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Season 01
THE BEGINNER’S TOUR
A clear introduction to the setting, its major powers, essential history, and the current era.
S01E01What Is Warhammer 40,000?Open episode →S01E02Space Marines: Why Are They Everywhere?Open episode →S01E03The Imperium of Man: Humanity’s Dying EmpireOpen episode →S01E04Chaos: The Enemy Behind RealityOpen episode →S01E05Orks: The Galaxy’s Happiest WarmongersOpen episode →S01E06Aeldari and Drukhari: Survivors of a Fallen EmpireOpen episode →S01E07Necrons: The Ancient Owners Wake UpOpen episode →S01E08Tyranids and Genestealer Cults: The Hunger Is Already HereOpen episode →S01E09The T’au and the Leagues of Votann: Greater Good and Ancient KinOpen episode →S01E10The Emperor: Man, God, or Living Corpse?Open episode →S01E11The Warp: Why Space Travel Goes Through HellOpen episode →S01E12The Horus Heresy in One EpisodeOpen episode →S01E13Who Are the Good Guys?Open episode →S01E14Psykers: Superpowers With Terrible ConsequencesOpen episode →S01E15The Four Chaos Gods: Rage, Change, Decay, and ExcessOpen episode →S01E16Astra Militarum: Ordinary Humans Against EverythingOpen episode →S01E17The Adeptus Mechanicus: Why Technology Became ReligionOpen episode →S01E18Sisters, Custodes, and Inquisitors: The Imperium’s Other IconsOpen episode →S01E19A Normal Day in the Worst FutureOpen episode →S01E20Hive Worlds, Forge Worlds, and Death WorldsOpen episode →S01E21Bolters, Chainswords, Titans, and ExterminatusOpen episode →S01E22How the Imperium Governs a Million WorldsOpen episode →S01E23Canon, Retcons, Propaganda, and Unreliable NarratorsOpen episode →S01E24Where the Galaxy Stands in the Era IndomitusOpen episode →S01E25Choose Your Path Into Warhammer 40,000Open episode →
Season 02
ARMIES, EMPIRES, AND CULTURES
A field guide to the armies, institutions, empires, and cultures fighting across the galaxy.
S02E01Space Marines at War: From Recruit to Angel of DeathOpen episode →S02E02Space Marine Chapters: A Thousand Ways to ServeOpen episode →S02E03Astra Militarum: Regiments, Officers, and the Human War MachineOpen episode →S02E04The Imperial Navy: Warships, Admirals, and Void WarfareOpen episode →S02E05Adepta Sororitas: Faith, Fire, and the Sisters of BattleOpen episode →S02E06Adeptus Mechanicus: Forge Worlds, Skitarii, and Sacred MachinesOpen episode →S02E07Deathwatch and Grey Knights: Xenos Hunters and Daemon SlayersOpen episode →S02E08Adeptus Custodes and Sisters of Silence: Guardians of the ThroneOpen episode →S02E09Imperial Knights and Titan Legions: Noble Houses and God-EnginesOpen episode →S02E10Chaos Space Marines: Veterans of the Long WarOpen episode →S02E11World Eaters: Blood, Rage, and the Butcher’s NailsOpen episode →S02E12Death Guard: Decay, Endurance, and the Plague GodOpen episode →S02E13Thousand Sons: Sorcery, Dust, and Forbidden KnowledgeOpen episode →S02E14Emperor’s Children: Perfection, Sensation, and RuinOpen episode →S02E15Chaos Daemons: The Warp Made WarOpen episode →S02E16Orks at War: Clans, Meks, Speed, and the Waaagh!Open episode →S02E17Craftworld Aeldari: Paths, Aspect Warriors, and ForesightOpen episode →S02E18Drukhari at War: Kabals, Wych Cults, and Haemonculus CovensOpen episode →S02E19Harlequins, Ynnari, and Aeldari OutcastsOpen episode →S02E20Necrons at War: Dynasties, Legions, and Living MetalOpen episode →S02E21Tyranids at War: Hive Fleets, Bioforms, and AdaptationOpen episode →S02E22Genestealer Cults: Uprising Before ConsumptionOpen episode →S02E23The T’au Empire: Castes, Battlesuits, and the Greater GoodOpen episode →S02E24Leagues of Votann: Kinhosts, Ancestors, and GrudgesOpen episode →S02E25Which Faction Is Right for You?Open episode →
Season 03
HOW THE GALAXY BROKE
From the War in Heaven to the Great Rift: the catastrophes that created the modern galaxy.
