Fun fact, Settra the Imperishable is the only guy that wasn’t gifted with magic naturally to learn magic, why? Because he’s Settra! He challenged a god of death’s grip on his undead legions by will alone in the End Times, he’s so stubborn that Belegar Ironhammer himself would tell him to cool it down. Given he’s absolutely shit at magic and can only deflect the most basic of magical spells on his own, and the only reason he did it was because he realised that if the Liche Priests wanted to betray him, they could since they controlled all of his undead legions. So Settra, through sheer force of will and astounding pigheadedness, learned the bare essentials so that he could keep control of his legions, permanently. Settra is the absolute biggest badass in the Warhammer World
>pigheadedness Do I smell some trace of disrespect for mighty Settra, Great King, the Imperishable, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara, King of Kings, Opener of the Way, Wielder of the Divine Flame, Punisher of Nomads, The Great Unifier, Commander of the Golden Legion, Sacred of Appearance, Bringer of Light, Father of Hawks, Builder of Cities, Protector of the Two Worlds, Keeper of the Hours, Chosen of Ptra, High Steward of the Horizon, Sailor of the Great Vitae, Sentinel of the Two Realms, The Undisputed, Begetter of the Begat, Scourge of the Faithless, Carrion-feeder, First of the Charnel Valley, Rider of the Sacred Chariot, Vanquisher of Vermin, Champion of the Death Arena, Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert, Emperor of the Shifting Sands, He Who Holds The Sceptre, Great Hawk Of The Heavens, Arch-Sultan of Atalan, Waker of the Hierotitan, Monarch of the Sky, Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands, Champion of the Desert Gods, Breaker of the Ogre Clans, Builder of the Great Pyramid, Terror of the Living, Master of the Never-Ending Horizon, Master of the Necropolises, Taker of Souls, Tyrant to the Foolish, Bearer of Ptra's Holy Blade, Scion of Usirian, Scion of Nehek, The Great, Chaser of Nightmares, Keeper of the Royal Herat, Founder of the Mortuary Cult, Banisher of the Grand Hierophant, High Lord Admiral of the Deathfleets, Guardian of the Charnal Pass, Tamer of the Liche King, Unliving Jackal Lord, Dismisser of the Warrior Queen, Charioteer of the Gods, He Who Does Not Serve, Slayer off Reddittras, Scarab Purger, Favoured of Usirian, Player of the Great Game, Liberator of Life, Lord Sand, Wrangler of Scorpions, Emperor of the Dunes, Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions, Seneschal of the Great Sandy Desert, Curserer of the Living, Regent of the Eastern Mountains, Warden of the Eternal Necropolis, Herald of all Heralds, Caller of the Bitter Wind, God-Tamer, Master of the Mortis River, Guardian of the Dead, Great Keeper of the Obelisks, Deacon of the Ash River, Belated of Wakers, General of the Mighty Frame, Summoner of Sandstorms, Master of all Necrotects, Prince of Dust, Tyrant of Araby, Purger of the Greenskin Breathers, Killer of the False God's Champions, Tyrant of the Gold Dunes, Golden Bone Lord, Avenger of the Dead, Carrion Master, Eternal Warden of Nehek's Lands, Breaker of Djaf's Bonds and many, many more? In all seriousness, AoS is yet to come up with a villain as cool and yet so human as Settra
Dozens of dynasties of hundreds of Ancient Tomb Kings: "Oh boy, I can't wait to be reborn to an eternal life of immaculate beauty and eternal rule over the beautiful lands of Nekharra!" Nagash: *dabs*
That's kind of an odd thing that apparently none of those kings during their lifetime realized the implications of ALL previous kings being resurrected as immortals. They all suspected to be supreme ruler upon awakening? Seems rather naive.
@@DeHerg well if they had whims such as defying death itself then it only makes sense they'd not even consider the possibility of previous generations of tomb-kings rebelling
@@jackvernian7779 It wouldn't even be the other kings "rebelling" during their lifetime that's the problem. They expected to be resurrected themselves(the promise that kept the mortuary cult in their privileged position), in that event they(current king->future immortal) would have no better claim to the throne than anybody else.
@@DeHerg Whats even weirder is that they ALL knew Setra was _THE_ guy. Like... he's _THE_ guy who started the cult, he's _THE_ guy who started this quest to be immortal king of all utopia. NONE of them made temple bigger than his! They _KNEW_ he was at the _TOP_ of the fuckin list of supreme mega god king ultra major kingly supreme rulers, to the point of NEVER attempting to 1-up him... Yet they _ALL_ were like "Nah, _IM_ gonna be the _BIGGEST_ ruler in the new utopia - *BET* on it!"
What i like most about the Tomb-Kings was that of all the Factions to help them get rid of Nagash, the SKAVEN helped them. Granted, it was when it was either do or die and after they poisoned their great River, but the fact that the little Ratlings actually did something good is very, veeeery surprising.
