Why Does Everyone HATE Erebus? | Warhammer 40K Lore

so a little while ago I made a video where I said that the most hated character in all of Warhammer 40K was Lucius the Eternal and boy was I wrong and y'all let me know in the comment section just how wrong I was as there's a character that is far worse somebody that not a single member of the 40K Community doesn't at least on a fundamental level absolutely despise and that character's name is Erebus it's honestly kind of amazing what with how most controversial characters in this setting have at least some people willing to defend just about anything they do always finding a reason to justify their actions with Erebus there's none of that the general sentiment from the community is simply [ __ ] this guy but why is that why is this character so reviled what exactly did he do before we get into it I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who's picked up one of these Emperor's Children t-shirts it's only been 10 days since they launched and we've already moved 300 of them I'm truly 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with and are incredibly powerful so you better go into those fights well prepared download and play called dragons for free today by clicking on the link in the description of this video big thanks to call of dragons for sponsoring this video in order to get a better understanding of who Erebus is as a character and why the community absolutely despises him we need to take a look back at his early life to see where his story began and the best account of this that we have comes from the short story child of chaos Erebus is actually the narrator of this story and it begins by telling us all about his early Beginnings on cultures an arid desert planet that would eventually be known as the Homeworld of the word bearers if I'm being honest with you Erebus was kind of a [ __ ] up kid right from the beginning and demonstrated some pretty dark Tendencies he would routinely capture and torture scorpions for fun seeing how many of their legs he could pluck off while trying to avoid being stunned so right off the bat we have serial killer behavior and a small child a good start for making a horrible villain that everyone is going to hate it's important to know that erebus's name isn't actually Erebus at this point in his life he tells us that what his original name was is unimportant that there were some things that he keeps for himself Secrets even the gods don't know this is going to be important pretty soon when he talks about his Ambitions he says that even as a young boy all he wanted was power but very specifically he didn't want to do anything to earn that power my parents were exasperated with me they wanted me to learn a trade get ahead find something useful to do I didn't want any of that I wanted to be rich without trying I wanted to have slaves and concubines I wanted to play my scorpion game with people at one point he considers becoming a man of the cloth and not like the priest that you would think of in the more established cities however oh no he wants to be like the priests out in the provinces they had kind of a devious reputation for being kind of the worst they drank gambled and were incredibly violent and they used that violence to gather up even more riches for themselves they wielded power with an Iron Fist and even if their sins were known by the general public nobody would speak against them out of fear of what those powerful priests would do to them you can understand the attraction I could see myself in those robes with the Palace of my own where a fountain would dinkle in the courtyard and a chamber full of young things would lounge around in silks and count my coins so this is what he wanted to be one of those greedy thuggish priests simply because they had power that they didn't earn and that appealed to him only problem was that they only really hired from within breaking into that organization was going to be incredibly difficult so he started hanging outside of their temples listening through the window to them giving their sermons and reciting scripture the religion that the priests of cultures practiced routinely referred to as the old Faith was one that actually was centered around the worship of the chaos Pantheon nurgul zinch and corn although the deities depicted in this religion used different names and the people of the planet had no concept of the warp or chaos or anything like that so they didn't really preach any of the more horrific aspects of the pantheon that we as the audience have come to associate with in 40K the narrator of this story adult Erebus admits to us as the reader that at the time he didn't really believe any of the scripture he was just memorizing it in order to better his chances at gaining power but that would change in the future he did this for quite some time until he noticed a young member of the clergy that was around his age a boy with a shaved head who had tattooed his face with scripture this kid had gained something of a reputation within the town and surrounding area for actually being incredibly devout and inspiring an example of what a follower of the old Faith should aspire to be even erebus's mother who arabis referred to as quote a fat lazy slattern asked him why he couldn't be more like that young man and he thought about it and he realized that she may have had a point he really should be more like him so what did he do he waited till dark and then snuck up on the young boy when he was alone and strangled him to death in his account of the events he said that he screamed his mother's words over and over will he watched the boy's eyes