Hello, uh, lore crimes viewers.
We are back at it again with a fantasy fireside, but this time there's a couple things different.
First of all, you might notice the avatar.
I'm of course, Carl France and his glorious regalia is still there, but it's not Andy.
The remembrance there is gone with me.
I have today, how the Amber King, no one will remember the remembrance.
I've taken him out.
He's forgotten.
He's replaced.
He's currently on the end of my little wooden stick.
He's the Marsh bellow.
I have consumed him for more esoteric knowledge.
I now remember everything.
It is the, uh, Haster, the King in yellow.
So I suppose that's only fitting.
True.
Oh, he's more, um, you know, haunting slash, you know, do something bad in your underwear
kind of Eldritch horror rather than knowledge.
Being a jerk, I will say, because it's still within the first minute of the video and I
can't use bigger words yet.
True, true.
But beyond that, this fantasy fireside is going to be a bit different because today
I'm going to be telling how, I guess a little bit of explanation, how I know you're a little
bit more familiar with fantasy than Andy is.
Yeah.
I'm kind of, I knew, uh, well, I'm a fantasy before I actually knew 140 K. I know that's
a bit of a shock there for many people.
And I really, I really fell in love with it.
Um, end times.
I knew, I knew the end times happened, the end crimes and I was so upset.
And I kind of, I've honestly stayed away from age of stigma for so long, but I know that
they've been, they've been putting in the work in terms of making that world good.
And so I'm kind of, I'm like, you know, my body's ready.
I'm ready to explore the setting that I've kind of, you know, been against cause it's
not the old world.
Uh, well said.
And as Hal said, and as you can probably figure out because you know, videos have titles
in them.
We are not in the warhammer fantasy world today.
Today we're going to go over age of Sigmar.
So kind of like the first of these was what's the basics of the warhammer fantasy world.
This is going to be a similar vein for age of Sigmar granted a little bit more broad.
We'll not just be going over locations.
I'll be going over the plot of the game, the mortal realms themselves and the grand alliances,
the faction groupings.
And I'm your victim.
And yeah, and since Hal doesn't know much about the age of Sigmar universe, it's his
turn to have lore just vomited all over them.
Definitely.
I'm, I'm ready.
And I think the view is we're all, we're just ready to hit us with it.
Let's, let's delve into the, are they called, they're not called, are they called mortal
realms?
They're the mortal realms.
Yes.
Oh, damn.
I was thinking of the total war, immortal empires.
I can already, I can already feel that this is going to, all right, I'll keep it.
I'll keep it together.
Awesome trailer, but I have to, we have to move on.
I can't get caught on the total war trailer cause I will.
I'll be sad.
For those of you who only know it as that thing you ignore and instead play total warhammer,
funnily enough, age of Sigmar is the sequel to the warhammer fantasy universe end game
after the end times happened, which again, bad, very bad age of Sigmar was born to replace
the old fantasy line.
It replaced the rank and file, the square bases with circles as they are in 40 K and
kind of 40 Kified the setting in a couple of ways, which in some ways is bad.
It's not as much of a cohesive single planet anymore, but in some ways is good.
It allows for a lot more factions to be created since functionally the world realms are infinite
and a lot more homebrew because again, it's not a single planet.
There's a lot more room for whatever you want.
And while it's certainly not as well developed as fantasy was and 40 K is, I don't think
that's a issue with the setting as it is the fact that age of Sigmar launched in 2015,
I believe.
It's only just about eight years old now that really saves this podcast.
As soon as someone hears it.
Yeah.
Well, later down the line, it'll date it, but for, you know, for now, this is, this
is the modern day for us.
Yeah.
This is sorry to all of you.
Super future people watching this in 2045 shout out to my grandkids listening to this
or 800 of you.
I'm joking.
Let's do this.
All right.
So, uh, but yeah, it's come together as a setting and I'd like to introduce some people
to it.
So let's go through the plot of age of Sigmar first, which as a spoiler, this is going to
be most of the video telling you what's going on in AOS and you know, the narrative and
the plot, cause that is what gets a lot of people into Warhammer.
Like what's, what are these people, what are they doing?
What are they about?
Very quickly, if like a very, imagine if you had like a very quick sentence here, why should
someone give this setting a chance?
So just like very quickly, because we're obviously trying to encourage people like I'm here,
you know, I'm with you, bro.
I'm holding hands, but, um, why, why now as it kind of turned around and you think it's
the time to get into ages, Sigmar law just for the people who are listening.
Um, at least from personal experience, I know that this it's kind of been getting more popular
lately, like in my local GW, they, uh, the manager was talking about how a whole bunch
more people have recently gotten into the game.
So it's kind of blowing up and something I do think I do firmly believe is that I do
think most of games workshops, creativity right now is going into age of Sigmar.
Uh, the models, the models to death, the models are phenomenal.
And 40 K's kind of gotten to a point where it has its established setting and veering
away from that is very difficult.
If not almost impossible, grim dark has to be grim dark.
Yeah.
At least in my opinion, but AOS is new.
So it's still kind of forming in a couple of different ways.
Um, also it's kind of a, it's an exciting time now.
Like we're witnessing the, the co-cohesions, is that the right word?
The kind of coalescence of this set to its identity.
Yeah.
Like it's only in its third edition right now, which I think launched last year or the
year before.
I'm ready.
I'm, I'm, I'm in now.
I'm ready.
Let's do it.
And, uh, just one other thing.
It's much like 40 K is science fiction on steroids.
Uh, AOS is fantasy on steroids.
So if you like massive scale, Titanic, everything, age of Sigmar has you covered.
So with that being said, I need to disappoint everyone because to talk about age of Sigmar,
I need to bring up the end times.
Oh, so for those of you who don't know what the end times were, the warhammer fantasy
range as a whole was selling less than, uh, individual armies in 40 K. And I think paint
was outselling warhammer fantasy, which hurts.
Oof.
Uh, so games workshop decided things had to be shaken up.
And the way they did this was blow up the setting.
That's one way to do it.
Yeah.
That being said, a lots of races, factions, and whatnot from the end times, the old fantasy
world actually survived.
The skaven just kind of teleported their capital city into the warp.
The lizard men, uh, their fancy, you know, Aztec Inca Maya mishmash pyramids were actually
spaceships.
So when the skaven were blowing up the chaos moon and causing all the fragments to land
on lustria, uh, or at least a decent chunk of them were landing there and invading the
lizard men, they declared that the plan had failed.
They got into their spaceships and just left the planet.
And most importantly of all, Sigmar held in hammer the titular God of age of Sigmar and
Archaon the ever chosen of chaos warhammer fantasy Abaddon for those who aren't too familiar
with them.
Slightly more competent though.
Yeah.
Abaddon or Abaddon?
I call him Abaddon, but however you want to say it.
He's a, I, I, Archaon to me, his backstory is a little bit better as well.
Let's be honest.
He's a little bit better than Abaddon.
Oh yeah.
100%.
Even though I do have a slight confusion about his backstory, but I see, I assume we might
talk about him properly another time, but he's definitely, he's a lot more competent
and I enjoyed that about him.
Whether you, whether he's competent because games workshop just wanted the setting blown
up.
I'll leave that up to the viewers to decide their opinions on his confidence.
True, true.
Uh, but he and Sigmar wrestled, wrestled over Gal Maraz, Sigmar's signature warhammer and
indeed the warhammer of games workshop that if you ever look at their emblem, doesn't
come from 40k, that would be good old Gal Maraz on it.
And in the city of Middenheim, as the warp was overtaking the planet, the realm of chaos,
they wrestled over the hammer.
And although Sigmar won was a hollow victory because the world was still ending all around
them.
The heroes of order, as well as a Magash who was also there trying to stop it, if only
because he lives on the world, failed to stop it.
And the warhammer world was devoured by chaos.
We haven't mentioned the leech, the little, the little scum that is, uh, Mr. Von, yeah,
Manfred von Karstein.
Oh man.
It's annoying because he's quite, he's such an enjoyable character.
That's the one like little piece I just despise about him so much.
Unfortunately that little piece is ending the setting.
He stabbed, um, no, not Tecla, he stabbed Balthasar Gelt.
I know that part.
Yeah.
Teclas tried to take his wind of magic into his body and it was too much and he exploded
and then the world exploded.
But enough end times.
It's time to get to age of Sigmar, if only so I can stop talking about the end times.
Let's do it.
Let's fly.
So while Sigmar won, like I said, world implodes around him, but he attaches himself to the
solid core of the warhammer world, which proceeds to fly through the space and time that doesn't
really exist anymore because chaos ate everything for untold amount of time until he ends up
in what would become known as the realm of Azir in the mortal realms.
And he meets this god beast, which are big old monsters that are called god beasts because
they're very powerful.
This one is known as the star Drake Dracothian and it's revealed through this and the end
times as it turns out, warhammer worlds follow a cycle.
Chaos will blow up one world, move on to the next, and then the survivors of the previous
one usually become the new gods of the new setting.
Things that are nice for a while, then chaos shows up, they start making the world suck
and then eventually they blow it up and move on.
Does that mean, I have a very quick question.
Does that when in the old world, when they refer to the old ones, was that perhaps a
race that survived the previous epoch, if you know what I mean?
I don't believe that has ever been confirmed, but what has been confirmed is that some of
the Elven gods, so I know Assyrian and Cain, they were survivors of the last world.
Yo, that's kind of, I mean, I understand Cain because he's just too, I like it, Cain in
the Warhammer fantasy is way better, man.
It has to be said, he's so much more competent.
I enjoy that.
That's really, that's pretty cool.
I'd actually, I'd had no idea that they, is that a common theory or is that like, perhaps
like a deep law idea?
I think it's a decent amount of, it's not exactly like in the universe or as far as
like we would know it.
Okay, okay.
That's pretty cool.
Yeah.
So it's, I don't know if it's one of the more prominent things they've advertised, but it
is something that's not like hidden away for the setting.
So that happens and he meets this guy, this star Drake Dracothian and Dracothian sole
job is to basically form the bedrock of reality.
So when the gods of the new world, they come in and, you know, kind of spice it up, but
Dracothian gives it its formation and either with his help or it was irrelevant of it.
I couldn't find anything that confirmed it completely.
The former eight winds of magic from the Warhammer world formed the eight mortal realms and
Sigmar having been bound to the wind of heaven in the Warhammer fantasy world became the
God of the realm of Azir, the realm of heavens.
The lizard men who are in their spaceships who had largely died out except for some salon
also made it to Azir and became creatures of heaven.
They became demons of order with pretty much the lightning of heaven running through their
veins, which is stove metal.
That's actually pretty, they have like the glowing woke eyes, but it's actually white
instead of red.
Yeah, yeah.
It's a, it's, they kind of flip flop on it a bit.
Like early on they were all like demons of order.
Now they've kind of changed a bit where some of them are, some of them aren't, they're
just regular flesh and blood lizard men.
That's a little bit all over the place, but at least some of them are these crazy lightning
demons that only form in the lizard men bodies when they lightning strike in front of a chaos
warrior and cut his head off.
Did my boy Lord croak, I'm on the edge of my seat.
Did he survive?
Oh, you better believe Lord croak is still around.
That is, I'll be getting to him.
He is lizard man, a doom guy, a hundred percent.
And no one can change my opinion on that, but he has magic instead.
Yeah, he's, he's pretty sick and thus forms the early ages of AOS.
And this is known as the age of myth.
Early on, Sigmar was kind of alone.
Dracothian kind of pissed off after he helped Sigmar out and helped Sigmar get his bearings.
But Sigmar wasn't alone forever because over time he came across the, some of the former
people and gods he knew from the old world, freed them or recruited them from whatever
they were doing.
And they formed the new pantheon of gods of age of Sigmar of the mortal realms.
And funnily enough, Nagash was first.
Now for those of you who don't know Nagash, imagine a Warhammer Saturday cartoon villain.
He has no redeeming qualities.
He is the worst person ever.
Just giant piece of shit.
Utterly selfish in every, literally in every regard.
I don't think he has anything redeeming about him.
