THE PARIAH NEXUS: 10ed Crusade Lore Update | Warhammer 40k Lore

The Pariah Nexus is the subject of the next Narrative Update for Warhammer 40k, so in this video I'll track the story so far, from it's beginning back in Psychic Awakening through to the emergence of HORRIFIC TECHNOLOGY and SPOOKY NEW THREATS!
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[@TheCorrodedMan]

I love that Szarekhs lore basically boils down to him diddling around outside the galaxy before hurtling back screaming “BUGS! BUUUUGS! WAKE THE FUCK UP, WE GOT A ROACH PROBLEM!”

[@doubledigital_]

lol

[@Gsauce]

Szarekh the diddler

[@WitcherCrow]

Retconned. Aeldari clowns said that the Silent King created the Tyranids.

[@SeanCrosser]

​@@WitcherCrow Gonna need some sources on that, bud

[@guilherme5094]

@@WitcherCrow ???What?

[@triangulan]

I misheard one of the lines as "gifs of the Omnissiah", and wondered why the Tech Priests were sending animated pictures of their gods to the Necrons.

[@terraneaux]

That's how they pray lol

[@talscorner3696]

Ah, yes, the Galaxy's worst enemy: finding the plural for unusual words

[@euansmith3699]

The correct term is "Nexipodes" 😄👍

[@randomname3109]

Nexii?

[@talscorner3696]

@@randomname3109 depending on the declention of the Latin original, but on a limb my guesses would be either Nexi (2nd declention) or Nexus (4th declention)

[@Azurios]

Wait, they used Vashtorr again? That fast? That really surprises me. I thought the guy was going to disappear into oblivion and behave like Belakor.

[@SirJustinTheLion]

Or Harkon the World-claimer. Or Doom Rider.

[@TheBlackBladder]

Wasnt he with Abadon cruising thru the webway after starting up Caliban?

[@dekai7992]

​@@TheBlackBladder He's even tinkering around with Perturabo...

[@nobleman9393]

@@TheBlackBladder He did arrive from the Webway, so I guess they split up.

[@JACKXK]

Do not forget -- Lion El'Jonson can basically teleport wherever he wants to go now, as well.

[@tuba337]

I just want to say thank you Ian. I don't play the table top games, I haven't watched the shows, I read some books but far from all. And without all of the above, you make me enjoy 40k tremendously. Listening to you talk, without pretense or fluff, like a narrator on a serious documentary about gigantic cosmic, tragic and horrifying events has become my little 15min of peace after the day is over and the kids are down. Thanks mate, keep up the good work.

[@joaovitorreisdasilva9573]

Necrons and the Ad. Mechanicus going at each other IN FULL FORCE sounds like such a fun concept.

[@Tortle-Man]

Ok the end is a fucking plot twist I did not see coming.

[@euansmith3699]

Cawl, "Reverse the polarity of the noctolith flow!"

[@jonharrison9222]

Don’t cross the streams.

[@wasteyelo1]

Good to see Vashtorr is back in the lore. Vashtorr in a novel might be interesting. With Perturabo and the Iron Warriors perhaps.

[@Lazrael32]

There was a sisters novel that didn't make much sense to me called Requiem Infernal. It was mostly a good book, but I couldn't quite attribute the warp corruption to any of the chaos gods. but retroactively Vashtorr makes a lot of sense to me.

[@MandoSki464]

Really would be nice to see the forces of chaos fighting the necrons or any body else rather than only the imperium. The necrons should abhor the forces and powers of the warp as much as the silent king despises the tyranids. Vashtorr leading demonic mechanical armies in large battles and wars against the necrons would be absolutely awesome

[@SirJustinTheLion]

They just can't keep from spamming the Imperium and specifically Space Marines all over everything. Remember when they relaunched the sisters and necrons? What a box set that would have been. What did we get, Space Marines, with another Leutenant.

[@KuK137]

@@SirJustinTheLion Gee, after Eldar vs Dark Eldar and Khorne vs Slanesh demon boxes sat unsold for a YEAR, I have no idea why GW does what sells. It's a mystery, eh?