bulge and pop he assumed his identity shaving his head and tattooing his face in the exact same manner even stealing the young boy's name Erebus that was the first time he had ever killed a human being and he claims that he felt more alive in that moment than he had felt in his entire lifetime his his body was positively singing with enthusiasm he realized however that he couldn't stay in this town where both of them were known so he set out into the waist never looking back the sun beating down on his shaved head and the tattooed words of a dead man ah there you go there is the irony the marks on my flesh the ones that Mark me out as me were never really mine I wore them after that to ensure my stolen name and Persona were never questioned my stolen papers and my lies soon found me a sconce at another institution I studied as little of the genuine theology as I could but was assiduous in observing the more worldly Paths of power I saw how the priests maintained discipline within the great Cathedrals I saw how fear and ecstasy could cow an entire population I saw how a whispered word was more powerful than a shouted oration at least a lot of the time so at this point Erebus has fully embedded himself into the church as one of its rising stars wearing a dead man's name and face one that was far away from his hometown the greedy priest he had hoped to emulate and other people that would recognize him at first this was all just lies and secrecy he didn't actually believe any of the stuff that he was studying in their old holy books his fundamental purpose was just to enrich himself by doing as little as possible but then something strange started to happen he found himself actually studying the scripture out of morbid curiosity rather than just to escape the scorn of the more esteemed members of the church and the more he read he started to actually believe a lot of it more so he found meaning in the space between words in the unspoken hidden truth beneath the text this is when chaos began to warm its way inside of his soul and the more he studied the more he learned about his faith the more he quickly began to realize that being a devout holy man a spreader of the word may actually be his calling he might actually be someone that was quite good at this he says at one point that whenever he looked at his own reflection it always seemed distorted like it was fractured into four separate parts he realized that there was something out there some kind of force or entity that used the church on colches as its plaything some primordial force of immense power Erebus realized that he could do a lot of great work for them whoever they were and potentially gain some of that power for himself one day rumors began to spread that a prophet had emerged from out of nowhere and was leading an army across the deserts of this world hoping to dismantle all of its religious institutions and rebuild them in a new image this was lordar aurelian one of the emperor's 20 sons and the man who would become the Primark of the word bearers now although all of the other priests were completely freaked out by this Invader arabis states that he wasn't worried in fact the way he saw it this holy man this Prophet was somebody of immense stature and Power hour a man blessed with the very thing he wanted since his early childhood this Primark was simply a much larger scorpion in which to torture he knew he would have to do everything he could to get as close to this Prophet as possible eventually lorgar would come to his town and with it came the destruction of the old Faith well at least on the surface many of the existing priests that still clung to their old beliefs Erebus included would just end up going underground continuing to worship the old ways and making silent sacrifices in the shadows what ended up replacing these churches was an early form of Emperor worship as lorgar had had visions of the coming of the master of mankind and believed him to be the one true God Erebus was fascinated by this idea as what bigger scorpion could there possibly be than a living God we knew of course that he would come soon after that the prophet kept telling us and every augur and flesh sacrifice screamed it out I wanted to see this master of mankind so very much since I knew more than most what it would mean for the Universe I wanted to witness the creature I was destined to bring low I wanted to see him dragged before me like a lowing Ox before the sickle knife I was never ever taken in by him not like so many who afterwards claimed that they had somehow been wronged or misled I knew right from the start I knew before he even set a foot on my driest bones Homeworld I knew all this because I've never aspired to be anything other than what I am an eavesdropper a sneak a fertile soak away for lies and poison judge me if you will and pointy do but we all have our places within this far from ideal creation eventually the emperor would come to colches and with that he would make lorgar the Primark of the ward bearer's Legion as lorgar had been raised in the church and brought up to be a priest by his adopted Father Figure core farron and and Faith was intrinsic to his identity lorgar would bolster the legion's ranks by recruiting holy men from cultures Erebus being one such individual these holy men would end up being turned into brand new Space Marines he mentions in his account that after being transformed into a full-blown astartes again more power that he didn't have to earn he briefly considers the emperor's Vision a human Empire removed from spiritualism and Superstition one that placed its Faith fully in the hands of science he was appalled