A deep dive on the Golden Throne seemed long overdue, especially with the End and the Death of the Emperor upon us. Do LIKE the video if you enjoyed, and share your own thoughts about him below. Thanks again to Noble Chairs for the amazing 40K Edition chair: www.noblechairs.co.uk/en-gb/warhammer40k

Would it be beneficial to attach a text to speech device on the throne perhaps? 🤔

As I sit here, trapped upon my porcelain throne, I feel a kinship with the emperor of man.

If every 1000 Psykers were sacrificed per day in 10,000 Years The Golden Throne would already absorb the souls of 3.25 billion Psykers.

Administratum imprisoning me All that I see Absolute horror I cannot live I cannot die Trapped in myself Body my holding cell Horus has taken my sight Taken my speech Taken my hearing Taken my arms Taken my legs Taken my soul Left me with life in hell -Emp, Metallicus, 41.988

The way the Emperor managed to possess Guilliman while in Nurgle's garden, only to scare the later enough to make him *hide* in his mansion while burning away a huge chunk of the garden *and* teabagging the God *and* telling him to warn the other 3 about how Big E is tired of their shit shows the Throne, combined with the worship of quadrillions for 10000 years really is a power amplifier rising the Emperor's soul to the level of a God.

Ive literally been deep diving on the lore of the golden throne just this last week, now Luetin provides something coherent. The Emperor really does protect.

I think the Emperor is tied inexorably to the throne. When his webway plan was undone by Magnus, he saw the sitting on the Golden Throne as the last resort. He knew ascending it would be his damnation. Forever bound to it in order to preserve humanity. With the whole Molech thing, it seems he made a deal with the other Chaos gods. He gained power by dealing/cheating them. I believe the current situation is a result of his deal. He never wanted to be god or be worshiped as one. That's the tragic turn. He has no other option but to rely on the faith of humanity. He hates this. But he is not blind to the reality of the situation. If he doesn't use the faith of humanity, then he dies. Humanity dies. So instead, he accepts the worship. His only chance of success is to become a god. To go against what he detested at the beginning. It's the ultimate irony. In order to win, you have to give up what you could never agree to lose. In choosing divinity, the big e bound himself to the same rules as the other chaos gods. He became what he detested. He is now part of the great game. A god vying for worship and power. Humanity was doomed from this point. By worshiping the Emperor, we became nothing more than the followers of Chaos. The imperium simply chose the Emperor instead of the other gods. I think this is what the chaos gods may have wanted. They saw the big e as an opportunity to bring in another player to the Great Game. Magnus' role would then obviously be the most important. His breaching of the barriers to the webway project being the defining moment and even the entire purpose of the Horus Heresy from the perspective of Chaos.

The "sire, would you care for some refreshment?" bit was hilarious - I was in stitches. It was something I hadn't thought about in quite such terms, but good lord, that's fantastic. Wonderful work as always, LT.

I really enjoy these videos exploring the more "base" elements of 40k so to speak, sure covering nieche topics is fun and all but sometimes it is just refreshing to learn more about things that sit at the core of the genre and we sometimes just take for granted. Definately looking forward to more stuff regardless what topic it is though.

madlad putting out full encyclopedias

I actually had a shower moment thinking about the Golden Throne today. I was wondering to myself if it was just life-support beacon or if it has any other powers.

When you dad takes WAYYYYYYYY too long on the toilet and there is a family emergency.

Oh my goodness, I really enjoy the specific humor that comes with deep lore, the bit at 20:18 about the custodes asking if the emperor wants a drink is so goddamn funny and so incredibly specific. I feel like I heard a great joke in some archaic language that only I and sixty five other 40K professors understand

It amazing how much the channel has grown the last couple years, all the best to luetin

A one hour video on the Emperor's chair.... alright, I'm game

I think the reason why the Emperor chose to be interred upon the Golden Throne instead of reincarnate is because he *couldn't* reincarnate due to being laid low by an anathema weapon, and the only reason why he survived it in the first place was because the anathema weapon destroyed his Perpetual abilities.

Luetin, this was a very thought provoking video. Love it! My take on the Golden Throne, in sci-fi terms we should all be familiar with, is that the throne is akin to the heart of a TARDIS. It was supposed to allow instant access to all parts of the empire and allow the person sitting upon it to monitor the galaxy and open portals for, say, Space Marines to travel to enemy incursions without having to enter the Warp. The problem was that it works too good. Instead of the throne monitoring all points of the galaxy in real time, it monitors it at all points in time too. Sitting upon the throne results in information overload as the person's mind exists at all points in time and space (possibly all other galaxies too). This everywhere at once condition makes it impossible for the Emperor to heal or regenerate as he is stuck outside of linear time. He therefore needs to get replaced upon the throne to allow his rebirth, but in the past ten thousand years he has either been unable or unwilling to swap places with someone strong enough to handle the throne for however long he'd require them to - or, worse, realizes that such a transfer would have dire consequences for the empire.

