Thread 96335835

"Ol' Slaanesh Had a Farm" edition

>Previously, in the Mortal Realms
>>96323973

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>Thread question:
What do you imagine civilian life for your faction to be like?

>TQ
My Kruleboyz cut off arms and legs of captured people and then bet who'll crawl away the furthest

>TQ
>What do you imagine civilian life for your faction to be like?
>Disciples of tzeentch
They’re likely trying to get other people to be pyrophilists while undercover.

>>96335835 (OP)
Depends on who you are.
Human makes spend a lot of time in the breeding pits

>>96335833
>>96335842
If it makes you feel any better 3e had a piece of very similar fluff with a more positive spin on it.

>>96335835 (OP)
>tq
Wake up, pray to Morathi, farm, greet elf-wife at temple with care package, watch her murder a chaos worshipper, kiss her goodnight, go home, sleep, repeat.

>>96335874
Seems idyllic in a way.
>>96335868
I imagine incels would benefit from this at least.

>TQ
Tree

>>96335890
It's not like humans are allowed in the army, so the service to the nation must be carried out in infrastructure and logistics.
Also I should get an Alarielle before prices increase again.

>>96335835 (OP)
Wet and surrounded by NPCs

>>96335835 (OP)
>TQ
There literally isn't any. The SCE's basically do nothing but fight, train, and sometimes work in logistics or occupations.

>>96335931
Many of them have hobbies and active social lives you know.

>>96335835 (OP)
>TQ
Either Great Plan-ordained daily labor or mindless skeleton labor

>>96335951
Yeah, but it's not "civilian". My dad played D&D when he was in the army, didn't make him a civilian it was just a thing he'd spit out when he had thirty minutes to kill.

>>96335868
Every man must do his duty to ensure a steady supply of Scathborn for Her Grand Army.
A lot better now than when sneks had to use glamor to pretend to be elves.

>>96335972
Aren't there normal people under stormcasts who do menial work for them?

>>96336019
Didn’t it get the 9/11 treatment

>>96336009
Ohh yeah, I guess they'd count.
So, SCE civvy life is the life of a pit crew, but more religiously significant. I guess.

>>96336028
Having a stormcast gf would be utter shit.

>>96336047
The real play is a loli vampire GF

>>96336070
Vampires are the only ones shown to actually hold good relationships in Fantasy, and not even with other vampires so you're on to something.

>>96336110
Behold, the most loving and healthy relationship in all Warhammer settings.

So I've been listening to Covens of Blood recently. There's an aelf that had a child with a human. It\s said that it's shameful and scandalous, but it happens now and then.

>>96336149
There's also Kattarin the bloody and her fat Russian poet and Genevieve and her fat German poet.
Vampires like a certain type.

>>96336164
Crossbreeding is a thing in AOS? Weird since GW has gone pretty out of their way to make it not possible in 40k and Fantasy.

>>96336176
>Crossbreeding is a thing in AOS?
Apparently.

>>96335872
kinda, but not really. >>96335892
i want to get into stormcast, but people's habit of projecting straight onto the faction puts me on defense.

>>96336176
>and Fantasy
Where do you think half-elves in Warhammer came from?

>>96336202
There were no half-elves in Fantasy beside some really old stuff like Gilead's Blood. It's the way of GW to retcon certain things, don't mention it anywhere. Half-elves were phased out.

>>96336216
Not being mentioned doesn't mean they're not still canon. It's just not relevant to whatever the plot of the story at hand is.
Kinda how the wanderer prince couldn't have a child with his human wife but the DoK just have to deal with half-elves as just a thing that happens.

>>96335874
Lovely life.

>>96335890
Nah, incels cum isn't as high quality. So everyone is forced to undertake a strict physical fitness routine, strength is highly valued in DoK society as is martial prowess.

>>96335994
For Scathborn they just need to extract semen, so use particular techniques for it. >>96336164 lots of elves prefer extracting it naturally however as per Covens Of Blood

I've fallen for Gitmob. How fucked am I?

>>96336176
Half aelves have only popped up in that story, but when they turned the Prince Maesa shorts into a novel they also explicitly altered the reason his wanderer clan exiled him for his relationship with a human woman, changing it from “you can’t have kids, and that means your relationship is an abomination to alarielle and the cycle of life” to more standard racism and focus on his position as a king, which implies they could actually have had a kid. It’s worth noting covens of blood doesn’t actually say what species the father is, just that he isn’t an aelf

Half ogors are a big thing thatve appeared a bunch of times though, their other half has also never been explicitly mentioned but it’s pretty obviously implied to be human given the context of how they show up.

>>96336493
Reminder racism in Fantasy was the point a dark elf father considered the sons he had with a wood elf woman to be inferior halfbreed mongrels and hardly people.
So no wonder half anythings are rare in Fantasy while the more cosmopolitan AoS ends up having to deal with them.

>>96336176
It's just further proof that AoS is modern audience slop. One best parts of wfb/40k was that all the half-breed shit got trimmed out once the settings became more distinct. It also helps enforce separation between factions which lends itself well to a wargame. If they can't interbreed there's no peace and love option. Not mention halfies are cringe mary sue shits who get played by people who like to eat their cake and have it too.

>>96336431
You're going to zog.

>>96336514
Meanwhile in reality half races are still a thing in Fantasy.

>>96336508
>reminder racism in Fantasy was the point a dark elf father considered the sons he had with a wood elf woman to be inferior halfbreed mongrels and hardly people.
Lmao, I played a dark elf noble in wfrp at one point who helped humans against wood elves simply because he considered them an embarrassment to elven kind and figured they deserved whatever they got for not being real elves. The humans were enslaved afterwards because that's what their there for, of course.

>>96336514
That's funny cuz half-races exist in fantasy.

>>96336548
No they're not, unless chaos is involved. All that shit was cut out by 4e. And don't @ me with Gilead's blood or some other ultramarine-chief-librarian-tier fossil lore from prehistory.

>>96336570
Already answered you, samefag.>>96336575

>>96336581
That's a diferent anon you rrplied, and the "Chaos is involved" doesn't change the fact that they exist even if it's abysmally low.

>>96336514
boo hoo nigga who cares, go get raped and have your child be a half elf

>>96336593
Chaos being involved means they're unnatural abominations that need to be killed with fire, so it's fine. At least it mirrors the real world in the latter aspect.

I'm thinking of starting AoS because I notice more girls play it.

