Why Jaghatai Khan is the Most Underrated Primarch | Warhammer 40k Lore 

Funny how some good writing and a bit of love can make one of the most obscure Primarch's a fan favourite. I spent like 4 hours painting Eldar Gems today so my brain is friend, no witty comment about bewbs just the link : www.patreon.com/majorkill

The Khan: Has basic critical thinking skills 40k community: Jesus Christ what a god

‘Every strategic sense I possess tells me that Horus will direct his forces to reave the planet and exploit our concern for humanity,’ said Dorn. ‘He does this expressly to divide our efforts. When we are split, and our warriors spread, that is when the Warmaster will fall on us and seize victory. We must stand united.’ ‘Then you do not disagree with me,’ said the Khan. ‘The population is at risk.’ ‘I anticipated slaughter long ago,’ said Dorn, ‘and I regret that his chain of events come to pass, but we cannot respond to whatever provocation Horus present to us. We cannot let ourselves be lured out. We cannot follow his plan. We will make ourselves weak, then all is lost.’ ‘Since when was saving mankind from the darkness a sign of weakness?’ said the Khan, ‘Sanguinius, my brother and comrade, what do you see? Lend me your foresight.’ Sanguinius shut his eyes. Like that, he appeared drawn and tired, a funerary monument to himself. Dorn supressed a shudder. ‘My sight is not so clear as father’s’, said Sanguinius. ‘The Future is ever in flux. Only some events…’ He paused, finding the words hard to say. ‘Only some events are certain.’ ‘Do you see me? What will be the consequences of inaction?’ ‘I see fire, and blood, and a world laid waste if you do not act.’ ‘If I act?’ said the Khan. Sanguinius opened his eyes to look at him. ‘There is a grave risk to you. A confrontation unlooked for, and if you survive, a flight from one danger into greater peril.’ ‘Who will I face?’ ‘I cannot divine.’ ‘Will I save lives?’ Sanguinius nodded. ‘Many.’ ‘That is what I was made for,’ said the Khan. ‘I will ride out.’ - interaction between Chad-hatai Khan, Rogal Dorn and Sanguinius

My favorite Khan burn from when Morty tried to recruit Jaghatai. ‘And that is why you came to find me,’ said the Khan. ‘You’ve run out of friends. Who will stand with you against the aether-weavers now? Angron? What an ally. Curze? Good luck.’ The Khan gazed at Mortarion disdainfully. ‘You’ve tasted the fruits of treachery and found them bitter. Don’t drag me into your ruin. You’re on your own, brother.’

For a man who is all about zooming around the battle field and killing xenos he's one hell of a patience man

Dude was cool AF, when his legion was split into supporting horus , he didn't execute the traitors , instead he gave them a chance to be front line troops to earn back their honour because killing his legion would also benefit the enemy.

Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women!

The bridge battle at the climax of The Path of Heaven is one of my favourite moments in the entire Horus Heresy series. Jaghatai ripping out the Keeper of Secrets’ heart (Mortal Kombat style) is legendary

Jaghatai has always been one of my favorite Primarch's, specifically because Jaghatai and his White Scar's are surprisingly human in behavior. Where the Salamanders show compassion to humans, the White Scar's show empathy towards humans. One of my favorite moments is during the Siege of Terra of a White Scar finding an infant in some ruble and fighting tooth'n'nail to protect the infant and a lone Imperial Trooper in order to get them to safety.

Best Jaghatai moment: 'Know this, son of Magnus. There is more under the arch of heaven than victory and defeat. We may fall back, but not forever. We may feint and we may weave, but not forever. We may yet be doomed to lose all we cherish, but we shall do so in the knowledge that we could have turned away, and did not.’ ‘We remained true,’ the Khan said. ‘They can never have this, not if they burn all we ever built and scorn us through the dancing flames. You hear me? We remained true.’

Last time we saw Jaghatai Khan, he was busy speeding around Commorragh as he slain Dark Eldar with his cool bike and saw the familiar golden glowing light from Star Fyodo-peror who is having a meeting with Asdrubael Vect.

As a white scar player, it deeply saddens me that despite being one of the best dueling primarchs Jaghatai has never had duelist level tabletop rules.