[@neverendingribbon]

Didn't Vashtorr technically "win" in Soul Forge?

[@chatonivre2662]

He totaly did @@neverendingribbon

[@aidanrock8719]

@@KuK137 yes, that is directly comparable, he was definitely talking about two sides of the same coins squabbling, and not diametrically opposing forces clashing to exterminate their grandest enemies. Definitely a great comparison. GW makes a decision that doesn't relate to what the guy described, but I'm sure he deserved your scornful sarcasm.

[@MrAirpumpkin]

Assuming the human soul resides inside the human body, the warp is made out of soulstuff, and the patiah nexus primarily cuts off access to that soulstuff in the warp it could be that the key difference to the power of faith that let's it work inside the nexus is that it uses the souls inside the bodies of faiths practitioners as a source of soulstuff. Or in otherwords magic draws from external power but faith draws from internal power. That being said there has to be a catch, I wouldn't be surprised if faith powers are bad for your health, but no one notices cause average human life expectancy is already trashed in the 41st millennium

[@ohamatchhams]

There's still a lot of mysteries on how human souls works and the hints of Anthropotheism (somekind of Theology of how humanity is the Spiritual blankets and centre of the entire Cosmos) in Warhammer 40K, I think Emperor began to learn more about The Warp in the past 10.000 years since his internment that he got upper hand above Chaos gods to know, access with tamper with various metaphysical entanglement of Warp's collective Psyche, but not (yet) to kill or at least terminally pacifying chaos gods until End Times (or whatever Eldar equivalent is), not to mention The Orks views him as somekind of a war god but the Eldar harlequin that managed to get near into Emperor's Throne Room claimed that Enthroned Emperor's Psychic capabilities are more numerous than Slaanesh (alongside Drukhari's interests to take a DNA sample from him to create somekind of homunculi to block and scares down Daemonic incursion from Commoragh's curent civil war/internal uprising) This alongside Ynnead's (being the prophesised Eldar god of The Dead) birth being postponed by Slaanesh's greater daemons hiding the catalysts in its own Palace alongside T'au reluctantly not admitting that they have a new auxiliary goddess that can protect them from Warp's intrusion via human's collective beliefs in the more Theological interpretation of T'au's greater good means that The Warp will be filled with more players that threaten Chaos' individualised "Great Game" into equanimity of existential psychic wars within Immaterium with humans playing pivotal parts of such metaphysical warfare and would bridge Immaterium and Materium altogether into something new and definitely explosive with stupendous Occult concepts from real life religions into it Also, considering that The Warp is also interpreted as Naraka and it's just 1 of 6 Realms of Samsara, Warhammer 40K would going for Greater Cosmological breakthrough albeit if the writers would not just research, but also intelligently integrate the systems to move the plot points, settings and figures forwards into something coherent, divergent and hopefully spectacular

[@terraneaux]

Eh, in past lore faith-based stuff is very much connected to the warp, the seat of emotions. It doesn't make sense that the Sororitas are able to endure the Pariah effect. I chalk it up to bad writing. Would have made much more sense for the Sisters of Silence to play this role.

[@MrAirpumpkin]

@@terraneaux at the end of the day they are both playing with soul stuff to break physics. The key thing is that you don't always need a connection to the warp to get the soul stuff. Eldar can bottle up souls in infinity circuits and use them like batteries, ork weird boy powers essentially come from tapping the local boyz collective souls bypassing the dangers that come with using the warp for psychic power, etc. That being said it stands to reason that necrons can adapt the pariah field to counter faith like how the sisters of silence used deliberate rituals to mess with a weird boy in war of the beast.

[@Bluecho4]

It's fitting that of all the Empyrean beings that would slip through cracks in the Pariah Nexus, it would be the forces of the Arkifane. Undead Robots vs Corpse Robots vs Daemon Robots. Who will win? (Not the Robots Classic, obviously. One day, the Men of Iron might make their resurgence. Today is not that day.)

