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There is always the Age of Sigmar lexicanum
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4 minutes ago, novakai said:
Well that was disappointing lol. Not really any great AoS news
I hope all you peeps have phones because in the grim darkness of the 21st century there is only Warhammer mobile games
edit: at least UK expo is this friday
I'm actually glad we didn't see any age of Sigmar stuff. If I have to see one more terrible looking age of Sigmar mobile game. My head will explode.
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28 minutes ago, Popisdead said:
Oddly this week GW is calling them Aelves regarding the 5 short stories they are selling.
This is correct. The only thing that tied them was Revenants imaged themselves to look like "protectors of the woods from ages past" or something akin to that. So people assumed they were dead aelf souls brought back.
They said Aelvish fiction. But warhammer-community tends to get details about the lore wrong all the time. Such as them saying the lady of vines was created at the beginning of the realmgate wars. This is incorrect, she was made in the Age of Myth.
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On 5/26/2022 at 1:04 PM, Lord Krungharr said:
Did the tome come out yet? Wondering if I'll still have viable use of a Treelord Ancient and Durthu within my Living City army. Guess it will also depend on the new points costs too. If the Ancient can still drop a Wyldwoods, and somehow cast another spell for another one, then I can have some tree mass-transit within the Living City.
Really? Thought they were aelf spirits who inhabit the trees and make them walk or something. Isn't Alarielle an aelvish queen? Thought she had the old spear of that Orion Woodelf King from the Old World.
No, they are nature spirits, more like fey. They have nothing to do with aelf souls, as per AoS lore. ( Alarielle is the only thing that can be called an elf because of her past )
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7 hours ago, Lord Krungharr said:
Aelves always get the better part of any deal.
Sylvaneth are not aelves, but I understand what you mean.
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Anybody know what's up with these Warhammer and magic: the gathering crossover?
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Kurnotheal is in the realm of life.
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36 minutes ago, novakai said:
I guess it depends on the level of religious theme we talking about.
Like i don’t expect Dune God emperor Leto level of fanatic level of devotion ( where 40K is at) but more of where Chronicles of Narnia Aslan is.
That will vary between the city. There's always going to be some of that, after all Sigmar is the god-king who is fighting against terrible and thirsty dark demon gods who seek to devour reality itself. But even then, the people will worship and venerate multiple gods of order. I mean look at the living City, it was made by alarielle at the behest of Sigmar and is a symbol of their Unity and shared goals. Her faith has a major following in that City.
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59 minutes ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:
I want to say a little bit about this line from the preview:
Quite a few people have really latched on to this and concluded from it not just that the Dawnbringer Crusades will have a religious theme (which, honestly, they should have if we take the setting of AoS seriously), but that they will somehow be significantly more religious than the Freeguild is right now or the Empire has been in the past. To the point of being described as fundamentalists or fanatics, even.
The thing is, the only substantial bit of design we have seen so far does not really cash that out for me. Here are all the new bits they previewed:
A general theme of skulls, hammers, twin-tailed comets and the cool S of Sigmar.
The thing is, all that stuff is already found on the current models, especially on the biggest and newest kits where they had the technology to add a bunch of gubbins:
Even more so, this seems to be true for some of the older kits that were lost with the first Cities book. The current Freeguild general is not especially bedecked with Sigmarite imagery, but several that are no longer being produced certainly were:
Personally, I would not characterize the Old World empire as a religious fundamentalist or fanatical faction. Religion was definitely one of themes they had, but by no means the only one or the most important. Reading that people don't want the Sigmarite religion in their models or don't like the gothic imagery being added to them kind of leaves me scratching my head. Both of those things are already on the current models, and were even more present on the old Empire stuff. The religious theme is already there, it's just not the main thing about the human AoS models.
I find it strange that someone will be upset that the people in the 'Cities of Sigmar' are religious worshippers of Sigmar in the game called Age of Sigmar. But more seriously, not everyone in the cities worship just Sigmar, they also worship the other gods of order. Sigmar is just more successful because he is constantly attempting to establish new cities and support them. He is also very much not a racist and is constantly seeking to establish new alliances and ties with those who side with order, hearing petitions etc
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Disposessed and Kharadron are not godless by the way. Especially true for the Disposessed, who want to reunite with Grungni and reclaim the holds.
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Is something happening with forgeworld?
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45 minutes ago, CommissarRotke said:
These are the first images we ever got of the redesign we had no idea was happening. It is extremely easy to think the redesign would be too much of an Empire 2.0 when every single bit they teased could fit into WHFB without changing. None of these yell "quite unlike anything you’ve seen before" like WarCom called it. @Sarouan I would LOVE to see the denizens of Ghyran and Aqshy. These bitz they've showed us do not bring confidence that that's what we'll get.
I fully expect them to do it the same way they do it in 40K. There will be a core aesthetic for the Army, but they will release units that would be specialized and themed based on a realm. ( Deathcore stuff like that )
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11 minutes ago, Neil Arthur Hotep said:
I can say that even though I am currently super positive about that the future might hold for Dawnbringers, if they actually become the Imperium of Sigmar and all the Cities fluff I have been getting invested in since the battletome came out not even three years ago gets hard reset, I will probably drop the game of AoS completely. The setting would be entirely too loose-weave for me. I just could not take any plot developments seriously at that point.
I don't think that's going to happen at all. Someone in the rumor thread said this based on what they we're saying in the Stream.
Based on humans (grounded people) but they didn't deny that it could be other races too (answering a twitch-chat question).
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29 minutes ago, Deepkin said:
The imperium isn't fascist, it's a theocratic feudal society in space. Still a monstrous society, but not fascist.
