Bricky explains WARHAMMER 40K and I try to remember all the other HORRIFIC things he's taught me

[@itzamedio5427]

"Morbid curiosity is a hell of a drug"

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

FACTS

[@randomrealistictone2231]

​@@HannaHsOverInvestedplease read The New book "Longshot" It's about a female Cadian sniper trying to live after her world fell.

[@crescentmethod]

Gotta second "infinite and the Divine", the narrator on the audio book absolutely kills the part, and seriously elevates the book with his performance.

[@AlValentyn]

For sure. Absolutely amazing book. The Twice Dead King books also

[@Ny-kelCameron]

Agreed. Just finished the Infinite and Divine audio book, highly recommended. I will also recommend any of the actual full cast audio dramas; with added sound effects, adds additional immersion to the story.

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

For those who don't know, it's about two Necrons scholars who have been pranking and trolling each other for millennia, it's some of the nicer and wholesome bits of Warhammer lore

[@joeavreg2254]

It is great but there is a fair amount of esoterica that could put people off. I'd say any first dip should be human centred. Going from nothing to the Necrons will be difficult with no basic grounding in what's going on.

[@airsoftpopcorn]

I would NOT recommend the infinite and the divine, if you are not already pretty far into 40k lore then you are just going to be confused for the entire book

[@rycolligan]

"That's his GOVERNMENT name?" He is THE EMPEROR. He IS the GOVERNMENT. 😁

[@ayanleman]

I've seen bricky in a lot of live, unscripted stuff like livestreams and collabs with other KZbinrs and i gotta say, he's suuuuper good at off the cuff comedy. We love an improv king

[@nullakjg767]

Hes just a regular dude. Thats what conversations are like for people with friends when they hang out lol.

[@Harril8265]

@@nullakjg767 For some people, but not everyone. Don't make sweeping generalizations, and give the guy the credit he's due.

[@nullakjg767]

@@Harril8265 im sure its something hed say himself.

[@denkerbosu3551]

@@nullakjg767 so, he would be wrong? What was your point, lol.

[@ThrashRats]

Okay, the connection between energy drinks AND gamer culture is actually insane to look into. Energy drinks were often used by early developers to pull all nigthers programming, then passed to the youth playing and now is a wave of propaganda from the big brands trying to focus their market towards gamers. If I remember correctly, the earliest connection between these was back in a developer comment for a DOS program back in 1994. "Fortunately the system understands the programmer is simply overdosing on Mountain Dew and ignores the request for non-existant modules."

[@TheDeathstyk]

so, the emperor on the throne part can basically be summed up as: when Magnus the red tried to warn the emperor about horus, he tore a hole in the space webway the emperor was trying to create. All Big Emps saw was his son fucking up his biggest project, so he sent another son to go whoop his ass. Meanwhile, Big E needs to stay on the throne to keep that hole closed and keep out the demons that would otherwise pour into terra. When he goes to fight his son Horus after the betrayal is made clear and the war reaches Terra, he has his best friend sit on the throne. Sadly, that is a death sentence because his BFF isn't as powerful as him and he basically is burning out. Big E gets mortally wounded, and brought back to the throne, where his friend uses the last of this psychic essence to give some more life to Big E. They put him on the throne, and since then, he has maintained the guarding of the hole Magnus made, and served as a giant light house in the warp to guide all travel.

[@drummerboi357]

and for people wondering "why didn't magnus tell the son Big emps sent" it was The primarch of the space wolves who basicly didn't get along with magnus at all and was just a excuse for him to kick his ass

[@denkerbosu3551]

@@drummerboi357 weren't the orders also sabotaged by more chaos agents to guarantee that fight?

[@drummerboi357]

@@denkerbosu3551 eaither way the wolf needed a excuse XD

[@andrewallen6860]

The REAL tragedy (one among many in the 40k universe) is if the Emperor were to ever be unplugged from the Golden throne, he'd ressurect back to full health... Which the high lord of Terra are terrified of even considering. For several reasons. Firstly, The emperor holds back a tear in reality torn open by Magnus, which now acts like a portal to the warp, and him sitting on the throne keeps it from swallowing up Terra. Secondly, intergalactic travel would simply come to a screeching halt and the imperium would collapse instantly. Thirdly, the moment the Emperor gets back on his feet, he would make sweeping changes that would alter the face of his empire completely and the first on the chopping block would be the high lords, the ecclesiarch, the inquisition, and anyone else who killed thoughtlessly in his name as a god, which he hated.

