Old World Geographic - In a hole in Mootland there lived a Halfling

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[@Tarriff]

God damn it Baggins! +It was hard to make a video about Halflings Without a Halfling model

[@chosenofkhorne2951]

Well at least they actually hunt vampires that try to conquer them, and they have cousins the ogres as friends if you try to fuck with them

[@ncmtr]

dude you awsome !! pls do Averland next :DD

[@kroxigordundee7767]

Wait don't you know OVN lost factions? There's Halfling in it

[@Tarriff]

@@kroxigordundee7767 I got it but it's really hard to make somthin with a modded faction

[@Tarriff]

@Sawyer Cantrell Halflings are actually -censored-

[@eviem5658]

"He's in downtown screaming he's fire and death and covered in gold!" Who let Balthasar Gelt out?

[@bagussantosoST]

I'm wheezing... ROFL

[@Dave_tda18]

*Estalia intensifies*

[@aymanelkadouri8235]

I think he is getting Vietnam flashback

[@apollomars1678]

i became for a short time norsca by this comment

[@theloweffortchannel7211]

Considering Miao Ying...

[@EldarPanic]

For a second I forgot which fantasy universe this was....

[@lolasdm6959]

Warhammer used to copy Tolken in the olden days.

[@Crawdithe98]

@@lolasdm6959 To be fair, every fantasy copies Tolkien to some extent.

[@rust9542]

@@Crawdithe98 I personally try to think of fantasy games/shows where they take 0 inspiration from Tolkien... *SO FAR NONE*

[@lolasdm6959]

@@Crawdithe98 Well not really, that is only the case in the west, espeaciallly the Anglosphere. Tolkien took inspiration from British folk tales, that's where dwarfs and elves came from in the first place.

[@michaelknox3715]

@@rust9542 Game of thrones comes to mind

[@mathieuverschelden4525]

Imperial Chronicler Tolkien: Ah shit, here we go again. Then again, this might turn into an interesting story...

[@milan4572]

Good stories deserve a little embellishment

[@InquisitorThomas]

Baggins is going to return home to Mootland to find Vlad and Isabella eating all his relatives.

[@lolasdm6959]

Who eats halflings? Rather take a skaven instead.

[@cliffhanger4945]

FTFY >Baggins is going to return home to Mootland to find Vlad eating Isabella there.

[@DzinkyDzink]

@@cliffhanger4945 no fun if there's no nose to poke clitoris..

[@lolasdm6959]

@@DzinkyDzink Do vampire thingies even work properly? They are just walking corpses.

[@OnlyDeathIsEternal]

@@lolasdm6959 I think, though they need someone's blood to make it hard.

[@ollaniuspius1211]

I sense a "Make Altdorf Great Again" campaign from this Witch-Hunter

[@smileybones9172]

That witch hunter's name is Tolkien, and he went on to be the most esteemed fantasy author in Altdorf!

[@TheArklyte]

except you can't be a fantasy writer in fantasy setting... unless you write about such heretical things like progress and technology whatever that means...

[@smileybones9172]

@@TheArklyte I take it you haven't read Herr Felix Jaeger's work then. The fanciful lad writes as if he experienced it first hand!

[@TheArklyte]

@@smileybones9172 bah, low quality belletristics! Where have you seen a shirtless dwarf before? What's next, human sized mice?

[@milan4572]

@@TheArklyte Necrodomo the Insane for example wrote such bullshit that is considered to be a fantasy inside fantasy for most players

[@toastedghost8971]

out of all the places in the Warhammer universe to live, the Mootland seems like a pretty decent place to settle down. When there aren't vampires snooping around that is...

[@badman231177]

Which is like, all the time.

[@incognitopotato3516]

And then you relies that the halting have no filter and are about as crooked as a skavens tail.

[@multi-snakedragon4184]

*When oakenshield dies* Thorgrim: time to write another grudge.

[@ZetsubouGintama]

That's Belegar and he took Baggins to taken 8 Peaks from Imrik.

[@Shrapnel57]

That Stirlander saying about shooting halflings on sight makes awful lot of sense to me now.

