Newcomer REACTS to Warhammer 40k Factions Explained Part 2 (by Bricky)

[@Slayton1978]

I like the story of when the T'au found the remains of an Imperial Dreadnought and its pilot and when they dated it and found out how old it was, like waaay older than the T'au, it gave them an existential crisis.

[@arcdevil]

One Tau embassador found out from a guardsman that just the Hive city where he came from had more population than that Tau's entire Sept, and he was so horrified he almost passed out on the floor

[@eduardodiaz9942]

The T'au also have almost no presence in the Warp, that means no psykers at all, so for the longest time they've believed Chaos Daemons were some kind of weird hostile alien creatures, and it took them finally developing Warp engines to go like "ok, wait a minute, this is way weirder than we thought"

[@BSoDexe]

There are no female orks because orks are fungi. They grow in the ground, then, when they die, they spread spores, which grow into new fungi, this is why orks are so hard to get rid of.

[@JustSomeGuy23232]

They are basicly the 40k equivalent of asari

[@BlazonStone]

@@JustSomeGuy23232 40k was first

[@eduardodiaz9942]

Technically, there aren't male orks either, despite them looking and sounding male. They're genderless.

[@stevencavanagh7990]

The Old ones were completely wiped out, just don't ask Trazyn the Infinite what's behind that curtain

[@willl676]

That stuff about Warhammer Fantasy being set inside the Eye of Terror was an old theory based on earlier editions of WH Fantasy that had quite a lot of retconned information. It turned out to be false when Games Workshop came forward and explained that they are completely separate universes.

[@jm329]

@@willl676 Not quite separate. They are connected through the Realm of Chaos.

[@OddNumber1524]

thanks, there is so much misinformation about that going around

[@willl676]

@@jm329 The connection is tenuous though. Other than recurring daemon characters (many of whom have Fantasy appropriate lore by contrast), there are one or two instances of nods to 40k in the Realm of Chaos. Like one "giant knight" in one of the End Times novels iirc, that looks a hell of a lot like a Space Marine, but it's so ambiguous it's hard to tell, so it feels like an Easter Egg.

[@jm329]

@@willl676 Yeah. The only thing GW said was that the Chaos realms were connected. “The Realm of Chaos is a mystical place that spans all.of existence, stretching across dimensions and time - sometimes it's called the Realm of Chaos, sometimes the warp, Empyrean, Immaterium, Formless Wastes, Land of Lost Souls or simply the Abyss - it's all pretty much the same thing. In the Warhammer 40,000 universe it's said that Slaanesh was created by the aeldari. After his (or her) creation, Slaanesh was then free to journey across the Realm of Chaos, where he (or she) craffed a realm of pleasure and excess in which to dwell. From this point on, Slaanesh could send his (or her) minions - be they mortal or daemonic - across the Realm of Chaos, either into realspace, to the world that-was or now the Mortal Realms (and countless other places). Seeing as how similar the elves are to the aeldari, it's no wonder that Slaanesh took such an interest in them!”

[@knightofblackfyre7950]

The Emperor was making a Webway for Humanity, Magnus broke it which caused Demons to invade Terra. Up till Magnus breaking it as far as we know Big E's Webway project was going well. Also the Eldar didnt create the Webway, the Old ones who created the Eldar made the Webway. The Eldar just inherited it after the Old Ones were wiped out. There are other Galaxies, 40K literally takes place in our own Milky way Galaxy, thr Tyranids came from another Galaxy.

[@deathwish-fs1ib]

Seeing as the tyranids keep coming in from different directions around the galaxy its entirely possible that there aren't any other galaxies now, just husks left behind by the tyranid swarm.

[@CrowQuark]

Also interesting that the golden throne the Emperor is placed on powers that very webway and someone must always sit upon the throne or else all of Terra gets wiped out by daemons.

[@Ironclad001]

You should really watch Bricky’s every legion explainer to get more info about the chaos & loyalist space marines.

[@Lechuga1815]

"Vile sons of Magnus, is he here?"

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

He is not.

