LORE EXPLAINED! THE EMPEROR! | Warhammer 40k Bricky Reaction
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Emperor: "I'm not the messiah!"
Imperium: "He is the messiah!"
Messiah
“He’s not the Messiah…He’s a very naughty boy!!!”
"I am not a god. I'm just one of the most powerful beings in existence, am 10ft tall, wear golden armor, and want to bring Humanity to a new age. Totally not a god though, don't worship me please, but do listen to everything I tell you to do unquestioningly, kthx bye."
@@SeraphCrimson777only a true messiah would deny his divinity!
At 11:27 he mentioned someone who took the Emperor's place on the throne, he was the Emperor's only friend named Malcador the sigilite, he was a very powerful psyker but mortal, he sat on the throne to keep back the demons as it slowly destroyed him physically, giving the emperor time to kill Horus.
Malcador gave his life to save humanity and the imperium and henceforth was renamed "Malcador the hero"
To give alittle more context, the throne turned him into literal dust.
@@knightofblackfyre7950 yup, he thanosed himself
@@the98themperoroftheholybri33 *Malcador The Hero*
Honor his sacrifice.........
Have you seen the animatics with malcador and the big-E being besties and it ends on the death of the malcman ?
the Emperor himself actually personally called him as such... at least, the TTS series said so. "Behold the greatest sacrifice of our age!! Malcador the Sigilite is NO MORE! Henceforth, he shall now and always be known as Malcador, the HERO!" I may have fudged a few of the details, but I Think I got close.
I think Alicia would love the Adeptus Ridiculuas podcast that Bricky does with his buddy DK. More 4ok deep lore discussions and really fun too!
She'd probably turn each podcast into 3 parts each, I get the point as to why she does it, but it can be a bit annoying at times
That’s something I think she should listen to on her own time tbh, would be kinda weird to react to
@@Hello-bp8dx Oh I didn't mean as react content, moreso in her own time like you said.
@@ShadowBaron22 ah ok
I did listen to a couple of episodes but the cohost is just phoning it in.
The Infinite and The Divine is an amazing book about two necrons bickering for what I can only imagine is thousands of years which turns into a good cop bad cop adventure. My favorite quote in the book is “You stupid bastard,’ sneered Orikan. ‘You got us box seats to a coup.”
I haven't finished that book yet but my fav moment so far is when Orikan went too far in destroying Trazyn's precious collection. And Trazyn really just fucking blasted Orikan straight in the head, no flair, no playful banter or gloating. Just straight up "I don't give a shit anymore, fuck you" energy.
Orikan: "I hope you brought an army." "You think so little of me, dear colleague,' said Trazyn, picking out a labyrinth. 'I brought five.' ....and thats how i fell in love with this dude.😂
Alicia! There's an hour long fan film called "The Last Church". It's where the last priest discussed religion and spirituality with a 10 ft man called Revelation.
It's a beautiful passion project!
Great 40K novel
It's the most shallow argument for and against religion but the animation is so fucking good
@@Mondy667 I think it shows you how flawed the Emperor really is.
@@MechabangHERESY!!
@@Mondy667 The Emperor: "That's a really great point, unfortunately, I. Can't. **READ**!"
@@omnisans1649 That is almost literally the substance of his argument.
I wonder if she’d be interested in watching the If The Emperor Had A Text-To-Speech series once she’s done with the lore videos?
Was just gonna comment about this when she mentioned videos about the emperor and his sons, since its mostly about the drama between him and the primarchs.
+1
COMPANION!!!
She has already talked about it on stream. Said she would maybe react to it in the future if she runs out of Warhammer 40K content
I survived by dying in pretend
The last of Bricky's 40k lore videos (every space marine chapter) actually talks a bit more about the primarchs and their relations with their father and brothers.
Magus Was that kid who was like "Look Daddy I'm Helping" And is actually breaking shit.
