The Shadowkith EXPLAINED! Obscure Aliens & Monsters. | Warhammer 40k Lore
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The galaxy is full of weird aliens and monster, many of which have gone undocumented or are very rarely seen. in this series we are going to be creating a record of all of the bizarre xenos, mutants, and monsters within the warhammer 40k universe. In this episode we are going to be looking at the cannibalistic mutants of Grace, known only as the Shadowkith. Grace was once a planet in the Koronus expanse. the wild west of the galaxy, full of worlds no human has ever set foot on. It is rumored grace was once a pleasure planet for the galaxy's wealthy elite. However, it seems to have been abandoned. what happened on Grace and who are the Shadowkith? Today we are going to get to the bottom of that mystery!
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"this planet was home to extreme hedonism and sadism, was surrounded by a warp storm, and is now populated only by twisted, grotesque creatures that seek out a horrible desire. No one knows how this happened"
Slaanesh sitting miffed in the corner
It's f-ed up when even Slaanesh ain't claiming them...
My thoughts exactly
Its like that bit in family guy where Peter thanks Jesus and it was actually an Indian god.
Games workshop have said it themselves the halo stars, and the ghoul stars are not occupied by Chaos. And that there are other things besides chaos in the warp. So definitely not slow Nash. The chaos gods have no power and the ghoul stars or the halo stars. In fact, games workshop has teased that the halo stars is actually a third dimension due to the nature of some of the creatures that the black Templars crusaded were found out to be from a different dimension that wasn’t the warp.
@@SpazMonkeyxd this is a fascinating inclusion because I honestly forgot that the warp storms surrounded the sector the planet's in and not the planet itself. I have a headcanon now that the reason why those warp storms suddenly appeared there was because the chaos gods could detect the presence of something else inside that sector and were attempting to reach it but ultimately were unable to.
And to what you said before about there being another other dimension besides the warp, maybe the reason why Grace wasn't on any maps was because it hadn't been there before
Imagine if the distress call reached a Salamanders ship. Our big green Boys drop planetside, eager to help, only to be betrayed, mocked even by these inhumans. And then the fire comes. Chaos have mercy on them, for the Emperor and his angels will have none to spare.
I would love to see a fan animation of this if only GW didnt pull that bs that they did =(
even better would be the look on the faces of the ones in their moldering estates sending out traps having drop pods hammer into their makeshift fortress
Kill it with fire
Then Lamenters come and get killed or get stuck in the warp on the way
Then Black Templars already know what’s going on and go in sword in hand shouting “FOR THE EMPEROR”
@@Glonk169 dont ruin it man
Shadowkith seems like a 40k rendition of the Wendigo monster! They are formed when people resort to cannibalism and are creatures associated with greed and hunger. They also have the ability to mimic human voices and are able to hold some form of intelligence, where they also hunt by luring people through such mimicry. The Wendigo monster has been featured in many stories in mainstream media already but this 40k version still sounds unique and rather refreshing, it's also the first time I've seen the Wendigo monster in sci fi!
Just came here to say the same thing 😅(only less intelligent)
My personal theory is that all the debauchery finally got slaaneshs attention, and that slaanesh also caused the warp storm. Think about it this is kinda how slaanesh was born in the first place, only on a smaller scale, of course it would get it´s attention, anda warp god can most definitley cause a warp storm and isolate the planet. The question is if slaanesh is still enjoying a little vacation here or has moved on.
In Jim Butcher's books with Harry Dresden (Dresden Files) there were a couple of characters that were Wendigo or something like that. The name of the Wendingo is He Who Walks Behind. Quite a good villain
You're talking about a pop culture combination of a Wendigo and Skin Walker.
Omg I knew these monsters sounded strangely familiar
Honestly the Calixis Sector is scary in general. Shodowkith, Halo devices and Tyrant Star are just a few of the horrors that exist in that region.
That’s rivaling Vraks, Krieg, and Cadia in terms of scary inhabitability
Sounds like a place for the Dark eldar to stumble upon.
Be ironic for them to show up expecting an easy raid just to get eaten
Dark Eldar: "What happened here? This clearly wasn't our work."
Shadowkith: *descend like rabid chaos buzzards and slaughter the entire Drukhari warband in moments*
@@SpicyMediaReal That would be a nice change of pace, make the Dark eldar suffer for once
@@SpicyMediaReal that would be a pretty impressive considering how strong Dark Eldar are.
