Every single Warhammer 40k (WH40k) Faction Explained | Part 1

as someone who doesn't necessarily serve beyond messiah but someone who can appreciate them you will not be getting my legs today as i will be replacing them with various things depending on which faction we are currently talking about to add a little bit more context and possible comedy to whatever the hell i am currently doing so hello everybody my name is bricky and this is going to be a long video and a large project that has been going on for quite some time this is i need two hands for this this is every single warhammer

40k race in kind of a nutshell explained a little bit of explanation a little bit of lore a little bit of talking about the tabletop mostly lore what they're all about and also a little bit of background for those of you who just have no clue what warhammer 40 000 is now you see warhammer and warhammer 40 000 is a universe people hear plenty of but don't know a whole lot about they see oh there's these dudes in big power armor with chainsaw swords and they got these big old green orcs and there's some bugs

over there and everyone calls these guys weaves and then there's these spiky [ __ ] over here i don't get it i don't understand where do i start well this video is particularly for you or for those of you who have a little bit of knowledge but you're kind of curious about each of the different races and factions in warhammer so overall the warhammer universe is vast when it comes to lore and background and each different faction is so different with the things that they believe in and some are human some are trans human like

when they all have all these crazy ass electronics on them you've got aliens and you've got the chaos factions and there's so much to entail that i decide to embark on this project to tell you what each and every single one of them is about and what the warhammer universe is about as well to give at least a little bit of an intro to this extremely bloated but very very enjoyable world that i and many others partake in so i will be explaining every single faction in the warhammer 40k universe at least all the factions

you can play as and some smaller factions here and there i will not be discussing absolutely everything in it because that is a little bit much and i'm not going to go too mega deep into the lore i'm going to give you a pretty solid overview of each of the different factions and have you learn a little bit about them and we'll discuss a little bit of the tabletop as well in case you were curious about that but for this episode entirely we are discussing the imperium of man because that takes up a fat chunk

of warhammer lore what is warhammer 40 000 well the 40 000 starts off is the year 40 000. the 41st millennium that's where it takes place is in the year 40 000 41 000 a.d you're already more knowledgeable let me read you a quote first of many quotes in this video it is the 41st millennium for more than a hundred years the emperor has sat a mobile on the golden throne of earth he is the master of mankind by the will of the gods and master of a million worlds by the might of his inexhaustible

armies he is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the dark age of technology he is the carrion lord of the imperium for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day so that he may never truly die to be a man in such times is to be amongst untold billions it is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable these are the tales of those times forget the power of technology and science for so much has been forgotten never to be relearned forget the promise of progress and understanding for in the grim

dark future there is only war there is no peace amongst the stars only an eternity of carnage and slaughter and the laughter of thirsting gods everything blows and it blows [ __ ] hard warhammer is probably the most dark and depressing universes ever in fiction or at least like like top three everything is so absurdly horrible destructive or overpowered that it all kind of ends up cancelling itself out it's like dota war rages across the galaxy interstellar travel is only possible due to sacrificing a thousand souls a day to a rotting carcass of a man

who you believe to be your god demonic gods and just demons tear open the fabric of reality on a whim other zenos or even other humans end up killing each other in untold billions across the galaxy is a time of unending war slaughter and a bloodbath amongst everybody planets are deemed unrecoverable and are completely destroyed on a whim everything sucks but that's like the charm of it see everything in warhammer is evil but being evil is kind of fun like humanity in its own right is a xenophobic prejudice and religious zealot group that kill each

other just as much as they kill all of their enemies but and they're like mid mid to high tier evil on the evil scale of warhammer nobody is good no matter who you are everyone is at some flavor some color of evil whoever you pick you are going to be the bad guy but that's the fun of it because being the bad guy is badass villains are cool they look cool they got cool outfits they got cool weapons they got cool armies villains are cool man and when everyone is a villain everyone is pretty cool

that's what makes this so charming is that everyone can be the bad guy so let's start off talking about the main bad guy quote unquote the imperium of man it's hair the imperium of man is the main empire of the human race all of humanity is under this one flag called the imperium about 10 000 years ago there was a man he was the emperor the emperor of mankind a 10 foot tall psychic demi god who led humanity across the stars to colonize tons and tons of worlds create superhuman soldiers and really bring humanity into