I highly agree with the Ciaphas Cain suggestion he makes, its basically a comedy series in the grimdark. The idea is Cain is a complete and total coward but accidentally saves the day in the process. He puts on this big act to pretend to be this unwavering hero of the Imperium, but in reality is scared shitless of everything he encounters and is constantly just doing whatever he can to save his own ass, saving the day in the process and only increasing his heroic reputation further, which gets him sent on even deadlier missions, which he survives and becomes even more of a heroic figure, etc. The whole series is written as his memoirs and is a great example of a comedic story in the otherwise eternally dark and depressing 40k universe.
Another funny aspect is that Cain may be much more of an actual hero than he believes, he just has impostor syndrome. If you read between the lines, he actively seeks out dangerous opponents and enemy leaders when he could easily just run and avoid them, which he rationalizes as "needing to preserve his reputation".
Yeah, the inquisitor who's collecting his journals together to write the books describes him as one of the best swordsmen in whatever sector he happens to be in, yet he describes himself as competant. He took on a Khornate space marine in solo combat. But because he ran away once early in his career, he believes himself a coward. Poor guy honestly earned his in universe rep, but he'll never accept it.
You would definitely love the Space Marine Legions video by Bricky as well.
It goes into the Primarchs alittle bit
If you want a deep dive on the emperor leutin09’s videos on him are the way to go
EDIT: Bricky’s space marine video will also go over the primarchs so that’s a good one to watch if you want an overview on them
I mean fair, but that's like 7 hours of videos. Nothing against Luetin, he's the main reason I got into the hobby, I just don't think most of his videos are suited for reaction content.
Oh, absolutely that’s the best series for her to learn of the Emperor, his relationship with his sons, and the Heresy.
The first emperor video from luetin got me into 40k
Small clarification on Thunder Warriors since Brickest doesn't go into it, but they were also hella unstable. It wasn't as much "okay, you are done now, time to die" and more of "you are walking barrels of explosive tech full of psychopathic tendencies and you have no intention to change" - they were created to kill and slaughter, and they weren't really built to last to begin with.
That's what we're told, but then there's one example that somehow managed to survive the death squads and lived on for a very long time and seemed rather peaceful, if I'm not mistaken. On the other hand, one lone exception doesn't invalidate a wide-reaching judgement.
Alicia, the dramas Orks get in that leads infighting are legendary. Once an Ork wanted to get a copy of his favorite weapon. He somehow managed to travel back in time and fight his past self for the weapon.
Another time, a small Ork led a Waaagh bc his boss stole his hair. (Orks hair are creatures attached to them)
Fun fact: Big E is confirmed to have been Alexander the Great, King George & (probably) Hercules. Also Ol Person helped sack Babylon with Big E (then shanked him & got away with it) & fought in the middle east in contemporary times
The Watcher In The Rain would be a good short story to read. It being horror story just over an hour would be a perfect fit for Halloween.
Yeeeeeeeees
Honestly the best 40k short story
12:40 And Bricky left out the best part of the Emperor vs Horus... At one point, the Emperor is badly wounded and knocked to the floor. But before Horus can strike the final blow, a long Guardsman, Olianius Pius steps forward to bar his path, refusing to allow the corrupted Primarch to strike his lord. Horus then flayed him with a blast of psykic power.
this got changed
Pius is no guardsmen currently
@@MegaApostelTHAT IS NOT FUCKING CANON
@@MegaApostel we don't talk about that. Pius will always be a regular guardsman in our hearts
@@MegaApostelTTS did this part best.
Turning Pius into a neverdie was such a lame decision
Bricky has a video on the individual primarchs.
And as for the Emperor. There is a fantastic audiobook called, "The Last Church." Which gives some insight into his character.
It used to be found on RUclips, might gave been purged, though.
I love his video on Perturabo. It's hilarious how much he tries to hate the dude and in the end starts rooting for him.
Some of the stories of how the Emperor recruited the primarchs are pretty funny, especially Lemon Russ
Then there’s Angron.
Lemon Russ💀
Oh yeah. Best of 3.
Drinking contest - Leman won
Eating contest - Leman won
Russ jokes about if they even need to bother with Round 3.
Emps counters that all Rounds 1 & 2 proved is that Russ is a gluttonous drunk. Russ says that fine. Let's make Round 3 combat. Emps says finally, and immediately cold cocks Russ with a power claw.
