The reunion between Guilliman and the Emperor

[@thelouster5815]

What 10,000 years on the universe’s most expensive gaming chair does to a mf:

[@Abuqital2000]

😂😂😂

[@Evil_Bread_Manipulator]

The back pain must be crazy at this point.

[@casematecardinal]

​@@Evil_Bread_Manipulator Id be mor3 concerned with the hard to place and unimaginably uncomfortable itch on his butt must be.

[@malbornmabll9782]

​@@casematecardinal bro is depicted as a giant dragon beast of the warp eating anything in his path, but the ass itch does him in

[@DioStandsStill]

We can say that he is infact chronically online💀💀

[@EngineerOfVaul]

That's a pretty good way to depict how the emperor talked to guilliman. Cause in the book, his words were all cutting each other off, reaching guilliman all at the same time, but he understood every single word regardless.

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

with how burial portrayed it it's also the most horrifying thing imaginable

[@bluedog843]

@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174to be fair, the current state of the Emperor is the most horrifying thing imaginable. Completely decayed, being kept alive in perpetual agony by eating 1,000 psykers daily, literal hell.

[@QWONIE]

@@bluedog843 then people is out here worshipping you even tho you told them that you wasn’t a god and made it illegal to do so and he’s basically got to watch it happen

[@vid101.]

​@@bluedog843that's not even the worst part, he had been fighting off the chaos gods for 10k years while his soul and mind are being twisted by the belief of quadrillions into a new warp god. Something that a mortal man could not endure even for a moment.

[@NeoEvanA.R.T]

​@@vid101. The God Emperor is not a mortal man

[@basition]

"Father are you familiar with the phrase you are what you eat, seeing that you're acting like an ever growing pile of screaming psychic children." - adornable

[@philip8498]

No

[@tatianapreobrazhenskaya9777]

This. Is funny.

[@Jadefox32]

I instinctively read this in Lord adorable's voice

[@AnOldEnglishBloke]

And I believe they were all high on narcotics.

[@finnheisenheim8274]

I honestly would prefer if the Emperor was a big angry skelly baby than the eldritch horror Guilliman met.

[@Lock_Knight]

All credit to King Blueberry. Stuck in stasis for ten millennia, to him the pre-Heresy Imperium is a recent memory.

[@Blue-jy4rf]

Bro got gordon freemaned

[@flextape467]

​@@Blue-jy4rf half life mentioned

[@khornethebloodgod4155]

@@Blue-jy4rfthis truly is klaxon beat moment

[@Vincent_A.]

@@Blue-jy4rfA fellow scientist!

[@zombine009]

Doctor Freeman

[@potatopriorites5652]

I love the way the Emperor sounds. Like he's multiple people fighting at once for the chance to talk and a damaged machine struggling to process a response. Its really well done, really creepy. I've replayed that bit 5 times just to listen to how some of the words drag. The Guilliman voice is exceptional too!

[@MrPear40]

I can’t begin to imagine how agonisingly painful it would be to talk via vox on the throne while fighting off all the warp and trying to tune out the screams of a 1000 souls.

[@PedroLopes-rw5sw]

A Fallout 1's "The Master" kinda vibe

[@umcaraqualquer3640]

This channel is amazingly good at cosmic horror for some reason lol

[@someidiotnamedtricks6397]

@@MrPear40 more like a billion by now, he's been fed those 1k souls *since he was put on the throne*

[@absolutezerochill2700]

​@@PedroLopes-rw5swboth are even part of a group called "Psykers" AND they were the first and most powerful psykers

[@SomeScruffian]

Gulliman: "WHY WONT YOU LOVE ME LIKE A NORMAL FATHER?" Emperor: *_PSYCHIC MODEM NOISES_*

[@paxromana1841]

Least Guilliman already got a good dad and mom

[@Танкозера]

​@@paxromana1841 problem is that he outlived them

[@tellg0t090]

​@@paxromana1841current bio dad is the only one who's "alive" and is unfortunately the only one who could possibly understand this nightmare. That's honestly the most depressing part of this scene that cacophony of jabbering voices is literally his only lifeline from what is likely his hell. He desperately needs awnsers from the emporor if not for comfort than for guidance but the living corpse can't even say his name without bursting into a stream of contradictory descriptors much less get out a rational idea.

[@JustALittleGhostOfHallownest]

Yeah, this is why he needed the damn text-to-speech device.

[@Birbinator2008]

Tbh it’d probably still be like this

[@JustALittleGhostOfHallownest]

@@Birbinator2008 I was making a tts reference. “If the emperor had a text-to-speech device” by bruva alfubasa

[@Birbinator2008]

@@JustALittleGhostOfHallownest i know. Great series, shame it ended, but just saying that if tts was canon it’d look more like this imo

[@JustALittleGhostOfHallownest]

@@InVinoVeratas isn’t it just mostly on hiatus until GW calms the fuck down? I remember hearing something about them planning to continue it eventually.

[@admiralpepper6933]

​@@JustALittleGhostOfHallownest Has GW calmed down yet or they on that fuck everyone that ain't me grind still

[@hansstrudel9614]

Honestly I love how the Emperor has been turned into basically a physical anchor for a shattered god glued together by millions upon millions of screaming souls. I imagine each fragment of his soul has been allowed to develop its own opinions over the past ten millennia hence why Guilliman’s return prompts such a cacophony of responses. Then the greatest fragment coalesces them to provide a coherent response before once again breaking.

[@NIL0S]

I think it's not just all the shattered souls, but every possible reality. Everything basically.

