"Yeah I know religious extremism got is into a really bad place last time, but trust me, that just cos it was the wrong SORT of extremism! This time we'll totally make up for it!"
"We just need to crusade more, who cares if it stretches us too thin and makes us more vulnerable to attack. The great crusade fixed everything, so we just got to keep doing that till everyone else is dead and there is no way this can backfire"
Arbiter Ian: The Waning is definitely a topic for another video, if people really want that. Morgan Freeman: The people did, in fact, really want that.
I got a full 10 minutes into this before realizing the title wasn't "Agents of the Imperium". I was thinking Damn, he's *really* giving us the backstory/context.
The forging era sounds like a good era to live, a quite long era, stable, relatively peaceful, the Primarchs have dissapeared but Chaos forces are still reeling from their losses, nor does Xenos like orks show up in forces yet, New STCs being found here and there, it is the closest thing imperium of Man have to an era of progress
and the most chilling thing about 40k’s lore are the normal people (basically us) inside these stories virtually being the most useless and unimportant speck of beings, prepositioned from birth to become a mere hindrance of the greater grim galactic turmoil
Or normal people (basically like us) who end up being placed in a ridiculously dangerous position in charge some minor thing for half a galaxy and then become mostly concerned with holding onto that position and not getting executed.
One of the many hypocrisies of the imperium: humans are perfect beings and the only life of any value in universe, but also the most abundant and disposable resource available. The concept of humanity must be defended at any cost but individual humans and their wellbeing must be sacrificed to defend it
@@jamblpaints8453is is hypocrisy to want to defend those who cannot defend themselves? If so, then every military is by your definition hypocrisy. To defend a civilization, some must be willing or able to be sacrificed to hold off enemies who seek to destroy it. The feudalistic tithes of the Imperium keeps the defense lines strong. I’d argue the greater hypocrisy is using Astartes, mutants in all but name, when the Imperium considers any mutations to be repugnant to the perfection of humanity. The irony is that this hypocrisy is one of the only things ensuring the Imperium’s continuance.
@@jamblpaints8453Yeah, it is like when Eldrad used eldar soul stones and lives (not to mention tricking his craftworld allies to be distractions) to fuel an extremely risky ritual that no other farseers were willing to do.
In many ways, the Imperium is a succession of broken empires rebuilt from the ruins of their predecessors, each claiming direct lineage to the Emperor's Imperium.
This is one of your best videos yet, it's really comprehensive and its mere runtime made it possible for me to suggest it to some friends who would never watch something longer. You should absolutely cover the Waning in itself! And more specifically, I think the Gothic War deserves a video of its own in your style. It's such a cool conflict!
So Guilliman was intrumental in reorganising the Imperium following the Heresy, so that no one person could command enough forces to threaten mankind. And then as soon as he wakes up, he's like 'sod that, we're off on another crusade so give me control of the Imperium's entire war resources'. Forward thinking, or hypocrisy? 🤔
It's absolute heresy. What Horus did is less heretical that what Robot Gilligan is doing now. Horus was just the Warmaster. Gilligan is a heretic for consorting with xeno influence and bring those influences to Holy Terra, disposing of the High Lords of Terra (hilariously useless as they are), declaring himself Warmaster, and declaring himself Emperor. I really wish GW would have made the Indomitus Crusade a Horus Heresy-scale civil war, with half of the chapters telling Gilligan to F off and investigating him for heresy nd crimes against the Emperor. That would have been so good.
It was more a change of mind, given the way that the Imperium had changed between his injury and recovery. It would have been the opposite of smart not to take those cirucstances into consideration when formulating a strategy.
Oh hypocrisy, but the Imperium has always been riven with that. One of the big things about 40k is that it's functionally impossible to run a galactic empire (or government, or any political movement really) without making concessions.
Of the xenos only the misc Eldar factions are suitable for this. Tau are too new orks don't need detailed history and so on. And frankly the Eldar lore they try to add is largely pretty bad.9
Great channel. 40k is the best science fiction universe. I love how hopelessly deep the lore is. After reading literally hundreds of these books and novellas...I still haven't read everything. It is insane how much (ultra-expensive) lore there is.
