What's It Really Like To Be A Chaos Space Marine? | Warhammer 40K Lore 

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Being a Chaos Marine clearly isn't the most stable career option, but honestly I wonder more about the day-to-day of life in the Warp. Like, you go to the toilet and have to worry whether the seat will try to bite you or not. Or you eat your lunch and the chaos sausages just will not stop screaming even after being swallowed. And because here time doesn't flow exactly the same speed inside your digestive system you have to listen to the screaming for the whole week. Then you have to share a room with a plague marine for five minutes and end up throwing up, but now time inside your stomach has reversed so you throw up a living mutant piglet and a little written note from Tzeentch saying "if you worked for me this sort of thing wouldn't happen".

"Fuck it we ball" Any chaos space marine warband that lives in the eye of terror

Huh, who'd have thought that living under Chaos could be so...chaotic?

This is such a beautifully articulated description of the consept of life under choas. There are countless "maybe" and "what if? ". There is a terrifying absence of certainty. Because in the Eye of Terror, reality itself is chaotic. For all you know, nothing you know is real.

"Sounds like y'all should have thought of that before pulling that little stunt back there." - Rowboat Girlyman

I find it funny how much hot gossip counts in chaos space marines

Got into Warhammer as a kid, got my dad into Warhammer and even though he's not with us anymore and I don't play anymore, this universe, it's setting and the fandom will always be something special...Such a great bunch of madlads. Passionate, bunch of weirdos and I wouldn't have it any other way

There's a Death Guard lord in the novel "Lords of Silence" who, upon returning to the Plague Planet, actually resides in a manor house he built himself, with sevants, gardens, Library etc. It sounded like a pretty chill place to kick back after a crusade into real space.

One thing we can all agree on is that being a chaos space marine sounds *exhausting*.

Chaos bad emperuh good - Ogryn (Edit- bless u lil un's for the loikes may ze emperor bless you lot)

Basically, just constant anxiety and paranoia ramped up to 1000.

I just can't imagine a Chaos Marine of Nurgle, fighting another of Nurgle. They always seem so wholesome on the battlefield, laughing, saying pleasantries, sharing grubs that grow in one another.

Reading the Lords of Silence curently, and ngl, being a Death Guard does not seem super fun

Wes, you should totally produce a CSM choose your own adventure, preferably in comic form. Id totally buy that.

Now all we need is a vlog style video titled "Follow me: A day in the life of a Heretic Astartes"

Everyone is chilling the Eye of Terror until you see a 14ft tall raven in power armour coming at you from nowhere

Maybe... maybe the real chaos space marines were the friends we made along the way. --Tzeentch... maybe

So Chaos is basically an endless stream of "or maybe..." and "but what if..."

As a lifelong fan of Chaos (ever since I saw the classic Daemon Prince by Juan Diaz when I was a kid) this latest series of videos has made me very happy to see! This one in particular makes me really want a sort of Mount and Blade style game where you lead a Chaos Warband in the Eye of Terror and have to make these kinds of decisions. Sadly, it doesn't seem like Chaos gets to be playable in video games any more. Instead we get games like Boltgun, where a single Sternguard Veteran guns down Chaos Terminators and Greater Daemons like it's no big deal.

As much as I hate ads I always love Wes just straight going "Look I got bills, here's the video sponsor."

As a metalhead, and a fan of WH40K Chaos.... living in a permanent warlike album cover doesn't dissuade me even a little bit..

It sounds like a chaos game where your choices matter is something that really needs to be done, because my goodness it would be so interesting

This has convinced me. We need a Rogue Trader-esque Chaos Space Marines game.

What ifs, unpredictability, chaos, treachery... Chaos Leader wife: Honey what do we order for lunch tonight? Chaos Leader: ... And this is where the poor leader snapped after thousand of years

I've come to believe that to the average human, there would be little difference between Loyalist and Renegade Marines. For the Loyalist, there is just as much chance that you are going to defend the human or kill them either to protect a secret or stamp out a cult or infestation. For the Renegade, it would be the unpredictability...

What an incredible video! Really enjoyed the hypothetical situations throughout. Ultimately it shows the imperiums greatest weapon, its ingrained loyalty into its citizens. Divide and conquer chaos