by this notion and took to his scripture of the old Faith or you know we can honestly just call it what it was chaos worship far more seriously and he wasn't alone as many of the word bearers that were taken from cultures had something of an identity crisis with their faith being split between the old ways and this new form of Emperor worship that lorgar had initiated those that clung tightly to the old ways had to move carefully in the shadows into positions of authority Erebus was able to do this better than any other as he ended up as one of lorgar's two hands aside core Ferron so here we are Erebus has become a Space Marine one that has worked his way all the way up through the ranks of the word bearers and gained an enormous amount of influence and power what was he thinking at this point what was going through his mind well in examining what the emperor was trying to do and what the word bearers were being tasked to do in the great Crusade bringing an enormous amount of violence to human worlds across the Galaxy in order to bring them into compliance and thus unite all of mankind under the emperor's secular Vision the old Faith was in trouble the pantheon was at risk of being destroyed something that Erebus could not allow but simultaneously and conversely all of the violence the Space Marines were inflicting all of the misery pain and suffering that Humanity was inflicting upon itself was making the god stronger their influence more palpable the great irony is the further along the emperor's plans went the more influence the chaos gods in turn had and Erebus as their ever faithful servant was ready to make his move eventually the word bearer's path of Conquest would bring them to the planet of Daven a barbaric Kingdom that was plagued with constant fighting and the human population had grown larger and more unhinged than human worlds they had encountered in the past many of the word bearers believed however that with the right conditioning they would become perfect Disciples of the god Emperor but arabes didn't agree he could sense that there was something else going on here as if the population of this world had been subjected to the will of something dark and ancient something that had been slowly breaking them down for a long time and additionally aside from the obvious similarities between the deserts of Daven and Cultus there was something else here as if the veil between universes was thin and the constant harmonic thromb of the energies upon this world were all too familiar to him he would use the fighting as a distraction to Journey out into the desert Guided by premonitions and Visions it was here he would find an ancient and dilapidated temple one that was covered in mosaics of creatures indeed that beared remarkable similarities to the ones depicted in the old faith of cultures it was also here that he would meet an old man and a young girl named akshub the man told him that he was prophesied to meet him here and shows him around the temple in one of the Fresco depictions Erebus sees a blade as long as a human spine that clearly was not made by human hands Erebus asked the old man what it is and the Old Man simply tells him that it's something that he's destined to find he asked how he's supposed to go about doing that and the man tells him that that's something that he has to figure out for himself we as the audience however are well aware that this thing is the anathem a corrupted demonic weapon that had the ability to kill the unkillable and that's going to become very important very soon although Erebus isn't super specific in the details when he's recounting these events this is where his plan would start to come together all of the pieces were suddenly starting to line up he told the old man to rebuild this Temple to bring it back to its former glory to rekindle the Ember members of the old faith and to not let it die and he vows to return here one day with a mission of great importance okay so there's a lot of moving pieces with erebus's plan and it's spread out over a lot of different novels so I'm gonna do my best to summarize it really quickly over the next several decades he would spread his manipulation and Corruption to a lot of notable characters and train under the young girl he met in the temple who would eventually grow into a wise old woman steeped in the ways of the old Faith she would teach him the ability to warp jump thus allowing him to quickly move back and forth across great distances he would use this ability to make sure all of the parts of his plan were coming together exactly as intended and more importantly that he'd be able to make sure they happened without being noticed the gist of his plan was this rebuild the Temple on the planet of Daven steal the anatheme from the interacts give it to the governor on davin's moon then initiate an incursion of nurgle demons on said Moon so the sons of Horus would end up being drawn in there the governor could mortally wound the war master and Air service could convince his worried sons in their desperation to turn to ancient sorcery in order to save him by bringing him to the rebuilt Temple which at this point had become known as The Lodge of The Serpent this is where he would infiltrate horus's mind in his weakened state in order to corrupt him and the plan actually worked once Horus was in the temple and the ritual had begun Erebus astral projected himself into horse's mind where he showed him the terrifying future that awaited Humanity the actual future of Warhammer 40K 10 000 years later although these visions of the grimdark future were definitely real he misled Horus on what they meant he tells him that