- Location
- Drachyench on Discord
We have some faction information on the Tomb Kings. Not too much, mostly just seems to be splitting the difference between editions and trying to thread a line of keeping Warhammer fans happy while also not causing any hiccups with Age of Sigmar fans.
GW has to walk a fine line as "Undead but intelligent and sane" is basically an entire faction's thing in Age of Sigmar and as a relatively recent creation / discovery at that. While there'd be something fitting about Liche Priests managing it with their Skeletons millennia before Nagash by quite literally asking and spiritual rites, it'd be a big thumb at AoS lore. So "Royalty was an accident of chance, Liche Priests used Necromancy to raise the legions of undead we know and love independently of that" is the result.
Personally not the biggest fan, but again I see GW's hands being sort-of tied as either they piss on an AoS faction or they retcon some lore most people aren't even aware of.
GW has to walk a fine line as "Undead but intelligent and sane" is basically an entire faction's thing in Age of Sigmar and as a relatively recent creation / discovery at that. While there'd be something fitting about Liche Priests managing it with their Skeletons millennia before Nagash by quite literally asking and spiritual rites, it'd be a big thumb at AoS lore. So "Royalty was an accident of chance, Liche Priests used Necromancy to raise the legions of undead we know and love independently of that" is the result.
Personally not the biggest fan, but again I see GW's hands being sort-of tied as either they piss on an AoS faction or they retcon some lore most people aren't even aware of.