Envyus Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 (edited) I am glad Gotrek and probably Felix are back. Though appearnlty they are just going to retcon the Dwarf name into Duradin. Something even their own witters don't really believe. Just saw a video were a GW Rules writer calls the Shadespire Fyreslayer band dwarfs multiple times, before someone points it out and he corrects himself. Just call a Dwarf a Dwarf. Edited February 12, 2018 by Envyus 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lousy Beatnik Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 4 hours ago, xking said: Thanquol was always alive and in the mortal realms from the beginning. What exactly has been said about Thanquol in AoS, if you don't mind me asking? Where to read it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envyus Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 15 minutes ago, Lousy Beatnik said: What exactly has been said about Thanquol in AoS, if you don't mind me asking? Where to read it? Just that he was alive and they have plans. Don't think anything else has been done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodmaster Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Ah, Gotrek the worst slayer you have heard of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azamar Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 27 minutes ago, Bloodmaster said: Ah, Gotrek the worst slayer you have heard of. But you *have* heard of him. 4 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodmaster Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 na, wouldn't say disliking - he is a nice charakter, but as a Slayer, let'S say he isn't able to fulfil his set target - survival skills isn't what you are looking for in that field of work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burf Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 13 hours ago, Skarloc said: It's a matter of feeding those WH40K guys.. Last week's pre-orders was AoS Malign Portent. This weekend's pre-orders are Shadespire and Necromunda.. It's a matter of balance amongst GW's games.. 40k is just getting codexes and single model releases. They'll likely do multiple things in the same week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Misfire Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Here's the placeholder cover art and Amazon listing @Killagore Faceslasha's post came from. It doesn't look like it's out until October, though this is just the collected box set of what's probably a serialised audio drama, so expect the first instalment much sooner. Is it too much to hope for a miniature (or miniatures if he finds Felix)? Eisenhorn just got one! https://www.amazon.com/dp/1784967866/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1518387524&sr=1-10 4 hours ago, Lousy Beatnik said: What exactly has been said about Thanquol in AoS, if you don't mind me asking? Where to read it? Nothing out side of what's on his warscroll, he doesn't even get as much as a namedrop in the Masterclan page in Grand Alliance: Chaos. Mind you in The Hardest Word (incidentally also written by David Guymer) a Lord-Veritant says this, which is more likely to be a description of Thanquol than not (I can't imagine too many other skaven having reached such a grand old age): "I have seen a skaven as old as the world, his paws in the secrets of the gods. His tail is a serpent of probing shadows, and in my visions I see it winding close about Sigmar's neck." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Explorator Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 6 hours ago, Envyus said: I am glad Gotrek and probably Felix are back. Though appearnlty they are just going to retcon the Dwarf name into Duradin. Something even their own witters don't really believe. Just saw a video were a GW Rules writer calls the Shadespire Fyreslayer band dwarfs multiple times, before someone points it out and he corrects himself. Just call a Dwarf a Dwarf. I do not feel anyone, even at GW, denies that Duradin are Dwarves, Aelves are Elves, Orruks are Orcs etc. Look at it this way, Duradin are the type of Dwarves specifically populating the Mortal Realms (and so on). GW is by far not the only one to do this in their worldbuilding, and while IP protecting is an often cited (and certainly not wrong) reason for doing this, I would like to point out that there is a pretty good non-comercial reason for giving "your" version of a standart fantasy creature another name. It simply helps seperate a world specific version from any preconceived notions the audience brings to a setting. Tell someone a game has Dwarves, and that person immediatly has a pretty precise idea of what a Dwarf should look and act like (propably something like movie Gimli). Think of Duradin after some time familiarizing yourself with AoS and Fyreslayer and Kharadron pops up in your mind. People are also far more to accept the likes of half naked mercenary lodges and industrialist warriors strapped to a miniblimp when it is not straight out called a dwarf (that is not what dwarves are all about, but a Kharadron Duradin that is just a subset of a subsetof dwarf can be). It is a neat little trick to help get acceptance, recognition and curiosity for a twist of an known image. Back when I was still into Magic the Gathering, Wizards of the Coast would often do this whenever they created a new world for a new season, even though they might already have had multiple "ip-able" names at their disposal for differentiation, and it is also something quite a few non-corporate (like indi-RPG developers) or entirely non-comercial creators (like D&D hobbyists with homebrew settings) would do. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chord Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 I wish they would stop this new era of bringing WHFB characters back. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Misfire Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 1 hour ago, Rogue Explorator said: I do not feel anyone, even at GW, denies that Duradin are Dwarves, Aelves are Elves, Orruks are Orcs etc. Look at it this way, Duradin are the type of Dwarves specifically populating the Mortal Realms (and so on). GW definitely make no bones about this. Just incase anyone cares, here's the passage from way back in The Realmgate Wars: Quest for Ghal Maraz explicitly spelling out that duardin are dwarfs (or at least directly descended from them ): 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Double Misfire Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 1 hour ago, chord said: I wish they would stop this new era of bringing WHFB characters back. I don't, I'm only here for the fan service so they'd better lather it on! Apart from Gotrek, which WFB characters have recently been brought back/reintroduced to the AoS setting? Aborash got an implied not-quite-namedrop in Eight Lamentations: Spear of Shadows, but Morathi's been known to have survived the End Times and been around at the start of the AoS timeline since Age of Sigmar: Mighty Battles in an Age of Unending War way back when the game launched. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chord Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 6 minutes ago, Double Misfire said: GW definitely make no bones about this. Just incase anyone cares, here's the passage from way back in The Realmgate Wars: Quest for Ghal Maraz explicitly spelling out that duardin are dwarfs (or at least directly descended from them ): Descended from yes... Like domesticated dogs are descended from wolves...but in this case it's the other way around 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niltzsche Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Fluffwise, I always considered this renamings as a sort of etymologic succesors. After all language changes over time so in my eyes it makes sense that the names of the species change as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twitch of Izalith Posted February 12, 2018 Share Posted February 12, 2018 Oh great, more dwarves that are impossible to kill. Because that was the one thing missing from the game.... 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Envyus Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 15 hours ago, Niltzsche said: Fluffwise, I always considered this renamings as a sort of etymologic succesors. After all language changes over time so in my eyes it makes sense that the names of the species change as well. Yeah but its also stupid. Call a Dwarf a Dwarf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AthlorianStoners Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Page 34 of malign portents has a section involving Shadespire. It says a group of Kharadron steak a mirror containing the vainest soul who ever loved. Slaanesh’s soul is said to be trapped between the realm of light and shadow, which also happens to be where shadespire is. Return of slaanesh imminent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodmaster Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 46 minutes ago, AthlorianStoners said: Return of slaanesh imminent? If by imminent you mean end of this year/beginning of 2019, you are probably correct. From all we know, the little pervert gets her turn in this years chaos reiteration. And in a similar way as Tzeentch and Nurgle did. Only the angry dude on the Brassthrone will miss out on the double release structure due to obvious reasons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorks Pokin' Finger Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 So if GW handles the return of Slaanesh like they've done the previous Chaos Gods, we can expect Dec 2018/Jan 2019 releases for 40k and AOS. Where does that leave the Skaven and Beastmen then? Would both races receive similar treatment over the next few years, each set up to be the big bad on the rise? I could see one or both coming out the same year GW decides to dedicate time to Destruction. Perhaps after the consequences and desecration laid by Nagash and Slaanesh upon the forces of order, the Skaven/Beastmen will try to assert control, but Destruction will rise to meet this threat 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyriakin Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 Personally, I would like to see unaligned "brown" Beastmen/Warherd just become Destruction. They are about the personification mindless destruction for the sake of it. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Explorator Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 2 hours ago, AthlorianStoners said: Page 34 of malign portents has a section involving Shadespire. It says a group of Kharadron steak a mirror containing the vainest soul who ever loved. Slaanesh’s soul is said to be trapped between the realm of light and shadow, which also happens to be where shadespire is. Return of slaanesh imminent? The vainest Soul to ever have existed. Slaanesh is far bigger in Scope than a single Soul I believe. There have been some speculations it might be Sigvald though. 1 hour ago, Kyriakin said: Personally, I would like to see unaligned "brown" Beastmen/Warherd just become Destruction. They are about the personification mindless destruction for the sake of it. Never. Beastmen are the true children of Chaos and shall forever be part of it. Besides, Beastmen go beyond pure destruction for its own sake. To just tear something down is not enough for them, they must see it despoiled and desecrated, turned to less than it ever was. Where the hordes of Destruction rampaged, you can come back and rebuild as if it was unsettled, where the Gor-kin succeded, you face a land poisoned and desecrated with the stuff of Chaos. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 5 hours ago, Envyus said: Yeah but its also stupid. Call a Dwarf a Dwarf. Okay, can you define a dwarf? Because I’m willing to bet I can poke a hole in that definition whereas when you invent a word (duardin in this case) you can always go ‘neheh, I invented duardin and you are thinking of dwarfs.’ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamopower Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 The new pic looks awful lot like a Stormcast warmachine part... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RuneBrush Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 (edited) I'm calling Ad Mech - bottom symbol looks like one of the Forge World symbols Edited February 13, 2018 by RuneBrush Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSoundwave Posted February 13, 2018 Share Posted February 13, 2018 3 minutes ago, RuneBrush said: I'm calling Ad Mech - bottom symbol looks like one of the Forge World symbols I think that's just a 5 in roman numerals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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