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The government in marvel should be treating mutants like they do in 40k solely for the fact that a solid amount of mutants have enough power to destroy the world and that around half of them turn evil
As a father, this has to be the most emotionally evocative introduction tale from Baldermort. Unfortunately, like most well written and articulated tragedies, it's so good I don't think I can bring myself to listen to it again. Kudos.
At about 3am that will change temporarily. Or when they hit raging teens age. Or when the little monster starts driving. Bite your nails to the bone worrying if they get to school and back safe. When they enlist in the army. God that's the worst. Wouldn't change a thing tho. Do it all over again.
Me too, I truly believe Baldermort might just be the single best narrator on this platform. Games Workshop needs to hire this man to do audio books. That BASS. The POWER in his pipes.
If the Thousand Sons never went traitor they’d have that planet in the intro story as a recruiting world. All those kids that are cloud touched would be amazing Librarians.
I won't lie, I was half expecting an addendum to the opening narration where the child has survived by mind controlling the hungry fish, and now returns to the village as a grown man
@@baldermort If wind control is such a common outcome that an entire culture has grown around it with wise elders teaching them to use their powers then that can't really be a random mutation, it has to at the very least be something buried in the genes of the population of that planet, some recessive genes that can be triggered by the right pairing of parents similar to how certain genetic diseases propagate, possibly some epigenetic element. In that case the children of the clouds could be a result of ancient gene modding from before Old Night, possibly there existed a research station on the world experimenting with the warp based powers that at that point were a mere curiosity. And when the battle lines were drawn they used their experimental gene mods to bolster the population to fight back against the Men of Iron?
1: suffer not the mutant 2: great job as always, that aren’t a audio book narrator or va is a crime 3: you need to play more games with majorkill 4-10: Suffer not the mutant
That was a really strong story. I keep forgetting mutants can be more than Minotaur looking guy, and the negative impact it can have on a planet. Also I really liked the Overgrown Tomb art work, I only a couple copies of that. I am super cool with more art work like that popping up in this videos. As always great video and I hope you are feeling well!
Until now, I did not realize mutants were such an existential threat, not just to the Imperium but the whole galaxy. Until now, I had woefully underestimated what a mutant even was, or could be. By the Emperor..
Gary Symons thanks brother. It’s a jolly little distraction I find. Pick up and put down. I have life stealing stuff now. It helps a LOT! But I’m awful at games these days. Lol. Doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy them.
‘…For too long, you have suffered!’ The Apostle’s voice rang over the vox-speakers, fighting with the rising bleats of the herd. Azmedi strained to listen. Comprehension was slipping away into animality. He considered the part that listened his human half. The other part, the beast part, jerked against the leashes of shame. Soon it would break free and consume his reasoning mind, but for now he could still understand. ‘You have been cast out and consigned to the fringes of ten thousand worlds, fit only for the noisome places where pure-bloods will not go,’ the Apostle said. ‘You are the lords of ruin, for ruins are all you have ever had to call your own. The citizens of the Imperium, those upright tyrants who shun you, have another name for you, a shameful name, a name that is soaked through with their contempt.’ Azmedi didn’t need to hear the word. It was uttered the moment he was born to his horrified mother, and chased him out of the bright places into the haunts of freaks and criminals. There the word had been shouted again, and he had been driven further on, despised even by other creatures who bore the stigma of mutation. The word. The Apostle was going to say the word. ‘No! No! No!’ Azmedi shouted, his speech losing its shape, becoming a warbling, caprine bleat. ‘Beastmen,’ said the Apostle. The hold erupted with shouts and cries; there were those who raged, but most voices cried out in despair. ‘They call you beastmen.’ There had been Imperial iterators, down in the deeps where Azmedi had found his own kind, who had come to teach their secular religion to every branch of mankind, no matter how devolved, in mean schools they carved out of compressed, hive-bottom junk. The Apostle’s words evoked those lessons, fifteen years ago. So long, for one of his kind. The lives of the beastkin were short. ‘In the beginning, when man left the world you will soon conquer, he had but one form. Many places moulded the genome of our species, and one form became many!’ Azmedi’s breaking mind reeled with the sermon. His memories intruded into the present, words said to him, words that were more than sounds on the air, but chains to bind him. ‘Homo sapiens variatus,’ the smiling man had said, as if that explained everything. ‘Others retain the name of human, but not you. Not you!’ the Apostle railed. ‘Your dignity was taken from you. You were decreed as less than human, abhuman, mutant. Undesirables on worlds you called home for hundreds of generations! The Emperor meddles with mankind’s form, and they call His monsters heroes, yet you - you, the rightful children of change - are branded beasts!’ There were those who tried to follow the rules. There were those who tried to understand. There were those who tried to atone for the sin of being born. It made no difference. All Azmedi’s kind were hated. Though their forms were no more aberrant than other human strains, their appearance evoked folk-memories of devils and they were treated accordingly. ‘If a man is treated as a beast, then he becomes a beast!’ The beastmen roared out their pain. They locked their horns and butted heads. The hold reeked of droppings and rage. ‘Beasts!’ shouted a beastman close to Azmedi. ‘Beasts!’ bleated another. The cry spread through the herd, until the hold shook with stamping hooves and the chant of ‘Beasts! Beasts! Beasts!’ The Apostle’s sermon rose in volume to compete. ‘But to the Pantheon, you are holy beings! You are pure! You are the children of Chaos! You are the living example of mutability! Go out! Go out into the fire, and cast down those in thrall to the False Emperor! Trample His works beneath your feet, wet your horns with the blood of unbelievers!’ ‘Beasts! Beasts! Beasts!’ The stink of aggression filled the world. Azmedi’s nostrils flared to breathe it in. He resisted joining the call for violence until the very last. His senses reeling, memories of oppression crashed upon him in waves, threatening to drown his sanity in misery and injustice. He would not drown. He wanted to remain a man. He wished to stay human. He could not. His muzzle shaking, Azmedi opened his mouth and threw back his horned head. ‘Beasts!’ he roared. His human mind sank into rage. There were two colours to the world: red and black. All other hues existed to be drenched in the former or cast into the latter. The first came with violence, the second with the end of life. There was nothing in between blood and death. Azmedi welcomed such oblivion, for there was no pain there. When the clamps released the herdship from its carrier, and the nose pitched down for the desperate rush to Terra, the beastmen were already fighting each other…’ '...GUNN SLAV WORKED the chain to the magazine, hauling on the rusted block and tackle to raise another crate of shells for the gatling cannon on the starboard cliff of the Black Basilica. His hunched back and grossly swollen shoulder muscles gave him a simian stature that kept him from the battle lines, but made him an ideal loader for the diabolic guns. It was a task he relished, for it allowed him a chance to strike back at the Imperium that had cast him out as a mutant and wanted nothing more than to see him burn. His physique was massively out of proportion, twisted and ungainly, but incredibly powerful and enhanced by muscle boosters and a hissing, pneumatic lifter harness. It had been so long since he had escaped from the gibbet outside Confessor Malachai’s temple that he no longer remembered how long he had served in the armies of the Eternal Powers. He remembered the long flight into the wilds of his home world and the baying of his hunters, but beyond that, there was little other than their vengeful shrieks turning to terrified screams as the star warriors descended from the skies to butcher them. He’d almost died too, but one amongst the star warriors had seen a use for him, and he had served them with absolute loyalty ever since the day they had reduced his home world to a smoking wasteland. His old name was a thing to be shed, like a diseased skin, for it was an Imperial name. His masters hadn’t deigned to give him a new one, and simply called him gun slave. In their guttural accent, the second part of his name was rendered as Slav, and that had become his new identity; one he bore with perverse pride...'
Honestly any Necron mutation is probably just the influence of the warp causing necrodermis to be damaged, thus needing to be repaired and replaced. It'd be interesting to see if a daemon could possess one of the more basic Necron forms
@@Darqshadow Isn't it less lacking a soul but having no psychic potential? I have heard the Tau are little touched by demonic incursions due to them not having any ability to access the warp.
@@SPINCTDAILY But Nurgle now has all these cool daemons that infest technological constructs so I'd say it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say they probably could go after Necron tech. The granddaddy of which would be the Gellar plague, this almost sounds like an experiment meant to go after Necrons since it's literally a daemon plague that targets the Gellar field generators of terran vessels, so it probably just needs some refinement to work against blackstone...
I think if the Necrons are influenced by any of the dark gods it would be that of Tzneech. The hope the Silent King has to reclaim their organic forms and souls can probably lead the more desperate Necron Lords to maybe strike a deal with the changer of ways for knowledge on how to do so. Plus I’d love to see Tzneech tainted Necrons give the Thousand Suns a run for their money on who could wear the Egyptian aesthetics better. Cease and desist that Magnus, you nerdy, one eyed, kilithikadya fried chicken.
