What's It Really Like To Be A Chaos Space Marine? | Warhammer 40K Lore

[@weshammer]

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[@jeffm1269]

hey bro you make some great content. I read 2 Warhammer novels over 3 weeks in the duel diagnosis wing of the looney bin after watching some of your videos. 1 was about a drukari named eisenhorn getting a ⚔️ or something for Khaine. can you do a Warhammer v. Warhammer 40k video?

[@jeffm1269]

the other was about a young warrior from mutant tribe that rode giant elephants. the other tribes worshipped Nurgle and Tzeentch. There was a champion of Khaine or Khorne killing everybody and the leader of the wizards following Tzeentch was the female wizard. At the end the main character climbed a giant demon of the blood god then had to go up against the undefeated champion of the blood god. Skulls for the skull throne!

[@jeffm1269]

I was there bc Satan worshipping meth heads set me up to be killed. imagine? reading about the blood god when you yourself avoided being sacrificed? it was Kafkaesque.

[@jeffm1269]

was it you or KZbin that deleted/hid the comment about how I got there?

[@weshammer]

@@jeffm1269 It looks like you left three comments, I saw all of them. I don't know if KZbin deleted one. Sometimes they do that. If you leave too many too quickly or if there's a swear word in the comment. I've only ever deleted like 4 comments in the history of the channel.

[@ObakeOnna]

Being a Chaos Marine clearly isn't the most stable career option, but honestly I wonder more about the day-to-day of life in the Warp. Like, you go to the toilet and have to worry whether the seat will try to bite you or not. Or you eat your lunch and the chaos sausages just will not stop screaming even after being swallowed. And because here time doesn't flow exactly the same speed inside your digestive system you have to listen to the screaming for the whole week. Then you have to share a room with a plague marine for five minutes and end up throwing up, but now time inside your stomach has reversed so you throw up a living mutant piglet and a little written note from Tzeentch saying "if you worked for me this sort of thing wouldn't happen".

[@tvwhatevertv1808]

You seem to know awfully a lot about day to day chaos life. Please indentify your current location. A inquisitorial squad is on the way.

[@lucasmotte-michellon3193]

Damn chaos sausages.. I hate it when they do that !

[@Ben-rq5re]

This is what I was hoping for too. I want to know what’s it’s like trying to put on socks that are fighting to wear you instead..

[@howiefuzz6894]

I have two questions: how do chaos sausages taste & where can I buy them?

[@AlexDuos]

The written note had me rolling 😂

[@pyrofrog368]

"Fuck it we ball" Any chaos space marine warband that lives in the eye of terror

[@MALITH666]

We? or "I" ?

[@Saf_Ibn_Sayyad_Bacon]

We

[@tyronewifestealer2385]

We eyeball

[@Mark-S_Boyd]

Huh, who'd have thought that living under Chaos could be so...chaotic?

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

Maybe me, Maybe you. Maybelline

[@serioussilliness2064]

Maybe you did, maybe you didn't, maybe they will, maybe they won't.

[@blacktemplarchaplainmarius42]

Let's just say, they're life is full of Chaos...

[@astrasser7851]

Ba-dum thizzzzz

[@Grabthar191]

So, I wonder if there is ever a point that a Chaos band gets sick of living like that and abandons Chaos to set up a rulership on some distant world far away from the Eye of Terror? Or is it like a drug living like that.. they just can't do without it. Like some girl who keeps running back to her abusive BF.

[@Ave_Christus_Rex3777]

This is such a beautifully articulated description of the consept of life under choas. There are countless "maybe" and "what if? ". There is a terrifying absence of certainty. Because in the Eye of Terror, reality itself is chaotic. For all you know, nothing you know is real.

[@congnghequansuvn474]

make a cool game like Detroit become human

[@refugeehugsforfree4151]

Maybe, Maybe not. Maybe Maybelline.

[@kathrynpeninger7059]

Truth is Truth. And Truth never changes. In the End, The Primordial Truth was never True, or Truth, at all. Just Chaos. Just Lies.

[@PJOZeus]

Not really that much different outside of chaos, even for the masses who slave away it could all be wiped out anyday by Drukhari, Tyrannids, Orks - Hell even loyalists themselves half the time, the only certainty is suffering

[@CBRN-115]

Just like real life

[@Why_are_you00]

"Sounds like y'all should have thought of that before pulling that little stunt back there." - Rowboat Girlyman

[@cornixdemetrius7883]

"''Ate the Corpse 'Ate Chaos Gods 'Ate the Eye of Terror Skin civillians Simple as." -unnamed Night Lord captain

[@titosfilippotis7039]

Shoutout to Robot Gorillaman, lord commander of the Imperium

[@vazzeg]

As they say: rather a lord in hell, than a servant in heaven. 🤷

[@shredderly]

@@vazzeg It's better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven. If you're going to quote paradise lost then do it right.

