The Sensei - The Emperor’s Biological Children EXPLAINED | Warhammer 40k Lore
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What? @@shaquilleoatmeal911
IDK why but everytime I've heard about 40k's star child, starman by david bowie plays. Emperor is the starman
@@shaquilleoatmeal911
Greeks
Make the Perennials the Emperor's descendents. Accounts for the immortality and the wild variations in powers. Preserves the canon of both and folds them into a single cohesive narrative. 🤷♂️
Idea: What happened to the non-space marine traitors, like Guardsmen, Titans and Knight Houses?
One would have assumed they fled to the eye of terror.
Exactly what happened to the space marines, they are either dead or fled in the eye of terror, there may be some interesting cases but I don't see how different it may be.
@absolutelyloyalspacemarine1684 Some traitors could retreat in some other places like alpha legion. They did not go to eye of terror
@@CF-or3ci it was a shortened version, but still, the story of the forces fighting alongside the space marines wouldn't be that much different to the story of the space marines, outside of some interesting cases that may or may not exist
Well, Darktide showcases this somewhat
The star child has been brought up in recent dawn of fire books, so that's definitely still canon
IIRC it was also mentioned in teatd vol2 when the emperor discards the power he was accumulating in the warp to defeat Horus.
@joshm9782 yes I've read it, but other books I mentioned are set 10,000 years later in the current timeline
I tought than the star child was the Emperor himself or a primarch like Dorn or the Lion lmao
@BBYG-ig9ix the emporor split his soul, he discarded his "humanity " love, hope, compassion ect... and sent it away. This is what the star child fundamentally is a piece or aspect of himself, reborn.Powerful enough to make chaos worry
@@thedevourer.
So star child is the son of the emperor ?
No dorn or Trajan in sight ?
Dissapoitment
I think it would be a fun little lore blurb when the emperor's children get their reboot that the third Legion was hunting the last of the sensei into extinction because, you know, emperor's children versus the emperor's actual children
Plus probably turn into way better space drugs than the average human…
Plot twist: Alpharius and Omegon are actually each a full Primarch and the fact that they look the same is just a coincidence. Fulgrim however is the Emperor's actual son.
Prediction:
Valdor has found the star child and as the king in yellow has been amassing an army of custodes, winged space marines, imperial aligned daemons, and the star child's apotheosis meant that they were "calling" the sensei to this pocket dimension and join his forces.
Isn't the King in Yellow a thing from the Lovecraft mythos?
@@Texas_Leadyeah but in 40k it's Constantine Valdor, the greatest custodes of all time that disappeared not long after the heresy.
I miss TTS.
@@Texas_LeadYea but this isn't that yellow king
When we Lovecraft readers hear a reference to a being such as The King in Yellow, we nod sagaciously and think: that’s not going to end well.
Headcanon: A lot of sensei are the heroes/gods of Terran myth. Big E could have been a super-father who had lots of offspring that spread across the world and some of them inherited some of his power and did inspiring stuff, continuing throughout the ages.
If they aren’t warp spawn I could very well see that being the case.
So your saying Big E pulled a Zeus and spread his seed everywhere creating demigods that became legendary heroes. You twisted, heretical son of a bitch I'm for it.
@@apostolos8734 The bible does mention some nephilim making up the heroes of old, and there are some very interesting apocryphal texts. 40k might draw from more sources than we think.
Big E is Zeus?
hitler? jesus?😂
At least the Sensei won't meet the Primarchs because it would cause some fumes of obnoxiously toxic family reunions that not even Vulkan can regenerate from those.
The toxic aftermath would make kugath jealous
Dear sir, you underestimate the crushing, overwhelming power of the big guys hugs.... BIG HUGZ YA ZOGGIN RUNT!
1. Ever since I saw "If the Emperor had a text to speech device" and heard about them many years back I was wondering when someone will bring them up.
2. What if the Sensei formed a new faction in the 40K universe.
3. What if the Illuminati were the ones who planned the Horus Heresy.
4. What if Clancy from "If the Emperor had a text to speech device" is a Sensei.
Same... I miss TTS
You and what Army ? .. Oh just give me a few years.
