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Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome back to Fantasy Fireside and today I'm here with

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Colin once again to discuss Warhammer Fantasy and we're doing a very, how shall I say this,

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a very popular request from the comments that I've been observing over the last few months.

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Colin, would you like to reveal what faction we're talking about today?

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I would be delighted to. Today we are talking about the Dau'i or the dwarfs in not Warhammer speak.

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Dwarves! Everyone likes dwarfs, I know it's well known, I'm partial to my elves but that doesn't

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mean I dislike dwarfs, I quite like dwarfs and in Warhammer Fantasy I think dwarfs have got to be

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up there and factions I like. So with a rundown of what we're going to be doing today, are we

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going to go through different factions or specific characters? What should the audience be expecting

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for this one? It'll just be a nice chill little brief overview of their history, talk about

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some of the big stuff that happened, a little bit of tabletop how they play, a little bit about

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their culture, just dip your toes into a little bit of everything, nothing super in depth, just

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nice little chill and we'll talk about hey, you ever see those short angry people? This is

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what they're all about. That can be misconstrued for a lot of things, I've been to Wales.

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No, no, no, not that. Anyway. So is anything in particular, any questions you got beforehand

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before we dive in? I suppose I'm assuming that there isn't a, how do I put this, like when you

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think of the different races in Warhammer, are they part of the, not first founding, but there was

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a big super duper being and then there was this, this, this, this, this and they were part of that

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original, like we made this batch of things. I'm not sure exactly if everything just came into

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fruition, other than the Skaven, came into fruition all at once or if they were different,

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it's kind of hard to explain, but do you know what I mean? Yeah, and that's actually the

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perfect way to put it, you're actually pretty close with how it works. Their history begins,

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their version of their history is that their ancestor gods shaped them from the earth and

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taught them culture and all that good stuff. The non-dwarf version of their history is that the

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old ones, like you said, the big super being, it's still the old ones in fantasy. When they came to

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the Warhammer world, they started making races to fight against chaos. They wanted to make the perfect

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anti-chaos race and the elves were first, they made the elves and they weren't what they were

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looking for. They were very powerful with magic, they were more than happy to fight in a war,

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but they were a bit too frail, they were prone to following their ambitions, a bit

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kind of selfish almost, and so just overall not what they were looking for. So they made sure

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Ulthuan, the island of the elves, was all nice and good for them. It did still help them out a bit,

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they didn't just throw them into the wind, they gifted culture and all that stuff, but they moved

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on to round two, which was the dwarfs. So they took what they learned from the elves and switched

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the formula around a bit. So what they did with the dwarfs was not only can dwarfs for the most part

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not use magic, they're so anti-magic that when dwarfs, if you get enough dwarfs around,

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you just can't use magic. It's almost like they're a race of blanks.

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That's interesting, I didn't realize that, that's quite interesting.

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It's not quite blanks because they do have souls, it's just like the way they're made.

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Dwarfs have souls guys, come on.

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They have souls, I swear. No, it's not like they're not blanks, they have a soul,

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but it has such a stabilizing effect on chaos and magic that weaker magicians just can't use magic.

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You'll be hearing a lot of this this episode, and Gottrick and Felix, Gottrick and another dwarf,

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Malachi McKyson, get blasted by this wizard's magical kamehameha. They just stand there and

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take it. You're like, you think a dwarf is going to bow to this weak stuff? Come on.

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They just, it just doesn't work. So the old one gave them that ability. They made them proficient

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with crafting technology and mining and all the classic dwarf stuff and made them, they saw that

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the elves were, you know, ambition could lead to problem. So they made them not only very

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like oriented towards clan family, all that, they made them a very conservative culture,

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because the figure is like, they're going to be very slow and steady with things,

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that way chaos can't wrong foot them.

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So essentially to anyone who's not familiar, that it's like they're the antithesis to the,

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like you've got a spectrum, it's like one side, it's the elves, the other side, it's the dwarves,

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and then I guess humanity's somewhere in the middle?

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Somewhere in the middle? Kind of. Humanity, they want to, they

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tread some kind of different, like in the middle, but also different. It's weird. Maybe

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another time we'll cover that mess that is humanity in these settings.

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That's the video title earlier. The mess that is humanity.

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It's just as messy in fantasy as in 40k. But while the old ones did get what they wanted,

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it almost went too well. And the dwarves steadiness and refusal to like,

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adapt, proved to be more than a weakness, like chaos could trick them much easier than the elves.

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And magic, like inability to use magic, it ended up just being more of a hindrance than a help,

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because it turns out being able to summon a firestorm is quite handy when you need to kill

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a lot of demons. Yeah, and no matter how big your hammer is, it's not quite that,

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it's not quite a big tornado of a lightning or anything like that.

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It's like, even if like every swing is a dead demon you make, the elf casting firestorm is

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going to get a lot more than one demon per firestorm, that kind of demon.

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Yeah, is this the whole, that still only counts as one? Does it? No, I don't think it does.

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Yeah. And they're, another thing is like, they gave them the like, an emphasis on oaths and

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keeping records and all that stuff, which on the one hand did help them, you know,

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respect each other and be loyal more than anything else. But as I'll touch in later,

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they're so obsessed with oaths and like honor that it kind of hurts them more than it helps them.

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So old ones moved on, but the dwarfs were given culture, I believe to merge the two stories.

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The old ones taught the first dwarfs culture and those dwarfs spread around to the rest of them,

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is how I try and merge the two mythologies of the dwarfs themselves and the old ones.

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So moving on, they have those dwarfs, be it either their gods who taught them everything

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or the gods or the ones who taught were taught by the old ones. They are known as the ancestor

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gods because the dwarfs worship their ancestors beyond all else. And the main ones, the three

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main ones are Valiya, Grimnir and Grungni. Valiya, goddess of Hearthholm, she's the mother of the

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dwarfs. Grungni is the goddess of craftsmanship and you know, the classic the dwarfs hammering

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away at his anvil. He's that god. And Grimnir is the god of, it's not, he's a war god, but it's not

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super, like not a war god like Ares or Cain or Khorne because the dwarfs, if they can help it,

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don't want to go to war. They're more than willing. He's a reluctant war god. It's like,

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oh fine, I'll... It's like most other, like in Warhammer, the war gods, it's like they're

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happy to be there. Like, you know, Cain, the avatar of Cain, Khorne and his bloodthirsters,

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they're more than happy to be in the battlefield. Yeah, Cain has no side hobbies. He's just like,

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I just fight. I just like to kill. Although I guess in fantasy, Cain does have a hobby and

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it's screwing with his followers. So they can keep fighting, I suppose. Exactly. But the dwarfs,

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not super into war, although they are more than happy to throw down if they need to.

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So Grimnir is that god, as well as the god of slayers we'll talk about later.

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And they were the, you know, the first rulers of the dwarfs and over time they would become

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the ancestor gods. And then we get to the bit in Warhammer fantasy early lore where

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chaos invades through the portals the old ones were using to ferry materials and whatnot to

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the Warhammer world. So the old ones leave and for the most part, the dwarfs' response is

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to shut the door of their holds and just wait the problem out. Which to be fair-

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That's simple as that. Demons, shut the door. That's what we need to do.

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I mean, that's pretty much what they did. And to be fair, I mean, it worked well enough.

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But one dwarf, one divine dwarf specifically, that god Grimnir, wasn't having that. So he

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marched to the chaos wastes, built himself a fortress, and basically just told all of chaos

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to come at him. He was literally come at me bro, personified. Brilliant.

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And that's what he's been doing in Warhammer lore until the end times, which I believe is about

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6,000 years long. He's just been sitting in the warp murdering demons.

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Again, you gotta have a hobby. I mean, Cain and him, it's something to do. I mean, if you're

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an eternal being with ultimate power, you might as well do something useful. Unlike some other

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gods from even Warhammer who were just kind of like Khorne in 40k. He's like, what's he up to?

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Sitting down, just waiting for something. I don't know. Doesn't really seem that active.

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At least the emperor has his lighthouse hobby to keep him from busy. Khorne's just like,

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no, I'm sitting on the chair again. I'm watching the orcs fight my generals on my throne.

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So he's just like a guy watching the super bowl every day on repeat.

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Do you ever do anything? He's like, no, this is all I do.

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I do this. Sometimes I go grab beer.

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So with that, the great incursion of chaos for the dwarfs is over, like I said.

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They kind of just waited it out. The elves and lizardmen were the ones doing the fighting,

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the dwarfs were like, you have fun over there everyone.

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Yeah, just like with a cup of tea just peeking through the keyhole like,

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they're going well. Yeah, I'll chin up. Keep going.

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I'll check on you in 10 years. They had their ale and waited. But once, you know,

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once everything was over, they reach out into the world. And, you know, as we know, dwarfs live in

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mountains and the Warhammer fantasy ones are no exception. But they got pretty ambitious with it.

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So, Andy, if you remember the World's Edge Mountains, which are kind of at the edge of

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Warhammer Europe, that's where the dwarfs live. Only they used to have this massive empire

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stretching through all of it. They had what's called the underway, which is basically an

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underground highway just across the entire thing. And it's how they traded. It's how they traveled

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and explored. They would build it out. They'd mine from it. They would put entire cities in it,

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especially since most of their cities are underground, there being dwarfs and all.

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And they built just many of these most monumental and amazing things. And actually, this is kind of

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the Roman Empire equivalent of fantasy because ancient religious texts to Sigmar in the Empire

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actually written in Kosolid, the dwarf language, much like ancient Christian texts were in Latin.

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Dwarfs were, they were very influential. And, you know, as they were spreading out, developing,

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trading with themselves and all that, they eventually came into contact with the elves.

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And you might think, oh, this is going to be miserable. This is going to be a bloodbath.

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But actually, no. When they first met each other, they became the best of friends, the two races.

