A Friend Explains: Warhammer 40k - Imperium of Man
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- My Twitch moderator, Aelfrik, attempts to BRIEFLY explain to me the armied factions in Warhammer 40k starting with the Imperium of Man!
I thought brief would make this a 15 minute video... and he says there's more groups and stuff in JUST this faction?! My brain is gonna explode.
Please keep in mind this was purposefully kept brief and I wanted it done off the top of his head to make it more like a "podcast/casual hang out" feel! :3 But if you like this format and/or want to do CHAOS next, let me know!!
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warhammer 40K: a couple of british sci-fi dorks in the 80s decided to tell an extended joke about the most awful future they could imagine, and then a bunch of kids in the 90s said "hey that actually sounds badass"
And now the same dorks hate anyone who shares their love for that future. So no one but them can love it now.
@@svolozhanin7627 False. 40k is the most loving community ever so long as you don't try to come and fundamentally change the very thing they're so passionate about.
It's more like they made a fantasy game which copied Lord of the Rings and thought "what if we gave everyone guns?"
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33
Technically, they made copy lord of the rings and then asked but what if we made it in space. Warhammer Fantasy was first, 40k came out as a joke of fantasy set in the future.
@@ODDnanref I know, I've been into Warhammer since I was a kid and live next to the world headquarters
Psyker: but I dont wanna get vored by the emperor!!
Custodes: get in the fucking tube.
"we must apply the MoIsTuRizEr"
Some magic loser: “No, I don’t wanna become a slurpee!“
Custodes: *Slurps sodes*
“I’m missing the part where that’s my problem.”
Well, actually Sister Of Silence but yeah
IT IS AN HONOR!
Psykers are plug in like a battery but yes their souls kind of do vore.
"You don't want to serve the emperor? That sounds an awfully heretical."
"They're the nicest one."
Salamanders: Eldar child? Ah, you meant the kindling....
Children can only be human after all. They must be protected and cherished.
No wait, he was conflicted afterwards, I promise...
It's okay, he was sad about it for a little bit
IT WAS 1 CHILD! for god sake, and even feel bad after the incident, so it not so bad. But the meme it's hilarius hahahahahaha
@@enzomartinez2698 The kindling started it.
Okay, here's an extremely brief (28 hour) summary of everything you need to know...
I knew I was gonna be in trouble when every wiki link had PAGES... XD
"I will try to be brief"
1/256
@@ecyor0 The eternal struggle of a 40k fan...
In true imperium fashion. The administratum would be proud.
… and that covers the imperium, now, on to xenos.
Starting to learn the basics of WH40K
Hour long video, that's about right
I was not prepared XD
@@syliefel Nobody ever is.
That’s actually rather short must be the basics of the basics
"Salamanders are the nicest guys." *Cries in Lamenter*
My taxi bois are always forgotten
People are too busy seeing them get rekt that they forgot how nice they are.
The story of the lamenters are one of the saddest I feel so bad for them I wish that the chapters will be called upon and the lamenters will become one of the favorites
I was a Lamenter once. 😢
Dante is 1500 years old, it's said that the average space marine could live to be about 3000 years old but most don't last more than 300 years because of all the fighting they do.
Explaining 40k lore to anyone who doesn't know it is fun. The amount of "wtf" you get from just explaining the Imperium never gets old.
And that's not even getting into the Tau's "there is no war in ba sing se" shit or chaos and angrons history lol
I like this casual approach for a newcomer, not being overly technical and not stressing over little tiny details. However, I would only advise new folk like yourself to delve further into this if they are genuinely interested, even if it's just a single aspect of the entire 40K universe. Otherwise, it'll just be brute forcing through it. I'd rather have this little adventure cut short with 'it's just not my vibe' or whatever rather than trying to force yourself to like it; nobody would enjoy that.
That aside, it's always nice to see new people interested in the hobby. Been enjoying your channel, it only gets better!
the best thing about 40K lore is that it has become self-referential in the funniest possible way
behold the imperium of man, a towering hellscape of bureaucracy that lost any idea what the hell it was doing thousands of years ago, where history, science, legend, and whatever a sufficiently charismatic/powerful jerk said five minutes ago are all totally interchangeable. the idea of the truth, itself, is a joke: the only point of commonality is the Emperor exists, and humanity fights for him, whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean means is up to you.
behold 40K lore: replace the word "thousands" with "tens," you're good.
I don't think I'll play the games or get into the miniatures (the cost alone scares me haha) but a lot of my friends enjoy the lore and I like listening to them nerd out. So it's more that I'm curious and like to learn about other fantasy worlds!
For anyone that finds themselves interested in diving deeper, I highly recommend Baldermort's guide to warhammer. And for a much less serious but all the more hilarious breakdown, Majorkill.
TY for the recommendations! I might need to dive into that after this lil'series so I can be cool and KNOW THINGS like mah frands!
@@syliefel You're quite welcome. Baldermort's videos are great for* depth of detail while being very easily consumed and understood. Majorkill is hilarious, the memes must flow.
Just so you know majorkill is extremely vulgar
@@jerelly9469 He's not vulgar, he's Australian
@@boogaloobaloo fair enough
Really cool to see a vtuber do Warhammer stuff, even learnt a few thing that I didn't know, will look forward to seeing more.
Btw there's a legend that when you join the imperial guard they are given only three things: the guardman's handbook, a lasgun and a wheelbarow to cart around their giant balls
LOL I love that legend XD
About some Imperial Guard being space marine dropouts, some of them actually are. In the IG even being considered to become a space marine is considered an extreme honor and even though they aren't strong enough to become space marines they will generally go on to be captains in the IG or any high ranking position really. However it is very rare for there to be space marine dropouts as the usual way of failing to become a space marine is dying.
Usually they are the ones that passed the death test, but hot left out because the marines did not have enough space for them. As in they probably would surpass their limit for their chapter or something
??? Since when was 'space marine dropout' ever a real thing? Give me some examples to back this up because this is the first i ever heard of this.
@@Hadduck i don't know about "drop outs" but there are ones who survive but don't become space marines. There is a character in the devestation of Bhaal who survived but had brain damage.
@@Hadduck it really depends on the chapter because they all have various traditions. the Space Marine chapters arent ALL marines either, a large ammount of what makes up the chapter are actually humans employed as chapter serfs doing the busy work so marines can focus entirely on their profession which is training and fighting. Chapter Serfs are usually from these drop outs because they know they can be trusted, in a lot cases the "dropouts" go on to start families who grow up within the Chapter itself and go on to become serfs themselves performing the logistic work. besides admin or ferrying ammo around, chapter serfs are the ones manning Space marine naval vessels as well as acting as security on ships and chapter holdings and forts. calling them security guards is a bit of an understatment though considering being a space marine dropout, they are probably somewhere between a well trained guardsmen and a dedicated Tempestus Scion
Even those who are unable to become fully fledged marines are considered amongst the greatest of mankind and may become serfs for the chapter or be granted a good position on their home-worlds.
"A little bit of lore"
Biggest understatement of the century!
Little bit nearly hour long video lol
Well it is extremely compressed oversimplified lore, that doesnt even covers many rather importand things. Warhammer has a massive variety of factions, subfactions and Subsubfactions in the current day as well as a lot of History were some factions behaved extremely different to now.
Now I know why everyone on Discord laughed at me when I said I thought it would take 15 minutes T_T
@@syliefel and now you know you that the setting is vasttttt! Oh, and that you still don't know anything about it.
P.S. if you want to start to understand the lore, then I would suggest bricky's "Every Warhammer faction in a nutshell" 2 part series, as is it a good starting point for anyone who tries to understand the lore and (potentially) get in on the tabletop game!
Vulkan lives!!
