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Hello everyone, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it's Lore crimes. We're back with

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another episode of Fantasy Fireside. We haven't done one of these in a little while and before

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it's probably around time we got back to it. So before anything else, Colin, what are we

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talking about today? Well, I understand that you might not be as enthused towards this

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as well as some other factions, but we're going to be talking about the high elves.

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Now Andy, I have two goals today. Right. One is, you know, it's like the, it's the main

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goal. It's what I'm hoping to shoot for. It's to make you go, I get it. Not even I like

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them. I just hopefully make you go, you know what? I get why people do. I appreciate them

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as part of the setting. You want me to be Danny DeVito in that season end or of Always

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Sunny where he's just staring at the camera and just goes, I get it. You want that? That

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would be the goal. But there's also, you know, there's the second, you know, post I'd like

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to hit, which is just even lower. It's just to make you go, I like them more than the

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Eldar, which Eldar fan that I am, even I need to admit it's not a high bar with the comparison

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between these two groups of elves. Oh, the ones in fantasy are a bit more competent.

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Right. Okay. And, and as I assume there's also an element of, I reckon they've got more

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stories than the Eldar. Well, they also, they, they certainly do have more stories. Um, but

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I think one of the, one of the main warmups I'll give you and everyone listening is that

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they do have, they do, they do scheme, you know, the Eldar love to scheme the high elves,

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you know, they do have some schemes with the, you know, planning things out and making sure

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things line up according to plan and all of that, that at least in 40 K never ever works

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because I don't know, everyone loves M Night Shyamalan movies that works at GW. So it's

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funny when the farseer who reads the future gets the future wrong, you know, but you know,

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the high elves do that, but they also just will kick you to death. Uh, they're not afraid

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to, you know, get their hands dirty. Uh, they don't look at, you know, someone just riding

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into the thick of battle and go, oh, how primitive and, you know, and sneer at you. They're probably

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the first ones in battle. Okay. Well, I'm liking them a bit more already. See, it's,

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they're a bit more palatable, I feel. Okay. I mean, to be honest, the only real experience

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I have is that, uh, total warhammer free trailer where it's just like with the Azores guide,

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well, this is no time to be short. So short. And that like, they didn't have the best like

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rep in that trailer. They just seemed a bit, not hoity toity, but naive and a little bit

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silly. They didn't, they didn't choose their words very well. I, you know, I will say that's

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not necessarily a high elf thing. That's just techless. Okay. That's just he is a, uh, he

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makes an appearance in a book and, uh, the first thing he wishes is, uh, damn, I wish

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my brother was in charge of this. He actually knows how to talk to people. So, you know,

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that was, that was, that was just tackless. Okay. Right. So, uh, I guess without further

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ado, uh, do we have like an itinerary of what we're going to discuss today? Well, do the,

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we'll cover through, you know, their history a bit going, uh, I figured go over, you know,

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the land they live in a little and, uh, talk about some characters. Okay. That was, uh,

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that was the rough plan, but as always, you know, if there's a, there's a question or

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something, you're like, Hey, expound on that a bit. I'm always happy to do so. Okay. So

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we'll start with, uh, as just about all the Warhammer factions do and go back to the old

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ones, uh, cause much like in 40 K the vast majority, well, even more so than 40 K actually,

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because it includes humans. Uh, the vast majority of the races you can play on the tabletop

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in the setting were created by the old ones as a weapon against chaos and the elves were

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first. So as you can guess from them first, the old ones weren't completely satisfied

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with the project. They, uh, they never quite found the ultimate weapon. Uh, but the, the

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design philosophy of the elves was magic is quite nice. Uh, let's, let's make a race that's

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quite good at using magic. So they, uh, they made the elves especially good in magic. Uh,

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they made them very long lived and, uh, so they can properly attune to it. And you might

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laugh a bit. This might find a bit goofy, uh, but they did make them, you know, at least

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somewhat like inherently kindhearted. Uh, so now it's like, Hey, you know, they have,

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uh, they have like an inbuilt motivation to save the world. Uh, okay. They're, they're

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tryhards. I, you know, that's, they are kind of the world police. So I can't, I can't say

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too much to that. I mean, to be, to be fair, the opposite is Nagash. It's like, yeah, you

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don't want another one of those guys running around. He's just like, nah, I'll do what

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I want. Okay. Who does? Yeah. We have one of him and he nearly ended the world like

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twice. It's probably best to stick to not doing one of those. One was enough. Yeah.

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One was too much. One might even argue, not me of course, but you know, some, uh, and,

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uh, there's also a matter of the end times mucking things up a little bit because they're

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lower kind of implied that the gods they have were survivors from the previous world chaos

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blew up. But you know, you can chalk that up to, if you don't like that, Lori can chalk

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that up to the, you know, the usual GW who knows what's canon, who knows what's true.

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So just, uh, worth mentioning, but kind of messy, especially with the old world's release

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kind of going back to the original. They were all created by the old ones and whatnot. So

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they, uh, as I said, though, they weren't quite perfect. Uh, they were rather frail.

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You'll find that, you know, high elves have wonderful weapons. They can make wonderful

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armor and you know, they're, they're magic so they can blow you up. But if you get past

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that, they're, their main defense against you, cutting their head off is really hoping

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you don't. So again, they're, they're quite good warriors, quite good wizards. It's just,

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if you get through what they have to stop you, they're in trouble. Okay. With a, with

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a few exceptions. First question then. So what different, other than the fantasy aspect,

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what differentiates them from the Tao who also like don't come near us, like stay over

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there or shoot you from afar. Well, they, they, they are quite good in melee. Uh, like

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I think at one point they, uh, in old fantasy, they used to have a rule where every single

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one of their units had the always strike first. So in melee, it didn't matter whose turn it

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was. Didn't matter what they were going first in melee. They got the first round off. So

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it's, it's more like, you know, definitely chunkier than the Tao cause you know, they'll

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practice swordsmanship as well as, you know, archery and magic and all that stuff. It's

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just, you could probably beat an elf in an arm wrestling contest. Okay. Uh, they also,

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they, uh, they must've screwed up that, uh, that formula for making them nice because

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for one, uh, they were mostly loyal to themselves first loyal to their people second and the

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world as a whole third. Uh, so, you know, they will, they will save the world. You might

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need to convince them how it will, how it will affect them first. Yeah. We need to like,

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oh, we'll save the world, but only if we deem it a world ending threat. Otherwise you have

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to prove it to us. Yeah. Okay. That reminds me of something. I can't think of what it

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is to be fair. It is warhammer. So the amount of world ending threats, they come along pretty

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frequently. So they are out there quite often. It's just that, you know, you need to convince

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them to leave their Island first. Uh, and they, they're a little bit, uh, battle hungry.

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They, uh, they like adventure. They like going to find glory, all that stuff. So not necessarily

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evil, but you will, uh, there's a bit of a schism that we'll talk about because at this

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point there's only elves. There's no high elves, wood elves, dark elves. They're just

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all elves. Uh, but the old ones, uh, didn't, you know, they were like, well, this wasn't

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great, but we can, uh, being pragmatic, we can still get some use out of them being,

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you know, kind, depending on how you want to look at it. They weren't just going to

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exterminate a whole race because they weren't perfect. So they gifted them, uh, the little,

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the donut Ulthuan in the middle of the warhammer, not Atlantic ocean. And it was basically the

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garden of Eden. Uh, it was just the most lovely place to live where winter would come around

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and it was a one degree drop in temperature. Uh, it was lush verdant plain forests and

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plains with all these, you know, the friendly wildlife. It was just snow white. Uh, every

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Disney cartoon that's, you know, with just nature and love and it's all great. So the

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old ones go about, you know, making other races, the words, men, ogres, all that stuff.

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The elves for their part, just, you know, can't really blame them for this because chaos

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has not appeared yet. Just kind of chill on Ulthuan. Just, you know, they just hang out

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on their nice Island. Just, just drinking wine, having a cheese board. Like, yeah, we're

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just enjoying the time. Yeah. Yeah. I joined to come to a barbecue. Yeah, I would actually.

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Oh, it sounds really nice. Pretty much. I mean, they really, this was this again, this

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was at the point there was not really any problems in the warhammer world because the

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old ones were still around. So like the three races that weren't chaos that could potentially

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bother them just got slapped down. Like the orcs do exist at that point. This point that

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they're not, they're not doing much to anyone because there's still trillions of lizard

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men to kill them if need be. Uh, so they do have armies. Uh, they do have, you know, some

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stuff they have nowadays, but they, because the old ones did want them as weapons, but

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they don't really use them. Like they, they're completely untested because there's nothing

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to test the army against chaos isn't here yet. Nothing else is a problem. Uh, so they

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really just hang out. Uh, there's not many records of this time, but the position of

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ever queen, which is a very important one, it's the living incarnation of one of their

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gods does exist. But aside from this, like they don't know, we don't know the names of

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any of the ever queens of this time. We don't really know too much about the kingdoms. Uh,

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we just know it was nice. It was like, uh, the elder empire before things got too bad

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or dark age of technology, humanity before the age of strife. It's just a, you know,

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it's just, they're just chilling. Then things take a turn for the very bad because the great

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catastrophe occurs and chaos is here now. Now the elves to give them their credit were

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one of basically two of the old ones races to make a concerted effort against chaos.

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It was them and the lizard men, the dwarfs for the most part, just kind of shut the doors

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to their mountain holds and said, good luck everyone. Not all of them for a beer. Have

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fun. Yeah. Uh, and again, I, I can only blame them so much because if I saw a bloodthirster

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outside, I'm not volunteering to go fight it. Yeah. But it's like when you, when you're

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indoors and it's raining outside and you see people in like their raincoats suffering a

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bit and their brollies are getting blown out in the wind and you're there cozy indoors

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going, Oh, well I'll just enjoy. Oh, it's nice when you're inside and you can see the

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rain and you're like, Oh, I'm nice and warm and cozy. Oh, yeah. Oh, well it's like, I

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appreciate, you know, someone needs to go out there and do stuff. I'm not that someone.

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Yeah. Uh, not today. Mankind was all over the place. The, the humans and the tribes

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that would, you know, become the empire, Bertonia, Keeslev were hiding in caves and hoping the

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scary monsters would go away. Uh, the, uh, the Nehekarins were fighting alongside their

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gods to clear chaos. So, you know, other people were making an effort, but the elves and the

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lizard men were the only like races going like, all right, let's fight them. Did then

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not give the elves their credit. Those armies, like I said, were very untested. It was a

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very one sided affair. Uh, it'd be like one demon for every five elves or, you know, no,

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no execs figures were given. But what we do know is that it was not a great time to be

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an elf. Uh, but there was a couple, two things actually they had going for them. Or should

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I say two people? There was the elf, an Aryan, uh, who I, what is the best way to take Sigismund

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and give them pointy years. Okay. Or maybe Angraan is a better, it's a better, oh, okay.

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He, uh, he just was really good at killing demons to the point that he rallied their

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entire like army. Like he'd show up and then the demons would be gone. He's, he's their

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mythical hero figure. Like he is, he's the guy even like 6,000 years later, they all

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go into battle chanting his name because he was that just that good at killing demons.

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Yeah. He's not like a low key gottrek. He's like a high key, like, no, I'm going to flaunt

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it and everyone's going to think I'm great. And then I just want to die. I just want to

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die. And you're like gottrek, no, we love you. Please. An Aryan didn't quite want death

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that bad. Well, yeah, we'll get to that. Uh, and then there was the other person, his buddy

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Kaelador Dragon Tamer, who, you know, one, you probably guessed from the name, friends

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with dragons too. He was, uh, he's one of those wizards that just kind of blinks and

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you, you just disappear from reality. So he was, uh, he was also good at, you know, getting

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things organized, getting the wizards, you know, doing what they got to do. Uh, and together

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they kind of started pushing the demons back. Uh, not, you know, not zero casualties, but

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when these guys started getting out, it was very much a, Oh, Hey, the rest of the elves

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realized we could win. And you know, we've got some practice fighting now after the demons

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were kicking the hell out of us after all this time. So we're, we're good to go. So

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Kaelador, uh, pardon me, mixing things up a bit. An Arian after a little bit, uh, kind

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of lost track of things. Uh, can't blame him too much because as far as he knew, demons

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killed his wife and children. Oh, that's not good. I, yeah. It's, it's not one of those

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things where, you know, he started faltering. It's like, Oh, you're just tired. It's like,

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no, he, he was going through some stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Especially going from the whiplash

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of like, Oh, everything is lovely and lush and beautiful. And it's like, Oh no, why am

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I family? Oh no. Yeah. It was, it was, uh, it was not great. Uh, and to top it off, uh,

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he got his shoulder to cry on in the form of Marathi who, uh, you know, we've, we've,

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I've brought her up before, you, you know, my opinions on that. I'm assuming you, you

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would mind having her for a shoulder to cry on. I would murder people for it. Uh, indeed.

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But she, you know, even, even from the beginning, she wasn't quite right. Uh, I think at age

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11, she started getting visions of the great catastrophe and demons showing up and no one

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believed her. And somewhere in the getting lost in the sauce of that, she might've got

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a little bit too interested in the intricacies of chaos. I like the idea that she started

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off because I know the attire of the high elves is quite regal with like golds and nice

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linen like whites and blues and the like slowly she starts getting a bit more hot topic and

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you're like the summing up with Marathi. I don't know what it is. She's wearing a lot

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of like low cut, like black shirts and getting piercings and like red lips, uh, not red,

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I have black lips. So you're like, Hmm, something going on there. Oh, it's just a phase. Don't

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worry. It's just a phase. Yeah. She did. That is to be, you know, to be fair to her before

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she goes on to be somewhat responsible for like 80% of the wrongs in this planet. Uh,

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she would, you know, like the story of Cassandra and Greek myths, like she can see the future

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perfectly. No one believes her. I, that was kind of her. She's like, there's going to

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be demons. There's going to be problems. Everyone was like, Oh, you, you silly Marathi. Don't

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worry about it. So, you know, don't blame her for being a bit bitter, but a little bit

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too interested in chaos, very unhealthy interest in an Aryan. Uh, so between that and the fact

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that, uh, he thinks his first wife and kids who he really loved are gone. He stopped pushing

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things forward as much as he should have. Uh, Kailor though, uh, who does not get enough

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credit, uh, kept things going him with some secret help from the lizard men that most

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of the elves don't know about. So they'd get angry if you bring it up and imply they didn't

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do it all on their own, uh, created the magical vortex in the center of Ulthuan, which just

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drains magic away because it's, it's like 40 K, uh, just replace warp, psycher powers

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with just straight up magic. There's enough ambient magic in the world. Demons can just

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kind of show up. So the vortex was really good at getting them away. Like it's just

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like there's, they physically can't form because there's not magic seeping into the world itself.

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It just drains it back into the realm of chaos. So Kailor pulled a, pulled a good one there.

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Uh, he and some other wizards bound themselves like outside of time within the vortex. It's

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like they're trapped in Amber, like a mosquito from like Jurassic park to just basically

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keep that thing going forever. Uh, the other thing helping was an Aryan. Kailor snapped

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him out of his funk eventually, which maybe he shouldn't have cause he immediately went

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to grab what's known as the sword of Kane, which cursed his bloodline forever with just

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incredible battle lust and every now and then health problems. And overall probably should

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not have picked up that sword, uh, to the point that I, there's lore that even the chaos

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gods themselves, along with every other God in the setting, we're telling him it's not

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worth it. And it's not written. I'm not touching that thing. Yeah. It's like, it's not written

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in a way where it's like the chaos gods were afraid. Like they didn't want him to grab

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the sword cause it turns them into an incredible warrior, but they are also like, dude, we're

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awful and take us for our word. It's not worth it. Right. You swing that for 10 minutes.

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The hangover is insane. Just leave it alone. It's like, no, I need it pretty much. And

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like Kane was the only one going, Hey man, you know, it'd be really funny if you grab

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that sword over there. And even if it was just going, Hey bud, don't be a pussy. Do

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it. Dare you. Dare you. Do it pussy. What? And even in some lore, even Kane was like,

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dude, don't do that. That's my sword and it's going to give you one hell of it. One hell

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of a hangover. Uh, don't do that. So but an Aryan did that. Uh, another sad moment with

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Marathi that will probably go in more, uh, before he left to do that, she told him he

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loved him and he just looked at her and left. Oh wow. I, you know, as much as, you know,

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I both say horrid things about Marathi and also admit she's just the worst. Kind of sad.

