All I'm saying is, Nagash got back up and started walking around and Big E hasn't managed that yet.
He's still stuck on his couch.
I just like the analogy of like Big E is basically like an old 90s computer that you have like really
good software on that you don't want to go and it can't be updated and you're just like,
I will just shut it off for a bit every day so it doesn't overheat but I'm not going to shut it off
for too long in case it never powers up again. Like yeah.
And Nagash is like the knockier phone of all things, he just keeps coming back.
He just refuses to break. You throw him at a wall, it just comes back stronger.
And you can play Snake, it's brilliant.
Massive sidetrack, do you see that one where like someone,
they put a million volts and they threw a knockier phone that still worked.
Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to Law Crimes' beginner to expert podcast.
Now to much of your delight, we are returning to the world of Warhammer Fantasy this week
and we are talking about a particularly interesting character known as Nagash.
And I think it's going to be a fun one because he's a bit of a meme,
a bit of a silly goober as far as characters go.
But before we get to today's episode, it's time for the question of the week.
So I'm going to pass this over to Eli who's got some choice selections from last week's
or the other week's episode I believe.
You all answered very well and the question was,
which Chaos God would you like to worship and why?
And it was hashtag ChaosMeDaddy. Very nice.
We have, I chose five answers.
Five, damn.
One, there's a lot of good answers from you subscriber bros.
So the last one is probably my favorite.
The third one is also really funny too.
Anyways, the first one is from Luigi Super4143.
Asked me ChaosMeDaddy, I would worship the great orange rat to force the eight to add
thank wall in the next Total War Warhammer DLC.
Was that one just for Colin?
Yes.
Because these are so biased.
Of course, Colin. They are such simps for Colin's luck in the thing.
It's okay. That's why I left the best one for last.
So the next one is the lucky goblin 5880.
Eight chaos, eight the Imperium, eight Xenos, eight myself, love me malice.
Simple as I love me malice as well as Chaos God.
The meme god himself.
That's right.
Really a fan.
Dang.
Yeah, not surprising coming from a Dr. Pepper fan.
Anyways, next.
I loved how I had a peek through the comments of that week.
And it was interesting how I think there were more comments about the divide between ginger ale
or ginger beer and Dr. Pepper than the actual question of the week was brilliant.
Grace Pepper.
Yeah, there's something about drinking mayonnaise in one of the comments.
That man's not affiliated with either side.
He's doing his own thing.
Okay, this one is really funny.
Samuel dash TD seven FB says all hail Vash Tor the Archfane and the Shadow
Sun themed Mecca demonic flesh light.
He promised me.
Wow, this is getting spicy.
Filthy heresy.
And then here's another call and comment.
The great horned rat fastest way I can get to Lucius and sacrifice him to the rat entirely
because the great horned rat will find it funny.
And the last one, which I say for last which we pinned actually, it's he answered.
Sorry, it's Douglas Watson.
4234.
He says corn because he ruins Collins day every time he's mentioned.
Good man.
Wow, it's like such a mix.
Mean.
I must admit, I was surprised at how many people chose corn, but a lot of them were
actually like the most wholesome of all the comments.
They would just say, at least you know, we stand with corn sounds.
It'd be fun.
At least you know where you stand.
God.
They sound so unenthusiastic.
That's what you get from Cornwork.
Shout out to all my slumashy fellas.
Yeah, sirens.
They're here for you.
Yeah, the police come to arrest him.
We have to say a big thank you for the people who do comments.
We do appreciate you a lot, brothers and sisters.
They're very, very spicy.
They're very funny.
And as you can see, we read them.
All of them.
We do.
We try not to read it too much because this is like we want to be surprised when we do
this, but also after we defeat Devour.
But like we'll read them afterwards and we're like we've done the question of the week and
then we'll go like have a look through all of them to see what's going on.
We speaking of that, though, I believe we do have another question for next week.
The wording may be a bit scuffy on this, but we thought we've as in theme with our subject
today, we thought we'd ask which Warhammer character would you resurrect?
A slight tidbit here.
It could be from any setting.
We'd also like to know how you would resurrect them.
And this one will be hashtag such is the power of.
We will explain that a little bit later.
A little bit later in the video.
Hopefully people will enjoy that.
No spoilers yet, but that is that is something that will come up.
We're very excited for it.
All right.
Is anything else without further ado?
Is it time?
Is it time to talk about Bone Daddy himself?
The Bone Pope comes.
The Bone Pope do become it is time.
So I will be beginning, boys, with our story and it starts in the beginner section.
And we are straight into the some could say the superior world, but it's the
Warhammer fantasy world.
Sorry, Andy.
No, no Imperium here today, but we begin.
Imperium, I awake, you know, Warhammer fantasy.
I sleep.
We begin our story in the land of Nehekara.
Hopefully I pronounced that correctly.
I think I did.
But this is now within especially flame like total Warhammer.
It is a barren and harsh desert land is no life exists upon this plane.
It is utterly just even hope goes to die in this sort of creepy and dry place.
But this was not always the case for the land of Nehekara.
It was once a vibrant and flourishing place filled with many various human cultures,
which had very like city states dotted around the land.
I will specify as well, the land of Nehekara is somewhat south of what's called the bad lands
in the Warhammer map.
And I guess below it is kind of what would you call that column just below the land of Nehekara?
It's like the south lands, the jungles of the south land, the jungles of the south lands.
And there and a lost dwarf hold that probably got eaten by lizardmen.
Is that the one that they talk about in Vermintide too?
Is like the guy's cousin.
And it's exactly that one.
Oh yeah, cause it cause an awkward.
Oh my God.
Okay.
Yeah, it's exactly that one.
So the land of Nehekara, we will now travel back many thousands of years to the time when
humans actually existed and lived upon this land.
Each of the city states in Nehekara, many of them famous like Kemery, Lamia, things like that.
There's many of them have their own unique cultures, but the general land of Nehekara,
which if you probably haven't noticed by now, or some of you knew, you may don't know much
about Warhammer fantasy is basically ancient Egypt.
There's no, like it's, they, you know, they copied someone's home again, Warhammer.
Don't be surprised.
But all these unique city states are unified by like a single language and they sort of share
their many customs.
Although each city is a bit different.
They kind of specialize in different ways, but the overall culture of the land of Nehekara
is completely dominated by ancestor worship.
They revere the dead much like ancient Egypt as well.
Again, copied someone else's homework, but our story within this land begins with the
rise of Nagash.
Now Nagash was born a human.
Won't be that way for very long, but Nagash was the firstborn son of Ketep of Kemery.
And this was the King of Kemery.
Nagash was known to be a smart and ambitious child who, unfortunately to him, would never
inherit the throne of his father.
And this was because Nagash was given over to the mortuary cult.
And in the lands of Nehekara, throughout the various city states, the mortuary cult, or
sort of the death order, very much just a cult, they were formed in the time during
the great conqueror, Setra, the imperishable.
Is he imperishable?
Yeah, imperishable.
He's not like a salad.
He will go off in the fridge.
He's the one who formed them.
He did.
And this cult, they seek the secrets of eternal life.
It sort of began the, I wouldn't say maybe began actually, but it somewhat enhanced the
culture of ancestor worship within the lands of Nehekara.
And Nagash was, such was the power of this cult that all firstborn sons were, or like
nobility were given over to be members of this cult and they would serve.
And Nagash would be a, just even as a child, he was literally handed over straight away
and he would grow to be a scholar slash a priest who would practice the death rights
of the Nehekara nobles of Khemri.
But Nagash was ambitious and he was not happy with being a priest, shall we say.
He definitely coveted the throne and this would eventually consume him.
This ambition, it would cause him to delve into magic, which he first learned through
captured dark Eldar, oh, Eldar, dark elves.
Excuse me.
I did that last time as well.
He threw some captured dark elves and this would slowly start to, I wouldn't even say
it corrupted him because his heart was already black on the inside, shall we say.
And this would birth the tradition and the magic of necromancy.
So before this, this hadn't really even been a thing.
The Mortarikar had never come close to this.
So Nagash would resurrect people from the dead and he would use this as a tool to usurp
the Khemri throne and begin his tyranny.
Now the rule of Nagash as the king of Khemri, so he did, we will explain later how he did
that.
He, it was awful.
Nagash was, did not care about anybody.
The people were enslaved to the buildings of the infamous black pyramid.
And this was a vessel for power and also magic, but such was the awful rule of Nagash.
Eventually he was rebelled against.
He was crushed by an alliance of the seven kings of Nehekhara.
And this would be the first war when Nagash would unleash resurrected dead, the undead
against the Nehekhara, who as a culture who worship the dead, the idea of fighting their
dead horrified them very much to the core.
They were completely unable to reconcile the idea that they would attack their reverent,
you know, dead ancestors.
But eventually Nagash did perish within this conflict, but it was not over yet.
You know, he was just tapped.
He, he, he fell out of the ring and he got someone else tapped him and he went back in.
So he basically, I don't know, Bell just got back in there.
Yeah.
He's like, you know, I'm not locked in here with you.
You're locked in here with me.
And he would reanimate himself.
He did die, I think properly for the first time, but he would latch onto his corpse and live again.
He said, no, no, he, he just went, he just to start up.
No.
And eventually in the gash, you know, he rose again and it would.
Unsurprisingly declare another war upon Kenree particularly, and all of the states of Nehekhara.
He would try to create a ritual to kill and resurrect the entire world to be his undead empire,
only to be slain by the last king of Nehekhara, Al-Kadizar.
And also the Skaven helped him do that.
That'll be a, we're going to have so much fun mentioning that later, because it's just
so on point for Skaven.
Nagash again, mainly thousands of years later would resurrect again.
And he would go to the Northern lands of the empire.
He would attempt to find some of his artifacts like his crown.
He'd also do battle with Sigmar Heldenhammer, the glorious man himself, only to be again,
put into the grave because again, Sigmar was given, you know, I'll say like protagonist,
protagonist powers.
Sigmar Unbarogun.
Oh, he's not Heldenhammer yet is he?
He's Unbarogun.
He's still the chief of the Unbarogun tribe.
We'll mention more about that too.
And he does pop up a few more times in the law for this part, but we wouldn't truly see
Nagash again until the end times.
So sorry, end crimes.
The end crimes again, Nagash will be resurrected and he would unite all of the undead
that he managed to resurrect within the world to his banner to fight the forces of chaos.
Though we should specify as well that about his character, Nagash did not do this because
he wanted to defeat chaos.
This was one of his biggest traits is his arrogance and he essentially wanted to replace
the chaos gods, but he was sort of the, you know, the enemy of my enemies, my friends
sort of type of deal with many of the other races.
He'd also bind with the magic of Shaiish, the death.
I think it's Shaiish isn't it?
The death magic of the Warhammer world.
And despite all this, the end crimes did happen and the ritual would be interrupted
and the war would end.