*Stomp Stomp*
The Raven Guard do have custom armor with noise cancelling, active impact absorbers and all kinds of things that makes them silent and sneaky. Corvus Corax had a passive psyker ability that made him not invisible but unnoticed, living things would sometimes be unable to notice him, and some of the Raven Guard inherited this passive ability.
The raven guard does have a special ability that they literally blend with shadows.
Darkness is like drawn to them.
Cool video. The Grey Knights were made by Malcador IIRC. They do allegedly use gene seed directly from the emperor.
I feel like this whole video was a cover for smushing Seelie's brain into the Emperor 😆
Really solid break down of the surface of the Loyalist factions. Looking forward to the Chaos episode! Ave Dominus Nox. Hydra Dominatus.
Are you Alpharius?
@@DJROCKSTAZ we all are alpharius even custodes
@@thealgorithmsentmehere5994 And that is a lie.
@@trifontrifonov4297 which is also a lie embedded in alie
Salamanders: we ll evacuate the children first because it’s the right thing to do.
Iron Hands: we can cramp more of those little screamy things into the shuttles.
Worldeaters: nothing left but a pile of blood and chunks of bone.
The Mechanicus’ refusal to make new technology makes perfect sense with one piece of information. To the Mechanicus, technology is sacred and they are a religion. So new technology breaks religious dogma.
Watch the movie: "Event Horizon"
...It litterally is a 'love song' to pre-Imperial discoveries of the Warp, psykers, etc.
Dorn: _Magic Pain Glove._
(slip)
Dorn: GUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA the Glove has spoken.
Try briky video about all the factions 😁 , and I would like to recommend these videos of majorkill : Top 5 BIGGEST Space Marines in Warhammer 40k , 5 Traitor Marines who would make a better Warmaster than Abaddon | Warhammer 40k Lore , What is each faction's opinion of the God Emperor of Mankind? | Warhammer 40k Lore , or The Galaxy's BIGGEST Troll? Trazyn EXPLAINED! Warhammer 40K Necrons Lore on WesHammer channel , or if you want to understand the emperor's philosophy I recommend the last church animated , Greetings from Italy🇮🇹😁 I apologize for too many suggestions
No need to apologize! I will keep these in mind once I've finished this series if I wanna delve DEEPERRRR
@@syliefel Just to be clear, Majorkill focuses more on being funny than thorough and his humour is questionable at times (at least for my tastes).
Rowboat Girlyman will always be remembered by everyone as Papa Smurf.
If I’m remembering correctly The white scars scar themselves when they become space marines, they do as a tradition, you see before the primarch came to them they were from different planets and have different cultures and had a hard time working together so the primarch brought them together and told them scar themselves and then basically said “from this day forward you are reborn, change your names and remember this, we all share this mark and we are brother in arms”
Honestly I've slowly been getting more and more into 40k lore stuff and the fringes of the peripheral of the actual gaming side of things and it's been a very interesting experience! I recommend Bricky's videos if you want concise but easily digestible stuff about the world and factions of 40k they're still not short videos because...well as you found out for yourself, it's /deep/, but if you're getting into it to his stuff isn't bad to start yourself out on!
I've also heard good thing about Majorkill I think is the channel? He seems to be better for more specific topics, but entertaining all the same as well. Still getting into it though so curious to see how your own journey treats you!
Majorkill is fine for an overview but I would recommend almost anyone else for proper understanding.
Thing on the Raven Guard, they do favor a mark of power armor that is known for being silent (like the power pack doesn't hum and the servos don't whine). It's still a ton of armor and the average space marine is still 7 ft tall. Also they are wearing shiny black and white armor, and yes they do sometimes just sneak into bases of factions known for stealth or high levels of tech, and no that makes no sense but it's 40K, it's over the top.
I guess one thing to mention is Corax did have an ability a few of his sons get when becoming a marine where he can remove his presence from the minds of people looking at him. So some of them can stomp right up to you, throwing stuff around and you'll see the effect but you wont see what's causing it. Which is scary if you don't know they can do that.
One has to remember that Imperial Knights are the civilian planetary defense mech. When humanity was at their peak, they sent one Knight per colony to protect them. These guys are the size of small houses at the smallest and kill enemies by the dozen. A giant mech walker was a civilian defense weapon. Like in the US they have guns for civilians, yeah, just imagine the weapons the actual military had.
Raven Guard actually do wear usually less armor than most marines including the now popularized “Corvus Pattern” (the armor where the helmet is beaky) and later the “Phobos pattern” armor and make heavy use of Scout armor which is less armored. They are also known for their great snipers (Eliminators) and jump pack marines. They also had the single best swordsmen in the Horus heresy that wasn’t a primarch.
"The Space Wolves should howl!" They do! They even broadcast it over radios to scare people.
About Space Marine recruits, think of it this way. Imagine a fourteen year old boy so brave and talented that is practically the Chosen One archetype and saves his people or even planet from some great evil and hunts down monstrosities. A hero on par with the likes of King Arthur. That is the kind of boy who is accepted as a _potential_ recruit. He will then compete against literally thousands of boys like him and of them only a few, or even one, or maybe none, will be found worthy of starting their ascension to become a Space Marine. Once they finish their time in the scout company, they must pass an extremely intense trial unique to each Chapter and thereby finish their training and augmentation. They then receive their Black Carapce and powered armor and are sent to a reserve company...to begin their _real_ training. That is the sort of person it takes to become a Space Marine.
Blood Angels: Will try to get you out of the battlefield before the fighting starts and try not to shoot you if you get into the crossfire despite their best efforts (as long as the can keep the Red Thirst and Black Rage in check).
Salamabnders: Will actively try and get between you and the enemy so you can get away, at the cost of their lives if need be.
You forgot the most important part about the Sisters of Battle: They have a tank that's also a Pipe Organ.
Canonically, it's about a thousand chapters of Space Marines at around one thousand or two thousand Marines (original and revised Codex Astartes, their main organizational document written by Roboute Guilliman before he ended up in stasis and revised after he got back).
I can hear Dorn now
"He's incredibly UNknowledgeable, Father."
The cool thing is that the epic pictures of the Imperial Guard are, in the setting, supposed to be actual pictures. Meaning that they're not dramatic representations full of symbolism. Their battles really are just that epic. The Imperial Guard focuses on dying in useful ways. For example, a soldier running out of cover to be killed so that another can shoot the foe who killed him so their squad can advance. A platoon sacrificing themselves to a machine gun to buy time for a heavy weapon to destroy the nest so their company can advance. A company sacrificing itself to artillery, whether hostile or friendly, so that the barrage halts an enemy push long enough for the regiment to out-maneuver and destroy them. A regiment sacrificing itself by marching over a mine field to clear the way for tanks to break through enemy fortifications so the battalion can liberate a city. And so on and so forth. As the famous quote in 40K says: "A Guardsman's life is to die. Strive to make your death useful." I think I remember reading somewhere that a lot of regiments, upon recruitment, have their soldiers' funerals on their homeworld before leaving as they'll probably never return. And canonically it is rare for a regiment to survive its first combat action. The vast majority of the time, their first fight will result in them being killed to a man.
Fun fact: the Captain-General of the Legio Custodes (they refused the name of Adeptus Custodes but the High Lords call them that anyway) has the same authority as the Emperor when the Emperor and his regent are not available. That authority has been used only like three times. Even though the Emperor obviously intended for him to, y'know, _fill in for him._ As a result of every Captain-General apparently being a closet traitor in every way that matters, man fell into decay and the Imperial Cult took over and the Imperium of Man became the opposite of everything the Emperor wanted for humanity. Great job.
Worst than the friendzone is the explaining warhammer to your friend zone
Watching this reminded me why I love the Salamanders so much.
They are, arguably, the only space marine chapter which understands what it means to be human.
Not to imply that the others are inhuman, but they are content being killing machines for the most part.
Salamanders have actual lives like people: they have friendships, pets, hobbies, and even families!
