WEBVTT 00:00:14.440 --> 00:00:16.600 Hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and 00:00:16.600 --> 00:00:20.339 welcome back to Fantasy Fireside, where we haven't 00:00:20.339 --> 00:00:22.739 been here for a while. We've already covered 00:00:22.739 --> 00:00:26.519 a selection of different factions in the past, 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:29.199 but it's time to complete the trifecta today. 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:31.699 We covered high elves, we covered wood elves, 00:00:31.780 --> 00:00:33.820 and now it's time to talk about another type 00:00:33.820 --> 00:00:37.799 of elf, not to be confused with mer. Colin, what 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:40.140 are we talking about today? Indeed, we are not 00:00:40.140 --> 00:00:42.640 talking about the filth of Tamriel, but instead, 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:45.119 as you said, the final of the trifecta, the dark 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:48.520 elves, the druki. the as eli likes to put it 00:00:48.520 --> 00:00:51.060 the true you know the true elves where the true 00:00:51.060 --> 00:00:53.380 phoenix king lies even though he's wrong and 00:00:53.380 --> 00:00:55.920 stupid and that's incorrect and that's dumb and 00:00:55.920 --> 00:01:00.060 glory to the phoenix king finna bar okay i'll 00:01:00.060 --> 00:01:04.099 take your word for it um so that there's got 00:01:04.099 --> 00:01:06.920 to be some magisteria that crosses over between 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:10.560 the high elves and the dark elves but are the 00:01:10.560 --> 00:01:12.400 wood elves more like the exodites where they 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:13.900 kind of keep to themselves and they don't really 00:01:13.900 --> 00:01:16.640 interact as much with the other two Yeah, they 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:20.459 prefer to keep to themselves. Basically, 99 % 00:01:20.459 --> 00:01:24.359 of what they do is done in the interest of making 00:01:24.359 --> 00:01:26.780 people encroaching into their forest go away 00:01:26.780 --> 00:01:29.319 from their forest. But the Dark and High Elves... 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:32.840 The High Elves are usually on the defense or 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:35.739 acting proactively, but the Dark Elves, they 00:01:35.739 --> 00:01:38.099 sure do love going on the offense, especially 00:01:38.099 --> 00:01:40.400 against the High Elves. Their story is two sides 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:43.920 of the same coin. I guess the wood elves can 00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:46.879 be like, you know, the rim of the coin. They're 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:50.739 just kind of also there. Fair enough. Well, where 00:01:50.739 --> 00:01:53.159 are we starting things today without any further 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:57.680 preamble? We are going back to the technically 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:00.140 not quite, not sure for the proper terminology 00:02:00.140 --> 00:02:03.980 of it, the prehistory of Warhammer fantasy. Not 00:02:03.980 --> 00:02:06.840 quite the full beginning, you know, but at first 00:02:06.840 --> 00:02:09.340 for the elves, there was just elves. No wood 00:02:09.340 --> 00:02:12.229 elves, no dark elves. You could call them all 00:02:12.229 --> 00:02:13.909 the high elves if you want. That's the closest 00:02:13.909 --> 00:02:16.930 comparison. But they were just elves at this 00:02:16.930 --> 00:02:19.270 point, right? No different groups of them. All 00:02:19.270 --> 00:02:23.650 elves were elves. Some of them lived in magical 00:02:23.650 --> 00:02:25.569 forests like the wood elves did. Some of them 00:02:25.569 --> 00:02:28.550 lived in a slightly, maybe a little bit rougher 00:02:28.550 --> 00:02:31.669 spot. But by this point in elf history, like 00:02:31.669 --> 00:02:33.689 even the roughest parts of Ulthuan were still, 00:02:33.770 --> 00:02:36.830 you know, super paradise. It wasn't exactly hard 00:02:36.830 --> 00:02:41.550 living. And we start with who else but the elf 00:02:41.550 --> 00:02:49.389 sorceress Marathi. Marathi had visions, I think, 00:02:49.389 --> 00:02:51.990 since she was like 8 or 11 or something. Like, 00:02:52.009 --> 00:02:54.250 young even by human standards, let alone elf 00:02:54.250 --> 00:02:57.610 standards, right? Visions of fire and destruction 00:02:57.610 --> 00:03:01.590 and demons invading the world. And that had no 00:03:01.590 --> 00:03:05.030 effect on her development as a person, I'm sure. 00:03:05.330 --> 00:03:08.479 Or am I... Absolutely mistaken. Yeah, no. This 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:11.099 definitely had no effect on how she would turn 00:03:11.099 --> 00:03:15.719 out in the end. By this point, again, everything 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:18.520 was magical, wonderful. It was lovely. The old 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:21.860 ones were still around. It was a good time, right? 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:28.819 But, you know, she sees these visions that she 00:03:28.819 --> 00:03:31.280 knows are going to come true. And she started 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:33.060 doing everything she could to get people to listen 00:03:33.060 --> 00:03:35.400 to her and try and prepare for the oncoming storm. 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:39.419 And naturally, no one did. Because if they did, 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:41.539 we might not have a Warhammer fantasy, you know? 00:03:42.819 --> 00:03:47.360 And was Morathi, just lingering on her for a 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:49.819 minute, was she part of, like, a particularly 00:03:49.819 --> 00:03:53.599 noble house, or was she gutter trash, or was 00:03:53.599 --> 00:03:55.580 she, like, was there anything that, like, did 00:03:55.580 --> 00:03:57.460 she have to claw her way up, or was she just, 00:03:57.539 --> 00:04:00.719 like, already established as, like, an important 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:04.199 person, should we say? If I remember correctly, 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:07.479 she wasn't particularly important in this time. 00:04:07.539 --> 00:04:10.759 She was kind of another elf, which is part of 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:12.460 why no one listened to her. But also they lived 00:04:12.460 --> 00:04:15.159 in paradise and willingly or not, they didn't 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:18.000 and maybe couldn't believe that this will come 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.100 to an end. And then it came to an end when the 00:04:21.100 --> 00:04:23.680 great catastrophe occurred and chaos invaded 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:29.040 en masse into the world. Now, at this point. 00:04:29.870 --> 00:04:32.250 Chaos is now here. People are interacting with 00:04:32.250 --> 00:04:36.189 chaos. And in fantasy, at least, other races 00:04:36.189 --> 00:04:38.250 tend to get a little bit chaotic every now and 00:04:38.250 --> 00:04:40.370 again. So, you know, the chaos stores, for instance. 00:04:40.490 --> 00:04:42.670 It's not just humanity. It's still mostly humanity 00:04:42.670 --> 00:04:45.209 doing that kind of stuff. But it's not just humanity 00:04:45.209 --> 00:04:47.350 who can get a little bit too lost in the chaos 00:04:47.350 --> 00:04:52.029 sauce. So on the Dark Elves, pardon me, jumping 00:04:52.029 --> 00:04:54.810 ahead. In the Elves, some started going a little 00:04:54.810 --> 00:04:59.439 bit whack. But... For the time being, they're 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:01.899 still mostly all fighting back against these 00:05:01.899 --> 00:05:04.600 forces of chaos. Now, they've had exactly zero 00:05:04.600 --> 00:05:07.000 wars to their name at this point. It's not going 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:10.740 very well. Until an elf named Anarion picks up 00:05:10.740 --> 00:05:14.420 the mantle, as well as some others, Kalidor too. 00:05:14.540 --> 00:05:15.860 We've talked about this before with the High 00:05:15.860 --> 00:05:18.779 Elves. And starts going to town on the demons 00:05:18.779 --> 00:05:21.139 and eventually drives them off with the combined 00:05:21.139 --> 00:05:24.100 efforts of themselves and the Slaan and the different 00:05:24.100 --> 00:05:29.230 Lizardmen. And chaos is banished. Marathi, during 00:05:29.230 --> 00:05:32.209 this time, however, maybe learned a little bit 00:05:32.209 --> 00:05:35.389 too much about her foe, and as chaos does, it 00:05:35.389 --> 00:05:39.290 tends to corrupt. Even when Anarion was still 00:05:39.290 --> 00:05:42.750 around, and him and Marathi were lovers, had 00:05:42.750 --> 00:05:46.629 children after Anarion's first wife, and as far 00:05:46.629 --> 00:05:49.769 as he knew, his first children were slain, they 00:05:49.769 --> 00:05:51.509 took comfort in each other's presence, had a 00:05:51.509 --> 00:05:55.100 kid. But even then, he never truly loved her, 00:05:55.220 --> 00:05:57.439 and even as much as, you know, he was cursed 00:05:57.439 --> 00:06:00.500 by drawing the Sword of Cain, even he was kind 00:06:00.500 --> 00:06:04.139 of like, she's off with that woman. She's bad 00:06:04.139 --> 00:06:06.680 news, he said, and this is coming from me. And 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:08.800 this is coming from me. I've just cursed my entire 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:11.699 bloodline, and you're still kind of whack. Whoopsie 00:06:11.699 --> 00:06:17.240 -daisy. Mm -hmm. But Anarion dies defending Ulthuan, 00:06:17.439 --> 00:06:21.000 never seen again, though his armor is recovered. 00:06:23.689 --> 00:06:26.170 And Marathi's hanging around with their kid, 00:06:26.329 --> 00:06:33.329 Malekith. Now, we go to the various High Elven 00:06:33.329 --> 00:06:36.029 princes, the nobles who will decide who shall 00:06:36.029 --> 00:06:38.449 be Phoenix King, this position, the leader of 00:06:38.449 --> 00:06:43.329 the High Elves, right? Many of them, well, maybe 00:06:43.329 --> 00:06:46.029 not many, some of them, including, of course, 00:06:46.089 --> 00:06:49.279 obviously, Marathi and Malekith himself. Felt 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:52.180 that I see Russell, pardon me, but this is very 00:06:52.180 --> 00:06:54.839 important for those listening because this is 00:06:54.839 --> 00:06:57.180 just, you know, there's no visual of our faces 00:06:57.180 --> 00:07:00.759 or anything. Andy's beloved dog, Russell, has 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:02.959 walked into the room and I needed to draw attention. 00:07:03.500 --> 00:07:06.740 Yeah, he's now sitting in the vocal booth, which 00:07:06.740 --> 00:07:08.879 is cooler than the rest of the room. And there 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:12.319 he is again. Hello, Russell. Little angel. Athena's 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.939 next to me right now in her doggy bed. But back 00:07:15.939 --> 00:07:20.420 on topic, pardon me. Many felt, obviously including 00:07:20.420 --> 00:07:24.240 Malekith himself and Marathi, that Malekith only 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:27.240 made sense as the next Phoenix King. After all, 00:07:27.259 --> 00:07:30.160 he's the son of Anarion, who was a pretty kick 00:07:30.160 --> 00:07:32.639 -ass guy. Yes, you know, again, he got a little 00:07:32.639 --> 00:07:35.220 bit lost in the butchery sauce a little bit and 00:07:35.220 --> 00:07:36.980 drew the Sword of Cain and a couple different 00:07:36.980 --> 00:07:40.240 things. But at the end of the day, he, you know, 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:43.850 drove back chaos. Not quite single -handedly, 00:07:43.889 --> 00:07:45.810 but he certainly did a good chunk of the hefty 00:07:45.810 --> 00:07:48.129 lifting for amongst all of the elves, right? 00:07:49.189 --> 00:07:51.750 Son's probably a cool guy, and at this point, 00:07:51.790 --> 00:07:56.250 Malekith was a pretty cool guy. But a lot of 00:07:56.250 --> 00:08:00.250 them didn't really want another warrior, right? 00:08:01.370 --> 00:08:04.110 They had just come out of a massive demon invasion 00:08:04.110 --> 00:08:08.009 and everything. Many people felt that at this 00:08:08.009 --> 00:08:11.850 point in time, maybe... Maybe we just, you know, 00:08:11.850 --> 00:08:17.490 get someone who's a little bit less insane, right? 00:08:18.149 --> 00:08:21.250 You know, someone a little bit more chill, as 00:08:21.250 --> 00:08:25.050 it were. More diplomatic. Someone who doesn't 00:08:25.050 --> 00:08:27.629 lash out and claw someone's eyes. Were there 00:08:27.629 --> 00:08:31.269 warning signs with that regard? There were a 00:08:31.269 --> 00:08:33.830 few warning signs as well that, you know, Malekith, 00:08:33.889 --> 00:08:36.370 he wasn't a bad guy at this point. He was like, 00:08:36.429 --> 00:08:38.889 you know, a noble elven hero. But, you know, 00:08:38.909 --> 00:08:43.470 again... Some warning signs, some people were 00:08:43.470 --> 00:08:45.549 understandably worried that, you know, Malekith 00:08:45.549 --> 00:08:48.570 was a little wacky, you know, a little wacky 00:08:48.570 --> 00:08:51.169 like his dad could be and was it a few times. 00:08:52.210 --> 00:08:57.529 So instead, they voted into, pardon me, voted 00:08:57.529 --> 00:09:01.769 into the Phoenix King, an elf named Belshinar. 00:09:02.429 --> 00:09:05.750 He was still, you know. A bit of a war hero, 00:09:05.850 --> 00:09:08.110 but he was more of like, you know, the reluctant 00:09:08.110 --> 00:09:10.889 kind of war hero. Like, no, he like legitimately 00:09:10.889 --> 00:09:14.409 and very obviously was like, I took up arms against 00:09:14.409 --> 00:09:16.889 the demons, you know, the demons. Obviously, 00:09:16.889 --> 00:09:19.850 I'm going to do that. But we don't need to go 00:09:19.850 --> 00:09:22.110 searching for any more glory. We earned plenty 00:09:22.110 --> 00:09:25.169 and died doing it. Let's just all take a chill 00:09:25.169 --> 00:09:30.230 pill, right? Marathi was furious. Malekith, at 00:09:30.230 --> 00:09:32.470 least publicly and to some extent, did take it 00:09:32.470 --> 00:09:36.059 with. Relatively good grace. And he became, you 00:09:36.059 --> 00:09:38.639 know, still a very cool guy for quite a long 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:42.039 time. He went around exploring the world, helped 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:44.559 strengthen and form the friendship with the dwarfs. 00:09:44.659 --> 00:09:46.320 Again, at this point, the elves and dwarfs were 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:49.340 still along on the same page. Malekith went off 00:09:49.340 --> 00:09:56.320 to do some cool things. Eventually, he... A few 00:09:56.320 --> 00:09:58.379 things happened. Part of what happened was he 00:09:58.379 --> 00:10:01.620 went north in the Warhammer world in his explorations. 