[@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180]

​@@NIL0S I doubt that, psykers predicted a few alternate futures and canon 40k is the best one. IIRC there's one where Horus wins,realizes he was cheated out of freedom by the dark gods and destroys the galaxy to also destroy the dark gods, and one where the Emperor wins a full victory but his plan still doesn't work. That said, the warp is the same to all the Games Workshop universes (warhammer fantasy, warhammer 40k, Chainsaw Man, etcetera) so maybe it is the alternate Emperor (or maybe it's the old canon that big E was actually a bunch of psyker souls fused into one, and "death" may have dislodged them...or added to them)

[@hansstrudel9614]

@@NIL0S Big E is powerful but not *that* powerful. He is slowly dying after all and has been incapable of saving himself for over ten thousand years. His final message to Guilliman is described as not the final, but almost the final burst of energy from the *thing* on the throne. He’s just become this endless knotted mess of soul fragments and psyker souls (approximately 3.6 *billion* of them) that cannot even begin to function coherently. He probably spends most of his energy just trying to stay above the surface of that enormous sea of insanity to power the astronomicon.

[@manuelwitrago6511]

The emperor - from many one, to uplift humanity. After millenia what held them together are fraying, worn and tired...

[@bvdemier1]

Even the eldar are now basicly saying:"the throneroom is fucked." They cant even say what the thing on the Throne even is anymore. The Throne where He sits in even a physical place anymore. Makes it even more awesome how the founders of the SoB kept their sanity standing before Him.

[@KalashVodka175]

You know its funny people always focus on Ultra Depression of G-man but in his most iconic depression moment he quickly get a hold of himself and straight up state that he has no right to fall into pit trap of despair because while its true the Imperium is rotting, the very fact that it still exist and that there are peoples toiling day and night generations after generation to keep it and themselves alive despite being mere men is reason enough not to

[@capadociaash8003]

The best part of warhammer wasn’t showing how bad it could get, but showing how people endured no matter how bad it got

[@Anthony_Cika]

@@capadociaash8003 What is a good man in a world gone so terminally insane.

[@dean_l33]

@@Anthony_Cika The fact that he still fight to keep the dream alive is more than enough. That alone is what matter the most right now

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

PITY NOT THE HUMBLE GUARDSMEN

[@vitaliitomas4057]

@@Anthony_Cika A beacon of hope. Of hope that all is not yet lost. That the freedom and glory has not yet perished. That the fate will yet smile towards us.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

That's a REALLY good Guilliman voice. Probably only beaten by his rendition in the 10th edition trailer.

[@MurriciTerceiro]

The trailer version is still too human i think

[@DevinDTV]

burialgoods has 2 voices: deep, and deeper. that's literally all he does, and he thinks the deeper the better.

[@Retarded_Ape]

@@DevinDTV😳😳😳🥴🥴🥴

[@WTFisTingispingis]

Burial has such a deep voice it's crazy.

[@voltron8375]

Gotta listen to the Dark Imperium ABs

[@itty_224]

The idea of the emperor as an insane and abstract entity rather is weirdly canonical

[@Michael-cb3uw]

Its a good thing people in powerful positions are never disconnected from the worries of the common folk

[@capadociaash8003]

@@Michael-cb3uwwith how many common folk the emperors eaten I don’t think he even can be disconnected from them

[@theengineer2650]

@@capadociaash8003”have you ever heard the phrase “you are what you eat” father?”

[@bensosnowski1128]

@@capadociaash8003how does the emperor eat people?

[@capadociaash8003]

@@bensosnowski1128 well technically he doesn’t, he’s dying so the imperium sacrifices ten thousand psychers every single day and there life force and energy are given to the emperor. It’s unknown if the emperor even knows this is happening.

[@riceartfilms]

This is a hauting depiction of the Emperor's fragmented state. I love that

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

it's like fallouts The Master but even worse! I love it! instead of three voices, it's billions!

[@dearcastiel4667]

And the version in the video is pretty tamed compared to how it is described in the book, here the words are made to be understandable, normaly they all come at once with visions of things so old and horrible Guilliman doesn't believe they exist. The Emperor is a lovecraftian eldritch god at this point.

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

@@dearcastiel4667 I fully believe Burialgoods has the power to depict the Emperor's speech perfectly, he didn't do so because he didn't want his viewers heads to explode.

[@stankobarabata2406]

It is kind of canonical too. He is basically a God in Physical Form now. Guilliman being a Primarch is probably the only reason his brain didn't turn to mush the instant the Emperor talked to him telepathically. I think there was a case where some Eldar (I think Drukhari, in fact) ended up on Terra... somehow. I dunno. They somehow got near the I. Palace, and they instantly felt the presence of Big E. I think one of them recounted how she'd laughed even in the face of She Who Thirsts, as they call it, but the power of the Emperor is... something else. Something deeply terrifying. For even She Who Thirsts at least soothes with her tremendous presence due to her Nature, The Emperor is an endless cacophony of Psychic wails and tormented screams of what feels like millions of souls, compounded by what seems to be an endless void of Power and Suffocating Light. And remember, the 4 Chaos Gods kinda do fear what he might become. As he has purely bent his will against them, his ascension to Godhood will not be good for them, even if he comes out as an insane Corpse God.

[@Gr33nOfGrundleburg]

As much as I enjoy the sheer grimdarkness of Guilliman's little monologue, it's the paragraph that follows that embodies what I love about this setting. He overcomes his personal despair, reminds himself that there is still hope. Humanity may be on the verge of collapse in a degraded and backwards state compared to what they once were, but I didn't hear no bell.

[@dylancrozier84]

That's why even though I'm impartial to the Ultramarines (they walk a line between boring and cool, sometimes it seems like they're the only ones who know how to get shit done), I think Guilliman is a complete badass. Any scene where Bobby G gets to punch something is a treat, if you've gone and made the bean counter angry, you're fucking DONE.

