10 Heartwarmingly Wholesome Moments in Warhammer 40k Lore
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Warhammer 40k is grimdark, but that doesn't mean it can't have it's wholesome moments. Today we check out 10
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Nothing melts my heart faster than wholesome Warhammer Lore.... Except maybe a Meltagun
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your voice can go quite high, gives your balls a tuck.
Make video on lucius the eternal and all these space marines chapters
flame falcons
raptors
silver skulls
storm giants
Mantis warriors
Noise marines
Sons of malice
Sons of antaeus
Black vipers
Covenant of fire
Dragonspears
Dark krakens
Red scorpions
Stormwatchers
Marines errant
Scythes of the emperor
Howling griffons
Mortifactors
Steel confessors
Iron snakes
Excecutioners
Also make a videos about the machine god omnissiah
beastmans in 40k
ollanius pius
Soul forge
Daemon engines
Warp smiths and dark mechanicum
Pain engines
Helbrutes
Krorks
Drach'nyen
Obliterators
Video idea : what's outside of the warhammer galaxy
Not canon, obvously, but I think "heartwarming" and "40k" in the same sentence, I think of "Dear Emperor | A Warhammer 40K comic dub"
@@Falsealarm. grass
The real reason Perty and Dorn couldn't be friends was because the writers didn't want to describe the absolute ridiculousness of the forts they could build together.
Naw, cause Perty wanted to build pretty things.
So their bromance would be Perty building utopian cities and Dorn slapping a fuck off wall around it, while all their boys blow raspberries at orks trying to siege it.
TBH, the Ultimate expression of their Bromance would be how utterly impenetrable and gorgeous the Imperial Palace’d be
@@Ecthelion842 that or make the prettiest damn fort in existence, so beautiful in fact that Fulgrim couldnt do anything to compete with it, it will win beauty pageants god dammit
Horus would be dead fast as hell if perty was working with dorn
@@Ecthelion842 Dorn was like that too though. He was pretty appalled at what he had to do to the Imperial palace to fortify it during the heresy.
When Lion found Guilliman's great table with seats for every primarch, traitor, loyal or missing, and when he though Lion was going to mock him for it being an action of emotion, not logic, the Lord of the First simple tells him:
"It's shows you posses a soul"
Coming from Lion, that's as wholesome as it gets.
Yeah Fair play to guilliman but angrons seat was a massive potty 💩
@@B1llzy1010 hey, Guili dude is prepared
@@B1llzy1010 And it probably had steel restraints to keep him in one place for more than 2 seconds
The sad part is that you can tell most of the traitors primarch, did not really want to do this but sadly they felt that their hands were force or found no other way to avoid it. Many of their brothers are now lost, dead, or slowly coming back to life, yet still bearing the scars of the horus heresy. I don't think years of family counseling gonna fix that giant hole.
@@gsamalot Most of the traitor Primarchs are complete greek tragedies, listed in order of what I consider to be most to least traumatic:
*Angron* - This dude, the Sparticus of WH40k who got fucked over not once (Perpetual Mommy letting the warp send him and his 20 brothers away and Daddy E not raising a finger to stop it), not twice (Slavers forcing him into a gladitorial life and implanding him with the butcher's nails, NOT THRICE, (Emperor plucking him away at the precise moment that would decimate his gladiator brother's uprising, even after he asked for the Emperor's support) but *FOUR FUCKING TIMES* (An existance enslaved to Khorne's will. Yea... that sucks.) Angron was supposedly to be the empathetic 'healer' of the 21. It was stated by the gladiators (pre-nails) that in his presense, their nerves were calmed and their anguish eased. That was the effect of his Primarch Aura, but the implantation of the butcher's nails destroyed the portion of his brain that eminated that, leaving only a rage-filled beast. Then the Emperor's betrayal - _let's be honest, that's what he did..._ Destroyed what was left of the former Angron.
*Horus* - Saddled with the burden of being "Father's favorite", he always felt that he had the highest expectations upon him. Despite being titled as 'Warmaster' and the leader of The Emperor's great crusade. Horus, preferred diplomacy over conflict. He would attempt to convince worlds to join with the Imperium ad naseum before ultimatly initiating military options. This is what made his fall into chaos and his turn against the galaxy so tragic, that his desires for diplomacy and reason were replaced by fire and death.
*Fulgrim* - He actually regrets the bargain he made with Slaanesh in throwing his lot in with chaos. He tried to do the "right thing" with the Blade of the Laer by attempting to 'reverse uno' the chaos spirit inside, but he was playing with Disney Dollars at Ceasar's Palace. That slimey little Slaaneshi spirit wormed it's way deep into his soul and there it began to exploit the more carnal and selfish aspects of Fulgrim's flawed personality. Using that as it's "in", it manipulated him into many of the shitty things that he did including but not limited to Istvaan V, Ferrus Manus' decapitation and his total chaos apotheosis. He regrets most if not all of it, but realizes there is no going back. To a degree, I see a few parallels to one of my favorite villian arcs of all time - Arthas Menethil becoming the Lich King _(World of Warcraft)._ Both took up a cursed blade _Blade of the Laer/Frostmourne,_ Killed their friend and ally wielding it, but were already blinded by it's power _Ferrus Manus/Muradin Bronzebeard,_ were ultimatly slaved to the will of a puppetmaster _Ner'Zhul's Lich King/Slaanesh_ & Evolved to a "final form" _'Merged' Lich King/Ascendant Fulgrim._ If you are not familiar with WoW at all, or Arthas, dude, go read up on it. He is, in my mind the epitome of a tragic character. He did what he did for the "good of his nation" and ultimatly that is what destroyed his nation. It's some heavy, heavy lore. The WotLK expansion is about to re-release for WoW on 9/27 (not sponsored lol) wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Arthas_Menethil
*Mortarion* - He is simple. Morty dedicated his existance (pre-Emperor) to the goal of murdering his father for vengance. Then when the critical moment came for him to prove himself "worthy" The Emperor steped in and forever stole the moment from him by slaying his adoptive father, which became the thin edge of the wedge between Mortarion and The Emperor. Here's the thing though, Mortarion was caught in a lose-lose-lose scenario. *IF* he managed to defeat Necare on his own, without ANY intervention, _(EoM or Nurgle)_ thus winning in his bargain against The Emperor, there is no way in hell, that He would have actually made good on it and left without His primarch son and it would have gotten ugly. *IF* the Emperor did not intervene and Mortarion accepted Nurgle's offer _(which, it looked like that's the direction it was going)_ then he would have fallen to chaos right-then & there and would have had to take unplesant steps. *THEN* we have the scenario that played out in lore. The Emperor determines immediately that Mortarion choked and can't do it. Perhaps he detected some warp fuckery with Nurgle psychically reaching out to His son? Regardless, Morty was screwed the moment he got dropped on Barbarus.
*Magnus the Red* - The blame for this one lays 100% with his maker. The Emperor built Magnus with a pyschic ability to see into and control the warp second only to His own - without the fundamental wisdom and strength of character to direct such power. It was almost as if The Emperor crafted him specifically designed for failure and self-destruction. Then as a final middle finger to The Emperor, trashes the Imperial palace and specifically the psycial seals on The Emperor's secret webway project which would have freed mankind from their dependance on the warp. Magnus is the WH40k equivalent of a pro QB, who's been coddled and told he's great all his life, actually plays great ball, is destined for the HoF and beloved by his city and state, but nearing the twilight of his career starts shitposting the team, coaching staff, NFL and fans - pretty much everyone - because he felt like he was entitled to more. To the point where everyone is just like 'fine... just go'. _(*Cough cough* Aaron Rodgers - and yes, I know he's still there. But I still think he's a crybaby PoS. Fight me.)_
*Perturabo* - This dude was driven insane because he could perpetually see the Eye of Terror, no matter where he was. He could feel the weight of the chaos rift bearing down upon him and it prevented him from really forming any kind of meaningful social bond. This lack of proper socialization from a young age can be what mostly accounts for him being such a massive turd in his heresy days.
*Lorgar* - He could not get it through his head that the Imperium was a "religion-free zone", to the point where he needed his own planet exterminatus'd in front of him while he watched _(The Emperor is the best at parenting... right?)_ Here's the thing, this guy grew up on a planet that believed that one day, their God would come. Then, one day. The Emperor - A ~15' tall man in golden armor, eminating a blinding psychic light that physically blinds most to look upon and an aura that compells all but a select few to fall to their knees *decends from the sky* and standing next to him is another ~12' tall dude with crimson red skin and one eye with his own immense and undeniable psychic aura and capable of feats no mere human could even imagine - Then chastise Lorgar and his people for calling them 'gods'. Lorgar was no different than any other religious fanatic - you can't reason with them, you can't debate with them - sometimes you can't even talk with them. Uriah was right on the nose when it came to The Emperor and Lorgar.
*Konrad* - Don't really know this Primarch. Never really touched his lore _(found him boring, sorry /shrug)._ The little that I do know, he's a gutter-rat that grew up as a street punk and then became an all-powerful demigod in command of a legion of genetically enhanced super-soldiers... what could possible go wrong? Really though, He was GW's attempt at telling the story of "a kid abandonded and left to fend for themself". Whelp... he snapped and essentially went feral. He hates everyone, and is the biggest emo ever, the whole "you don't know my pain!" type. Again, I never really followed his lore too closely, because I found him petulent and annoying.
