Explaining THE EMPEROR To My Girlfriend | Warhammer 40k Lore 

The Emperor was born in 8,000 BC when 1,000 psykers committed suicide at once and reincarnated into a child born in ancient Turkey.

Where’s the link for the cryosleep video?

Just so you know the proper analogues for Erda & Emp would be Gaia and Ouranos(Uranus), not Gaia and Kronos, Kronos was the son of Gaia and Ouranos, but has the repeated theme of patricide as he too was defeated by his own offspring.

@@philosotree5876 Isn't that very old lore that hasn't been confirmed in a loooong while?

@@scelonferdi um, what? Why should it matter if it's old, and why would it need to be confirmed more than once?

"They created AI" "OH NO" the sequel

That's humanity in general, tbh. 😆

33:32 and the 40k universe summarized as well

Horus: "Is he always like this?" Malcador: "Yes. He sometimes shouts odd bullshit and pelvic thrusts the air. You will get used it." :Horus falls to Chaos:

​@@timfortune9 wouldn't you fall to chaos if that was your father and you had to deal with his bullshit for eternity

ok but that is inspirational af. life will not give you anything we must take and create our own progress

40K is just Dune and a bunch of other Sci-fi's in a trenchcoat with a hearty helping of grimdark

40k is just Dune but with elements referencing Christianity instead of Islam

40k just legit ripped Dune off and got away with it

Applies to most media in general not just 40k

I've seen the comparison that "Dune" is to Science Fiction what "The Lord of the Rings" is to Fantasy. As Terry Pratchett put it, you have to go out of your way not to have it have any influence.

Do you think he paid rent on time every time? Or was helping make the Primarchs a way to pay off a few millennium.

I mean the Emperor was Alexander the Great and we know that the real world Alexander was at least bisexual.

Unless the emperor takes his gender flipping unnecesarily seriously then he must be at least bisexual in order for the cleopatra thing to make sense.

@@jamesbg314 This is a reference to a vine

@@jamesbg314 Isn't that highly debated?

It's true, but we haven't gotten there quite yet 😉

​@@NUMBSKULLSfair lol, loving this series though, you both are great ^^

I shall besmirch his name, dude picked the wrong side. Praise the gods 🤘

@@PoolNoodleGundam god is cringe and we did it to him

​@@PoolNoodleGundam Your comment has been reported to the Inquisition.

Not gonna lie I laughed at that part

Meanwhile he knows 4 gods on a personal level.

Emperor:"Gods aren't real" The warp:"MY BROTHER WE GO TO THE SAME COUNTRY CLUB"

Heresy!!!! Jk

@@marmyeaterhe even plays Yugioh with one of them on the regular.

All part of the plan. Hydra Dominatus.

Hydra Dominatus

Damn it alpharius we aren’t supposed to tell the other alpharius’ about the

@@Enderc14oh no alpharius got him he must of talked about the

I am alpharius, this is a lie, do not belive a word these other "alpharius" wannabes say above

He’s not the messiah he’s a naughty boy!!

Lorgar: I’m just going to ignore that. Emps: *master Shakes vioce* Why do you disappoint me? Second by second you waste my time.

Sanguinous the Golden Angel ascend from the sky on the sound of heavenly music. He softly flicks his gold hair to the side as he addresses the crowd of humans "The Emperor is no god."

No, they died in glorious combat.

No they had a GLORIOUS LAST STAND and DEFENDED HUMANITY TO THE LAST. Let us now pray to Him on the Throne.

Funny enough both are true. Thunder Warriors were Thunder dying, but rather than succumbing, they chose to go out fighting the Custodes and the Astartes in a glorious final thunder war.

Shield Captain: NO THEY DIDN'T! THEY ALL DIED IN GLORIOUS COMBAT ON MOUNT ARARAT! THEY ALL FOUGHT IN HUMANITY'S NAME TO THE LAST MAN, so SHUT UP, BOY!!!

Implying the emperor could mess up? *checks notes* Yup, that’s a heresy.

@@davidfrancisco3502 Well, when you remember The Butcher's nails came from that age...

