ARKS OF OMEN: ABADDON - The Lore | Warhammer 40,000

The new campaign for Warhammer 40,000 - the Arks of Omen - kicks off with Book 1: Abaddon. In this video, I go through the story and new lore from the book. What are the Arks of Omen and who is Vashtorr the Arkifane?

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[FacePlantJan]

The Eldari: "Yep, this is a coordinated assault from chaos."
Picks up the phone.
Operator: "You have reached the Ordo Malleus Inquisitorial hotline, did you want to report a herresy?"
Eldari: "Uhm, yes, this is uhm, Bob... Uhm, Hu... Monkeigh, and I noticed these spacehulks..."

[Azoth]

I like that the GW design team's finally returning to the Realm of Chaos format with multiple independent Chaos powers existing aside from the major four. Minor Chaos Gods were severely underrepresented in 40k for years.

[dewaynemcclure]

"It's Chaos against literally everyone, including each other"

Ah, so business as usual, then

[Subcomandante]

I admire the torturous silliness the lore has to go through for GW to release a box of plastic walls 🤣

[Brickfrog]

I gotta restate just how awesome an idea Space Hulks are from a wargaming prospective. Anything and anyone could be inside them, they could have been anywhere. Any kind of ship, station or colony could have been amalgamated into them so you can use any kind of terrain or battlefield you want.

[Scufflegrit]

Vashtorr is the best addition to Chaos lore in years.

[darkscholar]

I'm curious as to how the Mechanicus will respond. I can see many seeing him as the true Machine God and cause at least a few civil wars on their forge planets with a sizable chunk splitting off and joining Chaos.

[_TG]

Never majorly got into WH40k but was ALWAYS interested. Now im fully down the rabbit hole. Love it.

[pendantblade]

The end bit comparing easter egg hunts to pokemon to megazord is why I'm subbed to this channel.

[CptPanda]

Space Hulk got me into 40k in the first place so they've always got a place in my heart, can't imagine how pants shitting it'd be being on some imperial backwater, algi farming planet and then there's a new moon in the sky which is opening fire. Gonna be doing a log of the Into the Dark kill team with that terrain this year, very hype for it!

[jamescameron-clarke]

I think my favourite bits so far are how other factions have reacted to the Arks and the raids for the artifacts. The Necron Lord who was killed in his tomb, woke up in a new body on the next planet over and was so furious at such a dishonourable death that he gathers everything he can find and heads off for some payback. The Ark that drops into realspace to find the Votann have torn the planet apart for resources and the trail now leads off towards the core. Or the plunderers raiding the Arks for archeotech (they're still hulks, after all) with a band of Drukhari coming close to taking the Ark for themselves, but realising that if they leave it to continue on its journey, it'll leave countless worlds in its wake as easy prey for future raids.

You can pull so many little story moments out of this, not to mention that the setting allows for pretty much every kind of interaction between forces, from Kill Teams, to Boarding Actions, to full scale battles, with no restriction on where they'll be fighting. And the best thing is, I was pondering starting a homebrew Chapter specialising in space-borne and low atmosphere fighting even before all this was announced! It's all coming together!

[S.A.S.H.]

There are not enough "thumbs up" worth this wonderful over-view. Well done, Ian.

[Bensterr]

I’ve moved back home for a bit and found all my old WH army books, I was never bothered with painting or playing but I’ve always loved the art and the lore, thanks for doing these videos so I can keep track of what’s happening!

[deathwatch]

One of the Arks assaults the Forge World Graia? That's a nice little tie-in to Space Marine 1 there. I like it when GW makes casual nods to third party works.

[GeneralRasp]

Love your channel! It is the best resource to stay up-to-date with 40k story progress.

[docterfantazmo]

"It's us vs everyone, just as Chaos inten-"
"Also us, us vs everyone vs us."
"... JUST AS CHAOS INTENDED!!!"

[scottywan]

This was really good! Fun video, and I like the dive into the lore. I am also super excited for the smaller, more straight-forward games.

[secretly-a-kobold]

It's always a good day when Arbitor Ian uploads a video

[alexsmith]

So happy to see you’ve recovered well from your long streams, I was watching the first one and I had a blast playing Darktide with you. I was “FercoButter” and it was really nice to enjoy the WarHammer community in a new way in the chat. 👍

[TheMrFishnDucks]

Very helpful video, really felt lite in the official videos. Hopefully they flesh it out with more lore. Keep up the good work.