Warhammer Fantasy: A Dynasty of Dynamic Alcoholism

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Humbling words, ya'll, but untrue and unnecessary. They, for one, will have a much better Cathay map I'm sure than what I managed to cobble off of ancient scrap, plus a whole heaping more writers and direct communications with GW surely. No-one from GW is looking at this quest, and I'm fine with things staying that way. All that work on Three Kingdoms is surely going to come in handy for them. It'll be interesting to see how they handle the Dragon Emperor situation, and all that. But they're quite good.

Nothing to do now but see how it comes out, in the end.
 
Checked out the store page on Steam:

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On the border between the worlds, two mighty kingdoms stand sentinel: the stern warriors of Kislev and the vast empire of Grand Cathay. But each is beset by its own trials, and now both have cause to cross the threshold and send their armies into the Realm of Chaos.

The world stands on a precipice. A single push will plunge it into cataclysm.

And there is one who schemes to achieve just that, an ancient figure who desires nothing less than to wield supreme power. But to succeed, he will need a champion…

The coming conflict will engulf all. Will you conquer your daemons? Or command them?
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Invading the Realm of Chaos. Jesus.

Well, whenever it does come out, this quest will likely still be ongoing, hope ya'll are okay with me possibly including some new bits from them or not using certain bits at all if they directly go against the established canon of the quest.
 
torroar said:
Well, whenever it does come out, this quest will likely still be ongoing, hope ya'll are okay with me possibly including some new bits from them or not using certain bits at all if they directly go against the established canon of the quest.
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You do already have precedent in taking the lore out of some games, so like, its entirely fine. That Ice queen tho, amirite?
 
torroar said:
Checked out the store page on Steam:



Invading the Realm of Chaos. Jesus.

Well, whenever it does come out, this quest will likely still be ongoing, hope ya'll are okay with me possibly including some new bits from them or not using certain bits at all if they directly go against the established canon of the quest.
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New Laurelorn lore did not stop you when that happened, why stop now?
 
Meh, as long as you have fun writing this then I'm cool with whatever you are planning for in the near future. :D

Hopefully a lot of potentially interesting plot hooks and events! And Cathay is definitely going to be one of the main points of interest for the Quest later.

Still, that Ice Queen was kind of interesting though right? I was kind of surprised that they focused on Kislev for the trailer.
 
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I can't seem to remember this, exactly when did we get a look into Khorne's realm?
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The wind is made of screams.

The hail is made of blades.

The rain is but droplets of lit pitch, singing and burning all it touches.

The maelstrom rages on, as it ever has, and ever will.

It ravages the land and air alike.

Here, look, a place where bodies beyond counting swarm. Why do they fight? There is nothing that changes this place from another. In the distance lie shadowed mountains crushed and pulled into eldritch shapes, impossibly beyond the edges of the infinite storm, never to be approached. It is a wasteland, stretching ever onwards, without structures or roads. No veins of gold line the ground, no treasures are held up high upon an altar. There are no banners here, no lines of territory, nothing at all to protect. Yet despite it all, or in spite, perhaps, they are here. They fight here, in this nothing.

With fingernail and fist they cut and beat, tearing skin and flesh, cracking bones and leaving the fallen where they lay. Small and large, they fought and killed. Man and woman, they fought and killed. Young and old, they fought and killed. All of these, those between, and those beyond, they fought and killed. The rocks stained crimson, the dirt turned to red sludge that slopped noisily around the ankles and knees. Those that fell and yet lived were quick to drown, be trampled, or both. An axe of stone, a sword of amber glass, spears of splintering red-stained wood. Some come with them locked in death grips. Others are pulled from the muck. Others are plucked from the air itself, for the hail that falls is as fatal as any of those fighters, knives and worse of caustic metal. These…and more. Everything. Nothing.

Where do they come from?

They bleed into this place, pouring from the wounds within the sky and ground both. Weeping tears torn into the fabric of this place, one layer within the spanning tapestry. Some of the wounds are as lines, perfect horizontal cuts to disembowel and sever. Others curve and loop, carved into reality with all the glee of an eager murder. Some are deep pits, the result of piercing strikes that shattered the land and the bedrock beneath and further still. These wounds, they bleed. They always have. They always will. Forever. What they bleed, fights. Because they must.

Those that topple down from the skies often are torn asunder by the force of the impact. Others are left as mangled half-dead masses that die soon after. Some few shamble upright just enough that another can cut them back down.