Most Space Marine chapters either abduct or adopt children before transforming them. And they never really reconnect with their birth families.
Salamanders specifically maintain actual relationships with their families, not just letters and calls. They come home to see them and live with them, on occasion.
I read once that if the salamanders recruit a child who was an orphan, they take the time to find them a foster family on their homeworld.
3 days later…..now you know the basics of the Imperium 😊
The beauty of Warhammer 40,000, at least so far as the Imperium goes, is that the Imperium could solve all of his problems and become a smooth machine to defeat its enemies and then focus on rebuilding itself and letting up on the populace. The problem is, ironically, that the Imperial leadership and other persons of power just can't bring themselves to shed the last of their humanity and be cruel and harsh enough to achieve that. When you dive deep into the lore you start wondering why the Imperium doesn't just make everyone living below the upper hive on hive worlds into servitors, why it doesn't ensure its member worlds don't have strict control over their populations, etc. And the reason the various stories and lore gives is that the Imperials are fully aware of how horrible they are and are genuinely pained by the actions that are necessary for humanity's survival. They just can't bring themselves to take that extra step that would be worse in the short term but would ensure humanity's long term well-being. The horror is that _the Imperium is not evil enough._
I think the reason people play Guard is not because they wanna feel as the normal guy, but because they love the face of horror when they take out a Backpack filled to the brim with dice.
21:46 ish. Astartes are believed to be functionally immortal but they almost all die far before they reach "old age".
"I don't know where chaos is, I swear!" as someone once said, innocence proves nothing!
The actual Banana bois were the Custodes. XD
I have to comment on the ”painglove”;
*Depiction of Primarch with his painglove by If-the-Emperor-had-Text-To-Speech-Device*
”Magic pain glove. What shall I do next?”
**puts on the glove followed by visualized pain for a moment before pulling off the glove**
”The glove have spoken.”
This is my first time seeing your stuff, Seelie, and after watching this you have a new fan. I'm new to Warhammer myself and enjoy watching you learn it like I did. Can't wait until you get to Orks because ORKS IZ BEST! WAAAGH!
Aww, thank you! That's kind of you to say and yus ORKS! I am eager to learn.
I love your interested in the amazing universe of warhammer its nice to see a new arrival and I hope you stay 🤣
PART 2 LETS GOOOO
Actually Commander Dante is 1500 years old if he was 10,000 he would’ve been alive during the heresy but he is declared to be the oldest space marine that’s not inside a dreadnought a dreadnought is a life support machine and the oldest spacer in is named bjorn the fell handed and he’s 10,000 years old in his dreadnought
"AI caused the fall of the first imperium"
Theres a lesson there somewhere.
Crazy thing about 40k, the warp is fueled by emotions, thought....and belief. If enough people believe something, the warp can make it so.
The entire Imperium believes the Emperor is a god, so he may very well have become one...and celestine may actually be one of his daemon princes, hence why she has a strong habit of coming back to life.
Fun fact, Guilliman is terrified that this might actually be the case.
@@Baked-Potayto"Fun" Fact... not that fun of a fact lmao
@@Significantharrassment Big E becoming a god and Guilliman being scared of what that means seems pretty tame compared to how terrifying life in the 40k universe is.
@@Baked-Potayto Dude I just finished WesHammer new video bout the Daemonculaba 💀 was fun to watch lmao
@@Significantharrassment In a universe where that exists, nothing really seems like that big of a deal.
Good ole Rowboat Guilliman
robot girlyman
@@SqualoXO Rowbooty Guiltyman
@@boogaloobaloo robert gorillaman
There's also Rowboat Girlyman
Usually, an average regiment of ten thousand men has only one commissar to keep them disciplined and holding the line against the legions of hell and worse things. Lore-wise, they generally do this not just by killing cowards but primarily by performing heroic deeds of incredible badassery on the battlefield where their regiment can clearly see them and thus inspire the regiment with what a normal man is truly capable of when he's totally balls to the wall and them emulate him. Just imagine how incredible the commissars must be.
defiantly the next logical step to this journey is to watch TTS, and Then, I'd say, do a listen through to Tale Forge's narration of The All Guardsmen Party
I second this, TTS was definitely what got me really into 40k.
iirc the space wolves and the colonists of their world had mixed in part of the local wolf dna to withstand the cold but it was unstable so some space wolves go from human to giant wolf when trying to be elevated to space marine and end up being used as shocktroopes and or mounts.
45:52 Hey. Everyone thinks the Space Marines are the greatest force in the Imperium, ha, they lose a squad their chapter is down a whole percent in strength. The Titan legions of the Mechanicus, they take centuries to make. Sisters of Battle, ha, they're too busy praying to the Emperor. The Custodes and Sisters of Silence, they're a bunch of neets that don't want to leave the Imperial Palace. The Guard and Navy can and will win 90 - 99% of the Imperium's battles. High casualties or not they will hold the line against the foe until reinforcements are a requirement, or when Space Marines come in during the last five minutes to take all the glory.
Ngl i legit thought they just forgot the best imperium branch AKA the guard for a while
As far as what is shown canonically the emperor is aware of his condition in "some form" (since his consciousness is scattered between hell and the material world). So they bring in these psykers into his throne room. While they are standing completely in awe of him (as nobody has actually seen the true corpse of the emperor as his presence alters the conceptualization of weaker mortals). They are viciously ripped of their souls and the emperor's living instinct absorbs their living souls into himself so that the golden throne doesn't drain him of his direct life energy. He does this because he is an eternal. If he died normally there is an unknown length of time that it will take for him to revive in a new body (which could result in human Extinction!). While on the throne it could absorb his immortal lifeline and he could be gone forever.
The golden throne wasn't meant to use even a superior living being as it's source, it was completely a machination of the emperor at his prime for his prime, where his very being was enough to keep it running plus a lot. When the heresy of Horus started he actually sacrificed his oldest and most loyal friend to run it himself (lethal action) due to his magical nerd of a son destroying the infrastructure of the throne due to warp God fuckery and trickery.
So in closing, it has to be done or everyone is fucked. These psykers are (usually) completely aware they will die painfully and horribly, but if they don't everyone and possibly all of the universe is fucked so fast the Emperor can't fix it. Respect and worship them, they are our saviours and the scaffolding that keeps the Emperor's will in place. It's the fault of the administratum and the echlesiarchy that everything else is horrifically fucked (which the Emperor never wanted.)
Raven guard do have less noisy armour, and stealth field ships.
A small correction, the Emperor was a big dude as the primarchs were his clone sons.
He was an immortal wizard from ancient Turkey. Think Conan, but also a wizard.
The Custodes are not that much stronger than Grey Knights. There is 10.000 Custodes, and they are the strongest and fastest.
There is 800 Grey Knights and they got magic. They used the same spear guns, but later changed to spear without gun and wrist mounted guns. So they can wield two swords and still have the gun.
The Titans are also more advanced than the Knights, not just bigger.
Space marines... not even the company knows if they age or not. Likely shouldn't if current science about aging is correct sd they got super regeneration.
Ironically at the current edition canonical color scheme for the Ultramarines include Macragge blue and/or Calgar blue, but not Ultramarine blue.
It WAS included in there color scheme way before, but as of now it is used in some other smaller factions, not in Ultramarines. So now they are Ultramarines only because of the Ultramar.
Minis painting and make-up artists can make up (pun intended) all sorts of names for the "blue" just to pretend that it's a different "blue"
Don't look up how servitors are made or the drukari....actually yknow what look them up
Knights were labor machines, nothing else, during the Golden Age. The knight thing came only after the fall of the human federation.
Imagining the Emperor as just some dude bro kicking in his buddies shitty apartment door and going "We're getting the Empire back together boiiiiiis" is hysterical, and I can't get it out of my mind.
