Who is the Summerking? Age of Sigmar Lore

[@StimmBehr]

One of my favorite factions in lore. Good representation of how crazy and unique Age of Sigmar continues to be. I’d love to see him be more important in 4th!

[@HobbyJackal]

Thank you! Given how "big" characters, critters and the lore can go in Age of Sigmar, I'm really hopeful we'll finally see what he's become :). Totally agree - it's a great way of differentiating the lore further! Claws crossed 🤞🤞

[@Basil_Ghothickovitch]

Join our gallant, courtly throng In our feasting, and our song. Consume your fill, noble soul, Know no ill, nor empty bowl. Bite marrow-deep - indulge, it's fine, Gastronomy, just so divine. Our Feast you'll start, and before long, You'll never leave our happy throng.

[@HobbyJackal]

Brilliant! ...this would've been such a great way to start the video 😁🙌

[@roynaga]

Damn! More lake this please! There is a lot of material to speculate in the new books, and you make an awesome job in your videos!

[@HobbyJackal]

Thanks so much! 😁 This was a total experiment, but really fun to make my first lore video! I may be reaching the limits of what I can do filming and editing on my mobile 😅, but definitely want to do more. Thanks again - I really appreciate the feedback! 😊🙌

[@meta1587]

and now the model is out. What a cool dude.

[@HobbyJackal]

I know, right!? He's an absolute BEAST!!

[@dildoswaggins2907]

Bought one last week. About to paint it 😎

[@eggiwegs]

Raise your chalice brothers and sisters! Pluck and butter the goose! Gather the little ghouls’round! We have a double blessing here, the legend of the summer king told by our illustrious Jackal! Bravo sir!

[@HobbyJackal]

Haha, thanks very much! Buttered geese for all! **translation: guttural growling**

[@eggiwegs]

@@HobbyJackal I’m sure there is a goose-eater court somewheres!

[@DJROCKSTAZ]

@@eggiwegsOrrr someone might be crazy enough to kitbash one!

[@eggiwegs]

@@DJROCKSTAZ A free buttered goose to the first that does then!!

[@HobbyJackal]

​@@eggiwegs@djrockstaz Haha, I really want to see this! ...imagine the noise!?

[@xar9499]

This is the first video of yours I've watched and if you keep going with this kind of work I look forward to your future content! I've been missing my favorite faction (death) being in the main story of AoS. Really hope this all pays off!

[@HobbyJackal]

Thank you very much! Yeah, this was a bit of an experiment and my first time attempting a lore video, but I really appreciate the feedback and definitely now intend to do more :). Thank you for watching! 😊🙌

[@jakea3950]

Great coverage mate! One I think you missed is the actual novel based around him but mostly on his people the strigoi or gypsy people who basically see him as their king. Its called "Ancient blood" by Robert Earl.

[@HobbyJackal]

Whoops, so sorry for the delay! ...and whoops! You're entirely right. I *completely* missed this, and I'm not sure I've ever even heard of this one! I guess I may have seen in advertised way back when released. How curious - a strigany book! Thanks for the heads up :)

[@mattgrandich3977]

Wow! Amazing first entry for a lore video! This is really hyping me up for the new Flesh-Eater Courts coming our way and I hope that Ushoran the Summerking arrives in regal model form. You should do lore videos on the Warcry box sets, like how the warbands came to meet each other, and on the Dawnbringer books.

[@HobbyJackal]

Thanks very much!! I've already drafted a Warcry warband lore video so that'll be on the way at some point, after I complete my partially made other vids (admittedly all a little Warcry-centric) 😊. Definitely keen to do more lore!

[@mattgrandich3977]

@@HobbyJackal Absolutely, the lore for some of these smaller scale AoS settings are real cool.

[@tritanite]

Awesome video! I can never get enough Aos lore Great job man!

[@HobbyJackal]

Thanks so much! This was a bit of an experiment (I've never done a lore video), so really appreciate the feedback! 🙌

[@krampusthestoryteller1416]

Subscribed! Been so hungry for another and more active AoS lore channel, and working on something related to that myself! I'd love to hear more from you!

[@HobbyJackal]

Thank you very much!! I've had such a great response to this that more lore vids are definitely on the cards. Thanks for the comment - really do appreciate it! 🙌

[@Draghot20]

That's some really good AoS content, thanks!

[@HobbyJackal]

Thank you very much!! This was a bit of an experiment - glad you liked it! 😊🙌

[@X33dbv]

Hey I really loved ur video about our noble summer king. I fall totally in love with the flesheater courts. I’m looking forward to more videos.

[@HobbyJackal]

Ahh, thanks very much! Whilst I wasn't entirely sure what I was doing when attempting a "lore vid", I've had a really positive response and really appreciate the comment : ). I'm certainly planning to do more lore, and keen to get my hands on that new Flesh-eaters Book so I can do a follow-up vid looking at what's changed!