*Alpharius & Omegon* - Again, not too overly read up on the XX lore. I think these guys were just pricks, not too sure though. Hey... I did say up there *most* were greek tragedies...
Vulcan - so good that he stayed Loyalist even though he was bald.
The Dude kinda spent a lot of time in the High Temperature Environment.
But he was a _cool_ bald guy, not a creepy bald guy.
@@DonVigaDeFierro cos bald black guys are often chads like sisco for DS9 he losses his heir and become the bitch slapping hand of the federation and basically Jesus for bajor
Meanwhile Fulgrim has smooth ass Sunsilk hair among the traitors
You can take the hair off a man, but you can’t take the man off the hair
The fact that Rogal Dorn sleep with his Grandfather's coat like a blanket is very wholesome.
Dorn and guilliman seems to have the most wholesome relationships with their adoptive family
I assume vulkan had a wholesome relationship with his adoptive family too but nothing is really confirmed
@@goldietheswagbear8288 Vulkan accidentally hugged them to death
Angron kinda had a wholesome moment with his gladiator father and the other slaves but because of reasons he had no control over most of his "family" died like when he got teleported to emps ship only to watch his slave buddies get slaughtered he got so mad that he beat a fkn casdoties to death (an show of emotion to seeing his family die) same when Angron and gulliman fought, and gulliman punched angron so hard that one of his slave skulls fell off and then gulliman crushed it with his foot. and then Angron going nuclear when seeing that shows that even though he'd turned to chaos he still hold the memory of his slave army and their skulls close to him. Poor angron
@@goldietheswagbear8288 He and his adoptive father had a great relationship, in fact even many years later during the crusade Vulkan fondly remembered the time he spend with him in the forge. Hell the entire town rallied behind him as he went to fight the dark eldar raiders. Thats how well liked he was.
Honourable mentions from the more obscure bits of the lore:
When the Salamanders first met their primarch, they knelt (as marines meeting their primarch tend to do).
What does Vulkan do? He tells them to get up… and kneels himself, thanking them for the sacrifice they endured to defend humanity.
Second: In one of the Warhammer Crime novels, a police detective meets a poor widow who witnessed a murder. During the interaction, he intends to pay her for the information, but the terrified woman believes he’s out to rob her of the give or take $500 she got from her husband’s death (because the police are generally corrupt as hell)
The detective debates giving her $500, then ups it to $1000, then $2000, then takes a look at the horrible conditions around her and says to himself “F it, I’m giving her $10k, no questions asked. It’ll be enough to send the kid to a proper school with a actual path to life.” He does exactly that.
Third: In the same novel a tech priest was also “defrocked”, but he was actually saved from bleeding to death by another tech priest he had once taken in as a child years prior.
Fourth: In the Devastation of Baal, a dying conscript is informed by a space marine that his son, despite having suffered brain damage, is Space Marine material. He then calls his son by his real name (having called him “Boy” for the whole book) one last time before being put out of his misery.
Oh god, you mentioned Baal makes me remember that one scene where a Tech Marine is fixing a Dreadnought. The Dreadnought said:
D: Rest brother, not enough to fix me a second life.
T: oh brother..
D: I would like to see the skies of Baal for the last time.
The dreadnought eyes went dark, his heart stops, another old guard has died and it tears me up
@@herrdoctor2895 you've earned your rest, brother Ignis
What's the title of the Warhammer Crime novel?
@@Misadventures_85 Flesh and Steel. Second book.
Thanks a bunch ✌🏼
You missed arguably an even more wholesome moment for Dante during that vision.
He had a close and very loving relationship with his father (real life, sperm in mum dad, not drank his blood dad). In the book, Dante, he secretly hopes he can be reunited with his father, just to see his father swell with pride at knowing the man his son became.
In his death visions in D.O.B he sees his real father. Like a giddy child he tries to tell his father "Pa, look, I became an angel". Even after 1500 years and enduring the worst humanity can throw at him, becoming a living legend and arguably of the greatest Astartes of all time, in his heart, Dante is still just little Luis who wants to make his Dad proud.
You have no idea how much this makes me smile
Ok first of all how dare you make me feel
Damn that made me tear up, because I've lost my own father and would love for that to happen to me
@@thatstuffguy What's funny is Dante didnt at all respond positivley to Sanguinius. He begged and pleaded to be allowed to die. Sanghuinius isnt his father in an emotional sense, he's his commanding officer. Someone he reveres and respects, but he has no deep love for him.
His real father taught him the values he lives by even after all this time. He didnt become an Angel to win honour or glory or to fight. He became an angel to serve mankind and to try and make the universe better. That's why I think he saw his dad last. Sanguinius gave him his orders. His father reminded him why he needs to follow them.
Dante’s thinking was confused, the thirst still nipped at his heels and his brain was starved by lack of blood. When he looked to his side to see the person helping him he saw Albinus sometimes, but at other times he saw the Sanguinor, and once his own, long-forgotten father, his amber eyes perfect in a rad-ravaged face. Dante had those eyes himself, the sole reminder that he was another man’s son besides the Great Angel’s.
‘Come on, Luis,’ said his father. ‘Not far now.’
‘Da?’ said Dante. ‘Da, is that you? Look at me, look! I became an angel, Da.’
‘My lord?’
His father’s face shivered away like a mirage over a desert. Albinus’ concerned face replaced it. ‘My lord, we should stop. You are gravely wounded. Please allow us to help you. Let us carry you.’
Two of my favorites wholesome moments were basically sons comforting fathers.
1. Was after Perturabo had Razed his home world and killed his adoptive sister, he broke down in tears. But Forrix, his first captain raised him to his feet, and dusted him off, basically agreeing that what happened there was between those two.
2. The other one is when Konrad was having one of his vision based episodes on the bridge of his ship. Sevetar, his first captain, ordered everyone off the bridge, and sat there with his father, waiting for the episode to pass. In the end it got pretty tense with Konrad asking him, “Would you like to know how you die?” Sevetar being the cheeky guy he is responds with, “No, I think I’d much rather find out myself.”
Goddamn making me feel for traitors.
Goddamn making me feel for traitors.
which book is it that we get to see konrad?
@@dimensional-mercenary4702 Konrad Curze, The Nighthaunter.
A bit of a fanfiction, but I want to imagine a moment, after yet another grueling brutal war against some awful xeno on some backwater planet, Perturabo and the Iron Warriors successfully destroyed the threat, and prepare to leave. Grumbling and bitter as always, not even spending another second to check on the local populace.
Yet as they are leaving, they see a gathering of people in the city, and as they walk to their ships, the crowd notices, smiles, and cheers in their honour. Perturabo and his sons stop, as the people shout and clap, expressing their full gratitude to their saviors. He stares, shock still, unable to process what exactly he's hearing. A sea of smiling faces and bright wide eyes, hailing them with jubilation. They are thanked for their work. The people do love and respect them. Perturabo's expression barely changed, yet as he resumed on their path, the change in the air was so palpably felt. And though he and his sons leave regardless, he took a little while longer getting to his ship than any other instance.
_Inspired by that one Death Korps of Krieg art of the girl handing one of the soldiers a flower._
I grabbed my teddy bear, I was so damn happy. After a while, it said to me
"The teddybear you were snuggling was I Rogal Dorn"
-Rogal Dorn
No... it was ALPHARIUS!
I love this.
"I hope our regular cuddling sessions will not have to be rescheduled"
Is this a joke or did this realy happen? And where?
@@derigel9783 Its from If The Emperor Had A Text To Speech Device, a really awesome web series by Bruva Alphabusa, which sadly was another victim of GW's Genocide of fan projects
'Enough,' Fulgrim said, his voice like quiet thunder. The crowd fell silent. 'This is not seemly, my sons. Are you children, to brawl in front of strangers?'
'My lord, the Spider-' Telmar hesitated, seeing Fulgrim's expression. 'Apothecary Fabius has insulted my person. I would have satisfaction.' His hand fell to the hilt of his sword. Fulgrim sighed.
'And how has he insulted you?'
'By comparing me - comparing us - to these... primitives,' Telmar said, glancing at Thorn, who nodded. Fulgrim frowned.
'And why should he not?' Fulgrim looked around, noting the mood of the crowd. They were on the cusp of flight. Telmar's sudden burst of violence had frightened them, shaken them to their very cores. Stories would spread, flying through the city, and from there, the rest of the continent. Awe would turn to fear. Fear to resentment. And resentment to resistance. He has seen the same story, repeated ad nauseam, on a dozen worlds.
Fulgrim had always preferred love to fear. Love was stronger. Fear could be conquered, but love - never. It waned and swelled, but it never truly faded. He had made himself loved on Chemos. And he would do the same here.
The primarch sank to one knee and reached down to help Telmar's victim to his feet. The man stared at him with mingled fright and awe, his mouth working soundlessly. Fulgrim smiled and stood.
'I came from nothing' he said, fixing his sons with a steady gaze. 'I scrabbled in the quarry pits, and down in the deepest mines, carrying buckets on my shoulders because the ascender blew a gasket,' he said. 'I broke my fingernails on raw ore, and grew blisters from heat and labour. You look down on them, blind to the beauty of their struggle. Blind to what they might become, if only someone would scrape the filth from their faces.'