[@vazzeg]

@@shredderly I wasn't quoting it because I never read it, so I didn't know it comes from Paradise Lost. Noted, will use it thus in the future.

[@wolvo5441]

Everyone is chilling the Eye of Terror until you see a 14ft tall raven in power armour coming at you from nowhere

[@MachineMan-mj4gj]

"CAW CAW MOTHERFUCKERS!"

[@cornixdemetrius7883]

The tall raven in power armor is chilling until it sees a similarly tall ghost of a bat in night blue power armor coming for it

[@pedroivantaveraferreira3037]

You think you gonna see it?

[@Therestrial205]

That's doesn't sound like regular marines

[@nicolasheung441]

​@MinoTaurus205 it's no regular marine. That "demonic" birb could and had body Lorgar while he's juiced up by the chaos gods

[@justinhoyt5982]

I find it funny how much hot gossip counts in chaos space marines

[@TheAlkhemiaStudio]

Its mean girls but with guns

[@Flesh_Wizard]

I've had female friends in high school. Their attitudes match Chaos Space Marines nearly perfectly

[@Gogogoogle477]

Lololol ​@@Flesh_Wizard

[@levis1here]

Chaos bad emperuh good - Ogryn (Edit- bless u lil un's for the loikes may ze emperor bless you lot)

[@kelceydane5874]

Blessed be a mind too simple for doubt. And blessed be to Gav, one of the greatest heroes to ever serve in His name. I'm pretty sure Gav will become the first Ogryn saint.

[@WedgeSkyrocket]

Big horn man sed emprah bad and chaos good - chaos ogryn

[@kelceydane5874]

@lunaticisbaked8760 yeahhhhh....but I choose to BELIEVE in Gav. Essentially all official WH40K isn't 100% confirmable anyway, which lets us pick what we believe to be accurate. Everything is told through a skewed lens and often with the illusions of time, misunderstanding and errors in judgement.

[@TheEyez187]

Gav was Sad!! You killed Bob! Gav liked potato peelings! For da Emprah!

[@orange8420]

Why do i hear gigachad music?

[@NemesisMarine01]

There's a Death Guard lord in the novel "Lords of Silence" who, upon returning to the Plague Planet, actually resides in a manor house he built himself, with sevants, gardens, Library etc. It sounded like a pretty chill place to kick back after a crusade into real space.

[@headlibrarian1996]

Said Marine hilariously writes down his experiences on campaign. Rather pointless, since I'm sure it won't last more than a day in the omnipresent decay of the Plague Planet.

[@thomaschilcott]

I came here to say this - if I had to be chaos aligned, it would be Nurgle. A tranquil garden to live in, no pain or sickness, generally cheerful interactions with the locals...

[@Archangelm127]

@@thomaschilcott Khorne all the way. What you see is what you get. The other three are just constant headaches.

[@thomaschilcott]

@@Archangelm127 I’d be needing hot water with honey and lemon all the time though, on account of all the screaming and shouting 😂

[@jonathanhenkel368]

Maybe... maybe the real chaos space marines were the friends we made along the way. --Tzeentch... maybe

[@randomguy-xp7se]

Get out.

[@igorthelight]

Maybe ;-)

[@Archangelm127]

More like the friends we betrayed along the way. 🤣

[@lorenzocassaro3054]