[@Jamgeoso]

Awesome video! I wonder if we'll see more about him soon....

[@HobbyJackal]

He's here and he's an absolute TANK!

[@mikethomas9794]

Great video!! You could be the aos lore chanel ive been looking for.

[@HobbyJackal]

Ah, thank you!! That's very kind. I really appreciate the feedback and will definitely be making lore content a regular feature of the channel. Cheers!! 🙌

[@kevinyounggren8638]

Ushoran is in my opinion the best miniature ever made. He's glorious!!

[@HobbyJackal]

Ushoran is bloody brilliant! So much better than anything I ever imagined for him, and I've been a fan of him and his Strigoi lineage for a long ol' time. ...hopefully I'll be brave enough to try and paint him one day 😊

[@kevinyounggren8638]

You can do it, I believe in you! I pre-ordered him last Saturday and am looking forward to painting him and him winning games for me.

[@HobbyJackal]

​@@kevinyounggren8638​ Haha, thanks! I get proper big mini procrastination. I started an aleguzzler gargant (not that big by today's standards) about four years ago... Must. Finish. That. Lad. First. :)

[@jeckles]

Ohhh very fun. Favorite faction, favorite Warcry man.

[@HobbyJackal]

Ahh, thanks very much! 😁 Fun to take my first tentative steps into making lore videos 😊🙌

[@PandemicalShade]

Excellent lore video with intriguing tiebacks to WHFB 👍 As a matter of fact, it was the recent release of Grand Justice Gormayne that had me look into FECs… and of course you would publish a video about what is possibly the greatest GW model ever, too 😂

[@HobbyJackal]

Haha, I was really torn on that. I was, "Should I make an entire video about this one model reveal"...? The answer is YES. He deserved it 😁

[@EPGelion]

Fantastic video! More like this going forward, please!

[@HobbyJackal]

Thanks very much! Definitely now intending to do more lore videos in future and thanks for the feedback, always appreciated :) 🙌

[@MrKanrabat]

Oh yeah! The summer king is coming this Saturday!

[@HobbyJackal]

Hurrah!! ...and he's a chunky monster indeed!!

[@TheSilentW]

Looking at the quality of the new miniatures, I would love to see a revival of the old Necrarch Vampire fraction. But thanks for the nice lore video!

[@HobbyJackal]

Thanks for watching! Yes!! I really miss the ol' Necrarch, especially now it feels every other bloodline has been well represented in the current model range. Seriously well represented - there are SO many vampire models now!! Closest we've got to Necrarch is the Frankenstein zombies Underworld warband, where the vampiric leader wore a skin mask. But, I miss the Necrarch creepy faces. ... I'll have to do a Warhammer fantasy lore vid! :)

[@Marcojaralaconich]

I really like how yo tell the Lore in this video. More Please!

[@HobbyJackal]

Thanks very much! It was a good learning experience, definitely keen to do one again now :). 🙌

[@fudgetop7461]

So excited for the Summerking!!!

[@HobbyJackal]

I know, right!? Really hopeful we'll see the man/beast himself! 🤞🤞

[@knightmarekustomz4982]

This lore is amazing! A+ Games Workshop AOS writers!

[@knightmarekustomz4982]

Also, you did a great job with the narrative, A+ to you as well, Sir!

[@HobbyJackal]

Haha, thanks very much! I'm still kind of learning what I'm doing, but it was fun to have such compelling lore to pull from! I really appreciate the comments, and have felt inspired to pick up the Flesh-eater's new book and do a follow up :)

[@agcoops9832]

Cheers for our summerking! My we feast great in his honor!

[@HobbyJackal]

Tis a grand ol' time for feasting! All hail his imminent return!! :)

[@thomaslenhard3088]

Good Reading voice you have sir! And now I'll have to reread gotrek: ghoulslayer... The royal Beasts fleyers were described there, too! And I'm Not sure If I remember correctly but didn't gotrek "release" the carrion King by Chance?🤔

[@HobbyJackal]

Thanks very much!! I think I got a little better as I went along. If you listen to the first couple of lines of lore, I think I was attempting a voice. I'm not sure what I was doing 😅. Ooooh, I've not read Ghoulslayer!! Now, that does sound very Gotrek... 😁😁

[@jakea3950]

I think he was released by sigmars assault on nagash. Says during that time the soulcage was broken and he was freed. Not sure if gotrek was specifically there and did ao however.

[@SamHagley]

Great vid! More like this please

[@HobbyJackal]

Thank you! This was a bit of an experiment but I really appreciate the feedback and will definitely look to do more lore in future - cheers!! 😁🙌

[@jwdalton]

This was awesome!

