Yes, yes we can! Take Emperor class battleship, alter the design to have two warp engines one for movement and when in firing mode both create type of ship length warp railgun to fire arcane beam of pure blackness, to for instance tyranid hive fleet, removing them from existence in a instant. Can also be utilized as extreme exterminatus weapon to delete planets with out real counter. With special null being the operator it turns warp into anti-warp so its absolutely effective against demons and warp, so crusade to eye of terror anyone?
"Fools have asked 'Why did the Dark Age of Technology end in the fall of humanity?', and other fools answer back 'Folly' or 'Pride' or 'The Worship of Progress', as if these things alone had any meaning. The answer, as the wise know, is simple. It is because finally humanity had the arts at their disposal to make their dreams reality, and the dreams of humanity have ever been the darkest things in all creation." - Introduction to the Emerald Testament, Suppressed work of the Technoarchaeologist Synecius Thorn, M39
It reminds me of the movie Forbidden planet. Where this marvelously advanced civilization created thought manifested energy manipulation. Incredibly civilized culture, wiped out in a single night. They had forgotten about their more animal unconscious, which stuck out like a tempest of doom and rendered them extinct over night.
... Second only to that of the Eldar--of course, we could never hope to compare with a race of xenos that LITERALLY CREATED A CHAOS GOD OF EXCESS out of their excess. All we're guilty of is showing we're willing to obliterate everything with the intention of preserving ourselves.
@@tunguskalumberjack9987 I copied it from the Lexicanum article on the Ordo Sinister, was having a read after listening to this and it seemed appropriate given the tone of the video.
Sam MacIntyre Ah- I see. Well, you were certainly correct in choosing an appropriate quote. I was mistaken in thinking that you had written it, but your choosing of it is not lessened by that- my first comment still applies- nice work-in finding a quote so appropriate to the subject.
a galaxy that seems literally hellbent on causing humanity pain and suffering, laid low by that same human pain and suffering.... how sinisterly poetic
"Its ammunition is people." That really put it into perspective. Psi Titans are so spooky but in suuuuch a good way. Bligh really out did himself with this stuff. Goodnight Alan, wherever you are.
Imagine if instead of psykers, we used librarians in these. Specifically iron hands. They'd last longer because they train their minds to perfection for stuff like this, they are literally cyborg space marines so they'd interface better with the machine spirit and the titan's chassis, and they would boost the power immensely. I'd suggest taking one from the templars of iron, the most mentally stable of the iron hands successor chapters.
You could almost hear the pain in his voice as The Chronicler signed off. Having read such a horrible atrocity committed by the Emperor, a device that exploits human suffering and of course acts as the worst old tech the Imperium has or had...you can hear his faith shattering. Too bad he doesn’t know what waits for him on the other side, what horrors that beast must fight to keep him safe. Aside from that, this was actually really awesome and wonderful to hear about this faction I didn’t know existed. I mean I know they are new, but it was nice to learn about them. Thanks again and keep up the awesome work!
One person once pointed out that the Sons of The Emperor, our Primarchs as he called them, all have facets of personality drawn from Him on the Throne. Another time shortly thereafter, somebody pointed out the connection between Konrad Curze and The Emperor, that Konrad would very much like to have one of these at his disposal. Only Curze could enjoy something so utterly abominable as this to its fullest potential.... and only The Emperor could bring it into being.
This is wonderful. Your voice acting is amazing - well done for the use of voice to demonstrate utter disgust. It's the character which keeps me coming back to these videos. They are a real cut above all other lore videos.
Kieran Mathers I agree- he’s awesome! I think the best examples of what you’re describing are to be found in videos where he talks about the Eldar at length. The disgust audibly DRIPS from his performance. Almost enough to feel bad for anything so despised! Almost... =][=
It's the way that he audibly pronounces the capital H when referring to He who sits on the throne. And His holy writ. You can literally hear it in every reference to the Emperor. Even in records like this one, where Oculus appears to be second guessing His decision to gift His people with this most awesome of protections... 😉
I love that the emperor was the genius behind this creation. He represents humanity in its entirety, our inherent potential for greatness and depravity, our ability to create beauty and abhorrence in equal measure. He wants the best for humanity and he's not afraid to do anything and everything to achieve it. A complex character with many shades of grey within his deified mystic. The Emperor Protects...by any means necessary!
@@jimvenanzio6561 Yeah.... I think a lot of exterminated Planets, where the only sin their people comited Was the wish to life a life free from opression, crushing taxes and their World bring ruined by a Regime that does Not care if they live or die, beg to differ.....
People always say the inquisition is coming for him after every video, but would that explain where he gets this knowledge from? I think he works for the inquisition, teaching inquisitors and interrogators the information they need to properly do their jobs.
@@pretzelbomb6105 I’m pretty sure “in lore” he’s sanctioned by guiliman himself. He’s mentioned thst in a video that his ordo was given special treatment by the regent
This Chronicler has opened my eyes to the 40k universe in ways I never thought possible. By the Throne, his knowledge casts the Emperor's golden light into the darkest voids of our galaxy.
The Emperors knowledge casts his golden light into the darkest voids of our galaxy by creating the psi titan which casts darkest voids into the golden light of our galaxy.
Late to the party but there is some writing here, particularly at the end deserving the horror of the weapon it uses that is absolutely superb. Legitimately incredibly crafted prose. Well done.
Consider not the Psi-titan as evil. Consider instead what brought it into being, and why. What could be so terrible, that the King of Terrors itself would be a lesser evil?
@@esukgfjyijlgul5335 We don't have anything like chaos in the real world.....or genestealers, orks, dark eldar....and thank all that holy for that. There isn't such a thing as "too extreme" when it comes to the prevention of chaos. Literally, anything you can think of.....ANYTHING...it's not even 1% of 1% of 1% of the sheer vileness of chaos. Whatever the imperium does, and that can get BAD.......chaos is much...Much...MUCH worse.
