Not only did the War in Heaven flood the Warp with souls, emotions, and thoughts, these were alien souls, emotions, and thoughts. It turned the Warp into a place that the human struggles to understand and whose knowledge can literally drive men mad. The Warp is chaotic, terrifying, and filled with predators who endlessly hunt, are killed, and then reform over and over. That is why the material world holds such fascination for beings from the warp, it provides stability and permanency that they rarely get to experience while acting as ground that can be truly conquered and controlled.
Thats a great explanation! I could really see the mash up of potentially millions of years of empires, races , cultures ect being thrown in a plain of existence together with beings that fully dominate there , how the mere thought of it could lead to corruption. Makes sense why they would want out so badly, but they are also clearly monstrosities so better if they stay! XD
24:26 when it comes to murder, elder are very powerful species who didn't fear death before slaanesh was born, when they died and go to the warp, they have extremely powerful souls which puts them in a cycle where they would have an psychic reincarnation so they didn't care if they were killing each other
So in a sense the Eldar are immortals? Does Slaanesh directly enslave them after death now or are they still capable of reincarnating themselves? Or do they offer themselves to Slaanesh ? (That could be the Dark Eldar though! im not sure!)
@@TheRealCenturion Yeas, the Aeldari were functionally immortal in mind, body, and soul. They can not die naturally, and they had a variety of options available back then, if they were unalived; either : 1. Pass on to the warp and reincarnate in another life (or get wished into existence via psychic rituals) 2. Upload your mind to the Infinity Circuit (the core of each Craftworld / Exodite paradise world) 3. Transfer to a fresh, donated body or grow / clone a new body as long as they recovered a piece of you, from a hair or finger nail to a single strand of DNA. Unfortunately, Slaanesh directly enslave them after death now - all their souls go straight to her whether they want or not. Luckily, the Aeldari found a loophole by using 'soulstones' as jewelry to directly upload their souls if they did die, though they can't reincarnate anymore. Still, soulstones are reserved for the elites and important leaders. The Drukhari (Dark Eldar) aren't devotees of Slaanesh at all - in fact, they fear and despise him/her/it the most. They do sadistic acts because the pain and emotions of the victims' souls feed their immortality - a remnant of the Dark Eldars' stunted psychic powers.
@@TheRealCenturion closest things to slaves would be the dark elder as they willingly do the things she likes to avoid getting eaten other then that, they are immortal but shit existence as they can Always sense slaanesh ever watching eye beyond the abyss, from the day they are born to the day they die she will he waiting ready to consume their soul like she did to 99% of the empire
Funny thought, 1997's 'Event Horizon' is largely accepted by the community as taking place in the 40k cannon. That is what happens when you enter The Warp without a Gellar Field.
@@TheRealCenturion Event Horizon is a cult classic with or without 40K. There's an almost fantasy level story of the most brutal image film being stored in the oddest of places.
The writer of the screen play, Philip Eisner, has said publicly that they tried to get the rights to do a 40K movie. He was literally a Warhammer fan and admitted to being influenced by 40K when writing Event Horizon. It’s as close to official as you can get without actually being official.
Death, murder and suicide became a pastime for the Eldar because before their fall, they had the ability to reincarnate, now when their soul enters the warp, Slaanesh immediately snatches and devours them
Oh ok! I read another comment that the Eldar could reincarnate, and my question to that was are they instantly at the will of chaos NOW when that happens. You hit that nail on the head! thank you for explaining!
By my estimates, almost 4 billion psykers have been sacrificed since they started doing that. But in some parts of the imperium, 4 billion dead is a Tuesday morning.
@@TheRealCenturion They are not "strongest", they are just people with the right genetic mutation, that are dangerous to leave alone, as they can be corrupted and used by daemons.
@@TheRealCenturion there are different categories of psykers. Those sacrificed are considered not strong enough to become something else, like astropath or battle psyker. So no, they're not your strongest. The weak are meat, the strong to eat.
Guys in case you are not aware the imperium consist of 1.000.000 planets. We also no that 32.000 of those are Hive worlds. Those Hive worlds we know of have a population of 120 Billion Citizens on average meaning just in the Hive worlds ecluding, Forgeworlds, Argiworlds etc the imperium has at least this number of people 3.840.000.000.000.000. Since Hive worlds are 3% of all planets the Imperim has settled lets just double the total population to 8 Quadrillion for easier math - at a population growth of just 1% per year thats about 200.000.000.000 or 20 times our earths population of new born people each day. So Psykers are 1 in a Million and one Thousand are scarificed to the emperor ever day which is 0,05% of all new born psykers every day. Oh but here is the fun part i didn`t include terra into my calculation because Terra according to lore is a continuous Hive World. If that was true and we stretch out a single Hive across just Half of Terra that would me Terra alone houses 96% of the imperiums citizen or an aditional 750 Quadrillion. At which point 4 Billion dead in an industrial accident on terra is so minor it won`t make the local news in the district 🙂
Ffed up thing is that the golden throne started to fail recently, they got got it back to work but it will probably fail in the next 100 years or so. The Ffed up thing is that it now requires 4k psyker per day 😅@TheRealCenturion
11:24 when it comes to the war on heaven we don't know how big the war on heaven was, it had god engines that destroyed and consumed worlds as fuel, c'tan going around bending reality and destroying planets and eating trillion souls from random species, wiping them out basically, this was was so devasting because we had one side which is the necrons and c'tan using reality breaking weapons and tools while the old ones, the aelderi (elder) are using psychic powers at stupid levels, the aelderi were able to summoned and fight alongside their elder gods, the orks came into the later stages of the war when the old ones are close to losing so they created the krorks, this is what orks use to be, absolutely powerful and fucking terrifying warriors who were 30ft+ tall with extremely advance weapons and power armor, they were more intelligent and genetically modified for war, they have thr ability to bend reality as well but after the war they devolved into the orks where they are just big and dumb where they are unaware that they have the ability to bend reality through imagination
I read another comment that mentioned the Orks had abilities they were unaware so thank you for telling me a bit more about that! So the OG Orks sound like there were probably a massive threat. Were they devolved on purpose? or was it more just like due to the loss of their war (and im assuming with that hierarchy and leadership) they just naturally could not sustain themselves and on their own declined?
@TheRealCenturion they made primarchs look like foot soldiers or maybe elite fighters so they were a massive threat but multiple factors played in them devolving, two being infighting and the elder controlling them through orbital bombardment and other means that orks see as dishonorable and coward behavior
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Try bricky's factions of 40k vids and also "the Last church" to get a glimpse of what the emperor's vision and what kind of person he is. edit: the fanimation "The Last Church" btw
The Emperor was strict against any kind of religion or superstition. He was a "science above all"-dude. He personally ordered to burn down any church and religious icon on Terra
Wow thats crazy. He inadvertently did the exact opposite of what he intended then due to just how extreme he took it. It makes me think that in a sense, Horus almost kind of won, or at least achieved what he sought out to do! Shows that Extremes on every side always have consequences!
@@TheRealCenturiontechnically, even Horus didn't want it to happen. One of the reasons Horus turned to Choas was because he was shown visions of a future Imperium where the Emperor was worshiped as a God. And he interpreted that his dad was a fake that stole power from the gods so he can be worshiped, and so he started the Horus Heresy to stop this future from happening. But, in an attempt to stop the future, he sealed it.
@@TheRealCenturionThe saddest part is, he was warned that his atheistic dogma would eventually lead to worship. The Last Church is the story of him stamping out religion during the Unification Wars.
Bricky is the gateway to the 40k lore universe. He focuses on taster level lore. Someone like Luetin is good for a deep dive into particular factions or characters. There is also channels like Weshammer, Kirioth, Chapter Master Valrak, Mr Bones, PancreasNoWork and Astartes Anonymous.
I wont lie, I looked up both because both were recommended to me in my astartes video but I saw the 160 some videos in his playlist and it BLEW MY MIND! XD. I figure Bricky was a great place to start, and then I can dive into the specfics i find interesting once i learn a little more!
@@TheRealCenturion That is the best way to go. There are so many channels, and for the most part they all get along with each other. It's a pretty accepting and welcoming fandom.
@@TheRealCenturionif you want story lore with voice acting and all, the amber king and warrior tier are probably the best options, baldemort's guide to warhammer
@@TheRealCenturion Yeah, the problem with innocence is that chaos corruption can be so insidious and subtle that what you thought was mundane and innocent was actually contributing to a full blown cultist uprising, coup, and daemonic incursions. So innocence proves nothing, because your innocence is not an excuse for an entire planet getting invaded, and possibly exterminatus.
@TheRealCenturion thing is, you can be truly innocent, the problem is that there are twisted demons, or genetically altering xenos, that plot and could be using you without your knowledge. That's what it means.
Great reaction. You took the time to write down points of interest and i very much appreciate that. Keep those pages handy, if you dive into the next set of his videos, you're going to need them. Don't forget to ask questions if you have any, or if you have suspicions. Your comment section will blow up with everybody telling you a hundred different ways of how something was right or wrong. I look forward to seeing your next set Cheers -Alpharious-
I appreciate that! ive had some people say they disliked the writing a bit but i was doing it purely for reference for my sake! XD . Im really glad you enjoyed the video! While I will definitely still be reacting to other topics, I must say, the community support and feedback has been phenomenal from you guys and I must say im now invested thoroughly in watching more 40K content! watching these last few videos has got me kinda hooked! XD See you in the next one!
The War in Heaven is - comparing to Stellaris - more like two full blown End-Game empires duking the fricking hell out of each other, but with one clearly winning. Just watch PancreasNoWork - Why Warhammer 40k isn't THAT overpowered. ;) And the concept of green Orks with the pumped up look and long arms comes from Games Workshop, that concept is from roughly 1983 :)
It can't be understated how benign the warp used to be before the war in heaven ruined it. There used to be other gods, even nice gods. Being a psyker didn't attract demons and madness by default. People often use chaos and warp interchangeably but chaos was created by the warp and then took over the warp.
That makes a lot of sense and thats the imagine I kind of got as Bricky explained it. The warp simply is there, weather or not anyone is utilizing it, chaos simply inhabits that "realm" if you will, but that does not by default make it "bad" . At least to my understanding! I could be wrong!
The Gaunt's Ghosts series is a FANTASTIC way to get into the books, with great action and characters in equal measure. Because the first book is an origin story, it's easy to just jump in and roll with it.
The comparison to Band of Brothers immediately peaked my interest! I love how there are so many different "flavors" seemingly in this universe. Like there is something that seemingly everyone could enjoy, its just a case of finding what interests you and exploring that!
Unsure if someone else has pointed this out but yeah, if you play Stellaris, the Shroud is the Warp lol. And the four Shroud entities you can bargain with for the Psionic ascension are basically the four Chaos Gods from 40k
WOW i never actually knew that before! Ive caught some of the references in that game but clearly I was missing so many! thank you for pointing that out!
10:19 c'tan can be killed but it extremely dangerous as they are the physical embodiments of concepts, so if they die their death effects out Galaxy at certain levels, the one they killed was called the flayer and he cursed the necrons who killed him creating the flayer virus creating some of the most terrifying creatures in the setting, here is his final words "To those who have turned their faces away. To those who are faithless and wretched in their jealousies. To those who have denied us. To those who have denied me. I will wreak vengeance. I will wrench your souls and break your bones. I will cast hunger through your accursed existence. Down the eons, you will not forget. I will grant you this gift from love turned aside and make you like me, break you in my image as you have broken me. I shall cast the fear of myself into you and all of your kind. I am Llandu'gor. I am the hunger. I am the flayer, and from this moment, you shall be too."
@TheRealCenturion they only killed him and decided to break the others which makes sense because he was one 5 who was left 1 Aza'gorod the Nightbringer one of the most terrifying c'tan as he is the grim reaper who gave the universe the fear of death but he was shattered by the elder god khaine, 2nd Mephet'ran the Deceiver is a bitch, third is Mag'ladroth the Void Dragon likely the most powerful c'tan who deals with creations of machines but hes mayne unbroken but resides sealed on mars thanks to the emperor of mankind who may have used him to fight the worse war during the great crusade that could have destroyed the Imperium before it started, the void dragon also and last one Tsara'noga the outsider who was driven insane from consuming other c'tan, a trick done by Cegorach the elder laughing god and left the galaxy, the necrons have a very deep understanding of the universe, after killing the flayer they likely knew killing the other c'tan would have worse consequences for them and the galaxy considering one of the strongest tools is a c'tan created map known as The Celestial Orrery which is a device "plugged" into the fabric of reality which shows every single planet and star with extreme accurate detail, with the ability to destroy every single one through this map, touch a star on the map a few seconds later the star in real space supernova
@TheRealCenturion btw,I really appreciate how you rationalize Big E. being worshipped as a God. People really forget thousands of years went by. We irl don't know most of what happened 2K years ago lmao, imagine 10K years?
Thank you! I just personally cant imagine what the world will look like 100 years from now , let alone 1000. A religion coming to be becuase every other one was eradicated seems plausible, humans in general do better when there beliving in something. ( in this case thats one thing or else) XD
@@TheRealCenturion Just a note, the video is kind of old now and not as polished as his later work... which Bricky knows as he recently said he is working on an updated version! Depending on how long it takes to come out, you could choose to hold off until then.
