Current Day Things that are Present in Warhammer 40k 

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You forgot the dark eldar humonculus that loved mozart so much it made him cry. He also said he liked humanity better when they made original shit.

Perty actually creating Leonardo da Vinci's blueprints is... Just incredible.

That's the good thing about the Age of Strife, all our search histories got erased.

One thing i note is that in Know No Fear an Ultramarine says he has read, among other things, ”his von clausewitz”. Clausewitz was a prussian officer during the 1800s who’s work ”On war” is to this day used during officer training

I think Malcador having Van Gogh's sunflowers is really sweet. Imagine showing a guardsman who's been fighting for so long, in hell on wherever..... being shown the ecstatic beauty of Van Gogh. I wonder if Malcador kept something to the history of the work, the guardsmen sees a plaque - detailing the pain in Gogh's own life. But before him is the sunflowers, even there in the darkest depths he sees that beauty is alive. How Human.....

I’d like to imagine that somewhere in trazyns museum there is a codex from every edition of warhammer. He just sits and stares at it while contemplating existence.

*Malcador Sees a 11th century crusader armor* Malcador : Damn, that looks like a good armor design for the greyknights

Big E and Malcador : start their own collections of historical artefacts of their species Trazyn : *prepare for an Heist on Terra*

One of my favorite references is in one of the Ragnar Blackmane books (can't remember which one). He's a Wolfblade walking through ancient tunnels on Terra and sees a big painting or fresco of an angel (assuming it's Gabriel because I think he's holding a trumpet) and he wonders how the artist got Sanguinius so wrong.

I feel like the items in the Emperor's collection have more sentimental value because it's likely that he was quite literally there when they were conceived

Ollanius Piersson being a pious Catholic and also older than the Emperor, implies that he could very, very well have met at least the Apostles or even Jesus himself, and, after hearing them out or very well meeting Jesus, became a diehard, unfaltering Catholic for tens of thousands of years. Imagine going down THAT massive rabbit hole that creates.

Two things that survived all the way to 40K: The Browning M2 machine gun and the Colt M1911 pistol. The Imperial Guard's Heavy Stubber crew-served machine gun has explicitly been mentioned to be a design that goes all the way back to the 20th century, and rulebooks have shown a Stub Gun that is quite obviously the M1911. John Moses Browning is the Omnissiah, yo.

Dont forget about the patron saint of the munitorum Saint J.M. Browning. The inventor of the heavy stubber. A weapon so perfect it has undergone very little change over the 39,000 years since its creation.

Eisenstein is a Russian/Soviet movie director, and christening a ship after him is a reference to the "Battleship Potemkine" movie, I suppose.

I get the Emperor (being Saint George vs the Dragon) probably changed his size to properly ride a horse to fight the Void Dragon, but I personally think it's funnier to imagine an average horse being ridden by a comedically gigantic muscleman in golden armor.

Perhaps the true cause of the age of strife and the reason humanities history is so obscured is because Big E is afraid someone will find a server with his search history.

The “Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits” knock/tune survived and was used as a password to Big E’s secret laboratory

My favorite thing from the real world that crosses over to 40K is the story of Pinocchio. In the Master of Mankind, Ra asks the big E why he lets the primarchs call him farther. And the Emp tells him the story of a puppet maker who brought life to one his creations, and the puppet called him father, so naturally what else what the Emp let his primarchs call him?

"It sort of implies that Da Vinci was some sort of Pysker or perpetual." Star Trek seemed to think so.

It would be funny if Trazyn has his own "Earth" collection where he has, among the obvious things, all the big guys in history that "died in the field of battle" or "disappeared" suddenly. Imagine if the primarchs find the personalities they're inspired by, still "living" in statis.

