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You can get a lot of lore across to your audience in the course of a good complaint, you know. Just ask the nearest longbeard.
I feel like that creates another layer of unreliability, because not only do you get view thats entirely biased not from your perspective, but also inherently negative to boot.

Still a good point tho.
 
Bretonnia has two lots of chaos trouble that we know about, the first being the Iron Orcs who have been on our to-do list for a while now, and the second being a conflict between the False Grail guy and an undead chaos lord:

some sort of surreptitious war in Bretonnia between an undead host headed by a skeletal Chaos Lord and the Duke behind the False Grail business.

(I've literally just woken up, so I'm not hunting through the wiki for their names).
 
Bretonnia has two lots of chaos trouble that we know about, the first being the Iron Orcs who have been on our to-do list for a while now, and the second being a conflict between the False Grail guy and an undead chaos lord:



(I've literally just woken up, so I'm not hunting through the wiki for their names).
The undead chaos lord is probably just Krell. Can´t remember the false grail guy of the top of my head.
 
This is an Interesting tidbit no one mentioned
The area now known as Kislev has a long history of ethnic struggle. As far as is known, the Udoses (ancestors of the Ostlanders) were the first recorded inhabitants, but they got pushed west by the Norsii (ancestors of the Norscans) and their slave-soldiers of the Roppsmenn. Sigmar lead a retaliatory campaign to avenge the death of the King of the Udoses, who was his friend, and almost completely wiped out the Roppsmenn. Some time later the Ungols, who were most likely a Kurgan tribe, moved into the area, pushing the Norsii into Norsca and the Roppsmenn into what is now Troll Country. Then the Gospodars arrived, claiming that the land belonged to their God known as the Ancient Widow. During the conquest, the Ungols were pushed north and they in turn conquered the Roppsmenn, killing their last King and almost wiping them out as a people. In modern days, southern Kislev is mostly Gospodar, northern Kislev is mostly Ungol, and the only Roppsmenn remaining are a few nomadic tribes in the harshest parts of Troll Country.

The capital of the Ungols was Norvard, but the Ungols were completely pushed out of there early in the conquest and the Gospodars renamed in Erengard and maintain an iron grip on it because of its strategic and economic importance - it's built on the mouth of the River Lynsk, much like Marienburg is to the Reik, and we've seen why it's so important to keep that on lockdown. So Praag became the new capital to the Ungols, and its traditional rulers (the Z'ra) tried to secede three different times, leading the Gospodar to dethrone them and put a Gospodar-aligned Duke in their place.

The compromise I've arrived at is that Ursun was worshipped fairly widely by the Ungols, Gospodars, and any other related peoples who encountered bears on a regular basis, but became particularly significant to the Ungols because He's the most prominent God they were allowed to 'keep' after the Gospodars took over and stamped out the worship of the Chaos Gods and the use of Wind magic. It's similar with Tor for the Roppsmenn and Dazh for the Gospodar - very old Gods that were once relatively minor, but rose to prominence after the Khan-Queen united all three peoples under the Widow and the other Gods were discarded.
So, Chaos-adjacent tribesmen with a love of axes and Tor, god-who-loves-axes.
I'm not convinced Mathilde isn't just seeing ghosts (is the abundance of axes in a woodcutting community really a mystery that requires explanation?) but if you look at the tribal map in the time of Sigmar you'll see that the Roppsmenn occupied the area around the Shirokij forest, which is the Kislev part of the section of the Forest of Shadows the Ostermark Hedgefolk live by.
 
The name 'Cython' is 100% on-brand for the Light Order, so there might be a lot of assumption that he's just a banished, foreign, or historical human Light Wizard. There isn't an established protocol for citing Dragons.
Mathilde must take exquisite pleasure in inviting people to visit her scholarly friend when they try to refute her papers based on the inclusion of an 'unaccredited' source.
 
Panoramia and Weber are Grey and Jade while Cython is Hysh, rather than Cython being Light, or Panoramia and Weber being Ghyran and Ulgu. Not sure if this is intentional or not.

