I have never heard about the kroot before.Seriously.Where does all this info come from & why is it not more common?How come noone talks about the kroot if they're this important?I thought the developers released a new faction!
Btw, you forgot that Orks evolve back into Krorks when they fight enough. They grow in proportion to the fighting they do. The reason the Krorks devolved into Orks is that the Eldar refused to fight them and simply orbitally bombarded them into oblivion. In the War of the Beast, the Orks evolved into Krorks under the guidance of one Krork, they not only got incredibly advanced technology allowing teleportation and gravity manipulation but were very intelligent compared to modern Orks (they sent an ambassador to Terra when they sieged it. The ambassador was negotiating for Terra’s survivor, and called humans *barbaric* when they refused adamantly)
It's less that, but the fact that crisis suits sold... A LOT of boxes. Which is really just a self fulfilling prophesy of making their best and versatile unit also have a subfaction that spam them (Farsight) while the Kroot got zero support. So GW had the choice of turning them into Battletech or Star Trek and they chose the mechs for $$$.
Tau are messy as Tau like range, Tau like guns, You are in trouble when Tau is in melee. So a lot of the support, models, and battle tactics are to give more guns to Tau (drones, mechs, ships, guns) and the Kroot were made to act as the melee guard. Yet unless you are playing A video game... Kroot get no support and are just a flavor dressing that some new people use, but not enough to make a Kroot force. Dawn of War had you pick between Tau extra range or Kroot melee boost with the upper tier units unlocked by picking A path. So in those games they can be equals... But those game that add the Tau are not that common and thus not focused on. Which is a shame since Kroot are also supposed to be mercs that anyone can hire so being able to see them thrown in other factions would have been nice if only to give them more support.
@@HellecticMojo It's such a shame, because I've always loved the basic Fire Warrior models, and I'd like to see more cool infantry Tau, but it's always all-in on the battlesuits.
Well everyone had good responses. Kroot get left behind because of many reasons. The tau has better and more pt expensive models, people generally don't start off as a tau players (unless they are anime obsessed) and likely become tau players for the shooting, the kroot have little support even now, and kroot don't fit the tau well at all aesthetically. But honestly it's also because kroot can't stand alone, even with the new model releases fighting orks with only kroot would be a suicide run. They are really good at sharpening the edges of a tau army, but they are wall flowers, not exceptionally good at anything.
"OMG Kroot cannibalize their brethren!!! Crazy how degenerate those xenos truly are. Anyway, where was I, oh yes and after the great Captain died all the other space marines feasted on his brain to conserve his most valuable memories."
@kamiwriterleonardo6345 ,also, lichtors can gain the memories of a organism by eating their brains... how they got to that point is worrying, but also leads to possible new targets for gene acquisition if they find new desirable traits. I'm sort of surprised tyranids don't have new unit evolutions more often. They do already have a fairly wide range of units with adaptations, & specialized units too.
@@blownfuse26 I mean the eating brains for knowledge is also a feature of space marines. This means that its probably not the rarest or hardest adaptation to comwy to or create. Depending on when they first formed the lictor's ability could have been taken from space marines.
This is genuinely better than 90% of the Warhammer videos on youtube, when others just read the wiki and repeat the same jokes, this guy understands what he is talking about
At the top of my head, I can't think of a better 40k video than this. As a Kroot player I honestly feel pretty bad that theres not one of these types of video for every faction that eloquently describes both the appeal and shortcomings of a faction that make it so awesome to engage with them in the first place. It was really eye-opening to see that Tyranids and Kroot mirror each other as a hivemind that consumes for the sake of consumption and a community that consumes and evolves for the sake of self improvement
As someone who knows very little about warhammer this was a great introduction and sold me the universe. I don’t have any interest about the games or the figurine part of it but the lore is very interesting.
@@aaawa2074Same! I never was interested in Warhammer 40k and clicked on this video thinking it was something else. But I stayed because of how well it was explained and the more I learned about this universe the more I was convinced that I can start diving deeper into this lore.
