The Future of Vashtorr, The Dark Mechanicum, and The Leagues of Votann | Warhammer 40K Lore Theory

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  • @memesofwarhemmer7076
    @memesofwarhemmer7076 Před rokem +55

    About squats it’s complicated they can fall to chaos as such in the old lore they had a civil war wile it’s no longer canon GW has said wile they are resistance to chaos they can fall since one vottan goes insane after being invaded by hive fleet behemoth and falls to khorn.

    • @livefromtheblacklibrary
      @livefromtheblacklibrary  Před rokem +8

      Oh that’s really interesting! I didn’t know that!

    • @memesofwarhemmer7076
      @memesofwarhemmer7076 Před rokem

      @@livefromtheblacklibrary but like tau because they lack a soul they are not as interesting as humans however they are still pretty much able to become corrupted. But in warhemmer fantasy the god of the chaos dwarfs is mostly hashut or undevided. Sure some like in vermintide can fall to nurgle as the one who made the a chaos weapon to nurgle using his own infected blood 🩸

    • @memesofwarhemmer7076
      @memesofwarhemmer7076 Před rokem +8

      @@livefromtheblacklibrary would ironically be funny Ashtor becoming hashut lol both are chaos god of industry and technology

    • @danmorris5498
      @danmorris5498 Před rokem +1

      it goes insane but it doesn't fall to Khorne.
      its insanity though seems to be contagious as other votann steer clear of that planet.

    • @memesofwarhemmer7076
      @memesofwarhemmer7076 Před rokem

      @@danmorris5498 yes kinda but khorn corruption has been increased in that area being called the hailstorm of hatred since a chaos warpstone has been formed there with nothing but khan demons

  • @micaigneous_01
    @micaigneous_01 Před rokem +66

    Vastorr is big until he wakes up the Lion. Then he will fade like Be'lakor, into the shadows to curb stomp when needed

    • @livefromtheblacklibrary
      @livefromtheblacklibrary  Před rokem +20

      Yeah that’s probably what’ll happen:(

    • @farseeraradrel4808
      @farseeraradrel4808 Před rokem +27

      I don't think so. The trend with Chaos characters has sort of reversed since Gathering Storm.
      -Abbadon ? Used to be beaten by Eldrad Ulthran. Now he destroyed Cadia and defeated Marneus Calgar (let him live sure but not by incompetence).
      -Be'lakor ? Used to be nobody and got defeated by the LotD on the Phalanx. Since then, he conquered the best fortress in the entire Imperium beside the Imperial Palace and the Fangs and founded his own Chaos Knight Houses, with no retribution whatsoever.
      -Typhus? Walked his way through Charadon and Ultramar, destroying and plaguing everything with little resistance or punishment. The only time he got outdone was by Fabius Bile in War of the Spider, but then it's a win for another Chaos character.
      Ironically, the bad luck for Chaos seems to be around the Primarchs, namely Magnus and Mortarion. Guess some things haven't changed since the Heresy, heh

    • @micaigneous_01
      @micaigneous_01 Před rokem +7

      @farseeraradrel4808 I just don't expect that GW will keep him present. Will he be victorious? Yes.
      But, following that will disappear for the next several narratives until needed again to be an OP character.

    • @SuperOmegaBerserker
      @SuperOmegaBerserker Před rokem +5

      @@farseeraradrel4808 oh so you mean they'll have empyric victories with no impact on the settings while guilliman himself solos all of their legions and expands and revamps the entire imperium and allies with Eldar and the votann. Yea good fucking luck chaos.

    • @katgut
      @katgut Před rokem

      Glad this was wrong, we got angron's dumbass to pull agro

  • @dugoutgrug
    @dugoutgrug Před rokem +13

    Chaos Dwarfs in 40k would be sick as hell. I saw someone suggest that the Kyn's natural resistance to chaos would make them good at demon smithing as well.

  • @crackedhammer4612
    @crackedhammer4612 Před rokem +36

    I think the Obliterators could also fit in the “Vashtoor cult”

  • @IronWithin
    @IronWithin Před rokem +54

    Don't forget about the Iron Hands. I feel like there's some good narrative potential there for Vashtor to tempt them. Maybe offering them fully mechanical bodies or access to lost or forbidden tech?

