Warhammer Lore! The Forest of Athel Loren,

[@paulovillareal1631]

I’ve missed the lore. I’m not gonna lie.

[@archlorddestin]

Yup. I was beginning to think that Arch had abandoned lore and was just doing political commentary.

[@thefreshestslice4105]

@@archlorddestin Vraks?

[@ulquiorracifer2243]

@@archlorddestin I dont mind the commentary but lets be honest: we are mostly here for Warhammer.

[@baker90338]

TheFreshest Slice Vampire the masquerade?

[@michaelkeha]

@@thefreshestslice4105 40+ vids on Vraks is more than enough thank you

[@tanall5959]

**rips off gas mask** FINALLY! I couldn't breathe in that thing!

[@philosophicalpatriot1883]

Haha Haha!

[@lazaruslong697]

Phew, so are we officially allowed to do that now? After all those months I was almost getting used to it.

[@bobloerakker7010]

On a side note...our radar has been jammed

[@Fulgrim2]

Put that back on trooper!

[@theless-than-goodhunter7019]

*angery gas mask noises*

[@thedarkgenious7967]

Warhammer Lore? Like, Non-40K Lore? on the Tree-Hugger's home? What year is it? 2017? I suppose I'm not complaining.

[@daswordofgork9823]

TheDarkGenious it is pronounced slanted eyed squirrel fuckers, please.

[@RedDeadTrooper]

@@daswordofgork9823 Your name says Greenskin but your opinion says Bretonnian.

[@ZGuy0fSci]

I do kinda wounder as much "When" as 'Where' such perhaps fits in..... likely maybe not at the point of 40k timelines but at a place somewhen inbetween. fun

[@RedDeadTrooper]

@@ZGuy0fSci 40k and Fantasy are entirely seperate universes and concepts. However, Eldar Exodites are meant to be 40k Wood Elves

[@asajjy]

Basically What if the entirety of the Amazon rainforest suddenly had the ability to actively defend itself And it remembers everything

[@Reynevan100]

I hope it happens IRL.

[@fumarc4501]

Awesome... and lots of dead things.

[@matthewaugart-peponis6361]

Well it's burning to time

[@cnlbenmc]

Good bye Brazil then.

[@DanielChico09]

It already can. A lot of weird shit happen there.

[@fumarc4501]

The Great Vortex, The Tree of Ages, The Waysones of Albion, the Underworld Sea... how many of these magical defusers exist?! I WOULD LOVE A VIDEO ABOUT THEM AND YOUR THEORIES ABOUT THEM!

[@robertnelson9599]

The Great Vortex, Great Warding (Lustria) and Albion Waystones are the defusers of Chaos magic, not the Oak of Ages or Underworld Sea.

[@omegawilliam95s36]

There’s just a whole bunch of magic in the world.

[@andromenia1]

Wait, where on vraks is this forest?

[@italianstallion7272]

It’s next to the Arby’s

[@lordfrostwind3151]

Still safer than Catachan

[@stormverminishere-here2769]

This clearly sign-omen from the Horned One! Arch-thing finally grace us with his presence!

[@fumarc4501]

Sotek says hi.

[@stormverminishere-here2769]

*SCREEEE* RUN-RUN!

[@drfate7863]

Nagash says hi..

[@VioletDeathRei]

"Elf-thing tree not taste great-good, kill-crush many skaven, skaven hate Elf-thing plant-tree!"

[@fumarc4501]

@jackson kye Then stay underground and chew on the roots...

[@operkoi8954]

Tree-Things make good frame-stuff for Skryre gun wagon-carriages

[@berserkshirtbear1271]

Skaven hate ____________

[@lordfrostwind3151]

Skaven friends let me introduce you to my old friend the Catachan Barking Toad, poke it with many sticks once you get it home

[@Fulgrim2]

*happy gas mask noises for new video!* *sees the topic* *very angry gas mask noises that it’s about wood elves!* (just kidding, nice to see more fluff)

[@jeru_jj1161]

Hans, get the flamethrower.

[@constantin3886]

Jeru _JJ *Get ze Flammenwerfer

[@konradcurze394]

@@constantin3886 *Hans, hol den Flammenwerfer

[@matthewaugart-peponis6361]

Elves are fucking heretics who are vile sub-humans

[@Talon323]

What do you call wood elves that betray their kin? Tree-tors!