But very powerful and early on in the mortal realms, a very dangerous place.
There were a lot of beasties and nasty things crawling around.
They weren't even chaos related as chaos had yet to come into the planet.
But they were still very dangerous.
Is that similar to like how before the old ones arrived in the old world, they were like
dragon ogre shaggoths.
Like just like, just thing.
And obviously like dragons too.
They just existed.
It's yeah, it's kind of like that.
I actually hadn't made that parallel before, but yeah, it's kind of like that how before
the old ones came in, the Warhammer world was a lot more dangerous.
It was kind of like that.
Only now it was Sigmar who had to deal with it.
So for that reason, he frees Nagash because he needs the allies and together they fought
these horrible creatures.
And I've even read that supposedly, maybe this is exaggeration, maybe it isn't, but
some of the things they fought would have even given the chaos gods pause for thought
on whether or not they wanted to fight.
Is that like the, again, reference to the old world, there was a dragon ogre shaggoth
that Archaon did it, it was part of his quest to become ever chosen.
It was literally like the size of a mountain.
Yeah, like he was, I think you could confuse it for a mountain if you were far away from
it.
Even Archaon was like, I'm not messing with that.
Yeah, it's kind of like that.
It makes you wonder like where these creatures do come from, or if that's just like a natural,
like you know how like obviously guests dinosaurs in our world, like back, you know, way back
then they were bigger, more deadly.
It's just a thing that happens.
Kind of something like that, because the mortal realms are all intrinsically magic since each
formed from one of the eight winds.
So depending on where they're at, you get all these horrible, different nasty creatures
that aren't even chaos, they're just massively powerful creatures.
Indeed, they're called godbees for that reason.
Small questions from my head, how many realms are there?
I know we're going to talk about them.
There are eight main realms.
There's a few sub realms I'll bring up, but eight main ones from each of the eight winds
of magic of the old warhammer world.
Awesome.
So yeah, and as, and like I said, these things would have given the chaos gods at least a
little bit of pause for thought.
So Sigmar and Agash went on a rampage.
He was the first after that, he found more gods who either were already gods or had become
gods through the end times.
He found the old dwarf gods Grimnir and Grigni.
They were bound to a mountain and they refused to talk about what caused that to happen.
They just didn't talk.
They just didn't want to talk about it.
Too stubborn, huh?
They were too stubborn and too embarrassed.
He freed them and Grigni was like, Hey, you know what?
You did me a solid.
Dwarfs are all about oaths and debts.
I'm going to offer you my services.
Grimnir on the other hand was like, no, I'm repaying the stat right now.
What am I going to kill?
So Sigmar told them to fight another god beast named Volcatrix, the mother of the salamanders,
not the space Marines, the mythical animal.
And in a colossal duel, they killed each other.
Grimnir shattered into pieces known as Urgold and Volcatrix corpse created volcanoes as
well as those salamanders.
In the realm of fire this happened, so that's kind of like I was saying, it's fantasy on
steroids.
The pre-setting lore is a god shattering into pieces and creating volcanoes from the fight.
Damn.
That must've been a, sorry, Grimnir or Grungi?
Which one?
Grimnir is the one who shattered.
Grungi is like the craftsman's god.
Grimnir is the, you know, the slayer god, the one who's all about fighting.
Oh, that's pretty.
So this is like the slayer, the slayer god literally got shattered, which must've been
insane.
Just a crazy man.
After them, Gorka Morka, Gorka Morka had fused and somehow the fusion had gotten trapped
in a giant blob of sentient amber.
So Sigmar freed Gorka Morka and then they immediately proceeded to beat the shit out
of each other for days on end.
And then at just at one point, you know how like when the lion and Leman Russ were doing
that campaign and they fought.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
And Leman Russ just starts laughing and the lion knocks him out cold.
Cause he's just not, he's not having any of it.
Yeah.
Imagine that, but it's two Leman Russes and they both just realized the stupid fight they've
been having to start laughing.
But literally, but they were laughing the entire time as well.
Probably yeah.
Gorka Morka was having the time of his life and Sigmar, God or not, was originally a barbarian
king.
So he was having plenty of fun too.
He was like, Oh, I get to fight.
This is hell yeah.
Is this inside a realm or is this in like kind of...
This is in the realm of beasts.
So Sigmar's going to multiple kind of like Pokemon, he's collecting them all.
He's going across all the mortal realms and collecting the gods.
And then Gorka Morka actually for a little while joins his pantheon as well, which I
know orcs cooperating with others.
Weird.
But Gorka Morka was down with it at first, mostly because Sigmar would point at something
and say, Hey, that's a problem.
Go kill it.
And then Gorka Morka would go and kill it.
So that was his contribution.
Next up, he found all of the elf gods.
Tyrion and Teclis are back.
They're now the gods of the realm, Heish, Light.
Tyrion was blind because he got into basically a staring contest with the sun.
Wait, what?
Is that real?
Yeah.
It was essentially the manifestation of Heish's light.
And since it's the realm of light, it's a very bright light.
And Tyrion didn't want to puss out.
So he refused to look away from her and he was blind.
Now, I think I've asked this way before, but how is Tyrion good with Teclis after he kind
of plotted to have his ever child yeeted into the Nagash soup, shall we say?
It helps that during the end times, Teclis did revive him.
He didn't quite forgive him.
But when Manfred stabbed, or not stabbed Teclis, but stabbed Balthasar, and that led to Teclis
dying.
One of the only connections Teclis had left in the world just vanished into smoke.
So between that and the fact that when Teclis found him, it was pretty much his only companion.
And also, Tyrion can see through Teclis's eyes.
Not his own, but through Teclis's.
That's kind of weird, I have to say.
Weird, but I don't know, it's kind of interesting, if nothing else.
So that's kind of how they're making up on it.
And they're dual gods, aren't they?
So they're both gods of the realm.
I think Tyrion technically outranks, if you want to say it, Teclis as a deity, but they're
both gods.
Okay, okay.
And then eventually Sigmar finds them.
He finds Malekith.
His name is now Malarian, because changing his name to Malarian is easier than trying
to sue Marvel Comics, because Marvel also has a dark elf character named Malekith.
Yeah, Thor the Dark World, definitely everyone's favourite movie, hands down.
Awful movie or not, no amount of Games Workshop lawyers bullying is going to get Disney to
back down, so the Games Workshop chose the route of discretion on this one.
Didn't they try and copyright the word Warhammer?
I believe they did, and they also tried to copyright Space Marines.
Even though I think they tried to copyright pauldrons once too.
Yeah, that's, that's a, you know what I mean, like someone is smoking something fishy, and
I'm over here with my campfire and my marshmallow eating the remnants of Andy.
But that is, that's, you know, audacious.
Is that why they're called, the only thing I do know is they're called ales, aren't they?
I was just going to bring that up.
You'll notice if you look at the fantasy races like orcs are oryx, elves are ales, dwarfs
are duarden.
I'm calling them what they are.
I'm not, I'm not going with GW copyright crap.
It's a dwarf.
I don't call it a duarden if you want.
It's a dwarf.
I bet no one calls them by their like, their retcon names.
Even the people who love AOS more than fantasy, like it's a dwarf.
It's a fucking dwarf.
Anyways, though.
Both gods are found, Malekith, Tyrion and Teclis, and Marathi also survived, but she's
not quite a god yet.
Keep that yet in mind.
Allariel too, for the realm of life.
Malekith was the god of shadow, Ulgu, and Allariel is the goddess of the realm of life.
And you know, they're all part of the pantheon too.
Not always, you know, in the best of terms because one of them is Nagash.
No one likes Nagash.
Even now, no one likes Nagash even now.
No one likes him.
Tyrion might have kind of forgiven Teclis.
I don't think he forgave Nagash for eating his daughter.
That makes sense.
But you know, they're doing their best to recreate the world as they knew it and make
it better in any way they can.
So Teclis and Grugni do their best to bring the mortals of the world up to snuff.
Nagash fills out the underworlds and creates places for the dead to go.
He also eats all of the other death gods that existed because there used to be other death
gods.
And then Nagash ate them and then there weren't any other death gods.
But you know, and like I said earlier, Gorka Morca just beats the shit out of anything
that's big enough to threaten them.
So for a while, everything is about as nice as you can ever hope to be in a warhammer
setting.
There's some small scale conflict, yes, and there are actually beastmen, the children
of chaos, but not in large enough numbers to truly threaten anyone.
And indeed, at one point, there's even a skaven incursion into one of the mortal realms.
And the entire great clan that invades gets wiped to the last rat.
As they deserve it.
But also kind of sad because the rat, the skaven are the best part of the whammy fantasy.
Yeah, well, if we know anything about them, there's always more.
So this plan's gone, but that's hardly all of them.
I do want to ask you about skaven blight by shoot.
We're going to talk about that later.
It intrigues me.
It's I'll bring it up shortly because we're almost to the end of the age of myth.
But this is around the time a lot of the factions begin popping up.
Some of them might not be active for a while.
But the the like the luminous realm lords of the order are actually created around this
time as are the item that deepkin.
But for a couple different reasons, the luminous do not participate in the early age of sigma
universe, which for reasons I'll get to.
But a lot of the factions have their origins here.
The age of myth.
This wasn't gonna last forever, though, because as we said, I said it's cyclical chaos comes
back eventually.
Early on, it was dealt with semi easily because the gods are all still united.
Like I said, the skaven were wiped that great clan down to the man.
But they still survived because good old thank cool.
The biggest the horned rats, funny clown.
Yes, him and the horned rat, who's now the great horned rat and a major chaos god after
the end times just teleported all of skaven blight to the warp.
They can just do that.
They were just like, this is in the warp now.
And then the skaven.
Keep in mind, you know, the warp, it's the realm of chaos.
It's infinite.
Would you would you agree with that statement?
Hell, it's it's an infinite realm.
The word infinite is weirdly enough, infinite and yet not infinite, because again, it makes
no sense.
Yeah.
It's it's even more confusing in 40 K because there are like actual places and then they're
not all in the same timeline.
It's it just doesn't make if you're new to Warhammer, it just think of the laws of physics.
Don't apply anything.
The warp do not apply.
And speaking of things that don't make sense, the skaven managed to dig so deeply into the
warp from skaven blight that they crashed it halfway back into reality.
Don't think about that sentence because I don't understand it.
I do have a I think I have a slight theory about that if I can go into it, please, which
is that I assumed you say the realms, I'm guessing are they kind of like dimensions
or they they're they're more like planes of existence, you know, D&D, how there's like,
you know, the like the different planes, like there's the Underdark and also it's kind of
like funny enough.
This is gonna be a reference to Thor, the Dark World.
You know, the part near the end of the film where they have all those like, there's kind
of like those disks of like those portals line up.
I'm going to be honest, I've never seen that movie and I never plan on it.
Well, you're the lucky one.
Well, essentially they have.
It's a funny enough a similar plot where the realms are all lining up.
They want to use a super weapon to basically destroy them all at once.
And I assume it might be, is it like that similarly with the realms and age of same
or whether they kind of they're not like physically near each other, but in a sort of, I guess,
esoteric idea of like being next to each other, they can kind of line up or they are all connected
in a way.
I'd say it's kind of like that.
And there are connections between them known as realm gates, which is you go through the
realm gate and you enter one realm to another.
And sometimes there, you know, that what you would imagine a big gate of fire takes you
to the realm of fire.
Other times it's weird things like you fall asleep under a certain tree, you wake up in
a different reality.
That'd be confusing.
Yeah.
Realm gates are wacky as are the realms, but we'll get to, we'll get to the realms a bit
later.
Is it like the web way in Warhammer with a kind of like wormholes, not tunnels?
Kind of, but not quite.
It's a similar concept, but the details are different.
Like no realm gate.
Like it's not like you go through a realm gate and then you're in the same system of
tunnels for every realm gate.
They differ between each.
Like some are undoubtedly very much like the web way.
Others, like I said, you fall asleep next to a certain rock, you wake up in a different
reality.
It's meant to not make sense essentially.