Very sad, but we-
Thank you Manfred.
I will never forget Manfred.
Yes, Manfred has betrayed us all, but that's not the end of the story for Nagash.
He would also arise again in the age of Sigmar and he would be one of the starting gods to
join Sigmar's pantheon during the age of myth.
He would eventually inhabit and rule the realm of Shaiish, but he's also intrinsically tied
to it as well.
It's hard.
It will explain more about that later.
Eventually, the ever so ambitious and, you know, not willing to share Nagash, he would
betray Sigmar.
He would attack the forces of order before eventually a lot of them and even himself
were defeated by chaos.
He would come to conflict with the forces of Sigmar and Archon.
Again, Nagash always thinks he can take on everybody.
He would eventually again attempt to create the black pyramid.
So he's kind of, you know, I mean, someone's got a bit of a theme and unfortunately again,
this one was met with not great success, medium success.
It did birth the infamous Necroquake, which we'll talk about a bit later.
And the kind of one of the last few things we see Nagash doing is he battles, I think
fairly recently in-law with Teclis of the Aelves or, you know, sorry, I hate saying
Aelves, but he would battle with Teclis who obviously was a, you know, the god Teclis
from the previous world.
And that's the current sort of overarching story of Nagash all the way up to his timeline.
Does anyone have any thoughts, perhaps any feelings about the undead bone daddy so far?
It seems like a real jerk.
Kind of reminds me of Abaddon actually.
In a way.
He's way cooler than Abaddon.
He's taking a lot of Aels, bro.
No, he's, it's all part of his master plan.
You don't get it.
It could be said that they do.
They both have that kind of, there's an ambition within the both of them that's similar.
I'd say I think they do.
Although again, Abaddon's got, you know, he's, he's a star scream to someone else.
Whereas Nagash is not, he's not the side guy.
Nagash is the star scream for Nagash.
Yeah.
His other personalities.
But with that being said though, we're going to delve straight on into the, the point of
the story, the fleshed out story of the greatest necromancer to ever live.
Colin, are you ready to take it away?
I am more than ready.
Go for it.
To start though, I think, I think we'll start with a quote.
I've got two throughout and Andy, would you mind reading this, this first quote?
Yeah, I can, I can do that for you.
I shall put it in the, in the general sidebar.
Okay.
There will be no escape.
No blessed oblivion.
I can end your life as easily as I can extinguish a candle.
And before your corpse is cold, I can reach out and grasp your soul.
You will be my slave for all eternity.
And I shall laugh at the depths of your pain.
Such is the power of Nagash.
That quote is just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just, it's just,
it's just unbelievable.
That's why he can't be Abaddon, because Abaddon has nothing like that.
It does go hard.
Abaddon's is just like, my dad sucks.
Is it, is it weird that in my head, every time he says, such is the power of Nagash,
I just picture him throwing up gang signs.
And I know he probably does it.
I feel like it just has to be done every time.
He just like, such is the power of Nagash.
My gang signs, you know, ripping your soul out of your body than maybe.
I mean, if there's magic happening at the same time, but.
Magic does usually involve a lot of hand waving.
For some reason.
I know that.
Things.
Who knows, but it's magic.
It just works.
But that is a, that is a good quote to introduce it into Nagash.
And just before I get started with the story, a little bit about him.
He's just like Hal said, he's just born bad, just born morally incorrect.
A lot of, a lot of Warhammer characters, when they do evil things, they're experts
in mental gymnastics and gaslighting themselves into thinking that serving chaos is
in somehow the morally correct choice.
Don't worry about it.
It totally is.
Yeah, bro.
So that's just totally the morally correct choice.
Nagash, meanwhile, when you ask him why he does what he does, he simply says, I'm evil.
And then, and then kills you.
He's a, he knows what he's about.
He's a, he's an asshole and he's, he's proud of it.
Although he does call himself a just God because he's got, he's a, he's a character.
Massive control issues.
Like just that's his whole vibe.
Massive, like just, I need to control everything.
Oh yeah.
So I will begin with his story.
So as Hal said in beginning, we go to the kingdom of Nehekhara and it is still ancient
by the time of his birth.
Nehekhara is thousands of years old.
It's around the tail end of its golden age, but things are still good.
They're about to not be good because Nagash has been born, but they're still good for now.
And as Hal said, he's the firstborn son of the firstborn son of the firstborn son of
King Katep of Khemri.
No relation to DJ Katep from Total Warhammer.
Big shame, I know.
But for some reason in the Hekhara, they do, they do a little bit topsy turvy because
usually, you know, the firstborn son or child is the heir to the throne.
Not in the, not in the Hekhara.
The firstborn son goes to the mortuary cult to figure out how to live forever and be a
be a magical lich priest.
It is the secondborn son who becomes king and Nagash's brother Thutep sure enough
becomes the king and Nagash has to be a lich priest.
He's not a fan of this.
He's a, he quite wants power.
He won't be control freak like we're saying.
He wants, he wants to be the head, head honcho.
So yeah, he's, he's not happy and making this even worse is that there was one conflict
he was briefly put in charge of.
Pardon me, when the commanding general of that conflict died in battle, Nagash was the
fill in leader and even ruled over a city for a bit.
But once the conflict was over, he was swiftly removed from power and even had his names
expunged from the conflict.
He was only ever referred to as a great leader in the history books.
So not only have his accomplishments been erased, he got a taste of power and then had
it yanked away from him.
So he's not, he's not happy with that and to compound on this, the mortuary cult, not
being a king, so he's not happy with that, but it does allow him to grow his magical
prowess, which is going to make things much worse for everyone later on.
Now, during the time of his birth was the war of the beard where the high elves and
the dwarfs started massacring each other because the guy in charge of the high elves
at the time was an absolute idiot.
And the reason this is important is because good old Malekith responsible for 80% of
cringe.
fantasy's problems.
Baby two things.
You are so unbelievably wrong.
Good old Malekith, the not true Phoenix King, the Phoenix loser.
Fire Lord Sousen.
What happened in End Times?
Nothing.
Blessed by Osirian, wasn't he?
No, he wasn't.
doesn't count.
It's not his episode.
Malekith, though, had sent some dark elf agents to do a little prank we like to call a false
flag attack and get the high elves and dwarves hating each other.
And those dark elf agents that Malekith sent got captured by a neighboring city-state of
Khemri.
They were handed over to Khemri to be sacrificed in religious rituals and Nagash said, as a
member of the mortuary cult, he's like, hey, everyone, this is under my purview.
I will take it from here.
So he took those three dark elf prisoners and put them in his basement.
And he gave them a choice.
He said, listen, you can either teach me how to do magic, because I see the magic you're
doing and it doesn't require the Hecarim gods to act on our behalf to do the magic.
You just do it.
You teach me how to do that, or I'm just going to kill you.
And the dark elves, not wanting to be killed, were like, yeah, all right, sure.
They were very arrogant about it, of course.
They thought he was a mere human.
So they were still kind of rude about it.
And of course, they withheld some stuff from Nagash because they didn't want to tell him
everything because then they'd just kill him.
That's Nagash now learned that dark magic is a thing, which of note, normal humans are
not supposed to be able to just use dark magic in Warhammer.
It's too not only tainted, but just too much for mankind to handle.
So Nagash is already proving he's just simply built different from the start.
They try to escape because at a certain point, they've gotten familiar with the layout of
the place he had kept them in.
And right as they get to the edge of the little basement and the prison he had set
up for them, they find Nagash and he gives them another simple offer.
Beat me in a magical duel and you can leave.
Otherwise I'm killing you.
And sure enough, despite them being elves and good at magic because of that, Nagash
kills them and consumes their souls because he is getting a fantastic start to that whole
dark magic thing.
So he's started off strong.
And going forward, he's now learned proper dark magic.
He's going to go ruin everything now because that is what his job in life is to do.
He creates a cabal of like-minded individuals with of course himself at the top.
And they do all sorts of evil dark magic things.
Most prominently among them, his chief servant, Arkhan the Black.
Cool dude.
It's a shame he's serving Nagash because he'd probably be a lot cooler under literally anyone
else.
I have to ask, how does he get the nickname or the epithet, the Black?
Because I remember in lore it's like, it's like a reference to his teeth or is it because
he gets it later because his bones are black.
He's just got really bad hygiene and dentists, he keeps going to the dentist and is like,
are you brushing your teeth?
I can't remember the canon reason though why he gets that name.
There's a couple different reasons.
I'm trying to remember when we had Cody Banzai and he was saying-
Did we talk about that on that time as well?
We did.
I can't remember.
He said like there's a couple of different answers.
Yeah, there's a couple.
Like one is a reference to like this root that when you chew it, it turns your teeth
black.
Oh yeah, that was-
Another the second interpretation is that he was a degenerate before he joined the Gash.
I think like palace prostitutes would refuse to touch him because he was just that gross
and stinky.
So that's another reason.
And the third reason, Ark in the Black, he's a dark necromantic wizard, you know, Ark in
the Black, just the kind of name you give someone that's an evil wizard.
And with his cabal, he does a couple important things.
He creates an elixir of immortality, which naturally requires dark magic and human blood
because he can't do anything that's not horrendous.
And he pens his nine books of Nagash over the course of a couple, over the years, which
are not only some of the most potent sources of necromantic magic and knowledge in the
world, they each have a little bit of Nagash's soul inside of them.
So no one but him can ever get the full use out of them.
Because-
I was kind of like, because you're saying he wrote nine books.
I was just imagining him on like a press tour.
Hey, I've got this new nine books of Nagash and just like on like breakfast television
shows.
It's like, so what have you been writing about?
It's like, well, book number one is like, I don't know, just the idea of him.
Yeah, like life lessons from Nagash.
Kill all your enemies as soon as possible.
That's just like blank pages.
And that's about it.
Sacrificing humans 101.
Yeah.
You can come to his, like his book signing, but he's probably going to take your soul.
And with this, he has, he now begins getting more and more followers.
One night, his brother Thutep learns of his plans.
His advisor tells him that Nagash is not only consorting and creating dark magic cabals,
but also probably definitely going to try and kill him to take the throne.
And so Thutep took his bodyguards and himself and went to stop Nagash.
Many of Nagash's servants were killed, but his inner circle and of course himself were
not and his brother's bodyguard were slaughtered to the last.
He had his brother entombed alive who would then starve to death.
And the next morning, Nagash walked on the throne, sat down and everyone was far too
terrified of him to do anything about it, which I can't say I blame.
I would not be speaking up if I was there.
I'm just going to be honest.
He then proceeds.
This is all in Khemri, by the way, the greatest city of the tomb kings.
He proceeds to bankrupt it to build his massive black pyramid.
The economy tanks, the people are the servant population is tanking.
He needs to go take slaves and they're dying.
And every time someone dies, they are entombed into the black pyramid to make the evil magics
around it all the stronger because he is Nagash is the worst, but he's he's very knowledgeable
in being an evil bastard.
