Rawr!

Obviously someone made the mistake of telling an ork about old one eye, so now he keeps coming back to life because the orks think he can

I think Old One Eye probably could regenerate his lost eye, but he just wanted a badass scar to impress the lady-carnifexes.

He ate enough Ultramarines to get their plot armor? Bad joke aside, great video.

Old One-Eye: The Deathstroke of the Tyranids.

"Let's give the faction that is the antithesis of individuality a unique hero unit."

Personally I like the idea of an incredibly pissed off Carnifex just rampaging through the galaxy, being reborn through the hive mind with his memories, and just generally being like “this’ll do you for taking my eye”

Well obviously in his combat against the Ultra Smurfs, it somehow managed to absorb some of their Ward Era plot armor, and it's been going strong.

Old One Eye was alive for a very long time, which is very rare for Tyranid organisms which normally throw themselves into digestive pools to be reabsorbed into the Hive Fleet. Perhaps Old One Eye somehow remained conscious while frozen and slowly began to develop his own personality and thus a soul. This soul, upon death, would be drawn into the psychic mass of the Hive Mind and would then go on to occasionally inhabit the bodies of newly born Carnifexes.

how does old one eye keep popping up? simple, hive mind takes a snapshot of his entire personality because he does a really good job at his job. this explains why he can now be used in any tyranid army. because they shared him on Hivebook.

Old One Eye was a very successful organism, so the Hives recreate him occasionally, with eye wound included. It's a case of a blind evolutionary process reproducing a success, and mindlessly including it's flaws. Similarly, humans can be considered a successful organism, but we still have vestigial tailbones, and many other evolutionary leftovers. As Pillowtap mentioned, the Hives understand psych warfare, so a recreating or reusing an unkillable recognizable figurehead is a good move.

I think it an even more insidious force at work: Games Workshop needed to increase Tyranid sales making Old One Eye immortal and can travel the galaxy faster than a Necron inertialess drive.

Can you do a video on the Enslavers? My only knowledge of 40k is spending many hours watching your videos (which are amazing btw), and I have seen a lot of brief mentions of the Enslavers, mainly during the war in heaven, and I would like a more detailed explanation of what they actually are. They were obviously incredibly powerful beings if they were capable of bring down the Old Ones, and they have me intrigued

Space marine holds his hand wide apart “”I swear it was this BIG””

one of Horus "choice allies"

Old one eye is a perpetual. Confirmed.

I see a video of my favorite Carnifex, I auto like.

It's simple, Khalidor Dragho was eaten by a Tyranid and now one of them inherited his genetic plot armour

I wonder if there are specialized biomorphs who sole purpose is to locate, rescue, and relocate individual biomorphs who are of a value to the hive mind due to their mutations.

I love the unique Tyranid organisms, I hope you do videos on the others 40K Theories!

What happens if a Perpetual gets eaten by a Tyranid? Would it come back, and, if so, how?

Could Old One Eye have ascended to become a Chaos God?

"Old One Eye" an intergalactic urban legend.

There's also the beast of Phodia from the shield of baal: exterminatus box set. It was a carnifex thought to have been killed numerous times before blood angels captain Karlaen put it down. In the 7th ed rules it had the "it will not die" rule

Imagine being the guy that blasts one eye and starts the whole legend of one eye and everyone just forgot you... bet he was so proud but, just forget him I guess

Good theory video Ramleiz :D The thing that the "Old One Eye"-like creatures have been seen around the galaxy in multiple battlezones its either due to the fact it's an upgraded version of the Carnifex that all of the tendrils of the Great Devourer have. Or the sheer belief that it havn't been killed, just like the thing about Orks and Commissar Yarrick, makes it rise from the dead :)

My favourite tyranid character :) Great video as always

Perpetual Tyranid...

Best way to start the week 👍🏼

“We won’t know that it’s Old One-Eye until it’s confirmed?”

The way you said Behemoth almost shut down both of my kidneys and my pancreas

When he died on Calth there was a hive fleet within range and through his synapse absorbed his conscientiousness and genetic information and passed from fleet to fleet to return him to his original fleet. Each of the fleets along the way now has the information to make themselves an Old One Eye and if they did they would start a divergent line from the original. What the Imperium keeps witnessing may be different individual OOEs that all started with the memories up until Calth and will develop their own 'strategies' making it harder to deal with one if you ever come across it.