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Yeah. Was that the, the, the straw that broke the camel's back was like, I can fix her.

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And then that happens. Like, Oh no, I can't. Oh no. It definitely didn't help her mentality

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going forward. I don't know if it was the straw that broke her, but it ensured there

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was no fixing her after that. Yeah. Uh, so, but he goes to grab the sword of Kane, uh,

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murders like fights for greater demons at once with the help of his dragon. He had a

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dragon mount. It's really not that important. It's just cool to have, uh, was critically

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wounded but not so wounded that he couldn't fly halfway across a continent because I've

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mentioned before the war hammer world is like twice as big as earth, really a full continent.

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Uh, put his sword, like put the sword of Kane back into its altar, leave his armor behind

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and he just kind of vanished. Uh, with that, the great catastrophe was over more, more

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or less, you know, there was probably a little bit of cleaning up you had to do, but eh,

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uh, but yeah, that's finished. Uh, the elves are reeling, the lizard men are worse off

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honestly, but everyone's alive. So sometimes you just got to take what you can get. To

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be honest, the lizard men don't seem like they'd be that fazed by it. It's like, yeah,

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acceptable losses. We just do this. This is our thing. Oh, you don't mind. They didn't

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really care about their own casualties. It was more of the fact that like, well, the

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old ones are gone now and we're not entirely sure on what they wanted us to do now. So

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we got to figure that one out. Consult the sacred texts. And then that was what they

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did. Literally. They did exactly that. Uh, but for the elves, uh, they went out and they

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had a, they had a bit of a golden age after this, you know, things were actually going

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good. Uh, at some unspecified point, I believe I could not find an exact date for it and

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uh, you know, the war hammer calendar, uh, an Aryans or his, his wife never ended up

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coming back. Uh, but her kids, her kids did forming one of the bloodlines of an Aryan.

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Unfortunately for everyone in the worlds, he had a kid with Marathi named Malekith,

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who you will remember from me and Eli constantly arguing over who's the real Phoenix King.

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Not him. Yeah, it's not him. I, I'm sure I've, I've seen images of him and he has like a

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very elaborate head, headdress helmet thing. And I'm like, that's a lot of curvy spikes.

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If I'm remembering it right. You will come to find out soon. He is very much just Darth

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Vader. He's edgier Anakin. But he's got more limbs. To be fair. Yeah. There's no robot

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part of them. Aside from that though, honestly, not much better than Anakin. Yeah. Uh, but

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for, for Malekith's part, we'll give him his due credit. Early on, he was a, he was a pretty

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cool dude. Uh, you know, he was an adventurer, uh, wanted to do proud by his dad because

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those are some big shoes to fill. Uh, the guy who saved the world. Oh, that'd be terrible.

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Could you imagine growing up and it's like, oh, like, oh, people talk about, oh, my dad

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was a great like rock musician. Oh, my dad was a CEO of a company. My dad literally saved

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everyone in the world once. Oh, good luck match. Even matching like a tent for that.

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Yeah. Great. No pressure. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, again, to his credit, he did some

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good stuff. Um, the high elves at this point were spreading colonies throughout most of

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the known world pretty much. Uh, like Bretonnia was pretty much just high Elven colonies.

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A lot of the empire was, uh, some of the new world or like the new world, like, uh, the

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North, uh, the new world equivalent, like, uh, the North American equivalent, uh, lustria,

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even, you know, some places in the Hikara and Cathay, they were all over the place.

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And uh, Malekith was a lot of the time heading these efforts. Uh, you know, he was a, he

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was an adventurer at heart and he even helped make the friendship between the elves and

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the dwarves, uh, because, uh, they were buddies at this time. They were pretty much the only

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other civilized races that they had found because aside from Nehekara and Cathay, uh,

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mankind was mostly just still cavemen. Yeah. Uh, and the dwarves and elves didn't have

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too much contact with Cathay and Nehekara, uh, I believe this was, uh, well, I was going

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to say aside from Setra, there wasn't too much contact. And if they did have any contacts,

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you know, with Setra, the elves and the dwarves that usually ended in a decisive defeat for

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the people who weren't Setra. So they probably weren't the biggest fans they had.

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Was it the case? Cause I know you said before that the dwarves basically just went shut

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the door. Good luck. They just like opened it a creek and they were just like, no hard

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feelings and they're like, ah, I can't stay mad at you. Come here. Come here. Give us

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a pint. Uh, probably not far off. I don't know the

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exact, uh, I don't think there was an exact time given for like, this is when the elves

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and dwarves found each other. But I imagine, you know, if anyone knew about that, how the

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dwarves just kind of went, eh, probably something along those lines. Uh, and really this is

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kind of elven history for awhile. You know, trade with the dwarves, make friends. Uh,

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they helped decorate each other's homes. Like the, the dwarves made gifts for the elves.

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Uh, the elves, I think specifically the passage I always remember is it goes to, uh, like

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the dwarf capital, Karazakh, Iraq, the ceiling of it is made to look like the nighttime sky

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and it's just filled with thousands and thousands of sapphires and gems that just twinkle with

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magic, which is just a beautiful mental image. But the elves did that for the dwarves. Just,

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you know, it's things are going well for once. Uh, Malekith was even best friends with the

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dwarf high king, uh, to the point that he was allowed to be present, uh, on his deathbed.

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Yeah. I remember there, there was like a bit of crossover when we did our dwarf episode

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awhile ago. Yup. And, uh, he swore with King Snorri Whitebeard was his name that the elves

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and dwarves be friends forever. He made an oath, Andy. He made an oath on his deathbed,

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the strongest oath you could make. Uh, that, that goes poorly because-

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Don't worry about that. It's fine. It's fine. Just don't worry about it.

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On one of his adventures, Malekith ends up going a little bit too far north and finds

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his ruined city and a crown within it or like a circlet, I believe crown. Same, same difference.

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He finds a, he finds a magical headdress that is just incredibly evil. Uh, it's like it's

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in this place, I believe it's like described. It's like, it's not a human, it's not elven,

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it's not a dwarf city. We don't know what this is, but it's influenced and it's evil.

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It's like the, the, the Tiara version of the, the Leia blade. Like, oh, it's a weird, it's

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in a weird temple and it's strange. Ooh, put this on. What could go wrong?

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You know, I was thinking like the one ring, but that's a way better comparison. The Leia

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blade. Cause I don't think it's like not specifically slanash. It's just kind of, you know, generically

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chaos evil. Yeah. Cause cause the Leia blade was from the Leia species who were like serpent,

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aquatic serpents. And they got this weird like water city and they go, well, that's

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weird. Look at this like big bundle of corals. Oh, that's a weird looking sword. Yoink. Oh

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no. Or it's heresy time. I, yeah. Where it's like that where the end result

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either way is why did you pick that up? Why did you do that? Yeah. Uh, but he grabs

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that and you know, he's not, he's not evil yet, but now we're definitely on the path

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and further not helping things as he goes back home and the elves are electing the Phoenix

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king. Uh, this is basically a, at the time, new position, uh, just to help lead the elves,

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uh, you know, and the, uh, Malekith obviously was like, Hey, I'm the, I'm the son of the

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guy who saved the world. Uh, I helped make us good friends with the dwarfs. I've been

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out and about there. I'm adventuring. I think I'd be a good candidate. Uh, they do not vote

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for him. Uh, not, not strictly speaking, uh, because you know, they disliked the guy. He

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was, he was like loved throughout Ulthuan at this point still. It was more so the fact

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that his skillset kind of started and ending started and ended at sword point. So not,

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not the best peacetime ruler is my point. Yeah. Every peace talk he goes to, he's like,

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like holding the hilt of his sword. It's like, chill, dude, just chill. He's like, no, that's

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fine. I'm, I'm here for peace talks. It's like to see him slowly. Like just move his

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hand, moving further down the shaft. I'm like, no, no, no, don't draw your sword. Yeah. Peace

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talks, peace talks. Remember peace talks. Oh God. He's killed the high king of the, oh

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no. It's like Malekith. We appreciate your good at stabbing things. We need things done

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that don't involve stabbing right now. We're, we're, we're falling the stab. Yeah. Uh,

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so they elect a guy named Belshan are instead who, uh, it was a cool dude. You know, he

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was, uh, not a snow, no superb warrior, anything like that. Uh, but you know, it, it was good

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for the time for what they needed. They just needed kind of a chill guy who would, you

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know, oversee government kind of shit. Yeah. Family man pays his taxes, does a bit of charity

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work volunteers at a soup kitchen sort of deal. Like, oh, he's a good guy. He's a good

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guy. Uh, Malekith for his part, you know, he at least, uh, it depends on again, which

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lore you're reading. Uh, he might've been lying about taking an honorable Lee. Uh, he

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might've been telling the truth. And it's like, you know what? That's fair. You voted

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for someone else to be the king. I can accept that. Uh, I prefer to think, you know, he

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was still a pretty chill guy at this point. He was like, you know what? That's fine. Uh,

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really just doing it, you know, in honor of my father, who was the first Phoenix king.

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And, you know, this is when we're doing an official, this is, you know, mostly for dad,

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but you know, he was like, no worries. Mommy, you know, mama Marathi though was not happy.

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Malekith didn't get to be Phoenix king and coupled with that and herself just being,

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you know, a little bit off her rocker, she began the pleasure cults, uh, kind of like

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again, the, uh, the Eldar, uh, some things were going a bit wrong of the slanish variety.

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And while Malekith was out and about at one point, they sent him a message like, dude,

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you need to come home. They are ruining everything. I just like the idea that Marathi turned into

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a Karen and she's there with like her friends drinking a bottle of Rose and going, it's

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bullshit. My son should have been elected king as rigged and I'm going to talk to the

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manager. I say chill. He's fine with it. And then not again, not a horrible comparison.

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Uh, so while Malekith's out and about, they bring him back home and, uh, he's like, all

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right, I'm going to deal with the pleasure cults. And this is going to be the last times

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I'm going to say it to his credit. He does just start doing that. You know, initially

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no strings attached. He finds, you know, the pleasure cults, worshiping slanish and you

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know, access and all that stuff. And he gets rid of them until he finds the leader of those

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pleasure cults, which is mommy dearest. And again, initially he does like, I'm taking

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you in. You're the leader of this. You are going to trial and probably getting your head

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taken off and they, they do fight, which Malekith wins, but she convinces him to hear her out

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and that, Hey, Malekith, you're the one doing all the work. Maybe you should be feeding

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skin, you know, between that just general promises of power, you know, maybe tugging

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on the family loyalty a bit, pulls him to his side as well as a whole lot of elves.

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Because again, the very popular guy that Malekith, uh, he just came back to help out. He's been

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getting them getting the high elf name and colonies going around the world. A lot of

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people think he should be in charge. I, and then their plan kind of completely falls flat

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because their plan to get Malekith, you know, to be Phoenix King is to assemble all of the

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high elven, you know, lords, like the, the smaller Kings, the princes, uh, accuse Belshanar,

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the current Phoenix King of actually being the leader of the pleasure cults and their

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evidence as far as I could tell was to go, dude, trust me. I'm Malekith. Yeah. Believe

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it or not question by the way. Oh, yep. So like Slaanesh, uh, cause, cause obviously in

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40 K universe, Slaanesh is birthed by the hubris of the elves or the Eldar. So I guess

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in this universe, Slaanesh just always existed as like a primordial force. And yeah, it's

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all, yeah. Okay. They've, they've all, they've always been around. Slaanesh does prefer elf

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souls a bit more, uh, cause they are kind of like the Eldar and that, you know, they

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can, uh, like emotions are a little bit stronger for them, but it's not like it is for a 40

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K where, you know, they die and it's just like, well, you either had a spirit stone

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or it's insta Slaanesh time. Yeah. Uh, there's a couple different options they have when

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they die. Slaanesh will, if they don't like take some kind of precaution or get to a waystone

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quickly enough as a ghost will get them, but it's, it's not like auto just like, and yep,

367
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it is, you go to Slaanesh. I just had an image in my brain of a, in 40 K Slaanesh is basically

368
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Scorpio from, or scorpion from Mortal Kombat. When you go over here, just feel the chain

369
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dig into you like, oh no, please no, please no. It's Mortal Kombat 10. I was, I was a

370
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:53,440
scorpion man. Oh, yes. I played him a lot in eight. I didn't play much of eight. I think

371
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like nine and 10 are the first ones I really played. Like I played the first couple on

372
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like an older, uh, like Nintendo or something that could run it, uh, that my dad had. Uh,

373
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but like nine and 10 are the first ones I really played. And Scorpio was so much fun

374
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in that game. I think the first one I properly played was Deadly Alliance with like the dragon

375
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king and was it dead? It's the, no, it's this one after it's like Mortal Kombat extinction.

376
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:22,280
What was the one that had an RPG in it and you played as a character called Shujinko

377
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and he was like a character that could do every combat style in his campaign. You had

378
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to like play as every character through him. And it was like a weird, it was really weird

379
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because it was like an actual like linear RPG. I was like, this is strange, but I'm

380
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:41,720
like 15 and it's pretty good for me. Um, but yeah, it's been a while since I played Mortal

381
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Kombat. Anyway, I've derailed the conversation. No worries. Uh, but yeah, Malvicus proof of

382
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the, the Phoenix King being at the true trader was to go, trust me, bro. I'm him. No one

383
00:35:52,660 --> 00:35:59,960
believed him. So instead he forced the Phoenix King to drink poison, uh, and went, okay,

384
00:35:59,960 --> 00:36:04,640
I'll prove that I'm him and walked into the fire of Assyrian. Cause this all took place

385
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:11,200
at his shrine. Now the flame of Assyrian is where the Phoenix Kings walk through to test

386
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whether or not they are truly worthy of the position. If they are, they come out unharmed.

387
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If they aren't, they burn to a crisp. Yeah. Malekith was Kentucky fried Phoenix King when

388
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he came out at end times. Lore went, Oh, I actually, Malekith just, he just needed to

389
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hang out in the fire for a couple more seconds to really prove he was determined enough for

390
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it. Uh, which is stupid. Uh, but thankfully age of sigma of all places retconned this

391
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because Marathi was, I, it's, it was weird. We could at some point maybe talk about this

392
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later. Marathi was inside of Slaanesh looking for the souls of Phoenix Kings because they

393
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all had a bit of Assyrians power in them. Uh, so that kind of retcon like actually all the

394
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:02,560
Phoenix Kings after them were just pretenders. Nope. That's not true because if they were,

395
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:07,000
Marathi wouldn't be digging for their souls because they had godly power in them. I'm

396
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:14,600
just thinking Marathi went inside of Slaanesh. How did Marathi get in? Don't ask questions.

397
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:22,400
You don't want to know. She had a magical lantern. I, oh, that explains it.

398
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:28,800
Uh, but you know, that, that's irrelevant. What is, what is relevant is Malekith, bad

399
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:36,160
juju. Yeah. So he burns to a crisp. A bunch of assassins jump the remaining Lords assembled.

400
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:42,840
Uh, Marathi and some others pull Malekith's burnt ass out of the frying pan and he gets,

401
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:47,280
he gets that armor you see him wearing, uh, which is, he can't take it off because I believe

402
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:51,880
it's also sustaining him. So when I was saying he's Darth Vader, I wasn't kidding about

403
00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:58,600
that. Uh, he's a magical evil wizard wearing armor with a face mask that he can't take

404
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:05,440
off who has also been burnt to a crisp, which is the reason he's in the armor. Yeah. Uh,

405
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:11,880
so it's, it's just full blown civil war time, which goes a little bit well at first for

406
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:17,880
the dark elves, uh, who are now forming. They're now becoming the dark elves proper, stops

407
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:23,800
going well for them. Malekith in a hissy fit on does the vortex, which there's not even

408
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:28,000
like he tries to do it. He just does it. But, uh, if you'll remember, I said there was

409
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,520
a whole bunch of high elf mages trapped inside of it to keep it going, including that Kalador

410
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:40,200
guy. It was a very strong wizard. So it was kinda like a, it worked too well because it

411
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:45,760
worked and then all the people inside of it just briefly came out to kick his ass and

412
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:50,880
then they just remade it. The opposite of that meme where it's like task failed successfully.

