Fornax Aleph reminded me of the real story of the Mary Celeste, a ship that departed the US in 1872 towards Italy. It was found adrift near the Azores islands with her sails still hoisted, and the ebtire crew missing. No signs of struggle, the cargo was still in the hold, and the captain's and crew's personal belongings were still in their place, only the lifeboat was missing. The last entry on the ship's log was from ten days ago, and didn't mention anything out of the ordinary. The crew was never seen or heard of again.
Historians are actually pretty sure they know what happened to the Marie Celeste! The cargo included large quantities of explosives, so the theory is that they mistakenly thought someone had gone wrong and it was going to blow up, so they all just made a run for it. The explosion didn't happen, but by the time they could have known that, the lifeboat had either sunk or been lost at sea. We can't prove that's what happened without first-hand accounts, but it fits all the facts!
I think it's more like the Roanoke Colony, a settlement of between 112 and 121 people founded in 1587. The colony had been having a rough time, so they sent one of the guys in charge back to England to beg for support from the crown, and when he finally returns, the place is deserted with no signs of the colonists or their belongings. The colonists were told to carve a specific type of cross as a sign if for some reason they were ever forced to leave, which was notably absent. Instead, carved into one of the palisades surrounding the settlement was the word CROATOAN, which was the name of their founder's previously failed colony, but before they could investigate further, they were forced to leave by an oncoming storm. There's been a ton of theories about what happened to them, but to this day, all we're sure of is that over 100 people just up and vanished, and the only thing they left behind was pretty cryptic word carved into a wooden post.
I feel like the headphone wires in the Russ being "fused" just meant the ends were cut off not by a blade but some sort of energy that melted them. They were all cut at the same length of 30cm, which would be a stretch for them to meet up in the tank's interior, and matches a possible mechanism of disappearance as centering on an individual's physical form within a certain boundary. Could also totally be a red herring.
Fornax Aleph is like the Dancing Plague meets liminal space in a sense, but the specific mention of the creatures being daemons or "daemon-like things" makes me wonder if the creatures were on the comet, or if the comet simply released the people back onto the planet from wherever they disappeared to.
Conrad curze being all “ugh women” after trying to swoon them with flesh wall is very funny and I need more of this head cannon. Incel Curze and Eren Yeager nightlords are incredibly memeble
Quick lore on the Golden Throne. When Horus took the gamble and let the Imperium board the ship, Emps asked Malcador to sit on the Golden throne. After killing Horus and beign mortally wounded, the Emperor was brought to the Golden Throne room, and with his last breath, Malcador imbuied the Emperor with his las psychic energy, giving the Imperium enough time to put the Emperor in the Golden Throne, and with the last action of Malcador, the Imperium learned that suministrating psychic energy to the Emperor, he would survive. Also, and with this las bit I'm not sure at all, the Emperor, even sitting on the throne, can communicate via psychic visions.
I’m loving this mental image of Kari as the new guy in the imperial throne room, asking her new supervisor all these questions and he’s barely holding it together “Well have you even tried?” “NO!? Why are you even asking!”
Something that could qualify as horror is that; unless I misinterpreted what I read; a Krieger showed their face to a different Guardsmen. The true face of the Krieger disturbed the guardsman. Kriegers I think get segregated from other non-Krieg troops because they are so nihilistic they can destroy morale from simply taking to others.
Interestingly, in Pariah Nexus we see a Krieg face. Sadly, they just looked normal. The real horror is when you see *many* of them together, and realize their faces are the same. Exactly the same. Uh oh.
They are mostly kid, far as I know, I belive, they dont show their faces because they are mostly kids, thats why they are somewhat shorter than normal guardsmen
Horrors of Warhammer Khorne: Grow blood limbs when severed while ripping and tearing to Blood Swamps on loop Slaanesh: Excess *REDACTED FOR HERESY* Tzeentch: Spontaneous mutating horrors beyond human comprehension Nurgle: Decay and disease in "I love you…" by Barney Vashtorr: The AI in "I have no mouth, and I must scream" was too tame. Chaos Undivided: Daemonculaba Imperium: Servitors, corpse starch, cherubs, and Penitence Engines Dark Eldar: "Our soul are being eaten by a Chaos god. Let's make the Warp look safe by comparison to fend it off." Night Lords: *sees orphan child* "Yo, Skin!" Dark Mechanicum: *slamming mechadendrite against daemon engine* "MAKE. PE. NIS. IN. TO. ROBOT! Konrad Curze: Screaming gallery and talking to a literal meat statue of Emps as if it's Him. Iron Warriors: "I don't care about morality, I want results." Skaven: *agonizing groans in Hellpit abominations* Ghorrich: “Kill me” Throt: “Later-maybe” *muffled voice in walks and floors* “I’m not here-real. Ignore me me!” Necrons: Flayed Ones, Szarekh torturing a C'tan on his throne, and Illuminor Szeras proving Body Horror doesn't require flesh and blood. Tau: “You will own nothing, and you will be happy.” -Aun’Va. Vespids, Ethereals, Tau’va (Greater Good) entity and enforcement Everything within the state, Nothing outside the state.” -Fascism founder Mussolini when asked to define fascism. Very applicable to the Tau. Watcher in the Rain: *ghost rider voice* “You… GUILTY!” Motely: "Wouldn't it be funny if..." the Changeling: "Hi, I'm the Changeling of Tzeentch, and Welcome to Jackass."
You forgott the Ghoul-Stars and the Eldrith-Horror freakshow that is in there. Edit (nevermind the Ghoul-stars where at the 52:00 even tho they didnt tell evyrthing that is in that place )
The thing with the Daemonculaba is that it is very far from Chaos undivided. Iron Warriors really do not like Chaos and the whole affair was just their attempt to reproduce when their geneseed was useless - and it wasn't that different from how space Marines are made in principle. What they did really was just the Imperium turned up to 11.
