Newcomer REACTS to Warhammer 40k Factions Explained (by Bricky)

Warhammer 40K has so many factions, which one am I going to enjoy the most? Let's find out in Part 1 of Bricky's Faction Explained Video!
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[@Ashewyn]

What is your favorite faction in WH40K? 👀 I know which I am leaning towards.

[@bfahren]

Green iz best! WAAAGH!!!

[@paulr4747]

i'm a simple ork, if it's green it's all good

[@Fyn114]

Leaning towards Salamanders but I find every faction cool

[@Wineblood]

Imperium - Grey Knights Chaos - Thousand Sons Xenos - Necrons

[@parkergroseclose6956]

Imperial Guard

[@ispbrotherwolf]

Bricky is the joker while Luetin is the Professor, I really like them both. I stumble on a Luetin vid and I was dragged into 40K. I don´t paint, I don´t play, I´m here only for the LORE.

[@terrencenoran3233]

I've had to explain 40K's scale to someone else. A single planetary hive city is about 5000 NYCs stacked vertically into space, with the population you would think that 5000 stacked NYCs would have. And that's just ONE city on that planet.

[@jocosesonata]

*1 Hive City* can house tens to hundreds of billions. *1 Imperium Planet* can have more than one Hive City. The Imperium has a *Million* worlds. That's how I go about it. Humanity is a fuckton in 40k.

[@Foogi9000]

This just makes Yarrick even more of a badass imo. The guy was old af and yet he still repelled a full on Waaagh, he even took the big arm from the Ork Warlord Ghazghkull Thraka. Imagine being such a badass that you are absolutely LOVED by the Orks and are highly respected by the Space Marines.

[@darkknight8643]

@@Foogi9000 he took it from another ork but he did earn their respect.

[@moroseloki1912]

What's the POP of NY 😅

[@Pragabond]

That is something of a scale for it but also the actual universe and how the Imperium operates and the numbers it has are completely inconsistent. We hear about hive cities like that but they would differ a LOT in size and its also very possible there'd be only one hive city on that planet. Given the numbers we see elsewhere it really doesn't make any sense that the Imperium has those kinds of population centers. Its all super inconsistent so its pretty hard to really pin anything down especially when misinformation is the name of the game in the Imperium.

[@jeremygeller9145]

I think peoples reason for starting with the factions instead of the timeline (even though that doesn’t make logical sense) is that the timeline is really broad, factions kinda breaks it down more, but hey as long as you are enjoying yourself that’s what really matters.

[@ryanhampson673]

Factions is 100% the best way to get into it. So when you watch the time line you can be all “oh, I know those dudes”. Etc lol.

[@Whisper11950]

@@ryanhampson673 agreed, that way they know them better when they are brought up, and get a more smooth introduction

[@Hollow_Vamp]

Wes' timeline before bricky helps a lot, but the streamer has to actually care to watch both

[@Shythalia]

Another reason I think is because the factions video came out first.

[@warangelthelight2077]

​@@ryanhampson673 Depends on your taste. For most bricky is probably best for casual enjoyment. (Jk) Chad start with amber king and Lord boldermort, Lutein09...

[@Rictos]

Cadia was destroyed because Chaos new poster boy threw a giant space fortress in it, cracking the planet, after trying for about 5 years of non-stop battles to win. As the planet started to crack and become tiny rocks in space, Cadians were still fighting and shooting Chaos stuff and that's where ''The planet broke before the Guard'' comes from 🪖

[@AG7292]

Have they ever explored a potential death of the Emperor? When Cadia was destroyed, there was a huge shockwave that went across the galaxy. When it hit earth, it messed up a lot of tech involving the throne and the astronomicon. It also made a bunch of psykers being held prisoner go crazy and get possessed by demons. The emperor didnt die or anything, but the astronomicon did flicker and then go out. The writer did a good job of describing the sheer terror of the main characters at that implication. It was about as awful as you can imagine. No spoilers. If you want to look into it, The book series “Vaults of Terra” have a pretty good description of what happened and so does its sister series “Watchers of the throne”. They both take place at the same time in the same place with several characters that cross over. Chefs kiss on the lore. Excellent audio books.

[@Ashewyn]

Thank you so much!! This is exactly what I was wondering. I would love to learn more about the events surrounding Cadia as well.

[@izzydarkhart4144]

They main reason to start with the faction videos is because you were asking a million questions about the factions well watching the timeline. 90% of your questions would have already been answered if you started with the faction videos. Honestly, as long as you get the timeline and can place the factions, you will be fine and the questions bring people into the conversation. It is not that serious, lol.

