So I may have gotten some dates mixed up. >_< When this assassination attempt took place, the Drukhari could not have known about the failure of the Golden Throne specifically, but even then killing the Emperor would still be a beneficial act to Commoraghn society (panic = easy pickings for raiders) This would also mean that the Ynnari themselves wouldn't have orchestrated it, *but* given the inscription on an exodite tablet, there could have been a 'proto-ynnari' cult that simply never grew as powerful who sought to orchestrate the same result.

" i want to hire you to kill the emperor of mankind." "...you mean the one thats dead?" "exactly. now get to it."

It was the Dark Angels. They know Cypher is trying to see the Emperor. Can't see him if he is assassinated. *Azreal tapping his temple*

It was no-one. The assassin was just trying to show-off by killing the most protected target in the galaxy and he made up this "employer" story to save face when he failed.

A lot of commenters here seem to be forgetting what happens within 0.00001 seconds of the Emperor dying: Terra is swallowed up in a massive warp rift, the control structure of the Imperium dies and the Imperium is dead. That's why the big E doesn't kill himself, that's why the Horus Heresey was such a perfect victory for chaos: they found a way to trap the Emperor. It's mentioned in Dark Imperium that the Emperor's reaction to seeing Guilliman again is like a man in prison who sees a hacksaw or file being delivered to him. To Guilliman's regret he is not the person delivering the file, but the file itself. The big E's hopes of escape rest with Guilliman now, no way he wants someone to kill him.

Clearly this brutally cunning and cunningly brutal plan could only be the work of the Orks!

“I won’t tell you” *space marine* “you know we can eat the memories out of you right?”

seriously, he's the emperor of the entire human race in a interstellar empire, that is also grim dark as fuck. if they don't have an assasin of the month portrait wall i would be surprised.

The Inquisition. NOBODY EXPECTS THE IMPERIAL INQUISITION!!

This kind of brutality, this kind of cunning...it could only be the brutally cunning Mork who is behind this! And the Drukhari were simply too intimidated by the thought of his cunning brutality to speak his Orky name!

I’m leaning towards an Imperial hiring them. It would explain their entry onto Terra if a High Lord said “ignore the Eldar shaped package in the corner pls”

The Answer is simple... it was you, Remliez! And this video is purely an attempt to throw the suspicion off of you.

But that would mean going toe to toe with the Custodes .aka one of the stupidest thing to do in 40k

Alternate Theory: The blade of Ptesh was hired... by the Emperor of mankind himself. As a perpetual, his death would allow him to regain his full capabilities and rebuild the Imperium, rising from the ashes like an Iron Phoenix. If the Emperor promised to save the Aeldar race in exchange for his death, how many Aeldari would die a thousand deaths for a chance of success? It explains both his presence on Sacred Terra and his devotion.

Maybe the "Blade of Ptesh" was send to fail, rather then succeed? It could be a way to get rid of a assasin, before he is used against you. It could be a way to send a message (we will totally try). It could be a way to maintain the custodes vigilance (yes, people will try - so do not slack off just because nothing happened for 10k years!).

Asdrubael Vect isn't that stupid if drukhari assassin managed to kill the emperor every single loyalist chapter would come knocking on the doors of Commorragh my brothers first amongst them and even possibly Abaddon for spoiling his fun

Considering what I understand of the Emperor's personality and insistence on unquestioning obedience, the question may be "who *didn't* order the Emperor's assassination?"

" Maybe it was the Guilliman "- said sarcastically

Tfw you are genuinely concerned the Emperor might have actually been killed. I'M IN TOO DEEP BOYS.

I guise the issue with the last theory is that if the Imperium found out that the Eldar tried to kill their god, even if to fulfil the prophecy, it might destory whatever relationship that they had and bring total war

The auto-subs are brilliant: Roboute Gulliman became reboot a killer man

Pet theory: Emps and Ynnead are both the star child, when Emps finally kicks it, his soul will merge with the Nascent Ynnead to create a super-god if you will.

It. Was. Kitten.

Here's a theory: The Adeptus Mechanicus is now sending people across the galaxy to look for blackstone. Why? With it, they could essentially build crude versions of the Cadian pylons on Terra itself. With the pylons in place, they could let the emperor die. The potential warp rift would be suppressed or held in place. Bring on the assassins. Providing they beef up the defenses throughout the galaxy and strategically place some of the returning Primarchs where they are most needed, the Imperium could hopefully handle a few decades (!) without warp travel while waiting for the emperor to return.

I doubt it was Big E himself. Granted He's a perpetual but He's well aware of these facts: without Him on the chair the Astronomicon wouldn't shine and Terra would get eaten by an Eye of Terror 2.0, both events quite terrible even when taken separately. The former could have been dealt with, after all it was possible to travel before Big E switched on the bloody thing, but you can't exactly travel when a massive portion of the material universe gets thrown into the Immaterium (especially when said portion of the material universe is the Segmentum Solar or part of it). Besides there's the Terminus decree all comfy in a box in Titan and I suspect the Custodes are fully aware of that piece of paper, moreover He could have just asked the Companions to do the job

It was the Alpha Legion. They hired the Blade of Ptesh as a distraction while Alpharius disguised as a Custodian replaced the Emperor with the corpse of Horus Lupercal which they had secretly recovered previously. Or is that just what they want you to think?

