As a Deathknight of the Dark Angel, after multiple encounters with these Watchers... I'm convinced they work for the ancient Terran entity know as Santa, for they know if we've been nice or naughty...

short? stealthy? wear a lot of green cloaks? havers of all number of random shinies and nick-nacks? hobbits. those are space hobbits

Dark Angel: *Fights Chaos* Watcher in the Dark: "Help you I can"

I find it highly concerning the Dark Angels themselves don't have an exact answer to this question.

Obviously they are magical Squats.

Their null warp presence is likely how they are keeping the fate of the lion hidden... if chaos and really the imperium cannot detect his life despite the fact he is sleeping, they probably keep him that way because the watchers know how the chaos gods would react if another Primarch were to rejoin the imperium.

I like to imagine these things as, for lack of better terms, 'Angels of the Dark'. The true 'Dark Angels' who watch over these space marines

Insane answer. They are in-refuge Old Ones, trying to assist their greatest chance at victory.

Remleiz: “What are the Watchers in the Dark?” Me: Adorable.

Maybe instead of nullifying warp, their true power is actually sucking in all warp energy in their immediate vicinity... like a kind of warp vampire. They hate the warp maybe because of their dependence on it and would seek to destroy it instead of revelling in it.

"We are the watchers in the dark" "Ni!" "Shhh! Do not say it! Ahh! I said it! Ahh! I said it again! Ahhh!!!"

Maybe the Watchers aren't Daemons but rather just Warp-born creatures, not unlike Enslavers, with their Blank-like invisibility towards other Warp-Entities just being some sort of "natural" Camouflage. Think Octupi or various Insects here on Earth, just Sapient and with added Warp-Weirdness, allowing the Watchers to stay hidden from daemonic predators. This would also explain how they are able to stay in the material world, without any Warp Portals or host bodies that Daemons usually need to maintain a physical form, as they are just a material species that evolved in the Immaterium, again, similar to the Enslavers, if different in nature.

It'd be funny as hell if they were the equivalent of Nilbogs, goblins with an antiwaagh that translates to being a blank.

Could they be creatures of the pre chaos warp? The null effect being simply a calming effect of uncorrupted warp energy?

An episode dedicated to the Cabal itself would be great. Maybe some speculation as to the other species that are part of it.

Your the best at breaking down some of the more esoteric 40k lore.

"OF! ALL! THE! WATCHERS! ON! THE! ROCK! WHY! DO I! GET! ONE! THAT! TALKS!" *repeadtedly stomping said talking watcher*

Ascended oompa loompas

... Could they be to Eldar what Ratlings are to humans? I mean probably not, but, the idea of Eldar having divergent sub-species in WH40K just like humans is now interesting to me.

OUT. OF. ALL. THE. WATCHERS. IN. THE. ROCK. WHY. DO. I. GET. ONE. THAT. TALKS!

The God of the Greater God, Isha, The Emperor, Ynnead, and now The Watchers in the Dark. It appears that GOOD Forces of Chaos are starting to rise.

From a decoded vox recording obtained by the Blood Ravens, of Traitor Primarch Konrad Curze (estimated to be shortly before his possible assassination): "I've been asked, what pissed off the Lion when I last spoke with him, as we were initially on good speaking terms when we met, despite being foes in Horus' hissy fit. I asked him, I just needed to know how he scored his Jawas. 'I KEEP TELLING YOU, YOU CRAZY F__K, THEY'RE NOT JAWAS DAMMIT!' he shouted back. "'Well, I mean Orko here does look like-' and it went downhill after he cut me off, then tried to cut me. "O Lion-O, you can be a biatchy thunderkitty when pushed."

You've heard of the lollipop guild ? Well this is the licorice league .

They're probably the last project of the Old Ones designed to fight the Enslaver Plague. They were just too little too late.

I always thought that the watchers in the dark were the original pre-human inhabitants of Caliban and its proximity to the eye of terror caused them to develop unique abilities to fighting chaos.

