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French but British.

French but have honor

Necrons but dry and dusty

Dark Elves: Canadian, but mean

@@blindoutlaw go look up how the Canadian government treats it's native population, then come tell me they're meaner than Canadians.

thank you kindly!

@@TemplinInstitute It helps that you're an excellent storyteller, and know how to read in such a way as to evoke emotion.

Nagash: hold up, let me stop you right there

The others, human, lizardman, skaven, mutant, elves, and dragons alike, all owe their souls to their gods. The undead owe their souls only to Nagash. Who, in all fairness, is more interested in getting himself blown up than ruling his slaves.

@Ornu huh? Please elaborate.

@@leonelimalevu2199 The Skaven make a habit of destroying Nagash’s body when he manages to manifest.

@DocArtemis huh, it seems that the skaven finally does something beneficial to all the Warhammer races.

That’s not even getting into Conrad who was the successor to Vlad and Isabella’s throne before Mannfred.

Oh well. Back to the drawing board, I'm sure the hundred first attempt will work!

Castlevania was pretty close I would say. I mean, okay, it was technically humans who did the necromancy for the vampires, but it was still pretty close.

Yup Castlevania is pretty much that

It’s a very thin line. Is it cringe or camp? Is it trying too hard or lame?

I wish we could make our dream movies, maybe one day

Necromancers are specialized in that but they’re humans

Serve for me in life *and* slave for me in death. Vlad doesn't let anything go to waste.

I tip my hat to you, one stranger to anothet

Are you serious

Can someone confirm this?

@@blackburn_4123 have played can confirm. Very useful for research(ing alternate worlds).

@@blackburn_4123 It's true, it's even a pretty good org to have.

@@blackburn_4123 Yeah, Templin backed the kickstarter at a sufficient tier to get added as an organization.

That is basically the default state of the world. The End Times happened when just for once the various plots _didn't_ blow each other up.

One hilarious thing that always happens in my Mortal Empires Campaign as the Empire is that Khalida always Joins the Empire, Brettonia and the Dwarves after the Vampires and Chaos have already been defeated after piggy backing off of one another, In a Total War Perspective its very predictable but from a Lore perspective its really hilarious, imagine an Undead Tomb King (Queen in this case) just Randomly calls the Big Three for a meeting and they just heard about all this drama, comming from a Thousand Year old Mummy that they just found out was a thing.

I got that reference

Love the reference.

Nagash: "What did you do?"

@@asimplenobody7797 first I was minding my own business

@@kristiandahl1310 Nagash: "Bullshit!"

@@TomorrowWeLive Lol, vampires are liars

@@TomorrowWeLive True, but you don’t have to have parents who are already members to qualify for admittance. You just have to be powerful enough to beat the shit out of anyone who objects to you giving yourself a title.

Don't give us hope when you say that by spreading rumor

Can’t wait to 3d print 300 skeletons and dust off my old vlad von carstein model again hahaha

@@DetectiveLance i am not spreading rumors, i am just stating the truth

From what I know GWS is working on a new warhammer fantasy because of the succes of Warhammer Total War

@@alexiusangelfire I wonder what the cost will be. I know the price probably will be unfair just like 40k but atleast with 40k you can mentally get around playing with smaller armies because it's sci Fi but if it's a medieval setting I want to be able to field dozens up on dozen of units without it costing as much as a car otherwise not worth it personally

You would think that after several hundred lifetimes Khalida would forgive the vampires. But unfortunately the sisters of lamina can not stop trolling her with gifts of the past.

My personal favourite is that Vlad was arguably the nicest claimant to the mantle of Emperor at the time of the first Vampire War. Sure, he was a ruthless tyrant... but basically all the mortal elector counts that were having a civil war over the title at the time were *worse* rulers than him. Vlad at least did actually give a shit about the living commoners under his rule, even if it was just out of a sense of duty and noblesse oblige. It really says something that for the sylvanian peasants his time was arguably the best couple decades in the entire history of the place, from the days of Sigmar all the way to those of Karl Franz. Fuck Mannfred, tho. Just absolutely fuck that shithead.

As it should be.

Genevieve Dieudonne: Hey, I take offence to that! And not just because I'm Bretonnian!

They have a good life for a peasant. Maybe the best a human can get in Warhammer.

