Psyker Power Levels (Warhammer 40k Lore)

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  • Опубліковано 10 лис 2023
  • Leave it to 40k where you have to channel hell to actually use superpowers!
    Art was made by IcyYmir!
    Link to the comic: / ss6wz5cfap
    Voices Used:
    Narration - Myself
    Female Psyker - ‪@falonecho‬
    Music Used:
    Adrian von Ziegler - Celestial
    #wh40k #psyker #darktide
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  • @beastalchemistVA
    @beastalchemistVA  6 місяців тому +435

    To everyone commenting about the levels after Alpha Plus, I know that they exist. And I understand how it is inaccurate in other ways. But the comic was written as it is, I can't change that. I just wanted to dub it.

    • @PyromaN93
      @PyromaN93 6 місяців тому +10

      Was Malcador Alpha or Beta, or he was have another grade?

    • @BenAbrigil
      @BenAbrigil 6 місяців тому +1

      not to keep the emperor alive, but the throne

    • @damienmccuinn1956
      @damienmccuinn1956 4 місяці тому +2

      Ahhh, okay I was about to do my loremaster bit and correct you. Considering Magnus is a Beta Plus Psyker and the Emperor was a Gamma Plus

    • @AlyssMa7rin
      @AlyssMa7rin 20 днів тому

      @@PyromaN93 Alpha + , Iirc.

  • @KillerOrca
    @KillerOrca 7 місяців тому +4291

    And of course theres the OTHER side of it, the "Null" scale, where you start to get people who are "anti-psykers", ranging in capability from slightly lesser than most people to the afformentioned Culexus assasins, who are immune to psyker powers and whos mere presence can cause pain and anguish even among normal people.

    • @beastalchemistVA
      @beastalchemistVA  7 місяців тому +697

      Yeah, I wanted to contact the artist to do that part in comic form but apparently they haven't been online in 5 years.

    • @Redfoxjack
      @Redfoxjack 7 місяців тому +334

      Fun fact omega minus nulls are hard to see for normal base line humanity Because your brain dose the same thing it dose to your nose and straight up omits them form your feild of view

    • @robertnelson9599
      @robertnelson9599 7 місяців тому +138

      They are so hated that the Culexus Temple is allowed to clone their agents (something the Imperium does not like to do).

    • @KillerOrca
      @KillerOrca 7 місяців тому +120

      @@robertnelson9599 It also helps that Culexus level Nulls are stupid STUPID rare so.

    • @boredbrewer1998
      @boredbrewer1998 7 місяців тому +29

      ​@@beastalchemistVAPlease do a video on the nulls when convenient.

  • @54lolman
    @54lolman 7 місяців тому +2603

    I think I remember an official short story of 40k concerning an Alpha Plus pysker.
    It was a child on a black ship, sent to be sacrificed to the Emperor, and completely misidentified due to the child's powers not fully awakening. However, enroute in their cell, their power awakened. In the span of less than a *nano-second* the child with their sudden immense power, managed to teleport the black ship into multiple different locations across the galaxy. The child's power kept growing and growing into unfathomable measures! Until the child suddenly became aware, and saw before them the four chaos gods watching, each immediately vying to claim the child's soul. The child, realizing the horror that laid before them, made the ultimate sacrifice and committed suicide as the ship was returned to its original point.
    This all happened in less than 8 seconds if I remember correctly. So fast, that no one on the ship even noticed anything had happen.

    • @brendanmuller7301
      @brendanmuller7301 7 місяців тому +474

      This is very interesting. I genuinely wonder how that kid would've turned out if someone like the emperor were still around

    • @KiyokaMakibi
      @KiyokaMakibi 7 місяців тому +58

      Sounds like a great story. 👍🏻

    • @NoProtect
      @NoProtect 7 місяців тому +339

      @@brendanmuller7301would have turned into a corpse
      The emperor is the one who started culling psykers in the first place

    • @theonlyMoancore
      @theonlyMoancore 7 місяців тому +282

      Meanwhile my Darktide psyker: (in heavy German accent) I blew up mein house baking bread and ze guards sot I committed heresy!

    • @schizoidmeme5470
      @schizoidmeme5470 7 місяців тому +41

      ​@NoProtect The dangerous kind. With training, the child could control it.

  • @MrReich1918
    @MrReich1918 7 місяців тому +3133

    Both Malcador and Magnus are canonically alpha plus. And fairly sane in their own rights.
    As well as considering Magnus and The Emperors unusual soul situation. I would argue that Malcador is the only purestrain human in known history to be a stable individual.

    • @chadwhitfield6946
      @chadwhitfield6946 7 місяців тому +78

      I thought Ravanor was an alpha level psyker.

    • @MrReich1918
      @MrReich1918 7 місяців тому +323

      @@chadwhitfield6946 His base level is around gamma. His chair and other psychic amplifiers boost him into the alpha range.
      Dan abbit has an interesting though reletively unusual interpretation of psykers. Saying that their ranking can improve over time with the right augmentation and training. Or even degrade due to underuse.

    • @MrReich1918
      @MrReich1918 7 місяців тому +47

      @@chadwhitfield6946 A reasonable question though.

    • @terminallove3531
      @terminallove3531 7 місяців тому +10

      ​@@MrReich1918
      He's at least Beta.

    • @MrReich1918
      @MrReich1918 7 місяців тому +42

      @@terminallove3531 I believe it is in the emperors gift. I would need to double check. But in that book he is specifically described as a high Gamma. Unless you are able to source something to the contrary your words have little value.

  • @ethangnasher3848
    @ethangnasher3848 7 місяців тому +416

    "Throughout space and the immaterium, I am the honorable one"
    -The low-level psyker that somehow grew into an Alpha plus, Daemon Prince slayer.

    • @ethangnasher3848
      @ethangnasher3848 6 місяців тому +42

      @@gaelurquiz5755 He ate the flesh of a lot of psykers and daemons, not to mention any relic from eras past belonging to the eldar of old and the ancient ones. Plus a couple of odd boys from the Orks.

