Where to Start with Age of Sigmar!

[@ogrynmod1765]

The "chaos lord" that sigmar thew his hammer at and lost it was damn ARCHAON! sigmar wanted him fucking DEAD! which is why he made such a mistake in his rage

[@sindrimyr5351]

That is a huge point that should not be missed xd Fantasy equivalent of Abbadon/Horus but competent and actually succesful

[@Mad_Tongues]

​@@sindrimyr5351well except that one time where he got into a fight with a orc but to be fair that wasn't a ordinary orc then gw said it wasn't Cannon

[@mistadangerzone8362]

@@Mad_Tonguesto quote a meme, “there is nothing ordinary about THAT ork

[@clayandros2038]

​@@Mad_Tongues storm of.chaos isn't canon the fight that happens in end times is.

[@pile-o-nonsense3688]

​@@Mad_Tongues Well, he did already fight off Valten (who was running around with Ghal Maraz) and Luthor Huss, took several wounds while doing so, Dorghar was killed by Valten and Grimgor flat out ambushed him right after beating Huss so it's not like the two had some honorable duel or even a remotely fair fight.

[@dratesdragetes777]

Nagash needs to be talked about at some point my man

[@icholi88]

How is this video 14 minutes old but your post is from 12 days ago?

[@dratesdragetes777]

@@icholi88 KZbin member's are able to see the video before regular subscribers.

[@icholi88]

@@dratesdragetes777 I'm sorry, no one should have to carry such a black mark. I'm sure you're actually a good person at heart and someone extorted you to these levels of depravity... I'll keep you in my thoughts.

[@ScoutXdude]

Such is the power of Nagash.

[@Roberto-fz2ed]

AOS sucks bro

[@drachir7146]

Skaven are by far my favorite part of AOS and Fantasy, outside of Gotrek and Felix of course but poor Felix is still missing

[@l4rgo911]

Second that, the Skaven are a wonderful group of self-sabotaging Rat-Busterds™ to heard about.

[@Ouyak]

Let's hope down the line Gotrek finds his soul or any solid sign of Felix.

[@newnamesameperson397]

I just finished realm slayer. Spoilers sort of. This whole time I was mislead by people bitching and moaning as they usually do but AoS ain't half bad. It's an interesting setting sort of like viewing the world in a stage before everything becomes mundane. I thought gotrax story would suck without Felix as so many people implied but it's surprisingly good. People are like he gave up looking for Felix, not really. He found him and decided not to drag him into the new world although I have a theory that gotrax actions may have unintentionally dragged Felix in. At the end of slayer, Felix is basically trapped in a pocket of air buried underground and decides to write in his journal to conclude gotrax epic. He mentions hearing voices and what sounds like digging. Near the end of realmslayer gotrax finds the portal that could take him back to the old world right after he left but decides to destroy it which kinda symbolically represents him letting go of the past but what if him knocking over the portal was the sound Felix heard? And because the portal was knocked over it fell over Felix and sucked him into AoS. Either that or Felix is now a god like how all those other characters became gods. Think I would hate that outcome though. Probably going to be a few years until the decided to reintroduce Felix cause it seems likely. Otherwise, I like AoS more than the End times. End time's was great don't get me wrong. Good concept, poorly executed. Should have been stretched out like maybe ten or so years. Warhammer is at its best when it draws things out to its conclusions

[@Basil_Ghothickovitch]

@@newnamesameperson397 In fact, the author already answered in one interview: "Gotrek will never find Felix again, but will always be close and always far". This search is his “eternal quest”. Meanwhile, Gotrek, as a real Hero, will help ordinary people in the Mortal Realms to be independent and not rely only on the gods.

[@saint.z1ggy]

Skaven? yes-yes?

[@Ratman36]

Skaven yet?

[@Thelotekk]

Oh man, so hype! Cover the most sci-fi of the AoS races. Seraphon! Flying in spaceships, terraforming realms, imagining armies out of thin air. dinosaurs with fricking laser beams riding dinosaurs with fricking laser beams. Makes my inner child so happy.

