Baron Klatz

Heads on spooky deals! 🎃 https://x.com/cubicle7/status/1718739232175583326?s=46&t=jCd67B32MVmYRRlrhJqWtA https://cubicle7games.com/all-products?cat=65 Also 9 days left for the humble bundle on various supplements: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/best-warhammer-cubicle-7-books Also C7 have been looking for new writers so worth a look into that for people interested And finally on cool fan stuff absolutely loving these 😍, something cool and something spooky: Lastly in case anyone missed this big of news: “> Emmet — > Welp, someone let the cat out of the bag! Yep, Champions of Chaos will be a corebook. The rules will be almost identical bar some wonkiness we want to fix (Called Shot, I'm looking at you), and what replaces Soulfire > And yes, we've had nothing but positivity for the Soulbound system and have multiple games in the works using the C7d6 system > Champions of Chaos is a corebook because Chaos is so big but also it is a great new entry point for people. Champions of Chaos will likely release almost 4 years after Soulbound. Soulbound launched during a pandmic, which did hinder it, so hopefully Champions of Chaos will be big! > Also, no guarantee it will be called Champions of Chaos (my shelf weeps at the thought)” Bolds well for next edition being Order vs Chaos again as Chaos players get a ton of material to immerse themselves with as they explore, conquer and corrupt the Realms. 💪 😈

So I’ve been wanting to do this for a while and make an archive like we have for Malign Portents(my infinite thanks to @Garxia for doing that 🙏) and want to make archives for Forbidden Powers, Broken Realms and now Dawnbringer Crusade stories. However I can only use a Mobile and have been flummoxed how to spoiler stuff on here so the entire stories don’t spring up all over the screen. and now I’m hearing rumors of GW changing to an “all-in-one site” soon which if true could erase those stories. So please, if anyone would take the time I’ll DM you the stories and you can make a new archive topic, copy-paste the stories and then spoiler them for me and we can preserve the glorious lore of the Mortal Realms! Big thanks to anyone that decides to help me.

Yeah, that’s basically what happened in “Quest for Ghal Maraz”(the battle report warhammer+ is playing on) with a lot of early books getting us invested in Thostos from his heroic mortal days to being reforged and both helping to find the Silver Way and Ghal Maraz’s location. And as his accolades grew through the Realmgate Wars they were tragically snuffed out in the All-Gates War with the climatic battles to shut off most of the Eight-Points he sacrificed himself to hold off Archaon and got eaten by Dorghar who seals souls in it’s stomach. And to a lesser, but still honorable account, extension Lorrus Grymn who fell to Belakor and his Cursed Skies trap despite being a long time name of the Hallowed Knights since the first AoS books(Warstorm to be precise) and loyal friend to Gardus. That kinda stuff does help make important book marks as the eras of a setting march on even in a war of gods and daemons. Haha, that could be a fun narrative arc for an edition. Archaon underestimates Kragnos in a revenge fight for his fallen fortresses in Ghur and the Destruction god uses his earthquake powers to shake the sword apart and bashes them across the realms. Then the dark gods can be jerks about the situation to really stir the Chaos civil war pot and say who ever recovers all the pieces and reforges the Slayer of Kings gets to be the new Everchosen leading to absolute mayhem as Archaon, Belakor and any other warlord turn over the realms looking for those shards in a race against time.

Stormcast have found a patch-job of sorts with Bastian, he got wounded by it and has had a void wound since the Age of Chaos but thanks to his willpower & Thunderstrike armor has remained mostly unaffected.(thus why the new armor may heal Vandus from the worst of it) With Katakros and the wound causing him to have urgings towards his former homelands in Ghur I imagine the Ossiarch fix will be monster bones & Amber stone. They’re already experimenting with constructing bodies out of the materials and Katakros using the wild energies to fill that void could be a catalyst for a new Ossiarch wave of monster bone morteks & golems he stays near as auxiliaries. The third major affliction is the void wound in the God-beast Ignax causing chaos corruption seen in one eye already. If there’s a fix coming for that it’ll be the Seraphon most likely(unless a new faction solves it as a debut like a race of elementals or the like)

