PSYCHIC AWAKENING: All Nine Books in 25 mins! Warhammer 40k Lore

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Psychic Awakening was a monster campaign that introduced 9ed Warhammer 40,000, and updated all the factions with new lore in the wake of Gathering Storm and the Great Rift. So in this video, I read all NINE books of the Psychic Awakening series so you don't have to!
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@ropable Год назад

It was such a welcome relief when GW started advancing the lore/story with Gathering Storm, and continued it with Psychic Awakening. The setting felt pretty stale by the time of 7ED. IMO this is still totally compatible with the "universe of stories" idea, while throwing a bone to those of us who are more into the lore than the game/models. Advancing the story as a big narrative event makes total sense at each new edition release.

@mistformsquirrel Год назад

Honestly I've really come around to it myself. When I first heard about Gathering Storm I kinda rolled my eyes (I was out of the hobby at the time), but since coming back... yeah I've been enjoying seeing the story push forward in interesting ways. Kinda love the Ynnari as a thing and I really hope in 10th we'll get a little more of them.

@Yurt_enthusiast7 Год назад

@@mistformsquirrel Ynnari is the only exciting thing that has come out of all this, everything else feels to me like its just the same old stories but turned to 11

@walt_man Год назад

Stale for you, eh? I'm still trying to catch up to Imperial Armour Vol3.... I'll probably die before I get to IA: Vol 10-13 lol

@Whistlpig 3 месяца назад

Where does that fit in? @@walt_man

@parkermaisterra8532 Год назад

4:35 I still think thats absolute bull that 5 Champions of Eldar only was able to beat a *shade*. Not even the actual Daemon.

@alet2691 Год назад

Honestly I prefer the new Arks of Omen; in my opinion are far better to describing the situation in a coherent narrative

@blueknight5754 Год назад

Can you help? I don’t understand the tarot cards for Arks of Omen. Can you clarify? Thanks!

@alet2691 Год назад

@@blueknight5754 the tarots are just a giant teasing of the content in the Arks of Omens books

@ahoyturtle Год назад

@@Grymbaldknight I can certainly understand that, but I think GW is driving a large change in the setting, and that requires presenting a coherent picture of the the environment that you're changing. Think about it like this: after the Fall of Cadia you had an entire Imperium Nihilus to run your stories in, but you had to have GW take the reins to ESTABLISH that Imperium Nihilus.

@hansjohannsen6722 Год назад

@@Grymbaldknight GW has always left the door open for YOU to establish your own narrative for your own worlds. It's just the big named individuals and their ilk that they slowly pigeon hole.

@johnnybigbones4955 Год назад

@@Grymbaldknight Yeah, I agree. Made a similar post. And good point about the popularity of Heresy sort of washing back into 40k and influencing it. Really not a big fan of that, since though Heresy is cool, some parts of the books are absolutely ridiculous (particularly the Primarchs being gigantic, that is just so stupid I can't get over it).

@bobaphet4125 Год назад

My man’s keyed into his own flat

@Bluecho4 Год назад

When something as significant as the Cicatrix Maledictim happens, rending the galaxy asunder and flooding it with both daemons and newborn psykers, you kind of _have_ to present information on how the various regions and factions are faring in the aftermath. Nor is it really a problem if these events aren't all connected in some grand narrative. Not everything has to be.

@ArbitorIan Год назад

Although, to be fair, they kinda ARE all doing the same thing as before, just with more wizzards

@pat0652 Год назад

The Tau (Greater Good) and Knight (Engine War) plot lines were particularly fun IMO. The Tau plot lines involved believable force sizes for the PDFs for example, and the Engine War finally gave the Knights a chance to shine, and tied in nicely with the Siren's Storm (Ian skips over the the Beacon being used to try to whip the Siren's Storm toward Segmentum Solar, which is delightfully crazy 😂) . I'm writing a little story about that.

@AaronOfYell Год назад

I love the piece of music you use for your intros and outros, never change it! Cool videos too

@geng6443 Год назад

Arbitor Ian once again being the only loretuber who actually covers the damn lore instead of 10 minute fluff pieces about yet another Mary Sue space marine or a 3 hour rant about Horus heresy

@ArbitorIan Год назад

YOU'LL NEVER GUESS WHAT HAPPENED THIS ONE TIME IN THIS ONE BOXOUT! The truth is so COOOL! Running time: 2hrs.

@geng6443 Год назад

@@ArbitorIan The loretubers ability to waffle on and on about a single paragraph for long enough for me to watch Ben Hur would be impressive if it wasn't so annoying

@DrFeltcher Год назад

Thanks for this, much better if you read them all for me and explain it to me.

