The Golden Throne's Death & The Drukhari Emperor | Warhammer 40K Lore
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In Warhammer 40K we are told that the golden throne is failing, when it dies it will be the end of humanity. This is the center of a massive conspiracy that was uncovered by 2 inquisitors in the vaults of tera trilogy. The craziest part was that humanity's salvation would end up coming from one of the most unlikely sources, The Dark FREAKIN Eldar! but what did they want in return? Spoiler alert...Something to horrible for words.
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3:24 The End Of The Golden Throne
8:29 The Conspiracy Is Uncovered: Book 1
13:37 The Dark Eldar, An Unlikely Savior.
25:18 What Does This Mean For 40K's Future?
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First off.
Good work...
Second I have a tiff with this whole 30 years of lore
The very pure pressure from our ancestors we are still trying to lift.
So it would be wonderful if there is a way that you can comprehensively understand that multiple factions are trying to get their hands on a golden throne and a emperor.
Such as tryzeen white the fulgrim clone. And the complete 1 to 1 of the golden throne. Granted tryzeen is entirely doing this purely to do something.
And getting a copy of the emperor is challenging for him. Making it worth tryzeen's while.
While the drukari have been trying to reach the emperor about his cars extended warranty.
And by this I mean. Ever since slannesh's birth.
The dark eldari have not only been making humanity in general suffer. Not because they want to of course. But because they have to in order to sustain.
Meaning.
Why wouldn't the drukari attempt to make a half baked version of the emperor and the golden throne.
Though this throne and emperor would be half baked to us.
To the drukari. It would be enough to free them from slannesh's captivity.
Even if it was the equivalent of merely a flash bang into the eyes of the chaos entity known as slannesh.
With the birth of the drukari emperor.
Probably known along the lines as king homunculus.
And would probably suffer a backwards version of what happened to the inquisitor when his blood mixed with the homunculus.
Where instead of the inquisitor being slowly transformed into the homunculus where the only thing preventing complete melding of the inquisitor and the homunculus is the inquisitors will power.
Meaning.
The drukari homunculus lord would more than likely begin to exhibit traits of the emperor of mankind despite merely being a homunculus. With the emperor's genetic code.
And in theory as is done with slannesh here.
I do plan on doing to the rest of the chaos pantheon.
With krons representation. It would be the Tau. Specifically that of the farsight enclave.
While tzeench would be nekrons and nurgle the kroot.
Just makes sense in my mind don't know about y'all's or if I will be able to translate said sense that I have about these things.
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you know, if you think about it. the emperor isnt who would be put on the dark throne. it owuld be the star-child. think about it. they pull souls not whole gods and that thing is the only non-claimed source of his power in realspace. a shard of the emperor is something they can bind. its not TOO strong, kinda like a shard of Magnus.
that might just be fan theory worthy
next book series: Dark eldari perfectly clone the god emperor, trazyn shows up, goes "yoink" hilarity ensues
Also yoinks the whole scene of demon invasion, thus saving drukhari and the web.
And then it is never used again, everything returns to the norm.
Also somehow there should be an old man's squabble with Orikan, and all those galaxy-defining events are just background and nothing more than Trazyn's shenanigans.
This would be the peak current WH40k
, I will totally pay for that series on paper
The "Vaults of Terra" covered a Dark Eldar plot, which was to retrieve some of Emps DNA to create a clone of him. They failed.
who else but trazyn
*LAUGH TRACK PLAYS*
@@GTFODeathknight"it's Traazyn Traazyn you never know what he's gonna do next!"
Plot twist: the eldar accidentally create a perfect body for the emperors soul to reside so he just hops to the new body, obliterates all the local eldar and goes back to terra
By the time he would be out of the webway there would be no terra.
Emporor: Calculated.
@@LiShuBen gamesworkshop: hey, now, let’s not get crazy here. You’re giving our go nowhere universe something important and we can’t have that
Weird question... Is Emperor strongest psyker in galaxy or there are like Eldr psykers who were stronger?