>>96336612
AOS has better, more interesting, and more diverse models. 40k is full of Marine slop and sometimes an actually interesting faction gets some new models. I say this as a big Blood Angels fan
There's probably at least 2 armies in AOS that will catch your eye. But no girls will talk to you.

>>96336611
>Goes into a KluKluxKlan tangent

>>96336575
AoS is a sequel to a Fantasy plot line. So simply being, half races exist in Fantasy since they exist in its continuation.
Also how about that half elf hooked the dwarf slayer fucks in one of the Gotrek and Felix books? It's not that deep.

>>96336612
It's a great plan if you're fine with a girlfriend (male), but make no mistake: AoS is just as much of a sausage fest as every other GW game.

>>96336602
I can't get raped by an elf if I marry her and consent to her advances.
Gotta think ahead anon.

>>96336646
>Also how about that half elf hooked the dwarf slayer fucks in one of the Gotrek and Felix books?
Are we taking things the retard (with nails literally hammered into his head) said as fact now?

>>96336665
you're not suggesting to doubt snorri now are you

>>96336669
I love Snorri, but the dwarf is a few nuggets short of a hoard. It's been over a decade since I read the books, pretty sure he doesn't even remember why he became a slayer because of the aforementioned nails in his skull.

>>96336665
Yes.
You're making a mountain out of a molehill if the existence of half races as a possible thing in a setting ruins it for you.

They don't want you to know this but humans are actually half-elf-half-dwarf

>>96336697
Thats just a asian

>>96336693
It ruins it because it's one of the few things James did that was actually original. Every other fantasy setting has halfies and it's just shitty coombait. Deliberately not having them is the exception not the rule.

>>96336697
Better than the actual Canon answer of "long ago autistic space frogs made a bunch of things because shut up, then their cars spawned demons and they made halflings and ogres for some reason then fucked off to space except the ones that forgot they are the old ones and now larp as Aztecs because Tenochtitlan kicks ass. Also aliens. Pygmies are aliens with laser guns".

>>96336710
>except the ones that forgot they are the old ones
Thay was confirmed to not be the case by GW, they even made a point of showing it off when they released the bastilodon; specifically highlighting that the firing mechanism was built for 5 fingered hands, not the four fingered hands the skinks have.

>>96336633
>>96336648
Well it's wishful thinking. I'm starting this anyway cause I don't like 40k rn. Think I'll do Slaanesh cause I already have a lot of daemon models for them.

>>96336741
>Slaanesh
Godspeed, anon. You'll do just fine.

>>96336741
Slaanesh has some great stuff in AOS. An actual glutton in Glutos Orscollion

>>96336612
The nurses at my workplace picked up spearhead.
Tho they are oddballs, so probably not the ideal stereotype.

>>96336643
I resent that, they considered you-know-who White and believed in democracy, I would never associate with those progressives.

Tournament ends up with FEC taking first. Ghoul anons stand and take notice! I averaged 73 points a game, and generally walked over my opponents.

>>96336879
who ares the MVPs?

>>96336879
>Tournament ends up with FEC taking first. Ghoul anons stand and take notice! I averaged 73 points a game, and generally walked over my opponents
Delusion or real ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>96336882
Big Ush, horrors, and haunter did amazing all three games. But an infernal and a flayer unit did scream like 25 rats to death in one turn.

>>96336741
Nice should be cool and fun anon nice to have you. While it is insanely male dominated, we do have about as many women play AoS at our club as Magic. 40k there is 1 woman (man) and that's it. Although most of these chicks are married to a doctor, an engineer, and some trades guy.

>>96336879
Nice

>>96336508
>dark elves are dicks
Isn’t that the point

>>96336970
No, wfb elves are dicks as a rule. Dark Elves take it to its logical conclusion. That's the difference between good and evil elves and that's why they're better than in most other settings. The debate isn't "are other races people?" it's "is animal cruelty acceptable?"

>>96336990
>Dark Elves take it to its logical conclusion
There’s nothing logical about a society built upon indiscriminate cruelty to the point nearly everyone is ready to turn on each other at a dime. Where even familial bonds only serve to increase the cost to two dimes or be the basis of an incredibly manipulative and toxic relationship

>>96337047
>how to entirely ignore the actual point while acting morally superior about fantasy ethics

When I first started painting Khorne models, I avoided the bloodreavers because I don't like hordes, but now that I've painted them, I'm starting to find them kind of cute. It's kind of funny seeing these little chuds walking around with the much bigger armored guys, so now I always put a slaughterpriest to keep them company.

>>96337069
I like how they wear little chaos warrior helmets. They're like LARPers.

>>96337069
I kinda wish they all had the bunny ear helmets, but I understand that if they all had them that they would look way too close to Blood warriors similar to the bloodbowl team

>>96336879
big surprise they've been busted the majority of the armies existence.

>>96337103
First, second and early third disagree.

>>96337117
no they don't, the 2e book was one of the most broken things ever released.

>>96337056
No, he has a point. Dark elves are just melniboneans and edgy to such absurdity it becomes funny. That's kinda the point.

Has anyone painted stainedglass nighthaunt or is it too psychotic of an idea on a whole army?

>>96337152
Is this something you've seen before? Sounds cool.

Should I batch paint 4 blood warriors, or get started on this Skullcrusher next? I was thinking black for the juggernaut
>>96337069
>>96337087
>>96337090
NTA but I got the vanguard recently. It's a decent value, it's about to go OOP for all we know, and I really like the mortal models over the demons (demons are alright).

I thought "ah fuck time to paint these 90 point bloodreavers" thinking they'd be like the new 40k cultists, but they're actually really easy to finish and lots of fun. They come from an era where most kits had interchangeable arms and heads and even some pieces of flair like skulls and trophies that you can just glue on anyone or anything. The simplicity and lack of uniformity in the rag-tag horde allows for more freedom in your painting. You can really mix and match your stocky chibi-berzerkers. the skin is also easy with some off-white and a flesh wash or contrast paint.

I had to use this derpy slasher-movie knife that came in the kit.

>>96337359
>50% bare skin
>No freehand tats
weak

>>96337376
NTA but reavers are small as fuck to try that.

>>96337376
these guys exist to die. they're khorne chaff akin to clanrats and stabbas. they have shit armor saves and damage but they're cheap. It's just not time efficient or worth it to freehand any tattoos.

I also tend to equate Khorne with ritual scarification and horn/spike mutations rather than tattoos or writing

>>96337383
Meanwhile, historical boomers with smaller figures.