Not angrier, he just goes into panic attacks and a bit half-mad because the void wound the Slayer of Kings left in his soul.(remember that weapon can slay gods and even Katakros can feel his wound from it eating away at him despite how many replacement bodies he jumps to) Vandus gained the ability to see the portents from the future with his reforgings which lead to him warning of some significant events like those of Malign Portents & Broken Realms but as the wound worsens he’s begun to see stuff like a “Lightning Man” who keeps getting closer and closer to him and is even warping reality. It’s gotten to the point where in the S2D tome and First-Forged novel he’s kept mostly confined to cells or let loose on the battlefield to relieve his stress as even something as simple as doing a public announcement can lead to him having a freak-out and having to be quickly hidden away from the crowds. I’m imagining the arc here is either gonna lead to a new Thunderstrike version with the armor helping staunch the void wound as it had done for Bastian who was also wounded by Archaon while defending the Azyr gate’s closing at the start of the Age of Chaos OR possibly we could see something like the reveal of the Ruination chamber giving Stormcast “Dreadnought” golems(Vandus looking more like light being Eltharion) which broken souls are put into as the Sacrosanct chamber already does to Stormcast souls that are threatening to become wild lightning gheists and can’t be safely reforged so are contained in statues until they find a solution(which moving statues Grungni treated that can fight would seem an obvious conclusion if flesh can no longer contain them)

Haha, I bought multiple SCE start collectings just because I love the Lord-Relictor model(plus Vandus) so much. 😅 And even then I’m putting money aside to grab this new version of him. (And planning one more box buy before 4th replaces it, never enough necro-paladins, angels & dracoths!) Cheers to Cryptborn! 💀🍻 Oh, see if you can mount him on NightHaunt endless spell hourglass. It might hit the right height and fit his Shyish themes really well. you can spruce it up with some Stormcast face-helms to show Ionus saving the souls of his friends and guiding them back to Azyr as well. “No effort to save those you love is ever pointless. It is what makes you Stormcast.’ - Cthorak” (from the new free story ^^)

I mean we gotta see them first before we can say if they can’t do better. I can already imagine some over-the-top duardin troops swathed in plate armor that’s covered in glowing runes hewing through chaos with great axes they wield one-handed and lightning anvil-shaped hammers that send out thunderclaps with each slam or maybe Dispossessed armies more like the Freeguild and using far more sophisticated weapons like shields that have guns actually attached to the front to fire instead of a pavise system and maybe even shield flamethrowers: Besides, with TOW your current set will be safe anyway to always get more from and proxy. I hope they eventually get a decent refresh if more shaman brutes & Krule hunters don’t push them out. One thing I’d like to see(besides were-boars) is this little bit of lore that had Bonesplitterz wear the claws, teeth, pelts and club tail of the creature they slew and they took in it’s spirit so they fought in unison to act just like parts of the beast if it was still alive. Would make new interesting units of “Mor-totems” that are like warbands in how they operate together(Gobbapalooza) in that as each beast part has a different weapon/body part and effect so you want to be careful what gets taken out if you want to keep the ward pelt middle or toxic tail stinger. And while there’s more than half still alive gets the Monster Keyword as they can channel it’s spirit(opening up options if you actually want to lose more than half to avoid anti-monster units or keep the keyword to carry out Rampages) Lastly, kinda off-topic but feel good moment, took a screenshot of the current community page today and just felt so happy the AoS love we’re getting right now between new stories, Nyugen getting recognition he deserves, the Realmgate Wars battle report over one of the most interesting campaigns & realmscapes back then and even the joy of a good AoS videogame getting highlighted. Age of Sigmar keeps on winning, lads! 🍻

So happy the Horrors split into Blues & tiny brimstone ones! 🤩 This army is gonna have a lot of tricks to pull out of its hat for strategies. (While bathing everything in magic artillery fire 🪄🔥) Edit: Book of Grudges confirmed on army painter you can paint even units different colors(so gold Liberators, silver Raptors, black annihilators, etc). That’ll make for some really fun army color combos.

