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Got bored and decided to start a zanny thing.

https://youtu.be/TpdNYcg8Lbw


https://youtu.be/_cY3WHOhBWA

https://youtu.be/g0Sbj5R4LxI

https://youtu.be/PnRW8JcvVAs

https://youtu.be/SZqLTUdV_P4
So this will be basically me making a video series doing a bit of explanation over several things of Age of Sigmar. This, of course, will range from wider events to more specific aspects, going from the origins of the ghouls (just to make an example) to where the Inmortal Champion Athessia came from.

Great endeavour
Posting questions while I'm listening:
1. What is the source of Dracothion being the creator being of the old warhammer world and the mortal realms?

 CoreCommander wrote:
Great endeavour
Posting questions while I'm listening:
1. What is the source of Dracothion being the creator being of the old warhammer world and the mortal realms?

This is something that I'll properly expand in the god-beasts video.

In all seriousness? I do remember he's been mentioned so either in the first/second campaign book... that or in the stormcast/extremis chamber battletome. It's one of the first books, that's for sure.

But what I do know for sure is that, every time the world is destroyed, Dracothion sweeps in to rebuild the shattered remnants anew. Perhaps a bit of a misnomer saying he's the creator. Rather he's the guy who cleans up the mess and puts everything in order, but he's more or less behind the making of the realm.

Very interesting so it's an eternal cycle of war and death. Perhaps he turned to the incarnates and sigmar to try and stop this? Going by end times and AOS the chaos gods have been doing this for a long time. These revelations make the setting quite lovecraft in terms of story. plus he must have a lot to clean up considering Archaon destroyed other worlds after the end times through the realm of chaos. If you look at tzeentch in the disciples of tzeentch tome you see him opening portals to other worlds.

Another interesting note is that in the pantheon short story sigmar wonders perhaps some higher power put him on this path. He would of rather die as a mortal King.

Also the gods from the warhammer world were once mortal also but their old world was destroyed by chaos. They are pretty much refugees and in the short story sigmar calls the incarnates divine refugees from the warhammer world.

 shinros wrote:
Very interesting so it's an eternal cycle of war and death. Perhaps he turned to the incarnates and sigmar to try and stop this? Going by end times and AOS the chaos gods have been doing this for a long time.

Another interesting note is that in the pantheon short story sigmar wonders perhaps some higher power put him on this path. He would of rather die as a mortal King.

Also the gods from the warhammer world were once mortal also but their old world was destroyed by chaos. They are pretty much refugees and in the short story sigmar calls the incarnates divine refugees from the warhammer world.

Exactly. This is something that I want to mention when I speak at greater length on the godbeasts and/or the realms, but AoS draws even more heavily on Moorcocks influences than the other two major games: the realms are basicall the... well, realms, of the Sword and dragon (I think it was this name) cycle, while the stormcasts are flawed but mass produced versions of the eternal champion. There's more into it, but I digress.

Lord Kragan wrote:

 shinros wrote:
Very interesting so it's an eternal cycle of war and death. Perhaps he turned to the incarnates and sigmar to try and stop this? Going by end times and AOS the chaos gods have been doing this for a long time.

Another interesting note is that in the pantheon short story sigmar wonders perhaps some higher power put him on this path. He would of rather die as a mortal King.

Also the gods from the warhammer world were once mortal also but their old world was destroyed by chaos. They are pretty much refugees and in the short story sigmar calls the incarnates divine refugees from the warhammer world.

Exactly. This is something that I want to mention when I speak at greater length on the godbeasts and/or the realms, but AoS draws even more heavily on Moorcocks influences than the other two major games: the realms are basicall the... well, realms, of the Sword and dragon (I think it was this name) cycle, while the stormcasts are flawed but mass produced versions of the eternal champion. There's more into it, but I digress.

Did an edit in my last post about tzeentch and funny enough people on the grand alliance forum do also agree that whfb and AOS more so is inspired by moorcock.

