Fantasy Author Reacts - Every single Warhammer 40k (WH40k) Faction Explained | Part 2

[@RyanPetersonReacts]

Please continue leaving warhammer 40k recommendations here in the comments because it is super hard for me to keep up with the flood that is you warhammer fans so there is a good chance I might have missed your comment the first time around! I do plan on watching more than just bricky and luetin :) Links: Discord: discord.gg/r2WeevN3Ua Twitch: www.twitch.tv/ryanpeteslive Gaming Channel: kzbin.info/door/q93DC9Jrmz_tQY9jakgouA Main Channel: kzbin.info/door/A0d4wih_ecEWiLjy0Ws4Tg

[@Plaugus_Screenz]

Here is a suggestion for Warhammer vids by the channel known as numbskulls who go a bit deeper than bricky does as it is him explaining to his girlfriend and going over some finer details.

[@ЕламанМаксутов]

Bricky also has video about every single space marine legion, and since imperium is biggest part of wh40k, i would suggest you that one

[@Gnomelotte]

Pasting my response in this thread as well. I'm a little late with these, maybe. But if you want some good short (if 20 mins is short ) videos on this, here are some to check out, the first two lean in on topics you already covered, the last one might be interesting on its own. (And I guess is my recommendation): Warhammer 40,000 Timeline in 20 minutes. Every Warhammer 40,000 Faction in 20 minutes. Every Warhammer 40,000 Faction is bad ! (And Here's Why) All by Arbitor Ian.

[@Fyn114]

After this, we usually direct newcomers to Bricky's "Every Single Space Marine Legion in a Nutshell" video and then his "What is Warhammer 40,000? | Timeline of 40k Lore". In addition to The Exploring Series and Scholar's Lore, I think you'd also enjoy Weshammer's videos as well. Can't wait for the next video! :)

[@Ne3xuz]

I noticed in every warhammer video they briefly mention Cadia which you briefly wondered what it was. I highly recommend kzbin.info/www/bejne/inS0ma2Djplgj68si=5KhxZTNP2Wr9o5xu

[@izzymosley1970]

One thing bricky actually got wrong was about angron because angron did not cut out parts of his brain to make himself angrier it was actually captured while he was young and his captors put these things called the butcher's nails in his brain how much keep him in a constant state of anger and pain if he isn't killing something.

[@852aaron]

yeah thats a big one. i think i remember bricky corrects it in his primarch video about angron

[@kennethcook9406]

Yeah, if Angron hadn't been mind-f*cked by the nails, he could have been nicer than Vulcan. His special ability was empathy and empath powers. I.E. Taking the pain (both physical and mental) of others into himself.

[@hardcorelace7565]

​@@852aaronyeah he corrects himself in the all space marine legions explained vid

[@inthefade]

I recall hearing that there was a time where he was able to remove the effect of Butcher's Nails, and in that moment he was so horrified by what he had become and what he had done that he decided to continue being a monster, so as to not face that reality. He is truly tragic. Also, what a hilarious name; Really it is the worst hangover from when 40K was mostly only a parody of fantasy and sci-fi tropes.

[@alejandroblanco7369]

Did it to his kids though but you’re right

[@gebthesnek9257]

30:15 each Legion handled the death of their Primatch differently. Loyalists revere them as martirs, Konrad Kurze the primarch of the Nightlords hated his Legion as they hated him, so no skin off their back ( pun intended) and after Horus died Abbadon, one of his sons, said "He was a bitch anyway, I can do better."

[@visig0th152]

And the Iron Hands were so traumatized that they got stuck in a loop of the stages of grief and are still self-harming to cope 10,000 years later

[@abdalazizhazim8799]

Did the dispoiler or whatever he is called say that about hours? I thought he really respected him?😂😂

[@Geraduss]

@@abdalazizhazim8799 No, the way Horus died and his rejection of Chaos and desire to die by the big E's hand made Abbadon really hate and disrespect him, So he rebranded the Sons of Horus to the Black Legion. And then there's the story of clone of Horus that Abbadon kills and takes his power claw. But that's another long story.

[@Akumasama]

And then there's the Blood Angels. Horus is in my toaster, and I must kill him.

[@abdalazizhazim8799]

@@Geraduss thanks for clarifying 👍

[@educatedlaziness3268]

The Orks possess a psychic resonance that allows them to warp the fabric or reality at their whims, on the basis that enough orks can be convinced of its validity, for instance, A mechanicus techpriest once decided to study Ork technology. Upon examination it was found that the rifle that had just before been being used by an ork to fire massive explosive rounds was in fact little more than a scrapped together box of metal with a handle screwed on and a bunch of spent casings stuffed into it. Because it looks like a gun, and because they believe it's a gun, it works like a gun, this would be an incredibly powerful ability were it not for the fact that the more an Ork understands this psychic power or how reality works, the less capable it becomes

[@TheTumix]

I always laugh when i remember the story of few orcs that were outside in space removing parts on a battleship they just destroyed (or something). Since they didnt think that they need suits in space they just went out and started dismatling the ship untill other orcs came about, of course in space suits. They told them that orcs need space suits to breathe in space and that instant the orcs widouth spacesuits just died from lack of oxygen.

[@fell5514]

This makes me wonder how the Krork version of the WAAGH would work because they were much smarter than Orks and clearly understood their technology better, but didn't have the same issue.

[@xminus5561]

@@fell5514 I think because orks don't understand their own technology. The Krouth were able to build real technology and now orks may be able to do the same thing, couldn't explain how it works. It's work because they say so

[@Iyiouseismouse]

“I put a type R logo and stripe on my Honda” *gains 200hp* - some Ork

[@JayBagent]

​@Iyiouseismouse Don't forget that intake fan "turbo" and the fart can "cat back"

[@MusicCreations237]

47:05 it is here that Ryan realizes that he would rather not want the Slanussy.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

I'm pretty sure that Slanussy has razorblades in it.

[@muadibadder3345]

​@@VelociraptorsOfSkyrimhigh chance

[@thomash341]

Slaanesh: Get ready for the best 10 minutes of your life! Oblivious victims: What about after? Slaanesh: That’s the best 10 minutes of MY life!

