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Luetin09 on 23:29 part, wasnt there creautures called navigators in Dune universe where hans use them to navigate ships through wormholes. So i sak if you know who first camed with the idea
Lol, you really believe that. Do you even know how historians record history. It's not like they record things with no evidence and they thoroughly check validity and have criteria for it; somethings are questionable and speculation like character, some motives, but not actions/reactions. I guess we should spend time doing other things and being ignorant, there's no point right... It just doesn't make sense to me why any game developer would put this much time and effort into something that didn't happen, even if it takes some inspiration from real events, it's still overdramatized. But guess what, I am an idiot for even bothering to start this. I contemplated this and knew someone would get mad, but it was worth the laugh last night.
people may have bothered listening to you if you left out the insults, it doesn't matter how correct or righteous you are if you don't have the social skills to back it up
If you ever play as the imperium of man and use infantry just remember: you MUST spam as many soldiers as possible with the expectation that all of them will die.
My boyfriend really likes Warhammer. I know absolutely nothing about it but I'm trying to suprise him. These videos are really good to follow along to, thank you!! update if anyones interested, i forgot about this comment but uh, he abandoned me in another country for another woman. On the plus side though, ive started collecting 40k figures :)
@@Icetea-2000 Pretty sure that's what he meant,before the age of strife Humanity was at it's peak,we could make wonders that could make the current Imperial tech look small,we where great and powerful,build great ships,now in 40k they struggle to put up cruisers.
Im an old dude, checking out WH40K cause my kid like it....I think it is amazing. It takes some of it material from Frank Herbert’s Dune, which was a groundbreaking sci fi world created in the 60s. It was the most expansive universes ever created (at the time) So if you guys love WH40k go read the Dune books by Frank Herbert, then later series from his son.....Very cool and timeless.
Dune is absolutely amazing, too bad it doesn't get the recognition it deserves. I heard the guy who Directed the new bladerunner is trying to make new Dune movies happen. The series deserve a good movie and director
It’s hard to find nowadays because its rarely in print, but the ORIGINAL space opera, E.E. “Doc” Smith’s Chronicles of the Lensmen is another excellent work with echoes in 40k. It has huge space battles constantly ramping-up of military tech, tactics, and scale; as well as world destroying super-weapons, psionic powers, eldritch evils, and even some badass Space Marines from a high-gravity world settled by the Dutch (albeit acting more in the original role of marines-ship-to-ship boarding actions-than the modern “rapidly deployed amphibious army” most people think of when they hear “marines” and don't have power armor, which would become a staple of the archetype following Robert Heinlein’s novel Starship Troopers). And if you like Mass Effect, it’s the originator of the titular mass effect drive for FTL and explore its ramifications far more deeply-though in the Lensmen it’s called the inertialess drive or “bergenholm” after its in-universe inventor. Tonally it is to Dune what Dune is to 40k though. Darker than Star Wars, and the evil side will use mindbending torture (mostly off-screen) on occasion, and even the good guys may have to crush a few planets between two other planets moving at faster than light speeds to stop the hordes of depraved monsters, but there are clear (lawful) good and (neutral) evil sides to the conflict, and the good guys usually win. So if you’re looking for Grimdark you probably won’t find it in the lensmen.
Apart from this series being nothing less than CINEMATIC in its approach, I wanna mention your choice of music. I now looked up every single track and source you mentioned in the description to find a specific track and I just want to stress something: It is beyond impressive, how you managed to choose royal free (!) music, that in every single case completely fits the respective aspect, motif, or part of the lore. It takes huge amounts of the right sense and imagination to do that. You managed, that I will always associate this one track with the emperor of mankind and the other one with the advancing, rising and falling of humanity's technology. WELL DONE! This is mind-blowing, really.
@@andrewlamb3585 not sure I'm pretty sure he lists them on the description of every video if it's not there I'd leave a separate comment and Luetin might respond he's good for it
I like your idea that an Old One designed the Emperor, but I'm partial to the shaman sacrifice theory because that means humanity shaped its own destiny instead of outside forces doing it for them.
Personally I'm sick of the interpretation that literally everything is because of the Old Ones. Tyranids were created by Old Ones, the Emperor is because of Old Ones, the Necrons are in their current form as a result of their war with the Old Ones. I like the idea of humans being badass enough to create the Emperor themselves.
Charles Urban what if the sacrifice was not at all a sacrifice but a massacre of nearly all early psykers in the anti-chaos beliefs for even in ancient times humanity has already observed what chaos can do to warp sensitive beings, in turn ironically enough creating an anti-warp chaos god within the warp. And in time, the gradual hunting down and killings of enough psykers marked a fully fledged chaos presence, enough to form consciousness for the ‘god’. This ‘god’ then chose an avatar with a goal aligning to it own, then grant that being ultimate power to its best capabilities. And this single being is the emperor of man, a creation of mere chance, an ironic existence within a warp, truly a god yet at the same time man. also this explains his ravaging hatred for anything chaos related and because this goal ultimately is his own desires, there is not conflict of interest.
I would just like to point out that my only knowledge, prior to this video series, of 40k came from the video furry apocalypse. After watching this video series and a handful of other vids on this channel I was able to comfortably jump into Dawn of war I & II, battlefleet gothic armada 1& 2, inquisitor martyr, and mechanics without ever feeling confused lost or out of the loop. If you’re looking to jump into 40k lore this is the channel.
Coming back to this 7+ years later, and Luetin is better than ever. I can't believe this was only your third WH40k lore video, you sound like a veteran already. Also, you talked a lot faster back then :)
For people wondering why the "exist only for fighting" ORKS signed a treaty, it was because at the that point throwing orks at humanity was like trying to destroy a warship with air soft bullets.
I think Orks agreed cause of how boring to fight humanity was, humanity would send super robots Orks would die by the hundreds to kill one and by the time they do it was just a machine with no pilot.
same bro this guys videos make the lore sound so cool arch and a few others have ok videos but arch Rolls his R's so much watching his video kinda grind on my nerves cause its not how he normaly talks so IDK why he dose that its kinda annoying.
This is the most complete, well produced and understandable lore-video of the human 40k world I have seen here on youtube. 90 minutes well spent and cheers! to Luetin09 for putting this together. Great work!
I know zip about Warhammer. I am aware of it and when I was a kid I painted models copying them from magazines, but honestly, I didn’t even know their names other than Orcs and Space Marine. Out of boredom I decided to start looking into it all and being a nerd, I am equally in awe and terrified of the vastness of it all.
Literally what happened to Buddha. Buddha: do no worship me Everyone: We will hang on your every word and speak your teachings for centuries remarking you as a God. Buddha: Uh...
@@digiornopizza1918 He also told them to have a diaspora instead of entrenching in a formal church but it took a few hundred years for them all to get off their asses. If they had listened there wouldn't have been a massive schism.
I like the idea that The Emperor is in fact the last human, come back in time, to either avert disaster or shape reality in a time loop, his form sort of a perfected version of the Primarchs
@Red Velvet the warp allows for Time Travel, though I imagine the power required would be extreme. In my head it kind of borrows the story of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, in that the Emperor goes back in time, to try an avert disaster, but everytime he goes back he makes it worse, and the warp becomes more and more chaotic, until the emperor realizes he's in nothing less than a hell of his own making and he's pulled humanity in with him
@@alexandercross9081 I recently read "Imperium ascendant" and it's kinda similar to your idea. Except the emperor only goes back in time when he ends up on the golden throne again and merges with a past version of himself again and again until he can achieve a good ending. It's fucking epic.
That’s pretty well in keeping with the Emperor’s concept, I think. If he can cast his mind across nigh infinite distance and his power is sensed indelibly by those who came before him, AND he is more a soul that inhabits and empowers a body throughout time, why would he not be able to affect or impress himself upon what came before? I would argue that judging solely by the fact that so many of mankind’s wisest ended their lives solely to contribute a sliver to his form, he controlled their actions back through time. He created himself, an implacable will to BE that echoed back and forth through time, and there is no way to know how many times this has occurred.
He only got away with it because he promised the Eldar would pay the 2000 souls a day to keep it powered and humanity wouldn't have to pay a single soul of their own. Humanity believed because even 40,000 years later - humans are dumb.
10 feet tall dude who is 40,000+ years old, master magician (psyker), master scientist, master at everything, wears a gigantic ornate golden armor with a golden shining halo behind his head. Has the titles of "The Emperor" and "The Master of Mankind". Oh, and the gods of "hell" are afraid of him. "I'm just a man, bro" Come the fuck on. Anyone would automatically see him as a god.
yea...but he also watched as his civilization unlearned how to produce food (while knowing how to build generation-ships...ups?) and collapsed for thousand of years. not so divine. well..better not dwell on plotholes.
@@TNM001 I meant like crazy in an absolute badass way. I think his lore is some of my favorite in sci-fi, and how he stands for everything his people went against. I mean the actual Gods of this universe fear one being.... The Emperor of man. How much cooler can you get.
@@mxmlnlcdcdffmnt2232 Maybe that could be something that could be revealed when the golden throne finally stops working. Like the Emperor's back-up plan if throne wasn't able to be repaired.
@Mxmln lcdcdffmnt Didnt use it so that its existence or knowledge therin wasnt leaked snd potentially destroyed or stolen. Better to have less people know about something that powerful
I read that the Dark cells contained the Emperor's undesired artifacts and items capable of ending the imperium if released including imprisoned daemons used for training the Shadow keepers. the lore never goes into detail about the place so I assume the STCs which have all the tech starting from the Golden Age of Technology are stored there.
