ShadowSwordmaster

The whole point of Death is that Nagash got rid of them all in some fashion. He is more of less the God of Death in the Mortal Realms.

I knew the elves would make the titans in AoS.

Same.

Overall, the Realm Lords are a interesting mixture of something familiar and something new when it comes to the aelves and their kin. There are not weird like the Deepkin or twisted like the Daughters of Khaine. But more of adaption of a new environment and also AoS direction of making new units.

Keep in mind that animal imagery or themes is nothing new in both the Old World and in AoS and there is overlapping with different factions. Also, Slaanesh should not have a monopoly on bovine related stuff for the most part as there is different kinds of bovines like Yaks, Bison, and so on. EDIT

https://www.warhammer-community.com/2020/03/10/revealed-at-gamagw-homepage-post-3fw-homepage-post-4/ The link to the page. Archers are Auralan Sentinels Mage hero is a Alarith Stonemage

I'm going to guess that this guy might be a Mortarch or something like that.

Considering there are references to Sigmar by other names in the video, the Soul-thief is pretty much Sigmar.

I think it has to be someone new.

I would put my money on a Soulblight or Deathrattle army or something that deal with both.

Yeah, but that does not excuse the amount of stuff that GW ripped off for Warhammer Fantasy.

They ripped that off of Tolkien. That whole Dwarf vs Elves vs Humans thing is from Toklien works in the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings.

The new death battletome will be skellies, but they are in kilts.

Yep. I glad they went the Firestorm route with this.

When I meant by the reflection of Azyr is what Stormcast look and come from for the most part. Stormcast, despite where they came from they go to Azyr and get transformed into something that can only come from that place. So maybe not that the Stormcast are a reflection of Azyrian culture, but what artwork we have of the city shows there is a small thematic connection to it because for the most part Azyr is represented by Heavans, Storms, and so on.

The problem is that we have a weird definition of what a regular human is in the mortal realms. What some people refer as a regular human is something like a foot soldier from the Empire for the most part, but that only works with the background of the Old World because it fits the theme of that world and so on. When we get to Age of Sigmar however, things have change when it comes with technology, resources, and culture. Azyr is not the Empire and we get ideas of what that culture is from the artwork and models that we have seen so far. The Stormcasts for all intense and purposes is a reflection of what Azyrian culture might be. GW is clearly anchored to the Empire models at this point and I doubt not a lot will change.

I'm surprised this thread got bumped. Again, this does not solve the problems that I have with the freeguild. This just covers it up and makes more like the Imperial Guard that some many people want than it's own thing. Basically want people want out of the Freeguild is their glorious humans holding back the dark and all of that nonsense. They want Empire 2.0 or Fantasy Imperial Guard, which I think it is the wrong direction. I think it needs more races in that army and showing that the Free Peoples is more than humans doing stuff.

I love most of this stuff.

They are not making it clear whether or not it meant to be other humans or other non-human races. Free Peoples have human and nonhuman elements in them with different factions. I pointed this out when I talk about the stuff in the Grand Alliance Order book on how they talked about the Free Peoples. This changed in the Core Book when they mention Aelves and Duardin as part of the Free Peoples directly. Yet they basically wrote the Freeguilds in the same manner as the Free Peoples in the Grand Alliance Order book. T The implication is that they are humans, but does not directly say it but the only examples of this are seeing the Empire models. This ambiguity is one of the major problems that I have with the Freeguild as a group. They are shown to be made up of humans, but the background in both Grand Alliance Order and the Core Book don't say it, but the fiction and the models have only shown human elements of the Freeguild.

You are missing the point of what I'm saying. This is about the Order faction in particular not everyone else. Maybe I should have clarified that part.

We already had this in WFB. Plus, the Empire or WFB, in general, is in no way a medieval fantasy considering what is in that game.

The problem is that the Empire models are essential the "Cadia" in this case.

I would argue that example is bad and it goes back to my point on how the Freeguilds throw humans into one faction compared to the other races that we have. That would make it worse.

I would say that Skaven will get more love than the Seraphon due to the number of people who love that faction.