00:10:03.179 --> 00:10:09.000 I found a very obviously evil, cursed, awful 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:11.500 crown and decided, yeah, I'll put it on my head. 00:10:11.639 --> 00:10:15.320 And again, that did about as much for his personality 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:18.700 as you can expect. Don't put the ring on your 00:10:18.700 --> 00:10:22.299 finger, man. Fulgrim effect with that damn sword. 00:10:22.960 --> 00:10:25.259 Fulgrim effect, doing a little bit of Frodo for 00:10:25.259 --> 00:10:27.080 good measure. It's like, don't do it. It's not 00:10:27.080 --> 00:10:29.080 worth it. Don't do it. But you did it anyways. 00:10:30.779 --> 00:10:37.679 Not great. And so, from there on, again, this 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:39.820 wasn't full -on corruption at this point, but 00:10:39.820 --> 00:10:41.019 he's definitely getting a little more whack. 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:44.759 Eventually, when he returns to Ulthuan, he is 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:47.840 still a respected figure amongst the High Elves. 00:10:47.860 --> 00:10:50.539 He'd spent a long time exploring, forging friendships, 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:53.139 charting new courses. Malekith's still popular. 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:55.159 He's still a cool guy, as far as everyone's concerned, 00:10:55.299 --> 00:10:57.980 and still somewhat actually is. When he gets 00:10:57.980 --> 00:11:00.419 home... He's informed that high -elf pleasure 00:11:00.419 --> 00:11:03.059 cults, those who, again, got a little bit lost 00:11:03.059 --> 00:11:06.100 in the chaos sauce, a little bit Slaaneshi in 00:11:06.100 --> 00:11:10.019 particular, were running rampant on Ulthuan. 00:11:10.220 --> 00:11:13.000 And they basically said, hey, we know your dad 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.220 was good at this, you know, dealing with chaos. 00:11:15.379 --> 00:11:17.860 We know you're a pretty cool guy. Please go deal 00:11:17.860 --> 00:11:21.000 with this. And for a while he did. He, you know, 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:23.299 would find, like, root out pleasure cults and 00:11:23.299 --> 00:11:27.379 eliminate them, right? He found the head of the 00:11:27.379 --> 00:11:29.720 pleasure cult eventually, who was none other 00:11:29.720 --> 00:11:35.720 than his mother, Marathi. Uh -oh. Quite. Mother, 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:39.419 what are you wearing, he said. Initially, he 00:11:39.419 --> 00:11:42.299 did plan on bringing her in. Then she convinced 00:11:42.299 --> 00:11:48.120 him, hey, you're the true Phoenix King. Are you 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:51.330 really going to listen to these pretenders? Who's 00:11:51.330 --> 00:11:55.549 my good boy? Who's my special boy? Well, on that 00:11:55.549 --> 00:11:57.690 note, depending on the edition of Warhammer Fantasy 00:11:57.690 --> 00:12:01.429 you're reading, she convinced him with some very 00:12:01.429 --> 00:12:04.009 unsavory methods that a mother should never convince 00:12:04.009 --> 00:12:10.549 her child with. Oh, no. Kill all my... A little 00:12:10.549 --> 00:12:14.210 bit of a J .B. and Cersei Lannister going on 00:12:14.210 --> 00:12:17.600 there. Although I guess that would have been... 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:20.580 I don't remember who... I don't remember Tywin's 00:12:20.580 --> 00:12:22.919 wife. It'd be like if Jaime and Tywin's wife 00:12:22.919 --> 00:12:25.860 were going at it. Well, she's not even around 00:12:25.860 --> 00:12:30.779 in the series. She was long dead. But depending 00:12:30.779 --> 00:12:33.879 on the edition, that was part of how she convinced 00:12:33.879 --> 00:12:39.980 him. So, Malekith calls a council of all the 00:12:39.980 --> 00:12:49.409 various elven princes. And... Initially, it was 00:12:49.409 --> 00:12:53.210 a bit of a comedy of errors as far as I'm concerned, 00:12:53.330 --> 00:12:56.649 at least my understanding of it. He declared 00:12:56.649 --> 00:13:02.350 he initially tried to poison Belshazzar, put 00:13:02.350 --> 00:13:08.250 some poison in his glass and obviously didn't 00:13:08.250 --> 00:13:09.649 tell him. It was like he tried to assassinate 00:13:09.649 --> 00:13:12.470 him quietly. When Belshazzar refused to take 00:13:12.470 --> 00:13:15.340 a drink, Malekith loudly proclaimed that he was 00:13:15.340 --> 00:13:18.679 the leader of the pleasure cults. His evidence 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:20.720 for this being, dude, trust me, I'm Malekith. 00:13:23.100 --> 00:13:29.259 This did not work. So at that point, he forced 00:13:29.259 --> 00:13:32.080 Belshazzar to drink the poison, had a bunch of 00:13:32.080 --> 00:13:35.700 his newfound minions start butchering a lot of 00:13:35.700 --> 00:13:38.320 the elves present, and Malekith walked into the 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:41.259 Flame of Assyrian, which, what this was... before 00:13:41.259 --> 00:13:44.059 the end times, which of course I'll get to, was, 00:13:44.299 --> 00:13:46.379 you know, it's a Syrian sacred fire. It's the 00:13:46.379 --> 00:13:48.779 sacred holy site of a god. It's so potent that 00:13:48.779 --> 00:13:51.059 demons that go near it, even relatively near 00:13:51.059 --> 00:13:56.120 it, just incinerate like true death. And it's 00:13:56.120 --> 00:13:58.259 also how new Phoenix Kings are chosen. They walk 00:13:58.259 --> 00:13:59.980 into the fire, and if they're worthy, they come 00:13:59.980 --> 00:14:02.879 out a Phoenix King. If you're not worthy, you 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:05.879 turn into Kentucky Fried Elf. And how do you 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:09.399 think Malekith came out of that fire? Crispy. 00:14:09.399 --> 00:14:15.500 He came out deep fried. Well done, Malekith. 00:14:15.879 --> 00:14:19.039 Yeah. Well, I'd say undeterred. The rest of them 00:14:19.039 --> 00:14:20.820 were undeterred. Malekith was currently busy 00:14:20.820 --> 00:14:22.980 writhing and screaming in pain. Understandably 00:14:22.980 --> 00:14:28.980 so. He just got Anakin. And his mother and his 00:14:28.980 --> 00:14:32.899 bodyguards, they fought their way out and declared 00:14:32.899 --> 00:14:34.919 their intent. And now we're just taking Ulthuan 00:14:34.919 --> 00:14:38.740 by force. the early rounds of the Elven Civil 00:14:38.740 --> 00:14:41.200 War, as it would come to be, as the conflict 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:44.940 between High and Dark Elf is known, was brutal 00:14:44.940 --> 00:14:48.919 and nearly saw the world unmade. Because I believe, 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:50.940 as I've mentioned before, there was the vortex 00:14:50.940 --> 00:14:53.460 in the middle of Ulthuan, in the middle of the 00:14:53.460 --> 00:14:55.879 Isle, in the sea, that drains magic from the 00:14:55.879 --> 00:14:59.480 world. At a certain point, as the Malekith and 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:01.620 his supporters were being pushed back, they decided, 00:15:01.740 --> 00:15:04.100 well, if we can't have it, no one can, and then 00:15:04.100 --> 00:15:08.799 unmade the vortex. Yeah, Betulin. Yeah. This 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:11.580 did have the side effect of freeing all of the 00:15:11.580 --> 00:15:13.720 elves who willingly trapped themselves in the 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:16.259 vortex, who were all the strongest elven mages 00:15:16.259 --> 00:15:19.740 ever. Oh. Yeah, they were in there keeping it 00:15:19.740 --> 00:15:21.700 going. Like, they're trapped outside of time, 00:15:21.820 --> 00:15:23.019 basically, keeping the thing going. They were 00:15:23.019 --> 00:15:28.320 Lord of Cindering it. Yeah. Well, now they were 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:30.860 freed, saw what was going on, and were like... 00:15:31.309 --> 00:15:33.509 We're just going to ass blast you with every 00:15:33.509 --> 00:15:36.070 spell in our arsenal. And very promptly did that, 00:15:36.190 --> 00:15:40.230 drove the soon -to -be Dark Elves off, and remade 00:15:40.230 --> 00:15:42.629 the Vortex, thankfully. Especially because, again, 00:15:42.649 --> 00:15:44.850 the guy who was the head designer of the Vortex, 00:15:44.990 --> 00:15:48.250 Kalidor II, he's also in there. So he kind of 00:15:48.250 --> 00:15:51.330 just woke up, saw that his friend's son was acting 00:15:51.330 --> 00:15:54.330 a fool, and was like, get the hell out of here. 00:15:56.470 --> 00:16:01.230 And the Dark Elves retreated. Now, between the 00:16:01.230 --> 00:16:04.269 vortex briefly being unmade and the Dark Elves' 00:16:04.289 --> 00:16:06.830 own magics, Ulthuan became very unstable, an 00:16:06.830 --> 00:16:09.149 event known as the Sundering happened. Ulthuan 00:16:09.149 --> 00:16:10.870 used to be a lot bigger, and then a good, like, 00:16:10.909 --> 00:16:14.889 30 -40 % of it sank into the sea. Not helping 00:16:14.889 --> 00:16:17.210 this is that the Dark Elves, in fleeing, did 00:16:17.210 --> 00:16:20.090 their foul sorceries and just ripped chunks of 00:16:20.090 --> 00:16:22.629 the mountain ranges out and sailed away on them. 00:16:24.779 --> 00:16:27.759 And they would turn these ships into their dreadful 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:29.940 black arcs, these massive former chunks of the 00:16:29.940 --> 00:16:32.320 continent that would in future times become slave 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:36.200 vessels and sailed away from Ulthuan. Do these 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:40.059 guys have any bearing on who's the other naval 00:16:40.059 --> 00:16:44.419 faction in the fantasy setting later on? The 00:16:44.419 --> 00:16:49.200 vampires? Oh, the vampire coast, kind of? Yeah, 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:52.259 yeah. Not really. No, the vampire coast is kind 00:16:52.259 --> 00:16:55.500 of something that just happened. Oh, okay. No 00:16:55.500 --> 00:16:58.120 one really had any intent of doing that. The 00:16:58.120 --> 00:17:00.139 TLDR on that, maybe we'll cover that one day, 00:17:00.220 --> 00:17:02.879 was that a vampire washed up on a spot that, 00:17:02.940 --> 00:17:05.599 due to ocean currents, a whole lot of drowned 00:17:05.599 --> 00:17:07.819 ships and sailors end up at. It was just like, 00:17:07.900 --> 00:17:11.359 well, free source of bodies of zombies forever. 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:13.960 I'm just going to make my home here. That just 00:17:13.960 --> 00:17:17.799 kind of happened. Elves just sail by and kind 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:20.160 of sneer and go, we're going to keep going this 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:24.779 way. It's a very known well -cursed spot, the 00:17:24.779 --> 00:17:27.380 Vampire Coast. Everyone's like, yeah, don't be 00:17:27.380 --> 00:17:29.259 there. It's not going to end well. Even the elves 00:17:29.259 --> 00:17:30.960 who are like the greatest sailors of the setting, 00:17:31.019 --> 00:17:32.559 they're like, it's not worth it. There's nothing 00:17:32.559 --> 00:17:36.359 to be gained here. But no, the dark elves on 00:17:36.359 --> 00:17:39.019 their newfound mountain ships sailed to the continent 00:17:39.019 --> 00:17:42.579 of Naggaroth, also known as Warhammer Fantasy 00:17:42.579 --> 00:17:46.400 North America. Let me see if I can't find a map 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:48.160 of that for you real quick. You will see that, 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:56.829 sure enough. This is just North America. Oh, 00:17:56.829 --> 00:18:02.190 yeah. The old world is Europe and Asia and Africa 00:18:02.190 --> 00:18:04.430 and all that stuff. The land of Daddy Chill. 00:18:04.549 --> 00:18:09.970 Wow. Lots of iron, frost, iron, iron, malice, 00:18:09.990 --> 00:18:16.029 dark abyss, heaven, desert, spiders, mail... 00:18:16.029 --> 00:18:18.450 Oh, the maelstrom's here. You're on. Nice. Yeah, 00:18:18.450 --> 00:18:21.440 there's a lot of... A lot of nasty sounding places. 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:26.319 The Boiling Sea, lovely. And the Circle of Destruction. 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:28.519 Who could forget the Circle of Destruction? Don't 00:18:28.519 --> 00:18:30.759 forget on there is also the Altar of Ultimate 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:33.660 Darkness. Oh yeah, why not? Throw it in there. 00:18:34.299 --> 00:18:37.460 And it should also be said, I will say, as a 00:18:37.460 --> 00:18:40.559 bit of an explanation, that a lot of the reason 00:18:40.559 --> 00:18:43.839 Malekith got his followers that he did was because... 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:48.019 I feel it's a safe thing to assume that any society 00:18:48.019 --> 00:18:50.839 that has recently suffered a massive demon invasion, 00:18:51.019 --> 00:18:52.460 a whole lot of people are going to be traumatized 00:18:52.460 --> 00:18:56.519 by that, right? To make a long story, understandably 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:59.059 so. I can't say if I had to fight off the chaos 00:18:59.059 --> 00:19:01.400 demons, I'd be in a good spot mentally. I would 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:06.380 be a blubbering wreck. So a lot of the elves 00:19:06.380 --> 00:19:09.960 were in quite bad places. Malekith's reputation 00:19:09.960 --> 00:19:13.099 being what it is and various other factors like 00:19:13.099 --> 00:19:15.079 that all stemming from the Great Catastrophe, 00:19:15.240 --> 00:19:17.319 was why a whole lot of elves threw themselves 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:20.240 behind Malekith and decided to overthrow this 00:19:20.240 --> 00:19:24.099 weakling pretender. But it failed. They go to 00:19:24.099 --> 00:19:26.680 Naggaroth, and particularly the most northern 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:28.660 regions is where most of them are. They're in 00:19:28.660 --> 00:19:33.160 Warhammer Canada. It's a cold, desolate hellscape. 00:19:34.159 --> 00:19:36.440 Even as you go farther south, where, like, a 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:39.339 lot of the farming is, still a fairly rough place 00:19:39.339 --> 00:19:42.119 to be. But they've been resoundingly kicked off 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:47.380 Ulthuan, so it's time to set up shop. And now 00:19:47.380 --> 00:19:49.779 we have the Dark Elves. We don't quite have the 00:19:49.779 --> 00:19:52.119 Wood Elves yet, but we have the Dark Elves and 00:19:52.119 --> 00:19:58.680 High Elves. It's... Their history is actually 00:19:58.680 --> 00:20:01.680 quite easy to simplify, to be honest with you. 00:20:02.269 --> 00:20:06.210 Once they landed on Naggaroth, they did and still 00:20:06.210 --> 00:20:08.750 do have every intention eventually going back 00:20:08.750 --> 00:20:12.930 home. Home after enough generations. It's not 00:20:12.930 --> 00:20:15.609 quite your home anymore, chief. Back to the donut. 