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Make the Perennials the Emperor's descendents. Accounts for the immortality and the wild variations in powers. Preserves the canon of both and folds them into a single cohesive narrative. 🤷♂️
Exactly what happened to the space marines, they are either dead or fled in the eye of terror, there may be some interesting cases but I don't see how different it may be.
@@CF-or3ci it was a shortened version, but still, the story of the forces fighting alongside the space marines wouldn't be that much different to the story of the space marines, outside of some interesting cases that may or may not exist
@BBYG-ig9ix the emporor split his soul, he discarded his "humanity " love, hope, compassion ect... and sent it away. This is what the star child fundamentally is a piece or aspect of himself, reborn.Powerful enough to make chaos worry
I think it would be a fun little lore blurb when the emperor's children get their reboot that the third Legion was hunting the last of the sensei into extinction because, you know, emperor's children versus the emperor's actual children
Plot twist: Alpharius and Omegon are actually each a full Primarch and the fact that they look the same is just a coincidence. Fulgrim however is the Emperor's actual son.
Prediction: Valdor has found the star child and as the king in yellow has been amassing an army of custodes, winged space marines, imperial aligned daemons, and the star child's apotheosis meant that they were "calling" the sensei to this pocket dimension and join his forces.
Headcanon: A lot of sensei are the heroes/gods of Terran myth. Big E could have been a super-father who had lots of offspring that spread across the world and some of them inherited some of his power and did inspiring stuff, continuing throughout the ages.
So your saying Big E pulled a Zeus and spread his seed everywhere creating demigods that became legendary heroes. You twisted, heretical son of a bitch I'm for it.
@@apostolos8734 The bible does mention some nephilim making up the heroes of old, and there are some very interesting apocryphal texts. 40k might draw from more sources than we think.
At least the Sensei won't meet the Primarchs because it would cause some fumes of obnoxiously toxic family reunions that not even Vulkan can regenerate from those.
Well those women were lucky and unlucky. They received the greatest poll there is but Emperor left them after some time. I am sure, no man was able to fill the huge void Emp left. 😅
This does open up the chance to tell the story of the Golden Age/Dark Age, assuming the Sensei were probably the ones leading humanity. It'd be awesome to see a game where players are Sensei helping humanity take to the stars in various factions, galaxy spanning wars, and eventually the downfall of it all
1. Ever since I saw "If the Emperor had a text to speech device" and heard about them many years back I was wondering when someone will bring them up. 2. What if the Sensei formed a new faction in the 40K universe. 3. What if the Illuminati were the ones who planned the Horus Heresy. 4. What if Clancy from "If the Emperor had a text to speech device" is a Sensei.
I would 100% be down with the Sensei forming a new faction that would be awesome. Though only if they were a truly independent faction, not a subfaction of the Imperium.
A video about what we know of Ollanius life before the Imperium era would be great, he often refers to his life in Ancient Greece and it would be nice to have a compilation of some sort
@@nickcarroll8565 or one of his Argonautes, it’s never clearly stated, he might have been Theseus too as he often refers to the whole labyrinth and the Minotaure in The End and the Death books also, Theseus was one of the Argonauts. If I recall things alright he also compare his journey to the one of Ulysses… That why a compilation of his mumbling would be interesting, I searched for it and none exist so far
It could make sense too, each time the emperor discovered a sensei he can tell, and gives them a charter to become a rogue trader. As charters are hereditary, how better to use your offspring in a way that doesn't announce to the galaxy exactly what they are.
Well recent lore, including the End and the Death, seems to have made the Starchild firmly canon again. So maybe these guys will be fully canon soon too.
I love the concept of a Child of the Emperor uncorrupting a Choas Marine, just so amazing to picture. Although it would kinda cheapen the current 40k setting a bit.
I feel like this would actually be the best way to make a main character for WH40K franchise. Pick a regular person with a shady past to make his way through the grimdark universe and as the show goes on, reveal that he's a Sensei, which allows him to interact with a heavyweights of the universe without being tied to a side.
Can we have a video on who would be the worst loyalist primarch to return to the current setting? ie who would cause a civil war with Gman! Love the channel:-)
Russ. Definitely Russ. While I do like the Idea of “Allfather Russ” and his band of puppies founding a norse themed protectorate, I just don’t think Russ has the attention span to carry it out. The man is fighter, first and foremost, and biggest of all, _he’s a staunch loyalist._ The moment he saw someone hail Guilliman as Lord Commander, his eye would do that twitchy thing and he’d disappear, only for the vox to blurt out that every space wolf ship just trained their guns on them.