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It helped that, aside from each other, like they were the only other civilized races they had found,

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because any humans they found were either still in the barbarian, like, like Germanic tribe stage,

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or were the tomb kings who, if they did fight, it usually ended with Setra handing them their asses.

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So they just stayed away.

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So they weren't keen on being friends with him.

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So they were good friends. And funnily enough, it was Malekith, I know you've heard a little bit

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about him, the king of dark elves, who was actually when he was still just, there was just elves,

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and he was just part of the elves, he actually became best friends with the dwarf high king

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who they made contact with, named Snorri Whitebeard.

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So this is, this is pre-douchebag, like, Malekith.

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This is, yeah, this is pre-douchebag Malekith when he was,

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actually a pretty, like, noble, chill dude. They even, like, I think, Malekith gave him a goblet,

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like a wine goblet made out of Ithilmar, which, you know,

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Frodo's, like, the mithril vest. Like Mithril, yeah.

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Imagine someone just making a wine goblet out of mithril, which is basically what he did.

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That'd be quite nice, yeah, just put it in a museum. Yeah, and I think they, Snorri gave

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Malekith, like, this wonderfully crafted, like, horse armor.

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Oh no, not horse armor. Seven pounds for horse armor and oblivion. Oh, I've still got the scars.

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Please no. No more horse armor. Legend says Snorri had another name, Todd Howard.

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But, you know, they were good friends, although actually I did skip over one thing from the

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incursion on Chaos, one thing that did happen with the dwarfs. A bit of a backtrack real quick.

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There was a group of dwarfs who expanded eastward into what is known as the Darklands,

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and when Chaos came into the world, they were cut off from not only the other dwarfs,

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but the ancestor gods themselves, who would come to hate them because they saw themselves

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as being abandoned by their kin and gods.

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Oh, wah, wah.

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Guessing this is the Chaos dwarfs, like, wah, oh, we went a bit too far away, we got, okay,

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wah, wah, shut up.

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Oh yeah, that was a... They're not quite full Chaos dwarfs, but they were, they were,

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they were on the fast track, but moving on to the dwarf dwarfs. A little bit of a backtrack,

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because I just remembered I skipped past it, my bad.

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That's okay.

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So, these two races are friends, and for a while, things are just good. Like the high

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elf colonies are spreading across the old world and beyond, the dwarfs are expanding

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more and more throughout the mountains, and even though they don't get too much out into

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the open fields and stuff, they're still pretty good. And they're still pretty good,

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you know, open fields and stuff, they do have little outposts and everywhere now and then,

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and you know, things are good. Although, unlike most, I feel like, actually, no, pretty much,

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unlike pretty much every, almost every other major event in Warhammer, Chaos didn't involve

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itself too much with this, the downfall of the elves and the dwarfs. What ends up happening

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is that over time, although they're still good friends, they start headbutting each other a bit,

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like, you know, just button heads.

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Novelties worn off a little bit. It's like a marriage, like, oh, the magic's wearing off a

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bit. Oh, he's leaving his socks on the floor. Oh, that's annoying. Oh, he's not doing the dishes.

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That's annoying, it's just building up.

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Like, you know, elves are very, you know, they're very regal and prim and proper,

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and everything will be done according to social graces and politeness.

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You know, that's not to say dwarfs can't be very regal and polite and stuff, but once,

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once, you know, once formalities are concluded, it's time to break out the keg, and every dwarf

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is going to do a keg stand with their own keg that they brought. Whereas the elves are all about,

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you must temper yourselves and be nice and prim and proper and polite, and the dwarf would

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chug a keg of beer and then burp loud enough to register on the Richter's tail.

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Yeah, and then do a massive fart, and you're like, oh, dwarfs, never change.

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Yeah, so it's like, they don't, they don't hate each other yet, but like you said,

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the novelty's wearing off a bit. And then, and then it's time for Malekith to ruin things.

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Something of note is that before Malekith became the worst, when Snorri Whitebeard died,

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peacefully of old age, Malekith was at his deathbed, which should go to show you just how

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much they used to respect the elves, that a dwarf was, an elf was allowed to witness the death of

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their high king. And Malekith swore an oath that the dwarfs and elves would remain, would remain

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friends forevermore, and he would do all in his power to keep that oath. And that is a very

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relevant thing to keep in mind for later. Can I ask a quick question?

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lore that died peacefully in their sleep? After this? Not many. I don't know if there's

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any after this guy. So, with that in mind, during this time, after his death, Snorri Whitebeard's,

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that is, Malekith and his mom, Marathi, decided, Marathi had always been kind of an evil bitch,

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Malekith just decided he would join her, tried to become the Phoenix King by force,

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was defeated and driven off, and now the dark elves are a thing. But Malekith still remembered

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that, hey, wait a minute, I want to be king, but the elves who are not the people who came with me

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to the wastelands of Canada are still friends with the dwarfs. I mean, that's where Nagarond is,

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it's Warhammer Canada. Fair enough. They just got like a really messed up maple leaf as they're flying.

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Just very gothic. Yeah. But Malekith, he would have known that, although they were still good

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friends, the novelty had worn off and there were some tensions between dwarfs and elves. Mostly

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over small stuff, nothing too big, but Malekith knew he was a cunning man. He was gonna provoke

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things a bit, and it worked out better than he could ever have hoped. What he did was he had

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taken some armor that was high elven armor, disguised some of his troops in it, because the

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thing about dark elves, they're not a different race. It's more of a factional thing than anything.

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They're not a different race than regular high elves. It's not like, is it in Elder Scrolls

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you've got the Falmor and the high elves are different species? Oh yeah, there's the Dunmer,

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the Bosmer, the Altmer. It's not like that. The dark elves and high elves, they're all elves,

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it's just different. They don't like each other. It's like, goffs are not the same as emos,

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but they are both human. Yeah. So Malekith dressed his soldiers in this and had him raid and sack

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dwarven caravans and leave just enough evidence behind to suggest that was the high elves who did

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that. Just lots of inconspicuous high elven armor. Just laying around. Like, like, letter saying,

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bye mum, can't wait to see this. It's just like, signed, random, anonymous, high elf. Like, hmm,

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this doesn't look set up at all. Yeah, that's about what happened. So, this actually though,

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did not immediately lead to just awful, horrible things, because the dwarf at the time, the dwarf

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high king, was a wonderful dwarf named Gottrick Starbreaker. Now his name is Gottrick, no relation,

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but his name is Gottrick, which means this man, he kicks ass, this dwarf. Do we know why he was

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called Starbreaker, because that's a cool title? I don't believe I could find a reason for it. I

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think it's just, that is an awesome name. They were just like, we need to give this character

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status, give him the baddest, most cool title. Gottrick Starbreaker. That's peak names right there.

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He was a chill dude though. Usually, a lot of the dwarves immediately were praying for blood. He

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told them all to calm down, and he sent an envoy to the phoenix king of the high elves, and was like,

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hey, what's up with this? What happened? He didn't want payment or blood. He was like, I just want to

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know why it looks like a bunch of your soldiers killed our trading caravans. The phoenix king at

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the time was named Kalador II. Kalador II? That sounds like a patch for an RPG character. What was

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that? Kalador II, I guess, is probably the better way to put it. Although he could have titles like

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Starbreaker and The Second. It's a bit lame. Yeah. He's also known by both races, high elves and

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dwarves alike, as Kalador the Fool, and a lot of other not nice things. Because even among the high

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elves, they think he's an idiot. When a high elf is calling another high elf an idiot, when they're

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not just busy sucking each other off, that's when you know that this guy's a clown. And so when the

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dwarf an envoy got to Kalador II, the second, the return, and asked for an explanation, he told them

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to go to hell and just ignored them. So the things changed. What happened was, Gottrick then sent

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the next envoy, it was like, all right, fine. You have two choices now. You're either going to pay

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us for what was destroyed, or you're going to pay us in blood, and we're going to kill some of you

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until we think it's even. And Kalador's response to this was to shave the beard of the dwarf envoys.

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No. Which already bad for dwarfs. In Warhammer, it's a step further, as many things in Warhammer

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are, and beards are sacred. Like shaving a dwarf's beard, they would rather you just kill them.

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And now it was time for blood. There was no more asking. The elves clearly, at least from their

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point of view, are not only attacking them, but now committing the highest disrespect on them that's

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possible. So the War of the Beard is what the elves call it. The War of Vengeance is what the

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dwarfs call it. It was on, and this is basically World War I for Warhammer fantasy. Across the old

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world, the high elf colonies and the Karazhan core, the kingdom of the dwarfs, they just start

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wailing at each other, and it is brutal. The end result is that at some point in the war,

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Gottrick loses his son to the elves, which puts him pretty solidly at this point in second place

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in the hating elves competition in fictional universe. Easy second. So yeah, he's... The end

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result is Kaelor the idiot, the fool, the stupid, no good, Vietx King gets his head cut off, and the

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grudge is resolved. Love to see it. Yeah, unfortunately the war, because it's a war, created

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a lot more grudges against the elves, and drastically weaken both races. And with the end

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result of this is, on the elves' end, they all get recalled back to Ulthuan as the colonies need to

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be recalled home, because the dark elves took this chance and invaded the continent again. And the

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dwarfs, although the elves have been kicked out, and they didn't really lose territory, because the

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elves all went back home, they lost a lot of resources and manpower. They're now broke. And

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I'm assuming this whole time, humanity's just been watching, picking their nose, going, look at that

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thing. It's quite a tall thing fighting a very small thing. Well, that's impressive. Yeah, they

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just sat there like, I don't know what a cannon is, but that is really loud, and then

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someone exploded. I don't want to be over there. Maybe my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson

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will develop that cool boombox machine. What's a machine? I don't know. But for now, let's go

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eating raw meat again. It's fine. For now, I'm gonna walk about a mile in the other direction,

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because I'm afraid right now. But yeah, the dwarfs, now things theoretically could have been better.

