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Carlovonsexron wrote:
They have mentioned in the past about working on a next.thing for fantasy warhammer quest, and ambulls(40k) and zoats(bloodbowl) would.be complemented perfectly by a Fimir.

I would actually.cave.and pay the absurd Blackstone fortress.xpack price if.it meant getting a Fimir.


You can already do that from forge world. https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Warhammer-Age-of-Sigmar?N=2587193535+3027296650&Nr=AND%28sku.siteId%3AUS_fw%2Cproduct.locale%3Aen_US_fw%29&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bproduct.startDate+%3C%3D+1569497580000+and+product.endDate+%3E%3D+1569497580000%5D
Although, it would be sweet to have them represented in the general AoS game. However, I ran in to them in RPG, and they have a pretty gruesome culture.

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 Fayric wrote:
Carlovonsexron wrote:
They have mentioned in the past about working on a next.thing for fantasy warhammer quest, and ambulls(40k) and zoats(bloodbowl) would.be complemented perfectly by a Fimir.

I would actually.cave.and pay the absurd Blackstone fortress.xpack price if.it meant getting a Fimir.


You can already do that from forge world. https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Warhammer-Age-of-Sigmar?N=2587193535+3027296650&Nr=AND%28sku.siteId%3AUS_fw%2Cproduct.locale%3Aen_US_fw%29&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bproduct.startDate+%3C%3D+1569497580000+and+product.endDate+%3E%3D+1569497580000%5D
Although, it would be sweet to have them represented in the general AoS game. However, I ran in to them in RPG, and they have a pretty gruesome culture.


"gruesome is putting it lightly lol
   
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If GW.bring them back I'm expecting a retcon to certain matters of their background will also come.

Which I hope for, as honestly the design is just so cool.

   
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Carlovonsexron wrote:
If GW.bring them back I'm expecting a retcon to certain matters of their background will also come.

Which I hope for, as honestly the design is just so cool.


I agree to be honest.
   
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yeah, the backlash would be to great these days

 
   
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It's going to be ogors, imo. Chances of fimir, chaos dwarfs or any other background WFB race making it to AoS proper instead of them inventing a new one wholecloth is...not great? Especially since Idoneth are already the mist-shrouded raiders from the sea.
   
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Carlovonsexron wrote:
They have mentioned in the past about working on a next.thing for fantasy warhammer quest, and ambulls(40k) and zoats(bloodbowl) would.be complemented perfectly by a Fimir.

I would actually.cave.and pay the absurd Blackstone fortress.xpack price if.it meant getting a Fimir.


Oh?! I must have missed this, do you happen to recall where a potential new WHQ was mentioned?
   
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Clockpunk wrote:
Carlovonsexron wrote:
They have mentioned in the past about working on a next.thing for fantasy warhammer quest, and ambulls(40k) and zoats(bloodbowl) would.be complemented perfectly by a Fimir.

I would actually.cave.and pay the absurd Blackstone fortress.xpack price if.it meant getting a Fimir.


Oh?! I must have missed this, do you happen to recall where a potential new WHQ was mentioned?


It's been mentioned on some of the age of sigmar podcasts


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Cronch wrote:
It's going to be ogors, imo. Chances of fimir, chaos dwarfs or any other background WFB race making it to AoS proper instead of them inventing a new one wholecloth is...not great? Especially since Idoneth are already the mist-shrouded raiders from the sea.


It's why I thin they would be more likely to come back in warhammer quest, akin to how bloodbowl is getting a Zoat.

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 Lockark wrote:
 Fayric wrote:
Carlovonsexron wrote:
They have mentioned in the past about working on a next.thing for fantasy warhammer quest, and ambulls(40k) and zoats(bloodbowl) would.be complemented perfectly by a Fimir.

I would actually.cave.and pay the absurd Blackstone fortress.xpack price if.it meant getting a Fimir.


You can already do that from forge world. https://www.forgeworld.co.uk/en-US/Warhammer-Age-of-Sigmar?N=2587193535+3027296650&Nr=AND%28sku.siteId%3AUS_fw%2Cproduct.locale%3Aen_US_fw%29&Nrs=collection%28%29%2Frecord%5Bproduct.startDate+%3C%3D+1569497580000+and+product.endDate+%3E%3D+1569497580000%5D
Although, it would be sweet to have them represented in the general AoS game. However, I ran in to them in RPG, and they have a pretty gruesome culture.


"gruesome is putting it lightly lol

After you guys talking about the raping of captives? It is of course gruesome, but basically par for the course in ancient and not so ancient history. You don't see people protesting the use of Vikings who raped and slaughtered all over western Europe, or Aztecs who raped and performed vivisection ritual sacrifice, or Comanche who killed, raped, enslaved and brutally tortured their captives.
I of course condemn all such practices, but it is a good sign to me that people are wringing their hands about a fictional race whose culture wouldn't even make them a standout among actual real world cultures.
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There is a distinct difference between that eample and the Fimir, which are:

A) Fictional, and therefore don't have to be written in a way that includes rape (look at warhammer Orks for an eample of that)

-and-

B) How the old Fimir HAVE to rape in order to reproduce.