Luetin you gem i literally just made a coffee after an afternoon catching up on boring work-related tasks and general life admin. This feels like i got a reward for being a grownup 😂

Targutai Yesugei, the White Scar Stormcaller, who poked around Dark Glass before sitting down on the throne (after peeling the remains of Pieter Helian Achelieux off of it...) found messages relayed from Terra suggesting that Magnus would sit atop Dark Glass as a way-station between Terra and Catallus since Yesugei could fill the Golden Throne was connected to Dark Glass.

It would be an incredible connection if the Eldar gods were immensely psychically powerful Eldar, who used similar thrones to wield, amplify, and project their power during the War in Heaven. And then afterwards, ascended to become purely psychic beings. Maybe similar to the Emperor’s plan?

You are leading the charge in 40k lore. As your channel gets better and more (well deserved) recognition, it stands to show the die hard love we have for this world. We thank you for all you do Luetin - thank you brother.

I want you to know that your videos are so good that I stopped listening to The End and the Death Volume 3 to listen to your videos.

Inquisitor: Martyr was my first true introduction to the world of 40k. Luetin has been key to my deeper understanding of the lore. These videos are as much a part of my love of 40k, as any of the official materials. Thanks for all you do, brother.

Only got into 40k a year ago after stumbling across one of your lore videos, i've been hooked ever since. i can't play TTG due to hand inpairment but i enjoy the lore. Also took up your advice and joined audible.. best thing i ever did. Great Video as always.

I have been a Noble Chair customer for a few years, they are nice chairs not many have a 24hr sit rating and I’m thankful these do, makes me smile knowing you and I share in more than just 40k

Is there a way out for Big E? Yes. Is it so damned insanely difficult and unlikely that we'll never see it happen? Also yes.

The Emperor Protects! An LT video comes at the darkest of times to illuminate us once more! (It's after sunset rn here)

I love the idea that the Emperor isn’t a decaying living corpse but is still very functional and is just using the Golden throne with all the scarifies and worship to make him something more then just a god.

Your first two videos on the Emperor and the history of the Imperium were some of my very first introduction into 40k. You almost single handedly hooked me into the hobby. I really wish GW had guys like you deeply involved with crafting the lore. Good video, man.

would love a vid on the King in Yellow and all the stuff surrounding that

Kind of weird listening to Luetin during the day. I'm so conditioned to listening to him at night as part of the Luetin sleep club I started to get sleepy haha.

I mean, the Emperor and the Imperium using an immeasurably powerful device thats an aggregate of technology from the peak of several species and civilisations just as a door bolt fits with the Imperium and the setting pretty well.

Honestly there is no other channel that i get as excited about a new video for as the loremaster

Would absolutely love to see a video focused on Lorgar and the Word Bearers, I feel like theyre so slept on. Theres so much internal drama and ridiculous basckstabbing happening on Sicarus

That was a great in depth video. Thanks for that. Love your 40K lore. Was one of my first intros into the verse and can’t get enough 40K now.

I've always known, in my infinite wisdom, that it was a gaming chair. - Magnus the Nerd

It was one of the most confusing aspects of 40k to me. The emperor fought so long and hard, against godhood, even denegrating the word bearers for their refusal to accept this. Yet now he "knows" what the inquisition is and what they do and he did not tell Guilliman to outlaw and destroy them. I am sure i am either missing something, or that it is just plot armor, (i dont want the inquisition gone or anything) but i always found the whole thing confusing. This was a fascinating video as always Leutin! Great work sir!! I realy apreciate your fantastic work. You and Arch really got me hooked on 40k lore!

Nice juicy subject matter, thanks Luetin! So, my take on this is that the golden throne is a metaphorical psychic hamster wheel hooked up to a turbo charged metaphorical power generator. So this allows you to turn your psychic energy into a kind of energy that you can use to power a whole bunch of useful machines, your ability to invent turbo charges psychic machinery is the limit. I'd love to see a video covering what exactly the ecclesiarchy believes. I bet it's pretty convoluted. Wonderful content as always.