[@massgunner4152]

​@Warmaster2001man tyranids are such a writing toothache, "woops we made an army of doomsday zergs that already destroyed the universe, can't do anything with them because they are too op and theyre only countered by giant universe changing nukes that would make a Fortnite developer blush"

[@everythingsalright1121]

If anyone can do anything against the tyranids its probably the necrons. Their galaxy-affecting superweapons might be the only chance they really have.

[@snarckys3063]

That's a corruption of the original setting. The OG Warhammer 40k is not at all about "hope" or whatever other Hollywood bullshit.

[@dylancrozier84]

@@snarckys3063 the "original" 40k also hasn't been around since like 1998

[@theokushmerek1616]

The reunion was really well written, as it actually ties into the themes of WH40K, that being despair and corrosion.

[@MrPear40]

“Humanity nearly achieved peace, but instead it asked for pain, it asked to be humanity. -Unknown 40k character

[@br9760]

Hope in the face OF dispair. And screw-ups.

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

With just a tiiiiiny bit of bittersweet hope at the end

[@snarckys3063]

​@@br9760 Nope, sorry but that's not what the setting is about.

[@snarckys3063]

​​@@NeutralGuyDoubleZero in OG Warhammer 40k, not even a tiny bit, no. People tend to forget that Warhammer is originally just dark humor of epic proportions.

[@rachnussouldrinkerlibraria5640]

The emperor has been reduced to a wailing wraith trapped in his own body, the will of countless dead subverting his own, as he constantly fights to remain as he was, the man, not the god.

[@ellugerdelacruz2555]

And yet he still has the power to hold back horrors beyond comprehension... I'd like to imagine that every once in a while Big E goes "everybody shut up! Humanity needs us!!" to all the souls he's mixing with in order to stay alive...

[@gangzilla5716]

​@@ellugerdelacruz2555 Most of what happened was his faults really

[@jgw9990]

​@@gangzilla5716pfft. Shut up, daddy issues

[@elysiankentarchy1531]

​@gangzilla5716 eh, most of it is the Eldar's fault, followed by, in order, the Chaos Gods, Erda (if you want to pretend she exists and I do not), Lorgar, Magnus, and Horus.

[@gangzilla5716]

@@elysiankentarchy1531 Most of that could have been prevented had he wasn't such a facist that yearn for xeno genocide instead of alliance and refuses to properly connect with his children which resulted in them falling to chaos' hands

[@snakething87]

“My last son, my pride, my greatest triumph.” How those words burned him, worse than the poisons of Mortarion, worse than the sting of failure. They were not a lie, not entirely. It was worse than that. They were conditional.

[@atlanderwrites]

OUCH. That is far too real 😬

[@demon_xd_]

"My son, it is true that I have clung on to the last few scraps of life, but the time has come for you to seek the one who can restore me... seek her... seek Candice"

[@RileyLewis-j2w]

Who's Candice...Father?...Some kind of Psyker?

[@daniel8181]

Lmao

[@demon_xd_]

no,@@RileyLewis-j2w she is... she... is...

[@jb76489]

“Candice……..Candice…….nuts” *dies*

[@demon_xd_]

“@@jb76489 you menial, shut it! I’m trying to concentrate… yes… she has a query for you XIII

[@aceriverpirate9795]

_F**k_ that was beautiful. Honestly the strange eldritch creature the Emperor has become is one of the things that I think makes 40k the incredible dystopian setting that it is. When he walked among men, the human race was well on its way to rebuilding the utopia of the Men of Gold, only for it all to come crumbling to ruin thanks to the machinations of Chaos. Now we are left with a Lovecraftian horror as savior of mankind, and I find that mesmerizing somehow.

[@mee091000]

Well it's _HIGHLY_ debatable if the Emperor could have actually achieved that. Especially since it's been revealed through visions of multiple timelines that this canon timeline is unironically the best one. In the most notable visions Horus realizes the Chaos Gods used him and destroys the Galaxy in an attempt to destroy both The Warp and the Chaos Gods with it. While in the scenario that the Emperor does not hold back and just annihilates Horus without mercy. He still ultimately fails his goal. The truth is that despite the Emperor's intentions he is actually the one that is holding back the Imperium. I think that as long as the Emperor of Mankind exists and the Imperium continues to depend on him. Humanity will never return to what it once was during the Dark Age of Technology.

[@user-ev3fq9hw7v]

@@mee091000the irony is that all he wanted was humanity to grow up into glorious 8 packed shinning beings 👼

[@user-ev3fq9hw7v]

Instead he unintentionally made them completely dependent on him.

[@jgw9990]

​@mee091000 All that's BS shovelled in by hack writers who didn't like the emporer, so character assassinated him late in the heresy. The emporer, is reduced to a powerful meathead, viewed as a fool by others. It's pathetic,and undermines the whole premise of the heresy,which is the tragedy of the Emporers dreams dying. If they never would have worked,then its all irrelevant.

[@aceriverpirate9795]

@@jgw9990 seconded.