    • @timothycrowell381
      @timothycrowell381 3 місяці тому +6

      Who?

    • @gameid4646
      @gameid4646 3 місяці тому +18

      @@timothycrowell381 Dalgor Kraigo.

    • @alexkatc59
      @alexkatc59 17 днів тому +3

      @@ethangnasher3848 You forgot ab-b-bout w-w-warp dus-s-st!

  • @zoneoperator
    @zoneoperator 7 місяців тому +230

    Important reminder: Even low power Psykers can be very difficult to kill with their connection to the immaterial plane repairing wounds and sometimes even reviving them from a fatal blow. That's why its usually standard procedure to double tap psykers...and then triple tap them by reducing their physical remains to ash or plasma goo.

    • @frederiksd
      @frederiksd 2 місяці тому +18

      Indeed, like it is depicted In Astartes, where the Psykers head got bashed in followed by a magdump point blank into the remains, taking no chances!

  • @vilwind3522
    @vilwind3522 7 місяців тому +1135

    I always wanted to write a Warhammer 40k story of twins ... one of them alpha psyker and the other a Null ... Power of the Alpha suppressed by his Null sibling from womb. The alpha develops this way a natural ability to shot his mind from the warp. Though out his life his abilities surface slowly attracting both attentive eye of the Inquisition and Chaos Cults.
    Two siblings against the universe ...
    Something like a WH40k Gravity Falls ...

    • @beastalchemistVA
      @beastalchemistVA  7 місяців тому +238

      Please write that

    • @siggbert
      @siggbert 7 місяців тому +57

      Sounds amazing

    • @krel7160
      @krel7160 7 місяців тому +64

      A-alpharius? That you?

    • @vilwind3522
      @vilwind3522 7 місяців тому +31

      @@beastalchemistVA
      I have more ...
      When the back ship arrives to finely take or heroes to Terra so they can be judged it turns out that the ship is a remnant of the Dark Age of Technology when humanity first encountered the Psyker phenomena and was looking for ways to deal with them.
      The Back Ship has a machine that incapacitates psykers and allows them to dream during travel, Matrix like. The dream is generated by something that for all purpose could be a AI but its not ... the Tech-Preist said its not ...
      This specific Back Ship is used to transport young psykers but it gathers anyone that has to be transported to Terra.
      The Black Ship name ... Hogwarts.
      The Ship Dream Matrix is used by Adeptus Astra Telepathica to teach young Psykers in a way that would allow their minds to accept their gifts while they are cut off from warp influence.
      Teachers are Adeptus Astra Telepathica.
      Dementors are Sisters of Silance.
      DeathEathers are Chaos Cult Psykers chocked up to the machine Matrix.
      Full Harry Potter world as a 40k Matrix dream.
      And a lot of room for Grimdark shenanigans.

    • @HateMachinist
      @HateMachinist 7 місяців тому +40

      I like the idea, though the presence of a null is unpleasant enough to a normal person, it is beyond torture for a psycher.

  • @deltarno7502
    @deltarno7502 7 місяців тому +789

    Love the video. Fun fact, sometimes an Alpha Psyker is employed by the imperium of man. How would be mad enough to try? Why radical inquisitors, of course. Although in a lot of cases, if a child is shown (and captured) early enough, they might be sent to the grey knights for testing.

    • @robertnelson9599
      @robertnelson9599 7 місяців тому +122

      The Adeptus Custodes use Alpha-level Astropaths as well as the Doomscryers.

    • @lordgod9958
      @lordgod9958 7 місяців тому +63

      Grey knights care more about stability than raw power so I imagine they prefer beta or gamma

    • @discipleofdagon8195
      @discipleofdagon8195 7 місяців тому +48

      Also not to mention psi-titans using them as power generators

    • @RazorsharpLT
      @RazorsharpLT 7 місяців тому

      Not to mention the warp ddrive itself being... of questionable origin. @@discipleofdagon8195

    • @1973Washu
      @1973Washu 7 місяців тому +19

      A rare inquisitor might start out as beta grade Psyker and by some esoteric means get boosted to Alpha grade ability,

  • @iloveemeralds4622
    @iloveemeralds4622 7 місяців тому +296

    If I recall correctly guillymen contacted the emperors mind and found his mind to be completely alien to any humans mind and by comparison he is completely insane

    • @beastalchemistVA
      @beastalchemistVA  7 місяців тому +170

      Sitting in the same place for 10,000 years would do that

    • @kerbodynamicx472
      @kerbodynamicx472 7 місяців тому +82

      @@beastalchemistVA The Emperor needs to touch grass... If he hadn't been paralysed by his traitor son Horus.

    • @FleshWizard69420
      @FleshWizard69420 6 місяців тому +60

      ​@@beastalchemistVAhe just needs to scratch his nose

    • @SilvaDreams
      @SilvaDreams 5 місяців тому

      Considering he is essentially a collection of proto-psykers in one body it's not surprising that his mind would be alien.

    • @mojothemigo
      @mojothemigo 5 місяців тому +8

      wasn't that because he had to 'split' the pleasant part of himself so he could destroy Horus?

  • @jesusojeda7850
    @jesusojeda7850 2 місяці тому +21

    Malcador was very close to the Emperor as a psyker, the only thing that stoped him from going to the same level being his mortal body- he was able to hold the golden throne until his body gave up and even had the strength to give some hope (and depending on the version, even gave the power he had left) to the Emperor.

    • @KT-pv3kl
      @KT-pv3kl 15 днів тому +1

      Close is relative in the alpha plus category as it is open ended on the upper scale. Malcador could barely handle the throne, Magnus was designed to handle the throne indefinitely whilst also not being a perpetual and he got several power ups after he fell to chaos and yet even Magnus with all of his chaos powers pales in comparison to the emperor at his peak.
      I would put malcador at the low end of alpha plus where he can potentially destroy an entire star system via warp shenanigans. Magnus could easily create warp storms that envelop an entire subsector and big E creates warp storms that engulf entire sectors by accident whilst being a shadow of his former self.

