How Come Archaon Doesn't Explode? - S2D Lore 

I do note that in the Archaon Warhammer fantasy novels Archaon ends up becoming incredibly mutated under his armour. His skin is covered in blue veins that form into the shape of magic runes and his entire skeleton turns to warpstone.

Regarding the nature of a chaos gifts, the best way I think it should work is that the blessing isn't anything specific, its essentially just a magical version of over exposure to radiation. The person receiving the blessing undergoes a magically charged rapid cell evolution. This process is likely rough on the body, and those who lose to it never stop that evolution. Slaanesh is giving their champion a dose of "Gift" but its tainted by Slaanesh, so the evolution might take a form better suited for a champion of Slaanesh. Imagine, you are a follower of excess, and you love that adrenaline rush of playing with the victims but you only have human hands. When you receive the gift, your body begins that rapid evolution. Doing exactly what evolution does, better adapts you to your environment. Enjoy your crab claw, you can use this thing to torment the pants off those people. Blessing be to Slaanesh. Another example might be like Nurgle, all his followers are bloated and swollen, why? Because Nurgles version of "Gift" is just life expansion. Those worms in your gut are your friends now, Nurgle champions being portrayed as bloated pants shitting thicc bois is bacteria related. How many times can we evolve your body to be able to sustain life without turning you into those giant puppies, otherwise known as a beast of Nurgle. Archaon is just a Chad personified and can handle all this Gift without dying by just focusing on being a mad lad and killing people.

Oh damn, that prism idea is amazing. He IS chaos Undivided, like light unsplit. I think it's a dope explanation, all the chaos powers are only a splinter of what they could be if they worked together!! Always amazing content

Those questions can be also amply to 40k and old fantasy settings not only Age of Sigmar, as Gifts of Chaos are the greatest lottery of warhammer, they can change you into giant tentacle monstrosity or they can just change a colour of your eyes

I love the idea of Archaon having to constantly balance out each of the gods' gifts. Imagine he's on a grand campaing of destruction throughout which he has been too reliant of Nurgle's powers. So fearing that the other gods might feel abandoned, he throws a big party in honour of Slaanesh just before a decisive battle against the forces of order. This screws over his allies who he was supposed to help but without him they end up being destroyed. This betrayal pleases Tzeentch because of Archaons deceitfulness to his allies. And it pleases Khorne due to the bloodshed it caused.

Same way that the Firekeeper from the Dark Souls series can take and store souls, it isn't just a strong will or the boons that help. It is an inherent ability to absorb energy, letting it writhe beneath your skin. There was a specific Firekeeper from Dark Souls (1), called the Brass Firekeeper. She was described as wearing her Brass armour because it helped hide her hideous form, where one could see the Souls writhing and swirling instead of skin. That's my thoughts anyways

Another part of it might be the fact he can't become a daemon prince, suppressing his mutations since he can't become pure magic. After Bela'kor's betrayal at hie own accession, taking the gifts with out paying the fees, the Chaos Gods decided to never make a daemon prince of chaos undivided ever again.

Archaon was also the fated doombringer. He was born to be the chaos messiah so I believe that plays a role in his resilience to the mutations.

First the canon reason why he is not so mutated is because the everchosen must be human not a demon or a monster for the fear he becomes to powerful, second is because his father Be’Lakor made him resistant to chaos on purpose to when he takes his body he doesn’t explode because of his power, and how he looks? He is a handsome man who is bald however he has the mark of chaos on his forehead

Makes you wonder what demon prince Archaon would look like.

Started my day by watching this video while building the Big Bad himself. Thanks for helping make such an awesome morning Mr. Tough!

In the old tome of corruption there was a mutation where one leg ate your other leg to form one giant leg so now all you could do is hop

I always figured he didn't change because of his sheer massive strength of will. I mean.. He's archaon. He ended the old world. He clearly has massive giant bawls.

with slaanesh and khorne you end up like a fiddler crab: one slender small claw and one huge muscular monstrosity

I love that Prism idea beaming out darkness, sounds super bad arse!

This was a great video! I'm glad you also touch on why he was still alive after all these years even though he is technically mortal. I have always wondered that. Again, great video!

One interesting addition is that mutations are a big way the Chaos gods control their followers. If you turn against them, you’re very likely to die as their blessings are revoked or turn against you. We see this in Wardens of the Everqueen where Torglug’s stomach maggot hurts him every time he’s about to go against Nurgle’s will. I imagine Archaon doesn’t accept those kind of blessings that would give Chaos any control over him.

Thank you for everything you do! I always look forward to seeing your next video

Archaon is a walking Peto paradox.

"Why don't the Chaos Gods abandon Archaon and raise their devoted champions?" Because Archaon would kill or enslave those champions. And the Chaos Gods know that.

It does sound interesting. With the blessing from one chaos god cancelling the negative effect of the blessings of another. Maybe the way blessings manifest depending on the mind of the recipient. Maybe Archaon's own mental strength is able to control how the blessings manifest so their negative mutations don't become dominant. It may also be the rate at which he receives the blessings. He doesn't get greedy so he is able to adjust or adapt to each new blessing. Either through strength or will or magical means to contain the negative effects of the mutation. He paces himself.

