40K LEGENDS - WHO IS GREGOR EISENHORN? | Warhammer 40,000 Lore/History 

RIGHT - Sorry for having to reup - as someone rightly pointed out, annoyingly left blank space at the opening of the video. SO now - a big video today talking about Eisenhorn, and also showing off my Siege Studios Eisenhorn mini. I just will add also that for this I wanted to focus on the core 3 books for material even though there are others which touch on elements of Eisenhorn - just wanted to clarify that. Condensing all of that into one video was still quite the challenge so I hope it comes over well enough, big thanks to all your support - any appreciation in the likes is a big thanks from me :D

Just so you know Luetin you are single handedly responsible for piquing my interest in warhammer lore, thank you for the hours and hours of entertainment you offer through all your hardworking, your videos are a cut above the rest.

This video is Rated E for Exterminatus.

"The Ordo Xenos are important in the same way weeding your garden is important." Inquisitor Kryptman: *Laughs in High Exterminatus*

Eisenhorn's battle with the Titan, and the subsequent binding of Cheraubael was honestly one of the most grimdark things I have ever read.

Last time I was this early, the Eldar were still discussing consent and foreplay. Edit: read these books and Ravenor's. Amazing stuff

Eisenhorn is the perfect introduction for the 40k universe to the public. I'm so nervous and excited

The Emperor's light between all of these Nurgle attacks

Personally, at the end of the books I SUDDENLY realized that Eisenhorn had been drifting towards radicalism for a long time, but I only acknowledged this very late because I was distracted by Eisenhorn trying to survive or solve some other matter at hand. Which I think indicates a "fall from grace" story very well handled.

My favorite hero of WH40k series... he even questions himself after speaking with a friend, that he never have stopped to think how RADICAL he had become during his long and grim journey whilst fulfilling his holy duty.

Eisenhorn is the greatest inquisitor stories, next to ravenor.... All hail Dan Abnett

Thanks for pointing out that Inquisitors are not the psychopaths many say they are, Luetin, I’m glad others can see they are as varied as mankind itself and their struggle is monumental.

In particular, I appreciated the portrayal of Eisenhorn in The Magos, the only story in the series where Eisenhorn is not the storyteller but is instead described in the 3rd person view. This was excelent done by Dan Abnett.

Remember to pray to the Emperor for his intervention on Terra against the Nurgle sent evil.

Ah, it is good to have such grand content in such plague driven times!

Gotta give it up for that old man and his aquilla challenging a demon.

I remember just shying away from from 40k just because of how thick the lore is. This videos have singlehandedly brought into the 40k universe

My favourite Eisenhorn moment was in the transport headed for the second assault on the tetrascape when he sees the young soldiers have added the inquisition emblem on their uniforms. Real cool moment of silent gratitude to him for handpicking them.

"The Magos" is my favourite Eisenhorn novel, mostly because of the ending and its reference to Lovecraft's "Hastur" in the figure of the heretical mastermind "The Yellow King". I can't wait to see if Dan ever follows up on that and leads us to the heart of the conspiracy that Eisenhorn sold his soul to unravel.

The audiobooks were amazing. Highly recommended and Toby Longworth makes a great Eisenhorn.

Eisenhorn was a full blown heretic way before the events with the Titan and binding Cherubael and Verveuk. He let Pontius Glaws spirit live on in the Pontius instead of destroying it, and spend countless hours talking with Glaw. Glaw was poisoning his mind with heresy way before the Mallus Codicium. Glaw helped him be able to decipher the book in the first place.

If anyone wants to know the intro song, it is "Death and Glory" by Dream Caves. You can find it on spotify and purchase the license for the song on epidemic sound. Its amazing

quick note: you can consume all the eisenhorn audiobooks for free on spotify, at least here in germany

"Most Perturbatory!"

Your videos are something special - I first got into 40k when I was 12 years old ..38 years later and you have brought me back to the fold brother. Thank you

Workshop Games should pay Luetin for probably one of the best long term Warhammer 40k marketing channels. The man got me to buy and read two warhammer novels. Every video has comments of people thanking him for exposing and getting them into the lore. This channel is just a next level content experience. 👌

"Yes Lord Inquisitor, this video here. I recommend it."

