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Slaanesh, also known as the "Dark Prince," the "Prince of Pleasure," the "Lord of Excess," the "Perfect Prince," and "Prince of Chaos" in the Imperium of Man and "She Who Thirsts" among the Aeldari, is the Chaos God of pleasure, hedonism, excess and decadence. Lust, pride and self-indulgence are the hallmarks of all who follow it. - Zábava
I've always wanted a Necron to stroll through all the layers with little to no effort. Just to get in front of Slaanesh and say, " 'sup?"
Last I checked Necrons can't enter the immaterium, and even if so they can't really comprehend the Chaos Gods
that necron would be trazyn the infinite wanting to collect slaanesh for his collection
@@ScoutTrooperMan *Pokemon battle theme starts*
Bet recieved.
Bet accepted.
Well also if I remember right necrons aren’t totally immune to slaanesh’s magic. Lucius’s slaaneshi gift of possessing anyone that kills him in combat and feels any pride or pleasure did horrifically allow him to take over a necron.
Someone needs to do the Medusa meme, but with Slaanesh and Draigo:
“I-Impossible! You should have turned to stone!”
“Baby I’m already rock hard.”
CAIN IS DEAD !!!
@@Andaril2
Of old age,yes
Best ending,He deserves that end.
Stone is just sand before puberty
Have you ever eaten... a tangerine?
WOULD YOU LIKE TO TRY ONE??!!?!??!!?!??
Lmao Inquisitor Joc Daco is technically still canon!
Pretty much of Slaneesh's realm is heavily based off of Dante's Inferno or Divine Comedy. Also it seems like the best way to go through the realm is to speedrun it
How do you speedrun the fleshlight leech stage they got a monster ass grip
@@Azzie420 don't stick ya weewee in it. I thought we went over that in the last company meeting?
I think every realm itself is very huge...it may take years just to pass them. So unless you're the white scars aint nothing speedrunning that.
@@JudgeNicodemus I feel like that applies for almost the entire realm of slaneesh
@Zionchar11 you don’t understand just how fast I actually am
Canonically, the only person to have "seen" Slaanesh was Fabius Bile.
In his words? "There is nothing there"; "There are no gods. Only cold stars and the void."
As in, he rejected looking at them utterly.
How does that work exactly? Something to do with rejecting gods in general so he is safe?
@@jonezbonez2505 Man's organs were literally shutting down at the time, but he just refused to believe in Slanessh that hard
@@jonezbonez2505 Fabius actually does know the Chaos gods exist - he's a Chaos Marine after all - but he tries to deny them at every feasible turn, though this causes him a great deal of pain.
As he's not a Psyker, he simply told Slaanesh to fuck off on willpower alone.
@@jonezbonez2505 he quite literally had such excessive willpower he was able to just NOT deal with Slanesh. He had absolutely no end to his will to deny the existence of the Chaos Gods, so he took with his final breaths a gaze straight THROUGH them. A god of basically infinite charisma got ignored like they weren’t there.
Also, in the sister franchise Warhammer Fantasy, Prince Sigvald the Magnificent once encountered Slaanesh who took the form of a being of perfection and beauty as according to whomever viewer observe him/he/it.
So naturally in Sigvald's case, being the utter narcissist, he saw Slaanesh as an identical duplicate to himself.
Imagine that you woke up one morning and felt drowsy. You never had coffee before but you needed the boost for work so you buy some instant coffee, down them and you're boosted, you feel more alive and you're good to go to work. But after a while, your body adapted, the instant coffee is no longer enough, but you wanted to feel alive again, so you start buying espresso from a local coffee shop. Things were fine for a while again but soon you adapted and don't feel that one shot of espresso is enough so you tried taking two at once and that did the trick. But again, your body adapted and you required more to feel that boost, to feel alive, so you went for three. Then four. Then five. Then, no amount of espresso felt enough, so you went to look for something stronger... And you went for meth.
Swearing for Slaanesh is like skipping trying coffee and going straight for meth.
But then the Meth doesn’t kill you but makes you immortal, so you take Meth and Cocain at the same time. Same thing happens until you shove your dick into your nieces heart while both of you are in every drug known to man and yet she is still lucid. And then you deform into a fucking demon except it doesn’t even end there it just gets worse.
@@Stevie-J never ever feeling satisfaction OR emotional fulfillment doesn't sound so great to me
and slaanesh will cocblock you for eternity as it will make you immortal to enjoy the drama
@@Stevie-J well no
khorne will only make you buff and allow you to become stronger but if you worship him more you will probably end up killing your own family and people who don't deserve it
tzeentch will do whatever the fuck he feels like it and if you try to escape his clutches he will reward you for it
nurgle will make you rotten forever but you will feel happiness and always be a good grandpa to you while also making you tankier and stronger
so you really gotta pick your poison here, idk about you but i'd pick khorne
@@Stevie-J chaos gods are jealous girlfriends who just happen to have unlimited power, either you pledge to all or you pledge to 1 and you will get more for pledging to 1 than all 4
@@sanahoi3785yeah, but you get more of both the good and the bad, *ESPECIALLY* the bad, so much more of that
The faction of "I made a horrible choice in my life but I can make it much worse."
