The reunion between Guilliman and the Emperor

Music:
• Fable 3 OST - Reliquary
• Wonders Of An Ancient ...

[@EngineerOfVaul]

That's a pretty good way to depict how the emperor talked to guilliman. Cause in the book, his words were all cutting each other off, reaching guilliman all at the same time, but he understood every single word regardless.

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

with how burial portrayed it it's also the most horrifying thing imaginable

[@bluedog843]

@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174to be fair, the current state of the Emperor is the most horrifying thing imaginable. Completely decayed, being kept alive in perpetual agony by eating 1,000 psykers daily, literal hell.

[@AYAKXSHI]

@@bluedog843 then people is out here worshipping you even tho you told them that you wasn’t a god and made it illegal to do so and he’s basically got to watch it happen

[@vid101.]

​@@bluedog843that's not even the worst part, he had been fighting off the chaos gods for 10k years while his soul and mind are being twisted by the belief of quadrillions into a new warp god. Something that a mortal man could not endure even for a moment.

[@NeoEvanA.R.T]

​@@vid101. The God Emperor is not a mortal man

[@Lock_Knight]

All credit to King Blueberry. Stuck in stasis for ten millennia, to him the pre-Heresy Imperium is a recent memory.

[@Blue-jy4rf]

Bro got gordon freemaned

[@flextape467]

​@@Blue-jy4rf half life mentioned

[@khornethebloodgod4155]

@@Blue-jy4rfthis truly is klaxon beat moment

[@Vincent_A.]

@@Blue-jy4rfA fellow scientist!

[@zombine009]

Doctor Freeman

[@basition]

"Father are you familiar with the phrase you are what you eat, seeing that you're acting like an ever growing pile of screaming psychic children." - adornable

[@philip8498]

No

[@tatianapreobrazhenskaya9777]

This. Is funny.

[@Jadefox32]

I instinctively read this in Lord adorable's voice

[@Turn1t0ff]

And I believe they were all high on narcotics.

[@finnheisenheim8274]

I honestly would prefer if the Emperor was a big angry skelly baby than the eldritch horror Guilliman met.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

That's a REALLY good Guilliman voice. Probably only beaten by his rendition in the 10th edition trailer.

[@MurriciTerceiro]

The trailer version is still too human i think

[@DevinDTV]

burialgoods has 2 voices: deep, and deeper. that's literally all he does, and he thinks the deeper the better.

[@Retarded_Ape]

@@DevinDTV😳😳😳🥴🥴🥴

[@WTFisTingispingis]

Burial has such a deep voice it's crazy.

[@voltron8375]

Gotta listen to the Dark Imperium ABs

[@hansstrudel9614]

Honestly I love how the Emperor has been turned into basically a physical anchor for a shattered god glued together by millions upon millions of screaming souls. I imagine each fragment of his soul has been allowed to develop its own opinions over the past ten millennia hence why Guilliman’s return prompts such a cacophony of responses. Then the greatest fragment coalesces them to provide a coherent response before once again breaking.

[@NIL0S]

I think it's not just all the shattered souls, but every possible reality. Everything basically.

[@enriquejoseantequerasanche6180]

​@@NIL0S I doubt that, psykers predicted a few alternate futures and canon 40k is the best one. IIRC there's one where Horus wins,realizes he was cheated out of freedom by the dark gods and destroys the galaxy to also destroy the dark gods, and one where the Emperor wins a full victory but his plan still doesn't work. That said, the warp is the same to all the Games Workshop universes (warhammer fantasy, warhammer 40k, Chainsaw Man, etcetera) so maybe it is the alternate Emperor (or maybe it's the old canon that big E was actually a bunch of psyker souls fused into one, and "death" may have dislodged them...or added to them)

[@hansstrudel9614]

@@NIL0S Big E is powerful but not *that* powerful. He is slowly dying after all and has been incapable of saving himself for over ten thousand years. His final message to Guilliman is described as not the final, but almost the final burst of energy from the *thing* on the throne. He’s just become this endless knotted mess of soul fragments and psyker souls (approximately 3.6 *billion* of them) that cannot even begin to function coherently. He probably spends most of his energy just trying to stay above the surface of that enormous sea of insanity to power the astronomicon.

[@manuelwitrago6511]

The emperor - from many one, to uplift humanity. After millenia what held them together are fraying, worn and tired...

[@bvdemier1]

Even the eldar are now basicly saying:"the throneroom is fucked." They cant even say what the thing on the Throne even is anymore. The Throne where He sits in even a physical place anymore. Makes it even more awesome how the founders of the SoB kept their sanity standing before Him.

[@KalashVodka175]

You know its funny people always focus on Ultra Depression of G-man but in his most iconic depression moment he quickly get a hold of himself and straight up state that he has no right to fall into pit trap of despair because while its true the Imperium is rotting, the very fact that it still exist and that there are peoples toiling day and night generations after generation to keep it and themselves alive despite being mere men is reason enough not to

[@capadociaash8003]

The best part of warhammer wasn’t showing how bad it could get, but showing how people endured no matter how bad it got

[@Anthony_Cika]

@@capadociaash8003 What is a good man in a world gone so terminally insane.

[@dean_l33]

@@Anthony_Cika The fact that he still fight to keep the dream alive is more than enough. That alone is what matter the most right now

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

PITY NOT THE HUMBLE GUARDSMEN

[@vitaliitomas4057]

@@Anthony_Cika A beacon of hope. Of hope that all is not yet lost. That the freedom and glory has not yet perished. That the fate will yet smile towards us.