He reached down and lifted a child onto his shoulders. The girl laughed and clapped, unafraid of the giant, even as her mother wept. Fulgrim indicated the crowd. His voice had driven many of them to their knees. 'Look at them, my sons. You are the highest, and they, the lowest. It is your duty to raise them up, as high as they will go. Anything less is not worthy of you.'
- Fulgrim: The Palatine Phoenix
I think Fulgrim would have been one of the top tier loyalist primarchs if he just hadn't picked up a penis shaped sword.
Wow. Sorry Trazyn but i cant wait till someone finally frees the loyal clone of Fulgrim from your collection.
@@PR0F3SR_X Clone?
At this point I consider it the True Fulgrim, it even has his soul.
The original Fulgrim one was just a flawed sketch...
@@Ecthelion842 Very much agreed. Pre-Laer Fulgrim was pretty darn awesome, always striving to better himself and his legion, and successfully doing so until he picked up that blasted weapon :(
that was a great book, i think its by far my favorite of that whole series
Ceogorach's grandest plan is to not save the Eldar, not to kill Slaanesh, but to fool Slaanesh into becoming the Eldar's greatest hero and savior.
Khorne thinks the Orks are the funniest thing ever and lets a bunch of them roam freely in his domain.
Nurgle regularly walks about his domain, and when encountering his subjects and worshippers, engages them in conversation and genuinely wants to know how they're doing and what they've been getting up to.
Tzeentch's maze was overcome by a little girl, which could imply that at least some of his power derives from child-like curiosity and wonder.
tbh if I had to join chaos Nurgle would probbably be the best choice, he is the only one that seems to genuenly care about his followers
I kinda think Tuska Demon Killa is probably one of the most wholesome stories in 40k. Most stories in it don't really have a "and they lived happily ever after" ending.
@@cp1cupcake To be fair, an Ork's "happily ever after" involves ending a lot of other beings "happily ever after".
:D
Now thanks to morty's fuuck up awakening the emperor to galactic affairs nurgle wakes up to the unpleasant sight of almost all his garden in ashes .
@@licensed_beheader wait what did mortarion do? i havent really read anything on the newer lore
One of my personal favourites was from one of the Horus heresy books. Guiliman the master of ultramar who has the resources of 500+ worlds does all his work using an old dark age cogitator that’s objectively sucks and makes a lot of noise, but he uses it because it was his fathers. The computer is later destroyed by word bearers and it triggers Guiliman to have a mental breakdown as his last connection to his previous father (in his words his true father) is lost
I think that was kinda the last straw that triggered his rampage where he teleported onto their huge ass word bearer ship and fucked up kor pheron
@@tonyriemenschneider8745 Nah, he tore out one of Kor Pheron's hearts during the attack on Calth. The cogitator was destroyed during an attack in his quarters on Macragge months/years later.
Alpha Legion. It was during the attack on his study.
Guilliman is more human then vulken
‘He is not my father,’ Guilliman said. ‘He created me, but I assure you, priest, that He was no father. King Konor was my father.’”
*A few excerpts from some other wholesome moments:*
Magnus stepped towards Fulgrim, and the master of the Emperor’s Children opened his arms to receive his brother’s embrace. They spoke words of greeting, but they were private, and Ahriman allowed himself to look away from the majesty of the Phoenician’s countenance. Next, Magnus turned to Sanguinius, and the Primarch of the Blood Angels kissed his brother’s cheeks, his greeting heartfelt but reserved.
//A thousand sons P:309
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‘I don’t have time for a full explanation,’ said Corax, stepping onto the ramp. ‘Send an order to Ravendelve for Solaro to find and detain both of them.’
‘Understood, lord,’ said Ephrenia. ‘I will ensure that any important developments are relayed to your Stormbird channel.’
‘I know you will,’ said Corax, turning back to carefully lay a hand on her shoulder. A smile creased her elderly face. ‘My commanders might be absent with their own agendas, but I can always rely on you, Nasturi.’
//Deliverance lost P: 413
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‘Is this channel secure? Can we be overheard?’
‘Fully encrypted,’ replied Nasturi Ephrenia. ‘I am alone as you requested, my lord.’
‘Call me Corax,’ he said. A promontory provided a convenient seat and he lowered himself onto it to gaze out over the bustle of activity below.
‘It’s been a long time since I used that name informally,’ said the controller. ‘What has been troubling you?’
‘You were the first face I saw, Nasturi. Alone, confused, abandoned. Yours was the first face in that cold, hard place where I woke.’
She said nothing, understanding that it was not her place to speak. Not yet.
‘I have been thinking about that moment a lot. That instant where past and future became one. What would have happened if the guards had found me first?’
‘I don’t understand, Corax.’
‘Could I have become something else? What is rooted in me, and what was grown by the company I kept? What if I had been raised by oppressors, and not the oppressed?’
‘That’s impossible to answer, Corax, and you know it.’
‘So help me. Tell me something good I’ve done. Something objectively beneficial.’
‘You saved my life,’ she said without hesitation. ‘That moment you are talking about? A second later, you killed the guard that had been my tormentor for as long as I could remember. You gave me his head as a gift. You never knew what that meant to me. I was so close to ending it. Even at that age, I was broken, without hope. I saw what they did to the others, what waited for me. Worse, if that guard had lived. I would have died soon enough, by his hand, or mine.’
‘I... You never spoke of this before.’
‘I didn’t have to. I saw you rip off the head of the man that had terrified and abused me since I was born, and then I knew that everything would be all right. I knew that we could fight back, that there was justice and it was clad in white skin and black hair.’
Corax suddenly remembered their meeting with such clarity that it hurt as much as the moment when it had happened, her pain writ so large on her infant features as the guard dragged her away by the hair. He had never seen it before in this way, but he could see it now - the absolute and personal terror she had felt in the grip of that man.
And her laugh, a reaction of sheer relief and delight when the young primarch had torn off the guard’s head.
‘We named you Corvus Corax for a reason,’ she told him. ‘The Saviour.’
‘Thank you,’ he said, and cut the vox-link.
//Corax P: 478-479
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`Do you have children jotun, he asks, ´a wife.´
At this jotun (Leman Russ) gives a shrug of the shoulders. ´No wife, but i have sons.´
Having stumbled upon some common ground, Baerelt edges closer, ´two, three?´.
Another smile, this one half-hidden but not very well. 'More than three,' Jotun says, and there's a glint of something in his eyes that Baerelt mistakes for rakish pride.
´And you love them?´.
´Some more than others, but yes I love them´
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Holy shit, the Corvus and Ephrenia moment was so nice.
Never thought excerpts from Warhammer would a bring tear to my eye
The first one...They were brothers....sweet sweet siblings, and it all came crashing down into ash........broke my heart
Thank you, I thought of Corax and his first moments.
What other primarch is so human to doubt, to even cry and relate to regular humans.
I would add Grimaldus discovering that Andrej survived the Temple's destruction of Helsreach. Him finding himself curiously glad that he had survived and that some men are born with luck.
Also Dante's relationship with his personal Blood Thrall in Dante.
The moment when Lion arived on Macragge and the huge ceremony was held on the main platform. When Guilliman was walking down a huge set of stairs, three space wolves accompanied him and one of them proceeded to throw a challange to Lion (it was about some grudge wolves and angles were holding aganist each other) Lion won and as a prize he got to slap wolve on the butt. Guilliman was of course embarrased as hell. It was somewhat wholesome to me.
Also, the fact that the wolves weren’t supposed to come with Guilliman and when he went: “Really?”
The wolves basically went: “yep, we don’t care.”
@@sirapple2406 Also Guilliman when he was standing on platform and angles started landing, disembarking and parading in front of him like it was their show. Roboute was just like "He is showing off, but it is good"
Challenging the greatest swordsman in the galaxy to a duel. Not the brightest space worlf.
Even before that, there was the moment Lion and Guilliman first come face to face. G-man is nervous about it and feeling self conscious and Lion hugs G-man so hard his helmet falls out if his hands. Lion then bows down, picks up the helmet and hands it back to his brother. All while millions of people watch.
It was sweet. Of course they ended up trading veiled threats a few sentences later but still.
@@campbellsoup93 Another thing to add to that, that was a GENIUS political move as to everyone else Lion looked brotherly and kind, whilst Guilliman looked stiff and inflexible. This gives Lion an advantage by not only throwing Guilliman completely off his game with the unexpectedness of it, it also improves his standing when compared to guilliman.
in my opinion, one of the most wholesome moments in WH was during the story of the Daemonculaba, when the Iron Warrior rejects found the Ultramarines and brought them in a big room to be judged... then they saw a statue made out of scrap metal which depicted the Emperor. The statue was ugly, but these reject held on to their faith in the Emperor after the most horrific fate i can imagine. They kept being strong, they clinged on to the last thing that gave them strenght, and it was the Emperor himself.
feels
one of the space marines sent on that mission said something to the affect of “even in the dark the Emperors light protects”
@@grumpymonk2460 yeah, awesome book
This is the best moment in the entire 40k universe! I think the rejects were called “the Unfleshed”.
@@curiobill yesssss Luetin did a gr8 video on them
@@AlwaysLonely123 and an excellent video it was!
An adendum to the Sevetar moment. The psyker girl was not a prisoner but one of the navigators. A very powerful navigator.