413
00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:56,760
It's like, no task, task succeeded unsuccessfully. Like, oh no, we did it too well. It's like,

414
00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:00,340
oh, I've under the vortex. Ah, yes. There were people in that that aren't happy with

415
00:39:00,340 --> 00:39:08,240
me for doing that. Yeah. So the dark elves, uh, their homes, by the way, were magical

416
00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:13,080
castles that could just the entire landscape. They just lifted them up with magic and turned

417
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:19,680
them into black arcs, uh, floating battleships that they now use to raid and enslave people.

418
00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:24,040
But that's a little more about that for the dark elf time for the high elves. This event

419
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:29,080
was known as the sundering, uh, because one, I, it's, you know, sundered their people into

420
00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:35,840
two and for two, it literally sundered old one, like half of the islands sank because

421
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:41,280
old one for reference, isn't an island, you know, islands come up from the sea floor.

422
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,480
It's like a boat. It floats like it's, it's a floating island that probably only goes

423
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:50,240
down like a mile or so. And then there's just ocean beneath it. To be fair. I do wonder

424
00:39:50,240 --> 00:39:54,040
if the designers, when they first came up with the fancy map, they're just like, that's

425
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:58,600
a lot of like space. That's not doing anything. Should we just put something there? Yeah.

426
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:02,080
Just put a big donut. Yeah. That looks better. Especially if it's like double the scale of

427
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:08,160
like the, the template of earth itself. That's a lot of like nothing. And especially with

428
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:11,160
like games and stuff like what are you going to do? Oh, sail over that big expanse of

429
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:18,080
not much. Oh, that's much better. Yeah. So this would be a great place for a Walmart.

430
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:24,880
Yeah. Really not great for the high elves, but they're, they're kinda, they're still

431
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:29,400
hanging on. Golden age is definitely coming to an end, but you know, it's, it's going

432
00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:36,440
to get a little bit better. And with this, they did still win though, the high elves,

433
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well, now the high elves, I should say, because now there's a split. It ultimately rained

434
00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:47,640
victorious and they kind of, you know, focus on rebuilding, get a new Phoenix King in charge

435
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:53,480
because Malek had kind of poisoned the last one. And you go back, train with the dwarves,

436
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:59,760
all that good stuff. There are some cultural differences we'll say bubbling between the

437
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:06,680
dwarves and the elves. You know, the elves are very regal, you know, very prim and proper.

438
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:11,960
The dwarves will chug a keg of beer, then burp in your face and laugh. There's some

439
00:41:11,960 --> 00:41:19,280
differences bubbling, but they're still more friendly than not. But Malek hits latest plan

440
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:26,320
to do away with the elves, the high elf pretenders as he sees them is to break his oath and get

441
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:32,560
the dwarves and elves to kill each other. Oh no. So what he does is because there's

442
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:38,080
no like physical difference between dark elves and high elves, dark elves are a bit paler,

443
00:41:38,080 --> 00:41:45,720
that's more so just because they live in the Arctic. It's, he just has some dark elves

444
00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:50,080
dress up as high elves, murder some dwarf caravans and make it look like the high elves

445
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:58,360
did it. Now the dwarf high king at the time, Gottrick Starbreaker and by God, that's not

446
00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:02,520
one of the coolest names. Yeah. One I've ever heard and two of course his name is Gottrick.

447
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:08,920
It's not the same one, but no, it is still a Gottrick. I feel like Starbreaker should

448
00:42:08,920 --> 00:42:13,200
be a Star Wars character or something just like, or a ship name, you know, that's the

449
00:42:13,200 --> 00:42:24,720
Starbreaker there. It is a pretty sick name. But you know, things not great. Oh, I should

450
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:30,760
also add that the Phoenix King immediately after Belshnar who got poisoned, reclaimed

451
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:39,520
the last bit of Ulthuan from the, what is it? The dark elves was nearly killed by a bunch

452
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:44,000
of dark elves and just jumped into the sea in full armor so they couldn't capture him,

453
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,760
which isn't a super important detail. I just thought it was like, well, that's, that's

454
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:53,920
a brave death. Yeah. I hope to be honest, they did like after the battle, try and get

455
00:42:53,920 --> 00:42:57,400
the armor back there. Like, oh, that's, that's, that's quite important armor there. Should

456
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:02,080
we just take him out and give him a proper burial? Yeah, might as well. I couldn't find

457
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:06,520
info on that. I think they might've, but it wasn't an Aryan's armor. Like the Phoenix

458
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:14,120
King doesn't get that, his bloodline does. So, eh, maybe they got it. Maybe they didn't.

459
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:20,240
Who knows? But I only brought him up because the Phoenix King after him is Kailor II, the

460
00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:27,480
warrior who has a very long list of names. You know what? Let me, let me see if I can

461
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:35,760
actually find it. None of them are pleasant nicknames because the elves and dwarves alike

462
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:39,680
both think he's the biggest idiot on the planet because-

463
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What kind of name is Kailor II? Ugh. Well, he's already just a sequel to the better Kailor

464
00:43:47,240 --> 00:43:53,400
and he was a bit arrogant. For the elves, even elves, he was arrogant. And with the

465
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:57,720
Dwarf High King just sending everything like, hey man, why did a bunch of elves just kind

466
00:43:57,720 --> 00:44:02,200
of, you know, murder our trade caravans? Like he was just asking at this point. All he wanted

467
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:09,640
was an answer. Like, very polite, no, like not overstepping, just like, hey man, what

468
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:18,920
happened? Kailor told his diplomat to fuck off. Because, you know, the dwarves weren't

469
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:22,320
really aware of what was going on with the elves and they didn't really get it because

470
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:27,960
the idea of a dwarf civil war was just completely out of their mind. They could not, it's just

471
00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:31,480
not a dwarf thing to do. Don't mention the chaos dwarves. If you do that, you're going

472
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to get killed by a dwarf. But, you know, aside from that, dwarves going to war with other

473
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:41,080
dwarves just is unheard of. So they're like, hey, what happened? Kailor too tells them

474
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:44,840
to go away. The dwarves get angry. So they're like, all right, now you're going to tell

475
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:50,880
us what happened and just pay us gold for, you know, what you stole and who you killed.

476
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:57,840
Which I think is, again, still a pretty reasonable request. As far as he knows, elves kill dwarves

477
00:44:57,840 --> 00:45:03,780
and the king of the elves is being a pain about it. He's not demanding blood. He's not

478
00:45:03,780 --> 00:45:09,300
demanding retribution. He's just like, Hey, pay us because at this point I'm kind of assuming

479
00:45:09,300 --> 00:45:14,000
you did it. And Kailor too wasn't helping that assumption.

480
00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:17,760
It's like if you were in the playground when you're 10 and some, like some gang went into

481
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:23,000
your locker during break and stole your shiny Charizard Pokemon card and you're like, all

482
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:27,600
right, I just want enough money to buy another one because it's a rare card. I'm not going

483
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:32,720
to punch you in the face after that during break time. Just pay up and say, Oh, I don't

484
00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:39,240
know what you're talking about. Ha ha ha ha. Yeah. Now, before I tell you what he does,

485
00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:46,520
I think I'll read through some of these nicknames. Kailor too also known as the friendless, the

486
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:53,340
irredeemable, the goat lover, the goat warrior. There's two different nicknames for him that

487
00:45:53,340 --> 00:46:01,300
implies he has sex with goats. That's just funny. The dark feerer, the frightened of

488
00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:12,280
loud noises and my personal favorite, the pointlessly tall. That's very dwarven, isn't

489
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:18,320
it? Yeah. His next action was to shave the beard of the dwarfs diplomats and send them

490
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:24,280
home. Which for the dwarfs is this isn't just crossing the line. This is leaping over it,

491
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:28,920
doing a funny dance and then kicking a dwarf in the nuts. This isn't a crime against Ad

492
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:34,000
dwarf. This is a crime against all dwarfs. Yeah. This is a directly into the book with

493
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:40,320
you now and now starts depending on who you're asking. The dwarfs call it the war of vengeance.

494
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:46,240
The elves call it the war of the beard. And this is, it just tears their empires apart

495
00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:50,080
because even with, you know, the high elf civil war, the elves were still had colonies

496
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,720
all over the place. They were rebuilding fairly well. There was a, there was like still a

497
00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:58,400
couple hundred years between all these different travesties. They were still pretty powerful.

498
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:06,040
The dwarfs also still pretty powerful. This was before both the slan and the skaven ruined

499
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:12,160
the mountain ranges they lived in and, you know, burned their homes to the ground. So

500
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:15,480
the dwarfs were still powerful. The elves still powerful. They just go to war with each

501
00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:23,320
other and it's world war one because they're both kind of worldwide empires at this point

502
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:32,240
and it decimates each of them. The dwarfs do eventually kill Kaelor too and even steal

503
00:47:32,240 --> 00:47:37,160
the phoenix crown, which they never gave back to the elves. And I got to be honest, I can't

504
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:40,880
blame them that much for it. I wonder where they keep it. Do we know where they keep it?

505
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:45,880
I think it's in like their capital city. Like it's in a horde in Kara Zekarach. They just

506
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:50,280
have it like, ah, screw you elves. You know what would be the ultimate insult if they

507
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:56,560
put it on the royal latrine? We'll put it just above the flusher. Just put it there.

508
00:47:56,560 --> 00:48:00,800
Just rub the salt in the wound. That would be great. I think they just kind of keep it

509
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:08,840
like a vault, but yeah, they don't give that one back. The problem is this was a very long

510
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:13,040
war with a whole lot of casualties on each side and because the elves are now weakened,

511
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:19,640
Malak is like, now is a great time to invade Ulthuan. So the high elves, this is when they

512
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:24,440
kind of start becoming more insular than before. Like how I was mentioning like, you got to

513
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:31,480
convince them to go save the world. Part of that is because it was like three consecutive

514
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:38,000
kicks to the balls between the great catastrophe, the sundering, the war of the beard, and now

515
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:43,560
Malakith and the dark elves are invading Ulthuan. So they recall all of their colonies they

516
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:47,040
had around the world. They're like, you need to come defend the homeland. A lot of them

517
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:53,200
do come home. Some of them don't and become wood elves, which we'll get to another time.

518
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:58,560
But now we have all three elf races and the high elves for their part are just hiding.

519
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:04,360
They're not hiding, but they're like, we are sticking to ourselves now. We keep trying

520
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:10,000
to leave the donut. We keep getting that crap kicked out of us. Fine. We will just stay

521
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:11,000
home.

522
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:18,080
Yeah. Just weathering the storm isolationists. Like we're fine here. Yeah.

523
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:23,960
And they do repulse Malakith. But like I said, after this, they're far more insular than

524
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:29,040
they were. They go to war with the dark elves pretty frequently. Like they're never at peace.

525
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:36,920
In fact, I should say like in 40k, the dark elves are in the craft worlds. They don't

526
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:41,600
like each other, but at least, you know, correct me if you feel I'm wrong with this. There's

527
00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:45,640
a general attitude of like, at least among the craft worlders, we're not going to go

528
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:49,160
bother you. If you decide to raid us, we're going to fight back, but we're not going to

529
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:50,160
pick a fight.

530
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:55,080
Yeah. Fight the humans. Fight the ta- do anything other than bother us. Yeah. Don't worry about

531
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:56,080
it.

532
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:57,920
Yeah. And you know, worse comes to worse, they will work together.

533
00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:02,340
And not being funny, the elves are also like, oh, we've been through like an extinction

534
00:50:02,340 --> 00:50:05,920
level event. We're clinging on by our teeth at this point.

535
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:06,920
Yeah.

536
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:11,880
They're like, you know, we have better things to do. A high elf would rather backflip into

537
00:50:11,880 --> 00:50:19,160
Slenesh's open arms than so much as say hello to a dark elf. Like the levels of hatred

538
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:26,280
present are infinitely higher. Like it is, this isn't just like a we're going our separate

539
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:31,520
ways and those ways just happen to be opposed. This is, I am actively going to do everything

540
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:36,680
I can to murder you.

541
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:43,080
And this starts what I like to call the high elf cycle, which is how it goes. Something

542
00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:50,800
catastrophic happens. The high elves deal with it. There is a period of rebuilding.

543
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:56,040
Something catastrophic happens. The high elves go to deal with it. There is a period of rebuilding

544
00:50:56,040 --> 00:51:03,720
and then on and on for a couple thousand years. For example, you know, Malekith quite frequently

545
00:51:03,720 --> 00:51:08,840
likes to invade. So they'll deal with that. Every now and then chaos and orcs cause problems.

546
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:14,560
You know, they'll go deal with that. At one point they were even like, like I've said,

547
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:19,100
they need to feel it's worth it. They felt it was worth it. So they sailed out to Nahikara

548
00:51:19,100 --> 00:51:25,240
after they were all tomb kings to keep, build some way stones that would help magic drain

549
00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:30,440
in the vortex more efficiently. You know, they do go out and help the world out quite

550
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:36,800
frequently. It's just that in between those big events, they're sticking at home. The

551
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:44,400
world seems very commonly to tell them go away.

552
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,760
The bloodline of an Arian continues. They are cursed. As I said, they all really like

553
00:51:48,760 --> 00:51:56,040
that sword of Cain. None of them grab it, but it's always like they're tempting them.

554
00:51:56,040 --> 00:52:00,240
And that's, that's high elf history for a while. There are like, you know, obviously

555
00:52:00,240 --> 00:52:05,960
like little lore blurbs that are interesting to focus on, but overall you can sum up high

556
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:11,760
elf history like that. It's a constant cycle of very briefly get to rebuild and then shit

557
00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:19,440
hits the fan. So we need to go out and save it. So if you've not any questions, I figured

558
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:25,000
I'd talk a little bit about what Ulthuan is because they, they went all in on describing

559
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,120
it, all the different kingdoms and whatnot.

560
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:32,480
Yeah, I suppose the only thing I was going to ask is, I know you mentioned that like

561
00:52:32,480 --> 00:52:36,720
originally the lizard men fought with the, like have they just been keeping low as well?

562
00:52:36,720 --> 00:52:41,640
Just like, ah, we're not bothered about the elves. They're doing their own internal struggle

563
00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:45,440
and I'm assuming also humanity is quite like irrelevant at this point and they're just

564
00:52:45,440 --> 00:52:49,120
getting their, getting their feet.

565
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:55,520
Around now, humanity is actually kind of coming into its own. The Tomb Kings did the opposite.

566
00:52:55,520 --> 00:53:01,600
They got Nagashed. But humanity, like by this point, Sigmar has been born and the empire

567
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:05,600
was formed. But like I was saying, the elves at this point are still very insular. They

568
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:10,660
will go deal with a problem face the world is facing and then immediately go back home.

569
00:53:10,660 --> 00:53:16,000
They don't view anything else as worth their time at this point, which is equal parts arrogance,

570
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:23,480
I will admit. And also they keep going through horrible times of like just everything going

571
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:27,920
wrong. They need a minute to chill and the world doesn't like to give them those very

572
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:32,680
often. So when they have the chance, they take it.

573
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:36,520
But yeah, unbeknownst to them largely, you know, the nations of men are building Kislev,

574
00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:46,160
the Empire of Etonia. But we'll kind of get to, we'll get to that in a moment. Actually,

575
00:53:46,160 --> 00:53:52,200
I can do a, actually, yeah, we'll do that and then we'll talk about Ulthuan a bit.

576
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:53,200
Okay.