Keep up the good work! I love your summation because it encapsulates the philosophical tensions from which all the jackassery flows at an ever-increasing rate. Just sitting down, shutting up, stopping and thinking for as short as perhaps a long weekend would solve so much of the galaxies woes... and those are things are the unlikeliest outcome possible.
It would be interesting to see a collation of human history as it's understood by a.) commoners b.) nobles and the Mechanicus c.) the Astartes. It's been mentioned that the average citizen believes there were ever only nine Primarchs, and they were created specifically to counter nine 'demons' sent against the Imperium by a generic Evil, which upends the timeline and has the creation of the Space Marine legions after roughly the events that correspond to the Horus Heresy (which makes sense; if there were no space marines at the time they couldn't rebel, and no holy Astartes would ever rebel against the Emperor). It appears even commoners understand Primarchs can die and there's a widely celebrated holy day commemorating Sanguinius's sacrifice. It's a little unclear if even nobles understood the Emperor was wounded; they certainly understood this was true of Guilliman and that he was held in a stasis field (as his body was a site of pilgrimage). My sense is that the official story, believed up to a surprisingly high level (or at least, you're forced to affirm in public) is that the Emperor voluntarily took to the Golden Throne to light the Astronomicon and guide humanity, literally, through the Warp, and that he simply leaves the governance of the Imperium to his servants. It would be interesting to try to figure out if commoners roughly understand the timescales of the Imperium; the mention that the Age of Strife is known commonly as 'Old Night' suggests that yes, they have a sense that 'humanity fell into chaos and the Emperor saved us', rather than 'the Emperor has always existed and always ruled humanity'.
I always see the Imperium pre-heresy as a completely separate entity. But the Horus Heresy novels made it clear that it was just as brutal as 40K at times, with some worlds being devastated by "compliance." Old Night might not have been such a bad thing, after all.
I don't want to be rude but yes; "The Imperium of Man" united under the "Raptor and Lightning" banner was always brutal, miserable and evil, it was modeled on, and explicitly uses ideas & images from, real world fascists which _should_ be massive indicator that it was always bad and never good but hey, I guess in 024M3 we've forgotten the lessons of 939M2
At first, I’m thinking this whole despotic theocracy-thing doesnt really work for the imperium. But on the other hand, it has lasted for 10.000 years, which is pretty damn impressive, so it seems pretty stable afterall.
Most Despots and theocrats "works" as long as they have the resources and military might to keep everything in check and The Emperor left it's Imperium with the biggest army and deepest resources in history. It's just taken 10k years for it to run out
@@No_nameOG Not every civilization deserves to exist and endure forever, specially if hideousness runs rampant in all social classes and spiritually. That was how the Roman Empire or the Egyptian dinasty or the Middle Ages fell. The Imperium in WH40k only endure due mere fiction, suspension of disbelief. For way less many other civilizations ceased to exist in real life.
Geez that was... depressing! I like that this overview of the history of the imperium highlights how even with the many external threats, the empire is as much a threat to itself as chaos or xenos ever is (at least untill the end of the video where everything goes to shit untill Guilliman returns). As someone pretty new to 40k, it's nice to have a guide to how the galaxy got to its current state in under 40 mins. Thanks!
I love the cursed founding. "The space marines of the 21st 'cursed' founding were horribly flawed*" *15 feet tall, wolverine like bone blades, being able to ignite into living flame, being nice but unlucky.
It's funny, the only truly cursed chapter was whichever the "marines that literally explode into flesh-viscera tentacle monstrosities" that one SM unit you were meant to kitbash was supposed to represent. All other chapters were pretty "Normal" - Black Dragons? Mutation that makes them look weird but better at melee - Minotaurs? Big, psychopathic, beefy murder machines - The one that went up in flames? Quite literally inmune to fire and only died because I assume the same Inquisitor from the Space Marine game saw them and declared all of them heretics - The one that became CSM? My guy, EVERY FOUNDING has had a chapter or two go renegade! - The Lamenters? Literally just unlucky... However, they've been around for 5M, so at what point is it superstition and not something real? The blood Angels were almost wiped out by boarding a space hulk and many chapters have been lost in the warp
Great video as usual from my favourite (and best) 40k youtuber. One thing I'm curious about: I've noticed you have skipped the Hrud invasion/war. I was under the impression that was kind of a big deal, but since you've skipped it I assume it's not and we don't have much info about it. Is it so?