@Hartmansgrad Год назад

For reals I almost forgot this was a thing. Maybe I'm just a grognard (There's no maybe about it..) but all the latest fluff leaves me quite bored and I prefer the 'minuite to midnight' setting that preceeds it...I'm sure Rogue Trader players were saying the same thing before me though

@nekrataali Год назад

Even this video was kinda hard to watch. It's not Ian's fault...the fluff is just boring. I started in third and ~3.5, so yeah I'm sure there's some 2nd. Edition and Rogue Trader grogs who look on my generation with disgust (especially since there was a lot more camp, kitsch, and Monty Python before third). I think some of it is the new branding and some of it is the writing. Compare new books to stuff written in 4th. and earlier. Newer books seem to just be these huge exposition dumps told from an omniscient narrator. Previously, large portions of the setting was revealed to the reader from an in-universe perspective. Maybe it's just nostalgia glasses on, though IDK.

@johnnybigbones4955 Год назад

I take the approach of just picking what I like from the big glorious mess that is 40K and having that be my personal version of the setting. I'm not at all interested in what the corpo thinks is "canon" or whatever. So I'll happily mish mash stuff from Rogue Trader, 3e, 2e and the Horus Heresy novels as I feel like it. This advancing plot stuff is to me an entirely different product aimed at an entirely different audience (though with a large group in the middle who just like 40K stuff no matter what). The aim with this stuff is to have twists and discoveries, whereas the aim with the old stuff was to have inspirations and mysteries.

@Hartmansgrad Год назад

@@johnnybigbones4955 This feels spot on

@Yurt_enthusiast7 Год назад

Making a couple of character be the movers and shakers of the setting kinda makes the universe feel smaller then it is

@ianvader0000 Год назад

Agreed

@jackrogers5712 Год назад

I agree. I don't mind if those characters are Primarchs since they're basically demi-Gods. But I'd like to see a lot less Ultramarines present in high stakes battles. There's only 1,000 of them yet they're seemingly everywhere.

@Yurt_enthusiast7 Год назад

@Jack Rogers while the loyalist Primarchs has awesome sculpts I don't really like how much positive change they seem to bring to the Imperium, the whole setting of 40k (at least was) about how "great" men ruined everything during the Heresy and it was up to "lesser" (as in non-demigods) persons to solve their mistakes

@joriankell1983 Год назад

@@Yurt_enthusiast7I wish more people understood the difference between a story and a setting. It's like this hobby switched from a creative environment to forge your own stories to this hand holding through a scripted sequence of events. I don't want GW to tell me how the story goes, I want to participate in it and influence the events and have my own story.

@Yurt_enthusiast7 Год назад

@@joriankell1983 Yeah me too but GW pretty much turned 40k from a setting to a story with these books. I would gather that they thought that a story is easier to sell to the large set of people who can't be bothered making their own.

@TheMrFishnDucks Год назад

Nice video. Thank your making it concise and easy to follow. Keep up the good work.

@StatsScott 29 дней назад

That was quite impressive! Some lore videos take 3 hours on purity seals (not knocking those, but by comparison, covering 9 books in 30 minutes, but still fairly comprehensively is, wow.)

@peterga3658 4 месяца назад

this channel is unique among the 40k loretubers.. anyone else coming back to this video bc they cant buy the actuall books so they go by with videos and Yohohoooo PDFs (and no ebooks and audiobooks aint books i dont want to see anyone telling me to go buy """audiobooks"" )

@CrimsonTemplar2 Год назад

Fantastic summary. Thanks!

@Mr_Waffle. Год назад

Great video, thanks for clarifying this series of books. If anyone wants to know more about the tail end of the Baal book, the game Battlesector is set then, with the Blood Angels coming to grips with the new untested Primaris marines, and having to deal with a mysterious Tyranid presence that is delaying the departure of Gulliman, putting a heavy strain on the resources of the world. It also intimately looks at the effects of the Black Rage and on how a Dreadnought copes with life in a coffin. Plus it's good fun! (Though a bit hard if you're not good at xcom--ish games)

@GeneralRasp Год назад

These summary videos are so helpful keeping up to date with Warhammer lore.

@philipzahn491 Год назад

Arbitor Ian is that hobby guy, who gets the instant like, because I`ll know his content is going to be great.👌

@Rothgar59 Год назад

You missed the main point of the story from the Space Marine side, that being the Primaris Marines. The Blood Angels and all their successor chapters are eaten by the Tyranids and left with named characters and a handful of others, and then immediately all returned to full strength by the arrival of the Primaris.

@latrodectusmactans7592 Год назад

Psychic Awakening, also known as Xenos Factions Get Wrecked: The Series.

@Bluecho4 Год назад

Then again, the Imperium just got wrecked as well. So it's only fair.

@Yurt_enthusiast7 Год назад

Also could be called "Chapters getting decimated to justify Primaris reinforces" the series

@crafty_android Год назад

Love these lore recap videos thanks!!

