Age of Sigmar Lore: Idoneth Deepkin Pt.1

Kicking off Idoneth Deepkin week, let's really dig into this battletome and fall in love with an incredible new faction!
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[@fjLKA]

Games Workshop dev #1: "...and the new AoS faction will be sea aelves." Games Workshop dev #2: "We can't call them sea aelves. That's can't be trademarked." Games Workshop dev #1: "What can we possibly call them, other than sea aelves?" Games Workshop dev #2 "I dunno....Deepkin?" Games Workshop dev #1: (mishearing) "Idoneth Deepkin? That's a great idea!"

[@2Tough]

This is exactly how it went down :)

[@dessfigures2447]

I was thinking of starting this army but everyone was telling me this wasn't for a new player. But screw that, these guys are awesome.

[@Bormannator]

Same

[@talonryckert6084]

F that play who you wanna play m8, let no one stop you.

[@flaviomonteiro1414]

Yeah, play what you wanna play... Fluff >>>>> Meta/Difficult

[@josephar4720]

"Reef benders" in the subject of making names up, love this race...

[@davidratcliffe3039]

I would just like to say how much I enjoy the way you bring AOS lore to life and bring new insights to the written word - thank you.

[@2Tough]

aw thank you!

[@Nortic111]

I like the comparison between the Deepkin and Frankenstein's monster.

[@2Tough]

thank you!

[@NewGuy2534]

Tyrion and Teclis. Screwing EVERYTHING up since Fantasy.

[@TheBayzent]

Runs in the family

[@yeoboshong]

Produced wonderfully well, sir. Your voice, the music selection, and the writing/script ... the subject. Perfect combination.

[@2Tough]

Thank you so much yeoboshong! So Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Laurence0227]

Idoneth Deepkin = Dark Eldar gone Skinny Dipp'n for too god damn long lol

[@StormWildSpace]

I love your channel! Only recently discovered it. Watched your Slaanesh vids and Morathi/DoK vids, and now i am binging these ID (my newest army) vids. I have been looking for a AoS lore channel for ages. Thank you for all the work you're doing. ps this was posted on my birthday!

[@2Tough]

Very happy birthday to you!! Thank you for watching and welcome to the hobby :)

[@StormWildSpace]

Oh, I've been in the hobby since 91... I just only played 40k. I'm oooooollllld.

[@Ryne91]

They do have such a fascinating lore. I'm not sure any other army is anything like them.

[@HorusVSHearth123]

Great Vid as always! I love have GW can just create these out of the blue armies that you never expected (ie Kharadon, deepkin) i wonder how large they want their range to be in the end! Also cant wait for the Malerion/Tyrion Elf races :D imagine how cool those would be!

[@MrSphinchee]

I really like their funky sea theme

[@northernstompboxes3526]

Great vid as ever Any chance you could do on specifically on the Stormcast Eternal Vanguards. That would be cool, love to learn more about the gryphs!

[@Noxims47314]

Dark Eldar but with gills and probably having heard under the sea a little too much....neat.

[@egd277]

awesome!! Just build my Gloomtide Shipwreck while listening to this lore. loving this new faction. can't wait to play them. thank you for doing this series on the deepkin.

[@2Tough]

totally, glad you're enjoying it!

[@egd277]

It's easy and looks great on the table.

[@AkasaurusRex]

Holy crap man.....as someone new to Warhammer especially Age of Sigmar this is some amazing stuff! Second fav faction to the Seraphon for me love this story for them. 😃

[@julianfarnum1079]

Fantastic work again 2+!

[@2Tough]

Thank you so much Julian Farnum! So Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mydearalice-bp1jz]

You have just made my day 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@charliedilltarde9881]

racist?

[@mitchmurray6323]

@@charliedilltarde9881 how

[@richarddixon1450]

Looking forward to hearing more on this faction. Keep up the good work.

[@alexchaviramusic]

Yey! Thank you so much for this. great job of putting together all the little pieces! It all just makes so much more sense now. I might just have to start a Deepkin army... but $50 for battleline. Oof

[@2Tough]

I totally get it. Feel free to live vicariously through me, haha. my wallet will jump on that grenade!

[@matthewosmond9005]

Just got back into AOS, and seen these guys. Love these videos, so thanks!

