The Black Arks of Naggaroth! Floating Cities Made For Raiding And Slaving! Warhammer Fantasy Lore 

"How do they float?" "Very well thank you."

"Why don't we just take our castles and push them over there?" -- Piatriq Sta'arr, Dark Elf Corsair Lord

I would hate to be the guy that would have to tell Malekith that you managed to loose a Black Ark.

The fact that there isn't a named Dark Elf character with an eyepatch and a parrot on his shoulder is the definition of a missed opportunity

I'm still holding out for there to be, even in reference, a Black Ark captained by one old crazy guy spouting about the end times as he goes around collecting 2 of every species in the Warhammer World

*Black Ark crashes into the Garden of Nurgle* "Dammit it all that's the last time we let the sorceress drive, now where are we?" Hordes of Nurglings very excited about making new friends "WHO WANTS A HUG?!" "Oh crap..."

You have to wonder why they bothered establishing a new homeland at all considering that these things seem completely self sufficient.

Malekith's wounds were reignited by the Phoenix Guard at the Battle Of Maledor in −2724 IC, so he fled the field, which caused his army to rout. Caledor withdrew to the border to Ellyrion and Averlorn, disbanding much of his battered army and planning a further offensive, in case Alith Anar failed to overthrow Malekith before the next campaign season. But before the Shadow Warriors could launch a coup in Nagarythe, Malekith and Morathi initiated their last-ditch gambit. In their first winter in what became Naggaroth in −2722, the Black Arks were frozen in by ice and the first outlying naggarothi settlements were pillaged by Hung raiders. The Hung gathered outside of the beached citadel of Anlec that would become the foundation of Naggarond, but then decided to withdraw. Whether this was a cost-benefit calculation by the raiders, or whether it had something to do with Morathi's previous deal to teach the sorcerers of the northern tribes is unclear. The Hung raiders returned the next year, but found that the Naggarothi had organized better defences and had been reinforced by further settlers, including nagarothi stragglers, followers of the cytharai cults and loyalists from Elthin Arvan. The naggarothi maintained a presence in what was now the northern isles of Ulthuan and a few Black Arks remained in the area, continuing to skirmish with the Asur navy and contest control of the Blighted Isle. It was 94 years after the Sundering that Malekith sent a major expedition to retake Nagarythe and the naval war ramped up. Around this time, Caledor began building the fortresses in the Annuli Mountains. The Druchii also raided for human and goblin slaves to work in mines and plantations in the (relatively) more fertile south of Naggaroth. It was shortly before the Asur gained naval supremacy around −2425 that the Druchii began to explore the caverns beneath what became Hag Graef and tame cold ones. It was in −2219 that the Asur pushed the Druchii out of Nagarythe and in −2200 that the Asur retook the Blighted Isle, although Morathi conjured a storm to isolate Caledor, who threw himself into the sea rather than be captured. Around this time, Druchii nobles seeking to avoid punishment from Malekith took their followers to Hag Graef, which grew into a city. Clar Karond and Karon Kar became major pirate ports in the next 2 centuries. It was after the Druchii were again driven out of Nagarythe and the Blighted Isle by Tethlis in −693, during what the Druchii called the Years Of Hateful Peace, that the Asur became lulled into a false sense of security and thought Naggaroth was in decline. They were disabused of this notion when the Phoenix King was assassinated and an Asur punitive expedition was slaughtered at Har Ganeth in 1122, preceding yet another Druchii invasion of Ulthuan in 1125.

And gortek manages to cap one of these things with a single swing. Don't think anyone's been able to top that.

4:27 "the land of chill" in contrast to the old home called "the land of no chill" as the high elf king got very salty and banned the dark elves from his land😂

Playing games and consistently releasing lore videos, Arch has been on a roll, I feel thoroughly spoiled : )

In terms of pure information transfer. Arch is hands down best 40k youtuber. So much detail

The Big Black Paddle Boats!!! As called by the Skaven. The slaving and raiding fleet of the Druchii, and the nightmare for any unprepared coastal settlement. Glad to see a new Warhammer Fantasy lore video, especially for amazing things such as the Black Arks of Naggaroth.

Or as i named them in Total War Warhammer 2, my slave tithe collection mobile. The Slave must flow

I like how you called the Dark Elves the Dark Aeldar. 😏

Good old world lore! Now I have a better vision of what these things are.

Nagronath is a City in Albion made by a beached Black Ark. (Granted it's in the wrong place in TWW)

Lol, nice save at 4:10.

I like the fact that even Arch several times throughout the video called the dark elves dark eldar

If i do not remember it wrong, there was a black ark that was attaked ( if not sunk) by a hoard of skins and croxigors that swimed there from lustria when the ark was close enought Edit: yep, the Umbral tide it was named

Do what you want 'cuz a corsair is free, you are a corsair ! *proceeds to horribly mutilate some Asur*

Arch! You glorious Norseman im reading elfslayer right now and you slam this juicy steak in front on me!!! Thank you and great work! Keep on churning my good man, loving your work and looking forward to what's coming next!!!

Thanks Arch, needed this for my TTRPG. there's 4 Black arks left after Nagaroth was near annihilated by demons 50 years go, just before the players previous characters defeated Archeon.

just imagine the life of a person who names their ship The Citadel of Spite.. such a joy they must be to be around of..

Ah - since the last dark elf video (however long ago that was) I’ve now collected a few thousand points of dark elves myself (for OPR)! Nice to see them showing up again now.

Because icebergs were too unrealistic.