[@finnmchugh99]

Or the Flesh Eater Courts, mutated insane humans manipulated by mad bestial vampires all driven by a literal delusion of grandeur thinking they're knights, nobles and knaves of an Arthurian legend.

[@Ramza998]

Really happy to see you starting to cover AoS. I started 40K when a friend introduced me to it and I got really invested and I'm pretty heavily bought in and I enjoy it but I always loved fantasy as a genre more than science fiction but I didn't know there was another thing besides 40K that warhammer did for a long while and when I found Fantasy I thought it was neat but I didn't really care because it just seemed boringly obsessed with being miserable and bad in my opinion and I didn't enjoy how low fantasy it forced itself to be when it had such promise of being a more bombastic and energetic high fantasy so finding out AoS existed a few weeks after learning about fantasy was a dream come true and while I still don't have more than my first unit of models its easily far and away my favorite GW setting and is one of my favorite settings there is. I know lots of people don't jive with AoS but I'm glad you're willing to experiment and put out this kind of content to appeal to the minority like me who do really love it so thank you

[@filippovezzoni386]

I think you should cover the grand alliances next, loved the video!

[@ChaseTheChamp11]

I back this. A video going over each Grand Alliance would be awesome.

[@YaGirlGumption]

I third this. Stormcast and Cities of sigmar are some of my favorite parts of the lore. Some country bumpkin with a rifle and a literal demigod side by side is so damn cool.

[@finnmchugh99]

Agreed... go into each of the alliances and maybe...just maybe... go into each of the factions individually after that in the future.

[@YaGirlGumption]

@@finnmchugh99 genius

[@KamenRiderGreed]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! Whenever I want to introduce someone to AoS lore, I'm going to send them this video. It's not too long, and it covers all the key points. I'm LOVING the AoS content and would love to see more! I know you'll probably do a video on Stormcast next. I'm a Hallowed Knights Stan so I won't mind if you make them the first faction you give a dedicated video to. However, I would like to see you do a video on the Lumineth Realm-Lords sometime soon. They legit have some of my *favorite* lore in the setting. I have gone on for literal hours about how interesting I find them and their lore. If you want to do some literary research into the Lumineth, I recommend you read "The End of Enlightenment" and "Godsbane". Preferably in that order, but it's not required. Both are great reads that do an excellent job of showing both their history and introspective philosophy, contrasting against their arrogance and self-righteous pride. Though I will slightly disagree with you on one point. I personally love the Realmgate Wars. Those audiobooks are what got me into AoS as a setting to begin with, and they're the reason I own over 15,000 points of Stormcast.

[@makeytgreatagain6256]

2+ tough is the AOS KZbinr

[@Enoch_Trismegistus]

And just like that, someone has summed up the beginning synopsis of AOS and now I'm kinda invested in it. This is why I'm here. Pancreas may make me laugh, but Arthur makes me *care.*

[@Itjustdavid]

Stormcast video when

[@GnrlDillin]

Agree

[@vuk3303]

Sigmarine successor chapters when?

[@patrickiamonfire965]

Never!!! cause it was already done. (I think)

[@lukaslawrence8863]

when they go to the 40k lore so they can be talked about on this channel!!!!!!

[@tifflouz9150]

When Ossiarch Bonetaxcollectors are done !

[@AIicethewanderer]

hedonites of slaanesh when

[@Ratman36]

Skaven when

[@JetGoldPirate]

Great video. I’m super happy you’re covering AOS. Loved your 40K videos and it’s great to see AOS get some lore attention. It would be great to see a video overview of the gods of order and destruction

[@sterlingwynn3190]

To anyone who wants to get in the lore of AoS, I highly recommend Cubicle 7's Soulbound ttrpg books as well as the Black Library book "Oaths & Conquests."

