Just because something is disturbing doesn't necessarily make it scary, and the essence of horror is that it doesn't disturb and disgust so much as it unnerves and frightens you, at least in my opinion. Disturbing and disgusting the audience is definitely a part of horror, but there's something to be said when you can make the simple act of someone walking towards you by itself scary without needing to make them some incomprehensible monstrosity hellbent on doing horrible things to your body and soul. In that regard, a lot of the things people find disturbing in 40k are things like graphic depictions of bodily mutilation or torture, but those things don't necessarily scare you and make you want to put the book down because you're too afraid to keep going and see the payoff. Let me give you an example Let us say you have a story of a pitched battle between the Imperium and Chaos. A lone Guardsmen fleeing into the wilderness tries to escape a bunch of rapacious and murderous Chaos cultists. Then, slowly but surely, something starts picking off the cultists. You never see it, never figure out what it is, but you feel the sense of dread from it, as the Guardsman forming the basis of our POV talks about how he knows his comrades are all dead, he hears and sees the cultists following behind him day after day, but every night he hears them screaming and firing into the night, and how there are fewer and fewer of them, becoming more and more frantic and afraid with each passing day. Eventually, they catch up, and the Guardsman thinks he's done for, but the cultists keep running, ignoring him, and he sees whatever has been following them, and all he can do is run, because the thing chasing them naturally instills a sense of fear and dread that completely disregards the notion that this thing is in any way friendly; it's a thing, a monster in the woods, and all you can do is run away from it in fear and hope it doesn't catch you. Eventually, our hero makes it out. The Chaos uprising has been quashed and the Imperium is on clean-up, and the Guardsman tells his story to a local, and they freeze up, before telling him there are stories about SOMETHING that lives in the wilds. Something that doesn't like being disturbed, and that it slowly and methodically hunts down anything that enters its territory and aggravates it. The Guardsman is either lucky in that he didn't do anything to offend it, or the thing is still after him and it just hasn't caught up with him yet, either still hunting the surviving cultists or trying to catch up with him, and the local doesn't know which it is. So he advises the Guardsman to get to the cities, board a shuttle, and get the fuck off the planet and hope that the thing can't or won't follow him that far. He goes to the city, rejoins with Imperial command and tries to get off world, then he's told that the surviving Guardsmen will be garrisoned on this world to help secure it and to recuperate whatever losses they've sustained from the local populace. And now our Guardsman friend is stuck on the planet, probably for the rest of his life, hoping and praying to the God-Emperor that the thing in the woods has forgotten about him, and that he never gets deployed to the countryside again. Because all he can remember clearly about the thing is that before he ran, is that it looked in his direction, and he just KNOWS it saw him. Creepy, right? The creature is given no description beyond simply being a thing that exists, but the notion of getting its attention alone is inherently disturbing. Contrast this to say, the fact that Servitors are often criminals that have been forcibly lobotomized and turned into cyborgs to perform menial tasks like opening doors or moving freight. Not particularly scary or disturbing, right? But now I start telling you a story about someone going through the Servitor-conversion process. About how he's tied down, still awake and fully aware, as Tech-Priests and Servitors begin the process of carving him apart while he's still alive, removing organs and flesh deemed unfit for his new purpose. The procedure ends, and some higher ranking Tech-Priests come to inspect the new Servitor and verify that it's in good working condition. And then we find out why the man was turned into a Servitor; he missed too many days at work. The man wasn't a murderer, a rapist, or even a heretic; he just couldn't keep up with the workload that was assigned to him as a menial worker. So somebody decided he'd be better used as a piece of equipment than a worker. Then one of the Tech-Priests mentions that the man had a pregnant wife who was depending on him. They dismiss the woman's plight out of hand, saying that due to poor health records she is unfit for service, even as a Servitor, but her unborn child might be far enough along to be salvaged as a Cherub, and perhaps they should pair the father and child together, as the bonding process might make the Machine Spirits more cooperative, before one of the Tech-Priests notices a moisture leak. Then we're faced with the real horror of the man's situation; he's still conscious, and he understands everything that's going on around him. He knows his wife is probably going to starve to death, and that his unborn child is going to be converted into a Servitor as well, and the two are going to paired together for no other reason than the tech priests think that pairing two Servitors together will make the rudimentary AI sharing space inside his head more docile and cooperative because it will have another AI to 'socialize' with. Disturbing right? But it doesn't necessarily make you afraid. There are no Tech-Priests coming to turn you and your loved ones into mechanized slaves after all. But the idea of something being out there, lurking in the dark or in the wild? That's a bit more concerning, right? A little jaunt in the woods or a stroll in the dark suddenly gets a lot more unnerving when you think about something being there and you being entirely at its mercy. Some crazy hermit, a spirit of the forest, a government experiment, the thing you've been told all your life is just a Boogeyman only children are frightened of? Doesn't really matter what it is, even if it's entirely in your head. Because you don't know what's out there. In the dark, waiting outside your window or sitting just outside your door. ...What? Oh no. Go right on ahead. You're not crazy. Go take a look, just to be sure. Reading over your shoulder like this was getting boring anyways... Gotta love a bit of horror, right.
