Age of Sigmar Lore: Archaon The Everchosen 

You thought it was Archaon...BUT IT WAS I,MALAL!

Huh, I thought Archaon was a worshipper of all the Chaos Gods (I don't read the books I only play the game). I didn't realize he gave the middle finger to the good guys AND the bad guys and just uses the bad guys' powers as a catalyst for his own goals. That's so FUCKING AWESOME!!! I really hope they represent him more in teh third Warhammer game!

You've slowly ripped off the scabs of the wounds that formed when they slaughtered and violated Warhammer Fantasy. As a Chaos player, this was an important one to address. So, thanks.

For the record (and I'm fairly certain of this), Malekith / Malerion and Morathi are much -MUCH - older than Nagash. Nagash learned a good deal about the dark arts from the dark elves, who didn't yet exist when Malekith and Morathi were born. Malekith ran into (and dismissed) cave men level humans when he's a mature adult.

The Armour of Morkar was the armour of the first Everchosen, his spirit still possessed it until Archaon donned it. The first Everchosen was around the same time as Sigmar IIRC.

Please do Be'lakor, the Dark Master!!

Love your videos. I'd love to see one about The Eight Points, and your understanding of the lore pertaining to Warcry!

Could see Archaon becoming the next BIG hero. Maybe even bigger than Sigmar.

3rd Video of the night as I paint but have never played a second of sigmar. Keep em coming! I'm listening like others

His armor was the second ever chosen and is demon forged, the archion books explain it

Man I ogtta say.. I really love the way you explain things. Had no time to read the books yet * new to the lore section and I am so thankful for your vids !

Thank you for nice really in depth video. I enjoy listening to your videos while doing work around house

Audio level vs music level is way better now. Great video dude.

Loving these videos

The first actual explanation of who archaon is and what he stands for I've found, good work Doug 👏

I can see Archeon becoming a new Chaos God. I could also see Slaanesh leave the pantheon permanently and be used by the Aelves like some kind of magic "battery". Possibly using peices of Slaanesh like the Fyreslayers use the Ur gold of there god to empower themselves. Eventually corrupting them and creating a new Aelves faction.

Excellent on the lore and explanation on Archaon my friend! My favorite Daemon Beast that Archaon rides on is Dorghar Archaon's monstrous steed because his steed looks so badassly cool and very hardcore too.

Only just found this series. Awesome stuff. Would love a video (or a few) on the Mortal Realms.

On your 1st point, IMO its great and its cannon that the old world is a "Myth" AoS is all about mythology and alike. So much time has past in AoS compare to old world, so much as change, with so much war, its just a story that the characters (other than a few key ones) dont know if its a tale or truth. Just like Atlantis for us, it seems to be fake, but we dont know, the owrld is such a different place and all we have are the ramblings of a man that told many truths and tales. So i think its still very important to all story moving forward. Just like out history of myths (greek, etc..) are important ot know how the world moved and changed. Cheers!

Awesome, ready to drop Ironjawz for archaon now!

Archeon The Everchosen... more like Archeon The Super Go-Getter. Everyone looks at him as the bad guy, I look at him as a role model XD Could yo do The Glotkin? Or maybe the Maggot Riders? I know their fantasy lore, but i have no idea what are they doing in the Age of Sigmar.

How about some lore for his Varanguard?Have not found a bunch about them.

All the other chaos gods are a pure embodiment of various emotional and physical forces, war, hope, corruption, excess, etc. Archaon, on the other hand, is *the pure embodiment of himself.* If you took a moment to consider what that actually means, you'd realize that means that he's the pure embodiment of everything. He doesn't follow the Chaos Gods, *The Chaos Gods Follow Archaon.*

Can you do a video on his Varanguard ? Especially with Scourge of Fate out it would be interesting.

Maybe do a video on the varanhuard?

about the armour of morkar i believe morkar was one of the first everchosen

Me"Archy,how are you doing"!? Archon"how do you know of my high school nick name"?

Hey love the feed was wondering if ur gold and either gold the same thing in different forms

Archaon would be proud of your great detail of my dark lord, some day he will be some the god he is meant to be. Thanks for the great video!!

Just catching up on this some time after and I know the recent Battletome will have put this out of date anyway - however, I recall from the 5th edition High Elves army book that Morkar was the 'first everchosen' slain by Aenarion during the first invasion of Ulthuan. The 'Champions of Chaos' micro-army book in the same edition also confirmed that Archie went to Ulthuan to recover the armour of Morkar, hence why he wears it. Has anyone found out whether that particular fact has just been forgotten or ignored in modern lore on Archie? (That said, I also remember that the 5th edition Champions of Chaos book also called Archon's horse something like W'sorych or something like that).

