The HORRIFYING Truth About Mandrakes. | Warhammer 40k Lore
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0:00 Intro
3:40 What are Mandrakes
19:18 Aelindrach, The Realm Of Shadow
25:26 Different Types of Mandrakes
29:41 Closing Thoughts
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I would love to see a Lore video on the Jokaero or however you say it, the monkey Xenos that make all that cool tech that resembles the tech from Dune. The shield and weapon rings, etc. do they work with the mechanicus or work alone ? This would be cool
Plot twist that’s not actually their city 🤫
Weshammer, more like FRESH HAMMER AM I RIGHT?
For real, I dig the style
I honestly love your videos so much it's all I listen to while I go to sleep lol
I would like to see another scary story video
Literally Shadow Wizard Money Gang moment
*We loooove casting spells .*
This video is sponsored by.. the Shadow Government@@tobiasGR3Y
Gotta give merlin a call lol
I thought the tsons were the shadow wizard money gang but these guys are actually a shadow wizard gang
Legalize nuclear bombs
Meanwhile, Mandrake shadows are stalked by purple orks.
Mandrake's check under their beds for Sly Marbo
Ha, good one!
@@kharnthebetrayer8251 Imagine a normal mandrake going to sleep and suddenly he hears a sound of a charging lasgun under the bed.
He thinks its just his imagination and slowly moves to look under the bed, expecting to see nothing. What he witneses are a pair of angry eyes and AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And stabbed to death by Iron Warriors.
@@salehabdulla9177 purple orcs are the sneakiest orcs, because you've never seen a purple orc.
Mandrakes: when someone at GW drank too much RedBull and had no adult supervision.
" ...and Mandrakes can teleport and are ghosts and eat souls and when they kill you, your mom on another planet starts crying..."
Meanwhile DoW Soulstorm - basic capture unit
😂😂😂
@indrickboreale7381 is it really the baldest spess mahreen of them all? I thought you were a myth!
@@Legitpenguins99 I survived the Kaurava. Orks didn't bring enough Dakka
Legit
We all know Mandrakes are just concentrated Hatred for Eldar given form. Great to see you back Wes! Can you cover more creepy factions or Perpetuals?
Of course 🙂 the spooky stuff is my fav. I need to finish up the siege before taking on the perpetuals tho.
@@weshammer your spooky mysteries are my fav! Noone else on here really covers it like you do
Imagine an Inquisitorial retinue ends up in Aelindrak and the first line is "It's so fucking dark in here I can see more with my eyes closed".
you should do a video that exclusively covers the horrors within the the ghoul stars along with the mad hive fleet that passed through them, the space marine chapter that guards them and the potential of another realm different to the warp that allows creatures to enter our galaxy.
YES! THE GHOUL STARS AND THE PALE WASTING AND THE DEATH SCYTHES!
I hope they expand on this
That's a good idea! I'll add it to the list
@@weshammer Surprised it never hit your radar before, it's right up there with Deep Warp theory and the Hadex Anomaly in terms of scare factor in the setting
Is that the thing where the Spooky Marines Chaptermaster (forgot the name^^) sits on a "throne" and slowly turns to stone?
”If you believe yourself safe, don't think we don't know the quickest way to your bedside” - Warrior tier
Drukhari lord to mandrakes: Kill Slaanesh. Mandakes warp back into the shadows from which they came.
I've always imagined that they are a group of Aeldari who broke off from the rest right before or during the birth of Slaanesh. They found a means of evolving themselves either through a combination of science and sorcery, or possibly making a pact with an as of yet unknown Eldar God of darkness and primordial fear, the shadow of the pantheon that congealed somewhere in the warp and then hid in the webway like Cegorach during the Fall. And perhaps while the Drukhari consume pain and misery to replenish themselves from the drain of Slaanesh, the Mandrakes consume fear to feed the god of their realm, pouring it into the endless well of shadow that they themselves live within.
As a WH neophyte, I had NO IDEA the Mandrakes were not actually Drukhari. The only game of 40k I currently play is DoW Unification and I’ve never played the campaign as Dark Eldar cuz I just don’t vibe with the body horror torture fest. I’m a pussy I know 😂
Not everything in Warhammer is for everyone, you're fine bud.
I feel ya, Drukhari is the faction I hate the most, lore wise. If not for the Humonculi Covens kinda cool monster units, I would completely hate them. Them and the Craftworlds are the only 2 factions I don't think I would ever play on the tabletop.