[@feildpres]

Boo

[@MellowTed]

What do you call Dark Elves who betray their kin? Dark Elves.

[@benpearce4273]

Another grudge in the book

[@gammaspector]

I found the joke funny

[@davidvoncarstein2067]

Wood elves

[@ThePalaeontologist]

"TREE?! I AM *NO TREE!* I am an Ent!" - Treebeard

[@toxicmongerofthehatefulbro5745]

*Sets up Heavy Bolter inside Bunker* Alright Bruva's, this video is bait..When the Knife ear lovin' Bastards come out, Open fire..

[@captainpuffinpuffinson4769]

*Sets up heavy flamer* Just about

[@plot6520]

Such language is unbecoming a son of Dorn

[@honestgoblinproductions5663]

@@plot6520 hey you try building a heavily fortified bunker in the space of a week? I only just got the mecanicus to stop sticking seals on the bathroom cubicle.

[@plot6520]

@@honestgoblinproductions5663 Bathrooms are not required by Adeptus Astartes as power armor is fitted with a fluid reclamation system.

[@honestgoblinproductions5663]

@@plot6520 then why do you make me build one?

[@Keln02]

Total War Funfact: if you give Norsca to the Elven Hippies, they still own it 50 turns later..

[@SassyCassie89]

Arch: mentions spirits in warhammer. Me: well shit's about to go down then.

[@RayisX]

if you enter that forest you are screwed.. unless you are PRINCE AND EMPEROR! then you walk out with a Griffin egg

[@fumarc4501]

That doesn’t seem very fair. How does it know who’s Royalty and who’s not

[@RayisX]

@@fumarc4501 from what i remember of the story, Franz walks in charms some fine wood elf ladies and when he leaves he has Deathclaw's egg... so im guessing it has to do with being a badass

[@Alex_Fahey]

@@RayisX James Bond looks repulsive in comparison.

[@joseof-]

@@fumarc4501 It does recognize the biggest chad the Empire has known since Sigmar.

[@SerjAdama]

So no more drinking game "every time arch says 88th imperial guard siege army take a.shot"?

[@captainthorrek262]

You'll always have understatement and "well, details"...

[@captainpuffinpuffinson4769]

Good , my doner liver could not survive another one

[@Fyrebrand18]

There were too many casualties.

[@kriegkorpsman402]

Wooden Xenos and Green Eldar? It is purging time, where is this Athor Loren World?

[@concretephill8509]

The Eye of Terror. In order to access this World you must pass through the Warp *WITHOUT* Gellar Fields on.

[@fumarc4501]

Exodites deserve their own video.

[@cnlbenmc]

I don't get why Chaos even bothers with one measly planet like this one when they got the entire milky way galaxy to play with.

[@kriegkorpsman402]

@@cnlbenmc I think they view that planet as an experiment and its inhabitants are the lab rats.

[@kriegkorpsman402]

@TankGuy3 "The Rise of the Shovel-Krieger Part I" (Merchandise now at your local Techpriest)

[@catsareevil101]

Good to see this. Even the death corps eventually need to find new battle fields.

[@joshuafarrell8516]

@Zerebrat Eightyseven Its a forest for now. How many days of artillery bombardment before we terraform a no-man's land?

[@BetterThanNothing123]

After almost a year of Vraks, which I truly loved by the way. *happy gasmask noises* It's nice to see you go these smaller lore videos :)

[@ComradeCommissarYuri]

I’m pretty sure you said “chaos invaders” But I distinctly heard “chaos in waders” 😂

[@reichspepe1587]

But Diversity is Athel Loren's strength!

[@scutumfidelis1436]

If you think about it, beastmen are the most diverse of all races. But they shit in the woods, have violent orgies, murder each other and are only united in hatred against pure humanity.

[@kharak6204]

@@scutumfidelis1436 well that sounds familiar

[@Varbos_Poet]

@@scutumfidelis1436 so ecofeminism?

[@Archon3960]

Chaos is still off limits ! ;/

[@Shagrat65]

We need Doombulls , Ghorgons and Jabberslythes. Torching the Oak of Ages just doesn't have that feel good feeling without those boys in the herd.