[@haroldsandahl6408]

So i think it's 2 possible explanations. The first is that they're just wrong. That its propaganda and we're being lied to. The second is that faith doesn't use the warp, or uses it in a different way. Easiest way to show that is to have an ork wagh enter the nexus and still work. Then you can assume faith uses the mechanism that the orks use

[@sirpieman300]

God emperor , humans and orks are even more alike then we imagined XD

[@kazmark_gl8652]

I wonder if it has something to do with the Emperor's extremely slow ascension to god hood. he has his own kinda-deamons like the living saints and the Legion of the damned, but it's clear that they won't work exactly like chaos deamons.

[@Chulpichochos]

KZbin recommended some rando’s video about this new lore. So I immediately said to myself: silly KZbin, I bet if this random guy has a video, then surely Arbitor Ian made one already and is probably a gazillion times better. And of course, Ian doesn’t disappoint! Thanks!

[@Lazrael32]

dude Ian's lore videos are my favorite. They are very concise but also full to brimming with detail and lore. There are some other channels that go on and on and ramble and they are just not for me. (though it's cool that other people like them).

[@anemoi6803]

Once again I feel confident in saying the Silent King is the best failure in 40k. Everything he attempts blows up in his face, but my god does he have ambition. It blows up in his face, ambitiously. Has the Silent King ever, without a ton of asterisks, won?

[@jojosteel3399]

Well, he got a c'tan shard! Lol

[@bengeorge9063]

Thank you for condensing the lore like this! The videos are the perfect length too.

[@mrskittles08]

Definitely my favorite 40k channel. No macho BS, no insane theories, just well-researched content with JUST the right amount of humor.

[@phaikia13]

Hopefully, Necrons actually get some shit done this time.

[@strawberrypuddin8919]

Now I may be an imperial lover at heart but I feel like this could be a great moment in the lore for either a chaos or a xenos victory. I think that would be cooler

[@robertromanos4330]

Kinda not a fan of the twist at the end with Chaos getting involved. Like we finally get a storyline where the aliens of the setting get to shine and then now Vashtorr is here

[@Aberinkula9]

That's GW for you: sooner or later Chaos will get involved to enshadow everyone until the mighty and "noble" Imperium wins the battle once again only to later the higher members go complain how they are losing and send billions to die once more. All that to sell new uncountable models of Ultramarine that will be praised by general fans of the setting who think that this kind of thing that happens again and again is really cool and GLORY TO THE EMPEROR. Screw you of you are a Aeldari main though (NOT my case), for instance.

[@zersockpuppet]

Heretical technology? Robots and ancient weapons? Imperial Fists? SOMEBODY CALL THE IRON WARRIORS

[@ace12342]

There a chance Vashtorr brought some with him!

[@vinnythewebsurfer]

With this whole “faith vs the warp” stuff, wouldn’t this mean that the Word Bearers of the Chaos space marines could just make their way through the Pariah nexus? What about the more anti-Parker chaos entities like Khorne and the World eaters? Are they too magical/warp related?

[@terraneaux]

Nah it's gonna be some BS like "faith in the emperor is real faith and isn't fake warp religions."

[@nobleman9393]

Humanity and the C'tan team up yet again to fuck up the Necrons lol

[@SamuraiMujuru]

Humanity really needs to learn it's a bad idea to blow up Necron artifacts. First they alerted the Tyranids, now they let Vashtor in.

[@sirpieman300]

Well, that super weapon was a a dark age of technology weapon, that they didn't know had made a alliance with are big demon robot no?

[@matthewbrown9944]

"recovering after a good praying at" had me lolling🤣🤣

[@scelonferdi]

If I had to explain faith working in the Nexus I'd do it as follows: We know that untouchables have a stronger effect on psykers than non-psykers. Miracles are most likely a bunch of minds having slight effect on the warp but the intensity and synchronicity of their believe accumulating into a strong effect. When psychically weak minds are less affected by pariah stuff than this "battery" of weak psy might be more resilient to that ort of stuff. Maybe that's down to a lower limit on how far a being can be dampened. Alternatively it could be the strong faith and willpower just pushing through.