[@darthplagueis13]

Ironically enough, the Necrons, in spite of being one of the more bleak and grimdark factions in the setting have one of the funniest characters: Trazyn the Infinite. In essence, Trazyn is on a mission to preserve everything he can get ahold of, be that people, weapons, artefacts or technology. Basically, he wants to make sure stuff doesn't get lost if things go to shit. However, he essentially acts like the 40k equivalent of the British Museum and expands his collection just by cheerfully wandering the galaxy, stealing things and abducting folks to add to his collection. He's also incredibly smug and likes to talk shit. There's an excellent novel called "The Infinite and the Divine" that's pretty much all about the antics and shenanigans resulting from his rivalry with another Necron lord. Where 90% of all Necron characters are lawful evil, Trazyn is chaotic neutral which just makes him a super fun character.

[@prometheanrebel3838]

Khorne: I hate you and everything you stand for and on. Fight me 1v1, coward. Tzeentch: We do a little trolling...Or do we? *VSauce theme plays* Nurgle: The ugly cycle of life and painfully optimistic nihilism. Slaanesh: What's a safe word?

[@cyberash3000]

not included in this video is the new race called leagues of votann (squats) qwho are basically space dwarfs, released after bricky made this video

[@CrazyAjvar]

They are not new race, they are abhumans.

[@cyberash3000]

@CrazyAjvar well technically they are a new race. Because they arnt anything like the proper squats they released when 40k was good.

[@cyberash3000]

@CrazyAjvar but sub human or not they, are another race. They arnt slides but they are another race. Like Indians are human but another race Africans are human but another race. White people are human but another race. Far Eastern people are human but another race. .oddly Eastern people are human but a different race. They are all part of the human race but different sub races within humanity. So yes they are a separate race. No theybare not alien. But are a different race.like.me Myself I am a human, but I'm the only one of my race in the world. Or one of very few. As I am part Mexican part Indian part black and part white. I'm.a heinz 57. My race is pretty unique. To further this the description of race is Race is a categorization of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into groups generally viewed as distinct within a given society.

[@cyberash3000]

@CrazyAjvar I think your problem is that you are confusing race with species. I think that is where you are getting it wrong. Squats, humans, ratling ogryns beast men = race All of thoae put together are the species known as humans So yes its a new race. The squats where nearly all wiped out they where a sub race of the leagues of votann

[@CrazyAjvar]

@cyberash3000 There are no different human races, it is relic of old racist theories that are no longer considered valid. It's basically a social construct and I guess in terms of Warhammer they could be considered different 'race'. But it's making things muddy because in sci-fi and fantasy race is used interchangeably with species and league of votan are still humans.

[@maporte4]

Nurgle also has a bit of a 'Great Circle of Life' vibe. All life is built on the death, and entropy of everything that came before. Kind of fucked up life when Nurgle is concerned, but life nonetheless.

[@Kimikachu22]

Yeah It's kinda funny if you realize that Nurgle is actually a God of Life and Nature. Cause he's all about the acceptance that Life is suffering and being at peace with that is how Nurgle gets you yeah

[@ulquiorra9729]

A bit more info about the Harlquins: - Their main job is the preservation of Eldar's history and the protection of the Black Library. Anyone can attempt to enter the Black Library, if they can convince the Harlequin that their need for information is important enough, and they can only access the information that they requested, nothing less, nothing more. If someone tries to sneak around, Cegorach kicks them out -They like to go to different Craftworlds or Drukhari cities to put up shows to convey the Eldar history and and try to once again unify the race. They carry this mentality in battle, where their fights are more like elaborate sword-dances than an actual brawl. They have special belts that show their position in the past, present and future at the same time, transforming their movement in technicolor streaks of lights than actual movement and special masks that can record and replay anthing that they play so sometimes they record the dying faces of their enemies to break the morale of the opponent by charging towards them with the faces of the one they have killed. They are empowered by Cegorach to be on the same level as Space Marines -They are also method actors, and sometimes they have to portray the birth of Slaanesh, so someone has to play the part of Slaanesh. These Harlequins are called Solitaire, and they are absolutely terryfing. They are imbued with power by both Cegorach and Slaanesh, making them the equivalent of Custodes (the one that protects the Golden Throne) or an entire squad of Space Marine alone.

[@JM-nothing-more]

also, whenever a Solitaire dies, Cegorach duels Slaanesh for the right to their soul

[@ulquiorra9729]

@@JM-nothing-more there's a bit of lore conflict there, the codex says that it happens while in the Dark Heresy 2nd Edition TTRPG, in the Xeno expansion, it says that Cegorach forfeit their soul without a fight. Personally, i think the first is true, but i didn't want to put it in just to be sure

[@JM-nothing-more]

@@ulquiorra9729 fair enough, i wasn't aware of that conflict

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

​@@ulquiorra9729I tend to refer to the newer lore than the older stuff whenever there are lore conflicts. In my mind, at least, Games Workshop has a clearer idea of what they want for 40k.

[@catcherboy96]

@@JM-nothing-morewoah

[@Iyiouseismouse]

Ork with a refrigerator box “it is a car!” Other Ork “paint circles, need wheels! Paint checkers, go fast!” *Ork is cruising down the freeway at 90mph in a refrigerator box*

[@Crouza]

One of the most terrifying aspects of the Dark Eldar, is that their profound technology has basically destroyed their society utterly. The Drukhari do not spare their own, if you aren't viscous enough, ruthless enough, and powerful enough to stave off your fellow Drukhari, you will find yourself out-politic'd like Game of Thrones, and find yourself the subject of eternal torture. This is because Drukhari are so advanced, they can not only clone people, but also transfer souls into new bodies, effectively allowing those influential enough to be immortal. Because you can just clone a Drukhari, the Drukhari do not value any life, there is no social contract between them, and the only thing keeping them in line are the crime-syndicate style politics of those who climbed their way to the top, enforcing reasonable levels of trechery to occur. They could create literal miracles to save the galaxy and fight off chaos, including slaanesh. But they don't, because the moment one of them tries to preform acts that don't directly benefit themselves, the others will pounce on them to take advantage of what they see as a vulnerable rival. It is an entirely self-perpetuating cycle of horrific crimes against exsistence, and that I find truly terrifying about them.

[@pianospawn1]

I've always loved that they have absolutely ridiculous levels of technology, almost magic, just to use it for amusement and evil. Haemunculi, I find really interesting. The god complex of being immortal. Having been alive since potentially before the Fall. Mixed with utmost power over life itself and societal power because of it They're just so disgustingly evil, it's great.