[@stevesteverson]

For anyone who may listen. I always recommend reading: "Overlords of the Iron Dragon" it's a fun adventure series about steam punk dwarfs, and capitalism.

[@nateberube5629]

I'm vibing on coverage of the Stormhosts, I love my Celestial Vindicator bois

[@NapGod]

re: what are the realms, actually? It is kinda like planets in how they formed. Stuff started clumping and swirling together until it became big and solid, except it's not just elements it's winds of magic in there, too. Eventually you get this pancake kinda thing (we don't know if you can tunnel through the bottom yet, we'll likely find out when the narrative shifts back to the skaven at the center) a "flat planet". The center of the realm where the oldest material is that was swirling and clumping with magic is the most stable part of a realm. The further you start walking away from the center towards the edge of a realm, the more wild the magic becomes. In Chamon, the mountains might be made entirely of metal, you'll start seeing more ghosts and dead people in Shyish, the land literally becomes sentient beasts in Ghur where a mountain range is a mouth that shifts open wide to become a valley, etc. If you keep walking and get to the very edge of the realms, reality, itself, begins to break down as you get closer to pure, raw magic wind. Teclis tried crossing to the edge of Hysh and was blinded and burned by the light magic and needed to be rescued. Theres an old piece of fluff about an old pilgrim who made it pretty close to the edge of Ghyra where he watched this scene of entire animal kingdoms evolve, decline, and disappear to be replaced by new ones. He saw entire civilizations spring forth and waste away. It was a constant cycle of overlapping growth and decay fractalized out everywhere he looked. Shyish works the opposite way though because Nagash did his necroquake so much of the realm is a giant swirling black hole that slowly sucks things from the edges towards the center where Nagashizzar and the Black Pyramid are. Here's a de-listed (idk why) GW youtube video about the realms and how they work: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4abeYBphNqHns0si=D6UWe5az3es59-Dg

[@SaphoSheep]

Fuck yeah AoS content! I like playing the tabletop game but never delved into the lore like I did with 40k.

[@respectfulevil9022]

cities of sigmar and the dawnbringer crusades are definitly a great part

[@loopgru]

Skaven and Nagash for sure, but also Gitz- the sheer unmitigated nuttery of them in this setting is absolutely wonderful.

[@Rantalanta]

Enjoying the AOS content while i try to decide on an army to start

[@ChaseTheChamp11]

I thank you for the video. It was interesting. As someone who plays Warcry its good to know that there is at least some meat on the bone in the AoS lore department.

[@fallout1349]

I would love some breakdowns of individual factions. Just an idea of what they’re about, what their goals are and some interesting facts would be great.

[@leeroy117]

I'm mostly into 40k but now I know this much more about aos. I like the look of most of the miniatures but know nearly nothing about aos. I like your style, buddy. Can't wait until you tell us about those dwarf berserkers!

[@ogrynmod1765]

Dwarf monks who wear runes made out of their own god in battle. Metal shit

[@finnmchugh99]

​@ogrynmod1765 and ride fire lizards and live in volcano forges. That and AoS has very good models in general.

[@jonathanathor117]

2:05 so these realms are similar to the afterlife in DBZ or new genesis and apokalips because they are unrealistically massive planets that make stars look small in comparison to them.

[@Zan10242]

Finally I understand how AoS works you would not believe how hard it was to find a concise description of the setting thank you for the video

[@vyanesh6487]

I for one am sooooo happy to see some AoS content

[@respectfulevil9022]

i feel like AOS definitly took some time to get going properly but i really like where it is now

[@redmammoth8759]

Da boyz need some attention Boss Arthur

[@Ratman36]

Skaven too

[@mike25box]

Thank god. There is like 3 people that cover AOS lore.

[@nate742]

The Flesh Eater Courts would be an awesome faction to do a video on. Their lore is really popping off right now 🖤

[@Tylerthegreater]

I’m absolutely loving all the AOS Videos I’m trying to get into the lore and these are helping so much keep it up !