Now think about that: every "maybe" that makes life in the Eye of Terror a constant hell, is also the main reason people in the Imperium would want to join Chaos. Maybe you'll end up dead, or mutated, or enslaved. Maybe you'll be forced to betray or be betrayed by your closest friend, for the slightest bit of favour from your master. Maybe the Chaos Gods will devour your soul, condemnimg it to an eternity of torment. Or maybe you will win. Maybe you'll come out on top. Maybe you will become the scourge of the very fat pigs that used to boss you around, when you were nothing more than a factory worker in your homeworld, where the "light of the Emperor" seemed to shine only for those lucky few. Maybe even getting a shot at greatness, glory, wealth, revenge is far more preferable than living a single other day as something barely superior to a servitor, while the Ecclesiarchy dares still call you a "human". Maybe the "humanity" you have always been taught to be proud of, has always been the burden that chained you to the mud of a deathworld. A burden you'll be all too pleased to shed. Or maybe it was out there, among the trenches: you were called upon by the glorious Imperial Guard, to carry out the will of the Emperor among the savage stars. You were promised a future as humanity's shield. But then you found yourself stuck in a ditch for weeks, barely holding out against an unending tide of nightmarish brutes, screaming WAAAGH! at the top of their lungs, as they chop your companions' heads off, one by one. In the end, you are alone. The enemy is ever closer, and reinforcements won't come to your aid. You just know it. You get to truly know hunger, cold, despair, as you make your way back to HQ, broken in body and spirit, hoping that when you'll tell the Commissar that your position was lost, that you had no choice but to bring the grave news, he will not put a bullet in your head for cowardice. But then, the truth just strikes you, harder than a mortar shell, when you come back at the frontline and see that no one even knew you were there, the entire time. Your reward for all you went through? A couple of spare limbs and a new day, month, year on the frontlines, before one day, the regiment will leave the planet, for another one, onto another pointless hell. The planet is lost, but as long as enough enemies have been killed, for the forseable future, the battle is considered "won". Or maybe, the regiment will still depart the broken wasteland, but this time leaving you behind, forgotten once again. Once again, alone. And then, out of the void, ships come down from the skies, drop-pods crash into the city, they land among the ruins, maybe exactly when you're going to work like always, under the incessants hymns at the voxophones. And suddenly there's silence, then there's screaming, then there's... something else. You feel it. You taste it, in that moment, when the Arbites are no longer there, when the Comissar is long gone and the sky turns red. Hell is creeping out of the cracking reality, but you don't care. You don't care about anything, anymore because for that one, brief, insignificant moment, you're free. And when the skies come crashing down, when the underhive burns around you, you take life in your hands and you see them: angels from another god, clad in their armours, powerful, terrifying display of a potential you were long denied. Maybe they will butcher you, like the rest of your people, maybe they'll call to you. But it doesn't matter. You come to them regardless, because that "maybe" is a promise of power, one of release, of vengeance, of pure, blissfull, desire fullfilled. The kind of "maybe" you would wager your soul on, for a chance to get even to the Imperium that ate your soul alive, that left you to die because your life was nothing, compared to "the Emperor's light". But if no one will come to your aid, if nothing will save you, because that "light" is a lie, then you will try, and maybe fail, but try nonetheless to get that chance. Deep inside you know that you'll just be changing master. But for the first time in ages, it's a master YOU CHOSE. And this is worth every "maybe" in the world.

[@priley817]

Great writing.. bravo

[@ProfessorPhysics2]

Basically, just constant anxiety and paranoia ramped up to 1000.

[@Brandonsherrell-zv3pc]

sounds like prison

[@b1zzarecont4ct]

Stop

[@AG-en5y]

I think out of everyone being a gross mutant and serve the grandfathers is the best. I feel like every single faction is either horny beyond belief. Angry throthing for blood and skulls. Trying to use knowledge to trick opponents to activate your trap card to win the battle. The guys who chilling with grand papa just wanna share stuff with others. They just seem the most happy

[@AG-en5y]

I think out of everyone being a gross mutant and serve the grandfathers is the best. I feel like every single faction is either horny beyond belief. Angry throthing for blood and skulls. Trying to use knowledge to trick opponents to activate your trap card to win the battle. The guys who chilling with grand papa just wanna share stuff with others. They just seem the most happy

[@cinjohnclaassen1740]

Got into Warhammer as a kid, got my dad into Warhammer and even though he's not with us anymore and I don't play anymore, this universe, it's setting and the fandom will always be something special...Such a great bunch of madlads. Passionate, bunch of weirdos and I wouldn't have it any other way

[@magnusm4]

Got introduced through my friend. His dad was a hardcore nerd back in the very early 2000s. He had several painted miniature warhammer models. Gave several to his son. Played WoW and my friend even gave me some tin necrons. His dad was hardcore into these things. The space marines were made out of plastic but really awesome. Was even given one or two.

[@antpixel3984]

Rest in Peace

[@Taylor-j8x]

I've been in it since a child, I owned the 40k rulebook and og Warhammer Rulebook, mom HATED the brown og book and threw it away saying it's EVIL

[@mariacyr6494]

Reading the Lords of Silence curently, and ngl, being a Death Guard does not seem super fun

[@症不眠]

But you get them gifts from happy grandfather. How could you not want the gifts? I mean. Gifts?!

[@mariacyr6494]

@@症不眠 i love when the pov character questions water in the lungs as a gift. Then quickly apologize to the burgling on his shoulder, who just farts on him

[@kelceydane5874]

​@@症不眠or the marine that got the literal butthole mouth. He expressed some regrets.

[@Tere225]

Wait to you read about the iron warriors. If you're captured. They chain a mock lasgun to you and use you to clear mine fields and figure out firing ranges of fortresses.

[@CMTechnica]

@@Tere225I’d rather do that than anything else from the other traitor legions

[@HB2K-h8m]

Wes, you should totally produce a CSM choose your own adventure, preferably in comic form. Id totally buy that.