Agreed but the illuminati point is pretty dumb imo
I would 100% be down with the Sensei forming a new faction that would be awesome. Though only if they were a truly independent faction, not a subfaction of the Imperium.
Clancy being a sensei would explain his charisma
Ah yes, my favorite warhammer game Mortal Kombat 11. I love playing as the Sensei in Mortal Kombat 11 the warhammer game.
You must consult with the Elder Gods.
The Sensei must consult the Elder Gods
I play MK11... But I don't get it. Please, can you explain this joke to me?
@@pixelgun4789 Raiden being a Sensei I think
@@hummazhughes766 i think Raiden is god, like Fujin.
Well recent lore, including the End and the Death, seems to have made the Starchild firmly canon again. So maybe these guys will be fully canon soon too.
This does open up the chance to tell the story of the Golden Age/Dark Age, assuming the Sensei were probably the ones leading humanity. It'd be awesome to see a game where players are Sensei helping humanity take to the stars in various factions, galaxy spanning wars, and eventually the downfall of it all
I feel like this would actually be the best way to make a main character for WH40K franchise. Pick a regular person with a shady past to make his way through the grimdark universe and as the show goes on, reveal that he's a Sensei, which allows him to interact with a heavyweights of the universe without being tied to a side.
The rogue trader feels like a sensei when playing. I mean you got iconoclast, dogmatic and heretical choices. Specially when you do soldier + mt.
It could make sense too, each time the emperor discovered a sensei he can tell, and gives them a charter to become a rogue trader.
As charters are hereditary, how better to use your offspring in a way that doesn't announce to the galaxy exactly what they are.
Aberand is totally a Sensei, My man smacks Space Marines dead with one shot...
@@robertbicknell6493 Abelard, smack that big mean red guy for me!
Well those women were lucky and unlucky. They received the greatest poll there is but Emperor left them after some time. I am sure, no man was able to fill the huge void Emp left. 😅
A literally, physically huge void since he stretched it so hard with his *MASSIVE* -
The Emperor beloved by all some for warrior pride some for pure respect and some lucky few for the greatest dicking down of a lifetime
I love the concept of a Child of the Emperor uncorrupting a Choas Marine, just so amazing to picture. Although it would kinda cheapen the current 40k setting a bit.
A video about what we know of Ollanius life before the Imperium era would be great, he often refers to his life in Ancient Greece and it would be nice to have a compilation of some sort
Just read Homer, lmao. OP was Jason.
@@nickcarroll8565 or one of his Argonautes, it’s never clearly stated, he might have been Theseus too as he often refers to the whole labyrinth and the Minotaure in The End and the Death books also, Theseus was one of the Argonauts. If I recall things alright he also compare his journey to the one of Ulysses…
That why a compilation of his mumbling would be interesting, I searched for it and none exist so far
If I remember, he was not only in Verdun but also the Battle of 73 easting.
Imagine all the child support the Man-Emperor of Mankind would have to pay to the Sensei.
Imagine the jealousy once they found out that their dad favored the Primarchs more than them
@@justinianthegreat1444imagine even more jealousy once they find out their dad favored Custodes more than Primarchs.
Child support? Dem golden genes is more support than a hive worlds worth.
The Emperor is a very busy father with his children who are the Primarchs and the Sensei. He does have a wife named Erda who is the Mother of the Primarchs who I cannot imagine if she was to find out about how many children that her husband has. Pretty awesome but weird messed up family right.
Can we have a video on who would be the worst loyalist primarch to return to the current setting? ie who would cause a civil war with Gman! Love the channel:-)
Russ.
Definitely Russ.
While I do like the Idea of “Allfather Russ” and his band of puppies founding a norse themed protectorate, I just don’t think Russ has the attention span to carry it out. The man is fighter, first and foremost, and biggest of all, _he’s a staunch loyalist._ The moment he saw someone hail Guilliman as Lord Commander, his eye would do that twitchy thing and he’d disappear, only for the vox to blurt out that every space wolf ship just trained their guns on them.