Small correction, the rats didn't poison the river, Nagash and Arkhan put the foulest curses, it was over a year's effort of curses, upon the start of the great river vitae, which was a super nile so large you could'nt see neither of the two coasts when navigating it in the middle, and turned it into the river mortis, where a single touch would kill any mortal and simply living "near" (various dozens of kilometers) would be impossible.
There was actually another reason why Nagash entombed his brother instead of getting his hands dirty. Because if you kill a man (directly), you cannot marry his widow. I am not making this up
Damn, this video became visible about a minute ago and already there's several people correcting the spelling of priests... *quietly abandons his plans to do the same*
It's Liche in TWW2 as well so either Arch or CA got that wrong too. I can forgive Arch though. Dyslexia is probably a bitch when he's trying to do this stuff so mistakes I can live with.
And the cults never at one point stopped to ask "What will happen once all these kings come back to life?" or even the kings themselves "What will happen when my father or his father comes back to life, will they allow me to rule?"
Yeah, that's a really weird inconsistency that GW never even thought of addressing. The natural thing would have been for each dynasty to destroy the previous dynasty's tombs. The various kings of each dynasty would probably be fine with (or at least might consider) bringing back their own granddaddy to rule barring some power-hungry exceptions. However, when the next dynasty usurps the previous dynasty and was promised to be the ruling dynasty of future utopia Nehekhara you would think that the new dynasty would ransack or demolish all the previous tombs or even simply replace all of the mummfied kings and soldiers of the previous dynasty in the tombs with their own soldiers and kings. The only excuse is that it is such a taboo thing to the Nehekharan mind that most would never even consider destroying a fellow king's tomb, but clearly, there were exceptions.The primary example of such an exception being Nagash himself. If Nagash was so ruthless as to tax his subjects into open revolt and monopolize all the building materials despite being immortal and having eternity to complete his project, then he would obviously cannibalize the existing ancient tombs. Namely, Settra's pyramid is right next door. He would have ripped that apart to build his own monument or even simply kicked out all of Settra's stuff and just modified Settra's pyramid to be a monument to Nagash's own glory.
@@notinspectorgadget The Tomb Kings, known as the Priest Kings in their former lives, are the undying rulers of Nehekhara, an ancient Human civilisation that formed a great and powerful empire some two thousand five hundred years before the birth of Sigmar Heldenhammer and the founding of the Empire. Out of all the unliving creatures that would claim dominion and royalty over the dead, only the Tomb Kings could truly claim such masterful and undisputed sovereignty. For they had once ruled a mighty and far-flung empire during a time when the rest of Mankind were little more than savage barbarians. Long ago, during an ancient and forgotten age, Nehekhara stood as a shining beacon of civilisation and Human achievement; a golden age when its cities shone with a majestic splendour, its buildings crafted from magnificent marble and limestone, its armies capable of conquering entire kingdoms. In this long-lost age, Nehekhara's mighty rulers reigned as living gods amongst men. But this great realm was destroyed millennia ago through acts of great treachery and powerful sorcery. The living of Nehekhara perished long ago in a single, mournful night, and in their absence, the dead stirred from their graves and claimed the land anew. Even as their ancient civilisation now lies buried beneath the sand, its once verdant plains turned to searing desert and their mighty and glorious empire fractured and in ruin, the Tomb Kings have once more awoken from their deep sleep. Rising from their decrepit sarcophagi, the mummified rulers of Nehekhara awoke with eyes of burning balefire, their thirst for power, conquest and vengeance just as strong in death as in life. They have returned to reclaim that which is rightfully theirs, their legions innumerable, rising up from the scorching sand brandishing weapons of polished bronze and priceless gold. Ancient, emotionless and spiteful to all those that have slighted them, woe betide those foolish enough to stand before their silent onslaught.
4:00 In the interest of accuracy: old timey life averages were so low because mortality was so high. Example: you have 3 brothers: one dies in his first year, one dies in some plague at 29 (shit happens, eh) and one lives to the ripe old age of 90. The average lifespan between these people is going to be (1+29 + 90) / 3 = 40. 20:00 Well thirst got him before starvation...
This all sounds like very similar to runic magic. A highly ritualized system that would bind and pin the winda of magic to something to sustain an effect in perpetuity. They didn't have the stable system of harnessing the energy that high magic uses or the technological skill of dwarves. But just imagine the possibilities if they understood those systems and adapted them into those practices. As ever, the factions lost so much by being so very antagonistic to each other.