a new age this man the emperor of mankind was a psycher and a psycher is like a magician of sorts in the world of 40k there is the warp the immaterium kind of like hell but sort of like a purgatory dimension of hell and a psycher is someone who can take that power and manifest it through their mind to use it to do stuff like witchcraft stuff magicians stuff spells and lots of other things but we don't get too into that the emperor big boy psycher top tier a plus maybe even s now the emperor

created a bunch of suns yes created a bunch of suns known as the primarks he created 20 18 18 primarks to have them lead all of the different legions of humanity to the different stars and plants to help colonize and bring it out these primarks are basically like little versions of the emperor not all of them are cyclists but a lot of them are very very powerful and they lead his special space marine legions then this big cluster [ __ ] happened called the horus heresy where the emperor's favorite son the primark horus ended up

joining chaos and leading nine other well i guess eight nine of the 18 half half of his primarks directly to earth to fight down the emperor himself now if you want to know what chaos is remember what i mentioned earlier the warp that immaterium the hellish place in there relies the four chaos gods imagine like satan and three other satans the warp being kind of evil those chaos gods that's the reason and so those chaos gods manipulated horus and then horus helped manipulate all eight other primarks to lead this giant coup directly on the emperor

on earth and they [ __ ] up [ __ ] after this huge civil war horus died but not before brutally wounding the emperor and right at the end of his life they put the emperor on this large golden throne on earth in which he is now alive just barely but slowly rotting away powering something called the astronomicon so long as he stays alive and is fed a thousand people a day the astronomicon is like the north star if you want to do interstellar travel in 40k you need to pass through that demonic warp i

mentioned earlier but how do you know where you're going well the emperor is there putting a nice little navigator right there he helps navigate you to know where you're going if you want to go from earth to some crazy solar system across the way you need to go through that warp and then you need to know where you're going go through there and pop your way out it's like uh doing nether travel in in minecraft so you can shore in the distance between going to areas so long as the emperor is alive and being fed

a thousand people a day to stay alive you can do that the moment he dies interstellar travel's gone for all of humanity you're so boned now since the horus heresy ten thousand years ago the imperium has fallen from grace substantially all technology has started to dwindle and die there is now giant fundamental religious extremists that now believe the emperor of mankind was a deity a true living god which is probably the last thing the emperor would have wanted to be remembered for so now you have this thing called the ecclesiarchy which is this giant church

entirely devoted to spreading the good word of the emperor he is now the holy emperor god the god emperor of mankind and all of the imperium has taken up worshiping him to the fullest extent and killing anything that isn't humanity in his name the imperium has this futuristic gothic tone to it and a hefty religious zealotry to them if you think anything against the emperor that's heresy and you deserve to die that is called being a heretic heretics die in 40k there is no such thing as freedom of religion there is no such thing as

freedom of speech so long as you are against the emperor there is no such thing as any kind of tolerance everyone is a religious zealot some more than others but no matter what you preach in that good word so right now everyone in humanity is trying to expand their empire across the stars if you are a heretic someone who doesn't believe in the emperor you are deserving of death if you believe in the chaos gods you are also a heretic and you deserve death if you are an alien race of any kind you are a

filthy xenos and you deserve death as well so long as the murder continues and humanity expands the imperium of man is very very happy however the largest fighting force of this imperium is my personal favorite faction and the first faction we will discuss the astra militarum or also known as the imperial guard pretty [ __ ] now man you finished it man game over man the imperial guard is the main fighting force of the imperium and in a world of horrifying creatures galactic monstrosities the literal demons themselves breaking through the fabric of time to kill

you the imperial guard are untold billions of regular men and women wearing modern day like flak armor with a laser rifle this is the humble last gun the main weapon of the imperial guard it fires superheated plasma lasers at an extremely fast fire rate is reliable never jams it can blow off limbs giant holes and concrete it is overall an extremely devastating weapon in modern day it is one of the weakest in the 40k universe yeah a laser rifle that never jams it could blow off limbs one of the weakest weapons that's the world we're

