Imagine if the distress call reached a Salamanders ship. Our big green Boys drop planetside, eager to help, only to be betrayed, mocked even by these inhumans. And then the fire comes. Chaos have mercy on them, for the Emperor and his angels will have none to spare.

"this planet was home to extreme hedonism and sadism, was surrounded by a warp storm, and is now populated only by twisted, grotesque creatures that seek out a horrible desire. No one knows how this happened" Slaanesh sitting miffed in the corner

Honestly the people of Grace are lucky. They could have been visited by Slaanesh for their actions. Instead just slightly odd cannibalism and some minor mutations

Shadowkith seems like a 40k rendition of the Wendigo monster! They are formed when people resort to cannibalism and are creatures associated with greed and hunger. They also have the ability to mimic human voices and are able to hold some form of intelligence, where they also hunt by luring people through such mimicry. The Wendigo monster has been featured in many stories in mainstream media already but this 40k version still sounds unique and rather refreshing, it's also the first time I've seen the Wendigo monster in sci fi!

Honestly the Calixis Sector is scary in general. Shodowkith, Halo devices and Tyrant Star are just a few of the horrors that exist in that region.

Sounds like a place for the Dark eldar to stumble upon. Be ironic for them to show up expecting an easy raid just to get eaten

When I hear someone say "dive head first into the grim dark" I just imagine being tackled into it by someone screaming "ONWARDS BROTHER! FOR THE EMPEROR!" Edit: Brothers! Thank you for the likes! And pray the Inquisition doesn't come for me...for I see some heretics here...

These stories are beautifully horrifying. It truelly does personify the grim dark of 40k. Thank you Wes for giving us an immersive experience of the lore.

Stories like this are honesty some of my favourite in the franchise, all the huge factions fighting each other is amazing to learn about but these shorter tales of people who delved too far into the galaxies secrets really make the setting feel alive to me. So thank you for covering them, even if there's very little lore/art to work with and I hope to see more in future

How I imagine these monsters we named by the imperium and how it changed as the name was passed through the infinite levels of filing and red tape “Kiss of the Shadows” > “Shadows Kiss” > “Shadow Kiss” > “Shadow Kith” the last one was filed by administratum worker Mikel Tysonius.

Anyone else not into warhammer or WH40K whatsoever, but appreciate these videos and content on such a world class standard for creativity and world building.

Hey Wes, the word you are looking for is “exorbitant”. That means excessive, steep, extreme. “Exuberant” means excited and joyous.

tbh, the fact that the planet was surrounded by warp storm might def be an explaination as to why they mutated so fast. that and also the maybe toxic shrooms

Grace actually has done a favour for the imperium, trapping some of the most depraved, sadistic and vilest criminals and nobles in one planet and practically end them all, no single arbites and Inquisitiom can be as effective as this

You can draw a lot of parallels between Shadow Kith and Wendigo. Maybe a combination of Wendigo Psychosis qnd the fungi on the planet helped stimulate the Shadow Kith's mutations

Finally, a hostile planet the World Eaters could actually conquer in 48 hours...

Hi Wes! Can you do a lore short about the “lost” children of the Big E like the 2 lost Primarchs, the Sensei, and the Angel/Proto-Primarch?

The word you were looking for is _exorbitant._ She may have been _exuberant_ about applying her markups, but the markups themselves would be _exorbitant._ Also, unguarded treasure would be _ripe_ for the picking. The world, unfortunately, is _rife_ with Shadowkith.

This is the type of narrative boost that 40k needs desperately.

My man is pumping out content almost as fast as an Ork on a red bike...

I'd say "Graze" is kinda the solidified Nature of the dark age, bearing an unsettling Fate. Good stuff for Nightmare Storys, awesome telling man 👍

Definitely another factor that has never been accounted for. The fungi or something related to the warp are the first guesses... The 40k universe is vast and unimaginable so who knows! Interesting bit of lore

This would be the perfect setting for a 40K horror story. A crew gets assembled by Noble to extract someone from the planet they land and shit hits the fan quickly. The extraction team get slowly whittled down by the unending horde telling me a handful and the noble are left and escape. the crew gets compensated to the end but it gets revealed to the person who hired them was a rival who just wanted revenge on the noble and to kill him personally.

More Obscure aliens and monsters please, this was a good watch and informative.. thank you.

Honestly this world sounds like it would be great for the setting of a Depth/L4D MP style video game, small team of players as rogue traders moving through one of the mansions looking for the main treasure room and any survivors while also finding some loot scattered around all the while fending off AI shadowkith and maybe one or two player controled ones with a few abilities they can use.

I'd love to see this series continued! Videos on the rak-gol, loxatl, and hrud would be pretty cool as well! I've always thought that the Chaos not including xenos units was a major missed opportunity.

Yessss love your Deep Dives keep doing such a great job

Awesome video Wes!!! More like this one please! Super enthralling, intriguing, inspiring, and Über-Dark! Love it!🤘🏻

Very interesting how I want a book dedicated to this planet, rogue trader coming on it would find logs of the populations decending to madness and cannibalization sounds ripe for a good horror book

I have the Rogue Trader module of this species. It's an awesome adventure over there.