[@azurehorizon6097]

If I can remember correctly, during towards the ending of the Great Crusade, the Imperium were trying to work towards some kind of truce with the Eldar, mostly because the Craftworld Eldar kept to themselves and the Exodites (Eldar that ride literal dinosaurs) really only stayed on their worlds instead of invading human worlds, obviously it never really became anything since the Horus Heresy happened, but we have seen the Eldar and Imperium work together a few times in the modern setting, the biggest example being the resurrection of Roboute Guilliman with the help of the Ynnari (Eldar who effectively worship the Eldar god of death Ynnead). The Drukhari would obviously be the exception to that potential truce, because they actively look to take humans as slaves to torture, but if that truce did happen, maybe with the help of the Eldar, the Imperium could have kept the Drukhari's incursions to a minimum.

[@magni5648]

The thing with the Orks is they were created by the Old Ones as living weapons. And ever since the Old Ones went extict, they've basically been stuck on the ON setting and kept going. Ork mechanics and surgeon actually do understand a little bit of what they're doing, because they literally have the basic knowledge incorporated into the overall genetics of the race - Ork Meks and Doks are just the ones who get "lucky" and have that genetic memory go active.

[@wilhelmredhood7296]

You wrapped your head around tzeentch extremely fast with only a few sentences from bricky. Well done. You are honestly getting it all a lot quicker than a lot if reactors. If there is such a thing as a “gets warhammer” neurotype, you might be it.

[@Ashewyn]

Haha that’s amazing. I’m happy if I’m just that neurotype. I had awesome people entertain my thoughts 🫡✨

[@Valandar2]

It wasn't humans or Eldar that turned the Warp evil, it was the War In Heaven, and thus mostly the Necrons' fault.

[@szandorkane6372]

I always thought the Tau design argument was really dumb. The tabletop perspective maybe. I can see how someone would not enjoy playing against a niche army that does one thing really well, I personally always enjoyed playing my Orks against Tau because the game becomes a race of them trying to shoot my green boyz off the table before I can make it across, I always thought that was fun. The lore/design argument, however, is pretty nonsensical to me. Tau make sense in the Grimdark universe of 40k, because literally everyone else IS already Grimdark. If everyone's a Super, nobody is. The contrast of a young, enthusiastic and optimistic faction in a galaxy of unbelievable horrors is what makes them fun and rather fitting to me. Their technology as well, they fight in a way that makes sense for a race that isn't burdened by weird religious dogma, like the humans - they use drones and AI, extreme range and superior bodyarmour to minimize loss of life and always try to evolve their weaponry and technology. I think they make perfect sense and don't find their design jarring or unfitting in the slightest.

[@BrightBrandi]

I agree with this, the tau in a sense is what humanity could be if they weren't weighed down by their self-inflicted dogmatism

[@Sherlock-Eco]

Also i think technically they are physically weaker then other factions so their theme of being an technologically advanced stealthy hunters would make sense. They can't beat their overpowered enemies with their terms so their reliance on tactics makes them survive the horrors of the warhammer universe.

[@zZSleepytimeZz]

@@szandorkane6372 I think most of the design and lore arguments stem from the early days of Tau. They really didnt have any other reason to exist at the start other than being the clean good guy race which they somewhat quickly retconned and modified to be what they are now. The tabletop issue is valid for the most part though.

[@jeremygeller9145]

Nurgle represents certainty and cycles, he provides consistency, cause and effect. Technically Nurgle is nature itself, things like the water cycle fall under his domain. The unknown random change, all this leads to fear often, but with Nurgle there is expected outcomes, calmness, and understanding. Of course that’s his positive attributes, he’s still a monstrous chaos god

[@snakeeyes4423]

31:30 The Emperor was working on eldar Webway project that could make safer option for interstellar travel. But the Horus Heresy occured and Magnus the Red in an attempt to warn father about Horus' betrayal projected his psychic avatar into Emperor's palace and destroyed all the safeguard seals needed to make Webway safe. After it the project was destroyed and millions of demons flooded the Webway beneath the Palace

[@jeremygeller9145]

Actually to clarify the Emperor has a strange relationship with the Eldar, his fighting style is described as being similar to theirs, and it seems that he has a relationships with Eldrad, on of the most powerful Eldar Farseers. The Emperor knew how to create a webway, which he probably learned by studying the Eldar’s it was just that he got fucked over. The Eldar constructed their webway with the help of their gods who suppressed the chaos gods so the work could get done, the Emperor had to do it with thr Chaos gods fighting him every step of the way.

[@dingus7081]

15:40 spot on. All though the beings in the warp arent exactly only our emotions and thought and soul, they still have that energy from the ones that came before us. Humanity has the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the past, and the tragic part is we aren't.(hence the imperium)

[@isaacreich9627]

The sisters of silence are not Custodes. Just a faction that sometimes works with the Custodes.