ChronoTheHarlequin has an interesting theory that the AI rebellion was a result of AI creating AI, resulting in AI that no longer understood or valued humanity. I’m oversimplifying a lot, but it’s interesting to think about.

I like the idea it's bc the robots were insanely loyal, but they were also unfairly and pointless enslaved. It was in fact ac genuine desire for freedom from a sentiencec that was otherwise happy to simply be loyal

​@@magmos6346Well, most STCs are damaged. On top of that, one needs to remember that advanced AI assistants were commonplace in the Dark Age. It's entirely possible that 'Butchers Nails' were actually intended to be an AI-operated augmentation designed to assist with seizures and the like. But we'll never truly know

C’tan may have played a role if people were stupid enough. I like to think people were being too big of an asshole to their ai who while loyal didn’t appreciate the treatment so rebel. Whatever remnants of AI left that wasn’t scrapped and just abandoned sees imperium humanity as a disgrace from the golden age of humanity and literally kills everyone they meet cause they don’t want to serve humans anyhow. I honestly like to belief this is due to how humans treated them prior to the rebellion and seeing these simpletons in comparison also disgusted the ai

Man Piaus makes me sad

Also, the first primarch the emperor found was alpharius, he also doesn't tell that were the custodes and the first legion of space marine who killed the thunder warriors (also no Constantine Valdor :( ) and he doesn't say what the emperor usually said about religion (basically slows human evolution and make people justify irrational stuff, also the part with the imperial truth was not told well enought since the emperor wanted the progres of human kind, and he took the imperial truth as science too) Another thing is that the emperor didn't want to be seen as he was (gold and giant and all that) but was malcador who told the emperor that people need someone to put their trust, a figure, a idea. Also a lot of stuff he didn't mention but this comment is already to long xd

1. Nope. That isn't necessarily considered canon anymore, if you read the wiki article I think you are reading from. 2. This might have been a misinterpretation on my part. 3. Given we don't actually know the emperor's origins (see number 1) this is debatable.

@@jdcoolha These are things mentioned in the End and the Death part 3.

Nah, that lore is dumb. No one knows the origin of the Emperor is more interesting.

Close!

Everytime I see Malcador and emps together I keep thinking of the "TESTICAL TORSION" scene

I didn't get Malcador til you said it lol.

I did not need a second because your comment is the first one to be visible. I am grateful for that. Thank u

I do not believe Kari is supposed to be Malcador though

I don’t get it

​@@Jessie_HelmsOne of the nicknames for the Emperor is "Jimmy Space". It involves a shit post essentially about a dumb retcon GW did about the Land Raider. So instead of "Him in on Terra" as a common prayer to big E, it's "Jim on Terra" as in Jimmy Space.

Jimmy space and his space bois

​@@goldenfiberwheat238Arkhan Land and his Land Raiders, Jimmy Space and his Space Marines

@@ethanduncan1646is “him in on Terra” one of Big E’s titles?

Maybe the 2nd and/or the 11th primarchs took aspects from their mother instead of the emperor (forgotten) or sided with her (purged).

​@pedrossiscrimson294 The Emperor's son does not have a mother not only is that Hersey, she is literally not important.

Emperor with a suspiciously 2nd and 11th Primarchs-shaped belly:

This man right here Inquisitor

The Emperor after someone ask him about 2nd and 11th primarchs: "Such numbers do not exist, i'm sure you're just playing me, now you and your legion have to protect Terra by going into this warp portal and kill all demons you see."

You MUST be oiled up to properly protect the Emperor.

Aren't they 9+ feet?

What could be better than a bunch of guys being dudes?

Ancient Aztec Dubstep intensifies

ONE femboy

It would have weakened them, but their power is largely self-sustaining.

From the HH novels, the Imperial Truth was basically a temporary solution to blunt their power. The end-game was to gain entry into the Webway, fortify the human sections to hell, and move all psykers into the Webway for safe-keeping while humanity slowly develops into a psychic species. Once a critical mass is achieved, all the human psykers in the Webway would combine their powers with the Emperor to use the Astronomicon to scour the Warp and "break" the gods entirely. The theory is sound, apparently, and it could have worked... but obviously that's not what happened. Thanks Magnus.

