The Daemonculaba Is NOT What You Think. | Warhammer 40k Lore

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I would argue if someone is ok with Nightlords flaying children, the Daemonculabra shouldn’t be that bad.

Can you imagine just how much more horrific the Daemonculaba could have been if it was in the hands of Fabius Bile?

Played Darktide with Luetin, told him they needed the Daemon Daemonculaba as a boss. His grunts and mumbles were pretty damn funny.

I believe the Daemonculabra were very much inspired by the Axlotl Tanks of the Bene Tleilaxu, from the Dune series, as they also are bizarre womb-like "flesh machines" made out of women, and used to gestate superhuman creatures... 🤔

Honestly, as fucked up as it is. It seems perfectly in place in Warhammer 40 K. I mean, the Drukari only kidnap you, grape and torture you for decades then turn you into a living coatrack. This just seems par for the course.

Getting captured by the dark eldar and emperos children is still worse imo

Like a bunch of stuff in WH40k, the daemonculaba is taken from the Dune books by Frank Herbert. In Chapter House Dune the Ixians have found a way to culture spice in the wombs of genetically modified bene geserite priestesses. It was just as creepy in the Dune books because they also used them for growing clones.

I think Dragon Age's broodmothers pulling this years before I even found WH40k made me just neutral to the existence of daemonculaba. DA is nowhere as dark as WH40k, so it serves as a much harsher contrast - based on the grimdark 40th millenium I expected something much darker, there are so much body horror in WH40k already

It's hardly the worst or darkest or cruelest thing that is implied to exist in the verse, I'm pretty sure that Slaanesh daemons and Dark Eldar would consider it pretty boring and uninspired compared to some of the stuff they do in a regular basis, hell, it's hardly the worst thing people IRL have written or drew art of, but it's just a specific type of explicit that people don't typically associate with 40K.

Everything of what Wes just said about the Daemonculaba sounds like a casual Monday morning in a Homunculus laboratory. Like a Homunculus just casually calls up Vect with a cup of coffee and in flip-flops and just reports about how he made an artificial womb.

Wes, I loved the bit of this video where you just sat and GUSHED about this story. Largely unscripted and off the cuff. It was SUPER fun just listening to you go on and on about this. Your enthusiasm seeps through the screen. Loved this!! You should definitely do more videos in this style(:

When I knew about the darmonculaba, I just thought: "well, hard times require whatever salvation you can think of". It didn't ruin my mood, it just felt fit for the Iron Warriors due to their style of warfare.

All of Uriel Ventris’ books are 80’s action movie style and I love it. They would make fantastic video games.

Its definitley dark but there are far more worse things out there. For me personally, servitors are equal in terms of being how horrifying they are. But outside 40k, Procedure Montauk is WAY worse.

TBH before hearing about the Daemonculaba/Dead Sky, Black Sun story I thought the Iron Warriors weren't that bad when compared to the likes of the Nightlords and the Emperor's Children. The theme of factory farming; the uncaring cruelty rewarded by efficient mass production really does suit the Iron Warriors brutal and emotionless nature and this gives them a quite effective extra layer of horror different from any of the other Chaos legions.

Ahahah, oh my god, this is why I LOVE this channel, yet struggle with nearly every other 40k channel. You are like the healthiest fan just... ever. Not just for 40k, just like... EVER. You never, ever ever try to justify/validate/defend liking something. You just LIKE it for what it is. No insecurity, no need to defend it as if somehow you're going to get picked for liking it. Just pure, joyous, honest love. Also, RIP Chaos Space Marine Steve.

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"Say what you will about the Iron Warriors being relentlessly evil. But at the end of the day, at least they care about recycling" Well put, Wes! 😂👏 Also, I don't know why. But the visceral part of 40k doesn't bother me that much. The things that bother me are the abhorrent cases of manipulation, betrayal, injustice and abuse of power. Like the simple case of an inquisitor who fucks up, but abuses his position to cover it up. Often in gruesome ways worse than what he initially tries to cover up! With chaos. Sure, it's bad. But also expected. With the Imperium, and specifically the Inquisition, the lines are more grey and blurry! And in true Grim Dark fashion. Morals and ethics are just cliff notes!

Other books that gives insight into the POV of survivors of Chaos occupation are the Dan Abnett Books 'Traitor General' and 'His last command'. They feature a hole ecosystem of campy concepts of corruptions, but the best feature of all these books (including Dead Sky, Black Sun) is that they explore the fringes of unreasonable faith in face of unfathomable horrors and frankly a critical deconstuction of the 'good angelic human' like 'Bladerunner' did.