[@user-uc4vg4rg9e]

Don't forget to make sure they're dead

[@archforrier1097]

cant have halflings actually making there food taste good

[@user-zr2xs2os6c]

From this video I`ve learned that it`s hard to be an old man with a golden ring in the Empire. Especially if you`re from Averland or state-nobody-wants-to-visit

[@user-wb7ez9ud4p]

And also don't be a vault guardian in a bank unless if you want to become a gold statue *cough cough* Balthassar Gelt

[@Azoth86730]

"Just as planned" -Tzeentch

[@noblemanasa3974]

Okay, so the Baggins started a minor war in the Mootland between the Elves, Dawi, and the Empire, then the Orks invaded. That makes 4 and a half armies present, so is the Vampires getting in on this?

[@toastedghost8971]

Sauron is the necromancer in the hobbit so that's him with his army of ring- i mean uhh....cairnwraiths and fell bat- i mean uhh... fellbeasts

[@cathulionetharn5139]

The dragon by himself probably made the fifth gang, or the catayan restaurant owner called his "friends"

[@scienceme9794]

Beastmen

[@parkerdixon-word6295]

I was always not sure what the 5th army was even in the book. Were they counting Goblins separate from Orks? Or were they Counting Eagles?

[@pierre-mariecaulliez6285]

@@parkerdixon-word6295 Gandalf

[@demoscassi8055]

Meanwhile, an imperial Gray wizard is visiting Lord Necromancer in Slovenia.

[@tvs5941]

Orion, what do your elven eyes see? They are taking the hobbits to Averland!

[@DzinkyDzink]

To Averland!

[@chiefmasterofdeepwarrens3208]

Tell me where is Balthasar, for I much require to speak with him

[@Tragedous]

The halflings recieved the moot because a halfling cook convinced the emperor that it would be hillarious to steal/permanently borrow from stirland

[@tanith117]

Not only that, but they also got a Vote for the emperor out of that too.

[@broadbandislife]

THIS ACTION HAS MY CONSENT

[@The_Rising_Tempest_Emilia]

God damn it Tariff, now you made me wanna do a Mootland campain roleplaying as the fellowship.

[@thoraxthechangeling1244]

In old editions there were actually rules to play so called "The Comradeship" as special characters in the halfling army.

[@aasmundhald7638]

And the dwarfs: Dwagrim, Bagrim, Ogrim, Glogrim, Bigrim, Bogrim, Bomgrim

[@beermaster3359]

...thorgrimm,bombur,biffur, xD

[@lostdamn1285]

The way of how they name their people is quite grim

[@lordteagan6252]

The namers are funnier when you pronounce them "Ung-rim", "Dwag-rim", "Big-rim", "Glog-rim", "Bog-rim", "Bomg-rim", "Dong-rim" and finally "Thorg-rim". Grombrindel is the only one not with rim in his name, therefore he is sus and quite possibly a half-ling instead. Probably stole that name from someone and called it borrowing.

[@rohan0724]

Bigrim the Dwarf was an absolute chad, look at the size of his rim!

[@ZetsubouGintama]

Fulgrim, Grimgor, Sigvald...

[@novaterra973]

Fun fact: You can buy a tasty meat pie at cheap price from Halfling vendors in almost every Imperial city. Unfortunately, it is also called Roiling Gut Pocket because the Halflings use their amazing cooking skill to hide the sorry state of ingredients (and sometimes mystery meats), resulting in many trips to the toilet afterward. Fun fact 2: There is an Empire-wide Halfling organization for equal right, called Quinsberry Lodge, specifically because the Halflings are most oppressed non-human minority within the Empire (with plenty of attacks and outright pogrom - especially by the Stirlanders, throughout the history), since both the Imperial Dwarfs and Elves are wealthy and powerful enough (both as a group and individuals) to escape persecution and even fight off the lynch mob (and in case of the Dwarfs, with the additional advantage of the Cult of Sigmar literally having 'be nice to Dwarfs' as religious doctrine).