Your history of Archaon is mostly correct... This is still a great video. Thanks for making it.

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where the mortal realms still around in the old world the reason I say this is cause I have read a bit of the end of times and some times it would go on about the realms of magic like when nagash has to go down to fight the previous god of death in the realm of death so what I am getting at were these places already there

Could you do a video of Orion please

Last night I was awestruck when I came across the model when looking for SLAANESH product on GW online store and then watched the painting video w DUNCAN on WHtv w serious thought to purchase for hefty $165 just to build and paint I don’t have the army for playing with it and so this is so great to stumble upon just hours later the next day and is giving me a sense of destined to be meant to have in that respect for what could be more convincing and now u just said he can be incorporated into my daemons force after all? Thanx for this I am now subscribed and will prob purchase for all this kismet and will be giving this in particular several more listens as I will be painting the model

From the title, I figured you were gonna talk about after the old world and what he did during the age of Sigmar so far.

If you read First Mark the book describes a series of magical devices that instantly share information across the realms and can be used to communicate orders. It is a very interesting magical artifact.

Excellent vid. Do we know if Archaon brought his army over from the old world or did he have to start amassing them again? Ta.

Armour of Mor'kar is the armour of the first everchosen whom he had to fight.... Lots of lore! Great video though! ^_^

I only play warhammer total war and I thought archaeon was a total pushover because he totally sucks in the tw game.

Are there any records of Beasts of Chaos following Archaon? I know they (typically) don't follow one specific chaos deity and more worship the idea of Chaos as a concept, and they also respect power and might. I'm fairly new to this whole universe but Archaeon from the little amount I know seems to be someone that would be right up their alley?

To Archaon's credit, he commited suicide when discovered he was the Everchosen, yes, he killed himself to save the World, and that despite going through an awful trauma conga, how many heroes could say they went so far to twart evil? But Chaos cheated and resurrected him, I mean, how absolutely unfair could that be? You are not even allowed to die honorably!

What is the chaos army and is the Origin is something else entirely

Plz could do a Khorgas Khul more video?

Hi I just started collecting age of Sigmar I have buoyed the start collecting box, thunder and hammer box and the smaller box of storm cast eternals and khorne bloodbound and the new moon base battle mat with some scenery (I know the battle mat is 40k but it’s a start to tabletop games) but I don’t know what to do next with age of Sigmar. Can you do a start collecting box review and a follow up after it, please.

My new favorite character!

Can you do a special on the lore in Age of Sigmar Champions card game?

I like how Archaon’s Beast is the physical metaphor for Archaon himself. Archaon beat the Chaos challenges, and receives powers and weapons; Yet, he stays physically unchanged and uncorrupted by the chaos gods. Whereas Dorghar absorbs chaotic creatures and physically changes, that chaos literally living inside him. He even looks like the chaotic gods (like the chaos gods probably thought would happen to Archaon lol). Yet dispute looking like them, he clearly doesn’t have the boons of the gods. •I don’t think the following is necessarily true, but for my own head cannon, I like the idea that Archaon somehow passes along the negative physical&emotional effects of the Chaos gods to Dorghar. (Wether Archaon does it with magic, or if he somehow knows that the Beast can absorb crap like that, I think either works.)

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Is Archaon the chaos god of the American Dream?

Im new into warhammer i just bought slave to darkness start collecting. So are the slaves to darkness units for Archeon?

What exactly are "the mortal realms"? Are they whole worlds like a planet, or like seperate/parallel universe's? Or is it more like a continent?

Unrelated lore query, how do the elves not in ishyr or ulgu differ? With how much time they spent amongst the other races. Wood Elves?

Hey. You sent me to your channel from a Facebook post the other week.... I am absolutely not disappointed great videos!

I like this guy! What are the must read books about him?

For any references to timelines use this warhammerfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Warhammer_World all the time lines are based of the dates and IC from the novels...

Wasn't he reading a forbidden book when he had his mental break and denounced Sigma?

can u do morathi ?:O please

My question: are there any named lizardman characters in age of sigmar?

the armor of morkar has its own story 2+ tuff: it was the armor of morkar the first everchosen of chaos who challenged sigmar shortly after sigmar formed the empire (in the sigmar books if i remember right its sigmars friend who prior killed his woman and poisoned him came back as a chaos leader and the rivalry clashed once more

If GW did nullify the old world, they would have a riot in their hands

Kroq gar if he is still alive... I dont even know if he survived, but I heard he did :)

Archaon also reminds me of Spawn. Fights both Heaven and Hell

Reckon he'll become a god of chaos undivided

I wonder about daemon princes a lot as of late. For examples can there be daemon princes for chaos undivided other than the first one. Or do they all still have to be under a chaos god? And is it possible for say a tzeentch daemon price to break free and begin his own religion under him?