00:20:15.869 --> 00:20:18.589 Yeah, they still to this day have full intentions 00:20:18.589 --> 00:20:21.069 of going home and reconquering Altuan. Taking 00:20:21.069 --> 00:20:24.569 back the donut. Naggaroth in many ways is viewed 00:20:24.569 --> 00:20:26.869 as ultimately a temporary residence until that 00:20:26.869 --> 00:20:29.880 happens. But... You still got to make do with 00:20:29.880 --> 00:20:32.200 what you have. So they set up several massive 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:35.279 cities on the continent, one of which, you know, 00:20:35.299 --> 00:20:37.599 the capital, I would say, is basically a dark 00:20:37.599 --> 00:20:41.079 elf hype city mixed with Kamara. Lovely place 00:20:41.079 --> 00:20:43.359 to be. Truly, we'll get into that shortly. Lots 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:46.619 of leather, lots of leather made from not cows. 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:49.619 No, it's not made from it's not made from animals 00:20:49.619 --> 00:20:53.359 any more than the sense of human beings are animals, 00:20:53.500 --> 00:20:58.200 technically. But they would go, you know, set 00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:02.160 up shop, and now they're on Naggaroth. They have 00:21:02.160 --> 00:21:05.980 ever since been led by Malekith and led by Marathi, 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:08.519 his mother. These two, even by elf standards, 00:21:08.819 --> 00:21:12.339 ancient beings, who for the next 10 ,000 years 00:21:12.339 --> 00:21:14.440 would dedicate themselves to taking back Ulduar. 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:17.839 And do we have an estimate of how old they are 00:21:17.839 --> 00:21:20.880 now? Is it just 10 ,000 years or a bit? More 00:21:20.880 --> 00:21:23.880 than that. At least I believe the great, like 00:21:23.880 --> 00:21:26.160 the big demon invasion was about 10 ,000 years 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:28.740 ago. Like from modern Warhammer fantasy could 00:21:28.740 --> 00:21:33.400 be a little bit wrong on that. Uh, but old, very 00:21:33.400 --> 00:21:36.339 old, old. Let's, let's go with like eight to 00:21:36.339 --> 00:21:39.880 like, if we want to be like maybe in the middle 00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:41.779 of the estimations I can think of, let's make, 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:44.059 let's cut it an even 8 ,000 years old. Right. 00:21:45.420 --> 00:21:47.539 And everyone's like my Rafi, how do you keep 00:21:47.539 --> 00:21:52.220 your skin looking so youthful? Hmm. The blood 00:21:52.220 --> 00:21:54.680 of the innocent. I'll just rip the band -aid 00:21:54.680 --> 00:22:00.019 off. It's that. Well, if it works, it works. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:02.759 It clearly works. It doesn't work for the people 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:04.819 in the boiling blood cauldron, but it works for 00:22:04.819 --> 00:22:10.140 her. The dark elves formed a society of might 00:22:10.140 --> 00:22:11.859 makes right. If you can get away with it, you 00:22:11.859 --> 00:22:15.920 can get away with it. That's the Spartan training 00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:18.690 where... If you get caught stealing food from 00:22:18.690 --> 00:22:20.250 one of your fellow trainees, right? You're not 00:22:20.250 --> 00:22:21.829 beat because you stole the food. You're beat 00:22:21.829 --> 00:22:25.730 because you got caught stealing the food. That's 00:22:25.730 --> 00:22:28.329 a lot of Dark Elf society in a nutshell. They 00:22:28.329 --> 00:22:30.269 survive, you know, they value strength above 00:22:30.269 --> 00:22:32.769 all else, which is why their positions are usually 00:22:32.769 --> 00:22:35.190 granted by way of Starscream. Kill the guy ahead 00:22:35.190 --> 00:22:38.509 of you, you get his job. But it should be said 00:22:38.509 --> 00:22:40.509 they do have surprisingly thick family values. 00:22:42.429 --> 00:22:45.509 They're not skaven, yeah. No, no. They do have, 00:22:45.650 --> 00:22:47.970 to some extent, the capacity for love and appreciation 00:22:47.970 --> 00:22:51.930 of, you know, things. Sometimes, again, in the 00:22:51.930 --> 00:22:54.150 case of Malekith and some other people, perhaps 00:22:54.150 --> 00:22:56.470 a bit too much appreciation for family members. 00:22:57.990 --> 00:23:04.710 But they set up shop and one prevailing attitude 00:23:04.710 --> 00:23:07.130 of elves, as I'm sure you know, is they're quite 00:23:07.130 --> 00:23:08.930 full of themselves, right? They believe themselves 00:23:08.930 --> 00:23:12.700 the best. At the end of the day, and I hope you 00:23:12.700 --> 00:23:15.920 kind of agree on this, the way that usually happens 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:18.279 is the elves go out and they brag about what 00:23:18.279 --> 00:23:20.400 they do. And then they go out and, you know, 00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:23.180 kick some ass or at least try to kick some ass 00:23:23.180 --> 00:23:26.059 and let their words speak for, let their actions 00:23:26.059 --> 00:23:28.880 speak for themselves, right? Prove that they're 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:31.119 the best by, you know, being better than you. 00:23:31.420 --> 00:23:33.819 Whether or not they actually are, you know, depends 00:23:33.819 --> 00:23:35.859 on the setting and if you like elves or not. 00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:38.700 But they tend to, like, you know, if you ask 00:23:38.700 --> 00:23:40.579 an elf, how come you think you're so much better 00:23:40.579 --> 00:23:43.700 than me? They'll point at their cities and go, 00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:45.559 well, because of that, look at this shit, dude. 00:23:46.440 --> 00:23:50.599 The dark elves are the logical end point of elven 00:23:50.599 --> 00:23:53.599 supremacy, which is they believe because they 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:55.720 are the glorious druki, as they're now known, 00:23:55.880 --> 00:23:57.920 they're, you know, the elf term for dark elf, 00:23:58.079 --> 00:24:00.559 then they should be allowed to hunt you for sport 00:24:00.559 --> 00:24:05.910 because you are inferior. So the Dark Elf Society 00:24:05.910 --> 00:24:09.089 quickly became a slave -based society. You know 00:24:09.089 --> 00:24:12.470 the triangle slave trade from history? Yeah, 00:24:12.490 --> 00:24:16.950 they did that. They made that. Their plantations 00:24:16.950 --> 00:24:20.490 and basic industry runs entirely on slave labor. 00:24:20.690 --> 00:24:23.329 Those Black Arks, those were mountains before 00:24:23.329 --> 00:24:25.930 they ripped them out of the continent. Those 00:24:25.930 --> 00:24:29.069 can hold a lot of slaves, which sure enough, 00:24:29.150 --> 00:24:32.049 when the Dark Elves go slave raiding, It's not 00:24:32.049 --> 00:24:34.450 people from a village they're capturing. It's 00:24:34.450 --> 00:24:37.049 a village they're capturing. They're going out 00:24:37.049 --> 00:24:40.170 with the East Ulthuan trade company. Like, oh, 00:24:40.170 --> 00:24:42.190 I see what you're doing. Yeah, yeah. Get out 00:24:42.190 --> 00:24:48.549 of here. They, yeah, they're that. And at one 00:24:48.549 --> 00:24:51.990 point, because they found a under, they call 00:24:51.990 --> 00:24:54.849 it the underworld ocean. It's not, well, underworld 00:24:54.849 --> 00:24:56.589 sea or something, like underworld gate. It's 00:24:56.589 --> 00:24:58.940 not a passage to hell. It's a massive underground 00:24:58.940 --> 00:25:01.539 ocean they can use to sail under the continent. 00:25:01.920 --> 00:25:05.059 Do you ever hear about the Northwest Passage? 00:25:05.059 --> 00:25:07.619 It doesn't actually exist, but it's the supposed 00:25:07.619 --> 00:25:10.160 sea crossing a lot of people used to think existed 00:25:10.160 --> 00:25:13.920 through North America. They found one, and it 00:25:13.920 --> 00:25:16.759 was underground. So after they found that, even 00:25:16.759 --> 00:25:19.839 now, Cathay, Nippon, those faraway regions of 00:25:19.839 --> 00:25:22.259 Warhammer that until recently got basically no 00:25:22.259 --> 00:25:24.799 lore, and only Cathay is really getting lore 00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:28.490 nowadays. nowhere is safe from the dark elf slave 00:25:28.490 --> 00:25:34.349 arts and they began setting up shop on all or 00:25:34.349 --> 00:25:36.509 on nagaroth no one will admit that they're there 00:25:36.509 --> 00:25:40.349 permanently but they began setting up shop any 00:25:40.349 --> 00:25:43.809 uh any questions thus far you might have um so 00:25:43.809 --> 00:25:47.670 are they a real threat to any standing pack because 00:25:47.670 --> 00:25:49.990 i assume they're ostensibly like exiles from 00:25:49.990 --> 00:25:52.789 all one who are a big player in the setting are 00:25:52.789 --> 00:25:57.160 they more I know they have obviously things like 00:25:57.160 --> 00:26:00.279 their own slave trade, etc., but are they like 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:03.140 a threat comparable to the dwarves, to the high 00:26:03.140 --> 00:26:06.339 elves, or are they more like a nuisance faction? 00:26:09.160 --> 00:26:14.000 So, they very easily could be. For example, oh, 00:26:14.160 --> 00:26:20.430 adorable. More Russell chat, pardon me. But they 00:26:20.430 --> 00:26:22.670 very easily could be. In fact, they have enough 00:26:22.670 --> 00:26:25.210 strength that with, you know, a relatively sizable 00:26:25.210 --> 00:26:27.650 fraction of their forces, but still just a fraction, 00:26:27.789 --> 00:26:30.549 they've built massive walls to their north since 00:26:30.549 --> 00:26:34.430 to the north lies Chaos Portal. They've built 00:26:34.430 --> 00:26:37.549 these massive walls that are, until the end times, 00:26:37.589 --> 00:26:39.829 basically never failed at keeping out, like, 00:26:39.890 --> 00:26:42.869 Norse marauders and Chaos demons, right? They're 00:26:42.869 --> 00:26:44.470 properly powerful, and that's just a portion 00:26:44.470 --> 00:26:47.509 of their forces. They very easily could be. If 00:26:47.509 --> 00:26:50.289 they wanted to invade the Empire properly, even 00:26:50.289 --> 00:26:51.890 if they couldn't win, just with the distances 00:26:51.890 --> 00:26:53.869 involved, that'd be a hell of a supply line to 00:26:53.869 --> 00:26:58.549 keep up. They could definitely raise hell. They 00:26:58.549 --> 00:27:03.369 don't because they want to go home. Malekith 00:27:03.369 --> 00:27:09.009 wants his Phoenix Crown. And so, every few hundred 00:27:09.009 --> 00:27:12.819 or thousand of years, They just invade Ulthuan 00:27:12.819 --> 00:27:15.859 en masse, like black arcs descend, massive legions, 00:27:15.859 --> 00:27:19.519 often backed up by demons, descend upon Ulthuan 00:27:19.519 --> 00:27:22.759 to try and retake it back. For these thousands 00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:25.259 of years, they have all been repulsed and the 00:27:25.259 --> 00:27:29.380 dark elves brutalized, but that in part is why 00:27:29.380 --> 00:27:31.140 the high elves can never catch a break and are 00:27:31.140 --> 00:27:33.660 a constant state of decline, because every time 00:27:33.660 --> 00:27:36.119 they breathe for too long, so are the dark elves 00:27:36.119 --> 00:27:38.799 breathing for a while, and then the dark elves 00:27:38.799 --> 00:27:43.980 decide... Run that fade, sir. Let's fucking go. 00:27:46.740 --> 00:27:50.359 They could be very much a threat to many of the 00:27:50.359 --> 00:27:53.400 factions in the game. Including the Lizardmen 00:27:53.400 --> 00:27:56.160 too. North and South America are connected. Naggaroth 00:27:56.160 --> 00:27:58.359 and Lustria are connected. But they just don't 00:27:58.359 --> 00:28:00.799 really see a point in invading Lustria and the 00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:04.559 Lizardmen. They're lizards. It's cold up there, 00:28:04.640 --> 00:28:09.460 right? And where are the hordes of Nagash at 00:28:09.460 --> 00:28:12.480 this point? Because don't they have laying some 00:28:12.480 --> 00:28:17.480 claim to the Americas? Kind of. The story of 00:28:17.480 --> 00:28:20.339 that, which we should cover a bit, is that under 00:28:20.339 --> 00:28:22.819 Malekith's influence, in an attempt to weaken 00:28:22.819 --> 00:28:26.960 the High Elves, he had a trio of assassins burn 00:28:26.960 --> 00:28:31.920 dwarf caravans and disguise elven bodies present 00:28:31.920 --> 00:28:35.359 as High Elves and make it look like the High 00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:37.829 Elves did it. Which caused the Dwarves and the 00:28:37.829 --> 00:28:39.609 High Elves to go to war with each other in, you 00:28:39.609 --> 00:28:43.470 know, Warhammer Fantasy World War I. And completely 00:28:43.470 --> 00:28:45.390 obliterate each other's empires, essentially. 00:28:45.890 --> 00:28:48.750 And those three High Elves then were captured 00:28:48.750 --> 00:28:52.289 by Nehekarans and taught Nagash the secrets of 00:28:52.289 --> 00:28:54.950 black magic, which he then used to become Nagash. 00:28:56.769 --> 00:29:01.390 So, there's no real claim like the Tomb Kings 00:29:01.390 --> 00:29:03.890 or even the living Nehekarans had on Nagaroth. 00:29:06.439 --> 00:29:09.359 But the Dark Elves are, for that reason, at fault 00:29:09.359 --> 00:29:12.460 for Nagash existing. And of course, as living 00:29:12.460 --> 00:29:14.680 beings, they must become dead beings, as all 00:29:14.680 --> 00:29:16.960 are subject under Nagash's rule, of course. You 00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:18.660 know, such is the power of Nagash and all that. 00:29:19.779 --> 00:29:22.559 Yeah, slogan. But, you know, in terms of historical 00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:24.519 grievances, there's not really anything they 00:29:24.519 --> 00:29:27.559 have to do with each other. Other than, you know... 00:29:29.259 --> 00:29:32.079 If Cetra found out that that's why Nagash rose 00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:34.319 to power, I'm sure he would stop at nothing until 00:29:34.319 --> 00:29:37.180 the Dark Elves were burned to the ground. Yeah. 00:29:37.339 --> 00:29:43.380 Upon realizing, you assholes did this. But no, 00:29:43.480 --> 00:29:45.799 for much of Dark Elf history, essentially it 00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:50.420 was that holding cycle. Constantly, basically, 00:29:50.660 --> 00:29:52.900 raid, capture slaves, and when you've built up 00:29:52.900 --> 00:29:55.920 enough forces, go burn down Ulthuan, or try to. 00:29:56.939 --> 00:29:59.640 And to their credit, again, like I said, it's 00:29:59.640 --> 00:30:02.799 massive casualties every time they do on both 00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:06.119 ends. But they never quite succeeded. Malekith 00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:08.000 has never gotten himself that phoenix crown. 