@@GMineo rogal Dorn legion is the Imperial fist. The Imperial fists are the Space Marines in yellow. At the end the great Crusade the Imperial fists were the Space Marines that were in charge of fortifying the Imperial Palace on Earth as well as making fortifying Earth. FYI that planet you see that is Earth in the 41st millennium. The horse heresy happened in in the 31st Millennium what you seen that is the 41st millennium the Imperial fish are one of the original Space Marine legions. After the Horus heresy the Primark of the ultramarines wrote a book called the Codex astartes which designated their their guidelines and all that and among them was breaking up the space and religions into different chapters chapters of only 1,000 Space Marines in each chapter only one chapter would remain the original legion name in The rest would be broken up and given their own coat of arms Battle Tactics etc etc. So you have the Imperial fists being the original legion and a successor legion or chapter was the Crimson fists and then you also have the black Templars. So the purpose of this when the original game was May was okay you have nine loyalist Space Marine legions and you have other success for chapters but then the gamer is encouraged to paint their Marine legion however they want and come up with different Battle Tactics style whatever they want as well as Harold dream as well as backstory. Unfortunately in the early 2000s there is this hack name Matt Ward now this guy has a basically a hard-on for the ultramarines legions fine everyone has a hard-on for their special legion however what made things worse is that this guy was riding the backstory and rules for the game. So in essence this idiot made it that the ultramarines are considered the greatest of all the Space Marines blah blah blah you forget that there's other players that have their own legions and are successful chapter whatever but he's basically making it everything in favor to them so the ultramarines became the Mary Sue faction of Space Marines. It's basically the same as Ryan Johnson being given cart The Blanche to do whatever he wanted for Star Wars and when he do with Star Wars he wrecked it by making Luke seem a cowardly idiot that couldn't get things done right and Rey was so amazing so basically it's basically the same concept but now instead of it Star Wars it was with Space Marines
Aaah the Lord Inquisitor... what a great thing! Even though it's not being worked on anymore (atleast from what I know) it's still a beautiful trailer. Here we go boys! He was indeed right, if there are heretics, and Inquisitors, it's after Horus Heresy. Meaning the Emperor is still a big bag o' bones on the golden skelethrone. The woman you saw, in the latex and such, is a Death Cult Assassin. Death Cult Assassins aaare....a bit harder to explain... Imagine a Catholic, now imagine that the Catholic is like "Yknow what? I think worshipping my god through slicing and stabbing people is a good idea". There are many cults, alot (or most) are heretical, but many of them are worshippers of the emperor. Death Cult Assassins are your usual very dangerous latex wearing sneaky people who are like "While you were shot 13 times in your first battle, I was studying the blade". They're sometimes used by the imperium and Inquisition because their skills tends to be pretty fucking good even though these cults tend to appear and grow strong in absolute dogshit social enviroments, such as being in the underground of hive cities and dark alleys that just scream "You take a step in hire and shiv will appear in your back" So these cults can either be super helpful or an absolute Inquisitorial nightmare if they're heretical. The red guy I dunno, could be someone or could be an oc. The guy with the gun that was with the Inquisitor could be pretty much anyone or anything. It's likely he's some Tempestus Scion (best of the best Imperial Guard general infantry.)
Ooo okay this provides a lot of great insight! First of all thank you for pointing out that I WAS RIGHT 😂 All I know is we need to do some research on these death cult assassins because they sound AWESOME
1:35 The numbers are the date as per the standard imperial dating system. It's gonna be a little confusing to explain but bear with me: M = Millennium aka a thousand years So using the date given which is [0 560 970.M41], we can tell that M41 is the year 41,000. The 970 next to it connected by the period is the hundreds which means 970.M41 = 41,970. Furthermore, the 560 to the left of 970 indicate the fraction of time before the next year because instead of dividing a year into 365 days, the imperium does it in a thousand fractions which amount to around 8 hours per part but that's not essential to know. Anyways it means that there's been 560 out of 1000 parts before the new year. And lastly, the leftmost number indicates the location of where the date was recorded because different planets and star systems have different time flows. 0 means the event occurred on terra, 1 means our solar system, etc. With that being said, [0 560 970.M41] is a simplified version of saying that "something happened on terra during the 560th part of the year 41,970." Hope I didn't confuse you guys! Keep up the great reactions and I hope the *"40K Lore For Newcomers - Who Are... The Space Marines?"* video by the channel 40K Theories is somewhere on your list (preferably before you react to any other space marine-related videos).
That's a really interesting way of putting the date! It makes a lot of sense too so thank you for explaining it so well. We'll look into 40k theories and see if we can learn a little more. Thank you!
You've delivered the video, now I will deliver the insight. - The man in the red armour on the throne is not the Emperor, but is in fact Lord Inquisitor Torquemada Coteaz. - The statue was unfortunately not of the God Emperor, but instead of one of his sons - Rogal Dorn, Primarch of the Imperial Fists. - The Inquisition is very much the "secret police" of the Imperium. Imagine the Gestapo, the KGB and the CIA, all combined into one Secret Police, and they are all driven by a vicious Religious Zealotry. They are the highest authority in the Imperium of man, and their motto is "Innocence Proves Nothing". Lovely video as always
Yo ! CLARIFICATIONS here :) - The main character, "Marcus" is a junior Inquisitor. Means that he was an Interrogator recently (Inquisitor in training under supervision of a hardened Inquisitor) and got promoted to full Inquisitor. He acts under the supervision of a Lord Inquisitor, the man in red armour in the procession (he is the "Lord Inquisitor" the title mentions, and should have been the main character of the complete video if it went through, unfortunately, the project is abandonned). - The two other characters are Inquisitorial acolytes, meaning they serve the Inquisition under supervision of an Inquisitor, but are not Inquisitors, nor Interrogators. They are employed upon their specific skills : some are administrative adepts that facilitate all paperwork, others are thieves, assassins, former veteran soldiers, pilots and so on. These two are respectively a veteran of the Imperial Guard (so a battle hardened soldier), and an Cult Assassin (an Assassin trained outside of the Officio Assassinorum and belonging to a myriad of Death Cults around the Imperium) - Terra = Earth, like in "terran" (Starcraft), terrain, subterranean, terraformation, and other latin or french words in modern english ;p - Inquisitors can hunt Xenos (alien species), Heretics, Mutants, Daemons and any other threats the Imperium have to face. They areorganized in "Ordos" (Ordo Xenos, Ordo Hereticus, Ordo Malleus ...), each ordo dealing with a specific task. The Inquisitor you saw in a previous video was hunting deamons in a derelict ship, so he was in full enclosed power armour, of course ! - The statue is representing Rogal Dorn, Primarch of the Imperial Fists (the Astartes in yellow armour). You got them right ;) The Imperial Fists are a chapter of space marines based on Terra itself. They are the "Praetorians" of the Imperium due to this honor.