Old One Eye I believe was designed as a nod to Khazak One Eye from Fantasy- as many characters and races have mirrors in 40k - I wonder who Boris Todbringer (The coolest character in fantasy without doubt) would be in 40k?

honestly sounds like it just came back to life normally on calph that one time then people spread rumors about it untill demons with its appearance started to pop up and perpetuate the story since thats pretty much how you make demons

Your videos got me into the warhammer franchise.

i think its just a genetic memory and template of the one eye that was picked up by the hive fleet. its regeneration must be linked to its consciousness, since when its reconstituted its eye is still damaged. so it might have lingering mental damage from that plasma shot and might be unable to regenerate that (best crit ever - immortal ey? well permanent mental damage!) or the hive mind somehow knows that the "legend" of one eye terrifies humans thereby that in itself is a war asset. So only making sure to place only "one" one eye in combat makes sure that the legend is not spoiled by "oh look there are more than one - guess its not a special thing then" and removing a war asset. i kinda like the last one more since it implies the hive caught onto a meta physical effect and decided to use it when necessary as to induce terror

Great video 40k Theories

Really nice video as always. I believe that Old one Eye could be a prototype Swarm Lord and its simply recreated by Hive mind as a terror weapon ?

Carnifexes run into battle while yelling “I AM OLD ONE EYE”

Great video!

“All hail the king, baby!!” -Old One-Eye

I like to think that the hive mind thought Old One Eye was 'diesel' enough to have it's genetic template saved and it's consciousness backed up for later use like the swarm lord

what if after getting 'killed' the 2nd time after the thaw he was absorbed again and given 'hero' status. in that meaning if needed he was remade again BUT his mind is kept intact and there can only be 1 at a time since no sightings happened at the same time. he may also be avitar of the actual hive mind.

Perhaps it has to relate to it being frozen. Could it be possible that it somehow coudnt regrow its missing eye socket cuz the dna around that are is "forgotten" due to it being frozen for some time. Sounds dumb, but its an idea

Is it possible Old One Eye was once apart Hive Fleet Hydra, but was abandoned and picked up by Behemoth? And so on?

Some interesting ideas. I like the theory of the Carnifex eating a perpetual and absorbing something of it's powers.

the named bioforms in the 8th edition codex are described as being stress biomorphs. like if a hive fleet are pushed to a certain point, these greater bioforms are then produced to push the tide of war back into their favor. I do wish they had kept Old-one eye and Deathleaper as specific characters to individual hive fleet instead of allowing all hive fleets access to them, that way they stayed as unique characters.

So it looks like the Tyranids do have Hero Units. It's terrifying, yet interesting.

what if old one eye gained independent thought when it regenerated its brain

The only issue I could see is how the Hive Mind was able to initially reabsorb Old One Eye's genetic info to remake it. A psychic connection could be possible, but usually the Hive Mind requires the creature to take dip into a digestion pool first to perform that. Maybe there was one still active hidden on Calth?

Do you own all the books you quote, or do you get info from the net?

It should also be noted that all other hive tyrants also have their consciousnesses saved by the hive mind, along with other organisms such as Deathleaper and the Red Terror. Old One Eye also fits in here. If I’m not mistaken, the 8th edition nids codex does make note that individual organisms that stand out as exceptionally useful are kept by the hive mind.

Dear lord I wanna see the sheer epic duel between Guilliman and a Swarm Lord. God that'd be epic

Plot Twist: He's actually a Zerg

Keeping the wound as a taunting gesture. Evil but genius, I bet there would be a large amount of would be Ork leaders who'd want to kill him for the bragging rights

I have a feeling that the term old one- eye amongst the Tyranids is like a title. Kind of like how the name Ysgramor is used amongst the forces of Chaos with several of them running around and everyone thinking they are the same guy, except it’s loads of different people using the same name. Which is what I think is happening here.

Yes, “killing it instantly”.

old one eye is the hive fleet partaking in psychological warfare with the galaxy.

Good sir! I love listening to Your voice. I do hope You are recognised for it. Are You a speaker of any kind? A job perhaps? Anyway keep up the good work! (Please)

Psychological warfare, new zenos everytime. But the fear of one eye lives on in all guardsmen.

If any old one Rises and new neek kind of tyranid I liked about the character you do the Swarm lure anytime soon that's my favorite tyranid bioform

I never thought of that before. A Perpetual being absorbed by a Hive Fleet. Scary shit.

*DISTRACTION CARNIFEX*

Seriously the whole Idea of the Zooanthrope eating souls is stupid

This is just me thinking about the emporer and his desire to destroy the chaos gods, but could it be that he is a force of malal(malice). It's probably nothing but it got me thinking of stuff.

