The usual issue with the idea of converting the Norscans still applies though. The closer you get to the polar gates the more things play by Chaos' rule. Chaos worship is so prevalent in Norsca simply because when so far north any tribe that doesn't worship Chaos will be outcompeted and eliminated due to all the boons and powers the Chaos gods can provide their followers so near the polar gate.

Probably the only reason why the Old One worshippers have survived so far is due to having the enormous power of a second generation Slann on their side.
The fact that the Lizardman/Albion gods are Old Ones points to them to being above most other gods when it comes to manifesting phenomena.
 
3 is Johanna probably running into another beastmen attack focused on the Army of the Forest.
I've been thinking about that. In the little blurb we got of Johana she was surprised by the direction where the plume of smoke was coming from. And if she was heading to Salkalten she would know that a battle was about to happen or will happen so she shouldn't be surprised, and if it was a normal beastman attack on a town/village in some part of the forest while it would be interesting for her there's no reason she should be surprised by it. I think and this is complete conjecture (and most probably overthinking and reading too much into it), I think that the plume of smoke may have come from the direction of Wolfenburg which would explain why she was surprised by it.

So the way I estimated this goes roughly like this:
13 State armies plus Imperial foot being half that, with army size taken from Army of Ostland at ~ 16000 men

23,5 knightly orders with morrites from stirland counting as 1 and White wolves also counting as 1 full order at about 1100-1200+ men per order, as a rough average from the front page.
this alone would add up to 216 000 professional soldiers and maybe 25 000 knights (some of the knight orders numbers may have man at arms not knights) which is quite the army under the leadership of the greatest emperor since Sigmar. If Thogrim thought he saw what the empire could do during Karak Ungor. Then this will definitely be a pleasant surprise.
 
Btw, was the old discussion about dwarfs and declaring grudges over dead dwarf friends ever cleared up? Because i've been reading gotrek and felix, where gotrek just outright says that he'd declare a grudge if felix was killed
 
which clown is dumb enough to kill felix while in Gotrek range
It's been a good while since i read that particular book (i've been rereading the quest and came across the discussion). I think another slayer was talking shit to felix and gotrek?

Man, the early g&f books had weird stuff in them.

Like a dwarf slayer sleeping with human women.
 
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It's been a good while since i read that particular book (i've been rereading the quest and came across the discussion). I think another slayer was talking shit to felix and gotrek?

Man, the early g&f books had weird stuff in them.

Like a dwarf slayer sleeping with human women.

Bjorni was pretty fun to read, he's so out there as a slayer that it loops from disgusting to amazing.

Let's not even get into his more deviant taste.
 
It's been a good while since i read that particular book (i've been rereading the quest and came across the discussion). I think another slayer was talking shit to felix and gotrek?

Man, the early g&f books had weird stuff in them.

Like a dwarf slayer sleeping with human women.

Yep. The colleges of magic weren't as fleshed out either as their mage friend was casting spells from 2-3 different winds of magic.
 
Let's not even get into his more deviant taste.
He called out to a greenskin warband that he slept wuth all their mothers.

This made both sides of the battle stop and just look at him for a solid minute
Yep. The colleges of magic weren't as fleshed out either as their mage friend was casting spells from 2-3 different winds of magic.
Yep

Though i like that dwarfs do indeed declare grudges for humans if they are good enough friends, like gotrek and felix or thorgrim and freddy here i suppose
 
Btw, was the old discussion about dwarfs and declaring grudges over dead dwarf friends ever cleared up? Because i've been reading gotrek and felix, where gotrek just outright says that he'd declare a grudge if felix was killed
I think that might up to individual dwarves whose friends these individuals are.

A dwarf can in theory declare a personal grudge over pretty much anything that more or less fits the template and that pisses them off enough, right?

I mean, he's pretty out there. Plus, he's crazy enough to think 'if I ever touch anything from the rest of the world, my powers would be grounded and corrupted like it is' and then when his palanquin got blasted he immediately had a litter made of crude branches. Branches? You mean parts of that world that should ground and corrupt your powers because they come from 'the rest of the world' that is also spiritually and physically corrupt? Unless he was carrying around a bunch of crude branches from Lustrian trees, which...for some reason I just sorta doubt, then...yeah. He's kinda nuts.
I'm guessing his rationalization was "I can purify a bunch of branches by hitting them with a jillion tons of ghyran; I can't purify the ground everywhere I go."

Not saying he was right about this, mind you.
 
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Don't try to understand the mind of the Crazy frog
i would not be suprised if you told me he was hearing colors and snorting warpstone
 
Isn't that standard after huffing some magic?
More importantly, Its magic...and a fucking second generation Slann. Even beings like Kairos is going to be very careful around him. If he can hear colors, generally speaking you fucking believe him: He almost certainly can because he has both the magical power and understanding to do it just by flexing a single muscle in his body.
 
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IIRC the thing about not wanting to touch the ground due to fear of being contaminated by Chaos isn't something unique to this one, but something that all Slann think, which is why they're all always depicted as being sat on those levitating chairs.

As is given the Slann's superlative perception of the winds of magic if they all think that then they probably have a point.
 
I remember seeing a depiction of a slann on a palequinn that redts on the ground, which raises questions on why this everpresent taint can somehow apply accross every inch of ground, yet not reach up through the relatively thinner stone of the fancy chair. Hell, if the grounds so corrupt that contact permanently hampers a slann, why does this not extend into the air? Its called the winds of magic for a reason.
 
I remember seeing a depiction of a slann on a palequinn that redts on the ground, which raises questions on why this everpresent taint can somehow apply accross every inch of ground, yet not reach up through the relatively thinner stone of the fancy chair. Hell, if the grounds so corrupt that contact permanently hampers a slann, why does this not extend into the air? Its called the winds of magic for a reason.
Are you questioning the wisdom of the magic-toads that were taught by magic-space-toads?
 
If the twins knew, and they did, then presumably Magnus knows as well.
How? nobody in the family has seen them in years and they are currently in Kislev. With the current situation being what it was. I do not see them just ignoring the crisis going on and ignoring it. They would do something about it. So no I do not think Magnus knows they are back. or anyone else in the family.
 
I remember seeing a depiction of a slann on a palequinn that redts on the ground, which raises questions on why this everpresent taint can somehow apply accross every inch of ground, yet not reach up through the relatively thinner stone of the fancy chair. Hell, if the grounds so corrupt that contact permanently hampers a slann, why does this not extend into the air? Its called the winds of magic for a reason.

Guys it's literally magic. It doesn't have to make sense. Maybe the Slann all have their chairs made out of some special material or contact with the ground means contact with the contaminated whole of the planet or whatever.
 
Though an evangelising Slann isn't necessarily only a good thing if we were to come to contact with it. The Slann do have a history of comitting genocide against order factions when they feel that doing so is necessary for the plan, as the time of woes shows. Depending on how aggressive it is in wishing to spread the word of the Old Ones contact with it might eventually prove not too peaceful.
 
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