Okay first off thank you SO MUCH for this comment because it explains it all perfectly! I wish I had questions but you really answered everything.... So what's your favorite dessert? 😂
holy terra = earth. the inquisitor in red is most likely a higher ranking inquisitor (usually inquisitors work on their own but sometimes those higher up need things dealt with cause the bigger they are the more attention their movements attract when only a "light touch" is necessary) the cod dude (probably either ig, merc, or ex-ganger) and lady in the skull mask (probably from the Officio Assassinorum probably the Vindicare Temple) are inquisitorial retinue members. inquisitors usually fall into either puritan or radical usually either 'neutral' or slightly leaning one way or another one of a few different specialized orders (Ordo Malleus aka Deamon hunters, Ordo Xenos Alien hunters, and Ordo Hereticus aka Witch hunters) our boy seems to be a member of the Ordo Hereticus who deal with traitors, witches, Mutants, rogue Psykers, and heretics or as they see it the enemies within or he might be a "freelance" (an inquisitor that is not 100% part of a specific ordo) inquisitor working on the red dude's behalf as you can guess bribing an inquisitor is a very bad idea.
@@GMineo depends on the inquisitor. Some have a huge arsenal of assets they can count on. From soldiers to mercenaries, gang members, tech adepts, priest, templar, psykers, blanks, pilots, assassins, interregators, scribes, some use redeemed traitors or demon hosts. Some Ordo Xenos Inquisitors use aliens to spy on other aliens or let them make tech. Like the jokaero that make great digital weapons. But than you have inquisitors that work complete alone
You guys should watch death korps of Krieg (sodaz). Also the "slaves" are called sevitors and the arbiters are basically police, executioner and judge as the same time.
@@GMineo It depends on their programming most servitors are controlled by the Adeptus Mechanicus while some have been programmed to serve new masters like the Inquisitors or Space Marine Techmarines.
@@GMineo Servitors or Slaves as you call them are mindless cyborgs specifically in their past life they are either criminals or the lowest of the low class. Once a person like that is turned into a servitor you wont have much free will since your entire brain has been shut down by the machine parts inside the person and the only thing left is a programming like "How will I serve?" "I will clean this area." "I will shoot unidentified organisms(Gunner Servitors)"
@@GMineo yes, sevitors are criminals who committed crimes that is seen as unforgivable. Their basically puppets at this point, all their movements are controlled by the way they are programmed.
This is a good video that gives an idea of what the cramped, polluted, over populated hellhole earth has become. This probably takes place within the imperial Palace which was designed and built by Rogal Dorn which is why he and the imperial fists have particular importance on Terra. Just for an idea of scale, they flattened the Himalayas and built the Palace which is one massive continuous structure/fortification the size of the entire mountain range with hundreds of levels above and below ground. The oceans no longer exist on terra and food water and air have to be shipped in daily to cope with the trillions of people passing through and living on terra.
HOLY we didn't even realize how the scenery shows all that. We would love to learn about the people who live on terra who aren't part of the imperium to see what the daily life is like there!
@@GMineo Everyone on Terra is part of the imperium you have the Imperial Palace on what used to be Himalayahs then you have the inquisition HQ at the south Pole the rest of the planet including the dried ocean beds is covered in dense cities filled with traders, rich aristocrats, administrative beaurocrats and civilians who are undertaking pilgrimages to holy terra. The neighbouring star systems are entirely dedicated to producing food for the people on Terra.
@@GMineo Wweeeeell... the important people, high council, top administrators etc would be fine as they could get there own private food supply. Regular people would be screwed, this would have a knock on effect as all the scribes and administrators who keep the imperium running would need to be replaced. "Those reinforcements you were waiting for? Your just going to have to wait another 15 years for the new admin to catch up on paperwork and file the requisition to dispatch them to your location. :)"
The likeable man in red armor on his wheeled throne is none other than Grand Inquisitor Torquemada Coteaz himself. He heads the Ordo Malleus, the part of the Imperial Inquisition also known as the "Demon Hunters". Little boys like the young inquisitor you see at the beginning may decide whether certain targets live or die, but Torquemada decides the fate of planets.
Dudes you guys really need to learn a bit of Latin "Terra" literally means "Earth" Holy Terra = Holy Earth but aside from that, good reaction from you two hoping to see more in the future.
The cool thing about inquisitors is that no two look and work the same. They could get the same task and they could take a complete different rout to victory.
@@GMineo the Inquisition is definitely a big and interesting faction of the imperium. They answer only to them selfs and they are above the law. The only one that can say no to an inquisitor without consequences is another inquisitor or a high lord of terra. If a governor of a planet is working with xenos or dabbeling in forbidden knowledge its the inquisitor that uncovers the plot and puts a bullet in the head of the governor. They even can order Astartes around. They also can excemunicate traitoris. That means the chapter are traitors and shall be destroyed. They can and will doe what ever is necessary to keep the imperium save from the enemy within,beyond and without. Their is only one Inquisitor that has ever gone to far and was thrown out. But thats a story for another time. To make it short Fidor Kryptmann calculated the risk he take, but god dammit is he bad at math.
@@nicoaicher7864 They can order Astartes around but Astartes have the right to tell them to go frick themselves somewhere in the Eye of Terror. Because even the designated Astartes Chapters for Ordo Xenos and Ordo Malleus can't be ordered to join an Inquisitor, but asked. And the latter don't like radical inquisitors so they don't help them.
@@nicoaicher7864 Also - Kryptmann is now an Inquisitor again (I think), because there was no other choice due to the fact that without him going too far, damn space bugs could've wrecked the Imperial defences.
5:29 Human life is extremely cheap in the 41st Millennium. Some Servitors (mutilated cyborgs created for specific functions) are created from vat grown flesh, but many, many more are criminals and unfortunates who are surgically dismembered and fitted with mechanical replacements, set to one single task for the rest of their days, until their organic components wear out and a new person takes their place. There are some Servitors who do jobs as simple and mundane as operating an elevator or broadcasting official announcements through mouths replaced with radio equipment, but some are truly horrifying. Some who are judged as traitors to the Adeptus Mechanicus (the ultimate merging of science and faith) are sentenced to Penitentia in Perpetuam - a special kind of Servitor integration where the portions of the brain containing personality and memory are left untouched, but are wholly severed from their motor control functions. These individuals are typically turned into battle Servitors, and as their skin blisters and their ears bleed from the repeated firing of heavy weapons grafted to the stumps of their shoulders, they must watch helpless and terrified, as their bodies are ordered to march into combat time and again. But for the worst of heretics, those who are not immediately killed upon discovery, awaits the fate of Arco-Flagellation. Their limbs are removed and replaced with electro whips, saws, blades, and any other variety of horrendous melee weapons. Their muscles and organs are meshed to a drug delivery system which can dump huge quantities of battle stimulants, adrenaline boosters and pain blockers into the body at moment's notice. And their heads and faces are replaced with control helms, which broadcast hymnals and depict religious iconography when at rest. However, when their handler (usually an Inquisitor) gives the command phrase, the control helm activates, drugs flood their system, and anything not painted as a friendly is confronted with a psychotic cyborg which rends everything within its reach to bloody chunks until told to stop or they are reduced to bolts and grease. They are one of the most horrendous and unsubtle weapons in the Inquisitions arsenal.
jesus christ warhammer goes hard. My mouth was agape the whole time I was reading your comment 😂 I'll have to do some research into what these heretics look like 👀
You are right that those are Imperial Fists, but also are confusing the Imperial Fists with the Custodes. You said that the "Imperial Fists" are raised by the Emperor, which is not right, as like other Space Marines they are brought up by Geneseed (of the Primarch Rogal Dorn), meanwhile the Custodes are the ones that are individually crafted by The Emperor and are his personal guard, along with the Sisters of Silence (The talons of The Emperor). A single Custodes could take on 5 Space Marines and easily win as they are that perfect and well equipped. Also yeah no that is not the God Emperor, it probably was a higher up Inquisitor or a High Lord of Terra. The God Emperor is big as fuck, has radiant golden armor and long hair. He'd also be surrounded by Custodes instead of Space Marines.
