This is one of the weirder things I've created but I wanted to make something for the Christmas season. Not the best thing I've made but considering I got this done from start to finish in less than a week I'm pretty happy with it. Anyway, hope you guys have a Merry Christmas!
honestly I think it turned out really good, the animation is nice, and that story feels very Human. Like we've all been there never getting that one present and the Templar questioning if maybe Santa wasn't so bad, before steeling himself to burn everything by the Emperor's will, it feels EXACTLY how that situation would turn out in 40K Now if it was a Salamander I'd feel they be more merciful...but still shoot down santa LOL
@@BrenTenkageI appreciate that! Yeah, I chose the Black Templars because it's really easy to know what they'd do. Plus they're just really fun. Definitely going to do more Black Templars in the future.
I'm pretty sure that the Emperor would HATE Santa and Christmas with a passion. He hates faith, he hates hope, he hates anything that makes humans, well, humans, and he only tolerate blind obedience, atheism and cold logic. Santa, the incarnation of humanity's goodness, empathy and faith in something that can't be seen or touched, is anathema to everything he built the Imperium to be.
It would probably be closer to 10,000th or so. But it is funny that Santa is either a perpetual or a close friend of the emperor. "But I didn't want to kill them!" That also alleges Santa absolutely could have axed these guys but chose not to. Maybe because of his pacifistic nature or he recognizes they're important for humanity's survival.
@@tiberiusdawn2042 That's a different version of santa, not applicable to the 40k universe. However even low balling santa he can survive acceleration and deceleration of like 650 miles per second, i don't think there is anything the emperor of man kind could throw at santa that would do anything to him let alone black templars.
I love how the fandom agrees that the marines would shoot down santa. But I do like how these marines are actually pausing to thinking about this. And that story of the Templar wanting a present but his parents never got him that...man that right there is a mood, we've all been there
I wonder how it would be different if the Imperium was aware of Santa being exclusive to holy terra and tolerated his existence as someone that is much older than the Imperium.
@@addisonchow9798 "He is exclusive to Terra, you say?" 'Been operating longer than the God Emperor's been on the throne.' "... You indicate the Emperor knew this man?" 'Surely he knew of ol' saint Nick, after all he arrived every year at the same time! One of the few to meet Malcador and be welcomed with open arms, he was!' "Brother. Suddenly I feel as if perhaps we have misjudged this heretic." "The emperor knew this man, and permitted him to live. This man that we have killed." ' "What's wrong, brother?" ' "I no longer feel the emperor's light, brother. As if we have done something to anger him on Terra."
Later that night, the eternal crusader soon became full to almost bursting with coal, every room, every coridor, every nook and crany was filled with the black rocks. This would have been the least of the templars' anger if not for the vox to continually playing a song, one sung by children about how they should watch out, not cry, or pout. But most of all was a single word found in each room on the cealing, one in low gothic, a simple word that made even the high marshall feel the slightest trace of fear "Naughty"
The really scary thing here is that coal fires are nothing to laugh at, and once they start, almost nothing can stop them. Santa just turned the Eternal Crusader into a time bomb, one errant flame and everyone on that ship is dead.
considering how old Santa would be in 40K, I think its safe to assume that he's a Perpetual and the reindeer are Undivided or non-Chaos daemons that he's bound to his service. Rudolph is also likely akin to a Navigator, with his red nose actually being a third eye or similar appendage utilized for Warp travel. And knowing that he is aware of every child's nature and intentions to the point he can clearly differentiate between naughty and nice, he's probably an Alpha+ psyker capable of planetary-scale mind-reading similar to the Cacodominus. While he would be an exceptionally powerful tool against Chaos, I believe that he's possibly thwarting Chaos by detecting which children are likely to be servants of Chaos. Assuming Krampus is real, perhaps they are one and the same, with Krampus consuming the souls of young heretics before Chaos may taint their minds, which gives Santa his power
@@The5thSaints lol me neither, but when you're a powerful enough psyker to know the true nature and behaviour of an entire planet's supply of children you're always gonna end up punching up in powerscaling
I don't think Santa would go down that easily. Given the things he can do in the stories about him, he would at the very least be an alpha level psycher if not a minor chaos god.