Belisarius Cawl created the Emperor's new physical body, powerful enough to contain and with the genetics of ALL 20 Primarchs. Alpha Primus😮

Cup of tea, a warm bed and a new luetin vid about a beautiful horrible part of the imperium. This next hour is going to be well spent

Always been fascinated by the throne. The idea it can aid in directly attacking chaos makes the most sense to me. Good work, Loremaster!

Luetin is the friend I don't always get to talk to but cherish every conversation we have. Thank you old friend.

Hey, man. Been watching your videos for years. Appreciate the hard work you put into these. You're one of the OG dudes that got me really into the hobby. Keep it up the great work.

Maybe the crusade was the Emperor hoping to find another throne (intact hopefully) so he can learn how to properly rebuild the one he had on Terra. I think he ultimately failed because his ambitions were too big, and that made any planning he had even more difficult.

50:00 Dunno if it's canon or just head-canon but I've always thought the golden throne was growing new, "artificial" and human created sections to graft into the already existing webway.

amazing as always, tbh I wouldn't have thought there was enough about the Golden Throne to make a video about but once again you've done an amazing job

What a fantastic video, and such a key part of what the past, present and future of the 40k timeline revolves around.

On my third run through of your videos. Love the emperor videos thanks my dude.

i like how everyone just takes it as a hard fact that Malcador 1- sat on the golden throne , and 2 - that doing so brought on his subsequent death . i mean him and the Emp, we'll they saw the cards fall, endless amount of times, and given how every one talks about how twisty both of them where , i could honestly see Malcador , wizard of OZing it for the last 10k years . I would even say this scenario is reasonable . Lets not forget , that Malcador was powerful enough to be able to potentially kill pre heresy Horus with his mind . Magus , couldn't do that , with all the power of the warp behind him , so is the death of Malcador , really reasonable ?

Yep made it about 4 minutes until i fell asleep.... typical Luetin video :D Gonna have to watch this 20 times again to get to the end lol

I believe you might be right in that the Golden Throne's original purpose when crafted by the Emp that it was a tunneling device, administrative communication device, and offensive against the warp device. It feels too good of a device not to have grand machinations than "Life Support storm door!"

Joint , cup of tea, the next 101 ; ) mins 40k lore bliss

I'm glad you made this, I totally agree, with the present information and limited revealed secrets, it seems like the golden throne is known as a galactic door lock to the public but is really some sort of god console to control both thebmaterial and immaterial universe. Very much think they're what the old ones used and that all of their creations ultimately attempt to recreate them. Great video!

The 'golden throne' was set up as the initiator and interface with the webway. So it was absolutely Eldar tech. It was designed to take in psy energy and use it to punch a hole into the webway and the stabilize a portal. Then it would probably require some psy maintenance. It was then repurposed on the fly to take in psy energy and project it through the Emperor to create the astronomicon beacon. It also forms a psy plug into the human webway that is open to the warp, preventing demons from attacking Terra. Its like taking a movie projector and using it as a flashlight.

I was listening to the third dark origins video I think it was, And I had an idea relating to the idea of a unified time system for the imperium. What about quantum entanglement? The concept is already made use of by the necron and since our current tech in the year 2000 is capeable of basic quantum computing building a simble quantum transmission device able to transmit the tiny amount of data that would be required for time keeping would not be a challenge… the ony caveat is I’m not sure how it would interact with warp travel. But it’s an interesting idea. Keep up the awesome videos

Thank you for another great video. The sleep club appriciates everything you do for everyone out there.

18:00 That was a funny little blooper

I am blown away by the richness of lore centered around the Golden Throne. This was an incredible video.

Balam Industries sponsored field trip to Terra.

What if the Throne was given to Mankind by Tzeentch in the past as a "long game" strategy to take out the Emperor? He knew he couldn't defeat the Emperor outright, but what if you take him off the board via other means? "Just as planned"

You have extensive knowledge in this universe, and it shows. The videos are truly awesome and insightful, thanks!

This was a really interesting subject that I'd previously never really thought about, the part about it being an eldar device or dark age relic is very thought provoking

Luetin gets a new chair. Release video on a chair...

Magnus rebuilds the emperor's webway project, uses it to return to Terra, after finding a way to resurrect the rubrica and the emperor too. Proceeds to resurrect the emperor, throw off the control of Tzeeztch and his mutations, then takes over on the golden throne and finally forful his destiny that was required by his father. Magnus upon the golden throne? Thoughts?

Wonderful as always LT. A great background listen while working out

Amazing work once again. Love the ideas, the way you develop them. Thank you for doing this ❤

Finish breakfast, grab phone, see a notification from Luetin; now I can carry the emperor's will as my torch.

Long story short - the throne is basically necron technology.

