Psykers & Chaos Sorcerers, What's The Difference? | Warhammer 40K Lore

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Time stamps
0:00 Intro
3:51 What Do Psykers & Sorcerers Have in Common?
6:58 Genetics Vs Talent
11:52 Many Paths To Power
15:05 Alignments
17:36 Corruption
21:01 Psychic Phenomena
35:14 The Psychic Disciplines
28:26 Methods Of Measuring Power

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[BovineDesigns]

Psykers and Sorceror’s sounds like a Satanic Panic parody movie from the 90’s.

[thelessons]

*"At their simplest, the powers of the psychic, the sorcerer and the witch were the same: they used the ether to change reality.* _No matter the root, that was its result. Formulae, spells, artefacts, subtle arts and training all were just ways to make an idea real by will. Simple. But reality was stubborn. The greater the violation of nature, the more power it took, and that power writhed like a snake when grasped. So it was not enough to have power; to wield it you needed the will to focus the idea of what you wanted, and the will to make it so. The greater the idea, the greater the power, the greater the will… To stop a pebble from falling you needed to make the idea of the stone not falling more real than that of gravity."_

- Sorcerer Lord Ahzek Ahriman of the Thousand Sons, _"Ahriman: Eternal"_

[Tyberos]

"Hey bro what blessing did the chaos gods give you? "

"They opened my mind... to the truth of unreality! What did you get?"

"Ugh uh... nothing...." * hides sword fingers behind back *

[RhysticTutor]

“Psykers are mutants”
*X-Men theme starts playing*

[virn]

A psyker is someone who uses the warp like a muscle, the sorcerer uses the warp like a computer coder. Read the eiseinhorn trilogy for a great breakdown on the perils of both. Psykers are safer if they do it with the proper restrictions, sorcery is so chaotic and dependent on the emotions and symbolism of whatever is going on id rather stick to the palpatine electro blasts lol

[mainlyglitches]

Do not fear the sorcerer who knows a thousand spells, fear the psyker who has practiced a single spell a thousand times - Psyker Bruce Lee

[mattturner]

Acolyte: "Master, is there any difference between a psyker and a sorcerer?"

Malleus Inquisitor: "Killing sorcerers produces more paperwork."

[mattiaskarlsson]

Quick comment before watching: please do the ships next. How do they enter the warp? How were they designed? Why do people need to be sacrificed to radiation sickness whenever they refuel? Which one is the biggest and scariest?
Overall, just break down the Imperial navy in long-form!

[peterthomas]

I've always considered sorcery to be either forbidden arcane knowledge that grants power over the Warp, or "borrowed" power from the forces of Chaos a Psyker uses to amplify their power. A Psyker (sanctioned) is someone who draws power from their connection to the Warp, but not from the ruinous powers. You can achieve far greater and destructive results with sorcery than you can with just being your average "powerful" Psyker.

[beziik]

I always intended it as, there's "raw" warp magic and then there's chaos warp energy. A psyker will filter the energy itself in order to use it in the materium. A sorcercer gets the magic juice from his warp entity of choice and trusts that he got the good stuff, that it's already "processed" and ready for use. There's a reason why catalysts are a thing in the setting. Eisenhorn can focus much more warp energy through his staff because it helps with the filtering/processing

[stevenbeech]

To quote Bruce Lee I fear not the man who has practiced a 1000 kicks once(sourceror). But the man who has practiced 1 kick a thousand times (Phsycher)

[EthanKristopherHartley]

I've always seen the difference as "You're a Psyker until we decide you're not." A bit like the idea of a Heretic for some terminally meme-inspired Inquisitors.

"You singed the corner of my robe with your warp bending. Kill the sorcerer!"
"You predict that the person I'm meeting for a date tomorrow is going to stand me up?" Burn the Witch!
"50 random people, a blue horror and 4 floors of the hive structure? Excellent job Librarian!"😁

[roberthiltz]

“All you need to do is grab yourself a good, old-fashioned clearly evil spell book..” 😂 Love it. To answer your question personally at @25:08; sounds like a roll-of-the-dice situation, literally and symbolically

[Ujabzaktok]

Love the random MTG art, I saw Shark typhoon and was like "Hey I know that art, I love that card."

[KageRyuu]

20:50 Incorrect, in Black Crusade you want to Increase your Infamy as that helps you reach Apotheosis, while Corruption works like a timer pushing you towards the end of the game and your character, either as a Spawn or a Daemon Prince.

[mr.politics]

Theoretically, by drawing warp power from/through the emperor someone should be capable of becoming a non chaos sorcerer

[omganotherun]

This is a particularly good vid. Rare to see anyone deep dive into the often fluffy seeming details of what separates the two.

[jamesfedheld]

Wes saying the presequals were bad caught me off guard there😢

[robluxipiech]

Psykers use their connection to their warp soul as a conduit to focus the warps influence.
Sorcerer's use power directly from a chaotic source be it God, or daemon (affiliated by a God, DemiGod, free agent daemon) to power their spells.
Spells are contracts, this for that, souls for power, favors for powers ect.

One makes their own bullets one borrows bullets.

[DDot...]

This is epic to learn about psycers and how the line is heretic or non heretic and how useful they are to the imperium and useless