, and that is only the least terrible of their fates. Mutants, heretics, inquisitors and far worse will hound and battle them, or they will fight before inevitably falling to the might and unstoppable strength of alien races, such as the battle-bound Orks or the unbreakable Necrons. They will find no allies with the saviors and gods of old, for the darkness of these worlds, races and the evil of the Warp and of Chaos will have overwhelmed and consumed them. Even the most secret and secure of realms will be corrupted and taken into the bowels of the Warp, their secrets and memories lost forever. Those powerful and resilient enough to survive will have their wills crushed either by the forces of terror and destruction, or the overwhelming, soul-wrenching reality of this new world, before they too will succumb to death, pain and despair.
Villains will find themselves faced by a darkness and emptiness even they cannot find purpose or refuge in. Heroes have always faced the evil of the Abyss, and in this vile world, villains will be forced to look into the depths of depravity, one which they will soon realize will absorb them regardless of their station. The vain and egotistical will be rendered broken and purposeless by these fiendish worlds and their inhabitants, forever indifferent to their delusions of self-worth and false superiority. The controlling and intelligent will be rendered forever defeated, for they now face a collective willpower from mankind that bows to no single man or monster, a will that will stand long after the planets and worlds they inhabit are broken, before humanity even considers the idea of surrender or submission. Like the heroes, the villains too will be ostracized and hunted down, slaughtered by an unyielding army of soldiers that fight not for justice, but victory, order and survival. Even the most sadistic will be utterly destroyed by the unimaginable savagery of the 41st Millennium, their sanity and souls left at the whims of the viciousness of indescribable evil, such as the hellish, insidious demons of the Warp, the monstrously unstoppable Tyranids, or the sickening torturousness of those of the Dark Eldar. Many excessively powerful and god-like villains may yet survive, finding a place among the horrid roles of this newfound evil, but even they will become eroded and succumb to the emptiness of the Warp, becoming nothing more but carnal, savage monstrosities. Many villains will be forcibly humbled by this unforgiving world they are now trapped within, reduced from powerful criminals and warmongers to barely sentient masses of animate flesh. Worst of all, within the deepest recesses of their mind, they can hear the mocking laughter of true, uncaring, heartless gods, and they know that even in death, they will not be spared of agony. In the depths of the hell that is the Warp, they will find a new definition of true despair as they are reduced to nothing more than tormented husks, no longer comprehending of the lives they once lead, their faintest traces of humanity forever extinguished.
It is within this Abyss of violence and despair that heroes and villains alike will drown, never to see the light of day again, forever left to fall into nothingness, where their pain will never stop growing. For within this uncaring Millennium, no one will remember them, legacies reduced to non-existence, their deeds forgotten and forever undone.
It is here that they will forever know that they and all they held dear is meaningless, swallowed by the emptiness.
*_Forever._*
This is one badass fucking comment.And underrated too
Underrated
Metal as fuck
What, you mean you haven’t planned that far ahead yet?
The only thing I can feel about your comment and the entire warhammer 40k galaxy is nothing more than hate, hopeless and more hate.
The warp will devour their entire galaxy on the End of times, putting end to this pointless and worthless war.
And the last light of hope for the survivors and true heroes of this will slowly creep into another galaxy, where everything will have to start again, but now, without making the same mistakes as before.
Oh my god. That was powerful.
Holy shit, that was REALLY good
Excellent!
It’s weird how this is used as the prologue for TTS. It gives you mood whiplash when you go from this, to episode 1 of TTS, where a techpriest is asking for toasters in exchange for installing a communicator into the golden throne.
Great video! For some reason, i wanted the Emperor to go "HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE"
But i am just silly like that.
HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE About fucking time... * TTS Starts *
YEY
Emperor mortikizer est numaro uno HUEHUEHUEHUEHUEHUE
@@benagaran20 *yey*
God I would love if he did more of these. Tell more stories in the 40k unaversive in this exact same style.
Maybe one for each race? This gives a good summary of the Imperium but not much on everyone else.
The real question in 41 millennium, is Pluto planet or not!?
Srećko Čuvalo (nonconical) it was destroyed by the emperor, as the only way to make Mars stop arguing about it...
And canonically: Yes, it is. It was the site of one of the first major battles during the Solar war period of the Horus heresy and still stands as the Sol systems first line of defence against invading fleets
Winged Darkangel, was that the base the Alpha Legion and Imperial Fists fought?
Witted Acrobat19 Yep. The Battle of Pluto, where Alpharius tried to destroy the astropath array on the fortress moon Hydra and got his shit rekt by Rogal Dorn, took place on Sol IX.
Whats a pluto?
I love how in Oculus Imperia's series, this narrator has been executed by the inquisition for heretical statements made in this monologue.
Which video does he say that in?
@@reclusiarchgrimaldus1269 I think it was either The Truth of the Imperium, In Conversation with the Ordo Hereticus, or The Emperor's Lie, but I can't quite remember.
No not really, it says “Here are the tales of those times” inferring that they’re not in their current state anymore
I always read this before reading my books!
I always wanted someone to post this.
THANK YOU!
THE EMPEROR PROTECTS!
