The Alpha Legion carry out Alpharius' final wish | NEW Warhammer 40K Lore 

I stand for The Emperor. I am loyal to Him, and I...*checks calender*...cannot break that bond.

Alpha Legion is that supervillain who poisons the water supply but this just reveals how bad the infrastructure was so it gets repaired to save lives.

Dorn never realised that the bricks that he used to reinforce the Golden Palace were actually disguised Alpha Legionnaires.

I like the idea of loyalist Alpha legion

Id love the Alpha Legion play all three... Loyalist, Renegade and Traitor. Loyalist by majority, Renegade to strengthen the imperium outposts and Traitor to know what Chaos warbands are up too.

So one thing I always liked about the Cabal and the Alpha Legion story line is the idea that Alpharius Omegon saw through everything and got the bigger picture and is playing the long game. That they had to prepare for the ascension of The Emperor or to stop him from becoming the Dark King. That's why they were the only legion not to enter the Eye of Terror. They would play the role of chaos space marines but couldn't risk actually turning to the dark.

No AI will ever beat these livestreams

I think it will be interesting to see Alpharius revealed to be working along side The King in Yellow (Constantin Valdor)

Ferrus Manus will receive the Emperor’s dreadnought 💀

Ah bro let her have a Warhammer free wedding and just have a stag do worthy of the Emperor!

Roboute guilliman and yvraine holding hands on top of the cake. Or Commissar Yarrick and Ghazghkull Thraka: ultimate power couple

"She does read the comments" Hi Sandlady of Terra!

If the tables are named after planets, be worried if you're sat on Isstvan 5...

The Alpha Legion symbol has three heads because there's actually a third brother. If you look at the Alpha Legion splash page in HH3:Extermination (somewhere around page 95?) it shows 3 skulls, each with a lowercase greek letter on its forewead: Alpha (Alpharius), Omega (Omegon) and Sigma (Sigmar?)

All your wedding tables should be named "Alpharius" i'm sure that would have an effect...

The place to start? Rogue Trader. What books are about the Alpha Legion? All of them.

One of the coolest alliance armies I've seen was Alpha legion camouflaged and a bunch of cadian looking imperial guard with hydras on everything. It looked like the blood angels were helping the hydra Regiment of Cadian guard. The camouflage paint job was really cool.

for your wedding, get the priest to wear chaplain terminator armor. I was able to get my wife to choose the name Celestine for our daughter. took her 5 years to slowly piece that. together. (she was beyond pissed) she got over it, and my daughter loves her name way. more when I revealed the sisters of battle army I am building for her to play with someday.

My current paint project is loyalist Alpha Legion disguised as Raptors. They look the part, though there are small clues in the models such as XX and 20 having some prominence as well as any helmetless marines having the same features.

My money is that Ingo Pech is the space marine that is following around Inquisitor Eisenhorn. Grails seem like the peak way of controlling chaos

For the wedding, you probably should have something like an oath of moment 🤣 Cheers for the fantastic content, man 👌

Malcador and Big E mentored Alpharius, no way he thought he could sway Rogal Dorn 😂 Definitely Omegon died on Pluto.

They are my favorite legion. I like their covert operations and their uncertainty of whether or not they are loyalists or traitors.

While I was listening to your explanation of events, I started wondering if an Alpha Legion codex eventually existed, how awesome it would be if it had both Space Marine AND Chaos Space Marine tabletop choices.

I think John's loop is actually the emperors from childhood and John is ensuring the proper path which is how the emperor checks his foresight of infinite paths

In the og Art omnibus for the Horus heresy there is a single image of daemon primarch Alpharius

Whatever Dorn is up to, we know he's doing it single handed.

0:56 An hour long sandman video dropped in the middle of my shift? Say it isnt so😂

Try this: Abbadon makes a tactical rush for Terra to beat the loyalists/Emperor. Then Alpharius/Omegon activate the legionairies under the palace to help STOP CHAOS as the rest of loyal Alpha Legionairies move in as well!~!