>>96337410
hey i did something similar on this DnD goliath I painted for an old teacher of mine. I was afraid of freehand but the celtic-ish blue tattoos were pretty easy

hey so why are the DoK considered an Order member when they worship a murderkill god and offer blood bowls and summon blood snakes?

>>96337432
In warhammer what gods don’t demand blood from their worshippers

>>96337432
>hot
>sexy
>half naked elven women
>with monstergirls
Also something about hating chaos.

>>96337432
They hate Chaos, hate destruction and hate death.
They live in ordered and structured societies of civilization

>>96337383
Eh, a good, sharp size 1 or 2 sable and some Payne's Gray would handle it just fine. The real question is if anon cares enough to do tattoos on chaff even if it's not actually very hard.

>>96337432
That doesn't matter at all. They're opposed to Chaos, not under Nagash's thumb, and build civilization rather than destroying it, so they're Order.

Do stormcast have a way to make liberator spam good

>>96337501
Thunderhead Host

>>96336023
Not Mhornar

>>96337410
Those are victrix transfers on victrix gallic naked fanatics. They're transfers tailor made for those shield shapes and sculpts

>>96337547
HE MEANT THE FUCKING TATTOOS YOU SPEEDREADER

>>96337547
I'm talking about the woad, smartass. Since anon is saying the massive 32mm figures are too small to paint tattoos onto.

>>96337563
Those are the same brands transfers that's just a different pack. They have 4 different ones

>>96337563
Hehe penis

>>96337621
>tfw no Khainite fanatics, sky clad elven women with I dunno great-axes
It sucks dude.

>>96337635
Should have greatswords

>>96337174
No just a random idea i had to make nighthaunts more interesting.

>>96337152
>>96337730
Years ago I saw someone paint stormcast in a bunch of different colours like that, looked very crystalline. I think if any army could make it work it's ghosts. Probably requires a lot more effort than nigthaunt usually do though, at least to get it to look good.

How is Zombie spam? I have 3 full units (120) and a Revenant Draconith.
Love me zombie hordes

>>96337964
The only thing good with the dead walker tag are the dogs

>>96337964
140pts for a ball of 20 wounds that do mortals back on a 6+ when they die isn’t terrible, but they don’t have a huge amount of synergy with anything like skeletons do, and they’re slow as hell

>>96338055
Skeletons aren't good. Zombies with corpse carts will kill you back.

>>96335892
what

Is there an archive for the white dwarfs from the last 10 years?
>>96338201
some retard in a bait thread said something stupid. moving on.

anyone have the link for the 3e cities tome?

>>96336019
Imagine the smell in those boats

>>96338288
That hasn't come out yet. Maybe it will come out in the 5th edition.

>>96338289
It smells like a man, a short, hairy, alcoholic, and super greedy man.

>>96338378
That hasn't come out yet. Maybe it will come out in the 5th edition.

My mistake bro, sorry, here's the link.

filescatboxmoe slash z6tv39pdf

Any idea when the links to the new Battletomes that have come out will come out?

>>96338406
No.

>>96338409
kek

How would one go about making a Prince Maesa model? I'm thinking Eternal Guard legs, wild rider helmet, any generic bow and quiver would do, but I can't seem to find any model with the right kind of torso and arms that fits the scale of the EG and WR.

>>96338441
Wasn't he dressed more or less like some Welf hero model?

>>96338462
In the old art they recycled the Nomad Prince art, yeah. But once we got proper art of him here >>96338441 or in Hungerfiend he looked more unique.

>>96338441
does anyone have his novels in a bin? Also is that the only story where the spites that wood elves have ever get featured?

>>96338485
They pop up in the Orion Trilogy of WFB but they're not the main focus, more just background things.

And here you go! It's my favourite AoS book by far so enjoy it.

https://files.catbox.moe/4j5b9l.epub

>>96338491
>https://files.catbox.moe/4j5b9l.epub
thanks

>>96338485
They pop up here and there but they've never been a point of focus. I think the most major presence they've had in anything Warhammer is in a couple splatbooks for WFRP where they appear as evil little gremlins.

>>96338441
We seriously need more Wanderer/Wood aelf lore in AoS.
I've got my fingers and balls crossed that the Kurnothi stuff we've been getting lately means they'll get a full release eventually and my need for Welfs can be scratched at last.

>box called Spitewood
>contains no Spites

>>96338534
You now remember Warhammer Adventures

>>96338559
Christ, they're is literally nothing Chorf about those new models. How the fuck do you make a dwarf and remove his beard??? Why do they look like ogors wearing vampire fangs. The fucking centaurs from the NPC faction mog them hard

>>96338576
>Why do they look like ogors wearing vampire fangs.
I can't recall if it's got to do with their practicing of sorcery or with their connection to Hashut. In any case, back in WHFB it was common for chorfs to develop tusks. Like their gradual petrification it was another one of those physical signs of their corruption.

>>96338576
Reddit is down the hall and to the left

>>96338552
There's really not much Wood Elf stuff for AoS sadly, but what we do have ain't too bad. Maesa is fantastic, and Dark Harvest is... flawed but enjoyable.

The Warden in the Mountain (Short Story - Conquest Unbound Anthology)
Chains of Fate (Short Story - Direchasm Anthology)
The Roots of Death (Short Story - Direchasm Anthology)
The Hunter's Quarry (Short Story - Untamed Realms Anthology)
The Call of the Hunt (Short Story - White Dwarf 494)
Dawnbringer Chronicles - Spring the Trap (Short Story - No Anthology)
Prince Maesa
Dark Harvest

>>96338576
>his
anon....

Maesa 1st died prior to the Battle of Burning Skies, right?
So he bscially needs a briefing wtf Chaos is every time he comes back

>>96338576
Like what you like and hate what you hate but I think they look fucking amazing and I legit can't wait to get my hands of 'em.

>>96335994
That's not how Scathborn are created, they are explicitly made from Morathi's portion of the recaptured self souls. They don't naturally reproduce (she couldn't do as good of a job as Teclis). Normal witch aelves reproduce naturally but is there even proof a human/elf coupling produces an elf?
> Edit
Why the FUCK do I have to wait 2 FUCKING minutes to make a post?

>>96336612
> I play AoS for the woman
This anon is in for disappointment (also 99% of those 'women' are men)

>>96337117
> Second
Lol oh so you didn't actually play in second.
They were so fucking busted a dude who had never played AoS take the tournament FEC list to a 30-50 person UK event and went 4 and 1.

