The Fimir - A Bog Dwelling Monster Civilization That Abduct Women And Summon Deamons 

Of course such loathsome creatures don't feature in the lore any more, but can still be found at your local Games Workshop in the form of the staff members.

How DOES small villages even HOPE to stay alive? "Looks like fog, PREPARE THE DEFENSES" "Nice sunny day, BE EVER VIGILANT" "What phase of the moon(s) is it? STOCK UP ON SALT, SILVER AND BE READY TO PRAY"

I'm pretty sure the Fimir were inspired by the Formori, a race of deformed cycloptic giants from Irish and Scottish folklore.

Chaos gods dropping the Fimir when seeing humans: "I dont want to play with you anymore" 😂

"A Bog Dwelling Monster Civilization That Abduct Women And Summon Deamons" -Not again!!! Damn bog dwellers, they're always up to no good.

I can just imagine the fimir celebrating a successful raid and beating a retaliating force. Only for their celebrations to be cut short by a horde of Orks of humorous size that thought going through the bog would be a good idea and they stumble into the Fimir's home.

I once theorycrafted that the Fimir were the last remnants of a great empire, one of the most powerful in the Old World in fact. But the appearance of the Old Ones brought an end to their horrible reign by first unleashing the Saurus to defeat them in open battle (after all, they can't have been created *just* for fighting greenskins) and reducing them to a handful of isolated rural swamp villages, and then creating a genophage to finish the job. Unfortunately the Fimir discovered their RU-vid-ToS violating loophole and before the Old Ones could do anything about that the Chaos gates collapsed and the Old Ones vanished from history. I even wondered if perhaps the Fimir had been *behind* the mysterious failure of the polar gates in the first place as one terrible act of revenge.

Truly a loathsome creature. Meant to say this also, I do like how they're like the goblins from goblin slayer but much worse.

As an Anglo-Celt and heir to the folklore that inspired the Fimir in the first place, I say: Grim and dark, *grim and dark*, GRIM AND DARK! Bring back the Fae terror of Warhammer!

These Chaos worshipping, bog dwelling, loathsome creatures remind me of the Skeksis from The Darl Crystal. But they do interest me quite a bit, most notably for being civilized Chaos worshippers who have a hatred for humans, yet are part of the TWW Norsca unit roster. At least they are unique enough to be set apart from other races that are Chaos aligned. And learning about them is quite the treat for my inquisitive self.

Clearly we need a new sub-series for quasi-civilized monsters, such as Femir, Ogres, Trolls, or Sigmar forgive me, Stirlanders.

This is something that would work very well in Warhammer 40k. Just replace foggy bogs with worlds shrouded in Warp storms, with their development itself stimulated by the presence of fimir.

CA still owes you an apology

Anyone else remember Balor from Celtic mythology? The Fimir could have been a part of Albyon very easily, considering the thematic

I can see as feasible solution to the Fimir question, fully embracement of the doctrine of Total Fimir Death. For the Empire!

Never stop doing lore videos if you can. Thank you.

Fimirs were tough. They used to be in Hero's Quest. The first RPG/Board Game I ever owned.

Fimirs: Please love us oh Gods of Chaos! Nurgle: do you guys hear something? Slaanesh: other then Khorne's screaming as his followers kills everything in a city again? Tzeentch: yes, no... maybe.... no.. no.... my strongest spellcaster just blew up.... just as planned... Khorne: RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!

I really want these guys to be more prominent in some way. Imagine Tzeentch plants a small inkling of thinking and intelligent scheming in one particular female that is to be born in a Fimir clan where their queen is dying, so she becomes the new queen. With only a small fraction of effort from Tzeentch, this Fimir queen actually feels the need to join Norscan raids or have certain Fimir parties spread and migrate towards more bogs than just the Sea of Claws, as she sees more opportunities to grow the Fimir than raiding to (TOS) human women, which will eventually become unsustainable as humanity's weaponry and technology become more advanced. The migrants themselves don't have to be more intelligent, but since they'd be outside bogs more often trying to look for new ones, we can see them in other armies and other areas more. Plus, since they're more like a force of nature similar to the Beastmen, them spreading around the world outside Norsca, Kislev, and the Empire would only make the world more chaotic, so there's an in-universe reason to do so as well.

This is why i follow arch, deep dive analysis of Warhammer lore that no one else does

I’ve heard of “skavenblight” But these dudes are “Skaven Lite”

I am still hoping to see the Sabbat Worlds video series at some point! Thanks for the great content as always!

