The Death World of CATACHAN I 40k Lore

[@DeNihility]

Catachan wasn't always hostile. It was once a barren planet, discovered some time during or before the DAOT. Catachan was terraformed for colonization, but due to a mistake, Australia was used as the template.

[@terryhampso5800]

LOL

[@taintsweatnope5093]

😂

[@adelahogarth2761]

Please.... Catachan has awfulness of the Devil and the Mindleaf horror... That's nothing. We have jellyfish that kill you through such mind-shattering pain, all forms of pain, you believe the world is ending--And if you can be restrained from committing suicide, the pain and sense of doom raises your blood pressure that you're at risk of dying from cardiac arrest. And morphine doesn't work. And it doesn't need a 'drop of venom' ... it needs but a caress of its invisible metre long tendrils. So tiny and small, you'll never see them coming until it's already too late. We also have a snail that stabs you with tailor made, highly deadly protein chain attached to a harpoon like grown tooth it shoots. This deadly venom it builds on the fly to suit the prey it seeks to hunt. Catachan is Australia, but on easy mode. Less said about a certain spider that will go out of its way to see your shoes as the most suitable lair to nest in with a peculiar type of delta atracotoxin that arrests the sodium ion channels in your motor neurons so you die frothing at the mouth in a spasmodic fit, the better. Did I mention our bats carry super-rabies and all they need to do is scratch you to catch it?

[@michaeldaignault6917]

Nice

[@CavaleiroDasTrevas-0615]

Not just Australia, Brazil and Vietnam too.

[@mrgoodyear-UwU]

''despite the occasional kilometre wide explosions which occur'' is one of the most 40k things i've ever heard. a kilometre wide cloud of death is just a normal hazard :D

[@pvtpain66k]

Best part is the random km size explosions are because someone scared a toad 🤣

[@Toxic8arbarian]

I think the most 40k thing I heard was a quote from an imperial guard novel (I’m doing this off memory so bare with me) “there is not a question of if we will take this city but when, for I will send wave after wave of my men to death, as is there duty, if it means even gaining an inch of ground in the name of the imperium and our god emperor”

[@Scholarslore]

Just to be expected!

[@michaelpettersson4919]

Maybe there is a way to weaponize these toads...

[@alfredandersson875]

@@michaelpettersson4919 Scholar talked about that briefly in the video. Nothing yet, unfortunately (fortunately?)

[@Volvith]

My favorite story of Catachan is when it got invaded by Chaos. Orks got decimated, Chaos marines ripped apart, Eldar slaughtered and Tyranids turned past tense. Nothing but the near thermonuclear hellfire of virus bombs can curb Catachan's violence. _The only reason mountains exist on that God Emperor forsaken planet, is because the local wildlife doesn't deem them a threat._ Find me another planet that scares Orks. Good luck.

[@manisherande4568]

tyranids did not turned death we found brothers here.... YOU should leave the corpse emperor his slavery and join the one truth one mind Hive ...all for one one for all,

[@secretagenttau2233]

A place so scary that even chaos and the nids cant take it

[@jacejackson5253]

Yet some regular humans still thrive there.💪

[@JohnsonPadder]

@@jacejackson5253 It's almost like this universe was created by humans.

[@jacejackson5253]

​@@JohnsonPadderYep

[@pillepolle3122]

Why can't tyranids take the planet?

[@jacejackson5253]

@@pillepolle3122 The planet essentially like a massive venus fly trap. Anything that goes in gets immediately attacked by the jungles themselves.

[@davebowman9000]

Catachan is what The Emperor Protects from

[@mediumsurmoon6283]

Catha-Cant*

[@Scholarslore]

Can't go into the jungle without a healthy dose of faith

[@SilentFox.]

All is fine as long as Sly Marbo is watching over us

[@jacejackson5253]

Sly marbo once threw a grenade, kills 8 orks and then the grenade explode.

[@joshshirley9488]

Sly Margo got shot and the bullet died

[@jacejackson5253]

@@joshshirley9488 😄😂

[@qwerty134689]

Jump good

[@poiz921]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[@lasgalon]

8:25 "I WISH TO PET THIS CREATURE!"

[@TheCorrodedMan]

Do not pet that merry suicide bomber

[@Lumbiejack]

Do not boop da snoot

[@november382]

@@Lumbiejack lest da snoot go boom

[@Scholarslore]

If it has a snoot, it gets a boop

[@stevepalpatine2828]

Do not boop that merry creature

[@kilotun8316]

Meanwhile, Australians be all like "Yeah, nah, doesn't sound too bad."