@@user-ez9ng2rw9c Maybe not, but Russ isn’t the Lion. Russ is the self-proclaimed “attack dog” of the Emperor, and what happens when a dog sees someone who isn’t its master trying to tell it what to do? Either it heeds…or it lunges
The Emperor is a very busy father with his children who are the Primarchs and the Sensei. He does have a wife named Erda who is the Mother of the Primarchs who I cannot imagine if she was to find out about how many children that her husband has. Pretty awesome but weird messed up family right.
How do the Inquisition detect Sensei? If it's not foolproof a Sensei could try and climb the power structure so they could change the policy from above.....
Honestly I’d love it for the Sensei to be brought back to the setting in Canon but only after all the relevant Primarchs have been brought back. Think about how Awesome it would be to have Primarchs vs Sensei and maybe even some of them finding some kind of familiar bonding because they are technically half siblings. Hell it could even be somewhat of a way to finally solve the Space marine problem in the sense that the Sensei could create their own versions. Like on one hand you have Primaris Marines (Marines genetically bonded to their primarch via gene seed) and on the other you have Sensei Marines (Marines created via warp manipulation) . Would be an awesome idea. Now obviously they would need to be given what I like to call the Broly treatment where they are brought back but their Orignal backstory and lore is no longer relevant and their origins is now updated to fit into the more modern iteration of Warhammer 40K. Like maybe instead of their being Thousands out there I’d break them down into just a few Sensei like how there is only a few Primarchs and have them be somewhere in between a Custodes and Primarchs in terms of raw power.
Or maybe the hundreds of remaining sensei that are not grey sensei could become alternative marines themselves. And they'll be somewhere in between primarchs and custodes in terms of power.
I've always imagined the sensei were basically the gods and heros from our own legends/history, Hercules, Mowi, Thor etc occasionally changing their name and appearance similar to the emperor in his early days, difference being the emperor allegedly stopped changing his name and appearance for some time.
The Sensei are the proverbial Children of -Dune- Terra, but because of how 40K has thematically diverged from _Dune_ (and the fact that Frank Herbet never actually wrote an ending to the series to tie everything together properly) defining the Sensei would require elucidating just what exactly the Emperor actually is and where He came from. Just as the Sensei faded from relevance and are of questionable cannonicity, the Emperor just kind of exists. In Dune, the God Emperor, Leto Atreides II, was a being formed from the unholy amalgamation of a pre-born kwisatz haderach who was forced to compromise with his genetic memories and become what is known as an abomination. On top of that he underwent a metamorphosis into human-worm entity, which most critically seems to allow him to produce his own spice through his own metabolism. This means that the demarcation between Leto's personal psyche, the collective psyche of all who had lived before him, and the prescient visions of the future produced by the spice, was completely obliterated basically turning his subjective experience into that of the omniscient Dr Manhattan. While the intellectual and prophetic capacity of Dune's God Emperor exceeds that of 40K's, there is one thing he cannot do and that is produce children, owing to having abandoned his human form. What's more he was so deranged it's difficult to assess to what extent Leto's "Golden Path" actually impacted humanity's fortunes for the better. This gives us some context for what lore we do have on the Emperor's origin might mean. Some sources suggest that Big E is also a collective entity formed from the amalgamation of many shaman-pskers from human pre-history who perceived the threat of Chaos far in advance and drew plans to stop it. But this, on the whole, seems to have been discredited, leaving the contemporry interpretation of the Emperor's origin as far more vague and speculative, but we can still see attempts to echo Leto's example: Big E also has ancesteral memories to draw upon in the form of "reincarnations" (which leaves the question of what happens to human souls after they die and how they can eb recalled.) But he only gets "shamen, wizards, and wise-men," instead of literally every human who has ever lived back to Adam and Eve. The Emperor personally supposedly grew up in Anatolia, which suggests he was born around 8000 B.C after mankind had evolved and moved out of the grasslands of Africa which are now the Sahara desert. (Although 40K writers would probaably have it that the initial psyker who was the "proto-emperor" was in fact responsible for saving mankind in it's time of need as the grasslands dried up into -arrakis- dunes and kick-starting civilization 10,000 years ago.) This would suggest that, like Leto, the Emperor was in fact _a_ person at one time who later became a collective transcendent being. Leto's prescient capabilities are recapitulated by the Emperor's psyking powers and his unique capacity to "control his emotions." Which would explain why no Aeldari pskyer has been able to match him. *Only I don't really buy this for the obvious reason that the Empeor's lack of emotional intlligence is the reason his primarchs developed daddy and betrayed him.* The lore tells us the Emperor is master of his emotions. The plot shows us that he isn't, nor could it even function otherwise -- there would simply be no Horus Heresy if the emperor didn't have this one human failing. And it makes sense that he isn't because a being that had perfect control of it's emotions; is perfectly differentiated, would not be more than human but less than human. It is from lack of differentiation that generation comes; the receptive soil needed by the creative seed to produce growth and change. Dan Abnett agrees as much in _The End and The Death Volume One_ when the Emperor explains to Sanguinius why the primarchs have emotions. So the authenticity of this lore isn't merely questionable but outright retconned. The whole point of emotions is that they are spontaenous processes beyond your control. Total control of your emotions would be equivalent to not having emotions. At any rate, the overall vibe is that the Emperor alludes to Jesus (as Leto did) by having both a divine and human nature. This is reinforced by the emperor's feat of stealing the fire of the chaos gods, like Prometheus, Prometheus being an archetypal predecessor to Christ. But this si still quite beyond the pale of anything we know about how divinity works in 40K. The only plausible explanation is that the Old Ones engineered humanity to have a God Emperor, which just isn't particularly interesting.
