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Yeah my guess is a Valedictor too. There's three chambers left (Sacrosanct, Ruination and Auxiliary) so this could part of one of these.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Waz looking through the Stormcast battletome, noticed in the diagram of stormhost organization that next to Heraldor and Relictor ranks there is one called 'Valedictor' could that be what we are going to see?

What does he do? Give speeches at the end of a battle?

 em_en_oh_pee wrote:

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Waz looking through the Stormcast battletome, noticed in the diagram of stormhost organization that next to Heraldor and Relictor ranks there is one called 'Valedictor' could that be what we are going to see?

What does he do? Give speeches at the end of a battle?

considering the latin root word it feels entirely appropriate to, say, an executioner! Not that I Think that's what he will be...

Hmmmm. Maybe we will get to see inside the other chambers...

Looks like anti-magic rather than the wizard that there has been speculation about.

That one guy with the lantern that makes daemons evaporate is bad enough, the idea of an entire "inquisitor chamber" makes me want to cry into my feathers and other mutations.

Hm, that makes it sound like some sort of anti-Wizard more than a Wizard himself. Maybe a dispel mechanic of some sort?

Sounds more like a witch hunter than a mage. Looks like the Stormcast might be going a bit longer without the wizard key word.

I'm just gonna rename mine Knight Ordo Hereticus

SUFFER NOT THE WITCH TO LIVE (Except the Slaan I guess. And those Tree dudes. Well and I guess we like the Elves a bit...)

Witchhunter?

Requizen wrote:
Hm, that makes it sound like some sort of anti-Wizard more than a Wizard himself. Maybe a dispel mechanic of some sort?

Since he looks to be carrying a banner, I would be surprised if it weren't something like the Glade Captain Battle Standard Bearer had.

The Banner of Athel Loren was an 8" bubble of "roll a dice each time a WANDERER unit from your army that is within 8" suffers a wound or mortal wound from a spell; on a roll of 4 or more the Banner protects those beneath it and the wound is ignored." You could plant it during your Hero phase for an 18" bubble instead.

RazorEdge wrote:
Witchhunter?

That is what I was going to say. Inquisition.

*edit*

Thing is, I really HATE how "oh you can't cast magic powers, but it's ok if we do." So if casting magic is so fowl, then how come some of the Stormcasts can do so? So more 40K stuff regurgitated? I really hope this is not the case.

Davor wrote:

RazorEdge wrote:
Witchhunter?

That is what I was going to say. Inquisition.

*edit*

Thing is, I really HATE how "oh you can't cast magic powers, but it's ok if we do." So if casting magic is so fowl, then how come some of the Stormcasts can do so? So more 40K stuff regurgitated? I really hope this is not the case.

Stormcast have no Wizards. Nothing they do is considered magic... it just kinda works like it. Any lightning bolts or blasts of light they unleash are fragments of Sigmar's power that he lends to them, rather than normal magic.

Stormcasts have no wizards but some of them cast magic powers during the magic phase. If it's not magic news to me. I always thought that was magic. Then again because of the crappy art I never did buy the $100 books GW was asking for for Stormcast Eternals last year, so I may have missed the fluff on that part then.

I mean, functionally it's the same as magic in game, but in the lore it's different because reasons.

Requizen wrote:
I mean, functionally it's the same as magic in game, but in the lore it's different because reasons.

And this is why I am not going to like it. I really hate the "reasons" and we should accept it. OH well, I guess GW can't hit it out of the park all the time. Still looking forward to it. Hopefully it's done properly though.

Haters going to hate...

I run SC, Duradin, and Seraphon for different reasons.

Not sure how I ended up all in ORDER though...

Requizen wrote:
I mean, functionally it's the same as magic in game, but in the lore it's different because reasons.

Is it really that different from any other setting which has things that are deity based powers?

I look at the Stormcast as being like Clerics, Paladins, or Druids. Their powers originate from the patronage of their deity. Without that patronage, they lose their powers.

Wait wait wait. Are we seriously arguing that "you can't do X but we can because reasons" is not the most realistic possible logic? Look at human history. Hell, look at us now. We do that ALL THE TIME.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Wait wait wait. Are we seriously arguing that "you can't do X but we can because reasons" is not the most realistic possible logic? Look at human history. Hell, look at us now. We do that ALL THE TIME.

I was once told that talking about something you know nothing about is a sure fire way to be dismissed as an authority. It happens a lot now, but I feel this was a good example.

Stormcasts do not cast spells. Having a magical ability= / = casting spells and being a wizard. Stormcasts are magical by nature; this does not make them wizards. Getting an anti-wizard unti is 100% acceptable and expected even.

^Well said!

It's not really not that different from the old fantasy accusations as well. Wizards pointed out how the Warrior priests used prayers that resembled their conjurations and in one novel for Age of Reckoning the protagonist had to resist what felt like a spell of command from a warrior priest when he ordered her to abandon her elf ally because he wasn't allowed in their cathedral.

Besides, it seems more like anti-corruption and chaos than just anti-magic.

motski wrote:
Yeah my guess is a Valedictor too. There's three chambers left (Sacrosanct, Ruination and Auxiliary) so this could part of one of these.

Ruination sounds like a chamber hosting heavy firepower, probably sacred artillery. Auxiliaries sounds interesting, could be a royal guard of normal humans.

 DarkBlack wrote:

That one guy with the lantern that makes daemons evaporate is bad enough, the idea of an entire "inquisitor chamber" makes me want to cry into my feathers and other mutations.

Ah, a crying cultist. All is right with the world.

Davor wrote:

Requizen wrote:
I mean, functionally it's the same as magic in game, but in the lore it's different because reasons.

And this is why I am not going to like it. I really hate the "reasons" and we should accept it. OH well, I guess GW can't hit it out of the park all the time. Still looking forward to it. Hopefully it's done properly though.

It's just an abstraction because there's no point having another phase in the game for things that would work functionally like magic but aren't actually, so ruleswise it's easier to just make it work as magic.

Stormcast use divine magic like warrior priests. Hence the lord relicator does not roll magic dice to cast his spells.

Same with blood bound and the slaughter priests they use divine magic of khorne instead if the khorne priest fails his roll khorne smites him for some reason.

Davor wrote:

Requizen wrote:
I mean, functionally it's the same as magic in game, but in the lore it's different because reasons.

And this is why I am not going to like it. I really hate the "reasons" and we should accept it. OH well, I guess GW can't hit it out of the park all the time. Still looking forward to it. Hopefully it's done properly though.

Thaumaturgy has always been different from pure magic in fantasy fiction. Channeling a god's power is usually acceptable to that god's followers, while every other form of magic is not. It's kind of like how Christians think it's okay for Moses or Jesus to cast magic spells perform miracles, but not okay for witches or pagans to practice magic.

Meester Garibaldi!

Hmm he looks rather nice in my opinion I do like the paint job for the gryphound.

Sigmar's forces sure do like those guys. The stormcast has one and even the new warrior priest has one.

What?!

ANOTHER GRYPH-HOUND?!

Craaaap. I might need to get this guy to just get a damn Gryph-Hound.

The Gryph Hound is this years Handbag Pet

Wish I had one as a guard dog. Any genetic engineers want to get on that?

 Kanluwen wrote:
What?!

ANOTHER GRYPH-HOUND?!

Craaaap. I might need to get this guy to just get a damn Gryph-Hound.

Yeah the Gryph-hound is drawing me to purchase the model as I said sigmar sure likes those bird dogs. Since I am working on a devoted of sigmar force he will fit just right in considering his rules.