[@Usagi33353]

Demon Princes, which includes the Demon Primarchs, main benefit is that they can't die. If they die, they go back to the warp and reform. They also get stronger, tougher, new abilities, etc. Angron is special because when he dies, he comes back into Real Space after 8 weeks, 8 days, and 8 hours which is CRAZY fast for a demon

[@mathewcooper8505]

From one new painter to another… take notes. Like on a notepad, or a binder or something. Write down your plans ahead of time. Keep track of what paints you use, where and how. How many layers you use, that kind of thing. A little organization and planning helps a lot. And if you have to stop painting and come back a week or whatever later, you’ll know where you left off.

[@Ashewyn]

This is such good advice!! Thank you so much 🫶 I’m going to be streaming my first at home painting session soon. Hoping it goes well!

[@mathewcooper8505]

@@Ashewyn you’re very welcome! Have fun :)

[@kamillianno5251]

4:18 you are correct. Guess what Magnus did to save his Thousand sons legion (gene-seed was unstable and Astartes suffered from sudden flesh-mutation, transforming them to warp-spawn). He made a deal with "some" warp entity thinking how great deal it was.

[@IronJoeHorn]

My favorite book that is Slaanesh themed are the Fabius Bile books. He's a perfectionist mad scientist trying to recreate man in a lab, but perfect. These perfect men able to withstand the horrors of the galaxy and fight back

[@alphashocker7458]

A new faction got released sometime after Bricky made this video, btw. The Leagues of Votann. They are basically dwarves, but with some pretty rad technology.

[@seanyoung9014]

They're actually not new but yeah.

[@alphashocker7458]

@@seanyoung9014They are new to the modern tabletop.

[@amelianyoom9545]

Rock and Stone!

[@williamcayer7371]

They were a faction in the 90s then they were pulled from catalogs and explained in the lore to have been eaten by the nids in 1991. However, they were still around in the lore and were brought up on occasion like when an AD mech ship encountered a Voltann ship briefly. Then the Great Rift happened, and the League of Voltann chose to establish contact with the wider galaxy. The Imperium was actually surprised they survived the Tyranids as they worlds they knew of were just the frontier less developed fringe worlds.

[@Lohtex]

Bricky missed out that Nurgle is also the "God" of medicine, for he cannot make further diseases without the current ones being cured. doctors and apothecary (space marine battle doctors) tend to fall to him more then other gods.

[@Lohtex]

Nurgle will remove your suffering so that he can infect you with a stronger virus or plague, he wants to know the limits of your race and he wants you to grow and become stronger so that he can make more plagues to test you with.

[@Lohtex]

when you are ill and are praying for something to cure you it will be nurgle who answers.

[@ironduke5058]

@@Lohtex What, who told you that? Nurgle doesn't cure his followers or anyone/anything else. What Nurgle does is that he removes the pain and discomfort from his diseases and replaces the feeling with bliss. Apothecaries don't fall to him more often either, don't spread misinformation especially to a newbie

[@Warlord_Gruktak_Rukrak]

4:50 that make him interesting boy oh boy..Tzeentch is the only god that actively mess will his followers..Tzeentch have a tendency to turn his followers into chaos spawn only because he find it funny, no matter how loyal you are

[@zebrion5793]

He threw one of his most devout followers into the Well of Knowledge... just to "see what happens" which was hilarious.

[@ironduke5058]

@@zebrion5793 Multiple, he did that to multiple. Kairos was just the only one to come back up lol

[@jeremykeasbey4145]

Necrons and Custodes have always been the #1 and #2 factions I recommend for someone's 1st army specifically because they're the easiest to paint Also for the relatively low price/pt value of the models

[@varlmorgaine3700]

Angron didnt remove parts of his brain , he got a device forced into his head that makes that

[@Commandocheif99]

I love how the captions kept misspelling the names of the Chaos Gods lol Also the God Emperor was trying to make his Own Webway and it was nearly completely but Horus came in with the heresy and messed it all up

[@Ddavenport777]

Tzeentch is my lady when I ask her what she wants to eat, somehow every possibility runs though her mind and I sit in a car for 40minutes. That’s the just of it.

