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Catachan on fredrid: ”We've run into scorpions the size of battle tanks. Three men died from Eyerot last week and I've sweated enough to fill a lake. Emperor help me, I love this place - it's just like home!”
Glad to know that Predators are in the 40K universe. The skintaker seems like a very obvious nod to that franchise. Now we just need it to face of with Marbo
It is possible that the Beast of Solomon exists simply because millions believe it does. A reflection in the warp of the belief of millions that came into being to haunt them.
It could be a Yu'Vath construct as the Calixis Sector was originally controlled by the warp-affiliated xenos known as the Yu'Vath and it fits their modus operandi. Look up the Whisper on the moon of Skadi. A great construct starship that was able to possess and animate marble statues.
maybe but also you have to remember that millions is a fairly inconsequential amount of people in warhammer, the mechanicus would probably have a machine god that is not the emperor by now if it only needed that many people to believe but then again the beast of solomon prooobably could be dealt with without too much trouble by a space marine squad so yea I suppose it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility
"An unknown entity that has the population of a hive world so freaked out that they've turned to ritualistic sacrifice just to keep it appeased" We all know that's just the Emperor of Mankind
the skin taker is literally just the predator, like down to the blur where it is and stringing up flayed corpses. and only the strongest person being left alive? its absolutely a reference to the predator
The Skin Taker, to me, feels like it could be a Necron Flayed One either using the skins as covering or trophies as it sinks deeper into that feral madness. A madness that may have found kinship with the native life forms it it's brutality ways, thusly why it mostly targets hunters and poachers to protect itself and its newfound friends/pets
I do like that idea, but i think it's most likely a reference to Predators, what with the descriptions - "nothing more the a blur" and the skinning and heads being removed.
I love how Warhammer is such a huge setting, that you can write about anything into it, and it can be lore-friendly; I mean, the last one, Skin Taker, is just Flayed Ones
I love the idea that one of the most ancient and considered heretical pieces of literature that has survived into the 41st millennia is a single paperback copy of Twilight: New Dawn 😂😂😂
I got a good chuckle from the “artist rendition of ancient terra, likely inaccurate”😅 I also wonder if the Astral Hounds are a 40K nod to the Hounds of Tindalos
I would read a remake of the Hound of the Baskervilles into the WH40K setting, with two Inquisitors being the equivalent of Holmes and Watson investigating to spot and stop an heretic invoking an astral hound to kill some targeted people.
@@andrewsmisek8341 A noble taking out his rivals to become planetary governor? Or maybe a a simple hive city worker taking out factory supervisors that treated them like shit?
My favourite has to be the shapeshifting alien vampires ,their charisma is explained as psychic warp abilities which just perfectly incorporated them into Warhammer
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On the one hand, I would like to see that crossover. On the other, I’m pretty sure that if the magic in the witcher series comes from the warp and it existed any time after the age of technology, the world would be straight fucked. Like, it has maybe a few hours before the entire world is consumed by chaos like so many others.
I love how the emperor killed off the vampires, its so funny to think of him using a cross and killing them with it (idk why but i enjoy the idea of God once being a physical thing in Warhammer but when he left thats when shit went down the drain, idk it's probably just me)
“…the idea of God once being a physical thing in Warhammer but when He left that’s when shit went down the drain” that’s the God Emperor of Mankind Avatar of the Omnissiah for you! The Imperium of Man has been going down the drain for more than 10,000 years all thanks to Horus, the rest of the traitors, heretics, xenos, and warp fuckery…
@@JCavinee Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (1st Edition), pp. 205-206 Warhammer: Siege (1st Edition), pg. 94 Warhammer 40,000: Rulebook (4th Edition), pg. 125 Codex: Black Templars (4th Edition), pg. 44 Inquisitor - The Thorians (Specialty Game Sourcebook) by Gav Thorpe, "The Ordo Xenos", pp. 17-18 Fabius Bile: Clonelord (Novel) by Josh Reynolds, pg. 53 It's somewhere among these.
