Age of Sigmar Lore: Spawndom

[@kamon156]

I always thought that spells that could change enemies into spawn were just channeling raw chaos into them, granting them innumerable "gifts" all at once.

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

Plus side even if you become a Chaos Spawn: you get to be a hard to kill tentacle monster. And if you’re lucky there's a chance you could even turn into a Mutalith (an even harder to kill tentacle monster with a cool back portal that can make more tentacle monster) one day (or even a Daemon Prince if Nurgle thinks you’re funny). Besides there's still a chance you could be turned into a Spawn anyways even if you’re a Daemon Prince by annoying the gods enough so you might as well embrace the tentacles early on anyways. After all, a non-zero chance over an infinite amount of time (as Daemon Princes don’t age and time means nothing in the warp) will eventually result in a 100% chance of it happening.

[@suitorshooter996]

Something I love about Chaos Spawn (I think it was from 40k, but same concept), is that rather than being cursed by Spawndom for receiving too many gifts, some factions believe receiving Spawndom *IS* the gift. It's not like the Chaos Gods particularly value our frail fleshy forms, it's like 'hey I made you stronger, faster, immortal and totally fixated on my goals. What do you mean this isn't Demonhood, this is exactly what you asked for.'

[@anton2192]

I had this idea for new chaos spawn models. They'd have an unseen center piece (like in a rubik's cube) with holes that you can attach and rotate varying kinds of limbs and claws and wings and whatever they can fit into a single box. A "build your own chaos spawn" if you will.

[@Ankhtowe]

That's...not all that far off from what they already are though.

[@anton2192]

@@Ankhtowe Corporate hacks stole my idea before I was even born!

[@zachschreck]

I've always wanted to see self-aware spawn who are seen as "enlightened" by their peers. Maybe some Gavespawn cult who see it as the ultimate unity with Morghur to sacrifice their bodies to eternal mutation. The GW Spawn kit is great for bitz, we just need some more variety in body shapes.

[@stepheneaton4978]

Agreed. I love all the gribbly bits that come with the box and I even like the bodies somewhat. But some more variety would be nice.

[@biofoot7874]

Okay, hear me out: googly eyes on chaos spawn

[@auroralee]

I second this. Honestly the most insulting punishment for a once-great Chaos Champion 😆

[@stepheneaton4978]

@@auroralee and butterfly wings

[@Guitarman5705]

I always thought of chaos spawn as being like the creature from the thing that could never hide itself

[@k9vendettathewolfofmordor529]

I love my derpy Spawn. Just painted them up for my deathguard/maggotkin army

[@blighboy1]

This probably deviates from a lot of people's ideas of what a spawn should look like, but for my Slaves to Darkness army I plan to pick up the "undead/zombie Minotaur" from Zealot miniatures to use as a spawn. It's a roughly humanoid shape, has a lot of traditionally chaos aspects (horns, hooves, etc) and has all its guts hanging out, so I think it's a good representation of a newly born spawn or a spawn that has been able to retain most of its human shape.

[@christophergarner8746]

Confession time. I've played a dozen different chaos armies (Oldhammer and 40k, I've still yet to play AoS at all) in the last two decades (Geezus I'm getting old) and have never once used a Spawn. In fact, I just now (READ: LAST YEAR) got models for Spawn and they are still (AGAIN: OVER A YEAR NOW) unassembled, in the boxes. But from a lore standpoint, I've always loved the little weirdos

[@joshuaturnquist5538]

That's fair though. From a lore standpoint they are awesome, but from a rules standpoint they have always been awful. The only two times they have been good were for Thousand Sons to fill detachments cheaply, and Gavespawn where they get subfaction bonuses that make them good. Outside that they have always been fragile with weak weapons. Love them for Beastmen in Total War though, where they are unbreakable, have great animations, have poison attacks,, and decent damage for their cost.

[@christophergarner8746]

@@joshuaturnquist5538 I've got two of the Warshrine kits, a Spawn kit, and a demon prince kit. The "spare" Warshrine is going to be combined with a Thunderstusk to make a War Mammoth so the carriers, plus bitz from the other kits should give some nice looking spawns

[@TheNerindil]

>Very Old White Dwarf >2002 You know, I woke up today feeling good about myself.

[@wolfmanhcc]

The old gw sculpt was awesome, but I like ebay broken models for spawndom.