She was also quite wholesome towards him and aided him with his pain, after she was beat up, had her spine broken and was "scourged" Sevetar broke free with her help once more. Instead of running away as she wanted him to do, he ran to her location to see the damage done. Then went and found the culprit and brutally but slowly strangled him to death while proclaiming at gunpoint from loyalist forces that found him during this act: "I am Justice, I am punishment. And I surrender." Following this he was contacted by the girl again and the book ends
“i know i skinned 20,000 people alive but you don’t beat up an innocent child.”
@@synergy8879
I mean not every space marine is the same, regardless of legion.
Space marines are still human at their core, no matter what drugs, brainwashing or augmentations sustain them.
Just like there are bad Iron Warriors, there are also good ones. Just like there are bad Emperor's Children, there are good ones. The same with the Night Lords. The difference is, Night Lords are easily the most evil out of all loyalist legions, so it's rare to find a "good" Night Lord or at least one with some degree of humanity or honor.
@@synergy8879professionals have standards
Honorable mentions:
- Gaz turning the bullet that was stuck in his brain into a bracelet and gifting it to Makari when he first recruited him
- Everything that involves Ogryns and Aun-shi
- Once a bunch of Orks found an ancient temple dedacated to Nurgle and they thought it was Gork (or Mork) and started worshipping it. Nurgle saw this and instead of being offended he genuinely apreciated the worship for what it was and blessed those orks with his gifts and even ordered some of his daemons to protect and assist those orks whenever they needed
- Some dark Eldar that defected to the Ynnari breaking down to tears of joy and happines after being released from their thirst
- The story of a tau water caste and a guevesa detective bonding after working together in the book "Voice of Expirience"
Thanks for sharing some of these! If I might ask, where does the dark eldar/ynnari breaking down part come from?
@@allakatter931 yeah I was curious about that too. Been meaning to get into some xenos lore and I hear good things about the ynnari books, and I’d like to read that scene
@@allakatter931 I think it was a Ynnari novel. I believe it was called "Ghost Warrior Rise of the Ynnari"
Also Vulkan friendship with Eldrad.
Yes, Vulkan and Eldar Farseer being friends, even he was relieved that he found a human who would listen to his warning…until probably facepalming at his naïveté optimism by trying to redeem his fallen brothers.
I just finished the book were Aun-shi gets captivate by the CBT space elfs and I got to say he's a pretty cool guy. I kind of want to see more of him.
I got one about the dark angels there was a human girl who was cold and there was a dark angel who wanted to keep her warm and all the other dark angels didn’t care and just wanted answers so he took one of there cloaks and wrapped it around her the other dark angel got mad and half unsheathe his plasma sword but stopped while another gave her another cloak showing how far the dark angels fell from being knights with honor and respect.
“why my cape?”
“do you see one on me?”
“yeah but she’s a human?”
“and we protect them.”
“but i’m a dark angel though.”
“nice, give me your FUCKING CAPE.”
Man you have to tell me what book that is in, it sounds so awesome.
@@georgestoebig105 wolf lord rho has a narration of it
It's a primaris that rips the cloak off of the chapter master as asmodai holds him (the chapter master) back
@@Minority119 Asmodai is based.
@@georgestoebig105 Yea he's cool
Really says about the gravity of the situation when asmodai is the one going "let's cool our jets and think this through"
During the horus heresy, leman russ went on a suicide mission to assassinate horus. Long story short, he failed and barely escaped after horus gave him a beat down. Corvus corax found russ beaten, bloody, and humiliated. Seeing himself as a failure, the usually arrogant russ breaks down and weeps. Corax, being one of the more empathetic primarchs, comforts his vulnerable brother by cradling russ in his arms.
I JUST GOT DONE reading "know no fear" with the two techpriests...beautiful part of the book
Was generally sad when that part hit. He is mentioned throughout the book after too and it always made me a bit sniffly. They I believe, single handedly pushed back at first,the traitors long enough too let the Ultramarines regroup and communicate to orbit.
One of my favorite books of all time but I am an ultramarine fan boy
@@chrisjoyce4068 I kind of started in random places with the Heresy series and I love Guilliemans character so I started with Ultramarine centered books. Favorite color is blue too so a nice match.
Holy heck!! I’ll check it out
@@chrisjoyce4068 I'm not a ultramarine fan boy but know no fear is my favorite book so far in the HH series. Such an awesome story!
I really like a point in the Lions primarch book where his son is training with his axe and the Lion sneaks up on him, clashing blades. The Astartes is like "fucks sake sire" and the Lion says his form is flawless, though most of the First prefers the sword. Then the Lion goes on this little monologue about how important swords are to humanity, how they even look a bit human, how we give them names and stories. It's really nice to just see him chatting to one of his sons.
The Astartes also hears a bird call, and says he should have cleared the nest for his fortifications (the Lion said Dorn himself could have done no better, another nice moment) but he just wanted to let one innocent thing live. The Lion knows its a mother bird, and she's actually trying to distract them from her nest. The Lion knew nature well
Whenever you hear wholesome you don’t think about orks but in the recent Ghazghkull Thraka book there was some wholesome, kinda, Ork moments. One is that Ghazghkull tells Makati that he needs the grot and he’s kind of his friend, well as closest as orks can feel friendship. Also Makari talks about how Ghazghkull loves fighting Yarrick and the relationship they have is the closest thing orks feel to love, calling Yarrick his favored enemy.
Reminds me of Brutal Kunnin. A squig and grot start following Ufthak around and he names the squig Princess after the squig kills and eats the Princeps of a Titan and he misreads it. Late ron the squig gets injured and he finds himself angry because he'd actually grown attaches to Princess. Like a spiky, large jawed puppy.
@@FireTalon24 Haha that was a pretty good moment. I like how he literally kept trying to kill the grot that was following him around but the squig, nope he's cool with it.
@@zachzolikoff3402 Nizquik I think was the grots name? Lucky grot.
Gud enemiez iz ard ta foind.
Didn't Ghazkull also spare Yarrick on one occasion just because good rivals are hard to come by?
Angron saving Lorgar from getting crushed by a Titan because he was the only Primarch who actually tried to form a brotherly bond with him is pretty wholesome. You don't get many wholesome moments from Chaos, but the two brothers no one else liked being besties gives me that warm fuzzy feeling.
Almost everyone liked lorgar, he was the most friendly of the primarchs
Corax's relationship to his sister.
"I know there is justice. And it has black hair and white skin."
A very wholesome moment was when Fulgrim and Ferrus Manus (who were great friends) challanged one another to see who could forge the best sword (he who did so would get to keep both of them).
But after they both forged their swords and presented them, each of them decided that the other's sword was the best, and so they both exchanged swords as gifts.
Fulgrim made Forgebreaker, a giant warhammer that could topple mountains, whereas Ferrus made Fireblade. A blade that always burned with the hotness of the forge(or something like that). I loved that little segment, which made the overall fight between them that much worse!
And then, you know...
These two brought me here and also left me here guys.
And yet, all your comments are enjoyable to read.
I really like that story. It's the classic case of _I'm better! No, _*_I'm_*_ better!_ only to end with _You're better. No, you're clearly better._
The clash of two people claiming greatness, only to express mutual respect and claim the other greater for their efforts.
I honestly think Ferrus has some good brotherly qualities. Of course there’s him and Fulgrim, but he actually tried to become closer to some of his other brothers like Vulcan and Guilleman. He built a large primarch sized fighting cage specifically so he could spar with his brothers, sadly only Fulgrim would ever take him up on this offer. But here’s my favorite wholesome moment between Ferrus and Fulgrim.
During a large funeral service alongside Guilleman, they were making comments at each other that went something along the lines of:
Fulgrim: “Don’t tell me your about to cry?”
Ferrus: “I’m not above and afraid of hitting you in front of everyone you know?”
If I remember correctly Gulleman did comment that he'll miss Ferrus the most hinting that they did become somewhat close.
Wasn't there a time when ferrus said he had no respect or admiration for Guilliman?
One of my favorites is the Battle of Malbede - "The Battle of Malbede was fought in 963.M41. Originally fought between the Ultramarines Space Marine Chapter and an expeditionary fleet of the Tau Empire for control of the world of Malbede, the conflict took a dramatic turn when the battle awoke Necron tombs hidden under the planet's crust. Facing a common enemy, the Ultramarines and Tau joined forces to defeat the emerging Necrons. In the wake of the battle, Chapter Master Marneus Calgar initiated Exterminatus on the cursed world, but generously allowed the Tau to evacuate before the planet was destroyed."
Yeah, the Imperium is full of evil douchebags, but some characters actually act with honour. Calgar being a cool dude here.
@@FireTalon24 wasn't Calgar is fully conscious about how lucky he and his space marines is? Man is a good friend to his old master too
@@herrdoctor2895 From what I've heard, recent Calgar and UM stories have been quite good. Which is nice considering how they used to be.
I'd personally include Ghazkull Thrakka saving and releasing Yarrick after he nearly died in a shuttle crash simply because Yarrick was the human he personally respected most and he didn't want his favourite rival to die on him.
