The Repeated Resurrections Of Makari The Grot - 40K Theories

Whenever a Makari dies, a new Gretchin is selected to take his place. Yet despite being entirely different individuals, each iteration of Makari is able to recall the memories of their predecessors. So just how exactly is Makari able to be ‘resurrected’ time and again?
Narrated by Naerina. Thanks for covering for me while I was sick,
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[@40KTheories]

*WARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR GHAZGKHULL THRAKA: PROPHET OF THE WAAAGH! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!* Thank you to Naerina for narrating this episode while I was ill.

[@10dice]

My pleasure. ^^

[@TheLastRaven]

We all know the true famous ork is.... Gorgutz Ead Unter

[@SuperPyst]

Naerina could read the dictionary and it would be enthralling.

[@bigbangrafa8435]

Are you telling me that Ghazgkhull created the Avatar of the Warhammer universe? Orks are really just 12 year old children with steroids and big guns.

[@akumaking1]

So if an Ork strapped a buttload of feathers onto himself, could he fly a la Icarus?

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

"Another Grot will take his place" Alpha Legionnaire: Hey, I've seen this one, it's a classic!

[@custink22]

Spoiler alert: Gazghul and Makari are actually just very deep cover Alpha Legionairres.

[@sheevpalpatine2128]

Nicely done

[@_NIKOS9_NIKOS]

I want to believe that both Makari and Ghazgul are the chosen ones of Gork and Mork

[@owenstephens3389]

That would actually make a bit of sense. Another comment mentioned that perhaps they aren't entirely separate entities. Since gretchin are usually a bit more underhanded and sneaky, it would make sense that Makari is the embodiment of Mork, while Ghazkull is the embodiment of Gork.

[@barahng]

@@owenstephens3389 Well the names start with the same letters

[@plasticshrapnel2]

Gazgul believes the new Gretchen is his old Gretchen. Orks would make the best life coaches. If you believe it it will come true

[@kimweel]

Orks would probarbly fight, kill and eat you in your first session, unless you got a power claw, laser eye and a commissar hat

[@cameronh901]

You just gotta be prepared to make them believe that they can't eat you. That's the Morky trick.

[@robertnelson9599]

@@cameronh901 In Warhammer Fantasy there was a Goblin Shaman that gave Orcs stomachaches to make them fear him.

[@WasLostButNowAmFound]

Joel Orksteen?

[@sheevpalpatine2128]

@@kimweel i got two lightsabres 😄 they're red 😁

[@jesseberg3271]

He's just the Orkish equivalent of an Imperial Saint. The Emperor protects, but Gork and Mork know where all the best fights will be.

[@changelingiris9409]

Maybe, just maybe Makari's 'resurrections' or at least his luck are somehow connected to that strange and suspiciously unorky trinket on his wrist. Hell, maybe he has his own soul gem an while other Orks think it's because of Ghazkhull's touch it's actually because of the gem, he took from Makari's corpse.

[@40KTheories]

Spoilers for Ghazgkhull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh! below: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What would make this unlikely is that the first Makari died after being kicked into the vacuum of space by Grotsnik as Ghazgkhull's horde first left Urk when its sun died. This would suggest the trinkets carried by successive Makaris are later additions.

[@hunter5822]

It’s probably GORKNMORK granting makari the soul gem.... hell, makari is probably a powerful eldar that GORKNMORK though would be funny forcing into the body of a grot!!!

[@FrstSpctr88]

Maybe amongst Makari's possessions, there is a experimental Soul stone, which was taken before gaining a soul of its eldar creator, that possesses a new grot, when ever his last body kicks the bucket. Then the Soul stone just remains amongst in his pile of possessions, absorbing all further memories.

[@DocWolph]

Ghazgkulll and Makari are psychic anchors for each other. Neither can ever actually die as long as one is alive.

