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I tried this game once as I wanted to find more chaos themed warhammer games plus simple mobile warhammer games. I'd give it a... "neutral" score as it wasn't atrocious but it wasn't great. After the start game cheats you realize gathering resources and building takes so long plus you have little to defend yourself from players other than a temporary shield. Worst of all you can't really "build your own war band" the way you want to, let's say devoted entirely to Tzeentch, unless you have endless resources.
the work you do is INSANELY high quality. i am seemingly more impressed with each video. is there any 40k or maybe even battletech in the future of this channel?
A skaven try to pick up another skaven in a skaven bar. "yes.. yes... lemme get your farsqueaker number, yes. yes.." "my farsqueaker number, yes? how about you squeak far away from here, yes,, yess.."
my head canon is that the horned rat was a greater deamon of Nurgle wich became so powerful that he broke free of nurgle and because nurgle is such a sweet big geezer, he was fine with it and even gave some of them his great gifts. Think about it, Nurgle has almost all the animals considered vermin in his deamon roster except rats. He has Flies and Mosquitos, snails, maggots, even fricking frogs, but no rats? the most obvious one? I think that is because when the horned rat became independent, he took this domain from him. It also is canon, at least in 40K, that nurgle has some great unclean one locked away because he became so powerful he could spawn his own deamons. Maybe he did not want more of his children to break away from him. Thats how I see it anyway
Perhaps the Horned Rat has some connection to Nurgle? In fact, he has aspects that mimic the other Ruinous Powers as well - perhaps he’s a demon of Chaos Undivided that became powerful enough to rise to the level of a minor deity?
@@addie-yx2xv It is explained in the video but essentially Skaven Assassins, especially the Deathmaster, are masters in their crafts. They can easily kill any target.
@@addie-yx2xv there's a good bit to it but bassicly two things. If you see a skaven (esp a night runner/gutter runner or assassin) they'll kill you on the spot to remain undetected/hidden. Commonly as an empire citizen, if you see them, live/survive, and report it, it'll be dissmissed as a beastman (something very different than a skaven), or you'll be called crazy and be imprisoned and/or executed. To many in the empire the skaven do not exist and to those who know it's a very real conspiracy that is kept secret as a means to keep the public from utter panic.
Let’s be real, most people here probably play Skaven. So I think our pretty unanimous reaction to him saying “Make strategic alliances.” Was “Hah, *right* ”
I love how it's called "the four great clans" in a general sense, yet everyone speaks of five clans, because Mors is a great clan sort of Loyalty is the skaven of Mors greatest weapon
i actually think Clan Scruten outclasses Mors in therms of "power" , hope we get them as next DLC for skaven in TWW3 with stormfiends, verminlords and a legendary grey seer.
I love how Clan Mors has undying loyalty in lore - but ingame it has the highest defection rate of grey seers, while Clan Eshin can't have defectors - only rebellions if you don't build the right buildings.
Ingame mors is most stable if you never recruit Gray Seers. It matches the lore. Queen hates white fur. My understanding is that because he considers himself the supreme rat but cannot really match grey seer magic only with his strength and courage so they continuously remind him of his insecurity. Secondly Queek is bad at politics which disappoints Gnadwell and delays his retirement. Queek however blames his inability of assention on the Gray Seers and their schemes creating obstacles in his path. He might be correct on this one. As much as every Council Lord wants to see Gnadwell dead, they are even more afraid of Queeks ascension as Clanlord. Because they don't understand Queek like he doesn't understand them. You can't threaten him, or bribe him, or negotiate with him or even assassinate him. If one day he declares that he wants to eliminate every clan, no amount of politics is going to save them. As far as why Clan Mors is loyal lorewise but not ingame: 1. Gnadwell is a good administrator and rats in his domain are managed better and are happier. Even members who were bought or borrowed armies sometimes choose to stay. Ingame there is no Gnadwell, only Queek who is like an asshole son of a good employer. 2. Red Guards are ordered to crush rebellions however small. Those elite stormvermins going town on slaves create stories that prevent another rebellion for a few years. There are no redguard unit or hero ingame (which could have government passive -chance of loyalty increase) 3. Promotion prospects in Clan Mors are fair. Even a clanrat hopes to become a warlord one day. There is no promotion mechanic in basegame. 4. Clan Mors is rich and has abundance of food at most times. Ingame mors doesn't receive any food income bonus. 5. There are few gray seers in mors. Ingame AI Queek hires gray seers despite penalty to loyalty.
My favorite warhammer race :) simply because it’s uniquely warhammer. Every fantasy setting has Orcs, Elves, Vampires, Undead, Demons, etc. but the Skaven? Unique like I said and I love their lore.
@@imthedevilkys536 Lol awesome! I love unique dog names like that! I always tell people to try to avoid naming their pets generic names like sprinkles or biscuit, or cupcake. Like names have power and they contribute to the person you will become and the same goes for animals! Lol I’m curious how your dog behaves and if it further contributes to my naming theory
@@EnigmaEnginseer Not even they did it first, kind of an old Sci fi concept absorbed into fantasy. But them being alien androids is new as far as I can tell
The Skaven Clans! This episode is a recopilation of some previsously covered major skaven clans made into one single volume. As we know, there are innumerable skaven clans all around the under empire. These are just five of the most important ones. Check the description for the timings to look for your favorite clan!
