The Severan Dominate! A Secessionist Empire Within The Imperium Of Man! Warhammer 40k Lore
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The Severan Dominate is an excellent example of a secessionist state within the imperium of man, a mini empire created by one persons ambition and greed! willing to join hands with xeno scum like the dark eldar and use means even chaos cultists may frown at to secure power! - เกม
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How to secede from the Imperium.
1. get forgotten by the administratium
2. enjoy your freedom
3. Get wrecked when a hostile xenos faction like the Orks or Dark Eldar decide to stop by.
@@nick0875
4. Get a phone call as to why you 50 years behind in your taxes of wax buttons.
5. Panic, call up your weird friend with all those odd tattoos who "knows a guy" that can help
6. The Iron Warriors show up
you know, the funny part is this dark elder cabal is probably one of the most reliable and trustworthy ones. The fact he was able to make a deal and they only backstabbed him *after* he could no longer meet their demands is downright fair by Dark Eldar standards.
Fair?! Shit, that's almost altruistic-charity-for-destitute-mentally-handicapped-cripples level of behavior for the Sado-Elves lmao
No accounting for the whims of the whip weirdos
It's fair even by human standards. They didn't betray him at all as he no longer upheld his end of the deal and so they were not obligated to do so for their side. These drukhari were actually downright civilized in their business.
Well the Drukar filth are more likely to trust mercenary outsiders than their own kind, so someone lie Severus giving them something without resistance is a good thing they don't want to spoil.
Severan Dominate: "Screw this Imperium, we'll do it better alone"
Inquisition, High Lords, Chaos, Dark Eldar, and *the Orks*: "And I took that personally."
Well on positive note he didnt piss of Necron dynasty and nids while at it and no one cares about what Tau has to say... so he didnt piss off literally everyone, but on comedy sake it would been funny if hive mind would crash into sector with "What did you say about my mother?!?!" and Necron lord "ffs keep it down you twats, i was sleeping over here, or do i need to bitch slap you into nonexistence?!"
And then it is revealed the Dominate's capital planet is a tomb world.
@@Hellsong89 Necron lord: *bangs on the ceiling of the tomb to complain about the noise all those irritating new neighbors are making.*
@@Hellsong89 Tyranids and Tau haven't reach this point any way.
Doesn't really matter forerunners from halo would cut all of the races you listed in half in a millisecond. The crazy feats of the ctans are comparable to young forerunners before they hit tier 1 in tech. The only difference is the ctan see it as a huge feat the forerunners saw it as childs play. Don't even get me started on how the precursors would just make everything kill each other without being physically around in warp or the material world but what do you expect from the gods of the halo universe
I do find it charming that the drukari actually waited until he was no longer holding up his end. Technically they didn't betray shit.
"evil has standards, sir"
Lawful Evil masquerading as Chaotic Evil.
Non-Chaotic secession has always been somthing I wish was expanded upon more. It seems like the most common form of rebellion the Imperium has to deal with as compared to say genestealer cult or a chaos uprising which are awsome in their own respect.
Yeah, in my head rebellious governors are the main reason that the guard are deployed
The guard are deployed for everything. They are the main arm of the imperium.
Yes please. But it has to be stated that unrest and wars make the more sinister elements flock to unrest and try seize the opportunity. But I can see If secession is made smoothly it might fly under radar longer.
The Severin Dominate is one of the cooler parts of the setting imho. There are also numerous Iron Warrior Star Kingdoms too, mentioned only in fluff but never expanded on.
The dominate was one of my favorite -Projects- lore bits.
Oh sick really? I always thought Perturabo having his own government maybe out east near tau space would be pretty cool.
...Redpill me on these Iron warrior star kingdoms
@@Magic_Mike69 I have literally told you everything we know about them.
They exist. They have similar living conditions to most of the imperium (from great to awful)
@@Jsay18 may I ask where did you get this piece of lore?
Severan Dominate: "We are a strong independent sub-sector who don't need no Imperium."
Also Severan Dominate when an Ork WAAGH or Tyranid hive fleet attacks: "WE NEED HELP!"
