Are Godbeasts generally only in the realm of Ghur, or do they exist elsewhere?

Morathi was swallowed by Slaanesh during the End Times when Ulthuan collapsed.

Somehow she(and the other mortal Elves who became deities in AoS) woke up in the Mortal Realms.

How did that happen?

I never read much fantasy outside of gotrek and felix, so I don't have a great grasp on sigmar the man, but from the 2 dozen or so aos books ive read it does strike me that he feels like he was written as a direct contrast to the emperor of 40k. He tried find common ground with the orks and nagash for God's sakes.

On the other hand though, you have the knights excelsior and celestial vindicators stomping around basically doing pogroms against their own citizens. The order of azyr are definitely not as nefarious as the Inquisition, but they're definitely -an- inquisition.

Is there any indication he's tried to reign these nutbars in, or do they have tacit approval?

These guys are probably my favorite Stormcast units. Not only do they specialize in banishing ghosts/daemons, they can judge the souls of their enemies and send them to the Azyr if they’re worthy. This makes them one of the few things besides Ghal Maraz to redeem non-Order factions. Are there any stories or lore excerpts involving the Lord-Exorcists?

My friends, my fellow Realmwalkers. I come to you asking you all to please, stop claiming that First Edition didn't make it clear if the Stormcast Eternals had bodies under their armor.

"Gates of Azyr" and "Storm of Blades", the two oldest Stormcast novels, have Eternals remove their helmets, and describe the very human features of individuals such as Vandus Hammerhand and Thostos Bladestorm. Latter books in RGW talk about the human needs they have, in Ramus's series he worries about dying from hunger or thirst.

The very first Stormcast Eternals Battletome released in 2015, the year the setting was released, had this to say on Pg. 3

The Stormcast Eternals fight as warriors born, like legends from ancient song. Each and every one of them clad in armour of nigh-impenetrable sigmarite...

The rest of the paragraph then goes on to talk about how they fight in unified formations, so isn't the most relevant but I can type it in if anyone takes issue with the excerpt not being presented in full.

Heldenhall, the Valhalla of the Stormcast Eternals where they eat and drink in times of revelry, was mentioned at least as early as "Realmgate Wars: All-Gates", Pg. 241 (Jeez campaign books used to be so much bigger). Likely earlier.

In the oft forgotten 1E Corebook, weirdly called Mighty Battles in an Age of Unending War, this is said of the Eternals on Pg. 77:

Sigmar's Stormcast Eternals were as much creatures of magic as much as flash, immortal after a fashion, and possessed of an unquenchable spirit.

In the 2016 Stormcast Extremis Battletome, it is mentioned that Sigmar threw a party for the Thunderwings Extremis Chamber. This was point blank a grand feast, and three times the Eternals managed to drain the Unquenchable Cask of its alcoholic contents.

In the early books both campaign and novel there were plot points centered on Eternals having bodies. One guy was temporarily turned into pure sigmarite, Lorrus Grymn famously lost a hand and had it regrown by Alarielle. I believe one guy was mutated into a Skaven, and many other incidents.

Now did the art not make it clear there were people under the armor? Sure, they purposefully almost always obscured they eyes in the early art. So art wise there's definitely room to make the argument it wasn't clear. But the books were all talking about them being made of flesh day one in the corebook, campaign books, novels, and Battletomes.

Sorry if this is a bit of a dumb question but all of the controversy in the 40k community recently got me thinking. I remember when reading the Realmgate wars series that all of the Stormcast were men, and this series to my knowledge is the first of the Age of Sigmar novels. Women Stormcast appeared later on in novels like Plague Garden. Am I correct or could I possibly be missremembering something?

Hi folks,

I've just bought a Knight Judicator and would love to read some stories involving one. Anyone knows one or two?

In Fantasy the Red Crests spawned as an Old One response to Clan Pestilens and the manifestationof Sotek and introduced a spark of actual emotion to the Lizardmen.

The Seraphon are largely unchanged from Fantasy which is a big part of their appeal...

But at the same time the maxim "Evolve or Die" still applies, many threats in AoS have changed, and GW will likely need to make some new units for them at some point in the future...

So what would you like to see?

Should they focus on recovering lost Old One tech or taming new beasts?

