Age of Sigmar Lore Deep Dive: The Cities of Sigmar 

I really like this approach! Such an accessible and interesting way to unpack the lore as it’s evolving. Nice work mate

Having revolutionised painting, he turns to being the best at AOS lore. AND NAILS IT

This guy has a future in Lore I can feel it.

This might only be your first "lore video" but I think you've already hit on a niche that most other videos don't - _actually talking about things like themes, class etc!_ I seldom ever watch lore videos because so many of them are just someone reading out a story from a book I could have read myself. Really looking forward to more videos like this!

Best lore format Ive seen, felt like sitting down with pal and chatting about Warhammer. Loved it!

Tbh I don't need epic music or prepared speech and stories, I just want hours and hours of friendly Rob telling us what's happening in the mortal realms. Perfect prospect for endless painting sessions.

Honestly one of the best lore videos I've watched. Gutted I missed the twitch discussions. Really enjoying the thoughts thrown in with what could this mean in future or how this ties to that and parallels to real world history. May be consider chapters or something to break it up, it might be a me thing but seeing a 2hr RU-vid makes me pause before committing so something to make it feel more manageable, definitely dont cut it down though I'm loving the depth and analysis, feels like you've done it more justice by keeping it long form. Hope i can catch at least some of the next one on twitch.

Thanks so much for putting this together. Please keep the lore videos coming - love how accessible this format. I've felt like the information actually went in my noggin vs some other more dense lore video formats so keep it coming. Stay square based

Best lore video I’ve seen for any warhammer game. Great work, Rob, really hope you do some more of these.

Finally finished this video a couple days later. Fantastic work Rob. It's the first lore-cast I've listened all the way through. You made it interesting and fun.

Super vid Rob, cheers. Really appreciated all the work you put into this, love your way of presenting the lore. Will definitely tune in for more. I also got Base coats down on 11 squigs as the time flew by 👍💪👌

Other already said it but I think this is an awesome video. You really can add something from yourself, to every paragraph in the book. I also like how by the end it stopped being about Cities only, and you made a summary of whole AoS lore in like 15 minutes. I hope you are going to make more lore videos!

was alot of fun beeing a part of in the streams and looking forward to the complete thing.

I'm new to your channel I think this video is the best way of projecting the atmosphere of the lore without being so samey , it's just like you describe as a deep dive into it which is totally killer so please keep it up my friend 🤘

Enjoyed the video, the format. Now subbed! Cheers!

Great vid! Lore vids are a natural fit for you you should definitely keep doing them!

Great video, interesting approach to a lore video, bringing in the wider context and ideas that fed into the text.

Loved watching the streams of this and it was even better the second time around. There was a ton I missed on the first pass! It’s great evergreen content too

Great video! Really liked the lore overview!

This was really entertaining to watch you make over the last few days, regardless of how well it does I think it's cool you're trying new things, stepping out of your comfort zone.

Hey Rob! Appreciate this type of content & would love to see a sequel/update once the DawnBringer Crusades are done! Lorewise, I think aerial+mountainous siege Tempest Eye is the most interesting, & hope a BL book explores it further, & maybe we see Skaven war-blimps one day, maybe in a FOMO box once they expand the KO range. Next time I hope you cover metaliths/floating islands & the reasons they colonize various locales/realms more. I would think procuring Aqua Gyranis springs/aqualiths would be like prospectors seeking a gold rush. Also, that anchored metaliths would be perfect as watchtowers & sniper platforms once unloaded, or even larger ones being converted to floating fortresses (to serve as the innermost keep of the "castle.") I would also be curious as to your theories as to how fusiliers are marching long distance (& maneuvering) w/ all that gear--pack animals, magitech troop carriages, wagons drawn by exotic beasts of burden, steelhelms carrying extra ammo, sleds, etc. etc. An armored steam train connecting Hammerhal Aqshy to nearby strongpoints would be pretty rad! So many possibilities across the realms to visualize! Teasing out in the implications of the lore, contextualizing it, even with unit participation in the meta* could be a great way to set yourself apart from other lore videos, while also helping to grow both the hobby, & more specifically, driving interest in its superior protagonist faction. Some people will never like/get Stormcast. & How about trying some of that Finnish black liquor on your stream?? *I'm guessing a lot of IronDrakes, Longbeards, or any Duardin that isn't a Hammerer or gyro pilot has been transitioned to city defense/militia duty, &/or are overseeing construction of prefab buildings/fortifications mostly for future crusades. I'm guessing a fair amount of Sorceresses & their Black Guard (& Scourge Privateer mercenaries) are being cajoled into babysitting nascent Human crusades, especially for those of us looking for a more balanced play experience than just... Leafblower: the Army. Cheers!