577
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:58,720
We come to modern Warhammer fantasy as it was, or at least approaching modern Warhammer

578
00:53:58,720 --> 00:54:07,320
fantasy and the current heirs of an Arian are born, Tyrion and Teclis. Tyrion is cool

579
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:13,120
warrior guy. He's very charismatic. He's very personable. He's an incredible warrior to

580
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:17,160
the point that some people think he's just outright an Arian reborn. You know, not even

581
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:26,240
just his bloodline. It's like you, he's back. Big A has returned. Funny enough, Matt Ward,

582
00:54:26,240 --> 00:54:31,280
of all people, actually gave him a bit more character depth by making him like, like every

583
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:36,160
now and then, Tyrion is a bit of a mood swing problem. It'll be very friendly talking with

584
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:40,960
you, lovely guy. And then he punches through your wall and starts demanding to go murder

585
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:48,240
dark elves. He's a bit of a mood swing problem. Teclis for how he got the curse of an Arian

586
00:54:48,240 --> 00:54:55,840
is he has cholera. No, he has magical tuberculosis. He needs to take potions constantly, which

587
00:54:55,840 --> 00:54:59,240
wasn't discovered until a decent ways into his life. He was just bedridden for most of

588
00:54:59,240 --> 00:55:05,080
his life. Actually, there's an age of Sigmar of all places. Nagash is tormenting Teclis

589
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:09,960
with memories of the old world. And one of the memories he gets is just Tyrion. Teclis

590
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:13,880
is watching Tyrion, you know, out there training and making friends and he's just sitting in

591
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:21,040
his bed sick. Like, man, this is depressing. Teclis's role is to get the shit kicked out

592
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:31,840
of him at every given chance. But Malekith invades again, as he does. Nearly destroys

593
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:43,620
Ulthuan, but Tyrion saves the Everqueen, saves Elariel, the current Everqueen. Teclis registers,

594
00:55:43,620 --> 00:55:47,040
because they're psychically linked, because elf twin, who knows, I guess they're just

595
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:52,960
kind of linked like that, magic, recognizes both of them are in danger, sees N'Kari about

596
00:55:52,960 --> 00:56:02,000
to kill Tyrion and Elariel, just kind of magics N'Kari to death. And then they go on to either

597
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:08,160
cut the dark elf invading army in half or blast them to hell with spells. Malekith and

598
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:18,120
Marathi for their part. Teclis beats Marathi in a magical duel. And I think Teclis also

599
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:22,760
nearly kills Malekith to the point that he flings himself into the warp to get away from

600
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:23,760
him.

601
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:27,000
Oh wow, that's drastic.

602
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:32,480
When Teclis is on his A-game, he's very scary. It's just magical tuberculosis.

603
00:56:32,480 --> 00:56:39,000
I just like the way he's just like, oh hell is preferable to this. Off I go.

604
00:56:39,000 --> 00:56:43,600
Teclis, again a bit more about him, aside from those potions, he has a staff given to

605
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:49,400
him by the elven goddess of magic, which certainly helps him be magic, but he also needs it to

606
00:56:49,400 --> 00:57:00,000
just walk. He is a very crippled elf. It's not great being Teclis.

607
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:04,640
Is that why in the trailer does he have a staff or something he's leaning on?

608
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:11,320
Yeah. It's equal parts like incredible powerful magical artifact that takes his spellcasting

609
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:17,040
up to a whole new level and he's already a damn good wizard. And also just a cane. He

610
00:57:17,040 --> 00:57:29,240
just needs it to walk. But after this, Teclis has a pretty chill dude. He is a cool guy.

611
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:36,200
He realizes we can't keep just sitting on oath one like this in between periods of tragedy.

612
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:40,800
We need to actually start getting out there more and more. He actually, this is around

613
00:57:40,800 --> 00:57:46,520
the same time as the great war against chaos the empire was going through. And Teclis goes

614
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:51,920
to the empire of man is like, listen, how would you guys like to actually have real

615
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:58,600
wizards? And he founds the colleges of magic, basically sets up the way mankind uses magic

616
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:03,440
in this setting. He's like, you just don't live long enough to be able to properly master

617
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:10,040
magic like the elves do. He's not even being like, you all just suck. He's like, you don't

618
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:14,480
live long enough. Humans don't live long enough to be able to properly master high magic.

619
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:18,840
I would give money to see that first day of training with the first pupils and then it's

620
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:22,680
just like all the elves like, okay, let's see what you can do. And all the humans are

621
00:58:22,680 --> 00:58:28,560
just slightly moving a rock with their magic powers. We've got a lot of work to do. It's

622
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:33,400
like, yeah, they're bloody useless. It was prior to this, like magic was treated

623
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:37,600
how like psychers were on those planets that had like those psychic witch hunts in the

624
00:58:37,600 --> 00:58:45,000
age of strife. Teclis was like, no, no, listen, if you train them, they're not just going

625
00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:49,760
to explode into demons. We could work with this. So he teaches them how to harness the

626
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:55,140
eight different winds of magic helps mankind against the chaos. And he just kind of travels

627
00:58:55,140 --> 00:59:00,360
all over the world to sites of magical power, doing stuff like that. The current Phoenix

628
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:06,800
King by this point, his name is Finnebar the seafarer. He's a pretty chill dude. He actually

629
00:59:06,800 --> 00:59:13,840
also was like, I agree with Teclis. We got to get back out there. He's actually the first

630
00:59:13,840 --> 00:59:18,000
Phoenix King in thousands of years to be allowed into a dwarf hold. Like one of his things

631
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:24,920
is like, we got to, because he liked traveling. Like he would, he visited the empire. He visited

632
00:59:24,920 --> 00:59:28,920
all over the world and was like, they, uh, remember when humanity was just barbarians

633
00:59:28,920 --> 00:59:32,840
intense. Yeah. They, they, they're quite a bit past that actually to the point that they're

634
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:38,440
arguably surpassing us. I like the idea. He went on a gap year and a gap year for an elf.

635
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:41,800
And he was just like, it's great. You didn't check it out. It's awesome. Pretty much. You

636
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:45,240
like, it was equal parts like, dude, this is, this is fun to be in a terrace. And also

637
00:59:45,240 --> 00:59:50,600
by the way, we kind of need them to save ourselves because the world is getting scarier and they've

638
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:55,640
got wheels now. It's great. They can actually like move things properly. Oh, fantastic.

639
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:59,840
They're not hitting each other with rocks anymore. Brilliant. You show back up and was

640
00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:05,560
like, listen, I'm also an elf, not the biggest fan of guns. I like my magical bow and arrow,

641
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:13,080
but they have tanks. Maybe we should ally with that. So they got armored divisions.

642
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:20,400
Nice. Yeah. Uh, so between them and, uh, Teclis, uh, the elves start getting out there a bit

643
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:26,680
more. Uh, and you know, they, they're making friends again, uh, very slowly, especially

644
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:30,760
like with the dwarves who very long memories and that book ensures they're not going to

645
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:36,400
forget what you did. But, uh, the dwarves also have a bit of a relatively radical king

646
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:41,960
at the Thorgrim grudge bearer. I was like, all right, you know what? Fine. We can work

647
01:00:41,960 --> 01:00:47,420
with you. I will not kill every elf I can on site. I, you can come visit. We can fight

648
01:00:47,420 --> 01:00:51,400
beastmen together. You gotta leave after that, but we won't just behead you for being an

649
01:00:51,400 --> 01:00:57,440
elf. So it's, it's kinda, it's like how, you know, in 40 K prior to the great rift, it's

650
01:00:57,440 --> 01:01:01,040
like everyone's getting real active, you know, the time of endings coming, everything's coming

651
01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:05,160
together. It's like that, but with a bit more hope. It's like the elves are getting back

652
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:09,460
out there. You know, sure. The dark elves, the orcs are rampaging, but you know, everyone's,

653
01:01:09,460 --> 01:01:12,720
the dwarves are marching, the high elves are going back at it. Things are, there's some

654
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:21,920
hope. Then the end times. So we'll talk about elven characters first. I think I'll save

655
01:01:21,920 --> 01:01:27,800
Ulthuan for the last, because I just kinda feel like that'd be a better way to end off.

656
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:34,440
Mostly talk about the, as a running theme, you'll notice when I'm talking about their

657
01:01:34,440 --> 01:01:38,560
characters, it's mostly the legendary lords from Warhammer.

658
01:01:38,560 --> 01:01:40,280
Warhammer, yep.

659
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:45,600
Yeah. But that's, you know, to be fair, they pick the most important high elves worth knowing

660
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:52,840
about for that. So start with Olariel. She is, as I said, the, the ever queen of the

661
01:01:52,840 --> 01:02:01,560
elves who grab, just take a my little pony character, make them an elf and give them

662
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:04,800
just blood rage.

663
01:02:04,800 --> 01:02:05,800
Oh.

664
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:10,760
So Olariel is very peaceful. She's a, like, she's an incarnation of a nature, you know,

665
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:17,800
life fertility goddess. So she's like, she's a very chill person. She, like, just, she

666
01:02:17,800 --> 01:02:21,960
does what's best for the world as a whole. Ulthuan, like, heal the world, nature, all

667
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:30,260
that good stuff. Incarnation of a nature goddess. Sometimes nature's not very nice. Sometimes

668
01:02:30,260 --> 01:02:36,120
nature sends a tsunami to drown you. So when she takes, and usually the ever queens of

669
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:40,680
past times were, it was a more passive role, like they would take, like, tend the, you

670
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:45,080
know, the spiritual health of the elves, make sure Ulthuan itself, the land was healthy.

671
01:02:45,080 --> 01:02:51,380
Olariel likes to get on the battlefield and just kill you, just kick your ass. At one

672
01:02:51,380 --> 01:02:58,880
point she got into a tug of war with Slaanesh, not, you know, a champion. Slaanesh itself,

673
01:02:58,880 --> 01:03:05,560
over the soul of a Slaaneshi chaos lord who was invading Ulthuan. And she was winning,

674
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:12,920
it's worth noting. Yeah. It was basically like, once she grabbed hold of the guy, like

675
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:18,960
he ate, like, reverted from, you know, super juiced up chaos lord and just an old man regretting

676
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:28,460
all of his choices in life. Which was really just kind of sad. But she couldn't quite fully

677
01:03:28,460 --> 01:03:36,040
win. I believe what happened is she did save his soul. But when she let go, Slaanesh, all

678
01:03:36,040 --> 01:03:41,960
the attention she was pouring into the guy turned him into a super chaos spawn. Oh. And

679
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:46,680
you had to kill that. But again, I think the fact that she played tug of war with Slaanesh

680
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:53,360
and didn't immediately lose is a pretty good indicator of her power. Yeah, sounds dangerous.

681
01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:59,080
She had a tug of war with Slaanesh, like, oh no. Magical, psychic, whatever, tug of

682
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:05,800
war. Like, I'm, that's pretty impressive. Don't have a tug with Slaanesh. Don't do it.

683
01:04:05,800 --> 01:04:12,920
No. She's much more radical with doing things and just wants to, you know, she's like, I'm

684
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:17,200
getting out there. This is, I'm part of the rebranding of the elves. We're not just sitting

685
01:04:17,200 --> 01:04:27,120
on Ulthuan anymore. We're getting out. We're going to fight. Next up is Imrik. He is kind

686
01:04:27,120 --> 01:04:31,840
of generic as far as the legendary lords go. But you know, to be fair, like all the elf

687
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:35,440
characters, but you know, someone's got to be like, you know, the representative of the

688
01:04:35,440 --> 01:04:42,840
race guy, you know? Like, yeah, he's the, he's the, what is it? He's like the standout ordinary

689
01:04:42,840 --> 01:04:51,200
guy. If that, if that makes sense. He's the most vanilla elf there is. Yeah. He's a, someone

690
01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:58,840
has to be like representative of like the average elven lords and stuff. He's from the

691
01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:03,000
nation of Kalidor, who we don't know their original name, but they renamed themselves

692
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:11,600
after, you know, Kalidor I, the vortex dude. And he, it is a very arrogant nation to the

693
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:16,800
point that the other elves say, calm down, you assholes. You're not that special. They

694
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:21,360
don't care. But he, you know, as part of the everything elves are getting back out there,

695
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:26,760
he was like, well, we are very special, but if we just sit around Kalidor going, man,

696
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:31,780
we're so special, we're not going to actually have any great deeds to prove we're special.

697
01:05:31,780 --> 01:05:35,640
So his reason for getting out there and killing people, you know, glory to the high elves

698
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:44,160
is I need proof that I'm better than everyone. I need validation. To be fair, he is also

699
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:49,440
the elves. The dragons for the most part are great friends with the elves, but they, they

700
01:05:49,440 --> 01:05:56,120
spend longer and longer slumbering. Usually an elf can like choose to wake them up with

701
01:05:56,120 --> 01:06:01,480
like a song, but it's a song that kind of drains their soul away. Kalidor is one of the

702
01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:04,800
only people left who can, or Imrik, pardon me, is one of the only people left who can

703
01:06:04,800 --> 01:06:09,560
do that and not, you know, just kind of drop dead once the dragon wakes up. He rides on

704
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:14,080
a dragon mount named something that starts with an M. Saying that name, I don't remember

705
01:06:14,080 --> 01:06:22,480
it and by God trying to pronounce it is not fun. So M is dragon M. And yeah, there's him.

706
01:06:22,480 --> 01:06:27,200
You know, nothing too special, but you know, he's, he's active and nothing else. He's doing

707
01:06:27,200 --> 01:06:34,600
different things. We have Altharion the Grim, who is high elf Batman. He's the leader of

708
01:06:34,600 --> 01:06:42,200
the elf nation of Tor Ivres. And if he catches you jaywalking in his land, he's going to

709
01:06:42,200 --> 01:06:48,640
throw you in his bat cave. He has a bat cave and torture you until you tell him why you're

710
01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:52,720
there. He will then kill you because this Batman doesn't have that whole thing about

711
01:06:52,720 --> 01:07:00,360
not killing. And when he was out and about, he killed so many orcs that he gave the elves

712
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:06,020
a reputation for being a good fight. Nice. That they will, they're all just sailing to

713
01:07:06,020 --> 01:07:11,600
Ulthuan now. And what few don't sink, because sailing to Ulthuan, if the elves don't want

714
01:07:11,600 --> 01:07:16,560
you there, is not an easy thing to do. Very dangerous. He's just waiting on the shore

715
01:07:16,560 --> 01:07:24,760
to just kick their ass. This is also because he was raiding the dark elves. And while he

716
01:07:24,760 --> 01:07:29,920
was away doing that, the ghost of his dad informed him that a fat goblin was tearing

717
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:37,160
the kingdom apart. Grom the Paunch, the biggest goblin ever. And when he got back, Grom had

718
01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:41,360
advanced so far in that he was destroying enough waystones that the world was kind of

719
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:45,920
unraveling. I just like the idea is like, dad's good. There's a mass, there's a really

720
01:07:45,920 --> 01:07:55,160
fat thing. Oh, okay, dad, no worries. I've got like, like a text almost.

721
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:58,560
It's actually like, I think I was reading like before that he was described as like

722
01:07:58,560 --> 01:08:04,360
a, like he was a very charismatic, personable guy. But when he was dealing with Grom and

723
01:08:04,360 --> 01:08:10,480
the wizard, the orc wizard that was on making the world, they got a little bit of a ways

724
01:08:10,480 --> 01:08:16,000
into unmaking it. So he kind of stared into the abyss of chaos. And when he came back

725
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:22,680
out, he turned, he became Batman. Like there's a one point he, he flew, he has a griffin

726
01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:26,840
mount. He flew on his griffin to help some other like high elves, like Tyrion, some others,

727
01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:30,400
because they were childhood friends, like helping him out. He just left without saying

728
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:34,240
a word. And like it said, like the other elves were like, I just wanted to catch up, man.

729
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:42,320
Why'd you just leave? Altharion does not care. He was out. So very grim. He's also a, actually

730
01:08:42,320 --> 01:08:46,080
a retcon character. He used to be known as Altharion the blind because the dark elves

731
01:08:46,080 --> 01:08:52,840
took his eyes. But then he was kind of changed out to be like the, the I hate orcs guy among

732
01:08:52,840 --> 01:09:01,760
the high elves. The I hate dark elves guy became Alith Anar. Now this, he's one of the

733
01:09:01,760 --> 01:09:06,640
contenders, one of the oldest people in the setting because like Malekith and Marathi,

734
01:09:06,640 --> 01:09:14,320
he's still the same Alith Anar from when they first split from the high elves. His shtick

735
01:09:14,320 --> 01:09:23,720
is that, okay. So Conrad Curse, give him pointy ears and make him technically on the side

736
01:09:23,720 --> 01:09:27,440
of good, very technically.

737
01:09:27,440 --> 01:09:33,320
Does he have a closet full of like skin capes? I don't think he has a closet full of skin

738
01:09:33,320 --> 01:09:39,560
capes, but I think that's only because the idea of wearing a drukey skin, a dark elf

739
01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:46,880
skin is enough to make him vomit. It's not because he thinks that's disgusting. It's

740
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:53,280
because he's like, I, drukey skin is disgusting. I would never sell myself. Orc, human, dwarf.

