Even the Ward could not completely destroy the ever lovely ever spiky dark elves The music is "Anamalie" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 creativecommons....
but my lord it would take 1000s to storm the keep. Tens of 1000s. But my lord there is no such force. *Epic ass army shows up. out of no where* Where did they come from? Games work shop games work shops ass.
*Stands in the middle of a fertilized field in the hinterlands of Naggerond* “how did this happen.” *Naked elven women pops out of irrigation ditch* “the end times event” Me: *visible confusion* *second naked elven women pops out of ditch* “We built two whole defensive buildings and a full stack” Me: *even greater confusion” “full stack?” *third naked elven women pops over ditch* “you know a full stack! The fragile humans came in groups of four full stacks. I was entertained for years” *fourth naked elven women pops out of ditch* “oh the good old days of rape and murder.” Me: “how many of you are down there?” *fifth naked elven women pops out of ditch with a ball gag and a knife* Me: *recoils* “what’s the knife for” *sixth naked elven women pops out of ditch* “I like this one, he entertains me” *Seventh naked elven women pops out of ditch* “do you want to keep him?” Me: ”please no” *Eighth naked elven women pops out of ditch* “I’ll get him if you want” Me: *panicking* “you don’t want me I have tiny genitalia.” *Ninth naked elven women pops out of ditch* “say, she sells sea shells by the sea shore!” Me: *repeats flawlessly* *Tenth naked elven women pops out of ditch* “well in that case...” Me: *nearly having a hart attack* “oh, please no” *Eleventh naked elven women pops out of ditch* “besides we can fix him with magic” Me: *turns to run* *Twelfth naked elven women is standing in the way* “take off your clothes tiny dick man. I like pealing skin from flesh in one big piece” *thirteenth naked elven women appears grabbing shoulder* “I think we should feed him to an ork.” Sixth women: “but I want to keep him!” Me: *on verge of tears* “I just wanted to know what a full stack was.” *Fourteen naked elven women pops out of ditch* “he could make a good slave, he’s bad at lying” *fifteenth naked elven women pops out of ditch ignoring me* “I’d like to have sex with one of you right now” *sixteenth naked elven women pops out of ditch* “we should be washing our clothes, you know Marathi will make us preform with the those outfits she got from baddragon.com if we’re late! And I don’t want to fight a troll with one of those things in me.” *eighteenth naked elven women pops out of ditch* “Lets make the slave to it!” Me: “yes, I can wash out anything” *Nineteenth naked elven women pops out of ditch and shoves bundle of clothes into my hands* “I don’t understand why she sent us out here or without even a slave” Me: *furiously washing the equivalent of two square feet of cloth in the irrigation ditch* *Twentieth naked elven women pauses before joining her sisters* “I make us a full stack.”
The fluff was always a bit inconsistent on the Dark Elf numbers. Even so, I always got the impression that the Dark Elves procreated a lot more vigorously than the High Elves (given the Slaanesh focus, this seems feasible). This must surely be the case, since unlike the High Elves, who carefully nurture and protect their youth, the Dark Elves actively encourage fratricide, infanticide, and patricide, meaning that if they _didn't_ procreate much more rapidly than their High Elf cousins they would simply have gone extinct by now. Low birthrate + high infant mortality rate = extinction very, very quickly.
They don't have anything to do with Slaanesh? They are actually absolute enemies. They are zealous though. Its not like Dark Eldar in 40k. Edit: however you make a good point, not sure how relevant that is though really to the story... Please let me know what I'm missing in your comment about army size. I've seen another person complain about this but it sounds like drama, expressing how well the d.e fought, weather it's realistic or not the point is more important then the numbers in a fantasy story.
@@jakea3950 You've flipped it. The dark eldar in 40K are just massive dickheads. The dark elves are split between slaaneshi worshippers and khaine worshippers but they're also cunts as well.