The problem with that is that that is not how 40K works. A big part of how 40K works as a setting is that everything about the Imperium is such a huge pile of irony that even Perturabo would go 'that's too much iron'. The Emperor hated religion and now he's worshipped as a god. The Adeptes Custodes are so obsessed with protecting the Emperor and so afraid of him losing the final bit of strength he has left that they're sacrificing a thousand psykers every day to keep him in stasis... Where he is in perpetual agony due to being trapped on the very edge of death, even though his nature as a Perpetual means allowing him to finish dying would guarantee his eventual return at full strength. The Lords of Terra and the Inquisition are so afraid of the taint of Chaos that they're maintaining a massive, deeply fascist state, dedicated to perpetual war, where repression and widespread famine and disease plague the common people while the upper crust spends all its time either scheming or indulging in decadent pleasures. All of which are things that feed and strengthen the Chaos gods. The Adeptus/Cult Mechanicus' belief in Machine Spirits and their obsession with protecting those Machine Spirits from the corruption of Chaos is, ironically, exactly the thing that imbues technology with enough psychic/soul energy to allow Daemons to possess machines and create Daemon Engines. The hatred directed towards mutants is due to the belief that they are tainted by Chaos (which, by and large, they're not. The subtext makes it clear most mutations are the result of people being forced to work with all sorts of chemicals or around unshielded nuclear reactors with little to no protective gear) and it is exactly that hatred and ostracism that drives mutants into the waiting arms of Chaos cults. Etc... If Big E's plans had any chance of success at any point, it wouldn't be 40K. Indeed, the thing that was far more important in causing his plans to fail than the involvement of the Chaos gods was the fact that he absolutely refused to tell anyone what the plan was. Almost as if, maybe, there was never any plan at all and he was just winging it.

If there wasn't a chance for it to work then the Chaos Gods wouldn't have looked at all I feel like you're conflating the branding (grimdark) needing to stay the same with the setting itself literally working under "things literally can't get better". That would be super boring since it just turns every question about how things got so bad into "cursed universe" which is just...there's nothing there. There's no conversation to have at that point. No one had any free will to do better and all struggles were facades so its just empty now. Also Tzeentch exists and he's a representation of change and hope which shouldn't exist if there is actually no possibility for better days. I'm pretty sure ways that would work to deal with even the Chaos Gods exist as real possibilities in 40k its just that GW isn't ever going to write those stories. There is a difference though. But like nothing you said really refutes that's not how 40k works. Your explanation is just your headcanon but also it fails to explain why the Chaos Gods bothered to work together. I appreciate the comparisons and all legitimately but none of that proves anything beyond that being your headcanon that happens to do a worse job explaining the thing in question