[@TheTrveMothlord]

One thing to consider is it could take seconds, hours, days or weeks for him to come back... there's no certainty

[@vahdoom]

Sounds like it needs to be done

[@themalcontent100]

You forgot the part where there might be 2 Big Es, the man and the god. For ten thousand years, countless people have worshipped and died for him. 365,000 psychers have had their souls burned out and all of them powering a light bulb. All welcome the 5th Chaos god, and we are his junk food.

[@janolump8091]

Or not at all and astronomicon is gone. @@TheTrveMothlord

[@SapFeaRon]

Moment emperor is unpulgged, earth will explode into another eye of terror, which in turn will be end of galaxy and not just "oh no we can't warp travel". That is real reason why he is sitting on throne.

[@raithnor6007]

Brickyard left out an important detail about the Eldar’s fall. Before Slannesh, Eldar were effectively immortal and could reincarnate. If an Eldar died, they’d be reborn in a new body with the same soul (and memories). This enabled the super-debauchery that created Slannesh. After Slannesh, each Eldar faction had to modify how they dealt with death. Craftworlds created soul-powered computers, Dark Eldar figured that if they gave Slannesh other souls, they would be left (mostly) alone.

[@PsycHoOone]

Good addition!

[@sulphuric_glue4468]

And don't forget the Exodites, who store the souls of their dead in World Spirits

[@Pragabond]

@@sulphuric_glue4468 Exodites? Who? GW has certainly never heard of them.

[@Kevkoss]

How is that all related to Dune? Well, basically when Games Workshop was creating lore for Warhammer 40k, they kinda did "let me borrow your homework, I promise to change it a little". They kept the promise. They changed literally very little. Some of the "homeworks" they "borrowed" were: Dune, Judge Dredd, Starship Troopers (the 1959 novel) + few more.

[@Fpwc2]

Alien too

[@marcwittkowski5146]

Fun fact: GW used to produce official Judge Dredd miniatures.

[@ironduke5058]

28:46 It's like having someone in a coma from a brain injury, you can't just "heal" someone in a coma and make them wake up when you want. The person can look fine, but something inside is royally screwed. On top of that, souls are real in 40k and weapons can genuinely damage the spirit, which seems is what Horus might've done. Essentially he's the coma patient that is busy dying everyday, only being kept alive by the equipment he's hooked up to and unfortunately the souls of psykers are the nutrients the staff pump through his drip-feeding tube

[@josefstalin9678]

Isnt there also the thing where the throne takes a lot of energy from the user and if the emperor were taken off the throne he could actually heal himself naturally but then chaos would come through the hole and destroy everything

[@ironduke5058]

@@josefstalin9678 Bingo. If he gets up or dies then bye-bye Holy Terra and bye-bye Astronomicon

[@halfknight2310]

@@josefstalin9678 yep, he gets up, give it a bit, and he's back. problem. terra would be overrun. the rest of humanity would be blind. and chaos, would be back at full force

[@halfknight2310]

21:40 there is the character of Argel Tal. traitor space marine, who had a demon inside him. He became a sort of marine demon hybdrid known as a ghal vorbac. he kinda befriends the demon, he didn't like the fact he had a demon in him, but the two become somewhat like friends. with Argel Tal giving the demon a body, and the demon enhancing argel tal.

[@zigmus00A]

Argel Tal deserved better 😭

[@spiggityspoo756]

@@zigmus00A Say it with me y’all: FUCK EREBUS

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

Imo a great introduction to warhammer 40k is the book "15 hours", its a story from the perspective of an ordinary man conscripted into the imperial guard and thrown into a warzone by an administration error. Most warhammer stories typically show you the universe from the perspectives of super humans, gods, or advanced aliens, but the most relatable way of experiencing true horror is from the perspective of an ordinary human.

[@EggBoi_8]

My god. I forgot about “15 hours”. How could I forgot that ork madness masterpiece. A true definition of a short story for warhammer.

[@Silentpoppy]

I love the stories that are from the perspective of the everyday citizens of the imperium, puts the sheer size of the danger in perspective

[@mazimadu]

About the psyker movie: It already exist. It's called EVENT HORIZON

[@JesperoTV]

21:27 That is basically the plot of the Eisenhorn books, more and more so the further in you get.

[@ravenward626]

04:00 I think it's like a celebrity partnership. Like Ben & Jerry's naming a new flavor of ice cream after someone with an audience. They get more advertising, sell more ice cream, and the celebrity probably gets a cut for their trouble.

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

OHHHHHHHHHHH that's cool.

[@Homievegetable]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@HannaHsOverInvestedi can whole heartedly recommend Russian badgers lovely flavour call “Guacamole gamer fart 3000”

[@frankieH91]

The Eisenhorn series by Dan Abnett might be a good fit for you Hannah. Inquisitor mysteries and stuff like that, Eisenhorn and his loyal band of followers saving the imperium while at the same time being somewhat disgusted by the imperium that he's saving. He's a pretty likable protagonist, for an inquisitor at least.

