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If so, at least it was a fun ride.

 Verviedi wrote:
I'm thinking we've been trolled with regards to the Deep Elves.

Yup. Just got the arm holding the mini dragon left but that does not look cuthulhu inspired.

Chikout wrote:

 Verviedi wrote:
I'm thinking we've been trolled with regards to the Deep Elves.

Yup. Just got the arm holding the mini dragon left but that does not look cuthulhu inspired.

I believe that is the only rumor engine left that could point to them. Not so much because of the winged leech but moreso the pale arm that matches that of the silver tower shard guy. Also the barnicle thing...which could also just be a spider related thing. They may simply be shadow aelves and not as aquatic as we would have liked to think.

I'm bettting the bundle of grenades is from Necromunda - booby trap marker. And that double barrel thing on the bottom row also Necromunda - looks like either a shotgun or an Autocannon

The Cthulu/Deep Elves was a Hastings rumour. You also have the little tentacle in the quest box.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Wish they would hurry up with some Elves though :/

Hastings has proven disappointingly unreliable of late.

Could it be he's being fed deliberate misinformation?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Hastings has proven disappointingly unreliable of late.

Could it be he's being fed deliberate misinformation?

I think it's more that he doesn't really care and is probably "Phoning in" what he hears. The end of the Old World and Age of Sigmar killed his enthusiasm

The latter is not true anymore according to his posts the last 3-5 months. He also knows stuff far in advance (his first GSC rumor was in Feb 2015, release of Codex and model boxes in Sept 2016). He has mentioned several times that he doesnt know when the Cthulu-Elves will be released. He said it could be a long wait, even 2018. Check his disqus post history, he is very active in the War of Sigmar comments.

 Thargrim wrote:

Chikout wrote:

 Verviedi wrote:
I'm thinking we've been trolled with regards to the Deep Elves.

Yup. Just got the arm holding the mini dragon left but that does not look cuthulhu inspired.

I believe that is the only rumor engine left that could point to them. Not so much because of the winged leech but moreso the pale arm that matches that of the silver tower shard guy. Also the barnicle thing...which could also just be a spider related thing. They may simply be shadow aelves and not as aquatic as we would have liked to think.

I mean, they were called Shadowkin...


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Warhams-77 wrote:
The latter is not true anymore according to his posts the last 3-5 months. He also knows stuff far in advance (his first GSC rumor was in Feb 2015, release of Codex and model boxes in Sept 2016). He has mentioned several times that he doesnt know when the Cthulu-Elves will be released. He said it could be a long wait, even 2018. Check his disqus post history, he is very active in the War of Sigmar comments.

Do we know that it's legitimately Hastings making the postings in disqus?

Yes, for the x-th time

Warhams-77 wrote:
Yes, for the x-th time

How do we know this?

Never saw anything about this before, so just kinda wondering. It's not like Disqus verifies your other forum names or the like.

If you feel the Cthulu rumor is not turning out to be true that's understable. I remember the (mild but regular) flak people got for Duardian rumors, then the not-Squats turned up basically out of nowhere because no one thought it would happen. Let's have patience. And Kan, I'm not following your route of questions, I know how easy it is to seed doubt online, there will be ten more questions afterwards. If you go that route, how am I verified? See people's reaction to him, those who know him personally. It is right there on Disqus. I am not doing people's work to find out. Not for the x-th time

Even if you just look at his posts, you can tell it is someone who knows stuff. He wrote about plastic guilliman, Mortarion, new marines and plague armies a year ago.
He correctly predicted kharadron Overlords including some of the details of the minis.
The only thing he was completely wrong about was the plastic thunderhawk.
I have a feeling that the aos schedule may have been shifted around a bit due to the demands of death players. It does seem that GW is trying to be more reactive now.
That said GW is doing another aos seminar during the nova open in which they will talk a bit about the future.
It will probably just be more info about firestorm but there are still 4 months of 2017 left so we could be getting s nice surprise.

Warhams-77 wrote:
If you feel the Cthulu rumor is not turning out to be true that's understable. I remember the (mild but regular) flak people got for Duardian rumors, then the not-Squats turned up basically out of nowhere because no one thought it would happen. Let's have patience.