S03E01Before Humanity: The Galaxy’s Deep PastOpen episode →S03E02The Old Ones, the Necrontyr, and the C’tanOpen episode →S03E03The War in Heaven: The First Galactic CatastropheOpen episode →S03E04The Necron Great Sleep and the Rise of the AeldariOpen episode →S03E05The Aeldari Empire at Its HeightOpen episode →S03E06Humanity’s First Journey to the StarsOpen episode →S03E07The Dark Age of TechnologyOpen episode →S03E08The Men of Iron and the Machine RebellionOpen episode →S03E09Old Night: The Age of StrifeOpen episode →S03E10The Fall of the Aeldari and the Birth of SlaaneshOpen episode →S03E11The Unification Wars: The Emperor Conquers TerraOpen episode →S03E12The Primarch Project and the ScatteringOpen episode →S03E13The Great Crusade: Reuniting Humanity at GunpointOpen episode →S03E14Ullanor: Triumph Before DisasterOpen episode →S03E15The Corruption of HorusOpen episode →S03E16Isstvan: The Horus Heresy BeginsOpen episode →S03E17The Heresy Spreads Across the GalaxyOpen episode →S03E18The Ruinstorm, Imperium Secundus, and the Road to TerraOpen episode →S03E19The Solar War and the Siege of TerraOpen episode →S03E20The Emperor and Horus: The Final ConfrontationOpen episode →S03E21The Great Scouring and the Second FoundingOpen episode →S03E22The War of the BeastOpen episode →S03E23The Age of Apostasy and the Reign of BloodOpen episode →S03E24Abaddon’s Black Crusades and the Fall of CadiaOpen episode →S03E25The Great Rift, the Indomitus Crusade, and the New AgeOpen episode →
Season 04
INSIDE THE IMPERIUM
Government, faith, labor, crime, travel, and everyday survival inside humanity’s dying empire.
S04E01How the Imperium Actually GovernsOpen episode →S04E02Holy Terra: Capital of a Dying EmpireOpen episode →S04E03The High Lords and the Adeptus TerraOpen episode →S04E04The Administratum: Bureaucracy on a Galactic ScaleOpen episode →S04E05Tithes, Thrones, and the Imperial EconomyOpen episode →S04E06Planetary Governors: Kings Beneath the EmperorOpen episode →S04E07The Ecclesiarchy: Faith as GovernmentOpen episode →S04E08The Inquisition and Imperial Agents: Power Without OversightOpen episode →S04E09Adeptus Arbites: Law, Judgment, and PunishmentOpen episode →S04E10Rogue Traders: Licensed to Cross the UnknownOpen episode →S04E11Navigators: The Mutant Houses That Guide HumanityOpen episode →S04E12Astropaths and the Astra TelepathicaOpen episode →S04E13The Mechanicus–Imperium Alliance: One Empire or Two?Open episode →S04E14The Schola Progenium: Raising the Imperium’s ServantsOpen episode →S04E15Life in a Hive CityOpen episode →S04E16Life on Forge, Agri, Mining, and Shrine WorldsOpen episode →S04E17Life on Frontier, Feudal, and Death WorldsOpen episode →S04E18Work, Food, Money, and ClassOpen episode →S04E19Family, Childhood, Education, and LeisureOpen episode →S04E20Medicine, Augmentation, Servitors, and DisabilityOpen episode →S04E21Crime, Gangs, Smugglers, and the UnderhiveOpen episode →S04E22Travel and Life in the Void: Pilgrims, Merchants, and RefugeesOpen episode →S04E23Propaganda, Censorship, Art, and EntertainmentOpen episode →S04E24Death, Burial, Saints, and the AfterlifeOpen episode →S04E25Could You Survive the Imperium?Open episode →
Season 05
THE PRIMARCHS AND THEIR LEGIONS
The Emperor’s sons, their Legions, their rivalries, and the family catastrophe that reshaped humanity.