Alpha Legion is literally Mac from Its Always Sunny meme, "Im playing both sides so i always come up on top"

Alpha Legion Battle Barge: “What’s for dinner?” “Ssshhh! Never ask that! The chef starts crying.” “Why does he start crying?” “Because he gets all the ingredients he needs and spends the next several hours crying because the initiates keep hiding his cookbooks”

Don't forget they're Bad guys from Dawn Of War 1 and they use Daemons not all are that loyal. That being said Alpha Legion are my favorite "traitor" Legion. They're great because you can run primaris and other SM models without much lore issue because you can say your opponent caught them mid-disguising

Your marital vow: "I accept these burdens, as the Imperium creeds."

The worst part of the alpha legion doing what they did they essentially ensured the very future they were trying to avoid. If they had fully supported the emperor from the start the traitor forces would have faltered Alot more and wouldn't have been able to lay siege to terra as they did.

Sandman you being the least bad option makes you the best man for the job congratulations

Sandman not mentioning the King in Yellow for one video. Challenge: Impossible. Great vid as always, my favourite Legion just got more interesting.

Could they have even infiltrated or manipulated the Custodes to imprison him there as 'subject XI'? All nice and safely tucked away with no chance of anyone uncovering who he is

The Alpha Legion is basically an entire legion of Fallen. It’s the only traitor legion that one could really call ‘renegade’ as a whole rather then being a full on chaos legion (overall, there are still many Alpha Legion chaos marines just like there are many fallen chaos space marines)

So if we assume that Alpharius and Omegon switch places when Horus "finds" him and they never switch back wouldn't that mean Dorn killed Omegon and Alpharius sensed it? I just can't see GW even with some of its wretchedly bad writing at times not setting this up better. Alpharius is a genius with schemes within schemes. He's going to get killed trying to talk the most loyal son that is predictable into changing sides? I guess it could be more wretchedly bad writing... but I think there's a long game story-line coming in a future book especially with Primarchs showing up.

Let him name the tables!

50:54 Big E cut off a part of his soul in the Inevitable City, which then became the City of Dust. Logically, that part of his soul would be easier to fetch from the same place it was cut off at

Amazing stream brother. I always appreciate a look inside the headspace of a lore master like yourself. Thank you!

My very first literary introduction to Warhammer 40k was the Space Wolf Omnibus I and II. With a friend named Google, I did just fine! This was back in 2012. lol.

I got a small taste of lore from a few youtube channels, but the first book I read was Horus Rising about 2 years ago. Immediately hooked, and been reading various 30k and 40k novels since then. Eisenhorn was the first 40k book I read, and I devoured the entire series of those as fast as possible after. Can’t wait for the next Bequin novel.

For your wedding, you need to wear a purity seal on the lapel of your suit/coat/shirt/tux. And end your vows with, "by your word."

Wedding table is The Lions table, every other table is named after each captain. The kids table is Cypher

SANDMAN GIVING US ALPHA LEGION CONTENT?! GOD BLESS!!!

For all we know this entire video was created by Alpharius to feed us more false info about Alpharius to help the imperium!

John told ingo if he moved slow enough he could escape

Lol imagine your fiancées face if the vicar was dressed as a space Marine chaplain 😂😂🎉

What you think about the old Dawn of War videogame as a starting point into 40k? That what got me into 40k years ago.

Congratulations on the engagement, I don’t know if you should suggest a red handprint on her white dress though. lol best wishes.

I am alpharius!

The death row thing was the first thing I thought of also. God that would be so dope. Fischig eat your heart out.

It would also be cool if the custodes knew that some were loyal and allowed them to conduct certain operations

Honestly the best place to start with lore, as an absolute beginner, would be one of the big rule books, not for the rules but they have thr main bits of story for the whole setting and each faction.

A suggestion. Listen to the Doors song 'The Changeling' and substitute the word 'changeling' with 'Alpharius'. It fits and should be their theme song. *'I live uptown, I live down town, I live ALL AROUND!'* Perhaps Jim Morrison was originally an Alpha legionaire who got caught in the Warp and sent back Earth in the mid 20th century. *'This is the end, my only friend the end!'* Very WH 40 K appropriate. See also *'the Soft Parade'* and *'The Spy'.* All very Grim Dark Inquisitorial stuff!

