The Origins Of Malcador - 40K Theories

Malcador was The Emperor's most trusted advisor and dearest friend, but just where did he come from? And what exactly is his relationship to The Emperor?
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[@flumbofrommelkont6863]

I like to think he is has no fancy background or secret super-powerful lineage. I like to think Malcador was simply the most badass, powerful, natural born human to ever live. No augmentation, no cloning, not related to the emperor, no shaman rituals. He is what peak performance looks like.

[@TheLastVoodooMan]

@Afqwa He wasn't old, he just lacked a proper diet!

[@ShermTank7272]

This is what a human at PEAK PERFORMANCE looks like. You may not like it xenos, but this is what it is.

[@ptbot3294]

You mean he's Rey the marysue from star wars?

[@ElectromagNick]

@@ptbot3294 No, he actually put in the effort to earn his skills and knowledge

[@rm2kking]

Much like with the new Joker film and the comics White Knight and Killing Joke- Joker was no mob boss, no legendary figure from Gotham’s past, and not the man who killed Bruce’s parents. He was just... some guy. Some random, horrifically unlucky guy, who later became a legend. I like that about Joker, so I can certainly see the appeal of this idea.

[@aaronslater470]

Malacador was the most important person around the Emperor for one reason, he was the only one to tell him "No" on occasion. Probably the only one that would live after doing so.

[@jorgerosas2516]

Yeah, there was this "priest of the last church" that said no to him, the emperor didn't kill him, the guy decided to kill himself, tho

[@jordanbauerly8843]

Well, its not as if the emperor just slaughters those who disagree with him, but his presence is so extreme that men fall into worship, while malcador was able to see him as another human, instead of simply his lord. Malcador was one of the few who didn't simply fall into worship upon sight of the Emperor, but was able to see him as a man. That in and of itself can create a solid connection between the two. For all we know malcador could be a failed prototype primarch. It would be more powerful if he was simply the penicle of humanity, the best we could be without augmentation, or excessive waprfuckery via suicide magic. Lets not forget this man straight up psychically bitch slapped horus into submission in the presence of 2 other primarchs.

[@johnroscoe2406]

Rogal Dorn: *NO*

[@hummerskickass]

The emperor wasn’t like the more zealous or power mad people that would come to power within the imperium. Anyone could tell him no for any reason he wouldn’t just kill you on spot. Of course it’s all very situational but the emperor was one of the most rational people during his time.

[@bugabookatzenjammer661]

I haven't read any of the books, but I know storytelling, and I bet he was not only able to say no to him, but everytime he did, I bet he had another option for the emperor to take. So not only did he have the charisma to see the Emperor as a man, and the intelligence to be of use, but the wisdom to help the Emperor fight for his goals more effectively than the Emperor could have otherwise. If it's a ragnarok metaphor, Emperor is Thor, Malcador is Odin, Horus (and everyone warped) represents Loki and his children. I have two theories. Ragnarok ended and Guilliman is Baldur, or Ragnarok is ending, and Sanguinius is Baldur and will return to inherit and rule a new empire.

[@kurtmorales7644]

The only being that Big E would call a friend. Bros for life

[@poodlescone9700]

But Kitten is the Emperor's personal complaint manager...

[@kitten2799]

PoodleScone i do my best

[@brotheralaric7177]

may i suggest you to watch this kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqqkmX6Klt96m7c ,you will see how much they were bros.

[@robertnelson9599]

I wonder why Malcador was trusted so much by The Emperor.

[@kitten2799]

Robert Nelson gay lovers. That’s why

[@kingkong381]

"Malcador was an exceptional being. He had been with the Emperor from the inception of the Unification Wars, serving as aide, confidant and advisor. He had risen to become the master of the Council of Terra. The Emperor and the primarchs were genetically advantaged post-humans, but Malcador was just a man, and that was what made him exceptional. He stood on a par with the post human masters of the Imperium, and he was just a man." - The Lightning Tower, Dan Abnett.

[@mechrob1]

Magnus: "ahh after 10,000 years im free, its time to conquer Terra". God-Emperor: "Malcador, Magnus has escaped, recruit a team of warhammer players with attitude".

[@NetMoverSitan]

4th wall integrity compromised.

[@ajeraca98]

What you are suggesting is the power Primarchs isn't it? By the emperor I'm behind that!

[@mechrob1]

Remleiz: ITS MORPHING TIME!!! Kittens: IMPERIAL FISTS!!! Naerina: WHITE SCARS!!! Tactica Imperialis: ULTRAMARINES!!! Alfabusa: DARK ANGELS!!! Remleiz: BLOOD ANGELS!!!.