S05E01The Emperor’s Sons: What Were the Primarchs?Open episode →S05E02The Lion and the Dark Angels: The First LegionOpen episode →S05E03Fulgrim and the Emperor’s Children: The Pursuit of PerfectionOpen episode →S05E04Perturabo and the Iron Warriors: Masters of SiegeOpen episode →S05E05Jaghatai Khan and the White Scars: Freedom at Full SpeedOpen episode →S05E06Leman Russ and the Space Wolves: The Emperor’s ExecutionersOpen episode →S05E07Rogal Dorn and the Imperial Fists: Duty Without CompromiseOpen episode →S05E08Konrad Curze and the Night Lords: Justice Through TerrorOpen episode →S05E09Sanguinius and the Blood Angels: Grace, Fury, and DoomOpen episode →S05E10Ferrus Manus and the Iron Hands: The Flesh Is WeakOpen episode →S05E11Angron and the World Eaters: A Life Built for RageOpen episode →S05E12Roboute Guilliman and the Ultramarines: Empire and OrderOpen episode →S05E13Mortarion and the Death Guard: Endurance Turned BitterOpen episode →S05E14Magnus and the Thousand Sons: Knowledge at Any CostOpen episode →S05E15Horus and the Luna Wolves: The Favored SonOpen episode →S05E16Lorgar and the Word Bearers: The Need to BelieveOpen episode →S05E17Vulkan and the Salamanders: Strength With HumanityOpen episode →S05E18Corvus Corax and the Raven Guard: Freedom From the ShadowsOpen episode →S05E19Alpharius, Omegon, and the Alpha Legion: Lies Within LiesOpen episode →S05E20The Forgotten Legions: Primarchs II and XIOpen episode →S05E21The Emperor as Father, Creator, and CommanderOpen episode →S05E22Brothers in Arms: Friendships Among the PrimarchsOpen episode →S05E23Brothers at War: Rivalries, Resentments, and BetrayalsOpen episode →S05E24From Legions to Chapters: What Each Bloodline BecameOpen episode →S05E25The Primarch Legacy in the 41st MillenniumOpen episode →
Season 06
THE FORCES OF CHAOS
The gods, daemons, cults, traitor forces, and impossible worlds born from the Warp.
S06E01What Does Chaos Actually Want?Open episode →S06E02The Great Game: War Among the Chaos GodsOpen episode →S06E03Khorne Beyond Anger: Wrath, Violence, and BloodOpen episode →S06E04Tzeentch Beyond Schemes: Hope, Change, and AmbitionOpen episode →S06E05Nurgle Beyond Disease: Despair, Endurance, and AcceptanceOpen episode →S06E06Slaanesh Beyond Pleasure: Obsession, Perfection, and ExcessOpen episode →S06E07Chaos Undivided: Unity Without TrustOpen episode →S06E08Daemons: Ideas Given Claws and TeethOpen episode →S06E09Greater Daemons and Daemon PrincesOpen episode →S06E10Possession, Exorcism, and the Battle for the SoulOpen episode →S06E11Mutations, Gifts, and Chaos SpawnOpen episode →S06E12How a Chaos Cult BeginsOpen episode →S06E13The Lost and the Damned: Mortal Armies of ChaosOpen episode →S06E14The Black Legion in the 41st MillenniumOpen episode →S06E15The Word Bearers: Missionaries of the Primordial TruthOpen episode →S06E16The Iron Warriors: Siegecraft Without EndOpen episode →S06E17The Night Lords: Terror as a Way of WarOpen episode →S06E18The Alpha Legion: Cells, Secrets, and ContradictionsOpen episode →S06E19Renegade Chapters and Independent WarbandsOpen episode →S06E20The Dark Mechanicum: Innovation Without RestraintOpen episode →S06E21Chaos Knights and the Traitor Titan LegionsOpen episode →S06E22Daemon Worlds: Reality Under New ManagementOpen episode →S06E23Life in the Eye of TerrorOpen episode →S06E24Vashtorr, the Soul Forges, and Machine ChaosOpen episode →S06E25Why Would Anyone Choose Chaos?Open episode →
Season 07
XENOS CIVILIZATIONS
Orks, Aeldari, Necrons, T’au, Tyranids, Votann, and other ways of seeing the galaxy.