[@thelouster5815]

What 10,000 years on the universe’s most expensive gaming chair does to a mf:

[@Abuqital2000]

😂😂😂

[@potatopriorites5652]

I love the way the Emperor sounds. Like he's multiple people fighting at once for the chance to talk and a damaged machine struggling to process a response. Its really well done, really creepy. I've replayed that bit 5 times just to listen to how some of the words drag. The Guilliman voice is exceptional too!

[@MrPear40]

I can’t begin to imagine how agonisingly painful it would be to talk via vox on the throne while fighting off all the warp and trying to tune out the screams of a 1000 souls.

[@PedroLopes-rw5sw]

A Fallout 1's "The Master" kinda vibe

[@umcaraqualquer3640]

This channel is amazingly good at cosmic horror for some reason lol

[@someidiotnamedtricks6397]

@@MrPear40 more like a billion by now, he's been fed those 1k souls *since he was put on the throne*

[@JustALittleGhostOfHallownest]

Yeah, this is why he needed the damn text-to-speech device.

[@TheBirdMan9142]

Tbh it’d probably still be like this

[@JustALittleGhostOfHallownest]

@@TheBirdMan9142 I was making a tts reference. “If the emperor had a text-to-speech device” by bruva alfubasa

[@TheBirdMan9142]

@@JustALittleGhostOfHallownest i know. Great series, shame it ended, but just saying that if tts was canon it’d look more like this imo

[@JustALittleGhostOfHallownest]

@@InVinoVeratas isn’t it just mostly on hiatus until GW calms the fuck down? I remember hearing something about them planning to continue it eventually.

[@admiralpepper6933]

​@@JustALittleGhostOfHallownest Has GW calmed down yet or they on that fuck everyone that ain't me grind still

[@handbanana4899]

"What more do you want from me?" "I want you to break up with Yvraine" "...that's fair" And that's why the Ynnari have basically been squatted.

[@Kevin-hx2ky]

And the squats were somehow unsquatted

[@MrRawrCEO]

I assumed that was due to Gav Thorpe's terrible writing.

[@NEEDbacon]

@@InVinoVeratas "How can we fix everything by going fast enough?" Jaghati, Probably.

[@Professorlicme8]

HAHA BLUE GUY DATES ELF GIRL HAHAHA GET IT BECAUSE HE HAS SEX WITH ELDAR GIRL BECAUSE ELDAR GIRL IS TOTALLY WAIFU literally the unfunniest fandom around that just repeats the same 10 jokes

[@KingInBlack69]

As an eldar fan i hate how this sounds possible

[@riceartfilms]

This is a hauting depiction of the Emperor's fragmented state. I love that

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

it's like fallouts The Master but even worse! I love it! instead of three voices, it's billions!

[@dearcastiel4667]

And the version in the video is pretty tamed compared to how it is described in the book, here the words are made to be understandable, normaly they all come at once with visions of things so old and horrible Guilliman doesn't believe they exist. The Emperor is a lovecraftian eldritch god at this point.

[@thebaseandtriflingcreature174]

@@dearcastiel4667 I fully believe Burialgoods has the power to depict the Emperor's speech perfectly, he didn't do so because he didn't want his viewers heads to explode.

[@theokushmerek1616]

The reunion was really well written, as it actually ties into the themes of WH40K, that being despair and corrosion.

[@MrPear40]

“Humanity nearly achieved peace, but instead it asked for pain, it asked to be humanity. -Unknown 40k character

[@br9760]

Hope in the face OF dispair. And screw-ups.

[@NeutralGuyDoubleZero]

With just a tiiiiiny bit of bittersweet hope at the end

[@EnclaveSoldier2201]

Truly, like speaking to a star.

[@nickcarroll8565]

A schizophrenic, derpy star

[@notusneo]

A star child if you will

[@mikhaelgribkov4117]

@@notusneo somewhere, Malice smiles.

[@MrPear40]

Sad Fact: When he said “Failure” he was probably referring to himself…

[@EnclaveSoldier2201]

@@mikhaelgribkov4117 It's all coming up Malice! One Malilion dollars at the box office! We vibing as nancanon property with this one!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@SomeScruffian]

Gulliman: "WHY WONT YOU LOVE ME LIKE A NORMAL FATHER?" Emperor: *_PSYCHIC MODEM NOISES_*

[@itty_224]

The idea of the emperor as an insane and abstract entity rather is weirdly canonical

[@Michael-cb3uw]

Its a good thing people in powerful positions are never disconnected from the worries of the common folk

[@capadociaash8003]

@@Michael-cb3uwwith how many common folk the emperors eaten I don’t think he even can be disconnected from them

[@theengineer2650]

@@capadociaash8003”have you ever heard the phrase “you are what you eat” father?”

[@bensosnowski1128]

@@capadociaash8003how does the emperor eat people?

[@capadociaash8003]

@@bensosnowski1128 well technically he doesn’t, he’s dying so the imperium sacrifices ten thousand psychers every single day and there life force and energy are given to the emperor. It’s unknown if the emperor even knows this is happening.

[@aceriverpirate9795]

_F**k_ that was beautiful. Honestly the strange eldritch creature the Emperor has become is one of the things that I think makes 40k the incredible dystopian setting that it is. When he walked among men, the human race was well on its way to rebuilding the utopia of the Men of Gold, only for it all to come crumbling to ruin thanks to the machinations of Chaos. Now we are left with a Lovecraftian horror as savior of mankind, and I find that mesmerizing somehow.