>>96337152
The textures of the Nighthaunt don't really seem 'stained glass' to me but hey if you are a good enough painted to pull it off, post your stuff here when you are done

>>96337563
> Sculpted heavy bush and micro penis
Historically accurate for Br*tish? Jamie post that pic about the queer sucking br*tish penis and then including '40k' to keep the post 'topical'

>>96338409
Kek

>>96338644
they look cool, im interested. kinda want to see the rules first though. i've been suckered into buying great model ranges before only to be stuck with a decade of dogshit rules

>>96338713
Ah, another Nighthaunt player I see.

>>96337563
I want to use these for Wanderers

If you give me a link to a download of the Beastgrave audiobook, I will lick whatever body part you desire for 3 minutes.

>>96338774
This art mogs the shit out of both models/armies holy shit

>>96338788
I fucking love the art of that cover, yeah.

how does seraphon play these days?

Do we have the full battletome scans for FEC or Nighthaunt? The lore not just gameplay?

>>96338841
Señor vitriolico
>>96338924
Pretty honest and straightforward. Some objective play with hunters of huanchi. Rely kind of on aggradons for damage. They're not that great atm, but still sorta fun.

>>96338952
Probably won't appear until release, GW doesn't send it out early to people interested in the fluff

>>96338889
I remember we got this for Stormcast eternals in their 1st tome and then never ever again

>>96338952
i am still looking for Deepkin and Khorne

Do we know anything about what's beyond the realms and the cosmos they're placed in ? *Is* there even anything that exists outside of picrel ?

>>96339077
Outside of the Aetheric Void, aka magic space, we know very little. Iirc there was a quote of a random chaos worshipper that claimed there was bigger shit than the chaos gods out there.

>>96338952
Knowing Nagash's relation with the Skaven im kinda curious to know what he's up to with thhe whole Vermindoom thing around, haven't heard much from him or his forces other than just seeing them show up to harass chaos
>>96339069
Im pretty sure they are out but I haven't found any scans of them on google...

Does anyone have a link to some scans of the 4th edition battletomes? Me and my friends are just getting into AoS and we want to see what's up with the options we have, all of the ones im finding from a basic google search are from 3rd ed

Finally coming bsck from the woods, my fucking deathrattle box shows up RIGHT AFTER the 4 hour fucking drive north. Soon... soon I will have my skeletons.

>>96338952
Has there been any big lore bits in the new books? Wouldn't it just be "Ushorann had some rats showed up and he killed/ate them" actually I guess the leak had that little Fellgryn bit and that was fantastic.

>>96339164
4th edition books are mostly new thanks to the new in-universe perspectives

>>96339104
Cool, thanks. Also heard some vague mention about chaos keeping busy conquering other worlds before discovering mortal realms, but I can't find it anymore.
>>96339154
Lmao rough one, sorry anon.

>>96339077
some characters swear they have seen the veil at the edge of the cosmos, and that said veil has holes in it through which poke rays of light, and that there are huge things swimming out there, visible only because they block said lights while they pass by, things that make the chaos gods look like children.

If my understanding of what happened in the end times is halfway correct, this bubble of reality formed inside the warp around the bits and bobs engulfed by chaos, making it effectively not dissimilar to any other universe, born in whatever other way, linked to the warp, and that said big swimmers are other deeper warp entities that unlike the gods happen to be uninvolved/uncaring towards the physical worlds.
Otherwise we must assume it is a bubble in the same reality the old world was, just somehow isolated from the rest of it.
But in practical terms, it's still effectively a new isolated universe either way.

>>96339173
I enjoy nature, and it's nice and all. But I've been hyped for this shit for awhile now.

>>96338924
The most honest they have been since the release of AoS, but Kroak still has bullshit

>>96339123
Nagash doesn't remember the end times and I'm not sure he fully processed their involvement in malign portents given the chaos gods were mocking him

>>96339201
I would enjoy a Nagash or Archaon duo book again like soul wars.

>>96339173
>but I can't find it anymore.
it was mostly from the very early fluff of the first edition, mainly the everchosen battletome

>>96339077
Tyranids

>>96338952
full scans take months after release, usually.

>>96339180
Thanks for the writeup, that's pretty cool. Do like the implication of warp entities that don't really give a shit about what's going on in the material realm, I guess it's kind of like us getting invested in the politics of an anthill to them.
>>96339234
Appreciate the reference, glad to see I didn't hallucinate it. Cheers.

Follow-up question :
What's going on in the void between realms, should I picture it as essentially outer space? I know there's lizard ships, and the bad moon and shit, but are there comets and whatnot shooting about ? I assume the stars are in azyr and not the void ? Does anything live there ? I seem to remember it being anti-magic but I might be confusing that with something else.

>>96339077
In the Aetheric Void outside there was a chaos god that mention how there are massive gods akin to the chaos gods but older bigger & "they don't play with their food"

then in a white dwarf article they mention of there the possibility of other realities and worlds something Slannn possibly know but they wouldn't give up said secretes. We know other realities do kind of exist just from Archaon backstory of conquest during the age of myth and the one Slaanesh hero who in love with the demonette model he was said to have come from a world neither the TOW or AOS

So is Radhukar dead? Did Nagash Mortarch him? Have we gotten any new possible mortarchs or updates for the death gang?

>>96339234
>wars within the realm of chaos
so he never got out of the realm of chaos, there are people living in worlds in parts of the realm of chaos.
Reminds me of this Horus heresy comic where they enter the warp and the are celestial bodies in there.

>>96339340
Nagash saved him from the nadir at the end of cursed city?

>>96339234
Soul Wars also states that for an age Nagash and Sigmar fought off terrors from the void

>>96339340
At the end of Cursed City Nagash showed up to grab him by the collar and disappeared. He's been spotted since but it's been left ambiguous whether it's actually him or just an echo or something.

What are we thinking for the sunday preview, anything on the table for us?
Chorfs are too far out but I could see them dropping the underworlds stuff earlier. That is how the leakers said we'd first get chorfs after all.
That being said, I think it's more likely to be 40k stuff since we got ghouls and ghosts for preorder just now. Maybe the new tow egyptians and the aj ?

>>96339542
We just got 40k and AoS weeks, so TOW or some other sidegame seems likely.