[@acemanmkiii]

*wicked guitar riff*

[@NetMoverSitan]

Well, it's either Dark Angels or the Salamanders, as for black, what about the Raven Guard or the Iron Hands?

[@jcp3666]

The Emperor Protects, but a loaded Bolter never hurts!

[@malcadorthesigillite5847]

If this is indeed the case, for the love of the throneworld adjust your aim.

[@KitKatHexe]

Well, I mean... Like... But... Forget it...

[@Sir_Bucket]

++Thought of the day++

[@Alorand]

A well aimed bolter almost inevitably hurts...

[@michaelhowell2326]

This is the video I've been waiting on. Malcador is by far my favorite character from Warhammer40k. And in true 40k theories fashion, you present the facts so well. Good job, Remleiz.

[@LastOptionPils]

Malcador was wrong about nothing.

[@Kizahd]

Toss up between The Hero and Ollanius Pius.

[@ptbot3294]

None shall worship any man other than the emprah! Heretics!

[@mrbigck81]

"So Malcador with his last last breath gave the last thing he could give for the Emperor before he disappears to nothingness, a few moment for His last instructions to His sons"... Lets all shed a manly tear for Malcador

[@malcadorthesigillite5847]

[laughs in dust]

[@shanefollette6485]

Is Ahriman around?

[@malcadorthesigillite5847]

Nothing but drama the last time I invited Ahriman over. He's a massive crybaby and telling him the dust in armour thing would be a step-up for me upset him so much he turned the closest serf into something so unknowable and horrible that we're _still_ receiving Cease and Desist orders from H.P. Lovecraft's daemonic lawyers.

[@DavidGonzalez-rn7vm]

Throne-Emperor, I don't feel so good...

[@rogaldorn8394]

Greetings malcador hows death

[@andrewzhu5394]

@@DavidGonzalez-rn7vm YIKES!

[@Werrf1]

The Men of Gold were said to be mysterious beings who aided the Emperor as he watched over mankind before he was ready to reveal himself. Perhaps Malcador, with his unnaturally long life, incredible psychic power, astonishing mind, unwavering loyalty, and surprising physical hardiness, was one of the Men of Gold.

[@yorneustein7851]

Nay , they where all scraped so that all of Terra could be rebuilt using nothing but gold as building material

[@sothasil7716]

The men of gold imo are the perpetuals who I theorize are the shamans who decided to guide humanity themselves and not pool their souls into big E even though they knew they couldn't reincarnate because of warp predators

[@sothasil7716]

@@sudanemamimikiki1527 ok I guess ill change by theory then The Perpetuals were a unintended and unexpected outcome created from the "soul scraps" if you will of the pooling ritual of the shamans as no warp ritual is absolutely perfect as certainly is by definition the opposite of the warp and is of the materium as such these scraps of the soul of the emperor were powerful but unlike the emperor not all were psykers but those who were who were few and far between in this already rare strain of humanity were immensely powerful all being alpha level psykers or higher like malcador the sigilite however none were even close to the alpha plus plus level psyker that is the emperor and as the warp predators made reincarnation all but impossible to anyone but the emperor the regenerative ability of these perpetuals was increased to almost invincible levels to cope with being unable to reincarnate however since time is meaningless in the warp the births of these perpetuals was not consistent and were born randomly throughout human history

[@sothasil7716]

@@sudanemamimikiki1527 I mean their retentive abilities go to the extent their soul doesn't leave their body apon death and like a daemon can only be killed by a true death by the destruction of their soul but unlike daemons are not banished to the warp

[@sothasil7716]

@@sudanemamimikiki1527 as I said like a daemon they can only be killed by a true death by the destruction of their soul even if their body is obliterated as long as their soul is intact their body will regenerate

[@StephanieRendino]

"Malcador" means "angel (or messenger) of the age" in Hebrew. (Malakh ha-dor).

[@markfuchs1599]

Or "King Of The Age/Generation" Melech (King) Hador(Of The Age/Generation)

[@lupooflunarorigin120]

Or "crush seed" in Welsh. malwch hadwr. Some of these work better than others...

[@Sir_Bucket]

What? A GW name which doesn't come from pseudo-Latin? *impossible*

[@leaveswalker1]

Wow, that makes my head cannon about him make way more sense

[@Nyctophora]

Spirit of the Age?

[@scoia-tael33]

Hmm...I believe out of all of those possibilities presented, I think him being the last of a Shaman bloodline tasked with overseeing the development and teaching the Emperor makes the most sense in my opinion. As always, love these videos.