The Khan is by far one of my favorite primarchs, and it pains me that he’s so overlooked. I don’t think he’ll be the next loyalist primarch to come back, that honor will probably either go to Dorn, the Lion, or Corax, but there’s one very specific conversation that speaks of a legendary duel over 10 thousand years in the making: (For context, Fulgrim, Sanguinius, Mortarion, and the Khan are having a conversation about why the Khan is not happy Horus is Warmaster) “So should it have been you?” asked Fulgrim acerbically. Mortarion snorted again, but Sanguinius said nothing. “I wouldn't have taken it,” said the Khan. “Of course you would have,” said Fulgrim. The Khan shook his head. “I have no use for another title. My people give me enough.” Sanguinius smiled. “My brother, I think you are the most inscrutable of us all. I know what Rogal wants, and I know what Roboute wants, but even after so long I have no idea what you want.” “He wants to be left alone,” said Fulgrim. “To shoot off into the stars and hunt down xenos on those delightful jetbikes. They're devilishly fast. I heard from a contact on Mars, Jaghatai, that you do strange things to your ships.” The Khan shot him a heavy-lidded stare. “I heard you do strange things to your warriors.” Fulgrim's slender face briefly flared with anger, but Sanguinius laughed. “I wonder which one of you would win in a duel,” the Angel mused. “I would like to see that. You both handle a blade like gods.” “Name the place, brother,” Fulgrim said to the Khan. “I'd even travel to Chogoris, if you built a palace to keep the dust from my armour.” The Khan felt the insult. It stabbed at him, deeply, but his expression never changed. They could never know, none of them, how much their closed fraternity rankled him. “You would lose,” said the Khan. Fulgrim grinned, but there was something fragile in it. “Oh?” “You would lose because you would treat it like a game, like you treat everything, and I would not. You would lose because you know nothing of me, and I know everything of you because you shout it from the turrets of your battle cruisers. My prowess remains unknown. You have some reputation as a swordsman, brother, but I make no boast when I tell you I would leave you choking on it.” Fulgrim’s cheeks flushed. For a moment, he looked like he would go for his blade. As ever, Sanguinius’s calm smile soothed the moment. “Now I regret bringing this up,” he sighed. “In the cause of peace, shall we put this stupidity behind us? We are not at war, and never likely to be, and that is truly a blessing.” “Who’d have thought it?” said Mortarion to the Khan, a shrewd glint in his rheumy eyes. “You do have your pride.” “As do you.”

Reason and pragmaticism is so rare in the Imperium and the 40K universe that Jaghatai having any amount of common sense basically makes him a superhero.

The Khan's burn on Fulgrim was so sick even Vulcan had to be like, "Goddamn, dude, that's too much fire."

Majorkill you should do a video about what the roles of each primarch would have if they all stayed loyal I know other youtubers have made videos on this topic but your opinions could be wildeldly different from theirs I would love to see it

From the Siege of Terra, I loved how during their duel, the Khan got the living shit kicked out of him by Daemon Prince Mortarion, but he taunted him the whole time and told Mortarion, that he was a bitch for giving in to chaos and it occurred to Morty that’s how everybody would remember him as. Not somebody who could endure the worst punishments, but as a weak coward.

Sanguinius: "I foresee at great burn coming." Fulgrim: "I hear you do strange things to your ships." Sanguinius: "Maybe that was..." THE Khan: "I hear you do strange things to your warriors." Sanguinius: "Nope, there it is!"

Corax and the Khan are my favorite primarchs. Would love to see them get more love in the lore.

The jaghati khan and mortarion rivalry is by far most underrated in warhammer

To quote Ciapha Morag of the Death Guard, “You’re nothing but savages on motorcycles” I love the scars simply because they’re everywhere and nowhere at the same time, you try regrouping and reorganising you’re getting flanked from several different Axies, also the beards love the beards

Edit: 69 likes, nice. He is almost perfect. But his weakness is his rage. When he gets really pissed off, he makes reckless decisions. He himself knows of this. And tries to remain calm in all situations. His usual calm is not his natural self, it is a constant effort of his, in order to not lose sight and clarity. Yet, when he loses control of his impulsivity, he makes decisions like genocideing an entire tribe, charging out of the safety of Terras defences, risking his life and other defenders morale by the death of a loyalist primarch, following dark eldar into an obvious trap etc. I mean, i doubt the eldar could do much against a pissed off to the point Angron would tell him to chill-super saiyan mode Jaghatai, and yet, even if thats the case, he got lost and has to deal with a memelord god. Abondoning the imperium when it needs heroes like him most. Anyways, ehat im trying to say here is, he is unique in character because he knows his weaknesses and tries to manage them, and he does that without being an autistic piece of garbage like Dorn. And even still, he makes mistakes which makes him a relateable character. Not even his demigod biology can prevent him being human at times. Thats good writing yo.

Fulgrim: "I hear you do strange things to your ships." Jaghatai Khan: "I hear you do strange things to your warriors." All Primarchs at the Triumph: "DAAAAAAAAAMMMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!"