in right now but who cares because the imperial guard has in each battle 500 000 of these men and women 30 000 large armored tanks ten thousand artillery batteries the imperial guard wins through sheer numbers and firepower they kind of have this world war one world war ii style aesthetic with legions of guardsmen as well as high company commanders and generals on the field along with them and multiple kinds of troops a normal imperial guard battle starts off with artillery long lines of artillery cracking the crust of the planet underneath the enemy's feet and as

this barrage continues hundreds of thousands of guardsmen see a sea of guardsmen surges forward firing and charging at everything possible while the planet rumbles as tanks roll up behind them gunships block out the sun and tanks block out the dirt with the steps and hood prints of millions of guardsmen it is through numbers and sheer sundering firepower they are the first and last line of defense for the imperium and make up a huge bulk of the battles the imperial guard is also made up of tons of different kinds of regiments the katachin jungle fighters live

in a death world that's more hospitable than almost any firefight they'll ever get into so they just have this steroid looking giant knife rambo predator looking sons of [ __ ] where nothing is anywhere near as scary as a simple night on their home planet you have the vol holland winter soldiers who haven't felt their toes in 300 years the morty and iron guard who are more interested in making their shoes shine than actually fighting a battle and then of course the big one the canadians from kedia the biggest export of guardsmen in the entirety

of the imperium you will fire your first gun at five you will disassemble and reassemble it at 10 you will have pounding artillery drills day in and day out at 15 and you'll fight your first swarmlord at 16. and if you mention kda you will burst into an unrelenting amount of tears and sadness like i do daily to quote i have in my command an entire battle group of the imperial guard 50 regiments including specialized drop troops stealthers mechanized formations armored companies combat engineers and mobile artillery over half a million fighting men and 30 000

tanks and artillery pieces are mine to command emperor show mercy to the fool that stands against me for i shall not the imperial guard are my personal favorite faction in 40k they're the army i collect the most the ones i enjoy playing the most and the one i enjoy in the lore sense a lot there's something about just a regular man with a laser rifle being told to charge the horrors of this universe and willingly doing so for his god emperor it's just poetic they actually represent the main imperial guard tactics pretty well large amounts

of artillery that doesn't require a line of sight lots of tanks tons of infantry drop troops and gun ships overall they're pretty similar to how they sound though a little bit expensive to collect unfortunately and they don't hit a lot they have a bit of a bad aim but you don't really care because you're just drowning them in shots however if you want more accurate fire and specialization we can move on to talk about space means the angels of death are up next space marines are genetically engineered super soldiers and super humans they're given extra

organs their skin tissue is toughened their bones are stronger they're taller than the average person they're pretty massive people and these are the specialized super soldiers that carry out a lot of the more specific tasks for the imperium and there's tons of legions of them in fact there's one per primark each primark the emperor's son as i mentioned before oversees their legion of space marines the genetic upgrade they get is based on the genes of said primark something called a gene seed that's what brings them up to this like superhuman level as stated each primark

has their own legion robot girly man has the ultramarines jagatai khan has the white scars a rogul dorn has the imperial fists corvus corax has the raven guard there's a whole bunch of other side sections that are also extremely interesting and have a little bit more of a twist on the average space marines which we'll discuss in a bit humorously enough i don't have a whole lot to say about space marines they're super humanly fast in fact it's been said that nothing that large should move that quick these men in power armor moving at blazing

fast speeds their reflexes are faster their skin is tougher they are overall just extremely powerful soldiers in fact where they differ it comes down to which space marine legion we're talking about for instance the ultramarines done by robot gurleman gilliam and gila are the main blue boys strong in almost every way the jack of all trades kind of group that are a little bit too strong and that's a lore problem but the white scars by jacket icon are all about speed freaks go fast we're talking attack bikes we're talking land speeders you want to go

in quick you want to hit them hard you want them to be swarming around like buzz flies buzz buzz buzz saws with the speed of buzz saws [ __ ] you pale king salamanders love fire fire the forge fire in battle flamers melta guns multi meltas just so long as something can be burning that's big and they're also actually some of the nicest of the space marines a lot of space marines have this kind of like holier than val thing because of their genetic strength however the salamanders tend to put human lives above the lives