[@tobiasrasmussen8625]

Hey Man :) thanks so much for this videos :) I love warhammer lore :) The idoneth Deepkin sounded so cool, so I started collecting them yesterday :)

[@rubilax1806]

So dark elder underwater (because the dark eldar need to raid for slaves to replenish their souls ) cools

[@2Tough]

yea basically ;)

[@jakea3950]

They have similar foundations but if you go deep they are nothing like Dark Eldar. Read about ionrach, pretty much high elves which are the main enclave. I think they take from all aelf lore so it gives them a huge range in terms of story.

[@xanadu7686]

Really looking forward to see what they do with Tyrion, Teclis and Malerion. Seeing what the Elves in their image will be has me very hype. I wonder if they will release what is essentially Dark and Light Aelves at the same time with some box sets or if they will combine them somehow as there seems to be a lot of Light and Shadow working together themes in AoS atm.

[@valeclaw1697]

2:00 totally unrelated to Mathlann. But since Kurnoth was Kurnous, explicitly a survivor of the old world, it is curious that his pocket of souls hasn't been discussed or even hinted at in AoS. Because in a way, Orion seemed to be the compounded souls of every Wood Elf Prince brought to him, in addition to the current Orion and Kurnous/oth. Just off memory I do not know if he's explicitly suffused with all of their souls, he certainly has individuality even if these things are clashing with him. It would be interesting if this is where Kurnothi might come from, or if that could be a future faction of Kurnoth for a future edition, to take some of what the Wanderer's have but flesh it out and 'AoS' it, like the Lumineth did for high elves.

[@navilluscire2567]

These people, the Idoneth Deepkin almost remind me of the dark eldar from 40k, yknow neing mysterious raiders that take terrified captives to use down in their hidden enclaves, but with a cool under sea theme! And yet they are unlike the "druhkari" (dark eldar) are weirdly somewhat justified in their raiding for souls, atleast as far as I know they don't torture their captives. I mean unless whatever funky ritual magic they use to feed their infants souls involves causing a lot of pain to the victims but who knows. Also them taking souls, making so many sacrifices so their children can live and grow makes them much more sympathetic. Idoneth Deepkin: "My beautiful baby daughters will live! They shall bury me one day, they will not go to the great beyond before me"! **Idoneth warrior exclaiming to a sacrifice as their soul is feed to the warrior's small, sickly infants**

[@arvatrontheiv2220]

I hope they make chaos elfs/aelves or instead of realesing new sleanesh models they realese sleanesh aelves

[@bobjones3579]

Arvid Lindqvist slaanesh has very few mortal units like 3. So its wide open for mortals some aelves of Slaanesh would be neet.

[@2Tough]

I would also be all about this. Ally them in with my chaos warriors for extra win

[@arvatrontheiv2220]

Imagine chaos aelves with archaon

[@bobjones3579]

Arvatron The IV something in the malign portent stories that I thought was neet. The story with Marathi and malarian. They were puling an aelf out of slaanesh that was not happy about tecles and tyrial it was mad at them. This aelf heard what Marathi and malaria were talking about and they threw it back lol. So how many aelfs had to suffer this fate. Slaanesh could easily make a deal with these aelfs who were thrown away by there own kind.

[@arvatrontheiv2220]

bob jones i am really not up to date on the malign portents but that would actully make sense and it would bw interesting if they got some kind of boost against order aelves (if it would happen)

[@parkrangerdave]

Rip Aranessa Saltspite, you would've loved Teclis's Fish People

[@evanadams5110]

This is really cool

[@FishboyAbzu]

YESSSSS I LOVE THIS FACTION.

[@jakea3950]

Some of the best lore around 👌

[@FishboyAbzu]

I finally bought my Idoneth army 4 years later 😜

[@nathandemaayer6943]

Great videos!! Love the format

[@2Tough]

Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it :)

[@kenhouston814]

I have been waiting for this! Woohoo!!

[@kenhouston814]

Can the ally with KO? I still love the idea of doing that

[@2Tough]

sadly, you cannot unless you go Grand Alliance Order

[@kenhouston814]

Nooooooooo!! Ah well, can still do coral Sylvaneth. Or just them a force that way anyway.