Well gaz is also basically a kork he speaks perfect high Gothic and is very smart he knows how the Waaaaaaghh works as all korks do so what's the best way to keep it going establish a enemy and who better than yarrick and if gaz ends up killing yarrick he will be the most respected ork in the galaxy therefore making his waghhhhhhh unstoppable
"Wholesomeness doesn't always have to involve hugs and love, sometimes it just means murdering the fuck out of an abusive asshole"
:Peponote:
I'd add from the Alpharius novel when Alpharius choose to take a couple and their daughter onto his flagship rather than kill them because they knew about him and Omegon. Alpharius really came across as one of the most down to earth and reasonable Primarchs with how he treated and acted with normal humans.
I think a lot of that is because he needed to blend in. Nobody could know he existed so he lived among the population of Terra and the Palace as an Imperial Citizen for the most part, aside from being trained my Uncle Mal.
So even though telos and his slaves was an okay scene I wouldn’t say it was the best in that book. By far I’d say the dreadnought vowing to protect the random slave in the tunnels and trying awkwardly to comfort her was unbelievably wholesome.
It's even better, Malcharion was basically worshipped by the warband but he never wanted to be put into a dreadnought and just wanted to die. They went into the catacombs to die fighting and Malcharion insisted on fighting and dying alone because of how much he hated everything. He found this random slave that got left behind and decided his story ends with saving her instead of killing the blood angel hero dread for the second time. He even turned on his big flashlight when the lady's lamp pack went out. The night lords are assholes but they can be compassionate at times.
@@tonyriemenschneider8745 it’s been a year or so so it was fuzzy but I just love how sweet and awkward he was at the time
@@tonyriemenschneider8745 if i remember right it was a slave saved by hte urgence of septimus in the first book, he even recognized her as the one Talos saved
U right, but I think the scene after Xarl faces Telemion, and tells Talos that there's nothing wrong in wanting to live a life that has meaning, is very wholesome especially given the context
@@tblgrbls2306
Xarl’s death made me cry a bit.
Then each of First Claw.
I find it hilarious that the Nightlords have 2 of the most wholesome moments in 40k.
Gotta love my midnight clad boys.
In the final night lords book, i liked how the dreadnought was vibing with the female gunner that was in the escape pod.
@@stavrosg1113 I forgot about that, that was an amazing part of the book.
We stand with the Boys in (midnight) blue
Really wish the War Sage Malcharion at the end of Void Stalker got mentioned. A traitor dreadnought who protected a worthless slave from eldar, just because Malcharion was an old man who wanted to tell someone the history of his legion. He died as a space marine. Protecting a human from the terrors of the galaxy.
Spoilers bruh, I wasnt done with the omnibus >:[
@@Si_Sireeni My brother in christ, no one forced you to read the comment.
@@Relletyrots This comment had me laughing for a good 2 minutes. Thank you for the laugh brother I've needed it.
@@Relletyrots fuck you're right
*did everyone forget that Angron was supposed to be the Empathetic primarch - but then get got nailed.
no, because he's dead the moment the nails got in his head
Slave of Nuceria has a beautiful wholesome moment involving Angron of all people. With a glimpse and the person Angron could've been when he uses an empathic ability (Yes Angron is an Empath enjoy that realization, no wonder the nails did so much extra damage to him) to take away the pain and worries of the other gladiators in his cell wanting to give them a peaceful rest, even if only for a moment he wanted them to not suffer. I still love this scene.
My favourite wholesome moment is when Kharn taught Erebus manners about how he rudely treated Argel Tal.
He even tried using his axe to pop Erebus’ spine back into place since he had back pain during the Horus Heresy!
@@TemplarBlonic Right?! Kharn is truly such a swell guy!
khorne watching this: “yes! yes! kill that son of a bitch! kick his ass!”
Can’t forget how he kept it confidential that the correction was from Erebus’s dad, he didn’t want Erebus to feel childish having to get corrected by his parent
You missed one:
"Your friend, your....love. Did you find her?"
" Yes.......I did find her."
thats more bittersweet, he did find her, but its implied that she was dead
Andrej and Big G last conversation?
"Hero of Helsreach!", the crowd cheered.
As if there was only one.
@@mat5669 indeed
@@sovietonion4020 Goodbye Brother.
I loved when the Space Wolf pack sent to watch Guilliman ran to the defense of Guillimom. While everyone else was running around the Wolves defended the Hearth.
I remember when reading armageddon, about a pair of Guardsmen, with one declaring to Grimaldus that he wanted to declare to his teamate, and Grimaldus replying something like "you better find her now and declare to her, you may not see a tomorrow". That story and the end it had was so beautiful that for me, made me wonder how many stories like that could be happening in that exact moment.
Andrej and Domoska! I read Helsreach recently and it's such an excellent book. Grimaldus finding himself oddly happy to see that Andrej survived the Temple collapsing, trying to find words of comfort as he realized Domoska had died but being unable to say anything really hit home.
The book is full of great moments. Major Ryken and Cyria going from hating one another to falling in love. The Dockmaster actually becoming an important important character and becoming stronger thanks to Andrej's (questionably delivered) leadership. Grimaldus pulling Princeps Zarha from the brink of mind death through sheer force of will, saying "screw reality" and making it happen.
It was such an excellent example of a hopeless battle where you still hoped anyway.
@@FireTalon24 even the story about the priest in Storm Herald that abandons the titan and actually tries to hel the people from Armaggedon
Or the little girl that ask Grimaldus "are you here to save us" leaving him without words
@@lookatthepicture4107 The fat priest was great. Sad that he died, though I suppose it was more peaceful than most of the deaths that occurred.
Now I'm confused what you mean he wanted to declare?
@@chestnut4860 He meant "propose" as in marriage for the second "declare".
Also remember when vulkan arrived all his legion knelt to him and he just said "bowing is a sign of respect, and respect must be earned, I have not earned it, but you have" and kneels to his own legion
Everyone knows the most wholesome moment of w40k is the eldar child letter to the Emperor
Wait what
@@Bodya_CN he knows where you live.
The what???? I wanna hear about this if its actually real!!!
There's a video on yt about this i think
@@thedyingmeme6 i think its like Christmas or something, the Eldar child sent a letter to the Emps, asking him for stuff, unfortunately I dont know if the Emps did give her the stuff she asked
Dorn hugging Vulkan back made me say “aww” out loud. Top tier wholesomeness
Dorn: "I'm telling you Vulkan, I Don't Want a Hug!!!"
Vulkan: **hugs**
Dorn: "... Ok, if you insist.. " whispering, while visibly enjoying the hug: "tell anyone and I'll beat you up..."
3:30 after the near death experience, Dante has still badly wounded and hallucinating on his way to meet Guilliman, he thought he saw his mortal father and called him dad and told him he became an angel.
Invisible barrier: *blocks all matter from passing*
Robby G: don’t worry mom I’ll come and give you a hug.
MF turned noclip on
The moment in Galaxy in Flames, where loyalists from 4 legions were fighting together against overwhelming forces of their treacherous brothers on Istvaan 3 and they were covered in mud and dust and no one could see the difference between them.
One of my personal favourite moments in history was when Inquisitor Amberley Vail and Ciaphus Cain where trapped in an undercity surrounded be Genestealers after they believed Jurgen had been killed. They were both so stressed that they both started laughing their asses off and eventually picked eachother up in their darkest hour and made it out alive.
I mean, I wasn't watching... I was busy... Yes... busy elsewhere...
Hey have you my helicopter? I can’t find it, even though I could have sworn it was right here!
@@CharlesCalvinTheUndying You should have seen my plan when I "liberated" it. It was the greatest plan.
I really felt bad for Jurgen in that moment. No one should die from nids
My favorite wholesome/sad story is when the lamenters chapter (the guy's that had bad luck) visited a world called slaughter house 3 where, the orks had human slaves tasked with mining for resources for the orks. The lamenters relentlessly fought the orks and were able to free 3,000,000 slaves on the planet. But there luck would strike when, they did not have enough ships to save all of the slaves, and escape. Even worse ork reinforcements were on there way. The lamenters were going to send the 3,000,000 on their ship for them to escape and have the lamenters keep fighting the orks until there died, badly wounded, or tortured. Even worse, the Black rage was taking over these lamenters complicating things even further and making it more dangerous by the second. The slaves didn't want to see their heroes, suffer that fate or make them chose what would happen, so the slaves took it upon themselves, to tell their heroes to detonate the charges, sacrificing themselves. So with a heavy heart, the lamenters and the slaves prayed one last time to the emperor, the 100 lamenters and a 1/10 of the slaves, left detonating the charges destroying valuable resources that the orks can not use. They were even offered a reward the "iron halo" for there efforts but refused.
sad part is everyone hated them for it cause they saw them refusing the iron halo as them thinking they were above it. they deserve so much better
.. Imperial army officers kiss, a couple of hours before their own death, as Helsreach is about to fall ..
Grimaldus: "Humans, they will always remain a mystery to me".
Even in the Grim Darkness of the Future there is still love and hope in humanity.
Horror without hope isn't horror but only despair. Horror with hope is much more scary because there is always something left to lose, even if it's just the hope the horror will end.
Until the nids come.
@@bige4333 There is at least the hope you get to make out with Kerrigan...wait..wrong Tyranids.
@@captainsewerrat naw. Id sell my soul to become a necron. Why fight em when you can join em and become numb to the absolute horrors of 40k. Hotness does not matter in 40k only necrodermis and apathy.
@@captainsewerrat When you have something left to lose... what will you do for it?