Or... would you like to see new spawning types? Skinks based on Frilled lizards or with red Cobra hoods? Saurus with horned-devil spikes? Kroxigor carrying solar bastilodon crystals?

... A New Slann Spawning?

My knowledge of the skelly faction is limited and I am curious how the bone tithe works exactly.I am kitbashing an Ironjawz army with skeleton/OBR bits like gore gruntas with immortis shields on them. Now I am now figuring out their story. Does the bone tithe only work as the OBR taking bones from other peoples with nothing in return or could it be that for example an orruk faction could have a trade agreement with the OBR to give a steady supply of bones while the OBR provide armaments and protective gear.

Specifically order, chaos, and destruction, it’s well established that the rest of death sees them as useful idiots at best and a liability at worst.

I was asked to post my City of Sigmar since they wanted to read it. So here it is! My little fan-creation, I hope you all like it! I have tried to remain within current lore while taking some artistic freedoms where the areas are grey. It does go into the Stormhost I have but that's a story for another day.

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Age of Myth

To understand the city one must first understand what came before. Like numerous civilizations they find their origin in the Age of Myth. Though the original civilization is long lost to time, what is certain is they were technologically advanced people and thriving in the golden age of the mortal realms. What was arguably the peak of their achievements was the Dawn Seeker. A vessel built to go beyond the mortal realms, beyond the aetheric void and to explore what lay beyond what was known.

With a crew of thousands and armed to handle almost anything that it could encounter. The vessel spent numerous years away, it was these years that left its mark on the crew. They were left forever changed by the journey. No one truly knows what happened to bring this about but the skin colour of the crew became darker and tanned. The colour of their eyes changed; The whites of their eyes turned black and the irises turned brighter and more vibrant to the point they almost glowed against the black eyes. One of the most profound changes was the psychic abilities they developed. The aptitude of these abilities varied from person to person. This developed into a variety of disciplines; telepathy, psychometabolism, psychokinesis, metacreativity and clairsentience. These disciplines and learning remain strong even into the Age of Sigmar.

Age of Chaos

What was to be a triumphant return for the crew was one marked with disaster. It was the beginning of the Age of Chaos. Their initial return resulted in an encounter with several Silver Towers within the Aetheric Void. The battle between the two forces resulted in victory for the Dawn Seeker but it was a costly victory and not one without even greater consequences. The battle drew the attention of a Void creature and it intended to devour the vessel along with all those aboard. Knowing they stood no chance they opted to flee and make it safely to one of the realms. The Void creature lashed out at the vessel and managed to land a hit and this one hit was enough. The Dawn Seeker now out of control hurtled through the void towards the mortal realms where it slammed into the realm of Life. The impact left no small impact on the realm. The impact scorched the land for miles around and was visible for many more miles.

The survivors now found themselves in a new situation that was possibly just as dangerous. Cut off from all possible chances of help and chaos was on the rise, desperate but they were determined to remain steadfast. Using what was left of the working technology aboard the vessel the survivors managed to hold against the forces of chaos. While the descendants of the survivors saw the end of the Age of Chaos and the birth of the Age of Sigmar it was not without cost. The descendants barely knew how to operate the more advanced technology let alone replicate it and now limited to far more basic aspects such as simple labour golems. These labour golems are far removed from the war golems they once had and the remnants of the war golems litter the area around the ruins of the vessel.

It was one the eve of the age of sigmar that the forces of chaos were on the edge of breaking through the defenses. The day was met with a cloudless and rainless storm. Without warning lightning came down striking the ground in between the two armies. To relieve the city Sigmar had sent his chosen to break the siege. The bolstering of the stormcast and the general offensive conducted by Sigmar and his Stormcast has led to a time of peace for the survivors of the Dawn Seeker. This peace led to the foundation of the city known as Dawns Rest. Further developments as the people learned that the stormcast were the survivors of the Dawn Seeker who had died defending it.

Age of Sigmar

Years passed as the city grew and they were able to recover and repair parts of the Dawn Seeker. This resulted in a legendary library being formed from the ships archives, the ships navigation systems became an orrery and observatory and a school opened up around the use of their psychic gifts. This grew further with artificer guilds being founded to better understand the technology of the past. Trade opening up with the Kharadron overlords and a Stormkeep being constructed by the Dawn Psions due to a realm gate to ghur being discovered. It won't be until the age of the beast but a Seraphon embassy would eventually be built.

