Psyker Power Levels (Warhammer 40k Lore)

[@beastalchemistVA]

To everyone commenting about the levels after Alpha Plus, I know that they exist. And I understand how it is inaccurate in other ways. But the comic was written as it is, I can't change that. I just wanted to dub it.

[@PyromaN93]

Was Malcador Alpha or Beta, or he was have another grade?

[@BenAbrigil]

not to keep the emperor alive, but the throne

[@damienmccuinn1956]

Ahhh, okay I was about to do my loremaster bit and correct you. Considering Magnus is a Beta Plus Psyker and the Emperor was a Gamma Plus

[@AlyssMa7rin]

@@PyromaN93 Alpha + , Iirc.

[@specimen7618]

Alpha Plus. So like Omega and above. If there is such a thing as

[@KillerOrca]

And of course theres the OTHER side of it, the "Null" scale, where you start to get people who are "anti-psykers", ranging in capability from slightly lesser than most people to the afformentioned Culexus assasins, who are immune to psyker powers and whos mere presence can cause pain and anguish even among normal people.

[@beastalchemistVA]

Yeah, I wanted to contact the artist to do that part in comic form but apparently they haven't been online in 5 years.

[@Redfoxjack]

Fun fact omega minus nulls are hard to see for normal base line humanity Because your brain dose the same thing it dose to your nose and straight up omits them form your feild of view

[@robertnelson9599]

They are so hated that the Culexus Temple is allowed to clone their agents (something the Imperium does not like to do).

[@KillerOrca]

@@robertnelson9599 It also helps that Culexus level Nulls are stupid STUPID rare so.

[@boredbrewer1998]

​@@beastalchemistVAPlease do a video on the nulls when convenient.

[@54lolman]

I think I remember an official short story of 40k concerning an Alpha Plus pysker. It was a child on a black ship, sent to be sacrificed to the Emperor, and completely misidentified due to the child's powers not fully awakening. However, enroute in their cell, their power awakened. In the span of less than a *nano-second* the child with their sudden immense power, managed to teleport the black ship into multiple different locations across the galaxy. The child's power kept growing and growing into unfathomable measures! Until the child suddenly became aware, and saw before them the four chaos gods watching, each immediately vying to claim the child's soul. The child, realizing the horror that laid before them, made the ultimate sacrifice and committed suicide as the ship was returned to its original point. This all happened in less than 8 seconds if I remember correctly. So fast, that no one on the ship even noticed anything had happen.

[@brendanmuller7301]

This is very interesting. I genuinely wonder how that kid would've turned out if someone like the emperor were still around

[@KiyokaMakibi]

Sounds like a great story. 👍🏻

[@NoProtect]

@@brendanmuller7301would have turned into a corpse The emperor is the one who started culling psykers in the first place

[@theonlyMoancore]

Meanwhile my Darktide psyker: (in heavy German accent) I blew up mein house baking bread and ze guards sot I committed heresy!

[@schizoidmeme5470]

​@NoProtect The dangerous kind. With training, the child could control it.

[@MrReich1918]

Both Malcador and Magnus are canonically alpha plus. And fairly sane in their own rights. As well as considering Magnus and The Emperors unusual soul situation. I would argue that Malcador is the only purestrain human in known history to be a stable individual.

[@chadwhitfield6946]

I thought Ravanor was an alpha level psyker.

[@MrReich1918]

@@chadwhitfield6946 His base level is around gamma. His chair and other psychic amplifiers boost him into the alpha range. Dan abbit has an interesting though reletively unusual interpretation of psykers. Saying that their ranking can improve over time with the right augmentation and training. Or even degrade due to underuse.

[@MrReich1918]

@@chadwhitfield6946 A reasonable question though.

[@terminallove3531]

​@@MrReich1918 He's at least Beta.

[@MrReich1918]

@@terminallove3531 I believe it is in the emperors gift. I would need to double check. But in that book he is specifically described as a high Gamma. Unless you are able to source something to the contrary your words have little value.

[@vilwind3522]

I always wanted to write a Warhammer 40k story of twins ... one of them alpha psyker and the other a Null ... Power of the Alpha suppressed by his Null sibling from womb. The alpha develops this way a natural ability to shot his mind from the warp. Though out his life his abilities surface slowly attracting both attentive eye of the Inquisition and Chaos Cults. Two siblings against the universe ... Something like a WH40k Gravity Falls ...

[@beastalchemistVA]

Please write that

[@siggbert]

Sounds amazing

[@krel7160]

A-alpharius? That you?

[@vilwind3522]

@@beastalchemistVA I have more ... When the back ship arrives to finely take or heroes to Terra so they can be judged it turns out that the ship is a remnant of the Dark Age of Technology when humanity first encountered the Psyker phenomena and was looking for ways to deal with them. The Back Ship has a machine that incapacitates psykers and allows them to dream during travel, Matrix like. The dream is generated by something that for all purpose could be a AI but its not ... the Tech-Preist said its not ... This specific Back Ship is used to transport young psykers but it gathers anyone that has to be transported to Terra. The Black Ship name ... Hogwarts. The Ship Dream Matrix is used by Adeptus Astra Telepathica to teach young Psykers in a way that would allow their minds to accept their gifts while they are cut off from warp influence. Teachers are Adeptus Astra Telepathica. Dementors are Sisters of Silance. DeathEathers are Chaos Cult Psykers chocked up to the machine Matrix. Full Harry Potter world as a 40k Matrix dream. And a lot of room for Grimdark shenanigans.