I believe that its said in a book somewhere that if you go deep enough under the cities built over one another you would actually find the legendary and mythical city of New York lol. Apparently the venerate it in the same way as The lost city of Atlantis

I'm so sad that you forgot about that amazing moment in Pariah (Bequin episode) when Bequin found/saw a toy/model rocket from the USSR space program. Similar to the one that sent history's first man into space (Yuri Gagarin), automated space stations launched from a similar rocket compiled the first map and took the first photographs of the Moon. A similar rocket launched the first satellites/probes that landed on the Moon, Venus and Mars. On such a rocket, the first living creature (the brave dog Laika) was sent into space, as well as the first machine (Sputnik) created by human hands into space in our real world, shortly after World War II. The inscription "CCCP" means the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - USSR) here is the quote: ‘Let me show you this,’ he insisted, before I left. A trio of small, beige items came out of a cabinet and were laid out on a cloth. They had been white once, but age had darkened them like bone. Their surfaces were worn, but I could still make out the trace of silver on the engine bells, and the red markings along the fuselage. ‘Toys?’ I said. He nodded. ‘Playthings. Models made for a child’s amusement.’ ‘They are of weapon rockets? Missiles?’ ‘Rockets,’ he said. ‘For spaceflight. Don’t look so surprised, Mamzel Raeside. The first steps from Terra were said to have been taken using chemical rockets.’ ‘I am aware of history, sir, even though the detail of the oldest eras is lost in the mists. But really? Vehicles this crude?’ He smiled again. ‘I do not think they ever flew,’ he said. ‘I think these are simplified models of possible machines. A primitive idea of flight. But I show them to you because of their age. Your employer is very fond of the oldest things.’ ‘How old?’ I asked. ‘It can only be estimated,’ he said. ‘They pre-date the ages of Strife and Technology. I think they come from the Pre-System Age, from the first millennium of the Age of Terra.’ ‘What? Thirty-eight or thirty-nine thousand years ago?’ ‘Perhaps. Vessels like this first took our species into the unknown,’ he said. ‘They first took us Blackwards. The family name behind this business comes from that outward urge.’ ‘I think my employer will appreciate these,’ I said. ‘What price do you ask?’ ‘I will write it down,’ he said. ‘And the markings on the side of the rocket ships,’ I asked. ‘The letters in red? What does C.C.C.P. mean?’ ‘No one knows that,’ he said. ‘No one remembers any more.’

Fun fact about Mount Rushmore though: it’s survival makes a lot of sense. Mount Rushmore will likely stand in some form for 7 million years before the shape is completely gone. Since the carvings only erode about an inch every 10,000 years, the carvings would be pretty recognizable even in the 42nd millennium.

There are a lot of interesting historical references in 40k. Three more that I find interesting include the perpetual Damon Prytanis mentioning killing “the good man in Memphis” who is clearly Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Pope Innocent III being the Blood Thirster The Ragged Knight due to his claim of destroying the Karthur (the Cathars who were wiped out in the Albigensian Crusade), and finally there was an Imperial Army trooper named Mericus who claimed to have been named after a great warrior kingdom of the past (clearly the US).

I wonder if there is a hidden perpetual somewhere that has the collection of every game from ancient all the way to the M42. A story about Kaldor Draigo finding about Doomguy would be an interesting piece of lore.

Fun Fact! Pretty sure The Eisenstein is actually not a reference to Einstein. But to Sergei Eisenstein, a Soviet Director who directed 'Battleship Potemkin'. The movie involves the crew of a single Russian Battleship and its mutiny / rebellion against higher officers. Seems to fit with the name and theme of Garro disowning his legion and fleeing more than the original Einstein idea.

What I like about Ollanius is that out of all the perpetuals including the likes of Big E he is the commoner amongst them he does not have powers of that of a psyker(even if he was one to begin with) nor did he influence the world by being one if its leaders. He always was just a common soldier in the wars he fought in maybe he led on some but he was still part of the faceless masses. So one could say that he is the living embodiment of the history of the common people so if he was the one that stood in front of the Emperor against Horus then one could say Horus killed the history of Mankind in the eyes of a commoner making it a reason why Big E saw no hope in Horus after that.

Just a quick note on ‘Eisenstein’ - I’ve always thought it’s likely to be a double reference; there’s a legendary film director called Sergei Eisenstein who’s most famous film is about a mutiny onboard a Russian Imperial Navy ship

somewhere in the galaxy, there's still several perfectly intact nokia phones

Don't forget the fact that the Adeptus Mechanicus purposefully gave the civilian version of the Onager Dune Crawler, the MULE (Mars Universal Land Engine), an acronym that honored the ancient and reportedly stubborn Terran pack animal. The INSECTILE terran pack animal, as far as the Mechanicus knows.