Everyone read "Unremembered Empire"
It's full of moments like this, even has a few of them that were mentioned.
My favorite being how the Space Wolves defended the "Hearth" the heart of Guiliman his mother from Konrad Curze.
Dying to a man, but an entire squad takes on Curze to defend what is most important to Roboute Guilliman, his mother.
yes, that was a great monent
Some of them survived actually, but they all got fucked up pretty bad. The wolves have another great moment in the great crusade when a squad leads a chase for a year to protect a planet that just refused compliance, simply because they were people that need help and they knew they could.
@@tonyriemenschneider8745 Yes, the story was told in a way that Curze killed or severely injured most of them, until the Pack-leader (the last line of defense) took up his stance and charged Konrad... Was nearly killed instantly.
Once Konrad attempted to Kill her, Vulkan charged out of nowhere and tackled him through a wall and they both fell...
Also the moment where that same group of space wolves got fucked up with Guilliman those guys were awesome in that book.
@@mcnuggets2825 Big blue enjoys the Mjod.
One of my favorites as a space wolves player was when Leman was telling a blood claw about his duel with Lion and how the Lion never told anyone about the curse of the wulfen he witnessed and even went out of his way to cover it up for Leman after their fight. The best part was when he was done telling the story that in that regard the Lion and his sons were better than them for covering for them with the rest of the Imperium.
A favorite moment was that Perty making a machine for his beloved brother magnus who wanted to explore the warp but perty then broke it with his Hammer to set an example trying to tell him to stop as it’s bad and that he loves him and doesn’t want him to do something that he will regret.
idk how but I am a 23y old law student in germany and now listen to the whole Horus heresy and there is actually no other lore channel except for eckhards ladder (Star Wars), that I can enjoy like yours. cool
Literally the same, except I'm a 20-year-old law student in South Africa. XD
History Student from germany here I feel u These audiobooks are simply the best!
Ach Mensch, Grüß dich.
As a computer engineering student in the Philippines, it really is weird to be so into the setting fully knowing I can never afford tabletop
Moin Meister
One of my favorites is in one of the Ciaphas Cain books, after Cain is injured and nearly killed by a rocket, the other characters are all visibly rattled and worried about him. He just assumes its because if he dies they'd get a more strict commisar assigned in his place. However Amberly says in her notes how blatantly obvious it is that they actually all genuinely cared about Cain and were legitimately worried that their friend was hurt.
My favourite one in Gaunt's Ghosts: Salvation's Reach (spoilers) where a White Scar essentially equates a human to a Space Marine, the Emperor's finest
Gaunt found Sar Af talking to Dorden. The old medicae looked especially fragile beside the vast Space Marine in his heavy boarding armour.
‘He is dying,’ Sar Af said to Gaunt, as though this was news and had just come up in the conversation.
‘I know,’ said Gaunt.
‘But he is not afraid,’ said Sar Af.
‘I’m not,’ Dorden said.
The White Scar nodded sagely.
He looked at Gaunt.
‘And they shall know no fear’
White Scars, the most underrated Legion.
Easily one of the best Legions.
Wasn't that a Snake?
@@lookatthepicture4107 there was an Iron Snake there, Holofurnace, but i copy pasted this from the book sooooo... This was not what he said.
Sar Af also forcibly helped one of the Ghosts get better at shooting.
@@Frankenllama I remember, the guy with the metal jaw
His death was epic
I love the Kantor story of him telling off a dickhead officer Space Marine and carrying the woman after she collapses. I think a lot of Space Marines forget that their purpose isn't just to fight and kill the enemies of the Imperium, but to protect the Imperiums citizens as well
‘Khan Kor’sarro, I presume,’ she said in Gothic, her voice amplified by her armour’s vox-casters.
‘I am Kor’sarro Khan, Master of the Hunt and Sword of the Khan. And you are Shadowsun,’ he said.
‘My fame precedes me,’ she said. Though it was difficult to tell, given her accent and the distortion of the vox-caster, he thought that that had been a joke. He shook his head.
‘A hunter knows his prey,’ he said. He extended Moonfang and circled her with a duellist’s grace. Her armour was heavier than his, but not as battle-tested. She was hesitant, where a more confident warrior would be aggressive, as if she were as yet uncertain of her battlesuit’s limits. Or perhaps she was holding back for fear of killing him. The thought grated, but he shoved the insult aside. That was his advantage, not hers.
‘And a huntress knows hers,’ Shadowsun said.
‘I almost had you at Blackshale Ridge,’ Kor’sarro said.
‘Indeed. We were surprised. We are not used to being on the back-foot.’ She had begun to circle him, even as he circled her, matching his movements, if not his grace. Her armour was scorched and scored, but it didn’t appear damaged. Nonetheless, his keen eyes picked out a number of possible weak points, where a thrust from Moonfang might pierce the armour and possibly reach the meat within the shell. ‘Do you understand my meaning?’
‘I take it well enough,’ he said. He lowered Moonfang slightly. ‘It is our way,’ he said. ‘But you know that now, no?’ He narrowed his eyes. ‘You have been studying us. We have fought before, but only in isolated engagements. This was your chance to see how we waged war and you took it. You lead us in, and took us apart to see how we functioned. You gave us too much room, and then too little, stretched us and squeezed us and baited us into ever more narrow burrows. You were clever.’
‘Not clever enough, clearly,’ she said. ‘You are here.’
He smiled, despite himself. ‘But that is what you expected, eh? That is why you are here, rather than back there. You thought I would lead the charge. So you came to capture me personally. Was that what your hunting eagles were for, to wear me out?’ She said nothing and he continued, ‘The kroot. They were fighting to disable, not kill. I’d wager there was more than one pack of them, just in case.’
A sound slithered from her. It took him a moment to realise that it was laughter. ‘I have fought your kind before. Few have proven themselves so quick,’ she said. ‘You fight and think fast. That is why you had to be chained. If you fight so differently, you must think differently. If you think differently, then you can be reasoned with.’
Reasoned with,’ he said. He must know more. Every word, every gesture was its own tale. What war was he fighting? Was this for Agrellan or something greater?
‘You do not think like the others,’ Shadowsun said. ‘Your thoughts are more fluid. More like ours,’ she continued, switching to a crude dialect of Khorchin. ‘My folk grew strong on the plains, like yours. We broke cities then and we have broken worlds since, just as you have done.’ His lips peeled back from his teeth, but not in a smile. Not now. ‘Set your sword aside, and we will speak at length, over glasses of chinyua wine and a game of Go, Khan Kor’sarro. We will speak of Chogoris, and the ways of plains folk, and warriors. We will speak of the Greater Good.’
If he had been any other man, Kor’sarro knew that the temptation would have been overwhelming. There were too many layers of meaning in her words, implicit threats and promises that would take days to decode. The hunter in him longed to follow all of the tracks and trails she was laying before him. But he was not simply a hunter - he was the Master of the Hunt, and he had his duty.
He sighed and looked up at the stars, fading into the dull iron sky of an Agrellan dawn. This world was poisoned, and worth nothing but the lives that would be spent in its defence, including those of him and his men, if that was the way of it. ‘I would like some wine,’ he said and his lips quirked in a smile, as he looked at her. ‘But we have already been playing, huntress, and the time has come to draw our game to an end.’
[...]
Shadowsun held his gaze for a moment. ‘We could have been great friends, huntsman,’ she said, finally. Her armour wavered and a moment later, she was gone, lost to his sight. The sounds of bolterfire trickled off as the tau retreated, leaving Rime Crag to the battered remnants of the Third Company.
Kor’sarro looked down at the char-stain that marked Cemakar’s passing and nodded to himself. ‘Yes,’ he said, ‘I rather think we could have.’
The fact that these moments exist is just crazy awesome to me. Even in Hell, love and compassion can stand strong all the same.
All the time? I mean you have multiple worlds utterly destroyed… and I’m sure those world had people beaming with love and compassion. But they died anyway.
@@62sy I'm not saying love is some kind of end all, be all. I am just amazed that it can still exist in a universe where literally EVERYTHING WANTS TO KILL YOU.
@@62sy why not the witch?
THIS IS WHY I ALWAYS SAY WARHAMMER ISN'T AS SHIT AS EVERYONE BELIEVES.
@@62sy Btw who said they all died? The imperium also escorts the civilians off planet too.
A non-space marine related one, though it might not have been that intentional: a few campaigns after Tanith was destroyed, the First and Only found a group of Eldar trying to close a webway connection before the Chaos cultists could capture it. One of the things the Eldar did in the fight was use psychic powers to convince the First and Only they were fighting against the Chaos invasion of Tanith. While afterwards they knew it wasn't real, it is what solidified the regiment as a cohesive unit, and stopped them from feeling betrayed by Gaunt and the Imperium.
but it broke my heart when hark talked with larkin after bragg died and said "the emperor protects" with larkin looking away and saying "sometimes im not even sure he is watching at all"
Holy shit, what book was it?
@@TheFarghos Yeah, Bragg dying still hurts to this day. Only one death comes close, Corbec. Throne-forsaken Cuu.
@@Bodya_CN Book One.
Yeah I cried when I read that. The Tanith genuinely believed they were fighting for their world and when Gaunt gave voice to it I broke down sobbing. Because it was such a good scene.
Nothing was more heartwarming then seeing Andrej as one of the survivors standing there at the end.
... at least until he brought up his lost love.