Best father son reunion ever.
Picking Slaanesh on sight has made Alicia WILD for the whole rest of this deep dive. I love it.
Anyone else think Alicia might enjoy the "If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device " series?
Yes
Ayyyup.
My SMOOTH and SILKY THERMIC REACTOR is PULSATING with EXCITEMNT!
i mean she would enjoy the humour of it, but since she has barely scratched the surface of the lore, I feel like a lot of stuff would just go in one ear and out the other and wouldn't register and she would miss a lot of the nuance/easter eggs etc.
Exceedingly yes. Also WarHams.
A quote from Roboute Guilliman from the book Dark Imperium about his father and the religion "If my father where to rise up from the throne and declare himself not a god, you people would burn him at the stake as a heretic", gives you a good sense on how the returned primarch's feel about the ecclesiarchy.
The Ciaphas Cain books are so good, blending fun action with the absurdity of the setting to be equal parts hilarious and engaging.
I would like to recommend "The Last Church" animation by Tyber Portoghese. It's a little over an hour long and goes over the conversation between the Emperor and the last priest on Earth.
10:49 Leutin09 has an amazing series on the emperor and his story I HIGHLY recommend it if you wanna know more about big E
Edit: I'd love to hear some warhammer reading streams
Bricky was playing Tekken music because the "I'm not gonna sugarcoat it" is a Tekken meme. It's a closeup of Kazuya's face with his fists like Bricky had in the video, the top text reads "I'm not gonna sugarcoat it" and the bottom text is the inputs to do an Electric Wind God Fist :D
Just look up "I'm not gonna sugarcoat it meme" on google and you should see it.
In Defence of Magnus the Nerd, he _DID_ foreseer the Heresy and rushed to warn the Emperor .
However Daddy is not fond of the warp, and so does not trust any visions from it, plus Magnus use his Psychic powers to get to Terra super fast which destroyed the Human "Webway" .
Combine this with that fact Horus was Daddies' favorite Son , Magnus was not only given a bollocking but was disbelieved. Plus, I can't remember if this was before or because the Nerd fucked up, the use of Psychic powers were banned.
then we Wolves got tricked by the Arch Traitor and attacked Magnus and his Thousand Sons burning Prospro let's just say it wasn't our brightest moment 😋
Psychic powers were banned at the council of Nikea, which happened before the Heresy.
@@ElfangorQ7N I meant before or after the Nerd broke Daddies's portal. Not the Heresy.
@@Believer1980 Sorry I wasn't clear enough, it was before the Magnus incident.
Would definitely recommend Bricky's Space Marine video for more deep dive into the Legions to complete the trifecta of Bricky Lore series
Alixia should watch "If the Emperor had text-to-speech device" by Bruva Alfabusa
I can't wait till she watches if the emperor had a text to speech device.
I think it would make a wonderful series if she reacted to “if the emperor had a text to speech device”
Bricky, Weshammer, and Major Kill are my recommendations for future reactions.
Bricky's Every Space Marine Legion Explained video has to be next.
Weshammer has a ton of shorts and videos on sub-Legions, Races, Terrifying Creatures, and important individuals who Bricky has mostly had to leave out to streamline his videos.
Major Kills is the same as Weshammer except more Dick Jokes. 😂
Glad you got through your tribulations. You have quickly become one of my favorite RUclipsrs and the only V-Tuber I follow consistently besides, like Nux Taku 😂
If you want more bricky, he has a video going over the individual legions of space marines. ( but you do what every you want to do, and don’t have to burn yourself out on bricky vids)
I asked her on another video and she said she was probably going to watch it after finishing this one :D
@@bastiwen oh ok
"Deader than Horus" is in fact an actual expression in the Imperium according to some Warhammer stories.
Luetin09 is literally the best when it comes to explaining the Emperor. He has a multiple part Emperor series.
"Hell is paved with good intention". Magnus did it since he believe it's the best course of action at the time. That's the irony of it. Believing in something doesn't make it right.
Magnus did EVERYTHING wrong
"And he eatin a thousand homies?" Lol
I think, correct me if I’m wrong, we’re currently living around the time the Emperor was born, or at least existed
Well he's canonically St George and a few other historical figures incognito.
