40K LORE: GENESTEALER CULTS AND SPECIALISTS. The genestealer cults are the most insidious and one of the most terrible in all of warhammer. The stuff of nightmares, they truly lean into the horror in the setting. This video covers the major and minor cults and their specialist units that help them dominate the battlefields of the grim darkness of the far future. PATREON LINK: www.patreon.com/join/3510517 Other channels from the same creator. LIVING MYTHOLOGY PRIMORDIAL GODS - THE GENESIS OF THE GREEK GODS: th-cam.com/video/VFGteZZjBWk/w-d-xo.html THE TITANS - GREEK GODS BEFORE THE OLYMPIANS:th-cam.com/video/MpdcsMDRM7Y/w-d-xo.html YOUNG ZEUS - REBELLION AGAINST CHRONOS: th-cam.com/video/QwycANUVCOs/w-d-xo.html THE TITANOMACHY: FIRST GODWAR: th-cam.com/video/Quhvk0WkTOM/w-d-xo.html THE TITANOMACHY ACT 2: THE OLYMPIANS STRIKE BACK: th-cam.com/video/PIUzeL_M6mE/w-d-xo.html THE TITANOMACHY ACT 3 - THE FALL OF A TYRANT: th-cam.com/video/VrUTCXREK8c/w-d-xo.html THE GIGANTOMACHY: th-cam.com/video/VaMyfDalP88/w-d-xo.html TYPHON: th-cam.com/video/Y8Ynyz9_80c/w-d-xo.html THE PRIMORDIALS: th-cam.com/video/VFGteZZjBWk/w-d-xo.html THE TITANS: th-cam.com/video/MpdcsMDRM7Y/w-d-xo.html LIVING MYTHOLOGY: th-cam.com/channels/dR3Ms08oSCzih6p0FsDRcg.html YOUNG ZEUS: th-cam.com/video/QwycANUVCOs/w-d-xo.html GK NATURAL HISTORY: THE TENDAGURU DINOSAURS: th-cam.com/video/t7ap_mWkTAk/w-d-xo.html OSTRITCH DINOSAURS: th-cam.com/video/a0TztD9OFvo/w-d-xo.html FISH HUNTING DINOSAURS: th-cam.com/video/__PKoHk1PR8/w-d-xo.html THE WAR UNDER THE WAVES: th-cam.com/video/y5a-a5E1mhI/w-d-xo.html VAMPIRE BATS! studio.th-cam.com/users/videoBWIF2klOoGo/edit th-cam.com/channels/OmrRUjHAw93gcWG6r9WoGg.html All opinions are my own and have no connection to Games Workshop in any way whatsoever. I hope you have a glorious day. :) Your faithful servant Baldermort
Seriously, we need a Resident Evil 2 or 4 Remake style of game set in a Hive City being overrun by Genestealers, where your a Guardsman that HAD been enjoying some RnR after fighting Orks on some backwater world. That could be so much fun!
Genestealers have always been the force I hate the most, among all the xenos and heretics, traitors and witches. Thank you for this fine video on the wicked subject.
You disappeared off the algorithm for a bit, so I did the thing I swore I never would and never will again for any other channel on TH-cam: I turned notifications on for this channel. I will not go so long without your wonderful tales again. Thanks for your efforts.
When 2nd ed came out (and likewise the first Tyranid Codex), i had planned to play Orks. The Ghazgkull vs Yarrick feud had just begun. But alas, there were already too many Ork players. Fortunately, I had a couple boxes of Guard, and had purchased 3 copies of Space Hulk (I liked Big Hulks). A couple packs of hybrids, Magus, and Patriarch and I had GSC Army. It grew to 30,000 points before it's untimely demise. It's good to see them having gotten a healthy dose of love, especially since the disappeared in 3rd.
As much of a slog as it was to paint 200 genestealers, they looked great on a table 🥰 I do miss that army still. I need to watch Baldermort's other GSC vids.