@@And-ur6ol i don't know.there's also an pirate skaven clan,an steal-and-loot clan(yes-yes,that clan memes the blood magpies) and a mercenary clan,but now i don't know wich one of them is called Rictus.
Always be extremely wary of the skaven that can get through multiple sentences without repeating themselves or going off into deranged rants. They are unquestionably the most dangerous ones you'll ever meet because their minds are laser-beam _focused_ on their goals and their particular brands of insanity aren't detrimental to their planning.
Bruh, the quality of this video unbelievably professional. This kind of content can usually only be found on 1mil + accounts, not 155k! Whoever the creators are, if you ever were to read this. You should really be proud of yourselves with this one, bravo!
Clan Mors shows that Skaven are capable of being honorable in a sense. Now I wouldn’t call them altruistic as I believe that Skaven will almost always act in self interest before helping another. However if a human were somehow leading a force of Skaven, and treated them well. I could see how it may work out. In fact there could be a story there of an honorable knight leading disillusioned clan rats into becoming honorable warriors. Just think about it. A man is captured by Skaven. But they do not consume him. Instead they lock him up unharmed. Chittering is heard as a figure approaches. They are a man in painted armor. Resplendent in the firelight. He is flanked by heavily armored rats. The knight quickens as he recognizes the man in the cage. It is his old friend from his old battle group. He has his soldier release the man, and explains his situation. He had run from the sacking of their city years ago and made contact with this isolated clan of Skaven. At first an enslaved warrior he fought for them. This was until he slayed their leader and forced them to submit to his own will. Over time they accepted him as their leader and followed his orders. Eventually they even gave him their loyalty as he showed them his ways. He eventually trusted them enough to show them kindness. Creating a sense of loyalty even if it is in their own twisted way, probably the greatest loyalty any Skaven war and has ever felt to their master. It is a mix of loyalty and fear that keep them in mind. Loyalty making them follow his orders and fear keeping them from betraying him, as he is a great warrior.
Me: Fellow Skaven! The time has upon us! The Great Horned Rat calls you to unleash your creations and spread your plagues to war! And destroy your foe-foes with chaotic hellfire! Skaven (cheering, screaming and shrieking)
Queek Headtaker for the win yes-yes! To quote a great reply in my previous comment on Clan Mors video: "If fighting-killing is sure to result in victory-win, then you-you must fight!" - 역병으사
Any skaven content seems to always be so great und scary when our skrubasaurus does it cause the others are great but it's just something different when he does it
What a shame, that this absolute masterpiece of content gets so little likes and views. Maybe it would have been better to split the clans into different videos. But keep it up nonetheless 👍
All the rats in my house will be pleased to watch this. I hope they're not bring any Warpstone or my house will become Skavenblight. Anyway thanks for this compilation I can sleep while hearing tales of great skaven clans
When I first played total war hammer 2, skaven were the first faction I played as. They may not have good armor or artillery compared to dwarfs but they make up for it in numbers and diversity in strategy.
The plagueclaw catapults and poison mortars are one of the most powerful artillery in the entire game. You can't fail at killing entire units with them.
@Jéster I managed to save the rest of my army using stormskaven and long range units. The artillery was already destroyed when I realized they weren't firing on the lizardmen.
Its easy to say that because for us all those are fantastic creatures, but imagine if someone approaches you and sais that dragons exist because there are giraffes out there, doesnt sound convincing does it?
@@PoorManatee6197 that dose not make any sense. We know for a fact there are not flying fire spewing dragons, Giraffes have nothing to do with it. The Empire went to war with the Skaven, there is no way every single record was destroyed by them, besides the Dwarves know the skaven exist and keep telling humans they exist. The Empire has no excuse denying the existence of the Skaven and just assuming its always beastmen XD
@@antcow1239 you arent taking into account imperial authorities also work to maintain skavens a secret. Its not like skaven are an everyday conversation topic between dwarfs and imperials. I mentioned giraffes as a real world example of your "orcs and beastmen exist so why not skaven?" Logic.
@@PoorManatee6197 Its not like skaven are an everyday conversation topic between dwarfs and imperials. - Well the dwarves would have evidence, oh and so would the Bretornnians! The Imperials are just willing ignorant. I mentioned giraffes as a real world example of your "orcs and beastmen exist so why not skaven?" Logic. - It makes perfect sense, of course there would be talking rat men, we have talking "every other animal" man after all.
Idk what it is but.. something about the Skaven that I cant get enough of. I even have pet rats now and one of them i call Queek Headtaker sometimes lol
This is the perfect video I've been looking for. I'm just now getting into fantasy and this will teach me a lot of things I need to know and all in one video
One Thing I wonder is how the Empire deals with some of their own history that had dealt with Skaven invasions and so forth, with even an Emperor having a namesake like that, and at the same time denying the ratmen exist at all.
All the deaths of that time are attributed to the plague, skavens are like the boogeyman of the empire, so skavenslayer is just considered a nickname. If skavens attack a place more recently, for example the attack on nuln, authorities will make sure to silence any survivor that goes to the next town and talks about it, and even then the others wouldnt believe it and think it was actually beastmen or something.