Last time I was this early, Epstine wasn't a Slaaneshi servitor fawk hole yet.

To quote Pontous Glor: "Every Inquisitor eventually becomes a radical"

Welcome back my friend , i see that Nurgle had no power over a devout servant of the Imperium like yourself !!

Eisenhorn is one of my favorite characters. This is the Omnibus that got me hooked on Warhammer 40K . Is there any chance you would give John Grammaticus this same treatment?

Abnett has left us hanging for like 8 years without finishing the bequin trilogy Wtf Dan

Hey Luetin09 you have had a big part in getting me interested in 40K!. I just finished the first three Eisenhorn books, I loved that and am now starting the Ravenor books! Thank you so much for giving me something new to love!

Love the Eisenhorn trilogy. I’ve read it through 4 times. Ravenor is good as well but I have yet to read the Bequin series. I enjoyed Gaunts ghost as well as ciaphas Cain. Both very good series of books.

The Ravenor books and Pariah after those are the followup to this story. Highly recommended

"To feel pain,or fear or grief is to allow myself a luxury I cannot afford." "My patience isn't limitless....... unlike my authority." R.I.P. Titus Endor, just circumstance.

Wow, this was a banger, LT. The editing, along with the story and pacing all lined up perfectly. Excellent, just brilliant.

Astartes part 5 has dropped brothers and sisters! Praise the Emperor! For we all walk in his immortal shadow. *Makes Aquila symbol* Fantastic video by the way as always good sir!

I love when you use that Hellraiser bell sound for emphasis in your videos. It’s always done in an appropriate way. Right on.

Esinenhorn was my introduction to 40K, the audiobook is damn addicting with the best narration I've ever heard in my life. I recommend it to everyone I meet, same with the Lord's of Scilence.

"anonymous scribes who might accidentally destroy a world by mislabelling a trade requisition." How such a small thing can escalate that badly...

Creed: Baneblade: Chaos: *CREEEEEEEEEEED!!!!!!!*

It seems like every Inquisitor get ousted at some point. They’re all heretics at heart

Thank you very very much!! I thought I knew Eisenhorn pretty well after reading through all the books and stories about him at least twice, but still you made me understand him even better. Maybe if you could do an episode about Cypher I might even start to grasp him as well (If there are someone who can bring order to Cypher, and make us all understand his motives, it must be Luetin) ;) Again, a huge thanks for your awesome channel!

Luetin! It's time for a comprehensive look at the "Fallen"

Yet another fantastic entry Luetin09. I was actually gutted when you took it down when first posted, was looking forward to it and had saved it at work for later viewing. However editing issues aside and subsequent to re-upload, i reiterate - another much researched and welcome addition to your plethora and might i say THE best 40k source on RU-vid. Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together for us all.

Can't remember if you correct it in the vide, but Bequin didn't die, she was left in a coma though has woken up for her own series of novels. Also she wasn't just his companion for years, they loved each other but as he was a psyker and she was a null they could never do anything about it as touching would cause him a lot of pain.

The Eisenhorn Trilogy is quite possibly the very pinnacle of 40k lore. I will read any 40k novel written by Dan Abnett. Whatever he writes about, it ends up having relatable characters and interesting story-lines which do a good job of exploring different aspects of the 40k universe. His writing really brings the universe to life in a surprisingly believable way.

Just finished this trilogy last week, my first dive into 40k short of your lore video. Amazing books, and this video was a great topper for them.

I absolutely love Dan Abnett and both his Eisenhorn and Ravenor series. soooooo good.

Man you dont know for how long i waited for this. Either Eisenhorn or Gaunts Ghosts. Thank you so much

He's just like James Bond, but in 40k

Keep Up the Amazing Work, it’s always a treat to get a notification with a new lore video upload by you. Keep the Fight Going, for the Emperor and for Mankind

Appreciate you Luetin, stay healthy and stay safe during this pandemic.