Pink tongues, purple tails & shiny chitinous shells are some of my favorite things ... ... and armored Limousines ! - hehe *Baldermort is on of the best fan voices of the Warhammer multiverse! 3 cheers for Baldermort!* ^^
I'm so glad to see you come back to my favorite faction. Your first GSC video is what sealed the deal for me just as I got into the hobby and couldn't decide on a faction that appealed to me the way genestealer's alien fanaticism did
All I want for sanguinallia is a 3d printable Uncle B servo skull (the version with the pen and inkwell). Does anyone have one? Alternatively, any ideas on how to make one. It would also make great merch for Uncle B. Who’s with me?
I almost never listen so close to release. I usually “save them up” and listen when I need a treat. Baldamort is perhaps the best storyteller in this setting. WG owes that man so much.
I'm not saying it's what I want.. but what might seem like immortality in a ener evolving and adapting shared hive mind isn't the worst way to end so I can get the GSC a bit. Ty Lord Baldermort!!
I still believe gw should have kept these folk a separate faction, merging them with Nids was an extra, they were quite capable of standing tall as a menace on their own independant selves.
Thank you for that education. The cults stink of a particularly vengeful and petty nerd who's nids lost too many games to the astra militarum. Now obviously I am a hardcore nerd myself. I'm looking forward to that next installment to the thaddeus and tarquinus story. Again, thank you for all the hours of entertainment your hava provided.
Unrelated but I do enjoy your 40K material as well as your mythology and general knowledge channels. Love you and your families excellent work. Hopefully this will help bump the algorithm enough to get your front page. 😅
Another amazing lore video. We need a Guardsmen vs GeneStealers video game as a FPS. It would be so good and the horror element would just raise the stakes.
The genestealer is always 10 steps ahead of you ....except when Hero of the Imperium Ciaphus Cain is involved . He using his big protag energy somehow finds them before they're ready and 1v1s the patriarch
Has there been any genestealer cults thats managed to revolt and taken over a planet only for the nid fleet never appearing and the cults just left there, do they continue to evolve a society on their own?
I believe some planets like that were mentioned in the lore. But they've only been given passing mentions. Never really expanded upon. My guess is that a lot of planets like that were around in the after math of cadia's fall. Normally the nids make a beeline for any world where the gene stealer cultists take over. But the appearance of the great rift probably interrupted things. Especially since a lot of planets suffered from insane time dilation during that period. There were probably gene stealer cult dominated worlds that underwent what felt like centuries for them over the course of a single solar year. Whole civilizations rose and fell due to the time warping effects of the great rift. So their might even be worlds where the cult won. Only for the civilization to completely collapse after what they felt to be centuries of isolation. With nothing left at the end of it all. But an world of ruins, and a hand full of gene stealers lurking in the dark. Waiting for a imperial reclamation fleet to arrive.
@@BishopGantry this often happens when the cult is considered too mutated. The fleet will avoid it. There is even a cult desperately pursuing its parent hive in space trying to "ascend" all the the hive fleet to do anything in its power to avoid them.
Alas, YT is not sending out my notifications much anymore. Just swing by and have a look every now and again. Twitter vids a week. One Wednesday. One Friday. :). Thanks for listening brother.
@baldermort no worries, iam just listening to the apocalypse audio book and ut an interesting listen as he's going into the nuance of the word bearers and the ancarite is a tool un this narrative.
I wonder if Tzeentch loves genestealers the way Khorne loves orks, like is he just smiling watching a budding genestealer uprising like "awww youre just a bunch of scheming little guys arent you, look at you and all your little plans and subterfuge 💙🥰💙"
You used to be able to run Chaos genestealer cults when they were originally released. With a stretched limousine... they were most often aligned with Slanesh and the eavy metal army was Khorne
"Are you a Genestealer?" Answer *Yes* if you are a filthy Genestealer, then submit yourself for summary purgation. Answer *No* if you are a filthy Genestealer pretending to not be a filthy Genestealer, then submit yourself for summary purgation.
Blessed be the only true power in the galaxy. Praise be to the Lord of the Immaterium, the truest mind of all; The Hive, the Four Armed Emperor, Hatred Incarnate. Praise be to the Tyranids!
1 view, 1 comment, in one minute? by the emperor this servo skull model has become defective to the point of being obsolete! call the enginseer to have its micro chips removed and used to program septic tank servitors!
55:46 anyone got information on the specific cult he’s talking about? I’ve been looking for more info but I haven’t found anything they interest me because the idea of a Genestealer Cult slowly amassing a fleet of ships is a interesting idea and I’d like to know the source.