[@HateMachinist]

I like the idea, though the presence of a null is unpleasant enough to a normal person, it is beyond torture for a psycher.

[@zoneoperator]

Important reminder: Even low power Psykers can be very difficult to kill with their connection to the immaterial plane repairing wounds and sometimes even reviving them from a fatal blow. That's why its usually standard procedure to double tap psykers...and then triple tap them by reducing their physical remains to ash or plasma goo.

[@frederiksd]

Indeed, like it is depicted In Astartes, where the Psykers head got bashed in followed by a magdump point blank into the remains, taking no chances!

[@BenDover-zp7bu]

So you are telling me that a psyker could get stabed in the head, come back miracously and go " between heaven and earth i alone am the honored one"

[@hellatze]

like dawn of war psyker WITNESS YOUR DOOOOMMMM

[@gamerblisters]

Sometimes a psyker on their death bed transcends the power of their mortal coil

[@TrenchCoatDingo]

biomancy is a bitch

[@ethangnasher3848]

"Throughout space and the immaterium, I am the honorable one" -The low-level psyker that somehow grew into an Alpha plus, Daemon Prince slayer.

[@ethangnasher3848]

@@gaelurquiz5755 He ate the flesh of a lot of psykers and daemons, not to mention any relic from eras past belonging to the eldar of old and the ancient ones. Plus a couple of odd boys from the Orks.

[@timothycrowell381]

Who?

[@gameid4646]

@@timothycrowell381 Dalgor Kraigo.

[@alexkatc59]

@@ethangnasher3848 You forgot ab-b-bout w-w-warp dus-s-st!

[@red_ruby4881]

I can't stop giggling at the thought of a demon being literally blinded by light of a alpha plus psyker's soul. It's probably like staring at the sun point blank, second only to sticking your face directly into astronomicon ray

[@Flesh_Wizard]

Bro got flashbanged

[@megan00b8]

I mean, Alpha plus psykers are something else. The emperor can destroy daemons by merely being near them. Not just banish them, but genuinely truly kill them, something daemons really fear. Back before Horus had four gods lending him power, Malcador forcechoked him like Darth Vader and both Horus and two of his brothers were powerless to do anything to stop him.

[@muzanjackson8827]

@@megan00b8 This is even more impressive because Primarchs have innate psychic resistance combined with their superhuman physiology- even a choir of Gamma level psykers would have failed to do that.

[@Razzy-sr4oq]

One of my favorite fanfics/Vox in the Void stories is "Field Test." A Krieger is created with a flaw, producing a Beta level psyker. He's about 15 years old. And routed an army.

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

"They are never employed by the Imperium" knowingly is a good caveat to add to that.

[@edim108]

To the Imperium's credit if they're smart enough to evade detection for that long they're probably smart enough to mask their power, and even then the Inquisition finds most of them.

[@yanniammari1491]

"History knows only one stable alpha plus psyker...the god emperor of mankind himself" Goes fucking hard

[@VRichardsn]

Emperor: why is stable in quotation marks?!

[@r2020E]

@@VRichardsn bc Horus heresy happened

[@jesusojeda7850]

Malcador was very close to the Emperor as a psyker, the only thing that stoped him from going to the same level being his mortal body- he was able to hold the golden throne until his body gave up and even had the strength to give some hope (and depending on the version, even gave the power he had left) to the Emperor.

[@KT-pv3kl]

Close is relative in the alpha plus category as it is open ended on the upper scale. Malcador could barely handle the throne, Magnus was designed to handle the throne indefinitely whilst also not being a perpetual and he got several power ups after he fell to chaos and yet even Magnus with all of his chaos powers pales in comparison to the emperor at his peak. I would put malcador at the low end of alpha plus where he can potentially destroy an entire star system via warp shenanigans. Magnus could easily create warp storms that envelop an entire subsector and big E creates warp storms that engulf entire sectors by accident whilst being a shadow of his former self.

[@muaowa]

While he wasn’t as powerful, I think he was an equally massive loss for the imperium. I bet he really could have helped Guilliman.

[@iloveemeralds4622]

If I recall correctly guillymen contacted the emperors mind and found his mind to be completely alien to any humans mind and by comparison he is completely insane

[@beastalchemistVA]

Sitting in the same place for 10,000 years would do that

[@kerbodynamicx472]

@@beastalchemistVA The Emperor needs to touch grass... If he hadn't been paralysed by his traitor son Horus.

[@Flesh_Wizard]

​@@beastalchemistVAhe just needs to scratch his nose

[@SilvaDreams]

Considering he is essentially a collection of proto-psykers in one body it's not surprising that his mind would be alien.