A. He fumbles the war in heaven by making it seem like the Necrontyr became the necrons before declaring war on Old Ones, when their losses against the Old Ones were one of the reasons that they were driven to align themselves with the C'Tan initially. (Besides of course the promise of immortality) B. Orks are strong but they are dwarfed in power (and most likely number) by the nids, which can fully consume ork worlds, one of the few ways to end an ork infestation, as they consume all of the planet's biomass. The vid is entertaining but far from perfect and flubs core concepts about 40k, including substituting the power level of nids for orks. Personally considering their use of genetic adaptation, imo nids and kroot are better rivals.
One thing you forgot about Orks is that they grow smarter and stronger in response to violence. This is why Krorks were not only smarter but physically stronger. Interestingly when an Ork waagh got powerful enough to start an invasion on Holy Terra. They were advanced enough to attempt diplomacy with the humans, though not smart enough to realize the futility of that.
Oh drat, happy to see someone else knows this little tidbit too! War of Beast was something else fo' sure, I say it was closest Orks could have been to Krorks
yeah, I want to point this out. orks aren't limited in intelligence, technology, or society. however without reaching the level of Krorks, they can't unlock that potential, and without the external driving threat to bring that out, they regress to the level where they are.
What I think is super interesting is that their rivalry may indeed date back a LONG while ago. Kroot myth speakers of their creator, the goddess Vawk, doing battle with the god Gmork in a battle across the "nothing sea", which was what they called space. It plays out like most creator myths, with Vawk's body going on to create the mountains and world of Pech. What's unique though, is that the ancestors of the Kroot are said to have come from Vawk's dying breath after she accidentally consumed some of the tainted blood of Gmork. If we extrapolate this myth, it seems to imply that in some distant past a native creature on Pech might have consumed Ork(or even Krork!) blood and, now tainted by the genetic knowledge within it, went on to give rise to the Kroot as we know them. Looking at the Kroot, this actually makes sense. Their pronounced lower jaws, seeming mastery of primitive technology intertwined with an understanding of warp travel; they even possess latent warp manipulation in the form of belief, causing their Master Shapers to manifest psyker-level abilities. The Kroot seem to have always possessed the ability to steal DNA, and indeed are the embodiment of the idea of natural evolution as you discussed. But it's interesting to consider that in meeting the Orks, the Kroot have been allowed to "cheat" and jump ahead in the evolutionary line millions of years by pulling the most pragmatic traits of the Orks from them without losing what it means to be "Kroot". I guess what I'm saying is, while the Orks may have the lead in numbers the Kroot have likely already "learned" all they can from the Orks in their distant past and have simply moved on. The rivalry is already over, the Orks are just too dumb to realize it yet.
Except that it is still not uncommon for Kroot to consume Orks. The shapers limit it somewhat because too much Ork, whilst offering a lot of physical benefits really starts taking a toll on both IQ and inhibition, but there is still a lot to be gained.
Fascinating idea. I like the thought of it. Even though current Shapers allow the occasional consumption of Orks, it doesn't mean that in the distant past the "tainted flesh" Vawk tasted wasn't Krork or Ork flesh that jump started Kroot onto the path they're now on. Cool stuff
@@darthplagueis13 Thats because the first ever kroot. Where the spawn of Krorks. While the current Orks are so below a Krork as the genetics are dormant. The Kroot cannot extract it. So thats why Kroots thend to not over consume Orks. But i can guarantee you, thats only because of how current Orks are.
It sounds like the Kroot are descendents of an ancient starfaring species that once were nearly annihilated by the Krork. In the war they attempted to modify themselves in order to better combat the Krork and became able to evolve via ingestion of foes. Their survivors fled to Pech and over the eons, their culture refined themselves as their history became myth and legend. Eventually, they returned to the stars, and the Tau stumbled upon them.
One thing I will always be in awe of the Kroot is them going toe-to-toe against Hive Fleet Hyrda, THE hyper adaptive hive fleet, having an evolution arms race as they duke it out in the forest. They adapted and counter adapted so hard that the end result were tyranids with perfect camouflage that got destroyed by Tau fire arms bc Hyrda had zero armour after the camouflage arms race.