Extremely late to these videos and knew nothing about Warhammer 40 K lore without you and another RU-vidr that I was watching. Had to subscribe; appreciate the work put in.

Its been so many years since I read the Eisenhorn trilogy. But this fantastic recap brought so many memories flooding back. I need to read that trilogy again. So. so. good. Thanks for this wonderful retelling of Eisenhorn's story. Amazing work.

I think he's an ideal character to start off with for a live action series. You get a space detective that goes around hunting heretics and eventually demons. It's a good way to get a foundation on the Imperium of Man and where it is in that time. That his adventures take place across his entire adult life-span gives the story itself a sense of scale. It isn't just "there and back again" a la Tolkien - it's over the hills and through the woods burning down grandma's house as a side show. I can hope that they really play up the gothic horror aspect of 40k as well as the bitterness/noir that is this setting. Even in victory there is no joy.

Dan Abnett is the backbone of GW. Eisenhorn/Ravenor is a masterpiece of work. Bring on the tv series.

I just finished the books and didn't even know you made this video but while reading I thought "I wish Luetin would talk about this guy, that would make a perfect lore video". And then my wish came true! Been following you for years and you brought me literally weeks of entertainment, thanks man. Now more than ever, I really appreciate it!

the only inquisitor i can see myself vibin with is that guy who wanted to burn few planets before the tyranids arrive LOL

The Eisenhorn series was one of my first introductions to the greater lore of 40k. Ravenor, the spinoff, too was a fantastic series.

I felt you where teasing us for a moment there!

Watching your Chanel before u even started doing 40k, its almost 4 years now and i still love your content to my heart. Coming back almost every day to watch stuff for the 10 or 15 time, just cause its so well made! Your my 40k lore hero!

Hey man, just finished the Eisenhorn books on audible and loved it! I’ve always been a 40k fan so to speak! But never knew the lore in dept. I was sick recently, and bed bound and your content just blew me away and ignited a spark, It has me hooked. Keep up the good work and keep the lore coming Thank you