the emperor had lied to them that his goal was only to use Humanity to obtain godhood and once he got what he wanted he was planning on abandoning them thinking that he had made up his own mind and definitely had not been manipulated by Erebus and Chaos Horus agreed with his assessment and would end up turning traitor kicking off the Horus heresy so by all accounts Erebus is the one who started the heresy not the war faster and trying to put just how tragic the horse heresy was for Humanity into a few sentences is an impossible task even 12 000 years later in the 42nd Millennium the species has yet to recover the Imperium is built upon a rotting foundation and exists in a Perpetual state of being one second to midnight in some aspects the blood of Untold trillions is on erebus's hands but it's honestly kind of hard to quantify just how many horrible things can be linked back to Erebus so here's a short list of all the other atrocious unforgivable Deeds that he directly committed during the nine years of bloody Civil War that was the heresy he manipulated his Primark lorgar into rejecting the emperor and the Imperium pushing him to be the first traitor Primark manipulated the war Master into turning against the Emperor who in turn kicked off the heresy orchestrated and played a major role in the drop sight Massacre and the purging of the remaining loyalist forces within the legions that would turn traitor on isfon 3. along with Typhon of the death guard pushed Luther down the path of heresy and treachery 40 years prior to the horse Harris start eventually causing the Dark Angels Legion to become engulfed in Civil War he played a major role in successfully summoning the ruin storm a massive warp storm that effectively split the Imperium in half during the heresy and used the invasion of calf and the billions of murders committed on its surface as fuel for the storm and finally his most unforgivable sin he deceived and manipulated everyone's favorite possessed word Bearer Argo tall eventually killing him by plunging an anethame blade in his back and these are just the major highlights this man did a ton of horrendously awful things throughout the Horus heresy books on pretty much every page that he's included on barely cementing him as warhammer's most hated character and for all of this I am hated for being there at the outset for laying the foundations that others would willingly build on I think they wish to find something in this story that explains things some moment of decision some choice that could later be regretted or accounted for but it's just as I said none exists I have always been on this road never turning never deviating for now though I am content I am loathed by those I betrayed and loathed by those I guided into betrayal I have brought a war Master to the truth and cracked the Galaxy's vaults to speed his armies I have burned worlds and been burned by them and who thanks me for this this Rebellion does not even bear my name it Bears the title of the Scorpion I stayed closest to the most dangerous of the breed who will ever live they hate me not because of what I am but because of what they were they hate me because they turned and I did not the records of our enemies call us all turncoats but I change no Allegiance I was there I was always here just as I am now aware of myself and the universe that made me I lied with every breath I ever took except to myself that is purity of a kind and something that no other soul in this Grand Armada of Renegades can boast I have been stung before and I always come back for more poison I'm still the boy in the shadows of cultures pulling on the garot strings and feeling my blood pump I took this face from another man once to become what I wanted to be now it is my reminder that all despots are fragile and the Hand of Destiny will always be despised I was there at the start I was there before we even had names for all the things we're doing now I have no congregation anymore but I will again the faithful will come back thirsty for accounts of how this feat was achieved and I will have stories waiting for them such stories stories that will make their ears bleed and their Hearts Burst so it is not done yet Erebus not yet just watch just watch so with all that said it's no wonder why everybody hates this guy so much he's an evil manipulative piece of [ __ ] with no redeeming qualities but and this is probably the most important question that I hope to address in this video is he a bad character is he a bad villain well let's examine that in my personal opinion out of all of the franchises that I tend to enjoy Warhammer 40K has the best and most amazingly well-written villains every single one of them being written in such a way that no matter how evil they are no matter how many horrendous and unforgivable acts they commit you can always find something about them that you sympathize with there's always something even if it's just a tiny little piece of their character that you can relate to that you find Charming or in some instances motivations that you actually agree with even if the notion that you're agreeing with a monster leaves you feeling deeply unsettled angron is one such example he's one of the most brutal and barbaric primarks a man that before turning traitor would routinely butcher his own Sons for their perceived failures but he also had an incredibly tragic upbringing being taken as a slave and forced to be a gladiator having the butcher's Nails shoved into his head things that caused him to feel pain whenever he wasn't fighting and when the emperor finally found him Akron wanted nothing to do with the great Crusade he simply wanted