[@FurieMan]

27:50 Oh Dune is like the progenitor of this. The dune books was released 1965 and Warhammer 40k was released 1987 and was heavily inspired by Dune. Dune is the inspiration for a lot of scify. Especially Science fantasy such as Starwars.

[@nklinef]

I was kind of excited thinking this video was literally Bricky in person trying to explain the Warhammer Universe to you personally and attempting to answer all your questions. That's not what this is sadly, but it would make for a GREAT follow up video! You should try to make that happen please🙏

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

Imagine if that happened LOL he's too big time for me tho

[@nklinef]

@@HannaHsOverInvested Lol no he's not, just ask him. You might be surprised.

[@thetalantonx]

I still love seeing you getting into gaming and geeking out with us over Warhammer 40K. Thanks for being open to our hobbies and congratulations on going from non-Gamer to new-Gamer.

[@Deras_]

Bricky also has a warhammer podcast, where they discuss warhammer lore but on occasion also warhammer books, for example the infinite and the divine, it's called Adeptus Rediculus

[@CptPanda29]

Quick note - Age of Strife was during the *build up* of Slaanesh, before the birth. The Eldar didn't care that the Warp was becoming dangerously unstable because they didn't use it. Humanity meanwhile couldn't do anything. Imagine every road has a pile-up and every communication line is jammed, down or activley trying to kill you. Things actually got much much calmer following Slaanesh's birth. This was all just after the war between Men of Stone (humans) and Men of Iron (the robots) so Humanity was already really REALLY hurting. The birth of Slaanesh, the sudden calming of the Warp and the previous dominant power vanishing was what the Emperor was waiting for to launch the Great Crusade - while the other great Chaos powers were massivley distracted dealing with Slaanesh.

[@jamesgillum9604]

"tHaT's HiS gOvErNmEnT nAmE??" absolutely sent me, I love it

[@joshuadunn2]

The Dark Eldar being able to stave off Slaanesh makes sense because the Warp is fed by thoughts/emotions, and the Chaos gods are literal manifestations of specific aspects relating to these. Slaanesh is the god of excess, pain, and extreme emotions. Every time the Dark Eldar torture people, it feeds Slaanesh, and they are thus ignored. Think of being trapped in a cage with a lion and a cooler full of meat. As long as you keep feeding the lion, it will leave you alone. As soon as you stop, it's going to start looking at you as a meal. Same deal. Even though it makes Slaanesh stronger, they keep doing horrible things because it's the only thing keeping them alive.

[@SKRRTCOBAIN00]

"Help Him" YH thats not really possible I read once that when they take the emperor of the throne he would most likely start to heal Only one problem there... Demons would immediatly invade Terra...

[@dagonofthedepths]

Guess fun fact if you like messed up stuff. Deamons kind of have 2 main ways of doing possession and entering real space through a psyker. First is the typical ghost horror movie thing you might think of. The daemon getting inside and making the person act all crazy while slowly turning into that person. Unfortunately this tends to level the person insane at the best of times because if you're in a battle of wills with an immortal creature made basically out of thought, that tends to be a losing battle. Other method is kind of more direct where they turn the victim into a more literal portal. In which the psyker explosively dies and daemons run out of his corpse which probably is shaped like a doorway now.

[@tb1271]

A fun thing for me with the Cain books is spotting all the references to British TV shows, Cain himself is Blackadder, just with Blackadder's outbursts internalised, and Jurgen is Baldrick, but competent.

[@novadragonz7357]

The first three books for The Horus Heresy absolutely slam it.out the ballpark

[@mumbo_fuze2484]

19:54 ok so basically when Slaanesh was born she/he/it put a sort of curs on the dark eldar. it's basically how if vampires don't drink blood they become weaker and more frail. As they continue to live Slaanesh slowly sucks their soul, and they in turn become more weaker. But the moment they feel a bit of emotion like say the joy of eating good food they get rejuvenated. They turn from some 80 year old person who is 2 steps away from dying to a youthful 20 year old. Their plan to survive Slaanesh is like if a pool has a hole in it and is leaking water but you constantly put more water in the pool. Dark Eldar are the pool and Slaanesh is the hole that sucks the water out. 29:13 they can't. If The Emperor was removed or disturbed from this task for even a second Terra would be eaten by Chaos. You see that Webway portal he made? It was invaded by daemons after Magnus accidentally broke his wards. Now, if The Emperor dies daemons would invade and conquer Terra and the only thing guiding The Imperium in the warp would vanish, and humanity would enter a new Age of Strife.