[@cegesh1459]

Bricky forgott to mention the Tau are also using a lot of different aliens in their armies. Sadly only two are represented on the tabeltob next to the Tau, so far.

[@RedCascadian]

He's underselling the craftworlds. They're planetoid size. So... think Pluto or bigger.

[@Fvoarin]

He missed out my favourite part of ork lore as well. They're walking, talking, mushrooms. They're literally a species of fungus that grow from their own bloodshed. So orks killing and waging wars is reproduction

[@ThorMan91587]

His explanation at 25:00 about Nurgles "other side" was kinda confused. Nurgle is the god of entropy, so shit's always changing. His Pantheon also includes the whole cycle of death and rebirth. And his followers are kinda never dying. They're kept in a cycle of perpetual plague

[@thenecessaryevil2634]

None of the chaos gods get along. They are eternally engaged in "The Great Game", the eternal jockeying for dominance between them. At the moment none have a great enough advantage to take on the other 3. Fear of 2 of them killing the winner if they war personally (the only way one dies is if another does it personally) has kept them from all out war

[@shdwdrmr-dq3lo]

I'm glad you're continuing to watch Bricky's lore series. While it's far from perfect as far as the "Well, ackshully..." crowd is concerned, it's fantastic for people taking their first steps into the lore. Hope to see more in the future!

[@DarkSpells87]

Starcraft and 40k, Warhammer Fantasy and Warcraft it was all supposed to be WH40k and Warhammer Fantasy. Basically back in the day Blizzard was small company, more like group of people with great gaming ideas, small developing body and no pedigree. They approached Games Workshop with idea of making Warhammer Fantasy (Warcraft) and WH40k (Starcraft) RTS games and Games Workshop was like "you guys are small fish, piss off". So they kinda went and made their own shit, which is now biggest phenomenon in gaming (I mean Blizzard is kinda shadow of itself now because of all scandals and Activision hatchetmen knocking on their doors constantly, but still Warcraft and Starcraft are one of the best RTS games ever created). Not even gonna talk about WoW, which is still, after 20 years, most popular and played MMO game in the world.

[@ordinalchaos]

Pretty sure this is why games workshop will let just about anyone develop a game with their IP now so they don't risk missing out again.

[@Medc-]

I am so glad the negativity didn't discourage you from trying out 40k and that your videos are finding success!!! 🎉

[@sailordrawing6978]

The best way to explain how Bricky explains stuff is that you are a few beers down just so you are a bit hazy and explain 40k to a friend

[@gustofgood4257]

One series that is fairly beginner friendly, is 'if the emperor had a text-to-speech device' however it is more poking fun at the setting and has its own continuity as when it was written the setting was fairly different

[@ivansolodyankin6820]

Bricky got Harlequins a bit wrong. They are demon clowns, yes, but they are also lore keepers, they perform historical plays about aeldari legacy when they come to craftworlds and while those plays are dramatic, but they are also very trustfull and true.

[@andrew3203]

They also use their Kiss, which inserts a mono-filament wire into your body and shreds apart the insides, leaving you dead with a grim scowl on your surprised face. Funny, right?

[@NeonIcyWings]

Orks are insane and I love them. Apparently, back in the old days of Warhammer their power of belief was so strong that if you handed an Ork a pipe, and called it a gun then bullets would start flying out. If I recall there was even a time where one of the biggest Orks was a science guy, and through the power of belief from his large following he made a nightmarish floating hell parody of science that like, drove guardsmen insane from invading it. They also have Ork gods, also probably born from sheer Ork belief, Gork and Mork, and like Ork psykers can just summon like the fist of Mork to just punch the battlefield. It's a grand ol' time with Da Boyz of the Orks. I wish I could remember a good Ork deep dive video that goes into the Orks a bit more, because their stuff is fun, whacky, weird and even kind of cool, so I hope somebody with better memory suggests a good Ork video, because they are interesting.

[@christianschroter6589]

Luetin09 and Oculus Imperia did good videos on them Ocolus especially was very good in explaining the Whaaagh-Energy.

[@thanatoes537]

nobody tell him that tzeentch would randomly mutate his followers into unthinking beings of pure agony. Why? Because its all part of Tzeentch's plan of course. Don't question his plan (actually do question it, its what he wants).

[@ryanwight9116]

Dark Eldar women are certainly appealing BUT you have to worry about what they may turn you into once they’re bored

[@planah6198]

Hopefully a sock

[@ODDnanref]

​@@planah6198 Nah, a glove.

[@planah6198]

@@ODDnanref even better

[@ODDnanref]

@@planah6198 I agree.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

How about a nice hat?

[@doublep1980]

Slaanesh, his/her followers ( like the Emperor's Children traitor Space Marines) and the Drukhari are heavily influenced by Clive Barker's ''Hellraiser'' and the Cenobites. Lots of very disturbing & kinky BDSM sh*t. There's a story about an artist, who travelled with Primarch Fulgrim's Legion retinue, when they got corrupted by Slaanesh and she becomes obsessed with creating the ''perfect painting'', starts killing people and uses their blood, entrails & skin for this, until she goes completely crazy and even kills her husband, using his blood as ''paint''. That's what the Chaos Gods do to you...

[@Grevnor]

The Space Marines' extra artificial organs and genetics (collectively called geneseed) is based on their Primarchs, who are one of a kind demigods. Making a new one is quite beyond the tech level of the setting. Most Loyalist Primarchs are either dead or missing, currently the only active ones are Roboute Guilliman of the Ultramarines and Lion El'Jonson of the Dark Angels, though more are rumored to be on the horizon. For more information on the Space Marine and Chaos Space Marine Legions, Bricky has another video that goes more in-depth on them.

[@andrew3203]

Primarchs Khan, Corax and Russ are known to be alive, while Ferrus Manus and Saguinius are dead but also poking about in Angel form. Dorn and Vulkan are suspiciously missing, or possibly captured and locked away.

[@Grevnor]

@@andrew3203 Alive, maybe, but not active. Been missing for millennia, and still AWOL. Most of them will probably return soon enough, but the Lion and Guilliman are the only ones who are confirmed and active, at this moment.