Just watched/listened this whilst building some of Skaventide, really enjoy it! Looking forward to some more hopefully!

Rob I absolutely loved this video, best way to do lore videos by far in my opinion. I know I'm late to the party but I'm all liked and subscribed all the same 😁👍🏻 I love the idea of mixing in one mini/unit some of the races like you were talking about, hopefully this one was more about establishing the human side with a new range of minis and we'll get some of that down the line 🤞🏻 I held off the initial release even though I loved the minis but it's been long enough now and I still think they are a must have so I'm starting with WarCry and building up from there, waiting for inevitable Vanguard with all those Army box minis in there

Stellar video Rob, really like this format and look forward to see more!

This was a good recap of AOS lore! I had recently just been thinking of wanting to look more into the realities of the lore as obviously it has evolved since the first edition which is when I last really looked into it. Although, you mention that some YTers aren't so engaging when it comes to how they present lore. I think that in this space, where I can think of literally 3 people who cover it at all, we should be lifting them up and shouting them out rather than saying they're not doing a good enough job.

One of the best lore videos I have had the pleasure of seeing! And finally Age of Sigmar gets some more lore love!

I loved this. Epic effort Rob

great video rob, a really nice alternative way of presenting the information. please do more 🙂

thanks for this rob. feel like this is where sigmar falls short on lore so great that someone is helping out.

I absolutely loved spending the last couple hours painting Cities with this in the background. Thank you!

Loved this video, very keen for more

Legend. You got me pumped for Cities lore and now I'm doing a bloody army. Cheers

MORE PLEASE! Great community cooperation for content and style. The longer format is great for kicking back, painting and listening. What are Seraphon up to?

Thanks for the video! I've really had a tough time engaging with AoS lore, it just seemed so disconnected from what I was familiar with and made more to facilitate games rather than to be a cohesive world, but this has really helped me establish some context for what is going on and understand what it is actually like to live in AoS. For me, setting is very important to be able to engage with a game, so hearing about all the people and places is great.

This rocked! Like having a great conversation with a friend at the table

Het man, you make great videos in gen, however this has to take the cake for me. Half way in and will listen to the end 🙂 I hope you enjoy making them and not rush the next one! Enjoy the process buddy and keep the quality 👍🏻 that’s what we come back for sir ✨ Thanks for making my organising day at home much more pleasurable 🖤 legend

Please keep these videos coming you’re awesome

Love everything you make!!

Excellent work Rob

These videos are awesome Rob.

Loved it!

Excellent and really interesting video, thanks! Great to know something about AOS lore, please keep this series up! ❤️

Ooooh this is awesome, chuck us some more of these from across all the factions mate please!!!! Maybe some community poll votes or something :)

This really is a great video - thanks!

great review rob, i too love the idea of skaven in blimps (maybe 4th edition???) this theory is why i have held of converting K.Overlords with sky pirate rats - fingers crossed

This was a fun listen! I'd definitely enjoy hearing more, especially since my knowledge of the lore in AoS is quite lacking compared to 40k.

Wow. Great video. Every time you said “the taint of chaos” I could really picture it. And I was like “wow, I really wanna cleanse that taint”. Great work.

OmG...please do more of this rob...amazing...

Nicely done!

Love this content ! Can we get a 2+ tough cross over for more lore talk goodness?!??!

I appreciate your content so much! So nice, that besides all that WH40k content you deliver such a quality for our system!

Enjoyed this! Would definitely watch more for other factions

Rob, is it possible, could it be.... you've made me actually care about the lore? Good work, young man👏👏👏

Huge fan of this. Would love to see different ones for different battletomes

I really liked this way of unpacking the lore. Because its got some extra contex that isn't provided by the book, it gives me even more ideas for how I want to build my force and its lore.

Magnificent Lore Tour!

Loremaster Rob. Amaze, amaze, amaze!

Just came here to say that I did in fact enjoy it. You scratched an itch for AoS lore I didn't know I had. I always wondered what was up with the new cities of sigmar, now I know. Glad to see the game's narrative is progressing, and cities of sigmar look sweet. But I still think the range would have been more striking with mixed units. I want a mixed unit of ogre great weapons and human spearmen. Fusiliers with dwarf melee troops standing side by side! Ugh. What a shame.

This was amazing man, any chance it happens to the Dawnbringers books?

❤ good stuff. Keep it coming

This is ace. More please!

Loremaster Rob lets goooooo

This was really fun I enjoyed it way to start with the biggest book haha

Playing, painting, and now lore videos: you're ready to finally take on that "best overall" trophy!

