It is nearly the 2024th year. For more than a hundred videos, Burialgoods has sat immobile next to the Golden Recording software. He is the master of narration by will of his vocal cords and topic of a million family gathering discussions by will of his inexhaustible subscribers. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibily with power from the pre-AI days. He’s the voice of stories for whom a thousand shitty mics are sacrificed every day so that he may never truly go silent. Yet, even in his restless state, Burialgoods continues his eternal storytelling. Mighty writers cross through the block-infested creative process, the only way between story and literature, their way lit by the Narraticon, the phonetic manifestation of Burialgoods’ will. Many storytellers read out loud for others in his name on uncounted gatherings. Greatest amongst them are the Authors, the creators of stories, who weave worlds into existance with not but pen and paper. Their comrades in paper are legion: their readers and those who create other stories within their worlds, to name a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat of AI, deepfakes - and worse. To be a reader in such times is to be one among concerningly few. It is to live in the most digitized environment imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of pronunciation,for so much has been warped, never to be restored. Forget the promise of a good book by the fireplace, for so much has been retconned, for in the grim darkness of the far present, there are only reboots and spinoffs. There is no peace among fandoms, only an eternity of drama, and the laughter of thirsting movie writers.
This is so good it gives me the desire to blindly obey my cruel superiors and throw my life away on a battlefield in the mistaken belief that they know what they're doing and didn't just brown-nose and backstab their way into command. Praise the Emperor and pass the ammunition.
I like to imagine Warhammer 40k's canon ending is everyone just going "this is stupid" and they stop fighting and the emperor goes to get froyo or something.
I’ve come to associate this image so strongly with Alphabusa’s TTS series that it took me a few seconds of staring at the thumbnail to remember its just general 40k art and realize that’s not what this video was.
Oh man its hard to say which one is better the original or this one. They hit differently, both are awesome. This one would make an amazing game introduction.
I always come back to this from time to time., and i must say that it's magnificently done. Utmost respect for perfectly describing the imperium of man.
I can FEEL how much of your heart and soul was put into this video! Which is probably bad, you need a heart and soul to, y'know, be alive. Please put them back in.
Disclaimer: the latter half of the recording applies mostly to galactic hot zones and hive worlds; the Imperium holds a crapton of planets where living conditions don't look that different from IRL 21st century Earth.
They really should start WH40K projects with this. Its the WH40K equivalent of the Star Wars sliding intro blurb, or the Fourth World's "There came when the Old Gods DIED!"
Kinda related: Any chance you can do a narration of the Fourth World intro blurb? Its the same epic energy: "There came a time when the Old Gods died! The brave died with the cunning! The noble perished, locked in battle with the unleashed evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust! The final moment came with the fatal release of the indescribable power - which tore the home of the Old Gods asunder - split it in great halves - and filled the universe with the blinding death-flash of its destruction! In the end there were two giant molten bodies, spinning slow and barren - clean of all that had gone before - adrift in the fading sounds of cosmic thunder... Silence closed upon what had happened - a long, deep silence - wrapped in massive darkness... it was this way for an age... THEN-THERE WAS NEW LIGHT!"
Great narration, and it is the old good version, not the abridged new one. Also cultured music, a good choice. I miss the non satire non bright 4-6th editions.
@@burialgoods I miss the older marine units and their more knightly looks. The Primaris look just too tacticool and undecorated. Too much gadgets, not enough bling. Plus they are all monopose with very few upgrades, and the upgrades are just different flavours of the same weapon. Almost like they were Aspect Warriors.
Wonderful video but that final musical bit at the end sure does sound like.... "Humanity accomplishes a step-up every 700 years and the ultimate aim is the coming of the sons of God. All creative forces will be concentrated in a new species. It will be infinitely superior to modern man."
i always found this whole paragraph to be a bit over dramatic personally. it doesn't help the whole thing was written was 40k was a bit more satire than it is now so over the top was the name of the game. now 40k is honestly a bit too balanced between noble bright, sci fi, some horror elements and even comedic relief to be called just grimdark anymore. and no matter how much we are told the imperium is in a losing war, GW isn't going to take down the imperium because they saw how badly everyone reacted to 'the end times' in warhammer fantasy (rightfully so that writing was terrible)
some of the new artwork is absolutely fantastic but its hard to compare to blanche, and so much of the absurdist baroque sorta style is missing from a lot of newer models :/
