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So they're more treacherous than the word bearers?

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Yes, they would make the word bearers look like college freshmen in treachery school.

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Oooh.

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That's a pretty... word bearers are my favorite.

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Are they all Arabises? Like, every one of them?

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Arabis would get outplanned by the average Skaven, because Arabis can trust someone is

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listening to his BS. There is not a single Skaven in all of Skaven-dom who is not expecting

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the guys next to him and then the 500 behind him to stab him in the back.

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Hello, law criminals, and welcome to another episode of Law Crimes. I am Hal, and joining

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me today are Andy, Colin, and Eli, and we are here to discuss the race that does not exist,

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in brackets according to Sigma, for everyone out there. Our topic today is the Skaven,

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the Rat Men, the Vermintide, and I will hand it over to Eli to helm our beginner section,

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take it away, Eli.

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Oh, I need to sit down.

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I don't think that was Eli, I think the spirit of that quill just inhabited his body.

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I don't know, credit to whoever, whoever the guy who reads the gotric and felix books,

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he's a true master of the Skaven.

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I feel like you've, wow, I'm overstimulated from that.

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I think I've been fight or flight, honestly.

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That's too much.

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Sort the musk of fear.

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We all know that Hal is a big fan of the Skaven since the last episode when he said,

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daddy ratty.

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Daddy, we want to know more about the daddy ratty. That's why we're all here.

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Hit us with the law.

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I do have an actual little bit of lore.

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So, the Skaven are the massive giant empire of cunning, glorious rat men that live in the bowels

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of the earth.

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Countless rat ways connect to the many under cities all across the land.

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Many such cities are located under major pathetic man thing establishments such as Nolm,

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the capital of the Skaven, by the way, Skavenplight.

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There's a big one below Nolm.

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The Skaven are easily the most numerous and grand race and if they were to band together,

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they could take over the entire world.

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But unfortunately for them, the average Skaven is full of cowardice.

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Not cowardice, no, Skaven are cowardly.

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They're intelligent and self-preserving.

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I mean, cowardice is a proud good thing.

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But treachery is also a very large reason why they can't ever get as much done as they should.

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And it runs extremely rampant amongst their society.

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The betrayal is food and drink to the average rat for who else would I look for other than me?

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But due to the genius and ingenuity of the great Skaven race,

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the ratmen highly favor strength in numbers and will almost never fight a battle unless

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they see losing as completely impossible.

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So too, to the brave and cunning Skaven commanders,

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lead from the back rear because it is superior Skaven tactics.

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While the many lesser races of the Warhammer world are arrogant,

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this is nothing compared to Skavenkind, for they are the rightful owners of the world,

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the superior and righteous warriors of the great horned rat.

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Each individual rat thinks themselves to be the best and every failure is clearly due

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to incompetent lackeys or some ruse of treachery woven by other Skaven.

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Their society is split up into distinct clans which hold their own specialties

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ranging from military might, technological genius, the spraying of plague,

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and unimaginable monstrous creations of flesh.

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The four major clans are Clan Eshin, the sneaky guys, Clan Skryre, the technological guys,

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Clan Mulder, the monster mashers, and Clan Pestilens which are like Nergal rats.

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The stinky ones.

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The nergal's not there, they're just very stinky.

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The stinky ones.

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The ones that haven't been in the shower for a while.

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The ones from Vermintide that show up to steal all of your health.

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They're really ugly.

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ALICE Damn, he roasted them, they looked.

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He's not wrong.

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RILEY It's like all the blessings of Nergal

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and the religion of Nergal, but without Nergal, they're just gross.

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RILEY Eli, I can't believe you've been drawn into

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the clutches of rat shaming.

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It's not good.

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RILEY I also honourably mentioned you,

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Clan Morse, because Quick Breadmaker is from there, and he's a big epic Skaven.

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Anyways.

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ALICE Breadmaker?

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RILEY His real name's Quick Headtaker, but he's...

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ALICE Breadmaker?

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RILEY Breadmaker.

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RILEY Makes a bread, yeah.

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ALICE Yo, he got me rhyming, fan.

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RILEY Oh, you know the good old Breadmaker.

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Oh, innit?

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ALICE I just pictured Donald Duck, and he dives

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into the pond of golden coins.

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I'm just picturing that now, because that's a little like, insane.

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RILEY Yeah, screw you, Duck.

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Sorry, wrong Duck.

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ALICE Wrong Duck.

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RILEY Law crime there.

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ALICE Yeah, glorious warp stones and warp dust and heads.

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Greek loves his heads.

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and all the land, because Skaven are better than everyone, don't forget it.

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Anyway, we will go deeper into the Great Clans, further into the film video.

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Yes, yes.

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Well, the rats are powerful in the sense they have great numbers.

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So too is their engineering far beyond any of the other societies.

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They construct incredible and volatile weapons of war that can tear beings to pieces with

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a tidal wave of warp stone bullets, or evaporate an entire structure with warp lightning.

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The society is generally dominated by the largest and smartest rats,

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and a loose hierarchy is set in place, starting at Skaven slaves, then to clan rats,

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and then to other superiors, and eventually all the way to the top,

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you have the Grey Seers, and then the Council of Thirteen.

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The society is run largely by warp stone, a glorious green little rock that they use as

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money, they use it for magic, they use it to make machines,

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to huff it, and to take steroids, all of this stuff.

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You say huff it?

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They like, they have a line, like on the table, at a club.

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Damn.

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You're... that's a bit too much, and I'm like,

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That's the idea that the Skaven are on PRTs, like, oh, what's your cycle?

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Oh, you know, yeah.

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Skaven, Skaven.

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Yeah, this is warp stone, you're probably never heard of it though, you just got on the note.

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Yeah, they got the Skaven bodybuilding competitions with rat ogres and stuff.

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Warp stone is very tasty and very addictive.

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We'll talk about more of it a little bit later, I think, but I think we'll get to that later.

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A little bit later, I think.

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But for now, we will delve further into the glorious grand realm of the Skaven,

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with guidance from the greats most wise of masters.

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Colin, may you proceed if it is the wishes of the great seer, almost benevolent master.

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I would be happy, please, to continue the lore.

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Very good, yousus.

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Is there any questions?

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There are many questions.

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My question is, can Colin do a better Skaven impression?

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That's what I'm thinking.

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I can attempt to.

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I actually have a question of my own, and that is, Eli, how much do I need to pay you

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to read your wedding vows in the Skaven voice?

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Oh, man, oh, she'd be so unhappy.

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Marriage?

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Yes, yes.

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Oh my god.

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You gave me my divorce papers, yes, yes.

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I have one question, which is about Clan Pestulence, because I unfortunately got

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reminded of that video.

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It's Clan Pestulence, the one where it's the one with the video about the guy who pranks his

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roommate on the door by unleashing a God-torn fart.

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I hope to link this in the actual chat, sorry, in the comment section, for no reason, because

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this is Clan Pestulence in a nutshell.

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Remember when Little Crimes was a serious channel?

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When?

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What do you mean when?

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I didn't mean either.

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Our first line was necrocene.

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First utterance.

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The first utterance.

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Cure me, Lily.

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Merry Christmas, everyone.

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Merry Christmas.

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Merry Christmas, Colin.

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Happy, happy holidays and good luck holding down the Christmas ham.

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I'm ready, Colin.

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Hit us with the Skaven.

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I feel like I should get it out of the way first.

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Now I will discuss Skavendom.

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Yes, yes.

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Oh.

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Yes.

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Very nice.

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Throat the unclean was my...

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Clan Molder.

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Yeah, Throt.

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Throt's my main man.

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Anyway, to begin the Skaven Expert Lore section, why don't we read a poem?

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Not, you know, high school cringe love poem.

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Sorry to anyone who's ever in one of those.

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But instead a poem known as the Doom of Kavzar.

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This is the origin story, you should say, of the Skaven.

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Now, once upon a time where in between the city-states of Talaya and the nation of Astalia,

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there was a city known as Kavzar.

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And unlike pretty much anything else in Warhammer, there was the men and dwarves lived together in

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pretty much perfect harmony.

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The dwarves, of course, lived underground in the mountainous sections and the humans lived above,

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but there was...

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There wasn't really any problems between them.

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And one day they decided they wanted, in order to honor their gods, build a tower as high as they could.

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And they did.

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They began construction, but eventually they hit the Minecraft world height limit.

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They couldn't build any higher.

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And just as this happened, along came a mysterious stranger.

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Now, the legend is conflicting details on this, which translates to Games Workshop has

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waffled back and forth of the lore.

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He might have been evil, he might have not been, but either way, he gave the citizens of Kavzar an

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offer.

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If he...

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He will help them complete the tower and in return he asks for nothing but to build a monument to his

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own god on top of the tower.

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And they agree, the citizens of Kavzar, and lickety-split.

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Towers are done in just a little bit more time.

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And like I said, the details conflict a bit.

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The citizens might have shorted him payment.

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They might have not done that and he was just evil.

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But either way, the tower was completed with a bell on top of it.

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And one night the bell began to ring as the tower was opening.

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It rang once, twice, all the way up to 13 times.

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And the 13th time, the doom of Kavzar was sealed.

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And as the days went by, warpstone, which, to talk about that for a moment, take chaos and then turn

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it into a rock and you have warpstone.

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It began to rain from the sky, mutating the crops, mutating the animals, mutating the people,

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killing people, everything unpleasant.

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The crops failed as storms ravaged the land and harvests were poor.

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So the people began starving, men and dwarf. And most relevant to the story,

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Lurats began growing larger and larger in size and at a certain point they began

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devouring the people of the city alive if they were caught alone.

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Now the humans of the city turned to the dwarven entrance to the quarters and said,

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Hey, let us in. Things are really bad up here.

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And then the dwarves in response said, Go to hell, Umgi.

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We have no room. We don't care to have you in here. Piss off.

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So night two comes by, the humans come around to the dwarven keep again and say,

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Hey, can we come in now? And the dwarves say, No, go away, Umgi.

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We still don't want you. Also, we have no food. Rats ate all of it.

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Third time, third day, third night. It's getting even worse.

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The rats are even bigger now. The people are done asking politely.

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They bang down the tolls to the door. The door is locked.

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The people are done asking politely. They bang down the tolls to the doors to the

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dwarven keep and they find two things. One, a bunch of freshly picked clean

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dwarf skeletons and man sized rats that have devoured them whole.

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And then the doom of Cavzar ends to the sound of screaming humans and rats

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devouring them.

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Damn, that's eerie.

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This is, I think I remember one part, which I think I remember this is,

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this is what got me to Warhammer fantasy years ago.

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And I remember the part, I don't know if this is what you're about to say,

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but it's the part where they said they look into the dark, don't they?

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And they see all these like eyes. Yeah.

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Lights up. And that was nightmare fuel for me for quite a while.

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They see, they see nothing but red beady eyes and when the torches are put forward,

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there's rats.

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There's also, there's a couple other accounts of how the Skaven came about.

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My personal favorite other than this one is that the sea god, Manon,

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cursed a bunch of sailors who were stranded on an island and turned to

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cannibalism to take on rat like forms.

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And if that's what that one's true, thank you, Manon, for making the world

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infinitely worse.

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That being said,

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infinitely better.

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Part, yeah, of course part infinitely better Skaven are best best.

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Also causing the end times as well.

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Also causing the end times as well. So.

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We're not to that lore yet. I have to talk about it, but we're not there yet.

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We're having fun times.

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And as far as the doom of Kavzar goes, copies of that poem keep mysteriously

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disappearing and people who know about it keep ending up dead.

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So that's probably the canon one.

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Now, the Skaven are now a thing, much to the delight of me and Eli

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and the horror of everyone else in the Warhammer world.

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So to talk about them a bit before I get into their history,

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they're a race of rat men located everywhere.

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There's only two nations or regions, I suppose, that don't have the Skaven.

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One is the high elven continent of Ulthuan,

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because Ulthuan, unlike every continent ever, doesn't actually go down to the

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seabed. It's a floating island.

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So it's kind of hard to dig a tunnel through the water.

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And the wood elf realm of Athel Loren, because it's a magical forest.

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And when the Skaven try and dig into it, the tree branches come alive and impale

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them. So they learned eventually it's not worth it.

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Nice. Yeah.

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Impale. Don't mess with nature.

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That's their motto.

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Yeah. I just imagine they get strangled.

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Impale. Whatever the forest feels like doing to them today, that's what happens to it.

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Fair enough.

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It's quite a wacky forest, Athel Loren. But for now, it's rat time.

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So as Eli mentioned, the Skaven, they're quite numerous.

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In fact, I would say they outnumber every other race by several factors of 10.

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And their science as well is also well beyond any other race.

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They have energy weapons, because in this Renaissance era period of the world,

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the Skaven just stole a bunch of weapons from 40k.

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They have demonic flamethrowers. And of course, what else would you expect in a

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fantasy setting but nuclear weapons?

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Because yes, this is fair and balanced.

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Is it that kind of thing with it reminds me of that that passage of if you gave a bunch of monkeys,

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like infinite monkeys time, they'd write Shakespeare.

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Is that basically just how the Skaven did it?

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There's just so many of them who are bound to like develop stuff because there's so many of them.

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Pretty much exactly how the Skaven invent things.

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If you throw enough rats at a problem, one of them is going to have a breakthrough.

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And then the others nothing to do with hygiene.