Corvus, since he’s…changed since he entered the Warp.
@@TheCorrodedManEh, it depends. The Lion is also extremely loyal but he's not full on anti Gman.
@@user-ez9ng2rw9c Maybe not, but Russ isn’t the Lion. Russ is the self-proclaimed “attack dog” of the Emperor, and what happens when a dog sees someone who isn’t its master trying to tell it what to do?
Either it heeds…or it lunges
@@TheCorrodedMan I think he's not... Beyond reason. He played up his mindlessness but he'll listen to reason.
How do the Inquisition detect Sensei?
If it's not foolproof a Sensei could try and climb the power structure so they could change the policy from above.....
Honestly I’d love it for the Sensei to be brought back to the setting in Canon but only after all the relevant Primarchs have been brought back. Think about how Awesome it would be to have Primarchs vs Sensei and maybe even some of them finding some kind of familiar bonding because they are technically half siblings.
Hell it could even be somewhat of a way to finally solve the Space marine problem in the sense that the Sensei could create their own versions. Like on one hand you have Primaris Marines (Marines genetically bonded to their primarch via gene seed) and on the other you have Sensei Marines (Marines created via warp manipulation) . Would be an awesome idea.
Now obviously they would need to be given what I like to call the Broly treatment where they are brought back but their Orignal backstory and lore is no longer relevant and their origins is now updated to fit into the more modern iteration of Warhammer 40K.
Like maybe instead of their being Thousands out there I’d break them down into just a few Sensei like how there is only a few Primarchs and have them be somewhere in between a Custodes and Primarchs in terms of raw power.
Or maybe the hundreds of remaining sensei that are not grey sensei could become alternative marines themselves. And they'll be somewhere in between primarchs and custodes in terms of power.
I remember the Sensei when they came out. 40k back then was more about small skirmishes than larger pitched battles. The Sensei gave players the chance to run a campaign similar to the ones intended for chaos champion warbands but fighting against chaos instead of for it. One of the figures from the pirates and adventurers range actually has "SENSEI" on its tab and is armed with a bolter and chainsword.
I've always imagined the sensei were basically the gods and heros from our own legends/history, Hercules, Mowi, Thor etc occasionally changing their name and appearance similar to the emperor in his early days, difference being the emperor allegedly stopped changing his name and appearance for some time.
Sorry but who is Mowi?
@@salphoris911 my bad Maui*, the Polynesian demigod, recently shown Moana the Disney movie
@@twinphalanx4465 Ah I see. That makes sense. Ty for explaining.
@@salphoris911 no prob
shout out to Baldermort for having one of the best sensei stories
Sensei are like the Squats, they'll be retconned and reintroduced eventually
I love the "Emperor Shooting Blanks" theory.
I'm kinda sad they closed off the "feed them all to the Golden throne to wake the big E" plot line. They have said their intention is to wake the Emperor up (probably to Sigmar the setting) and I think that'd be a cool way to do it
Sensei wu being the child of the emperor makes sense how else could he have masted spinjitzu
This is going to change my view on Ninjago forever😂
0:03 Big E went from He-Man to Skeletor
Perhaps some of the Sensei might take over as quasi Primarchs, maybe of legions where the marines stayed loyal but the Primarch's turned. Or perhaps taking the place of the two missing?
In other words, they could lead loyalist marines from traitor legions.
@@vanderwallstronghold8905 Pretty much, was on my phone when I posted the original.
I really enjoy the idea of these beings still being alive in the setting. A little redundant sure, but the idea of one willingly embracing chaos is dope. Would be a great villain!
Do a vid on librarians/sorcerers from non psyker chapters/legions
Lol a Black Templar trying to hide the fact he's a psyker.
@vanderwallstronghold8905 right? There's gotta be at least a couple lol
glad you talked about this old lore and funny CZcams thanks your playing Mortal Kombat 11
The way they redeemed chaos champions is similar to help people who we’re forced into worship chaos in AOS can be redeemed, and if they’re righteous enough, even re-forged into the storm cast Eternals.