What i want to know about are the Red armored Albino guard that answer only to the council of 13. they are mute, and they are Skaven, but utterly unlike Skaven.
Major Kill did? That son of a bitch, I missed him XD I'll have to check out where he does recommend us, but hey, thank you so much for letting is know!
Guys I don’t think The Book of Choyer will be around for a while. Clan Mors got put in front of one of the Great 4 clans. Clan Moulder will not let this stand!!! Clan Moulder demands a proper payment in warp stone for this insult!!!
Beutiful work explaining the skaven clans. Is it possible you coud make a similar video of other factions, like high elves, dwarfs or empire of man? And I'm certain that the 🐀 will be pleased watching this.
- they are my fav faction! So underrated and horrifying but also adorable. I mean, how can you not smile when you hear them call their telephones "Farsqueekers" (:
I always wonder who that man was who finished the chapel? Why would he do something for the great horned rat, or was he mistakened into thinking it was for the chaos gods? Somehow he finished the tower and lifted a giant bell all on his own in one night and dissapeared(perhaps sacrified himself) just so the vile vermin could exist. But did he know it was to make the skaven and serve the minor chaos god that is the great horned rat, or was he tricked into doing it? Cause I doubt any man, even a chaos worshipper would want the skaven around.
Reality is more fascinating, you cannot make up the things that actually go on. Compared to the cia, clan eshin are noobs. Compared to kissinger, snikitch is a boy scout. When snikitch gets the sigmar peace prize while murdering people across the empire, then he will be worthy.
Absolutely enjoy watching your videos! I think the bell tolled 13 times throughout this video. I’ve been a longtime Warhammer, going on 20 years. Your music choices are so good, too! If you wouldn’t mind sharing the name of the song starting at 56:40, that’d be awesome!
I totally get the Clan Pestilence from a narrative perspective but it makes little sense in view of how Skaven work. Why wouldn't Nurglitch wipe out all of Skavenblight if he had the means? Unless it was a ruse or empty threat.
@@Yingyanglord1 Weakened for a few years maybe. The city could be repopulated with Skaven from the Southlands, Skaven who were "loyal" to Pestilence. Their fast reproduction rate would do the rest.
@@heirwolf6929 idk, it's said that the doomsphere built under skavenblight did catastrophic damage to their population that they still haven't recovered. While yes they breed like rats, their lifestyle, wars, and just society has a great attrition that the population gain per year may not be that large. My opinion!
One-upmanship, a true latching onto a "dog-eat-dog" way of life, the massive superiority complex from even the lowest of clan-rats... Skaven are the condensed form of Mississippi redneck.
Nothing happened to them as they're different settings. Although you can see traces of Lizardmen as images of Slann are used to refer to the Old Ones. Beastmen on the other hand are a type of abhuman. There's even a named character named (if I remember correctly) Gor Half-Horn.
@@the_corvid97 If I was ever going to get back into TT it would be with a full army of loyalist Beastmen acting as guard/auxillia with tanks and arty and everything.
Cant wait to vanquish all no furs in the name of the Great Horned One! (and of course my fellow Skaven) Ikit Claw is gonna be my first IE campaign for sure
Another great lore from my favs, I enjoy your content even if the lore isn't about nurgle, oh and speaking of nurgle can you do a lore on the beast of the emerald cave please.
I heard games workshop was coming out with a new skaven clan that focused on mind control through delectable food… I think they named it clan ratatouille
I very much enjoyed listening to your video like an audio book while working I love skaven lore and you opened my mind and made me love skaven kin even more ❤️
As Blood tail watch the empire State troops March through the old dwarven road he Howl into moon As Sergeant Godfrey look on into distance hearing the howl then he realized he was being watch by green glowing eyes Then the eyes were gone then his horse startled as tree came crashing down in front of them Then 5 spearman were by order Sergeant Godfrey to pick up the tree then they heard something coming at them as was a huge creature that leaped out of the vegetation Right at the unprepared spearman as it ripped and teared into him as limbs went flying and screams let blood curl out of their lips Then sergeant Godfrey charged right at the beast with his steel sword but flipped over him grabbing him with its tail flipping him off the horse As sergeant Godfrey like went crashing Down then he pulled out his foot lock pistol but creature let out of subsonic howl that damage the ears of Godfrey as he dropped the pistol then he rushed him ripping his head off . Then the skaven wear rat as towered over the sergeant as spoke you fought well well but now you die die under Clan whertooth Then he rips Sergeant Godfrey his head off as he took his head back to his pack as blood tail howl to moon once again
@@wraithface4410 where am I from ????? but it's from my HomeBrew tabletop characters who are skaven who got bit by a werewolf In Sylvania and now they're their own Clan called the weretooth's who can turn into werewolf and skaven let's just say they're like the incredible Hawks of the old world of Warhammer sorry if my writing is not that good I'm just starting out and I have a night job and sometimes I write these during my off hours not to mention I got arthritis in my hands so it gets kind of tedious when you write so long
I could be wrong here and I get why you included them in this video but I am pretty sure that Mors isn't a Major clan. There are only 4 but maybe Mors are like below them by only a tiny bit I don't remember.