The Emperor of Mankind is the sovereign of the Imperium of Man, and Father, Guardian, and God of the human race. He has sat immobile within the Golden Throne of Terra for ten thousand years. Although once a living man, His shattered body can no longer support life, and remains intact only by a combination of ancient technology and the sheer force of His will, itself sustained by the soul-sacrifice of countless millions of psykers.[2]
His will is omnipotent, extending across the million worlds that comprise His Imperium. For ten thousand years the Master of Mankind has served humanity, simultaneously carrying out a multitude of tasks vital to its survival. All at once He guides his race through the Emperor's Tarot, soul-binds psykers, holds audiences with His most important servants and directs the Astronomican beacon that guides space vessels through the Warp. His immense psychic powers constantly keep the Chaos Gods in the Warp at bay, preventing their intrusion into the material universe and protecting his people throughout the galaxy.[1]
The Emperor's role as guardian of mankind seems to have been predestined for Him. Without the Emperor there would be no Imperium, little space travel, and no protection from the multitude of threats facing mankind. The Emperor knows that to protect his race he must survive as long as necessary for the emerging race of psychic humans to evolve sufficiently.[2]
In the millennia since his ascension to the Golden Throne, the Emperor has become a god to his people, the worship of Him uniting humanity throughout his Imperium, superstition and dogma replacing his doctrine of Imperial Truth.[1]
Daemonkind refers to the Emperor as The Anathema.[9]
History
Rise of the Emperor
The Emperor of Mankind[5c]
The man who would later become known as the Emperor first appeared openly as one of the many warlords struggling for control of Terra during the latter part of the Age of Strife. He was at this point just another Terran warlord, but he met Malcador who convinced him to take the title of Emperor.[19] He was once known as the Master of the Lines in a mountainous region of Terra.[24] There he would seek out individuals whose genetics he could use in his Thunder Warrior project, as well as offer services of gene-editing the offspring children in the region to correct genetic mutations.[24] It was during this time he met Amar Astarte, who he and Erda[30] worked closely with on the Primarch Project.[29a] He also met Ezekiel Sedayne, who would later develop the Black Carapace for the successors of the Thunder Warriors: The Legio Astartes.[24] The Emperor undertook a series of campaigns against all the other warlords on the planet that would later become termed as the Unification Wars. During these wars the Emperor employed several military formations - such as the Thunder Warriors and Geno Five-Two Chiliad - that consisted of genetically altered/engineered warriors, who played a significant role in his eventual victory. With this victory, the planet and population of Terra were at last unified under one rule; that of the Emperor. With this achievement behind him, the Emperor then set in motion his plans to take his purpose of uniting and guarding mankind out into the stars, to unify with the bastions of humanity scattered across the galaxy. This undertaking would become known as the Great Crusade.[4] The prospect of the Great Crusade and the bitter fate of the Primarchs horrified Erda, who viewed the creations as her sons.[30]
The Emperor prepared extensively for the Great Crusade; he created the special astrotelepath corps to link his eventual dominion together, and caused the creation of the Astronomican, a supremely powerful signal device powered by the Emperor's own psychic might that would allow simplified and safer travel through the Warp. Chief amongst his designs, however, were the creation of superhuman warriors, the logical extension of the gene-troopers already under his command. He had first undertaken the Primarch Project, the creation of twenty infants from his own genetic code, designed to mature into powerful generals for his armies. However, this plan went awry with the intervention of the Chaos Powers. Other sources state that the Emperor's longtime collegue and fellow Perpetual Erda cast the Primarchs into the Warp to deny the Emperor His plans for them.[30] While accounts vary as to exactly what happened, the end of the tale is always the same; the Primarchs were cast into the Warp and thought lost.[4] During the tumultuous event, the Emperor's gene-lab was devastated by the forces that scattered the Primarchs. He held up the collapsing underground roof with his psychic power until the vaults workers and data could be safely evacuated.[29b] Afterwards Malcador and Constantin Valdor believed the Primarchs dead or corrupted. However, the Emperor sensed their echoes in the Warp and knew they were still alive. Malcador was surprised that the Emperor began to refer to the lost Primarchs as his "sons", something Valdor saw as an "ebb" in his attempts to suppress his human emotions.[29a]
In the aftermath of these events, the Emperor evolved a new plan. Using genetic material which had been derived from the Primarchs, he created a caste of warriors which would possess some of the qualities of the Primarchs. These successors to the genetically-altered warriors of the Unification Era were the Legiones Astartes, the Space Marines of the First Founding.[3c] After purging the Thunder Warriors and replacing them with these more efficient warriors, The Emperor led the Space Marines into the reconquest of the Sol System. He drove Xenos enslavers from the moons of Saturn and Jupiter and most importantly, achieved peace and eventual integration with the Mechanicum of Mars. This alliance provided the Emperor with much of the means and materiel to extend his crusade into the stars.[Needs Citation]
With the final abatement of the Warp storms began the Great Crusade. The Emperor's forces rediscovered human worlds, cast out alien oppressors, and claimed new territory aplenty. Perhaps most importantly, the Emperor, leading his crusade, rediscovered his lost sons, the Primarchs. Scattered throughout space, the infants were found one-by-one over a period of many decades, and reunited with their father and their kin. All were placed in command of the Astartes Legions created from their respective gene-seed and played their part in forging their father's Imperium.[3c][5]
First amongst the Primarchs was Horus, said to be first discovered and first honoured. However, a contradictory and dubious account given by Alpharius states that he was the first recovered by the Emperor, being found directly on Terra itself.[35] Whatever the truth of Horus' order of discovery, the two fought together at the forefront of the early Great Crusade. The Emperor protected Horus during the Siege of Reillis while Horus repaid the favor during the Battle of Gorro.[17] During the Battle of Gyros-Thravian, the Emperor slew the mighty Ork Warboss Gharkul Blackfang after it had held off three of his Primarchs. Some 200 years into the Great Crusade, the Emperor decided to return to Terra and placed Horus in charge of the military advancement of his Imperium in his stead. Granting him the title of Warmaster after the Ullanor Crusade, the Emperor declared that the time had come for his sons to show him what great leaders they were. Turning his back on direct military interventions, the Emperor then created the Council of Terra, the Imperial Tithe and expanded the civil governing bodies of the Imperium, before retiring in seclusion beneath the Imperial Palace to begin work upon his greatest ambition, the Webway Project. At some point, the Emperor left the Palace to decree the Edict of Nikea, forbidding the use of Librarians within the Astartes Legions.[5]
The Horus Heresy
This turn of events did not please all of the Emperor's subjects, several of his sons in particular. In the final stages of the Great Crusade, the Emperor's most trusted son Horus succumbed to Chaos temptation. Horus was told that the reason the Emperor had left the Great Crusade was so he could attempt to reach godhood, abandon all his sons and betray one of the central tenants of the Great Crusade (to enlighten humanity and free it from the bonds of false gods). Horus saw it as his duty to save the Imperium and turned on his father. Having corrupted fully half of the Space Marine Legions, Horus led them against the Emperor and plunged the fledgling galactic empire into a colossal civil war. This became the most terrible conflict in human history, and billions perished as the Traitor Legions tore apart the empire they had helped to forge.[5] The Emperor's son Magnus attempted to warn his father of the coming slaughter, but his telepathic message breached the Emperor's psychic wardings at the Imperial Palace and caused a grievous malfunction in the Golden Throne. Distraught, the Emperor ignored Magnus' warning and banished his son from his sight. The Emperor then dispatched the Space Wolves under Leman Russ to bring back Magnus before him in chains. However the now-corrupted Horus intercepted the Emperor's order and changed it, instead ordering the Thousand Sons destroyed.[15]