Harlequins are awesome tho
@@zacharygrieco8768 We do love out theater kids and their Clown-daddy.
This video drops a lot of details from the dark eldar trilogy. They are eldar, much closer to dark eldar because they live in one of the Commoragh demensions and they are not as esoteric as video tells. In the books there was a homunculus which got into an allience with one of two kings of the realm. He got into it without selling his dreams or something but by making monstrosities for the army. And said king was corrupted by Nurgle. They are not some shadowy demons but just shadow wizard money gangers.
They are eldar. They literally have eldarish runes on their skin and eldar blades...
I always liked to think they were creations of the old ones to fight off the c'tan and necrons but they lost control of them or they are screwed first attempts to make the eldar and were cast into the void once the severity of how bad the old ones screwed up became obvious.
Gotta love those Torture Farming Kink Elves and their Spooky Ghostmen cousins. *shudders*
Finally a mandrake vid they’re one of my favorite things in 40k
0:51 depending on how the light falls, if a mandrake rises from my shadow he'll get covered in 💩, those f-ers are scary
I’m sure they’d like that 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
🤣🤣🤣
*This pleases Slaanesh!* 💩😈💩
@@UGNAvalon I thought Slanesh is the god of evil fucking, not 💩, that sounds more like Nurgle 🤔
@@HuntDownErebus Slaanesh is the god of extreme sensations. Poop-flavored face masks / mud baths included. 😉
Guys see Mandrakes and just think "hell yeah"
Do you think there is a correlation between the way Corvus Corax travels and that of the mandrakes?
Good question. That would explain a lot. I'd love to see it in lore that there's a place in the shadow realm even the mandrakes won't go into, and that's where Corax hunts.
Perhaps his primarch soul is a native to this realm
I think Drukari need the full range update they so desperately need before we start talking about Mandrake only armies. These and the Incubi models released a few years ago are a great start but they need the full Necron or Tyranid update. Awesome video, have always been intrigued by the darkest corners of the Drukari ever since their initial release back in the 90's.
The best theory I saw was that they were Eldar that evolved to be this way after generations of living at the deepest parts of the dark city where time and space start to fray away and the laws of physics become more like suggestions. They just adapted to a world with freaky rules and bring those rules with them.
When Ciaphas Cain states that Dark Eldar are the scariest thing he's had to face you know it's bad 😅
Fortunately, "Path of the Archon" shows us that even those demons/eldars/ghosts able to teleport whenever and wherever they want, who are mostly invulnerable to physical damages, who always have the surprise effect or the psychological warfare on their side, master assassins, can't win against a named character.
Fuck yeah 9 seconds from upload, hope you're doing well outside of the RUclips sphere man. Keep up the good work 😊
Nice always wondered about what a mandrake is in the 40k verse as I only ever hear them vaguely mentioned
Yeah, mandrakes are the druhkari uber stealth assassins, but don't forget Sgt Mkoll from Gaunts Ghosts successfully hunted one of the best of them and took them out almost effortlessly. Same Mkoll that took out a wounded chaos dreadnought 1 on 1. He's one scary Ghost.
Just a point of clarification, but when Dan Abnett wrote that book the Mandrakes were still simply a subset of Dark Eldar specialising in scouting and infiltration - it was only later that GW redesigned the Mandrakes as messed up shadow monsters with a large suit of supernatural powers. Mkoll is a scary Ghost to be sure, but he is still just a man (even if an exceptionally skilled man) in the lore.
Heck yeah! A nice Friday morning and a new wes video? Def my favorite combo, hope you've been doing well wes, love the videos and all the knowledge!
Me: Pft what's so scary about screaming baby roots.
WH40k: Lol yes... there'll be screaming but it won't be from the roots.
I see what you did there. ;)
Hey, thank you very much for this video. Always nice to see the more obscure parts of the lore getting some spotlight. You did a great job with this.
One small correction - there was one major attack on Commorragh by Mandrakes after "Path of the Archon". It was during Ynnead Dysjunction, so the greatest demonic invasion that Commorragh ever faced (described in "The Gathering Storm"). The climax of this invasion was one of my favourite scenes in the whole 40k universe:
"The gaze of a thousand perfect skulls met in the middle of his lair and bored a hole in the wall between worlds, opening a gateway to the midnight dimension of the Mandrakes. A morass of shadowy assassins and tenebrous monsters spilled like an inky flood through the streets, and slew every soul within a dozen miles. In the space of a single night, that region became the shadow kingdom of the Decapitator, long- lost monarch of the Mandrakes. His was a new reign of terror, his throne set within a sea of living shadow that consumed even the Daemon invaders that strayed within its grasp."