This doesn't really affect anything in the video, but there's a minor point I wanted to address: "survival of the fittest" doesn't actually mean "survival of the strongest". Physical strength, etc. aren't necessarily particularly useful traits in nature, other traits, like being able to subsist on few calories, or have lots of offspring, or live where no one else can, or run away quickly, hide well, etc. etc. are often much more useful tactics. This doesn't really affect the video necessarily (Kroot aren't exactly pursuing life as a speedy, fecund prey species like field mice or houseflies), BUT I just wanted to dispell a common misunderstanding about evolution in general.
Optimum does not necessarily mean impressive. But good luck convincing the jock stealing your lunch money that your tactic of shitting yourself vigorously in hopes the smell will deter him makes you evolutionarily superior.
The double slit experiment is with photons, not electrons. But more important, it's not -human- observation that changes quantum states. Photons don't know that a human is looking at them. "Observation" in this context means that they're interacting with something. An electron sitting alone in a vacuum isn't really interacting, so it's "unobserved". if some light hits the electron, even if no one is around to see it, the electron is now "observed" because it interacted.
1. You can do the double slit experiment with molecules consisting of a thousand or so atoms. 2. While I am very against anthropocentric models of the universe (and your statement about measurement is in line with that), the argument over the proper interpretation of quantum mechanics is about >100 years old. If you start talking about the absolute truth of interpretations that use observers and wave function collapse, an MWI proponent will tell you that wave function collapse might not even be a real thing...
As a biologist with a growing interest in warhammer, this video was amazing. I love the detail and complexity to the lore here, how orks are fungus, kroot are bacteria, and tyranids are viruses
this is honestly the most presentable 40k lore video I've ever seen. I could easily show this to my friends. there's no bragging about how powerful something is, no playing into warhammer's absurdity, and it makes the video really good! keep it up!
About Ork knowledge: they grow larger and smarter as they fight protracted conflicts. The scale of the War in Heaven ensured that the Orks were primarch sized and capable of building weapons ostensibly more advanced than the Imperium’s current tech. War of the Beast and the Ullanor Crusade both likely were lead by remaining Krourk.
It's powerfully hinted that an Ork Empire that grows large enough will start to return them towards returning to Krork - unlocking the full power of the Old Ones' gift of Warfare to the Krorks. It's just that since Ullanor, there has not been a Waagh! big enough. Even The Beast wasn't quite as big, even though it's also hinted that it was getting close to that level, with increasing intelligence and lucidity beyond 'Oi! Krump'em betta you Gits!'.
Keep in mind, the Orks only grow larger and smarter if they fight a strong enemies AND survive. This is why both the Eldar Empire and DAOT Humanity were able to keep them in check with 0 problems. Chances are that the Old Ones created Krorks from the start and the current Orks were an unpredicrable degradation. Hell, we dont even know if it's even possible anymore for an Ork to fully return into being a Krork (Even the Beast was nowhere close)
@@_NIKOS9_NIKOS they're really good at surviving tho. orks have tons of bodies that just become MORE bodies as combat goes on. it's really more to do with the length and scale of the conflict vs anything else. even a short conflict on the scale of the galaxy would squeeze-rocket them on the path of the krork.
Kroot are probably the most interesting part of 40k. They don't occupy a ton of the setting, but they have the highest concentration of interesting stuff going on with that they do have. They really feel like people with a different view of the world, rather than just evil aliens who act differently. Anyway, I love this video, it nails so much about what I love about Kroot. Even the bit about Kroot restraining themselves from building an empire. And I also love how you compared them with orks, looking beneath the surface similarities to examine the deeper themes in these factions.
Kroot feel like GW's best attempt at creating a well thought out, interesting and original sci-fi species. The other factions are awesome, but they're designed with the cool factor in mind or to tell a good story, whereas Kroot actually feel like they could exist
@@alexhughes2754 Yeah! That's a really cool part of them I hadn't realised before you pointed it out. Honestly, I want to meet the people or person who write Kroot lore. It almost feels like it's a passion project that they've started and kept up throughout the years.
@@jmgonzales7701 The Imperium can't really, outside of officials willing to bend the rules. It'd go against every xenophobic principle they'd stand for.