@@Keram-io8hvthe emperor is number one by FAR.
Plot twist, the golden throne is powered by the two deleted primarchs running on giant hamster wheels. The stories about them are the cover up.
🎉😂love the mental image
Honestly that'd be a pretty awesome twist to the story 😂
I need a comic of that
Headcanon 300% accepted.
A custodes once saw that. Then there were 3 wheels for a while
Imagine for a minute:
Dark eldars get the materials they need, creat a clone of the emperor, put it on the dark throne, turn it on... and instead of daemons from the 4 it's waves and waves and waves of Legion of the Damned assisted by saints that pour out of the rifts x'D
I’m just imagining it like “OH NOO HERE COMES FERRUS MANUS WITH THE METAL CHAIR!” Just hops out of the warp for a smackdown.
It wouldn't get rid of the original Emps.
Vect: well .... shit.
if you cloned the emperor you would get a standard perpetual at best. The gifts that make big e big e are not genetic in nature, this doesn't seem very well thought out
@@krommike9904read the room
One way this plotline can be resolved is that Crowl, Spinoza & co establish contact with Jaghatai Khan, convince him to launch a raid on Commorragh, and recover components of the Dark Throne during the chaos, so that the Fabricator-General can scrap them and use them to bolster the original. Adeptus Mechanicus might not be able to repair the throne, but they're exceptionally good at kitbashing existing components and technology into something functional.
GW has been moving the plot forward to bring back Primarchs, so this might be how we get Jaghatai into realspace. It would also be fun to see the Dark Eldar, who are so proud of their "raids" on undefended Imperial planets, find themselves on the receiving end of a proper Central Asian steppe nomad style raid.
Why Khan? Wouldn't the Raven Guard be perfect for such a job? There are books on their artifact retrieval missions
@@inquisitorgrynthebandito2736 Because it's speculated he ended up in Commorragh post heresy
@@inquisitorgrynthebandito2736 If i remember correctly, Khan should be somewhere in webway (if he is not dead) so if they are traped inside, he is the only guy they can ask for help.
@@domitesse5867Sandman of Terra put forth the thought the Khan is in a pocket of the Webway where everything repeats over and over. Note that the raiding party that Jaghatai was chasing has never been seen again either. Surely at least one of them would've bragged they tricked/killed/captured/got one over on a Primarch.
@@thisistherevolt i cant even image what horror would happen if they put hands on primarch. If they can clone Biggie i would not be suprised if they make evil army of very sadistic Khans xD but jokes aside i hope next primarch that will come back is Jaghatai, this dude is one of the coolest of primarchs. If GW wants to expand plot with golden throne and dark eldars that would be perfect moment to bring him back.
I really thought they were going to fix the throne but install a signal that beams the emperors pain directly to them basically supercharging them and putting them in symbiotic relationship with the humans.
Heyyy, I kinda like that.
Don't give GW ideas
This... sounds like something that they would be super into.
Dang, that'd be awesome as!
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 out of 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Now wouldn't that be hilarious: The Dark Eldar create a perfect clone of the Emperor but his complete soul jumps into the new body and wipes the floor with them, but not before shutting off the failsafe device. I can see it now: "Hello everyone! Thank so much for all your hard work on such a handsome new body! Alas, you go die now".
I'm sure they would implement some failsafe in that body, something to insta kill it if it ever turned against its creators.
his soul is framented tho
Last time I was this early the Warmaster still had hair.
The Warmaster had more hair than his topknot??
@@KidCaelusHorus didn't have a topknot, whatchu on about? Abbadon has one, I know that.
@@Silverwing2112 that’s the joke. Ya’know cause Abbadon is the *current* Warmaster. I’m implying i’m too new to have known who Horus was yet
EDIT: now realizing too late that the better reply would’ve been “Who tf is Horus?!”
