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I'm interested to see how they are going to handle the models for female Stormcast. Will they be limited to heroes like Blacktalon or will they also be in single or mixed sex units? Hopefully if the Shadspire Stormcast are any indication GW will try and avoid pigeonholing femcast into specific female units and heroes.

In the Plague Garden we have several female Stormcast. One is a Lord-Celestant, one is a Judicator, one is a Liberator, one is a Knight-Azyros and I want to say we at least saw one female Protector but I can't remember for sure.

On more "rumor" related news, chapmander, the head mod from the AoS subreddit just pointed out that a web-page for Malign Portents already exists (but seems to be under construction) so it seems they will make it BIG.

Lord Kragan wrote:
On more "rumor" related news, chapmander, the head mod from the AoS subreddit just pointed out that a web-page for Malign Portents already exists (but seems to be under construction) so it seems they will make it BIG.

This doesn't really say anything about the size or scope of Malign Portents.
They very well could end up never using the domain name and just register it so no one else can get it.

Armoured Boob plate? check... armoured knees?....check.... and another female is ready for battle!!

If you don't like it, people should stop attacking her boobs and knees!

 Hanskrampf wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:
On more "rumor" related news, chapmander, the head mod from the AoS subreddit just pointed out that a web-page for Malign Portents already exists (but seems to be under construction) so it seems they will make it BIG.

This doesn't really say anything about the size or scope of Malign Portents.
They very well could end up never using the domain name and just register it so no one else can get it.

I doubt. If you go to malignportents.com you get to an administrator login page. The Necromunda and Shadespire sites looked exactly the same before they launched. There is a 40k website but until now there has not been an aos page. It says a lot that it is not ageofsigmar.com. (you can buy that domain for £4000 by the way.)

 SJM wrote:
Armoured Boob plate? check... armoured knees?....check.... and another female is ready for battle!!

If you don't like it, people should stop attacking her boobs and knees!

Well these Darkoath guys seem to be consistent in their clothing choices:

Chikout wrote:

 Hanskrampf wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:
On more "rumor" related news, chapmander, the head mod from the AoS subreddit just pointed out that a web-page for Malign Portents already exists (but seems to be under construction) so it seems they will make it BIG.

This doesn't really say anything about the size or scope of Malign Portents.
They very well could end up never using the domain name and just register it so no one else can get it.

I doubt. If you go to malignportents.com you get to an administrator login page. The Necromunda and Shadespire sites looked exactly the same before they launched. There is a 40k website but until now there has not been an aos page. It says a lot that it is not ageofsigmar.com. (you can buy that domain for £4000 by the way.)

The page behind the .htaccess (the popup login you get) could be anything, including an empty page. Nothing can be deducted from this.
I'm not saying they're not doing something with the URL, but they could be.
Saying it will be a big site is based on nothing.

 Mymearan wrote:

 SJM wrote:
Armoured Boob plate? check... armoured knees?....check.... and another female is ready for battle!!

If you don't like it, people should stop attacking her boobs and knees!

Well these Darkoath guys seem to be consistent in their clothing choices:

Spoiler:

Couples that slay together, stay together.

So, is there any actual hint as to when the Warqueen might be available? Not day & date obviously, but are we talking before Christmas? New Year? Sometime next summer?

 Yodhrin wrote:
So, is there any actual hint as to when the Warqueen might be available? Not day & date obviously, but are we talking before Christmas? New Year? Sometime next summer?

Early next year. March at the latest.

She's one of the four Grand Alliance champions for Malign Portents campaign set to start early next year, so look for her probably late January to early February if I was betting. Here's hoping we eventually get more Marauder-type releases. I want a Norsca army!

 EnTyme wrote:
She's one of the four Grand Alliance champions for Malign Portents campaign set to start early next year.

Is this confirmed, though?

Lord Kragan wrote:

 EnTyme wrote:
She's one of the four Grand Alliance champions for Malign Portents campaign set to start early next year.

Is this confirmed, though?

I have seen nothing confirming it. The only one we know of was the Wight they showed off awhile ago.

Cataphract wrote:
In the Plague Garden we have several female Stormcast. One is a Lord-Celestant, one is a Judicator, one is a Liberator, one is a Knight-Azyros and I want to say we at least saw one female Protector but I can't remember for sure.

Josh Reynolds has been consistent in having female Stormcast in his various novels in many and varied roles and ranks.

One even shows up in Spear of Shadows also notable for having none of the main characters as Stormcast - its a great book.

 Kanluwen wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:

 EnTyme wrote:
She's one of the four Grand Alliance champions for Malign Portents campaign set to start early next year.