    • @livefromtheblacklibrary
      @livefromtheblacklibrary  Před rokem +17

      >Don’t forget the Iron Hands
      Not if GW has anything to say about it
      Jokes aside though that’s a good point and would be really cool!

    • @IronWithin
      @IronWithin Před rokem +17

      @livefromtheblacklibrary yeah the Iron Hands really need to be fleshed out more (pun intended)

    • @livefromtheblacklibrary
      @livefromtheblacklibrary  Před rokem +9

      *badum tss*

    • @DefaultProphet
      @DefaultProphet Před rokem +7

      That would be a way to finally make Iron Hands interesting

    • @livefromtheblacklibrary
      @livefromtheblacklibrary  Před rokem +6

      Hence why GW won’t do it 🥲

  • @r.cdahuman7682
    @r.cdahuman7682 Před rokem +22

    Personally the thing I'm the most hopeful for is that because we now know daemons directly from the forge of souls exist, I really really really hope it's retconned that Perty is the A daemon primarch of the forge of souls. It's really the only way I can possibly think to make him ascending to daemonhood work in some way.

    • @livefromtheblacklibrary
      @livefromtheblacklibrary  Před rokem +7

      I believe Lorgar is a Demon Prince of Chaos Undivided so I mean it’s POSSIBLE but not never well set up considering his character

    • @r.cdahuman7682
      @r.cdahuman7682 Před rokem +8

      @@livefromtheblacklibrary from what I understand he is undivided, but just because he's a daemon prince of chaos undivided doesnt mean he can't "devote" himself to the forge of souls.
      I use quotes because perty isn't the kind of guy to fully and wholeheartedly devote himself to one thing for long, especially if that thing intends to shackle him. Remember his adopted father. Yes he went along with his plans and played the good son, general, and warrior but his heart was never in it.
      But I can see a scenario where he devotes himself to something specifically to gain something. my idea is something along the lines of, Before the iron cage, he realizes that he's dying due to the events of angel extermiatus, while simultaneously learning about the forge of souls. If he knew about the forge of souls prior to his ascension (and the lore sticks to the idea that his ascension was in fact done to save his life) I can see him thinking "Ok this is bad. I have two options. Option one, I die, and my soul goes to the warp, get shattered, etc... Not optimal. Option two, I ascend to daemonhood and give up a part of my soul. However, I if i play this right, I can pledge myself to undivided, and eventually gain access to the forge of souls. From there I can learn everything I can about the warp, the daemonic technology and soul forging, and perhaps eventually learn enough to wrestle my soul back from the dark gods."
      Personally I see this massive gambit as something completely within Perty's character. Not only is this the kind of long game he'd be more than willing to play, he's _absolutely_ arrogant enough to think he can pull a fast one on the dark gods.
      I also vaguely remember hearing somewhere that at the moment, or directly prior to the events of godblight, perty and mortirian were waring over a temple rumoured to be able to undo their ascension. Don't quote me on that though, I can't for the life of me remember the source.
      There, I've completed my lore rabble for the week.

  • @timothyh5632
    @timothyh5632 Před rokem +20

    Maybe Vashtor eventually will ascend to godhood, with the help of his Kin worshipers. If he does, he might decide that a change of name is in order. Perhaps a Votanni name: Hashut, for example?

  • @CrimsonTemplar2
    @CrimsonTemplar2 Před rokem +12

    Chaos Squats? Yes please.
    The Dark Mechanicum is probably more likely.

  • @BAGELMENSK
    @BAGELMENSK Před rokem +20

    Very hyped for dark mechanicum rules.

    • @livefromtheblacklibrary
      @livefromtheblacklibrary  Před rokem +3

      Same but moreso the models and lore!

    • @BAGELMENSK
      @BAGELMENSK Před rokem +1

      @@livefromtheblacklibrary being able to play a legit dark mechanicum army would be a culmination of all that.

  • @fixedG
    @fixedG Před rokem +10

    I expect whatever god-machine Abaddon helps Vashtorr build will also be capable of resurrecting Horus or something, because he's totally double-crossing him. The writers won't do something that big but Abaddon would try.