@@KidCaelusbro had to break it down for em 😂
@@eats_a_skittle5459 Yes, thank you. You've come to the realization that I'm a dumbass nearly as fast as me.
Imagine the doctor just popped up on Terra and like ..huh, this switch is off, let me turn it back on. Then boom, golden throne restored.
I've seen fanfic playing with that.(The Doctor needed him for Demons Run,) Also saw one where The Emperor's is Jack Harkness.
"Would you fancy a jelly baby?" "Oohh my SELF!! I haven't had one of those since we accidentally nuked London"
It would be cool to see the Clone Emperor awakens and just goes "EEEEW!" and kills a bunch of eldar, and then he realizes that if he dosen't sit on the throne the Webway will be entirely overrun, so he sits on it but also constantly fucks with Cammoragh with his Psych powers, like, he is *forced* to help the drukhari, otherwise humanity will never have access to the Webway, but he becomes another sentient emperor so he starts contacting his sons and this could become a greater plotline that the Black Library will never use, ever, cowards.
I think this would actually be the most GW solution: Emperor's soul relocates to the Webway on this new golden throne, and Webway portals starts randomly opening up to help Imperial citizens in need, and Comoragh, while free from demons, is now beset by plagues of intense light and sun and fire that cleanse whole swathes of the city.
I also think this COULD be a device for the division of the Emperor's Soul between the Dark King and the Star Child. I think the Dark King - representing the conquering emperor, the cold god of Order and Reason that he was becoming at the end of the Heresy - would occupy this "Dark Throne", and the Star Child - representing the emperor's compassion and love for humanity - would be reborn out of the failure of the Golden Throne. That sets up a "civil war" between emperors, which helps balance out the power boost Imperium would get from Big E coming back.
Wes, ya' forgot about that period of time where they gave the throne a device that creates speech from text for the emperor to use
I thought that was fan made.
@@alfiemcfarland2932 The Inquisition found the Emperor's chatter too madness-inducing, and had the device removed.
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"I can't find a way to make a Dark Emperor work on any conceivable level that doesn't completely contradict 30 years of lore."
So GW's gonna do it next week, with the barest weakest attempt at retconning the lore saying "no, its always been this way."
shhhh you'll alert the idiots who agree with the female custodians or the female space marine fool SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
The dichotomy of GW
the emperors eternal streak on the edging throne
💀💀💀
Inquisitor this commentor right there
Fulgrim basicslly
The emperor's new goon XD
You shall be thrice purged for your heresy.
A clone appears, and suddenly, Trazyn
Because Trazyn happens.
The Emperor incarnates into the clone host in Commorragh. Easily breaks out of the Drukhari's control since he is on par with a God. Wastes all of Commorragh and the Drukhari are annihilated. New functioning Throne now residing in the Webway. Emperor's old body on Terra dies. The Gate shatters and the Emperor walks through confusing the hell out of everyone. Humanity now has a completed Webway Project and ample space to reside in.
Not really a grimdark ending
@@gjfwangfor the dark Eldar it is. For us, mildly amusing
Thought: Emperor dies.on Earth, perpetuates onto husk on Dark throne instantly. Astronomical only flickers. Great Crusade to rescue the Living Emperor from Dark Elder. chase them out. Purge the Demons. Throne Secundus now safe in webway, Emperor got his Webway for Humanity afterall. Game on
Why would the emperor need rescuing? Hes essentially a chaos god of humanity... be like the demons of khorne trying to rescue khorne... the setting doesnt work at all with a living emperor... lol.
I don't think this is grimdark enough.
I think the proper way to do it is to make the new Throne Secundis be used for Emps no.2 to truly ascend, as his mortal form could not sustain him anyomre. Thus taking him out of the realspace but havibg him truly become a true god of humanity.
But he would still be preocupied with keeping up the astronomicon, fighting the chaos gods etc, but could take a far more active role in empowering and guiding the humanity.
Some hope, but still grimdark af
Lots of heresy in this video. Time to call the Inquisitor.
