Darktide's ENTIRE Lore/Story/Ending EXPLAINED | Warhammer 40k Lore 

The last part when the traitor is found, it’s funny when you are the Ogryn. I mean, could you imagine if the Ogryn was plotting against the Inquisition?

I really hope Khornates, Tzeentchians and Slaaneshis get their chance to shine in the DLC of Dark Tide or a sequel.

I’m a sucker for the trope of “Ragtag band of Misfits” and this game fits the bill so well. With the Imperium’s Penal Units lore and the use of the Rejects as expendable but necessary manpower, the game makes us feel enough to be heroes in some manner.

Morrow is not the captain of the ship, he's the commander of the inquisitor's forces. The lady from the intro cinematic is the captain of the ship. Her name is Shipmistress Emora Brahms. Nobody actually knows who Grendyl is.

The Mourningstar's shipmistress is Brahms, who's likely a Rogue trader in service to Inquisitor Grendyl ( Similar to how Tobias Maxila ( and his void ship) was often utilized by Eisenhorn in the Dan Abnett books) , so I'm not sure if we can call it Grendyls per-say. Brahms is also the old woman in the launcher, sporting a similar look to the characters from that rogue trader trailer we got a while back. Source: In-game dialogue , characters explicitly talk about Brahms, her duty and her possible rogue trader-ness. DA probably proposed a similar structure to what he used in Eisenhorn at a greater scale. Lots of (eisenhorn/Darktide) parallels, like an ace Pilot ( Betancore / Masozi ) , Astropath or Sanctioned Psyker ( Various/ Sefoni, the psychanarium chick) , interrogators ( Ravenor etc/ Rannick) , Law enforcement recruited locally ( Fischig in book1/ Zola ) and various others, probably a standard template for inquisitorial retinue. The scale here is noteworthy, but I guess they're overall trying to say that Grendyl sent bands of faithful convicts from a nearby prison ship on suicide missions to deal with the corruption in the hive cities, some of whom rose in accomplishment and rank (and were inducted formally into the retinue) and some that were executed as traitors. He puts rannick in charge of overseeing these bands ( There are guards stationed everywhere in player areas in case we turn rogue on-ship, and those guards turn friendly in dialogue as you get closer to lvl 30). This improvised plan makes sense given the opposition. Excluding the part of hive city population that has fully succumbed to nurgle ( Now poxwalkers) with improvised weapons , there are corrupted local militia ( I assume) called the Dregs ( Dreg gunners, shotgunners) with basic firearms, corrupted work-force from the manufactorum ( Maulers, some of the Ogryns) with repurposed construction/welding equipment, a corrupted regiment of the elite Moebian Sixth called the Scabs ( Scab gunners, scab riflemen etc ) with serious firepower, and actual fucking daemons like the hounds, beasts of nurgle and so-forth. This is a planetary level event ( Dialogue states that there are other hive-cities that have gone dark, maybe DLC?, could be genestealer related but that's another story), so in the absence of a whole army of guard or the emperors angels, Grendyls making the best of the situation for now. And they can't just exterminatus the planet because of the manufactorums ( Similar to in the space marine game with the titan manufactorum). So basically most of our missions are to prolong the fight for as long as possible . Keeping the water clean, eliminating further corrupting communications, killing High-value enemy targets, studying and sampling the infection strains to further cures/vaccines. Source : I'm a virgin

It just hit me that Demonhost's were Psykers, if you listen to their whispers they are desperately fighting off the demon

Zola is an Explicator, basically Inquisitor trainee rank 1. Morrow is a Sergeant Major. Rannick is an Interrogator, one rank below an actual Inquisitor.

If you plays as the veteran with a Psyker you get lines about the about having nightmares about a giant throne with skulls. It wasn't just the Psyker this time. The game is really hiting at one other chaos faction, haven't heard any other chaos faction mention. We might get it later down the line

You really do make this lore digestible like no one else on yt does

I love Darktide because of how fun it is to bring the God Emperor's wrath down onto Heretics

A Genestealer Cult mode for Darktide would be awesome. To fight the patriarch would be amazing.