Its probably the Thorians mentioned in the Custodes codex

3 words: Just As Planned....

Unrelated theory: Could Blackstone be used to seal the warp rift on Terra and restart the Terran Webway Project (incidentally removing one of the major reasons for maintaining the operation of the Golden Throne and allowing the Emperor to regenerate)?

When the real question would be, how would one even kill the emperor if even some custodians cant physically enter the throneroom

I just finished The Carrion Throne and it sounds like one of the theories you went over. I won't say which for those of you that haven't had the chance to read it yet

Alpharius?

The night lords. They could concivably have the general floorplan for the emperors palace. Moreover it would be extreamly fitting (in that vindictively satirical & untra-violent Curze fashion) to send an assassin after a target who could see it coming but cant/wont alter the course of events... "Death is nothing compared to vindication"

Emps himself did, projecting his psychic might through the Immaterium to finally get Lloyd off the Golden Throne, the resulting galaxy wide havoc would allow him to break free of the grasp of Trayzn the Infinite and basically get an effective roll-back of the Imperium to before the Primarch Project for a second attempt.

"your companions will have a pleasing high time chasing you around"

My picks for the assassination 1) The Emperor 2) various Eldar groups 3) Cypher 4) the Highlords of Terra 5) The Inquisition

Great video!

Wasn't me🎶 Caught me Orderin that assassin 🎶 Wasn't me 🎶

''Who tried to assassinate the Emperor'' takashi69: I KNOW

This particular video keeps popping up on my feed, and every time I see it, the title makes me think of a waiter passing out orders. That said, love your channel.

Fucking Horus.

Good, but for all we know it could have been the Adeptus Mechanicus, maybe an Adeptus who was unceremoniously tossed out of the palace... That certain Adeptus seems to have access to the webway using a Xenos ship, has been to and left Commoragh, and has knowledge about the imperial palace that an assassin might find useful, not looking good “random Mechanicus guy.”

Couldn't the assassins have been hired by the C'tan of deception, who we know is alive? Just a thought, don't know what his motivations would be.

It was....Malal. Many wont expect the forgoten one. Failing that it was a cunning plan devised by non other than Black Adder.

Blade was actually just running from Sly Marbo and wanted an absolute way to die.

You forgot one major shadow player in the Star Child theory. The Cabal.

1:26 whenever i see this picture i expect the emperor to start complaining about something to his caretaker using his text to speach device

I hope we find answers soon, I should go visit my Assassin contacts for help and supplies.. I did some Mercenary work for one of the Temples, a Vindicare gave me some ammo to improve my rifle with.

Clearly it was the Emperor himself who arranged his own assassination.

I like the new background music :)

What if.. the person who paid to have the Emperor killed.. was THE EMPEROR.

It was me. Bastard ate the last crescent roll.

The Blade of Ptesh was Alpharius as was the Custodian who caught him and so is The Golden Throne the Emporer is sat on

My list of Primary suspects: Erebus (Wouldn't be his first attempt!), Tzeentch (probably by proxy), Omegon (it's his style), and just maybe Eldrad Ulthran. Abaddon's off the list, he'd want to do it himself. Orks? LOL! Tau? The idea of a Tau intimidating a Drukhari may just be the funniest thing ever. The High Lords? Possible, but very unlikely. Inquisition? The Malleus agents do tend to go off the deep end with alarming regularity, but it would have to be one helluva Inquisitor to convince the Blade of Ptesh to hold their tongue, the kind that even Eisenhorn wouldn't tangle with. Other than that, no idea.

The day the Emperor returns will be the end of the enemies of mankind

Seems pretty moronic for them to kill them without discovering who they were sent by...

What if it's the Emperor trying to rebirth and escape the Golden Throne? Tying back to your video on Abbadon

A member of the mechanicus who know the truth about the Omnissiah

Best bets, the Drukhari was simply *lying*, and doing this to divert slaanesh just a bit to Terra and the Imperium. Or given how *insanely stupidly corrupt and arrogant* the high lords are regarding Robute's return, they'd do this.

It's Abbadon. he's tired of making all these big, complicated, and time consuming black crusades that never work. "Fuck it" He thinks, "Let's just hire a xeno to do it and cause that warp rift everybodies talking about. It's waaaaaaay easier."

What of the cabal? That group of powerful xenos cant dissapear like that, i bet they are still out there, probably plotting to minimalize the damage/prevent the end times caused by emperor not losing utterly during horus heresy.

Any theories on John Grammaticus' first death?

Probably the emperor himself seeking to find an excuse to be reborn.

OK, I say it here and now: "I didnt expect the spanish inquisition here."

We are reaching levels of Heresy not previously thought possible!!

It was the Emperor himself. Seeing the Custodes dance around half naked finally did him in...

I'm sorry for being late to the discussion but how would a human pay a Drukarii? I mean what currency would they use?

Maybe it would be the ironic twist of Konrad Curze ordering the assassination.