741
01:09:53,280 --> 01:09:58,360
Yeah, don't worry about that. Not that one. Yeah. And the kingdom he's from, which again

742
01:09:58,360 --> 01:10:03,920
we'll talk about in a bit, was the hardest hit by the dark elves, like succeeding. He's

743
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:11,440
got, he's got about 6,000 years of vengeance built up in him to the point that the Malekith

744
01:10:11,440 --> 01:10:19,540
actually has a prophecy about him where it is, it will be like the firstborn son sorcerer

745
01:10:19,540 --> 01:10:25,520
of a house that will kill him, which is why incidentally any male dark elf wizards just

746
01:10:25,520 --> 01:10:30,200
kind of get murdered. Because Malekith's like, I'm not taking no chances with that prophecy.

747
01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:33,840
Oh, effective I suppose.

748
01:10:33,840 --> 01:10:41,920
To be fair, he's been alive for a couple thousand years. Clearly it's not not working. But for

749
01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:49,320
a Lethanar, he's not a wizard at all. He doesn't use magic. Malekith's afraid of that guy.

750
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:53,720
This is the dark elf night haunter, where you say his name and it's like, oh this is

751
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:58,200
a problem. You don't, if you're a dark elf, you don't want to get caught in an alleyway

752
01:10:58,200 --> 01:11:08,120
with him because he's going to turn you into a flag. Yeah. There's not too much to him,

753
01:11:08,120 --> 01:11:12,760
but it's just kind of like that level of, wow, you are psychotic to the point that it's

754
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:18,360
impressive. A little bit of End Times lore, which we won't cover too much of today. But

755
01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:26,920
a little bit of it for a Lethanar. He, at one point, Malekith becomes the phoenix king.

756
01:11:26,920 --> 01:11:32,720
All that crap that Eli's always on about is wrong. A Lethanar for his part shoots an arrow

757
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:39,720
part way into his heart. And at a Lethanar's command, it will expand into like these brambles

758
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:45,300
and like briar bushes that will instantly kill Malekith because, you know, there's not

759
01:11:45,300 --> 01:11:50,720
supposed to be plants in your bloodstream. And Lethanar just says, you're going to behave

760
01:11:50,720 --> 01:11:56,800
or I'm going to snap my fingers and it's going to go, I'm going to go through with it. And

761
01:11:56,800 --> 01:12:03,960
there's no punishment for this because again, he's Conrad Kurz, just an elf. Yeah. So, you

762
01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:09,640
know, he's a little bit off the deep end, but you know. I mean, it can be fun to have

763
01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:15,760
characters that are just like, oh, they are technically kind of a good guy. But if they

764
01:12:15,760 --> 01:12:21,240
weren't on the side of the good guys, they wouldn't be a good guy. The only thing you

765
01:12:21,240 --> 01:12:27,440
can say about him is that he points his anger at one of the most objectively evil races

766
01:12:27,440 --> 01:12:31,000
in the setting. If he was pointing at like the Empire or the Dwarves, they'd be like,

767
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:36,480
you're just horrible. But he points it at the Dark Elves. So it's like, well, eh. Yeah.

768
01:12:36,480 --> 01:12:41,080
I should also say, did you ever watch the Suite Life of Zack and Cody? Do you know of

769
01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:48,480
that show? I've seen memes of it. Well, one of the actors in it, I believe it was Zack,

770
01:12:48,480 --> 01:12:53,440
Dylan Sprouse, voices of Lethanar. Which for anyone who doesn't know that but was a fan

771
01:12:53,440 --> 01:13:03,720
of that show, like I was as a kid. Fun fact. No running in my Ulthuan. Yeah. And then,

772
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:09,920
you know, the last two, Tyrion and Teclis. Teclis talked about a decent bit. Incredibly

773
01:13:09,920 --> 01:13:16,360
powerful wizard to the point that just if he, on a good day, he can just unmake a city.

774
01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:20,240
On a bad day, he's bedridden, has to drink potions. And if he doesn't have his staff

775
01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:28,240
with him, he's getting out of bed. But he does get out there. He was in Where Else,

776
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:35,360
Andy. But Gottrick and Felix, he makes an appearance. Nice. And he has the common sense

777
01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:42,080
to be afraid of Gottrick. So this is already like turning up his intelligence level significantly.

778
01:13:42,080 --> 01:13:50,600
He did not. Good. Gottrick still nearly killed him because Elf, therefore bad, is about as

779
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:56,860
far as Gottrick's thought process went. Nice. But Teclis was able to save Felix because

780
01:13:56,860 --> 01:14:02,680
they were in basically the fantasy webway and Felix got a little bit lost. So Teclis

781
01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:06,480
helped save Felix and then they spend the rest of the book just sniping at each other,

782
01:14:06,480 --> 01:14:13,320
just quips. And Felix has to play like middle man, like, please don't kill each other. You're

783
01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:18,240
a powerful wizard. Gottrick is Gottrick. I don't know who's going to win the fight, but

784
01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:29,320
I know it's not going to be me. Again, he is pretty chill. Like in the game Total Warhammer,

785
01:14:29,320 --> 01:14:34,200
he gets relations bonuses with like the racism men, the lizard men, all the elves, because

786
01:14:34,200 --> 01:14:39,080
he's like a peacemaker. He tells Felix, like, they're talking about the old ones and how

787
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:42,880
the world came to form. And Felix gives him a good point, like a suggestion in Texas.

788
01:14:42,880 --> 01:14:49,120
Like, you know what? I never thought about that. That was a good one, Felix. As far as

789
01:14:49,120 --> 01:14:59,080
elves go, he's very down to earth. Like he's very chill. And then his brother Tyrion. Tyrion

790
01:14:59,080 --> 01:15:04,960
likes three things in the world. He likes his brother. He likes four things, pardon

791
01:15:04,960 --> 01:15:10,680
me. He likes his brother. He likes Olareal. He likes his daughter with Olareal, which

792
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:14,440
is breaking tradition a bit because Tyrion's not the Phoenix King and the Phoenix King and

793
01:15:14,440 --> 01:15:19,320
the Everqueen are the ones who are supposed to have kids. But you know, Tyrion and Olareal

794
01:15:19,320 --> 01:15:30,760
just went at it and now they got a daughter. And he likes killing. No, he just likes killing.

795
01:15:30,760 --> 01:15:40,160
He's a... shooting him just makes him angry. He has an Arian's armor. He has the Sword

796
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:44,120
of one of an Arian's friends. The way he got that sword, by the way, was he went to a museum,

797
01:15:44,120 --> 01:15:53,320
the sword was held in and just took it. Never gave it back. Just took it. The Hyos are very

798
01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:58,160
political. Their courtly intrigues are like Game of Thrones, just with a little bit less

799
01:15:58,160 --> 01:16:08,980
bloodshed. Tyrion is like a bowl in a china shop when it comes to handling these politics.

800
01:16:08,980 --> 01:16:15,300
For example, one of his friends died in a battle against one of the enemies of Ulthuan

801
01:16:15,300 --> 01:16:22,480
and his daughter named Eldaira, Eldraya, I believe, wanted to become like dad and she

802
01:16:22,480 --> 01:16:27,040
went to the Phoenix court and was like, I'm going to be a general. I'm going to be a princess,

803
01:16:27,040 --> 01:16:34,080
like a high elf princess. It's like the leader of the armies and I'm going to get out there.

804
01:16:34,080 --> 01:16:39,080
And then they kind of laughed her out of the court. And so she went to Tyrion. It was like,

805
01:16:39,080 --> 01:16:44,120
Uncle Tyrion, they laughed at me. And then Uncle Tyrion went into there, presumably holding

806
01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:50,240
the sword in hand and was like, so she's going to be my squire. She's going to be a general.

807
01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:53,760
There's no issues with this, right? And then they all very politely clapped and said, yes,

808
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:57,660
Tyrion, that's right, Tyrion. Do what you want, Tyrion. Please don't stab me, Tyrion,

809
01:16:57,660 --> 01:16:59,560
because I know you will.

810
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:02,640
Any questions? No? No, it's fine.

811
01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:09,320
Yeah. Every other elf character, well, Ultharion just doesn't care. Ultharion never leaves

812
01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:13,480
Tory of Ress because he's very grim and he's seen what the Warhammer world is like beneath

813
01:17:13,480 --> 01:17:17,640
the surface. So he's very grim. But every other elf character is like, yes, we'll play

814
01:17:17,640 --> 01:17:22,720
the political game. We'll do this. We'll do that. Tyrion just kind of bullnoses through

815
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:27,700
and whenever someone takes issue with it, he either just goes, I'm the Aeravanarian or

816
01:17:27,700 --> 01:17:34,560
just stabs them. So he just kind of does what he wants, which to be fair, when he is on

817
01:17:34,560 --> 01:17:40,960
the battlefield, everything in front of him is not walking away. Tyrion and Teclis, when

818
01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:46,680
they're working together, it is opposing armies are probably not going to last very long because

819
01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:53,960
Tyrion is a warrior bar none and Teclis is a wizard bar none, you know, excepting if,

820
01:17:53,960 --> 01:17:59,000
you know, the Slahn, like when the few first generation, well, the only first generation

821
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:03,480
and second generation ones remaining, unless they're around, you're not beating Teclis

822
01:18:03,480 --> 01:18:08,480
in a wizard duel. And unless Gottrick is around, you're not beating Tyrion in a straight up

823
01:18:08,480 --> 01:18:17,440
fight. So they are a very scary pair when they're working together. And yeah, that's

824
01:18:17,440 --> 01:18:21,920
a, there's no, obviously there's more high elf characters. Like, you know, there's Finnebar,

825
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:28,400
cool dude, like I was saying, sails the world, getting the elves out there again, cool stuff.

826
01:18:28,400 --> 01:18:34,320
But that's kind of like the basics of like, here's all the high elf legendary characters

827
01:18:34,320 --> 01:18:41,320
of different flavors, you know, they're worth noting. But so, we'll, we'll cap us off, just

828
01:18:41,320 --> 01:18:47,800
tell you a little bit about Ulthuan. After the Sundering, it was going through it. It

829
01:18:47,800 --> 01:18:54,200
is divided into the five inner and outer kingdoms for a total of 10. And the inner kingdoms,

830
01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:58,960
for the most part, are like the nice, you know, paradise ones. The outer kingdoms are

831
01:18:58,960 --> 01:19:05,080
a little, little bit more rough and tumble, not, not quite as pleasant to be on.

832
01:19:05,080 --> 01:19:09,800
But they're not like, I'm assuming they're not anywhere near as bad as like the Empire,

833
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:15,080
where there's going to be ones like covered in smog and poverty. Like I assume even like

834
01:19:15,080 --> 01:19:20,400
the Eldar's like worse, like districts are still pretty good, I would have thought.

835
01:19:20,400 --> 01:19:28,680
There is one of the kingdoms is one of the worst places to be on the planet. I'll just

836
01:19:28,680 --> 01:19:33,640
be, I'll just level with you, but the rest of them are, are pretty nice. Okay. There's

837
01:19:33,640 --> 01:19:39,600
also the mountain ranges that divide the inner and outer kingdoms have a slight issue with

838
01:19:39,600 --> 01:19:47,560
monster infestations. So, you know, every now and then the high elves sent an army to

839
01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:51,560
deal with them and come back down. It's not that big of a deal. It's just something you

840
01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:56,900
got to deal with every now and then. But the kingdoms will do the, will do the inner kingdoms

841
01:19:56,900 --> 01:20:03,240
first because they're the nice peaceful ones. There's Eotain, which is a, you know, where

842
01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:09,200
the city of Lothurn is, which is the only place non-elves are allowed on Ulthuan. And

843
01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:14,720
it's just, just one of the biggest wonders of the world. There's statues of every single

844
01:20:14,720 --> 01:20:20,200
one of the elf gods lining the harbor. Even Cain, who's got a statue that's black with

845
01:20:20,200 --> 01:20:25,160
ruby eyes instead of, you know, the other ones are all nice marble and all the other

846
01:20:25,160 --> 01:20:29,520
gems. Cain's is a little bit edgier, but they do still have them there.

847
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:34,200
I like the idea that they're like, this is the only place that the, the out, like the

848
01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:37,920
outsiders can go and we're just going to show off by having these massive statues of like,

849
01:20:37,920 --> 01:20:40,960
look how cool we are. That is absolutely part of what it is. It's

850
01:20:40,960 --> 01:20:45,080
like, oh, you're going to see what we want you to see. We are giving you the, the full

851
01:20:45,080 --> 01:20:52,920
showboating treatment. Yeah. Yeah. It is, it's like the trade capital of the world. It's

852
01:20:52,920 --> 01:20:57,400
the basis of one of the, like one of the main bases of the high elf Navy, which is also

853
01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:01,280
like, it's the greatest one in the world because they live on an island. They kind of need

854
01:21:01,280 --> 01:21:08,480
to have a good Navy. It's, I think there's, there's like a giant serpent that protects

855
01:21:08,480 --> 01:21:12,560
it. So, you know, if you're trying to invade, that's a problem for you, you got to deal

856
01:21:12,560 --> 01:21:17,760
with and it's a, it's all just a generally very like, Hey, this is a, this is a cool

857
01:21:17,760 --> 01:21:22,480
place to be. There's trade museums, all the, all the fancy elf stuff you can think of.

858
01:21:22,480 --> 01:21:28,120
You can find it somewhere in Iotain and it's a, it's a, it's a nice place to be very temperate,

859
01:21:28,120 --> 01:21:36,200
very nice, lovely place. There's a, and there's Kalidor, which is a, like I said earlier,

860
01:21:36,200 --> 01:21:40,760
the original name of it is no one remembers. They renamed themselves after Kayla or dragon

861
01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:45,040
tamer. And like I was saying with Emmerich, these elves are arrogant to the point that

862
01:21:45,040 --> 01:21:50,840
they make like their arrogance compared to the other elves is how elves seem compared

863
01:21:50,840 --> 01:22:00,480
to the other, like non-elves. They are insufferable to be around. They have a, they have a volcano

864
01:22:00,480 --> 01:22:04,360
known as Vol's Anvil. There's also like three places in the Warhammer world known as Vol's

865
01:22:04,360 --> 01:22:11,080
Anvil by the way, one for each of the elf sub factions. This is the high elf one that

866
01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:15,640
can make some of the best armor and equipment known to the world. It's called Ithelmar.

867
01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:20,680
It's like Mithril from Lord of the Rings where it's super powerful, but just light as a feather

868
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:26,560
they're, they're, they're definitely very full of themselves, which to be fair, if I

869
01:22:26,560 --> 01:22:30,680
was best friends with dragons, cause this is like the, the sub faction of them that uses

870
01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:39,560
dragons I'd probably have a bit of an ego, you know, but not too much about them. Emmerich,

871
01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:44,800
they like fire. They like their dragons very, very arrogant, all that, you know, all that

872
01:22:44,800 --> 01:22:52,320
crap. Next up is Averlorn, which is where the Everqueen lives. It's, it's the Garden

873
01:22:52,320 --> 01:22:57,080
of Eden to the rest of Ulthuan, which is already the Garden of Eden where everyone frolics

874
01:22:57,080 --> 01:23:02,280
in the forest and it's nice and lovely and it's, it's permanent springtime weather, but

875
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:07,560
like the end of spring or it's warm and pleasant and it's just great and the elves sit around

876
01:23:07,560 --> 01:23:12,160
reading poetry to each other and God, it's just the most sickening crap. How did this

877
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:19,360
end up in Warhammer? I don't know, but it did. Like there's no, there's only one city

878
01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:23,960
here. The rest of the quote unquote cities in Averlorn are like just nomad tents. They

879
01:23:23,960 --> 01:23:30,160
just pack up and move or whenever they feel like it. If you had to live in any Warhammer

880
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:35,560
setting, you would want to live here. Yeah. Of course there's also, because this is a

881
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:41,040
seat of the Everqueen's court, there's the handmaidens of the Everqueen, which, you know,

882
01:23:41,040 --> 01:23:47,060
you hear handmaidens and you think, oh, they do her hair and all that stuff. No, this is,

883
01:23:47,060 --> 01:23:53,240
this is the secret, but this is the Inquisition of the Elves or at least for the Everqueen.