I have to say, I take a train to work every morning, around sunrise, and listening to your Lore videos, is just what the morning needs to get ready for work, so thank you Truth be told, i would love for you to do a audio book, your voice is very calm and even if the works are Strange, you make them easy to understand and enjoyable for the new to 40K

Love this type of lores! Keep up the great work! Any more crazy lore within the Vault/prison/too OP for anything monsters

A fantastic way to end the work day! Your channel is the only one out of my thousands of subs that has the notification bell turned on. Never miss one of your amazing vids! Thank you for all your hard work and dedication! 😀👍

Audio sounds fantastic my guy. & 10/10 video This Grim Dark Lore never gets old.

I just never get tired of your vids man! Love from Argentina! I am thinking of creating a channel but i don't have the courage, yet you inspire me a lot!

Love how you have shorts, 10-20min videos, and 1hr videos. The variety is awesome and allows me to listen based on my time commitment.

Sounds to me like the denizens of Grace were already monsters and we’re just given a form to match.

Started watching you on Tiktok, never played 40K before but the lore is so fascinating. I'm so glad you moved to KZfaq. And because of you I found MajorKill as well. Your an awesome dude and I think you for all your hard work 👍

You got me into warhammer with your shorts and I'm calling it now that Chaos has something to do with it.

An entire planet that is basically The Hotel California...with cannibals!😬 That was pretty rad Wes😉

Man I need to get into the WH40k horror stories. They be KILLING it. As always mad love Wes ✊🏾

Hey Wes, love the channel, and I don’t know exactly when I started watching you, but I do know since I’ve started I’ve seen your entire channel just blow up! Not to mention the sponsors 😙🤌 *chefs kiss* Congratulations and good luck on continuing the journey! Still haven’t dove into the game because it seems you need other people who are also interested, and unfortunately none of my friends would be into it. That being said you’ve gotten me incredibly interested in reading the books, and diving into the lore myself. I absolutely loved your last obscure aliens and monsters episode, and I was hoping you’d make another one soon, so I’m really glad you have! Can’t wait to see what more wisdom you have to bestow 😂😁 thank you for posting such interesting in depth content!

Your hair looks great, Wes!! I'm not biased in any way, just making an observation. Also, great video^^

Loved this video. I love the white scars or whatever but they are what they are. These small pockets of horror and mystery buried underneath the melodrama of the imperium is a cool place to explore

"Honey, weeee're going to *_GRACE_* this year for Holidays (!)" "Greece, OK fine; whatever, just get me my 5L tub of Ben & Jerry's."

When I heard wes describing grace as an unregulated pleasure world with limitless hedonism I could tell where this was going, and the sudden warp storms sorta confirmed it. They somehow managed to attract the attention of slaanesh and that’s why they underwent mutation relatively quickly.

Listening at the same time watching while wesh tells us the story it feels so relaxing

Loving these more in depth episodes dude!

The way Grace was explained; I could easily see an Indy type Warhammer game! Made out of drop ship,cannibal- horde style-killing field with a wave mechanic! All the while you secure tech,riches,and legendary;or mythic level, class specific weapons/upgrades!!

This planet would be great for some sort of Warhammer RPG

Fantasy Flight's 40k rpg content is sooo dope. Added so much flavor to 40k. I guess wes will go through its bestiary, I once spent all weekend reading those books

For me the shadowkith are 40k’s version of the reavers from firefly/serenity

Nice Korobus Exoanse lore :D I’ve been reading some of the stuff that goes around that place recently thanks for cover some of it here dude. ^^

There’s a joke here about ‘Eating the rich’ that I’m not funny enough to make it work. 😔

When you started Wes, I wasn't a big fan of all the shorts but now that you are doing lore videos I am in, subscribed

Holy damn. This would make for a great game setting. Looting ancient estates and fighting off hordes of mutants.

Great video as always Wes!

We did this as a fleet in distress as part of the Procession of the Damned. Finally found two of the derelicts broadcasting manual distress calls only to find out once our party had boarded the first ship that what was left of the crew had devolved into these insanely fast and strong hordes. The second ship, that was larger than the first was much worse due to the vast numbers. I distinctly remember their spawn being particularly horrible with the traps and thrown weaponry. Time dilation was a major factor in the fight on the second ship, which thankfully favored the players in the engagement. Two great tastes that were far nastier/terrifying than being on their own. The GM had us constantly making sanity checks.

The Calixis Sector is probably one of the most terrifying places in 40k and this is yet more proof of that.....Great job man! You're such a great narrator!

Love that story west, one of Greed and Sinful individual, finding their just dessert. Also, Grace seems like a ripe planet for a Black Templar Crusade. Everything here screams their name, for me.

I can see a videogame being made, focused around a determined rogue trader wanting to scavenge the planet in search of treasure and lost artifacts. They arrive and receive the deluge of distress calls, but soon find themselves trapped as the warp storms close around it again. You can visit the towering fungi where some of the deformed aristocrats fled to in order to try and subsist on it, or the once-bustling city slave ruins, or even the decaying manors at their center. Time spent exploring and answering distress calls can give lore about what things happened on Grace before its downfall, or even discover more dark and sinister things which lead to the inhabitants mutating so rapidly. Perhaps it could be an ARPG like Path of Exile, or a first-person hack-and-slash like Vermintide/Darktide, maybe horror, or a mix.