S07E01Seeing the Galaxy Through Alien EyesOpen episode →S07E02Ork Biology: Spores, Growth, and the Greenskin EcosystemOpen episode →S07E03Ork Society: Clans, Castes, and the Meaning of StrengthOpen episode →S07E04Gork, Mork, and the Culture of the Waaagh!Open episode →S07E05Life Aboard a CraftworldOpen episode →S07E06The Aeldari Paths and the Discipline of SurvivalOpen episode →S07E07Seers, Spirit Stones, and the Infinity CircuitOpen episode →S07E08Commorragh: A City Built From CrueltyOpen episode →S07E09Drukhari Society: Kabals, Cults, Covens, and SlavesOpen episode →S07E10Harlequins and the Service of the Laughing GodOpen episode →S07E11Ynnari, Exodites, Corsairs, and Other Aeldari FuturesOpen episode →S07E12The Necron Mind: Memory, Identity, and ImmortalityOpen episode →S07E13Necron Dynasties: Courts, Codes, and Ancient PoliticsOpen episode →S07E14Crypteks, C’tan Shards, and Impossible ScienceOpen episode →S07E15Flayed Ones and Destroyer Cults: When Immortality BreaksOpen episode →S07E16The T’au Castes and the Making of a CitizenOpen episode →S07E17Kroot, Vespid, and the T’au Empire’s Other PeoplesOpen episode →S07E18Ethereals, the Greater Good, and the Farsight EnclavesOpen episode →S07E19The Hive Mind: One Intelligence or Countless Creatures?Open episode →S07E20Tyranid Bioforms and the Ecology of a Hive FleetOpen episode →S07E21Genestealer Cults From the InsideOpen episode →S07E22Kin, Clones, and Life in a Votann HoldOpen episode →S07E23Ancestor Cores, Guilds, and the Economy of the LeaguesOpen episode →S07E24Minor Xenos: Hrud, Jokaero, Q’Orl, and MoreOpen episode →S07E25What Humanity Gets Wrong About AliensOpen episode →
Season 08
THE GREAT WARS
The crusades, invasions, sieges, and strategic disasters that decided the fate of worlds.
S08E01How to Follow a Warhammer 40,000 CampaignOpen episode →S08E02The Great Scouring: Hunting the Traitor LegionsOpen episode →S08E03The Macharian Crusade: The Last Great Imperial ConquerorOpen episode →S08E04The Badab War: Rebellion Among the Space MarinesOpen episode →S08E05The Sabbat Worlds Crusade: A War Told From the GroundOpen episode →S08E06The First War for Armageddon: Daemons and SecretsOpen episode →S08E07The Second War for Armageddon: The Orks ReturnOpen episode →S08E08The Third War for Armageddon: A World That Would Not FallOpen episode →S08E09The Siege of Vraks: Faith, Rebellion, and AttritionOpen episode →S08E10The Gothic War: Abaddon’s Twelfth Black CrusadeOpen episode →S08E11The Damocles Crusade: The Imperium Meets the T’auOpen episode →S08E12The Taros Campaign: How the Imperium Loses a WorldOpen episode →S08E13The First Tyrannic War: Hive Fleet BehemothOpen episode →S08E14The Second Tyrannic War: Hive Fleet KrakenOpen episode →S08E15The Third Tyrannic War: Hive Fleet LeviathanOpen episode →S08E16The Devastation of BaalOpen episode →S08E17The Octarius War: Orks Versus TyranidsOpen episode →S08E18The Thirteenth Black Crusade: Cadia’s Last StandOpen episode →S08E19The Indomitus Crusade: Fighting Across the Great RiftOpen episode →S08E20The Plague Wars: Guilliman Versus MortarionOpen episode →S08E21The War for Vigilus: Gateway Through the Great RiftOpen episode →S08E22The Nachmund Gauntlet: Holding the Galaxy TogetherOpen episode →S08E23War Zone Charadon: Industry Under AssaultOpen episode →S08E24The Pariah Nexus: A Silence Spreading Through SpaceOpen episode →S08E25The Fourth Tyrannic War: The Leviathan OffensiveOpen episode →
Season 09
HEROES, VILLAINS, AND LEGENDS
The commanders, monsters, champions, and legends through whom the setting tells its stories.