"And get off from it too"
"And I will"
The one thing people forget about Slaanesh I've seen is his/her/it's greatest tool isn't feeding temptation, it's feeding pride. You earned this, the world owes you this. Pride is Slaanesh's favorite sin as if you feel you deserve it, or in your right, you're willing to go these excessive lengths to please yourself, no matter how horrible. Hence why the first three seem to be the standard sorts of temptation, but the last three feed on one's pride: Be it the desire of adoration, achievement, or the right to be able to finally rest from your duty.
So Cato Sicarius is most likely to tread down that path??
@@ultramarsfinest1536 Maybe old Cato, but he's earned a healthy dose of ultra-PTSD nowadays.
That is what tipped over the emperor's children after all. Absolute duelist's pride
That's how the Emperor's Children got the D
The Great Divorce by CS Lewis is a great narrative on how pride can truly bring us to sending ourselves to hell
Don't forget: TTS went with the theory that Slaanesh's Silver Knight is none other than Kaldor Draigo.
I mean the Draigo Silver Knight theory is believable because he's been in the Warp for thousands of years and is as crazy as the Warp
What episode is that from?
@@yanisbaker881 hateful feud at Khain's Gate part 1
Slaanesh is by far the most horrifying of the chaos gods, like think about what it would be like if one of them won and took over the galaxy, Khorne would be constant war but thats not much different from what it is now, if anything making it sort of honorable combat would be an improvement , Tzeentch? his whole thing is his plans go against eachother, so if he wins it also means he loses, plus as the god of hope and change he kind of comes with the built in flaw that he has to create a scenario where its possible to overthrow him, Nurgle? ya turbocancer sucks but if you get his blessings you wont feel it, and if you dont you probobly wont be alive long so you only suffer a little, Slaanesh? your going to be raped and tortured to death, then your soul is going to be raped and tortured till your to broken to feel anything, then your going to get vored
Although the Chaos Gods need sentient life to survive, they don't seem to have the restraint to NOT cause the complete extinction of all things once they achieve victory against all other factions that stand against them. Just look at what Slaanesh did and is still doing to the Eldar, whose souls are even more "nutritious" than humans.
If Chaos won, eventually the whole universe would be flooded with a tidal wave of Warp energy, making everywhere be like the Eye of Terror, then eventually, all life in the universe would be either slaughtered or vored by daemons.
"ya turbocancer sucks but if you get his blessings you wont feel it, and if you dont you probobly wont be alive long so you only suffer a little"
Okay, so I dont know all that much about Nurgle as he exists in the 40K universe, but if 40K Nurgle is anything like his Warhammer Fantasy counterpart, then you definitely do not want your universe to be conquered by the kindly old Grandfather.
*They stood in a natural hollow within the cliff, with a rough but relatively level floor that stretched almost eighty paces across. In the centre of the chamber lay a circular pit approximately fifteen paces at its widest point. Steam rose in gusts from a thick, heaving surface of red and yellow. Arms, legs and hairless heads rolled and bobbed in the horrific stew; lifeless fingers seemed to wave as the hands rose and fell with the escape of trapped gases. The gangrenous air over the mass seethed with flies, their buzzing rasp lost in the reverberating voice of the pit. With growing revulsion Malus’s shocked mind took in every detail of the pit’s hideous contents and a small part of him realised that it was a stew of melting bodies, tossed in by the hundreds and left to ferment in the steam. The whole surface heaved with an eruption of stinking gas and as the highborn watched, the heads riding the surface of the mass rolled back on melting necks and moaned. Their voices were the source of that terrible symphony of pain that rose with the steam and the highborn was stunned in awe and horror at the sight*
- excerpt from the book Bloodstorm by Dan Abnett and Mike Lee
@@PhoenixFlame321 Gives perspective as to why Malal/Malice was cast out. He embodies the self-destructive nature of Chaos. When they see him they see the result of their goals. Given how daemons are absolutely horrified at the concept of true death. Malal/Malice must be terrifying to the other Gods.
Ya I thought slennesh was for me and then reading this I like Khrone better he a cool guy not shennesh she stick
@@thomashearne6643 Malal is an outcast but is still a part of Chaos, otherwise the ruinous powers would be even more powerful than they are now
There is the silver knight of slaanesh. No clue who/what they are but they got all the way to Slaanesh, then joined her. There was some stuff about him, like wanting to fall asleep on the final level but no way to wake. How when given their greatest dream it was parades and generals marching in his honour, and how he turned away. How he saw the river of wine and noticed the pale islands where the gluttons who failed
He basically went through the entirety of the layers of hell to slay Slaanesh, but at the very end, Slaanesh took the form of a young, innocent-looking man, and the grey knight couldn't kill him. He fell to his knees and joined Slaanesh
I believe there is a slight SLIGHT implication that was Draigo, considering him being trapped in the warp at the time and wearing silver power armour. But that's mostly Fan theory as Draigo is still a loyalist
@@aelfvandenbegin6075 heard the same but I thought our favourite Suneater wouldn't quite fit. Unless it was intentionally meant to be wrong/fabricated/etc
It was in the 8th edition chaos daemons codex.