[@vasilishatzikos44]

Grabbed some pop corn and waiting to see you react (to the dark Eldar) to the awesomeness

[@AdvogadoFalido]

@@vasilishatzikos44 you devious dog 😂

[@tHiNk413]

Welcome to the rabbit hole. Death to the false Emperor, and Iron Within, Iron Without, Battle Sister! 😊

[@Ashewyn]

Thank you 🫡 May the Emperor Protect

[@viedralavinova8266]

I remember someone saying that the Sisters of Battle have their faith so high that they can accomplish feats similar to Orcs imagining things into reality.

[@valashar5313]

Games Workshop didn't lose the rights to Starcraft, they refused to allow the game to be a Warhammer 40k game at all. So Blizzard took what they wanted to be a licensed W40K game and turned it into Starcraft.

[@fernandozavaletabustos205]

And the Warhammer 40k lore journey continues!

[@hippiecheapskate]

The whole 'tau don't fit' thing is utter bull used to justify hating them. The craftworlders are smoother and rounder with ZERO grimdark imagery. Even their necromantic wraith units don't LOOK evil. So the idea that the tau intrinsically don't fit is plain wrong. 4ok isn't just the imperial gothic look.

[@TheJerbol]

At the height of the eldar empire, a serial killer would probably be considered akin to a Michaelangelo or Da'Vinci

[@BrightBrandi]

Oh boy you bought your first army, you're stuck in it now

[@AtomicSharkCola01]

Harlequins are my favorite out of all the Eldar, and the Orks are always my go to

[@TheJerbol]

Harlequins went from a joke army to one of the coolest once you read a miniscule of the lore. Solaires by themselves are arguably one of the most powerful individuals in the universe.

[@chrism7395]

1:04:30 as a long term Ork player that's how I do all my kitbashing and conversions

[@KingLeek86]

The thing about the Old Ones is that they weren't necessarily bad. They just held a "Prime Directive" position where the wouldn't interfere with nature and just let life do their thing.

[@blayzjr]

So there's 2 more groups of Eldar that he didn't talk about (since they don't have models for the game): the exodites, which are way more primitive and ride dinosaurs, and the Ynnari, who are trying to revive the Eldar God of the dead Ynnead. Also when Slaanesh was born they killed all the other Eldar gods except for 4 of them

[@byali4360]

24:52 HERESY! Inquisition shall deal with you shortly.

[@bjstratonum3312]

The Emperor tried to implement the webway but Magnus the magic Promarch found out about Horus turning bad and used his powers to warn the emperor but it messed it up and the webway project got ruined, then the Horus Heresy happened so he didn’t have time to fix it before he became a mummy

[@tempestinateapot2987]

One book a year, you sweet summer child… Black Library has a large number of authors working for them, so they put out a lot of books monthly. The problem is that the books are disproportionately about the Space Marines.

[@gman7497]

@tempestinateapot2987 yupppp and although I find Space Marines pretty cool, most of their books are about battles so they can start bleeding together after awhile. I much prefer the inquisitor books and crime books coz you get a much more detailed look at 40k society outside of just the ways. Also the Sororitas and guard books coz they are always up against it and after to scratch and claw to win.

[@Ashewyn]

I’ve seen some familiar authors that seem to work for a lot of different series. But that sounds overwhelming LOL I imagine they can’t all be good like not all comic writers are great for every character

[@tempestinateapot2987]

The quality varies wildly, from author to author and from faction to faction. The best thing to do is read some short stories about a faction that you think is interesting.

[@anitaremenarova6662]

Bricky kind of described Khorne badly, he is violence and slaughter so that leaves Slaanesh as the weakest one since they rely on unnatural excess and heightened emotions, something only sentient races are capable of. The 3 original chaos gods have existed way before anything even grew opposable thumbs and as such are all equally powerful.

[@zZSleepytimeZz]

All the gods have been the strongest or weakest at one point in time or another. Slanesh was by far the strongest of the chaos gods when she/he/it was birthed and consumed and killed the eldar race and gods. Tzeentch was at one point so strong he could have ended the great game in victory but the other 3 gods worked together to push him back down and so on. Even saying that the warp is unending and spreads across all time so comparing power even across time periods becomes eldrich and unknowable.