Jawa Psychers incapable of being harmed by "normal" means...... Like ANY weapon in 40k would ever make it onto a "Normal" list.

who will watch the Watchers? and who do the Watchers watch? woah.... that's *deep.* oh and... The Emperor broke before Caliban did!! Caliban Stands!!

There is a simple answer as to what they might be, we have through the Heresy confirmed that the Watchers have Guarded the Ouroboros (Daemon within Caliban) since the planet was formed. In all likelihood the watchers are an evolutionary off-shoot of the Old Ones, specifically due to their negative psionic presence and ability to travel between the corporeal realm and the warp. If you consider that even within your own video they spoke of cultivating the civilization on Caliban, doesn't sound extremely similar to how the Old Ones were "Cultivating species" for their wars and experiments? Warsmith Dmitry(Phobos Tir) Freyger awaits your reply Philosoraptor...

I like to imagine the Watchers were going to destroy the Dark Angels to stop them from falling to heresy by Luthor, then one of the Dark Angels pat their head and now they love them.

They're demons of the warp entities of Law (rather than chaos)

Wait. Could it be, the remnants of the old ones? Changed by their time in the maelstrom to allow them to aid the enemies of chaos. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Excellent video as always Inquisitor!

Okay, what if they're not "Space Jawas" but even more scarily "Space Ewoks"

The thumbnail reminds me of Jawas...

They're the Auditors from Discworld. And all this Chaos business has left the Universe very, very messy.

I know they could kill me or drive me mad, but they're so cute!!!

Something I thought should be mentioned is that they saved Lion El'Johnson by putting him in stasis deep in the rock. Only the emperor knows this and considering their hatred for the warp, aiding the dark angels, and saving a primarch, I find it possible that they could be connected to The Emperor in some way.

They're space fae, the more I hear details about them, that's all I can come to. Maybe their origins are something like 4th/5th Dimensional beings.

They're...Hoodlums... ...I'll show myself out.

They're working for Malal/Malice the greatest of Chaos Gods who has actually edited himself out of existence to be ultimately chaotic 😂

No. I got it. They're all Orco from the He-man cartoon series. Lol

Pretty great video. Watchers of the Dark sounds like an interesting topic. They look like Jawas

1:58 the watchers are really Tomberrys from Final fantasy look at it he's so cute (just keep it away from the kitchens you dont want to see what they can do with chefs knifes)

could the watchers in the dark be ANTI warp? being made of negative warp energies as a result of some natural balancing act of the universe?

Remleiz, I think you and I have some kind of mental connection. I can't count the times I've been thinking about the innumerable things in the 40k universe, then you make a video about it. Great work as usual.

Could be the ascended forms of the Old Ones, survivors from the war in heaven.

I remember a time Cypher's presence in one of Gav Thrope's novels surely rattled the Watchers enough for the Inner Circle to pay attention to his words after he turned himself in.

Speaking of how the watchers are blanks of a sort, I wonder if human blanks can be Space Marines. And if so, can a Chapter be made of blank space marines? Also, as the warp reflects material space, could the watchers be reflections of feelings created by holding secrets? Maybe their null warp presence is a representation of their nature. And the reasons they help the Dark Angel's? Because no one in the grim dark is as secretive as the Dark Angels.

Ok, to anny artists out there, I really want to see this obese version of Fulgrim mentioned at about 14:10

Appreciate your content.

Great video 40k Theories.

Was having a bad day, then I see this. Love the Watchers!

One being known to have even remotely similar visual features to a Watcher is the being known to the more secretive Imperial scholars as ‘Orko’, a talkative servant of the renegade human (and possible sensei) H*[REDACTED]*.

I've been waiting for this! I love you ahhhhhhhhhhh

Been waiting for this one.

Here is a theory. I can’t remember what book I think it was ‘First Heretic’ where all the traitor Primarchs arrived as infants on their respective home planets. The only Primarch that wasn’t confirmed an official traitor was Lionel El Johnson. Could it be that the Watchers presence or influence managed to thwart Chaos’ plans on him?