Better call luetin09 and get this cleaned up quickly
We're already here...
They were called and they are currently M.I.A.
Emporer clone immediately fucks off to Terra, unplugs the big chair and reincarnates like a doctor who season change.
Plot Twist, if they do create their own "Dark Emperor" the Big E will secretly control or at.least influence his clone to control the dark Eldar to do the things he cant have the Imperium do😊
Plot twist: the golden throne is powered by a hamster running on a wheel
That's gotta be the funniest way to introduce the Skaven to WH40k
GW: Somehow -Palpatine- -The Emperor- -The Primarchs- … that one guy from a white dwarf short 28 years ago, returns.
Eldar : creates a perfect clone of the Emperor's body
The Emperor: is it for me ? 🤩
Now i'm curious... so Perturabo has a gift to understand how anything works by merely looking at it... would he, if he was still a loyalist (and less salty (but understandably so)) be able to fix the golden throne and get the webway running as was intended? 🤔
Most likely, yes. But since he’s … well Perty, no chance in hell
@@TheRaidenLP fair enough, and thanks for answering my question btw!
Even if at first he couldn't, he would at a point by going super sayan like the khan accessesing his super speed.
@@wmen48 Perty's ultimate form shall be a quantumcomputer that's also capable of creating nice stuff haha (thanks for the response btw :D)
Most likely not. Perturabo's gifts are immense, but he can't replicate alien tech, only approximate what alien tech does with human-derived tech. The core problem of the Golden Throne's failure is that the Emperor 'borrowed' key components from alien races such as the Eldar, hence the Wraithbone psy-channels integrated into its design and other parts. Even the Emperor lacks the ability to replicate these alien parts, which is why the only way to build new ones is to go to the people who originally created said parts in the first place. Perty could maybe jury rig the Throne to last a few more decades, but the core issue is one even he can't fix. Especially since he's no expert on Warp-based technology.
So, my proposition :
> The Emperor (at least his mortal body) finally dies
> End of the Times situation
> The WH40K universe merges with the realms from Age of Sigmar
> Sigmar is now canon again in the WH40K universe (he actually was in the earliest lore versions since the Warhammer Fantasy world was implied to be a planet isolated from the rest of the galaxy by a Warp storm, that's good enough for me)
> Sigmar, who also ascended as a god, sits on the Dark Throne in Commoragh
> Repeals demons from all GW franchises.
> GW goes bankrupt.
The drukhari that came up with the plan to clone Big-E are big-mad idiots who were snorting refined, powdered Norn Queen secretions. As soon as they stuck their Emperor-clone on their copy of the Golden Throne, the Pillar Men theme song would play, seemingly from all around them. Their new man-toy would slam down an Uno Reverse card as all the Dark Eldar nearby fell to dust or exploded in everything except delight and pleasure.
Dark Eldar: why are we suddenly hearing this aztek dubstep so loud and clear ?
I don't know a lot of homunculus in the context of Warhammer 40k but taking into consideration the fact that Fabius Bile was able to perfect the cloning of a Primarch, the Drukhari are also capable of doing so, and thus, the Emperor in Terra and the Emperor in Comorrag would share a soul. Yeah, good luck trying to control that.
This seems like a great opportunity to reintroduce Jaghatai Khan back into the setting.
"Dark Eldar God-Emperor" a Degemperor, if you will.
we can just say degenerate... I think at least.
A "Big D" to match our Big E
Prediction: the Dark Throne and the clone body will somehow be used as a reset of sorts to keep Chaos from fully winning... but it might come at the cost of Terra itself, due to that contingency (unless there's a way to turn it off so that the Emperor body hopping doesn't destroy the planet), and it could cause mass confusion of navigation because suddenly the Beacon has a new home.
They can clone the Emperor's body, but without his immense soul, the clone would be just another ordinary human.