To a degree, yes. While having to only worry about the one inhuman, bloodthirsty monster squatting in the nearby ruined castle instead of thousands of inhuman, bloodthirsty monsters squatting in the forest is something that can be considered a sweet deal by the standards of the setting, that doesn’t change the fact that life in Sylvania sucks just as hard as it does pretty much everywhere else. The living standard for Sylvania is Early Middle Ages, while the rest of Not-Europe is High Middle Ages or Renaissance level of development. There is no middle class in Sylvania, no skilled artisans, merchants, or educated professionals. Even _Bretonnia_ has an emergent bourgeoisie; in Sylvania the only career options for people possessing a pulse are ‘impoverished, starving farmer’, ‘impoverished, starving goat and/or sheep herder’, and ‘impoverished, starving ox-cart operator’. Everyone is filthy, malnourished, in terrible health, and some degree of inbred. There’s no hope of anything getting better, no way life will end in any way other than ‘perform backbreaking labor until you keel over from exhaustion’, except for ‘eaten alive by beasts’ or ‘became a Capri-Sun for the asshole in the castle.’

They are the most and total pawer of Undead , including media like hellsing ultimate. The normal vampire in Warhammer fantasy is iqual to Alucard of Hellsing

@@antonioranza5411 definitely not

At least he is not responsible for skaven, chaos and beastmen.

Castlevania is probably the closest thing we currently have

Except for Manfred of Carstein of course. This monster have to be caught and burned on sight so that world peace can be achieved.

Yes. I won my first encounter with an youtube scammer.

This action does not marshall the realms of men

GW: " Nah we hate money "

Seriously I know fantasy wasn't making the money it used to, but if they would've held on until after TW:WH was released they would've seen a bunch of new customers

Listening to the horror stories of GW sales staff, no. No they won't. They'll just take all this and say "I know, let's make a new chaos model for Age of Sigmar!" Cause the thought patterns of GW corporate make no sense.

It's gone and when it does make it's return it won't be the same!! I still read certain books But the closest thing I get to the Old World and GW now is Blood Bowl Lol

Warhammer; the Old World has already been announced a couple of years ago, and we have even seen some concept art for the stuff they are planning to release for it, mostly of the Kislevite faction that is very much in line with the Total War Warhammer interpretation of that army. It seems likely it will function like the Horus Heresy stuff has with regard to 40K - a parallel game system set earlier in the in-universe timeline, and using a revamped (if you will forgive the pun) version of an earlier ruleset, probably an updated version of the old Eighth Edition Warhammer Fantasy rules.

That would be great, but for Nippon. There is barely a shred of information on it so far, other than it is the Japan Fantasy Counterpart Culture of the Warhammer world.

Not much lore on Nippon unfortunately. Really do hope they will be added like Cathay. If anything, The Kingdoms of Ind and the Hinterlands of Khuresh look more possible atm.

Wrong those are the skaven

@@charalamboscharalambous165 Skaven don't die when they go outside in sunlight

@@changelingman9687 Neither do many of the vampires form the Warhammer world. They are usually weakened by daylight, but they don't, for the most part, instantly burst into flames. The phenomenon is supposed to be some form of psychosomatic magical effect in the lore - what the vampire believes about itself tends to manifest in its own body, so if it expects to burn in sunlight, it does. If it expects to be scalded by holy symbols, it is, but if it doesn't hold those beliefs, it is highly resistant or wholly immune to those weaknesses. Most Warhammer world vampires expect to be weaker in daylight, gaining their full strength only in darkness, and so that is the way it plays out.

Wait until you meet Imrik...

I would love that.

We leave the zombie master alone in his swamp and he leaves us alone. Good deal I think.

Aside from the eternal hunger and high risk of becoming insane sooner or later, there are also more direct risks like a whole tomb king faction coming for your undead ass.

You still have to deal with the unending urge for blood which if you don’t drink, you will be driven insane and turn more and more bestial. Becoming a vampire also takes a person’s worst flaws, and dials it up even when they were honourable or good natured, turning you more cruel and twisted.

Dark magic drives humans mad and withers their bodies. Every vampire's true form looks like a rotting corpse, and every vampire is at least a little (and usually a lot) insane and turned significantly more evil by the dark magic that empowers them.

He was so close in becoming a God. Should have been a little more patient and careful.

That doesnt fit with thw sci fi aesthetic of 40k

Everybody rejoiced when Manfred were finally caught and the burning could be seen far into Lustria.

Surrender and serve me in life, or die and slave for me in death