You mentioned how you found it interesting that 40k has fantasy races intermixed with sci-fi, this is because Warhammer started off as a Fantasy franchise. You have Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k, Fantasy sadly was discontinued and replaced with Warhammer Age of Sigmar, which is kind of a reboot. Warhammer Fantasy also has some unique races that don't appear in 40k, and there's some deep lore tid-bits at least early on that implied both franchises were kind of connected. Games Workshop just ported the fantasy races over to a sci-fi setting to create 40K, which is why you'll notice a lot of connections, the Warp permeates everything, potentially even multiverses, meaning the Chaos gods exist in multiple realities such as 40K, and Fantasy/Age of Sigmar, and potentially even more realities we are completely unaware of Tomb Kings - Necrons Empire of Man - Imperium of Man, which also has orgyn - ogres and squats - dwarves/halflings. High Elves - Eldar Dark Elves - Dark Eldar Greenskins - Orks Chaos remains unchanged sadly the skaven haven't been brought into 40k, although the Tyranids kind of fulfil that role
Oh that makes a lot of sense! I have played the Total War - Warhammer games before (But ive been playing total war games for years). So my entire knowledge of that universe comes purely from those games Xd. I find it very cool that these fantasy races work really well in sc-fi universe as " aliens" and i also really like how dwarves and ogres are technically human. It also makes sense why they are so drastically different from base line humans due to the thousands of years they had to evolve on their own worlds without any support . Thank you for explaining that though!
If you'll watch Bricky's factions videos you won't know the "newest" faction of space dwarfs. Newest in quotation marks because they were there back in the day but then they weren't and they are back but with a new coat of paint. The Leagues of Votann are descendants of humanity, evolved into tough, stocky space dwarfs after millennia in harsh environments. They’re all about loyalty to their kin, survival, and efficiency. When dealing with others, they usually try to make a deal first-offering trade, alliances, or a warning before moving in on a planet’s resources. Cooperation is their preference since it’s less wasteful than fighting. But if a deal is refused or broken, they won’t hesitate to act. They’ll crush resistance and strip a planet for what they need, but they’re not reckless. If a fight would cost too many resources or Kin lives, they’ll walk away and look for another way to secure what they need. To them, balance between gain and loss is everything. Their decisions are also guided by the ancient AI supercomputers known as Votann. These machines, once brilliant and efficient, have degraded over time and now operate slowly and ponderously. Despite this, the Leagues still revere them and follow their decrees, even when they lead to morally grey or harsh actions.
Ill keep that in mind! So are the Dwarfs still their own faction? or would they technically be a sub-faction under the Imperium? They honestly sound the most level headed out of the rest XD
@@TheRealCenturion back in the day they were under the Imperium and were known as "squats". And nowadays they are still some squats sanctioned by the Imperium as abhumans (basically a legal mutant, others are ratlings or ogryns), but the main Dwarf faction are the Leagues of Votann, mainly in the center of the galaxy, and they are their own separate faction like the Eldar or Orks. They sometimes do some mercenary work for the Imperium (but Imperium still generally considers them as xenos), or there are some auxiliary votann units with the Tau empire. They also have what are called the Ironkin, which are basically robots with an advanced AI, and they treat them just like any other living kin. And as Imperium has outlawed AI this could be a major point of disagreement to put it lightly. And as for being most level headed, it doesn't mean they are not bad people. One of their main mottos is "Luck has. Need keeps. Toil earns." Which is essentially to say; whoever wants something the most, and puts in the most effort to have it, deserves to own it. So if you have a planet with a bunch of valuable resources, but I want it more, I deserve to have it if I put in the work killing your people. This is an extreme example, but if you turn down their offer, they'll probably come, kill your people or destroy the planet, and take what they wanted.
The early human expansions went so well and with so little opposition that humanity for quite a while thought it was alone in the galaxy, lacking the means of detecting the Eldar because of the technological gap. Humanity and the Sol System were once a part of what was considered Necron space, but the fringes of it, so the Eldar hadn't really taken a large interest in it nor had other races really wanted to venture into the lands of the people who once killed the closest things to physical gods, the Old Ones, the galaxy at known at that time. Proper care to make sure worlds were self-sufficient hadn't been done, with warp travel shortening vast distances to quick trips, specialization crept into the economy of each world, which unfortunately for Terra resulted it becoming a world of massive spires, huge habitation blocks, and nation spanning bureaucracy buildings to handle the vast paperwork needed to manage all of these worlds. This meant that Terra was very resource deprived and essentially a giant housing and financial center that was reliant on other worlds to supply it with essentials. When it was cut, the population and the various governments panicked, blaming each other and leading to planetwide war with weapons that scarred Terra so deeply it never really recovered, it was simply built over. Their psykers began to lose control and summon hordes of daemonic creatures, the AI robots saw their chance and rose up in rebellion and murder against their creators, and all while supplies dwindled, communication was cut off, and your leaders were blaming and warring with each other for control of the ashes. That is the moment when the Emperor revealed himself and set about restoring order through intense violence and technological superiority.
For those who think 1000 people a day is ridiculous... The imperium has hundreds of thousands to over a million worlds. The quote "Master of a million worlds" is there for a reason. This comes down to 1 psycher every ten years per world.
On Psykeres in different races... Not all races have access to Psykers, of the main faction the Tau and the Necron are non-psychic. Orks have Psykers and weird collective psychic power they are themselves unaware of. But like all things Ork, Ork Psykers are very unpredictable.. The tyranids have Psykers AND a massive presence within the warp that is still not really understood.
Thank you for answering that question! When you say Orks are unaware of their powers, how does that work? Is their just instances where craziness happens and its chalked up to "those damn Orks again!" ?
@@TheRealCenturion well Orks have a Psychic field that makes it so that if enough Orks believe something is real, it IS real. For example Orks believe that "Red wunz go fasta" (red ones go faster), so they will paint their vehicles red to make them go faster. If enough Orks are around red vehicles WILL go faster. They are unaware they have this power, so they can't use it in any kind of concious way (which is a good thing for the rest of the galaxy) but it does mean that Orks can do things they shouldn't be able to because enough Orks believe it they should. Prime example, an Ork buggy runs out of gas. but the biggest ork says "No we're not out of gas! I filled Da Trukk up before we left, and then the other Orks are like "O yeah you did fill it up", and the Buggy will work again, probably it doesn't have any fuel, but it'll drive as if it has.
Great video man. I enjoyed how you were able to understand mostly what was going on as it’s usually quite hard with how big the warhammer universe is 👌🏼
Thank you! I Do LOVE Sc-fi so im familiar with a lot of concepts but Warhammer seems to mash them all together! Its a bit intimidating at first but with a bit of context I feel like i can Conceptualize it all a lot easier! Bricky also made an amazing and very understandable video! Glad you enjoyed!
@@TheRealCenturionit's not just intimidating at first. It's intimidating forever. There are over 500 books. There's dozens of video games. There's short films and comics and codexes. Go Google "40k Sigismund" you'll end up on a page about him on the 40k wiki. Start reading. It'll take you an hour or more to really get through his page. He's a major character from a faction that at this point you haven't even heard of yet. There are pages upon pages of lore about him on there. Then you'll realize he's just a mid level character in the grand scheme of things and there's hundreds of other characters like him. Nobody knows everything about 40k.
Welcome to the Warhammer 40k world. I always love watching youtubers tip their toe into the universe to see what all the fuss is about! I would recommend Hellsreach, its a 2h30 audiobook that someone has animated and looks absolutely beautiful. Thats normally one of the next things people watch after the Astartes video and Bricky's lore dumps. You'll be painting an army in no time!
@@TheRealCenturion I always recommend doing Helsreach reaction 2 episodes at a time, instead of the full “movie”. Allows for Q&A time in between. It’s 13 episodes, so that cuts it down to 7 videos (the finale part 13 being it’s own because it’s the longest)
We did it lads, he's all the way into the rabbit hole now, he's been lured in and trapped just like the rest of us :D 40k easily has one of the densest, deepest, most extensively written about lores of any single IP out there, hands down.
SEEMS I GOT , GOT . XD I really love that there is seemingly so much content out there, that there is quite literally something for everyone it seems! can't wait to check out more!
without the Astronomicon humans could still travel the warp, but navigating becomes extraordinally more difficult and dangerous. So it would undoubtedly end the Imperium as it is since FTL travel would become MUCH more difficult and dangerous. But it would still be possible to travel the warp
Oh so its kind of like a "North Star" if you will. That makes sense as the warp is entered by Psykers on their own, but are guided by the Astronomicon. Thank you for explaining!
@@TheRealCenturion The 'North Star'is spot on, that is exactly what it is. Psykers don't usually travel in the warp, but rather draw their power from the warp, which attracts demons in the warp, and if the Psyker is not strong enough, or ignorant of the dangers the daemons can take over the Psykers body. Travel through the warp relies on a specific class of mutants called Navigators (yep very dune-like) who have a literal third eye with which they can gaze into the warp without going mad and consequently plot a course through it trying to avoid the dangers. The astronomicon helps the Navigators do that. But they can do it without the Astronomicon, but this would make safely navigating that much more difficult and dangerous
As someone who is a full time hobbyist, welcome to the universe! There is something in this universe for everyone regardless if you want to play the tabletop or not. I highly recommend you check out Bricky's Every Warhammer 40k Faction Explained parts 1 & 2 since he goes a little more in depth into each faction and subfaction. He definitely talks more about the Orks, Tyranids, and Tau in that video. Hope to see more videos from you, welcome.
9:50 the deal between the necrons and the C'tan was done with the deceiver, they didn't know what his name was until later on because when he introduce himself they (necrons) mistranslated his name to messenger
15:03 yes, they don't (even though initially somewhat did). Now FB and 40k are basically the same as WarCraft and StarCraft... which is kinda ironic, considering those should have been Warhammer games, but GW decided not to give their licenses to Blizzard.
To access the powers of the warp and/or resist it you need a big, strong soul in 40k. Not all races have automaticaly a strong soul but can develop over long existence or be born/created with one. Example: the Tau have tiny souls. They are psychicly inept or incapable, but because of that the warp demons and dark gods are also not really interessant in their race and leave them 98% of the time alone. Example 2: Humans as whole weren't really a species with big souls in the beginning but grew. The tipping point was in the dark age of technologie where real psychers appeared for the first time (I don't count the perpetuals here). This indicates that the species developed to a point were the collective might and subsequential following generations have strong souls and are attractive enough for the warp gods and minions to mess with them (as food, play things etc)
That makes sense. So its basically a "what benefit could they really serve to us" kind of thing ? Or would it more be the case that they havent developed enough in general to be able to be corrupted?
The Emperor instated atheism as their religious policy and even punished his son the Primarch Lorgar for worshiping him as a god which led to him finding and falling to chaos being a very important part of why the Horus heresy started.
Thats an interesting concept, the fact that a society so dedicated to Atheism, Over time of seeing and surviving such unspeakable things, would see this "Man?" as nothing more then a god. I also find it very interesting The emperor was so against religion, that without his direct guidence, he ended up doing the complete opposite of what he wanted by not allowing for freedom of belief. So does that mean in the end.... Horus actually kind of won?
@@TheRealCenturion That's one common interpretation of the post-Horus Heresy imperium. Even if the Emperor and the Imperium survived the heresy, they were both forever changed and broken beyond any hope of repair. Now, if the Emperor had gotten what he wanted, the Imperium wouldn't be a utopia by any stretch; it would just be slightly less evil and significantly more efficient.
@@TheRealCenturion "If a man gathers ten thousand suns in his hands… If a man seeds a hundred thousand worlds with his sons and daughters, granting them custody of the galaxy itself… If a man guides a million vessels between the infinite stars with a mere thought… Then I pray you tell me, if you are able, how such a man is anything less than a god." - Lorgar in "The First Heretic" As a sidenote, one of the reason why I think the Imperium fell into worshipping Big E as a god is that the Emperor actively wants worship and blind obedience, but refuses to call it religion. He's a scientist and aggressively anti religion, but he also actively encourages worship in a civic sense, as in treating him as an infallible immortal leader. He is a hypocrite and the first to realise that was Lorgar.