6:58 Caiphas Cain was captured by dark eldar (the crazy torture elfs) and tho mentally scarred but not breaking (to the point of agreeing with everyone that death is a better option than being captured again) ...it did not compare to the fear and trauma he felt after this encounter, so what it implies here is that there can be something greater to the fear and dread of being tortured (and all the other f-ed up things the drukhari might do), so the real question is not "what?" this greater horror is but "do i really want to find out what it is?"
Lemme tell you exactly how trying to keep your mouth closed against the spider would go. _"Oh, you're not going to open up your mouth for me? Most people prefer having the spider go in this way... Oh well. Guess you're one of THOSE sorts of people... Somebody, get his pants off."_ ...Now see, you're giving me the stink eye for that right now, but admit it; you'd probably open your mouth to say something, wouldn't you?
To explain what a Blank or Pariah is... Imagine standing next to someone, and thinking there's something just... WRONG about them. They look normal, talk normal, but there's just something about them that makes you instinctively not want to be around them. They make you uncomfortable, disgusted, and afraid for no other discernible reason than that just seems to be a natural reaction. This is how someone reacts to a relatively weak Blank. You have a reaction, but there's no compulsion to act on it because it's not that strong. Then you have moderately stronger Blanks. The kind where a mother will suddenly fly into a fit of hysteria and strangle their own child because they are absolutely convinced that the child is just WRONG; they're disgusting, hideous, and evil, and the child was obviously an abomination that wanted to kill her and the rest of her family. Then you have the REALLY strong Blanks. You don't look at these people, you look through them. Because they aren't there. You ignore them, not because you want to, but because your brain refuses to acknowledge that they exist, that they're murdering your entire family right in front of your eyes, because the act of acknowledging them, looking at them, would be so overwhelming and damaging to your psyche that your brain thinks watching your family be killed by an invisible ghost is somehow better for your mental health than the alternative. And at the tip-top of the Blank hierarchy? You walk into a room. Then, you draw your gun, immediately turn it to your own head, and pull the trigger. Or you suddenly drop dead of fright and terror. This is how Blanks are perceived by regular people. Why? Because if everyone has a soul, then Blanks have the polar opposite of that; an anti-soul if you will. Ordinary people can sense this and it causes a natural aversion not too dissimilar to watching somebody holding a lit torch up to a propane tank; the anxiety a Blank causes is visceral and instinctive, especially in the weak-willed or the psychically gifted, because Blanks having an anti-soul effectively makes them anti-psyker, and there are comparable levels of power between Blanks and psykers, hence why some Blanks just make you uncomfortable while others will literally scare you to death just by being near them. The Necrons figured all this out and they figured out a way to take human Blanks and convert them into new Necrons, while preserving their natural power as Blanks and enhancing them. Supposedly, the Necrons know how to do this because they were the ones who put the so-called Pariah Gene, the genetic sequence that causes the blank condition to appear, into the ancestors of humanity millions of years ago as an experimental weapon to use against the Eldar, who describe Blanks as 'evil incarnate' due to the fact that all Eldar are natural-born psykers and thus have the worst possible reaction to Blanks. While Necron Pariahs are still a thing in lore, the Pariah Gene is still referenced occasionally, and the term Pariah is sometimes used to refer to Blanks in general, GW has since backed off on the idea of the Necrons being able to essentially turn humans into new Necrons, much less having been able to systematically modify the human race over 60 million years before it even existed to create a caste of perfect anti-psyker killing machines. Don't get me wrong, I think the idea is still cool as hell, but I can understand why GW decided to backtrack the idea of Necron Pariahs so much despite how cool the concept initially seemed because it goes against their current design philosophy for the Necrons as an immortal race that is incredibly powerful and hard to kill but is still slowly dying out because they can't make new Necrons to counteract any losses they do receive.