I just read the series and this is my personal theory: eisenhorn took the saruthi necrotouk and has been hiding that from the reader in his accounts the whole time since the end of Xenos. Why: you will notice that when eisenhorn gets the mallus codiceum he never actually gives the reader an account of physically taking it. He mentions killing quixos... then later in an epilogue you see him using it to bind cherubael thus you infer he took it from quixos’ hoard. This lack of account is jarring to the reader, there are other “holes” in Eisenhorn’s stories in his accounts around the conclusion of certain events regarding chaos artifacts/entities. For example, in the course of the books, he goes into great detail of weapons he has, accounts of battles, etc but his account of leaving Pontius Glaw w the magos is starkly lacking. He just mentions he approves of the deal to give glaw a body but then just leaves. Unlike Eisenhorn’s meticulous descriptions of combat there is no description of what he agreed to give Pontius or how he is transferred to his new servitor body, there is no mention of the specific instructions he gave the magos. It is an oddly critical detail that is lacking in an otherwise incredibly meticulously detailed firsthand account and its absence struck me as odd. Similarly while being interrogated by the inquisition in book two, eisenhorn mentions his discomfort at getting close to being forced to lie when asked to confirm he is completely puritanically clean of heretical acts. He refers the the secrets he does not want known indirectly as “those things” (not exact quote but you get the gist), those things being the things he doesn’t want the inquisitors to know. We are lead to BELIEVE that he is worried about his previous interactions with cherubael looking incriminating, though from eisenhorn’s account I don’t see how. He never consorted with the demon they just met if you are to believe his 3 book trilogy account literally. The account in book two however never confirms what that nebulous “thing” that eisenhorn doesn’t want known to the interrogators is... we are just led to INFER it is the connection with cherubael. In hereticus when Eisenhorn must tell Madea his secret it never says what it is. He simply tells the reader he told her everything, lists off a few events like cherubael as examples but then leaves the rest of the contents of the secret vague. In Hereticus there are also a couple of moments where Madea in particular appears to pull other members of eisenhorn’s retinue to talk about concerns over eisenhorn. We are led to believe this is his usage of the mallus codiceum but once again that is not confirmed. Was his retinue privvy to something else eisenhorn did, that we- the reader of this first hand autobiography were not? Everything in the books is told to us in first person format. Keep in mind in the case of the Mallus Codiceum and Pontius Eisenhorn must be truthful to the hypothetical reader- both of those artifacts were used in ways that became common knowledge among inquisitors and therefore he could not lie about their origin. Many people saw the demon host or the book and would have noticed eisenhorn’s increase in understanding of the warp and so he could not really hide he took THAT book. With pontius- since pontius eventually got loose eisenhorn could not hide that from whatever hypothetical inquisitorial scholar is reading his account. So he is upfront with both of these items. Remember also that Madea mentions later to eisenhorn in private in book 3 (after admitting revenge for her father’s death is empty) that eisenhorn’s problem is that he does things pragmatically the right way but doesn’t consider WHY he is doing things. I think this is a hint, eisenhorn’s weakness that chaos is exploiting is his emotionless pragmatism. He gets so caught up in a task he crosses lines (each time for justified reasons) but is still inexorably edging towards the warp. I believe like Quixos eisenhorn is blind to the extent of his self deception and therefore his firsthand account that we the reader read is likewise warped resulting in the oddly missing holes in his account SPECIFICALLY regarding his pattern of leaving out specific details that would firsthand confirm with finality what happened with certain chaos artifacts/entities (pontius body, what he is afraid of the inquisition knowing while interrogated, and the extent of the secret things he tells madea by oath) And so the heart: the Saruthi Necrotouk. We have confirmation the human copy is destroyed: eisenhorn goes into deep detail how it burns in the fire gouting out of the space marine’s neck (notice again the specificity and finality in eisenhorn’s description of the human necrotouk being destroyed- he describes everything). He also confirms that he destroyed the Saruthi primer by crushing it under his heel. Then this is the critical part. Cherubael throws Eisenhorn the glowing blue alien Necrotouk and we have a confirmation Eisenhorn catches it. We have a confirmation eisenhorn enters the gun cutter that appears and then... NO DESCRIPTION of how the alien necrotouk is destroyed! He simply states, again in an indirect way, that all the beings and artifacts and the entire planet is destroyed by exterminatus. Thus we are led to infer the Saruthi Necrotouk was destroyed- and later in accounts from official sources we are told that the official account is both were destroyed (which once again would be biased because the official inquisition never witnessed what happened between cherubael and eisenhorn- the officials just had to take eisenhorn’s word for what happened on the planet surface). I remember this because I did a double take at the end of xenos and reread it several times. Here’s how it goes: 1. Cherubael has alien necrotouk 2. Eisenhorn thrown the alien necrotouk- now he has it 3. Eisenhorn gets in gun cutter. 4. Blank 5. Official report that both necrotouks destroyed I think he stole it and perhaps has been hiding away other chaos artifacts in other times when there were no other witnesses (or no other witnesses who could turn on him). He only mentions Pontius and the codiceum because he has to, these other hypothetical unmentioned chaos items (of which the Saruthi necrotouk was the first) eisenhorn might be collecting may even be hidden away from his own psyche (just like quixos)- the act itself something that he struggles to explain or accept. As a result he has intentionally or subconsciously left holes and misdirections in his personal account and fills the account with plausible explanations that we as readers are led to INFER is the reason for his actions. But he never confirms. And considering eisenhorn’s hyper detail oriented combat accounts this seems highly suspect to leave such critical details that “tie the knot” of the certain narrative like what specific body Glaw was given lead me to believe there is a lie woven into the whole trilogy If you have Xenos check it out, read the last section when cherubael and eisenhorn are facing off and the epilogue. Notice the blank?

It's been over a year since I last read the book series and I know that he goes through a bit of a weapon change but I still always pictured his bolt pistol as having the green finish with gold highlights that you see in the promo art...