@@lokenontherange Technically they don't worship Slaanesh it the elf goddess of pleasure Atharti, but this being Warhammer I wouldn't be surprised if it was another name for Slaanesh.
"as you can see on the map" Waits...waits....waits................Dude where the hell is the map?? On the dark elves they seem to be similar to those in the books on R.A salvator.
Arch you do realize that when you showed the map of Naggarond it showed considerably sized forest areas. That is probably where they get thier lumber from
I just LOVE you style of narrative. The cynicism just oozes from your voice tone. Lovely, lovely lovely. Two tumbs up for me. Just one minor point: you mention that there are no trees in Nagarrond but isn't the southern part (where it connects to Lustria) a big forest area where they also get their Cold Ones from?
So overall the Dark Elves are pretty much just super egotistical and higher quality Skaven, that are more along the lines of Khorne and Slanesh rather than Nurgle.
Last major faction lore video? What about the Daemons of Chaos? Also perhaps you could dig into regions and delve into landscape descriptions and major historical battles. :)
Svia veldi I second this. I know you've said before that it bleeds too much into 40k but just stick to everything relevant to Fantasy. Playing as Daemons of Chaos would be amazing in Total War, even though I'm not much of a fan of Chaos. Such crazy units. Maybe you could just make it into a more overall view of the Chaos gods and go over all their demon types..
Svia veldi Daemons of Chaos? you mean the heralds of matt ward? the army with 40k unites in it? yeah.... i haven't herd of that army, must be a blind spot in my psyche
Arch Warhammer Daemons of Chaos should definitely be done. They are hugely important in the lore being one of main armies of Chaos, and also have some cool looking units. Not making a video on them because Ward used to screwing things up with them would be an error.
The system of politics being meritocratic instead of hierarchic only seems true because there is a very unusual power structure from what you would normally find in feudal society. In normal feudal countries the monarch is co-dependent of his landholding vassals, meaning the king has to respect his nobles rights, and also protects them from aggression from other nobles. From what I know of dark elves society, the Witch king on the other hand dominates his nobles completely and doesn't give a shit what happens to them, leaving them to fend for themselves, but also leaving great rooms for advancement within their step of the hierarchy for those more capable.
The concept art for the Dark Elves seems pretty much equal how Might & Magic's Dark Elves look in Heroes 5. If you just search "heroes 5" and "dungeon" you immediately see the similarities.
About the size of cities, you have to remember that Middle-Ages cities were quite... small indeed. We are not really talking hundreds of thousands for a minor city like modern times. That Altdorf has 200k people in it, at most, would already make it the biggest city in the continent. People die young. Then again, we are talking about elves. But I would argue that Dark Elves are... shall we say, unstable enough to negate that point.
+Henry Cox Classical Era and later Pax Romana, were actually better timea to live than medieval Era. After Rome fell, it would take Europe another 1000 years to bring a million city to one city.
That"s ancient Rome. We lost a lot in the way of technology after it fell... we don't call it the barbarian invasions for naught, nor do we call the beginning of the Middle Ages the Dark Ages because it was all fun and game.
43:07 Oligarchy is the closet word I can think of, but even then it doesn't suit it that well. An Oligarchy is when few people rule the government, in most cases I see it is by groups of Mega-Companies ruling a nation.
Does anyone turn on the subtitles for this? It is so damn hilarious seeing 1000 different things that rhyme with Khaela menshia kaine (I think that's how you spell it)
I like the Dark Elves. They are one of the most determined races I've ever seen in any lore before, always trainning and harnessing their skills in quiet and dreaded perseverance. While the high elves simply enjoy with self-righteousness their lives in Ulthuan, the Druchii slowly but steadily approach their righteous rule over their once homeland...