[@jeanduhamel9101]

Wait a second, those are not the forest of vraks? WHAT CHAOS SORCERY IS THIS???

[@phreakazoith2237]

there aint no forest on Vraks. nor anything. just fine wasteland covered with trenches and craters and barbed wire...like Krieg 2 but with a little icing of Nurgle on the death world cake

[@LU-nc6oy]

Holy terra it's not the Vraks Stuff... thank the emperor, I know more about Vraks than I do world history.

[@12theman345]

I very much enjoy that series. It was a well conveyed narrative and enjoyable to listen to.

[@LU-nc6oy]

@@12theman345 - not saying it wasn't amazing like every lore video from Arch. I was just getting a bit bord of Vraks. It's a super cool part of the cannon and a great story but it did drag on a bit

[@timsabel2088]

Finally another Lore video from the Loregod. It started and Hands stopped shaking....

[@ryanlorenzo5003]

Cold War Era 'Nam war within Athel Loren pls. "AMBUSH! KNIFE-EARS IN THE BUSHES!"

[@williamjeffery9653]

Branchwraiths: Gosh darn elves illegally sneaking into our forest and stealing our jerbs!

[@dank_smirk2ndchannel200]

I just hope this video teaches us how to kill Wood Elves better

[@isaacstandley730]

Reminds me of how the wood elves acted in when first worked in total war warhammer 1. Before balance patches they would quickly confederate then explode onto the map taking over everyrhing. A few campaigns i played basicly had them as a much bigger threat than chaos.

[@18947ful]

mmm warhammer lore ... i am not disappointed :) i am intrigued :*

[@puterchip2326]

ahh its good to return to the old world !

[@XMrSurrealisticX]

My first love army and ALL TIME FAVORITE part of Warhammer Fantasy (before everything became stupid): The Wood Elves/ Athel Loren This was a legendary release! Just take a look at the cover of White Dwarf Magazine No. 308! Even today this design looks so strikingly unique , so otherwordly strange but is at the same time still a true embodiment of the archetypical noble Elvish warrior...graceful? yes but not Tolkien-esque, more like a mischievous pan who steals your child for his armies and swaps it for a changeling made from a block of wood, or just randomly decides to hunt you for entertainmet because for him you are nothing more than an insect! :D Whoever designed the concept/aesthetic for the Asrai is a genius and my personal Jesus! All i know about painting i learned in the dark ages without online tutorials - because the miniatures are so worth it! Especially the dryads look spectacular with ice blue osl...but i digress:)

[@nightlock826]

Finally! Treehugger rejoice! Your friends hug back!

[@marley7868]

I hug with napalm but if you don't like that say hi to my friend agent orange

[@VioletDeathRei]

@@marley7868 I see you are a Salamander of culture.

[@fumarc4501]

Stay away! *waves torch*

[@phreakazoith2237]

Still sounds more cozy than that forest filled with giant spiders and spider venerating goblins

[@Ortoreus]

Arch i genuinely love your videos and watch almost all of them. I really think you’d do an amazing job with AOS stories and battles, your favorite old world is still there, just very changed. i think you’d like it, and your videos would be spectacular!

[@phreakazoith2237]

These acorns sound like something a witch hunter might like to turn into ammo...

[@fritzvoss5263]

00:35 "trees are not alive" Arch Warhammer, 2020

[@midshipman8654]

I’m happy warhammer fantasy lore is back!

[@craigcov8959]

Love your lore videos. Really gets me through a boring work shift.

[@richardjoyce848]

A new lore video? Hells yesss, all of this in my face RIGHT NOW.

[@brodieknight772]

YEEEESSS! FUCK YES! Arch, my man, you have no clue how happy his makes me. I'm so glad we're back to the world of Warhammer Fantasy.

[@Brikkwall]

Thank Emperor, more warhammer content!

[@jackgleeson8321]

elves elves are so full of themselves.

[@LorePlayingGames]

I wonder what relation the Branchwraiths have with the Dryads. The dryads are from what I recall, awakened by the ward spells that allow wood elf souls to posses dryad body after death, so it is not taken by Slaanesh. Are they more elf, or more wood spirit? Or something else completely.