There are loads of very throwaway mentions of 'Hrud migrations' but they're about as detailed as 'this world was lost to an Ork Waagh'. There's no single, detailed, massive Hrud war
Do you think it would be interesting to make a summary video about the Horus Heresy era before the books and the whole "new" 30k lore? I have read bits and pieces on Reddit how there were several retcons to the old lore and personally I would love to watch or read a summary of what the state of that period was before it was fleshed out with the book series (and everything else).
You forgot to mention the earliest age of the Arbitor. Where the unwashed masses of humanity was entertained by the Emperor using the moniker of IAN. Praise unto him!
As far as ‘if I really want a video on that’, pretty much whatever you make I’ll enjoy. In my break from the hobby I still loved the lore and you give me silly details I love taking up brain space with.
(On the Beheading) That's weird. Given the fact that thia happened on Terra, wouldn't the Custodians intervene? Why wait a century to fix a relatively easy problem?
it's not the militarism of the great crusade they cling to, from the scouring to the war of the beast the Imperium was demilitarized, Space marines were starting to wonder if their time is up and what will become of them. The orks showed the IoM that they can't become complacent and they are responsible in large part for the state of the Imperium
I personally love the idea of Age of Sigmar's Nighthaunt, but in 40K. Armies of "Stargeists" that slip through tears in the skein of reality, to make war on the living for...whatever reasons seem important to them at the time. Maybe, like with the Year of Ghosts, it's martyrs and faithful of the Imperial Cult, rising up to defend the Emperor's domain against its enemies. Maybe it's the countless billions of Imperial citizens who lived horrible lives under the despotic regime, returned to dismantle the system that oppressed them. Maybe it's the victims of slaughter by Chaos or Xenos powers, from the countless sacrificed on Word Bearer altars to swarms of the devoured chasing splinter hive fleets unceasingly. Or maybe it's the ghosts of dead civilizations, who never forgot or forgave the Imperium for its wars of conquest and extermination during the Great Crusade. It's a very flexible concept, and one I wish 40K would explore as a proper army.
The description of the Pale Wasting matches up way to much with the effects of the Paraiah Nexus and Nightmare engines/army of the deathless is obviously Necrons. Most likely from Bone Kingdom of Drazak, who after their defeat was a broken shell who fell to the madness of the Curse of the Flayed Ones. The Tomb worlds in Ghoul Stars lead by Drazak probably woke up and in the aftermath the Inquisition suppressed all knowledge of the Necrons, as they are want to do. So no one knew about them when they showed up again thousands of years later and all over the galaxy. Oh and it was millions of Primaris Grey Shields at the beginning of Indomitus Crusade, which was said by Guillemin himself to be as many Astartes as started the Great Crusade 10,000 years ago. As for the slow steady decline of the Imperium of Man, it portends that the Cabal was right all along. When they predicted that if Horus lost the Heresy, the IoM would slowly die over next 10 to 20 thousand years. Some even argue that Eldrad only turned against the Cabal because he foresaw in that decline the rise of Ynnead and the only possible salvation of the Alderi. His words about Humanity being a bulwark against Chaos and worth saving more Xeno lies. As his goal was saving the Alderi and cared not that it would require humanities slow death. All saying Humanity was always doomed and there was never any hope for better future.
What annoys me at the 40k setting lately: the scale. The galaxy is vast, like beyone comprehension vast. Even if the Imperium had just colonized 1% of planets, that should still be Trillions of Planets. Armies beyond counting. So if a Black crusade starts, even after succeeding at first, the imperial fleet should outnumber the crusade like 50 to 1 or more. I read the Word Bearers omnibus, where a Word Bearer fleet attacks an imperial garrison system. Like 15000 Word Bearers, a force not heard of for ages encounter like billions of imperial guardsmen, titans, tanks and even 300 Astartes. Chaos is just a glorified pirate fleet. The only real threat to the galaxy imho are the orcs.