Space Marine Legions and Primarchs, a quick break down. 20 Primarch and Legions known, 2 killed prior to the events of the Horus Hersey for reasons unknown but the very concept of them was censured from the public awareness, talking about them or asking questions meant you were dragged away to never be see again. The founder of the Inquisition, Malcador, keeps two oversized skulls marked with their numbers as part of his regalia and later leaders of the Inquisition would add them to the throne of the High Inquisitor. Each Legion was originally composed of various people from Terra but after being reunited with their Primarch and transferring command over to them new recruits were pooled from the worlds the Primarch was found upon as each Primarch began changing and shaping their Legion to suit themselves and incorporate people who were important to them on their "home" world. Each Space Marine of a Legion has an organ added to them as part of the procedure to become a Space Marine, called a Gene Seed, which over time alters them at a genetic level to harmonize with the genes of their Primarch. This means they tend to have collectively the same mutations if any occur, tend to develop the same abilities as their fellows, and even tend to gain the same "flavor" of psychic abilities. There can be wide gulfs between individual Marines but if say the Space Wolf Gene Seed tends to cause it's Legionaries to develop elongated canines and an unusually strong sense of smell these common mutations will become standard throughout the Legion. The Primarchs themselves are genetically engineered people, designed from the earliest cells and made to exhibit and excel at various traits as the Emperor himself didn't know all of what he may need. The Emperor has a gift for foresight, but it's not omniscience. Each Primarch is designed using the Emperor's cells as a base, tweaking the genetic structure and greatly accelerating growth and understanding. Most Primarchs are nearly full height by 3 years old and some have incredible abilities from awareness, like Konrad having visions of future events, Perturabo having the uncanny ability to simple look at something and immediately understand in great detail how it works and how it was put together, and Vulkan being effectively unkillable, coming back from disintegration, impaling, horrific cell eating viruses, and even starvation. While the Emperor was the political and public face of the Great Crusade, it wasn't just undertaken by him. A vast array of people, scientists, pilots, soldiers, and close confidants were instrumental in getting it off the ground and keeping it going. The Emperor may have had the final say, but he can't be everywhere, and this is shown in blindingly clear light when he starts finding his first sons and basically abandons them to keep searching for the rest, leading to some of the Primarchs feeling unwanted and forced into wars and leading forces they wanted nothing to do with, a real "Hi Son! I'm your dad. These are your men. Go kill those aliens over there while I go look for your brothers. Good luck son, I'm sure you can handle it. See you in a few decades.". This feeling of abandonment was coupled with the extreme violence and destruction the Emperor forced his sons to partake in, giving them 10,000 lives that were now their responsibility in a war zone. Even when they did their best, if the result wasn't to the Emperor's satisfaction he would send emissaries to censure or penalize the Primarch and the Legion for it's faults. Not conquering the stars quick enough? Get to killing. Want to take a break to rebuild some of those worlds? Too bad, get to killing. Got a hobby you enjoy? Too bad, there are stars out there without human boots on them, get to killing. He made it abundantly clear he saw the Primarchs as tools of conquest in much the same way he viewed the Thunder Warriors of old, a prototype he is field testing and plans to eventually replace. This led to quite a bit of unrest in the ranks of the Primarchs and when the Emperor finally said "Ok guys, I'm done with the crusading for now. I'm going home to Terra to handle some things for what is likely to be quite a while so I'm going to appoint one of you to be in charge of the others and keep the crusade going while I go do that thing. Horus, you are in charge. Good luck kids!" there was something of a major blow to the trust in the Emperor the Primarchs had. If you were a good loyal soldier so far you felt slighted, the Emperor had judged you and found you wanting compared to Horus. If you were thinking rebellious thoughts, the Emperor abandoning you on the edges of the galaxy to continue the murder for what seemed like forever and appointing a new tyrant to keep cracking the whip didn't feel your heart with peace. All of this was on top of some of those censures and penalties I mentioned before, like burning down one Legion's holy site before them while psychically forcing the entire Legion to kneel and watch as he did it for having the audacity to say the Emperor was more than a mortal man or banning a Legion who was principally dedicated to expanding and understanding psychic phenomena from ever using their psychic abilities again. This made the whispers of rebellion, of a different way with more freedom to be what each Primarch wanted to be, of brotherhood and common cause against their cruel creator, of understanding of their suffering and commiserating with the injustice of it all the more effective and let Horus plant in fertile ground.
Welcome brother! Bricky is definitely enthusiastic about lore, but I recommend Leutin for a more in-world feel of 40k. He gives you the grimdark details as if it’s real, doesn’t put himself in front of the camera and rarely makes jokes. You seem like you’d definitely appreciate. His video THE EMPEROR OF MAN 1 is a great foundation. Episode 2 covers the Horus Heresy, and is an insane amount of storytelling in a tight hour, so it can be really overwhelming if you’re not familiar with things like who the individual Primarchs are, their respective legions, etc. So definitely wait on 2 until you know more of those things, but episode 1 is great for setting the history of the Imperium.
I really appreciate the recommendations! I really can appreciate the narration style of full "immersion" into the topic so i very well may check him out! Ive had so many people asking for a reaction of Bricky's Faction videos so those will be coming soon! His videos are very entertaining and beginner friendly which is very nice for being able to take points and retain knowledge for a deeper dive! I will add that to the list though! glad you enjoyed!
The Imperium, a state so terrible and inhumane that Hitler and Pol Pot would cower in a corner and cry in horror. And they're not the baddest guys yet.
The thunder warriors had a problem of being insane and go into fits of blind rage and slaughter due to them being uplifted techno barbarians so when the emperor finishes his project to fix those issues with the Adeptus Custodes who were had crafted super soldiers he led the thunder warriors to their death at the hands of the custodians.
From what I've read, the custodians were created first and then the thunder warriors. The custodians did wipe out the majority of the TW at Mt Ararat but the last ones were killed by the very first Dark Angels and Constantin Valdor. It's interesting to note that Valdor told the last thunder warriors primarch that he didn't much like the space marines. Actually, Valdor wanted to find the primarchs and kill them after they were scattered by chaos.
Wow, so He knew how much of a danger they were and so he basically sent them all to die? I can for sure see how in this universe, someone or even a sub-faction like that could make that already unstable Warp even worse! Im guessing they were originally made out of pure necessity for the purposes of unification. Thanks for explaining!
Warrior Tier has some great videos that explain "the soul" of a given faction. They are told in first person. - Genestealer Cults (A Genestealer Cult is a xenos-worshipping secret society made up of and controlled by Tyranid Genestealers) - Tyranids - Death Corps of Krieg (epic) - Custodes (epic) However, it is worth knowing the history of a given faction (e.g. Krieg) to fully enjoy these materials with great voice acting. These are materials created to be a great entertaining adventure.
Oh that sounds really interesting! I love stories that are shot and narrarated trhough the first perspective! Thanks for the recommendation! Ill add those to the list!
The war in heaven lastet roughly 5 billion years according to trazyn the infinite one of the Necron leaders meaning he was all this time personally present. Ofcource he could be lying about it. Who knows? :)
Ohhh ok. ive heard someone else in the comments refer to a "unreliable narrator" in a sense. Would this be that guy? Also 5 billion years on a galactic scale is crazy.
@TheRealCenturion yes rhat would be trazyn( my favorite necron character and in general one of the few people of 40k that you can have a normal conversation with if its about history and storytelling). The war in heaven lastet aproximitly 5 billion years because we talk about the old ones the first sentient and sapient species ever in 40k history their is no race older than them, in fact most 40k species that exist were at some point created in their baseform by the old ones. As you can imagine the galactic old one empire spanned basicly the entire galaxy with thousands of their creations (other races) just living in oblivion about the entire galaxy beneath the old ones in isolated worlds and clusters. The old ones did this on purpose because in their view they create live but live itself must find a way to evolve and survive. On the other side were literal physical gods. The true first beeings with a will for self preservation but not enough inteligence for more. The C'tan could have been nothing more than a galaxy wide plague which the old ones would try to destroy so that the Star vampires as the necrons used to call them at first would not consume every star in the milkyway. However now the necrons just having been defeated by the old ones come into play. A C'tan had appeard and feasted on their sun. The necrons found a way to trap the c'tan in necrodermis the backbone of both their ships aswell as citys. (In High-Gothic the language of the Imperium its called living-metal) Now something happend no beeing both realworld and warpborn could forsee. The c'tan in animalistic panic formed the necrodermis into form to free himself but instead he fused with it, it became its body. And for the first time it was able to form complexe thoughts and emotions. It realised that the pain and psychic energy emitted by the trillions of frail, weak and fleashy beeings down on that planet tasted far better than any solar engery ever had. And so this first c'tan forged a plan to enslave the necrontyr and the rest you heard already. And before you ask their are many c'tan not just one the few I ant the moment remember are: Void dragon (real name destroyer of knowlege thats importend for the mechanicus because a chart of the void dragon sleeps deep under Mars and basicly influenced the martians to become so technology obsesed, tge problem his true name is eater of knowlege so yeah we will see what comes out of that) the deceiver, the nightbringer, the burning one, the outsider etc. their are many c'tan maybe several hundred.
I have my original printing of "Rogue Trader" on my shelf. I spent so many hours going through the lore in the 80s and at the miniatures store "The Armoury" in Baltimore. They would let you into the back storeroom to browse, it was a wild time.
Oh wow that sounds really cool! I always loved when stores used to trust their customers and this seems like a hobby with such an amazing fanbase. I got to do something similar to that but at a museum instead. Sadly dont think that would happen anymore!
Event Horizon is Warhammer 40k inspired movie and if you have seen the movie you have an idea what a failed warp jump results in. In the Dark Age of Technology humanity had ship guns that create singularities and giant machines called Sun Snuffers and they basically did what the name suggests. The Eldar before the birth of Slaanesh could just reincarnate or have new body made for them so murder wasn't even a problem but inconvenience. The Imperium of Man is like galaxy wide cult of sacrifice. The Emperor sacrificed himself for the survival of humanity so everyone in humanity must be willing to do the same.
Thats a great explanation! I have never actually seen Event Horizon before! Ill have to look it up for sure! Thats a good way of explaining it, cult of sacrifice. I hope you enjoyed the video!
The warp is psychic energy and thought as a dimension. It 'was' a mix of typical good and bad thoughts and soul energy for a roughly neutral total. But 'the war in heaven' with the old ones vs necrons, made so much suffering for so long, they basically peed in the swimming pool. Just a mess of traumas, that upset a whole dimension, and gave the 'gods' living in there, waaay more power than they previously had, and even birthed a few new gods.
Interesting point to be made about the Astronomican, you can't just sacrifice any old human. You axe psykers. And given that the ratio is about 1 psyker in 1000 normies... yeah. One more novel to add to Bricky's recommendations there is Eisenhorn. There's 3 books, centered around inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn, one of my favourites, can't recommend it enough. Gaunt's Ghosts is fantastic. It's carnage, brutal warfare, military life, things of that nature. Or go with Ciaphas Cain if you want a good laugh. And carnage.
I LOVE Band of Brothers so when he compared Gaunt's Ghosts to it I was immediately interested! Its very cool you can have so many "flavors" if you will all in one universe, its very creative. Ill add Eisenhorn to my list though! thank you for the recommendation!
@@TheRealCenturion Oh, before I forget again, you HAVE to get the audiobooks. Gaunt, Eisenhorn, Ciaphas Cain, believe me the voice acting is on another level. I've enjoyed listening to them so so many times, especially Eisenhorn. Toby Longworth is a VA god.
Different races having different connection levels with the warp. The eldar are exceptionally connected with the warp. The humans have a moderate connection. The Tau have very small connections. The necrons have no connection to it. This is probably why the Old Ones created/elevated the eldar and ork, because they are warp sensitive and so had an advantage over the necrons. So the strength and number of psykers within a species does differ between races.
That makes sense! I was thinking it could be something similar to "Mass Effect" in a way, where a race like the Asari are basically always latent psionics and its a lot more rare in Humans. . Thank you for answering my question though! I imagine the Orks "traditionally" would not be psykers, but do you mean the Eldar and Ork , in terms of Psyker ability, are similar? sorry if thats incorrect!
@TheRealCenturion - the eldar are powerful psykers and are very aware of this power. They have learned how to control it very effectively. the Orks are a strange one though. They do have 'standard' psykers, called weirdboyz, amongst their population. But they all have strong psychic powers, which allows them to just manifest things into being true when in large numbers. And the larger the gathering, the stronger this subconcious power becomes. However, because they are so dumb, they have no idea that they have this power and so they cant conciously control or use it. If they ever realised they had this power and learned how to use it, they'd be super OP and would crush the galaxy. For example, Orks create space ships capable of flying through the warp by using scrap metal and bits of derelict ships. These ship parts might not include a way to generate oxygen. However, Orks don't know that you need oxygen in space, but they do know (and therefore collectively believe) that ships can carry people through space just fine. So they build these ships and sail them through space and the warp just fine, whether there is any oxygen on the ship or not..... because of the Ork's psychic powers of belief!
Welcome to the ultimate nerd rabbit hole. I've watched a lot of Bricky reactions and you grasp the complexities far better than most. Keep watching the Bricky videos but keep in mind that they are a little bit outdated, if you get hooked on 40k and start watching videos on more specific topics you will find inconsistencies; just treatment the golden rule of 40k lore. "Everything is canon, not everything is true."
Thank you, I appreciate that! Ive always loved scfi so im familiar with alot of things, just not all mashed together into one! Im glad you enjoyed , also ill keep that in mind!
I wont lie, I saw the 160 some videos in his playlist and it looked rather intimidating! Thats why I was looking for some more starter friendly videos which Bricky does a great job of! Thank you for understanding!
Alpharius, the twinned Primarch of the 20th Legion, the Alpha Legion, didn't actually get yeeted. He was actually raised by the Emperor, and Malcador. His existence was kept secret until Big E found Omegon, his twin, as the last of the 18. I am Alpharius, this is all a lie.
@@TheRealCenturion The Leagues of Votann are descendants of humanity, evolved into tough, stocky space dwarfs after millennia in harsh environments. They’re all about loyalty to their kin, survival, and efficiency. When dealing with others, they usually try to make a deal first-offering trade, alliances, or a warning before moving in on a planet’s resources. Cooperation is their preference since it’s less wasteful than fighting. But if a deal is refused or broken, they won’t hesitate to act. They’ll crush resistance and strip a planet for what they need, but they’re not reckless. If a fight would cost too many resources or Kin lives, they’ll walk away and look for another way to secure what they need. To them, balance between gain and loss is everything. Their decisions are also guided by the ancient AI supercomputers known as Votann. These machines, once brilliant and efficient, have degraded over time and now operate slowly and ponderously. Despite this, the Leagues still revere them and follow their decrees, even when they lead to morally grey or harsh actions.
I love how they were there in the beginning of 40k, as a full playable army, then quietly disappeared from the tabletop and the lore, then when their return was announced everyone thought it was a joke, because they announced it on April 1st.