[@gurkhajake]

Heavily recommend watching Bricky's Space Marines Explained video and 40k Timeline video before going back to Leuten

[@Boredofmostofit]

I just got this image flashing through my mind, where the demon primarchs sitting and brooding or planning 10000 years after the heresy, and bricky just summs that up with: "they are also causing a lot of ruckus for everyone else" 😂😂😂😂

[@kopicat2429]

It's not just starcraft. Warcraft was also supposed to originally be a Warhammer game. I don't know why the split or whatever happened. Creative differences possibly. But the entire Warcraft and Starcraft franchise started out originally being Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy.

[@roguehart]

It's because of the usual GW ip idiocy. They have always been very skittish around their IP they used to hand it out very sparingly and as soon as one party fucked up or succeeded aka earned money on GW IP they revoked it from almost everyone. Look at the fan content debacle a few years ago they acted the same with licensees in the past.

[@ageridthesilverdragon4440]

Bricky info might be a little outdate in these 2 part... alot has happen in the 40k lore the last 3 years... but it is still one of the best way to be introduce to 40k he tells it in a way that yes don't talk down to people but also in a way that people who don't know to much will get something out of... plus the small things like suck it at the Horace faction that might get people to want to look that up after the video to get why he said it and stuff.

[@liamroyston6718]

On the topic of orks, the psychic field they project isn't so much the power of imagination as it is greasing probability. In his example with the car. The WAAAGH! field (yes) will fuck with the odds and probability- so when it turns back on no they didn't run out of fuel, the engine just had a hiccup and the gauge just broke. In the ttrpg this comes with a couple of ork traits. 1: Ork weapons lose unreliable in ork hands, so it jams less but not completely perfect. 2: Too 'Ard to Care. This is a bit more extreme, essentially allows an ork of sufficient size and strength to ignore environmental factors. Such as hard vacuum. Just don't think about it and it won't be a problem.

[@stevencavanagh7990]

An Orc once painted a Gretchen (Goblin), Purple and he hasn't been seen since.

[@ryanwight9116]

If I ever get into playing the tabletop, more of a lore-junkie right now, I’d start with either the Necrons or the Grey Knights

[@hardcorelace7565]

Necrons are good right now, grey knights are decent.

[@stevestrangelove4970]

30:00 different space marines chapter act differently. Nightlords have a council system but they work as independant raiders or mercenaries. They more independant, specially cuz their primarch hated them.

[@gothicshark]

Bricky is kind of wrong, but correct. Blizzard wanted to make a "Warhammer" based video game, they tried to get the OK from GW, GW said NO. So they made Warcraft: Orcs vs Humans. Blizzard after getting away with ripping off Warhammer Fantasy Battles, decided to rip off Warhammer 40,000.

[@Leonix13]

So the thing about the T'au is they are the new young kids on the block, and they have other races that fight with them, but their rules have been meh for a long time so people just take more battlesuits. However coming soon those other races are getting reworked so we'll see them now, and the T'au have taken a few punches to the face so they are a bit more hardened than when they started.

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

Oh, I have doubts that anything recognizable in 40k is there by accident. 😂 GamesWorkshop has a nasty habit of stealing from other franchises. Like one "Obiwan Sherlock Cousteau." EDIT: My favorite faction in 40k are the Tyranids. I like my bug bois. EDIT 2: "Trazen, our ships are without atmosphere, unpressurized. Do Orks.... breathe?" "..... They have lungs." "That's not what I asked...."

[@nuclearsimian3281]

Your reaction at 16:20 was so wonderful. I appreciate you doing these videos that you aren't accustomed to doing in terms of length, I really like your takes on lots of things. 54:00 Games Workshop is vicious about their IP. So vicious in fact, that saying the slightest thing they disapprove of, even doing as little as making a piece of art that they somehow found out about way back in the 90's would get you a cease and desist letter. They had massive issues with Blizzard, then a relatively unknown studio, and totally disagreed with them on a number of levels, so they yanked the IP from Blizzard when the game was nearly done. So Blizzard had to go back to the drawing table, reskinned, revoiced and redid the animations for nearly every unit, and then made Starcraft out of what they had already done. Games Workshop _SERIOUSLY_ fucked up, that would have gotten 40k into the household of almost every western tween.

[@Just2Ddude]

Tau in my oppinion fitt VERY WELL in 40k as a contrast.

[@gabrielchin4161]

a small light in the darkness emphasizes the darkness so much more

[@Just2Ddude]

@@gabrielchin4161 that was deep. And true.

[@Whitewingdevil]

As far as I know, the main reason Starcraft didn't end up being a 40K project is because for the vast majority of the existence of 40K, GW has been extremely protective of their IP, they're super litigious (they once sued the estate of an author who wrote a book called Space Marine saying it violated their copyright. The book was written in the 1920's.) and have been well known to strike down KZbin videos and fan projects they think are a little "too good", if your fan movie is crap and unpopular, they don't care, but get popular? The lawyers are coming, and you will either find yourself destitute or working for GW because they gave you no other choice.

[@darthplagueis13]

Well yeah, but Starcraft would have been a licensed game, anyways. From what I've heard, GW had some kind of falling-out with Blizzard and pulled out of a deal they had, so Blizzard just needed to find a use for all the Warhammer assets they had made without getting sued.

[@SigfridSWE]

You are defenetly gonna love Magnus the Red and Ahriman/the Thousand sons.... you are gonna love that primarch and his legions story

[@paeyvn498]

Lorgar actually was the start. Lorgar convinced Horus. Horus then went and convinced the rest.

[@hardcorelace7565]

Fuck erebus

[@KiwiSpartan01]

What about Erebus

[@Mordred1612]

@@KiwiSpartan01 And Kor Phaeron his adoptive father

[@Miggy19779]

Erebus was the original. He was a worshipper of Chaos even before he became an astartes.

[@someweirdguy5721]

As far as I can tell on the starcraft part, games workshop was approached by Blizzard wanting to make a game set in their universe games work to shop especially back then is notorious for being overprotective of their IP and denied them licensing and they just went ahead and made a knock off because they had already come up with so many great ideas for it

[@remliqa]

Blizzard didn't approach GW not did GW turned owns Blizzard's offer. Blizzard wanted full control of the IP so they turned their Warhammer Fantasy projects into Warcraft. StarCraft however was developed as an original IP what wasn't tied to Warhammer 40K.