[@Alpharius93]

I would absolutely love to play that!

[@ragnarian]

Advancements in AI would make that a possibility It'd add the randomness of the warp, and if taught right, maybe by feeding it 40k RPG stories, could even adapt and grow the story if the player goes off the rails

[@Dragonskincollector]

Check out Chaos UndeCided

[@lorenzocassaro3054]

There's still Black Crusade, if you'te into tabletop

[@peterlepper5199]

As a lifelong fan of Chaos (ever since I saw the classic Daemon Prince by Juan Diaz when I was a kid) this latest series of videos has made me very happy to see! This one in particular makes me really want a sort of Mount and Blade style game where you lead a Chaos Warband in the Eye of Terror and have to make these kinds of decisions. Sadly, it doesn't seem like Chaos gets to be playable in video games any more. Instead we get games like Boltgun, where a single Sternguard Veteran guns down Chaos Terminators and Greater Daemons like it's no big deal.

[@Significantharrassment]

And the inquisitors love big chaos fans like you, INQUISITION

[@ohmygoditisspider7953]

it's not the same but you can mod rimworld to be like that. it ends up being sort of like harvest moon on catachan. I just had a part of a space hulk fall out of the sky at the same time one of my psykers accidentally summoned a horde of bloodletters during an attack of bloodthirsty yorkshire terriers.

[@loukasmaki]

Thank you for letting us know about this heretic. Now we must also give you the Emperor's mercy. You are tainted and must be purged. ​@@Significantharrassment

[@Significantharrassment]

@@loukasmaki For the Emperor

[@stanley2323]

If it makes you feel any better u can imagine that Malum Caedo in boltgun is being backed heavily by khorne lmao I personally do

[@paragraphlost]

One thing we can all agree on is that being a chaos space marine sounds *exhausting*.

[@khanhnguyen-tt3ff]

That why all of are crazy

[@alexgeary6706]

Or maybe something else

[@KaiBrunk125]

@@JohnGrigg-gz9gmstop trynna tough with your soft ass hands

[@Ankylosaurus_mangiventris]

Yeah, say what you want about living under the Imperium but surely this can’t be any better, right? At least being under suspicion by the Inquisition isn’t always going to end horribly in your favor or be a constant threat like a mutiny. As long as you do your duty and serve the emperor, you’d probably die before getting any dirt on you anyways. And at the very least you can trust your comrades not to fucking backstab you any day. And you get some form of luxury, albeit minimal and sparse. No amount of Daemonic power any Chaos God could offer me would convince me otherwise if it means my life sucks ass and is constant stress/fear/paranoia of my own friends.

[@JohnGrigg-gz9gm]

@@Ankylosaurus_mangiventris Being a Chaos Marine is to me like being a girl back in high school, dealing with vicious cliques always on the lookout to stab you in the back. "The Mean Girls of Chaos!" Lol

[@shmellomello]

Now all we need is a vlog style video titled "Follow me: A day in the life of a Heretic Astartes"

[@Doc51499]

Day in the life of a true heretical geezer

[@dreadfulbadger]

"Hey guys! Its ya boy!"

[@floopalomp]

So Chaos is basically an endless stream of "or maybe..." and "but what if..."

[@AdiCro678]

That is true chaos rentless paranoia slowly driving you to insanaty from all the maybes and what ifs never truly knowing what is and forever unable to be shure of anything

[@im_aleey]

The way Tzeech likes it.

[@JohnGrigg-gz9gm]

It sounds like my workplace, but we unfortunately don't wear magical battle armor, live for centuries, and lastly, nobody dies at the hands of colleagues! Lol

[@StarMystro]

This was a really good execution on "what it's like being a chaos marine". I really like how you brought it all together at the end how there's so many "maybe's" -Possibilities that any other faction, probably wouldn't ever think about.

[@Bumbaclart247]

I’d imagine it’s four letters, first is S and last is T

[@RandomBadAnimator]

Schadenfreude-T

[@Tampenismall]

Getting hit but with a s

[@muhmmadmuneeb219]

Slut in the case of the emperors children or anything associated with slannesh

[@randomman11167]

Sweet? Or I guess with 4 letters Swet

[@rickjames7088]

Smut

[@carldooley9344]

I've come to believe that to the average human, there would be little difference between Loyalist and Renegade Marines. For the Loyalist, there is just as much chance that you are going to defend the human or kill them either to protect a secret or stamp out a cult or infestation. For the Renegade, it would be the unpredictability...

[@velenvskaelhas]

The loyalist will at the worst just kill you, the traitor marines can likely have a far darker fate in mind.

[@MorteWulfe]

It doesn't seem like the loyalist chapters get involved in the slaughter of citizenry. That is mostly from the Administratum bureaucrats of the Imperium that don't want information to get out. Very similar to how mainstream media works today, except I don't think they are hiring hitmen yet?