Idea for a story: Bobby G or The Lion learn of the Sensei and in their "goodness" attempt to end the inquisitions hunt of them and recruit them. Only, the inquisition actually refuses as it is one of the few direct, or direct as you can get, from the Emperor they have. IE The emperor DOES know about the sensei and they are being slaughtered on his orders. To make it better, have the inquisition not know why he needs it done and to become an inquisitor includes having this order placed in one's subconscious and is unremovable. Unlikely to ever happen but could be an interesting angle to go with.
man ive been wondering when you were going to do a dedicated vid on these guys. not many people even know about the Sensei at all. Thanks for a being a student of 40k Majorkill cheers!
Nah nah, ur content is great! Love the funny/casual way of telling the story :)
After watching The Exodite animated series, I'm curious about Tau Navy. Please make a video about them, their strategy and battles they fought against Imperium Navy.
You're always a breath of fresh air xD
Thanks, majorkill!
Very inspiring to smaller channels like us!
Thanks for Makin great content!
your content is good man it boils down a very hard to digest large fandom.
The Sensei are the proverbial Children of -Dune- Terra, but because of how 40K has thematically diverged from _Dune_ (and the fact that Frank Herbet never actually wrote an ending to the series to tie everything together properly) defining the Sensei would require elucidating just what exactly the Emperor actually is and where He came from.
Just as the Sensei faded from relevance and are of questionable cannonicity, the Emperor just kind of exists.
In Dune, the God Emperor, Leto Atreides II, was a being formed from the unholy amalgamation of a pre-born kwisatz haderach who was forced to compromise with his genetic memories and become what is known as an abomination. On top of that he underwent a metamorphosis into human-worm entity, which most critically seems to allow him to produce his own spice through his own metabolism.
This means that the demarcation between Leto's personal psyche, the collective psyche of all who had lived before him, and the prescient visions of the future produced by the spice, was completely obliterated basically turning his subjective experience into that of the omniscient Dr Manhattan.
While the intellectual and prophetic capacity of Dune's God Emperor exceeds that of 40K's, there is one thing he cannot do and that is produce children, owing to having abandoned his human form. What's more he was so deranged it's difficult to assess to what extent Leto's "Golden Path" actually impacted humanity's fortunes for the better.
This gives us some context for what lore we do have on the Emperor's origin might mean. Some sources suggest that Big E is also a collective entity formed from the amalgamation of many shaman-pskers from human pre-history who perceived the threat of Chaos far in advance and drew plans to stop it.
But this, on the whole, seems to have been discredited, leaving the contemporry interpretation of the Emperor's origin as far more vague and speculative, but we can still see attempts to echo Leto's example: Big E also has ancesteral memories to draw upon in the form of "reincarnations" (which leaves the question of what happens to human souls after they die and how they can eb recalled.) But he only gets "shamen, wizards, and wise-men," instead of literally every human who has ever lived back to Adam and Eve.
The Emperor personally supposedly grew up in Anatolia, which suggests he was born around 8000 B.C after mankind had evolved and moved out of the grasslands of Africa which are now the Sahara desert. (Although 40K writers would probaably have it that the initial psyker who was the "proto-emperor" was in fact responsible for saving mankind in it's time of need as the grasslands dried up into -arrakis- dunes and kick-starting civilization 10,000 years ago.)
This would suggest that, like Leto, the Emperor was in fact _a_ person at one time who later became a collective transcendent being.
Leto's prescient capabilities are recapitulated by the Emperor's psyking powers and his unique capacity to "control his emotions." Which would explain why no Aeldari pskyer has been able to match him. *Only I don't really buy this for the obvious reason that the Empeor's lack of emotional intlligence is the reason his primarchs developed daddy and betrayed him.*
The lore tells us the Emperor is master of his emotions. The plot shows us that he isn't, nor could it even function otherwise -- there would simply be no Horus Heresy if the emperor didn't have this one human failing.