[@HunterSentinel]

Yay, your back and checking out more warhammer! I genuinely get excited when I see you reacting to more of it!

[@macnbac3476]

I can heavily recommend the audiobook "Brutal Kunnin." It's relatively short, has some spectacular voice acting, and has some of the best written characters.

[@matthewy2j]

Bricky is such a great content creator, even without a script on his livestreams, the guy is super funny.

[@d-pod_L]

Horus Rising is a great introduction, starts just before he falls to chaos, so you get the chance to see how his legion and a couple of others were like in the beginning Also, a lot of the characters go on to become important figures in the lore, so no problems with character longevity

[@cromotocciano]

Hannah on Slaanesh is the embodiment of 'I can fix her'

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

😂😂😂

[@MeridianSon]

This cubed!

[@Vulkanprimarch]

Although 40K is a setting that is grim and dark and exists for epic war between cool sci-fi armies. There is still at its core a hopeful theme of the human spirit refusing to surrender to despair. The average guardsman with a las rifle takes on the worst horrors that the galaxy can throw at him. And his motivations are still really human defend the imperium, defend his family and people and hopefully make it back to them.

[@ironduke5058]

19:45 No they didn't get Slaneesh lite, they hate her/him/it and everything she represents. Whatever Slaneesh is, is now them too and they rebuilt damn near their entire culture because they're so scared of it. They actively try to keep their emotions in check all the time and even sex is approached cautiously, making their birth rate pretty slow. But even so, like a curse, Slaneesh has a claim on ALL Eldar souls when they die, Craftworld or not. And the only thing keeping Craftworld souls from being fed to Slaneesh when they die are their "Soul stones", ruby like gems that catch the soul of the wearer before it goes to the Warp which they wear all over their armour. If you ever see Eldar warriors with rubies all over their armour in art that's why, they wanna keep their souls.

[@warbossgrimtoof569]

The golden throne isn’t really a throne in the literal sense, it’s a massive psychic machine that is basically the google maps of space travel. However this GPS needs an immensely powerful psychic “host” sitting in it in order for it to send out directions to all the ships in the Imperium. From what I understand the reason E-Money is on the golden throne is that he was too weak after his duel with Horus to do much else (as well as being the only Psyker strong enough to handle it) and the 1,000 sacrifices a day thing is to prevent the throne from completely draining E-Money of his life force

[@vahdoom]

29:06 how do you heal an immortal God?

[@colinmackay92]

I watched this while dipping tortilla chips in homemade chili and I had three beer. I don't know why I'm saying this. Have a good day.

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

LOL thank you for sharing

[@Randomdude.74]

I highly recommend pancreasnowork Halo hammer videos (Warhammer 40K vs Halo) it’s 3 videos and starts with the covenant, the forerunners, and finally the flood. He delves into how they may or may not survive the 40K universe and how they could be great faction in 40K. He does briefly touch upon why he doesn’t do the UNSC in quote “The UNSC gets absolutely curmbed stomped in 40K” Edit: Nvm on the UNSC Thing, is doing a video about them vs Warhammer. Although he himself did say he will be stretching as much as he can so the that the unsc doesn’t immediately get curb stomped

[@InsomniacTC]

The Infinite and The Divine is an absolute must. Its two 60 mil year old immortal robots having beef with all of reality being their toy

[@TheShadowscale]

Hannah, have you seen the trailers for Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2? It looks really good. Also, was that halo book The Fall of Reach?

[@adrianaslund8605]

When he talks about the Eldar im reminded of the podcast Hardcore History's episode "Painfotainment". About how ancient, medieval and later people justified the spectacle of executions. One part has an english upper class woman share her experience of watching her friend's execution and how she enjoyed the pathos and drama of it. She didn't hate her friend but she saw her execution as an inspiring performance. She apparently published her experiences around the time of the enlightenment and the public reaction to it was "That's messed up" which was a contributing factor in the debate about abolishing public executions. It gives one an insight into the warped mindset of a culture that has normalized this stuff. And I think the Eldar mind has alot of parallels with that woman's mentality.

[@jamie_d0g978]

Eldars by that time were immortal. Even if they were murdered, they reincarnate with all their memories, so murder and dearh was just another experience for them. It's more and less fucked up at the same time

[@xanosdarkpaw1]

You really want to read the infinite and the divine. It's one of the best 40k books.

[@brianfite4740]

Even with the audio book, my brain replaces the two protagonists voices with Statler and Waldorf.