[@BonesofSmite]

I’m so glad I became a member. I love all your videos Arthur and I enjoy each one. I think the lore of both the Cities of Sigmar and Ossiarch Bone Reapers are good, should totally cover them

[@Cmdtheartist]

It's your cheerful, can-do attitude that sells it. Keep it up, you Canadian gamer, you!

[@johnnypop-tart335]

Please have fun and make whatever you want. I need dinosaurs

[@se7enthsoul]

Please more AoS breakdowns. Who else could explain it like this?

[@Rosarosa106]

I don’t think Sigmar left the other gods, it was quite opposite. He was actually betrayed by Nagash during the battle of burning skies. The death god held his forces back and watched the slaughter. Sigmar and Grungi barely holding on, decided to retreat to Azyr, trying to save as many as they could without compromising the realm of heavens. I think in the current lore, it’s considered Sigmar’s greatest shame. The Aelven (elves) gods were sealing Slaanesh away, and it’s considered a shared secret between them all. Gorkamorka split, fighting amongst each other and krumpin everyone in sight, so happy outcomes for them!!

[@elegantoddity8609]

It's somewhat more complicated than outright betrayal. Gorkamorka got laughed at by Tzeentch and Khorne which was why he ended up ditching the pantheon (he doesn't like politics but beforehand he was surprisingly chill). The elf gods (including Alarielle) always thought the pantheon somewhat peripheral to their goals (mostly reviving the elf race) and became more detached once that was in front of them even if still part of it in spirit. Alarielle just wants her realm safe. Grungni actually ditched his race to try and toughen them up before he realized it'd be kinda awkward to come back now and claim he was doing them a favor, and so left out of shame and regret. He paid his debt to Sigmar many times over and it's not clear what he's been doing Nagash is more complicated because it's not clear if what Sigmar was doing when the Realm of Death was being invaded. Is Nagash just offended that Sigmar was off doing something important, or was Sigmar simply confident that Nagash could defend himself and so left him to his own devices? Overall it was more a combination of manipulation, miscommunication and self-interest that drove them all apart more than any inherent incompatibility, even in regards to the more divisive and previously unworkable members.

[@samk1556]

Loved this video. Please do more videos like this for AOS.

[@nate742]

The Grand Alliances and their factions would be a great next AoS video.

[@locomotivevoice]

Glad this exists, it can actually be a bit hard to get into aos lore compared to 40k or even fantasy

[@RubyGalaxyYT]

Nice and simple introduction vid, thanks for making it. For what could be next for AOS, I'd like to see something about the dragons as I think they have very nice, but expensive models.

[@ima1hpwounder580]

sylvaneth please, i love them, plus they don't really have a comparison to a 40k analog, so it would be interesting to see

[@tobiasrembrandt7635]

More like Age of Squigmar! Super happy you're talking about AOS now.

[@gavinboyer4634]

AAAAGE OF SIIIIIIIGMAR!

[@jonathanwatson4484]

I think now especially with the start of dawn bringers and the citys of sigmar has made the whole lore and plot intersting, with the dawn bringers crusade being the somewhat focal point as it seem that nearly every faction has taken an interest, it feels like the lore is moving in a natural direction and is developing as time goes on, I mean look at the flesh eater courts, they whent form simple cannibal courts in ruins to an actural danger with the summer king return.

[@Marcojaralaconich]

always nice to see AoS content, I like the way you narrate stuff, you miss mayor plot points but is expected. I would love to see more!

[@LordBillygoat]

I think you mentioned it briefly and it'd be cool to cover - are stormcast just "good chaos", being remade out of their god's energy and can come back again and again? Good daemons?