00:30:10.039 --> 00:30:16.119 And, yeah, it's... You'd think someone would 00:30:16.119 --> 00:30:17.980 have deposed him, but he is also individually 00:30:17.980 --> 00:30:21.779 a very powerful warrior and mage alike. He's 00:30:21.779 --> 00:30:23.500 called the Witch King, you know, like, you know, 00:30:23.500 --> 00:30:27.049 the Witch King of Angmar. He can, he's like the 00:30:27.049 --> 00:30:30.049 level of wizard, like at least entire formations 00:30:30.049 --> 00:30:32.750 of units, he can just wave his hand and, and 00:30:32.750 --> 00:30:35.730 then if you try and engage him in melee, you're 00:30:35.730 --> 00:30:40.910 probably going to lose. Yeah. Plus, Marathi's 00:30:40.910 --> 00:30:42.569 also in charge. She was one of the, you know, 00:30:42.569 --> 00:30:45.089 the Sorceress Supreme, one of the best magic 00:30:45.089 --> 00:30:47.369 users in power. The reason neither of them have 00:30:47.369 --> 00:30:50.170 been overthrown, because it's quite hard to kill 00:30:50.170 --> 00:30:53.349 them. And I'm assuming they're stronger than 00:30:53.349 --> 00:30:56.130 someone like Balthazar Gelt or like a human magician. 00:30:56.170 --> 00:31:03.730 Yes, absolutely. Malekith, maybe not. Marathi, 00:31:03.769 --> 00:31:06.450 definitely. She probably doesn't know as much 00:31:06.450 --> 00:31:09.170 about specifically the lore of metal as he does, 00:31:09.309 --> 00:31:12.150 but definitely overall a more powerful wizard. 00:31:14.100 --> 00:31:17.759 No Nam flashbacks with Gelt fighting Marathi 00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:20.759 in survival. That is purely saved for a very 00:31:20.759 --> 00:31:24.920 well -run Total War campaign as a Gelt player. 00:31:26.220 --> 00:31:28.859 And yeah, that would be their history for the 00:31:28.859 --> 00:31:30.619 longest time. It's a very simple thing overall. 00:31:30.940 --> 00:31:33.119 Go to Nagaroth, because we have no choice, and 00:31:33.119 --> 00:31:35.920 keep trying to retake Ulthuan, which kept failing. 00:31:36.039 --> 00:31:40.640 But goddamn, do they keep trying. So... for a 00:31:40.640 --> 00:31:43.000 bit. It's before the, you know, end times and, 00:31:43.019 --> 00:31:44.519 you know, we have to discuss and I don't want 00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:47.880 to, but you have to talk a little bit about society 00:31:47.880 --> 00:31:51.400 and, you know, the Negara, their cities. Like 00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:53.859 I said, Mike makes right. Starscream's philosophy 00:31:53.859 --> 00:31:56.500 is, you know, take the guy's job ahead of you 00:31:56.500 --> 00:31:59.119 by killing him is how they go. It is, again, 00:31:59.140 --> 00:32:03.779 a slave -based economy on everything and they've 00:32:03.779 --> 00:32:06.039 got some family values. You know, they will defend 00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:08.200 their bloodlines and their names and that to 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:12.039 the death. But also, again, sometimes it gets 00:32:12.039 --> 00:32:13.900 Game of Thrones -y. If you really need to kill 00:32:13.900 --> 00:32:18.099 your sister, they might damn well do it. Or pork 00:32:18.099 --> 00:32:22.480 her, unfortunately. You gotta do what you gotta 00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:26.579 do to advance as a druki, what can I say? The 00:32:26.579 --> 00:32:29.220 Dark Elves, as for their, you know, things like 00:32:29.220 --> 00:32:32.619 worship and whatnot, a lot of them, a good amount 00:32:32.619 --> 00:32:35.119 of them worship Slaanesh. especially older editions 00:32:35.119 --> 00:32:37.920 before that was retconned. They see no problem 00:32:37.920 --> 00:32:40.240 worshipping Slaanesh, because it's not like Warhammer 00:32:40.240 --> 00:32:45.259 40k, where Slaanesh is just like, even amongst 00:32:45.259 --> 00:32:47.460 the Dark Eldar, big no -no, big no -no. That 00:32:47.460 --> 00:32:50.960 gets your soul devoured immediately. They act 00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:53.720 as, in many ways, any other cult of Slaanesh 00:32:53.720 --> 00:32:59.680 would. But by and large, they worship the Synthari, 00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:03.450 Kithari. I always forget how it's said. There's 00:33:03.450 --> 00:33:07.470 no N in it. I always forget if it's C -Y -T -H 00:33:07.470 --> 00:33:10.309 -A -R -A -I. Kithari. I always say Synthari at 00:33:10.309 --> 00:33:12.369 first. I always cock that up for some reason. 00:33:13.150 --> 00:33:17.349 But that is the evil... Oh, muted. I was just 00:33:17.349 --> 00:33:19.349 going to say, is it almost like Synthetic? And 00:33:19.349 --> 00:33:23.109 you're like, ah, there must be an N there. That's 00:33:23.109 --> 00:33:27.289 probably what's jamming my brain up. But they 00:33:27.289 --> 00:33:32.339 worship the Kithari. The more... The more unsavory 00:33:32.339 --> 00:33:35.519 side of the Elven Pantheon. You know, the Kadai 00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:38.279 is Assyrian, the king of the gods. Isha, you 00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:40.980 know, the lovely life and fertility goddess. 00:33:41.299 --> 00:33:45.240 Hoeth, the god of knowledge. On the Kithari, 00:33:45.460 --> 00:33:54.200 you got Cain. He's Cain. He's an asshole. I feel 00:33:54.200 --> 00:33:56.279 like I can almost just stop at saying he's part 00:33:56.279 --> 00:34:00.009 of them. He's Cain. You really, it's once he's 00:34:00.009 --> 00:34:02.410 in the equation. Once you're the people that 00:34:02.410 --> 00:34:05.069 hang out with Cain, it's not great. You know, 00:34:05.069 --> 00:34:06.950 there's other goddesses like, you know, Anathrema, 00:34:07.130 --> 00:34:10.650 the goddess of the savage hunt, and also jilted 00:34:10.650 --> 00:34:13.510 lovers. So if you go through a bad breakup, you 00:34:13.510 --> 00:34:18.469 know who to pray to. Nethu, the guy who, you 00:34:18.469 --> 00:34:20.829 know, oversees the underworld. Hecardi, well, 00:34:20.909 --> 00:34:22.530 not oversees. You know, he's the gatekeeper, 00:34:22.630 --> 00:34:25.389 as well as his, you know, his mother, Ereth Kiel. 00:34:25.980 --> 00:34:28.500 who's another elf goddess who loves torturing 00:34:28.500 --> 00:34:30.380 and stealing elf souls. There's two of those 00:34:30.380 --> 00:34:34.000 in Warhammer Fantasy. It's not just Lanesh. You've 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:36.579 got, what is it, the one like Hecate, goddess 00:34:36.579 --> 00:34:40.480 of dark magic. They worship the bad guy side 00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:43.460 of the pantheon, right? The ones who will, you 00:34:43.460 --> 00:34:45.659 know, you do a dark ritual, you sacrifice a hundred 00:34:45.659 --> 00:34:51.380 slaves, and you get a boon. It's made them, you 00:34:51.380 --> 00:34:53.059 know, you're worshiping gods like that, you're 00:34:53.059 --> 00:35:00.000 gonna end up a bad egg. But are the gods benevolent 00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:02.320 and give them a boon or are they a bit more fickle 00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:04.840 like chaos gods? They usually do give them a 00:35:04.840 --> 00:35:08.119 boon because at least as far as my interpretation 00:35:08.119 --> 00:35:12.139 at least is how they see it is dark elves kill 00:35:12.139 --> 00:35:15.400 the high elves. That'll take away all the followers 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:17.400 of the Kadai part of the pantheon and we'll be 00:35:17.400 --> 00:35:19.059 the only one to get an elf worship and be the 00:35:19.059 --> 00:35:21.539 king shits of everything. Wow. It always comes 00:35:21.539 --> 00:35:25.559 back to family feuding. It really does. And again, 00:35:25.679 --> 00:35:28.670 you know, like, These boons are usually granted 00:35:28.670 --> 00:35:33.050 through, you know, mass sacrifice. And a lot 00:35:33.050 --> 00:35:34.989 of them, you know, especially with like Hecate, 00:35:35.070 --> 00:35:39.250 that price gets steeper every time you make a 00:35:39.250 --> 00:35:41.449 new deal with her. And eventually you're going 00:35:41.449 --> 00:35:43.170 to make a deal that you can't quite fulfill. 00:35:43.250 --> 00:35:46.829 And then, you know. Classic stuff like that happens. 00:35:46.909 --> 00:35:49.530 It's going to be worse than having relations 00:35:49.530 --> 00:35:52.429 within the family. Cause that's the baseline. 00:35:52.949 --> 00:35:56.289 Yeah. And then your soul is lit on fire for all 00:35:56.289 --> 00:35:59.190 eternity. Sucks to be you, but they do, you know, 00:35:59.190 --> 00:36:03.329 they usually do it. What they say it's, you know, 00:36:03.329 --> 00:36:05.789 the contract has a whole lot of fine print, but 00:36:05.789 --> 00:36:07.829 you will get your end of the bargain fulfilled. 00:36:07.949 --> 00:36:09.650 At least it's not, you know, there's much less 00:36:09.650 --> 00:36:11.789 tentacles and gripply bits involved, you know? 00:36:12.809 --> 00:36:14.630 You know, if they don't fuse your soul with your 00:36:14.630 --> 00:36:16.730 body and then melt it like candle wax, they just 00:36:16.730 --> 00:36:23.110 kill you. Yeah. So, rough times. Aside from that, 00:36:23.190 --> 00:36:26.570 very strong seafaring society, because it's kind 00:36:26.570 --> 00:36:29.789 of the only way they can get anywhere. They're 00:36:29.789 --> 00:36:31.650 on North America. You want to go get your slaves? 00:36:31.769 --> 00:36:34.750 You better get in that boat. And, of course, 00:36:34.789 --> 00:36:36.889 the constant, let's go take Ulthuan again. Why 00:36:36.889 --> 00:36:40.260 not? Why the hell not? It's fun to do that. Uh, 00:36:40.400 --> 00:36:44.059 as for a bit of Naggaroth though, right? It's, 00:36:44.059 --> 00:36:49.639 uh, it's, it's, it's, oh boy. Like I said, it 00:36:49.639 --> 00:36:51.619 just sucks to live on Naggaroth. I'm not going 00:36:51.619 --> 00:36:54.400 to lie. The whole place, like almost all times 00:36:54.400 --> 00:36:57.860 of year is a cold, miserable hell hole. Uh, and 00:36:57.860 --> 00:37:00.539 I mean cold where it's like permafrost, like 00:37:00.539 --> 00:37:05.519 Arctic. It sucks. And even the more fertile regions, 00:37:05.619 --> 00:37:08.079 it's still pretty bleak and only so fertile. 00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:10.440 There's enough they can live, obviously with 00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:12.159 the slave labor, of course, mining for them. 00:37:12.280 --> 00:37:15.019 A Druki would never be seen, you know, farming 00:37:15.019 --> 00:37:17.860 themselves. That's far too uncultured. You want 00:37:17.860 --> 00:37:20.920 me to hold the hoe and not the hoe? How dare 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:25.400 you? Yeah, of course, please. And there's a few 00:37:25.400 --> 00:37:27.940 different cities on Naggaroth that are, at least 00:37:27.940 --> 00:37:30.639 for the Dark Elves, vaguely important to know 00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:33.889 about, right? So let's start with the main one 00:37:33.889 --> 00:37:35.369 that you're going to forget the name of, and 00:37:35.369 --> 00:37:36.670 I know you're going to forget the name of it 00:37:36.670 --> 00:37:38.690 because it's almost the same as the continent, 00:37:38.929 --> 00:37:41.789 Naggarond. Not Naggaroth, that's the continent, 00:37:42.030 --> 00:37:47.369 Naggarond, the city. Wow, okay. Also known as 00:37:47.369 --> 00:37:54.090 the City of Chill, I believe. It's a bad place. 00:37:54.369 --> 00:37:57.090 It's a very bad... Very bad place. It ain't so 00:37:57.090 --> 00:38:00.190 chill after all. No, I think someone left that 00:38:00.190 --> 00:38:02.369 in a comment on a video. Naggaroth, the land 00:38:02.369 --> 00:38:05.650 of chill. The inhabitants, they are not very 00:38:05.650 --> 00:38:11.389 chill. This is the capital of the Dark Elves. 00:38:11.469 --> 00:38:13.809 It's the oldest and the largest of the Dark Elves 00:38:13.809 --> 00:38:15.550 cities on the continent. Mega cities, really. 00:38:15.789 --> 00:38:20.329 It's practically two cities in one. And for reference, 00:38:20.469 --> 00:38:23.349 right? This is Warhammer. It's a Warhammer setting, 00:38:23.429 --> 00:38:26.050 so it's a little rough all around. This is a 00:38:26.050 --> 00:38:29.389 setting that has two portals to hell on it, and 00:38:29.389 --> 00:38:32.750 this place is outright called the most malevolent 00:38:32.750 --> 00:38:40.070 place on the world. It's bad. And, you know, 00:38:40.110 --> 00:38:43.429 it's a fortress as much as it is a city. There's 00:38:43.429 --> 00:38:48.929 100 feet high walls, like 50 feet deep. Obviously 00:38:48.929 --> 00:38:51.590 black and spiky, of course, and decorated with 00:38:51.590 --> 00:38:54.739 skulls, bodies, human skin, elf skin. A little 00:38:54.739 --> 00:38:56.860 bit of everything. Horrible place to be all around. 00:38:57.960 --> 00:39:01.960 It's bad. It's bad. This place sucks. And also 00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:04.719 attacking it sucks. Very few people get to, but 00:39:04.719 --> 00:39:08.579 those that try usually end up as more skeletons 00:39:08.579 --> 00:39:12.739 on the walls after enough time. It sucks. You 00:39:12.739 --> 00:39:21.440 go inside Naggarond and... You ever been down 00:39:21.440 --> 00:39:23.750 a street? and it just seems to be under construction 00:39:23.750 --> 00:39:25.730 forever because whoever's planning the project 00:39:25.730 --> 00:39:27.170 just doesn't know what the hell they're doing. 00:39:27.670 --> 00:39:31.329 Yeah. Dark Elves don't really have city planners. 00:39:32.030 --> 00:39:34.789 So you walk down Naggaroth, and one building 00:39:34.789 --> 00:39:36.929 is a barracks, and the next one's a slave pit, 00:39:37.030 --> 00:39:38.670 and then there's a second barracks that's barely 00:39:38.670 --> 00:39:41.070 used, but it just ended up there. Then there's 00:39:41.070 --> 00:39:43.329 a gladiator pit. There's a noble mansion there 00:39:43.329 --> 00:39:45.409 out of nowhere. There's an inn. There's a second 00:39:45.409 --> 00:39:49.150 mansion. There's just random shit everywhere. 00:39:49.590 --> 00:39:51.670 And sometimes they're like, well, where does 00:39:51.670 --> 00:39:55.150 the indentured labor go to the toilet? Next to 00:39:55.150 --> 00:39:58.030 the mansion. Oh, okay. Or if they get caught 00:39:58.030 --> 00:40:01.550 going to the bathroom, they get skinned. Why 00:40:01.550 --> 00:40:04.829 not? Yeah. And then the skin pit is just right 00:40:04.829 --> 00:40:06.869 there. So that's actually quite convenient. Yeah, 00:40:06.929 --> 00:40:11.570 sometimes it works out. It's a mess. Also, of 00:40:11.570 --> 00:40:14.099 course, plenty of temples of Cain. Those are 00:40:14.099 --> 00:40:19.099 very active. Those are in production night and 00:40:19.099 --> 00:40:21.079 day. Who do you think's making all the skin cloaks? 00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:24.179 I guess, yeah, I suppose really when you think 00:40:24.179 --> 00:40:27.260 about Warhammer 40k versus fantasy, Cain isn't 00:40:27.260 --> 00:40:30.320 so much of a, I guess, fallen entity. I guess 00:40:30.320 --> 00:40:33.059 the entire pantheon is doing pretty well because 00:40:33.059 --> 00:40:35.840 it's not an endangered species. The elves are 00:40:35.840 --> 00:40:38.239 doing fine. No, I mean, you know, they're definitely 00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:41.360 dropping a number, but their gods are all uneaten. 