The Black Templar being sentimental about a toy they never got, was surprisingly human and melancholy for a 8ft killing machine. Also, Santa could sweep most of 40k.
An Astartes is worth a hundred guardsman. A Custodes worth a hundred Astartes. Santa is probably worth 1k+ Custodes. Dude is so fast he casually visits every home on the planet in one night. With time to chill and eat some cookies at each one. And so strong he carries Gifts (often coal) for the entire planet over his shoulder all at once. Lore for him is busted. GW please nerf
Meanwhile, the emperor of mankind: *spewing a lot warp storms in a fit of rage* Magnus: ugh, what're you angry about this time, father! The emperor: those templars just killed one of my best buds who was just doing his duty! Magnus: who? The emperor: Saint Nicholas, of course. One of the few humans that are actually older than me. Magnus: I have no idea who that is, father. The emperor: of course you wouldn't, you were always on the naughty list for being a nerd. Which reminds me, while Saint Nicholas is going to be busy respawning, I have call another individual on the same likeness as Saint Nick and is just as fast as him. Magnus: who? The emperor: The Grim reaper, and before you ask, not the ctan jerk, the actual grim reaper.
The physical emboimtment of death just gets a call and goes "alright but I gotta talk to the boss and oh Ollanius Pius says hi" then yeah the templar's are dead
You rang? Edit: I just realized after replying RU-vid doesn't use my profile name in comment sections and therefore ruins my joke. My name is Nicholas so I hear the Saint Nicholas joke every year.
Under that helmet, I like to believe that Templar was in disbelief, stunned at the perfect recreation of something he wanted so dearly from his childhood, and then you see him close his eyes and steel himself for the task that must be done. Now THIS video, is true grimdark.
no real grimdark is when you realize that this sword represented his childhood and you know that growing up in 40k is not happy end him burning presents is like throwing his innocance away because there is only war
I feel like the custodes that get visions from the emperor are gonna get a vision of him saying something like: “There was this group of black Templars that killed a holy saint of ancient Terra. Go fuck em up”
It's my head canon that Santa Claus is one of the emperor's shards. He is the part of the emperor that isn't a colossal jerk, only wanting to bring peace, love, and joy to all. It's the only kind of pleasure that Slaanesh can't feed on because it comes from the emperor himself.
@@achair7265 And then that Aquilon squad will get killed. Don't underestimate the Black Templars, we killed two Custodes before, only at the expense of about 200 battle brothers
@@blacktemplar1139 Exterminatus does wonders. Because I know for a fact the black templars will be deemed heretics for even trying anything in retaliation on the Custodes. Who have just received orders from the emperor himself.
Now I want a sequel, when Santa heals/regenerates next year and break into Black Templar’s base to give them coal like he does in DC universe with Darkseid
So much coal they drown & burn in it, bright enough to draw in the Salamanders, who just roast smores at the wreckage knowing Santa would come for them next otherwise...
little did they know. That the great saint Nicolas would return next year, and he would not be so jolly. It is said that on that day each and every member of the black templars, include the chapter master. was given a single piece of coal. It made them feel something they had not felt in a long time, guilt. when attempting to burn it to fuel their engines, it caused them to rust. And the coal remained untouched. attempting to remove it from their person. or discard it, would end in failure, as they would always find it back in their possession. The coal, like the guilt, could never leave them. Although they would never admit it, the black templars now regret slaying the saint, who now they believe to have been in service to the emperor.
@@redornament3248 Nothing good comes from the warp all of its fruits are tainted, Santa is obviously a servant of Tzneetch and a part of a long running plan.
@@mustacobra I mean, for what Salamanders would tell, the Santa is just a human with psychic powers that handles toys to kids, using his power to deliver gifts that simply have no way of harming people. So the worst they would do is detain him as an unregistered psychic, but find his goal of bringing joy noble, giving it a shot to help him with all that and then bring him to inquisition.