I think something more horrifying is that, depending on whom you ask, that is exactly what happens to all souls of everyone that dies in the warhammer 40k universe that is not specifically protected in some manner. In fact, if this thing actually destroys the immortal souls of every psyker it uses as ammo, they are better off than the majority of other humans in death.
When the Historator allows us into the Imperial archives, my inner Rogal Dorn goes, "yay, upload!". Indeed, my Primarch-Primogenitor, yay, upload... Indeed.
Given how calmly and thoughtfully the chronicler details innumerable horrors of rhe universe, it's all the more potent when you can feel the depth of his moral revulsion that this... *thing* not only exists at all, but that it was a human creation sanctioned by the Emperor. Well done, narrator. I award you bonus Logos Historica Verita points.
A weapon borne of humanities brilliance and depravity. Fueling itself with the blazing stars of warp-fire present in every human psyker. To combat the enemies of man directly with the mightiest souls of mankind. Our very nature channeled into pure obliterative energies. Such a thing could only have come to pass by the foulest and noblest intentions. Truly the Emperor was but a man, prone to the folly and hubris of all men, to think that this weapon was anything but an anethema. Better we should have all been destroyed than to permit such a horror to come to be. The only other alternative is unthinkable, to think such a weapon was necessary fills this Inquisitor with dread unimaginable. If this weapon was needed, our enemies must have been powerful beyond mortal ken. If this is the case, we are surely damned to fall to them. But humanity is ultimately characterized by fruitless struggle. Vainglorious final stands against annihilation mark our very existence from the holy cradle of Terra, to the darkest far-flung stretches of the galaxy. Humanity survives, by any means necessary in this dark epoch. Ultimately all stars shall burn out, and matter will one day cease to capably sustain life. But until that blasted day we endure. So I must humbly request all knowledge you have on the subject, vaunted Remembrancer. These weapons must be turned on our foes once again, they must be recreated to shield us in this darkest hour. Your self-sacrificing search for knowledge can and must be bent towards saving us all. I know we demand much from you, as we have demanded countless billions to sacrifice in ages past. But your work must continue, damn the cost, damn the sacrifice, damn its ultimate necessity. Brave scholar, continue your glorious crusade of discovery, the Emperor and his humblest servant stand with you. Ave Imperator. Gloria in excelsis Terra.
People: We fear that which we do not know or understand. Knowledge is the only weapon Against ignorance, and therefore fear can be negated by truth. Ordo Sinister: Trust me. Knowing doesn't make you unafraid. Knowing just means you won't sleep at night.
“So, they just... eat entire planets barren?” “Yes Lord Regent.” “And they mutate constantly?” “No m’lord, the term controlled evolution would be more apt.” “I see. Now, what’s this Tau thing?”
Right on the money; the Oculus is an official member of the _Logos Historica Vertia:_ the order of Historitors established by Roboute Guilliman in order to properly and accurately record, analyze, and catalog all of the Imperium’s history. Both to aid the Primarch in understanding the modern Imperium and how it reached this point, and in completing his next great work; the _Codex Imperialis._
normie: "I don't get it, there's barely any story to this... They're like encyclopedia entries..." me: "No no you don't understand, every entry is filled with drama and tension: each entry creeps closer and closer to the line between education and heresy. You keep thinking 'this guy must have the most powerful patrons on Terra to be able to investigate these subjects unmolested...'"
@@danielhogan6255 I think he has a degree of what you might call diplomatic immunity, I hear he frequently works with the Lord Inquisitor of the Ordo Theoreticus
Sage the omnigeek why yes i believe this to be the same gentlemen! had a bag with him that he claimed contained a bottle of sanctified lubricant and a collection of viberating machines in the shape of male genetalia...i believed these objects may quite literally be coated in chaotic taint. But he had the appropriate purifying auto-litanies and incense and claimed they were for his interregations, so we bade him on his way and dared not question further.
I'm loving your series on Titan Legios, but these two chapters on the Ordo Sinister are simply top notch. The ambiance and immersion you've achieved with your narration is amazing, I could only share the horror in silence. You may have even convinced me to have one of those abominations in my Adeptus Titanicus force... Now that I know more about them, I can't help but notice how close these things are to some Aeldari technologies, such as wraithbone-constructs and distortion cannons. Makes me wonder how things could've been for the Imperium if the Horus Heresy never happened, and humans got access to the Webway...
I didn't really have a favourite Titan legio. I now have one of my favourite things in 40k. Your presentation really gets the nerves tingling keep it up
The Inquisitor listening to the horror of the psi-titans, reaches out and presses the pause button. He sits there in thought for several minutes before he eventually mutters, "We can do better."
Your accounts of these are utter works of art, they don't just bring you into the lore the way you express yourself weaves a tapestry that is both chilling and awe inspiring. This one in particular has to be my favorite. Thank you for these.
26:27 - REMAINING 18! (EIGHTEEN!!). Minus One fallen on Eldari Craftworld and Borealis Thun. Also "It's sacrifice was recorded and remembered but by whom? One cannot say" - probably best meta-fourth wall break ever. Self-aware without being self-aware.
I wish some of these psi-titan class armaments were available for dreadnoughts. Shy of one masochistic friend of mine, I'm not allowed to have these for my amusement.
Yet another masterpiece of your voice acting & yet again actually making us feel your inane discomfort & sheer disgust at such creations & the manner which they work.You sir are a pleasure to listen to.Thankyou.
100%yeah it should...your essentially using a anti warp weapon...if it consumes soul's utterly, then there is nothing that can go to the immaterium...so you blast fulgrim, angron, etc in the face with a psi cannon...gone...like a fart in the wind...ahhh to wipe those stains from our glorious imperium for good.....finally warpborn would know TRUE fear...
In theory you could do that already; banishing daemons is noted as being very unpleasant for the critter in question, and that they need to reagin lost strength in the Warp in between incursions. It should be possible to banish a daemon so hard their corpus never reforms and they dissipate in the currents of energy.