[@Tobascodagama]

I think it's probably a combination of the highly-dispersed latent effect, like you mentioned, plus drawing on the intervention of sufficiently powerful external entities. Like, the Nexus is a big sheet of kevlar or something. Psykers and warp engines try to punch through it but can't. But the prayers of true believers can let the Emperor's power seep through the microscopic gaps in the weave of the fabric.

[@RSBurgener]

I don't know if this is the campaign I wanted for my narrative Space Marine Chapter, but it's the one we got so I ordered it this afternoon. Narrative campaign has been a goal of mine for a very long time, so I guess we're doing this!

[@TheMrFishnDucks]

Great video. Very helpful. Nice to see so many characters return. The Necron civil wars are very interesting. Vashtor reappearing is nice to see.

[@liquiduso]

In this episode, the Imperium of Man discovers… depression.

[@zenosAnalytic]

You're probably right about us never getting an explanation for WHY the sister's stuff works, but I wonder if "faith", while absolutely psychic in nature, is maybe more self-generated than other psychic phenomena? Like: One could think of psychic abilities in 40k having two mechanical elements, the material individual and their immaterial impression or "shadow on the warp"; where traditional psychic abilities act by passively drawing upon the immaterial-impression to influence the warp directly for a specific effect, "faith" might be a sort of converse of this, working "backwards" with the material individual Willing a connection to their impression and indirectly Wishing for something beneficial to happen. Like: the Pariah-effect interferes with the connection btwn a person's material and immaterial aspects, and this can be overcome with an act of Will both 1)asserting one's nature as a being of Fantasy and 2)wishing for Material reality to fail. That raises some interesting questions. Would the faith of chaos cultists work the same? Given that "Wishing for something beneficial to happen" is a good working definition of Hope, is Tzeentch more directly involved in The Sisters of Battle than canon has suggested to this point?

[@talscorner3696]

The way that I understand faith in 40k is that the Warp is emotion/feeling made power and that the emotions of psychic races do have a mirror, there, regardless of whether or not the individual is "psyker". (Cause, keep in mind, we often think of psykerness as a binary, either psyker or not psyker, but we know it's not really the case) So, looking at it through this lens, a psyker is capable of purposefully accessing the power of the Warp through will (sorcery/powery as we know it), while a non psyker only has their own passive "Warp double" to go with and can access it only when in large enough numbers of other people with strong enough Warp doubles, which then can manifest in the shape and firm that they instinctively associate to their faith. Waaaaaaaaaaagh, basically. Which leads to one very interesting question: who is the Emperor the Imperium prays to?

[@euansmith3699]

Making Faith akin to WAARGH!!! 🤔👍

[@zenosAnalytic]

@@talscorner3696 Yeah! I think there's also a really cool/disturbing kind of corruption horror-element to the Emperor bit, specifically. Like: his "Warp Double", which due to Molech Shenanigans was already super-boosted to some undefined extent, acts as a focus for the "Faith" of all these ~non-psyker~ humans(both those who worship him as a deity and those who are just in awful circumstances wishing for help), and is slowly transformed from who he was BY this "Faith" into something more closely resembling that "Faith" over the last 10k years :3 :3 :3 Also makes me wonder if Gork and Mork might have followed a similar path back in the days of the War in Heaven, or if they're just more conventional mythic gods.

[@zenosAnalytic]

​@@euansmith3699 Yes >:3 Starting a Petition to give Da Boyz WAAAGH! Dice >:3 >:3

[@marrvynswillames4975]

Nah, faith, like blanks and perpetual are special loyalist things

[@Mr_Waffle.]

Wow didn't expect Vashtorr back yet, thought we wouldn't see him until at least the Eldar codex (webway etc). Makes sense though, all the crazy tech going on is definitely going to get him onboard. Hrm, do we know if this is before or during/after the current Tyrannic war? Surely big G needs to focus on that? Or maybe, this is how G and The Lion finally meet....? Maybe The Lion decides to chase down his old planet...

