Greetings! My name is Rúna i make random videos on subjects i like to talk about. I'm one of those wretched electronic games enthusiast's, so i will talk about them allot on here. Hope you can somehow enjoy the content i put out, if you got any suggestions please feel free to send them my way!
I like how apotheosis is always depicted. It's like a horrifyingly frightening/painful experience that quite literally kills you in order to make what's left over of your soul into a prince. It's like an upgrade and the worst burden imaginable combined.... Living forever sounds great, but an eternity of pain and self loathing is the ultimate price paid. A fate some may consider worse than death.
Be’lakor got betrayed because he wanted the Chaos gods to make him an equal aka another rival. Of course he would say the gods are selfish because one, he served the Chaos gods and two he’s power hungry.
"Because Gods are selfish!" You can feel Be'lakors bitter hatred towards the Chaos Gods with that line, finally able to spit out his hate without fear of retribution from the beings that eternally force him to play second fiddle to mortal champions and their arbitrary wants.
So.. I'm quite new to warhammer fantasy.. is Ursun dead now? Or what happened exactly? I cannot imagine, that this bit bear died because of a small bullet. I like Ursun 🥹
No need to worry my friend Tzarina Katarin's ending is the canon ending, she revives Ursun and he end the eternal winter with a roar. So he is very much alive at the moment.
I honestly enjoyed the tutorial, it was nice to have a thematic story to make it so engaging (even if the scripted fights would probably be on the hard side for someone with less/little experience in total war games). I was hoping that the choices would make more impact (as someone giving into a desire for power vs reluctantly taking it up only to save his own people and his god) but really enjoyed the end as I expected deceit and betrayal but not what came after.
Surprisingly good tutorial, Kislev itself was a nice surprise because many expected Kislev to be a Empire reskin... and guess what, Cathay ended up as the Empire reskin (which is arguably a even bigger disappointment, chinese culture is pretty cool and the faction has nothing unique besides the stupid balloons... but the chinese public embraced this game, so there will be tons of Cathay DLC to prey on them). As for Yuri, the "Jon Snow" voice acting was a cool fanservice, wish we could have him as a hero for Kislev in the "Immortal Empires" map, epic mustache + mullets combo
Am I the only one who thought by the conversation they had that their was a slight chance they were going to work together to fight the chaos gods I mean atleast originally before both of them became his own lords
I just love how shocked Yuri is at the end there. He knows who Be’lakor is, he recognized him on sight and it still never crossed his mind once that Be’lakor, the Daemon Prince who turned on the Chaos Gods, _might just go ahead and betray him._ I get Chaos is a hell of a drug but…no…Yuri…you’re an idiot.
I gotta say, prologue in TW Warhammer 3 is definitly an improvment as a tutorial. An actual story telling and helps to understand basics of mechanichs. As for a story I expected that it was all ruse but still enjoyable to play.
I would so love a fantasy warhammer movie or a series would be better ! so much lore and races you could just start off with empire / dwarf vs greenskins or something and introduce more races throughout the series the potential is huge
Why did yuri do what he did before betraying urson and being betrayed by bel' lokor... Did he really go through all this cause he thought he was protecting Kislev? Or was bel' lokor right that he did it all for himself
Kind of both, hes ego on becoming his gods saviour is what drove him to become corrupted. Most likely a very strange comparison but it is kind of like Heisenberg from breaking bad, through the show he keeps telling himself that he is trying to save his family but in the end he accepts that he did it all for himself. This explination might be very odd but i am currently having a high fever hopefully that will explain it.
The best option is always nurgle. Because it is Stagnation as long as you don't stagnate you won't be slowly assimilated into his existence. While for other chaos gods once you begine the process either you keep jumping faction or soon you will get assimilated into their existence.
I must say Yuri has cemented himself for me at least as the most fucking infuriating character in almost all of Warhammer, you see your god chained up in front of you obviously captured by chaos and despite him previously always without fail to save your people from winter each year and to grant your people countless blessings the ONE TIME he goes missing for unknown reasons you lose fate. You might at first think he abandoned you after being gone for 7 years and you know what fair enough BUT, the fucking second you see your literal deity captured in front of you with an obvious chaos god telling you to kill him, and knowing he was captured by that chaos god AND YOU STILL DECIDE TO BLAME HIM WTF. This is the one time you could pay everything back, you could pay back the literal DECADES of kindness he has shown your people but nope I'm gonna blame him for going missing instead of saving him fuck Yuri god I despise him.