of themselves which is actually rather rare they're also all black but not like just regular black like like 2am line at a white castle black like they have a charcoal dark ashy exterior and blazing red eyes apparently something about living on their home planet of nocturne which i don't know if that makes much sense but who cares this is like fantasy land anyway overall salamanders are actually my personal favorite legions because they're just really cool they're fun to play as because of all their flamer weapons and they have a nice like more heartwarming lore as

opposed to being super evil like everyone else is oh my god we're not even a quarter of the way through the space marine legions uh imperial fists believe in the power of the siege and defensive positions uh raven guards master of stealth and sabotage while having bird helmets iron hands masters of machines and vehicles while being really goddamn good at being sold on ebay after one nerf space wolves of vikings and wolves and tons of wolves and and axes battle axes fur everywhere space wolves so angry big teeth blood angels the genetic defect to make

them want to drink blood and go crazy called the red thirst they have cupid wings and stuff it's a little bit strange and they are all super gay for sanguineous dark angels are old school knights and inner circle theme and are you a heretic me no never once death watch uh fancy pants the auntie xenos group that nobody plays because death watch and look cool though but no no one plays them i don't know about death watch they're there though black templars for the people who if you haven't prayed at least three times a day

you're gonna start praying out that airlock and i'm sure there's some other chapters i may have missed as well like crimson fists and stuff but those are the main ones right here here here quote from the emperor himself they shall be my finest warriors these men who give of themselves to me like clay i shall mold them and in the furnace of war i shall forge them they shall be of iron will and steely sinu in great armor i shall clad them and with the mightiest weapons shall they be armed they will be untouched by

plague or disease no sickness shall blight them they shall have such tactics strategies and machines that no foe will best them in battle they are my bulwark against the terror they are my defenders of humanity they are my space marines and they shall know no fear and on the tabletop they [ __ ] oh they [ __ ] hard as of making this video space marines are laughably strong that might change at some point but overall space marines just have the it's like a swiss army knife a tool for anything you need except it's like

a gold-plated swiss army knife it is extremely strong if you are actually getting into the tabletop of warhammer space marines are a great start also whatever gameplay style you have whether you want to be sit back with long range and heavy weaponry go fast and run in or even just full melee all of these options are totally there for you space marines are super badass but unfortunately it's time we start praying to our new god the 2011 honda civic so is it any wonder people are afraid of technology technology the adeptus mechanicus the dentist mechanicus

are a technophile cult on mars now these people are a little bit weird because they don't actually really believe in the emperor of mankind and you might think oh whoa whoa whoa berkey that sounds like some heresy a little bit they believe in the emperor they believe in his power but they don't pray to him they pray to something called the omnisia and the omnisia is this kind of machine god they believe permeates in all machines and if you think well wait a minute they believe in a different god as well that sounds like super

harris well yes ish but they also make all your guns and they make all your tanks and they make everything that you have so you can't really tell them to [ __ ] off because you're not gonna win nothing if you don't got stuff to shoot people with see they're on messiah at least makes sense from their standpoint they believe it to be a deity that permeates through all machines your honda civic your standard bolt gun your dune strider walker your giant mechs your huge ships the omniscience present through all and the only reason your

stuff works is because the machine's spirit in it says it works if you want your gun to work your tank to run you must pray to it and i mean full stop you need to start chanting in high gothic you need to burn incense you need to sit on your knees and pray to that car you need to rub oil on your robes and you need to go ahead and hold a hummus and a ham and a ham and a full stop if you want your damn thing to work if you want your gun to

fire you need to do that they are very bizarre and they actually have a bit of a point because it's obviously working and if you look at them i don't know how that works so they obviously know something about what they're doing the most notable member of the adidas mechanicus is arch megos majos whatever belisarius call look at that look at this dude look at this dude yeah that this is the group we're talking about these are these weirdos here the um creed the the the credo credo on messiah there is no truth in flesh

only betrayal there is no strength in flesh only weakness there is no constancy in flesh only decay there is no certainty in flesh but death flesh is weakness flesh is death the omnisia is the god of the machines and if you wish to be whole if you wish to be holy if you wish to give unto him you must saw down your limbs and remove your organs and replace them with mechanical parts because that is what he wants and that is how you will become enlightened hard technophiles mixed with religious extremism dentist mechanicus now for

