Bonus 52 - Cryptids
Lorehammer - A Warhammer 40k Podcast
Lorehammer Crew
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🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 93 minutes
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In this episode, we dive into the shadowy side of Warhammer 40,000 lore by treating cryptids as the Imperium experiences them, not as codex entries, but as recurring legends that refuse to stay buried. We break down Old One Eye, the Tyranid monster “killed” more times than can be counted yet still whispered about by Guardsmen like a campfire curse; the Void Dragon of Mars, a god beneath the Red Planet whose existence is officially denied even as an entire civilization seems to orbit its sleeping influence; and the Beast of Armageddon, an Ork horror so vast and so impossible that slaying it never actually ended the war it represented. This isn’t about stats or loadouts, this is about why these entities crossed the line from enemy to myth, how suppression and survivor testimony turn monsters into legends, and what it means when even the Imperium can’t tell where fact ends and fear begins.
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello, everyone, and welcome to Lorhammer, hosted by Hydra Thoughts. |
| 0:31.8 | Today, in this episode, we're going to dive into the shadowy side of Warhammer 40K and explore the lore behind the cryptids, not as they are in the Codex, but as the Imperium sees them. |
| 0:43.2 | This is going to be really fun and exciting. |
| 0:45.6 | Today I'm joined by Gerald, of course. |
| 0:49.4 | Hello. |
| 0:50.1 | Pleasure. |
| 0:50.8 | Pleasure. |
| 0:51.7 | And our kind and gracious lore master, Mark. |
| 0:55.6 | Hey, hey, yeah, I'm hyped for this episode. |
| 0:58.8 | You know, you have your own little cryptid channel that I've listened to and it's always fun. |
| 1:03.2 | So I thought, you know what? |
| 1:04.8 | Let's smash these two channels together for a hot minute. |
| 1:07.4 | See what kind of 40K cryptids we can come up with. |
| 1:10.2 | Yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun. |
| 1:11.6 | We're going to go over the legendary old one eye, the terrifying tyrannid monster that's been |
| 1:18.4 | killed more times than had been counted, but it keeps coming back for some reason. The void |
| 1:23.7 | dragon of Mars, which sounds amazing, a god beneath the red planet whose existence |
| 1:28.7 | is officially denied, even as an entire civilization seems to orbit its sleeping influence. |
| 1:37.1 | It's like, so everybody's dad when they came home from work. |
| 1:40.9 | The beast of Armageddon, an orc horror so vast and and so impossible that slaying it never actually ended the war it represented. |
| 1:49.3 | This isn't about the stats of the loadouts. |
| 1:51.8 | This is going to be why these entities cross the line from enemy into myth and how suspension of survivor testimony can turn the monsters into legends. |
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