The Imperium has waaaay more terrors than what you described. Here are some of the things you may not know: MORE IMPERIUM HORRORS: • Inquisitor Fyodor Karamazov and his doctrines of "there is no such thing as 'innocence'" or "to plea innocence before me is to already be guilty for wasting my time" • Inquisition making tests in inoffensive planets with Genestealer Virus and, then, giving the Exterminados Treatment to them. • Loyalists chapters like Subjugators, Invaders, Blood Dragons, Star Phantoms and Flesh Tearers (among others) not giving a damn to casualties in their operations. • Carcharodons that kidnap ENTIRE POPULATIONS to serve them. • Iron Hands and, basically, all its successor chapters that allow Imperial citizens to be raided and imprisoned by Drukhari to "cull the herd". • Speaking of "cull the herd" or "weed out the weak", Howling Griffons that manipulate ENTIRE PLANETS under their jurisdiction to be in constant wars to get recruits. • The whole process of becoming an Exorcist. • EVERYTHING about the Death Spectres - specially what they do with Imperial women. • Inquisitorial training in which recruit can be ordered to t0rtur3 and k1ll their parents for no cr1m3 whatsoever. (Example: "Watcher In The Rain" short story) Phew! There are more horrors that can be done by the Imperium that I am not aware of. These above are just a few. 😊❤😂
If you want to understand why people like the Night Lords, read the Night Lords trilogy of books. It's a master class in making unapologeticly evil protagonists who you can understand and root for, without making them misunderstood or secretly moral.
Part of it is that the ones we follow are clear underdogs. They're not Chaos Marines with vast resources and access to whole Mark Mechanicum Hell Forges. The ones we follow in the trilogy run around looting anything they can, just to stay functional. Their squads are regularly at half strength, and barely work together. They're in a constant struggle just to operate, let alone succeed. Everyone loves an underdog. This, along with letting us come to know their individual members, makes us sympathize with them. We don't necessarily want Talos et al. to _win,_ but we want to see them make it out okay.
It helps that they're somewhat "practical" in that they realize how precious their resources are and the pains they'll go through not to do stupid shit if it's not worth it. Plus it kind of feels like they're self-aware of just how terrible everything is and are trying to do anything to bring meaning to their existences.
Side theory: I think tiamats beacon calls out to any long lost cousins of the nids. Fun fact, the nids seem to have been to our 40k galaxy long ago. The spiders of murder, the centipedes of catachin and the leviathans of fenris.
@cxfxcdude yeah but how it's said like that is common in gw and could very well be a joke. Hard to argue with somthing that just wants to survive and eat
@@cietalvon6850 its a relatively new development from what I've seen, a scythe of the emperor came face to face with a large bioform and glimpsed the hive mind and saw it was as malicious as any warp daemon, another was when an imperial commander kept receiving visions of victory over the tyranids in his dreams but it turned out to be a trap by one of the new brain bugs to get him to order his troops a certain way and kill him and his force
11:08 They don't _just_ explode. They do a LOT of things! Locked in: the excess energy remains in the Pyskers mind, trapping them in a coma until they break it with sheer willpower. Deamonhost: You become a Deamonhost. Warp Feast: You are sucked into the warp, lost forever with a Burp.
One of my favorite details I noticed during the Owlcat Rogue Trader CRPG was a certain interaction with a drukhari character that doesn't actively want you dead where you have the option to let your character stand near a ledge close to them and they will get shoved and then caught by said drukhari, and his reaction to the momentary rush of utter panic is basically like taking a nice cold cup of ice water at 3 AM, so they also get emotional charge from the little things like that, in addition to keeping you alive for hundreds of years as a still conscious flesh couch or becoming a still alive harp that's strung by your nerve endings.
Some bonus bits about the Screaming Gallery. It has a blood lake in it, and at the center of the blood lake Konrad made a meat statue of Big E, and Konrad will get naked and go in the blood lake to worship it. It's also where Konrad has his throne, which is made out of fused together bones of his victims.
I really love how 40k is like "we won't mess with science, we have to avoid the horros of AI". But they're also like: I'm going to create a room which keeps pieces of people alive and screaming forever"
To clarify a bit on the black ships and whether feeding the emperor psykers, it DOES do...something. When Roboute Guilliman returned to life, he did get a chance to speak with the emperor. Though, this greatly depends on your definition of "speak"; it'd be more apt to say the emperor "communicated" with Guilliman. So he is still mentally present somewhat sitting on that golden chair...if you want to believe it's even him up there at all and not some new warp fueled being wearing the emperor's body as clothing. Also, there was a very brief time when someone else did take the seat on the golden throne; Malcador, the emperor's right hand man basically, took over the seat briefly during the final moments of the horus heresy so the emperor could leave and board Horus' ship to kill him. He ended up getting so fried with both physical and psykic torment his bodied literally dissolved into ash. Malcador was also considered an extremely powerful psyker second only to the emperor, so basically the emperor is the only human even remotely qualified to sit on the throne right now (or Magnus but he turned traitor and probably isn't going to help out with the golden rocking chair anytime soon) EDIT: Also to answer the other question "who figured out it was 1000 psykers?", that was revealed in the final trilogy in the horus heresy series The End and the Death. Spoiler: it was Vulkan. As Malcador was struggling not to absolutely explode while sitting on the golden throne, Vulkan issued the order the "Unspoken Sanction" which was in the event the person sitting on the throne - presumed to be the emperor but in this case Malcador - started showing signs their "grasp was splipping" to start throwing psykers into the battery-like tube compartments at the base of the throne. The emperor had previously figured out what those compartments were for and created a contingency for a situation like this but never thought it would actually be used. So Vulkan had servitors organize psykers (which were sedated if that makes you feel any better) one after another to get in there and basically get turned to ash until Malcador seemed to be stable. That number turned out to be 1000.
I know imperium is a technologically backwards and superstitious. But putting people with powers, that are linked to their emotional state and whose weakness of will can make them into gate ways to hell, into an extremely stressful and draining environment for possibly years, while travelling through a maddening sub space, is frankly suicidal. Sure they got silent sisters and some emotional/warp suppressor tech, but those are also source of pain and distress at least once they go off. Putting them in stasis or cryo seems way more sensible. Of course psychic powers don’t obey natural laws or always need the user to be awake but that just means the method is as safe as the original, but with a higher chance of the subject coming out of it as a functional individual. Which is important when they are in charge of your entire communication network.