He knows how to do things effectively.
And that also isn't wasn't it like considered a great insult when he built the black pyramid
because it was too...
Oh yeah.
Do you want to explain that a bit?
Yeah.
So out of respect for Setra the imperishable, no one built their pyramids taller than him
out of respect and fear he would resurrect himself to just slap them silly.
Nagash, meanwhile, was like, no, I'm the best and built his black pyramid even taller than
mighty setras.
So not only is it an evil black pyramid, it's also a monument to his massive, massive ego
and a slap in the face to Setra.
So Nagash is making his entrance onto the Khemri and you know, the political stage with
not the best look, but nevertheless his followers grew in number because everyone wants to be
immortal and he had proved the way he can do it.
So he gets all sorts of people under his banner, priests, nobles.
There was a rebellion in Khemri and Nagash responded very simply to this.
He raised the dead for the first time in Warhammer fantasy's history, cementing himself as with
a title he would have forevermore, the great necromancer, which that goes hard.
And in response with the rebellion, he sent the dead after them, killed everyone and then
killed his wife.
Why not?
Who was his brother's wife, I should add, because Nagash needs more things to add to
the list of him being the complete worst.
This also relatedly broke a bond, a covenant with the Nehekarin gods.
So now the gods leave and disgust over how much of an ass Nagash is.
Everyone else in Khemri, meanwhile, is watching the single worst human being to ever live
just grow more and more powerful.
So seven of the Khemri and city states band together, they form a seven nation army to
go and take Nagash down and they are successful.
It is horrifying for them because since, you know, based on the idea of ancient Egypt,
they very much revere the dead and obviously didn't want to attack the dead because that's
quite the no no in Khemri or Nehekarin society.
But they had to do what they had to do and Nagash's forces are destroyed, but his pyramid
remains because they just can't get rid of the damn thing and Nagash escapes into the
desert.
And now we begin the next little arc of his story.
So Nagash wanders the desert so far in that even like jackals and vultures waiting for
him to drop aren't following him anymore because the Warhammer fantasy world is very big.
I think it's about twice as big as Earth and he's just wandering around the not Sahara
desert.
One night is wounds and the effort is too much for him and he dies.
And while he's dead, the spirits of the dead, including his brother harass him and judge
him for the horrible, many horrible things that he has done.
But in a trend of Warhammer fantasy characters just simply proving they're built better
than 40k characters, he dies and just re inhabits his body.
He's like death, that ain't for me chief, which I can't help but notice the Emperor
has yet to do.
So point one for Nagash.
So Nagash is built different.
I think the Emperor, they explained that the Emperor dies and resurrects every day, because
that's the only way to keep him going essentially.
And there's like, isn't that like a thing where the Inquisition have like inner wars
where they fight over someone to let him die.
Someone to let him die so he can become a god.
I think, I think in the most recent lion book, there's a plot to stop that happening.
So I think it might be true if the Emperor did die, he would actually become a god.
I guess kind of like what you know, Nagash, you know what I mean?
All I'm saying is Nagash got back up and started walking around and Big E hasn't managed that
yet.
Still stuck on his couch.
I just like the analogy of like Big E is basically like an old 90s computer that you have really
good software on that you don't want to go and it can't be updated and you're just like,
I will just shut it off for a bit every day so it doesn't overheat, but I'm not going
to shut it off for too long in case it never powers up again.
But yeah.
And Nagash is like the Nokia phone of all things and he just keeps coming back.
He just refuses to break.
You throw him at a wall and he just comes back stronger.
And you can play Snake.
It's brilliant.
Massive sidetrack.
Do you see that one where like someone, they put a million volts and they threw a Nokia
phone and it still worked.
I believe it.
It was a video.
There's also those stories of like someone put like a McDonald's burger in like a safe
for 30 years and it came out.
What is this made of?
How is it still a burger?
Dude, grade F meat is just built different.
Can't rot what's already rotten.
But speaking of both rotten food and putting stuff in places it shouldn't be, after Nagash
inhabits his body, he encounters a party of Skaven scavengers killing three of the four.
The fourth one just gets the hell out of Dodge as Skaven are want to do when they're outmatched.
And Nagash, you know, he's hungry, figures might as well eat the Skaven.
So he does.
And he notices that something in their blood gives them a bit of a power boost.
He's feeling a little bit better after he eats them.
And soon enough he discovers it's because they have a substance called Warpstone in them
because the Skaven eat it.
He finds a chunk on one of them figures, you know, in for a penny in for a pound and eats
the Warpstone.
And which I would probably worse for you than not well, maybe not quite as bad as a McDonald's
cheeseburger, but definitely don't want to be eating it.
And it does two things to him.
It restores his strength and heals his wounds.
It supercharges them at the cost of completely throwing off his senses.
And he just wanders around the desert for over a century, just lost.
He's just no idea where he's going.
But eventually he comes down from his trip and wanders over to the mountains to the north
of Nehekhara.
And in it, he finds a tribe of barbarians ruled over by primitive nobles and being the
great evil powerful wizard he is takes them over because he is the great necromancer and
begins mining out of the mountain of Cripple Peak for Warpstone creating his fortress of
Nagashizar because his ego is the only thing and they were close to his necromantic prowess.
As you might expect, there's Warpstone there, which means there are Skaven there and the
Skaven proceed to invade because that's their rightful Warpstone, but by the corned rat
that they will have it.
And so begins a tale of both of the sides being just completely off struck at how the
other just does not run out of soldiers because the gas just raises anyone who dies from the
dead rats included.
And you're never going to run out of Skaven to throw it a problem.
It's it's it's just not going to happen.
There's too many of them.
I love that the Skaven is like my great great grandfather fought in this war.
It's technically true.
I was also like three years ago.
But yeah, so that's that's the war for Cripple Peak for the Warpstone mines.
They're just throwing corpses and Skaven that soon become corpses at each other.
And eventually they reach a truce that neither side expects to last for more than five minutes,
but it's slightly more productive than killing each other.
The Skaven will mine the mountain for the Warpstone and Nagash gets a cut in exchange
for not constantly throwing zombies and skeletons at them.
So again, uneasy truce and the Skaven and Nagash are naturally putting in plans to screw
the other side over during this whole time.
But for the time being, Nagash now has his constant sorts of Warpstone and necromantic
magic as a result.
He forges some of his evil artifacts he'll have going forward.
One of them is Morakane, his evil armor, which isn't particularly important.
It's just, you know, bad guy evil armor, but it's cool name and it's helps him stay alive
for a manner of the word.
Alive.
Wow.
Alive in gigantic quotation marks.
Pardon me.
I didn't mean to offend all of the zombies watching the video.
Did you just miss living him?
Pardon me everyone.
Excuse my line of groan.
I flubbed.
But more importantly, he makes his crown of sorcery, which is very important in several
people's characters.
So we'll get to that.
Just keep the crown in mind.
Around this point, Nagash also was contacted by vampires who were Nahakaron nobles from
the city of Lamia, who used his notes to recreate his elixir of mortality or immortality.
An elixir of mortality is just poison.
Yeah, that's not just beer.
Just beer or something.
Just keeps you alive for a little bit.
So one of them contacts him, pardon me a little bit more.
The imperfect problem with it was that it turned them into vampires.
It gave them a huge thirst for blood.
They don't have their other weaknesses yet because that comes later.
But that right now you can live forever.
You got to eat some people if you want to do it though.
So they contact Nagash.
They figure out he's still alive.
And the first guy to say, hey, Nagash, how are you doing?
We exist now was telepathically strangled and staked through the heart from across the
continent for the horrendous crime of phone calling.
So he's a cool guy like that.
But after that, Nagash figured, well, these guys are reasonably powerful because even
the weakest vampire and fantasy can rip a knight in half.
He was like, well, they will make the perfect servants and if they try and rebel, I'll just
do what I did the first guy to him.
So with his undead armies growing, he now has his lieutenants.
It's time for another try at Nehekhara.
And the second war against the soon to be tuned kings was far worse than the first one.
The first one was mostly confined to Khemri.
This next one, zombies are just all over the place attacking nearly every Nehekhara city
at once.
The river Vaitei was poisoned, which is the not Nile, which millions died of famine and
plague.
Khemri itself, its population was cut into a quarter of what it once was.
Those who remained were too weak to do anything but hold farm tools as weapons.
So when the zombie army showed up, they were very swiftly dealt with.
Nagash had a different plan.
He wasn't just going to throw zombies at everyone until the problem was away.
He had a different plan in mind.
He was thinking bigger.
And when he got to Khemri, he killed all except for one person, the king of Khemri, Al-Qadizar,
who he took with him back to his base as a prisoner.
And Hal, why don't you explain what happens next?
Poor Al-Qadizar.
So Al-Qadizar was, I said, he was the last king of Khemri.
I think all of Nehekhara, I think they sometimes like, et cetera.
They sometimes declare it not a high king, but it's still king.
And they basically all the city states will submit.
Usually like the king of Khemri, it's the greatest city.
So usually they're like unofficially the big king.
Yeah, but they don't say high king.
They just keep king and they have petty kings on that.
But Al-Qadizar was the king of Khemri.
He has some cool backstory, which we might tackle if we do a vampire focused one, which
would be very cool.
With Lahmian shenanigans there.
But Al-Qadizar was locked away in the city of Khemri.
And this is, Nagash is basically one.
He's having his moment of triumph and the ritual has begun.
He's consumed warpstone.
He is consumed dark magic and energy.
His black pyramid is popping off.
You know what I mean?
They're having disco lights in there.
And essentially the land of Nehekhara finally dies.
And this is all witnessed by poor old Al-Qadizar who can only out of his cell basically watch
the thing he tried to protect the most essentially crumble into dust.
No life even from this point on would ever exist upon the desert plains of Nehekhara.
And I think, yeah, essentially Nagash is building up, as he mentioned in the beginning section
earlier.
Nagash has got control issues, so his perfect world is a world of complete death.
He is the master, it's an unending, unchanging world of dead.
And he is essentially doing this ritual now in the wake of his victory to kill everyone
in the world and then resurrect them.
And it is alone that Al-Qadizar knows is happening.
Or is it?
Because in his cell left alive by Nagash to witness everything he loves die, Al-Qadizar
finds his cell door open.
He looks out and he sees cloaked Skaven ushering the king forward.
I'm sure Eli will appreciate this Skaven moment very much because the Skaven put a warpstone
dagger slash sword in his hand, which is known as the Fel Blade, which me and Colin have
said between us is a badass name.
That hits hard.
Oh yeah.
Very aggressive.
I'm not, in some parts of the lore it's called a dagger, some parts it's called a sword.
I just think it's just, it's probably that thing where it's like a weird in between where
like the Skaven thing is a sword because they're tinier.
And then Al-Qadizar is like, it's just a long dagger.
Not important though.