[@mee091000]

Well it's _HIGHLY_ debatable if the Emperor could have actually achieved that. Especially since it's been revealed through visions of multiple timelines that this canon timeline is unironically the best one. In the most notable visions Horus realizes the Chaos Gods used him and destroys the Galaxy in an attempt to destroy both The Warp and the Chaos Gods with it. While in the scenario that the Emperor does not hold back and just annihilates Horus without mercy. He still ultimately fails his goal. The truth is that despite the Emperor's intentions he is actually the one that is holding back the Imperium. I think that as long as the Emperor of Mankind exists and the Imperium continues to depend on him. Humanity will never return to what it once was during the Dark Age of Technology.

[@user-ev3fq9hw7v]

@@mee091000the irony is that all he wanted was humanity to grow up into glorious 8 packed shinning beings 👼

[@user-ev3fq9hw7v]

Instead he unintentionally made them completely dependent on him.

[@jgw9990]

​@mee091000 All that's BS shovelled in by hack writers who didn't like the emporer, so character assassinated him late in the heresy. The emporer, is reduced to a powerful meathead, viewed as a fool by others. It's pathetic,and undermines the whole premise of the heresy,which is the tragedy of the Emporers dreams dying. If they never would have worked,then its all irrelevant.

[@aceriverpirate9795]

@@jgw9990 seconded.

[@gryphonbotha1880]

That dragged out "Guilliman" was probably the most heartbreaking line to cap everything else off. It somehow sounds like a parent patiently chiding their child. The whole thing is such a rollercoaster. "Lord of Ultramar" --- an Emperor speaking to his subject "My last hope" --- a proud leader knowing he addresses a hero of his realm "My last tool" --- a leader with the mask removed. Everything reduced to power and tools to power "My son" --- a father trying to comfort his boy "Saviour" --- a religiously-charged term spat out by a fanatical atheist who couldn't find an alternative "Hope" --- a man crying out for help "Thirteen" --- a scientist, recalling the number he assigned to this particular experiment "Failure" --- a pot trying to talk to the kettle "Thief" --- a paranoid ruler who assumed the worst about Imperium Secundus "Betrayer" --- same as the one above "Liar" --- same as above "Guilliman" --- the patient tones of a parent trying to chide their child "Lord of Ultramar" --- all the pains between childhood and the present day, recapped

[@trevormurray617]

I love it showing just how fragmented and distorted the Emperor is and fuck is it terrifying. Imagine your son, your greatest general betrays you then leads a crusade against everything you built in the service of gods that you know will damn all of humanity. Your son is winning, the traitors are winning, they are at your doorstep and you must act. Your mortally wounded and must kill your son while he is brought out of his corrupted mind and he begs you to destroy him, not kill, destroy where there will be nothing left. So you grant your son, the general, the warmaster, the traitor, the puppet and finally the son’s last wish. You are then placed upon one of your finest achievements and it is to be your tomb, on top you will watch your empire fall into maddening delusion and despair, you are powerless and incapable of any action. You are forced for 10,000 years to stare into your failure, to add insult to injury you have been fed sacrifices and are worshipped as a god, you have become the very monster you wanted to destroy and now it appears as though the only way forward is to accept ascension and lose everything you were. The Emperor is fucking tragic and outright horrifying when you think about it

[@alexanderd6793]

Idk if Savior would be religiously charged in this case, I think Big-E said it because he's the only Primarch(that he knows of) still alive and the only one capable of fixing the Empire of Man.

[@Beriorn]

What schizoposters sound like to normies.

[@user-pt5xc1pp4z]

What about Madnessposters?

[@Blue-jy4rf]

Those normies cant handle my based schizopilled grindset 🤓

[@kgb976]

Normies can never break the cryptics

[@Blue-jy4rf]

@@kgb976 lmfao bro takes shitposting way too seriously

[@MaxMustermann-tq3lu]

​@@Blue-jy4rfis it sigma tho? how based could it even be if it was someone else's program? - instant npc tier.

[@Argamep]

Bobby G is so much more than the current Imperium deserves.

[@KalashVodka175]

Its not about what the Imperium deserves but about what it needs. The fact that the Imperium survived for so long is reaosn enough for Bobby G to try and save it, if only for the average peons who toil and suffer to survive.

[@Stryker98]

@@KalashVodka175 The power of autism knows no bounds. The Orks and Imperium being the most numerous proves my point.

[@MortSalazar]

Hits hard when the imperial golden poster boy would sooner die in heresy than live to see what the Imperium has become And then he still got to work What an absolute lad.

[@voomvoom4522]

That is until you read the rest of the quote where he basically goes "no, this is humanity's enemies' fault. There is still hope left to fight".

[@Eye_Of_Odin978]

​@@voomvoom4522 Finally, another actual fan who doesn't just consume 40k memes but also the actual material

[@voomvoom4522]

@@Eye_Of_Odin978 I've only actually read the first few books in the HH. I found the full quote on Twitter.

[@MortSalazar]

​@voomvoom4522 I am aware of the full quote and i still fail to see how it reducts or renders anything of what i said somehow less? The point of what I'm saying is that the Big Smurf woke up to pretty much one of the darkest scenarios he could have imagined and realised that it's reality now. And then still carried hope, will and went to put in the work to fix things no matter how gargantuan the task. It's absolutely admirable. What hits hard is the weight of his statement on the current state of humanity.