So chaos is essentially just sales. They love you when you’re selling and cast you aside as soon as you hit a rough patch or your sales slow down.

Another fantastic video Doug, thanks for this!

I always assumed that he was rejecting most gifts, and instead relying on the various magical artifacts he had obtained. I also like the idea of him using his gifts to nullify one another in the event that one might mutate him. My understanding is that Abaddon is basically 40k Archaon, so there's probably 600 40k books that explain how the process of balancing chaos gifts works.

The reverse prism analogy is a good one. And he absolutely has stuff going on under the armor. How else would he be able to wear a helmet with horns that large and not break his neck?

Ok so, random disclaimer: wildly personal interpretations here but then again, let's give it a try. First things first: Archaon is "the everchosen", which is not just *any* title. During WH Fantasy you basically had to earn that monicker by gathering a bunch of artifacts (which were not aligned with any specific chaos god, if I recall correctly) and being """crowned""" by Bela'kor, which marked you out as possibly the *only* guy/gal/whatever which could theoretically command chaos as a whole (meaning you don't just have a khornate, slaaneshi, tzeenchian and nuglite commander each ordering around a particular horde, you basically work *as* those four character in your own right). Now, each "everchosen" before Archaon basically died and, in broad strokes, "failed"; only Archaon managed to accomplish his mandate by destroying the Old World (now "World-that-was", quite fittingly). Archaon is, technically, *still* the everchosen (which is likely why Bela'kor made a fuss of cracking realmgates during Broken Realms: he wished to see Archaon diminuished while growing its own power base in order to snatch the title). Second point would be the how chaos boons/mutations can be made to work: I think it all boils down to "willpower" and how much you trust in your ultimate destiny, basically. The idea is that boons and mutations are made to both reward you and test you; they can't just be wholly "safe" because you may """risk""" being satisfied and stop working, so the chaos gods hook you up (so to speak) with something that looks *very* good on paper but then they start mixing in something else. Let's say they give you superior strength, which is almost universally "good" for a chaos warrior, but they don't give you superior control on your strength so you basically risk breaking things/people even while you are not in combat. Now, "normal" people would be discouraged by something like this and their resolve would be chipped away somewhat: you have to come to terms with the fact that there's a wrench in your """perfect""" path to glory. Now, finally (?), my theory: Archaon is basically capable to "rationalize" the negatives and have them fit into a greater scheme: he believes in his own manifest destiny so wholeheartedly and with so much convintion that he can basically take *anything* in his stride, every wrench and every side effect and just tank it into submission because there's always a greater purpouse right around the corner and an angle he can work at to turn the negative into a positive. This whole thing may also be how you "win" (and win *big* ) in your path to glory: most people only wish to please one chaos god, so they align their goals to its own and that's it: Khorne? Go around making war, not love; Slaanesh? Wander around making love, not war; Tzeentch? Scheme the absolute hell out of everything, Illuminati-style; Nurgle? Just revel in entropy and chem-warfare, while being wholesome and body-positive (?). Archaon has basically "cracked" the code and hacked the Matrix: he has enough ambition to basically never stop "wishing" for more power and more chances, which may also explain why the chaos gods keep investing in him: he's *literally* the perfect customer while also being the perfect "seller"; he's hooked while being the one who hooked them all (and managing to keep them hooked).

If he takes his helmet off, he looks like handsome squidward

Love the use of 2 in the acronym instead of the T

Great video!

This was a really interesting video!

Black Prism sounds like a really cool name for a metal band

Archaon is the protagonist of an anime dating game and is going for a 100% harem play through

What if we all have been deceived? What if he is the champion of another and all this extra power is being siphoned and strenghten the unseen? And for that he gains where everyone else would lose?

Liking your chaos reverse prism idea :) .

Archaon the Everchode- 2+Tough 2022

So somebody gained a flesh hound? I just imagined this scene: After a hard week of slaughther, the great champion of khorne comes home, sits on the couch, and touches the head of his flesh hound gifted to him by khorne: Fleshhound: WHAT IS THIS MASTER????? Champion of Khorne : I petted you Fleshhound: O_O..........UWU "I LIKE THIS"!!!!!!!

He mentioned mr burns in the episode where he have his annual check up?

What BL books are from Warhammer The End Times - of course, besides the three Omnibuses of the same name? Slayer and Kinslayer (6th Gotrek's Omnibus)? Blood of Sigmar is a the End Times prequel, isn't it? What else?

So... the Chaos Gods are the Planeteers and Archaeon is evil Captain Planet...

Anyone got some warhammer audio book reccomendations? Preference for seeing more chaos

*[ ADDON QUESTION TO VIDEO TOPIC ]* *Why does Archaon not want the blessings of the best chaos god , the great horned rat ?*

Do we follow Archaon and Undivided?

The real question is why isn't he a demon prince seeing all the stuff he has accomplished.

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