Andrej was a real unit all the way.
The best thing about him was later after the Mannheim siege, though. High command declared him dead, but again this dude showed up alive in the same manner he did after the siege of the temple district in Helsreach. They informed him that the Militarum doesn't pay personnel for the time they are officially seen as K.I.A and Andrej loses his shit over the money and especially the caffeine bars they owed him. :D
Andrej was such an excellent character. Him teaching his unit of dockworkers will always remain with me. He's a goof because he knows the only way to stay sane in such a grim reality is to learn to laugh.
There was this section from a short story where a chaos lord has a pretty wholesome relationship with a Daemonette where they referred to each other as little brother and sister and literally enjoyed hugging and all that, pretty wholesome by chaos standards.
Disturbingly wholesome, I guess.
@@zionkaauwai8904 this is excluding the fact that an eldar is being tortured while this is occurring
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And? It’s an Eldar.
@@rustkarl I know.
Oh they were for sure banging
Still think Grimaldus speech calling guardsmen his brothers was pretty heartwarming. But im a huge Grimaldus fan.
Who is Grimaldus, if I may ask? Sounds like a very nice guy.
@@vothbetilia4862 Black Templar Reclusiarch from the book Helsreach.
Who isn't honestly
It hits that much harder knowing how in the grim 40k universe there is still humanity
One bit with Talos and Septimus that I loved was the medallion. The way it worked was that each of the night lords on that ship had a special medallion that could be given to their personal slaves. These medallions were basically a mark of protection that signified that a slave could not be harmed without inviting the wrath of the night lord whose medallion they held.
On the night lords’ ship there was one slave that was a little girl. She was voidborn, meaning that she had been born on and spent her entire life within the ship. She was a symbol of hope for many of the slaves and they all cared for her, with her birthday being a sort of holiday for them.
Talos notices that Septimus is missing the medallion that he had given him and Septimus confesses that he gave it to the voidborn as a birthday present, as he believed she needed and deserved the protection more then he does. Talos initially reprimands Septimus for presuming to give away a boon granted to him by his master and promising protection on Talos’ behalf. He then relents and says that since the girl has his medallion, then he shall grant her his protection.
When Talos’ battle brother, Xarl, learned that Septimus had given up his medallion, he gave him his as he had no other slaves that he had any investment in at the moment and was Talos’ closest companion.
Dorn cuddling his adoptive gramps blanket should be an honorable mention
Bit of an obscure one from the book: The Outcast Dead. There's an awesome duo of an absolutely massive Loyalist(?) Death Guard named Gythua and a top Sniper Emperors Children marine named Kiron. They're already best buds before this moment, but it's the most bro-hammer moment I've ever seen. Kiron gets into a melee with the first man to ever make him miss and gets his ass handed to him but is saved by Gythua who at this point due to earlier events you could litterally look through his chest to the other side. After they bleed out next to eachother:
Gythua:You had no buisiness fighting a massive bastard like that...
Kiron: He made me miss. I never miss...
Gythua: Don't worry, I won't tell...
And them both die nearly simultaneously. Dunno why but this is 1 of my most favorite moments in 40k ever.
Time stamp for the audio book is 11:34:37
Anyone remember when Nathaniel garrow and that lunar wolf carved two halves an an equila onto their armour, so when they put their arms together it formed the whole equila. Kinda wholesome
That was with Saul Tarvitz, Emperors children
Rogal Dorn's conversation with Garviel Loken was a pretty wholesome scene too. Dorn recognised and admired Loken's humanity and put in his word to Horus for Loken to join the Mournival.
Dorn shows concern for his brother Horus, stating that without a voice of reason to advocate for a better course of action, he could be led astray and make decisions that may jeopardise the goals of the Great Crusade.
When Loken shares his anxieties about his role in the Mournival, Dorn places his hands gently on Loken's shoulders and says: "Be yourself. Just be yourself".
Then there’s this little piece of lore: Rogal Dorn kept a fur robe from his adoptive grandfather and slept with it every night because of the bond they shared. Yeah, a Primarch with a security blanket
Orks have their wholesome moments too:
The moment that ork warlord killed his past-self to get a copy of his favorite gun. Or Tuska the Daemonkilla, who was so good killing daemons and he enjoyed it so much, that he went to the Eye of Terror to find more and stomped everything in his path. Khorne was so satisfied with him, that he put him and his boyz in a daemon world where they can fight daemons eternally, resurrecting everytime they are killed.
Love how you mentioned the magos Tychon's father/ daughter duo but left them un named, they're main characters for the best admech trilogy around. 🤣
Where I can find the lore on this?
@@playlistnor the lords of mars trilogy, "priests of mars", "lords of mars" and "gods of mars", great series about a tech priest expedition through the halo stars to the outer rim of the galaxy, headed by Archmagos Kotov on a futile quest to recover an ancient artifact, the breath of the gods. Cast is mostly comprised of tech priests, though supporting cast includes rogue traders and a company of Black Templars. One of the best series in all of Warhammer.
its nice to know there is always light in the darkness
jang and jing xd
Without the light, darkness become meaningless.
We may stray from the path, but the path is always there
The light of the mind alone, cannot banish all darkness. That is why it's good to have friends.
- The Burning Man, Fallout New Vegas
5:50- To give a heartbreaker, said clone was captured by an heretek AI monster to use her brain. But before it happened, she used an override that destroyed it and saying "good bye" to the techpriest.
Also in the space wolves omnibus Ragnar blackmane and his friend sven after killing a group of fenrisian trolls got into a snowball fight. They were in full power armor and almost hit their commanding officer with one snowball when he came to pick them up for a different mission. Lol
Your brief summary of the Kantor scene doesn't really do it justice. He's being hounded by his lesser officers and warriors to abandon the woman and her children. One in particular who is very insensated at everything going on. Kantor makes a compromise and informs the mother they can not slow down but so long as she can keep up, they will be protected. They then March for several days. Kantor purposefully keeping a fast, yet slow enough pace to always keep her in eyesight. When he sees her collapse of exhaustion. He stops and everyone else does. He goes back for her and two of his entourage go with him but not before having to put the pain in the ass in his place. Such a great moment
Favorite part is when he talks to the mother:
'It is time,’ he said, and he reached down to the woman with his gauntleted hands. ‘Time that someone carried you now.'
God i forgot about the lower officers
Not only that! In this part it also shows the friendship Kantor and his old pal (And hardiest space marine ever) Alessio Cortez have. Alessio is absolutely wrecked with guilt and sadness that Kantor has to deal with this, and offers to deal with the woman himself to spare his commander and friend the burden. But when Pedro carries the woman, Cortez feels nothing but awe and a renewed sense of hope from this.
This moment in Rynn's World is arguably my favorite moment in the whole 40k universe because it shows that behind the ceramite, the gene splicing and the sheer destructive power Astartes wield, they are still human and are capable of feeling the same way as the regular folk.
Pedro Kantor is the fucking boss in Rynns World
Source?!!
My favorite recent wholesome moment is how the Squats have true AI robot servants known as Ironkin. They are programmed to be super helpful but are not overly compelled to do their bidding. What makes them great is the Squats just treat them as normal members of their society and don’t look down on them. Allowing them to pursue whatever goals they want to and modify their bodies as they please to fulfill roles. Kin are kin.
Not that they could look down on them anyway, them being dwarves and all.
So basically what society’s that like Ai do. I mean just treat like living beings and you won’t deal with a sky net problem
@@eotwkdp Even living beings want to take over the universe. An AI would eventually want to do it and have a good chance at it, just like an organic could.
@@justhecuke all of them or just groups
Because free will is crazy
@@eotwkdp enough of them. I'm just saying that there's no real reason that AIs can't group together into a militant organization bent on taking over their nation. People do it all the time. It's just that AIs doing it is probably more dangerous in-universe so you wouldn't need as many in order to be a significant problem.
I think servetars killing the overseer is indicative of what the night lords should have been.
Think a army of judge dreads
The night lords omnibus goes into that pretty well. Kurz held to that ideal, same with some like Talos and Sevetar. Kurz destroyed his planet because they fell back into being shitty criminals and most of his new sons were shitty killers that killed because they liked it with no sense of justice or purpose to it. Kurz letting himself be killed was good justification that everything he did was right. He killed those that needed it and the emperor killed him for the exact same reason, at punishment and justice. The night lords were brutal and cruel, but they usually killed and destroyed the least in their compliances.
One of the Night Lords (Talos I believe) in the omnibus also swore an oath to avenge a girl who was murdered
He avenged her because the holder of the token has his protection. If he was unable to protect them, he certainly avenged them. Talos also avenges one of his servants decades after his death.
During the siege of terra sangiuns was fighting nonstop and when he wasn’t he was visiting the injured throwing speeches and giving support to the troops some great shit that a leader must do to show how he’ll be there even in there toughest battles
Eeowyn was not King Theoden's daughter, she was his neice
One wholesome detail about sevatar was that there were 4 people on his ship always looked after as they resembled his family members, implying that these were descended from his family back on Nostramo
On another subject to Dante, in same time as his near death, he did saw his father and apologized for running away before it turned out to be a space marine.
I want Savatar to return, some how some way, and then I want him to be a more loyalist/renegade space marine. Not being a chaos peace of shit, but a force of justice. Pure justice, stalking the outer areas, and brutally killing high lord on planets where they enslave there citizens, then the next day taking his night lords war band to fuck up some world eaters.