Imperium: "Nahnahnah. Take care of your own problems like the strong independent sub-sector, that you are."
IGTOW
*sees a once-great family brought low with a great deal of resentment towards the Imperium*
*cackling Chaos birb noises*
Oh boy that name takes me back to more then a few campaigns of Only War. It really is a shame their storyline was never given a proper ending.
It's a shame that game line ended. I *loved* the brutal mechanics of Dark Heresy 1st/Only War. And the unit creation rules were delightful.
@@RedDuke03 There are still fans playing and making Fan content for those games. Deathwatch has Shas'O making more 30k stuff, The Good The Bad and The Alpha Legion just got updated. The Only War Vehicle fansplats just got another book too.
@@Jsay18 I've been looking for an OW group near-ish to me, or online, but they all seem to be forgotten.
GW loves to leave campaigns unfinished.
@@robertnelson9599 More of a Fantasy Flight issue this time.
Students of Roman history: "Oh come on! At least make an effort to file the names off!"
This is how you manipulate Orks:
Oi! The people on that planet over there said they was the better Fighters than YOU!
Warboss.
There is an imperial gaurd regiment on that would over there with a lot of good loot for your boyz.
My world?
Barely enough boyz to stop a single clan.
It would be a waste of your time.
Lore starts at 3:06
Gods work
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The Inquisition may not approve of your actions, but the secessionists feel you're doing the right thing.
But what about...
RAID SHADOW LEGENDS?!??!?!
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This man really woke up one morning and thought:
"Hey guys, let's secede from the Imperium, trust Drukhari and cripple fellow human worlds in our sub sector. What could possibly go wrong?"
in the words of arch. himself 'details'
It is indeed a problem when the Planetary Imperial nobility begins to believe that they are more important than the Imperium of Man.
Secession within the Imperium may sound appealing at first for the people, but the sad truth is that these worlds will fall prey to the hostile forces of the Galaxy. The Orks and Tyranids won’t care for them and see this as a weak part of humanity that could be beaten and eaten easily, and Chaos will have a easy time corrupting or conquering these secessionist states, but in truth the Imperium will make you an example and purge you with such force that you will begged for the Emperor Mercy.
One more deterrent is that The Imperium ensured that humanity is crippled beyond repair and anyone without it, is doomed, like a Company that adds Addictive Substances to their products.
Worthwhile if you worship the geek God tho
"Just as planned" heh heh
Not to mention that they won't have the logistics base that the mechanicus provides
Otis prefer fighting strong opponents
@@UNSCrearadmiral You just need to find some tech-relics and recruit some hereteks to replace the adeptus mechanicus services you need.
Was the Inquisition on strike during these events? Seems to me like a lot of lives and ressources could have been spared if the local Ordo Xenos and Ordo Hereticus representative had simply done their job...
It's almost like there's way too much red tape and beaurocratic nightmare to rule effectively, like the Imperium is based on the insanity that was the HRE, a grossly incompetent confederation that only ever survived because of their population size, military strength, and diplomatic ability.
When did the inquisition ever do there job?
@@malaficus most of the time all things considered.
Even they can't be everywhere at once.
@@elysiankentarchy1531 I know but it is a fun meme:
The inquisistion.
Exterminatius the mess they made.
It's always fantastic to see a new Arch lore video in my notifications.
It's surprising to me to see a secessionist actually have much lore since I'd consider them short lived at and target practice for the Guard at worst. So hearing one of these movements actually have lore and being this successful is incredibly surprising and intriguing.
There are more than you’d think, but less than you can count on your fingers.
"Target Practice" don't make me laugh. The Imperial Guard Regiment structure doesn't have the numbers to conduct continent-wide fronts, let alone across multiple planets. The only books that got a somewhat close numbers to reality are the Vraks books, and there the Kriegers, instead of a "Winning WW1 Army" they act like its 1914 and the war will be over by Christmas, throwing men into massed machinegun fire when there are much better ways to break trench systems than throwing bodies.