I'd further argue that how normal rape was in past societies doesn't matter; it only matters how we in the current incarnation of society feel about the subject. Using past societies as examples of when rape was 'normalized' only serves to underline the fact that modern day authors should have known better.

   
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Cronch wrote:
It's going to be ogors, imo. Chances of fimir, chaos dwarfs or any other background WFB race making it to AoS proper instead of them inventing a new one wholecloth is...not great? Especially since Idoneth are already the mist-shrouded raiders from the sea.


While you're probably right, they are both pretty explicitly referenced in the Core Book

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We'll find out soon enough eh.

Carlovonsexron wrote:
There is a distinct difference between that eample and the Fimir, which are:

A) Fictional, and therefore don't have to be written in a way that includes rape (look at warhammer Orks for an eample of that)

-and-

B) How the old Fimir HAVE to rape in order to reproduce.

I'd further argue that how normal rape was in past societies doesn't matter; it only matters how we in the current incarnation of society feel about the subject. Using past societies as examples of when rape was 'normalized' only serves to underline the fact that modern day authors should have known better.


That presumes someone buys into the idea that the mere depiction of a thing - regardless of the context or how it is presented - is bad if the thing being depicted is bad.

The Fimir as-was are never coming back, because GW has been firmly a parent-friendly company for many years now and no version of rape monsters are parent-friendly, but that's a reflection of GW's chosen audience, not a moral indictment of the writers 30 years ago who were writing for a different audience entirely. Modern society generally considers extreme violence to be undesirable as well, but anyone suggesting "modern day" authors have gone beyond the bounds of decency by merely referring to it happening in a work of fiction(because lets not lose sight of the fact that even at its edgiest, none of the Fimir-related material even got close to actually describing the act in question) would literally be laughed at.

Depiction is not endorsement.

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 Yodhrin wrote:
Carlovonsexron wrote:
There is a distinct difference between that eample and the Fimir, which are:

A) Fictional, and therefore don't have to be written in a way that includes rape (look at warhammer Orks for an eample of that)

-and-

B) How the old Fimir HAVE to rape in order to reproduce.

I'd further argue that how normal rape was in past societies doesn't matter; it only matters how we in the current incarnation of society feel about the subject. Using past societies as examples of when rape was 'normalized' only serves to underline the fact that modern day authors should have known better.


That presumes someone buys into the idea that the mere depiction of a thing - regardless of the context or how it is presented - is bad if the thing being depicted is bad.

The Fimir as-was are never coming back, because GW has been firmly a parent-friendly company for many years now and no version of rape monsters are parent-friendly, but that's a reflection of GW's chosen audience, not a moral indictment of the writers 30 years ago who were writing for a different audience entirely. Modern society generally considers extreme violence to be undesirable as well, but anyone suggesting "modern day" authors have gone beyond the bounds of decency by merely referring to it happening in a work of fiction(because lets not lose sight of the fact that even at its edgiest, none of the Fimir-related material even got close to actually describing the act in question) would literally be laughed at.

Depiction is not endorsement.


The Fimir were suppose to be a reference to monstrous faye creatures in folklore who would kidnap people. It's just the the writer was ham-fisted in regards to giveing the Fimir a motivation for why they do this, and latter regretted making them a race of rape monsters.

In The Legend of Sigmar omnibus why the Fimir needed a virgin girl was left more ambiguous but was implied to be more sacrificial in nature. It ended up even being a plot point even that the fimir realised their plans wouldn't work because the girl was not a virgin. It has been a few years since I last read the Omnibus so i'm abit foggy on the details, but I recall the fimir being rape monsters were not part of their characterisation in the book, well still sticking to their inspiration as Faye monsters kidnapping people.

So the idea of retconning/adjusting the Fimir lore is something that GW has already played with in regards to their scant appearances in black library materiel.

In the end this is all fiction, and when fiction touches of subjects that make people uncomfortable it needs to be done with a purpose. Not just for shock factor, or some scene of "realism". This is a world with dragons and magic golden knights. Realism isn't a factor here.

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Here’s an option; no less gruesome but much less of a hot potato: they’re like any number of bugs and fungi that infest/infect some host species or other with their offspring, which eat them alive from the inside before ‘hatching’ as near-adults.

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 Mr_Rose wrote:
Here’s an option; no less gruesome but much less of a hot potato: they’re like any number of bugs and fungi that infest/infect some host species or other with their offspring, which eat them alive from the inside before ‘hatching’ as near-adults.

