Grimdark History

In Part 2 of our three part series exploring the history of the city of Babylon and the destruction of the Tower of Babylon we look at the history of Mesopotamia from Sargon the Great to the rise of Assyria. Building background to the eventual destruction of the tower we explore the types of people within and surrounding Mesopotamia, the major cultures involved in our story, as well as the religio...

This is Part 2 of a two part bonus episode with special guest host Laura from the Chaos Divided Podcast who joined me to talk a little history and a little Warhammer 40K fiction as we go through the Top 10 Historical Figures the Emperor of Mankind Might Have Been as chosen by fans of the 40K fiction. This episode is a rundown of the Top 3 of the list as we discuss each in depth and then discuss ou...

In celebration of reaching 1000 downloads on our podcast I wanted to engage with the fans of our season 1 topic (the fiction of Warhammer 40,000 and history). I also wanted to step away from the grimdark podcast tone for a couple of episodes and have a little fun. To thank all the fans who have supported the podcast so far I anonymously reached out to the 40KLore sub-Reddit and just asked the ques...

In this episode we imagine the experience of an every day person inside the walls of a city during an ancient siege. The experience could really belong to anyone of any time, but we begin our exploration of Babylon, Mesopotamians, and the destruction of the Tower of Babel by experiencing the ancient siege of Jerusalem by Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II during his second and final siege of the ci...

For this Episode we go deep into the culture, life, and religious practices of the Bronze Age Minoans building the context of the civilization and their relationship with the Mycenean Greeks at the time. We discuss their art, architecture, history, relationship to bulls, naval and military technology before drawing interesting perspectives of what it might have felt like to be a mainland Greek tra...

In this episode we live through a fictional imagining of the final day of a Minoan Trader as they experience the real life Theran mega-tsunami that destroyed most of the island of Thera (now modern day Santorini). We inhabit their daily ritual, life, food, clothing, profession and family, as they get ready to leave for a multi-day trip to Athens with a multi-ton load of trade goods in their boat j...

To kick off our Bronze Age review of Warhammer 40K we start with a big picture review of the Bronze Age in general, major societies, developments, its interconnectedness. We want to provide some context to the greater world ahead of diving into our two major focuses for this age (Minoan Greece, and Babylon) in up coming episodes. I do not do justice to a proper description of the beauty and level...

In the final part of our series exploring Warhammer 40K's Copper Age we do go deep into the historical parts of the Emperor's memory as presented to Ra during the novel Master of Mankind written by Aaron Dembski-Bowden. We compare what was written in the novel to the historical reality of that time and place as we understand it today. We over analyze and nerd out on the hard work and amazing plann...

In Part 2 of this series exploring the Copper Age of Warhammer 40K's Emperor of Mankind, we take a larger look at the historical world of the Copper Age, climate, major events, and the birth of civilization. We explore the Varna culture who was just North West of Anatolia, and beginnings of Mesopotamia known as the Uruk Period. We review the birth of large scale warfare, the birth of city states a...

In Part 1 of our series exploring the Copper Age of Warhammer 40K we live through a fictional retelling of the last days of Otsi, who was a Copper Age shepherd in the Italian Alps in order to understand the complex realities of life in the Copper Age. This episode draws on our known evidence for a real life Copper Age shepherd who was found frozen in the Alps and so well preserved we even know his...

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