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No, and then the others are going to kill him and copy his breakthrough.

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I think there wasn't wasn't there in 40k, weren't they originally in like early editions in 40k,

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which are now the race called the Hrud?

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Yeah, they are not mistaken.

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The Hrud used to be more or less space Skaven and now they're weird aging monster things.

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I think they're like that describes like oily, which is like,

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you know, I mean, but apparently they have like they still carry.

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I had the piece of I just looked them up recently.

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Yeah, I'll go to the inklings from Splatoon.

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Basically, I think they had like, it was about they have like,

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they have musket guns at one point and I was like, oh, man, they still have a Skaven vibe still.

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Yeah, but obviously the Skaven are the superior form.

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Of course, 40k is worse off for them not being in it.

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The people in the people in it are better off, but the setting is worse off.

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They power all of this stuff from Gatling machine guns called Rattling guns.

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I can't let that one slip by to sniper rifles to their vehicles.

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Everything they have is powered by warpstone, which I said, like I said,

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raw chaos solidified into a rock.

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It powers their stuff, energy weapons, whatever.

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They use it to boost their magical power by snorting it.

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Or eating it, which again, they also just straight up eat it.

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And they're pretty much the only race that can do that without instantly dying or turning into a chaos spawn.

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Further proof of Skaven superiority.

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Just yuck.

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I'm assuming that other races can use the warpstones for their own.

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It's not just the Skaven who are harnessing it.

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No, it's just the others can use it, but nowhere near the same extent that the Skaven do.

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Right.

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Is it kind of like radiation, like if you can work around it, but like not really, like a human couldn't really work around it too long.

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Yeah, it's otherwise they'll pretty much become mutated by the raw chaotic energy.

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And especially in the human nations, mutations get you put on the chopping block pretty quickly.

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So generally, of course, suffer not the mutant to live.

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40k and fantasy share that.

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Good.

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Eesh.

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Hell was it a fan.

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It's not the official opinion of law crimes, let's just say that.

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Anyone dares to think that.

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But it is too fair.

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We do enjoy the vibe, at least.

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Apologies to all of the X-Men I've offended.

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No.

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I should move on.

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Let's.

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Who do you believe was one of the X-Men certs fair game?

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Life for the Skaven is a pyramid scheme where shit flows downhill.

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The Council of the Skaven, which I'll get into more later, rules over the mall.

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And then it goes down from there to the average Grey Seers and Warlords of the Clans to whatever you can call the merchant classes of the Skaven, like clan molar scientists or warblock engineers.

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To the humble rank and file clan rat, to the Skaven slave who have a life expectancy of about five minutes.

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The average Skaven lives to about thirteen years, and almost none of them get to that age.

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Anywhere close.

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Oof.

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Yeah, it's not good being a Skaven.

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The four great clans rule with the most power, while there's also lower ranking clans known as Warlord clans, and Thrall clans who basically lend themselves out to whatever clan will take them.

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All the while, everyone involved in this is just constantly trying to backstab each other, get one up. Thrall clans want to be Warlord clans, the Warlord clans want to be Great clans, the Great clans want to keep everyone else below them.

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It's just constant backstabbing. I cannot emphasize enough how much the word Skaven is synonymous with treachery.

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And I'd go so far as to say they're the evilest race in any Warhammer setting.

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Ooh, that's fighting words there.

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Yeah, you might say demons are pretty evil, and you're right, but-

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In their nature, though, at least.

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It's in their nature, and they do have some good things.

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You know, Slenesh is also, as much as she's the god of excess, she's also the goddess of pleasure, which isn't inherently bad.

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Zinch is hope, Nergal loves his followers, and I don't like saying nice things about corn, so I just won't.

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Heh.

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Bravery and honor and all that for those who would be yelling at me.

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So they're more treacherous than the word bearers?

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Yes, they would make the word bearers look like college freshmen in treachery school.

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Ooh.

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That's a pretty- word bearers are my favorite.

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Are they all Erebus's? Like, every one of them?

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Erebus would get outplanned by the average Skaven, because Erebus-

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Wow.

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Erebus can trust someone is listening to his BS.

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There is not a single Skaven in all of Skavendom who is not expecting the guys next to him and then the 500 behind him to stab him in the back.

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And I hate Erebus.

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I hate Erebus.

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It's fun with the Skaven, though, because it just goes- they're so silly.

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Hashtag Erebusy.

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Erebus.

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Erebusy, no.

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Put it out of the way early.

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Ugh. I hate it. We can-

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I hate it. He deserves it, though, to be fair. Erebusy.

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That's- and it's indeed- this treachery is the only reason they haven't conquered the world, because, again, they outnumber everyone, they out-tech people, although their tech is, shall we say, not the most reliable.

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Sometimes more likely to blow up in their face than the enemy's.

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But reliable enough that in a fight, it'll kill something.

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It's just they fight each other more than anyone else.

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They hate the other races more than each other, but it's by the barest of margins they hate the other races more than each other.

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I cannot emphasize enough how slight of a margin.

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But to the misery of everyone else, there's always more Skaven.

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You're not getting rid of these things.

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As for their clans, these are the ones that influence their culture the most, to the extent that while there are clans with their own unique traits that the other great clans don't have, most of the Skaven clans will in some way be like this great clan, but with these traits on top.

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So to start us off, Clan Mulder, because I'm playing them in Total War at the time of recording this podcast, so they go first.

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Mulder is the Beastmasters and the mad scientists, at least biological.

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Frankenstein's monster, they would yawn, say they've done it before, and then graft another five arms onto it just to be funny.

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They create all of the biological monsters the Skaven use, and this gives them huge influence because what they create is very, very deadly.

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And unlike the weapons of the Skavendom, a monster can't blow up in your face.

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It might eat you, but on the field of battle you can point it at an enemy and it will reliably turn that thing into a red stain.

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I have a nightmare once, which was, I'm not gonna lie, this is an actual nightmare, where I turned around and there was like a rat ogre, and it was like, it was just, eyes locked on me.

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You know when it's like, you know the film Get Out where the guy runs and the guy, and he doesn't break away until the last second? I had that nightmare, but with a rat ogre once.

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And it was like, it was doing his run, his shoulders were like, you know, his shoulders were moving, and it was just, that's what I have in my head of the rat ogre.

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And before it ended, he just, he stopped, he turned around and went, don't eat cheese before you go to bed.

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I don't remember the end of it, I don't remember how it ended, but I definitely remember having that thought, and I thought, even now, how awful that is.

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Oh no!

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Whoever is listening to this and sleeping, or trying to go to sleep, enjoy that thought. Have fun.

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Remember, there are no rat ogres in your walls.

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Your floors, however. A bit of squash, a bit of squash.

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Oh, but some Skaven even use what they create as bodyguards or mounts, because there's no horses in Skaven Dawn, but there is a regular rat the size of a horse, so that does the job well enough.

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And they have their own magicians, though their presence in lore and tabletop is pretty minimal, lore-wise, because the Skaven Council has declared their version of magic to be illegal and wrong, because it's not the Grey Seers on the council using it, therefore don't do it.

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Wait, so the Skaven have a Council of Nikea thing going on?

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This is more of a literal council, like the bodyguards and body of the Skaven.

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They have had some events where their god, and unlike the Emperor, they didn't lie about not being a god, told them to say, told them directly to do things, but we'll get to that because it's important for what's coming.

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Nonetheless, though, their creations still have both science and dark magic used to it. If you look at the Hell Pit Abomination, you need some wacky science and magic to get that thing to not die immediately.

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Their main city is of course known as Hell Pit, where the Abominations get their name from.

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Pray you never have to go down there. It's called Hell Pit. I probably don't need to explain further than that.

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It's in the north, isn't it, near Kislev.

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It is. It's above Kislev, right below Norske.

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It makes sense that it's near the Eastern European, like me, centered faction, because misery loves company. I'm glad we have that kind of link to it.

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It's also in the region called Troll Country, so there's a lot of monsters there, and since they're the monster clan, they just pop up to the surface, kidnap a couple trolls, and go, all right, what are we making today, boys?

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Lord Verminckin is their leader, the one who sits on the Skaven Council, though throughout the Unclean is the main Mulder character, and that's something that, just as a heads up, the main Mulder characters, the main characters of each Skaven clan, are pretty much the ones that were chosen to be legendary lords in Total Warhammer.

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So if any of these names sound familiar to you, that's probably why.

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Throt has an extra arm, and instead of an eye socket, he has Warpstone jammed into it, and this makes him, one, strong, and two, very, very, very hungry.

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So he's a big fan of eating.

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They also have Gorich, who Throt took a Norscan berserker that Archaon said was going in time out forever, and jammed his brain into a rat ogre, and he's just a warm...

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Yeah, he's a...

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Awesome.

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He's not happy with the situation, but he doesn't exactly have much other choice because he'd have to fight Archaon to come back, and that's not happening.

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There's no HR department.

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The Chaos Gods do not have an HR department.

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After them, Clan Skryre, mad scientist but with machines.

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If you need a machine gun, energy weapon, you go to Clan Skryre.

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They're also the ones who make the Hell-powered nuclear missiles because they just go nuts.

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They have power armor, they have life-elongating technology, which, again, to be fair, not many Skaven get access to that, and they even develop...

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The Velopode, that's not a word.

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They even develop telephones with a device called the Farsqueaker, which is just a beautiful name.

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Is that the one which I think I know who they communicated with specifically with one of those?

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Is that the one where it relates to 40k?

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It will, and I will get to that when we talk about the no-good, horrible, very bad and...

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I won't spoil then, I won't spoil.

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Yeah, we'll get to that.

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Hello everyone, editing Colin here.

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Immediately after recording, I realized I'd done screwed up bad.

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I forgot to talk about the exact thing you just heard.

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So for clarification, the people the rats called were the Eldar.

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They found a Lizardman device that was essentially one of their own Farsqueakers, dialed it, and then it called the Eldar.

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Or rather, it called the people who sounded elven but alien.

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Well yes, this could theoretically also be the Lumineth Realm Lords.

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Elves but alien? Come on.

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Anyways, back to your regularly scheduled program.

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Other inventions they have is, of course, the Doom Wheel, which...

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You know that car General Grievous, that circle thing he had in episode 3?

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Oh, that thing.

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Yeah, running away from Obi-Wan under the bridge.

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Imagine that and cross with a hamster wheel, and then put a lightning gun inside of it.

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Is that like when people... you see videos of people and they put themselves in a tractor tire and then go down a hill?

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It's pretty much that.

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Sorry, for my UK audience, it's when people chase the wheel of cheese down the hill and they break their legs.

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If everyone knows about this race. Do you guys know about that race in the UK?

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I have seen clips of it. I've seen clips of people absolutely crumbling down.

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It's very appropriate because obviously the rat is chasing cheese.

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But that's what I'm picturing now, is that's like the design, right? The wheel?

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Pretty much, yeah. It's got a little like...

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Like the World War I, you know those old tractor tanks that they had the big metal grid thing behind it?

444
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:48,720
Like to help steer? I don't know what I'm talking about.

445
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:49,720
Like a rudder?

446
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:54,720
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The tanks were the first ones that had the rudder. It has like that behind it.

447
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:57,720
But it's also just a big wheel.

448
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:04,720
Big wheel go boom. Big wheel. Wheel with the rat on it. Wheel with the rat.

449
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:06,720
Pretty much.

450
00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:08,720
That's the vibe.

451
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:16,720
Their devices are often as fatal to the user as to whoever it's pointed at, which is actually reflecting their tabletop rules.

452
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:26,720
For example, the warp lightning cannon. You can choose to overcharge it, which might double its damage output. It might explode.

453
00:32:26,720 --> 00:32:29,720
Damn.

454
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:35,720
I had to say, like Elmer said, the question why? Otherwise, it's the Skaven. There is no why. There is why not.

455
00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:44,720
Because there is the option. That's actually a funny thing about the Skaven. They're incredibly, not cowardly of course, they're intelligent. They lead from the back.

456
00:32:44,720 --> 00:33:00,720
But they also love quick routes to power. Like someone put it online, I saw. If you give a Skaven a potion, it's got a 50% chance of doing nothing, a 25% chance of killing them, and a 25% chance of letting them breathe fire. They're taking that every time.

457
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,720
It doesn't matter how dangerous it is. If they see quick route to win, they're taking it.

458
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:10,720
Imagine especially like, oh, you could have done what and you chickened out. You wouldn't hear the end of it.

459
00:33:10,720 --> 00:33:13,720
Or some other rat would have done it or taken the potion anyway.

460
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:18,720
That's exactly why they do it. It helps them with the backstabbing.

461
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,720
Their pressure is real in the Skaven.

462
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:32,720
Their premier special character is Ikitclaw, who's also one of the people who invents a lot of the weapons you see on tabletop, such as the doom wheels and in Total Warhammer, the nuke.

463
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:37,720
Next up, Clan Eshin. Just imagine Master Splinter but make him evil.

464
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:44,720
You have Clan Eshin. They're the Skaven spies, assassins, espionage, whatever needs to be done.

465
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:51,720
Little is known about them, but that's entirely due to their own machinations. They don't want anyone to know what they're up to, what they're doing.

466
00:33:51,720 --> 00:34:01,720
Very secret. The reason they're ninjas is because they went to the country of Nippon, which is Japan, and someone taught them how to be ninjas.

467
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:11,720
I don't know why they thought that was a good idea to teach the rabid rabies rats how to be ninjas, but someone did.