I dunno, I think the final, last,proper Dark Crusade will finally unite the galaxy! Also, please more than a million planets/astartes, that is laughably small.
This is the stuff that points out that the Imperium digs it’s own grave and it’s fascist religion is not a “ends justify the means” in a brutal galaxy. Lore context once again shows that this is satire
It sure is convenient how those eons long warp storms abated right at the moment the Emperor was ready to launch his great crusade. Definitely shouldn't look into that further.
Imperium history can be summed up as “just one more Crusade, bro. One more Crusade to fix it.”
"Yeah I know religious extremism got is into a really bad place last time, but trust me, that just cos it was the wrong SORT of extremism! This time we'll totally make up for it!"
To be fair, that was the perspective for the historical Crusades as well too.
Do we count the imperial truth as religious extremism?
@@pmc1727 Kind of, yeah. Militant, zero-tolerance Atheism is as much religious extremism as anything done in the name of a god.
"We just need to crusade more, who cares if it stretches us too thin and makes us more vulnerable to attack. The great crusade fixed everything, so we just got to keep doing that till everyone else is dead and there is no way this can backfire"
Am I already well versed in 40k lore? Yes.
Will I still watch a video about it from Arbitor Ian? Heresy Yes!
Every.Single.Time.
Not just yes, but hell yes
Say that last part again...
Arbiter Ian: The Waning is definitely a topic for another video, if people really want that.
Morgan Freeman: The people did, in fact, really want that.
I got a full 10 minutes into this before realizing the title wasn't "Agents of the Imperium". I was thinking Damn, he's *really* giving us the backstory/context.
Please add more timeline videos, this was extremely satisfying to watch
The forging era sounds like a good era to live, a quite long era, stable, relatively peaceful, the Primarchs have dissapeared but Chaos forces are still reeling from their losses, nor does Xenos like orks show up in forces yet, New STCs being found here and there, it is the closest thing imperium of Man have to an era of progress
Depends on if you're a servitor or factory serf.
Always appreciate your use of both contemporary and older Warhammer art. Captures the vibe of the universe well!
The history of the Imperium, otherwise known as “and then it got worse.”
The only 40k lore videos that go into details and respect the value of the viewers' time. All hail the Arbiter!
And ones that don't make shit up.
@@ScooterinAB {Cough} bricky.
and the most chilling thing about 40k’s lore are the normal people (basically us) inside these stories virtually being the most useless and unimportant speck of beings, prepositioned from birth to become a mere hindrance of the greater grim galactic turmoil
Or normal people (basically like us) who end up being placed in a ridiculously dangerous position in charge some minor thing for half a galaxy and then become mostly concerned with holding onto that position and not getting executed.
One of the many hypocrisies of the imperium: humans are perfect beings and the only life of any value in universe, but also the most abundant and disposable resource available. The concept of humanity must be defended at any cost but individual humans and their wellbeing must be sacrificed to defend it
@@jamblpaints8453is is hypocrisy to want to defend those who cannot defend themselves? If so, then every military is by your definition hypocrisy. To defend a civilization, some must be willing or able to be sacrificed to hold off enemies who seek to destroy it. The feudalistic tithes of the Imperium keeps the defense lines strong.
I’d argue the greater hypocrisy is using Astartes, mutants in all but name, when the Imperium considers any mutations to be repugnant to the perfection of humanity. The irony is that this hypocrisy is one of the only things ensuring the Imperium’s continuance.
@@jamblpaints8453Yeah, it is like when Eldrad used eldar soul stones and lives (not to mention tricking his craftworld allies to be distractions) to fuel an extremely risky ritual that no other farseers were willing to do.
In many ways, the Imperium is a succession of broken empires rebuilt from the ruins of their predecessors, each claiming direct lineage to the Emperor's Imperium.
which is in turn a barbarian upstart built on the ruins of whatever the hell existed back in the age of technology.
This is one of your best videos yet, it's really comprehensive and its mere runtime made it possible for me to suggest it to some friends who would never watch something longer.
You should absolutely cover the Waning in itself! And more specifically, I think the Gothic War deserves a video of its own in your style. It's such a cool conflict!
