Why would Malekith do something like this? I mean, he is prideful, but also smart. And even Morathi seemed to become aware of the danger. So, why act so recklessly? You know, I'm starting to understand why Warhammer fans hated the End Times.
@@nikoladedic6623 Malekith being king is fine, they just went about it wrong, he should have earned it. It was pretty much "Aight just make him king lmao."
@@nikoladedic6623 yea, then treating him like sh!t during the final battle. Even if his fate thru the centuries was a struggle to make him deserving of the phoenix throne, Malekith paralyzed in the end cheapened it. Also, poor seraphon, lost his identity and became an AOS faction!
I think Gav Thorpe did an excellent job with Malekiths story. Imrik siding with him was a great twist as well, considering the 3rd book in Tale of the Sundering, Caledor
What i hate about the end times as all the good guys are disorganized and dont help eachother. Also, the lizards losing (if even momentarily) to the rats just rubs me the wrong way
I swear, the End Times character assassinated every character in the lore: Teclis being a manipulative prick who betrays everyone, while in the lore he is one of the most altruistic Elves who sees how all the races are in this together. Morathi telling Malekith that pursuing the path of the Phoenix King would be renouncing her, when it was she who set him on that path in the first place. And finally the Slaan shielding the lesser races instead of Lustria.
@@notrather5514 Sure, but if you're going to denigrate and destroy the setting in the end anyway, why care about *not* destroying and denigrating it while you're destroying and denigrating it? There's a right way to disassemble a table, but if it's going into the trash, why bother? Just chop it up with an axe.
@@PhotriusPyrelus No? Its the end of the story. Not throwing it away... Its more like saying that you are gonna die either way so why cant I kill you, and if I do why cant I choose even the most cruel option? It IS a big deal how you end the story because that is the most important part of the story. All those books you read is to reach this point to see where it all gonna end... And now its dumb. This can ruin reading even in retrospec. You feel the time reading the previous books wasted because in the end they just threw away everthing in this way. Achilles died in battle. How dumb the story would be if his death was from food poisining in the end. Then why did you bother, or why did you care wether he will succed or not. So in short: it is defenatly not a good analogy.
@@notrather5514 No? It wasn't the end of the story at all. It was a marketing-motivated move to destroy the old and bring in a softer, gentler, more-appropriate-for-"modern-audiences" story. If you can't see that, I feel bad for you.
@@mullerpotgieter both most of the events happened because of the bad writing alot of the characters got dumbed down for end times so they would make bad decisions and have an excuse
Tettoeko was a skink, not a slann. Also, not a mention of Gor-Rok, who held the bridge of stars against a horde of elite skaven, or Kroq-Gar's battle against Skrolk, wherein the both the rat and Grymloq were slain
Skrolk didn't die, he was saved by the Verminlord Vermalanx at the last moments. It's unknown where he went, although it's likely he was among the founders of the "modern" Clans Pestilens in Blight City. I theorise he might have become a Verminlord himself, maybe Sepskrik the Foul, but who knows really.
Tetto'eko is a skink, not a slann, but he is revered by the rest of the slann for his prediction of the future, and his magical prowess. Even the Temple guard would defend him.
- Hey fellow skaven ! I have a plan to destroy lizardmen ! Why if we just ... attack them and it's a win ! ** roll a 19 Critical success * Presented by End Times
Another great video in a great series. I was never into Warhammer Fantasy but seeing these videos explain the whole situation, I can see why players and fans were pissed off with the End Times. I mean, I don't even know who a lot of the characters are, but even I can see that GW had them making decisions that were out of sorts and make no sense.
You missed the best part of the Skaven invasion: to conquer Tlaxtlan, the skaven sent wave after wave of skaven at the walls. The first wave had nowhere to go, so they were crushed by the second, who were in turn crushed by the third, and so on until so many skaven died that the latter waves could just walk over the bodies to climb the wall. And they still conquered the city.
The more I listen... your voice becomes a relaxing music to my ears. I love listening and watching your channel Kings and Generals... and I was shocked you got a channel for fantasy! I am very happy now that I got more options.
Seems we're getting to the Elves next. Oh boy, I hope they don't try to turn the biggest nemesis of the High Elves into the good guy all along, that would be fucking stupid!
"I started the war of the beard completely fucking over both Elves and Dawi, killed the Everqueen and summoned a Keeper of Secrets to kill off her daughter, and ruled over an empire of backstabbing, slave hoarding, sociopathic, incestuous freaks that throughout their entire existence only made the world worse!" "THE CHOSEN ONE!"