[@MorteWulfe]

Now though there are some specific loyalist chapters that are kind of a-holes like vampiric Flesh Tearers and the Wulfen of the Space Wolves, which are dark lil secrets, but more of the "normal" chapters try to save humanity at every turn.

[@JARD7318]

@@MorteWulfe Do not forget the Iron hands

[@skynyrdjesus]

Well, I assume you mean in terms of practical outcomes they're similar because most likely you'll end up dead, but in universe and honestly even in reality they couldnt be more different. If as a guardsman you see Loyalist Space Marines being deployed you've certainly been surviving in circumstances that the worst thing you could possibly imagine, and even though you will almost certainly end up dying, especially if they're Grey Knights, your life is forfeit, but theres a good chance your world and family will survive. If you see Chaos Space Marines, youve almost certainly been surviving horrors that you couldnt possibly have imagined, and if you're lucky you and your family and everyone on your planet will get to die.

[@chuckadams3531]

As a metalhead, and a fan of WH40K Chaos.... living in a permanent warlike album cover doesn't dissuade me even a little bit..

[@liamhealy4993]

Thats him Inquisitor

[@brianbarrett2487]

Bolt Thrower.

[@DrinkerOfWindex]

​@brianbarrett2487 LOL was just gonna say Warhammer the band.

[@s.amacintyre1440]

It's black templar themed but if you like metal there's a band from where I live called Helsreach and they are fucking awesome. They got an album and a new single up on Spotify

[@theenderdestruction2362]

You say that but its basically diet hell

[@Holy_Grapefruit]

I just can't imagine a Chaos Marine of Nurgle, fighting another of Nurgle. They always seem so wholesome on the battlefield, laughing, saying pleasantries, sharing grubs that grow in one another.

[@insertedgynamehere]

To my knowledge, there is one warband that's all about toxin rather than plague, and they hate everyone.

[@DestronGaming1213]

The run on sentence style flow worked really well to sell the chaotic nature of the target subject.

[@tanatos347]

This sounds similar to the Nemesis system in Shadow of War. It would be awesome to have something similar to that game in the Warhammer universe.

[@Turnil321]

I hope it will be with the orks of 40k. You starting out as a normal boy and starting a WAAAGH.

[@AsmodeusMictian]

Unfortunately for us, the Nemesis system is patented. Aren't software patents awesome?

[@ragnarian]

​@@AsmodeusMictian fortunately, that patent is expiring soon

[@nomadprime5669]

It sounds like a chaos game where your choices matter is something that really needs to be done, because my goodness it would be so interesting

[@drewr8992]

What an incredible video! Really enjoyed the hypothetical situations throughout. Ultimately it shows the imperiums greatest weapon, its ingrained loyalty into its citizens. Divide and conquer chaos

[@SatanicSylveon]

Great video! I've been in love with the Chaos Space Marines since reading ADB's Night Lord series, and then fell even more in love with Chaos after reading the Black Legion books he wrote. Like you said, best Author for all things Chaos-related.

[@peterlepper5199]

Except Magnus and the Thousand Sons. The man seems to have a genuine, "angry fanfiction writer" type hate for Big Red. He ruined Graham McNeill's entire amazing trilogy just to have a "Vulkan destroys Magnus with facts and logic" moment, and he made his OC claim to have forced Magnus to kneel before Abaddon. The First Heretic is still one of the best HH novels, but he has a serious bias. Just goes to show that with Black Library's shotgun approach to storytelling (many authors writing on the same subject with little to no centralized editorial control, justified by "unreliable narrator" and "nothing is canon") no one author can really be the best at everything.

[@kalesmythe]

You should also read the Fabius Bile omnibus. Not ADB but still has great details about chaos.

[@JB_Shryke]

We need a video on the Kleptomarines (Blood Ravens).

[@Tampenismall]

The yoink marines

[@Turnil321]

​@@Tampenismallthe death skull marines.

[@CMTechnica]

We really don’t. Everyone already knows about the Word Bearers turned Imperial Fists successors, they had a trilogy of games

[@chucknya1448]

What ifs, unpredictability, chaos, treachery... Chaos Leader wife: Honey what do we order for lunch tonight? Chaos Leader: ... And this is where the poor leader snapped after thousand of years

[@Jaxdrill]

As much as I hate ads I always love Wes just straight going "Look I got bills, here's the video sponsor."

[@alecdickens1042]

There's something reassuring about honesty. I'm more likely to listen to someone if they drop the facade.

[@calebcarroll7641]

This has convinced me. We need a Rogue Trader-esque Chaos Space Marines game.