This is probably the best video on the Kroot and one of the best on the orks. You look into more than just the surface level lore, you did into the implications and surroundings that shape and influence that lore.
On kroot maybe, but he gets a massive lore point about the orks wrong so it's in no way one of the best on them. His whole "orks can't develop past a certain point" part is completely bunk and disproven by the war of the beast series to the point it flags a massive gap in his knowledge of what the video is about. It's like imagine if someone made a video on the history of the UK and said "of course, England and France never actually fought against each other" it's just so factually incorrect that it makes you doubt they really know what they're talking about, and are just really good at sounding like they are.
This is problably the greatest 40k lore video I ever seen. You were able to explain the 40k lore for people who know nothing about it and also making it entertaining for somebody that arledy knows all this stuff and you made Kroot sound super intresting even tho they have almost no lore when compared to major races like humans or Eldari
This was a surprisingly much better video than I originally expected. It got to a point where I was just into the lore I actually didn’t care/forgot about who would win against each other😂
The big misunderstanding about Orks power of belief was taken from a misinterpreted codex lol. I think the 4th codex was the only canonical place where that "belief" comes from. It was a tech priest mentioning how ork technology shouldn't work and doesn't make any sense to the Imperials. That he has a "a theory" its something in their subconcious or connection to the warp that must make their guns work. This is especially confusing since you need to view it not as fact, but as a quote of some fictional character making an offhanded guess about how their tech works in a waaay earlier iteration of the game where the story wasn't fully fleshed out yet. That being said, Orks are using genetic knowledge to build tech used to fight Gods against the Imperium who has forgotten how to use their own best tech. Of course the Imperials won't know how it will work. When orks say the red ones go fasta, its likely just that the vehicles the mechboiz make that are then painyed red were just made to be faster..... Orks cannot just believe something into existence. That belief is very funny to me because its like the fandom of Warhammer has made this ork belief real over years lmao
If the kroot start to become more technological, they can start a genetic library, then they can improve at will. They will no longer need to cannibalize, which would then improve their relations with other nations. They can also prevent dead ends and put all their efforts into fighting the orks. A sub-branch could be getting genetics from fungi, using the ork strategy to fight back, and basically terraforming orc ecosystems. From that, a new terraforming branch can come that generates living planets.
Honestly that feels like what the Kroot would look like in a more advanced Tau empire. Kind of like the equivalent of early dark age humanity levels of tech. Super kroot that just carry around concentrated doses of DNA specificaly made for them by the Tau so they can just instantly speacialize in whatever combat scenario they are in.
That wouldn't be the case, because for the kroot hunting and eating the dead are also a part of their religion, and base on the believe system in WH40K they would advance technologically but still believe in their religion
Also the Kroot are already much more technologically advanced than they show the other races of the universe. They willingly gave up the majority of their tech because they felt it was leading them away from their traditions & way of life that made them strong, blaming this for their losses to the Orks. There is still technology on Pech that is buried beneath mountains but is never explored in the setting other than brief mentions of "strange energy readings in the mountain ranges". The Kroot choose to appear primitive to the outside world because it works in their favour, but they are far more advanced than they let on.
Then they face the initial dilemma, are they worthy to inhabit such power? Such evolution so fast. The video tells it pretty good, the kroot are evolving with a sense of carefulness, part of that we must realise is time to experience those effects on one selves, one at a time.