[@airsoftpopcorn]

New people to 40k should not read the infinite and the divine, you have to already know a lot of 40k lore to be able to understand the majority of the book

[@xavier84623]

19:50 basically they owe slanesh their corrupted souls, and to keep her from consuming them they sort of stave off her hunger with a steady drip of extreme emotions. It’s basically known that this arrangement benefits slanesh because it feeds her and no one can live forever so when dark eldar die they go straight into her gut anyway.

[@steelbear2063]

19:53 - it makes sense because it's kinda like feeding somebody else to a giant monster so that it doesn't eat you. That's what Dark Eldar do

[@robasant2844]

For Big E to heal (because he can) he's body would have to be removed from the Golden Throne but since the time it would take for him to reconstitute himself is unknown that would leave humanity unable to communicate and travel, that would leave many worlds to either be taken by the Chaos Marines, the Eldar, the Necrons, the Tao, the Orcs or devoured by the Tyranids.

[@jesternario]

Energy drinks are indeed an important thing in gamer culture. Many gamers will drink Mountain Dew, or more frequently energy drinks, in order to stay active and keep their minds working quickly during play

[@waaaghzag]

I really recommend you jump off with Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn trilogy - Xenos, Malleus and Hereticus. It's a fantastic introduction to "normal" everyday worlds in 40k, avoids the huge wars, and focuses on Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn and his small band of agents. They go after the most dangerous criminals and biggest threats to the Imperium in the unseen secret wars that go on in the background outside of ordinary people's notice. Inquisitors have unlimited levels of authority, and only answer to their peers in the Inquisition, so their methods can range to range between very different extremes. The series takes you on a bit of a sight-seeing tour of different types of worlds.

[@kacperlubiak2801]

Symbol of the eye on armors or robes isnt something like police badge for inquisitors. For example Great Horus has big red eye on his armor chest. That eye symbol was named as "Eye of Terra" that was watching over the crusade (something like that). A lot of Astra Militarum Psykers and Astropaths wear that symbol

[@adrianaslund8605]

21:16 There is actually a philosophy called Xanthism in 40k were some people believe in using chaos against chaos. They are very controversial and secretive but that seems somewhat related to that idea. Except they don't necessarily have a double nature like Venom.

[@lilwheeliecleric]

Omg Does your shirt say heretic? PLEASE where did you get it?

[@Mugthraka]

21:40 Watch the movie "Event Horizon", its a Scyfy/Thriller/Horror where a Crew is sent to retrieve an experimental ship that went missing for weeks and reappered in the Solar System. When they board it, the ship is completly abbandoned, like a Ghost ship and the crew finds out that something went terribly wrong... Its regarded by the 40k community as the movie that explains the best what its like to travel through the Warp and when your Gellar Field( the shield technology that casts a bubble of reality around your ships to protect it from the Warp) Fails...

[@TheDeathstyk]

Also I think you would *love* the Bequin novels. There are currently two out. It's related to the inquisition, but also Blanks. Blanks are essentially anti psychers, they have a negative presence in the warp so they counter psychers and have no souls. Demons, psykers, and even normal people feel anything from horrible pain to mild discomfort around them. Solid books, very intriguing, and a solid female lead (which a lot of inquisition related books actually have, since GW decided space marines cant be women, they've made almost every inquisitor or war hero character female to try to make up for it.)

[@hyren690]

I played 40k a lot about 20 yrs ago... and as far as I can tell there were a couple pieces that he got wrong (unless GW retconned it since I played..). The C'tan were essentially created by the necrontyr. The C'tan were originally non-sentient space creatures that fed on stars. The necrons caught them and put them into living metal bodies, which gave them consciousness. The C'tan then decided that souls tasted a lot better than stars and started eating the necrons. The other bit was after the War in Heaven, the warp was bleeding into reality because the Old Ones created a bunch of psychic weapons to use against the C'tan (because it was their only real vulnerability). Warp entities (ie: daemons) started killing everyone, and the C'tan/necrons decided to hibernate and wait out the chaos. Again, this was the story from 20 yrs ago, right around when the Necrons were being developed.. so I wouldn't be surprised if all of that info got retconned since then

[@MeridianSon]

12:49 Absolutely LOVE that you're just bopping along to DEATH METAL!🤣

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

Lol was it not a boppy song?

[@MeridianSon]

@@HannaHsOverInvested a total banger, as they say!

[@AsobiMedio]

29:00 The Emperor is constantly holding back a gateway that leads to the warp on Terra long with maintaining the navigation system. These these actions require a ton of power, which prevents him from healing himself. If he ever attempted it, or if he was ever forcefully taken out of the chair, he'd heal himself, but Terra would fall. Others aren't powerful or skilled enough to heal him, and they can just barely sustain his life by sacrificing 1000 psykers every day.