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I been playing this game almost everyday since your first time you talked about it, it’s a fun game. I spend like 20 minutes a day it’s really relaxing
Hey, Baldy! Have you talked about how the Necron get around the galaxy in any video? I found precious little info on the inertialess drive in my late night google adventure the other day. Many thanks for the stories and knowledge good sir! :)
Brother Baldermort - This is the perfect way to handle this sponsor. A lot of people toss the company grief (and rightly so for some of their practices), but the way you frame it makes it clear what it does for the channel, you handle it immediately at the beginning and then delve into the main content of the video itself. I can respect that. It's also a vote of confidence by them in your channel that you have a solid enough channel with a large enough audience to be worth the investment, and you show yourself worth their time with how you treat them like any other sponsor and fulfill your obligations with respect and class. Well done, brother.
Damn...a beautiful story as always but I couldn't help but choke up. You've really knocked this out of the park. Haven't felt like this since the landrader vid. Keep on tugging those heart strings brother Baldermort.
The opening story is extremely sad especially when you think about how some hypothesize psykers to be the next step in natural human evolution and this child with great and talented parents in a loving community with seemingly unfathomable potential while still a baby has to be sacrificed because of imperial creed and its teachings to avoid a potential chaos incident. Great potential and a live forsaken because of the shortcomings of the greater society he grew up in and the inability of that same civilization to appropriately handle and nurture him for which his light gets snuffed out. No my dear Lord Inquisitor, something flew in my eye just now, i´m not sympathizing with mutants, I would never, my life for the Imperium, sir.
If only the black ships were in orbit, the boy would either be a potentially sanctioned psyker when old enough or like one of many psychic flavored crisps for the emperor to snack on.
@@sessy01 Even if there is no black ship around, it's usually the duty of local authorities to put psykers under arrest and containment until the next visit by a Black ship. I realize that on a backwater world where there's barely any voidship traffic, this isn't the best course of action but still. If hypothetically this had been a civilized or hive world, then there would be little justification not to contain the child. Ironically it would have been grimdark as hell, as the kid would have lived literally his entire life in a cell of the planet or in the cargo hold of the black ship that inevitably arrive.
Being a real life mutant myself (born with syndactytly; on my right hand which only has two fingers), I still enjoy Warhammer 40k immensely. My first army has been an abhuman regiment with ogyran, ratlings & squats & if I survived into adulthood within 40k, I'd fight for the Imperium of Man alongside them if I was able to that's for sure. Your videos are awesome as always, Baldermort!
I’d like some feedback on this idea I had. I’ve been saving up and might finally be able to collect a few models but couldn’t decide between my love for the death guard & my more recent interest in making a chaos are sisters of battle unit, so wt I came up with is an OC blightspawn( which by the way baldermort u should definitely do a video on them)like Fabius obsessed with his work but more loyal to nurgle then he is to his Primarch and his goal is to create something that would put him closer to the grandfather a plague that could turn a perpetual(the emperor)into a loyal servant of nurgle,but he split with his blightlord terminators from mortarion‘s main force attacking the ultramarines which had no interest. He realized he needed more “help” and stumbled across a squad of sisters of battle being wiped out by khorn berserkers. He “saves” them,Corrupts /convinces them that his work could “save” their emperor & they join him(maybe saying their trainees would make that make more sense Idk) so now him,his terminators, and his nurgle inflicted sisters r on the hunt for The only thing he still need,a perpetual to test on so their mission is to either find Vulcan or collect enough salamander gene seed as to make the difference irrelevant( which would probably mean most of it) i’d probably also get a helbrute or great unclean one down the road and add to the story
Hunter Waguespack it’s not really possible on the board as it stands at the present. But!! If you agreed to proxy the sisters for Nurgle marines you could get away with putting them all in one force? I think most players are more worried about stats than lore, but it’s always going to be a sell to get anyone to think out of the box. Would play against it? You bet your ass I would. Many would. ;)
The parallels to real world racism/caste systems/genocide/etc. really add to the grim darkness. Anyone know any good mutant stories? Those shark men have me interested.
Imperial preacher: We have to hate and not tolerate the mutant, otherwise they will rebell and try to overthrow our society. **Mutants rebell because they are hated and opressed** Imperial preacher: Told ya!