[@2Tough]

that also sounds awesome and might happen lol. dryads would be the cheapest troops in that army haha

[@necron99]

Am I the only one that finds it funny that Tyrion was the one that spoke for mercy for a race of corrupt elves

[@chrishuffman5713]

I’m getting ready to start playing Idoneth Deepkin what miniatures should I get first suggestions

[@CrankyOldGamer]

Great video!

[@2Tough]

thank you!!! :) Hopefully it makes your assembly go by faster!

[@emperorconstantine1.361]

So...this is the reason why u said Nagash REALLY hates them, next to Sigmar, of course!!

[@oldman747]

ok first thing: love this video thanks for making it. second is a lore question: what would happen if deepkin and a sigmarine fight... would the deepkin be able to steal its soul and stop it from being reforged?

[@2Tough]

no definitive answer for you :/ I like to think they could steal a stormcast soul though

[@oldman747]

@@2Tough I really would hope they could. It would lead to .. interesting things.

[@oldman747]

@@2Tough ooh so wile you actually responded to me.. question: about how long after something is released do you usually put videos out? cause im super hype for fyreslayers and slaanesh

[@jakea3950]

@@oldman747 somewhere in the battletome it said they can't take stormcast souls. GW locked that path out lol, hard stuck allies now 😉. Oh well, all I care about is nagash gets smashed 😂😂

[@sirloin869]

easy fix: force them into the anvil of apotheosis...

[@patricktarver4573]

Bro your voice is an exact match to that of Dawnforged Cast. Weird.

[@2Tough]

Just discovered them from this comment, very cool!

[@patricktarver4573]

@@2Tough Am I wrong tho?😂

[@kennybirt3924]

So they escaped Teclis, couldn't they create their old god again?

[@2Tough]

Sadly, no. The book clearly states that Mathlann is dead. It's strange that Daughters of Khaine says that Khaine is still able to be resurrected, but Mathlann is gone. 🤔

[@gustory1186]

Doug, do you know how the humans and duardin came to exist in the mortal realms? Were they created by their respective god or did they come to be naturally? Sincerely, someone who enjoys your content.

[@kenhouston814]

Gustory humans and duardin are survivors of the World That Was (aka Warhammer Fantasy pre end times) they survived the world being torn asunder and forming the Mortal Realms

[@kenhouston814]

Unless that has been changed lately

[@gustory1186]

Ken Houston Thanks for the reply. Do you know how these humans and duardin survived the old worlds destruction?

[@kenhouston814]

Gustory no worries. That I'm not as sure on, I'd have to read up on it again.

[@2Tough]

Hey Gustory! As Ken pointed out, there were actually quite a few survivors of the old world. How they managed it....no clue. As much as I love AOS lore, the Age of Myth is incredibly weak in terms of narrative. (the age of myth being that time when Sigmar explores the realms and rediscovers all the survivors).

[@poeteller]

May I ask what book is this?

[@ollayze8863]

You made a mistake referencing Frankenstein. Frankenstein was the scientist not the monster. The monster is referred to as ‘Adam’, religious references to adam first son of god. Otherwise gd video covering the lore. Love Idoneth deepkins duality myself.

[@ChaosxSpacexMarine]

I still don't understand why they decided to make Namartii blind and going so far as to make them completely eyeless. It just takes away from them imo.

[@wolfmanhcc]

Do you need eyes that deep into the dark?

[@Erebus2075]

awesome

[@dariusrook2592]

Nicely narrated, pleasant voice. Just the music is to prominent and does not fit the dark and menacing tone of the story.

[@YourTrustyHonkey9716]

Are the Thralls blind?

[@2Tough]

yes! all of them :)

[@philknecht3598]

wtf does "exspearmint" mean

[@2Tough]

its when you're chewing spearmint gum and it loses all its flavor, obviously

[@caspervanegmond4375]

Hi

[@MalcadorTheSigilite]

Casper van Egmond hello

[@lordy6666]

Good video but I hate the aesthetic of this army, Sharks and Eels flying on land? Flying gigantic sea turtles?? Factions like this were one of those putting me off starting AoS.

[@thomastakesatollforthedark2231]

What do you have against people riding flying eels to battle?

[@alejandrorivas4585]

Its funny because thats the exact opposite reaction I had

[@HermeticJazz]

Slannesh is a she.

[@Winterofash]

An interesting analysis of the race and there overall character but I just don’t like them not in a story way more in an design way they are just WAY to pirates of the carabine. Fuck those movies sucked