[@tarinindell8217]

My three favorite other Warhammer related channels are: - Live! From the Black Library - PancreasNoWork - Mr Bones All are funny and informative in a variety of different ways. Also, Pancreas does some WarHammer Fantasy content and Bones has a couple of vids on Age of Sigmar (the sort of sequel to WarHammer Fantasy)

[@Sense008]

Luetin is great! But Luetins vids are long and they are also kinda aimed at a public that has at least a basic understanding of the setting. But for lore explanation and interesting speculation not many can beat him imo. Shorter 40K lore content creators are definitely around. Majorkill comes to mind for example. It's important to realise that Bricky only barely touches upon the lore in these vids(which is the point, cause he wants to lay down some bare bones, and he does a good job of it, mostly, he didn't do the Harlequins or the Worldeaters and angron justice in this vid, but that is fine) he could easily make hour long lore vids on every single faction which would still not be near complete. the 40K lore iceberg is truly massive.

[@relogos]

There is a Bricky video "What is Warhammer 40,000? | Timeline of 40k Lore" it's "shorter" about 30 mins and covers the overarching history of 40k till the currentish time before they moved to 41k.

[@loganb7059]

I love watching reactions to this set of videos because part 1 is always “why are the humans so mean” and part 2 is always “oh, that’s why. I see.” Usually that realization comes at the dark eldar part.

[@dude92]

You should watch the every space marine legion explained video from him. He speaks only about the individual space marine legions of the first founding, and he explains the characteristics of each primarch, and their legion. There is another cool video about the history of the wh40k universe: TIMELINE of the 40K UNIVERSE by Trazyn the Infinite. Trazyn is a necron collector. He has a vast museum world which couldn't be traversed in several human lifetimes. He collects objects of importance, and even traps characters or full battling armies in tesseract labyrinths (basically a pocket dimension where time is frozen) to display them in his museum. He was awake for most of the time of our history and he gladly collected everything he found interesting (he is a meme because he is like people with vast collection of armies on their shelves, he collects and puts his collection on a display). When he sensed that Cadia was attacked by the Black Legion's 13th black crusade, he intervened on the side of the defenders. He helped Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl (the head tech priest) understand the necron technology that was on Cadia so when the archmagos activated the necron pylon, the energies of the warp disappeared from the planet and the chaos space marines without the assistance of their chaos gods could be dealt with. The necron pylon was the real target of the black crusade. The pylon resonates with the warp and keeps the warp energies at bay. Because Cadia stood on the edge of the Eye of Terror (a huge eternal warp storm), that pylon's function was of utmost importance (although the defenders didn't know that, Abaddon, the leader of the Black Legion knew it). And Trazyn knew that if the world fell, the eye of terror would grow to cut the galaxy in half. Trazyn even released some of his collection to fight alongside to defenders of Cadia. Among them were Custodes, 10000 years old space marines and an also 10000 years old inquisitor. The sad part is that although the defenders could repell the attackers, Abaddon brought in the remains of a moon sized planet killer spaceship and launched it toward Cadia. This doomed the planet and tragically, the planet broke. But the planet broke before the guard did. In the final moment before the impact, Trazyn didn't want to leave without a souvenir, so he trapped the beaten, battered heroic leader of the cadian guard in a tesseract labyrinth and told him that such a great hero should not die in such a meaningless manner. Trazyn is not a d*ckhead how Bricky says in this video.

[@cegesh1459]

Immagine thinking Tau don't fit in to 40K. That's sad.

[@NothingKingKN]

I personally like the Tau. Both as someone that entered the Warhammer 40K gateway through LancerRPG (playfully called "Tau: The RPG" by some), but because of the prospective they serve. We always followed the big Grimdark factions forgetting that once the galaxy wasn't like this, so we now have a point of view from a simpler, more peaceful time, and how their view now slams into the reality that is the 41st millennium.

[@CordovanSplotchVT]

One of my favorite details about the Orks is how their power of imagination is a two-edged sword. There's a story about either the Imperial Guards or a Planetary Defense Force defending a planet from an Ork Waaagh and they were running out of ammo when a soldier or possibly a commisar out of desperation pointed his empty gun at an ork and yelled "BANG!" and the ork immediately died, because it BELIEVED it had been shot... and after a few seconds of abject confusion the rest of the human soldiers followed suit and succesfully fended off the ork horde without any ammo by just pointing their guns and shouting "bang!" at them. Another story is about how Commisar Yarrick lost his hand and replaced it with an ork power claw, and it works because all the orks on the battlefield saw him stick his bloody stump into the power claw believe it works and have spread tales of "Ol' Bale-eye" Yarrick to other ork tribes, resulting in Yarrick becoming deeply respected by all orks as "Da orkiest humie aloive", and Yarricks ocular implant can shoot lasers out of it, because that's what the orks think it's for.

[@ThorMan91587]

1:15:02 there's heavy implications that the Caste system of the Tau is pretty fucked up. Since everything in 40k is satire, the space communists are kinda sorta entirely slaves to the ruling Ethereal Caste. It's either some kind of pheromone that does it or something like that.

[@gachalordnoobie4911]

Orks basically have the ability to passively and without their knowledge channel the warp into their machines - basically, because they believe it works, it works. The warp makes the machine work even though it shouldn't. They think that painting things red makes them go faster, so it does go faster. They think painting things purple makes them sneaky, so it does indeed make them sneaky.

[@SigfridSWE]

You seam like a really cool guy! Thank you, and welcome into the 40k family 😊 Best regards from Sweden

[@Nicholas1994]

9:38 Hey Ryan. Thanks for the explination about your progress in the writing industry. I didn't know people were scrutinising you about it, but it was interesting to hear. I normally don't like long-winded or off-topic ramblings at the start of videos, but in this case I have a personal interest in the information because I've attempted to write some fiction of my own before, but I never completed a story. I have many cool ideas for stories, but the process of writing a compelling narrative is a lot more nuanced than just having a cool blurb. About five years ago a friend and I participated in the NaNoWriMo competition, which was motivating, but I only got about a chapter written. I'd like to watch more videos about your process and things that help you organise your thoughts and stay focused. 30:12 Usually a chapter that looses its primarch will just transfer all the leadership responsibilities to an elected chapter master. Some chapters do this more democratically than others. Some chapters may also have psykers that claim to be sensitive to the will of their deceased primarch in the warp. Some primarchs are also presumed dead, then later come back from being trapped in the warp or something. The primarch of the chapter I play as, Ferrus Manus of the Iron Hands, died during the Horus Heresy, so his chapter has been without a primarch for 10,000yrs, but in his absence the chapter has organised itself pretty well. They have a council made up of representatives from each company, and elect a chapter master to serve in times of need. Otherwise their chapters operate almost independantly. In another example, the Blood Angels are sometimes aided by an angel-winged marine clad in golden armour that materialises out of nowhere to help them and then disappears. They call this warp-entity The Sanquinor, and they believe it to be their dead primarch coming back from the warp to aid his chapter in their times of greatest need, although his identity cannot be confirmed because he doesn't talk and wears a helmet.