Magnus' Folly
For the rest of the Heresy, the Emperor was forced to deal with the Golden Throne's malfunction, which created a Warp Breach in the depths of the Imperial Palace. As Daemons flooded through the breach, the Custodian Guard and Sisters of Silence held them at bay while the Emperor punishingly exerted himself on the Golden Throne to prevent all of Terra itself from being swallowed. With his attentions turned to this crisis, the Emperor left management of Horus' rebellion to Malcador and Rogal Dorn. During this sad state of affairs, the Emperor engaged in telepathic communications with the lowly Astropath Kai Zulane, who had been given a vision of the Heresy's conclusion. During their psychic communiques, the Emperor revealed he not only already knew his ultimate fate, but had accepted it.[13]
Later Corax, distraught over the disaster on Isstvan V, arrived at the Emperor's palace and demanded audience with the Emperor. Diverting some of his attention to the strenuous task of maintaining the Golden Throne, the Emperor psychically imbued part of the secrets of creating Astartes into his son's mind. Thus, Corax was able to begin rebuilding the Raven Guard.[12]
After five years of maintaining the stability of Magnus' webway breach on the Golden Throne, the Emperor began to exhibit physical fatigue. He finally began to show signs of exhaustion and his nose would bleed, even in the telepathic visions he sent to his Custodian Tribune Ra Endymion. After sensing the birth of the powerful Daemon Drach'nyen in the Warp the Emperor knew the war in the Webway was reaching its climax and the fate of mankind would soon be decided. He ordered the Sisters of Silence to gather a thousand psykers across the galaxy and sacrifice them to the Golden Throne. This allowed the Throne to be powered for a single day without the Emperor's presence, and he used that time to plunge into the Webway and rescue the retreating Imperial forces. After sweeping aside the Daemonic hordes he confronted Drach'nyen and sealed it into the body of Ra Endymion, telling him to run as far as he could into the depths of the Webway in order to keep humanity safe from its influence. Afterwards the Emperor was forced to seal the Webway portal on Terra by again becoming a prisoner to the Golden Throne. The Emperor lamented that his great work was ruined and maintained that now that the Webway Project had failed, humanity was ultimately doomed. Horus would be defeated by his hands, but someone else would take his place. To the shock of his Custodian Diocletian, the Emperor declared the Imperium ultimately doomed, be it in a year or ten thousand, and for the first time admitted he did not know what to do.[14a]
Shortly before the Siege of Terra, the Emperor appeared before the nine chosen champions of Malcador's Knights-Errant. The Master of Mankind stated that while his original Space Marines were built to wage war in the Material, these new chosen must build a new order to wage war against the immaterial. Their fight against Horus was over, but their mission to come would nonetheless be necessary for the survival of humanity. The Emperor revealed he was initially hesitant to fight against these forces directly, seeking instead to contain it. However Malcador was eventually able to convince him that direct action was needed. After telling them of their role, the Emperor bid them farewell as Malcador's confidant Ael Wyntor created a portal to Titan.[20]
Siege of Terra
As Horus besieged the Sol System in the Materium, so did the Ruinous Powers assail the Imperium in the Immaterium. The Emperor alone held back the tides of the Warp from the Sol System. During these struggles, he often took the form of a prehistoric, weary, old man in a fur coat huddled over a dying fire. As Horus finally arrived in the Sol System he appeared to the Emperor as a feral wolf, goading the Emperor and declaring him a tyrant and liar. The Emperor refused to even respond to Horus in these exchanges, looking past him to instead announce his rejection of the Ruinous Powers and declaring their puppet as nothing. As the embers of his fire died, the shadows around him drew closer and closer. As Horus arrived directly over Terra, the fire finally died and Horus gloated that the only option left for his father was to run.[22] In the early stages of the Siege of Terra the Emperor was confined to the Throne, maintaining a psychic barrier that kept Daemons from manifesting on Terra. The barrier was so strong that even the Daemon Primarchs were unable to penetrate it.[23b] The traitors were eventually able to overcome the barrier through a warp ritual involving the mass sacrifice of lives on Terra, though even then its remaining power kept the likes of Angron from being able to fly past the walls of the Imperial Palace.[23a]
During the Siege the Emperor deliberately allowed Magnus the Red to infiltrate the Imperial Palace. Deep inside the Imperial Dungeon a projection of the Emperor dubbed Revelation confronted Magnus and his men in the Hall of Victories. Revelation led them to the Throne Room, where Magnus came before the Emperor on the Golden Throne. Determined to go through with his vow to slay his father, Magnus obliterated the projection of Revelation and powered up his staff to deliver a killing blow to the Emperor upon the Golden Throne. However before he could carry through with the act he was blocked by Vulkan as his Thousand Sons engaged in battle with Vulkan's Draakward and Bjarki’s pack. The Emperor's eyes suddenly opened, and Magnus found himself floating through the ether with his father and witnessing the rise and fall of the galaxy's many empires. The Emperor showed Magnus a future where the Primarchs never turned against the Imperium and the last world in the galaxy was conquered in the name of mankind. In this future Magnus sat upon the Golden Throne to power the Imperial Webway, but his soul was in perpetual bliss as it drifted in the immaterium along the Emperor to discover the limits of cosmic knowledge. The Emperor stated that this future may yet happen, and Magnus could return to the loyalists side at the head of a new legion being prepared for him. Together, the Emperor and Magnus would expel the traitors from Terra and undertake the Great Scouring. However the price was steep, for the Emperor declared the Thousand Sons damned due to rampant flesh change. They could not follow Magnus back into the Emperor's embrace, and would need to be purged. This price was too much for Magnus to bear, and he again struck at the Emperor but found himself in battle with Vulkan, who eventually managed to chase the Crimson King from the Throne Room.[34]
The End and the Death
Mere hours after Sanguinius made his heroic stand at the Eternity Gate and Rogal Dorn's own command center fell to traitor forces, Horus' mysteriously lowered the Void Shields to his own flagship, the Vengeful Spirit. Malcador soon told the Emperor of this development, finally rousing the Master of Mankind.[38a] The Emperor gathered His remaining loyal generals to Him: Sanguinius, Dorn, Vulkan, and Constantin Valdor and against all of their objections announced his plans to teleport to the Vengeful Spirit and end His treacherous son once and for all.[38b] However, Vulkan was to stay behind and oversee the failsafe on the Golden Throne, while Sanguinius would stay behind to lead the loyalist armies on Terra. However the Blood Angels Primarch refused to obey this order, confront his father as he donned His golden armour. Sanguinius finally told the Emperor of his prophetic death at Horus' hands and his intention to defy fate by defeating his traitorous brother instead. This was enough to move the Emperor to change His mind, as He had sought to change His own fate many times in the past.[38c] Unknown to the loyalists but already discovered by Horus, Guilliman's reinforcements were just 9 hours away.[38d]
Dubbing the assault Operation Anabasis, Horus used his abilities to scatter the attackers throughout the Vengeful Spirit. The Emperor and His Custodes appeared in a seemingly ordinary hangar until Horus used his dark powers to take control of many of the Companions. Blood flowing from their eyes and screaming at the effort to maintain control, dozens of the Emperor's own bodyguards attacked their liege-lord. The Emperor reluctant slew dozens of Custodes before the madness passed and He was able to cleanse the lingering taint from His companions. The Emperor and his Custodes then found themselves in the midst of Hell, with many of the warriors falling into daemonic traps until the Emperor unleashed the same psychic fire He had stolen from the Gods of Chaos to cleanse them. Horus revealed that he had held back the full measure of his strength in order to draw the Emperor in, but the Master of Mankind was undeterred by the madness unleashed on the Vengeful Spirit and announced that He was to bring death to Horus.[38e]
After a tragic battle, and though heartbroken at the loss of His favoured son and death of Sanguinius at his hands, the Emperor finally slew Horus. However, the struggle had left Him close to death. In this state He was found by Rogal Dorn. The dying Emperor dictated plans for the arcane life-support machine that would sustain His remaining cells for over ten thousand years, and he was subsequently interred in this altered version of the Golden Throne.[5]