@@-Markus- Warhammer lore is pretty much the story telling through the lens of a subjects and for what is outside of there experience it is propaganda - therefore everything can be established, all can be red coned, reverted, newly contextualized and so on. That is also for example why there are many equally true but also false stories, because only one can be the right one origin stories of the emperor - but we just can't tell them apart. And on and on it goes with pretty much every event.
@@emiliianoportillo1311 they would have already initiated their version of exterminatus on terra after further examinations of this so called TH-cam comment sections... ;-p
More like there were good times then there where bad times then there were good times then there were bad times and its still very bad right now and going worse.
I very rarely comment on TH-cam videos, but your channel, and especially the videos covering the Emperor are exceptionally valuable to so many 40k fans. Just wanted to say thanks as I've listened to many of your videos multiple times while painting/playing vidya games
After watching this again after a long time, I think I realize how the early human empire had a "non aggression pact" with the orcs; orcs have been shown to not enjoy fighting tau very much most of the time. Humans probably made it so miserable to fight against them that the orcs probably just said screw it and went to go fight someone else.
Yeah, I imagine that it be like tower defense, except mankind was lvl 100 and the orcs are stuck at lvl 1 units. They never got close to even start a fight.
Imagine being so powerful that a race built off of the belief that war is life want to sign a nonaggression pact with you because they can't even hurt you
@@atomicbuttocks "oi lads these 'umies dont wanna fite the good'n proppa way. Let's go fite some'n else" And this is why the tyranids have only been recently documented. The orcs went to go find someone to fight
Watching this feels like how I imagine people who love documentaries feel when they watch documentaries. Just relaxing, interesting, and almost hypnotic.
Just wanted to add another comment about how your videos got me first into Warhammer 40k lore and then pushed me towards getting my first space marine miniature. Now I am a proud owner of 2 decently sized shelves of dark angels and orks thank to you. :>
@@gareththomas2203 I have, and it took like 2 hours for my friend to teach me how to do a single turn... I think I'll stick with stuff like DnD that doesn't require such complexity. That's my favorite tabletop RPG. Also, I have to be able to afford my college tuition XD
Surely the reason the emperor didn't tell primarks about khaos is because in his visions he saw them united, thus triggering the classic 'self-fulfilling prophecy'
I think . That was chaos visions not the Emperor's. They gulled him with false whispers nearly killing him. They came at him using his own children, quite clever I thought, I felt sorry for Magnus, accused of treason, set on by the Space Wolves ,betrayed by his own pyskors.
00:00 Chapter 1 Overview 07:02 Chapter 2: Ancient History 16:42 Chapter 3: Age of Terra 18:42 Chapter 4: The Golden/Dark Age of Technology 40:38 Chapter 5: The Age of Strife 49:21 Chapter 6: The Emperor of Man and the Unification Wars 1:07:56 Chapter 7: The Great Crusade and the Fall of the Eldar
How I explain 40k I just point to the cool stuff, chain swords, bolters, how big space marines are. Most can understand that and some end up looking into it.
The first time I heard anything from it was someone explaining the Gellar fields and navigators to me. That's not a good place to start because I tuned out when they got to psychic mutants with third eyes and demons on spaceships.
This is why I love 40k. They give humans just as much power as every other race. Humans are always the weakest least advanced race in space lore and warhammer gives us the due that we could very damn well deserve when united as one in the cosmos.
@MonsieurHiroshima nope, it shows dominance of humanity over almost every alien race, have you ever seen starwars? They seperatist are a full ALIEN council who is against human rule over the galaxy. The galactic empire rules the galaxy after beheading all it's leaders and shutting down the droids. Mon calamari don't like the empire. The big ships of the rebel alliance are mon calamari buildings. Hutts control a large chunck of galaxy. And have a pact with the empire. The trade federation in ep 1 is a full controlled alien organisation.
Unpopular opinion : we are not on Terra now. We are a lost colony that is yet to be rediscovered, or have been but are deliberately isolated in secret and with limited tech and influence.. to see if we can sort ourselves out and rejoin the empire.
It would appear we are fucking up our ability to get our shit together but don't worry I know who the God emperor is and should make it through this period intact.
Binging this series whilst painting figures - I've fallen back into my Warhammer obsession and need a refresher on the lore (particularly since I used to concentrate more on Age of Sigmar) I dont think im getting sleep tonight, I'm way too pumped for this
Important bit about the emperor being "born" 7kBC: it's when earliest history first began being recorded (by the Chinese writing stuff down on tree bark). It might be an allusion that he existed before this, and that it was simply the first time he was permanently "noted".
@@ivangudelj3928 I didnt mean "first civilization", i mean its the first civilization to actually try and record their history beyond pictograms and icons.
Theory on the big E: He's actually an entity of sorts created by humanity on accident through what's known as the "Monomyth". The hero archetype is so deeply ingrained into humanity's psyche that it actually incarnated into a living being known via the warp.
Woah dude that's good as! Whereas the Chaos Gods were the psychic manifestations of humanity's worst aspects, The Emperor could be seen as the manifestation of our best hopes and heroes.
Except until the most recent revisions of the 40K lore the gods of chaos represented good aspects as well as "evil" aspects. Khorne : Rage and bloodthirst. Also represented Honor and Justice. Khorne would scoff and outright punish a follower of his that would seek easy kills. Preferring his followers to actually challenge themselves. Slaanesh: Excess and Pride/Vanity. Also represented Love and Passion. Many artists and other creative types do works of slaanesh. "Beautiful sculpture that was so beautiful it felt wrong" Uncanny Valley levels of how lifelike things looked. Nurgle : Pestalance and stagnation. Also represented acceptance/entropy. He would take in everyone, and he would care for everyone. He doesn't like the idea of death. So he will bestow gifts to his followers to make sure they don't. Like the Zombie Plague. Tzeench: Change ... and also Hope. Because one who wants change, hopes that things will change.
Major Kong you aren't alone brother! I've watched this and other WH Lore videos many a times😂 I wish someone did something, anything new. I can recite word for word of this video and many more lol... I should probably get a life 🔫
Let me burn the despicable splattered remains of this heretic for you, my lord Inquisitor. *Spray myself in gasoline* In His Glorius Name!!! *Light myself on fire rolling in the heretic's blood*
A higher blaspheme there has never been to even consider implying the Emperor is all but the pinnacle of humanity, we must find the world such a hideous heresy began and crush it under foot
Damn the emperor of mankind is alot more brutal then i would have expected. From the way he disposed of the thunder warriors, to his treatment of psykers. He can be a really ruthless man.
@@harshjain3122 and that’s why those who are the exception are held in such high regard. Here in America I can attest to the almost god like status names like “Teddy Roosevelt” or “Abraham Lincoln” have, because they are publicly viewed as almost nurtures of the nation, like a father figure to the country as a whole
@@rueisblue Yea I know I spend 5 years in the south constantly being called “yankee” southern tards need to get over it. We kicked their traitor ass fair and square
@@rueisblue yeah because the traitors in the south didn’t want slavery to be taken away. The south still teach the war was about states rights despite the Vice President of the confederate states of America literally said the war was about slavery. Losers of a war usually don’t like the people who won
@@rueisblue the fact that you called me a yankee still shows the resentment you guys have for the civil war. It’s insane. Also I thought most southerners are the conservative “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” kind of people who hate government welfare? The confederate states never got over the war because they were sore losers and still vote as a block for any conservative candidate no matter who they are. Germany got over losing two world wars in the span of two decades. It’s been over 160 years for you guys, get over it.
I still subscribe to the 'ancient shamans' story. The Old Ones created humans to be at least somewhat psychic, after all - suppose their plan was that the Eldar would all be psykers, but humans would produce a relatively few extremely powerful psykers. Those early shamans would then not have been weak psykers with vague premonitions, but extremely powerful with a clear vision of the future, and a knowledge of what would happen after their death. Realising they had been created to be cannon fodder in a war they had no interest in, they declared "Fuck that for a game of soldiers", and took the destiny of their species into their own hands, giving up their separate existences to create The Emperor. After such a drastic measure, the psyker genes left in humanity wouldn't have been strong enough to create new psykers. It would take thousands of years of mutation and evolution for the psyker trait to emerge again - hence why we don't have psykers in the 21st century.
Arman Aryn the shamans beleaved in reincarnation. They performed a ritual that linked them to each other and died in the process. When they reincarnated the emperor was born. The empor would have returned if he wasn't entombed into the golden throne. This is basicly in the original texts from the 80`S
The shaman story fits the god creation model of 40k - it was basically a mini version of the creation of slannesh. Warp power concentrated into a single being. The Phoenix Lords are constructed in a similar fashion. The Emperor is shaman Infinity circuit. Imo the point here is that the shamans weren't infallible. They may have created their ubermensch, but it was a super man in their image with their imperfections. No god or race in 40k is infallible so the Emperor shouldn't be looked at that way. He was just a powerfully imperfect Demi god who used this power to try to to do what he thought was best from his perspective.
Well well, this video is responsible for bringing me in the 40k verse. No table top (not interested), no painting (don't care). I read over 40 books since i first watched this a year ago. Thank you. And you help me sleep.
