Leviathan RETURNS - the FOURTH Tyrannic War | Warhammer 40k Lore 

Tendril 1 came from below the galactic plane, tendril 2 comes from above it. That sounds like the hive mind is close to, if not already, surrounding the 40k galaxy.

The Fake News part was great. "It's not real!" they shouted even with RIpper warms tearing them to shreds.

That soft intro music creeping in before the title drop is such a mood, love it.

I really think you do provide a very important niche within the 40k loretubers. Luetin, bless his common socks, is much like the imperium. Slow, ponderous, and exacting. You can blast out a whole prelude series and a lore video in the time it takes him to make his interlude. Good stuff, keep em coming. Also, I’d love to see more HH book reviews. Its always nice to hear it from another pair of ears.

Another thing that just occurred to me: the bit about the Orks calling off attacks against the Imperium to turn towards the bigger threat... Maybe there's something left in there of the Old One's staunch protectors afterall *sniff*(also: the idea that the Orks might have been subconsciously showing up in places to defend them from galaxy-threatening dangers all the while, only for the Imperium to fuck it all up by attacking them is... SO par-for-the-course with 40k worldbuilding honestly, if more subtle than most. Tho this raises the question: what danger is lurking at Armageddon to keep the orks coming back?).

Hey now. Clawful and Fisto are serious characters from a serious universe and they don’t deserve this slander 😂

In all fairness, GW kind of has to be "inventive" with Tendril names, since the name of real creatures are kept for actual Hive-Fleets. I'm fairly certain Hive-Fleet Nautilus and Prometheus have both been mentioned in earlier publication, so we'll have to make due with Nautilon and Prometheor.

I did not expect to see Kayvaan involved in this. Good to see the Raven Guard Chapter Master active.

You're just pronouncing 'tyranid' differently in each sentence to troll us now and I respect that Edit: also wonder if that bit about the Ecclesiarchy denying the existence of Leviathan even as it was killing people was inspired by the UK's Covid response

Wooo Raven Guard. They're doing something!

Norn Emissary's probably gonna get a new model, that's a pretty good showing for them to highlight what they do.

The bit about fake news was hilarious - satire is alive & well in 40K.

Bring on the nids I say. The TRUE protags of this series...

Arbitor Ian, "And that's everything you know..." The Inquisition, "Everything you know is a lie!"

This series is really sell executed. I enjoy every moment of it!

To be fair, Leontus looks quite a bit like a He-Man character as well.

Imo it was a missed opportunity to reuse Leviathan again. They should have introduced a new Hive fleet, with a new MO and color scheme, like how 9th edition introduced the new szarekhan dynasty.

12:35 Hahaha Two Necrons are trying to climb!

Those new brain bugs are absolutely lovely.

I've been loving these Tyranid lore vids. Nids were my first army back in 3rd edition and I've always been tempted to start them again, so these have been really fun and nostalgic for me. Thanks for the great vids, Ian!

Great series Ian, thank you. You and the other WH40K Lore Keepers on YT have been invaluable in helping me return to the hobby after about 19 years away. Looking forward to starting painting and gaming again with 10th. Cheers.

Okay, that bit about elements of the Ecclesiarchy effectively starting an internal civil war because they refuse to acknowledge reality is pretty good satire. Plus, I'm all for more justification for Imperium-on-Imperium violence. Gotta rationalize a fight between Space Marines and Sisters of Battle somehow.

Your lore videos are always a pleasure to watch. Moreover, as a former Tyranids player (had to give them up because of their logistical problems), is nice to see the full scale of the danger the Nids pose to the galaxy. But what has always intrigued me is the fact that we still don't know why the Tyranids are moving across our galaxy and what (or who) are they running away from...

Loving the new current issues satire injected into this by GW's writers 😂 but it really does say something that we're living in a time when that's possible for the first time since the depressing years of the 1980s 😆

These videos are very well done. I’ve never even heard of 40k before your vids but they’re so well made and interesting I find the lore fascinating. Great job!

Just saw a battle report on 10th and now this. Since I have 0 interest in ever playing with Nids but do love to hear the lore about them this is really amazing. No need to buy a box that I will only half use. Thanks a lot ^^

The stories we're writing today will be older in the year M42 than Greek legends are to us in M2. So there could totally be Hive Fleet Dracula, Hive Fleet Freddy Krueger, Hive Fleet Slender Man, etc.

