Guilliman in recent books struggles with the church. He can't just reject or disband it because that would cause another civil war and it's also one of the only things holding the imperium together currently
And he admitted that to a priest assigned to him while saying he could just kill him because he represented everything he fought against 10.000 years ago. And Frater Matthieu's reaction was to be equally frightened, and equally get a religious fervor at the thought of getting killed by a Primarch. 😅
@@Archon3960a absolute simp. I remember Matthieu trying to convince Cato sicarius (post trauma) and Cato sicarius just like said the emperor isn’t a god. He walked away remembering the death of his brothers when he was trapped in the warp. Sicarius is so different now
@@Archon3960a absolute simp. I remember Matthieu trying to convince Cato sicarius (post trauma) and Cato sicarius just like said the emperor isn’t a god. He walked away remembering the death of his brothers when he was trapped in the warp. Sicarius is so different now
The Raven Guard are essentially the SEAL Team 6 of 40k. Get in, complete the mission, get out. Leave no trace. They're the smallest legion in numbers by far at 5000 because they got bushwhacked by several legions going traitor and murderizing them at the start of the Heresy, and recruiting has been slow because of other Chaos fuckery until recently. Despite this, they're not shy about fighting. They just choose not to fight fair. They're also very kind to normal humans like Salamanders, as they view themselves as liberators first and foremost, and try to minimize civilian casualties in every fight. The XIX are my favorite by far. Victorus aut Mortis.
58:03 The Aplha Legion are so mind-bendingly confusing that it's almost painful. As Bricky alluded to, it's not even clear if they're Traitors or not. They appear to act as Traitors, but when you examine their actions, they often led to an Imperium victory, through very convoluted means. For example, the Siege of Vraks. This battle wasn't given huge attention by the Imperium, but losing the planet would've been a huge blow. After the Alpha Legion were found to be working with the enemy, the Imperium gave proper attention to it and wwas able to win the battle.
6:05 The Fallen vary greatly in their alleigance. Some hate the Lion, but love the Emperor. Some are Chaos worshippers. Some are actually loyal, but were deceived.
The 2nd and 11th legion have had all records expunged and when Horus tried to say one of their names Malcador force choked him to the point of near death and made it punishable by death to even speak their names. It is a rumor GW did it so that two people could create their own custom legions to fight each other.
Primarchs confirmed dead -Horus (Sons of Horus) -Konrad Curze (Night Lords) -Sanguinius (Blood Angels) -Ferrus Manus (Iron Hands), Ferrus was the first to die and it’s actually fitting that he was beheaded since he was nicknamed The Gorgon and his planet was named Medusa, and what happened to Medusa? She was beheaded. Suspected dead -Alpharius (Alpha Legion), it’s pretty accepted that Dorn killed him but with the Alpha Legion you never know -Omegon (Alpha Legion), it’s assumed that Guilliman killed him but even he said he wasn’t sure since it seemed way to easy. -Rogal Dorn (Imperial Fists) he was ambushed by cultists on a ship and the only thing found was his hand. -Vulkan (Salamanders) he is a perpetual who keeps coming back to life, but last he was seen was tackling a huge ork warboss into a warp drive together making a giant explosion, he hasn’t been seen since.
To answer your question about their Gene-Seed, the Progenoid Gland as it is called, Space Marines actually have 2. One in their throat and one in their chest cavity. It actually is pretty often they get the throat one removed to be implanted in new marines and are fine, while the one in their chest is FAR more dangerous to remove and is usually only done if they are dead. The Geneseed is part of them now, so it can't actually be taken away. But they can survive without the glands themselves.
The emporer would possibly resurrect if he died, but Terra would be destroyed if he did right now. There's a webway portal on Terra, and it's full of demons with the emporer the only thing holding them back for the last 10k years. You can thank Magnus for that.
Mouths after this video came out, Lion El’Jonson, the Primarch of the Dark Angels, has returned after a 10 thousand year slumber and has rehabilitated some of the Fallen. Renaming them “The Risen”. Lion also fought against Angron by himself and won!
@@anzaca1 Logar wrote the Lectitio Divinitatus, the holy book of the Empire, he also proved the existence of Gods. while he did lose in that he failed to destroy the Imperium, he won in that all his ideas were proven.
Im oversimplifying it but, in the tabletop, the Alpha legion can declare another character/model to be "Alpharious" if their Commander dies. And the game contines.
Circa 51:00 - One of the ultimate jokes of the 40K Imperium is that the book that the Imperium bases its worship of the Emperor on (The Lectitio Divinitatus) was originally written by Lorgar. The very beliefs that got him slapped by Big E, are now the state religion of the Imperium...
Bricky does it pretty comedic. I appreciate it and enjoy it but if you want more detailed serious breakdown try Leutin, Wolf Lord Rho, The Amber King. Bricky has some great videos though breaking down 40k.
It has been said a few times; The first line in the Alpha Legion book, "I am Alpharius. This, is a lie." Alpharius is a liar, any who claim otherwise is probably Alpharius. If you ever saw the movie Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, it is very much like that. "Omegan" was the size of a primarch, and had all the skills associated with that station. "Alpharius" is the size of a regular space marine with the mental abilities of a primarch. More lore exists but it was told by Alpharius and thus... Is a lie.. I, am Alpharius.
The Alpha Legion is so secretive and confusing that even Tzeentch is totally confused. Everyone is basically Alpharius, posing as Omegon, who is posing as Alpharius, who thinks he is Omegon but is a sleeper Agent faking Alpharius, who is actually Omegon, who is posing as Alpharius, but that's also a lie in the end.