The Halo star is a part of the galaxy where time doesn't exist not a suggestion like the warp or slow it just don't exist and rampant of lovecraftian abominations that even Khorne cowars on the mere mention of it. One of those lovercraftian horror is actually seal in the dark cells on earth itself. And that's even the worse part the worse part is that Halo star is currently and slowly merging with the Ghoul Star System where the most horrifying creatures of the deep warp exist.
@@KeroHiro-Lil There are two chapters that survived actually Nova marines and Scythe of the Emperor but Scythe of the Emperor suffered the most casualties to the point they're declared extinct
Just because something is disturbing doesn't necessarily make it scary, and the essence of horror is that it doesn't disturb and disgust so much as it unnerves and frightens you, at least in my opinion. Disturbing and disgusting the audience is definitely a part of horror, but there's something to be said when you can make the simple act of someone walking towards you by itself scary without needing to make them some incomprehensible monstrosity hellbent on doing horrible things to your body and soul.
In that regard, a lot of the things people find disturbing in 40k are things like graphic depictions of bodily mutilation or torture, but those things don't necessarily scare you and make you want to put the book down because you're too afraid to keep going and see the payoff.
Let me give you an example
Let us say you have a story of a pitched battle between the Imperium and Chaos. A lone Guardsmen fleeing into the wilderness tries to escape a bunch of rapacious and murderous Chaos cultists. Then, slowly but surely, something starts picking off the cultists. You never see it, never figure out what it is, but you feel the sense of dread from it, as the Guardsman forming the basis of our POV talks about how he knows his comrades are all dead, he hears and sees the cultists following behind him day after day, but every night he hears them screaming and firing into the night, and how there are fewer and fewer of them, becoming more and more frantic and afraid with each passing day. Eventually, they catch up, and the Guardsman thinks he's done for, but the cultists keep running, ignoring him, and he sees whatever has been following them, and all he can do is run, because the thing chasing them naturally instills a sense of fear and dread that completely disregards the notion that this thing is in any way friendly; it's a thing, a monster in the woods, and all you can do is run away from it in fear and hope it doesn't catch you.
Eventually, our hero makes it out. The Chaos uprising has been quashed and the Imperium is on clean-up, and the Guardsman tells his story to a local, and they freeze up, before telling him there are stories about SOMETHING that lives in the wilds. Something that doesn't like being disturbed, and that it slowly and methodically hunts down anything that enters its territory and aggravates it. The Guardsman is either lucky in that he didn't do anything to offend it, or the thing is still after him and it just hasn't caught up with him yet, either still hunting the surviving cultists or trying to catch up with him, and the local doesn't know which it is. So he advises the Guardsman to get to the cities, board a shuttle, and get the fuck off the planet and hope that the thing can't or won't follow him that far. He goes to the city, rejoins with Imperial command and tries to get off world, then he's told that the surviving Guardsmen will be garrisoned on this world to help secure it and to recuperate whatever losses they've sustained from the local populace. And now our Guardsman friend is stuck on the planet, probably for the rest of his life, hoping and praying to the God-Emperor that the thing in the woods has forgotten about him, and that he never gets deployed to the countryside again. Because all he can remember clearly about the thing is that before he ran, is that it looked in his direction, and he just KNOWS it saw him.