Maybe it was the Emperor himself who put out the hit? In order to die and resurrect properly? His psychic might could have shielded the assassin from detection most of the way into the palace.

Hi, Can you shed some light of Octarius War between Tyranids and Orks.

Emperor protects, and so does his custodes.

I heard there was heresy and I got here as fast as I could.

But nobody suspects Robute Gulliman. What an excellent plan!

I believe it was a chaos champion (such as abbadon or a daemon prince) I mean think of it out of all the factions they would have the most to gain for when he dies the galaxy pretty much dies with it

When is the new Warhammer book coming out? Or has the series ended?

Not Joking, Alpharious due to his ties to zenos races through the Kabal

could the assassination be executed entire by cyberdongs?

In what book did this event happen?

the person that has the most to gain from the Emperor's death is the Emperor, if he dies he would finally be able to get back up and start fixing things.

wasn't the Star Child theory obsolete since the anouncement of the 8th Edition?

Maybe 'Kitten' asked the assassin to kill the emperor as he was fed up with his job?

What about the Alpha Legion? I mean who knows considering that they employ covert and unconventional warfare(infiltration, sabotage and assasination plus they also employ non astartes operatives into there ranks makes them very good in Black ops) and they maybe know the whole nature of the Emperor's status in the throne(Their allegiance along with there Primarch were actually loyal to one other than the Emperor himself) maybe they are trying to free Emps to his suffering and starts his Resurrection into becoming a Godly being(A Chaos God of Order, Reason, Logic and Skeptisism)

I think it was the Ynnari. They are made up of Eldar from all factions so the Blade of Tesh could have refused to betray them because they were part of this new order and they viewed themselves as Ynnari as oppose to Drukharri so they acted selflessly

*Smashes head through the cogitator’s screen SUCH DESPICABLE HERESY!!! THE EMPEROR IS IMMORTAL AND THAT IS FINAL! PRAISE THE EMPEROR! THE GUARD IS FOREVER LOYAL TO HIS IMPERIAL IMMORTAL MAJESTY! PRAISE THE EMPEROR!

My guess is that the hit was orchestrated by the chaos god known as the Emperor. After the body is killed, the chaos Emperor would reveal himself to the grieving adeptus custodes and tell them that he has returned to them after his 10,000 year nap. Now openly worshiped as a true God, his following would increase dramatically, gaining him the power to overthrow the other gods. Assuming that such an entity even exists in the warp. However, 10k years of belief in the "real" emperor may have caused such a warp entity to be born.

Maybe it was a new tentative from the Cabal

Big E : it was me all aloooooooooooong

Matt Ward sent the assassin, knowing it would further fuck-up the cannon of the W40k universe.

I can imagine the Tau paying someone to assassinate the Emperor. Because they would benefit the most from the Emperor’s death: humanity would have lost its main source of space travel, they would also be demoralised and isolated from the Imperium, which would make it easier to take large portions of the Imperium of Man with little consequences.

It could be a survivors of the Cabal, or Cegorach, hiring a assassins by using Lady Malys.

Imagine the look on his face when he looked behind him and found a custodian >:D

what if it was Big E putting a hit on himself, perhaps in a moment of weakness he just wanted to end the pain :,(

If he dies, he will be reborn but will take time while Chaos floods in

No one is even going to mention that perhaps a Necron overlord hired the assasin? If another eye on terror opens up on Terra, that might as well be the end of humanity, and that would also be a slow starving death for the Chaos Gods. It's a win-win for a bunch of metal skeletons that can wait for other million years no problem.

I thought the Howling Griffins and the Silver Skulls were 2nd level/birth chapters...after the Herasy

#40K Theories, I have worked in nursing homes as a nurses aid. I have personally witnessed elder people that still had a good mind, ask to die do to there ever failing health. One woman told me that she had out lived all of her children and most of her friends. Her health was on a slow and painful terminal spiral that would/did only grant her release when she passed away. She was in constant pain both mentally and physically. Given this experience, I put forth that our Glorious God Emperor of Mankind hired the assassin to kill him, because he knows that no human would even think about the idea. Supporting Facts: The Emperor is in unfathomable grinding and constant pain. His mind has been shattered, yet he must still keep the Astronomican working at full tilt. That is like telling your over 40,000 year old father that he must run a marathon even though he just had to kill his favored son, and has two broke legs with multiple fractures. Not only does he do it, but he wins the marathon. That is how much the Emperor loves us all. He has been hooked to the golden throne, a devise forcing his dying body to stay alive. He knows every time a hero of the Imperium of Man dies. Half of his sons have betrayed him. Most of the ones that have not betrayed him are missing or dead as well. The man deserves a rest, and if he is in that much pain both mental and physical. Then the only humane thing to do is allow him to pass away.

Maybe it was Trazyn and he wants to put the golden throne in his collection.

Why wouldn't the Blade of Ptesh reveal who hired him if he was going to die regardless? I think it means the Blade was doing (or working for) something he believed in, not just material gain.

Or... or... or... the assassin was sent by the Custodes themselves to further test the defensive capabilities of the Imperial Palace. Bam!

The High lord angle only works if this was before Gulliman's revival and subsequent shake up of Imperial Political Structure.