Ekhm - Alpha(P)ri(m)us

Live streams are awesome. No change! Also Ciaphas Cain I think are the best intro. Inquisition series a bit convoluted. Crime series is quite good but doesn't really introduce big lore.

Honestly always a pleasure!

Buddy's wedding had imperial seals instead of boutineers for the groom and groomsmen... looked really good

Cake Topper; Sanguinous and a penitent Sister of Silence in Power Armour? If you get push back mention your love of Deathguard, no one wants a plague lord on their wedding cake?

- Do you have any last words before your sentence Is carried out? - "Yeah, Teddy, bear 🧸" Westley Snipes.

Hydra Dominatus

For starting out with books is 15 hours. It's the quintessential guard book, "astra mili-what now? You're in the guard son, you're gonna die!"

I hope fulgrim doesn’t find his clone, I can picture a loyalist primarch saying go and f yourself. Then fulgrim will be like hmmmmmmmmm hold my beer. Trazyn!!! 😂

I like the idea of Magnus the Red falling to and serving Tzeench, and Tzeench really wanting the damn Alpha Legion, but they were too wily. And that Alpharius is still playing some long con that ends up serving humanity, just not the way everyone expects it to.

Your wedding should be officiated by Alpharius.

"There WERE six routes into the palace that only Dorn knew about...until the Alpha Legion found one of them." Dorn: *"I am REINSTALLING THE PALACE!"* 😉

Someone at the wedding - “I didn’t know you were so religious” You - “Be careful with your words, my in-laws are here so there are inquisitors amongst us”

32:04 "Hideo Kojima, I don't know who he is......" This made me laugh as I heard 100,000 weaboo's scream in pain.

Actae sounds very much like the Karla the Grey Witch from record of Lodoss war. A force of neutrality whose only goal is to maintain balance among all forces to avoid concentration of power leading to one of the sides decisively prevailing

My view of the Alpha Legion divides it into three broad categories. The first is the warbands. These are the most obvious, because they are the least subtle. They are raiders and reavers; sorcerers and savages. Lord Bale and Sindri Myr from Dawn of War fall into this category. Second, there are the splinter cells. These are the lone operatives and sleeper agents which show up in the Alpha Legion short stories. Some act as spy masters, recruiting and coordinating others. Many are free agents or puppets of larger players. They follow ideologies like those of radical Inquisitors such as Xanthism or Istvaanism. Deathrow from the Bequin series fits this mode. Finally, there is the Unbroken Chain. This is the true legion and it's spy masters know the plan and pull the strings. They are playing the long game seek no goal beyond the survival of humanity.

Random theory... 3 brothers Alpha Omega and Beta. 2 lost legions 1 lost 1 purged referring to never found primarch and an already chaos primarch, so omega and beta took their places training both legions to be alpha and then folding them into ultra marines so the ultramarines are 2/3 alpha. when alpha fought dorn alpha actually won and replaced dorn. when emp was done fighting horus dorn/alpha replaced the emp's body with omega to make omega into a god. and eventually they took out guilliman and put beta in his place, between the 3 the alpha legion in charge of almost all of humanity and even has assets manipulating things within chaos legions.

Lollll the shit where a custodes just on break finding fuckin alpharius in a freezer in the Basement 😂

The third head of the hydra is when the twins souls reunite into one.

You can say water, we also drink water

Loyalist 30k alpha legion has always been one of my favorite theories. I plan on painting my first army as custodes with alpha legion colors as a little funny idea of what if the alpha legionnaires escaped stasis and stole custodes armor since alpha legion are bigger than the average space marine this could theoretically work

The reason demon primarchs lose is also because they take bigger risks. They know they'll just be back

4:45 How is Obergon? Lol 😂

Hideo Kojima is respectable creator/designer/writer of video games, such as death stranding, metal gear, snatcher

Random side note, the number 8 does hold the symbolism of New Begging. So......