  • @ShadaOfAllThings
    @ShadaOfAllThings 7 місяців тому +103

    "They are never employed by the Imperium" knowingly is a good caveat to add to that.

  • @red_ruby4881
    @red_ruby4881 7 місяців тому +65

    I can't stop giggling at the thought of a demon being literally blinded by light of a alpha plus psyker's soul. It's probably like staring at the sun point blank, second only to sticking your face directly into astronomicon ray

    • @FleshWizard69420
      @FleshWizard69420 3 місяці тому +6

      Bro got flashbanged

    • @megan00b8
      @megan00b8 2 місяці тому +12

      I mean, Alpha plus psykers are something else. The emperor can destroy daemons by merely being near them. Not just banish them, but genuinely truly kill them, something daemons really fear. Back before Horus had four gods lending him power, Malcador forcechoked him like Darth Vader and both Horus and two of his brothers were powerless to do anything to stop him.

  • @andreibossahtamon3950
    @andreibossahtamon3950 7 місяців тому +242

    So the psyker in darktide is a zeta,epsilon or a delta,gamma because he can conjure barier, flame, electricity, push, brainburs, voidstrike and he even has telekinesis.
    Now idk if this is a diffrent matter or just gameplay friendly, in my pov he can do all of them.

    • @yungpark6435
      @yungpark6435 7 місяців тому +106

      The playable pysker in darktide is relatively low on the totem being most likely at IOTA, anything past that and we would be able to just nuke portions of Atoma

    • @Razgriz_01
      @Razgriz_01 7 місяців тому +61

      It's implied that each one is used by an individual character and your playing as a "different"character whenever you switch powers.

    • @beastalchemistVA
      @beastalchemistVA  7 місяців тому +64

      What level the darktide psyker is has been a question of mine before

    • @Bona_Tempora
      @Bona_Tempora 7 місяців тому +31

      The psyker character probably has access to all the warp abilities you mentioned, but for gameplay reasons you can only use what’s in your load out.

    • @krel7160
      @krel7160 7 місяців тому +19

      @@Bona_Tempora I'd chock it up to inquisition tampering. You're locked into a set of abilities because of neural inhibitors (or enhancers, depending on latent power level) that also help keep you from completely wigging out when a daemonhost is in proximity.
      Sure, you're not as powerful as you could be without the inhibitor - Or stronger than usual because of a neural enhancement
      But it also means you're safeguarded (Somewhat) from the perils of the warp, and don't have to worry about your powers leaving your grasp in a chaotic, emotionally charged battle.

  • @Razzy-sr4oq
    @Razzy-sr4oq 5 місяців тому +27

    One of my favorite fanfics/Vox in the Void stories is "Field Test." A Krieger is created with a flaw, producing a Beta level psyker. He's about 15 years old. And routed an army.

  • @benjamindavidson4680
    @benjamindavidson4680 6 місяців тому +24

    It's always fascinating to try and put the events that a very low level psyker into perspective, they might be a normal factory worker that his colleagues know is simply good at the local gambling den and who should have his sleeves checked between rounds.

  • @YourBoyNobody530
    @YourBoyNobody530 7 місяців тому +281

    Personally, I think there are plenty more stable Alpha plus Psykers they just don't involve themselves with the ongoings of the galaxy, and are neigh impossible to find unless they want to be. They likely see themselves as above the situation in the galaxy, and likely care little for their fellow man acting as they see fit whenever they see fit.

    • @beastalchemistVA
      @beastalchemistVA  7 місяців тому +61

      It's possible

    • @crim1188
      @crim1188 7 місяців тому +23

      And you are basing this off of what? Just because?
      The only alpha plus psykers in Warhammer are Magnus and Big E, unless written otherwise

    • @halfassedfart
      @halfassedfart 7 місяців тому +93

      ​@@crim1188"known"

    • @dr.spacemangalacticboogalo8857
      @dr.spacemangalacticboogalo8857 7 місяців тому +45

      I wouldn't be surprised if there was like handful out there just vibing, million worlds is quite a lot

    • @thatdoppioguy1825
      @thatdoppioguy1825 7 місяців тому +42

      @@crim1188Malacador was almost certainly an Alpha level Psyker

  • @ironduke5058
    @ironduke5058 7 місяців тому +270

    This was really informative, I wasn't too knowledgeable of psyker power levels. Both your voice acting was amazing, great video!

    • @IsmaelSantos-xv9qf
      @IsmaelSantos-xv9qf 7 місяців тому +1

      The Blanks also have like five levels as well, they are counted as negative in the scale.
      Their level manifests in the range and intensity of their blankness, so a minus one null is, on top of being inmune to warp influence, is able to make people uncomfortable or hostile. A minus 3-4 can banish daemons by being within a hundred meters or so. Minus Five will not only banish daemons, but can cause humans to drop dead (for example if a -5 culexus removes his helmet, as the Anima Speculum in it serves as both a focusing device as well as a containment one).

    • @MrGreenTabasco
      @MrGreenTabasco 7 місяців тому

      This list is very much incorrect.

  • @spamhere1123
    @spamhere1123 7 місяців тому +359

    This was very good! One small thing I would have liked to have seen is examples in established characters. Like, what level is Ahzek Ahriman? Varro Tigurius? Malcador? Various psychic inquisitors? Being able to put names and actions to the levels would have been awesome.