So yes, he's been alive for a long time, along with another less attention seeking Ollanius Persson
According to old lore the Emperor would be about 10,000 years old right now.
Given the stuff about the Argo in the heresy books Big E was probably Hercules. Also definitely Alexander the Great for sure too
Big E was born in what is now Turkey, about 8500 to 10000 years ago. Lore isn't reliable.
FYI the reason Bricky keeps saying that there are 20/18 Primarchs is that there are 2 mystery Legions/Primarchs that did something so horrible and unforgivable that they were wiped from all records and even has other Primarchs memories wiped. We have no idea what these mystery legions did and we will probably never know but it's fun the speculate about.
Or they just failed and died in battle vs Xenos…
10:39 "Are there videos to learn more about the Emperor?"
*Looks over at Luetin's channel*
*Starts sweating*
Bricky actually undersells what happened to the thunder warriors. Basically they we’re becoming a little unstable, so Big E grabbed his shotgun and took *every single one of them* behind the shed.
It’s also a popular theory that if Horus didn’t go heresy on everyone, Big E was going to do the same to the space marines and possibly the primarchs he didn’t deem necessary….Emps is not exactly a great guy
The book "infinite and the devine" is really cool, its about two Necron scholars who are billions of years old trolling each other, one collects random and rare stuff, and he actually liked Sanguinus even if he was a smelly human
Magnus is a great example of why intelligence and wisdom are different stats.
OI Horus Ollanius Pius says hello.
He mentioned Ciaphas Cain, and immediately started singing the song. Love him so much
Yayyyyyy, ok… now we need the Every Space Marine Legion explained by bricky, then we can start doing some deep dives into certain things. After the next bricky video. I highly recommend doing the Emperor video from the people at the Templin Institute. The Templin people have so many great videos on Warhammer 40k, but since you really want to know more about the Emperor right now, I suggest that one of theirs. Now…. If you wanna go REALLY deep, Luetin has a five part series on our holy God Emperor that was pretty good, but it might take a while to get through.
"I want to do that one." it's like 70 books.
@19:30 On the "perpetuation of hatred" angle, it doesn't help that the Age of Strife ended up destroying most of the friendly aliens out there. Before that point, humans peacefully coexisted with a number of alien races, but during the chaos and horror of the Age of Strife, all of them either went extinct or turned on humanity to survive. Basically all the nice aliens from before that time are dead or ended up warped into not-so-nice aliens. The cultural memory of this time, and the thousands of years of torment and oppression by alien powers that many human worlds suffered in its aftermath, are the reason why extreme xenophobia is the norm for humanity in the setting.
Then when the Ecclesiarchy became a thing, they made hatred of aliens into a key religious tenet, solidifying it in the Imperium's culture. So now, when the occasional new race of friendly aliens crops up, humans are already irrationally afraid and hateful toward them, so they tend to be exterminated very quickly by the Imperium, unwittingly perpetuating the "truth" that all aliens are hostile and evil by wiping out any new ones that could overturn that trend.
Alicia, if you want to find out more about the Emperor, Luetin 09 literally has a series specifically for you. It's filled with exactly what you expect, mysteries and half truths because the Emperor is that kinda character
If you want to learn more about the Primarchs overall, Bricky has his every Legion explained video. But if you want a more in depth video on specific Primarchs, ItalianSpartacus has you covered. He's fun, but he gets the lore right and his videos are only 30-45 mins.
If you want more funny, drama filled stuff then like everyone else, I'll recommended Bruva Alfabusa's If the Emperor had a TTS device series. Warning, you're going to get so fxcking blue balled by the end of the series lol
One chatter: "Malcador is a close second."
Actually, depending on who you determine the one figure from Son of The Forest book might be, I would say Malcador isn't completely wiped out. In my humble opinion, it wouldn't be sanguinius, since it is very heavily implied that his soul was split to inherit the Saint and The other one that occasionally saves the blood angels.
Iysander and Koda do got some good deep dives in the each individual group. Though they're videos are about 30+minutes each
If the Emperor had a Text-to-speech device would be great for Alicia, even if she won't get everything.
