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Looking through the Wood Elves section on the GW site and found this.

With the Lore of Athel Loren at their finger-tips, it is not unheard of for a Spellweaver to move entire forests, heal nearby warriors and transport whole regiments into an other-worldly
existence where they can no-longer be harmed by mortal weapons.

It got me wondering if somehow maybe members of the Old World races were able to escape the apocalypse and transport themselves through space and time to
one or more other realms. If so there could be populations of Human, Elves, Dwarfs etc in the process of rebuilding their civilizations. Now obviously this would require
some time travel or stasis until the time was right but it's magic so why not? Maybe the "other-worldly existence" could be a time capsule-like holding area which could be
accessed by immortal beings once things settled down enough.

I like this idea because it talks past edition armies and has them canonically living, working, fighting alongside the Stormcast Eternals if so inclined or against them.
The persons would more or less pick up where they left off.

Well, basically after the Old World blows up, Sigmar hurtles through space on a fragment of it until Dracothion, the Great Drake, notices his little shard, thinks it's pretty, then finds him clinging to it. They become BFFs and Dracothion teaches Sigmar how to move between the realms. Then Sigmar goes around Norse god-style on all sorts of adventures, finding and waking up the gods and the remnants of the people from the Old World. Everyone teams up and has a golden age of happiness. This is the Age of Myth.

Then it all falls apart and Chaos conquers basically everything, except for Azyr, Sigmar's realm, which takes as many refugees as it can before sealing its gates. Azyr is explicitly singled out as having all kinds of peoples in it, including humans, duardin and aelfs, which is weird because nobody knows where the aelfs are (but it's hinted they're still somewhere or other, just suffering tremendously). This is the Age of Chaos.

So then, just before Chaos' ultimate victory, Sigmar unleashes the Stormcast Eternals and the remnants of the free peoples or whatever you want to call them rise up. They're also joined by lots of those living in Azyr, who want to reclaim their homelands (though some centuries have passed during the Age of Chaos, I believe). They strike out and join the Sigmarites in fighting against Chaos. This is the start of the titular Age of Sigmar.

So, all sorts of peoples are still around. How well they map will probably depend on the specific peoples in question. As far as I know, the aelfs are still supposed to be missing, other than their gods. The duardin are definitely around, and lots of humans are around too, though the ones I have seen discussed are tribal sorts rather than empires or what have you. Some of the pictures in the book include warrior priests fighting alongside Sigmarites (and one wagon with Emperor Karl Franz on the side, whoops).

So yeah!

Keeping in mind also that because the Old World was consumed by Chaos - which is to say, literally swallowed by The Warp, it's not unlikely that many armies, tribes, and entire parts of the Old World's population were transported wholesale into that realm. It's entirely possible for these groups to fight their way back out of there and enter back into the material world at some other point in time - since time is a largely subjective thing and doesn't flow evenly.

As such, you could have an entire town's population from the Empire plop down into the Mortal Realms, or say that your specifically-themed Old World army was swallowed by The Warp during the End Times and spat back out into the Realms just as Sigmar launched his campaign to retake them.

I do believe that there are Aelfs living in Sigmar's realm even before the start of AoS - but there are no other elven peoples that Tyrion and Teclis can find in the Mortal Realms. Given that the Exiles dwell in the Shadow Realm in hidden places, and the Wanderers also hide themselves from pretty much everyone as well, and neither faction considers themselves close allies with Sigmar, it's not unlikely that Tyrion and Teclis simply can't find them - especially considering that they've spent a good deal of their time bagging up Slannesh and forcing it to cough up all the elven souls it ate up.

Didn't Araloth explicitly do this?

Yeah, Lilith used the souls of the dead to create another realm where she sent Araloth and their Daughter. This is apparently a cycle that has happened infinite times, the survivors of the old world creating a new one, but we haven't hear a wiff of it since the last End Times when Be'Lakor heard about this realm and it was lost from Liliths senses.

So either GW spent the entirety of Lilith's god-mode plan then squatted it in a single sentence without any detail, or they have forgotten about it. I wonder which is more GW style, both seem fairly in line.

overtninja wrote:
Keeping in mind also that because the Old World was consumed by Chaos - which is to say, literally swallowed by The Warp, it's not unlikely that many armies, tribes, and entire parts of the Old World's population were transported wholesale into that realm. It's entirely possible for these groups to fight their way back out of there and enter back into the material world at some other point in time - since time is a largely subjective thing and doesn't flow evenly.

As such, you could have an entire town's population from the Empire plop down into the Mortal Realms, or say that your specifically-themed Old World army was swallowed by The Warp during the End Times and spat back out into the Realms just as Sigmar launched his campaign to retake them.

I do believe that there are Aelfs living in Sigmar's realm even before the start of AoS - but there are no other elven peoples that Tyrion and Teclis can find in the Mortal Realms. Given that the Exiles dwell in the Shadow Realm in hidden places, and the Wanderers also hide themselves from pretty much everyone as well, and neither faction considers themselves close allies with Sigmar, it's not unlikely that Tyrion and Teclis simply can't find them - especially considering that they've spent a good deal of their time bagging up Slannesh and forcing it to cough up all the elven souls it ate up.

Didn't Teclis explode from magical overload?