Thank you so much for these videos. The details you show hear and the characters you name are never talked about in the fandom (which spawned mostly from WH3), and it lets me fall in love with the universe all over again. Its just a shame Chaos wins in the end.
Just started watching when you dropped the 40k Horus heresy vid quickly becoming a favorite if you can make even the end times seem like an interesting chronicle of bad choices and writers block
Besides people pointing out Tetto'ekko being a Skink, another error showed Lord Kroak as alive and with flesh. In reality Lord Kroak was dead, but his spirit was so powerful in magic that he could still cast through it. He even survives to Age of Sigmar.
Sotek has bless me with this video... Although it saden me greatly to see how the valiant and majestic Defender of the World fell I do appreciate how good this lore master are
The video is great, ammount of effort put into the writing, animation and voiceacting is truely incredible. But I personally prefer focusing more in detail on the campains and battles insted of glossing over the details like many already existing lore videos do. Of course in this case it's imposiible but the battle of Itza is still my favourite part of this video I know that its still warhammer but I would love some Age of Sigmar. But covering later or even present campaines to dissosiate it from the End Times and the WHFB in general. AoS is good enough to stand on its own!
"Seeking to reclaim their relm of old....." how can the skaven reclaim.a relm they never had, as the slann were their first and never lost it. Just more quality end times writing. Its true credit to K&G they can polish this turd of a story to such a luster
HI FROM AUSTRALIA MATE,I've been watching you channel for ages,kings an general's is great an very educational,but a fantasy channel covering war hammer is just cool ha ha GREAT NARRATION HA HA you sound like gideon Emery the actor ha ha
So I am new to warhammer. Can someone explain to me at this moment with the new expansion. Is chaos winning? like which fraction in the lore is the strongest and is humanity with the elves losing? Seems like the prime evils so strong. Sorry for much of the questions I'm 19 and there so much content out there and I want to get up to speed.
"The Tale of Marco Colombo" is it just me or why does it look like Marco Polo and Columbus got combined. And that dude even travelled to the west like Columbus did in real life.
Thanks for the video! I admit the lizardmen and the elven parts had some stuff I liked and I didn't like. for example, I would have the lizardmen join with the good guys in a last throw of the dice instead of fleeing to space.
hold on, did you guys forget Clan Skryre also contributed to the falling of morrslieb by nuking the moon? i mean yeah the grey seer brought morrslieb closer but it was the clan Skryre that wiped morrslieb off the lore by nuking the damn thing
I don't like this end times. I prefer to believe in a good ol' story of forces of good united against the forces of evil. I always imagine them fighting side by side, I imagine a huge army made of Lustrians, humans, elves, and dwarf set aside their differences and unite under one banner to stem the tide of chaos, maybe it could end by finally closing every gates and banished chaos from the realm. Something like that :(
You should do videos on the High elves , Swordmasters Of Hoeth, Caeldor Dragon Riders, Lothern Sea guard. Or great battles and characters like ALith Anar and the fall of Nagarythe and the Great Battle Of Finuval Plains...please jus cover some elven content
I really wanna introduce your contents to korean viewers. Is there any possible way for me to help you to work on translation or any other plans? I mean it.
Small mistake: Tetto'eko was actually a skink, not a slann. Love your contents and dedication, just a lore nerd wanting to help spread the most precise version of this wonderful setting 😊
The lizardmen actually manage to annihilate all three major assaults of the skaven 1.The skink priest of Tlaxtlan blows up the city with a comet once the skaven take it 2.Half of the force assaulting Xlanahuapec wanders around in the mists of the city and gets slaughtered in a trillion ambushes The other half pushes into the city but a reinforcing lizard army butchers them. 3. Itza almost falls after a kill ratio of like 100 to 1 but a HUGE reinforcement army comes and slaughtered them to a rat.
they are neither good nor evil. it just so happens to be that e.g. human and elves are part of the great plan and skaven or chaos arent, which is why the latter will be killed while the other order factions will be tolerated. Lizardmen are more of a "force of nature" than anything else.
They are essentially biological Anti-Chaos machines. They are "technically" on the side of good but are so dogmatic and alien-minded that they can easily be villains from multiple perspectives. But they mainly hate and want to kill Chaos and other bad races, and are generally fine with good races as long as they don't act out of line.
God, do I hate what they did to Warhammer Fantasy. I started playing with the 5th edition as child. And 20 years later everything goes to shit to respawn an uninteresting, new game - reusing some races and names, but changing everything else.
