Baron Klatz
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Happy to help!
For fan stories people should check the AoS hobby blogs out there.
The incredible Bushybeard's blog has some great fan fictions from the Mortal Realms.
http://extrabushybeards.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-tale-of-carnaghinians.html?m=1
http://extrabushybeards.blogspot.com/2018/05/is-it-worth-it.html?m=1
Plus his ponderings on Bloodbound & Khornites cultures is worth a look too.
http://extrabushybeards.blogspot.com/2018/10/bloodhunters-skullgatherers-or.html?m=1
(I was going to include a Deepkin story Shinros made on Dakkadakka for a Black Library competition but since he's a resident here I thought i'd best leave that up to him.)
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On 2/20/2020 at 8:29 AM, VoodooChileIRL said:
From an AoS perspective, any idea if the AoS Champions music would be worthy of inclusion on this?
Oh definitely, been playing the game since it launched and the ominous war drum music never gets old with that good beat to it.
I could see why it and Realm Wars aren't included though as with the focus being on stuff like DoW3 & Mordheim it's probably them using old assets that aren't still getting current updates and promotional material.
As part of using dead stuff I do wish they used soundtracks from the old 40k movie, those were stellar.
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Gotta one-up the Tzeentch class in the show-and-tell portion of the class.
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They'd honestly both make great Anatomy teachers. Even have all the material for a (very accurate) science class skeleton on a teacher's salary.
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I personally love the clean Realmshaper more becaise, as they said, it gives that feeling of the Starborne just landing which is full of fun narrative for the celestial beings like that mention of Ghur tribes worshipping them as gods from on high.
Also Hammerhal herald today, Jurassic park but with intelligent magic space dinos. What could go wrong?
Carnosaur's interesting saying it was an illusion like it kept flickering in and out of reality.
Might be a hint of those strange Starborne magic abilities like stuff to make mounts Ethereal.
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Awesome thread!
Though it needs the Forbidden Power stories too under the Fiction section if I'm not mistaken.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/soul-wars/
Note that under the collection they left out the "Blood Tender" story:
So if there's anymore tucked away story gems in their site that'd be helpful to point out.
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Sorry for double post but...tell me this post today wasn't worth seeing.
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You can go one step further by placing them in the Geminid Twilight realm of Uhl-Gysh that exists between Hysh and Ulgu.
That was at the end of the campaign with Bonesplitterz inhabiting that nexus and blasting me with these crazy cards that are a fusion of light and shadow.
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The wraith fleet of Aqshy and it's Soulblight captain(from the Firestorm campaign) did make an appearance in the Kharadron tome as their fleets collided.
One thing I liked was from playing AoS Champions and doing the Realm of Light campaign, half-way through it hits you with a Hysh vampire knight army that has necromancers spam light magic. That'd be a cool theme to play on in a future tome with vampires actually embracing the cleansing light and divine magic to catch "oh undead hate light" enemies off-guard.
Just now, Kramer said:The way I read it, they terraform the area around temples in the realm to inhospitable jungles. So there’s probably themy differences but that gives is it room to fit in every realm.
Yeah, i'm sure given enough time they could probably get a ashen jungle set-up to defy the lava and flames. Would make a cool theme with them using coal tribal markings to show they embrace the ashes.
But I just meant it's a nice change of scenery, they could've gone with Ghyran or Ghur for a more regular looking jungle (albeit with more flying islands or giant beasts stalking through). I'd love some more realm examples, even some crazy unforeseen ones like a jungle of bones in Shyish.
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Just now, The Brotherhood of Necros said:
From what I understand — I may well be wrong on this — the Mortarchs aren’t quite the same as those who walked before them in the world-that-was.
The way I understood it, they are Nagash’s memories made manifest, tied to him (and his will) more strongly than ever before. Nagash needed generals to lead his armies, and his memories of the Mortarchs’ victories (and some other notable characters — the Blood Dragon and Ushoran, for example) weren’t entirely dissatisfactory, and so in true Undead style he brought them back to serve him again.
I’d love if someone who knew more about this stuff could expand on it for me!
EDIT: That Seraphon artwork in the Community article is gorgeous!
Yeah, Shinros wrote about that very thing in his AoS lore summaries from interviews with Josh Reynolds since he's such a big Nagash fan he's practically a Mortarch himself.