[@Deras_]

Gamersups is essentialy a mix yourself energy drink, they have a huge variety of tastes some partners get to create their own tastes, for example the ytuber russian badger has guacamole gamerfart 9000 and the vtuber shylily has blowhole blast (cause accodring to her lore she's half orca, half cat, half human... don't ask)

[@Nicheaiken]

In most of the Ciaphas Cain books there is a cast of recurring characters. Sandy Mitchell except for a short story or two and the book you've already read, he doesn't write full team wipes.

[@slimthecatdad]

Hours Rising is an incredible book. I think Hannah would love it!

[@EVER_PRINCE]

The best way to explain why the emperor can’t be healed is the Golden Throne is basically slowly killing him constantly and the only thing keeping him from dying is people sacrificing Psykers to him. Basically imagine if you couldn’t turn your car off cause if you did it would never turn back on. So the only option is to keep topping up the gas tank.

[@Barendsen2]

Star Wars is definitely fantasy, its space samurai wizards

[@acemanmkiii]

They can't really help the Emperor because he can't just be removed from the Golden Throne. The second he gets removed from it the warp will engulf Terra as chaos is actively attacking the portal he keeps closed with his mind. If you're wondering how he got up to fight Horus; He had his best friend take his place on the throne ,the third most powerful human psyker called Malcador, who manged to sit on the throne for only a short while before disintegrating.

[@joshuadunn2]

Explaining a little about the Golden Throne and it's purpose...very abridged. The Golden Throne itself is a piece of technology from the Dark Age of Technology, and it's exact origin and full capabilities are kept vague. The Emperor left the helm of the Great Crusade and was working on the Golden Throne to use it's connection to the Warp as a beacon to make Warp travel easier, and then use it as a launching point to build humanity's own Webway. Pseudoscience explanation: the human Webway project started by branching off the Warp, and the Emperor set up "psychic barriers" to protect it from demons until it was finished. But then his son Magnus, trying to warn the Emperor about Horus turning traitor, attempted to send a psychic message through the Warp and broke the Webway's barriers in the process, which opened up a portal connecting the Warp to Earth/Terra. The only way this breach can be kept shut is by an extremely powerful psyker using the throne as a conduit. So the Emperor has to stay on the throne because he's the only one left powerful enough to use it, and if he dies or is removed, Warp travel disappears and a flood of demons appear on Earth.

[@JVarley9001]

One of the Horus Heresy novels features a character who is possessed by a daemon but they can sort of take turns Venom style like you mentioned. Unfortunately that's only the early stages, as the daemon gets more accustomed to its new host it takes over more and more until they're fully fused.

[@EndsonLawrence]

If you have Audible, I would highly recommend an audio drama called Watcher in the Rain. I think it would be an amazing short film too.

[@Alienshade]

This sounds like me when I was 6 years old....."o I don't like it". And then I became bored and wanted more from life.

[@Warlundrie]

I cannot recommend The Infinite and The Divine more, it's a stellar book, 5/5 story and the voice acting on audible for it is top tier!

[@nervachadikus]

They can't really heal big E for a few reasons. 1. He is simply spending so much energy on doing what he's doing (mostly holding back the endless hordes of daemons from killing us all) and 2. he is, maybe, too injured to heal at this point. Now there is a way around this. They can just unplug him and, since he's immortal, he'll come back/be reborn. The problem is WHEN he'll come back. If he comes back tomorrow than it's ok (just a few million ships lost in the Warp from not having his guiding light, but who cares), but if he doesn't come back for years, decades, CENTURIES... Well then everyone, and I mean EVERYONE, is FUCKED. That would mean Age of Strife 2.0, but 1000 worse. Another thing to remember is that the Golden Throne isn't really being used how it was meant to be used AND it's been running in 20th gear for 10k years. It's a machine that's, like the Emperor, slowly rotting away.

[@LiquidWasabi]

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!!

[@4myzelf]

28:55 the wound Horus made was imbued by the power of all 4 chaos gods, Big E can just die and return in perfect condition cuz he's a perpetual but if he doesnt stay alive and power the astronomicon then the demons that its holding back will rush in and destroy the center of the human empire (earth) and basically just doom humanity

[@GorillerViller]

I think there are 2 reasons for why noone has tried to heal the emperor. First he wasn't wounded by a regular sword but a chaos corrupted weapon so his wounds are partly warp based and that probaby fucks with any attempts to heal him. Second, noone would dare try, given the way the imperium works imagine trying to propose doctoring around with their one source of interstellar travel and their unquestioned god, uttering the tought alone would get you shot for heresy.

[@dbzking02]

I'm really nervous to see how Hollywood is gonna make this into a movie.