Hey, undergrad biologist here! I think it should be said that, gently, I think you misconstrued the process of evolution a little, and I see these misconceptions everywhere, so I would love to try and clarify things where I can! Evolution is not a deliberate or intentional process. It is a natural phenomenon with no will, and it cannot take action. Evolution is more comparable to a natural process like the weather. It forms these hugely complicated systems and striking instances, however there is no will or reason that guide these systems. They are driven by cause and effect, action and reaction, with a huge amount of random chance thrown in. It's an impediment to understanding what natural selection and evolution are while shackled to the concept of intentionality. Random mutation will always occur. There is no "ideal lifeform". Evolution has no goals. It is generalized phenomenon of change, not the planned alchemy of some force trying to change lead into gold. All of this said, I think the Kroot are so interesting because they take the concept of horizontal gene transfer and *run* with the concept! Horizontal gene transfer happens all of the time, but in our world it only happens when viruses effect our DNA during mitosis. This occurs because the DNA of viruses are introduced into cells, so occasionally cells divide with genetic content that was not present in earlier related generations. In our case, this happened 200 million years ago when our ancient ancestor was infected by a viral cold, which conferred onto her an important gene that would permit her offspring to eventually form placentas. Without that viral infection, we would not be able to have placentas at all
There are more things in this video that clarify the subject. Most important, the Warp. This is not our Earth. Evolution (in 40k) can be directed and even controlled with enough psychic power. The Kroot are going about it slowly and carefully, as their Master Shapers test and decide which genetic traits are safe to subsume and include in their clans. But there are others in the galaxy which go about it far more rapidly, especially the followers of Nurgle and Tzeentch, the Warp Entities that have domain over disease, decay and change. The Tyranids also absorb traits from their kills, and then construct new bioforms better adapted to combat a diferent enemy. Humanity itself has adapted to diferent environments and pressures, creating psykers, navigators and blanks, alongside numerous abhuman sub-species.
Correction to your correction: horizontal gene transfer happens to every group of procariotic microorganisms there is. While eucariotic just evolved a more specific verision of it because of DNA complexity and the nucleus getting in the way.
@@callusklaus2413 Also having read again your comment, the paper you are reffering to speaks only about operons corresponding to that of the virus found in the genome. Its not the same as the gene that actually codifies for the placenta and everithing it relates to. As operons are way shorter sequences than the gene it relates to. Just imagine that a simple retrovirus would have little use for the whole genes of the placenta stuck inside for no reason. An operon is just what the cell identifies in the retrotranscripted sequence to bind promotor proteins to.
No, I do not know where you studied or how can you think evolution is non deliberate process, when it is everything except it. If evolution was random, mathematicians calculated it would 500 000 000 years just to get from single cell to multi cell organism. Hell, if you move to live in cold area, relatively short, in around 1-2 years you body will produce genes that already have small and negligible but not non present chance of a small adaptation to the cold(forgot the name of science that researches it). Richard Dawkins though of evolution as a blind clock smith picking random gears to fix a watch, when in fact, the clock smith isnt blind,he knows he needs a small piece of gear for the clock, but needs it to be perfect fit, in a nanometer perfect would be better example, making process take time(he will not pick a few meters gear for a small clock). Evolution has a GOAL, it is adaption to the situation, plain and simple. Evolution is adaptation over a long period of time, just a word. Random mutation is by product of this cycle, and even then, could you even call it random? Does randomness even exist? RNG generator are just a x/x chance generator, 0 - 1000, will always leave you with 1/1000 chance to pick the number and 999/1000 to be wrong, never can be over 1000 or under, 0, so what is random then?
Not only one of the best breakdowns of this dichotomy between geneforged warirors, and evolutionary predators, you also decided to just keep flexing and include one of the best summaries of the Warp and its effects in the War on heaven. You have earned a sub my dude.
You fundamentally misunderstand the double slit experiment. It doesn't prove that observation causes waveform collapse, it proves that we aren't capable of measuring(observing) light without interfering with it. Saying that the double slit experiment proves that observation creates reality is like saying it's impossible to measure the landspeed of an ant because every time you attempt to measure the ant's speed you slam a ruler down next to it and the critter freaks out and runs in a random direction.
@@GFXCXZwhen dealing with subatomic particles, you can’t use light waves as they are smaller than the wavelength of light, so you have to use other waves to measure them, which always results in changing either its velocity or its current position, this means you have a limited degree of accuracy within which you can predict the movement of these particles, this is the Heisenberg uncertainty principle
So fun fact: in the Patient Hunter novel there is a kroot shaper character and he states that shapers are the leaders of their kindred and able to determine what genetic material is worth utilizing because they are psykers. But, much like how in this video the Kroot way of life is so heavily influenced by a humble respect for the natural world around them, they don't (or maybe can't?) use their psychic powers for offensive powers like other psykers; instead they have hyper attuned senses that can do things like taste chaos taint at a genetic level, smell thoughts and feelings, and see the souls of the people around them.