But the big, big, big Kniffy.
But the Skaven have carried this from the forges of Skaven blight and this was made
from pure warpstone.
It's incredibly poisonous and dangerous to even hold.
You think about Nagash, he consumed it as like an undead lich thing and he went delirious
for like a hundred years.
Al-Qadizar is basically, he's walking dead at this point, but he doesn't care because
they've given him a blade and they've given him a direction.
And even, I find this a really good tidbit like in the lore, which I always find funny.
The Skaven that carried it from Skaven blight all the way, Skaven blight for people who
don't know in Warhammer is like the underground capital of the Skaven, Skaven blight, Skaven,
you know.
And it's situated north of the Badlands, somewhat south of the, where the empire is in sort
of what's called the border princes area.
So they had to, okay, sorry.
The Warhammer fantasy world is roughly shaped like earth.
Like there's a differences, but it's roughly shaped like earth.
Skaven blight would be roughly like the Southern bit of France halfway between Italy and Spain.
It's basically Nice.
Skaven.
Bonjour, Jumabel Skaven.
Jumabel Skaven.
You get stabbed up in the back back.
But I always find this really funny bit in the lore, like the Skaven, when they had to
carry it down from Skaven blight to obviously to hand over to Alcazar.
None of them could hold the blade for very long.
So they'd eventually die.
So they obviously set off with like quite a few hundred Skaven and they were basically
paying like pass the parcel.
Like, and then when each one died, they like chuck it to the next one.
So eventually like, there's like just a long trail of like dead Skaven that you could follow
all the way down.
I find that quite funny.
Awesome.
I thought Eli would enjoy that part because it's just so Skaveny.
And eventually the blade is put in Alcazar's hand and he knows what to do.
Alcazar makes his way towards the ritual site and attacks the somewhat surprised Nagash.
He's a little bit vulnerable because obviously he's concentrating on this big spell and Nagash
feels the sting of Felblade upon his withered bones.
And the pure warpstone begins to just tear him apart.
Essentially the battle between the two is pretty cataclysmic.
So it's, you know, essentially Alcazar is the last.
Alcazar was a great warrior as well.
So it's a big battle between, you know, an empowered warrior with a magic sword, with
a undead lich, basically a D&D frame shot.
And he also has a little bit of help from the Skaven Graces, I think, Colin, is that
right?
They help with that.
They were helping to deflect the worst of Nagash's magic.
So he's got like some fact, you know, cheerleaders in the back essentially helping him do it.
But essentially Alcazar is victorious and he starts to hack down the bones of Nagash
until they are nothing but dust.
Alcazar, unfortunately, would not survive this encounter.
But with the death of Nagash, there would be some consequences to this ritual.
I think Colin can take it from there just to explain what happened to the land of Nehekara
after this.
Colin I will be happy to explain.
So though the second part of his ritual, which was resurrect every corpse on the planet,
did not go off.
The first part went off without a hitch and all of Nehekara, as we said, died.
Problem is, I guess I shouldn't say the second part didn't completely go off because in Nehekara,
it kind of did.
And though they weren't under his control, partially because the spell was unfinished
and partially because he's dead now, the tomb kings rose from their graves.
So those who had just died in the fighting or just died from the spell stood back up,
the flesh still on their bodies, but hearts no longer beating.
And over time, the desert winds would strip them of even that.
The rest of them, even the ancient tomb kings and those dead for thousands of years, rose
from their graves as skeletal legions.
And the tomb kings are now officially the tomb kings.
And additionally from this, outside of Nehekara, vampires and necromancy would spread across
the world as those who had knowledge or wanted to gain knowledge of Nagash's power just left
Nehekara and spread throughout the world.
So though he was defeated and the world saved, things aren't great, especially in Nehekara.
But at least for a little while, Nagash is gone.
By a little while, I mean exactly 1111 years because his black pyramid was never destroyed
that tomb kings can never figure it out, even when Setra came back.
They'd launch magic at it, they'd launch catapult ammunition at it, they'd launch magical catapult
ammunition at it.
Didn't stick.
Because every now and then they'd get bored and like, you know, want to take pot shots
at the pyramid.
And it'd probably be great for weapons testing.
I mean, you can't blow it up.
But 1111 years later, Nagash has put himself back together over all this time.
It doesn't have his hand, Alcadizar cut off, that's gone.
But almost everything else is back together.
His armor, his staff, his sword, all except one thing, his crown of sorcery.
And unfortunately for Nagash, that had fallen into the hands of one of the greatest men
to become gods to ever live, Sigmar Unbarogun.
And Nagash quite wanted that thing back.
So what he did was just raise massive undead army, get some vampire lieutenants and swarm
the burgeoning empire of man, wreaking havoc on it and threatening to break the unity of
the tribes that Sigmar had worked so hard on fostering.
The crown, because it's an evil magical crown, remember, was also corrupting Sigmar a bit,
making him even more violent and bloodthirsty just as time went on.
You know, he's a barbarian chief, so he's always been a little bit of a fiend for battle.
You know, he was honorable before.
He's always been a bit fighty.
He's always been a bit fighty, but you know, he was a cool guy after the fact.
This is post he took on a dragon ogre Shaggoth, right?
Sigmar?
Yeah, I think he all, didn't he do want to win the loyalty of one of the tribes, I think?
I don't remember if he did a dragon ogre Shaggoth.
I know how he got the land that would become Middenheim on his side.
He walked into the flame of Ulric and then caved the dude's head in, who was naysaying him.
Good old Sigmar.
Might have been the ones that eventually became null.
I think it's the one with the lady who he did, you know, basically who had his kid,
you know what I mean?
I think it might have been that.
Maybe he had his kid.
So he's fighty.
He'll take on anything.
Sigmar, the point is, Sigmar is happy to kick your ass.
Now he's just getting a lot more evil about it.
The crown is like Emperor Palpatine to him in episode three.
You know, I shouldn't do it.
That's that's do it.
That's that's Sigmar's head for a couple of years.
And of course, it also tempts him to head southwards towards Sigmar's true master who
awaits.
Sigmar eventually realizes what's happening though, and steals himself because he still
needs his crown for something.
Because Nagash, even while he's doing this, has not been idle.
His army of the dead only grows because every time he kills someone, that's a new soldier
for Nagash.
And he got someone real cool on his side named Krell.
Hal, I know you were a fan.
Do you have anything to say about Krell?
I think we might, because we were discussing that we might do a podcast episode on the
first Warhammer character Heinrich Kämler, because there's quite a lot to tackle there.
But Krell is like an awesome undead white.
He's a compendial.
He is chonk as well.
He's big, big axe.
Just because brought him up.
Not gonna not give too much away, but just a little little background overview on him.
He was a coronate servant that even thousands of years before Sigmar's time, Nagash raised
him and he served Nagash because Nagash has got a good eye for talent.
For the most part, mentioning no man for its will save that.
So Nagash has quite the lieutenants, that's not even counting all the vampires and other
undead and white kings.
And it's time for the final showdown.
Sigmar's lands are being ravaged for too long and he's not taking it anymore.
Eli, I have a quote for you, if you wouldn't mind reading it.
Yes, I'll put down my doomsday arc.
So when they met, Nagash dropped this banger of a line on Sigmar.
The dead do not squabble as this land's rulers do.
The dead do not fight one another.
The dead have no desires, no petty jealousies or ambitions.
A world of the dead is a world at peace.
Yeah so Nagash, yeah he's a, in a really twisted way he does have a point.
He's like, hey there can't be any chaos, corruption or infighting if everyone's a mindless zombie.
Which is true, he's not wrong.
But then Sigmar immediately goes like, you know, it'd be an endless stagnation and nothing
and it'd suck.
And then it's time to fight.
And though Sigmar is Sigmar and kick ass, Nagash is still an undying powerful lich and
Sigmar even in hell's glory he's nearly defeated.
His crown, Nagash's crown he was wearing to keep the worst of Nagash's magics at bay.
He had a moment of inspiration.
Nagash is an egomaniac and desperately wants to be whole again and he needs that crown
to do so.
So Sigmar tosses the crown onto the ground and Nagash in just a complete moment of greed
and desire to be whole again, Nagash lunges for it.
An opening just long enough for Sigmar to bring the hammer down on him as it were.
And Galmaraz claims another victim and because Nagash is gone his undead army begins to crumble
and the vampires begin fleeing.
Or fleeing, not freeing.
This is also where the vampires get all their weaknesses because some of them were perhaps
a little bit slow in helping Nagash.
Maybe they could have done a little bit better job of it.
And so Nagash has cursed all of them with the weaknesses vampires traditionally have.
They used to like, for example, they used to be able to go in sunlight no problem.
Now it burns them.
You know, like there's a, they used to not, you know, there's like the whole thing vampires
can't cross running water.
Nagash did that and just really whatever he thought of, he just cursed them to be weak
to that because he is a petty prick as well as a weakness to holy symbols, which in this
case means anything to do with Sigmar.
Because yeah, again, vengeful, petty child that unfortunately is powerful than most gods.
He's a little bit like, I always thought of him as like a cross between what is Joffrey
and what is Tywin Lannister where he has a little bit of the cunning of Tywin Lannister,
but he has all the petulance of Joffrey.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
He's a, he's, he's an odd mixture of incredibly smart and powerful and incredibly stupid.
But hey, it's fun to watch him do his thing.
What can I say?
And there are two more occasions in Warhammer fantasy, three more, pardon me, actually,
where something of Nagash's is rather plot relevant.
So the next time is his final resurrection before the end times called the night of the
living dead.
Or he just comes back for a bit.
The dead across the world rose, vampires swarmed the living, but he's so weakened after all
this time that after that night, like no one even killed, he just, he just fades away back
in the afterlife.
He just pieces out.
Old Loris or newer Loris says that it's because the fell blade was so horrible that it weakened
him even in death.
Older Loris says that the people he killed just ganged up on him and beat the snot off
him every time he died.
So that's why he comes back weaker, which I like to imagine it's both and he definitely
has it coming.
But either way, that's the night of living dead.
Not, you know, scary while it was happening.
Not exactly very consequential.
Going forward, Arkin continues to find ways to resurrect him and Manfred von Karstein
even enters his services.
Arkin is just the boy.
He is like, he is the MVP.
He is the most loyal, like he's literally loyal for thousands of years that day.
He doesn't falter once.
He's on it.
I also have noticed that Nagash kicked him in a pit of maggots and ate his flesh once
and because Arkin took the elixir of immortality, he couldn't die.
So he's loyal to Nagash despite being treated like garble.
Damn.
Got to find a better master.
Manfred, by the way, plans on absorbing the Nagash's power once he's back because he's
Manfred and does not know what loyalty means.
But it doesn't matter because for a while that's kind of just how things roll.
The second time something important happens with Nagash is once again his crown.