New drinking game, take a shot everytime Wes says maybe

Now think about that: every "maybe" that makes life in the Eye of Terror a constant hell, is also the main reason people in the Imperium would want to join Chaos. Maybe you'll end up dead, or mutated, or enslaved. Maybe you'll be forced to betray or be betrayed by your closest friend, for the slightest bit of favour from your master. Maybe the Chaos Gods will devour your soul, condemnimg it to an eternity of torment. Or maybe you will win. Maybe you'll come out on top. Maybe you will become the scourge of the very fat pigs that used to boss you around, when you were nothing more than a factory worker in your homeworld, where the "light of the Emperor" seemed to shine only for those lucky few. Maybe even getting a shot at greatness, glory, wealth, revenge is far more preferable than living a single other day as something barely superior to a servitor, while the Ecclesiarchy dares still call you a "human". Maybe the "humanity" you have always been taught to be proud of, has always been the burden that chained you to the mud of a deathworld. A burden you'll be all too pleased to shed. Or maybe it was out there, among the trenches: you were called upon by the glorious Imperial Guard, to carry out the will of the Emperor among the savage stars. You were promised a future as humanity's shield. But then you found yourself stuck in a ditch for weeks, barely holding out against an unending tide of nightmarish brutes, screaming WAAAGH! at the top of their lungs, as they chop your companions' heads off, one by one. In the end, you are alone. The enemy is ever closer, and reinforcements won't come to your aid. You just know it. You get to truly know hunger, cold, despair, as you make your way back to HQ, broken in body and spirit, hoping that when you'll tell the Commissar that your position was lost, that you had no choice but to bring the grave news, he will not put a bullet in your head for cowardice. But then, the truth just strikes you, harder than a mortar shell, when you come back at the frontline and see that no one even knew you were there, the entire time. Your reward for all you went through? A couple of spare limbs and a new day, month, year on the frontlines, before one day, the regiment will leave the planet, for another one, onto another pointless hell. The planet is lost, but as long as enough enemies have been killed, for the forseable future, the battle is considered "won". Or maybe, the regiment will still depart the broken wasteland, but this time leaving you behind, forgotten once again. Once again, alone. And then, out of the void, ships come down from the skies, drop-pods crash into the city, they land among the ruins, maybe exactly when you're going to work like always, under the incessants hymns at the voxophones. And suddenly there's silence, then there's screaming, then there's... something else. You feel it. You taste it, in that moment, when the Arbites are no longer there, when the Comissar is long gone and the sky turns red. Hell is creeping out of the cracking reality, but you don't care. You don't care about anything, anymore because for that one, brief, insignificant moment, you're free. And when the skies come crashing down, when the underhive burns around you, you take life in your hands and you see them: angels from another god, clad in their armours, powerful, terrifying display of a potential you were long denied. Maybe they will butcher you, like the rest of your people, maybe they'll call to you. But it doesn't matter. You come to them regardless, because that "maybe" is a promise of power, one of release, of vengeance, of pure, blissfull, desire fullfilled. The kind of "maybe" you would wager your soul on, for a chance to get even to the Imperium that ate your soul alive, that left you to die because your life was nothing, compared to "the Emperor's light". But if no one will come to your aid, if nothing will save you, because that "light" is a lie, then you will try, and maybe fail, but try nonetheless to get that chance. Deep inside you know that you'll just be changing master. But for the first time in ages, it's a master YOU CHOSE. And this is worth every "maybe" in the world.

Can’t be worse than New Jersey

The run on sentence style flow worked really well to sell the chaotic nature of the target subject.

We need a video on the Kleptomarines (Blood Ravens).

This sounds similar to the Nemesis system in Shadow of War. It would be awesome to have something similar to that game in the Warhammer universe.

Gotta love that Emperor TTS's "Murderfucked into existence" joke lives on

I do love how this showcases the potential flaws of “eternal loyalty” when you are talking about immortals. It’s easy to be loyal forever when your forever is 80-90 years.

Take a shot every time he says "Maybe".... then "maybe" have your friends promptly call for an ambulance.

So basically orks, but chaotic.

This is a nightmare. Zero loyality, zero trust, constant competition, constant plotting, conniving, plotting, constant uncertainty, eternal chaos. Damn...

Depends on what legion.. But being a death guard seems nice, being loved by papa nurgle and still having sanity while not feeling pain

This was definately an act of tzeech So many branching paths yet none of them matter as the end is the same

Just listening to all of these potential scenarios of things going just right or horribly wrong has my anxiety PEAKING

Sounds like that would be a really awseome video game all by itself You create your own chapter of a legion of your choice and then you fight and negotiate

One element I think is interesting I wish GW would focus on is that so many CSM in the big ranks should be cultists born and raised on the Daemon Worlds.

The 9th Edition Chaosmarines Codex opened with a short story very much inspired by that famous post. A World Eaters champion sought out a prophetess and She told him a similar maybe-future.

Sounds like a fantastic RPG

Thus, is like Mental Chaos for us humans in life. What-if? Maybe? Uncertainty.... Warhammer 40k has hit ways in my psyche I didn't think were possible. A nice video overall into the psychology, as well as overall life of a Chaos Marine.

A video would be interesting about CSM that dont see themselves as CSM. For instance they have such different way of percieving things and think furthermore that they dont have changed a bit mentally and physically.

I’d imagine it probably sucks unless you’re in the Red Corsairs. Why? Because… Being a pirate seems alright to me Do what you want ‘cuz a pirate is free You are a pirate!

Ok, so... I have a very, VERY weird think about this video. And that weird think is that I already hear 75% all of this before. Like, nearly all word to word and the almost constant "Maybe". And it's hit me - around 7 to 8 years ago, I just discover 40k and i ask about "If Chaos is nearly unbeatable, why it almost always loses?" one of my college friends, who was more like a lore geek, and he told me something like this, but he rephrased it in a different way. "Why Chaos will never win?" - this how he starts thins topic and he ends it with words: "There is nothing certain - only maybe, maybe, maybe... And nothing more." (Almost) same example and context, with quite a few differences here and there, but the meaning the same - his and your explanation of how Chaos Marines lives is different, but non the less, similar, more then in one way.