[@navilluscire2567]

Persecution, discrimination and even outright assaults against Dwarves and Elves living within the Empire probably still happen, they're likely just less frequent, both due to religious, political or social reasons as well as just the fact there's just less of them around. Also that such incidents of racial violence against elves and dwarves probably tend to be less...'note worthy' in most cases. (the sheer brutality and cruelty of it I mean)

[@novaterra973]

@@navilluscire2567 That, and that the Dwarfs and Elves can be lethal in fight. Halflings... not as much.

[@navilluscire2567]

@@novaterra973 True, dwarves and elves might tend to be more capable of fighting back atleast in a physical fight against would be linch mobs or other racially motivated attacks but I think it's more about *they can get away with fighting back or even killing in self defense or against potential assault too.* What I mean is that a Dwarf in say Altdorf were to defend himself from drunk, racist, dwarf-hating humans and managed to fight them off maybe even kill one or two of them then he's likely going to get off Scot free as far as the law is concerned but it's the strong possibility that he won't face serious retaliation outside the group that assaulted him. The other Rieklanders (where Altdorf is) probably won't raise too much of a fuss over such an incident because one it's not seen by most as sociable acceptable to harass a dwarf for no other reason than them being a dwarf (try to haggle them in a deal sure, or wary of sticky fingers maybe..) and two because for many humans in Sigmar's domain they see most dwarves (broadly speaking) as at best mankinds most staunch allies with similar or compatible interests and this has been proven multiple times over the centuries and generations of cooperation and comradeship between the two races. Over the generations of fighting together in countless wars and battles against hordes of monsters and mutual enemies strong, lasting alliances have been reaffirmed time and time again. Not to mention the dwarves historical aid to reconstruction efforts after said conflicts which has engendered mostly high opinions and mutual respect in the popular consciousness of many Imperials if not outright good will, barring personal friendships and bonds, grudges and hatred between individuals or subgroup to subgroup relations. That's not even counting the numerous gifts given and contributions the dwarves civilization has made to the Empire from famous landmarks and engineering projects like dwarf made or designed bridges and walls to roads, fortifications and other vital Infrastructure which has made dwaf kind pretty synonymous with reliability further cementing their image as decent, hard working folk that are not be too harshly treated. (when possible or convenient..) Now ofcourse individuals are not stereotypes positive or negative, not ever dwarf is a friend, reliable, hardworking or good with crafting. Contrasted with halflings whom started out their notable place in the Empire's history as takers of people's lands and homes when the ill fated decision of the all ready (at the time and even today) hated Emperor Ludwig the fat (lovely moniker..) to give parts of Averland and Stirland to the newly founded (at the time) province of the Moot or Mootland province. This basically set the tone for Averland's and maybe more so Stirland's rocky and turbulent relationship with the Moot and the Halflings of the Empire for centuries to come. This along with the Halflings steadily growing influence on the Empire and control of its vital bureaucracy through their status as an Imperial province and having their own elector vote on selecting the Emperors of the Empire made already distrustful and resentful humans all the more adverse to halflings, mainly in those provinces that had to now seriously compete economically with the raising agricultural and tobacco industry powerhouse of the Mootland in its early years. This continued on with building tensions until a Stirland elector count managed to win an election and became Emperor who made it practically state policy to discriminate against and even encouraged assaults or mass riots against mainly halflings living outside the Moot destroying their homes or businesses. This set off a near Empire wide powder keg of racial violence and even full blown progroms against halflings which saw the uprooting of their enctched positions within the Empire's bureaucracy leading to an eventual drastic reduction in Halflings living outside the Moot and with most halflings coming to see humans as at best necessary allies but could quickly turn to viscous enemies and so most halflings today live in the Moot as far away as possible from the world of men at large outside of vital trade and necessary cooperation. (again baring friendships, relationships and bonds between individuals and subgroups) Ofcourse things are alot better now as far as discrimination and hate against halflings goes due in no small part to halfling rights organizations like the *"Queensberry lodge"* a halfling run group that sought to aid oppressed or discriminated halflings across the Empire and protect halflings from racial violence or attacks. This along with general trends of most humans becoming much less antagonistic toward halflings and it being seen as "unfashionable" to be harsh to the small-folk or at the very least are more tolerant of their presence or more indifferent about them save for maybe folks from Stirland or Averland but even that hard cultural sentimentality has grown softer and has become more and more the sphere of outspoken racist groups or individuals than just casual rascism abounding over the latter centuries and newer generations.