[@40KTheories]

Spoilers for Ghazgkhull Thraka: Prophet of the Waaagh below . . . . . . . . . . Yet both of them died during the Battle of Krongar, which resulted in the Orks attempting to find a new Makari to help resurrect their boss

[@DocWolph]

@@40KTheories Well, it was a thought. I guess Makari is more important to the resurrection by default. As long as you have a Makari, you can resurrect Ghazgkull. Of course that might also be Ork "Collective Realization".

[@Pink_Noodle]

They actually strike me as a narrative echo of the Emperor and Malcador; given all metaphor literally exists in the warp, I can see it influencing things

[@stageworker23]

@@40KTheories ace loved it

[@RadarLeon]

​@@40KTheoriesoh I just realized orks believe yarrick can't die...but he "maybe" died what if a new human gains the memories, and everything of before, and becomes the first human or perpetual

[@LetholdusKaspyr]

I'm not sure Ghazghkull and Makari are entirely separate beings any more. It sounds like each "Makari" is imbued with the spirit of his predecessor by the touch of Ghazghkull's hand - whether or not it's attached to a living Ghaz. Seems Makari is an extension of Ghaz's soul. That being the case, Makari could serve as an anchor point in the resurrection of Ghazghkull as well.

[@Maxibon2007]

You'll make a certain Commissar "jealous"

[@dirtyblonde1011]

So...Makari and Gazghkull are horcruxes for eachother?

[@LetholdusKaspyr]

@@dirtyblonde1011 Kinda, in a two-way sense. Makari is part of the ork legend of Ghazghkull. Where there is Ghaz, there is Makari. So Ghazghkull has the ability to make Makari arise from grots. Where there is Makari, obviously Ghaz isn't far. They're linked in ork awareness, so linked in fact.

[@SleeplessBanjos]

One is brutal but cunnin, the other is cunnin but brutal

[@thetau4866]

@@SleeplessBanjos the dual avatar of Gork and Mork.

[@jamesmcdonald1108]

I always figured he was a memetic being, given how memes (the concept not the jokes) function for orks

[@Reddotzebra]

So would that make him something like an Ork daemon? A being forged from the Great Green itself and beholden to the Ork gods?

[@wiilov]

Thank you for understanding actually memetics.

[@jamesmcdonald1108]

@@Reddotzebra essentially

[@SamueL-td7fb]

I can't hear/read the word meme without 100 different sound effects blasting in my brain

[@TheChannelTroll]

“Memes Chapta Mastea, da WAAAAGH of da soul!”

[@Palemagpie]

Makari is clearly secretly a dreadnought, cause even in death, he skill serves

[@Ulani101]

Killing that lucky little green bugger in second edition was hard work. Those 2+ unmodified saves were truly frustrating. 😤

[@mrnice4434]

indeed I still have nightmares about it :)

[@1985slipstream]

Ahh fellow 2nd edition fans. I had the 2nd edition ork codex and remember this well.

[@Dontreallycare5]

"psychic mycelial network" what a perfect turn of phrase!

[@earnestbrown6524]

Better then another network in a different universe.

[@ninjabreadman8166]

Naerina's narrations are always lovely, and this was no exception! Get well soon, Inquisitor!

[@LocalHeretic-ck1kd]

I agree. Absence of our favourite Lord Inquisitor is a sad thing, but at least we can enjoy beautiful voice of Naerina.

[@Gormathius]

Gork and Mork belching ork souls into new bodies is the oskyest thing I've ever heard.

[@anothga]

Local grot literally too angry to die.

[@enthiegavoir5955]

The WAAAGH! field is always my favorite explanation for wacky occurrences Also unrelated but I can't believe I was informed of an Orkamedies through this!

[@irtehdar2446]

Ork believes metal thing is a working gun. Therefor it is. Ork believes color of car affects speed. Therefor it does. New chosen Grot believes he is Makari. Therefor he is.

[@lewisirwin5363]

"Oh my Gork, dey krump'd Makari!" "Ya Bastards!"