[@DavidSmith-mt7tb]

It makes sense to go factions first in most universes because this is how worldbuilding is generally done. You develop the 7 kingdoms and Iron Throne concepts and what kinds of houses you need for the story you want to tell, then you come up with histories to tie them into the world. Sometimes this leads to other things you want to add into the story later from backstory events. Timeline, generally speaking, is backstory on stuff you want to know MORE about, but first you learn what their role in the story at present is.

[@denkerbosu3551]

​@@DavidSmith-mt7tb hard disagree, when the the factions start 60 million years ago, and 2 of them (Tau and Tyranids) appeared recently in the timeline, you'll always be asking "ok but where are the bugs? Aren't there a lot?" The timeline gives pretty decent perspective in most (relevant) races. The Eldar descent into making Slaneesh is great in the timeline video, and no need to explain the "horror clowns" that Bricky himself doesn't understand.

[@Fsindu]

A few funny things about the Omnissiah, in a few books are big hints that it is one of the C`tan, the Void Dragon or to be more precise a sealed shard of him that the emperor himself did seal on Mars. Would explain why the Adeptus Mechanicus is so much about Biotransference (More about that when Bricky talks about the Necrons) and in another book it is even hinted that the Technologie of the Adeptus Mechanicus is very good in interacting with Necron Tech.

[@jonathanryan9946]

The Emperor stated that he was born in 8,000 BC in modern-day Turkey. Further that there are older "perpetuals" (people who don't age and heal from most injuries) than him. He's just by and large the strongest of them psykically. Its heavily implied he was Alexander the Great too, in very old lore that probably isn't canon anymore... he was Jesus too. Point is he loved pointing humanity towards his ideal better future, typically using his powers to take a form and leave a message that would outlast his pretending to be someone else. Then basically faking his death and dipping out. Heck, 40k at one point even implied he was the wizard Merlin. We do know however he was Saint George the Dragonslayer. The dragon was a Necron C'Tan (basically a god in a metal body) shard called the void dragon.

[@Jee123123]

The Cult Mechanicus officially maintains that the Emperor is the physical manifestation of the Machine God (the Omnissiah) There's also possibly involvement of the C'Tan but not sure if that's been retconned.

[@crustybomb115]

that 2nd part was retconned im pretty sure...

[@steelbear2063]

Some AdMechs do that. Others think that the Emperor *is* Omnissiah, some think they are two completely different beings, and some worship the Emperor directly. It's a religion, gotta be some disagreements

[@isengarde9490]

I have heard that the Mechanicus has a Holy Trinity, of the Machine God (Father), the Omnissiah (Son/Prophet), and the Motive Force (Holy Spirit).

[@mikemarcotte5962]

The way I understand it, the Omnissian cult has the classic trinity. The Machine God(Father) The Omnissiah (Son) who they believe is the Emperor The Motive Force(Holy Spirit)

[@RworldKM]

Cadia was a fortress planet situated right at the edge of the Eye of Terror, the literal portal from Hell. It was long considered the first and last defence against Chaos, with hundreds of Chaos cults sprouting up all over the planet and gives the Inquisition a hard run for their paycheck. Cadia fell when the forces of Chaos came together in a massive invasion that was called the 13th Black Crusade. The Cadians Militarum fought good and hard, and it took a space station the size of the entire North America dropped right onto their foreheads to finally make them retreat. This cause the entire planet to crack open like an egg, hence the phrase "Cadia broke before the guard did." The soldiers you see in Space Marines 2 are the remnants of those Cadian Militarum. You can see that almost all of them have purple eyes; a side effect of being so close to the Eye of Terror and constantly being exposed to Warp energy.

[@stevencavanagh7990]

The emperor didn't build either the Golden Throne or The Astronomicon, they were from the Dark Age of Technology. He merely repurposed them. For Cadia, imagine if instead of shooting it with a Laser The Death Star kamikazed into Alderaan. I would bet the more you learn about Jaghatai Karn (White Scars) the more he'll become your favourite Primarch. The emperor: No disease shalt blight them Nurgle: Hold my Beer. When you think about it, when a Machine doesn't work how often do you go "Please, Please, Please" then when trying it again it works.

[@jonathanryan9946]