[@novaterra973]

@@navilluscire2567 That is true.

[@Moonhermit-]

Is..is that a Witch Hunter with the voice of Carl from ATHF?

[@gejnormcswipe8435]

Was just about to ask..

[@eb5286]

Yeah I’m pretty sure he uses a program that “deepfakes” voices from other media. The Narrator is from The Stanley Parable.

[@sorkvild1473]

Another video about G.R.R Token books ? Amazing! "The Halfling or There and Back Again" is the best gangsta story better even than " The Fellowship of the hammer"

[@KuuraHelmi]

How about the "Return of the Elector Counts" or "The Two Gates"?

[@alect525]

Or "The Giant Glowing Warpstone"

[@alect525]

That's a Simallrian reference

[@nobodyspecial9097]

1:19 he sounds like a pixelated Carl from Aqua Teen Hunger Force

[@BoxyBrown-lw9kb]

Man I was hoping to find a comment like this. He sounds exactly like Carl

[@diegocamacho6477]

The Moot is an illegitimate state. That land belongs to Stirland and Averland.

[@smileybones9172]

Stirland has no claim on it, if their cuisine has any say in the matter!

[@ProjectEkerTest33]

The Emperor says otherwise. Do you question his authority?!

[@cliffhanger4945]

DAMN HALFLINGS STOLEN MY LAND!

[@minimalphilia]

You misspelled Sil.. err Slovania. Land of batdiddlers.

[@aymanelkadouri8235]

Yeah they tried to take it but lost a STEAM TANK ONE OF 12 TANKS IN THE EMPIRE that's how strong or lucky the halflings are

[@Inshabael.]

I remember once a halfling from Mootland gave me some of their fine herbs...only to later find out that those "herbs" were in fact a clan pestilens Skaven pubes.

[@xeroxhero5615]

We’re a long way from the Shire, Mr [CENSORED]

[@had3s184]

I like this witch hunter xd

[@beastwarsFTW]

He sounds like Carl from Aqua Teen

[@szymonrozanski6938]

NOOOO not the cathay restaurant. Oh well atleast we still got the "Living Meat" Restaurant. Totally not sylvania spies.

[@lolasdm6959]

When your steak attacks you

[@dubuyajay9964]

@@lolasdm6959 If a vampire eats too much stake does it cause for them death by heart attack? 🧛‍♂️🧛‍♀️💔 🥁 Ok, I'll show myself out.

[@lolasdm6959]

@@dubuyajay9964 lol

[@navilluscire2567]

I could see the Vampire counts secretly owning and promoting a store chain similar to *"Hot Topic"* from the shadows as a front to recruit more cultists by making Vampires and the whole dreary, gothic esthetic "hip and cool" with young "Old worlders" (Fantasy "Not-Europe") some future timeline set in the early "information age" of the Warhammer Fantasy world. (maybe crystal ball based internet that's REALLY slow and crappy?)

[@williamoforangedidnothingwrong]

"Battle of Five Gangs" this made my chuckle whole-heartedly

[@Hippie629]

Now I'm picturing a drunk Witch Hunter Carl in a wagon with 2 wicked painted on the side while he's pretending it's a steam tank.

[@filipbronic2248]

Carl is spreading through the warhammer like a clan pestilens plague and just like clans pestilens, I can't get enough of it

[@Kaimariification]

That witch-hunter gave me a Carl vibe from ATHF. Poor guy seems to keep dealing with this kind of crap so much that you start to feel bad for him.

[@Lollix87]

0:44. No matter how many times you will kill/cook him, my Poor Morghur will, ehm, "spawn" again. U_U

[@itsjared4845]

I'm the distance, you can just see Vlad and Isabella calling to see if they can book there weekly reservation in mootland.