884
01:23:53,240 --> 01:24:00,880
If there is anything so much as a bit wrong in Averlorn, it's going to disappear. Yeah.

885
01:24:00,880 --> 01:24:07,200
So yeah, and it's, you know, very, very hippie dippy crap, but it's still Warhammer. So they

886
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:14,240
still know how to fight. There's Illyrian, which is the, one of the cavalry is like the

887
01:24:14,240 --> 01:24:21,640
cavalry sub faction. The land is magic. And unless the land itself shows you the way,

888
01:24:21,640 --> 01:24:25,800
the longer you walk, the longer it's going to take you to get to your destination. You

889
01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:31,560
will get there when the land itself decides you're going to get there. Oh, wow. They're

890
01:24:31,560 --> 01:24:35,480
known for their, you know, they're called Illyrian Reavers because when Malekith was

891
01:24:35,480 --> 01:24:42,960
betraying, you know, the high elves, the people of Illyria or Illyrian would ride out, like

892
01:24:42,960 --> 01:24:46,940
raid the dark elves. They would convince people who were still on the fence a bit to stay

893
01:24:46,940 --> 01:24:52,160
with the high elves. They were, you know, they were out and about. They were very helpful

894
01:24:52,160 --> 01:24:57,600
in that. They're a light cavalry kind of deal. There's the last inner kingdom is Safiree,

895
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:02,440
which is the, you know, the mandatory, everyone here is a wizard, even the lowliest of peasant

896
01:25:02,440 --> 01:25:11,640
nation to the point that like the idea that magic flows through the elves in Safiree,

897
01:25:11,640 --> 01:25:18,280
that's not like just a saying cause elves are good at magic. That's probably just true

898
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:22,360
where every like trippy thing you can imagine is happening. Like every now and then there's

899
01:25:22,360 --> 01:25:29,940
just Aurora Borealis and the sky changes colors and it's kind of like Illyrian. You just kind

900
01:25:29,940 --> 01:25:35,920
of start walking and know where you want to go. Like I want to go to, you know, that guy's

901
01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:42,160
house and you'll get there when the land decides you're worthy of it.

902
01:25:42,160 --> 01:25:47,240
Meetings must be a nightmare. Oh, yeah. Two o'clock. Okay. Five days later. Sorry. It

903
01:25:47,240 --> 01:25:51,840
wouldn't let me get here. It's either a nightmare or everyone there is like Gandalf and they're

904
01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:56,640
just like, a wizard is never, never late nor early. He arrives when he means to be. And

905
01:25:56,640 --> 01:26:02,640
they all just kind of have that attitude. This is actually, I misspoke a bit earlier.

906
01:26:02,640 --> 01:26:09,520
This is where the elf Inquisition lives. They're known as the Swordmasters of Hoeth as well

907
01:26:09,520 --> 01:26:17,080
as Loremasters, where Swordmasters but like hero options upgraded. They train equal parts

908
01:26:17,080 --> 01:26:23,200
in sword and magic and they root out any pleasure cults or such that might be rooting itself

909
01:26:23,200 --> 01:26:30,480
in the high elves. That goes into detail. It's like elves, especially in Warhammer,

910
01:26:30,480 --> 01:26:34,520
are functionally immortal. They will train for so long that they start taking the weight

911
01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:37,920
of their eyelashes into account with their sword swings.

912
01:26:37,920 --> 01:26:44,400
That's pretty cool. To be fair, you live for 500 years. You got to start working on minute

913
01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:48,480
details like that because there's only so many ways you can swing through the air.

914
01:26:48,480 --> 01:26:53,200
Although that must be a massive pain when it's like keeping your hair tidy. It's like

915
01:26:53,200 --> 01:26:56,880
you live for ages. You can grow your hair for like years on end, but it's like if you're

916
01:26:56,880 --> 01:27:00,880
worrying about the weight of your eyelashes, it's like, okay, I need to have like an optimal

917
01:27:00,880 --> 01:27:05,760
haircut. So one, it doesn't get into my eyes, but also it's not too heavy. Oh God.

918
01:27:05,760 --> 01:27:13,240
Yeah, at a certain point, it has to be insane at a certain point with that. And yeah, they're

919
01:27:13,240 --> 01:27:17,720
like, you know, the generic, the super bestest of the bestest wizards live here. There's

920
01:27:17,720 --> 01:27:22,000
a, it's what called the white tower of how it's, which actually has magical computers

921
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:29,440
in it, which is basically you open a book, uh, you tell the book what you want to read

922
01:27:29,440 --> 01:27:33,760
about and it just flips to it, which is, you know, not the super, you know, most important

923
01:27:33,760 --> 01:27:39,280
thing, but it's pretty neat. Uh, what else? Uh, around the white tower of how it is a

924
01:27:39,280 --> 01:27:44,560
maze that constantly shifts. And of course the maze is at least somewhat sentient. So

925
01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:50,720
if you go there with ill intentions, you're not coming out of that maze ever. It's a,

926
01:27:50,720 --> 01:27:59,240
it's yeah, you just kind of vanish. Uh, it's also fun fact, uh, in blood bowl, uh, this

927
01:27:59,240 --> 01:28:04,640
is the center of the crystal ball network that broadcasts blood bowl across the warhammer

928
01:28:04,640 --> 01:28:09,120
world. Oh wow. So even when things are going terribly, there's at least some blood bowl

929
01:28:09,120 --> 01:28:15,240
going on the light. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a, it's a very, it's a very nice, very funny

930
01:28:15,240 --> 01:28:22,680
blood balls. So goofy. One of these, I'm glad it exists. So Tom, uh, and those are the inner

931
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:29,240
kingdoms where things are generally a lot nicer, uh, to be fair, well, we'll go through

932
01:28:29,240 --> 01:28:35,200
the nicer outer kingdoms. Uh, but first, uh, in the, between the inner and outer kingdoms

933
01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:39,680
are the gates of Ulthuan. So there, there's mountain ranges with only like, I believe

934
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:43,800
it's five passes between the inner and outer kingdoms. And there's also, you can go to

935
01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:48,920
Eotane to just sail in, but the harbor is guarded with all sorts of artillery and magical

936
01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:53,840
spells. So trying to get in through Eotane, first off, you need a big Navy. Second off,

937
01:28:53,840 --> 01:29:00,720
you're probably not going to do it. Instead. Usually you go through the gates, which are

938
01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:05,240
also very hard to get through. Uh, there's, there also, uh, each of the gates is named

939
01:29:05,240 --> 01:29:10,200
after one of the mount options the high elves have. So there's Eagle Gate, uh, which is

940
01:29:10,200 --> 01:29:14,680
the Southern most one, not super important, not too much goes on there. Uh, all of the

941
01:29:14,680 --> 01:29:19,360
gates, like they are constantly invaded and they're dangerous to the point that like once

942
01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:25,400
an elf, like is finished with their tour at the gate, they're one of the most respected

943
01:29:25,400 --> 01:29:29,920
members of society because they are the ones keeping the inner, uh, regions of Ulthuan

944
01:29:29,920 --> 01:29:38,320
safe. Uh, so Eagle Gate, not super important as far as the gates go. Uh, uh, Griffin Gate,

945
01:29:38,320 --> 01:29:42,920
which is crowned by what else? You know, two giant golden statues of Griffins, which is

946
01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:46,560
attacked more than any of the other gates, but it's never been breached. So they're doing

947
01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:53,760
a good job. Uh, Unicorn Gate, which is the least attacked gate because it's, uh, found

948
01:29:53,760 --> 01:29:59,620
at the end of a very dangerous mountain pass that they purposely keep infested with monsters.

949
01:29:59,620 --> 01:30:04,280
So anyone who tries to invade it needs to go through, you know, the darkest dungeon

950
01:30:04,280 --> 01:30:12,400
before they can even get to the gate. Hmm. A trick of the light. Indeed. It's a, it's,

951
01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:15,480
it's, it's, it's, yeah, it's not the least attack because the best gate it's least attacked

952
01:30:15,480 --> 01:30:21,600
because it's, it's just miserable to get to. Yeah. And to be honest with like, I like the

953
01:30:21,600 --> 01:30:25,160
idea of also like when they're trying to assault the everyone's like, Oh, are you going to

954
01:30:25,160 --> 01:30:29,520
assault the Unicorn Gate? Nah, it doesn't sound very tough. Griffin Gate. Oh, assault

955
01:30:29,520 --> 01:30:36,640
that. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds manly. Yeah. There's a, there's then Dragon Gate, which is, uh,

956
01:30:36,640 --> 01:30:42,120
you know, the, the fanciest, the, you know, the most, uh, grandiose gate because, uh,

957
01:30:42,120 --> 01:30:46,080
it, it's kind of, it's got a dual function. So it's like, it's partially gate to keep

958
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:51,120
the bad guys out. It's also, uh, has living quarters for all of Ulthuan's nobility to

959
01:30:51,120 --> 01:30:55,880
retreat to in case, uh, there's a second great catastrophe is, uh, it's got the largest

960
01:30:55,880 --> 01:31:03,040
gate, uh, army of any of the gates. Uh, it's frequently attacked, but it has also never

961
01:31:03,040 --> 01:31:09,480
fallen to the point that Malekith keeps sending Dark Elves at it whenever he invades to try

962
01:31:09,480 --> 01:31:15,160
and be like, yes, I finally made it fall. And then it never works. And he, he never

963
01:31:15,160 --> 01:31:22,120
learns. Uh, and the last gate, Phoenix Gate, which is the worst one to be stationed at

964
01:31:22,120 --> 01:31:28,560
because it basically goes, they rebuild it, it gets breached. They rebuild it taller

965
01:31:28,560 --> 01:31:33,640
and better, and then it gets breached. And then they just, it just repeat this. And it's

966
01:31:33,640 --> 01:31:38,560
to the point that the like tallest spires and towers within it are probably as high

967
01:31:38,560 --> 01:31:43,000
as the mountains by this point, because out of spite, they just keep building it bigger

968
01:31:43,000 --> 01:31:48,800
and better than it was before. So at a certain point, if the, if the setting kept going on,

969
01:31:48,800 --> 01:31:54,800
I would be excited to see when they finally breach the stratosphere. They just keep building

970
01:31:54,800 --> 01:32:00,440
it up. And, uh, I know you're going to appreciate this. Stop me when this sounds familiar. Uh,

971
01:32:00,440 --> 01:32:04,440
the forces, the Phoenix Gate, you know, despite it being a miserable place that you will probably

972
01:32:04,440 --> 01:32:09,760
die before you finish your tour, uh, they're confident that everything is going according

973
01:32:09,760 --> 01:32:16,720
to their divine God's plan. Uh, they have the best armor and arms of all of the, of

974
01:32:16,720 --> 01:32:22,760
all of the high elves, all of their ammunition is blessed straight from temples from their

975
01:32:22,760 --> 01:32:28,840
homeland and anointed with sacred oils and incense. Any of this sound familiar? Is it

976
01:32:28,840 --> 01:32:38,720
gold? Do they wear gold? Uh, I don't, uh, they probably wear gold. Uh, yeah, this is,

977
01:32:38,720 --> 01:32:42,640
this is where either the high elf custodians or space Marines live depending on if they

978
01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:51,280
wear gold. Yeah, it's a miserable place. You're probably going to die before you're done,

979
01:32:51,280 --> 01:32:54,640
but it's also, you know, it's like representative like that. This is, you know, the fighting

980
01:32:54,640 --> 01:32:58,640
spirit of the high elves. They're going down and they're taking a whole lot of people with

981
01:32:58,640 --> 01:33:07,680
them. Uh, yeah. And there's the outer kingdoms. Uh, I'll try and go from like nicest to worst

982
01:33:07,680 --> 01:33:13,280
because we pretty quickly get to the worst places. The outer Kings were not nice. Uh,

983
01:33:13,280 --> 01:33:20,200
first up is crase, which is like, it's a C H R A C E for how to spell crase trace. I don't

984
01:33:20,200 --> 01:33:25,200
really know how to say it. I say crase. I just feel like that sounds better. Uh, it's,

985
01:33:25,200 --> 01:33:30,600
uh, it's like the, it's like the backwoods, you know, it's a, like the Appalachians. Uh,

986
01:33:30,600 --> 01:33:35,360
I'm not, I don't know quite what the equivalent is over in England. Uh, it's like, you know,

987
01:33:35,360 --> 01:33:40,040
the backwood forests. Uh, this is, this is where you go to get away from the, you know,

988
01:33:40,040 --> 01:33:46,240
all them city slickers. Uh, and then, you know, things kept going wrong. It's one of

989
01:33:46,240 --> 01:33:51,200
the outer kingdoms and it's also one of the easier ones for the dark elves and you know,

990
01:33:51,200 --> 01:33:58,640
the forces of cast to reach. So the local elves there become, uh, became very good at

991
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:03,760
fighting. Uh, they have what's known as the white lions of crase. And how you do that

992
01:34:03,760 --> 01:34:10,400
is there are white lions that live in crase. If you want to become a white lion, you need

993
01:34:10,400 --> 01:34:15,480
to get out there and kill one with your bare hands. Nice. So, uh, there are some of the

994
01:34:15,480 --> 01:34:22,720
bodyguards of the Phoenix King. Uh, like there's a, they're just real good fighters, but aside

995
01:34:22,720 --> 01:34:26,720
from that, that's kind of their whole thing. They're a woodsman, you know, cut down the

996
01:34:26,720 --> 01:34:31,120
forest, live, live off the land. Not like Averlawn or it's all hippie. This is where

997
01:34:31,120 --> 01:34:35,640
the lumberjacks, you know, the manly ones live. That's, uh, that's, that's, uh, that's

998
01:34:35,640 --> 01:34:43,400
this kingdom that we have Kothik, which is a mountainous, rocky, misty. You ever been

999
01:34:43,400 --> 01:34:48,160
like the, I guess someone compared to you ever been like the white cliffs of Dover?

1000
01:34:48,160 --> 01:34:55,880
Uh, no, but I know of them. That's Kothik. Okay. Uh, misty, you know, yeah. Miserable.

1001
01:34:55,880 --> 01:35:01,240
It, uh, this is, has the best sailors in the world period. Even the ones in Lothar and

1002
01:35:01,240 --> 01:35:05,440
Eotain. These are the ones who actually go out across the world to the point, like if

1003
01:35:05,440 --> 01:35:11,200
you want to leave Ulthuan, you go to Kothik. Uh, the other elves kind of look down on them.

1004
01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:17,600
They're like, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you fishermen, you're not sophisticated.

1005
01:35:17,600 --> 01:35:21,040
And then, you know, they conveniently forget this fact whenever it's time to leave Ulthuan

1006
01:35:21,040 --> 01:35:29,720
for one reason or another. Uh, they're, they, uh, they get all the, the outside gossip first

1007
01:35:29,720 --> 01:35:38,720
from the outside world. Uh, they have these, uh, just, just massive like fleets. They,

1008
01:35:38,720 --> 01:35:43,400
they train their cavalry how to walk on the boats. So if there's a high elf boarding

1009
01:35:43,400 --> 01:35:50,040
action, they're using horses to come and stab you, which is pretty impressive. Uh,

1010
01:35:50,040 --> 01:35:56,000
and yeah, uh, their patron god is, you know, the, uh, god of the ocean, Mithlan. Uh, most

1011
01:35:56,000 --> 01:36:00,320
of the other elves, like even the other, like dark elves are like, that guy's kind of an

1012
01:36:00,320 --> 01:36:04,680
asshole and Kothik, they love the guy because, you know, sailings, they're shtick. They're

1013
01:36:04,680 --> 01:36:08,720
a big fan of the guy and he does favor them, uh, to the point that one of the characters

1014
01:36:08,720 --> 01:36:15,740
from, uh, uh, like from Kothik is, uh, his avatar in the end times. And prior to the

1015
01:36:15,740 --> 01:36:21,280
end times, he kept getting into these massive sea battles where he would sink and then he

1016
01:36:21,280 --> 01:36:26,800
would just be fine. So like he would, he would just wash up on shore and be like, well, I

1017
01:36:26,800 --> 01:36:34,440
gotta get home now. Uh, so there's Kothik. After that is, uh, Tirinok. Uh, it used to

1018
01:36:34,440 --> 01:36:41,100
be a very lovely place and then Malekith did the funny and undid the vortex and then half

1019
01:36:41,100 --> 01:36:48,920
of it sank. Uh, and, uh, now there's all of these, uh, just drowned palaces and whatnot,

1020
01:36:48,920 --> 01:36:54,480
uh, which I think actually Kothik also has, uh, where like the spirits of high elves,

1021
01:36:54,480 --> 01:36:58,440
whenever one of these provinces get invaded, like they take up spiritual arms and help

1022
01:36:58,440 --> 01:37:03,760
defend the living. Uh, Tirinok's, uh, a little bit more up and up about it. They're like,

1023
01:37:03,760 --> 01:37:07,960
like their symbols, like a chariot wheel. They love chariots and they view it as like,

1024
01:37:07,960 --> 01:37:11,520
you know, what comes, what goes around comes around. We're going to have our moment. We

1025
01:37:11,520 --> 01:37:15,920
had our moment in the, you know, our time in the sun, then things weren't great. We

1026
01:37:15,920 --> 01:37:19,800
know what now we're on the up and up. So they're, they're, they're a pretty upbeat kingdom.