I am not Alph, just plain 'ol Ralph!

I started in Lord Of The Night and then went into Guant's Ghosts, mid way into those I jumped into Ravenor

I love all the King in Yellow discussions, it's fascinating.

back here again listening for those details i missed the first time

“Ingo Pech gets a dark fade” on god fr fr?

I think a secret AL vs. AL war in unseen places on terra or something like that could be a nice plot in 40k with bigger implications for the future like some gathering storm plots were.

Idea: Valdor wakes them up and has them join his new Legion

Remember when Alpharius gave Horus the gene tech stolen from the raven guard in private he says now we are truly legion so is that clones of Alpharius and Omegan with minor shards of their soles

Am a fan of the idea Ingo might be Deathrow

The Alpha Legion ARE THE BEST! They are the smart ones the most loyal of all! We are ALL Alpharius! Omegon rules now!

I saw your Valdor vid the other day and had a thought since then so since he was brought up here figured its worth punting out!: I'm pretty nre to 40k lore but enjoying the explainers from folk like yourself, ArbitorIan etc. to help me through it so cheers for that! You mentioned in the Valdor vid that it is unclear as to why Big E gave Valdor his particular Spear (Apollonian?) as it is the one that reveals truths to Valdor, not whomever he strikes. It's also mentioned Malcador see's that Valdor is becoming more than he was; thinking for himself, acting independently etc. toward the end of the Heresy. Has it been talked about at all that this could all be *because* of the Spear ie; it has revealed so many truths to Valdor that it set him on his 'King in Yellow' path...and if it does turn out to be that he's looking for a Vessel for the Emperor's soul-remnant that Big E's foresight, as flawed as it can be, granted him sight that Valdor would need the spear to help Him later with 'something' and so thats the weapon he granted him? I just feel like its the straightest line between why Valdor is so different to the other Custodes in 40k as the real difference maker between him and the others is the Spear and the sheer volume of 'truths' aka knowledge (and thusly, Power) that it must have revealed to him over the millennia/eons he's been fighting with it?

In 2003 I was familiar with 40K but hadn’t read any novels, I read Storm of Iron when I was deployed to Iraq the first time. To this day I still collect imperial fists and have owned, painted and played dozens of armies in that time.

Fulgrim was shot in the head and shook it off like it was nothing then cloned and preserved in "perfect" form. Ferrus Manus and Alpharius are my favorite Primarchs. Guess how I feel about Fulgrim and the writers that prop him up while tearing others down. It's safe to say that Alpharius' death was the last straw in my 40k love. now I only check in on videos now, to see if GW has collapsed yet or if they've come to their senses.

Great vid again!

For me nowadays I generally refer to the twins as first and last. In my personal headcanon and understanding is everything we thought of Alpharius in the old lore is flipped. For example serpent beneath tells us Omegon has the unmarked power armor and HOH tells us the reverse is true. The whole third head concept to me has always meant their legion is fairly autonomous as a whole and able to make demi primarchs. I view the status as last found sacrificed himself to allow the first found to slip back into anonymity. It's clear to me both twins are loyal and maybe at times they don't see eye to eye giving some of the fans to see it as split allegiance.

I love the idea of loyalist 20th astartes. I think the imperium would kill them, though, and would consider it equivalent to allowing Cawl to recreate loyalist legions of the other fallen legions.

18:16 as long as some tables are not named Istvan 3/5 it should be fine

I'd like to see the Alpha legion come in as the true saviors of humanity - not by siding with the Imperium, but by destroying both the Imperium AND chaos. Perhaps by killing the Emperor AND sealing the Eye of Terror at the same time. It would buy them time on one front long enough to restructure the Imperium with Guilliman's help and mount an actual defense for humanity. It's obvious that GW isn't going to END the status quo for the wider war, but I think they also realize that they're going to have to do SOMETHING big soon. You've got to shake up something because as it stands, humanity doesn't stand a chance of holding even another 100 years, let alone actually "win."