As to the male to female ratio of the Imperial Guard, it entirely depends on what world theyre recruited from. So a backwater world that can't just grow more troops in "vats" (not quite cloning because they all have different dna but pretty similar to it but in a testtube) rarely send women as they're kinda needed to repopulate. But worlds that can literally grow more people and have massive populations really don't care. 40k lore has worlds that are still with medieval technology btw or worse, where the Imperium recuits from. So those worlds send their excess male population as their Tithes (aka their form of paying taxes to the Imperium) In old lore all units were composed solely of male troops or solely female troops. They only mixed them when they took too many casualties, so surviving troops made a new mixed gender division. All the most famous Imperial Gaurd books did this in the 90s and early 2000s. One of these books was actually about the rare mixed gender divisions made up of survivors of one female and ine male division and the leaders reported back... wow, this worked better than we thought so maybe we should try this again. Implying it was rare before them but more common place afterwards The troops in Space Marine 1 (2011, but written years before release) were from the single gender era of writing but from Cadia a workd that had hundreds of billions of troops, so it was Mira likely taking command of a male division after her division was mostly wiped out. More recent lore shifted it to being the cultural thing above. Some worlds separate genders, but male units will pickup female survivors and vice versa. Others don't care and recruit 50/50. One world only makes male clones (and claims theyre not clones but thats highly illegal in 40k). But primitive worlds almost never send female troops. In Space Marines 2, there are actually a lot of female guardsmen in minor roles if you look closely at background guardsmen. However Cadia was destroyed by this point, so they were probably reluctant to send in woman anymore because it is the dream of all Cadians to find a new planet and rebuild/repopulate it with their survivors (thus the Cadia Stands meme). So they probably quietly stopped sending out as many women, having them more on missions looking for a new homeworld.

[@raifthemad]

Which is quite funny, since data on real life army units shows that mixed units are worse than all male ones. Still better than all female ones of course. So they women should only be used as a last resort.

[@jonathanryan9946]

@@raifthemad I definitely don't disagree, most data from the real world is far worse than fantasy settings like 40k. That said there are some rare occasions in the real world where women actually do rate really well. The division of women from Bakmut Ukraine are apparently described as better than many male division (assuming not veterans), but I'm sure at least some of that is hyperbole/propaganda. Still, I think that shows part of the issue with real world data is cultural, so basically Cadian women are just different from modern day Earth women.

[@raifthemad]

@@jonathanryan9946 I don't doubt that last bit. And if quality is not important, just quantity, then sometimes it would be necessary to send women as well, if there aren't enough men. Like in example Ukraine, or Finns during winter war.

[@williansnobre]

For the Imperial Guard if you are able to run and shoot a lasgun you are good enough for the Guard, men or women or whatever it doesn't matter, if you do what you are told you're good enough, and if you run from battle you'll die or worse.

[@lucascoval828]

​@@raifthemad Based.

[@jonathanryan9946]

Originally the lost 2 Legions/Primarchs were just a reference to the lost Legions of Rome. So just the writer being a nerd. Then the fans saw it and thought it was some genius move so they could create their own Legion/Primarch, with one being good and one being evil. Then 40k cashing in on that idea and basically writing lore that one was loved (11th legion) and the other was massively hypothetical (2nd legion). But leaving a few teases of several different and conflicting things that befell them. Which only further caused fans to speculate wildly and write their own fanfic/lore about them. Obviously the creators did laydown some teases they could one day reveal what happened if it would make them more money than keeping it a mystery, but currently its just a mystery with multiple hour long KZbin fan speculations on their fates. It is lore though that the Emperor erased the other Primarchs memories of what happened to their misding brothers. One got his memories returned qnd it was so painful he immediately asked for it to be erased again. It has been stated the Legions weren't destroyed only the Primarchs died. The 2nd and 11th Legions Space Marines were shifted into the Iron Fists and Ultramarines. So if you see a successor chapter of the Iron Fists or Ultramarines they could actually be 2nd or 11th Legion descendants... or maybe not. Legions were massive, numering 5,000 to 250,000 Space Marines. After the Horus Herecy, they feared Space Marines goung traitor again. So each Legion was broken down into chapters which numbered up to 1,000. So as an example a legion of 250,000 made 250 chapters, and only 1 kept the Legions original name. The Black Templars are a successor chapter of the Iron First (probably), but they're onevof the naughty chapters that breaks the 1,000 rule and probably number 5,000 or more... but theyre always on Crusades retaking planets for the Imperium so everyone kinda looks the other way, as there is a loophole chapters on Crusades are allowed some extra Troopers because they will take casualties. Its meant to allow a few hundred extra not a few thousand extra but so far no one has condemned the Chapter that has been on Crusade for 10,000 years they can't.

[@DanielDem87]

Imperial Fists, not Iron Fist :)

[@Hanmacx]

My head canon, these two Primarch used female Space marines and fill them with their GeneSEED 😅

[@DekkarJr]

I love the hundreds of references to Rome/Greece in the imperiums lore. I catch new ones ALL the time lol.

[@tempestinateapot2987]

Everyone gets this fact incorrect, Nocturne, the home world of the Salamanders, is not a planet of eternal night, despite the name. It is a volcanically hyperactive world, near a star that is very bright.