Whats scary is think about your world whatever horrible job or thing you do hive city or on the top towers you know the people on your planet then day by day you notice bald ones purple tounges more and more usually in hives ppl go missing high ups forget about that hive lvl years go by next floor ppl have babies that are bald slighly pale purple tongue more and more then one day they all start going crazy (sleeper cells) ravaging and spreading before the true hive comes then when planet is being consumed the genestealers are willingly consumed for biomass
Could have just used a word that the algorithm doesn't like. Even if it was properly used and in context, the AI doesn't care. That's why "unalive" and stuff like that appears in TH-cam.
40K LORE: GENESTEALER CULTS AND SPECIALISTS.
The genestealer cults are the most insidious and one of the most terrible in all of warhammer. The stuff of nightmares, they truly lean into the horror in the setting.
This video covers the major and minor cults and their specialist units that help them dominate the battlefields of the grim darkness of the far future.
PATREON LINK: www.patreon.com/join/3510517
Other channels from the same creator.
LIVING MYTHOLOGY
PRIMORDIAL GODS - THE GENESIS OF THE GREEK GODS: th-cam.com/video/VFGteZZjBWk/w-d-xo.html
THE TITANS - GREEK GODS BEFORE THE OLYMPIANS:th-cam.com/video/MpdcsMDRM7Y/w-d-xo.html
YOUNG ZEUS - REBELLION AGAINST CHRONOS: th-cam.com/video/QwycANUVCOs/w-d-xo.html
THE TITANOMACHY: FIRST GODWAR: th-cam.com/video/Quhvk0WkTOM/w-d-xo.html
THE TITANOMACHY ACT 2: THE OLYMPIANS STRIKE BACK: th-cam.com/video/PIUzeL_M6mE/w-d-xo.html
THE TITANOMACHY ACT 3 - THE FALL OF A TYRANT: th-cam.com/video/VrUTCXREK8c/w-d-xo.html
THE GIGANTOMACHY: th-cam.com/video/VaMyfDalP88/w-d-xo.html
TYPHON: th-cam.com/video/Y8Ynyz9_80c/w-d-xo.html
THE PRIMORDIALS: th-cam.com/video/VFGteZZjBWk/w-d-xo.html
THE TITANS: th-cam.com/video/MpdcsMDRM7Y/w-d-xo.html
LIVING MYTHOLOGY: th-cam.com/channels/dR3Ms08oSCzih6p0FsDRcg.html
YOUNG ZEUS: th-cam.com/video/QwycANUVCOs/w-d-xo.html
GK NATURAL HISTORY:
THE TENDAGURU DINOSAURS: th-cam.com/video/t7ap_mWkTAk/w-d-xo.html
OSTRITCH DINOSAURS: th-cam.com/video/a0TztD9OFvo/w-d-xo.html
FISH HUNTING DINOSAURS: th-cam.com/video/__PKoHk1PR8/w-d-xo.html
THE WAR UNDER THE WAVES: th-cam.com/video/y5a-a5E1mhI/w-d-xo.html
VAMPIRE BATS! studio.th-cam.com/users/videoBWIF2klOoGo/edit
th-cam.com/channels/OmrRUjHAw93gcWG6r9WoGg.html
All opinions are my own and have no connection to Games Workshop in any way whatsoever.
I hope you have a glorious day. :)
Your faithful servant
Baldermort
Still waiting for nurgle to get that nid recipe down. Would be a TERRIFYING collab if he could whisper some ideas into the hive mind...
Lol how are you going to mention hive cults on hive planets and omit the Cult of the Second Son? Cmon now....
I lost my favorite job ive ever had this morning. And here comes Baldermort to save the day. Without fail, you always come through for me
Stay strong boss, you’ll pull through 🫡
May be dark now but the dawn is just over the horizon
Imperator benedicit capellanum Baldermort
We missed you Baldermort, thank you for the awesome video. I really like the Cult of the Bladed Cog the most
Seriously, we need a Resident Evil 2 or 4 Remake style of game set in a Hive City being overrun by Genestealers, where your a Guardsman that HAD been enjoying some RnR after fighting Orks on some backwater world. That could be so much fun!