The main reason they’re so stressed is the sisters of silence. Being around them makes psykers want to off themselves and is like torture. Unfortunately it’s the only reliable way to suppress their powers.
You are underestimating the effect the presence of the Sisters of Silence have. They're Blanks. When Blanks are around, psychic powers don't work. _End of sentence._ They turn off. The Black Ships are full of Sisters. They're fine. (The Psykers aren't. They're having a bad time. But, importantly for the Imperium, they're having a bad time in such a way that they're also powerless and trivially contained.)
I mean, if we start to add logic into 40k it stops being 40k, Imperium is always rotting but surviving power, it will always be backwards and stupid, its it thing.
@ I argue against your point, Imperium makes perfect sense and is extremely logical when observed from their point of view and historical context. As an outsiders and with vastly greater perspective and knowledge of their galaxy it simple to see what they are doing wrong, which is kind of the point as it adds to grimdarkness of it all. It is stupid, but I do in fairness get how they got there. I still do think black ships teeter on the line between grimderp and just stupid.
Kari must be lore fanatics worst nightmare "They have to sacrifice 1000 psykers a day to keep him alive Kari: who figured that out? I want a name, I want to see the Custodes manager😂
32:50 y’all haven’t read that Conrad Curze book, have you? He has a pet human for a while and he both tortures and nurtures him for months. And it’s just the two of them left alive on the ship, too.
Some important information you missed about the Corpus Brethren. The Sentinels were among a group large number of Space Marine Chapters who's worlds were hit by a warp storm. The warp storm caused physical and psychological effects on the people of those planets, including the Space Marines. This lead to a massive investigation led by Saint Basillius the Elder to root out any corruption that might have occurred. After thorough trials, a couple hundred Space Marine chapters were deemed in the clear, but 30 or so were deemed to be found wanting, including the Sentinels. These chapters were collectively called The Judged and demanded to be sent on a penintent crusade known as the Abyssal Crusade. The Abyssal Crusade lasted 800 years with most the Space Marines either dying or falling to Chaos, except for one Chapter, the Vorpal Blades, who made it back and uncovered that the still living Saint Basillius was actually an agent of Chaos who had sent a bunch of Space Marines into the meatgrinder to either be killed or converted to Chaos. The Vorpal Blades then led what was left of the surviving Space Marines on what was known as the Judgement of Basillius where they executed the false idol, destroyed all monuments associated with him, and sent his remaining followers on slow moving ship into the nearest star.
When the video starts with the friggin Drukhari, you know you're in for a ride. Edit: Holy shit, I love the scrolling excerpts on this episode. That'd be a great motif to use in other episodes to provide visual cues for the lore discussions (Plus ya boi is hard of hearing and has the ADD riddled brain of a goldfish).
I have a theory for where everyone went, the way that there was the description of a ship, sinking into the sun. Imagine if a warp storm came though, and made everyone instantly get up and onto ships, to fly themselves into the sun. The deamon like things are the cursed souls of the people taken by this deamon sun as the asteroid wasnt detected as it should have been, and the reason for it was the space marines were too strong willed to ever go under its control that way. And the hand? That was a soul guardsman’s last will to hold onto the light of the emperor and so the warp energy burned his hand off, leaving it there, still holding on.
You fools :3 You said nothing of the cats being stickered, im gonna make my kitty bastilla look like she got shot put through a hyvee gift card aisle nyahajahahahaha
Valgûl, Twice-Perished aka the Fallen Lord is one of my favorite Necron Lords. He kept his sanity and takes care of and communicates with his sickened people. Showing kindness to those who would be seen as nothing more than mindless monsters by the rest of his kind. Can't wait for you guys to talk about him
@@MiningwithPudding edgy space elf complaining to their furniture supplier because the face stretched across the lampshade keeps making kissy faces at them
I think one of the first 40k horror stories that really truly put some fear into me was the king of pigs story as one night I was driving home around 2 AM and this seemed like a sillier horror story good for some lighter driving entertainment lured me into a depth of fear that was quite unsettling to the point that I haven't been to in a very long time. This story revolves around a craft world under siege, just begging and praying that the empire will save them. Our main character is in a relationship on the rocks already stressing them out more and at work where they commit slaughter by the second is broken by a glimpse of hope as they find a piglet. This turns into what feels like a modern Grimms fairy tale in which the light hearted nature and fantastical gift turns foul and you never know even by the end of it whether or not this is all true or just the misguided last thoughts of a broken soul on the verge of utter peril and fear. I highly recommend adding it to next years selection. TLDR this is the most horrifying 40K story I've ever come across and sold me on the "grim dark" of this IP
Such a spooky scary tale! Reminds me of HIS imperial guard! Did you know that the Guard out Ubers nearly every other faction and is the bulwark upon which HIS empire is found upon? Truly scary stuff!!
Just watched every video and livestream on your channel in the last week. I love the content.❤ Now to wait... like binging your favorite anime. 2 years til the next season...
Of all things I did NOT expect y'all to mention Life After People! That's the documentary you were thinking of about if people all disappeared, it was my go-to for sleepytime for a while
You guys should definitely talk about that region of the galaxy where it's like the Bermuda Triangle and all sorts of crusader fleets of Space Marines and others like Rogue Traders which are pretty much sanctioned pirates and/or explorer tradesmen for the Imperium, going to that place.
I'd say the Callidus agent hunting down The Night Haunter would be good for next year. You really need to also do a video on the Officio Assassinorum and the Space Maine-Assassin war.
So just a short tidbit on Konrad while his methods are objectively horrendous he did have some of the lowest overall casualty rates for both sides in his compliances, and pointed this out to more than a few of his brothers when they talked down to him for it.
DruKAREN will torture you but mentally instead of physically but can't even DESCRIBE the amount of levels of heresy suggesting putting a demon the chair of terra is. like holy shit. I'm pretty sure the tyrant star is actually some sort of tyrannid thing. I mean its in the name. but I bet that tzneetch just put that map there just to fuck with big E cause it knew that he'd find it there
It bears mentioning that the person that sent those marines on the Abyssal Crusade, turned out to be a chaos cultist themselves, it was all a plan to make a bunch of new chaos space marine warbands.