That's why I said it's a similar issue as the dark Eldar. Nightlords usually want their victims to be aware that it's them and their handy work to further breed fear
@@RichardKushman Hmm... That was pre-Heresy Night Lords, though. Post-Heresy Night Lords, or even a rogue Night Lord, would change their MO a bit, meaning they wouldn't want to draw Inquisitorial attention to themselves.
You forgot the chuglets of Castiban Tercio, the skrungl of Vétrvik, the Grippe, Anchor-Hands, and the Quixlot of Anaxes Septus. For this disgrace, thou'rt a boob.
Solomon's curse is probably a combination of things the mutations caused by the living conditions causing cannibalistic tendencies that can be blamed on a beast for some of the cases, psychic manifestations of the populations beliefs for others acting at key points at key times, and finally cults of a certain god that thirst being on the planet.
A note on the Vampires from Rogue Trader. They are still canon. But they have anew name. If you look at the Khrave, those same ones from the Great Crusade and RPG books, they are basically an update on the vampires from old Rogue Trader.
I'm curious as to how the vampires would reproduce. Some sort of parasitic larval form, perhaps? Maybe one that compels is host to acts of cannibalism to sustain it as it gestates?
The soloman story perfectly encapsulates the imperium's stupidity. The nobles claim there is no shadowy monsters in the dark, but my dudes, there are over 57000 types of monsters in the dark in that one star sector alone lol. This is the grim dark.
Always appreciate the horror segments Know you had some time off recently, but the videos we have had I've really enjoyed - You're doing well, keep it up
@@hieioni3354 and those warp wolves or whatever are definitely based off both the whole Black Shuck/Hellhound mythology and Lovecraft's Hounds of Tyndalos... Which honestly does beg the question of how Lovecraft's works (assuming copies have survived to the 42nd millennium) are perceived by high ranking members of the Imperium?
@@26th_Primarch Tindalos* And Lovecraft's works would be branded heresy as they speak of Gods other than the Emperor. But I have a better question: What if either Lorgar or Magnus has copies of Lovecraft's works?
The Curse of Soloman made me think about Umbra's since those attack by manipulating shadows into abominable tentacled and spiked appendages which fits the idea of an eldritch incomprehensible nightmare being that attacks exclusively in the dark. However those do still have a visible true form not to mention they are typically found living in the void, but we don't even know how intelligent they are or what their goals are so its a possibility.
Those are some magnificent terrifying monsters be ashame if The Lion heard about them. Especially you Skin Taker, Johnson would love to meet you in your jungle.
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I am a GM for a role playing tabletop 40K Only War. I have been listening to you for a bit to help my story telling. Right now we are doing the Eleventh Hour introductory. Your lore has helped me out immensely with story telling, especially the orks (even tho I cant do the accent as well as you). I got to search your videos for your imperium guard stories.
Also some Call of Cthulhu art. One of the shadow hounds artwork is a depiction of one of the Hounds of Tindalos, a creature created by Frank Belknap Long.
There is a campaign in Dark Heresy called Haarlock's Legacy that mentions a being known as the widower. He appears only during certain events and specifically seeks the blood of Harrlock.
1:10 so back when I still played 40k I made it a habit to get old rulebooks and codexes and there is so much good stuff in the first edition rules so of it is really bizarre like a monster that looks like a face towel then eats your face but also vampires (I’m guessing this was what your were talking about) lucky some of it did get brought back with some of the 40k p&p RPGs but there’s still so much more out there.
11:00 so if you like the idea of vampires in 40k look up the fan rules for the dark imperium (if there still around as I’m talking about 15 to 20 year old info, if you do search for it make sure to include the word vampires before dark imperium as GW has apparently since used the term for some of its stuff) from what I read they put a lot of work into it and it’s some cool stuff.
Love your content hope u feeling good about the content you are making again always watched your channel when I need an escape from the real world. U make a difference bro
Given how the warp works, the curse of Solomon might have started as misidentified killings, only to develop into an actual warpmade monster. Virtually every entity that calls the realm of souls home is, to an extent, a kind of tulpa. An entity manifested through mass belief.