@@aelfvandenbegin6075 heresy
You know, thinking about there being a reward at the end of the tests, I actually think that might be the point. This might have been said before but I didn't see any comments mentioning it, and it's an interesting idea.
Basically the first five rings are all deadly traps, but then the sixth is really nice besides eventual death and loss of potential. I think that last part IS the punishment. Basically if you survive the first five, you did it. You won, you're past the trials. And so Slaanesh will offer you paradise. If you accept it, you get your prize, and nothing more. It's a lifetime of perfect pleasure, but it's a mortal, earthly sort of pleasure. Likely far magnified through Chaos, but still of a mundane sort. Slaanesh is probably disappointed, but seeing you burn out when you could have shone so brightly is at least a yummy little consolation prize.
But if you can resist that, turn down every happy ending you can imagine and still push through, than you've truly passed the test and shown a spirit that is truly beautiful and unique, and that's the point. When you see Slaanesh, you're filled with that utter bliss of true unmatchable perfection, and then you are frozen in that moment. The happiness in ring 6 will end one day, but this won't. Time has stopped for you and you can spend eternity experiencing that one moment of utter unimaginable joy forever. And, having shown that unique beauty in your unbreakable spirit, Slaanesh gets a new decoration for their palace, each soul capable of achieving that being a special work of art.
I have no canon basis for this and have only skimmed the Liber Chaotica so I don't know if it's addressed there, but I really love the concept.
Your self satisfaction is the price for slaanesh, why would her last ring be a punishment *or* a reward for you. It's them removing everyone that isn't perfect and only having a unique soul to witness for eternity at the end.
Always remember, any Cake in any form is in any case always a lie
You bring up a good point. Slaanesh is the God of Excess. Through out her palace is filled with wonderful temptations. Money, food, sex....etc. Yet, only two kinds of people can pass through, the pious (meaning they reject temptation) and those who aren't satisfied with such temptation (meaning they want something more - it's like looking at a one stack burger and saying nah because you wanted a 30 stacked burger).
So, by being unsatisfied (or pious) and making it all the way till the end, you are likely granted ascension or something.
I think it would be funny if there was a bunch of khorneite space marines who never talked, yelled or made noise because the silence offends slaanesh
probly kornhe himself ever since slannesh's been a thing
lesson of today:
don't go to the realm of slaanesh
you won't gain any thing by traversing all the layers and resisting all the temptations,
some times the only way to win
is to not to play.
I could be wrong on this, but I think Bricky might not be 100% right on what happens when you reach Slaanesh within their palace. The way I've always heard it is that any mortal who has laid eyes on Slaanesh are instantly "won over" by the Dark Prince's supernatural beauty and charm and become devotees. The Silver Knight of Slaanesh is an example of this.
Ummm space clap is not fun
@@refurbishedtechpriest9076 fabius bile will break that myth.
unlike all mortals.
Slannesh actually travel to Fabius Bile Right in his face.
while Fabius organs all are failing,
he refuse to believe in slannesh,
No matter what.
The only faithful believer of the imperial truth
@@TD-sh6wd i know too little about fabius bile
@@TD-sh6wd Fabius Bile is just Built different
With DK asking how Slaanesh isnt the most powerful god, Bricky is 100% on the money but theres another quote Id like to throw in there that shows the other chaos gods kinda fear that DK might eventually be right. Think this is from Fear the Dark Prince?
"Though Khorne is the only god openly hostile to the Dark Prince, Nurgle and Tzeentch are also ill at ease in his presence, despite the fact that the most typical hierarchy of power between the four Chaos Gods sees Slaanesh at the bottom. Even they feel the magnetic pull of his matchless charisma, and are both attracted and repelled by their younger brother.
This is due, in part, to the fact that all the Chaos Gods embody the excess for which Slaanesh is known: Khorne with his bloodlust, Tzeentch with his scheming, and Nurgle with his spreading of plague. Each is an obsession that Dark Prince can turn to his will with merely a whispered promise. Lurking deep within the psyche of each of his brothers is the suspicion that the influence of the Dark Prince is rapidly growing, and that Slaanesh will perhaps one day eclipse them all in strength."
All the chaos gods obsess over their realm, and take a certain level of pride for every great deed done in their name, in the end all things feed She who Thirsts.
Honestly I never thought about it in that way that’s crazy to think about
This is a fair point. By their very nature, excess is key to all of the chaos gods.
Khorne will never say _"Hm, yeah. That seems like just about enough skulls, slow down with the killing lads."_ Of course he won't, he'll keep pushing for _more_ bloodshed.
From that viewpoint, She Who Cooms may very well be the most dangerous chaos god. Pretty spooky.
I’m wondering if Tzeentch would have a similar power, since Khorne, Nurgle and Slaanesh do things that cause change, and their worshippers plan and strategize, ultimately feeding Tzeentch.
@@thatshowitroll I suppose if you want to go that route with it, khorne would be fed by all the bloodshed and violence from the other princes too. And god-emperor knows everyone is doing a lot of that.
@@thatshowitroll I mean they plan, but tzeentch is the god of scheming, not just mere plans. Planning your day out to get groceries after work doesnt feed tzeentch. Same thing with change. Tzeentch is constant change, change for the sake of change, plans that go against his own simply to make things more complex. Nurgle wants to change the borders of the great game but once he has corrupted a land he wants it to STAY his way.