Im SO excited for the book club thing bro. The Infinite and the Divine is my second favorite book ever mwahaha. I'm sure this episode will be great i just started it
First off, first time see this channel. It's very cool and lovely what you and your girlfriend are doing. Second, that Map they found, to me imo reminds me of something akin to the forerunners of Halo being the creators of humans but are basically gone.
I have an interesting theory, Tiamat's beacon is a literal lighthouse, acting as a mass of psychic energy, and the Tyranids will pick up on that energy and go to it, and the main fleet will approach the beacon, they won't enter the galaxy randomly, they will filter through a single point.
The blue checkmark dig was amazing. 43:42 Hey! That fungus is just a short drive from where I grew up. It's nicknamed The Humongous Fungus, and it is a specimen of Armillaria ostoyae, with a land area of 3.5 square miles (2,240 acres) and mass of almost 35,000 tons. So far, it holds the record for the largest single living organism in the world. If they ever find something bigger, I'm leaving this planet.
Since Halloween was a couple days ago and Christmas is next month, the only thing I can see in my mind as I listen to The Screaming Gallery is a smol Konrad Kurze sitting in atheist Santa Emp's lap asking for fresh torture victims before purging the elves for being mutants 😂
This is a reference few people are going to get, but to me Tzeentch's whole asthetic can be summed up by Spinal's theme from Killer Instinct 2013. If you don't know the reference, 100% check out the song! It's made by Mick Gordon and it's SO GOOD.
God I love Valgûl. He's just so fucking metal A one eyed, blood and skull covered, rusty lookin necron overlord with orange lights instead of green, a big flayer claw for one hand, and a giant orange war scythe in his normal hand, with a cape of human skin, leading an army of deranged, hungry, zombie terminators with freddy krueger claws, clad in human viscera, that can just suddenly appear on the battlefield out of nowhere and vanish just as suddenly I mean, he's really giving Imotekh a run for his money for who's more intimidating to see on a battlefield And yeah, I know not all those details are necessarily "cannon" but that's mostly because we don't have any official artwork, not because I'm intentionally forsaking cannon for what I personally think looks cool (and frankly, I wouldn't expect official artwork of him to look very different from my description if they ever make any)
My suspicion for the tyranid structures is that it's a mega creature. Tyranid war forms will collect biomass and then eventually throw themselves into the digestion pools to feed the hive ships. I think that the hive ships then find an optimal world and then break themselves down in order to fuse and feed into something truly tearable.
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That "grim" "dark" at 1:14 was golden.
Bro I am watching this alone in bed in the dark but when they started to talk about the screaming room I turned on every light in the house on so yeah
The Inquisition is just the SCP Foundation taken to its logical extreme.
Great video, but missed the creepy lore on the Mandrakes. It really is up there in the terrifying factions.
"THAT'S WHY BRICKY DOESN'T HANG OUT WITH FLESHTUBERS ANYMORE!!!" made me nearly choke on my coffee.
I read this as it was said. It's perfection
I hope this episode won't have any scary stuff or else I will have an heart attack
Bros been quiet since this one
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Fornax Aleph reminded me of the real story of the Mary Celeste, a ship that departed the US in 1872 towards Italy. It was found adrift near the Azores islands with her sails still hoisted, and the ebtire crew missing. No signs of struggle, the cargo was still in the hold, and the captain's and crew's personal belongings were still in their place, only the lifeboat was missing. The last entry on the ship's log was from ten days ago, and didn't mention anything out of the ordinary. The crew was never seen or heard of again.
Historians are actually pretty sure they know what happened to the Marie Celeste! The cargo included large quantities of explosives, so the theory is that they mistakenly thought someone had gone wrong and it was going to blow up, so they all just made a run for it. The explosion didn't happen, but by the time they could have known that, the lifeboat had either sunk or been lost at sea. We can't prove that's what happened without first-hand accounts, but it fits all the facts!
And that's how Captain Benjamin Spooner Briggs became the King of Limbo.
I think it's more like the Roanoke Colony, a settlement of between 112 and 121 people founded in 1587. The colony had been having a rough time, so they sent one of the guys in charge back to England to beg for support from the crown, and when he finally returns, the place is deserted with no signs of the colonists or their belongings. The colonists were told to carve a specific type of cross as a sign if for some reason they were ever forced to leave, which was notably absent. Instead, carved into one of the palisades surrounding the settlement was the word CROATOAN, which was the name of their founder's previously failed colony, but before they could investigate further, they were forced to leave by an oncoming storm. There's been a ton of theories about what happened to them, but to this day, all we're sure of is that over 100 people just up and vanished, and the only thing they left behind was pretty cryptic word carved into a wooden post.
@@KiwiTheIguana WHAT MORE CAN AN OLD BOY DO WORKING FOR THE LIKES OF ME AND YOU
“Give me your skin, Space Marine”- Flayed Jim
Identity theft via stolen skin is a real thing, Jim!
oh that jim, what a rascal
I feel like the headphone wires in the Russ being "fused" just meant the ends were cut off not by a blade but some sort of energy that melted them. They were all cut at the same length of 30cm, which would be a stretch for them to meet up in the tank's interior, and matches a possible mechanism of disappearance as centering on an individual's physical form within a certain boundary.
Could also totally be a red herring.
It's also possible the writers just didn't have an actual explanation for what happened, and it's all just details added to the Mystery Box.
Fornax Aleph is like the Dancing Plague meets liminal space in a sense, but the specific mention of the creatures being daemons or "daemon-like things" makes me wonder if the creatures were on the comet, or if the comet simply released the people back onto the planet from wherever they disappeared to.
Conrad curze being all “ugh women” after trying to swoon them with flesh wall is very funny and I need more of this head cannon. Incel Curze and Eren Yeager nightlords are incredibly memeble
Quick lore on the Golden Throne. When Horus took the gamble and let the Imperium board the ship, Emps asked Malcador to sit on the Golden throne. After killing Horus and beign mortally wounded, the Emperor was brought to the Golden Throne room, and with his last breath, Malcador imbuied the Emperor with his las psychic energy, giving the Imperium enough time to put the Emperor in the Golden Throne, and with the last action of Malcador, the Imperium learned that suministrating psychic energy to the Emperor, he would survive. Also, and with this las bit I'm not sure at all, the Emperor, even sitting on the throne, can communicate via psychic visions.