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They were weakened, but their main enemy is gone, and the underway is still nice and secure,

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their holds are still nice and secure. Except now it's time for the Time of Woes, the dwarf version

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of the Age of Strife. What happens was a one-two punch. The first one, I know I talked about,

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in our Skaven beginner to expert, go watch that if you haven't, which was the Skaven decided to

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expand their capital city with a giant destructive machine that worked a bit too well and caused

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entire mountain ranges to collapse, and the dwarfs live in mountains, and their underways are in the

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mountains, so that did some damage. I was picturing the first guy who ever heard the rattling in his

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study with a newspaper headline, elves suck, and he's just there with his cup of tea and his

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everything's shaking, going what the hell? And then green nuclear fire erupts throughout his house.

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Yeah, poor guy. The second thing was the lizard men, the slan, the direct servants of the old ones

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themselves, looked at the planet and decided that these mountains needed to all be moved about five

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feet to the left. So they did so with magic, because the slan are busted. They just collected

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moved the mountains a little bit over. I'm picturing that same dwarf, he's just like,

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rebuilt his everything, his library, his study, he's just like, right, back to reading the newspaper,

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and then everything starts moving, for god's sake, could you give me two minutes? And as you can

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imagine, for people whose everything is built into the mountains, this did not agree with their

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structures. So almost everything is just getting horribly destroyed. The wonderful fancy holds

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they've built that are decorated with both dwarf and elven just artifacts now lost the time,

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getting real smashed up. And I'm assuming they like a lot of fantasy settings, the dwarves go

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hard when they're like, we're going to build a statue, how big, how big can we make it like?

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25 foot tall, stout dwarf looking statue, and they're like, that looks beautiful. And they just

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cracked down the middle. Oh, yeah. Yeah, like it's like that. So you know, like the Imperial

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Palace is the giant space marine and you know, custodians in the room. It's that just dwarfs.

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Real big, real menacing and posing and it's all busted now. And to top this off, Andy, do you know

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just in fantasy settings in general, what race is usually the biggest enemy of the dwarfs?

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They have to take a guess. Take a guess. Take a guess. Well, not elves. They're big rivals.

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Usually they're not outright enemies. They're willing to work with each other. Goblins?

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Yes. Goblins and orcs. Do not get around. I was thinking like my brain went,

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what's Dragon Age? Darkspawn. OK, that's unique to it. Lord of the Rings. Goblins. Yeah, that'll do.

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Yeah. The greenskins, goblin orcs, dwarfs hate them. And the Time of Woes is one of the main

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reasons why, because after the slahn and the skaven just got done fisting the everlasting

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realm of the dwarfs, the greenskins saw these big old holes in the mountains with a lot of cool

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things in them and went, right, we want that. What's that down there? Oh, I'm going to go have a look.

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Oh, there's little people. Oh, they got axes. This will be fun. Orcs, no. It was pretty much

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exactly that. And so greenskins swarmed in and began taking dwarf holds. I found a funny hat.

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Brilliant, guys. Brilliant. Yeah. And when that wasn't enough, the skaven were like,

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right, right. This is a whole lot more space to build in. And people already built buildings for

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us. How wonderful. And then they just started attacking too. So between the War of the Beard,

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the two races moving the earth itself and orcs, goblins and skaven just marauding in,

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the dwarfs are now on the back foot horribly. I know initially they had some success against

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the skaven because they have this armor called grumril. That's the name of the metal that makes

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it and it's basically unbreakable. What it isn't is resistant to gas attacks and flame throwers,

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which the skaven then invented to deal with the dwarfs.

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Would it be fair to say at this moment in time, they're having the worst time with

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any of the races at the time? Or is there someone who's getting a worse deal?

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Probably equally as bad as the high elves, to be honest, because while this was happening to the

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dwarfs, Malekith was undoing the magical vortex that kept demons from appearing all over the planet.

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Ah yeah, you can't have a nice, just someone else having a love for time. No, everyone's having a

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bad time. Because he decided that if he couldn't be the phoenix king, no one could be phoenix king,

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so everyone needs to die. So no one's having fun right now. I mean, I guess the humans are

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still picking their nose. It could be worse, I guess, for them. So the dwarfs are now just losing

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ground to everything. And I know one of the capital of the dwarfs, Karazakh, Harak, was able to be

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kept secured, but they lost a lot of their other great cities. There was one called Karak Zorn,

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which is this dwarf Atlantis, basically. Like dwarfs, treasure hunters love to go seek it out

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and find its riches. The last thing, communication that was sent out by them was that they were

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under attack by lizardmen, and it was not going well for the dwarfs, and then everything was cut

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off. So add lizardmen to the pile. So four against one, brilliant. Yeah. And then it was, there's

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Karak Eight Peaks, which is Warhammer Stalingrad, because the dwarfs, the goblins in this game,

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and are in a giant three-way war for it with every now and then, one of them gains the upper hand,

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only to immediately be booted out. So, and the underway, of course, was shattered by all the

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earthquakes and whatnot, and now it's filled with orcs and rats. So not great for the dwarfs. There

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is a little upturn, though, because I say once things are stabilized, once they stop getting

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worse, they're not good, but once they stop getting worse every five seconds, and it's like every

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couple of years, it's a new disaster, instead of every couple of days. After a dozen disasters,

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you get nostalgic for disaster number ten, because that was two disasters ago. You go,

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that wasn't so bad. I enjoyed it. What you didn't. Yeah. Once you got to that point, where they

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calmed down enough, you could start ranking the disasters, something good happens, and it's that

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the High King of the Dwarfs, Kurgan Ironbeard at this time, is captured by orcs. You might think,

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why is that good? It's good, because this brings him into contact with a young barbarian chief

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named Sigmar Eldenhammer, Sigmar Unbarogen. Before he's a god, he's just an angry Conan the Barbarian

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guy, and he rescues this dwarf from orcs. Really what happens is, Sigmar just shows up to kill the

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orcs. The dwarf sees this young lad going to town, and is like, you know what? We should be like him.

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So he breaks free of- I like him. Yeah. So he breaks free of his chains, tosses Sigmar the

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legendary hammer, Galmaraz. They all beat up the orcs, and the dwarfs finally form an alliance

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again with Sigmar and his people, who would become the empire of mankind. That's not perfect,

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because dwarfs have kind of become a bit mistrustful of others since the elf thing.

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But they swore that as long as the empire of man didn't wrong them, they would be allies for the

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rest of time. So hey, dwarfs have a friend now, and humans have a friend now, which I know,

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40k man as you are, that's quite different from the norm. Humans not genociding someone else on

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site. Yeah, well the thing is, 40k doesn't really have much about the the leagues of Votan yet.

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Yeah. Oh well, they didn't really have a chance to be friends, because they're like,

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it probably wouldn't be, because it's 40k, but still. Yeah, no, that's fair. They haven't

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been much time, and every other race is- the best you have is the Eldar, who will graciously decide

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not to kill you that day, because it doesn't benefit them. But yeah, no, they are, two races

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are good friends, and the dwarfs, they don't give them all of their secrets, but you know,

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they give mankind smithing, like how to work with iron, which is huge, because humanity had

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barely been in the Bronze Age by this point. Just lots of like sheep skin. Like, I made this

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cool piece of armor, and the dwarfs are just going, oh fucks, no, get that off. Come here,

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come here. This is an ingot, we're going to make it into a nice breastplate. Can you spell breastplate?

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It's impotent, so they go, with an R, it's not beastplate, put the lamb down. Put the

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tongs down, we don't need the tongs yet. We are not cooking, please stop. Yeah, it's that kind of

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thing. But you know, hey, they're friends. Yeah, of course they're in a way. Yeah, and so, over time,

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it's a mix of like, every now and then, the dwarfs will gain a bit of ground, but it's largely a

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losing battle. It's just a very slow losing battle. Like, every dwarf hold taken, and they are being

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lost, but like, the casualty ratio is like, one dwarf lost to like, a hundred orcs or skaven or

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whatever. Probably like, one to a thousand with the skaven. But they are still losing things.

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And this trend kind of continues for a pretty long while, until you get to modern fantasy,

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which is the time of Thorgrim Grudgebearer. Now, an important thing to know about the dwarfs is that

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they keep every single thing someone did wrong to them in a book called the Great Book of Grudges

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that they write down with the blood of their king. He writes it in the book.

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And this guy, Thorgrim, was chosen to be the next High King by the last one as he was dying from

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wounds, although he died over the course of like, a year to let the contest go through.

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So, quite sturdy, that guy. And Thorgrim made quite the declaration, and that was that he was going

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to wipe clean every single grudge in the book. A book that, mind you, dates back at least 4,000

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years. All of them gone. He's ambitious, Thorgrim, to say the least.

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It's like a really, really dark version of My Name is Earl. Like, right, here's all the bad things

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I've ever done, but you reverse it. Yeah, here's all the bad things YOU'VE done, and you're going to pay for it.

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And karma's not gonna save you. Yeah. Although, he's a good king. And he begins revitalizing the dwarfs

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for the first time in a while. They actually start taking ground, and that's what leads us to the

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modern times of Warhammer fantasy. He's somewhat moderate, usually dwarfs, if you wrong them.

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You can pay with gold, but odds are you're gonna pay with blood. Thorgrim is much more open to be like,

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how about we hash out a deal? He'll give us some money, and we'll forget the whole business.

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And, you know, he's good with inventions, all that stuff, and things start

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improving for the dwarfs for the first time in millennia. Good for them.

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So, before we get to the sad bit, the end times, it must always be covered.

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It is never a joy to cover it. Although, the dwarfs, I guess to be fair, thank you Dexcom for the surprise appearance.