[@IAmebAdger]

I don't know about Hollywood, but we have Amazon with British actor Henry Cavill working on something,... which may or may not be a movie or a series or something. So hopefully that turns out well.

[@TimmyJEuchida]

Remembering that the Astronomicon is the light in the darkness, it is suggested that Tyranid Hive Fleets are like moths to the flame. The latest Leviathan swarm is rumored to be surrounding the entire galaxy. So depending on how things play out between the Old (necrons), the Hungry (tyranids) and the Corrupted (chaos), Terra's fate is still to be determined

[@BurnCorpoStuff]

Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghost series actually has some ridiculous plot armor on most of the characters that are introduced in the first book. So you could try that.

[@HistoritorJimaldus]

Dune is a huge influence on 40K

[@themalcontent100]

29:13 what Bricky left out is that if The Emperor dies or leaves the throne for a heartbeat, Earth becomes the centre for a second Eye of Terror. You don't just lose intergalactic travel, we would turn into the Eldar.

[@BM-wf9uf]

My favorite part in all this is that while the entire galaxy and humanity is falling apart. The Emperor is basically hanging out in his man cave ignoring it all...

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

Thank you for these reaction videos!!

[@CesarIsaacPerez]

I started reading Warhammer 40k with Eisenhorn and I think it's a great intro to the universe.

[@deadlymouse7033]

You should give the "What If The Emperor Had A Text To Speech Device" vids a try,you would really enjoy them. Im actually hoping Henry plays Kane to.

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

I actually did once... did I not post that?

[@jorgedeanoperez2997]

I'm almost one year late to the party, but the Emperor is stuck in the throne for several reasons. One, Horus was powered by all Four Chaos Gods when he wounded the Emperor, so his wounds are not of a natural origin. Second, he's in the Golden Throne, which kills him and causes him unimaginable pain; the Emperor is a perpetual, and perpetually regenerating, but his wounds and the throne kill him more than he can regenerate (that's why he's a skeleton now). And third, taking him off the throne for healing, even for a second, would make the Golden Throne fail at keeping the Daemons at bay and would make Terra explode into a new Eye of Terror, finally tearing the Galaxy asunder and plunging the whole of it into the Warp. So no matter what, the Throne needs to keep working, and the Emperor surviving. That's why they sacrifice a thousand psykers every day, it's preferable to causing the apocalypse And healing him in-situ is impossible, because the Golden Throne is so powerful and dangerous and hazardous that it kills most regular humans that approach it, severely damaging the Custodes tasked with guarding it, blackening their armor just from being on its presence

[@waaaghzag]

He mentioned Bloodlines and Assassinorum Kingmaker - shoutout to both those books because they were fantastic! Both are on Audible and Kindle if you don't want to read a physical copy.

[@jamesconnollysmustache735]

I think you would really like reading The Infinite and the Divine book, it's really funny.

[@Maxisamo1]

If a Psyker perils to the point of being used as a portal to the Warp, they're GONE 99/100 times That's not a simple powerful Psyker, that's someone who's completely overwhelmed and taken over by Chaos

[@MeridianSon]

21:27 I can see you taking inspiration from this! Think you'll write a novel or short story for this universe on that?

[@thomaschitham3487]

Couple other details to know: Humanity's primate ancestors were also made by the Old Ones, the War in Heaven ended when a Warp race known as the Enslavers showed up and either killed or chased off most of the Old Ones and their races, and the Emperor was born by a bunch of ancient human shamans seeing the threat of Chaos and ritualistically sacrificing themselves to make the Emperor to fight them. Oh, and the Orks were once the Krorks and were, at minimum, 12 metres tall*. Yes, Metres. But (supposedly) a lack of good fighting de-evolved them. *For context, a Warboss that was at least 10 metres tall was powerful enough to lead a Waaagh! that almost destroyed the entire Imperium. They even managed to arrive in Terra's orbit.

[@teobratuteodor1728]

If saw the animated movie Death Of Superman you know the scene where those peoples where turn in a portal and this is what happen when a psyker become a warp portal stretching and ripping his body, soul and mind in a portal being absolutely șelf aware feeling even the smallest pain like how a xenomorph get out of his houst bursting from his chest.

