Marienburg Lore Total War: Warhammer

A lore video describing the history and nature of the city of Marienburg in the Warhammer Universe

[@TomorrowWeLive]

Just a minor correction, the High Elves do have various other colonies and it posts scattered around the world. I think Marion burg is the only Empire city to have a sizeable Elven community though. Also the js in Dutch are silent.

[@BulletBill64]

The name's of the districts in Marienburg are all in Dutch where as the rest of the Empire keeps a more German spelling. So I'm guessing they are based on the United Provinces of real history?

[@DarkLordOfSweden]

BulletBill64 more like Holland crossed with Venice, but close

[@BulletBill64]

The United Provinces was pretty much the modern Netherlands

[@DarkLordOfSweden]

BulletBill64 Yea, but it's more inspired by the stereotypical image of Holland for the most part, and yes, I know Holland is part of the Netherlands

[@elliot1460]

But without Flanders.

[@dirkbrown1407]

Not entirely Venice, I believe that Remas is supposed to be Venice or at least in a location relatively similar to Venice in our world. While Marienburg has a more Dutch like naming convention and is most likely in a location similar to the Netherlands in our World. Along with the titles they use which are a lot like those used by the United Provinces.

[@SusCalvin]

The Elfsgemeente is several islands that act as the high elven embassy to Marienburg. It is a closed quarter, with the fortified wharfs and holds of the elven trading interests. Outsiders are not allowed in the "Elf quarters", a few buyers are invited to the bidding on elf goods. The wharfs primarily service elf fleets, from the old illustrations it looks like they have mastered 18th century clipper-equivalents. The elves and Marienburg both enjoy their mutual monopoly out of this deal. The other foreign quarters are more reasonable. Cathay, Nippon and others have embassies in the city. The high elves are practically allied though, I'm not sure if this is represented in Total Warhammer 2.

[@kevendillingham2442]

It was orgre meat that grom ate it was troll meat that he ate that regenerates in his stomach so he has to fight and eat more food to keep growing as a goblin

[@LordBoofhead1]

Marienburg is Amsterdam not Venice.

[@cyrusthebenevolente774]

Lord Boofhead Ahhh Amsterdam the Venice of the north.

[@oscaracosta8389]

N.Y.C it represents capitalistic America

[@aidanrosier47]

@@cyrusthebenevolente774 The Venice of the North is Stockholm, not Amsterdam. ;-)

[@midshipman8654]

François de Valsayre maybe aphoristically, but in terms of economic importance as well as in aperence Amsterdam is more like Venice. Not to mention culturally.

[@aidanrosier47]

@@midshipman8654 There has historically been more Italian architectural influences in Stockholm than in Amsterdam.

[@notmybuddyguy477]

Love your lore video's man...there's a couple channels I watch before I play or while I play Total War Warhammer just too add some depth and immersion to my campaigns man. Keep up the awesome video's mate!!!!

[@ousooners5193]

Loving the lore videos man, thanks

[@liot_7]

me too they are amazing

[@st24b]

Nice video, a little correction though: high elves have a few more outposts outside of ulthuan (fortresses protecting sea trade routes, can't remember names but can be looked up in their army book)

[@aidancampbell5644]

Grom ate troll, not an ogre.

[@theineptgeneral8325]

You're right if I said ogre I misspoke my bad

[@thomasvangenderen395]

so it's basicly Holland in warhammer?

[@Orodaro]

Yes.

[@rickveenbergen9021]

the city is litteraly has dutch districts !

[@ronnie5340]

Rick Veenbergen like which???

[@rickveenbergen9021]

winkelmarkt, doodkanaal, rijks poort tempelwijk, to name a few.

[@luukzandbak]

zo hoor/lees ik het ook

[@tristenspencer9561]

Please can you do these types of videos for each part of the empire?! Thanks great videos!

[@jackharvey5613]

Tristen Spencer you got your wish

[@madcountofdumont7742]

You have improved so much.

[@Emirikol7]

2:06 map is from the tabletop RPG (WFRP 2nd edition). 10:58 map is from the 1e WFRP rpg Sold Down by the River Marienburg supplement.

[@danielkorladis7869]

So it's essentially Amsterdam.

[@miroslavmalivukovic1534]

No, Rotterdam.

[@jeroensmulders1661]

Love the lore video's. Oh and since you seemed to struggle with the word "wijk" ( dutch for "neighborhood" or "district"), The "ij" in dutch is always pronounced as the "ei" in Reikspiel. Keep up the lore.

[@notmybuddyguy477]

You guys should check out a new mod I downloaded the other day for The Empire. It's called The Empire of Man mod it gets more in-depth with the civil war and you actually have to make serious decisions based on the other Empire factions and the Elector Counts. Like you can't just declare war on any Empire faction you have to have a legitmate reason and have to take into account how it will affect the Elector Counts. There is so much more to this mod then I am telling you guys should check it out, adds so much immersion to The Empire campaign.

[@therealdarklordsauron1614]

The high elves have a lot of outposts across the world. Like the citadel of dusk, the gates of calith,the citadel of dawn. Also the highs elves have sacked marienberg once

[@fabianperez3468]

very good work!

[@fabianperez3468]

I hope you can do something about Estalia and Tilea

[@MegaClos15]

It would be cool if you did some lore on some of the past everchosen. Who was the first? How many were there? How did they fail?

[@OneShotArcher]

Carlos Robles the first everchosen was belakor, he became immensely powerful but in his greed for power he fell to demon hood, craving power and ultimately fell from his title as everchosen as he sought to become a demon prince and as you may know once you become a demon prince you gain great power but you are bound to serve the gods forever as you are part demon, archaon however has declined the offer of demon hood every time the gods offer it as he is aware of what will happen if he does. He is loyal to the gods but he wants freedom and doesn't want to become a puppet

[@AnthroTsuneon]

Venice? Huh, I always got told to imagine Amsterdam, the sketch of the canaal made me think of it, too

[@blaf55]

tank ship is soo cool :D

[@ReginaldPugginton]

10:47 lol! A lot of these are Dutch words, and it's so funny how you say them! :D

[@TheAGGF75]

2:28 Where I can get that map?

[@blacklight4720]

Lets declare ourselfs independent! leave the Empire! We shit gold! I mean what can happen? Its not that we have neighbors which might decide to bring chivalry to our country right? :D

[@jethprimero7565]

Black Light you mean so good old crusade/errantry right?

[@arandomguy8771]

Black Light That could never happen I mean think about it we can buy all the mercenaries in the world what could possible go wrong?

[@SuperCosmicSpaceMagnet]

A 20ft high tower is pretty special alright. :P

[@elliot1460]

Hey uh, Inept General. Do the Marienburghers know that they're dark elves or? And why would they make a deal with them or what would the dark elves need?

[@darrenhudson5503]

Always liked marienberg

[@matthijsvancampen7901]

Grom ate a piece of troll meat right not ogre?

[@thegreatbookofgrudges6953]

marienburg just like star wars market in the nutshell

[@goodbanter4427]

Marienburg is obviously modeled after Amsterdam

[@teunkoningterheege4600]

its more like amsterdam

[@timothyedward6147]

Omg I just realised after all these years... its the dutch republic XD

[@SkepticalChris]

20 feet tall towers... Not that impressive...

[@Rex1987]

in other words: Marienburg is somewhat like Venice in the Renaissance :-)

[@oscaracosta8389]

N.Y.C with the wealth of California. Capitalism in the warhanmer world. 😂😂