Im gonna say it Slaaneshs realm sounds like an artists Paradise AND HELL at the same time, so many unbelievably beautiful sights (ignoring the corpses) and if you make it to the very VERY END Slaanesh themselves for you to make art of yet at the same time never being able to fully capture its beauty.
Slaanesh is the goddess of sensation and emotion, good and bad. Transcendent beauty side by side with horrendous ugliness
Aaww, you guys~
@@slaanesh5914 yes Inquisitor, these people right here
Reminds me of the different fields and rivers in The Greek Underworld, ruled by Hades
All of you have fallen to the taint of chaos! Die heretics! Loads Holy Bolter and Flamer with extreme prejudice...
I hope you like loud noises, unending pain, nonconsensual everything and a deep feeling of never being satisfied and the ever creeping terror of coming depression.
slannesh is actually the saddest god/dess because the other gods can feel some satisfaction in what they do, the dark prince of excess by nature can't feel satisfaction. Also being the god of the least effective worshippers probably doesn't help.
Old loud colors noise marine was best.
To be fair, Slaanesh has been nerfed hard in recent times. Used to be quite a bit more of a threat.
_"Things will go loud now!"_
@@Stevie-J it almost certainly was. After all, its known that the guys who made the setting originally were all on coke and speed. They were probably pulling from experience :(
I heard there was a grey knight who went through all the layers of the realm, and when he finally reached the end, he had seen so much debauchery, that he just wanted to see something innocent, so Slaanesh appeared as a innocent little girl, and the moment the Grey knight saw, he was weakened ever so slightly and was consumed. I don't remember if that is Canon or not tho lol
Makes total sense to me that Slaanesh would play both the Ara Ara Dom Mommy type as well as the innocent looking thousand year old Loli
@@sparking023 Close enough, slaanesh transformed into a young beatiful young man
The silver knight of slaanesh, i don't know if it was a grey knight or astartes but yeah he got right there and lost right at the end.
@@mahoganydoughnut6082 grew knight since he was described having a light only know in the grew knight chapter every demon who tried to kill him died by his light
this was a story where the knight was not named, but heavily implied to be Kaldor Draigo´s fall in case Games Workshop ever wants to reveal him as a corrupted daemon prince.
was expecting a bait and switch with tzeentch considering the abundance of blue.
Same.
Same here
you guys did? I was think it was gonna be more about the omnissiah
Dorne is canonicaly immune to Slaaneshi bs, not because his strength of will is great, he's just that boring.
I love aDornable tho.
Also, the idea that Slaanesh just beats you with a smile is such an ironic anti-climax.
And also because noone can handle his *COLOSSAL CHAINBLADE*
"Why did my smile not work on you?!"
"It lacked fortifications"
doesnt the warp die around dorn just because he believes so much in the fact that it doesnt exists similar to fabius bile
All those books he can't read
@@Ashtor1337 poor, poor illiterate Adornable...
As far as I remember, mortals don't become Daemons, so no becoming Daemonette or Keeper of Secrets. Sometimes, a being is considered worthy by the Chaos Gods and offered a change to become a Daemon Prince. However, most beings immediately fail this and become Chaos Spawns, soulless and mindless mob units with no change to go back.
There is even a stratagem in game where a character can ask a boon from the Gods and gets to roll the dice: most of the results are some sort of buff, but rolling double sixes gets you to switch the model with Daemon Prince. However, if you roll a double-one, you get a Chaos Spawn instead.
Wrong actually I'm pretty sure there some way to become a poxwalker ore that's what I've read
Don't a group of opera singers with the emperor's children turn into Daemonettes during a performance? (During the book "Fulgrim")
@@pogsothoth They get possessed but I don't think they actually transform. Having said that, Skulltaker was originally mortal (at least in fantasy) and nurgle's rot causes the victims to manifest in Nurgle's realm as plaguebearers.
My theory is that, since most daemons are manifestations of a god's power, a mortal soul claimed by one of the dark powers upon death thus adding to that god's power which could in turn be converted into a daemon. Daemon Princes on the other were alive prior to their ascension(though do not quote me on the last bit)
@@akumaking1 I think that's exactly what they were in old lore, until it was retconned
If it was, then it’s a shame that it’s not like it anymore since it was a pretty neat detail
Slaanesh is probably the easiest Chaos god to fall for. The same way 'Brave New World' is waaaaay more acurate than '1984' in portraying grimdark, imo.
Nurgle is also a good pick if you're poverty-striken on a feudal world or a homeless dude. X)
Imma be real with you I think that really depends on your personality.
I think I'd fall to nurgle long before I'd fall to slaanesh. Lethargy and lack of action is a far greater battle to me than any sort of excess.
@@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 Yeah, but Nurgle is fucking nasty.
CZcams and their Tzeentch censorship fuckery has forbidden me from actually responding to this comment 7 separate times for no reason, even when the comment was literally nothing but the word "test."
I give up. I'm throwing myself into the eye of terror.