@@GMineo Yeah honestly pretty good. Recognizing the chapters can help a lot to know more context about a situation as it can indicate the location of a place and what type of threat is being assessed since each chapter specializes in something different.
If any Imperial fist or Imperial fist successor chapter heard him especially black templars ... his death would not be painless or quick xD ( I'm talking about that insult of Rogal Dorn )
that's so funny! it seems like there are a lot of ideals that everyone holds differently in 40k. We are still trying to understand the lines of all of them
@@GMineo most of space marines hate Inquisition ( some even have a little war with them ) black templars working with them a lot but ... what I know when Inquisition start suspecting that numbers of black templars probably exceed number 1 000 they try investigate... and all people that try to that end up in some unfortunate accident and die ... only high marshal of black templars know true number of them and he do not fear to kill even Inquisitor if they try to snif too close ... btw people think that there numbers are around 14 000 ... I mean Black Templars numbers
One big thing to note for your future videos, Space marines have an average lifespan of around 1000 years give or take, some are older but have slowed down. When a space marine is too injured and they cant be healed they usually are given the Emperors mercy of death, but if they are a leader whos knowledge or honor is too valuable to simply let them die they are put in a dreadnaught sarcophagus and essentially sleep for decades till they are woken up to fight in the dreadnaught. I bring this up because one dreadnaught of the Space Wolves Bjorn the Fell Handed is a dreadnaught who before he became one was part of his Primarchs honor guard and fought during the heresy making him 10,000 years old. HOWEVER, the chaos marines are in the warp where time does not function the same. Many of them get transported around in time and many of them that fought in the Heresy or even attacked the Palace Walls are still fighting and are major players today like Abbadon, Lucius, Kharn, Ahriman, Typhus, and Fabius Bile. In real space 10,000 years has passed, but for them in the warp its only been maybe 100 or so meaning they are still at peak health.
I don't think Astartes can die of old age though. Take Barabas Dantioch for example, he got affected by the Hrud's abilities of entropy-induced aging and because of that he is 3000+ years old. And he's okay.
One of the biggest acts that led to the Heresy was what the emperor did to Lorgar Aurelian Primarch of the Word Bearers. Before the Emperor started his Great Crusade he got arid of all religion because he saw it as a hinderance and the cause for much unneeded hate and bloodshed, he wanted to have an empire focused on what he called the Imperial Truth which focused on the progression of humanity thru science and fact. Lorgar however was raised on a planet where he was huge into religion, and when he met the Emperor he viewed him as a god which the Emperor constantly denied to be. Lorgar ignored this and continued to worship him and every planet they conquered he would stay there to convert the populace into worshiping the Emperor as well. However converting people, building churches and monuments takes alot of time which meant that the legion was not conquering as many worlds as the other legions were. The Emperor was getting annoyed at this saying he didnt care that the worlds were the most loyal he instead wanted more worlds in compliance saying all the other stuff was a waste of time. Most other legions would show up on a planet and tell them you either join our Imperium or we make you, if they refused the Legion would then wage war on the planet butchering the populace and leadership till they surrendered and then the legion would have some Imperial officials take over as they moved onto the next planet. So the Emperor was very annoyed with his slow pace and strictly told him to stop the religious worship, however he didnt The Emperor then decided to take Roboute Guilliman Primarch of the Ultramarines, Malcador the Sigilite, and some custodes to the planet of Khur. He had them destroy the capital city Monarchia which Lorgar considered "The Perfect City" filled with temples and Lorgar cared for alot. He then called the entire Word Bearers Legion of about 100,000 marines and forced them and Lorgar with his psychic might to kneel in shame at the edge of the destroyed city. Lorgar resented the Emperor for this and decided to find something else to worship, one of his council named Erebus informed him of the Chaos gods and how they would not only welcome his devotion but reward him as well, and thus he was the first primarch to fall and he he manipulated the Sons of Horus in a way that led to Horus's fall.
That's really cool! Thank you for the information ❤️ we thought Horus was the first but it makes sense that there was a slippery slope effect. We also didn't know that the imperium fought against each other before the Horus heresy, but it does make sense in terms of escalating the conflict. I am curious though, why would the emperor not want more loyalty towards him over more people following him? I guess most of their strategy focused on fear mongering so the idea of love for the emperor is very different. I just think that loyalty would matter a lot more in the long run compared to the size of the imperium. Thanks for watching ❤️
@@GMineo He saw religion as a hinderance to progress and that Belief would matter more than Truth/Fact. This is actually what happens in the current setting where the Emperor is believed to be a god, Belief trumps facts and if you try to say something that is true but goes against the beliefs than you are a heretic and are killed. This also goes for much technological advancements, many who create new things are considered "techno-heresy" and are also killed. Basically the Imperium right now goes against Everything the Emperor wanted. When Guilliman returned after being in a stasis field healing from Fulgrim cutting his throat 10,000 years ago, he looked at the Imperium and was absolutely disgusted saying how dare you destroy his fathers dream and vision in such a way. I believe he wanted the empire formed as fast as possible because he wanted to then use his full empire to fight chaos. He also didnt tell any of his Primarchs about chaos because he thought the less they knew the better, sadly this was a bad idea. The most Ironic part is that in the Imperium the Administatum (church religion) is one of the most powerful forces and it is actually based off of LORGARS writings. Most space marine chapters do not view the Emperor as a god but more as the pinnacle of humanity. The Black Templar space marine chapter however are religious zealots who are pretty amazing for their appearance and lore, but fully worship the Emperor as a god and kill anyone who does not believe such. When the chaos Word Bearers warbands found out about this they were quite angry saying why are these guys celebrated for their worship of the Emperor as a god when they were punished for it 10,000 years ago.
The Emperor is a skeletal corpse that sits on the golden throne, he can no longer move and basically it’s just his physic might that remains. He uses his physic abilities to maintain the astromnomicon which helps ships be able to travel thru the warp to get from one side of the galaxy to the other. Also in order to make sure he doesn’t truly die they have to sacrifice 1,000 pyskers to him every day so he may feed on their physic power. There are ships that never stop going from planet to planet to gather pyskers for this task called The Black Ships
JEEZ that is pretty grimDARK lol. Would the emperor be considered the most powerful psycher? or are there any other races that have power that can rival that?
He is the most powerful HUMAN pysker. There are some more powerful the largest coming to mind is Tzeentch who is a chaos god. Magnus the Red, Primarch of the Thousand Sons was another powerful pysker and actually would use telepathy to talk to the Emperor before he was ever found. He was sometimes referred to as a giant because he could change his size on a whim and I think he made himself 20 feet tall one time. Sadly he was disliked by his brothers because pyskers were seen with distaste by the other legions as witchcraft. He went to chaos not because he wanted to at first but because he had to or die.
