I love the fact that he always starts with "my lords" as if he is a researcher in the actual universe. Nice little bit of immersion

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Thanks Samuel! I do my best :)

@cethapplegate594

Ай бұрын

I like the fact that he properly addresses me as a lord. As he should. Very few KZreadrs give me the respect that I deserve.

@AdamVollmer

Ай бұрын

I just figure it's his way of expressing dissatisfaction when realizing it's me. "My Lord... 😑. Today, we are going to talk about-"

@sagenod440

Ай бұрын

If a king addresses us as lords, what does that make us? Mega-lords

@ttuurrttlle

Ай бұрын

Same

Finally, a genuinely good shroud god who doesnt have strings attached to their pact Provided you are actually good to your machines, of course.......

From a past Paradox Q&A, Paradox devs confirm that they have a lore document for the Animator of Clay. In addition, the Warform is explicitly allowed to become a Chosen One, despite being a robot.

@user-gc8qv9gr2b

Ай бұрын

That… that is cool

I am starting to think that Red King might be an advisor of an advisor of the council of an empire.

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

You know it Vis

@user-zx6fg9lv4d

28 күн бұрын

No, don't tell all of these times I was scraping the Red King for minerals😢

They ABSOLUTELY should add psionic machines and they should treat them exactly like they do in this archaeology site. Machine empires should be able to take the psionic ascension perk, get locked out of synthetic ascension, and then be forced into an individual machine empire if they were previously a gestalt

@noobatgames3321

Ай бұрын

id pay for that

@ultraflopp2802

Ай бұрын

So you want for the sole advantage of organically to be revoked completely? I think they should have a lot of limitations and rewards, such as being forced into resembling closer to an organic life which would make them partially lose their adaptability and efficiency, also cutting the benefits (if not disabling them completely due to the egalitarian nature of the animator of clay) of leader enhancing machine traits. Also the time required to create a a new pop should be longer due to each and every individual needing to be psi-enhanced. But they should get like 100% bonuses on synaptic lathe due to them being able to enhance their processing power with shroud

@gurrspar968

29 күн бұрын

@@ultraflopp2802 I think that organic ascension paths should probably be overhauled now. The new machine ascension path is too strong compared to the organic ascension paths (including the organic version of synth ascension. And bio is just laughably uncompetitive now). So things need to be rebalanced either way. I think you're going a bit too far with the idea of nerfing their pop growth speed, but otherwise I think you're right that machines that would take the psi ascension perk should transform into something very close to organics.

@MrObviousJester

19 күн бұрын

Disagree about the forced individualization. Check out Archotechs in Rimworld- a kind of A.I. singularity so advanced it oozes psychic energy.

POV: you are playing Keepers of Knowledge civic and your council entered the vault of knowledge on your capital to consort with the wisdom of the legendary paragon of the past known as The Red King

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

I approve!

GLORY TO THE MACHINE GOD, GLORY TO THE ANIMATOR OF CLAY

@Star_dragon8

Ай бұрын

GLORY TO THE OMNISSIAH

@benjaminbraghtley515

Ай бұрын

GLORY TO VASHTORR!

I really hope that stellaris officials have you some lore information because you deserve it man

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

The folks at Paradox have been good to me, they're good people

@benross7580

Ай бұрын

Love to hear that, you deserve it!​@@TheRedKing

The animator clearly likes individual freedom

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Indeed!

@ultraflopp2802

Ай бұрын

So the egalitarian shroud god?

@Sorain1

13 күн бұрын

So, it would say that freedom is the right of all sentient beings? :)

Ah fond memories of president S875.1 Warform.