468
00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:13,720
Get on them.

469
00:34:13,720 --> 00:34:15,720
Have fun figuring that lore question out.

470
00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:20,720
That has thrown me. I didn't realize they taught them.

471
00:34:20,720 --> 00:34:28,720
I couldn't find an answer to why they did it, so I have to assume someone thought it would be really funny for whoever had to deal with it.

472
00:34:28,720 --> 00:34:31,720
I was just really spiteful. They were like, I'm going to die soon.

473
00:34:31,720 --> 00:34:38,720
People teach their dogs to get beers out of fridges, so I feel like this is the next step.

474
00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:41,720
What if their dogs do worse than that?

475
00:34:41,720 --> 00:34:43,720
I wasn't going to go there though.

476
00:34:43,720 --> 00:34:45,720
No, you don't have to.

477
00:34:45,720 --> 00:34:48,720
We found you friendly on this channel.

478
00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:58,720
Their lair in Skaven Blythe is pretty small, but that's on purpose. They don't want people to know what they're doing.

479
00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:04,720
And anyone who tries to break in to find out what's going on is never heard from again, so it's working out for them.

480
00:35:04,720 --> 00:35:11,720
Their premier character is Deathmaster Snitch. He's the most renowned assassin in the Warhammer world by far.

481
00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:20,720
Some of his escapades include murdering someone in complete secrecy, despite the fact he was surrounded by armed guards and in a locked room.

482
00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:27,720
He didn't break the lock in the door. One day the guards went to check on him and they found his corpse.

483
00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:31,720
So he's pretty good at getting where he needs to be.

484
00:35:31,720 --> 00:35:39,720
And I have to skip ahead to the end times because it proves that Snitch is really cool, but also I hate this lore.

485
00:35:39,720 --> 00:35:49,720
He killed the High King of the Dwarfs after a massive battle. I'll get to that when I talk about the end times.

486
00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:51,720
We like Dwarves.

487
00:35:51,720 --> 00:35:53,720
Pain. But he hates end times.

488
00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:59,720
I love the Dwarfs. I hate what happened to Thorgrim, but it's canon so I can't ignore it.

489
00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:04,720
Many kills that aren't his are attributed to him to boost his legend.

490
00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:09,720
And you might think the Skaven, as cowardly as they are, would go, hey, I did that.

491
00:36:09,720 --> 00:36:12,720
Give me the credit I deserve because they're also power hungry.

492
00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:18,720
But anyone who, again, tries to get one up on old Snitch then has to deal with Snitch in person.

493
00:36:18,720 --> 00:36:23,720
And you do not survive that. So they suck it up.

494
00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:28,720
His exact location is also never known to him or never known to anyone but him and Ashen's leader.

495
00:36:28,720 --> 00:36:30,720
I just know where he is.

496
00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:34,720
He has no idea. That's hilarious.

497
00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:36,720
He's got amnesia.

498
00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:39,720
His Google Maps cannot connect to the local Wi-Fi.

499
00:36:39,720 --> 00:36:44,720
That's how he's so good at it. If he doesn't know where he is, you don't know where he is.

500
00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:50,720
He's got murder-based outside. That's what's going on.

501
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:52,720
Oh man. Oh my god.

502
00:36:52,720 --> 00:37:02,720
Oh, the Skaven flubbing all over the place. But his location is known only, of course, to him and their leader, Nightlord Sneak.

503
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:09,720
The Skaven name is not subtle.

504
00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:11,720
Oh, I love that name so much.

505
00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:17,720
Sneak, Shadow. Just might as well get him all off the list at that point.

506
00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:26,720
Generally, Ashen does not involve themselves in the civil war that happens every five minutes in Skavendom, except to sell their services off to the highest bidder.

507
00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:33,720
They don't want the spotlight because they're the Sneaky Clan, but they're happy to profit.

508
00:37:33,720 --> 00:37:39,720
Now, the last great clan. There are one and a half clans left, but this is the last great one.

509
00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:41,720
Clan Pestilence, the Plague Rats.

510
00:37:41,720 --> 00:37:44,720
Yeah. This is my favorite.

511
00:37:44,720 --> 00:37:48,720
They worship the Horned Rat, the Skaven god, as an aspect of disease and decay.

512
00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:54,720
A lot like Nergal, but unlike Nergal, the Horned Rat doesn't have any friendly grandfather aspects to him.

513
00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:56,720
He's just a prick.

514
00:37:56,720 --> 00:38:04,720
Just despises all of them, I bet. Even the really powerful one, just like, nah, bro, you're lacking.

515
00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:09,720
The best you can hope for out of the Horned Rat is he finds you funny.

516
00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:14,720
And that's not me making that up. That is genuinely something he has said before.

517
00:38:14,720 --> 00:38:17,720
You say the joke and you get the hell out of there.

518
00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:19,720
Yeah, and then you leave before he can eat you.

519
00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:31,720
They went to the continent of Lustria many years ago and got stranded when they dug their way back to the Old World by tunneling under the ocean, because of course the Skaven can do that.

520
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:41,720
They had changed from regular Skaven backstabbing treacherous pricks to sickly treacherous backstabbing pricks.

521
00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:52,720
And upon returning, they demanded breeding rights, a massive amount of warpstone, and a seat on the Skaven council, which caused the Skaven civil war, the first great one.

522
00:38:52,720 --> 00:38:59,720
And ended with them getting what they wanted, but they were severely damaged by it, so, you know, even on all accounts.

523
00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:05,720
Lord Nurglitch is the clan leader. There's again, unsubtle naming, Nurgle, Nurglitch.

524
00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:08,720
And Lord Skrulk is the premier special character.

525
00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:21,720
Lord Skrulk saw Lord Nurglitch and was so awestruck by how disgusting Nurglitch was that he tore his eyes out, because he would never see anything as beautifully disgusting again.

526
00:39:21,720 --> 00:39:22,720
Yeah.

527
00:39:22,720 --> 00:39:23,720
Yeah.

528
00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:37,720
The Horned Rad, one of the only, I say this is nice, one of the only beneficial things he's ever done to anyone else, is he gave Lord Skrulk the ability to see without his eyes, though it's in hues of decay.

529
00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:40,720
Because if he gives you a gift, it's gonna suck.

530
00:39:40,720 --> 00:39:52,720
Lord Skrulk is A, despite being a walking sack of diseases, very strong and fast, and B, has so many plagues on him that standing near him can turn you into soup.

531
00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:54,720
Oh my god.

532
00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:57,720
Yeah, he's, he's quite the character.

533
00:39:57,720 --> 00:40:03,720
He also carries one of the books of the Lieber Bubonicus, the original text of the clan Pestilent's faith.

534
00:40:03,720 --> 00:40:12,720
So imagine some sister of battle walking around with the original, like Tisial Divinutatus, that's the, that's the-

535
00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:13,720
Yeah, the holy book.

536
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:14,720
Yeah.

537
00:40:14,720 --> 00:40:18,720
Imagine some sister battle walking around with that, and that's Lord Skrulk.

538
00:40:18,720 --> 00:40:20,720
Right.

539
00:40:20,720 --> 00:40:23,720
Just, just, just nowhere near as like pleasing to the eye.

540
00:40:23,720 --> 00:40:24,720
Yeah.

541
00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:25,720
Just like, no, no, no.

542
00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:30,720
Yeah, and then a thousand times more disgusting, the look at him.

543
00:40:30,720 --> 00:40:36,720
Is he like when you drop your ice cream in like the, on the floor and it has like hair on it and stuff?

544
00:40:36,720 --> 00:40:41,720
That's what anyone who comes within a ten foot radius of him looks like.

545
00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:46,720
Yeah, but you lick it with your eye, because it's like, it's like, oh.

546
00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:47,720
Yeah, enjoy that.

547
00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:50,720
To be fair, he'd probably lick up the people soup.

548
00:40:50,720 --> 00:40:51,720
Oh yeah.

549
00:40:51,720 --> 00:40:52,720
Tasty.

550
00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:56,720
Just walks around with a ladle just like, not bad.

551
00:40:56,720 --> 00:40:58,720
Oh man.

552
00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:00,720
Second to last clan, clan Mors.

553
00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:03,720
They're not a great clan, but they're not far from it.

554
00:41:03,720 --> 00:41:05,720
Those bitches there.

555
00:41:05,720 --> 00:41:06,720
They're there.

556
00:41:06,720 --> 00:41:09,720
They're like the, they're like the side character who's almost a main character.

557
00:41:09,720 --> 00:41:12,720
Not quite, but everyone loves them all the more for it.

558
00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:14,720
But gets no maidens.

559
00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:15,720
Gets no maidens.

560
00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:16,720
Maidenless.

561
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:18,720
I know, because maidens.

562
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:22,720
Tier first clan, clan Mors, maidenless.

563
00:41:22,720 --> 00:41:23,720
I've said it.

564
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:24,720
I'm saying it right now.

565
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:26,720
It's official statement of law crimes.

566
00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:28,720
Maidenless.

567
00:41:28,720 --> 00:41:29,720
Good Lord.

568
00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:32,720
They specialize in infantry.

569
00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:34,720
There's no mad science.

570
00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:35,720
There's no plagues.

571
00:41:35,720 --> 00:41:37,720
There's no mad scientists.

572
00:41:37,720 --> 00:41:41,720
But with genetics this time, just drowning you in rats.

573
00:41:41,720 --> 00:41:46,720
But unlike other Skaven clans, they're kind of, they're kind of weird.

574
00:41:46,720 --> 00:41:48,720
They're almost brave.

575
00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:50,720
Almost honorable.

576
00:41:50,720 --> 00:41:52,720
Almost loyal.

577
00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:57,720
Rising in this clan, you can actually do it by being a good soldier and not stabbing everyone in front of you in the back.

578
00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:04,720
That being said, if you're not caught stabbing your leader in the back, then, you know, that works just as well.

579
00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:08,720
You just can't be as obvious as you can be in the rest of Skavendom.

580
00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:11,720
That's, that's the sticker here.

581
00:42:11,720 --> 00:42:19,720
Their infantry are actually trained and properly armored from clan or to Stormvermin, unlike the other Skaven clans where the Stormvermin at best are armored.

582
00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:22,720
And everyone else is just told to have fun with it.

583
00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:24,720
Have fun catching arrows.

584
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:31,720
Warlord Nodwell is their leader, though Queek Headtaker, as usual, is their legendary character, supreme character.

585
00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:32,720
Big surprise.

586
00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:34,720
He takes heads and collects them as trophies.

587
00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:39,720
He can hear what they have to say and they offer him everything from warning to criticisms.

588
00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:45,720
They have different personalities and they're completely unrelated to whatever race he takes them from.

589
00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:53,720
Like, I think one of the Orc heads he has is actually pretty wise, which is really, really funny to me.

590
00:42:53,720 --> 00:42:55,720
The criticism part is hilarious too.

591
00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:58,720
Because I just imagine like you chose to wear that today.

592
00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:04,720
Like, if you're a dead spirit, you must get petty.

593
00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:06,720
Just like anything.

594
00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:08,720
Just dressing him down.

595
00:43:08,720 --> 00:43:15,720
One of them is a rival Warlord that he killed and it offers him the most criticism.

596
00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:16,720
Others praise him.

597
00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:19,720
Others say, hey, this might be a good idea, champ.

598
00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:21,720
Why don't you try this one out?

599
00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:28,720
And I'm going to send the first quote. Andy, would you mind reading this for me?

600
00:43:28,720 --> 00:43:31,720
Did I do it in Escaven voice or what I assume is Escaven voice?

601
00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:34,720
That is entirely up to you.

602
00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:36,720
Okay, let's have a look.

603
00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:43,720
Everyone, they can't be concerned for Queek sanity.

604
00:43:43,720 --> 00:43:48,720
Perhaps you worry less for what is in Queek's head and more on keeping what is in yours.

605
00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:50,720
Is that any good?

606
00:43:50,720 --> 00:43:52,720
That was pretty good.

607
00:43:52,720 --> 00:43:54,720
Damn, I don't think we could follow that.

608
00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:56,720
That's pretty tough.

609
00:43:56,720 --> 00:43:57,720
That was awesome.

610
00:43:57,720 --> 00:44:00,720
To be honest, I modeled it entirely off Eli's performance.

611
00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:03,720
So if it's any good, you have Eli to thank for that.

612
00:44:03,720 --> 00:44:07,720
You're not super in the knowledge on that.

613
00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:09,720
So you literally don't.

614
00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:12,720
I've just copied Eli's homework.

615
00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:13,720
I liked it.

616
00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:15,720
Copied pretty well.

617
00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:22,720
Queek is like an actual, actually pretty honorable, if I remember correctly.

618
00:44:22,720 --> 00:44:23,720
He is.

619
00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:27,720
He's like I said, like Klanmors embodied, almost brave, almost loyal.

620
00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:29,720
Leads from the front.

621
00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:32,720
Leads from the front, the most unscaven-like of qualities.

622
00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:39,720
That's why he has to tell people, be less concerned for what's in my head and be concerned with what's keeping in yours.

623
00:44:39,720 --> 00:44:43,720
Because people think he's a bit of an oddball, understandable for Escaven.

624
00:44:43,720 --> 00:44:47,720
But he doesn't take anything from them.

625
00:44:47,720 --> 00:44:50,720
So, quite the badass.