[@gryphonbotha1880]

That dragged out "Guilliman" was probably the most heartbreaking line to cap everything else off. It somehow sounds like a parent patiently chiding their child. The whole thing is such a rollercoaster. "Lord of Ultramar" --- an Emperor speaking to his subject "My last hope" --- a proud leader knowing he addresses a hero of his realm "My last tool" --- a leader with the mask removed. Everything reduced to power and tools to power "My son" --- a father trying to comfort his boy "Saviour" --- a religiously-charged term spat out by a fanatical atheist who couldn't find an alternative "Hope" --- a man crying out for help "Thirteen" --- a scientist, recalling the number he assigned to this particular experiment "Failure" --- a pot trying to talk to the kettle "Thief" --- a paranoid ruler who assumed the worst about Imperium Secundus "Betrayer" --- same as the one above "Liar" --- same as above "Guilliman" --- the patient tones of a parent trying to chide their child "Lord of Ultramar" --- all the pains between childhood and the present day, recapped

[@trevormurray617]

I love it showing just how fragmented and distorted the Emperor is and fuck is it terrifying. Imagine your son, your greatest general betrays you then leads a crusade against everything you built in the service of gods that you know will damn all of humanity. Your son is winning, the traitors are winning, they are at your doorstep and you must act. Your mortally wounded and must kill your son while he is brought out of his corrupted mind and he begs you to destroy him, not kill, destroy where there will be nothing left. So you grant your son, the general, the warmaster, the traitor, the puppet and finally the son’s last wish. You are then placed upon one of your finest achievements and it is to be your tomb, on top you will watch your empire fall into maddening delusion and despair, you are powerless and incapable of any action. You are forced for 10,000 years to stare into your failure, to add insult to injury you have been fed sacrifices and are worshipped as a god, you have become the very monster you wanted to destroy and now it appears as though the only way forward is to accept ascension and lose everything you were. The Emperor is fucking tragic and outright horrifying when you think about it

[@alexanderd6793]

Idk if Savior would be religiously charged in this case, I think Big-E said it because he's the only Primarch(that he knows of) still alive and the only one capable of fixing the Empire of Man.

[@smiley4995]

​@trevormurray617 what's sad is when you look at him there is very little difference between him and a servitor

[@casematecardinal]

​@@trevormurray617to be fair it was mostly his fault and maybe even part of the plan but yeah its a torture unimaginable.

[@raulbarros8077]

The “my last hope” and “my last tool” being said together almost feels like someone who lost the ability yo hide their inner thoughts. Like: “be careful he can hear all your layers of thoughts” then he concentrate all his energy to say “my last hope” as a way to control guiliman through guilty but his inner thoughts says “my last tool” as in: I don’t give a f about you, all that matters is my plan

[@EnclaveSoldier2201]

Truly, like speaking to a star.

[@nickcarroll8565]

A schizophrenic, derpy star

[@notusneo]

A star child if you will

[@mikhaelgribkov4117]

@@notusneo somewhere, Malice smiles.

[@MrPear40]

Sad Fact: When he said “Failure” he was probably referring to himself…

[@EnclaveSoldier2201]

@@mikhaelgribkov4117 It's all coming up Malice! One Malilion dollars at the box office! We vibing as nancanon property with this one!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@MortSalazar]

Hits hard when the imperial golden poster boy would sooner die in heresy than live to see what the Imperium has become And then he still got to work What an absolute lad.

[@voomvoom4522]

That is until you read the rest of the quote where he basically goes "no, this is humanity's enemies' fault. There is still hope left to fight".

[@Eye_Of_Odin978]

​@@voomvoom4522 Finally, another actual fan who doesn't just consume 40k memes but also the actual material

[@voomvoom4522]

@@Eye_Of_Odin978 I've only actually read the first few books in the HH. I found the full quote on Twitter.

[@MortSalazar]

​@voomvoom4522 I am aware of the full quote and i still fail to see how it reducts or renders anything of what i said somehow less? The point of what I'm saying is that the Big Smurf woke up to pretty much one of the darkest scenarios he could have imagined and realised that it's reality now. And then still carried hope, will and went to put in the work to fix things no matter how gargantuan the task. It's absolutely admirable. What hits hard is the weight of his statement on the current state of humanity.

[@MortSalazar]

​@@Eye_Of_Odin978Lol "actual fan" You're sure immersed in the spirit aren't you Hasty judgements are sure lore accurate

[@mysteriousstranger5873]

This perfectly encapsulates the “It was like trying to talk to a star” descriptor

[@iambysurf]

"My last son, my last hope, my last Tool." So loving yet so stinging towards the end

[@TurtleShroom3]

"LOOK WHAT THEY MADE OF OUR DREAM!!" Holy CRAP that goes hard.

[@EvilEye501]

That "To THEM" had more power in it than some entire movies I've watched.

[@DogwoodDingus]

Can’t get over how well the emperors husk of a being is portrayed in this. The low groans and droning voice is both unsettling and heartbreaking to hear. It’s like a senile relative remembering who they were for a heartbeat before returning to madness.

[@williammiller4768]

It is the gift of mortality that we perish in so short of time. Never seeing the futures our choices press into shape. But Guillimans torment is this: He will. He is the Eternal Bricklayer. Living block by miserable block within the Future that must be forged by his tired hands. Building an Empire he never wished for. But he had to. Because he was created to do just that. A Leader. A Son. A Statesman. A Tool. Hammering forever. As a Galaxy burns down around him…

[@VELIYUJIIN]

one must imagine guilliman happy

[@Chromeberd]

Only way he would have been happier being a tool is if he was Rogal Dorn.

[@grizzlyblackpowder1960]

I'm so glad I'm an Ork player.

[@theengineer2650]

@@Chromeberdrogal would fortify and rebuild the imperium brick by brick for the fun of it. Peteurabo would just show up to ruin it because he just hates dorn

[@claymoreALBA]

I like that the most clear thing he says is “My son”. Shows that even in his fractured and insane state, he still cares for his son.