[@kennethcook9406]

Dude, @18:25 NO, just no. This game universe existed for at least 10 years before Game of Thrones was written. Please correct me on the exact timeline, however I do know that WH40k existed before GoT.

[@MadMattInc1]

StarCraft and WarCraft were both supposed to be Games Workshop Games, but despite how well the games did/how good they looked, GW kept pulling the rights away. So Blizzard back then kept making everything legally different, and kept making hits despite GW's stupid insecurities.

[@MadMattInc1]

These successes however I think bread a sort of "Dang it, we need to make that money now and fast." in later leaders, and so now they hand out the license to any one even if they shouldn't be allowed to finish the poorly designed games they make. Though with that said, in more recent history it seems GW has seen what that did, and it slowing down who gets to make games, and are turning it around to get more good games out now.

[@10_gadi_bhargavkrishna_9c3]

As far as I know… When a Primarch dies, their legion is taken over by the successor or second in command. Usually the person most trusted by said primarch

[@yuyuhaio]

Games Workshop (owners of the Warhammer IP) are notorious for guarding and protecting their IP, almost an extreme. Starcraft very likely was birthed because the game development team/producers wanted to do something with the game that Games Workshop was not okay with as it deviated too far from the IP. This could be something they couldn't write around as a one off event or they just didn't have enough control over the creative process that made them uncomfortable and pull the IP license from the game. Which leaves the developers in an awkward position of a partially or mostly finished game and they can either scrap or make it legally distinct enough from the original IP that Games Workshop can't go after them. This is likely what happened, but of course no one wants to admit to it.

[@danieln6700]

Warhammer lore is so good. This video was first time actually seen lore video, even know some from playing the games and tabletop as a kid. The lore is so interesting, cool and underutilized

[@Blutkehle2]

Wasn't there a theory that all the Hive Fleets coming from outside the Galaxy are RUNNING from an enemy? That is more scary than a tyranide itself

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

That's been since debunked, but it was a theory at the time. If the Tyranids were running from something, it wouldn't make sense to run towards that direction, would it? Also, in one of the Horus Heresy books, it heavily implies that the overloading of a Necron Beacon sent out a pulse that attracted the Tyranids to the galaxy. It just took them 10 thousand years to get here.

[@alchemicpink2392]

12:00 It's more like that the cosmological model of physics and quantum mechanics are only compatible in a limited sets of circumstances. A lot of the physics relevant to day to day things has been figured out and we can make accurate predictions using current models. Or, in a specific example, gravity is the curvature of space time. There is a type of particle that carries gravity called gravitrons. In either of their field of application (cosmological and quantum mechanics respectively) each model results in correct predictions, but when using them the the other's field of application the math breaks down and doesn't work.

[@Stoicbirch]

Not a vid, but a book and a series of books. If you want something that will not at-all prepare you for the brutality and general depressing vibe of a lot of 40K stories, you want "The Infinite and The Divine", which is functionally a Spy vs Spy book between two immortal robot skeletons. Something more conventionally 40K, and generally used as the introduction, is the 'Ciaphas Cain' series - though more specifically "Ciaphas Cain - The Hero of the Imperium." omnibus. If you do get into the books... be careful. The older books, to be specific anything by Ian Watson, is borderline fetishistic in the unpleasant way. Slaanesh having BDSM vibes is one thing - but Ian Watson is just something else.

[@YaBoiTheGrimReaper]

30:09 Primarchs aren't replaced when they die. Primarchs are the OGs of a legion, and are the origin from which a Legion received their geneseed (basically some the genetic makeup of said Primarch is put into a normal human being thats gone through an extreme of training and surgery) - and are actually comparable to demigods The only one I know of that will be almost impossible to be lost in being killed is Vulkan, who is whats known as a Perpetual, which is essentially someone who is immortal in 40k - with our boy Vulkan coming back from I think a few cells (it should be noted that the regeneration takes a long time)

[@BlackTemplarChaplain]

So you want to serve Tzeentch i suggest you do nine hundred and ninety-nine rites of Hasophet so you can attain his blessings

[@BrutalisDKGaming]

Adeptus ridiculous is a must watch for noobs in 40k...

[@orireth5107]

as an ork lover, my favourite weapons are the ones that are traditionally not weapons but orks have found a way; the bubblechukka, tellyporta blasta, and shokk attack gun. Bubblechukka is weaponized force-fields, it fires bubbles of unstable force-fields which can do anything from pop harmlessly in a gentle breeze or explode and flip tanks, this is my favourite thing ever. Tellyporta blasta pretty self explanatory a gun that teleports whatever it shoots at randomly, 5 feet to the left, 100 feet up in the sky, into a wall, narratively just really fun. Shokk attack gun is weaponized wormhole travel, it sucks in snotlings, which are just tiny more goblin goblins, and fires them through the warp, driving them crazy in the process, into things, such as inside tanks, or your stomach.

[@williambozarth781]

Baldermort opens his lore videos with a short story to give his viewers a feel for what faction he is talking about.

[@knightofblackfyre7950]

The Emperor didnt just kill Horus, he quite literally fucking obliterated his soul so Horus cant ever be revived by even the Chaos Gods. Horus is perma dead. His Body, his Armor, His soul all gone. Atleast with Konrad if i remember right his Body is still around so he could Theoretically could maybe be cloned or possibly brought back to life Horus is completely off the table. At least if i remember right.

