The War of the Beast EXPLAINED By An Australian | Warhammer 40k Lore

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Imperium: “Please lead us!” Vulcan: “Friends, I am no leader. I am but a man with two big arms and a bigger hammer. I am only good at hitting things and hugging things.”

To quote Dorn: The war of the beast was weird....

Lucifer Blacks are the human guard equivalent to a space marine, they have the best gear, the best training and gene enhancements, while still remaining "human". Custodes are like mini Primarchs so yea... I totally agree with your head canon.

The Orks: Who managed to do what Failbaddon couldn't do with 13 attempts and 10 000 years: Kill an entire first founding chapter.

The fact that Mars was able to reverse-engineer ork tech at all is impressive. Also shows that tech heresy is only a thing when what you make isn’t super badass and beneficial to humanity cough Cawl cough

to be fair, the harlequins were only able kill the custodies because none of them were wearing armor and they kept slipping on body oil. Thats my head cannon

The real time evolution of the Orks relative to the strength of their WAAAAHG is such a great mechanic of the universe. I feel like Orks getting into the warp to enter an endless war with Chaos demons, should revert them back to Korks

0:35 TTS Rogal Dorn: "The War of The Beast was weird."

The Orks should get a PrimeOrk on their side one of these days, the Imperium has Gulliman and Chaos has their own Primarchs (despite not being much of a factor considering how often they get banished back to the Warp) and I can see a few being spawned after enough time fighting the Nids.

If the Orks are ever led by a proper Krork again literally everyone will have a bad time.

I don’t thinks krorks can exist without something leading them. The old ones provided them with tech and a command structure, and once that was gone the in-fighting split the Krorks into clans/ tribes and that was the end because the Waaagh field wasn’t strong enough to maintain krorks.

War of the Beast is according to me a prime example of giving an author too much creative freedom. Like, GW should made some guideliness, something like Codex Astartes, so that no author can’t suck off his favorite fraction like with the Ultramarines, or grind his least favorite (hated) to shit. Like they did with Imperial Fists, Eldar, Necrons, Tau, Orks. Chaos. You get what I mean.

WE ALL SAW THE FIRST UPLOAD YOU CANNOT HIDE FROM US

I remember the first part of the war of the beast story was actually good up until vulkan dies/disappears. one of the most grimdark scenes was were it was revealed the orks were creating factory farms for humans and were taking out people's teeth and locking them naked in pens like cattle until they were slaughtered for meat and skin leather. there was all sorts of new and juicy lore that wasn't really talked about before, like the first loyalist primarch coming back in after they all disapeared, how things were going so well for the imperium at that point in time they were considering defunding the astartes, the origin for lots of current stuff in the lore, etc.

Personal headcannon: There was 1 squad of Krork who got lost in the warp. Of these, only 8 survived. These 8 were the beasts.

Worth mentioning that Trazyn has an actual legit Krork in his vault, which I think he said was one of the smaller ones that were kicking about during the war in heaven. This Krork was described as standing a foot over The Beast(s) in height and IIRC having even more advanced power armor. People think that Smart Orks would cause all their current equipment to malfunction and fall apart since it all works on the Orks not knowing that it shouldn't work, but The Beast seems to indicate that this is little to no issue compared to what they'd be able to start building instead.

would love to see a vid on the kroks in particular. an entire race of perpetually self improving, reality bending green skin primarchs would be fun to watch.

"He was called the beast, because that's exactly what is was, a beast!" -Rogal Dorn circa millennium 42

Did perturabo write this series? Or maybe he reads it to torture dorn with a smug look on his face?