[@619Slipk]

The answer to at least half of your questions about the emperor is He's built different

[@ChaoticTabris]

The People will always bring up that the 2 Lost Legions are there for people to create that own but that is actually a urban legend. Rick Priestly, which originally created the setting has said that it would not make sense to do that because when he made the setting the Horus Heresy was not playable and it would not be for decades. He says he came up with the idea of the two lost legions to create a sense of deeper history to the setting at a time when they were just starting creating the lore. Personally I think they might be inspired by the 3 legions the Roman Empire lost during the Battle of Teutoburg Forest and which had their numbers retired forever.

[@ericmacrae6871]

I just realize Bricky did not mentioned the Titan Legion HERESY! The God Engine of the Imperium! The most powerful weapons that they possess

[@DekkarJr]

I'd argue tbh that the Exterminatus weapons of mass destruction which include bombs that can glass an entire planet are the most powerful ones :P But I still understood what you meant LOL XD

[@Valandar2]

If the four chaos gods are different "flavors", then Khorne is Spicy Blood Orange, Nurgle is Pistachio and Natto, Tzeentch is every flavor you've never tried, and Slaanesh is pure, rich, dark chocolate.

[@sessy01]

laced with barbituates..

[@razezillian]

Nocturne the home world of the Salamanders is a Volcanic planet not a planet covered in darkness. That's why they have a dark charcoal skin

[@williansnobre]

It is sometimes covered in darkness during the season change, when volcanic activity increases and ash blocks the sun. But since the volcanic activity puts out radiation as well it ends up causing natural selection towards dark skin to shield against radiation too, even when the sun is blocked. In the case of the Salamanders this adaptation is increased by Vulcan's gene-seed.

[@catalystguitarguy]

The emperor is 48,000-50,000 years old in 40k, somewhere in that range.

[@lorzon]

The Shaman and their ceremony were pre-recorded history. If BigE were only 48,000 years old, he'd be the same age as Recorded History and we know humanity is old than that, hence BigE is older too. The implication is that he's as old as modern humans, which would put him at around a quarter of a million years old. But he's probably not that old.

[@angryvaultguy]

@@catalystguitarguy pretty sure he was born in modern day turkey during the late stone age / early bronze age

[@MacKnight]

@@angryvaultguy about 8000 BC.

[@DummyFace123]

The Sisters of Battle are my favorite army. They're like Orks, but the Emperor's Orks

[@duhastt]

Bruh for the love of the emperor pause the video when you talk.

[@MrRusty103]

Get that harasey out of here. If you want to watch the video your way, go fire up Bricky's video. Otherwise cram it.

[@duhastt]

@@MrRusty103 i wonder which one of our opinions is more valid...its yours isnt it?

[@MrRusty103]

@@duhastt Of course. Mine isn't an objectively dumb take.

[@dekai7992]

Bruh? More like Sis.

[@Oxley016]

@@MrRusty103 You can't even spell heresy right, you heretic! Might as well turn you into a servitor, you'd probably become more useful that way.

[@Caderynwolf]

Sisters of Battle are actually a really cool army, not as good as marines, but superior to guard and some really interesting models and units... I just hope you like fire, cause they gots fire like orks got dakka ;) As to the 2 missing chapters, this was on purpose but originally it was so you could make up your own primach and marine chapter... then GW does what GW does and retcons ever other month. Origonally the space marines weren't even genetically altered, they were just dudes in badarse armour, necrons were just called androids, dreadnaughts were the big bad - this is the OG space crusade and space hulk, before it became Warhammer 40k, and then Warhammer 40k was pretty much just imp guard/marines and orks (the very first box-set that contained everything) for "1st edition", then the other armies started getting added in 2nd edition, and through white dwarf, arsenal, and chapter approved, magazines (all of which originally used for testing out new or different rules and how different armies would play, and then bring out the new armies that tested well)... RIP squats :p

[@grimskull94]

38:35 it would be fast 💀🔥😂

[@DanielDem87]

Take in mind that Bricky mixes surface level lore with comedy, Exterminatus is not done on a whim (obviously). Also most of the guys in chat helping you out aren't exactly lore masters. If you want to deep dive into the lore "Amber King" here on youtube is by far the best channel.

[@Shythalia]

Well, at least Bricky mentioned near the end that they actually do exterminatus on rare occasions.

[@MagusMirificus]

@@DanielDem87 I mean, ON PAPER it's only a last resort measure, but a big part of the Imperium is that NOTHING goes the way it's supposed to on paper. A million worlds is wayyyyyyyy too much to enforce a consistent legal framework across; there are 100% power-mad inquisitors who obliterate whole civilizations for no good reason and get away with it all the time.

[@undergrounddrift9408]

Cadian Kasrkin are my favorite Unit . They just look badass and make those cool lase-machinegun sounds. For the ImPERIuM!!!