The population of the city grew with an influx of immigrants and a boom in births. Several houses were founded. Each house held influence and became akin to noble houses of other cities. These houses held most control over the city until the grand conclave was founded under the guidance of the Dawn Psions. This meritocratic and democratic council had the various houses change their approach. Each house vying for a seat on the council. It is not uncommon for a house to hold a seat or two on the council.

Even to this day with various immigrants of other races. Humans are the dominant population of Dawns Rest.

Greetings and Salutations everyone! So I'm popping this up mostly to assure everyone that posts regarding the lore of the World-That-Was are completely welcome here, as they always have been. As those settings are, like it or not, part of AoS's past and have effects on what happens in it.

But as with all posts here they need to be lore-related, or at least lore-adjacent. We've always been happy to fudge the rules' wording to curtail to the spirit of the rules. Plus as a ton of folk say at GW, everything is canon.

A big meta piece on What if Old World was a completely different IP following an AU, for example, does not really count as lore-related. Not because of the AU part, Warhammer has a ton of those and AoS has delved into time and dimensional shenanigans already, but cause that's more meta than lore.

So yeah. WHFB, TOW, WHFRP, Total Warhammer, and probably even Blood Bowl, lore is free game here. But any post on them has to follow the rules just like any post on AoS stuff.

In lore, from what I can understand, Sylvaneth are all for nature and wildlife.

Troggoths as far as I can tell are eepy wee creatures that want to nap and lay around unless gitz start riling them up or Orruks ride em.

How come Troggoths are with destruction and not with Sylvaneth? Would Sylvaneth not welcome sleepy troggoths to have a nap in the woods considering they don't damage nature (I think).

In a setting as magically heavy and god dominant as Age of Sigmar, I wanted to know how the different races would react to those with albinism or at least the mortal realm's potential equivalents?

I know Grey Seer's are gifted with magic and horns. I am aware they aren't technically albino but fit the bill enough

The Seraphon Scar Veteran on Aggradon is shown as all white. I imagine it's more of a nod to Gor-Rok than anything but still an official albino esc depiction

Now that the Skaven have popped up with their enormous city of horrors... How -bad- is the situation for Sigmar's forces tactically/strategically? From both a 'Doylist/Writing' Standpoint, and from a 'Watsonian/IN-UNIVERSE' Standpoint, what are your thoughts?

My guess is that the Crusades to retake other realms will falter or fail because forces will have to be pulled back to defend the areas the skaven are invading... but what will that look like in practice?

Is it Sigmar's forces in particular that are in danger, or could them pulling back put a lot of strain on other Order factions?

Will Crusades abandon Duardin and Aelf forces to untenable overextended assaults, further weakening Order's frayed connections... or Will Stormcast forces honor commitments to allies they're reinforcing and that turn into a story that strengthens bonds between the Order factions? BOTH?

What is the likelihood that we'll see a response from the Seraphon to back up the Stormcast in driving back or at least containing the rat's incursion?

I'm setting up a local narrative Siege Event to usher out AoS 3.0.

The plan is to have Chaos assaulting an Order city that contains a Realmgate. I'm always hesitant to use any of the big names and, really, I don't event want a secondary city whose lore is as some kind of unbreakable fortress.

Ideally I'd find an in-lore-existing tertiary city that contains, or might contain, a Realmgate.

If necessary, I'll just make something up... the Mortal Realms are big places after all :) But it would be fun to tie the narrative into some "real" location.

Anyone have any ideas?

For example the Stormcast Eternals. Things like the Anvil of Apotheosis, their primary languages being the Azyrite languages, their use of armor made of Sigmarite, Chambers, Officer Temples, Conclaves, Retinues, that Star-Eagles are sapient. These are big details but not necessary to completely understand them. Yeah?

So what are some details like this for Blades of Khorne, Maggotkin of Nurgle, Disciples of Tzeentch, Hedonites of Slaanesh, Skaven, Beasts of Chaos, and Slaves to Darkness that are largely background or supplementary details that help learn more about them, outside of the core stuff.