Malcador's psychic powers could make Horus kneel. He couldn't last one day on the Throne.
That's Malcador the Hero to you!😔✊
Please avoid specifics on things they plan on talking about (they're slowly building to the Heresy)
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I’m loving this mental image of Kari as the new guy in the imperial throne room, asking her new supervisor all these questions and he’s barely holding it together
“Well have you even tried?”
“NO!? Why are you even asking!”
Something that could qualify as horror is that; unless I misinterpreted what I read; a Krieger showed their face to a different Guardsmen. The true face of the Krieger disturbed the guardsman.
Kriegers I think get segregated from other non-Krieg troops because they are so nihilistic they can destroy morale from simply taking to others.
It's the face from "The Scream" painting
Interestingly, in Pariah Nexus we see a Krieg face. Sadly, they just looked normal.
The real horror is when you see *many* of them together, and realize their faces are the same. Exactly the same. Uh oh.
They are mostly kid, far as I know, I belive, they dont show their faces because they are mostly kids, thats why they are somewhat shorter than normal guardsmen
From what I heard, Kriegsmen are mostly child soldiers, and that was what was disturbing about them.
They're all clones. @@c4ns3r53
Horrors of Warhammer
Khorne: Grow blood limbs when severed while ripping and tearing to Blood Swamps on loop
Slaanesh: Excess *REDACTED FOR HERESY*
Tzeentch: Spontaneous mutating horrors beyond human comprehension
Nurgle: Decay and disease in "I love you…" by Barney
Vashtorr: The AI in "I have no mouth, and I must scream" was too tame.
Chaos Undivided: Daemonculaba
Imperium: Servitors, corpse starch, cherubs, and Penitence Engines
Dark Eldar: "Our soul are being eaten by a Chaos god. Let's make the Warp look safe by comparison to fend it off."
Night Lords: *sees orphan child* "Yo, Skin!"
Dark Mechanicum: *slamming mechadendrite against daemon engine* "MAKE. PE. NIS. IN. TO. ROBOT!
Konrad Curze: Screaming gallery and talking to a literal meat statue of Emps as if it's Him.
Iron Warriors: "I don't care about morality, I want results."
Skaven: *agonizing groans in Hellpit abominations*
Ghorrich: “Kill me”
Throt: “Later-maybe”
*muffled voice in walks and floors* “I’m not here-real. Ignore me me!”
Necrons: Flayed Ones, Szarekh torturing a C'tan on his throne, and Illuminor Szeras proving Body Horror doesn't require flesh and blood.
Tau: “You will own nothing, and you will be happy.” -Aun’Va.
Vespids, Ethereals, Tau’va (Greater Good) entity and enforcement
Everything within the state, Nothing outside the state.” -Fascism founder Mussolini when asked to define fascism. Very applicable to the Tau.
Watcher in the Rain: *ghost rider voice* “You… GUILTY!”
Motely: "Wouldn't it be funny if..."
the Changeling: "Hi, I'm the Changeling of Tzeentch, and Welcome to Jackass."
You forgott the Ghoul-Stars and the Eldrith-Horror freakshow that is in there. Edit (nevermind the Ghoul-stars where at the 52:00 even tho they didnt tell evyrthing that is in that place )
The thing with the Daemonculaba is that it is very far from Chaos undivided. Iron Warriors really do not like Chaos and the whole affair was just their attempt to reproduce when their geneseed was useless - and it wasn't that different from how space Marines are made in principle.
What they did really was just the Imperium turned up to 11.
The Imperium has waaaay more terrors than what you described. Here are some of the things you may not know:
MORE IMPERIUM HORRORS:
• Inquisitor Fyodor Karamazov and his doctrines of "there is no such thing as 'innocence'" or "to plea innocence before me is to already be guilty for wasting my time"
• Inquisition making tests in inoffensive planets with Genestealer Virus and, then, giving the Exterminados Treatment to them.
• Loyalists chapters like Subjugators, Invaders, Blood Dragons, Star Phantoms and Flesh Tearers (among others) not giving a damn to casualties in their operations.
• Carcharodons that kidnap ENTIRE POPULATIONS to serve them.
• Iron Hands and, basically, all its successor chapters that allow Imperial citizens to be raided and imprisoned by Drukhari to "cull the herd".
• Speaking of "cull the herd" or "weed out the weak", Howling Griffons that manipulate ENTIRE PLANETS under their jurisdiction to be in constant wars to get recruits.
• The whole process of becoming an Exorcist.
• EVERYTHING about the Death Spectres - specially what they do with Imperial women.
• Inquisitorial training in which recruit can be ordered to t0rtur3 and k1ll their parents for no cr1m3 whatsoever. (Example: "Watcher In The Rain" short story)
Phew! There are more horrors that can be done by the Imperium that I am not aware of. These above are just a few. 😊❤😂
Gotta love Tiamats Bacon, best High Fleet Bacon ever made by Trazyn while drunk on his Beer app.
The best Tyranid scary story is the one of the ship getting eaten by a tyranid ship and them being digested in vivid detail
It’s really good, I think it’s from “the last hunt”
40:07 Okay but imagine the pamphlet is a perfect map of your room as a child. With details that even you had forgotten.
The drukari in a nutshell:
If you cant fight: run, if you can't run: hide and above all else: prey you aren't taken alive.
If you want to understand why people like the Night Lords, read the Night Lords trilogy of books. It's a master class in making unapologeticly evil protagonists who you can understand and root for, without making them misunderstood or secretly moral.
Part of it is that the ones we follow are clear underdogs. They're not Chaos Marines with vast resources and access to whole Mark Mechanicum Hell Forges. The ones we follow in the trilogy run around looting anything they can, just to stay functional. Their squads are regularly at half strength, and barely work together. They're in a constant struggle just to operate, let alone succeed.
Everyone loves an underdog. This, along with letting us come to know their individual members, makes us sympathize with them. We don't necessarily want Talos et al. to _win,_ but we want to see them make it out okay.