Alicia, please, go watch Bruva Alfabusa's "A Fully Narrative Wargame Experiment" its a great introduction to their work and just a fun video.
They also created the beloved "If The Emperor Had A Text-To-Speech Device." Which you've likely heard a lot of recommendations for.
Lol "let me rip your limbs off and sew them together" said in a pleasant voice is sooo good 😂
No one:
Big E: I ROLL TO DESTROY HIS SOUL.
I hope she gets around to watching warrior tier, especially the ogryn story. Tears would be guaranteed.
You 're almost clear to tackle on "If the Emperor had a Text-to-speech device".
Trust us, it's a masterpiece. Like anything from Bruva Alfabusa.
I would highly recommend Vox in the Void for 40k audio dramas on RUclips. Yes fellow commenters 40k does not lack in this department, Vox is just my favorite.
If you want story's of genuinely good people any of the Lamenter storys would be what you want.
If you want tragedy of evil any of the Angron and Worldeaters would be what you need.
If you desire his newest work at the moment the Preysight Volume 1 can give you insight into The Lord's of the Night.
And I must recommend my personal favorite of his The Decent Of The Angel and be reveled the true meaning and affect of a Primarch to his Sons.
A man of culture and fellow Vox enjoyer spotted. He deserves so much more love
To add some more context to what happened with Magnus and the webway.
The Emperor was actually on the frontlines of the Great Crusade for a while, and left one day to work on "a secret project on Terra" which was the Human webway. Part of the process of making it included making a massive psychic barrier in the warp around it, in order to ward off chaos. Now, Tzeench goes talking Magnus. Telling him in feigned concern all about the imminent events that constitute the Horus Heresy, which instigate him to attempt sending a psychic message as a warning to Big E. A warning that bounced off of the barrier of the Human webway, so he proved the difference between Intelligence and Wisdom by smashing the barrier to send his warning. With the barrier destroyed, demons rushed in and charged directly at Terra, locking down Big E on the Golden Throne in order to hold off the incoming horde.
So, Magnus and his legion were grounded on his home planet until a certain event in the Horus Heresy happened.
Alicia I can't stress enough how good The First And Only and is subsequent 10 or so novels are. The story and characters are fantastic. The characters are so fleshed out when one inevitably dies it will bring tears to your eyes.
the beauty of Bricky's videos for me is not that it is short (there are shorter ones) or that it is accurate (it really isnt) or that it is funny (i mean it is, but there are more memy ones).
It is his radiant enthusiasm and love of the topic. You can hear how much he enjoys doing this and it is infectious.
Concern with doing Reading Steams; Games Workshop went through a major legal C&D announcement only about a year or so ago, discouraging a lot of fan-content makers to skip out for other franchise options. "If The Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device" was a beloved series that stopped on a cliffhanger and can't go back until GW walks back their legal position, and Bruva Alfabusa (the channel that had been orchestrating EHTTS) shifted away from Warhammer toward World of Darkness and expanding into other things while continuing to work on their animation process and style.
Bricky & Company manage to skirt the line with a mix of live games, far fewer videos, and Legally Distinct options.
Mind you I'd absolutely watch or at least listen to a read-through of their books, but it seems worth the warning. Plenty of reaction video channels have gone over Bricky's stuff and it's been fine. Book Reviews also seem to be okay from what I've seen elsewhere rather than complete read-throughs.
It's so funny to me that the emperor has all this grandeur and significance to the imperium, but, as far as I know (which is very little), he is currently a breathing GPS, and that's awesome
If you want lore on The Emperor, I recommend Baldemort's channel. He's like 99% accurate, and 100% entertaining.
If you want the most in-depth lore about the Emperor, Leutin09 is probably the best. Just know he goes very deep in explaining stuff. He did a multiple part series on the big E (4 or 5 parts I think) as more info has come out over the years. They are all at least an hour long I think, so grab some popcorn if you decide to watch them lol
"For Fenris, For Russ, For The Allfather!" 🐺
Damn, Horus really got hit with the WH40K's version of La Chancla.