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I tried this game once as I wanted to find more chaos themed warhammer games plus simple mobile warhammer games. I'd give it a... "neutral" score as it wasn't atrocious but it wasn't great. After the start game cheats you realize gathering resources and building takes so long plus you have little to defend yourself from players other than a temporary shield. Worst of all you can't really "build your own war band" the way you want to, let's say devoted entirely to Tzeentch, unless you have endless resources.
next vid maybe all greenskin clans or maybe all elven tribes
is there going to be lore on clan rictus and tretch craventail anytime soon?
the work you do is INSANELY high quality. i am seemingly more impressed with each video. is there any 40k or maybe even battletech in the future of this channel?
I love how warhammer can be dealing with the most serious grim stuff ever, and then u learn that the skaven call their telephones “farsqueakers”
A skaven try to pick up another skaven in a skaven bar.
"yes.. yes... lemme get your farsqueaker number, yes. yes.."
"my farsqueaker number, yes? how about you squeak far away from here, yes,, yess.."
We want to find them adorable so bad lol
Skaven’s farsqueaker breaks so he goes to the skaven Apple Store to get it fixed: “Yes yes… welcome to the Scrapple market… how may we help you you…
Nice analogy with “telephone” meaning “far sound” in ancient greek
@@riccardochicca2964 I think it’s a play on “farseers” from 40k
Props to the camera man for going to all these battles and making it out alive.
It's a very dangerous job indeed!
He's probably a clan eshin assassin. No one even knew he was there
@@DatGitGhaz The one man eshin cant find
Its is very interesting. Hope nothing heretical is going on.
I’d say the Skaven, other than the Elves, are the only other race prideful enough to know you need camera crew to display your infinite greatness
Clan Pestilence: Horned Rat loves us! He give-give us much resilience.
Nurgle: Here ya go you adorable furry guys, keep infecting the world.
my head canon is that the horned rat was a greater deamon of Nurgle wich became so powerful that he broke free of nurgle and because nurgle is such a sweet big geezer, he was fine with it and even gave some of them his great gifts. Think about it, Nurgle has almost all the animals considered vermin in his deamon roster except rats. He has Flies and Mosquitos, snails, maggots, even fricking frogs, but no rats? the most obvious one? I think that is because when the horned rat became independent, he took this domain from him. It also is canon, at least in 40K, that nurgle has some great unclean one locked away because he became so powerful he could spawn his own deamons. Maybe he did not want more of his children to break away from him. Thats how I see it anyway
@@yonasshinigami4956 Nurgles actually pretty sound. A painless, deathless world? Yes please, Sigmar can suck it man-things. Hail Lard gut stinky blob
Well, if they were blessed by Nurgle, wouldn't they actually be damned infected themselves by their plagues, like Nurgle's followers and demons ?
Perhaps the Horned Rat has some connection to Nurgle? In fact, he has aspects that mimic the other Ruinous Powers as well - perhaps he’s a demon of Chaos Undivided that became powerful enough to rise to the level of a minor deity?
@@yonasshinigami4956 This reminds me of the story of nurgling and the great unclean one, but this time, No mireacles, Nyehehe
Book of Choyer: Explains sneaky clan eshin stuff.
Me: Neat. *looks behind and in the shadows*
[Loudly states 'there can't possibly be such a thing haha' while sweating nervously]
Can you explain further? I want to understand the reference yet i don't know much about the warhammer universe
@@addie-yx2xv It is explained in the video but essentially Skaven Assassins, especially the Deathmaster, are masters in their crafts.
They can easily kill any target.
@@addie-yx2xv there's a good bit to it but bassicly two things.
If you see a skaven (esp a night runner/gutter runner or assassin) they'll kill you on the spot to remain undetected/hidden.
Commonly as an empire citizen, if you see them, live/survive, and report it, it'll be dissmissed as a beastman (something very different than a skaven), or you'll be called crazy and be imprisoned and/or executed. To many in the empire the skaven do not exist and to those who know it's a very real conspiracy that is kept secret as a means to keep the public from utter panic.
Everyone gangsta till the shadows have eyes 👀
I hope the People behind this channel aren’t found and killed by the witch hunters for making this video
They'd probably have to watch out for skaven wanting to keep their race hidden
Is... Is he behind me? 😭
Let’s be real, most people here probably play Skaven. So I think our pretty unanimous reaction to him saying “Make strategic alliances.” Was “Hah, *right* ”
Strategic as in, i want you off my back for 3 turns while i swarm this other guy
I love how it's called "the four great clans" in a general sense, yet everyone speaks of five clans, because Mors is a great clan sort of
Loyalty is the skaven of Mors greatest weapon
i actually think Clan Scruten outclasses Mors in therms of "power" , hope we get them as next DLC for skaven in TWW3 with stormfiends, verminlords and a legendary grey seer.
warrior clans are always lesser clans...they only bring muscle and numbers...also Mors is a very famous one but not the strongest of the warrior clans
Who is the narrator behind this video??
I love how Clan Mors has undying loyalty in lore - but ingame it has the highest defection rate of grey seers, while Clan Eshin can't have defectors - only rebellions if you don't build the right buildings.
Thats because queek hates grey seers and grey seers hate queek less because Mors isnt overall more loyal
No shortage of food if there are rebellions everywhere, you can farm rebellions with clan eshin too
Everyone is loyal when theirs a hidden knife to your back yes yes.