They look shockingly good! 🥰⚡️ Reveal soon, I wonder what it could be…. 👀 🐦 https://x.com/realmsofruin/status/1714273046595588099?s=46&t=jCd67B32MVmYRRlrhJqWtA Also 21 days left to enter this contest: https://x.com/realmsofruin/status/1712513595265679598?s=46&t=jCd67B32MVmYRRlrhJqWtA

There’s also the mid-best case scenario the Ironjawz just set as a precedent. surprise sub-faction update with a free battletome supplement. That way they could put some exciting filler in there like some Gholemkind models & free supplement that adds onto the Kharadron tome or the like(River Temple Lumineth, S2D Ogroids boost, new Khainite Scathborn, Bonesplitterz mini-refresh to close off Ghur story arc, etc)

My bet is the multi-part kit, neo-Liberators have enough armor design differences to make them separate and probably the same weapon load-out of swords & hammers to keep the 2 boxes so GW can double up on sales. (and possible chuckle at it only taking two editions when GW will probably drag their feet on this to spread the Stormcast starters over several editions. In the Stormcast forums we’re betting at least ‘til 8th edition before Primaris status is reached) Also a big Chaos finale would link up really well with Soulbound who are planning to make the Champions of Chaos book the new big core book of Soulbound 2.0 ”> Emmet — > Welp, someone let the cat out of the bag! Yep, Champions of Chaos will be a corebook. The rules will be almost identical bar some wonkiness we want to fix (Called Shot, I'm looking at you), and what replaces Soulfire > And yes, we've had nothing but positivity for the Soulbound system and have multiple games in the works using the C7d6 system > Champions of Chaos is a corebook because Chaos is so big but also it is a great new entry point for people. Champions of Chaos will likely release almost 4 years after Soulbound. Soulbound launched during a pandmic, which did hinder it, so hopefully Champions of Chaos will be big! > Also, no guarantee it will be called Champions of Chaos (my shelf weeps at the thought)” Having Chaos make a big boom in appearances to lead into Skaven craziness alongside a new rpg experience of being able to make archetype characters Skaven, Darkoaths, Varanguards or Ogroids among many others would fit like a gem in my view.

It completely depends on what parts of their armor you focus on because the Marine kitbashes with the new Thunderstrike have been insanely good to. With Grungni having more time to flesh out their armor again(to when he had 500 years before to come up with the first AoS1 batches) I won’t be surprised at much more marine-like flourishes while keeping the slimmer tones for a while. Which is good, with CoS on the way and Brets for TOW to cover the human knight bases the Stormcast can be focus on being badass angels on lightning that descend from magic space station celestial cities more and hit those post-human otherworldly vibes we love. 😇 ⚡️

Probably in the mid-November reveals they talked about. Looks like they’ll be either the dead end(hehe) of 2023 for Death or start next year.

Probably it for DB3 until a few months and FEC pop up sometime in Winter. That’s actually a good catch and fits the Era of the Beast themes. I won’t be surprised if the Summerking(or adjacent super ghoul king under him) is on a new “noble and not at all horror of undead” creature that mimics a hippogryph or the like while the Lady of Ruin comes in on the mother of all Varanguard daemon chimeras. Anyway good stuff! Ionus got me pumped as a Realmgate Wars fan and I’m obsessed over Sylvaneth big cavalry so double wins for me here. 😁 can’t wait for the book & boxes! 🤩 Very happy the draconith are getting more narrative to their race and now trying to establish a proper afterlife after returning to the realms. Very much a journey some of the gods went on after arriving to the realms themselves. I wonder if we’ll see such narratives with future awoken races like the Gholemkind or hopefully Silent People one day? 🤔