+halafradrimx Well, the Druchii line of thought (as they are raised in a militaristic society) is that each elf should push himself/herself to be as strong or as powerful as possible so that the Dark elf community can be as powerful/strong as possible against the enemy forces which it does face. The high elves are protected from enemies by an ocean and the wood elves are protected by their forest and the bretonnians. Dark elves need to aggressively push themselves more than their counterparts as few external matters protect them. In the Dark Elf mind, if one is too stupid or lazy to increase their strength, skills or social standing then that elf deserves to suffer for his/her incompetence (and lack of benefit/use to society). Also the two strongest/oldest dark elves hold most (if not all) of the power of the DE community and the closer that an elf gets to gaining the attention and approval of either Malekith or Morathi, the more likely a chance, that one can advance in the DE community and life. A general DE concept is that efficiency in skills/duties of an elf outweigh the likability or morality of him/her. Again, efficiency/strength is more important than morality in most (if not all) matters.
That system is called survival of the evilist. Only the most dark elfish of dark elves survive dark elf society! Breaking bad and house of cards with a blood percentage.
I'd guess we'll see dark elves, high elves, lizard men and tomb kings in the third and final expansion, expanding the map to the west and south to finally include the whole thing (well apart from the east, i doubt we'll get to conquer cathay), after the second expansion give's us areas like bretonia and the grim north.
This is wrong. Malekith was never a slanesh worshipper. He worships the Cytherai which are the dark gods of the elves which are headed by Khaine, the God of murder. The high elves mainly worship the Cadai which are headed by Asuryan.
+fdmarminy Malekith never had the highest opinion of the gods. Dark gods or "light" gods, because the Gods didn't protect the elves when the polar warp gates collapsed. The time when daemons, mutants etc were killing elves all over Ulthuan. Even when partly assisted by Asuryan and Khaine, the elves were forced to save themselves. Malekith sees the Gods as sources of power at most, as opposed to things to be worshiped. There is a reason why he isn't the leader of dark elf religion, even Aenarion played a part in Malekith's impiety, as well as Morathi. The only times he appears to be religious is when it is beneficial for him to appear so.
Will you make "hero" episodes? as Karl Franz, Grimgor Ironhide, High King Thorgrim and Mannfred von Carstein. where you tell more of the lore and story? Well in here and in the high elf video you talk quite alot about the witch king. and I know you talked somewhat of Grimgor Ironhide but I dont know anything about the others what I remember.
Arch, Huge fan. May I please request a Daemons of Chaos faction over-view? The level of detail and perspective, as well as wonderful amusing personal opinions would be great to hear on a rampaging horde of corrupted monsters!
Unrelated to Warhammer, more for anyone interested in a better interpretation of something the narrator mentioned. Stealing children wasn't really a joking kinda thing among historic Native American tribes. A lot of groups had laws that required either the killing or adoption of a captive (of whatever age) whenever a member of the tribe was lost through accident, warfare, or murder. Depending on the tribe, captives could be given to the family of the deceased in substitute for their loved one. This was for peace of mind, economic concerns, religious reasons, etc.
Really appreciate these videos it can't be easy to make so many 45 min videos like this but damn does it get me immersed into the universe and excited about total war hammer, thank you sir and well done
is it possible that the majority of dark elf raiding forces and their capital population isn't actually dark elf, but other races for the settlement and marauders for the raiding parties?
Illusive Man Probably not. Malekith was created in the comics in the early 80's, so I wouldn't be surprised if the creators of Warhammer took the name.
+Illusive Man Keep in mind that the term "Malekith" translated is (more or less), "evil friend" or "evil fellow" so while there is a coincidence with the same title being used, Thor might not have ripped off Warhammer. There is a chance that they did but also a chance that they didn't.
Just got a pop up in TW:W about this massive sea fortress raiding my sea trade for 25% for 3 turns. Can't wait for the reveals. I am in shut and take my money CA and GW mode right now. Went back and am doing a Hard Empire Campaign. No beastman, blood, or WE DLC yet but I will have them cause its still cheaper than models.