[@noahkatz5454]

I'm so happy there bringing VASHTORR THE ARKIFANE BACK!! but it's good to see great writing being done I'm curious how leviathan is going to react to this new battle?

[@berilsevvalbekret772]

I think it was a horrible decision. Why chaos is fucking everywhere?

[@harioch5679]

​@@berilsevvalbekret772100 per cent this

[@huwtindall7096]

Cheers Ian! Lore download complete.

[@Lazrael32]

Thanks for this. I was always wondering what ephrael stern was up to after her novel. She doesn't get enough love and lore in my opinion. So i think the lore problem with the sisters may actually be explained by Ephrael. at the end of her novel i think she ended up in the pariah nexus with sisters, and everyone but her ended up having a hard time dealing with the "silence". she may somehow be a way for the sisters to access the warp. Like a backdoor to the warp. I dunno just a thought.

[@Immortal-ironic-fist]

You mentioned in the deathwatch list that the Land Raider classic is actually good since it can get sustained hits and rerolls from the detachment. Do you think that chaos land raiders are good too? They get sustained/lethals whenever they want

[@lamicrobio...engros5427]

I would love to see a video from you about the war in heaven, massive piece of lore :p thanks for the video, great as ever

[@arpettibo]

Maybe the faith is working in the Pariah Nexus because it is self-generated by physical beings, not powered by the warp. Faith echoes in the Warp, but a Sister, a priest or anybody who's praying is not calling dark power from other dimension but thinks the Emperor in our dimension. As such, like Orks, they generate the act, whatever it is by believing hardenough that it will manifest, and it doesn't come from an other dimension. But it is a maybe ^^

[@berilsevvalbekret772]

Its just stupid. We KNOW all those 'faith miracles' are psykic feedback.

[@shmeeeeeep8797]

Great video!

[@brettwood1351]

Damn it Chaos, can't you just let anyone else have a story arc without butting in?

[@Technoanima]

Now that's compelling drama right there😮

[@malcolm_in_the_middle]

Oooh, will be exciting if we get to see more of Perty!

[@carlstanford7607]

Great summary. You’re a really good storyteller. This would have been amazing epic lore to build the dawn of fire novels around rather than putting it in some random rule book few will read. Instead they made the dawn of fire series so local, small with sideline stories, and minor characters. A strange choice and unfortunately it hasn’t done well as a result.

[@gawkthimm6030]

there are some novels and stories with the Nexus as a setting; from the 40k book; Nexus + Other Stories (Anthology) from 2020 the first one in the anthology; Nexus by Thomas Parrott. Otherwise I would recommend; kzbin.info/www/bejne/gn3NdqKPpbyWd5Ysi=sMdOJfCtTtJDLpmf Baldermort's dramatic reading of the Psychic Awakening Pariah campaign book.

[@Studio54ithy123]

great vid

[@slackeratlarge575]

Pariah nexus 2; electric boogaloo

[@Rosgakori]

Holy crap I did NOT expect that to happen

[@euansmith3699]

*NO ONE EXPECT THE ARKIFANE INQUISITION!!!* 😱

[@am17frans]

It might also be that the sisters is right when they say their faith is not psykic powers, and that the rest (like the custodes) are wrong when they think it is.

[@glyngreen538]

Yeah that’s my thoughts on it based on anti warp stuff not affecting it sometimes. The lore could easily be written either way (and I think has varied at times) but that’s what this seems to suggest.

[@drachenfeles]

more likely fubar, either a mistake or deliberate attempt at breaking warhammer even further

[@gran9968]

I think it would undermine a lot of the themes in the sisters' faction

[@ToTheNines87368]

It’s not psychic in the individual sense. But it’s still mass and feverous group belief having an effect on, and manifesting in the warp. Not sure how they would retcon that to be honest.

[@cegesh1459]

I mean that doesn't make any sense. Faith was always psychic in Warhammer. Evdn the new Tau goddess shows this.