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They do have some cool moments at the end times, they'll give them that, but it's still overall shit.

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But a bit before that, I said I'd talk about their culture a bit, so I will.

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The default fantasy template of dwarfs, you know, the short, they live in mountains,

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you know, they eat rocks, they drink a lot. That applies to these dwarfs as well.

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There's just a couple of things that stick out. One, of course, is those grudges and oaths.

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If a dwarf makes an oath, he's going to keep it. Like, every single thing in his power that he can

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possibly do, and then some more, he's gonna do it. And he expects you to do the same if you make him an oath.

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Like, Gottrick and Felix actually start, because Felix drunkenly causes a riot over attacks.

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And, well, not drunkenly at the time, he gets drunk, but at the time he's a dumb college kid

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who somehow incited a riot. And right as the royal bodyguards of the emperor Karl Franz himself

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are about to run him down, Gottrick steps in, murders them, because he's Gottrick Guernissen,

390
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and he's allowed to just do that. He's one of those characters who's just allowed to be as overpowered as he wants.

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A reference to Parks and Rec, which is like, I have a permit, and he just gives it to the guy that goes,

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he just says, I can do whatever I want. He's like, yeah, that's Gottrick.

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His permit is an axe. Felix swears an oath to be his Remembrancer, funny enough, which is,

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he will record the tale of Gottrick's death, so he will be preserved for posterity for all time.

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Felix did not know how seriously dwarfs take their oaths, and nearly left Gottrick's service,

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which probably would have resulted in his head getting cut off 17 books before the series ended.

397
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And a good thing he didn't, because in another Gottrick and Felix book,

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I'll get to that, but there's a... oaths are a very big business.

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Actually, I can just get the example now. Another thing about them, if you wrong them, you're done.

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There was a tale of a human caravan, or like a human city, its ruler had a contract to some dwarfs to build on their wall,

401
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because dwarfs are real good at building stuff. So the dwarfs built them the wall, and when the payment was covered,

402
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the humans shorted them about two coins worth of payment.

403
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Probably just fell out of the wagon, or out of the guy's pocket when he was carrying it, to be honest.

404
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Dwarfs didn't care, so they went back to the town and killed everyone in it,

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because the humans had wronged them, you see.

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So yeah, they take their grudges seriously, and their oaths very seriously.

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I have a question, if I may.

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I know you say that, I think it was implied at the beginning that dwarfs aren't very good at being

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duplicitous, or sneaky, or some such, but has a dwarf ever tried to forge an oath, or a grudge,

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or something, so that overreaction to like, oh, there's a grudge I have to uphold,

411
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has anyone ever taken advantage of that, that you know of?

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Other races, happily, but it's kind of like a double-edged sword, because

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the thing about dwarfs is they will take that oath seriously and do it with their dying breath,

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but if they find out you screwed with them, you're going in the book, which means your head is

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coming off. Which means that- Moving their anger to a different point, like, I will harness this

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some other way. Yeah, which is why, while yes, you can do it, other cultures have learned it's

417
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probably not worth it, because the short-term gain you get out of like, tricking them for this one

418
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oath is not worth the long-term loss of the dwarfs deciding your entire city is now on the shit list

419
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and needs to go. Is one oath worth 10,000 grudges? Yeah, it's pretty much, it's that.

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Another general thing is they're very conservative, and when I say that, I don't just mean like,

421
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you know, liberal versus conservative, I don't mean that in politics, I mean that if something

422
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hasn't been a blueprint for 500 years, it's considered dangerous and radical technology

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to the dwarfs. They're kind of like the Mechanicus, only in 40k, you know, old tech is dangerous and

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scary and might be corrupted by demons. The dwarfs are just like, if this isn't one million percent

425
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reliable and tested over centuries, I don't want anything to do with it. Some of the younger

426
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engineers are usually a bit more radical, but a bit more radical means they'll only wait 50 years

427
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before they start the prototypes rather than 500. And I suppose if you're an upstart and you go,

428
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I've got this cool contraption and then you've got a mentor, the mentor goes,

429
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I didn't say you could do that, that's going in the book, that's a grudge, like oh, can't win,

430
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can't win. That, it usually does not lead to grudges for the most part, but it does lead to

431
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them being like social outcasts for, you know, being dangerous radical thinkers, so they usually

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fall in line. Some of the little things, nepotism is not a dirty word to dwarfs. You know, we would

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see someone only get a job because they're like, you know, their dad is the boss of the company and

434
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we'd go, what the hell, that's some BS right there. The dwarfs go, well yes, his dad runs the mining

435
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guild, of course he should be next in line. Does that transfer over to high kings or is that more,

436
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oh you have to prove yourself? That is generally one of the more prove yourself positions, but

437
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almost everything else under it is if you know the guy, you're probably getting in.

438
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So yeah, that's how they work that. And their most standout thing to me is the slayer oath,

439
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which is, say, I don't know, say, two scenarios. Andy, let's say you've done

440
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something just horribly wrong. You've allowed a dwarf army to fall like to goblin invaders

441
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and it's something that's very easily and provably your fault, not just, you know, there was two of

442
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you and 200 goblins, you know, that's not your fault. If you screw it up bad, something like that,

443
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you need to take the slayer oath, which means you need to shave your head, except for a mohawk,

444
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dye that in your beard red, cover yourself in tattoos and you now need to find death in battle,

445
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such as Gottrick Gurnison's fate and many other slayers. He is far from the only one.

446
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So he's not a natural ginger? No, I believe he's actually, he's got brown hair.

447
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Ah, I see. Of course, now will come to me for my grievous sin. Let's say I lost just a little bit

448
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I lost just a little bit too much money gambling one day. Well, dwarfs like money, quite obsessively

449
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so I'm taking the oath too right along with you. For some reason I was thinking like, I wonder like

450
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what would be the minorest thing like you own an elder, an elf body pillow, right? You gotta

451
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shave your head. That's the minimum. I mean, I don't even know if they'd let you take the oath.

452
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:54,720
They might just kill you on the spot for that one. Yeah, it's and it's that little thing that,

453
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especially in a lot of Warhammer novels, I like this a lot about fantasy and the dwarfs in

454
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particular is that they nail it home that these are not just short people who do things slowly

455
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and live a long time. They are like their psychology, their psychology, everything about

456
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them is alien to humanity. Like they work on a different level than we do. It's like,

457
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I know I've already mentioned it again, but I love the series. It's like with Dragon Age,

458
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the dwarfs in that one, when you first go to, if you're, if you don't start as a dwarf in the first

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game as like a character, you go there and you find out there's like a caste system and there's

460
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like the royalty, there's like the trades and then there's like this underclass that live underneath

461
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the building and like criminals and people who've shamed and they have like tattoos on their faces

462
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and then if you're really bad, you have to be part of the Legion of the Dead and you have to

463
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:50,640
man the wall against the darkspawn that are trying to like, borrow up and kill you and I like that

464
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:56,000
when there's more to then, oh, they got beards and they drink ale and that's like, that's the surface

465
00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:01,760
level, but there's even a character in the series who's like the only dwarf who has like shaved his

466
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beard and it's cause he's a bard and he's like, oh, I'm not like the other dwarfs, I'm a puckish

467
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:14,560
rogue and he's like one of the most interesting characters, but yeah, I feel like if someone

468
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:22,560
was to get into war hammer fantasy with no knowledge, is there like a, other than gotrick,

469
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:28,320
is there a bounty of like books about the dwarfs or is it a bit more slim pickings?

470
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:33,040
There's a few, I know one of the, it's called the omnibus, I'm actually reading right now,

471
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The Warlord of Eight Peaks is about one of the three books and it is about the dwarf king

472
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Belegar Ironhammer, whose family used to be the kings of that Acheric Eight Peaks I mentioned

473
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and he's made it his life goal to retake it ever since he came about to be the king of his clan

474
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Engrund, so there are some other stuff, gotrick and felix is far and away the best, but there's

475
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:05,840
that one, there's a couple others up the top of my head, I'm afraid I can't remember off the top of my head

476
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:10,320
There is a book series though about the War of the Beard, which so if you want to read some about

477
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that, Dwarves Killing Elves, Elves Killing Dwarfs, good time, there are some books about them, it's

478
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Warhammer fantasy, you know it leans a bit more towards the humans mostly and the elves kind of

479
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in second, but there are still enough books for the dwarf lover out there to get into

480
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And where was I, oh yeah, Slayer Oath, so you go to what's called Carrot Kadrin, the Slayer Hold

481
00:48:38,960 --> 00:48:44,240
which is the main gathering point of slayers, it's where the Shrine to Grimnir is, he's considered

482
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the first slayer because he forsake everything to go hold the line against chaos forever

483
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:54,960
So they write their name on this big pillar and they are now considered dead by their friends and

484
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family and they just need to find something big enough to kill and they kind of have different

485
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:05,200
ranks, like you know you join you're a slayer and the first thing you know they usually do, they'll

486
00:49:05,200 --> 00:49:10,160
kill orcs, you know they'll kill random rotting whatever and if that doesn't do them in, they

487
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:14,080
move up and that's how you get troll slayers, which is those slayers who've killed the troll

488
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:20,800
and it didn't kill them and this is where the thing about dwarfs where you kind of really, it

489
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:26,480
hammers home like I was saying earlier, they're not people, they're alien, the longer they go

490
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:30,880
without getting killed because they are genuinely seeking death, like they're not avoiding it,

491
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:36,960
they're trying to die in battle, so they start going a little bit, they get a little bit annoyed,

492
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they troll and kill them, so then they work their way up and they go and fight a giant

493
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and then they become giant slayers, so that still doesn't kill them and by this point they're not

494
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:53,600
just annoyed, they're probably going a little bit crazy, so. And this is the naming convention of

495
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:59,600
the gotrick and phoenix books isn't it? Yeah it's uh it'll be like ex-slayer, whatever gotrick is

496
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:07,200
killing this day it's ex-slayer, so for most of them move up again, if you still haven't died of

497
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:14,000
the giant, dragon time, if you're a dragon slayer, all right you're probably frothing at the mouth by

498
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:20,160
this point, but if you're still alive go find a greater demon, that'll surely kill you and if it

499
00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:26,720
doesn't you become a demon slayer, very few of those because by this point you have probably died

500
00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:32,080
in battle, but if you still haven't you get these demon slayers who are basically like one

501
00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:37,520
walking balls of rage and insanity because they just want to die but they...