During this story, I kept thinking of the human powered, paddle wheel, floating fortresses of "Battle of Lake Poyang" in 1363. Where legend has it a million died in a naval battle on a lake. Actual number is up for debate.

wooooo arch made a warhammer fantasy video! And a Dark elf one at that! Thanks arch, I still rewatch your fantasy playlist to go to sleep nearly every night. You do lore videos very well 😇

I'm getting Elric vibes from these.

YAY! So happy to see Warhammer lore again!

As someone who loves Dark Elves, and is thinking about writing WHF fanfic featuring them. Thank you.

Arch, what happened to the the Rat background on Fantasy Videos I quite enjoyed it

Are you sure we can't get 2 fantasy videos a month?

The big guy back in Naggaroth will not take lightly to losing one lol

Gutted gotrek and Felix wasn't mentioned from there tales on a ark in elf slayer, but fantastic n insightful listen

In TWWH3 I really wanted the ogre raiding camps to work like the black arks but for land.

So they're Craftworld Elfdar?

Strigoi Ghoul Kings, please?

The final step for when you don't like your neighbours

Absolutely spoiled with new content. Cheers Arc.

Love the fantasy lore You going to do a big lore war series again?

Oh Ach a bit of old lore on top of everything in the last month my my my you've been spoiling us

Warhammer fantasy lore > Uses 40k background image... Come on arch, where's our Skaven animation?

YES. More warhammer fantasy lore

Vulkan hates them so much he time travels

I love the black arks. Very cool stuff.

I'm hobbying as watching one of my 3 favourite 40K channels. When I hear your background music my creative side blossoms. I love the fresh Friday content. I knew nothing about this. That you Kind soul. :)

I am just imagining Frostpunk but with dark elves.

How to deal with a black ark, lance and macro cannon batteries, and space marine boarding actions ..... wait, wrong universe, shit 😳

Add in few wings of flying and underwater monsters/mounts to these mega ships and you have equal to US carrier taskforce.. yeah there is very few forces that can take it out traditionally.

Make Lustria Great Again. Lord Mazdamundi 2024

The Black Arks of Malekith the B*tch King

Excellent Arch

Awesome Arch, you've made my lunch break. thanks

LORE FOR THE LORE GODDDD

Nuffin like a good ol Saturday arch post.

Blessed is he who leads our chapter Blessed is Arch .

i always imagine Black Arks like a floating Chicago

The black arcs hull being actual castle walls probably wouldn’t actually protect it that much from imperial navy great cannons. The reason being is that you can actually put cannons on a ship that are in-fucking-sanely huge. When mounted on a ship there’s technically only one limit to how big a gun you can fit. That being how much recoil the gun itself can take before it literally rips itself out of the ship. Everything else like displacement, space, and balancing can simply be solved with bigger boat. Unlike on land where you’re limited to actually being able to direct the damn thing you can steer a naval gun simply by turning the ship.

Love the fantasy lore

Another great video Arch. Thank you!

See the High Elves failed to read the Evil Overlord's List. _Never_ leave your enemy for dead / to die unsupervised. If you don't have a body for proof, they ain't dead.

Nice video !

The Dark Elves are a thorn in the side of everyone but not nearly as dangerous as the Skaven.

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Total War Warhammer does not do them justice. I thought they were just larger ships from magical origins, like demon possessed wood or something.

A couple of oddities which occurred to me: sea navigation in the Old World: 1. Tidal events from two moons would be wild. 2. A mitigating factor might be use of the Lore of Heavens; are either of these addressed in the lore?

Welcome back Arch

Can the next video be done on the Fantasia Wood elves or maybe the Oak of ages.

excellent as always

suppose making a floating fortress also a city is rather nice on the repair work

Watching this makes me want to start a TWWH3 dark elf campaign, not done one in 3 yet.

or you can just Trow Gotrix on to one and he will handel that one to

Any news on the Sabbat series`?

Naggeroth

Yallbe forgetting that the original OGs Gotrex and Felix sunk one

The Black Arks of Treacherous Pronunciation

6 Black Arks is not a big problem at all. Just kill all the inhabitants of the arks and you have tanker LUL

Dark elf bastards!

I think we can safely say that the Black Arc raids have indeed stopped. What with GM blowing up the Warhammer world.

Sabat worlds crusade when

In Detroit there are the black.... nevermind. 😂😂

16:00

Another Friday, another comment asking for another video of the Aspect Warriors

Hello Krings 👋

The sheer joy of seeing an arch video release swiftly replaced with the urgh of it being fantasy

I honestly can't understand how these guys never conquered Ulthuan. I mean, Sparta beat Athens for a reason a warrior society will beat the Poet society

oh no...

Im so off when it comes to WF lore. Thanks, Arch

✏✏✏ NNNNNNNYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTH ✏✏✏

Elric did it better

hmhm, 44 seconds in and already salty about End Times lore, that's when you know it is a Warhammer Fantasy video

TWWH 2 is definately not doing the black ark any justice. It is terriblely underwhelming...

Another comment for you

Arch……. THOU SHALT NOT SPEAK OF THE END TIMES NOR OF THINE AGE OF $H1TM@R! Fun fact Mauls “Dark Blade” has roots in a land locked black arc. His mom os from one.

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Oh, Warhammer FANTASY? No thank you.

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I do not like this Druchii. Her smug aura mocks me.

Please use some other background music, or at least change it from video to video. No joke it’s the reason for me not really watching you as much. Much love, Love