[@lunamaria1048]

You mean South Americans lol. Australians ate any major threat, long ago

[@bigglesbiggles1]

​@lunamaria1048 except drop bears...always fear the dropbear

[@matheusexpedito4577]

​@@lunamaria1048 you think South America is all jungle?

[@lunamaria1048]

@@matheusexpedito4577 Google "world's largest jungle". South America's Amazon Rain forest is the largest jungle in the world, and is so vast that it is 3 times larger than the second largest rain forest and still has un-contacted tribes of people still existing, and lots of dangerous wildlife. It is 3 times larger than the second largest rain forest in Africa's Congo and is responsible for processing the majority of global Co2. If this place had an Earth counterpart, it would be the jungles of South America, which are bigger than some countries and full of dangerous wildlife. Not sure why you asked such an irrelevant question

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

Someones got a vacation home there

[@countiblis1246]

The whole planet is the spider pit sequence from King Kong.

[@mcflander6036]

“I wish to boop the snoot”- Vulcan.

[@warzone822]

"Do not boop that merry suicide bomber"

[@Danimal4114]

Me: This sounds like an awful place! Also me: What would happen if you dropped a waaagh of orks there?

[@narumaneterallord4167]

😂😂dem brutality

[@geeljire9247]

Orks go toe-to-toe with Tyranids. Catachan would probably be survivable for them.

[@fasteddythecat]

Snake Bites would probably view it as a Disney World.

[@foddorais1422]

There's Ork living living on Catachan, it's just that the jungle regulate their number so they can't really get a waaagh going. The jungle fighter hunt them sometimes too.

[@katarn848]

I am not sure Orc spores need time to grow into an orcmand not been eaten. So depends on plot armour.

[@Siile_]

A great place to build a nice little cabin in the woods, where you can relax and enjoy the sweet sounds of nature

[@bigbutte5804]

*distance screams and death with a hint of explosions*

[@minhducnguyen9276]

"Dear diary, today my squad was eaten by a train sized centipede. A very uneventful day I must say. There's nothing to do but torching the front yard with the flamer."

[@reidmock2165]

My headcanon is that the Tyranids originally evolved on a planet similar to this one, a long time ago in a galaxy far far away

[@manisherande4568]

tyranids did not turned death we found brothers here.... YOU should leave the corpse emperor his slavery and join the one truth one mind Hive ...all for one one for all,

[@VeyXronX]

Tyranids were created by the great old ones.

[@reidmock2165]

@@VeyXronX nah bro, you're thinking of the Orks. They created the Krorks, which later deteriorated into the "present day" Orks. They used the Krorks and Aeldari to fight the Necrons/C'Tan. The Old Ones were residents of the Milky Way galaxy alone, the Tyranids are an extragalactic threat

[@alphatonic1481]

These travel commercials are weird but i guess since i have nothing better planned i visit Catachan next.

[@Tozla585]

Love the music and the nature sounds you added the gunshots in the background also really nice

[@qwerty134689]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA - SLY MARBO

[@narumaneterallord4167]

Sly marbo said ahhhhhhhhh and orks in catachan died

[@jusjusgamer6736]

Sly marbo's AAAAAAAHHHHH could probably counter an ork waaaagh

[@narumaneterallord4167]

@@jusjusgamer6736 🤣🤣🤞

[@agamingpotato]

@20:10 that picture of the large orange bug with horns is totally art from diablo 2. it is the maggot queen in the maggot lair in act 2, with a lightning beetle in the background

[@TheCorrodedMan]

Don’t hold it against him. Warhammers lore may be expansive, but the galleries meant to hold art depicting that lore are rather bare. Catachan is a notable example; despite being extremely well known among the fan base, we have almost no official art depicting the planets surface.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

@@TheCorrodedManyeah hes gotta give us some kind of visual reference and its hard when there is no official stuff 😂

[@sai51192]

16:25 "one solar hour" i appreciate this.

[@blooddrawer]

asmr and warhammer 40k two things I never thought I woudl say in the sam sentence of have combined but you have done it good job

[@Scholarslore]

Thank you!

[@cjthebeesknees]

Those devils would make great crispy bacon strips and protein.

[@leighz1962]

Those flesh sacks would make great slimy morsels and brotein.. -catachan devil

[@GreatAukEntertainment]

Warriors that can stand toe to toe against both the loyal astartes and the heretical chaos marines

[@Scholarslore]

Indeed they can!

[@Schizo00]

The calm backround music makes this video so much better! Great video ❤

[@DrewEverlong]

OMG, yes!!! More Catachan videos! I loved the conjecture where you mentioned that "Heretic" does not relate to Chaos.