I recall other times in lore where dark eldar do stupid things like that, such as trying to capture flesh hounds of Khorne for their arenas or boarding a tyranid hive ship to get specimens for experimentation, so I could definitely see a dark eldar raiding party try to capture the beasts for use in their arenas as well as getting lured in by the distress calls
I'd honestly would love to see a video game based on the horror show that is the planet Grace. It would be funny seeing some dark eldar NPCs trying to survive the horrors of this forsaken planet and its shadowkith resistance.
Hey Wes, the word you are looking for is “exorbitant”. That means excessive, steep, extreme.
“Exuberant” means excited and joyous.
Honestly the people of Grace are lucky. They could have been visited by Slaanesh for their actions. Instead just slightly odd cannibalism and some minor mutations
Probably because Slaneesh thought that the thing that are happening on Grace is like 1/1000000 of what would happen during Eldar’s peak , so she(or he) probably doesn’t even bat an eye about it because to her it seems like a child’s play . Just imagine how bad what the Eldar were doing back in the day if Slaneesh ignored Grace
I don’t know if you could even understand what I’m saying rn because I am drunk af I don’t even know what I’m writing but I think you’ll get the poiint
@@mediumsurmoon6283 I understand no worries
That is the truly scary part...nobody, not even the Chaos gods themselves knows what happened on Grace, even Tzeentch is genuinely befuddled by the mystery.
@@navilluscire2567 really? I thought Tzeentch was all knowing?
When I hear someone say "dive head first into the grim dark" I just imagine being tackled into it by someone screaming "ONWARDS BROTHER! FOR THE EMPEROR!"
Edit: Brothers! Thank you for the likes! And pray the Inquisition doesn't come for me...for I see some heretics here...
That or blood for the blood god!
ruclips.net/video/KxTcbPJt950/видео.html
@@Shad0wBoxxer heresy!
@@grumpymonk2460 daft
@@grumpymonk2460 DAKKA DAKKA!
Stories like this are honesty some of my favourite in the franchise, all the huge factions fighting each other is amazing to learn about but these shorter tales of people who delved too far into the galaxies secrets really make the setting feel alive to me. So thank you for covering them, even if there's very little lore/art to work with and I hope to see more in future
40K really shines when you look away from the massive conflicts and looks into the dark corners. If only 40k would drop more horror novels, the setting is built for it.
Agreed. This is what 40k is all about for me :)
My personal theory is that all the debauchery finally got slaaneshs attention, and that slaanesh also caused the warp storm. Think about it this is kinda how slaanesh was born in the first place, only on a smaller scale, of course it would get it´s attention, anda warp god can most definitley cause a warp storm and isolate the planet. The question is if slaanesh is still enjoying a little vacation here or has moved on.
These stories are beautifully horrifying. It truelly does personify the grim dark of 40k. Thank you Wes for giving us an immersive experience of the lore.
That and his content is so chill and not all edge dark mode with screaming gun fire clips in the background.
How I imagine these monsters we named by the imperium and how it changed as the name was passed through the infinite levels of filing and red tape “Kiss of the Shadows” > “Shadows Kiss” > “Shadow Kiss” > “Shadow Kith” the last one was filed by administratum worker Mikel Tysonius.
You mean Mike Tythonius.
Lol
Jethuth Cwithe....
Kith means friends m8
Anyone else not into warhammer or WH40K whatsoever, but appreciate these videos and content on such a world class standard for creativity and world building.
I was a WoW player that started reading the books over 15 yrs ago. Got tired of the Horde/Alliance misunderstanding stories and somehow came across WH fantasy and loved the grim dark. I finally gave in to only really having 40K content on YT can't get enough lore now. Still want fantasy first though.
naah
tbh, the fact that the planet was surrounded by warp storm might def be an explaination as to why they mutated so fast. that and also the maybe toxic shrooms
Grace actually has done a favour for the imperium, trapping some of the most depraved, sadistic and vilest criminals and nobles in one planet and practically end them all, no single arbites and Inquisitiom can be as effective as this
The word you were looking for is _exorbitant._ She may have been _exuberant_ about applying her markups, but the markups themselves would be _exorbitant._
Also, unguarded treasure would be _ripe_ for the picking. The world, unfortunately, is _rife_ with Shadowkith.
You can draw a lot of parallels between Shadow Kith and Wendigo. Maybe a combination of Wendigo Psychosis qnd the fungi on the planet helped stimulate the Shadow Kith's mutations
Does Wendigo Psychosis cause physical change? That's not something I've heard about.