Yeah.
It's a mystery.
It's, yeah, it's a mystery.
And I think it's held by the fact it's a fantasy setting, which you don't need to explain things
as much.
You can just go, it's, it's magic.
It just happens.
Yeah.
This is not sci-fi.
It's yeah.
Fantasy.
Yeah.
Okay.
I think I'm, I think I'm on it.
I was just slightly, I get slightly confused about how to.
No, no worries.
Like the point of this is to explain OOS, isn't it?
It's just, I get confused about how to, I guess, map it in my head.
I think I've said this like just between us two as well, like in our own discussions,
like how to kind of like, I was going to, I had like a rant about this before where
I know what the Warhammer old world is.
I know where all the factions are and where everything's placed.
Cause I can look at a map and I think, yeah, AOS is slightly like, I don't have my bearings,
if you know what I mean, where it's hard to figure out where everyone is.
So, but it's not, so like if it was a map of the realm, it's more of a representation
of what they look like rather than where they are actually placed.
Yeah.
Like there is some maps like I sent you one now.
I can see it.
Yeah.
We'll put this in the video for the listeners, but just to try and give a brief description
just for an audio listener.
Yeah.
So each realm, like some realms you will find a maps like that actually wasn't the one I
wanted to pull up.
This is a different map I was going to pull up that I think is a bit better.
Like this is one of the map of the realm of Heish light where the Luminath are.
You can find maps of them that are fairly reliable, but the thing about the mortal realms
is games, worksheets says they're nearly infinite, which means they're narratively, they are
infinite.
Like kind of like how in like science fiction, warhammer and just sci-fi in general, you
can cross a galaxy in two days, but crossing a planet takes like three months.
Oh, so the realms are much more warp like in a sense then they're much, they have less
rules to them.
They're not like a material, they're not like round material world planets.
Yeah, not quite.
There's a, there's, and when we get to the realms a little bit, I'll explain them a bit
more.
But there's each realm has its own rules, but it's not necessarily each realm is just
a square or like a circle.
Oh, okay.
I'll, I'll, we'll get to that.
I guess in a bit then.
Indeed.
Back to the age of chaos, it's creeping in early on their fought back, but eventually
Archaon finally appears and the Pantheon on top of that begins to fall apart.
Yes, it turns out Archaon, by the way, the chaos gods just sent him into universes to
destroy them every now and then.
So he's, this is like, he's like here, this is his holiday destination.
He's in the realms.
Archaon is just blowing up universes in his spare time between warhammer fantasy and AOS.
They figured like, well, shit, this guy did it once.
Let's have him keep doing it.
How, so he very quickly, just how long is the age of myth?
Is that like thousands of thousands of years?
They left it up to an interpretation.
It's definitely not millions, but beyond like, I'd say thousands.
There's no specific timeline.
I guess it's up to you to decide, which is a kind of a running theme with AOS.
It does not like dating things or calendars, which to some point is kind of annoying because
it makes getting into it a little bit harder.
But it does have a lot more room for homebrew and creating your own little storyline out
of the setting.
But so we do get to the point of age of, I assume then we get to age of chaos.
And what the reason is obviously called age of myth is this must be long.
This is long.
The age of myth must have been a long time for it to be called a myth.
Yeah, it was whatever the specifics are.
It was a while ago.
I like that kind of builds into the cause a lot with AOS stuff, it often appears quite
quick.
Like it's oh, snap your fingers and it happened.
But in world it's been around for perhaps even longer than 2500 the coronation of my
boy Carl Franz.
Sorry, I had to read that.
Of course, always appreciated.
Yeah, but Ikeland, you know, supreme emperor, we all grew up in Galama.
Yes, all that good stuff.
But yeah, age of chaos time.
They eventually appear and the pantheon begins to fall apart.
Gorko Morko was the first to leave.
He never really cared for civilization building because he's an orc.
I guess two orc gods fused together, but same difference as far as where it goes.
And he what he did the way he left was he took all of his you know, the orcs and the
Alliance, what would become Grand Alliance destruction, declared a war across all of
the mortal realms, marched across all of them with his orcs and just wrecking shit.
And then turned around and did it again.
How did they get orcs at this point?
Is that something they do?
They make orcs during the age of myth?
Or did they get them?
I would be told the way the orcs appear, I could not find.
Some of it would be Gorko Morko probably made some orcs who wanted the boys around.
Others, it's kind of like could be like Warhammer fantasy where they're just there because they're
orcs and you can't get rid of them.
But you know, the black mold in your ceiling.
Yeah.
Oh no, it's a war axe.
I should also mention that each most of the races have different backstories for how they
were created.
Like the ogres, I believe many of them think that they were created from Gorko Morko's
drool and therefore are representative of his great hunger because they're still very
hungry fat men.
Whereas like in the old world, they're made by the old ones to be more resistant to chaos.
Yeah.
So if you want, as just a thing going forward, the backstories for these races, you will
very frequently find that there are many different backstories that are oftentimes conflicting
with each other.
Like lost to the age of myth and the age of chaos now is just ruined it.
And it's just become like this is what the people nowadays in the setting think happened.
It's probably wrong or at least only partially right, but there's only so many solid answers
to give.
That's part of the setting.
But they've declared the war, is this at the same time as Archeon, Archeon, you know, boom,
kicks in the door and you just, you can doom, doom, all of the doom guy coming to like take
on some furrows, if you know what I mean.
Yeah.
A little bit before Archeon crept in, but chaos had been creeping in by this point.
So Gorko Morko got bored and was like, I want to fight everyone.
So he just rampaged across the realms until Sigmar smacked him so hard, he split back into
Gorko Morko.
Oh.
And yeah, quite the hard hit.
And then they kind of centered around the realm of beasts with the rest of destruction
after they're all kind of corralled into there.
Next, L'Oreal decided to solely focus on defending her realm from Nergal rather than the mortal
realms as a whole.
And that'll come to bite her in the ass later.
Tyrion, Teclis, Malekith and Marathi meanwhile left the pantheon to go beat up Slaanesh because
Slaanesh, unlike the other gods, had glut herself on elf souls and had to take time to digest
them all.
So she basically hid in a corner and then the elven gods found her, captured her in
the realm between Olgu and Haish in this like weird, gatoey light sub dimension.
Which one's Olgu?
Is that the darkness?
Olgu is shadow and Haish is light.
After they capture her in this weird sub dimension between both of those and bound her with these
massive pillars.
She's not in the realm of chaos.
She's not.
She was taken out of the realm of chaos and locked in this realm because while she was
digesting her souls, she was defenseless.
And while they did take Slaanesh out of the great game, still other three chaos gods deal
with and Tyrion and Teclis and Malekith decided to basically just go home to their own realms
and create the elves from fantasy as best they could.
Which you know, on the bright side means they'll get more factions eventually down the line.
On the downside that means three of the strongest gods are no longer actively fighting back
the chaos incursions that are happening more and more.
Grimnir still dead, still shattered to pieces so he's not helping.
Grimni goes into self-imposed exile as the forces of chaos overrun the dwarf holds in
the mortal realms.
And funnily enough Nagash is the last one to leave.
Which might seem shocking but on the way out he basically kicks Sigmar's forces in the balls
so very on brand for him.
Betrays them and just stabs Sigmar in the back.
And this all comes to a head at the battle of the All Points which is called that because
unlike pretty much anywhere else in the mortal realms this is where you can access all eight
of them from one spot.
So Sigmar and Archaon take their armies and come to a head.
Sigmar throws his hammer at what he believes is Archaon to finish him off quickly.
It was an illusion and his hammer gets lost in the warp.
So Sigmar doesn't have his hammer.
He has no more allies and his army is falling apart around him.
So he retreats to his realm of Azir, the heavens.
And again, not great, it's called the Age of Chaos for a reason.
Ends in defeat and he calls upon the elven gods to ensure that his realm is completely
invisible to the machinations of chaos.
And he basically just takes his ball and goes home.
For the pantheon themselves, I guess it's kind of a, like even though, I guess they're
all, it's all mutual benefit, isn't it?
They're kind of not really friends, but they kind of are like, yeah, you know, the enemy
of my enemy is my friend kind of situation.
In a lot of cases, yeah.
Like Malekith still thinks Sigmar's just stupid barbarian who's playing at God, but he's willing
to work with him at least for the time being, at least until it's stopped suiting his interests.
So they were all previously like, when you say that he led his armies, I assume this
is armies of, so Sigmar led armies of humans, right?
Yeah, he led armies of mortals.
So he, oh, not just humans and more like other.
It's yeah, there were elves and dwarves and everything still around and he would lead
them into battle.
He was very active at least early on in the Age of Chaos and myth.
Are they, are the races quite scattered?
So it's not just like homogeneous in each realm?
They, sometimes yes, sometimes no.
And a lot of times like the fire slayers faction, very isolated, they live in their own warrior
lodges.
But that being said, the great cities of the free guilds, which we'll get to later as we,
they develop in the plot have worshipers of every God, every race.
Like Sigmar is going to be the mainstay there, but you'll find the worshipers of Tyrion,
Teclis, MacGash, even Gorka Morka.
They're kind of all over the place.
So there's actually, so there's quite a lot of people as in like mortal race, it's quite
populous when the Age of Chaos basically wrecks it.
Yeah.
But is more, there's more, would you say there's more civilization than there was in the old
world?
There's definitely is.
The mortal realms are larger than planets each individually, and there's a lot more.
Part of the reason the Elven gods screwed off was because they noticed there weren't
as many elves as there should be, which is why they started freeing Elven souls from
Slash when they captured her.
But even with that reduced number from what there should have been, there was still a
lot of elves, a lot of dwarfs and a whole lot of humans.
So that's what you mean by the scale is way bigger.
That's the part I always struggled with with AOS was like, I always thought it was like
the same numbers of the old world.
But again, I could see now it's like, oh, this is like, this is multiple old world level.
They're an old world in each of these realms.
That's a lot.
Yeah, it's big.
That's kind of cool, there's a lot to explore in the future.
Yeah, it's a lot of room for narrative to be made in.
But now the age of chaos, Sigmar takes his ball, goes home and things get worse.
The Nergal invades the realm of life to capture a L'ariel and turn into his own.
Oh no, we've seen that before, haven't we?
He's a L'ariel destined for the jar, I'm afraid.
Elven goddess gets kidnapped.
Wow.
Oh, yeah, very original.
Elven goddess of life at that.
The dwarfs held on to their holds for as long as they could, but even that couldn't last.
And many of the survivors became known as the dispossessed because they have no more
homes.
Others fled into the skies and would become the carriage and overlords.
More, of course, the fire slayers I mentioned a bit earlier who worship the dead god Grimnir.
They survived through a mix of just being really good at fighting because they worshiped
a war god.
And on rare occasions, they would even contract themselves out to fight with chaos.
Oh, because they're obsessed with finding the shattered pieces of Grimnir in the ear
gold.
And if chaos offers a high enough price, they're willing to work with them.
That's kind of cool, actually, because dwarves in our fence are a bit like stubborn, goody,
too.
They're always going to be on the side of good, whereas this is a more neutral gray
kind of.
Yeah, these these dwarves will do whatever it takes to get their god back.
I like that.
We said the ones retreated to the skies, the carriage and overlords as their holds were
falling, they built these massive sky ships and that's how they escaped chaos.
They just went to the clouds.
Damn, the old world should have thought about that.
That's a way better idea.
And and the rest of them became the dispossessed.
Is that a faction on the tabletop?
I've never heard of that one.
They're part of the like the cities of Sigmar, it's called, which is basically take the Empire
of Man and add a bunch of miscellaneous models from like the high elves, the dark elves,
the dwarves and put them into that soup.
So they're kind of people without a home.
Like I said, dispossessed.
They're like, yeah, they're lacking a home and they live amongst the people of Sigmar
now.
It's like the first Hobbit film.
Oh yeah, yeah.
It's like when they get kicked out of Erebor and they kind of they wander, but they do
kind of gather for certain events.
Like I guess not me.