@@supremetarantulasorcerer165 Yeah but thing is, it was actually working. The Chaos gods were slowly dying before the Horus Heresy, which brought them back up to full power
Mortal emotions and suffering stirs the warp. Even his worship ….. stirs the warp. He wanted to rid humanity of superstition and take them to the next age of evolution. We also have to ask did he make a deal with the chaos powers to get his primarch and their powers. He is called the oathbreaker all in the series.
The music. The pictures. The voice. The story telling. All 10/10. Just relished this one and a half hour video. Way to make a comeback to 40k videos, dude.
I don't believe the Emperor actually had the Thunder Warriors executed. I've read the novel where this story comes up. Its told by a an old Thunder Warrior who has managed to survive to the time of the Horus Heresy. The thing is he's a massively unreliable source, seeing as how he's been driven insane by genetic instability, and has developed a long nurtured hatred for the Emperor. The whole story of the Emperor betraying the Thunder Warriors could very well just be a delusion conjured up by an unstable mind. If not just a lie.
I think he rushed them and they were unstable and died out; also the Sms were more stable and self perpetuating and more reliable thunder warriors were probably modified and inducted
Personally, I think both happened. They did died on the final battle, and they were also executed. It went down like this. The final battle was the most brutal of the unification wars, so much so, that the planet near broke under the violence of the conflict. Many Thunder Warriors perished in this struggle, and those who survived were too ravaged and traumatized to be of further use, so much so, they were left a sobbing, raging wreck of a remnant. The Emperor, unable to salvage his formerly most viable tool and fearing a potential threat down the line, ordered the execution of the last remaining Thunder Warriors. This is what I think happened, and my own personal head cannon.
I mean, considering Buddhism, a religion that worshipped Buddha, a being that was once a human, through hardship and hardwork and infinite goodness, become the pinnacle of man, an example that every Buddhist strive to become. It's basically the Imperial truth if the Emperor wrote it himself.
This Emperor series (music, narration, pacing of the narration, etc) is by far the best 40k lore I have seen. And I have seen A LOT. This Emperor series got me into 40k year ago, and I keep coming back to it.
"The power of the Imperium had reached its peak, there seemed to be little, if anything, that could threaten destroy or destabilize the Imperium of Man" _Horus wants to know your location_
The short sci-fi film “Man from Earth” is my head canon for what The Emperor was doing circa 2000. A young time when he was ignorant of chaos and xeno terrors.
I recently and "The Dark Crystal " to my head cannon for 40k. The light beings that are split into the Skeksis and Mystics are the "Old Ones". Gelflings are the primordial eldar..... etc...
the Emperor was a smart jesus, who just wait for the right time to rise. jesus was a 33 yo manchild with to much to proove with nothing achieved in his life.
In the Horus heresy novel, master of mankind, the emperor's origin is clearly stated by the emperor himself. What's more, the reason these ancient sharman killed themselves to be reborn as one was because over time fewer and fewer shamans were able to reincarnate. At that point, knowing that should they all die there would be no one to protect mankind from the corruption of the warp. Thus they decided to die together and reincarnate into an immortal powerful being. It's name? The Emperor of Mankind.
That’s why the conversation with Gulliman went the way it did the emperor psyche has basically deconstructed itself into the many different souls that made him sitting on the golden throne has allowed the many different souls too speak
I have been a fan of Warhammer and 40k now for over a decade and this is the first time I have ever truly understood the underlying lore behind the Empire. This is a masterpiece, everything from how clearly you presented the information, to the images and music you chose. - I have never understood why GW, has never provided something like this, I really think it would be in their favor. The models and the artwork are fantastic, thats what got me into the game, but its the lore that keeps interested as a grown adult. Well done lore master Luetin, we are all in your debt.
This was my first introduction to warhammer. I remember being so intrigued by how you described everything, how you made it our history not its history. It always feels like you have only ever mentioned a sliver of the vast depths of warhammer I hope you get closer to exploring this vast ocean of stories
Oh my sweet summer child. I got into 40K when I was about 8 at the tail end of 2nd edition. It is part of my very psyche, the way Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings are. There is so much for you to learn, see, hear, and read. I almost envy you. Almost. ;)
Still think big E fucked up royally by keeping his sons in the dark. I mean, how hard is it to tell them about Chaos at Ullanor? More than half the Primarchs were there. Best time to explain his plans.
Cant agree with this more. Furthermore, there is magnus the red. The guy knew about warp and regularily ventured WITH the emperor into it. (Source: Thousand sons arc in HH) He at least should have been warned and instructed in depth. Especially when the emperor was planning to seat magnus on the golden throne eventually. Mindboggling oversight. And yes massive plothole.
I subscribe to the theory that Big E planned for the heresy, as the primarchs were mere tools in his eyes and would not be fit for a humanity at galactic peace. The things he did not plan for were magnus fucking up and turning on him, since he was always intended to stay loyal. And his compassion for Horus was not planned for, since Big E believed himself beyond such frivolous things.
@@gulmund9723 well i(or he) loved them like my sons i never thought that they would betray me in order to kill Horus i had to split the star child(love&compassion) away
The Shaman origin is the oldest one and the one i have always believed, the others seem kind of unsatisfying and less original. The way i understood it is that the Shamans learned the nature of the warp and saw that it consuming the universe was inevitable so they created an immortal being of Order with a quest to find a way to save humanity from this fate.
Having drives into the expanded universe (the true one, not the Disney bullshit) SW is a deep universe. Main difference is 40K seems to have the same problem as the comic book stories in that it never ends.
When shamans decided to suicide, the wrap was relatively calm place and they had skill that allowed their souls to travel the warp and then ressurect as another person. Thats why they cold merge all their souls in warp an give birth to the Emperor
kamikaziu not really. By then, the war in heaven already happened, and the warp was fucked. Not nearly as bad as after the fall of elder, but bad nonetheless
If the Emperor was able to save certain immensely rare items such as the original Lunar Landing module from the 1960s moon landing, why didn't he store and save an STC with all of humanities knowledge inside it like he did the Lunar Lander?
The administration of the Imperium are naughty children, they have not followed the plan and are happy to keep him in suspended death so they can take his place as rulers of man. At the end, when the golden throne is destroyed, our god will rise.
@@alyseleem2692 I don't like the ritual suicide story. I prefer the idea that he was the work of the last Old One. Making an entire race of powerful psykers (Eldar) had been tried so this time one, almighty psyker leading a race of lesser beings.
@@alyseleem2692 Another possibility that amuses me to ponder is that he was just another warlord (albeit one who won after uncovering a trove of old scientific knowledge) and the rest is Imperium propaganda! ;)
My favorite interpretation of how the emperor got the void dragon onto mars was he punched him directly into mars in the style of one punch man. Sure this is over the top, but it just hilarious and too awesome.
Everything related to the Emperor or the Primarchs, in my head, looks like over the top anime. For real, I would love to see a Horus Heresy anime series.
The eagle is backwards :) the blind eagle looks into future not knowing what is to come, while the open eyed eagle looks into back remembering the history.
A big chunk of humanity being unable to recover after the Golden Age because of not having a backup plan reminded me of how some places almost collapsed during the pandemic because 90+% of their income was tied to tourism.
Nope, I go with the Shaman story, it's not that abnormal they can forsee future, almost every somewhat powerful psyker in 40k can do that. The Eldar even has a job dedicated in doing it. More over, it's not " a few Shaman ", It's thousands of Shaman + It's very unlikely that the Emperor didnt grow any more powerful after living so many milennias like what you assume. I think The Emperor was gathering power his entire life and only came out to the light as he felt he was powerful enough to take on Chaos Gods.
Perhaps the shaman/priests were summoning and combining the fragmented Old Ones hiding in the Warp into a form that could best guide mankind, or maybe those fragments chose this form, and like you said only agreed to materialize when their combined strength and that of their worshippers was great enough. A bit of both theories, if you will.
Another interesting note about the imperium symbol (the double eagle)is that the "past" eagle sometimes has their talons clipped, or blunted, whereas the future one doesn't. I think this is more in line with the idea of "we don't need the past" or "the past can't hurt us" or "we carry the wounds of the past" rather than "the past is painful" or "we are blind to the past"
@@ronhicks5818 for me it was these other videos made by i forgot who, comparing the best of/the most intense si-fi etc etc, and warhammer coming in at number 1 everytime
32:50 "... humanity was so badass that they got the Eldar and EVEN THE ORKS to sign non-aggression pacts." Tau are like HOWWW YOUUU DOOO THIIIIS?!?!?!?!?!?
I presume humanity was somehow overwhelmingly more advanced in tech due to not having psyker powers as a huge part of their society like the Eldar, or being bestial killing machines like the Orks.
I just want to say THANK YOU!!!! This video popped up one day and I watched it. Then I watched all the videos you had made at the time. You got me hooked onto 40k and I never looked back. You helped me meet a lot of cool friends and people that have been there for me in my darkest hour. If it wasn't for your videos I never would of meet them so thank you for all you do. You might just look at them as videos but they are so much more then that
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Luetin09 on 23:29 part, wasnt there creautures called navigators in Dune universe where hans use them to navigate ships through wormholes. So i sak if you know who first camed with the idea
sorry for misspeling like hans (humans) and sak(ask)
I bet you dont know what weeb even means
Lol, you really believe that. Do you even know how historians record history. It's not like they record things with no evidence and they thoroughly check validity and have criteria for it; somethings are questionable and speculation like character, some motives, but not actions/reactions. I guess we should spend time doing other things and being ignorant, there's no point right... It just doesn't make sense to me why any game developer would put this much time and effort into something that didn't happen, even if it takes some inspiration from real events, it's still overdramatized. But guess what, I am an idiot for even bothering to start this. I contemplated this and knew someone would get mad, but it was worth the laugh last night.
people may have bothered listening to you if you left out the insults, it doesn't matter how correct or righteous you are if you don't have the social skills to back it up
I don't play any warhammer games but this lore is fascinating
Read the books then bro I started reading black library books before I even knew there was a table top game.