    • @livefromtheblacklibrary
      @livefromtheblacklibrary  Před rokem +6

      Thing is Abbadon is against reviving Horus, he killed Horus’s clone personally

    • @fixedG
      @fixedG Před rokem +1

      @@livefromtheblacklibrary I don't know that you can draw that conclusion from the action though. He felt a need to kill a clone but did he view it as Horus or a pale, hollow, disgusting fake that deserved to be hated every bit as much as the true Warmaster was to be revered?

    • @livefromtheblacklibrary
      @livefromtheblacklibrary  Před rokem +3

      That, but also it was because he viewed Horus as a failure and a relic of the past whereas he wanted the legions to look towards the future

  • @Raptoriago
    @Raptoriago Před rokem +19

    i don't think is unlikely for the voltans to fall for chaos, in fantasy we had the normal dwarfs and the chaos dwarfs that worshiped an differente Chaos god named Hashut, so you can basically do an Voltan and Dark Voltan, like The Eldar and The Dark Eldar.

    • @livefromtheblacklibrary
      @livefromtheblacklibrary  Před rokem +8

      Yeah absolutely! I didn’t wanna say anything TOO definitive but the potential is absolutely there

  • @teobratuteodor1728
    @teobratuteodor1728 Před rokem +23

    Vastorr only Greather Daemon of chaos undivided because Belacor is daemon prince of chaos undivided.

  • @MrSmiley81092
    @MrSmiley81092 Před rokem +4

    Honsou falling in with Vashtorr could mean Daemonculaba pt. 2 Electric Boogaloo

  • @yomommashouse9594
    @yomommashouse9594 Před rokem +30

    really curious and interested about how Cawl and Vashtorr will react in the setting. Especially with the Cawl Inferior "malfunctioning" to Gorrillaman could be because Vashtorr wants Cawl as Fabricator General since he is the only tech priest who pushes progress and actually invents and in doing so empowers Vashtorr.

  • @PelinalDidNothingWrong
    @PelinalDidNothingWrong Před rokem +4

    I really hope Vashtorr succeceds in becoming a new Chaos God. Imagine how it'd change the setting...

  • @THExRISER
    @THExRISER Před rokem +5

    I always said I wanted a Dark Mechanicum army to exist, is it finally happening?

  • @oldeskul
    @oldeskul Před rokem +4

    The link between Vashtorr and the Dark Mechanicum could be great. Vashtorr could be the Anti-Omnissiah, kinda like how Bela'Kor could become the Anti-Emperor.
    I really like the idea of the Chaos Squats making a comeback. They march onto the battlefield wearing big silly hats, many of their number are chaos corrupted centaur-like abominations that are fusions of flesh and metal, and they summon daemons of flame, oil and metal.
    I'd prefer to see Perturabo as a withered, barely alive husk kept alive in a dreadnought-like machine, kinda like a dark reflection of the Emperor on the Golden Throne, rather than being a daemon prince. It would better fit his aesthetic of despising the chaos gods and refusing apotheosis, preferring to live in pain than bend the knee to another tyrant(at least in his own eyes). If he is a daemon prince, I think it would make for a better story that the gods turned him into a daemon prince against his will and he is seeking a way to reverse it.

  • @2lazy2makeausername81
    @2lazy2makeausername81 Před rokem +3

    Imagine if Vashtorr almost becomes a god only to be stopped last second by Be’lakor. Might be dumb but it would be hilarious.

  • @plaguesnstuff7657
    @plaguesnstuff7657 Před rokem +3

    tbh I hope if any marines are going to follow vashtorr they'll be a new warband descended from multiple legions similar to the red corsairs. One of the worst things about how gw writes nu40k is the lack of any renegade marines or anything that isn't imperium or chaos when it comes to humans. the IW and Night Lords are the closest things we have currently

  • @g4fly4ever8
    @g4fly4ever8 Před rokem +1

    Chaos Votann can be like Chaos Dwarves from fantasy, so it's possible, also seeing a faction being born with no background during the setting would be cool

