The Story of Warhammer 40k in less than 3 minutes

What is the story of Warhammer 40k? It's an awesome story, but it's often overwhelming, so let's make it simple and get you hooked.

Yes, this is very, VERY abbreviated. Now go watch someone actually good at Warhammer lore, like Leutin09!

[orangkota]

Cant wait to see the warhammer 40k amazon series, which produced by our Emperor supreme Henry Cavill

[AftonBadet]

Thank you for making this, I felt completely overwhelmed with all the lore 40k has, this made everything much easier to understand. Great video.

[davidmiddleton]

At long last, someone not infected by the Templin Institute! An honest piece of 40k lore. Sincerely thank you!

[animeboomboom]

Thank you for making this I'm new to Warhammer 40k so this helps me Understand the story and the games

[dflavidbrnnan]

Lovely to see the grimdark sun on YouTube! Finally some quality news!

[grimdarksun]

An overly short, overly abbreviated explanation of 40K: How we got to M41 from square one. Share with your friends and noobs that want to know more!
I am deeply, deeply indebted to the following people on IG,
who helped review the script and make this much better than it could have been:
Abdullah Nasar
Mischa the Cat
corvid_gremlin_chaos
DeadLiftsforTheDarkGods
Lacalamity
Lasergungally
LastCartridge
Ronan U
photomackenzie
Aniket Debnath
emilofpaint
Les Minis de Nexi
Yauheni Bahdanau
David Kerr
Riley
Jannik Wyrwych
Karim Halim
Deniz Evkuran
Luthcloth

Thanks for reading and watching. I have no Patreon. All the warhammer things in this video belong to Games Workshop, and the artists who made the lovely art you see here. This is a fan made production designed to get people into Warhammer 40k. Dear GW: This is free advertising. It's free real estate. Merry Christmas.

[unchartedrocks]

As someone who picked up & play Space Marine 2 the scope of the game & lore was rich with detail. I had to know more about this world.

[grimace-yztf]

Thanks now i know what my friend is talking about

[sabot]

Literally the best big picture warhammer lore video ever lol

[davidmiddleton]

Just a big thank you to the Grim Sun for its wonderful 3 minute show of Warhammer 40k.

[jimskills]

Thank you, I feel ready to get the game and play it now

[nothingtobelie]

Much better than hour longs, if its an hour long you dig watch the Destiny storyline

[alexq]

So wait who is the last loyal primarch?

[Haggysackk]

For all those, who thank GrimDark Sun for uploading this, because it helps them with understanding the lore of the games...

This video is the tip of the tip of the tip of the very tip of the tip of the iceberg... of tips on another iceberg, that got yeeted onto another iceberg. If you want to describe Wh40K, just think about the most ridiculous Chuck Norris jokes and combine all of them into one single one and i believe then you maybe have a little hint on what to expect on a basic level.

But to describe this franchise with the least amount of words:
overly dramatic and extremely overly exaggerated.



Also Orkz are funghi. The little shrooms on your Pizza funghi are probably potential WAAAGHH-Bosses in the 40K universe.

Also when fighting Chaos, hope that your enemy is Khorne, because then you'll might have a very brutal, but atleast also a quick death. One of the others probably loves pornhub, anotherr one i have no clue what he/she/it actually does (I believe it's some mind control business, but i am not sure) and Nurgle will play foodball with your immune system and curse entire planets with plagues 40k times worse than Covid.

Oh and Necrons are zombies and skele boys, but made out of metal. They're also kinda egyptian vibed.

Eldar are racist space elves.

Dark Eldar are brutal sadistic space elves.

Tyranids are like the Flood from Ego Shooter Halo, a fight between these two would end up catastrophically for everyone and everything else.

Imperium of Men is split between Imperial Guard (regular soldiers and some mercenaries and stuff, so a regular army, weak but many), Space Marines (This video is about a very short version of their lore) and also Adeptus Sororitas (Space Karens, but they're tough fighers, basically female warrior monk priestesses... Or something like that, basically death by snu snu, not the tribalistic way, but rather more catholic themed)

And then there are the T'au... They're somewhat similar to the Covenant from Halo (A mix of a bunch of different alien species rallying together for "The greater Good"), but less evil and more good-guy than the Covenant. They are probably the most reasonable ones, kinda a little bit with Ying and Yang flavor to them. I would like to call them pacifists, but they do use weapons, which is not very pacifistic.






And all that is just absolute garbage tier basic knowledge. I am no expert on 40K, i am a gardener, i have a normal life and a job.

[kasjcheiimmortal]

Xenos just means stranger in ancient greek (i dont know if it still means that today)

[adamd.]

But what about the other primarchs that are still alive? Can’t just act like Robute is the only surviving one 😂

[Zagata]

Thanks as a person never interested in this lore.