The Khan has something that none of his brothers truly had. Strength of Character. This was a man who held to his values and the reality before him above all else. He was not one to pretend he was something he was not, he took matters with the gravity they deserved and the cause which he fought for before the hierarchy of the Imperium. The Khan fought for humanity and was uncompromising on that score. He wasn’t a compromising politician like Guilliman or besotted with the Emperor and his vision like say Russ, Sanguinius or Dorn. His ethos was unyielding when he served under the banner of Man, and he denied the treachery of Chaos with the same rigid sense of purpose.

Easily the best part of the Khan v Morty fight was after taking a massive beating from Morty, the Khan comments, spitting blood and teeth "Man, this is all you've got? I should've fought Typhus. That would've been way more fun"

11:27 I really like the relationship between Jaghatai and Sanguinius. Jaghatai clearly respects Sanguinius' opinion a lot.

Glad this guy finally getting the shout out he deserves. He's always been my favorite Primarch, and when I first got into 40k I felt like the odd man out for that.

The galaxy would be a much better place if each primach had the level-headed reasoning of Jaghatai Khan

Khan is pretty great. I love his interactions with Russ and Sanguinius during the heresy.

At the beginning he is so forgettable that you remember him for being forgettable. And once you learn about him he is really really memorable

The only one who roasts kids is Vulkan.

It's a tragedy he's so underappreciated. People who call him forgettable haven't looked into his story to begin with. GW needs to update White Scars' paint scheme or something to reignite the interest in the legion and their Primarch.

I love the fact that during the Heresy it was the “speed freak” that stopped, took a step back, looked around, and took his time to figure things out before deciding what he was going to do. Something I’m pretty sure none of the other Primarks did. This proves the only time the Khan is a savage is with his roast.

When he ripped the heart out of Kairos screaming "LOYALTY IS ITS OWN REWARD" Chaos knew he was beyond their reach.

I actually discovered mongolian rock band "The HU" and the mongolian astetic is very cool to me. Ive actually writing a fantasy with a major playor being mongolian

White Scars and Jagathai Khan are probably the best depiction of Xiongnu (Ancient Turco-Mongol) Cultures in the western fiction. Palatine was probably based on the Fall of Greco-Bactria btw.

The thing I love about the Khan is, even his "Lack of popularity and attention" within the lore community is lore accurate. That's his superpower.

The khans moment with the shard of magnus in Scars is amazing

Spoiler warning for Path of Heaven Yesugei’s final messages always gets me. All three were poignant, but the mental imagery of a primarch in absolute, Biblical-style, mourning is just something else. The HH books have made me absolutely love the Scars. Everyone talks about the Salamanders and Vulkan’s humanity/compassion. But the Scar and the Khan lay it on the line for the teeming masses all the time. Whether it’s individual Scars, the Khan, or Szu, they all seem deeply real to me and they care about each other in a way I really haven’t seen in other legions. I listen to the audiobooks a lot at work and there have been so many times I’ve been walking around and they just hit me in the feels out of nowhere and I have to pull it together b/c how am I going to tell a coworker that I’m crying because of 40k?

Imagine if rylanor returned as a part of the legion of the damned

I love the Star Wars reference

With the (likely) reintroduction of Angron to 40k alongside his World Eaters, I'm thinking if we might get Jaghatai back with his White Scars (otherwise Guilliman is going to be 1 vs. 3 against the Traitor Primarchs).

I love the way you always upload around midnight, usually just as I get home from work. Absolutely love it my brother!

I wish we got to see more of the khan, he's one of my favorite primarchs.

I always love how they pit Khan and Mortarion together, I guess to go with the whole "Unstoppable force meets an Immovable Object" concept.

I can just picture the Scars on their bike riding the planes and listening to the Hu while the spirit of Ghengis watches from the eternal blue sky

The Warhawk of Chogoris in the midst of combat with the Death Lord: “I should have fought the Legion Master, I should have fought Typhus.”

The Khan is my second fave primarch, hands down xD Jaghatai vs Mortarion from Warhawk is honestly my favorite duel scene, not just in a 40k novel, but generally in novels (even including various great ones from the SW EU).

The ship battle in Scars sealed it for me. He is easily in my top 3 primarchs. Probably number one.

Since when is calling someone a *Space Mongolian with a hard on for jet bikes* an insult?!?!