Since Death currently has the fewest factions, do we think that they might get a new faction at some point? Right now most of the aspects of death are pretty well covered with ghosts, bones, ghouls, and classic vampires/necromancy. There is the possibility of adding Frankenstein abominations, but I feel like that could also be at home in Soulblight.
I was also thinking of what else Soulblight could reasonably get that they don't already have filled out. They have basic zombies, basic and elite skeletons, skeleton and vampire cav, some big monsters, and a bunch of different hero options. Some patchwork corpses would add nicely to the "fleshy" part of the faction with the zombies. Or they could just release more kits with different aesthetics or something.

>>96339587
YO HO THE BLOOD RUNS COLD

>>96339599
Easily the worst, most forced and cringe faction warhammer ever got.

>>96339587
soon....

>>96339357
Holy shit, while looking through the archives I happened upon drawings and names of demons I was making up 9 years ago
I know for a fact that for all of these names I had background and designs, even if not always put on paper, but I have absolutely no recollection of what the fuck some of these were

>>96339587
I don't think they really need more factions, soulblight is effectively 3 factions in one, so they could just expand on those whenever they need to make some new big wave that's not about ghouls, ghosts or ossiarchs

>>96339587
Id prefer if they would give the smaller death ranges proper new waves. Especially OBR feels small.

>>96339617
very cool. I wish range expansion was at all on GWs mind. even with just "noncomp" datasheets with a description of the model. I feel like there's so much more that could be in the factions.
any idea what the fuck a bloodbridge is in the khorne section though?

>>96339712
I'm assuming it's just valkia but turned into a generic unit made up of winged she-demons of khorne
I'm now rebooting an old pc to see if I can find whatever text file I dumped this stuff into
I need to know what I was thinking with "madapantis court", "suujaws" and "woomers"

>>96339587
Sure, some type of "reanimator" faction that plays around with stitching corpses from different species together and animating them could be fun. Grotesque flesh-beasts, humanoids with grafted monster parts, fliers with wings made of flayed skin, that sort of thing.

>>96338576
Why are so many posters complaining about the teeth when that's literally always been a chorf thing???

>>96339340
He survived and is looking for a new crib

>>96339687
I would prefer Soulblight to just be expanded rather than adding a new faction. Ignoring my bias towards them as my favorite death faction, adding a new faction would probably dilute them since Death already has the three fundamental parts of undeath (ghosts, bones, and flesh) while Soulblight is more of the generalist/classic necromancy. Adding something along the lines of Patchwork Men from Fantasy would be a cool way to make something of a zombie Wight King equivalent and expand the zombie section of the faction.
But personally I'd like just more flavors of skeletons, wights, and wight kings. Different armor and weapon styles to make them look more diverse, maybe a straight wizard/lich option.

Anyone have any examples or tutorials of stone tile bases? I'm looking to make some castle interior bases.

>>96339587
Vcoast is always an option, as well as just expanding the zombie range within sbgl (although sbgl is massive already, probably better to focus on obr and fec first), you could add the lady of flesh and other frankenstein adjacent stuff. Gib obr samurai.
>>96339617
This is really cute, I used to do the same thing back in first edition. Had a concept for kharadeon that was surprisingly similar to the new vongrimm stuff. Do you remember what the madapantis court in slaanesh is about ? I like the name.
>>96339760
I don't get it either, it's also in total war so it's not even (purely) a secondary thing. It's one of the few things about chorfs that hasn't changed.

>>96338646
Here's the problem with that anon, when Morathi ascended to Godhood she broke the cauldron that makes them so she can't make any more of them. They have to come out the old fashioned way now.

>>96339988
imagine if Sigmar's master plan was to cripple Morathi's power base and then kill her with the justification of the looming civil war within Khanites
Morathi could become an avatar of her former self summoned to life like Khaine statues instead
Nothing cool happens in AoS so it's just a plothole how Sigmar tolerated genocide

My LGS still has a box of savage orruks

>>96340073
ship them to me for my thanks and rrp ;)

How good are Duardin in a fist fight.

>>96340080
depends. you need to be fast and use your own reach against them, but you wont knock one over easily.

>>96338646
>but is there even proof a human/elf coupling produces an elf?
not really, the only cases of half elves in warhammer are in one retconned instance of a half eldar in rogue trader, and one warhammer fantasy book that had a boy that was the son a woman had with an elf, but he passed completely as a human to other people, including to the elf protagonist, who too thought such union was downright impossible
I seem to recall something about said half elf being cursed to the long life of an elf, but the normal aging of a human

in any case, if possible, the chances are null to nonexistent, we're talking about two different species, hybridisation between different species are known to occur in very few isolated occasions (I think the most interesting recent discovery was of fox-dogs hybrids in South America?), but it's definitely not something as viable or common like your average fantasy setting where there's mystery meat player characters with ancestry from 13 different lineages including fey, demonic, draconic and undead

>>96340118
Now this is cool. Wonder where I can use this for an aos army

>>96340118
God I wish they would have made a new Preyton. I always hated that sculpt and thought that it didn't do the art justice.

>>96340118
There isn't anything AoS related this week

>>96340129
Spawn of Chotec?

>>96340129
CoS gargoyle alt?

>>96340155
what?

>>96340129
Count each as 2 Hearthguard

>>96340129
They were definitely intended as razoordons for us.

>>96340257
razordons don't exist anymore and they barely have any sort of spine to shoot

>>96339587
Might be just me being a bit too big on chinese culture but a undead spiritual sucessor to Cathay (the same way FeC are to Bretonnians) consisting of nobleless zombie peasants with heavy eastern characteristics fawning over themselves for Nagash specifically as the ultimate undead bugman would go hard

>>96340347
>FeC are to Bretonnians
readdit headcannon cringe

>>96340371
I didn't mean actual canon "this happened in the setting", just themes and similarities with another faction of crazed and excessive chivalry. It's fun to see them go zombie quixote like that

>>96340118
Huh, didn't cathay already get their arcane journal? Are these not their battletome-equivalents, or do they work differently ?
>>96340257
Not nearly spiky enough imo. Would like the razordon to return someday, would be perfect as an underworlds warband or something. Skink handler and three of the little bastards.
>>96340347
>>96340371
Eh I mean they're two factions all about chivalry and shit. I don't think they were intended as a parallel but over time they ran with it.

>>96340371
Maybe if you "readdit" you'd see that he didn't say they ARE Bretonnians.