00:40:41.460 --> 00:40:46.070 They're still around well enough. Oh, murder 00:40:46.070 --> 00:40:51.170 also, by the way, is taking a double shift as 00:40:51.170 --> 00:40:54.329 a religious obligation. Cain is the god of murder 00:40:54.329 --> 00:40:57.789 as well as war, remember. This is religious rights 00:40:57.789 --> 00:41:00.170 you're observing. And also just a fun pastime, 00:41:00.170 --> 00:41:04.630 just something to do, right? So if you see someone 00:41:04.630 --> 00:41:06.510 walking down the streets of Naggaroth without 00:41:06.510 --> 00:41:08.889 just whistling Dixie, not a care in the world. 00:41:09.829 --> 00:41:12.449 They're either about to die or someone you really 00:41:12.449 --> 00:41:14.889 don't want to mess with because they feel comfortable 00:41:14.889 --> 00:41:19.530 walking down this shithole. Okay. And Malekith 00:41:19.530 --> 00:41:21.809 doesn't just allow this, he encourages it because 00:41:21.809 --> 00:41:23.670 as far as he's concerned, that means the strong 00:41:23.670 --> 00:41:26.449 will rise to the top and the weak are cold. So 00:41:26.449 --> 00:41:29.349 this city basically en masse acting like the 00:41:29.349 --> 00:41:32.050 lower parts of a hive is entirely intentional. 00:41:34.750 --> 00:41:36.650 Including the building projects, because he just 00:41:36.650 --> 00:41:38.929 doesn't care about small things like that. That's 00:41:38.929 --> 00:41:43.269 far beneath his notice. At the center of the 00:41:43.269 --> 00:41:46.170 city is the Tower of Cold, Malekith's own personal 00:41:46.170 --> 00:41:51.510 digs. It's why I said it's two cities in one, 00:41:51.610 --> 00:41:53.190 because it and the surrounding buildings are 00:41:53.190 --> 00:41:57.289 surrounded by their own massive wall. And, you 00:41:57.289 --> 00:41:59.250 know, there's a lot more mansions and noble houses 00:41:59.250 --> 00:42:01.610 in here, but it's by and large the same messy 00:42:01.610 --> 00:42:05.840 architecture as the rest. Tower of Cold is also 00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:07.619 known as the Black Tower. That's, again, where 00:42:07.619 --> 00:42:09.780 he lives. It's actually kind of a shithole because 00:42:09.780 --> 00:42:11.719 every now and again Malekith falls into depression 00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:13.719 for 50 years and doesn't clean the place up. 00:42:15.019 --> 00:42:18.079 And this is where the Druki do their dealings 00:42:18.079 --> 00:42:20.500 and plan their next invasion of Ulthuan, which, 00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:22.099 again, they could do plenty of other things, 00:42:22.179 --> 00:42:26.280 but goddammit, they want the donut back. It's, 00:42:26.280 --> 00:42:29.099 you know, capital city of the Dark Elves. It's 00:42:29.099 --> 00:42:30.960 about where everything, you know, it sets the 00:42:30.960 --> 00:42:33.920 tone for everything. Murder everywhere. Slaves 00:42:33.920 --> 00:42:35.699 everywhere. The remains of slaves everywhere, 00:42:35.900 --> 00:42:40.260 of course. Don't forget about that. It's a little 00:42:40.260 --> 00:42:43.019 rough. So that's the baseline here. So now we'll 00:42:43.019 --> 00:42:45.840 go to Grand, which has the Tower of Prophecy. 00:42:45.880 --> 00:42:50.519 This is Marathi's home. There are three parts 00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:56.159 of Grand, I would say, right? You have the outer 00:42:56.159 --> 00:43:01.659 bits of Grand, right? uh this is where as grand 00:43:01.659 --> 00:43:03.920 as i believe one of if not the most northern 00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:08.699 city of the dark elves dark elf cadia non -stop 00:43:08.699 --> 00:43:11.420 chaos warrior invasions and norskins and everything 00:43:11.420 --> 00:43:14.199 and they're just like steve get to the walls 00:43:14.199 --> 00:43:16.239 it's time to fight it's the fifth time today 00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:19.000 i know but it's either that or you're you're 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:20.960 definitely gonna die i've got to get my blood 00:43:20.960 --> 00:43:30.719 up they said let's go it's it's not fun Fun fact, 00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:33.579 it's actually shaped almost identically to Naggarond, 00:43:33.760 --> 00:43:36.480 but about half the size because Malekith didn't 00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:39.000 want his mom's tower and house being bigger than 00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:43.019 his own. Oh, yeah. Makes sense. Because, of course, 00:43:43.099 --> 00:43:45.800 they are dark elves. They are also petty assholes. 00:43:48.239 --> 00:43:51.280 The winds of magic blow strong, and because it's 00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:54.460 so close to the chaos portals, it's quite chaotic 00:43:54.460 --> 00:43:57.119 magic. It's very unpleasant. Beastmen, demons 00:43:57.119 --> 00:44:01.309 show up plenty often. Then you get to the second 00:44:01.309 --> 00:44:04.289 part of Grand, which is the slave mines. There 00:44:04.289 --> 00:44:07.630 is enough gold under Grand that if everyone wasn't 00:44:07.630 --> 00:44:10.070 afraid of, you know, terrified death of Malekith, 00:44:10.170 --> 00:44:12.869 Marathi could have easily bought everyone's loyalty 00:44:12.869 --> 00:44:16.190 ten times over, which is part of why people keep 00:44:16.190 --> 00:44:20.030 coming to Grand to make it rich. And then there's 00:44:20.030 --> 00:44:25.110 the third part of Grand, which is Marathi's various 00:44:25.110 --> 00:44:28.250 dens of pleasure. The party never ends until 00:44:28.250 --> 00:44:31.630 you die, and I have to be honest, I think most 00:44:31.630 --> 00:44:34.269 of the party's Marathi throws have a fatality 00:44:34.269 --> 00:44:37.230 rate of everyone but her. And that includes the 00:44:37.230 --> 00:44:41.570 demon she's summoning. But hey, it's a fun time. 00:44:42.710 --> 00:44:45.269 Especially if you don't mind throwing your morals 00:44:45.269 --> 00:44:50.389 to the wind. And that's Grand. There's also a 00:44:50.389 --> 00:44:52.550 very large amount of sorcerers and whatnot there. 00:44:52.650 --> 00:44:55.150 Part of Marathi. Sorceresses. The Dark Elves, 00:44:55.210 --> 00:44:57.289 incidentally. Actually, good time to mention 00:44:57.289 --> 00:45:00.110 that. No male sorcerers are allowed amongst the 00:45:00.110 --> 00:45:03.710 dark elves. There is a prophecy that the firstborn 00:45:03.710 --> 00:45:07.849 son, who is going to be a mage, someone, will 00:45:07.849 --> 00:45:11.750 kill Malekith. And so all men who can do magic, 00:45:11.849 --> 00:45:14.230 all dark elf males anyways, are put to death. 00:45:14.949 --> 00:45:18.469 Oh, fun. Even if they're not the firstborn. He's 00:45:18.469 --> 00:45:20.949 just, you know, really making sure that you're 00:45:20.949 --> 00:45:25.389 not going to be the one to do it. Yeah. But this 00:45:25.389 --> 00:45:27.650 is where like sorcerers are mostly trained for 00:45:27.650 --> 00:45:29.650 the dark elves. And again, it's so close to the 00:45:29.650 --> 00:45:31.929 chaos portals and the dark elves are already 00:45:31.929 --> 00:45:34.130 perfectly happy using dark magic. So who really 00:45:34.130 --> 00:45:38.469 cares about that? That not only is there. I have 00:45:38.469 --> 00:45:40.469 a question that, you know, you mentioned earlier 00:45:40.469 --> 00:45:43.389 that they still have some like ties to family. 00:45:43.429 --> 00:45:46.469 They're not total monsters in that regard. Not 00:45:46.469 --> 00:45:49.409 like Skaven. Has there been any incidents where. 00:45:50.030 --> 00:45:52.210 A mother has gone, actually, I want my son to 00:45:52.210 --> 00:45:54.769 be born. Even if he's going to be a mage, I'll 00:45:54.769 --> 00:45:58.769 escape. I believe a lot of those actually end 00:45:58.769 --> 00:46:01.710 up becoming wood elves of all things. Because 00:46:01.710 --> 00:46:06.269 the dark elves, again, it is law to kill that 00:46:06.269 --> 00:46:10.389 child. And the high elves are going to get as 00:46:10.389 --> 00:46:14.769 far as there's a dark elf coming here. Stab. 00:46:15.900 --> 00:46:18.559 Ready the arrows. A hundred arrows for one person. 00:46:18.699 --> 00:46:23.400 Five million fireballs. So a lot of them end 00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:25.059 up actually sending them off to the wood elves. 00:46:26.420 --> 00:46:28.340 Which, yeah, even happens to some high elves 00:46:28.340 --> 00:46:30.360 who decide to become wood elves. That's actually 00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:32.239 just kind of a thing that happens every now and 00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:35.159 then. That's a sitcom right there. One's a high 00:46:35.159 --> 00:46:38.460 elf, one's a dark elf. Now they're living in 00:46:38.460 --> 00:46:45.519 the woods with the wood elves. Yeah, that actually 00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:49.119 is something that happens. Sometimes they might 00:46:49.119 --> 00:46:52.239 also just help them escape somewhere, hide them, 00:46:52.340 --> 00:46:56.420 but that's also... Malekith has a magical orb 00:46:56.420 --> 00:46:59.519 he can spy on anyone on the planet with. And 00:46:59.519 --> 00:47:02.920 they can't ally with other factions like humans 00:47:02.920 --> 00:47:05.639 who could be like, hey, can we give you my son 00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:08.780 to train? He won't be trained as well as an elf, 00:47:08.820 --> 00:47:11.889 but your colleges maybe could use an elf. I mean, 00:47:11.909 --> 00:47:13.949 in theory they could, but they also view all 00:47:13.949 --> 00:47:18.070 non -elves as dirt. Ah, fair enough. So they're 00:47:18.070 --> 00:47:22.610 just not going to do that. Okay. That one is 00:47:22.610 --> 00:47:24.909 a much simpler answer, and the answer is racism. 00:47:26.050 --> 00:47:29.630 Not exactly uncommon in Warhammer, granted, but 00:47:29.630 --> 00:47:33.949 they certainly take it far. Anyway, next major 00:47:33.949 --> 00:47:36.329 city is Karin Kar, and it's called the Tower 00:47:36.329 --> 00:47:39.889 of Despair. Uh, it's the Eastern most dark elf 00:47:39.889 --> 00:47:42.409 city borders. The region known as the sea of 00:47:42.409 --> 00:47:44.949 chill on a fairly large, like little mini, I 00:47:44.949 --> 00:47:48.389 will fairly large Island just off the coast instead 00:47:48.389 --> 00:47:51.170 of being on the mainland proper. And it's the, 00:47:51.309 --> 00:47:54.730 the city mostly seen by outsiders, not because 00:47:54.730 --> 00:47:57.170 outsiders are coming to trade with the dark elves, 00:47:57.250 --> 00:48:00.429 but because it's also known as slavers gate. 00:48:00.789 --> 00:48:03.090 This is where the black arcs and other slave 00:48:03.090 --> 00:48:05.530 ships come back home. They drop them off and 00:48:05.530 --> 00:48:11.719 go to the market. Not great. What's for sale 00:48:11.719 --> 00:48:16.719 today? Oh, Keith. Keith's for sale. Keith and 00:48:16.719 --> 00:48:22.780 Bess. They're on sale. Two for one. It's always 00:48:22.780 --> 00:48:24.699 raining here. It's always miserable. It just 00:48:24.699 --> 00:48:28.159 sucks. It's always windy and hurricane and there's 00:48:28.159 --> 00:48:33.059 tidal waves. Just happens. Maybe it's the god 00:48:33.059 --> 00:48:35.480 of the sea doing that. Maybe it just sucks to 00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:37.380 live here. Pick your poison. Could be either. 00:48:38.500 --> 00:48:41.619 And again, the slaver central of the dark elves. 00:48:41.840 --> 00:48:46.039 In fact, there's not much in the way of security 00:48:46.039 --> 00:48:48.739 in the slaves here. Because it's on an island, 00:48:48.940 --> 00:48:51.960 and to leave the island, you're, one, most likely 00:48:51.960 --> 00:48:55.219 escaping into more dark elf territory, and two, 00:48:55.559 --> 00:48:57.719 the waters are freezing. You're just going to 00:48:57.719 --> 00:49:01.469 freeze to death and drown. That and, of course, 00:49:01.550 --> 00:49:03.329 all the slaves are starved, beaten, and stripped 00:49:03.329 --> 00:49:04.969 naked on the way to the city. Because, you know, 00:49:05.050 --> 00:49:07.929 the willpower has already firmly been beaten 00:49:07.929 --> 00:49:13.070 out of you by the time you get here. Yeah. Oh, 00:49:13.210 --> 00:49:16.070 also, right. You want a fun little tidbit about 00:49:16.070 --> 00:49:18.369 dark elf culture, especially those in that city? 00:49:18.849 --> 00:49:22.989 Let's go. Whenever a fleet docks and unloads 00:49:22.989 --> 00:49:25.369 all the slaves, right? A lot of people just like 00:49:25.369 --> 00:49:29.670 to throw rocks at the slaves. Oh. Just for fun. 00:49:30.110 --> 00:49:32.610 They bring bags of rocks with them for fun. Oh 00:49:32.610 --> 00:49:34.989 yeah, if they're doing something. It's like a 00:49:34.989 --> 00:49:37.309 work break. It's just socially accepted. You 00:49:37.309 --> 00:49:40.269 were ten minutes late to your overseer job. What 00:49:40.269 --> 00:49:41.989 happened? I was throwing rocks at the newest 00:49:41.989 --> 00:49:44.750 shipment. It's throwing day. I had to get the 00:49:44.750 --> 00:49:47.869 dedicated bag from home. The satchel full of 00:49:47.869 --> 00:49:50.510 rocks to be part of the festivities. What do 00:49:50.510 --> 00:49:52.889 you mean? If anything, your boss will probably 00:49:52.889 --> 00:49:55.230 also be late because they too were throwing rocks 00:49:55.230 --> 00:49:59.019 at the slaves. Sometimes they also actually, 00:49:59.139 --> 00:50:01.139 yeah, they also try and incite like a panic amongst 00:50:01.139 --> 00:50:03.559 the slaves just so they can cause like a crowd 00:50:03.559 --> 00:50:08.460 crush. Oh. Dark elves are awful. I really need 00:50:08.460 --> 00:50:11.039 you to understand the dark elves, they're awful 00:50:11.039 --> 00:50:13.760 people. They're bad. Yeah, they're terrible. 00:50:13.980 --> 00:50:17.000 Yeah, no, they are like the dark Eldar. Just 00:50:17.000 --> 00:50:20.059 the technology isn't there, but boy, hell is 00:50:20.059 --> 00:50:26.409 the cruelty there. Obviously, the focus here 00:50:26.409 --> 00:50:28.389 is the slave markets. The richest dark elves 00:50:28.389 --> 00:50:30.590 here have their manors right by the markets and 00:50:30.590 --> 00:50:32.889 ports so they know when a good haul is coming 00:50:32.889 --> 00:50:37.510 on in. There's widespread necromancy in this 00:50:37.510 --> 00:50:40.369 city as well. It's not quite, you know, like 00:50:40.369 --> 00:50:42.670 the vampire council would not do, but the sorcerers 00:50:42.670 --> 00:50:45.409 here have this magical trick where when someone 00:50:45.409 --> 00:50:48.230 dies, they attach their soul back to their unliving 00:50:48.230 --> 00:50:50.719 body. which is not the same as bringing them 00:50:50.719 --> 00:50:52.559 back to life, apparently, because the soul is 00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:54.340 just kind of hanging around in torment while 00:50:54.340 --> 00:50:58.599 their body mindlessly mines ore and shit. Isn't 00:50:58.599 --> 00:51:02.480 that fun? Plus, you know, all those screams of 00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:04.099 torment, they really liven up the atmosphere 00:51:04.099 --> 00:51:06.519 for the Dark Elves. That's like, you know, constant 00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:12.139 music. In a way, that's actually worse than Kamra, 00:51:12.199 --> 00:51:14.019 because at least if you somehow manage to die 00:51:14.019 --> 00:51:19.000 in Kamra, you are just dead. Yeah. satisfaction 00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:22.739 if you kill a Drukhari. Although, no, their soul 00:51:22.739 --> 00:51:24.219 wouldn't go to Slaanesh, would it? Because of 00:51:24.219 --> 00:51:27.079 the shenanigans they had. It'd go to Slaanesh 00:51:27.079 --> 00:51:29.840 for a few hours and then get pulled back. But 00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:31.400 you could at least be like, you're going to have 00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:36.239 a tough time. At least again, if you do manage 00:51:36.239 --> 00:51:38.840 to die and not be turned into a chair in Kamara, 00:51:38.900 --> 00:51:42.639 that's the end of the story. And Karin Kar, please. 