1:17 And now Inquisition are banished to the Warp where they later end up at Commorragh with Leman Russ and Kaldor Draigo and thrown to the gladiatorial arena with nothing but sticks and loincloths.

Yea, the setting and background are amazing, but actual story and characters seems about right for 8 minutes 😂

I like the idea of the fight expanding into other species/factions getting involved. The fight against the forces of Nurgle ends up with Tyranids showing up, which causes the Orks to invade because the fightin's had. Etc

Man, cheers to FatShark for sponsoring so many RU-vidrs, really good image.

The shipmistress is Brahams, who is the rogue trader gilf in the opening cinematic. Grendyl is just using her ship and I think we've yet to see them.

I hope you do a lore video about the Vox from Wyrmwood which covers more lore about Darktide's story which explains how the corrupt started and were Ground Zero is suspected to be.

I just have to bring up the Mourningstar is literally a Firestorm class frigate but with it's lance replaced by 6 torpedo tubes (which is surprising since usually escorts only carry 2). That means this inquisitor is in command of literally just an escort vessel that though large is comparatively tiny compared to normal Imperium ships. I mean in BFG 1 the inquisitor in that game which I'm pretty sure was a lord inquisitor had a whole ass Retribution class battleship alongside that hyper-cringe inquisitor from BFG 2 and also got a Retribution battleship. So either this inquisitor is just a standard inquisitor or a lord inquisitor that's going really lowkey.

Part two of Erda. Never gonna stop.

Man uploads a video one minute into Christmas

Would be nice if they do some form of story campaign after the player reach lvl 30, like doing mission for the torturer investigating how beast of nurgle is summon, more traitors in the high ups, etc. Maybe more wide scale battlefield mission like, help unsiege a section, or rescue people.

I wonder what it would be like for a crazy,trauma filled,balls to the wall brave maniac to be in the warp and demons trying to brake him,oh alright you cant brake some one who already is broken!

What is worth mentioning, is that on release, in one mission you had the talk about the Archivarium, and a mission in the Archivarium was added in the latest update. Now there are several talk themes inside missions that might play out later.

"Instead of padding this with nonsense" I respect that so much

Dunno if it's been said, but there is an interesting quip about about atoma prime having another hive city that was abandoned, but shortly after one of the rejects brings it up someone Zola or another one of that retinue quickly tells them to shut up and not worry about it.

The various dialogues are most likely hints at new content. References to a whole other Hive City on Tertium that had "gone dark" are made several times. Likewise, Genestealers have a few mentions as does the Cicatrix Maledictum. A genestealer cult in the dark hive city would be really quite interesting. The "barren wastes" mentioned a few times would be an interesting location for Ork related missions too, if Fatshark was feeling especially spicy. IIRC, The new mission we got in latest patch was hinted as a location through dialogue where a character mentions the place as being locked up and Hadron replies that it isnt time to go there yet. There are a few characters that openly wonder about visiting Terra too. I do not recall Fatshark calling Vermintide a live service while they do call Darktide a live service. Its very probable they intend to keep adding new content and story as time goes on.

Happy Holidays and Sanguinala to you all. Also one of the Psykers believes they're married to a shard of the Emperor. Obligatory asking Majorkill for a Mini of the late Old Man because who wants his last model to be well his last?

Hell of a story, 40 bucks and they give you a cinematic every 5 levels up to level 30

I’ve noticed the Nurgel and death guard has been given a huge buff lately and the games

The fact the character you used is the exact same character design as Zola is a madlad move.

In fairness the most appealing thing about 40K is there is no ending... and technically no victors. It's unending War.