[@lukemcdonladson6648]

=]|[= ∆π . Well done Sir .. Another Great Update ... The echoy voice was a nice touch .. The system that screamed in a hundred internet dial up tones . ✌️💚

[@DogKacique]

I could see the Psyker vs Faith dichotomy it being similar Wizard vs Cleric casting in D&D in the sense that both are warp magic, but the way they work is fundamentally different in nature I mean, sorcerers and normal psykers are already work in different ways (with power deriving from deals and stuff), so faith power working in a different way too would not be surprising

[@MyShadowstrike]

My personal theory about Faith working in the Pariah Nexus is that it's something from within that connects to the Warp without, instead of the usual pattern of the Warp flowing through a psyker. In effect the Pariah Nexus has hampered the ability for the Warp to flow into the sector, but it can't do anything about the Warp being pumped into it by faith.

[@gawkthimm6030]

I always saw "faith powers" as yes using latent psychic powers, but "purified and made safe" by their 'faith' that the emperor grants them protection, its a tiny fragment of the emperors specific type of Anathema warp power -that which burns and kills demons, given to the believer, thus its a broadcasted power of the emperor. That is what determines if "faith powers" are working as opposed to regular "warp powers".. thats my take...

[@alejandrorp5160]

Word Bearers: 'Am I a joke to you?' Nah, we all know GW writing can get truly dumb oftimes

[@berilsevvalbekret772]

Its just bad writing mate

[@KillerOrca]

Sounds like I need to get the Psychic Awakening books

[@PrimetimeD]

Nice one

[@gaiuspadme6344]

Yall know the mechanicus wont just sit around especially when there’s necrons involved 😂

[@Chulpichochos]

Does Ork communal belief effect work in the Nexus? I would assume so, right? Maybe human faith works similar? To that point - does faith work in the nexus because faith is special, or does faith work in the nexus because the faithful belive it should? Also, alternatively, could it be that in part because the Imperium worships the physical form of the Emperor on Terra, it gives the Emperor power in the materium regardless of blank effects? Not to mention - I think in one of the Bequin books, its noted that humans are the only species that naturally birth pariahs. Couple that with the Emperor’s power seemingly being unhindered by his own pariahs like the Sisters of Silence, and maybe you get a special human sauce that allows Big E to act inside the nexus? Idk, great video though!

[@Zahaqiel]

The faith/psychic powers difference is, perhaps, because Blanks are not actually soulless. We know this because we have examples of other things that are soulless (objects, and also people who've had their souls consumed or removed, etc) that do not have the effect Blanks do - a truly soulless human is mostly just mindless and empty. So Blanks have a soul, it's just _different_ to a regular soul. But importantly, most Blanks are part of the Imperial faith and worship the Emperor. So the Imperial faith crosses beyond just the regular Warp and into whatever energies the Blanks also draw from that negates the Warp - it is quite possible that the Emperor is the _only god of that region of the Warp_ (or whatever anti-Warp alternative you want to call it). So when Sisters of Battle draw upon their faith to manifest miracles, that power transcends the regular Warpy realms that people think of when they talk about the Warp, and consequently... it draws on a power that also transcends what the Pylons are suppressing. This may also inform why Imperial faith (in the various objects of faith, and purity rituals, etc) burns daemons so much more effectively than just regular psychic powers.

[@bradypus55]

I really really hope this isn't the start of a retcon where now the imperium faith isn't psyker power because religious faith is now actually its own power source. It made sense psyker was just a universal supernatural thing common no matter the person.

[@MagnustheRad]

Hey Ian, will you be doing all the codex lore?

[@randomacademypilot]

Thank you.

[@Jon_REDACTED]

It would be interesting if one of hive fleet leviathans tendrils swept into the eye of terror as the Tyranids acknowledge the threat chaos offers without biomass it wouldn’t be to far off if the hive mind decides to send in vast swarms to annihilate Chaos and foil Vashator’s and Abbadons plans As well as Gasgul avenging his rival Commissar Yarrick who was slain by the traitor Primarch (I forgot his name 😅) so the Orks would also be on the front of fighting Chaos While the Tau have their own civil war play out Virtually leaving the Imperium to settle its own internal affairs and focus on the the fourth Tyranic war, potentially with the Necrons

[@redeye3869]

16:39 Wasn’t Szarekh friendly with Sanguinius or has that now been retconned?

