Blank Power Levels (Warhammer 40k Lore) 

Not quite. Very powerful psykers have and can overwhelmed pariahs, Magnus did so on Luna.

​@@eldradulthran6482to be fair not every psycher is malcador

*chucks a boulder by the power of magic

Yeah, that's the obvious weakness for blanks

even though it's funny to think about it their not exactly immune to psychic abilities but it depends on the strenght of the psycher and the blank for instance a upsilon level blank maybe is immune to a gamma level psycher but an alpha psyker will be able to crush him even with his aura of blankness an omega will be pretty powerful against any kind of psycher with the weake ones being completely useless in his presence however an alpha psycher will still be able to attack him and maybe defeat him even if his psychic abilities are way less powerful an example is magnus that casually fought against an entire squad of sisters of silence

Just like sigmas, blanks are repugnant and cause hatred for them automatically

forget sigma, he’s a fucking Tau lol

Memes have truly rotten pur brains

Ah yes, Patrick Bateman the most infamous Culexus Assassin

@@painful_fish3083Thanks for making my morning with this

Either people don't know what you are and want to kill you or people know what you are and want to abuse you. Weirdly just like psykers, huh?

​@@beastalchemistVAdifference is big E wont eat me cause I taste bad.

Unlike Psykers, Nulls are disliked no matter what they do thanks to their passive aura. People will avoid you and you will have no real friends as everyone will have this unpleasent feeling while being around you. If that sounds alright for you then okay. I would rather be a psyker; people do not feel unwell around you all the time and you get cool magic tricks, which outweighs the possible demonic possession imhp.

​@@Fourtytwo4242But Mark, can still eat you

​@@Fourtytwo4242Saying from someone beside the Corpse Starch Processing Machine.

Can also note that Amberley Vail's psyker is crazy 99% of the time.

I was gonna say this. Jurgen is definitely on the ‘high end’ of the low tier of Blanks. Given the fact that he lived long enough to be tithed to the Guard and the only negative people ever said about him was his hygiene (which is arguably a product of his nature as a blank manifesting as a smell rather than his actual poor hygiene) and his nature as a blank was only discovered in a random meeting with an inquisitor, meaning he avoided the black ships and the sight of the assassinorum. But Psyker fuckery just…stops in his presence. And if Cain’s accounts are correct, they can be stopped at a distance of at least a few meters (but Cain is nothing if not an unrealisable narrator, but he always paints his friend in an honest light, I find). It’s possibly his emotional state can put that in flux but still. Jurgen’s physical presence has stopped Cain being mind controlled by the powers of chaos at least twice, fully cut off some chaos sorcerers from their powers, stopped Necrons fear aura fuckery, literally fizzled a daemon out of real space with his present (in the short story ‘A Mug of Recaff’ which is from his perspective), potentially caused some disruption to the Tyranid overmind and as you mentioned caused Rakel to have a seizure and pass out from being in his presence. All incredibly impressive feats for what some would call a ‘low tier’ blank. His level of potency in his Pariah Gene’s may be even more potent than that. He was original a Gunner in the Vallhalan 12th artillery which means he wasn’t working the gun crews, so he would potentially be isolated a lot from the rest of the regiment. He was originally assigned to Cain as a joke, but as their friendship grew and Cain developed a rapport with him and brought him to more and more places, people would often have to grin and bear his presence to talk to Cain. This portion is of course speculation but it would certainly make sense, every story that canonically takes place before ‘For the Emperor’ sees Jurgen being forced to be away from people except Cain and people in the regiment who got used to his…smell.

I think what allows Juergen to go under the radar despite a relatively strong blank aura is his smell. Because he has terrible hygiene people just associate the discomfort they feel around him to the stench. But we know he actually does stink too because the smell is reduced at lower temperature and upwind of him.

@@blogbeatbebop5604 Bro, "reduced when downwind" my man is hot with stink radiation.

We should all face the fact that Jurgen is the Imperium's greatest hero.

My boy

Jurgen is a lot lower on the scale than where you put him. The man can give Genestealers strokes by looking at them, and immediately following that event he shrugged off being teleported without protection or preparation. And in another incident he basically Un-Khorne’d a pair of Berserkers just by existing. The man would’ve been turned into a Culexus Assassin had he been found out before becoming Cain’s aide.

I've heard people tell me he basically does what the plot needs him to do at the time. So I stuck him there. I didn't think he was at Sisters of Silence level given that he didn't need a device for normal people to still tolerate him

@@beastalchemistVAAs someone who just binged nearly the entire series, no, Jurgen’s abilities are pretty consistently shown to work within 3-4 meters. He disrupts genestealer broodminds, and causes daemons to be fatally weakened all within roughly the same range throughout the books.