I think an important point that many people forget, is that the Emperor has Alpha+ mind control abilities. It seems like after leaving the primarchs to their own devices to return to Terra, his influence over them and their troops gradually started to wane. It's clear that when he was around everyone worshipped him with out question. But in the years that followed, more and more people and primarchs increasingly doubted him and some were even like, "what was really so great about him, F-that guy." While being increasingly affected by Horus's warp boosted charisma and extra strong primarch aura. Horus's officers literally had trouble looking Horus in the eye because it was so strong. As in, Abbadon used to stare at his own feet while speaking to him. I suspect the Emp's mind control use was part of why some of the primarchs were more easily won over then others was simply because some of them were more resistant to his mind manipulation then others.

I think I finally understand what chaos really is in the context of 40k. Like chaos in it's normal state is like a pin ball going all haywire inside of the pin ball machine hitting and colliding with the walls and maze like obstructions inside of said machine making all kind of noises and a light show. It's entertaining and interesting to watch. Another analogy could be diffusion of potassium permanganate in water or bromine in air. On the molecular and atomic level in the case of bromine all the molecules and atoms are moving haphazardly and spontaneous in the fluid medium in order to take up space. Even Radioactive decay is a practical use of chaos due to definition of what half life is and how nuclear fission works. Now in 40k, chaos is just a bastardization of the very concept of chaos itself. It's like if a group of hooligans go into said bar just to destroy the pin ball machine, then beat as much people in the bar and if they fail summon some demons to slaughter the entire town for no reason. Then the imperium is a "solution" to chaos but it's akin to sawing of your arms after a jellyfish sting instead of applying anti venom to the wound or any proper medical treatment besides sawing going vrrrr.

When first learning about the primarchs i was immediately drawn to him. I was also interested in Conrad Kerr

One badass moment was Khan after beating and killing a greater demon of chaos went onto/teleported to a pissed off space wolf ship which Lemen Russ confronted him about the lack of help and how he wasn’t helped the Khan had no weapons and was hurt and bloody but still stood tall while Russ had his sword and Axe Fact to Face and all the wolves were aiming Bloters the Khan said “You can kill me if you want but my sons will ride on terra against the traitor legions it is there destiny” Russ laughed and let Khan go acknowledging that killing him was a point less endeavor there’s a great video by Wolf Lord Rho about it the Khan meets Russ

I just finished the sixt siege of terra book and and the fith in general have such a cool chapter culture. and the way Jaghatai spits on Mortarion is so amazing

They even put it in lore that Jagatai is often 'forgoten', I think it was Russ had a revelation about it when he was calculating who will take what side.

Jaghatai is awesome. Jaghatai is cool when he's part of a team.

I find funny how being extremely reasonable and making thoughtful decisions gives the Khan an edge over most of other Primarchs, I mean, the emperor chose him to have the greatest power of all: common sense

" You have a better chance of chaining the wind" Sanquinius on Jaghatai during the Siege of Terra

Khan is cool, but Corvus Corax is the most underrated Primarch.

> Speedrun into room > Says something logical and based > Delivers burns to traitors > leaves

White scar in general would be way more popular if you didnt have to paint them in unworkable white

I just picked up the Bandai White Scar and after listening to this in a huge fan of the Khan and his boys.

I'm set to go on a long trip next month, so I got myself a new book and decided to make it Warhawk, the Siege of Terra book that focuses on Jaghatai. I found his establishing character moment fascinating: after he finds out the Dorn sent a bunch of men out on a suicide mission, Jaghatai is angry.... but not because they were sent on a suicide mission. He's specifically mad that they weren't told the truth about it BEING a suicide mission. Jaghatai was convinced that the force would still have gone if they knew the truth, and that as warriors, they at least deserved to know what they were fighting and dying for.

Hooray for the Great Khan! Also could you do a video of what if the Emperor failed in the Unification Wars and died? Would the galaxy be more at peace or in a worst state without the Imperium?

0:17 Ferrus Manus is quite uninspired as his Legion is literally named Iron Hands while his name literally means Iron Hands.

Ferrus and the Khan have the best meetings with the Emperor

The Path of Heaven and Scars are some of the Best Horus Heresy Books in the Series!!!

First thing when selecting a SM chapter was colour scheme. Looking up White Scar armies and it just looks like a bunch of white primed models with a couple of transfers whacked on the pauldrons.

The Khans response to Fulgrim is amazing "you have some reputation as a swordsman brother, but I make no boast when I tell you I would leave you choking on it." This in and of itself would make Jaghatai in my top three favorite primarchs. When you add everything else up though it's no contest as to why he is my favorite.

MY BOY! FINALLY HE IS GETTING SOME LOVE. Thanks to my fav 40K lore Aus, giving my boy some love.