[@anshumanbose5132]

Makari and Ghazkull are the incarnations of Mork and Gork. Makari is Mork who is brutally cunning Ghazkull is Gork who is cunningly brutal

[@andrewsuryali8540]

Nononono... it's the other way around! .... right?

[@spookyghostwriter3110]

Makari: Jurgen: Mood Kindred?

[@squeethemog213]

A makari video on my birthday of all days. Well aren't I a damn lucky grot :D

[@TK199999]

Soul fusion is thing in 40k. So odds are Gork and Mork have chosen Makari, like they choose Ghazagkhull. So when the time comes to remake Makari, Gork and Mork fuse Makari's soul into the new host.

[@christopherg2347]

I think Ghazgkhull only marks the Gretchin. This mark can be perceived subconsiously by all Orks. It is the Waaagh field of the boys that makes the Gretching Makari, as they believe he will be. The reincarnation does not need ot be perfect. If enough Orks believe a certain story of Makaris death, Ghazgkhull himself will propably believe it like that. As for needing Makari to bring Ghagkhull back: Since some of the Ork bosses (and thus their boys) believed he was nessesary, so he _was_ nessesary. That is the downside of Ork believe - if some believe in a requirement, it becomes a requirement (at least for that group and possibly for the whole).

[@danielbob2628]

Do you guys think an all-Makari tabletop army would be effective? I can't honestly imagine a lot of things getting through the 2+ invuln.

[@r.cdahuman7682]

I personally subscribe to the idea that due to the memetic aspect of the orks, each new Gretchin is just transplanted with the soul or essence of Markari, because the orks now believe he is the original, or at least should be the original.

[@gustadood9166]

I must say, I love how naturally close Naerina's pronunciation of "Mag'uruk Thrakka" is to Margaret Thatcher. I know the name in intentionally similar, especially with him being "Da Iron Ork". Yet the spoken pronunciation and cadence was so close to Margaret Thatcher, I can't help but appreciate it.

[@risejaenu]

great narrative voice, Naerina!

[@Matt-md5yt]

Glad you talked about that little guy, he has great looking models

[@TheMasterPandaBear]

This is kinda cute, I can picture a brocom starring Ghazghkull and Makari

[@Darkflo23]

You know, the more i look at Ghazgkull, the more i'm wondering how he ever was decapitated. His neck is probably the most armored part of his body, and the horns at each side would get in the way. I haven't read the novel yet, so maybe Ragnar ambushed in his bath or something, if anyone know feel fre to tell me.

[@40KTheories]

Spoilers for the novel below: . . . . . . . . . . . . . Basically, Ragnar rammed his Frostblade through Ghazgkhull's throat as the Ork slowly crushed him to death in his power klaw, and the whirling teeth of the blade slowly, but steadily chewed their way through Ghaz's neck.

[@Darkflo23]

@@40KTheoriesSpoiler . . . . . . . . . . . . But how ? His throat is inside his enormous steel armor-jaw, did he lose it in the fight?.

[@40KTheories]

Mainly due to the angle.

[@Darkflo23]

@@40KTheories I guess, i'll read it when it arrive, because looking at my Gaz model i'm not sure how that would work. Thanks for the reply.

[@jacobfreeman5444]

We are talking 40k lore. The rule of cool is way more important than consistent world building.

[@bobbaganooch2843]

In my opinion he is Mork’s chosen

[@Caercutta30]

Brutal Kunning?

[@bobbaganooch2843]

@@Caercutta30 potentially Kunning Brutality

[@AlphaKnight-hg2jq]

Dont you mean Gork?

[@bobbaganooch2843]

@@AlphaKnight-hg2jq potentially, maybe. Quite possibly

[@VoiceOfTheEmperor]

I thought it was Thursday for a moment. Then I checked the calendar. Now it makes sense. Emperor protect, Lord Inquisitor Remleiz.

