Bricky explains WARHAMMER 40K and I try to remember all the other HORRIFIC things he's taught me

"Morbid curiosity is a hell of a drug"

"Help him." They want to, but NOBODY and I mean NOBODY knows how. Only the Emperor knows how the Golden Throne works but he has to keep on sitting there in order to keep the gate closed otherwise countless demons would pop out and destroy Terra.

I've seen bricky in a lot of live, unscripted stuff like livestreams and collabs with other YouTubers and i gotta say, he's suuuuper good at off the cuff comedy. We love an improv king

Gotta second "infinite and the Divine", the narrator on the audio book absolutely kills the part, and seriously elevates the book with his performance.

Okay, the connection between energy drinks AND gamer culture is actually insane to look into. Energy drinks were often used by early developers to pull all nigthers programming, then passed to the youth playing and now is a wave of propaganda from the big brands trying to focus their market towards gamers. If I remember correctly, the earliest connection between these was back in a developer comment for a DOS program back in 1994. "Fortunately the system understands the programmer is simply overdosing on Mountain Dew and ignores the request for non-existant modules."

so, the emperor on the throne part can basically be summed up as: when Magnus the red tried to warn the emperor about horus, he tore a hole in the space webway the emperor was trying to create. All Big Emps saw was his son fucking up his biggest project, so he sent another son to go whoop his ass. Meanwhile, Big E needs to stay on the throne to keep that hole closed and keep out the demons that would otherwise pour into terra. When he goes to fight his son Horus after the betrayal is made clear and the war reaches Terra, he has his best friend sit on the throne. Sadly, that is a death sentence because his BFF isn't as powerful as him and he basically is burning out. Big E gets mortally wounded, and brought back to the throne, where his friend uses the last of this psychic essence to give some more life to Big E. They put him on the throne, and since then, he has maintained the guarding of the hole Magnus made, and served as a giant light house in the warp to guide all travel.

The REAL tragedy (one among many in the 40k universe) is if the Emperor were to ever be unplugged from the Golden throne, he'd ressurect back to full health... Which the high lord of Terra are terrified of even considering. For several reasons. Firstly, The emperor holds back a tear in reality torn open by Magnus, which now acts like a portal to the warp, and him sitting on the throne keeps it from swallowing up Terra. Secondly, intergalactic travel would simply come to a screeching halt and the imperium would collapse instantly. Thirdly, the moment the Emperor gets back on his feet, he would make sweeping changes that would alter the face of his empire completely and the first on the chopping block would be the high lords, the ecclesiarch, the inquisition, and anyone else who killed thoughtlessly in his name as a god, which he hated.

Brickyard left out an important detail about the Eldar’s fall. Before Slannesh, Eldar were effectively immortal and could reincarnate. If an Eldar died, they’d be reborn in a new body with the same soul (and memories). This enabled the super-debauchery that created Slannesh. After Slannesh, each Eldar faction had to modify how they dealt with death. Craftworlds created soul-powered computers, Dark Eldar figured that if they gave Slannesh other souls, they would be left (mostly) alone.

Imo a great introduction to warhammer 40k is the book "15 hours", its a story from the perspective of an ordinary man conscripted into the imperial guard and thrown into a warzone by an administration error. Most warhammer stories typically show you the universe from the perspectives of super humans, gods, or advanced aliens, but the most relatable way of experiencing true horror is from the perspective of an ordinary human.

How is that all related to Dune? Well, basically when Games Workshop was creating lore for Warhammer 40k, they kinda did "let me borrow your homework, I promise to change it a little". They kept the promise. They changed literally very little. Some of the "homeworks" they "borrowed" were: Dune, Judge Dredd, Starship Troopers (the 1959 novel) + few more.

28:46 It's like having someone in a coma from a brain injury, you can't just "heal" someone in a coma and make them wake up when you want. The person can look fine, but something inside is royally screwed. On top of that, souls are real in 40k and weapons can genuinely damage the spirit, which seems is what Horus might've done. Essentially he's the coma patient that is busy dying everyday, only being kept alive by the equipment he's hooked up to and unfortunately the souls of psykers are the nutrients the staff pump through his drip-feeding tube

The Eisenhorn series by Dan Abnett might be a good fit for you Hannah. Inquisitor mysteries and stuff like that, Eisenhorn and his loyal band of followers saving the imperium while at the same time being somewhat disgusted by the imperium that he's saving. He's a pretty likable protagonist, for an inquisitor at least.

04:00 I think it's like a celebrity partnership. Like Ben & Jerry's naming a new flavor of ice cream after someone with an audience. They get more advertising, sell more ice cream, and the celebrity probably gets a cut for their trouble.

Although 40K is a setting that is grim and dark and exists for epic war between cool sci-fi armies. There is still at its core a hopeful theme of the human spirit refusing to surrender to despair. The average guardsman with a las rifle takes on the worst horrors that the galaxy can throw at him. And his motivations are still really human defend the imperium, defend his family and people and hopefully make it back to them.

21:40 there is the character of Argel Tal. traitor space marine, who had a demon inside him. He became a sort of marine demon hybdrid known as a ghal vorbac. he kinda befriends the demon, he didn't like the fact he had a demon in him, but the two become somewhat like friends. with Argel Tal giving the demon a body, and the demon enhancing argel tal.

27:50 Oh Dune is like the progenitor of this. The dune books was released 1965 and Warhammer 40k was released 1987 and was heavily inspired by Dune. Dune is the inspiration for a lot of scify. Especially Science fantasy such as Starwars.

I was kind of excited thinking this video was literally Bricky in person trying to explain the Warhammer Universe to you personally and attempting to answer all your questions. That's not what this is sadly, but it would make for a GREAT follow up video! You should try to make that happen please🙏

The Dark Eldar being able to stave off Slaanesh makes sense because the Warp is fed by thoughts/emotions, and the Chaos gods are literal manifestations of specific aspects relating to these. Slaanesh is the god of excess, pain, and extreme emotions. Every time the Dark Eldar torture people, it feeds Slaanesh, and they are thus ignored. Think of being trapped in a cage with a lion and a cooler full of meat. As long as you keep feeding the lion, it will leave you alone. As soon as you stop, it's going to start looking at you as a meal. Same deal. Even though it makes Slaanesh stronger, they keep doing horrible things because it's the only thing keeping them alive.

Bricky also has a warhammer podcast, where they discuss warhammer lore but on occasion also warhammer books, for example the infinite and the divine, it's called Adeptus Rediculus

21:27 That is basically the plot of the Eisenhorn books, more and more so the further in you get.