[@mojothemigo]

wasn't that because he had to 'split' the pleasant part of himself so he could destroy Horus?

[@deltarno7502]

Love the video. Fun fact, sometimes an Alpha Psyker is employed by the imperium of man. How would be mad enough to try? Why radical inquisitors, of course. Although in a lot of cases, if a child is shown (and captured) early enough, they might be sent to the grey knights for testing.

[@robertnelson9599]

The Adeptus Custodes use Alpha-level Astropaths as well as the Doomscryers.

[@lordgod9958]

Grey knights care more about stability than raw power so I imagine they prefer beta or gamma

[@discipleofdagon8195]

Also not to mention psi-titans using them as power generators

[@RazorsharpLT]

Not to mention the warp ddrive itself being... of questionable origin. @@discipleofdagon8195

[@1973Washu]

A rare inquisitor might start out as beta grade Psyker and by some esoteric means get boosted to Alpha grade ability,

[@McCbobbish]

Personally, I reckon that if the imperials didn’t insist on torturing them constantly, psykers wouldn’t go insane nearly as often

[@Nerthos]

The imperium's treatment is precisely what prevents psykers from going insane. They go insane from warp influence, not emotional stress, thus the process of sanctioning forces them to extremes of torment in a controlled environment so they can harden themselves against warp predation. They would have no defense without that experience.

[@VisonsofFalseTruths]

You’ve got it. Make em feel welcome, make em feel loved, make em wanna stay, and why would they wanna leave? Goes for everyone else, too, really. Make em love the Imperium and they won’t wanna go to Chaos. Loyalty can’t be forced; only earned. You can buy a cheap facsimile, but it’s never as strong as what’s earned.

[@simonnachreiner8380]

@VisonsofFalseTruths The very knowledge of the existence of chaos is by its very nature corruptive. Your only options are ignorance or sheer contempt. Being that psykers are in contact with the warp from the conception of their souls ignorance isn't an option.

[@danitron4096]

@@VisonsofFalseTruthsThey go nuts anyways. A powerful psyker left alone is insanely dangerous, the warp itself drives them mad, with demons constantly trying to possess them, voices screaming at them and all sorts of stuff.

[@MyNameIsSalo]

they get corrupted regardless. Chaos gods love that shit. Maybe the imperium could have friendlier methods to dealing with them but honestly its safer to kill or enslave them. Cant have people like that walking around freely. Afterall that's what Magnus was, and he single handily destroyed everything the emperor was spending decades working on and doomed Terra to fall. Arguably a worse event than the Horus Heresy. If that isn't proof enough of their potential to be corrupted by the warp (which is what happened with Magnus centuries prior and he never realised), then idk what is enough proof for you. Literal primarch, one of the strongest psykers in the universe, still fell to chaos and Tzeentch's tricks

[@andreibossahtamon3950]

So the psyker in darktide is a zeta,epsilon or a delta,gamma because he can conjure barier, flame, electricity, push, brainburs, voidstrike and he even has telekinesis. Now idk if this is a diffrent matter or just gameplay friendly, in my pov he can do all of them.

[@yungpark6435]

The playable pysker in darktide is relatively low on the totem being most likely at IOTA, anything past that and we would be able to just nuke portions of Atoma

[@Razgriz_01]

It's implied that each one is used by an individual character and your playing as a "different"character whenever you switch powers.

[@beastalchemistVA]

What level the darktide psyker is has been a question of mine before

[@Bona_Tempora]

The psyker character probably has access to all the warp abilities you mentioned, but for gameplay reasons you can only use what’s in your load out.

[@krel7160]

@@Bona_Tempora I'd chock it up to inquisition tampering. You're locked into a set of abilities because of neural inhibitors (or enhancers, depending on latent power level) that also help keep you from completely wigging out when a daemonhost is in proximity. Sure, you're not as powerful as you could be without the inhibitor - Or stronger than usual because of a neural enhancement But it also means you're safeguarded (Somewhat) from the perils of the warp, and don't have to worry about your powers leaving your grasp in a chaotic, emotionally charged battle.

[@benjamindavidson4680]

It's always fascinating to try and put the events that a very low level psyker into perspective, they might be a normal factory worker that his colleagues know is simply good at the local gambling den and who should have his sleeves checked between rounds.

[@callumreilly9107]

"Invulneravle to any mortal weapon" except ofc Cato Sicarius, Knight Champion of Macragge.

[@Warmaster2001]

With strange voice)

[@trynox4fun259]

Image alphap lus psyker with possitive insanity like: -Aware of Chaos Gods -Aware of the fate of humanity -Deciding to go full carnage aganist Chaos Possible Khaldor Draigo?

[@NobodyDungeons]

Personally, I think there are plenty more stable Alpha plus Psykers they just don't involve themselves with the ongoings of the galaxy, and are neigh impossible to find unless they want to be. They likely see themselves as above the situation in the galaxy, and likely care little for their fellow man acting as they see fit whenever they see fit.