@Nekorook Год назад

Really enjoying these campaign summaries.

@fraserweir2024 Год назад

Awesome video again, mate! Totally agree with you about Ork naming "traditions" :)

@YingTongIddleEyePo Год назад

Thanks for this, I missed these and are so expensive

@axellarsson8327 Год назад

Please make videos for The A dawn of fire - series!! And also Great videos, thank you! Keep it upp :D

@LesStewartLPS Год назад

Humans: "Demons are pouring out of the rift: we're doomed!" Orks: "A blessing from da' Lord"

@MrAbraxus666 Год назад

See TBH, handy video, good length covering a big series of events.

@Synaesthesie12 Год назад

Thank you for the great summary. I had read some of the books but not all. The fluff was really fluctuating and some of them were just bad. Especially "The Ritual of the damned".

@CocoHutzpah Год назад

I was so happy to have rules for The Eight, I don't think I ever read the lore in The Greater Good.

@bobbler42 Год назад

All the new names are making me wonder how long the writers spent playing Boggle.

@memeulesrift6008 Год назад

Question is Warhammer 40k Psychic Awakening: The Collected Fiction just all PA books combined?

@Wysgas Год назад

Okay Ian don't pretend we haven't noticed the green screen. what's up? something spicy your working on?

@JamesLewis007 Год назад

There are 9!?!?

@ArbitorIan Год назад

NINE BOOKS!

@Yurt_enthusiast7 Год назад

NEIN!

@gingerone11 Год назад

There are four lights!!

@BentJacket Год назад

Id love for them to do another big campaign book like the badab war. those were always very cool and felt authentic. I mean unlikly at the mo what with the whole universe about to be eaten by nids.

@iatebambismom Год назад

My 3 word summary of the whole thing: Bile escapes again.

@danielbrock4936 Год назад

Well at least the orks are having fun.

@steveo9284 Год назад

Oy! Got a license for those psychic abilities?!

@DaBozinator Год назад

Lovely as always.

@WelshMullet Год назад

Ian has finally succumb to the GW approved pronunciation of Roboutte Guilliman. Next up, Ghazghkull

@redluke8119 Год назад

I need the Godblight trilogy! Also Arks of Omen

@sylntghost007 Год назад

I had to back up and make sure i heard right. You changed how you pronounce guilliam lol. Thanks for the video

@ArbitorIan Год назад

I was trying to get every possibility in but there just weren't enough appearances

@user-cg2gk1yw7w Год назад

Each time people talk about the PSYCHIC AWAKENING I just want a proper novel that pitches the T'au against the Death Guard. Would be so cool. Written by James Swallow would be the cherry on top

@skywatcheradept Год назад

Phill Kelly just published a book about Shadowsun's Tau fighting the Death Guard.

@SuperCosmicSpaceMagnet 3 месяца назад

Is it just me or are about half of all the people in the Imperium called Sturn

@vulkan6757 Год назад

It sounds like the only legitimately cool Psychic Awakening book was War of the Spider

@S-T-E-V-E Год назад

Is anybody just living life in 40K? 😂 Are they all at war everywhere?

@rakino4418 Год назад

Yes and yes

@Yurt_enthusiast7 Год назад

In the grim darkess of the far future there is only war

@ArbitorIan Год назад

And cake. War and cake.

@Yurt_enthusiast7 Год назад

@Arbitor Ian cake is a given, what else would they put in all those pouches?

@gratuitouslurking8610 Год назад

This is where I started and good lord was it such a mixed bag. Some plots were absolute bangers and yet there was always so much that felt untapped, especially as GW basically did a rewind a little to focus on the Indominus Crusade. I suppose that's the split imperium in a nutshell though: a big ol' Steamed Hams sketch where they tease such tantalizing events and goings ons, but never execute on them cus that would be too weird and AoS-ey to their jaded audience.

@Halskitchen Год назад

Isn't Psychic Awakening immediately after Vigilus Nihilus, which is after the Gathering Storm?

@dantauche7917 Год назад

Psychic Awakening was a MASSIVE letdown after Gathering Storm

@seanjones5682 Год назад

So verily TRUE!

@jczerzzz Год назад

22:26 Please let this be Darktide 2

@walt_man Год назад

These came and went so fast... I ended up googling them in an after thought... oh yeah... those books after Gathering Storm. (Which was released so rushed I couldn't even buy them fast enough. What a cash grab.) And now 10th Edition... *throws more books on the campfire*

@fernandozavaletabustos205 Год назад

Nice!

@Gigatoreador Год назад

First rule of the Fourth Sphere Expansion: Don’t talk about the Fourth Sphere Expansion!

