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Pointing out that the grim dark lore of 40k can potentially require therapy to deal with should remind the community just how expensive this hobby can be.
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Catachan on fredrid: ”We've run into scorpions the size of battle tanks. Three men died from Eyerot last week and I've sweated enough to fill a lake. Emperor help me, I love this place - it's just like home!”
Glad to know that Predators are in the 40K universe. The skintaker seems like a very obvious nod to that franchise. Now we just need it to face of with Marbo
It is possible that the Beast of Solomon exists simply because millions believe it does. A reflection in the warp of the belief of millions that came into being to haunt them.
It could be a Yu'Vath construct as the Calixis Sector was originally controlled by the warp-affiliated xenos known as the Yu'Vath and it fits their modus operandi. Look up the Whisper on the moon of Skadi. A great construct starship that was able to possess and animate marble statues.
"An unknown entity that has the population of a hive world so freaked out that they've turned to ritualistic sacrifice just to keep it appeased" We all know that's just the Emperor of Mankind
I love the idea that one of the most ancient and considered heretical pieces of literature that has survived into the 41st millennia is a single paperback copy of Twilight: New Dawn 😂😂😂
the skin taker is literally just the predator, like down to the blur where it is and stringing up flayed corpses. and only the strongest person being left alive? its absolutely a reference to the predator
The Skin Taker, to me, feels like it could be a Necron Flayed One either using the skins as covering or trophies as it sinks deeper into that feral madness. A madness that may have found kinship with the native life forms it it's brutality ways, thusly why it mostly targets hunters and poachers to protect itself and its newfound friends/pets
I do like that idea, but i think it's most likely a reference to Predators, what with the descriptions - "nothing more the a blur" and the skinning and heads being removed.
I got a good chuckle from the “artist rendition of ancient terra, likely inaccurate”😅 I also wonder if the Astral Hounds are a 40K nod to the Hounds of Tindalos
I would read a remake of the Hound of the Baskervilles into the WH40K setting, with two Inquisitors being the equivalent of Holmes and Watson investigating to spot and stop an heretic invoking an astral hound to kill some targeted people.
@@andrewsmisek8341 A noble taking out his rivals to become planetary governor? Or maybe a a simple hive city worker taking out factory supervisors that treated them like shit?
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I love how the emperor killed off the vampires, its so funny to think of him using a cross and killing them with it (idk why but i enjoy the idea of God once being a physical thing in Warhammer but when he left thats when shit went down the drain, idk it's probably just me)
“…the idea of God once being a physical thing in Warhammer but when He left that’s when shit went down the drain” that’s the God Emperor of Mankind Avatar of the Omnissiah for you! The Imperium of Man has been going down the drain for more than 10,000 years all thanks to Horus, the rest of the traitors, heretics, xenos, and warp fuckery…
@@JCavinee Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader (1st Edition), pp. 205-206 Warhammer: Siege (1st Edition), pg. 94 Warhammer 40,000: Rulebook (4th Edition), pg. 125 Codex: Black Templars (4th Edition), pg. 44 Inquisitor - The Thorians (Specialty Game Sourcebook) by Gav Thorpe, "The Ordo Xenos", pp. 17-18 Fabius Bile: Clonelord (Novel) by Josh Reynolds, pg. 53 It's somewhere among these.
On the one hand, I would like to see that crossover. On the other, I’m pretty sure that if the magic in the witcher series comes from the warp and it existed any time after the age of technology, the world would be straight fucked. Like, it has maybe a few hours before the entire world is consumed by chaos like so many others.
I love how Warhammer is such a huge setting, that you can write about anything into it, and it can be lore-friendly; I mean, the last one, Skin Taker, is just Flayed Ones
My favourite has to be the shapeshifting alien vampires ,their charisma is explained as psychic warp abilities which just perfectly incorporated them into Warhammer
Your channel is the best introduction to the grim dark there is, I'm only 4 months in, and your channel made the insurmountable lift a lot easier to understand and absorb , picking up my first book soon 🤘
That's why I said it's a similar issue as the dark Eldar. Nightlords usually want their victims to be aware that it's them and their handy work to further breed fear
@@RichardKushman Hmm... That was pre-Heresy Night Lords, though. Post-Heresy Night Lords, or even a rogue Night Lord, would change their MO a bit, meaning they wouldn't want to draw Inquisitorial attention to themselves.
The soloman story perfectly encapsulates the imperium's stupidity. The nobles claim there is no shadowy monsters in the dark, but my dudes, there are over 57000 types of monsters in the dark in that one star sector alone lol. This is the grim dark.
Solomon's curse is probably a combination of things the mutations caused by the living conditions causing cannibalistic tendencies that can be blamed on a beast for some of the cases, psychic manifestations of the populations beliefs for others acting at key points at key times, and finally cults of a certain god that thirst being on the planet.