[@beastalchemistVA]

It's possible

[@crim1188]

And you are basing this off of what? Just because? The only alpha plus psykers in Warhammer are Magnus and Big E, unless written otherwise

[@halfassedfart]

​@@crim1188"known"

[@dr.spacemangalacticboogalo8857]

I wouldn't be surprised if there was like handful out there just vibing, million worlds is quite a lot

[@thatdoppioguy1825]

@@crim1188Malacador was almost certainly an Alpha level Psyker

[@ironduke5058]

This was really informative, I wasn't too knowledgeable of psyker power levels. Both your voice acting was amazing, great video!

[@IsmaelSantos-xv9qf]

The Blanks also have like five levels as well, they are counted as negative in the scale. Their level manifests in the range and intensity of their blankness, so a minus one null is, on top of being inmune to warp influence, is able to make people uncomfortable or hostile. A minus 3-4 can banish daemons by being within a hundred meters or so. Minus Five will not only banish daemons, but can cause humans to drop dead (for example if a -5 culexus removes his helmet, as the Anima Speculum in it serves as both a focusing device as well as a containment one).

[@MrGreenTabasco]

This list is very much incorrect.

[@nathanlane1783]

Audio tip: For creating an otherworldly sound through overdubbing (like I you did on the alpha-plus psyker), overdub more takes of the same voices and hard pan them in different directions. Three on the Left and Three on the right is probably enough. It also becomes less important to nail the timing exactly as you add more voices since it becomes less or a duo and more of a choir. You can also get a variety in that choir with just one voice but by changing your tone, pitch or distance from the the microphone. Nice effects!

[@gamingrat842]

I was like “oh wow, alpha psychers are strong, great video loved the explanat-“ *next tier shows up* “HOW CAN YOU GET WORSE THAN APOCALYPTIC?”

[@VestedUTuber]

"History only knows one 'stable' Alpha-Plus psyker - the God-Emperor of Mankind himself" Calling him stable is a bit of a reach. He's not as unstable as most of them, but the guy's still quite nuts. Just more in that "eccentric rich guy" way, instead of "batshit crazy".

[@toreadum8ass]

Well, that is why "stable" is in quotation marks when referring to him.

[@hallowedbeyourdays]

Alpha-Plus does not include the Master of Mankind. Whether the term you measure by is raw power, control or utilization, any trial you could conceive would have been completed with ease when he still walked among us. There has been no equal to him, before or since. And human or otherwise.

[@VestedUTuber]

@@hallowedbeyourdays "There has been no equal to him, before or since. And human or otherwise." Magnus the Red would have come close even before his fall. But then again he was originally a creation of the Emperor and specifically originally made to share Throne duties with Big E himself, so that's kind of a given. Magnus was classified as Alpha-Plus despite being relatively close in power to Big E, so it stands to reason that the Emperor himself, should you have to put a label on him, would also be an Alpha-Plus psyker.

[@danitron4096]

Well tbh he ways fairly ok until he ended up on the throne. He was perfectly sane for millenia

[@VestedUTuber]

@@danitron4096 We actually don't know of the Emperor's mental state post-heresy. I was referring to how he was at the time of the Great Crusade.

[@mill2712]

1:15 - Level 0. 1:33 - Level 1. 2:05 - Level 2. 2:38 - Level 3. 3:09 - Level 4. 4:00 - Level 5. 4:46 - Alpha 5:26 - Alpha+

[@ScarfieFacade28]

Reminder : level 4 - Primaris Psyker is currently 60 points in the Astra Militarum codex. and Presumably : The Grey Knight Brotherhood Librarian which is likely to be a Beta level Psyker - level 5. Is 100 points. --- Also most psyker in the Imperium are not combat psykers and many are Astropaths help connect communications faster than light between imperial worlds. They are probably Level 2 psykers. Level 3 Psykers- are probably The Psyker in Dark Tide, many underground Unsanctioned psyker, I assume many generic grey knights are of this tier- before getting their gene seed and implants. Librarians of space marines are probably level 4 too. If they are named Librarian they potentially can be 5. 4&5 level psykers are probably where all the Inquisition level psykers are.

[@dataexpunged6426]

Just the shaking and depth to the voice you could know the threat of the Alpha Plus and with the description gave me spine chills man...nice job!

[@Xaxp]

Wait until you get into Antisouls, Blanks, and Paiahs. I recall an Omega Negative soul that was literally a fetus hooked up to an anti-psyker cannon because it destroyed its mother's soul before its body could develop.

[@nowanimportant8887]

Imagine if it did develop. What sort of power would it have wielded against Chaos?

[@rhett3185]

@@nowanimportant8887it’s not just anti-chaos, it’s anti-warp and by extension also anathema to even the material plane.

[@nowanimportant8887]

@@rhett3185 Ooh, now I wanna see what exactly that fetus would've become had it been able to reach its prime.

[@xcell_r4thr87]

​@@nowanimportant8887probably an Anti-God of Chaos, a God of Order perhaps?