[@michaelkimberling7307]

Your internal clock is way off. Mine usually doesn’t get that bad until friday

[@axios4702]

40K Theories: How does Makari reincarnate? Gahzkull: Iz da WAAAAGH I aint have to explain sh*t!

[@caseyleeshort]

Oi ya git why ya answerin for me!

[@gryphonofmight]

Get well soon Remleiz

[@GothmogChan]

Makari means something close to "hope" in greek :) he's ork hope incarnate!

[@gryphonofmight]

Ordo Notificus Present! We will provide the LIKES!

[@SleeplessBanjos]

Ghazghkull had shed most of his mega armor by the time he got to the top of the hill. Being an Ork, the act of removing armor seemed... unusual, to say the least, but it seemed appropriate to approach this site somewhat vulnerable. After all, he was meeting with the one being he knew would never harm him. "'Ey. Uhh... not sure what's I suppose'ta say 'ere. Jus' wanted tah, y'know, say 'ello. See how ya's was. Dose 'umies who got dat lucky shot off on ya? Yeah, dey dead. 'Dere planet is dead. Got lotsa da bastards. 'Ope dat helps out somehow. Wells... I's be goin', den. I... I misses ya, boy." Ghazghkull Mag Thraka turned and began walking down the hill again, leaving the grave he had been speaking to behind. A grave that simply said: Makari Banna Wava Everyone knew Orks were belched back into another body after they died. Not Gretchin though. No Gretchin could ever replace Makari.

[@GreatChickenGod]

just like how Da Red Gobbo is more a title then an actual name. If at any point Da Red Gobbo is to fall, the mental stress of enslavement forces a new one to rise up among the grots of Gorkamorka and be elected to lead the GRC

[@briankuczynski6884]

That was really excellent!

[@bluebowser3121]

Solid video!

[@angusmchackbeil8361]

Interestin' theory about the WAAAAGH being somehow a Cloudsave. I mean, as I recall, Orks were created to be "biological" Weapons in their own right,why not having an virtual Memory drive to save all the data and exe data needed to maintain such a bulk of "Biocreated" soldiers and their multiple strains. a bit like them 'nids. Also, if I want ever having a computer or something talk to me, I wabt it to talk with her voice!!

[@quincyhowe9056]

So what if Makari slew Lucius?

[@MidoriOfTheShuinsen]

I... Good question.

[@hunter5822]

Loving the narrator!!!!

[@r.cdahuman7682]

Oh hell yeah! Not only a video about the best Gretchin, a video narrated by best girl Naerina. *Hell. Yes.*

[@sheevpalpatine2128]

Makari is so cute 😍

[@MrAvengerofEarth]

Well done girl !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I liked it a lot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (please give us more)

[@akumaking1]

So can Orkz will themselves into thinking yelling “bang” repeatedly will allow them to shoot empty guns?

[@scribejackhammar]

Five of them chanting 'I'm a tank' was enough to make them a tank when Guardsmen used the Waagh field against them in what you just described.

[@Abyssal86]

Gotta be honest, GW's current actions have soured me considerably on the franchise. This was a fine video, but my heart just isn't in it anymore. Do you have another channel covering something other than 40k?

[@TheVladdracula1]

I feel you so much brother

[@jamesgorman5241]

I like these evil little gits but after reading Gloomspite I was disappointed because it didn't really focus on them at all.

[@cianmannion1752]

I don't follow warhammer anymore but I can't help be entertained by lore videos

[@Ender3Me]

This made me want to build my grot army. Just found a ton of really awesome looking grotz minis on eBay for dirt cheap. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@danielhouse897]

Sounds like a trill symbiot in a way...

[@MrPooleish]

OK, hear me out. The Orkoid Ecosystem is able to make Meks, Pain Boys, and Wierd Boys based on the needs of the group. Mek's know innately how to make and upkeep vehicles because they're literally grown for that purpose. Pain Boys just KNOW how to perform surgery, and Wierd Boys just KNOW how to be Psykers. On top of that, all Orks produce spores naturally. Maybe Ghazghkull's spores make a new Merkari when the old one dies?