[@TheTimberwolf44]

Id recommend anything from the channel Oculus Imperia. He does Warhammer 40k lore videos a bit shorter than this, but he does it in character as a historian in the universe. Very entertaining and informative

[@positivelyacademical1519]

For how space marines work without their primarchs: The loyalist Legions were all broken up into Chapters of around 1,000 marines and are led by high ranking marines. Their primarchs all died, “died” or disappeared in mysterious circumstances, which let the setting exist without them in the tabletop games. The traitor Legions mostly broke themselves up into different warbands, each led by whoever is the strongest / most powerful / most sadistic, etc. among them. Some of these warbands are still serving their legions/primarchs at a distance, others are purely doing their own thing. The surviving primarchs are all (or all bar the ones who are missing) daemon princes, and can’t fully exist outside the warp for prolonged periods, so don’t really appear outside of major storylines (again to keep them off the tabletop). When a particularly powerful Chaos starts a major crusade, they might rally one or more legions back together and might even summon their primarchs. The Night Lords are a special case, mainly due to the Legion being corrupted (in the traditional sense) to the extent they had mostly broken up into uncontrollable, self interested warbands by the end of the Great Crusade / start of the Horus Heresy era. So the death of Curze made little difference to them. The Alpha Legion are the other special case, due to their not having retreated into the warp with the other legions. They scattered themselves throughout the galaxy, and try to stay true to their objectives as of the end of the Heresy - which of course none of them actually remember (except their primarchs if they’re alive), due to 10,000 years of attrition, turnover of recruitment and self imposed exile. Their individual warbands do often group together for a common purpose, but what that is the reader rarely knows.

[@hannesmayer3716]

The inspiration and paragon of Warhammer orcs are... English football hooligans.

[@sovietcommubot]

The bit where Ork technology works because they believe it can and vehicles can run without fuel based on the power of their belief isn't actually canon, it's a fan misconception that's run wild for years. There's a whole lot of that in 40k lore. It's implied that their gestalt psychic field may push things a little bit but definitely not at the level of "if they just pretend they have fuel the truck still runs".

[@RanRayu]

its still pretty close to it. if one of the orks is told to refill the fuel tank and pisses in it, they are probably good to go again. a lot of the ork imagination memes are not canon, but some run on the same logic and would work in canon.

[@Ulmaramlu]

My greatest realization towards understanding the warp, is the 8 pointed star being in actuality a 4d graph with a X, Y, Z and W axis. In other words, a 3 dimensions of space + 1 more. edit: re: the tau, being "the greater good" in a grim dark setting doesn't mean being good - it just means being the least bad. thats just math.

[@walterclements5632]

31:44 Technically, it was Lorgar, the Primarch of the Word Bearers, who was the first to fall to Chaos. Lorgar revered his father as a God, and the big guy didn't agreed with that as the original purpose of the Imperium was to banish religion and instead take the mantle of scientific research and progression. So, the Emperor destroyed Lorgar's homeworld and pissed him off as he did so. Without a deity to worship, Lorgar turned to the Chaos Gods as unlike the Emperor, Chaos wanted to be worshipped. Hope you find this helpful!

[@MightyBrain100]

Templin Institute has a short and succinct summary of factions from an entertaining, in-universe perspective. I'd recommend their video on Imperium of Man

[@Zolwiol]

People who are just learning about 40k always think one of the Chaos gods is "so me" but the more you learn about the setting the more you gravitate into "demons? not even once". It's terrifying. But out of the big 4 Tzeentch has always been my fav.

[@darthplagueis13]

The funny thing about Tzeentch is that you don't have to agree with him or even like him. You could spend your whole life to do everything in your power in order to spite Tzeentch and end up getting rewarded for it, just because Tzeentch thought it was funny or you unwittingly advanced one of his schemes.

[@leopard2690]

Not everything in His Video is accurate but it's good for an Overview. Dont Take everything as fact tho sometimes people Like to Mix facts and memes Warhammer Fantasy or age of sigmar would fit You Probably more as Fantasy guy

[@severedproxy]

In regards to your question why starcraft is its own thing...a very simplified version is that blizzard wanted to make a Warhammer RTS, GW said no, but since blizz already did it, they changed it a bit and renamed it StarCraft. TBF, IMHO if it was a warhammer game, it may not have been as large as it currently is due to how bleak and grimdark wh40k is for the normies, sc is a little welcoming theme wise.

[@Likhos1]

One mistake Bricky has with Nurgle's positive side, is that Nurgle is actually a twisted God of life: a god of Life After Death. Nurgle is a happy god because his creations birth new life from the destruction they wrought. it's always twisted demonic life, but still life. Nurgle's rot is a fatal disease... but the victim is actually reborn as a demon, for instance.

[@Boonoojootoo]

Bricky understates Nurgles other elements in his explanation. Nurgle is essentially what a classic Nature god would be if the world was much more focused on the "death" in death and rebirth. He represents the cycle of life, but stuck in the decay stage, and the only reason he's parked his dumpy there is because the never ending wars have a lot of dead bodies and disease to pass around. Nurgle is also the easiest chaos god to worship, because your very existence is pleasing to him. He doesn't want you to die before your time; Nurgle wants you to preserve in the face of horrific disease and overwhelming misery until it is your time to join the cycle. Thus, devout of Nurgle gain blessings that take away pain and sadness... at the cost of succumbing to the diseases that his blessings come in the form of. Hard to feel pain when your basically just a plague zombie.

[@MrWepx-hy6sn]

Do Bricky's Space Marine Legions explained next pls!

[@flu1dz]

Its a 50 minute video, but Weshammers "40k Timeline EXPLAINED. Everything you NEED to know! Warhammer Lore" will gove you a good breakdown of the start of the universe to where we are now. Its a good place to pick up now that you have an idea of all of the (main) factions that live within the universe. He will dive into the Horus Heresy and other events. Like I mentioned before, he also has shorter videos, as well.. But this is a good one to grasp the start to finish in the most basic detail.

[@IKMojito]

Great stuff again man, i can recommend Arbitor Ian. He's a great shorter form 30/40k content guy

[@Beowulf8989]

I think a thing that Bricky tends to gloss over, because he's a good Imperial boy, is that Chaos is... sort of the right choice. It may be pretty rare, but if you follow Chaos and are careful about it, you become an immortal cosmic being. Sure, it's one out of a trillion (not an accurate number) odds, and if you follow one of the gods you experience some ego-death, but you can absolutely ascend to your own conceptual minor godhood by following Chaos. Chaos rules its own reality, and it's the destination for basically all living creatures to end up there and become food for something native to that reality. It makes a certain amount of sense to skip all that and be the predator instead of the prey.