Haha My favorite part is you're like "hey everyone hates how much people are sponsored by RAID SHADOW LEGENDS, but their paying my electric bill! Are you going to do that!"
How fitting that a fiction that leans so heavily on the "Necessary Evil" narrative would have its most talented ambassador find sponsorship from Raid. Your work is incredible Baldermort. RU-vid wouldn't be the same without you.
Hey man, you don't need to apologize for not doing this 100% for free. Being broke sucks, and I'm glad you're finding a way to make money doing this. If people don't like it, it's their problem. Please keep the content coming.
In my weaker moments I almost pity the mutant. But then I remember all they fooled into lowering their guard, and what befalls them, and my pity is replaced by hatred. For that is the true evil of the mutant. They make us victims of our own humanity.
One of the main points of contention in the 40k universe. Understanding that Psykers and mutants are dangerous: yes. Ostracizing and culling them for a fluke of genetics: no. Those caused by Chaos, definitely an issue. But if it's just a quirk of birth, then it's a moral dilemma. But the 40k universe is a time of intolerance, religious wars and genocide. Exploring humanity at its worst survival mode is one of the reasons I love this series. Wouldn't want to live there, but from an outside perspective, fascinating.
Im not sure if this would technically fit the title of "mutant", but I think the flayed ones of the necrons would be their races "mutant". They are hated, feared and usually destroyed unless they are being useful in battle
Love the story can't wait for the psyker video maybe the baby survived by some fisherman idk continue the boy's life for the psyker video anyway keep up with the video absolutely amazing
Not a fan of raid ads, but GOD DAMN you made it sound epic. I'm glad you're getting sponsors because you deserve it for your great work. I sincerely hope to see more raid shadow legends ads from you!
There is a mention about mutation in Tau. In Deathwatch an Inquisitor and a Tau Sha'sho were experimenting on Tau that did not embrace the greater good and turned them into Tyranids. The local Ethereal was also in support of that.
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Necrons can and have mutated... In a way, the destroyers and flayed ones are both New forms of necrons and have even altered their necrodermis because of it. They also arent destroyed by their fellow necrons because you cannot truly destroy a necron
Well made, Great Bald Lore Bearer... I stand insignificant in the glory you bring to the Lore bearing legion with these works..... being humbled is a farcry from what i feel after your fabulous oratory...seeming so insignificant yet being also equally inspired to Black Templar levels of fervor.... keep up the good fight and remember, Facts care not about your feelings! FOR THE EMPEROR!
Baldermort, never good ser, only in death can you fail, and tbh, we would probably just re group in the warp and all of us become the Extermanitus of the Emperor upon Chaos. I could think of alot more not so fun Eternal Endings.
daverage47 heh! Thanks brother. I like to Chuck in a few nods for ya older chaps. Loved Johnny Alpha and Wulf. Been an age since I read 2000ad. I really should get some back issues. :) b
Colby Morrow thanks brother. It’s a good fun game if you don’t take it toooooo seriously. I’m a casual but I do play. Thanks for your kindness brother. ;)?
The closest thing to Necron mutation would be the Flayed Ones. Basically an infectious madness that is contagious, so while the Necron's can't control the movements of the Flayed Ones or contain them (they show up wherever and whenever they want), they stay well away from them.
Bit of feedback seeing as Im apparently alone in this opinion but not a big fan of the baby murder, Its well written dont get me wrong, fantastic imagery, but for like a cormack mccarthy book. idk grimdark is all fun and games but when you get into innocent children it crosses a bit of a line for me to be frank, it just stops being fun. Again, my opinion, call me salty or whatever you want to but i enjoy the setting for the cartoonish over the top nature of things, not to think about all the civvilians who die as collateral damage every time my predator rolls a 2. *AND I ROLL A LOT OF TWOS*
Nobody is or should be a fan of baby murder. This was HORROR! The point of horror is to be horrified. This was a grim and dark horror segment, as the lives of mutants, like many in the warhammer setting, are utterly horrific and without merit or redeemable feature. Its a living hell. Which is exactly what I try to portray. Its the entire point of the setting - everything is awful for everyone. Its a dystopia, a cautionary tale. I was not lurid, did not go into garish detail. It was very mild compared to a lot of warhammer. There is a strong strain of horror in the entire grimdark. That you don't think about the civilians out of squeamishness is your choice - go for it. But I won't be sanitizing it all. Sorry, but nope. Thank you for your prior support. But this is not going to work out brother. Drukhari are coming. mechanicum are coming. Chaos gods are coming. None of them will be a pillow fight in a frat dorm and everyone falling about laughing at the end like an 80s cartoon. I am not telling you not to watch, I am warning you that there will be horror and nastiness in the videos where it is a horrible topic. I would not want you to be upset again, so advise you move to a more 'matter of fact' and less narrative driven channel. Plenty of great ones out there. Luetin09, Oculus Imperia, A Border Prince, 40K theories, Majorkill. Especially majorkill - he's got all the light heartedness you require. . All great sites and most definitely better than this one. But I won't be pulling my punches anymore. I have to enjoy this too and writing different styles is refreshing. So let us end things on a positive. I wish you well. Enjoy your hobby your way. Always. And I will enjoy my hobby my way. And do try to make time for fun!