00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:47.269 That's just the beginning. Yeah, slave port. 00:51:47.429 --> 00:51:50.769 And naturally, the negotiations are quite cutthroat. 00:51:51.429 --> 00:51:54.550 Not literally for once, actually. Everyone actually 00:51:54.550 --> 00:51:56.309 holds up to their end of the bargain, because 00:51:56.309 --> 00:51:58.809 obviously if you don't, well, then no one's going 00:51:58.809 --> 00:52:00.909 to sell you or buy slaves from you anymore, of 00:52:00.909 --> 00:52:09.969 course. Yeah. Isn't that nice? That and also... 00:52:12.110 --> 00:52:14.710 A lot of the traders here employ a whole lot 00:52:14.710 --> 00:52:18.210 of assassins just for some more practical means 00:52:18.210 --> 00:52:21.349 of ensuring a trade goes well. To the point that 00:52:21.349 --> 00:52:23.510 the army book actually, you know, the army book 00:52:23.510 --> 00:52:26.570 for the dark elves puts it best. It's better 00:52:26.570 --> 00:52:28.869 to leave Karen Carr with a light purse than to 00:52:28.869 --> 00:52:34.909 never leave it at all. It's a very stable city 00:52:34.909 --> 00:52:39.050 because the dark elves always use slaves. You 00:52:39.050 --> 00:52:42.719 know, gold mines can run dry. sometimes, you 00:52:42.719 --> 00:52:45.159 know, magic's running too wild and up and grand, 00:52:45.340 --> 00:52:47.280 the prophecies, because there's a lot of, like, 00:52:47.300 --> 00:52:49.440 seers up there, the prophecies aren't very accurate, 00:52:49.559 --> 00:52:52.639 but everyone in the Dark Elves needs a slave, 00:52:52.980 --> 00:52:56.679 so. But everyone's being like, ah, what am I 00:52:56.679 --> 00:52:59.239 going to call him? Gerald, fetch me my decanter 00:52:59.239 --> 00:53:02.420 full of wine before I beat you, said, like, the, 00:53:02.460 --> 00:53:06.050 like, poorest. dark elf in the city who's like, 00:53:06.170 --> 00:53:09.909 I'm a lonely tradesman, but I still have seven 00:53:09.909 --> 00:53:16.090 servants who I'm not paying. Yeah. Yeah, it's 00:53:16.090 --> 00:53:18.590 evil here. I mean, it's evil everywhere here, 00:53:18.670 --> 00:53:21.429 but it's much more mundane evil here, you know. 00:53:24.090 --> 00:53:26.329 And it is still in general, once you leave the 00:53:26.329 --> 00:53:28.429 slave parts where the dark elves are mostly behaved, 00:53:28.510 --> 00:53:30.349 we get back to normal with the backstabbing and 00:53:30.349 --> 00:53:31.789 murdering random people in the street and all 00:53:31.789 --> 00:53:35.760 that shit, right? But, We're going to take a 00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:39.460 turn for the more orderly now. We're going to 00:53:39.460 --> 00:53:44.119 Harganeth. In this city, it's very lawful and 00:53:44.119 --> 00:53:46.079 orderly. Everything is clean. Everything's taken 00:53:46.079 --> 00:53:52.780 care of. It's very nice. Most of the year. This 00:53:52.780 --> 00:53:55.940 city is ruled by a witch elf named Crone Helebron, 00:53:56.099 --> 00:53:58.579 one of basically the highest ranking of the dark 00:53:58.579 --> 00:54:01.480 elves, only second to Marathi in Cain's eyes. 00:54:02.010 --> 00:54:04.469 which would basically make her third under Malekith. 00:54:06.329 --> 00:54:09.110 In charge of the Witch Elves, which is the cult 00:54:09.110 --> 00:54:13.230 of Cain, basically. She rules this city, and 00:54:13.230 --> 00:54:17.170 up here in Grond, you break the law, you break 00:54:17.170 --> 00:54:19.690 any of the rules, they all have the same punishment, 00:54:19.789 --> 00:54:22.030 which is, you know, you get flayed and sacrificed 00:54:22.030 --> 00:54:25.510 to Cain. Even if they're a slave, you will not 00:54:25.510 --> 00:54:27.190 randomly murder them in the street. You will 00:54:27.190 --> 00:54:29.489 not steal. You will not order assassinations. 00:54:29.510 --> 00:54:31.789 You will not carry them out. You will not so 00:54:31.789 --> 00:54:35.550 much as litter. Because there's only getting 00:54:35.550 --> 00:54:38.190 sacrifice to Cain if you do. This is the most 00:54:38.190 --> 00:54:42.269 lawful place in all of Naggaroth. Now, you know, 00:54:42.289 --> 00:54:44.030 if you're a human ending up here, you are probably 00:54:44.030 --> 00:54:46.210 a slave. But if you somehow get so lost, you 00:54:46.210 --> 00:54:49.050 just wind up here. It's about the best place 00:54:49.050 --> 00:54:53.050 to be most of the year. This is because the Dark 00:54:53.050 --> 00:54:57.610 Elves have a holiday known as Death Night. You 00:54:57.610 --> 00:55:02.489 ever watch The Purge? I've not, but I know what 00:55:02.489 --> 00:55:04.670 it's about. I've seen the trailers. I understand 00:55:04.670 --> 00:55:10.530 the gimmick. Crime is A -OK for a day. Go for 00:55:10.530 --> 00:55:13.590 it. Basically that. On death night, which in 00:55:13.590 --> 00:55:16.210 Harganath lasts, I believe, 10 days instead of 00:55:16.210 --> 00:55:19.369 just one, what happens is everyone who's not 00:55:19.369 --> 00:55:22.190 a witch elf boards up their homes and prays the 00:55:22.190 --> 00:55:23.929 witch elves don't show up outside their house. 00:55:24.349 --> 00:55:26.789 If they do, they try and bribe them with offerings 00:55:26.789 --> 00:55:30.139 such as their slaves or... elderly and infirm 00:55:30.139 --> 00:55:33.139 family members, so that the witch elves will 00:55:33.139 --> 00:55:34.820 be content with the offering and go somewhere 00:55:34.820 --> 00:55:37.699 else. The witch elves break into people's houses 00:55:37.699 --> 00:55:41.539 and kill them for Cain. They will steal young, 00:55:41.659 --> 00:55:44.119 you know, dark elf daughters to turn into more 00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:47.480 witch elves. And for the dark elf, you know, 00:55:47.500 --> 00:55:50.039 sons, they toss them in a cauldron of boiling 00:55:50.039 --> 00:55:53.039 blood. If they live, they get to become a Cainite 00:55:53.039 --> 00:55:57.300 assassin. I... Don't believe GW has ever written 00:55:57.300 --> 00:56:01.880 an official survivability rate. I assume low. 00:56:04.280 --> 00:56:08.780 And that's why it is very nice and orderly most 00:56:08.780 --> 00:56:12.239 of the year. Because in Harganeth, Crow and Helebron 00:56:12.239 --> 00:56:15.599 wants everyone nice and pent up for Death Knight. 00:56:18.599 --> 00:56:23.159 Yeah. And oh, and then also in Harganath, especially 00:56:23.159 --> 00:56:26.280 come sunrise, everyone involved hurriedly runs 00:56:26.280 --> 00:56:28.179 back to their house because even if you're not 00:56:28.179 --> 00:56:29.820 a witch elf, you want to get some fun murder 00:56:29.820 --> 00:56:32.699 and go nuts. This is the day where it's still 00:56:32.699 --> 00:56:35.579 like amongst other dark elf cities, which a death 00:56:35.579 --> 00:56:37.340 night is mostly for the witch elves and Harganath. 00:56:37.380 --> 00:56:40.579 It is also just now's the time to get the murder 00:56:40.579 --> 00:56:43.780 out of your system. Everyone get out there by 00:56:43.780 --> 00:56:46.719 anyone up by sunrise who's caught by witch elves 00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:48.619 is then immediately sacrificed to Cain, even 00:56:48.619 --> 00:56:50.590 though the holiday is technically over. So that's 00:56:50.590 --> 00:56:54.349 fun. And Hellebron, for her part, uses this time 00:56:54.349 --> 00:56:57.050 to bathe in blood of those slain and is briefly 00:56:57.050 --> 00:56:59.730 rejuvenated. She's called the Crone because most 00:56:59.730 --> 00:57:03.409 of the time she is and looks old as hell. But 00:57:03.409 --> 00:57:05.329 after death night for a couple weeks, she looks 00:57:05.329 --> 00:57:09.789 again like a dark elf in her prime. Ain't it 00:57:09.789 --> 00:57:14.090 lovely here? Another little fun fact is that 00:57:14.090 --> 00:57:16.489 once upon a time, the High Elves managed to invade 00:57:16.489 --> 00:57:20.610 the army. Or invade Harganath, right? They've 00:57:20.610 --> 00:57:22.949 stopped even naming the place in the aftermath 00:57:22.949 --> 00:57:26.190 of that battle. So I'll let you think on how 00:57:26.190 --> 00:57:29.210 that battle went for the High Elves. They don't 00:57:29.210 --> 00:57:33.769 even say the place's name anymore. It hurts our 00:57:33.769 --> 00:57:36.550 pride too much. Don't talk about it. It's like 00:57:36.550 --> 00:57:38.809 when you're in a break, there's a guy who's had 00:57:38.809 --> 00:57:40.969 a breakup. He's like, just don't say our name. 00:57:41.650 --> 00:57:45.130 I know we were together for 10 years. Don't say 00:57:45.130 --> 00:57:49.150 our name, please. So, you know, If you have to 00:57:49.150 --> 00:57:51.349 go to a Dark Elf City, Argoneth's the one to 00:57:51.349 --> 00:57:55.030 go to. Just make sure you really know what day 00:57:55.030 --> 00:57:58.989 of the year it is. Because it's going to be very 00:57:58.989 --> 00:58:05.550 ugly if you don't. Let's see. The second to last 00:58:05.550 --> 00:58:09.250 city is called Haggrave. G -R -A -E -F. The Dark 00:58:09.250 --> 00:58:11.170 Crag. If you know how to say that better, feel 00:58:11.170 --> 00:58:14.989 free to tell me. I'm going with Haggrave. If 00:58:14.989 --> 00:58:17.050 Naggarond, like I said, is a hive city, Haggrave 00:58:17.050 --> 00:58:19.289 is built like Kamara. They outright describe 00:58:19.289 --> 00:58:21.550 the architecture as impossible. This place makes 00:58:21.550 --> 00:58:26.750 no sense. It's a mess, and noble houses have 00:58:26.750 --> 00:58:28.989 massive fortifications around each other that 00:58:28.989 --> 00:58:31.969 are five feet from other noble houses. So murder, 00:58:32.030 --> 00:58:34.130 even more so than it already is in Dark Elf society, 00:58:34.409 --> 00:58:37.610 is just always happening. It's built at the bottom 00:58:37.610 --> 00:58:39.469 of a valley, surrounded by mountains, to the 00:58:39.469 --> 00:58:41.869 point that sunlight... Never reaches this place. 00:58:42.070 --> 00:58:44.050 I don't know how that works. I feel like that's 00:58:44.050 --> 00:58:48.090 not how the sun works. But I don't live in Naggarond. 00:58:48.170 --> 00:58:50.190 I don't know how it works. I don't live in Naggaroth. 00:58:51.869 --> 00:58:54.590 It's run by eight families who are basically 00:58:54.590 --> 00:58:57.090 just mob bosses. They're like Dark Eldar cabals. 00:59:01.130 --> 00:59:04.070 You know, like I said, the architecture is impossible. 00:59:04.349 --> 00:59:07.050 So getting stabbed by some random crack addict 00:59:07.050 --> 00:59:08.869 on the side of the street who's had a bit too 00:59:08.869 --> 00:59:11.469 much of the warp snuff. Gonna happen. It's just 00:59:11.469 --> 00:59:14.889 gonna happen. You just gotta live with it. What 00:59:14.889 --> 00:59:19.929 keeps this city going, because... God, does it 00:59:19.929 --> 00:59:21.889 suck to be here. Like, it should have fallen 00:59:21.889 --> 00:59:25.449 apart, is that... This is, like, where the Dark 00:59:25.449 --> 00:59:27.590 Elves get most of the metal they need for weaponry. 00:59:27.829 --> 00:59:30.750 Grand has all the gold. Grave has the practical 00:59:30.750 --> 00:59:34.449 stuff. Obviously, they're still funding plenty 00:59:34.449 --> 00:59:38.010 of skin cloaks and whatnot. But it's got nonstop 00:59:38.010 --> 00:59:40.730 slave labor coming in, nonstop exports of mines 00:59:40.730 --> 00:59:42.989 and money coming in because of that. This is 00:59:42.989 --> 00:59:46.730 a they also have the the dead keep mining. But 00:59:46.730 --> 00:59:48.130 in this time, it's not because they're doing 00:59:48.130 --> 00:59:51.070 it on purpose like in Grand Air. Pardon me, Karen 00:59:51.070 --> 00:59:53.170 Carr. It's happening because there's so much 00:59:53.170 --> 00:59:55.389 warp stone under the city that your body just 00:59:55.389 --> 00:59:59.289 gets back up. Which is probably also why everyone 00:59:59.289 --> 01:00:01.110 here is at least a little bit insane. Once there's 01:00:01.110 --> 01:00:03.090 a massive warp stone deposit under your house. 01:00:05.929 --> 01:00:09.230 bit wacky yeah it's gonna do things crazy things 01:00:09.230 --> 01:00:12.670 yeah uh it also has the largest military of all 01:00:12.670 --> 01:00:15.889 the like dark elf cities uh they're very well 01:00:15.889 --> 01:00:17.650 equipped because this is like where a lot of 01:00:17.650 --> 01:00:19.250 the weapons and the metal for it come out of 01:00:19.250 --> 01:00:22.090 and because this city sucks so hard that unlike 01:00:22.090 --> 01:00:24.829 everywhere else there's no need for a draft joining 01:00:24.829 --> 01:00:27.110 the military means you will be leaving this city 01:00:27.110 --> 01:00:32.539 at some point It is also, those eight families 01:00:32.539 --> 01:00:34.880 together would be powerful enough that they could 01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:36.840 probably overthrow Malekith, which is why he 01:00:36.840 --> 01:00:39.139 keeps starting feuds between them so they never 01:00:39.139 --> 01:00:45.539 realize that. And what else is there here? Everyone... 01:00:45.539 --> 01:00:49.800 The overall rule of the city is known as the 01:00:49.800 --> 01:01:01.449 First Dreadlord. Every... Everyone who takes 01:01:01.449 --> 01:01:04.070 that position usually takes it by way of hiring 01:01:04.070 --> 01:01:07.630 an assassin to kill the previous guy. And every 01:01:07.630 --> 01:01:09.429 single one of them thinks they're going to be 01:01:09.429 --> 01:01:11.409 the one who has a long and successful career 01:01:11.409 --> 01:01:14.690 and doesn't get assassinated. And then that goes 01:01:14.690 --> 01:01:18.170 on about as well as you'd hope for them. Assassins 01:01:18.170 --> 01:01:20.269 here have the most jobs out of anywhere in the 01:01:20.269 --> 01:01:24.389 Warhammer fantasy world. It is nonstop political 01:01:24.389 --> 01:01:26.550 turmoil and whatnot like that. And honestly, 01:01:26.750 --> 01:01:30.300 have you played Cyberpunk? It's one of those 01:01:30.300 --> 01:01:32.380 games that's on my list that I have to play, 01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:35.179 I'm afraid. I haven't played it yet. Well, when 01:01:35.179 --> 01:01:37.400 you start playing it, if you want to... Imagine 01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:40.059 Night City, if you ever do play it, but everyone 01:01:40.059 --> 01:01:42.579 there is elven, and it's a bit more fantasy in 01:01:42.579 --> 01:01:45.780 nature. Hell, and also there's Warpstone in this 01:01:45.780 --> 01:01:48.079 city, and the Skaven make their little magitek 01:01:48.079 --> 01:01:50.199 monstrosities. I'm sure someone has at least 01:01:50.199 --> 01:01:52.719 gotten a little bit chromed up over in Haggrave. 