Still in absolute awe that they thought going from 4 super colorful characters with tons of flavorful dialogue in Vermintide to 4 John Does who say nothing but help me and thank you Also incredibly sad that this video tried to spin that as a positive lmao

I waited till I got my first character (the German sounding psyker) to lvl 30 to watch this. Since I've been leveling up multiple characters, I'm glad you could put everything into perspective in a shorter video

this is my first Warhammer game after hundreds of hours of listening to Warhammer lore and I love it

I know this is nitpicking but how in a million worlds does the inquisition even *consider* my Ogryn to be a traitor capable of writing heretical words on the wall and relaying information from the mourning star when he can’t even say “Eliminated” or “Nullified”

It's on my wishlist mate, but I'm going to need a replacement for my laptoaster first ;-)

I hope we get to see Genestealer Cultists in future content for Darktide. Imagine getting to fight through Nurgle Cultists and Genestealer Cultists,not to mention all the Daemons and Specialised Bioforms.

so there are 2 conversations that happen that make me think the next expansion is gene stealer cults.... 1 - there is a scene where a character asks the tanker dude in the duster - cant remember his name - about rumors of another hive city on this world. he responds with basically "you aren't cleared for THAT information yet". 2 - a back and forth with another character in the party asks about this same guy - about how how he was the last survivor of a massive battle with tyranids (i cant remember if it was nids or cults - but i got the impression that cults were involved by the transaction)

Playing as an Ogryn is great, because the shop gear with a mustache has me looking like the Village People and cracks a lot of jokes. Them leopard skin pants are absolute drip 👌

Hey Majorkill. Would you please make some lore videos on the Imperial Truth, the Imperial Creed, The Ecclesiarchy, and the High Lords of Terra? Thank you.

I really wish there was a Warhammer 40 K game where you can play as all the legions that are available it would be so awesome if I could play as like the bloody Angels or world leaders, it would be very awesome. We’re like you could play as each of them, and they each one would have their own story.

is that what those random cutscenes were about? I was too busy checking the shop and hoping for something slightly better than what i had.

I was playing a match the other day with a psyker who during a mission, mentioned "My beloved says there is a [monolith/artefact (I can't recall)] causing the Mobian guard to turn traitorous.

I wish they added chaos space marines, actual imperial guards you can fight with and more intense like evacuation missions.

I like the fact that after you reach level 30 and you get the final story cinematic, the traitor then appears as a servitor. Nice, little touch that.🙂

Fatshark sponsoring every WH40k youtuber is so hilarious at this point. It's like they are begging to play their game.

Hate that each character didn’t have different cutscenes. Only issue I’ve had with the game everything else is mint. Well will be once more things are added, for me the game runs perfectly high frames and such.

while playing this I noticed the traitor is seen in a couple of cut scenes and runs on of the shops, once I got lvl 30 with all the characters, the traitor is still running the shop, but as a servitor

Typed Darktide story and got several vids for like 40 mins and then I found 8 min. Instant winner

You did a good job narrating all the cutscenes I already saw. Not that there is any real lore beyond that so I don't blame you.

Would love a Warhammer quest style game, first person style.

Fun fact about the traitor: her names Mara Vinci and she’s a vendor in game and she gets turned into a servator I made a video about it recently and how to see her when she gets transformed

I was watching this video and then my neighbour came and we watched it together. He said that this video changed his life and touched his heart. Then I went and rented a projector in a big field and my entire town watched it and it changed their lives too. We all are so grateful. Thank You for this video….

If fatshark sponsored this video, wouldn’t you be able to ask them things like “is Brahms the ship mistress, or is it the sgt-major who claims to be in charge of the inquisition warband’s fighting forces?”

Great vid as always, Antipodean.

I’m so excited for the future of this game. There’s so many possibilities of things we could get and see. Ogryn Charonites, commissar’s and a sister of battle as classes or sub classes, all manner of weapons for more or less all the characters. And still many more enemies that we haven’t seen yet, like plague bearers and rot-flies. As well as new stuff they can do with the missions, such as because it’s nurgle they could make one where your health slowly drains. Also due to the presence of daemon-hosts and beast(s) of nurgle, there has to be some direct warp shenanigans going on, so it would be cool to see us have to deal with that at some point, close a portal or something. I know it’s not really lore friendly, but I’d love to see a fight with a plague marine. I get that “realistically” they would crush us, but it would be cool if we get to fight one in a mission after a skirmish between a squad of loyalists marines and plague marines and we just get to fight the wounded one to make it a little more believable. Also for the love of the god-emperor can we get more options for the character creator. “Normal” hair styles and faces would be great. Merry Christmas all!