The 2nd (Loyalist) and 11th (traitor) legions were a "this page intentionally left blank" since this is after all a RPG/Board game first. Officially destroyed during the rebellion, with no lore to limit players, these are the first choice for "but I want to make my own story". It is understandable from a gameplay sense, but from a lore sense it makes it a little bit of a drag since we all know there could be more story here.
As to the Emperor and religion... the Emperor was the original psycher. He could see into the warp, and saw that human religion was creating these demonic powers. The war of conquest that he threw down before the Golden Age was to destroy all the things he saw feeding these demonic powers... and he assumed religion was one of them (correctly). His goal was an age of enlightenment, of peace and proseperity. It was never to be, because he misunderstood the nature of the warp, but the Word Bearers were one of the legions thrown out first because they noticed that cryiing "For the Emperor" before a battle made them stronger, specifically because it is the nature of the warp to take on the character of those who lived in our own world. He failed because the warp is not affected by time... which meant that even if he did finally stop religion, which he could not... it would not matter because the warp is all of time, including before him.
If you want to deep dive the space marine legions I would highly recommend, "Baldermort's guide to warhammer 40k" , "The Remembrancer" , and "The Amber King". They are all great storytellers and do a great job explaining the lore. I enjoyed the reaction, thank you.
So this video is a little bit outdated. Since this video was made Lion El’Johnson, primarch of the Dark Angels, has returned and has begun forgiving any of the Fallen who haven’t joined Chaos.
Gods, besides the Chaos Gods, exists the Elder had a entire pantheon that would get killed and eaten by Slaanesh when she was birthed. Infact Nurgle has their fertility Goddess as his "wife" and is constantly giving her diseases as gifts which she then gives the cure for to the Eldar.
The 2nd and 11th Legion are known as the Lost Legions. When the Emperor found them, something had gone very wrong (and we don't know what). So the Emperor had them obliterated and all records of them expunged, forbidding all people, even the other Primarchs, from talking about them. To talk about them means an instant blackbag lol. Hence the strange skip over them.
The first Primarch to turn was actually Lorgar who was punished by the Emperor for worshiping him he went out to find someone else to worship and found the chaos gods. Lorgar manipulated events to cause Horus to fall and others.
Iron Warriors have some measure of Greek inspiration (particularly in their homeworld of Olympia and the early life of Perturabo, the cynical, suspicious hardheaded nature of him, his homeworld’s culture and his legion is also very Greek) but it’s not overwhelmingly strong. It’s most pronounced in the few Imperial Space Marine chapters that are suspected by some fans to be descended from loyalist Iron Warrior geneseed or otherwise have connections to Iron Warriors (Minotaurs and Silver Skulls).
As a Space Wolf player the community would welcome you into the fold with open arms. Alot of great characters, lore and special units, although our rules aren't strong in the current meta of the current edition of the tabletop that will change soon and if anything it gives hobbyists more time to get the army ready. Full-disclosure the lore during the heresy shows how far the legion fell before getting back on the uptake in the 41st Millenium. Highly suggest you look up lore on Leman Russ, Bjorn the Fell-handed and Logan Grimnar. There lore will definitely push you further towards the dark side.
Guilliman is the head programmer that went to sleep thinking. I gave then a program a toddler could use, I even leave a really detailed manual... No way they fuck this up right? He came back from sleep half the servers were on fire and the people he left responsible for it were trying to put out the fire with sledgehammers...
You should react to "Space marine recruitment/creation" by Luetin09, it makes you really understand why space marines are such badass warriors, also he has some of the most detailed lore videos on pretty much anything you might be interested in.
You saw the Mads Mikkelsen face.. ive watched tens of reactors react to this video (Warhammer Addict) and no one else saw Mads and now finally someone other then me reacted to it.... thank you!
6:20 with the fallen, it happened during the horus heresy when lion sent Luther home, luther was the lion step father because all of the primarchs was sent all over the galaxy, when it comes to Luther he had a prophecy where he was supposed to unite his planet but never happened because the lion did that. He became a space marine which swaps their roles but felt spiteful and hated towards the lion because he thought that he was better but he did dumb shit and him and half of the force was sent home, Luther with all of this negatively became corrupted by chaos where he manipulated those on the planet into believing that the lion betrayed them which caused a small war between the two, Luther wounded the lion after the lion hesitated to kill him and fell into a coma, when it comes to the fallen its a mixed of traitors and loyalist
13:30 I love this bricky’s video and I know it’s a meme, but his description of perturabo is horribly flawed, like perturabo is actually the most interesting of all the chaos primarchs (because GW chose to destroy the personnality of all of the others by turning them in just evil mustache men)
I know the truth about the Alphas. Alpharius become Omegon when he met with Omegon, Omegon became Alpharius, Alpharius who is Omegon started to act as such while Omegon who bacame Alpharius, couldnt. Omegon is Omegon but represented Alpharius but couldnt be him, meanwhile Alpharius who became Omegon acted like him and became him. After Alpharius died, being Omegon, Omegon who is Alpharius honored him become the one who he represented, Alpharius. I am Alpharius. -Omegon.
Oh and the Emperor being a perpetual doesn't mean he can't die. They can be killed using the warp. He was wounded by Horus who was given extreme warp power by the 4 chaos gods.
the number of loyal legions to traitor legions is equal at nine each as well there are 6 demon primarchs 1 for each chaos god and 2 for chaos undivided
Technically Logar was the first Primarch to fall to Chaos, who tricked Horus to be seduced by the other four Gods of Chaos. Then Horus persuaded/trick half of the other Primarchs to Chaos's side like he did with Magnus the Red where he brought a Tzeentch Demon to disguse itself as Horus and trick Magnus to flood the Emperor's palace with demons on accident. Thus the conflict with the Thousand Sons against the Space Wolves began and were in the end, forced to retreat into Tzeentch's ever awaiting grasp, just as planned.