@Golden Apple do you not know how to use Google? "Warhammer black library reading order"
Same
If you ever play as the imperium of man and use infantry just remember: you MUST spam as many soldiers as possible with the expectation that all of them will die.
If you’re still looking for legitimate recommendations about the books, the Horous Heresy installments are by far my favorites.
Luetin: “I must apologise for not making another 40k video sooner.”
Me in 2023 watching this for the 15th time: “I forgive you.”
Lmaooo too true
This lol. I keep coming back to this masterpiece of a video.
Dude since I've gotten into this hobby I just watch his videos and weshammers to just retain more of this info.
I'm the same. The emperor series might be some of the best lore videos I've ever watched.
Honestly I just listen to this at work cause I don’t have to skip it and it’s actually good
I enjoy how you narrate the humans' story using "our" it makes this feel like a history lesson instead of just lore for a table top game.
YES!
Well put!
Glory to Mankind!
@@warpdrive9229 For The Emperor!
For the Emperor!
My boyfriend really likes Warhammer. I know absolutely nothing about it but I'm trying to suprise him. These videos are really good to follow along to, thank you!!
update if anyones interested, i forgot about this comment but uh, he abandoned me in another country for another woman. On the plus side though, ive started collecting 40k figures :)
I hope he married you, god damn this is wholesome
You, Miss, are an absolute keeper.
This man better marries you
His loss. I'm still trying to get my wife into 40k.
Well you lost someone illoyal and gained a new hobby, so thats a win!
I never heard of a universe so impressive and depressing at the same time
Get backkkk to work citizen. You rest when you're physically unable to continue working
Dune is pretty close
It actually wasn’t really until the end of the golden age of technology
@@Luetin09 WHAT ARE YOU DOING
GET BACK TO WORK
BY ORDER OF THE INQUISITORIUM
@@Icetea-2000 Pretty sure that's what he meant,before the age of strife Humanity was at it's peak,we could make wonders that could make the current Imperial tech look small,we where great and powerful,build great ships,now in 40k they struggle to put up cruisers.
Every picture of the emperor is intense
*As they should be brother*
He protec
He protec
But most importantly
The emperor protec.
Too intense. I feel the overwhelming need to worship him whenever I look at a pic of him.
You're welcome
The look of a man who has slaughtered billions without batting an eye. Without such a leader, humanity would have been wiped out long ago
Im an old dude, checking out WH40K cause my kid like it....I think it is amazing. It takes some of it material from Frank Herbert’s Dune, which was a groundbreaking sci fi world created in the 60s. It was the most expansive universes ever created (at the time) So if you guys love WH40k go read the Dune books by Frank Herbert, then later series from his son.....Very cool and timeless.
Dune is absolutely amazing, too bad it doesn't get the recognition it deserves. I heard the guy who Directed the new bladerunner is trying to make new Dune movies happen. The series deserve a good movie and director
@MonsieurHiroshima Orsen wells and Salvador Dhali!
Dune is godly. So is Lovecraft.
Bp FourLife i must not fear
It’s hard to find nowadays because its rarely in print, but the ORIGINAL space opera, E.E. “Doc” Smith’s Chronicles of the Lensmen is another excellent work with echoes in 40k. It has huge space battles constantly ramping-up of military tech, tactics, and scale; as well as world destroying super-weapons, psionic powers, eldritch evils, and even some badass Space Marines from a high-gravity world settled by the Dutch (albeit acting more in the original role of marines-ship-to-ship boarding actions-than the modern “rapidly deployed amphibious army” most people think of when they hear “marines” and don't have power armor, which would become a staple of the archetype following Robert Heinlein’s novel Starship Troopers). And if you like Mass Effect, it’s the originator of the titular mass effect drive for FTL and explore its ramifications far more deeply-though in the Lensmen it’s called the inertialess drive or “bergenholm” after its in-universe inventor.
Tonally it is to Dune what Dune is to 40k though. Darker than Star Wars, and the evil side will use mindbending torture (mostly off-screen) on occasion, and even the good guys may have to crush a few planets between two other planets moving at faster than light speeds to stop the hordes of depraved monsters, but there are clear (lawful) good and (neutral) evil sides to the conflict, and the good guys usually win. So if you’re looking for Grimdark you probably won’t find it in the lensmen.
Apart from this series being nothing less than CINEMATIC in its approach, I wanna mention your choice of music.
I now looked up every single track and source you mentioned in the description to find a specific track and I just want to stress something:
It is beyond impressive, how you managed to choose royal free (!) music, that in every single case completely fits the respective aspect, motif, or part of the lore. It takes huge amounts of the right sense and imagination to do that.
You managed, that I will always associate this one track with the emperor of mankind and the other one with the advancing, rising and falling of humanity's technology.
WELL DONE!
This is mind-blowing, really.
Definitely, Ive watched the emperor videos many times and I always find myself stuck on the music and how it fits so well
Any chance you could share the names of the tracks? I'm trying to find the second song
@@andrewlamb3585 not sure I'm pretty sure he lists them on the description of every video if it's not there I'd leave a separate comment and Luetin might respond he's good for it
😊😊
@@andrewlamb3585 I found the other one again! Into The Void by Yuchen Tian
I like your idea that an Old One designed the Emperor, but I'm partial to the shaman sacrifice theory because that means humanity shaped its own destiny instead of outside forces doing it for them.
Emperor is an old one masquerading as human, the New Man created by the shamans was Malcador! They were once bitter rivals but they became bros
saying fuck you to god and doing your own thing also sounds very human
probably just created in the golden age of technology by mankind since after that is when he actually does something
Personally I'm sick of the interpretation that literally everything is because of the Old Ones. Tyranids were created by Old Ones, the Emperor is because of Old Ones, the Necrons are in their current form as a result of their war with the Old Ones. I like the idea of humans being badass enough to create the Emperor themselves.
Charles Urban what if the sacrifice was not at all a sacrifice but a massacre of nearly all early psykers in the anti-chaos beliefs for even in ancient times humanity has already observed what chaos can do to warp sensitive beings, in turn ironically enough creating an anti-warp chaos god within the warp. And in time, the gradual hunting down and killings of enough psykers marked a fully fledged chaos presence, enough to form consciousness for the ‘god’. This ‘god’ then chose an avatar with a goal aligning to it own, then grant that being ultimate power to its best capabilities. And this single being is the emperor of man, a creation of mere chance, an ironic existence within a warp, truly a god yet at the same time man. also this explains his ravaging hatred for anything chaos related and because this goal ultimately is his own desires, there is not conflict of interest.
I would just like to point out that my only knowledge, prior to this video series, of 40k came from the video furry apocalypse. After watching this video series and a handful of other vids on this channel I was able to comfortably jump into Dawn of war I & II, battlefleet gothic armada 1& 2, inquisitor martyr, and mechanics without ever feeling confused lost or out of the loop. If you’re looking to jump into 40k lore this is the channel.
Cheers dude, good to hear that
OwO What was chu doing watching the furry apocalypse?
jacob s gtfo heretic
@@jaguarholly7156 isn't it a parody video on TH-cam about Space Marines entering the universe of Sonic the Hedgehog?
@@opposumness3107 No, thats part 2. Part 1 is the furry planet
In The Grim Darkness of the Far Future There is Only Lore.
Sounds like an eutopia if ye ask me you bloody git
This comment is very underrated
I smell a green skin.
I can not stop laughing
Coming back to this 7+ years later, and Luetin is better than ever. I can't believe this was only your third WH40k lore video, you sound like a veteran already. Also, you talked a lot faster back then :)
Eldar and Orks actually made a non-aggression pact with Humanity. If that doesn't speak volumes of how powerful Humanity was, I don't know what is
For people wondering why the "exist only for fighting" ORKS signed a treaty, it was because at the that point throwing orks at humanity was like trying to destroy a warship with air soft bullets.
Its so sad that he didn't just wipe them out. ;(
@@snakeyman5560 Think of it as attempting to wipe out cockroaches. Its possible but just not worth the time and resources.
@@Vagabond671 not for their present, but for the Future
I think Orks agreed cause of how boring to fight humanity was, humanity would send super robots Orks would die by the hundreds to kill one and by the time they do it was just a machine with no pilot.
I dont even play anything to do with 40k, but this lore just so dam good.
same bro this guys videos make the lore sound so cool arch and a few others have ok videos but arch Rolls his R's so much watching his video kinda grind on my nerves cause its not how he normaly talks so IDK why he dose that its kinda annoying.
@@masterxitra he’s a Brit with different pronunciations from gringos
This is the most complete, well produced and understandable lore-video of the human 40k world I have seen here on youtube. 90 minutes well spent and cheers! to Luetin09 for putting this together. Great work!
Completely agreed. Can't wait for the next part.
Feels a little like a documentary ( a great one).
Stefan Leuenberger There's another 90...
Agreed! This is what U Tube was made for!