They didn't all gather to retake Erebor, but they kind of keep the connection.
Yeah, it's a lot like that.
This is mostly in the realm of Shamone or Kamon, however you want to say it.
I don't know, man.
Michael Jackson's up above praising our one video.
Good Lord.
They fell largely to Zeench.
The realm of beasts was just constantly attacked by chaos.
It did hold out a little bit better than most though, because the realm of beasts are where
all the orcs and such are.
And they were just having the time of their lives because chaos, they didn't need to go
to the fight.
The fight would come to them now.
So chaos held out decently enough, or I mean not chaos, the orcs and beasts held out decently
enough against chaos.
Archeon himself fought Nagash and did win.
He's the god of the dead.
He didn't really kill him.
He just kind of floated back to his capital and reformed himself.
It's like a game of thrones.
The ironborn, that which is dead may never die.
It's like for poor season 8.
I'm so sorry.
The flashbacks of season 8.
But it's like, you kill him, where's he gonna go?
He's gonna go home and come back.
Why can't he die?
I've always wondered that.
Well, I guess obviously the real reason is money and war into his head.
Oh yeah, the real reason is plot.
He's a main character.
Although in Warhammer fantasy, originally he invented necromancy.
So if anyone's gonna know how to undo death, it's gonna be him.
There's a certain thing where they couldn't kill the Gitan in 40k.
It's because they only killed one of them, actually, fair enough.
But it was because the Necrons said that they had consumed so much life energy.
They had become essentially part of the universe itself.
And I wonder if Nagash is sort of the same, where you can't destroy Nagash because he
is part of the...
He's absorbed so much.
He's the fabric of literally death itself.
It could be part of it.
And as I'll talk a little bit about later, each of the gods of the realms are connected
to the realm.
So that could be part of it.
Spoilers then.
Too early.
But even with, you know, you can't really kill Nagash, his realm of death, Shaiash,
lost massive amounts of territory as cults were cropping up all over the place.
Because Nagash is just the worst person to be ruled by.
So they figured chaos can't be that much worse than he is, to the surprise of no one but
Nagash himself, of course.
That being said, again, he's the god of the dead.
It only affected him so much because his forces don't need to eat, sleep or breathe.
So losing someone's home doesn't really matter to the thousands of skeletons Nagash is using
to fight.
Don't need to consume Warhammer content.
Make sure you like the video, boys, if you're listening.
Total chill, but so is Nagash, so it's fine.
On a map, it would look like Nagash took a lot of losses in practical terms.
He just fortified what he had left with his massive endless armies and waited for someone
else to start fighting chaos.
I do have a question about the realm of death, but I think I'll save that for when we get
to it later.
But this is the age of chaos.
Is this like how long is it again?
Like it's just considered like thousands of years?
A while.
It's even, I think even less specific, for the age of myth.
It's a very long time though.
So when they get crunked, like it's a crunk, the official term.
So the people, like the mortal races and the gods, they are, it's not like a, is it a quickfall
or is it like, this is a Pyrrhic, you know, they have Pyrrhic victories, but then they
just slowly start to just get whittled down and it's the dead of in the thousands of thousands.
I personally believe it's the last one, but as is a kind of a running theme for AOS, a
lot of it is left rather vague.
So you can create your own idea of what the setting is like.
We can also do it.
We can just basically discuss it, like what we're doing here then.
Yeah.
Like there's mystery.
There's a lot of empty spaces you can fill into yourself.
I like that actually, cause like some, fair enough, I have previously seen it as a negative,
but a lot, you know, some things is always, you know, the mystery of it, like once the
mystery is solved, it's like the missing Primarchs, isn't it?
In 40k.
We're all basically like being, excuse me, edged essentially for knowing that lore.
But I think once we did know, I know, no, I'm so sorry, but once we did know like what
happened and who the missing Primarchs were, I think we'd be disappointed, wouldn't we?
If we're honest.
Yeah.
So this is like a nice change where it's, yeah, like purposely up to you again, like
also for storytelling, I imagine there's a lot of opportunity.
It's very cool.
I believe the age of chaos lasts roughly 500 years.
Oh, so not, not a quick fall, but still relatively for considering the size of the world, the
realms.
Yeah.
Although that being said, I think this is 500 years after chaos, like winds is when
it starts.
So not like 500 years after they first show up 500 years after Sigma retreats into a Xyr
and chaos just starts running rampant.
Got even then it took 500, wow.
Yeah.
So what happens is, uh, Heish, uh, you know, we, we just talked about shyish death and
the gash losing, but it only does so much.
Uh, Heish was just another shit show because the Luminath were very busy recreating the
fall of the Eldar.
So the elves are in the light.
Which one is Sigma's realm again?
Heaven, Azir.
Heaven.
What's the difference between light and heaven?
It's kind of similar.
Uh, heavens is, I don't think it sounded weird, like lightning, like it's like astronomy or
astrology, like looking at the stars in the heavens.
Light.
Literally heavens.
Yeah.
Like light is more like, like literally light, like purifying bright geomantic white light.
Okay.
So light, the realm of light got messed up.
Yeah.
The, the Luminath, uh, Teclis and Tyrion recreated the high elves of old to the best of their
ability, uh, and the high elves then proceeded to recreate the fall of the Eldar, uh, with
all of the fun only, only without the Silanesh demons being created.
And then the Silanesh demon showed up anyway, because even though Silanesh itself was locked
away, a lot of her demons weren't.
Uh, so they had to contend with that.
Tyrion and Teclis had to figure out how to save Heish.
And they do manage it, but Heish is essentially locked off from the rest of the world for
a while because they had to fix everything.
Uh, the only realm that is completely held off from chaos without just locking itself
away from everyone else was the realm of shadow.
Uh, Malekith is indeed the only god to fight Archeon and win.
Uh, the specifics of this are unknown as the lore hasn't been dealt into with Malekith
much, but the suggestion is that either Malekith is one of, if not the strongest god in the
setting or being the god of the realm of shadow has given him some neat tricks up his sleeve.
I think I heard the only one piece I do know just from, cause someone had mentioned it
to me where I think, did he fuse with his dragon?
He's a scaly now.
He's a dragon man thing now.
But is, can he like inhabit a mortal, like can he change his form or is he like, or the
two beings?
He can become like insolid being of shadow, uh, whether beyond that or not, I don't know
because they haven't given him much lore.
Oh, so it's so that he's not being explored yet.
No, he's the focus has not been much on him yet.
He's got a little bit of tidbits, but not much.
Uh, and as for pretty much everyone else, uh, Sigmar initially allowed refugees to trickle
in, but eventually at a certain point he just had to close the realm off and purge any inside
who could be vulnerable to chaos and then got to work on a secret project.
Uh, during this time, anyone who survived outside of like Azir shadow and any other
holdouts basically survived in either highly isolated, highly fortified locations, uh,
survived as nomads wandering from place to place to avoid chaos, or they just submitted
themselves to chaos.
And for 500 years after Sigmar retreated, this was how things worked.
Order straight up hid and just didn't get caught.
They just did.
It just hidden got lucky.
Uh, and after centuries of labor though, Sigmar's plan was as ready as it was going to be.
It wasn't perfect, but now begins the age of Sigmar.
I don't think many people call it that in the universe.
Some people might, uh, Sigmar's worshipers, but certainly not like Tyrion, Teclis, Malekith.
They definitely don't call it that propaganda.
Yeah.
Like Nagash definitely doesn't call it the age of Sigmar.
Uh, but naming aside, it wasn't perfect, but Sigmar had created warriors that matched even
chaos's most powerful servants, the storm cast, eternals, or as many people might call
them the Sig marines or that the funniest to me is the ground marines.
Cause if you look at them, they're at least in models, if not in like lore, they're, they're
space marines in fantasy.
I was not impressed initially with their models as in the original, like basic ones of the
Sigmar marines.
But I think the more recent ones, like the one that looks, they look a little bit slimmer
now and they actually have like more kind of traditional, they're less just big, they're
less cosplay space marines and more actually medieval armored knights or warrior.
Each one's like a warrior king.
Which is, it is getting better.
I'll just say, and I'm much more into it.
That's fair though, to be honest, I've always liked them because anytime something has that
golden face mask design, I instantly love it.
That's like my kryptonite to just love a design.
I think, uh, I think it's, I think the helmet too fair is the saving grace.
I think the shoulders is what gets me just cause they're basically like space ring pads.
That's fair.
But it's also very much the intention of giving fantasy its own space Marine iconic thing
to look at.
Also to, it's an easier model to paint cause it's yeah.
And that it'll get into newcomers like, Hey, easy to paint a lot of flat surfaces.
Here you go.
They do look, they look cool now though.
Some of the, I don't know which ones they are, but the one with the spear and shield,
that one is, I don't remember the unit name, but I don't remember the name of it, but that
one is dope to me that I enjoy that one.
Indeed.
Um, but he created them by taking an individual who was about to go down standing against
chaos to the last and spiraling them away from certain death to be reforged with Sigmar
and very own strength.
And to top it off, they're given weapons and armor crafted from the core of the destroyed
warhammer world that Sigmar was once flying on.
Ooh.
And pretty much without warning, uh, the gates of his ear flung open and in great bolts of
lightning, which if you ever played devil may cry, I can't help but imagine that playing,
uh, bury the light.
I am the storm that is approaching.
And then thousands of thousands of Superman showed up to beat the snot out of chaos.
And that's honestly the best image.
Yeah.
Where's Virgil?
Where is he?
Yeah.
And if you look at Sig storm cast eternal art, it looks like a walking power metal album
cover.
So this was the way he said his armies marched out as in how would, how did he stop them
from getting into his realm again?
Did he say he'd lock the gate?
Let's, uh, Tyrion and the Malekith forged this magical wall around his ear.
And I'm sure the lizard men, the slan who are also in his ear had a hand in it, uh,
that prevented chaos from scrying in.
Oh, so they, they had, they had no idea this was coming.
No.
Yeah.
Sigmar hard locked the place down and then killed anyone who might be potentially chaotic
inside of it.
So they couldn't open the gates and the armies of sigma, I'm guessing are in a huge, right?
At this time here, this is the push.
He's had 500 years to create them, work on them.
So he has his own space Marine legions.
Essentially.
He's throwing into the fray.
Are they accompanied by mortals too?
Or is it?
They are.
Oh, that's kind of cool.
Those on the tabletop, though, the old fantasy models that didn't get replaced, you know,
of the empire, the high elves, the dark elves that are formed into one faction, uh, those
accompany the storm cast or turtles to kind of garrison what they capture and fill in
any holes as auxiliaries.
Is the, is the technological state at the time kind of the same as what the old world
was?
So they brought it back up to that.
Yeah.
Was it, has it been like that for a long time or is that they reached this?
It was kind of like that for a while.
And then the age of chaos happened and it kind of stopped progressing for a bit because
coronate demons murdered everything.
So kind of like in a 30 K 40 K where like the height of technology was previous epoch
and then they like, they kind of possibly rediscover better weapons at some point.
I wouldn't say the heights more of it kind of stagnated because when chaos demons are
rampaging across the land, you don't have much time to research, but they didn't lose
much.
There's certainly a lot of lost treasure and artifacts and stuff scattered about, but it
wasn't so much as like they completely forgot how to learn things so much as they stopped
focusing on it and started focusing on what they knew how to do.
Is it much more, I get this into as much more magical in terms of innovation rather than
like straight up science as like, you know, it's also science.
I feel like this, as befitting a magical setting, a fantasy
setting, it's a lot more magical than sci-fi.
Although the dwarves, especially the carriage and overlords in their sky cities, definitely
a lot more sciency.
Although what sciency is by the definitions of a fantasy setting, is it science?
Is it fake science?
Or is it to the point of when, what's the core, isn't it like if people don't understand
it to a certain level, it can appear like science can appear like magic in a way.
Probably some of it, but also some of it is no, this is just, it's just fucking magic.
Oh, what's the, there's a setting, I can't remember which one it is, but like, basically
because magic works in the setting, like people don't innovate to a certain level because
they're basically over reliant on magic.