His books where some of my favorite. Video on Ravenor would be dope. Thanks for your videos.

Glad you are feeling better! Eisenhorn is my favorite 40k character, and is part of my favorite 40k novel sets.

Another amazing video my friend, as always you do is a great service and we all appreciate your hard work in bringing us deeper into the grim dark. That model is totally bad ass as well, thank you.

03:04 "Highly minimal" Jumbo shrimp Honest politician

Luetin09 - Just wanted to let you know that your video have gotten me back in to the 40k universe after 15 years. Picked up the Titanicus Grandmaster box the other day.

Awesome vid, glad you're feeling better.

In my reading and interpretation, The Astarte's cannot be controlled by Inquisitor, They answer only to the Chapter Leader and the Emperor himself. Thus is why most of the Inquisiton seek way to destroy Astarte's Chapters

All hail to the god emperor, my prayers have been answered!! Luetin made new video!!🙏😁 I seriously check my RU-vid inbox everyday for upcoming videos. Your definitely the knowledge keeper of 40k lore!!! Love your stuff! 👏👏🔥🔥

Your video is far better than any tv show can be. Every video is so exciting. So well done, brother. I need a Salamanders episode from you man. I know you'll get to it but its hard to wait for such a thing. Good luck and stay safe brother Leutin.

Hi Luetin, thanks for your awesome work, this was the first upload of yours I watched a few months back, I have now seen all of them :-D looking forward to more between audio books lol

I imagine if a scribe accidentally wrote “Alpha Plus Plus” (adding a second plus) on a Psyker’s records, someone would be getting immediately exterminatus-ed.

26:58 Wait, Could this plan actually work? If so, it would essentially end the Black Crusades.

Love your videos man, I'm new to warhammer and I've learned alot from your channel, keep up the good work, I'm gonna keep bingeing your videos!

Happy Monday! Thanks Luetin👍

wow!!! wow!!! wow!!! Chils up my spine. Love this book series!! Great Job!!!!

That quote with the music at the end...shivers. I see the links crediting the music on the description, though I'm having trouble finding the exact scores. Anyone know the title? Thanks :)

It’s crazy to think I’ve been into warhammer lore since 2013. I honestly love everything about it and how dark, serious and over the top it is.

All these videos have such an amazing quality keep up the good work !

Inquisitor Heldane himself became a radical Inquisitor from a puritan Inquisitor. In the future he became the enemy of Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt.

Hey Luetin, first off I would like to say that I love your videos, you are what got me into Warhammer. But, I think you should make a video about essential books/audio for your viewers. I've watched basically all your videos but I still have some lingering thoughts of "what book did this information come from", and from that note it would make sense to give some of the newer people the groundwork for Warhammer 30k and 40k.

I'm new to warhammer lore and I just wanted to say thank you for these videos. It's so much but so worth the effort. Thank you brotha

welp, ive watched it a couple times, and by the throne man. you killed it! great work LT! another smashing job!

I just finished the Eisenhorn trilogy. Awesome books, story.

Round 2, :) Thank you for this and all the others. Can't afford the the monthly sub atm.. But I always let the ads play fully..

Loved the video Luetin! Great work as always!

Keep up the good work big L. , thank you for your channel.

This is interesting, I may have missed it, but there is a short story with present day Eisenhorn in Ravenor the Omnibus where he uses his sword to dispatch some cultists. He also issues a warning about future events. Was this in the video?

Was just about to start making tea when boom luetin does a video,oh well kids can starve!

Bro I was starving for more content from anybody, ty man. Ty so much, this a whole meal.

Genuinely have begun my own crusade into learning the lore and history of the 40k universe. Thanks to you!!

3:28 looks like Anthony Starr from Banshee and The Boys.

Hype hype hype! Should look into Ciaphas Cain tbh. That'd be a great vid

Luetin always finds the best music for his videos!

I'd love to see you do a series of lore videos going in-depth on the Inquisition as a whole, you're content is always amazing! (by the way, I do realise that this is a BIG undertaking)