You are amazing. Your engaging and your readings are riveting! I’m so thankful you started this channel because your videos really brighten my day (ironically even though they talk about the grimdark) whenever they come out!
he really is quite engaging! If the eisenhorn show ever gets made and i dont see in the credits "remembrancer- Butt Stuff Kaiju" i will be truly saddened by it lol
Remembrancer, I do not comment often or with much substance to my words, but I wish to impress upon you my praise and adulation for your work. Glory upon you.
I just wanted to say, yours is simply one of the finest 40k lore expositions that I have ever listened to. I'll be heading across to your Patreon, however I wanted to extend my gratitude for your obvious passion in speaking on a world we both love. Emperor save us, in gental observation, your words have certainly been touched by his divine will. Thank you again.
Sir, I have just discovered your channel and quite frankly this is the single best avenue for rediscovering an old passion of mine. I genuinely appreciate the thought and effort you have put into the academic tone, thoroughly and entirely convincing cadence and attention to the detail of what is for all intents and purposes a perfect performance. Bravo & Go raibh maith agat
When i think of the left hand of Darkness I think of 8-Bit theater when Red Mage asks Black Mage how his spell works and he says love basically every time he uses his Hadouken a little love leaves the world he further says that the divorce rate goes up 1% every time he uses it
The redacted location of the battle with the daemons, the way the Psi-Titans seems to be made to directly counter daemons and Eldar, and the personal secrecy the Emperor kept the whole thing under makes me think this might have been part of the larger Webway Project. The Imperial Webway did not shielding from the warp that the original Webway had, so a powerful response and deterrent in case of Daemonic invasion would be necessary. Also of course the forces of Craftworld, Harlequin, and Drukhari Aeldari would contest Imperial conquest into the Webway. The Psi-Titans could defeat both these threats. In fact it seems likely to me that the titan Borealis might have fell fighting a greater Daemon on Holy Terra thus the need for secrecy.
Thank you for another one. It’s not even debatable at this point; you are, unequivocally, the best 40k lore channel. The fact you keep getting better is truly inspiring. (hydra dominatus)
Well, I Guess I'll have another night filled with night terrors like I had with the previous chronicle on this matter, an accomplishment that certainly hasn't been the case for almost a decade, despite the horrors I've been through, witnessed and learned off, this topic raises the age old question, Does the cause justify the means, the Reasons justify the means, or do we draw a line in concrete or sand which we should not cross, and in the case of the latter, indeed a line in the sand, or one engraved in stone, and how pressed we should be to cross that line if at all, Ave Imperator, Gloria in Excelsis Terra.
"To fight monsters, we created the monsters of our own. We are not the ´good guys´. But we WILL conquer this galaxy and we WILL crush everybody and everything that tries to stop us." - Emperor of Mankind ( probably )
Well he DID canonically say "There are monsters, and then there are the monsters we make to fight them; the only difference is how we choose to see ourselves"
It's interesting that our dear chronicler acknowledges, however briefly, that the Emperor created these and then does his level best to forget that. For him, the cognitive dissonance between his reverence and the reality of that reverence's object is simply too great. He keeps talking about how "we" created this abomination, that this shows how "we" are evil and that "we" were wrong to create this. "We" didn't create this. The Emperor did. It was the Emperor, and he alone, that is responsible for this thing that I deem fit competition with the Daemonculaba for worst thing in 40k. Ave Imperator indeed.
Yeah, this is the turning point for me where I couldn't grey zone or the give the emperor the benefit of doubt anymore, this thing was too fucked up, and probably not necessary at all. if he built it in anticipation for a very grand or specific threat, then sure, maybe, but if he is just making greater guns, just to have them. then no. this was too fucked up.
Everyone's just assuming these things fired concentrated beams of thought-energy from tortured psykers, but in thinking through all this, I have a deeper theory... So if using psykana fueled by multiple psykers on opposite ends of the emotional spectrum can create a balanced resonance in its output, resulting in pure psychic essence rather than an energy leaning toward any specific emotion... wielded by a psychic blank, whose nullification properties are amplified through the titan's void shielding by impossibly arcane devices... is it possible that, rather than the engine requiring a blank simply to withstand piloting the machine in the presence of multiple tortured psykers, that the weapon somehow mixes those psychic screams WITH the effects of the pilot's null aura? Considering that the nature of the Warp is a negative impression of reality and can thus rewrite reality at will when exerted, as psykers do to manifest their powers, could it be that the beams projected by the "Left Hand of Darkness" are somehow a resonating reaction whereby the target is flooded by the purest Warp essence while also being exposed to the purest nullification force running counter to it, simultaneously overwriting and erasing the nature of reality to cancel out existence itself... such a thing would simply remove anything in its path, no matter whether its target was corporeal, ethereal or conceptual... possibly even being capable of erasing daemons and other Warp entities permanently due to the existential level of their attacks... ...now THAT is a horrifying concept imo, moreso than simply using the screams of tortured psykers as projectiles... the Emperor figured out how to focus the rarest and most powerful forces of creation into a "reality glitch" that simply deleted whatever was exposed to it, and then figured out how to fire it from a gun... and those were just the prototypes... woe betide the entire galaxy if the Emperor had finished his project...
I'm not going to lie, this one... scared me, in a way that a "proper" Hollywood horror movie never could these days. Knowing the power source of the Sinistramanus Tenebrae, that it feeds on the anguish and pain of the human psykers bound to the machine as their incarceration forces them into close proximity to their very nightmare, a blank, is awful. However, what I find even worse is that, as described, the Sinistramanus Tenebrae absorbs ambient noise. Assuming this then means the weapon system operates in complete silence, I couldn't imagine being one of the psykers damned to power this vendor of death. Any wail you may eek out, any scream, any form of auditory protest, rendered to less than a whisper. It evokes the same terror I'd feel from sleep paralysis episodes as a kid. All in all, excellent work Oculus, as someone who got into 40k relatively late, I'm happy for the existence of chroniclers such as yourself!
