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Heya lore buffs,

I am new to AoS, and warhammer fantasy in general. Something that piqued my curiosity is this blurb in regards to the sylvaneth outcast Drycha

"Said to be a truly ancient spirit, one who fought at the end of the world-that-was"

Does anyone have any insight into who that might be from the end times? And who would say these things? Do the denizens of the mortal realms remember the world that was?

Drycha was a special character Branch wraith in the old game.

As far as I know people in general do not remember the good old days. For example the wood elves are just legends to the Sylvaneth.

To keep it simple Drycha did not like the wood elves. She is simply a really really old branchwraith. That caused the wood elves problems.

Her insanity is said to be from the spelling of blood on the grove she is bound to. Well beastmen blood to be exact, the blood of Morghur.

Now she does not like humans, elves etc only tree people. She was the one who handed the fey enchantress to mannfred. Who he turned into a vampire to control her.

She is not a nice tree is she? In aos Alarielle re planted her soul pod to be reborn to help her fight in her war. Of course she was worried about her insanity but that did not stop her.

Since she is now the goddess of life Drycha is pretty much her child. She murder's, slays and tortures anyone who is not sylvaneth.

So it's not fluffy to run her in a mixed order army she would kill them.

It's not that people don't remember it depends on the realm, to some the old world is history of sorts if they have records the only faction that kept records if I recall is sigmar's people and skaven. For everyone else it's like myth and legend it's been several thousand years since the old world.

Mortal people do not remember, but there is more than one character who did survive from the destruction of the old world. Not least of all are the gods themselves, and every grand alliance save destruction has a handful of special characters who would remember that time.

Drycha showing up in a mixed Order (or even non-Order) army is explained in her battletome fluff; she will work with anyone so long as it furthers her goal of killing everyone non-Sylvaneth. Sort of "the enemy of my enemy is an enemy I'm just not killing right now" in a way.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Mortal people do not remember, but there is more than one character who did survive from the destruction of the old world. Not least of all are the gods themselves, and every grand alliance save destruction has a handful of special characters who would remember that time.

Drycha showing up in a mixed Order (or even non-Order) army is explained in her battletome fluff; she will work with anyone so long as it furthers her goal of killing everyone non-Sylvaneth. Sort of "the enemy of my enemy is an enemy I'm just not killing right now" in a way.

Still you would not want to be near her fluff wise would you risk it? I suspect she would only do that if the goddess of life tells her to do it. Even the other sylvaneth are scared/worried about her insanity and they wonder why Alarielle bought her back.

 shinros wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Mortal people do not remember, but there is more than one character who did survive from the destruction of the old world. Not least of all are the gods themselves, and every grand alliance save destruction has a handful of special characters who would remember that time.

Drycha showing up in a mixed Order (or even non-Order) army is explained in her battletome fluff; she will work with anyone so long as it furthers her goal of killing everyone non-Sylvaneth. Sort of "the enemy of my enemy is an enemy I'm just not killing right now" in a way.

Still you would not want to be near her fluff wise would you risk it? I suspect she would only do that if the goddess of life tells her to do it. Even the other sylvaneth are scared/worried about her insanity and they wonder why Alarielle bought her back.

Really if you get a choice between "certainly die now" and "maybe die later" allying with Drycha makes sense.

Always seemed pretty clear why she's back to me. I'm more interested in whatever Alarielle wiped from the Sylvaneth memory.

pm713 wrote:

 shinros wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Mortal people do not remember, but there is more than one character who did survive from the destruction of the old world. Not least of all are the gods themselves, and every grand alliance save destruction has a handful of special characters who would remember that time.

Drycha showing up in a mixed Order (or even non-Order) army is explained in her battletome fluff; she will work with anyone so long as it furthers her goal of killing everyone non-Sylvaneth. Sort of "the enemy of my enemy is an enemy I'm just not killing right now" in a way.

Still you would not want to be near her fluff wise would you risk it? I suspect she would only do that if the goddess of life tells her to do it. Even the other sylvaneth are scared/worried about her insanity and they wonder why Alarielle bought her back.

Really if you get a choice between "certainly die now" and "maybe die later" allying with Drycha makes sense.

Always seemed pretty clear why she's back to me. I'm more interested in whatever Alarielle wiped from the Sylvaneth memory.

True, the choice of dying or die later with a possible torture in between.

pm713 wrote:

 shinros wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Mortal people do not remember, but there is more than one character who did survive from the destruction of the old world. Not least of all are the gods themselves, and every grand alliance save destruction has a handful of special characters who would remember that time.

Drycha showing up in a mixed Order (or even non-Order) army is explained in her battletome fluff; she will work with anyone so long as it furthers her goal of killing everyone non-Sylvaneth. Sort of "the enemy of my enemy is an enemy I'm just not killing right now" in a way.

Still you would not want to be near her fluff wise would you risk it? I suspect she would only do that if the goddess of life tells her to do it. Even the other sylvaneth are scared/worried about her insanity and they wonder why Alarielle bought her back.

Really if you get a choice between "certainly die now" and "maybe die later" allying with Drycha makes sense.

Always seemed pretty clear why she's back to me. I'm more interested in whatever Alarielle wiped from the Sylvaneth memory.

That is clearly something that has to come up again in the future.