[@MW-ye5qp]

Kinda, but they still have physical human bodies and aren't as bound to their god as daemons. And stormcasts who can't have bodies due to reforging going extra wrong turn into lightning gheists who are more like vengeful spirits filled with azyr magic Starborne type seraphon though, those are are mostly magic and people used to call them daemons of order because of it

[@Error898789]

I'm here for the 40k but you do you man, I mean the quality of your videos especially compared to the speed at which you make them has been genuinely amazing so far I do like the implication that Slaanesh is unlike the other Chaos gods in some minor, significant way. That like on occasion sigmar or big E might in extremis be able to work with slaanesh's followers since they mostly just want to party in peace anyway.

[@kingsage18]

Flesh Eater Courts when?!

[@C.D.G.1]

Sons of Behemat next.

[@dekuvisuals9847]

Hope your feeling much better now Bones 👍

[@dendostar5436]

Sigmar. He’s not the sharpest. He’s not the calmest. He’s not the wisest. But he will fuck you up 10 ways from Sunday.

[@finnmchugh99]

Ngl I think AoS lore is much easier to digest than Warhammer Fantasy imo. Maybe it's cuz I find the factions unique or the setting is simple to understand and doesn't feel like a vanilla Fantasy setting.

[@Basil_Ghothickovitch]

Exactly! When the MMORPG Warhammer Online was released, 90% of players did not understand the difference between the Old World and Warcraft.

[@MarkStorey-dc4tm]

So happy to see this.

[@riokollivier]

Ok, this was a solid entry point for your AoS. However, there are a couple of minor corrections that need to be made: Mallus, the core of the Old World, is actually floating in the sky of Azyr, it’s even in the art of Azyr you used, with the massive ring around it. Sigmar was the last god to give up in the war against Chaos at the end of the Age of Myth. Gorkamorka went crazy for a bit, cause Tzeentch whispered in his ear too much, but to his credit, he was able to get his shit together enough to fight at the final battle at Sigmar’s side. Nagash was already plotting to assume complete control and used the war as a segue for his treachery and caused a mini civil war within Grand Alliance Order. Alarielle was tricked by Nurgle into losing HARD. Morathi was scheming somewhere in Ulgu. Malerion (Malekith’s new name) was busy locking Ulgu down. Grimnir was a bit busy being dead cause he and Vulcatrix got blown to smithereens. Grugni was saving what Duardin he could and went to Azyr to fufill his oath. And the twins were busy with the massive clusterfuck that was going down in Hysh, though one of them (Tyrion if memory serves) was able to get enough of a moment to help at the final battle as well.

[@lorcankelly8871]

Stormcast video especially the Chad awesomeness that is Gardus Steelsoul

[@richwoodno1251]

Love the AoS content! Keep it up

[@MrZippidydoodahh]

Pretty sure the further one leaves the center of plane the more elemental things get. More realm stone. Except for Shyish, because Nagash had enough realm stone moved to the center of the realm to make a black pyramid, and it changed the polarity of the realm. Weird stuff.

[@barlotardy]

All hail the II Legion!!

[@Markis2bi4]

You would think Sigmar would remember the Chaos Gods were still around and have prepared for them…

[@jpcartwright37]

You could talk about why dwarves in a realm of fire have got 3 non character units with weapon options despite having not-dragons.

[@DrAculushka]

Every character was killed by worse way imaginable Death of Sanguinius: hold my beer.......

[@chromerabbit]

Dear Mr Bones. I love your work. You’ve convinced me to be interested in AoS. Can you please recommend books to start with? Unlike the Horus Heresy, it is unclear where to start with AoS! Your response would be genuinely (I.e. humanly) appreciated!

[@clayandros2038]

A longer video like this would be nice a lot of details are left out but its a good quick cover

[@newageretronerd]

I'd love to see a video from you about Skaven lore. They're the army I'm considering starting AoS with and I really like understanding the lore of the armies I play and you make a fun starting point to dive in lol

[@plasmyth5501]

Would love an overall series to summarize big event of AOS! Things like what some gods were up to and what are some great feats they have!