Would at least be primarch level
@@gjfwang that could depend on if it would keep any of his abilities such as his physical strength, psychic strength, management skills, and natural intelligence, if it had at least one of theses the clone could turn the tide of a few battles but it could also cause a schism with the clone Big E saying that the imperial cult is lies, which could within itself could cause at worse entire segmentums to split off and rebel, at best ehhhhhh some big players might forsake the imperial truth, such as guiliman, the custodes, etc, but they could also see the clone as an abomination and cause any hope for even a part of the Emperor albiet not possessing his soul, from possible helping the imperium
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Plot twist: The Emperor was just a space janitor named Neil who got godlike psychic powers from a warp storm. The whole crew became the perpetuals, but he mind wiped them and planted false memories.
"YES! We have our own version of the Emperor!"
The Dark KING: 😈
Just the Kink 😉
Hmm...Majorkill and Weshammer both making Emperor videos at the same time. It's a good week for Emperor fans.
I would be totally in for the "Obsidian Throne"
“If the Golden Throne were to fail, the Light of the Astronomicon would go out, Daemons would pour into realspace, and humanity would be doomed to extinction.”
Meanwhile, in Imperium Nihilus: 😐
I think the collapse of the golden throne storyline is going to intersect with the Bile stole Alpha Primus' geneseed storyline, Bile is going to try to perfect what Belisarius was trying to do with Primus because He know genecraft but Bile is going to accidentally create a new perfect body for The Emperor's soul to inhabit. Big E will likely take possession of this new body circumstantially simultatious to the Throne failing whenever that ends up being
That's an awesome theory!
Imagine being the Dark Eldar and you clone the Emperor only to find out that him being a crippled husk isn't in his genetics when he comes out of the labs.
"The Dark Eldar can't even bind minor daemons." Meanwhile, Mandrakes continue hiding out of sight.
"Mandrakes? Not bad...for xenos."
- Sgt. Mkoll, Scout Section Leader, Tanith First And Only.
The Dark Eldar capture greater daemons inside torture cubes and power entire blocks of Commorragh through the suffering generated from such pain boxes.
Spinoza and Crowl sound like Warhammer's version of Mulder and Scully.
my theory is that the dark eldar somehow manage to have magnus the red to sit on the thrown (either by a agreement or convincing him that the dark thrown would make him into a god like his father) Now to be clear the dark eldar needed "The Emperor's blood" and what's considered close enough? One of his sons! If mangus were to agree to this not only he'll be as powerful as his father but it would sort of fulfills magnus's role of having his own thrown sort of like Loki becoming the god of the multiverse.
Ain't no way the Dark Eldar are letting a daemon primarch into commorragh for any reason.
It's been implied that the perfect clone of Fulgrim worked because Fulgrim never actually fell to chaos, he was possessed... I know more recent novels retconned that, but it would make Traven's clone a viable story path for an uncorrupted version of Fulgrim to return, and a dark eldar made clone of the emperor would be a viable path for him to return in full too
" If you had a perfect clone of the Emperor, but he was six inches tall, would you still torture it? "
Gotta love it when Wes uploads
Luce Spinoza and Erasmus are two of my favorite characters in 40k. Their dynamic is so awkward and complimentary at the same time. Feels like a buddy cop movie reading those novels. I haven’t read the last one so i’ll come back after 😂
Wes “For All Intents and Purposes” Hammer, thanks for all the work you do! Love your vids and always look forward to seeing them in my feed.
Greetings, have a good one
Hey,you too.
Greetings, have a good one.
Hey man, you too.
Emperors blessings upon you friend!
You are the only channel i get genuinely excited for when you upload a new vid! I feel like a crack fiend refreshing my feed hoping for my next hit.
My theory is that there is just a hole in the webway or something letting demons in, and the "dark" thrown is actually less powerful the the golden thrown so they will just end up throwing a ton of psykers on it or something every day to power it
This is a REALLY spicy plot line. I knew parts of this story already, but not the "entire" thing.