No matter your argument, if you wish to, GW has almost always failed at actual scale other than "BEEG GALAXY, 3 MILLION PLANETS" and make you fill in the blanks. Stated standard numbers for a Imperial guard regiment is 9,000 - 20,000. That is on average smaller than a modern American Division, we had 90 of those during WW2 with a third of our Contemporary population, AND we were able to staff our entire industry to support our allies too. And planets only send these regiments out almost one at a time? I thought this was an Empire of up to 40 Quintillion Humans, not a Nation of a mere 300 Million?
Well, in fairness, there is a plothole of sorts which is where is the Ordo Xenos of the Inquisition? Hax could have, in theory, just rung up the Ordo, the one specifically tasked with purging Humans collaborating with Xenos against the interests of the Imperium, to investigate and prove Severan XIII was working with the Eldar. A single inquisitor should have had no issue dealing with Severan, but they were conveniently left out of the story.
Put another way, the writers had to contrive a little to let Severan work as a story.
A lot of rebellions last a while because of how slow the Imperium responds. GW rarely mentions the more successful ones.
Cuz it's in the Imperial Guard RPG by FFG, like with the Dark Heresy stuff and whatnot. So of course there's lore there. Especially cuz it'll allow you to also play as the Secessionist forces if wanted.
Jesus an Human that is thinking like a Dark Eldar.
I guess reincarnation still works for the Drukahri
"2+2= Cunt" one of the best lines I have ever heard. Great lore video and great humor, what more could you need?
Every reason to secede is good until the first xeno arrives.
Septemius Severus in Space.
Literally. Like no kidding. Literally.
Imma set the audio of Arch saying "great" ten times over as my alarm clock ring, it's just that damn beautiful.
Ngl, only good thing about raid is deathknight ads. Love his new legendary skin though, reminds me of Sigismund in 30 K
Rrr
My personal belief is that the Imperium is dealing with SEVERAL Severan Dominates in any one time. Like wasn't this lore mostly just to help flesh out the Calixis Sector where a lot of the 40k RPGs are set?
The calixis sector and its surrounding areas make up the bulk of the 40k rpg, mainly due to it being an out of the way and not paticularly focused on bit of lore. The rpgs take place in the calixis sector(dark heresy), the koronus expanse(rogue trader) the Jericho reach(deathwatch), the screaming vortex(some parts of black crusade), the spinward front(only war), and the Askellon sector(dark heresy 2nd edition). The spinward front is the small part of the periphery of the calixis sector where the dominate have their power base and are facing their troubles, but it might be phesable to assume dominate forces are likely poking their heads into the other regions for potential allies or resources they can use, with potentially less success given the presence of space marines, chaos, rogue traders, the inquisition, and the general menagerie of hostile xenos.
I wish we found out what these guys are doing in the current 40k setting. I wonder if The Great Rift has affected them at all
Well it probably allowed them to expand more and fortify there holdings as imperial guard forces would be redeployed to help deal with the following chaos onslaught brought on by the great rift.
At this point they might as well reach out to a chaos cult, and try their luck with them.
Though I would actually like to see this faction succeed and maybe repair their relationship with the dark elder. Evil human/alien alliances in 40K are guilty pleasure of mine along with xenos that worship chaos.
A non chaos, non imperial human faction! I relly loved them when I read the only war mannual for how unique they are in this aspect. Great video!
I love how instead of using comissars (Those were to loyal to the empire and had to be killed) they use their "legatus", that inspire the troops with great speeches and the big promises of freedom and a better tomorrow given by Severan indstead of fear and threath of execution. It's another point where Severan is full of bs, it's not like he dislikes the methods of the comissars, it's just that they were in his way and had to be replaced. And to built up his image of benevolent saviour he actually put more benevolent (in theory at least) substitutes that make him look better and the Imperium look worse (Not that the Imperium needs a ton of help with that one). I also adore how the citizens of the Dominate are really faithful to the Emperor, indsted of being turned to chaos Severan simoky convinced them of the Lords of Terra being corrupt and ignoring the Empero's will, unlike good old Severus the actually obsvious good guy you know?
If arch is reading this some of your old videos have had their background music taken off still love going back to your older 4+ year old lore videos. Just an FYI if you spot this comment.