[@Mikazuchireborn]

@53:07 Interesting fact: those swords used by some Tyranids are actually a smaller, sword-shaped Tyranid! It's a living creature with few organs and a brain to generate psychic energy that can tear through almost any matter. It's kind of like a male anglerfish. The Bone Sword fuses with the tyranid host to form a symbiotic relationship. The host pumps blood through it, and return it serves as an extremely destructive weapon. EDIT: Also to add, quite a lot of Tyranid weapons are grafted symbiotic lifeforms. Many of their 'guns' incubate extremely dangerous parasites (flesh eating beetles, brain eating worms, etc) which the Tyranid can expel in the direction of their enemies. Even if you survive the initial damage, you might still get purged after the battle to prevent these parasites from spreading.

[@Myomer104]

Bricky did make one mistake about Angron, which he corrected in the subsequent video about the Legions: He doesn't rip out parts of his brain, but he had tech implanted in his head (against his will) that leaves him in basically two states: frothing rage or unimaginable agony. His Legion, wanting to be like him in an attempt to make him proud, got the same implants.

[@ViolosD2I]

And this is why the Imperium does not let people "entertain all the thoughts". :D Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.

[@jamesdeadlocked6664]

U should react to Bricky Space Marines legions

[@AndragonLea]

The reason Slaanesh is associated with the mating dance is because that's kind of the introductionary drug of the cult. They don't usually start you off on mindrending agony. They start off with the succubi and ramp up from there... At least, if you're powerful and influential. If you're a random serf on an Imperial world and the chaos cultists ride in on their pleasure slaves, you're getting whatever they feel like giving to ya.

[@andrewstewart2163]

You really should check out a video of the necron Trazyn the infinite

[@T57Custodian]

Warrior tier trayzen the infinites timeline of 40k. His point of view is very interesting. Like Attenborough of 40k.

[@ironduke5058]

@@T57Custodian She watched it already, look at her timeline video

[@Slayton1978]

Necrons may be bad, but Trazyn is cool. And we still wanna know the Silent King x Sanguinius connection.

[@lichcoin6144]

Orks in 40k are the ultimate evolutionary equivalent of circular falacy lol

[@dramsac17]

From the handful of examples we've seen of individuals achieving apotheosis (ascending to god/godlike status), it seems that the requirements are that they must consume/absorb a multitude of souls and then perform a ritual self-sacrifice. Then they are reborn in a new form. This is how the chaos primarchs became daemon primarchs. So likely the reason that Slaanesh ate the souls of the majority of the Eldar was to become powerful enough to be a rival to the other three great powers of chaos. This is also the running theory on why the Emperor is consuming 1000 souls every day. Partially to maintain his dying body but also in order to achieve his own true apotheosis one day.

[@VDViktor]

Dunno why Bricky struggles to explain why Chaos and Gods are mostly evil, but from what i understand - because galaxy has been at war for EONS at this point (and even in our time and before, there usually are no events happening that make the whole world rejoice and sing koombaya, however, there are events that make the world grieve) - there's waaaaaay more pain, death and sufferring that goes into the warp than positive emotions. Hence - warp is more evil than good.

[@seanyoung9014]

I thought he explained it well enough. Most people reacting to that part just talk through it (or are busy being misinformed by people in the chat), so they don't understand well.

[@s4bc]

Bricky is basically trying his best, his knowledge when it comes to the lore is surface level at best, he doesn't know much.

[@seanyoung9014]

@@s4bc Yeah my real introduction to the lore was through Luetin and the 40K wiki. Bricky is entertaining and easily digestible but dropped the ball on many of the explanations in his well known vids.

[@VDViktor]

@@seanyoung9014 he literally says “i have no answer for that” when addressing the question. That’s well enough for you? Stop being a contrarian.

[@acg3934]

Ork be like 'sweet, five spare skrewz'

[@valashar5313]

It wasn't just the Dark Eldar that created Slanesh. It was ALL of them. And the 90% die off happened as a direct consequence of Slanesh's birth. Slanesh = bomb, 90% of all Eldar = too close to bomb.

[@Nihilix89]

I love Tau and Harlequins! XD They deserve more love.

[@nadtz]

If you look at older 40k models the Harlequins fit right in, they are just odd compared to newer models. I've been watching all of your Bricky react videos, it's fun seeing someone 'get it' so quickly even if you occasionally make statements that might seem heretical. =D

[@SuspiciousEntityYT]

Quick little additive for the gent(lady?) who said there are no multiverses. There are actually multiverses! In the sea of Chaos in the deepest part there is something called the Well, or the Well of something.. I forget the name, but its essentially a place even Chaos Demons and Gods fear to go. GW said something about that being a place where one can find multiple realities or different versions of reality

[@invictarussuzerain]

From an Ashwin to an Ashewyn, welcome to this insane universe 🙂

[@TheJerbol]

'Oh so if Angron saw a kid he'd jus- ANGRON SMASH!!!!'

