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Hi, I am curious as to what turned archaon (did I spell it right?) to chaos, I know how he was a priest of sigmar untill he found out something about sigmar that pissed him off so much that he turned to chaos.

does anyone know what it was that he actually discovered that converted him to chaos?

I think that GW hasn't told anything about it.
But I think that he read something 'bout the End Times.

He found out that Sigmar was a brony. His reaction to that news was completely reasonable.

^this

Of course the proper reaction would have been to turn to worship of the Great Maw. The World Eater and its children shall soon consume all. The last feast is upon us.

Grey Templar wrote:^this

Of course the proper reaction would have been to turn to worship of the Great Maw. The World Eater and its children shall soon consume all. The last feast is upon us.

Unless Tzeentch changes his mind.

MEGA-OVEREACTION!

blood guard26 wrote:MEGA-OVEREACTION!

What?

It states he read some forbidden tome and the evil truth he read caused him to burn down everything and go to the chaos wastes....


You can't say he overreacted because it's not stated specifically what he reacted to, to keep some mystery



Von Chogg

I think the book contained the final scores for every sporting event that would ever exist. With that kind of infinite knowledge, what was the point of existence anymore? He couldn't even enjoy watching female basketball games (not that anyone can) as he already knew the outcomes. He was damned and so he decided to destroy the world.

He was a dude from the empire (a knight i think) who did something wrong, he then took a trek up north through the wastes and choatic hell hole (newcastle, manchester etc.) and ended up in a truely terrifying place full of half naked mad men who worship dark gods (scotland), only to find that they are not so bad and are generally just misunderstood, so he then decided to change everyones mind and show them that these people are really just nice (mutated) chaps, so he then trekked around the wasteland looking for cool stuff (stone of scone) to promote his campaign of niceness... it did not end well as the comfy southerners (london etc.) dont like to be bothered by anyone who is trying to be nice to them, so they decided to have a big ol ruck in the middle somewhere (hmm..lets say.. St ives).

So goes the saga of Archaon of Staines

He was a Priest of Sigmar.

Grey Templar wrote:He was a Priest of Sigmar.

right over your head eh?

O I got the joke. I just pointed out the error.

Grey Templar wrote:O I got the joke. I just pointed out the error.

THE error? lol

Grey Templar wrote:He was a Priest of Sigmar.

No, he wasn't. The book calls him a Templar of Sigmar, which is the official, in-universe name for the Witch Hunters, not the priesthood.

That makes him cooler then. A fallen witch hunter? Waaaay better than a priest. A witch hunter is someone who has blood on his hands well before having become a worshiper of the dark gods. A priest, while present at battles is still able to decieve himself that Sigmariites never sin or do dark things, unless he was higher up, but even then, knowing about bad things happening and doing nothing is far different than being the one who actually does the bad things.

Re-read the part in the army book, and he found out 'the Truth'

thenoobbomb wrote:Re-read the part in the army book, and he found out 'the Truth'

He discovered that Pi is exactly 3 and that the whole of trigonometry is a giant cover up of this fact.

A Town Called Malus wrote:

thenoobbomb wrote:Re-read the part in the army book, and he found out 'the Truth'

He discovered that Pi is exactly 3 and that the whole of trigonometry is a giant cover up of this fact.

Trigonometry has no use in a world with magic. Magic does all the math for you. Engineers don't use it either, they just eyeball everything and hand it off to some poor soul to live test it.

Aerethan wrote:

A Town Called Malus wrote:

thenoobbomb wrote:Re-read the part in the army book, and he found out 'the Truth'

He discovered that Pi is exactly 3 and that the whole of trigonometry is a giant cover up of this fact.

Trigonometry has no use in a world with magic. Magic does all the math for you. Engineers don't use it either, they just eyeball everything and hand it off to some poor soul to live test it.

You have uncovered the truth for me.
I burned my house down now and slaughtered my family.




Well, that's rather silly, innit?

thenoobbomb wrote:

Aerethan wrote:

A Town Called Malus wrote:

thenoobbomb wrote:Re-read the part in the army book, and he found out 'the Truth'

He discovered that Pi is exactly 3 and that the whole of trigonometry is a giant cover up of this fact.

Trigonometry has no use in a world with magic. Magic does all the math for you. Engineers don't use it either, they just eyeball everything and hand it off to some poor soul to live test it.

You have uncovered the truth for me.
I burned my house down now and slaughtered my family.




Well, that's rather silly, innit?

makes perfect sense to me. I have yet to uncover the truth for myself. I'm sure it will be along the lines of explaining that everything I believe has been a lie, we exist in the Matrix, and Archaon is the CPU.
This will cause me to destroy everything I have loved, for it was all a lie to make batteries for Archaons new power armor.

Well, that makes sence.

He read gws plan for advancing the story after the storm of chaos. Then when order won instead of destruction and gw said " nope never happened", the knowledge of this drove him crazy.

Supposedly the new WoC book this year will involve the Storm of Chaos results instead of retconning them.

Aerethan wrote:Supposedly the new WoC book this year will involve the Storm of Chaos results instead of retconning them.

GW moves the story forward? Really?

Stoupe wrote:

Aerethan wrote:Supposedly the new WoC book this year will involve the Storm of Chaos results instead of retconning them.

GW moves the story forward? Really?

The rumor is that Archaon is once again at the head of the horde, having rebuilt his army in preparation for a second attack. He will also be able to be taken on foot or mounted, which is awesome.

I still think that him being beaten by an orc is stupid.

I don't really think he was beaten by an orc... But rather orcs waited for everyone to die and came in from behind, stabbed him and went "ORCS R DA BEST!" and ran away.

That's more or less what made Boba Fett hate Han Solo. Han did the same move in some arena death match thing, and Fett thought it was despicable.

Either way, Archaon should be back in all his majesty and evil glory.

Aerethan wrote:That's more or less what made Boba Fett hate Han Solo. Han did the same move in some arena death match thing, and Fett thought it was despicable.

Actually, it was just a dude acting in a suit. Specifically, trying to mimic Clint Eastwood in his early spaghetti westerns. That is, according to the guy who actually played him. You're quotting retconned stuff that wouldn't exist unti people nerded out 20-30 years later over him

Expanded universe all of a sudden doesn't count?

And I refuse to accept the retcon of Fett's history. He was not, is not, and never will be some crappy clone of a samoan dude.

Whats wrong with him being a Clone?

He's not just a clone, he's a perfect clone of a Mandalorian warrior(IIRC)

And at least he was enough of a BAMF to crawl out of the Sarlacc and not die like a punk as the original movie cut did.