[@Shythalia]

10:44 "Why 8?" Because Horus is the 9th one. 🤦‍♀️

[@keuh1]

To be fair about their willingness to fight the Mordian Iron Guard really, really like shiny shoes.

[@neberque]

The "especially this guy" is Goge Vandire. He was the Ecclesiarch( head of the church), who discovered the sisters of battle (originally known as the daughters of the emperor) and manipulated them into his fold of power hungry corruption. He renamed them as the brides of the emperor, serving as his personal army as well as concubines to other high status officials. After a small group of them were granted an audience with the emperor's living corpse, his corruption was exposed to them and their leader beheaded him with his last words being "I don't have time to die"

[@lorzon]

The Tau's technology and design philosophy leans toward the anime end of the scale. Their armies are composed of infantry with Iron Man armor and the closest thing you get to Gundam's in the setting. Their artillery is an Itano Circus writ large.

[@MacKnight]

31:32 yes, Mars is a 'Forge World', run by the Mechanicus. They do however have many of those spread around the Imperium, and some is specialized in certain things. Some might be good putting out Titans, some Imperial Knights, Tanks and APC, hand weapons, ammo, shells, some focus on supplying material to orbital shipyards and so on. Some rare ones build Ordinatus plattforms. (Basicly continent flattening weapons) the Mechanicus make EVERYTHING tech in the Imperium.

[@DavidSmith-mt7tb]

Titus had a run in with Chaos in the first Space Marine game and a lot of people thought he was tainted. This is why he served in Deathwatch for nearly a century between the two games. The Deathwatch recruits from all space marine chapters and are basically a spec ops force wielded by the inquisitors, so they were able to keep an eye on Titus, eventually releasing him back to the Ultramarines once they were confident he wasn't a threat to the Imperium. They also employ the resources of the assassin temples and the Ordo Malleus often works with the Grey Knights, as they do in the game Chaos Gate (the X-COM like one). There is a new codex in the tabletop for playing the agents of the Imperium where you can run Inquisitors leading squads of Battle Sisters, Deathwatch, and Even Grey Knights. It seems the latter two may not be playable much longer and will be rolled into this faction instead.

Baldermort's Guide to Warhammer and A Vox in the Void this are good channels to immerse yourself in the world of w40k If you real go into

[@Ashewyn]

Thank you for the recommendations ☺️👍 I probably will move on from Bricky’s videos in due time

[@tomson129]

Great react, always love to see new people get into the Warhammer rabbit hole :D But I think it would be good if you did link to the video you react to (Bricky's) like you did on your timeline reaction :)

[@Ashewyn]

Totally missed it this time around! Fixed it for this reaction, thank you 👍

[@Shythalia]

1:08:20 Girlie, no. 🤦‍♀️ That says "Definitely not gay for Celestine" with the arrow pointing at the woman. Bricky is saying that the woman may have a crush on Celestine.

[@ericmacrae6871]

to be honest i didn't even know what that reference was until a few days ago when i watch her lore from isyander and koda

[@lastcrusader1986]

Please take a look on "The last Church" it's a story about the Emperor.

[@Ashewyn]

Thank you 🫡

[@SmolFenFen]

3:45 yes. The emperor of Man has existed since pre-history. It was only during humanities fall that he revealed himself and started consolidating mankind into the empire.

[@christianmorson3945]

I think we've recruited another White Scar to the cause! Ashewyn - you have very good taste.

[@jeremykeasbey4145]

The thing about 'Exterminatus' is that they were created back in the Dark Age Of Technology, meaning they have a ton but can't make more. Therefore the decision of whether or not to wipe out a planet is mainly based on a cost-benefit analysis: The life & material cost of retaking a planet, the cost of using one of the Exterminatus bombs, the strategic value of the planet in question, etc...

[@srkares]

yes they can. there are several different ways to go about exterminatus and cyclonic torpedoes - one of them - are still produced. the biologus part of the mechanicus surely still has the means to produce virus bombs too.

[@DropBear2099]

The 2 missing primarchs is originally so you can make your own homebrew chapters in the tabletop game. Though in the lore, it is presumed at least one was lost during the war with an alien species called the Rangda, I think, though i could be wrong.

[@nikollasassumpcao8006]

The Emperor can communicate directly but it rarely happens, when Guilliman returns to Terra after he awekens, the Emperor talks directly into his mind. But instead one coherent sentence, its a bunch of incoherent sentences, feelings, visions of would be futeres. Thats duo to the Emperor conciousness being fractured in different entities/personalities. The other way the Emperor can communicate is blessing Custodes with dreams and visions. But those are not directly either and are bound to interpretation

[@Jee123123]

Imperial knights are not the big scary unit of 40k, that title belongs to the Titans. Titans belong to the the Adeptus Mechanicus and a picture of one is behind Bricky on your vid at the mark 31:30 and it is roughly the size of a building with 40 floors in it which is approximately 150 metres (492 feet), there are smaller titan variants that are more "common". but even the smaller titans put Imperial Knights in their shadow.