So Guilliman was intrumental in reorganising the Imperium following the Heresy, so that no one person could command enough forces to threaten mankind. And then as soon as he wakes up, he's like 'sod that, we're off on another crusade so give me control of the Imperium's entire war resources'. Forward thinking, or hypocrisy? 🤔
It's absolute heresy. What Horus did is less heretical that what Robot Gilligan is doing now. Horus was just the Warmaster. Gilligan is a heretic for consorting with xeno influence and bring those influences to Holy Terra, disposing of the High Lords of Terra (hilariously useless as they are), declaring himself Warmaster, and declaring himself Emperor. I really wish GW would have made the Indomitus Crusade a Horus Heresy-scale civil war, with half of the chapters telling Gilligan to F off and investigating him for heresy nd crimes against the Emperor. That would have been so good.
It was more a change of mind, given the way that the Imperium had changed between his injury and recovery. It would have been the opposite of smart not to take those cirucstances into consideration when formulating a strategy.
Oh hypocrisy, but the Imperium has always been riven with that. One of the big things about 40k is that it's functionally impossible to run a galactic empire (or government, or any political movement really) without making concessions.
@@TimeOfSin and the fact Guilliman acts "smart" feels very antithetical to the setting.
@@ScooterinAB "I really wish GW would've killed off the Imperium of Man. That would have been so good." Utter troglodyte.
It’s funny how the imperium got such a detailed lore and history to it but there’s nothing like that for xenos factions in general
Of the xenos only the misc Eldar factions are suitable for this. Tau are too new orks don't need detailed history and so on. And frankly the Eldar lore they try to add is largely pretty bad.9
Great channel. 40k is the best science fiction universe. I love how hopelessly deep the lore is. After reading literally hundreds of these books and novellas...I still haven't read everything. It is insane how much (ultra-expensive) lore there is.
Me: having a shit day
Ian: "Hi gang!"
Me: :)
May the rest of this day and the next days be... not sh*t! Sending positive vibes from one 40k connoisseur to another.
Keep up the good work! I love your summation because it encapsulates the philosophical tensions from which all the jackassery flows at an ever-increasing rate. Just sitting down, shutting up, stopping and thinking for as short as perhaps a long weekend would solve so much of the galaxies woes... and those are things are the unlikeliest outcome possible.
31:55 I am people, and yes I really want that
It would be interesting to see a collation of human history as it's understood by a.) commoners b.) nobles and the Mechanicus c.) the Astartes. It's been mentioned that the average citizen believes there were ever only nine Primarchs, and they were created specifically to counter nine 'demons' sent against the Imperium by a generic Evil, which upends the timeline and has the creation of the Space Marine legions after roughly the events that correspond to the Horus Heresy (which makes sense; if there were no space marines at the time they couldn't rebel, and no holy Astartes would ever rebel against the Emperor). It appears even commoners understand Primarchs can die and there's a widely celebrated holy day commemorating Sanguinius's sacrifice. It's a little unclear if even nobles understood the Emperor was wounded; they certainly understood this was true of Guilliman and that he was held in a stasis field (as his body was a site of pilgrimage). My sense is that the official story, believed up to a surprisingly high level (or at least, you're forced to affirm in public) is that the Emperor voluntarily took to the Golden Throne to light the Astronomicon and guide humanity, literally, through the Warp, and that he simply leaves the governance of the Imperium to his servants. It would be interesting to try to figure out if commoners roughly understand the timescales of the Imperium; the mention that the Age of Strife is known commonly as 'Old Night' suggests that yes, they have a sense that 'humanity fell into chaos and the Emperor saved us', rather than 'the Emperor has always existed and always ruled humanity'.
Excellent video. It’s nice to step back & see the hundred centuries of the Imperium broken down into somewhat more manageable chunks.
I always see the Imperium pre-heresy as a completely separate entity. But the Horus Heresy novels made it clear that it was just as brutal as 40K at times, with some worlds being devastated by "compliance." Old Night might not have been such a bad thing, after all.
I don't want to be rude but yes; "The Imperium of Man" united under the "Raptor and Lightning" banner was always brutal, miserable and evil, it was modeled on, and explicitly uses ideas & images from, real world fascists which _should_ be massive indicator that it was always bad and never good but hey, I guess in 024M3 we've forgotten the lessons of 939M2
If you ignore Eldar raiders, Enslavers, uncontrollable psykers, genetic scientists creating human centipedes,...