[@isquiros6965]

Please Help, 17:58 the video of the gorila, is a song and ive been looking for it for so many years, someone knows the name of that video

[@josefstalin9678]

I love the irony in you saying "I want slaanesh light" followed by the realization that slaanesh is probably one of if not the most evil entities in warhammer and that you much more closely align with the craftworld eldar as opposed to the drukhari. I mean, I doubt anyone hates slaanesh more than the craftworld eldar PS: you should totally watch pariah nexus when you get a chance, its very well made and even if it doesn't end up on the channel it's still a great watch

[@TheTrveMothlord]

The emperor can't heal because the modern Imperium, even the Imperium at the time did not have the technology to heal the emperor. He is constantly being withered and drained by sitting on the throne which doesn't allow him to heal properly either. He HAS to stay on the throne, if he leaves it the warp tear will fly open and daemons will swarm Terra. Even if they could heal him or he could regenerate it wouldn't be quick enough to stop a swarm taking the planet. Reallistically, they could bring many chapters of astartes and regiments of guard to the planet to prepare for the possible hours, days or weeks it would take... Which could be an amazing story in the future. Doing so would likely make many other planets vulnerable also to Xenos and such not to mention I could see ALL of chaos converging on Terra to stop it happening. Only possibly the Eldar might support humanity because they would see that the Emperor coming back might be a benefit to their own survival. The reality is we may never get to an "end game" situation like this for a long time.

[@Piotrus2019]

I recommend videos on the Warrior Tier channel. Story from the first person. Excellent. GENESTEALER CULT - A Story TYRANIDS - We are the Hive - 40k Lore Custodes - The True Sons NIGHT LORDS Tribute - 40k Lore

[@Wineblood]

As much as I love Bricky and his 40k videos, his best one is where he covered a game called Project Wingman. Not sure if it's worthy of a reaction here, but a good laugh nonetheless.

[@jakedill1304]

The emperor is choosing to stay on The Golden throne, kind of like Terry Chavo was choosing to stay in long-term care..

[@roguefenixC55]

"I need a Warhammer book with character longevity" Oh my sweet summer child

[@HannaHsOverInvested]

LOL

[@BlackMoridin]

You are so tenacious with the 40k content. I love watching you work through the lore! Hey if you're interested in any 40k books. Belisarius Cawl is great! It's about the Marsian faction Adeptus Mechanicus. If you want longevity, the guy is over 10k years old. Knew the emperor from the start basically. And still alive in the books in 41k And there are some warhammer movies that are amazing on youtube. The Helsreach movie is SO GOOD... about 2,5h i know some react channels reacted to it, and i think you'd love it. even though it's a long one.

[@RichardX1]

Fortunately, Helsreach is also available in individual "chapter" videos to make it more easily digestible.

[@BlackMoridin]

@@RichardX1 True!

[@Blitzkrieg1012]

Always love the 40k videos

[@franciscocruz4624]

The duel with Horus the Traitor, ended with the wounding of the Emperor. Not just his body, but an actual wound in his very soul. And such things are not simply healed.

[@jardarius]

"The infinite and the divine" is a great book. I always thought the Necrons were depressing, but the book is quite funny. Two imortal beings who hate eachother roaming the galaxy looking for the same artifact while trying to make the others life as miserable as possible.

[@zestybeelzebub]

Your exact request at 21:00 is actually a thing in 40k lore already. The SISTERS of Battle, known as the Adepta Sororitas, are an extremely zealous organization within the Imperium that can stave off daemons with faith and willpower.

[@brendanmystery]

unfortunately they are not psykers

[@zestybeelzebub]

@@brendanmystery Correct. They're COOLER than psykers. :)

[@brendanmystery]

@@zestybeelzebub i meant that the sisters of battle don't fit into the prompt she gave. A psyker that hears the warp and its call but has the mental fortitude to say no to it.

[@KatBlackfyre]

If i remember the lore correctly, which is debatable as i'm kind of a noob - As far as the imperium in the Warhammer 40k world know, there is no way to currently fully heal the emperor so they are very desperately keeping him alive. A truly powerful psyker NEEDS to sit on the throne to prevent daemons tearing their way through the tear left behind from the failed / sabotaged webway project, as well as to help navigate the imperium in warp travel. At the current time in the lore there isn't a loyalist psyker anywhere near the power required to take over sitting on the throne, and they probably wouldn't know that is even an option due to the massive time skip and religious zealotry. Though it's likely that the Custodes might know, being one of the only groups to know that the big E isn't a god. Ironically the only being possibly powerful enough to takeover the duty (Magnus the Red) is both the a-hole who caused the issue in the first place, and is a full blown daemon prince now who is also fragmented into many 'shards' making him less powerful. Theoretically the emperor would be able to regenerate himself from death if he were removed from the throne and allowed to die, due to him being a perpetual, but the process would leave terra undefended w/o someone on the throne to hold things together. Essentially... so much needs to fall in place for things to get better for humanity. The pieces have begun to form, due to the book returns of both primarchs Guilliman and the Lion recently (and hints of further primarchs returning, and even possible redemption of some of the traitors) but it's still a long way off lore wise. My brain hurts 😖