Skarbrand for the next one?

Order of the Twin-Tailed Orb eh? An interesting coincidence. Would this location still exist in some way, and for a reason or another, eventually become Hammerhal? With the Twin-tailed city-name and all. And the Stormrift gate?

His swords a bloodthirster of khorn that was trapped in the sword form we see today.

Archeon got me into Chaos! I think he's the most interesting character. A man who said forget the gods who play with mens lives, we make our own fate! It's so cool and very relatable I actually feel for him. Learning your life is a lie and being ignored by the god you swore allegiance to would sour most mens hearts.

So the key to success is not accepting the Chaos gifts, but taking them from the Gods.

When you learn any chaos summoner or chaos demons name, you get control of the demon etc. I read a white dwarf story about a guy who dabbled in magic, who had to go through the chaos gate to get his son after he was taken by a demon of zceech, turned into a ztceech wizard after manipulated the warp into showing the demons name. (sorry my lore knowledge is absolute trash)

how does he came to be in AOS ?

So now I know where blizzard got the idea for Illidan..

The armour of Morkar was worn by the leader of the first Chaos incursion into the Old World, defeated by the Elves.

Robute vs abbadon.... got it.

I loved the original Archaon but fuck me, the AoS Archaon might be ever cooler. I definitely prefer his new AoS model

The Chaos Gods can manifest on the battlefield, but it is very rare for them to do so. If they leave their realm in chaos for too long the other Chaos gods will invade and take it over.

You forgot the bit where Grimgore Ironhide kicked him in the balls and headbutted him into unconsciousness.

The Everchosen Approves!

So I watched this video and while some of the information is correct some of it is wrong Archeons goal was never godhood. He wanted to put an end to all the gods because he saw it as the gods manipulating mortals. The chaos gods did not want him dead, each wanted him to serve them but he would serve none but would take their blessings. Ending the world was always his goal. He saw what he was doing as a mercy almost. No world, no gods, no more manipulation. In age of Sigmar he's more like the 5th chaos God from 40k, malice.

Personal head canon, no proof to it just kinda fun, Archaon and Sigmar are The Lost Primarchs

Was sigma trapped in the vortex during last chaos rift?

I've said this before and I'll gladly say it again. I want Warhammer be an animated series!

Nce video keep it ip

awesome. can you do a beyond the start collecting video or tactics video for iron jaws. or a lore of gorka morka

How were so many Mortals saved from the World-that-Was?

I am just getting into WH Fantasy lore and I am not sure what lore exactly isn't canon now. Is everything in the GW Black Library canon or are there books that will just contradict each other.

You skipped right over the Slayer of Kings. Dude.

sooo hes a better Abbadon?

So from what I've gathered today is Archeon is just warhammer Thanos

I am really sad in the end times FIrst time seing the bad guys win Cool armour though archaon But why evil

What happend to Thorgrim?

What happened to Slaanesh?

Hey hey, do you think Archaon was ever like. Oef.. Sigmar neglected me, I turned all evil. My faith was shattered. And then during the end times it comes out that Sigmar was being trapped all along! Do you think Archaon was ever like damn.. I made all this mess but actually sigmar couldn’t reply because he wasn’t able to? Maybe I was to rash...Might he have had some moment of reflection? Now he still wants to beat sigmars ass but sigmar never actually neglected him. I hope I got my lore straight on this one.

Archeon the never chosen

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No offense dude but this background is incorrect. Some of correct yes but how he gets corrupted involves forbidden knowledge from a demonic tome. I realize there’s a lot to cover in these background videos but I just want to set the record straight because he didn’t turn into darth Vader just because his dad was a Northman

Archeon is stronger than some warhammer gods and hes not a god what if? HE became a god!

Didn't the Eye of Shieran get shattered by Grimgor Ironhide back in the final battle of the End Times? It's up there as one of my favorite Warhammer moments, to be honest. Archaon is the very height of his power, marching on the final fortress of Order, and then Grimgor tackles him off his demon horse, headbutts him so hard it breaks Archaon's third eye, and then nearly choked him to death.

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