Probably watched it 5 times by now it's so well done
I know zip about Warhammer. I am aware of it and when I was a kid I painted models copying them from magazines, but honestly, I didn’t even know their names other than Orcs and Space Marine.
Out of boredom I decided to start looking into it all and being a nerd, I am equally in awe and terrified of the vastness of it all.
Yes Heretic it goes a way back , you may consider Orcs as the British, this is nothing new, for the Emperor .
@@lorddemose1"You may consider the orca as the British" 💀
Huh, not sure about anyone else, but this Horus guy seems like a pretty cool dude. I hope nothing bad happens to him.
*Moments before disaster*
Heresy!..
Inquisition! Open Up!
@@freeross371 Lies, the inquisition never knocks!!!
Kinda sus
1:19:50
Emperor: Aight im heading out Horus you’re in charge.
Horus: Okay
Also Horus: Are the Chaos Gods really that bad?
So anyway I started rebelling, bam bam
Who me? Just chilling around the house. *with Chaos
@@komi-sanmustbeprotected5665 damn it Frank
@@komi-sanmustbeprotected5665 🤣
I mean define worse
Emperor of mankind: "Do you hear me I am not the messiah”. Literally everyone: *HE IS THE MESSIAH*
Emperor of mankind: "Did I fucking stutter?"
*ALL RIGHT I AM THE OMNISSIAH, NOW FFFFFUCK OFF!*
Literally what happened to Buddha.
Buddha: do no worship me
Everyone: We will hang on your every word and speak your teachings for centuries remarking you as a God.
Buddha: Uh...
@@digiornopizza1918 He also told them to have a diaspora instead of entrenching in a formal church but it took a few hundred years for them all to get off their asses. If they had listened there wouldn't have been a massive schism.
He is not the Messiah, hes a very naughty boy!
6 years later I still love to go back and rewatch this. Atmospheric and pure lore.
This is the first warhammer 40k lore vid I'm watching, loving it so far.
are you yellow person?
@@pedrollex3308 yes
@@sonye-jin6737 very nice very good yellow people is beautiful face
@@pedrollex3308 wat
It's oddly soothing to listen to this man talk about lobotomizing criminals and using their brains to run the floor polisher.
damm, it really do hit differently when you put it like that
These floors ain’t gonna clean themselves
Blood for the blood god, brains for the floor polisher!
Welcome to the luetin sleepers
I like the idea that The Emperor is in fact the last human, come back in time, to either avert disaster or shape reality in a time loop, his form sort of a perfected version of the Primarchs
@Red Velvet the warp allows for Time Travel, though I imagine the power required would be extreme. In my head it kind of borrows the story of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, in that the Emperor goes back in time, to try an avert disaster, but everytime he goes back he makes it worse, and the warp becomes more and more chaotic, until the emperor realizes he's in nothing less than a hell of his own making and he's pulled humanity in with him
@@alexandercross9081 I recently read "Imperium ascendant" and it's kinda similar to your idea. Except the emperor only goes back in time when he ends up on the golden throne again and merges with a past version of himself again and again until he can achieve a good ending. It's fucking epic.
@@captainsober Ah a man of culture i see. That story is actually really good
@@finnheisenheim8274 And epic, the balls to the walls manliness that the Primarchs show is heart moving.
That’s pretty well in keeping with the Emperor’s concept, I think. If he can cast his mind across nigh infinite distance and his power is sensed indelibly by those who came before him, AND he is more a soul that inhabits and empowers a body throughout time, why would he not be able to affect or impress himself upon what came before? I would argue that judging solely by the fact that so many of mankind’s wisest ended their lives solely to contribute a sliver to his form, he controlled their actions back through time. He created himself, an implacable will to BE that echoed back and forth through time, and there is no way to know how many times this has occurred.
Emperor: Let's build a space lighthouse for better warp travel!
Navigators: This sounds like a good idea!
Tyranids: We agreeeeee
*The Tyranid hive-fleet wants to know your location*
@@T0mN7 it does not want, it *knows*
He only got away with it because he promised the Eldar would pay the 2000 souls a day to keep it powered and humanity wouldn't have to pay a single soul of their own. Humanity believed because even 40,000 years later - humans are dumb.
@@LordPadriac wow,TDS much?
@@captnwinkle just cant help themselves aparently
This is still such an iconic video in the 40k sphere. I don't think this video series will ever be topped, even by the loremaster himself.
Wow, this Horus guys sounds amazing! What a huge help I'm sure he'll be in establishing a stable empire.
👀
1:09:50 "Each space marine was an individual person with their own character, traits..."
BUT NONE CAN EVER HOPE TO BE AS UNIQUE AS I, CATO SICARIUS!
*loads bolt rifle annoyed*
I CAST FIST!!!
[DOES NOT FEEL TEETH IN CATO SUCARIUS[
I read that in the high pitched Alfa busa voice.
10 feet tall dude who is 40,000+ years old, master magician (psyker), master scientist, master at everything, wears a gigantic ornate golden armor with a golden shining halo behind his head. Has the titles of "The Emperor" and "The Master of Mankind". Oh, and the gods of "hell" are afraid of him.
"I'm just a man, bro"
Come the fuck on. Anyone would automatically see him as a god.
I literally feel the same way 😭
It's just GigaChad
Yeah the emperor is crazy
yea...but he also watched as his civilization unlearned how to produce food (while knowing how to build generation-ships...ups?) and collapsed for thousand of years.
not so divine.
well..better not dwell on plotholes.
@@TNM001 I meant like crazy in an absolute badass way. I think his lore is some of my favorite in sci-fi, and how he stands for everything his people went against.
I mean the actual Gods of this universe fear one being.... The Emperor of man. How much cooler can you get.
There's no way the Emperor didn't store a full STC somewhere in the Palace. He wouldn't just throw that much knowledge away
Why he didn't use it? Like never
@@mxmlnlcdcdffmnt2232 Maybe that could be something that could be revealed when the golden throne finally stops working. Like the Emperor's back-up plan if throne wasn't able to be repaired.
@Mxmln lcdcdffmnt Didnt use it so that its existence or knowledge therin wasnt leaked snd potentially destroyed or stolen. Better to have less people know about something that powerful
Bro couldn't go to walmart and buy one💀💀💀
I read that the Dark cells contained the Emperor's undesired artifacts and items capable of ending the imperium if released including imprisoned daemons used for training the Shadow keepers. the lore never goes into detail about the place so I assume the STCs which have all the tech starting from the Golden Age of Technology are stored there.
Watching this in 2021 you wouldn't think he made this five years ago. The consistency in quality and deep lore still holds up after all these years!
2022 agrees
Lol, why wouldnt it hold up?
@@-Markus- Warhammer lore is pretty much the story telling through the lens of a subjects and for what is outside of there experience it is propaganda - therefore everything can be established, all can be red coned, reverted, newly contextualized and so on. That is also for example why there are many equally true but also false stories, because only one can be the right one origin stories of the emperor - but we just can't tell them apart. And on and on it goes with pretty much every event.
Agreed
its just 5 years lol, dont you think about the scale of things?
When the aliens discovered this video, they shall be amazed by the depth of our glorious civilization.
I'm sorry I'm just imagining a future alien historian over a billion years in the future just finding this video and absolutely losing his mind
@@emiliianoportillo1311 they would have already initiated their version of exterminatus on terra after further examinations of this so called TH-cam comment sections... ;-p
They would be awed and strive to be just like us
In that way we have indirectly create an imperium
I’m sure the depth of their civilization is much more in depth than this one
They will think we are worth opponents.
This lore in a nutshell: "There were good times, now there are bad times"
More like there were good times then there where bad times then there were good times then there were bad times and its still very bad right now and going worse.
thats like all lores in a nutshell
i always thought Warhammer lore went "" there were bad times then, now there are bad time, soon after that though, more bad times, brother""
Dickens' Warhammer: A Tale of Two Cities.
Don’t you mean ”There were less bad times...”
I very rarely comment on TH-cam videos, but your channel, and especially the videos covering the Emperor are exceptionally valuable to so many 40k fans. Just wanted to say thanks as I've listened to many of your videos multiple times while painting/playing vidya games
The Emperor is canonically walking among us, somewhere, at this very moment.
Trump
@@throwaway05 Maybe. Maybe not. Still better than the chaos demon we currently have. Joe might bring Slaneesh earlier than the Eldar
@@throwaway05 Man I forgot that demons never appear as wolves in sheep clothing.
Either way its a joke.
The idea that somewhere the future emperor of mankind is softly chuckling at a funny cat meme, makes me very happy
@@Alamyst2011 cringe
Every time he says "techno-barbarians" I get the image of techno viking in my head ; - ;
Hahaha!
Savage barbarian killers...
On the dance floor!!!
Sadly, most people who read this, think you're talking about something else....sigh.
Don't worry, we know who techno viking is. That is enough.
@Grimferatu How sad that in 2020 you can't think of a better insult. Poor kid.
@@clonezero_RR *40.000
After watching this again after a long time, I think I realize how the early human empire had a "non aggression pact" with the orcs; orcs have been shown to not enjoy fighting tau very much most of the time. Humans probably made it so miserable to fight against them that the orcs probably just said screw it and went to go fight someone else.
Yeah, I imagine that it be like tower defense, except mankind was lvl 100 and the orcs are stuck at lvl 1 units. They never got close to even start a fight.