Is there an equivalent to sasquatch in 40k? If not that's a shame as a grimdark bigfoot would be hilarious to me since some of the legends and stories about Earthly sasquatches can be insanely dark for no reason.
Regarding the vampire segment: You forgot that they also liked enthusiastic walks at night. You also forgot that GW was most likely referencing the book that the movie Lifeforce 1985 was based on. They do shameless ripoffs.
- Sorry I'm late, Cap'n. I had to fight some lunatics who believe their hive has an evil monster thing attacking them from below. - Haha, what a bunch of idiots, they sure are just imagining it because their life sucks so much. Anyway, the higher-ups chose your squad for a new mission. - Oh, what will we be killing this time? - Just some Tzeentch deamons coming from beneath the same Administratorum district as always. Nothing you haven't seen before.
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Would love to read a cryptid hunter kind of story in 40k, maybe a rogue trader exploring and investigating all kinds of gruesome rumours in the galaxy.
First and last one Sound a bit like a flayed One. (the later more so) A flayer Lord might still have some Relics on him that enables cloaking. In the Infinite and the Divine it was shown that flayed Ones sometimes collect Skulls (and build creepy Structures with them)
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Pointing out that the grim dark lore of 40k can potentially require therapy to deal with should remind the community just how expensive this hobby can be.
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Catachan on fredrid: ”We've run into scorpions the size of battle tanks. Three men died from Eyerot last week and I've sweated enough to fill a lake. Emperor help me, I love this place - it's just like home!”
Sly Marbo:"AAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
Giant scorpions? Rot? A lake? What is this, a From Software game? Lol
@@aceundead4750 nah, the lake needs to poisonous not made of sweat, and the scorpions need to be made of cosmic horror.
I mean they are both death worlds so it makes sense that they'd be somewhat similar.
Glad to know that Predators are in the 40K universe. The skintaker seems like a very obvious nod to that franchise. Now we just need it to face of with Marbo
I was coming here to find this comment, lol. These skintakers are definitely Yautja.
GW isn't exactly subtle about their popular references are they! 😆
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH
- Sly Marbo after killing the predator
So, does it mean that the Alien and Prometheus people are in the same universe in just different times...
Or you know Nightlords having a grand old time.
It is possible that the Beast of Solomon exists simply because millions believe it does. A reflection in the warp of the belief of millions that came into being to haunt them.
Could be. Warp shenanigan and sh*t
Meh i don't think that's what's happening. It would take a VERY long time for belief to create something
@KiraDidNoWrong8274 you just need to believe harder.... heretic.
It could be a Yu'Vath construct as the Calixis Sector was originally controlled by the warp-affiliated xenos known as the Yu'Vath and it fits their modus operandi. Look up the Whisper on the moon of Skadi. A great construct starship that was able to possess and animate marble statues.
maybe but also you have to remember that millions is a fairly inconsequential amount of people in warhammer, the mechanicus would probably have a machine god that is not the emperor by now if it only needed that many people to believe
but then again the beast of solomon prooobably could be dealt with without too much trouble by a space marine squad so yea I suppose it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility
The Astral Hounds remind me of the "Hounds of Tindalos" which work in the same manner; but, they actively pursue people across massive spans of time.
That's literally what they were.
Early 40K recycled a lot of stuff that Citidel had made Minis for for D&D and other settings.
"An unknown entity that has the population of a hive world so freaked out that they've turned to ritualistic sacrifice just to keep it appeased"
We all know that's just the Emperor of Mankind
HERESY!
At least it's not a thousand psyker sacrifice 🤷♂️
Bam!
True lol
the skin taker is literally just the predator, like down to the blur where it is and stringing up flayed corpses. and only the strongest person being left alive? its absolutely a reference to the predator
yep...
Get to the chopper
The Skin Taker, to me, feels like it could be a Necron Flayed One either using the skins as covering or trophies as it sinks deeper into that feral madness. A madness that may have found kinship with the native life forms it it's brutality ways, thusly why it mostly targets hunters and poachers to protect itself and its newfound friends/pets
I do like that idea, but i think it's most likely a reference to Predators, what with the descriptions - "nothing more the a blur" and the skinning and heads being removed.