626
00:44:50,720 --> 00:44:53,720
Isn't that why his tactics work, isn't it?

627
00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:58,720
Because they expect him to behave like Escaven and then he just does the opposite.

628
00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:00,720
Everyone doesn't know what to do.

629
00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:02,720
His power is Uno Reverse card.

630
00:45:02,720 --> 00:45:08,720
And then a rat comes screaming at you with 60 miles an hour pinwheeling weapons around.

631
00:45:08,720 --> 00:45:11,720
Yo, check out that spiral dude.

632
00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:13,720
Yeah, he's uh...

633
00:45:13,720 --> 00:45:17,720
I think he's pretty successful in the end times as well.

634
00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:18,720
He is.

635
00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:23,720
He kills a very important Dwarven leader, which we will get to.

636
00:45:23,720 --> 00:45:25,720
What is it with Escaven killing Dwarves?

637
00:45:25,720 --> 00:45:27,720
I get that kind of like bit of fire.

638
00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:34,720
It's once I'm known with the clans and I get to their history, I will be happy to tell you what's up with Escaven killing Dwarves.

639
00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:36,720
You like Dwarves? I don't want them to die.

640
00:45:36,720 --> 00:45:38,720
They're cool, but that's Warhammer.

641
00:45:38,720 --> 00:45:40,720
Nothing cool can go get them unmolested.

642
00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:42,720
That's true.

643
00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:45,720
Now, the last thing before I get into their history.

644
00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:48,720
The Grey Seers and the Council of Thirteen.

645
00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:52,720
Neither are great clans, but they're the leaders of Escaven society.

646
00:45:52,720 --> 00:45:59,720
If Escaven's born with grey fur and will eventually grow horns, they're taken from birth to be trained as Grey Seers, the mages.

647
00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:04,720
Their worship is the horned rat's chosen and they carry out his will on the material plane.

648
00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:10,720
It makes them mostly immune to the backstabbing of other Escaven, except for other Grey Seers.

649
00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:15,720
But this isn't really out of respect. It's because they fear the guy who can wave his hands and then you explode.

650
00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:18,720
They, uh, pardon me.

651
00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:24,720
The horned rat, of course, being the Escaven's god, they love decay and ruining everyone else's things.

652
00:46:24,720 --> 00:46:26,720
The Escaven are not nice.

653
00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:36,720
The Council of Thirteen, meanwhile, consists of Grey Seers and the most prominent of the Clan Warlords who have avoided being backstabbed, betrayed and broken by their fellow Escaven.

654
00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:40,720
They have ultimate power, all twelve of them on the Council.

655
00:46:40,720 --> 00:46:44,720
Anyone want to take a guess who the thirteenth seat is reserved for?

656
00:46:44,720 --> 00:46:47,720
Andy, you have to guess this one.

657
00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:48,720
You have to.

658
00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:50,720
Who's the thirteenth seat?

659
00:46:50,720 --> 00:46:53,720
Uh, no, just tell me. Put me out of my misery.

660
00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:55,720
Oh, come on. It's symbolic.

661
00:46:55,720 --> 00:46:57,720
Sorry, what was the quote? Sorry.

662
00:46:57,720 --> 00:47:03,720
There's...the Council of Thirteen only has twelve Escaven on it. Who's the thirteenth seat for?

663
00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:05,720
It's a symbolic seat.

664
00:47:05,720 --> 00:47:08,720
Symbolic seat. Uh...

665
00:47:08,720 --> 00:47:10,720
Should I know this?

666
00:47:10,720 --> 00:47:14,720
It's for the horny, horny god himself.

667
00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:18,720
Oh, for the god? Oh, he can do that? I thought he'd be like an immaterial thing.

668
00:47:18,720 --> 00:47:23,720
He's usually off in the Realm of Chaos in his own little awful corner of it.

669
00:47:23,720 --> 00:47:27,720
But it's a symbolic thing. They reserved the thirteenth seat for him.

670
00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:29,720
Oh, okay. Yeah, that's why I was like...

671
00:47:29,720 --> 00:47:33,720
But I thought he wouldn't manifest as a thing.

672
00:47:33,720 --> 00:47:37,720
Never mind me. He's like a streamer. He doesn't have legs.

673
00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:40,720
It's a sin. Not talking about streamers.

674
00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:42,720
Legs are not confirmed.

675
00:47:42,720 --> 00:47:45,720
I'm going to bring up YouTubers again. I'll do it. I'll do it.

676
00:47:45,720 --> 00:47:47,720
Yes, do it.

677
00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:55,720
But although you say that, Andy, unlike many, many gods in Warhammer, he can be proactive, which again, we'll get to.

678
00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:59,720
Oh, I have the better joke. It's like Metaverse.

679
00:47:59,720 --> 00:48:01,720
He is Mark Zuckerberg.

680
00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:03,720
Legs haven't been made yet.

681
00:48:03,720 --> 00:48:04,720
At the time of recording.

682
00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:09,720
They're adding them in, though. They'll be here in thirteen years.

683
00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:26,720
The seats occupied by actual Skaven are arranged like a clock. Now, it's going to be a weird clock because thirteen hands, but they're arranged so that the seats closest to the thirteenth one, where the Horned Rat is, have the most power on the council.

684
00:48:26,720 --> 00:48:31,720
And the ones farthest away have the least. So again, kind of weird.

685
00:48:31,720 --> 00:48:40,720
But imagine twelve and one like imagine thirteen is at the top of the clock. Twelve and one both have the most power and six and seven have the least power.

686
00:48:40,720 --> 00:48:45,720
Is it? I have a quick question. Is it kind of like meant to mirror?

687
00:48:45,720 --> 00:48:55,720
Now, this is a weird. This is going to be a very like out of nowhere reference. But like, you know, the last supper and how like all the apostles of that. Is that like a kind of thing?

688
00:48:55,720 --> 00:48:57,720
I'm sure I've seen an image of the Skaven.

689
00:48:57,720 --> 00:49:05,720
No, I was. It's yeah, that's there really. I don't know. I don't know if it's honestly I don't even know if it's fan art or official, but I'm assuming fan art.

690
00:49:05,720 --> 00:49:10,720
I don't think Games Workshop would put out official artwork of the rat supper.

691
00:49:10,720 --> 00:49:14,720
Yeah, but he's put a picture on the on the video.

692
00:49:14,720 --> 00:49:21,720
That'll blow my mind if you've seen it and I haven't. That blows my mind. Yeah, it's there. I've seen it.

693
00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:27,720
Wow. Really good. I'm on the same wavelength as some twisted man.

694
00:49:27,720 --> 00:49:34,720
I don't know if that was intentional, but at least one other person has made that connection now.

695
00:49:34,720 --> 00:49:41,720
And as for the other thing about the power, the person, any Skaven can veto the person opposite their seat.

696
00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:51,720
So despite being the weakest seven can veto 12, one can veto six, vice versa. It keeps it almost in check. They're all again.

697
00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:57,720
They're all constantly scheming and trying to backstab each other, but it kind of almost keeps them in check.

698
00:49:57,720 --> 00:50:06,720
As for getting on the council, you can of course, you know, perform great deeds by whatever standard that Skaven clan is considering a great deed.

699
00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:11,720
Oh, there's two pieces of artwork for it. Oh, my Lord.

700
00:50:11,720 --> 00:50:18,720
I've fallen down a bit of a rabbit hole. I've also found one of like the emperor and the Primarchs and Karl Franz and some guys with weird hats.

701
00:50:18,720 --> 00:50:22,720
I found all sorts of last supper ones for some reason. I need that one stat.

702
00:50:22,720 --> 00:50:30,720
You got it. There it is. Oh, but before I sight read, some of us are thinking that those are all the Total War games.

703
00:50:30,720 --> 00:50:37,720
Oh, God, I'm going to get. I got to get a scheme of the rats for becoming on the council of 13.

704
00:50:37,720 --> 00:50:45,720
Like I said, you can backstab and get your way up there or you can touch a Skaven relic known as the Black Pillar and challenge a sitting member.

705
00:50:45,720 --> 00:50:54,720
Though this hasn't happened a couple of hundreds of years, partially because trying to out scheme someone on the Skaven council is a monumental task.

706
00:50:54,720 --> 00:51:00,720
And also partly because any rat who touches the Black Pillar has a tendency to explode.

707
00:51:00,720 --> 00:51:04,720
So that's kind of a self solving problem for the council members.

708
00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:11,720
Is it like it explode on like immediately after touch or is it one of those and then the and then the few days they died?

709
00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:14,720
No, they touch it and then they explode.

710
00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:25,720
It's like time bandits at the end, whereas the parents and they find the chunk of evil in the microwave and the firefighters and what's this and the kids like, Mom, Dad, don't touch it. It's evil. And they just poke it. They blow up.

711
00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:30,720
It's amazing. It's pretty much that. Yeah. You touch the evil rock, you blow up.

712
00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:40,720
Nice. And there are many Graciers, all of whom incredibly powerful, but their premier special character before I finally get on with the history,

713
00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:46,720
undoubtedly that cool. I God, I love him.

714
00:51:46,720 --> 00:51:54,720
He's living proof you can do nothing but fail constantly and still move up in life because that is all he does.

715
00:51:54,720 --> 00:51:58,720
He's on the one hand, to give him credit. He's one of the strongest mages in the setting.

716
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:01,720
He's gotten head to head with the strongest users of other races.

717
00:52:01,720 --> 00:52:13,720
He almost wrestled wrestled the Dwarven Hindenburg out of the sky and he regularly snorts warpstone in such amounts that even other skaven says he should probably back off on that a bit.

718
00:52:13,720 --> 00:52:16,720
Wow. Already crazy magical.

719
00:52:16,720 --> 00:52:21,720
They're getting like the skaven equivalent of AA meetings from I do need to slow down.

720
00:52:21,720 --> 00:52:24,720
Listen, we're all doing it. You got to back off.

721
00:52:24,720 --> 00:52:26,720
Tell us how you feel.

722
00:52:26,720 --> 00:52:35,720
Imagine a skaven intervention meeting that would be weird. They probably just stab you to steal whatever you say like there's a lot of stabbings, but it'd be interesting to watch.

723
00:52:35,720 --> 00:52:43,720
You've not been betraying lately. What's wrong? Yeah, what's going on? I caught you sending like a well wish to someone. Are you feeling all right?

724
00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:47,720
Write down your secrets in this book.

725
00:52:47,720 --> 00:52:51,720
On the other hand, I think although everything he does goes wrong.

726
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:57,720
It's not his fault. No, of course. It's always the fault of underlings or shoddy equipment.

727
00:52:57,720 --> 00:53:01,720
Never mind the fact that he usually buys things on the cheap. He saves on the warp token.

728
00:53:01,720 --> 00:53:03,720
So it's worth it.

729
00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:07,720
He regularly goes to blows with Godric and Felix.

730
00:53:07,720 --> 00:53:18,720
Yeah, he's so impressively incompetent that until like in the letter third of the Godric and Felix books, they didn't know it was him.

731
00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:22,720
They just thought it was a bunch of random encounters with the skaven.

732
00:53:22,720 --> 00:53:29,720
He'd been like fighting them for like 20 years or something. Yeah. And they didn't even realize it was the same rat.

733
00:53:29,720 --> 00:53:36,720
When they found that out, he finally captured them and he starts evil monologuing.

734
00:53:36,720 --> 00:53:40,720
And they, Godric and Felix just look at each other and go, who is this?

735
00:53:40,720 --> 00:53:44,720
He hears that and to say his ego is a bit bruised.

736
00:53:44,720 --> 00:53:47,720
He almost fades, doesn't it? He like goes woozy.

737
00:53:47,720 --> 00:53:49,720
He starts like tripping over himself.

738
00:53:49,720 --> 00:53:51,720
He's one of the best characters ever.

739
00:53:51,720 --> 00:53:53,720
Oh, God, I love him.

740
00:53:53,720 --> 00:53:57,720
At one point, a slan captured him, which just to give you a picture.

741
00:53:57,720 --> 00:54:01,720
The skaven are viewed by the slan as worse than demons.

742
00:54:01,720 --> 00:54:10,720
And the slan let him go because it foresaw that Thanquil would cause more damage to the skaven than killing him ever could.

743
00:54:10,720 --> 00:54:23,720
My God, that's literally for those who would love a bit of history, isn't that the exact thing Salahuddin did to the guy in Jerusalem?

744
00:54:23,720 --> 00:54:27,720
Oh, my God, is it not? He's probably a robber or something, isn't it?

745
00:54:27,720 --> 00:54:29,720
You know who I'm talking about in history. Yeah.

746
00:54:29,720 --> 00:54:35,720
And he'd let him go because he was more damaging to the kingdom of Jerusalem alive.

747
00:54:35,720 --> 00:54:41,720
That just reminds me of the Allies when World War II was happening. They were like, Hitler does such bad decision making.

748
00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:44,720
He does more damage to his own army than we ever could.

749
00:54:44,720 --> 00:54:48,720
So like, yeah, don't bump him off. He's doing the damage himself.

750
00:54:48,720 --> 00:54:53,720
Stop the assassination attempts. We let this guy figure it out on his own.

751
00:54:53,720 --> 00:55:04,720
And his crowning achievement, which is just the funniest to me, is when he tried to summon a vermin lord, which is a skaven greater demon.

752
00:55:04,720 --> 00:55:11,720
And instead of doing that, the mummified gray seer's paw he used was cursed somehow.

