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Haven't read all the Stormcast fluff so was hoping someone could help me with some questions.

1. Are there mortal (human) bodies under that armor?

2. Do they have superhuman strength or endurance apart from their armor / weapons?

3. Do they ever lose or damage their armor / weapons?

4. Do they talk to each other? Can they communicate with each other somehow over long distances?

5. How do they get back to Azyr? Also by lightning?

6. Do they ever try to reunited with their friends or families from their past lives?

7. Can they know fear?

Thanks for the info!

 KiloFiX wrote:
Haven't read all the Stormcast fluff so was hoping someone could help me with some questions.

1. Are there mortal (human) bodies under that armor?

2. Do they have superhuman strength or endurance apart from their armor / weapons?

3. Do they ever lose or damage their armor / weapons?

4. Do they talk to each other? Can they communicate with each other somehow over long distances?

5. How do they get back to Azyr? Also by lightning?

6. Do they ever try to reunited with their friends or families from their past lives?

7. Can they know fear?

Thanks for the info!

1. Yes there have been notes that stormcast are male and female but just wear armor in the visage of sigmar.

2. Hmmm yes and no they are about the same strength as a chaos warrior.

3.Yes I assume if their gear is not with them when they die they lose it. A certain Orruk has a lord celestant's helmet with him after he killed him they make a small note that he is still looking for it.

4.Yes they talk with each other they can't communicate over long distances. That's why they have prosecutors(winged stormcast) to do the scouting and report back.

5. So far they can only get to the realm via lighting they can't teleport back. They still require a realm gate or another way is death.

6. Some do, hell they meet their descendants and a huge aspect of certain novels is dealing with the fact that with each death they lose themselves and the memories of their loved ones and families.

7. Yup indeed they do know fear, look at a stormcast liberator and a chaos warrior bravery 6. Above average but they can still feel fear, novels have went out of their way to explain they feel fear sometimes that takes many forms two lord celestants have a discussion sigmar sent a lord celestant to fight with the astral templars to help him get over his defeat and his fear of failing his soldiers. Some fear dying and losing their memories hence why they try to keep themselves and their soldiers alive at any cost.


Overall yes they were inspired by space marines but lore wise they are pretty separate. Overall in AOS they are just the order version of chaos warriors.

1 - Yes

2 - Yes

3 - Yes, but damage is repaired by the same magic that heals them, and lost equipment is extremely rare since it normally zaps back up when they die.

4 - Yes, they speak to each other like normal humans. Long-distance communication is limited to messages delivered via Prosecutor (the flying ones).

5 - They go back by lightning when they die, can be called back while they are alive, and also use realmgates.

6 - Their friends/family are either long dead or turned to chaos, but some do find descendants of their old people. How much a Stormcast remembers and cares of his old family depends on the individual.

7 - Yes but not very much; they lack the instinctive fear of death that mortals have. They certainly would never cower or run due to fear.

I don't know much but this is what I gathered from my limited reading about them.

1) They are humanoid. They could have been an Orruk or a Skaven but reincarnated as a humanoid.

2) I believe they do.

3) Not sure. When they die, I believe their armour disappears as well. I don't like that.

4) Yes they do, Read the free book that GW gave (sorry forgot the name) and you see them talking to each other.

5) Not sure.

6) I believe they forget who they are, so they don't know their families. Especially if you were a rat before and now look human. It would really be weird even if your remembered you were a rat, not you are not. Would you really be fighting for Sigmar now?

7) Yes they do. They don't want to "die". They know when they "die" to get "reforged" or come back is very painful and something they don't want to endure. So yes they are scared of that.

Why would a stormcast be an orruk or even worse a skaven? They are human.

Thanks all, the above helps immensely.

Sete wrote:
Why would a stormcast be an orruk or even worse a skaven? They are human.

A skaven wouldn't get remade into one, but an elf or dwarf or orruk could be. They're all dead heroes who are remade in Sigmars image, so their former race and sex don't matter so much

 Bi'ios wrote:

Sete wrote:
Why would a stormcast be an orruk or even worse a skaven? They are human.

A skaven wouldn't get remade into one, but an elf or dwarf or orruk could be. They're all dead heroes who are remade in Sigmars image, so their former race and sex don't matter so much

Sigmar has a bad habit of stealing souls from other gods.

Thing is though in all instances we have seen in the books people taken by sigmar are human.

 shinros wrote:

 Bi'ios wrote:

Sete wrote:
Why would a stormcast be an orruk or even worse a skaven? They are human.

A skaven wouldn't get remade into one, but an elf or dwarf or orruk could be. They're all dead heroes who are remade in Sigmars image, so their former race and sex don't matter so much

Sigmar has a bad habit of stealing souls from other gods.

Thing is though in all instances we have seen in the books people taken by sigmar are human.

Fair enough Nagash isn't too happy about the soul taking, either

 Bi'ios wrote:

 shinros wrote:

 Bi'ios wrote:

Sete wrote:
Why would a stormcast be an orruk or even worse a skaven? They are human.

A skaven wouldn't get remade into one, but an elf or dwarf or orruk could be. They're all dead heroes who are remade in Sigmars image, so their former race and sex don't matter so much

Sigmar has a bad habit of stealing souls from other gods.

Thing is though in all instances we have seen in the books people taken by sigmar are human.

Fair enough Nagash isn't too happy about the soul taking, either

Indeed, he also does it with the chaos gods.

Funny enough a lord celestant is glad that he did not have to look for nagash since he is not rather fond of looking for someone that can sallow/sunder your soul.

While all the characters have indeed been previous human males, it is stated explicitly that other races and genders have been stormcasted. It's like female guardsman in 40k; they exist, just not in miniature form. Also it is likely the the vast majority of Stormcast were human and the majority of those were male.

From what I read in the fluff Sigmar spirited away the greatest of mankind warriors.
Women included.

"Sigmar spirited the entire royal household away in a flash of lightning, Reforging every man and woman into Stormcast Eternals"

I never read anything in the fluff so far that indicates that Stormcasts are any other than Humans.
But Josh reynolds said something about if you want your Stormcasts to be Aelfs so be it.
Also in Stormcast Warscroll it has order celestial human keywords.

Doesn't the warrior need to renounce chaos and cry out to Sigmar with his last dying breath? I think for that reason they are all going to be human as other races have their own gods to forsake them.

There's a rumour we'll be getting helmetless Stormcast later this year. I am interested in what style of human head they'll go for (a mixture of ethnicities? Massive beards? Shaved temples?)

I hope they make a specific female Stormcast unit down the line too. I would like to have some recognizable female warriors. I am a fan of a little cheesecake (like 'House Escher' levels)

 Bottle wrote:
Doesn't the warrior need to renounce chaos and cry out to Sigmar with his last dying breath? I think for that reason they are all going to be human as other races have their own gods to forsake them.

It depends on the warrior chamber to which he would be assigned. The Celestial Vindicators called out for vengeance for example while the Hallowed Knights fought with faith in SIgmar. Other stormcast were taken away without being in battle or calling to Sigmar altogether. In short - Sigmar had his pick of choice.
A tidbit of info concerning female stormcast - the Royal victrians' chamber has in its roster names like Caliota, Distriota and Elovacia. They could be regular Tilean male names for all I know though...