I gotta say im (surprisingly) not sponsored and i can wholeheartedly agree with mks assessment of the game. I think its a solid 8,5 and neither reddit nor the steam reviews do the game justice. I do agree premiumshop practices are not nice, but its not like they invented it and theyre going as far as to incorporate users wishes.

Merry Christmas man, have a good one

Consider this: for every player character created the is a traitor. I hope Rannick doesn't run out of bullets.

@Majorkill a few mistakes were made: sgt major Morrow is one of the highier ups in the warband of Inquisitor Grendyl, the ship "Mourningstar" is the property of a rogue trader named Shipmistress Brahms. Great vid regardless man keep at it!

From what I read of the story, the Moebian 6th regiment 'lasmen' imperial guard was supposed to suppress the uprising, but they ended up turning traitor since most of these are vets that formally fought in the 'Fringe Wars' where Xenos and Heretics lurk. They suffered from some type of PTSD or mental trauma from the "Darktide". There is so much lore and story, it's just a shame it's not showcased further, there was definitely some care put into the lore and background and the game cut scenes doesn't do it justice. 😭

I have a feeling fat shark will end up creating an entire chaos incursion with this game.

Honestly think the reason they went with custom characters over pre-written ones like in Vermintide is to stay in line with the grimdark tone of 40k Something too similar to the Ubersreik 5, a group of misfits learning to overcome their differences and surviving against all odds (and in the case of a certain two, forming a budding romance), would've been too hopeful whereas a group of easily replaceable and indistinguishable rejects falls more in line with 40k

Thanks for this Majorkill. I enjoyed it

The prologue cutscene and the tutorial stage have more plot and lore than the rest of the game combined lol

I'm sure in the future, the max level will get higher, more missions will be added, along with more story, weapons and abilities. DLC might even include new enemies or a new class

Having a team of all psykers with only one zealot has some really awesome dialogue

Custodes vs those strong ass harley quinn's

We need someone to do a more recent deep dive on player interaction lines as well as that of some of the lines given by the other characters so we can have a timeline for tertium's plight and other further lore revelations as they have added numerous lines with the recent update.

Happy holidays Major kill best 40K lore videos by far and no balls won’t make a space bug of death for your next mini

A video on olanius and John gramaticus would be cool

I would like new DLCs to take us to other hives with other classes and enemies.

Damn didn't know darktide was an inception plot, man's character is literally the Explicator Zola

Game is amazing but story is beyond forgetable. The best part is the traitor is the store merchant (cosmetics) throughout the game. After the ending she is killed but also put into service for her crime. You can go to the merchant, and she is now a servitor. Truly awsome detail.

