What Happens If You Die in Every Faction (Warhammer 40K)

Overview

The video imagines what happens after death across 12 Warhammer 40,000 factions. Its central argument is that death is often less frightening than whatever claims your body or soul afterward.

What Happens After Death

• Imperial Guardsmen: A Guardsman may be reduced to a line on a casualty report. Their unprotected soul then enters the Warp, where hungry entities may be waiting.
• Space Marines: An Apothecary retrieves a fallen Marine’s gene-seed so the Chapter can create more warriors. The greatest heroes may instead be sealed inside Dreadnoughts, kept alive in metal sarcophagi and awakened for future wars.
• Battle Sisters: Death can make a Sister a martyr. Her name, armor, weapons, and sometimes bones may be preserved as sacred relics.
• Adeptus Mechanicus: Tech-Priests gradually replace parts of their bodies with machinery. The Mechanicus may also recycle the organic remains of lower-ranking troops into new bodies—a process the video wryly compares to returning a used part to the supply chain.
• Genestealer Cultists: Generations of cultists may await salvation from the stars, only for the Tyranid hive fleet to consume them along with everyone else on the planet.
• Orks: Orks scatter spores during life and release more when they die, helping seed the next generation. Their comrades may also loot their teeth—the Ork currency—even before the body is cold.
• Tyranids: Rippers devour the dead and return their biomass to the hive fleet.
• Necrons: Necrons can often repair themselves or teleport back to their tomb worlds, making them difficult to kill. The cost, as the narrator points out, is that they traded away their souls long ago.
• Craftworld Eldar: Soulstones protect their spirits from Slaanesh. Their souls may join the Infinity Circuit or, in some cases, be placed in ghostly war constructs.
• Drukhari: Drukhari have no comparable protection. Haemonculi can resurrect them, but the process requires torturing someone else, while their own souls continue to deteriorate.
• Chaos worshippers: A patron may reward them with daemonhood, turn them into mindless Chaos Spawn, or simply claim their souls.
• Daemons: When defeated, daemons are banished to the Warp and may eventually return. The irony is that they feed on mortal souls and emotions.

Final Ranking: Best to Worst

1. Orks — Their deaths help grow the next generation.
2. Craftworld Eldar — Soulstones and the Infinity Circuit offer real protection.
3. Space Marines — Their gene-seed carries on, though some heroes end up entombed in Dreadnoughts.
4. Battle Sisters — Their memory and relics can be honored for centuries.
5. Necrons — They can often return, but have already lost their souls.
6. Adeptus Mechanicus — They may lose their humanity gradually, then be recycled.
7. Tyranids — Their biomass is reused, and they’re portrayed as too simple to comprehend the horror.
8. Daemons — They can return after defeat, but feed on the dead.
9. Ordinary Imperial citizens — Their souls enter the Warp with no guaranteed protection.
10. Genestealer Cultists — The salvation they believed in ends with them being eaten.
11. Drukhari — Resurrection is possible, but bought with others’ suffering while their own souls fade.
12. Chaos worshippers — Their souls were effectively promised to the Warp from the start.

Tone and Figures

The narration’s dark humor comes from treating death as bureaucracy, recycling, or a service with a price—and from contrasting the Orks’ casual attitude with the grim fates of everyone else.

The video is narrated by a single voice, with no distinct guests or on-screen personalities. It references the Emperor, Slaanesh, Saint Celestine, Saint Katherine, and Saint Praxedes.