[@MortSalazar]

​@@Eye_Of_Odin978Lol "actual fan" You're sure immersed in the spirit aren't you Hasty judgements are sure lore accurate

[@demon_xd_]

"My son, it is true that I have clung on to the last few scraps of life, but the time has come for you to seek the one who can restore me... seek her... seek Candice"

[@user-pt5xc1pp4z]

Who's Candice...Father?...Some kind of Psyker?

[@daniel8181]

Lmao

[@demon_xd_]

no,@@user-pt5xc1pp4z she is... she... is...

[@jb76489]

“Candice……..Candice…….nuts” *dies*

[@demon_xd_]

“@@jb76489 you menial, shut it! I’m trying to concentrate… yes… she has a query for you XIII

[@williammiller4768]

It is the gift of mortality that we perish in so short of time. Never seeing the futures our choices press into shape. But Guillimans torment is this: He will. He is the Eternal Bricklayer. Living block by miserable block within the Future that must be forged by his tired hands. Building an Empire he never wished for. But he had to. Because he was created to do just that. A Leader. A Son. A Statesman. A Tool. Hammering forever. As a Galaxy burns down around him…

[@VELIYUJIIN]

one must imagine guilliman happy

[@Chromeberd]

Only way he would have been happier being a tool is if he was Rogal Dorn.

[@grizzlyblackpowder1960]

I'm so glad I'm an Ork player.

[@theengineer2650]

@@Chromeberdrogal would fortify and rebuild the imperium brick by brick for the fun of it. Peteurabo would just show up to ruin it because he just hates dorn

[@Gr33nOfGrundleburg]

As much as I enjoy the sheer grimdarkness of Guilliman's little monologue, it's the paragraph that follows that embodies what I love about this setting. He overcomes his personal despair, reminds himself that there is still hope. Humanity may be on the verge of collapse in a degraded and backwards state compared to what they once were, but I didn't hear no bell.

[@Warmaster2001]

Yes but knowing how Tyranids doing. I doubt that hope will be enough. Imperium is on dilematic situation is either continue fighting Chaos but risking to lose Segmentum Pacificus to Tyranids and open road to Armag and Terra or Starting to fight Tyranids back but sacrifice Nihilus to Abaddon.

[@rachnussouldrinkerlibraria5640]

The emperor has been reduced to a wailing wraith trapped in his own body, the will of countless dead subverting his own, as he constantly fights to remain as he was, the man, not the god.

[@ellugerdelacruz2555]

And yet he still has the power to hold back horrors beyond comprehension... I'd like to imagine that every once in a while Big E goes "everybody shut up! Humanity needs us!!" to all the souls he's mixing with in order to stay alive...

[@gangzilla5716]

​@@ellugerdelacruz2555 Most of what happened was his faults really

[@jgw9990]

​@@gangzilla5716pfft. Shut up, daddy issues

[@elysiankentarchy1531]

​@gangzilla5716 eh, most of it is the Eldar's fault, followed by, in order, the Chaos Gods, Erda (if you want to pretend she exists and I do not), Lorgar, Magnus, and Horus.

[@gangzilla5716]

@@elysiankentarchy1531 Most of that could have been prevented had he wasn't such a facist that yearn for xeno genocide instead of alliance and refuses to properly connect with his children which resulted in them falling to chaos' hands

[@EvilEye501]

That "To THEM" had more power in it than some entire movies I've watched.

[@DogwoodDingus]

Can’t get over how well the emperors husk of a being is portrayed in this. The low groans and droning voice is both unsettling and heartbreaking to hear. It’s like a senile relative remembering who they were for a heartbeat before returning to madness.

[@mysteriousstranger5873]

This perfectly encapsulates the “It was like trying to talk to a star” descriptor

[@saintblackwater7213]

"To them!" you can hear his voice carry in throneroom. Thats quality

[@alimshevtsov5251]

I love how this captures the tragedy of the Emperors godlike yet demented state: canonically those words are not said in a descending order, as if some are true and others not - all of them, every single thing He thinks of Guilimann was "said" at the same time, both the faithful son and the tool, both a failiure and His greatest triumph, all of them, simultaneous and true And not only of Guilliman, of Himself as well, moreso in fact "Father-Not a father-Thing-Thing-Thing-Apotheosis"

[@rikiorikio9368]

For being just a simple meme you nailed the half-life state of the caco-emperor, just loved it

[@tobster9567]

I appreciate Guiliman didnt get the sad wojack art for the second part, still Chad Bluberry King

[@epiceg9464]

Guilliman is him

[@MrPear40]

The emperor being fully sentient on the Throne is still to me one of the darkest moments of all sci-fi. Remember: The Emperor has suffered the worst fate of anyone in 40k.

[@andreineagu2401]

True,but The Emperor deserves it for being an asshole to his children. Especially Angron.

[@thrain9437]

Can you elaborate it pls ? Im kinda new to this universe...