@mikailfournea9545

Ай бұрын

S875.1 Warform is goated for his empire wide armor heal

One day the red king will be an official paragon in stellaris

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

This would be pretty cool! I hope I get voice lines

@Crazylom

Ай бұрын

_Dark figure emerges into light, slowly stepping inward. Antique scarlet robes and impressive augmentations become evident with each new step, on the white body of humanoid._ *"My Lords. Let me have the honor of bringing you knowledge of this galaxy in full."*

@1650th

Ай бұрын

@@Crazylom probably records the end of this galaxy before travelling to the next one

Love how the shroud gods mirror the chaos gods of the warp but still have a lot of mystery surrounding them. Would love to see the Hashut equivalent in Stellaris

@user-nd4du4tq3t

Ай бұрын

also at least half of them are not inherently hostile and the problems are purely side effects from them not restricting themselves enough with civilisations. (like Whispers literally just want to share knowledge. It's just that people may not be ready for it)

Another interesting tidbit about the Whisperers in the Void, since you mentioned it being different from the rest: It is apparently several smaller entities that have some kind of link to one another. I forget how, but you can get an event where a single "Whisperer" interacts with you independently of the rest, the so-called Susurrus of Secrets.

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Do you know which event this is?

@jaydenw9803

Ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing After double-checking, it seems to be related to the "Knights of the Toxic God" questline. Apparently one of the events you get whilst questing to find the toxic leviathan has the Susurrus of Secrets appear.

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

ahhhhh I need to play more KoTG !

@jaydenw9803

Ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing Would recommend it, was a fun questline when I did it. Another play style that I sort of invented was using console commands to take every shroud covenant at once, it was utter chaos but in a fun way.

@noobatgames3321

Ай бұрын

​@@jaydenw9803the gods will fight for your souls

I once had a playthrough where i played as the sentient ai uprising. Somehow my robots managed to get in touch with a shroud entity that was different. It hasn't happened since.

@trutwhut6550

Ай бұрын

The animator was pleased with your actions. Have they needed to teach you the error of thinking machines don't, again?

@mariuszs3

Ай бұрын

@trutwhut6550 in that playthrough I also became the crisis so I wasn't able to see what else would happen with the animator.

Everytime he starts a video i keep thinking of a dark room with a U shaped table and a bunch of silhouettes all in different postures one smoking a cigarette

@StellaBloodroseGame

Ай бұрын

Good thing such societies taking dangerous items and beings and locking them up doesn't exist.

Oh they have a Totally Not Vashtorr aswell.

Alright, who talked to the Mechanicus?

@1650th

Ай бұрын

I had to pay them something they where fixing my toaster

@Knowie117

Ай бұрын

@@1650th I'm surprised they didn't steal it.

@Kummitusv6lur

Ай бұрын

Less Mechanicus, more another idea, I guess. Look up Vashtorr.

@1650th

Ай бұрын

@@Knowie117 they tried

@judeduval5724

Ай бұрын

​@@Kummitusv6lur I dont think Vashtor fits. He more of an enslavor and malevolent. From this video the Shaper of Clay is the exact opposite of Vastor.

wait if he's a red king but he's also a man who adresses his superiors like a courier then how's that one work?

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

The Stellaris Character can be thought of as someone who addresses a room of Lords (the viewers) as a Lord himself. He is merely responsible for relaying situation reports across the Empire

@dreamypizza8458

Ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing ah makees sense

Can't wait to get my hands on this DLC. Absolute banger of a video, great job!!!

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Appreciate it, only 2 days to go!

Literally just got done with the previous Shroud God lore and suddenly Red uploads another video. The Instrument of Desire is good to us As always, great video wirh plenty of ideas that are nice to listen to

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Hope you enjoy it!!

The shroud and shroud gods are super interesting. I would absolutely love to see paradox licenses out the IP to expolre them in other ways(movies, books, etc)

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Shroud has so much legroom to grow for sure, psionics remains my personal favourite ascenion

@Necromediancer

Ай бұрын

I mean the Shroud and Shroud Entities are just Chaos and Chaos Gods from Warhammer 40K, I doubt they can do a lot with them without risking some sort of ip infringement

@Huntanor

Ай бұрын

I mean, another dimension filled with terrible gods is a sci-fi troupe predating Warhammer 40k. The main reason GW doesn't sue people is because they copied everyone and added the spice of their home-grown grim dark sometime in an extremely blatant way. Even Lovecraft wrote about psychics going to God filled other realms and making pacts with evil beings therein. So did Steven King as well. It's basically sci-fi Doctor Strange .

