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Erm in AOS lore slaanesh IS present in various war stories and in Archaon's army in equal form like the other gods(Having their own battalion) and have their own short story and they have not changed in the slightest. A slaaneshi was the main antagonist in the last realm gate novel sacking neferata's city. Also a slaaneshi is the main antagonist in the new warhammer quest. Also slaanesh in 40k and fantasy act pretty much the same. Slaanesh has had more plot relevance in AOS than in the 30 years of whfb. I personally don't understand where you are getting the idea they are different or the fact that slaaneshi's have not been present in AOS lore when it's the opposite.

Slaanesh is not getting toned down considering in most novels they still act the same as always also as Marius said GW have already done the toning down. Also slaanesh does not really represent sexual aspects that is only a small part of the pie and as a slaanesh fan it's more the fact that the fan base has memed slaanesh into that corner. Since if you read most publications dealing with slaanesh they talk about people falling through pride, envy, gluttony, sloth and greed. Yes lust is there but you are not going to become a prince by just having relations and doing drugs all day. Slaanesh will just grow bored and spawn you. Why do you think slaaneshi's involve themselves in war? Their senses majority of the time are so blasted they call only feel joy in the cruelty and pain of war.

Ha! True he is now angry that his main rival went missing. Honestly I do think Mortahi is involved reading the first campaign book again Morathi was in ulgu before even Malekith/Malerion respawned. Maybe she was "placed" there I mean GW does things in advance also I recall bob on atia's blog said this. Also predicated the book as well. A black library editor said that slaanesh is a huge plot point. https://war-of-sigmar.herokuapp.com/bloggings/784 This was 11 months ago. future models -in the general's handbook, there looks to be new sylvaneth models shown. i would take this with a grain of salt, as they could be very well done conversions, but from what i heard, there are models of aelfs whose limbs are turning into branches and plants, and new updated treemen (not treelords, the treemen who are bigger than branchwraiths but smaller than treelords) -concept art shown of allariel riding what looks to be a giant rhino beetle? sounds interesting, possible future model? only time will tell -Slaanesh is not dead. Models are supposedly finished and they're waiting to get things ready (box art, artwork for future books, production, finding a time to include in the story, etc.) studios rarely release models the second they are done, there's a lot of prep work behind the scenes.

From bell of lost souls, should I say this is more slaanesh hints? Heh GW can't seem to not help themselves mentioning slaanesh in recent publications involving chaos. DOT, Warhammer quest hammerhal and now this snippet. Think in context if you read my lore posts slaanesh is out of the lime light and it's highly likely he/she is still playing the great game. Now slaanesh is most like currently surrounded by a lot of aelves and chaos being a thing of pure corruption I am quite sure keeping a chaos god in the mortal realms is not going to be healthy for one's mind. Just my theory I suspect corrupted aelves joining the humans. From end times khaine Morathi opens up the vortex to let the hand of slaanesh through I mean his/her literal hand "Morathi saw the eye too, but in hermadness did not care. Indeed, she invited its gaze, casting ever wilder magics to tempt it nearer. She no longer feared oblivion in slaanesh's gullet. not if it would exhort the thirsting god to lay waste to all of Ulthuan. This would be her vegenace, perhaps even her apotheosis, for could not slaanesh's favour could be courted? As the vortext shrank in on itself, so too did the rift at its heart, and a great ululating howl split the air as slaanesh realised he had been cheated on his feast. The vast, taloned hand groped frantically as the rift contracted, desperate to seize some vibrant morsel, Morathi at last realising her folly, backed away. She did not see Caledor approach. The mage held Morathi fast as the giant hand drew near. The sorceress shrieked, and tore at Caledor with nails and teeth. Blood ran as rivers down the mage's face, but still he held on, drawing her into the last embrace that either would ever know. Your race is run, child he said. Meet your end with the dignity of your heritage. Something in those words at last pierced Mortahi's madness, and she fell limp in caledor's arms. As the claws closed around them both, she screamed one last time and then there was silence. Then in AOS she was not liberated from slaanesh's gullet, Malerion/Malekith actually found her again in ulgu. Yes he found her and all they noted that he noticed she was "changed" somehow. I personally think this is slaanesh's gambit or him playing the game. Also the picture who's crown does that look like? Also how would tyrion and malerion along with teclis imprison a god? I personally believe Morathi is the prison and might explain why slaaneshi followers still get marked and gain mutations even though slaanesh is "missing." More lore. Why would khorne still get angry about a missing god? He should be happy his enemy is finally gone plus according to the tzeentch tome how slaanesh vanished and how he/she was captured seems to be a closely guarded secret. Only one cult out of all of tzeentch's cults knows the details. (Most likely to prepare just in case slaanesh does come back and to prevent slaanesh from entering the great game again. I think slaanesh is still playing due to a slaaneshi lord noting that slaanesh might of allowed himself to be captured.) Also the seraphon have a vested interest in preventing the followers of slaanesh getting to him/her. Also do you find it strange that somehow all the followers somehow decided that it's highly likely that slaanesh is in ulgu? I mean it was tyrion who made the plan to capture slaanesh and approached Malekith/malerion why not go to the realm of light?