[@tengentoppagurrenlmao5907]

Simply put, in W40K universe, there is a species of superhuman with psychic ability called Psyker. The "Emperor", the number one MVP of mankind, is the strongest psyker that ever exist. Fast forward, the Emperor "sacrifice" himself to aid humanity's progress by using his psychic power to fuel up "the Warp", a W40K version of light-speed travel. Since the Emperor is, well, still human, he obviously can't go on forever, and his followers built him the Golden Throne, a throne-shaped life support system to keep the Emperor's biological body alive for as long as possible. Of course, this Golden Throne is not flawless, and the Emperor is, at the end, still human. A few millenia has passed, and his body gradually decayed until it's just skin and bones. But the Emperor's consciousness still remains, all this years, all this millenias, the Emperor sitting in the Golden Throne, still sentient, still thinking, and fully aware, despite his decaying body.

[@mee091000]

​​​ I know you tried to explain this to him but you did it wrong. Presumably Humanity built the throne during the DAoT _(Dark Age of Technology)._ It was not built specifically for the Emperor. It's preserved technology that is so advanced no one else knows how it was even created. Not even the Eldar know how it works. If humanity had built it for him then where would he no urgency in the fact that it's currently failing and will very soon stop working. The entire point of the Imperium in 40k is that they are the remnants of a dystopian past. A past that was so technologically advanced that they were almost on par with the Eldar post War in Heaven. Humanity in its current state does not have the knowledge to create new technology. They can only poorly maintain it and use fragmented blueprints from the Dark Age of Technology.

[@mee091000]

​@@thrain9437 Please don't accept that explanation lol. He's got it ALL wrong.

[@kirkgregor5613]

"In the spires and the slums, our people sing of 'Victory.' Victory, as the galaxy burns, victory as the Imperium rots around us, victory as humanity rages against the dying of the light. Victory..."

[@bvdemier1]

People always do the first part of the despair line without adding the second part where Bob dismisses the very thought: Why do I still live,’ he snarled. ‘What more do you want from me? I gave everything I had to you, to them. Look what they’ve made of our dream. This bloated, rotting carcass of an empire is driven not by reason and hope but by fear, hate and ignorance. Better that we had all burned in the fires of Horus’ ambition than live to see this.’ Even as he said it, Guilliman heard the lie in his words. Amongst his brothers, none had been more idealistic than Roboute Guilliman. None had envisioned a brighter future, not just for Mankind but also for the warriors of the Legiones Astartes. That flame of hope had been a part of him for as long as he had lived. Even now, as it was smothered by darkness and woe, Guilliman realized that his flame endured. ‘There’s hope still,’ he told himself, turning back to the window and placing one armoured palm against it. He stared out at the work gangs, labouring to repair the damage of war, and the Ultramarines stood proud and determined upon the ramparts. They had been born into this dark millennium, and had known nothing but the hardship, suffering and despair of unending conflict. Yet still they struggled on unbowed, despite the countless enemies ranged against them. Guilliman had seen a better age, one of hope and triumph. What right had he, a superhuman son of the Emperor himself, to show any less strength and courage than his followers born in darkness?-

[@gangzilla5716]

So basically he said: "Yeah, life is suck but there’s not much choice than to keep going."

[@user-cb3lg4jp7q]

​@@gangzilla5716 "It is what it is" mindset

[@tenshihinanawi4546]

guilliman literally said that's that and this is this

[@tbirdddd5818]

@@user-cb3lg4jp7qmore like “fuck it we ball”

[@allyhuang6103]

The replies with amoeba ass interpretations of this quote

[@danielgibson490]

I vastly prefer the emperor as an entirely inhuman warp monster, trapped in a human body than the other way around. Well done

[@ikillstupidcomments]

Doesn't make sense, considering that he's explicitly the product of the human psyche.

[@aceambling7685]

Always has been.

[@claymoreALBA]

I like that the most clear thing he says is “My son”. Shows that even in his fractured and insane state, he still cares for his son.

[@hugo6693]

"My last son. My pride. My greatest triumph. My last hope. My last tool..."

[@retraceyourvods]

Sometimes the fans don't know how sub par what they were asking for really is until the writers slap them in the face with something far more interesting then they could ever have asked for in the first place

[@machine3589]

Sometimes the fans are right and what theyre asking would have been better than the half-cooked nonsense a bunch of sub-par hacks think up, which is subsequently slapped with the official stamp so that people who just mindlessly consume things with the 40k label will then pretend is not horrible.

[@woodlefoof2]

@@machine3589 whole lot of words just to say “I don’t like that guilliman isn’t boring”

[@machine3589]

@@woodlefoof2 Found the mindless consooomer. Go back to the 40k labeled troff and pretend it tastes good.

[@AL-lh2ht]

@@machine3589dude, fans have no idea what they want.

[@bma4372]

This has literally never happened yet.

[@imstupid880]

"Better that we had all burned in the fires of Horus's ambition than lived to see this." Careful there Guilliman, starting to sound like the Cabal there. >inb4 the Guilliman Gambit

[@vsGoliath96]

Where's Alpharius when ya need him?!

[@elysiankentarchy1531]

​@vsGoliath96 Dorn killed him. Maybe. Hard to say when the writers seem to have no idea what they want to do with him. He'll be fine after like a week probably.

[@imstupid880]

@@elysiankentarchy1531 I am Alpharius

[@Aravaganthus]

Big E: My last hope Random Watcher in the Dark: No. There is another.

[@AbadonXXX]

Also the emperor: *proceeds to carve his name into mortarion’s heart*

[@dean_l33]

Big E is probably the most inconsistent character in 40k due to him being use as a plot device rather than being his own character most of the time. So just pick and choose what you want him to be

[@mikhaelgribkov4117]

Malice and Spite are the two things you can't take from Big E.