It's intentional. In this context 'Light' would refer specifically to the Order of Light, which Cython is not a member of. Using 'Hysh' instead denotes a magic-user specialized in the White Wind and not aligned with any organization.
 
An Everchosen orc is a terrifying thought - either you get a massive alliance of Chaos and orcs or you get a counter-Waaagh tearing through the Old World to get at the heretical Everchosen.
Pretty sure it would be the second. Afaik, orks hate heresy like that. Might not even do too much damage the way they would beeline to that fight.
 
As Sofia is coming from the Jade College, I still believe it would be less Ghyran than before, and she'd have been immersed in it at the College as opposed to merely surrounded by it at K8P.

And that's before you get into the effects of Dwarven runes that are naturally Wind-repellant, or the presence of other Winds as opposed to the College's mono-Wind environment.
Sure, except that again, literally any other magister who doesn't live in a farming community, spending most of her time working on said farms, in the middle of a powerful waystone nexus would be a better choice if you genuinely think that the problem is too much exposure to Ghyran.

Dwarfen Runes don't all repel Winds. Specific Runes (mostly the Rune of Valaya) do, but not all of them do, and runework is rare anyway.

The decree is canon, and the guild is 'only a few centuries old' which means the decree had to come from either Thorgrim or Alriksson, and the Toolmakers are stated elsewhere to be backed by Thorgrim.
AFAIK the decree and the existence of the Toolmaker's Guild is all from building descriptions in Total War. Doesn't mean it's not canon of course, but it's one of those things with no impact on most canon because it postdates End Times.

It's intentional. In this context 'Light' would refer specifically to the Order of Light, which Cython is not a member of. Using 'Hysh' instead denotes a magic-user specialized in the White Wind and not aligned with any organization.
That makes me wonder how one would cite Teclis, pre-return to Ulthuan. SP wasn't a term that applied while he was in the country I don't think, and you can't link him to an individual college, or any greater organisation.
 
Bretonnia has two lots of chaos trouble that we know about, the first being the Iron Orcs who have been on our to-do list for a while now, and the second being a conflict between the False Grail guy and an undead chaos lord:



(I've literally just woken up, so I'm not hunting through the wiki for their names).
As stated, one of them is almost certainly Krell.

The ex-Duke would be Maldred, though interestingly, I'm not aware of any canon sources that have him being undead like this.

Krell probably isn't competing for Everchosen though, he's Nagash's.
 
That makes me wonder how one would cite Teclis, pre-return to Ulthuan. SP wasn't a term that applied while he was in the country I don't think, and you can't link him to an individual college, or any greater organisation.
I suspect, if one wants to cite Teclis, they just write Teclis and assume everyone knows who they're referring to.
I kinda want to do this now just so it can be called 'How To Cite Your Dragon'. Tracking down and talking to whatever cryptid dragons Cython and Deathfang recommend to use for additional perspectives also sounds super fun, but seems more like Omake material.
I'm picturing a days long battle between a chaos dragon and a small army of wizards culminating in it being nonlethally subdued,only for Mathilde to step up and start exhaustively interrogating it on its opinions on proper academic reference of itself and other dragons.
 
They never answered prayers the way deities are typically expected to though.

You speak to one of their priests; they hopefully send a message to their god, and their god hopefully changes the world to your benefit (I.E. changing taxes or sending food aid in a famine*).

The idea that you need a personal relationship with a deity unmediated by a priest is by no means universal.

Even if they believe personal prayers matter, people often didn't expect it to be somehow telepathic or for a gud to hear their prayer from a random location. That's why you often had prayers at sacred sites or burning offerings to carry a message, or throwing lead tablets with the curse you wanted to apppy to someone you hate down a sacred well. Seneing physical messages to deities was well understood, just as you might send a physical missive to a god-king.

* the best example are probably hydraulic empires. If you failed to pray and make the right sacrifices to the God-King, he literally could cause your crops to fail through mechanisms the people on the ground didn't fully understand.
 
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