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 ImAGeek wrote:

Psykhonautical wrote:
While I could be completely wrong, I want to say (and I really hope) it's Szarekh the Silent King.

In the story Word of the Silent King, he's described as wearing an intricate death mask of Sanguinius. If you look at other models who wear the death mask, they all have the same spiked 'halo' that appears in the teaser image.

He's also described as being not-skeletal, and almost organic looking - which means the region around the eyes in the teaser image that looks 'fleshy' isn't a dealbreaker for the possibility of being Szarekh.

I personally would be very pleased if this was the case - I recently got into the hobby and Necrons are my first (WIP) army.

It's almost definitely Age of Sigmar, because of the runes in the picture (correspond to runes from Fantasy/AoS).

Ah, I should have read through more of the posts in this thread before typing anything. That's disappointing, only because I haven't gotten into AoS.

Heard something interesting: this has all the winds of magic, and looks "aelven"... so what if this is the helm/mask of new teclis? You know, he's the god of magic, and he's involved with ALL the winds.

NivlacSupreme wrote:

BrianDavion wrote:

NivlacSupreme wrote:
I'd like a new system/universe.

What could they do? They already have fantasy (bleghh) and grimdark scifi. Not-too-distant-future?

"World War, Warhammer" a alternate reality version of WW2 with magic, demons etc.

I'd play that.

yeah so would I, I think it'd be a smash hit

I could be persuaded to dabble

It would be interesting to see a whole new setting from GW.

It is pretty awesome how from a small announcement of a new game, likely similar to the legion of new games we have seen these last two years, and people speculate about a third universe or a comeback of WHFB!

About the teaser: yeah, I also thought about Teclis as some sort of al winds of magic incarnate/god. Plus the mask is silver and Pantheon has him linked to silver/moon. Still: I think it is no model/individual teaser, but rather related to a faction. Maybe light aelfs?

What date is this thing taking place?

Evening of March 22nd (eastern US time). Note that from the announcement in the OP they're going to cover several things - it seems like they'll be emphasizing the new game preview (hopefully Adeptus Titanicus!) but also revealing things for their existing games.

So while the preview image shown so far looks to be for AoS, that doesn't really tell us much about what they'll be previewing in the rest of the session.

Also added the date to the title

I for one can't wait to see what goodies come pouring out of here. And note we're promised reports on Warhammer Community as well, which seems ultimately a bit superfluous, but nevertheless not unwelcome.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I for one can't wait to see what goodies come pouring out of here. And note we're promised reports on Warhammer Community as well, which seems ultimately a bit superfluous, but nevertheless not unwelcome.

Why superfluous?

@I'm a Geek - Most probably because a good deal of information will make it's way to us from unofficial sources - ie, attendees. Nevertheless, it'll be good to get some solid facts rather than grainy pics and half-remembered text.

Yup! Exactly that

I imagine we'll get a greater range of pics via Dakka et al - but still good to know there'll be an 'official' source.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Yup! Exactly that

I imagine we'll get a greater range of pics via Dakka et al - but still good to know there'll be an 'official' source.

It does mean good hi res photos though, rather than phone camera ones! Not that I don't appreciate the photos from people who are there, but it's nice to have a really clear photo too.

If they are making news for it this far in advance it must be kinda big. Inb4 plastic thunderhawk lol.

Lord Kragan wrote:
Heard something interesting: this has all the winds of magic, and looks "aelven"... so what if this is the helm/mask of new teclis? You know, he's the god of magic, and he's involved with ALL the winds.

That's a good point.(along with Turgol's) and being the eyes for the god of light (Tyrion) could be the cause of the bright yellow in them.

Fingers crossed for the realm of light being explored!

Also, welcome to the forum, Psykhonautical.

 Gamgee wrote:
If they are making news for it this far in advance it must be kinda big. Inb4 plastic thunderhawk lol.

Plastic Soroitas of course.

Mac V wrote:
What about the "bad" versions of Stormcasts?

You know it's coming with the hints of them suffering the effects of too many reforgings. Losing bits of their souls each time it happens.

that's my bet also. Unfortunately

Well, Nagash did capture the soul of one and is corrupting it so at least it'd be a Death release.

Pretty sure this is not that, though.

 Kanluwen wrote:
Don't forget that they did post a "teaser".

Spoiler:

That image shares similar qualities to this one:



LordShaft.

Holy cow that scared me! My phone cut off the bottom of the mouth and made it look like a screaming face.

That's really interesting, though. It does lack the spirals of the teaser but who knows?

 Shaft, Lord of Slaanesh wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:
Don't forget that they did post a "teaser".

Spoiler:

That image shares similar qualities to this one:

Spoiler:

Features in the Shadows over Hammerhal artwork in several places but more specifically the Adventures Book and Assembly Guide front covers (apologies for the crappy picture - it's a terrible camera!).

They look very similar and making some assumptions around the grey looking flesh under the eyes in the teaser image, plus the amount of time that has now passed in the background I'm thinking it's undead Stormcast and we're starting to what becomes of those that have been reborn one too many times...

LordShaft.

Who says that it's flesh you're seeing underneath of the helm in the first teaser? Or do you think those baleful orange bits are in fact the eyes of whatever is wearing that helm?

It's like the Stormcast bit you posted. That's the mask being worn by the hornblowers for the Stormcast.

Honestly?

It's wrinkle liked flesh, so unlikely to be anything else in my opinion,

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Honestly?

It's wrinkle liked flesh, so unlikely to be anything else in my opinion,

*shrug*

Could be flesh, could be cloth. My whole point though is that right now with just what amounts to:
-A helm done up in a mixture of Aelf styles(it strikes me as being very similar to the way that they did the Wild Riders' helms for the Wood Elves, in that it has a kind of scrimshaw 'horned' bit and the jagged angles of some Dark Elf stuff) coupled with the winged paladin-y helm bits(look at the bits immediately behind the scrimshawed horn bits and tell me those don't look like feathers done in metal/stone)
-Orange eyes(not something any of the Aelves were known for/mentioned as having before)
-Runes showcasing the various Winds of Magic/Realms' sigils

Could it be something "undead"? Maybe. I highly doubt it though. I think where people are seeing "dead flesh" is just them forgetting that GW has always described its Aelves as being exceedingly pale. Wood Elves were considered an exception as they tended towards being tan by virtue of being out in the wilds all the time.

The helm/mask doesn't suggest Undead to me, certainly.

Hmmm. Couldn't be some new addition to Seraphon?

If it's an addition to Seraphon, I would be very shocked. They tend towards headdresses rather than helms.

Not sure... Maybe it is indeed undead but we are seeing the bands of rotten cloth. Though I'm pretty sure it's aelven.

Pretty certain it is not stormcast as they always have golden masks and this has a more green/non-metallic vibe/color to it.

Earth127 wrote:
Pretty certain it is not stormcast as they always have golden masks ...

Stormcasts come in a variety of colors, not just gold.

The new aelves are rumored to be very cthulu-esque in terms of their design elements. This fits pretty well with that rumor

I hope it's new Aelves, even more so if they're lovecraftian as rumoured.

Looks like an AOS Dreadfleet release