Tbh there was room to have a story, sure expanding the story within the missions would be pretty hard but not impossible they could have put a selection besides "quick game" named like "main story" that made you play the story missions with other players who where at that stage and the pop up missions would be as their name suggest pop up missions that are different, meaning in what is happening and where, perhaps the main story missions would have the one of each type of missions, perhaps they could even put that you need to have certain level of trust to play the main missions so between main missions you are forced to play the pop up missions so you could get to the level of trust needed, you could start doing your first main missions as your first missions after the tutorial/prologue, perhaps one that needs you to clear a space so another teams arrives and as main missions happen you know more about what's happening in the Hive city and about the group that entered the ship in the prologue, perhaps the last mission could be you killing in a boss fight the dude that escape in the prologue but you need to be trust level 30 to do it or something like that, they could also have done that in your character there is a like a corruption meter and when you do missions the corruption meter gets lower and after x number of missions you see how doing your missions have affected the hive city so the more you lower the corruption the "better" it gets for the hive city. I could go on and on and on and on in how they could have done a different story, but as someone said it doesn't look like the writer actually wrote something, but that fatshark stole a napkin from the writer with just some keypoint for the story, specially considering the lack of story and the big no nos the little story we have, like for example the concept i like to call the Buford canoe (its a reference of a movie of Phineas of Ferb where they use the concept that has another name where Buford carried the canoe everyone and it wasn't until the last arc that carrying it around paid off), if you are going to show/establish something in the story at the beginning you need to pay it off later, so by showing us a heretic that was so important he was save you basically stablished he is important but never showing what happened with him is horrible writing skills, specially something so major for the story. Now putting story behind i would love that after getting to level 30 they expand what you can do saying something "Well you have gained enough trust to the point we don't need to micro manage you" (making the first 30 levels of trust the true prologue of the game) so now you are able to do work just not for the group that is working in Brahm´s ship but work have your little ship that makes you possible to travel to other Rouge traders ships under Grendyl that are dealing with other foe in the system so that way you can travel among worlds fighting other chaos god followers, other xenos and traitors, you could decide to stay in your ship and do solo missions on with your squad or go to a Rogue trader´s ship and be among other players and have the markets and stuff (similar to how warframe, but not exactly because you would want to spent more time in the Rouge trader´s ship) and even perhaps they could make that your other characters are in your ship doing other stuff in the background and even if you dont visit that often your ship when you do your characters say something about it (like the ogryn saying "big man sad because little man has gone too long" or something like that) but in the voices that you have selected for them. End of my rant lol

The traitor ends up becoming a servitor in the commisary, you can see her before and after level 30 A fate truly worse than death

A video on ships of the various races would be nice.

You missed the funny part that after traitor is executed, Hadron made a servitor out of her. Chilling. Everybody can see the price of betrayal.

I don't think Morrow is the ship's captain. That would be Shipmistress Brams, the lady from the World Intro Trailer that looks like Mom from Futurama

Here's the plot of Darktide Prologue- "You're a prisoner, but you saved me from that prison break, you're on the team!" Act 1- "We don't trust you yet reject, go out there and kill some heretics" Act 2- "Alright Reject, we still don't trust you, keep killing Heretics" Act 3- "Theres a traitor on the ship or something, go kill some heretics so we know its not you" Finale- "This no name NPC was the traitor, good job killing Heretics we almost trust you, now go kill some more" Feels like they took a bunch of introductory cutscenes for NPC's and strung them out to try and make a story with material they had already.

Merry Christmas Major Kill!!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everybody!

Will the crew turn to Chaos? I've heard during gameplay zealots yelling "Blood for the god emperor, skulls for the Golden Throne."

Inquisitorial Team are in Space Brazil for an enthusiastic walk.

I'm hoping for xenos chaos factions, they exist and would be a great asset and selling point.

Morrow is a Sergeant Major... he's in charge of the grunts (players). The captain of the ship is the old rogue trader lady with the fancy white hair.

Holy shit!!! We went over 420!!!! Time to pay up Majorkill!!!!

Got drunk asf after the update and on your new merch drop. Finna be strolling around town in your bath robe.

This is the earliest I've caught a video. Nice.

First off the Inquisition is not the “Imperium’s CIA on steroids”, Second off Hydra Dominatus.

GW: You sponsored WHO? Fatshark: uuuhhhhh.....

Please make a video on 40k air vehicles

I thought your last video was your last video till after chrisso also merry Christmas for 5 minutes

I wanna explore thr Holy terra with this game in the future.

Last lore video before christmas my arse 🤣🤣

The story fits the scope I think. The inquisitor is taking in all the prisoners as soldiers I think it's small but fitting that a "traitor in the ranks" is the main story. Major do you think that there's some sort of tear and or priest feeding some aspects of the demons that have made it through?

How can you make an 8 minute long video about a story which mainly consists of some random character telling you. "Oh, you are not dead?"

Darktide- you are disposable. *meanwhile* End game results 1x Daemon Host 1x Beats of Nurgle 2x Plague Ogryn 972x Dregs 703x Scabs 99999x Pox Walkers

Can we all types of necrons video please

Dawg this game does not have a story. This is the nicest approach I've seen for this game.