01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:56.519 Yeah. Some rat has tried to make, you know, Radom 01:01:56.519 --> 01:02:02.179 Smasher. And then our last city is Klar Karand, 01:02:02.199 --> 01:02:05.679 which I always tripped up saying that. It's the 01:02:05.679 --> 01:02:07.739 premier shipyard for the Dark Elves. There's 01:02:07.739 --> 01:02:11.179 not too much about it, in all honesty. You need 01:02:11.179 --> 01:02:13.659 wood to make the boats to put the slaves in, 01:02:13.719 --> 01:02:16.920 so they do that. It's also where the Dark Elves 01:02:16.920 --> 01:02:19.239 get most of their beasties, like, you know, Hydras, 01:02:19.420 --> 01:02:22.440 Manticores, the occasional dragon. That's where 01:02:22.440 --> 01:02:25.719 all that kind of stuff happens. That's Clarka 01:02:25.719 --> 01:02:27.659 Rond. And they worship the goddess of the evil 01:02:27.659 --> 01:02:29.599 hunt there because of that. Since, A, that's 01:02:29.599 --> 01:02:31.179 probably the best person to pray to when you're 01:02:31.179 --> 01:02:34.260 trying to capture a hydra to burn high elves 01:02:34.260 --> 01:02:36.179 to death with, right? And it seems to make sense 01:02:36.179 --> 01:02:40.860 to me. There was once a seventh city called Har 01:02:40.860 --> 01:02:46.579 Kaldra. And then it pissed off Malekith. And 01:02:46.579 --> 01:02:48.440 then he snapped his fingers and there was no 01:02:48.440 --> 01:02:52.739 more Har Kaldra anymore. Oh, that was it. I'm 01:02:52.739 --> 01:02:55.340 just like, yeah. I'm going to take your fingers. 01:02:55.599 --> 01:02:58.099 I think it's theorized that that used to be where 01:02:58.099 --> 01:03:01.539 the dark elves got most of their food from. Now 01:03:01.539 --> 01:03:08.239 it's a crater. So, yeah. Unfortunate, but it 01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:11.440 is what it is. There's a couple of little locations, 01:03:11.659 --> 01:03:14.000 that altar of ultimate darkness. I believe that's 01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:16.780 where Archeon quested to grab one of the artifacts 01:03:16.780 --> 01:03:21.300 of chaos to become the ever chosen. To some extent, 01:03:21.400 --> 01:03:23.579 I kind of get the Dark Elves being evil if I 01:03:23.579 --> 01:03:25.400 don't approve, because if I live next to the 01:03:25.400 --> 01:03:28.519 altar of ultimate darkness, I probably wouldn't 01:03:28.519 --> 01:03:35.119 be a very good egg myself either. Maybe. There's 01:03:35.119 --> 01:03:38.039 those walls that I mentioned up north where a 01:03:38.039 --> 01:03:40.119 good chunk of the Dark Elf army is always stationed. 01:03:40.780 --> 01:03:43.380 Same reason Cadia was always quite well supplied, 01:03:43.519 --> 01:03:47.280 because it's demons beyond, and they would like 01:03:47.280 --> 01:03:49.679 to come away from beyond and into our own home. 01:03:51.199 --> 01:03:54.639 Yeah, it kind of sucks. They have a... Let's 01:03:54.639 --> 01:03:58.820 see. They have a place known as the Anvil of 01:03:58.820 --> 01:04:00.840 Val. All three of the elf factions have one, 01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:03.480 because even though he's one of the good guy 01:04:03.480 --> 01:04:05.860 gods, hey, everyone needs armor, right? Everyone 01:04:05.860 --> 01:04:12.880 needs a smith on their side. This is just some 01:04:12.880 --> 01:04:18.579 funny lore. At least I find it funny. Malekith's 01:04:18.579 --> 01:04:21.880 armor, like his new armor, his Darth Vader armor 01:04:21.880 --> 01:04:24.440 after he got burned, was made by a renegade smith 01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:28.239 of Valder. And he was handsomely rewarded by 01:04:28.239 --> 01:04:30.659 Malekith. And, you know, Malekith, there were 01:04:30.659 --> 01:04:33.260 no strings attached here. He was just like, you 01:04:33.260 --> 01:04:36.300 gave me this kick -ass armor, almost any weapon 01:04:36.300 --> 01:04:39.260 that hits me just plings on off. Thank you, my 01:04:39.260 --> 01:04:43.380 guy. Have a fuckload of money. And... The guy, 01:04:43.519 --> 01:04:46.139 that Smith built himself a big old manor with 01:04:46.139 --> 01:04:49.280 a, you know, citadel around it, right? And then 01:04:49.280 --> 01:04:55.400 Marathi had him killed for fun. Right. I'm getting 01:04:55.400 --> 01:04:58.599 Conrad Kerr's vibes here, where he had that poor 01:04:58.599 --> 01:05:01.260 guy on the ship with him, and he's like, I built 01:05:01.260 --> 01:05:03.960 you this arm because I tore your arm off. Sorry 01:05:03.960 --> 01:05:06.260 about that. Or your limb off. And then it's like, 01:05:06.300 --> 01:05:08.059 the mood swing comes, and it's like, I'm gonna 01:05:08.059 --> 01:05:10.739 break it to pieces again. Like, dude, what the 01:05:10.739 --> 01:05:13.260 hell? Yeah. I don't know why they did that. Yeah, 01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:17.199 kind of rude. But we've been going for a bit, 01:05:17.280 --> 01:05:21.900 and as always, there's no escaping it. End times. 01:05:22.880 --> 01:05:28.320 Ended times. I love Teclis. I love that little 01:05:28.320 --> 01:05:32.440 twink. He was a bastard in the end times, I have 01:05:32.440 --> 01:05:38.760 to say. He saw the writing on the wall. He knew 01:05:38.760 --> 01:05:41.219 very bad things were coming, Archeon and whatnot. 01:05:44.710 --> 01:05:47.750 and decided to tell Malekith that he should be 01:05:47.750 --> 01:05:52.449 the Phoenix King. His reason in being, only Malekith 01:05:52.449 --> 01:05:54.750 is strong enough to unite everyone under his 01:05:54.750 --> 01:05:58.989 banner. A little bit rude. Tyrion's right there, 01:05:59.130 --> 01:06:02.849 but so be it. And a variety of things happened 01:06:02.849 --> 01:06:05.670 to get that that aren't too important to cover. 01:06:06.289 --> 01:06:09.610 Teclis summoned a bloodthirster, I believe, in... 01:06:10.639 --> 01:06:13.000 No, pardon me, Malekith summoned a bloodthirster 01:06:13.000 --> 01:06:15.199 into the room of the previous Phoenix King after 01:06:15.199 --> 01:06:18.739 a bit of a chat with him. So that's fun. Finobar 01:06:18.739 --> 01:06:23.000 died 1v1 against a bloodthirster. That tends 01:06:23.000 --> 01:06:28.719 to happen to most people. And remember how I 01:06:28.719 --> 01:06:30.579 said Naggaroth, I always viewed it as a temporary 01:06:30.579 --> 01:06:34.059 home? Well, Malekith took all of the Dark Elves 01:06:34.059 --> 01:06:38.780 and sailed with all of them. All of them. One 01:06:38.780 --> 01:06:41.219 push. That's all we need. One push. The only 01:06:41.219 --> 01:06:44.360 people left behind were at least most of the 01:06:44.360 --> 01:06:45.880 slaves. I'm sure they still brought some with 01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:47.820 Tarot and all that, but most of the slaves were 01:06:47.820 --> 01:06:50.820 left behind and Marathi. Because by this point 01:06:50.820 --> 01:06:52.920 in Warhammer fantasy, she had developed dementia 01:06:52.920 --> 01:06:55.260 and Malekith just didn't feel like dealing with 01:06:55.260 --> 01:07:01.920 her any longer. So that's lovely. He goes to 01:07:01.920 --> 01:07:05.199 Ulthuan, informs everyone that he is the true 01:07:05.199 --> 01:07:09.460 Phoenix King. And steps into the fire of Assyrian 01:07:09.460 --> 01:07:11.880 one more time and walks out whole this time. 01:07:12.300 --> 01:07:14.699 Oh, interesting. I thought it would have been 01:07:14.699 --> 01:07:17.000 so funny if he went back in and he's just on 01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:21.559 fire again. He comes out even crispier. It would 01:07:21.559 --> 01:07:23.760 have been really funny, but no. The last of Assyrian 01:07:23.760 --> 01:07:26.300 strength then enters him and he is now Malekith, 01:07:26.380 --> 01:07:30.119 the Phoenix King. Tyrion's not very happy with 01:07:30.119 --> 01:07:32.500 this, so he pulls the sword of Cain and those 01:07:32.500 --> 01:07:34.420 elves under him. And at this point, mind you, 01:07:34.480 --> 01:07:37.550 ignoring the wood elves, The factional lines 01:07:37.550 --> 01:07:39.590 have completely split. There used to be a pretty 01:07:39.590 --> 01:07:41.590 clean divide between High and Dark Elves, right? 01:07:42.289 --> 01:07:44.309 A lot of Dark Elves are following Malekith because 01:07:44.309 --> 01:07:46.969 he's Malekith, but so are some High Elves, because 01:07:46.969 --> 01:07:48.550 especially with some dealings with some of the 01:07:48.550 --> 01:07:51.590 factions Malekith did. For example, he returned 01:07:51.590 --> 01:07:53.670 a bunch of stolen dragon eggs to the High Elf 01:07:53.670 --> 01:07:56.530 kingdom that loves their dragons. A lot of High 01:07:56.530 --> 01:07:59.650 Elves are under his banner. On Tyrion's side... 01:07:59.980 --> 01:08:01.380 Of course, a lot of high elves went under his 01:08:01.380 --> 01:08:03.500 banner because they would rather die than serve 01:08:03.500 --> 01:08:07.219 a druki, let alone the king of them all. But 01:08:07.219 --> 01:08:09.480 so were a lot of dark elves because he just pulled 01:08:09.480 --> 01:08:11.699 the sword of Cain, who's their chief god on the 01:08:11.699 --> 01:08:13.500 dark elf side of things. And like, well, hell, 01:08:13.579 --> 01:08:15.320 that seems like a good enough reason to follow 01:08:15.320 --> 01:08:18.640 him now, doesn't it? And the whole thing was 01:08:18.640 --> 01:08:22.199 an utter bloody mess. And it ended with Ulthuan 01:08:22.199 --> 01:08:26.020 sinking, Tyrion being killed, the strength of 01:08:26.020 --> 01:08:32.359 most of the dark... elf gods leaving, and Malekith 01:08:32.359 --> 01:08:34.300 now ruling over all the elves, because since 01:08:34.300 --> 01:08:36.619 Ulthuan sank, he took all the survivors to Athol 01:08:36.619 --> 01:08:40.300 Loren with the wood elves. So now he's in charge, 01:08:40.420 --> 01:08:42.100 even though the wood elves would quite rather 01:08:42.100 --> 01:08:45.300 everyone just leave their house, as they always 01:08:45.300 --> 01:08:49.960 wish. For Naggaroth's part also, it just got 01:08:49.960 --> 01:08:54.090 bulldozed by corny berserkers. I imagine they 01:08:54.090 --> 01:08:55.729 were a little bit upset when they broke through 01:08:55.729 --> 01:08:59.869 the walls and found everything empty. Yeah. All 01:08:59.869 --> 01:09:03.850 my stuff is gone. We were promised bloodshed, 01:09:03.850 --> 01:09:10.729 and where did the elves go? Various elves became 01:09:10.729 --> 01:09:13.310 incarnates of magic. Malekith got shadow, stuff 01:09:13.310 --> 01:09:15.529 like that. I don't believe any other dark elves 01:09:15.529 --> 01:09:18.989 got a wind of magic. Sucks to be them. What are 01:09:18.989 --> 01:09:21.800 the winds? So we got metal. Is it metal one? 01:09:21.960 --> 01:09:28.479 Metal, shadow, life, fire, heavens, light, beasts, 01:09:28.720 --> 01:09:32.840 and death. When the beast sounds a bit smelly. 01:09:33.460 --> 01:09:39.800 What's the smell of? Hide. Wet dog fur. And from 01:09:39.800 --> 01:09:41.840 there, the end times kind of, you know, just 01:09:41.840 --> 01:09:45.260 go on. The various factions eventually, everyone 01:09:45.260 --> 01:09:48.439 who's not chaos eventually begrudgingly unites. 01:09:49.220 --> 01:09:51.979 Even the Orcs, who Malekith himself, we can thank 01:09:51.979 --> 01:09:53.899 him for letting Grimgor and the Orcs fight against 01:09:53.899 --> 01:09:57.779 Chaos. After he told Grimgor that, almost verbatim, 01:09:57.779 --> 01:10:02.140 you da best, but Archaon thinks he da best. So 01:10:02.140 --> 01:10:04.439 then Grimgor and the Orcs promptly turned right 01:10:04.439 --> 01:10:08.460 and, you know, went to go beat up Archaon. And 01:10:08.460 --> 01:10:10.939 with that, though, it wasn't enough. And, of 01:10:10.939 --> 01:10:12.899 course, the world falls into Chaos. And for the 01:10:12.899 --> 01:10:15.640 Dark Elf side of things, let's see, what is the 01:10:15.640 --> 01:10:18.829 last headcount? There was a dark elf character 01:10:18.829 --> 01:10:21.710 known as Malice Darkblade, who had a demon bound 01:10:21.710 --> 01:10:24.529 into his soul because he was a treasure -hunting 01:10:24.529 --> 01:10:29.369 nonsense. Some shit went wrong. As chaos grew 01:10:29.369 --> 01:10:31.890 stronger in power, the demon overtook him, and 01:10:31.890 --> 01:10:35.510 then Malekith put him down like a dog. Tyrion 01:10:35.510 --> 01:10:37.970 killed the chief executioner of Cain. I don't 01:10:37.970 --> 01:10:41.369 remember what happened to Crone Halobron. Probably 01:10:41.369 --> 01:10:43.750 murdered when the Ulthuan civil war was reaching 01:10:43.750 --> 01:10:47.359 its peak, to be quite frank with you. I'm loving 01:10:47.359 --> 01:10:49.939 the names as well. That's very, you know, like 01:10:49.939 --> 01:10:52.300 teenager. A lot of them got names like that. 01:10:52.720 --> 01:10:56.119 Mom, my name is Malice. My name is Malice. Your 01:10:56.119 --> 01:10:59.000 name is Mark. No, it's not. Malice Darkblade. 01:11:00.060 --> 01:11:03.439 Yeah. Let's see. Let's see. Marathi got dragged 01:11:03.439 --> 01:11:06.779 into Slaanesh by Slaanesh herself. She unmade 01:11:06.779 --> 01:11:09.939 the Vortex in a fit of insanity. And then that 01:11:09.939 --> 01:11:12.159 Caelor Dragon Tamer guy put her in a full Nelson 01:11:12.159 --> 01:11:14.060 and let Slaanesh drag them both back down into 01:11:14.060 --> 01:11:17.600 hell. So she went down sad and pathetic. She 01:11:17.600 --> 01:11:19.760 also thought Tyrion was an Arian reborn and kept 01:11:19.760 --> 01:11:23.159 referring to him as her husband, which I don't 01:11:23.159 --> 01:11:25.340 have anything funny for that one. That one just 01:11:25.340 --> 01:11:30.399 kind of makes me depressed to read about. And 01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:33.520 let's see. Malekith at the end of everything 01:11:33.520 --> 01:11:43.159 was... God, I hate all of this lore. I hate all 01:11:43.159 --> 01:11:45.399 of it. He married a L 'Oreal to give himself 01:11:45.399 --> 01:11:47.939 legitimacy as the Phoenix King, so he married 01:11:47.939 --> 01:11:49.659 the Everqueen and she went along with it for 01:11:49.659 --> 01:11:53.960 stability. Not a happy marriage. And then at 01:11:53.960 --> 01:11:56.119 the end of it all, he was crushed underneath 01:11:56.119 --> 01:11:59.899 his dragon and crippled. And as he watched a 01:11:59.899 --> 01:12:03.880 chaos vortex overtake the entire world, there 01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:06.020 were two thoughts in his head, one of which is, 01:12:06.100 --> 01:12:08.359 you know, generically badass, whatever. The other 01:12:08.359 --> 01:12:10.819 is just kind of depressing and introspective. 