@@samaritan_sys Also to be known as Cain's favorite thing. The comforting stench of Jurgen as he calls it.

Jurgen is also a lot more clever than people give him credit for.

Jurgen also has hammerspace. Dude pulls out guns from nowhere all the time.

Except for the Ethereals I guess?

Ethereal mind control seemingly is not psychic in nature.

@@beastalchemistVAmaybe maybe not ethereals might be Psykers or might just use pheromones to control people

Maybe if GW would make more lore-divulging material. The latest I read on the Tau was the novel Longshot, a guard character meets an Ethereal who seemingly influences her with hand gestures and honeyed words

@@beastalchemistVA etherals are believed to work mostly by pheromons, cultural influence and maybe some hidden mind influence tech.

were blanks a thing in Dune? I can't remember. Was it that he wanted to make humans who psychics couldn't "psychic" or that he wanted to make psychics not work?

@@greendalf123 in Dune you have the idea of genetic memory - that is, the sum total of human memory all the way back along ancestral lines. "Blanks" in that universe may know their history orally, or from books, but when other people try to determine what they would do in the future by comparing them to genetic memory, they literally can't "see" anything. The idea is that a blank in Dune is untethered from human history, and thus unpredictable - they are the only human beings free from the burden that human history places on choice. For instance, wanting a strong, heroic figure to idolize is so common in human history that it has led to ruin over and over without end - a blank is free from this otherwise genetically coded drive for hero worship. They might choose a single leader out of necessity, or practicality, but it's not predictable because they aren't drawing on genetic memory to weigh their decisions. Blanks in Dune are the only truly freewilled organisms in the universe, and this prevents them from being found by hunting machines that possess future-sight since that future-sight is predicated on the very idea of the totality of human history.

There was one story (probably fanfiction, I'd seen it a long time ago), where during the Age of Technology, a human colony tried to make a "null drive", using a whole bunch of blanks to blast a hole through the immaterium for safe travel. They did it too well, and the first experimental ship, with its full military and scientific crew, launched themselves all the way into a different galaxy. The process caused even the non-blank personnel to became blanks, but since in the other galaxy there wasn't an immaterium (or any other intelligent life), nobody noticed, and they just built up their own civilization over thousands of years. Then, in the tail end of 40k, a scout ship returns, with a hyper-genetically-modified descendant and an AI that is the imprint of one of the original scientists, with the goal to re-establish contact with humanity. Then, after a lot of misadventures, where they showcase tech that made even the Necron's go pale and their null-drive cutting lanes into the Warp and freaking out the Chaos Gods themselves, they finally reach Terra, realize that their civilization is long gone, and so they return to the other galaxy, writing off the Milky Way as a lost cause.

A bit of both, one could argue. The former as a long term goal, by engineering and spreading the Siona gene. The latter as means to secure his 'golden path', by controlling access to the spice. @@greendalf123

He wanted to make humans that could not be perceived by precognition/prescience. Thus making fate permanently not set as there’s always a chance one of those humans are around to muck things up

Sorry. Can't mention everything.

So it was a omega minus on steroids

Yes, a suitably powerful blank could completely wipe out the warp which would probably also destroy realspace. So yes, they are pure evil in that respect. Their very existence could destroy everything if not controlled.

@@ShiningDarknes Why do you think it would wipe out realspace?

Because the warp is interlaced with realspace. The warp touches all corners of realspace destroying it would cause devastation to realspace. Not to mention it would strand countless worlds@@Arkimedus

You think the Sisters of Silence see that all of the time?

​@beastalchemistVA In one of the Horus Heresy books it's mentioned a sister of silence gazes upon the emperor and sees an ordinary looking elderly man of middle eastern decent

Neat

@@beastalchemistVA They seem him as an ordinary human. The reason they are the Silent Sisterhood is because when The Emperor found them and recruited them as part of the Departamento Investigates they swore an oath to never reveal what they see in The Emperor, hence why the take the Vow of Tranquility, which forbids them from ever talking again, hence the name of their order. Proloquors, sisters of silence in training that have yet to prove themselves and be fully inducted, have not yet taken the Vow and so they can speak, and are often used as speakers of the order when dealing with other imperial servants.

Personally, I like the idea of big E being the result of a forgotten weapons project from the dark age of technology. To me that makes way more sense than him sitting on his golden ass for tens of thousands of years before suddenly thinking he should conquer the galaxy.