Idk, 1984 feels more accurate to me, probably because it's based on real life dictatorships and because the idea of an actively malicious government that controls the people through fear, division, and hate seems more realistic than a government that actually succeeds in making almost everyone happy even at the cost of their freedom. Of course, 1984 also has elements of Slaanesh, especially in the way it's populace is provided with minor pleasures like trashy entertainment and pornography but never allowed true satisfaction, always chasing unattainable goals like with the lottery.
I'd love to read a story of a huge group going into Slaanesh's realm composed of absolute badass space marines and loads of other shit and a single guardsmen makes it to Slaanesh herself, says something like "a face of almost perfect beauty, missing but a single thing" and shots them in the fucking face. It wouldn't do shit but still
It might if the gaurdsmen hurts their pride, since Chaos entities are made of emotion. And attacking their emotions weakens them
Honestly I fucking love the concept, and the one guardsmen living completely rent free in Slaanesh's skull.
Sounds like the kind of thing you hallucinate in the 4th layer
i mean, with the Demon Kielbasa, was it not a guardsman who finished the fight?
Funny enough, if Slaanesh’s feelings got hurt the Guardsmen shot would do real damage. The comment of “almost perfect” from a being you see as below you could literally damage them.
One aspect of Willpower that psychologists have discovered, through testing, is that it is finite. There's only so much mental will that can be exerted at a given time, before the body/brain is exhausted of its ability to do so. The tests show that when a person must resist temptation, they are less likely to resist further temptation later that same day. You must rest to replenish willpower.
That's what makes the arrangement of Slaanesh's Realm in general, and the sixth realm in particular, so insidious. It's not just that each successive realm probes the invader for weaknesses, hoping to find the one temptation that will make them submit immediately. Instantly succumbing is ideal, but only half the process.
The other half is the war of attrition against the invader's Will. Every time they resist temptation, that's a bit of their mental energy sapped. Every creature comfort denied wears a little more of their defenses away. Combine this with the kind of hyper-vigilance needed to avoid being ensnared is, itself, mentally and emotionally exhausting.
The person who makes it all the way to the sixth layer of Slaanesh's Realm has had a hell of a day. Their journey was long, hard (giggity), and full of perils. They've had to face their deepest, ugliest desires. When they reach layer 6, most every person that has ever lived would be so tired. So utterly depleted. Not to mention, they know that when they reach Slaanesh's palace, they'll need all the strength they can muster.
It is so, so easy to lie down. To let this placid, soft land embrace them like a warm bed. To even convince oneself that one _must_ rest, to regain one's strength for the fight ahead.
Of course, the moment you fall asleep, you're done. Because you aren't going to wake up again.
And even if you resist this, the last and most cruel of temptations, you're that much more tired when you face Slaanesh. At that point, you are trying to resist the Prince of Pleasure - the most perfectly desirable being - at the moment when you're at your very weakest.
Wait for real u got me some links to that study. I want to check it out.
Which is exactly how Slaanealsh wants you: weak and powerless
Buddha went to similar trials and he won, supposedly.
David goggins begs to differ.
Source?
about the 6th circle: sure you may live your life to its end perfectly. But lets not forget that in 40k its not the end. your soul is a thing... and Slaanesh will definitely have yours as a plaything once you inevitably kick the bucket. Whats a human lifetime to a timeless being?
doesnt your body turn into the fine sand/dust as you lay on the perfect beaches
DK never understanding the quote and then Bricky giving him shit for it is always my favorite part of the episode
I've got this idea for a story revolving around a very particular ork who is on the space hulk once it smashes into armageddon.
He looks at the WAAAGH!! in unfolding before him, and he finds himself inadequately equipped; can't find enough daka. As he wanders through the wreckage he stumbles apon a warp rift that is still open, and walks through into the realm of chaos. After a bit more aimless wandering, he stumbles into Slaanesh's realm. Being an ork and having such a singular mind that he is, he is particularly resilient to the earthly pleasures of each of the rings. He arrives at the excess of addoration and achievement and is given visions of himself killing his warboss and ruling over armageddon, but is unsatisfied with the ammount of daka and carries on. Slaanesh's realm can't seem to comprehend the limitless want this ork has, or perhaps the ork's mind is just too small to formulate a proper desire. Eventually, he reaches the final realm, rather annoyed at the fruitlessness of his quest, and comes face to face with Slaanesh, who offers the promise of limitless daka. Having never learned what a limit is, never mind the concept of the lack of one, he instead simply steals shiny tree and swings it around like a club. Satisfied, he rips a hole in the realm and jumps back through to armageddon, leaving Slaanesh dumbfounded.
This ork would never stay on armageddon though, as their unnatrual longing for more daka drives him to boredom of the unimpressive WAAAGH!! and he leaves the planet. What adventures will our little green friend go on next?
Love how every episode these days kicks off with the boys bickering like they’ve been married for 20 years
About the sixth layer of Slaanesh's realm, there's also a angelic quior that's heavenly soothing. It turns out those are the souls of those who have died there and are trying to warn other travellers.
Also the beautiful people giving you massages are actually demons once who reveal themselves you are fully relaxed to strike total fear in the relaxed traveller.