[@Jon-ug3le]

You got the end wrong. When Malcador took the throne the E declared " behold, Malcador the Hero" When Dorn brought back his broken body Malcador gave his final power to awaken the E who then gave instructions to Dorn on how to hook him up to the Golden Throne. Malcador turned to dust after he gave his last power. Also in the latest HH short, after Malacador nearly killed Horus we learn Horus became obsessed with Malcador and learned everything about him...including his war crimes etc. The Khan relayed all of this to him as he was there just before the dawn of the siege.

[@Gormathius]

"Technobarbarian warlords" will never stop being one of my absolute favourite concepts from 40k.

[@maxwellmcmahon8286]

You always tell the stories of these videos in such an eloquent manner with all the facts firmly layed out. +1 man.

[@selwrynn6702]

I think it’d be super cool to have a fallout style game during the Terran unification period. You got the Sigilites, the Thunder Warriors, the techno-barbarian warlords.

[@randallkoskubar2303]

Yes. This. Shut up and take my money.

[@DocWolph]

Malcador was just a mortal man who, by quirk of mutation, not only had massive psychic powers, but also aged like stone.

[@KotBlini]

I think this makes him way cooler than him being some secret super saiyan.

[@dragondeeznutts]

Heard he had a big d- too

[@fabricatorgeneralchadius1114]

I like the idea that he was the first of the most evolved humans that the emperor would like all humanity to be but because the emperor consumes so many souls of physicly imbued it just isnt happening anymore

[@dennisvicarth6823]

Nothing like a beer in one hand, a cigarette on the other and watching your videos to relax after a day of stressful work. Emperor bless you.

[@chief_Flo935]

dennis vicarth “straight facts my G. Wouldn’t have it any other way”

[@Sorrowdusk]

Ugh...no cigars? So much better.

[@connorc6293]

dennis vicarth how’s that lung cancer?

[@Dreadbringer]

I prefer a blunt and a 🍯 🍻

[@Sanguinius1100]

Easily one of your best videos, a truly fascinating topic

[@samrein9919]

Dad we miss you comeback

[@kiltman11]

I think he was two snotlings on top of a squat.

[@appleWhisky43]

Pretty sure it's three snotlings

[@Sir_Bucket]

@@appleWhisky43 more like 2 snotling and a squid

[@darkpit37]

One thing is for sure: if Malcador truly is 6,700 years old, he's certainly not just a regular human.

[@kelvinsantiago7061]

He isn't, he's a psyker after all

[@SpeedeyFreaks]

As far as I remember, the emperor left, saying something like "come, we have a galaxy to conquer" to his marines. Didn't even look back at Uriah. He's dead and he is not Malcador for sure.

[@steffanyschwartz7801]

I think Uriah is in the Warp. It’s very hard to kill a perpetual after all. You probably have to shader the soul of the individual or something

[@gorlack2231]

Malcador, the last of the Horadrim. Stay awhile, and listen.

[@booradley6832]

If only the emperor had asked him to identify horus' loyalty.

[@wanderingpaws3111]

Emperor Bless You.

[@remedyz34]

The best theory work you’ve ever done. Fascinating stuff. Thank you.

[@vsGoliath96]

My personal favorite part of this first image of malcador that a lot of people miss is that the skulls in the arms of his chair are marked with the numbers of the two lost legions that were wiped from history.

[@DarkLucarioakaDark]

If I had to guess it may be the case that Malcador might be a earlier version of the process that created the Emperor. IT would make sense for the Shamans to want to try a smaller scale test to see if their ritual would even work. Add into the fact that with the Warp time is not a constant, it certainly would be possible for the 'test version' that Malcador was could have been born in the Materium after the Emperor.

[@jadeimingan184]

Yeah but Malcador is 6,000+ years old while the emperor is 40,000+ years old. If your theory is True. Malcador would be Older than the Emperor

[@freshlymemed5680]

I thought the shamans becoming the emperor was noncanon?

[@dannygelbart6827]

@Luca Raven, I guess you missed the part where The Emperor was born in 8000 B.C and by the end of the HH Malcador is just over 6000 years old. Also it wouldn't make sense for the Shamans to try it on a smaller scale as there weren't that many of them.

[@dannygelbart6827]

@@freshlymemed5680 Technically nothing has retconned it.

[@the_dropbear4392]

@@freshlymemed5680 no it just hasn't been mentioned in a long time

[@AnonymousAnonposter]

It's always a good night when you post a new video

[@adfury]

Nope. The last church is a warning to the emperor that his way could be derailed by faith. It was a prelude to Lorgar, whom big E didn't heed.

[@bruneitorgold]

the mystery is that there is no mystery. Malcador was just a man and as a man he represented all the emperor want from mankind. thats why malkador is the Emperor's most trusted advisor

[@poodlescone9700]

Malcador was the human version of Trazyn...