[@khornatekrieger3023]

I'll never get tired of hearing Carl's voice thrown around and used in these. Edit since I got a heart. Maybe one of these documentaries could be on Carl Franz.

[@PonchaYT]

I expect a full trilogy of movies.

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

A trilogy of movies, followed by one movie stretched into 3 parts.

[@linus5489]

The old world geography serie is amazing

[@7337simi]

Never thought about Bilbo to be responsible for the battle of the five armies and the destruction of Esgaroth. Will never get that out of my head now I guess, rip. Thanks 😠

[@orthobison9749]

So is it just me or does this guy sound like the narrator from The Stanley Parable? Does anyone remember that game. Dang it’s been a while.

[@dovahkiin_brasil]

You are correct

[@deathkorpstrooper8228]

No, Not the "Battle of Five Gangs" again. They will ruin Altdorf... Again! GOD DAMMIT BAGGINS!

[@swolie]

I see that Carl Brutananadilewski became a witch hunter.

[@northerncricket5199]

Can you make funny sound effects over thrott the unclean gulping down warpstone on the character select screen? There's so much untapped meme potential in that animation

[@carnage_painting5498]

Poor morghur

[@Shrapnel57]

At least this time he was made into something delicious instead of something worse than a warcrime.

[@runthehills7858]

Now every mootling has an extra arm, eye or even some extra fur.

[@AdventurerOfOblivion]

I love how the subtitles never match up with what is actually being said.

[@anjairis]

This is one of the best so far holy fucking shit that was hilarious! XD

[@gideonmele1556]

I can see why Vlad always invades the Moot

[@davebowman9000]

This is the most hilarious video in both fandoms! Congratulations on such an amazing success!!!

[@discountplaguedoctor88]

Pretty sure that was Zhao Ming's favorite restaurant.

[@Diurdii]

Any character voiced by Carl is fucking gold

[@DzinkyDzink]

Who is Carl?

[@Hasemann1]

I just watched a 4min + advertisement. I hope you get rich bro

[@Shackospeare]

2:01 i need that as my cellphone tone

[@PipoZePoulp]

The Moot, sandwiched between the land nobody wants to visit and the state nobody wants to be visited by.

[@nodrogstengrad4782]

This is being implemented into my D&D world at some point. It’s brilliant.

[@yamochanchan]

Ohhhh so one of Celestial Dragon siblings is hiding in Altdorf! Future Cathay DLC confirmed!

[@CasualDiver]

These are getting better and better

[@lukedufresne7866]

This video made me way happier than it should’ve

[@fumarc4501]

I now want a big red dragon to attack Mootland.

[@chaospacemarine8330]

*THIS COMMENT WAS REMOVED FROM PUBLIC VIEWING BY THE TOLKIEN™ ESTATE.*

[@shimmereyes8984]

I love how Games Workshop completely stole the poor halflings into becoming freaking thieves

[@Andreazor]

Inquisitor Carl Brutananadilewski. He once had that problem with the Chaos Hound.

[@ProjectEkerTest33]

It's almost like most of Warhammer is just LoTR but changed a bit...

[@TheKolboShow]

Or to be more accurate, Warhammer is just LoTR, Monty Python and Michael Moorcock novels but changed a bit.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Malus Darkblade is based on Elric of Melnibone.

[@aprinnyonbreak1290]

It's totally different! The Orcs are green, see? Totally different. And look, the human kingdoms aren't medival, they're early modern! There's no way you can mix those up! And let's not even get started on the dead frog on a magic chair spiritually leading a race of bioengineered super soldiers. And look at those! Those are Fimir! NOTHING has had a Fimir before!

[@minimalphilia]

After defeating the dark lord in his tower, the city of Gondor started dealing with its rat problem. It's gone now. The city.

[@rull11100]

Halfling: The Battle of Five Gangs

[@jamesvoidray7646]

That one's the best so far. Keep it up dude!

[@The_Great_Eye]

This fits so well since I Just installed the OVN factions mod and tried out the Halflings today.