Ain't that just the Angel?

@@legna1932 . . . He could use his psychic powers to enhance himself and see the future. Everyone saw him as beautiful. What about that indicates the Pariah gene?

It has been said that the prime gene seed of each of the Primarchs carries a little bit of the innate psychic energy of the Emperor. Each Primarch is psychic to one degree or another. But.... secrets are a thing.

If it was enhanced by virtue of being a Primarch it might explain what happened, he’s not lost or dead he’s blankness is just so powerful that no one sees him or hardly remembers him. So he spends his time fighting extra galactic threats. (My personal for fun theory is the Space Sharks are from one of the “lost” legions, with their legion being tasked with guarding against extra galactic threats. When a few Tyranids Hive fleets got passed this legion sent in what would become the Space Sharks. Having Blankness be apart of their geneseed gifts might also explain how Tyberos can sneak around despite how massive he is, but like I said just a fun little theory that likely only I’d like)

​@@benjaminhartsock3281Not Sanguinius the angel, the Angel. This angel was a weapon of mass destruction, for to call it a person is doing both terms an injustice. It was hellbent on eliminating Chaos, and sensed a taint in every human soul. Any psyker suffered immense backlash in its presence, and it was almost impervious to physical harm. In the end, after being unleashed from its confinement, the Angel was bound once again, captured in stasis. Though it could be a prototype Primarch, it was far too unstable for anything.

I love “No fun your you powers” It seems so humbling

@@morescodesup2087 exactly! I would honestly love to be a blank in darktide even if it's entirely pointless. Just so I can see that Pysker stop playing the victim for two seconds. C:

There's a modern fantasy book series called Dead Spots by Melissa F. Olson you may like. It's got witches, vampires, and werewolves in LA, but the protagonist is a very rare "null" that negates supernatural traits entirely within a short radius around herself. Vampires can be awake and outdoors at day when she's nearby, for example. It's cool stuff.

@@kylestanley7843 you had me up until that last bit. "Misunderstood" gothic creatures are as played out as the "humans are the real monsters" trope.

@@pollogutsfanderimworld8851 ..... elaborate

Amazing that they tried to think 60 million years ahead. But, from what I've looked at, the Magos Biologis of Mars believed it was the Necrons who tried to do that. Not the Old Ones

lore is iffy on this. from what ive read, the necrons made this gene specifically to combat the old ones

The lore used to be clear (the Necrons turned them into their Pariah units). Then Pariahs got retconned and things got complicated. Then again, their big anti psyker thing is called the Pariah Nexus, so...

@@CantusTropus Do note that Pariah Nexus is the Imperium's designation for the Necron project. Hivefleets don't exactly refer themselves as Hivefleets, that's just human designation for the voidborn swarms. IIRC the Pariah Necrons weren't retconned entirely, merely being relegated as one Necron Lord's experiment. Also they kick arse in DoW so frak it, we keep 'em.

@@IsmaelSantos-xv9qf no they were retconned. from wha ive heard, the necron lords were dissatisfied with how the necron pariahs are and discontinued them

The princeps used to power psi-titans are blanks?

@@beastalchemistVA Yes. The Psi-Titans are powered by high level psykers in constant agony. The only way to properly control and direct all this warp power is to have a high level Blank as a Princeps. For this reason the Ordo Sinister has very few actual godmachines at it's disposal, most of them being held on Terra, with at least one of them always watching over the broken Webway gate along with the Legio Custodes and Silent Sisterhood. One has to have a LOT of clout in high places to be able to even know about the Ordo Sinister, let alone call a godmachine into battle. Usually they are deployed at the behest of the Ordo Malleus.

​@@beastalchemistVAIf they weren't they'd get sucked into the warp instantly.

That's still Omega minus (just like how the Emperor of man and Malcador are both Alpha plus level psykers despite the power gap between them)

@@isaacorr3180 Emperor of mankind is stated to be beyond even alpha plus. He's a few grades above it IIRC

Never underestimate the power of bad writing.

@@stephenkenney8290 LMAO true!

@@stephenkenney8290 HAHAHA

I know right? That's sheer contradictory bs.

_tzeentch giggling in the distance_

Just imagine a mix of a discordant and a pariah 💀💀

It would officially be the most hated thing in the universe

@@thechosenone5421 giga barbarian

Imagine if a Discordant was born on a feudal world that was found to be a tomb world.

Throw female pregnant with one into Necrons and they suddenly have biological body for reincarnation I believe so, they should get something to compensate for being oneshot with a first cry

I'm curious. How did it survive if the mother died?

