The 100 Year War For Cripple Peak! Nagash And The Skaven Go To War! Warhammer Fantasy Lore 

For some reason, this reminds me of a movie with some scientist guy who is alone in some arctical outpost, which is invaded by mice. They eat a lot of his food that is not canned, until he is sick of it and starts eating the mice. :D

I mean that’s basically what happened but metaphorical and with necromancy

@@Furzkampfbomber Never Cry Wolf?

Yea but He cheated. In the trilogy, He was absorbing memories straight from His victims and Learned several languages that way.

@@skeith1543 when one go against backstabbing ratmen, there is no such thing as dirty tricks- but yes you are right on that point

@@skeith1543 cheated against skaven? Oh no no, that is most evil, trecherous cursed vile-vile thing one can do, all Empire of human things should unite to kill-kill this memance... - Written by human thing diplomat, not at all fake-fake letter SKEEK

@@skeith1543 lmao he cheated ? Like he was supposed to go learn from Rosetta Stone or hook on phonics style xD

@@TateAnakov i mean sucking memories out of victims is far easier then actually learning the language... so yea? from a certain point of view. It's not like he set up a few captured rats and asked them to teach him the skaven language the old fashioned way.

Imagine discovering a rat in your house, trying to exterminate them and things escalate so far that one night when you come home drunk you discover the rats have hired someone to shank you in your sleep. XD

Hey give the for a little bastards some credit if they also supplied the sword and kept nagash from one shotting the king (at the cost of two council members lives at that)

well, Nagash is far from perfect, but he's so god damned powerful that he can nearly get away with that kinda shit. However. Rule 52 doesn't apply. The skaven *made* their own tunnels into his place, before then Nagash had huge teams of tunneling undead. He knew every nook in his home. And Rule 85 also doesn't apply because without the intense rituals and spells He was slinging in the finale, He wouldn't have ever come close to achieving the death of the entire planet. Hell, i'm not sure he would have succeeded any way, for a spell of that magnitude would have been countered by the Slann and the High Elves.

@@skeith1543 85 still applies because it’s about the plan itself rather than the steps of the plan. Essentially not do the big death ritual but something more practical if time consuming like marching his armies across the planet or not killing everyone because after all where is he gonna get replacements when his undead get weathered away or if he needs more for things like a space empire.

​@@aveimperator1748nagash will take there bones for new undead

@@skeith154352 still does apply, any secret tunnels built beforehand still need to be accounted for

Well, _technically_ he stays dead.

@@Furzkampfbomber I would raise a detailed argument against that but then realised... duh. Stupid.

lol He cant keep getting away with that

@@yetipotato8567 Nagash starts singing a song aspired by Adele: "Hello, its me. I was wondering after all these years, if you'd all died violently!"

I am now imagining the council of 13 and Karl Franz sitting down and be like "we tried to cut it to pieces and burn it, did not work" "We whacked it witg Sigmar's hammer and it still refuses to die"

I'm not sure a prince important to his land quite qualifies as a nobody.

@@vadandrumist1670, on the wider scale of events. He should have lived and died in Khemri, maybe noted in the histories but not a threat to kingdoms, empires, the Dark Gods and EVERY LIVING THING ON THE PLANET.

I'd still rather pretend AoS didn't happen.

@@s2korpionic I ignore aos like I do Disney star wars like badly made fanfiction

@Vadan Drumist well he was a prince but he was supposed to just spend the rest of his days as a priest because his brother got the throne.

I have to imagine this is exactly how a war between Tyranids and Nurgle would go.

They don't call the Skaven deity the "horned rat" for nothing. A race that breeds faster than their dead can be resurrected. :D

@@lordfrostwind3151 more like Tyranids and Orks

@@casbyness lmao that’s a good one! Kudos to you, thanks for the chuckle casby.

The issue is that every battle lends more forces to nagash, and skaven never stop producing more skaven , it couldve never ended

Hopefully Nagash gets his own faction soon :(

(Laughs in Dwarfen Underway stance)

@@holo525 I'm sure it'll be an end times DLC.

@@garethholman1050 Nah, they’ll make it Warhammer 4 and charge $70.

@@holo525 Play as the Followers of Nagash and take the long route to Nagashizzar to settle it safely. The starting area for them is difficult anyway, so might as well just move house and play the long game like the man himself. That’s about the closest you’ll get for now.

He also seems to think the attrition from the war would really have been an issue for the great necromancer. For every skaven that falls fighting his undead that's another soldier that reinforced Nagash's armies. Fighting a war of attrition is exactly what Nagash wants.

@@Icspiders247 And it's not like Nagash was going to run out of time or anything...

​@@Icspiders247 skaven brought warp flammethrowers, so it is likely theere were fewer usable bodies after fight, even after skaven causalities are accounted

@Michal Soukup That only works if the bodies are completely turned to ashes.

So Warhanner equivalent of the Hand of Vecna, got it.

Althoough I am somewhat disappointed by the lack of enthusiastic gasmask noises.

@@Furzkampfbomber happy gas mask noises are really good, but ratmen screams are just as good, yes-yes!!!

"Bronze age." Not to argue, but it terrifies me that the Skaven had dark magic-fueled flamethrowers in the bronze age.

@@johnj.spurgin7037 the warp-firethower back then was so heavy that a the fire team had the weapon on wheels, pushing it around to the fighting xD

@@megaman1808 yeah, it was more like a Byzantine fireship carrying Greek fire

Well yes indeed they had. Yet all NAgash his friends where destroyed one way or another after been living for more than a century if not centuries, by the revolting public. Only Nagash survived himself. They were immortal, yet not indestructable.

Ratlings, skaven, and all rat kind are the greatest

The Hand of Vecn- I mean Nagash...