  • @diegocamacho6477
    @diegocamacho6477 Před rokem +7

    He just makes too much sense for the Dark Mechanicum in terms of aesthetics and motiff. They joined Chaos so they could actually innovate, and here comes the Chaos God of innovation. Maybe, fluff-wise, they could make it so that the Dark Mech fractured after the Heresy, some serving the different Traitor Legions and some doing their own thing and rulling their own Forge Worlds. Then Vashtorr manifests in real space and declares himself as the "true" Omnissiah, which unifies them enough that they start acting as their own distinct faction again.
    For the Iron Warriors, I like your idea of a storyline where some of them begin to embrace him and abandon Perty's idea that the warp is just something to be used, embracing it as they now have a Chaos God that represents them, which finally gets Peter to stop playing with his minis and return to the setting.
    For the Kin, I like the idea but as a minor fluff-only faction for now, just to justify people kitbashing and playing with Chaos-ified Leagues. There's still many potential Xenos and Chaos factions that should get priority.

    • @cool3860
      @cool3860 Před 10 měsíci

      wouldn't be in Perty's favor to align with Vashtor on the pretense that he rejuvenates Perterabo's missing soulpieces in exchange for a Longterm Alliance with the WHOLE Iron Worriors Legion?

  • @32Loveless50
    @32Loveless50 Před rokem +6

    personally i'm most into Dark Mechanicum :)
    but i can see Iron Warriors worshiping him to and Perturabo being a Demon Prince of Vashtorr as he needs a Chaos good to get his powers from.
    as for the league, i say no as they are against chaos because of the AI is against chaos.
    but on the other side Chaos Dwarves in 40 could be fun, but make no sense lorevise.

  • @filleis6374
    @filleis6374 Před rokem +6

    I just hope we get some darkmech follower dudes to follow him around

  • @leodhasw-s3739
    @leodhasw-s3739 Před měsícem

    Leagues of Votan mentioned; where's my Rock and Stone?!?!

  • @The_Foil
    @The_Foil Před rokem +5

    Please let there be a dark mechanicum release like they did to leagues of votaan, with lots of cool new models

  • @caedes5276
    @caedes5276 Před rokem +4

    what would be better is if vashtorr were to help Perty and he becomes his deamon prince

    • @livefromtheblacklibrary
      @livefromtheblacklibrary  Před rokem

      That is to say if they don’t retcon Peter Turbos ascension

    • @caedes5276
      @caedes5276 Před rokem +3

      @@livefromtheblacklibrary true but they can use this instead making it a resent action caused so fuel Vashtorr

  • @elfcaranthir4515
    @elfcaranthir4515 Před rokem +1

    I know it that it has been 2 months since publication, but I would love to see Vashtorr corrupting Votann itself. I think that another faction which falls into hands of chaos would be... Pretty common thing in this universe, while corrupting Votann itself amd using chaos to create new form of chaos kin in crucibles would be awwsome. Stable chaos mutations implemented staright into clone with some sort of chaos cloneskin, that's what I would love to see.

  • @michaelmayr1990
    @michaelmayr1990 Před rokem +3

    So Vashtorr is like the "Viktor Bout" of 40k?

  • @Angron_Of_Nuceria
    @Angron_Of_Nuceria Před rokem

    Vashtorr’s voice is amazingly terrifying

  • @andyp2004
    @andyp2004 Před rokem +2

    chaos dwarfs in 40k? fuck yeah

  • @pmc1727
    @pmc1727 Před rokem +1

    Orks love a good tinker with the gubbinz of a Mek or shoota

  • @Boywonder543
    @Boywonder543 Před rokem +7

    Nooo
    He is not a chaos undivided daemon he is not a daemon in general but a god in the warp not as powerful as the 4 chaos gods but he is a god

  • @awandererfromys1680
    @awandererfromys1680 Před rokem

    The connection with the Dark Mechanicum seems most obvious because Vashtorr comes off like a dark and twisted version of the Omnissiah. The Votann supercomputer angle is kinda interesting though.
    I really like the Leagues of Votann, they've become one of my favorite factions. I don't play WH40K but the lore around them is pretty cool. All new stuff of late is pretty awesome imho! Lots of stuff happening all of a sudden.

  • @ryannation3044
    @ryannation3044 Před rokem +1

    Love this channel - keep it up!!

  • @driller5778
    @driller5778 Před rokem +2

    5:24
    Don’t say it
    DON’T SAY IT
    ⛏⛏⛏ROCK AND STONE⛏⛏⛏

  • @harvestblades
    @harvestblades Před 8 měsíci

    The Dark Mechanicum has always been really interesting since 3rd ed & reading Mechanicum (if I recall). Their models are nuts & really think we need both armies for Mechanicus & Mechanicum.