I believe the Minotaurs and Iron Snakes are the Space Marine chapters based on Greek culture, with the Minotaurs more inclined towards Spartan in particular.
If you're interested in learning more about the primarchs I suggest watching The "Definitive" primarch tier list by the chill zone featuring Angel_Angron
I am a space wolf collector they were my first army, the space wolves have very well fleshed out lore as they are one of the oldest factions in 40k getting their first separate army book during the 2nd Edition era of the warhammer40k rules, the space wolves, blood angels and the dark angels are the only loyal chapters who have consistently had their own army books separate from the space marine army book, because of this they along with the dark angels, blood angels and ultramarines get the most attention of all the chapters in lore and models
I love Alpha Legion , fun fact thier the Slamamders of Chaos treating thier human opreatives extremely well because its hard to blend in as a 8ft tall super human
You should check out W+ show that is fully dedicated around BLOOD ANGELS -> you can see how they fighting their inner thirst and how corruption on the end look. Clips from that show are easy to find.
For Roman or Greek legions the Ultramarines are literally Romans in space, the empire they have (commonly referred to as the 500 Worlds), the fact all their senior commanders are trained in diplomacy, politics, logistics etc, they literally have Consuls etc, they're super obvious and for the Greeks the Iron Warrriors are heavily Sparta-influenced, they use decimation (killing 1 in 10 to prove a point about purging weakness and instilling harsh discipline), their homeworld is called Olympia, like you can't get much more Greek than that, though there is a Chapter called the Minotaurs who are literally space Sparta down to the aesthetic, fighting style etc and of course their name, though their are other Roman influences like Horus' last name was Lupercal, a term from Roman mythos/mythology
So the Gene-seed is the genetic material of the Primarchs and, by extension, that of the Emperor himself. This can be harvested ad infinitum from the Primarchs since they all heal super quickly(to the point where the Primarch Vulkan was just straight-up immortal) and all that really matters is that there is enough genetic material to cultivate a Progenoid Gland, the first Gene-seed organ and the one most commonly referred to as 'a Gene-seed', even though most of a Space Marine's implants are also cultivated from Gene-seed samples. Every Space Marine is given two Progenoid Glands, and the Progenoid Gland is what actually begins the process of converting a pre-existing human Neophyte into a Space Marine by slowly reworking their genetic code and turning them into a knock-off version of their associated Primarch. Once this conversion has been completed and the Neophyte has become a proper Space Marine, the two Progenoid Glands are left in the body to accumulate more genetic material until such time they can be harvested, with one gland implanted in the neck being ready to harvest after about 5 years and the second gland located in the Marine's chest cavity is usually ready after about 20 years. The second gland is extremely difficult to get to as it requires invasive surgery, so it is usually not harvested immediately and often put off until the Marine's actual death unless there is a pressing need to harvest this extra gland, as only one Progenoid Gland is needed to cultivate a new set of Gene-seed organs for a new Space Marine. No, losing the Progenoid Glands does not affect a Space Marine's abilities; once the Gene-seed is integrated, it is part of that Marine and the glands at that point exist solely to facilitate the creation of more Space Marines. And yes, there are logistical problems with this system, and some Chapters are more pragmatic about it than others, but unless the Chapter is in a state of crisis it is generally accepted that a Space Marine will see active combat for several years before his first set of Progenoid Glands is harvested. It should also be noted that extra Gene-seed can be stored and can be used to cultivate more Gene-seed without the need for implantation into a human being, although this process can be just as time consuming and tends to exacerbate defects in the Gene-seed samples, so it's either done very conservatively or as an emergency response. To put this in perspective, after the Horus Heresy, many of the Loyalist Legions were devastated by heavy losses and could not be expected to recover in an acceptable timeframe without taking thousands of Space Marines out of active service for several decades. Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines and the Lord Commander of the Imperium at the time, enacted a policy to rusg cultivation of new batches of Gene-seed so that the Legions could recover more quickly. This single act is responsible for a lot of the defects and mutations in the Gene-seed, and is partly why Guilliman broke the Legions into Chapters numbering no more than 1,000 Space Marines; to compartmentalize the Legions in such a way that any emerging defects could be isolated and dealt with appropriately, while allowing more stable strains of Gene-seed to be similarly isolated and thus maintained for future generations of Space Marines. This is more necessary than you'd think, because while some of the defects that were acceptable among the Legions were as benign as having unnaturally pale or dark skin, more extreme defects caused mutations like the sporadic growth of horns and Wolverine-style bone claws(the Black Dragons Chapter), outbreaks of full-on lycanthropy(the Space Wolves Legion), as well as more esoteric anomalies like having an entire Chapter start bursting into psychic fire(the Firehawks Chapter) or becoming supernaturally unlucky(the Lamenters Chapter).