To be fair, one of the things we always have happen is exactly what is happening with this "Cthulu" rumor.
The rumor was "Lovecraftian Elves". Not "Cthulu Elves". There might have been a mention of some "Cthulu-esque" elements, but the thing that stuck out for me was that it was Lovecraftian, not Cthulu.

Someone known to be in/have been in the know makes a comment and everyone runs with it or adds their own spin. With Overlords and Fyreslayers, we had some crazy nonsense that got added in from rumors that came from reliable sources.

And Kan, I'm not following your route of questions, I know how easy it is to seed doubt online, there will be ten more questions afterwards. If you go that route, how am I verified? See people's reaction to him, those who know him personally. It is right there on Disqus. I am not doing people's work to find out. Not for the x-th time

You and I aren't exactly well-known for the WH community's rumors though, are we?

Hastings is. Sorry if you think I'm being cynical or antagonistic, but there it is for me at least. I know there is someone with my screen name on Disqus that sure as heck ain't me. Don't know if they've ever posted or not but I can't get my screen name because of it.

Chikout wrote:

That said GW is doing another aos seminar during the nova open in which they will talk a bit about the future.

When it is?

zamerion wrote:

Chikout wrote:

That said GW is doing another aos seminar during the nova open in which they will talk a bit about the future.

When it is?

There's a seminar for Shadespire today and a seminar for Age of Sigmar tomorrow.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Sorry if you think I'm being cynical or antagonistic, but there it is for me at least. I know there is someone with my screen name on Disqus that sure as heck ain't me. Don't know if they've ever posted or not but I can't get my screen name because of it.

I don't think you are cynical, I can understand where you are coming from. But the problem is there are things that kind of don't help with rumors. Chikout said it well, look at the account and rate its info There has been and will be wrong info from this user, maybe he isn't always the first to post it, but just focusing on the info at hand, there are quite a lot of good hints of future releases. Even if it would not be him, the average quality of info is good enough, above people who are just guessing.

My concern is: Sources depend on their anonymity. Who wants the person behind this to be revealed, and GW shutting down the leakers the info comes from? Not me

I understand your point but we won't get a better view of future releases by doubting sources. These are not identifiable. And they should not be. The reaction he got on Disqus from people who know him from Warseer and those he communicates via PM with, Atia and other users, is proof enough in my opinion. If it would be an highjacked account, it would have been revealed.

Let the info speak for itself

The quality of rumors from this user may suck one day, so we will naturally start ignoring him. I can understand the impatience of some, waiting for DG has been kind of exhausting to me as well. This rumor also came from Hastings ('plague army') as far as I am aware. So I'm still certain we will see these Elves within the next 12 months.

the bottles tied to the stick will most likely be for the death guard, see the video over here: https://www.warhammer-community.com/2017/09/03/mortarion-and-the-death-guard-next-weekend/ around 0:39

 Kanluwen wrote:

To be fair, one of the things we always have happen is exactly what is happening with this "Cthulu" rumor.
The rumor was "Lovecraftian Elves". Not "Cthulu Elves". There might have been a mention of some "Cthulu-esque" elements, but the thing that stuck out for me was that it was Lovecraftian, not Cthulu.

For some reason, people think Lovecraftian means "anything to do with elder gods", and people always go directly to "Cthulhu" when Lovecraft is mentioned. A lot of people really overlook the largest motifs of his work like nihilism and the futility of our action The horror of Lovecraft wasn't just that the universe is full of monsters, it's that humanity isn't the focal point of the universe (a very novel concept in the early 20th century), and that the universe is so impossibly vast that there are things in it our minds can't possibly comprehend, and we would go mad if we tried. It doesn't matter if we nuke ourselves into oblivion or put aside our differences to end world hunger and disease. This world is but the dream of the daemon sultan Azathoth, and it will all end the moment he awakes.

could be part of an eldar space ship, so possible return of battlefleet

I am calling it as a helmet crest.

Looks akin to something from a Order Draconis model - along with that dragon one from a while back.

 Ghaz wrote:

My first thought was Nagash.

I see that GW got a new image hosting system.

I'm going with Ynnari.

Looks very Eldarish (no, you're making up words!) to me.

Eldar Exodites.

I can dream, right?

 Nostromodamus wrote:
Eldar Exodites.

I can dream, right?

Hey, everyone thought Adeptus Mechanicus was a dream