The emperor most likely made a deal with the Chaos gods in part to create the Primarchs. He made 20 of them (2 had entire info deleted like Primarch and legion name…mostly so people could make a custom legion). The chaos gods saw the danger in them, and while they were babies in incubation pods the chaos gods opened a warp rift sucking them in and spreading them across the Galaxy on random worlds where they would grow up. The emperor had to track them down and find them one by one. Horus was the first one he found and spent the most time with him gaining the most favor which some were bitter saying they weren’t given the same love because they were found late in the crusade and didn’t have the glories the earlier ones did in war. They all saw the emperor as their father, but some of them downright hated him. When he found a Primarch there was usually a huge celebration and welcoming into his empire. For at least 2 this wasn’t so, Angron and Mortarion. Angron was sent to a planet where he was enslaved and forced to fight in gladiatorial combats. Every Primarch had a skill or trait that was at basically a genetic level, his was that he could essentially absorb the pain of those around him which he did to make his gladiator friends not feel as terrible. One thing tho was the race that enslaved him decided to implant these metal spikes into his brain called The Butchers Nails, they would send volts of electricity into his skull any time that he was calm and would continue to shock him until he was angry and stop. However when he was killing it would instead fill him with good pleasing feelings which made him actually NEED to fight and kill. When the emperor found him he and his friends had started a rebellion against the overlords but were losing and almost all wiped out. The emperor instead of teleporting down to the planet with his astartes instead beamed Angron away from his friends leaving them all to die. Angron never forgave them emperor for this and would have preferred to have died alongside his friends that day. One last thing tho is that they could not remove the Nails and Angron for whatever reason decided to require that every single space marine in his legion had fo also get the Nails put in. Also the Nails did something to negate his Primarch Aura which every Primarch had to make they’re legionnaires more loyal to them and follow them, this cause his marines to dislike him and during the dropsite massacre when the traitor legions tried to “cleanse” their ranks of any that might side with the emperor over their Primarch, his legion had the most wiped out.
@@GMineo i can't recall but i think this film was created with a technique called real-time rendering. I don't know the specifics but i guess it made it unique.
The person at the parade sitting on the throne in red armor is one of the inquisitorial Lords. Probably Inquisitor Coteaz from the looks of it. The Emperor is currently in stasis on his golden throne in the Imperial Palace defending earth from the warp, the demonic dimension of Chaos, with his psychic powers not able to leave as his body is crumbling and only alive because of cybernetic mechanisms. But he is still able to support his people with his psychic powers across the Empire. Or at least this is what the Imperials believe. And the Emperor was a giant in size, even bigger than a Primarch, with long hair during the Horus Heresy. Although now he probably isn‘t much more than a living skeleton.
@@GMineo There's several depictions of the God-Emperor of Mankind, both at the height of His power, and interred as a barely surviving corpse in the machinery of the Golden Throne, but there's not any animations of him so far.
@@GMineo Not as far as I can remember, but maybe there is. I asked my friends from the Warhammer tabletop hobby and they also don't remember seeing him in a cinematic or fanmade video. I'll let you know if I find something
@@GMineo there is a depiction of him when he's alive in The Last Church animation where he first kickstarted the Great Crusade. Other than that, there's also the Text to Speech series but it's Parody and may not what the Emperor is like in the canon lore no matter how better he is
I would recommend watching Emperor Text fo Speech, it’s a really good way to branch out into other areas of the lore with a comedy spin on it. I would also recommend Majorkill for lore stuff.
Text to speech is after 10,000 years of sitting on the throne he can finally talk again and a Custodian (his personal bodyguard who are FAR stronger than a space marine) fills him in on things that happened the past 10,000 years and he’s not happy
If you have any questions I’d be more than happy to share what I know, it’s a rabbit hole that gets bigger the deeper you go. One thing to note is that there are two time periods for lore essentially, one which is more popular in books and such is the Horus Heresy and the events right before it happened showing different legions and how they got involved. The other setting is the current timeline which is 10,000 years after the Heresy and the Imperium is a shadow of what it was.
I wish we'd seen more of this. Like you say, it tells more of a story than the other trailers you've watched, because it was supposed to be the prologue to a story, rather than an advert for a game. You did a really good job in working out what was what, for people unfamiliar with the universe! Thanks for sharing your reaction. If you're looking for something longer form, you can probably still find Hellsreach, which is the gold standard for fan work. It's based on the Audiobook. Try and make sure you find the version with the music! The creater was hired by the company that makes Warhammer 40,000 to make their own in-house animations. The Death of Hope was another fan made animation, gorgeous and full of detail like this one, set during the Horus Heresy. Like this, it never made it past the prologue, sadly. The Last Church is pretty good too, a long conversation in the last days of the Unification of Earth, shortly before the Horus Heresy. I heartily recommend Baldermort's monologues, too. They're really well voiced and are from the perspectives of people in warhammer 40,000. 40k can get confusing, they're the better part of 30+ years of work on the setting, lots of it contradictory, and there's no "canon" policy other than "Everything is canon, nothing is true."
The first ships seen in the video are just ordinary Imperial Navy cruisers, the second shot of a ship in orbit is a Space Marine Battle Barge. In the Imperium, pretty much all ships look like gigantic cathedrals festooned with huge guns.
@@GMineo Look up videos about Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (and Armada 2): they're the video game adaptation of an old ship combat tabletop game that Games Workshop used to make, and should give you plenty of info about ships in 40k.
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The big statue that you saw isn't an Inquisitor, thats Rogal Dorn the primarch of the Imperial Fists.
OH SHOOT! our bad! thanks for the clarification
@@GMineo rogal Dorn legion is the Imperial fist. The Imperial fists are the Space Marines in yellow.
At the end the great Crusade the Imperial fists were the Space Marines that were in charge of fortifying the Imperial Palace on Earth as well as making fortifying Earth.
FYI that planet you see that is Earth in the 41st millennium.
The horse heresy happened in in the 31st Millennium what you seen that is the 41st millennium the Imperial fish are one of the original Space Marine legions. After the Horus heresy the Primark of the ultramarines wrote a book called the Codex astartes which designated their their guidelines and all that and among them was breaking up the space and religions into different chapters chapters of only 1,000 Space Marines in each chapter only one chapter would remain the original legion name in The rest would be broken up and given their own coat of arms Battle Tactics etc etc. So you have the Imperial fists being the original legion and a successor legion or chapter was the Crimson fists and then you also have the black Templars. So the purpose of this when the original game was May was okay you have nine loyalist Space Marine legions and you have other success for chapters but then the gamer is encouraged to paint their Marine legion however they want and come up with different Battle Tactics style whatever they want as well as Harold dream as well as backstory.
Unfortunately in the early 2000s there is this hack name Matt Ward now this guy has a basically a hard-on for the ultramarines legions fine everyone has a hard-on for their special legion however what made things worse is that this guy was riding the backstory and rules for the game. So in essence this idiot made it that the ultramarines are considered the greatest of all the Space Marines blah blah blah you forget that there's other players that have their own legions and are successful chapter whatever but he's basically making it everything in favor to them so the ultramarines became the Mary Sue faction of Space Marines. It's basically the same as Ryan Johnson being given cart The Blanche to do whatever he wanted for Star Wars and when he do with Star Wars he wrecked it by making Luke seem a cowardly idiot that couldn't get things done right and Rey was so amazing so basically it's basically the same concept but now instead of it Star Wars it was with Space Marines
We need more fortifications on the statue
Aaah the Lord Inquisitor... what a great thing! Even though it's not being worked on anymore (atleast from what I know) it's still a beautiful trailer.