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Genestealers have always been the force I hate the most, among all the xenos and heretics, traitors and witches. Thank you for this fine video on the wicked subject.
Fair enough, there's an extra body horror aspect to them just realistic enough to ... get under your skin.
@@johnd2058 I really related to Baldemort's section in this video talking about why they're so disturbing.
So glad I saved this for my work shift. Thanks so much for the extra help with getting through the night, brother Baldermort.
Oh great scribe Baldermort! Thank you for this video of my cults!! I love your work so much! Thank you for what you do!
A humble neophyte
You disappeared off the algorithm for a bit, so I did the thing I swore I never would and never will again for any other channel on TH-cam: I turned notifications on for this channel. I will not go so long without your wonderful tales again. Thanks for your efforts.
Apologies brother. YT has decided I have had my run. Its only tougher from here on in for it all. Ah well. :)
Another quality Lore segment over an hour 👏🏼 I really don’t know how you manage it Balder’s 🫡.
Thank you for this Warhammer 40,000 tribute, this your weekly Warhammer 40,000 tribute.
Thank You!! - Amazing stuff as usual... It's my fall to sleep audio!
This has been the most enjoyable WH40k lore video I’ve seen in a long while. Congrats Baldemort!!
Most interesting 40k faction. Thank you
My friday is complete when Baldermort uploads a new video. 😊
When 2nd ed came out (and likewise the first Tyranid Codex), i had planned to play Orks. The Ghazgkull vs Yarrick feud had just begun. But alas, there were already too many Ork players. Fortunately, I had a couple boxes of Guard, and had purchased 3 copies of Space Hulk (I liked Big Hulks).
A couple packs of hybrids, Magus, and Patriarch and I had GSC Army.
It grew to 30,000 points before it's untimely demise. It's good to see them having gotten a healthy dose of love, especially since the disappeared in 3rd.
As much of a slog as it was to paint 200 genestealers, they looked great on a table 🥰 I do miss that army still. I need to watch Baldermort's other GSC vids.
Do you REALLY have to use ai? 😖 guess I’m unsubbing
@@fireteamblue 🤨 I dont use AI... Im not even sure where that came from
Another glorious piece of lore dear Dear Narrator
Pink tongues, purple tails & shiny chitinous shells are some of my favorite things ...
... and armored Limousines ! - hehe
*Baldermort is on of the best fan voices of the Warhammer multiverse! 3 cheers for Baldermort!* ^^
Always enjoy your Excellent tales Brother Baldermort.
I am also looking forward to the continuation of the Thadeus and High Adventure stories.
Insidious but cool. Thanks for the video Baldermort!
Perfect video to help me get through painting some children of the star gods!
I let out a big whoop when you mentioned Thadeous and Kronan. I can't wait! Xx
Love your stories sir always enjoy listening to them at work
I'm so glad to see you come back to my favorite faction. Your first GSC video is what sealed the deal for me just as I got into the hobby and couldn't decide on a faction that appealed to me the way genestealer's alien fanaticism did
hell yeah. love the friday upload Sir.
If you ever need a Bodyguard when jumping into Atoma. Hit me up
Love it!! “They scare the willies out of me!!”
I LOVE GENESTEALERS MORE TYRANIDS CONTENT BALDY🤘☠️💜
You are awesome keep plugging away brother.
Love some good shadow over the immaterium content
Thank you for your hard work! I really love to listen to your stories while building my W40k army.
Another great video from brother Baldermort.
Can't wait for the Thaddeus and Kronan continuations! These snippets of lore are great but those two hold a special place in my heart.
It's my boy!!! Baldermort, never missing an upload! Your content keeps getting better and better!
Thank you for all the great content!
Still loving every little of it!
All I want for sanguinallia is a 3d printable Uncle B servo skull (the version with the pen and inkwell). Does anyone have one? Alternatively, any ideas on how to make one. It would also make great merch for Uncle B. Who’s with me?
I almost never listen so close to release. I usually “save them up” and listen when I need a treat. Baldamort is perhaps the best storyteller in this setting. WG owes that man so much.
I'll print it and send it to him if anyone has an STL file!