Ingame mors is most stable if you never recruit Gray Seers. It matches the lore. Queen hates white fur. My understanding is that because he considers himself the supreme rat but cannot really match grey seer magic only with his strength and courage so they continuously remind him of his insecurity. Secondly Queek is bad at politics which disappoints Gnadwell and delays his retirement. Queek however blames his inability of assention on the Gray Seers and their schemes creating obstacles in his path.
He might be correct on this one. As much as every Council Lord wants to see Gnadwell dead, they are even more afraid of Queeks ascension as Clanlord. Because they don't understand Queek like he doesn't understand them. You can't threaten him, or bribe him, or negotiate with him or even assassinate him. If one day he declares that he wants to eliminate every clan, no amount of politics is going to save them.
As far as why Clan Mors is loyal lorewise but not ingame:
1. Gnadwell is a good administrator and rats in his domain are managed better and are happier. Even members who were bought or borrowed armies sometimes choose to stay. Ingame there is no Gnadwell, only Queek who is like an asshole son of a good employer.
2. Red Guards are ordered to crush rebellions however small. Those elite stormvermins going town on slaves create stories that prevent another rebellion for a few years. There are no redguard unit or hero ingame (which could have government passive -chance of loyalty increase)
3. Promotion prospects in Clan Mors are fair. Even a clanrat hopes to become a warlord one day. There is no promotion mechanic in basegame.
4. Clan Mors is rich and has abundance of food at most times. Ingame mors doesn't receive any food income bonus.
5. There are few gray seers in mors. Ingame AI Queek hires gray seers despite penalty to loyalty.
My favorite warhammer race :) simply because it’s uniquely warhammer. Every fantasy setting has Orcs, Elves, Vampires, Undead, Demons, etc. but the Skaven? Unique like I said and I love their lore.
Agreed, I named my dog skaven.
@@imthedevilkys536 Lol awesome! I love unique dog names like that! I always tell people to try to avoid naming their pets generic names like sprinkles or biscuit, or cupcake. Like names have power and they contribute to the person you will become and the same goes for animals! Lol I’m curious how your dog behaves and if it further contributes to my naming theory
Lizardmen are also unique to warhammer my 2 favorite factions tbh
@@JamesW609 DnD would like a word
@@EnigmaEnginseer Not even they did it first, kind of an old Sci fi concept absorbed into fantasy. But them being alien androids is new as far as I can tell
With immortal empires on the horizon, the rule of ratmen will never have been greater :)
Yes-yes!
Literally waiting for the announcement of adding rat daemons to their roster
We shall see vermin, for there are many grudges in the book yet balanced...
Rat brothers and sisters rise up! #Skavenmasterrace
Yes-yes manthing we will strike-kill when you least expect.
The Skaven Clans! This episode is a recopilation of some previsously covered major skaven clans made into one single volume. As we know, there are innumerable skaven clans all around the under empire. These are just five of the most important ones. Check the description for the timings to look for your favorite clan!
Where Clan Rictus?
no clan rictus? no like!
Sad Clan Rictus in the corner: "Hey, we're cool too! Why doesn't anyone talk about us?"
Ikr, grimhammer gave them some love but I personally still like the other clans more
What is their specialty? Salt mining? :P
@@And-ur6ol i don't know.there's also an pirate skaven clan,an steal-and-loot clan(yes-yes,that clan memes the blood magpies) and a mercenary clan,but now i don't know wich one of them is called Rictus.
I play them usually as the antithesis to clan Mors. Mors is symmetrical offense, Rictis is asymmetrical combat.
Yes-yes. Now stay-sit over there.
* gleeful snickering chittering * yes-yes! I have been waiting-preparing for this video! All skaven clan lore in a single video. Horn-ed rat provides!
no-no what of clan rictus
@@MrHort55 rictus clan-nest will get noticed soon enough yes-YES!
As much as I hate you dawri, nothing can top my hate of chaos demons and elves.
@@MrHort55 clan nest rictus has its own video now yes-yes.
@@Brick_Salvador I AINT NO RATTY!
Always be extremely wary of the skaven that can get through multiple sentences without repeating themselves or going off into deranged rants. They are unquestionably the most dangerous ones you'll ever meet because their minds are laser-beam _focused_ on their goals and their particular brands of insanity aren't detrimental to their planning.
A skaven with Adderall and a therapist would be an apocalyptic threat
@@h3069what about a skaven on capallen battle powder?
Bruh, the quality of this video unbelievably professional. This kind of content can usually only be found on 1mil + accounts, not 155k! Whoever the creators are, if you ever were to read this. You should really be proud of yourselves with this one, bravo!
Ohhh thanks a lot my friend! 🙏🏻🙌🏼 Really appreciate it. Me and the team put a lot of effort into these. Thankfully it's being seen.
Clan Mors shows that Skaven are capable of being honorable in a sense. Now I wouldn’t call them altruistic as I believe that Skaven will almost always act in self interest before helping another. However if a human were somehow leading a force of Skaven, and treated them well. I could see how it may work out. In fact there could be a story there of an honorable knight leading disillusioned clan rats into becoming honorable warriors.