>>96340421
Yes, they have armies of renown, new units and fluff. You can see how this doesn't prohibit having more than one per army? It's the end game campaign books we get but more focused rather than an assortment of expansions for random armies each book.

has no one used the harbinger of decay for a FEC hero? Seems easy to fill in the gaps from clipping the legs off if you throw a skin caparison

>>96340532
ive seen him converted into wight lord on horse

>>96340421
The first journal for Cathay was equivalent to the Forces of Fantasy rules the other good armies got, basic rules, no frills. 2nd Journal is for the new fun toys like more magic items and alternate army builds. And milking the fans of course, but the arcane journals are all tiny 40-50ish page books, they probably legitimately couldn't squeeze in everything for Cathay without making a double sized Journal anyway.

>>96340532
I did the opposite and used a bunch of FEC models for my daemons

Man double turns can be turned into something more fluffy but I’m not experienced in the game enough to figure that homebrew out.

>>96340105
Except elves, humans, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, ogres, etc all were made by the old ones so them being able to interbreed is only logical.

>>96340647
Who would willingly breed with an ogor

>>96340421
I think it's a good way to bring old world factions back without the need to go through the baggage of explaining how they survived the end times, how they got to the mortal realms, stormcast memory loss shit and so on and so forth. Just something that doesn't amount to just bringing a faction back whole sale but just very small parallels that can make your head scratch for .5 seconds, they don't need to be related just a little similar.

>>96340663
Someone into fat chicks.

>>96340160
The critter that comes with the CoS command squad.

>>96340160
Cute little fella whose like a dog if a dog was a deformed dragon from a shitty medieval painting

>>96340663
The same people who breed with Americans

>>96340663
Everyone in Aos has a state mandated gf. Some draw the short end of that stick.

>>96340663
Could you say no to this face if she asked for snu-snu?

;_;7

>>96340817
>DO A FLIP

>>96340775
I gotta wonder if they'll have ogres adopt actual onis in aos or if they're just gonna keep the mongolian/euorpenis features.

>>96340775
>order ogre, after several millennia of human cohabitation

>>96340775
>>96340866
>>96340871

>Piccolo's Dick
You can tell the AOSG is going to be shit when this faggot opens it
>TQ
They do whatever the Hell they want. They're giants, who's going to stop them?

>>96341002
If ogressess looked like that then half-ogres would make a lot more sense.

>>96340995
There's a goldilocks zone. You don't want to become a skinny city slicker, but you also don't want to leave the community too far behind and become whatever the hell yhetees are.

>>96341013
Those are giants anon...
Do you think you can get that thing pregnant?

>>96341139
BY HOLY SIGMAR I'LL TRY

>>96340684
isnt it on a 25mm base? those lizards are way too big. I thought i missed a CoS unit thats a living gargoyile city gate guardian

>>96340663
>willingly breed with an ogor
why would it have to be willingly?

>>96340817
The obsession with using full faction names is annoying desu. Why not just refer to them as Kharadrons? Same for LRL

>>96338576
>his beard
You're so close

>>96340647
so were ogres and lizardmen and treemen and jokaeros and weird creatures that look like slugs with funny eyes

that's not a very good line of thinking

>>96341159
I hope they expand on gargoyles model and lore wise.

When will the lizards get sauropods?

>>96341301
Next time oil (and by extension plastic) prices drop.

Gotta say, the Vrykos named vamps are pretty fuckin' good. Volga being wizard 2, babby volga being 1, fucking Annika having a stupid amount of attacks at good damage, Kritza...? Can I attack and then run away or am I fucking up combat order.

>>96340995
eatings good

>>96341301
I don't think they will
I think they will get a coatl as manifestation, an updated and upscaled stegadon, and a special character on bigger rex

>>96341355
>Vrykos named vamps
that's all of the vyrkos vamps

>>96341389
There used to to be the little 3 man squad but I think they got nuked.

>>96341367
>lanklet
>no gut
ogres are made for big meals in-between long fasts and big marches, not multiple small meals and sedentary lifestyles in warm homes

>>96341367
>>96341404
>Good posture
>Taller
>Leaner
>Proper eating habits
Civilization has domesticated the ogor

>>96339617
Keeper with Feminine Minotaur traits?
Or is that too Khorne?

>>96339587
I love death aesthetics but I don't want this. I'd rather they expand fec or obr, or even expand some deathrattle stuff.

If they had that stuff down they could possibly split the vamp dynasties into Soulblight being a more traditional generic one with zombies, and Vyrkos taking skeletons (since they share the same aesthetic) and focusing on werewolves + deathrattle + other perversions of nature or slavic legends. I wouldn't even mind if they retcon vyrkos to be different from the soulblight curse.

Rushing out the door and wanted to slightly attempt thr scheme. I'm fucking with it

>>96341139
Harry Potter showed us man can get a giantess pregnant.

>>96339587
I remember, I was there anon. Now this time I'm not gonna post 34-san zombie smut.

But I don't know if Death needs another faction unless it feels suitably NEW or different. I'd rather they expand OBR and FEC before something like a big ol' zombie wave happens. I do like SBGL but I feel like they have a nice bit of everything wherein the other factions could use a few extra kits that I think would help scratch that itch too.

>>96341443
The effects of human culture are inarguable.

>>96341536
I'm retard

Would a Cities of Sigmar army that worships a lesser, local god seem too stupid to you Anons? I'm working out an idea I had.

>>96341606
I don't see why not, Ulric was worshipped in the Empire in fantasy and Kruber in Vermintide was more of a Taal worshipper than a Sigmar guy. reckon it depends on the god but why not!

>>96341606
already happens.

I’m still betting on 5th introducing soup grand orders

>>96341648
Nah, even more microfactions.

>>96341367
> Gutless freaks
Would literally be thrown into a cave and left to die in a trve tribe

>>96341624
>>96341639
Rad, thanks. Seems like Fusil-Major Warren Neyman and Torgo, his Ogor Warhulk will lead the brave force of the God-Master Sonam into battle.Will I need massive blocks of infantry to do any good with the army?

>>96341606
not at all

>>96341376
I'd be down for a Coatl. I swear if it looks like this abomination though I'm gonna flip.

>>96341032
Yhetis are the result of the mutating effects of the polar gates on ogres that wouldn't leave the sky titan fortress the ogres conquered after they migrated West from the coming of the Great Maw. The fortresses where basically in the old world's stratosphere, and the magic from the polar gates was heavy up there and mutated them.

>>96341685
Do you want massive blocks of infantry? If not then pick whatever you want. I got no fuckin' clue how to play CoS but I typically advise picking what you think is cool or just looking up a few lists ahead of time to see what other people generally run with.