Imagine being so powerful that a race built off of the belief that war is life want to sign a nonaggression pact with you because they can't even hurt you
@@atomicbuttocks "oi lads these 'umies dont wanna fite the good'n proppa way. Let's go fite some'n else"
And this is why the tyranids have only been recently documented. The orcs went to go find someone to fight
It’s no fun fighting when you can’t even land a good hit. Stupid Hummies won’t fight proppa, ain’t no fun fightin cheating hummies.
7 YEARS LATER AND I'M STILL LISTENING TO THIS LIKE ITS THE FIRST TIME, WELL DONE LUTIN ,
I never cared about warhammer and I dont know how i got here but damn, now im subbed and binging all of this
Its like a good ass book with deep rich stories.
Literally me.
Same it’s something I like I hope my kid enjoys it
Same here lol
Watching this feels like how I imagine people who love documentaries feel when they watch documentaries. Just relaxing, interesting, and almost hypnotic.
I imagine so.
😁
U have been smoking bra like me
As someone who loves documentaries, I can confirm this
@@nvtnvt9617 smoke weed not bras works much better
Just wanted to add another comment about how your videos got me first into Warhammer 40k lore and then pushed me towards getting my first space marine miniature. Now I am a proud owner of 2 decently sized shelves of dark angels and orks thank to you. :>
this is always fantastic to hear :D
The emperor series is a masterwork. I listen To these 1-2 times a year
Damn Navigators got it all, third eye and a "larger appendage"
....
Giggity
BIG DONG
Don't forget that their third eye can melt peoples brains some how.
Oh shadmaaaaaan~
@@SigvaldScionofSuccubi I'm calling the Inquisitor since you think it's a good idea to try and summon a Slaaneshi daemon prince...
Plot twist: the Emperor of Mankind was once a normal human boy who ate 10 containers worth of Flintstones vitamin gummies in one sitting.
Presenting to the emergency room
Disclaimer: **DO NOT EAT THIS MANY VITAMINS**
I heard it was tide pods or red bulls? 🤷🏻♂️
Haribo Gummybears are Heresy
And also yeet a dragon into Mars while serving in the Federation
I've never played Warhammer 40k, but I find its mythology so interesting--thank you for sharing and enlightening!
Try it bro !
@@gareththomas2203 I have, and it took like 2 hours for my friend to teach me how to do a single turn... I think I'll stick with stuff like DnD that doesn't require such complexity. That's my favorite tabletop RPG.
Also, I have to be able to afford my college tuition XD
I'm in the same boat I've never played the tabletop game but I find the mythology absolutely fascinating
I've never played but the lore is second to none
It makes me want to read the books
Surely the reason the emperor didn't tell primarks about khaos is because in his visions he saw them united, thus triggering the classic 'self-fulfilling prophecy'
I think . That was chaos visions not the Emperor's. They gulled him with false whispers nearly killing him. They came at him using his own children, quite clever I thought, I felt sorry for Magnus, accused of treason, set on by the Space Wolves ,betrayed by his own pyskors.
@@jtither4646Magnus the overreacter
@@RageAgainstTheDyingOfTheLight7 mortal men turn to chaos for much less .
00:00 Chapter 1 Overview
07:02 Chapter 2: Ancient History
16:42 Chapter 3: Age of Terra
18:42 Chapter 4: The Golden/Dark Age of Technology
40:38 Chapter 5: The Age of Strife
49:21 Chapter 6: The Emperor of Man and the Unification Wars
1:07:56 Chapter 7: The Great Crusade and the Fall of the Eldar
I have not had time to add, this but I'll add to the notes for the time sections 👍
❤️ His comment, bro.
Promote that man !
Wait.. didn't he already put that in the video.
2 years ago i watched this video, it was my first contact with 40k. Today i completed painting my first warhammer 40k army.
Nice
Nice!!!
What did you go for??
@@besk1 Deez
Nice
Never attempt explaining 40k lore to friends and family.
Every time I've tried I've failed miserably
How I explain 40k I just point to the cool stuff, chain swords, bolters, how big space marines are. Most can understand that and some end up looking into it.
It is your duty to the emporeror to explain All this to would be heretics so they dont get a visit by inquisitors
The first time I heard anything from it was someone explaining the Gellar fields and navigators to me. That's not a good place to start because I tuned out when they got to psychic mutants with third eyes and demons on spaceships.
They're a bunch of heretics
So, enjoying 40K history my children?
No freaking way
M A S A K A ! ?
Yep
Indeed , but can you get off the toilet and get these kids in check ?
Too bad we can't give the Emperor a Text to Speech device huh?
Jesse GD *SHVRJJDHCRYKGV....ABOUT FUCKING TIME*
Alfabusa be blessed!
My oiled abs are quivering!
THIS IS NOT FUCKING CANON
"Give this man a PhD, because that is some serious brain power for a giant armoured potato chip"
This is why I love 40k. They give humans just as much power as every other race. Humans are always the weakest least advanced race in space lore and warhammer gives us the due that we could very damn well deserve when united as one in the cosmos.
Chrono105 I agree.
Ahem... Star Wars
Humanity first.
Star wars is for kids, and it's been ruined as of late.
@MonsieurHiroshima nope, it shows dominance of humanity over almost every alien race, have you ever seen starwars? They seperatist are a full ALIEN council who is against human rule over the galaxy. The galactic empire rules the galaxy after beheading all it's leaders and shutting down the droids. Mon calamari don't like the empire. The big ships of the rebel alliance are mon calamari buildings. Hutts control a large chunck of galaxy. And have a pact with the empire. The trade federation in ep 1 is a full controlled alien organisation.
Unpopular opinion : we are not on Terra now. We are a lost colony that is yet to be rediscovered, or have been but are deliberately isolated in secret and with limited tech and influence.. to see if we can sort ourselves out and rejoin the empire.
Bobby Fenris that sounds like a good read
It would appear we are fucking up our ability to get our shit together but don't worry I know who the God emperor is and should make it through this period intact.
Oh God pls no. I love 40k and all... But I do not want to have any connection to that hell universe at all. Warp? Demons? Waggghhhs? Hell no
@@guardianofthetoasters2323 you have NO IDEA how fucked you are in ways humans can't comprehend...
Perhaps a "Lost Primarch" hides among humanity, one that's not like the others.
Binging this series whilst painting figures - I've fallen back into my Warhammer obsession and need a refresher on the lore (particularly since I used to concentrate more on Age of Sigmar)
I dont think im getting sleep tonight, I'm way too pumped for this
Important bit about the emperor being "born" 7kBC: it's when earliest history first began being recorded (by the Chinese writing stuff down on tree bark). It might be an allusion that he existed before this, and that it was simply the first time he was permanently "noted".
Not anymore first signs of civilizations were 10000 bc
@@ivangudelj3928 I didnt mean "first civilization", i mean its the first civilization to actually try and record their history beyond pictograms and icons.
@@PrometheusEpimetheus in that case as are things standing right now you are right
@@ivangudelj3928 the pyramids are atleast 20000 years old
@@thoththeatlantean1226 no
Theory on the big E:
He's actually an entity of sorts created by humanity on accident through what's known as the "Monomyth". The hero archetype is so deeply ingrained into humanity's psyche that it actually incarnated into a living being known via the warp.
Woah dude that's good as! Whereas the Chaos Gods were the psychic manifestations of humanity's worst aspects, The Emperor could be seen as the manifestation of our best hopes and heroes.
E-Money
+Джозеф m8 that's some serious heresy right there
i never saw anyone more blingy than big emps
Except until the most recent revisions of the 40K lore the gods of chaos represented good aspects as well as "evil" aspects.
Khorne : Rage and bloodthirst. Also represented Honor and Justice. Khorne would scoff and outright punish a follower of his that would seek easy kills. Preferring his followers to actually challenge themselves.
Slaanesh: Excess and Pride/Vanity. Also represented Love and Passion. Many artists and other creative types do works of slaanesh. "Beautiful sculpture that was so beautiful it felt wrong" Uncanny Valley levels of how lifelike things looked.
Nurgle : Pestalance and stagnation. Also represented acceptance/entropy. He would take in everyone, and he would care for everyone. He doesn't like the idea of death. So he will bestow gifts to his followers to make sure they don't. Like the Zombie Plague.
Tzeench: Change ... and also Hope. Because one who wants change, hopes that things will change.
I love the pacing and the music so much. Great job truly. I'm a lore buff and I've watched this a number of times
Major Kong you aren't alone brother! I've watched this and other WH Lore videos many a times😂 I wish someone did something, anything new. I can recite word for word of this video and many more lol... I should probably get a life 🔫
The line about learning more about the *future* of human *history* is so underratedly badass
I find the idea that the Emperor is an old one appalling beyond words, and heresy to such degree that I should be executed for even contemplating it.
*Click*
The Inquisition agrees.
*BLAM*
Let me burn the despicable splattered remains of this heretic for you, my lord Inquisitor.
*Spray myself in gasoline*
In His Glorius Name!!!
*Light myself on fire rolling in the heretic's blood*
WOT DA WARP IZ YU TALKIN BOUT UMIE, LUKY OI DON JUS KRUMP YA ROIT NOW FER SAYIN SUCH STOOPID FINGS
Indeed...
*slowly moves towards exterminatus button*
A higher blaspheme there has never been to even consider implying the Emperor is all but the pinnacle of humanity, we must find the world such a hideous heresy began and crush it under foot
Damn the emperor of mankind is alot more brutal then i would have expected. From the way he disposed of the thunder warriors, to his treatment of psykers. He can be a really ruthless man.