One last point I want to add in the pantheon short story it also reveals the edges of each realm essentially leads into the realm of chaos. Just like how the north of the warhammer world also lead into the realm of chaos. The difference is that random bits of land are made and latch onto the realm to expand it. But the most important point is the similarity aspects and it was through this that chaos first began corrupting people.

 shinros wrote:

Did an edit in my last post about tzeentch and funny enough people on the grand alliance forum do also agree that whfb and AOS more so is inspired by moorcock.

Why is this still even debated ?
"Dedicated to Phil Barker, Donald Featherstone and Michael Moorcock whose fault it all is" - This is from the first edition of the game. It has been stated by the authors and AoS is just the continuation of the same story.

Sooo episodes 2 and 3 (basic view on the stormcasts and a brief overwiew on what the look like) are done with.

What do you guys want to hear about?

-Ironjaws.

-The trapping (pun intended) of Slaanehs.

-The God-Beasts

I vote for Ironjaws, but I'm open to suggestions.

Continue the main story line, dude - Goth-Beasts please

 CoreCommander wrote:
Continue the main story line, dude - Goth-Beasts please [/quote

Okay, I'll do God-beasts tomorrow (still won't publish them) as well as Ironjaws if I have time.

Episode 2, stormcasts, is up. Today afternoon will be a quick overview of the nine-realms' appearance and tomorrow will upload the god-beasts video.


https://youtu.be/_cY3WHOhBWA


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 CoreCommander wrote:
Continue the main story line, dude - Goth-Beasts please

Well, when I say godbeasts, I speak about the beasts per se, not the campaign book. I'll get down to it after the next batch of books. First I want to do my favourite tidbits and then I'll move to more technical aspects.


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Quick overview on the realms' appearance. Tomorrow godbeasts, as I finish noting down stuff.

I listened to the 2 new videos - good stuff )still waiting for the goth-beasts though ). If you're looking for some Mortal Realms art to go with your videos, check out some Darksiders 2 screenshots and its worlds (there is an all encompassing tree there aswell etc). Seriously, the reason I started collecting AoS was that I fell in love with the environment and art of Darksiders. This was how I imagined the realms at the time (the Realm of Death in particular).

 CoreCommander wrote:
I listened to the 2 new videos - good stuff )still waiting for the goth-beasts though ). If you're looking for some Mortal Realms art to go with your videos, check out some Darksiders 2 screenshots and its worlds (there is an all encompassing tree there aswell etc). Seriously, the reason I started collecting AoS was that I fell in love with the environment and art of Darksiders. This was how I imagined the realms at the time (the Realm of Death in particular).

Oh yeah, those two. God-Beasts will be updated this afternoon, at around 7:30pm. I had to redo the videos because my pen-drive got corrupted so that's the main reason.


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Well, god-beasts are out. It's nice to see they are actually like the anti-thesis of the eight gods.

https://youtu.be/PnRW8JcvVAs

Lord Kragan wrote:

 CoreCommander wrote:
I listened to the 2 new videos - good stuff )still waiting for the goth-beasts though ). If you're looking for some Mortal Realms art to go with your videos, check out some Darksiders 2 screenshots and its worlds (there is an all encompassing tree there aswell etc). Seriously, the reason I started collecting AoS was that I fell in love with the environment and art of Darksiders. This was how I imagined the realms at the time (the Realm of Death in particular).