@@TheRealCenturion The Leagues of Votann are descendants of humanity, evolved into tough, stocky space dwarfs after millennia in harsh environments. They’re all about loyalty to their kin, survival, and efficiency. When dealing with others, they usually try to make a deal first-offering trade, alliances, or a warning before moving in on a planet’s resources. Cooperation is their preference since it’s less wasteful than fighting. But if a deal is refused or broken, they won’t hesitate to act. They’ll crush resistance and strip a planet for what they need, but they’re not reckless. If a fight would cost too many resources or Kin lives, they’ll walk away and look for another way to secure what they need. To them, balance between gain and loss is everything. Their decisions are also guided by the ancient AI supercomputers known as Votann. These machines, once brilliant and efficient, have degraded over time and now operate slowly and ponderously. Despite this, the Leagues still revere them and follow their decrees, even when they lead to morally grey or harsh actions.
@@TheRealCenturion The Leagues of Votann are descendants of humanity, evolved into tough, stocky space dwarfs after millennia in harsh environments. They’re all about loyalty to their kin, survival, and efficiency. When dealing with others, they usually try to make a deal first-offering trade, alliances, or a warning before moving in on a planet’s resources. Cooperation is their preference since it’s less wasteful than fighting. But if a deal is refused or broken, they won’t hesitate to act. They’ll crush resistance and strip a planet for what they need, but they’re not reckless. If a fight would cost too many resources or Kin lives, they’ll walk away and look for another way to secure what they need. To them, balance between gain and loss is everything. Their decisions are also guided by the ancient AI supercomputers known as Votann. These machines, once brilliant and efficient, have degraded over time and now operate slowly and ponderously. Despite this, the Leagues still revere them and follow their decrees, even when they lead to morally grey or harsh actions.
40k Warp is like using Jump Drive in Stellaris. The more you use it the more interesting the beings that reside get ... cough cough 👻 Unbidden 👻 Can you react to Prologue|Greater Terran Union| Stellaris Invicta by the Templin Institute
Ahh that makes sense! Its cool how its , its own place that exists along side "real space" and that it must be utilized directly for something as simple such as travel and communication given how dangerous it is! Also I absolutely can! Ill add that to the list now! Thank you for the recommendation!
The way you used Stellaris as an example is cool, since a lot of WH 40K references are sprinkled in the game. The Zroni, one of the optional precursor races, was explicitly based on the Eldar, and the Shroud (with the 4 awfully similar entities to Chaos) was based on the Warp.
Wow i never actually realized that till now! Thats actually such a cool reference! Ive played Stellaris since it came out and got some of the references but clearly not all!
@@TheRealCenturionthe geneseed purification research option to make super soldiers is also another direct reference to 40k, since geneseed is how u make space marines in 40k. The under one rule origin is also probably inspired by 40k, with an option to make ur emperor immortal yet immobile kept alive on a tech thrown. I believe there's an exterminatus achievement if I remember correctly lol. Probably many more I'm forgetting
@TheRealCenturion Bricky is awsome because of his way of telling about the lore that is entertaining and chill. Weshammer also has some cool videos like about the top apocaliptic weapons in 40K or a full playlist just for Warhammer 40K horror stories.
just a heads up you mic audio was good but the video your watchings level was really low, i just recent dove into warhammer for the first time last year love seeing other peoples introduction to the lore!
I appreciate you letting me Know! I was adjusting some setting as i just moved my setup around prior to making this video. Ill have that fixed for the next one!
I respect you so much for not removing and engaging with the add, this earned you my sub ;) I had watched the previous vids and glad to see some of my suggestions made it on your list. I'd like to add a small tip to it: Before watching Helsreach, It helps if you have some understanding of, the main factions, and some of the space marine legions. Bricky's introduction vids (he has 2 on factions and 1 on space marine legions). (The story is centered around a Black Templar squad, knowing bit about them specifically can help you catch some of the Easter Eggs in the Helsreach vid. But you won't need it to appreciate the story.) I can see you're connecting with the lore... I'm guessing you won't be a 40k doubter for long 😉 Fun fact the Emperor was an atheist, so he would have hated being seen as a god. Also on the amount of content.... I think the Black Library is over 500 books, maybe over 600 by now
I appreciate that! I figure the least I can do is support his hard work in any way that I can, and if people want to skip ahead in the video they can do that if they wish :) I love reading all the comments and EVERY recommendation! That means a lot that you guys are willing to explain to me, offer suggestions and have a sense of community here on the channel. While I dont plan on making exclusively 40K content, I must say, I am quite interested now! And again all the recommendations of where to start has really got the hype train going for me! I will be watching his starter pack videos! Just looking at the thumbnail for Helsreach has got me hyped! So im guessing not for much longer XD Also thats so ironic given his massive extreme was met with a full pendulum swing to another massive extreme.
The saying I use for Slaanesh's birth is the Eldar accidently murder F***** a god into existence. Bricky is entry level 40k, so he doesn't mention the Eldar had a number of their own gods. One was captured by Nurgle and is imprisoned in his garden, I don't know how the laughing god escaped and their war god was beaten by Slaanesh but Khorne tried to claim him and he was scattered into a bunch of pieces. Regardless, Bricky does have good info and if u want a deeper dive into 40k, check out Luetin, MajorKill, Oculus Imperia, or if u want a run down of wars like the Badab war and the Siege of Vraks, Arch.
That seems like a very good "sum up" of it for sure ! XD . So the Eldars gods did also physically exist along side the Eldar? Would they be similar in a way to the Emperor from the Imperium in terms of strength and ability? or were they more in it for themselves? Im assuming the later just due to how far they let their society decline. Thank you for the recommendations though!, Ill add those to the list !
@@TheRealCenturion They could physically manifest to be alongside the Eldar. Eldar god's also could imbue eldar with their power. An example of this is an Avatar of Khaine. Khaine is the war god I mentioned and his power can transform an Eldar warrior into a towering flaming titan. Their power is mighty but I doubt it compares to the Emperor. The Emperor has on at least one occasion, almost transformed into a chaos god called the Dark King. This occurred at the end of the Horus Heresy while the Emperor was still alive. The Emperor's psychic might is much stronger 10 years after the Hersey. As for the Eldar god motivations, I can't speak to that, at least in the books I've read. The one god I know is still active is the laughing god. His name is Cegorach and the Harlequins(Eldar Clowns) worship him. Edited Side Note: Any Eldar warrior that becomes a Avatar of Khaine is sacrificed in the process.
@TheRealCenturion yes with a large asterisk. If you understand the fantasy story, it will work really well as a basis for 40k. 40k was originally the fantasy universe but in a sci-fi setting. It's not a sci-fi as much as it is science fantasy. The demons are the same, though.
The question of if the emperor is a god, or wanted to be worshipped as a god, is kind of a debate among the fandom. On the surface, he was a radical atheist who obliterated cities that mistakenly worshipped him as a god. But the other their goes is that the emperor is playing 33 dimensional chess… who makes themselves look like a 20 foot tall golden armored guy with a golden aura and name your soldiers “angels.” And some how his whole plan ends up with the entire human species worshipping him and sacrificing psychers for him to consume? It all just seems a little too convenient - like a reverse psychology ploy.
the creators wanted to play with the idea of fantasy races in space. So Orks(Orcs), Eldar(elves), Squats(dwarves) Ogren(ogres) Nekron(undead) Tyranid(xenomorphs) all exists in this universe. They had a lizard people race but they got forgotten along with the squats. ogren I think are still around but not brought up much other than occasionally being among the imperial guard. The religious angle and the warp really remind me of American Gods. The belief and id and emotions of the people feed the warp and gives forms to those ideas. So if there is some happy playful emotions then some happy playful friend will be formed in the warp. if you get enough people to believe then it will grow stronger. In the eldar's case it birthed a god but the warp is full of smaller beings but its not never clear if the thing a psyker is talking to is some river spirit that just want them to open up his mind to come see the spirit realm or some demon that wants a way into reality. because the demons out there will kill the smaller warp entities as fast as anything else. The space marine legions are based on the genetics of their primarch. So they carry any mutations and personality traits of that primarch. without the astronomicon they would be snuffed out. it is the one permanent feature that navigators can find in the warp and lets them reach far distant worlds across the galaxy. without it they would be limited to just near by systems. the empire would collapse into millions of local groups who would have to fight on alone against all the other races. they wouldn't last long. sadly the emperor was trying to pull humanity to a point of enlightenment. He was a secular being so it is a terrible irony that he would be turned into a god by by his followers.
good video but the sound is terrible. compared to the volume of bricky's video, you are unfortunately much too loud. i have to turn up the volume every time I want to understand bricky only to be ‘’yelled at‘’ by you as soon as you say something. it would be nice if you could pay more attention to that in the future :)
Thank you for the constructive criticism! I will definitely keep that in mind for next time! I was messing around with my audio setting prior to recording and it sounds like i may need to tweak them a bit! Thanks for commenting! :)
All hail commenters bringing @Centurion closer to the Emperor. May you be blessed in battles. PS: Video source sound NEEDS to be higher tho, oh and also please, do away with the pen and listen to the story being told ; You're missing A LOT of iconic pictures aiding to the comprehension of the story... One last advice is to hit back arrow to go back 5sec when you pause, always.
I appreciate the constructive criticism! Im really quite new to making reaction content in general so im still learning but I really appreciate any advice! Ill for sure be hitting that back arrow everytime I pause from now on! Thanks for commenting!
So some bits bricky sorta embelished abit... The Imperium is not fascist, it's theocratic monarchy over all. The worlds of the Imperium only have two main rules imposed on them by Terra and they are to pay your taxes and only pray to the Emperor other than that Terra doesn't care how you run your house so long as it works. This is why you will find every sort of government ever in the Imperium of Mankind from democracy like on Macragge to literal kingships like in the middle ages with everything in between. The psykers that give their souls to Big E are not human sacrifices they are helping Big E keep the golden throne working they just burn out it takes such power and effort to do so about a thousand per day die from the stress or injuries from their powers being used like this. Lastly humans are indeed the good guys as they just want to survive in a galaxy so hostile to human life that the luxury of modern morality we have too day is so costly it could risk the death of entire worlds to chaos corruption alone not even touching on the alien threats. Humans in 40k hate aliens so much because during the golden age mankind ran around making friends with literally every alien they met and being one of the most powerful races in the whole galaxy the aliens went along with it while being rather jealous or hateful of humans for being how they are. Then once Slaanesh was born and the human empire got fucked the aliens pounced on mankind killing, raping (yes you read that right) and enslaving humans for thousands of years until Big E came along freeing them. So humans in 40k are completely justified in their hatred of aliens as every single alien ally they had turned on them in the age of strife. 40k's universe is so cruel, dark and hostile the only way mankind to cling on to survival is to throw away any sort of weakness or naive thinking because everytime mercy is shown a knife hits your back. This is the one universe the fans of it DO NOT want to live in it unlike those who enjoy start trek or star wars it's beyond morally grey to the point of survival or death are your morality in this place. The Emperor protects.
Thank you for the explanation! I definitely got the (in terms of Stellaris) Fanatic xenophobe spiritualist (Or maybe the other way around XD). But it makes sense that on such a grand scale, why would you really care about goverment in a sense when logistically its a nightmare and amazing it even works at all. Also after the "age of strife" , I could see how the emperors goal would be unification as quickly as possible by any means, and if their willing to support the emperor, that would be enough. Thanks for the explanation!
Yeeting the primarchs is the weakest plot point imo. Why yeet them into planets with life? Why not toss em all in a star? Or a blackhole? Or just take them back to the warp and corrupt them? I love this game but the story telling is so poor.
I did think thats a bit weird if they could yeet them anywhere, but I mean hey, With so much lore and plot, im sure it has to be thin at some points. Still enjoying learning about it though!
“I did not get enough paper.” Brother, you’re going to need an entire tree.
Brother i have 5 pages front and back so far! XDDDDDD
The Imperium losing the Astronomicon would be the equivalent of us losing the internet and every paved road in the world.
Thats a very good take on it! The world "as we know it" would basically cease to be.
Not only did the War in Heaven flood the Warp with souls, emotions, and thoughts, these were alien souls, emotions, and thoughts. It turned the Warp into a place that the human struggles to understand and whose knowledge can literally drive men mad. The Warp is chaotic, terrifying, and filled with predators who endlessly hunt, are killed, and then reform over and over. That is why the material world holds such fascination for beings from the warp, it provides stability and permanency that they rarely get to experience while acting as ground that can be truly conquered and controlled.
Thats a great explanation! I could really see the mash up of potentially millions of years of empires, races , cultures ect being thrown in a plain of existence together with beings that fully dominate there , how the mere thought of it could lead to corruption. Makes sense why they would want out so badly, but they are also clearly monstrosities so better if they stay! XD
24:26 when it comes to murder, elder are very powerful species who didn't fear death before slaanesh was born, when they died and go to the warp, they have extremely powerful souls which puts them in a cycle where they would have an psychic reincarnation so they didn't care if they were killing each other
So in a sense the Eldar are immortals? Does Slaanesh directly enslave them after death now or are they still capable of reincarnating themselves? Or do they offer themselves to Slaanesh ? (That could be the Dark Eldar though! im not sure!)
@@TheRealCenturion Yeas, the Aeldari were functionally immortal in mind, body, and soul. They can not die naturally, and they had a variety of options available back then, if they were unalived; either :
1. Pass on to the warp and reincarnate in another life (or get wished into existence via psychic rituals)
2. Upload your mind to the Infinity Circuit (the core of each Craftworld / Exodite paradise world)
3. Transfer to a fresh, donated body or grow / clone a new body as long as they recovered a piece of you, from a hair or finger nail to a single strand of DNA.
Unfortunately, Slaanesh directly enslave them after death now - all their souls go straight to her whether they want or not. Luckily, the Aeldari found a loophole by using 'soulstones' as jewelry to directly upload their souls if they did die, though they can't reincarnate anymore. Still, soulstones are reserved for the elites and important leaders.