Yet more amazing Lore. Thanks Brother B:)
I'm not saying it's what I want.. but what might seem like immortality in a ener evolving and adapting shared hive mind isn't the worst way to end so I can get the GSC a bit. Ty Lord Baldermort!!
I am so appreciative of this video. I love the genestealer cults as a concept. Hands down my favorite sub faction.
Thank you , Baldermort .
🐺Loupis Canis .
Friday, it time for some 40k. The highlight of my day. Thanks so much for doing this!😊
Thanks Baldermort
Awesome video!!!!
I still believe gw should have kept these folk a separate faction, merging them with Nids was an extra, they were quite capable of standing tall as a menace on their own independant selves.
I’ve been trying to learn about the GSC recently. This was a fantastic find!
Talk to me Mert!!! Talk to me!!!!!!!....
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Love the lore and your channel Baldy😍
I dont know WHY I DONT GET YOUR NOTIFICATIONS. I have you belled. Regardless of youtube BS, another excellent video. Thank you so much
Aah, it's going to be a great bedtime listen. I can't thank you enough, Sir Baldermort.
Keep up these amazing videos! I have always enjoyed listenning to your lore and videos as well as stories! Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you for that education. The cults stink of a particularly vengeful and petty nerd who's nids lost too many games to the astra militarum. Now obviously I am a hardcore nerd myself. I'm looking forward to that next installment to the thaddeus and tarquinus story.
Again, thank you for all the hours of entertainment your hava provided.
Unrelated but I do enjoy your 40K material as well as your mythology and general knowledge channels. Love you and your families excellent work. Hopefully this will help bump the algorithm enough to get your front page. 😅
Another amazing lore video. We need a Guardsmen vs GeneStealers video game as a FPS. It would be so good and the horror element would just raise the stakes.
Perfect thing to listen too while building miniatures
In the Grim Darkness of the far future there is no time for peace, only time for Sunshine, Lollipops, Rainbows, everything that’s wonderful!
Thank you for giving us these videos Balde! Love and Appreciation from Canada
Every video you do is utterly fantastic. A real treat each time :D
Great stuff!
The genestealer is always 10 steps ahead of you ....except when Hero of the Imperium Ciaphus Cain is involved . He using his big protag energy somehow finds them before they're ready and 1v1s the patriarch
Has there been any genestealer cults thats managed to revolt and taken over a planet only for the nid fleet never appearing and the cults just left there, do they continue to evolve a society on their own?
From what I remember, they start sending purestrain genestealers to other nearby planets.
I believe some planets like that were mentioned in the lore. But they've only been given passing mentions. Never really expanded upon.
My guess is that a lot of planets like that were around in the after math of cadia's fall. Normally the nids make a beeline for any world where the gene stealer cultists take over. But the appearance of the great rift probably interrupted things.
Especially since a lot of planets suffered from insane time dilation during that period. There were probably gene stealer cult dominated worlds that underwent what felt like centuries for them over the course of a single solar year.
Whole civilizations rose and fell due to the time warping effects of the great rift. So their might even be worlds where the cult won. Only for the civilization to completely collapse after what they felt to be centuries of isolation. With nothing left at the end of it all. But an world of ruins, and a hand full of gene stealers lurking in the dark. Waiting for a imperial reclamation fleet to arrive.
@@BishopGantry this often happens when the cult is considered too mutated. The fleet will avoid it. There is even a cult desperately pursuing its parent hive in space trying to "ascend" all the the hive fleet to do anything in its power to avoid them.
I love the genestealer cults. As a gm they make such perfect monsters for a sci fi homebrew!
👍👍👍 three thumbs up! 😂
I still clamour for more of our Eldar vs white scar friends
Why would TH-cam only notify me of this video 12 days after release.... Another absolute banger!
Alas, YT is not sending out my notifications much anymore. Just swing by and have a look every now and again. Twitter vids a week. One Wednesday. One Friday. :).
Thanks for listening brother.
We had a babysitter once; she tried to offer our child 'nom-noms'....well, you can't be too careful. The inquisitor said we had done well....
🫲🫲😛🫱🫱. Just a lil’stealer. Cheers Balders
Ol baldermort. I hope to play some space marine 2 with you.