(messaging him for more recent info would probably be a good idea on that since this info from several years back)
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/710601.page
"Question:So in a previous question you said Mannfred is not really the "original"? Or do you mean possibly did nagash revive the old mortarch's and may have changed them slightly to suit him as servants? The death tome says their bloodlines reach back beyond, far older than the age of myth. Can you explain?
Josh: Sure. Mannfred died during the End Times. So did the other Mortarchs. But all of the Mortarchs were part of Nagash (there's a reason the ancient vampires series was called 'The Blood of Nagash'...) in some fashion. They were him, and he was them. In their blood or in their souls. All are one in Nagash isn't just a boast - it's a promise.""One more question during the end times Arkhan noted when he looked upon Krell and Mannfred he saw they bore the shadow of nagash just like him. I guess neferata also going by the events by her book. Did this mark them out as "special"? Where nagash would choose them as his chief generals in aos?"
It was more that they all bore some fragment of Nagash's power within them, rather than any indication of 'special-ness'. Nagash chose them because of all the souls he was linked to, they were the most effective tools to hand, for his needs.
Think about it this way: Anyone who has been resurrected or empowered by Nagash, even at a remove (like Neferata), has some trace of him, however slight, in them, and it casts a pall over their soul. Think of him like a memetic virus - once you put on the crown of sorcery, read the books of Nagash or use the life-prolonging elixir, his shadow is on you, and you are part of him, whether you like it or not.
Sometimes you can stave his influence off, or subvert it, but in most cases, his mind and will are going to eventually overwrite your own, making you his puppet.
Nagash is all, and all are one in Nagash, remember? "So it's more accurate to say the Mortarch's were reborn in the mortal realms rather than continuations of their previous selves since Nagash reformed them from his own essence and the connection they share.
Edit: Also fully agreed on the Seraphon artwork! Having their city in the realm of fire was a brilliant contrast to their usual green jungle and blue celestial themes.
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I'm crossing my fingers so hard for big grand alliance rpgs. Playing as a knight of shrouds because my character had a falling out with the Sigimirite faith which Nagash preyed on causing an existence of doubt and regret by an otherwise just champion that still maintains order between the dead and living or even a Gargant elder wanting to find a way to resurrect Behemet or at least cure the realm of life he loved while corraling the battle-crazy orruks/players to achieve that goal would be amazing.
Also new realm of fire pics from Cubicle7:
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Well that's good to hear. Best of luck getting it all sorted out!
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Whoa, this guy's got a gruesome hobby project. He's making all the Endless Spells grotesque.
Like Purple Suns hatching Lord of Changes.
The Endless Spells being natural disasters from the realm-edges is bad enough but his sailing through the chaos realm first is a whole new nightmare.
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Oh geez, that's awful.
I guess if Hatchette don't do anything after a request you could try GW's customer service itself. They might be able to help if it's not too separate a branch from theirs.
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Just now, Overread said:Yes but in earlier stories, like Pestilens, the Slaan mage summons them new bodies into the battlefields when they are needed.
Yeah, the Seraphon tome had a part calling them "evolving memories" which works that their magic bodies would slowly change over time to where now we have two types between the Starbourne and Coalesced.
So the Slaan likely conjured Azyr forms to give the stasis bodies more time.
Species-wise this is a better survival move as the memories beginning, though gave the Slaan the power to match daemon hordes, meant each Slaan death crippled their race by thousands disappearing with him. Now they can magically spawn on their own and keep populating the heavens and realms even if the Slaan aren't around.
Just now, BrownDog said:New Artwork from Soulbound https://www.cubicle7games.com/age-of-sigmar-the-great-parch-map-reveal-2/
Gorgeous! But darn, they just put the city under "Aqshy". I wanted to know what city it was.
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Just now, michu said:
Neat that Dracothion is the one who saved the Seraphon with breathing new magical life into them. He did the same with Sigmar in the Stormcast battletome when he discovered his body floating in thr aether.
So it looks like the big split will be between Starborne which will probably be an allegiance to get their daemon stuff like bravery and Azyr bodies that explode into light while the Coalesced is their magic bodies attuned to the other realms instead but more meat behind their attacks.
Awesome!