    • @De_La_Evo
      @De_La_Evo 7 місяців тому +40

      Ahriman and Malcador most certainly have to be top 5 tiers for sure, no doubt about that. If not it might make sense as possibly the upper echelons of psychic power are perhaps uncontrollable and untamable with human capability alone, I struggle to believe there anywhere below theta though

    • @andrewdowns9047
      @andrewdowns9047 7 місяців тому +60

      No one else is going to mention it, but this is old lore and does not apply at all to the modern system.
      See, it was made to try and explain the worldbuilding of the Imperium, but it just doesn't work. Even Dan Abnett, the only author who uses the system (considering he invented it, it's no surprise), routinely breaks it by having deltas with technological edges beat unequipped betas, experienced gammas beating wild alphas, and minor combat psykers overpowering legendary diviners and communication psykers.
      What's the point of a power scaling system that doesn't actually grade power at all? There is none. Much like the Imperium, the fanbase tries to take this outdated, broken system and universalize it. Abnett even pokes fun at his own attempts to force in the system by having one character (an idiot) describe another psyker (around delta, per the narrative) as an alpha, because the system itself is just a way for average morons to try and make sense of a system that is designed to not make sense.
      So all those characters you mentioned? Are they alpha, beta, alpha plus? The correct answer is that they aren't anything, because not even GW is stupid enough to try and shoehorn in a power level system that doesn't even work. So they're described qualitatively, not quantitatively. They're "strong, experienced, wise, better than his other character" but *never* rated.
      So in a sense, this whole graph and voiceover is more fan-made than official lore. Hasn't been close to official in almost two decades. It's only making a comeback now because it creates idle talk, like which characters are stronger. 40k isn't about that, though, so it fails even there.

    • @spamhere1123
      @spamhere1123 7 місяців тому +54

      @@andrewdowns9047 Yeah, unfortunately this is the correct answer. How strong is x character? The answer is "depends on how much the author likes/hates that character." It rarely has anything to do with the actual strength at all. This is a plague upon 40k lore, which is a sickness shared by several other franchises like Star Wars, Halo, and the like which I like to dub "multiple-author-itis". Too many writers all with their favorite pet characters, and no one agrees on anything.

    • @andrewdowns9047
      @andrewdowns9047 7 місяців тому +7

      @@spamhere1123 Do you really think the authors have it out for your favorite characters when they aren't as powerful as you'd like? I'd argue you're the bigger plague on 40k lore. You have no respect for the setting, you just want to powerscale it. The writers can do whatever they want, it's their universe.

    • @spamhere1123
      @spamhere1123 7 місяців тому

      @@andrewdowns9047 The fuck is your problem? Desiring any level of internal consistency is a problem in your mind?? Get out of here, and have the AdMech turn you into a sump pump servitor, because you aren't using any of your brain anyway.

  • @XaldirGodofGood
    @XaldirGodofGood 7 місяців тому +76

    While I already knew this bit of Lore, I have to say that the Voice Acting and the Illustrations where highly Entertaining and made me greatly enjoy rereading this already known Lore.

  • @nathanlane1783
    @nathanlane1783 6 місяців тому +50

    Audio tip: For creating an otherworldly sound through overdubbing (like I you did on the alpha-plus psyker), overdub more takes of the same voices and hard pan them in different directions. Three on the Left and Three on the right is probably enough. It also becomes less important to nail the timing exactly as you add more voices since it becomes less or a duo and more of a choir. You can also get a variety in that choir with just one voice but by changing your tone, pitch or distance from the the microphone. Nice effects!

  • @dreamhollow
    @dreamhollow 7 місяців тому +26

    I like this list. It does a great job of summarizing psyker affinity. The simplistic animation style is pleasing to the eye.

  • @dataexpunged6426
    @dataexpunged6426 7 місяців тому +12

    Just the shaking and depth to the voice you could know the threat of the Alpha Plus and with the description gave me spine chills man...nice job!

  • @mill2712
    @mill2712 7 місяців тому +94

    1:15 - Level 0.
    1:33 - Level 1.
    2:05 - Level 2.
    2:38 - Level 3.
    3:09 - Level 4.
    4:00 - Level 5.
    4:46 - Alpha
    5:26 - Alpha+

    • @edwardtanujaya9786
      @edwardtanujaya9786 7 місяців тому +3

      Reminder :
      level 4 - Primaris Psyker is currently 60 points in the Astra Militarum codex.
      and Presumably :
      The Grey Knight Brotherhood Librarian which is likely to be a Beta level Psyker - level 5. Is 100 points.
      ---
      Also most psyker in the Imperium are not combat psykers and many are Astropaths help connect communications faster than light between imperial worlds. They are probably Level 2 psykers.
      Level 3 Psykers- are probably The Psyker in Dark Tide, many underground Unsanctioned psyker, I assume many generic grey knights are of this tier- before getting their gene seed and implants.
      Librarians of space marines are probably level 4 too. If they are named Librarian they potentially can be 5.
      4&5 level psykers are probably where all the Inquisition level psykers are.

  • @turkumies7799
    @turkumies7799 6 місяців тому +2

    In Darktide:
    Sedition, Uprising, Malice psykers = Iota
    Normal Heresy, Damnation psykers = Zeta
    Auric Damnation, Auric Maelstrom = Delta

  • @Xaxp
    @Xaxp 7 місяців тому +86

    Wait until you get into Antisouls, Blanks, and Paiahs. I recall an Omega Negative soul that was literally a fetus hooked up to an anti-psyker cannon because it destroyed its mother's soul before its body could develop.

    • @nowanimportant8887
      @nowanimportant8887 5 місяців тому +2

      Imagine if it did develop. What sort of power would it have wielded against Chaos?

    • @rhett3185
      @rhett3185 3 місяці тому +1

      @@nowanimportant8887it’s not just anti-chaos, it’s anti-warp and by extension also anathema to even the material plane.

    • @nowanimportant8887
      @nowanimportant8887 3 місяці тому +1

      @@rhett3185 Ooh, now I wanna see what exactly that fetus would've become had it been able to reach its prime.

    • @xcell_r4thr87
      @xcell_r4thr87 Місяць тому +1

      ​@@nowanimportant8887probably an Anti-God of Chaos, a God of Order perhaps?