[@robertnelson9599]

You dare compare Malcador The Hero to a xenos Silica Animus!? HERETIC!!!!!!

[@phreakazoith2237]

Who collects the collector?

[@WASDLeftClick]

That part about Malcador saying that some of the Primarchs should have been made female(and they really should have, the Primarchs are supposed to be the pinnacle of human potential and femininity is half of that) reminded me of a question I have. A question that likely many of us have, perhaps warranting a video all its own. A question that concerns the very heart of the 40k universe and the answer to which could change our understanding of the entire hobby. Why does Emps think girls are icky?

[@Ark_3311]

Because they are icky

[@rogan7019]

I personally think Malcador is no fate-tied legacy child, but rather, simply the most powerful Psyker on Terra prior to the Emperor, brought into the fold for his talents, knowledge and undying faith to the cause of Unity. His position of 'the Last Sigilite' gives me the impression that he joined the Imperium simply like Uriah would have - converted, convinced, and made loyal.

[@mouseketeery]

The Sensei must age - they wouldn't grow to maturity if they didn't, though it could be that they age incredibly slowly - like Malcador. Also, unless it's known that the Sensei are infertile, then there are probably descendants of the Emperor who are not his direct children but his grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren etc. So there are many ways in which Malcador could be a blood relative of the Emperor.

[@belisarian6429]

Aging and growth are two distinct things, there are species on Earth that are age wise immortal but they do grow. Some of them have problem that grow never stops so they die because they are too big, but that is another issue. If you would define that things that don't age cannot mature then Emperor wouldn't grow to maturity either.

[@NRV0]

I believe Malcador was loyal and is greatly missed for the Imperium of Man.

[@onairwithjarvis]

Right. Stressing about an exam. New video took some stress off

[@ysogbe]

My first ever reply to a KZbinr. I too have an exam today, good luck brother!

[@onairwithjarvis]

@@ysogbe exam is next week. DEUS VULT!

[@Wayoutthere]

Rumor has it that Malcador was in fact Narthan Dume, the old Terran Warlord who was spared by the Emperor after recognizing his psychic might.

[@ummdustry5718]

I personally like to think he Is just a "Normal Psyker" (albeit one with insanely strong abilities & the knowledge to enhance his own lifespan ) Who simply earned the emperors respect. The contrast between the demi-god primarchs and the simply human malcador is so much better that way

[@Tacoguy1000]

Beautiful.

[@AlPHArius-fs9gu]

Some extreme events can destroy a Perpetual by, in effect, draining them of their regeneration energy - Mal turned into dust when he died, maybe he was so utterly drained of power that he couldn't regenerate.

[@ZKtheMAN]

Adeptus Notificatus, *_REPRESENT._* ... I don't actually have anything else to say, I just wanted to represent.

[@notbaitlorg4991]

Keep up the videos Inquisitor. They help me disguise -myself- other Alpha Legionaries, into the Imperium. I once made a mistake so bad with one of the casualties of the Battle of Pluto. I had to cut off my arm and disappear, it was soooo embarrassing. I was undercover so well for so long too. Well it’s not as embarrassing as the time when Omegon went onto The Vengeful Spirit in his Emperor cosplay. That didn’t end well.

[@guiltyofbias8818]

Malcador was a bloody magpie before they existed

[@Cemtexify]

maybe that solves the mystery of who their gene father is

[@richardsorgo8600]

I think Tranzyn was first, but I do want to know now what's in Malcadors private museum (entry's probably 41,000,000 credits)

[@fabricatorgeneralchadius1114]

I love the idea that he is just the perfect human he isnt any magical strange being he is just a perfect human at the peak of human evolution

[@-Big_Big]

i think he was a simulacrum. a split of piece of the emperor. a entirely unique being that was formed from the emperors powers. to be sure he had someone to completely trust in. basically a familiar

[@dark_fire_ice]

I go for a more Frank Herbert view; if the Emperor was made, then perhaps nature tried it's own hand at it, like how Paul Atreides was made and Duncan Idaho was naturally born both supreme beings, just a thought

[@FyurianPrime]

Duncan Idaho wasn't naturally born as a Kwisatz Haderach. Leto the second (the second Leto II) who became God Emperor, was. Just like his father Paul. It was the final ghola of him, that the Tleilaxu used as an experiment by combining the DNA from the previous gholas of Idaho, that became "the final Kwisatz Haderach". That's just one of the stupid changes Kevin J Anderson and Brian Herbert made with their continuation of the Dune series, along with their Butlerian Jihad series (which directly links to their continuation from after Frank Herbert's last published book), and the other prequel books they wrote. Super speed, super strength, prescience... They didn't just jump the shark, they jumped the whole tank!