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Others drag themselves up out of the wounds in the land, slick with blood from the bleeding of the earth itself, there is no hesitation before they join in on the slaughter. Killing and killers, born anew.

Look at them, what do you see?

Faces torn, chest cavities split open, on broken legs and with broken arms they fight and die. They are as dead as they are alive, as alive as they are dead. Nothing is equal. Most are naked before the storm, ready-made victims who must hide behind the bodies of others or be cut to pieces by it. Most, but not all. Some are as shrieking children, wearing but peasant's cloth, murder and fear warring in their eyes as they cut and stab and bleed and die. Some, but not all.

Peer into the maelstrom.

This one, garbed in shattered panoply, the sigil of a Goddess slashed and disfigured as much as he is, flesh melted and blackened from the burning rain.

This one, howling as she kills, shield abandoned so that the spear might kill all the better. Her armor of mail and leather is gone, shredded to pieces as she slowly begins to succumb to the attacks of everyone and everything.

This one, with axes of jagged steel, he kills and laughs as he is brought low again and again, only to rise once more.

Hark.

Another rises, cast out of a pit with spine breaking force into a mass of dead and dying, all beginning to submerge into the bloodied mud that continues to churn.

With body soaked in blood, his own and others, without a weapon of any kind save for his own body. There are so many scars…and whether fresh or old they are as red as blood in their anger. So red they almost glow beneath the coating of blood. Witness the tarnished talismans that jangle across his body, a horrid new note that is introduced to the unending sanguine symphony. Bodies turn, loose red dribbling spittle suddenly splattering outwards through the air as they scream and charge. But this one, this one screams back with burning eyes, clawing his way towards them in as much fury as they.

No.

With more.
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VexMasterTyrant said:
Still, that Ice Queen was kind of interesting though right? I was kind of surprised that they focused on Kislev for the trailer.
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Presumably that was, in fact, Katarin the Ice Queen, the ruling Tzarina of Kislev in the era of Karl Franz. She's the one noted to have made an entire new wing of the palace, has a throne of pure ice that changes its configuration daily, the furniture is made of ice, people wear heavy furs to court, etc. Also the strongest Ice Witch in a while.

I won't lie and say that I didn't crib some things from that sort of stuff to Kattarin the Bloody, but I will note that both are basically extant figures amongst the ranks of their peers, harkening back to the devastating first Khan-Queen Miska the Slaughterer in terms of power. I figure that the most powerful of the Ice Witches often do take advantage of their general immunity to cold/leaning into mystic appearance/power and make towers of ice and structures and things like that out in the wastes, especially around the major Leyline points that they guard.
 
torroar said:
Humbling words, ya'll, but untrue and unnecessary. They, for one, will have a much better Cathay map I'm sure than what I managed to cobble off of ancient scrap, plus a whole heaping more writers and direct communications with GW surely. No-one from GW is looking at this quest, and I'm fine with things staying that way. All that work on Three Kingdoms is surely going to come in handy for them. It'll be interesting to see how they handle the Dragon Emperor situation, and all that. But they're quite good.

Nothing to do now but see how it comes out, in the end.
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Well, you can always just say that present Cathay developed from your current Cathay.

It might seem weird but historically, despite how isolationist China can be, they're also capable of pushing themselves to develop very fast if needed.

Also, Cathay being in Total Warhammer.

It's my dream come true and I'm so bloody happy.

Come, CA, where are the Kingdoms of Ind, Ogre Kingdom, Khuresh, Nippon, and Hobgoblin Khanate as well as the Chaos Dwarves DLC is coming. I know you have some notes of it somewhere.
 
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Trailer is cool and its nice to know they are finally adding something new to Cathay after all this time, but in the end @torroar we fell in love with your work overall. Whatever they make, which you are totally free to take and be inspired by yourself that you like, is totally different so don't overly compare yourself.
 
torroar said:
Checked out the store page on Steam:



Invading the Realm of Chaos. Jesus.

Well, whenever it does come out, this quest will likely still be ongoing, hope ya'll are okay with me possibly including some new bits from them or not using certain bits at all if they directly go against the established canon of the quest.
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The ancient evil is Drachenfels. He's already hinted during the ending of that Bretonnian sea Siren's quest.
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It says the nameless one (drachenfels) wanted tospeak with her. Cathay just reinforces this since Genevieve got training there.
 
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