Warhammer, both fantasy and 40k, are filled with such explosively vivid imaginations that you can't but grin when learning about them. I'd love to have more of it!
@Zwijger Hate that you’re right. It’s honestly terrible that people just talk with such poorly constructed grammar, from misusing “your” and “their” (and all their homophones) to just combining random words to create grammatical abominations like “alot”, then get all pushy and offended when someone DARES show that, maybe, they should use proper English.
An interesting bit to add is that this gets covered a bit in the Shadowsun book, where a Master Shaper is one of the main characters. It explicitly mentions that if they want to gain physical stength, they will go out and hunt Orkz to eat. The Master shaper shows how ridiculous they can become through their evolution. He is gigantic, even for a Kroot, enough so that he wield the guns mounted on krootox like a normal rifle. He kills nurgle daemons with literal gardening tools, surives a plasma blast to the side, keeps up with Shadowsun's battle-suit on foot while wounded, resists the diseases of the Death Guard, hits a terminator hard enough to dent the armor, kills plague marines like it's nothing, has consumed enough psykers to become one, and survives being blown out into space. He is an outlier, as it's his job to test the genetic alterations that happen from consuming DNA as to lead his people in their evolution, but were they all able to achieve his level, it would be a scary scenario.
Everytime I see a video come out from you all I get excited because you make damn good content. The story telling and editing is incredible. Keep it up!
Kroot are about half of an army right now, they have three infantry choices, ranged cavalry, melee cavalry and 4 different characters. They just need a centrepiece model and a way of killing tanks and they'd be playable.
@@whitewall2253 now what you want for centerpiece model for them? id love some type of giant kroot monstrosity, or a primarch style character thats high shaper or something
@@dicorockhimself There was actually a large Kroot monstrosity in older editions known as the Great Knarloc, which you can see in places like the original Dawn of War, though they weren't in this latest refresh unfortunately. Still, would be cool to have more named Kroot characters.
And here I was after that Intro and the description of the ork v kroot rivalry before the name drop thinking it'd be Tyranids and the title must be wrong lol Ok, after finishing the video I gotta say it was beautiful... Especially the ending with the summary of what the Kroot are about- hot damn, that was deep. And and beautifully said too. It plucked some emotional strings that I didn't expect to be plucked in a 40k fan video. Hats off, great video!
I always figured the Tyranids were a creation by the Great Old Ones to combat the Necron Tyr however, after Biotransfurance the Tyranids basically became useless and were thus yeeted outside of the Galaxy and the Orks were their predecessors in a way. Both Tyranid and Ork work off of a very similar idea, strength through combat. The more an Ork fights the bigger and smarter it gets and the more Biomass Tyranids consume the more diverse they become. When Tyranid and Ork comes to blows it's suddenly everyone's problem because the Orks will just multiply and get bigger with every fight yet the Tyranids will feed off of the multiple Orks and sometimes even the biggest Orks which only bolsters their strength. The unmovable rock vs the unbreakable wall, two forces that endlessly adapt and become better for eternity. Honestly if you asked me which faction has the best shot at winning the Great Game, my choice would be Orks for the simple fact that, unlike other factions, Orks feed off of war and are basically impossible to exterminate. That being said, the two factions that are likely to be left are the Orks and the Tyranids; truly at that point, the Galaxy of the grim dark future will know only war.
I much prefer the Tyranids having nothing to do with anyone in the galaxy at any point before appearing. What better compliment to the hardcore grim darkness of the universe than by having this Lovecraftian space cancer come hurtling out of the dark surrounding this little galaxy that thinks itself so important. Here's everyone having these grand heavenly wars and Biblical heresies, and suddenly they're back to just being animals encountering something predatory in the night. There are corners of reality even the Chaos Gods do not venture. Places of silence and stillness, where no soul or emotion or thought of any kind exists. Places that, as any empty void does, hunger.