Creepy, right? The creature is given no description beyond simply being a thing that exists, but the notion of getting its attention alone is inherently disturbing.
Contrast this to say, the fact that Servitors are often criminals that have been forcibly lobotomized and turned into cyborgs to perform menial tasks like opening doors or moving freight. Not particularly scary or disturbing, right?
But now I start telling you a story about someone going through the Servitor-conversion process. About how he's tied down, still awake and fully aware, as Tech-Priests and Servitors begin the process of carving him apart while he's still alive, removing organs and flesh deemed unfit for his new purpose. The procedure ends, and some higher ranking Tech-Priests come to inspect the new Servitor and verify that it's in good working condition. And then we find out why the man was turned into a Servitor; he missed too many days at work. The man wasn't a murderer, a rapist, or even a heretic; he just couldn't keep up with the workload that was assigned to him as a menial worker. So somebody decided he'd be better used as a piece of equipment than a worker. Then one of the Tech-Priests mentions that the man had a pregnant wife who was depending on him. They dismiss the woman's plight out of hand, saying that due to poor health records she is unfit for service, even as a Servitor, but her unborn child might be far enough along to be salvaged as a Cherub, and perhaps they should pair the father and child together, as the bonding process might make the Machine Spirits more cooperative, before one of the Tech-Priests notices a moisture leak. Then we're faced with the real horror of the man's situation; he's still conscious, and he understands everything that's going on around him. He knows his wife is probably going to starve to death, and that his unborn child is going to be converted into a Servitor as well, and the two are going to paired together for no other reason than the tech priests think that pairing two Servitors together will make the rudimentary AI sharing space inside his head more docile and cooperative because it will have another AI to 'socialize' with.
Disturbing right? But it doesn't necessarily make you afraid. There are no Tech-Priests coming to turn you and your loved ones into mechanized slaves after all. But the idea of something being out there, lurking in the dark or in the wild? That's a bit more concerning, right? A little jaunt in the woods or a stroll in the dark suddenly gets a lot more unnerving when you think about something being there and you being entirely at its mercy. Some crazy hermit, a spirit of the forest, a government experiment, the thing you've been told all your life is just a Boogeyman only children are frightened of? Doesn't really matter what it is, even if it's entirely in your head. Because you don't know what's out there. In the dark, waiting outside your window or sitting just outside your door.
...What? Oh no. Go right on ahead. You're not crazy. Go take a look, just to be sure. Reading over your shoulder like this was getting boring anyways...
Gotta love a bit of horror, right.
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@Shmuckytp We aim to please down at the Mad House...
6:58 Caiphas Cain was captured by dark eldar (the crazy torture elfs) and tho mentally scarred but not breaking (to the point of agreeing with everyone that death is a better option than being captured again) ...it did not compare to the fear and trauma he felt after this encounter, so what it implies here is that there can be something greater to the fear and dread of being tortured (and all the other f-ed up things the drukhari might do), so the real question is not "what?" this greater horror is but "do i really want to find out what it is?"
Lemme tell you exactly how trying to keep your mouth closed against the spider would go.
_"Oh, you're not going to open up your mouth for me? Most people prefer having the spider go in this way... Oh well. Guess you're one of THOSE sorts of people... Somebody, get his pants off."_
...Now see, you're giving me the stink eye for that right now, but admit it; you'd probably open your mouth to say something, wouldn't you?
First also you should watch Helsreach movie it’s free on RUclips and is about the Black Templars
To explain what a Blank or Pariah is...
Imagine standing next to someone, and thinking there's something just... WRONG about them. They look normal, talk normal, but there's just something about them that makes you instinctively not want to be around them. They make you uncomfortable, disgusted, and afraid for no other discernible reason than that just seems to be a natural reaction.
This is how someone reacts to a relatively weak Blank. You have a reaction, but there's no compulsion to act on it because it's not that strong.
