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Maybe Tyrion’s Sun spirit is a dragon he rides?
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Are Gods in AoS like the Primarchs? They’ve got their hand in everything and people report to them directly while the act as de facto heads of state?
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40 minutes ago, Sception said:
The realms are each their own separate plane, most taking the form of disc worlds, floating in a kind of void in the greater dimension of chaos. Each basically the scale of a planet on its own, with multiple continents and different biomes. While it is theoretically posdible to just physically fly from one realm to another, the interplanetary distances involved, and relative lack of magical power sources (or air) between them means very few things do so. The gods can travel directly between, though even they generally dont. Stormcasts can travel directly from Azyr to the other realms on bolts of Sigmar's Lightning, but once on a realm they're stuck travelling normally, at least until they're 'killed', which causes them to bolt back to Azyr.
There'd hardly be any interaction between the realms if not for the Realm Gates, ancient arcane portals of various sizes and shapes that connect two places on the same or different planes. Many of these are known and many more remain to be discovered or re-discovered, and every Realm is connected to every other Realm by such gates. These gates are crifical points for travel, trade, or invasion, so the known gates frequently contested, usually heavily fortified, and occasionally form the center of powerful city-states that span two different Realms.
Larger civilizations, such as the Ossiarch Empire, will consist of or control multiple such city states within their territory, allowing their empire sprawl over several realms while remaining effectively contiguous.
Because the Realms are effectively planet sized, they are not generally held by just one faction, and in fact most factions have at least some presence in most realms. Orcs are far, far more common on Ghur, but there are orc tribes native to Hysh. One of the minor plot threads in BR:Teclis involves a ghoul civilization not invading from Shyish, but that had been present in the hidden places of a mountain range in Hysh for centuries, and that joined up with the larger undead incursion after it started.
In addition to normal realms and realm gates, there is also a mini-realm, the size of a small continent instead of an entire planet, called the 'All Poins' or the 'Eight Points'. This mini realm has 8 super massive gates, each large enough for an entire army to mive through shoulder to shoulder, one leading to each of the other 8 mortal realms. The 8 points is currently heald by Archaon, it is the seat of his power and the reason chaos control throughout the realms is so widespread.
Sigmar managed to close the allpoint gate to Azyr before Archaon took control, which is why Azyr alone is largely free from chaos. In the Realmgate Wars, his stormcast eternals worked with other factions to seal off some of the other gates, which allows the peoples there to fight back without chaos reinforcements streaming through. Still, though, the best the Stormcast ever managed was closing gates, they could never fight through the gates to take and hold territory on Archaon's side.
More recently, a combined force of Nighthaunts and Ossiarch Bonereapers managed to do exactly that, taking and fortifying both sides of the Death gate while Archaon was busy elsewhere, and forcing him to abandon his goal and return before Nagash's forces could threaten to take control of the 8 points altogether. When he returned he repelled an exploratory assault on the Varanspire, his personal fortress and the seat of his power, but at the moment the Death Gate remains in Ossiarch hand bones.
Since the formation of the Shyish Nadir, the echoes of the necroquake have reverberated throughout the realms, saturating them all in death magic, empowering necromantic spellcasters and undead armies in all the realms, causing once peaceful resting spirits to rise as armies of twisted Nighthaunts. While the full effect of Teclis's new rune are yet to be seen, this flood of death magic is gone and those wild nighthaunt armies put to rest.
There will still be nighthaunts, but not as many and not everywhere, as the death magic that creates and sustains them is no longer dominant everywhere, just in the places it normally would be - in Shyish, near realmgates to Shyish, mass graves, etc. Likewise there are still Ossiarchs, but the expansion of their empire will slow as the magic of their mortisans weakens and other factions, without the pressure of random Nighthaunt assaults, have their armies freed up to fight back. Without Nagash's Iron fist to keep them in line, the various mortarchs will also descend into infighting and battles over territory in Shyish, which means the realm of death will no longer be unified in funneling resources through the various realmgates controlled by the ossiarchs to supply their expansion in other realms.
I could kiss you
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Something I’m having trouble following as I break into the setting is how integrated each of the realms are. For instance, with Teclis healing rune banishing the magic from the Necroquake does that mean there are no Bonereapers or Chaos or Orruks in Hysh? Are there Lumineth nations in other realms? I’m enjoying jumping in during an ongoing but many basic questions that are answered in the other games (40K, 30K, Necromunda, etc) are too ambiguous. If Nagash is banished, he’s probably not dead, but does that mean Shyish is now a realm where people can live and settle and not have a God control their lives? It’s just a little confusing and hard to break in.
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Good stories in wargames don’t have resolutions. It should set up stakes, principals, and locales and then leave the resolution open ended. For example, full blow Death invasions through each gate and a continued Lumineth expedition into Shyish
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That's frustrating. I'm not particularly enamored with any of the existing ones. It seems unusual to not release colors for factions, even if rules will be coming later.
For clarity: Im sitting on a big pile of grey plastic, but dont wanna commit to a scheme until I've seen all 8 'official' ones.
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Has there been any movement on color schemes for Aurathrai and Oultrai?
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Is there any news on lore and color schemes from the last two Tyrionic nations? Alumnia is red and white, Helon is green and white, so that just leaves Aurathrai and Oultrai without colors.
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1 hour ago, mystycalchemy said:
Not just a possibility, Sequitors can take Swords instead of the Mauls (there's only the Greatmaces for heavy weapons) and the swords are 3 attacks/3+/4+/-/1
I think math-wise they slightly win out over the mauls.
That’s great news. I’m still pretty new to the game, and trying to theme my army around Stormcast crusaders. I’m not even sure if that’s legal or possible.
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15 hours ago, Memnoch said:
Sequitor Hero with sword and shield
Am I missing any?
Any possibility of taking Sequitors with swords? Aesthetically, I prefer the look of swords to shields.
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50 minutes ago, Urauloth said:
I really can't wait to read this but for some reason I can't get my ebook from the BL website. Is anyone else having this problem? All I can get is a 404 from the download link.
It happened for me too. I’m sure they’ll have it available when they get back to work tomorrow. The likeliest explanation is they put the file in the wrong place so it can’t find the right one to send us.
Broken Realms: Teclis - SPOILER Discussion + Lore Summary
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That will be rectified as new factions are released, covering what the SW were like for them and old factions get new books addressing the events of Broken Realms. We went through this in Titanicus and 30k, it’s basically just a waiting game, unfortunately.