It helps that they're somewhat "practical" in that they realize how precious their resources are and the pains they'll go through not to do stupid shit if it's not worth it. Plus it kind of feels like they're self-aware of just how terrible everything is and are trying to do anything to bring meaning to their existences.
22:12 because the golden throne has exactly 1000 battery slots (coffins for the psykers)
I love this series so much. You two are just a joy to listen to and I wish yall good health, keep up the good work!
OH BOY WE TALKING BOUT FLAYER VIRUS, MY SKIN ROBOTS ARE HERE
They just hungry
Side theory: I think tiamats beacon calls out to any long lost cousins of the nids. Fun fact, the nids seem to have been to our 40k galaxy long ago. The spiders of murder, the centipedes of catachin and the leviathans of fenris.
The spiders on Murder were able to communicate, the Interex said they had no interest in negotiations though.
@@cxfxcdudewell the nids are also able to communicate but just like the spiders they don't really care to talk to anyone
@cxfxcdude yeah but how it's said like that is common in gw and could very well be a joke. Hard to argue with somthing that just wants to survive and eat
@@cietalvon6850 its a relatively new development from what I've seen, a scythe of the emperor came face to face with a large bioform and glimpsed the hive mind and saw it was as malicious as any warp daemon, another was when an imperial commander kept receiving visions of victory over the tyranids in his dreams but it turned out to be a trap by one of the new brain bugs to get him to order his troops a certain way and kill him and his force
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They don't _just_ explode. They do a LOT of things!
Locked in: the excess energy remains in the Pyskers mind, trapping them in a coma until they break it with sheer willpower.
Deamonhost: You become a Deamonhost.
Warp Feast: You are sucked into the warp, lost forever with a Burp.
Kari saying Bricky colabs with vtubers so he doesn't get the urge to skin fleshtubers is WILD LMAO
One of my favorite details I noticed during the Owlcat Rogue Trader CRPG was a certain interaction with a drukhari character that doesn't actively want you dead where you have the option to let your character stand near a ledge close to them and they will get shoved and then caught by said drukhari, and his reaction to the momentary rush of utter panic is basically like taking a nice cold cup of ice water at 3 AM, so they also get emotional charge from the little things like that, in addition to keeping you alive for hundreds of years as a still conscious flesh couch or becoming a still alive harp that's strung by your nerve endings.
Some bonus bits about the Screaming Gallery. It has a blood lake in it, and at the center of the blood lake Konrad made a meat statue of Big E, and Konrad will get naked and go in the blood lake to worship it. It's also where Konrad has his throne, which is made out of fused together bones of his victims.
The Slaanesh giant-man meat ball planet? Is that where Flashglitz got the idea for the planet that was just a big purple furry?
Probably tbh
Wouldn’t be surprising, sentient celestial bodies could be an occurrence in real space, definitely more so in the warp
I'm pretty sure that's a yes
Being a skeleton is not an argument against being powerful for SUCH IS THE POWER OF NAGASH.
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I really love how 40k is like "we won't mess with science, we have to avoid the horros of AI". But they're also like: I'm going to create a room which keeps pieces of people alive and screaming forever"
To clarify a bit on the black ships and whether feeding the emperor psykers, it DOES do...something. When Roboute Guilliman returned to life, he did get a chance to speak with the emperor. Though, this greatly depends on your definition of "speak"; it'd be more apt to say the emperor "communicated" with Guilliman. So he is still mentally present somewhat sitting on that golden chair...if you want to believe it's even him up there at all and not some new warp fueled being wearing the emperor's body as clothing.
Also, there was a very brief time when someone else did take the seat on the golden throne; Malcador, the emperor's right hand man basically, took over the seat briefly during the final moments of the horus heresy so the emperor could leave and board Horus' ship to kill him. He ended up getting so fried with both physical and psykic torment his bodied literally dissolved into ash. Malcador was also considered an extremely powerful psyker second only to the emperor, so basically the emperor is the only human even remotely qualified to sit on the throne right now (or Magnus but he turned traitor and probably isn't going to help out with the golden rocking chair anytime soon)
EDIT: Also to answer the other question "who figured out it was 1000 psykers?", that was revealed in the final trilogy in the horus heresy series The End and the Death. Spoiler: it was Vulkan. As Malcador was struggling not to absolutely explode while sitting on the golden throne, Vulkan issued the order the "Unspoken Sanction" which was in the event the person sitting on the throne - presumed to be the emperor but in this case Malcador - started showing signs their "grasp was splipping" to start throwing psykers into the battery-like tube compartments at the base of the throne. The emperor had previously figured out what those compartments were for and created a contingency for a situation like this but never thought it would actually be used. So Vulkan had servitors organize psykers (which were sedated if that makes you feel any better) one after another to get in there and basically get turned to ash until Malcador seemed to be stable. That number turned out to be 1000.
Cari had it right at the end. the scariest thing of any hobby is the price
I know imperium is a technologically backwards and superstitious. But putting people with powers, that are linked to their emotional state and whose weakness of will can make them into gate ways to hell, into an extremely stressful and draining environment for possibly years, while travelling through a maddening sub space, is frankly suicidal. Sure they got silent sisters and some emotional/warp suppressor tech, but those are also source of pain and distress at least once they go off. Putting them in stasis or cryo seems way more sensible. Of course psychic powers don’t obey natural laws or always need the user to be awake but that just means the method is as safe as the original, but with a higher chance of the subject coming out of it as a functional individual. Which is important when they are in charge of your entire communication network.
Imperium is gonna Imperium.
The main reason they’re so stressed is the sisters of silence. Being around them makes psykers want to off themselves and is like torture.
Unfortunately it’s the only reliable way to suppress their powers.
You are underestimating the effect the presence of the Sisters of Silence have. They're Blanks. When Blanks are around, psychic powers don't work. _End of sentence._ They turn off.
The Black Ships are full of Sisters. They're fine. (The Psykers aren't. They're having a bad time. But, importantly for the Imperium, they're having a bad time in such a way that they're also powerless and trivially contained.)