So one day there was an orc warlord named Azak of a small little band of orcs, nothing
too special, that was forced into some ancient ruins by a band of chaos warriors and Azak
finds what else but that damn crown of sorcery that keeps popping up all over the place.
He puts it on and suddenly goes from an orc to a master strategist who's pretty good at
throwing wind of death magic spells around as well.
It also gives him schizophrenia.
Nagash's voice keeps trying to tell him to go south so he can resurrect himself again.
The orcs under Azak don't really care because he keeps leading them to fights.
He just says that Azak's a bit eccentric.
So he's a bit weird, talks to himself sometimes, but we don't mind.
And then it comes to a head when Nagash attempts to assume direct control over Azak because
that damn orc won't just go south already.
And while there's this little mental battle going on, an imperial knight kills Azak and
that's the end of that little story.
Nagash has to go back to waiting for Arkan to do stuff again.
I love the fact that Nagash's like, someone's found my crown and then he's like, oh my god,
it's an orc.
And he's just saying, and I was like, no, no, no, this way, this way.
And he's just, the orc's like, oh battle.
It's pretty much what it was.
Like you just wander around the empire and the keys of ransacking it and like door folds.
One true git.
I have a quick question for Eli, because obviously 40k wise, you're like, if the emperor gets
crowned, you'd be like, oh, you know, the bad guys win, you'd love it.
In the Warhammer fantasy, do you feel the same way?
Like if say like Nagash or the Skaven like take over, are you like happy about that?
Or is that just, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be rooting for them.
I'd more be rooting for Arkan or Grimgore Ironhead.
The one true git.
Yep.
I do like the empire a lot in fantasy though, and Bretonnia.
Just not in 40k.
I just like playing the bad guy.
I don't know.
I like playing the bad guy in games.
That's wise.
Something's wrong with me.
I don't know.
Skaven, look, the surface world belongs to the Skaven.
I think Norsca, it'd be cool to see Norsca win actually.
Well, I have good news for you.
You're jumping ahead in the story too much.
The final time before we get to the end times, because for a while Nagash is dead dead, Alcadizar
and the Felblade really made him stick.
And then Sigmar really drove the nail in the coffin.
Was when one of his artifacts, features and where else but Gatric and Felix.
The Eye of Khemri it's called.
Where the wizard Max Schreiber.
He's a real cool dude in the Gatric and Felix books.
He is a G. Finds this he's like, what is this thing?
I don't know what this is.
It's ancient.
It's Khemri.
Wonder what it is.
And then he starts unraveling it and then Nagash's spirit jumpscares him and he kind
of loses consciousness for like a week.
Isn't that like a cliche of just like, oh, I found a mysterious artifact of unknown origin.
I'm gonna mess with it.
It's like, don't do that.
It doesn't end well ever.
To say Max is the kind of guy where like, he could usually like if it was only it wasn't
the gas that he could handle it.
But it was just like, he's already a pretty powerful wizard, isn't he, Max?
Oh, yeah.
Like the fact that he didn't just get his brain exploded is unbelievably impressive.
That'd be like if some random like Imperial guard, Syker found the book of Magnus and
was just like, all right, my head hurts a bit, but I'm fine.
So they find that Eye of Khemri.
A vampire wants to use it to take over the world.
He's in a gotchigan Felix book, so you can probably guess how that came about.
Shout out to Snorri Nosebiter, who's also in that book.
Cannot let a single mention of him go.
And it's not the sad Snorri moment, so that's all right.
It's a happy read.
And then for a while, that's kind of it for Nagash.
He indirectly guides the undead from the afterlife to allow for his resurrection.
And he rather more directly guides Arkhan in particular to lead to his resurrection.
Manfred too, but Manfred's Manfred and an asshole.
So and in the meantime, the world moves on.
The Empire grows in power.
The Doom Kings are always preparing for his next return and attempting to find ways to
finally destroy his black pyramid.
And the vampires every now and then decide to show chaos how to be properly villainous.
Thank you, Nagash, for that endless thorn in the Empire's side that is Sylvanian.
Of note, and this is going to become plot relevant very soon, is that even the ancient
hatred of the dwarfs and the high elves, you know, with the War of the Beard from Nagash's
time, even that's beginning to wane.
Phoenix King Finnebar the Seafarer, the rightful Phoenix King Finnebar, is allowed into dwarf
holds and the capital of Karazakh, Iraq on a diplomatic mission.
He tries Bugman's Ale unheard of for elves, the best the best alcoholic drink ever created.
Did he like it?
It doesn't say.
I'm guessing he liked it because Bugman's Ale is like described as the beverage of the
gods.
So I'm sure he did.
It's out or cough afterwards like, yeah, he did fine.
It also is like instant makes you drunk.
So I think you can actually get it in the Warhammer fantasy roleplay character.
You're not allowed to make a con save or whatever the equivalent is to not be drunk.
You are now drunk.
So shout out to Bugman's.
And even more noteworthy than that is, Hal, I hope you're ready.
Oh God.
I hate talking about this guy.
The Everchild Aliyathra, the daughter of the Everqueen.
She is important because she will inherit the composite soul of the Everqueen and the
power of Isha when the current one dies.
And she's also on a diplomatic tour of the Dwarf Holds and the Dwarves Lover because
she's just like the.
Yeah, she's like Galadriel if she was, I don't know, not like ancient and unbelievably power.
She's like an adorable little Galadriel.
Dwarves love her.
Elves love her.
Elario loves her because it's her daughter.
Tyrion definitely loves her because it's his daughter.
And he would be very angry if something bad were to happen to her.
Uh oh, Manfred Von Garstheit is here.
What happens?
Hal?
Oh God, this is the guy I don't want to talk about.
So here goes Manfred.
Okay.
So it would actually be in the year of 2524, I think if you play the Total War games, I
think it's set how many years before?
I think they're 25.
I think they started like 2517 I have in my head.
Yeah.
So this is, this is a few years towards that time.
There's a few years in after that timeline.
Just like, it's, it's like turned 30 at a Total War game.
Yeah.
Just for like the Total War players out there for reference.
And unfortunately, Arkhan the Black, along with the aid of Manfred Von Garstein, the
guy who killed the setting, uh, I have a little tidbit earlier, Arkhan the Black has previously,
I think killed Heinrich Kemmler at this point as well.
Indeed.
Which is very sad, but you know, so there's a lot, there's a lot of people going into
this.
You'll see what's about to happen.
And with the aid of Manfred Von Garstein, they begin the resurrection of Nagash.
They collect many of the old necromancers, um, artifacts and all the little pieces and
sacrifices.
The hand, they have his armor as well.
They also kidnapped some people along with it, who I'm just about to, the people who
are the ingredient, shall we say.
Nagash hasn't been able to fully resurrect.
Uh, we did previously mentioned there was that the, uh, the night where he resurrected
for a day, but clearly he didn't have the strength to fully resurrect.
So Arkhan basically needed to give him, you know, you need to give him like a blue pill
and you know, get it up soldier.
So sorry.
I, I, my brain, my brain said premature resurrection.
I don't know how to feel about that.
But um, that was when he was fighting Sigmar.
Who can blame him?
So they gather some of these ingredients, shall we say, they even kidnap, um, the Everchild.
There's actually a quite cool part where the doors are escorting her and the doors are
like, and elves are marching together and then they get attacked by Manfred.
And it's a cool scene where the elves and, um, dwarves like fight by each other's side,
but it's not enough.
Unfortunately.
They also kidnap, um, is it Morgiana or Lefay?
I think that's the lady of the lake or not the actual lady, but the avatar of the
Felin chantress, her voice in the mortal, mortal world.
Yeah.
So the, the avatar of the lady of the lake from Bretonnia.
Soon to be dead Bretonian.
Good, good man.
Good Bretonian.
Um, a little bit of a, so they begin this, uh, sacrifice ritual, uh, Manfred and Arkhan.
They, uh, the, the, the lady is essentially cut open and her essence, shall we say is
used to fill a cauldron.
They also have the, uh, defiant Volkmar the Grim, who is the, what's his exact title
again in the, um, arch-lecture, I believe arch-lecture.
So he's the pope of Syngar.
He's the pope.
He's like a whop stone, like chess piece, which is kind of bad ass, but also like, how
was he not cooked from that?
He's just built different.
He's also been kidnapped.
He is essentially encased in Nagash's like old armor and he's just like tied up there.
Um, and they also unfortunately have the ever child, uh, Alethear, Aleth, Alethear,
Alethear, my bad, Alethear.
She is obviously not happy about this.
Not happy, doesn't even cut it and she is kind of the last piece of the ritual.
The ritual itself was called the death at nine demons, which is actually a pretty bad
ass name, but this was not, uh, it didn't go smoothly.
It was interrupted by a high elven force.
One that has a particularly mighty elven hero who would make his way towards the ritual
site along with his forces and he would attempt to interrupt it.
His name is Altharion the Grim and I'll hand it over to Colin.
Cause there's no way I'm not letting Colin talk about this main man.
Oh my God.
Uh, so Altharion the Grim, uh, a little backstory on him because he's earned it is a, he's high
elf Batman.
Uh, he invaded the dark elf homeland, nearly took them out until a fat goblin was threatening
to destroy his home of Yvres and the world.
Uh, Grom the Paunch, the fattest gobble of them all.
Can we say why he's fat?
Very quickly.
Cause that has to be said.
Cause Grom ate troll meat, which usually it's regenerative.
So the orcs would force feed goblins to eat it and then watch them explode.
Grom just kept growing alongside the troll meat though.
He's also built different.
Uh, so he nearly took out Altharion's home and Altharion swooped home, killed Grom, stopped
the world from ending by stabilizing the, the vortex and proceeded to kill so many orcs
that he single-handedly gave elves a reputation for being the best fighters on the planet
in the eyes of the orcs.
Uh, given this man backstory here, cause he has a fate that's not great coming up soon.
Uh, he's also high elf Batman.
Uh, if you, especially if you, you've seen the, the warden and the Paunch trailer where
he has his bat cave, he locks up goblins inside.
So he shows up leading the army of high elves, you know, where is she?
Looking for Alieothra and he sees arc in the black inside of a magical force field preparing
to cast the ritual.
And he goes, uh, he proceeds to try and, or pardon me, I'm getting ahead of myself.
He takes his magical sword, the fang sword and breaks it in order to bypass the force
field, which he does.
And in true Batman fashion, he does to Arken what Batman does to Jay walkers and Gotham
grabs him by the throat and begins just slamming his head into the ground.
Uh, which very awesome.
So Arken is a lot better of a wizard than he is.
So Arken, uh, in spite of Altharion's wonderful performance and just bad ass very cast the
curse of year spell.
And in a matter of moments, Altharion ages to dust.
He put up one hell of a fight though.
Uh, also I should be, uh, some of Alieothra.
Manfred kept trying to taunt her about her upcoming death and horrible pain she'd go
through and she just kind of looked at him just completely nonplussed, which, uh, arc
in the black was like, you know what?