@@freduruk6623 in american lores yes
This is the type of narrative boost that 40k needs desperately.
Finally, a hostile planet the World Eaters could actually conquer in 48 hours...
Until you realize the world eaters also eat their own dead
Meaning… yup, mutant world eaters now
My man is pumping out content almost as fast as an Ork on a red bike...
Dis sneeky git popped outta nose were.
Hi Wes!
Can you do a lore short about the “lost” children of the Big E like the 2 lost Primarchs, the Sensei, and the Angel/Proto-Primarch?
yes
Not much for the lost two primarchs as only maybe 4 passages exist on them. The Sensei do deserve a video though.
What's the angel/proto-primarch?
@@stevepickford3004 A failed project to create basically all the primarchs in one body. It had the traits of every primarch, but he went mad and is currently locked in a coffin sealed by the emperor himself.
There's no lore on the 2 lost primarchs on purpose. It's so players can make homebrewn astartes chapters.
I'd love to see this series continued! Videos on the rak-gol, loxatl, and hrud would be pretty cool as well! I've always thought that the Chaos not including xenos units was a major missed opportunity.
I'll go back to it at some point, I enjoyed making these videos on obscure species 😃
I'd say "Graze" is kinda the solidified Nature of the dark age, bearing an unsettling Fate. Good stuff for Nightmare Storys, awesome telling man 👍
Definitely another factor that has never been accounted for. The fungi or something related to the warp are the first guesses... The 40k universe is vast and unimaginable so who knows! Interesting bit of lore
Yessss love your Deep Dives keep doing such a great job
Awesome video Wes!!! More like this one please! Super enthralling, intriguing, inspiring, and Über-Dark! Love it!🤘🏻
More Obscure aliens and monsters please, this was a good watch and informative.. thank you.
Are trying to rip me off 😪 this is not the real wes Hammer 😕 telegram my ball baby
Very interesting how I want a book dedicated to this planet, rogue trader coming on it would find logs of the populations decending to madness and cannibalization sounds ripe for a good horror book
Event Horizon is pretty much about ship that comes out of a warp trip and a crew has to find out what happened
Audio sounds fantastic my guy. & 10/10 video This Grim Dark Lore never gets old.
I have to say, I take a train to work every morning, around sunrise, and listening to your Lore videos, is just what the morning needs to get ready for work, so thank you
Truth be told, i would love for you to do a audio book, your voice is very calm and even if the works are Strange, you make them easy to understand and enjoyable for the new to 40K
A fantastic way to end the work day! Your channel is the only one out of my thousands of subs that has the notification bell turned on. Never miss one of your amazing vids!
Thank you for all your hard work and dedication! 😀👍
Love how you have shorts, 10-20min videos, and 1hr videos. The variety is awesome and allows me to listen based on my time commitment.
Love this type of lores! Keep up the great work! Any more crazy lore within the Vault/prison/too OP for anything monsters
Honestly this world sounds like it would be great for the setting of a Depth/L4D MP style video game, small team of players as rogue traders moving through one of the mansions looking for the main treasure room and any survivors while also finding some loot scattered around all the while fending off AI shadowkith and maybe one or two player controled ones with a few abilities they can use.
This would be the perfect setting for a 40K horror story. A crew gets assembled by Noble to extract someone from the planet they land and shit hits the fan quickly. The extraction team get slowly whittled down by the unending horde telling me a handful and the noble are left and escape. the crew gets compensated to the end but it gets revealed to the person who hired them was a rival who just wanted revenge on the noble and to kill him personally.
You got me into warhammer with your shorts and I'm calling it now that Chaos has something to do with it.
An entire planet that is basically The Hotel California...with cannibals!😬 That was pretty rad Wes😉
Hotel California or Roach Motel lol
Started watching you on Tiktok, never played 40K before but the lore is so fascinating. I'm so glad you moved to RUclips. And because of you I found MajorKill as well. Your an awesome dude and I think you for all your hard work 👍
I have the Rogue Trader module of this species. It's an awesome adventure over there.
I've never gotten to play the rogue trader RPG, but I've been having a lot of fun reading through It's rulebooks recently. Lots of really cool stories I never knew about!
Man I need to get into the WH40k horror stories. They be KILLING it. As always mad love Wes ✊🏾
Sounds to me like the denizens of Grace were already monsters and we’re just given a form to match.
Loving these more in depth episodes dude!
Your hair looks great, Wes!!
I'm not biased in any way, just making an observation.