He removed those on purpose because "loud" people thought it was too distracting 😓 and I agree I love those old videos too.
@@ronnibech3376 hey thanks for the reply. Shame I rather like the music and coming back to them it’s odd to not have it there.
@@ronnibech3376 do you know anywhere to see the videos he removed like i don't want diveristy in 40k etc
@@King.Leonidas they should be in his new channel Archcast but I have not looked for them as i usually only use that channel for his RPGs he is DM for.
Arch, I cannot tell how long I have been waiting for a lore video on the Severan Dominance. Thanks, my dude.
For the Dominion!
Would love these guys getting some 40k rules
They underestimated that threat.
9:50 - As in who would become an Imperial Saint that would lead to the formation of the Maccabian Janissaries?
11:14 - Doesn't mean that we should trust coincidence.
11:40 - Yeah, Severus I did the work in taking it and Drusus took the credit.
15:50 - Something that's normally a death sentence as a nail that sticks out usually gets hammered down.
17:04 - Yeah, as long as the baked goods don't give food poisoning.
17:40 - That rarely ends well, if it happens at all.
24:40 - Ah yes, the cry of "WAAAGH!!!"
26:30 - To be honest, their uncorrupted kin aren't much better.
35:10 - Different universes, similar b***s***.
41:15 - (monotone) All hail the Ultrasmurfs.
Literally anyone that Secede from the Imperium gets attacked by one of the many cosmic horrors of the galaxy “sure would have been nice to have those Imperial reinforcements “
@@joaocosta3374 Even then.
@@joaocosta3374 well an empire with daot tech is going to be even more short-lived
I never do bench press without a spotter...
that I trust.
Arch Warhammer is the best lore channel. I love this stuff!!!
Lord Calixis Marius Hax when Duke Severus tells him to go to warp: :/
Lord Calixis Marius Hax when Orc Waaagh rolls into his secessionist Dominate, while Duke Severus sends his niece begging for help: ;)
Nice. I always appreciated the Dominate in those books, they added quite a lot to that area of the setting and were well executed.
Withing is my word of the day.
One of my favorite factions and parts of 40k lore. Never expected it'd get the Arch treatment, but man am I happy about that.
Hey Arch! Did you know that the song *Bullet with Butterfly Wings* is actually about a game of Warhammer between the Skaven and the Vampire Counts?
The first line of the song talks about Vampires
Then the chorus is: "Despite all my rage I am still just a Rat in a cage"
Then the song references being a piece on a game board...
I mean do they have to spell it out for you ;)
I have been reading/watching 40k lore for years but never played. I always wanted to build a Astra Militarum army if I ever played... Now, instead, I will build a Severan Dominate army. FOR A FREE SEVERAN!
Did you ever find models
Duke Severus leaked information to the Orks about Imperial vulnerabilities and holdings, the Orks, in typical fashion, ignored them and continued their semi-random rampage across the region.
I was wondering when you’d do this! One of my favorite factions. Found out about them from All Guardsmen Party, which ran Only War for the start and that’s how I found out about the Dominate.
So that’s how those secessionists fund their movements, with RAID: Shadow Legends!
I suggested this in his last archcast i am taking full credit!
A secessionist movement in the Imperium...oh boy those always go well.
(Laughs and begins to cry in Red Corsair.)
Now I wanna hear Arch waffle on about the Triple Clusterfuck that is the Jerico Reach connected to the Calyxis Sector by a nearby Warpgate where the Imperium has to fend off Tau, Chaos and Tyrranids all at once with the slumbering Necrons and the mecurial "Dark Pattern" in the wings...
I love these lore videos that are out of the way, like your Mordian Iron Guard video. It's nice to get one and your take; there's not many lore videos about factions you may not have heard of full stop.
That's some positively delightful niche lore ye got here
Great episode Arch and honestly this would be an amazing game to play as a strategy game for the sub sector as the Severn Dominant, Orks, Imperium mainly Guardsmen and PDF so they are not OP, and a small campaign as Drukari would be so cool and give us strategy lovers want.