Oculus: These titans suck people's essence to generate a literal field of Cannot Be in order to utterly anhilate the enemy. It's awful beyond words! Me, knowing all the shit I do due to 4th wall powers: Is it though?
Somehow I don’t believe, even with the Siege of Terra, that this Ordo truly died during the Heresy - such a force so specifically fashioned to fight exactly the kind of foe that emerged in the Heresy surely could not have fallen, in part much less in full.
The Imperial Household has given you a lot of information here. Not sure why they're holding out on you, when it comes to The War in the (redacted ]I[ ).
@@bradwatson1142 Assuming that Ordo Sinister did fight in the Webway, they might have been lost there, as might all the others, eventually. It seems likely someone would have recorded seeing them, if they had been used more in realspace.
People moan and whimper at the thought of needing to commission the psi-titans but they forget, they wouldn't need to be called into action if everyone did as the Emperor ordered. Deep down, you have only yourselves to blame.
(In character) I respectfully disagree, Historitor. All bodies of the Empire are fuel for the engines, grist for the mill. From the black lung of the armament serf toiling in a manufactorum, to the blood of the Guard on Xenos soil, to the hunched and ruined spine of the peasant farmer working his plot to feed the armies, all suffer, and all will pay their share, in blood, in pain, in agony for the Empire. Glory to those who have the soul and strength, and the psychic gift to feed such a machine! Glory to the Emperor! (Out of Character) Wonderful work, sir. You just made the grimdark even more grimdarker.
I've never been a huge fan of the imperium, both in lore and table top, I've always learned towards orks and later nids. Your videos are changing that, one day I hope GW find you and employ you to do audio books for them..
The music in this one seemed quieter in this one. Still like a horror film though! feel like headphones are a requirement to get the most scare factor out of it.
'Tyrannic-pattern Warlord Sinister Psi-Titans' is probably the most terrifying six words I've ever heard.
Overlord Class Psychic Compliance Grav Fortress.
@@nerag7459 I mean...yeah, that's pretty terrifying as well.
@@wallaosirus I'm brainstorming tech for the Dark Age that Imperial Tech was based on.
@@greyknight5813 Not of which I'm aware.
7:40 if anyone wants to hear Oculus say it
When your primary ammunition magazine, is basically a cryogenic facility full of Grade A psykers straight off the Black ships.
Best part, if you don't kill them with each shot they can be used later
Everybody gangsta until the Gregorian chant is replaced by ominous background noise
Rembrancer: "It is too terrible to even contemplate"
me: "Can we make it bigger?"
Yes, yes we can! Take Emperor class battleship, alter the design to have two warp engines one for movement and when in firing mode both create type of ship length warp railgun to fire arcane beam of pure blackness, to for instance tyranid hive fleet, removing them from existence in a instant. Can also be utilized as extreme exterminatus weapon to delete planets with out real counter. With special null being the operator it turns warp into anti-warp so its absolutely effective against demons and warp, so crusade to eye of terror anyone?
@@Hellsong89 We Crusade! Deus Vult...oh wait. Wrong God.
@@AJZulu Naaa, sounds like exactly the right god to me... xD
@@AJZulu Imperius Vult?
Any tech-heretek:
"Write that down, write that down!"
"Fools have asked 'Why did the Dark Age of Technology end in the fall of humanity?', and other fools answer back 'Folly' or 'Pride' or 'The Worship of Progress', as if these things alone had any meaning. The answer, as the wise know, is simple. It is because finally humanity had the arts at their disposal to make their dreams reality, and the dreams of humanity have ever been the darkest things in all creation."
- Introduction to the Emerald Testament, Suppressed work of the Technoarchaeologist Synecius Thorn, M39
Sam MacIntyre that’s awesome! Nice work-
It reminds me of the movie Forbidden planet. Where this marvelously advanced civilization created thought manifested energy manipulation. Incredibly civilized culture, wiped out in a single night. They had forgotten about their more animal unconscious, which stuck out like a tempest of doom and rendered them extinct over night.
... Second only to that of the Eldar--of course, we could never hope to compare with a race of xenos that LITERALLY CREATED A CHAOS GOD OF EXCESS out of their excess. All we're guilty of is showing we're willing to obliterate everything with the intention of preserving ourselves.
@@tunguskalumberjack9987 I copied it from the Lexicanum article on the Ordo Sinister, was having a read after listening to this and it seemed appropriate given the tone of the video.
Sam MacIntyre Ah- I see. Well, you were certainly correct in choosing an appropriate quote. I was mistaken in thinking that you had written it, but your choosing of it is not lessened by that- my first comment still applies- nice work-in finding a quote so appropriate to the subject.
"TITAN AMMUNITION IS PEOPLE!"
-Oculus chronicler
Human beings!- Psykers, yes- but human beings!
*Me:* "This is warp-fuckery"
*Ordo Sinister:* " *Sanctioned* warp-fuckery!"
a galaxy that seems literally hellbent on causing humanity pain and suffering, laid low by that same human pain and suffering.... how sinisterly poetic
"Its ammunition is people." That really put it into perspective. Psi Titans are so spooky but in suuuuch a good way. Bligh really out did himself with this stuff. Goodnight Alan, wherever you are.
Imagine if instead of psykers, we used librarians in these. Specifically iron hands.
They'd last longer because they train their minds to perfection for stuff like this, they are literally cyborg space marines so they'd interface better with the machine spirit and the titan's chassis, and they would boost the power immensely.
I'd suggest taking one from the templars of iron, the most mentally stable of the iron hands successor chapters.
You could almost hear the pain in his voice as The Chronicler signed off. Having read such a horrible atrocity committed by the Emperor, a device that exploits human suffering and of course acts as the worst old tech the Imperium has or had...you can hear his faith shattering. Too bad he doesn’t know what waits for him on the other side, what horrors that beast must fight to keep him safe.
Aside from that, this was actually really awesome and wonderful to hear about this faction I didn’t know existed. I mean I know they are new, but it was nice to learn about them. Thanks again and keep up the awesome work!