@nifusafuglsang4157 and honestly considering how dangerous life on that planet is I would totally believe that a Yuatja would love being there.
@@26th_Primarch Yautja*
@@hieioni3354 yeah I know
@@26th_Primarch If you edit it, that would be great.
I love how Warhammer is such a huge setting, that you can write about anything into it, and it can be lore-friendly; I mean, the last one, Skin Taker, is just Flayed Ones
It’s literally the Predator, and the Catachan Jungle Fighters perfectly suited to fight it are literally Rambo.
But yes, your point still stands.
I love the idea that one of the most ancient and considered heretical pieces of literature that has survived into the 41st millennia is a single paperback copy of Twilight: New Dawn 😂😂😂
That's too heretical even to the Chaos Gods.
@@hieioni3354 Even slaanesh would puke after reading this heretical material
@@brotheralaric7177 Exactly. And even The Outsider would cringe after reading this blasphemous material.
BURN THE HERETICAL BOOK 📖 🔥
@@victorcharles27 THROW IT INTO THE PYRE!
I got a good chuckle from the “artist rendition of ancient terra, likely inaccurate”😅
I also wonder if the Astral Hounds are a 40K nod to the Hounds of Tindalos
Most likely a nod to the Hounds of Tindalos, yes.
Considering they're from the Rogue Trader days the they're either a reference to Blink dogs from D&D or the hounds of Tindalos
@@luketfer Either or, I suppose.
@@luketfer good point. Could also be a combination of both
Sounds it
I would read a remake of the Hound of the Baskervilles into the WH40K setting, with two Inquisitors being the equivalent of Holmes and Watson investigating to spot and stop an heretic invoking an astral hound to kill some targeted people.
That would be so cool
Imagine the inquisitors discovering that it's actually a fenrisian wolf hellbent on killing the secret heretic cult that asked for their aid.
I'm on it. Hit me with some 40k specific plot points and I'll put 300 pages down.
@@andrewsmisek8341 A noble taking out his rivals to become planetary governor? Or maybe a a simple hive city worker taking out factory supervisors that treated them like shit?
@@Joseph-j2m not to spoil the original Hound of the Baskervilles novel, but the motive behind the Hound attacks was inheritance.
My favourite has to be the shapeshifting alien vampires
,their charisma is explained as psychic warp abilities which just perfectly incorporated them into Warhammer
I feel like they are a nod to Lovecraft's version of vampires.
@@hieioni3354 hold the goddamn phone, you holding it? thanks, HP lovecraft had vampires the fuck
@@theenderdestruction2362Yes, he did.
@@theenderdestruction2362Read the story "The Shunned House"
@@hieioni3354 a couple of different types
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Ever read that book?
I’d like to believe this explains the vampires of the Witcher series and the world of the Witcher is just a Feudal World during the age of strife...
On the one hand, I would like to see that crossover. On the other, I’m pretty sure that if the magic in the witcher series comes from the warp and it existed any time after the age of technology, the world would be straight fucked. Like, it has maybe a few hours before the entire world is consumed by chaos like so many others.
I love how the emperor killed off the vampires, its so funny to think of him using a cross and killing them with it (idk why but i enjoy the idea of God once being a physical thing in Warhammer but when he left thats when shit went down the drain, idk it's probably just me)
Lion also killed space vampires back in the day. 😎
@@Archon3960 cool, the emperor actually made the vampires on earth extinct so that's a fun fact
“…the idea of God once being a physical thing in Warhammer but when He left that’s when shit went down the drain” that’s the God Emperor of Mankind Avatar of the Omnissiah for you! The Imperium of Man has been going down the drain for more than 10,000 years all thanks to Horus, the rest of the traitors, heretics, xenos, and warp fuckery…
@@theenderdestruction2362Source
@@JCavinee
Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (1st Edition), pp. 205-206
Warhammer: Siege (1st Edition), pg. 94
Warhammer 40,000: Rulebook (4th Edition), pg. 125
Codex: Black Templars (4th Edition), pg. 44
Inquisitor - The Thorians (Specialty Game Sourcebook) by Gav Thorpe, "The Ordo Xenos", pp. 17-18
Fabius Bile: Clonelord (Novel) by Josh Reynolds, pg. 53
It's somewhere among these.