@@RipOffProductionsLLC hand of dust

He did reanimate Skaven, that's part of the reason why it was so hard to dislodge him. It's one of a Myriad of reasons it took such an overly convoluted plot to lay him low the first time. What no one knew at the time, is that the black Pyramid of Khemri became his phylactery. (In End Times they had to blow up that Pyramid to finally stop him, but we don't speak of that because the whole of End Times is utter drek)

@@mutegrab666 Didn't his hand get cut off and crawl away with a piece of his soul in it as he was being killed? Also doesnt his crown of sorcery also contain a piece of his soul? It was controlling the orc, Azhag the slaughterer (and in table top rules it allowed that orc leader access to necromancy)

@@blazednlovinit Nagash had all manner of contingency plans. It's why He's such a dick to defeat and even then He can just reform in the Black Pyramid

@@blazednlovinit Yep. His hand, his crown, his sword, his staff and each of his original books on necromancy all hold 'pieces' of who he is, similar to Sauron's One Ring. It was the pyramid that served as the primary link between his soul and the Old World though. Making him a bit like Mumm-Ra from Thundercats (lol), though I think Mumm-Ra's main link was actually his sarcophagus.

Oh, yes please!

80,000,000,000 Giant ratty bois

It doesn't seem like he ressurected the Skaven as it was mentioned by Arch his reserves were running low. This could be for a hundred reasons. It could be because skaven biology wouldn't mix well with dark magic and they crumble away twice as quick as any human zombie, considering what effect warpstone has on them when they are alive, which is extremely potent on them and might cause some issues when funneling magic into them. Two is the fact the Horned rat loves claiming and eating their souls and perhaps might've extended a rite of protection on their corpses as with his symbol does, only allowing them consumed by other skaven as he does their souls in turn, or to simply rot away. Another reason could be that it's just not known how to properly animate corpses other than humans, much less the ramshackled broekn form of a dead skaven who no doubt decay rather quickly under normal circumstances. It took hundreds of years for nagash and company to reliably produce legions undead humans, and it's their familiar territory. Why not choose ogres or something else some tougher beast as the next undead subject if it's really needed? As also shown with vampiric monsters and other twisted human remains, humans are simply the greatest template of corpse. Their bones are the perfect amount of brittle but malleable for shaping. Their flesh holds quite well together, and their form is suitable for organised massed combat and have an easier time than most adapting to environments, whether it's shambling up a mountain en mass or crawling through a low tunnel, the human corpse it suited for all of it. This all despite being driven solely by instict and Nagash's will, can you imagine the crooked mass of skaven bodies trying to shamble up a mountain without ripping their claws into each other accidentally or just being swept away by easily by mother nature? That being said I'm sure other races have been arisen since it's Warhammer i just don't think Nagash specifically would waste effort and Dark Magic on piles of skaven corpses for those reasons

​@@Throgman33 i actually believe the first and second theory as Skaven are not empty but filled with warpstone and their God The Horned one, impretty sure drak magic has no effect to those warpstone as its apart of bigger things of universe.

I am struggling to find the similarities beyond "both evil", "both hordes"

@@blazednlovinit "both magic" and "both gross"

@@notinspectorgadget Well... that's a very human-centric view of things, an elf or a dwarf would probably think you are gross.

From a Skaven perspective, they've seen the rise of an incredibly annoying human race that not only is a pain to deal with whilst living but also doesn't stay down after being killed.

@@blazednlovinit Ewww gross, Dwarfs

Chad rats

I mean to be fair, the skaven are almost always hungry as well as being cannibals. He might have had to gather those corpses first to properly turn them and by then, many if not most of those bodies had already had their flesh stripped and their bones broken for marrow. Might have even been eating Nagash's human zombies too.

If I'm not mistaken Skaven are sticklers for keeping contracts. They deceive like crazy, and would exploit loopholes at every opportunity, but they wouldn't blatantly break an oath.

That is the most fantastical part of this story...

I like age of Sigmar simply because of it’s cosmic level scale. Like nagash is the god of death, and he has many faces and aspects depending on the culture that worships him. That’s interesting to me

@@TheCorrodedMan Yeah, i'm usually not that interested in High Fantasy, but the Morathi and Nagash books have been really pleasant surprises.

I reconcile the two by just imagining Age of Sigmar is where Nagash goes to blow off steam when he's between resurrections. In reality, he lost the End Times and was destroyed (again), and the whole AoS universe is just him having fun waiting to return to the Old World. He's a perfectly reasonable character in AoS, it's the world around him that's total nonsense.

Agreed, On the one and only age of sigmar book I have read was fun, basically nurglite-bretonnian army was invading realms of death, that spesific land was suprisingly peaceful and lawful. mortals dwelled using necromancy to reanimate their ancestors bones to defend them. Of course there was more sinister forces on the move. Especially funny was scene where Arkhan the Black tried to communicate and ask for instuctions from Nagash, only getting some demented ramblings and beratings in ansver from Nagash. Nagash was apparently a de facto etherial god, but was that moment quite weak and not at all together and in his senses.

@@yetipotato8567 Always remember kids, divine cannibalism is bad!

"Hammer go bonk" -Sigmar the not quite yet god king.

They wouldn't need 12 years, let alone 19.

@@pirig-gal the rocks land on the citidel and shred the occupants

octarius 2.0 but it's role reversal and it's chaos, fighting against orks for the control of the planet with some kriegers to spice up the perfect dish

@@lunarlegion7157 Especially since they don't care much about the underground stockpiles. A nice loot, but not their goal when attacking.

@@pirig-gal I hope the chaos forces arrive or the orcs will be bored as hell

That poor B*****d. Not only dying like that but being known forever as the guy that died in nutty putty cave.

Looks like autocorrect went a little wild there