to die with his brothers and sisters fighting their former slave masters but the emperor didn't care and abducted him in his final battle later when he spoke to his brother Lehman Russ about the emperor he said that he believed their father was no better than the slave masters of new Syria that what the Space Marines were doing wasn't liberating Humanity but shackling them enslaving the populations of sovereign kingdoms to the emperor's will another great example is Conrad kurs one of 40k's most sadistic and vile villains a Primark that truly enjoyed torturing the weak all of his brothers rightfully viewed him as a monster but he would remind us as the audience that him and his Legion could take entire worlds by only killing a few people skinning and torturing them and then broadcasting the grizzly reacts to the entire planet causing the world to come into compliance with relatively little Bloodshed and only a handful of deaths whereas his brothers would unleash all-out War killing Millions if not billions of people in orbital bombardments he asks us who is the real monster him a man who is willing to commit necessary evil acts to avoid unnecessary Bloodshed or the ones we venerate as war heroes champions of virtue that would bomb innocent worlds hanzu of the iron Warriors is a psychopath one that created the infamous demon colaba but when we read stories about his Beginnings we have to see him struggle and build his way from the ground up overcoming the moniker of half-breed and the disgust of his brothers for having iron Warrior and Imperial fists Jean seed inside of him there's here in Blackheart who is a ruthless pirate a brutal Warrior who would Slaughter entire worlds to get what he wants but his followers respect him and feel no fear when telling him bad news because he stated multiple times that other chaos Lords that tend to fly off the handle and attack their subordinates whenever they hear something that they don't like are foolish idiots he wants his crew to be open and honest with him and feel no fear of repercussion for simply being the messenger of things going wrong when him as the captain of his Fleet absolutely needs to know those things there's Fabius bile a mad scientist who routinely captures and experiments on hordes of slaves and creates all kinds of genetic Abominations but he has this paternal love for all of his creations and does what he does out of a genuine love for Humanity he wants the species to survive but he knows in order for them to do that he'll have to find a way to accelerate the Revolution and trozan of the necrons I mean come on he's the best character in all of Warhammer 40K he's an ancient robot Pokemon master that goes around the Galaxy stealing things people and places to put in his Museum because he wants to preserve the history of all that ever was for future Generations so after all that we spin back around to Erebus the only villain I can think of in the grand scheme of Warhammer 40K that completely breaks this mold of likable or at the very least understandable villain Erebus is not like other villains in Warhammer there is nothing redeemable about him he isn't Charming or funny like trodson he doesn't have a tragic past like angron he didn't have to overcome adversity and Scorn like hanzu he doesn't Chase an admirable gold through sadistic means like Fabius and he doesn't have a conflicted Twisted philosophy like curse that at the very least makes us stop and think but the question remains is Erebus a bad character no I don't think so some villains are meant to be likable some villains are meant to be relatable some are tragic misunderstood some make us feel conflicted hell some villains may find the audience actually rooting for them Erebus and characters like him fall into an archetype known as the hateable villain that exists solely to be hated and he does his job incredibly well Erebus is just evil for the sake of being evil what are his motivations that he's an evil piece of [ __ ] and wants to see everything burn he's motivated by greed a lust for power to tear down everything that ever was and willingly act as a pawn for something that he knows is awful and will be the death of his species and potentially the end of everything his personality is an amalgamation of every despicable character trait that exists he's a narcissist who claims to be the hand of Destiny itself the instrument of chaos that will be the end of all things as horrible as that role is in his mind it's the singular most important one that exists and he wants to do it no matter how much Bloodshed is required there's a channel here on YouTube called writer Brandon McNulty and Brandon has a great video that I'm going to throw the link to in the description called how to create hateable villains the major takeaway of this video is that there are a lot of different types of villains when it comes to writing but audiences love a villain that they don't have to feel any remorse or guilt in hating sometimes audiences just don't want to feel conflicted about Good and Evil they want a clear your villain to hate villains like this work particularly well in fictional universes that are full of characters plots and systems that are morally gray ones in which the line between good and evil are constantly being blurred McNulty uses Game of Thrones as an example of this in his video and the character of Joffrey as a great hateable villain if you've never seen Game of Thrones it's absolutely chock full of moral gray areas and having somebody as awful as Joffrey a spoiled entitled brat who didn't earn his power and uses it to do some truly sadistic things acts to the audience as a clear