Couple things to note here: 1) The Golden Throne is NOT keeping the Emperor alive, per se. It is very much reciprocal, a feedback loop if you will. He is powering it and it empowers Him, but He is in a perpetual state of regeneration (think Wolverine's battle with Adamantium) and it is only because of the extra "infusion" from the psykers that allows this process to continue
2) We do not actually KNOW what would happen if The Emperor was removed from the Throne. Yes, it would be catastrophic in the short term, but long term we dont know what would happen, BUT it might possibly allow the Emperor to fully regenerate, based on his perpetual powers (maybe, we don't actually know that either)
3) With a clone of The Emperor, could that possibly allow Him to transfer his soul/consciousness in to this new body, thus allowing him to kick some ass again?
4) if an entirely brand new "Dark Throne" is constructed, could the Imperium not go steal it? Invade the webway, kick some Drukhari ass and just take the replacement?
Just a few thoughts on the matter. I would very much like to see GW tale some chances with the setting and explore some of these possibilities. Maybe nothing happens overall, because the new Throne gets damaged or sabotaged before The Imperium can claim it, but there is an entire setting where the Imperium has to send armies in to the Webway to battle Xenos, Daemons, and maybe even Tyranids and Necrons as well.
Cool plot piece and I hope GW does SOMETHING with it, even if it amounts to nothing at the end
Interesting thought, but would the Imperium actually remove the Dark Throne from Commorragh? Even if they could seize control long enough to steal something so massive, the Imperium doesn't really understand the Throne. Would they risk damaging it in the process?
@Sayrden who knows? I wouldn't put it past them to try it, desperation and ignorance are a powerful combination. We've seen the Imperium do some bone headed shit already, so why not this as well? Even thinking they were doing the right thing could still back-fire
The Emperor awakens in his Drukhari body and immediately starts roasting everyone around T2S style before using the webway to warp straight to The Golden Throne... Poor Kitten is gonna be startled lol
I could see the Drukari Emperor reincarnating with at least part of the Emperor's, just nope out of Commorragh after nuking the dark eldar, walk into the Imperial Palace thru the now functioning human webway portal, just to resurect his original body with its current soul, then turn to his new "brother" and say "It's good to see you again, father." The original Emperor just responds."No, I am Alpharius."
Love whenever I log in and see a new @WesHammer video. Have you thought about doing a video on Sepulturum from Warhammer horror? It's my favorite!
It's the only horror book I haven't read/listened to yet actually! It's on my list but I've been holding off as I know as soon as I listen to it I'll be out of Warhammer horror books and that...well that will make me very sad 😅. I'll listen to it eventually but I've been saving it for a special occasion
Heard the description of these books, paused the video and immediately bought them all in the black library. sounds amazing. I'll finish the video once I'm done with the books
Just finished Horus Rising cuz of you Wes, back for more :)
This is amazing work. Great job to all involved
Even in the grim dark future of the 41st millennium cops still have to discover conspiracies that “go all the way to the top”
THAT WAS really amazing, very interesting lore , man ! GJ
Great episode Wes!
Considering the Thousand Sons' complicated relationship with the Eldar, I could see Magnus somehow sitting on the Dark Eldar throne especially bc it's proven he's strong enough to operate the Golden Throne in his lesser non-demonic form
Yo I love ur content keep it up I'd love to see more orks stuff but I love everything u make keep it up
Warhammer 40k: The series where a lot happens but also nothing ever happens.
my personal headcanon on emps dying is that his perpetuallity is basically gone. Horus was basically the Chaos Gods all in one when emps was dealt the fatal blow, plus emps had rejected godhood and was much weaker than before. Plus Horus perma killed Ollianius (who was also a perpetual) with just a thought. So Horus, as the avatar of chaos, could kill a perpetual permenantly.
Thank you for the video bro!
It would take a minimum of 10,000 years for the emperor to be reborn, based on malcador being a perpetual, and yet to return to the setting. Sure, the emperor probably could return quicker, but it will probably still take a few thousand years based on his imperium and Astarte ending contingency in the event of his actual death
I can see Big E just taking the Body for himself.