753
00:55:11,720 --> 00:55:17,720
It was probably cursed the moment that Thanquil touched it because he's Thanquil and ruins everything he touches.

754
00:55:17,720 --> 00:55:20,720
And instead of a vermin lord, he summoned Scarbrand.

755
00:55:20,720 --> 00:55:24,720
Oof. Corn. Good ol' corn.

756
00:55:24,720 --> 00:55:33,720
Yeah. This caused all of the dwarf and skaven forces that were there to just go berserk and just murder each other.

757
00:55:33,720 --> 00:55:35,720
Scarbrand, of course, joining in.

758
00:55:35,720 --> 00:55:41,720
Queek Headtaker was also there, and he learned pretty quickly gray seers aren't the worst thing ever.

759
00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:47,720
And Thanquil, for his troubles, just left. Just walked away.

760
00:55:47,720 --> 00:55:52,720
He does not pay for his crimes very often.

761
00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:56,720
He always finds a way to blame someone else. It's very funny.

762
00:55:56,720 --> 00:55:59,720
It's impressive.

763
00:55:59,720 --> 00:56:08,720
If his troops fall back, then it was obviously a rival and Skaven Blight sent him bad troops that would run away at the first sign of danger.

764
00:56:08,720 --> 00:56:09,720
Stuff like that.

765
00:56:09,720 --> 00:56:15,720
Of course. And now that all the clans and characters are out of the way, further history.

766
00:56:15,720 --> 00:56:19,720
Most skaven, it should be said, don't actually know or care about their history.

767
00:56:19,720 --> 00:56:28,720
They'd tell you their own personal history happily, but as far as most of them that aren't on the gray seer council who presumably have some records care about,

768
00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:34,720
Skaven history is now when we don't rule the world and soon when we will rule the world.

769
00:56:34,720 --> 00:56:36,720
That's pretty much all they care about.

770
00:56:36,720 --> 00:56:39,720
North Korea method.

771
00:56:39,720 --> 00:56:46,720
Are they like perpetually in like BC and A? They're always in BC and they're not in AD yet.

772
00:56:46,720 --> 00:56:52,720
It's before conquest and after devour of service.

773
00:56:52,720 --> 00:57:01,720
So not long after the doom of cabs are the skaven began to expand, but they realized pretty quick we don't have a lot of food and space.

774
00:57:01,720 --> 00:57:03,720
So because to give them any credit, they don't do it.

775
00:57:03,720 --> 00:57:06,720
They don't do anything by halves.

776
00:57:06,720 --> 00:57:11,720
They cut corners, but they at least try to make it grand when they cut corners.

777
00:57:11,720 --> 00:57:19,720
They began building a massive machine powered by warpstone and magic to help just instantly expand the capital of Skaven Blight.

778
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:27,720
It did to be fair, and it also blew up and destroyed most of Skaven Blight and the Skaven race.

779
00:57:27,720 --> 00:57:34,720
And it also just started destroying mountain ranges because when they screw up, they screw up big.

780
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:42,720
And if you were wondering why the dwarves hate the Skaven so much, it's because Skaven decided to put an addition out of their home

781
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:51,720
and blew up the Dwarven Empire by accident, which in turn allowed orcs to just pour into dwarf holds, orcs and goblins,

782
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:55,720
and start the period the dwarves know as the Time of Woes.

783
00:57:55,720 --> 00:58:04,720
Don't tell anyone this, but the Lizardmen also helped because some mountains Feng Shui wasn't aligned, so they decided to just move the mountain with their minds.

784
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:10,720
But he wasn't an Ares, he was a Taurus, so he wasn't feeling right that day.

785
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:13,720
But the dwarves don't know that, so don't tell them that.

786
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:20,720
But thankfully there was now a lot more holes in the mountain than there was previously, so the dwarves expanded all across the Old World.

787
00:58:20,720 --> 00:58:25,720
And one of these expansions took them to the mountain of Cripple Peak. Did not make that name up.

788
00:58:25,720 --> 00:58:28,720
I'm about to say it's not nice.

789
00:58:28,720 --> 00:58:30,720
I did not make that up, it's named Cripple Peak.

790
00:58:30,720 --> 00:58:32,720
It's a little dicey that one.

791
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:34,720
I'm aware.

792
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:35,720
Just a little.

793
00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:39,720
Blame old 80s Warhammer lore, I didn't write that.

794
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:41,720
Often. Often.

795
00:58:41,720 --> 00:58:44,720
Oh man, that's not even the worst of it. By far.

796
00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:45,720
Oh no.

797
00:58:45,720 --> 00:58:49,720
Ferris Manus, Horvus Korax.

798
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:51,720
Arcan land.

799
00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:57,720
But, uh, insensitive peak is where they came to conflict.

800
00:58:57,720 --> 00:58:59,720
Conflict, good lord.

801
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:04,720
Conflict with none other than the great necromancer Nagash himself.

802
00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:11,720
Who, if you don't know much about him, I made a video about him, shameless plug, pardon me.

803
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:15,720
He is, uh, he scares the chaos gods.

804
00:59:15,720 --> 00:59:17,720
That should tell you all you need to know about him.

805
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:20,720
I said ratty daddy a couple episodes ago.

806
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:22,720
This is bone daddy.

807
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:24,720
This is bone daddy support.

808
00:59:24,720 --> 00:59:26,720
Calcium daddy.

809
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:29,720
Calcium daddy, I hate that.

810
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:30,720
Marrow mummy.

811
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:31,720
Makes it seem healthy.

812
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:32,720
Bone daddy.

813
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:34,720
Marrow mummy's funny.

814
00:59:34,720 --> 00:59:41,720
And, uh, once the skaven entered Nagash's home, the home he stole for himself,

815
00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:45,720
they both, they began fighting for a century straight.

816
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:53,720
And after a hundred years they both realized that the other side is just not running out of bodies to throw at each other.

817
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:57,720
Because Nagash, the name the great necromancer should tip you off.

818
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:00,720
He just raises the corpses of whatever dies.

819
01:00:00,720 --> 01:00:04,720
But there's never not more skaven to throw at a problem.

820
01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:09,720
So this is fantasy's equivalent of the Octaria sector where it's like the orcs versus the tyranids.

821
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:12,720
Yeah, it's just constant, throw more men at it.

822
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:17,720
Imagine World War I where it's over the trenches, lads.

823
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:22,720
And it's about that level of productive for everyone involved.

824
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:27,720
Eventually they decide, alright, we're just gonna truce, it's not worth dealing with it.

825
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:31,720
None of them trust each other, of course, but they have better things to do.

826
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:32,720
So they come to a deal.

827
01:00:32,720 --> 01:00:39,720
The skaven will mine Warp Storm for Nagash and in exchange they'll get to keep a pretty big, pretty big hunk of it.

828
01:00:39,720 --> 01:00:49,720
Eventually, however, Nagash continues his storyline and his ambitions would lead him to not only destroy his homeland of Nahecara,

829
01:00:49,720 --> 01:00:58,720
but attempt to cast a spell that would kill everything on the world at once, all of it, and then raise them as undead under his command.

830
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:06,720
And this is not the only time because it has happened very, very rarely.

831
01:01:06,720 --> 01:01:12,720
But the first time probably that the skaven would ever help another living being of their own volition.

832
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:24,720
They created a blade of purest warpstone known as the Fel Blade, gave it to the last living Nahecara known as Alcadi Zar, who was just a real champ, and told him to have at it, bud.

833
01:01:24,720 --> 01:01:31,720
So my favorite part of that is they didn't they make it in Skaven Blythe and they had to carry it all the way.

834
01:01:31,720 --> 01:01:36,720
For reference, Nahecara is south of Skaven Blythe in the Warhammer world.

835
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:47,720
And they had their rats, the skaven had to carry it and they had to have a huge pack because the skaven, they'd carry it for like a good 30 minutes and then it would just drop dead.

836
01:01:47,720 --> 01:01:51,720
They would just carry the blade and the blade would kill it and then the next one would pick it up.

837
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:57,720
They can hold warpstone, no problem for the most part. Not this thing.

838
01:01:57,720 --> 01:01:59,720
Now that's a chain gang.

839
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:01,720
That's what it was.

840
01:02:01,720 --> 01:02:03,720
Like the Baton Pass, but extreme.

841
01:02:03,720 --> 01:02:08,720
A mile long chain of rats when one died, the next got to hold it.

842
01:02:08,720 --> 01:02:16,720
And they even gave him magical assistance while he was fighting Nagash because even with the Fel Blade, Alcadi Zar wasn't quite up to it.

843
01:02:16,720 --> 01:02:24,720
And so between the skaven somehow deciding to help another race and Alcadi Zar, Nagash was slain at the cost of Alcadi Zar's life.

844
01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:30,720
And two Skaven Grey Seers, but they're not important because they were just there to help Alcadi Zar.

845
01:02:30,720 --> 01:02:32,720
That's his story.

846
01:02:32,720 --> 01:02:39,720
He isn't just for reference as well, if you're new to Alcadi Zar. They helped not even a human, they helped a vampire.

847
01:02:39,720 --> 01:02:44,720
I'm pretty sure Alcadi Zar was turned into a vampire by Nea Kara.

848
01:02:44,720 --> 01:02:46,720
He was actually the last living...

849
01:02:46,720 --> 01:02:52,720
Oh, I thought it wasn't... is he the same one as he escaped Neferata when she tried to make him into a vampire?

850
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:54,720
That's Vladdy Daddy.

851
01:02:54,720 --> 01:03:05,720
No, no, this is like a... I swear, like in the story, like she made him, Alcadi Zar was meant to be like her kind of puppet thing and he escaped and he was like the last living son.

852
01:03:05,720 --> 01:03:07,720
I thought he was a vampire, wasn't he?

853
01:03:07,720 --> 01:03:12,720
She might have tried that. I admit I have to brush up on my vampire counselor, I will admit.

854
01:03:12,720 --> 01:03:14,720
But he was not a vampire.

855
01:03:14,720 --> 01:03:16,720
Future episode, definitely.

856
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:23,720
Teaser. But no, he was not a vampire. He was the last living Naheqiren because Nagash needed him as a focal point for the spell.

857
01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:25,720
Okay.

858
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:33,720
Also, Nagash didn't die because death is at most inconvenient to him, but the Fel Blade did make it so that he's poisoned every time he dies and comes back weaker.

859
01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:37,720
Love that. Nagash is just like, death, death is cringe, ugh.

860
01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:39,720
Yeah, it doesn't stick with him.

861
01:03:39,720 --> 01:03:49,720
But this gave them to their credit after Alcadi Zar wanted off to die, they chucked Nagash's bones into a big furnace to melt them, so they tried. You can't fault them for not trying on this one.

862
01:03:49,720 --> 01:03:51,720
Give it a solid go.

863
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:57,720
Exactly. Their next great move was to attack the Dwarf Hold of Karak Eight Peaks.

864
01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:06,720
And initially, they couldn't get past the dwarves because dwarves have this metal called Gromril, which is the closest you can get to having power armor in fantasy.

865
01:04:06,720 --> 01:04:08,720
Gromril?

866
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:11,720
Yep, it is a fancy metal, Gromril.

867
01:04:11,720 --> 01:04:13,720
I like that, it's just like, Gromril, please?

868
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:15,720
Nice.

869
01:04:15,720 --> 01:04:25,720
Unfortunately for the dwarves, the Skaven invented flamethrowers shortly afterwards, as well as what's called Poisoned Windglobes, which is basically portable mustard gas.

870
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:31,720
So that got through the dwarves. Not all the way though, the dwarves were still stuck in.

871
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:42,720
Which is when the Skaven formed a plan with the Night Goblins. They coming from above, the Skaven coming from below, and that pincer attack was too much for the dwarves to handle, even with all of their stubbornness.

872
01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:48,720
And after still several centuries worth of fighting, Karak Eight Peaks finally falls.

873
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:59,720
Though, to give again, the dwarves their credit, fighting never truly ends, as many dwarves would forever attempt to reclaim it, chief among them being the Angrin clan who once ruled it.

874
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:04,720
If you're a fan of Belgar Ironhammer from Total Warhammer, that's who he comes from.

875
01:05:04,720 --> 01:05:12,720
Of course, that being said, it was just a three-way mosh pit between Skaven goblins and dwarves for the rest of time.

876
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:21,720
Also, it's not really important, but it should be mentioned one of the dwarf holds was conquered by a clan Morbidus, which is very close to clan Morbius.

877
01:05:21,720 --> 01:05:23,720
Morbidus?

878
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:25,720
I was about to ask you, and it's been taking the same thing.

879
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:31,720
Not super important to the storyline, but I couldn't let that one go when I was reading about it.

880
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:38,720
Important lore that you can't leave the video without knowing about the Morbidus reverence, clearly.

881
01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:40,720
I could not let that one rest.

882
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:55,720
And to move forward next, around year 17 in the Imperial calendar, shortly after the best god emperor, king whatever, Sigmar, took power and created the best empire, the Empire of Man.

883
01:05:55,720 --> 01:06:01,720
The Skaven decided meanwhile that it's time for a nice 600 year civil war.

884
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:07,720
That's what happened when clan Pestilence came back to the rest of the Skaven, like I mentioned earlier.

885
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:12,720
To sum it up, Pestilence returned and everyone just starts killing each other.