Don't think 'all' chapters are gonna just shoot Santa. I think some like Ultramarine, Salamanders etc etc are gonna just.. tolerate him instead of shooting him.
Lamenters would most likely die in the mountain of presents Santa gives them. and the other chapters will use this as an excuse to give santa a wanted status.
@@CpsLock3 "You asked for a med-stimm, and a stuffed space wolf plushie." 'That.. was seven years ago, Kringle.' "Unprotected warp travel takes time, Lamenter. You know this." 'It.. wasn't.. it wasn't for me.' "Then why did you ask for it, young one?" 'It was for them.' "*Oh.*" >Cut to Lamenter and Santa standing in front of a mass grave on an unknown world.
The warp storm Big E is gonna psychically create on Holy Terra when he finds out what the Black Templars did, oh boy Helbrecht is going to suddenly get a cold feeling in his soul "we have done something terrible and must atone"
I was afraid for a moment that they would take the "Nice" list as a list of potential heretics that Santa was going to tempt to chaos, and then end up purging the planet of its best people.
It is believed that Nicholas was born sometime around A.D. 280 in Patara, near Myra in modern-day Turkey. cute to think that mortals could kill something that is nearly as old as the Emperor himself :D.
sanguinor:You two have kill Brother Santanus of first company Terminator squad during his Sanguinala mission to spread gifts to good children of the imperium?!
Meanwhile Santa: Oh thank goodness I always have trillions of clones. Note to self when coming to this universe arm my transport with weapons of overpowered unknown origin weapons that not even this universe's gods can destroy. Nor anything that exists in it.
He'll be fine. I think if Santa was to exist in 40k, hed be similar to DC's Santa. Just imagine every year he breaks into the Vengeful Spirit to personally give Abaddon a lump of coal. They can never stop him no matter how hard they try.
Thanks to Flash Gitz, it's now universally accepted that when a Chapter goes psycho on something _non 40k,_ it's going to be *the Black Templars* who are (ir)responsible.
I mean black Templars do have a reputation for making stupid irrational decisions *cough* murdering a torch bearers fleet primaris reinforcements *cough*
@@lordgod9958 I don't know what you're talking about, those guys were corrupted, as where those two Custodes. If anything, it's the _Ultramarines_ who are the irrational ones, why force entire legions to submit to _one_ book?
@@blacktemplar1139 See? Now this is why the Black Templars lost Exterminatus privelages. Don't make the Emperor wake up, just to group you with the Lamenters...
Pretty sure Santa is at least a minor warp entity, stemming from very ancient human beliefs and practices on Old Earth that persist into the 41st millennia in altered forms. So long as the spirit of Christmas exists, in whatever form, he'll keep coming back. Those Black Templars are getting coal next year. And if not, Emps is probably going to apologize after rezing him again lol
@blacktemplar1139 Within the 40k community and fandom Sanguinala is heavily associated as basically being 40k Christmas with Sanguinius fulfilling the role of old Santa Lightning Claws. Granted the above isn't a true canon example, its just fun.
@@ThatSlowTypingGuy There's a shimmering in the fire and then, hovering above, is a fully intact Sleigh, Santa and Reindeer, ready to continue their mission...whoosh, they disappear into the Warp.
The Templars leave. There's a shimmering in the fire and then, hovering above, is a fully intact Sleigh, Santa and Reindeer, ready to continue their mission.
@@connormclernon26 Somewhat. They are still going to be themselves. They just mantled the current Santa. Now they are bound to the responsibilities of being Santa Claus while inheriting the powers. Though as from what the movies portray they will adopt aspects of and eventually the entirety of a whole stereotypical Santa like persona.
And just like that, everyone in the imperium gets nothing but coal stuffed in the worst places every year until the end of time. Also, the emperor would just vaporize that marine chapter for shooting one of his shards. Santa Claus being a shard of the emperor is my head canon for Warhammer 40k.
Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus, ascended to a "daemon prince" on the belief of countless people through the ages. He can not die or be killed by mortal means and will forever influence good will, charity, and giving among all living beings. HE WILL BE BACK. Keeping in mind, not all daemons are evil vile creatures. In fact, according to e GW, the Warp is still mostly good. But like an otherwise good neighborhood, it only takes a few thugs to make it seem all bad. You know the Salamanders get Santa's best gifts.
@@Super_Citizen_Paimon Ther question is 'how hard can Santa beat Goku." The answer is "By providing something so touchingly related to Goku, that it causes his heart to burst with joy."
The funniest thing is if I’m correct, Santa always gives darkside fucking coal every Christmas and darkside does his absolute best to stop him but fails each time 😂
Merry Christmas to you as well, Full Moon! Remember be good for goodness sake or the Inquisition will visit your home for Christmas and receiving coal will be the least of your worries. 🎄🎅🎁
If you want a deeper hook for the story, next time include the names of the space marines, and their naughty vs nice contributions, and then a gift for each of them to change the course of their lifes... for the better of course. for the emperor.
The man once known a Nicolas waits till the agents of his once friend were distracted to slip away from the so called "angels." He feels the urge to spit and curse the name of the man who elected to give them that tittle and the irony of it. Tt had been around 44 thousand years since he learned of his curse. Like the one who called himself revelation he to had become something more due to the adoration of mortals. Many have called him a god, a deamon, an angel, or a heretic. The rage inspired by those insults infuriate him, especially the final one considering how much effort he put in his mortal life to weeding such people out. Then again even those who shared his faith have committed actions similar to those of the Imperium and the Inquisition. Even now he finds the name of the latter amusing and ironic. While he is waiting to regain enough power to recall his sleigh he is filled with sadness at the reminder that the last "of his kind" who shared his faith perished some odd 10 thousand years ago, even now he misses his occasional chats with old Olli and hopes he is at peace in the next life.He ponders on how strange it was was how much the perceptions of the common folk changed him and his appearance. He still remembers the first time he brought presents to the entirety of earth, or terra, or whatever the people call mankind's homeward now. He members how the aria where he delivered gifts slowly grew at an imperceptibly small rate until it encompassed the globe, and latter many other worlds as mankind's presence spread throughout the stars. He remember how the sins of monsters called the elderi forever cursed the galaxy causing such debochery that a portal to hell itself was ripped into the realm of mortals. The sadness and death caused by this event nearly broke Nicolas, if it wasn't for the joy in the faces of the children whom he gave gifts to he might have even lost faith. Over the millennia he waged to regain enough power to start his old rout once more. Despite the best efforts of revelation stories of his prescience remained in a few world across the galaxy, and it still does until this day slowly spreading across the galaxy of and old man in a sleigh clothed in red and white. While he muses to himself his sleigh re-materializes and he once more mounts himself upon his seat, he members to check his list one more time before he continue his journey and he sets off.
Ok, santa does give off some heavy greater demon of Slaanesh vibes what with all of the consumerism, and the naughty and nice list, and the lavish north pole sweatshop, and the focus on material wealth and merry making and joy above all else.
Santa would kick any marines ass, just think about it: 1. has a sled that is able to traverse the entire globe, visiting any good child and deliver presents in a single night. 2. can carry several hundreds of tons of presents completely on his own. 3. despite being a rotund man, he fits into every small nook and crevice, pointing towards an uncanny ability to fit through the tiniest of spaces, possibly even walk through walls. 4. is completely intangible during traveling and delivering mountains of presents. 5. can consume several tons of milk and cookies in a single night. 6. most likely an perpetual, as he has been around for millennia at this point. 7. knows when you are sleeping, knows when you are awake, basically omniscient when it comes to what people are doing. the only thing a space marine could hope to achieve in this battle is being put on the naughty list.
After examinin the list further, the black templars found their names on the good side of the list with a special note for their loyality to the emporer. After a view minutes, their names moved to the naughty side with a note of shooting down a blessed beeing of the emporer. It was then when thier realise their mistake. A view hours later, the Inquisition arived with the man clouthed in red they shoot down earlier. He said:" It seems you refused the gifts of the emporer. He revived me, an old friend, to help him gifting his children for their Service, for the first time in eons. Now their are several sad space marines without a blessed holy toy."