[@The_Keeper]

It seems that to truly kill Ghazgkull, you'd have to kill Makari as well. If one is left alive, they will bring back the other. Its not quite being an Eternal, but well, its still not a bad trait for an Ork to have.

[@40KTheories]

Spoiler for the novel below . . . . . . . . . . Remember, as stated in the video, both Ghazgkhull and Makari died at the Battle of Krongar, resulting in the other Orks trying to find the next Makari in order to bring Ghaz back

[@ifiwasyouiwouldntbe]

This makes me wonder about Tuska the daemon killer. When he traveled back in time to get another copy of his favourite shoota. Does he remember dying to his elder self?

[@MidoriOfTheShuinsen]

Wait, he what now?

[@Kunori]

Waagh power is more like the power of the Faith than purely like psychic powers. I don't recall there ever being an account of orkish technology suddenly failing to work in psychic blank fields or similar phenomena, which makes it similar to powers used by the Emperor in the Godblight novel. Both are empowered and to an extent depowered with the tides of the warp, but they don't entirely depend on the warp like pure psychic powers do, nor do ork Waagh powers come with the same side effects and attendant sub-manifestations that psychic powers do. Ghazkhull's hand was like a holy relic, and Makari is basically the greenskin equivalent of an Imperial Saint.

[@TheLaluciDaniel]

so... Makari is a perpetual. I wonder what Vulkan thinks of this.

[@smartestmoronx19]

Prolly wants to give him a hug.

[@torch1028]

What of ghazgul died one day and makari just points to a random boy and says 'hey ghazgul'

[@puffythedestroyer8878]

Makari is Ork-speak for “Kenny”

[@daranurin5466]

Cain had no problem using Orc vehicles and guns.

[@40KTheories]

The Cain stories are also known to be "heavily embellished" by in-universe characters for the sake "making it more exciting." The novel "Predator, Prey" goes into more detail in regards to the Waaagh field and Ork technology (and how it is pretty much unusable by other races)

[@phreakazoith2237]

Do we know if there have always been more than one Beast? Or did the others show up after the first one created so much fear? if there were several Beasts why not several Makaris or Ghazgkhulls?

[@Cyndre]

Which is the song in the background? I tried searching in the credits from the comments but i cannot find it in any of these channels...

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

Or perhaps Makari is the perfection of the Orc race, something like the Kork of old. With true and perfect genetic memory in his decedents.

[@bobbaganooch2843]

Instant like just because Orks!

[@bruni5289]

5:13 what if the same were true for Humanity, albeit with a different entity, during the creation of The Emperor of Mankind and this is what makes him so much more powerful than other psychers. It would explain why Faith doesn't behave like other psychic abilities

[@NetMoverSitan]

The grot that doesn't truly STAY dead. | 2:13 - If they wanted him to be any more lucky, they'd paint him blue. | 5:40 - He has psychic powers as he has contact with Gork and Mork, we have Mad Dok Grotsnik to thank for that. | 10:10 - Well, "One-eye" Yarrick knew how to fight. | 14:45 - Ah yes, from the klepto klan.

[@danthewatcher9681]

To quote one of the scholars of our species " red wunz go fasta" truer words were never spoken. And I must say, you umy knowz lotz bout uz orkz, boss iz gonna like this. You're commin' with uz. No use tryin to use that shoota, we're keepin the tin on, boss likes nuns in cans, he said they taste smart!

[@michasalamon8315]

Easy answer. Just like Gork and Mork keep Ghazkhul alive, they keep Makari alive because they find him funny, and play the Great Game using them, and constantkly fight over who gets to play as Ghazkhul and who is left with Makari.

[@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149]

It's the classic story. Big ork meets grot, Gork and Mork waagh-marries ork and grot, grot gains immortality, they live orkilly ever after.