Actually, the Necrons do have something of a mutant problem, and they seem incapable of doing anything about it, except run in terror. Those mutants could be their Flayed Ones. In any event, another fantastic video, with a story that makes me hate the ignorance mandating, hypocritical witch Emperor that much more.
Isaac Bishop Junior flayed curse. Hmmmm. See what you mean. I usually see that as a curse on their cerebral function, but fi take on what you are saying. Interesting!
Ren9077 true. It’s either or I think. I am never consistently right. Nobody is. :). Good thinking though. I did mention it but perhaps did not give it the force it required. Hmmmmm. :)
By all means correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the Flayer variant of Necron be somewhat considered a mutant? I'd heard that a possible explanation for the Flayers is that there was a change, a mutation if you will, in their cognitive processes while in long stasis.
Like everyone else here I have seen heaps of youtubers do an ad for Raid Shadow but never have I seen the ad done for the sponsor with so much enthusiasm and oratory skill. Yo Baldermort have you considered that you may an amazing hype man voice for events and products? 40k lore seems like your calling but think that would make a great side project
Thomas Sutcliffe that is amazingly kind of you brother Sutcliffe. Thank you. I generally think they have professional voice actors to do such things, but could try to pursue that if I get too tired to do the guides, or just run out of things to ‘guide’ on. ;). But I hope that isn’t going to be soon. :). Have a wonderful day brother. Thank you. :)
I think the Tau Empire would be surprisingly extreme in that matter, at least in the ranks of the Tau race. Each Caste is portrayed as almost an abhuman equivalent for the Tau (those from the Air Caste are even mentionned to be almost totally uncapable to properly live on planets due to standard gravity). The lore also suggest that the Ethereal Caste activly control reproduction in their race (for instance, it is forbidden to Tau to reproduce with another one from another Caste). Mutants would be a major threat to the strict caste system of the Tau Empire. I don't know if it will ever be the case, but it would be a fascinating and sinister twist that the so-called "most tolerant faction in the 40k universe" is secretly enforcing one of the most messed up policies towards deviation, be it genetical or intellectual (*cough* Commander Farsight *cough*). P.S: English is not my maternal language, so excuse me for any orthographical or grammatical abominations ALL HAIL LORGAR! ALL HAIL THE BEARER OF THE WORD! ALL HAIL THE FIRST ILLUMINATED! LET THE BLIND AND THE LIAR PERISH IN THE LIGHT OF THE TRUE ONES!
Does the 40k universe have some from of exorcism? is it possible to take a possessed and mutated being and restore has to something resembling a human being say a traitor Astartes?
Exorcisms happen all the time. But what’s left by the demon on its way out? Urg. But some do come back. Exorcists chapter and some groups of inquisition I believe, are all ex possessed. I’ll do a vid. :)
A story like this really illustrates why I'll never be more than a tourist in the realms WH40K. It's too dark for me, I can't stomach more than a little bit at a time. The lore is complex and rich and fascinating but I simply don't have the taste for Grim quite this Dark.
@@baldermort Your video on psykers and the warp was very helpful. I've been trying to find more information about Psykers, Warp Sorcery, and the Warp in general and I wound up here more or less by accident. 😅
Brother Baldermort - Would a Beastmen video be interesting or relevant? I've heard mention of them, and I've seen jokes calling them furries, but I'm new enough to the hobby and setting I don't have direct experience with them.
@@baldermort Thanks, and definitely no need to apologize for offering to cater to my interests! I look forward to learning more about these strange fellows.