[@MultiDarto]

Nice reaction, part 2 next please 🙏 ❤

[@Ashewyn]

Soon 🫡

[@Nicholas1994]

The Emperor has had some different backstories, but I think the one that's currently cannon is that he was created in pre-historic times by some shaman that killed themselves in some ritual and merged all their souls together in the warp and were reborn as The Emperor. Then allegedly he was so humble that he just laid low for how ever many years guiding humanity in the background until it was absolutely necessary that he reveal himself. To me it reads like some catholic fanfiction.

[@alterego9082]

There are few more depressing universes because in 40k humanity at least has a fighting chance

[@theinquisition7]

@@alterego9082 true, the Imperium of Man could effectively wipe out every single faction on a 1 on 1 basis, except maybe the Necrons, unless they spawn camp their tomb worlds. But when you are fighting all of them at the same time….and in a cycle of dying/expanding. It gets pretty depressing

[@alterego9082]

@@theinquisition7 true enough, but compared to something like ICOG from Xeelee Sequence Imperium feels almost like grey sci fantasy,

[@Taoru11]

Humanity can struggle, but does it really have a chance to last against Orcs, Tyrannids and Chaos in the long run? All of those factions just get more powerful while mankind keeps declining.

[@alterego9082]

@@Taoru11 Humanity did beat Orks to near extinction once, with Emperor being empowered, Primaris reinforcements and returning Primarchs it has a chance, Tyrannids, well Hive-Mind was kicked in the face few times, which shows they are not invincible and with enough warp juice you could wound it enough to dismantle it, Chaos is literally never going to win, because that would be the end for them

[@Taoru11]

@@alterego9082 So even if Tyrannids and Orks were gone, Chaos and the Imperium would be stuck in an eternal stalemate? Doesn't sound like much of a fighting chance to me, just sounds like hell for everyone involved.

[@Gregg52680]

Cadia- the planet broke before the guard

[@jeremygeller9145]

The Emperor exists since the days of hunter gatherers so Stone Age human, the process by which he became a supreme being and immortal is a whole story, but it happened back then due to early human psykers. He then decided to help mankind grow throughout the ages, but only when the dark age of technology happened, and mankind fell into a horrific state did he decide to become a conqueror. For the first 60 thousand years or so, things went pretty well and the Emperor didn’t feel the need to take over until humanity got hit by the Agemof Strife, a 5,000 year dark age.

[@FurieMan]

4:46 the "I have no mouth but I must scream" universe?

[@BRouge]

@@FurieMan Maybe Berserk too?

[@OmphalosDaemonium6612]

Xeelee sequence too.

[@MacKnight]

3:50 Emperor is BORN about 8000 BC.

[@T.o.m.s.o.n.85]

Imperium - Grey Knights Chaos - Thousand Sons Xenos - Orks

[@followersith5813]

If you want there is a detailed video about the sisters. By Luetin09 but it lasts more than an hour.

[@Ashewyn]

👀👀

[@ghostphil6030]

You should watch some of the Adepta Sororitas specific lore videos out there.

[@ericmacrae6871]

Yes and the video that is the best is the 2 parter of Isyander and Koda

[@johnclement189]

The Emperor is extremely old by human standards, and have different Identities in history like Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Genghis Khan and etc along with the great conquerors in history. He observed that humans don't have the stamina to keep going after few campaigns so he started to develop the first space marines in hiding.

[@BryantVonMiller]

Not Genghis Khan, he became a greater demon of Khorne. But you're overall correct 😊👍

[@Myomer104]

42:20 In their entire 5k-year existence, only a single Sister has been known to have fallen, and that was after being tortured by members of the Emperor's Children legion, followers of Slaanesh.

[@Ashewyn]

😰 poor sister

[@deathninja16]

There was a talk of speed in one of the books where it said one of the space marines was running and another marine estimated hm to be moving at around 80+mph.

[@Ashewyn]

😱 no wonder you can tear through regular humans running in space marine

[@deathninja16]

@@Ashewyn yup, like a short bus moving at 80mph through a school zone. It won't pretty.

[@seawurm]

I have seen someone make a suit of armor. Its a very involved process, and will be very expensive.

[@Ashewyn]

I wish I had cosplayer friends 😅

[@DekkarJr]

@@Ashewyn Cosplaying in general is VERY expensive and involved. Occassionally I'll watch a pro like Jessica Nigri make her own, but she's like a professional seemstress so she can actually fabricate most of her costumes herself. I've seen working to scale Space Marine armors as well here on youtube. It took multiple people to get it on, some kind of stilts system for the guy inside it and he was DRENCHED in sweat when he took the helmet off LOL.

