The Mystery Of The Daemon King EXPLAINED! | Warhammer 40k Lore

There's not a ton of Information on the Daemon King, but based on the timeline I piece together in the video, its fair to assume that at the height of his power, he was likely far more powerful than Khorne or Nurgle. Slaanesh didn't exist yet, but we could also assume he was more powerful than them considering they are considered the weakest god. He came to a stalemate with an unshattered tzeentch which is absolutely bonkers to me.

Imagine being so angry at one of your lieutenants that the only thing you can think of doing is choking the sense out of him, then yeeting him so hard that he becomes an astronomic anomaly.

While it is very impressive that he fought Tzeentch for that long, it was Tzeentch. The whole thing could have been a massive deception.

Wow! It would be so cool to me if they kept going with the Daemon King and hinted he still is around slowly building back up, like the "5th Chaos God, Malal".

Be a pretty cool conspiracy theory if the Daemon king revived as the emperor when feeling the shamans combining there power. Further empowering the beginning of his new life also would explain a lot of how the emperor knew how to enter the warp, and make deals with the chaos gods.

Anything that has the title stronger than the chaos gods has my 100% attention

To follow up on chaos based stuff that isn't well known.....malice? He is canon afterall, even if his previous interpretation of malal isn't.

In good old Warhammer Fantasy, there were a Daemon King named Tz'Arkan in the Mallus Darkblade comic/novels. "Mallus, sometimes you scare even me, and I am a demon king..." "Shut up demon"

Be’Lakor: we got competition brother Daniel: call the demon Primarchs, because this might get ugly.

I always assumed that the Yssarile was one of the entities that formed in the warp after the War in Heaven along with Khorne, Nurgle and Tzeentch (and probably other entities that we dont know about) and these proto-chaos gods battled it out to become masters of their respective domains

This sounds like the God Emperor to me, think about it. So powerful to challenge the Gods of Chaos, his followers built a throne world for him after he was defeated, and his "demons" were able to survive in the Materium. Perhaps this is the future to be for the God Emperor or his previous existence, considering that in the Warp everything is and isn't at the same time.

So glad you switched to longer videos, hopefully your numbers will continue to rise!

I like how there's a possibility that some daemons eventually develop their own sentience that would eventually become more or greater than the other and its on par with the whole chaos concept.

I think I have a nice theory: What if this billion year war between tzeench and the demon King is actually the same event as the shattering of tzeench's staff? After all, a gigantic war that threatened tzeench's godhood itself is a very big showing of his lost of power, and isn't hard to believe he sacrificed is monopoly on splles to win it, getting railed in a billion year war to not get attacked by the combined forces of all other chaos gods does seem like a pretty tzeench thing to do.... Also the fact that slanesh was there during the breaking of the staff whilst this war was before slanesh was born is makes perfect sense because the warp is weird that way

Wait. Wes, do you think the Demon King's corpse is what's making the demons be able to exist in reality? Like how the Emperor's corpse is Humanity's spectral lighthouse? Also damn its been a while since I last seen your vids. Glad your channel is growing and you're getting sponsors.

What about the Blade of Antwyr, possessed by a daemon so strong that it can't be destroyed or locked away and has to be constantly fought by the most incorruptible Grey Knight ever

There is a chance the Daemon king is the staff, who power grew so great it became an entity in its own right. It would also explain a lot about all of this.

Correct me if I’m wrong but the warp is just manifestations of emotions and other primal forces or representations of certain ideals and goals. So I personally think that the chaos gods are just very powerful deamons that then contorted the warp around themselves. And there being three types of deamons: God tier deamons (chaos gods), god deamons (deamons that are created by god tier deamons) and lastly the deamons that float around and manifest themselves every now and then that aren’t part of a gods roster. This is just a idea comprised of various sources, canon and not, over years and if it’s true then there could be a possibility of a 5th god tier deamon arriving or at least a deamon that grows powerful enough to rival the god tiers and is entirely unaffiliated with the chaos gods.

I highly doubt that the Daemon King was stronger then Nurgel or Khorne, but then again, this was most probably during a time where they weren't at their peaks, so I guess it can make sense. But then again, like another YouTuber said, the power scaling of Warhammer is inconsistent. 3 of the gods with infinitely more followers and who stretches across multiple realities being only equal in strength to the newest "born" Chaos god, just makes no sense. I agree with the sentiment, personally.

Y'know how it's a real popular theory that the emporer made a deal with the chaos gods to help create the primarchs (for their souls at least); what if those souls belonged to daemon Kings? It would explain why primarchs are fairly powerful. Chaos be like "have your dealing souls; and bind them to a mortal form. Well take half back later. (Tzeentch to himself: whew! Glad to be rid of them Kings)