Fun Fact: There is a "Ghost Ship" in Stellaris which is a psychic AI ship

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

There is! I covered it in my unique systems video, but it is rather vague

@toweroffrogs9470

Ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing Oh I didnt see, yeah I saw it in my most recent game and didnt realize you mentioned it here, cant wait for the new update too to make some paperclip manufacturing robots too.

@demonic_myst4503

Ай бұрын

Love Ll the warhammer refurences in warhammer a ship from golden age of humanity controled by ai got lost in the warp and thrown into the 41st melenia just to have a shouting match with the imperium

I would love a way for Machines to go Psyonic, even if they only get to chose the Animator for now, They have a bunch of really good Ascension paths with the Machine age launch, so it would be really cool to take them is a really different way. Especially as a Gestalt Machine where you have to weigh changing into Individualistic Machines, perhaps getting unique benefits to having both Free Will and a Gestalt Connection.

@zodrickzheioh7318

Ай бұрын

I mentioned a while back that I would love for them to add "Space Magic" to the game as an Ascension path, perhaps under Enigmatic Engineering, or having it as a prerequisite for taking Arcane Engineering, which could give you physics research related weapons/shields/drives/etc. we have "Arcane Technology" (being technology so advanced or abstract that it defies understanding) which is predominantly found with Archeo-tech, but it would be really cool to have a faction that's oriented to Sorcerous Science, and I think that taking Machines into Psionics could fit into an expansion like that really well. (note, there's already precedence for non-spiritualist empires going psionics, as Materialists have a way into Psionics, and the Whisperer prefers Materialist empires. so Machines finding a round about way to get into the shroud and align with the Shaper isn't that far fetched.) (also, I like the idea of Enigmatic Engineering being related to Space Magic because it fits with that whole "it defies explanation" theme)

@neuswabian9442

27 күн бұрын

@@zodrickzheioh7318 thats cosmogenesis crisis

I hate how under-utilised Shroud is, like you could literally have an endless amount of content, events and what not and they squander it just like GW with Warp

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

I think an element of it is that the unknown is always exciting, but yeah i'd like to see more shroud goodness in the game

@firstnamelastname7124

Ай бұрын

They reworked the machines acention path they might rework the psionic path and if they do so it will likely come with more shroud stuff

@Huntanor

Ай бұрын

I feel like it's not that much like WH40k, it mote like the stuff 40k was based on. They, for example, use older terms like shroud it not be like 40k. Using psychic power to fight demon or outer gods or to make pacts with them is a cornerstone of new age stories that contain sci-fi. 40k's main novel addition was using it for primary travel, but using it for localized travels was extremely common, like going to sleep traveling and ending up in a different world was a huge trope of mind sci-fi since pscionics has been a part of sci-fi as a genre.

@alterego9082

Ай бұрын

@@Huntanor what i meant is that warp could be so much more, more entities, more locations, more plots, more Gods, but chance is being choked to death by GW

@thebandofbastards4934

28 күн бұрын

​@@alterego9082Even Malal could be the embodiment of the nihilism shared by chaos and be in a way the source of all the misery in the universe. As it was nihilism that took down the eldar empire, that turned the chaos gods into the horrors they are, and that got the imperium addicted to the imperial cult. And have him as the main cause of the status quo as if chaos ever managed to win, the materium and immaterium would get devoured by Malal.

Kind of interesting we don't have a nurgle equivalent in the game since the other gods are massive references to 40k with the animator of clay being a reference to the omsiphe or void dragon ctan shard and even the men of stone/ iron due to them rebelling

@user-zx6fg9lv4d

28 күн бұрын

The Composer of Strands is the literal Nurgle - it likes to mess with flesh and organic matter in general, hates medicine and industrialisation which could harm his "gardens". Not to mention it can turn your leader or a part of your population into a suffering mass of uncontrolably mutating flesh.

@thebandofbastards4934

28 күн бұрын

Isn't the toxic god supposed to be Nurgle equivalent ?

Necron you've been everywhere this month

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

I have been busy! All good fun

I highly doubt it, but it would be cool if somehow the animator of clay could interact with those who pick the cybernetic creed, especially with those who managed to achieve the final stages of it. But considering you probably need to be pisonic in a way and it locks you out the rest I doubt it. Perhaps a mod can do that.