[@Beanibirb]

Chaos Warriors when

[@maxbreslin9253]

I’d love one on the seraphon

[@antcow1239]

I like AOS, having actual demi-god armies is cool, and chaos can actually be fought on even footing and even lose their worshipers by redemption

[@tiananxie8897]

Please don't stop AoS. Please

[@t.z2359]

I think it would be cool to cover the gods of AOS. Considering how big of a role they play in the setting, and the fact they are a defining feature of many factions, I think they are a good place to start with this universe. (kinda like the primarchs now that I'm thinking about it.)

[@thesilvershield5555]

This is what I’ve been needing with aos

[@atin8008]

My boy Gotrek and his arc of not being an asshole

[@kelakogreenaddict1888]

loving the AoS content

[@blimp9741]

was wondering when someone was actually gonna do a AOS lore video cool to see you did one as ive been wondering about the setting for a long time

[@jonathanathor117]

I guess age of sigmar is basically warhammer fantasy's equivalent of DC's New 52.

[@DagothDaddy]

AoS needs to establish a smaller scale what made people love fantasy was the characters which it's still heavily lacking especially in the table top.

[@Grrg]

I am always up for some more gloomspite and bad moon videos

[@aerlands100]

I'm sad you don't get the same numbers for aos content, but hopefully it's something you can get into more in the future. I'll love if and when you do!

[@537zun4]

Gimme some weird lore, are the Oger still around? What are the rats doing? What is Nagash up to? Are there still sexy elfen gods? Is Sigmar secretly from 40k and an undercover Space Marine?

[@TheRatKing7734]

It would be cool to see a total war fantasy style game set in the AoS setting

[@NlXlS]

Are the old ones apart of AoS or old world???

[@christophersteeves9435]

Yay! I know AOS isn't as hot a sell as 40k, especially now that space marine 2 is consuming the zeitgeist but hoping to see some more AOS stuff pop up here and there

[@tiananxie8897]

So sad to see you are giving up AoS because the quality of your AoS videos is so good! But I support whatever works the best for you man😊. 4E might be a good time to revisit AoS.

[@l4rgo911]

Skaven, I love those Rat-Busterds™

[@Sara3346]

Idoneth are worth doing next being pretty original by warhammer terms.

[@SilverDragon5873]

Please, I need to know more about the deepkin

[@christophersteeves9435]

With 4th edition out now wanna do a skavendoom video?

[@scooterdescooter4018]

video on the glory-splendor of skaven when?

[@Ratman36]

Skaven yet?

[@cristianmurillo4873]

Sweet AoS content

[@clouddaemon4828]

8:44 where does this image comes from?

[@Shekel-Shoveler]

Give me gobbos or give me death!

[@alextruecustodian6174]

No mention of Archaon, sadge It would have simplified a lot of age of chaos section if you included his exploits more thorougly tbh

[@TacticalReaper56]

Im not saying theyll do it. But i dont see Slaneesh coming back. If it does itll be comepletly void of certain aspects of the orginal concept for it.

[@christyrogers7707]

So do Gork & Mork not feature in AOS? No orks? 🤔

[@Rosarosa106]

🤘🏾 yess AoS!!

[@elatedmegalodon9156]

okay... this sounds sick

[@virado255]

I despise AoS though I still enjoy your content. The problem I have with the setting aside from anything to do with Fantasy is that theres no real way to ground myself in the setting. I could only find the vaguest of maps and such. Combined with the mythic fantasy setting it gives me the same feeling of two DBZ characters having a fistfight in an empty void. It's all style and no substance. Theres been nothing to relate to for the longest time. And even now when they've brought out the Cities of Sigmar it's just made me roll my eyes because it's the absolute goofiest looking designs that exemplify AoS's visual design vomit.

[@GaymerJosh]

I await your inevitable video of going through the factions and grand alliances 💚 🔫👀💦

[@FirstLieutenantOli]

in my opinion you should absolutely cover the lizardmen or the seraphon but fuck GW's copyrightable names