Taken out of its mother and hooked up to a life support system. System covered with a black shiny material that when slid open exposed the fetus and it's anti psyker death ray.

@@beastalchemistVA Supposedly, I might be misremembering, but I think they also killed a few other people to where it attracted the attention of the Inquisition who basically scrambled to get their hands on the fetus as fast as possible. As to how it was recovered, i guess blanks cant be affected by other blanks?

thank you wize one I shall eat da meat balls now.

A crummy commercial?

I'd say she was a little lower than black pariah, but stronger than omega minus

I don't think that that blank could match up to black pariah who very well could have killed the emporer who is essentially a full blown god at this point

How did she fare in that fight?

I mean, it's entirely accurate if it's one of the more high level sisters

That's about right. It's also one of the most amusing ways one could make a game in 40k and just, not have the Warp be involved. Daemons literally can't fight them, psykers do nothing, so it's down to Chaos's mundane tools to fight off a Sister of Silence, without any gifts from their 'Gods' to help. Plus, Sisters of Silence are Talons of the Emperor, so extremely good training and gear, but not so much authority like an Inquisitor to demand support.

Only the strongest of Sisters could hope to do that kind of feats against the lowest of Daemon. Greater Daemons would only be weaken and reduce active time in Materium

@@Sorain1 That is in 40k yes (too many Inquisitors are now psykers). In 30k , the Silent Sisters had the same authority as the Adeptus Custodes (and walked around the Imperial Palace freely) Also, think a little how the Sensei, the natural children of the Emperor came about, and are also immune to the Warp.

I don't get it.

@@TurtleShroom3The little person telling their story is a “Sister of Silence.” They take a vow of silence upon becoming one. So they never actually speak but talk through sign language.

So... basically black hole soul edition

My best estimation based on what we actually see on them is explanation 3. It's a black hole in the Warp. Blanks seem to be closer to the whole 'soulless' thing, yet still die to soul ripping weaponry, which might be explained with the force on the warp involved destabilizing their little bubble of 'calm' in a fatal manner. Blanks being so low emotion would be consistent with Necrons for the most part.

Actually, the whole emotion thing has more to do with upbringing than pariah gene. Sure pariah gene does affect their emotions and steer it to be duller but we saw plenty Blanks with regulars emotions, some are quite fiery. All humans have soul. Blanks included

@@huntermad5668 Like I said, anti-soul, not no soul (most likely)

Natural Blanks are a genetic adaptation to the Age of Strife and 5000 years of constant Warp Storms all over the galaxy. Pretty much the same as some humans gained blue eyes to withstand ice glare and obtain slightly better night vision, due to living in northen lands with less sunlight and more ice. They should be way more numerous than 40k writers made them, simply because of the numbers involved. On Terra there are about 20 quadrillion people, thus a minimum of 20000 Blanks would live there at any given time. Some Navigators can also have Blank genes, or learn spells of similar efect. Pariahs are something far greater, and can feed on the Warp in the same way as the Warp feeds on emotions. They are born (rarely) among Silent Sisters communities, or are soul-sheared off in psyker crucibles on board the Black Library to make Solitaires, or they are biotransfered into a Necron Warrior body to become Necron Pariahs.

The Blank was obviously part of the plan, dude. Otherwise just shove a demon into anyone else.

@@beastalchemistVA i have to corect you, a powerful blank keep some of his blank aura after death and it was to it was no one evil as him to he killed his parents from his first seconds and if it havent been removed that daemon would either be bannsh or be absolutely destroid and since it wasn't a realy a blank anymore it was vulnerable to psychic attacks and surprisingly blanks can be also posessed how the Gray Knight who broke Angtron's sword posessed a blank when it was in stasiss on the Black Ship on its way to Holy Terra and Malkador used mind control on the sisters of silence just to im not sure if it used his powers or Aunancia (the language of the universe) what can be used by everyone with any drawbacks and can do the same things like psychic powers, same like magic intantations and spells, how much time you speak it corectly and if not your body will start to exlpode piece by piece. By the way, his name was Spear and Majorkill made a video dedicated to him called something like The Dark Pheraia.

So what you're saying is, that a blank was still necessary

@@beastalchemistVA depending on the situation. Im no a expert but i still know a lot and i realy recomand the video from Majorkill so you can undestand more easy and in better details about that blank.

*Erebus checking the Chaos cookbook that tells him how to do this bs* Erebus: "Must use blank of suitable negativity." Spear: "Existence and nonexistence are pain..." Erebus: "Mmmkay, he should do."