A flat bottom boat is actually a great way to traverse shallow, twiggy, muddy swamp and ponds. Spreads out the weight and keeps it from sinking too low and snagging on weeds. Just so long as you don't go over the weight limit and flood it.

I was afraid you had forgotten lore Friday this week ( well technically you released this on Saturday I guess... ) , what a relief ! And for WHFB stuff too yay !

“You can probably guess what happens next…” They shower the women with gifts & affection, successfully convince them to forget about their former lives & husbands, have lots of bedtime fun, and on top of that, turn them into the most devoted cultists of Chaos? How scandalous! How vile! Truly nothing more grimdark than turning a pure woman against the light of Sigmar & the love of her husband thru the power of romance! 😱

Ive been waitihg for Arch to do a lore vid on the Fimir for years!! 🥳🥳🥳

I disagree that 30-40 state troops could handle 50+ Fimir defending their home ground. Had you said 300 I would agree. That is still a pretty small force that most places can assemble. A single Fimir is twice as large as a man, if not three times as large, and several times as strong. While no more skilled than trolls, a Fimir has such a physical advantage that if the human soldiers have similar numbers, or are less in number, they will be smashed and crushed and mulched, no matter how disciplined they are. The Fimir charge would crush them. 300 troops though? That would make the disorganized Fimir spread out too thinly and each and every one of them would find themselves fighting 3, 4, or 6 or 7 humans. Then they would be done for. 30-40 state troops defeating an entire Fimir clan though? Pull the other one.

Really wish Fimir made a return some time

I think that the Fimir are like the Dragon Ogres. Races that the Old Ones tried to wipe out with them being along with the few survivors of the older races before the Old Ones.

*DOOM music playing* *Dude who never, take off his armor approaching*

Have liked the looks of the fimir all the way back to heroquest. Wonder how a fimir army would have worked? No matter how it would have been a sight to behold!

The OVN Lost Factions Fimir mod for Total War: Warhammer 3 is one of my favorite races to play

So this is the inspiration for Goblin Slayer's goblins...

I first saw these guys in the Heroquest board game, didn't know they were in Warhammer until recently.

If I can ever get to use all of my ideas for a Warhammer RPG one of the companions would be a Dirach masquerading as a human Shadow wizard.

Reggie just had a video in TW:W3 vid where he played a mod with these guys

So, going by the title, they're Norwegians?

If we were to humor that the demons abilities in the 40k setting even partly transfers to that of those we see in fantasy, I wonder how the world lasts for even a month considering even the smallest demon is likely to have enough power to lucky one shoot Spacemarines.

So...if the Old Ones were to have a secret weapons testing facility secreted away somewhere within the webway during the War in Heaven, what might you expect to see there? Well, you'd expect to see a world with Eldar, Orks, perhaps the very earliest versions of humanity...a world where these races have abundant magical abilities...a world riddled with Old Ones facilities and technology, wherein the Old Ones suddenly disappeared, and where Chaos suddenly led a massive invasion in the distant past...

Yay Fantasy lore! Thank you Arch!

I love Fimir, still their old lore is one of the few cases where im ok with the ret-con. Dont need to read about some strange predilections of the author in excruciating detail. Other than the reproduction thing they are very cool.

I'd owned Hero Quest as a kid long before I knew what warhammer was and the fimir was the last unit which I'd not had any context for now that I've know about warhammer for a long time. I guess GW having basically forgotten them didn't help.

How to deal with the the Fimir? 🤔 Fire... Lots and lots and LOTS of fire!

This is some cuality content right here, greetings from Puerto Rico!.

Jade wizards would be very helpful to bring along, if you can get them. Their close connection to water and vegetation would help with the swamp and fog, and when the fighting starts, they could guard against magical or demonic surprises.

The one-eyed monsters of the old world.😹🤘🏻

Hey Arch Warhammer, any chance you'll continue the Horus Heresy especially with the Siege of Terra developments?

The true final form of Florida Man.

Being afraid of the sun and using mages to create a magical fog makes them similar to the night goblins.

To be fair, the people of the Old World are not the most observant of beings. Hell, they legit thought a Skaven was an amazing costume that one time.

Another awesome lore vid arch

Weird. Squidmar painted one in his video today.