@@FordddyyyOf course it was. Like how the later Eldar Empire was modelled on debaucheries only seen in upper class.
@@TSInfiMa-r6zYou could be talking about either old night or M41
@@Nobody-zl3kk I was talking about Old Night.
At first, I’m thinking this whole despotic theocracy-thing doesnt really work for the imperium. But on the other hand, it has lasted for 10.000 years, which is pretty damn impressive, so it seems pretty stable afterall.
Yeah, terrible as it is, it's doing better than we are now.
Most Despots and theocrats "works" as long as they have the resources and military might to keep everything in check and The Emperor left it's Imperium with the biggest army and deepest resources in history. It's just taken 10k years for it to run out
@@ScooterinAB What do you mean?
@@Aberinkula9 what civilization has lasted 10,000 years? Even ancient Egypt fell to ruin several times.
@@No_nameOG Not every civilization deserves to exist and endure forever, specially if hideousness runs rampant in all social classes and spiritually. That was how the Roman Empire or the Egyptian dinasty or the Middle Ages fell. The Imperium in WH40k only endure due mere fiction, suspension of disbelief. For way less many other civilizations ceased to exist in real life.
I think it would be really rad to hear you go through the time of ending in as succinct manner as possible.
I love how Imperium history is just our history turned up to 11. Pure beautiful 80s style!
Geez that was... depressing!
I like that this overview of the history of the imperium highlights how even with the many external threats, the empire is as much a threat to itself as chaos or xenos ever is (at least untill the end of the video where everything goes to shit untill Guilliman returns).
As someone pretty new to 40k, it's nice to have a guide to how the galaxy got to its current state in under 40 mins. Thanks!
Yeah and also Chaos would basically disappear if Humanity died out.
@kerlyenai it would probably die out if the Imperium decided to go with chaos prevention instead of abstinence
@@Yurt_enthusiast7 True but then it wouldn't be the Imperium.
@@kerlyenai yeah it would be a boring setting if the Imperium did anything right😄
@@Yurt_enthusiast7 Indeed!
17:33 about time those lazy bones did something for a change other then being dead.
Just 5 more minutes...
I love the cursed founding. "The space marines of the 21st 'cursed' founding were horribly flawed*"
*15 feet tall, wolverine like bone blades, being able to ignite into living flame, being nice but unlucky.
The point is, Astartes are not supossed to have any of those things.
It's funny, the only truly cursed chapter was whichever the "marines that literally explode into flesh-viscera tentacle monstrosities" that one SM unit you were meant to kitbash was supposed to represent.
All other chapters were pretty "Normal"
- Black Dragons? Mutation that makes them look weird but better at melee
- Minotaurs? Big, psychopathic, beefy murder machines
- The one that went up in flames? Quite literally inmune to fire and only died because I assume the same Inquisitor from the Space Marine game saw them and declared all of them heretics
- The one that became CSM? My guy, EVERY FOUNDING has had a chapter or two go renegade!
- The Lamenters? Literally just unlucky... However, they've been around for 5M, so at what point is it superstition and not something real? The blood Angels were almost wiped out by boarding a space hulk and many chapters have been lost in the warp
You tell this story with such style
Ok, I'm only like 13 minutes in, but this is a phenomenal video so far. Well done.
I realy want the m41 video that 12 houera long!
Thanks for you great work
Take a shot everytime the ecclesiarchy tries to power grab. You'll get tanked.
I love this channel! Love the narration, I'm hooked.
"If people want that"
Why yes, yes I do
27:14 that's like right out of the TV show Andromeda, Nova Bombs.
With all these wars and rebellions and massive loss, it makes you wonder how the imperium still maintain a million worlds in the first place
I came here for the Badab. I was not disappointed.
Many thanks for this awesome video!
This begs the question is the imperium bad because of circumstance or do they create the awfulness of the universe by being awful.
Both, in a permanent cycle. Bad thing happen, and they react in the worst way, and everyone is so desperate to survive they mostly make it worse
Sounds like a relationship I was in before I met my wife.