[@forkittens]

as far as i can tell there is only the 1 galaxy in function, but the universe is supposed to be ours with other galaxies... so technically there are other galaxies, but the problems and questions that implies is never explored and the setting treats it as though there is only the milky-way.

[@RobinFromAshes]

24:52 Hm, I believe such heresy would equate to at least a city being wiped out if an Inquisitor heard it. "Erasing the whole planet might be safer, for any who is tempted by Chaos shan't be suffered to live."

[@remliqa]

I love the Tau. They're actually my favourite faction in WH40K.

[@lichcoin6144]

Me too. They will probably be my first Xeno army one day. Either them or the Necrons. Hadn’t decided yet but I am leaning towards the former.

[@BerishStarr]

Hej 👋Just watched your Part 1, perfect timing ❤🤙

[@Knightmare435]

Its impossible to understate how complicated and labyrinthine Tzeentch's plans are. The Thousand Sons themselves are a perfect example of this. They were the most susceptible to Tzeentch's influence during the Horus Heresy, so when the Space Wolves attacked their homeworld, Prospero, and burned it to the ground, they frantically searched for a magical means of escape. Tzeentch reached out to Magnus and came to an agreement to teleport every member of the Legion on the planet to safety with sorcery, but it was a trick. The Thousand Sons had more Psykers and mutations than any other legion, and when Tzeentch 'saved' them, it made their 'flesh change' curse worse. Then Ahriman, searching for a means to save his legion from the flesh change that was turning them into insane monsters, created the Rubric of Ahriman, that stopped the flesh change by turning the rank and file (ie not magically gifted) legionnaires into dust, leaving their spirits to pilot their armor like robots while the sorcerers were made even more powerful with magic, and prevented from further random mutations that would thin their numbers. Tzeentch now had an immortal, unthinking army commanded by the most powerful sorcerers in the galaxy. On another track, when Slaanesh is brought up one of the aspects of the god that is often left out is that the extremes of emotion aren't rapid and immediate. A Slaanesh cultist suffers a death of a thousand cuts, because as Slaanesh amplifies their experiences and stokes their desire to perfect whatever they do, she also deadens you to the sensation, like building a tolerance for a drug. And it doesn't matter what skill, or feeling you are chasing, you will inevitably become a depraved monster because Slaanesh doesn't allow you to be satisfied with being the best on the block, you have to be the best in the city, then the best on the planet, then the best in the system, and on and on and on. Slaanesh isn't a bliss button, she is simply the ultimate master of operant conditioning to shape someone wanting to be good at something into a half-mad psychopath.

[@ejperez3691]

If you ever get curious if the chaos gods were ever good, you should check out weshammers video about the chaos gods and if they were ever good

[@raifthemad]

I don't get how Bricky doesn't understand why chaos gods are mainly associated with evil. The amount of suffering to good life, with positive emotions in the galaxy, is abysmally skewed towards suffering, so that's what gets projected to the warp. Ever since The War in Heaven, the balance has been so off, that only someone, who doesn't think on this, just reads words out like a robot, would be confused as to why they are the way they are. Or maybe he just isn't good at putting 2 + 2 together.

[@MrGBH]

I find Bricky's opinion of Tau ironic, since everything he says he dislikes about them is stuff he says he enjoys about the Imperial Guard

[@alendugalic6922]

Demons can be killed permanently, but in order to do this, someone one must learn that deamons' true name....well they also have to be physically strong enough to say the name and not be corrupted and then also actually defeat the demon....you have to be Draigo essentially lol

[@judie6727]

While Bricky says the Chaos gods have a other side to them, it is arguable if how relevant those other sides are in the actual cannon. Cause I don't think anything is honorable about Khorne wanting the slaughter of innocent people for his skull throne.

[@Danceofmasks]

In warhammer 40K, there is only war. In warhammer 50K, there is only tyranid.

[@WhaleKnight0101]

To answer your question about Slaanesh in the books, let's say that these are often the most horrifying, disturbing stories, those who know about "the Maraviglia" in the Fulgrim book will probably agree 😬

[@bluwlvrine]

I loved your comment at 31:05: "I understand they are xenophobic, but that just seems like it is counterintuitive to your entire race" Yeah, that is the Imperium for you.