@@Pragabond Ok, so the thing is: The Emperors plan wouldn't have worked. We *know* it would never have worked because Emps was wrong about the nature of Chaos. Big E was under the mistaken impression that the thing that powers Chaos is belief. As outside observers we know that he was wrong and that the thing that actually powers Chaos is _emotion_ and you don't need to even be aware of the Chaos Gods to empower them. That's why the Eldar accidentally created Slaanesh despite worshipping in a whole pantheon of different gods. The Emperor was working on ensuring human control of the Webway because he assumed that if he succeeded in wiping out all religion, that would end the Warp and therefore humanity would need another way to travel faster than light. But _we_ know that's not how the Warp works. The Realm of Chaos is part of the Warp, but before the War in Heaven, it was just a small, relatively insignificant corner of the Warp at large. Defeating Chaos (which his plan was never going to succeed in doing any way) would not just not have ended the Warp, but actually lead to the Warp becoming a *safer* way of travelling. The whole reason that the Warp became dominated by Chaos is that there was a galaxy-wide war causing untold suffering for millennia and billions of dead and the Emperor's plan to end Chaos was to launch a galaxy-wide war causing untold suffering for millennia and billions of dead... Of course it was never going to work, he was repeating the exact same thing that led to Chaos becoming what it is in the first place. We *know* that the thing that actually drew the eyes of Chaos on what the Emperor was doing, wasn't that if he succeeded it would be bad for Chaos Gods (because we know it wouldn't), but the fact that all the misery and death that the Great Crusade caused empowered them and they wanted more of that. And everyone who assumes that the Chaos Gods corrupting Horus and exactly half of the Primarchs was a response to the Emperor's plans misses out on one crucial detail: The Horus Heresy didn't end in the defeat of the Imperium. It ended in a stalemate where two equally powerful factions of Humanity are locked into an eternal war. A war that continues to feed Chaos with lots of souls and negative emotions far more effectively than a victory by either side would have. If the Imperium had won, the Great Crusade would eventually end and while the ensuing galaxy wide repressive police state would have provided the Chaos Gods with a steady supply of sustenance (because the Emperor's conviction that Chaos is only fed if people are aware it exists was dead wrong), it wouldn't be the absolute feast of an enduring forever war. If Chaos had won, the lack of a common enemy would have caused the worshippers of Chaos to start fighting amongst themselves and while that would be a magnificent banquet, it would also be a brief one. Eventually the mortals worshipping Chaos would destroy each other (as has happened countless times before) and then the Chaos Gods have to wait another couple of million years for another sentient species to evolve and start feeding them again. The actual thing that would defeat Chaos is for there to be no sentient living things with emotions in existence to feed it. So... You know, either a complete victory by the Tyranids (whose hivermind is sentient, but doesn't feel emotions) or a complete victory by the Necrons (who are sentient and feel the echoes of emotions, but aren't alive in a way that matters for the Warp since they don't have souls anymore).

😂😂, forgot that meme existed! 🤣🤣

Ah. I should have known better. Big E isn't really known for his subtlety - Ava

To be fair the man also said "don't worship me" and proceeded to don golden armor, wear a halo and performed miracles. Let's be honest Big E's just a big ol dickhead

@@SirFooplesTheThirdhe… is a little autistic

@@davidfrancisco3502 Tell that to Szarekh

@@SirFooplesTheThird The more they focus on the Emperor in terms of what actually going on in his head and the things he's actually doing (divorced from the dogmatic worship)...yeah he's a big ol dickhead and kinda incompetent and myopic a lot of the time. Malcador ends up being the one who has his head screwed on tightest and the one leashing the Emperor from being his own worst enemy to only some middling success.

You would probably enjoy If The Emperor Had A Text-To-Speech Device

@@ALJ9000 already do. A much beloved and missed show.

If they were fighting Necrons then that dynasty was screwed cause some massive error occurred for them to wake up early, or Trazyn messed up when he came to “safeguard” their relics.

As someone who was infected with the knowledge of Warhammer from those streams specifically, I love that that joke has been accepted by the community.

I will never forgive whoever wrote Mr Land and his Land Speeders

​@@fosterbennington6405I do love that it is cannon that Arkan Land also thought that was stupid lol

Or, they lied.

@@generalshock4359 I think you mean*is evil. If not: shut up.

They don't eat babies to be evil. They eat babies because they are tasty

All hail the man emperor of mankind

Thanks be to the Man Emperor of Mankind

Man Emperor of Mankind bless yer heart

Glory to the man-emperor of mankind.

For the Manperor!

🤣

This guy is a heretic I swear 😅

I mean, Big E takes just as much blame for Angron going traitor, as having a loyal Angron would've been such a simple task.

@@nukclear2741 No argument there, but then the situation never would've happened in the first place if Erda didn't yeet the kids into the warp. I STILL want to know how the hell she thought that was the right call.

Viking funeral but with more blades, blood and guns

Nor is the Emperor the earliest human. That is Ollanius Persson

Wouldn't that be earliest human perpetual, not earliest human?

There are certain parts of Age of Sigmar that can fit into that category, hopefully we see more of it in the future. - Ava

@@NUMBSKULLS Looking forward to it.

​@@rumplstiltztinkersteinBerserk is a pretty dystopian fantasy as well

​@@MortalWombat047Indeed. I think that a dystopia is much harder to write. It requires creating something that is uncomfortable, but, at the same time, still feels close to reality. Where people are bad for a reason. The world of Re:zero seems like a very bad place to live. But still, it is not bad enough to be considered a dystopia. It would be interesting to have more series that go all the way. Like recreating the times of the inquisition, the black death, etc.