[@a.greywolfe4056]

I have a feeling Malcador is actually an avatar/offshoot of The Emperor. The first 'Primarch" imbued with part of the Emperor's own being and combined personalities. Thus the reason for his immense Psyker strength and complete loyalty to the Emperor Himself!!! And more importantly, the total TRUST of the Emperor of him!!

[@nickdootson8504]

It's possible that Malcador's body is, in fact, the Emperor's original body, with the psyche of Malcador having been fashioned by the Emperor to inhabit the body, or being the composite psyches of the shamans that created the Emperor. In the novel Vengeful Spirit, it details how the Perpetual Alivia Sureka was tasked by the Emperor to guard the warp gate after he had returned from it. Alivia remembers helping carry and support the Emperor as they left the vault the warp gate was contained within, and how even his mind had been damaged by the experience, as he was projecting his thoughts and visions uncontrollably into Alivia's mind. At the end of Vengeful Spirit when Horus returns from beyond the gate and describes his experiences, Aximand notes that Horus had aged noticeably. It's also worth noting that the Emperor spent a great deal of time on Molech during the Dark Age of Technology as the Stormlord, shaping the Knight culture and that references to the Stormlord were still common during the Horus Heresy, and that these references all refer to the Stormlord as a seemingly ordinary individual, riding a horse. Following the Emperor's interaction with Chaos on Molech during the Dark Age of Technology, he used his newfound knowledge to create for himself the Primarch style body so often portrayed and possibly created the psyche of Malacador in a similar way to how Daemons are created from the Chaos Gods.

[@the_dropbear4392]

No

[@randallkoskubar2303]

Its a deep and interesting theory, but one of the novels or short stories details corax meeting big E for the first time, corax noticed all his comrades overwhelmed by big E's presence but corax only saw a simple, ordinary, completely average human and was confused by the men around him, and when he continued to look at big E he started to notice the projected psychic aura that others were seeing and his brain fought to reconcile the 2 vastly different images

[@brandonaughtman9091]

It was the music you added that made me think of Malcador as a hero who died a noble death in the service of something greater then he was. I wish I had some idea of what he was, but I sadly have none. Maybe he is just mean to be one of those mysteries on Warhammer 40,000?

[@DracoMaverick]

I find Malcador being the last Shaman plausible.

[@Taydutt13]

I like to think he was like the slave that would follow Julius Caesar around tell him he was just a man to keep him grounded. Of course he was more than a slave just like to think of something a kin to that.

[@tyradina]

I just found this and really enjoyed it! Thank you for posting!

[@kekero540]

It’s my belief that malcador is a artificially made human by a group of STC AI that worshipped humanity. He then created the emperor during the Dark age of technology to create a stronger version of himself or a god emperor that was purely human not just an AI in a human body. I don’t believe the shamanic stuff at all ngl. I think this is a cooler origin story as it explains why the emperor and malcador had the worldviews they did. And ties their origins to a time when humans could realistically create the emperor

[@nathanbrady2704]

Big E is often depicted as being supernaturally tall, perhaps Malchador is the human form the emperor shed when he adopted his current superhuman one.

[@the_dropbear4392]

No

[@jadedkratos5528]

Could it have been possible that the Emperor used some of his own essence to create Malcador so he could have someone that he could call equal or as close to equal one could possibly be? Would be pretty darned lonely to have nobody that could live longer than a standard human lifespan to share your dreams with, to share your secrets with, to share your powers with and to assist you in any way shape or form without too much difficulty. The Emperor could've known he would have been insanely busy and needed someone almost on par with himself to run the Imperium of Man, to ensure the Primarchs along with their Legions were conquering the galaxy as ordered and ahead of schedule.

[@dannygelbart6827]

@Travis Fisher, you forget Perpetuals existed. Oll Pearsson knew the Emperor as Oll was one of Jason's Argonauts, as well as Alivia Sureka and John Grammaticus.

[@jadedkratos5528]

@@dannygelbart6827 I know Perpetuals exist, I think they're in the novels Mark of Calth, Legion, Vulcan Lives and a few others. The novels I mention in this response are the ones I have in my collection.

[@jadedkratos5528]

@@dannygelbart6827 I didn't mention Perpetual for a reason, they're the resurrected dead who can't truly die...... However I think Grammaticus finally truly died in one of the novels? Anyways, you had misread my original comment, I tried to make it as plain and as easy to understand as I could but seems I have failed at that. To make it clearer..... The Emperor could have used his massive psychic potential to create (strongly emphasise on the word create) a being who that could have a fragment of his power, intellect, massive lifespan, gravitas, charisma, wit, guile, cunning and other attributes the Emperor had himself. He could have created him for the reasons I already mentioned. Please don't ask me to make myself any more clearer because it would be incredibly difficult.