Transcendence
The Emperor upon the Golden Throne[1a]
Main article: Golden Throne
Enthroned within the life-sustaining Golden Throne, the Emperor's will has transcended his maimed body. The Emperor is now divorced from the day to day running of the Imperium; this is left to the Adeptus Terra who govern in his name.[Needs Citation]
Now, his will is interpreted and executed by the High Lords of Terra, his worship is regulated by the Ecclesiarchy, his law enforced by the Adeptus Arbites, his form guarded by the Adeptus Custodes, and his people protected from the horrors of the galaxy and from even themselves by the Inquisition. The Emperor is confined within the Golden Throne, vast biomechanical machinery forming the great Sanctum Imperialis, located deep within the continent-spanning complex on Terra known as the Imperial Palace. There the Emperor's physical form is sustained by carefully maintained machinery. Physically, the enthroned Emperor of Mankind is a ravaged corpse. The last surviving cells in his shattered body are sustained by the Golden Throne, providing an anchor for the Emperor's spirit, which extends across the entire Imperium. The Emperor and the Golden Throne continue to function through the daily sacrifice of thousands of Psykers. While his body is sustained, his will endures. His existence is said to be an unending torment, with his every thought enslaved to the task of ruling, guiding and protecting his race. Ultimately it is only his will to endure that allows him to survive, as he knows his death would lead to the destruction of the Imperium and leave mankind without the guidance it needs to survive.[2]
Only through his power can the Astronomican beam its guiding light, allowing Imperial ships to navigate the Warp in relative safety. The Emperor is not just a beacon for space travel, however, but is said to continue to guide humanity through his Tarot, and through dreams and visions given to selected individuals. It is also popularly believed that he created the warp storm known as the Storm of the Emperor's Wrath during the Age of Apostasy, and that the Emperor's will holds Chaos at bay. Were it not for his unceasing struggle, the Chaos of the Warp would flood the material realm with madness and horror, causing untold destruction.[1] In addition, the Emperor's presence on the Golden Throne keeps the ruptured Webway portal beneath the Imperial Palace in check. Should it again open, Terra would become flooded by Daemons.[16] In addition to these already profound powers, the Emperor is capable of stopping time for undetermined lengths and guiding his servants through manipulation of his Tarot and sheer influence.[8]
Shortly before his own death Konrad Curze spoke to a corpse-puppet of the Emperor he had created. Shockingly, the grotesque work of art began speaking back and shone with blinding light. The voice stated that Curze had acted as intended and like all the Primarchs had been built for a specific purpose, but Chaos had interfered with his plans in the end. At the same time, the voice scolded Curze for believing that fate was absolute and instead blamed the Primarch's own choices for what would soon befall him. The conversation sent Curze into a frenzy and he tore the corpse-puppet to pieces, and it is unknown if this was a mere hallucination or indeed the actual voice of the Emperor.[28]
One of the few conversations between an Imperial subject and the immobilized Emperor occurred at the end of the 41st Millennium. Following the Terran Crusade, the reborn Roboute Guilliman stood before the Golden Throne and communed with the Emperor. The Primarch was disturbed by what had become of his father's mental state. He felt that the Emperor had lost all pretenses of humanity and gave off an overwhelming sense of coldness. The Emperor greeted Guilliman with interest, but as a creator would a long-lost tool, not as a father would with his son. Guilliman feared that the centuries of suffering had stripped away whatever warmth and humanity he once had.[18] What exactly transpirted in the Throne room is unclear, with both Guilliman and Captain-General Trajann Valoris having no memory of what exactly transpired. Apparently, during their conversation the Emperor called Guilliman both a tool and his son and the last hope to save Mankind. He assaulted Guilliman's mind with an overload of information and dark truths of the Galaxy before going silent once more.[37a]
During the Plague Wars the Emperor would seemingly intervene through Militant-Apostolic Mathieu in order to both destroy a portion of the Cauldron of Nurgle on Iax as well as resurrect Guilliman, who had been slain by Mortarion via the disease known as the Godblight. Channeling his power through Guilliman, the Emperor unleashed a mighty blow through the Immaterium which damaged the Garden of Nurgle and the Plague God directly.[37b] Before dying Mathieu came to believe that the Great Rift was now empowering the Emperor, who was close to reawakening. Guilliman seemed to believe the Priest and began to dabble with Belisarius Cawl on ideas on how to bring back his father.[37c]
Rebirth
Two theories have been put forward concerning the possible rebirth of the Emperor. Note that at worst these theories could be considered complete fabrication brought about by Tzeentchian Cultists and the lies of Chaos, as the Inquisition has decreed.[6]
The Star Child
Main article: Star Child
A controversial belief amongst Imperial scholars, the Star Child Theory has two aspects: the first is that the Emperor's soul is currently forming as a new entity (the Star Child) in the Warp and that he will be reborn - a theory not dissimilar to the belief surrounding the potential Eldar god Ynnead- and the second is that the Emperor had children.[3d]
After the defeat of Horus, most of the Emperor's soul is said to have dispersed from his body, merging into the warp in much the same way as that of the shamans, so many millennia before. It is believed that the Emperor - while apparently designed and empowered by the shamans to live forever - also possesses their ability to reincarnate, and that this would be his eventual goal. Avoiding discovery by the Chaos powers, it is believed that the Emperor was able to plant the seed of his reincarnation, a potential new soul awaiting birth: The Star Child. However, it is also believed that this new soul cannot be born while the Emperor is still tied to the Golden Throne, no matter how tenuously.[3d]
Along with this, the Emperor is said to have had children. Although a man of unparalleled, god-like powers, the Emperor was still a man, and throughout the many millennia of his life on Terra had fathered many children. A few of their descendants had inherited some of the Emperor's power, including agelessness, and survive into the Age of the Imperium. They are known as Sensei. Sensei have a unique nature and relationship with the Warp which makes them invisible to psychic senses - even to those of the Emperor. The ultimate goal of the Sensei is to attain Apotheosis with the Star Child.[3d]
The Sensei-Emperor
There is another possibility given for the Emperor's resurrection/rebirth. A hidden group that call themselves the Illuminati have learned from the Eldar's Black Library many truths of Chaos, as well as about the Sensei and the Fall of the Eldar. They realise the Emperor cannot survive in his current state forever, and eventually he will fail, and without the Emperor, Mankind will fall to Chaos like the Eldar. Such an event would create a fifth God of Chaos and create another Eye of Terror, one which would span the entire Imperium. They seek to prevent this by bringing about the rebirth of the Emperor.[3e]
This involves gathering together the Sensei, protecting them from the Inquisition, preparing them for what they claim is "the final war with Chaos." In truth they ultimately plan to sacrifice the Sensei to the Emperor, in the same way so many psykers have been consumed by the Emperor. The Emperor will be renewed, reborn as the Sensei-Emperor to again lead his race in person.[3e]
The God-Incarnate
Main article: God Incarnate
The God Incarnate is a philosophy closely connected to Thorianism that maintains that the Emperor's essence in the Warp may be transferred to a physical vessel, one deemed a Divine Avatar.[10]
Additional Information
Appearance
Before he was trapped atop the Golden Throne, the Emperor could appear to any individual however he wanted. Each person perceiving him differently. The Emperor has appeared as male or female, or neither. As an elderly man or a child. As a peasant, king, magician, and a fool. None has ever seen His true face.[38g]
To most, and in most depictions of him, the Emperor appears as a giant of a man clad in golden armor with long brown hair, a square jaw, and a stern demeanor. He often has an angelic halo surrounding his head. This form was a Golden giant that was meant to appeal to the warrior instincts of the Primarchs and inspire the teeming masses of the Imperium to fight for Him. According to Malcador, the Emperor disliked this form and sought to abandon it upon leaving the Great Crusade.[38g]