502
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:45,360
I'm just imagining one charging into the ground just going kill me, come on kill me, you know.

503
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:50,640
But that's exactly what it is like in the gotrick and phoenix books there's this uh this one time

504
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:56,000
where they go to Carrickadrin which is you know the slayer hold and gotrick and a whole bunch of

505
00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:01,360
other slayers are like charging into battle and they're all shouting like I bet I'm gonna die

506
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:08,320
first, nah I'm fine in my doom today. Race here to see you die, like what? It's a weird school yard

507
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:12,800
game. And it's just the thing is like they also you know they can't just off themselves they need

508
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:17,440
to be trying like their hardest otherwise Grimnir won't take him it's not an honorable death.

509
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:23,600
So and slayers are kind of weird because on the one hand they're outcasts, their family like as

510
00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:29,280
far as they're concerned, their friend's dead he just doesn't know it yet. On the other hand

511
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:37,360
these are the slayers most likely to uh like meet with other cultures because they don't care they're

512
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:40,880
gonna die anyway so they're just gonna kind of wander about and if they find a human to be friends

513
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:46,160
with good for them. Maybe even an elf if they're insane enough and get past the first round of

514
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:54,720
stabbings. And they're also a wonderful sight to see on the battlefield because one they're charging

515
00:51:54,720 --> 00:51:59,440
in first which means the enemy's gonna shoot at them first and they're usually pretty good at

516
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:04,560
killing things because even if you know they die they don't care about staying alive which means

517
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:10,400
they're gonna charge head first and take at least a couple of things with them. Do um for example are

518
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:15,120
there like any mercenary bands that take advantage of these guys and go look I'll put you in a fight

519
00:52:15,120 --> 00:52:20,960
wherever you're deaf and I won't pay you but like come and join me and we'll find you that fight

520
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:24,880
that will kill you. Is that like a thing? All the time. They will usually pay them a little bit

521
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:29,680
although not like a lot like for the most part they'll pay them enough for like food lodging

522
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:34,880
and ale. You've got to pay for the ginger hair dye like yeah I need that. I'll pay for the hair dye

523
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:39,600
in my booze and you've you've paid your slayer. Because again it's like a win-win the mercenary

524
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:46,480
company gets a wonderful ally and the slayer gets a lot of chances to maybe die. That was actually

525
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:50,240
one of the things Gottrick did before the Gottrick and Felix books he was a mercenary with a

526
00:52:50,240 --> 00:52:55,760
a human who became an innce keeper and him and Felix actually worked for the guy for like I think

527
00:52:55,760 --> 00:53:02,160
three of the books. It's actually really cool and a nice like character development for Gottrick

528
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:08,080
and Felix it's like oh there's more to Gottrick than just angry ball of rage. Not much but there

529
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:14,400
is more if you look deep enough. Some other stuff the reason beards are so important is because they

530
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:20,000
worship their ancestors. They like old things and what better way to tell how old someone is

531
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:24,720
than how long their beard is. To the point that even one of the dwarf military units is just

532
00:53:24,720 --> 00:53:31,440
called long beards. When your beard touches the floor you join the long beards so you tie it you

533
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:35,600
wrap it into a braid and tie it up so it doesn't touch the floor anymore so you don't trip. You

534
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:42,320
get it. Wear it as a belt. Yeah you get an upgraded suit of armor and you're a long beard now. It's

535
00:53:42,320 --> 00:53:46,880
not mandatory to join but most of them do just because it gives them respect and they're it's

536
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:53,040
a morale booster. And are there any other questions because I have a few little little tidbits here

537
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:57,760
and there like I said a little bit more surface level but if there's any stuff you'd like clarified

538
00:53:57,760 --> 00:54:04,080
feel free to ask. So you know you mentioned about how one of the the gods when just kind of outposted

539
00:54:04,720 --> 00:54:08,960
what did the other two do? Do we know anything about the other two of what they've done in the

540
00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:16,880
setting other than existed? So Grungni so he um he's he's just like this man they got you know

541
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:21,920
they pray to him when they're crafting something make sure it's nice and perfect. Like for example

542
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:26,240
dwarves have these things called rune smiths which they can't use magic normally like you know like

543
00:54:26,240 --> 00:54:33,920
a wizard but they can bind magic into runes you know like like enchanting and skyrim kind of.

544
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:39,520
I was gonna say the skyrim method of like ah I might not be able to do like 2 000 damage of

545
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:46,240
destruction magic but if I make a fortify potion and then I build and then I put these gloves on

546
00:54:46,240 --> 00:54:50,800
and then I make an enchantment and then I take the enchantment off and then they do a bigger and

547
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:55,200
better potion and then they and then you do the endless loop of like alchemy and enchanting so

548
00:54:55,200 --> 00:55:02,640
you're like my stick of fire now does seven billion damage oh great. That's what they do they do all

549
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:07,360
sorts of things with the rune magic it's really cool they're called rune lords and rune smiths who

550
00:55:07,360 --> 00:55:13,040
have these centuries-long apprenticeships to learn how to perfectly do every rune they can learn.

551
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:19,600
So that's how dwarves do magic. Have the space wolves nicked any of that for their own because

552
00:55:19,600 --> 00:55:25,360
I know they're they're big on runes but have the has there been bleed over to the 40k universe or

553
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:29,280
we're not sure? I imagine I mean it's similar enough to where I want to say there's but got to

554
00:55:29,280 --> 00:55:34,240
have some influence with it. The difference I imagine will be that space wolves are kidding

555
00:55:34,240 --> 00:55:40,800
themselves when they say they're not using psyker powers. When dwarves runic magic is actually

556
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:45,920
different because magic and warhammer when if you just capture it in its raw form very dangerous

557
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:51,600
very unstable you've got a decent shot of blowing yourself up with you know chaos explosions and

558
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:57,360
stuff whereas the dwarves they're forcing it into an orderly shape and making it stable

559
00:55:57,360 --> 00:56:03,120
like they grab it by the balls and hammer it into a workable form basically. That's an image

560
00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:09,440
amazing. Yeah so there is there are similarities but it's it is still different like it's not just

561
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:14,240
I mean with space wolves so I get my own super duper magic it's you know the dwarves sit down

562
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:22,560
learn over centuries of practice how to do this and then make magic their bitch. So there are

563
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:27,200
some differences. Did you have another question? I thought you were asking someone else but I

564
00:56:27,200 --> 00:56:32,320
kind of went off on a tangent about the magic. So that was grungi right? That was grungi yeah.

565
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:37,120
And the other do we know anything about the other one? Yeah Valea what happened to her is she went

566
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:43,680
to a vault went to sleep and promised the dwarves that when she was awoken when they found vault and

567
00:56:43,680 --> 00:56:48,720
opened it she would lead the dwarves into a golden age and for a while you know they looked for the

568
00:56:48,720 --> 00:56:53,040
vault couldn't quite find it though at least I don't believe they had found it and if they did

569
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:59,200
they couldn't open it. Just like I can't find it let's go get pissed I've got a castle.

570
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:07,600
For a little bit there's some cool characters there's of course Thorgrim Grudgebearer the high

571
00:57:08,240 --> 00:57:14,560
highest of high king of the dwarves leading the people he wants to not just hold out but

572
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:19,760
retake land and expand for the first time in thousands of thousands of years wipe clean the

573
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:29,680
grudges very cool dude there's also Gottrick Gurnason the best and worst slayer to ever exist

574
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:36,800
because everything that comes across him dies he is a brutal killing machine and his whipping

575
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:43,680
whipping boy Felix Yeager who is perhaps the unluckiest man in the entire Warhammer universe.

576
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:49,040
For very well dressed. Very well dressed he's quite a sharp looking man he's also been

577
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:57,520
stabbed shot ribs broken bled heartbroken many times. He must have a good tailor.

578
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:04,880
He has a hell of a tailor to keep everything well stitched. For the organ blood and you know.

579
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:11,600
But they're quite famous they've been all over the world from Cathay to Lustria to the Southlands

580
00:58:11,600 --> 00:58:17,120
and the Tomb Kings and Hecarah all over the place they kill everything they come across

581
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:23,040
and yeah very good series if you haven't read Gottrick and Felix do read it I implore you.

582
00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:29,200
Other dwarfs Malachi McKyson also from Gottrick and Felix so is the next one by the way I'm

583
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:34,240
mentioning five three of them are from Gottrick and Felix very good books and I love them.

584
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:40,640
Malachi McKyson the mad slayer engineer he was just an engineer for the dwarfs he was a bit too

585
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:47,600
radical though and one of his inventions blew up and cost some dwarf lives so they made him take

586
00:58:47,600 --> 00:58:52,400
the slayer oath but all that amount to do was he kept being an engineer he just got even more

587
00:58:52,400 --> 00:59:01,280
reckless with it so for example he built the Hindenburg just straight up he built a zeppelin.

588
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:08,800
So in a fantasy setting but do the the dwarfs already have like a kind of air fleet and he just

589
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:15,040
and he just yeah or did he just invent air traffic? They have gyrocopters which are dwarf helicopters

590
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:21,760
they put guns on them and fortune it's on their way across the earth but McKyson took it a step

591
00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:28,480
further and built zeppelins and then put a lot of cannons on it because he is just built different

592
00:59:28,480 --> 00:59:34,160
he's built insane he's very friendly he actually lets Felix pilot the the blimp for a bit teaches

593
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:39,760
him how to do it. Do you want to take the helm of the big deaf cannon? Yeah sounds quite fun.