Two things seen here are sorta explained in the Heresy book 'Angel Exterminatus'. In the book, Perturabo keeps mentioning this ancient civilization called the 'Firenze' who were masters of fortification & he uses whatever documents he has of their work to make these nigh inescapable labyrinths. From what I know, the name Firenze is a reference to the Italian city of Florence. Secondly, an Iron Warrior character in the book has these vivid flashbacks to scenes of battles from thousands of years before, including one where he was a cannibal German soldier at the Battle of Verdun, who was nearly killed by a French soldier with the name 'Pierson, Olivier' on his dog tags.

In Horus Rising. Horus possesses a ring from the (Edit: Persians) that was a gift from the emperor, apparently the emperor owned when he was a child.

Ollanius Piersson: *sees the leman russ tank* "That's not a tank *he then points at the Abrams* That's a tank"

Glad to see Oll Persson capping it off. Another reference to our time, from HH book 'Vulkan Lives' was the perpetual assassin Damon Prytanis talking about the targets he killed over the millennia. One of them was "The good man in Memphis", which is a reference to Martin Luther King Jr. Small detail on the 'Moon rover' that didn't impress Corax; it was a moon rover, but not for our moon. It was called the 'Titan Rover' on a little plaque, as it referred to the currently fictitious (but likely near-future) event of the first rover robot to explore the moon of Titan, that orbits Saturn. Corax's only frame of reference for the word 'titan' in the context of a machine are the giant god-machines. So he's confused more than unimpressed. This also foreshadows Malcador's reasoning for Titan to be the future base of the Grey Knights; he has sentimental attachment alongside whatever practical rationale.

Ollanius taking on a Khornite demon in the trenches of World War 2 is insanely metal

I think I remember when one of the Primarchs (I think Gulliman) said something, which implies that the emperor is actually Alexander the great, and even called the emperor "Aleksandr" (spelling is incorrect, probably because of years of mistranslation in the setting) , I think it goes something along the line of where the emperor teared up by looking out of the sea and said that there were nothing was left to conquer, like exactly like alaxander

One of the most interesting and mysterious finds I think was from the novel Horus Rising when the Luna Wolves found a highly detailed map of ancient earth (I assume 21st century by the description) in a bunker buried beneath the surface of a long dead world.

I can imagine that some Rogue Trader or Inquisitor just has a pinball machine in there cabin as a sort of status symbol. Like look at this intricate piece of dark age technology that must have been hand crafted by one of the best artisans of old earth surely a work of wonder let me demonstrate its function to you

I remember an interesting point a Magos makes in one of the Bequin books about keyboards. Specifically the standard qwerty layout for English keyboards. He said the origin of this standard were lost, but still in use in 40K. There's also an ancient rocket with CCCP written on it, with no one knowing what those letters means anymore.

One honorable mention in my opinion is a intact physical world map from the 21th century. The weirdest part is that this map was discovered by the Emperor by accident in a bunker on a abandoned xenos planet.

Not an artifact from our time, but if I'm not mistaken, Fabius Bile is the only character in 40k that we can connect to a place that actually exists today, Ingolstadt. A Jermani City in the province of Bavarii. Also, I think Van Gogh's Sunflowers are still arround at least in 30k.

I think the names of old places being different is supposed to be like how language changes over time and doesn't always perfectly preserve the spelling and sounds of things. Many examples in real life.

The three bears bit is probably the inner planets being too hot, the outer planets being too cold and the goldilocks zone (earth) being just right

What if Big E is sending back in time to us now the glimpses of what's going on while he sits on the golden chair, for reasons known only to him. Maybe to prepare us, or to steer the timeline.

In the 41st millennium, no one remembers these cultural heritage of humanity before the dark times. Except Trazyn who keeps them in his collection.

I would actually Murder for a Big E and Malcador heist book. Also good going GW, real WcDonalds brand naming convention on display here.

I do love the idea that in 40k DaVinci was making designs that were bonkers powerful when fully realized lol

Fabius Bile also keeps a collection of “Old Earth” music, which includes everything from recordings of musicians to actual record disks

The Venus of Villendorf. Is still around or atleast known about in 40K. During one of the Gaunts Ghosts stories, a character likens a fat chaos woman, to the Venus and other ancient fertility statues.

I wonder if Half Life 3 exists in Warhammer 40k?

Magnus also quotes the Book of Revalations and uses Plato's Allegory of the Cave for one of his arguements during the Council of Nikaea.