The Phalanx is MUCH bigger than the ships I think you are thinking of. I assume you are thinking of the Gloriana class battleships. There's no official size for it, but estimates put it at a diameter of almost 850 miles
Check out the legion of the damned. I think they seem quite similar to the alpha legion as the alpha legion often "by accident or coincidence" leads the imperium to victory in one way or another. The legion of the damned appear out of thin air, theyre appearance is similar to ghosts and they also appear to fight for the imperium even though they look like theyd fit right in with the black legion if the black legion were on fire. The reason i think they might be one and the same is because the alpha legion is known to change their appearance and master spies/sabotours so i dont see any reason why they cant suddenly appear and dissappear the way the legion of the damned does. Its clear the alpha legion uses some kind of illusions.
the fokes over at GW have confirmed that Alpharius is dead....or Omagon pretending to be Alpharius.... killed in the battle for Pluto during the opening actions of the siege of Terra.... not that its easy to tell, Apharius Omagon was the smallest of the 20 Primachs, which when combined with its "nothing wrong here" field made him able to pass as a normal marine (and often did so)
The whole Roman vibe is very much the Ultramarines so there is no extra Roman Faction since the Romans are already the standrat poster boys so to say. there is a greek like Astartes Chapter called the Minotaurs you might be interested in them
You had mentioned that you were surprised that there weren't more Roman/Greek based legions. The Ultramarines and to some extant the Imperial Fists have a lot of their background based off of Greco/Roman history and culture. In fact the whole 20 Legiones Astartes (aka Space Marine) legions idea was influenced by the Roman Empire's original 20 legions. The formal language of the Imperium (High Gothic) is a bastardized version of Latin.
If the Emperor died he could be reborn, however the Chaos Gods would get to him before he could reform while in the sea of souls. Also out of the 18 Legions Horus led half of them in a coup.
Pretty sure at this point the Emperor is on the level of a Chaos God and has fucked them up whenever he directly acts against them, i really don't think the Emperor is scared of the gods I think its the other way around.
@@thehappy_spearman1389 If he dies he's in their realm, they are definitely stronger than him in the realm of chaos. Big E could beat them in the materium though.
Ultramarines, Dark Angels and Blood Angels are my favourites. Sanguinius Primarch of the Blood Angels was genuinely loved by all the Primarchs even the Traitor loved him in their own way for example whenever Angron thought of his brother Sanguinius the butchers nails in his head would stop hurting and a soothing feeling would replace the pain. Oh the Space Wolves hate Pyskers/Magic users they view magic uses as cowards it's the reason Leman Russ didn't like Magnus so much. Despite hating Magic the Space Wolves are also hypocrites because they have Pyskers/Magic user themselves oh sorry Rune Preists.
The Space Wolves are known as the Emperor’s Executioners. It is accepted that they were the ones who eradicated the 2nd and the 11th. They were very close to destroying the Thousand Sons. Their specialty is destroying other space marines.
They didn't eradicate the 2nd and 11th. Most of their marines were put into the ultra marines and maybe the dark angels I believe. I believe only one of the primarchs was killed by the wolves.
The theory is that II and XI fought or corrupted each other, and the wolves were sent to resolve the situation. Based on some quotes, the Word Bearers played a lesser role. After the wolves did their duty, an unknown number of survivors were sent to the Ultramarines. It appears that the wolves and the Word Bearers didn’t want the survivors (both legions had serious secrets at the time). The bond between the wolves and the word bearers actually caused Russ to speak against Lorgar’s proposed execution
@Slateking They both were in the Rangdan war. It's been theorizes that at least 1 was corrupted there because the Rangdan could control minds. Dorn said in a short story somewhere that the incidents that caused them to be erased were separate incidents. Some pp even say that one is held prisoner under the emporer's palace by the custodes.
Yeah salamander are the only space marine cam see their family because the emperor love vulcan because he saw vulcan the true strength of humanity and he live damnit he didn't die he live and readu to hug the xeno to death
It's awesome to see you diving deeper into WH40k - if you're interested in WH reading, far as books go, I would recommend the primarch series, there is a book per primarch and they are all pretty good. If you really want to get into it the Horus Heresy novels are a great background into the lore. From what you said in the video, you would particularly enjoy "A Thousand Suns". Looking forward to more!
I can't carry on watching this video. The amount of times you pause in the middle of sentences and even words, and you don't even bother going back to find out what was being said. Just too annoying.
"Alpha Legion, don't think I ever heard of them."
Yes. Good. All according to plan.
Guilliman in recent books struggles with the church. He can't just reject or disband it because that would cause another civil war and it's also one of the only things holding the imperium together currently
And he admitted that to a priest assigned to him while saying he could just kill him because he represented everything he fought against 10.000 years ago.
And Frater Matthieu's reaction was to be equally frightened, and equally get a religious fervor at the thought of getting killed by a Primarch. 😅
@@Archon3960a absolute simp. I remember Matthieu trying to convince Cato sicarius (post trauma) and Cato sicarius just like said the emperor isn’t a god. He walked away remembering the death of his brothers when he was trapped in the warp. Sicarius is so different now
@@Archon3960a absolute simp. I remember Matthieu trying to convince Cato sicarius (post trauma) and Cato sicarius just like said the emperor isn’t a god. He walked away remembering the death of his brothers when he was trapped in the warp. Sicarius is so different now
The Raven Guard are essentially the SEAL Team 6 of 40k. Get in, complete the mission, get out. Leave no trace.
They're the smallest legion in numbers by far at 5000 because they got bushwhacked by several legions going traitor and murderizing them at the start of the Heresy, and recruiting has been slow because of other Chaos fuckery until recently.
Despite this, they're not shy about fighting. They just choose not to fight fair. They're also very kind to normal humans like Salamanders, as they view themselves as liberators first and foremost, and try to minimize civilian casualties in every fight.
The XIX are my favorite by far. Victorus aut Mortis.
The nightlords are basically a legion of evil batmans while blood angels are mix between vampires and avenging angels
The blood angles sound like a pretty sick faction that i could get into
@@JohnMatrixTVthe Bloodangel primarch is also the biggest badass out of all of them
@@pogo8050 Sanguinius will live again!