Good on you Alieothra.
I'm still going to kill you because I need your, I need you for this.
Uh, but good on you for making Manfred look like a clown.
And uh, Hal, would you like to finish off the tragedy?
Uh, well, unfortunately the high elf force didn't make it in time and the ever child
was killed by Arken.
It's a pretty grim part.
So we can't also go into too much detail cause YouTube, but essentially the ritual with the
last piece in place starts to enact.
You know, violent, turbulent winds, uh, come about the whole place.
Also storm and then Arken then cleaves off of Vox Mars wrist and places the severed hand
that Colin mentioned earlier that Alcales are managed to, uh, crunk off, um, Nagash
quite a few thousand years ago at this point.
And he places it upon that stump.
And then essentially Volkmar is, uh, encasing the, um, Nagash's armor is basically consumed
by this vortex and dark magic.
And then such as the power of Nagash, Nagash is fully reborn.
The skeleton bone daddy emerges back into the mortal plane and he's essentially ready
to, uh, begin Nagashing all over the entire setting.
Oh yeah.
He's uh, he is back for real this time.
And it should be noted that in Warhammer fantasy prior, you know, prior to the end times, uh,
Nagash's return was, is treated with the same level of terror that the chaos gods themselves
walking onto the mortal plane is.
Uh, and now he's back fully.
He's back.
Uh, Nagash, uh, Manfred, like I was saying, thought he's like, I'm going to steal Nagash's
power when he's back and become the ultimate death, uh, you know, magician.
Manfred's terrified.
He, uh, he realized that his plan was like the equivalent of setting off a nuclear bomb
to power your house forever.
Uh, it's, uh, Manfred's way over, you know, over his head and Nagash's power is completely
unrivaled.
His arrogance is finally put in check, isn't it?
Yeah.
Manfred is finally learning his place in the world.
Uh, and it's, uh, that being said.
There is one issue with Nagash's resurrection.
Uh, part of the reason Aliazra was chosen and not any other elf is because she's the
ever child and Nagash wanted the power of Isha and the ever queen.
Problem is until the last ever queen dies, the, the ever child is just a fancy title.
It's like a, I owe you one God like power coupon.
Uh, what Aliazra does have in her is the curse of Kane because she's Tyrion's kid.
So instead of gaining, you know, unlimited power over life and death, Nagash is just,
Nagash just really wants to pick up the sword of Kane.
That's, that's really all he got out of the deal.
He got cursed.
Uh, but he's still not, he's still back at full power and then some regardless.
So he's a, he's powerful.
Oh, the vampire Neferada also knew about this and thought it was funny and didn't tell anyone
what would happen with Aliazra, which I think is pretty funny.
She's like, yeah, you're a bunch of idiots.
Nice.
Uh, now Nagash is back in the first book of the end times is all about him.
It's called Nagash.
So it's time for step one of my gosh, his master plan, obliterate Nehekara, which he
promptly does.
He has Arkan invade the city of Khemri, which fairs fair to the tomb Kings.
They defeat it reasonably easily, uh, but it was all ploy because Nagash hid inside
of Arkan's body.
Don't don't ask.
I don't know.
It just, Arkan gets cut in half and Nagash pops out.
Uh, Nagash then duals Setra who, despite Setra only being like an okay wizard and the size
of a normal person compared to Nagash, who was the incarnate of death magic and the size
of a Titan.
Setra drifts around him and ties him at a Dragon Ball Z beam duel.
Uh, Setra says the cool line.
Setra does not serve.
Setra does explode.
However, because Nagash is done with his crap and Khemri is completely obliterated down
to the sand it's resting on.
We should also mention all a lot of the undead, like characters within the warhammer verse.
They essentially flocked in the gashes side and they become his, his more talks, right?
Like the generals, Vlad von Karstein, Manfred, Neferada, Krell, good old Krell's back at
it again after Heimrich, Heinrich got obliterated by Arkan.
Luther Harkon, vampire Jack Sparrow is here to join the party.
And of special note for those of you familiar with him, one fella named Drachenfels referred
to as the nameless, who is a, an old lore character they brought back for as a fun little
cameo in the end times as one of Nagash's chief servants.
What happens to, what happens to Konrad?
Is it his name the schizo vampire?
I have no idea what happened to him in the end times to be entirely honest.
I like him.
He's funny.
Will he be part of the, you know how they're bringing fantasy back?
Will his plot be part of what they tackle, do you reckon, with the three emperors?
Was that earlier?
I can't remember.
I honestly, I'm not too familiar on my, on my Konrad von Karstein lore.
I have his mini so I hope they do.
Psycho.
Psychopath.
He's got a cool mini so I hope he comes back.
But uh, I don't, I don't think he's involved in the end times.
You can't cast spells so I mean.
No but he can rip you in half.
Quite easily.
Cause my, my knowledge of him is vague but I know you said like he's kind of like, going
through a bit of mental trauma at this point.
I just like the idea of him being in the battlefield at the end times going, has anyone seen my
keys?
I need my keys, I don't know where I am, what's going on?
And then like, they just forget he's there and then he just wanders off and anyone who
gets in his way just rips apart and he goes, I'm sure I put them somewhere, they're somewhere
around here and then he just disappears.
Poor guy.
While all the mayhem's going on.
Cut to man in half.
It's bullied by all the other vampires.
Cuts, cuts a man in half and says, I forgot to count the bins.
And he's just in like.
Did I leave the stove on?
Uh, I'm going back.
Sheer panic.
Poor Conrad and poor Nahakara.
I said that weird.
Anyways, most of the rest of the Tomb Kings and Undead are now under his control from
here on out.
With two exceptions.
One is a singular Tomb King who even after Setsha was defeated and the rest of Nahakara
was put under Nagash's heel, he still defied Nagash's will and was nevertheless defeated.
I could not find this Tomb King's name.
I believe he was from the city of Zandri.
If you know it, please put in the comments or the live chat or something, please.
But shout out to that guy.
He was a, he was a real, he was a real one.
The second exception was a vampire named Zekarius the ever living who I'm bringing up because
he's, this is very funny.
He used to have rules and was in a model and he was built up as equal to Nagash in power,
or at least almost equal.
Nagash comes back and as he's contacting everyone, he contacts Zekarius and is like, Hey, you're
a vampire.
Why don't you get on over here, serve me now.
Zekarius demands to be treated as an equal and refuses Nagash's summons saying I'm just
as powerful as you.
So Nagash sets his brain on fire.
As it turns out, Zekarius was not the equal to Nagash.
Rest rest in piss.
After this, he consumes the Nahakaron god of the dead Ussurian and the power of the dwarf
ancestor goddess of Illyia.
So Nagash has now eaten two gods and most of the wind of death.
He's getting a taste for it now.
He's like, Oh, this is quite nice actually.
Oh yeah.
Some more gods.
Why not?
Now it's time for phase two.
Get the rest of the more Tarks together and turn the pyramid into a spaceship.
So he lifts his black pyramid off the ground and floats it over to Sylvania to bind the
entire wind of death to the province, which imagine floating the pyramids of Giza all
the way to Romania is what Nagash just did.
That's just how he rolls.
So Nergal and the Skaven because the chaos gods themselves are afraid of Nagash because
if he wins, he's going to turn chaos into Nagash land.
They seem as like a potential rival.
That's what, but just like as a reference to people who are just like 40k or 30k viewers,
the chaos gods in one of fantasy are powerful, but they're not quite to the level of what
the 40k slash 30k one I think are.
They're a bit more tangible if you know what I mean.
I think that's right.
This is a matter of the setting is just one planet.
So obviously they can't be destroying planets left and right.
But nevertheless, Nagash has big plans.
So with this, the Nergal's, the Nergal forces, the TV show, it's like, let's go and check
in with the Nergal.
It's like, it's mommy Nergal.
Hello.
This show is like the family on television.
Nergal and the Skaven who are now part of chaos because the end times need to happen.
Get wind of this and go to stop him.
Nagash and his forces hold off Nergal with no problem.
But the Skaven brought this goofy little thing we like to call a tactical nuclear warhead
to the fight and blew up the black pyramid from underneath it, which they did when they
tunneled under it.
Truly goofy.
A little bit of a prank, if you will, pulling on Nagash.
Prank him, John.
Oh God.
You already know.
Now with true godhood and diminishing over everything out of his reach, he throws a hissy
fit unleashes a magical blast, which permacills every demon present and takes stock of where
he's at.
And he's a time for him to go to plan B. Now earlier in the end times, Teclis had given
him an offer suggesting he allies with the living.
Some imperial diplomats gave him the same offer and he killed them and he told Teclis to go
away.
But now with him being fresh out of options to defeat chaos, it's time for him to suck
it up.
So what he does is he goes to the Wood Elf home of Athel Loren, where at this point
all of the incarnates like the good guys coming together, the Avengers are located trying
to figure out what to do and is like, all right, I'll play ball now.
I'll be your allies.
Of note is that Malekith, who once again is responsible for all of the world's problems,
says this is the worst idea you've ever had, Teclis.
What the hell are you doing?
Which and as much as I think he's a he's a bit of a jerk, I can't fault Malekith on
this one.
There's also a bit where Teclis, he's got like magic vision.
He sees the demons as pure black because you know, they're demons, they're pure evil.
Nagash is just about as dark as they are.
So he's as evil as demons, which I thought was cool.
But he's real.
That's even worse.
He is.
Yeah.
Nagash doesn't go away if you like ignore magic for long enough.
Nagash is going to make you his problem, make him your problem.
Because demons are just they're just magic or like they're essentially sentient nightmare
given.
They need they need met they're like they're formed out of magic.
So if magic isn't strong in an area, they're physically cannot be demons.
Nagash isn't like that.
Nagash will just make himself your problem.
So despite you know, he shows up to Athel Loren, Wood Elf home, and despite him showing
up and constantly taunting Allie or Allariel and Tyrion about how his their daughter died
to let him come back.
And alliances form between the guys is the worst.
He really is just the worst.
Although as as a little like a truce gift, he gives the Manfred von Karstein to be a
prisoner, which even Manfred's like, hang on, wait a minute, I didn't agree to this.
And then he's like, he's just put in a box, which I wish he stayed in that box.
Chaos invades to keep them for interfering or interfering.
And Nagash so as a bloodthirster with I might add, not even a fraction of the effort it
took sanguineous simply built better.
You leave my beautiful boy alone.
He's brilliant.
Yeah, well, the bone man did far better and the bone man died and still did it sanguineous
died and what's he doing?
He's dead.
Skill issue of everything that's lovely about wings.
I don't know.
He's lovely Sangrenala is only six months away.
Think of the children.
In the words in the words of Nagash skill issue.
After this happens, Teclis teleports everyone to the city of Mindenheim, where Archeon is
performing a ritual to open a great warp riff, which will swallow the world whole into chaos.