Or you could combine this theory in two. The Emperor could have been some exceptional (but still human) dude back in Anatolia until he was chosen by wizards to save humanity. Or he could have been just the collective souls of all those shamans from the start. Either way, as his power grew, his presence in the warp would have also grown. Shining like a lighthouse in the midst of a storm. And soon, a surviving/weakened Old One sees this lighthouse, and immediately beelines straight for Earth before Chaos could do anything. The Old One, after meeting the Emperor, and seeing the potential that this guy could be the death of Chaos and the savior of the galaxy, decides to take the lad under his tutelage. Treating him like a son, and teaching him everything he knew about the Materium (science, mathematics, physics, history, politics, advanced engineering etc.) and the Immaterium (warp entities, the power of belief, magic, Chaos, Order, etc.) Once he was done with his training, he then charged his son with the responsibility of holding back Chaos, uniting the galaxy, and returning the Warp back into the Sea of Souls. Upon the Old One's passing, he transferred what little power he had into the Emperor. Supercharging Big E in a matter of minutes, which would have taken centuries for him to develop on his own. With the Old One dead, now the hopes, dreams, and ambitions of his adoptive father's race now lay in his hands. Thing is, Big E had hopes, dreams, and ambitions for himself.
Attempt number 24: What if the Primarchs where found in the order of their creation. So the Lion was first and Horus was nearly last. I think that could change quite a bit, don't you think? P:S yeah, I'm definitely doing this till it gets to a 100. JOIN ME MY BROTHERS!
Imagine if a sensei spared angron and freed him from both khorne and the nails. It would be so interesting to see the only traitor primarch with an actual reason to be redeemed struggling to fix his past actions in a world where he is marked for death by nearly everyone he knew. He was supposed to be an angel like sanguinius, so it would be interesting if he got a chance to be the angel he was meant to be. Also, it would make for a rather unexpected primarch return, and a very funny family reunion.
I remember the Sensei when they came out. 40k back then was more about small skirmishes than larger pitched battles. The Sensei gave players the chance to run a campaign similar to the ones intended for chaos champion warbands but fighting against chaos instead of for it. One of the figures from the pirates and adventurers range actually has "SENSEI" on its tab and is armed with a bolter and chainsword.
I really enjoy the idea of these beings still being alive in the setting. A little redundant sure, but the idea of one willingly embracing chaos is dope. Would be a great villain! Do a vid on librarians/sorcerers from non psyker chapters/legions
Perhaps some of the Sensei might take over as quasi Primarchs, maybe of legions where the marines stayed loyal but the Primarch's turned. Or perhaps taking the place of the two missing?
The way they redeemed chaos champions is similar to help people who we’re forced into worship chaos in AOS can be redeemed, and if they’re righteous enough, even re-forged into the storm cast Eternals.
That's really hectic law homie.. I had no idea. Winkyface. But how crazy is old school lore.. it just boggles my mind how much we have forgotten about the Warhammer 40k story.
Idea for a story: Bobby G or The Lion learn of the Sensei and in their "goodness" attempt to end the inquisitions hunt of them and recruit them. Only, the inquisition actually refuses as it is one of the few direct, or direct as you can get, from the Emperor they have. IE The emperor DOES know about the sensei and they are being slaughtered on his orders. To make it better, have the inquisition not know why he needs it done and to become an inquisitor includes having this order placed in one's subconscious and is unremovable. Unlikely to ever happen but could be an interesting angle to go with.
After watching The Exodite animated series, I'm curious about Tau Navy. Please make a video about them, their strategy and battles they fought against Imperium Navy.