58:03 The Aplha Legion are so mind-bendingly confusing that it's almost painful. As Bricky alluded to, it's not even clear if they're Traitors or not. They appear to act as Traitors, but when you examine their actions, they often led to an Imperium victory, through very convoluted means.
For example, the Siege of Vraks. This battle wasn't given huge attention by the Imperium, but losing the planet would've been a huge blow. After the Alpha Legion were found to be working with the enemy, the Imperium gave proper attention to it and wwas able to win the battle.
6:05 The Fallen vary greatly in their alleigance. Some hate the Lion, but love the Emperor. Some are Chaos worshippers. Some are actually loyal, but were deceived.
The 2nd and 11th legion have had all records expunged and when Horus tried to say one of their names Malcador force choked him to the point of near death and made it punishable by death to even speak their names.
It is a rumor GW did it so that two people could create their own custom legions to fight each other.
Primarchs confirmed dead
-Horus (Sons of Horus)
-Konrad Curze (Night Lords)
-Sanguinius (Blood Angels)
-Ferrus Manus (Iron Hands), Ferrus was the first to die and it’s actually fitting that he was beheaded since he was nicknamed The Gorgon and his planet was named Medusa, and what happened to Medusa? She was beheaded.
Suspected dead
-Alpharius (Alpha Legion), it’s pretty accepted that Dorn killed him but with the Alpha Legion you never know
-Omegon (Alpha Legion), it’s assumed that Guilliman killed him but even he said he wasn’t sure since it seemed way to easy.
-Rogal Dorn (Imperial Fists) he was ambushed by cultists on a ship and the only thing found was his hand.
-Vulkan (Salamanders) he is a perpetual who keeps coming back to life, but last he was seen was tackling a huge ork warboss into a warp drive together making a giant explosion, he hasn’t been seen since.
To answer your question about their Gene-Seed, the Progenoid Gland as it is called, Space Marines actually have 2. One in their throat and one in their chest cavity. It actually is pretty often they get the throat one removed to be implanted in new marines and are fine, while the one in their chest is FAR more dangerous to remove and is usually only done if they are dead. The Geneseed is part of them now, so it can't actually be taken away. But they can survive without the glands themselves.
The emporer would possibly resurrect if he died, but Terra would be destroyed if he did right now. There's a webway portal on Terra, and it's full of demons with the emporer the only thing holding them back for the last 10k years. You can thank Magnus for that.
Mouths after this video came out, Lion El’Jonson, the Primarch of the Dark Angels, has returned after a 10 thousand year slumber and has rehabilitated some of the Fallen. Renaming them “The Risen”. Lion also fought against Angron by himself and won!
The Word Bearers both Started and Won the Heresy, they were the first to fall to chaos.
Logar literally wrote the book The Imperium uses.
Won the Heresy? They lost, because the Imperium still exists.
@@anzaca1 Logar wrote the Lectitio Divinitatus, the holy book of the Empire, he also proved the existence of Gods. while he did lose in that he failed to destroy the Imperium, he won in that all his ideas were proven.
6:56 You're thinking of Deathwing, the 1st-person shooter where you play as members of the Deathwing.
Im oversimplifying it but, in the tabletop, the Alpha legion can declare another character/model to be "Alpharious" if their Commander dies. And the game contines.
Circa 51:00 - One of the ultimate jokes of the 40K Imperium is that the book that the Imperium bases its worship of the Emperor on (The Lectitio Divinitatus) was originally written by Lorgar.
The very beliefs that got him slapped by Big E, are now the state religion of the Imperium...
Bricky does it pretty comedic. I appreciate it and enjoy it but if you want more detailed serious breakdown try Leutin, Wolf Lord Rho, The Amber King. Bricky has some great videos though breaking down 40k.
Thanks for the recommendations ill check them out
It has been said a few times;
The first line in the Alpha Legion book,
"I am Alpharius. This, is a lie."
Alpharius is a liar, any who claim otherwise is probably Alpharius.
If you ever saw the movie Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, it is very much like that.
"Omegan" was the size of a primarch, and had all the skills associated with that station.
"Alpharius" is the size of a regular space marine with the mental abilities of a primarch.
More lore exists but it was told by Alpharius and thus... Is a lie..
I, am Alpharius.
Thus, this is a lie.
Alpharius has been declared killed probably dozens of times by the Imperium, but they never know for sure, and a new Alpharius always show up lol
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The Alpha Legion is so secretive and confusing that even Tzeentch is totally confused.
Everyone is basically Alpharius, posing as Omegon, who is posing as Alpharius, who thinks he is Omegon but is a sleeper Agent faking Alpharius, who is actually Omegon, who is posing as Alpharius, but that's also a lie in the end.
And this is a lie
What are you talking about. I really AM Alpharius.
There are at least 3 "official backstories" for Alpharious and Omegon that all contradict eachother. So the deception is IRL Meta at this point.
@@trli7117The truth is that Alpharius IS the first Primarch found by the Emperor
@@Mondy667 so says Alpharius, at least.
The Ultramarines are technique the Roman Faction, if you look their Primarch and some of the commanders have the Golden Leaf Crowns on their helmets.
55:41 Some Raven Guard marines are able to turn almost invisible, smiliar to Corvus himself.
The 2nd (Loyalist) and 11th (traitor) legions were a "this page intentionally left blank" since this is after all a RPG/Board game first. Officially destroyed during the rebellion, with no lore to limit players, these are the first choice for "but I want to make my own story". It is understandable from a gameplay sense, but from a lore sense it makes it a little bit of a drag since we all know there could be more story here.