The Drukhari (Dark Eldar) aren't devotees of Slaanesh at all - in fact, they fear and despise him/her/it the most. They do sadistic acts because the pain and emotions of the victims' souls feed their immortality - a remnant of the Dark Eldars' stunted psychic powers.
@@TheRealCenturion closest things to slaves would be the dark elder as they willingly do the things she likes to avoid getting eaten other then that, they are immortal but shit existence as they can Always sense slaanesh ever watching eye beyond the abyss, from the day they are born to the day they die she will he waiting ready to consume their soul like she did to 99% of the empire
Funny thought, 1997's 'Event Horizon' is largely accepted by the community as taking place in the 40k cannon. That is what happens when you enter The Warp without a Gellar Field.
Aye, humanities first warp flight without us knowing what the warp was and did.
Ive never actually seen That before but ive heard of it! Ill have to give that a watch! :)
Be prepared for a ride on the insanity train!
@@TheRealCenturion Event Horizon is a cult classic with or without 40K. There's an almost fantasy level story of the most brutal image film being stored in the oddest of places.
The writer of the screen play, Philip Eisner, has said publicly that they tried to get the rights to do a 40K movie. He was literally a Warhammer fan and admitted to being influenced by 40K when writing Event Horizon. It’s as close to official as you can get without actually being official.
Death, murder and suicide became a pastime for the Eldar because before their fall, they had the ability to reincarnate, now when their soul enters the warp, Slaanesh immediately snatches and devours them
Oh ok! I read another comment that the Eldar could reincarnate, and my question to that was are they instantly at the will of chaos NOW when that happens.
You hit that nail on the head! thank you for explaining!
By my estimates, almost 4 billion psykers have been sacrificed since they started doing that. But in some parts of the imperium, 4 billion dead is a Tuesday morning.
Wow, so in terms of scale, 1000 a day of your strongest is a totally justifiable number just for sustainment, thats crazy to think about!
@@TheRealCenturion They are not "strongest", they are just people with the right genetic mutation, that are dangerous to leave alone, as they can be corrupted and used by daemons.
@@TheRealCenturion there are different categories of psykers. Those sacrificed are considered not strong enough to become something else, like astropath or battle psyker. So no, they're not your strongest. The weak are meat, the strong to eat.
Guys in case you are not aware the imperium consist of 1.000.000 planets. We also no that 32.000 of those are Hive worlds. Those Hive worlds we know of have a population of 120 Billion Citizens on average meaning just in the Hive worlds ecluding, Forgeworlds, Argiworlds etc the imperium has at least this number of people 3.840.000.000.000.000. Since Hive worlds are 3% of all planets the Imperim has settled lets just double the total population to 8 Quadrillion for easier math - at a population growth of just 1% per year thats about 200.000.000.000 or 20 times our earths population of new born people each day. So Psykers are 1 in a Million and one Thousand are scarificed to the emperor ever day which is 0,05% of all new born psykers every day.
Oh but here is the fun part i didn`t include terra into my calculation because Terra according to lore is a continuous Hive World. If that was true and we stretch out a single Hive across just Half of Terra that would me Terra alone houses 96% of the imperiums citizen or an aditional 750 Quadrillion.
At which point 4 Billion dead in an industrial accident on terra is so minor it won`t make the local news in the district 🙂
Ffed up thing is that the golden throne started to fail recently, they got got it back to work but it will probably fail in the next 100 years or so.
The Ffed up thing is that it now requires 4k psyker per day 😅@TheRealCenturion
11:24 when it comes to the war on heaven we don't know how big the war on heaven was, it had god engines that destroyed and consumed worlds as fuel, c'tan going around bending reality and destroying planets and eating trillion souls from random species, wiping them out basically, this was was so devasting because we had one side which is the necrons and c'tan using reality breaking weapons and tools while the old ones, the aelderi (elder) are using psychic powers at stupid levels, the aelderi were able to summoned and fight alongside their elder gods, the orks came into the later stages of the war when the old ones are close to losing so they created the krorks, this is what orks use to be, absolutely powerful and fucking terrifying warriors who were 30ft+ tall with extremely advance weapons and power armor, they were more intelligent and genetically modified for war, they have thr ability to bend reality as well but after the war they devolved into the orks where they are just big and dumb where they are unaware that they have the ability to bend reality through imagination
I read another comment that mentioned the Orks had abilities they were unaware so thank you for telling me a bit more about that! So the OG Orks sound like there were probably a massive threat. Were they devolved on purpose? or was it more just like due to the loss of their war (and im assuming with that hierarchy and leadership) they just naturally could not sustain themselves and on their own declined?
@TheRealCenturion they made primarchs look like foot soldiers or maybe elite fighters so they were a massive threat but multiple factors played in them devolving, two being infighting and the elder controlling them through orbital bombardment and other means that orks see as dishonorable and coward behavior
Big thank you to everyone who suggested this video! Blew my mind a bit but I enjoyed it!
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See you guys in the next one!
Try bricky's factions of 40k vids and also "the Last church" to get a glimpse of what the emperor's vision and what kind of person he is. edit: the fanimation "The Last Church" btw
@spartaxjp5073 thank you for the recommendations. I plan on watching those faction videos ! And I will definitely add " the last church " to the list!
Secret Level episode would be great. It gives you some glimpses into the power of the warp and the might of space marines.
The Emperor was strict against any kind of religion or superstition. He was a "science above all"-dude. He personally ordered to burn down any church and religious icon on Terra
Wow thats crazy. He inadvertently did the exact opposite of what he intended then due to just how extreme he took it. It makes me think that in a sense, Horus almost kind of won, or at least achieved what he sought out to do! Shows that Extremes on every side always have consequences!
@@TheRealCenturiontechnically, even Horus didn't want it to happen. One of the reasons Horus turned to Choas was because he was shown visions of a future Imperium where the Emperor was worshiped as a God. And he interpreted that his dad was a fake that stole power from the gods so he can be worshiped, and so he started the Horus Heresy to stop this future from happening. But, in an attempt to stop the future, he sealed it.
@@TheRealCenturionThe saddest part is, he was warned that his atheistic dogma would eventually lead to worship. The Last Church is the story of him stamping out religion during the Unification Wars.
@@rick9793"One often meets their destiny on the road they take to avoid it."
Bricky is the gateway to the 40k lore universe. He focuses on taster level lore. Someone like Luetin is good for a deep dive into particular factions or characters. There is also channels like Weshammer, Kirioth, Chapter Master Valrak, Mr Bones, PancreasNoWork and Astartes Anonymous.
I wont lie, I looked up both because both were recommended to me in my astartes video but I saw the 160 some videos in his playlist and it BLEW MY MIND! XD. I figure Bricky was a great place to start, and then I can dive into the specfics i find interesting once i learn a little more!
@@TheRealCenturion You should give Isyander & Koda as well as Arbitor Ian and Baldermort a shot too
@@TheRealCenturion That is the best way to go. There are so many channels, and for the most part they all get along with each other. It's a pretty accepting and welcoming fandom.
Arbitor Ian needs some love, his lore content is great, not as deep going or lenghty as Luetin09 but more in-depth and specific than Bricky.
@@TheRealCenturionif you want story lore with voice acting and all, the amber king and warrior tier are probably the best options, baldemort's guide to warhammer
When an Inquisitor is around, know that “Innocence Proves Nothing”.
Innocentia Nihil Probat
I guess in the Context of Warhammer, im getting the feeling of, what even is "innocence" in this Universe? XD
@@TheRealCenturion
Yeah, the problem with innocence is that chaos corruption can be so insidious and subtle that what you thought was mundane and innocent was actually contributing to a full blown cultist uprising, coup, and daemonic incursions.
So innocence proves nothing, because your innocence is not an excuse for an entire planet getting invaded, and possibly exterminatus.
@@TheRealCenturion There is innocence, but it can easily be twisted and used, often without notice.
@TheRealCenturion thing is, you can be truly innocent, the problem is that there are twisted demons, or genetically altering xenos, that plot and could be using you without your knowledge.
That's what it means.
Great reaction. You took the time to write down points of interest and i very much appreciate that.
Keep those pages handy, if you dive into the next set of his videos, you're going to need them.
Don't forget to ask questions if you have any, or if you have suspicions. Your comment section will blow up with everybody telling you a hundred different ways of how something was right or wrong.
I look forward to seeing your next set
Cheers
-Alpharious-
I appreciate that! ive had some people say they disliked the writing a bit but i was doing it purely for reference for my sake! XD .
Im really glad you enjoyed the video!
While I will definitely still be reacting to other topics, I must say, the community support and feedback has been phenomenal from you guys and I must say im now invested thoroughly in watching more 40K content! watching these last few videos has got me kinda hooked! XD
See you in the next one!
The War in Heaven is - comparing to Stellaris - more like two full blown End-Game empires duking the fricking hell out of each other, but with one clearly winning. Just watch PancreasNoWork - Why Warhammer 40k isn't THAT overpowered. ;)
And the concept of green Orks with the pumped up look and long arms comes from Games Workshop, that concept is from roughly 1983 :)
Thank you for explaining that! Also i will add that to the list for sure!
Thank you for the recommendation! :)
It can't be understated how benign the warp used to be before the war in heaven ruined it. There used to be other gods, even nice gods. Being a psyker didn't attract demons and madness by default. People often use chaos and warp interchangeably but chaos was created by the warp and then took over the warp.
That makes a lot of sense and thats the imagine I kind of got as Bricky explained it. The warp simply is there, weather or not anyone is utilizing it, chaos simply inhabits that "realm" if you will, but that does not by default make it "bad" . At least to my understanding! I could be wrong!
The Gaunt's Ghosts series is a FANTASTIC way to get into the books, with great action and characters in equal measure. Because the first book is an origin story, it's easy to just jump in and roll with it.
The comparison to Band of Brothers immediately peaked my interest! I love how there are so many different "flavors" seemingly in this universe. Like there is something that seemingly everyone could enjoy, its just a case of finding what interests you and exploring that!
I'm working my way through book 3 atm, the Audiobooks are great as well!
Unsure if someone else has pointed this out but yeah, if you play Stellaris, the Shroud is the Warp lol. And the four Shroud entities you can bargain with for the Psionic ascension are basically the four Chaos Gods from 40k
WOW i never actually knew that before! Ive caught some of the references in that game but clearly I was missing so many! thank you for pointing that out!
10:19 c'tan can be killed but it extremely dangerous as they are the physical embodiments of concepts, so if they die their death effects out Galaxy at certain levels, the one they killed was called the flayer and he cursed the necrons who killed him creating the flayer virus creating some of the most terrifying creatures in the setting, here is his final words "To those who have turned their faces away. To those who are faithless and wretched in their jealousies. To those who have denied us. To those who have denied me. I will wreak vengeance. I will wrench your souls and break your bones. I will cast hunger through your accursed existence. Down the eons, you will not forget. I will grant you this gift from love turned aside and make you like me, break you in my image as you have broken me. I shall cast the fear of myself into you and all of your kind. I am Llandu'gor. I am the hunger. I am the flayer, and from this moment, you shall be too."
Man thats some Metal AF last words though. Is the Flayer the only c'tan to be killed?
@TheRealCenturion they only killed him and decided to break the others which makes sense because he was one 5 who was left 1 Aza'gorod the Nightbringer one of the most terrifying c'tan as he is the grim reaper who gave the universe the fear of death but he was shattered by the elder god khaine, 2nd Mephet'ran the Deceiver is a bitch, third is Mag'ladroth the Void Dragon likely the most powerful c'tan who deals with creations of machines but hes mayne unbroken but resides sealed on mars thanks to the emperor of mankind who may have used him to fight the worse war during the great crusade that could have destroyed the Imperium before it started, the void dragon also and last one Tsara'noga the outsider who was driven insane from consuming other c'tan, a trick done by Cegorach the elder laughing god and left the galaxy, the necrons have a very deep understanding of the universe, after killing the flayer they likely knew killing the other c'tan would have worse consequences for them and the galaxy considering one of the strongest tools is a c'tan created map known as The Celestial Orrery which is a device "plugged" into the fabric of reality which shows every single planet and star with extreme accurate detail, with the ability to destroy every single one through this map, touch a star on the map a few seconds later the star in real space supernova
27years after i started to get into this Hobby and these words "In the Grim Darkness of the Far Futur, there is only War" still fucks Hard.
Every single warhammer 40k faction explained part 1 by Bricky next?
If the people demand, the people will receive ;)
@@TheRealCenturion "we, the people" indeed demand.
@TheRealCenturion btw,I really appreciate how you rationalize Big E. being worshipped as a God. People really forget thousands of years went by. We irl don't know most of what happened 2K years ago lmao, imagine 10K years?
Thank you! I just personally cant imagine what the world will look like 100 years from now , let alone 1000. A religion coming to be becuase every other one was eradicated seems plausible, humans in general do better when there beliving in something. ( in this case thats one thing or else) XD
@@TheRealCenturion Just a note, the video is kind of old now and not as polished as his later work... which Bricky knows as he recently said he is working on an updated version! Depending on how long it takes to come out, you could choose to hold off until then.
You mentioned how you found it interesting that 40k has fantasy races intermixed with sci-fi, this is because Warhammer started off as a Fantasy franchise.
You have Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40k, Fantasy sadly was discontinued and replaced with Warhammer Age of Sigmar, which is kind of a reboot.
Warhammer Fantasy also has some unique races that don't appear in 40k, and there's some deep lore tid-bits at least early on that implied both franchises were kind of connected. Games Workshop just ported the fantasy races over to a sci-fi setting to create 40K, which is why you'll notice a lot of connections, the Warp permeates everything, potentially even multiverses, meaning the Chaos gods exist in multiple realities such as 40K, and Fantasy/Age of Sigmar, and potentially even more realities we are completely unaware of
Tomb Kings - Necrons
Empire of Man - Imperium of Man, which also has orgyn - ogres and squats - dwarves/halflings.