There's the account of the silver knight that made it all the way to Slanesh and just gave up after seeing him/her/it.
so fun fact
there's a guy called the silver knight who is theorized to be *the* kaldor draigo who fights for slaanesh, all we know is that he was once a grey knight who made it all the way to slaanesh itself, but slaanesh presented itself as a child, which made this guy hesitate for a split second and get taken over by slaanesh
Yes inquisitor, this guardsman here knows of the grey knights
@@Kerrigan-QOB inquisitorial retinue
source: trust me bro
@@imperialguardsman5726 can you explain that word English is not My first language
@@Kerrigan-QOB think of a retinue as someone's goons
@@imperialguardsman5726 thx
The 4th layer has so many bodies because to an invading army, the first 3 are obvious traps. But the 4th convinces you that you already won.
Slaanesh... It keeps reminding me of that pink bald guy who keeps on breaking perfectly fine wooden furniture and desks for the sake of slapstick jokes.. I have still not forgiven him.
There is one account of someone making it to the palace and attempted to fight slaanesh but failed, it is the tale of the silver knight of slaanesh who was a grey knight that managed to go through all the layers but when they finally got to slaanesh, they hesitated and that was enough to corrupt the supposedly incorruptible grey knight into become the silver knight
I'm fairly certain it was never confirmed that the silver Knight was a grey knight spesifically, although it probably was and I feel kinda bad even pointing out
@@roguepsykerhaaker4813 it’s fine homie
Honestly, the Palace of Slannesh is such a good way to explain Slannesh without (ironically) the excess of memes that often pollute the common views of Slannesh, which is a sin I to am guilty of
Bricky forgor about the Silver Knight of Slaanesh, what a bingus
i wonder what would happen if a Custodes entered Slannesh realm
@@danielevidimari8068 pass all test meet slannesh join slannesh win 40k for slannesh the end
In Total War: Warhammer 3 part of the main quest has you going to each of the Chaos Gods realms to get a soul to fight Bel'ekor and Slaanesh's realm is the coolest because as you go down the six realms, Slaanesh offers you insane campaign buffs in order to get you to leave. These include really good weapons, an insane amount of income and upkeep reduction and more and its kinda cool how there done in a way to tempt the player to leave. Like yes you need the soul buuuuut that sword they offer is really really good or how much land you could take with the armies you could fund and upkeep.
I kept thinking about that also.
Would Slaanesh unironically use the term 'bussy'?
they very much will alot
I feel like Slaanesh is the ultimate Futa
@@codyadams120 the futa god and god of furries on the side
@@lunaraxel8909 Russ was working for Slaanesh the whole time? Damn, really repaints his rivalry with Magnus
Simply for the feeling of hatred that term brings forth in me, I think Slaanesh wouldn't mind using it.
Glad you saved the best chaos god for last. OR IS HE THE BEST? Is being the best truly a thing? or is it delusion?
Hello Tzeentch
what are rules anyway?
Oh. Your profile pic...I think I understand now. Rest in Chaos, Konrad Curze.
@@Nur-zu2df. No I just like Konrad curze.
It just sounded like something Curze would say, especially after his break down.@@anaveragenightlordsfan
"No personal accounts, then how do we know about it?"
You see, the Lord Slaanesh videotapes their predation from flattering angles and sends scores of anonymous VHS tapes across the galaxy. For those with the understanding of such high technology, the Great Throbbing One is on full glorious display scouring turds from their lofty front yard with a blissfully agonizing presence akin to an industrial pressure washer.
I love DK's enthusiasm about the most horrible space marine legion in 40k and their fun antics.
Imma finna prepare for this video by watching your Khorne one. *_BETTER NOT MAKE ME REGRET THIS!!!_*
Killing for the blood god will always be more fun that… fucking… for the sex god(?)
@@mercy3765 But of course!!! Why? Cause *M O N K E*
If I remember correctly the circle of repose has sweet music playing that is actually the distorted screams of Slaanesh's victims
that feasters beaing a part of the feasts feels just right at home in little nightmares
I can imagine a space marine would see the emperor on the throne as defeat
a tall glass of slaanesh, extra thicc
There is a story where a Grey Knight made it to the palace and became a worshiper. Also, it is theorized that the Dark Prince also takes the form of someone the person who makes it to the palace cares about so much that they can’t hurt them.
in dk's defense all the slaanesh stuff he's encountered has been focused on hedonism, the fanbase kind of downplays the torture fuckery
Just realized three of the layers are designed to be unpassable by one of the chaos gods
I get that Nurgle couldn't make it past the layer of indulgence or at a stretch the sixth of just resting in complacency. But which are impassable for Tzeench and Khorne?
@@kieranadamson3224The ones made for Soldiers for Khorne.
I think the problem with the concept of slaanesh is that pleasure drives us, even when a chaos cultist serves the other gods they still take pleasure from that act.
I always wanted to make a Imperial Guard regiment that partied all the time. They had celebrations after celebrations, but it was the SAME every time. The Commissars had rules on how you partied and the point was to party until you were just sick of it. So they were immune to slaanesh because the guard members were so jaded they just didn't care.
Daemonitized.