Here we go boys!
He was indeed right, if there are heretics, and Inquisitors, it's after Horus Heresy. Meaning the Emperor is still a big bag o' bones on the golden skelethrone.
The woman you saw, in the latex and such, is a Death Cult Assassin. Death Cult Assassins aaare....a bit harder to explain... Imagine a Catholic, now imagine that the Catholic is like "Yknow what? I think worshipping my god through slicing and stabbing people is a good idea". There are many cults, alot (or most) are heretical, but many of them are worshippers of the emperor. Death Cult Assassins are your usual very dangerous latex wearing sneaky people who are like "While you were shot 13 times in your first battle, I was studying the blade".
They're sometimes used by the imperium and Inquisition because their skills tends to be pretty fucking good even though these cults tend to appear and grow strong in absolute dogshit social enviroments, such as being in the underground of hive cities and dark alleys that just scream "You take a step in hire and shiv will appear in your back" So these cults can either be super helpful or an absolute Inquisitorial nightmare if they're heretical.
The red guy I dunno, could be someone or could be an oc. The guy with the gun that was with the Inquisitor could be pretty much anyone or anything. It's likely he's some Tempestus Scion (best of the best Imperial Guard general infantry.)
Ooo okay this provides a lot of great insight! First of all thank you for pointing out that I WAS RIGHT 😂 All I know is we need to do some research on these death cult assassins because they sound AWESOME
1:35 The numbers are the date as per the standard imperial dating system. It's gonna be a little confusing to explain but bear with me:
M = Millennium aka a thousand years
So using the date given which is [0 560 970.M41], we can tell that M41 is the year 41,000. The 970 next to it connected by the period is the hundreds which means 970.M41 = 41,970. Furthermore, the 560 to the left of 970 indicate the fraction of time before the next year because instead of dividing a year into 365 days, the imperium does it in a thousand fractions which amount to around 8 hours per part but that's not essential to know. Anyways it means that there's been 560 out of 1000 parts before the new year. And lastly, the leftmost number indicates the location of where the date was recorded because different planets and star systems have different time flows. 0 means the event occurred on terra, 1 means our solar system, etc. With that being said, [0 560 970.M41] is a simplified version of saying that "something happened on terra during the 560th part of the year 41,970."
Hope I didn't confuse you guys! Keep up the great reactions and I hope the *"40K Lore For Newcomers - Who Are... The Space Marines?"* video by the channel 40K Theories is somewhere on your list (preferably before you react to any other space marine-related videos).
That's a really interesting way of putting the date! It makes a lot of sense too so thank you for explaining it so well. We'll look into 40k theories and see if we can learn a little more. Thank you!
I really suggest you to read Inquisitor Eisenhorn book trilogy, it's a masterpiece of Warhammer content, beloved by major part of the fans
You've delivered the video, now I will deliver the insight.
- The man in the red armour on the throne is not the Emperor, but is in fact Lord Inquisitor Torquemada Coteaz.
- The statue was unfortunately not of the God Emperor, but instead of one of his sons - Rogal Dorn, Primarch of the Imperial Fists.
- The Inquisition is very much the "secret police" of the Imperium. Imagine the Gestapo, the KGB and the CIA, all combined into one Secret Police, and they are all driven by a vicious Religious Zealotry. They are the highest authority in the Imperium of man, and their motto is "Innocence Proves Nothing".
Lovely video as always
Thank you skipper! What we've learned from you and this video is that inquisitors are more unique and badass than we thought 😂
Yo ! CLARIFICATIONS here :)
- The main character, "Marcus" is a junior Inquisitor. Means that he was an Interrogator recently (Inquisitor in training under supervision of a hardened Inquisitor) and got promoted to full Inquisitor. He acts under the supervision of a Lord Inquisitor, the man in red armour in the procession (he is the "Lord Inquisitor" the title mentions, and should have been the main character of the complete video if it went through, unfortunately, the project is abandonned).
- The two other characters are Inquisitorial acolytes, meaning they serve the Inquisition under supervision of an Inquisitor, but are not Inquisitors, nor Interrogators. They are employed upon their specific skills : some are administrative adepts that facilitate all paperwork, others are thieves, assassins, former veteran soldiers, pilots and so on. These two are respectively a veteran of the Imperial Guard (so a battle hardened soldier), and an Cult Assassin (an Assassin trained outside of the Officio Assassinorum and belonging to a myriad of Death Cults around the Imperium)
- Terra = Earth, like in "terran" (Starcraft), terrain, subterranean, terraformation, and other latin or french words in modern english ;p
- Inquisitors can hunt Xenos (alien species), Heretics, Mutants, Daemons and any other threats the Imperium have to face. They areorganized in "Ordos" (Ordo Xenos, Ordo Hereticus, Ordo Malleus ...), each ordo dealing with a specific task. The Inquisitor you saw in a previous video was hunting deamons in a derelict ship, so he was in full enclosed power armour, of course !
- The statue is representing Rogal Dorn, Primarch of the Imperial Fists (the Astartes in yellow armour). You got them right ;) The Imperial Fists are a chapter of space marines based on Terra itself. They are the "Praetorians" of the Imperium due to this honor.
Okay first off thank you SO MUCH for this comment because it explains it all perfectly! I wish I had questions but you really answered everything.... So what's your favorite dessert? 😂
@@GMineo Good question ! Out of my hat I would say "Crème brûlée", although "Tiramisu" is high on my list as well ;)
holy terra = earth.
the inquisitor in red is most likely a higher ranking inquisitor (usually inquisitors work on their own but sometimes those higher up need things dealt with cause the bigger they are the more attention their movements attract when only a "light touch" is necessary)
the cod dude (probably either ig, merc, or ex-ganger) and lady in the skull mask (probably from the Officio Assassinorum probably the Vindicare Temple) are inquisitorial retinue members.
inquisitors usually fall into either puritan or radical usually either 'neutral' or slightly leaning one way or another one of a few different specialized orders (Ordo Malleus aka Deamon hunters, Ordo Xenos Alien hunters, and Ordo Hereticus aka Witch hunters) our boy seems to be a member of the Ordo Hereticus who deal with traitors, witches, Mutants, rogue Psykers, and heretics or as they see it the enemies within or he might be a "freelance" (an inquisitor that is not 100% part of a specific ordo) inquisitor working on the red dude's behalf
as you can guess bribing an inquisitor is a very bad idea.
Or its a death cult assassin. I don’t believe they can add officio assasinorum assassins to their retenue
That's awesome! We were honestly surprised that they worked with other people. For us inquisitors always felt like lone wolves
@@GMineo depends on the inquisitor. Some have a huge arsenal of assets they can count on. From soldiers to mercenaries, gang members, tech adepts, priest, templar, psykers, blanks, pilots, assassins, interregators, scribes, some use redeemed traitors or demon hosts. Some Ordo Xenos Inquisitors use aliens to spy on other aliens or let them make tech. Like the jokaero that make great digital weapons. But than you have inquisitors that work complete alone
Hey guys! You should see Arbitrator Ian’s video on the timeline of the 40K universe. It’s very comprehensive and easy to follow!