Fact that finest Imperium royalty were ready to pay exorbitant prices for basically a massive deadly wasteland speaks volumes about state of Imperium's housing market.

So pumped!

appreciate your content you got me into the franchise man❤

Imagine going to the planet, not for riches. But hope for a fight. Only to be let down when the monsters decide your too scary to try and eat

Thanks for this video, helped me to get inspiration and have included them in one of my Chaos armies

The short story anthologies are underrated and under covered by content creators. Awesome video, Wes. Peace

I don't play warhammer, I don't know warhammer! But what I have learned I have learned from you and it's awesome!! I'm wondering if you could do a piece on the history of the Grey Knights or Kaldor Drago!? Keep up the amazing work!!

Favorite one yet! Thanks!

Bought and painted my first minis the other day because of your vids, thanks!

Wouldn't it make sense for slaanesh to somehow be involved with this planet?

YES!!! Another lore video, let’s go

This video, is great. Even though I probably should not have watched this just as I'm going to sleep, it's still great. The narration, the music, all of it just sent shivers down my spine and made me look behind my back just in case. Though one thing did leave me wondering, what ever happened to Chorda? Did she perish when the storms first arrived? Did she try to return when they finally disappeared, or is she still traveling across the stars?

Early on your channel had solid 40k content. Now you are absolutely bringing it! Leutin better be watching out.

I know nothing about warhammer but I really enjoy all your creepy and dark stories. When you said koronus expanse I thought you said corona expanse and was like "Damn.. These creators dont play around " Great vid btw ;)

Another Uplifting and Cheerful story from WH40k.

it's this type of story that make me like 40k even more ^^

I must admit, i really like your videos. The Warhammer lore is wast and the way you present it is engaging.

This would be a awesome idea for a kitbashed 40k army and reminds me very much of the flesh eater courts of AOS.

Imperium Guardsman: A planet who's population has devolved into cannibalism? Such a horrid display of hedonism...say brother guardsman how many of those ration cans till next shipment? I'm getting rather hungry.

Of all of the existential threats in 40K, the tyrannids have always scared me the most. They’re so beyond any motivation or morality we cab understand. And the genestealers are a threat that I think cannot be overstated.

Great video wes I'm looking forward to more

"What happened to the aristocrats on the planet" and "Who are these cannibalistic mutants" are two self-answering questions hahaha

I love your " not shorts" videos :3

Video game idea: You are a "treasure hunter" in 40k. You receive info about an abandoned former pleasure planet that has completely untouched estates chock full of technology and valuables that are just waiting to be raided. So you, or a small team if you want multiplayer, gear up and have a small shuttle drop you off on Grace to hunt treasure. Obviously you will encounter the cannibal zombie things and now have to survive for a set amount of time before your ride shows up at the designated landing zone to pick you up. Whatever valuables or technology you can carry with you or bring to the LZ can be taken back with you, selling off your haul to pay for upgrades or new equipment so you can turn around and head back for more. Game modes can include: 1) a persistent base that you build up over time, allowing you to haul ever increasing amounts of loot back 2) each run can be a new start with only whatever gear you brought 3) you can be something other than a treasure hunter, perhaps an inquisitor looking for answers or the new owner of Grace looking to rebuild paradise after cleaning house; each mode would entail not only surviving, but other goals such as finding clues, solving mysteries, or just exterminating everything.

These videos use to make me feel sick and disturbed but now I turn them on before I sleep like a bed time story

Total new Vegas vibes here and im digging it

big love to your channel

A WesHammer Double Feature, now this is a good day haha.

DID YOU DOUBLE UPLOAD YESTERDAT WHAT THE HELL WES LETS GOOO

wow , you did a good job Wes. 👍

This is a nice change,Just a 40k horror story with no Chaos shenanigans.

Fantastic content

you will hit a mil subs faster than any other warhammer channels if u keep uploading deep lore

A schweet, another Weshammer video

0:50 that imperium meme made me crack a good laugh

If they survive as pure canibals with no other food sources (i.e. fungi and old stored food), they'd all die out extremely quickly, before they could lure in many traders and even eating traders and their crews wouldn't give them any useful time. Realistically their main food source would have to be whatever was most abundant and sustainable which would probably the the fungi, so that would be what they would evolve to eat if they survived multiple generations.

I just saw a short about Sly Marbo I was wondering if you could do a video on him and his exploits please

Grace does unironically sounds a beautiful looking planet to me. I love places that are stormy and dark 24/7 but I tend to like biomes and climates others find unpleasant such as deserts, badlands, and wetlands.

I wished GW would expand on these planets as I'd find it rather amusing if the flayed found the planet same for the halo devices that no one's used them as a sort of weapon placing them into jewelry and distributing that jewelry for free amongst the lower classes upon a hive world or something like that