[@HobbyJackal]

Cheers very much! That's great to hear, glad you liked it 😁

[@jonathanwatson4484]

Thanks for the vid, alot of players would love to know, the summerking might fact would try to serplant nagash as an lesser death god, or atleast lesser death lord, him making his appearance now is an sign that he belive nagash is weak and the rare opportunity to at least lead death legions, and the court's would seek the summer king aid

[@HobbyJackal]

That's very cool!! I know we've got another preview later this month, have had a flesh-eaters teaser video AND a mystery battletome due in Winter, so it's all looking likely we'll know sooner rather than later 😁🤞🤞

[@jonathanwatson4484]

@@HobbyJackal the evidence cannot be ignore😌

[@HobbyJackal]

@@jonathanwatson4484 Sounds blimmin' great! I'm all for it! 😁

[@manapause]

Great video. Pedant: Visage? Revered? I do prefer your pronunciation of wrath though :)

[@HobbyJackal]

Haha, oh god. Right, visage - this was pure ignorance! I've lasted this long in life with this 😅, luckily it's probably not something that comes up in regular conversation. Revered was a reading mistake (I may have had reverant in my mind), and on revisiting I also said "truth" instead of "truce" at one point (d'oh!). 😅 Thanks for the feedback! I actually find this kind of thing really helpful :) - if I visage again, you have permission (and encouragement) to hit me with a stick ;)

[@tombackhouse7271]

What a fantastic video :)

[@HobbyJackal]

Thank you very much!! My first attempt at a lore vid, so it was a bit of an experiment. I really do appreciate the feedback - thank you 😊😁🙌

[@Wondarcouk]

We miss you.

[@HobbyJackal]

@@Wondarcouk I heartily endeavour to be back doing something daft. At some point. I've kind of lost my roof at the moment, so I can't record a thing without external seagull and teenager noises. ...and if you meant you missed Warhammer Fantasy Battles Ushoran. Well, this is now awkward. I'll let myself out.

[@manga3040]

When one of them are struck down and destroyed do FEC creatures go to the same afterlife as the knights and other noble warriors they see themselves as? The curse is a delusion so it would only seem fitting to me. Not sure if this is explained in the lore.

[@HobbyJackal]

That is a very interesting question! To be honest, I have no idea and I've not seen anything that confirms it. I suspect the poor souls that align themselves to Nagash in their delusion are destined to an unlife of spiritual servitude (such are the gifts of the Great Necromancer, delusional or not), but as for the rest... Who knows? It's certainly a curious question given the majority of most armies (the Mordants) are technically mortal and alive. Who knows, the new books might give us a hint? :)

[@manga3040]

@@HobbyJackal Hopefully! I am going to get a kit of the knew knights from Cities of Sigmar and match attach each of them to a corresponding FEC base to serve as a hero. Will be a cool way to express their delusion on the tabletop.

[@LordTheCyril]

So this is not the same Ushoran that was part of the old world?

[@HobbyJackal]

Yes! Well, sort of. It's all a bit weird really. He bears the same name, but appears to have entered the Mortal Realms in a guise reminiscent of his pre-ghoulish self. Whereas Sigmar, Nagash and even Gotrek are clearly the same person/God, with memories of the world that was, Ushoran is hinted at as existing before (including dynastic ties to neferata) but whether he's aware of this or what befell him is another matter. I quite like to think he is aware, isn't quite as nice to his people's as he's said to be (he was a master of deception in WHFB), and Nagash opted to recreate his ghoulish transformation as a particularly fitting punishment. But who knows? :)

[@MaNoTachi]

Just bring freaking Abhorash back

[@HobbyJackal]

Haha, he's gotta be next on the list, right? That said there could be a brand new one in the wings, katakros or olynder-style :)

[@MaNoTachi]

​@@HobbyJackalFans want him as bad as they wanted Angron, that would be a top seller for GW. AoS mentionned him as the best warrior the Soulblight ever had and the one who train the best of them. Hear our prayers

[@HobbyJackal]

The standard of their releases is just *so* good. It'd be fab to see what they come up with! :)

[@greenelee2742]

games workshop give us armyset and range refresh ! just like other factions !

[@HobbyJackal]

Well, on a weird note, a new sprue of what appear to be Crypt Ghouls turned up at a car bootsale about an hour from GW headquarters a month or so ago, so it's looking pretty positive that they're getting some decent attention :). ...and that someone in or around GW was being mighty mischievous

[@diaconus1423]

Why did you smoke two cartons of cigarettes before narrating? Your regular voice is much more pleasant

[@HobbyJackal]

😂😂 From memory this was: 25% trying to sound more dramatic 75% an annoying cold ...shout at me if I do it again in the next lore vid... 😉

[@deathbb703]

anyone know when the pre orders for the new flesheaters is supposed to drop?

[@HobbyJackal]

The Flesh-eater army box is rumoured to go up for pre-order in a couple of weeks (2nd Dec) with the remaining Flesh-eaters releasing in the new year... But, y'know, pinch of salt, no official word on these releases yet :).

[@deathbb703]

@@HobbyJackal awesome thank you