I love how Ian changes how he pronounces Tyranid multiple times during the same video 😅

Meanwhile Szarekh sits on his throne, lamenting no longer having eyes to roll as a Praetorian lets out an exasperated "I told you so" on the Silent King's behalf.

These Norn Emissaries took a lot of effort to kill. Oooh i hope we do get models of them! 😃

Hive fleet Leviathan A.K.A. The Purple and white Tyranids.

"The Silver Skulls" Oh hey, Trazyn's getting involved in a big conflict again.

I loved that cute bug in the beginning

Great video thank you for taking the time to do this.

Ian: Mentions the Custodes Captain-General. Me: LITTLE KITTEN!

I gave a like just for the picture of the cute tyranid bug you have in the first couple mins.. Man i lovw it❤

Mate you are CHURNING these out! Top quality, too 👌🏾

I love your tour through the menagerie of fantasy word pronunciation so much.

I like how that picture showed one group or legion of soldiers said Yamain Volunteers - Planets Saved 103 - Planets Purified 69203699. Lol

No satire left in Warhammer got me good !

"Laststandior" 😂

The "Soundus Likalatinusarium" is the Imperial group in charge of naming, if I remember correctly.

I'm sure it's been said before, but I just love your intro music, Ian

Satire is back! I look forward to your video explaining what satire is.

Tons and tons of stuff about Imperial preperations and strategies, and just "the Eldar attacked, using ancient superweapons."

As someone who has said there is no satire left in Warhammer, I couldn’t be more pleased to be at least a little bit wrong.

I find it neat to hear the Leagues be mentioned all of a sudden in stuff. Its WEIRD. But I like it.

2 videos in 2 days, the Emperor has blessed us all!!

4:20 3rd from the right hey thats kitten

After Cadia i feel like everyone should know about fast-moving objects bring able to annihilate things like the bio moon. It's relatively trivial. Not to mention that destroying planets is super easy. Asteroid trajectories can be calculated and redirected with small adjustments. As well as titanic ships can be driven into Pantene. Horus had his ship chilling till he lowered the shields, if he rammed it into the palace (and not been in it) he'd have won.

My favourite (clearly deliberate) Ianism in this video is "Tyrannique"

Id love to see the Phalanx attacked by the Tyranids, Tor Garrodon dies as the mighty ship is destroyed. It would show that not everything survives.

White Templars? That's a chapter i haven't heard of, hope nothing bad happens to them.

I like how the previous 3 vids were pretty straight forward but this one has more sassy interjections. Very amusing.

Still Leviathan, even after Baal. The Imperium must be cursed with a lack names 😅

You and Lutien are the best 40k lore channels on this site. Don’t ever stop. ❤

Video idea: evolution of tyranid lore through the editions of WH

Amazing. I‘ve been in love with your arks of Omen series and this is even greater. The best part is your Humor and the references from other media you keep sprinkled in, like with the custodies. Btw is it new lore that old custodies go and venture out? Keep up your great work!

okay White Templars finally getting some lore, for once

So, Leviathan is on its way to Necromunda... This will be interesting

When you're so greedy that you can't possibly leave anything untrademarked, and it makes your property the worse for it. GW took away the wrong lesson. What they were supposed to learn: "Hey guys, we can't just come up with a bunch of barely distinct stuff and claim we've had the trademark and copyright on it since science-fiction was a twinkle in Mary Shelly's eye. We really ought to assess each of our tentpole identifiers and work to make them more distinct so that our property feels more fleshed out and deep." What they learned: "MAKE SURE IT'S ALL LEGALLLY DISTINCT AND UNIQUE NO MATTER HOW STUPID (even by 40K standards of stuff that looks stupid) BECAUSE WE MIGHT MISS OUT ON A FIVER!"

Live the nod to classic Judge Dredd lore….

Chittering Gribblies is the name of my new band. Great summary. My Votann are looking forward to killing some bugs!

04:38 Constantin Valdor: I Am. THE LAW!!!

correct me if i'm wrong but it seems krieg is in way of the leviathan tendrils would love to see how the death corps battle of attrition tactics will fare against the untold number of bugs.

Please tell me Kayvaan Shrike said “that is no moon”

You are so bloody professional. Love your work!