>>96340802
> Urbaz down to one
THE RATZ HAVE WRONGED US

>>96341709
I just want a lot of guns to drown my enemy in shot. I am a simple fellow. Maybe a wizard and priest too.

>>96341726
Go nuts then, I'll warn you: shooting is getting hit slightly this GHB with the additional cover rules being added. I do still think it's cool and I enjoy gun lines and some sniper towers/artillery (I covet it as a death player) so yeah I say go for it. I imagine at least one anon around here plays cities (there's the guy who painted his spearhead!) who might be able to give a more grounded reasonable response.

>>96341742
Appreciated Anon, thank you. I hope you in turn get some shooting for your death army or armies.

>>96341775
Someday I'm getting my fucking, shooting once per game musketline of ghouls.

>>96341787
As a ghoul player from long ago, I too would love this.

>>96341693
Slaan kit got a baby coatl on it, and it looks much better

>>96341804
It's a fun concept because they probably can't reload, but just shooting once, then getting a bayonet charge would be fantastic.

>>96341672
They'd run the tribe. In On the shoulders of giants one does

>>96341864
But who loaded them before the fighting started?

>>96341992
they found loaded ones

>>96341992
Abhorrant powdermaster, give him a big mustache that's a rat taped to his upper lip or something.

>>96341606
Vindicarum has some local deity that even the local Stormcast honour. Father of Baldes or some edgy shit like that

>What do you imagine civilian life for your faction to be like?
...n/a

>>96342159
Someone builds their fortifications

>>96339296
I don't know, myself. But I assume it's just Spelljammer type stuff going on in the void between the planes. Bet the sky-dwarves are involved.

There's genuinely no good hobby stores near me. Everyone I look at that's a reasonable drive is tiny, has no functioning website, or just doesn't sell hardly anything. What do anons who live in a s void of hobby shops do?

>>96342168
No one living. And I suspect it's just the various mortisan's who raise everything by magic all said and done. Ossifectors in particular, being the engineers of the bunch.

>>96342191
>has no functioning website
If you found them anyway then that doesn't seem like it'd be relevant any more.

>>96342191
Try looking for clubs instead? It's not the 80s or something, shops are only as relevant as the environment they provide and games they facilitate
My local scene is dead as far as stores go but there's a few clubs, including a reasonable subscription for a big hall.

>>96342206
If their entire existence is building walls then they're basically civilian? Crotch skeleton too

>>96342223
As I said: "No one living". If there are civilians, which isn't certain, then they don't have any lives, that is certain.

>>96341376
Maybe if we get aos warmaster one day, otherwise I don't see this guy happening outside of a warhammer world diorama.
>>96341606
Lethis and Misthavn basically already do this with morrda and oquatan, you're good to go anon.
>>96341693
Glad I'm not the only one who thought that design looked god-awful. CA's usually pretty good with their reinterpretations but whew.

>>96342159
Ossiarchs have one of the most documented civilian lives though, down to them inventing Warhammer the game within Warhammer the setting

>>96341989
Lol they couldn't even eat the former tyrant, as one must, even if they could beat one in a guts out duel (which a thinling 'ogre'[more like a tall human] never could anyway)

>>96342363
The game is closer to Go or chess, that want a game to develop battle field tactics and no Warhammer game is going to help you do that

>>96342385
Unironically, the most strategically deep Warhammer game is blood bowl, which is not that much of an achivement, but still funny

>>96339296
>should I picture it as essentially outer space?
yes
>but are there comets and whatnot shooting about ?
also yes, in particular the void is where antimagic coalesces into tangible matter, comets or meteors of that stuff rain onto the realms sometimes, nullstone
you can do lots of fun stuff with it, from instruments to work with magic and other hazardous realmstones, to antimagic weapons or even armors

whether stars and other azyr stuff is actually in the void or just in azyr, and somehow making the sky of the other realms it's unclear, but if we tun with the former, then we have a number of celestial godbeasts swimming in the void, as well as creatures like tauralon headbutting comets into astrally-projecting wizards

>>96342365
That's your headcanon

What would be a more interesting minor deity for a city to worship in Ulgu?
>The Seafather
A fish god that sacrifices his children to the people of the city as thanks for them feeding him their criminals
>The Twin-Headed Serpent
One head representing the dawn, the other dusk, they constantly fight each other but can never be rid of the other as for one to exist the other must too.
>The Blinding Flame
A fire god whose brightness cuts through the realm of shadow. Only the most devout can see it in the depths of fire
>Sigmar
Sigmar

>>96342587
I think you're already partial to the seafather and I assume you're already drawing up secret double meanings about the cult springing from or being coopted by a secret enclave of idoneth near the city, so that probably creates the better dynamics.

>>96342587
>A fire god whose brightness cuts through the realm of shadow. Only the most devout can see it in the depths of fire
doesnt really fit ulgu.
Only Ulgu stuff i read is "All is foretold" short story, so i might be wrong.
But Ulgu natives feel the most comfotable when in shadow and darkness, its the Azyrites who seek to light everything in bright light.
I like the fish god.

Also, why the fuck is there a 40k starship in the background?

>>96342652
it's a REALLY BIG BOAT

>>96342652
>Also, why the fuck is there a 40k starship in the background?
Ask archaon

>>96342721
I think Archaon would do well in 40k, might even complete a black crusade faster than abaddon could complete 13

>>96342587
Funnily enough the seafather is already an ulguan deity worshipped by a city, the big squid is misthavn's patron god. I like the fire one, although like the other guy said you'll have to do some tinkering to make it fit. Maybe this city is azyrite, and it's their way of coping with living in ulgu? Sets up some immediate religious tension in the city too.

>>96342619
>>96342652
>>96342751
fuck I thought I was being neat and silly by doing an inversion of a sea mother trope where the god is cool with you killing his kids instead of being pissy about her children being eaten by landlubbers. I'm a little partial to the twin serpent though, as it could be a nod to Hysh and Ulgu's relationship in the mortal realms, and the fire god, yeah I can see how it would only work in certain circumstances. I think I'll do a bit more research and thinking before I pick one of the two or even come up with a third.