Then you have moderately stronger Blanks. The kind where a mother will suddenly fly into a fit of hysteria and strangle their own child because they are absolutely convinced that the child is just WRONG; they're disgusting, hideous, and evil, and the child was obviously an abomination that wanted to kill her and the rest of her family.
Then you have the REALLY strong Blanks. You don't look at these people, you look through them. Because they aren't there. You ignore them, not because you want to, but because your brain refuses to acknowledge that they exist, that they're murdering your entire family right in front of your eyes, because the act of acknowledging them, looking at them, would be so overwhelming and damaging to your psyche that your brain thinks watching your family be killed by an invisible ghost is somehow better for your mental health than the alternative.
And at the tip-top of the Blank hierarchy? You walk into a room. Then, you draw your gun, immediately turn it to your own head, and pull the trigger. Or you suddenly drop dead of fright and terror.
This is how Blanks are perceived by regular people. Why? Because if everyone has a soul, then Blanks have the polar opposite of that; an anti-soul if you will. Ordinary people can sense this and it causes a natural aversion not too dissimilar to watching somebody holding a lit torch up to a propane tank; the anxiety a Blank causes is visceral and instinctive, especially in the weak-willed or the psychically gifted, because Blanks having an anti-soul effectively makes them anti-psyker, and there are comparable levels of power between Blanks and psykers, hence why some Blanks just make you uncomfortable while others will literally scare you to death just by being near them.
The Necrons figured all this out and they figured out a way to take human Blanks and convert them into new Necrons, while preserving their natural power as Blanks and enhancing them.
Supposedly, the Necrons know how to do this because they were the ones who put the so-called Pariah Gene, the genetic sequence that causes the blank condition to appear, into the ancestors of humanity millions of years ago as an experimental weapon to use against the Eldar, who describe Blanks as 'evil incarnate' due to the fact that all Eldar are natural-born psykers and thus have the worst possible reaction to Blanks.
While Necron Pariahs are still a thing in lore, the Pariah Gene is still referenced occasionally, and the term Pariah is sometimes used to refer to Blanks in general, GW has since backed off on the idea of the Necrons being able to essentially turn humans into new Necrons, much less having been able to systematically modify the human race over 60 million years before it even existed to create a caste of perfect anti-psyker killing machines.
Don't get me wrong, I think the idea is still cool as hell, but I can understand why GW decided to backtrack the idea of Necron Pariahs so much despite how cool the concept initially seemed because it goes against their current design philosophy for the Necrons as an immortal race that is incredibly powerful and hard to kill but is still slowly dying out because they can't make new Necrons to counteract any losses they do receive.
For a Warhammer fantasy video you should watch Gotrek and Felix by PancreasNoWork
hell yeah more majorkill
The Halo star is a part of the galaxy where time doesn't exist not a suggestion like the warp or slow it just don't exist and rampant of lovecraftian abominations that even Khorne cowars on the mere mention of it. One of those lovercraftian horror is actually seal in the dark cells on earth itself. And that's even the worse part the worse part is that Halo star is currently and slowly merging with the Ghoul Star System where the most horrifying creatures of the deep warp exist.
11 space marine chapters, 11,000 marines, died during a containment breach of the halo stars
@@KeroHiro-Lil Yeah expect the Scythes of the Emperor did survive barely but they survived
@@Konrad-r4j I thought it was the nova marines who survived the Pale Wasting?
@@KeroHiro-Lil There are two chapters that survived actually Nova marines and Scythe of the Emperor but Scythe of the Emperor suffered the most casualties to the point they're declared extinct
@@Konrad-r4j Thank you for the lore update, didn't know the scythes were involved
Check out "5 Time Tyranids Were Beyond HORRIFYING!" by Weshammer. Worth it just for the last example.
Why werent THE SALAMANDERS on this list..they are the best..no.1...they should ne no.1 in every list..
Can you react to the Months of Shame by Majorkill
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Good bro
Check out Daemonculaba if you want some really horrifying fucked up shit in Warhammer 40K