Age of Sigmar Lore: The Seraphon 

It was actually shown in a short story from GW that Seraphon are actually being born in these ships much like they used to in the spawn pools of Lustria with a twist, these new Lizardmen are still made of Azyr magic but are independent of a Slann’s memories of them as they are completely new, this is not the case for all Seraphon however

The story of the Slann is so heartbreaking. They're all alone, abandoned by their creators long ago, their brethren having perished at the hands of Chaos. Using their magic, they bring back those they lost. But even then, they know that these are just memories; their brothers are gone forever. Even then, they work tirelessly to stop the enemy, and restore Old One's vision, so that maybe their brothers can rest in peace. Slann have lost everything, but they fight on anyway. Now THAT is the meaning of awesome.

Personally how I thought it always worked was that the Slann have the souls of the Lizardmen in their ships and to give them back their bodies they remember what they were like and make them a body out of that. Then after a battle is over the bodies dissipate and the souls are drawn back up to the ships.

I know I'm way late to comment here but just want to say thanks for making awesome videos about the Seraphon. It's nice to hear someone talk about it instead of having to reread my book for the millionth time. Also, my Seraphon army is a Seraphon army made flesh like the Lizardmen (personal lore)

Other Lizardmen probably exist, but as the Slann have developed to being able to use thought armies why risk other lizardman lives. If the Slann are themselves projections the whole Seraphon faction can become lossless on the battlefield, and thus have the main advantage of a daemon army, victories against them are ultimately futile with regards to attrition.

Started getting into AoS after Christmas. Loving these vids. Good job putting everything together in a way that's easy to digest.

I think I still prefer them as Lizardmen, but this won't stop me collecting Seraphon.

@TwoPlusTough thanks for listening. I was so pumped when you posted this video. fantastic job bro keep it up!!!!!!

The slann just appear from the stars. they don't use spaceships to attack. Read "legends of the age of sigmar: skaven pestilens" it has Seraphon in it.

Can you do a video explaining the realms? Are they dimensions, planets, or something else? And from a snippet I read from Clan Pestilans that they borrow through reality and that is how they get from realm to realm.

Theory: When Slanns will go to edge of extinction they will need new way to save memories. Natural for them would be transfer their minds and redistribute their memories to survive. Its sounds like lets say Hive mind... THEY WILL BECOME TYRANIDS!!!!

Great video haven't really looked at the new lore for the Lizardmen/Seraphon but this video really made me interested the idea of lone survivors resurrecting their race from memory is really cool i might have to get these as my first order force for Aos they seem a great army for building a narrative keep up the good work ;)

Do the Kharadron Overlords next!!

Given how vague the description was of the Seraphon and that they’re only memories of past events except for the Slann, I’m kinda glad I didn’t get the 1st edition of Seraphon book lol

Thank you for putting this out! I really appreciate your cool gathering of lore. It helped me update and figure out where to learn more. rock on!

Too Quote : "Nature always finds a way."

Space ships now on top of the dimensional stuff? It's Spelljammer all over again.

great to see more content from you sir. it's been a while.

Seraphon Battletome badly needs updating!!

it probably works like stargate. the realmgates bring you to different worlds and the seraphon are all like, ha we can fly

Love these lore videos! My vote for the next lore video is SKAVEN! Any stripe or clan, just wanna see more rat love across the youtubes.

I just widened my warhammer knowledge,again

Great Vid again! But could you turn your mic up a bit? I'm blasting it on full volume on my macbook and have a hard time understanding a word :-)

Seraphon look really cool. Someday I may venture into AOS.

I think the mystery aspect to them was really well chosen given their new name. Seraphim are a type of angel in the Bible meaning burning ones. Like their involvement in biblical history, they aren't there to establish a place for themselves in the world. Their place is to observe and intervene where necessary. Pretty much the same role they play in AoS. The spaceship question has a simple answer. They're creatures of Heaven, not Earth. It's just following along with the new name and their role in being anti daemon.

*SPAAAAAACE!!!!!*

From what i read so far slaans are us, as in they are the players of warhammer. The table is the battlefield and from the perspective of the characters of the realm the just seem to fall from the skies fight the battle the return back to the sky. There are other parallels i could draw up but it seems like an air tight theory.

Excellent summary thanks. I think that mystery as a concept is always dangerous with interactive fiction, especially one with a commercial angle. I would find it hard to play Seraphon because they just have no affinity with me. How can I play the Slann in these wars if I know nothing about them? It is interesting because I was talking to some friends about the Total Warhammer II game, and how it was a great indulgence for me to play High Elves, the army I collected as a kid. Now these guys know their Warhammer stuff (one even runs a WFRP group), but after I finished rambling on about a number of High Elf things they both just replied, sorry we have no idea what you are talking about. Of course I was referencing things in army books that they had never had. When I started talking about Finubar, and the Citadel of Dusk being reclaimed, and the Cult of Pleasure they had no idea what these things were. These things were a mystery to them, but not a mystery to me because I was a High Elf player and they were not. And that's the problem with the Seraphon. How can anyone start to love a faction they have no knowledge of? Mystery is great for those that don't play the faction, but it is a big turn off for those that do.