I would love a game of thrones style series on the sundering and the high elf/dark elf war with the war of the beard also working itself out in the background
9:25 in the video: If you repeat "Total War: Warhammer" will be a good game," often enough, then you people might start to believe you. Edit: To my pleasant surprise, I was correct. This was written in the middle of the pre-order scandal, so I didn't have a positive outlook on things.
Probably others have spotted this, but i think you made a mistake when you talked about "Ghrond" It is the city of Morathis other project, the Sorceresses, not the witchelves. (ofcause i could be remembering wrong, but googling ghrond didn't get me any connection between it and the witchelves)
The dark elf society is an 'Aristocratic Kratocracy' - wikipedia "A government established by seizure utilizing force or deceit with rule maintained by strength"
I seem to recall something in the 5E books alluding to the idea that the overwhelming majority of the capitol's population consisted of slaves taken on raiding expeditions, and broken by the horrors of the temples of the Witches... Something like that.
Poisoning elves in self defense has to be the most ridiculous thing I've heard X3 Besides when the dark elves tried to blow up the well but the well used a reverse Uno card on them, that was hilarious
Dark elf: "Hey dude.... *Snorts warpstone* I just had like an epiphany man, if our God HAS LIKE, A BLOODY HAND... AND THAT SCARY BLACK DUDE MALAKETH HAS A BURNT HAND.....HE MUST BE GOD HOLY SH## ####" DUDE. /AUTOFOLLOW
Dark elves: they make an art and effort of torture and pain. They are passionate about being evil, quite likely the most evil race in warhammer universe.
+Jost Ruttel Well, the Druchii line of thought (as they are raised in a militaristic society) is that each elf should push himself/herself to be as strong or as powerful as possible so that the Dark elf community can be as powerful/strong as possible against the enemy forces which it does face. The high elves are protected from enemies by an ocean and the wood elves are protected by their forest and the bretonnians. Dark elves need to aggressively push themselves more than their counterparts as few external matters protect them. In the Dark Elf mind, if one is too stupid or lazy to increase their strength, skills or social standing then that elf deserves to suffer for his/her incompetence (and lack of benefit/use to society). Also the two strongest/oldest dark elves hold most (if not all) of the power of the DE community and the closer that an elf gets to gaining the attention and approval of either Malekith or Morathi, the more likely a chance, that one can advance in the DE community and life. A general DE concept is that efficiency in skills/duties of an elf outweigh the likability or morality of him/her. Again, efficiency/strength is more important than morality in most (if not all) matters.
Yes, I got the joke. I just felt that the extra info (or difference between the two species) might be interesting to you. As a sidenote, I feel that one of the most appealing factors of the skaven is that they hold all of the worst features of man, only exaggerated to an almost comedic level.
What could the terrible beasts be? Could their be an undiscovered race in the Southern wastes? Maybe a hyper aggressive breed of lizard man exiled from lustria?
39:50 where the hell are you getting this from? The natives only turned to violence when their rights were completely violated. For the hundredth time.
I believe that the authors flat out stated, that the numbers of a race will always be enough for a story. So, if a billion need to die, then a billion will exist.
And I will always subscribe to the fact that the chaos gods must have had a hand in making the more wick elven god's since magic in warhammer come from the warp and making these god's must have required a lot of power, the chaos could very easily sneak in there powers such as with khaine
+Arch Warhammer Do dark elves have a dislike for the chaos dwarves like the 'normal' elves and dwarves do? Do they hate each other? Chaos dwarves work with chaos armies and with a lot of dark elves being worshippers of Slaanesh could they put their differences aside?
The dark elf Slaanesh worshippers don't exactly join chaos hordes on raids, which is where the Chaos Dwarves would be chilling. They do their bit in Slaanesh names in quite a human sacrifice, bdsm stuff...
Hehe, no wonder Skaven and Dark Elfs respect each other :D There are so many similarities :D I don't know which one is better. They both are equally cool. DE have scantaly clad women and Skaven have furr :D Both are my favourite things anyway :D