I still think Sly Marbo is a Sensei , not only that but one of the oldest. He just enjoys the deep jungles as it reminds him of old earth from his childhood.
man ive been wondering when you were going to do a dedicated vid on these guys. not many people even know about the Sensei at all. Thanks for a being a student of 40k Majorkill cheers!
i mean the star child is pretty much canon now since the end and the death vol 2 malcador has stated as much when the emperor rejected his godlike power
Me: So what random lore can we find today? Majorkill: The Emperor's love children forming the illuminati but then getting hunted down and exterminated like the Jedi.
Could you do a video about the unspeakable king one of the big E's rivals during the unification wars and one of the few he actually feared might beat him and take over humanity
@@vanderwallstronghold8905 No he's a perpetual blank warlord from Earth who conquered most of the planet then disappeared just before the Emperor started the unification wars
Video idea: how exactly has the emperor changed after the Psychic Awakening? We know he’s more active but is he truly conscious now or just slightly more lucid? Does he still need the soul forge in the Astronomicon? Because the Astronomicon exploded. (Recently finished reading the second Vaults of Terra book which shows it failing).
Though I would not put it past imperial artist to have at least one work labeled "Birth of the Emperor" featuring Baby Big E with a chin and abs chiseled from granite shooting lasers.
I think a Sensei would make a very interesting character in the books, possibly even being a character that gets close to the Lion or Guilliman as a mortal advisor trying to look out for their little brothers.
Superb video as always @majorkill. Could you make a video dedicated to the Navigators, the major houses, their politics, relation to the overall Imperium and factions, etc
I wonder if they will bring the sensei back into modern 40k. I think that if they were going to then perhaps one of the best ways to achieve this would be to team the Sensei up with The king in Yellow.
With the recent release of the Rogue Trader, I think having an RPG like game where you figure out your heritage (being sensei) with the antagonist being a grey Sensei can be an interesting concept. Especially as it reminds me of the older Baldur’s Gate games where you are a child of Baal and fight other children of Baal. Moreover you can explore earth pre-unification like when during the emperors conquest of earth and be in your late teens or early 20s, or during actual 40k where you explore the imperium rather than an “empty” expanse through its politics (the Illuminati) and have a crazy (maybe not cannon but RPG game wise) option of becoming the next Big E. I am new to the WH lore, so I might be off with my logic or timing of certain events P.S for a game during the conquest of earth you can make it into a fallout like setting, with creative factions and unique decisions (you can go buck wild like during the 30k lore as most will not effect 40k cannon as earth is conquered either way) and for a game during 40k you can have it be like Rogue Trader where you are an average military, criminal, trader or other archetype before realizing your true potential
The Starchild has already been brought back in the Horus Heresy, in the final pages of The End and The Death Part 2. Big E takes all his compassion and mercy and casts it into the warp, where it gets a very Starchild like description as a desperate being.
Look, I am not a professional linguist, and my knowledge of Chinese characters is kind of "eh", but when you look past the surface reference to the Japanese word for "teacher" (sensei, obviously), there is probably an unintentional reference. It's hard to type it out on an English keyboard, but the kanji for sensei comes from the two Chinese characters "xian", which means first, and "sheng", which means born. Read literally, the Chinese characters for "sensei" becomes "firstborn", which I guess can be applied to the Emperor's natural offspring in a sense? I'm probably grasping at straws here.
I like the star child theory. This other faction of good that is the best of the Big E that is focused solely on good and helping humanity and this version, this God in the warp, would really mess up the establishment. The Golden Throne Big E is the figure head and power of the current settings imperium. He is worshiped. The Star Child wishes for this to be taken away! The power the defense of the imperium as it is This leads me to believe the Dark King is the current Big E on the Golden Throne reaching out and connecting with his past self. The current setting Big S sees this as his only option to prevent the Star Child from being born. The Star Child, himself, is the greatest threat to humanity from the golden throne Big E’s perspective as he could take his power away. Very much like Magnus but in reverse. The shattered doesn’t wish to be rejoined
I always found the sensei to be weird since if the Emperor could have perfect biological children, why go through all of the effort to research, develop and create the 20 primarchs? I'm not the most knowledgable person in 40k lore, but I think it would've made sense in cannon if the Emperor's unique physiology was so advanced that he couldn't impregnate normal human women and thus had to artificially create 20 sons of his own in a labratory.
I think he tried to improve upon the sensei by creating the Primarchs. In the video it says the sensei are killed left and right despite their improved physiology and other powers. It could be that Primarchs are to sensei what superhumans are to normal humans.
I know realistically this is impossible and won’t happen but I would find it somewhat interesting if the Sensei are able to merge and fuse their powers with primarchs gaining a massive power boost and become a “true son of the emperor” and/or perhaps they can play role in trying to cleanse the taint of chaos inhabiting the demon Primarchs