This has been tested many times in 40k lore, and unless the Orks had overwheleming force on their side, they lost and became biomass for the Tyranids. On the other hand, genestealers don't get traction among Orks, as they 'smell bad' and are prompty chopped up by uninfected Orks.
This was awesome, great video man I hope you make more this was great to watch. Also I noticed you didn't mention this probably because it wasn't important enough but just in case you didn't know, orks actually devolved for qroks and qroks where actually quite intelligent and really fucking scary(not 100% but I remember seeing somewhere they where custodi's/primary level in strength, since it's theorized the beast was a proto qroks.), and the reason they devolved is because qroks and orks both literally feed off of violence and needed to sustain themselves (they literally die without a fight) and everything after the war in heaven was so much lesser in comparison that the qroks devolved because they didn't have a tough enough fight. And so if there was ever a tough enough fight orks would reevolve into qroks and regain there greater old one tech and intelligence, as demonstrated by the beast. Although take all of this with a grain of salt because this all comes second hand because I have not actually had the ability to read those specific books.
Sorry if this read like a critique, I didn't mean it as one it's just that orks are my favorite faction/race and I just had to tell you about those facts in case you didn't know, Even though you probably did know and that just came off as me being an ass.
Yep. Then again it's become increasingly one-sided as of recently. The Eldar have no counter to the Necrons developing new technology to just nullify the Warp.
what a fantastic essay! i was just sifting through content and only intended to get the basic idea of this essay through a few skips, but i was riveted and watched the whole thing!
At 13:40 I feel he does not explain the double slit experiment well enough. When he says that elections act differently depending on whether you are observing them or not he is technically saying what is happening, and it is the simplest way to explain it; but it also can be misleading. When people hear observing they they think that it has something to do with consciousness but what observing means in this situation is hitting the electron with light. Because electrons are so small even light can change their courses.
@@hooktraining3966 There's 7 gods (Gork, Mork, Nurgle, Tzeentch, Khorne, Slaanesh, and the Emperor), and none of them are poorly written because they're all treated like forces of nature.
Very much disagreed to the Tyranids, they are NOT doing wasteful destruction, in fact 'nids use ALL available biomass, none of it is wasted. Also, the Hivemind isn't an entity per se, but the combined will of all 'nids that are alive kinda similar to a multi-galaxy WAAAAGH! entity.
Nids are wasteful destruction in relation to the eco system, they don’t create, they consume and copy for their purposes. Every type of organism is like that to a degree, but it’s the degree to which it is that matters. It’s the difference between pre-migration humans being symbiotic with the environment, Paleolithic humans beginning to benefit themselves at the cost of other species, and modern humans, where we have grown to the point where the systems our society runs on are no longer reasonable or natural survival strategies and supersede the imperative to preserve our own planet. The difference between us and nids, though, is that we aren’t a hive mind and most of us have empathy and the desire to do the world right. Nids have no such thing. At least, that’s my interpretation of the symbolism and the video.
As someone that's still kinda new to 40k this was awesome. Very in depth and loved the shots of life and space and the feeling of wonder and apriciation if fosters. And the history of the old ones and the link to it all. Awesome!
Two things. One, this video is incredible and I love how well thought out it is. And two, this only furthers my core belief that the Kroot should have their own faction divorced from the T'au, and T'au auxilliaries should be made up of all independent-thinking sentient races in the galaxy (All Human subspecies including Ogryn, Ratling, Squats, Felinids, and Beastmen, Eldar, Drukhari, Sslyth, Ur-Ghul, Medusae, etc. and yes, SOME Kroot that have their tribal nature stripped from them and turned into regimented troops and snipers), merging technologies into the T'au style, and the Kroot should be a dark reflection on that, and have stolen technology cannibalized into a vague amalgamation of stuff that works because the Kroot have absorbed it just like they did to organic life on their homeworld. It could be amazing flavor.
Orc diplomats: Convince the opposing faction that there is absolutely no shred of logic or thing worth saving in your entire race and that peace would be a grave mistake. Make them hate you so much they double their WAAAAAGGHHHHH effort!