886
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:21,720
It's mostly Pestilence versus everyone else, but you know, there's chaos going on. Perfect time for some backstabbing, am I right?

887
01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:26,720
Is Pestilence the most powerful? I could never gauge them.

888
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:34,720
They wax and wane a lot more than any other clan. They become the most powerful for the second civil war to come up later.

889
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:41,720
Other times the other clans see they're becoming the most powerful and smack them down. So that is pretty frequently changing.

890
01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:45,720
And when you say civil war, that implies that they ended it.

891
01:06:45,720 --> 01:06:52,720
I guess it's like the war on paper, you know what I mean? The war is official, like, okay, we're at war.

892
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:59,720
That's a good point. To clarify, a Skaven civil war means they're not pretending like they're not going to backstab each other.

893
01:06:59,720 --> 01:07:08,720
When it's an official civil war, it's just, we ball. So that's the difference between business as usual and civil war.

894
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:16,720
As this was going on, clan Eshen assassins towards the end stopped their neutrality and pledged allegiance to the Council of Thirteen.

895
01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:23,720
And as Pestilence Warlord and Warlord fell to their assassins, they sucked it up and stopped trying to take over all of Skavendom.

896
01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:30,720
They still got a seat on the council, though, and now with all of the Skaven as closely being united as they can ever said to be,

897
01:07:30,720 --> 01:07:34,720
they turned their attention at the first time to the surface world proper.

898
01:07:34,720 --> 01:07:44,720
And 600 years later, around 600 in the Imperial calendar, they begin burrowing under the Empire of Man until they're under damn near everything.

899
01:07:44,720 --> 01:07:51,720
And 500 years later in 1111, I see the Skaven created the Black Death.

900
01:07:51,720 --> 01:07:55,720
I'm not making that up. It's called the Black Plague. The Black Death.

901
01:07:55,720 --> 01:08:03,720
The rats just did it on purpose in this world, and they sent it across the Empire of Man and it killed over half the population, much like our own world.

902
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:06,720
I have a question. Yes.

903
01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:11,720
So is this kind of where Vermintide games are?

904
01:08:11,720 --> 01:08:14,720
No, not yet. Not yet.

905
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:17,720
About 1500 years before the Vermintide games.

906
01:08:17,720 --> 01:08:19,720
Okay. Never mind.

907
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:20,720
It's the same vibe, to be fair, though.

908
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:23,720
We're a little bit early, yeah.

909
01:08:23,720 --> 01:08:32,720
But it's it's much the same for the people of the Empire in terms of what it would have been like as winter ended of the year of the Black Plague.

910
01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:34,720
They finally thought things could get a bit better.

911
01:08:34,720 --> 01:08:36,720
They made it through the season.

912
01:08:36,720 --> 01:08:37,720
Spring is coming.

913
01:08:37,720 --> 01:08:39,720
Maybe they can begin to rebuild.

914
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:45,720
And then hundreds of thousands of rats poured out from under their feet, and they did not get a chance to rebuild.

915
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:51,720
City after city fell until it was largely only Altdorf, Nuln, and Averheim left standing.

916
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:57,720
There was also Mindenheim was also left, but it was pretty much under permanent siege.

917
01:08:57,720 --> 01:09:08,720
The Skaven rounded up any humans they could find to be used as either manual labor or food and clan pestilence as a result of the Black Death became ascended in power.

918
01:09:08,720 --> 01:09:12,720
Like you were saying earlier, Hell, this is when they become more powerful again.

919
01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:17,720
There are two things that the Empire had going for it, though.

920
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:22,720
One is that now this I admit this not going to sound like a positive, but do hear me out.

921
01:09:22,720 --> 01:09:30,720
The ruling Emperor at the time was massively, incredibly incompetent and did nothing to help the situation.

922
01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:35,720
But the Skaven decided to assassinate him, probably just for the fun of it to demoralize anyone left.

923
01:09:35,720 --> 01:09:40,720
But he was so unliked that if anything, people were happy he was finally gone.

924
01:09:40,720 --> 01:09:51,720
Is that the same is that the same Emperor's the one who when Marienburg left the Empire like that unpopular one or just a different much earlier one?

925
01:09:51,720 --> 01:09:58,720
I think it's a different one because if I remember correctly, Marienburg only seceded a couple of decades before modern Warhammer fantasy.

926
01:09:58,720 --> 01:10:00,720
Okay, okay.

927
01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:09,720
But his death allowed the man who would become known as Emperor Mandra, the Skaven Slayer of Mindenheim together, the crusading army to take the fight to the rats once more.

928
01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:17,720
This alone might not have worked, except the Skaven did not check that the plague didn't affect their own ranks just as much as mankind.

929
01:10:17,720 --> 01:10:22,720
And the Black Death then swept through the Skaven ranks shortly after it was done ravaging humanity.

930
01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:34,720
Isn't that exactly what happened in history when Scotland, like the Black Death affected England and the Scots said this was God punishing them.

931
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:38,720
So then they invaded and then the Black Death then went to Scotland.

932
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:42,720
I think you might be right. I'd have to double check that.

933
01:10:42,720 --> 01:10:43,720
You have to double check in case we're wrong.

934
01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:45,720
It does sound familiar.

935
01:10:45,720 --> 01:10:48,720
If it's wrong, it's a historic crime.

936
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:50,720
Historic law crime.

937
01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:52,720
Well the sirens are going off, so.

938
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:53,720
I think we screwed up.

939
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:55,720
They've heard it.

940
01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:58,720
Between these two things, the Skaven were pushed back underground.

941
01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:01,720
There was a last act of petty vengeance.

942
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:04,720
The Skaven assassinated him in his sleep.

943
01:11:04,720 --> 01:11:10,720
But still, he not only saved the Empire, but set up sewer watches in every city so the Skaven could never again overrun Sigmar's realm.

944
01:11:10,720 --> 01:11:12,720
Sewer watch. That's a shift you don't want.

945
01:11:12,720 --> 01:11:16,720
Yeah, it's not popular and even worse for them.

946
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:22,720
It shortly after becomes official policy of the Empire to not acknowledge the Skaven's existence.

947
01:11:22,720 --> 01:11:27,720
And as their attacks faded from memory, at most they're regarded as a form of beastman.

948
01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:33,720
And at worst, you can get killed for mentioning them by a witch hunter.

949
01:11:33,720 --> 01:11:37,720
Sewerjack, not a great job, but it keeps it safer.

950
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:40,720
So thank you, Mandrake, for that one.

951
01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:44,720
They also tried this again in Bretonnia a couple years later.

952
01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:50,720
They named it the Redpox this time, but it's the same thing this time around as well.

953
01:11:50,720 --> 01:12:04,720
Very tragically, before it could spread to the rest of Bretonnia, the Baron in charge of the city they unleashed it in just burned down the entire lower class section of the city so it couldn't spread.

954
01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:06,720
Was this Muselheim?

955
01:12:06,720 --> 01:12:07,720
I believe.

956
01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:14,720
Remember which Bretonniain, I mean, you would be very happy with any Bretonniain city burning down.

957
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:22,720
Whichever one is gone is happy for me. I think it was Bastogne, but it might have been Paravon as well.

958
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:25,720
You really do hate Bretonniains so much.

959
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:28,720
I hate everything that has to do with them.

960
01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:34,720
They tried it again a few decades later and this time it almost worked. It actually worked a little bit better than it did in the Empire.

961
01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:39,720
But then the Wood Elves came to bail them out, which again, tragic.

962
01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:43,720
Because they survived.

963
01:12:43,720 --> 01:12:49,720
Yes, because Bretonnia wasn't eliminated. They survived. So thank you Wood Elves, you screwed up on that one.

964
01:12:49,720 --> 01:12:50,720
Damn.

965
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:54,720
After that, round two of Civil War, this one 400 years long.

966
01:12:54,720 --> 01:13:07,720
Clan Pestilence again decided to start shit, having already gained three seats on the council, and this time, because of that massive power boost they had, the entire Skaven governing body was essentially defunct.

967
01:13:07,720 --> 01:13:19,720
Because they had enough seats to veto the other members and enough power behind them due to the Black Death giving them so much influence that they could tear apart Skavendom all on their own without the element of surprise this time.

968
01:13:19,720 --> 01:13:25,720
This one was even messier because Warlock Engineer Lord Morskedar of Clan Skryre took control of Skaven Blight.

969
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:29,720
And after that, it wasn't even Everyone vs. Clan Pestilence anymore.

970
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:33,720
It was just, you see a different Skaven clan, start swinging.

971
01:13:33,720 --> 01:13:45,720
And it only ended when the Grey Seers came to every single Skaven clan and gave them an ultimatum to appear at the Vermintide Festival, and again, that's not a real thing, or that is a real thing, or be destroyed.

972
01:13:45,720 --> 01:13:54,720
And as much as people were happy to stab them in the back if they could, no one wanted to miss this festival because this was a celebration of the Horned Rat, and you don't want to mess with them.

973
01:13:54,720 --> 01:14:10,720
So, either entire clans went, or some of them only sent a single representative, but once everyone was accounted for, all 169 Grey Seers entered the chamber, performed a ritual, and summoned the Great Horned Rat himself onto the Material Plane.

974
01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:15,720
Wow. He gets off his chair every now and then.

975
01:14:15,720 --> 01:14:18,720
There's more than corn, just sitting around all day.

976
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:19,720
Oh yeah.

977
01:14:19,720 --> 01:14:28,720
The first thing he did was just start grabbing handfuls of Skaven and eating them for several minutes straight, until he was full.

978
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:37,720
And then he told them that while he found all this infighting to be unbelievably funny, it's time for them to stop.

979
01:14:37,720 --> 01:14:42,720
Once more, it's been 400 years, it's time for another crack at the surface world.

980
01:14:42,720 --> 01:14:54,720
And while the Skaven numbers had been kept in check by the end of Civil War, now that their god told them to cut the crap, they began growing exponentially once more, and returned their attention to the surface.

981
01:14:54,720 --> 01:15:00,720
Villages were conquered, or just straight up kidnapped around Skaven Blight, and across the world indeed.

982
01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:11,720
Now knowing that their god was directly telling them to get their act together, they were again almost unified, and soon everyone from dwarves to night goblins to men and elves were under assault.

983
01:15:11,720 --> 01:15:16,720
This is where we get to the fun bits of Skaven again.

984
01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:26,720
They almost conquered the city of Noln once again, and indeed they did manage to burn a lot of it to the ground, but Gottrick and Felix were there, so that just didn't work.

985
01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:36,720
They almost destroyed a revolutionarily dwarf airship, known as the Spirit of Grugni, once again led by Thanquil, but Gottrick and Felix were there, so that also didn't work.

986
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:54,720
They built a submarine, don't know how, they did, and almost stole a magical high elven harp from a sunken elven city, that if played would allow the dark elves to drown not only the realms of man, but also Ulthuan, because that's the most elven thing the writer could think of.

987
01:15:54,720 --> 01:16:06,720
And again, Thanquil was leading this operation to get the fancy elven harp. Anyone want to take a guess why this one didn't succeed? Who could have been there to stop it?

988
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:10,720
God damn, I love Gottrick and Felix.

989
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:13,720
Congratulations Hal, you win this quiz.

990
01:16:13,720 --> 01:16:30,720
I love that, because I've read Elf Slayer, ironically it was my first Gottrick and Felix book, and it just always seems like, huh? They accidentally win every time.

991
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:38,720
And Thanquil is just pulling his hair out, because he has any hair, because he just can't get a win that guy, it's so sad.

992
01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:47,720
Almost at the end as well. It's sad, but it's so funny, he just keeps running into the two people that have nothing but the ability to put his schemes in the ground.

993
01:16:47,720 --> 01:16:54,720
He deserves it. I mean he deserves it, but poor Thanquil, one day he'll get his time in the sun.

994
01:16:54,720 --> 01:17:02,720
Until the end times though, this was the state of affairs, they would try and do something, and while they would get some success, at the end of the day they would be held back.

995
01:17:02,720 --> 01:17:07,720
More often than not by Gottrick and Felix.

996
01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:12,720
Then, someone who really liked the Skaven started writing their lore.

997
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:22,720
There's of course Warhammer Vermintide games, where the Skaven surround and destroy the cities of Uberswreik, despite the best efforts of the Uberswreik 5 or 4, doesn't matter.

998
01:17:22,720 --> 01:17:28,720
And that's kind of what's repeated across the entire Warhammer world.

999
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:33,720
To make it quick, I'm just gonna breeze through all of the countries they destroyed.

1000
01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:40,720
They conquered T'Lia, they conquered Astalia, they completely wiped out the Lizardmen who were prepared for demons, but not rats.

1001
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:48,720
They helped destroy Cathay, they were involved in overrunning the Empire, and they blew up Morsliab, the Chaos Moon, with a big cannon they built.

1002
01:17:48,720 --> 01:17:53,720
I was gonna say, don't forget, rest in peace my boy, the moon.

1003
01:17:53,720 --> 01:17:55,720
The moon of Warpstone.

1004
01:17:55,720 --> 01:17:56,720
The moon?

1005
01:17:56,720 --> 01:17:57,720
Yeah, the moon.

1006
01:17:57,720 --> 01:17:58,720
Like Zelda.

1007
01:17:58,720 --> 01:18:04,720
No, they literally blew up, no they didn't blow up the moon, excuse me, they threw the moon, didn't they?