We'll look into him! Thank you David!
Sodaz did some really awesome Warhammer40k animations. Might be tricky to find as alot got removed but well worth it!
We'll try and find some to look at! Thank you druid
the armored guy in red who the inquisitor reported to would be the "Lord Inquisitor".
Ohhh good to know! We knew there was so way it was the emperor
You guys should watch death korps of Krieg (sodaz). Also the "slaves" are called sevitors and the arbiters are basically police, executioner and judge as the same time.
We'll look into sodaz! Are slaves under the command of the Space Marines or something else?
@@GMineo It depends on their programming most servitors are controlled by the Adeptus Mechanicus while some have been programmed to serve new masters like the Inquisitors or Space Marine Techmarines.
...programming? 👀
@@GMineo Servitors or Slaves as you call them are mindless cyborgs specifically in their past life they are either criminals or the lowest of the low class. Once a person like that is turned into a servitor you wont have much free will since your entire brain has been shut down by the machine parts inside the person and the only thing left is a programming like "How will I serve?" "I will clean this area." "I will shoot unidentified organisms(Gunner Servitors)"
@@GMineo yes, sevitors are criminals who committed crimes that is seen as unforgivable. Their basically puppets at this point, all their movements are controlled by the way they are programmed.
This is a good video that gives an idea of what the cramped, polluted, over populated hellhole earth has become. This probably takes place within the imperial Palace which was designed and built by Rogal Dorn which is why he and the imperial fists have particular importance on Terra. Just for an idea of scale, they flattened the Himalayas and built the Palace which is one massive continuous structure/fortification the size of the entire mountain range with hundreds of levels above and below ground.
The oceans no longer exist on terra and food water and air have to be shipped in daily to cope with the trillions of people passing through and living on terra.
HOLY we didn't even realize how the scenery shows all that. We would love to learn about the people who live on terra who aren't part of the imperium to see what the daily life is like there!
@@GMineo Everyone on Terra is part of the imperium you have the Imperial Palace on what used to be Himalayahs then you have the inquisition HQ at the south Pole the rest of the planet including the dried ocean beds is covered in dense cities filled with traders, rich aristocrats, administrative beaurocrats and civilians who are undertaking pilgrimages to holy terra. The neighbouring star systems are entirely dedicated to producing food for the people on Terra.
That's crazy so if the star systems just stopped giving terra food the imperium would be fucked?
@@GMineo Wweeeeell... the important people, high council, top administrators etc would be fine as they could get there own private food supply. Regular people would be screwed, this would have a knock on effect as all the scribes and administrators who keep the imperium running would need to be replaced. "Those reinforcements you were waiting for? Your just going to have to wait another 15 years for the new admin to catch up on paperwork and file the requisition to dispatch them to your location. :)"
The likeable man in red armor on his wheeled throne is none other than Grand Inquisitor Torquemada Coteaz himself. He heads the Ordo Malleus, the part of the Imperial Inquisition also known as the "Demon Hunters". Little boys like the young inquisitor you see at the beginning may decide whether certain targets live or die, but Torquemada decides the fate of planets.
Terra is earth.
Nice video!! Now We want a reaction to bricky videos, they are very long but will explain to you every faction of warhammer 40k
Dudes you guys really need to learn a bit of Latin "Terra" literally means "Earth" Holy Terra = Holy Earth but aside from that, good reaction from you two hoping to see more in the future.
The guy sit on the vehicule is Torquemada Coteaz .
The cool thing about inquisitors is that no two look and work the same. They could get the same task and they could take a complete different rout to victory.
That's super interesting! We don't know much about the inquisitors but since filming this we've been wanting to do some extra research!
@@GMineo the Inquisition is definitely a big and interesting faction of the imperium. They answer only to them selfs and they are above the law. The only one that can say no to an inquisitor without consequences is another inquisitor or a high lord of terra. If a governor of a planet is working with xenos or dabbeling in forbidden knowledge its the inquisitor that uncovers the plot and puts a bullet in the head of the governor. They even can order Astartes around. They also can excemunicate traitoris. That means the chapter are traitors and shall be destroyed.
They can and will doe what ever is necessary to keep the imperium save from the enemy within,beyond and without. Their is only one Inquisitor that has ever gone to far and was thrown out. But thats a story for another time. To make it short Fidor Kryptmann calculated the risk he take, but god dammit is he bad at math.
@@nicoaicher7864 They can order Astartes around but Astartes have the right to tell them to go frick themselves somewhere in the Eye of Terror. Because even the designated Astartes Chapters for Ordo Xenos and Ordo Malleus can't be ordered to join an Inquisitor, but asked. And the latter don't like radical inquisitors so they don't help them.
@@nicoaicher7864 Also - Kryptmann is now an Inquisitor again (I think), because there was no other choice due to the fact that without him going too far, damn space bugs could've wrecked the Imperial defences.
@@doc43souls74 my last stand on kryptmann is that he is still on the run from the inquisition and some eldar. But i dont know if he is still around
please react to the hellsreach series guys! and i hope you guys enjoy it! keep it up!
Thanks Eugene! We are prepping for it!
5:29 Human life is extremely cheap in the 41st Millennium. Some Servitors (mutilated cyborgs created for specific functions) are created from vat grown flesh, but many, many more are criminals and unfortunates who are surgically dismembered and fitted with mechanical replacements, set to one single task for the rest of their days, until their organic components wear out and a new person takes their place. There are some Servitors who do jobs as simple and mundane as operating an elevator or broadcasting official announcements through mouths replaced with radio equipment, but some are truly horrifying.
Some who are judged as traitors to the Adeptus Mechanicus (the ultimate merging of science and faith) are sentenced to Penitentia in Perpetuam - a special kind of Servitor integration where the portions of the brain containing personality and memory are left untouched, but are wholly severed from their motor control functions. These individuals are typically turned into battle Servitors, and as their skin blisters and their ears bleed from the repeated firing of heavy weapons grafted to the stumps of their shoulders, they must watch helpless and terrified, as their bodies are ordered to march into combat time and again.
But for the worst of heretics, those who are not immediately killed upon discovery, awaits the fate of Arco-Flagellation. Their limbs are removed and replaced with electro whips, saws, blades, and any other variety of horrendous melee weapons. Their muscles and organs are meshed to a drug delivery system which can dump huge quantities of battle stimulants, adrenaline boosters and pain blockers into the body at moment's notice. And their heads and faces are replaced with control helms, which broadcast hymnals and depict religious iconography when at rest. However, when their handler (usually an Inquisitor) gives the command phrase, the control helm activates, drugs flood their system, and anything not painted as a friendly is confronted with a psychotic cyborg which rends everything within its reach to bloody chunks until told to stop or they are reduced to bolts and grease. They are one of the most horrendous and unsubtle weapons in the Inquisitions arsenal.
jesus christ warhammer goes hard. My mouth was agape the whole time I was reading your comment 😂 I'll have to do some research into what these heretics look like 👀
Holy Terra, is Earth...
Where is muh Helsreach?!
MY BOY.....they are the IMPERIAL FISTS! Right on.