One person once pointed out that the Sons of The Emperor, our Primarchs as he called them, all have facets of personality drawn from Him on the Throne.
Another time shortly thereafter, somebody pointed out the connection between Konrad Curze and The Emperor, that Konrad would very much like to have one of these at his disposal.
Only Curze could enjoy something so utterly abominable as this to its fullest potential.... and only The Emperor could bring it into being.
The Imperium is the worst of all villains.
@@nerag7459 Ever heard of the Dark Eldar Haemonculi?
@@carlospomares3225 ah yes being tortured and mutilated or... being tortured and mutilated in a different way to become a servitor.
This is wonderful. Your voice acting is amazing - well done for the use of voice to demonstrate utter disgust. It's the character which keeps me coming back to these videos. They are a real cut above all other lore videos.
Kieran Mathers I agree- he’s awesome! I think the best examples of what you’re describing are to be found in videos where he talks about the Eldar at length. The disgust audibly DRIPS from his performance. Almost enough to feel bad for anything so despised! Almost... =][=
Agreed!
Agreed. Very well executed.
It's the way that he audibly pronounces the capital H when referring to He who sits on the throne. And His holy writ. You can literally hear it in every reference to the Emperor.
Even in records like this one, where Oculus appears to be second guessing His decision to gift His people with this most awesome of protections... 😉
It’s the character who really sells the lore. He doesn’t just relate what it is but give us a reason to care.
I love that the emperor was the genius behind this creation. He represents humanity in its entirety, our inherent potential for greatness and depravity, our ability to create beauty and abhorrence in equal measure. He wants the best for humanity and he's not afraid to do anything and everything to achieve it. A complex character with many shades of grey within his deified mystic. The Emperor Protects...by any means necessary!
But who brother, can protect you from him?
@@christianfinken6433 *Trololoface* The Holy Inquisition!! Of course, they would be the perfect middle-men.
BY ANY MEANS
@@jimvenanzio6561 Yeah.... I think a lot of exterminated Planets, where the only sin their people comited Was the wish to life a life free from opression, crushing taxes and their World bring ruined by a Regime that does Not care if they live or die, beg to differ.....
...By any means necessary. The Emperor Protects!
Inquisitor: I don't care that it's all true is still heresy.
People always say the inquisition is coming for him after every video, but would that explain where he gets this knowledge from? I think he works for the inquisition, teaching inquisitors and interrogators the information they need to properly do their jobs.
@@pretzelbomb6105 I’m pretty sure “in lore” he’s sanctioned by guiliman himself. He’s mentioned thst in a video that his ordo was given special treatment by the regent
Psychic Mass-Murder Superweapons. What a thing to wake up to in the morning....
Tis a Monday
This Chronicler has opened my eyes to the 40k universe in ways I never thought possible. By the Throne, his knowledge casts the Emperor's golden light into the darkest voids of our galaxy.
The Emperors knowledge casts his golden light into the darkest voids of our galaxy by creating the psi titan which casts darkest voids into the golden light of our galaxy.
Late to the party but there is some writing here, particularly at the end deserving the horror of the weapon it uses that is absolutely superb.
Legitimately incredibly crafted prose.
Well done.
I regularly return to this video to listen to the segment describing the Sinistramanus Tenebrae. Masterfully made.
I remember back when the horror Clive Barker and Graham Masterton came up with were about as vile as we thought things could get.
Weaponised agony, wow, and I thought the daemonculaba were bad.
Nah, they still bad
I'll take a Warlord-Sinister over one of _those_ Iron Warrior horrors any day.
Consider not the Psi-titan as evil.
Consider instead what brought it into being, and why.
What could be so terrible, that the King of Terrors itself would be a lesser evil?
Now, kindly expand this line of thought for human advances in Dark Age of Technology, where Terminator Armours were merely work suits...
The Dark Gods themselves and their agents
that kind of logic can justify anything
@@esukgfjyijlgul5335
We don't have anything like chaos in the real world.....or genestealers, orks, dark eldar....and thank all that holy for that.
There isn't such a thing as "too extreme" when it comes to the prevention of chaos. Literally, anything you can think of.....ANYTHING...it's not even 1% of 1% of 1% of the sheer vileness of chaos.
Whatever the imperium does, and that can get BAD.......chaos is much...Much...MUCH worse.
I think that this is one of the most horrifying things in 40k.
I think something more horrifying is that, depending on whom you ask, that is exactly what happens to all souls of everyone that dies in the warhammer 40k universe that is not specifically protected in some manner. In fact, if this thing actually destroys the immortal souls of every psyker it uses as ammo, they are better off than the majority of other humans in death.
Getting strong HP Lovecraft vibes with this. Excellently rendered
When the Historator allows us into the Imperial archives, my inner Rogal Dorn goes, "yay, upload!". Indeed, my Primarch-Primogenitor, yay, upload... Indeed.
Mmm pure dread. The best breakfast
Jago???? Is that you?!?
The Only Worthy Breakfast
Given how calmly and thoughtfully the chronicler details innumerable horrors of rhe universe, it's all the more potent when you can feel the depth of his moral revulsion that this... *thing* not only exists at all, but that it was a human creation sanctioned by the Emperor.
Well done, narrator. I award you bonus Logos Historica Verita points.
"The Left Hand of Darkness". That sounds... Sinister...
Weaponized nihilism, neat!
Massive underrated comment! I salute you my friend.
How do I learn this power?
@@Deridus be a doomer with psychic aptitude
@@beemus1827 Hmm... Very well. Ave, Omnissiah.