[@ryantay9642]

Look up the game Black Crusade by Fantasy Flight games. It’s basically the exact same concept.

[@calebcarroll7641]

@@ryantay9642 will do

[@Archangelm127]

@@ryantay9642 I was going to say, that already exists.

[@angelangelis8362]

If we are talking Owlcat, I wouldn't mind them doing a Black Crusade game. Also, if you like the Black Crusade Tabletop, it's out of print so...technically open to grabbing super cheap. Hint hint.

[@Archangelm127]

@@angelangelis8362 The problem is that not everybody likes to be evil. I agree they'd do a great job with it, but the target audience would be even more limited than the already (relatively) niche CRPG market.

[@stingerjohnny9951]

I do love how this showcases the potential flaws of “eternal loyalty” when you are talking about immortals. It’s easy to be loyal forever when your forever is 80-90 years.

[@CarlosTorres-vj3vh]

New drinking game, take a shot everytime Wes says maybe

[@eletrictarantula2321]

Instructions unclear, I now have multiple bolter holes in my body

[@danielszilagyi9112]

So basically orks, but chaotic.

[@crushingit5128]

Take a shot every time he says "Maybe".... then "maybe" have your friends promptly call for an ambulance.

[@thizloliboi7523]

Depends on what legion.. But being a death guard seems nice, being loved by papa nurgle and still having sanity while not feeling pain

[@nickcasale2767]

I too would like bile running from every orifice and a mouth on my stomach

[@funrun7181]

Yes and no, they still have the same problems, in the book Lords of silence, Vaux struggles with similar issues. obviously not as amny because of the time span the books takes place in. but i would say since the DG is one of the more organised legions your other legoin warbands are "more Loyal" to you at baseline.

[@LordyT34]

Until your literally a writhing mass of teeth and tentacles

[@magnumforce7]

0o o😊 K

[@DackJaniels51111]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5vbZ4OMeJJqp9Usi=hFshiiQW5V79GWMr yeah, this.

[@Kristian.B.Kristiansen]

The 9th Edition Chaosmarines Codex opened with a short story very much inspired by that famous post. A World Eaters champion sought out a prophetess and She told him a similar maybe-future.

[@robluxipiech4033]

You are, by far, leaps and bounds my y new fave 40k channel. You even took the time to read 3!! Of my comments in a cpl live shows i was lucky enough to catch. Im sorry brother, im broke lol, literally and finacially. I broke my spine im just learning to move all the way again. Learning to walk in your 30s hahha. Anyhow, your new channel has provided an immense pleasure and breath of fresh air in a stale environent. I mentioned before you are no shill! You read that aloud lol. Thabks for the awesome content man, as soon as im back to work ill send a gift. Thanks again for giving me something to focus on when my nerve pain leaves me shaking n sweating, it sucks, but having something to help distract myself is ambrosia to me haha. Gluck big guy looking forward to the next video!

[@samtrue3]

This was definately an act of tzeech So many branching paths yet none of them matter as the end is the same

[@KKC97ful]

Weshammer sounds like Tzeentch while narrating the story with maybes and what ifs

[@derleonator2232]

Sounds like that would be a really awseome video game all by itself You create your own chapter of a legion of your choice and then you fight and negotiate

[@QMAN4000Films]

Gotta love that Emperor TTS's "Murderfucked into existence" joke lives on

[@Archangelm127]

It's a remarkably accurate and concise summation of the lore, TBH.

[@Indigo8899]

My guesses before I watch this video are Death Guard: You have the worst cold of your Damn life Talking full runny nose and sore throat Thousand Son: You got magic and tentacles and shit Emperors Children: You're a creep, and you still do have tentacles, but for DIFFERENT things World Eater: You're in a constant state of the anger you feel when you see a dog get abused or when someone steals your parking spot Black Legion: idk you have black colored armor or some shit Malice Marines: You're not even here cause your non canon

[@Justacheese]

For the black legion it would probably be something along the lines of "You worship every single chaos god just like the warmaster does. When you finally die, none of the gods save your soul and its sucked into the warp, where you become a horrible demon."

[@Iao74185]

Can’t be worse than New Jersey

[@77wolfking]

😂😂😂

[@EvilScubaSteve84]

I'm a trucker. My dispatcher knows that anytime they send me to Jersey, they're gunna get an earfull. I'll do it, but by God, they're gunna know I ain't happy about it..

[@lukedoesbutter]

It's 2.5 %survival rate NJ is a 1.2 at best

[@haustyl12]

THE INQUISITION WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION

[@zacharyamareto1878]

@@lukedoesbutteryou wouldn’t last 2 days in New Jersey

[@marystone860]

Oh, WOW! I really got into this one! Few, if any, have ever told it from this perpective before! It really shows how it could be like if YOU were among THEM!