On the Tzeentch Realms of Ruin stuff the magic relic they find after the NightHaunt battle. it’s a crystal with 9 parts to it. If that’s not a hint then I don’t know what is. Hopefully then both the new narrative book & a free short story will have the draconith perspective on things. They have conversations in the battletome and small quips in Soulbound but novel-wise so far they hadn’t any real focus. Would be nice to get some of dragons to comment about events and seeing another empire trying to rise from it’s own ashes like theirs. I’m sure they’ll keep it for many years & editions to come. Even the beaky marine didn’t go when it was outdated decades out and just moved to the back lot when the Liberator replaced it. The Liberator Stormcast designs are just as integral to the new generations of Stormcast as the beaky marine was to even the design cues of the newer Primaris stuff despite being more refined. So there’s little point in changing it when it’s the anchor to the whole origins of a new franchise.

I love that the mask-helms look closer to the Protectors now! I always thought that design needed more love with how “medieval alien” it could go and it fits defensive type Stormcast so well! I wonder if the game will have anymore surprises in store for the models. 🤩

So far I’d say if Ossiarchs got word of the big crusades and secretly sent advanced parties to help clear their ways and succeed in settling new lands. The Ossiarch tome notes they’ve done that several times in aiding Dawners unaware of their intervention as a thriving metropolis in dangerous territory means lots of bones for them to tithe. Nezzhil’s Morghast hunters idea is good too. After Broken Realms where the Ossiarchs & FEC in Hysh had a bad falling out and went from willing allies to bitter enemies(to where the Alarith Lumineth even leased the FEC their mountain because the ghouls are adamant about taking out vile undead & blocking the portal to Shyish there now) and capturing Ushoran could turn such fortunes on their head if they have their Summerking who can order them all to behave without question.

I know we just had a “Don’t worship everything Whitefang likes” moment on here but them liking this post now has me hopeful we could be seeing a Tornus the Redeemed Venator model. 🥹

Oh that’d make a lot of sense! Fits both the Era of the Beast that the forest spirits would manifest more hunters to take down the beasts & rampaging incarnates with a “brother” to the Lady of Vines demigoddess and be a great narrative boon for the Dawners in Ghyran having supernatural trackers like that to aid them pushing Order into enemy territory. It’d be cool if we’d also get smaller hunter spirit-hybrids based on the Kurnoth Hunters to help round out the other Revenants with a halfway between the stoic tree-revenants & crazy spite-revenants. There’s a lot of creative art commissions for other varieties of Soulbound Sylvaneth and more Ghur-flavored exotic tree people could really be great going forward with the Excelsis Dawner narratives Cubicle7 are working on.

If she ends up being the big antagonist for the final Dawner book my money’s on a daemon princess level character on Sigvald’s level(maybe slightly bigger or more impressive diorama) who’s both a beat stick & spellcaster powerhouse with army buffs for that final boss build. (especially looking at it like an rpg lead-ups being a status effecter(Harbringer), a powerhouse(King Trugg) and likely a deadly support leader next with the Summerking so the Ruin Queen can really test your skills with a versatile mix while crushing steam tanks bare-handed)

Could be. Would be a nice way to thread out their refresh if it’s both new high-tech Skryre units besieging Aqsha & Ghur Moulder Skaven blown up by the built up digestive magic they tampered with and got twisted into new mutated forms. Would also like to see Clans Pestilens get those giant red ticks as monster units they unleashed thanks to taking samples from Kragnos: ”> As the Battle of Excelsis raged around them, these skulking killers slipped through the carnage in search of their quarry. Kragnos was pulverising a Sigmarite chapel with his oversized mace when they came upon him. His sheer size and manic fury was almost enough to make them turn tail and flee. Recalling the warpstone riches Ikbite had promised them, however, the Shushbik assassins crept up on the rampaging Drogrukh and, with their daggers, clipped a pawful of his mattered fur. Reacting with terrifying speed, Kragnos instantly whipped about and squashed three skaven under his hooves. The surviving assassins fled in terror, clutching their prize. > > An unbearably smug Ikbite was proved correct in his assumptions when Pestilens plague-brewers added this 'Hair of the Earthquake' to their malefic concoctions. As they did so, the ground beneath Blight City began to tremble and splinter. Great fissures opened in the earth, spilling forth a tide of daemonic, rat-faced blood-ticks that swept across the city, plunging into the many gnawholes that dotted the skaven capital. Thus was unleashed the ninth of the Thirteen Great Plagues.” Edit: oh and a small release for Clans Eshin to show them helping Belakor to try and take Ulgu from Morathi-Khaine & Malerion. That way the 4 in AoS4 could be for the 4 great clans.