Hmm im quite certain their is a character commonly nicknamed fimir slayer in that region by the sounds of it As well as beastman slayer and similar and doomslayer and various other slayers

So this is the lore behind Reggie's swamp mosters.

I like the Fimir but I swear this video was already made years ago. Oh well. Was glad to see them show up in TW:WH

The Fimir are to forgotten children of chaos.

Arch keeps repeatedly saying "Fimir" and all my inner weeb can hear is "goblin".

Is it just me, or does anyone else get Xenomorph vibes from the Fimir? Also, the Old World really needed a traumatised Autist that rarely took his armour off. (Cookie for whoever gets the reference).

Cool, I had no idea that the Fimir weren't just in d&d back in the day.

Praise the Emperor Arch has come to visit us.

earliest ive ever been to an upload! 3min I feel blessed by the Emperor

Brilliant as always but I must ask oh wise Inquisitor, Tyrant’s Legion and Maelstrom Squadron Lore vid when?

I smell Celtic shenanigans.

Call the lizardfolk.

The fact they rely on humans for procreation very strongly suggests that the Fimir are not an ancient and/or fallen Chaotic race. I think it's far more likely, particularly given the matriachical factor and the diminutive size of the 'wizard class', that the entire species is the result of a curse. At some point, a a human female with gifted children got on the wrong side of a powerful magic user (probably a witch), and were transformed into Fimir. The intention of the spellcaster was to only damn the woman and her family, but due to some luck and imaginative procreativity, what began as a single woman and 2-3 kids expanded to become a somewhat functional civilisation. The person who cursed them didn't realise they had left open the loophole that any children created by their victims would also automatically be born as Fimir. This idea also fits with the Fimir always needing to live in the dark fog (i.e. damned to never live in the sun again), plus ties in with witches' curses often involving loss of an eye. It even explains their total lack of ambition and preference for living in ruined human settlements. Never sleep with a witches' boyfriend. XD

My all time favorite faction in Warhammer!

Pretty sure the rape stuff got ret-coned, because how did they survive before humans were made by the old ones?

I assumed the Fimirs were creatures that were a dominated tribe but were conquered to the point they could survive in swamps due to other people not wanting to deal with that crap and the Fimirs resorted to the chaos gods and Norsca because hey, your choice of allies is limited, choose the only present option or die.

Wooooot. I was annoyed Arch hadn't had a long video on the the fimir. I'm glad he gets around to it just as I was wondering if there was a video that got removed. 😂

This is like how neandertals use to interact with early humans

Great video. Hope you'll cover the new Rogue Trader game.

I'm going to make a Fimir army, at the center of which is going to be a demon who one of the Gods allowed to be summoned by the Fimir as punishment for an earlier screw up, so they are now stuck with a band of idiot lizards.

Sounds….[removed because violation of RU-vid terms of service].

I like the idea they where the original chaos worshipers only because it means they are constantly getting NTR-ed by the gods who favor everyone else XD

Thanks Arch!

Ah the vanished hero quest miniature!

Didn't know that Warhammer fantasy had a Scottish race. Fascinating.

So basically Goblin Slayer, but WH fantasy

While Fimir are a blight to local villages, their threat-level seems limited. The REALLY scary monsters are the ones that DON'T need humans to multiply, in my book!

Sound loosely similar to the foglet in the Witcher series, based on Celtic and Slavic folklore

Ah yes, Fimir, the finest monster in the land.

Oh Yea. I am building Fimir Warband for Mordheim RIGH NOW!

Hero Quest!

great stuff arch

Title error: You got you E and your A back to front.

Organization precludes something from being considered savage beasts? Explain [Country of Choice] then!

Nice video !

Yay more fantasy!

I wish we got a gotten and Felix book were gotrek hears about these things and looses his shit

Thanks for covering this. Loremaster of soycuck and Pansy Law are too afraid to touch this subject.

Thanks for the video.

Is it goblins?

6:55 - l bet someone already said it, but l say it anyways. That is picture of meargh.

Will you ever do a video on the Sons of Sanguinius? The 2nd Founding Chapter, that is?

Oh, so theyre the goblins from Goblin Slayer. Better call Fimir Slayer then!

You didn't have to describe the Scots like that

We have these in Florida.

Heh they are the analogue of hentai orks. Coomsmiths do your duty! The doujinshi's must flow!

Yet another faction that desperately needs its own army book.

Using the term "civilization" pretty generously here