That there are protagonists from this society doesn't make it propaganda. Or is Game of Thrones propaganda for pseudo-medieval feudalism as well? Is Gideon the Ninth propaganda for interstellar necromantic theocracy? Etc.
Depiction isn't endorsement. The Imperium is widely depicted (still) as the worst regime imaginable. It's so terribly conservative and dogmatic, it's starships use slave gangs to load weapons instead of autoloaders (a technology we have now). It stacks person on person into cancer-ridden, horror-mountains and calls them "hive cities." It works planets to death and then uses their corpses as mulch for farming. It births children, kills them and resurrects their corpses as flying servitors for...aesthetic reasons? It takes little boys, pumps them full of hormones and literal hypnotic indoctrination, tells them they're gods Angels of death and then unleashes them upon the galaxy...who then routinely go mad and betray their Imperium and become it's direst foes. Even when they don't, they routinely genocide their own populations, etc.
All this stuff is still in the background. Foregrounded, even. If you think any of that is meant to make you identify with the faction, then I don't know what to say. I think the background still does what it always did: takes the hellish results of absolute conservatism and faith to their obvious, awful conclusions. That there are still sympathetic characters heightens the irony and tragedy. Their individual morality changes nothing: they work within a doomed system, doomed from it's inception by the hubris of it's founder.
Yeah, 30k/40K should not be taken serious. It was always meant to be over the top, ridiculous. Because it's meant to be grimdark, so everything is the worst possible way it could possibly be. I mean the emperor was a violent Warlord who enforce atheism and went around committing genocide on other species and killing any who disagree with him. He then nearly died, people started worshipping him and the Imperium continue to do what he was already doing. Being a bunch of ******.
This is all because everything has to be the Grim darkest of the Grim Darkness.
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35 minutes ago, KingBrodd said:
Skirmish games. Warcry and Kill Team.
hmm, Sylvaneth for Warcry.
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What is today supposed to focus on? On Warhammer Fest
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We're more likely to get new flagellants, as through their blood, sacrifice and faith are the lands purified of chaos corruption.( literally )
Maybe add some Elves and dwarves to the devoted, Sigmar is worshipped by many different races.
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2 minutes ago, RyantheFett said:
I find it funny that they introduced and make a big deal about a human faction and a lot of talk in the community is if the non human races get to make it in the faction lol.
Which I am not sure is a bad PR move or they know exactly what they are doing????
I would have loved that!!!!! From everything they talked about just seems like they went the other way lol.
Things are still early in development, I'm sure if enough people complain and say they want the new models to have multiple races like in the lore. They can change some things.
For me, one of sigmar's Virtues I like the most is that he fights for all the races of order. ( that aren't backstabbing traitors anyway ) and his cities reflect that, humans, elves and dwarves all live and fight together. This is what makes cities of Sigmar, the cities of Sigmar to me.
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Ultimately, we don't know what it's going to happen.
The Lore of dawnbringer Crusades states that they are groups of the citizenry and soldiery sent out to establish strong points that will eventually grow into their own Cities of Sigmar. Either for personal gain or on behalf of the gods of order, either way Sigmar supports them.
So long as the new models have multiple races mixed in, I will be fine with it.
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2 minutes ago, Mungrun said:
I just love how GW seems to present this "new" faction, very "Spanish" theme with the Inquisition, the morion helmet, the conquistadors exploring unknown lands and founding new colonies in savages and mysterious lands for God & Gold.
They did not. They said everything is in early stages and that what was shown was baroque.
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9 minutes ago, JackStreicher said:
Happens, no worries
As for tomorrow: A Kurnoth (Reborn) Mini, some bugs and a teaser of a rat teaser.
"A Kurnoth (Reborn)" What?
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When is warhammerfest?
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2 hours ago, CommissarRotke said:
Is it just me or does the Knight Relictor here look AWFULLY like an updated Liberator? hammer not a maul, shield, and no leg cloth
Why would they do that when they already have Vindictors, they fulfill the same role.(literally, both in lore and in game) I don't think GW is going to spend money on changing already plastic kits. And no, it's just art.
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The Rumour Thread
in Age of Sigmar Discussions
Posted
What do you like? I will always recommend. Hamilcar: Champion of the Gods for a fun story ( He even punches sigmar in the face if you are into that )
https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/novels/champion-of-chaos-ebook-cs-2018.html
There's soul wars if you want to see some anvils of the heldenhammer vs ghost. Staring Lord-Arcanum Balthas Arum ( Baltasar gelt ). It also explorers the city of Glymmsforge.
https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/novels/ebook-soul-wars.html
If you are looking for adventure and want to see what Grungni is like. Then Eight Lamentations: Spear of Shadows is for you ( unfortunately the trilogy was discontinued when josh reynolds left black Library, but it's still a good book )
https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/novels/spear-of-shadows-ebook.html
If want to read stories of vampiric intrigue, then you got "Neferata Mortarch Of Blood" and it's sequel "Neferata: The Dominion of Bones"
https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/novels/ebook-neferata-mortarch-of-blood.html
https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/novels/neferata-the-dominion-of-bones-ebook-2019.html
If you want lean want the Kharadron Overlords are like you got "Overlords of the Iron Dragon" and and it's sequel "Profit's Ruin"
https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/novels/overlords-of-the-iron-dragon-ebook.html
https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/novels/profits-ruin-ebook-2020.html
Finally if you are interested in witch hunters and intrigue there's "City of Secrets" and and it's sequel "Callis and Toll: The Silver Shard"
https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/novels/city-of-secrets.html
https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/novels/callis-and-toll-the-silver-shard-ebook.html
Also there is Cursed City
https://www.blacklibrary.com/warhammer-age-of-sigmar/novels/cursed-city-ebook-2021.html