their army side of things they are with the sakitari this qatari operate with very bizarre weaponry and lots of different kinds of vehicles tanks and different people in between they're very weird but they have extremely wacky and enjoyable and in fact quite effective both in the real game and in the lore weaponry and gear overall as an army on the tabletop they're very weird and have a whole bunch of different shenanigans but if you like kind of that quirky wacky techno thing i'd give them a pick up help they're so paranoid i gotta keep going

they're so paranoid and crazy these dune striders you see right here one guy was able to make them work one guy and he died and they're so scared they'll never work again that they keep them on and they never turn them off and they run around in a circle the whole time until they need them and then they corral it and they go to battle yep the adeptus mechanicus now if you want to talk about faith though let's talk about the sisters of battle a simp has fallen for an eagle in lego city the sisters

of battle of the adeptus sororitas if that's how i pronounce it correctly is an all-female group of battle sisters going through the ecclesiarchy section of the imperium the ecclesiarchy is of course the church this is imagine a private army of the church which is scary and it is the sisters are an extremely zealous force and they take this to a full extreme they believe in three main things faith martyrdom and fire through the bolter the flamer and the melta the sisters of battle are extremely potent at taking out chaos and heretics mainly heretics because as

they are a fighting section of the ecclesiarchy church that's the big thing they want to kill any form of heretic will face the emperor's justice through those three main weapons the bolter the flamer and the melta and they will do so with extreme prejudice literally they are the closest things we have to nuns in space and i'm talking hardcore nuns they carry holy fire on their backs they have holy like books and sigils all across their armor their main battle tank is a [ __ ] pipe organ missile launcher they have small babies that they

have like removed their brain capacity to make them little servant cherubs to fly around and give them ammunition and [ __ ] they drop churches from low orbit as many drop pods onto battles they drop churches into battles and they blare war hymns and holy music from their frigates in low atmosphere and shower holy water across the battlefield these are the people you are dealing with and they're [ __ ] awesome they can literally stave off demons on the table top because their faith is that strong remember the warp the demons from the warp well

the warp also manifests in your mind all of your emotions negative and positive go through the warp it's the immaterium the place of all things so if you are that mentally fortified that mentally strong you can stave off horrifying demons and all these girls oh not a crack not a crack in that mental armor now as much as a meme as they are and as much as their models look a lot like ango ango gabloglien yeah which i can't unsee anymore i gotta say i love their design i think they're extremely cool they're another army

that i'm currently collecting they just released a whole new line of figures very recently and they look wonderful everything from celestine the living literally undying saint from the triumph of saint catherine which is literally a funeral procession as a model those organ tanks i mentioned earlier this [ __ ] is the most over-the-top badassery in a lot of the warhammer universe and god damn it isn't over the top but sisters of battle are so cool while i'm a guardsman at heart oh this is such a cool faction by bolter shell flamer burst and melta blast

the mutant the heretic and the traitor alike are cleansed of their sin of existence so it has been for five millennia so shall it be until the end of time and speaking of burning demons the grey knights are the first army i actually collected back in 7th edition the grenades are a super secretive and much more old-school look at power armored knights except they are all psychers all of them have that crazy space magic magician [ __ ] for every 100 000 guardsmen there's one grey knight for every 10 000 sisters of battle there's one

grey knight for every thousand space marines there's one great night grey knights are the strongest of the strong both in mental will and absolute just strength these are space marines that are all high level psychers all of them able to specifically do one goal and that is kill demons the emperor believed that the demons of chaos were the number one threat to the imperium and he probably is right however this group is entirely based on doing that through a myriad of tactics coming from the planet or i guess the moon of titan in the soul

system the gray knights are thrown through extremely rigorous training and are as clear of mind and soul as they possibly can be since the demons of the wharf are the warp and your mind projects to the warp people can go insane very fast especially lower level psychers these great eyes need to be able to harness the warp in the presence of demons and stay perfectly same one other characters one of my favorite characters is named castlin crow he has a demon blade the black blade of mahama hama and he has to have it on him