Well, by the time he gets to Ursun Yuri has been slowly falling to the influence of Chaos for some time in the Chaos wastes. He uses the power and secrets Chaos gives him to find his way to the Howling Citadel and save Kislev. But in doing so he sacrificed his morals to get more and more of that power, using the wolfbane sword despite it's obvious blasphemy as a tool of chaos, looking into the book despite knowing that it is sacrilege to do so, and even subjugating the Chaos worshiping tribes of the North to serve his own ends. By the time he kills his brother to get into the soul forge Yuri has already rejected all he believed in to save Kislev through the power he obtained in his journey. From there, taking the idea from 'gain power to free Ursun and save Kislev, can easily be warped into 'take Ursun's power and place of godhood to save Kislev' as clearly if Ursun was captured he is too weak to protect Kislev and someone 'in Yuri's mind being Yuri' more worthy should become the new God. Ursun failed Kislev and Yuri; what point is there to serving a God who, with all of the devotion and sacrifices made in his name to defeat Chaos was so easily brought low and imprisoned? Especially since at this point, Be'lakor is nothing but a shadow, without even a material form, which means he really should have no way to pull this off, especially since the Chaos gods specifically dislike him. Thus, it makes sense to Yuri that he, who conquered the Chaos wastes, slew their champion and took their power as his own, would be more worthy of godhood than the bear. Is the logic warped? Yes. But given the months that Yuri spent immersed in the corruption of Chaos, him seeking more power (much as Be'lakor did) and justifying it through his deeds to get to that point are quite in line with those who work with Chaos. Chaos are very much present in the world compared to gods like Ursun, and Yuri has made many choices to gain the power of Chaos in his quest, and thus means the became the end in itself for Yuri, power to save Kislev into power for what HE wants. If he can save Kislev by saving Ursun, that works, but if he can kill Ursun and save Kislev by becoming a God and taking his place, all the better. He saves Kislev, and gets even more power. Once he is Betrayed by Be'Lakor he can no longer turn to Ursun for power, and thus the only way to become stronger is to join Chaos. Once Be'lakor's betrayal was done, Yuri has effectively lost the chance to save Kislev, and without the grounding influences he once had, that devotion to Kislev becomes resentment. They were the ones who Believed in such a weak god, and they were the ones who sent him to the Chaos wastes, thus it is their fault that he was laid low and had to turn to the chaos gods for power. The logic is circular and extremely self-centered, but that is what Chaos does. You use them to gain power for yourself, only in the end to be the one used for their own ends.
@Seekerofalice You know what fair enough I can see how that continuous mindset of "for the greater good" could eventually turn into the mindset "For my greater good" and in that case, I agree that someone could subsequently, give themselves to chaos if they had that self-centeredness. I must admit that you present a solid argument for why he fell and in that case, I can't refute what you said and I can partially understand his fall now, so thank you. HOWEVER, it doesn't change the fact that personally I still fucking hate him for a single simple reason, the lack of loyalty. And while I do admit this is my personal bias but for him to turn on his deity who gave him everything when he at first had nothing, for a single "failure" (If we can even call it that since the only reason Ursun was captured was because of his hibernation that he in all likelihood needed to do because of the task of fucking helping your people again as he always did). Is just the single most dishonorable shitbag action I can imagine, hell even right before he pulled the trigger we see that he has a moment of self-realization but despite that he still decided to betray the one and only being that was there for his people since the beginning and for that reason, I simply can't absolutely hate that scumfucking piece of shit. But I would like to clarify this isn't an exclamation of my hatred for the Warhammer Total War series in fact it's actually because I'm starting to love Warhammer way more now that I feel so strongly about it. I originally absolutely loved Warhammer 40k but with the addition of Kislev who I'm very partial to (I'm Polish myself so seeing Winged Hussars or any part of Poland being implemented into games gets me very excited), I might just have to switch to fantasy for a minute. I'm already determined to master them in-game and use them almost exclusively from now on, though Throt the Unclean looks hella fun as well. But overall thanks for explaining, makes his fall a bit more understandable and realistic but doesn't change the fact I think he's the bottom-of-the-barrel scum that should have been wiped from this plane of existence and made to suffer the worst fate any subhuman can possibly recieve.
Him barking back that he did it for himself was a great line reading that easily could have been hammy, but the VA did a fantastic way of snapping back at someone lying to themselves over noble intentions.
As much of a fan of the old kislev that I am, that part is really cool as it reminds how one falls into the grasp of chaos I love it, perfect depiction of the downfall of any champion, perfect example for people not super familiar with how perverting the ruinous powers are. But well, either Yuri was lucky the chaos gods were randomly looking at him or he did the best speed run to daemonhood Cauz a shit ton of chaos champion's would love to be at his place