Perhaps in the ice, over the years, he somehow became cut off from the hive fleet and so evolved and developed to be independent of the hive mind, he had to become self sufficient but also has a personality, bearing the scars of the past possibly as a mark of pride, maybe the brain damage caused by the wound allowed it to be liberated

Could be the Hive Fleets playing about with psychological warfare. Deliberately creating an exact copy of a previously notable bioform on multiple worlds in order to create the legend of an invincible Tyranid. Wherever Old One Eye is sighted, its going to go through the defender's ranks quickly and seriously knock their morale.

Oh lovely a tyranid perpetual joy

I'm confused here,In Warriors of Ultramar,Uriel shot a carnifex in the eye and ended up with a very similar injury as old one eyes and nothing was ever mentioned about what happened to it as I dont recall reading that it died as it being shot was the last thing you read about it. If someone could clarify my statement and explain that would be great,thanks.

Oh snap, name drop of the Doom. Another favorite.

Will you guys talk about the origins or history of the Red Terror?

Possibly not a case of mistaken identity but perhaps the hive fleets employing the ability to recreate old one eye as a somewhat case of fear factor due to his notoriety

knowing lore from dawn of war 2 and the crystalline crushing claw's that some heavy units have it dose not surprise me at all that these things tear thru tanks like paper.....

What is the origin of Perpetuals? I think they might be genetic descendants of the Old Ones personally, have you done a video on this 40k?

Hey man, what’s ur thoughts on Marneus Calgar becoming a Primaris Marine? Should it be BS or what?

He ate a crotalid, that's how he's seen on various planets.

Phycological warfare is the best reason they bring him back again and again what's more terrifying than a apex predator that refuses to die

2:10 and they didn't aim their ship weapons at the thing or bring some heavy-duty bombs or even just called in extra support like bombers or something on standby, or had imperial forces ready to call if things got awry? Plus, you'd think such creatures would have been purged from the world in the aftermath of the war ASAP for when the Tyranids try this thing again.

Maybe it’s been chosen by Khorne, the fact he’s eye doesn’t regenerate might be a constant reminder that makes him angry. Being seen as an alpha organism might be he’s warp presence being large enough to be considered a leader.

The hive mind has a list of its favorite OC’s and old one eye is one of them XD

He is a perpetual. calling it now.

I sense a hickup here. Okay, the blueprint for this exeptional regenerating berserker Nid might be available for several hive fleets for thousands of years maybe and they use it in Fitting sitations. BUT why would they all produce these Special creatures with the characteristic non-regenerating eye? Why would they pump out damaged creatures if they have the blueprint for the undamaged creature?

it wasnt so much that the eldar chose to ignore the doom its the nids version of a weaponized null the eldar had been using their farseers to predict and ambush tyranid arrivals while they where still getting out of their pods but the doom had no soul of its own, no presence in the warp for the farseers to notice until it started eating

Old one Eye is my favorite Tyranid organism for many reasons

He's like the wolverine of the carnifex

what i think, is that old one eye has a fucking kick ass mini, across most of time.

Can you make a video of the Swarmlord please?

Perhaps he ate an unknowing perpetual, absorbing his perpetual gene, just not in such a way that gave it flawless regeneration. Perhaps the perpetual he ate, was also a psyker, who had the ability to teleport.

A perpetual tyranid... wow

Ty-ranid 🤣 love it

I am easy man. I see Tyranids, I hit the like button.

I bet Rowboat Girlyman's ass puckers whenever he thinks about the Swarmlord, it almost killed him last time and he knows that inevitably he's going to have to fight it again, and even if he defeats it they'll meet again, and again, and as many times as it takes.

Maybe old one eye is lethargic kinda like that cat from that one episode of American dad where a cat randomly attacked a kid, seemingly died and wakes up and drags its body towards the boy to continue its assault.

Does old one eye have a model on the table top? I can imagine it being w really good piece in the games.

As much as I adore Old One Eye, my favorite theory is that there really only was the one, and he's dead. All other "sightings" are mistaken identity and warhammer doing the "unreliable narrator" they do so often. I love the idea of him being the warhammer version of the boogeyman

Old One-Eye, Ghazghull, and Commisar Yarrick are gonna be the last three things in the galaxy, just you wait.

Apparently old one eyes head is now on marbos jungle table and his eye socket is used as an ash tray.

What do I think? I think heavy flamers.

One day magnus was scying the multiverse and took pity on ol' one eye and gave him immortality.

when your so hungry you eat a couple entire generations of souls