[@williamtimonen6814]

Theres a part in Betrayer where Lorgar goes like ”we could use any kind of emotion to create this ritual, its just easier to murder a planet than to make it excessively happy”. Which I presume is why the Chaos gods are so ”evil”. Because how shitty the galaxy is.

[@nerowolf1911]

You should watch helsreach

[@accessyourinnerlight971]

I highly recommend Warrior Tier's Warhammer videos, including the amazing radioplay Warhammer 1987 - The Dark Brotherhood. These videos are more like miniature works of fiction than lore explanation videos. But they pack quite a punch and are highly enjoyable. --I'm not sure what caused the rift between the Craft universes and Games Workshop. Warcraft was always intended to represent Warhammer and Starcraft to represent Warhammer 40k, but something happened to cause GW to pull out of the deal.

[@DenethorDurrandir]

31:00 The Black legion reference, Black Legion (at least most of it) hates Horus's guts, they even waged a massive war on Emperor's children (another chaos legion) in order to kill a clone of Horus and make sure Horus isn't cloned again, but less informed fans think that Black Legion are just Sons of Horus (Luna wolves pre heresy), mostly because Black Legion was founded by the first captain of Sons of Horus (and some speculate Horus's pre heresy clone) Ezekiel Abaddon, who is now the main bad guy for the Imperium. Bricky here is salty that Abaddon deleted Cadia so he's taking a shot back at the Black Legion. Black Legion itself has no primarch as it is comprised of members and warbands from all other legions (and Dark Mechanicum), including surviving Luna Wolves/Sons of Horus, their slogan is "From shame and shadow recast, in black and gold reborn" denouncing their failed fathers (primarchs and the emperor) and celebrating their newfound brotherhood. Aaron Dembski Bowden's Black Legion triology (Talon of Horus, Black Legion, Third Book When??) is an amazing read on this that details the founding of Black Legion, the start of the eternal crusade and fleshes out chaos space marines, painting some of them as tragic heroes rather then one dimensional villains. Jonathan Keeble's narration on this is great too.

[@eiric6958]

Bricky alao has a 40k timeline video. Its good. 😊

[@austindaniel1535]

I highly recommend "IMPERIAL PSYKERS" by Baldermort's Guide to Warhammer, its and excellent building block video for warhammer 40k :)

[@hallroney]

the chaos god are based in a typical ancient pagan pantheon structure, one for war, one for life or nature, one for knwoledge and one for pleasure and fertility

[@pandaslayer11]

Watch Bricky’s video explaining each Space Marine faction before going into Imperium of Man. You’ll get a deeper dive into what each faction values, and in turn what humanity values or, at least, idolizes.

[@Cousin_Uli]

Bricky kind of glosses over the orks terrifying nature, and why they're so friggin pernicious as a species. They're a self propagating fungal ecosystem. Every ork is a fungus based organism that carries it's entire species DNA in it's body. When an ork expels basically any amount of mass, part of that mass is fungal spores that take root in almost any environment and begin the orkoid lifecycle from scratch. If your planet never had orks on it before, and a single ork starts farting and burping, or is killed, all the mass it expels spreads basic ork spores. Those spores grow innocuous mushrooms initially, in a few days those ork mushroom fields start producing minor greenskin species like squigs, snotlings, and gretchin. After growing enough mass, they start birthing Orks directly form the ground. As the orks proliferate, latent genetic coding in their bodies begins to awaken as needed by their society. In a matter of weeks they go from literally born yesterday primitive hunter-gatherers, to having doctors, mechanics, gunsmiths, and theoretical(as in "what's this button do?") physicists who are all born with intuitive knowledge of their crafts, all of them pursuing these jobs for the sole purpose of enhancing their tribes ability to start and fight wars with whoever they meet. Their ability also scales to match and exceed local enemies. If a tribe that spent a century fighting a long grueling war with an enemy that uses spears and swords suddenly has to contend with enemies with lasguns and tanks, the ork tribe will basically intuitively unlock knowledge of tanks and equivalent firearms to contest their new foes. The only way to dislodge them from a world is to burn the very ground they breathe on to ash in order to keep the spores from surviving to birth the next generation of hooping violent shitheads.

[@vladymir1987]

i miss one quote on the necrons and chaos - the prophecy. The banshee's call shall wake the Dead; when dark portents wax nigh Heed them as the counsel of a Seer, or a father The Yngir, who have slept since the birth of Chaos Shall crawl once more from their tombs, thirsting for warmth. The War in Heaven shall be as nothing to their vengeance For the sons of Asuryan, few in number, cannot stand against them. And the Eye of Isha shall dim, closing for eternity Such a gentle goddess cannot witness such atrocities as they shall wreak. The soulless ones shall be the harbingers of the dark fate Then shall come the living dead, the progeny Then the thirsting ones, The forever damned And the galaxy shall run red as the blood of Eldanesh, The Vaul-moon shall bring forth the Dragon The Master of Death will drink deep from Isha's Eye That Which Lies Outside will be drawn to the harvest And the Jackal-God shall turn brother against brother. The four shall take their place amongst the stars, Their legions ascendant, unstoppable as the night A deadly shroud shall fall across the spirit And the galaxy shall mourn

[@Maya_Ruinz]

I really hate that Bricky gets many points wrong about the Necrons, they didn't eliminate the Old Ones because of revenge, they were always a power hungry race that wanted to become Gods themselves. They worked with the C'tan long after the death of the Old Ones and it wasn't until their power grew suffcient that they decided to capture and harness the C'tan as weapons. It is even hinted at that the Silent King knew of the Tyranids and that much of his preparation was to be ready for their invasion.

[@christerprestberg3973]

My favorite theory on why the chaos gods are presented as demonic super evils is the death spiral theory. With the shitty way the 40k galaxy is, and the way the warp/gods feed on emotions, it has passed a event horizon in a negative spiral. So the gods and the galaxy are represented the way they are becouse of all the hate, war etc and the warp countinous the push the negative spiral down becoming self feeding.

[@owen7794]

The Templin Institute do good, engaging, and fairly short lore videos on WH40K