[@TheRhalf]

My god why is people spoiling everything in the video? jesus christ just let her watch the thing

[@vegvisir9276]

these reactors annoy me a lot, i get they want to interact with chat but its so annoying that they're spamming info that Bricky will tell her....all those people are doing is showing their "Pick me" energy

[@fredwin]

@@TheRhalf This is why it's a poor and lazy idea to do reaction content to a Livestream. You can't entertain chat and actually pay attention to something in a meaningful way. I don't begrudge anyone doing it, but you'd think if you're going to post react content straight to YT it's going to be edited for that format and not just uploading your stream.

[@danteyoda]

Khorne and Nurgle are the strongest.. They say the chaos gods were all spawned by all the races emotions.. Eldar see humans as lowly animals.. so they would never bother talking to humans.. Eldar Harlequins (eldar) fled into the webway when Slaanesh was birthed and hid. Harlequins God also fled the same way and is the only Eldar god to survive after Slaanesh ate all the others.. He missed the League of Votaan a newer older Faction :)

[@agar912]

25:09 chaos is not infinite. they feed from the souls from realspace. if that is cutoff, they will weaken. there are many ways to do this. the necrons have the technology to cut the connection of the warp and realspace from their war against the old ones. the eldar has soulstones. so that when they die, their souls will be preserved in the stone. and the emperor tried to create/steal the eldar webway to release humanity's reliance to the warp.

[@RagingRaygun]

If you ever feel dumb, just remember the Tau tried establishing diplomatic relations with the Tyrinides. Twice.

[@danielp8433]

xD xD

[@crustybomb115]

30:52 sooo... about the webway project... the emperor had a plan to basicly utilize the already existing eldar webway with human tech... uunfortunately the horus heresy happening kiiiinda fucked that part up... cuz fucking magnus did nothing, incorrectly by bursting a hole thru the webway project to try and warn the emperor about horus and his planned attack on terra... another common thing about magnus is that he ends up fucking up very often by stubbornly thinking he has everything figured out.

[@cegesh1459]

Tau are the best. Maybe you would like Shadowsun. Edit: Yes Orks are fun

[@robertlowe4784]

Its a pity tyranid models are not shown in this vid, 😔 and my main faction gsc is just a few lines without a look at the models aswell 😢 i chose tyranids as my 1st army, but thinking of playing at home thought i should pick a 2nd. So i chose gsc due to the lore connection, and with them being able to take ¼ guards to games, it meant i would quickly have 3 500-point armies. I now have Imperial Knights and sisters too so 5 in total

[@AntonAdelson]

"RINGS OF POWER" IS A HORRIBLE WAY TO LEARN LOTR LORE!!!!!! ❤❤❤

[@VespasianOfTheThird]

Chat is spreading misinformation again! :D Officially Warhammer 40.000 and Warhammer Fantasy/Age of Sigmar do not share the same universe. the only connection being the chaos gods and some of their named daemons. That the fantasy story plays within the eye of terror is not more than a fan theory, even if a very nice one.

[@Delthfaithe]

Tell me more of the Chaos gods?! Ok...inqusition would like to talk!

[@deathninja16]

No the emperor destroyed horus's body and his soul merely by psychic blasting it apart he did that in the normal tangible world.

[@darkvirtue7432]

A great channel to check out for good narrative lore nuggets is the KZbin channel Baldermort's Guide to Warhammer. He's got an amazing narrative voice!

[@Ashewyn]

I love a good narrative voice 🫶

[@jocosesonata]

1:00:12 - "But do they have a reason, do they have a goal at all?" *YOU GO'Z TO WAR OVER MATTERS OF IDEOLOGY OR NATURAL RESOURCES.* *_I_** GO'Z TO WAR COZ IT'Z A **_ZOGGIN GOOD TIME!_* *WE IZ **_NOT_** DA SAME!*

[@TheJerbol]

Tzeentch is bae

[@juliofranciscogomezstoppel1860]

1:01:42 ah yes. That is the takeaway of the whole 40K universe.

[@agar912]

next is every space marine legion? pls also react to it

[@MultiDarto]

the reason of chaos space marine, next please react to space marines by bricky, it will explain a lot, nice reaction again, cheers 🔥 note: one quote from orcs 40k , "their spaceship have Windows so their can let the air in, to breath" 🤣🤣

[@samuelbuchlak2507]

The thing you said about the strength of the chaos gods. No one is the strongest that's what the Great game is about when one becomes too powerfull others gank up on him. The strongest one is khorne Btw. He already won the great game once but decided to nerf himself cause without the great game there is no fun

[@anitaremenarova6662]

Didn't he also get crippled by Tzeentch?