[@alroma5869]

​@@dean_l33It's a god, if they make him a character like all others it would become "human", and the mysterious aura that surrounds him will disappear.

[@dean_l33]

@@alroma5869 That'd be true if it weren't for multiple BL author having it out for him. Looking at you Erda, Astarte

[@syrienangel4137]

​@@dean_l33Fucking Erda should not have existed to begin with

[@Shoutatclouds]

False. I was there. BIG E: Guliman you are the warhammer 40,000 Guliman: k

[@FleshWizard69420]

"as it turned out, there were 40,000 warhammers inside you all along"

[@Jupiter__001_]

Can confirm, I was the Golden Throne

[@sirpixel7945]

​"Perhaps the real warhammers were the friends me made along the way."

[@malthehansen7915]

I believe you. Nay, I believe in you.

[@Scufflegrit]

Great jokes. 🔥 content.

[@jonathanprisbrey9473]

Now I want to see a 40k universe classically animated movie as well written, intelligently designed, voiced as this moment, and meme.

[@TheTSense]

The Emperors Voice is default text to speech. It is the (true) cannon

[@heckinmemes6430]

Jaghatai: "Yo, wassup my homies. I am back with the ciggies like I said I was getting." Vulkan: "Haha, And I have retrieved my lighter! Let us smoke the boof." Corax: "Caw caw motherfuckers, I just finished putting Lose-gar into a headlock. Where's the boof?" Dorn: "Smoking is bad for your health."

[@aceambling7685]

Guilliman: smoking is against the Codex!

[@heckinmemes6430]

@@aceambling7685 Leman Russ, bursting through the backdoor Kramer style : "That won't stop me because I can't read."

[@azkon7975]

Honestly, that interaction was perfect. The Emperor and the Imperium of Man was always meant to be horrific *gim dark* satire. What The Emperor set out to do and what the Imperium had become are at opposite ends. The Emperor set out to form a human empire that would be strong, progressive, and secular. Guilliman essentially did that with the Worlds of Ultramar. Guilliman waking up to see a sprawling, rotting carcass of an Imperium that is regressive and fanatical is like a neverending nightmare. I was very concerned that Guilliman would be a walking mary sue, since that's how capable Primarchs are. Instead, Guilliman is shown to be desperately holding on to hope in a galaxy awash in despair. Darkness pushing against him in all directions. It's all he can do to keep the Imperium's head above water. The 10th edition launch trailer was so good and communicating that, too. I love that trailer.

[@DeusExAngelo]

I mean considering what the state of The Emperor poetically/thematically matches the state of The Imperium...I'd say it's accurate. Also further proved that Uriah was and still remains correct.

[@WhyisAlpharius69]

The Emperor had his mind completely shattered and his humanity broken the moment the Horus Heresy ended, and thus he was reduced to an eldritch monstrosity

[@DeusExAngelo]

@@WhyisAlpharius69 And ultimately Uriah was proven right too. The old, "delusional" priest of the last church had far greater foresight than The Emperor ever seemed to. Seriously, especially in the setting, The Imperial Truth was based entirely on a lie. The Emperor, the one who pushed it, not only knew it was false, but was a god who's power came from the supernatural itself. So instead of y'know, teaching the dangers of The Warp, and using his powers and knowledge to bolster his people's defenses against it or even tried to reclaim it...decided it was better to lie to everyone and say it didn't exist. Especially when the Chaos Gods were absolutely at play and not content with letting his plans go down. Did he expect that lie to last forever? Or that when he did tell the truth of the matter, people would he okay with what he did? Seriously, for all the faults of the likes of Horus, Magnus, and the others...the Emperor has his own lion share of the blame for how it all happened.

[@ellugerdelacruz2555]

​@@WhyisAlpharius69 And eldritch monstrosity that's still somehow holding all of Humanity together... He's basically if the Mesoamerican Mummy Emperors but if they had actual power.

[@ChkthDeats]

This is really sad ngl. Did the lore good here, sir.

[@CamoGuy76239]

You lend an amazing voice to the world; thank you for sharing your natural talent.

[@TheHScorpio]

I can’t stop listening to what the god corpse actually said.

[@snakething87]

“My last son, my pride, my greatest triumph.” How those words burned him, worse than the poisons of Mortarion, worse than the sting of failure. They were not a lie, not entirely. I was worse than that. They were conditional.

[@johnnyfives5416]

The emperor really being like the master from the first fallout game especially when he constantly speak like a legion of souls all struggles to come in harmony.

[@sr.favopossodeixarvaziosim4595]

Wow nice ref, makes sense. They're actually very similar characters in their idealism and plans, even if they had opposing goals. And both fell down because of seemingly cracks in the Great Plan. They are also both possessed of Numen and therefore gods. Both even managed to get cults working for them through claims of godhood. Both were turned into gods against their wills, but The Master accepted his role as a god willingly.

[@everythingwithashton5876]

My son, my tool, my empires, my shame, my own rotting corpse of a prison. End this.

[@jeffseeker900]

This is Cannon?

[@bloodygekkon5048]

@@jeffseeker900 no, howitzer

[@janreghbatangas9014]

​its not, mortar

[@_NIKOS9_NIKOS]

G Man: Look what they've made out of our dream. Me: Bruh, don't act like you, and your mess of a family didn't lay the groundwork for this to happen.

[@aceambling7685]

If not for Girlyman's Codex the Astartes would actually have the institutional power to prevent the Ecclesiarchy and Inquisition's overreach.