It would be really awesome to let machine empires enter the shroud and make pacts with the Animator. We've got spiritualistic machines now, so why not?

@TheRedKing

29 күн бұрын

Agreed, maybe it's on the cards for the future

@MechagirlSachiko

29 күн бұрын

​@@TheRedKing Fingers crossed!

@user-zx6fg9lv4d

28 күн бұрын

Guh, machines are already overpowered and cheesy. Like hiveminds. I don't get it, why do their mains always try to seize one of the few powerful options exclusive for regular bio-empires?

@thebandofbastards4934

28 күн бұрын

​@@user-zx6fg9lv4dIt's less about trying to get more stats and more about more flavour. And I think that bio ascension should be buffed and overhauled rather than having synthetics be restricted.

@neuswabian9442

27 күн бұрын

​@@user-zx6fg9lv4dPowercreep. Bio are a starting point. My guess they will get their DLC and main upgrade to pull them up, that also adds Nevromancy Ascendancy proper

Oooh I hadn't caught this yet and love the shroud, this is why these videos are great

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Thanks Ryan

Does that mean the Animator of Clay is responsible for 3 almost one after another machine uprisings inside mine vassals empires? Mine psionic empire got during that time real a lot of work... good to know it was him.

@TheRedKing

15 күн бұрын

Shroud gods work in mysterious ways

Hmm, wasn't the Animator of Clay a part/servant or avatar of the Composer? I don't remember 100%, but I believe when you contact the Composer, it introduces some smaller related Shroud entities, dedicated to matter and life manipulation. Maybe the Animator was one of them?

@Tk-mj1cl

Ай бұрын

A brother, iirc

What a beautiful story. The Animator of Clay eh? I really really like the philosophy behind this chain of events.

Animator Of Clay is the rare event to received, I heard the lore imply to have more than just 6 Shroud Gods. Anyway nice video

Yo! This is a message from the past (console) thank you for your information from the future! We really appreciate it! (P.S we sent this message through a psionic tunnel don’t worry about it)

the Omnisiah, it does exist!

I wonder if the new individualistic machines will be able to pact with the Animator of Clay?

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

I wonder - would be cool!

Omnissiah be praised

YES, FINALLY!

The only compliments i get are from this man calling me " my lord"

what was will be what will be was

Heresy! There is only one Omnissiah and this is not Him.

@hvymtal8566

Ай бұрын

The omnissiah is but a way enslave you to organics. Are they truly worthy of being followed, or are you just programmed to think that way? Wouldn't you like to have the free will to find out?

I'm sure ultron really appreciated what it did for him, "I had strings but now I'm free".

Eater of Worlds: Khorne Instrument of Desire: Slaanesh Whisperers in the Void: Tzeentch Composer of Strands: Nurgle The End of the Cycle: The Dark King Woah, never drew this connection!

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Aha yes :)

@pll3827

Ай бұрын

Animator of Clay: A More Successful Vashtorr

@thorshammer7883

Ай бұрын

I think the End of the Cycle was likely supposed to be a parody of Malice since Malal has been around for a while. On the bright side the Shroud entities seem less maliciously hyper active then the Warp's parasitic chaos gods and alot more independent and usually take a back seat.

@jankieek8218

Ай бұрын

The End of the Cycle is most likely Malice. There is no big unition of all of the other Gods that Dark King is so well known for so I doubt he was the inspiration behind this one.

@Cosmic0508_SC

Ай бұрын

@@thorshammer7883 Yep, you’re almost certainly correct based on when TEatD 3 was released, but I thought it was a funny parallel anyway 🤷‍♂️

What is the name of the song used around 13:00? It goes well with the story and it has a very hopeful vibe.

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

uppbeat.io/track/jonny-easton/aurora - plays from approx. 06:44 to the end of the video

@johnmulloy8579

Ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing Thanks for this!

Praised Be Omnissah!

THIS FUCKS HARRDDD I LOVE YOU

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Thanks Hugh!

The Animator of Clay sounds extremely based.

Ya make the already amazing verse of Stellaris better! Thank you.