>>96342788
I do really like the seafather idea anon, it's pretty grisly. Could just use mother of the sea or something if you want the name to be different

>>96339151
Try these, although I think some of the links are broken.

filescatboxmoe slash hsl68ipdf - sce 4e

filescatboxmoe slash y4dy4epdf - skaven 4e

filescatboxmoe slash rf1m6ipdf - SBGL 4e

https://gofile.io/d/tyXsCG - Warclans 4e

>>96343109
Warclans is down, anyone else got an active link? Also looking for StD if it's available

>arch revenant has big tits under the armor
Damn girl

>>96343331
wait till you see the Flaymaster

>>96343388
Good lord

>>96343388
This gives a whole new meaning to this bush

>>96339340
People already mentioned how he got picked up and carried off by nagash at the end of cursed city, but nagash wanted to punish his hubris and like mind broke him into servitude or something, so he’s resurrected and wandering around as a servant. There’s a little cutout narrative in the newest SBGL tome where some nervous freeguilders are talking about the legend of radukar, and the one that reassures the other that he’s dead is the one left alive to prove a point when radukar jumps them.

People don’t talk about it but that ending also really fucks up when cursed city is supposed to be set, nagash has been dead since Broken Realms so unless he hopped his half-reformed body out of the nadir to fuck with Radukar it has to have all gone down in 2e, but 2e lasted like max five years after the necroquake despite cursed city talking like it’s been at least a decade/two decades since the necroquake happened and Radukar took control.

I pledged to paint 25 models this month. It's the 17th, and so far I've finished 26 models.

Classes do start literally tomorrow, but I still kinda want to crank up my pledge.

>>96343741
Just relax anon, you made it to the finish line. You don't need to run on the spot until they pull the medals out

>>96343655
I LOVE RAINFOREST PUSSY

>>96343655
Used the same idea for my kitbashed Flayer courtier, have a gorger body with a little necklace covering the tits and gave her a big ol' masqeurade mask.

>>96343388
Is there a wider pair of female hips in aos? Asking for a friend

>>96343973
Alarielle

>>96344095
Okay but who has the widest hips amongst human sized sculpts

Question, reinforced black knights or reinforced deathrattle's and reinforced barrow?

>>96344100
Probably some of those female Darkoaths.

>>96340129
Gonna go out on a limb and say kruleboyz

>>96342267
Well, how are their undeaths then?

>>96343655
Well, it's normal for him to have a mane between his legs. Let's remember that these guys think they're noble knights, and what faction do they remember noble knights from? The Bretonnians. And who are the Bretonnians based on? The French? And what characteristic do French women have? They're very HAIRY.

I know that this book ignores/gets a load of Deepkin lore, but if you accept that and keep reading, is the story any good? Love me some Idoneth so I'd be interested in giving this a go.

>>96344584
>Forgot Pic
I'm a retard

>>96344584
What book are you talking about, my BRO?

>>96344584
>>96344588
It's alright, pretty good read by bl standards. Like you say you really gotta be aware that it clashes with the battletome and choose to ignore it though

Hey Guys, Orruks, 4e, PDF, Link, Someone.

>>96341301
conquest makes a good one you could use (its expensive tho), and you could put it on a 130mm round and use mega gargant rules for it

they also make a big trex, but sadly they drank the koolaid and its feathered.

>>96344745
>>96344584
what does it get wrong?

>In the Adamantine Chain rises the Crimson Crucible of Gurtaxa. Once an ally to Skarde the Red, daughter of legendary Slaughterpriest Lakshar Bloodspeaker, Gurtaxa possesses a colossal arsenal of accursed weapons and a myriad pacts with the cruel duardin Helsmiths of the mountains.
I so want an army of BoK juggernauts and murdercyclists.

>>96344787
For this stuff I think it's better to go printed

>>96344790
Basically turning idoneth into underwater dark elf tier sadists instead of the "commit necessary evil just to survive" type deal they are normally. Engaging in outlandish cruelty when raiding, toying with their victims and stuff. Doesn't really feel like a race that HAS to do this to survive, they just feel like assholes. Their whole society revolves around maintaining the namarti, who are seen as both cursed and blessed. Not so much in the book. Sure they are thralls, but the book goes out of its way to portray them as actively hated by the full souled elves. Iirc they get blinded in the book, instead of just being born blind in the tome.
Then there's also a lot of the dynastic struggle in the book, which is kind of weird since idoneth society should be wholly different from standard human one, on account of the chance of being born with or without a soul being basiclaly random. Monarch is also more of a military title than a political one, but the book kind of glosses over that and makes them your classic medieval fantasy monarchy

>>96344831
lmao

>>96344836
>and blessed
what?

>>96344838
lol this is peak stupid

Do the orks in Age of Sigmar have the same power of imagination as in Warhammer 40,000?

>>96344836
the idoneth are often sadistic though. their lineage is cursed because of their connection to slaanesh, and they constantly battle falling into sadistic madness called "the mallachi". they are also a society that has decided to relegate their namartii to second class status, barely above chattle slaves, using them as frontline chaff and labor. and the namartii suffer from learning disabilities because they spend a good portion of their childhood in the rituals attempting to repair their soul instead of participating in normal life. thrallmasters have literally been cast out of normal society and condemned to live with the namartii, implying this is an extremely bad thing akin to exile or imprisonment, and even the name itself is considered an insult

they arent fully dark elves, but they are definitely not just necessary evil

>>96344902
No, but they still have fun.

>>96344838
>so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

>>96344902
kinda

savage orcs have uplifted a guy to godhood through worship (and lots of magic rocks thrown at him in reverence)
also savage orcs make magical warpaints that protect them because they think it protects them
the ironjaws' big fat wyvern is believed by them to be able to fly because the ground is too scared of it and gravity don't want to mess with it
spirits and gheists and other ethereal beings are often immune to conventional attacks, so soldiers need to use silver stuff, or magical stuff, or the power of faith and so on, while some orcs can do the trick just by thinking their fists can do the trick (technically this willpower can be done by others too, but for orcs it's just a bit more common I guess)
the lanky orc special character once defeated a lord of change, cut his hand, and now keeps it as trophy and staff-topper, preventing it from dematerialisng simply because that's what he wants (but then again, he's a shaman)

lots of stuff like this, where you're not entirely sure if it's the orcs' having an effect or something else that's magic in the situation, but fortunately it's never to the same absurd extent the flanderised memes of 40k bring their stuff to

>>96344908
Yeah you're right, I was playing down the cruelty and stuff a bit to drive the point home. You also have Volturnos saying fear is your best weapon and stuff, they train themself to not feel mercy for the surface dwellers, etc. I still think the book goes a bit too far it ends up being fairly dissonant, again with the namarti blinding stuff.

>>96345024
>>96345024
>>96345024
new thread lads

>>96341672
>is slim and fit enough to climb out and just smart enough to remember how
Checkmate, tubbo