indicator of what true evil looks like in a complex morally gray Society like the one depicted in Game of Thrones this is the role that Erebus plays the villain that you don't have to feel conflicted about hating a moral indicator of true evil in the famously morally gray Grim dark future of Warhammer what I'm saying is Erebus is the Joffrey of 40K to further illustrate this point Brandon gives us five tips to make a truly hateable villain and Erebus fits into each and every one of these with flying colors first and foremost every truly hateable villain has to have their kick the dog moment where they kill maim or manipulate a character that the audience has grown to love with Joffrey this is when he kills Ned Stark and with Erebus this is where he kills argel tall everybody's favorite possessed word Bearer even loyalist Fanboys who absolutely hate the word bearers have to admit that they kind of secretly loved argotal Additionally you have to give the hatable Ville an unforgivable Behavior you have to dial up their smugness have them break promises stab people in the back and do unthinkably evil things something that Erebus does on pretty much every page you can't have them be charismatic or funny or you risk the audience finding something to liken them instead you have to make the hateable villain disgusting menacing or corrupt there's nothing likeable or admirable about Erebus he is a lying snake who never faces his foe head-on relying on backstabbing and manipulation he is a liar a manipulator and a coward the opposite of what Space Marine is supposed to be Brandon's fourth tip is to give the hatable villain power that they didn't earn and as we went over quite thoroughly in the earlier part of this video this fits Erebus to a T he wanted to be a priest only so we could use that power to live a life of luxury without having to do anything he killed an innocent young man and took his face and name in order to use his reputation to get what he wanted rather than building that reputation on his own this put him in a position within the church that allowed him to become an astartes turning him into a seven foot tall jacked semi Immortal giant without again him having to earn any of that strength and then he willingly allowed himself to be a puppet of Chaos in order to just have a bunch of blessings bestowed upon him he never earned a shred of anything that he has he just wormed his way into it Brandon's final tip and it's the most important one in order to make a hateable character work you need to have them finally get what's coming to them they need to have their moment of comeuppance this is the moment where all of the hate that you've generated within your audience for this character finally pays off you've done it you've constructed the most hateable narcissistic monstrous irredeemable POS villain the world has ever seen your audience is literally fuming every time they're on screen they're like a powder cake ready to explode and you give them that satisfying payoff for sticking with it you see the character get killed in the most horrific way possible all of their plans backfire on them and they see all of their horrible World Views collapse in on themselves they die knowing that they were wrong that they weren't the Living God they thought they were they were weak and misguided and now they will finally pay for their crimes this never happens with Erebus and it's a glaring flaw in my argument that he's actually a good character sure we see Karn beat the ever living [ __ ] out of him in betrayer when he finds out that he killed argel tall but right before he can finish the job the coward teleports away and sure we see him fail to corrupt sanguinius In Fear To Tread blaming Horus for disrupting his plans the war master in turn mutilating his face as punishment for his insolence but these couple of events are not nearly enough for the audience who has had to suffer this absolute monster over the course of some 80 novels in the Horus heresy storyline what makes us even more unsatisfying is even though we know that the Horus heresy has a few more books left in it at its core it's a prequel and Erebus isn't going to die he's very much alive in the 42nd Millennium but maybe that was the point maybe in the Grim darkness of the far future sometimes the bad guy gets away maybe 40K is a miserable uncaring and unforgiving universe and that anger we feel when we read about this care character and know that he never gets punished for his actions maybe that's the entire point but I gotta admit even sitting here in my studio and reading the script that I wrote for this video trying to justify the author's decisions to let him live I I feel pretty [ __ ] unsatisfied but what do you guys think do you like Airbus as a character or do you absolutely hate him do you love to hate him or do you just hate him who's your favorite villain in Warhammer 40K and why and who's a villain that you think is super overrated let me know all of your thoughts in the comment section down below as you all know I'm a huge fan of good villains especially over the top cartoonish ones so video topics like this are always fun to think about for me anyways that's all I had to say on this particular topic I think Erebus is a good character I think the fact that everybody hates him as much as they do means that the authors were successful in creating a hateable villain archetype so yep that's all I have big thanks to everyone who supports the work that I do and I will catch you all in the next one

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Length: 33min 49sec (2029 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 19 2023