The black pariah/spear is canon, he appeared at the horus heresy

The Horus Heresy book Nemesis is about a team of assassins attempting to kill Horus but running into the Black Pariah. It's a daemon-human hybrid that can perfectly assume the form and memories of its victims and trap their soul inside itself, and is a lethal killer and very hard to hurt. Recommending the book on its own value, a very entertaining HH book although it doesn't advance the plot in any meaningful way.

me too man. We need to show this guy some love

Much appreciated! Thank you!

Thank you for the kind words! Check out the artist in the description she's great!

Through they need them to be around as their destruction would cause disaster to Eldar in the future

Nega-Psykers lol

Nega please

Came here just for this comment, though I thought it would be higher up

What up my psyka

Can't give all the lore away.

I can't remember the explanation for why Solitaires let themselves be devoured by Slaanesh instead of just wearing a damn soulstone...?

People rail about how wonderful OPR are but you miss out on so much customization. Are you friends with five year olds? The phases of a turn in warhammer is one of the simpler concepts to grasp

That's just the nature of simplification I suppose. Heavy customization can be great when you already know how a system works but simpler stuff like OPR is better for beginners like my friends and I are. And close, my friends and I are all dumbasses. It was our first time trying a full on wargame instead of a ttrpg like dnd or call of cthulhu. We got what each phase was for and the order of them in a turn mind you, it was just all the rules for what can be done when in a given phase and the math that kept exhausting us. I think we got through like 3 phases of one turn in a deathguard vs league of votann fight before we got tired and switched to OPR.

@@badpunking5782I would recommend 10th edition. It’s a lot easier to learn, especially since everyone can download core rules for free now. Not as much stuff going on as 9th but still get some cool stuff for each faction.

Thank you!

Slaani: *promises literally everything* Sigma blank: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8ERSCR_lIP4.html

Godzilla had a stroke reading this and died.

What, why? Are whe talking about porn with kaijus or what, i don't get it.

Joe is saying your grammar is hard to read

@@beastalchemistVA i try my best, english is my second language what i learned alone like most of the younger generations in my country.

@@teobratuteodor1728 you're doing fine, anyone actually interested in understanding can spend an extra couple of seconds to get the general idea of what you are communicating.

The laughing god would be proud of that one.

Do Solitaire Blanks exceed Omega Blanks in power?

Not only sirvive with this, but outlive everyone else

With additional thought, the thing stopping anyone from leaving the galaxy is the Tyranids, but if they don't care about you due to you not having biomass, you could theoretically leave the galaxy entirely and unless you somehow provoked them, they wouldn't attack you on the way out. At that point, find a galaxy that is less catastrophically insane and set up shop there instead. That would also keep anyone else from following you, because the nids would go berserk if they gave chase.@@user-xe4yk8gk3z

eh, the dark eldar will find a way. other than that, sounds pretty solid man

If I want to avoid them, I just need to not go into the webway. Or, y'know, leave the galaxy since the nids wouldn't care about me. No dark eldar outside of the milky way.@@themonke8714

@@themonke8714 Well I heard that all eldar are someone psychic on some level whether they like it or not. And considering what blanks do to any nearby psykers, they would probably leave you alone or be forced to come up with some super elaborate way of torturing you while being miles away the whole time.

It would very hard for a person with aphantasia to become a heretic. Nurgle acolyte:" Imagine this city, no, WORLD covered in rot and plague!! Bwahahaha" Blank: "What do you mean? Do you mean you are going to show me a holotape of it or something? Did you already do it?"

Yes?

@@beastalchemistVA can I do re@cts to your videos on my channel I’ll link your channel and everything also keep up the amazing videos

Sure go ahead. So long as you copy the links for the artist in the description as well.

@@beastalchemistVA yes I will my friend thank you

Null is a synonym for Blank

You're blowing my mind!

@@beastalchemistVA i am a psyker

The way out has to be carved thru warp space in the temporary lost little cubbies where the Dark Ecclesiarchies memetic carpet bombing can be dulled to the point of emotional torque fueled by spite which can act as a beacon to draw more psykers Not that im really in that much control of abilities but if i dont manifest something we're gonna be landing in Nostramo theres no avoiding that, meybe we can make it a crash landing? Give me a better shot of not getting a horror novel end. Whatever non willing to be cogs in the machines after math will be living by the seat of their abilities Hail the Apocalypse

Well I died a million times And I picked my culture well And I built myself a gate They can all now go to hell