As to the Emperor and religion... the Emperor was the original psycher. He could see into the warp, and saw that human religion was creating these demonic powers. The war of conquest that he threw down before the Golden Age was to destroy all the things he saw feeding these demonic powers... and he assumed religion was one of them (correctly). His goal was an age of enlightenment, of peace and proseperity. It was never to be, because he misunderstood the nature of the warp, but the Word Bearers were one of the legions thrown out first because they noticed that cryiing "For the Emperor" before a battle made them stronger, specifically because it is the nature of the warp to take on the character of those who lived in our own world. He failed because the warp is not affected by time... which meant that even if he did finally stop religion, which he could not... it would not matter because the warp is all of time, including before him.
If you want to deep dive the space marine legions I would highly recommend, "Baldermort's guide to warhammer 40k" , "The Remembrancer" , and "The Amber King". They are all great storytellers and do a great job explaining the lore. I enjoyed the reaction, thank you.
Awesome thank you for the recommendations ill look them up for sure!
So this video is a little bit outdated. Since this video was made Lion El’Johnson, primarch of the Dark Angels, has returned and has begun forgiving any of the Fallen who haven’t joined Chaos.
The Ultramarines are your Roman Legion.
Gods, besides the Chaos Gods, exists the Elder had a entire pantheon that would get killed and eaten by Slaanesh when she was birthed. Infact Nurgle has their fertility Goddess as his "wife" and is constantly giving her diseases as gifts which she then gives the cure for to the Eldar.
thats pretty interesting actually i didnt know that ty
The 2nd and 11th Legion are known as the Lost Legions. When the Emperor found them, something had gone very wrong (and we don't know what). So the Emperor had them obliterated and all records of them expunged, forbidding all people, even the other Primarchs, from talking about them. To talk about them means an instant blackbag lol. Hence the strange skip over them.
'I am Alpharius. This is a lie' Opening line from an Alpha Legion book.
I am alpharius. This is a lie. Ending line from the book
This is my record and all records lie
The first Primarch to turn was actually Lorgar who was punished by the Emperor for worshiping him he went out to find someone else to worship and found the chaos gods.
Lorgar manipulated events to cause Horus to fall and others.
47:44 Of the 18 Legions, 9 are Loyalist, 9 are Traitors.
Iron Warriors have some measure of Greek inspiration (particularly in their homeworld of Olympia and the early life of Perturabo, the cynical, suspicious hardheaded nature of him, his homeworld’s culture and his legion is also very Greek) but it’s not overwhelmingly strong. It’s most pronounced in the few Imperial Space Marine chapters that are suspected by some fans to be descended from loyalist Iron Warrior geneseed or otherwise have connections to Iron Warriors (Minotaurs and Silver Skulls).
As a Space Wolf player the community would welcome you into the fold with open arms. Alot of great characters, lore and special units, although our rules aren't strong in the current meta of the current edition of the tabletop that will change soon and if anything it gives hobbyists more time to get the army ready. Full-disclosure the lore during the heresy shows how far the legion fell before getting back on the uptake in the 41st Millenium. Highly suggest you look up lore on Leman Russ, Bjorn the Fell-handed and Logan Grimnar. There lore will definitely push you further towards the dark side.
Guilliman is the head programmer that went to sleep thinking. I gave then a program a toddler could use, I even leave a really detailed manual... No way they fuck this up right? He came back from sleep half the servers were on fire and the people he left responsible for it were trying to put out the fire with sledgehammers...
"For Fenris, For Russ, For The Allfather! Let The Hunt Begin!" 🐺
You should react to "Space marine recruitment/creation" by Luetin09, it makes you really understand why space marines are such badass warriors, also he has some of the most detailed lore videos on pretty much anything you might be interested in.
Awesome Thanks for the recommendation ill check it out for sure
You saw the Mads Mikkelsen face.. ive watched tens of reactors react to this video (Warhammer Addict) and no one else saw Mads and now finally someone other then me reacted to it.... thank you!
6:20 with the fallen, it happened during the horus heresy when lion sent Luther home, luther was the lion step father because all of the primarchs was sent all over the galaxy, when it comes to Luther he had a prophecy where he was supposed to unite his planet but never happened because the lion did that. He became a space marine which swaps their roles but felt spiteful and hated towards the lion because he thought that he was better but he did dumb shit and him and half of the force was sent home, Luther with all of this negatively became corrupted by chaos where he manipulated those on the planet into believing that the lion betrayed them which caused a small war between the two, Luther wounded the lion after the lion hesitated to kill him and fell into a coma, when it comes to the fallen its a mixed of traitors and loyalist
ANYONE: ...duty...
me: YOUR DUTY IS NOT DONE, BROTHER
13:30 I love this bricky’s video and I know it’s a meme, but his description of perturabo is horribly flawed, like perturabo is actually the most interesting of all the chaos primarchs (because GW chose to destroy the personnality of all of the others by turning them in just evil mustache men)
I know the truth about the Alphas.
Alpharius become Omegon when he met with Omegon, Omegon became Alpharius, Alpharius who is Omegon started to act as such while Omegon who bacame Alpharius, couldnt. Omegon is Omegon but represented Alpharius but couldnt be him, meanwhile Alpharius who became Omegon acted like him and became him. After Alpharius died, being Omegon, Omegon who is Alpharius honored him become the one who he represented, Alpharius.
I am Alpharius.
-Omegon.