I wonder if the skintaker has a plasma caster and self destruct device on it's arm?
Or a ceramite power armor with a helmet that has bat wings.
@hieioni3354 I like it I like it but it's a similar issue to the dark Eldar in that they're usually more than happy to let you know that it was them
@@RichardKushman I was not talking about the Dark Eldar, I was talking about a rogue Night Lord.
That's why I said it's a similar issue as the dark Eldar. Nightlords usually want their victims to be aware that it's them and their handy work to further breed fear
@@RichardKushman Hmm... That was pre-Heresy Night Lords, though. Post-Heresy Night Lords, or even a rogue Night Lord, would change their MO a bit, meaning they wouldn't want to draw Inquisitorial attention to themselves.
Now this is one that really peaks my interests, looking forward to diving into this one
I thought it was The Purple Ork and The Legend itself Sly Marbo
Love this channel man, you’re one of the people who got me hooked on this hobby.
>random creepy mysterious thing appears in 40k
"I have a feeling it's part of the big three."
"What big three?"
"Warp, C'tan and xenos."
Could be one of the denizens of the deep warp.
Halo stars beg to differ
Ah nothing like the man made horror beyond my comprehension to start my day. Love it. Thank you for the video.
Beyond your comprehension? Dunno, sounds like a skill issue, I can perfectly comprehend it. /s
@@BelelEscabel it's a meme you uncultured swine
"Drinking the victims vital fluids...leaving them in a zombie like state..."
🗿 I NEED ME THAT VAMPIRE
wes: writters really did a good job
also wes: they really need therapy though, they do
You know it be funny if curse of solomen actually did kill a few nobels died by the beast and now everyone realixes "shit it's real"
Yeah, even the wrong factory overseer would be enough to spark an actual investigation.
You forgot the chuglets of Castiban Tercio, the skrungl of Vétrvik, the Grippe, Anchor-Hands, and the Quixlot of Anaxes Septus.
For this disgrace, thou'rt a boob.
Solomon's curse is probably a combination of things the mutations caused by the living conditions causing cannibalistic tendencies that can be blamed on a beast for some of the cases, psychic manifestations of the populations beliefs for others acting at key points at key times, and finally cults of a certain god that thirst being on the planet.
Always loved that the Skintaker is just literally The Predator. LoL
A note on the Vampires from Rogue Trader. They are still canon. But they have anew name. If you look at the Khrave, those same ones from the Great Crusade and RPG books, they are basically an update on the vampires from old Rogue Trader.
I'm curious as to how the vampires would reproduce. Some sort of parasitic larval form, perhaps? Maybe one that compels is host to acts of cannibalism to sustain it as it gestates?
Yes, no, maybe.
The soloman story perfectly encapsulates the imperium's stupidity. The nobles claim there is no shadowy monsters in the dark, but my dudes, there are over 57000 types of monsters in the dark in that one star sector alone lol. This is the grim dark.
Always appreciate the horror segments
Know you had some time off recently, but the videos we have had I've really enjoyed - You're doing well, keep it up
Thanks Wes, these and the horror shorts that you do are some of my favourite videos of yours.
I really like the 40k take on Vampires. But on the other hand the skin taker sounds like the Yautja. (The Predator)
It's 100% based on that.
Plus with Catachan Jungle Fighters basically being 80's action movie characters it could make for a fun story...
The alien vampires are likely a nod to Lovecraft's version of vampires.
@@hieioni3354 and those warp wolves or whatever are definitely based off both the whole Black Shuck/Hellhound mythology and Lovecraft's Hounds of Tyndalos...
Which honestly does beg the question of how Lovecraft's works (assuming copies have survived to the 42nd millennium) are perceived by high ranking members of the Imperium?
@@26th_Primarch Tindalos*
And Lovecraft's works would be branded heresy as they speak of Gods other than the Emperor. But I have a better question: What if either Lorgar or Magnus has copies of Lovecraft's works?