[@Joenight100]

One element I think is interesting I wish GW would focus on is that so many CSM in the big ranks should be cultists born and raised on the Daemon Worlds.

[@Kevc00]

100% but that would require GW to flesh out the "bad guys" instead of more primaris. I think there was an animation or trailer for Battlefleet Gothic which showed the chaos lord character being selected as a cultist and made into an Astartes.

[@Joenight100]

@@Kevc00 That sounds super cool! And yeah all other fractions really suffer for GW's over focus.

[@Leviathan-hk2hm]

Ok, so... I have a very, VERY weird think about this video. And that weird think is that I already hear 75% all of this before. Like, nearly all word to word and the almost constant "Maybe". And it's hit me - around 7 to 8 years ago, I just discover 40k and i ask about "If Chaos is nearly unbeatable, why it almost always loses?" one of my college friends, who was more like a lore geek, and he told me something like this, but he rephrased it in a different way. "Why Chaos will never win?" - this how he starts thins topic and he ends it with words: "There is nothing certain - only maybe, maybe, maybe... And nothing more." (Almost) same example and context, with quite a few differences here and there, but the meaning the same - his and your explanation of how Chaos Marines lives is different, but non the less, similar, more then in one way.

[@QuietTokes]

Thus, is like Mental Chaos for us humans in life. What-if? Maybe? Uncertainty.... Warhammer 40k has hit ways in my psyche I didn't think were possible. A nice video overall into the psychology, as well as overall life of a Chaos Marine.

[@CountingBackwardsFrom10]

This video really puts the day to day grind of being a part of the Forces of Chaos into perspective and really (war)hammers in their chaotic nature. On another note, I think it would be neat if you did a deep dive into either the War of the Beast or the lore surrounding Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka. Just a suggestion.

[@geoffhackley6434]

Well done combining all of the Chaos thoughts. It was Chaotic!

[@johncreatescontent346]

Aaron is by far my favorite black library author. James Swallow specifically writing blood angels is my second.

[@AndWilly]

the night lords trilogy painted such a different picture of CSM. And made me love them, even being someone more interested in xenos lore and on tabletop.

[@kocoffgames4144]

This is a nightmare. Zero loyality, zero trust, constant competition, constant plotting, conniving, plotting, constant uncertainty, eternal chaos. Damn...

[@joseestevezhernandez558]

Almost like real life😂

[@kocoffgames4144]

@@joseestevezhernandez558 haha bro xD.

[@benjaminewering5329]

A video would be interesting about CSM that dont see themselves as CSM. For instance they have such different way of percieving things and think furthermore that they dont have changed a bit mentally and physically.

[@archeod586]

Yes !!! A new vidéo on the cool badass-horrific-metal Chaos Spaces Marines !!!

[@Sphendrana]

ahem.... Vidéo Kojima 😅😂

[@abrarsetiawan5587]

A chaos marine RPG would be crazy good

[@SzaposJogdan2733]

Black Crusade is indeed crazy good

[@jameswest3183]

My lady bought me some into the AM Shirts for me, they are DOPE. Cut well, and they look awesome.

[@weshammer]

Glad you like them!

[@E6PO1]

Was the chaotic delivery for this vid on purpose?!? I absolutely loved it, literally felt the chaos creep in my brain keeping up. This is one of your best!!!

[@Nattraks]

You wake up, make chaos coffee, have a bowl of chaos cereal, read the chaos news and mow the chaos lawn

[@tristanmiranda9026]

New drinking game: take a shot every time he says “maybe”

[@Mr_muscle_man72]

Bro I am incredibly stupid, only recently like 2 monthish got into 40k, and I though it was eye of terra until just now seeing it in text

[@zayzo007]

It's okay, brother. I am also new to this dope ass universe! Every day is a chance to learn something new!

[@zanethethiccboi1020]

This was a pretty good narrative experience.

[@Donquixote_doflamingo164]

*BROTHERS NEW WESHAMMER VIDEO DROPPED*

[@kevskaman]

I love how this video was perfectly made to help jog ideas for anyone who is trying to play a narrative campaign or Crusade in 40K. Amazingly well done, hoping to find more videos done in this same style for every faction!

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

I’d imagine it probably sucks unless you’re in the Red Corsairs. Why? Because… Being a pirate seems alright to me Do what you want ‘cuz a pirate is free You are a pirate!

[@cornixdemetrius7883]

Until Night Lords come for their ship

[@Just_B0red]

Alpha legion seems neat as well, you wouldn't even know if you are traitor or loyalist.