Bricky is such a comfy creator. His voice is nice to listen to, he's well spoken and intelligent in his humor, and he's incredibly informative as he does all of this. S tier creator.
3:42 We do sort of know. The Emperor is from ancient Sumeria in Mesopotamia 45k years ago. He was average looking, dark skinned and average heighted insanely powerful psyker created as a result of a ritual mass-sacrifice of all human Shamans as a composite soul weapon to protect humanity agains the Chaos Gods (basically a minor-Chaos God in the same way as Slaanesh ate the souls and bodies of the Aeldari). Because of this, he is not only the strongest Psyker to have ever lived, he is also one of the perpetuals (biologically immortal).
The Emperor's physical appearance was a phychic illusion, and everyone saw him differently and he had changed his identity quite often, and only the silent sisters could pierce through his illusions (which is where we know what he really looks like).
And no, he isn't a rotting carcass either, that is also just an illusion. But he is trapped and completely drained and overwhelmed by the Golden throne thanks to Magnus damaging it and opening a permanent chaos portal right under it, and there is no Malcador to replace him anymore (like he did to go fight against Horus) to let him recover
Not much is confirmed about which identities he used before he became the Emperor of mankind, but we know he is the source of Saint. George fables when he took down the escaped Void Dragon shard, and before that we know he was one of humanity's earliest warlords called Neoth
Most of the history and events right before and during the great crusade are extremely unreliable, since the Emperor and Malcador used their powers to alter memories at massive scales to achieve their goals and to remove any memories and knowledge of Chaos and his dealings with them away from the memories of humanity and even the Primarchs to greatly weaken the Chaos Gods.
But yeah, TL;DR; we know quite a bit about him and his plots , but we also know he has been manipulating historical narrative and events a lot, and ALL information coming from inside the Imperium iscompletely unreliable propaganda. The other perpentuals and surprisingly some Xenos records are the most reliable sources of information regarding the Emperor and the birth of the Imperium
If you want some deeper dives that still feature Bricky, and are also still very accessible for people who don't know a lot about 40k, the Adeptus Ridiculous podcast has Bricky explaining some of the wackiest stuff in 40k to a friend who doesn't know anything about it.
They're each about an hour and while there's some running jokes and some lore references that continue as they go on, you can more or less jump into any one of their episodes for a look at something specific.
I highly recommend their first Orks episode as a good start, since Orks are absolutely bonkers :P
Brickys "every WH40k Space Marine LEgion" video should be next
To be fair to Sanguinius, he had *just* run an ABSOLUTE boss gauntlet before fighting Horus: one of Khorne's greatest demons, followed by his brother Angron turned daemon-Primarch, then followed by 1-v-1-ing an actual TITAN (a 30-50+ ft. tall warmachine), *and then* he fought Horus knowing he would most likely die, but he had to fight anyways because there was a chance he'd win and save his father.
In case you were curious why the emperor turned on the thunder warriors after the unification wars. If i remember correctly the methods he used to create them were rushed and as a result thunder warriors would become more and more unstable until they would eventually go beserk, also they were created specifically for the unification wars and weren't really suited for the emperor's plans to retake the rest of the galaxy.
If you liked Bricky's lore videos, then I'd like to highly recommend Baldermort's Guide to Warhammer. The man could read the phone book and still be entertaining to listen to.
Love the video Alicia, If you want to know more about the thunder warriors that the Emperor used to unify terra (also the proto space marines,) I would recommend the video of the Thunder warriors lore by Baldermort's Guide to Warhammer. he does such great work by telling a story and the lore after the story set in universe. It's kind of sad how good some of his videos are but many don't know of him.
I’ll point out that the M50 Ontos aka “The Thing” was an extremely successful military vehicle make by farmers (literally), who took a light tracked chassis (basically the bottom of a small farm tractor) and welded 6 recoiless rifles to the top, using .50 BMG rifles as spotting scopes - one for each recoilless rifle since they couldn’t align all the guns (they were farmers, not mechanical engineers of course). See the Fat Electricians video on it for a good summary. My dad loved them in Vietnam as he was an artillery captain and when one was in his area of operations he knew all he’d have to do was provide indirect fire (ex: fire over the top of a hill) since The Thing could easily outgun anything the Viet Cong could oppose them with (each gun was anti-tank capable….and it had 6 of them).