Willing to bet you're thinking of Eberron.
I can't, I might, it might be that one.
I don't know.
I think it is, we say that's the same thing in AOS where like magic is pretty, like, like
they don't make it like a gas lamp, will they?
They'll make it like a magical torch.
You know what I mean?
Like they're kind of, they won't, their minds don't think the same way.
They definitely, it definitely hasn't replaced it.
Magic is oftentimes used instead of it, but they're still advancing technology.
Like some of the cities in the mortal realms are industrial centers of science.
Oh, so it's like a little, it depends on where you go.
So maybe you could say it's like, it's a little bit further than the old world, but like barely
in time.
Yeah.
Okay.
And if you go to like the Luminath, their cities, nothing but magical focus.
Whereas if you go to the carriage and overlords, nothing but technological focus.
Whereas, you know, the places in between those other realms have a bit of a mishmash.
They're varying on the scale.
So now Sigma's kind of, you know, he's kicked the door down, you know, I imagine Tenacious
D. Do you know the song, the song, the best by Tenacious D.
The best song in the world?
No, no, no.
It's just called the best.
Like to be the best, you gotta pass the test.
You gotta make it to the top.
Oh, I've heard that.
Yeah.
That's probably also playing in the back.
That was very delight and Tenacious D.
Yes.
And then you notice that Jack Black's leading his armies across the mortal realm.
So they're mortal realms.
Yeah, the mortal realms.
I hate trying to say immortal.
So this is the end of the age of chaos?
Or is this like, yeah, this is kind of the end of it.
Reality itself is beginning to almost break down under the strain of the chaotic corruption
going through it, which is why Sigmar did it when he did.
His process wasn't 100%, but it was now or never and the realm gate wars or what they
are known are begins.
Sigmar's objective was to recapture as many of those realm gates that traveled between
realms as he possibly could, which would not only allow supplies to be ferried back and
forth with ease, but for civilization to have a very solid gathering point to form around
and regroup and it was difficult.
But though through time and the efforts of the storm cast and their allies, every realm
had some order presence solid once again.
And for once in Warhammer, chaos was on the defensive, not the other way around.
I kind of imagine it like, does this make sense to you where imagine it's kind of like
their archipelago islands and they basically have to land like landing forces and that's
how they kind of take it in a way.
But there's no like real, there's no like main land mass in terms like all the realms
together.
Magical D-Day is a very good way to think of the realm gate wars and the storm cast
of journals busting down the door.
That's actually, that's way better than my own version.
So this is the storm cast, I guess in each realms like forces and the other gods as well.
Yeah, like as the storm cast are busting their way in and beating the hell out of chaos,
the other realms kind of, if not awaken, then start fighting again.
Like Nagash is like, oh, hey, we're doing stuff now.
Yeah, I'll activate.
I'm not going to fight on your side again, Sigmar, but I'll do things against chaos.
Kind of like Lord of the Rings third age with the, yeah, kind of like the last, or that's
like second age, isn't it?
Oh yeah.
I was going to say like more like whatever they call it.
I don't remember.
I should be like the one with Aragorn, like the time Aragorn arrives, you know, in Gondor,
it's not the height of their power and they've been whittled down for ages.
And then this is like a, you know, it's not Gondor full strength, but then it basically
just kicks it all off and it renews.
Yeah, that's, yeah, that's kind of what it is.
And for example, in the realm of life, Olariel dies because she just dug into her own realm
and was alone and Nergal had a field day with the realm of life, but she's the goddess of
life.
So, you know, life, death, rebirth, however you want to think about it, she becomes this
soul pod thing and the storm cast plant her soul pod into the ground and she's reborn
as a warrior queen.
And together her and the storm cast managed to purge much of the realm of life of Nergal
corruption.
Not all of it, but enough of it.
In the realm of Heish, the Lumineth, like I said, with Tachylus are reinventing themselves
and managed to largely purge chaos on their own as well.
And the Lizardmen, and I have a story about Lord Kroak for you, Hal.
Oh, hit me.
They can now see the future to a better degree than even Zech.
So they can now out plan Zech.
That confuses me.
Yeah.
They're very, very good at what they do now.
And some lore suggests that this is their own great plan.
Other lore suggests that the Old Ones of Warhammer fantasy planned so far ahead that Age of Sigmar
was taken into account and planned for by the Old Ones.
That's like, that's definitely like a, yeah, I planned, yeah, I totally was meant to miss
that shot because, you know, I was meant to get your head for later on in the game.
And then, and yeah, and now whatever, whatever you want to word it as, whether or ever you
want to believe, the Lizardmen now just show up in front of chaos armies.
And it's such a stupid, but like the fun kind of stupid where it's like, oh my God, that
is ridiculous.
But it's, it's still formed themselves into, you know, on their pyramid spaceships, the
lightning down into reality.
And some of them don't do that.
Some of them instead, once they form in reality, they form permanent colonies and terraform
the land around Lustria.
And there was one battle where in one of these conflicts, the, the stars themselves formed
themselves into the shape of a grinning frog and the Lizardmen beat the absolute hell out
of chaos.
I, this, that does make me happy.
And who do you think that grinning frog who did that was?
Praise be Lord Pepe Croak.
On his, he's just, I know he doesn't have it in any art, but he must have a cigar at
all times.
And he's just like, it takes a couple of puffs and just like, yeah, yeah, I'm just going
to mess your day up.
That's all, it's all he ever says.
So he just, he just lightnings in and just takes a puff.
I'm here to mess your day up and it's, it's game over.
Yeah.
Well, uh, you can say cigar.
I prefer 10 D's for a marshmallow.
Like, like I had, like you've got on your stick, my little, my power stick.
It wasn't a complete stomp.
For example, when Arkeon was like, all right, I see how it is.
He wiped out an entire storm cast to a man.
So the, uh, the war, the war hammer age of sigma version of the lost lead legions wasn't,
you know, the emperor had to purge them.
It was, our Canada was sick of their shit and just wipe them out.
Is he more powerful in this?
He, everyone is more powerful.
Is he a demigod or is he, he is easily a demigod and indeed many of the forces of chaos
worship him as a God.
Some of the slanish worshipers even worship him as a replacement slanish other, because
you know, slanish is gone as far as they're concerned.
Others view him as just Arkeon, another God.
Does he, does he patron the horned rat as well?
Uh, each of the chaos gods, Nergal, uh, corn and zinch gave him their blessing except for
the horned rat.
Uh, when the horned rat went to bless Arkeon, he spit in his face.
He spit in his face, the horned rat's face.
Arkeon spit in the horned rat's face.
Jesus, that's ballsy.
So not only ballsy, but as for the power level of Arkeon and the other gods in the setting
that they're able to fight him to some extent, quite high.
Uh, the power level is definitely over 9,000.
Yeah, definitely, is this literally like we've gone to Dragon Ball Super and everyone is
just like planet killers.
We've gone to Dragon Ball Super where power means nothing and also everything and everyone
has a new form and it means nothing and everything because this is a war game setting on crack.
I'm sorry, can I just, I have to mention the, the absolute genius who put under the YouTube
video of Dragon Ball Super thing that said if I had ever seen Goku, Frieza and Android
17 fighting together, I slap you so hard in Dragon Ball GT canon.
That's uh, yeah, that's age of Sigmar.
It's off the walls.
Jesus Christ.
And that is the Realm Gate Wars.
Chaos is on the defensive.
It's uh, and early on, excepting wherever Arkeon goes, because wherever Arkeon goes,
it's kind of a stomp.
But aside from that, you know, chaos is actually losing ground for once, which I fucking love,
I gotta say.
How long has the Realm Wars been going on or is that unspecified again?
Another thing unspecified, uh, though it's long enough to where each realm aside from
Shadow because Shadow never really got corrupted, was able to regain footholds.
So it was-
So millennia most likely.
If centuries, if not millennia, as long as you think it would take, although personally,
I honestly, if you'd like my opinion, I think this took place over a single century, if
that.
Maybe longer if you want it to be, but I personally think it was much shorter.
I think Sigmar threw open the gates and then the Stormcast went to town on chaos.
Makes sense.
But again, up to, up to the individual to decide.
That's as I've said, said a lot.
What if they're even saying time, time for it doesn't work in the same way.
They're not all on the same compass or so.
No, they're indeed not roughly similar, but gotcha in the, uh, you know what?
I'll save that for later.
But in one of the novels that I've basically spoiled of who's back, but we'll pretend
I didn't.
Uh, one of the characters, one of the dwarfs says that you can go 500 days in the realms
of shyish or fight like centuries and shyish and not a day will pass in the age of fire.
Oh, so like when I, so me saying it happened over centuries and millennia makes no sense
cause it could have, the walk would be finished up in one and then the other one, it hasn't,
it's they've only just took the first step.
It's barely been a day, but at the same time it's also been a century.
It's weird.
It's still cool though to be fair.
It's what I think it does really well is it makes it look like the, like the ultimate
high fantasy setting because everything is this grand epic myth in the age of Sigmar,
which while yes, dating it down and categorizing it is just not happening.
It's it's got its own charm where it's like, this is all just this mythic tale, not like
a history.
It's more like the Greek myths of, you know, Zeus rebelling against Kronos, that kind of
thing.
Don't go for like, and this happened in 1500 23 BC.
Zeus over through Kronos go for in the land before, you know, the age before Sigmar chaos
invaded and now Sigmar is back, baby.
That's kind of how you should approach age age of Sigmar.
If that makes any sense.
It does, but I just in my head is like a bit mind blowing.
So yeah.
And it does have its downsides, but I think it has its upsides as well.
If you want me to give my take on it.
What's after this is known as the realm gate lord, realm gate wars, these massive gains
by the storm cast into the forces of order kind of lose steam.
It's not that, you know, the storm cast, it's just like, and now the switch is flipped,
chaos is back on the on the assault.
But it's it's just more like the order blitzkrieg has kind of lost some steam to it.
We're not quite at 1945 Germany.
We're more like 1942 Germany.
Like once a war loses its momentum, you struggle.
And I guess they'd fortify at this point.
Yeah, the the the forces of order and death and destruction, not destruction, because they're
not fortifying.
They're just going hog wild.
But the other as many people as can fortify the gains they've made and begin to weather
the storm that will no doubt come.
And Nagash has decided he's done getting the snot beat out of him, and sure enough, he
basically gets half of second edition all to himself or himself to rake everyone over
the coals.
Was he did he previously ally himself again with Sigmar here or did he just ignore him
know when he was singing about reconquering?
Sigmar tried to form a truce.
And Nagash said, up yours, buddy, and murdered many of the stormcast that went to form a
truce.
I bet he's can he steal the souls of stormcast?
So the funny thing about that stormcast eternal reforging process, when a stormcast dies,
their souls, instead of just dying, rocket back to a Zir to be once again reforged by
Sigmar.
Is that not?
That's really not.
When when someone dies in Age of Sigmar, I'm guessing it's not normal that the soul returns
to does the soul?
Do they return to their own realm?
Or do they all go to the realm of death?
That's again, it depends on the person.
Most of them, which again, I know I keep saying this, but I'll cover when I get to the realm
of death, they will go to their own afterlife, the stormcast eternal, go to Sigmar.
They are intrinsically connected with him.
That being said, Nagash doesn't like that, because in his eyes, everyone should be gone
to Nagash, not Sigmar, or the chaos gods or the elves.
That's not fair.
That's not how things work.
When you die, you go to Nagash.
So he's not a fan of this.
Such is the power of Nagash.
Every time you hear that quote, it's like, wow, that is, that's the only thing that that's
the only part that makes you want to bash my brain against a wall.
It's so stupid.
You may say it's stupid.
I say, I think the Warhammer 40k villains need to step up their evil villain game, because
I hear such as the power of Nagash.
I'm like, well, goddamn, I think I know who's in charge now.
It's definitely not the the great four chaos gods.
Such is the bone pope.
Such is the power of pancreas not working.
Saying out loud makes it sound so funny.
But this begins the soul wars and the gashes he's done screwing around.