Santa looking at them trough binoculars from afar chuckling, patting at rudolf "Merry Christmas to you too boys, kinda wonder who put you to the nice list..."
I really wanted them to fall under Christmas cheer and Santa to bring himself back to life lol. Alas, grimdark writers gotta ruin everything, even Christmas.
Santa is older than most space marines, and can completely confound modern radar, shapechange, and can compete spiritually and probably physically with the Krampus. Santa is one of the strongest psychers of all time, maybe even a chaos being himself. That black templar is screwed.
Some say that the astartes lose their humanity when becoming angels. I'll wager, that they still have far more to lose. Either in blind zeal or in obedience. Perhaps this moment, and many others, will cause even the twin hearts of a demigod to break in despair. As the last vestiges of humanity crumples. Perhaps this moment will live on within the geneseed itself, for future aspirants to ponder. To re-live. As Santa, has survived the purge of belief once before. A mere boltround will not be enough. Call upon the Silent Sisters however...
Santa was always a warp entity. All the letters and wishes from kids manifested him long ago. He'll be back, and not in thousand years, but next Christmas.
Just another example that 40k's world destroys anyting good and nice. I hate its depiction of a future. But I can not look away. Like a train wreck, it inspires a morbid curiosity. Mary cristmes to you al.
I think santa would not be slow enough to be killed by templars considering how fast he is. In one night he can give every human on earth presents or coal without being detected.
Santa after he revives and rematerializes: *beating around the bush* now until now I had *never* wished harm upon another…” Krampus: “It’s the Black Templars, Chaos, or Drukhari, isn’t it Klaus?” Santa: “Yes.” Krampus: “No need to ask brother, I’ll take care of it.” Santa: *relief* “Oh thank Gods.”
Hearing the younger battle brother say "Burn it", you can feel him get choked up with a tear under his helmet. He knows they killed a potential saint, but also knows his battle brothers would not believe him.
This could have taken a Santa Clause direction (the 1994 Tim Allen movie). A naughty child trembling in his bed as a hulking Santa smashes through the wall. Walks up to him, hands him a piece of coal while declaring: "I have checked my list twice and you have been found wanting! For next year, be good for goodness sake!"
I mean, I literally remember Santa being an example of Chaos. That the culmination of these beliefs may cause presents to simply appear, and eventually glimpses of the entity, but eventually it might gain sentience and crave more, substance, and control, so it may take actions that lead more people to believe in Santa, and it becomes a runaway effect, where a good idea goes sour because it wants to perpetuate its existence.
Let's take note, in other forms of fiction, Santa has been a viking, a mutant, and a paranormal being, and in all cases not as a family-friendly Christmas movie, he's been a real badass. A warrior capable of soloing entire universes, precognitive awareness, etc. If Santa were kept true to this, he'd have the Black Templars humbled. Then he'd gift them purity seals, and details on worlds infested with furries that needed to be purged.
Makes sense. The Imperium, ever since its conception, was created to be a place of cold logic, hatred and obedience. As the Emperor himself envisioned it, it was a cold, inhuman machine hell bent on wiping out everything that was different from the galaxy. Santa and Christmas, on the other end, stands opposite to everything that the Emperor tried to do. Christmas is about love, empathy and belief in something that can't be touched or seen. In short, Santa is the incarnation of everything the Emperor hated about humanity, a pure anathema to the Imperial Truth he founded his tyranny on.
This must be an extremely nerfed Santa, now this was the DC comics Santa who broke through all of darkseid's defenses and managed to break through his sacred vault which not even Superman charged with the power of the sun could break through just to give him a single piece of coal and walk away without a single scratch on him the space Marines would have no chance of survival, plus I'm pretty sure only a few chapters would realize exactly who he is such as salamanders and would probably jump out of their armor in excitement because Santa is still talked about in modern 40 k just that he seemed sort of like a warp entity (which he probably is)