[@lordsesshomaru8960]

The Witch Hunter rant had me on floor 😂😂😂💀

[@koheletcalaforexclan6508]

0:46 Jeez The Burn! Morghur’s Dead and he’s still kicked 😆

[@EliteWarrior1026]

In the book, Tolkien counted the Goblins and Wargs as two separate factions, hence Five Armies. So the Norsca will ally with the Greenskins, but accidentally only sent the Warhounds and Ice Wolves units.

[@kasatimshardnim]

All I learned from this video is that if I'm playing as the empire and I get that pop up with the halflings asking for protection against the vampires for the 200th time, ill just let the vampires have them.

[@ryleequinn9220]

It is no exagertion or hyperbole that all evils of the world are endorsed and committed by Halfings . A Halfling feels no empathy, nor remorse, no common humanity that separtes us from simple beasts. The only love a Halfling can feel, if you dare describe it so is that for money. A Halfling would sooner sell his own mother for a pouch of silvers than do a single good deed in his entire gaping hole of an existance. - ssethtzeentach

[@ryleequinn9220]

And remember: a good Halfling... is a dead Halfling

[@SomeOneWandering]

I just love how the Inquisitor Captain is voice by Carl from Aqua Teen

[@cesare_1302]

This is absolute GOLD. You earn a subscriber today

[@MagusLay]

Witch Hunter's voice makes me think of an Altdorfian Carl from Aqua Teen and now I can't unsee it

[@Stolskai]

Just putting for the record (Since I didn't see it in the description), The voices are from 15.ai.

[@bertibert6656]

Ah that is why Morghur ended up in the cooking show. A classic Prequel

[@snakebolt2459]

The five armies elves, dwarf , ork, humans and a goddamn

[@jacobirving8999]

The witch hunter has to be my favorite recurring character

[@timothybyrne9764]

I can apreciate this new text to speach device.

[@lkcdarzadix6216]

now i want halfing slingers

[@aymanelkadouri8235]

The moment that witch hunter spoke I felt deja vu like a certain caracter called Carl who lives near frylock and shake and meatwad

[@praise_kek340]

I am really enjoying this keep making more

[@sweepmachine8965]

BEST FUCKING VID YET!!! I want to watch it again.

[@SuperRedarmy123]

make more this it so funny plus nice reference lord of rings

[@tonyfranksland428]

Halfling is like a global super power that cause problem

[@Aleksenorus]

That was great. I'm really looking forward to the story about the Bordelo and the "hardworking" Alberic. 😄😁

[@johntucker7905]

A classic "oh Sigmar No!" from Witch Hunter Carl when the dragon arose from the restaurant would have made this video perfect

[@user-rh5tm8jj7z]

Lol, is it also a reference to gang conflicts in Chinatown?

[@Tarriff]

no it's about -censored-

[@nickorlove7848]

That witch hunter sort of m sounded like carol from Aqua team hunger force. This is now my new head cannon.

[@dubuyajay9964]

More Witch Hunter Carl please.

[@Mrowkaqq]

So even the halflings feast upon Morghur...

[@xxbigxx4204]

Man this was amazing Escape me some Chuckles made me laugh this was good thank you

[@gergokerekes4550]

this was like, 5 world deep. I like it.

[@phantomwraith1984]

I feel like Tolkien is gonna sue somebody

[@SeruraRenge11]

Captain Carl Brutananadilewski of the Empire

[@marneus]

Someone should keep an Eye on them.

[@MrIpokeu]

Haha, keep up with the old world geographic, it's very entertaining. =D

[@_greenrunner_]

This is quite possibly the greatest meme to ever come out of warhammer I demand more

[@josephmoffatt4696]

Thank you for acting on my request.

[@helwrecht1637]

2:23 best part! Omg I was bursting with laughter

[@kagetoshin9761]

Nephew Baggins: Uncle can u tell me that story Uncle Baggins: Watch this video

[@arpeedaggs]

Inquistor Carl is my new favorite

[@leonst.7471]

Halflings they exist sadly.... -Marius Leitdorf propably