[@dannygelbart6827]

@@jadedkratos5528 Yes, and what does that have to do with my response you naming those novels?

[@jadedkratos5528]

@@dannygelbart6827 Grammaticus was in the novel Legion, he was one of the key characters of the novel. Persson was mentioned a couple times during the novel Mark Of Calth. I mentioned it because I had read the novels but at least a year or so ago, I knew that Grammaticus was a Perpetual however didn't really know that Persson was a Perpetual as well. Besides, I didn't bring up Perpetuals in the original comment in any manner that could be misconstrued.

[@manuelledu1267]

Two questions : What if Malcador is the result of another mass suicide or the shamans' descendance. What if the chaos god manage to harness the souls of the shamans during their ritualistic suicide and corrupt them to create an "Emperor of Chaos" just imagine the 41st millenia with a chaotic imperium.

[@rm2kking]

Maybe Malcador is not the Emperor’s son, but his father. His father for whose unjust murder the Emperor killed his own uncle. Perhaps he resurrected him from death as a boy, to accompany him on his quest. That may explain Malcador’s immense age and seeming immortality, as well as his apparent difference in physical age from the Emperor. Perhaps what is perceived as fierce loyalty for his Emperor is in fact the love of a father for his son.

[@julianbraunbeck7632]

what do you think about the fact that despite the stuff that is going on in the 41st millenium, it's still just child's play compared to the stuff that was there before it? Like Men of iron totally beating up astartes and stuff like the C'tan.

[@steffanyschwartz7801]

Or Kroks. Even Old Ones. An Old One is on the same level of the emperor and there was 1,000’s of them! Or you had massive ultra Khaine

[@Torlonus]

The shaman fire weasels look so cute... I want one!

[@animatr0nic]

Know that every time somebody says "leejeeoneees astaateeez", the Emperor is cursing with disappointment, for High Gothic sounds a lot more like Latin and not like 3rd millennium English.

[@lonerkyle02]

Was about to go to bed then saw this. Worth it, like always!

[@landon.packrat3281]

Personally, I like the idea that the emperor finally being released from his state of undeath causes him to reincarnate... but he has to reincarnate in the past. He has no memories of his previous attempt to uplift humanity, and would be stuck in a permanent time loop. But a psychic being of his might can not reincarnate without others noticing. The tales and deeds of his last attempt in the time loop spread out into the immaterium and find their way to the minds of thinkers and authors... gamers and visionaries. They write down the history that is to come as works of speculative fiction on what the 41st millennium holds for humanity. When the time comes, one of us who is steeped in this lore and has a great memory of how the last attempt went awry is pulled into the Emperor's time to inform him of what has been done and what he must avoid. This new adviser is given the title... The Sigilite!

[@AlPHArius-fs9gu]

Malcador could be a clone or prototype Primarch - Magnus remembers his birth, in fact Maggie remembers being in the test tube.

[@megood1582]

0:51 why there are II and XI number in malcador's throne? is that related to the lost legions?

[@TK199999]

I always felt that if Blue Boy got Ynead to try and heal/resurrect the Emperor. The Emperor would decline, having Ynead resurrect the only person who died on the Golden Thrown. Image what a resurrected Malcador could do for Blue Boy? If nothing else Blue Boy wouldn't be alone and he would have the wisdom of Malcador, someone his father relied on in the past. Who could help Blue Boy lead the Imperium and be that baddass uncle that he seemed to be to the Primarch's.

[@banneduser5187]

This idea of the Emperor being created through some ancient psykers and a suicide ritual seems silly to me, because if it was I'm sure Magnus and Lorgar would have found and utilised this by now

[@joshmaggard6]

What if Malcador was the ONLY shaman that didn't perform in the ritual? Shit he'd be over 50,000 years old and older than the Emperor. And I thought Malcador was with the Emperor before he had conquered all of Terra, thus he couldn't be the same person?

[@bignasty4874]

I'll go one further: What if Malcador was a proto-emps? Like a small portion of shamans did a test run to see if what they proposed was possible. Thus, Malcador was born in the same manner as E, just to a lesser extent. They then traversed the millennia together.

[@darthbane1629]

Good Work as always ty, for your time and Effort,As they Emperor said ... Malcador the Hero !! And His Best Friend 😎 !!!.

[@iamcaesar6741]

I like to think that Malcador was the legendary hero known as Chuck Noris, if he was Chuck Noris it would verify his age to be over 6000 yrs old from M30

[@SirKanti1]

I like to think that malcador was a warlord on old Terra, he fought against the Emporer until big E talked to him and showed him his vision for mankind, and thats how they became bros.