Honestly, the concept of the seraphon is really smart and cool (but F in their execution) since the basic concept is that the lizardmen after their purpose was destroyed with the end times, they basically try to become the new old ones.

I'm glad they've updated the lore of the Seraphon recently, because this idea really sucks. It means that the only characters who matter in the entire faction are the Slann and everything else is irrelevant. You can have legions of Seraphon die and it's meaningless because the Slann will just summon them back later anyway. This is why Stormcast Eternals were boring before there was a cost to their deaths, it's why Daemons can often be boring because dying means they end up back in the Realm of Chaos. GW needs to do a better job at getting us invested in the characters of certain factions. Nobody cares about infinitely respawning, zero personality characters. Tyranids from 40K can get away with it because their lack of character *is* their character, they're supposed to be utterly alien and foreign. But Seraphon should be a species of space faring lizard people led by Slann who use their ability to read celestial patterns to get a limited idea of the future, similar to how the Eldar are led by Farseers.

I like to think that if a memory-lizard kills enough Chaos Demons, the energy restores them to real beings. Thus, in order to preserve their race and create more Seraphon, the Slann need to slay as many demons as possible.

Thank you for your video ✌️✨

I got the impression that the lizardmen are alive and get summoned in from their ships, if they are not real then a slann could have a limitless army.

Beastclaw Raiders!.... please?!

yay ! you're back!

I just discovered your channel and its very nice and helpful especially for new players like me. My local community decided to start path to glory and i think i will join, the thing is that it is very competitive and i want to pick something powerful so i can compete them. I searched and i like the miniatures of Seraphon and Deamons of Tzeentch. Would you mind tell me your opinion about which army is really strong right now? Thanks in advance and keep up the good work

When are you doing an update on these guys jess cant wait to see the rest of them

Considering the original Slann were mostly created to set up a bad joke about Frenchmen loving frogs' legs combined with a sculptor's itch to do fantasy Aztecs, it's nice to see this army surviving to 2017. They're certainly doing better than the fimir...or the poor Tomb Kings.

another grate video mate!

You are not wrong in assuming slanns are the boss in seraphon lists. Cast 3 deny 3 meteor spammer cp farmer. They're grrrrrrrreat

any chance you'll cover anything about hammerhal the city? so far i hear it the first 'real' look at an actual day to day life in the realms and interactions between races.

I want me a Seraphon Shadespire band now

Neutral good

Hey 2+tough. Great video's, I just found your channel and I am realy enjoying it. But your intro and outro's are so freaking loud man. Its a cool tune though.

Where's your games-workshop condition!? haha, your vid settled my debate on buying a Seraphon army. These guys are so cool. Aztek lizards riding BA dinosaurs that can summon! Well done vid, mate!

can you do a video with sylvaneth? im just starting and really love my new army.

Thanks for the video, seraphon is my favorite army!

Awesome

Hold on a minute,seraphon have to do with slann starmasters????,in the game I play called realmwar,it’s a moba,slann create black holes and suck others into it

Ok, I dare anybody to tell me the Seraphon aren't the coolest race in the WH universe after watching this.

2nd most primitive culture in Warhammer survives by flying away in spaceships. Lol

coudlve picked some higher res images man

I don't know these guys been screwed by the skate evens those little rat bastards killed my favorite lizard man army

Uno ur vocal volume is really low compared to ur music volume, right?

Godzilla theme Lizardmen!

I am so fucking confused. I've been trying to get into AoS lore and all the time people talking about how the old world ended... They talking about fantasy? How did the world end was it the thing where the skaven blew up the moon. Did the world litterly end or did chaos just win? What's the new world? Is it an alternate time line? Another planet? Is it the same planet but year and years later? What's going on, where do I get these answers on RU-vid where they can be fed to me easily?

Hi! I was just wondering if you could make a lore video of the blood bowl?

Great video but the sound was really low I was straining to hear your great lore :(

But overlords?

hi. I am thinking about getting into AOS. 40K is kind of going down the drain lore wise. so I feel that in some respects AOS now has a lot more scope. could you possibly do a video on Deathrattle and the Death realm? I want to know how the "Tomb Kings" could fit or even if they are allowed now in AOS. thanks :)

my perfect fantasy setting excludes time travel, alternate dimensions, and unseen but totally imaginable spaceships... all 3 of the above only stand to act as massive permanent plot holes to leave the entire progression of story constantly 100% open ended... ultimately its for lazy writing with no direction, (see: current day warcraft)

I thought the Skaven also survived.

Decent

high elves!!!

I forgot the first video 😐

your outro music is way to loud. still a thumbs up...this time. hobe not to be earblasted again

Wow never new the slann are connected to the seraphon ,I also never knew that bloodletters are a part of khorne

love the vids but do something about the sound watching at night trying yo listen super quiet then end of vid BAM stupidly loud music and the same with intro music please dont do that any more

They should replace those lizard men models. make them more "ethereal"

that sounds awful. just awful, all the interesting element so the lizardmen are gone including their name, that just sounds awful.

Summoning Saurus warriors? looks really cheep and poor story telling ...