Oh and the Emperor being a perpetual doesn't mean he can't die. They can be killed using the warp. He was wounded by Horus who was given extreme warp power by the 4 chaos gods.
the number of loyal legions to traitor legions is equal at nine each as well there are 6 demon primarchs 1 for each chaos god and 2 for chaos undivided
Technically Logar was the first Primarch to fall to Chaos, who tricked Horus to be seduced by the other four Gods of Chaos. Then Horus persuaded/trick half of the other Primarchs to Chaos's side like he did with Magnus the Red where he brought a Tzeentch Demon to disguse itself as Horus and trick Magnus to flood the Emperor's palace with demons on accident. Thus the conflict with the Thousand Sons against the Space Wolves began and were in the end, forced to retreat into Tzeentch's ever awaiting grasp, just as planned.
theres so much stuff i need to catch up on
And then there's _F--KN'_ Erebus.
@@Connor-ONeill *Fuck* Erebus
Erebus is the one started all of this before logar why he born evil he is and total bullcrap he is
I believe the Minotaurs and Iron Snakes are the Space Marine chapters based on Greek culture, with the Minotaurs more inclined towards Spartan in particular.
If you're interested in learning more about the primarchs I suggest watching The "Definitive" primarch tier list by the chill zone featuring Angel_Angron
ill check it out thanks for the recommendation
Although he didn't mention it, the Ultramarines have a strong Roman aesthetic.
29:13 FROM THE MOMENT I UNDERSTOOD...
I am a space wolf collector they were my first army, the space wolves have very well fleshed out lore as they are one of the oldest factions in 40k getting their first separate army book during the 2nd Edition era of the warhammer40k rules, the space wolves, blood angels and the dark angels are the only loyal chapters who have consistently had their own army books separate from the space marine army book, because of this they along with the dark angels, blood angels and ultramarines get the most attention of all the chapters in lore and models
Horus was not the first primarch who turned to Chaos. He was also not the architect of the rebellion.
The first traitor was Lorgar Aurelion
Logar was the 1st to turn to chaos.
I love Alpha Legion , fun fact thier the Slamamders of Chaos treating thier human opreatives extremely well because its hard to blend in as a 8ft tall super human
Someone else in the comments may have mentioned it but, there is a smaller space marine chapter called the minotaurs, with a pretty heavy greek theme.
yea its been mentioned and its still something i need to take a look at i just keep finding new avenues of info to follow and get side tracked
You have over 60 books just about Horus Heresy
You should check out W+ show that is fully dedicated around BLOOD ANGELS -> you can see how they fighting their inner thirst and how corruption on the end look. Clips from that show are easy to find.
awesome ill take a look thanks
For Roman or Greek legions the Ultramarines are literally Romans in space, the empire they have (commonly referred to as the 500 Worlds), the fact all their senior commanders are trained in diplomacy, politics, logistics etc, they literally have Consuls etc, they're super obvious and for the Greeks the Iron Warrriors are heavily Sparta-influenced, they use decimation (killing 1 in 10 to prove a point about purging weakness and instilling harsh discipline), their homeworld is called Olympia, like you can't get much more Greek than that, though there is a Chapter called the Minotaurs who are literally space Sparta down to the aesthetic, fighting style etc and of course their name, though their are other Roman influences like Horus' last name was Lupercal, a term from Roman mythos/mythology
So the Gene-seed is the genetic material of the Primarchs and, by extension, that of the Emperor himself. This can be harvested ad infinitum from the Primarchs since they all heal super quickly(to the point where the Primarch Vulkan was just straight-up immortal) and all that really matters is that there is enough genetic material to cultivate a Progenoid Gland, the first Gene-seed organ and the one most commonly referred to as 'a Gene-seed', even though most of a Space Marine's implants are also cultivated from Gene-seed samples.
Every Space Marine is given two Progenoid Glands, and the Progenoid Gland is what actually begins the process of converting a pre-existing human Neophyte into a Space Marine by slowly reworking their genetic code and turning them into a knock-off version of their associated Primarch. Once this conversion has been completed and the Neophyte has become a proper Space Marine, the two Progenoid Glands are left in the body to accumulate more genetic material until such time they can be harvested, with one gland implanted in the neck being ready to harvest after about 5 years and the second gland located in the Marine's chest cavity is usually ready after about 20 years. The second gland is extremely difficult to get to as it requires invasive surgery, so it is usually not harvested immediately and often put off until the Marine's actual death unless there is a pressing need to harvest this extra gland, as only one Progenoid Gland is needed to cultivate a new set of Gene-seed organs for a new Space Marine.
No, losing the Progenoid Glands does not affect a Space Marine's abilities; once the Gene-seed is integrated, it is part of that Marine and the glands at that point exist solely to facilitate the creation of more Space Marines. And yes, there are logistical problems with this system, and some Chapters are more pragmatic about it than others, but unless the Chapter is in a state of crisis it is generally accepted that a Space Marine will see active combat for several years before his first set of Progenoid Glands is harvested. It should also be noted that extra Gene-seed can be stored and can be used to cultivate more Gene-seed without the need for implantation into a human being, although this process can be just as time consuming and tends to exacerbate defects in the Gene-seed samples, so it's either done very conservatively or as an emergency response.
To put this in perspective, after the Horus Heresy, many of the Loyalist Legions were devastated by heavy losses and could not be expected to recover in an acceptable timeframe without taking thousands of Space Marines out of active service for several decades. Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines and the Lord Commander of the Imperium at the time, enacted a policy to rusg cultivation of new batches of Gene-seed so that the Legions could recover more quickly. This single act is responsible for a lot of the defects and mutations in the Gene-seed, and is partly why Guilliman broke the Legions into Chapters numbering no more than 1,000 Space Marines; to compartmentalize the Legions in such a way that any emerging defects could be isolated and dealt with appropriately, while allowing more stable strains of Gene-seed to be similarly isolated and thus maintained for future generations of Space Marines.