[@vjior]

I literally listen to a video from you on any topic. Love this channel

[@sietsebekkema9414]

Thank you for yet another amazing, thrilling video! You are quickly becoming my favourite channel! Keep up the great work! Already looking forward to the next one!

[@leighz1962]

8:25 - great barking toad Came for this part.. stayed for the whole lecture.

[@Dstarling117]

My god. Your narrating skills are super on point. I genuinely felt like the BBC did a special on Catachan.

[@drukharimatter2962]

My fav guard regiment/world! Thank you for covering this!! Man…even the wasps in space suck.

[@phnx257]

Ah Catachan ! The Emperor favorite Spring Break place 🙂

[@loszhor]

Well made! Thanks for uploading!

[@mileswiltse4535]

Terraria jungle on hardcore legendary mode:

[@Gaming_with_Martin]

In Warhammer 40K even the jungle wants to kill you

[@zoekm]

'even' should read 'especially', surely.

[@JohnsonPadder]

The jungle wants to kill you in the real world too.

[@GrrillaFinger]

I could beat up that jungle. Easily.

[@danieljohnston9723]

​@JohnsonPadder yeah irl jungle already deadly asf

[@Scholarslore]

The jungle is just trying to fit in!

[@kayvaanmcsharrowkyn6901]

"DON'T BOOP THE SNOOT!!"

[@MrMovieMaker116]

I like the new voice. A mix of David A. and Malcolm Mcdowel.

[@ancientmariner9460]

One of my favorite lectures. Thanks, brother.

[@craig3507]

30ft long with a sting it can't attack with near its head. And big legs at the back so it's body can't follow where it's head has gone sounds great

[@keithsimpson2685]

They pronounce it Cat-uh-Chan in most british material

[@ethanmcgurrell2048]

loved this one! i think a video on ciaphas cain would be really good :) love the content thankyou!

[@liberatetutemeexinferis5902]

Catachan is basically the Australia of the future.😂

[@robotpanda77]

I picked the wrong warhammer video to watch while eating lol

[@Dethectic]

Awesome production value, suBBBB!

[@OTee1998]

I love how you use the Cursed Ofieri Prince’s Toad form as a concept.

[@danielhurtado7245]

Babe wake up, there's new Scholar's Lore

[@718Insomniac]

This is a bedtime story for me. Another amazing video.

[@drowningpooralice5505]

I love that its a planet full of dudes equal parts Rambo and Travis Bickle.

[@haraldbredsdorff2699]

That is a strange way to pronounce Australia.

[@colecook834]

I do agree. XD

[@namelesswarrior1187]

Glad to see its back!!

[@AvoidTheCadaver]

Australia does have a tree that would do the 40k verse proud. It's called the gympie gympie and you would do well to avoid any part of it. Even brushing a leaf lightly will leave you in such pain as you have never experienced.

[@thegametroll6264]

An amazing video on the jungles of catachan. If you do age of sigmar videos I'd love orations on the destruction factions. Particularly the gloomspite gitz and the kruelboyz with their various troggoths or the sons of behemat and the varities of gargants.

[@curtishoward4470]

Could you imagine if Nurgle came here? That's a thought that'll send shivers down even a Necron.

[@Tetrohedracon]

Best channel

[@hexadecimal5236]

7:49 As noted before, a hive fleet would be destroyed if certain bioforms were introduced. To stop the Tyranids, a weapon consisting of bioforms that use too much biomass would destroy the entire fleet. The alternative is obviously building ships specifically with reactors that are basically suicide ships. The unthinkable alternative is somehow pitting chaos directly against the Tyranids.

[@CollinKillian]

Indeed, never understood why the Nids are made out to be so dangerous. Of course if you're trying to fight them conventionally they would indeed be formidable, yet the ultramarines gave a template on how you can destroy them. Sacrifice a ship to drag the mother ship into the warp and done. Do this on the onset of invasion and at best you're left with mopping up the now psychically disrupted lifeforms that made it PlanetSide.

[@pitmatix1457]

I like to think the only reason the Catachan's still thrive is that the planet kinda has a soft spot for them, like those birds that clean crocodile's teeth.

[@jnev5572]

I think fictuonal nature is peak. Maybe do Tuchanka from mass effect next ?

[@Jasonnk]

Such amazing content

[@zerofighterfairy]

Simply put, Catachan is like what Godzilla Earth turn Earth into. Every flora and fauna literally want to kill you.

[@snip105]

I have heard that it’s a nice place to visit in the winter

[@zyvron]

Excelente! Parabéns pelo trabalho!

[@Waya420]

flamethrowers and fire sounds like it would be a good thing to have on this world.