*Pulls out the original version of Rouge Trader, flips to the page with the stub pistol, looks at the illustration... of course, what else would it even be?* Thirty-eight millennium of service and ready for many millennium more. A classic without compromise. The perfect intersection of ergonomics, reliable operation and 45 caliber power. The pistol that forgot to become obsolete. The M1911. Elegant. Effective. Eternal.

I really wanna believe that the Aedeptus Mechanicus having a toaster as a holy object is actual lore more than just meme

I think that, aside from the authors trying to avoid copyright stuff, ir could be argued the shift in language is simply due to the passage of time. Compare American and British English as an example. The United States only split from the UK a little over 250 years ago. Already there are differences in slang, in pronunciation, and even grammar at times. Extending this out 38,000 years, it's honestly amazing that there are any recognizable names or words left.

I personally like to imagine Imperial Nobles using genetically modified monsters and xenos to fight each other in tournaments based on an ancient traditional sport wherein youths would set off into the world and capture strange ancient Terran creatures to fight each other like Rodents somehow (at least to the understanding of the Biologis and other Imperial scholars) capable of utilizing the friction between it's paws and it's body to eminate massive voltages of electricity, and repitillian creatures which appear to have a gland which allows them to ignite gasses discharged from their bodies to produce fire. Truly prehistoric Terra was a ferocious place!

Eisenstein is a nod to Sergei Eisenstein since he directed the Odessa Steps which uhhh yeah, is an influence on basically all of cinema and was called up a lot in the early years of Games Workshop lore stuff

Just waiting for the video about how each of the pre heresy primarchs would have reacted to being in Guillimans situation as imperial regent.

The Eisenstein is a reference to Sergei Eisenstein, the soviet film director who pioneered the montage, it even says in the book that the ship is named after an old earth remembrancer. He directed “Battleship Potemkin”, “Alexander Nevsky”, and many others.

I could imagine in one of the God Emperor's hidden vaults is the original model of the USS Enterprise that they used in the 60's tv series. Just a thought.

In Flight of the Eisenstein they also mentioned that it was also the name of a "remembrance. Almost certainly Sergei Eisenstein, a soviet film maker who invented the Montage.

I like the idea of a book with the emperor and Malcador hunting cultural artifacts, imagine throwing Trazyn in there as well

Don't forget the Tyranid fleets are named after mythological monsters. And the Necron Gauss rifle has got to mean that this physicist is being remembered as well. These are all names from Imperial conventions, the Necrons and Tyranids don't name their own stuff like that of course.

Love your videos. However, Eisenstein is probably a reference to Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and his warship movie "Battleship Potemkin" which was pretty popular in the 80ies and 90ies indie movie scene. Also I do believe Ollanius is cathari which was a high medieval heresy.

If you take John blanche art as lore, then the statue of liberty still exists. Which if true it'd be neat if it was turned into like a Titan.

Doesn't Malcador have one of the Voyager probes? And either Olly or Gramaticus fought in the battle of 73 Easting, so there's a chance I met one of them.

I always find it funny how the Emperor called Magnus out for arrogance when the dude was so arrogant a fellow perpetual who is older than him told him he was playing with fire and he still didn't listen. I hope The 2 finally reconcile and Magnus gets redeemed

Apollo 11 was by no means "The first spacecraft ever built." But we digress.

I so glad MajorKillGPT spent the time to dream up this new wave of content, what a treat

I distinctly remember this one piece of old John Blanche art that features Malcador in front of a gallery which includes things like the Pyramids of Giza and the Statue of Liberty, but I cannot for the life of me find it anywhere.

At least TTS Emperor can play Warhammer Fantasy tabletop games with Magnus, Rogal Dorn, Pillar Men Custodes, High Lords of Terra and Decius.

After reading that Ahriman has a Viscont-Sforza Tarot deck, I found one and started learning how to use it. I'd like to think mine has survived for the next 28,000 or so years and he's using my deck. And thus the time-loop will be complete

an Infinite and The Divine style book about Malcador and The Emperor dicking around and hanging out would be a worthwhile read I feel

Belasarius Cawl misconstruding the original meaning of the Goldie Locks Zone and the Goldie Locks Fable is absolute golden.... Could you imagine the testimony of Goldie Locks' astro charts?.... Or that of the 2 brothers compiling records and accounts of stories of lost and hidden Lore before and of Old Night?.... I bet they would be so *Grimm* ... Probably pretty *Dark* , too! 😅

Malchador was named "Malcador the Sigilitte" later to be "Malcador the hero". He was the last member of the sigilitte order who's goal was to search and maintain greatest cultural achievement of mankind. That is how he managed to obtain such treasure. I'm not even sure the emperor has anything to do with that.