This is the "Star Wars descending letters intro" or the "War Never Changes" or "There was a time when the Old Gods DIED!" of WH40k. Fantastic work! Perfect tone setting!
If this is not how a WH40k movie begins, it would be a deep crime.
Where is "there was a time where the old gods died" from ?
@@bureauofarchitecture6764 I think it’s from the DC series The New Gods.
@@theclockworkknight1273 huh interesting
This now replaces the Total Biscuit lore video on 40k as my way of introducing people to 40K.
AVE IMPERATOR
I tried explaining WH40K to my wife. At first I wanted to say, "There's a race of sentient fungus genetically engineered to fight and build, who can make a jet fly faster through their collective psychic will because that jet is painted red." After realizing there's no way to introducing someone to WH40K without sounding like an insane person, I explained it as, "Peter Griffin fighting the giant chicken would seem like an unremarkable scuffle on your average day in the Imperium."
And so, the journey to rewatch the series begins. I had intended for it to happen in less sombre circumstances...
Archival is being performed by several, it will be saved through our devotion. Have faith!
When you log off Stellaris but it keeps running.
Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be re-learned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war.
^this part has been forgotten by modern GW
really sets the mood for 40k
Isn't fiction great kids?
I'll order myself a portion, with extra cosmic horror seasoning.
The emperor protects!
Wait daemonculaba is for kids?
This is the kind of ambiance I imagine while reading the lore books. Just so damned perfect!
*And the laughter of thirsting gods...*
Slaanesh is indeed known to be quite thirsty
Whenever I start reading a 40k book, and I get to the intro text, I always always play this.
The start to the behemoth. Marks the beginning of my watchthru of the full series after the most recent announcement. Hope some people are joining me in one last hurrah.
The narrators voice sounds equally amused, tired and in awe. World class voice acting here.
0:20
Wait, what Gods?
THOSE Gods???
well, the Chaos gods did start the heresy.
@midgetydeath neat
Absolutely breathtaking. I got goosebumps after the first 10 seconds. It takes a lot for me to realise something as truly epic, but you've done it. Great work. Absolutely grade A amazing.
SOMEONE SCRATCH MY NOSE!!!
I got you bro. I lend you my finger.
That moment when you read the first page in a book and feel like "I wanna go home now please"
I use this video to explain 40k to people, they are horrified. Thank you.
same here dude they were horrified
Yeah it does.. xD
This is probably one of the best way to introduce someone to Warhammer 40k that I have ever seen.
Yep, the perfect prologue to introduce us to _If The Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device._
You know it's well-narrated when the majority of automatic captioning is correct
1:36 Oh really?
@@Matihood1 not really wrong though, Lol.
I do not recall how many time's I've wandered this path. But today I begin my pilgrimage once again. For the Emporer.
Emperor, not emporer
That's one hell of a reading voice. Could listen to that for hours.
If the Amazon Warhammer 40k series does not start in anything even vaguely resembling this it will be a heresy for the ages.
Referring to the Emperor as "The Carrion Lord" is just so God damn metal.
I love everything you put out. That voice.... I could listen to it forever. So awesome. We want more!
Holy fucking shit. An good intro to 40k that’s below ten minutes. I didn’t know it was possible.
One can feel that hopeless atmosphere... This vid is great for introducing someone new to the Wh40k universe
Warhammer is not really hopeless. Curiously enough actually, Tzeentch is the god of hope.
I watch this video every day, so that I may never truly die.
Every time I watch this, it's like I'm new to 40k all over again
This is what 40k is, not the new cartoony stuff that flows out of GW. like some of their new stuff is cool but the feeling is much less grim than it used to be or needs to be for 40k
Thats heresy!!!..
Lets watch it one Last Time Friends. *Sad muffled Gasmask noises*
"...there is nothing else, in this forsaken existance"
last words of Avitus
A very good video. I wish I could give you 100 likes, but instead, I will send this to every person I know that asks 'What is Warhammer 40,000?"
One year ago, this video arrived in my feed. And now I'm paying hundreds of dollars for audiobooks, and have a hobby that no one else in my life can ever appreciate or relate to. And I am forever grateful
The video that began the fandom's most beloved series. A series that brought so many men and women to the hobby. Me included..
That, is a fantastically harrowing entry, one of the best "trailer-ettes" I've ever seen. Pacing, feeling, overtone of oppression, hopelessness, over bearing bureaucracy and everlasting strife. Great voice. I don't specifically recognize it, but if you don't do voice work, you should.
Just brilliant.
GW needs to be reminded of what their IP is. This is what it is and should be.
Thank you alvabusa..... for all of these years of laughter & tears & so much more
Ah, these were better times. Now everything's gone all wrong.
This IS the video I turn to whenever someone asks me what warhammer 40k is about
Introduced to 40k universe so messily and in a not so chronological order of things, reading books. I saw this video first and only then actually started to read books and as i read intro to one of em i instantly recognized the lyrics, such a blast
This is, honestly, the best intro to the setting I can possibly imagine. Massive kudos to shakespeareman for his reading, it's all delivered perfectly.
This narrator is great, I want him to tell me all the 40k lore
3:02 ...for in the grim, dark future, there is only war.
He said it! HE SAID IT! *fanboy freakout*
Hearing it in that austere voice did things to me.