He's done getting made fun of and he creates his black pyramid and then makes a lot more
black pyramids.
Yeah, he's not done.
He makes more than one and then he makes them upside down and flying.
So someone is smoking something, man.
To be fair, you'd you'd think that this meant the skaven, you know, can't ruin it this time.
They can't dig underneath it.
Yeah, they can't dig underneath it.
But you know, things happen.
And fair's fair, chaos gods themselves show up actually to this ritual he plans.
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That's why.
So last off, we left before again, brain kind of started struggling there a bit.
I was talking about the black pyramid he made again, because yes, he made more.
Like I said, made more and then flip them upside down because you know, what else are
you going to do?
And he planned to draw all of the magic and the mortal realms into shy ish so he could
absorb it and become the ultimate god of everything really.
I can't believe he's never tried that before.
That's absolutely shocking.
Yeah, he's almost like he's copied some homework here, hasn't he?
Yeah.
I mean, it's his own homework.
So you know, can't be that bad copyright.
It's like going in my own video and bringing like bringing back a previous bit of voice
work and then throwing it into a new video and then just not acknowledging it.
Oh, just like, no, this is the original.
What are you talking about?
What do you mean?
I made it up myself.
But second verse same as the first as it were, because the Skaven ruin it again.
Because of course they exist to make sure that Nagash can never ever have nice things.
And what happens is this Eve the chaos gods themselves even showed up via avatars because
failure or not, this was a pretty big thing he was doing.
So what happened was they showed up in their avatars and the gosh laughed at them.
He's like, I'm going to replace all of you.
And then they just take turns laughing at each other as the ritual just keeps screwing
up.
So the gosh laughs at them like I will become the big evil bad guy and replace chaos gods.
And then they laughed at him because the Skaven cocked it all up.
And then he laughs at them because he considers even the screw up to be a success because
you know what?
He might be an evil, horrible person, but you can't keep the gosh down.
So what happened was though he didn't become all powerful, the ritual did succeed in a
couple of things.
Namely, it covered all of reality in death magic, all of the mortal realms.
And this had several symptoms of this issue, we shall say.
Them being one of the biggest ones, especially because it's a tabletop thing as well, endless
spells.
So imagine how you're playing D&D or something and you cast fireball, right?
Yeah.
Imagine the fireball just doesn't turn off.
Oh, that's like a, oh no.
And it also has an animalistic mind to itself and can move around.
Oh, is that one of those things where like someone like hits a baseball and it just doesn't
come down and it just rockets into the atmosphere or something like that?
Yeah.
Except the baseball has a mind of its own and a lot of the time it's malicious.
Damn.
That's endless spells.
So magic was not cast freely, I guess.
It wasn't cast without thought.
Yeah.
Well, maybe at first it was.
And then people caught on to the fact that hang on a minute.
Every time I cast fireball, it keeps going.
It doesn't stop.
That would be really horrific for certain spells.
Like I imagine what's the one like you can, Balsar could turn stuff into gold, but then
just won't.
And then it keeps spreading on the floor and it's like, it's like King Midas.
Yeah.
Like grab the children, take them out the room, turn them into the spreading gold spell.
That's bad.
That happened.
Worse, the night haunt.
Worse?
A kind of a thing, the night haunt, the spooky, scary ghost faction, the like wraiths and
whatnot.
That shivers down your spine?
Yep.
Because, you know, they're ghosts, they're empowered by death magic.
In places of high concentrations of death magic, they can start rising out of the ground.
Problem is now all of reality has high concentrations of death magic.
So across the mortal realms, billions of them began rising and attacking settlements.
Billions.
Billions with a B.
So this is, this is an actual zombie apocalypse in AOS.
Ghosts?
But yeah.
Or basically an undead apocalypse.
Yeah, undead, ghost, zombie, whatever apocalypse.
Now that is a storytelling opportunity right there.
And on top of that, Nagesh unveiled his latest project and at the time, the newest army to
age of Sigmar, the Ocearch Bone Reapers, and if the Stormcast are the ground Marines, these
guys are the bone Marines.
The fact that you said that out loud.
Look you look at their models.
They are, they are good though.
They are cool.
They look awesome, but they are the bone Marines.
To our grandchildren listening to this, we did say bone Marines.
And this was known as the Necroquake and pretty much every faction, chaos, destruction, order,
doesn't matter who, just constant siege by the armies of death.
And it only finally came to a halt as Teclis and the Luminath finally make their appearance
on the tabletop and in the mortal realms.
Teclis, you know, he's, he's a smart guy.
He figured Nagesh is going to try some crap eventually.
I just know it.
Is he your favorite?
A fucking my, him or Tyrion?
Between the two of them?
Like what do you have a favorite?
Cause I know you, you, you love, you're sorry.
A elves, excuse me.
Elves.
You love your elves.
So which do you have like a favorite character in AOS?
I mean, Gottrick.
Oh, true, true.
Excuse me.
My heresy.
We'll get to that.
But uh, or turns the elves though, is that honestly probably Eltharion?
Good choice.
He's pretty awesome.
But for the, you know, the Teclis and all that stuff, Teclis with some help, uh, beat
up Nagesh so hard that he can't form a body outside of his capital city.
So good job Teclis.
How did he, how did he do it?
Uh, Teclis is a real damn good wizard.
And by that, I mean, he could probably fight Magnus the Red and win.
He is OP BS hacks wizard.
How did they invade the realm?
Like didn't they just, they apparently like.
Realm gate travel.
So I feel like I saw a picture of like a floating pyramid and I thought, wait, isn't that, I
didn't know the elves had like floating things too.
I've seen the artwork.
That's all I know.
The elves have like some weird crystal, like crystals, cause Heish is all about, uh, geometric
stuff and nice smooth surfaces and like geometric stuff.
So they've got every, they all have some weird stuff going on.
So it's a tech because it's just basically Randy Orton slithering out.
Teclis is just going to solve all of the realities problems.
That is his job.
Um, so he does that.
Teclis does get cursed a little bit, but again, at least compared to fantasy, he's still doing
better than he was there.
So the crash, like the, um, oh, the descendants of, oh, who's the.
An Aryan.
An Aryan different like that kind of curse level.
It's not quite like a bloodline curse.
It's more like you have death magic curse.
You don't do magic as good, but he's a little ill.
He's a little ill, but that like, like Frodo with the, uh, like Frodo with the, um, the
morgal blade.
Oh yeah.
But then he's not, he's not quite Nespional horse and Wister Rivendell level, but he's
like, Oh, this is, Oh, this is cringe.
I'm not, I'm not feeling so good.
Mr. Stark.
Oh no, Mr. Stark.
And so with, uh, the Necroquake is almost over and what happens is a L'Oreal, uh, finally
does something relevant to relevant to the plot and ends the Necroquake by casting her
own version of it.
That floods reality with life magic instead.
It's like kind of canceling it out.
Yeah.
And of course, while this is happening, Bellacor decides, yeah, I'm going to join an age of
Sigmar now.
I'm going to be part of the plot and just start smashing realm gates to flood reality
with chaos storms, which has us.
Who made the realm gates?
I always want, I'm wondering that now.
Uh, was no one, does no one know who made the realm gates?
Some of them are, don't know.
I believe some of the gods might have made some in old times, but I think most of them,
if not honestly, all of them are just natural.
Or is it, they're not like, they're not like actual stone gates, whereas like a little
portal in it, they're kind of a bit different.
Some are exactly that.
Others are weird.
Like that dream thing, you know, fall asleep, you'll wake up another realm.
It's, if you can think of a conceivable, like weird fantasy thing and want to make it a
way to travel, it's a realm gate.
Oh, is it?
So maybe it's the other hand, if you want it to be a web way portal, it can be a web
way portal.
And is it more like maybe the original gates are like the weird tree one, but then people
over time have like forged like specific, I guess, doors on the gate, if you know what
I mean, to help channel, if you know what I mean.
Maybe that's where some, some could be because a few wizards are powerful enough to just
travel between places without realm gates, but others, it's, others are again, the weird
metaphysical, whatever the hell others are created, but maybe they weren't created by
anyone who's still around.
It could have been lost the time.
It's more of the age of Sigmar.
You can want, let the setting be what you want it to be kind of vibe.
So when, when the writers need a realm gate, when the writers need a realm gate, there
is a realm gate.
But fair enough to fair with warhammer 40 K it's like they need to get somewhere really
quickly.
Wow.
I can't believe that web way portal is still open and it's not been corrupted by chaos.
That's shocking.
Wow.
I can't believe the work travel worked in a way that it was only one day since we left.
Yeah.
The writers, the logic of the writers logic.
It's part of warhammer.
We love it.
It's not meant to make sense.
We're playing with our plastic toys on the tabletop.
I don't know why we're overthinking it.
Yeah.
That's the whole reason we're here.
Whatever I got, but yeah, bellicor chaos storms, which not only, you know, chaos is bleeding
into reality, which means demons are going to be a thing.
He also destroyed the slans future seeing devices.
So a lot harder for them to out plans each now.
Also, they made devices, the tablets.
Yeah.
Like the, the ice salon.
Oh, okay.
So he broke at least some of them.
So a lot harder for them to see the future.
And these chaos storms had a very bad side effect of preventing stormcast souls from
returning to his ear.
Oh, oh, I don't shoot.
I think I forgot to fully mention it.
I did mention how Nagash wants all the souls when he dies.
The problem with the stormcast forging process is that when they die, the gash takes a little
bit of their souls each time.
He's like, Hey, that's mine.
So after the first reforge, they started losing their memories.
And if it happens enough times, if they die and get reforged enough times to lose enough
of their soul, that they eventually become hollow husks, pretty much just filled with
the essence of his ear.
So they literally become automatons essentially.
Yeah.
Automata of Sigmar's wrath, pretty much.
So that's an interesting idea for it because then it is in a way like the bad, bad word
where people are in chains, if you know what I mean.
Like they're, they're kind of, well, guess their, their bodies are, they have more bodies
technically, but immortal souls, the stormcast.
So their bodies can die.
I think they can die, but they get reforged.
They come back.
Although I don't know where a new body is made for the soul.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, but with this bellicose storm going on, well, they're just kind of locked off.
So if they die, they get caught by chaos.
Not great.
So that being said, they do develop measures to counter them.
They're not perfect, but they invent a special kind of stormcast armor who, when the stormcast
dies, it explodes in a cloud of energy so big that it pierces the clouds temporarily.
So that's the response to this bellicose stuff.
Not perfect, but it's something.
So they become like glitter bombs.
Basically.
Yeah.
Matt McWes, where's Mark Rober right now?
Oh, good Lord.
I know he's in the setting helping the stormcast get back to their home.
What a weird sentence.
Excuse me.
Wow.
And finally we get to the air of the beast.
The last major plots thing happening.
Alario's ritual, to go back to that, did a couple of things.
Life magic spread throughout all the realms, which, you know, death magic's gone, but it
energized the realm of GER, the realm of beasts to the point that everyone in it, remember
they're mostly orcs?
You cracked up all of the orcs.
They're ready to fight now.
Cause like renewed with life.
Oh no.
Yeah.
And it also woke up the God Kregnos, who's basically this locked up God of destruction,
who was a God of destruction.
So he's going to start destructioning things and just smashing the shit out of things.
He's not an orc.
Does he not?
Does he look like an orc or is he?
No, he looks like a beastman.
In fact, when his model was teased, people thought he was a beastman model.
He wasn't a beastman model.
Is he?
I think I might have seen it.
He's like a, he's a weird like stag centaur thing.
He's like the stag centaur thing.
That again, you look at it and go, Oh, that's a beastman model.
But no, he's not for the beastman.
Cause the beastman don't get anything nice.
Oh man.
Or a taurox, the brass bull, that would be a, that'd be a sick model, but that would
be like the new Angraan model, but someone should convert the Angraan model into a taurox.
That'd be sick.
Oh, but as for Kregnos, Morathe and Lord Croak managed to stop him, but not like kill him.
They just kind of trick him into walking through a portal.