Because most 40k fiction is about The Imperium and Imperials do not often fight the Tau Empire. First contact between the Imperium of Man and the Tau Empire occurred less than two hundred years before the return of Guilliman and they've only been involved in two major conflicts, the first and second Damocles Crusades. Because of this most books dont feature the Tau Empire and since the Kroot are a part of that empire they rarely get speaking roles in 40k fiction. If you're not specifically a Tau fan its not surprising that you would not know of the Kroot. The Tau Empire isnt just Kroot for example. There are like, a dozen different alien races in the Tau empire, The Tau also have a sizable human minority in their empire either from worlds they conquered during the first Damocles Crusade or human refugees fleeing the imperium into the Tau Empire.
@@whitewall2253 -"less than 200 years since the return of Guilman" THAT brings up an interested point on WHAT the timeline is.Because AFAIK there aren't any in-universe dates besides _"it's 10 000 years since megagoth decided to be a little rebellious b1tch" & I have no idea what happens AFTER the tyranids come. Also,I didn't JUST mean the lore (though there IS a lot I haven't read),but every 2 months some NEW game or animation comes out & I forget to watch it. Like,would a noral guy know that Darktide came out in the last 2 years & ISN'T an adition to the fantasy AU just by hearing the name?
@@BrunoMaricFromZagreb there's a bunch of dates in warhammer lore, every army book used to come with its own timeline showing famous battles involving the faction. I still own a lot of old army books so I have that. A lot of interesting stuff happened in the 10k years after the HH. The Scouring, The war of the Beast, The Badab War, The siege of Vraks, the war of the false primarch, the Age of Apostasy, The setting is very deep.
I love the fact that one of Orks main methods of space travel is just building stuff around an asteroid, and that they just crash that asteroid into a planet they want to invade
honestly the best 40k lore video I have ever seen. I am almost 30 and I have been a lore nerd for 40k since 7th grade. Please keep making these. Top notch work. I love this more intellectual approach to the lore.
The Nids have them booth beat, the Orks have devolved from the original Krorks so they were a flawed design and the Kroot evolution and adaptability had nothing in the Nids.
There was this fan theory i saw about the Nids being made by the surviving Old Ones as a way to wipe the slate clean so all the orks, necrons and Chaos can end so the old ones can make a Better galaxy without all the war going on
@@raddarat8471 but didn’t the tyranid attack on Baal show that the nids are malevolent? A psyker looked into the hive mind and realized that it hated them all.
To me, you make Warhammer sound like an imagining of the various paths humanity (and life) could take, by distilling life into fundamental aspects embodied to different degrees by different species, then extrapolating those to extremes. Fascinating, really well done.
I've never been involved nor knew much about warhammer 40k, but the lore is getting me hooked slowly. I hope they can get a big budget production on Netflix/theatres
Could be pretty cool with a species of fungi that can hack electronics (like the zombie snail/ant's brain), store databases in its DNA, deconstruct and reassemble stuff to make its own electronics. If an infused canon is about to be decimated, it's got an extra layer of shock resistant capsules containing spores. The fungi closes the canon opening, converting it into a bomb, and spreads its spores far and wide by firing the canon. Like the combination of a digital ghost and a living 3D-printer.
I never liked playing as orks in WH40k settings but I always loved how there are so many layers to them under what seems to be such a simple faction. And of course they are the perfect balance between comedic relief while still retaining the "grimmdarkness".
I had no idea the Kroot were so interesting. I wasn't sure what I was getting into clicking on this video. It went way deeper than anything I expected from a 40k video. Loved the paleontology parts.
This was a masterpiece... I have never been more invested in warhammer. This was a first step bringing me past the memes and the art into some level of knowledge. This was beautiful. I wonder if I could handle more lore lol
Great video! I really feel like I understand the Orks better than if I were to have chosen a random book to read. I feel like to get the knowledge you shared in this video, I would have to go through at least 5 or more of the books. I just started WH40K this year and it's been super cool. I'm doing about a book per month, but haven't read an Ork one yet. Thank you for your time you put into this! I really enjoyed it
"What is life but the grandest and most magnificent of banquets? It is a privilege, not a right, to sample its many delicacies." -some Shaper, probably