[@nowanimportant8887]

@@xcell_r4thr87 Don't gods need worship or smth for empowerment? Something which is only capable through Warp logic? Unlikely for that matured blank to become a god...but very likely that its own blankness has become potent enough to harm one.

[@XaldirGodofGood]

While I already knew this bit of Lore, I have to say that the Voice Acting and the Illustrations where highly Entertaining and made me greatly enjoy rereading this already known Lore.

[@allisvain123]

In Darktide: Sedition, Uprising, Malice psykers = Iota Normal Heresy, Damnation psykers = Zeta Auric Damnation, Auric Maelstrom = Delta

[@dreamhollow]

I like this list. It does a great job of summarizing psyker affinity. The simplistic animation style is pleasing to the eye.

[@mbp1652]

Good enough. You did better than a lot of clowns! I'll give you a sub

[@TheRealRightPrice]

Malcador would dispute the claim that the Emperor is the only ever stable alpha plus psyker.

[@Nerthos]

Malcador was extremely strong, but probably around alpha level. He wasn't able to repair his body at will (past his ability to stop aging), couldn't warp-travel by himself, and even without the crazy stuff, his body was already at its limit when he used his powers seriously, as shown when he almost kills Horus and almost burns himself in the process.

[@KT-pv3kl]

​@@Nerthosnot all Psykers have the same powers. Also Magnus is easily in the high alpha plus levels orders of magnitude stronger than malcador at base level. The threshold between alpha and alpha plus is roughly between being a threat to an entire planet (alpha) and being able to devastate entire star systems or even subsectors (alpha plus)

[@Nerthos]

@@KT-pv3kl Magnus yes. At base he had massive psyker potential and he also had a primarch body capable of surviving the full use of his powers. Malcador's main hurdle was his body.

[@KT-pv3kl]

@@Nerthos we do know that several alpha plus psykers exist that have frail mortal bodies and seem to have no trouble with using their powers. I suspect it is more a problem with malcadors mental hurdles and limits that he put on himself as he was a very cautious man and knew well about the corrupting influence of the warp. He would rather risk his body breaking than having his mind corrupted.

[@riftdancer1349]

6:39 HERESY!

[@SaltyMaverick]

No, no, he's got a point.

[@bwowzah]

Fantastic video! Great depiction of lore, art and VA.

[@quicke5486]

This is by far the best video describing the Psyker levels.

[@daringfungus]

I've been looking for a video like this for months now, thank you so much!

[@cygnusereve4779]

The first guardsman. He must be a hero. He already survived 1 week already, if not more.

[@sxztube]

That was fun, man, great job! Keep 'em coming!

[@Bunker-Nines]

This is great! Your voice is awesome for a kind of in-universe lore reading!

[@thetalantonx]

Very well done for a first video! The art, the writing, and the in character speech set you apart from other lore channels. Subscribed and liked.

[@cultuschoco]

I’d love to see more lore videos, you have just an amazing voice

[@MrMagbrant]

well done mate, I enjoyed this ^^

[@troller9838]

What would the Psykers in WH40k:Darktide be considered? Epsilon? Gamma? Somewhere in that ballpark? Either way, they seem pretty powerful considering how they can casually decimate large amounts chaos guardsmen, dreg militia etc.

[@randominternetguy8735]

Zeta/Epsilon. Comparable to Wyrdvane Psykers.

[@randominternetguy8735]

WITNESS YOUR DOOOOOOOMMMMM!!!

[@nonya1366]

Psykers can Grow in power, so the weedy, level one psyker could be a different rating than the Level 30 "I run Auric Every Day and suffer no downs" Psyker. I'd rate them in a range from Iota to Low Delta.

[@xptaco2298]

@@nonya1366 exactly, forgot his name but he was a low level psyker that grew to be alpha-plus

[@nonya1366]

@@xptaco2298 The emperor of mankind ™? I mean, he's a great outlier.

[@d.c8575]

Dude, that was awesome!!!, incredible video!!!

[@applepiepieapple5464]

My theroy is that Caiaphas Cain is a low level Psyker, thus explaining his pure immaculate luck

[@krofgninut5984]

His personal assistant yurgen is a blank

[@Warmaster2001]

​@@krofgninut5984 to what classification? Tau, Sigma?

[@oglambo]

I love videos like this, concise, interesting, a little funny, but above all earnest; great content!

[@Taryntheterrible101]

Love it!!! 😁Voice acting is top tier!

[@nicholasvonziethen7647]

This is the first one of your videos I've seen, it came up recommended. I didn't know it was your first time doing a lore video! You absolutely killed it, you should definitely make some more!

[@manu_spawn]

I love when comparisons of a same artstyle are used for measuring purpouses. Please keep it up!

[@Cadiangrunt99]

Nicely done dude.

[@rdzdoodles8592]

finally, someone's real voice in the flood of AI generated voices. Great job >u

[@waverwalet6124]

1:21 WEEK? 8h on the battle field and you already consider War Veteran.