A chaos marine RPG would be crazy good

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Yes !!! A new vidéo on the cool badass-horrific-metal Chaos Spaces Marines !!!

Oh, WOW! I really got into this one! Few, if any, have ever told it from this perpective before! It really shows how it could be like if YOU were among THEM!

Aaron is by far my favorite black library author. James Swallow specifically writing blood angels is my second.

You wake up, make chaos coffee, have a bowl of chaos cereal, read the chaos news and mow the chaos lawn

So, the eye of terror is just like highschool huh?

My lady bought me some into the AM Shirts for me, they are DOPE. Cut well, and they look awesome.

It's like a choose your own adventure book read in page order.

I hear chaos is the path that will give you freedom and power. But it is absolute freedom.

i never knew a chaos space marine life was THIS frustrating

The Oregon Trail: Chaos Warband

This is one of the most brutal “choose your own storybooks” ever.

so many good options to implement into total war 40k

Time passes differently in the Eye of Terror. If I remember correctly, canonically it's only been a few centuries from the Traitor Marines' perspective. Which is part of why they are so Hell-bent against the Imperium: most of the Traitor Marines are veterans of the Horus Heresy. For them, the war is still going and it's very personal.

14:43 why that particular chaos marine so damn cool, his act has a mouth with teeth please someone tell me if there is lore behind this man

the night lords trilogy painted such a different picture of CSM. And made me love them, even being someone more interested in xenos lore and on tabletop.

Now I want a Sitcom that shows day to day life of different factions in the Eye of Terror and stuff :D

Imagine a Warhammer TV Series set inside the Warp itself. It be Madness.

Do you plan to do a video on the rogue trader game? If you haven't started or yet reached the ending of the game, depending on how you performed, it paints a pretty good beacon of hope in the 40k universe. That is again, depending on your own choices. I didn't regret a single action personally

Sounds like the apothecary with the cure to ulcers would be a very powerful individual in this envronment.

Love you Wes but all I remember of this vid is “maybe”😂. But guess that’s the point. Maybe?

being a chaos marine leader is paranoia simulator in ultra difficulty

So basically Middle School but with way cooler names?

Chaos relationship status: "it's complicated"

Isn't this just U.S. foreign policy

*Tzeentch listening nodding his head, stares into the 4th wall “ It’s free real estate”*

This was a pretty good narrative experience.

Well done combining all of the Chaos thoughts. It was Chaotic!

This video really puts the day to day grind of being a part of the Forces of Chaos into perspective and really (war)hammers in their chaotic nature. On another note, I think it would be neat if you did a deep dive into either the War of the Beast or the lore surrounding Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka. Just a suggestion.

Damn. Life as a Chaos Marine sounds like life as a 14 yo high school girl.

New drinking game: take a shot every time he says “maybe”

so in summary, edgy teenager love story full of toxic relationship and overthinking but instead of love, its about war.

So many of the points here feel like an outline/pitch for what ends up in the Black Legion books

ay idk if you read these comments, but I watch ur videos over a certain Australian tuber because you don't, dishonestly at least, push real life political opinions as fact in warhammer. anyways nice vid

I used to think I was a chaos space marine for Slaanesh, but that sounds fn exHAUSTING!!!

In these chaotic conditions, in the truest sense of the word, it's a wonder that they can still fight effectively at all, let alone pose a serious threat to the Empire. btw: How do they actually train/recruit their aspirants under these circumstances?

You painted a fucking amazing word picture for us today.

Beef in warhammer 40K as a chaos marine: nah his powers weak as hell GET HIM!!!!!!

Hrm. Yeah ... 10,000 years of bad choices. The easiest way to summarize a traitor.

Was the chaotic delivery for this vid on purpose?!? I absolutely loved it, literally felt the chaos creep in my brain keeping up. This is one of your best!!!

"...deep in the heart of Chaos." clap clap clap

The level of anxiety has to be astronomical

I love how this video was perfectly made to help jog ideas for anyone who is trying to play a narrative campaign or Crusade in 40K. Amazingly well done, hoping to find more videos done in this same style for every faction!

I drank a shot of vodka everytime you said maybe. I just woke up from a 3 months coma.

So the life of a chaos space marine is...chaotic.

Man i thought being a chaos marine it would be all kill kill loot loot kill kill kill. But there are a lot of what ifs, maybes and somehows...

So the life of being a chaos space marine is like going to a pizza place where each choices of order will either give you somewhat of a full stomach or a full stomachache plus diarrhea and yellow fever.

Maybe I’ll listen to this again so I can tally up all the instances that Wes says “maybe”.

This was extremely well done. Thank you.

Honestly if you take the sci-fi and fantasy element out of this narration It feels like a Sopranos season