It's all objective I feel like. Most of the great leaders in history were this controversial. Most of them. The duality of man.
@@harshjain3122 and that’s why those who are the exception are held in such high regard. Here in America I can attest to the almost god like status names like “Teddy Roosevelt” or “Abraham Lincoln” have, because they are publicly viewed as almost nurtures of the nation, like a father figure to the country as a whole
@@rueisblue Yea I know I spend 5 years in the south constantly being called “yankee” southern tards need to get over it. We kicked their traitor ass fair and square
@@rueisblue yeah because the traitors in the south didn’t want slavery to be taken away. The south still teach the war was about states rights despite the Vice President of the confederate states of America literally said the war was about slavery. Losers of a war usually don’t like the people who won
@@rueisblue the fact that you called me a yankee still shows the resentment you guys have for the civil war. It’s insane. Also I thought most southerners are the conservative “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” kind of people who hate government welfare? The confederate states never got over the war because they were sore losers and still vote as a block for any conservative candidate no matter who they are. Germany got over losing two world wars in the span of two decades. It’s been over 160 years for you guys, get over it.
I still subscribe to the 'ancient shamans' story. The Old Ones created humans to be at least somewhat psychic, after all - suppose their plan was that the Eldar would all be psykers, but humans would produce a relatively few extremely powerful psykers. Those early shamans would then not have been weak psykers with vague premonitions, but extremely powerful with a clear vision of the future, and a knowledge of what would happen after their death. Realising they had been created to be cannon fodder in a war they had no interest in, they declared "Fuck that for a game of soldiers", and took the destiny of their species into their own hands, giving up their separate existences to create The Emperor. After such a drastic measure, the psyker genes left in humanity wouldn't have been strong enough to create new psykers. It would take thousands of years of mutation and evolution for the psyker trait to emerge again - hence why we don't have psykers in the 21st century.
That sounds actually pretty solid
Psychic sensitivity is a biological mutation and it takes time to be honed by evolution i take none of that suicide junk
Arman Aryn the shamans beleaved in reincarnation. They performed a ritual that linked them to each other and died in the process. When they reincarnated the emperor was born. The empor would have returned if he wasn't entombed into the golden throne. This is basicly in the original texts from the 80`S
The shaman story fits the god creation model of 40k - it was basically a mini version of the creation of slannesh. Warp power concentrated into a single being. The Phoenix Lords are constructed in a similar fashion. The Emperor is shaman Infinity circuit.
Imo the point here is that the shamans weren't infallible. They may have created their ubermensch, but it was a super man in their image with their imperfections.
No god or race in 40k is infallible so the Emperor shouldn't be looked at that way.
He was just a powerfully imperfect Demi god who used this power to try to to do what he thought was best from his perspective.
That's not true at all because it's the 21st century and I'm a psyker.
Well well, this video is responsible for bringing me in the 40k verse. No table top (not interested), no painting (don't care). I read over 40 books since i first watched this a year ago.
Thank you.
And you help me sleep.
I just decided to watch this series now I'm interested in the books also. What books would you suggest for a new warhammer 40k fan.
I think the emperor not telling his primarchs of chaos was due to his doctrine of "if nobody thinks it, it doesn't exist".
Well I mean,that's kinda why the chaos gods exist,someone thought of something and did it...40k really is dumb 😂
Meanwhile, orks: if we believe it, it’s surely true. Paint the vehicles red so they go faster.
@@supremetarantulasorcerer165 Nice strawman of 40k lore
@@supremetarantulasorcerer165 Yeah but thing is, it was actually working. The Chaos gods were slowly dying before the Horus Heresy, which brought them back up to full power
Mortal emotions and suffering stirs the warp. Even his worship ….. stirs the warp. He wanted to rid humanity of superstition and take them to the next age of evolution.
We also have to ask did he make a deal with the chaos powers to get his primarch and their powers.
He is called the oathbreaker all in the series.
The music. The pictures. The voice. The story telling. All 10/10. Just relished this one and a half hour video.
Way to make a comeback to 40k videos, dude.
Soooo, he's like the Nobbel for warhammer?
Rejoy Panakkal I was thinking exactly the same thing
it is better to die for the emperor than to live for yourself!!!
Life is the Emperor's currency, spend it well.
It is better to be crippled in body, than to be corrupt in mind
Cleanse, Purge, KILL!!
beware the alien, the mutant, the heretic
Demiurge13
But Why?, hell some of us are nicer than your best cartoon characters...👽🎮
I really like the idea that the Emperor was the last creation and disciple of the Old Ones, their last ditch effort
I don't believe the Emperor actually had the Thunder Warriors executed. I've read the novel where this story comes up. Its told by a an old Thunder Warrior who has managed to survive to the time of the Horus Heresy. The thing is he's a massively unreliable source, seeing as how he's been driven insane by genetic instability, and has developed a long nurtured hatred for the Emperor. The whole story of the Emperor betraying the Thunder Warriors could very well just be a delusion conjured up by an unstable mind. If not just a lie.
I think he rushed them and they were unstable and died out; also the Sms were more stable and self perpetuating and more reliable thunder warriors were probably modified and inducted
What's the name of this novel that tells of the fate of the Thunder Warriors?
@@heavycruzer1801 the outcast dead
Personally, I think both happened. They did died on the final battle, and they were also executed. It went down like this. The final battle was the most brutal of the unification wars, so much so, that the planet near broke under the violence of the conflict. Many Thunder Warriors perished in this struggle, and those who survived were too ravaged and traumatized to be of further use, so much so, they were left a sobbing, raging wreck of a remnant. The Emperor, unable to salvage his formerly most viable tool and fearing a potential threat down the line, ordered the execution of the last remaining Thunder Warriors.
This is what I think happened, and my own personal head cannon.
WRONG!
Soooooo his first "base" was in the Himalayas and he's a prophetic leader figure?
Huh. He's a militant Dalai Lama. Who knew? *shrug*
@twizzm I was being "tongue in cheek" when I commented that obviously :)
HERETIC!!!
@@elgallant56 *bows elegantly* well spotted sir 🙂
@@williamgilbert6621 i need the Ordo Hereticus and a LEGION of the Adeptas Sororitas
I mean, considering Buddhism, a religion that worshipped Buddha, a being that was once a human, through hardship and hardwork and infinite goodness, become the pinnacle of man, an example that every Buddhist strive to become. It's basically the Imperial truth if the Emperor wrote it himself.
I've lost count how many times I've listened to this. It's like Warhammer ASMR.
Yeah I use this stuff for sleeping all the time now , I'll wake up and " rewind " to where I fell asleep
This Emperor series (music, narration, pacing of the narration, etc) is by far the best 40k lore I have seen. And I have seen A LOT.
This Emperor series got me into 40k year ago, and I keep coming back to it.
Ironically, it is our faith that keep the emperor alive and gives him the power to protect us.
And I thought it was the thousands of psykers dumped from the black ships and sacrificed before his throne every single day that keep him alive.
The emperor protects
@@Furzkampfbomber lmaoo underrated comment
You do realize this is not real?
@ Peter Smittens
You do realise that we can nevertheless enjoy discussions about this topic?
"The power of the Imperium had reached its peak, there seemed to be little, if anything, that could threaten destroy or destabilize the Imperium of Man"
_Horus wants to know your location_
Fucking Horus, he made my emperor a paraplegic.
@Commissar Radiatinkov I agree, he should of just been yeeted out into the cold of space by the chaos fucks.
Horus and the traitor legions: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
@@angryspacemarine1045 A rambling paraplegic that rogal has to keep company, because he loves him more than any other
later on-*the tyranids want to know your location*
The short sci-fi film “Man from Earth” is my head canon for what The Emperor was doing circa 2000. A young time when he was ignorant of chaos and xeno terrors.
I recently and "The Dark Crystal " to my head cannon for 40k. The light beings that are split into the Skeksis and Mystics are the "Old Ones". Gelflings are the primordial eldar..... etc...
I recently added "The Dark Crystal " Is what I ment. Sorry for the bad writing.
except if you've seen the sequel to it :/
"I know I have to sacrifice these Psykers for the peace of the Imperium, but I promise you all, this will not be a daily thing."
Emperor of Mankind
You can make a religion out of this...wait.
Lorgar?
Humanity is nothing without faith
*n o , d o n ' t*
the Emperor was a smart jesus, who just wait for the right time to rise. jesus was a 33 yo manchild with to much to proove with nothing achieved in his life.
mignonthon I guess healing people is “nothing” now. Say he’s fictional or whatever but calling him a “man child” is some edgelord stuff
In the Horus heresy novel, master of mankind, the emperor's origin is clearly stated by the emperor himself. What's more, the reason these ancient sharman killed themselves to be reborn as one was because over time fewer and fewer shamans were able to reincarnate. At that point, knowing that should they all die there would be no one to protect mankind from the corruption of the warp. Thus they decided to die together and reincarnate into an immortal powerful being.
It's name?
The Emperor of Mankind.
That’s why the conversation with Gulliman went the way it did the emperor psyche has basically deconstructed itself into the many different souls that made him sitting on the golden throne has allowed the many different souls too speak
But given The Emperor's track record with the truth, are you really willing to take him at his word?
@@henners8910 Really? I kinda like the emperor to be a seperate guy with a seperate personality
@@gavinboyer4634 you speaking mad heresy for someone being in bolter round range.
@Ritik Shaw good luck getting your sluggish administratum to actually give your request for bolters a glance in the next century.