The Monarch of Mandrakes summoned a giant sea of living shadows, that took over parts of the Commorragh and consumed Daemons alive. And then he made himself a fucking throne on this murder-sea.
How cool is that?
I would love to see a Lore video on the Jokaero or however you say it, the monkey Xenos that make all that cool tech that resembles the tech from Dune. The shield and weapon rings, etc. do they work with the mechanicus or work alone ? This would be cool
Good to have you back! Sorry to hear about your childhood store shutting down- I’ve been through that too with the store I went to from when I was 13 all the way till I was 17.
These things give me very strong Unseelie Fae vibes.
The bargaining, the shadowy dimension, the fact that if you can't pay then they'll come after you next.
I can't wait to finally get actual night lords models
Neither can I am so hyped
If Mandrakes can go anywhere and infiltrate any fortress or place, then whats stopping them from invading the throne room at Holy Terra? Besides the Custodes of course, but could a Custodes fight off the Mandrakes?
Probably the psykic light emitted by the Emperor. The Custodian Guard assigned to the Golden Throne have to rotate out because of how radiant the Emperor's psychic might is that it blackens the Custodes armor. I don't think a Mandrake has enough SPF 50 for that.
@@captaincoolbreeze9429 thank you for this answer. I was genuinely curious and was coming to my own slow conclusions that the Emperor's sheer psychic might would just obliterate the Mandrakes since they are said to be of a shadowy realm but also the physical realm? Weird way to exist but whatever works for them lol
Your first comment makes absolute sense
We all fear the unknown but most don't truly know it. We all have the sense to realise there are dozens of active serial killers etc but we ignore it but when our pet acts funny or we hear an unexplained and unexpected noise late at night, we shit ourselves. In the daylight, we realised it was probably a scavenger searching out bins, or a neighbours but in the dark when it's unexplained we get more scared but we ain't scared of the dark, right? But the dark makes it harder to see and understand and so, more scary to us
The thing about the serial killers tho: if you’re truly cognizant of the potential threat of _Literally Anyone_ being a serial killer, you’d be completely paranoid toward strangers. Fear of the unknown still applies. The only thing that prevents this paranoia is the recognition that 99.99% of the time it’s not a killer you’re walking past.
But as soon as the context changes - An unfamiliar setting, a sudden influx of newcomers of dubious background, a surprise increase in the murder/crime rate, visiting a familiar place at an unfamiliar time, etc - then the fear of the unknown returns, as does the paranoia.
Additionally, the thing about “pets acting funny” & “unexpected noises” is just that: they’re unexpected. Your neighbor &/or their dog could be literal murderous cannibals, but since they act normal, you don’t suspect a thing. Or if your neighbor acts all creepy but is a decades-long friend of yours, the familiarity offsets the creepiness factor.
….Dang, what did I just write??
@@UGNAvalon fear of the unknown is the reason why most people don't like talking to complete strangers, why they get uneasy if someone is walking behind them. Didn't think that through did you?
@@martintodd9944I mean he admits he wasn’t thinking as he wrote his thesis.
@@memphispiper2823 when i agreed with him, you felt the need to defend him? Can you explain that cos it's confusing
I absolutely love the reimagining of the Mandrakes from simple Dark Eldar scouts to their modern incarnation as full on, nightmarish semi-ethereal shadow monsters. They have a clear visual influence flowing from J-horror standouts like The Grudge that contributes to their unsettling appearance, and have a powerset that hits all kinds of classic horror tropes and essential human fears of darkness and not being able to see what is hunting you until it is too late. Indeed, they are almost the Freddy Krugers of 40K, though they control shadows to manipulate reality instead of controlling dreams. The idea of these things being able to crawl out of any area of darkness, any shadow, and any reflection really ramps up the feeling that nowhere is truly safe. They are definitely my favourite part of both the Drucharri model range and lore.
@@user-nz6bk7lf8u Your taste is of course your own, but you are a decade and change late if you want the version of Mandrakes that are just a subset of Dark Eldar scouts. They have been scary shadow monsters in the lore and on the tabletop since before 2010 if memory serves.
Good video, always love the effort and thoughts, hope you find a place soon and as for mandrakes I want them as their own army, I love the lore and style dar more than the old dark elves.