    • @nowanimportant8887
      @nowanimportant8887 Місяць тому

      @@xcell_r4thr87 Don't gods need worship or smth for empowerment? Something which is only capable through Warp logic?
      Unlikely for that matured blank to become a god...but very likely that its own blankness has become potent enough to harm one.

  • @TheRealRightPrice
    @TheRealRightPrice 7 місяців тому +26

    Malcador would dispute the claim that the Emperor is the only ever stable alpha plus psyker.

    • @Nerthos
      @Nerthos 22 дні тому +4

      Malcador was extremely strong, but probably around alpha level. He wasn't able to repair his body at will (past his ability to stop aging), couldn't warp-travel by himself, and even without the crazy stuff, his body was already at its limit when he used his powers seriously, as shown when he almost kills Horus and almost burns himself in the process.

    • @KT-pv3kl
      @KT-pv3kl 15 днів тому

      ​@@Nerthosnot all Psykers have the same powers. Also Magnus is easily in the high alpha plus levels orders of magnitude stronger than malcador at base level.
      The threshold between alpha and alpha plus is roughly between being a threat to an entire planet (alpha) and being able to devastate entire star systems or even subsectors (alpha plus)

    • @Nerthos
      @Nerthos 15 днів тому

      @@KT-pv3kl Magnus yes. At base he had massive psyker potential and he also had a primarch body capable of surviving the full use of his powers. Malcador's main hurdle was his body.

    • @KT-pv3kl
      @KT-pv3kl 14 днів тому

      @@Nerthos we do know that several alpha plus psykers exist that have frail mortal bodies and seem to have no trouble with using their powers. I suspect it is more a problem with malcadors mental hurdles and limits that he put on himself as he was a very cautious man and knew well about the corrupting influence of the warp. He would rather risk his body breaking than having his mind corrupted.

  • @sxztube
    @sxztube 4 місяці тому +1

    That was fun, man, great job! Keep 'em coming!

  • @quicke5486
    @quicke5486 7 місяців тому +2

    This is by far the best video describing the Psyker levels.

  • @Taryntheterrible101
    @Taryntheterrible101 7 місяців тому +16

    Love it!!! 😁Voice acting is top tier!

  • @daringfungus
    @daringfungus 7 місяців тому +4

    I've been looking for a video like this for months now, thank you so much!

  • @bwowzah
    @bwowzah 7 місяців тому +2

    Fantastic video! Great depiction of lore, art and VA.

  • @johnnyanderson2-roblox185
    @johnnyanderson2-roblox185 7 місяців тому +1

    absolutely AMAZING, would LOVE to see more.

  • @snowythompson2349
    @snowythompson2349 7 місяців тому +14

    I guess "Alpha Plus" would explain what he did to Horus.

  • @gamingrat842
    @gamingrat842 7 місяців тому +11

    I was like “oh wow, alpha psychers are strong, great video loved the explanat-“ *next tier shows up* “HOW CAN YOU GET WORSE THAN APOCALYPTIC?”

  • @MrMagbrant
    @MrMagbrant 7 місяців тому +1

    well done mate, I enjoyed this ^^

  • @thetalantonx
    @thetalantonx 14 днів тому

    Very well done for a first video! The art, the writing, and the in character speech set you apart from other lore channels. Subscribed and liked.

  • @cultuschoco
    @cultuschoco 7 місяців тому +5

    I’d love to see more lore videos, you have just an amazing voice

  • @mbp1652
    @mbp1652 7 місяців тому +3

    Good enough. You did better than a lot of clowns! I'll give you a sub

  • @magoodada
    @magoodada 3 місяці тому +1

    Dude your video was awesome. I hope you have more

  • @Cadiangrunt99
    @Cadiangrunt99 2 місяці тому +1

    Nicely done dude.

  • @ZuluJoestar
    @ZuluJoestar 7 місяців тому +3

    This was VERY good keep it up. I hope you do more lore videos

  • @oglambo
    @oglambo 7 місяців тому +3

    I love videos like this, concise, interesting, a little funny, but above all earnest; great content!

  • @mumbo_fuze2484
    @mumbo_fuze2484 7 місяців тому +1

    Please do more of these they are super fun and informative!

  • @Bunker-Nines
    @Bunker-Nines 7 місяців тому +7

    This is great! Your voice is awesome for a kind of in-universe lore reading!

  • @manu_spawn
    @manu_spawn 7 місяців тому +5

    I love when comparisons of a same artstyle are used for measuring purpouses. Please keep it up!

  • @jaxxchang-weinberg4684
    @jaxxchang-weinberg4684 7 місяців тому +4

    I would love more of these videos! Especially one on types of Xenos

  • @funster0691
    @funster0691 7 місяців тому

    Great job man

  • @zombi3brosnanxx
    @zombi3brosnanxx 7 місяців тому +1

    I really enjoyed this video. I've come back and rewatched it a dozen time over at this point.

  • @nicholasvonziethen7647
    @nicholasvonziethen7647 7 місяців тому +4

    This is the first one of your videos I've seen, it came up recommended. I didn't know it was your first time doing a lore video! You absolutely killed it, you should definitely make some more!

  • @bevans4712
    @bevans4712 7 місяців тому +8

    Awesome, great voice acting and something i always wanted to know

  • @matthewboyd3653
    @matthewboyd3653 7 місяців тому +2

    I really enjoyed this! Looking forward to seeing more videos!

  • @visibilityridden7251
    @visibilityridden7251 7 місяців тому

    Great video!

  • @joelbell6075
    @joelbell6075 6 місяців тому +3

    This was AWESOME!!! Please do a video on the Sisters of Silence, too!!

  • @imotekh6110
    @imotekh6110 7 місяців тому +5

    Very good video. Production value was of a rarer sort. I would love a video perhaps going over the Necrons or the marine. Perhaps covering even the Ordo of the inquisition and associated chamber militant. Excellent work and I'd love to see more.

  • @d.c8575
    @d.c8575 5 місяців тому +1

    Dude, that was awesome!!!, incredible video!!!