because it tempts everyone nearby constantly beckoning them use my power use my strength suck my penis whatever the possibility and so he has to keep it on him all the time as this thing whispers to him consistently and he has to stave it off forever being alone in his chambers or on the battlefield because anyone who gets too close to it might be tempted a little too hard he is that pure of heart and mind and all the characters in the gray knights are basically like that the only issue is that um gray knights have

a scorched earth policy you know more ways than one if they're fighting demons demons corrupt and make people crazy so if i'm a guardsman and i'm fighting demons and the gray knights arrive and i kill all the demons i'm a risk and so guess who's not making it out of there on the tabletop they're very strike fast strike hard kind of people they teleport all around the place they are fast strike groups small amounts of models because they're so dang strong you only have so many characters but with it you get in there you're very

tough very tanky you hit really hard and you try to bounce around the battlefield quickly but you don't have numbers and so every dead grey knight hits really damn hard they're fun though if you like that kind of uh fast striking kind of army oh and also uh caldor drago is a thing where i even get into caldor drago alright that is uh oh my goodness gracious i am the hammer i am the male about his fist i am the spear in his hand though we are lost i am the shield on his arm i

am the flight of his arrows i am the hammer i am the sword i am the shield i am a soldier at the battle at the end of time great nights are pretty hardcore they are as holy as you can get for a space marine if you like space marines and you want to you know that they're holy enough you want to be holier gray nights now if you want to be holier and big let's talk imperial knights do you like gigantic walkers the size of homes or medium-sized buildings do you want to kill heretics

but you want to kill like 40 of them per turn do you want a gigantic old-school night noble house style of walkers with giant chainsaw arms then you've got imperial knights imperial knights it's not a hard to talk about them because they're just gigantic walkers but they have this old school like house feel to them like literally like there are houses each imperial night comes from a house and each of them act in their own special way these behemoth of walkers also destroy almost everything in their path killing full swaths of squads in a couple

shots stepping on legions of troops like these things do not mess around and they look so cool imperial nights and chaos nights actually for that matter don't have a whole lot to discuss they're just super big heavy walkers and they look different depending on your house or chaos god you currently believe in and overall these things are just really cool if you want to murder everything in your path with a big scary big unit of warhammer and if you want to collect them go to town they make for a great painting project too gamer back

down to earth let's talk something about a little bit a little bit different a little more gold if guardsmen are regular soldiers space marines are super soldiers grey knights are super super soldiers the adeptus custodies are super soldiers cubed the adeptus custodies are the third major army i own i i know three armies i know i i got carried away okay but that's all i only have three okay they are our final brand of space marines but these ones are super special okay if a guardsman is six foot a space marine is seven feet a

custodian is eight feet these are the giant defenders of holy terror which is also earth earth is terra earth terra themselves these are the people that literally guard the emperor's throne room hence custodies these boys protect the emperor's throne room at all times and are literally like hand crafted people they're not humans brought up by a jeans here or something these are all handcrafted super soldiers i think from a tube these behemoth of men are like eight feet eight and a half feet tall and functionally immortal they stand still spear in hand for hundreds of

years without the need to sleep and barely even the need to eat watching over the throne room and every other area of holy terror for their entire purpose in life and oh my lord are they terrifying these custodians put space marines to shame if you liked your super soldiers these are your super mega soldiers one of these men can take on probably three space marines and most likely win there are many different groups of custodians as well like the solar watch or there's also my personal favorite the equivalent shield the equivalent shield go out to

seemingly unimportant individuals and protect them because they believe that they are going to be doing something very important in their lives for instance let's say a regular guardsman gets the protection of this giant eight and a half foot tall golden god because that guardsman will end up becoming a general one day or something of that nature the custodians work in mysterious ways and are almost always outnumbered but never outmatched these people are pretty horrifying both on the tabletop as well as in the lore there are very few of them however and there's actually extremely small

amount of them but that's kind of the point there's only so many of these people that can have war gear this strong weapons this powerful and training this good and the custodians have all three of it for 100 years i stood my watch amidst the somber shadows of the sanctum imperialis i was still as a statue but always ready always attuned to dangers unseen days months years passed by in a frenzy blur beyond those walls yet within little moved and nothing changed for 100 years i did not but wait yet had any threat appeared i