Moar reactions to the following, please. Thank you!
* Animator Vs. Animation series (by Alan Becker)
* Warhammer 40k (especially more Bricky material, and later on, the "If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device" series by Bruva Alfabusa)
* SCP Foundation (especially by Volgun)
It is rumored the Emperor has his origins in Anatolia, which is modern day Turkey, the Emperor is Turkish, all hail the Galactic Ottoman Empire
For those who don’t get 6:52
The “official” story is that Horus was first to be found and Alpharius was the last. In reality, Alpharius was found first (never left earth), trained in secret, and his twin was found last.
Also, this is a lie.
Gotta feel for Magnus to be honest
He was told (and bullied) outright into repressing his Psyker powers, and by extension so were his sons, which to them was like denying a part of who they are, which im sure many of us can relate to.
Then the Council of Nikea happened where it became law that Psykers were essentially outlawed, and despite Magnus demonstrating the advantages psykers could provide for the imperium provided they are tuaght to properly harness thier powers, even his own brothers (including the very few he was close with) voted him down, further making him feel ostracised.
But despite all this, he remained loyal and loved his father. He defied the law and continued evolving his Psyker powers until he eventually had a vision of the Horus Heresy revealed to him, and in desperation to save his father and everything he’d worked for, Magnus poured every ounce of his willpower into breaking the Psychic Wall around Terra so he could warn the Emperor.
But once again the universe shat on Magnus, because I’m breaking the psychic wall, he inadvertently allowed Daemons to invade Terra.
Absolutely depressed at this point, he sat in his tower on Prospero and didn’t even warn his sons that the Space Wolves were coming to destroy thier Homeworld, because Magnus felt like he deserved death.
But when the carnage began, Magnus decided he couldn’t let his sons die, and joined the defense, ripping out one of Leman Russes hearts and eventually teleported his legion from Prospero and into the warp…riiiiiiight into the clutches of Tzeentch, who promised he could “fix” the geneseed mutations occurring en masse across his legion.
Honestly past Magnus did nothing wrong.
Present Magnus not so much
The Emperor has a really interesting history.
Ok so bricky has another chanel where he explains certain segments of the lore for a newcomer. Adeptas rediculus.
Also most of the emperors lore is in mystery, most of the his appearances is what he wants people to see in both appearance and personality, only three people ever see his true form, most accurate is from malcador the sigilite.
AI in Warhammer is outlawed, if you really think about it, the Imperium is just hyper advanced Robo Cop.
You should check out "if the emperor had a text to speech device" funniest sieres ever
So about those Horus Heresy books. Dunno if you'll commit to reading all like 40 books but if you're going to read the first one, I would highly suggest you commit to the first three at minimum, or up to Fulgrim, the fifth book. The only weak one amongst the first five books is the second one and personally I think Fulgrim is the best of the five. The reason I make this recommendation is because the first three ones are the core of the first contiguous stretch of the Horus Heresy story and it goes up to the fifth book after which the series takes a few detours from the story, jumping around from place and time to another to tell a different fragment of the overall story.
I'm currently working through book 8 so I don't know past that.
THE EMPEROR OF MAN [1-2-3] from Luetin09 is the best depiction of the events leading up to the present 40k and even a bit after, the rise and fall of both humanity and the emperor, they are pretty long videos so sorry about that
"Ork here for good time, not long time" ~Da Boss probably
Her: "Give me your soul!"
Me: "Get in line"
There is an interesting thing about the Warp travel. Because there's no concept of time in the Warp,sometimes Warp travel could become time travel. For example, you could arrive at the destination 300 years before you were born.
At 11:45 , when Bricky mentions that Horus killed Sanguinius, he didn't mention that aroumd that same point in time, a regular loyalist guardsman ran between Big E and Horus and straight up BEGGED Horus to cease his heresy and come back to the Imperium but was killed by Horus; Big E, after having seen all this, goes "FUCK NO" and vaporizes Horus, and also destroyed his freakin soul
I'm a fan of dark comedies, and so as the books Bricky mentioned go, I am a big fan of Ciaphas Cain, and The Infinite and the Divine.