I mean, if we start to add logic into 40k it stops being 40k, Imperium is always rotting but surviving power, it will always be backwards and stupid, its it thing.
@ I argue against your point, Imperium makes perfect sense and is extremely logical when observed from their point of view and historical context. As an outsiders and with vastly greater perspective and knowledge of their galaxy it simple to see what they are doing wrong, which is kind of the point as it adds to grimdarkness of it all. It is stupid, but I do in fairness get how they got there. I still do think black ships teeter on the line between grimderp and just stupid.
Hearing all the scary stuff of 40k being described as "a series of unfortunate furniture" is absolutely insane.
Kari must be lore fanatics worst nightmare
"They have to sacrifice 1000 psykers a day to keep him alive
Kari: who figured that out? I want a name, I want to see the Custodes manager😂
How long might it take her to replace her name‘s I for an EN?
If the Drukhari break through our defenses, I've got one bullet I'm saving just for me.
Man, patrolling baal secundus makes you wish for a valhallan winter
32:50 y’all haven’t read that Conrad Curze book, have you? He has a pet human for a while and he both tortures and nurtures him for months. And it’s just the two of them left alive on the ship, too.
Some important information you missed about the Corpus Brethren. The Sentinels were among a group large number of Space Marine Chapters who's worlds were hit by a warp storm. The warp storm caused physical and psychological effects on the people of those planets, including the Space Marines. This lead to a massive investigation led by Saint Basillius the Elder to root out any corruption that might have occurred. After thorough trials, a couple hundred Space Marine chapters were deemed in the clear, but 30 or so were deemed to be found wanting, including the Sentinels. These chapters were collectively called The Judged and demanded to be sent on a penintent crusade known as the Abyssal Crusade.
The Abyssal Crusade lasted 800 years with most the Space Marines either dying or falling to Chaos, except for one Chapter, the Vorpal Blades, who made it back and uncovered that the still living Saint Basillius was actually an agent of Chaos who had sent a bunch of Space Marines into the meatgrinder to either be killed or converted to Chaos. The Vorpal Blades then led what was left of the surviving Space Marines on what was known as the Judgement of Basillius where they executed the false idol, destroyed all monuments associated with him, and sent his remaining followers on slow moving ship into the nearest star.
They brought up the Drukari flesh sofas but not even the mandrakes
I hope they also touch on the gloomspite gitz and flesh eater courts, great horror factions from AoS
24:00 Wasn't there a theory that the Tyrant star is just Malal? Or was that a tts exclusive thing?
Goddammit every time Drukhari was said I heard it as Drew Carey. Now I can't unhear it.
One of the most horrific things in the 41st millennium is the Dark Mechanicum. The Mechanicus is bad but then add chaos and we have perfection
I was not expecting "Twerking Caedo" as one of the horrors
When the video starts with the friggin Drukhari, you know you're in for a ride.
Edit: Holy shit, I love the scrolling excerpts on this episode. That'd be a great motif to use in other episodes to provide visual cues for the lore discussions (Plus ya boi is hard of hearing and has the ADD riddled brain of a goldfish).
8:56 Never in all my days did I expect a cameo in my favorite warhammer 40k lore series, much less in this way.
OH I'm so excited to hear what you guys think of the infinite and the divide! Have a happy Halloween you guys!
1000 souls a day sounded like a lot but then we sacrifices more for Covid, so now it sounds positively benign.
I have a theory for where everyone went, the way that there was the description of a ship, sinking into the sun.
Imagine if a warp storm came though, and made everyone instantly get up and onto ships, to fly themselves into the sun. The deamon like things are the cursed souls of the people taken by this deamon sun as the asteroid wasnt detected as it should have been, and the reason for it was the space marines were too strong willed to ever go under its control that way.
And the hand? That was a soul guardsman’s last will to hold onto the light of the emperor and so the warp energy burned his hand off, leaving it there, still holding on.
Even in a video dedicated to body horror, it still avoids the topic of the Daemonculaba
Leave something for next year
Oh that’s funny, I was going to put *Infinite and the Divine* on my Christmas wishlist (heard it was a good 1st book to get into the 40k novels
All righty time to learn about the horrors beyond my comprehension in the physical plane
You fools :3
You said nothing of the cats being stickered, im gonna make my kitty bastilla look like she got shot put through a hyvee gift card aisle nyahajahahahaha
NOOOOOOOOOO
I honestly believe that the Psykers getting fed to Emps. Has the best outcome. The other alternative is being eaten by demons eventually.
People are always "Sacrifice for the better good" until THEY are the ones in the tracks
@@ericquiabazza2608well, I think OP is saying that even the unskilled psykers will be eaten by demons if they're left to their devices.
Valgûl, Twice-Perished aka the Fallen Lord is one of my favorite Necron Lords. He kept his sanity and takes care of and communicates with his sickened people. Showing kindness to those who would be seen as nothing more than mindless monsters by the rest of his kind. Can't wait for you guys to talk about him
Happy Halloween! I’m so glad I asked about Drukhari or Druki on a stream and the first topic is Drukhari fun times.
What if the skin furniture is kinda into it and instead of crying they're just like "moisturize me", what do they do then
Drukari: *turns human into a chair
Chair: please sit on me
@@MiningwithPudding edgy space elf complaining to their furniture supplier because the face stretched across the lampshade keeps making kissy faces at them
All I have to say on the matter is that like most other mortal settlements Commorragh needs plumbing.
I think one of the first 40k horror stories that really truly put some fear into me was the king of pigs story as one night I was driving home around 2 AM and this seemed like a sillier horror story good for some lighter driving entertainment lured me into a depth of fear that was quite unsettling to the point that I haven't been to in a very long time. This story revolves around a craft world under siege, just begging and praying that the empire will save them. Our main character is in a relationship on the rocks already stressing them out more and at work where they commit slaughter by the second is broken by a glimpse of hope as they find a piglet. This turns into what feels like a modern Grimms fairy tale in which the light hearted nature and fantastical gift turns foul and you never know even by the end of it whether or not this is all true or just the misguided last thoughts of a broken soul on the verge of utter peril and fear. I highly recommend adding it to next years selection. TLDR this is the most horrifying 40K story I've ever come across and sold me on the "grim dark" of this IP
The sheer number of times I have read and listened to that audiobook is astounding, I have the events nailed down by heart.