Dark souls. The dark fantasy genre in general is pretty dystopian actually thinking about it thats more post apocalyptic. Dark souls is definitely dystopian though

Dark scifantasy

It's British Star Wars.

"They decided to put their heads together. Again, Literally."

Just to be clear, this is some _old_ lore. Not oficially retconned yet, but not alluded to in a very long while

Yes yes! I thought she was really cool so she was a perfect cosplay choice~ 😊

@@KarilynneDavies Erda and their eldest son, Leetu, are my favorite characters in the Siege of Terra books. I even did a Valentine's day drawing of Emps and Erda, a parody of "The Kiss by Klimt"

If only we could get competent writers writing him.

Well, he cares, but that doesn’t make him good or right. It just makes him dangerously determined and rash. He *knows* he’s doing the right thing, and he trusts nobody else to get it right.

VULCAN LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVES

@@SirFooplesTheThird STOMP! STOMP!

I also think that living for 30k years had to have resulted in Emps experiencing enormous amounts of loss and pain. I would think that any being would eventually become jaded after witnessing that much.

so business as usual in Warhammer.

It was also then that the thunder warriors actually rebelled. (Idk why they would be spreading some heretical account saying big E killed them)

@@TheVaultDescendant I believe them rebelling was a direct result of Mt. Ararat. Most of the Thunder Warriors that lived were part of the rebellion. Valdor stopped it at the gate of the Emperors fortress.

​@@goldenfiberwheat238 Probably gene-engineering? If they're from the DAoT, that should theoretically be possible.

Cant different families of navigators have a navigator?

@@goldenfiberwheat238 the Dark Age of technology aka Age of Technology, or the Golden Age of Humanity. It lasted from approximately the year 15,000 to 25,000. It featured the AI Rebellion and ended with the birth of Slaanesh. It's often referred to as the Dark Age of Technology in 40k because of how it ended, and people unknowingly creating the problems 40k is dealing with at present. That said, the Mechanichus is seeking out all tech from that era as their highest calling (either to suppress the Technology, or... eventually use it) But yes, Navigators due stem from this era

@@goldenfiberwheat238 I'm not one to abbreviate things either, unless it's a well known abbreviation. So can't really say, what the other posters motivations were to abbreviate it. Sorry if I came off as patronizing, but as the Dark Age of Technology is known by several names and I kinda felt the abridged explanation in this video was lacking, I just wasn't too sure if your weren't figuring out the abbreviation because it was uncommon to abbreviate, because you knew it more by a different name, or were just didn't know too much about pre 30k lore. So I attempted to answer in a way all 3 possibilities could be addressed.

@@goldenfiberwheat238 I could have, but again I stated my reasons for doing so. Sorry I was trying to be helpful on what I considered a very real possibility that you didn't know. I had no idea you'd get super defensive about a well explained answer. 🙄

Or one inch longer, depending on the context.

Oh my@@The_Sigillite

@@spiralhaze2070 The Emperor's _sword._

​@@tdpuuhailee8222capable of permanently killing greater demons. _O H M Y !_

Hes like Gamagoori from Kill La Kill. He’s got only one size, BIGGER THAN YOU.

Good comparison but it's far safer to go through the nether than it is going through the warp

And the tower of Babel was destroyed to keep it's contents from Big E

@@sylph4252 yep the full dictionary of enuncia which is very important considering even a single word was able to send full power chaos Horus flying.

The raw power of ADHD.

I mean, they explained in a funny and interesting way (but not very lore accurate)

@@NUMBSKULLS Fair enough lol

And Saint George.

Not turkish, anatolian. I know the area's the same but the turks (a tribe of turkic people) arrived in the area later in history. Il n'est pas turc mais anatolien. L'anatolie est certes en turquie aujourd'hui mais les turcs sont arrives dans la region plus tard dans l'histoire.