[@Frawst_]

You're talking about tzeentch not khorne

[@karmarovsurvivorof100songs6]

Well to give you an aswear to the questions why are the Chaos gods always shown as evil: What we think and our souls and stuff is food for em it gives em energy and streanght and shapes them, so if you have lets say easy access to violance as a source of food and power and you can increase the amount of food you can get by activly "farming" violence by sending your demons into the farm ares aka the real space, you will be well feed and getting stronger. Next is before the War in heaven the Warp was pretty balanced, but after the (almost) 100% genoicide of the old once, the most powerfull psychic race in warhamemr 40k that we are aware of you massivly tipped the scale to violence and carnaged and stuff, you tipped it in fact so much that the scale broke and cant bounce back with out massiv intervention. So the 4 will naturally support the current food farming methods to keep strong and well feed. If for some reason Violence would be vanished from the universe Khorne might actully bounce back and start suporting Chivalric behaviors cause it would then feed him and empower him.. Hope that made sense

[@Ashewyn]

It did, thank you 🫡

[@cegesh1459]

People spreading missinfo about WH Fantasy and AoS for no reason lol. They aren't in 40K.

[@jm329]

But they are connected by Chaos.

[@andrewberkin5505]

eldar are on the table top for those who don't want to play boring Space marines

[@guustaafros1]

But I like the Tau 😥 I've mainly collected Space Marines, but i also have a small army of Tau because I think they are so cool.

[@Ashewyn]

It’s okay to like the tau 🫡✨ Godspeed

[@Lachdonin]

Chaos is evil, because the mortal creatures of the galaxy are cruel, selfish and violent. And now it's a negative feedback loop.

[@generalshock4359]

being cruel and violent are good traits anyone who believes differently never deserved to live in the first place

[@orionblack]

Nope chaos has always been Chaos....we are the lesser race here , its hubris to think we could effect the warp considering our time on the time line, dont forget the War In Heaven lasted thousands of years (plural thousands) so you have warp influence from that,the Elder were brought in existence about midway through the war in heaven , they started their downfall after the war. The level of depravity they committed , would have unilaterally banned world wide if you actually wrote a book about . And the Dark Eldar are worst, all the while their combined emotional output is feeding the warp .

[@Frawst_]

I think you mean millions when you say the war in heaven because otherwise that makes no sense because humanity itself has been warring for more than multiple thousands of year Just between horus heresy and 40k it's been 10 thousand years

[@orionblack]

lol.. I see what your saying but its more of humanity has been at odds with other races for ages, but I meant as a named conflict, the Horis Heresy oasted less than 10 years I think? There was time between the War in Heaven ended and the next named conflict started. And I meant thousands and thousands of years. And of course Black Library could just come along and say nope ... ^^

[@Frawst_]

@@orionblack I'm pretty sure it's canonical that the War in heaven lasted hundreds of thousands of years if not millions It's definitely more than multiple thousands of years

[@orionblack]

Heh when I said hundreds I do mean up to 999,999 years but no point in disagreeing since Black Library can come along and say no ....for example female custodes (uugghh)

[@Sense008]

Bricky did not do a good job on the Harlequins. the Harlequins are performers and bearers of the old Eldar Culture. They perform psychically enhanced plays that portray Eldar History, and they do so for both the Craftworld Eldar and the Dark Eldar. And they guard the Black Library which basically contains the sum total knowledge of the Eldar race. They are bizarre, yes, but in Eldar society they hold a very importnat role and are respected (but not neccesarily liked) by all the Eldar. Harlequins travel in Troupes, with each member of the troupe having a specific role they play in performances. And these performances are INTENSE. For the most terrible events in Eldar history such as The Fall (birth of Slaanesh) some of the members with specific roles in the play will actually die in the performance. On the rare occasions that humans have witnessed Harlequin Performances they usually cannot mentally take it and will at best be super mentally traumatised or in worst cases go insane from the sheer intensity of the emotions that are displayed. Harlequins are weird but have fascinating lore, and they are sooooo much more than demon clowns... And in combat they are absolutely terrifying in the table top (in the editions of the games that had rules for them)