[@theslimcreeper3779]

Now I want a Sitcom that shows day to day life of different factions in the Eye of Terror and stuff :D

[@TheKidFoster]

Just listening to all of these potential scenarios of things going just right or horribly wrong has my anxiety PEAKING

[@MedievalFolkDance]

16:40 - Or, you're looked upon with a graceful smile by the Changer of Ways. Old beaky does enjoy bit of subterfuge. It's his whole gig after all. He could grant you many a gift for crossing a particular line. Then again, he might make your intestines sentient just to see what happens. Risk/reward

[@roguegamer902]

Do you plan to do a video on the rogue trader game? If you haven't started or yet reached the ending of the game, depending on how you performed, it paints a pretty good beacon of hope in the 40k universe. That is again, depending on your own choices. I didn't regret a single action personally

[@nigredoooalgown6245]

Jea the lady of shenanigans! xD

[@friendlyspacedragon7250]

Sounds like the apothecary with the cure to ulcers would be a very powerful individual in this envronment.

[@georgelohman5358]

You painted a fucking amazing word picture for us today.

[@teggy1734]

Despite not being a Chaos fan, I think it's my favorite lore video by Weshammer. I listened to these 20 minutes of constant "maybe" while I was painting, and I was completely captivated. I didn't realize until the outro that it was just that. Maybe.

[@atompunk456]

i never knew a chaos space marine life was THIS frustrating

[@notmadeofpeople4935]

It's like a choose your own adventure book read in page order.

[@tay0701]

Love you Wes but all I remember of this vid is “maybe”😂. But guess that’s the point. Maybe?

[@logansoto6544]

This was extremely well done. Thank you.

[@eckotech787]

so many good options to implement into total war 40k

[@fredmcginty]

This was absolutely brilliant. So stressful to listen to it. 😂 Great video Wes 👏👏👏👏👏👏 Love the channel

[@chriskingandroid49]

This sounds like a stressfull life.

[@etzool]

This is interesting as a thought exercise, but it's really "what is it like to _lead a faction of_ chaos space marines." Based on the title, I was hoping for something like the difference between the life of a "normal" space marine and one living in one of these factions. Don't know if that's something you've already covered, but I'd certainly be interested in it.

[@TrippyTigre]

So, the eye of terror is just like highschool huh?

[@JohnGrigg-gz9gm]

Chaos Marines are on par with extremely vicious cliques of popular high school girls! Lol Well, maybe not quite that bad...

[@KRickOnEm]

New drinking game: take a shot every time Wes says “maybe…” All jokes aside, this paints a perfect picture of the uncertainty that would be living life as a Chaos marine. Love your stuff, Wes. Give me some Arjac and Space Wolves lore.

[@Transblucency]

So basically Middle School but with way cooler names?

[@andrekz9138]

I used to think I was a chaos space marine for Slaanesh, but that sounds fn exHAUSTING!!!

[@RichardX1]

The 40k universe is only miserable if you're not an Ork.

[@jacobcrachy5081]

Wes.. that entire explanation was in itself chaotic. A lot of maybes a lot of possibility.. its exhausting no wonder it felt like yesterday instead of 10k years to them because they havent had a chance to breathe or think about anything except survival. Its like living in Chicago.

[@PrinzAquatic]

so in summary, edgy teenager love story full of toxic relationship and overthinking but instead of love, its about war.

[@Wavemaninawe]

Berserker Surgery is either in 'the top 10 professions you hope to never cross paths with' or 'the top 10 of most awesome names for a metal band'.

[@bazig2070]

Damn. Life as a Chaos Marine sounds like life as a 14 yo high school girl.

[@strichar8519]

New to your channel, but i just wanted to say that this was a really good one! Thanks Weshammer and keep up the great work! 👍

[@chrisconwright1210]

14:43 why that particular chaos marine so damn cool, his act has a mouth with teeth please someone tell me if there is lore behind this man

[@joshdeeney8456]

Isn't this just U.S. foreign policy

[@Ben-fk9ey]

I'd love to see how/if there's a "normal" job in Chaos. Say someone high up in the war band makes a deal with Vashtor for weapons and ammo, how do they get from place to place and get where they need to go? Does some normal dude called Dave handle Chaos logistics for that particular war band?

[@primalnations]

ay idk if you read these comments, but I watch ur videos over a certain Australian tuber because you don't, dishonestly at least, push real life political opinions as fact in warhammer. anyways nice vid

[@HavelockVetinarii]

Lol what?

[@vladtheimpaler9577]

At first I found the *maybe* 's annoying but after the halfway mark my anxiety grew with each one and I dreaded hearing the word as much as my alarm clock.

[@Trillsgtarchdornan]

Maybe maybe maybe. My life story . Never got into 40k but i love the lore and especially. Chaos space marines:)

[@colchronic]

This is a absolutely chaotic thought experiment and I love it It makes the imperium look tame