S09E01How Warhammer 40,000 Creates Heroes and VillainsOpen episode →S09E02Abaddon the Despoiler: Heir to the WarmasterOpen episode →S09E03Fabius Bile: The Galaxy’s Most Dangerous GeneticistOpen episode →S09E04Ahzek Ahriman: The Sorcerer Who Cannot StopOpen episode →S09E05Khârn the Betrayer: The Honest MonsterOpen episode →S09E06Typhus the Traveller: Herald of the Plague GodOpen episode →S09E07Huron Blackheart: Pirate King of the MaelstromOpen episode →S09E08Cypher: The Man With the Unanswered MissionOpen episode →S09E09Belisarius Cawl: Ten Thousand Years of Forbidden IdeasOpen episode →S09E10Demetrian Titus: The Warden of UltramarOpen episode →S09E11Gregor Eisenhorn: How an Inquisitor FallsOpen episode →S09E12Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium, ReluctantlyOpen episode →S09E13Ibram Gaunt: Commander, Commissar, and Father FigureOpen episode →S09E14Sebastian Yarrick: The Man the Orks FearedOpen episode →S09E15Ghazghkull Thraka: Prophet of the Great Waaagh!Open episode →S09E16Eldrad Ulthran: The Farseer Who Moves EmpiresOpen episode →S09E17The Phoenix Lords: Warriors Who Refuse to DieOpen episode →S09E18Lelith Hesperax: Queen of the ArenaOpen episode →S09E19Asdrubael Vect: Tyrant of the Dark CityOpen episode →S09E20Trazyn the Infinite: Collector of the GalaxyOpen episode →S09E21Orikan the Diviner: The Necron Who Argues With TimeOpen episode →S09E22Szarekh the Silent King: The Ruler Who ReturnedOpen episode →S09E23Commander Farsight: Rebel for the Greater GoodOpen episode →S09E24Commander Shadowsun: The T’au Empire’s Perfect StudentOpen episode →S09E25The Swarmlord: The Face of the Hive MindOpen episode →
Season 10
STRANGE CORNERS OF THE GRIM DARKNESS
Forbidden relics, lost species, haunted regions, cosmic mysteries, and questions best left unanswered.
S10E01Beyond the Known Map: Entering 40K’s Weirdest CornersOpen episode →S10E02The Ghoul Stars: Horrors at the Eastern FringeOpen episode →S10E03Halo Devices: Immortality at a Terrible PriceOpen episode →S10E04The Hrud: Migration, Entropy, and Stolen TimeOpen episode →S10E05Enslavers: The Predators of the Psyker MindOpen episode →S10E06Jokaero: The Galaxy’s Accidental EngineersOpen episode →S10E07The Slaugth: Maggot-Men Behind the CurtainOpen episode →S10E08The Rangdan: The Enemy History Tried to EraseOpen episode →S10E09The Legion of the Damned: Ghosts in Power ArmorOpen episode →S10E10The Cursed Founding: When Space Marine Creation Goes WrongOpen episode →S10E11The Black Library: The Aeldari Vault Between WorldsOpen episode →S10E12The Webway: Roads Through Impossible SpaceOpen episode →S10E13Blackstone Fortresses: Weapons Older Than EmpiresOpen episode →S10E14Space Hulks: Lost Ships, Hidden Civilizations, and GenestealersOpen episode →S10E15Abominable Intelligence: Why Machines Must Not ThinkOpen episode →S10E16Xenotech: The Forbidden Tools of Humanity’s EnemiesOpen episode →S10E17Perpetuals: The People Who Refuse to Stay DeadOpen episode →S10E18Living Saints and Imperial MiraclesOpen episode →S10E19The Astronomican: The Beacon That Holds Humanity TogetherOpen episode →S10E20The Pale Wasting: A War Almost Erased From HistoryOpen episode →S10E21Umbra and Other Creatures of the VoidOpen episode →S10E22The Deep Warp: Where Canon Ends and Speculation BeginsOpen episode →S10E23What Lies Outside the Galaxy?Open episode →S10E24Unsolved Mysteries of the 41st MillenniumOpen episode →S10E25What Should Warhammer 40,000 Never Explain?Open episode →
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