  • @martinratagris
    @martinratagris 7 місяців тому +5

    An amazing video. I would love to see you cover other factions and lore.
    Maybe Guard regiments (Catachan, Krieg, Valhalla, etc) or something else.

  • @troller9838
    @troller9838 7 місяців тому +54

    What would the Psykers in WH40k:Darktide be considered? Epsilon? Gamma? Somewhere in that ballpark?
    Either way, they seem pretty powerful considering how they can casually decimate large amounts chaos guardsmen, dreg militia etc.

    • @randominternetguy8735
      @randominternetguy8735 7 місяців тому +25

      Zeta/Epsilon. Comparable to Wyrdvane Psykers.

    • @randominternetguy8735
      @randominternetguy8735 7 місяців тому +6

      WITNESS YOUR DOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!

    • @nonya1366
      @nonya1366 7 місяців тому +10

      Psykers can Grow in power, so the weedy, level one psyker could be a different rating than the Level 30 "I run Auric Every Day and suffer no downs" Psyker.
      I'd rate them in a range from Iota to Low Delta.

  • @stephenbridges9915
    @stephenbridges9915 7 місяців тому +1

    Noiooce! Subbed

  • @mikelhalsey5210
    @mikelhalsey5210 7 місяців тому +36

    the Images with the voice acting as you go through the stages are an awesome touch, I hope you continue to make videos like this.

    • @firud468
      @firud468 7 місяців тому +1

      Reminds me of The Exploring Series channel that widely covers sci-fi, mythology books and most notably SCPs

  • @muhammadzailan3893
    @muhammadzailan3893 7 місяців тому +3

    Question what would the darktide psyker be categorized into because by the scale you set they would be beta but could also be gamma

  • @mide2476
    @mide2476 7 місяців тому +2

    I would love for you to do more lore videos. Your voice in this one was so good.

  • @michaelwestmoreland2530
    @michaelwestmoreland2530 7 місяців тому +1

    Fantastic presentation. A++

  • @tilted_axis9819
    @tilted_axis9819 7 місяців тому +5

    Would be interesting to do a similar video on more specialized psykers & compare relative power. Like astropaths, navigators, blanks & grey knights

  • @zaxtinhazelhof6006
    @zaxtinhazelhof6006 7 місяців тому +3

    zeta plus psyker 💀

  • @jackcrawford9900
    @jackcrawford9900 7 місяців тому +2

    This is an extremely well made video! kudos!

  • @Stahlvanten
    @Stahlvanten 7 місяців тому +1

    This was very nice.

  • @katgut
    @katgut 7 місяців тому +3

    Nutty that darktide is basically all zeta - epsilon level psykers just all there at once

    • @Warmaster2001
      @Warmaster2001 13 днів тому

      Well not too high and not too low)

  • @AeronHale
    @AeronHale 7 місяців тому +11

    So where does Malcador rank?
    I was under the impression he was an alpha or alpha+ level psyker.
    Being second or third(depending on your take concerning Magnus) behind The Emperor himself?

    • @jtmartin1170
      @jtmartin1170 7 місяців тому +5

      He’d definitely be an Alpha. Maybe a bit more. Remember that Malcador couldn’t even survive a full day on the Golden Throne. The Emperor has been on it for 10,000 years. The only other person in the universe with the same (or close to the same) psychic potential as the Big E was Magnus before his soul was shattered and replaced by warp spaghetti. Malcador is still at number 3, but the gap between him and Magnus, and Magnus and the Emperor is nearly infinite.

    • @Mr._Galaxywide
      @Mr._Galaxywide 7 місяців тому +4

      @@jtmartin1170 TBF the emperor is basically a warp god, and if theories are to be believed the primearchs are mini-warp gods

    • @odkjqedlkd
      @odkjqedlkd 7 місяців тому +2

      @@jtmartin1170 ı think he could not survive because physically he was a human , even tough his mind was strong enough to operate the throne , its my theory tho

    • @TheKalZul
      @TheKalZul 7 місяців тому +3

      @@jtmartin1170 You may want to read The End And The Death, technically he is surviving much longer than in the original tale, though that's fairly vague still time-wise. This is the same man that dumped Titan the moon into the Warp and nearly killed Horus with a hand gesture.

    • @AeronHale
      @AeronHale 7 місяців тому +2

      It's pretty obvious that simply running the Astronomicon while still difficult and taxing doesn't destroy the user in the same way. Otherwise Magnus wouldn't have been able to do it either as he was intended to do since he's not a perpetual like the Emperor or Malcador.
      The Emperor was also able to do so while operating freely prior to "the incident".
      So I don't think him using the throne and dying in the process is actually a good gauge of his psyker powers so much as one for gauging his comparative powers as a perpetual to that of the Emperor who is of course not only the most powerful psyker but perpetual as well.
      The throne is continuously destroying The Emperor's body while being more or less stalemated by his power as a perpetual.
      We know Malcador can take a hell of a beating but the throne simply overwhelmed his threshold when used to hold the webway closed and power the Astronomicon.
      I think in terms of psychic might he was probably capable of doing so for extended periods but not physically capable of doing so.

  • @coderedfield9179
    @coderedfield9179 7 місяців тому

    This is a fantastic video.

  • @TotalTech2.
    @TotalTech2. 5 місяців тому

    I *LOVE* this video.
    Please do more like it

  • @rdzdoodles8592
    @rdzdoodles8592 7 місяців тому +4

    finally, someone's real voice in the flood of AI generated voices. Great job >u

  • @lordinquisitorrichard8808
    @lordinquisitorrichard8808 7 місяців тому +3

    The custodes secretly capture and employ alpha level psykers and use them as astropaths or to accurately predict the future for certain events

  • @Aetlaify
    @Aetlaify 7 місяців тому

    Godspeed pal. Subbed

  • @touma2level013
    @touma2level013 7 місяців тому +2

    I really like this lore format. Looking forward to more.