  • @dazuk37
    @dazuk37 Před 8 měsíci

    Great take very interesting with regards to the leagues could certainly see that as a premise and would like to make some tainted squats.

  • @erikwhitney7403
    @erikwhitney7403 Před rokem +2

    Vashtor should have been just the head of the Dark Mechanicus and not some deamon

  • @wasteyelo1
    @wasteyelo1 Před rokem

    A Dark Mechanicum legion and a Kelbor Hal miniature would be a dream come true... Or should be nightmare.

  • @bobjones5674
    @bobjones5674 Před 9 měsíci

    The reason that squats in the leagues have such weak souls compared to humans is because they reproduce by cloning. The squats the imperium encountered during the great crusade, and integrated into the imperium, didn't have any mention of weak souls, neither do any other abhumans. So if the leagues were to have a civili war, and they started having to reproduce normally, they go back to having souls with warp presence closer to humans, which would make them more likely to fall to Chaos and more in tune with the powers of the warp.

  • @catcadev
    @catcadev Před rokem

    I think we should get Vashtorr Squats instead of Chaos Space Marines. They're the squats lost to the warp who had to pledge to him in return for him keeping them alive.

  • @ravanpee1325
    @ravanpee1325 Před rokem +5

    Abbandon is already a joke...please not a new toy which can do nothing

  • @Bigpandazomg
    @Bigpandazomg Před rokem

    So does he get supercharged by the void dragon existing, and is he acting now because the Silent King is back with a big ass void dragon shard?
    11/10 on all these theories, although I'd love to see Perturabo become Vashtorr's champion though to help solidify his claim, demon primarchs are kind of a staple of a chaos god at this point.

  • @cyberware5323
    @cyberware5323 Před rokem +1

    I would love to see a dark Ad Mech Iron Warrior superfaction. Under the lead of Perturabo.
    Screw Abaddon.

  • @superiorsoldier57
    @superiorsoldier57 Před 9 měsíci

    Vashtorr is not a Chaos God. He is an Exalted Greater Deamon of Hashut.

  • @user-by8fb9bt1v
    @user-by8fb9bt1v Před rokem

    he doesnt just want to become a minor god he wants to join the whole great game and dominate the panthion

  • @Boywonder543
    @Boywonder543 Před rokem +7

    I feel like perturabo patron god is vashtorr

  • @docthefaust4519
    @docthefaust4519 Před rokem +2

    Sooo, Space Chaos Dwarves? 😆

  • @LORD-OGBERT
    @LORD-OGBERT Před 8 měsíci

    Chaos Squats!!

  • @Sorrowdusk
    @Sorrowdusk Před rokem

    *Vashtorr vs Pater Mutatis* -who will be more influential?
    Who is more powerful?

  • @massiv121
    @massiv121 Před 10 měsíci

    ya its true that Votan cant fall to chaos but an desperate grimnyr looking to deep into the warp and selling his kin for power is more likely.. im currently working on a Custom Chaos Dwarf army and said story bit is the lore to my Homebrew League

  • @Overanalyse_This
    @Overanalyse_This Před rokem

    The least likely team up would be with the orks.

  • @wellhungindung
    @wellhungindung Před rokem +2

    Vaush should stick to arguing on twitch.

  • @YOGI-kb9tg
    @YOGI-kb9tg Před rokem

    He's not a greater deamon he's something like a chaos god a being built by emotion not a deamon they are fragments of a chaos god and vashtorr is not that. He also wants to become the 5th chaos god not a minor god.

  • @Instar_nine
    @Instar_nine Před rokem +1

    It's alot of garbage, anything that's made means there's a god for it
    Mechanicum god, pie god lol
    It's stupid, should just be a dark mechanicum boss

    • @livefromtheblacklibrary
      @livefromtheblacklibrary  Před rokem +1

      Honestly yeah the rules of the warp are getting screwy

    • @r.cdahuman7682
      @r.cdahuman7682 Před rokem +2

      This is a long established thing though. I mean the daemon inside abbadon's literally the daemon birthed from humanities first act of murder.