40K - THE EMPEROR OF MAN [4] A Self Fulfilling Prophecy | WARHAMMER 40,000 Lore/History

Too long by far since we revisted The Emperor. A hefty chunk of time getting this one ready but worth remembering theres still tons more surrounding the Emperor to get into past and present. Hope this one SERVES you all well, if it does >> hit the like - helps me and the channel. More new stuff as soon as it can be forged, what next tho is always the question. Xenos... Heretics... Guns or other...

The Emperor: “I alone can fix this” refuses to elaborate gets mortally wounded and rots on a throne for 10 thousand years

Luetin's vocal cords: "My lord, the task is overwhelming!" Luetin: Only in death, does duty end.

Big E- "I'm not the messiah, honestly" Humanity- "Only the true messiah would deny his divinity..." Big E- "All right, i AM the messiah" Humanity- "He IS the messiah"

“I could probably do videos for a whole year about only the emperor” ... You must traverse down this path Luetin09

The fact that Leutin one day might have to quit for health reasons, makes his content even more special. Keep up the good work man. We really appreciate you.

If 40K history were to roughly follow the Dune path, the Emperor’s goal was always to be overthrown, but to be overthrown by something better, not by a new would-be god or the self-destructive chaos of unending strife. That’s one way to read Malcador’s line: the rebellion came before the rest of humanity was ready to defeat and replace the Emperor. Maybe Guilliman can figure something out.

Many years ago, I spoke with one of the original writers for Games Workshop and basically what he told me (yeah I know, take this with a grain of salt!) was that the original deep lore, true for both 40k and Fantasy, was that there was nothing besides the Chaos Gods and their daemons, that just set the whole thing up like some epic Lovecraftian cosmic horror story to be their playground. The original Sigmar of WHFB was actually a greater daemon of Khorne in disguise, Ulric was Khorne. Morr was actually Nurgle, and so on, and even the Elven/Eldar gods were actually Chaos gods or their greater daemons too (as if the Khaine thing wasn't obvious enough). It didn't matter what you'd do, you were providing food and entertainment for the Chaos Gods one way or another, and anyone that thinks they are resisting Chaos is actually being played by one Chaos god and fighting against another. Now with the whole Age of Sigmar thing they stretched this deep lore quite a bit as they felt that Warhammer needed some good guy paragons of virtue (lol), and I was told something similar was planned for 40k back then. The idea was that the Tyranids would win and devour the whole galaxy, and all the factions desperately fleeing into the webway or some new kind of pocket universe so that all factions could fight any other faction easily because of colliding bubbles, pretty similar to how it went with Age of Sigmar, and humans would have some good guy faction in there led by I think it was somekind of reborn Emperor, but not 100% sure on whether it actually fully is him. The huge backlash against the destruction of the Old World caused them to put that idea on the backburner, but it was originally planned to be the conclusion of the whole plot arc starting with the Primaris being created and the King in Yellow thing, so who knows if they abandoned that idea (let's hope) or are still going to push it through. The original deep lore from 20 or so years ago just has the Emperor return as a greater daemon of the Chaos Gods after he entered the warp at Molech, which incidentally is exactly the same story as Sigmar who ventured north and had that same thing happen to him, in both cases setting up humanity to a grim dark existence with maximum war and misery, as the Chaos Gods will it. Malcador is some Chaos agent in disguise that was instrumental in this plot. Anwyay, in both cases, Sigmar and the Emperor, now greater daemons, sought to break free and cheat and usurp their creator gods, and that is how Sigmar eventually ascended thanks to having a cult dedicated to him, and well, the same thing for the Emperor, having a galaxy-wide cult and daily psyker-juice. Anyway, the whole original thing was the bleakest-of-bleak scenario in the video, with the Emperor's masterplan of breaking free originally just being limited to the the whole webway thing, which indeed went tits up due to Chaos Gods having planned this all along and outplaying him by using Magnus and kickstarting the war too early, that is original lore as far as I know. After his webway project was destroyed, the Emperor was indeed winging it, and eventually deciding he'd beat the Chaos Gods at their own game, and went to do the same thing as Sigmar, aiming to ascend to full godhood and become a powerful enough force in the warp to stand up to the Chaos Gods and birth a faction of The Good Guys In Shining Golden Armor With Thunderbolts And Wings And Stuff (TM).

A thousand years from now, Luetin still sits the golden gamer rig, chronicling the deeds and words of the Emperor.

i saw the notification and went "holy shit he's talking about the emperor again, this is gonna be a long one LFG"

Just wanna say I appreciate this video even more knowing you’ve issues with your voice at the moment, you make some amazing content my dude! The effort you put in really shows, can’t wait to listen to this my nights made 👊🏼👊🏼 hope your voice gets better

You missed out a detail from the short story "Horus and the Emperor" when the Emperor described reaching the end of his ability to see into the future, when I can't glimpse what is ahead, it is his time of testing. I believe this is why he was in such a hurry during the crusade, he only knew what was going to happen up to a certain point and wanted to be ready for when the time came, yet he didn't know just want it was.

Luetin I hope you find this buried in the comments. Absolutely love your stuff, the quality of your work is continuously improving and your commitment to exploring the murky lore of 40k is fantastic. I regularly listen to your work as background while gaming or studying, and also as sleep aids. Your videos brought me back to the setting after a decade long break (prior to which I was mainly a WHFB fan with minimal interest in 40k). I intend to hang around until the Tyranids inevitably descend to consume us all. Much love mate 😀👍

Me rushing to watch these videos is a self fulfilling prophecy lol. The Emperor Protects!!!

I had no idea you planned on continuing past 3! This is a very pleasant surprise since it was your original trilogy that got me into Warhammer lore a couple years ago.

Sounds very similar, conceptually, to the Golden Path in the Dune cycle. The Emperor plunges the galaxy in to thousands of years of war in order to shape humanity for a future which would otherwise end in humanities destruction.

The emperor isn't a bumbling idiot; one of my favourite pieces of information about him is in the Mechanicum HH book where it is heavily implied that he essentially created the Mechanicum thousands of years ago and suggested belief in the machine god and even detailed specific prophecies specifically so that thousands of years later when he turned up, he would be seen as the Omnissiah. He does this because he has such powerful foresight that he knows millennia in advance that he will need a devoted construction world in order to facilitate his galactic crusade

"Sorry guys, this video's not just 40K, it's good 40K, and long - I'll be skipping your tea-time raid today"

Saturnine has a quote that bounces around in my head “Godhood is the ultimate tool of control. It is the pinnacle of tyranny.”

After 5 hours of luetin exploring the character of the emperor. He’s an even more cryptic, mysterious, awe inspiring and absolutely terrifying character than I imagined him to be. Luetin raising more questions than he answered. I think the emperor fundamentally is good yet has become something so vastly powerful and a scope of knowledge so great that even a primarch can’t comprehend who he really is and the extent of his plans. Religious people say « god works in mysterious ways » now often it’s used as a cop out, but imagine a being has such an extensive knowledge of the universe, of time, of humanity but doesn’t have it all as the emperor himself explains to Ra, wouldn’t such a being’s actions seem uncaring? Evil at times? Ultimately, he’s the only one looking out for humanity in the 40k universe