[@d4darwin458]

😂😂😂

[@ZuluJoestar]

This was VERY good keep it up. I hope you do more lore videos

[@magoodada]

Dude your video was awesome. I hope you have more

[@mikelhalsey5210]

the Images with the voice acting as you go through the stages are an awesome touch, I hope you continue to make videos like this.

[@firud468]

Reminds me of The Exploring Series channel that widely covers sci-fi, mythology books and most notably SCPs

[@bevans4712]

Awesome, great voice acting and something i always wanted to know

[@thorshammer7883]

In the Warhammer 40k page known as the Assignment there are Psyker Grades even more powerful then Alpha Plus. It goes back down all the way to the Omega Plus grade. A Omega Plus grade has so far never appeared in Warhammer 40k. Even the Chaos gods fall short of being Omega Plus and even no powerhouse of the War In Heaven has ever achieved a Omega Plus grade tier. Not even Gork and Mork are stated to be around Omega Plus. Atleast. None have as of yet.

[@RicksThread]

The dark king

[@swolzer]

but why do they make omega plus if it doesnt even exist in the verse

[@thorshammer7883]

@@swolzer Why are you asking me? It's on the Assignment page nonetheless and Omega Plus is listed as the absolute highest pinnacle of power in the Warp that could exist and that no one has ever reached this stage.

[@fish5671]

Omega plus be playing basketball with stars

[@Jyan1991]

Cool vid, loved the pictures too lol

[@joelbell6075]

This was AWESOME!!! Please do a video on the Sisters of Silence, too!!

[@jaxxchang-weinberg4684]

I would love more of these videos! Especially one on types of Xenos

[@khahinmetameta7826]

In the taninth/gaunt novels. There's a inquisitor with powers and with a mutated face of horse and I mean literally. How the hell did he escape genetic screening?

[@individual2122]

He probably got that face from some Tzeentch fuckery he contracted while reading one of those forbidden tomes and wasn't executed on the spot because the higher Puritan Inquisitors wanted them to be a living example of what happens when you become a Radical Inquisitor and start studying arcane texts.

[@averageeughenjoyer6429]

I remember someone saying he did it to himself to look threatening

[@individual2122]

@@averageeughenjoyer6429 but instead he comes off looking like a jack-ass.

[@The.Orange.Wizard]

@@averageeughenjoyer6429Correct, it was done through surgery designed to make him a more threatening interrogator, that was until Mad Larkin nearly blew his head off.

[@averageeughenjoyer6429]

@@The.Orange.Wizard better fate than eternal long face jokes

[@matthewboyd3653]

I really enjoyed this! Looking forward to seeing more videos!

[@AeronHale]

So where does Malcador rank? I was under the impression he was an alpha or alpha+ level psyker. Being second or third(depending on your take concerning Magnus) behind The Emperor himself?

[@jtmartin1170]

He’d definitely be an Alpha. Maybe a bit more. Remember that Malcador couldn’t even survive a full day on the Golden Throne. The Emperor has been on it for 10,000 years. The only other person in the universe with the same (or close to the same) psychic potential as the Big E was Magnus before his soul was shattered and replaced by warp spaghetti. Malcador is still at number 3, but the gap between him and Magnus, and Magnus and the Emperor is nearly infinite.

[@Mr._Galaxywide]

@@jtmartin1170 TBF the emperor is basically a warp god, and if theories are to be believed the primearchs are mini-warp gods

[@odkjqedlkd]

@@jtmartin1170 ı think he could not survive because physically he was a human , even tough his mind was strong enough to operate the throne , its my theory tho

[@TheKalZul]

@@jtmartin1170 You may want to read The End And The Death, technically he is surviving much longer than in the original tale, though that's fairly vague still time-wise. This is the same man that dumped Titan the moon into the Warp and nearly killed Horus with a hand gesture.

[@AeronHale]

It's pretty obvious that simply running the Astronomicon while still difficult and taxing doesn't destroy the user in the same way. Otherwise Magnus wouldn't have been able to do it either as he was intended to do since he's not a perpetual like the Emperor or Malcador. The Emperor was also able to do so while operating freely prior to "the incident". So I don't think him using the throne and dying in the process is actually a good gauge of his psyker powers so much as one for gauging his comparative powers as a perpetual to that of the Emperor who is of course not only the most powerful psyker but perpetual as well. The throne is continuously destroying The Emperor's body while being more or less stalemated by his power as a perpetual. We know Malcador can take a hell of a beating but the throne simply overwhelmed his threshold when used to hold the webway closed and power the Astronomicon. I think in terms of psychic might he was probably capable of doing so for extended periods but not physically capable of doing so.

[@katgut]

Nutty that darktide is basically all zeta - epsilon level psykers just all there at once

[@Warmaster2001]

Well not too high and not too low)

[@imotekh6110]

Very good video. Production value was of a rarer sort. I would love a video perhaps going over the Necrons or the marine. Perhaps covering even the Ordo of the inquisition and associated chamber militant. Excellent work and I'd love to see more.

[@johnnyanderson2-roblox185]

absolutely AMAZING, would LOVE to see more.

[@martinratagris]

An amazing video. I would love to see you cover other factions and lore. Maybe Guard regiments (Catachan, Krieg, Valhalla, etc) or something else.