[@erickelly1323]

Branch Wraiths: They took our jobs!

[@bradwatson1142]

Happy gas mask noises....oh wait

[@brushlickerstudio28]

Yeah, bring us back this lovely lore man!

[@CrossBreedTacoHD]

Little spiky frog boy with a little bow. That's what's important.

[@StarSage66]

*pulls off gas mask* It was Athel Loren the whole time!

[@kingcrimson3039]

I can hear a dwarf saying "Fucking trees Huger!"

[@aitchisondaniel]

I always liked the way they tricked the French into worshipping them...

[@Naedrelian]

I was rather intrigued/confused by the mention of a council of forrest spirits in the Orion omnibus. It goes along with the problem of the forrest having a fragile compact with the Wood Elves, but also goes into the tenuous link between Orion's reincarnation and the forrest's own assent and support. Does that mean there are other version of Athel Loren's greater spirits, like Durthu but with different hosts and attributes?

[@omegawilliam95s36]

Magic Forests in fantasy: The outsiders are a threat, we shall destroy them all for Mother Nature! Bright Wizards: This is where the fun begins. >:)

[@016Roi]

Sounds like heresy. Brother, bring the flamethrower.

[@TommyCurrell]

This is the kind of content I subscribed for.

[@gammaspector]

Awesome lore vid arch, it’s good to have lore Friday back. But outta curiosity if I may make a suggestion of lore topics of an old promise, maybe possibly; lore vids of ghaz gul mag uruk thrakka and commissar yarrick

[@michaelkeha]

Indeed I think Armageddon is owed that much after Vraks got so many videos

[@Tatti12321]

Warhammer lore video? No politics? Fantastic.

[@georgehakimrizk5956]

finally warhammer lore again

[@lordfrostwind3151]

Ah branchwraiths, aka what happened after Khorne was given a chia pet for his birthday. Heaven help anyone that gives the blood god a bonsai tree.

[@LordKilljoy2012]

Arch does another lore video after quite a long time... the dark gods be praised!

[@Alexandoas]

Glad to see more lore videos, keep up the awesome work dude.

[@dirk903]

Omg... lore on the old world??? Actual fantacy lore?!?! I almost shed a tear seeing this. I hope there will be more

[@whymedk]

If there is one thing you can safely call a forest it is "Alive", but I'm not complaining since we finally got a Lore-video

[@Aotearas]

I wonder which Adeptus Astartes chapter is going to hog all the glory in this lore series.

[@benpearce4273]

Yaaasss!! Finally back to lore videos you do so well

[@ethantaylor9613]

And remember in age of Sigmar treemen are literally all that’s left of the wood elves

[@nekoill]

That comma in the end of the title though Such intrigue

[@RevengeofGothzilla]

Glad siege of vraks is over and you're once again making content I actually care about.

[@lucho9911]

awwww yiiisss, warhammer lore *sits back, sips coffee*

[@Starfals]

There goes the 40k ONLY channel ;p ( i mean, that's how most people viewed it anyways) I do not complain however! I love any kind of Warhammer lore :P

[@JunoneMaster3000]

Well he started his channel being a Warhammer fantasy loremaster. Then he went astray with 40k..... So this is a ''back to the roots video''. And I hope he does stay close to his roots.

[@darkblood626]

Oh dear. It seems I have fallen through a time hole into the past.

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

One magical woods are the same as any magical woods, I mean I spent so much time in the Fay Wilds at one point or another that my eye glow green when looking into the fire or any source of light is shinned at them, and several of my compatriots have gained similar features, the half elf sorcerer wizard mage guy's eye now glow a bright blue when ever he casts a spell and I think he has been juicing on magic roots again, the dwarf warrior got a bit more tall, the high elf babe got....longer hair and I think bigger boobs, well minus the wood elf he just has pair of antlers growing out of his head,....wait scratch that its his hood, But in all nerdy honesty it always great when you make lord videos , I really love you for that bro, all the best till next time,

[@TiroDvD]

Reminds me of the One Forest from the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever. Alive and slightly sentient. And still willing to kill and eat those that worship trees/wood, and even those that know how to use wood without harming the tree.

[@anotherinmigrant5302]

Dude, that coma at the end of the title gives out so much meaning...