Oh yeah, those two. God-Beasts will be updated this afternoon, at around 7:30pm. I had to redo the videos because my pen-drive got corrupted so that's the main reason.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Well, god-beasts are out. It's nice to see they are actually like the anti-thesis of the eight gods.

https://youtu.be/PnRW8JcvVAs

Hmm about Ulric and Asuryan possibly he might of been a godbeast but generally godbeasts don't seem like beings to have worshipers I do agree that the warhammer gods most likely came from a simlar position the incarnates started in AOS because Lileath noted Asuryan and her are refugee's from a previous world and Asuryan was the first to seed life in the warhammer world if I recall. I do wonder was the celestial drake a servant of the old ones? Perhaps Asuryan or even ulric met with him when their world ended?

 shinros wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:

 CoreCommander wrote:
I listened to the 2 new videos - good stuff )still waiting for the goth-beasts though ). If you're looking for some Mortal Realms art to go with your videos, check out some Darksiders 2 screenshots and its worlds (there is an all encompassing tree there aswell etc). Seriously, the reason I started collecting AoS was that I fell in love with the environment and art of Darksiders. This was how I imagined the realms at the time (the Realm of Death in particular).

Oh yeah, those two. God-Beasts will be updated this afternoon, at around 7:30pm. I had to redo the videos because my pen-drive got corrupted so that's the main reason.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Well, god-beasts are out. It's nice to see they are actually like the anti-thesis of the eight gods.

https://youtu.be/PnRW8JcvVAs

Hmm about Ulric and Asuryan possibly he might of been a godbeast but generally godbeasts don't seem like beings to have worshipers I do agree that the warhammer gods most likely came from a simlar position the incarnates started in AOS because Lileath noted Asuryan and her are refugee's from a previous world and Asuryan was the first to seed life in the warhammer world if I recall. I do wonder was the celestial drake a servant of the old ones? Perhaps Asuryan or even ulric met with him when their world ended?

Actually, at least Behemat, seemed to have worshippers. The giants in the great green torc featured him in his legends as some king under the mountain and awaited for him to lead a great last charge in a similar fashion to the ragnarokk (which they kind of got).

Ignax, if I recall correctly, had some sort of "worship" amongst the tribesmen of the island.

Then there's the Phoenix temple, which consists of servants of the Ur-Phoenix devouted to him.

Lord Kragan wrote:

 shinros wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:

 CoreCommander wrote:
I listened to the 2 new videos - good stuff )still waiting for the goth-beasts though ). If you're looking for some Mortal Realms art to go with your videos, check out some Darksiders 2 screenshots and its worlds (there is an all encompassing tree there aswell etc). Seriously, the reason I started collecting AoS was that I fell in love with the environment and art of Darksiders. This was how I imagined the realms at the time (the Realm of Death in particular).

Oh yeah, those two. God-Beasts will be updated this afternoon, at around 7:30pm. I had to redo the videos because my pen-drive got corrupted so that's the main reason.


Automatically Appended Next Post:
Well, god-beasts are out. It's nice to see they are actually like the anti-thesis of the eight gods.

https://youtu.be/PnRW8JcvVAs

Hmm about Ulric and Asuryan possibly he might of been a godbeast but generally godbeasts don't seem like beings to have worshipers I do agree that the warhammer gods most likely came from a simlar position the incarnates started in AOS because Lileath noted Asuryan and her are refugee's from a previous world and Asuryan was the first to seed life in the warhammer world if I recall. I do wonder was the celestial drake a servant of the old ones? Perhaps Asuryan or even ulric met with him when their world ended?

Actually, at least Behemat, seemed to have worshippers. The giants in the great green torc featured him in his legends as some king under the mountain and awaited for him to lead a great last charge in a similar fashion to the ragnarokk (which they kind of got).

Ignax, if I recall correctly, had some sort of "worship" amongst the tribesmen of the island.

Then there's the Phoenix temple, which consists of servants of the Ur-Phoenix devouted to him.

Hmm very interesting you know I could see Ulric actually being a godbeast thinking about it he acts more like a wolf than a man.

True enough

Though I'm interested on seeing wether or not they'll develop the god-beasts angle. Maybe I'm reading a bit too much between lines and all but they seem to be a potentially interesting plot-thread.

Wanted to do something different. Today I explain the timeline of AoS. It's length has been roughly 1870 years.

https://youtu.be/SZqLTUdV_P4