[@witcher_2628]

Him saying "my son" is more of a fact, just because your dad might call you son doesn't mean he cares,you literally came out of his nut sack

[@dylancrozier84]

Maybe, though I have my doubts that that is the case. There was a moment where the Emperor spoke to Malcador about how he really only sees the Primarchs as tools, there to serve a purpose and nothing more. Obviously he cared less for some (see, Angron)

[@Slowpoke3x]

​@@dylancrozier84Big E loathed Angron the moment the Emperor learned that Angron did not lead his planet. Then when Angron was snatched and started complaining about his personal problems, he became an annoyance that was just too useful to throw away.

[@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180]

In the book he insists on Guilliman not being a son but a tool to him, but I don't believe that for a second. He just forces his emotions down, then and now.

[@Accountfella8267]

Nah The emperor is a straight up psychopath The guy feels nothing about anything besides his "idea" and "grand plan" He doesn't feel anything about his sons besides maybe pride when they work well

[@tobster9567]

I appreciate Guiliman didnt get the sad wojack art for the second part, still Chad Bluberry King

[@alimshevtsov5251]

I love how this captures the tragedy of the Emperors godlike yet demented state: canonically those words are not said in a descending order, as if some are true and others not - all of them, every single thing He thinks of Guilimann was "said" at the same time, both the faithful son and the tool, both a failiure and His greatest triumph, all of them, simultaneous and true And not only of Guilliman, of Himself as well, moreso in fact "Father-Not a father-Thing-Thing-Thing-Apotheosis"

[@ExceedProduction]

Emps fat-fingered his soundboard

[@IodizedNaCL]

​@@ExceedProduction lmfao

[@Bubblyjuffting]

​@@ExceedProduction"Hell na-Hell naw Hell Naw"

[@brodyratliff7441]

The shards of the emperor all had time to become their own distorted selves but he forced himself to merge so he can speak to Gulliman only to have them all shout at him

[@Argamep]

Bobby G is so much more than the current Imperium deserves.

[@KalashVodka175]

Its not about what the Imperium deserves but about what it needs. The fact that the Imperium survived for so long is reaosn enough for Bobby G to try and save it, if only for the average peons who toil and suffer to survive.

[@Stryker98]

@@KalashVodka175 The power of autism knows no bounds. The Orks and Imperium being the most numerous proves my point.

[@Beriorn]

What schizoposters sound like to normies.

[@RileyLewis-j2w]

What about Madnessposters?

[@Blue-jy4rf]

Those normies cant handle my based schizopilled grindset 🤓

[@kgb976]

Normies can never break the cryptics

[@Blue-jy4rf]

@@kgb976 lmfao bro takes shitposting way too seriously

[@MaxMustermann-tq3lu]

​@@Blue-jy4rfis it sigma tho? how based could it even be if it was someone else's program? - instant npc tier.

[@sparking023]

And even then, Guilleman left Terra and began to work. Dude is giving his best, even when ultra depressed

[@saintblackwater7213]

"To them!" you can hear his voice carry in throneroom. Thats quality

[@kirkgregor5613]

"In the spires and the slums, our people sing of 'Victory.' Victory, as the galaxy burns, victory as the Imperium rots around us, victory as humanity rages against the dying of the light. Victory..."

[@sasca854]

I know this is kind of a joke but that's actually one of the better vocalizations I've heard of the way the emperor was trying to speak to guilliman. So broken and exhausted that he can't even get the cadence and inflections of his words right. The burden of being the last thread on a very thin rope for over ten thousand years straight. No rest, no reprieve, no hope. Desperately trying to hold on... Just hold on. For one more day.

[@joaovitorbarianimeirelesmo5686]

"If it is possible to restore the Emperor, and if He could regain true life, then what went into the throne room of the Imperial Palace may not be what emerges." from Dark Imperium

[@dearcastiel4667]

Bold of him to think whatever is sitting on that thrown is still his father.

[@reigoj8228]

Just a little note: Guillimans words echo the words of emperor. "What more do you want from me? " A Tool. "What more can I give?" A Hope. "I already gave everything" A son. "What they have made of our dream" thirteenth and hope. Long rant of failure, fear, liars, betrayers and thiefs. And then guillimans feelings.

[@hugo6693]

"My last son. My pride. My greatest triumph. My last hope. My last tool..."

[@MollassesHenry6]

The Emperor of Mankind died, his hopes, emotions, dreams and ambition with him. Only the Anathema remains; a force to oppose Chaos.

[@bvdemier1]

People always do the first part of the despair line without adding the second part where Bob dismisses the very thought: Why do I still live,’ he snarled. ‘What more do you want from me? I gave everything I had to you, to them. Look what they’ve made of our dream. This bloated, rotting carcass of an empire is driven not by reason and hope but by fear, hate and ignorance. Better that we had all burned in the fires of Horus’ ambition than live to see this.’ Even as he said it, Guilliman heard the lie in his words. Amongst his brothers, none had been more idealistic than Roboute Guilliman. None had envisioned a brighter future, not just for Mankind but also for the warriors of the Legiones Astartes. That flame of hope had been a part of him for as long as he had lived. Even now, as it was smothered by darkness and woe, Guilliman realized that his flame endured. ‘There’s hope still,’ he told himself, turning back to the window and placing one armoured palm against it. He stared out at the work gangs, labouring to repair the damage of war, and the Ultramarines stood proud and determined upon the ramparts. They had been born into this dark millennium, and had known nothing but the hardship, suffering and despair of unending conflict. Yet still they struggled on unbowed, despite the countless enemies ranged against them. Guilliman had seen a better age, one of hope and triumph. What right had he, a superhuman son of the Emperor himself, to show any less strength and courage than his followers born in darkness?-

[@gangzilla5716]

So basically he said: "Yeah, life is suck but there’s not much choice than to keep going."