The Curse of Soloman made me think about Umbra's since those attack by manipulating shadows into abominable tentacled and spiked appendages which fits the idea of an eldritch incomprehensible nightmare being that attacks exclusively in the dark. However those do still have a visible true form not to mention they are typically found living in the void, but we don't even know how intelligent they are or what their goals are so its a possibility.
Your horror vids opened my mind to warhammer lore. As soon as you put out a scary thumbnail, I'm on it!
Dude, that is a sick shirt. Anyway, phenomenal video, I literally love these lore videos so much.
Thanks! It was the very first piece of merch I commissioned for my merch store. Nemons did an amazing job
Lets be honest. Humans abducting people to feed to some cosmic horror barely registers as a blip on the scale of human evils in the 40k universe.
Need more of these videos they’re the best. It nice to hear stories outside the main one
You're one of the only reasons I like Warhammer 40K keep up with the good videos my guy
i've watched so many of your vids i can almost recite your intro sentence structure to these types of vids by heart :)
10:35 wait a minute so twilight could be a cannon heretical text
Loved the depiction of old terra, cant believe it was like that though. 😃
It's the gruesome beasts and monsters that makes 40K above ALL other SciFi, 40K is Gothic Horror done right!
I wish there were more lore about eldritch abominations, though, and how the Imperium or ANY other xeno faction getting a hard time killing them.
@hieioni3354 depends on how big the party is.
Always happy to get a new Wes video. Be safe out there in the Bay and keep warm ❤
Those are some magnificent terrifying monsters be ashame if The Lion heard about them. Especially you Skin Taker, Johnson would love to meet you in your jungle.
El'jonson not johnson.
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I am a GM for a role playing tabletop 40K Only War. I have been listening to you for a bit to help my story telling. Right now we are doing the Eleventh Hour introductory. Your lore has helped me out immensely with story telling, especially the orks (even tho I cant do the accent as well as you). I got to search your videos for your imperium guard stories.
Holy shit aaaand he’s out with another banger in like 24 hours. Thanks for your hard work, Wes.
I’m always surprised how much MTG art makes its way into these videos. (Probably cause a lot of it works really well)
Also some Call of Cthulhu art. One of the shadow hounds artwork is a depiction of one of the Hounds of Tindalos, a creature created by Frank Belknap Long.
I noticed one of the vampires was Strefan, Maurer Progenitor lol. Maybe there were more I missed
Vampires are beautiful and often in positions of power who possess physic gifts… wasn’t the emperor of man… all of these…
Psychic* . And no, Big E is not a vampire.
There is a campaign in Dark Heresy called Haarlock's Legacy that mentions a being known as the widower. He appears only during certain events and specifically seeks the blood of Harrlock.
Wes, thank you for the incredible content. Genuinely. Always such incredible production value and always interesting.
Back to back videos😫 thank you Wes you absolutely Legend
Wasn't expecting a new video when I was looking to finish your skin man vid
Love your shirt! Received mine yesterday! Been wearing it non-stop since then😁👍
Curse of Solomon. Love your horror takes man. Hope to hear more.
I love that he uses so much mtg vampire art. Most of them are from innistrad
Pffttt. Now a Nurgle Yautja, that'd be scary.
1:10 so back when I still played 40k I made it a habit to get old rulebooks and codexes and there is so much good stuff in the first edition rules so of it is really bizarre like a monster that looks like a face towel then eats your face but also vampires (I’m guessing this was what your were talking about) lucky some of it did get brought back with some of the 40k p&p RPGs but there’s still so much more out there.
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i dont know why but that vampire description sounded a lot like the Big E or his space marines XD
Banger after a banger great job
I think the biggest urban legend in warhammer 40k is that everything could be ok for the average citizen of the empire.
bahaha I love the introduction to the videos sponsor “I think they could all benefit from some therapy” 😂
11:00 so if you like the idea of vampires in 40k look up the fan rules for the dark imperium (if there still around as I’m talking about 15 to 20 year old info, if you do search for it make sure to include the word vampires before dark imperium as GW has apparently since used the term for some of its stuff) from what I read they put a lot of work into it and it’s some cool stuff.