Me: whoa the future has changed a lot this is totally new 12:46 : ah there it is

Heres some tips on making better sci-fi planet names: Shorten them: Standior or Lastior would have been a better names. Break it up, remove letters and make it sound a little like another human language: La Tstandior, La'andior, Andior, Laststa, Lassandior, Sttandior... Run it through Google translates once: Last Stand into Welsh and squashed together with the "ior" on the end: Stondinolafior. In Basque: Azkenstandaior. In Latin: Novissimestoior. Then chop these down too: Stondafior, Azkandaior, Novimestior.... Or something like that. Works better if you just use one word, tbh. Suddenly you have weird planet names that sound like they have come from something human, but butchered over thousands of years. Words and names tend to get shortened and chopped up to become easier to say over time. So even adding "ior" to the end would be chopped down over time, especially in something like Laststandior, it's such a mouthful! You can see it happening right now. Look at what is happening to country names over time. The United Kingdom or Great Britain are rarely used, instead people say UK or Britain. The same has happened with the United States of America, its more common for people to say US now, not even including the A, or the States. Those eventually start appearing in writing and a generation starts assuming that is the norm. And a few generations and it is the norm. Eventually, given enough time, the original meaning is forgotten or only known by historians. The same would happen with planets over time. Earth wouldn't likely change as its hard to shorten it, but if a regularly used name has more than one syllable, chances are it'll get abbreviated. So, maybe when we start regularly traveling to Venus the s might get dropped over time and a thousand years from now it'll just be pronounced Venu or just Ven or maybe Vens. GW need to think about that if they want to make their universe feel old. Because names like Lasstandior feels about as old as the brain fart it wafted in on.

What do you think of the Tyranids as the Elder Ones' most recent attempt to take the galaxy back from the Necrons, their previous bio-weapons, and the species that popped up in their absence?

Always here for a little Judge Dredd love, specifically the 90s film

Those poor soldiers assigned to Lasstandior

I like the idea of Solblades. Questing heroes and adventurers of the 40k. You could make a Warhammer Quest about it... hmmm...

Great video thanks

That moment when you pray for an angel of the emporer and TRAJAN FUCKING VALORIS of all people decends to reinforce you

Forgive my ignorance on new lore, but what happened with Roboute? Isn’t he still the leader of the Imperium? Where was he when all these events were taking place?

Honestly ill take literal sentences of Lore advancement for my brois Trajaan and Tor Garadon.

Brilliant storytelling! I would not want to be on any of those planets during the Tyrannid invasion.

Great video

I think the next time I play a Stellaris campaign I'll have to name all my planets for He-Man characters, that made me laugh so hard.

What always gets me about GW narratives is how formulaic and unoriginal they actually are: "imperial faction is besieged and is on the brink of defeat but at THE LAST POSSIBLE MOMENT an unexpected saviour arrives and vanquishes the threat but, of course, inevitable doom has only been postponed... until the next unlikely last minute save..."

Great recap!a QUESTION: What is that killer Stargate looking circle in the display case behind you? A 40K Stargate system would be amazing...

Defensotron!!!! Christ on a bike. They couldn't even attempt a vaguely pig latin version such as "Defentrix"

Hey Ian, where's that page of guard regiments at 5:50 from?

Ooh, love the little sci-fant names, it's fun to spot which bits of myths and legends I recognize. At least the older naming conventions, not got to the bit on the new names yet, but *spoiler* I kinda hate them already: Leagues of Voltron? Vashtorr sounds like he could be treated with a pessary from Boots; and don't get me started on the names from AoS: Stormcast Eternals? What does that even mean?

Are there audible books of any of the tyrannic wars? Played when I was younger and trying again, but been interested in the lore. Bought the first 4 books of Horus Heresy and enjoyed them on Audible

"That is no moon..."

Ian, absolute GOAT of 40K RU-vid.

appreciate the humor :)

thank you for making this video

3:05 *eurrrgh* I hate it when I do that 🕳️ 👀

Goodness! The innuendos! Massive tendrils, thrusting into things... I think I need a cold shower

At first i thought your pronunciation of Roboute and tyranids and tyrant were real but now i'm quite sure u just f'ing with us.

That Dredd bit had me laughing,

Awesome work!!

I mean lets face it, giving new discoveries a goofy name is pretty much a pass time for scientists so it makes since there would be a lot of planets with goofy names. I mean one of the most important human genes discovered in the last few decades is called the Sonic the Hedge Hog Gene because the guy who found it was a huge sonic fan and had no idea how important the gene would turn out to be.

Robohorse…. Is he Bravestarr??

Excellent video thanks for the good work

Another great video as always!

Great summary!