Brilliant Mr B ✌️
Dreams of a baldemort DVD box set
Thaddeus and Kronan incomming!!!! Let's gooooopo!!!!!!!!!!!
Baldermort ♥️♥️♥️
Wohoo, its Boldemort friday!
Great stuff guys. Thanks a lot.
These bugs have a role to play yet in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Thank you Bald :)
Thanks
Rise, sons of the labour.
Rise, sons of the poor.
Rise, sons of doubt and hunger.
Rise for the Four Armed Emperor⚒
baldermort do you know if the ancarite has been expanded in any recent lore other than in the the apolalyse book by josh renolyds?
Not to my knowledge. Oculus was working on him about 2 years ago. Ask him if 40K theories to be 100% but I’ve not heard anything yet. Sorry.
@baldermort no worries, iam just listening to the apocalypse audio book and ut an interesting listen as he's going into the nuance of the word bearers and the ancarite is a tool un this narrative.
@@Baldermort who's occulus?
Baldermort claims to be a faithful servant but ever since this video that forehead is looking sus
Faithful servant of the 4 armed emperor!!!
I wonder if Tzeentch loves genestealers the way Khorne loves orks, like is he just smiling watching a budding genestealer uprising like "awww youre just a bunch of scheming little guys arent you, look at you and all your little plans and subterfuge 💙🥰💙"
You used to be able to run Chaos genestealer cults when they were originally released. With a stretched limousine... they were most often aligned with Slanesh and the eavy metal army was Khorne
Twisted Cog!!!
Their miniatures look good for kit bashing!:)
"Are you a Genestealer?"
Answer *Yes* if you are a filthy Genestealer, then submit yourself for summary purgation.
Answer *No* if you are a filthy Genestealer pretending to not be a filthy Genestealer, then submit yourself for summary purgation.
What if I'm a filthy Eldar.
A long video from Chaplain Bald before work!! Woohoo!!!
Please do an in universe in character interview with oculis, that would be hilarious
Blessed be the only true power in the galaxy. Praise be to the Lord of the Immaterium, the truest mind of all; The Hive, the Four Armed Emperor, Hatred Incarnate. Praise be to the Tyranids!
Your amazing no matter what the TH-cams say 😊
You know that artwork around 59:30 is actually really damn good, and not for gooner reasons, anyone know the artist?
1 view, 1 comment, in one minute? by the emperor this servo skull model has become defective to the point of being obsolete! call the enginseer to have its micro chips removed and used to program septic tank servitors!
Let's go
Not only is the genestealer cult in the walls, they are the walls.
😊
AAAAAAAAAAAA. The Kunnin One!!!
Don't feel bad Baldermort, the genestealers invoke the deep rooted human fear / conditioning to obey our ancient world conehead masters :D
Keir Starmer is a good example of a genestealer in broad daylight xD
Straight away, an animation skit of Leviathan swarms massacring Astartes.
Noice 👍
Ta dude.
55:46 anyone got information on the specific cult he’s talking about? I’ve been looking for more info but I haven’t found anything they interest me because the idea of a Genestealer Cult slowly amassing a fleet of ships is a interesting idea and I’d like to know the source.
They are all over no significant name cult it's the hive mind, the planet is a body and the genestealers are the flu
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Whats scary is think about your world whatever horrible job or thing you do hive city or on the top towers you know the people on your planet then day by day you notice bald ones purple tounges more and more usually in hives ppl go missing high ups forget about that hive lvl years go by next floor ppl have babies that are bald slighly pale purple tongue more and more then one day they all start going crazy (sleeper cells) ravaging and spreading before the true hive comes then when planet is being consumed the genestealers are willingly consumed for biomass
TH-cam is veeery sus these days. My comments kept going missing lately. 😣
Bud are you new to youtube?
That story!! Yuckkkk!
Normally means you’ve had too many users reporting your comments resulting you receiving a shadow ban
Same here and I’ve been on YT for a long time
Could have just used a word that the algorithm doesn't like. Even if it was properly used and in context, the AI doesn't care. That's why "unalive" and stuff like that appears in TH-cam.
Nothin starts the weekend like a full-blown power-shift uprising led by a 3-armed demagogue w/ the face of Vold--uh, I mean--BALDemort!