Give out some valuable relics, tiny and helpful, it couldn’t be, could it?............ SQUATS!?!?!?!?!?

They're jailors to a giant serpent or worm that is in the core of Caliban. They make sure the taint of chaos is as low as possible. Source Angels of Caliban.

Zahariel was able to hear the watchers, and with his latent psyker senses, feel their presence before he saw them, implying they might be using a power like wraith-slip. Can they be detected with an auspex? Is it possible the watchers are hiding the Lion’s presence from the galaxy, even the Emperor?

I'm not saying anything, but there hasn't been any rule 34 based on the Watchers. That is all. Make of that what you will.

Just finished reading Descent of Angels the other day. It had me wondering about this.

So some of them lived? Good, us *[STATIC]* were beggining to fear that they were wiped out.

Dark Angels "Death to Xenos". Also Dark Angels, happy to let Xenos wander around their fortress willy nilly

I am going with the Watchers being some warp hijinks by The Old Ones. They took on the appearance of small cloaked beings to reflect the Terrans that came to colonize Caliban.

The watchers are the lions personal weed rollers. Hes not sleeping.... just really stoned :D

The true source of the"Watchers in the Dark" are as known to The wider Galaxy as the exact date Caliban was colonized. But by the sound of it, they have been taking a vested interest in humanity since before the fall of the Golden Age. If they do see time as the video talks about, they could have seen what would EVENTUALLY be created on Caliban, and kept a silent vigil, with a light hand guiding the survivors of the original Caliban civilization to their eventual destiny.

Why did you decide to change your intro from the Chaos Gate version of Iter In Infernos to the Stringstorm version?

I've been waiting for this video. Praise the Lion!

Not gonna lie, the sight of something driving someone to madness always felt like an empty statement, to me. Same for driving even those with the strongest of wills mad, when someone like the occasional human can withstand it, while some random peasant might go mad from seeing a random pair of beady eyes in the night, even if it might just be some crow

Wish we could have a box og squats and the ability to add them to squads as some kind of psychic defense/shield. No attacks, just protection.

I don't know but they seem to be able to travel fast and seem to have a high enough tech level so I'm kinda wondering if it may be the remnants of the old ones or at least one of their creations :D

i want a Monster Hunter game thats just every day life on caliban.

Finally someone made a lore video on the watchers

"Time is 3 dimensional." It always made more sense to me that, rather than time not existing in the warp, time is multidimensional in the warp. That way different 1D projections of this same 3D time would move at different rates, in different directions, form loops, or even stand still. People just say time does not exist in the warp because our minds can't comprehend any nature to time other than a 1D straight line. (I can't visualize multidimendional time either. However, as a mathematician, I can let the rules of algebra, calculus, and vector spaces tell me how such a universe could operate.)

I think their the warp manifestation of calmness, resolution, something like that, and that what is seen as a blank-like aura of nullification around them is simply the result of a concentration of those emotions shaping the warp in unusual ways. IDK, thats just my headcannon.

What about Watchers and chapter serfs? Do they work alongside or do they avoid each other with the watchers just getting the cool weapons from the drawers before Astartes are sent to their missions?

Very good!!! Again very good! And I have 3 theories: 1, can they be children of space marines? Yes I know space marines don't have sexhormons however the gene-seed has known to malfunction, and they have normal humans as servants. Can they have been trained since birth to serve the Dark Angels? 2, can the Watchers be a Cherubs experiment that went very, very not only out of control, but totally out of WACK !?!?!?! 3, can they be Aeldari-blanks during the Fall of the Aeldari ??? Demons really, really don't like blanks so what if Slaanesh eat, chewed and spat them out ?

I am now wondering if the Krorks had a superior form of Gretchen and if the watchers in the dark are just a really powerful sect of these Gretchen that didnt devolve like the krork did due to knowing many things about the warp, I will call them Wratchin and nobody will take me seriously ever again.