When he appeared to Ezekiel Sedayne, prior to the Unification Wars, he appears as a man in rich clothes. His hair was brown, long, and clean. The Emperor's face was both youthful and old. His eyes were placid brown and deeper than time. When speaking to Ezekiel, Ezekiel states that he looks different than when he appeared to the people. The Emperor states that he does change his appearance sometimes, but claimed that his appearance to Ezekiel was "truthful".[24]
When he speaks to Belisarius Cawl, through Ezekiel's memory, he appeared unremarkable. He had his hair tied back. The Emperor wore a scientist's lab coat, and that he was not tall, yet not short. He was handsome, but not outrageously so. He was slight, but not thin.[24]
During the Unification Wars on Terra, the Emperor appeared to Uriah Olathaire, the priest of the Church of the Lightning Stone. As first appearing as a tall man with a remarkably unremarkable face that was stern, but not unkind, and seemed at odds with his "martial bearing". His skin was leathery and tanned, his hair dark and pulled back into a short scalp-lock. Then presented himself as towering, with an ebony face, long dark hair, clad in his golden power armor, and radiating light bright enough to illuminate the darkened interior of the church.[26]
When Arkhan Land met the Emperor at one of His labs on Terra, during the Great Crusade, Arkhan saw the Emperor as a scientist, clad as any scientist might be clad, in a protective hazard suit suitable for work in sterile and hostile conditions, and a surgical mask. The Emperor's surgical gloves had minute circuitry on the fingertips which generated an aura of ultrasound. The gloves would transmit crude internal scans of the body of who he was touching to nearby cogitator screens.[14g]
When Corvus Corax first met the Emperor, the Emperor appeared to be "unremarkable." His height and build were both average. He has dark hair, moderately tanned skin. His eyes were indistinct, a mixture of blue, green, grey, and brown; with a wisdom, kindness, and antiquity that reached into Corvus's soul. He was dressed in an unadorned white linen robe, and wearing a golden necklace, with a pendant depicting an eagle with outspread wings and a lightning bolt held in its talons.[25]
When Lion El'Jonson sees the Emperor, he appears as a hooded figure, armoured in emerald plate, inscrutable with gilt and filigree and shrouded in robes of gold, wreathed in obscuring light. The Lion feels that this appearance is the "truth".[33]
When he first appeared before Leman Russ, the Emperor apperead as a great warrior clad in cloaks and runes. He was fond of games and challenges and bested Russ in combat but failed in drinking and eating contests.[39]
When he first appeared before Vulkan, the Emperor took the form of a humble pale main in outlandish clothing. known as The Outlander.[40]
During the War in the Webway, when the Emperor appeared on the field of battle, he appeared as "one born in the wild lands of Ancient Eurasia". His skin was "a Terran blend of bronze and burnt umber". His eyes were described as darker than his skin. His hair darker than his other features. His hair was pulled back with a simple golden circlet. Clad in his golden armor, more ancient and advanced than even the Custodes' battle plate, a flowing red cloak, armed with his ornate bolter and his sword.[14e]
Due to their Blank nature, the Sisters of Silence see none of the splendor of the Emperor. During the War Within the Webway the Sister of Silence Kaeria Casryn saw the Emperor for what he truly was: a simple man, no more or less, in perpetual agony upon the Golden Throne. His mouth open in a silent scream, the pain of his efforts seeming to age his ageless face. While he wore his golden armor, he had no psychic corona and no golden halo.[14d]
Wargear
The One True Armour
The Emperor's Sword
The Emperor's Lightning Claw
The Emperor's Bolter[14f]
The Apollonian Spear (gifted to Constantin Valdor)[29]
The Dionysian Spear (gifted to Leman Russ)
Identities and Titles
It is stated by Malcador the Sigillite that none has seen the Emperor's true form or known His true name.[38g] However, known identities include:
Neoth - Name the Emperor had given himself in ancient Terra's past. This is the name Erda knew him by.[30]
Alysaundr[38f]
One who was Meek to inherit the Earth[38g]
Master of the Lines - A title that he was known as before Unification Wars.[24a]
Revelation - The name he took in his discussion with Uriah Olathaire.[26][27]
The Outlander - Title he took appearing before Vulkan[40]
The Emperor of Mankind - The title he created upon beginning to reunify humanity on the Great Crusade, taking the form of a Golden Giant.
The God-Emperor of Mankind - After the Horus Heresy, the citizens of the Imperium came to worship him as a god.
The Omnissiah - The Mechanicus believe him to be the physical avatar of the Machine God.
The Allfather - The title the Space Wolves and their successor chapters know him as.
The Anathema - The term by which the daemons of Chaos know him.
3rd Edition
A cryptic account of the Emperor's origins was written by Cripias, the final "Keeper of the Library Sanctus of Terra". This account was later deemed "heretical" and kept from being published. The account was passed down to each Keeper, starting from the First Keeper, Solomon.[7]
In the beginning, the "First Age of Man", the Emperor was hidden. It was the Golden Age and the Emperor prepares Earth for mankind. The people that existed with the Emperor before Mankind were called the "Golden Race". The second group were called the "Stone Race". The Stone Race then built ships that took both races across the galaxy. The Golden Age ends in the 21st Millennium.[7]
Until the 26th Millennium, also called the Dark Age of Technology, the Stone Men were busy creating many things, such as the "Iron Men", or robots. Soon after, the Stone Men and Iron Men fought amongst themselves. The Stone Men eventually defeated all of the Iron Men.[7]
After this "victory" against the Iron Men, the Age of Strife comes and the Stone Men fight amongst themselves. After five thousand years of conflict, the Emperor finally emerges. He conquers and combines the race of men together, leading them. After creating the Space Marines, the Emperor crusades across the galaxy and reclaims Man's former glory. Soon after, the Horus Heresy occurs and the Emperor ascends.[7]
Behind the scenes
The first mention of the Emperor is in Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (1987), which was the very first WH40K book. In that book, he is described as the very first human psyker. His corpse-like condition and consequential confinement to life-support is described as the result of "the strain of his constant vigilance." Although physically paralyzed, the Emperor is still capable of communicating and issuing orders. The Master of the Inquistion reports directly to the Emperor and relays the Emperor's orders to the rest of the Inquisition.[2a]
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Loved the video @Foxscotti! Can't wait for the next video girl! After you go through the Chaos Factions, There are some videos out on CZcams that you can Watch to go into the Universe a little bit more in Depth. Let Aelfrick watch them with you so that he can fill in some of the gaps that might come up Because "Time" LMAO!
The Main 2 videos I'd Recommend are Bricky's videos Part 1 is about an hour, An Hour Twenty Minutes, Long and Part 2 is about 50 to 60 minutes long. The Main thing that I Can say, Or Rather Quote Bricky, about the Adeptus Sororitas (The Sisters of Battle) is that "...They Can ODST Drop entire Churches onto the Battlefield and They even have a Pipe Organ as their Rocket Launcher Artillery Tanks."
And as Someone who has Seen videos of some of the Imperial Guard Units in action, Namely the Death Corps of Kreig, they will fight until the end. In the case of the Death Corps of Kreig, when a Guardsmen is in the Heretic Lines in Close Quarters Combat the one thing that they will always go for is their own Entrenching Tool (Which is usually a Short Handeled Shovel that is carried around as part of their Personal Equipment) and Start Swinging for the Fences in hopes to Bash the Enemy down to the ground away from their own weapon and Slice their Enemy's Head Off. As for the Cadians, well Bricky had this covered too by saying "...The Biggest Mass Export of Human Soldiers." Apparently in what was known as "The Battle of the Eye" in Warhammer 40K lore, When Chaos first started Actually Poking into the Universe a Gateway was opened by the Planet of Cadia. The Imperium sent an entire fleet to Cadia in order to close the Eye before Chaos could come pouring through. From what I remember Bricky saying, the Eye was Closed but the Resulting Explosion ended up slicing Cadia in two thus destroying the planet in the process. While there are still Colonies within the Cadian System that can still send troops out to fight for the Emperor, Most of the Cadian Manpower was coming from Cadia itself and Thus all Cadians are to be Considered as Sacred to the Imperium, however they are also considered to be the "Honor Guard" or the Cream of the Crop within the Imperial Guard.