[@nikot.9920]

Welcome to the grimdark, this commission painter welcomes you with open arms and hopes you delve into your favorite factions even more. Enjoy the lore because it's only going to get more complicated from here, but that's the charm of the franchise.

[@mysticauroraoc413]

He forgot to add the space wolf protected guards from the grey knights

[@billwhipple9039]

13:19 when a newbie can't yet conceive of the true scale of humanity, and therefore the shear volume of death in every form you can think of, and a few you wish you hadn't. You don't want to know how chaos space sausage is made

[@Pophet84]

she would look awesome as a battlesister, because she already has very fierce natural looking eyes.

[@danteyoda]

The timeline makes everything else make sense. Mine is the Raven Guard Space Marine chapter.

[@LuciferVonCarstein]

The 2 missing legions are a reference to a pair of Roman legions completely erased from history.

[@Morkhard]

Adeptus Mech are basically future Necrons

[@TreeFolkDruid]

Omnissiah sounds like Necron whispers.

[@figment820]

Please repeat the holy mantraof the machine spirit "rightie tightie lefie loosie"

[@MacKnight]

35:19 if they dont die by infighting, corruption, enemies or by their own experiments, then basicly yes. Belasarious Cawl, while he has lost some memories, is from the Horus Heresy era, hes 10000 years old.

[@tiranorod]

09:03 two primarchs erased from history? That's HERESY!

[@AG7292]

Do space marines pray to their tech? No, they typically dont. They will have a spacemarine weaponsmith trained by the mechanicus called a “Tech Marine” handle all of that, along with actual tech priest and mechanicum followers. The ships, the weapons, their armor, all are taken care fo by the tech priest when they arent in use. The humans soldiers will sometimes have tech priest, but otherwise they read pieces of paper that tell them what to do. Articles of Maintenace and Canticles or Rites of Repair. Todays version of DIY manuels.

[@Ashewyn]

Thanks that’s really helpful 👀 I just wondered if space marines get that involved and I think I understand the hierarchy and how everyone serves a specific purpose.

[@tracesosebee5485]

The thing about female custodes is this: Recently, in the latest codex, GW revealed that custodians can be both male and female (this had never been explicitly stated, but the door was left open). There were about 3 different reactions. 1. "Oh, okay." 2. "40k is going woke! This is a travesty!" 3. "Ooooh giant muscle mommies 🥵🥵🥵" I am in the third camp lol

[@saltylemon4436]

If you wanna know the real reason there are 18 primarchs is that Games Workshop is a company that sells little miniature soldiers. Some people want to paint there miniatures in a way that hasnt been done before or with a backstory thats unique. To facilitate this there are conveniently 2 entire legions with a blank backstory, one traitor, one loyal.

[@Ashewyn]

🤔 makes sense for a ttrpg

[@davidwatkins711]

The Primarchs, Malcador, and the Emperor know the names of the two expunged legions, but we do not. At one point Horus almost said their names in Malcador's presence and Malcador nearly killed Horus with his psychic power. If Alpharius and the Khan hadn't begged Malcador to stop, Horus would have died.

[@dyproxus1806]

Welcome to the Warhammer Pipeline, Ashe!

[@arcdevil]

Xeelee Sequence makes 40k look like candyland in comparison

[@MacKnight]

40:18 more likely lab grown clones or rejects that was then made into servitors, but yeah, it happens.

[@brien656]

You hit the nail on the head with ork stuff,. it works coz they believe it will,. red goes fasta!!

[@4myzelf]

27:00 its actually a volcanic planet and I was thinking the same thing until I looked at how we named a planet mostly covered in water "Earth"

[@GenericStatue]

It's easier to understand the timeline after a basic breakdown of the factions

[@weirdguy564]

I think everyone gets the Adeptus Mechanicus religion a bit wrong, even Bricky. The followers of the Adeptus Mechanics believe and pray to the Machine God. However, to square away with the Emperor of Mankind at the same time, the Emperor is referred to as the Omnisiah. A messiah. An Omnisiah, There the same thing. The Emperor is the living messiah of the Machine God, and thus the Emperor is the Omnisiah.

[@jocosesonata]

These are all surface level, in a nutshell, easy introduction for newcomers to the 40k factions, that Bricky himself criticised for being outdated. Luckily for you, there's a ton of lore videos that dives deeper and deeper into each and every faction. Isyander and Koda for one, easily digestible as well, but if you want long forms, there's Luetin09. So if one doesn't fit your style, there's a variety to choose from.

[@Shythalia]

Weshammer's pretty good, too.