I have been a fan of Warhammer and 40k now for over a decade and this is the first time I have ever truly understood the underlying lore behind the Empire. This is a masterpiece, everything from how clearly you presented the information, to the images and music you chose. - I have never understood why GW, has never provided something like this, I really think it would be in their favor. The models and the artwork are fantastic, thats what got me into the game, but its the lore that keeps interested as a grown adult. Well done lore master Luetin, we are all in your debt.
Agreed
This was my first introduction to warhammer. I remember being so intrigued by how you described everything, how you made it our history not its history. It always feels like you have only ever mentioned a sliver of the vast depths of warhammer
I hope you get closer to exploring this vast ocean of stories
I'm just sitting here listening to the lore for the first time and this is just so trippy..
Welcome to 40k!
If you think this is trippy listen to some of the lore about chaos
Oh my sweet summer child. I got into 40K when I was about 8 at the tail end of 2nd edition. It is part of my very psyche, the way Star Wars and Lord Of The Rings are. There is so much for you to learn, see, hear, and read. I almost envy you. Almost. ;)
You high bro
@@richardhunter3441 That’s exactly what I was about to ask 😂
This video is a masterpiece.
damn straight, dude deserves a TV show!
Still think big E fucked up royally by keeping his sons in the dark. I mean, how hard is it to tell them about Chaos at Ullanor? More than half the Primarchs were there. Best time to explain his plans.
its a pretty bad plothole imo
Cant agree with this more. Furthermore, there is magnus the red. The guy knew about warp and regularily ventured WITH the emperor into it. (Source: Thousand sons arc in HH) He at least should have been warned and instructed in depth. Especially when the emperor was planning to seat magnus on the golden throne eventually.
Mindboggling oversight. And yes massive plothole.
I subscribe to the theory that Big E planned for the heresy, as the primarchs were mere tools in his eyes and would not be fit for a humanity at galactic peace. The things he did not plan for were magnus fucking up and turning on him, since he was always intended to stay loyal. And his compassion for Horus was not planned for, since Big E believed himself beyond such frivolous things.
@@gulmund9723 well i(or he) loved them like my sons i never thought that they would betray me in order to kill Horus i had to split the star child(love&compassion) away
Yes, really doesn't track well with the idea that he is in possession of some infinite wisdom, but not being able to see this coming.
Well, I'm sort of glad this was made 7 years ago because I'm just getting into Warhammer and now I need to bingeeeeee
The Shaman origin is the oldest one and the one i have always believed, the others seem kind of unsatisfying and less original. The way i understood it is that the Shamans learned the nature of the warp and saw that it consuming the universe was inevitable so they created an immortal being of Order with a quest to find a way to save humanity from this fate.
This makes the starwars universe look like a tea party
Until you get to the yuuzhan vong or Abaloth.
@@trikstari7687 nah, abbeloth aint got nothing on any of the four chaos gods and the vong aint got nothing on the tyranids
For kids
Having drives into the expanded universe (the true one, not the Disney bullshit) SW is a deep universe.
Main difference is 40K seems to have the same problem as the comic book stories in that it never ends.
In fairness the new ones look like trying to make Lincoln Logs and Lego's work together with no comparison to anything.
When shamans decided to suicide, the wrap was relatively calm place and they had skill that allowed their souls to travel the warp and then ressurect as another person. Thats why they cold merge all their souls in warp an give birth to the Emperor
kamikaziu not really. By then, the war in heaven already happened, and the warp was fucked. Not nearly as bad as after the fall of elder, but bad nonetheless
The beginning of this gives me goosebumps
I like the symbolism on the Imperial Crest / Insignia “Blind to past Decadence but Open to Evolution and Development”
Yet the Eclesiarchy is a thing...
If the Emperor was able to save certain immensely rare items such as the original Lunar Landing module from the 1960s moon landing, why didn't he store and save an STC with all of humanities knowledge inside it like he did the Lunar Lander?
Adam Strong GW like Grimdark
Adam Strong Maybe he has one in secret . . .
Adam Strong he might have one hidden
The administration of the Imperium are naughty children, they have not followed the plan and are happy to keep him in suspended death so they can take his place as rulers of man.
At the end, when the golden throne is destroyed, our god will rise.
Like he would ever need one. His mind is essentially the greatest STC ever.
Emperor of man: bans religious cults because they cause horrors.
Emperor of man: *causes horrors*
Cease your blasphemy heretic
Jude Ndagga HERETIC
Silence Heretic
Inquisitor it is this one right here
You're talking a lot of heresy to be in Exterminatus distance...
The literal best series on 40k, nothing GW can make can compare to this masterpiece and GW owes its fans way more then it gives now
The actual books?
@@Noorthia😱wow and I bet these youtubers had absolutely no effect on the 40k fan base
If the Emperor was an Old One, he wouldn't have to bargain with Chaos Gods to learn the secrets to creating life and begining the Primarch Projeckt
True
Indeed. Such a task would be trivial ,at best. What do you think he is?
@@alyseleem2692 I don't like the ritual suicide story. I prefer the idea that he was the work of the last Old One. Making an entire race of powerful psykers (Eldar) had been tried so this time one, almighty psyker leading a race of lesser beings.
@@edpistemic True. I personally like to think he was something closer to a Warp entity. He's such a strawman it's plausible at this point.
@@alyseleem2692 Another possibility that amuses me to ponder is that he was just another warlord (albeit one who won after uncovering a trove of old scientific knowledge) and the rest is Imperium propaganda! ;)
My favorite interpretation of how the emperor got the void dragon onto mars was he punched him directly into mars in the style of one punch man. Sure this is over the top, but it just hilarious and too awesome.
+x20mega
Void Dragon: " *Monstrous Roar* "
Emps: "ok"
x20mega Plot Twist, Empy got his powers by doing 100 pushups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats and a 10km run every day.
The Emperor is so awesome he did 10 times that of Saitama......
.... And managed to keep his glorious mane.
Everything related to the Emperor or the Primarchs, in my head, looks like over the top anime.
For real, I would love to see a Horus Heresy anime series.
x20mega i just watched a video about that...
The eagle is backwards :) the blind eagle looks into future not knowing what is to come, while the open eyed eagle looks into back remembering the history.
rock tertenix I was about to make this comment. Glad I'm not the only one who spotted it!
The hooded eagle represents the psykers/astropaths. The eye covering is to represent their psyker hoods/shields
Im sure the claws of the eagle means the mechanicus and other think i dont remember.
But did you see the two left arms at 4:25
Like many things in WH40K I'd say it is up to interpretation.
A big chunk of humanity being unable to recover after the Golden Age because of not having a backup plan reminded me of how some places almost collapsed during the pandemic because 90+% of their income was tied to tourism.
Nope, I go with the Shaman story, it's not that abnormal they can forsee future, almost every somewhat powerful psyker in 40k can do that. The Eldar even has a job dedicated in doing it. More over, it's not " a few Shaman ", It's thousands of Shaman + It's very unlikely that the Emperor didnt grow any more powerful after living so many milennias like what you assume. I think The Emperor was gathering power his entire life and only came out to the light as he felt he was powerful enough to take on Chaos Gods.
Perhaps the shaman/priests were summoning and combining the fragmented Old Ones hiding in the Warp into a form that could best guide mankind, or maybe those fragments chose this form, and like you said only agreed to materialize when their combined strength and that of their worshippers was great enough. A bit of both theories, if you will.
@Mourning Star nope
I have always been drawn to the esthetics of Warhammer 40k, this actually focuses the lore enough that I have a framework to go off of, cheers!
Age of Strife:
Moral of the story is....
Don’t do online ordering
Fucking amazon stealing my soul.
Don't trust China!
China is asshoe!
@@user-so6dy2rq4v still better than japan lol
We all know what really ended human civilization and it was giving the sex androids sentience.
But a Man of Iron delivers the products straight to your door?
Another interesting note about the imperium symbol (the double eagle)is that the "past" eagle sometimes has their talons clipped, or blunted, whereas the future one doesn't. I think this is more in line with the idea of "we don't need the past" or "the past can't hurt us" or "we carry the wounds of the past" rather than "the past is painful" or "we are blind to the past"
My first warhammer 40k lore vid!!! Epic!!
Same
What got you guys interested?
@@ronhicks5818 for me it was these other videos made by i forgot who, comparing the best of/the most intense si-fi etc etc, and warhammer coming in at number 1 everytime
let's just take a moment to appreciate that Luetin09 Hearted a comment 3~ years after he posted this video
32:50 "... humanity was so badass that they got the Eldar and EVEN THE ORKS to sign non-aggression pacts."
Tau are like HOWWW YOUUU DOOO THIIIIS?!?!?!?!?!?
I presume humanity was somehow overwhelmingly more advanced in tech due to not having psyker powers as a huge part of their society like the Eldar, or being bestial killing machines like the Orks.
The big E thrashed the orcs into submission (mentioned in one of HH novels) and probably delgated with eldar.
everyone enjoys fucking over the tau.
The greater good will succeed
How the hell they managed to make orks sign a treaty we will never know.
I just want to say THANK YOU!!!! This video popped up one day and I watched it. Then I watched all the videos you had made at the time. You got me hooked onto 40k and I never looked back. You helped me meet a lot of cool friends and people that have been there for me in my darkest hour. If it wasn't for your videos I never would of meet them so thank you for all you do. You might just look at them as videos but they are so much more then that