Yep, this would work.

   
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 Crimson wrote:
 Mr_Rose wrote:
Here’s an option; no less gruesome but much less of a hot potato: they’re like any number of bugs and fungi that infest/infect some host species or other with their offspring, which eat them alive from the inside before ‘hatching’ as near-adults.

Yep, this would work.


So I can only imagen that going two ways.

Fantasy Chest Busters
or
Exploding into baby Fimir like a party popper exploding into confetti.
   
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well that's new and different! The emperors Polo clubs astartes chapter?

   
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it kinda looks like a duradain hammer:

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Sigmar took up croquet?

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 ImAGeek wrote:
Drazhar’s base is the Eldar ruins (pretty sure)



Aye aye sir.
It is so..

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AngryAngel80 wrote:
I don't know, when I see awesome rules, I'm like " Baby, your rules looking so fine. Maybe I gotta add you to my first strike battalion eh ? "


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I would much rather everyone have a half ass than no ass.


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I have no idea on this one.


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 EnTyme wrote:
Sigmar took up croquet?


Sounds strange, but its hard to imagine it could be anything else.

The swirly jugend style pattern could litterally be anything these days from Guilliman to aelves or ghosts.

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 DaveC wrote:
So it looks like this ones solved - Boenreaper mounted character just from the reverse angle


Yeah. Better picture on the war com article.
https://www.warhammer-community.com/2019/10/07/lords-of-the-ossiarch-bonereapers-revealedgw-homepage-post-2/

The Arch-Kavalos, not the 'Liege-Kavaloi.'
Which I assume is GW doing something terrible to somebody's language.

Oddly, google translate suggests Kavaloi is cavalry in Esperanto of all things, and turns Kavalos into Καβάλος in Greek, and translates that to crotch.

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it's from latin/italian

   
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We'll find out soon enough eh.

 Lockark wrote:

In the end this is all fiction, and when fiction touches of subjects that make people uncomfortable it needs to be done with a purpose. Not just for shock factor, or some scene of "realism". This is a world with dragons and magic golden knights. Realism isn't a factor here.


Those are certainly opinions which you have every right to hold. They are not, however, a nigh-universally agreed moral imperative like "killing people is usually bad".

Personally, I disagree in both regards. The only justification required to include something in fiction is "the author wanted to include it". People are of course free to choose not to read things that contain things they find objectionable if the work doesn't meet their own personal standards for inclusion of objectionable content, but the move towards implying that the fact some people may be made uncomfortable by a work or choose not to read/watch something that contains such things constitutes a reason not to create the work in the first place, and further that it then follows authors and works that do regardless should be subject to some kind of moral judgement, is one I firmly disagree with. And while I didn't actually use the word "realism" in my post and don't use that as a blanket argument for or against anything, I also think using "it's just fantasy fiction" in a blanket fashion to claim, well, anything really, but most commonly some variation of "internal consistency doesn't matter" or "fantasy shouldn't broach challenging subjects or go beyond the level of YA fiction in its depictions of sex or violence" is nonsense.

Warhammer might have dragons, but in the context of WHF - ie, what the Fimir were written for and, again, they were written decades ago now - the idea of monsters who reproduce by abduction and either implied actual-rape or whatever other mystical-horror-ritual-thing you choose to use as a pretty obvious standin for actual-rape isn't actually any worse than all the other implied horrors people in the setting are subjected to. You can turn any depiction of any negative act or behaviour into an issue if you want to come at it in a certain way, for example, should Daemonettes and Slaaneshi cults be excised/retconned, given it's possible to interpret their use of drugs and mystical auras to overcome the will and inhibitions of their victims as being depictions of date-rape?

If GW want to bring back the Fimir in a form that will better fit their modern parent-friendly image, that's their right and I doubt anyone will be threatening to burn their armies in response, but just because their target audience has changed over the years doesn't mean they were someone guilty of a great moral wrong for writing the "edgy" version in the first place, and there is no actual absolute moral imperative that they should change them.

Anyway if you want to continue we can go to PMs.

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Carlovonsexron wrote:
it's from latin/italian


Really? What's the meaning?
There's quite a difference between the two for horse related things, and that's the closest association I can find, beyond a Greek place name.

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Voss wrote:
Carlovonsexron wrote:
it's from latin/italian


Really? What's the meaning?
There's quite a difference between the two for horse related things, and that's the closest association I can find, beyond a Greek place name.



The 'Hellenized' it by dropping an 'L', and rendering the hard C as a K, but its its pretty reconizable to me as Cavallo (Italian, meanin a horse or a horseman), and Caballus (Latin, which can poeticly refer to a horse, or funny enough more a more day to day term for a pack horse.)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cavallo#Italian

There seems to be some dispute over its ultimate origin being either from Celtic or Greek.

   
 
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