Just think about it. A man is captured by Skaven. But they do not consume him. Instead they lock him up unharmed. Chittering is heard as a figure approaches. They are a man in painted armor. Resplendent in the firelight. He is flanked by heavily armored rats.
The knight quickens as he recognizes the man in the cage. It is his old friend from his old battle group.
He has his soldier release the man, and explains his situation.
He had run from the sacking of their city years ago and made contact with this isolated clan of Skaven. At first an enslaved warrior he fought for them. This was until he slayed their leader and forced them to submit to his own will. Over time they accepted him as their leader and followed his orders. Eventually they even gave him their loyalty as he showed them his ways.
He eventually trusted them enough to show them kindness. Creating a sense of loyalty even if it is in their own twisted way, probably the greatest loyalty any Skaven war and has ever felt to their master. It is a mix of loyalty and fear that keep them in mind. Loyalty making them follow his orders and fear keeping them from betraying him, as he is a great warrior.
Me: Fellow Skaven! The time has upon us! The Great Horned Rat calls you to unleash your creations and spread your plagues to war! And destroy your foe-foes with chaotic hellfire!
Skaven (cheering, screaming and shrieking)
Queek Headtaker for the win yes-yes! To quote a great reply in my previous comment on Clan Mors video:
"If fighting-killing is sure to result in victory-win, then you-you must fight!" - 역병으사
Ninja rats? Rats with cannons and guns? Giant rats?? What heretical nonsense!!
Which is better? Slaaneshmas or great horned rat day?
WOOOOOOP-----WOOOOOOP!!!
Any skaven content seems to always be so great und scary when our skrubasaurus does it cause the others are great but it's just something different when he does it
Skrub supremacy 😎
What?
What a shame, that this absolute masterpiece of content gets so little likes and views.
Maybe it would have been better to split the clans into different videos.
But keep it up nonetheless 👍
He did, this is all of those videos put together.
They are! This is just the mash up!
A 2 hour Skaven episode? YES YES!!
All the rats in my house will be pleased to watch this. I hope they're not bring any Warpstone or my house will become Skavenblight.
Anyway thanks for this compilation I can sleep while hearing tales of great skaven clans
02:05:18 "almost impossible to kill"
*Grimgor* "and i took that, personnaly"
When I first played total war hammer 2, skaven were the first faction I played as. They may not have good armor or artillery compared to dwarfs but they make up for it in numbers and diversity in strategy.
The plagueclaw catapults and poison mortars are one of the most powerful artillery in the entire game. You can't fail at killing entire units with them.
@@ReachStudioPro you can when you forget to guard them and a unit of cold one riders destroy them.
The Dwarves arguably have worse artillery when you factor in the Skaven's mortars & catapults
@Jéster I managed to save the rest of my army using stormskaven and long range units. The artillery was already destroyed when I realized they weren't firing on the lizardmen.
@@vulcranstorm2023 just use ruin magic to spawn clanrats to defend them, skaven are much stronger than dwarf in every way
Weird how in a world where dragons, beastmen, demons, orks and elves exist, the Skaven are dismissed as a myth. XD
Well, many treat beasts and demons as myths too
Its easy to say that because for us all those are fantastic creatures, but imagine if someone approaches you and sais that dragons exist because there are giraffes out there, doesnt sound convincing does it?
@@PoorManatee6197 that dose not make any sense.
We know for a fact there are not flying fire spewing dragons, Giraffes have nothing to do with it.
The Empire went to war with the Skaven, there is no way every single record was destroyed by them, besides the Dwarves know the skaven exist and keep telling humans they exist.
The Empire has no excuse denying the existence of the Skaven and just assuming its always beastmen XD
@@antcow1239 you arent taking into account imperial authorities also work to maintain skavens a secret.
Its not like skaven are an everyday conversation topic between dwarfs and imperials.
I mentioned giraffes as a real world example of your "orcs and beastmen exist so why not skaven?" Logic.
@@PoorManatee6197 Its not like skaven are an everyday conversation topic between dwarfs and imperials.
- Well the dwarves would have evidence, oh and so would the Bretornnians! The Imperials are just willing ignorant.
I mentioned giraffes as a real world example of your "orcs and beastmen exist so why not skaven?" Logic.
- It makes perfect sense, of course there would be talking rat men, we have talking "every other animal" man after all.
Idk what it is but.. something about the Skaven that I cant get enough of. I even have pet rats now and one of them i call Queek Headtaker sometimes lol
By the hammer, herectic spotted! I shall be sending an inquisition on your way
Yes-yes, new video-thing. Time to gnaw-eat some snacks and watch.
YES!!! RAT PEOPLE!!!
Could you consider making a whole lore video about Elven Kingdoms? Ten Kingdoms of Ulthuan, Athel Loren, Eonir and Naggaroth? That would be wholesome.
Never trust an elf!
Man....Warhammer Fantasy had the best lore. I really tried to give Age of Sigmar a chance but it's just wayyyy too out there for me
Excellent work as always team :) a lovely chance to revisit these great works in preparation for the purging of the warrens to come
Thank you so much for the support!
I can't help but feel that the Great Horned Rat is just Grandfather's pet hamster.