It would be cool to see a video on Rogue Traders themselves, being one of the very few positions of freedom in the Imperium.
And with your love of logistics it should be a great time.
What the hell I just heard of this faction and everyone else seems to know somewhat about it. This video gave me the lore I needed to know in order to understand this faction.
Makes me wish we had more lore for stuff like the Nova Terra Interregnum
Sweet! I was thinking about them the other day.
Nice to think others are interested in minor factions as well now, instead the major players only
You!! You glorious thing!! You did it!!!
I was just thinking a couple of days ago that no one has done a video on the Severan Dominate! Thanks for this Arch!
After 10,000 years I'd expect more secessions in the Imperium, and not just the kind cause by "lol Chaos did it" That Terra Nova Interregnum could've been an interesting bit to expand on as 2 separate governments popped up claiming themselves the true inheritors of the Emperors will could've made for interesting stories as well as even potentially new armies.
But nah, it was Chaos. Because it was ALWAYS Chaos.
Technically it’s all Chaos but whatever.
On the ultimate death knight thing, he is a stronk boy. Soaks up a ton of damage for the party while my boys Hordin and Skellag fuck shit up. One with twin axes and the other with stick and board.
Orcs being too dumb to manipulate is just fantastic.
Why you ask? Because a bunch of humans woke up and said, "you know, were not in enough bloody wars right now"
Sad it went poof with fantasy flight
Man, the Imperium puts much more effort into crushing the begrieved then they would of be needed to address the greivences.
I never thought I'd see Arch lean so heavy into the Fantasy Flight Games: Only War from the Dark Heresy series...
I've got a Vietnam style warfare fanfic involving the Severan Dominate and a Catichan light infantry regiment including a very unconventional Commissar-Captain on a jungle world or collection of. Any suggestions about how to keep a proper balance between adventure and grim dark?
Well Vietnam itself irl was a adventure and grimdark. Heck you can even have a 40k version of a Rambo 2 plot were the catachan jungle fighters are sent to rescue some of of there captured comrades while the severen dominate try to "convince" them to defect or something. What would fallow would be a harrowing journey of loss and sacrifice as both sides attempt to secure the prisoners to further there efforts whatever they might be.
Yet another video showing us the complexity of the 40K universe by the one and only Arch.
Thank you sir, you are both a Gentleman and a Scholar!
It's funny that the main imperial cult in Warhammer Roque trader is the Drusians
The sponsee made me think that while there is probably not much lore for Raid Shadow Legends I kinda want Arch to make a lore video about it
Yeah I made the origins for my chaos controlled part of space originate from a successionist movement, originally with lofty goals in mind. They were aided by chaos, before eventually being replaced by chaos over the course of the military campaigns to succeed from the imperium. The gay rift that spilt the galaxy in two created a warp storm which waxes and wanes in a overall semi-predictable pattern (For a warp storm) every two or three decades. haven't really fully finalized the star system but I was thinking that it maybe consists of 29-37 star systems. Was gonna make it apart of a narrative campaign on the table top, but alas my friends are all gone. No one to play 40k with anymore lol.
Dark eldar going back on their words
Severus: surprised Pikachu face
Finally, again some worthy topic from Arch :)
I never really knew much about their lore. Thanks for the insight Arch.
I'm abit disappointed that Arch didn't go into the military aspect, but still its good.
New Arch and a niche faction. Excellent.
Severan Dominate: I think it's best if we other people Mr Imperium.
Inquisition: WWRRRRRYYYYYY
Thanks for the video. Love these little side sections of the lore
A closer look at a Dawnbreaker's Artificer Armour and modified Modified Serpha-V Pattern Jump Pack
The inspiration for most of the well organized secession attempts like Severance and Rophonana. Go back to the years of the Hersey. When many Imperial worlds and sub sectors seceded in order to remain free of the Warmasters forces. Thinking or maybe told by the traitors, that the Hersey was already over, the EoM was dead and the Warmaster was the new EoM. Basically succeeding to remain loyal to EoM Imperium and his Great Crusade. Over the following centuries and Millenia after the Hersey. These independent worlds/states, would eventually rejoin the Imperium. Many would have special rights not allowed most of the worlds/sub sectors of the Imperium, think Ultramar. But such Independent Human nation states didn't exist beyond 32nd millennium. Unfortunately knowledge of said states seem to have survived all the way into the 41st millennium, inspiring rich and ambitious fools to believe that some how they would succeeded when no one else had.