1027
01:37:19,800 --> 01:37:26,280
Uh, unfortunately they are the closest to the dark elf lands. So kind of get invaded

1028
01:37:26,280 --> 01:37:32,400
pretty frequently. Uh, but yeah, like I said, they're, you know, they're pretty upbeat about

1029
01:37:32,400 --> 01:37:36,880
it. They're very, you know, they're like, yeah, you know what? It's not great. Uh, apart

1030
01:37:36,880 --> 01:37:40,560
from the raiding parties, life is good. It's fine. Oh yeah. You know what? It's not great,

1031
01:37:40,560 --> 01:37:44,160
but by God, our times coming around, uh, it's not going to be miserable forever. They're

1032
01:37:44,160 --> 01:37:51,040
very, they're very upbeat, which you know, is an attitude I quite like and, uh, not quite

1033
01:37:51,040 --> 01:37:57,400
new, not the most super important thing, but I'll send you a little image. Uh, the heraldry

1034
01:37:57,400 --> 01:38:04,600
for Kothik, uh, that little, see that little symbol at the bottom, uh, that symbol is what

1035
01:38:04,600 --> 01:38:11,840
I paint on my Eldar. Oh, nice. It means, uh, so the high elf language is, uh, is all about

1036
01:38:11,840 --> 01:38:19,480
duality. Like a word, the word for wonderful is also the word for like catastrophic. So,

1037
01:38:19,480 --> 01:38:26,920
uh, that symbol, I believe I remember means it means both a storm that just scours the

1038
01:38:26,920 --> 01:38:32,360
land as well as a gentle rain. That's just nice and relaxing and like a nice little spring

1039
01:38:32,360 --> 01:38:39,600
rain, which I thought was, it's both suitably, uh, I don't know, to Tyr Nox attitude and

1040
01:38:39,600 --> 01:38:47,360
very Elfy. So naturally I painted it all over my wraith guard. Uh, to left, uh, you've Russ

1041
01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:52,880
and I think your press is the worst. The shadow lands. You'll notice that's not a very elf

1042
01:38:52,880 --> 01:39:00,640
sounding name. That's just called the shadow. It is officially named Nagareth unofficially

1043
01:39:00,640 --> 01:39:06,480
shadow lands. And it's the front line basically, uh, between the high elf and dark elf civil

1044
01:39:06,480 --> 01:39:11,400
war because it is where the sword of cane lies that the dark elves want to just go and

1045
01:39:11,400 --> 01:39:17,200
grab and don't want them to do that. And this is where Alitha Nara is from and all of the

1046
01:39:17,200 --> 01:39:23,000
other elves, he's Conrad curves. The elves who live here are the rest of the nightlords.

1047
01:39:23,000 --> 01:39:27,720
They hate dark elves to the point that every other elf, like nation will look at them and

1048
01:39:27,720 --> 01:39:34,360
go, you are psychotic and I don't want to talk to you. Yeah. You need help. And then,

1049
01:39:34,360 --> 01:39:38,320
uh, and then they missed the point and go, I don't need any help. Look at how many elves

1050
01:39:38,320 --> 01:39:45,840
I just killed today. I don't need help with what this it's a, it's barren, it's miserable.

1051
01:39:45,840 --> 01:39:50,160
You don't want to live there because if they're not being invaded by hell high elves or pardon

1052
01:39:50,160 --> 01:39:57,520
me, dark elves, it's just a, it's just miserable. Yeah. Uh, I can imagine they're, they're nuts.

1053
01:39:57,520 --> 01:40:01,680
They're psychotic. They are, you know, on the bright side, wonderful at rooting out

1054
01:40:01,680 --> 01:40:07,480
dark elf spies and like any like scouting parties. You don't want to be alone with them

1055
01:40:07,480 --> 01:40:11,160
at a bar because they're just kind of going to sit there muttering about how they need

1056
01:40:11,160 --> 01:40:19,560
to go kill more dark elves. Not very cheerful folk. Uh, don't go to the shadow lands. There's

1057
01:40:19,560 --> 01:40:25,120
better places to go. Uh, it's even in total warhammer. It's, uh, the rest of Ulthuan is

1058
01:40:25,120 --> 01:40:29,560
listed like, uh, every province in the game has a, like a terrain type. It's like, you

1059
01:40:29,560 --> 01:40:36,520
know, grasslands, ocean, uh, island, jungle. Uh, Ulthuan is all listed as like, as the

1060
01:40:36,520 --> 01:40:43,200
island, uh, terrain type. The shadow lands are the wasteland terrain type. His place

1061
01:40:43,200 --> 01:40:50,120
sucks. Uh, but it's not the worst because that would be Tori of Ress or just of Ress.

1062
01:40:50,120 --> 01:40:56,800
Tori of Ress is the capital of it. Uh, so take Kothik where, you know, it's misty, there's

1063
01:40:56,800 --> 01:41:03,000
cliffs. It's, uh, you know, a little bit chillier and then ramp it up to a hundred. Uh, the

1064
01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:08,080
mists aren't just, you know, hanging around the shore. They cover the entire landscape.

1065
01:41:08,080 --> 01:41:13,160
Demons will just randomly manifest on the, on the, into your address. The islands move

1066
01:41:13,160 --> 01:41:20,520
and may or may not have minds of their own. Uh, there are no cities and towns in Tori

1067
01:41:20,520 --> 01:41:29,160
of Ress. There are citadels and forts. This place is miserable. Uh, it's like what cities

1068
01:41:29,160 --> 01:41:34,480
they have are almost entirely empty. Or it's like, uh, if you look at like Averlorn or

1069
01:41:34,480 --> 01:41:37,760
Ytane, you're like, this is, you know, the elves truly are a glorious people. You look

1070
01:41:37,760 --> 01:41:43,200
at your for us and you're like, you have had your time in the sun and you are not doing

1071
01:41:43,200 --> 01:41:48,560
very well right now. Is, is it like when you, when you're exploring like an old fortress

1072
01:41:48,560 --> 01:41:52,480
in dark souls and there's not really anything around, but they're quite grand, but empty

1073
01:41:52,480 --> 01:41:57,640
and you're like, this is ominous and there's a lot of dead people here or that kind of

1074
01:41:57,640 --> 01:42:04,280
architecture is very impressive, but also where is everyone? I, you know, like, uh,

1075
01:42:04,280 --> 01:42:08,280
you know, when you beat like the iron Golem and you first like have that overview of,

1076
01:42:08,280 --> 01:42:13,880
uh, an Orlando and like that makes the, like the choir and strings are going, the rest

1077
01:42:13,880 --> 01:42:19,060
of the kingdoms are that shot when it's like, Oh my God, this is like this beautiful place.

1078
01:42:19,060 --> 01:42:24,280
This is glorious and majestic. And then if rest is when you start actually walking through

1079
01:42:24,280 --> 01:42:30,280
it, you're like, this is empty and sad and half of the people in here want to kill me.

1080
01:42:30,280 --> 01:42:36,000
And the shadow land is when you kill the fake Gwendolyn and say, Oh, yeah, it's nighttime.

1081
01:42:36,000 --> 01:42:43,760
Oh no. Yeah. Uh, the elves here are very stoic and they live in a place where they live in

1082
01:42:43,760 --> 01:42:49,360
like Katie, a kind of, there's just kind of demons keep appearing partially on purpose

1083
01:42:49,360 --> 01:42:53,080
because Altharion made it so the orcs will invade this place first whenever they show

1084
01:42:53,080 --> 01:42:59,400
up because he really doesn't like orcs. So they run into demons and see monsters and

1085
01:42:59,400 --> 01:43:03,340
moving islands and stuff first. And he just sits there waiting for him in his dungeon

1086
01:43:03,340 --> 01:43:11,360
in his bat cave. Uh, and because they're constantly fighting them, they're very brave, uh, like

1087
01:43:11,360 --> 01:43:19,600
grim, fearless, like not great at parties, not very personable, but they are like, they're

1088
01:43:19,600 --> 01:43:23,600
the ultimate like line holders of the elves. They're going to hold the line like the guard

1089
01:43:23,600 --> 01:43:29,640
and they're just going to do their duty. Uh, it is a very grim as of course their main

1090
01:43:29,640 --> 01:43:38,880
characters named Altharion the grim, uh, not, not, not a fun place to go to, but the elves

1091
01:43:38,880 --> 01:43:44,480
within it are the, probably the best, just like standard soldiers there. They're going

1092
01:43:44,480 --> 01:43:49,000
to do their job. They're going to do what needs to be done to win and, uh, not going

1093
01:43:49,000 --> 01:43:56,000
to be pleasant, but they're going to do it. And, uh, I believe that was all, oh, uh, one,

1094
01:43:56,000 --> 01:44:01,280
one last place is, uh, the inner sea that has the Isle of the Dead in it, uh, which

1095
01:44:01,280 --> 01:44:09,760
is where the vortex lies. Uh, you go there and it's, uh, kind of trippy. Um, obviously,

1096
01:44:09,760 --> 01:44:13,440
you know, you can see the ghosts of the dead. If you go far in enough, uh, you can find

1097
01:44:13,440 --> 01:44:17,560
the vortex, which the high elves probably aren't going to let you go far enough to see

1098
01:44:17,560 --> 01:44:25,840
the damn thing because it's kind of important to the entire world. Uh, and it's, uh, it's

1099
01:44:25,840 --> 01:44:32,400
just not pleasant as you can guess from a place known as the Isle of the Dead, uh, dead

1100
01:44:32,400 --> 01:44:38,960
lifeless plants and grass literate, even aside from the vortex. Uh, maybe you'll get swept

1101
01:44:38,960 --> 01:44:44,000
in if you get too close. Maybe it won't depends on how the vortex is feeling. It's magic.

1102
01:44:44,000 --> 01:44:51,740
So who knows? And not pleasant, but it is where reality itself is being kept, you know,

1103
01:44:51,740 --> 01:44:57,660
is keeping the magic that lets demons show up at will at bay. So no one lives here aside

1104
01:44:57,660 --> 01:45:02,120
from those elves trapped in it to keep going, but it is worth a mention because it keeps

1105
01:45:02,120 --> 01:45:08,560
the world ticking. Yeah. Some sounds somewhat important to just, just a footnote. Like,

1106
01:45:08,560 --> 01:45:12,600
yeah, just don't, don't worry about that. Just, you can't see it, but it is important.

1107
01:45:12,600 --> 01:45:17,600
I reassure you it's important, but if you ever go close to it, we're going to kill you.

1108
01:45:17,600 --> 01:45:21,880
Yeah. Just to be safe, just to make sure you're not going to like throw anything in there.

1109
01:45:21,880 --> 01:45:26,360
Yeah. And, uh, unless I'm missing anything, that's kind of the basics of the high elves,

1110
01:45:26,360 --> 01:45:31,280
as I said, towards the end of the setting, or I should say the modern times of the setting,

1111
01:45:31,280 --> 01:45:35,160
which unfortunately leads to the end of the setting. They were getting out there far more

1112
01:45:35,160 --> 01:45:41,200
often determined to save the world. And like I said, I think they're generally more competent

1113
01:45:41,200 --> 01:45:47,880
than the, than the Eldar, which is both an inherent feature of them because the elders

1114
01:45:47,880 --> 01:45:52,960
whole thing is like, we are the remnants of an empire that had a catastrophic fall. Whereas

1115
01:45:52,960 --> 01:45:57,240
the high elves, it's like, this is more of like a decline, but they're not, they're going

1116
01:45:57,240 --> 01:46:03,360
down swinging and if they can help it, they're going to have the resurgence. Uh, the Eldar,

1117
01:46:03,360 --> 01:46:06,760
unless you're from Beeltaan and Gaslighting yourself, no, they don't have a chance in

1118
01:46:06,760 --> 01:46:11,360
hell at getting their empire back. The, the high elves are like, we, we're going to fight

1119
01:46:11,360 --> 01:46:16,800
for it. We generally think we can get things back to how they were. We're going to, our

1120
01:46:16,800 --> 01:46:22,200
golden age is coming back. Yeah. Uh, you know, they go out, they kick some ass, they go back

1121
01:46:22,200 --> 01:46:27,600
home duty calls again, they got to go back out and go fight to the death again. And you

1122
01:46:27,600 --> 01:46:33,680
know, they, they, uh, they do their part to keep the world going. Are they arrogant? Quite.

1123
01:46:33,680 --> 01:46:38,880
But unlike the Eldar, I, you know, I do believe they have a history of showing that they've

1124
01:46:38,880 --> 01:46:45,400
actually kicked some ass. Like they've, they've actually earned their position, their arrogance.

1125
01:46:45,400 --> 01:46:49,720
And uh, unless you have any questions, I believe that that would be the high elves, the Asur.

1126
01:46:49,720 --> 01:46:57,520
Hmm. Okay. So I've got more, no, not exactly a question, but if someone was getting into,

1127
01:46:57,520 --> 01:47:01,440
cause I know there's like a kind of a resurgence with like age of Sigmar, there's a new edition

1128
01:47:01,440 --> 01:47:07,200
and there's more renewed interest in fantasy these, these days. What would be the standout

1129
01:47:07,200 --> 01:47:14,000
qualities which you think make the high elves really cool as an army? Um, so from a lore

1130
01:47:14,000 --> 01:47:19,680
perspective, uh, I will, I have to admit, I, uh, I do not have the, uh, high elf tabletop

1131
01:47:19,680 --> 01:47:25,040
book yet because they combined all of the old world armies into the ravening hordes

1132
01:47:25,040 --> 01:47:30,720
and like forces of fantasy, I believe is the good guy book. Um, from a lore perspective,

1133
01:47:30,720 --> 01:47:33,920
it's kind of like, you know, obviously they're elves to get the, you know, the graceful,

1134
01:47:33,920 --> 01:47:39,040
elegant stuff like that. Uh, they're, like I said, they're, especially because I feel

1135
01:47:39,040 --> 01:47:42,800
like people are more familiar with 40k than as a whole fantasy. Like you said, it's getting

1136
01:47:42,800 --> 01:47:48,040
a bit of a revived interest. So people might be more learning about it from the lore. The

1137
01:47:48,040 --> 01:47:53,920
high elves are a lot more proactive for one, like they'll go out of their way to go help

1138
01:47:53,920 --> 01:47:58,520
the world. Whereas the elder are like, is this worth it? Like the elder are at the end

1139
01:47:58,520 --> 01:48:03,720
of the day, they want to be left alone. The high elves are going to sail across the world

1140
01:48:03,720 --> 01:48:09,560
to, to, to fight you. Like they're far more proactive. They are going out to get things

1141
01:48:09,560 --> 01:48:16,560
done. Um, a few books, like they, one of those ones where like they have more codexes than

1142
01:48:16,560 --> 01:48:20,520
books or do they have like a nice library of books? They have a, they have a pretty

1143
01:48:20,520 --> 01:48:25,560
decent library of books. Uh, for example, there's the, uh, there's a, there's a whole

1144
01:48:25,560 --> 01:48:29,800
trilogy I believe about the sundering, uh, like when the dark elves were splitting, there's

1145
01:48:29,800 --> 01:48:35,560
a, uh, an omnibus that's just, it's just called elves. And on the picture of it is it just

1146
01:48:35,560 --> 01:48:40,200
a high elf Spearman. So yeah, you can probably guess what that one's about. Uh, there are

1147
01:48:40,200 --> 01:48:45,200
books about the war of vengeance, which I haven't read. I heard they're kind of a middling

1148
01:48:45,200 --> 01:48:51,840
quality, but they do have books. It's not like the elder, it's like you have a book,

1149
01:48:51,840 --> 01:48:56,440
you have, they have like series of books. Yeah. Like the elders, like you have these

1150
01:48:56,440 --> 01:49:00,800
books and then there's these books you shouldn't bother with. Yeah. Like, uh, there's the, the

1151
01:49:00,800 --> 01:49:04,440
Tyrion and Teclis, like they have their own omnibus of books, like just about, you know,

1152
01:49:04,440 --> 01:49:09,920
the T twins. Uh, you know, there, there is like, there is an abundance of high elf books

1153
01:49:09,920 --> 01:49:13,520
and lore. If you want to look for it, it's not just, you have your codex and then you

1154
01:49:13,520 --> 01:49:17,680
have the canceled Yunari trilogy and then maybe, you know, the path series, which isn't

1155
01:49:17,680 --> 01:49:24,640
good. Uh, the high elves, like they do have like, you know, good books, bad books, which

1156
01:49:24,640 --> 01:49:31,040
is fair. Not everything's going to be a banger. Uh, so they've got a, they do, there's also,

1157
01:49:31,040 --> 01:49:38,560
you know, that from the lore standpoint going for them. Um, uh, they're, uh, it's, uh, I

1158
01:49:38,560 --> 01:49:42,920
don't know. It's nice to see they're also, this is kind of a more general thing that

1159
01:49:42,920 --> 01:49:46,680
Warhammer fantasies like order factions share compared to 40 K.