The reason I love the Scars and the Khan is because of the books by Chris Wraight. It's some of the best stuff in the entire Horus Heresy series. Wraight even makes the other chapters look good, he even makes Eidolon awesome.

part of the reason why he's so overlooked is because he has a non-voluntary psychic effect that makes people (even space marines and primarchs) tend to forget about him

Bro the way you describe painting with white is exactly the way I feeling painting it. My first army was the tau and well we all know how painting your first army goes and then add on the white paint. I almost quit painting warhammer right then and there but then by the grace of THE GOD EMPEROR himself GW came out with 8th edition Adeptus Astartes space marine models. From there it was about the Dark Angles 🤫 and their secrets. Love your content and your charming AUSTRALIAN twist on telling warhammer 40k lore. 😁👍

Recently I’ve read the Harold Lamb collections of all his Cossack stories, a 4 volume series of 3 Musketeer-ish adventure stories. The Khan reminds me a lot of the main Character in most of the stories, Khlit the Cossack. A warrior who’s descended from Ghengis Khan, has a cool ass sword, is literally always the most reasonable guy in the room, is a master swordsman, and uses his wit and daring as a weapon just as much as his brace of pistols or saber. Always a man of his word and soft-spoken. Its my opinion the Khan is atleast partly inspired by this Steppe Warrior, which is why he’s such a badass.

its kinda funny. I almost went ultramarine because they have my halo colors but in highschool I researched mongolia so when I found out about the white scars I decided to go with them as my army. the white is hard to paint but i still love them.

Jaghatai took one look at his father and knew in that instant he had a massive ego lol.

Majorkill could you please do a video about Ragnar Blackmane. Because I feel like he is another underated character that has allot of potential for the future of 40k.

True. Jaghatai is underrated. The more I learn about him the more I like him.

Man seeing the quotes in the comments god damn I need to read more on the khan. He's extremely efficient at what he does but doesn't boast. He's like vulken where he'll do his very best to save humans if possible. And his wit is always fun to see especially his roasts against his brothers. If you guys have any recommendations for books could you leave them under my comment?

The khan is in my top 3 favorite Primarchs. I, too, like to travel fast and make clever comebacks.

I want to know more about everything that went into putting the lost Primarchs on their specific planets. The stuff about Jaghatai and Fulgrim getting switched was the most interesting part of this video. I now want to know more about the faction Fulgrim was meant to take charge of, and how things were supposed to go for Jaghatai.

The Khan and the Scars will remain a reconnaissance force forever. In the way of Reconn I Sense an asswhooping on the horizon.

ON BEHALF OF ALL 10 OF US WHITE SCARS FANS THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS MAJOR CHAD

Lion and Kahn along with Vulkan are my favorite primarchs

What if the khan unlocked his warp powers, kinda like what happened to corvus corax Now imagine that!

He is primarch that embodied Quality over Quantity, Guilliman embodied that both Quality and Quantity should be balance

His actual power is school grade

Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women! -Ong Khan to young Jaghatai before his death.

Thank you for the” he didn’t turn into darth Vader” bit. I’ve heard way too many people call the badass that is the khan, a Mongolian Anikin skywalker

As a Mongolian myself I appreciate this very much I fucking love you, you ozy nerd

One of the best series of books I've ever listened to are Jack Weatherford's books about Genghis Khan. His book "Genghis Khan and Making of the Modern World" gives you an appreciation for just how massive of an impact the Mongols had on world history. The founding fathers of the United States looked back to the Mongol empire for an example of freedom of religion. It's an absolutely fascinating series that you will not regret checking out.

Jiggy K is an absolute badass, I'd love to see him, Rowboat and Dorn run the Imperium together

'bout god damn time people started recognising the best Primarch

The Khan fight against Chaos not because he likes The Emperor. He fights them because it's the most logical conclusion. A bitchy dad is more bearable than being turned into a demon that became a puppet to fight for eternity.

How about this for an idea. If every species faction was united into one army. All humans All Necrons All Orcs All Eldar All Chaos You get the idea. Who wins that battle?

(Throat singing intensifies) But yeah I like the Khan for the reasons stated plus Kor'sarro Khan has some pretty cool as hell moments with my favorite being chasing the Dark Eldar into the Webway and coming back 2 years later with a ship full of their heads. Also think the White Scar chapter master is crippled or something like that but he's still in charge.

I’d love to see you do one of these for Perturabo! mainly because I want to hear your honest opinion on him as a character

The reason the white scars aren't popular is because the only thing they have going for them is the jet bikes.

Personally since I love white spattered in blood and the thought of Mad Maxx warfare I really am debating on either going with a WhiteScar army or a Salamander one since you know "Burn baby burn!".