[@КнязьМаксир]

​@@gangzilla5716 "It is what it is" mindset

[@tenshihinanawi4546]

guilliman literally said that's that and this is this

[@tbirdddd5818]

@@КнязьМаксирmore like “fuck it we ball”

[@Gothwagon]

The replies with amoeba ass interpretations of this quote

[@jonathanprisbrey9473]

Now I want to see a 40k universe classically animated movie as well written, intelligently designed, voiced as this moment, and meme.

[@davidgomes4408]

Look around my friend. Does this..."community", deserve it?

[@Aravaganthus]

Big E: My last hope Random Watcher in the Dark: No. There is another.

[@AbadonXXX]

Also the emperor: *proceeds to carve his name into mortarion’s heart*

[@dean_l33]

Big E is probably the most inconsistent character in 40k due to him being use as a plot device rather than being his own character most of the time. So just pick and choose what you want him to be

[@mikhaelgribkov4117]

Malice and Spite are the two things you can't take from Big E.

[@alroma5869]

​@@dean_l33It's a god, if they make him a character like all others it would become "human", and the mysterious aura that surrounds him will disappear.

[@dean_l33]

@@alroma5869 That'd be true if it weren't for multiple BL author having it out for him. Looking at you Erda, Astarte

[@syrienangel4137]

​@@dean_l33Fucking Erda should not have existed to begin with

[@cursedxp6088]

"Look what they made of our dream" Is such a tough line

[@rikiorikio9368]

For being just a simple meme you nailed the half-life state of the caco-emperor, just loved it

[@danielgibson490]

I vastly prefer the emperor as an entirely inhuman warp monster, trapped in a human body than the other way around. Well done

[@ikillstupidcomments]

Doesn't make sense, considering that he's explicitly the product of the human psyche.

[@Sebomai-b8i]

Always has been.

[@Sylvester4571]

Just how a Daemon posses a vessel and when that body is destroyed, the Daemon returns to the warp

[@backgroundcharacter9495]

The custodes outside the throne room silently shedding a tear.

[@Mad_Heretek]

Okay, but unironically, this is a really good reading of this scene. The fractured split voices of the emperor’s fragmented psyche all being him, and yet not is so perfect. And then Guilliman’s response, full of vitriol and anger and sadness? Perfection.

[@MrPear40]

The emperor being fully sentient on the Throne is still to me one of the darkest moments of all sci-fi. Remember: The Emperor has suffered the worst fate of anyone in 40k.

[@andreineagu2401]

True,but The Emperor deserves it for being an asshole to his children. Especially Angron.

[@thrain9437]

Can you elaborate it pls ? Im kinda new to this universe...

[@tengentoppagurrenlmao5907]

Simply put, in W40K universe, there is a species of superhuman with psychic ability called Psyker. The "Emperor", the number one MVP of mankind, is the strongest psyker that ever exist. Fast forward, the Emperor "sacrifice" himself to aid humanity's progress by using his psychic power to fuel up "the Warp", a W40K version of light-speed travel. Since the Emperor is, well, still human, he obviously can't go on forever, and his followers built him the Golden Throne, a throne-shaped life support system to keep the Emperor's biological body alive for as long as possible. Of course, this Golden Throne is not flawless, and the Emperor is, at the end, still human. A few millenia has passed, and his body gradually decayed until it's just skin and bones. But the Emperor's consciousness still remains, all this years, all this millenias, the Emperor sitting in the Golden Throne, still sentient, still thinking, and fully aware, despite his decaying body.

[@mee091000]

​​​ I know you tried to explain this to him but you did it wrong. Presumably Humanity built the throne during the DAoT _(Dark Age of Technology)._ It was not built specifically for the Emperor. It's preserved technology that is so advanced no one else knows how it was even created. Not even the Eldar know how it works. If humanity had built it for him then where would he no urgency in the fact that it's currently failing and will very soon stop working. The entire point of the Imperium in 40k is that they are the remnants of a dystopian past. A past that was so technologically advanced that they were almost on par with the Eldar post War in Heaven. Humanity in its current state does not have the knowledge to create new technology. They can only poorly maintain it and use fragmented blueprints from the Dark Age of Technology.

[@mee091000]

​@@thrain9437 Please don't accept that explanation lol. He's got it ALL wrong.

[@nunoosorio3832]

The choice of music portrays exactly what 40k fans should feel upon Guilliman's return. The hope of change for the better.

[@aljoshilagan3204]

Traitor legion: "Dad was never kind to us." "He never treated us like sons." Loyal legion: "Dad was a piece of shit." "He literally just used us as his tools."

[@warblerblue]

The Emperor is mostly dead. Not all the way dead though. Just alive enough to be a blinking traffic light.

[@connortripp99]

“But what if he’s all dead?” “Then Horus would of searched his pockets for loose change.”

[@archon8211]

I think he consists of mostly other souls than his own at this point. They are already interrupting him, i wonder if they will ever overpower him if they just keep feeding hım souls everyday like this. The man is being diluted in his own body. Horrifying

[@OR56]

"Mostly dead is still slightly alive. If he's all the way dead, there's only one thing you can do." "What's that?" "Search his pockets for loose change."

[@warblerblue]

@@OR56 As you wish! LOL!

[@warblerblue]

@@connortripp99 Probably find some gold coins, him being the Emperor and all.

[@retraceyourvods]

Sometimes the fans don't know how sub par what they were asking for really is until the writers slap them in the face with something far more interesting then they could ever have asked for in the first place

[@machine3589]

Sometimes the fans are right and what theyre asking would have been better than the half-cooked nonsense a bunch of sub-par hacks think up, which is subsequently slapped with the official stamp so that people who just mindlessly consume things with the 40k label will then pretend is not horrible.