Also, great video^^
Listening at the same time watching while wesh tells us the story it feels so relaxing
Hey Wes, love the channel, and I don’t know exactly when I started watching you, but I do know since I’ve started I’ve seen your entire channel just blow up! Not to mention the sponsors 😙🤌 *chefs kiss* Congratulations and good luck on continuing the journey! Still haven’t dove into the game because it seems you need other people who are also interested, and unfortunately none of my friends would be into it. That being said you’ve gotten me incredibly interested in reading the books, and diving into the lore myself. I absolutely loved your last obscure aliens and monsters episode, and I was hoping you’d make another one soon, so I’m really glad you have! Can’t wait to see what more wisdom you have to bestow 😂😁 thank you for posting such interesting in depth content!
I just never get tired of your vids man! Love from Argentina!
I am thinking of creating a channel but i don't have the courage, yet you inspire me a lot!
Do it. Just get decent equipment. Plenty of room for growth outside of English speaking channels. Especially if you can do both cornering a niche market.
Loved this video. I love the white scars or whatever but they are what they are. These small pockets of horror and mystery buried underneath the melodrama of the imperium is a cool place to explore
When you started Wes, I wasn't a big fan of all the shorts but now that you are doing lore videos I am in, subscribed
"Honey, weeee're going to *_GRACE_* this year for Holidays (!)"
"Greece, OK fine; whatever, just get me my 5L tub of Ben & Jerry's."
This planet would be great for some sort of Warhammer RPG
Great video as always Wes!
Nice Korobus Exoanse lore :D I’ve been reading some of the stuff that goes around that place recently thanks for cover some of it here dude. ^^
The Calixis Sector is probably one of the most terrifying places in 40k and this is yet more proof of that.....Great job man! You're such a great narrator!
Fantasy Flight's 40k rpg content is sooo dope. Added so much flavor to 40k. I guess wes will go through its bestiary, I once spent all weekend reading those books
Holy damn. This would make for a great game setting. Looting ancient estates and fighting off hordes of mutants.
For me the shadowkith are 40k’s version of the reavers from firefly/serenity
more a 40k Wendigo horde
Thanks for this video, helped me to get inspiration and have included them in one of my Chaos armies
The way Grace was explained; I could easily see an Indy type Warhammer game!
Made out of drop ship,cannibal- horde style-killing field with a wave mechanic! All the while you secure tech,riches,and legendary;or mythic level, class specific weapons/upgrades!!
or diablo like arpg
The short story anthologies are underrated and under covered by content creators. Awesome video, Wes. Peace
Favorite one yet! Thanks!
We did this as a fleet in distress as part of the Procession of the Damned. Finally found two of the derelicts broadcasting manual distress calls only to find out once our party had boarded the first ship that what was left of the crew had devolved into these insanely fast and strong hordes. The second ship, that was larger than the first was much worse due to the vast numbers. I distinctly remember their spawn being particularly horrible with the traps and thrown weaponry. Time dilation was a major factor in the fight on the second ship, which thankfully favored the players in the engagement. Two great tastes that were far nastier/terrifying than being on their own. The GM had us constantly making sanity checks.
appreciate your content you got me into the franchise man❤
Bought and painted my first minis the other day because of your vids, thanks!
Imagine going to the planet, not for riches. But hope for a fight. Only to be let down when the monsters decide your too scary to try and eat
Love that story west, one of Greed and Sinful individual, finding their just dessert.
Also, Grace seems like a ripe planet for a Black Templar Crusade. Everything here screams their name, for me.
So pumped!
These videos use to make me feel sick and disturbed but now I turn them on before I sleep like a bed time story
I don't play warhammer, I don't know warhammer! But what I have learned I have learned from you and it's awesome!! I'm wondering if you could do a piece on the history of the Grey Knights or Kaldor Drago!? Keep up the amazing work!!
When I heard wes describing grace as an unregulated pleasure world with limitless hedonism I could tell where this was going, and the sudden warp storms sorta confirmed it. They somehow managed to attract the attention of slaanesh and that’s why they underwent mutation relatively quickly.
Wrong. The chaos entities have no access to that region of space.
Early on your channel had solid 40k content.
Now you are absolutely bringing it! Leutin better be watching out.