I cannot help but think that the fourth circle is itself part of a layered trap. It leads you to think that you were better than the others, that you were able to escape, to resist when the rest could not. Then you get to the next circle and the realm suddenly has an achievement, fresh in the minds of its potential victims, to prey upon.
the main massage of Chaos gods: Khorne: be brave, Tzeentch: be curious, Nurgle: love life, Slaanesh: enjoy life
It's not the Emperor's Children, but it'll do!
There's something hilariously appropriate about how Shy's avatar is staring at the projector screen when the image comes up at 0:48 of the video. The kind of look that says "What have you filthy degenerates done this time?"
So, if Slaanesh is about sensations, would extreme boredom be a sensation? So like, would there be pits of just mega accounting or something where people are mind meltingly bored?
No. Boredom on that level is probably outright depression from you burning out the parts of your brain that can feel various emotions/sensations. A fate worse than death for any Chaos Follower, but especially Slannesh.
@@Bloodlyshiva yeah, but like, apathy is also an emotion or something. Iunno. Good point I guess
Unless you're Guilleman, I believe he would have a blast with accounting
This is the fate of followers when not engaged in stimulation. Ever worsening boredom. Emperors Children feel bored even while imbibing in exorbitant pleasure if they are not at the limit of what they have experienced.
@@sparking023 So Warhammer 40K Total War: Mortal Empires(Every faction ever, with the potential to actually win) would be the ultimate test?
I'm liking on how some of the pictures in the background of Slaneesh is from Age of Sigmar which has the best Slaneesh champion : Sigvald the Magnificent. Glutos is also cool.
Now I kinda want a 40k odyssey following a group of guardsman through the realm of slaanesh
I was drinking my tall glass of Slaneesh, and almost choked on the My Little Pony.
"This happy meal comes with a toy, sweet!"
the slanesh jar
I think Skarbrand actually made it to the palace and smashed his house up just to please Khorn.
After the Demonculaba episode, the realm of Slaneesh seems really really tame.
Question, would korne help the elves wipe out slaanesh? Like he overhears that the elves are about to kill slaanesh and he goes “did my invite get lost in the mail?”
If there is blood to spill Khorne is willing
There IS an account of someone going through the palace of the Dark prince.
He's called the silver knight and it's not confirmed if it was a Grey knight or no.
Slannesh in a nutshell: I love being bad, it makes me feel good 😈
Hey, I know that quote
Just turn that up to 11
SKARBRAND HATES SLANNESH, SKARBRAND HATES LOUD NOISE, SKARBRAND HATES SUBSTANCES BECAUSE HE IS A RESPECTABLE MEMBER OF SOCIETY.
Good for Skarbrand.
I think there was a Grey Knight than got into Her/his palace but instead of turning into a statue Slaneesh was so impress he was able to rise his sword even before the smile he got knighted as the SILVER KNIGHT of Slaneesh
It was a codex entry. Tgey never say it was a Grey Knight, just a "silver warrior"
@@Lightscribe225 i mean you are write but its had alot of foreshadowing on those line. Doesnt help than a Grey Knight (besides Drago) got draged into the warp and was a really good psyker
It sounds like all you need to go through the realm of slaanesh is countless flamethrowers advancing forward and heavy guns behind you to keep the soldiers awake and congniscent
I like the idea of someone making it all the way through to encounter Slaanesh in person and becoming a daemon prince of Slaanesh. To make it all the way through all the circles would require an UNBELIEVABLY pure heart and strong will and Slaanesh would absolutely love to corrupt such a being to their will.
Also he/she/they/it would totally get off on them realising that their entire journey was for naught.
As for depictions of Slaanesh's realm: Total War: Warhammer III. I know it's fantasy and not 40k but there is a lot of crossover where Chaos is concerned.
And the Imperium is basically Skavens in space
@@SamueL-td7fb Depends where you are in the galaxy. Underhives, sure, especially with some of the mutations there are.
I think there was a case of a grey knight making it all the way to Slaanesh’s palace, going all the way without faltering before instantly dropping to his knees and surrendering himself to Slaanesh. But I know he’s now called The Silver Knight now
The realm of Slaanesh.
*Oh, we have such sights to show you!*
When you expected Army of kinky woman but just get crabs both claws and the other way most likely
I think the 6th circle’s scariest bit about it being peace is that you’d naturally think that something is up that you would run from the eternal peace not knowing it isn’t an illusion or trick.
I'm surprised they went through this whole episode of Slaanesh without mentioning feet.
You know, a chaos themed backdrop instead of the normal one would be nice for chaos things because why not
That last bit where Slaanesh comes to greet people to their castle is really bitter sweet to me. Cause I think (own theory here) They are truly glad to see someone as no one that see's them lives for very long as their presence would be under the effect of a constant Orgasm.. so they don't allow any of their minions near and those few short hours is the only company that Slaanesh will ever know.
I believe kaldor draigo has indeed been to all layers.
Ok now I want to write a short where 9 space marines are captured one from each main chapter by the emperors children who are told if they can reach slinesh he will grant one wish to each who reaches them but only the salamander makes it and his wish is super just 40k lol
They are making a strategy RPG of the grey knights fighting daemons...though it seems Nurgle is the one being fought against in it. It looks very much to be like the Mechanicus style
If you throw enough Necron Warriors at the problem I am sure it'll end The Dark Prince. They have no sole to corrupt nor programming to Twist so long as the Pharon can keep a distance he could end the threat.