[@woodlefoof2]

@@machine3589 whole lot of words just to say “I don’t like that guilliman isn’t boring”

[@machine3589]

@@woodlefoof2 Found the mindless consooomer. Go back to the 40k labeled troff and pretend it tastes good.

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@machine3589dude, fans have no idea what they want.

[@bma4372]

This has literally never happened yet.

[@Thissentenceisfalselosers]

"What more do you want from me?" "I want you to break up with Yvraine" "...that's fair" And that's why the Ynnari have basically been squatted.

[@Kevin-hx2ky]

And the squats were somehow unsquatted

[@MrRawrCEO]

I assumed that was due to Gav Thorpe's terrible writing.

[@NEEDbacon]

@@InVinoVeratas "How can we fix everything by going fast enough?" Jaghati, Probably.

[@Professorlicme8]

HAHA BLUE GUY DATES ELF GIRL HAHAHA GET IT BECAUSE HE HAS SEX WITH ELDAR GIRL BECAUSE ELDAR GIRL IS TOTALLY WAIFU literally the unfunniest fandom around that just repeats the same 10 jokes

[@KingInBlack69]

As an eldar fan i hate how this sounds possible

[@Shoutatclouds]

False. I was there. BIG E: Guliman you are the warhammer 40,000 Guliman: k

[@Flesh_Wizard]

"as it turned out, there were 40,000 warhammers inside you all along"

[@Jupiter__001_]

Can confirm, I was the Golden Throne

[@sirpixel7945]

​"Perhaps the real warhammers were the friends me made along the way."

[@malthehansen7915]

I believe you. Nay, I believe in you.

[@Scufflegrit]

Great jokes. 🔥 content.

[@ExhiledGod2]

It's almost like listening to someone on life support squeeze out their last words, or talking to someone with very heavy Amnesia or dementia. The love is there, the meaning is there, but there's not much of a shell left

[@user-bl6oj1hl8i]

"You are not my son. None of you ever were. You were my gifts to humanity. 20 shining beacons to lead them into a new age. But none of you could rise above your personal desires." "Why do you still fight, Father?" "Only in Death does Duty end."

[@CamoGuy76239]

You lend an amazing voice to the world; thank you for sharing your natural talent.

[@dio6797]

The 40k universe is such a deep and disturbing yet weirdly fascinating rabbit hole to stumble upon

[@nevarius9010]

That first God Emperor voice with the angels singing in the background, we need some more of that!

[@GhostOfReachB312]

Father, can i please have some oats.

[@orctrihar]

*NO*

[@galifrey2242]

And then Big E hit guillimman with "Only in death does Duty ends"

[@ellugerdelacruz2555]

"And you and I ain't dying for a loooooooooooooong time son..."

[@WendysFries]

The emperor's shattered soul encompassing billions of shards with their own wills and passions being pulled together like a Frankenstein monster only to tell Papa Smurf to get back to work

[@GENdandyboy]

That "Thief..." was the Emperor being absolutely honest in like, forever.

[@imstupid880]

"Better that we had all burned in the fires of Horus's ambition than lived to see this." Careful there Guilliman, starting to sound like the Cabal there. >inb4 the Guilliman Gambit

[@vsGoliath96]

Where's Alpharius when ya need him?!

[@elysiankentarchy1531]

​@vsGoliath96 Dorn killed him. Maybe. Hard to say when the writers seem to have no idea what they want to do with him. He'll be fine after like a week probably.

[@imstupid880]

@@elysiankentarchy1531 I am Alpharius

[@lookatmysausage]

​@@elysiankentarchy1531I am Alpharius

[@markcullimore1]

Burialgoods's voice is the voice I imagine for the Emperor and Guilliman.

[@sengie2529]

it sounds like in the emperor’s fractured mind he loves his son and respects him incredibly but at the same time sees him as a broken tool that’s returned

[@citizenvulpes4562]

I think you're missing some IMPORTANT lines of dialogue here. This comes from the book Godblight. He doesn't "love" his son in the sense of a father loving his child, he loves him conditionally as a tool. His soul is fractured, but every word uttered is the truth.

[@sengie2529]

@ yeah the emperor doesn’t love anything that’s why vulkan exists 😭😭

[@r3w1nd21]

how he spoke to Titus: "Rise... Son of Guilliman"

[@DeusExAngelo]

I mean considering what the state of The Emperor poetically/thematically matches the state of The Imperium...I'd say it's accurate. Also further proved that Uriah was and still remains correct.

[@EskraxTheSleepless]

The Emperor had his mind completely shattered and his humanity broken the moment the Horus Heresy ended, and thus he was reduced to an eldritch monstrosity

[@DeusExAngelo]

@@EskraxTheSleepless And ultimately Uriah was proven right too. The old, "delusional" priest of the last church had far greater foresight than The Emperor ever seemed to. Seriously, especially in the setting, The Imperial Truth was based entirely on a lie. The Emperor, the one who pushed it, not only knew it was false, but was a god who's power came from the supernatural itself. So instead of y'know, teaching the dangers of The Warp, and using his powers and knowledge to bolster his people's defenses against it or even tried to reclaim it...decided it was better to lie to everyone and say it didn't exist. Especially when the Chaos Gods were absolutely at play and not content with letting his plans go down. Did he expect that lie to last forever? Or that when he did tell the truth of the matter, people would he okay with what he did? Seriously, for all the faults of the likes of Horus, Magnus, and the others...the Emperor has his own lion share of the blame for how it all happened.

[@ellugerdelacruz2555]

​@@EskraxTheSleepless And eldritch monstrosity that's still somehow holding all of Humanity together... He's basically if the Mesoamerican Mummy Emperors but if they had actual power.