As we know from the clone of Horus, a clone is only a shadow of the real deal without it's soul. Emps would probably just be like "Yo new body! Yoink! Wait where tf am I?"
Have you done a video on the yellow king yet? Dont remember if you have, would be fitting as a follow up for this
Should do a slight broaded look into the character as well, information outside of 40K but pertinent to the subject, give people a better overview and expand their horizons
Punish me, god emperor, i am unworthy
Theory. The Emperor needs to be re-merged with the good shard of his soul that he separated ahead of facing Horus (the Star Child) before he dies and get's reincarnated (ref: Cypher "Not Yet"). In Bequin series that might be what Valdor is doing - trying to find the Star Child soul-shard and bring it back to the Emperor
Wes channneling his inner Sly Marbo with that absolutely dashing outfit🎉
Somehow, I doubt Vect would allow anything like a Dark Eldar Emperor to exist. If he did, that would basically be screaming “I don’t want to be in power anymore”. Also known as, “I want to be tortured to death”.
Every time I hear more about the Drukhari the more I love them as narrative and story elements. Also Inquisitor Spinoza has such amazing irony in a name as Spinoza was a person from history who viewed reality and natural process as God.
I could see the dark throne being used by the Ynnaris either to achieve their purpose or the dark Eldar using them as proxies for the Emperor. Also I feel like if they ever cloned the Emperor, his soul could just refuse to enter the new body and the drukari would just have a really big braindead corpse with no psychic powers
Keep up the good work Wes. Luetin09 by night weshammer by day.
"Vaults of Terra"
RIP to the first true 40K Lore channel.
It is just so chill to listen to these kind of lore videos while painting miniatures from the pile of shame(thousand sons).
Keep up the good work
I could see a soft reset ‘long night’ scenario where the Emperor dies, and is gone for a short period of time, allowing chaos to wreak havoc. Then the star child is born, creating a new astrinomicon like beacon but weaker, and a great crusade is launched to bind humanity together once again.
Its a nice bookseries indeed, thanks for making content around them. 🎉
The obvious power source for a Dark Eldar Throne would be a craftworld's infinity circuit. The infinity circuit is an amalgam of millions or billions of psychic eldar. The emperor is an amalgam of possibly a few thousand psychic humans.
A lone Votann approaches the Emperor. "Ahh I was told stories about this guy." The Custodes look at the squat creature with a mixture of bemusement and alarm. Ignoring their lowered (and pointed at him) spears, the Votann moves behind the chair.
"Ahh here's your problem, ye got a loose wire and a missing connection." Fiddling about in his belt he pulls forth a device and promptly attaches it to another wire. "There that should do it. Stand back"
An explosion of Golden Light consumes all nearby sacrifices.
When the Custodes eyes clear, they see the Emperor standing upright.
"10,000 YEARS AND NOBODY THOUGHT TO CALL A REPAIRMAN?"
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In all seriousness, GW needs to rip the band-aid off (literarily speaking) and move the story forward. I don't think they have the chops or chutzpah to do so.
They should have gone to the craftworld eldar instead of drukari.
Craftworld eldar are more likely to work with the imperium.
Craftworld eldar are not flesh crafters, but they have successfully put a spirit in a robotic body with wraithguards and wraithlords so I imagine they can figure out how to fix the throne and maybe even improve it.
Perhaps the eldar could restore the emperor or the throne enough to communicate with the emperor and therefore ask for his protection from Slannesh as payment.
Ironically, the Craftworlders are a lot less likely to agree to such a deal because they might look down on humans in general, but they harbor genuine fury towards the Emperor for good reason. He's the one who sent out the Great Crusade with a no-xenos policy that destroyed so many Craftworlds purely for the sake of human expansion, so there's a lot of bad blood there. The Drukhari don't care about this, though, they can and do sign bargains with humanity if they can find a way to profit from such deals. Just very likely to also betray them if they think they can get away with it.