A weapon borne of humanities brilliance and depravity. Fueling itself with the blazing stars of warp-fire present in every human psyker. To combat the enemies of man directly with the mightiest souls of mankind. Our very nature channeled into pure obliterative energies. Such a thing could only have come to pass by the foulest and noblest intentions. Truly the Emperor was but a man, prone to the folly and hubris of all men, to think that this weapon was anything but an anethema. Better we should have all been destroyed than to permit such a horror to come to be. The only other alternative is unthinkable, to think such a weapon was necessary fills this Inquisitor with dread unimaginable. If this weapon was needed, our enemies must have been powerful beyond mortal ken. If this is the case, we are surely damned to fall to them. But humanity is ultimately characterized by fruitless struggle. Vainglorious final stands against annihilation mark our very existence from the holy cradle of Terra, to the darkest far-flung stretches of the galaxy. Humanity survives, by any means necessary in this dark epoch. Ultimately all stars shall burn out, and matter will one day cease to capably sustain life. But until that blasted day we endure. So I must humbly request all knowledge you have on the subject, vaunted Remembrancer. These weapons must be turned on our foes once again, they must be recreated to shield us in this darkest hour. Your self-sacrificing search for knowledge can and must be bent towards saving us all. I know we demand much from you, as we have demanded countless billions to sacrifice in ages past. But your work must continue, damn the cost, damn the sacrifice, damn its ultimate necessity. Brave scholar, continue your glorious crusade of discovery, the Emperor and his humblest servant stand with you. Ave Imperator. Gloria in excelsis Terra.
People: We fear that which we do not know or understand. Knowledge is the only weapon Against ignorance, and therefore fear can be negated by truth.
Ordo Sinister: Trust me. Knowing doesn't make you unafraid. Knowing just means you won't sleep at night.
I like to imagine that these records are being produced for Roboute to help bring him up to speed on the last 10k years.
Gilliman: Oh no... oh no... nonononono
“So, they just... eat entire planets barren?”
“Yes Lord Regent.”
“And they mutate constantly?”
“No m’lord, the term controlled evolution would be more apt.”
“I see. Now, what’s this Tau thing?”
Right on the money; the Oculus is an official member of the _Logos Historica Vertia:_ the order of Historitors established by Roboute Guilliman in order to properly and accurately record, analyze, and catalog all of the Imperium’s history. Both to aid the Primarch in understanding the modern Imperium and how it reached this point, and in completing his next great work; the _Codex Imperialis._
normie: "I don't get it, there's barely any story to this... They're like encyclopedia entries..."
me: "No no you don't understand, every entry is filled with drama and tension: each entry creeps closer and closer to the line between education and heresy. You keep thinking 'this guy must have the most powerful patrons on Terra to be able to investigate these subjects unmolested...'"
Lol an inquisitor shall be along soon for molestation-ahem- i mean interrogation😈
Spread the knowledge, yes, all knowledge and secrets shall be known, methods shall be shifted in his name 😏
@@danielhogan6255 I think he has a degree of what you might call diplomatic immunity, I hear he frequently works with the Lord Inquisitor of the Ordo Theoreticus
Sage the omnigeek why yes i believe this to be the same gentlemen! had a bag with him that he claimed contained a bottle of sanctified lubricant and a collection of viberating machines in the shape of male genetalia...i believed these objects may quite literally be coated in chaotic taint. But he had the appropriate purifying auto-litanies and incense and claimed they were for his interregations, so we bade him on his way and dared not question further.
Jeez, and here's me thinking this was grimdark before you describe it in such terms. Well done, excellent video as always.
Grimmerdark
Only 40k could make a demon killing weapon more fearful then the Demons them selfs
There are no good guys, only those who exist in shades of grey
I'm loving your series on Titan Legios, but these two chapters on the Ordo Sinister are simply top notch. The ambiance and immersion you've achieved with your narration is amazing, I could only share the horror in silence. You may have even convinced me to have one of those abominations in my Adeptus Titanicus force... Now that I know more about them, I can't help but notice how close these things are to some Aeldari technologies, such as wraithbone-constructs and distortion cannons. Makes me wonder how things could've been for the Imperium if the Horus Heresy never happened, and humans got access to the Webway...
I didn't really have a favourite Titan legio. I now have one of my favourite things in 40k. Your presentation really gets the nerves tingling keep it up
Nothing so awesome as a giant mech armed with a weapon that fires suffering and eats souls
@@KillerOrca Only 40k could make this a reality haha.
So TLDR: Giant mechs with giant soul-sucking vacuum cleaners? Neat.
I can imagine the Emperor has some secret weapons on hand, that boggle the mind but are too horrible to use or risk the traitors stealing it.
The Inquisitor listening to the horror of the psi-titans, reaches out and presses the pause button.
He sits there in thought for several minutes before he eventually mutters, "We can do better."
For those wondering, "the Neverborn" is an epithet for warp daemons.
The Sinistramanus Tenebrae must be one of the most horrific things ever thought of.
Your accounts of these are utter works of art, they don't just bring you into the lore the way you express yourself weaves a tapestry that is both chilling and awe inspiring. This one in particular has to be my favorite. Thank you for these.
26:27 - REMAINING 18! (EIGHTEEN!!). Minus One fallen on Eldari Craftworld and Borealis Thun. Also "It's sacrifice was recorded and remembered but by whom? One cannot say" - probably best meta-fourth wall break ever. Self-aware without being self-aware.
I wish some of these psi-titan class armaments were available for dreadnoughts.
Shy of one masochistic friend of mine, I'm not allowed to have these for my amusement.
Well now i’m just imagining an imperial knight with a pair of psykers bolted to one arm and a black hole shotgun on the other.
@@pretzelbomb6105 Thanks for the idea.
Yet another masterpiece of your voice acting & yet again actually making us feel your inane discomfort & sheer disgust at such creations & the manner which they work.You sir are a pleasure to listen to.Thankyou.
I wonder if this thing could kill daemons permanently...
One may be led to believe that this thing was created specifically to do such, as Demons work along the same lines as their weapons.
@@jimvenanzio6561 and i think Neverborn is a term for daemon
@@tea-sus8722 It's, and since Daemons are made from "soul-thought-stuff" an anti-soul weapon would be quite effective against then, in my opinion.