1160
01:49:46,680 --> 01:49:52,480
You know, over 40 K no one likes each other. Like, uh, the whole, the Alliance with, you

1161
01:49:52,480 --> 01:49:58,160
know, Eldar or your brain and Gilliman was even then it's more like, we won't kill you

1162
01:49:58,160 --> 01:50:04,180
when chaos is around. Yeah. Uh, but you know, the elves do generally do their best to work

1163
01:50:04,180 --> 01:50:07,280
with the other races. Even the dwarves, like I was saying with Finnebar, they're going

1164
01:50:07,280 --> 01:50:13,000
out of their way to try and like rally everyone to be like, look, I know we have our differences,

1165
01:50:13,000 --> 01:50:17,760
not the biggest fans of each other, but we're gonna, we're gonna work together. We're gonna

1166
01:50:17,760 --> 01:50:22,960
do what we can to push back the darkness. So they are, they are generally good folk

1167
01:50:22,960 --> 01:50:27,200
who go out of their way to do the best they can. Are they going to be arrogant doing it?

1168
01:50:27,200 --> 01:50:34,280
Yes. But I think they've earned it. Uh, from a tabletop perspective, uh, like I said, I

1169
01:50:34,280 --> 01:50:38,220
don't own the book, so I'm just going to have to be going off of some stuff I've known is

1170
01:50:38,220 --> 01:50:44,200
true from old fantasy. Uh, they have very high initiative, uh, very good wizards. Uh,

1171
01:50:44,200 --> 01:50:49,200
I believe they're the only ones that can take both high magic as well as all of the other,

1172
01:50:49,200 --> 01:50:53,680
like more traditional eight winds of magic. Uh, so you get a lot of magical game you can

1173
01:50:53,680 --> 01:50:57,200
play around with and they're because their whole shtick is being wizards. They're good

1174
01:50:57,200 --> 01:51:02,320
at it too. Uh, like they're the, aside from the salon, the best wizards in the game. And

1175
01:51:02,320 --> 01:51:08,360
the way I think of it as sure you take a salon, they're pound for pound, a better wizard,

1176
01:51:08,360 --> 01:51:13,080
uh, and empire wizards are probably cheaper, but high elves are that perfect sweet spot

1177
01:51:13,080 --> 01:51:21,440
between not having options available to you and being good at it. Uh, they're, they are

1178
01:51:21,440 --> 01:51:27,760
kind of like the elder. They hit pretty hard. They're not too tough in return, but a little

1179
01:51:27,760 --> 01:51:32,880
bit less so pronounced. Uh, like the elder are all about that alpha strike. They hit like a truck,

1180
01:51:32,880 --> 01:51:37,840
but if you live through that first round, the elder are in trouble. The high elves don't

1181
01:51:37,840 --> 01:51:43,400
hit quite as hard relatively speaking, but they can take a bit more of a punch in return.

1182
01:51:43,400 --> 01:51:49,640
Uh, and I have to say, at least in my personal opinion, and this isn't even like, I just

1183
01:51:49,640 --> 01:51:56,080
like their models. Uh, I think some of the high elf models, uh, have held up pretty well.

1184
01:51:56,080 --> 01:52:00,080
Uh, like all, all the fantasy models you can tell like, yeah, there's some of the older

1185
01:52:00,080 --> 01:52:04,880
ones, but as far as the old fantasy ranges go, I think most of the high elf models have

1186
01:52:04,880 --> 01:52:08,720
held up pretty well and they have confirmed that the high elves are going to be one of

1187
01:52:08,720 --> 01:52:14,200
the returning armies for the old world. So, you know, pick them up. Uh, they're one of

1188
01:52:14,200 --> 01:52:17,320
the ones like, first of all, you can collect them and beyond that, I think there are some

1189
01:52:17,320 --> 01:52:21,000
of the ones that have definitely held up a lot better than some of the other ones. Like

1190
01:52:21,000 --> 01:52:27,200
some of the dwarf models, they look a bit derpy. And, uh, yeah, uh, I guess some last

1191
01:52:27,200 --> 01:52:32,200
things for the elves is, uh, I think their artwork in particular, I like it. Like, uh,

1192
01:52:32,200 --> 01:52:35,240
there's one I'm looking at now. I'll kind of, I'll send these to you so you know what

1193
01:52:35,240 --> 01:52:39,600
I'm talking about. Uh, there's a, there's a lot of different vibes you can go for. Like

1194
01:52:39,600 --> 01:52:44,920
here's one, uh, you see Teclis at the front standing or it's like the Aurora in the background

1195
01:52:44,920 --> 01:52:50,120
and like, you can see like they're very magical. Uh, there's one, like, uh, the one that I

1196
01:52:50,120 --> 01:52:55,760
always think of chiefly is, uh, with Tyrion is, uh, like the high elf loading screen where

1197
01:52:55,760 --> 01:53:00,080
you can see like there's, you know, the glory of the high elves, the line of spearmen leading

1198
01:53:00,080 --> 01:53:04,940
out back some of their sword masters, uh, up close, you know, you can kind of see Teclis

1199
01:53:04,940 --> 01:53:10,080
and some other wizards. I'm a little bit behind Tyrion. That line of the guys with swords

1200
01:53:10,080 --> 01:53:14,080
is very Lord of the Rings to me. Like the, uh, the opening scene in fellowship where

1201
01:53:14,080 --> 01:53:18,620
they're all just, all the elves are fighting with the humans and then it's just like rows

1202
01:53:18,620 --> 01:53:22,800
and rows of swords. That's really cool. Yeah. They've got like, you can get that vibe going.

1203
01:53:22,800 --> 01:53:27,240
You can get a more like a wizardly magical vibe, but you can also make them like, uh,

1204
01:53:27,240 --> 01:53:33,800
like a ghostly vibe almost. Yeah. Like very Wraith, which is also kind of Tolkien-esque

1205
01:53:33,800 --> 01:53:38,480
because I believe if elves don't go to the far lands, they turn into Wraiths. So there's

1206
01:53:38,480 --> 01:53:41,920
a lot of different vibes you can go for. Again, with the high elves, like they've got, they've

1207
01:53:41,920 --> 01:53:47,280
got something for everyone. Uh, like that ghostly grim vibe with, uh, Yvress, uh, the

1208
01:53:47,280 --> 01:53:52,680
glorious vibe, you know, with Tyrion there, uh, the magical of Saffry. Uh, there's, there's

1209
01:53:52,680 --> 01:53:59,880
a, there's a kingdom and a vibe for everyone, uh, amongst the high elves. Uh, there is always,

1210
01:53:59,880 --> 01:54:04,880
you know, I will say, I will admit you need some interest in elves, but with that being

1211
01:54:04,880 --> 01:54:12,320
said, I think they, as long as you don't despise them, I think I do generally believe they

1212
01:54:12,320 --> 01:54:17,080
are worth a look, even if you don't like elves, uh, for anyone interested when they came,

1213
01:54:17,080 --> 01:54:21,680
uh, Games Workshop does re-release them in the old world. There is something worth checking

1214
01:54:21,680 --> 01:54:26,200
out. Like, uh, if all you know about GW's elves is the Eldar, I promise you the high

1215
01:54:26,200 --> 01:54:33,160
elves are not the Eldar. They are very different beasts. Yeah. And, uh, that would be the high

1216
01:54:33,160 --> 01:54:38,640
elves. Have you any, any other further inquiries, questions, uh, clarifications? No, I mean,

1217
01:54:38,640 --> 01:54:44,280
I think that was quite a good rundown of pretty much every element of, of being a, a posh

1218
01:54:44,280 --> 01:54:51,040
elf, shall we say. The elves of all the regalia and all the, the, the finery and, uh, gold

1219
01:54:51,040 --> 01:54:57,520
ornamentation and funny hats. Um, they, they do have, they do have their funny hats, uh,

1220
01:54:57,520 --> 01:55:04,000
but I like the funny pointy hats. I, I don't, I know a lot of people don't. Oh, thank you,

1221
01:55:04,000 --> 01:55:10,320
pump. Uh, I, I like the funny pointy hats. What can I say? Isn't there also that model

1222
01:55:10,320 --> 01:55:15,840
that has like, is it an age of sigma one where it's, is it like a cow? Oh, that's, uh, that's,

1223
01:55:15,840 --> 01:55:22,640
yeah, that's the luminous realm Lords, which are like the reinterpretation of the, the,

1224
01:55:22,640 --> 01:55:29,840
the high elves, but they do have something more or less goofy. Uh, they have the Lothar

1225
01:55:29,840 --> 01:55:38,160
and sky cutter, which is a sky boat pulled by an Eagle. Oh, that's cool. It is like the

1226
01:55:38,160 --> 01:55:43,800
peak warhammer. This is so stupid, but it's so awesome at the same time. It's got that,

1227
01:55:43,800 --> 01:55:48,160
like that, uh, that drew Kari almost like Finn on the bottom. Just make it like there's

1228
01:55:48,160 --> 01:55:53,240
elder crafts. It's gotta have a Finn. Like fellows. It is a, it is a sky boat that they

1229
01:55:53,240 --> 01:55:57,920
will shoot at you from above with. I love it. Just the dwarves coming in with their

1230
01:55:57,920 --> 01:56:05,840
big airship going, look at that piece of shit. I get why people might not like it. I love

1231
01:56:05,840 --> 01:56:15,280
it. It's so goofy. Yeah. Oh, did I, did I achieve my mission statement, Andy? Can you

1232
01:56:15,280 --> 01:56:20,920
at least look at them and go like, you know what? I get it. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I

1233
01:56:20,920 --> 01:56:25,040
think the thing is they just inherently are a bit more likable in that one. They haven't

1234
01:56:25,040 --> 01:56:31,160
doomed their entire species and two, they don't look down their nose as much to other

1235
01:56:31,160 --> 01:56:38,840
species as for example, the elder who just like, Oh, monkey. Oh, here we go again. I

1236
01:56:38,840 --> 01:56:44,080
like it. They are, they are still full of themselves, but to some certainly I think

1237
01:56:44,080 --> 01:56:50,440
more than the elder they've earned it. They were still active. They're still active and

1238
01:56:50,440 --> 01:56:54,720
one of two factions that instead of, you know, damning the world, the galaxy with the eye

1239
01:56:54,720 --> 01:57:02,520
of terror and slinash, they, they helped save it. So, you know, they're a little bit cooler.

1240
01:57:02,520 --> 01:57:07,600
Just don't do what Teclis does and call a dwarf short. I don't do that. Especially

1241
01:57:07,600 --> 01:57:13,600
Gottrick. Don't be Teclis because if you are Teclis, your life is pain. Yeah, exactly.

1242
01:57:13,600 --> 01:57:18,080
That's the moral of the story today. Don't be Teclis. In the lore, his life is pain.

1243
01:57:18,080 --> 01:57:27,000
In Total Warhammer, he's surrounded by the worst. Such standout hits include a Scarbrand,

1244
01:57:27,000 --> 01:57:35,480
Manfred von Karstein, all of the Tomb Kings. If you're playing with mods, Nagash. It is

1245
01:57:35,480 --> 01:57:43,480
not fun to be Teclis. Literally the axis of Warhammer evil just all around you. Oh, Kairos

1246
01:57:43,480 --> 01:57:52,240
Fateweaver is about five feet from his starting position. Oh, great. Don't be Teclis. The

1247
01:57:52,240 --> 01:57:57,400
moral of the story, if I haven't sold you on the elves, I hope I've sold you on, don't

1248
01:57:57,400 --> 01:58:05,320
be Teclis. He's a cool guy, handed a very bad hand of cards. He's playing them pretty

1249
01:58:05,320 --> 01:58:09,920
good, but he's playing them good in the first place. But everyone else around him has a

1250
01:58:09,920 --> 01:58:16,840
full house and he needs to bluff his way into being better than that. Carl Franz starting

1251
01:58:16,840 --> 01:58:22,480
next to the, I guess, is it Norsca he starts next to? Not far. He's like, I've made an

1252
01:58:22,480 --> 01:58:30,560
alliance. Look at the elves struggling. He's not too far from Norsca, but he's also Festus,

1253
01:58:30,560 --> 01:58:38,240
Kazzrak. He's definitely got his own problems to deal with. I would rather take his problems

1254
01:58:38,240 --> 01:58:46,000
than I would Teclis's. Yeah, Scarbrand's kind of scary. Carl Franz's problems are,

1255
01:58:46,000 --> 01:58:50,520
the problems of the world are at his doorstep, but he's got the nation of men at the heart

1256
01:58:50,520 --> 01:58:57,480
of the world to push them back. And Teclis has himself and a couple other wizards and

1257
01:58:57,480 --> 01:59:06,560
a can-do attitude. Yeah. That's what he has to deal with. Well, I guess that's the end

1258
01:59:06,560 --> 01:59:11,040
of the episode then. That was good fun. I will say we haven't done one of these in

1259
01:59:11,040 --> 01:59:15,520
a little while, so please let us know in the comments if there's a faction you would like

1260
01:59:15,520 --> 01:59:19,880
to see in particular. I think with this one, I just mused with Colin and said, oh, what

1261
01:59:19,880 --> 01:59:23,720
do you want to talk about and see what we did? I think we had a few comments about elves,

1262
01:59:23,720 --> 01:59:30,320
but. We did. One last piece that I can't believe I almost let slip by. Oh, okay. It is canon

1263
01:59:30,320 --> 01:59:37,000
that the Knights of Bretonnia are entirely based on high health silver helm cavalry.

1264
01:59:37,000 --> 01:59:42,560
So they are all LARPing as their betters. I could not let that one slide. I'm glad I

1265
01:59:42,560 --> 01:59:46,720
remember that. And this episode is exactly following the Bretonnia video I did with Eli.

1266
01:59:46,720 --> 01:59:53,880
So yeah, couldn't let that slide. There's my mandated slander. Yeah, wouldn't be the

1267
01:59:53,880 --> 02:00:00,000
same without it. But yeah, thanks everyone for watching. We hope you've enjoyed this

1268
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:04,560
episode on the elves. We'll be going back at some point with the other two main factions,

1269
02:00:04,560 --> 02:00:09,160
I suppose. But yeah, let us know in the comments about what you want to hear us talk about

1270
02:00:09,160 --> 02:00:13,160
next time. And we'll catch you on the other one. Have fun, everyone. Have a good one,

1271
02:00:13,160 --> 02:00:33,320
everyone. Take care.