[@elysiankentarchy1531]

Much of the post Heresy order was designed by Guilliman, so yeah, he has his responsibility and he drastically weakened the Imperium. On the other hand, the fact that the Imperium still exists and the machinery of that post heresy order is still running despite it having been 10k years shows it wasn't as bad as it seems. But that is separate from breaking up the Legions which was a pretty poor move in hindsight and only served to make the Imperium weaker.

[@_NIKOS9_NIKOS]

Ηonestly, I am mostly referring to all the shit they pulled during the great Crusade. Like all the ge/xenocide, slavery, awful living conditions, purging of anyone that has different views, servitors, over reliance on the Ad Mech, culture of blind loyalty to your superiors and ignorance did not pop up due to religion or Horus turning traitor. They popped up because Big E and The Primarchs spend hundreds of years enforcing such policies upon the populace.

[@infamouspotato2028]

​@@aceambling7685"Girlyman" 💀

[@Sioolol]

The second one is way cooler. Its almost silly to think that Emperor would be anything but eldritch horror after 10 000 years of being kept alive by noone knows what.

[@nevarius9010]

That first God Emperor voice with the angels singing in the background, we need some more of that!

[@DoubleWhammy]

Your choice in music is exceptional. Dragonheart is one of the better movies ever made, and the death of Draco still brings a tear or three to my eye to this day.

[@jesusofbullets]

I’ve seen this meme several times prior to this, but the voice acting nearly brings tears to my eyes. Absolutely fantastic job my dude. I’m sending this to my dad.

[@warbozz1232]

Honestly came out better than what we expected

[@warblerblue]

The Emperor is mostly dead. Not all the way dead though. Just alive enough to be a blinking traffic light.

[@connortripp99]

“But what if he’s all dead?” “Then Horus would of searched his pockets for loose change.”

[@archon8211]

I think he consists of mostly other souls than his own at this point. They are already interrupting him, i wonder if they will ever overpower him if they just keep feeding hım souls everyday like this. The man is being diluted in his own body. Horrifying

[@OR56]

"Mostly dead is still slightly alive. If he's all the way dead, there's only one thing you can do." "What's that?" "Search his pockets for loose change."

[@warblerblue]

@@OR56 As you wish! LOL!

[@warblerblue]

@@connortripp99 Probably find some gold coins, him being the Emperor and all.

[@mrmofo36]

this is so FANTASTIC i keep watching it. i love your work anyway but this feels extra special

[@propanelizard]

Perfectly captures a son meeting his decomposing skeleton of a father, good job

[@mineassasinlol6428]

Considering how big the primarchs are their voiced are so deep this is probably how they sound when making a high pitch voice lol

[@aceambling7685]

TTS really did a number on the fanbase's perception of the Emperor (and the Primarchs). Its baffling to me that people expected anything other than what we got. The Corpse Emperor is as much a factual statement as it is an insult. Personal Fan Theory, the Emperor and Malal are one and the same. The Emperor is called Anathema by Chaos, and the victory of Malal would be the death of the other Chaos gods. There is of course the shared skull imagery, and to draw irl comparisons, Odin the Allfather is also the god of death. The Emperors ultimate plan was to move Humanity to the Webway and eradicate all life in the galaxy, killing the Chaos gods.

[@MM-br6lr]

I cant stop listening to those voices, especially the Emeperor's. Great work!

[@red11717]

This was very haunting and disturbing, I i love it! Well done!

[@bloodaggie859]

I don't know why, but "My Son" hits right in the feels😢

[@skeletonking4119]

“My son, you have return to me” it brought tears to me

[@tiffles3890]

I empathise with Guilliman.

[@Simon-pw3hs]

As we should

[@mr.cookey]

Don't forget the second part, which really is humanity as a whole. Despite all hardships, we toil on, hoping our suffering brings a brighter future. If the weakest of ours doesn't fall into dread, then nobody can afford this luxury.

[@GrayderFox]

I love the effect on the drawn-out words. Like oh my god, you gave that image a voice and it is CREEPY. :D Love it.

[@JonConnington95]

Damn that was really good. Made me feel something.

[@umapessoaqualquer3688]

Smurf king: "Better that we all hah burned in the fires of Horus's ambition than lived to see this" The Emperor: "404 Error: Page Not Found. Sorry, the page you're looking for can't be found. It may have been moved or deleted. Please check the URL and try again. If you continue to encounter this issue, please contact the mechanicum for assistance. Thank you for your patience."

[@sirpumpkin99]

Fuck i absolutely love how you did the emperor in this! I'd love to hear more of that, it sounds absolutely amazing!

[@herpderp3916]

There's a certain amount of schadenfreude in knowing Emps is so beyond fucked up and in eternal agony at this point he can't even communicate coherently.

[@joaovitorbarianimeirelesmo5686]

"If it is possible to restore the Emperor, and if He could regain true life, then what went into the throne room of the Imperial Palace may not be what emerges." from Dark Imperium

[@Excaliburumbra801]

That moment when you specifically ask to NOT be worshipped as a deity

[@sparking023]

And even then, Guilleman left Terra and began to work. Dude is giving his best, even when ultra depressed

[@PelinalDidNothingWrong]

Your Guilliman voice is amazing!

[@nunoosorio3832]

The choice of music portrays exactly what 40k fans should feel upon Guilliman's return. The hope of change for the better.