100%yeah it should...your essentially using a anti warp weapon...if it consumes soul's utterly, then there is nothing that can go to the immaterium...so you blast fulgrim, angron, etc in the face with a psi cannon...gone...like a fart in the wind...ahhh to wipe those stains from our glorious imperium for good.....finally warpborn would know TRUE fear...
In theory you could do that already; banishing daemons is noted as being very unpleasant for the critter in question, and that they need to reagin lost strength in the Warp in between incursions. It should be possible to banish a daemon so hard their corpus never reforms and they dissipate in the currents of energy.
You are amazing. Your engaging and your readings are riveting! I’m so thankful you started this channel because your videos really brighten my day (ironically even though they talk about the grimdark) whenever they come out!
he really is quite engaging! If the eisenhorn show ever gets made and i dont see in the credits "remembrancer- Butt Stuff Kaiju" i will be truly saddened by it lol
Remembrancer, I do not comment often or with much substance to my words, but I wish to impress upon you my praise and adulation for your work. Glory upon you.
Eldar Xenos Titans- Kill the Mon'Keigh! Kill them all!
Psi-Titan- *DELETE.*
I just wanted to say, yours is simply one of the finest 40k lore expositions that I have ever listened to. I'll be heading across to your Patreon, however I wanted to extend my gratitude for your obvious passion in speaking on a world we both love. Emperor save us, in gental observation, your words have certainly been touched by his divine will. Thank you again.
I've listened to a whole lot of these videos before this one. But this is the only one that sounds like a straight up horror story.
Chronicler: "no records of the Ordo exist beyond the Heresy."
Me, with Codex: Armaggedon in hand. "Umm, you sure about that?"
Your a good narrator, I almost stopped working to listen better, these guys are messed up in the coolest most 40k way.
Konrad Curze: "I am fear incarnate!"
Ordo Sinister: "That's cute!"
I love the creepy Brown noise track in the background
Sir, I have just discovered your channel and quite frankly this is the single best avenue for rediscovering an old passion of mine.
I genuinely appreciate the thought and effort you have put into the academic tone, thoroughly and entirely convincing cadence and attention to the detail of what is for all intents and purposes a perfect performance.
Bravo & Go raibh maith agat
Twenty Psi-titans to counter twenty Primarchs...should they fall. Brilliant logic!
When i think of the left hand of Darkness I think of 8-Bit theater when Red Mage asks Black Mage how his spell works and he says love basically every time he uses his Hadouken a little love leaves the world he further says that the divorce rate goes up 1% every time he uses it
So... bombardment cannon version of the Tenebre? Daemon world... Deleted... craft world? deleted.... ork attack moons? Delete
That is even more unspeakably horrid
Exterminatus levelPsi cannon beats EVERYTHING!!!(i couldnt help it, seemed an appropriate halo reference)
The redacted location of the battle with the daemons, the way the Psi-Titans seems to be made to directly counter daemons and Eldar, and the personal secrecy the Emperor kept the whole thing under makes me think this might have been part of the larger Webway Project. The Imperial Webway did not shielding from the warp that the original Webway had, so a powerful response and deterrent in case of Daemonic invasion would be necessary. Also of course the forces of Craftworld, Harlequin, and Drukhari Aeldari would contest Imperial conquest into the Webway. The Psi-Titans could defeat both these threats. In fact it seems likely to me that the titan Borealis might have fell fighting a greater Daemon on Holy Terra thus the need for secrecy.
What i learnt today: the Psi-Titans are basically those guys who join a pvp server and stomp it without saying a single word in chat
Thank you for another one.
It’s not even debatable at this point;
you are, unequivocally, the best 40k lore channel. The fact you keep getting better is truly inspiring.
(hydra dominatus)
Beautiful video about most dredful weapon of humanity.
Well, I Guess I'll have another night filled with night terrors like I had with the previous chronicle on this matter, an accomplishment that certainly hasn't been the case for almost a decade, despite the horrors I've been through, witnessed and learned off,
this topic raises the age old question, Does the cause justify the means, the Reasons justify the means, or do we draw a line in concrete or sand which we should not cross, and in the case of the latter, indeed a line in the sand, or one engraved in stone, and how pressed we should be to cross that line if at all,
Ave Imperator, Gloria in Excelsis Terra.
"To fight monsters, we created the monsters of our own.
We are not the ´good guys´. But we WILL conquer this galaxy
and we WILL crush everybody and everything that tries to stop us."
- Emperor of Mankind ( probably )
Well he DID canonically say "There are monsters, and then there are the monsters we make to fight them; the only difference is how we choose to see ourselves"
I was just looking at this stuff! Can't wait to watch!
This was an inspiring performance. Bravo.
“The psi titans weapons fuel are PEOPLE, THIS WEAPONS FUEL IS PEOPLE” 1st sgt, 2nd company blood angels chapter, executed for heresy in 999 M41
This stuff is awesome! I'm curious though, do you plan on covering different imperial guard regiments and what happening to them in the 42 millennium?
Oh snap! Looks like I'm getting my painting on today!
Wraithseer I thought I was the only person who still says “oh snap”! Hahaha-
@@tunguskalumberjack9987 I'm old, so that's as cool as I get these days.
Wraithseer Me too, mate- me too. Genuinely made me laugh! Stay safe and healthy, and have good weekend-
It's interesting that our dear chronicler acknowledges, however briefly, that the Emperor created these and then does his level best to forget that. For him, the cognitive dissonance between his reverence and the reality of that reverence's object is simply too great. He keeps talking about how "we" created this abomination, that this shows how "we" are evil and that "we" were wrong to create this. "We" didn't create this. The Emperor did. It was the Emperor, and he alone, that is responsible for this thing that I deem fit competition with the Daemonculaba for worst thing in 40k.
Ave Imperator indeed.
Personally? I see the psi titan as a glorious weapon, one that shall finally teach the neverborn true fear...this makes me smile.
Yeah, this is the turning point for me where I couldn't grey zone or the give the emperor the benefit of doubt anymore, this thing was too fucked up, and probably not necessary at all.
if he built it in anticipation for a very grand or specific threat, then sure, maybe, but if he is just making greater guns, just to have them. then no. this was too fucked up.