@@pmc1727 She a Necron?
@@jonbaxter2254 chaos cultist of khorne.
Great video, thank You Ian.
Great video as usual from my favourite (and best) 40k youtuber. One thing I'm curious about: I've noticed you have skipped the Hrud invasion/war. I was under the impression that was kind of a big deal, but since you've skipped it I assume it's not and we don't have much info about it. Is it so?
There are loads of very throwaway mentions of 'Hrud migrations' but they're about as detailed as 'this world was lost to an Ork Waagh'. There's no single, detailed, massive Hrud war
Video on the Sabbat Worlds Crusade please 🙏
Would definitely been interested in a 41st millenuim history vid too!
Pretty sure the Khan is chilling with his harem of Drukari...
Do you think it would be interesting to make a summary video about the Horus Heresy era before the books and the whole "new" 30k lore? I have read bits and pieces on Reddit how there were several retcons to the old lore and personally I would love to watch or read a summary of what the state of that period was before it was fleshed out with the book series (and everything else).
Awesome work ian
You forgot to mention the earliest age of the Arbitor.
Where the unwashed masses of humanity was entertained by the Emperor using the moniker of IAN.
Praise unto him!
Corax didn't vanish. He when hunting.
What's the book the detailed timeline comes from? Is it currently obtainable? Great stuff in any case.
As far as ‘if I really want a video on that’, pretty much whatever you make I’ll enjoy. In my break from the hobby I still loved the lore and you give me silly details I love taking up brain space with.
Damnit ! Here were go again !! For the Imperium!! XDLol
Thank you brother!
31:44 a series of videos devoted solely to the events of 999.M41 would dwarf the HH
Always tickles me that parts of (famously litigious) GW's 40k IP is lifted wholesale from Dune.
Great video though 👍
Love this channel. Keep up the great work.
Are you going to do the ages of other factions too
Love your videos, this is a great one 🫡⚡️
Oh yeah, definitely do a video for the entire Time of Ending
Nice new intro ian!
Dark Mechanicum is busy with all the busty bots in comments. May the Omnissiah direct you away from distraction and towards the glory of the machine.
Good video, thank you.
(On the Beheading)
That's weird. Given the fact that thia happened on Terra, wouldn't the Custodians intervene? Why wait a century to fix a relatively easy problem?
The custodians care about protecting the person of the emperor. The high lords can nice or can be tyrants, it doesn't matter to them
@@ArbitorIan and I thought space marines were "holier than thou"
And Constantine Valdor is on his way for another crusade😂😂😂
Love your videos ❤
it's not the militarism of the great crusade they cling to, from the scouring to the war of the beast the Imperium was demilitarized, Space marines were starting to wonder if their time is up and what will become of them. The orks showed the IoM that they can't become complacent and they are responsible in large part for the state of the Imperium
Wait this isn't about my favourite RTS game series by Ensemble studios😉
I know that 40k is your thing but I was wondering if you would branch out like Battletech?
Don't think I didn't notice that new arbitor animation 😂
God i wish they'd retcon the war of the beast already
What a miserable time to be alive the 41st mellenium is.
Awesome video, I love your videos especially now that AI voice channels, doing warhammer 40k lore, are constantly suggested to me and they suck ass.
The Year of the Ghosts sounds metal af. The souls of the dead rise up to defeat Chaos?
I mean....apparently. Maybe. Who knows?
It's the Imperium so it's also likely chaos was defeated by bread and someone wrote it down wrong.
Or everybody got drunk.
I personally love the idea of Age of Sigmar's Nighthaunt, but in 40K. Armies of "Stargeists" that slip through tears in the skein of reality, to make war on the living for...whatever reasons seem important to them at the time.
Maybe, like with the Year of Ghosts, it's martyrs and faithful of the Imperial Cult, rising up to defend the Emperor's domain against its enemies. Maybe it's the countless billions of Imperial citizens who lived horrible lives under the despotic regime, returned to dismantle the system that oppressed them. Maybe it's the victims of slaughter by Chaos or Xenos powers, from the countless sacrificed on Word Bearer altars to swarms of the devoured chasing splinter hive fleets unceasingly. Or maybe it's the ghosts of dead civilizations, who never forgot or forgave the Imperium for its wars of conquest and extermination during the Great Crusade.