Love your content hope u feeling good about the content you are making again always watched your channel when I need an escape from the real world. U make a difference bro
Right in time! I got my popcorn ready for another WH40k vid🎉
The Astral Hounds seem to take a LOT of inspiration from the Cthulhu Mythos story Hounds of Tindalos
Listening to the vampire part made me think of Hunter the Parenting and how it could easily adapted as Big D/Emperor’s past during the 21 century
13:18 I cannot tell you how happy it made me to know that the Hounds of Tindalos are canon to the Warhammer 40K universe
Excluding the 1st edition Rogue Trader 40k rule book, what other GW publications did you use to reference or mention vampires in the Imperium?
10:36 oh boy thats a can of worms you dont want to open Wes XD
Love your videos.
Given how the warp works, the curse of Solomon might have started as misidentified killings, only to develop into an actual warpmade monster. Virtually every entity that calls the realm of souls home is, to an extent, a kind of tulpa. An entity manifested through mass belief.
That makes sense, actually.
Lovely stuff. I don’t play WH40k myself, but I would love to know more about the monstrous critters existing in the setting.
20:28
And that's how a 🔪👂 fan is drawn to this faction .
Shout out to whoever drew this .😂👍
8:27 my first thought to the Beast Of Solomon was Necron Flayed Ones
Is there an equivalent to sasquatch in 40k? If not that's a shame as a grimdark bigfoot would be hilarious to me since some of the legends and stories about Earthly sasquatches can be insanely dark for no reason.
Saturday morning cartoons with Wes Hammer!!!
Regarding the vampire segment:
You forgot that they also liked
enthusiastic walks at night. You also forgot that GW was most likely referencing the book that the movie Lifeforce 1985 was based on. They do shameless ripoffs.
Great video thank you I loved it
Nothing makes my day better than some Cryptid tales from the Grim dark universe
18:01 Basically describing what Australia is to people that don't live there.
Thank you for this
- Sorry I'm late, Cap'n. I had to fight some lunatics who believe their hive has an evil monster thing attacking them from below.
- Haha, what a bunch of idiots, they sure are just imagining it because their life sucks so much. Anyway, the higher-ups chose your squad for a new mission.
- Oh, what will we be killing this time?
- Just some Tzeentch deamons coming from beneath the same Administratorum district as always. Nothing you haven't seen before.
The astral hours reminds me of the hounds of tindalos from the Cthulhu mythos
"The warp is an anathema to human life" aaaaand then theres Kaldor Draigo whos like "Sup just killing daemon inside of the warp"
1st of all, i detest ads.
2nd of all, that was a top tier transition into one Sir
18:40 Ummm the Grimm dark is horrible enough and now we have predators as well ,damn
The vampire sounds oddly.....familiar.......almost like an emperor.
What if the false emperor is just a vampire and the blood angels are got a part of it
Better help is insidious. The idea that an app that is supposed to connect you with a therapist, psychologist or psychiatrist, to alleviate your mental problems, only to then sell that data to various entities that will target you online with ads for specific things that YOU STRUGLE WITH THAT might just undo you, or just in general broadcast something that should be under CONFIDENTIALITY, thus in general making you unable to find work online is as EVIL as it gets.
Please do not endorse them, no mater how much they pay you for a commercial!!!
Would love to read a cryptid hunter kind of story in 40k, maybe a rogue trader exploring and investigating all kinds of gruesome rumours in the galaxy.
Oh no an eldritch horror!
*racks boltgun*
I love the Astarl Hounds the fact that they syphon the psychic energy from their prey makes them more deadly
I think a segment about the catachan devil would be cool.
1:27 smoothest transition
Not a single reference to warp jumping crocodiles that eat planets. Such a shame.
First and last one Sound a bit like a flayed One. (the later more so)
A flayer Lord might still have some Relics on him that enables cloaking.
In the Infinite and the Divine it was shown that flayed Ones sometimes collect Skulls (and build creepy Structures with them)
I made a deal with slaanesh to be able to shred a blast master, but now I got astral hounds on my trail blues