This is the perfect video I've been looking for. I'm just now getting into fantasy and this will teach me a lot of things I need to know and all in one video
One Thing I wonder is how the Empire deals with some of their own history that had dealt with Skaven invasions and so forth, with even an Emperor having a namesake like that, and at the same time denying the ratmen exist at all.
History is propably censored.
All the deaths of that time are attributed to the plague, skavens are like the boogeyman of the empire, so skavenslayer is just considered a nickname.
If skavens attack a place more recently, for example the attack on nuln, authorities will make sure to silence any survivor that goes to the next town and talks about it, and even then the others wouldnt believe it and think it was actually beastmen or something.
What i want to know about are the Red armored Albino guard that answer only to the council of 13.
they are mute, and they are Skaven, but utterly unlike Skaven.
queer headgiver
How could anyone hate skaven? They got cute little noses and they talk funny!
If only we had a feline faction to deal with the rat problem 🤣
Lizards. Big lizards
Lizards have sharp teeth so there practically the cats
I found your channel because major kill recommended you and I’m glad he did great videos
Major Kill did? That son of a bitch, I missed him XD I'll have to check out where he does recommend us, but hey, thank you so much for letting is know!
Clan moulder is the reason I got into warhammer fantasy I love them
Guys I don’t think The Book of Choyer will be around for a while. Clan Mors got put in front of one of the Great 4 clans. Clan Moulder will not let this stand!!! Clan Moulder demands a proper payment in warp stone for this insult!!!
Hahahaha you got me there for a second 😂👌🏻
Mors does not serve, Mors RUUUUUULEEEESSSSSSSS 🤟🤟🤟🤟
Fool-fool no-fur forgot greatest-mightiest Clan Rictus!
I thought snikch killed thorgrim grudgebearer?
Thanks to the Book of Choyer making a video dedicated to all these will-be sacrifices to Sotek.
Beutiful work explaining the skaven clans. Is it possible you coud make a similar video of other factions, like high elves, dwarfs or empire of man?
And I'm certain that the 🐀 will be pleased watching this.
I am a Skaven fan. from Bloodbowl to the armies in the 90s. Sadly they have been nerfed since then
skaven teams in bloodbowl were too strong...fast as elves and cheap like goblins...antinatural
- they are my fav faction! So underrated and horrifying but also adorable. I mean, how can you not smile when you hear them call their telephones "Farsqueekers" (:
I laughed when I heard that because it reminded of how they would call doctors in the Mad Max world an "organic mechanic" XD
I have to say I love your work! It's so much fun to watch your lore stuff even though I'm more a 40k person yes yes ;)
Well, keep your eyes peeled for some new stuff coming then 😉
Too bad there are no skaven in 40k, would be cool.
I always wonder who that man was who finished the chapel? Why would he do something for the great horned rat, or was he mistakened into thinking it was for the chaos gods? Somehow he finished the tower and lifted a giant bell all on his own in one night and dissapeared(perhaps sacrified himself) just so the vile vermin could exist. But did he know it was to make the skaven and serve the minor chaos god that is the great horned rat, or was he tricked into doing it? Cause I doubt any man, even a chaos worshipper would want the skaven around.
Wouldn't be surprised if Tzeench was involved with the bell guy
you mean the "grey stranger"? that´s the Horned rat
Skaven triumphant yes-yes!
Reality is more fascinating, you cannot make up the things that actually go on. Compared to the cia, clan eshin are noobs. Compared to kissinger, snikitch is a boy scout. When snikitch gets the sigmar peace prize while murdering people across the empire, then he will be worthy.
Hahaha ha.
Oh everyone knows the Rat Men does not exist.
*Laughs as I set up a bear trap with a piece of cheese in the center*
But wait.....Skaaven aren't real.....🐀
CLAN ESHIN FTW, no one can step up to the Deathmaster,thats why the Lord Sneek seats next to the Horned Rat
Absolutely enjoy watching your videos! I think the bell tolled 13 times throughout this video. I’ve been a longtime Warhammer, going on 20 years. Your music choices are so good, too! If you wouldn’t mind sharing the name of the song starting at 56:40, that’d be awesome!
I totally get the Clan Pestilence from a narrative perspective but it makes little sense in view of how Skaven work. Why wouldn't Nurglitch wipe out all of Skavenblight if he had the means? Unless it was a ruse or empty threat.
knowing skaven it was or it was a case of long term thinking ie the loss of skaven blight would weaken skaven as a whole too much
@@Yingyanglord1 Weakened for a few years maybe. The city could be repopulated with Skaven from the Southlands, Skaven who were "loyal" to Pestilence. Their fast reproduction rate would do the rest.
@@heirwolf6929 idk, it's said that the doomsphere built under skavenblight did catastrophic damage to their population that they still haven't recovered. While yes they breed like rats, their lifestyle, wars, and just society has a great attrition that the population gain per year may not be that large. My opinion!
My theory is that he wanted to learn how the members of the council expanded their lifespan.
One-upmanship, a true latching onto a "dog-eat-dog" way of life, the massive superiority complex from even the lowest of clan-rats...
Skaven are the condensed form of Mississippi redneck.
You put out the best skaven videos. My favorite army.
So, what happened to the Skaven, beastmen, and the lizard men between the fantasy setting and 40K
Nothing happened to them as they're different settings. Although you can see traces of Lizardmen as images of Slann are used to refer to the Old Ones. Beastmen on the other hand are a type of abhuman. There's even a named character named (if I remember correctly) Gor Half-Horn.