Such a spooky scary tale! Reminds me of HIS imperial guard! Did you know that the Guard out Ubers nearly every other faction and is the bulwark upon which HIS empire is found upon? Truly scary stuff!!
Just watched every video and livestream on your channel in the last week. I love the content.❤
Now to wait... like binging your favorite anime. 2 years til the next season...
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I have not read the Infinite and the Divine, but I _did_ watch the Adeptus Ridiculous episode on it. And I got the very rough gist.
Of all things I did NOT expect y'all to mention Life After People! That's the documentary you were thinking of about if people all disappeared, it was my go-to for sleepytime for a while
Aw, no Daemonculaba? Guess we'll have to wait until the Iron Warriors episode for that.
The map is such a eerie and creepy short story. Like it makes you ask so many questions that will never get answered.
The bit at the end was a very good goof
You did an awesome job entertaining me while doing some work. Keep up the good work!
Listening while chilling in the Golden Saucer.
Also, Reavers is exactly how I understand the dark elves.
You guys should definitely talk about that region of the galaxy where it's like the Bermuda Triangle and all sorts of crusader fleets of Space Marines and others like Rogue Traders which are pretty much sanctioned pirates and/or explorer tradesmen for the Imperium, going to that place.
I'd say the Callidus agent hunting down The Night Haunter would be good for next year.
You really need to also do a video on the Officio Assassinorum and the Space Maine-Assassin war.
So just a short tidbit on Konrad while his methods are objectively horrendous he did have some of the lowest overall casualty rates for both sides in his compliances, and pointed this out to more than a few of his brothers when they talked down to him for it.
This was an awesome episode, I can't wait for the next one!
DruKAREN will torture you but mentally instead of physically
but can't even DESCRIBE the amount of levels of heresy suggesting putting a demon the chair of terra is. like holy shit.
I'm pretty sure the tyrant star is actually some sort of tyrannid thing. I mean its in the name.
but I bet that tzneetch just put that map there just to fuck with big E cause it knew that he'd find it there
It bears mentioning that the person that sent those marines on the Abyssal Crusade, turned out to be a chaos cultist themselves, it was all a plan to make a bunch of new chaos space marine warbands.
Im SO excited for the book club thing bro. The Infinite and the Divine is my second favorite book ever mwahaha. I'm sure this episode will be great i just started it
as soon as i saw black ships on the wheel i knew it was goanna be a good one
First off, first time see this channel. It's very cool and lovely what you and your girlfriend are doing.
Second, that Map they found, to me imo reminds me of something akin to the forerunners of Halo being the creators of humans but are basically gone.
Nothing in 40K will ever be funnier than the ork Ufthak yeeting a space marine into the audience of a dark eldar arena.
26:25 god this one line sends actual chills down my spine
At 8:11 there's a song that encapsulates this perfectly: Skin Sofa by Jay Foreman
YESSSSS! I love that book. So much fun with newcrons in The Infinite and the Divine.
I have an interesting theory, Tiamat's beacon is a literal lighthouse, acting as a mass of psychic energy, and the Tyranids will pick up on that energy and go to it, and the main fleet will approach the beacon, they won't enter the galaxy randomly, they will filter through a single point.
The blue checkmark dig was amazing.
43:42 Hey! That fungus is just a short drive from where I grew up. It's nicknamed The Humongous Fungus, and it is a specimen of Armillaria ostoyae, with a land area of 3.5 square miles (2,240 acres) and mass of almost 35,000 tons. So far, it holds the record for the largest single living organism in the world. If they ever find something bigger, I'm leaving this planet.
Flayed One ASMR short actually sounds fun as hell what the heck!?!?!
The “I’m Just F***in Evil! Tee Hee” bit had me rolling.
GOSH how I loved your narration! It has that TMA feeling to it 😋😋😋
FIREFLY MENTIONED!!!!!!!!!!!
Book club sounds really cool! gives me a reason to actually start reading or listening to the warhammer books finally.
Watcher in the rain for next year, i think is pretty spoopy
37:50 holy hell after listening to infinite and divine audiobook that was a REALLY good impression of traezyn
Ah to slay a god... such consequences... such rewards..
blue checkmark is now the symbol of the Dark eldar!
Since Halloween was a couple days ago and Christmas is next month, the only thing I can see in my mind as I listen to The Screaming Gallery is a smol Konrad Kurze sitting in atheist Santa Emp's lap asking for fresh torture victims before purging the elves for being mutants 😂
This is a reference few people are going to get, but to me Tzeentch's whole asthetic can be summed up by Spinal's theme from Killer Instinct 2013.
If you don't know the reference, 100% check out the song! It's made by Mick Gordon and it's SO GOOD.
New Merch idea just put the chaos guy with “I’m fucking EVIL babyyyyy” on a mug or sticker
I have no mouth, and I must scream….
NEW NUMBSKULLS DROPPED
Happy Halloween Brothers!
God I love Valgûl. He's just so fucking metal
A one eyed, blood and skull covered, rusty lookin necron overlord with orange lights instead of green, a big flayer claw for one hand, and a giant orange war scythe in his normal hand, with a cape of human skin, leading an army of deranged, hungry, zombie terminators with freddy krueger claws, clad in human viscera, that can just suddenly appear on the battlefield out of nowhere and vanish just as suddenly
I mean, he's really giving Imotekh a run for his money for who's more intimidating to see on a battlefield
And yeah, I know not all those details are necessarily "cannon" but that's mostly because we don't have any official artwork, not because I'm intentionally forsaking cannon for what I personally think looks cool (and frankly, I wouldn't expect official artwork of him to look very different from my description if they ever make any)
can't wait for you guys to do warhammer fantasy and the skaven...
6:08 Great, now Im picturing Drew Carey dressed as a Drukhari and it IS torture
My suspicion for the tyranid structures is that it's a mega creature. Tyranid war forms will collect biomass and then eventually throw themselves into the digestion pools to feed the hive ships. I think that the hive ships then find an optimal world and then break themselves down in order to fuse and feed into something truly tearable.