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Whitefang said that is Morai heg : also known as the "Crow-Goddess," the "Keeper of Souls," the "All-seeing One" or the "Crone," is the Elven goddess of fate and death. Within her rune pouch, she holds the fate of all mortals. It is considered a dark practice to openly pay tribute to her."
Also for warcry Next banda are order VS death. Maybe this new death aelves VS death (osiarchs)?
zamerion wrote: Whitefang said that is Morai heg : also known as the "Crow-Goddess," the "Keeper of Souls," the "All-seeing One" or the "Crone," is the Elven goddess of fate and death. Within her rune pouch, she holds the fate of all mortals. It is considered a dark practice to openly pay tribute to her."
Also for warcry Next banda are order VS death. Maybe this new death aelves VS death (osiarchs)?
There is lore of DOK who do not follow Morathi so it is possible this is a splinter cult who worship Morai-Heg in place of Khaine or Morathi. Or another attempt by Morathi to use a dead god for her own purposes.
Morai-Heg had ties to the Shadow King, Alith Anar, whose fate is one of the unknowns.
Sidenote:
I phrase it like this as he had a massive encampment of Shadow Warriors towards the end of the End Times: Khaine book. It's also heavily implied that he and his followers were granted entry to the 'safehouse' that was created for Araloth.
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Kanluwen wrote: Morai-Heg had ties to the Shadow King, Alith Anar, whose fate is one of the unknowns.
Sidenote:
I phrase it like this as he had a massive encampment of Shadow Warriors towards the end of the End Times: Khaine book. It's also heavily implied that he and his followers were granted entry to the 'safehouse' that was created for Araloth.
Did that safe house realm thing not also get all wrecked? Been yonks since I read Khaine, but I’m sure that plan failed.
Kanluwen wrote: Morai-Heg had ties to the Shadow King, Alith Anar, whose fate is one of the unknowns.
Sidenote:
I phrase it like this as he had a massive encampment of Shadow Warriors towards the end of the End Times: Khaine book. It's also heavily implied that he and his followers were granted entry to the 'safehouse' that was created for Araloth.
Did that safe house realm thing not also get all wrecked? Been yonks since I read Khaine, but I’m sure that plan failed.
I genuinely don't know. The whole immediate End Times lore was a garbled mess of novellas, novels, and WD articles.
FWIW, things like the Acorn of the Ages for Sylvaneth have to come from somewhere. Some of them were in the safe realm.
H.B.M.C. wrote: Looks very Dark Elf-ish. Needn't necessarily be Daughters. Could be the long-awaited Malerion stuff (or however you spell trademarkable Malekith).
I suspect Malerion's guys are more of a new edition starter army. Yeah, just a feeling, nothing to back it up. But if they are, we shouldn't expect to see any rumor engines that are conclusive enough to spoil the surprise.
This banner looks like a Khainite skull. I don't know what Malerion and Morathi are up to these days, but I wouldn't expect Khaine worship in Malerion's realm. Can't let all that prayer go to the competition, right?
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
They don't have a High Elf mandala I can spot, but for the Dark Elf one? Morai-Heg's the one down-right in the inner circle from the Khaine sigil in the center.
It definitely looks like it has the bones of the Dark Elf sigil.
chaos0xomega wrote: Are we sure thats elven? Looks like a stylized eye of horus to me.
I saw an eye above a khorne icon initially.
The thing is, all of this is true. It look like an eye, over a khorne rune, done in an elven style.
Obviously it must be traitor berserker elves?
Don't make me dream
Chaos elves are a pretty untapped vein. Not sure how well that fits into the AoS lore. I think they technically exist in old 40k lore, but don’t get mentioned much. Probably a lot of overlap with the existing evil, just not in a chaos way ranges we have already. Might make for a fun warband in one of the spinoff games.
tangent
Spoiler:
Back in 5th edition WHFB, you could have chaos warriors with additional hand weapons, but they didn’t include the option in the kits at the time. Now you could give them the mark of khorne to frenzy them, and with the extra HW they were blenders. I don’t know if I ever went full blender, preferring the mark of slanesh for the phycology advantages. But I did kitbash a unit of “when witchelves go bad” by replacing the laspistols on some howling banshees and adding some extra stabby bits.
Excuse the rough work and paint, these ladies date from the mid/late 90s, I’ve come a long way since then
H.B.M.C. wrote: Are the Mist/ShadowElves we see sometimes part of the Daughters line up? Or have they never really been expanded upon?
So in theory the whole of the Shadow Realm is basically ruled by Maliketh and his Shadow Aelf faction. They are the big nation that rules and Morathi and her Daughters of Khaine are a tiny force in a small secluded corner of the realm (the most shadowed).
So it is strange that one of the biggest forces in the entire game and lore is basically "missing" for so long. We get the odd mention here and there in the lore, but basically they've not been greatly touched upon and have been holding back for ages.
Overread wrote: Sweet looking model! Kind of surprised its a regular overlord and not a named character!
To be fair, it is a very normal looking Lord that happens to be caught at a very particular moment as it phases in/out. If you look beyond the green swirls nothing is particularly stand-out
So its really an exceptional "action pose". Overall a lovely model though.
ChargerIIC wrote: If algae farm paste with a little bit of your grandfather in it isn't Grimdark I don't know what is.
Scottywan82 wrote: Neat model. I wonder what the issue was that they held this for after the last round of reveals.
Could be anything from just production slot access or perhaps the teaser is from a 3D design and they found some issues with parting and casting the model in plastic.
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