It would be interesting to know what Lion El'Jonson said about the Watchers

I think it has to do with time. I think they are originally creatures of the warp. Not of Chaos, but of the warp itself. They exist in all times and places simultaneously, so they portray all the attributes they have ever possessed all at the same time. This is how they can be both Blank and Psycher as well as how they move around. since they exist in all places and at all times it's just as likely they are in Tau space as they are in the Imperium.

Young Lion meeting watchers in the dark Lion “Hmm you aren’t trying to eat me ...... going to have you guys around “

I think the watchers are from another layer of space, different to the warp and real space altogether and have some kind of vested interest in combating chaos, perhaps it's effects in our universe effects theirs and they trying to help us defeat chaos so that it will end the damage being caused to their universe.

Do you think it could be a sort of Caliban-brand of Warp taint? As they seem to not follow conventional rules (as much as one can call the warp and its machinations, rules) and as far as I remember, the whole blending into shadows and not being noticed, wasn't something the Lion could do? I am pretty sure he does in the novella Dreadwing as well in front of Holguin and Farith (I don't remember how to spell that), so does anyone think they could be linked?

Well considering Blackstone can both enhance or negate the warp who is to say that a warp entity hadn't found a way to manifest itself into a semi permanent form that had aspects akin to Blackstone.

According to the pic of your video The Watchers are actually ordinary Jawas!!! :'D

is it possible, given their non-warp based telepathy and the prophecy of an "angel of death", they might be some kind of minuscule shards or residue of a C'tan? perhaps the night bringer? or maybe with the idea of techno knights despite being feudalistic, perhaps a shard of the angelic appearing Magladroth. also consider how active Necrons were in combating the warp where ever it encroached on real space.

Yup, we need an episode on the Cabal now.

They are all Orkos if Orko wasn't a comic relief. Not to mention not having problems with their powers.

I always wonder but never ask; what's the intro song?

The watchers in the dark are the "interfaces" of the Warp Computer that the Lion Recovered. The reason they are seen in the past and future is because the computer is in the Warp and thus is time freed. The computer feared nothing and no one, except the Lion for some reason and it willingly served him. It was also capable of opening portals in the warp and time at will.. the point that it could link the bridge from a Dark Angel's ship to a Death Guard's ship. The reason they are diminutive is because they are children. The adeptus mechanicus tried various attempts to interface with the machine, it turns out only the body of children could survive it. From that moment onward because of the use of being somewhat omni-present and not bound by physical locations the robed, hunched, diminutive beings that no one understood who stood beside the throne of the Lion... watchers in the dark. I need to get the title of the book because I keep forgetting it. But yes..

What if the Watchers evolved within the Webway as opposed to the Warp?

I think that they come from an evolutionary line more akin to the c'tan, using higher spacial dimension rather than the warp as the source of their powers.

So, Azrael probably didn't need to kick Snurko, as it was likely aimed telepathically to Azrael, Asmodai and Belial...

the watchers are secretly pulling strings, in the book, azrael, during a promotion to chapter master ritual something happens with a watcher that makes clear the dark angel’s allegiance is more to the watcher’s than the emperor! the dark angel’s really have some secrets. great vid.

Considering the Dark Angels color scheme, they are obviously Yoda.

Hypothesis: they are another species genetically engineered or altered by the old ones, possibly towards the end of the war in heaven as chaos started to erupt in the warp. They were intended to counteract the effects of the old ones excesses (chaos) but since their creation came late in the war they were never proliferated throughout the galaxy.

Grimdark version of Orko from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe?

I suspect they're beings from a higher order reality, able to interact with physical dimensions as well as spacetime in the same way we interact with three spatial dimemsions.

With how the Warp is basically a free for all when it comes to time is it possible that that the Watchers were somehow created by the Emperor after he ascended? Or maybe there is a connection between them and the Old Ones?

“Empers tempers Azriel, did you that? We’re totally going to find Cypher now!”

Well Grots obviously, they found out they had it pretty good there. Also they get to steal bits of kit or primarchs, never get kicked by orks, all in all a great gig.