High Elves - Eldar
Dark Elves - Dark Eldar
Greenskins - Orks
Chaos remains unchanged
sadly the skaven haven't been brought into 40k, although the Tyranids kind of fulfil that role
Oh that makes a lot of sense! I have played the Total War - Warhammer games before (But ive been playing total war games for years). So my entire knowledge of that universe comes purely from those games Xd. I find it very cool that these fantasy races work really well in sc-fi universe as " aliens" and i also really like how dwarves and ogres are technically human. It also makes sense why they are so drastically different from base line humans due to the thousands of years they had to evolve on their own worlds without any support .
Thank you for explaining that though!
If you'll watch Bricky's factions videos you won't know the "newest" faction of space dwarfs. Newest in quotation marks because they were there back in the day but then they weren't and they are back but with a new coat of paint. The Leagues of Votann are descendants of humanity, evolved into tough, stocky space dwarfs after millennia in harsh environments. They’re all about loyalty to their kin, survival, and efficiency. When dealing with others, they usually try to make a deal first-offering trade, alliances, or a warning before moving in on a planet’s resources. Cooperation is their preference since it’s less wasteful than fighting.
But if a deal is refused or broken, they won’t hesitate to act. They’ll crush resistance and strip a planet for what they need, but they’re not reckless. If a fight would cost too many resources or Kin lives, they’ll walk away and look for another way to secure what they need. To them, balance between gain and loss is everything.
Their decisions are also guided by the ancient AI supercomputers known as Votann. These machines, once brilliant and efficient, have degraded over time and now operate slowly and ponderously. Despite this, the Leagues still revere them and follow their decrees, even when they lead to morally grey or harsh actions.
Ill keep that in mind! So are the Dwarfs still their own faction? or would they technically be a sub-faction under the Imperium? They honestly sound the most level headed out of the rest XD
@@TheRealCenturion back in the day they were under the Imperium and were known as "squats". And nowadays they are still some squats sanctioned by the Imperium as abhumans (basically a legal mutant, others are ratlings or ogryns), but the main Dwarf faction are the Leagues of Votann, mainly in the center of the galaxy, and they are their own separate faction like the Eldar or Orks. They sometimes do some mercenary work for the Imperium (but Imperium still generally considers them as xenos), or there are some auxiliary votann units with the Tau empire.
They also have what are called the Ironkin, which are basically robots with an advanced AI, and they treat them just like any other living kin. And as Imperium has outlawed AI this could be a major point of disagreement to put it lightly.
And as for being most level headed, it doesn't mean they are not bad people. One of their main mottos is "Luck has. Need keeps. Toil earns." Which is essentially to say; whoever wants something the most, and puts in the most effort to have it, deserves to own it. So if you have a planet with a bunch of valuable resources, but I want it more, I deserve to have it if I put in the work killing your people. This is an extreme example, but if you turn down their offer, they'll probably come, kill your people or destroy the planet, and take what they wanted.
The early human expansions went so well and with so little opposition that humanity for quite a while thought it was alone in the galaxy, lacking the means of detecting the Eldar because of the technological gap. Humanity and the Sol System were once a part of what was considered Necron space, but the fringes of it, so the Eldar hadn't really taken a large interest in it nor had other races really wanted to venture into the lands of the people who once killed the closest things to physical gods, the Old Ones, the galaxy at known at that time. Proper care to make sure worlds were self-sufficient hadn't been done, with warp travel shortening vast distances to quick trips, specialization crept into the economy of each world, which unfortunately for Terra resulted it becoming a world of massive spires, huge habitation blocks, and nation spanning bureaucracy buildings to handle the vast paperwork needed to manage all of these worlds. This meant that Terra was very resource deprived and essentially a giant housing and financial center that was reliant on other worlds to supply it with essentials. When it was cut, the population and the various governments panicked, blaming each other and leading to planetwide war with weapons that scarred Terra so deeply it never really recovered, it was simply built over. Their psykers began to lose control and summon hordes of daemonic creatures, the AI robots saw their chance and rose up in rebellion and murder against their creators, and all while supplies dwindled, communication was cut off, and your leaders were blaming and warring with each other for control of the ashes. That is the moment when the Emperor revealed himself and set about restoring order through intense violence and technological superiority.
For those who think 1000 people a day is ridiculous...
The imperium has hundreds of thousands to over a million worlds. The quote "Master of a million worlds" is there for a reason.
This comes down to 1 psycher every ten years per world.
On Psykeres in different races... Not all races have access to Psykers, of the main faction the Tau and the Necron are non-psychic. Orks have Psykers and weird collective psychic power they are themselves unaware of. But like all things Ork, Ork Psykers are very unpredictable.. The tyranids have Psykers AND a massive presence within the warp that is still not really understood.
Thank you for answering that question! When you say Orks are unaware of their powers, how does that work? Is their just instances where craziness happens and its chalked up to "those damn Orks again!" ?
@@TheRealCenturion well Orks have a Psychic field that makes it so that if enough Orks believe something is real, it IS real. For example Orks believe that "Red wunz go fasta" (red ones go faster), so they will paint their vehicles red to make them go faster. If enough Orks are around red vehicles WILL go faster. They are unaware they have this power, so they can't use it in any kind of concious way (which is a good thing for the rest of the galaxy) but it does mean that Orks can do things they shouldn't be able to because enough Orks believe it they should. Prime example, an Ork buggy runs out of gas. but the biggest ork says "No we're not out of gas! I filled Da Trukk up before we left, and then the other Orks are like "O yeah you did fill it up", and the Buggy will work again, probably it doesn't have any fuel, but it'll drive as if it has.
Great video man. I enjoyed how you were able to understand mostly what was going on as it’s usually quite hard with how big the warhammer universe is 👌🏼
Thank you! I Do LOVE Sc-fi so im familiar with a lot of concepts but Warhammer seems to mash them all together! Its a bit intimidating at first but with a bit of context I feel like i can Conceptualize it all a lot easier! Bricky also made an amazing and very understandable video!
Glad you enjoyed!
@@TheRealCenturionit's not just intimidating at first. It's intimidating forever. There are over 500 books. There's dozens of video games. There's short films and comics and codexes.
Go Google "40k Sigismund" you'll end up on a page about him on the 40k wiki. Start reading. It'll take you an hour or more to really get through his page. He's a major character from a faction that at this point you haven't even heard of yet. There are pages upon pages of lore about him on there. Then you'll realize he's just a mid level character in the grand scheme of things and there's hundreds of other characters like him.
Nobody knows everything about 40k.
Welcome to the Warhammer 40k world. I always love watching youtubers tip their toe into the universe to see what all the fuss is about!
I would recommend Hellsreach, its a 2h30 audiobook that someone has animated and looks absolutely beautiful. Thats normally one of the next things people watch after the Astartes video and Bricky's lore dumps.
You'll be painting an army in no time!
Hey thanks you so much! im really glad you enjoyed! Ill add Hellsreach to the list for sure! Thanks for the recommendation!
@@TheRealCenturion I always recommend doing Helsreach reaction 2 episodes at a time, instead of the full “movie”. Allows for Q&A time in between. It’s 13 episodes, so that cuts it down to 7 videos (the finale part 13 being it’s own because it’s the longest)
We did it lads, he's all the way into the rabbit hole now, he's been lured in and trapped just like the rest of us :D
40k easily has one of the densest, deepest, most extensively written about lores of any single IP out there, hands down.
SEEMS I GOT , GOT . XD
I really love that there is seemingly so much content out there, that there is quite literally something for everyone it seems!
can't wait to check out more!
Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.
"An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded."
without the Astronomicon humans could still travel the warp, but navigating becomes extraordinally more difficult and dangerous. So it would undoubtedly end the Imperium as it is since FTL travel would become MUCH more difficult and dangerous. But it would still be possible to travel the warp
Oh so its kind of like a "North Star" if you will. That makes sense as the warp is entered by Psykers on their own, but are guided by the Astronomicon. Thank you for explaining!
@@TheRealCenturion The 'North Star'is spot on, that is exactly what it is. Psykers don't usually travel in the warp, but rather draw their power from the warp, which attracts demons in the warp, and if the Psyker is not strong enough, or ignorant of the dangers the daemons can take over the Psykers body. Travel through the warp relies on a specific class of mutants called Navigators (yep very dune-like) who have a literal third eye with which they can gaze into the warp without going mad and consequently plot a course through it trying to avoid the dangers. The astronomicon helps the Navigators do that. But they can do it without the Astronomicon, but this would make safely navigating that much more difficult and dangerous
As someone who is a full time hobbyist, welcome to the universe! There is something in this universe for everyone regardless if you want to play the tabletop or not. I highly recommend you check out Bricky's Every Warhammer 40k Faction Explained parts 1 & 2 since he goes a little more in depth into each faction and subfaction. He definitely talks more about the Orks, Tyranids, and Tau in that video. Hope to see more videos from you, welcome.
Hey thanks for the welcome! Ill be sure to check those ones out next!
Thank you for watching :)
9:50 the deal between the necrons and the C'tan was done with the deceiver, they didn't know what his name was until later on because when he introduce himself they (necrons) mistranslated his name to messenger
15:03 yes, they don't (even though initially somewhat did). Now FB and 40k are basically the same as WarCraft and StarCraft... which is kinda ironic, considering those should have been Warhammer games, but GW decided not to give their licenses to Blizzard.
Man i totally forgot about Starcraft... I never knew those were supposed to be 40k games but that makes so much sense now lol.
To access the powers of the warp and/or resist it you need a big, strong soul in 40k. Not all races have automaticaly a strong soul but can develop over long existence or be born/created with one. Example: the Tau have tiny souls. They are psychicly inept or incapable, but because of that the warp demons and dark gods are also not really interessant in their race and leave them 98% of the time alone.
Example 2: Humans as whole weren't really a species with big souls in the beginning but grew. The tipping point was in the dark age of technologie where real psychers appeared for the first time (I don't count the perpetuals here). This indicates that the species developed to a point were the collective might and subsequential following generations have strong souls and are attractive enough for the warp gods and minions to mess with them (as food, play things etc)
That makes sense. So its basically a "what benefit could they really serve to us" kind of thing ? Or would it more be the case that they havent developed enough in general to be able to be corrupted?
The Emperor instated atheism as their religious policy and even punished his son the Primarch Lorgar for worshiping him as a god which led to him finding and falling to chaos being a very important part of why the Horus heresy started.
Thats an interesting concept, the fact that a society so dedicated to Atheism, Over time of seeing and surviving such unspeakable things, would see this "Man?" as nothing more then a god. I also find it very interesting The emperor was so against religion, that without his direct guidence, he ended up doing the complete opposite of what he wanted by not allowing for freedom of belief. So does that mean in the end.... Horus actually kind of won?
@@TheRealCenturion That's one common interpretation of the post-Horus Heresy imperium. Even if the Emperor and the Imperium survived the heresy, they were both forever changed and broken beyond any hope of repair. Now, if the Emperor had gotten what he wanted, the Imperium wouldn't be a utopia by any stretch; it would just be slightly less evil and significantly more efficient.
@@TheRealCenturion "If a man gathers ten thousand suns in his hands… If a man seeds a hundred thousand worlds with his sons and daughters, granting them custody of the galaxy itself… If a man guides a million vessels between the infinite stars with a mere thought… Then I pray you tell me, if you are able, how such a man is anything less than a god." - Lorgar in "The First Heretic"
As a sidenote, one of the reason why I think the Imperium fell into worshipping Big E as a god is that the Emperor actively wants worship and blind obedience, but refuses to call it religion. He's a scientist and aggressively anti religion, but he also actively encourages worship in a civic sense, as in treating him as an infallible immortal leader. He is a hypocrite and the first to realise that was Lorgar.
Space Marine Legions and Primarchs, a quick break down.
20 Primarch and Legions known, 2 killed prior to the events of the Horus Hersey for reasons unknown but the very concept of them was censured from the public awareness, talking about them or asking questions meant you were dragged away to never be see again. The founder of the Inquisition, Malcador, keeps two oversized skulls marked with their numbers as part of his regalia and later leaders of the Inquisition would add them to the throne of the High Inquisitor.
Each Legion was originally composed of various people from Terra but after being reunited with their Primarch and transferring command over to them new recruits were pooled from the worlds the Primarch was found upon as each Primarch began changing and shaping their Legion to suit themselves and incorporate people who were important to them on their "home" world.
Each Space Marine of a Legion has an organ added to them as part of the procedure to become a Space Marine, called a Gene Seed, which over time alters them at a genetic level to harmonize with the genes of their Primarch. This means they tend to have collectively the same mutations if any occur, tend to develop the same abilities as their fellows, and even tend to gain the same "flavor" of psychic abilities. There can be wide gulfs between individual Marines but if say the Space Wolf Gene Seed tends to cause it's Legionaries to develop elongated canines and an unusually strong sense of smell these common mutations will become standard throughout the Legion.
The Primarchs themselves are genetically engineered people, designed from the earliest cells and made to exhibit and excel at various traits as the Emperor himself didn't know all of what he may need. The Emperor has a gift for foresight, but it's not omniscience. Each Primarch is designed using the Emperor's cells as a base, tweaking the genetic structure and greatly accelerating growth and understanding. Most Primarchs are nearly full height by 3 years old and some have incredible abilities from awareness, like Konrad having visions of future events, Perturabo having the uncanny ability to simple look at something and immediately understand in great detail how it works and how it was put together, and Vulkan being effectively unkillable, coming back from disintegration, impaling, horrific cell eating viruses, and even starvation.