would have struck it down in a heartbeat for 100 years i stood my watch and as it ends i can tell you this patience is a weapon the custodians are the top dogs of the imperium and they hurt just that same way though i do want to discuss a little bit about the sisters of silence before we get out of here because the sisters of silence i also have a few of and they're really fun but they don't get enough attention these kind of bald plume ladies are a whole group of pariahs or also known

as blanks we'll be referring to them as blanks from now on so as every mind is somewhat connected to the warp these blanks are a genetic mutation that is has it suppressed heavily because of that mind suppression normal people feel this weird like uncomfortable nature when around them when a sister of silence walks past them you feel ill you feel just uncomfortable and strained so most of them don't actually live past childhood because once they are birthed they're well you know killed or something at a very young age because they just omit a horrifying aura

these ladies however are guardians of the throne as well for more psychic threats see none of the custodians are psychers so they have a difficult time dealing with major demons and other kinds of psychic phenomena these sisters are extremely specialized in it all of them taking a vow of silence as they don't speak hence the term such as the silence but they communicate through hand gestures and things of that nature but if there's a demon issue if there's any kind of warp-based problem the sisters are extremely adept at dealing with them thanks to their blank

gene they normally work a lot of time with the custodians because they have to deal with both kinds of threats but they're not represented that way on the tabletop in fact they only have like one real model for them which is very unfortunate i hope they'll get something new soon because i think they should really be working together as it is that way in the lore but hopefully we'll get there soon but if we're talking about blanks let's talk assassins it's been a long video we're about to round it out we got this and one

more human thing and then we're done the assassins though the officio assassinorum oh boy these people are deadly yeah they're called assassins they should be but oh man these people will mess you up so these are from the officio assassinorum a very special organization and they are hand-picked by the grand master of the official assassin norm from the [ __ ] what was it called scola progenium it's basically an orphan school your parents got murdered by demons or something you get sent to this and you get trained to be whatever uh tempest is drop troop

an inquisitor maybe even uh maybe you get a blank gene and you get thrown into the sisters silence or sometimes you just disappear when you are taken however you go to one of four temples because the assassinorum works in the temple style of things each these temples are the vindicare caluxus caledus and eversor temples let's start with the vindicare i'm far away i've been sitting here for three weeks poof the vindicator temple is the main sniper based temple gigantic sniper rifles for all these assassins their whole point is to be able to be in a

spot and sit there i in scope for weeks waiting for their perfect target taking people out from literal miles away after extremely long time periods the vindicator temple is about precise perfect aim there have been reports of vindicaires being able to single out particular body parts from over two three miles away temples in the head the jugular for instance and been sitting there after weeks and when they're ready take that shot time is done packs them up the caldus temple however is a lot more about shape shifting and deviant art it's mostly a female-based one

or at least it seems to be and this allows a lot of body augmentation for certain individuals to be able to kind of transmorph themselves and infiltrate areas that are problems these assassins will end up taking missions that take them years two three years to infiltrate a heretical group and slowly work their way up just to get enough time to put a bullet into the main target's head and then escape unharmed or become the main target and sabotage it from within these are all completely about deception mind tricks polymorphing and everything in between and lots

of drawings lots of drawings the eversore temple just kind of disturbing one the eversore temple is about when you don't want anything to come back alive friend or foe you want it all dead and eversor is psychogenically conditioned with just psychotherapy and psychological torture to only feel violence hatred and anger it does the clockwork orange style of thing of just making you forced to watch never-ending pain and misery and and psycho conditioning i guess is the term and then they pump you full of tons of psychedelic drugs and they cryo-freeze you and then they drop

you in an area where they just want to make sure everything is dead and then you defrost full of just all this insane mind-boggling psychotherapy and psychedelic drugs and you just go to town yeah if you you don't care if anyone comes back alive you're like all right lost cause send a mim finally there's the most bizarre temple the calexus temple the kluxes assassins are feared even among the other temples so that blank gene the people will go to the collector's temple with this as well and this is where they can harness that to be

massively anti-psycho or even just anti-regular people they are seen with extreme fear and distrust among many many people they are described by the eldar by quote as being pure evil imagine that uncomfortable feeling from that blank gene i mentioned and then imagine them being taught and given equipment to amplify it by a hundred if normally regular people feel uncomfortable now they are basically akin to being a siren wailing directly in your ear and if you're a psycho oh no the sheer presence of a clutched assassin is enough for you to tear your skin off you