594
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:46,720
He's also very Scottish most dwarfs in Warhammer they're not actually Scottish he is yeah they're

595
00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:52,800
more northern yeah and it's to the point that usually like I don't know I've I like to think

596
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:57,680
I'm a little bit good figuring out like like when someone's saying some of the thick accent I usually

597
00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:02,320
still understand them when I was reading Gautrich and Felix I had to look things up I had no idea

598
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:07,760
what I was reading half the time like I would look and go this isn't English. I know I've mentioned

599
01:00:07,760 --> 01:00:12,480
it on the channel before but I love that Forgrim's voice actor is the dad from Peppa Pig and this is

600
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:19,120
like that's why he's got that. There's also hey up I'm from tip north I'm Forgrim Goodsbearer I'm not

601
01:00:19,120 --> 01:00:28,240
having any of these knifeys over here in um I don't know Newcastle why oh can't have it. Short?

602
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:35,840
Short? Yeah uh McKyzen though he's a really cool dude uh invents all sorts of crazy things like

603
01:00:35,840 --> 01:00:43,520
the blimp he's actually built three of them uh the first one was called like the the uns like the

604
01:00:44,080 --> 01:00:50,000
unbreakable well what do you think happened to that one then it broke the second one was called

605
01:00:50,000 --> 01:00:57,200
the spirit of Grungni which to be fair it took a dragon several fights against chaos and then a

606
01:00:57,200 --> 01:01:02,400
sorcerer sneaking onto the ship to finally bring that one down and then he named the next one the

607
01:01:02,400 --> 01:01:07,680
unstoppable although to be fair to that one it shows up in the end times and it's never seen

608
01:01:07,680 --> 01:01:13,760
being destroyed and there's even some small hints in Age of Sigmar that he might have survived the

609
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:21,120
end of the world. Do you reckon we'll ever get a model made of one of them? I would pray to God I

610
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:27,920
get a Malachy McKyzen model man that thing would be beautiful. Yeah. Although. Ten grand. The next

611
01:01:27,920 --> 01:01:35,280
dwarf more than that I wish for Snorri Nosebiter model. I've heard a lot about him you've mentioned

612
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:40,640
him I was just editing a quiz today we did recently and you mentioned him I'm like who is this

613
01:01:40,640 --> 01:01:47,680
Nosebiter I keep hearing Colin talking about him. He is uh an actual friend of Gottrick from before

614
01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:54,000
either of them were slayers. I won't spoil his backstory what I will say is his job is to do two

615
01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:58,320
things it is to make you laugh and smile when you're reading the Gottrick and Felix books because

616
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:05,440
he is at almost all times and like just the upbeat happy dumb idiot like he speaks a bit of a lad

617
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:11,120
like he doesn't have a mohawk what he did was he painted some nails red and then drove them into

618
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:19,280
his brain into his skull for his own mohawk so he speaks in third person now. Wow. He's happy he

619
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:24,160
he drinks a lot him and Gottrick get into what they like to call headbutting contests

620
01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:31,680
where they just headbutt each other and see who gives first. Wow that's a friendship right there.

621
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:37,200
He's uh he's a very dumb happy idiot although there are every now and then there's a line that

622
01:02:37,200 --> 01:02:42,160
you know if that leads to you know make you think if he's either playing it up just a little bit

623
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:48,480
or he's smart in his own way like there's one line where he's like I think this like he's like

624
01:02:48,480 --> 01:02:53,360
Snorri thinks this slayer is rushing to find his death he should just let it come to him when it

625
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:57,920
does so he's got quite the chill outlook on his situation for someone part of a death cult

626
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:05,360
and uh another line where uh someone makes fun of him uh and he looks him dead in the eyes and

627
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:12,160
says only Snorri's friend can make fun of Snorri uh and uh that guy's not making fun of Snorri real

628
01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:19,920
quick uh so he's just no he's he's a really cool dude he is he is a short alcoholic angel he is

629
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:26,480
just nice for a dwarf nice for a warhammer character let alone a dwarf because they're

630
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:32,400
very gruff and rude like he's just a treat to read about uh his second job is whenever you get a

631
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:43,040
point of view of Snorri Nosebiter is to make you depressed because my god they like lamenters level

632
01:03:43,040 --> 01:03:52,880
of depression this guy uh and then uh I won't spoil what happens but as you start reading towards

633
01:03:52,880 --> 01:04:00,480
the gotch and felix book uh books coming out towards the end times uh you get why Snorri is

634
01:04:00,480 --> 01:04:10,080
a slayer and that's horribly depressing and then you get the end of that book and I'll just be

635
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:15,360
brutally honest I was teared up a bit when I read that like that was seriously depressing to read

636
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:19,920
very like am I writing am I writing thinking that there's like nine or ten

637
01:04:20,560 --> 01:04:26,000
god-freaking-felix books or something like that there's six omnibuses so I think there's like

638
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:36,880
wow 18 right okay I need to read then yeah there's uh you won't want you will want for more but

639
01:04:36,880 --> 01:04:44,960
you've got a while to push off the I'm out of gotch and felix feelings uh yeah but yeah uh Snorri

640
01:04:44,960 --> 01:04:52,640
Nosebiter probably my favorite warhammer character honestly uh but by god am I sad to read about him

641
01:04:52,640 --> 01:04:58,880
uh although slight spoilers uh in age of sigmar he does have a very touching moment with gotrick

642
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:05,120
uh I won't say whether he was alive or dead to keep the suspense going maybe he died maybe he

643
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:10,960
didn't and he showed up later on as something else uh but he and gotch are forced guys

644
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:18,000
but him and gotch have a very touching moment and again that made me like that hurt to read or hurt

645
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:22,720
to listen to because in the audiobook but in like a good way it was like oh fuck man I don't want

646
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:30,240
this today well it was it was awesome though I love Snorri Nosebiter and the last specific dwarf

647
01:05:30,240 --> 01:05:37,440
we'll talk about before the end crimes Snorri Whitebeard uh when that oh another snorri oh

648
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:42,800
oh I don't it is another snorri although you'll notice that the first dwarf I mentioned was also

649
01:05:42,800 --> 01:05:48,480
named Snorri Malekith's best friend this time it's not just a coincidence you know Snorri Nosebiter

650
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:56,160
and uh Snorri Whitebeard uh because Snorri Whitebeard is later known as the Grombrindle the

651
01:05:56,160 --> 01:06:01,760
White Dwarf uh Malekith breaking that oath was because it was an oath made on his deathbed

652
01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:09,920
such a powerful oath breaking that had such an effect that the white dwarf rose from his death

653
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:17,840
and became basically an avatar of vengeance so wherever the dwarfs go uh if the dwarfs are in

654
01:06:17,840 --> 01:06:23,040
trouble anywhere in the world there's a chance that the wife dwarf himself will appear uh to raise

655
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:29,440
their spirits and murder the hell out of whatever is fighting the dwarfs I guess he'd have to be

656
01:06:29,440 --> 01:06:36,640
quite badass if he's named after the flagship uh warhammer uh magazines with with white dwarf like

657
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:41,920
oh yeah it's gonna be somewhat good I think actually they uh part of it was named after him

658
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:47,120
uh they because you know they they had the white dwarf you know grombrindle the white dwarf and

659
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:51,600
you know white dwarfs are also a you know a star so it worked perfect like hey there's the character

660
01:06:51,600 --> 01:06:56,320
of the white dwarf and it's also you know we got warhammer 40k the science thing white dwarf like

661
01:06:56,320 --> 01:07:04,400
the stars there's a little fun warhammer you know meta fact for you uh oh there's also one more dwarf

662
01:07:04,400 --> 01:07:09,200
I lied I want to talk about joseph bugman uh you remember I was talking about bugs bugman's ale

663
01:07:09,200 --> 01:07:15,440
now I wanted to try that he's uh he is the the greatest brewer in all of the warhammer universes

664
01:07:15,440 --> 01:07:22,480
bar none uh his brewery was burned down by greenskins so he killed all of them and then he

665
01:07:22,480 --> 01:07:28,880
rebuilt it but founded bugman's rangers so what they do is they go around the world with casts

666
01:07:28,880 --> 01:07:33,840
of ale a mobile brewing force and they show up to dwarfs on the eve of battle give them some of the

667
01:07:33,840 --> 01:07:40,640
best beer that's so good it not only feeds them but like boost their strength uh and then helps

668
01:07:40,640 --> 01:07:46,240
them kill whatever they're fighting I'm sure I've seen the model he's pretty badass he's a

669
01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:51,120
very simple him and the white dwarf but they're just it's just very cool concepts and they're fun

670
01:07:51,120 --> 01:07:57,680
to read about so very cool any other any questions uh let me know in the comments below

671
01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:05,120
any questions uh before I talk about the the no no times not particularly I think it's time to

672
01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:13,120
embrace the the sadness of the end times uh all right so give the end times the very small amount

673
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:19,120
of credit they're due uh what little like bits of good in them that wasn't hogged by cetra

674
01:08:19,920 --> 01:08:27,040
uh was reserved for the dwarfs although they also get shafted in other ways so you win some you lose

675
01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:33,440
them early on in the end times thorgrim finally got his army together to just start going around

676
01:08:33,440 --> 01:08:41,280
and stomping people into place retaking dwarf holds and early and uh also early on uh the ever

677
01:08:41,280 --> 01:08:47,040
queen uh the daughter of the ever queen of the high elves alie athra was actually visiting on

678
01:08:47,040 --> 01:08:51,680
a diplomatic mission because the phoenix king of the elves at that time was actually trying to