While the Emperor was the political and public face of the Great Crusade, it wasn't just undertaken by him. A vast array of people, scientists, pilots, soldiers, and close confidants were instrumental in getting it off the ground and keeping it going. The Emperor may have had the final say, but he can't be everywhere, and this is shown in blindingly clear light when he starts finding his first sons and basically abandons them to keep searching for the rest, leading to some of the Primarchs feeling unwanted and forced into wars and leading forces they wanted nothing to do with, a real "Hi Son! I'm your dad. These are your men. Go kill those aliens over there while I go look for your brothers. Good luck son, I'm sure you can handle it. See you in a few decades.".
This feeling of abandonment was coupled with the extreme violence and destruction the Emperor forced his sons to partake in, giving them 10,000 lives that were now their responsibility in a war zone. Even when they did their best, if the result wasn't to the Emperor's satisfaction he would send emissaries to censure or penalize the Primarch and the Legion for it's faults. Not conquering the stars quick enough? Get to killing. Want to take a break to rebuild some of those worlds? Too bad, get to killing. Got a hobby you enjoy? Too bad, there are stars out there without human boots on them, get to killing. He made it abundantly clear he saw the Primarchs as tools of conquest in much the same way he viewed the Thunder Warriors of old, a prototype he is field testing and plans to eventually replace. This led to quite a bit of unrest in the ranks of the Primarchs and when the Emperor finally said "Ok guys, I'm done with the crusading for now. I'm going home to Terra to handle some things for what is likely to be quite a while so I'm going to appoint one of you to be in charge of the others and keep the crusade going while I go do that thing. Horus, you are in charge. Good luck kids!" there was something of a major blow to the trust in the Emperor the Primarchs had. If you were a good loyal soldier so far you felt slighted, the Emperor had judged you and found you wanting compared to Horus. If you were thinking rebellious thoughts, the Emperor abandoning you on the edges of the galaxy to continue the murder for what seemed like forever and appointing a new tyrant to keep cracking the whip didn't feel your heart with peace. All of this was on top of some of those censures and penalties I mentioned before, like burning down one Legion's holy site before them while psychically forcing the entire Legion to kneel and watch as he did it for having the audacity to say the Emperor was more than a mortal man or banning a Legion who was principally dedicated to expanding and understanding psychic phenomena from ever using their psychic abilities again. This made the whispers of rebellion, of a different way with more freedom to be what each Primarch wanted to be, of brotherhood and common cause against their cruel creator, of understanding of their suffering and commiserating with the injustice of it all the more effective and let Horus plant in fertile ground.
Welcome brother! Bricky is definitely enthusiastic about lore, but I recommend Leutin for a more in-world feel of 40k. He gives you the grimdark details as if it’s real, doesn’t put himself in front of the camera and rarely makes jokes. You seem like you’d definitely appreciate. His video THE EMPEROR OF MAN 1 is a great foundation. Episode 2 covers the Horus Heresy, and is an insane amount of storytelling in a tight hour, so it can be really overwhelming if you’re not familiar with things like who the individual Primarchs are, their respective legions, etc. So definitely wait on 2 until you know more of those things, but episode 1 is great for setting the history of the Imperium.
I really appreciate the recommendations! I really can appreciate the narration style of full "immersion" into the topic so i very well may check him out!
Ive had so many people asking for a reaction of Bricky's Faction videos so those will be coming soon! His videos are very entertaining and beginner friendly which is very nice for being able to take points and retain knowledge for a deeper dive!
I will add that to the list though! glad you enjoyed!
"Blessed is the mind too small for doubt."
The Imperium, a state so terrible and inhumane that Hitler and Pol Pot would cower in a corner and cry in horror. And they're not the baddest guys yet.
Man it seems like it! Seems like genocide on a planetary scale is just another Tuesday here!
The thunder warriors had a problem of being insane and go into fits of blind rage and slaughter due to them being uplifted techno barbarians so when the emperor finishes his project to fix those issues with the Adeptus Custodes who were had crafted super soldiers he led the thunder warriors to their death at the hands of the custodians.
From what I've read, the custodians were created first and then the thunder warriors. The custodians did wipe out the majority of the TW at Mt Ararat but the last ones were killed by the very first Dark Angels and Constantin Valdor. It's interesting to note that Valdor told the last thunder warriors primarch that he didn't much like the space marines. Actually, Valdor wanted to find the primarchs and kill them after they were scattered by chaos.
Wow, so He knew how much of a danger they were and so he basically sent them all to die? I can for sure see how in this universe, someone or even a sub-faction like that could make that already unstable Warp even worse! Im guessing they were originally made out of pure necessity for the purposes of unification.
Thanks for explaining!
Warrior Tier has some great videos that explain "the soul" of a given faction. They are told in first person.
- Genestealer Cults (A Genestealer Cult is a xenos-worshipping secret society made up of and controlled by Tyranid Genestealers)
- Tyranids
- Death Corps of Krieg (epic)
- Custodes (epic)
However, it is worth knowing the history of a given faction (e.g. Krieg) to fully enjoy these materials with great voice acting.
These are materials created to be a great entertaining adventure.
Oh that sounds really interesting! I love stories that are shot and narrarated trhough the first perspective! Thanks for the recommendation! Ill add those to the list!
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The war in heaven lastet roughly 5 billion years according to trazyn the infinite one of the Necron leaders meaning he was all this time personally present. Ofcource he could be lying about it. Who knows? :)
Ohhh ok. ive heard someone else in the comments refer to a "unreliable narrator" in a sense. Would this be that guy?
Also 5 billion years on a galactic scale is crazy.
@TheRealCenturion yes rhat would be trazyn( my favorite necron character and in general one of the few people of 40k that you can have a normal conversation with if its about history and storytelling). The war in heaven lastet aproximitly 5 billion years because we talk about the old ones the first sentient and sapient species ever in 40k history their is no race older than them, in fact most 40k species that exist were at some point created in their baseform by the old ones. As you can imagine the galactic old one empire spanned basicly the entire galaxy with thousands of their creations (other races) just living in oblivion about the entire galaxy beneath the old ones in isolated worlds and clusters. The old ones did this on purpose because in their view they create live but live itself must find a way to evolve and survive. On the other side were literal physical gods. The true first beeings with a will for self preservation but not enough inteligence for more. The C'tan could have been nothing more than a galaxy wide plague which the old ones would try to destroy so that the Star vampires as the necrons used to call them at first would not consume every star in the milkyway. However now the necrons just having been defeated by the old ones come into play. A C'tan had appeard and feasted on their sun. The necrons found a way to trap the c'tan in necrodermis the backbone of both their ships aswell as citys. (In High-Gothic the language of the Imperium its called living-metal) Now something happend no beeing both realworld and warpborn could forsee. The c'tan in animalistic panic formed the necrodermis into form to free himself but instead he fused with it, it became its body. And for the first time it was able to form complexe thoughts and emotions. It realised that the pain and psychic energy emitted by the trillions of frail, weak and fleashy beeings down on that planet tasted far better than any solar engery ever had. And so this first c'tan forged a plan to enslave the necrontyr and the rest you heard already. And before you ask their are many c'tan not just one the few I ant the moment remember are: Void dragon (real name destroyer of knowlege thats importend for the mechanicus because a chart of the void dragon sleeps deep under Mars and basicly influenced the martians to become so technology obsesed, tge problem his true name is eater of knowlege so yeah we will see what comes out of that) the deceiver, the nightbringer, the burning one, the outsider etc. their are many c'tan maybe several hundred.
I have my original printing of "Rogue Trader" on my shelf. I spent so many hours going through the lore in the 80s and at the miniatures store "The Armoury" in Baltimore. They would let you into the back storeroom to browse, it was a wild time.
Oh wow that sounds really cool! I always loved when stores used to trust their customers and this seems like a hobby with such an amazing fanbase. I got to do something similar to that but at a museum instead. Sadly dont think that would happen anymore!
Next would be best to do brickys every faction explained videos. Its a two parter
I can do that for sure! Thank you for the recommendation!
Event Horizon is Warhammer 40k inspired movie and if you have seen the movie you have an idea what a failed warp jump results in.
In the Dark Age of Technology humanity had ship guns that create singularities and giant machines called Sun Snuffers and they basically did what the name suggests.
The Eldar before the birth of Slaanesh could just reincarnate or have new body made for them so murder wasn't even a problem but inconvenience.
The Imperium of Man is like galaxy wide cult of sacrifice. The Emperor sacrificed himself for the survival of humanity so everyone in humanity must be willing to do the same.
Thats a great explanation!
I have never actually seen Event Horizon before! Ill have to look it up for sure!
Thats a good way of explaining it, cult of sacrifice.
I hope you enjoyed the video!
The warp is psychic energy and thought as a dimension.
It 'was' a mix of typical good and bad thoughts and soul energy for a roughly neutral total.
But 'the war in heaven' with the old ones vs necrons, made so much suffering for so long, they basically peed in the swimming pool.
Just a mess of traumas, that upset a whole dimension, and gave the 'gods' living in there, waaay more power than they previously had, and even birthed a few new gods.
Watch brickys every space marine legion explained video.
Ill add that one to the List! Thanks for the recommendation!
Welcome to the rabbit hole! It goes SO much deeper
No doubt! Ive gotten so many suggestions! I cant wait!
37:17 worse, the Emperor is also keeping the demons at bay from invading humanity's territory, so its the age of strife plus demons
Interesting point to be made about the Astronomican, you can't just sacrifice any old human. You axe psykers. And given that the ratio is about 1 psyker in 1000 normies... yeah.
One more novel to add to Bricky's recommendations there is Eisenhorn. There's 3 books, centered around inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn, one of my favourites, can't recommend it enough.
Gaunt's Ghosts is fantastic. It's carnage, brutal warfare, military life, things of that nature.
Or go with Ciaphas Cain if you want a good laugh. And carnage.
I LOVE Band of Brothers so when he compared Gaunt's Ghosts to it I was immediately interested! Its very cool you can have so many "flavors" if you will all in one universe, its very creative.
Ill add Eisenhorn to my list though! thank you for the recommendation!
@@TheRealCenturion Oh, before I forget again, you HAVE to get the audiobooks.
Gaunt, Eisenhorn, Ciaphas Cain, believe me the voice acting is on another level.
I've enjoyed listening to them so so many times, especially Eisenhorn. Toby Longworth is a VA god.
Different races having different connection levels with the warp. The eldar are exceptionally connected with the warp. The humans have a moderate connection. The Tau have very small connections. The necrons have no connection to it. This is probably why the Old Ones created/elevated the eldar and ork, because they are warp sensitive and so had an advantage over the necrons. So the strength and number of psykers within a species does differ between races.
That makes sense! I was thinking it could be something similar to "Mass Effect" in a way, where a race like the Asari are basically always latent psionics and its a lot more rare in Humans. . Thank you for answering my question though! I imagine the Orks "traditionally" would not be psykers, but do you mean the Eldar and Ork , in terms of Psyker ability, are similar? sorry if thats incorrect!
@TheRealCenturion - the eldar are powerful psykers and are very aware of this power. They have learned how to control it very effectively.
the Orks are a strange one though. They do have 'standard' psykers, called weirdboyz, amongst their population. But they all have strong psychic powers, which allows them to just manifest things into being true when in large numbers. And the larger the gathering, the stronger this subconcious power becomes. However, because they are so dumb, they have no idea that they have this power and so they cant conciously control or use it. If they ever realised they had this power and learned how to use it, they'd be super OP and would crush the galaxy.
For example, Orks create space ships capable of flying through the warp by using scrap metal and bits of derelict ships. These ship parts might not include a way to generate oxygen. However, Orks don't know that you need oxygen in space, but they do know (and therefore collectively believe) that ships can carry people through space just fine. So they build these ships and sail them through space and the warp just fine, whether there is any oxygen on the ship or not..... because of the Ork's psychic powers of belief!
Welcome to the ultimate nerd rabbit hole. I've watched a lot of Bricky reactions and you grasp the complexities far better than most. Keep watching the Bricky videos but keep in mind that they are a little bit outdated, if you get hooked on 40k and start watching videos on more specific topics you will find inconsistencies; just treatment the golden rule of 40k lore. "Everything is canon, not everything is true."
Thank you, I appreciate that! Ive always loved scfi so im familiar with alot of things, just not all mashed together into one! Im glad you enjoyed , also ill keep that in mind!
16:52 I'll tell u why we do it. It is bc the emperor wants the smoke. And if the emperor wants the smoke, SO DO WE.
We got another one lads! Praise the Emperor!🎉
Always happy to check out cool topics that people suggest! Cant wait to see more!
I don't get why people recommend Luten as a beginner start point for people, people just leave more confused than before.
I wont lie, I saw the 160 some videos in his playlist and it looked rather intimidating! Thats why I was looking for some more starter friendly videos which Bricky does a great job of! Thank you for understanding!
2:21 bricky is very good at doing ads, sweet six pack is quite nice too
I wasn't ready for that XD . Great ad though honestly lol
Alpharius, the twinned Primarch of the 20th Legion, the Alpha Legion, didn't actually get yeeted. He was actually raised by the Emperor, and Malcador. His existence was kept secret until Big E found Omegon, his twin, as the last of the 18.
I am Alpharius, this is all a lie.
there is also space dwarfs.