Is this confirmed, though?

I have seen nothing confirming it. The only one we know of was the Wight they showed off awhile ago.

Missed that Wight; could someone pop up an image? Also, in a recent conversation with a GW employee (yeah, yeah, I know), it came up that WHQ was getting another box set. Now, we all saw mention of some love for it in 2018, which doesn’t mean a new boxset, but he seemed pretty hyped on that. Could we be seeing the Darkoath Queen as a new playable character (or baddy) in a future boxset? That’s pure speculation on my part, btw; not something suggested to me.

 timetowaste85 wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:

 EnTyme wrote:
She's one of the four Grand Alliance champions for Malign Portents campaign set to start early next year.

Is this confirmed, though?

I have seen nothing confirming it. The only one we know of was the Wight they showed off awhile ago.

Missed that Wight; could someone pop up an image? Also, in a recent conversation with a GW employee (yeah, yeah, I know), it came up that WHQ was getting another box set. Now, we all saw mention of some love for it in 2018, which doesn’t mean a new boxset, but he seemed pretty hyped on that. Could we be seeing the Darkoath Queen as a new playable character (or baddy) in a future boxset? That’s pure speculation on my part, btw; not something suggested to me.

"The Knight of Shrouds" is the Champion for Grand Alliance Death and referred to as the "Herald of Nagash". The four Champions are slated to be for the Grand Alliances(Order, Death, Chaos, and Destruction) rather than specific factions.

I think that Chaos' Champion would be a model that would be similar to Archaon in looks or maybe a revamping of Crom the Conqueror, Order's Champion would be the Herald of Sigmar, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised to see another box set for Warhammer Quest though, but I'm thinking the GW employee might just be trying to stir the pot or have been singled out as someone who's been leaking rumors and has been treated accordingly.

I could see the Queen being a player character/baddy but I'm wondering if it might be the start of a new subfaction of Chaos.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:

 EnTyme wrote:
She's one of the four Grand Alliance champions for Malign Portents campaign set to start early next year.

Is this confirmed, though?

I have seen nothing confirming it. The only one we know of was the Wight they showed off awhile ago.

Missed that Wight; could someone pop up an image? Also, in a recent conversation with a GW employee (yeah, yeah, I know), it came up that WHQ was getting another box set. Now, we all saw mention of some love for it in 2018, which doesn’t mean a new boxset, but he seemed pretty hyped on that. Could we be seeing the Darkoath Queen as a new playable character (or baddy) in a future boxset? That’s pure speculation on my part, btw; not something suggested to me.

"The Knight of Shrouds" is the Champion for Grand Alliance Death and referred to as the "Herald of Nagash". The four Champions are slated to be for the Grand Alliances(Order, Death, Chaos, and Destruction) rather than specific factions.

I think that Chaos' Champion would be a model that would be similar to Archaon in looks or maybe a revamping of Crom the Conqueror, Order's Champion would be the Herald of Sigmar, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised to see another box set for Warhammer Quest though, but I'm thinking the GW employee might just be trying to stir the pot or have been singled out as someone who's been leaking rumors and has been treated accordingly.

I could see the Queen being a player character/baddy but I'm wondering if it might be the start of a new subfaction of Chaos.

I'm work blocked the Warhammer Community, so I can't pull up the article right now, but I'm fairly certain the Darkoath Warqueen was announced as one of the Malign Portents champions.

Nah, it sounded more to me like a misinterpretation. He didn’t seem to be trying to stir the pot or like he was trying to pass rumors, just like he was trying to engage my wife and me when we asked if he knew any details of what was coming on the card pack (that he wasn’t even aware of).

Also, that Wight is AWESOME!!!

 EnTyme wrote:

I'm work blocked the Warhammer Community, so I can't pull up the article right now, but I'm fairly certain the Darkoath Warqueen was announced as one of the Malign Portents champions.

The relevant quotes:

Meanwhile, in the Mortal Realms, something dark is gathering, and the age of hope is drawing to a close. Just look at the new Warhammer Age of Sigmar logo:
<Video of Age of Sigmar logo but darker>
Is a dark new age dawning? Did someone just go a bit mad with the Agrax Earthshade? We reckon this new Chaos hero might have something to do with it:
<Darkoath Warqueen photo>

If you remember the Darkoath Chieftain from Warhammer Quest Silver Tower, this warrior woman is his boss – although unlike standard bosses, she’s more likely to deal with sub-par performance by ripping someone’s throat out with her teeth instead of giving them a 5 point list of actions to improve on (unless those actions are “tear the hearts from your enemies” and “despoil the realms in the name of the dark gods” and so on).

