Trivia / If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device

• Acting for Two: Most actors end up playing multiple characters; while the series has enough VAs to avoid actors literally talk to themselves for the most part, the Slaneeshmas-related shorts have Lucius the Eternal and Ahzek Ahriman (both voiced by Yohan Gasmask) interact extensively, and the "Decius Breaks the News" short is basically Decius (Kochiha Ichihara) proclaiming new developments to cardinals under him, all of them voiced by the same actor.
• Cross-Dressing Voices: "Boy" is voiced by female voice actor Nostalgia-chan.
• Fake Australian: An unintentional example. Zegram (who is from Texas) attempted to do a British for Magnus but ended up sounding Australian instead.
• In Memoriam: Episode 30 part 2 is dedicated to Corrie (CCRockchic), the female voice of Cawl, after she passed away from lung cancer. The message in the description speaks for itself.
  This was meant to be her second appearance as Cawl. She would have done amazingly, we know this for an absolute fact, and we are still distraught she did not have the chance to reprise her role. We thank you for the time and the work you did have the time to grace us with, Corrie. Thank you so much, and rest well.
• Outdated by Canon: While the series was meant to resolve the plot stagnation of Warhammer 40000 proper (albeit in a parodic way), the three campaigns made for The Gathering Storm that actually advance the storyline (with the fall of Cadia to Chaos, the fracturing of Biel-Tan and Ynnead's subsequent rise, and Roboute Guilliman's resurrection) are said to be ahead of TTS canon as of Episode 25 — something that makes sense considering that Lucius and the other Chaos champions are preparing for the 13th Black Crusade. A letter from one of the Thousand Sons during the Q&A segment of The Last Church Podcast episode explains that Magnus was kidnapped from the afterparty of a successful revenge plot on the Space Wolves — confirmed by Word of God to be the events of Wrath of Magnus. It is starting to catch up to The Gathering Storm, though, as Eldrad is seen gathering together support for the efforts to make Ynnead rise.
• Production Posse:
  • As with other Alfa Legion videos, this one too is cramped up to brim with Legionnaires, starting with Bruva Alfabusa, Thunder Psyker, Karl the Deranged and Eliphas the Inheritor.
  • Team Four Star is starting to get in on the action, with an insane Custodes provided by AntfishVO, and Takahata101 expressing interest in providing his voice, which paid off; he got to voice Abaddon himself, as well as Santodes, the Custodian Dreadnought, and Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM.
  • Remleiz, who runs the 40K Theories channel, voices a more parodic take on his mascot character. He's actually done several "40k Theories" videos on the series itself, including one on the true identity of TTS-Kaldor and Kitten.
  • It's expanding with Zegram voicing Magnus (with the same voice and accent, just a more serious take) on Occulus Imperia's video on the Council on Nikaea (and Occulus himself already having had his own cameo in TTS).
• Real Life Writes the Plot:
  • Due to personal issues, Franky could not reprise his role as Dominique. Hence, why his character was killed off in episode 24. Although he comes back for a short while in the first part of Episode 26.
  • Since the series is basically Fan Fiction, The Gathering Storm campaign books have shifted where the plot was probably heading. This can be seen in a number of ways, one of which is by having all the casual jokes about killing Guilliman stop since he is key to revamping the Imperium in the 42nd Millenia. This extends to the Custodes as well, since Games Workshop finally got around and fleshed out their lore, they started to put in more of the other branches.
  • On a sadder note, despite Ep 30 part 3 being close to finished, Alfabusa decided to not complete and release it since the Downer Ending of pt. 2 felt apt in light of the series being put on indefinite hiatus.
• Recursive Fanfiction:
  • If the Emperor Watched The Text To Speech Device. In that story, The Emperor and The Primarchs end up watching the series (pre-Horus Heresy) and, well, their reactions are amusing.
  Leman Russ: YOU DO NOT OUTLAW MEAT!
  • Eventually taken to the logical extreme. Comments on that thread eventually started getting cluttered with digressions and reactions to other 40k media, eventually causing several other threads being created to keep these conversations from the main reactions to "official" text to speak materials. Meaning a recursive fanfic has received its own recursive fanfic.
• Screwed by the Lawyers: After Games Workshop announced that fan animations based on their intellectual properties would no longer be allowed, Alfabusa and the others working on the series announced that they would be suspending development of the show. While they were not officially given the kind of cease-and-desist associated with a Fan-Work Ban, they didn't want to continue on as planned and risk being placed into a position where they'd have to.
• Throw It In!:
  • The second Q&A ends with Magnus yelling "OH GOD", which is his voice actor having a coughing fit after over a minute of "rabble rabble rabble".
  • Episode 20 includes both a line flub (Kitten having trouble pronouncing regrowing) and an Undertale reference ("patting my chest like muscular bongos"), with Thunder Psyker confirming they weren't planned.
  • Word of God says that the assumption that Zegram is Australian (he is actually from Texas, but was attempting a faux-British accent) is Actually Pretty Funny and hence threw it in. That's why Magnus plays a didgeridoo in episode 16, and the entirety of the reason why Short 8: Crotalids exists.
  • According to Zegram himself, the Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer joke was originally a blooper, which Alfabusa decided to throw in. The latter chimed in later to state he found it entirely necessary:
  It had to be included to keep in line with the very likely theory that Magnus is a giant reference to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer except with tragedy and space and no reindeer.
  • Episode 27 has Magnus giggling uncontrollably at Kitten's "Iron Warriors dig holes" quip, mostly because Zegram was Corpsing in real life when recording the scene. The laughing fit is subtitled as [Genuine Laughter].
  • In fact, the comedic nature of the show tends to result in a lot of different "imperfect" takes being used if they come across as funny enough, whether they contain brief coughing fits or semi-in-character mutterings.
• What Could Have Been: Leman Russ was originally planned to speak with a Scandinavian accent to match up the stereotype that the Space Wolves are Vikings In Space. However, Leman's voice actor, Zoran The Bear, couldn't do a Scandinavian accent right and the accent made viewers hard to understand him so Zoran gave Leman a Scottish accent instead as both Scots and Vikings were also known for being violent drunk warriors.
  • Episode 26 was originally called "Fear and Loathing in Commorragh" and was pinned on Alfa's twitter for months with the thumbnail for the episode as a teaser. At some point the episode was split into three parts, the first being called "Hateful Feud at Khaine's Gate".
  • Lucian's I'm Dreaming of a Pink Slaaneshmas in the Slaaneshmas Special was intended to be longer, with accompanyment from Kalgor Draigo. Here's the full version (with lyrics in the description).
  • Had it not been for the series being put on indefinite hiatus, it would have been revealed that The Custodes managed to get the Proteus Protocol to revive Kitten and have him face off against the Void Dragon in a game of Yu-Gi-Oh before returning to the Imperial Palace.
• Word of God:
  • Kaldor Draigo's... private parts, are always the largest in the room, no matter who else is in there, because 4th degree warp fuckery.
  • All of the Primarchs are extremely well hung and have fantastic asses.
  • The whole series was planned to take 42 episodes in total, not counting specials, spin-offs, and shorts.
  • As of episode 24, we haven't even begun to see how complex the Emperor's plans can be.

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