[@IM-xs3uv]

That was the poshest Cockney accent ever. LOL

[@piotrskodowski7544]

OOOOORRRRKKKKKSSSS!!! And MAkari :P

[@joseantoniosantiago1258]

What if Vulkan led the Imperium after the War of the Beast?

[@chrisd7803]

"you wouldn't download an ork, would you?"

[@jakubslavojmusilek5184]

re: For the lack of the better term, lesser orks.. You could have used the term smaller orks, since the more following the boss has, the larger he grows in size :D

[@40KTheories]

True, but you do get some Ork bosses who are actually smaller than their followers (although this is admittedly incredibly rare), such as General Taktikus whose second in command was noted as being bigger than him, though Taktikus still managed to (brutally) put him in his place.

[@smartestmoronx19]

@@40KTheories If youz da bozz den youz bigga, no matta yer size.

[@charliemay3804]

Makari’s a living Saint

[@SymbioteMullet]

Mycelial network!? Warhammer / star trek link confirmed!!!!!

[@tomyorke3412]

So its just like Grom the Paunch and niblet. From warhammer fantasy

[@Hakazu]

Yikes, Orks weirder then I thought. Good one though.

[@caseyleeshort]

Oi ya gitz! i wasnt dead! i was simply knocked out!

[@jasonsantos3037]

You know reminds me of another green skin from another game workshop universe has it call oh yeah warhammer fantasy Graham the punch and his lucky banner niblette

[@bobbaganooch2843]

11:50 my regions COViD mask wearing skills.

[@vlweb3d]

HERESY

[@cmelton6796]

Username checks out

[@rohan0724]

This Grot might become a portal for a certain Slanneshi greater demon

[@hunter5822]

Oh, I like the descendants theory!

[@patrik9328]

Da greatest Grot ever existed

[@RocRolDis]

We are Makari

[@user-ew5wg8ty8b]

So Makari is the imperial guardsman of the orks

[@Mr_Bunk]

IT DON'T 'AFF TOO MAYK SENS, IT JUST WURKZ

[@kanalithviper4744]

Makari is actually the Avatar

[@spider-spectre]

If da Orks dont know he died, then he didnt die see?

[@heavyflamerheresy2581]

I hope no ork believe that a guardsmen can shoot trough a killer can

[@yolofullsend]

Orkymedes!!!!!!!

[@zrrion6the6insect6]

ork perpetual, but Makari is too stupid to realize he has reincarnated until someone else tells him about it.

[@michaelhowell2326]

If Makari's essence is tied to Ghazkhull is Ghazkhull's essence to Makari?

[@jacobfreeman5444]

What if? We are talking about Orks. They are all connected to each other by the Waaaaaaagh at all times. How is it not a given that the bond can intensify to a terrifying degree?

[@michaelhowell2326]

@@jacobfreeman5444 WAAAGH! is not what I meant. And it's not the damn answer to every single Ork question. That's as aggravating as typing "the Inquisition has been notified" whenever someone says something on a video.

[@shiron1076]

this kinda sounds romantic kinda

[@CallieYote]

Ghazgkull start with G Makari start with M Gork Mork G M G M ORKZ BE GOD BOYZ NOW, GRAHAHAHAAHA

[@SleeplessBanjos]

Didn't Ghazskull accidentally sit on him?

[@40KTheories]

On _one_ version of him, yes.

[@MidoriOfTheShuinsen]

Mentions notabke Orkz Skips over Tuska Daemon-Killa Wat?

[@40KTheories]

We also didn't mention Nazdreg or Grotsnik or Wazzdakka or Zodgrod or Urlak Urg or Grimskull or Gorgutz or Da Krusha etc... If we tried list off every notable Orkoid, the video would be over 3 hours long...

[@themrfives]

I swear to god if he turns out to be a perpetual.

[@Reddotzebra]

Incorrect! Other beings can actually use Ork technology, but only if the Orks believe that they should be able to.