[@AlphaCocoAudio]

I love that some spawn can be so infamous in their previous life they retain their name like Scyla

[@wargamerwilly8756]

I have two Khorgoraths that I proxy as spawns 😅 I love the way they look!!! The bone tentacles and skull face

[@pankaches2723]

There's a spawn at the beginning of Gloomspite and that prologue is so sad, man

[@joshuaturnquist5538]

Oh, it's freaking tragic. There's also an extra layer from him having enough sentience to share a prophecy (in an attempt to save them) that leads the group to more suffering.

[@flannellemur4818]

The total war WARHAMMER games do the spawns SO WELL

[@supermuffin462]

As a Gavespawn player, I really enjoyed this vid-eeooouurekk’zzzkkks!

[@placeholdername3818]

Isn't that just a Spawn army?

[@thomaswallace7577]

I'm curious about BOC what's your army list?

[@cgsrtkzsytriul]

I’m building my 1st AOS army and doing Gavespawn

[@danielduill8634]

Is there a story where someone has ever come back from being a spawn? I think it would be cool like a lesson learned warlord

[@mscorbenic]

probably my favorite theme in all warhammer, awesome video!

[@ezioauditore3128]

I like the Brother of Silence from Bestiarum Miniatures - it's on the Etsy website. Not sure of the size though.

[@HumbleScrib]

Palace of the Plague Lord has a rather horrifying representation of a Chaos Spawn.

[@cgsrtkzsytriul]

I think the Gutrot Spume comes as close as possible to the line of too many gifts

[@DemonicEngineer]

I fucking love Chaos spawn. I always love really disgusting designs that look like they can just barely move around

[@jamesmitchell2704]

I really like these targeted explorations into the lore!

[@AgeofNagash]

Another great video! I just converted my own Slaanesh Chaos Spawn for my Slaves to Darkness today 🙂

[@anotherperson2627]

Maybe the kings of war Shadow Stalkers faction have some units that could be chaos spawn-like

[@auroralee]

I know everyone is thinking the same thing here; "Wow Chaos spawn are a cool part of the lore, but the models are pretty bad" And you'd be right. But my vote is to never update the kit. Because nothing says "YOU ARE NOT WORTHY" to a Chaos Champion like being turned into those absolutely ancient plastic abominations... it's almost poetic 😆

[@adambielen8996]

lol

[@edneragnarok]

Anyone know the artist behind that first pic? The knight/spawn back to back? I really want a print iof that

[@welosttheboat]

A good nurgle themed one is the putrid snail beast by kromlech ;D

[@shadowops666nate5]

Spawn are really difficult to describe? Due its just the thing meets Cronenburg lol

[@matthewchan1730]

Ah godblade, one of my favourite stories

[@Colonel-WhiteRaven126]

Genestealer cult bits, daemon bits, blob of putty cut to size and shape, glue bits randomly, sneeze paint on it, profit

[@donalddavis3097]

Etsy has lords of chaos spawn.

[@SeaDog337]

Just watch the animation Pranktime by [JaimeR] and you'll have some idea of what an ever changing chaos spawn looks like.

[@warhaammerwarhammer7511]

yeah its really cool

[@alexinfinite7142]

John Carpenter's The Thing

[@SaulFerrerSpawndom]

me.

[@warhaammerwarhammer7511]

cool

[@joshuaturnquist5538]

Derpy model, mediocre weapon profile, flimsy, but wonderful if you play Gavespawn. Praise be to Morghur, the great corruptor! May he bring blessed spawndom to the realms.

[@Spenglenoodle]

AKA Archaon in the Storm of Chaos timeline

[@amandag.6186]

Tell that to Abaddon

[@niilofriden4465]

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[@christophermallon6458]

Never used a spawn in my chaos armies even back in the old hammer day's never liked GW spawn model

[@dmeep]

you can easily build your own out of any kit. Currently my spawns for 40k are river trolls with imperial fist shoulderpads and parts from tyranid guard symbolising bits of space marine armour still stuck to them as they burst out. A pair of malifaux models from the neverborn range also with imperial fist shoulderpads and some belt pouches and lastly a blob of mutated flesh from some death guard kit with backpack helm shoudlerpads and crabclaw and tentacle from tyranid guard kit. So 6 spawns and noone is the official model. I am thinking about making some more out of the sisters of battle repentia engine for my iron warriors giving it more of a demon possesed printer with sawblades kind of vibe. I realise this is for 40k and taking a AoS kit and adding stuff is a bit easier then taking 40k stuff and trying to make it look low tech but using greenstuff and kitbashing you can create some real bodyhorror stuff for your spawns. You are only limited by your imagination not by the GW model when it comes to spawns. happy hobbying

[@Ortoreus]

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[@msgames6889]

Yes.... Cool, not at all terrifying