So he's someone else's problem, which to be fair, I think he just warps in front of like
a chaos, like war camp and just obliterates it.
Which I mean, fair is fair, problem solves, but Kregnos isn't gone.
He's just angry somewhere else.
And that's usually how people deal with them.
Now in the setting, they'd send him somewhere else to be mad.
It was like send, it's like a child rampaging in a Walmart and then you just basically shove
them into another aisle.
You shove them another while and walk away as fast as you can.
What, um, obviously uniforms, blue shirts or blue jackets they wear in Walmart.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
Just like you call the blue Morathe and Lord Croak and there's like the little blue uniforms
and shoving him into it.
There's a Kregnos in aisle 11.
Oh man.
I've never even been to a Walmart.
And uh, two though, speaking of Morathe, uh, I said she's not a God yet.
She's now a God in the setting because as it turns out, her faction is called the daughters
of Cain and their whole religion is Morathe found Cain's heart from the old world and
was worshiping it and forming cults around it to revive Cain.
Except she lied.
She was kind of siphoning all the belief power going to Cain into herself to become a God
on her own.
And combined this with the fact that she entered Slaanesh on her own and started eating Phoenix
King souls.
She entered Slaanesh, excuse me.
Yeah.
Hey yo.
You're also not going to be a fan of this next sentence I wrote because while she was
in Slaanesh devouring Phoenix King souls, uh, she found an Arian.
She found his soul.
And she hesitated from devouring him because this is actually really depressing.
She was the only person, or she was the only person she ever loved.
Even her son.
Even I believe even over Malekith.
Damn man.
And an Arian's response to this was to cut her in half while they were all up in Slaanesh's
guts and her soul was cut in half into a beastly form and a beautiful elven form.
But either way, she's a proper God now.
She immediately takes over a city Sigmar controlled.
They hash out a peace deal, but now order is even more fractured.
And as just a last couple of peacekeeping things, again, just as a keep in mind, this
is not every single bit of lore.
It's just been long enough and there's a lot of lore in Age of Sigmar.
So go read up on it as a list though.
Couple of peacekeeping things before we talk about the realms.
Hash it is back, you know, the chaos dwarfs at the moment.
They're pretty popular.
Pretty free.
I know Hashut the name.
Essentially.
That is the evil chaos dwarf god.
We'll have to talk about him sometime, I think.
We will.
But for those of you interested in him in Total Warhammer or just in general fantasy,
he's back and so are the chaos dwarfs and he's even got some human followers now.
And of course, most importantly, if you were a fan of a certain book series, rejoice because
Gottrick motherfucking Gurnison is still alive in the mortal realms.
Yes.
The world blew up and it still didn't kill him.
Brian Blessed is just yelling somewhere.
Oh, it's I started listening to those audio books and it is wonderful.
I know Felix.
I take it.
Oh, no.
Sorry.
He shouldn't have said anything.
Very sad.
He's very angry at Grimnir because as far as he's concerned, Grimnir cheating him out
of an honest death.
And now he's in this strange world where they don't call dwarfs dwarfs.
They say Duardin.
It's actually in the audiobook.
Gottrick makes a point of like, what the fuck is a Duardin dwarf dwarf?
I'm a dwarf.
What do they think of him?
Is he a god?
At first, they think he's goddamn insane.
And then even worse for Gottrick, he hates Grimnir.
Some fire slayers think he's Grimnir reincarnated.
He just wants to find Felix and his old acts and they keep thinking he's their god reincarnated.
And for a couple of reasons that I'm not going to get into for spoiler reasons, they might
not be that far off the mark.
And that really doesn't make Gottrick happy.
He's just he's just brothers just trying to have a break.
The universe is just nah.
If there's any people who deserve a break, it's Gottrick and Felix and neither of them
get it.
I know that makes me that's what the end times that's the saddest part of the end times.
But that is the plot of AOS for
Wow, that's a lot.
Really quickly to cover the mortal realms.
Are there any pressing questions?
I think I have a general quite a good idea now about what's going on.
The only I the only question I might have is with Marathi where where is Marathi?
Is she in the same realm as Sigma or is she in her own?
So all of the gods have worshippers across the realms.
But Marathi's main ones are also in the Ulgu shadow.
Oh, so she's kind of in she doesn't have like a home base, I guess, or she's just like,
she travels around.
She gets around.
So Marathi gets around.
Marathi gets around mostly in Ulgu shadow, but she has played outposts all over the goddamn
place.
Other than that, I think I'm ready to learn more about the the realms because this I love,
especially like the environmental stuff.
That's my jam.
I love that kind of description.
Hit me.
I'm ready.
All right.
So the eight of them and they're based on the old winds of magic and fantasy.
Like I said, you've got light, shadow, life, death, fire, heavens, metal and beasts or
amber.
Collectively, they are known as the mortal realms.
And each of them has a god who embodies that realm.
And they're intrinsically linked.
So the gods doing good and the realms doing good, the gods doing good, the realms doing
bad, gods probably doing bad.
Did the gods forge the realms or did they just link with these realms?
Like when we said the serpent dragon thing at the beginning, they linked based on their
incarnate status in the end times for the most part.
The winds of magic they were bound to.
Yeah.
Like in the end times, Teclis bound to the winds of magic to certain individuals.
And for the most part, those individuals became the gods of the new mortal realms.
Not all of them, because Balthasar Gelt actually shows back up as Stormcast Eternal, but he's
not the god of Shamoan, common, whatever the fuck.
Shamoan.
Yeah.
But I was going to say then, does that mean in a way they don't really, like, it's not
really their realm.
The realm is just like more like part of them in a way.
It's like more like inverse.
Like Sigmar is heavens, but it's not because of Sigmar that the realm of heavens is like
that.
The realm of heavens is like with Nagash I said earlier, like Sigmar is intrinsically
tied to the realm itself.
So therefore it's more like the realm influences him, if you know what I'm saying.
I think it depends.
I think they just kind of got matched up with the fitting realm for them.
It's a point of view, isn't it?
Yeah.
That's, which I know in a lot of ways is unsatisfying as a narrative answer.
But maybe it's just not tackled then in that sort of...
There is also some of it is mysterious and some of it is again just age of also not in
any universe reason, but Games Workshop had these characters and want to kill them off.
So now they're the new gods that have been changed around to fit.
I guess also it's technically whatever the truth is, it's in the age of myth, which is
again, so long in the past that you'd actually have to ask the god like what happened to
even know because no one else would know.
And even then they might not actually know like the dwarf god Grungni and you know, the
white dwarf.
Oh yeah.
Snorri.
No, not Snorri.
Snorri knows by something.
I have Snorri that knows by something.
Snorri, the other Snorri.
Yeah, that's the other Snorri.
They actually know each other from the, you know, from the previous world.
They know they were both dwarves, but they forgot what their relationship was to each
other.
So they each call each other grandfather.
Oh.
So like even the gods don't remember everything because things have been going on for so long
that even their memories aren't perfect.
Also Sigmar's not like, he's still kind of, I guess that's why it's like Greek god, isn't
it?
They're not like, oh, and then I remembered everything forever.
And then I became even more powerful.
It's just, they kind of stay a similar kind of powerful.
Yeah.
Like they do remember a lot of it.
Like the whole thing with the Luminath realm lords is Teclis and Tyrion were trying to
recreate the high elves, but a lot of it isn't like perfect memory.
Because it's just so long.
It's just so long ago.
Okay.
So it's kind of cool though.
But anyway, as the mortal realms themselves, they are that weird chart thing I showed you
that's not actually helpful at all.
Oh yeah.
The organization to it.
So the way it works is death is below all of them.
It is the underworld.
So it's technically under all of them.
Oh my God.
This is thought the dark world real.
The discs.
Yeah.
This is literally, are they like disc worlds?
Where it's literally in thought the dark world where they're kind of like discs and they
all line up, they're like stacked.
Kinda yeah.
But not exactly.
Not exactly.
As you get, pardon me, Azir is above all of them for it's the heavens and Olgu and Heish
both circle around the realms forming the night and day of the mortal realms.
Oh, that's, that's kind of hard to imagine.
Yes.
But I'm kind of with it.
Very weird metaphysical.
And in between all of them is what's known as the aetheric void, which is basically just
pure magic.
Do not go there.
It is pure unfiltered raw magic.
Not even like the realm of chaos.
It's just pure unadulterated magic.
Is there a sun or moon?
Heish is essentially the sun.
Although the problem with that is Heish also has the spirit of its own moon.
So there's a lot of weird metaphysical stuff going on.
It's one of those things where you're not meant to think too hard about it, I guess.
Yeah.
It's like I said, Aegis Sigma are structured as a myth.
It's one of those things.
Do not think about it.
It's going to make your head hurt.
There's probably not a good answer.
It's not meant to be viewed from an outside 3D perspective, I guess.
No.
Like a map.
Saying something has a map doesn't make sense in Aegis Sigma.
Because it won't be like that forever.
Or even like saying like this Greek myth doesn't make sense.
It's not supposed to make sense.
It's a myth.
Okay.
I'm with you.
So as for each realm, some common-ish characteristics, towards the center, the realms are each what
you would think like when you hear their name, but kind of to a mild degree.
So what I mean by that is in the realm of Akshi Fire, in the center, it's livable, like
there's going to be arable land and whatnot, but it's going to be really hot.
But as you get to the edge of the realms and closer to that aetheric void, it becomes more
and more just raw magic and unlivable.
I thought they were, are they not technically infinite then?
Not technically, but they're functionally infinite.
Games Workshop says they're like, they're nearly infinite, which means for narrative
purposes, they're as big as they need to be.
So there is theoretically an end to them.
Most of them are, most of like all the realms is technically uninhabited then just by pure
scale.
Yeah.
But they're massive.
So wow, this is still plenty to explore.
It's a lot to wrap my head around, but I'm kind of with you.
So.
And so like in Akshi, you get closer to the edge, it becomes nothing but magma and volcanic
eruptions and just pure fire until you get to that aetheric void.
And that's just Akshi.
I kind of get it.
So like the central part, when you say center, I'm guessing that's near realm.
Yeah.
A lot of the realm gates.
So I'm guessing that's.
There's going to be realm gates even farther out there, but no one's going to go to those
because you just die.
I'm guessing that's because when, so quote unquote center is because with all the other
magics, perhaps possibly some of them coming through the realm gates, that sort of neutralizes
the ground maybe a little bit.
So that's actually livable.
Not a bad theory.
I haven't read that, but honestly, that's a really good explanation for it.
It would make that same way.
I could rationalize it.
Like I guess make sense if you know what I mean.
Cause I can imagine, I guess all of the magics together kind of councils out into like a
neutral thing.
So maybe that's what makes it slightly more habitable.
Not a bad way to look at it.
And but yeah, edge, it gets more and more weird as you go.
For example, in the realm of life, if you get close to the edge of the realm, you'll
find like living rocks and mountains.
And if you go too far out, you may damn well fuse with the realm itself.
Oh, that's pretty unpleasant.
So you said the fire realm and the life ones here, they're not just super homogenous, they're
right.
So when I say fire, there's like, it's not all volcano.
There's some kind of like deserts and yeah, like it'll be like deserts or stuff like that
in the realm of life.
Like, you know, it's not all just like pure jungle, super lush, tropical rain forest.
It could be oceans, swamp, it could be like grasslands and super vibrant plains.
So they're quite varied, like even within the realm.
Yeah, even within a single realm, there's all sorts of different terrain.
But there's a general tone, like, like the rock and the fire one is like, it's usually
volcanic rocks and yeah, like there'll be themes, but like any variety you can think
of using that theme will exist somewhere in the realm.
I'm guessing also the plants and animals are similarly themed as well.
Yeah, it's like salamanders.
Like, is that for like all the realms, like you wouldn't find like, you would only find
kind of fiery, like, you know, desert, maybe animals in the fire realm, you wouldn't really
find or maybe you would find something similar in the life realm, but then it's just a much
more plain and it's not less, it's more lifelike rather than fire.