Everyone starts fighting and the gas starts soloing more bloodthirsters and really just
killing anything that gets in his way, just anything that gets in his ways swiftly unmade.
Wings are everywhere, elves are everywhere, orcs are everywhere.
It's a massive fight.
Complete cluster just foster clock.
Setra shows back up and tells the gas that after he kills all four of the chaos gods,
he's coming for the gas next, which by God, I wish I could have setras confidence in my
life and the incarnates of the lords of magic to start performing their ritual to stave
off the end of the world.
Manfred who had broken free did his funny thing where he stabs Gelt into back and the
last of Nagash in Warhammer fantasy is him crumbling to dust and panicking as chaos consumes
the world.
Thank you Manfred.
Thank you Games Workshop.
Very cool.
Gosh, they could have written it any other way.
Yeah, that's how they chose to do it.
What was Manfred's reasoning?
He figured now was the time to take power and betray Nagash so he'd be on the winning
side.
Except I think he, I don't know, his reasoning was I'm Manfred von Karstein and I haven't
filled my treachery card over the day.
They fumbled so many endings in the end times.
Obviously that's the worst one, but.
At least Grimgore beats up Archaon.
He does do that.
Man, can't.
But not to be sad for too long because Nagash comes back in the age of Sigmar.
He's the great necromancer.
It's kind of hard to get rid of him.
So what the chaos gods did with him in the meantime is just lock him in a crypt of forgotten
moments.
I don't know what that means, but that's what they locked him in until Sigmar frees him.
Because Sigmar in the early days of the moral realms needs some powerful allies.
How does Sigmar survive?
So during the end times him and Archaon are wrestling over Galmaraz and they're the first
to fall into the chaos rift.
Sigmar survives, he gets Galmaraz back, but he survives by just hanging onto the floating
core of the Warhammer world.
How does Sigmar show up?
Does he just show up through Karl Franz or is he just there?
When Teclis unbinds the winds of magic from the vortex, he notes that the wind of Azir,
heavens, had a mind inside of it.
And it turns out that Zinch locked him inside of it.
And so that's how Sigmar attained true godhood and enough to survive the world blowing up.
Good for him.
So Sigmar finds Nagash, frees him, and together they fight and slay beings that are just straight
up said to be able to give the chaos gods a run for their money.
So Sigmar and Nagash quite a bit stronger.
I guess Nagash did a whole lot of sit ups in the interim.
It's a small tidbit as well.
They say, I think it's implied as well, now that they're gods, that the previous gods
of the other worlds, or the world that it was, they were people who survived the previous
destruction of the last world.
So that's how Cain and Asurion may have come to be.
That's one of the things they reveal.
It's survivors of the previous epoch of the previous world.
Although Gork and Mork are kind of throwing a wrench in that because Gork and Mork are
just Gork and Mork again.
They're back.
I just like how you were like, oh, you know, Nagash and Sigmar team up like a buddy cop
movie.
It's like good cop, bad cop.
And they're like, we're gonna take care and get all the trash.
I mean, he's not wrong.
What it was.
It would kill to see a comic about that.
As they find more of the survivors of the Warhammer world who become the new gods, Nagash
sets up shop in the realm of Shaiash, death, which is where the various afterlives of the
age of Sigmar universe all live in merry harmony with each other.
Despite him not having any greater claim to it than all of the other death gods that exist,
Nagash declares that he is now the god of death.
There will only be one.
And in order to make sure of this, he absorbs all the other death gods until he is the only
one left because he he learned nothing and he is still the worst.
And when you're a tyrant, you get to rewrite your own past to your fitting.
Go, no, I was always the one who was in charge of death.
Yeah, that's my thing.
You know, other gods.
Yum, yum, yum.
Tasty.
So, yeah, he's he's the he's the guy for death now.
Although, interestingly enough, for for a few thousand years, he doesn't betray anyone.
He plans to, but he doesn't do it quite yet.
And even more interestingly, Sigmar considered the gash his closest ally in this time, the
age of myth, it's called.
So I guess in the gash can behave, even if it's just so it's all the more of a gut punch
when he betrays you later.
But you know, he was behaving for a while.
Murathi tried to seduce him.
I don't I don't know what she thought she was going to do with him.
He's a skeleton.
But you know, she tried.
And then the gash slapped her so hard that she turned into a snake.
Whoa, that's weird.
Yeah, that's a weird sentence.
It's her true form.
He slapped her so hard, her like illusion wore off.
But you know, the gash has quite the backhand, apparently.
I also like how Sigmar probably thinks he's very close or he's his best ally just because
the gash is like a known quantity, like he knows what the gash wants.
So therefore he knows how to act around it.
Whereas like people like techless or Malekith or Malek, what's he called now?
Malarian, but I'm Malekith Malaria Malarian.
It's pretty close, but I think they are like, it's hard to gauge what the other gods plan
to do, especially though something much more conniving and the gash is like, oh, I know
he's going to betray me at some point, but I just know as long as like his interests
are aligned with mine, we're good.
So yeah, so the gash is a he starts getting to work making his undead forces and all that
good stuff.
Ark in the Black is back once again, the gash is chief right hand man, and he acts so personalityless
that people forget he's not just a neutral avatar of the gash, including the gash sometimes.
He is he does still have like he is still a character, but he puts on an appearance
to let him avoid all of the politicking the forces of the undead do the vampires.
He brings back vampires and arcanax so bland because the vampires have such dynastic politics
going on that it makes Game of Thrones look tame.
And Manfred von Karstein is back, baby.
To be the gash is to be the gash's little stress ball.
Hey, so that's dead in the in Asia, Sigmar Vlad tragically is not back.
Yeah, it's very exciting.
I'm okay with that, though.
I feel like he doesn't like he just have a spoilers because I don't know if we will talk
about him sometime, but I feel like he's hit the right end of his story arc with how he
met his end, shall we say.
So I feel like they should leave him alone.
Vampire.
It doesn't bring everyone back in ages.
Sigma something back, etc.
Et cetera should come back.
That's one of those ones like he's he's he's not done yet.
Is Krell even back?
I don't think Krell has a cool model.
No.
What the heck?
Why not?
Kim and Kamler's model used to be on the store.
They were taken down not actually that long ago, like a couple months, I think.
And I regret not getting them so much.
I have an old Krell one, but he's like missing pieces and broken now.
Feel so bad.
Pain.
Maybe when all comes out, they might re-release them.
Here's hoping.
But yeah, for a while, Nagash was doing his thing and then chaos shows up.
Nagash is, interestingly, the last one, like of the gods that leaves to do their own thing.
He's the last one to stick by Sigmar's side.
Unsurprisingly, he basically kicks Sigmar and his forces on the balls on the way out
and leaves them to rot before the biggest battle of the war.
So Sigmar, it's called the Battle of the Burning Skies.
It is an epic fantasy battle against Archeon and all the chaos gods.
Sigmar loses because he got tricked into throwing his scammer, Galmaraz, away.
He retreats back to his homeland, home realm of Azir, to create the Stormcast of Turtles.
And hell, why don't you let us know how things go for Nagash from here?
Oh, this is this is goofy.
So Nagash has done his event, you know, he waited, it was cooking, you know, people like
let him cook, let him cook.
But eventually he did betray Sigmar.
And even at this point as well, he does battle Archeon as well.
Swear to Archeon, his back, baby.
He's even better than ever. And Nagash does find that he is crunked by Archeon at some
point.
He arrogantly again, thinks that he could take on Sigmar and the chaos gods, as is the
rise of the age of chaos.
Didn't go to plan.
So he decided to do his next best thing as like a, you know, you can't put Nagash down.
He's now like the god of death.
He's not he's not ever dying.
Like truly, at least until the plot demands it.
So he begins his new plan of once again forming black pyramids.
So he would send out minions to resource the what's called Shaiishian realmstone or which
like a sand that they would turn to something called shade glass, which is a bit different
to how he built the pyramids in the one the fancy world.
So it's like a mix of imply like there's like some warpstone to that, whereas this is more
warpstone and black marble.
This one is more like the actual sand, like the realm itself as tone.
It's like a specific glass.
Although weirdly enough, these pyramids, he's like he makes a few black pyramids and they're
upside down.
He doesn't stop at one this time.
No, he's like, I got I got backup plans on backup plans.
And he makes them yeah, they're floating, but they're upside down, which is you think
this one this one's even.
Yeah, you can't you can't credit this one, surely.
And with these black pyramids, he will once again try to funnel magical power into himself
and again, cast a spell that would end all life across the realms because he just you
know, if the idea is not broke, don't fix it.
Just execution.
He's about to get prank fooled about to get pranked.
Of course, no one was happy with this chaos even sent armies to attempt to interrupt the
ritual.
I think I even believe like some of the forces of Sigmar tried as well, but it would be once
again the skaven rat boys gang gang.
They would they would once again, thwart your boy.
Do they actually I think they mine into it.
I from the realm of is it they mine in from skaven blight?
I can't remember.
Yeah, because they can tunnel in between reality now.
Just like not even like there's the realm gates not even like that.
They just tunnel between reality and they can pop up wherever they want.
So they do that and dig into his pyramids and do a funny little prank we like to call
multiple tactical nukes.
Yes, they even do fair.
They actually tend to mine at the pyramid as well.
So they didn't just blow it up.
They also attempted to steal some of it, but also the fact of them being present in the
pyramids, like just because they are like tainted by chaos.
They just their very presence kind of would start to ruin the ritual and it was sought
to twist and convulse and eventually this would okay.
So shout out to my boy Douglas MacArthur the skaven are a big fan of his problem solving
methods.
Eventually, warheads.
Sorry.
They eventually do disrupt the spell and they also, as Colin said, they start, you know,
they give it boom boom funny time and you know, it blows up.
This does cause the amount of magical power that is both the realm of shy ish as mean
check out if you want to see more about Asia Sigma on our far side fantasy where we did
like a full in depth of like if you're new to it and then no Colin like held my hand
through that.
The realm of shy ish is pretty big, but these realms are unending, but this spell would
send a shockwave that would blast not even just across that realm of death.
It would go to all the other realms who are kind of not necessarily, it's not like a planet,
but they're also in a way I think we said in that video, didn't we like, like for the
dark world where like they kind of tunnels and things and gates that connect them, they
kind of like overlap on each other.
This spell would go basically wrong and it would spawn something called the necroquake,
which was essentially an undead wave that washed over all of the realms and this death
magic would start to essentially arise the dead.
Although many of the dead and like Asia, the souls go to the realm of shy ish, there are
still obviously like skeletons and you know, people buried in other realms and this would
basically raise the dead across all at once and everyone's like, oh my God, they would
obviously cities would be overrun, many people would die.
Again it's not necessarily all under Nagash's control, but he did get a bit of a bonus from
the ritual.