[@marrvynswillames4975]

It's unknown if it's true, since it comes only from his herald. Besides, there's a big difference between liking a specific guy and caring about his race

[@iandoddsblah]

Necrons seem a lot more willing to compromise for their own benefit rather than stick to baseline xenophobia like the rest of them.

[@LordOfClarkness]

Ian I can‘t find your stuff on Apple Podcasts, the Link does not work!

[@SafetyBriefer]

This is some great lore.

[@ForTheLion]

I miss the Necron Pariahs, they added a real horror to the plans of the necrons different from "kill all the living things".

[@Critterfurr]

Embrace the machine

[@michaelriddick7116]

An easy explanation could be that lumping "faith" in as a warp based power was always just an assumption without any rigor put into testing it. (Which fits well with the Imperium's research and new tech bans tbh) With the pylons definitively muting the warp and those powers still working, it would suggest that the understanding of the mechanics of just how the Sister's faith changes reality isnt as understood as previously thought.

[@gawkthimm6030]

I always saw "faith powers" as yes using latent psychic powers, but "purified and made safe" by their 'faith' that the emperor grants them protection, its a tiny fragment of the emperors specific type of Anathema warp power -that which burns and kills demons, given to the believer, thus its a broadcasted power of the emperor. That is what determines if "faith powers" are working as opposed to regular "warp powers".. thats my take...

[@shorelessskies]

Is all of this in the crusade books? The Indomitus novel gets into it but are there any others?

[@pat0652]

I'm glad they didn't just drop this plot point like happened with the Orpheus and Forsarr Sector plot lines...yeah, those were in Imperial Armour Books, but there is no reason not to tidy those up.

[@garryame4008]

I'd truly love to see a necron victory. Not a chance in the warp tho :(

[@andyshaw5378]

Great video Ian. Are there any black library books that cover this??

[@XerrolAvengerII]

didn't psychic awakening come out at the late part of 8th edition before 9th edition was even launched?

[@Jafr0]

Vashtoors back babeyyy

[@RougeHound]

More xenos lore! Thank you!

[@freyjacatraerlingsdottir371]

Faith works in mysterious ways, apparently! We love our space bretonnians.

[@SC1ENCEP1E]

Did you publish this in the que at Nottingham 😂

[@BreakerGandalfStyle]

Let’s me short this up: Necrons numbing the warp, kicken imperial arses, imperium had plot armour on power level > 9000 … again

[@Pizzifrizzo]

I don't think that faith is somehow "different" in the Pariah Nexus. I think that it's a different "medium" to conjure psychic powers, not dependent on congitive thought and stronger with higher concentrations of people, somehow allowing it to more easily bypass the Stilling (which is very hard, not impossible). Basically, faith acts an anchor, or tether, for the soul. Now Szeras has to figure out why.

[@squishymusic9723]

I thought the reason why faith worked in nexus was because a weak null wont overpower a strong psyker. The stronger psychic gestalt will desist the null field, better than the rest at least

[@Dingusmaningus]

Cringeperium: " we beed to push back the eye of terror" Also the cringeperium: " lets destroy all xenos warp nullifying structures"

[@devinjohnson3913]

Surprisingly they don’t want to be used as science experiments. Shocking I know.

[@Dingusmaningus]

@@devinjohnson3913 they should trust the science

[@Elneco1]

If I were writing it, I would have rationalised faith as working as a result of Stern basically being a mini emperor. aka a psychic gestalt of her fellow sisters, allowing acts of faith to be accessed through the massive hole she’d be punching through the nexus.. or something like that! she’s already basically a marvel hero in 40k so fuck it, capitalise on that!

[@sirpieman300]

I wonder if those blanks will become prime interest to any of the necrons

[@matthewharr6881]

it's sounds like faith has a different effect on the warp perhaps simply overpowering the Necron Pilons. The Pilons still the warp but it has been proven that people can stir up on their own or enough people come together.