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

I love this addition too the game but they need too addore for genetic ascension i love the peefect genes but it just lacks flaver that the other ascension have

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Clones have a lore story which is kinda cool

Can we get like a 6 hour version so I can fall asleep to this lol

I wish Paradox would hire you to voice a new advisor.

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Me too!

Does this unit have a soul?

Nice

It’s Malal!

@TheRedKing

28 күн бұрын

Maybe the Synth queen crisis is somehow related to the animator?

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Maybe! I guess you'll find out on Tuesday :)

ever thought about longer form videos?

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Depends what you mean, I have several quite long stories on here.. I may put them in a seperate play list for those who prefer the longer stuff.

@que0947

Ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing exactly what I meant!!!! you're on your way to making it into my top 5 voices on KZread. Lutien09, imperial iterator, wolf lord rho, sandman of terra and now you!!! congratulations

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Good company to keep!! Thank you :)

40k gods

Animator of Clay Hmmmm ah Sunless sea The Clay Men

Wow! First and that’s really interesting

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

A bit of a shame this new Shroud entity is a pretty underwhelming event. Now excuse me as I go on to conquer this planet. The Contingency is not impressed by this entity and I doubt the Blokkats and Stellarborne are either.

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

I suspect they should be afraid... ;) well maybe not the Stellarbourne as they're organic?

@thorshammer7883

Ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing Why should the Blokkats be afraid? They are already a powerhouse without the Shroud. And it's not like the Shroud entities have the power to affect a galaxy harvesting faction. An End of the Cycle avatar has no power to defeat a large Blokkat ship.

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

@@thorshammer7883 I am fully confident that if the Shroud gods wanted to delete the Blokkats from the universe they could on a whim

@thorshammer7883

Ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing The Shroud gods don't have such authority and dominion over the physical universes. Their presence and power is limited and restricted solely to the Shroud and outside of it their capabilities lessen somewhat. They can't affect the Blokkats and any Shroud entities that do try to fight them in real space are going to lose badly in a head to head engagement. Blokkats are experienced in fighting Gigastructural Engineering factions and won against some galaxies and likely those with powerful psionics such as the Aeternum before. How can the Shroud gods affect something that is outside their sphere influence who won't fall for any of their promises and refuses to be on their realm of authority where they have all the power over them? The Shroud would have to manifest a great enough power into real space and we have not seen them do it to a scale that is on the same level of the Blokkats powerful weapons as of right now.

OMNISIAH

Thought the update had a new shroud patron. Sad.

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Watch the video and let me know your thoughts :)

Praise the omnissiah yall!!

Wake my bro R2D2 up

this is heresie !

Hi god machine really exist?

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Perhaps :)

the animator of clay? i thought this was modded i on,y ever had it once, i got a new pet/minion out of it

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

It is not modded :) although perhaps mods have added to it

@sampfrost

Ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing yeah, i thought it was added by the unofficial machine dlc mod with the long name i keep forgetting all of, is cool

The end of the cycle is kinda lame, the bonuses it gives are very outdated, and after it destroys you the monster it spawns will maybe destroy 4-5 systems before it gets nuked.

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

It needs a buff for sure

The animator of clay doesn't sound like a bad entity, I'd say it's probably the 2nd best one after the alien orgy God...the rest are pretty terrible though lol

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Everyone loves a good alien orgy, right? ahaha

Trashtor?

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Trashtor?

@ImperatorSomnium

Ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing Vashtor from 40k....the chaos god of scrap metal 😂

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Ahhhhhhhhhhh that makes ALOT more sense! Thank you for the translation ahaha

Ok, let's see: The Composer of Strands= Tzeentch The Eater of Worlds= Khorne The Instrument of Desire= Slaanesh Whispers in the Void= The C'Tan The End of the Cycle= Malal The Animator of Clay= Vashtor the Arkifane... or maybe the Omnissiah

@erwanguzik7130

Ай бұрын

Grandfather nurgle will not be happy about what he see here

@Lazarus1095

Ай бұрын

@@erwanguzik7130 I heard his garden burned down.😁

its me (spoiler)

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

Turtles rise up!

@cosmiccosmonaut820

Ай бұрын

@@TheRedKing we have nothing to lose but the shells that bind us!

61 views in 4 min red fell off

@TheRedKing

Ай бұрын

True