38:55 bottom left corner looks like arch got in on the orc slaying himself
I had to admit something was fishy with Severus when my campaign manager fell into one of those old gas burner ovens... From the top of a space elevator...
...and the explosion flung him into one hundred and fifty splinter rifle shards. Just lying around on the grass. Apparently.
Secession is one of those moments where "it sounded like a great idea at the time..."
I swear to God the imperium survives off of luck alone. XD
Plot armor, stuborness and sheer weight of numbers.
@@malaficus honestly having read more and more 40k novels. It's really just plot armor.
Stubbornness I will give you.
Numbers on the otherhand... as a student of military history it just makes me groan.
@@irontemplar6222 well GW can't do numbers and pretty much every Faction has plot armour
@@feosty5526 outside of the Tau, and chaos 13th black crusade. I'm not sure I agree with that
@@irontemplar6222 necrons are incredibly vulnerable when a tomb world wakes up, all it takes is a exterminatus
All it takes is the imperium drop a few cyclonic torpedos whenever a tomb world wakes, the necrons won't be as much of a threat (obviously the dynasties would exist and they would cause problems and this really doesn't matter for the silent king)
The tyranids are lucky that the imperium doesn't spam kill ships or fortify planets since nid ftl is slow
They also suffer from the same GW having to nerf the faction to give thge others a chance (imperium and necrons )
Eldar: the race is dwindling and the numbers are incredibly low yet the continue to prevail in the 42nd millennium
Orks: no plot armour really,
People like Severus are the reason why the Imperium can't have nice things...
Man i have been waiting so long for this one! thank you arch!
That's it I'm going to get RAID. You've finally convinced me.
Had to do a double-take when he said "Ceberus and his Drukhari allies" ... bro...
shrews… skin walkers… ARE YOU A NORWEGIAN ARCH?
37:45 LOL man I almost fell out of my chair lol
Yesss i wanted this for so long
*Daily Reminder:*
Secession from the Imperium is totally and absolutely impossible to do unless you're an Iron Warrior.
*enraged Imperial screeching*
Withing fits: “Withing is defined as the process of weaving, combining or bringing together twigs called withes.”
Accidentally clever?
Heresy! Secession must be crushed!
The In the claws of the eagle playlist is gone! I found some of the early episodes on bitschute, but that's about it.
Just send in the Missionaries and Rogue Traders.
I know the Marxist trannies don't like this guy because he has opinions they don't agree with and they don't think that should be allowed but this is hands down the best Warhammer related channel. Your voice is awesome.
Yes, that´s what i expect of Ork diplomacy to result in... AAAAAAHHHHH!
These guys look pretty neat. How would you build them for the tabletop itself?
The best way would be to kitbash them with another regiment. Probably a mix of kreig/Armageddon steal legion and cadian.
Worthwhile content starts 3.10! In. Sweet Christ.
Seeding from the Empire? I understand that the Empire sometimes forces independence on worlds by simply ignoring or forgetting about them but to willingly leave? Nope, the Empire do indeed not appreciate that. And loyalists may hamper the effort as happened on Krieg for instance.
that honestly sounds like fun idea a story about a planet/ system that wants to make itself look like such a non heretic liability that they get abandoned and effectively get to do whatever they want
Dwarf: "You wish to guard the Imperium?"
Severan Dominate: "Yeah, that sounds really lame, so I think we're gonna pass."
Dwarf: "You're gonna regret that! *AH HA HA HAA* "
Fact that Severus XIII has done all of that without Inquisition catching a wind of it.
...Or maybe it did...maybe Orks were redirected there to convince unruly governor to see wisdom in sticking with Emperors most blessed realm.
RAID SHADA LEGENS! get that sponsor money Arch.