Just yesterday I outed myself as not liking Chaos. So the obvious takeaway here... is that there's billions of details I probably don't know! So feel free to kick this one into overdrive with all those lore bits the Chaos folk have.

Alacahn disarms one of his Vanquishers and shoulder barges him out of the dueling ring. He lets out a thunderous laugh. “Do you see why I am the greatest of our host? Why I am the examplar and the one who carries Sigmar's great banner. I am his strength given form!” he boasts. “You claim to be the strongest warrior of our host yet why don't you lead?” Alexandrus ask almost to jest or diminish the Vexilla instead of genuinely asking. “Because lords don't get to have any fun.” Alacahn retorted.

As he spoke, Livia Ironheart, Warden of the Host and Lord Celestant of the Ironguard, entered the training gladiatorum. “Says the knight that is always late to the party.” Lady Livia spoke with an aura of graceful superiority. Her Praetors followed closely behind, their helmets obscuring their faces. “And yet every time I arrive, the day is saved. Perhaps that says more about your leadership than about me.” Alacahn responds with a sly smile. “There is a reason I am the Warden of the Host. I am its guardian, its protector.” Livia responds and continues. “If you think you are the greatest warrior from the Lions, then test yourself with me.” She points her spear directly at Alacahn. He places his helmet on and begins to swing his sword. “Challenge accepted.”

All vacate the arena as Livia and Alacahn begin to circle. Livia spins her spear between her fingers while holding her shield at her side but facing Alacahn. He knew she could have her shield raised before he would have a chance to swing his sword. As they circle the arena, they move closer towards the centre. Livia had reach and defense over Alacahn but he had speed and could potentially muscle his way through her attacks if needed. All that could be heard was the bustle of Lionfort City and the sound of their boots tapping on the stone floors of the gladiatorum. All the gladiatorum knew what was about to happen.

Livia grasped her spear fully and thrust it towards Alacahn, looking for the perfect killing strike. He blocks the attack, turning out the way before slashing at her and striking her shield. She steps back and swings her spear. They clash, trading blows and parries with neither giving way. Livia used her range to her advantage to keep him back while he constantly seeks to close the gap. Parries and clashes are traded and blows are blocked by shield and sword.

“There's no use, you won't win.” Alacahn says with righteous indignation. “That's what you think.” Livia responds with a smirk. She throws her spear at Alacahn and blocks with his blade. She charges him, holding her shield up, smashing his head and knocking him to the floor. Quickly she grabs her spear and attempts to drive it into his chest. Alacahn rolls from the attack and the spear breaks into the stone before he kicks her feet out. It's his turn to take a swing and he clashes his blade against her shield, ringing out across the gladiatorum and the city. “Give up my lady. I can fight all day.” He says as he leans over the shield. “I am the shield of Lionfort, the Warden of the Host. I am the guardian and the saviour. You are just a standard.” She responds then pushes him off.

They both rise to their feet and clash, spear and sword colliding and parrying. Other stormcast begin to enter the gladiatorum and watch the duel. The Knight-Vexilla now tried to boast to the stormhost, performing more daring and performative strikes. He was showing off.

Stormcast and members of the city began to cheer for, some wishing for their Lord Celestant to win while others seeking the Knight-Vexilla to claim victory. Each clash and blow causes the crowd to gasp or cheer.

As Livia thrusts her spear at Alacahn's shoulder, he disarms her and the spear flies in the air and impales the ground. Alacahn takes his opening and stabs at Livia. She barely gets her shield in the way and the sword impales her shield. Stuck, Alacahn attempts to break his sword free by Livia throws the Knight off her and discards her shield. She dives for Alacahn and grabs him in a head lock, holding him him in her tight grip. Alacahn struggles but Livia has him tight in her grip. “Give in, it's over. I will strangle you to death if I have to.” Alacahn just chokes and gags as he tries to resist.

They wrestle on the ground, Alacahn trying to free his arms from her legs and his head from her arms. “Would she actually kill me?” Alacahn asked himself. “Would she actually kill him just to win a duel?” The crowd turned silent as they watched the two stormcast struggle. “Kill me.” Alacahn spoke between gags for air and struggles. A few moments of silence pass before Livia wispers. “Remember this.” She slacks her arms and legs ever so slightly, enough for him to break free.