“A series of devastating earthquakes has ravaged the Gnarlwood as something stirs deep below the forest surface. ” Good to see this plot-line is still going. They’ve been building on the Gnarlwoods getting ready to burst with strange energies and twisted creatures shambling out of it through several systems now including Soulbound. I wonder if that’s the reason they jumped to Andtor in UnderWorlds so soon because nobody’s gonna want to be underneath the meat forests in the very close future?

I imagine a new Maggotkin release by the 4th Dawner book. They’ve already made it abundantly clear the Nurgle forces are so nasty there they can easily take on FEC swarms and ambush the Ghyra crusade right out the gate with greater daemons and it’s only a fragment of their power. so 3rd book should deliver on the FEC refresh with their new situation in the Realms and then 4th will be the final boss fights I’m guessing.(Maggotkin for Ghyra and maybe Skaven for Aqshy) Also this has been going around regarding TOW I’m guessing the big news is just the leaked peg lord and either a TK hero or the peg lord turns out to be a dual kit like some say. (Would be funny to get exaggerated Brets news alongside actual hyped FEC news, who’s the delusion now? 🍖 🍷)

Haha, not that such a thing wouldn’t be scary too since the Phoenicium is sitting on the areas known for tree volcanoes. A sequoia there could spell your doom while preserving you in molten amber. 🌋 🍯 I think the city will be fine though. They could use it in the future with Sun-god Tyrion’s expansion and either give a CoS ally bonus with it or just use it as easy Lumineth lore expansion for them getting involved in more events outside Hysh with delegations & colonists sent under the Ur-phoenix when it revives in Hysh and returns to Ghyran.(also something something shadow falling could be Ulgu or the blind sun-king’s watch over the city) But anyway speaking of deadly trees, Drycha Hamadreth story today that seems to take place after Fort Gardus started to fall to a mix of Attack on Titan Rumbling & green big pig missile. https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/09/22/dawnbringer-chronicles-vii-wrath-of-the-forest/ Also nice the free download PtG shown off the confrontation in the Fortress city: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2023/09/21/discover-the-divine-blessings-and-dismal-setbacks-that-might-afflict-your-twin-tailed-crusade/ King Brodd spoilers so skip if that’s important to you: Interested in how King Brodd recovers from being felled. He *could* just shake it off but that was some serious head damage between all the Kharadron opening up on him and Gardus delivering the final blow ala Thor-style to the head. If dead we might see a new revive mechanic with his connection to Behemat with a respawn back in his chest bile. Behemat’s dead heart sits under the Great Green Torc which acts as a link between the Life & Death realms so would work as a focal point for Brodd’s soul to be pulled down into him before vomited up again with a deluge of life magic.

Haha, Yep! (Sorry I didn’t just use spoilers, I forgot how to do them on this site. Little frustrating every forum uses a different system for censors instead of a standard method) And I think he must have played the recent patch of Total war warhammer 3 where you can cheese Ai armies with a flyer leading them everywhere because he and his prosecutors do just that to the Destruction forces to get them away from the crusaders and then ditch the brutes entirely. 😄 edit:before that he and the redeemers basically stomp out a nasty daemon force with him one-shotting the leader(Venator’s special arrow ability) and work in tandem with the Freeguild so their mobile walls funnel Ironjawz into the Stormcast who can match them in combat better.