(Video) Mark's Manifesto 2 - Is 40K a Setting or a Story?
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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In this episode, we ask a dangerous question: Is Warhammer 40,000 a living story — or a setting designed to never truly change? For decades, the galaxy has stood on the brink of annihilation, locked in eternal war. But with the return of Roboute Guilliman, the birth of the Great Rift, and the launch of the Indomitus Crusade, has the universe finally begun to move forward? Or is it all controlled motion inside a sandbox that can never resolve? We explore stagnation, narrative momentum, the possibility of an End Times, and the uncomfortable truth that if the story ever truly advances… someone has to lose.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Sherlock Holmes. |
| 0:01.5 | It's an unusual name. |
| 0:03.0 | Introducing Young Sherlock, a new Guy Ritchie series. |
| 0:07.0 | What game are we playing today? |
| 0:09.0 | Discover the origins. |
| 0:10.0 | It's cleaving. Those days are truly behind me. |
| 0:12.0 | Of crime's most iconic mind. |
| 0:14.0 | There has been a break-in. |
| 0:17.0 | Astoned. You should be a detective. |
| 0:19.0 | Starring Hero finds Tiffin, Donald Finn and Colin Firth. |
| 0:22.5 | If you start wearing a hat like that, I will no longer be friends with you. |
| 0:25.9 | Young Sherlock, new original series. Watch now only on Prime Video. Hello and welcome back to Lorham. We got another manifesto for you. This is the second one of Mark's manifestos. Hey, I'm Mark. |
| 1:04.0 | You're a funny episode. If this is the first thing of Lorhammer you ever listen to, it'd be a little weird. But maybe that's happened to somebody out there. Yeah, today on our episode we're going to be discussing is 40K a setting or |
| 1:16.6 | a story. You've probably heard me rant about this many times throughout the podcast. But here's a more |
| 1:22.6 | solidified version of it. I hope this brings some help. I try not to take a side either on some of these. |
| 1:30.9 | I kind of broke these down into like a script, you know, get some all the options out there. |
| 1:36.4 | But I definitely have my own takes that I'll share at the end. |
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