[@alejandrorp5160]

Even Faith has Plot Armor then? * facepalm * I though the grimdark point was that faith is warp-related all the same

[@alBoomer19]

It’s a busy time to be a robot.

[@questionable8284]

Whilst i agree the faith stuff is kinda weird it might be that the pylons have a similar empathic effect to the Pharos device that allows the faith shenanigans to still work whilst blocking out other psychic stuff.

[@twoscarabsintheswarm9055]

Always meh to see Chaos shoved into a place xenos and non space marines could shine, thanks GW 😑

[@fadelbadiane9019]

Vashtorr, my man

[@angelx9724]

Oh, I think I have a theory on how the emperor's beacon messed up the arrangement of the Pariah Nexuses.

[@arminsfrozenpeas007]

Anyone know what song he uses in the intro/Outro?

[@elliotyourarobot]

Oh my God Doleman

[@JoshuaKevinPerry]

So many updates

[@LinkiePup]

So this, as a Necron fan, just makes me angry because here’s how things are going to go down by the end of the campaign. Bobby G. is gonna show up, Slap Vashtorr back into the Webway, Slap the Silent King, and manage to destroy the Pariah Nexus with barely any trouble with the help of Cawl. And they (GW) is going to make it seem like its a narrow, almost impossible to achieve victory, where Szarekh, who in canon has been shown to be more powerful than a primarch, is going to get his butt handed to him by Robute. I really, DESPERATELY want to be wrong. But this is GW we’re talking about. They’re going to make the Imperium come out on top, even if something like the Pariah Nexus networks actually challenge the Imperium and force both Imperial, Necron, and now Vashtorr’s narratives forward.

[@rossicourvosi218]

I pray to the Emperor you are wrong

[@zachschreck]

So far Vashtorr has been on a roll and can easily just warp not-Caliban away. He's smart enough to know when to retreat back into the shadows and Guilliman leading an entire fleet is a fine time to grab the artifacts he came for and gtfo. I hope...

[@taylorcapewell]

I think there will be a unholy fragile alliance being formed between Imperium and Silent King's Necrons. They share common interest which is to destroy the nids and to close the great rift.

[@No_nameOG]

If the Imperium keep losing at this rate, there’s a high likelihood that Terra will fall in the next millennium. Would make for an interesting plot reason to revive the Emperor.

[@relint12]

I wouldn’t be surprised if they retcon the warp a bit to show that it is the will of the Chaos gods that makes it all ‘warpy’ and other wills can create their own space-time breaking rules with enough power, ego and faith. That’s kind of been alluded to for a while so I’m probably not hypothesizing anything new.

[@Drownedinblood]

At this point might as well throw in the tyranids anyway.

[@SeanCrosser]

This would've been a cool lore drop... like, what, two years ago?

[@3picdermis223]

The correct plural of Nexus is Nexūs with a long u. In German just using Nexus as plural is also ok, not sure how it is in English though. (Volunteered in a left winged DIY venue with the name for some time, and the plural discussion came up from time to time. So I kinda wrote this comment out of habit)

[@michaelhowell2326]

My head canon says Brother Captain Stern and The Battle Sister Stern are brother and sister.

[@iandoddsblah]

I was hoping for more Pariah Nexus stuff when they had that lady in the first Dawn of Fire book try to deliver that message to old mate who'd gone off with Robert Girlyman... But it just kinda petered into nothing (like the last 3 books of that series, really...)

[@zenosAnalytic]

All those poor Sleepy Boys being forced to Do Stuff by their Legally Mandated passive-aggressive boss u_u u_u u_u

[@HumbleHuddle]

Inconsistency for the win!! Necrons should wipe the floor with the wounded imperium. 💀

[@tabe8850]

I wish Necron pariahs were brought back by Szerus. That should have been punchline of this silly storyline. Would have made old school fans happy.

[@AmyGuyomard]

Nexapodi?