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29 minutes ago, The World Tree said:

It is very silly isn't it. But this is my understanding.

Yea so much for being the everchosen and favoured by the four gods of chaos I suppose

but it does look very much like it of you read the rules. Too bad. 

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13 hours ago, Hannibal said:

In the StD battletome there is written that a model with more than one marks has to choose which mark are used for the battle. It´s on the page with the Allegiance ability, I think first column, maybe 3rd or 4th paragraph.

 

7 hours ago, Grimrock said:

Yeah, the FAQ was only for the Aura of Chaos battle trait. He still has all of the marks on his warscroll so he'll still get all the benefits that entails, he just only emits one type of aura. He can also benefit from ally abilities like the Nurgle bell, Blue Scribes rerolls, or the Khorne Bloodstoker.

Two very conflicting answers. Anyone else care to weigh in?  

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Hello! I have a question about the big guy. 
We all know Archaon got FAQ’d to only get the benefits from one aura of chaos ability. But what about the warshrine prayers?

Specificaly the secondary effect of the prayers all say that in addition to the first effect, if the target has the relevant keyword for whatever prayer being used you also apply the secondary effect. 

As far as I can understand Archaon has all of the god-keywords he just cant benefit from morse than one aura of chaos per battle. But the keywords are still on his warscroll and so he should be able to get the full benefit from warshrine prayers, correct? 

For example could a Khornemarked Archy get the +1 save from the secondary effect of the Nurgle prayer? 
 

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2 hours ago, Spears said:

So the reasoning behind this is that you can only take artefacts if your allegiance has artefacts. The realm rules then allow you to pick a realm artefact instead. 

Slaves to darkness the allegiance have no artefacts, they are all baked into the damned legions. So if your neither your damned legion (Host of the Everchosen) or allegiance (STD) have artefacts available to them you cannot choose realm artefacts.

I'm not 100% sure its intended but given HotE have no native artefacts it doesnt seem too far fetched that it is on purpose.

The azyr app lets me choose a realm and pick an artifact for my host of the everchosen army. So I have assumed this to be legal, but perhaps the app is not always 100% correct?

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That’s what I thought as well. 
I need that sweet -3 rend on the lord on karkadrak!

Lore-wise it feels a bit wierd to have Archaon be from any other realm than the eight-points though..

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1 hour ago, Ellarr said:

Where is this confirmed?

I would also like to know this. I was under the impression that even though there are no artefacts specifically for host of the everchosen you could still get realmartefacts from malign sorcery if you use those rules?

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28 minutes ago, Midjithero said:

Correct!  Archaon would have to choose which aura he produces.  However, it doesn’t say that he then loses his other god mark keywords.  Hence, other heroes of those additional gods would still confer the bonus onto Archaon due to him having the matching keywords. 

This is what I thought as well when reading the rules. But the wording still makes it feel a bit unclear if it is refering to auras or the mark itself, hence my question. 
I can see some good arguments for both sides, but so far I’m leaning towards your interpretation.  

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If I have a chaos sorcerer lord and Archaon in the same list, Archaon with the aura of khorne but the sorcerer with one of the other auras. Can the sorcerers aura still affect Archaon since he has all of the god keywords? 

The sorcerer cannot take mark of khorne so I’m looking at the alternatives. 
Say the sorcerer has slaanesh aura and keeps close enough to Archaon, will Archaon get affected by both his own aura as well as the sorcerers?

I know he cant take more than one aura himself but I cant see anything about him not being able to get the affect from another aura from another hero as long as he have the relevant keyword on his warscroll, which he obviously does. 

Or am I missing something?