Life as a Custodian: 11,000 Years Guarding One Door | Warhammer 40K Lore in Pixel Art

Knock knock. You have been standing outside this door for eleven thousand years. The histories say ten. The histories were not there. Nobody has told you to stop. You are a Custodian, one of the Emperor's golden guards. You were four when they took you as payment after your family lost a war, and you were shut in a stone room with a very big door. That night a boy knocked on the wall and taught you a knock-knock joke. You never said your line. He called you Doorstop, and the name followed you for the rest of your life. This is that life, told in pixel art, from the inside: the gold armour at nineteen, a name for every deed, the Blood Games, the war under the Palace while Horus is at the walls, the night the Emperor goes up to the Vengeful Spirit and your friend's name is on the list and yours is not. Then one door, one sentence a century, the psykers who go in and the six who come out, and a bored sergeant who takes a wrong turn. And one last night, when someone knocks from the other side of the door in the dark. It is a stand-alone film: it works even if you have never seen anything of Warhammer 40,000. The sound is kept soft all the way through: good for a long listen, or for falling asleep to. Tell me, in the comments: how do you think the joke ends? CHAPTERS 0:00 Knock Knock 0:45 ACT I · Doorstop 1:21 The Boy Behind the Wall 3:36 The Chalk Line 5:39 ACT II · Hektor, Who Was Also There 6:22 A Name for Every Deed 9:32 The Blood Games 10:45 ACT III · Never Answer 12:17 Open the Door, Pell 14:33 The Vengeful Spirit 16:54 ACT IV · One Sentence a Century 18:58 The Deliveries 20:14 Year Fifteen Hundred and Thirty 21:53 Six Come Back Out 23:01 ACT V · Back by Morning 23:30 The Sergeant With the Iron Arm 25:28 The Knock in the Dark 26:46 Morning 29:37 Eleven Thousand 30:17 Where This Record Ends SOURCES The story follows the published Warhammer 40,000 lore, retold in our own words: the Custodians and their creation, the Emperor and the Golden Throne, Horus and the war on Earth, the Sisters of Silence, Constantin Valdor, Ra Endymion, Alicia Dominica, the tyrant Vandire, the Aeldari raid, Roboute Guilliman's return, Trajann Valoris and the Lion's Gate, as told on Lexicanum and the Warhammer 40k Wiki (Fandom). Where the sources disagree or say nothing, the video follows one of them and says no more than they do; the date of the last night is uncertain, and the count of years at the door is our own sum ("or near enough"). You, Hektor, Pell, the young Custodian, the door and its line of light, the knock-knock joke, the rule about voices in the dark, the chalk line, the Blood Game that reaches your corridor and the small scenes between the great events are our own invention. One Custodian standing at one door for so long is very rare, and the video says so. #warhammer40k #custodian #emperorofmankind #warhammerlore #40klore Unofficial fan video. Warhammer 40,000 and everything in it (the Custodians, the Emperor, the Space Marines, the Ultramarines and their characters) belong to Games Workshop Limited. This video is not made, approved or endorsed by Games Workshop. Made by a fan, for fans, with no logos or book art.