[@catfoodbob1]

What level of psycher would it take for them to establish and develop working real estate inside the warp? as in, they are powerful enough to create a area in the warp that they can actively protect and draw from stabilizing their power.

[@MyNameIsSalo]

that's what the emperor was building before magnus broke through it. A highway of sorts that is fully protected from outside influence of the warp. The Eldar had something similar too

[@Jack-he8jv]

omega, basicaly choas god leve. i think lore wise its a major breakpoint, up to alpha plus even regular humans can train to that level, but all omega beings embody some kind of aspect of emotions(old ones, eldar gods, chaos gods), basicaly becoming a natural funnel of soul energy.

[@usssztorm1410]

"Stable" 06:25

[@NialasDubh]

Ah now, I'd already hit the like button after the main video ended, and then your outro finished with disgraceful heresy. Like withdrawn.

[@LightCrasher]

The Emperror was not the only Alfa Plus psyker. It was the only survived one after psychic wars during unification of Terra. There were others like him, who could counrol other people`s will and even memories directly, gaining an absolute power over others around them.

[@jamricsloe]

That is a particular type of psychic power/school/talent, not necessarily Alpha Plus.

[@ShimrraJamaane]

Malcador was absolutely alpha plus level, *_at a minimum._* He was able to power the Golden Throne for a time, something no mortal could hope to achieve. His power was second only to the Emperor (not counting Magnus, who was created rather than born).

[@durrangodsgrief6503]

​@@ShimrraJamaanebut malcador burned out if hes Alpha plus then he emperor is beyond that

[@ShimrraJamaane]

@@durrangodsgrief6503 The Emperor is beyond measure. He is nearly a god in the warp, as he is feared by Chaos. He bitchslapped Nurgle by telekinetically throwing Mortarion at him while channeling a fraction of his being through Guilliman (resurrecting Guilliman in the process). Yeah, Malcador is Alpha+, hands down. He lived 6700+ years, could survive being punched by Lorgar, went full Darth Vader mode on Horus, and had so much power in reserve that he could power the Golden Throne in order to seal out a demon onslaught. In his last moments, after being sucked dry by the Golden Throne, he was able to gift the last of his essence to the Emperor. By doing so, the Emperor was able to survive long enough to give his last commands before being sealed in stasis upon the throne. The fact that he basically gave enough psychic force that he could singlehandedly sustain the EoM shows his power. It took 1000 psykers a day (now 4000) just to maintain stasis and the astronomicon, not even restoring a semblance of life. Anywho, EoM is beyond the measurable scale of psykers by an absurd degree. Malcador is Alpha+ minimum. They can both do ridiculous things with their powers.

[@wewuzkangz2505]

@@durrangodsgrief6503 The Emperor is way beyond that, he's not even on the scale. The Emperor can actually drink raw warp energy, it's not even something a living being should be able to do. He's much more a god stuffed into a meat-suit, rather than a psyker.

[@HitandRyan]

Missed opportunity for the greatest of all psyker quotes: WITNESS YOUR DOOOOOOOOOMM!!!

[@snowythompson2349]

I guess "Alpha Plus" would explain what he did to Horus.

[@zombi3brosnanxx]

I really enjoyed this video. I've come back and rewatched it a dozen time over at this point.

[@Kaador]

The Emperor isnt Alpha-Plus, he is Lambda-Plus (A God) only there in Physis because of the Throne...

[@Warmaster2001]

If he will be in that level he already will be the 5th Chaos God.

[@MyNameIsSalo]

@@Warmaster2001 if he wasn't bound to the throne he probably would be a chaos god already

[@fanonfrenzy3809]

voice works and so does the art stlye. its different. keep at it.

[@TOUGHEYES]

An Alpha or Alpha Plus, aware of their condition but who instead of dying, goes to the Golden Throne and the Emperor himself, not to die, but to control their power, to want to help..... That would be a good story in 40k, even though it's not necessarily Grimdark.

[@moreplease998]

The issue lies in the attention they get from beings within the warp. Being that powerful they'd be like a glowing beacon that draws all manner of daemons to them and those daemons will be working very hard to corrupt / eat their soul, and no psychic has more power than the chaos gods and their servants on this playing field. Even the most powerful psyker is the underdog. Resisting that kind of assault is not so much about what help you get as it is about your own nature. Emps is stable for one reason: he has absolute conviction and certainty that he is right. He has no doubts or uncertainties for daemons to exploit, which is why he gets labeled The Anathema by chaos. Problem is while that part of Emps nature helps him deal with the warp side of things, it makes him fail to see the mistakes he's making with humans. We don't react very well to people like that. Sure, we might look up to them at first but over time we come to see this aspect of their nature as a major flaw in them. In the stories it is made clear that Emps has had quite a few people turn on him or turn their back on him throughout his life because they see his way as the wrong way but he never will admit it, even if they are actually right. He does manage to win an old friend back though at the end of the Horus Heresy by finally listening to someone else telling him he's wrong and backtracking on the path he was on.