In one of Fabius Biles book ( I believe it’s the 2nd book in his series) I think he talks about listening to Mozart in his consortium while operating as it clears his head, but he has since forgotten his name so just calls him a artist from lost terra.

"Many other writers and poets are referenced." One has to wonder how they'll react if somebody brings up Lionel Johnson.

In the Priests of Mars series, the mechanicus has some sort of land crawler that is steered using HMS Victory’s wheel.

I believe The Eisentstein actually may refer to world-famous Soviet director Sergei Eisentstein. His last name is literally Eisentstein, as opposed to a corruption of the name Einstein. I may be wrong though. But considering how some names do stay intact in other parts of the lore, I'm willing to bet it's more likely a nod to Sergei Eisentstein rather than to Einstein.

If I remember correctly, the 1911 still exists. Would have been cool to see it added

I think Nikola Tesla would've liked the idea of his skull becoming capable of emitting an EMP wave.

5:30 I have been studying the Voynich Manuscript for weeks now, I can't even escape it anymore. I will decode it, it is my mission.

Just that map of pre-unification Terra. How many tyrants of that era hoarded or obsessed over ancient knowledge or sought to re-create something from long forgotten legend. Because at that point popular fiction drifts into history and legend: Wakanda! Lemuria! The Dominion of the Drakka, the States of Atlan(tis)

Maybe it's just me having read it wrong, but in the end and the death is alluded that Ollanius is Ulysses and was a friend of Theseus

Nice video! Here's more video ideas: 1. Do sports exist in Warhammer? If so, then does each faction have them? 2. Lore on Arkhan Land 3. How powerful is the Black Rage from the Blood Angels (this in celebration of Halloween)? 4. Does the Internet exist in Warhammer? 5. Do movies, TV shows, etc also exist in Warhammer? One more idea: 6. Can anyone else use the Waaaug or just only Orks? Anyway, LOVED this 😊!

One of the perpetuals also had the original version of the stories from Hans Christian Andersen that they took from Odense Cathedral, which must still have been standing after almost 29 thousand years.

My head canon is that every time he says peace in the end of his videos, he really is saying Piss Oh also that Malcador has hidden in a vault the complete manga of One Piece, but Alpharius stole the last Volume

Some random psykers got a vision of the 41st millennium and decided to make it into marketable plastic minis

Not going to lie, that version of the three bears story sounds like an awesome premise for an epic sci-fi adventure. Its hilariously inaccurate but it's awesome in its own right. In his favor the "Goldilocks zone" is named after the character and for good reason, so I don't blame him for confusing the two.

In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium, even the Emperor’s Wi-Fi connection is considered heretical - it’s been buffering for millennia!

There’s a short story where you see Cawl working in his lab listening to Beethoven and Mozart

I DEMAND to see the Mechanicus argue about who davinci was in darktide! Maybe even force you to fetch something like a picture of the vesuvian man to "prove" he was an incarnation of the omnissiah

"Lord Inquisitor! We've uncovered a list of significant importance that may finally purge chaos and heretics from the universe!" *presents Epstien's list"

I think us watching your video being lore-friendly to 40k would mean you're an extremely powerful psyker, being able to see that far in the future. Possibly the Emperor ?

I believe Dune is also a big influence for 40k with the Butlerian Jihad / fall from the golden age because of AI waging war.

There are references to Cricket (Grasshopper played in the Brittanicus cluster) and Rugby (Scrumball) in the Ciaphus Cain books.

All of our plastic waste survived into the year 40k

It’s all most incredible that anything could survive for that long period of time.

We need a TTS Vox Cast of the Big E and Trazyn chatting shit about history

What if 40k is canon in the 40k universe? Hidden in the deepest vault beneath the imperial palace, in a chamber off limits to everyone but The Emperor himself, at all times guarded by 40 blind custodes veterans, lies the big E's ancient collection of Eldar minis and Battlemace 40 Million smut calenders.