[@ericmacrae6871]

@@Shythalia yes and don't forget Amber King and Baldermort

[@Shiftry87]

The 2 missing Primarchs is an intresting thing becouse we know the Emperor made 20 and there are 2 main theorys why only 18 are known. One theory is that when the Emperor set out on hes crusade to find them after Chaos snatched them up while they were still young and threw them across the galaxy 2 of them were simply never found so to hide the fact that there were 20 they removed every record of the 2 that were never found so now we got 18. The 2nd reson fits more into the tabletop side of the lore. Becouse players can paint the models however they want and build armys made up of all kinds of different units, players can make legions that never existed in the lore. So if a player made a new army that army could have belonged to 1 of the 2 missing primarchs. Primarch #2 belonging to a loyalist army and Primatch #11 belonging to a Chaos army.

[@arcdevil]

Its pretty much set in stone that yes, they were found.

[@colonelhammerhead3025]

I'd say Tau and the Imperium of Man, with the Salamanders, Lamenters, and Carcharodons, my favorite chapters. While the Imperial Guard are my fav cus they are just the countless average people against the horror of the grimdark future.

[@aaronlebo1913]

He doesn't cover the Leagues of Votann in these videos because they came out after this video series

[@Danceofmasks]

The Sisters of Battle are a technicality. Somewhere along the line, someone decided that "no man will pick up arms in the church" or some nonsense, and so ... women and babies will do it instead.

[@clabapcuxonabtam3072]

Imperium - Alpha legion Chaos - Alpha legion Xenos - they are Alpharius too

[@lucidiously]

No, I am Alpharius!

[@clabapcuxonabtam3072]

@@lucidiously All of us

[@Hollow_Vamp]

Factions from bricky is good, timeline from wes sets this up better, but he is a fun intro, I also am curious about the omnisiah and the lost dark age of technology that made the forbid of ai, the cherubs was accurate, they retconned it in recent years so up to you on what to believe

[@horn5558]

i was waiting for this! Also ORKS ORKS ORKS

[@darthkaton]

5:11 Because, when in doubt Exterminatus.

[@williansnobre]

The number of Primarchs is a funny thing. Technically there were 20 of them. But actually 21 because one of them came out as twins but most people did not know that and both twins would trade places often pretending to be a single guy. But actually there where 18 Primarchs because two were erased from history AND from memory as well. But actually only 9 because the Imperium pretends that the traitor Primarchs didn't exist, so most people don't even know that they existed. So they are 20 who are actually 21 who are 18 but actually 9, and a few of them died or are missing so right now there are only 2 Primarchs alive in the Imperium, Roboute and Lion'el.

[@tubesocksofchaos1]

The Reason The other Two Primarchs are "forgotten" is because at one time Warhammer was not a super big company that had a huge legal department concerned with keeping their Intellectual Property safe. So the "two missing primarchs" were a hold over from the early days where you could just... Make up one. Make up a story for your army and paint it however you wanted it instead of using the famous other legions like Ultramarines or black templar or Imperial Fists etc. Same for Chaos marines. It used to be a game about "Your guys" but now it has a huge IP that they don't want stolen. They used to encourage you to make your own units. Like one of the early 'grav tanks' was made out of a deodorant stick with bits glued on. Now you have to buy offical models or they won't let you play in the Games Workshop store. Its why a lot of people like to play orks because they used to encourage the weird ramshackle vehicles people would come up with

[@DekkarJr]

btw the Tau cant become Chaos either ( they have different space faring technology so they don't have to deal with the warp the way everyone else does) and their "souls" or whatever aren't "bright enough" to be an attractive target to daemons. So their ships dont even have a Gellar Field commensurate technology like the Imperiums do.

[@arcdevil]

They use the warp, just that instead of submerging fully they do tiny microjumps. Think Stone skipping. They dont need geller fields for that, but its ridiculously slower than sailing the warp proper

[@samwich3972]

little late to the party but the video "How did the Tau React to the HORRORS of Warhammer 40k" by majorkill explains the tau a bit more detailed. tau have been a bunch of stoic, idealistic diplomats and conquerers for a few hundreds of years and only now learned about the major factions n players.

[@Jee123123]

The Emperor could speak if they found some tech from the 2nd millennia

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Welcome to the wacky universe of Warhammer 40k!

[@javierrodriguez-batllori733]

Imperium: Death Korps of Krieg Chaos: Knight Lords Xenos: Drukhari

[@phueal]

40k: where you've joined the Nazis because they're fighting Cthulhu.

[@michaelriddick7116]

I see 40k, I click! 🤣😂🤣

[@Shythalia]

10:20 🤦‍♀️ No, he said "Not all of them are psykers" meaning only some or few are.

[@Kwisatz-Chaderach]

Bricky is pretty goon coded.