It's possible that she's tied to it, but it's not spelled out like the Knight of Shrouds was. They actually don't mention Malign Portents as far as I can tell.

Ah. So it sounds like people are assuming the "dark new age" mentioned is part of Malign Portents, and thus assuming she is part of it.

Also, in a recent conversation with a GW employee (yeah, yeah, I know), it came up that WHQ was getting another box set. Now, we all saw mention of some love for it in 2018, which doesn’t mean a new boxset, but he seemed pretty hyped on that. Could we be seeing the Darkoath Queen as a new playable character (or baddy) in a future boxset? That’s pure speculation on my part, btw; not something suggested to me.

I wouldn't be surprised, maybe that's what the four champions will tie into as well as to set off the Malign Portents events?

Perhaps this time we will see a cause and effect between the heroes on a quest and the following major event that plunges the realms back into a devastating war?

The warqueen is a must buy for me, but I do hope she is not the "champion" for Chaos as that would be a bit underwhelming.

 EnTyme wrote:
She's one of the four Grand Alliance champions for Malign Portents campaign set to start early next year, so look for her probably late January to early February if I was betting. Here's hoping we eventually get more Marauder-type releases. I want a Norsca army!

That's where my murderlady will be ending up - as a TLGT Hero for my Norscan Marauders Mordheim warband.

 Kanluwen wrote:

 timetowaste85 wrote:

 Kanluwen wrote:

Lord Kragan wrote:

 EnTyme wrote:
She's one of the four Grand Alliance champions for Malign Portents campaign set to start early next year.

Is this confirmed, though?

I have seen nothing confirming it. The only one we know of was the Wight they showed off awhile ago.

Missed that Wight; could someone pop up an image? Also, in a recent conversation with a GW employee (yeah, yeah, I know), it came up that WHQ was getting another box set. Now, we all saw mention of some love for it in 2018, which doesn’t mean a new boxset, but he seemed pretty hyped on that. Could we be seeing the Darkoath Queen as a new playable character (or baddy) in a future boxset? That’s pure speculation on my part, btw; not something suggested to me.

"The Knight of Shrouds" is the Champion for Grand Alliance Death and referred to as the "Herald of Nagash". The four Champions are slated to be for the Grand Alliances(Order, Death, Chaos, and Destruction) rather than specific factions.

I think that Chaos' Champion would be a model that would be similar to Archaon in looks or maybe a revamping of Crom the Conqueror, Order's Champion would be the Herald of Sigmar, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised to see another box set for Warhammer Quest though, but I'm thinking the GW employee might just be trying to stir the pot or have been singled out as someone who's been leaking rumors and has been treated accordingly.

I could see the Queen being a player character/baddy but I'm wondering if it might be the start of a new subfaction of Chaos.

I feel like we might have seen what the Order hero looks like from some of the rumor images that GW does. I think it's the lion one that I'm thinking of. I could be wrong, but it is just what I thought.

Yeah, that stuff just screamed Order hero. Only question is if it's another Stormcast knight, the anvil on the supposed shield meaning a Duardin hero or some human/Aelven commander to show off the rising city powers.

It would be really nice for it to not be another fething stormcast hero.

We all know thats too much to wish for

About the 4 Malign Portents Heroes / Herald of Grand Alliances discussions :

I think (!) the Herald of Order won't be a Stormcast Eternal, but the azyrite architect Valius Maliti (cf. the Seeds Of Hope and Disciples Of Tzeentch fluff) ;

1) He is already named in the fluff, so there must be a reason for it. (And the Knight of Shroud, Herald Of Death, is a also named character).

2) He is the one who lead the construction of many of Order's new cities. So he can be seen as "representing" many factions, as those cities are "multicultural".

3) IMO Malign portents is a more than just 4 new heroes. If it's huge, there will be new factions too (like Nurgle, Darkoath, Deathrattle, etc.) and there will be new sceneries. As Warhammer TV and Hastings said (on War Of Sigmar), we think those sceneries will be for Order, i.e. new buildings / fortresses. If those come in 2018, it ties again with Valius Maliti nicely, as the architect of those cities.

4) The feather here (and the little parchment in the corner) makes many people think of a "Free people" character. Again, that could be Valiti (cf. the Marco Colombo mini for WFB). And as other users have said above, the "Lion pelt" and "Lion tabard" rumor engines could also be a free people characters.

If they did a free people's architect hero, it would be a great excuse for them to bring back some of the WHFB terrain that is now ludicrously priced on eBay (tower, chapel, fortified manor, skullvane manse, etc...)