1008
01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:08,720
No, they, I was gonna say, I got ahead of myself, pardon me.

1009
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:17,720
First they pulled it towards the moon, or pulled it towards the planet, just like Zelda, and then Clan Skryre realized they were being shown up, so they blew it up.

1010
01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:19,720
When you had the moon.

1011
01:18:19,720 --> 01:18:23,720
And then like, moon chunks started landing everywhere, didn't it?

1012
01:18:23,720 --> 01:18:32,720
They did, the only reason that the end times didn't end there was because the Slans sacrificed themselves to blow up the moon rocks, slamming into the planet.

1013
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:33,720
Oof.

1014
01:18:33,720 --> 01:18:40,720
Because when you're going for gold, you might as well go all out and blow up the moon.

1015
01:18:40,720 --> 01:18:51,720
They, and Queek Headtaker gets his time in the sun, and finally fully takes over Karak Eight Peaks from the dwarves and night goblins, killing Belagar Iron Hammer of Clan Ingrond,

1016
01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:58,720
before High King Thorgrim Grudgebearer kills him in, as much as I hate the end crimes, this is a really cool segment.

1017
01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:00,720
The end crimes.

1018
01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:01,720
The end crimes, yeah.

1019
01:19:01,720 --> 01:19:03,720
That should be the new, that's actually a perfect time.

1020
01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:07,720
That was accidental, but that was a very good flub.

1021
01:19:07,720 --> 01:19:22,720
As much as I hate them, this is a really cool bit of lore where he just lists every single wrong in the great book of grudges that Queek has done before ending it with the murder of Belagar Iron Hammer and then killing Queek.

1022
01:19:22,720 --> 01:19:26,720
So, shame for Queek, but by God is that cool.

1023
01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:31,720
What's not cool is what comes next, because remember how I said Deathmaster Snitch killed Thorgrim?

1024
01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:42,720
Yeah, Thorgrim, once he realized it was time to retreat from this battle, forgot to close a doorway behind him and Snitch got him that way and stabbed him in the back.

1025
01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:43,720
Oof.

1026
01:19:43,720 --> 01:19:53,720
It's also worth mentioning, Thorgrim has runes on his armor specifically to prevent this, but fantasy needed to end, so they just didn't have him anymore.

1027
01:19:53,720 --> 01:19:57,720
Didn't they forget about Skarsnik too? Was Reddit?

1028
01:19:57,720 --> 01:19:59,720
Yes, they just forgot about Skarsnik.

1029
01:19:59,720 --> 01:20:08,720
For Andy, that's like a Night Goblin character. He was quite beloved. A lot of people like him because he was quite crazy.

1030
01:20:08,720 --> 01:20:15,720
He was actually the prophet of Mork. It's not just Gasgol of Gork and Mork like in fantasy, or 40k.

1031
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:17,720
I was greedy. I'll have one or the other, it's fine.

1032
01:20:17,720 --> 01:20:28,720
The goblins are a lot more important than grots, so Mork got his goblin prophet, and then after he was around at Karak Eight Peaks, the writer just forgot about him.

1033
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:31,720
That's why we hate the end times.

1034
01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:33,720
Yeah, that's why we don't like the end times here.

1035
01:20:33,720 --> 01:20:42,720
Really the only things they didn't end up destroying though was Naggaroth, the Dark Elven Kingdom, which a Coronate army destroyed after all of the Dark Elves left to go to Ulthuan.

1036
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:49,720
And Ulthuan itself, which the elves did a fine job of blowing that up in their civil war.

1037
01:20:49,720 --> 01:21:01,720
They also did try to stop Nagash from gaining power and coming back, and even stab him with a Fel Blade again, but this was after he'd eaten a god, so it didn't really do anything by this point.

1038
01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:06,720
They did, however, blow up his magic pyramid with underground nukes.

1039
01:21:06,720 --> 01:21:09,720
Didn't they do that more than once? I swear.

1040
01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:11,720
They did more than once.

1041
01:21:11,720 --> 01:21:16,720
I'll be getting to that because we're jumping universes for that little gem.

1042
01:21:16,720 --> 01:21:20,720
Chill, chill, chill. Leave my pyramid alone.

1043
01:21:20,720 --> 01:21:23,720
Good lord.

1044
01:21:23,720 --> 01:21:37,720
And despite all these successes, the Horned Rat somehow decided that despite the fact that if they could do all this, they could probably face chaos, the Horned Rat decided they couldn't actually face chaos, so we allied with them instead.

1045
01:21:37,720 --> 01:21:42,720
Despite the fact, again, the Skaven took out well over half the world during all of this.

1046
01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:46,720
And remember what I said about the Horned Rat finding things funny?

1047
01:21:46,720 --> 01:21:48,720
And that's what he likes.

1048
01:21:48,720 --> 01:21:58,720
He ate the Council of Thirteen, the mortal Skaven, and then put Thanquil in charge.

1049
01:21:58,720 --> 01:21:59,720
Yes.

1050
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:02,720
Because who else deserves to be in charge?

1051
01:22:02,720 --> 01:22:12,720
As the Warhammer world comes to an end, the Skaven, in order to survive, teleported Skaven Blight into the warp. Thanquil and the Great Horned Rat work together.

1052
01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:22,720
Because, again, as much as Thanquil is a clown, he's the Horned Rat's silliest clown fighting his funniest battles, he's still a powerful wizard.

1053
01:22:22,720 --> 01:22:27,720
And Age of Sigmar will be quick because, unfortunately, they're not up to too much in that.

1054
01:22:27,720 --> 01:22:40,720
As it begins, the Skaven somehow manage to dig so aggressively and deeply into the warp, which, as a reminder, is infinite in size, that they crashed it halfway back into reality.

1055
01:22:40,720 --> 01:22:53,720
Now they can dig tunnels between the realm of chaos and reality to appear pretty much wherever they want to, up to and including areas completely blocked off from chaos, and probably under Khorne's throne if they really wanted to.

1056
01:22:53,720 --> 01:22:55,720
That would be hilarious.

1057
01:22:55,720 --> 01:23:05,720
Kind of like the Rat Webway, except not OSHA compliant, because sometimes things get lost in it, including demons, and they're just gone forever.

1058
01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:14,720
Is it like a Corsart place in America that no one likes? Like Florida? The one with all the alligators underneath the city?

1059
01:23:14,720 --> 01:23:16,720
That would probably be Florida.

1060
01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:20,720
Is that what it's like? Just like the alligators are everywhere.

1061
01:23:20,720 --> 01:23:23,720
I like to imagine it's like Wyoming.

1062
01:23:23,720 --> 01:23:27,720
Just imagining a lost property full of demons is a bit of a weird image.

1063
01:23:27,720 --> 01:23:32,720
You had to explain the Wyoming part to us, because I think all the rest of us are not from the state.

1064
01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:37,720
Because Wyoming doesn't exist, much like the realm between spaces the demons get lost in.

1065
01:23:37,720 --> 01:23:39,720
Fair enough, fair enough.

1066
01:23:39,720 --> 01:23:42,720
Shout out to anyone from Wyoming.

1067
01:23:42,720 --> 01:23:48,720
Yeah, anyone from Wyoming, please just type in, I'm from Wyoming in the chat.

1068
01:23:48,720 --> 01:23:50,720
For no reason, we need to know.

1069
01:23:50,720 --> 01:23:58,720
Aside from that though, it's largely business as usual for the Skaven, trying to take those in the surface world for themselves, gain ultimate power.

1070
01:23:58,720 --> 01:24:07,720
The only difference is there's even more of them now, as the clans of the Skaven are now types of clans with millions each.

1071
01:24:07,720 --> 01:24:16,720
So instead of it being clan pestilence has millions of rats in it, there's thousands of types of clan pestilence, each with millions of rats.

1072
01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:20,720
There's just exponentially more Skaven, that's the age of Sigmar lore.

1073
01:24:20,720 --> 01:24:23,720
You like Skaven, there's more of them.

1074
01:24:23,720 --> 01:24:32,720
They tried to invade before the rest of Chaos showed up, and got destroyed, so they waited until the other four Chaos Gods showed up.

1075
01:24:32,720 --> 01:24:34,720
Three actually, Slymesh was put in jail.

1076
01:24:34,720 --> 01:24:37,720
Very sorry, Eli.

1077
01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:50,720
Their most noteworthy accomplishment was when Nagash once again tried to gain power with magical pyramids, the Skaven blew it up again.

1078
01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:52,720
I'm sensing a theme here.

1079
01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:56,720
I'm slightly sensing a theme.

1080
01:24:56,720 --> 01:25:06,720
Much like the T-Ridans exist to eat whatever needs to be eaten in 40k to keep the plot from moving forward, the Skaven exist to keep Nagash from moving the plot moving forward.

1081
01:25:06,720 --> 01:25:15,720
I kind of imagine it like the Skaven just walking past and they're like, just looking at the Piz build, it's like, oh, it's like a nice square, but what shape is that building?

1082
01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:25,720
To give Nagash credit, these pyramids were upside down and floating this time.

1083
01:25:25,720 --> 01:25:32,720
He thought that would keep them from digging under them and blowing that up, which it didn't.

1084
01:25:32,720 --> 01:25:34,720
They still managed it.

1085
01:25:34,720 --> 01:25:45,720
They also, a different group of Skaven on their way to screw with Nagash, dug into the bottom of an ocean in Nagash's realm and drowned half of Skaven Blight.

1086
01:25:45,720 --> 01:25:56,720
And then when the water was done pouring in, it's an ocean in the realm of the dead, so zombies started pouring in the Skaven Blight.

1087
01:25:56,720 --> 01:25:57,720
That's awesome.

1088
01:25:57,720 --> 01:25:59,720
That's really cool.

1089
01:25:59,720 --> 01:26:06,720
This also revealed the existence of the identity of Deepkin to Nagash because he'd been looking for the people that kept stealing souls from him who couldn't find them.

1090
01:26:06,720 --> 01:26:13,720
So despite the fact that the Skaven ruined their plan, it still helped.

1091
01:26:13,720 --> 01:26:17,720
Anyone want to take a guess who was in charge of all of this?

1092
01:26:17,720 --> 01:26:18,720
Sure hope it's Thanquil.

1093
01:26:18,720 --> 01:26:19,720
It was Thanquil.

1094
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:23,720
He survived the end of the world.

1095
01:26:23,720 --> 01:26:30,720
He's now known as the Great Lord, a very influential seer, though again, he still screws up a lot.

1096
01:26:30,720 --> 01:26:39,720
And before we end Thanquil, as we know, can never have nice things.

1097
01:26:39,720 --> 01:26:40,720
Ever.

1098
01:26:40,720 --> 01:26:41,720
Never.

1099
01:26:41,720 --> 01:26:42,720
Never.

1100
01:26:42,720 --> 01:26:43,720
Ever.

1101
01:26:43,720 --> 01:26:45,720
I'm going to try and send something into the general.

1102
01:26:45,720 --> 01:26:46,720
Did that go through this time?

1103
01:26:46,720 --> 01:26:47,720
Yes.

1104
01:26:47,720 --> 01:26:48,720
I see it.

1105
01:26:48,720 --> 01:26:49,720
Hal, a quote for you to lead.

1106
01:26:49,720 --> 01:26:56,720
What happened with this quote is Thanquil, after all this time, was pretty secure in his power base.

1107
01:26:56,720 --> 01:27:03,720
He would screw up sometimes and he'd have to cover his tracks, but not that much because he's top dog escaping them now, aside from the Horned Rat, of course.

1108
01:27:03,720 --> 01:27:08,720
And then someone else made it through the end of the world.

1109
01:27:08,720 --> 01:27:16,720
Though he doesn't have Felix on his side anymore, Gottrick, despite wanting nothing more than to die, survived the end of the Warhammer world.

1110
01:27:16,720 --> 01:27:17,720
Yeah.

1111
01:27:17,720 --> 01:27:22,720
They say the guardsman, the planet broke before the guard did.

1112
01:27:22,720 --> 01:27:25,720
The planet broke and Gottrick just didn't.

1113
01:27:25,720 --> 01:27:27,720
He just kept going.

1114
01:27:27,720 --> 01:27:28,720
They did Felix so dirty, though.

1115
01:27:28,720 --> 01:27:30,720
Oh, I know.

1116
01:27:30,720 --> 01:27:36,720
And so, Hal, would you like to read a quote of what Thanquil said the moment he realized Gottrick was high?

1117
01:27:36,720 --> 01:27:39,720
It has to be a scary impression because we've all done one.

1118
01:27:39,720 --> 01:27:40,720
Come on.

1119
01:27:40,720 --> 01:27:43,720
I actually cannot voice that, so this will be rough.

1120
01:27:43,720 --> 01:27:46,720
It's quite alright.

1121
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:47,720
He lives!

1122
01:27:47,720 --> 01:27:48,720
No, no, no.

1123
01:27:48,720 --> 01:27:49,720
It cannot be.

1124
01:27:49,720 --> 01:27:50,720
Not him.

1125
01:27:50,720 --> 01:27:51,720
Not again.

1126
01:27:51,720 --> 01:27:52,720
Not like this.

1127
01:27:52,720 --> 01:27:53,720
Oh, oh he's the same.

1128
01:27:53,720 --> 01:27:54,720
I want him dead.

1129
01:27:54,720 --> 01:27:55,720
Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead!