@alecatnight1540 Год назад

what they did to aeldari in that book was a crime

@manie.8241 Год назад

Ain't NO FUCKING WAY you just said "the wolf time" 🤣🤣😭

@11AleZZ Год назад

I forget about PA, they were out so quick

@sjewitt22 Год назад

I thought faith powers were different from Psychic warp ones, as didn't the necron have area's which messed up the warp and stopped psychics painfully, yet faith powers were not affected?

@turnipslop3822 Год назад

I really appreciate the videos you make on this type of lore but I do find they become an information overload, I really struggle to follow all the overarching stuff as there are so many fights between so many factions and in so many seemingly unrelated battles.

@santiagovisci2899 Год назад

The Tau part of the video has any novel? I recently begin "Empire of Lies" and was wondering where to continúe the Tau narrative. Thanks!

@marrvynswillames4975 Год назад

Shadowsun's book seem to be post 4th sphere, but unsure if it's about the specific event in the video

@MrGabilonia Год назад

"A brutally kunning campaign" 😂

@supremercommonder Год назад

Phionex rising still pisses me if they could have done that so much better.

@Kunori 2 месяца назад

I know the plot comes after the game, but it still annoys me that the edition that's come with the psychic awakening has toned down psychic powers into being a few set unit abilities and hazardous guns.

@lukemcdonladson6648 Год назад

Sweet ... ✌️💚

@HandsomeLongshanks Год назад

Dante isnt a primarch....I'm sure it was a simple mistake and you know that but it really perked my ears up and made me go "hang on a minute. Did i hear that right?"

@peterga3658 Год назад

and now if you want to buy these books you have to either pay a ton of money for second hand or dont buy them at all ..

@ArbitorIan Год назад

But thankfully you don't have to buy them BECAUSE THIS VIDEO EXISTS! (Also they might be on the vault by now I don't know)

@samhobbs9116 Год назад

Cough The Lion cough

@angelx9724 Год назад

Not super relevant, but your colour grading is slightly off between the green screen and your old set up XD not sure if you already know/know how to fix it, but it's pretty easy

@user936 3 месяца назад

I'm not a wizard 😔 But I also haven't had a free ride on a Black Ship so 👍🏼 🚫✨

@rmaa_sd Год назад

Would love to hear your thoughts on the new announcements around 10th Edition.

@GooglyEyedSkull Год назад

Yeah, it’s pronounced Puh’sigh’kick yeah. 😜

@alexandergalica9383 Год назад

The REd nAughty Trouble not BLu oRe WhiTe

@ahsanzee 5 месяцев назад

5:16 avengers infinity war has forever ruined the gravitas of the phrase hitherto unseen 🤦for me

@florentarlandis1209 Год назад

I feel that this ark is just a huge missed opportunity to show how desperate the battle for the survival of humanity against chaos could be. This is THE most dramatic event of the galaxy since the birth of Slaanesh, and to me it just felt like this: "Look! Primaris save the day! Pew pew! Alright, moving on to the next plot!"

@kyubimage9526 Год назад

hope you're ready for the 4th tyranic war Ian

@timothylyons5686 Год назад

So what really happened?? Nothing, nothing at all.

@GalanThings Год назад

tbh PA feels like a bit of a mess. As others mentioned I think Arks of Omen works much better which is nice since they are newer so supposedly GW has learned some things.

@johnnybigbones4955 Год назад

I know it's just that I'm an old fart at this point, but I'd rather this stuff was backfilled history rather than an advancing narrative. I've got this sense that the advancing narrative requires protagonists and the named characters are filling that role, and it honestly makes the universe feel far too small to me. I genuinely prefer hearing about random planet X and it's newly created background and culture than everything being focused on a few big name characters leading factions on well known named planets. But I guess, I got mine for decades, and it's nice for people who like the advancing storyline stuff to get some of that. But there's no way I'd be buying these books, give me a forge world campaign about some less significant sector or planet any day. This stuff sounds like big comic crossover events, and I never liked those.

@charlesquigley4383 Год назад

Warhammer was at its best when it did this: created a sandbox of conflicts for players to create their own narratives in.

@turkestansmonster3787 Год назад

Why does your background look greenscreen fake

@Reddavebatcave Год назад

Great question! As I recall it's because Ian's usual space (as seen in the background) is having some work done on it, so he's probably filming from his work or somesuch. I think he mentioned it in a previous vid, but no way you'd know that 🙂

@ArbitorIan Год назад

Yup, the flat got flooded at xmas and so I have the FAKE FLAT until it's habitable again.

@user-zp4ge3yp2o Год назад

I dunno why I keep clicking on these videos, this lore isn't all that great...

@odeegrotsniffer4166 Год назад

Awankening

@MikeGalosi Год назад

Arbitrate me hard

@mistformsquirrel Год назад

Ian, I love how you mostly just give a pretty straight picture of what's going on, and then will throw in *just a little* snark at exactly the right moment. That makes it so, so much funnier