I'm curious what they'll do in realms like Chamon and Shyish for their jungles. Sylvaneth work with duardin to grow fortresses of iron oaks & metal pines as an example in the realm of metal so seeing silvery Seraphon roaming metallic jungles would be amazing.
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Just now, Aelfric said:
I want to know if the Celestial Seraphon have souls, and, if so, how. If they do not, do the Coalesced gain souls and will a new Underworld be created to receive them. I am also looking forward to the new lore.
I'd love them to go into that! Especially after how tragic the new Flesh-Eater Court tome showed their afterlife was (before the Necroquake they had a underworld manifested from their madness actually delivered on their delusions and turned them into spirits of nobility in a afterlife of grandeur, but then Nagash was able to access it and punished them for not being loyal by removing the haven).
Getting more insight to their afterlife, if they have starlight souls or need to evolve them and how they fit in Shyish, Nagash's view(like if he just sees them as neutral or do they need Shyish Seraphon natives to maintain a special underworld to avoid him?)and even the Soul Wars would be grand.
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Just now, FFJump said:
They're flesh and blood lizards now that live in the realms and are using those shrines to spread their influence and convert the lands into Lustria-like jungles. Looks like they've updated the rules to reflect the new lore. His Bravery is also 8 now. They've removed the -1 Rend ignoring for improving the save to 3+ too, and his Command Ability gives +1 to hit for Saurus units.
Half-way, the article says they're still made of the stars and are celestial voyagers plus all the warscroll weapons are still celestial so likely they just combined Seraphon, Daemon and Celestial keywords all into just "Seraphon" since they didn't really have an effect before anyway and took up un-needed space.
Likely they'll be split between sub-factions of the star explorer Seraphon and the "Coalesced" they teased last time. The former being the star daemons made to kill chaos even upon death and the latter the Seraphon that go native and gain flesh and blood to inhabit the realms while mingling with the mortals and cities.
Very excited to see the new lore and how the Seraphon are preparing both their star constellations & ground forces for all the troubles ahead in the Soul Wars.
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Oof, only thing worse than what the cat dragged in is what it drags out.
Just now, Evangelist of Cinders said:I immediately thought of this old art
That's gorgeous! (and the moons are so fitting with the comparison
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Did you already put that in Inspirational Art? That'd be great for a Tempest city force that's either basing itself as the flying ship city of Bataar with a more rustic "Kharadron" fleet or a new city made up of floating islands like around the Tauroi archipelago skylands.
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At least they got their contents with it. I would've expected the magazines to be withheld a bit longer for the lack of payment.
Congrats on getting yours though, how are you liking them?
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Haha, now that's double-edged advice.
Also here's two cool things.
Fellow working on an ambitious project of "A.I" for AoS for solo play.
And the scrapfleet fellow with his Ironjawz proxies for Kharadron begun work on his main sky vessel.
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With Bataar being so close to Brightspear which is the focus of the Soulbound starter set it's very likely!
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I was thinking Josh Reynolds.
Just now, HorticulusTGA said:Also, note how they cut most of the part where we can see the city is flying. The artwork must have been chosen for an illustrative purpose, at least I'll trust a more recent, published campaign book over a quick campaign / FB post.
I mean they could've put it dead center and completely covered up any floating island imagery(though it'd probably get confused with Hammerhal then).
Fair enough though, we can wait for more info to see whether or not it's a placeholder. I always just took it as a flying industrial city that harvested the lands below which is what let it gain dominance in Ghyran since the living forests and flora couldn't consume it like everything else that doesn't have magic walls or Aqshy lava protecting it.
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Just now, HorticulusTGA said:
No, a canonnades cannot create mountain ranges and volcanoes like this.
That's because they used tons of destructive magic and macro-sized magical war machines.
And that image is commonly used all over Seeds of Hope with GF.
However i'll agree to wiki accuracy so we'll wait for more information.
What I suspect though is that may be the Stormfort of the Hammers of Sigmar that helped found the city and it grew out from the shadows of the fortress' safety as many new cities did with their stormforts to become the industrial complex it is now.
Balewind Vortex getting Squatted?
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Weird they never put it up in Last Chance.
I'd like it back but with so much new terrain, scenery and Endless Spells being pumped out already i'm not shocked older kits fall through the cracks.
Hopefully they release a 2.0 version when the lore focus swings back around to Chaos on the attack again.