[@Pikeya]

Malcador being the Emporer's son is fucking trippy and I love it!

[@malcadorthesigillite5847]

Born as the Stone Age's last breath is released. Haughty of purpose and burdened by we, So the slide into darkness may one day cease. Born as the Bronze Age comes from the sea.

[@primecoconut4204]

Malcador, best man, of Warhammer 40k

[@Angelic_Materia]

Ahh as much as I admit that I find the "He was originally the last priest" to be unlikely I adooooore the idea to pieces. My eyes lit up at the idea its lovely. The idea of getting rid of that downer of an ending and the emperor was able to show off the beauty in conquering the stars for intergalactic brotherly unity. Ahh if only.

[@CharlesUrban]

Wait. Perpetuals are created by resurrecting humans? Did Vulkan have to die and get resurrected in order to achieve that effect before he got whisked away to Nocturne?

[@tyler1tanner]

That's how you make artificial perpetuals, natural perpetuals are born with their powers, like Vulcan and the emperor

[@40KTheories]

There's 2 methods to create a perpetual; Resurrect someone from death such as with John Grammaticus or be born a perpetual such as Vulkan or Ollanius Pius (Someone who is born with this ability is known as a true perpetual)

[@the_dropbear4392]

@Anti-Federalist 1776 No he was made into one with tech

[@40KTheories]

@anti-federalist 1776: "I’m only what I am now thanks to xenos intervention. You, you’re still a true Perpetual. You’re still like Him." - John Grammaticus within the novel 'Know no Fear'

[@40KTheories]

If he started off as a true perpetual but is now an artificial one (prior to losing the trait completely in Unremembered Empire), then by that logic wouldn't that mean his perpetuality was artificially created? ;) The novel 'Legion' also has Grammaticus refer to when Slau Dha first resurrected him, which transformed him into a perpetual: 'My first death,' Grammaticus answered in kind. ‘Anatol Hive. I never asked you to save me, autarch. You chose to do that, remember? You chose to re-sleeve me in flesh and make me your agent. Don’t you dare start calling in favours that I never asked for. If he was already a perpetual, then why would he need to have been 'saved' and resurrected by a third party when he could just heal himself?

[@buryitdeep]

Malcador's last words to the Emperor were "erase my browser history" and that is what the Emperor is still currently doing.

[@duckman12569]

Tzeench told me that Slaanesh told him that Malcador was the Emperor's lover.

[@karlfranz310]

Malcador is Malcador...does it matter where he is from? He is a hero of the Imperium, he gave his life, for the survival of Mankind...If anything, Malcador is a Hero

[@DadBodFit]

I love the theory that Malcador is a biological son of the Emperor. It explains everything about his character and powers.

[@Danterag5]

Malcador being related to Emps was a really cool idea.

[@greenlightertothe4th]

The Emperor seems so detached from humanity I have a hard time imagining him falling in love or having a child. He seems completely asexual and "blessedly neutral" towards everyone.

[@greenlightertothe4th]

The Shaman guardian/mentor theory makes the most sense.

[@LeviathanSpeaks1469]

Perhaps he was the last sigillite and the souls of past sigillites attached themselves to him to enhance his powers.... much in the same way that the Emperor drew his power from the souls of the sacrificed shamans...

[@jmorrow1018]

Just a random comment but I wanted to point out I loved Malcador in The Solar War. He’s just trying to what has to be done and terrified at the fact that in his weakness he could doom everything he’s helped build. Even challenging Garviel to kill him if he has a problem with it. Also when he appears to the Emperor in the warp and the Emperor just says “Goodbye, old friend”

[@PandaWolf525]

Malcador is nothing more than The Hero. It does not matter his origins. Only that he was the greatest and most loyal of subjects within the Imperium. Praise Malcador The Hero. He he is one of the few to give their life for the Imperium and The Emperor of Mankind.

[@dudewatches6125]

He could be an imperfect clone of the meperor, a sort of Primarch prototype in the same vain as the Thunder Warriors were Space Marine Prototypes.

[@Southern_Crusader]

This just reminds me how the destruction of Faith doomed the Imperium. The loss of Faith leads to hopelessness giving Chaos the room needed to wiggle in.

[@fullsendcirca9255]

These kinds of origin questions about Malcador and the Emperor of Man have so much appeal is in part due to the mystery. Better to keep it that way rather than making a commitment

[@knightzix_01]

He Might be a servant of another Entity There is a theory running through my head that malcador Might Been Created By whats left of the Old ones Considering They had Psychers and Not to Mention they had Tech all over the place So what if malcador Found a Ruins Something like that Somwhere on terra Belonging to the old ones And Got Enhanced From The The Ruins Not knowing what he was doing at the time Or The Souls of the old ones simply just lead malcador to the place that Enhanced his psychic power Something like that

[@VoiceOfTheEmperor]

My money is on Him being one of the original Shamans.