Mandrakes feel like an OC made by a 14 year old trying to be edgy, whose dad also happens to be an executive at GW.
The description of the mandrake dropping in on you in the beginning is the exact feeling I feel when I take out the trash at night. I cope with this by preparing to fight whatever monster appears to the death.
Table top power scaling is funny because all I can think as hearing how terrifying a mandrake is "you mean my scouts?"
21:12 "It kind of reminds me of alice in wonderland. You know, if wonderland was full of sado masochistic BDSM elves."
Ok so its just wonderland
21:44 - "it is not a place one can simply visit"
"Ok, Boromir"
WHOA HAIRCUT JUMPSCARE!!! 😳
Id honestly like to see a deep dive on either the space sharks legion of the damned or the world eaters
Amazing video. Was searching for info about them and you delivered.
Wes did you do already a video about the Incubi aspect of the drukhari? If not it would be a great deep into the horror warrior of dark eleves 😊
The new mandrake kill team models look so metal
Amazing video, as always. I thoroughly enjoyed watching it, and thank you for introducing me to this awesome faction. I've never heard of them until now, lol.
I’ve always had such an interest in these guys after watching one of your old shorts about them. Awesome video
I would love for you to look into the lords of mars trilogy. It's 3 books by Graham McNeill that follows a mechanicus exploratory expedition, together with a rogue trader and a squad of black templars, into an unknown fringe area of the galaxy. It has tonnes of mystery, creepy, scary moments and some truly unique characters. I don't want to spoil too much, but how about an AI hybrid that started as a control unit for a space station but started stealing people's brains to increase its capacity and then built itself a mechanical body to be able to move around. And thats just the tip of the iceberg. Currently available to buy as an omnibus from warhammer retailers. Called Forges of Mars
'Without going into too much detail' proceeds to spoil enter climax of book
About their origin being of the chaos realm of shadow in the warp made me think of Be'lakor and his Mastery over Shadow i wonder if there's some kind of link so far im aware we still dont know Be'lakors actual origin would be cool (and kinda fitting) to have him be an Eldar Chaos Prince
So they are the Warhammer 40K version of the comic character Spawn! :D
Great vid as always Wes. Just got some all day pants w your link, you weren’t kidding they are pretty sweet!
Love the videos Wes, enjoy the long form lore videos
I know they arent daemons in the traditional sense, but part of me wants Aleindrach to be some sort of warp shadow/mirror of commoragh, with Mandrakes essentially being fear based warp entities rather than anything chaos based. It would be a neat tie in with stuff like deep warp theory to have these other currents and layers of the immaterium unrelated to chaos at all.
I wonder if Mandrakes are the Webway equivalent of a demon.
I'm assuming the neon green turns off when the artist is done. Or they have sneak 100.
WesHammer sounds like a wrestling finishing move😂😉
Hello weshammer I have question is there underwater battles in warhammer 40k? Because I don't see any videos about underwater battles at all and I really like Your videos its really good
This is warhammer, it’s ALWAYS the unknown/lesser known shit that’s the scariest
Something human-sized squeezing out of a tiny hole, or underneath a door . . . That's a fear I've had since I was a kid. I also was afraid of a demonic face suddenly rising up over the edge of my bed.
Nice to know that there are creatures who can do exactly that in the 40k universe.
Love the lore dives Wes, been meaning to ask though what songs do you primarily use in the backgrounds of your videos, i really love the ambience they give
Never forget that Oan Mkoll bested a mandrake assassin….
Men of Tanith! Do you want to live forever!!!
Yup. That was a great story. Mkoll is scary good at what he does.
Lets go! A video on mandrakes! I still haven't gotten around to finishing the Path of the Dark eldar books yet, but this is giving me a lot of of incentive too.
I wonder if there is a story or instance of a Culexus Assassin fighting a Mandrake.
And it also sounds like the Flayed Ones also move through the same realm and utilize the similar tactics
I wonder if the Mandrake shadow dimension is anyway linked to the flayer dimension of the Necron Flayed Ones. Would be interesting if the Mandrakes are at war with the Flayed Ones in this dark region!
Definitely recommend the Carcharodon trilogy on top of Silent Hunters for any fans of the chapter and even the Night Lords, additionally. They have a very violent history with each other. Silent Hunters is a great book in its own right, even if you’re just looking for something to read/listen to.