[@andrewpandrew7786]

As someone with extreme daddy AND brother issues, this hits home.

[@ellugerdelacruz2555]

Major "You have been a massive @#$%ing disappointment, but you're still the most precious thing in the world to me" vibes...

[@handsomeadi7565]

Truly one of the moment from John War Hammer 40,000 Horus Heresy.

[@clarencezer]

God damn this was phenomenaly emotional, gotta save this.

[@josiah9559]

You're putting out so many great vids, I'm having a hard time leaving likes on all of them!

[@matiasluukkanen7718]

It is bit sad that Emperor never in canon loved his "sons". Only deeming them most effective tools to embody the "best" aspects of warfare/humanity/himself.

[@griffinmckenzie7203]

Canonically, the only ones he truly loved where Horus and Sanguinius.

[@syrienangel4137]

Wtf are you talking about. Canonicaly, he did. It's just that this new lore bullshit keeps trying to change the Emperor from loving father and caring ruler to this travesty of a man. "Master of Mankind" is one of many examples of this. An author who is biased with Chaos writing the book solely around the Emperor is not going to end well.

[@gobolgar]

@@syrienangel4137 "new lore" huh. Love to see newcomers say these things when the Emperor discarding multiple sons and showing them zero love or kindness, like Angron and Perturabo, has been canon for as long as said Primarchs and legions have existed in the canon. Always funny when someone tries to play the ancient fan but doesn't even know the oldest of memes in the fanbase is how terrible a father the Emperor always was.

[@Aurilion44]

@@gobolgar Yes, new lore. I still remember the canon from time Horus Heresy was simple legends. The thing is before that and when they started to delve in it, canon always portrayed Emperor as a bad father, but it was simply because he was losing his grasp on his own mortality, humanity and empathy. That is why he even created Custodes to be essentially his companions, guards, and confidants. He wasn't bad father because he intentionally treated them bad, but because he was, essentially, socially inept in normal interactions and couldn't empathize, understand or comfort his sons despite his best efforts. Hence the tragedy of it all. Then lately there is a LOT of writers that are just writing him as psycho who only saw others as tools. Especially authors who don't hide the fact Chaos is their puppy faction...

[@gobolgar]

@@Aurilion44 The way you just described the Emperor is precisely how he's portrayed in the book series. He's lost touch with his humanity due to his age and godlike power, as well as his desperation to avert the worst possible future. This is his critical flaw, this is why his plans fail. This is directly called out as the main reason why he failed to connect with some of the Primarchs, which led them to fall to corruption in the end, but with others like Horus he did indeed come to see him as like a son. I don't understand what you're even complaining about.

[@reverenddmo8944]

And then Jon Grammaticus appeared, saying Robute had to come with him to the Chud Dimension...

[@TrendyTrenty]

Your voice lends itself so well to things like this. Constantly jealous bc I sound like adult Spongebob when I talk

[@Khashmonet]

Any true fan knew what to expect.

[@TimelineTheSchizoid]

"My tool"

[@josephjackson1956]

The fans wanted the prodigal son, but what really happened was a corrupt dad

[@reigoj8228]

Just a little note: Guillimans words echo the words of emperor. "What more do you want from me? " A Tool. "What more can I give?" A Hope. "I already gave everything" A son. "What they have made of our dream" thirteenth and hope. Long rant of failure, fear, liars, betrayers and thiefs. And then guillimans feelings.

[@bornonthebattlefront4883]

The Dragon Heart music goes so well with this You can feel the desperation and bitterness The man literally fought hell itself to make it to his father He gave his all Just to find out it was worthless His father, a once proud and glorious emperor Now a rotting corpse on a throne of decay His empire A once bright beacon of light and progress Now falling apart in the dark, falling ever back in on itself So well done

[@galifrey2242]

And then Big E hit guillimman with "Only in death does Duty ends"

[@ellugerdelacruz2555]

"And you and I ain't dying for a loooooooooooooong time son..."

[@courier665]

This post makes it sounds like the Emperor has dementia which is such a depressing and sad idea.

[@Baldwin-iv445]

Did not expect to hear the soundtrack of dragon heart in a 40k video

[@andreatammaro8088]

"in the grim darkness of the far future there is only depression"

[@zkingmilitia5451]

Accurate

[@assimkach5402]

As a grown man, seeing this makes me wanna cry

[@eric_moore-6126]

Aldo Guilliman: "It is our hope that will damn us."

[@olddragonslayer123orinstei8]

That's an accurate depiction of how it went.

[@Jessie_Helms]

I wonder why he called Guilli thief, traitor, liar? Did he consider Ultramar a usurpation maybe?

[@condedooku9750]

He's probably just raving incoherently, that thing sitting on the Golden Throne is barely the Emperor anymore, billions of souls have been sacrificed to him and all that plus his wounds have turned him into a barely comprenhensible Eldritch Horror.

[@archon8211]

Many souls have merged with the emperor to keep him alive, i like to imagine that those words were not directed to guilliman but instead the emperor himself. They are part of him. They know the things he has done, the mistakes he did. A lot of people were fed to him against their will, and people did not know his state before being fed to him. I too would be pretty angry when the only thing keeping me sane in that grim universe , my role model , my god , is nothing but a corpse sustained by consuming the very thing he should have protected.

[@Teixas666]

likely the echoes of the souls bound ot the Emperor by the process ot sustain what's left to him at worst the Emepror is being paranoid about Imperium Secundus