This is more necessary than you'd think, because while some of the defects that were acceptable among the Legions were as benign as having unnaturally pale or dark skin, more extreme defects caused mutations like the sporadic growth of horns and Wolverine-style bone claws(the Black Dragons Chapter), outbreaks of full-on lycanthropy(the Space Wolves Legion), as well as more esoteric anomalies like having an entire Chapter start bursting into psychic fire(the Firehawks Chapter) or becoming supernaturally unlucky(the Lamenters Chapter).
The Phalanx is MUCH bigger than the ships I think you are thinking of. I assume you are thinking of the Gloriana class battleships. There's no official size for it, but estimates put it at a diameter of almost 850 miles
i think he's more thinking of the Blackstone Fortresses
@@MarkoDash ah maybe
As much as I love them I don’t think the emperors children are Turning loyal lol
Check out the legion of the damned. I think they seem quite similar to the alpha legion as the alpha legion often "by accident or coincidence" leads the imperium to victory in one way or another. The legion of the damned appear out of thin air, theyre appearance is similar to ghosts and they also appear to fight for the imperium even though they look like theyd fit right in with the black legion if the black legion were on fire. The reason i think they might be one and the same is because the alpha legion is known to change their appearance and master spies/sabotours so i dont see any reason why they cant suddenly appear and dissappear the way the legion of the damned does. Its clear the alpha legion uses some kind of illusions.
the fokes over at GW have confirmed that Alpharius is dead....or Omagon pretending to be Alpharius....
killed in the battle for Pluto during the opening actions of the siege of Terra....
not that its easy to tell, Apharius Omagon was the smallest of the 20 Primachs, which when combined with its "nothing wrong here" field made him able to pass as a normal marine (and often did so)
The whole Roman vibe is very much the Ultramarines so there is no extra Roman Faction since the Romans are already the standrat poster boys so to say. there is a greek like Astartes Chapter called the Minotaurs you might be interested in them
You had mentioned that you were surprised that there weren't more Roman/Greek based legions. The Ultramarines and to some extant the Imperial Fists have a lot of their background based off of Greco/Roman history and culture. In fact the whole 20 Legiones Astartes (aka Space Marine) legions idea was influenced by the Roman Empire's original 20 legions. The formal language of the Imperium (High Gothic) is a bastardized version of Latin.
If the Emperor died he could be reborn, however the Chaos Gods would get to him before he could reform while in the sea of souls. Also out of the 18 Legions Horus led half of them in a coup.
Pretty sure at this point the Emperor is on the level of a Chaos God and has fucked them up whenever he directly acts against them, i really don't think the Emperor is scared of the gods I think its the other way around.
@@thehappy_spearman1389 If he dies he's in their realm, they are definitely stronger than him in the realm of chaos. Big E could beat them in the materium though.
This a good start
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Emperors children are Byzantines, which would be greek/roman, and the ultra marines would be Roman.
Ultramarines, Dark Angels and Blood Angels are my favourites.
Sanguinius Primarch of the Blood Angels was genuinely loved by all the Primarchs even the Traitor loved him in their own way for example whenever Angron thought of his brother Sanguinius the butchers nails in his head would stop hurting and a soothing feeling would replace the pain.
Oh the Space Wolves hate Pyskers/Magic users they view magic uses as cowards it's the reason Leman Russ didn't like Magnus so much.
Despite hating Magic the Space Wolves are also hypocrites because they have Pyskers/Magic user themselves oh sorry Rune Preists.
Alpha legion is my legion. Results, by any means necessary. Even if that means "joining" the enemy.
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The Space Wolves are known as the Emperor’s Executioners. It is accepted that they were the ones who eradicated the 2nd and the 11th. They were very close to destroying the Thousand Sons. Their specialty is destroying other space marines.
They didn't eradicate the 2nd and 11th. Most of their marines were put into the ultra marines and maybe the dark angels I believe. I believe only one of the primarchs was killed by the wolves.
The theory is that II and XI fought or corrupted each other, and the wolves were sent to resolve the situation. Based on some quotes, the Word Bearers played a lesser role. After the wolves did their duty, an unknown number of survivors were sent to the Ultramarines. It appears that the wolves and the Word Bearers didn’t want the survivors (both legions had serious secrets at the time). The bond between the wolves and the word bearers actually caused Russ to speak against Lorgar’s proposed execution
@Slateking They both were in the Rangdan war. It's been theorizes that at least 1 was corrupted there because the Rangdan could control minds. Dorn said in a short story somewhere that the incidents that caused them to be erased were separate incidents. Some pp even say that one is held prisoner under the emporer's palace by the custodes.
Weshammer has lore videos on the Wolf marines.
There are 9 loyalist factions
8 chaos/heretic factions
1 who the fuck knows faction
withering husk of a man
The ultramarines are roman themed
Yeah salamander are the only space marine cam see their family because the emperor love vulcan because he saw vulcan the true strength of humanity and he live damnit he didn't die he live and readu to hug the xeno to death
No no the black fortress don't belong to chaos abandon just throw one on cadia
I am Alpharius
It's awesome to see you diving deeper into WH40k - if you're interested in WH reading, far as books go, I would recommend the primarch series, there is a book per primarch and they are all pretty good. If you really want to get into it the Horus Heresy novels are a great background into the lore. From what you said in the video, you would particularly enjoy "A Thousand Suns". Looking forward to more!
Awesome thanks for the book recommendations. its something i've always wanted to get into but never really knew where to start
I can't carry on watching this video. The amount of times you pause in the middle of sentences and even words, and you don't even bother going back to find out what was being said. Just too annoying.