[@anotherinmigrant5302]

also, wood Eldar are gay af

[@NetMoverSitan]

Yeah, you've covered the hippy elves. | 20:40 - I wouldn't say that it was higher than them, but certainly different. | The Bretonians are the exception, mostly because they have an understanding with the forest, enough of one to reduce the risk of getting themselves killed.

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

I got good news ! With the wheels of fantasy rolling again ( in a few years but still ) we might see the leaf eared bastards crusading .

[@kacpadestro8086]

Your lore content is spot on keep it up

[@skrotosd]

It was a lot of time since the last lore video, really welcomed.

[@briHammer40K]

You will never know how happy you hav made me arch!!! Back to fantasy 😃😃😃

[@blacktemplar5970]

Any chance on some specific AoS lore?

[@BUSSTISEBOOST]

Well the forest is now a whole Realm in Age of Sigmar.

[@LanceTheAutobot]

Anny other fantasy nature would be pure good in Warhammer there are litteral trees with knives that want to shank you because u exsist ...lovely

[@honestgoblinproductions5663]

Warhammer. Angry Fantasy.

[@TheUltrahypnotoad]

In the grim darkness of the renaissance there is only war.

[@JohnnyTwos]

A lore video!!!! I wait for these so long it feels like ^.^

[@warhammerguy]

Would you brave the forests of Athel Loren for the chance of finding your elf Waifu/Husbando? Fail and you die, succeed and you will be a legend that will live in luxury for the rest of your life with a forever young, beautiful, sexual active partner. That's the advertisement the local Bretonian lords used when they realized their peasant population had overbred by accident. But didn't want to stain their noble hands with filthy peasant blood or the work of getting rid of the bodies.

[@robertcypress6604]

I wonder if it would have been possible to spread trees like the oak of ages. Might have been a way to diffuse chaos more naturally. Then again, the old ones probably thought the same in creating Athel Loren. Even given a familiar form and a familiar nature, the unpredictable nature of chaos remains.

[@alexvarney3683]

LORE! SWEET DELICIOUS LORE! My ravenous brain it's purring in contentment

[@dandan3147]

Lore!!!!! Happy times are here again!

[@ragingtigergamer3317]

Thanks for another Lore video wish you could do more then one a week but i understand the amount of time these videos take. Could you do a imperial Navy overview like the guard one you did a few years ago.

[@gokbay3057]

Arch will you do a video about "Dynasty Mode"?

[@captainpuffinpuffinson4769]

Old world Vs Vraks... Can't decide if I'm happy or sad ...

[@Fulgrim2]

Sad, we can’t go back to paradise...

[@captainpuffinpuffinson4769]

​@@Fulgrim2 sad gas mask noises resharpening shovel while sadly staring at broken walls

[@thehaackmeister9381]

Can you do a video on the laurelorn forest and the Eonir elves that live in it

[@seanhenry7174]

Arch! Please do a vid or two about the skaven under-city under Athel Loren and its downfall! So tragic!!

[@thebronzegoose9169]

Lore that isn't Siege of Vraks ? I'm not sure I can cope!

[@bravesirrobin5839]

"They took me jeb!" -brachwraith

[@erocook9762]

Godt gjennomført, flott med litt Lore.

[@unclemiguel4221]

hey Arch, could you do a lore video on the Blood Angels' Death Company please?

[@Nerobyrne]

GW saw it's own world and was like "I'm about to end this man's whole career!"

[@kairos468]

Going back to your Warhammer Fantasy roots I see, Arch! (If you'll pardon the pun).

[@Prince__Teclis]

He's branching out.

[@kairos468]

@@Prince__Teclis Nice one!

[@Prince__Teclis]

@@kairos468 Thank yew.

[@youroldpapapalpy1894]

Hurrah for new Fantasy lore!

[@johnchukwudum673]

In all seriousness, Warhammer fantasy & World Of Warcraft, have a lot of similarities when it comes to elf Woods Elf's and Night Elf's druids are similar to the extreme. They are both one with NATURE (forest and BIG TREES), and they both grow horns. Both turn into animals.

[@michaelkeha]

Well seeing as Warcraf is a rip off of Warhammer not a surprise.