I just really want more sevatar, the beast the legend. Becoming who his father was supposed to be, and redeeming his name. But still being the tool of fear and brutality (old habits are hard to break)
That won't ever happen, he wasn't a loyalist. Though if he is to come back he won't be a Chaos worshipper either, obviously.
I have an interesting idea about him ressurecting the Night Haunter somehow with the help of Szo Sahaal (he has the Corona Nox).
I remember a theory that Savatar survived the heresy and went on to found the Charcharadons Astra.
Although it’s unofficial but have you ever heard of Don’t Go by A Vox in the Void. It’s really cool and tells the dedication of the Lamenters to protect the people of the imperium
The most wholesome thing is the Emperor turning a Centurion into a teddy bear.
Yes, very aDornable
I'm new to War Hammer 40K and just started getting into the lore. I've got to say, it's pretty damn dark and I'm loving it.
- Ahriman most of the time when he remembers Ormuzd. (I have an identical twin brother as well)
- The bravery and innocence of most stories dealing with Ogryn
- Drukhari who converted to the Ynnari and are overwhelmed at not thirsting after pain and suffering after so many centuries and millenia
- Anytime the Astartes show deference or respect to other chapters or mortals
- Trazyn with the old human archivist
How about that moment in the cain books where vale says that the notes for the meeting was 'written like he thought no one would read it, as it conserned more with how the light looked in Kasteen's hair then what people said' you go adminstorum drone, you go
Dorn and Vulkan hugging sounds so wholesome.
The most wholesome moment is when papa Nurgle shares his gifts to others😌
He did late 2019
Yes commissar, this post right here
Tzeentch disapproves of this sentiment.
Yes Mr Draigo this man
Nurgles "gifts" are not welcome.
For me another wholesome moment was when a Black Templar called a Slaanesh demon 'Sweetheart' and she blushed 😬
Btw beautiful video..
Bro are you serious or are you screwing with us because this may just convince me to play Black Templars as my first army
@@blacklighthologram5339 the demon feared that his brothers will find out about this and punish him for what he called her so she willingly and forcefully took his bolter and shot herself in the forehead to save him💐
@@darksider2903 no way, this can't be real. A Black Templar? Now way.
What's the book ?
@@darksider2903 this is right up there with that story in fantasy. Forgot their name, a warrior and demon became one after falling in love?
“Wholesomeness doesn’t always have to include hugs or love, sometimes it just means murdering the fuck out of an abusive asshole” amen to that
I personally would like to mention the Gaunts Ghosts series.
Which is generally quite grim, focusing on the desperate struggles of the imperial guard.
But there are several wholesome and tragic scenes.
In the book necropolis, a mother is killed during siege of a hive city. Normally, this would mean death for her two children. But a hive ganger girl adopts them in hopes of saving both. As the battle progressed, all three were found by a guardsman on a guard duty. Who bonds with them, primarily the ganger girl.
The sad part of it is that their father is still alive. And knows about their abrupt adoption. But is still happy for them that they survived the siege.
Another cute but sad moment occurred after the siege. When one of the most wholesome characters, Tanith’s chief medical officer dr Dordan looses his son. His only surviving family member.
This is heartbreaking already. And what is worse is that dr Dordan is almost killed himself in the opening of the next campaign. But when he thinks that he’s dead, he sees the vision of his dead family. And hears his son. Saying that he (drD) can’t die just yet. Similarly to Dante seeing Sangi.
I almost cried.
Have you caught up with the Ghosts through The Warmaster and Archon?
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No. Regrettably, life and hobbies didn’t allow me to get this far yet.
But I do expect some highly emotional conclusion.
Would Rylanor's story be a honorable mention/candidate in this list.
I mean it was badass and cool for Vistario to absofuckinglutely shat over Fulgrim. Who's currently trying to turn Rylanor into a fleshlight
In terms of wholesome 40k I once wrote this under Primarch voices video and people seemed to like it and thought it's wholesome (Vulkan there had a Mufasa voice):
Vulkan during Great Crusade comforting a child he saved from Orks.
The childs parents were brutally slaughtered in attack of Orcs, the city was completely destroyed, but this kid managed to survive thanks to arrival of Salamanders and their Primarch. Vulkan stood taller than any orc or man the child has ever seen and yet his presence did not terrify him in the slightest. In fact, it almost felt comforting to be in his presence. The kid had no one now in the world, he was filled with grief. Vulkan seeing the horrible state of this kid and the horrible fate that fell upon the world took the child on his shoulder and took him out of the burning city upon one of their Imperial Ships, on the ship he was hailed by humans there and Salamanders as the symbol of humanity's perseverance, a great example of humanity's potential and strength as the only person that managed to survive in the attack. The kid spend there a few days to recover, under careful care from Vulkan himself who helped him deal with his new situation. After few days he was told that he would be dropped on one of the nearby worlds under control of the Imperium to have a new family that could take care of him. The day before that though he visited Vulkan again. He expressed how much he didn't want to leave, he wanted to be with them, help the Imperium and children like him. Vulkan seeing this decided to give him a choice, he can become one of them, a Space Marine. But he also warned him that this would be a terribly painful process and he did not wish for this child to die because of it. He told him how many things he can do. He can become a doctor who helps others with medicine, one of Imperial Guard soldiers on the planet he will be on or a Governor. But the child persisted, he wanted to help so much alongside them. But he had to admit that he had another motive, without his family now, he wanted a new family, somewhere to belong and he expressed that there would be no greater honor than to become Vulkan's son. Vulkan hearing that was very moved, but still asked if this is what he really wanted. The child didn't back down. Vulkan could see then how this child managed to survive for so long, his stubbornness reminded him of Rogal. And so the course was changed to Nocturne where the child was about to be dropped off for his training to become a Space Marine. Vulkan though had to leave again, but before he did, he took the child on a great mountain where they spoke one last time before Vulkan departed.
"Let me tell you something that my father told me. Look at the stars, the great kings of the past look down on us from those stars. So whenever you feel alone just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you and so will I"
And so Vulkan had to leave and the child begun his training. Years passed and he managed to preserve, the geneseed was very compatible with the child to everyone's surprise. The kid grew healthy and strong and in time became a true son of Vulkan and always when he was in doubt or felt weak or alone he looked at the stars knowing that his Primarch, new father Vulkan was out there, believing he can become a Salamander and so were all the other Priamrchs and the Emperor of Mankind himself. The new Salamander faced many battles since then, sometimes being able to fight alongside Vulkan as well. But then, the disaster happened. Horus Heresy broke out and Salamander were ambushed at Istvaan V, he was one of the lucky ones that managed to survive although with bad injuries, but Primarch Vulkan was said to be killed. He was devastated, once again he lived when his own family was slaughtered. His faith wavered like never before. Sometimes he even considered ending it all, but even with that he still pushed through, but he was slowly losing himself. Until Vulkan reemerged. The Salamander couldn't believe it. His father was alive... And once he woke up from his stasis he was put into due to certain events on Macragge he was able to talk to him. He told him of all the troubles, all the faith he lost over the course of the heresy. He lost so many of his new family, he was alone for so long without him, he didn't know what to do. He wanted Vulkan to help him. Then Vulkan put a hand on his shoulder.
"I never left you and never will."
Then he remembered his words about the kings in the stars, about how many things he survived and how much he pushed through. It was like Vulkan was always there with him. Guiding him. With all other Salamanders that lost their lives at Istvaan. Then Vulkan said one more thing
"Remember who you are."
At first it sounded strange to him. He knew who he was. He was a Space Marine, meant to protect the Imperium, a proud son of Vulkan. But then his thoughts went back to the planet he was born on. The time when his family was killed and his city destroyed. He had to remember who he was. He was a child that preserved against all odds and became a Space Marine to protect others from the fate he suffered back then. With this new realization, this new clarity his faith was restored. His mission was now clear. He couldn't let himself be brought down by all of this because there are people out there that he swore to protect. People who right now may suffer horribly at the hands of Xenos and traitors. He couldn't let himself be brought down. Not now. Not ever.
CZcams not having a "bookmark comment" option is now officially a crime.
that's absolutely legendary, GW should be taking some notes.
Your comment is to long not to be rude but please learn to summarise
@@alfieingrouille1528 his comment is a short story and it is great. Learn to hold your attention for longer, you ingrate
Someone was inspired by King Lion, but still nice story
Salamanders and Crimson Fists are the most bro-tastic Astartes there are
I'm now really curious at what was in each of the rooms in the imperial palace, and how that compares to Guillimans on Macragge
Roboute: For my beloved brother, Angron, I have designed a stasis chamber that records the happy memories, A medical bay to help prevent the worst impulses of the butcher's nails, a library of the greatest works on psychology and philosophy, and easy access to the forest for long walks, viewing the landscape.
EMPS: ANGRON GET'S A SQUIDGY TOY!
One of my favorite wholesome moments between traitors is "Gate of Bones", an old Iron warrior and Word bearer have their last drink together at a campfire.
keep these up. 40k wholesome moments are the best, because of all the shit you have to go through to get there. the dryer the desert the greater the oasis
You are the reason I got into Warhammer. Thank you for what you supply this fanbase. You give us a way to enjoy the lore that no one else does.