They both rise to their feet and stand opposite, each exhausted from the duel and the struggle. Livia then says “enough… I've had enough.” Silence falls completely across the gladiatorum, no one knowing what to do. People try to figure out who won the duel or even if there is a winner. Alacahn removed his helmet and anger was written on his face. Anger that he failed and anger that she let him live. She then picks up her spear and walks away, not saying a word or looking at anyone…

would you like them to see them more in the lore? or at all really?

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This question is about both the AoS setting and the World-that-Was/WHFB lore. What exactly are geomantic/ley lines ? I had assumed that all magical energy is from the Realm of Chaos but some sources seems to indicate that Geomantic/natural/earth energies are another form of magic not originating from the Aethyr, preceding the existence of the Winds of Magic and even fundamentally antithetical to Chaos. Did I misunderstand ? Does anyone have written sources or quotes which can help clarify this subject ?

By culture i mean stuff like art, a sense of beauty, stories, jokes, etc, stuff that are not purely practical but that bring joy to them?

The reason why i ask is given their origins, the lizardmen are kind of biological robots, artifical life forms birthed for certain tasks from the get go. How bound are they by this nature?

With Fourth Edition of Age of Sigmar just a couple months away. What are you hoping to see for the next threw years of the setting?

Hi everyone, I am currently gathering a warband of mercenaries using steelhelms and castelite units. While building the imposing Ogor Warhulk and the moustache-lad on its back, I wondered how I was supposed to worldbuild and describe the relationship between the ogor and its tinier mercenary companions.

So HOW is the relationship between Ogors and Humans, elves and dwarves? I mean how do they behave together, do ones look down on the others? How close can they be, how do they bond?

I'm looking for any information that could allow me to build the lore of my little mercenary band and give more personality to the minis. I looked around the subreddit but didn't find any detailed information on second generation ogors or whatever they recruit in the Cities.

Thank you!

Do the mutations bestowed on human Chaos sorcerors by the Chaos Gods, especially Tzeentch, allow them to utilize all eight winds of magic? Or is the inability to use multiple winds of magic hardlocked into human DNA?

Greetings and Salutations Gate Seekers and Lore Pilgrims, and welcome to yet another "No Stupid Questions" thread

Do you have something you want to discuss something or had a question, but don't want to make an entire post for it?

Then feel free to strike up the discussion or ask the question here

In this thread, you can ask anything about AoS (or even WHFB) lore, the fluff, characters, background, and other AoS things.

Community members are encouraged to be helpful and to provide sources and links that can aid new, curious, and returning Lore Pilgrims

This Thread is NOT to be used to

-Ask "What If/Who would win" scenarios.

-Strike up Tabletop discussions. However, questions regarding how something from the tabletop is handled in the lore are fine.

-Real-world politics.

-Making unhelpful statements like "just Google it"

-Asking for specific (long) excerpts or files

Remember to be kind and that everyone started out new, even you.

I'm reading the first Drekki Flynt Novel, and he has a Drillbill that seems very "alive" (behaves on its own accord, but can also be ordered to carry out tasks/deliver messages). I always assumed the Drillbill's were fairly simple automata, powered by aethergold, but now I'm wondering if there's more to it? (perhaps some sort of Dr robotnic shenanigans going on?)

I've been left with a lot of questions h Are they alive? Are they sentient? What creates thier behaviours? Do they contain a soul of any sorts?

Been discussing bits about the original elf pantheon regarding Vermintide, since Lilleath talks to a character in an update recently, and got told she supposedly made a pocket dimension housing souls upon foreseeing the victory of chaos in the end times and gave her energy to Isha. What happened to the others though?

Like with the Cadai aspects: Loec, Kurnoth, Hoeth, Ladrielle, Lilleath, Asuryan, Isha, and Vaul did they see adoptions into specific characters in the setting, or consumed to Slannesh?

The darker aspects of Cytharai, do they see a consumption by Slannesh, or do they succeed in escaping and working with the Daughters of Khaine?

Interested as I know so little of the crossover from fantasy to AOS