It's a very flexible concept, and one I wish 40K would explore as a proper army.
It's probably about the legion of the damned right? Or maybe a Imperium spinned story about necrons fighting chaos
The description of the Pale Wasting matches up way to much with the effects of the Paraiah Nexus and Nightmare engines/army of the deathless is obviously Necrons. Most likely from Bone Kingdom of Drazak, who after their defeat was a broken shell who fell to the madness of the Curse of the Flayed Ones. The Tomb worlds in Ghoul Stars lead by Drazak probably woke up and in the aftermath the Inquisition suppressed all knowledge of the Necrons, as they are want to do. So no one knew about them when they showed up again thousands of years later and all over the galaxy.
Oh and it was millions of Primaris Grey Shields at the beginning of Indomitus Crusade, which was said by Guillemin himself to be as many Astartes as started the Great Crusade 10,000 years ago.
As for the slow steady decline of the Imperium of Man, it portends that the Cabal was right all along. When they predicted that if Horus lost the Heresy, the IoM would slowly die over next 10 to 20 thousand years. Some even argue that Eldrad only turned against the Cabal because he foresaw in that decline the rise of Ynnead and the only possible salvation of the Alderi. His words about Humanity being a bulwark against Chaos and worth saving more Xeno lies. As his goal was saving the Alderi and cared not that it would require humanities slow death. All saying Humanity was always doomed and there was never any hope for better future.
Awesome video.
What annoys me at the 40k setting lately: the scale. The galaxy is vast, like beyone comprehension vast. Even if the Imperium had just colonized 1% of planets, that should still be Trillions of Planets. Armies beyond counting. So if a Black crusade starts, even after succeeding at first, the imperial fleet should outnumber the crusade like 50 to 1 or more. I read the Word Bearers omnibus, where a Word Bearer fleet attacks an imperial garrison system. Like 15000 Word Bearers, a force not heard of for ages encounter like billions of imperial guardsmen, titans, tanks and even 300 Astartes. Chaos is just a glorified pirate fleet. The only real threat to the galaxy imho are the orcs.
The Adventures of Psychic Space Hitler.
the timeline kinda currently ends with lion man awakening.
I dunno, I think the final, last,proper Dark Crusade will finally unite the galaxy!
Also, please more than a million planets/astartes, that is laughably small.
What is an stc pattern??
When is the next Horus Heresy book club?
OUT RIGHT NOW for members/patreons. Out in a week or two for everyone else!
Thanks, I learned a lot from this
I’m a bit confused…is Warhammer the same universe as 40k?
If we really want that? You must be joking😂
Greatly appreciated as always!
Thay won't do a film because you will never be able to put across how God like a primark is in just pictures 😢😢
Dogue Vandire!
Ian says Unification Wars, I take a drink
Those few misguided folks who unironically regard the Imperium as aspirational REALLY need to watch this video.
One of those misguided here. Watched the video. Very inspiring=)
Hey Charlene, Arbitor Ian has dropped a 40 minuter. Drop that hog and come see
I'm doing my part to please Algo
A video for the Time of Ending will be interesting. May need to be two videos.😊
Yaaaaaaaaass!!! Also who are you liking on UK RuDR this year? I’m loving Kyran, La Voix and Kiki
I think Kyran is a good early contender but I think La Voix is gonna be out within weeks! Still cannot forgive Dita for that song!
This is the stuff that points out that the Imperium digs it’s own grave and it’s fascist religion is not a “ends justify the means” in a brutal galaxy. Lore context once again shows that this is satire
Summary: and then it got worse 💀
"Has no protagonist" - cuts to propaganda shot of Bobby G
yes please ian vids on the time of ending
I'm sorry your calling him Roboute what now?
I really hope they adapt 40k universe correctly. If not, don't touch it
Please make another one like this but focused on the 41st time period
It sure is convenient how those eons long warp storms abated right at the moment the Emperor was ready to launch his great crusade. Definitely shouldn't look into that further.
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Babe, wake up, Ian’s dropped a new video….…. Babe?