@@hieioni3354 and those warp wolves or whatever are definitely based off both the whole Black Shuck/Hellhound mythology and Lovecraft's Hounds of Tyndalos... Which honestly does beg the question of how Lovecraft's works (assuming copies have survived to the 42nd millennium) are perceived by high ranking members of the Imperium?
@@26th_Primarch Tindalos* And Lovecraft's works would be branded heresy as they speak of Gods other than the Emperor. But I have a better question: What if either Lorgar or Magnus has copies of Lovecraft's works?
Also some Call of Cthulhu art. One of the shadow hounds artwork is a depiction of one of the Hounds of Tindalos, a creature created by Frank Belknap Long.
You forgot the chuglets of Castiban Tercio, the skrungl of Vétrvik, the Grippe, Anchor-Hands, and the Quixlot of Anaxes Septus. For this disgrace, thou'rt a boob.
I'm curious as to how the vampires would reproduce. Some sort of parasitic larval form, perhaps? Maybe one that compels is host to acts of cannibalism to sustain it as it gestates?
A note on the Vampires from Rogue Trader. They are still canon. But they have anew name. If you look at the Khrave, those same ones from the Great Crusade and RPG books, they are basically an update on the vampires from old Rogue Trader.
Given how the warp works, the curse of Solomon might have started as misidentified killings, only to develop into an actual warpmade monster. Virtually every entity that calls the realm of souls home is, to an extent, a kind of tulpa. An entity manifested through mass belief.
Those are some magnificent terrifying monsters be ashame if The Lion heard about them. Especially you Skin Taker, Johnson would love to meet you in your jungle.
There is a campaign in Dark Heresy called Haarlock's Legacy that mentions a being known as the widower. He appears only during certain events and specifically seeks the blood of Harrlock.
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Bruh the last one sounds too much like the predator 😅 skinned victims - check. Taking skulls - check. Hunting while completely cloaked like a complete bitch - check. Confirmed a predator reference 😂
Always appreciate the horror segments Know you had some time off recently, but the videos we have had I've really enjoyed - You're doing well, keep it up
Is it me, or does the skin taker kind of sound like the Predators from Alien vs. Predator I mean they do the same thing they act the same way sounds pretty close to me
The Curse of Soloman made me think about Umbra's since those attack by manipulating shadows into abominable tentacled and spiked appendages which fits the idea of an eldritch incomprehensible nightmare being that attacks exclusively in the dark. However those do still have a visible true form not to mention they are typically found living in the void, but we don't even know how intelligent they are or what their goals are so its a possibility.
Is there an equivalent to sasquatch in 40k? If not that's a shame as a grimdark bigfoot would be hilarious to me since some of the legends and stories about Earthly sasquatches can be insanely dark for no reason.
It's a blatant Predator nod. It's on a jungle planet, has cloaking tech, takes the skins and skulls of its targets, and 40k has the Catachan Jungle Fighters which are literally 80's action movie characters.
Regarding the vampire segment: You forgot that they also liked enthusiastic walks at night. You also forgot that GW was most likely referencing the book that the movie Lifeforce 1985 was based on. They do shameless ripoffs.
It'll be funny if the Skin Taker is just Konrad's Primarch Soul terrorizing a random backwater world because he lost his Humanity and is just going by primal instincts or it could be an artistic Dark Eldar hunter that was fascinated by Exodite hunting and living habits and wanted to try it himself as a form of Method Acting.
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First and last one Sound a bit like a flayed One. (the later more so) A flayer Lord might still have some Relics on him that enables cloaking. In the Infinite and the Divine it was shown that flayed Ones sometimes collect Skulls (and build creepy Structures with them)
is there any connection between the red thirst of the blood angels and the space vampires? like did big E use some of their essence for that gene-seed?
@@hieioni3354 thanks for the clarification man! would be a fun idea to speculate/homebrew around of tho, like which primarch (gene seeds) have aspects of which alien races, well until the inquisition comes knocking
@@hieioni3354 good point, but we can always count on ol' Fabius Bile to push that heretical envelope of mixing and mutating stuff - if I understand his character correctly
@@cainfree6800 Oh yeah, Fabulous Bob will do ANYTHING to create a perfect being. He will use xenotech, he will use Dark Age of Technology tech, anything.
i think all the instances of the emperor talking while on the throne was creepy and i would like to hear what tidbits and details u might dig up on the subject
Honestly kinda wouldnt be surprised if 40K had stuff like SCP-3456, a Nuckelavee-like creature that manifests in the vicinity of warzones, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters, and hunts anyone that directly sees them, oftentimes using ambush tactics, or psychologically manipulating their targets.