Leutin is king. This heresy will not stand, man
I know nothing about warhammer but I really enjoy all your creepy and dark stories. When you said koronus expanse I thought you said corona expanse and was like "Damn.. These creators dont play around "
Great vid btw ;)
Great video wes I'm looking forward to more
I can see a videogame being made, focused around a determined rogue trader wanting to scavenge the planet in search of treasure and lost artifacts. They arrive and receive the deluge of distress calls, but soon find themselves trapped as the warp storms close around it again. You can visit the towering fungi where some of the deformed aristocrats fled to in order to try and subsist on it, or the once-bustling city slave ruins, or even the decaying manors at their center. Time spent exploring and answering distress calls can give lore about what things happened on Grace before its downfall, or even discover more dark and sinister things which lead to the inhabitants mutating so rapidly. Perhaps it could be an ARPG like Path of Exile, or a first-person hack-and-slash like Vermintide/Darktide, maybe horror, or a mix.
I must admit, i really like your videos. The Warhammer lore is wast and the way you present it is engaging.
Another Uplifting and Cheerful story from WH40k.
This would be a awesome idea for a kitbashed 40k army and reminds me very much of the flesh eater courts of AOS.
Wouldn't it make sense for slaanesh to somehow be involved with this planet?
This planet was full of hedonistic pleasure,so it wouldn't suprise me...
I mean the shadow kith aren't slaanesh style
Not everything revolves around the Chaos gods.
@@navilluscire2567 yeah but a warp storm isolating a hedonistic pleasure world, which forces the inhabitants to indulge in greater sin like cannibalism, there’s definitely a connection to chaos here as it somewhat echoes the birth of slaanesh just on a much much much smaller scale
@@Red_Ryry
There is only a perceived ""connection"" because of flimsy associations you've made. *Correlation does not lead to causation.*
YES!!! Another lore video, let’s go
"What happened to the aristocrats on the planet" and "Who are these cannibalistic mutants" are two self-answering questions hahaha
it's this type of story that make me like 40k even more ^^
There’s a joke here about ‘Eating the rich’ that I’m not funny enough to make it work. 😔
This video, is great. Even though I probably should not have watched this just as I'm going to sleep, it's still great. The narration, the music, all of it just sent shivers down my spine and made me look behind my back just in case. Though one thing did leave me wondering, what ever happened to Chorda? Did she perish when the storms first arrived? Did she try to return when they finally disappeared, or is she still traveling across the stars?
Fact that finest Imperium royalty were ready to pay exorbitant prices for basically a massive deadly wasteland speaks volumes about state of Imperium's housing market.
A WesHammer Double Feature, now this is a good day haha.
I love your " not shorts" videos :3
you will hit a mil subs faster than any other warhammer channels if u keep uploading deep lore
Of all of the existential threats in 40K, the tyrannids have always scared me the most. They’re so beyond any motivation or morality we cab understand. And the genestealers are a threat that I think cannot be overstated.
DID YOU DOUBLE UPLOAD YESTERDAT WHAT THE HELL WES LETS GOOO
Fantastic content
Total new Vegas vibes here and im digging it
big love to your channel
wow , you did a good job Wes. 👍
This is a nice change,Just a 40k horror story with no Chaos shenanigans.
Imperium Guardsman: A planet who's population has devolved into cannibalism? Such a horrid display of hedonism...say brother guardsman how many of those ration cans till next shipment? I'm getting rather hungry.
A schweet, another Weshammer video
Hey Weshammer, any plans of making lore videos about Leagues of Votann?
also, that contest with Majorkill and Baldemort was funny
Grace would be a great setting for an RPG styled Rouge Trader video game in my opinion
I just saw a short about Sly Marbo I was wondering if you could do a video on him and his exploits please
By the emperor wow this is grimdark
Video game idea: You are a "treasure hunter" in 40k. You receive info about an abandoned former pleasure planet that has completely untouched estates chock full of technology and valuables that are just waiting to be raided. So you, or a small team if you want multiplayer, gear up and have a small shuttle drop you off on Grace to hunt treasure.
Obviously you will encounter the cannibal zombie things and now have to survive for a set amount of time before your ride shows up at the designated landing zone to pick you up. Whatever valuables or technology you can carry with you or bring to the LZ can be taken back with you, selling off your haul to pay for upgrades or new equipment so you can turn around and head back for more. Game modes can include: 1) a persistent base that you build up over time, allowing you to haul ever increasing amounts of loot back 2) each run can be a new start with only whatever gear you brought 3) you can be something other than a treasure hunter, perhaps an inquisitor looking for answers or the new owner of Grace looking to rebuild paradise after cleaning house; each mode would entail not only surviving, but other goals such as finding clues, solving mysteries, or just exterminating everything.
You brought me into warhammer