01:12:11.550 --> 01:12:13.510 Thought one was he swore that he would make the 01:12:13.510 --> 01:12:15.710 Chaos Gods pay for what he did in denying him 01:12:15.710 --> 01:12:17.729 his birthright of Ulthuan and, you know, the 01:12:17.729 --> 01:12:20.510 world. The other thought was him thinking that, 01:12:20.529 --> 01:12:25.850 man, my life has just been shit. Which is introspective, 01:12:25.850 --> 01:12:30.930 but also just kind of sad, you know? No one likes 01:12:30.930 --> 01:12:35.890 coming to that realization. No. And that was 01:12:35.890 --> 01:12:39.529 the Dark Elves. As with the rest of the factions, 01:12:39.829 --> 01:12:43.470 that was their end. I will say on the Phoenix 01:12:43.470 --> 01:12:45.630 King thing, though, since I said I'd get to it. 01:12:48.170 --> 01:12:51.689 Age of Sigmar. Marathi, when she was ascending 01:12:51.689 --> 01:12:53.789 to godhood, because she lived and she wasn't 01:12:53.789 --> 01:12:56.029 a proper god like the three other elves who survived, 01:12:56.270 --> 01:12:59.390 well, main elves that survived, including her 01:12:59.390 --> 01:13:03.470 son, she wanted to be a proper god, right? So 01:13:03.470 --> 01:13:06.590 she did a ritual and entered Slaanesh's gut to 01:13:06.590 --> 01:13:10.609 steal the energy. of the previous Phoenix Kings 01:13:10.609 --> 01:13:13.010 and the bits of Assyrian that were in them to, 01:13:13.029 --> 01:13:14.850 you know, steal for herself and ascend to godhood 01:13:14.850 --> 01:13:18.350 with former divine power, right? That retcons 01:13:18.350 --> 01:13:20.909 the End Times lore, which is that all the Phoenix 01:13:20.909 --> 01:13:23.149 Kings after Malekith were frauds and he was always 01:13:23.149 --> 01:13:25.869 supposed to be the true one. Because if he was 01:13:25.869 --> 01:13:28.329 supposed to be the true one all along, then why 01:13:28.329 --> 01:13:30.449 did they all have bits of Assyrian's power in 01:13:30.449 --> 01:13:33.850 them? Fuck you, Eli. He's not the true Phoenix 01:13:33.850 --> 01:13:37.529 King. He never was. He got rejected for being 01:13:37.529 --> 01:13:43.109 a shitter. and uh yeah that is uh that would 01:13:43.109 --> 01:13:47.890 be the dark elves wow so any any last questions 01:13:47.890 --> 01:13:53.470 very few redeeming qualities um no yeah yeah 01:13:53.470 --> 01:13:59.149 no no And I know they look down on all of the 01:13:59.149 --> 01:14:02.510 other species, but do they have many alliances 01:14:02.510 --> 01:14:05.569 of convenience, especially in the end times? 01:14:05.649 --> 01:14:08.130 I'm assuming they have to pick a side that's 01:14:08.130 --> 01:14:10.270 going to be who you're going to work with, even 01:14:10.270 --> 01:14:13.930 if you stab them in the back. They do have a 01:14:13.930 --> 01:14:15.710 few of those, especially amongst each other. 01:14:15.770 --> 01:14:21.369 And believe it or not, they have a very tentative 01:14:21.369 --> 01:14:26.069 alliance with the Skaven. Oh, okay. The two worst 01:14:26.069 --> 01:14:29.310 possible people joining forces. Of course. Now, 01:14:29.390 --> 01:14:33.470 of course, both sides break that, you know, all 01:14:33.470 --> 01:14:38.489 the time, right? Yeah. Just regularly. That alliance 01:14:38.489 --> 01:14:42.550 is an alliance on paper only. But they, you know, 01:14:42.550 --> 01:14:43.850 they kind of, you know, it's like, you know, 01:14:43.869 --> 01:14:45.850 like some of the cities have warpstone under 01:14:45.850 --> 01:14:47.729 them. They give the Skaven some warpstone. The 01:14:47.729 --> 01:14:52.560 Skaven give them some slaves or food. and then 01:14:52.560 --> 01:14:54.560 you know they make plans to backstab each other 01:14:54.560 --> 01:14:59.180 immediately and then we go from there yeah um 01:14:59.180 --> 01:15:01.840 there is also the dark elves do uh especially 01:15:01.840 --> 01:15:03.819 in older lore would frequently ally with demons 01:15:03.819 --> 01:15:06.760 of slanesh oh yeah that makes sense because it's 01:15:06.760 --> 01:15:09.619 like allied to their patron yeah yeah you're 01:15:09.619 --> 01:15:12.529 not seeing any wild cards like the ogres like 01:15:12.529 --> 01:15:14.189 why are you signing with the ogres i don't know 01:15:14.189 --> 01:15:17.909 i mean as mercenaries everyone will hire like 01:15:17.909 --> 01:15:20.109 ogre mercenaries but that's not like an alliance 01:15:20.109 --> 01:15:22.310 with like the ogres because there's not really 01:15:22.310 --> 01:15:26.550 one ogre that can do that they're not talking 01:15:26.550 --> 01:15:29.090 to cafe they're not talking to no no they are 01:15:29.090 --> 01:15:31.789 they are they are stealing slaves from both of 01:15:31.789 --> 01:15:34.510 those people actually yeah not a great start 01:15:34.909 --> 01:15:38.029 No one likes the Dark Elves. No one. Not even 01:15:38.029 --> 01:15:40.310 the Dark Elves. Not even most of the Dark Elves 01:15:40.310 --> 01:15:46.750 like other Dark Elves. Wow. Yeah. The only other 01:15:46.750 --> 01:15:49.289 question I'd have, though, is are there many 01:15:49.289 --> 01:15:53.489 good books or book series for them? The Malice, 01:15:53.630 --> 01:15:57.810 as much as his name is Edgemaster Edge, Lord 01:15:57.810 --> 01:16:01.569 of the Edge, the Malice Darkblade books are not 01:16:01.569 --> 01:16:08.220 bad. I haven't read all of them quite yet. But 01:16:08.220 --> 01:16:10.399 they're decent reads, at least the ones that 01:16:10.399 --> 01:16:15.119 I've read. Let me double check how many books 01:16:15.119 --> 01:16:18.159 of those there are. I believe there's three. 01:16:19.880 --> 01:16:22.520 I believe he's got himself a nice little trilogy. 01:16:24.420 --> 01:16:27.760 There might be more, but I've only read a couple 01:16:27.760 --> 01:16:31.100 of them so far. So those are decent reads. It's 01:16:31.100 --> 01:16:33.060 what happens when a dark elf has the closest 01:16:33.060 --> 01:16:35.939 thing to a... moral compass. Of course, he's 01:16:35.939 --> 01:16:37.680 also the guy with the demon jammed in him, so 01:16:37.680 --> 01:16:40.020 again, I said the closest thing to a moral compass. 01:16:40.239 --> 01:16:42.180 He doesn't have one. But he's perfect, and this 01:16:42.180 --> 01:16:45.640 is from the least perfect of all the factions, 01:16:45.920 --> 01:16:49.180 other than maybe the Skaven. Yeah, he's got the 01:16:49.180 --> 01:16:52.140 closest thing they have to a moral compass. There's 01:16:52.140 --> 01:16:54.720 also the Sundering Trilogy, which is omnibus, 01:16:54.819 --> 01:16:57.640 which is about how the Dark Elves and High Elves 01:16:57.640 --> 01:17:00.920 split and became what they were. Okay, yeah, 01:17:00.979 --> 01:17:03.060 that sounds like a fun read. And then sometimes 01:17:03.060 --> 01:17:05.520 they don't have as many books as the High Elves 01:17:05.520 --> 01:17:07.699 or the Empire, of course. But they show up every 01:17:07.699 --> 01:17:09.319 now and again in other threats. I know we haven't 01:17:09.319 --> 01:17:11.619 gotten to it yet, but one of my favorite Godric 01:17:11.619 --> 01:17:13.800 and Felix books features them as the main antagonists. 01:17:13.840 --> 01:17:19.500 Of course, it's them. That's a good book. They 01:17:19.500 --> 01:17:24.300 show up in a couple other stuff. Nice. I believe 01:17:24.300 --> 01:17:30.699 Malice has seven books. Wow. That's a lot. He's 01:17:30.699 --> 01:17:35.100 got a few. Oh, nice. But didn't you say in the 01:17:35.100 --> 01:17:39.420 discussion that he's dead now? Yeah, but that's 01:17:39.420 --> 01:17:41.619 also something that just unfortunately comes 01:17:41.619 --> 01:17:45.439 with Warhammer fantasy. Yeah. Most of them are 01:17:45.439 --> 01:17:49.920 dead. And they haven't had a rebrand for Age 01:17:49.920 --> 01:17:53.020 of Sigmar in terms of like, are they more or 01:17:53.020 --> 01:17:55.600 less? Because I know some of the factions get 01:17:55.600 --> 01:17:58.640 like a whole like. Like the Eid Nefti Deepkin 01:17:58.640 --> 01:18:01.260 have like, oh, it's kind of a new faction. There 01:18:01.260 --> 01:18:03.520 aren't any splintering them into new things that 01:18:03.520 --> 01:18:06.899 just slightly have a makeover, is it? So they 01:18:06.899 --> 01:18:09.560 used to have, along with a lot of others, had 01:18:09.560 --> 01:18:12.800 a lot of range in the cities of Sigmar. Like 01:18:12.800 --> 01:18:15.539 you could feel like dark elf minis or also dwarf 01:18:15.539 --> 01:18:18.060 minis and some high elf minis for a bit. You 01:18:18.060 --> 01:18:20.340 could use as part of the cities of Sigmar. Okay. 01:18:20.399 --> 01:18:25.119 I have a theory that. the dark elves which are 01:18:25.119 --> 01:18:27.399 presently a legacy faction in warhammer the old 01:18:27.399 --> 01:18:29.279 world they have rules but like they're not updated 01:18:29.279 --> 01:18:31.819 and you can't purchase models for them yeah i 01:18:31.819 --> 01:18:33.560 have a feeling they're going to be made into 01:18:33.560 --> 01:18:37.060 a properly supported army soon because i can't 01:18:37.060 --> 01:18:38.859 help but notice as i'm looking at the web store 01:18:38.859 --> 01:18:41.520 right now i don't see any dark elves in the cities 01:18:41.520 --> 01:18:46.199 of sigmar range so again i have zero insider 01:18:46.199 --> 01:18:50.000 knowledge might be happening i hope it's happening 01:18:50.000 --> 01:18:54.899 it'd be cool if it did As for an equivalent, 01:18:55.220 --> 01:18:57.739 Malekith is a god. They call him Malarian now. 01:18:57.760 --> 01:19:00.079 I'm going to keep calling him Malekith just because, 01:19:00.159 --> 01:19:01.479 you know, you want to make it more copyright 01:19:01.479 --> 01:19:04.960 friendly. I don't care. Malekith is a proper 01:19:04.960 --> 01:19:07.479 god of Age of Sigmar, like one of the eight gods 01:19:07.479 --> 01:19:09.739 of the realms. He's, of course, once again, the 01:19:09.739 --> 01:19:12.359 god of the realm of shadow. So one of the most 01:19:12.359 --> 01:19:15.239 powerful beings, actually the only one to beat 01:19:15.239 --> 01:19:17.859 Archeon in a fight, either meaning he's like 01:19:17.859 --> 01:19:20.180 arguably the most powerful of the eight like 01:19:20.180 --> 01:19:23.470 winds of magic incarnate gods. Or because he's 01:19:23.470 --> 01:19:25.489 the God of Shadow. He's got some nasty tricks 01:19:25.489 --> 01:19:30.550 up his sleeve. Right? But he's just only showed 01:19:30.550 --> 01:19:32.590 up a few times. Like when Wrathia ascended to 01:19:32.590 --> 01:19:34.729 Godhood, he had a little tit -for -tat verbal 01:19:34.729 --> 01:19:37.710 argument with her. She cut off one of his fingers. 01:19:37.810 --> 01:19:43.550 He seemed to not care in the slightest. Tyrion 01:19:43.550 --> 01:19:47.770 is supposedly probing into his borders for whatever 01:19:47.770 --> 01:19:50.810 reason. We've also heard nothing about Tyrion 01:19:50.810 --> 01:19:54.100 beyond him doing that. So Malekith and Tyrion 01:19:54.100 --> 01:19:56.279 are doing their own thing off in the corner we 01:19:56.279 --> 01:19:59.479 don't know about. And there is supposedly a leaked 01:19:59.479 --> 01:20:01.699 name for, I think I've talked about before, the 01:20:01.699 --> 01:20:03.439 Lumineth Realm Lords, like the High Elves of 01:20:03.439 --> 01:20:06.140 Age of Sigmar. There was supposedly the name 01:20:06.140 --> 01:20:08.159 leaked for the Dark Elf, like under Malekith 01:20:08.159 --> 01:20:11.979 equivalent, the Umbreneth. Ain't heard shit about 01:20:11.979 --> 01:20:18.090 that. Well, we do kind of know that. The design 01:20:18.090 --> 01:20:20.069 teams and stuff usually do stuff a few years 01:20:20.069 --> 01:20:22.569 in advance before it's revealed. So maybe it's 01:20:22.569 --> 01:20:25.569 going to be soon. Maybe it's on the back bench. 01:20:25.609 --> 01:20:28.329 Who knows? I'd love it for more stuff to come 01:20:28.329 --> 01:20:32.569 out. But it has been all quiet on that front. 01:20:32.770 --> 01:20:34.869 Well, there's been a few whispers on that front. 01:20:35.010 --> 01:20:38.729 That's about it. Fairly fitting for the God of 01:20:38.729 --> 01:20:41.930 Shadows, to be fair. What's that? Oh, nothing. 01:20:44.779 --> 01:20:49.539 You sneaky god of shadows. But yeah, with that 01:20:49.539 --> 01:20:52.199 said, there are plenty of books to delve into. 01:20:53.159 --> 01:20:56.340 Possibly a refresh on the horizon. Maybe soon, 01:20:56.439 --> 01:21:01.239 maybe not. We can hope. Good lords in Total Warhammer? 01:21:02.079 --> 01:21:05.699 Yeah, they got Malekith Marathi, of course. Malice 01:21:05.699 --> 01:21:10.119 Darkblade is there. They got Krohn Halabron. 01:21:10.279 --> 01:21:13.239 They got a fella named Rakarth, who's the Beastmaster. 01:21:14.500 --> 01:21:18.680 He's voiced by someone in Game of Thrones. Actually, 01:21:18.760 --> 01:21:24.539 now I want to pull this up. Who was he? Oh, Ramsay 01:21:24.539 --> 01:21:29.479 Bolton. Oh, okay. Oh, yeah. Iowan Rian. Not quite 01:21:29.479 --> 01:21:31.920 sure how to say that last name. I'm going to 01:21:31.920 --> 01:21:35.659 cut your face off, Jon Snow. I like skinning 01:21:35.659 --> 01:21:37.640 people. Of course, he's going to be a Dark Eldar 01:21:37.640 --> 01:21:40.979 character. And then there's a fellow named Lokir 01:21:40.979 --> 01:21:43.819 Felhart, who is a pirate and has a Cthulhu mask 01:21:43.819 --> 01:21:48.000 for a helmet. Oh, fun. Good old Davy Jones. Really 01:21:48.000 --> 01:21:50.619 not too much about him, but he's a cool dark 01:21:50.619 --> 01:21:53.600 elf pirate lord. And you know what? He's there. 01:21:53.960 --> 01:21:57.819 Thanks for coming to the party, sir. Brilliant. 01:21:58.479 --> 01:22:00.640 Well, with that said, then, are there any closing 01:22:00.640 --> 01:22:03.699 remarks or thoughts you would have about if people 01:22:03.699 --> 01:22:08.520 are interested in the Dark Eldar? Dark Elves, 01:22:08.520 --> 01:22:12.739 sir, please. Dark Elves. You know what I mean. 01:22:14.060 --> 01:22:18.140 Malekith deserved it. That's kind of it. But 01:22:18.140 --> 01:22:22.300 also, I would Marathi. Wow. Well, you heard it 01:22:22.300 --> 01:22:27.319 here, folks. Not a surprise, but that's in your 01:22:27.319 --> 01:22:29.239 earlobes now. That's something you have to deal 01:22:29.239 --> 01:22:33.239 with. They seem pretty cool. I'm intrigued to 01:22:33.239 --> 01:22:35.979 see, like... Seven books is a lot for a character 01:22:35.979 --> 01:22:38.380 who's not even like the main guy, so I'm curious 01:22:38.380 --> 01:22:43.479 to see what his lore is with the Mr. Most Hot 01:22:43.479 --> 01:22:46.380 Topic edgy namesake I've ever heard in my life. 01:22:47.220 --> 01:22:50.539 But thank you very much, Colin, for gathering 01:22:50.539 --> 01:22:52.399 all the research for this episode and telling 01:22:52.399 --> 01:22:54.920 us about the Dark Elves. I almost said it again. 01:22:55.039 --> 01:22:58.220 The Dark Elves. Of course. So we've kind of done 01:22:58.220 --> 01:23:00.819 the trifecta now. That's all the elves in Warhammer 01:23:00.819 --> 01:23:05.439 Fantasy, I suppose. Yeah, I mean, I believe that'd 01:23:05.439 --> 01:23:08.180 be all of them. At least as the major, pardon 01:23:08.180 --> 01:23:11.619 me, major factions go. Yeah. Well, let us know 01:23:11.619 --> 01:23:13.739 in the comments, folks, which faction you'd like 01:23:13.739 --> 01:23:16.720 us to talk about next. We might even do another 01:23:16.720 --> 01:23:19.220 sneaky sci -fi sit -down before the next Fancy 01:23:19.220 --> 01:23:22.180 Fireside. Who knows? But again, thank you very 01:23:22.180 --> 01:23:24.760 much, Colin, for helming this episode. Thank 01:23:24.760 --> 01:23:26.479 you all very much for watching today's episode. 01:23:26.779 --> 01:23:29.079 And comment below what you want us to do next. 01:23:29.600 --> 01:23:31.800 but until then we'll see all of you guys another 01:23:31.800 --> 01:23:35.439 time thank you very much take care everyone you