  • @jubseest8439
    @jubseest8439 7 місяців тому +4

    "Remember the rune priest is not a dirty Pysker. They get their power from the ancestors of fenris. "
    Says a gigachad space wolf😂

  • @khahinmetameta7826
    @khahinmetameta7826 7 місяців тому +11

    In the taninth/gaunt novels. There's a inquisitor with powers and with a mutated face of horse and I mean literally. How the hell did he escape genetic screening?

    • @individual2122
      @individual2122 7 місяців тому +5

      He probably got that face from some Tzeentch fuckery he contracted while reading one of those forbidden tomes and wasn't executed on the spot because the higher Puritan Inquisitors wanted them to be a living example of what happens when you become a Radical Inquisitor and start studying arcane texts.

    • @averageeughenjoyer6429
      @averageeughenjoyer6429 7 місяців тому

      I remember someone saying he did it to himself to look threatening

    • @individual2122
      @individual2122 7 місяців тому

      @@averageeughenjoyer6429 but instead he comes off looking like a jack-ass.

    • @The.Orange.Wizard
      @The.Orange.Wizard 3 місяці тому

      @@averageeughenjoyer6429Correct, it was done through surgery designed to make him a more threatening interrogator, that was until Mad Larkin nearly blew his head off.

    • @averageeughenjoyer6429
      @averageeughenjoyer6429 3 місяці тому

      @@The.Orange.Wizard better fate than eternal long face jokes

  • @Gorlokki
    @Gorlokki 5 місяців тому

    Great video! Ty

  • @josephfitzgerald4387
    @josephfitzgerald4387 7 місяців тому +1

    this vid made me sub for more content like this

  • @majesticed9329
    @majesticed9329 7 місяців тому +12

    I guess you could consider the Empero in 30k to be a alpha-plus level psyker, but he has transcended that level in 40k

    • @darkrager872
      @darkrager872 7 місяців тому +5

      Even in 30K the Emperor was past alpha plus

    • @majesticed9329
      @majesticed9329 7 місяців тому

      Problably after the deal he made with the chaos gods@@darkrager872

    • @dieptxt2008
      @dieptxt2008 7 місяців тому +5

      Alpha plus is not an actual ranking, it's for anyone that is outside of the rank.
      For example, level 100 is Alpha, then level 150 is Alpha Plus, but level 1000 is still Alpha Plus.
      Alpha plus is a point that it has become meaningless to categorise them.

  • @denizsagra6961
    @denizsagra6961 7 місяців тому +6

    oh I get it.
    god emperor is top tier. malcador and pre heresy magnus are below him, and chief librarians and grey nights are most likely beta level,

  • @plasmawolf7960
    @plasmawolf7960 7 місяців тому +1

    That was really interesting

  • @BigChumby
    @BigChumby 7 місяців тому

    Very digestible and easy to understand! I would recommend this video easily to someone unfamiliar with pskers.

  • @LightCrasher
    @LightCrasher 7 місяців тому +7

    The Emperror was not the only Alfa Plus psyker. It was the only survived one after psychic wars during unification of Terra. There were others like him, who could counrol other people`s will and even memories directly, gaining an absolute power over others around them.

    • @jamricsloe
      @jamricsloe 7 місяців тому

      That is a particular type of psychic power/school/talent, not necessarily Alpha Plus.

    • @ShimrraJamaane
      @ShimrraJamaane 7 місяців тому +2

      Malcador was absolutely alpha plus level, *_at a minimum._* He was able to power the Golden Throne for a time, something no mortal could hope to achieve. His power was second only to the Emperor (not counting Magnus, who was created rather than born).

    • @durrangodsgrief6503
      @durrangodsgrief6503 7 місяців тому

      ​@@ShimrraJamaanebut malcador burned out if hes Alpha plus then he emperor is beyond that

    • @ShimrraJamaane
      @ShimrraJamaane 7 місяців тому

      @@durrangodsgrief6503 The Emperor is beyond measure. He is nearly a god in the warp, as he is feared by Chaos. He bitchslapped Nurgle by telekinetically throwing Mortarion at him while channeling a fraction of his being through Guilliman (resurrecting Guilliman in the process).
      Yeah, Malcador is Alpha+, hands down. He lived 6700+ years, could survive being punched by Lorgar, went full Darth Vader mode on Horus, and had so much power in reserve that he could power the Golden Throne in order to seal out a demon onslaught.
      In his last moments, after being sucked dry by the Golden Throne, he was able to gift the last of his essence to the Emperor. By doing so, the Emperor was able to survive long enough to give his last commands before being sealed in stasis upon the throne. The fact that he basically gave enough psychic force that he could singlehandedly sustain the EoM shows his power. It took 1000 psykers a day (now 4000) just to maintain stasis and the astronomicon, not even restoring a semblance of life.
      Anywho, EoM is beyond the measurable scale of psykers by an absurd degree. Malcador is Alpha+ minimum. They can both do ridiculous things with their powers.

    • @wewuzkangz2505
      @wewuzkangz2505 7 місяців тому +4

      @@durrangodsgrief6503 The Emperor is way beyond that, he's not even on the scale. The Emperor can actually drink raw warp energy, it's not even something a living being should be able to do. He's much more a god stuffed into a meat-suit, rather than a psyker.

  • @jonathanoriley8260
    @jonathanoriley8260 7 місяців тому +30

    When you realize that all Craftworld Aeldari are canonically born as Alpha-level Psykers, is when you also realize that the only reason they ever lose the majority of the time is because the writers literally had to dumb down and nerf them for plot convenience.

    • @aopt471
      @aopt471 6 місяців тому +14

      That is - at best - some lost and deeply buried canon, because it would completely put the lore on it's head. Why use a shuriken weapon and grenades if you can pulverise a skyscraper with a thought and enslave a whole human army with only one of your kind?