[@johnnyfives5416]

The emperor really being like the master from the first fallout game especially when he constantly speak like a legion of souls all struggles to come in harmony.

[@sr.favopossodeixarvaziosim4595]

Wow nice ref, makes sense. They're actually very similar characters in their idealism and plans, even if they had opposing goals. And both fell down because of seemingly cracks in the Great Plan. They are also both possessed of Numen and therefore gods. Both even managed to get cults working for them through claims of godhood. Both were turned into gods against their wills, but The Master accepted his role as a god willingly.

[@absolutezerochill2700]

Both of them were even Psykers (that's what those with psychic powers are called in fallout) AND were the first and most powerful psykers in the world

[@evillurking2067]

Whoever voiced Gulliman's voice is great. You can feel the pain in his voice. I'm all for Chaos. But this. It actually hurts. If there's a revenge path, and I'm a Chaos Astertes. I would've spilled the Blood of all the Traitors in the name of Khorne, for he doesn't care from where it flows.

[@williambenton9959]

Guilliman: What more do you want from me?! Emperor: Give orange me give eat orange me eat orange give me eat orange give me you

[@militantpacifist4087]

My parents when I didn’t give them the grandkids they wanted:

[@candlestyx8517]

"Better that we had all burned in the fires of Horus' ambitions than live to see this" Man that line just hits so hard, the imperium has fallen so low.

[@MbahMu9829]

The fact that he spoke clearly to Titus, a literal nobody compared to Gullibleman says a lot about big E... He's just a terrible father

[@ricardoricardoricardoricardo]

Maybeee that wasnt big E speaking.

[@mineassasinlol6428]

Considering how big the primarchs are their voiced are so deep this is probably how they sound when making a high pitch voice lol

[@MrPandemicalert]

"my greatest tool, my final hope"

[@worthlessclericbuild3866]

The way the emperor says "Guilliman" sound so...pained?

[@lordfreerealestate8302]

Expectation: triumphant reunification Reality: dysfunctional family

[@bloodaggie859]

I don't know why, but "My Son" hits right in the feels😢

[@red11717]

This was very haunting and disturbing, I i love it! Well done!

[@heckinmemes6430]

Jaghatai: "Yo, wassup my homies. I am back with the ciggies like I said I was getting." Vulkan: "Haha, And I have retrieved my lighter! Let us smoke the boof." Corax: "Caw caw motherfuckers, I just finished putting Lose-gar into a headlock. Where's the boof?" Dorn: "Smoking is bad for your health."

[@Sebomai-b8i]

Guilliman: smoking is against the Codex!

[@heckinmemes6430]

@@Sebomai-b8i Leman Russ, bursting through the backdoor Kramer style : "That won't stop me because I can't read."

[@dylancrozier84]

​@@Sebomai-b8i "Are you calling my ultraboofs mid?"

[@MM-br6lr]

I cant stop listening to those voices, especially the Emeperor's. Great work!

[@everythingwithashton5876]

My son, my tool, my empires, my shame, my own rotting corpse of a prison. End this.

[@jeffseeker900]

This is Cannon?

[@bloodygekkon]

@@jeffseeker900 no, howitzer

[@janreghbatangas9014]

​its not, mortar

[@warbozz1232]

Honestly came out better than what we expected

[@halonostalgiatheater7440]

I like that Guilliman didn’t stay disparaged for long and decided to get to work instead

[@GrayderFox]

I love the effect on the drawn-out words. Like oh my god, you gave that image a voice and it is CREEPY. :D Love it.

[@mrmofo36]

this is so FANTASTIC i keep watching it. i love your work anyway but this feels extra special

[@rasplez9889]

In dark imperium Guilliman is constantly conflicted with the emperor and their conversation. As much as we can gleam from it, he described it as "unending, infinite coldness" so the second one is probably more fact than fiction. It's safe to assume Guilliman wasn't greeted warmly by the emperor, but with contempt and dutiful coldness. Guilliman even bemoans the fact that the emperor allowed his primarchs to call him "father", and wondered if he was allowing mortal humans to worship him in much the same way.

[@ChkthDeats]

This is really sad ngl. Did the lore good here, sir.

[@propanelizard]

Perfectly captures a son meeting his decomposing skeleton of a father, good job

[@azkon7975]

Honestly, that interaction was perfect. The Emperor and the Imperium of Man was always meant to be horrific *gim dark* satire. What The Emperor set out to do and what the Imperium had become are at opposite ends. The Emperor set out to form a human empire that would be strong, progressive, and secular. Guilliman essentially did that with the Worlds of Ultramar. Guilliman waking up to see a sprawling, rotting carcass of an Imperium that is regressive and fanatical is like a neverending nightmare. I was very concerned that Guilliman would be a walking mary sue, since that's how capable Primarchs are. Instead, Guilliman is shown to be desperately holding on to hope in a galaxy awash in despair. Darkness pushing against him in all directions. It's all he can do to keep the Imperium's head above water. The 10th edition launch trailer was so good and communicating that, too. I love that trailer.

[@OzymandiasJeeff]

Damn that was really good. Made me feel something.

[@syahran1518]

"i gave you all i had... i did" "have faith guilliman"

[@jamesdeek7039]

No i like how they did it, it fits grimdark

[@the_infinexos]

The Emperor sounding so creepy is fitting. He's no longer human - his corpse is mostly machinery, his mind trapped in the Immaterium for 10,000 years

[@amixie6466]

I showed a lady I take care of this video and she absolutely loved Guilliman's voice

[@probablygeorge6489]

Guilliman really said "Death to the Imperium would've been better than this"