Yeah I don't think TK are coming back they got rid of em for a reason. TK does not fit the aesthetic GW are going for in AOS in my opinion I made a separate topic about this. No matter how much GW improved they don't kill a whole line for no reason considering how bright in style TK were they don't fit they seems to be aiming for a more "grim" look. I could see the newer plastics coming back and that's about it.

edit:Going to make a separate topic on this discussion.

Been saying this whole time that Death in AOS is going to be heavily gothic(vc) with some TK influence here and there. The music they use in the trailer is extremely gothic IMO. The art is sorta hinting why they squatted TK.

Honestly I do think it's malerion aelves native to Ulgu, since with the release of overlords GW kinda has the "main" races done in a sense so they could do some other factions. *looks at destruction and death*

The horned rat did not replace slaanesh he has joined the pantheon.

In my opinion death works better as a grand alliance than single dedicated factions, the issue if we go that route you run into problems where you can't take the mortarch's since it would break the army allegiance. Imagine nagash, neferata or manny decided to take some skeleton's or zombies suddenly they have forgotten all their spells. The necromancer cannot take skeletons in the army anymore without breaking the book and you will miss out on his nice synergistic spell hence why dedicated faction tomes won't work in my opinion. Just like chaos or even dedicated they work well by picking things from the various forces, hence why I believe the new style of tome would work for them best. Since it would make all death players happy. As Haunts said I would prefer a "hordes of nagash" style of book as he said. Since fluff wise death has a somewhat clear hierarchy and leadership compared to the other factions, being death and all that.

It's just a book they are getting, relax as a death player our time will come same thing with the aelves I highly suspect we will see them at adepticon. Also releases are following a general narrative. I like that GW are going certain factions out of the way by just releasing a book instead of consuming a whole month.

Might as well get it out of the way now, release a book along with a big release I mean they can do the same with seraphon their army is pretty much already complete.

God I love this art piece.

Hence why I feel devoted of sigmar might become the "new" human faction perhaps along with free guild/wizards in a tzeentch style book. They would not give the faction a new model for no reason if they weren't planning to do something with them at most I feel many of those factions at most may get a "bonesplitterz/beastclaw raiders" type of tome. It's a case of normalish soldiers riding fantasy animals vs crazy zealots, paladins and priests wielding powers of a god similar to odin/zeus. Of course I could be wrong but those are just my thoughts.

I think it the new mordheim that's going to include new death *coughihopeithasaplasticvampirecough* just like the new 40k game is based off necromunda.

Think dwemer from the elder scrolls and they fit right in. I have been saying AOS reminds me a lot of elder scrolls than anything else.

Calling it now it's going to be death related in some form if it is I will buy it and it's most likely going to be a new mordheim of sorts.

Er they mean civilization/order etc , that kind of order.

Oh yeah I know my mouth dropped when I saw him defending AOS in such a fashion, I think city of secrets and the new warhammer quest games and atia's posts on them got him on board somewhat also the future releases he heard about or seen.

GW I think are bribing rumor mongers with early viewings and free stuff to keep things hush hush until near pre orders or release day. I am actually kinda surprised the new Duardin stuff has not leaked yet myself.

Er he just wants their souls same with marked chaos followers. Sigmar disrupting the life cycle is weakening him hence him being so gung ho on grabbing their souls also don't forget nagash is most likely losing out on those being taken by chaos. I don't know why people want to see nagash corrupted stormcast I think that's the last thing GW would do for a new release for death. Nagash is still into his undead and mortarch's. The whole of the last realm gate book was nagash getting them back under his thumb again. Let sigmar and chaos keep the big burly warriors.

Josh also said this book will feature female stormcast as well. I do think devoted will come around the time of slaanesh and death considering those two forces like to corrupt people the most.

Hmm that makes a lot of sense on the god comparison.

Never seen that symbol for the horned rat before.