@@the_corvid97 If I was ever going to get back into TT it would be with a full army of loyalist Beastmen acting as guard/auxillia with tanks and arty and everything.
Been playing chaos and conquest for two years now. I’m a fan and I don’t like rts games.
Cant wait to vanquish all no furs in the name of the Great Horned One! (and of course my fellow Skaven) Ikit Claw is gonna be my first IE campaign for sure
What? No clan Rictus? Deploy Deathmaster Snikch yes yes!!
I am relatively new to things Warhammer but similar to real life, rats ruin everything.
Clan Skyre, the clan who brought the concept of MAD into the old world.
this was fking good! :D
Another great lore from my favs, I enjoy your content even if the lore isn't about nurgle, oh and speaking of nurgle can you do a lore on the beast of the emerald cave please.
God, I love clan Mors so much. They are my favourite clan of them all. Fully devoted gang rats that put family first.
"Familia."
My favourite part was when the Skaven said "It's Skaven time!" And Skaved everywhere
Hey, we've got a group of shadowy assassins and spys, who is their leader?
How about sneek?
Genius, how'd you come up with that?
I heard games workshop was coming out with a new skaven clan that focused on mind control through delectable food… I think they named it clan ratatouille
Are Undead ratmen a thing ? Like, when skaven lose to Vampire counts ?
I very much enjoyed listening to your video like an audio book while working I love skaven lore and you opened my mind and made me love skaven kin even more ❤️
Yessssssss I love the long videos. In the best praise I have and no insult, I love falling asleep to your lore videos.
I have been waiting for a video like this for a long time.
I'm going to say this once Geneva suggestion should be the motto of all skaven
As Blood tail watch the empire State troops March through the old dwarven road he Howl into moon
As Sergeant Godfrey look on into distance hearing the howl then he realized he was being watch by green glowing eyes
Then the eyes were gone then his horse startled as tree came crashing down in front of them
Then 5 spearman were by order Sergeant Godfrey to pick up the tree then they heard something coming at them as was a huge creature that leaped out of the vegetation
Right at the unprepared spearman as it ripped and teared into him as limbs went flying and screams let blood curl out of their lips
Then sergeant Godfrey charged right at the beast with his steel sword but flipped over him grabbing him with its tail flipping him off the horse
As sergeant Godfrey like went crashing Down then he pulled out his foot lock pistol but creature let out of subsonic howl that damage the ears of Godfrey as he dropped the pistol then he rushed him ripping his head off
. Then the skaven wear rat as towered over the sergeant as spoke you fought well well but now you die die under Clan whertooth
Then he rips Sergeant Godfrey his head off as he took his head back to his pack as blood tail howl to moon once again
You wrote this? Where are you from
@@wraithface4410 where am I from ????? but it's from my HomeBrew tabletop characters who are skaven who got bit by a werewolf In Sylvania and now they're their own Clan called the weretooth's who can turn into werewolf and skaven let's just say they're like the incredible Hawks of the old world of Warhammer sorry if my writing is not that good I'm just starting out and I have a night job and sometimes I write these during my off hours not to mention I got arthritis in my hands so it gets kind of tedious when you write so long
@@donright4492 oh not its good :) just curious maybe I good give some feedback
@@wraithface4410 it's all cool have good day 👍😀
48:33 he should have mentioned clan molder
This inspired me to buy total war 2 and play as skaven lol.
Bad influence much? Either way, we are proud of it 😎
Are we sure the great horned rat isn't just nurgle but seen through the eyes of ratmen?
when you looke Like this We have have Tzeentchie backstabbing and Magics, Nurglich plagues, Khorns bloodlust and a slahnnesie Obsession
The ratmen are chaos undivided? Yet divided amongst themselves.
@@theHedgex1 Not directly i would say Great horned Rat more Like beast chaos
Two goddamn hours. You guys are awesome.
Do this on every faction jesssus so good
I do wait for this channels videos, they're just amazing like truly amazing.
You flatter us :3
Clan skyre is my favorite
Hello can you sort your videos in Warhammer fantasy lore in playlists
Like dwarf lore, beastmen lore, greenskin lore, etc
🥺
You guys should dabble in some 40k, the narrator in the beginning of the video is incredible.
Rats... totally up my alley. However, I cannot think of anything that outdoes my enjoyment of Nurgle. Nurgle Rats? Perfect Combination!
The filthy dark elves😁
TMW GW actually sponsors a lore channel. Well done.
Love these lore videos!
Thank you very much! :*
Please keep this amazing narrator, the best voice ever!!!!!!!!!!!
We do love our resident Saurus
awesome work as always 👍
I could be wrong here and I get why you included them in this video but I am pretty sure that Mors isn't a Major clan. There are only 4 but maybe Mors are like below them by only a tiny bit I don't remember.
Could you do a video covering the battle of nuln that features in the will am king novel skavenslayer within the gotrik and felix series.
the vermintide was told in machinations before and in the future of this tale
The narrator of Clan Moulder has mad Grand Moff energy
i didnt know the scaven were so skilled and agile . very cool 1:01
I know five people who are perfect for the job.