And Finally, the Church in Warhammer 40K lore is the Ecclisiarchy (hopefully I'm spelling that right).
Hope this helps out a little bit at least as you take your Baby Steps into the Universe of Warhammer 40K and I'll catch you in your next video!
Thank you for the recommendations! And keeping someone around to fill in gaps is actually a great idea because my smooth brain gets lost easily XD
ROBUSCHNER GHUULIMANN!!!!
THAT'S A NEW ONE I DIDN'T EXPECT THAT
I'm not aware of the grey knights ever being a legion, or at least big enough to be considered one.
If I remember correctly the grey knights were founded after the emperor was installed on the golden throne and his second in command decided to break the legions down into chapters and founded the grey knights along with them.
fun story from a notable knight - Castellan "Garran Crowe": he wields a very powerful daemon sword that constantly beckons for the wielder to use its power, constantly and slowly corrupting them. Castellan Crowe is required to keep the sword by his side at all times to prevent anyone else from being corrupted, and he himself has not fallen to it in all his years of service. he is cursed to endure its whispers in order to protect the rest of the imperium, until death do them part.
the rest of the grey knights are like this pretty much, incorruptible.
The Grey Knights were founded by Malcadore, made from the surviving loyalists from traitor legions. They were organised just before the siege of Terra and were left out of the battle because they would be needed afterwards.
@@gerald2508 thanks for the help. interesting that its the loyal traitor legion marines that got chosen, never knew that
@@terrotron8742 You are welcome.
The space wolves do howl, often.
The Raven Guard and some elite Imperial Guard regiments tend to have access to camo-cloaks that actively blend into the surrounding environment. This helps explain how an 8-foot-tall super-soldier in power armor can manage to be stealthy.
Plus they love their phobos armor, which is actually built to be very quiet, if a bit less heavily armored, compared to regular power armor.
The Imperium holds a million worlds with trillions of every day humans. One out every thousand worlds is a forge worlds full of tech priests or a shrine world full of bolter bitches and there are one thousand space marine chapters with roughly one thousand marines each(including the grey knights) and ten thousand custodians protecting the golden throne and the sol system.
Pro-Tip: despite Dawn of War only showcasing 3 of the specific elements of the IoM (SPEEHS MAHRINES, Imperial Guard, and Sisters of battle), there’s always room for subdividing those elements even further.
And then you have the other parts too…some of which *might* be playable via Soulstorm mods.
Magic Pain Glove, what should I do?
"I destroyed her... AND THE TURKEY!" 😂
There are vids about how space marines are made, the fact that they're still not the most op thing in the galaxy despite that really puts the horrors of the galaxy into perspective.
A bit fun fact is to Warhammer 40k around 600 novels but only novels excluding different codexes xenology books and in one example a survival guide for guardsmans same like how is in the lore.
The Ultramarines aren't actually Ultramarines Blue in color. Macrag Blue is what Gamesworkshop's color for them is called. But I believe it's actually a different color from ultramarine.
funny bit of lore about the Imperial Knights. in the former empire before the emperor, the original knights, the mechs i mean, where made to herd dinosaurs
Big E is the most special that ever specialed. Except all the times he made tragic mistakes. Seriously his f-ups are legendary.
Fun fact, space wolves hayed to be called that way during the heresy, they instead called themselves vlka fenryka
This was so much fun to watch. Thank you for making this.
Battletech is another fun sci-fi universe.
They have an extra added lung too
supposedly most humans wont even see a spacemarine in their lifetime, which gave rise to them being seen as angels.
I love W40k. I’m the big lore nerd of my group. Just a warning it is easy to get overwhelmed but it’s a lot of fun. It’s a grim dark place but creative interpretation is very much encouraged.
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To the Raven Guard point real quick--
It's nerdy as shit but they do actually have a special type of armor for them that's lighter. This is kind of a mute point though because in the books space marines of any chapter can move almost silently. Or at the very least, the books have mentioned space marines from different Legions or Chapters being able to move stealthily! Something to do with servos and shit in their legs I don't know I'm not an AdMech
:D good job for not melting
great to see someone start with the hobby
sorry if i go a little too spastic about the extra info
feel free to ignore
The Lion returned
The 2nd and 11th legions and their Primarchs were guilty of some transgression that warranted the erasure of their entire existence, which was so complete that even the other Primarchs who were around at the time don't remember what happened, implying some warp powers were involved in the process
"We are talking two hearts. We are talking three lungs".
Yeah, the rest are extra organs that normal humans don't have. The third lung is not really a normal lung either, it allows them to breathe underwater and filter toxic fumes.
You catch on quick to worshipping the God-Emperor.
I think you'll fit right in.
OK, I think I want to add some importand stuff to some factions here or some additions I find interresting, so im going to make individual comments for each topic.
Sone general stuff:
All space marines are good at everything, the different legions/chapters just have their favourite fighting styles do to their gene-flaws and their culture. Technology in the imperium doesnt advance since the admech has a monopol in technology and Inventing is a Cardinal Sin that will get you executed because it goes against the religious beliefes of the techpriests of the Admech and Imperial Law. There are people that illegaly invent stuff, but due to the ban it is very tedious and therefore never outpaces the loss of knowledge. That also makes Tech stronger If it is older, since then the People knew more efficient ways to do something.
Yah! Aelfrik mentioned some of that in the video! Really interesting ideas for lore!
@@syliefel I just want to add interresting things to what you already mentioned and maybe correct some mistakes without spoiling Future videos.
You will never get a satisfying introduction in a "short"Video, and most people get a lot of Things wrong even if they put years into learning about the lore. Luetin09 is generally regarded as the most indept and accurat source on YT and He regularly puts up 1-4 H videos talking about middle-sized themes or fractions of bigger ones. Majorkill makes very small potions that sacrifice some accuracy for Entertainment, similiar to the TTS series. Adeptus Ridiculus is a Podcast that touches most importand things of a topic in 1 hour. There is baldermort If you want a narrative introduction to a topic, He mostly introduces you to smth by telling an awesome story about, then explains the lore, Gives his own opinion in the topic and then concludes the story He started at the begining. Thats just if you want to privately deepen the understanding on some of the things you talked about, but I would recommend to not spoiler yourself since it will probably ruin the fun for everyone. And get used to huge chunks of information.
I'd recommend An Introduction to the Dark Millennium as a mood setter.
Dante is actually only around 1500 years old. He’s super tired and wants to die, but he’s got a duty to do and so he deals with it.
21:56 space marines can die of old age, but first it slows them down
around 1000 years they start feeling it but they can compensate with experience, around 1600 their kinda past being good enough
none of them actually reach that age
dante the longest serving marine is around 1500 years old
+/- with the warp changing time while you travel so probably a little younger maybe
only marines that still live since 10k years ago that arnt with chaos are in dreadnaughts and even then pretty senile if you can wake them up at all
A little bit of misinformation by Aelfrik.. Not a lot.. but he was mistaken a bit about the grey knights. The Grey knights were not created by the Emperor, They were created by the founder and grandmaster OF the Grey knights Kaldor Draigo who was the first one of their order.
If you want the chivalrous knight, go mom up the song Rylanor's Last Stand. It's an official part of the 40k universe; the story, at least.
Dante is over 1000. He became space marine in the end of m39
Iron Hands fight their enemies with facts and logic.
a gardsmens reaction to blood angles showing up back up
normal: thank the emporer wer saved
they are all screaming horis: ahh fuck were all dead