[@grahamspaull80]

Love your work, please if you are able redo the video about plague planets that used to have the David Attenborough voice over. I don't know where it went but it was magnificent and miss it tremendously.

[@ZoruaZorroark]

i wonder if grandpa nurgal would find the illnesses found only on catachan as beautiful

[@芦白龙]

Awesome, more please

[@kadewiedeman3127]

Catachan: Yo, Pandora. You look like you drink white Gatorade and smell like Nickels.

[@hanchiman]

For Sly, this planet is his home

[@Gabryal77]

If Catachan had been where Cadia was, we'd only know about 2 of the Black Crusades

[@deadpol1239]

Tyranids when the biomass eats you back 0_0

[@Morebullets315]

Ork : "RUN ! GO ! GET ME DA CHOPPA !"

[@KwadDamyj]

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE! WE GOT FUN AND GAMES! 🎵

[@thenson1Halo]

Imagine being such a badass that you run around this place with no shirt on. Especially since at least a couple of the nasties referenced here could easily be defeated by wearing a shirt.

[@LtSpiteful]

I guess it was inevitable that Attenborough filmed a doco in Catachan really

[@Tallquietguy556]

As a man of the mountain this place is pure fear but I believe I'd survive 3 minutes

[@tasjan9190]

That place is in need of some serious landscaping!!

[@UGNAvalon]

“What’s that? 😥” “A Heretic Ant.” “And… why is it called that? 😨” “It eats your soles. 👻 “ “😱” “Of your feet. 😉”

[@ianvaughan3775]

Hey, i loved this video. I'm just gonna say that YOU NEVER CAME BACK TO IT

[@aLexKcss]

Catachan is basically the Australia of 40k

[@GlobalPoliticsandNews]

Never knew david Attenborough started narrating warhammer.

[@arkadisevyan]

"Everything on this planet wants to kill you" Avatar

[@undeadrose766]

where are you finding all this lore on the devils?

[@Scholarslore]

The 2021 book "Liber Xenologis" by Darius Hinks was the primary source. I added certain aspects of this from an old entomology textbook I had from uni though, so when I talk about forcipules, or some of the physiological features of them, that's taken from a chapter on real world centipede anatomy.

[@nalapranatungga1734]

How To Purge Nurgle invasion : Bring Catachan Barking Toad

[@aymann7234]

@3:46 "plates of kittenous exoskeleton" :D A meowssacre if I ever saw one. Purrrge, for the Empra!

[@zollen123]

That's not fair. I love their five stars hotels.

[@flakzuludeusex2365]

Hay here's an idea what happens when building a successor chapter out of these Catachan tribal individuals are recruited and turned into a space marine?

[@tsato1980]

Space Australia!

[@hadrian2505]

9:33 feels threatened, explodes.........bro who writes this stuff, in what world is that reasonable evolutionary path

[@Godzillakingofkaiju1]

To quote Corvus Corax: WHY DO PEOPLE LIVE HERE!?

[@Ponkan45]

Catachan sounds like the 40k version of Australia

[@rasheedsimmons7294]

This was terrifying.

[@UGNAvalon]

0:50-1:15 To be fair, I think Catachan wasn’t classified as a death world until After the first colonists arrived. 😅

[@be_quiet_and_drive]

Is it just me or does the AI sound alot smoother? Great video

[@maeror1022]

This video is like horror story david attenborough

[@Kamina.D.Fierce]

Imagine if Ciaphas Cain ever went to Catachan...

[@mojo_joju]

It makes a lot of sense for the Catachan to have an Australian accent (or maybe Kiwi)

[@howizee]

The only planet in the galaxy where the tyranids are the biomass

[@mandroid-rb4uy]

hello Scholar Lore

[@austintaylor1378]

My lord the enemy is being led by chaos champions, a demon prince, and there are sightings of orks on the allspecs.. “No matter, drop off this shipping container onto the center mass of the enemies location. “ My lord? “It has things from Catachan in it, at least there was now there might be just A thing in there but it’ll do the job”.. sips tea

[@jupiterjunk]

WOW. Nice background audio. Also, your voice is really good. Just to be nit-picky... the "H" is not silent You don't take cange from the tip jar, no matter how carming you may be. It's CA-TA-CHAN or CAT-A-CHAN.

[@notrefann]

I want to read their books, do you know what they are? I cannot find anything online

[@daniellane1605]

Damn I've almost never been so early to a vid

[@richardjames2775]

Barking Toad ..... Derek and Clive ... Very good😂 if you really want to find one check your underpants😂

[@7S5y3X.0th]

Is this a real voice or AI ?