[@felicianwood2305]

That was pretty cool video! I love the small animations and voices

[@jubseest8439]

"Remember the rune priest is not a dirty Pysker. They get their power from the ancestors of fenris. " Says a gigachad space wolf😂

[@TheShadowwarrior80]

Oh yes, the giant illiterate furry with an alcohol problem is an expert in matters of the warp.

[@LZRCuteR]

Noiooce! Subbed

[@Its_Cannon]

Malcador force choked the Primarch Horus Luprical while sitting in a chair and barely breaking a sweat, while scolding him and verbally backhanding his other Primarch brothers. *Malcador is a Chad Plus Psyker.*

[@Warmaster2001]

Again with this Chad nonsense. Dude the same thing average sanctioned psycher trained telepath of Iota to Eta rank can do exact same. And it is possible even against primarch like Horus because he isn't a Psyker.

[@mumbo_fuze2484]

Please do more of these they are super fun and informative!

[@lordinquisitorrichard8808]

The custodes secretly capture and employ alpha level psykers and use them as astropaths or to accurately predict the future for certain events

[@jackcrawford9900]

This is an extremely well made video! kudos!

[@tilted_axis9819]

Would be interesting to do a similar video on more specialized psykers & compare relative power. Like astropaths, navigators, blanks & grey knights

[@jessikablake4784]

This is your first video? I came back to learn about psykers again since i show signs of mutation

[@muhammadzailan3893]

Question what would the darktide psyker be categorized into because by the scale you set they would be beta but could also be gamma

[@ourcommonancestry6025]

Was very good. I subbed

[@majesticed9329]

I guess you could consider the Empero in 30k to be a alpha-plus level psyker, but he has transcended that level in 40k

[@darkrager872]

Even in 30K the Emperor was past alpha plus

[@majesticed9329]

Problably after the deal he made with the chaos gods@@darkrager872

[@dieptxt2008]

Alpha plus is not an actual ranking, it's for anyone that is outside of the rank. For example, level 100 is Alpha, then level 150 is Alpha Plus, but level 1000 is still Alpha Plus. Alpha plus is a point that it has become meaningless to categorise them.

[@justinisp9361]

I was just saying that the God Emperor shouldn't really be called as "Sane" not after all he's done with his "Sons" and then you ended the video that way. Good Call. Also, loved the video. Wouldn't mind having more bite size videos like this.

[@zaxtinhazelhof6006]

zeta plus psyker 💀

[@Warmaster2001]

Omega+

[@OneReallyGrumpyJill]

You could put a twist on it where each video is made by Inqusition as part of some "entree into database" - but overall, very cute style, def keep it up

[@MrCemicalX]

Is there also a scaling or power level for blanks?

[@beastalchemistVA]

I wish. But the artist never made one.

[@starburst98]

Yes, but no drawing of it.

[@MrCemicalX]

Aw, too bad. Well, maybe sth gets released in the future with how events in 40k are progressing. @@beastalchemistVA

[@stepanotrisal1512]

Level 1 Level 2 . . . Level Numbers Are A Mere Abstraction To Me

[@skywillfindyou]

Imperium doesn't use psyker of beta and above in raw way. They "castrate' them, diminishing theiir powers. Eldars, while their psykers are common, their power doesn't go above gamma (we don't know examples) and with ages of training.

[@starburst98]

Even dudes like Eldrad?

[@joesheridan9451]

Where have you got the idea that eldar don’t go above gamma level? I think you just pulled that out of your ass. Eldrad would easily be in any top 5 most powerful psykers in the setting list. Farseers are very similar to thousand sons level of power and in how they use their power. They can read the future and leave their physical bodies at will to travel the immaterium. This is a race that’s entire world ships are phsycically powered and who sing their ships and titans into existence lol

[@crim1188]

That is utter nonsense. Your average eldar CHILD is nore physically gifted than the average Imperial psyker, nevermind a farseer. What a stupid thing to say

[@clonedrone3084]

@@joesheridan9451Also disregarding the fact that the Eldar are constantly nerfed in their psychic potential. They wear ghosthelms and use runes to regulate and dampen their power to not attract a shit ton of Slaanesh daemons.

[@krofgninut5984]

I imagine its like comparing thunder warriors to astartes; raw power vs stability and reliability

[@laughingwarlock]

The Emperor of mankind being considered stable is debatable.

[@zeehero7280]

40k is notoriously inconsistent with everything involving scale, psyker power levels are no exception.

[@Warmaster2001]

Psychic power level is chaotic and unstable. You can't stabily designate it because the Psyker can demonstrate the power level as they choose to demonstrate. Gamma Psyker can just demonstrate low Psyker ability and designated as Omicron, or same Omicron Psyker showing a psychic might of a Zeta level unintentionally.

[@mide2476]

I would love for you to do more lore videos. Your voice in this one was so good.

[@ТарасМакаренко-ф3ш]

As a WH40k fan, I approve and admire this video. thanks for the great job

[@steventcunliffe]

Great job, more please, also your female voice actor was great!