And it makes sense that he isn't because a being that had perfect control of it's emotions; is perfectly differentiated, would not be more than human but less than human. It is from lack of differentiation that generation comes; the receptive soil needed by the creative seed to produce growth and change. Dan Abnett agrees as much in _The End and The Death Volume One_ when the Emperor explains to Sanguinius why the primarchs have emotions. So the authenticity of this lore isn't merely questionable but outright retconned. The whole point of emotions is that they are spontaenous processes beyond your control. Total control of your emotions would be equivalent to not having emotions.
At any rate, the overall vibe is that the Emperor alludes to Jesus (as Leto did) by having both a divine and human nature. This is reinforced by the emperor's feat of stealing the fire of the chaos gods, like Prometheus, Prometheus being an archetypal predecessor to Christ. But this si still quite beyond the pale of anything we know about how divinity works in 40K. The only plausible explanation is that the Old Ones engineered humanity to have a God Emperor, which just isn't particularly interesting.
Jesus that's a lot of writing
Or you could combine this theory in two.
The Emperor could have been some exceptional (but still human) dude back in Anatolia until he was chosen by wizards to save humanity. Or he could have been just the collective souls of all those shamans from the start. Either way, as his power grew, his presence in the warp would have also grown. Shining like a lighthouse in the midst of a storm. And soon, a surviving/weakened Old One sees this lighthouse, and immediately beelines straight for Earth before Chaos could do anything. The Old One, after meeting the Emperor, and seeing the potential that this guy could be the death of Chaos and the savior of the galaxy, decides to take the lad under his tutelage. Treating him like a son, and teaching him everything he knew about the Materium (science, mathematics, physics, history, politics, advanced engineering etc.) and the Immaterium (warp entities, the power of belief, magic, Chaos, Order, etc.) Once he was done with his training, he then charged his son with the responsibility of holding back Chaos, uniting the galaxy, and returning the Warp back into the Sea of Souls. Upon the Old One's passing, he transferred what little power he had into the Emperor. Supercharging Big E in a matter of minutes, which would have taken centuries for him to develop on his own.
With the Old One dead, now the hopes, dreams, and ambitions of his adoptive father's race now lay in his hands. Thing is, Big E had hopes, dreams, and ambitions for himself.
Idea: what would have the Tau have done if a Primark had been at one of their expansions
Depends on which but probably whoop ass then separate from the tau empire
Anyone received their Big E Miniature order, or am I the only one still waiting? Nearly half a year after ordering and paying…
Hello Majorkill,
Would you kindly make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, the Ecclesiarchy? Pretty please? Thank you.
Man your videos are good.
2:19 the possition of that egal head... fitting
lolx
Superb video as always @majorkill.
Could you make a video dedicated to the Navigators, the major houses, their politics, relation to the overall Imperium and factions, etc
i mean the star child is pretty much canon now since the end and the death vol 2
malcador has stated as much when the emperor rejected his godlike power
A video of the top ten community made wholesome moments would be great
Literally amazing setup for a video game, your a lost sensei and now it’s up to you to save a planet/sector or something
I really love Baldemort's take on sensei in his stories.
The head of the Brides of the Emperor found Skelly Big E so sexy she didn't even pay attention to the Custodian talking to her about Mr Vandire.
Imagine if a sensei spared angron and freed him from both khorne and the nails. It would be so interesting to see the only traitor primarch with an actual reason to be redeemed struggling to fix his past actions in a world where he is marked for death by nearly everyone he knew. He was supposed to be an angel like sanguinius, so it would be interesting if he got a chance to be the angel he was meant to be. Also, it would make for a rather unexpected primarch return, and a very funny family reunion.
Bruh I'm so *high* I rewatched this video 4 times. this is no. 5
That's really hectic law homie.. I had no idea. Winkyface. But how crazy is old school lore.. it just boggles my mind how much we have forgotten about the Warhammer 40k story.
I still think Sly Marbo is a Sensei , not only that but one of the oldest. He just enjoys the deep jungles as it reminds him of old earth from his childhood.
Looking forward to the new studio homie.