Yeah, you might find some similar and maybe on rare occasions, some beasts might somehow
travel across the realms, but for the most part.
Oh yeah, yeah, true.
But yeah, and just for some more general weirdness in the realm of beasts, the entire realm down
to the crust is alive.
So like, like the realm of beasts, because it's the wild untamed realm, whole thing is
alive, like the continents are creatures.
Some of them are much more, I'm guessing some of the realms are much more paired, if you
know what I mean.
I'm thinking of it because when you say that, I think of the life realm, but I'm guessing
like there's a thing where like obviously shadow is related to death, light is probably
related to heavens in some way.
Or isn't there some more similarities, if you know what I mean?
They have more similarities, but they're still distinct.
Okay, okay.
And I was actually going to talk about Shaiash, you were talking about that earlier.
The realm of death works, yeah, Shaiash death.
With the realm of beasts though, what does it look like?
Cause I just, when you say it's all alive, I don't, is it just rock or is it?
Oh, it's rock and everything, but the rocks are all these colossal continents that are
each alive.
Is it just like filled with animals?
Even if Katakan was a universe and also Katakan itself was alive.
Oh my God.
And that's the realm of beasts and also cover the entire thing in orcs and ogres.
Is it again got like volcanoes and like it's a bit of a...
Yeah, there'll be some other stuff like that occasionally, but it's just...
The whole realm feels alive in a different kind of way.
Yeah.
In a way, even beyond like there are spirits in each realm, like Gurd, the realm of beasts
itself is a living thing.
That's cool though.
I like that.
It's, yeah, each setting or each realm is almost its own setting.
As for Shaiash, just a little neat little thing.
Each civilization, cause there were many civilizations in mortal realms has their own underworld
in Shaiash.
They all kind of coexist near each other and the way it works is when a civilization is
still alive, its underworld is still around.
And when a civilization is destroyed or just fades away into history and its culture is
lost that underworld will fade away and the souls inside will fade into nothingness.
I'm guessing Nagash doesn't let something like that slip his notice.
I just got a feeling about that.
It's kind of something he can't stop, but most of his Mortariks, his lieutenants, his
soldiers are immune to it.
And the thing about a lot of undead in Warhammer is they don't have a soul, like a zombie or
a skeleton doesn't have a soul in it.
It's just animated by death magic.
So and if Nagash takes the souls and stuffs them into something, they don't fade away
as their afterlife fades away.
The only brief bit I know about the undead stuff is there's the model of the catacross,
the samurai looking one.
I don't know the barest bones about a story of his which was that Nagash invaded his realm
of undead and recruited him.
That's literally all I know.
There's something about that.
Like there's different afterlives and Nagash is overlord of all of them because he ate
all the other death gods.
Damn.
What's the realm itself?
Is it mostly just like...
It's a place where there are living people there.
Like people live side by side with other people's ancestors and spirits.
Yeah, but is it like Chicago?
The entire planet?
Sorry if you're from Chicago.
No, it's probably nicer than Chicago.
Wow.
Nagash at least keeps order.
Damn.
Is it kind of like mountainous or is it what's like the general kind of tone of it?
Is it a bit like spooky forest?
Spread a spooky ghost forest across an entire plane of reality.
So there's smoke and there's like burnt trees.
And there's fog and dead craggy burnt trees and it's just the worst.
But mortals live there.
Yeah.
Idiots.
Like mortals can live there.
I mean to be fair when you're born there you don't have much of a choice.
Not everyone has access to realm gates.
I guess they probably choose to live closer to near the realm gate part.
If they can help it.
And one last thing because I just wanted the realms really should know they're weird and
do their own things.
In life there's these things called lifequakes.
So imagine walking down the street Hal.
You're now pregnant.
Oh, that's not why I thought I was going.
Gender is not a factor in this.
So good luck out there gentlemen.
Oh, okay.
The realms are weird.
That is not what I thought when you say a lifequake.
Yo, what the hell?
That's a slightly terrifying.
That's quite terrifying.
I have to admit.
Jesus Christ.
Yeah.
The mortal realms are weird.
Who wrote that?
I wish one of the writers.
I have no idea.
Someone is just huffing something.
Lord.
What's the life when you say the life realm?
Yeah.
In the realm of life.
Damn.
I wonder if I'm the worst one then.
Because it's just like the fucking life realm without my consent.
Jesus Christ.
And to really quickly just summarize what the Grand Alliances are not going to go into
every faction because we'll be here for another three hours.
But just really quickly.
Last bit.
We have Grand Alliance Order.
Not quite the good guys, but they're the ones who just don't want everything torn down or
turned into zombies.
They're mostly the old pantheon members who didn't betray Sigmar so much as just kind of
leave.
Destruction, the next Grand Alliance.
They're led by Gorka Morka and or Gorka Mork.
The orcs, the ogres, the goblins, all those stuff that just want to fight and just are
nuts and want to just get in a good old fight and eat all the time.
There's Death, led by Nagash, who again, Death, he's not changed at all from Warhammer fantasy.
Still wants to kill everything.
Still wants to rule over an unchanging world of static death.
And there's Chaos.
It's Chaos.
It's the same as 40k.
It's the Chaos gods.
Although the Skaven are a part of Grand Alliance Chaos too.
Because they had to fit in somewhere and that was the only place that would take them.
I think they fit in quite nicely because they are chaotic in nature.
I get it, but I cannot.
I do not think the Skaven should be a part of anything.
I think they should be the Skaven.
Their own race of assholes.
To be fair, it sounds like the rest of Chaos kind of rejects them anyway.
Yeah, they're not exactly best friends with anyone.
It's more so, well the Horned Rat's here now and he has so many followers, it bloats his
power level to be more or less equal to us.
So we just have to accept this now.
He's kind of like the Broly character of it.
He's just like, he's a little bit-
I don't think the Horned Rat's Broly.
Oh, who would you say he is?
He gives him a lot of credit.
True.
I don't know if I can compare him to a Dragon Ball Z character.
Maybe Frieza.
Actually that's probably better, yeah.
You keep killing him, but he doesn't go away.
He keeps betraying every time.
What did I expect?
Now he's gold.
Gold Frieza.
Golden Horned Rat.
He slaps you with his fucking pimp.
Golden Rat.
Pimp Golden Horned Rat.
But that rambling, disconnected explanation was Age of Sigmar.
This is, as you might have noticed, didn't cover everything because this is an entire
war game setting.
I tried to sum up, there's a lot.
There's a lot.
Yeah, we did a lot.
That was, I mean, I kind of have a much better understanding of it.
Was there also one more realm than metal?
Was there a metal realm too?
Yeah, that was the Shamone.
Shamone.
Is that one quite, is that one mysterious?
And I take it it's just quite, it's just metal.
It's not as explored, although it's a lot of metal.
It's same as the other realms, closer to the middle.
It's like you'll find a lot of ore deposits and whatnot, but it's livable.
Towards the edge, you'll find everything's made of some pure metal or other rare gems
are all over the place.
A metal magic.
That's probably, that's like in my head, I'm imagining a literal mountain of gold.
Like an actual mountain.
That's cool.
The Emperor would be very happy with the realm of Shamone.
That's the head of a sentence.
Unfortunately he's not coming to the mortal realms anytime soon.
I can't imagine.
That'll be a plot twist.
Aside from that, only one last thing to mention.
When Galamaraz was reclaimed by the Stormcast Eternals, it was given to the Celestin Prime,
the first ever Stormcast Eternal Sigmar created, who simply needed one last thing to finish
him off.
And when Galamaraz was reclaimed, he gave it to the Celestin Prime, who was forged from
a king of an old kingdom in the old world that Sigmar once ruled.
I think you know where I'm going with this.
The Celestin Prime is fucking Karl France.
It's never been confirmed.
They just say he's an old king from the old world.
Don't care.
It's Karl France.
No one else is badass enough to be the Celestin Prime.
Emperor, a letter count of Reikland, son, sorry, prince.
Prince, prince and elector of Reikland.
Excuse me, my heresy.
He's prince and emperor.
That's a privileged bastard.
And yeah, that is Age of Sigmar.
So just scratch the surface.
I loved it.
That was a lot.
I think I have a good image in my head of kind of what's going on.
I definitely think, obviously it's an overview, but like, I've always struggled with what
is like, I guess the ground level experience of that universe, because it's again, it's
just so big, even in terms of scale and like, obviously it's high fantasy now.
So it's a bit different.
But I feel like I've got a good, like if I was to make a story or like in my head, I
think I know I could place it appropriately in there and it would actually make sense
in the universe.
There are a few named cities that show up different.
Like there's Hammerhall, which is one of the biggest cities formed in the mortal realms
after Sigmar sent out the Stormcast.
There's Anvil Guard, which is what the place, the city that Marathi took from Sigmar.
The El Points, which is currently under control of Archaon, but everyone keeps fighting over
it.
There's a couple different places you can kind of ground yourself in, but part of the
appeal I find is just losing yourself in it and just approaching it not as a solid story,
but as this mythic tale of massive fighting armies and whatnot.
As we'll end it, I think, well, hopefully we might do another in the future.
We may possibly explore in more detail some of the factions within the Alliance orders
themselves.
I think so you may go a bit, sorry, may go into more detail and or you may possibly talk
about some dwarves, chaos dwarves stuff.
Cause you know, love it.
I think I'm very curious about Hashut, but I will end on, I'll ask you a question, which
is who was your favorite faction in AOS?
Like who, you know, who you collecting and why they your favorite?
At the moment, probably the Lumineth because I love my elves.
They're quite, you know, they're high elves.
I love them.
Teclis is a model.
That's something very nice about AOS.
The gods in the setting, play them on tabletop.
They're very powerful.
Is he T-posing?
Is he?
He is T-posing.
He's flying in T-posing on lesser beings before him.
Nothing wrong with that.
It makes it even better.
Although of course that being said, the Skaven probably still my favorite overall in Warhammer
because I love my bad rats.
Vanquoil is still kicking.
Why are they your, we'll just finish on why they're your favorite specifically.
Like what makes him so good?
Because I just love how they're the worst.
Like even, you know, even like, you know, like the word bearers, they're all awful,
but every now and then you'll get a character like, you know, Argel, Argel, Argel tall.
Argel tall.
Thank you.
Every time I say his name, it's like gargling dice.
If you hit this to major kill too much, you have to, you'll start to, I think he's pronounced
it multiple different times.
And so I'm like, I'm like, which one is it, bro?
I'm struggling.
Yeah.
Argel tall will go with like, you'll get a character like him.
He was like, you know what?
He's almost a redeemable character, almost not a piece of shit with the Skaven.
You don't get that.
They're just the worst.
And it's so fun.
Like you're playing mad scientist, evil rats with machine guns made out of lightning in
a fantasy setting.
The voices are so funny too.
They're amazing.
Like the Skaven there, when you want to be an irredeemable asshole, not even just a monster.
Yes.
But more than that, just a prick.
You go to the Skaven and I think that's very fun.
Cause I think it's just funny.
Thankful every day.
Thankful is a joy to read about.
We have to do a quiz on him.
We have to do something versus on that.
We have to do something with thankful cause it's just, there's no way we can't spread
the love of this absolute failure.
I haven't gotten to it yet, but he and Gottrick evidently have a dual in age of Sigmar.
Oh yes.
I'm very excited to get to that point of the audio book because oh boy, is it going to
be, is it going to be something?
I know thankful is quite unhappy when he finds out Gottrick survived as is got in reverse.
I still remember that part in one of the got trick books where he's like, you, you know,
you've been sabotaging me forever.
And they're like, who are you?
And he's like, Oh my, he almost like faints cause he's cause they don't, he thinks they've
been ego.
It's so bruised.
He almost passes out.
He thinks they've been sabotaging him for 20 years and they have no idea.
He was the same rat at the entire time.
If nothing else, if nothing else will bring you to that, thankful is still at age of Sigmar
up to his old BS.
So you know what?
If nothing else will bring you to the setting, let thankful do it.
He is the epitome of you failed successfully.
He is still the horned rats, silliest clown fighting his funniest battles.
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