679
01:08:51,680 --> 01:08:56,080
rekindle diplomacy with the dwarfs and was actually working because he's actually he's a pretty cool

680
01:08:56,080 --> 01:09:03,680
dude he was the first elf in millennia to have dwarf beer uh and the child of the ever queen

681
01:09:03,680 --> 01:09:10,160
and tyrian alie athra was visiting and the dwarfs actually liked her a lot uh just you know cute

682
01:09:10,160 --> 01:09:16,480
elf princess very nice very charming and then manfred von karstein shows up because of course

683
01:09:16,480 --> 01:09:22,000
he does he's von karst dining all over the setting again yeah he can't just let people have fun nope

684
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:28,960
he kidnaps her uh to help bring back nagash because he thinks and you know there is some

685
01:09:28,960 --> 01:09:35,200
basis for this he'll get the ever queen's power into nagash through this uh because she is next

686
01:09:35,200 --> 01:09:40,080
in line to become the ever queen basically the high elf incarnation of one of the elf gods isha

687
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:47,200
uh so that happens the dwarf tyrian because his daughter just got kidnapped nearly starts a brawl

688
01:09:47,200 --> 01:09:51,840
between their two armies but thorgrim like i said he's a cool level-headed dude so he basically

689
01:09:51,840 --> 01:09:56,480
just tells tyrian all right bud next time we're not helping and then walks off to go take more

690
01:09:56,480 --> 01:10:02,000
holds uh in the meantime nagash comes back the whole alie atha thing hurt more than it helped

691
01:10:02,640 --> 01:10:07,280
because the current ever queen wasn't dead yet so she didn't have the god power and also as

692
01:10:07,280 --> 01:10:13,840
tyrian's daughter uh she had the curse of cain in her blood so really all that happened was nagash

693
01:10:13,840 --> 01:10:19,920
got cursed when he came back uh he fixed this problem however by you know how he said vileya

694
01:10:19,920 --> 01:10:27,120
was sleeping having a nap uh instead of a dwarf opening the hole nagash opened it so he went in

695
01:10:27,120 --> 01:10:32,640
no drain the dwarf goddess velia of her power so now that golden age isn't looking like it's

696
01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:40,560
going to be coming anytime soon and the gas just ate a god uh so that's rough uh in the meantime

697
01:10:41,120 --> 01:10:45,040
dwarfs are fighting things are going bad because at the end times but dwarfs are still kicking

698
01:10:45,040 --> 01:10:50,400
ass taking names at one point that belliger iron hammer fellow i mentioned gets murdered by the

699
01:10:50,400 --> 01:10:58,400
scaven quake head taker and thorgrim who through convoluted convoluted stupid plot mess became an

700
01:10:58,400 --> 01:11:04,080
incarnate of the winds of metal that magic despite the fact dwarfs can't use magic but don't worry

701
01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:11,040
about it shut up don't think about it buy the novel the end times shut up uh he he did that so he uh

702
01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:17,120
uh murdered quake head taker uh and this is one of again the few moments the dwarfs get some badass

703
01:11:17,120 --> 01:11:24,000
in the end times it's like a 10 minute long beat down or he's not he's not even like hitting with

704
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:28,960
his axe he's just beating the hell out of him smacking quake around and the whole time he's

705
01:11:28,960 --> 01:11:35,840
naming every single thing the rat had done wrong in the book of grudges like imagine i try like

706
01:11:35,840 --> 01:11:43,680
imagine gilliam and right and he fights like i don't know uh i don't know can you name a chaos

707
01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:49,440
lord who's not abanuff god here on black chaos lord okay like imagine gilliam's fighting here on

708
01:11:49,440 --> 01:11:54,400
black heart and the whole time he's just listening like off every chapter from the bad ab war they

709
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:59,680
got screwed over in some way yeah like it to be fair he's an ultramarine successor as well isn't

710
01:11:59,680 --> 01:12:06,640
he here on so yeah yeah that's right okay it's just like it's that kind of level of thing or

711
01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:10,400
it's just like you read then it's like that's just that's cool everything going on around this is

712
01:12:10,400 --> 01:12:16,880
awful but that that's cool i gotta give it credit so and he tops it off with bellegar iron hammer's

713
01:12:16,880 --> 01:12:22,240
death which had just happened and then snaps queeke's neck with just one meaty dwarf hand

714
01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:30,160
nice uh unfortunately however uh that was the dwarf cool budget for that end times book so while

715
01:12:30,160 --> 01:12:36,320
thorgrum is retreating uh he forgets to close the door behind him in a secret passageway i'm not

716
01:12:36,320 --> 01:12:41,520
making that up he just forgets to close the door behind him ah so the skaven assassin the doors are

717
01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:46,800
so good at shutting doors we said earlier just like shut the door yeah uh but it didn't work

718
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:54,240
it didn't work uh so the uh skaven assassin death master snitch just skulks on in and stabs him in

719
01:12:54,240 --> 01:13:00,640
the back uh despite also i might mention uh he was the incarnate of the wind of metal so surely

720
01:13:00,640 --> 01:13:05,040
there's some tricks with that he could have done and despite the fact the hiking armor has runes

721
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:10,720
on it specifically to prevent backstabbing we need him to die the setting needs to end move forward

722
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:19,600
everyone please don't think about it he just his last words were i'm not short and then he died

723
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:27,440
yeah and then rest in piss shane gregoram so now the uh the closest thing to a leader they have

724
01:13:27,440 --> 01:13:33,200
left is a dwarf named ungrem iron fist the slayer king he was the guy in charge of that slayer hold

725
01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:39,200
and he also wants to die because he's a slayer he's the one in charge he's like i'm in charge

726
01:13:39,200 --> 01:13:48,640
of the guys who want to die he's he's the fantasy version of dante i also want to die but i can't

727
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:55,680
because i need to be king of the ones who want to die sucks to be ungrem uh he's now the closest

728
01:13:55,680 --> 01:14:01,600
thing i have left to a guy in charge uh he becomes the incarnate of the wind of fire after the elf

729
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:08,000
who was the wind of fire guide died uh i don't know again i don't know how he got it but whatever

730
01:14:08,000 --> 01:14:15,360
he has it now and give it some times you guys it's the end times stop stop caring the faster

731
01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:21,120
we get through it uh although to give this is the the next cool dwarf been in the end times uh

732
01:14:21,920 --> 01:14:28,560
he takes pretty much every single dwarf left alive by this point uh and then every dwarf who

733
01:14:28,560 --> 01:14:35,840
had ever lived rises from the earth as a ghost and just as one massive army just crashes into

734
01:14:35,840 --> 01:14:41,920
the chaos host taking down the world and the kingdom nice yeah uh return to the king only

735
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:48,320
with more alcohol and short people swearing which you know again like i said the end times does have

736
01:14:48,320 --> 01:14:52,080
some cool moments and we're saying all right you know what that was cool if only this existed

737
01:14:52,080 --> 01:14:59,840
anywhere else uh and unfortunately it's not enough the world still ends but one last character of

738
01:14:59,840 --> 01:15:06,800
course needs to be mentioned none other than gotrick gurnison himself uh in the end times and

739
01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:12,640
this is spoilers for everyone so if you haven't read the last gotrick and felix book i mean on

740
01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:17,920
the one hand he has an age of sigmar model and books so you know he lives but if you want to

741
01:15:17,920 --> 01:15:23,840
avoid the specifics of it do skip ahead a bit what happens to gotrick and felix in the end times is

742
01:15:23,840 --> 01:15:29,840
they go to this ancient dwarf keep that had never been found until recently that had these ancient

743
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:35,200
dwarf monks around it uh who had been guarding it for so long that even at the glacial path their

744
01:15:35,200 --> 01:15:41,280
society exam advances they spoke an unrecognizable version of causalid so they'd been there for a

745
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:50,480
while and uh it's found out that gotrick wasn't just some dude who's really good at killing

746
01:15:50,480 --> 01:15:58,880
his axe was one of grim nears axes uh the god of the slayers and he was destined to become

747
01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:07,520
grim nears replacement holding back the tides of chaos forever and so what happens is they get

748
01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:15,840
there they find grim near grim near kills gotrick uh felix gets angry and tries to attack him

749
01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:19,840
although he's a god so it doesn't really work well it's still cool shout out to felix for fighting

750
01:16:19,840 --> 01:16:24,640
for his homey to his last breath nice try mate nice try he gave it his all and you know what

751
01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:35,200
i respect to him for that uh and then uh gotrick is revived uh him and felix uh solo

752
01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:42,560
bellacor and one greater demon of each chaos god uh quite badass and then gotrick i'm assuming

753
01:16:42,560 --> 01:16:48,960
gotrick does all the heavy lifting and felix is just there like felix does help i i can't

754
01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:55,200
he either helped he either fought bellacor that head on or a greater demon of corn that had a

755
01:16:55,200 --> 01:17:00,240
grudge against felix specifically dead on is i like this there's one of the gotrick and felix

756
01:17:00,240 --> 01:17:04,720
books where like an enemy has grabbed felix's arm and he's like pulling him for the and then you

757
01:17:04,720 --> 01:17:09,920
just see gotrick like just about to cut the thing's head off and it's like that's a perfect

758
01:17:09,920 --> 01:17:14,640
representation of like felix is like just distracting the enemies long enough for gotrick

759
01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:20,320
to cut them in half no it's i mean that is what he does but to be fair to felix he is he is an

760
01:17:20,320 --> 01:17:27,440
amazing fighter it's just he's next to gotrick's it's it'd be like you know it's like kato secarius

761
01:17:27,440 --> 01:17:34,720
next to the lion yeah you know yeah kato's he's a damn good swordsman you're not beaten you're not

762
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:40,160
gonna look good next to the lion it's not your fault yeah no it's just no one is or i guess the