Look we're learning 😭 are you guys proud of us??
Holy Terra is Earth
Terra Is earth...
Like just because you got it! they are imperial fists.
thank you! We're so proud that we are learning even if it's as slow as it is 😂
You are right that those are Imperial Fists, but also are confusing the Imperial Fists with the Custodes. You said that the "Imperial Fists" are raised by the Emperor, which is not right, as like other Space Marines they are brought up by Geneseed (of the Primarch Rogal Dorn), meanwhile the Custodes are the ones that are individually crafted by The Emperor and are his personal guard, along with the Sisters of Silence (The talons of The Emperor). A single Custodes could take on 5 Space Marines and easily win as they are that perfect and well equipped.
Also yeah no that is not the God Emperor, it probably was a higher up Inquisitor or a High Lord of Terra. The God Emperor is big as fuck, has radiant golden armor and long hair. He'd also be surrounded by Custodes instead of Space Marines.
Thank you for the clarification! I'm honestly surprised I realized they were the imperial fists 😂 there's so many to learn about!
@@GMineo Yeah honestly pretty good. Recognizing the chapters can help a lot to know more context about a situation as it can indicate the location of a place and what type of threat is being assessed since each chapter specializes in something different.
If any Imperial fist or Imperial fist successor chapter heard him especially black templars ... his death would not be painless or quick xD ( I'm talking about that insult of Rogal Dorn )
that's so funny! it seems like there are a lot of ideals that everyone holds differently in 40k. We are still trying to understand the lines of all of them
@@GMineo most of space marines hate Inquisition ( some even have a little war with them ) black templars working with them a lot but ... what I know when Inquisition start suspecting that numbers of black templars probably exceed number 1 000 they try investigate... and all people that try to that end up in some unfortunate accident and die ... only high marshal of black templars know true number of them and he do not fear to kill even Inquisitor if they try to snif too close ... btw people think that there numbers are around 14 000 ... I mean Black Templars numbers
One big thing to note for your future videos, Space marines have an average lifespan of around 1000 years give or take, some are older but have slowed down. When a space marine is too injured and they cant be healed they usually are given the Emperors mercy of death, but if they are a leader whos knowledge or honor is too valuable to simply let them die they are put in a dreadnaught sarcophagus and essentially sleep for decades till they are woken up to fight in the dreadnaught. I bring this up because one dreadnaught of the Space Wolves Bjorn the Fell Handed is a dreadnaught who before he became one was part of his Primarchs honor guard and fought during the heresy making him 10,000 years old.
HOWEVER, the chaos marines are in the warp where time does not function the same. Many of them get transported around in time and many of them that fought in the Heresy or even attacked the Palace Walls are still fighting and are major players today like Abbadon, Lucius, Kharn, Ahriman, Typhus, and Fabius Bile. In real space 10,000 years has passed, but for them in the warp its only been maybe 100 or so meaning they are still at peak health.
That's really cool. We still have a lot to learn about the imperium but we are slowly figuring out how badass they are!
I don't think Astartes can die of old age though. Take Barabas Dantioch for example, he got affected by the Hrud's abilities of entropy-induced aging and because of that he is 3000+ years old. And he's okay.
One of the biggest acts that led to the Heresy was what the emperor did to Lorgar Aurelian Primarch of the Word Bearers.
Before the Emperor started his Great Crusade he got arid of all religion because he saw it as a hinderance and the cause for much unneeded hate and bloodshed, he wanted to have an empire focused on what he called the Imperial Truth which focused on the progression of humanity thru science and fact. Lorgar however was raised on a planet where he was huge into religion, and when he met the Emperor he viewed him as a god which the Emperor constantly denied to be. Lorgar ignored this and continued to worship him and every planet they conquered he would stay there to convert the populace into worshiping the Emperor as well.
However converting people, building churches and monuments takes alot of time which meant that the legion was not conquering as many worlds as the other legions were. The Emperor was getting annoyed at this saying he didnt care that the worlds were the most loyal he instead wanted more worlds in compliance saying all the other stuff was a waste of time. Most other legions would show up on a planet and tell them you either join our Imperium or we make you, if they refused the Legion would then wage war on the planet butchering the populace and leadership till they surrendered and then the legion would have some Imperial officials take over as they moved onto the next planet. So the Emperor was very annoyed with his slow pace and strictly told him to stop the religious worship, however he didnt
The Emperor then decided to take Roboute Guilliman Primarch of the Ultramarines, Malcador the Sigilite, and some custodes to the planet of Khur. He had them destroy the capital city Monarchia which Lorgar considered "The Perfect City" filled with temples and Lorgar cared for alot. He then called the entire Word Bearers Legion of about 100,000 marines and forced them and Lorgar with his psychic might to kneel in shame at the edge of the destroyed city. Lorgar resented the Emperor for this and decided to find something else to worship, one of his council named Erebus informed him of the Chaos gods and how they would not only welcome his devotion but reward him as well, and thus he was the first primarch to fall and he he manipulated the Sons of Horus in a way that led to Horus's fall.
That's really cool! Thank you for the information ❤️ we thought Horus was the first but it makes sense that there was a slippery slope effect. We also didn't know that the imperium fought against each other before the Horus heresy, but it does make sense in terms of escalating the conflict. I am curious though, why would the emperor not want more loyalty towards him over more people following him? I guess most of their strategy focused on fear mongering so the idea of love for the emperor is very different. I just think that loyalty would matter a lot more in the long run compared to the size of the imperium. Thanks for watching ❤️
@@GMineo He saw religion as a hinderance to progress and that Belief would matter more than Truth/Fact. This is actually what happens in the current setting where the Emperor is believed to be a god, Belief trumps facts and if you try to say something that is true but goes against the beliefs than you are a heretic and are killed. This also goes for much technological advancements, many who create new things are considered "techno-heresy" and are also killed. Basically the Imperium right now goes against Everything the Emperor wanted. When Guilliman returned after being in a stasis field healing from Fulgrim cutting his throat 10,000 years ago, he looked at the Imperium and was absolutely disgusted saying how dare you destroy his fathers dream and vision in such a way.
I believe he wanted the empire formed as fast as possible because he wanted to then use his full empire to fight chaos. He also didnt tell any of his Primarchs about chaos because he thought the less they knew the better, sadly this was a bad idea.
The most Ironic part is that in the Imperium the Administatum (church religion) is one of the most powerful forces and it is actually based off of LORGARS writings. Most space marine chapters do not view the Emperor as a god but more as the pinnacle of humanity. The Black Templar space marine chapter however are religious zealots who are pretty amazing for their appearance and lore, but fully worship the Emperor as a god and kill anyone who does not believe such. When the chaos Word Bearers warbands found out about this they were quite angry saying why are these guys celebrated for their worship of the Emperor as a god when they were punished for it 10,000 years ago.
4:30 Primarch--Progenitor, to Your glory and the glory of Him on Earth! Rogal Dorn, Defender of Terra!
That's a long title to remember 😂
@@GMineo it's the war cry of the Imperial Fist
You think he dive an orks ass about that vase inquisitors answer only to themselves and the Emperor
I'll take an orks ass 😩 that's good to know though!