I very much doubt that a Pharon could "keep their distance" through all six layers. They HAVE to go too, to direct their forces. Leaving themselves vulnerable.
It's difficult to tell what a Necron might be tempted by. But all the Necron novels show that they each have their own desires. Slaanesh is crafty, they'll probably figure something out. (Heck, tempt them with the possibility to eating flesh; turn them into a Flesh Eater).
Well there is that time that Lucius got made a bitch by a necron warrior and because that necron felt some kind of emotion about killing him he possessed and transformed that Necron, so they are vulnerable to Slaanesh fuckery.
The problem there is Slannesh's bullshit powers.
Lucius was given the power that whenever he was slain, if the slayer took any pride whatsoever in the kill, they would find themselves overtaken by Lucius's soul and their face would be added to his armour. This included a manufactorum worker who created a mine Lucius stepped on and a Necron warrior. At least from what I heard.
Which is some bullshit on par with Ultramarines plot armour.
Chaos Corruption is a thing. Just being in the presence of the main Slaaneshi chaos champion, let alone traveling through the realm itself, would make one more capable of feeling pride and pleasure. This is why Lucius’s power is insidious.
But how would a necromancy get inside the warp in the first place?
After hearing the sound of the disappearing screams bit made me think of a dark my favorite things cover.
The sound of the water as it cuts off their screams, these are a few of my favorite things~
Slaanesh is just the chaos god of "THAT'S AWESOME... oh nevermind"
I always imagined Slaanesh´s realm to pretty much look like a mix between The Ingestion from the comic Concession and whatever place it is the Xenobites come from.
I like to believe that Custodes do speedrun of this place
Now imagine being addicted to the trials of Slaanesh.
no one has ever managed to storm the castle , Matt ward: so this one ultramarines recruit grabbed only his knife ....
*I, CATO SICARIUS, WILL CONQUER THIS HERETICAL REALM IN THE NAME OF THE GOD EMPEROR BECAUSE I, CATO SICARIUS, AM THE GREATEST EXAMPLE OF MANKIND'S STRENGHT AND HUMILITY*
LOL@@SamueL-td7fb
Even I started fantasizing when I heard the description of the last layer. God damn, I need a vacation.
Tzeench episode pls he's the only choas god you haven't covered in depth and I find him the most interesting
Considering Trazyn wanted to go into the warp at the end of infinite and the divine would be nice to see the next book with him going through the layers of Slaanesh, maybe he's the silver knight.
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That's an idea.
Shlannesh is like that one type of girlfriend everyone had where when you speak about your pretty basic fetish and then ask her what she likes you just get a whole Wikipedia page full of the wierdest stuff that is so fucking kinky that everything you just think about is a chastity belt
I don't know where you hang out to meet these girlfriends, but I'd be interested in meeting them and seeing just what these wikis entail... for science.
I would like to know too. So I can better *avoid it*
Interesting
@@probablythedm1669 you can't be serious and say that you don't know these kind of woman. The type that first seem kind of normal. Sometimes maybe a little boring. But when you warm up with then and got the right mojo they are so kinky that you are either turned on to 11 or oil your chastity belt.
The St Celestine novel has a Scene where she's flying over the circles of Slaanesh and even she wasn't able to even look at it for long.
Lovely venom sacs...that's actually hilarious I choked on my tea. I needed this brush with laughter induced death.
Oh boi, another legion episode! I can't wait for the Fulgrim, Rylanor and the Emperor's Children episode! Then they should do the Sanguinius and the Blood Angels episode next! (Reset the clock! Reset it until they have nothing left to talk about!)
36:30 The fourth circle would be easy for me to traverse, because there's no way Slaanesh could make me being adored *without* being outlandish and unbelievable.
You have the pride of someone confident in their abilities; it would seemingly fail to trick you, faking it to entrap you in what seems like the simple path.
@@josephbrumfield8741 Nah I just know that nobody would ever adore me, so the very idea of adoration would be outlandish
There should really be a type of lesser and greater deamon for each of the 6 rings or at least a variant of demonette each. There is so much to work with here.
I heard that Slaanesh was imprisoned by the Aeldar so the “throne realm” sits empty. They put some odd number of chains and locks/ seals on it which leads to the story of the Newborn. If this is completely removed from the original narrative, my bad. I would just love to hear DK react to Slaanesh’s capture, what the seals are, the breaking of a couple seals (especially the one that pissed off Khorne, dog*), and the Newborn.
Wishing all the best
Slaanesh's realm is very much inspired and structured like Dante's Inferno, with its division into circles
DK would enjoy the Ynnari planning their attack on the Pleasure Palace, its just a shame that there's not much to talk about with the Ynnari that hasn't been addressed with the various craftworlds episodes
I love how they begin with the Macho Man voice and end with the Hulk Hogan tone and "brother!"
I recall a grey knight story outlining the realm of slaanesh.
Also Ian Watson novels cover slaanesh very well 😉
you know how tzeentch was bested by a little kid that one time.
it would be cool if something similar happening to slaanesh.
no pls keep children away from slaanesh
@@WilL-DaNG it's already too late!