What a coincidence. I just first discovered that there is something called Mandrakes and whoa, here is entire video about them. Perfect timing
I have a hypothesis after watching your video... What if Mandrakes are Aeldari who formed a pact with a Ctan (or something similar) so as not to be consumed by Slaanesh? Their souls corrupted by shadow, turned into poison that even She Who Thirsts could not consume without becoming ill. By the Omnissiah, imagine these creatures utilizing other shadowy denizens, like Umbra, to enact their vile deeds.
Love it when sci-fi is combined with the super natural, a xenos species that are basically elf ghosts, it's like ghost freak from Ben 10.
I couldn't tell the difference in your home studio--video looked and sounded great! I hadn't heard of mandrakes until now, so very cool.
That's actually really relieving to hear! It was crazy echo when I first started putting it together so I'm happy to hear that it sounds like my old set up😅
"They're in the goddamn WALL!"
HELL YESS!!!!! One of my favorite group, ever since I red the Path of the Archons. Love those guys ❤
I gotta say Wes, you're looking sharp AF recently and I hope you are proud. Keep up the great work, brother!
I like how you cover the odd and the lesser known, I want to work up the courage to do a video one day with my own voice, but that day isn't today 😂.
Love your channel
love your videos! Can you please do one about the crazy space marine warships that look like cathedrals?
Can you do a video on all the empires/nations in the imperium
I have recreated famous "Marines shooting at Predator" scene in Black Crusade RP, only replacing Marines with Alpha Legionnaries and Yautja with Mandrake. I never had such hearty laugh at the table.
Another banger! ;)
I love how at 3:15 hes so body positive you slay those pants Wes!
Guardsman: "It was a living shadow that lashed out with incredible speed"
Inquisitor: "oh great, that really narrows it down. Could be either anyone from the Raven Guard, a particularly stealthy commando, a drukkari, a daemon, or even an umbra!"
Guardmans: "a what?"
Wooooo new Warhammer lore! Would love a mephiston or ahriman deep dive Wes!
Amazing video as always Wes. I'm fairly new to 40k and i have a couple of questions. Feel free to ignore them if they don't make any sense.
1. Did anyone ever managed to kill a Mandrake in combat? The way you portray them in this video seems they're pretty much invincible (aside from the ones who died in the invasion)
2. Would they be able to terrorize a Space Marine? If I'm not mistaken, they're unable to understand fear or terror. if that's the case, they would pretty much be invulnerable to Mandrake's tactics.
Love your videos, keep up! Cheers
I am starting to think that the mandrakes are basically the lesser demons or a lesser manifestation of the Nightbringer.
The Mandryk versus the Legion of the Damned would be awesome
That description of the silent hunters' novel sounds like a story making autism into some sort of superpower like that predator movie everyone hated and specifically got called out for making autism into a superpower.
We do know what mandrakes are though. Screamy plants that you learn about at Hogwarts
Please make a video about the Rak'Gol! Really underrated but they got plenty of horror potential
-- Mandrake shoots fireball at loyalist --
Loyalist : " Aaargh fOr ThE empOrEr ! " * Dies *
-- On Terra --
Custodes : " WHAT THE HELL !!! AGAIN !!! THATS THE 6TH TIME THIS MONTH !!! WHY DOES THE EMPORER KEEP BURSTING INTO FLAMES !!! ?? "
This sounds suspiciously similar to SCP-106.
Love the video! Though I do miss the old music lol
gaunt's ghosts sabbat martyr mandrak, very much a drukhari
On the topic of the creepy & mysterious, could you do a video on the screaming vortex?
Nothing better than time to kill and a new video from Warhammer papi
Good morning and have a great day everybody❤😊
I'd love to hear about your favorite "named" weapons Wes. What legendary guns or swords caught your eye that either sees active combat or is stored in secure vaults for emergencies only. Hopefully things with artwork you can show in a video!
I’m curious how a Mandrake vs a Harlequin fight would go down 🤔 also great video was fun to listen too
In Big Dakka, the mandrakes fail their mission which results in them refunding their client. Not something I'd have expected.
I just got 40k rogue trader as my first game for this genre, loving your videos to learn more
These things remind me of the one quote in Dwarf Fortress when you run into the bogeymen "You are surrounded by incessant cackling."
First time hearing about them..... Now i gotta buy their kill team.... thanks Wes :)
It's the first kill team set I've been excited about in awhile 😅
The black part of a black hole isn't the singularity. Its the event horrizon. There is a big difference.