Great video, actually interested in CoS now. At the very least I can trash talk my opponents that play them better

Excellent video!

I love this approach, Rob… perfect for mass slapshopping!

Can you do more of these...i love your take on the mortal realms..Vince on Warhammer weekly does a sarcastic "story time with vince" covering the ild dawn brings stuff...but long from Age of Sigmar does not exist

Amazing video, We need more deep lore videos like this so the haters can stop complaining (im coping hard)

I painted a unit of liberators while listening to this, excellent job

You, you need to prepare for this video. Get in your jammies, wrap up in your blankie and sip your cocoa. Night, night.

Never thought am gonna hear about legendary jan žižka on warhammer channel, but after the new range someone was bound to catch up with the man

8:00 - I would argue that the icky real-world connotations are part of the grimdark. You can't help but be skeptical of the colonialist nature of the Dawnbringer Crusades, or the fact that people are essentially being sent to die in droves for this Sigmarite manifest destiny.

As someone who loves the lore of AOS but isnt in a position to be able to buy the books and pour sthrough them i really enjoyed this vid!

This is great moar loar!!!

Yes, do make more :)

This has made me want to get into age of Sigmar I feel like I'm picking up on your excitement

This is first battletome I consider buying just for the lore. I am going to play Cities of Sigmar in Warcry only, so I don't need the warscrolls. I have however already started building my Wildercorps Hunters. I think I'm going to paint them as Vindicarum, becuase I already have my Stormcast painted as Celestial Vindiactors. But I also think I'm going to build and paint a Lethis warband atsome point. Lethis is basically the coolest city. Maybe another Wildercorps, or maybe warband made from Steelhelms + Freeguild Command.

Lore in a quick 5 minutes.... nah that's for losers. 2:15 lets goooooooooooooo

Many small hamlets and villages survive in the realms through protection deals with chaos warbands (trading food), Kharadron Overlords (trading anything that can't be found in the sky really), OBR (paying the bone tithe) or as CoS outposts.

Classic narrative gamer. Cant wait until he gets into more competitive analysis ;)

You discussing this reminds me of the big problem with AoS IMO - the setting is too hodgepodge. The dwarves and elves thing is the big thing that irks me in particular- it’s like they have 2 different sets of lore for elves in particular. On the one hand there are the Old World elves that are part of the cities lore and then there is the AoS Aelves that have completely different and inconsistent lore with the Cities lore. AoS desperately needs these sorts of issues tidied up and a simple hook that it can hang the story off - that isn’t just “fantasy 40K” - which this feels far too much like.

Something I remembered when listening to thr bit where not everyone thinks it's a good idea, in one of the newer Stormcast books, even Bastian Carthalos has his doubts about the crusades and how they are kind of a waste of life.

22:15 I think that they rather decided to moved from realmgates lorewise, and then stoped selling them. I got into AoS in 2'ed, when this terrain was still sold. I never really liked them that much, so I got azyrite ruins terrain instead

Now THIS is how you do WH lore! 👏

join the halfling infantry 5 square meals a day - only 2 of them breakfast

LORE for the LORE GODS!

It's of interest

If you're interested in the dynamic between the Azyrites and the Reclaimed, I really recommend reading Godeater's Son by Noah Van Nguyen. It's genuinely a great story, and you get to see a down-trodden Aqshian nobody ascend to power, all after telling an Azyrite Priestess to screw herself (no spoilers, but very satisfying in a way).

So can I make my own small cities or towns? for my own color schemes and heraldry?

There is this weird belief that AoS doesn't have cohesive lore. Honestly a lot of the threads put down over the last 10 years have been woven together well since 3.0 hit. I find the lore interesting and pretty cohesive, and unfairly maligned.

GW 'lifting' ideas from other fantasy settings and authors? Well I never, but wherever did they get the idea for Alarielles bath water?

MOOORE LOOORE

Keep it up. Solidarity from the PNW

I have always found AoS lore absolutely boring and impenetrable. I just don't care about the gods and their interactions. I want to know what regular peeps are doing, how they survive, without that I have nothing to relate to. This video is the perfect introduction to the parts of the lore I care about. Thank you so much Rob!

this is really cool but I'm ready for more Square Based, WE HAVE MOVEMENT ROOLS TO TALK ABOUT

Its official we all chestnuts now

What does "girly pops" mean?

Long format lore 4tw

Yes Rob the real world implications are Icky… and those justifications, they sound an awful lot like some of the real world justifications. I am 95% sure that old games workshop did that sort of thing deliberately and assumed that their audience was sophisticated, and well read enough to understand it as propaganda. With new Games Workshop I honestly can't tell.