Skaven is one of GW's most unique IPs and the source of so many great ideas and yet the most they get in their main game is just a resculpt of an existing hero. It's a damn shame. I absolutely love the story from the old world about Count Noctilus and his undead skaven biomechanical horror. Both peak skaven and a nice bit of flexible thinking and creativity from everyone's favorite vampirate.
We were hobbying one day in my local GW here in Washington. There are always wanderers coming into the store. People thinking it’s a GameStop and what not. A young man very high on…. Life? Comes walking in. Completely swerving around and having nonsensical half conversations. To himself and others. As he’s leaving and we are keeping a side eye on him he declares. “Those Skravens are tight yo!!” From that day on. Skravens. And they were tight yo.
Thank heaven that I (after AOS was first coming out) decided to check it out and not just rely on Arch Warhammer’s bias that it was an insult. Fyreslayers, KO, Stormcast, Seraphon, Skaven, Death forces… Just a great opportunity to try whole crazy ideas that work because logic/realism is loose enough from a single world, and gives them WAY WAY WAYYYY more operations to play with.
I'd love a narrative game on this. Like so many, the the city has to evacuate thru a realm gate, the skaven player has endless clan rats both alive and unread but can only deploy so many each turn. The order player gains rewards for how long he can hold back the vermintide, gets rewards for getting models marked as civilians thru the realm gate and rewards for locking the realm gate before the vermintide can reach it.
So we actually do know that the fate of all Skaven souls is to be consumed by The Great Horned Rat. So while they do have a lot of dead it isn't practically infinite like their birthrate would suggest. Basically what this engineer was syphon some souls out of his god's drinking cup, which is still more than enough to annihilate his target and his own clan.
Shiva did not notice the internal conflicts in the chieftain, and instead directed his response to the grey seer. "Here, grey seer? It is not here, grey seer. We failed, yes? The device did not do as it was supposed to." The engineer promptly began to explain things that might have gone wrong, but as far as the grey seer was concerned, it was all non-sense. "What I believe went wrong, and you must understand that this is only a theory is that the warp rift was not so much a crack in reality but a gateway out of the immaterial. Thus, daemons were able to enter and the true power we were trying to release was blocked- that energy being pure warp. Pure chaos energy will not attract daemons, it shall only consume- it must maintain a rate of twenty atomic parts per second that is to say protons or neutrons naturally" If only these Warlock Engineers could study real magic, then they might have enough in common to make all this gibberish make sense. Verminous Fang made himself as comfortable as possible, knowing that this would be another long session with the engineer and his annoyingly calm demeanor and his rambling explanations that told him nothing. The device was a failure. That was as much explanation as he needed. That and the one that told him why there was a giant rat wandering around the Town of Hergig. But the warlock engineer just keep babbling,
I think an interesting series you could do is go take the Map sections from each tome and talk about the future. For example the Skaven BT shows the skaven as surrounding several major settlements, with multiple super weapons pointed at strongholds. I really hope that those stragtegic movements plus the crack in the head seat at the council of 13 means skaven are just about to do something huge in 4th ed.
This is sooo good! I love this story, it is perfect Skaven! Wonderful stuff. I love Age of Sigmar, it always goes all the way crazy. It is simply never boring. Always the MAX of everything.
i have a good idea for a video topic. In the 2e orruk warclan battletome on page 24 called Smashing Victory. Basically a slanneshi chaos lord creates a palace of mirrors, but the moment its completed Da Choppas Warclan attacks, smashing the palace and killing the lord.
I just finished prince maesa and it has a chapter where a hysh human breaks into the skaven afterlife lots of verninlords and massive war with legions of nagash really good depiction.
Their most iconic that got carried over? That would be the Night goblins man! I was reading the old novel about Queek Headtaker and have to admit they are definitely cool!
Maybe he does, but what differences would it make? Pretty sure that if Nagash tried to steal souls and dead corpses for his own purpose from the horned rat, he would be destroyed by the demigod.
how are souls created in AOS? I know originally they were just Old World souls, but nowdays? For example is the Realm of Death just infinitely filling with skaven, humans etc? Where do they all come from? They aren't recycled mostly
Back during the first edition of WH40K, there were Space Skaven. They were called "Smelt Rats", but got retconned so badly that nearly nobody remembers them... Except for a few random souls who find the lore for it.