Space Dwarves sounds like a fat mood XD
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The Leagues of Votann are descendants of humanity, evolved into tough, stocky space dwarfs after millennia in harsh environments. They’re all about loyalty to their kin, survival, and efficiency. When dealing with others, they usually try to make a deal first-offering trade, alliances, or a warning before moving in on a planet’s resources. Cooperation is their preference since it’s less wasteful than fighting.
But if a deal is refused or broken, they won’t hesitate to act. They’ll crush resistance and strip a planet for what they need, but they’re not reckless. If a fight would cost too many resources or Kin lives, they’ll walk away and look for another way to secure what they need. To them, balance between gain and loss is everything.
Their decisions are also guided by the ancient AI supercomputers known as Votann. These machines, once brilliant and efficient, have degraded over time and now operate slowly and ponderously. Despite this, the Leagues still revere them and follow their decrees, even when they lead to morally grey or harsh actions.
I love how they were there in the beginning of 40k, as a full playable army, then quietly disappeared from the tabletop and the lore, then when their return was announced everyone thought it was a joke, because they announced it on April 1st.
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The Leagues of Votann are descendants of humanity, evolved into tough, stocky space dwarfs after millennia in harsh environments. They’re all about loyalty to their kin, survival, and efficiency. When dealing with others, they usually try to make a deal first-offering trade, alliances, or a warning before moving in on a planet’s resources. Cooperation is their preference since it’s less wasteful than fighting.
But if a deal is refused or broken, they won’t hesitate to act. They’ll crush resistance and strip a planet for what they need, but they’re not reckless. If a fight would cost too many resources or Kin lives, they’ll walk away and look for another way to secure what they need. To them, balance between gain and loss is everything.
Their decisions are also guided by the ancient AI supercomputers known as Votann. These machines, once brilliant and efficient, have degraded over time and now operate slowly and ponderously. Despite this, the Leagues still revere them and follow their decrees, even when they lead to morally grey or harsh actions.
@@TheRealCenturion The Leagues of Votann are descendants of humanity, evolved into tough, stocky space dwarfs after millennia in harsh environments. They’re all about loyalty to their kin, survival, and efficiency. When dealing with others, they usually try to make a deal first-offering trade, alliances, or a warning before moving in on a planet’s resources. Cooperation is their preference since it’s less wasteful than fighting.
But if a deal is refused or broken, they won’t hesitate to act. They’ll crush resistance and strip a planet for what they need, but they’re not reckless. If a fight would cost too many resources or Kin lives, they’ll walk away and look for another way to secure what they need. To them, balance between gain and loss is everything.
Their decisions are also guided by the ancient AI supercomputers known as Votann. These machines, once brilliant and efficient, have degraded over time and now operate slowly and ponderously. Despite this, the Leagues still revere them and follow their decrees, even when they lead to morally grey or harsh actions.
40k Warp is like using Jump Drive in Stellaris. The more you use it the more interesting the beings that reside get ... cough cough 👻 Unbidden 👻
Can you react to Prologue|Greater Terran Union| Stellaris Invicta by the Templin Institute
Ahh that makes sense! Its cool how its , its own place that exists along side "real space" and that it must be utilized directly for something as simple such as travel and communication given how dangerous it is!
Also I absolutely can! Ill add that to the list now!
Thank you for the recommendation!
The way you used Stellaris as an example is cool, since a lot of WH 40K references are sprinkled in the game.
The Zroni, one of the optional precursor races, was explicitly based on the Eldar, and the Shroud (with the 4 awfully similar entities to Chaos) was based on the Warp.
Wow i never actually realized that till now! Thats actually such a cool reference! Ive played Stellaris since it came out and got some of the references but clearly not all!
@@TheRealCenturionthe geneseed purification research option to make super soldiers is also another direct reference to 40k, since geneseed is how u make space marines in 40k. The under one rule origin is also probably inspired by 40k, with an option to make ur emperor immortal yet immobile kept alive on a tech thrown. I believe there's an exterminatus achievement if I remember correctly lol. Probably many more I'm forgetting
If you want to learn more just stick with Bricky for that. He got two cool fraction videos you can react to.
The People asked, The people received! Loving his videos so far!
@TheRealCenturion Bricky is awsome because of his way of telling about the lore that is entertaining and chill. Weshammer also has some cool videos like about the top apocaliptic weapons in 40K or a full playlist just for Warhammer 40K horror stories.
By the Golden Throne! We have another convert😂
Always excited to look into something new!
just a heads up you mic audio was good but the video your watchings level was really low, i just recent dove into warhammer for the first time last year love seeing other peoples introduction to the lore!
I appreciate you letting me Know! I was adjusting some setting as i just moved my setup around prior to making this video.
Ill have that fixed for the next one!
I respect you so much for not removing and engaging with the add, this earned you my sub ;)
I had watched the previous vids and glad to see some of my suggestions made it on your list.
I'd like to add a small tip to it: Before watching Helsreach, It helps if you have some understanding of, the main factions, and some of the space marine legions. Bricky's introduction vids (he has 2 on factions and 1 on space marine legions).
(The story is centered around a Black Templar squad, knowing bit about them specifically can help you catch some of the Easter Eggs in the Helsreach vid. But you won't need it to appreciate the story.)
I can see you're connecting with the lore... I'm guessing you won't be a 40k doubter for long 😉
Fun fact the Emperor was an atheist, so he would have hated being seen as a god.
Also on the amount of content.... I think the Black Library is over 500 books, maybe over 600 by now
I appreciate that! I figure the least I can do is support his hard work in any way that I can, and if people want to skip ahead in the video they can do that if they wish :)
I love reading all the comments and EVERY recommendation! That means a lot that you guys are willing to explain to me, offer suggestions and have a sense of community here on the channel.
While I dont plan on making exclusively 40K content, I must say, I am quite interested now! And again all the recommendations of where to start has really got the hype train going for me! I will be watching his starter pack videos!
Just looking at the thumbnail for Helsreach has got me hyped! So im guessing not for much longer XD
Also thats so ironic given his massive extreme was met with a full pendulum swing to another massive extreme.
The saying I use for Slaanesh's birth is the Eldar accidently murder F***** a god into existence. Bricky is entry level 40k, so he doesn't mention the Eldar had a number of their own gods. One was captured by Nurgle and is imprisoned in his garden, I don't know how the laughing god escaped and their war god was beaten by Slaanesh but Khorne tried to claim him and he was scattered into a bunch of pieces. Regardless, Bricky does have good info and if u want a deeper dive into 40k, check out Luetin, MajorKill, Oculus Imperia, or if u want a run down of wars like the Badab war and the Siege of Vraks, Arch.
That seems like a very good "sum up" of it for sure ! XD . So the Eldars gods did also physically exist along side the Eldar? Would they be similar in a way to the Emperor from the Imperium in terms of strength and ability? or were they more in it for themselves? Im assuming the later just due to how far they let their society decline.
Thank you for the recommendations though!, Ill add those to the list !
@@TheRealCenturion They could physically manifest to be alongside the Eldar. Eldar god's also could imbue eldar with their power. An example of this is an Avatar of Khaine. Khaine is the war god I mentioned and his power can transform an Eldar warrior into a towering flaming titan. Their power is mighty but I doubt it compares to the Emperor. The Emperor has on at least one occasion, almost transformed into a chaos god called the Dark King. This occurred at the end of the Horus Heresy while the Emperor was still alive. The Emperor's psychic might is much stronger 10 years after the Hersey. As for the Eldar god motivations, I can't speak to that, at least in the books I've read. The one god I know is still active is the laughing god. His name is Cegorach and the Harlequins(Eldar Clowns) worship him.
Edited Side Note: Any Eldar warrior that becomes a Avatar of Khaine is sacrificed in the process.
FOR THE WAAAAAAGH! ORKS ORKS ORKS ORKS
40k and fantasy have the same warp demons. Otherwise, different yet similar factions between the 2 universes.
Oh ok, So the basic "races" if you will are the same but the lore and plot behind them is different, is that correct?
@TheRealCenturion yes with a large asterisk. If you understand the fantasy story, it will work really well as a basis for 40k. 40k was originally the fantasy universe but in a sci-fi setting. It's not a sci-fi as much as it is science fantasy. The demons are the same, though.
Iike how rich people do messed up stuff since they have everything
The question of if the emperor is a god, or wanted to be worshipped as a god, is kind of a debate among the fandom.
On the surface, he was a radical atheist who obliterated cities that mistakenly worshipped him as a god.
But the other their goes is that the emperor is playing 33 dimensional chess… who makes themselves look like a 20 foot tall golden armored guy with a golden aura and name your soldiers “angels.”
And some how his whole plan ends up with the entire human species worshipping him and sacrificing psychers for him to consume?
It all just seems a little too convenient - like a reverse psychology ploy.
the creators wanted to play with the idea of fantasy races in space. So Orks(Orcs), Eldar(elves), Squats(dwarves) Ogren(ogres) Nekron(undead) Tyranid(xenomorphs) all exists in this universe. They had a lizard people race but they got forgotten along with the squats. ogren I think are still around but not brought up much other than occasionally being among the imperial guard.
The religious angle and the warp really remind me of American Gods. The belief and id and emotions of the people feed the warp and gives forms to those ideas. So if there is some happy playful emotions then some happy playful friend will be formed in the warp. if you get enough people to believe then it will grow stronger. In the eldar's case it birthed a god but the warp is full of smaller beings but its not never clear if the thing a psyker is talking to is some river spirit that just want them to open up his mind to come see the spirit realm or some demon that wants a way into reality. because the demons out there will kill the smaller warp entities as fast as anything else.
The space marine legions are based on the genetics of their primarch. So they carry any mutations and personality traits of that primarch.
without the astronomicon they would be snuffed out. it is the one permanent feature that navigators can find in the warp and lets them reach far distant worlds across the galaxy. without it they would be limited to just near by systems. the empire would collapse into millions of local groups who would have to fight on alone against all the other races. they wouldn't last long.
sadly the emperor was trying to pull humanity to a point of enlightenment. He was a secular being so it is a terrible irony that he would be turned into a god by by his followers.
You've gotta check out "Angron, Eater of Worlds:
good video but the sound is terrible.
compared to the volume of bricky's video, you are unfortunately much too loud.
i have to turn up the volume every time I want to understand bricky only to be ‘’yelled at‘’ by you as soon as you say something.
it would be nice if you could pay more attention to that in the future :)
Thank you for the constructive criticism!
I will definitely keep that in mind for next time! I was messing around with my audio setting prior to recording and it sounds like i may need to tweak them a bit!
Thanks for commenting! :)
All hail commenters bringing @Centurion closer to the Emperor. May you be blessed in battles.
PS: Video source sound NEEDS to be higher tho, oh and also please, do away with the pen and listen to the story being told ; You're missing A LOT of iconic pictures aiding to the comprehension of the story...
One last advice is to hit back arrow to go back 5sec when you pause, always.
I appreciate the constructive criticism! Im really quite new to making reaction content in general so im still learning but I really appreciate any advice!
Ill for sure be hitting that back arrow everytime I pause from now on!
Thanks for commenting!
So some bits bricky sorta embelished abit... The Imperium is not fascist, it's theocratic monarchy over all. The worlds of the Imperium only have two main rules imposed on them by Terra and they are to pay your taxes and only pray to the Emperor other than that Terra doesn't care how you run your house so long as it works. This is why you will find every sort of government ever in the Imperium of Mankind from democracy like on Macragge to literal kingships like in the middle ages with everything in between. The psykers that give their souls to Big E are not human sacrifices they are helping Big E keep the golden throne working they just burn out it takes such power and effort to do so about a thousand per day die from the stress or injuries from their powers being used like this. Lastly humans are indeed the good guys as they just want to survive in a galaxy so hostile to human life that the luxury of modern morality we have too day is so costly it could risk the death of entire worlds to chaos corruption alone not even touching on the alien threats. Humans in 40k hate aliens so much because during the golden age mankind ran around making friends with literally every alien they met and being one of the most powerful races in the whole galaxy the aliens went along with it while being rather jealous or hateful of humans for being how they are. Then once Slaanesh was born and the human empire got fucked the aliens pounced on mankind killing, raping (yes you read that right) and enslaving humans for thousands of years until Big E came along freeing them. So humans in 40k are completely justified in their hatred of aliens as every single alien ally they had turned on them in the age of strife. 40k's universe is so cruel, dark and hostile the only way mankind to cling on to survival is to throw away any sort of weakness or naive thinking because everytime mercy is shown a knife hits your back. This is the one universe the fans of it DO NOT want to live in it unlike those who enjoy start trek or star wars it's beyond morally grey to the point of survival or death are your morality in this place. The Emperor protects.
Thank you for the explanation! I definitely got the (in terms of Stellaris) Fanatic xenophobe spiritualist (Or maybe the other way around XD). But it makes sense that on such a grand scale, why would you really care about goverment in a sense when logistically its a nightmare and amazing it even works at all. Also after the "age of strife" , I could see how the emperors goal would be unification as quickly as possible by any means, and if their willing to support the emperor, that would be enough.
Thanks for the explanation!
@@TheRealCenturion Yep glad you looked into it and enjoyed it. Kinda funny how most stellaris games end with more people going full Imperium. lol
Watch the Warhammer 40k factions explained Videos by Bricky
ITS a 2 Partner and in my opinion a better intro
I fully plan to! Really looking forward to it too!
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Yeeting the primarchs is the weakest plot point imo. Why yeet them into planets with life? Why not toss em all in a star? Or a blackhole? Or just take them back to the warp and corrupt them? I love this game but the story telling is so poor.
I did think thats a bit weird if they could yeet them anywhere, but I mean hey, With so much lore and plot, im sure it has to be thin at some points. Still enjoying learning about it though!