Fantastic episode man. I really enjoyed this one.
One of your finest yet. Ave Occulus!
Everyone's just assuming these things fired concentrated beams of thought-energy from tortured psykers, but in thinking through all this, I have a deeper theory...
So if using psykana fueled by multiple psykers on opposite ends of the emotional spectrum can create a balanced resonance in its output, resulting in pure psychic essence rather than an energy leaning toward any specific emotion... wielded by a psychic blank, whose nullification properties are amplified through the titan's void shielding by impossibly arcane devices... is it possible that, rather than the engine requiring a blank simply to withstand piloting the machine in the presence of multiple tortured psykers, that the weapon somehow mixes those psychic screams WITH the effects of the pilot's null aura? Considering that the nature of the Warp is a negative impression of reality and can thus rewrite reality at will when exerted, as psykers do to manifest their powers, could it be that the beams projected by the "Left Hand of Darkness" are somehow a resonating reaction whereby the target is flooded by the purest Warp essence while also being exposed to the purest nullification force running counter to it, simultaneously overwriting and erasing the nature of reality to cancel out existence itself... such a thing would simply remove anything in its path, no matter whether its target was corporeal, ethereal or conceptual... possibly even being capable of erasing daemons and other Warp entities permanently due to the existential level of their attacks...
...now THAT is a horrifying concept imo, moreso than simply using the screams of tortured psykers as projectiles... the Emperor figured out how to focus the rarest and most powerful forces of creation into a "reality glitch" that simply deleted whatever was exposed to it, and then figured out how to fire it from a gun... and those were just the prototypes... woe betide the entire galaxy if the Emperor had finished his project...
Somewhere Magnus looks at this video and slowly looses his temper, going full "Fuck you, Dad!" mode.
You are an absolutely unbelievably amazing voice actor
Literal "delete" button, the titan.
I'm not going to lie, this one... scared me, in a way that a "proper" Hollywood horror movie never could these days. Knowing the power source of the Sinistramanus Tenebrae, that it feeds on the anguish and pain of the human psykers bound to the machine as their incarceration forces them into close proximity to their very nightmare, a blank, is awful. However, what I find even worse is that, as described, the Sinistramanus Tenebrae absorbs ambient noise. Assuming this then means the weapon system operates in complete silence, I couldn't imagine being one of the psykers damned to power this vendor of death. Any wail you may eek out, any scream, any form of auditory protest, rendered to less than a whisper. It evokes the same terror I'd feel from sleep paralysis episodes as a kid.
All in all, excellent work Oculus, as someone who got into 40k relatively late, I'm happy for the existence of chroniclers such as yourself!
Absolutely stunning delivery!
Amazing stuff as always Occulus , much love and respect from Eire ☘️
Oculus: These titans suck people's essence to generate a literal field of Cannot Be in order to utterly anhilate the enemy. It's awful beyond words!
Me, knowing all the shit I do due to 4th wall powers: Is it though?
The emperor makes the best toys.
Somehow I don’t believe, even with the Siege of Terra, that this Ordo truly died during the Heresy - such a force so specifically fashioned to fight exactly the kind of foe that emerged in the Heresy surely could not have fallen, in part much less in full.
The 20 were destroyed in the webway war!
And the other 5 are in the catacombs under the palace, guarded by the custodes
The Imperial Household has given you a lot of information here.
Not sure why they're holding out on you, when it comes to The War in the (redacted ]I[ ).
Where do you think the other 5 went
@@bradwatson1142 Assuming that Ordo Sinister did fight in the Webway, they might have been lost there, as might all the others, eventually. It seems likely someone would have recorded seeing them, if they had been used more in realspace.
Always a chance the other five were too damaged or destroyed trying to refine the construction of psi-titans. Failed prototypes.
@Jesse Berg either the big G is giving these info to the chronicler in secret or occulus is actually a rogue secretum temple assassin in disguise.
I've had a long think about this perfect and eerie video. Superb stuff. I do have a thought on where Borealis Thoon fell...
War Within The Webway?
You did a masterful job with this video.
People moan and whimper at the thought of needing to commission the psi-titans but they forget, they wouldn't need to be called into action if everyone did as the Emperor ordered.
Deep down, you have only yourselves to blame.
(In character) I respectfully disagree, Historitor. All bodies of the Empire are fuel for the engines, grist for the mill. From the black lung of the armament serf toiling in a manufactorum, to the blood of the Guard on Xenos soil, to the hunched and ruined spine of the peasant farmer working his plot to feed the armies, all suffer, and all will pay their share, in blood, in pain, in agony for the Empire. Glory to those who have the soul and strength, and the psychic gift to feed such a machine! Glory to the Emperor!
(Out of Character) Wonderful work, sir. You just made the grimdark even more grimdarker.
7:30 - not loss. 5 Warlords probably where either prototypes.... or now sport golden-red livery and even more exotic or powerful weaponary.
Amazing video, top 5 for sure!
This is the best lore channel.
Abominable witches : Exist
Ordo Sinister : *Ah ah ah ! Not so fast, sweetie :)*
A very extremely awesome video as always Oculus Imperia.
So if you fire one of these things at Eldar, you are essentially serving Slaanesh takeout.
I've never been a huge fan of the imperium, both in lore and table top, I've always learned towards orks and later nids. Your videos are changing that, one day I hope GW find you and employ you to do audio books for them..
This is one your best. Beautifully sinister indeed.
This is the most awesome 40k think I've ever heard!
Just saying i cross over between you and luetin for a history of the 'Titan death' battle would be out of this world!
Uploaded Imperium data...excellent. Excellent.
It's nice to see a citizen of the Imperium with a sense of decency.
The music in this one seemed quieter in this one. Still like a horror film though! feel like headphones are a requirement to get the most scare factor out of it.
Imma wait til tonight, like 3 am, then grab my headphones.😁