Love your videos man and I’ve been theorizing about the two missing primarchs and MIGHT think where one may have been since the Horus heresy cause there’s been some legions of from the warp actually help mankind on multiple accounts.
The Emperor is anti-chaos above all else. If they can tune down the Dark Throne into not allowing total victory over chaos a brain dead Clone Emperor could be kept fighting Chaos forever. Maybe even fighting Slaneesh's influence on Drukari souls (slower aging?)
Wes be taking a revenge right now! Its too good!
How the Drukhari could make this work: Do not copy the Emperor, but copy what the Emperor IS on a fundamental level. Figure out how the Emperor works from his genetic material, then sacrifice a shitton of their own psykers(because hell, this is just tuesday to them) to recreate the process and make a super-drukhari akin to the Emperor. Remember, they still are the Eldari, creating literal gods is not new to them.
According to lore from the 9th Drukhari codex, some Kabals also still have weapons of mass destruction from the old Aeldari Empire stored away. You know, the ones that are capable of planetary annihilation at the blink of an eye. They just can't use them, cause they go to eat. But just like a clone of the Emperor, it's probably nice to have in case you do feel like wiping out a system or two.
1. The Drukari built the Dark Throne as a bargaining chip along with the promise (Ha! Not really) to provide the Emperor with new body. This gets complicated but this may only create a Earthly Emperor while the Emperor in the Warp goes on as a separate being. It is not likely the Drukari could ever control or convince to even cooperate a reborn Emperor. But the Drukari's goal is not to have the Emperor or his likeness in a clone as theirs, but simply to survive the apocalypse befalling them right now.
2. The worlds the Drukari want are their fallback should or when Commorragh falls. The people there are just a house warming gift. There is also the possibility those worlds possess something not known to the Imperium.
3. If or when Commorragh falls the Drukari are going to want to make themselves extremely valuable to the IoM to prevent an instant and immediate war of annihilation being waged on them when they are at their weakest and most defenseless. Thus the Dark Throne, getting their hands on the Emperor Genome, and having billions of Imperium citizens under boot. All so the Imperium does not wipe them out when they can not run hide or defend themselves.
As i remember it, the dark eldar still have psychic potential, but cant utilize it or they will be clamed by slenesh. I think if they established there own throne it could sever there connection to slenesh, allowing them to be a far more diminant race once more.
I enjoy these TL;DR series and hope you'll cover more of them.
I think that instead of the Emperor clone being loyal to the Dark Eldar, it would be the other way around. The Dark Eldar would loyal to this Dark Emperor. And this Dark Emperor would want to enslave all of humanity. However, it could also be like a body hopping senrio for Emps too.
You got me listening to the series now
I believe it is a contingency for the Dark Eldar. given that that throne just powers the Astranomicon and the assumption of stabilizing to a degree safer warp travel, The Dark eldar would recreate and modify the their version to first cease the demonic incursion into Cormarragh, cloning the emperor to be nothing more than a power source for it while it could be considered a failsafe for when the OG throne fails. (they will ensure it fails when they are ready) and when it does they will then have controlling influence over the Astronomicon and to the warp to a degree, giving them far greater influence over the galaxy, or, the Haemonculi is just doing it for luls and at the next gathering can brag to other haemonculi that has acquired the genetic material for bragging rights and promotion
It's clear that the Drukari intend to clone The Emperor; but we don't know what Soul they intend to inhabit this Perfect Host.
Which Warp Entities are friendly with the Drukari?
khaine maybe he is one of the few eldari deities left
Love how when the second he mentioned magnus, the TTS version pops up lol
i'm pretty new in the hobby but what i first understood was: gw makes alot of what-if scenarios but doesn't really get forward
Its so funny to me, as a scientist, find that kicking the druhkari a piece of the emperors hair to clome him witj seems absolutely rational, a way to make an ally of a bitter enemy. Amd solve a millenia old issue with litrrally a strang of hair