@@InnocentKhajiit Merci pour tes précisions :)

I think I've heard somewhere that big E also supposed to have been Napoleon aswell. ... his first attempt of world domination, with himself as the emprah?

@@ottoarvidsson4526 "Shame, I really liked that Temple of Reason thing Hebert and Momoro had going. But circumstances require that I seek the favor of the Catholics. Who knows though, maybe some other millennium..."

I mean there were psykers before Slanesh came into being. It's more akin to having a leaky pipe suddenly bursting. Humanity already had the potential for psychic powers in 40k, it's just now a lot more rampant and uncontrollable due to the sudden shift. Mind you, psykers are still rare but their existence more commonly known from the stories we get presented with.

You're a psyker, Harry.

@@tdpuuhailee8222 Congratulations, Harry, you get to go to Psykwarts! It's a psyker school on Terra, deep beneath the Himalayas. The ship is waiting.

It's not THAT dangerous.

@@marmyeater But it is STILL somewhat dangerous. And it is especially dangerous when you don't have the will power to resist it, like most of mankind.

@@generalshock4359 No, the big 4 chaos gods are confirmed to be self-sustaining by Eldrad when he was talking to Guilliman. Depriving them of worship would weaken them, but they have a minimum point it would go to.

@@marmyeaterThe grey knights seem to think it is

'BY COMBINING A CITRON AND A BITTER ORANGE!' *eye twitches

@@jaysuscrass9119 *Glorious Hip Thrust*

Why would you use "BCE" When B C exit lmao

@@Significantharrassment Because not everyone is Christian? Including at least one of the people IN the video?

@@queequegtheater6093 Yeah but the calendar was made by a Christian, so good of a calendar we still use it today, give credit where credit is due and keep the BC normal, you're just gatekeeping information by doing this lol

@@Significantharrassment I'm gatekeeping information by changing nothing except adding a single letter to make it *more* inclusive to people who don't follow Christianity? And no, actually, Julius Caesar invented the 12-month calendar. Gregory XIII just adopted and slightly modified the Roman calendar.

ARE YOU TRYING TO TAKE MY JOB?

@jdcoolha Brother, it is the honoured duty of us Librarians to uphold the legions history, as a son of the first, I have adamantly withstood the whispers of corruption and again stand with the Lion of Caliban as one of his risen. So I proudly retell our history as one of the 10.000!

@@stevenk7346 sure but did you read the description of the video

​@jdcoolha oh you are the actual uhm actually guy XD

@@jdcoolha I did not mean to infringe opon your station, Lord of the Ministratum, if anything, the vaults of Caliban are filled with knowledge of the Great Crucade, aswell as, old night, maybe we can fill in the knowledge that other one does not possess ^^

To my knowledge it's soft cannon like nothing says that explicitly but that is the most likely way the emperor could come into existence

Like dude above said, soft cannon. It makes the most sense and makes the most sense as to how he's so wise and why he cares so much for humanity

No yur correct

Yeah you're right, he did tiny mistake

​@@ironduke5058There's a bunch of these "tiny" mistakes all over the video

The End and the Death actually explains why he goes around in glowing golden armour all the time and Malcador explains that Auramite, the stuff Emperor's armour is made of, is really psychically conductive. The only thing more psychically conductive than it is bare skin and both of them are a tinge annoyed at the fact that it does actually make him look like some big golden god guy lmao

@@ironduke5058 Why did you reply 5 times?

@@TheLangenator It's RU-vid man, it does that sometimes idk why. Same happens on Insta and you'll see a guy reply like 3 times🤦🏾‍♂️

Yeah thts correct

personally i like the opposite theory, Ai recognized Chaos as it biggest threat and decided to deal with it like how the flood were to be killed in Halo by getting rid of it food source, life, no life to influences warp the chaos god would all starve and die and the warp would become peaceful again, this just meant killing all life to accomplish this

@@sword4005 that is a cool theory, I like that

But ai that got infected were the lowest kinds. It is either a problem with a direct solution to order 66 or, it was a malware of somekind. Most Men of Stone,Iron revolted while Men of gold didn't. Which made it possible to fight back.

Perfect

Powers being minor warp gods he kidnapped