@@GMineo oh just to let you know 40k Orks are made outta fungus
The Emperor is a skeletal corpse that sits on the golden throne, he can no longer move and basically it’s just his physic might that remains. He uses his physic abilities to maintain the astromnomicon which helps ships be able to travel thru the warp to get from one side of the galaxy to the other. Also in order to make sure he doesn’t truly die they have to sacrifice 1,000 pyskers to him every day so he may feed on their physic power. There are ships that never stop going from planet to planet to gather pyskers for this task called The Black Ships
JEEZ that is pretty grimDARK lol. Would the emperor be considered the most powerful psycher? or are there any other races that have power that can rival that?
He is the most powerful HUMAN pysker. There are some more powerful the largest coming to mind is Tzeentch who is a chaos god.
Magnus the Red, Primarch of the Thousand Sons was another powerful pysker and actually would use telepathy to talk to the Emperor before he was ever found. He was sometimes referred to as a giant because he could change his size on a whim and I think he made himself 20 feet tall one time.
Sadly he was disliked by his brothers because pyskers were seen with distaste by the other legions as witchcraft. He went to chaos not because he wanted to at first but because he had to or die.
The emperor most likely made a deal with the Chaos gods in part to create the Primarchs. He made 20 of them (2 had entire info deleted like Primarch and legion name…mostly so people could make a custom legion). The chaos gods saw the danger in them, and while they were babies in incubation pods the chaos gods opened a warp rift sucking them in and spreading them across the Galaxy on random worlds where they would grow up. The emperor had to track them down and find them one by one. Horus was the first one he found and spent the most time with him gaining the most favor which some were bitter saying they weren’t given the same love because they were found late in the crusade and didn’t have the glories the earlier ones did in war.
They all saw the emperor as their father, but some of them downright hated him. When he found a Primarch there was usually a huge celebration and welcoming into his empire. For at least 2 this wasn’t so, Angron and Mortarion.
Angron was sent to a planet where he was enslaved and forced to fight in gladiatorial combats. Every Primarch had a skill or trait that was at basically a genetic level, his was that he could essentially absorb the pain of those around him which he did to make his gladiator friends not feel as terrible. One thing tho was the race that enslaved him decided to implant these metal spikes into his brain called The Butchers Nails, they would send volts of electricity into his skull any time that he was calm and would continue to shock him until he was angry and stop. However when he was killing it would instead fill him with good pleasing feelings which made him actually NEED to fight and kill. When the emperor found him he and his friends had started a rebellion against the overlords but were losing and almost all wiped out. The emperor instead of teleporting down to the planet with his astartes instead beamed Angron away from his friends leaving them all to die. Angron never forgave them emperor for this and would have preferred to have died alongside his friends that day. One last thing tho is that they could not remove the Nails and Angron for whatever reason decided to require that every single space marine in his legion had fo also get the Nails put in. Also the Nails did something to negate his Primarch Aura which every Primarch had to make they’re legionnaires more loyal to them and follow them, this cause his marines to dislike him and during the dropsite massacre when the traitor legions tried to “cleanse” their ranks of any that might side with the emperor over their Primarch, his legion had the most wiped out.
Erasmus Brosdau, the animator, works at Crytek.
That's so cool! I can see some similarities in style now that I know that
@@GMineo i can't recall but i think this film was created with a technique called real-time rendering. I don't know the specifics but i guess it made it unique.
The person at the parade sitting on the throne in red armor is one of the inquisitorial Lords. Probably Inquisitor Coteaz from the looks of it. The Emperor is currently in stasis on his golden throne in the Imperial Palace defending earth from the warp, the demonic dimension of Chaos, with his psychic powers not able to leave as his body is crumbling and only alive because of cybernetic mechanisms. But he is still able to support his people with his psychic powers across the Empire. Or at least this is what the Imperials believe. And the Emperor was a giant in size, even bigger than a Primarch, with long hair during the Horus Heresy. Although now he probably isn‘t much more than a living skeleton.
That's really interesting. Are there any depictions of him in animations or cinematics? We've been hoping to see him compared to everyone else
@@GMineo There's several depictions of the God-Emperor of Mankind, both at the height of His power, and interred as a barely surviving corpse in the machinery of the Golden Throne, but there's not any animations of him so far.
@@GMineo Not as far as I can remember, but maybe there is. I asked my friends from the Warhammer tabletop hobby and they also don't remember seeing him in a cinematic or fanmade video. I'll let you know if I find something
@@GMineo there is a depiction of him when he's alive in The Last Church animation where he first kickstarted the Great Crusade.
Other than that, there's also the Text to Speech series but it's Parody and may not what the Emperor is like in the canon lore no matter how better he is
I would recommend watching Emperor Text fo Speech, it’s a really good way to branch out into other areas of the lore with a comedy spin on it.
I would also recommend Majorkill for lore stuff.
Thank you for the reccomendation! It looks pretty funny 😂
Text to speech is after 10,000 years of sitting on the throne he can finally talk again and a Custodian (his personal bodyguard who are FAR stronger than a space marine) fills him in on things that happened the past 10,000 years and he’s not happy
We love it! We'll be looking into it ❤ Thanks crimson
If you have any questions I’d be more than happy to share what I know, it’s a rabbit hole that gets bigger the deeper you go.
One thing to note is that there are two time periods for lore essentially, one which is more popular in books and such is the Horus Heresy and the events right before it happened showing different legions and how they got involved. The other setting is the current timeline which is 10,000 years after the Heresy and the Imperium is a shadow of what it was.
I wish we'd seen more of this. Like you say, it tells more of a story than the other trailers you've watched, because it was supposed to be the prologue to a story, rather than an advert for a game.
You did a really good job in working out what was what, for people unfamiliar with the universe! Thanks for sharing your reaction.
If you're looking for something longer form, you can probably still find Hellsreach, which is the gold standard for fan work. It's based on the Audiobook. Try and make sure you find the version with the music! The creater was hired by the company that makes Warhammer 40,000 to make their own in-house animations.
The Death of Hope was another fan made animation, gorgeous and full of detail like this one, set during the Horus Heresy. Like this, it never made it past the prologue, sadly.
The Last Church is pretty good too, a long conversation in the last days of the Unification of Earth, shortly before the Horus Heresy.
I heartily recommend Baldermort's monologues, too. They're really well voiced and are from the perspectives of people in warhammer 40,000.
40k can get confusing, they're the better part of 30+ years of work on the setting, lots of it contradictory, and there's no "canon" policy other than "Everything is canon, nothing is true."
Thank you for the reccomendations!! We are going to look at ALL of those because they all look great. Thanks Sine ❤
@@GMineo I hope you enjoy 'em!
The first ships seen in the video are just ordinary Imperial Navy cruisers, the second shot of a ship in orbit is a Space Marine Battle Barge. In the Imperium, pretty much all ships look like gigantic cathedrals festooned with huge guns.
Oh okay! We've seen a couple before and thought they were distinct from other ships the imperium uses
@@GMineo Look up videos about Battlefleet Gothic: Armada (and Armada 2): they're the video game adaptation of an old ship combat tabletop game that Games Workshop used to make, and should give you plenty of info about ships in 40k.
Okay we will! Thank you!
@@GMineo Holy Terra is also defended by Orbital Plates, which are quite simply continent sized chunks of spaceborne metal covered in guns.