The Ciaphas Cain books are the memoirs of a man who is hailed as a hero of the Imperium, but whose internal monologue during all his heroic moments is: "Sh#t, how did I get myself into this, and how can I run away without anyone noticing?". Whether you take his self-deprication and claimed cowardice seriously or not is up to the reader. They are lighthearted, funny, witty, and occasionally very silly, while being contrasted against the sheer horrors of the 40k universe.
The Infinite and the Divine is a look at two famous Necron characters, and their relationship. Which is essentially that they absolutely love to hate each other. The plot covers a 10,000-year-long game of cat and mouse between two grumpy old men. It is hilarious, and infinitely quotable.
Bricky said the Gaunt's Ghosts books like First and Only were like Band of Brothers. Personally, it reminded me of Sharpe's Rifles (though that may be too old a reference these days). A serious war drama, with a focus on characters and the intrigue that goes on behind the scenes on the Imperial side.
The one thing i can think of that really goes into the Imperial family as a whole (for example this actually gives a name for the 2 lost Primarchs and goes through alot of the imperial families many, man, many, gripes about eachother which led to the Horus heresy) is Messages For Dad on the spacebattle forums. Nice way to kill a couple hours
it also answers the question of how Commorragh is powered: A blue giant star, frozen at a point just before it goes supernova
Yes, they were edging it...
Its the dark Eldar would you expect anything less?
Can’t wait for you to watch brickys every single space marine legion in a nut shell it’s soo awesome and funny
The reading streams would probably cause some copyright problems, Warhammer/Black Library has their own audibook line and they've been real fussy about any sort of fan projects that might compete with their own media output these last few years.
I'd go the fuck to sleep to a warhammer audiobook by you, that sounds fucking amazing!
Lutins emperor of mankind videos would be great for learning about big E.
I don't know if you read these comments Alicia - but if you do; I am sure you are going to love watching Baldemorts video on Fulgrim and the Emperors Children - their early run pre heresy and their fall. He's an even better orator than Bricky (which takes alot!), and since you're a Slaneesh enjoyer - you should love it! Just try not to cry over it; at times, it breaks the heart. 😋
There are some new informations about the Emperor in the last books of the Siege of Terra series. There it is described, that not even his oldest friend Malcador really knows his true name or true form. With his psycich powers, he changes his appearance to whatever is needed at that moment. In one moment, he is seen as a Wise King, who is sitting on a throne and when he makes himself ready to teleport onbort Horus' Flagship, he takes the form of the golden Warrior King once again. He chosed this form at the great crusade, because he knew his Sons wouldn't had followed him.
For his immortality... GW helds his true background shady. In one of the earliest concepts of 40K, the story was, that he was the reincarnation of a mighty druid circle, which each souls were always reborn with all their previous memories so that the others would recognise each other. They knew, that the Chaosgods were rising and devour the souls of their former comrades. So they made a ritual, which gave all their powers to an unborn child which was later known as the Emperor. That background story is outdated but at least something, until GW comes with another explanation for the new canon. From there on, he grew but couldn't die from age anymore. He is also a so called "Perpetual", which are humans, who has some sort of powers and where chosen to lead and guide humanity. There were some others like Ollanius Persson, who is the oldest amongst the Perpetuals and 8.000 years older then the Emperor.
The Emperor might not be the oldest, but by far the most powerful of them. In the Siege of Terra series, it is described, that he stood alone against the might of all 4 Chaosgods while sitting on the Golden Throne and manipulating the warp to change the odds of the outcome.
If you want to read about how Usopp would do in WH40K as an Imperial Commissar you should read Ciaphas Cain.
Magnus did nothing wrong. Because he was told to do nothing, and he did it WRONG!
Bricky runs a podcast/channel where they go over more specific 40k lore called 'Adeptus Ridiculous' it's fantastic.
Hey Alicia. Been loving these 40k Deep dives. I'm doing my part to feed the Algorithm Gwads.