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9 hours ago, Yuviel Lightbringer said:

It's possible they wanted to break away from the sterotype slightly, since the Asur were always associated with the sword, from the sword of khaine, to sunfang and the fangsword and ultimately as these are not Asur they also wanted to break the weapon mould hence they have two types of hammer?

It is basically what "the AoS twist" is, break the cliche, we could say. Take something that became too associated with something and try to modify it. Dwarves are renown for theit tradition, then would they become without them? We get KO. Elves hate dwarves and vice versa, then what could happen if they try to build functional communities with humans - we get CoS. What if heroes after death do not get their feats and celebrations but a chance for revenge - the result is SCE. Same here: "Elves" are associated with something light and agile, but maybe they would contrast nicely with hammers. And thus we get Stoneguards. Also FB being  not exactly thinkative about its sources of inspiration - we have got ourselves in a situation where two very different "patterns" for fantasy elves: aes sídhe from irish folklore and hermanic-scandinavian álfar were heavily mixed, despite being drastically diferent. Because of that elves in world-that-was we have are those "classical" delicate loves of long swords. In Age of Sigmar, where GW tie almost every faction to some sort of follore origin, be that some specific folk tale, general collection of various folk tropes combined between each other by folklorists through similiar themes, or basing on common leitmotives of mythos. And thus we get Idoneth who are very close to the themes of isolation and retreat found in the stories of sidhe, and Lumineth who are obviously way closer to alfar, the latter never being associated with grace and elegance directly. 

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9 hours ago, Yuviel Lightbringer said:

I'm looking forward to giving the book a read, just like Court of the Blind King I want it to expand further about the every day society of the lumineth and the roles of the various castes. And it helps the artwork is gorgeous.

Oh, did Kourt of the Blind king actually expand on mandane aspects of Idoneth?  I was kinda hesitant to read it, so i'd like an honest opinion on it) 

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13 hours ago, Khaedhras said:

There are so many people leaking stuff in Reddit & dakkadakka that it almost seems suspiciously orchestrated...

 

There is a common theory that Gw does indeed orchesrate some of the leaks...

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Just now, AthelLoren said:

Honestly, I think that the lumineth would make great Posterboys. I like them a lot, personally, but I am a sucker for Aelves with Spears and Shields. Really.

Who we are to blame you) Althogh i know a lot of people who went bananas about Mountain Aspect, and spouting stuff about how superior was fb design to AoS - you should have seen this circus. Here is a meme template made by a friend of mine for situations like these in case you would ever need it: 

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Just now, Sttufe said:

Nah, the SCE will stay as GW posterboys. I mean, take a look at 40k where the space marines are battling each other half the time. I don't think they are gonna change it.

Althogh notice how few we had of them after the huge drop at the start of AoS 2.0. Sometimes it feels like GW actually monitor what community talks about.. And also on the note of SC being aliketo SM - sometimes I can't help but feel that designers knew that they would be compared because the more you compare them the more you realise the only common thing they have is the trope they are based on and the fact that they bare little hommages to roman aesthetic, the latter being the result of GW being a brirtish company. 
But back to the topic of the thread - Lumineth are definetly getting at least one update with models - they are the most logical candidates to be Slaanesh's main opponents, and he has been one huge masochistic Chehov's Rifle since year one. Who will fight them Dark aelf - unlikely it would be a spideman meme type of situation, DoK- too, Morathi to much of a joke to be an enemy to someone of Chaos God scale - Idoneth - they are slowly moving out of this whole Slaanesh vs. aelf dilemma: in Soulbound (and a friendly reminder that this trpg is indeed 100% canon) we see that they are strting to open ambassies in free cities, integrating into Sigmar's allience. So Lumineth are the most logical option. 

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5 hours ago, Yuviel Lightbringer said:

I do now think that yes, there is nothing left to be seen within the range. the list of units for warcry sealed that IMO. still, i'm not dissapointed with what we have, I may just need to rewrite the backstory for my army and main characters.

Well, then i might throw in an idea, as we all have noticed we are short of three units at minimum. We got warriors, spirit and a mage for Mountain, but none for other three aspects. Do not know if this was proposed here before, but perhaps Lumineth are the new stormcast - posterboys and focus of the marketing? This would explain why we are short so many models and why tyrion was basically choked - he eve hasn'y got a page in Soulbound just a mention in frame - "he is alive and well lads", it is just that we will see all of these in later releases over the years.