[@Athlon2736]

Can't be. In the audiobook the lords of terra he does say his age is only around 6700 years old

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

@@Athlon2736 the last reincarnation of the last shaman that didn't merge to become the emperor.

[@lonewarrior1]

*gets notification on day off* woohoo 40k theory time!

[@hughgedney3393]

Great video 40k Theories

[@horpaskron6645]

i think that Malcador could actually be the Emperor. since the emperor seems more like an idol to anyone looking at him, which seemingly stems from a psi power, he vould just be some illusion type thing to fool the people, and his primarchs

[@megakillerx]

Does anyone know what the background soundtrack is?

[@estebanmares681]

its the chaos gate soundtrack

[@systemhalodark]

Malcador is the Emprah's plot armour.

[@janehughart9290]

Two most likely explanations for Malcador (in my opinion): 1.) He’s a descendant of one of the shamans. 2.) He is, somehow, a blood relative of the Emperor himself. Those are the two theories mentioned in this video that seemed the most likely to me.

[@kraken-sx2ys]

Thanks for the video!! :)

[@boonk9732]

Only 17 minutes what heresy is this!?

[@ronaldowens5025]

He ain't Arch.

[@barrybend7189]

The man who created what Big E didn't want.

[@mr420quickscops2]

At 10:40 Is it possible for a perpetual to come back if their souls is extinguished in the way Horus’ was? I just find it hard to see even old grammaticus coming back if he hopped onto the throne instead

[@legionaireb]

I was LITERALLY wondering about this three days ago.

[@charion1234]

There is something I heard of that was suggested as an origin for the Emperor but I wonder if it might fit Malcador. One of the suggested origins was the result of Dark Age technology and that the Emperor had been created during this time. Maybe Malcador was the result of that project. But I don't have anything to back it up, just a post in an asksciencefiction reddit thread.

[@Supreme-Emperor-Mittens]

11:41 - Malkador suggests that some Primarchs should be female ... *THE EMPEROR LAUGHS AT HIM !!!* Good - the discussion is over ... I don't want to hear any more talk about female Space Marines.

[@ZivTheWyrd]

Psure geneseed could be keyed to female genomes ;3

[@dashiellgillingham4579]

You know, in real life, based on modern research, you’d actually want to make human female super-soldiers. Women are statistically more likely to survive almost any given thing, from gunshots to sickness, and it’s rather easy to make that general mold stronger via hormone injections if you don’t really care about their fertility. If you start with the most badass 1% of women, you might end up with better soldiers then the most badass 1% of men, depending on how exactly the surgeries and genetic enhancements work. If you’re as immoral as the Imperium you have even more incentive, because women usually go through puberty earlier, and could be ready to fight sooner, should you recruit a class of ten year olds. In addition, women typically compete via social status rather then strength, so your army can be molded to a universal standard or multiple standards without really effecting their relations. “You’ve served me well, putting down these rebellions, I shall reward you with greater abilities.” Actually that comes out as a net zero... never mind the last point. I written too many villains. It’s not natural to be able to crank ideas like this out.

[@davidwilkinson7361]

@@dashiellgillingham4579 nice troll I r8 8/8 m8

[@fountainchristain]

@@dashiellgillingham4579 Are we going to overlook strength size speed and momentum pain levels? Cause men tend to on avg have all of that over women. Plus fighting social can be worse than physically especially if it is over a long period of time and could end up with an even worse rebellion than what we had or even more than one. And honestly for soldiers yes living through a wound is extremely important but so is combat skill overall and I would say that is a bit more important when the survivable rate is not that much different

[@aBoogivogi]

In all fairness none of these aspects really matter that much anymore in a modern army. Since you are using guns an not swinging a blade, so really not a warhammer 40k army, around the only physical attribute that really matters is endurance. Granted you can't be outright weak, but burst power regardless if it's strength or speed is rather immaterial in comparison to endurance. It's like you need some of it, but you eventually reach a point were any more is simply a detriment to said endurance. On a slight tangent I also heard somewhere that the ratio of the length of limbs with respect to their height, mixed with the lower average height, meant that women were actually better pilots than men from a purely physical point of view. I guess given the performance metrics of a fighter yet having on average 10-15 cm taller pilots and on average longer limbs is a major disadvantage to the design. Come to think of it I guess in the context of any fighting where you are essentially just controlling a vehicle it's pretty obvious how it would be a benefit.