Working with my Custodes and having a new Luetin vid for background noise is possibly the best Saturday surprise I could have hoped for. But also you should do a Custodes vid! (Pls)

Thank you for your work! I love to relax and garden with your fascinating facts as the background.

Great Video. As always I felt like I just hit play and 1 hour went by in 10 min

I love the idea of a Custodes going "wazzat a yes sire?"

Yes yes yes yes. A VERY interesting topic! Thanks for always expanding my knowledge of the 40k universe. It’s so damn interesting

I just woke up from a nap where I oddly enough had dreamt of the War in the Webway. Then I go on youtube and see this upload. What in the name of Nurgle's unholy garden is going on

Thank you for the birthday video, Leutin! Was about to have lunch now. I have something to listen to!

20:00 section makes me think of kain from the legacy of kain . "Spare me your elaborate metaphors kain" -raziel kain: *continues on some elaborate metaphor* that makes sense though considering they are both enigmatic immortal guys trying to hold the world together by a thread.

This was a very insightful video and great edit👍

The music at the end is really incredible, if i can know what is will be amazing...

Hey LT, great video. Always appreciate your content! In the new Witchbringer book (which is an Astra Militarum book and focuses on a sanctioned psyker and her journey from the scholastica psykana to a regiment) we learn some new lore. It's not major or groundbreaking but I wanted to post it here to make you aware, psyker servitors (as in servitors using psyker powers) is apparently a thing that exists according to that book. I do the audiobooks so I don't have the page number, but they appear fairly early in the book.

This is awesome! I'm getting ready to go to work but I'm excited to have this to come home to!

I like the short story "Lacrymata". Where the shining beacon of the astanomicon reaches out and saves the navigator from the psychic taint of the astropath.

Perhaps the Starchild is the shard of the Emperor, the one he cut off just before he battled Horus, and perhaps if they are rejoined the Emperor might then become whole yet again, perhaps also needing some extra help like Guilliman ? Maybe he just needs to be whole to be able to heal himself right, perhaps also by consuming yet more psykers ?

If the throne is such a painful drain for the Emperor, how did he expect Magnus to cope? Father of the year.

According to Trazyn, the Golden Throne is Necron technology. Then again, he also said that "memory is such a fickle thing". The thought that the Throne could be Necron technology though; that would be mind blowing.

Thank you Sir. Perfect video for a rainy Saturday.

Hey thanks for all these awesome contents. I wanted to suggest a video about the emporors possible return/soul division thing and the whole king in yellow thing. If you've already done this one please disregard, but I would personally really enjoy hearing your takes on that. Keep up the good work 🌟

Now this is just my own Theory I think the throne is not only an active doorstop as you said but it's a piece of warp crafting construction equipment probably similar to Vasshtor's wormwood. That's why it requires such massive amounts of energy. And the reason why it takes extremely powerful pyskers to even withstand it.

Returning to your videos after an extended stint away- love your series so much man! No competition.

god damn this was an amazing one. Luetin you are an amazing loremaster! keep it up. Emperor Protects!

Great video.. My current headcanon is that the Golden Throne is tech left over from the Old Ones. It was probably originally used to build the original Webway and is essentially a psychic 'STC-style' system. Allowing for the control and creation of devices/objects using warp energy...with the Webway just being one of its creations.

Great video. Very informative and thought-provoking.

A wild speculation would be that the throne (or the tech behind it) could be a kind of "conciousness interface", on which the user can connect to part of a population or the warp and space that binds a species together. That would enable the emperor to gain godlike powers, give visions, and if powerful enough guide humanity directly. That would also mean that the tyranid hivemind has the possibility to be the late stage of that technology, where a whole species is basically formed into a single entity. But thats just a really outlandish speculation.

Another solid video about one of my favourite 40k mysteries

Can you please do more story readings like you done with the Tyranids? Those videos were amazingly done and was the whole reason i began buying everything to do with the Tyranid invasions. Would love something similar for Orks and Custodies?

That chair is glorious! Thanks for another video. Can’t wait to listen 😁

Been looking forward to this one, cheers Luetin!

Itd be cool if Big E started using Navigators as messengers or heralds or something since they can see into the warp. A big Navigator house that isn't a bunch of freaks would be neat, kept "normal" by the Emperor's aura or something

Thank you for all the great content over the years and may the Emperor protect from the algorithm!

Wow that chair is amazing!!! Beautiful! Anothet great video sir! I am a huge fan of your lore work, and yes, sometimes i am a membef of the leutin sleep club. Was there more Leutin knights story coming at some point or did you finish that off in the last one?