So he did find like a sort of described like an eldritch portal or a kind of concentration
of the magic he had already gathered and he absorbed as much of this as he could.
So he did get a bit of a power up, but the also slight consequences as well would be
for the later stories of Asia's Sikkimar, which is the god beasts, which are like Titanic
creatures and things I think similar to, or maybe even the ones that Nagash and Sikkimar
had battled before like chaos had even come, what we mentioned earlier.
They start to awaken now because it's like someone's basically hit a dinner bell and
gone time's up boy ready and Nagash is now essentially souped up and powered up and I
hand it back to Collins to tell the rest of his Asia's Sikkimar shenanigans.
Three more things I'd like to add about this big old ritual.
It also created this big old black hole of magic in the center of shy ish called the
shy ish nadir, which anything that goes into it ain't coming out because it's a black
hole except for Nagash who can temporarily enter it to get a Dragon Ball Z Super Saiyan
power up.
It also, there were two other things about Nagash or the night, the Necroquake, the,
it allowed the night haunt, which are like ghosts and rates and all that to just beat
swarm the mortal realms and the billions and the Osea arc bone reapers, the, the bone marines
to the storm cast ground marines are now here.
This is how they were introduced as a faction.
And then the last thing I want to bring up about the ritual, while one of these skaven
task forces did successfully burrow into the black pyramids, one of them burrowed underneath
an ocean in shy ish and flooded skaven blight with zombie-infested waters.
Hey Eli, who do you, who do you think was leading that one?
It has to be thank world.
It was that little baby.
Poor guy.
Never taken a W in his entire life.
I love that one.
He is literally the embodiment of you failed successfully.
He is a barrel of laughs.
That was a not, not quite in a gash, but it was the same like scenario.
And I couldn't leave, I couldn't let that one go.
But to, to get to this for a while, the night haunt or the, the neck earthquake, not, not
great.
It's it's hard pressing everyone, you know, the storm cast of forces of destruction, like
the orcs and all that even chaos is on the back foot for a bit.
Like the chaos gods themselves showed up with avatars to watch in the gash do his thing.
The gash laughed at them, then they laughed at him when the scaven blew it up.
And then the gash went back to laughing at them when he realized, Oh, all of reality's
covered in death magic.
You're all screwed.
So it was a whole bunch of people going, it was just as planned until it's once again
time for age of Sigmar to have the only games workshop writers who give a damn about else
because the Lumina the realm Lords are making their stage or making their grand appearance.
The the high high elves, Tyrion and Teclis, the two gods of heish this realm and the Lumina
they were they were ready for the gash.
They had a feeling he was going to do some clownery and they show up and just go to town
on the gash of note.
Eltharion's back.
Arcan cursed him so hard that every time Teclis would give him a body it aged dust.
But that's okay because he just inhabited a hollow suit of armor and not even not he's
like a I guess it's kind of like a wraith knight.
But he has like no body.
It's like floating armor.
It's really cool.
Like a thousand sun.
No, it's cooler.
No dust.
No cringe.
Dad doesn't love me.
Dad let my planet blow up.
All all badass.
Cool.
And Eltharion even gets revenge on Arc in the Black.
Arc in the Black goes so more he thought no one would follow because it's so in hospital
and then Eltharion follows him and chucks him straight into the magical void because
he got he got his revenge and Teclis blows the gash up so hard that he can't form a body
anymore currently in Age of Sigmar.
Or at least not a permanent one.
And then casts part one of a big old spell to end the pardon me the Necroquake and Elariel
the Everqueen who is also back from fantasy cast her own spell called the Lifequake to
really end the Necroquake.
And the death magic is all dispelled at the cost of sometimes when you're walking down
the street you might become pregnant.
Even the dudes.
No, we made that up.
That's not official.
Shout out to Elariel the Everqueen for that for that one.
Appreciate you fam.
Now my bills are gone up.
Now the ghosts you know ghosts are a lot less of a problem than I am because they need a
death they're like death demons they need death magic present to manifest.
And since there's a lot less of it there's a lot less of them.
The rest of the gashes forces are in disarray because of the damage the Lumineth did to
them and the vampire followers of his are on the brink of civil war because the gash
is no longer around to keep them in check.
And the few like certainly loyal servants he definitely has left.
He's sending out to try and both just get revenge on Teclis like every time Teclis blinks
a new army of the undead is attacking his capitals.
And he's just trying to figure out how to get back for real again.
And for now that is the end of Nagash.
His story I do have some brief stuff about tabletop and total war if anyone cares to
add only be like five minutes.
You can go for it.
We'll at the end.
So that meme earlier you sent Andy.
The reason his model original model looks like that is because the sculptor wanted like
a desiccated mummy look but his higher ups wanted a skeletal look.
So he intentionally like you know you look at old warhammer models a lot of them what
kind of goofy like they've just not aged super well.
Nagash's was designed that way on purpose because the sculptor figured I'm going to design the
dumbest derpiest looking model I possibly can.
So they have to say it's not good enough and send it back to like be recreated so I can
do my desiccated flesh thing.
And then they approved it.
So the joke was on him.
Which was that's just funny.
I mean he's iconic now though so.
At this point yeah it's just so funny.
It's Chad Nagash.
Awesome.
When he came back in the end times in Age of Sigmar he's almost a thousand points so
if you're playing a smaller game you simply cannot use him.
He's too expensive.
In larger games he's going to be could be like half your army so you're building the
army around the gash.
If you want to bring him be prepared you're planning around him.
That being said he's one hell of a spell caster.
Complete wrecking ball of one.
Resurrecting half your army every turn solely if they're close enough to him.
Very funny.
Casting eight spells in a single turn is also very funny.
Yo eight?
Yeah eight spells.
He's got a he's got a damage bracket so it gets worse.
But yeah if he hasn't taken too many wounds eight spells a turn.
Good luck everybody else.
The spell hand of dust is very funny because you point at an opponent's model and put a
dice behind your hand.
Yeah it still exists.
Oh it does and if they don't pick the hand that has the die in it the model is just dead.
That's it.
Can't believe they kept that around.
I love that spell it's so goofy.
He's got the gaze of Nagash which is laser eyes like that big what is that I don't I
don't know if anyone's gonna get that.
I don't ever play ace combat.
No.
Alright.
There's a big laser tower in it and that's like that shoots lasers at planes and that's
what Nagash does with his eyes.
Very cool the gaze of Nagash.
He's a very powerful very funny.
Keep him away from Gottrick.
Otherwise you're gonna lose a thousand points to a model that cost half that.
Good old Gottrick.
And then just before I before I cease my ramblings after all this time.
Total War the Nagash mod is in Total War Hammer 3.
Go download it for the love of God it is so fun.
You go from like they even modeled the original Nagash model to be as like pre powered up
form once you take back the black pyramid he becomes new Gash.
You can decide the entire world needs to get obscene levels of vampiric corruption for
ten turns straight.
Very funny.
Hand of dust.
They've done it very well in that game.
You pointed an enemy Lord or hero.
Wait for it to cast and then there's no more enemy Lord or hero.
Very funny recruiting other legendary Lords you know the Mortarx and their factions is
getting erased from the game.
Also very funny.
And of course he's down in you know in the Southlands in the Hecarim blood bowl which
means you get to do creative assemblies favorite pastime in Total War which is just beat the
hell out of Teclis.
Pain.
Teclis Teclis Teclis's neighbors are the worst.
But that is the story of Nagash the great necromancer.
Does anyone have any questions for me?
You want to bring it to 40k don't you necromancy.
I know you we've talked about this I know what you want for necromancy.
Yeah Eldar.
I do want I do want some like ghost Eldars like Ghost of the War in heaven but I want
necromancy so bad 40k its own thing.
I want 40k Nagash like I hate that they wasted on a Primarch's backstory the entire concept
of necromancy.
Like oh you're a Mortarion.
Oh they're all dead doesn't matter anyways.
And they were still under chaos they were chaos necromancer.
Not how necromancy works.
I think we should do a Cesarec versus Nagash versus episode one of these days.
I call him two undead kings.
Yeah Silent King is a much nicer guy.
Oh I was I was I I mean anyone but a Skaven's probably a nicer guy.
Also do not base coat your Doomsday Ark by hand worst mistake of my life.
Rob what are you doing?
I live in a basement so I can't use the airbrush while we like.
I've just been doing I just.
Saving for later and take it outside.
Yeah but I have to set it up still.
It's like it's done now.
It took the entire episode but just don't just don't attach your Doomsday Cannon to
the to the Ark before you paint it.
Just just alright.
Any closing thoughts?
Andy is the the resident learner about fantasy.
Why is one thing I keep hearing is about like he gets put down he comes back up is is there
physically a way to put Nagash down once and for all because it seems like he's he keeps
somehow finding a way to crawl back is there feasibly a way it could be.
I would I would I would have a quick I'll have a quick go at that question.
I think me and Collins have said perhaps he might be so because he's a god of death he
might be so intrinsically tied to the realm of death that he's almost he's like a concept
I don't know how to get a concept I don't know what what do you think Colin?
I think like the thing you like in fantasy originally he invented necromancy it wasn't
a thing before him so and he was the best at it by far so in fantasy it's like maybe
you could have but it's like you're trying to kill the first ever necromancer who perfected
everything about it.
It's the Isaac Newton of necromancy.
Yeah he just invented it and he was really good at it and like oh I've just invented
calculus but with dead people like oh cool yeah how long did that take you like a week
okay you're not you're not getting rid of them and like house in an age of sigma he's
now like the incarnate of death like he's the only god of the dead anymore there might
be a few hidden ones running around but even if so he's definitely the most powerful and
the way age of sigma works is the the mortal realms each have like a god that they're kind
of tied to and Nagash is tied to the realm of death so the only way I can think of is
either maybe if you can do something like the chaos gods did originally after the end
times and lock them up in some magical BS crypt or you need to destroy the entire afterlives
every single one in age of sigma or you need to drive away gigantic soul gem and just put
him in yeah and new ones pop up as time goes on a new civil adjacents arise by the way
so you're gonna do what you're gonna have to do a lot of killing a lot of afterlife
slaughtering or maybe you resurrect him and bring him back to life life if you know what
I mean but I did they obviously won't kill him anytime soon maybe I don't know if that
would even work well if he's not dead like you can't kill death
well yeah but like necromancers are still a thing like in age of sigma he just I feel
like he would just become an alive necromancer again and then if you killed him then he'd
be like all right I guess I'm back to how I was but the real answer is when the plot
demands it the real answer is when a gash is no longer profitable enough to justify
keeping him around although that is the great is anyone does want to make any closing statements
or closing thoughts doesn't seem like a nice man no but I would uh I'll go to my final
closing thought is that is it is a frequent misconception among the warhammer community
that the skaven exist as a as a cool faction designed to expand upon the lore and setting
and sell cool models the real reason the skaven exists is to ensure that negash can never
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