will rather gouge your eyes out and rip your nails off than even being near this person the collected assassin is when you want psychers to literally lose their minds and they will go on their knees and ask you to gun them down because it is a suitable choice over being anywhere near you the motto of that temple is that which is unknown and unseen commands the greatest fear now for the tabletop assassins aren't that special you can call them in no matter what imperium faction you are and they do a lot of work for themselves

but at the same time they're very specialized and require a lot of finesse and they work the way you generally want them to though you want to cause some distortion and weird stuff you take a cow this you want to just murder swaths of infantry and then blow up eversor you want to kill that one guy vindicaire and if you have a lot of psyches caluxus it's nice little like jack of all trades if you have a specific thing you want to kill and you get to choose which which is really fun but now let's

talk about the last human faction we can round this video out before we do part two the inquisition and we have a lot to talk about with them oh boy where do i even begin with the inquisition take every secret police you can think of the kgb the gestapo the cia fbi any of these kinds of people and then mark it up by about 10 and give them the most power in the entire imperium no you know what how about this this this right here it's not just a quote this is the imperial motto the

motto of the inquisition i apologize for my bad pronunciation innocentia nihil probate innocence proves nothing the most powerful organization in the imperium the secret police their number one motto is innocence proves nothing the inquisition goes around like the secret police or like detectives to find issues in the imperium and they have different orders depending on which one we're talking about the ordo hereticus the ordozinos uh the ordo malleus for instance and a whole bunch of other ones hereticus is obvious they deal with heretics xenos tries to find alien threats and malleuses demons they all have

different specializations in what they're trying to go for as this inquisitor and that's what they're called inquisitors each of them as an acquisitor has their own free reign to do as they wish they may have a ship and a crew and they go out to find problems and interrogate people a lot they are above the law in every department over space marines now the space marines might argue against them and stuff and there might be a lot of blowback but technically they are above them as inquisitors they are looking to investigate and figure out coups

and cults and demonic incursions and possible xenos issues like gene steelers or a new threat coming into an area they're about learning that stuff and actually do detective work and memes aside they're pretty good at it the inquisition having all of this power does make them a little bit power hungry and frantic sometimes and yes it is still a bad thing but most of them are pretty good at their job and they spend a lot of time being very diligent to make sure that all of these leads they follow are proper and correct they're basically

space detectives with just enormous power and sometimes a bit of a power complex and we haven't even talked about exterminatus yet exterminatus exterminatus is deeming a planet unfit to be saved i deem that this planet is demon infested and taking it back will cost too many resources and is not worth it i have now committed exterminatus on this planet i will now sign the death warrant of an entire imperium planets as it is unfit to take and better to be destroyed than allow the enemy to hold it this can mean saturation bombardment this can mean

cracking the planet's core and breaking it apart doesn't matter render this planet inhospitable to all life yes the innocence proves nothing people are the only people who can choose this planet must die in its entirety yeah you're playing the villain now it is memed a lot but most inquisitors are very rare to do exterminatus exterminas is a very crazy thing there's only so many worlds that you don't want to destroy all of them now naturally with the memes aside there are some people who are a little bit rough on this one but most inquisitors generally

don't like to do exterminatum but it is an option they have and it's a crazy option when you think about it secret police inquisition are unfortunately not represented on the tabletop very much you generally kind of put one in your army if you feel like it you have a couple special options there and some side content but they're not really fleshed out very well and personally they need a lot more stuff put in there and they really need a lot more effort put into them they're not quite where i want them to be overall the

inquisition makes for a lot of the best storytelling as well because it's a little bit hard to talk about a big story of a whole bunch of space marines killing something right it's just a big battle story it's not as interesting having that intrigue and that moral dilemma that an inquisitor has makes for a lot better media and honestly the more people do it i think it's better because then it adds a little more humanity to the warhammer horrible horrible grim darkness and wow we just finished the humans alright come back for part two when

we talk about chaos and xenos because we got to talk about the four chaos gods and all the chaos marine legions and the tau and the necrons and the orcs and oh boy we got a lot i'll see you in part two [Music] you