Video idea: how exactly has the emperor changed after the Psychic Awakening? We know he’s more active but is he truly conscious now or just slightly more lucid? Does he still need the soul forge in the Astronomicon? Because the Astronomicon exploded. (Recently finished reading the second Vaults of Terra book which shows it failing).
Nice
You don't even need there to be that few of them. The Galaxy is a big enough place for even a large number of people to completely disappear in.
What if Sly Marbo is a Sensei?
Could you do a video about the unspeakable king one of the big E's rivals during the unification wars and one of the few he actually feared might beat him and take over humanity
Is it the same guy that stabbed Big E with a spear or something?
@@vanderwallstronghold8905 No he's a perpetual blank warlord from Earth who conquered most of the planet then disappeared just before the Emperor started the unification wars
@@Alexspartan-pz9er oh
Man imagine if they gather up any surviving sesei and its just Sherlock the inhibitor and sly marbo
So... War of the False Primarch was about a Sensei
Intresting...
Me: So what random lore can we find today? Majorkill: The Emperor's love children forming the illuminati but then getting hunted down and exterminated like the Jedi.
Okay the longer this videos goes on the more they feel like Wallmart Jedi.
The end and the death vol.2 has already got this covered.
wow, Jaw Drago - TTS episode about his first book was genious.
Nice.
They really need to make a game where you play as a Semsei like you said roaming the galaxy, it would be a great way to flesh out the universe
A video on each of the primarch’s favourite food would be cool.
I guess Guilliman loves Caesar salad.
Though I would not put it past imperial artist to have at least one work labeled "Birth of the Emperor" featuring Baby Big E with a chin and abs chiseled from granite shooting lasers.
The Sensei are one of the most interesting lore bits in the setting. They will always be true *and* canon in my headcanon.
Do a video on the chief librarian from each legion
Also each known chapter
@@vanderwallstronghold890510 hour long vid
40 seconds in on this and you just explained just enough to how Emps was Zeus
this video is so good that i died, im writing this whilst having a heart attack
A single Sensei could revert all the traitor primarchs to their former selves making them one of the most dangerous group possible
I reckon GW has the Sensei in their back pocket for if they ever want to resurrect big E
I wonder if they will bring the sensei back into modern 40k. I think that if they were going to then perhaps one of the best ways to achieve this would be to team the Sensei up with The king in Yellow.
Homie spread more seed than Mohammad Ali refilling his bird feeder
Idea: Emperors first and Last words to each Primarch.
Attempt 2 of asking what sort of “hectic weaponry” the Dark Angels have locked away in their vaults
A video about what the setting would be if all the primarchs reached their full potential would be cool.
Ngl could sleep on the sensei but the star child makes me want to have my own custom chapter who're devoted to this incarnation of the Emporer.
Since the Emperor was 10 feet tall his baby mamas must have been pretty tough.
Day 24 of asking for a dedicated series of videos detailing in depth the Lion El'Heresy
A lot of this old lore turned out it to be a chaos plot.
Kinda makes one wonder if Malcador could have been a direct descendant of The Emperor...
Damn that's a cool twist
Do a tier list on Primarch performance during the Horus Heresy
And now, for some ego boost: Congrats on getting to the top of the arena ranking in Tacticus today! I did notice.
Make a video on the four chosen and which is the strongest
The confirmed the star child in the volume and death part two
The Redeemer sensei sounds like a good way to redeem some chaos primarchs
I think a Sensei would make a very interesting character in the books, possibly even being a character that gets close to the Lion or Guilliman as a mortal advisor trying to look out for their little brothers.
Idea: Blood Pact explained!
Idea: lore of some Warhammer 40k games. Orrrrrr games workshop history
The Star child or something of that nature was mentioned in Vol 2 of the end and the death.
Ahh too humble!!! Your content is NOT shit Majorkill! You have amazing content i love learning about 40k lore by listening to your sexy aussie voice! Lmfao
Oh shit he did cook
"Mom wake up majorkill posted 40k lore"
Majorkill woke up and choose violence 😂