    • @jonathanoriley8260
      @jonathanoriley8260 6 місяців тому +3

      @@aopt471 As I said, it's why GW's writers had to literally nerf them everytime they made an appearance lol

    • @Charlieandp
      @Charlieandp 5 місяців тому +6

      I thought that's the power they have only when slanaesh isn't breathing down their necks?

    • @Warmaster2001
      @Warmaster2001 20 днів тому +3

      Not really. Average Eldar is a Psyker but not Alpha but rather Iota to Beta. I didn't seen Eldar Alpha Psykers at all most of the Eldar farseers are Betas and Gammas. Because of their discipline, suppression, awareness of danger and strict preparation. Imperial Psykers from Omicron to Alpha will only dream to being trained like Eldars and being completly immune to daemons try to possess their bodies.

    • @BloodyArchangelus
      @BloodyArchangelus 9 днів тому

      only Ultran is alpha.

  • @felicianwood2305
    @felicianwood2305 7 місяців тому +1

    That was pretty cool video!
    I love the small animations and voices

  • @lemonarque9927
    @lemonarque9927 7 місяців тому

    Very well done 🎉

  • @zeehero7280
    @zeehero7280 7 місяців тому +3

    40k is notoriously inconsistent with everything involving scale, psyker power levels are no exception.

    • @Warmaster2001
      @Warmaster2001 20 днів тому

      Psychic power level is chaotic and unstable. You can't stabily designate it because the Psyker can demonstrate the power level as they choose to demonstrate. Gamma Psyker can just demonstrate low Psyker ability and designated as Omicron, or same Omicron Psyker showing a psychic might of a Zeta level unintentionally.

  • @user-oj4ll2bf6k
    @user-oj4ll2bf6k 7 місяців тому +3

    As a WH40k fan, I approve and admire this video. thanks for the great job

  • @sirshmoopyfox
    @sirshmoopyfox 7 місяців тому

    That was neat!

  • @Einhauser
    @Einhauser 6 місяців тому +2

    The voice acting, animation, writing- all of it is fantastic.

  • @MrCemicalX
    @MrCemicalX 7 місяців тому +3

    Is there also a scaling or power level for blanks?

    • @beastalchemistVA
      @beastalchemistVA  7 місяців тому +2

      I wish. But the artist never made one.

    • @starburst98
      @starburst98 7 місяців тому +1

      Yes, but no drawing of it.

    • @MrCemicalX
      @MrCemicalX 7 місяців тому

      Aw, too bad. Well, maybe sth gets released in the future with how events in 40k are progressing. @@beastalchemistVA

  • @skywillfindyou
    @skywillfindyou 7 місяців тому +26

    Imperium doesn't use psyker of beta and above in raw way. They "castrate' them, diminishing theiir powers.
    Eldars, while their psykers are common, their power doesn't go above gamma (we don't know examples) and with ages of training.

    • @starburst98
      @starburst98 7 місяців тому +5

      Even dudes like Eldrad?

    • @joesheridan9451
      @joesheridan9451 7 місяців тому +21

      Where have you got the idea that eldar don’t go above gamma level? I think you just pulled that out of your ass.
      Eldrad would easily be in any top 5 most powerful psykers in the setting list.
      Farseers are very similar to thousand sons level of power and in how they use their power. They can read the future and leave their physical bodies at will to travel the immaterium.
      This is a race that’s entire world ships are phsycically powered and who sing their ships and titans into existence lol

    • @crim1188
      @crim1188 7 місяців тому

      That is utter nonsense. Your average eldar CHILD is nore physically gifted than the average Imperial psyker, nevermind a farseer. What a stupid thing to say

    • @clonedrone3084
      @clonedrone3084 7 місяців тому +5

      @@joesheridan9451Also disregarding the fact that the Eldar are constantly nerfed in their psychic potential. They wear ghosthelms and use runes to regulate and dampen their power to not attract a shit ton of Slaanesh daemons.

    • @krofgninut5984
      @krofgninut5984 7 місяців тому

      I imagine its like comparing thunder warriors to astartes; raw power vs stability and reliability

  • @McCbobbish
    @McCbobbish 4 місяці тому +2

    Personally, I reckon that if the imperials didn’t insist on torturing them constantly, psykers wouldn’t go insane nearly as often

    • @Nerthos
      @Nerthos 22 дні тому

      The imperium's treatment is precisely what prevents psykers from going insane. They go insane from warp influence, not emotional stress, thus the process of sanctioning forces them to extremes of torment in a controlled environment so they can harden themselves against warp predation. They would have no defense without that experience.

  • @JarrettJ
    @JarrettJ 7 місяців тому

    Great video

  • @CrusadingJello
    @CrusadingJello 7 місяців тому +4

    "Congrats, you get to be reincarnated!"
    "Woo-hoo!"
    ...
    "Congratulations, it's a healthy baby!... And they're a psyker."
    ...
    "Welcome to the afterlife, sorry about going through the warp, but that universe is---- Back so soon?"

  • @FattyMcFox
    @FattyMcFox 7 місяців тому +3

    I wonder if an alpha plus psyker took enough drugs and had some therapy if it would quiet the warp around them in reflection. I wonder if this was done enough if it would start to make sane and stable bubbles in the immaterium that would be as anathema to demons and chaos gods.

    • @ironduke5058
      @ironduke5058 7 місяців тому +4

      Wouldn't drugs let the demons in, not keep them out? In the books I've listened to the psyker must actively and consciously protect their minds

    • @beastalchemistVA
      @beastalchemistVA  7 місяців тому +1

      Look up The Pariah Nexus

  • @Misterj4
    @Misterj4 6 місяців тому

    Liked and subscribed!

  • @krofgninut5984
    @krofgninut5984 7 місяців тому +1

    This is so lovely i cant help but replay it another hundred times

  • @TheSkeletonVA
    @TheSkeletonVA 7 місяців тому +1

    Very nicely done!

  • @beerasaurus
    @beerasaurus 7 місяців тому

    Great video. the lustrations were pretty cute.