763
01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:44,560
luther next to luther next to line would make better lucas next to full grim it's like yeah it's not

764
01:17:44,560 --> 01:17:50,000
gonna work mate sorry it's like it's not even your own fault he's he's just better than you yeah

765
01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:59,600
uh but and then very sad uh basically what happens is gotrick ascends is the wrong word probably

766
01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:07,600
descends to the realm of chaos today grim nears place uh holding off chaos forevermore and felix

767
01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:15,520
is teleported out of there uh except he's teleported into a collapsing cavern and the book

768
01:18:15,520 --> 01:18:21,440
ends with ambiguous as to whether or not felix lives and it ends with him writing in his journal

769
01:18:21,440 --> 01:18:30,560
if the day is won if this is ever found know this hear a slayer lies a very sad although admittedly

770
01:18:31,280 --> 01:18:37,040
fitting end to a story about a guy seeking death and his best friend yeah and then the world blows

771
01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:43,680
up setting over things for kind of yeah so all that work felix spent all that work trying to like

772
01:18:43,680 --> 01:18:49,280
make a big document it's like oh not just the library the world's blown up so that was a long

773
01:18:49,280 --> 01:18:54,560
waste of time geez also felix learned that his entire destiny was to just get gotrick to this

774
01:18:54,560 --> 01:19:01,040
point which a bit of a he was just a courier basically he was just ensure gotrick does his

775
01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:08,960
destiny is was felix's destiny which kind of a downer although uh for a couple things although

776
01:19:08,960 --> 01:19:15,040
the dwarfs as they were in fantasy are gone there are plenty of duarden they're dwarfs let's not

777
01:19:15,040 --> 01:19:20,720
get ourselves in age of sigmar including gotrick gurnison himself and there's actually a funny

778
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:27,520
moment where he comes across a bunch of like off-brand slayers and uh he thinks their chaos

779
01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:32,800
apparitions at first and one of them's even like how did how did you get out of there duarden no

780
01:19:32,800 --> 01:19:36,880
one should be able to live in chaos and he's like what the hell is a duarden what are you talking

781
01:19:36,880 --> 01:19:44,320
about so it's nice at least someone at gw acknowledged the whole duarden crap someone

782
01:19:44,320 --> 01:19:51,040
knew it was silly and uh you know there are still old dwarf models in age of sigmar uh in the

783
01:19:51,040 --> 01:19:57,200
uh realm and the uh cities of sigma army lists there's the various armies that aren't traditional

784
01:19:57,200 --> 01:20:01,440
dwarfs but you know they're still dwarfs and they're they're cool takes on the formula and of

785
01:20:01,440 --> 01:20:08,400
course the old world's coming so dwarfs will be returning to the tabletop in fantasy and total

786
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:14,080
warhammer very fun game you can play as the dwarfs beat the hell out of everything who's wronged you

787
01:20:15,440 --> 01:20:19,840
there's even there's even skills like thorgrim gets skills specifically just called

788
01:20:19,840 --> 01:20:25,200
grudge against x and you get bonuses whenever you're fighting that faction so you need to declare

789
01:20:25,200 --> 01:20:31,280
war with everyone straight away you specifically get skills against beating up people who've wronged

790
01:20:31,280 --> 01:20:38,000
you it's awesome uh any questions there's actually one more dwarf i really want to mention just from

791
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:43,280
vermin tide any questions you'd have first i have no questions but i'd love to hear about this

792
01:20:43,280 --> 01:20:50,240
vermin tide dwarf ah his name is barden gorgson and on the one hand he's a great character he's

793
01:20:50,240 --> 01:20:54,560
again a friendly warhammer character which is funny because like out of all the warhammer characters

794
01:20:54,560 --> 01:21:00,160
the two friendliest one are the dwarfs who usually look down on other races uh no very friendly

795
01:21:00,160 --> 01:21:05,120
there's even a on their website a bit how about whenever anyone is feeling down out of the uber's

796
01:21:05,120 --> 01:21:10,160
reich's five from the games or any of the other like background npcs you don't see barden will

797
01:21:10,160 --> 01:21:14,240
show up in the night hear them out give him a cup of ale and be on his way once he knows you're

798
01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:19,840
feeling better he's just he's just a cheerful guy you hear him back and forth bantering and singing

799
01:21:19,840 --> 01:21:25,600
during the battle uh in the game just it's very cool he's very cool character on the other hand

800
01:21:26,640 --> 01:21:33,440
he's made me hate the dwarf language uh fervently because what happens is like you know say there's a

801
01:21:33,440 --> 01:21:40,240
there's a there's a ratling gunner uh you know salt's pyro say ratling gunner kruger will say rat

802
01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:46,720
with a gun you know carillian and uh sienna will say something similar and then barden busts out

803
01:21:46,720 --> 01:21:54,720
that there's a kagaburi ringi that way like what what what did you just tell me what does that mean

804
01:21:55,440 --> 01:22:00,480
and you know in these kind of games it's helpful like hey you need to know what's coming and then

805
01:22:00,480 --> 01:22:07,840
barden he could be saying racial slurs and ghazalib for all i know which actually he is a lot he is a

806
01:22:07,840 --> 01:22:12,480
lot of the time especially because you're fighting skaven and dwarves don't like skaven promise i

807
01:22:12,480 --> 01:22:15,440
don't know what he's saying and i need to know what he's saying because if i don't

808
01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:24,400
a eshin rat is going to leap 50 yards away from me and kick my ass yeah uh no love me barden hate

809
01:22:24,400 --> 01:22:29,600
the fact that he speaks in gibberish and i don't know what's about to kick my ass it might as well

810
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:34,400
be welch like oh while i while i was thinking about dwarfs i had to get that complaint in there

811
01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:40,960
because again i like barden i do not like the fact that his call-outs do not help in the slightest

812
01:22:43,040 --> 01:22:50,480
uh but uh that was uh again rough little fireside fantasies of dwarfs as always uh with fireside

813
01:22:50,480 --> 01:22:56,960
there's plenty more uh to learn if you're interested but you know like we said this is a nice little

814
01:22:56,960 --> 01:23:02,480
relax chat about the dwarfs and all the stuff that i love dwarves yeah it's and that's again i

815
01:23:02,480 --> 01:23:06,080
remember you were saying like you know there's the surface level but it's the really get into them

816
01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:10,800
you need a deeper hook the dwarfs have that deeper hook but again like they also have the surface

817
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:15,040
level which i think is equally important like because you know if you don't have the live in

818
01:23:15,040 --> 01:23:21,200
mountains mine drink ale you don't really have a dwarf now do you yeah so they've got that but

819
01:23:21,200 --> 01:23:26,160
they've got you know the slayer oath their grudges their affinity for technology to the point that

820
01:23:26,160 --> 01:23:32,080
they have helicopters and trains in a fantasy world they're uh they're great all aboard dwarves

821
01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:38,560
it's it's very cool stuff uh i like the dwarfs a lot not as much as the elves i'm afraid but you

822
01:23:38,560 --> 01:23:46,960
know very cool and uh that was a lot of fun i mean i know a lot of the comments have been i think the

823
01:23:46,960 --> 01:23:51,520
ones we've had the most are the dwarves and i think we've had a surprising amount people ask about

824
01:23:51,520 --> 01:23:56,720
the lizard men and they were mentioned a little bit today but dwarves was by and large the most

825
01:23:56,720 --> 01:24:03,840
popular request yeah lizard men are cool uh they're a lot simpler uh there's not as much character

826
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:09,920
going on for them because they're kind of biological robots uh that being said they make up for it by

827
01:24:09,920 --> 01:24:15,840
just being kick ass i mean it's a it's an as tech lizard man riding a t-rex i don't think i need to

828
01:24:15,840 --> 01:24:22,480
give a sales pitch for that one it kind of just sells itself if we did an episode it just be like

829
01:24:22,480 --> 01:24:28,160
here's all the artwork and the models with no no commentary just one after the other i think epic

830
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:32,400
music i think that's all we need to do the lizard men episode we could just stream total warhammer

831
01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:37,520
and you could you could watch and chime in like what the hell is that what's its backstory and

832
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:43,920
then i'll give you the 30 seconds of lore that it has and move on brilliant oh but uh yeah that was

833
01:24:43,920 --> 01:24:52,400
uh that was the dwarfs everyone oh i suppose uh in that case i had a lot of fun learning about

834
01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:58,800
dwarves if you guys in the comments have any faction or part of the setting any event you'd

835
01:24:58,800 --> 01:25:06,480
love to to see next please let us know um it's always interesting diving into to the fantasy

836
01:25:06,480 --> 01:25:10,320
setting and there's a lot of factions like even though we've done a few of these now there's still

837
01:25:10,320 --> 01:25:17,440
so much still to go and uh and i will say that unless it's like a very unique uh request we'll

838
01:25:17,440 --> 01:25:21,680
probably just go with whatever's most popular in the comments yeah if there's anything like the really

839
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:26,880
sticks out we're all like that'd be really interesting we uh usually just popular request

840
01:25:26,880 --> 01:25:32,240
carries the day so hey you were saying lizard men were uh kind of second place i've noticed that too

841
01:25:32,240 --> 01:25:37,840
if everyone wants the lizard man i'd be happy to throw something together for the lizard man

842
01:25:37,840 --> 01:25:43,600
uh you come on someone else character faction yeah fire away if you went that if you want the

843
01:25:43,600 --> 01:25:47,120
scaly voice you gotta let us know in the comments you know other than that

844
01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:57,120
oh sorry uh but other than that i suppose that's that's the dwarfs from warhammer fantasy indeed

845
01:25:57,680 --> 01:26:03,760
so thank you all so much for watching uh and uh yeah that about wraps it up take care everyone

846
01:26:03,760 --> 01:26:14,960
bye