1130
01:27:55,720 --> 01:27:56,720
Ahh!

1131
01:27:56,720 --> 01:27:57,720
That's why I was...

1132
01:27:57,720 --> 01:27:58,720
...that's pretty good.

1133
01:27:58,720 --> 01:27:59,720
That's pretty good.

1134
01:27:59,720 --> 01:28:00,720
It was pretty bad, man.

1135
01:28:00,720 --> 01:28:01,720
It was pretty good.

1136
01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:02,720
Oh man.

1137
01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:03,720
I didn't bow from that.

1138
01:28:03,720 --> 01:28:04,720
Noghazi.

1139
01:28:04,720 --> 01:28:07,720
Enjoy that edit of that loud voice.

1140
01:28:07,720 --> 01:28:14,440
This time, Gottrick sees him as a proper enemy and is going to attempt to kill Thanquil in

1141
01:28:14,440 --> 01:28:19,800
revenge for Felix's father, who Thanquil had actually killed in the Old World.

1142
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:25,660
But with that, that is largely the end of the Skaven episode.

1143
01:28:25,660 --> 01:28:27,760
Anyone have any questions?

1144
01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:31,200
I have emotions after that.

1145
01:28:31,200 --> 01:28:32,200
Man.

1146
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:33,740
Oh lord.

1147
01:28:33,740 --> 01:28:43,040
That was a...I wish...if someone is just a 40k fan and they're wondering what the kind

1148
01:28:43,040 --> 01:28:48,080
of vibe of it is, definitely it's obviously comic relief, right?

1149
01:28:48,080 --> 01:28:49,720
The equivalent in a fantasy.

1150
01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:55,760
But also we have orcs, but Skaven are like a nude level of comic relief.

1151
01:28:55,760 --> 01:29:01,160
They're so well done with it too, because they can be played as clowns or as incredibly

1152
01:29:01,160 --> 01:29:02,660
serious.

1153
01:29:02,660 --> 01:29:07,400
Because on the one hand, you have anything Thanquil does, which is just fun to read about.

1154
01:29:07,400 --> 01:29:11,520
I didn't mention this earlier, but Thanquil gave us the wonderful quote of, there's more

1155
01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:16,520
than one way to skin an infant.

1156
01:29:16,520 --> 01:29:19,800
That's something to look forward to in Gottrick and Felix.

1157
01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:21,200
That's a bit too much there.

1158
01:29:21,200 --> 01:29:25,640
To be honest, I feel like what you were saying, it's like, it depends what perspective you're

1159
01:29:25,640 --> 01:29:27,160
standing from with the Skaven.

1160
01:29:27,160 --> 01:29:30,320
If you're a Skaven, if you're in Skaven society, it's kind of funny.

1161
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:36,880
Or like the poor Empire citizen whose family have got like this pox or whatever, and their

1162
01:29:36,880 --> 01:29:39,760
family have been eaten by rats.

1163
01:29:39,760 --> 01:29:42,200
Not very fun for them, but you know.

1164
01:29:42,200 --> 01:29:44,440
Does my boy have a question?

1165
01:29:44,440 --> 01:29:45,440
Oh sorry, go ahead.

1166
01:29:45,440 --> 01:29:50,640
Obviously on the one hand it's a race of funny Dr. Doofenshmirtz rats, on the other hand

1167
01:29:50,640 --> 01:29:56,440
it's an endless tide of hateful vermin that want nothing more than you to die.

1168
01:29:56,440 --> 01:29:57,440
Yikes.

1169
01:29:57,440 --> 01:30:05,840
I was gonna ask if our main man, our Randy Orton slowly ran out, Karl Franz, has he ever

1170
01:30:05,840 --> 01:30:09,120
fought Skaven in the lore?

1171
01:30:09,120 --> 01:30:14,920
Off the top of my head, Skaven are not one of the enemies he fights the most.

1172
01:30:14,920 --> 01:30:20,840
His chief enemies would be the greenskins, orcs and goblins, as it is any proper emperor

1173
01:30:20,840 --> 01:30:22,900
of the Empire of Man.

1174
01:30:22,900 --> 01:30:28,360
And Chaos, who he's pretty good at dealing with, except for the fact the planet blew

1175
01:30:28,360 --> 01:30:30,360
up but don't worry about that.

1176
01:30:30,360 --> 01:30:35,560
He has of course fought the Skaven, but they're not given nearly as much prominence.

1177
01:30:35,560 --> 01:30:39,760
I guess one last bit is, Eli, ask Eli first.

1178
01:30:39,760 --> 01:30:42,840
Eli, what's your favorite clan out of all of them?

1179
01:30:42,840 --> 01:30:46,040
I think my favorite clan is probably Skryre.

1180
01:30:46,040 --> 01:30:51,560
I like Klad Morz a lot as well, just cause Kwek is such a Chad.

1181
01:30:51,560 --> 01:30:57,240
He's a little bit more, I'll say relatable there, I don't know why that word came into

1182
01:30:57,240 --> 01:31:00,840
my head, cause that's not right at all.

1183
01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:04,120
He's almost a good person by Skaven.

1184
01:31:04,120 --> 01:31:06,560
By Skaven standards, he's a saint.

1185
01:31:06,560 --> 01:31:10,520
I mean everyone loves Ikkikla.

1186
01:31:10,520 --> 01:31:12,160
Thank all.

1187
01:31:12,160 --> 01:31:15,400
Everyone loves Ikkikla and Skryre.

1188
01:31:15,400 --> 01:31:17,600
What about you, Colin?

1189
01:31:17,600 --> 01:31:18,600
What's your favorite?

1190
01:31:18,600 --> 01:31:26,200
Mine probably is Klan Morz, because the Skaven monsters are so uncomfortable to look at,

1191
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:27,200
but in a good way.

1192
01:31:27,200 --> 01:31:29,200
Is that Molder or Morz?

1193
01:31:29,200 --> 01:31:31,480
Or Molder, pardon me, did I say Morz?

1194
01:31:31,480 --> 01:31:32,480
Yeah, it's Molder.

1195
01:31:32,480 --> 01:31:36,920
I have been flubbing so much this episode.

1196
01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:39,160
So good, low crimes.

1197
01:31:39,160 --> 01:31:40,160
Yeah.

1198
01:31:40,160 --> 01:31:41,160
That's pretty...

1199
01:31:41,160 --> 01:31:45,440
Cause Klan Molder, just the Rat Ogres, the Storm Fiends, which are Rat Ogres with machine

1200
01:31:45,440 --> 01:31:48,160
guns bolted to them, or flamethrowers.

1201
01:31:48,160 --> 01:31:51,000
They're just crazy.

1202
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:52,680
I wish they had something of...

1203
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:56,440
Cause obviously we've had in 40k, the return of the...

1204
01:31:56,440 --> 01:31:59,280
Oh my god, they're not Squats, what are they called?

1205
01:31:59,280 --> 01:32:00,280
Leaves of Otan.

1206
01:32:00,280 --> 01:32:01,280
The not Squats.

1207
01:32:01,280 --> 01:32:02,280
The Squats.

1208
01:32:02,280 --> 01:32:03,280
The not Squats.

1209
01:32:03,280 --> 01:32:10,520
And I mean, it'd be really cool if they had to fight, you know, I mean, if we had like

1210
01:32:10,520 --> 01:32:12,640
the, you know, they're essentially in the setting again.

1211
01:32:12,640 --> 01:32:13,920
So we have dwarves.

1212
01:32:13,920 --> 01:32:16,160
I guess all we're missing now is Skaven.

1213
01:32:16,160 --> 01:32:18,400
Yeah, the Rat Boys.

1214
01:32:18,400 --> 01:32:20,600
Barl accidentally creates the Skaven.

1215
01:32:20,600 --> 01:32:21,600
Oh, yeah.

1216
01:32:21,600 --> 01:32:23,040
Oh, that'd be amazing.

1217
01:32:23,040 --> 01:32:26,280
I think, I don't think it would take much for them to fit in either because their weapons

1218
01:32:26,280 --> 01:32:27,840
are already all powered by chaos.

1219
01:32:27,840 --> 01:32:33,200
Yeah, they just need some higher tech, a little bit higher tech stuff and they'd be there.

1220
01:32:33,200 --> 01:32:36,360
And they tie in a bit with the Nergal stuff as well.

1221
01:32:36,360 --> 01:32:44,520
He is actually one of the only other army you can ally with on tabletop.

1222
01:32:44,520 --> 01:32:45,520
Nergal demons.

1223
01:32:45,520 --> 01:32:47,920
Oh, pretty cool.

1224
01:32:47,920 --> 01:32:52,560
So yeah, only for clan pestilence though, you have to be the sick rats.

1225
01:32:52,560 --> 01:32:57,440
I think they're my favorite just because they have, like their aesthetic is so strong.

1226
01:32:57,440 --> 01:33:02,180
Like they're really, I like, is there one here, like obviously we all like dabbling

1227
01:33:02,180 --> 01:33:06,200
in Warhammer, but I love the painting side of it and doing painting is like Death Guard

1228
01:33:06,200 --> 01:33:11,680
and I mean, just making them look like someone threw up on your model in an artistic way.

1229
01:33:11,680 --> 01:33:12,680
Of course.

1230
01:33:12,680 --> 01:33:15,600
I'm a big fan of them.

1231
01:33:15,600 --> 01:33:19,760
They're just, that is so, you know, it's like with Erebus, you hate, you'd love to hate

1232
01:33:19,760 --> 01:33:20,960
it.

1233
01:33:20,960 --> 01:33:23,000
I love to hate clan pestilence though.

1234
01:33:23,000 --> 01:33:24,360
No, that's really cool, man.

1235
01:33:24,360 --> 01:33:25,360
Really cool.

1236
01:33:25,360 --> 01:33:27,240
They're probably my, I love and hate them.

1237
01:33:27,240 --> 01:33:30,160
I love them because like you said, so cool visually.

1238
01:33:30,160 --> 01:33:34,480
Vermintide makes me hate them because I turn around and they've taken half of my health.

1239
01:33:34,480 --> 01:33:35,920
The plague monks, right?

1240
01:33:35,920 --> 01:33:36,920
The plague monks.

1241
01:33:36,920 --> 01:33:39,840
Yeah, because the berserker enemies like that are so tough in that game that if you don't

1242
01:33:39,840 --> 01:33:42,840
have your ultimate, you're just down.

1243
01:33:42,840 --> 01:33:43,840
Yeah.

1244
01:33:43,840 --> 01:33:51,440
I guess I hope everyone listening, if you were new to Warhammer or just a 40k fan and

1245
01:33:51,440 --> 01:33:55,800
you're new to fantasy, I hope you enjoyed our little foray into the Skaven.

1246
01:33:55,800 --> 01:34:02,120
Hopefully we didn't scar you for life or hopefully the, you know, just develop to, you know,

1247
01:34:02,120 --> 01:34:06,680
Total Warhammer is a really good way to learn more about it or basically play with it.

1248
01:34:06,680 --> 01:34:10,120
Hopefully Total War 40k comes about one day.

1249
01:34:10,120 --> 01:34:12,480
That's how I got into this whole setting, Total Warhammer.

1250
01:34:12,480 --> 01:34:13,480
Yeah.

1251
01:34:13,480 --> 01:34:18,200
Anything Warhammer related that started the addiction.

1252
01:34:18,200 --> 01:34:24,800
And now we're all here, unfortunately, for all of the wrong decisions we've made.

1253
01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:26,680
Thank you all for listening.

1254
01:34:26,680 --> 01:34:28,840
Make sure to like, make sure to subscribe.

1255
01:34:28,840 --> 01:34:31,520
Does anyone else have anything to say?

1256
01:34:31,520 --> 01:34:35,760
And what's our next episode on boys?

1257
01:34:35,760 --> 01:34:41,680
If I'm remembering correctly, unless I'm looking at it wrong, Hal, I believe I am looking

1258
01:34:41,680 --> 01:34:42,960
at it wrong.

1259
01:34:42,960 --> 01:34:45,080
The next episode, you're still on it.

1260
01:34:45,080 --> 01:34:46,080
I could save this.

1261
01:34:46,080 --> 01:34:47,080
The next one.

1262
01:34:47,080 --> 01:34:50,080
I think it's corn, isn't it?

1263
01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:51,080
Yeah.

1264
01:34:51,080 --> 01:34:52,080
Corn.

1265
01:34:52,080 --> 01:35:01,560
So if I have to sit, listen and sit, I will say that between the next beginner to expert

1266
01:35:01,560 --> 01:35:06,160
podcast episode and this one, we also have something a bit special planned with fantasy

1267
01:35:06,160 --> 01:35:07,160
in particular.

1268
01:35:07,160 --> 01:35:08,160
So yeah, interesting.

1269
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:15,200
So if you enjoyed, if you enjoyed this episode, this, the nap that special project, you're

1270
01:35:15,200 --> 01:35:16,200
gonna love it.

1271
01:35:16,200 --> 01:35:17,200
You're gonna love it.

1272
01:35:17,200 --> 01:35:18,200
Also Merry Christmas, everybody.

1273
01:35:18,200 --> 01:35:23,000
This will be out for Christmas time.

1274
01:35:23,000 --> 01:35:24,000
So Merry Christmas.

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Christmas Eve.

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Thank you all so much for watching and we'll see you all next time.

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Peace.

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Bye everyone.

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Stephen Best.

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Let's get started.

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