Hooded Skaven: "I-Me come on behalf-of one whom I love-hate. Arwen is perish-dying. She-thing will not survive the evil-dark that spread from Nehek-desert things. The light of the Horned One is fail-stopping. As Nagash-things power grows, her strength wane-fails. The shadow is upon us Alcadizzar-thing. The End-times has come. Man-thing, cat-fondlers ride to war but not victory-reward. You are outnumbered Alcadizzar-thing, you need-want more man-things." *Pulls out glowing green blade* _"The Fell-Blade, Flame of Skavenblight, forged from the shards of Blessed Warpstone from each of the Thirteen! The Things that can wield-use the Blade can summon-take power more deadly than any on this world! Put aside the chain-binds, become who you were meant to be Alcaddizar-thing."_ . Alcaddizar: "Just Two questions, 1. Who in Nehek is _Arwen?,_ 2. What do I do with this rancid poison blade?" . Hooded Skaven: *As he unlocks the prison cell* "Arwen be my Elf-thing slave and of course, you use Fell-Blade to shank-stab the Nagash-thing between the ribs you feckless Man-thing..... Skaven have-got to do-think of everything around here."
18:40 - What will they do for an encore, Warpstone Bomb juggling? | As Evil Mary Poppins in Doctor Who would put it "The dead outnumber the living." | 30:35 - They did everyone a favour as a by-product of their actions.
Me one of the first members of the mortuary cults: *learns about my new mission* Also me: *goes about looking for the most fast acting and painless poison possible to use on my self because it’s a preferable fate to what settras gonna do to me when I fail*
I can feel Mortarion's disapproval from an entire genre away... Many Necrons, however, could stand to learn a bit more. They dig the aesthetic, I hear...
Hey Arch, would you do a lore video on the Skitarri? I've been playing Mechanicus and man does it make you interested in the Tech Priests and their heavily augmented 'soldiers'
One might wonder if they had a way to imprison our keep a soul while waiting to bring them back. Otherwise one might wonder if the subjects souls might be reincarnated or go else where.
Arch: The true heroes of the story... Me, having only the barest knowledge of Warhammer Fantasy: The empire, led by Karl Fr- Arch: The Skaven! Me: Wait wut.
Barry Bend sadly with their total cancelation of DBZ abridged they’re kind of a nonentity at this point. Their lost relevancy is while sad totally expected.
Why do I imagine a Liche Priest carving into the Bones of a particular King he hated runes that when they inevitably bring him back, eventually, that he forever suffer from ED?
Depends on the era, in ancient Rome or Egypt sure, but not in early or late medieval times where famine and disease were ravaging both the adult and young population
Hold up ... wasnt the great mortis river poisened by the skaven in the name of nagash? thats the first time i hear it was actually a spell from nagash himself
you known i love the way arch explains lore, it has personality and life to it and my god his voice were do i go to discuss hiring this man to do voice work for my projects
So... he was so impatient despite being immortal to construct his black pyramid that he would over tax his subjects to the point of rebellion... but somehow still pragmatic and levelheaded enough to not just destroy anyone who could oppose him in the belief that the others will eventually see its foolish to oppose him... something... something seems off.
Nagash buried Thutep alive because a murderer is forbidden to marry the victims wife. The queen in question was also the daughter of the sun whom was their sacred covenant with the gods made flesh. He murdered her son and only heir to make the elixir of damnation/eternal life and tricked Neferem (Thutep's wife) into drinking it and bound her to his will. Then he proceeded to abuse the shit out of her for hundreds of years culminating in him throwing her against the walls of Mahrak to break their covenant with the gods forever.
Is there a separate set of books on Nagash and the Tomb kings other than the ones by Mike Lee? Its been awhile since I read it but there seems to be a few discrepancies between Arch's lore and those books.
Hey arch! Great video! Could you please talk about the Fimir in warhammer fantasy? They’ve been kicked under an ever increasing perpetual rug and I think it’d be cool if you gave them some light in a lore video
on page 570 of nagash the immortal it states that the skaven dumped discs of god-stone into "the great tarn" from which flows "the great river" of nehekhara. Does the story of him using the black pyramid come from the codex?
Awesome as always, but i want to know if you skipped some important stuff about how Nagash learned to make the elixir of Immortality by first extracting the soul of people into himself to use magic (this he learned from the Dark elves) and how Nagash was shot in the head by gunners from Lahmia, not defeated outside the Gate of Khemri. I bet you have read 'The Rise of Nagash' which is a really good read, so you must be saving all the Juciy details for a spesific lore-video about that
Great intro but one thing still kinda bothers me. Why the hell has that lore-obsessed Skaven-thing that book on his desk? That book is "Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium" by Sandy Mitchell. Skaven are not in W40k!
LocalHeretic 1127 indeed loyal citizen of the Imperium, we’ll have this rabble rouser dealt with in no time, Skaven don’t exist! If you see any other such foolish people report it to your local Arbites pronto
Rule for Immortality 1) everyone dies. no exceptions. even those who are immortal will eventually die. ways to become immortal: 1) find a way to extend your live to eternity. 2) find a way to come back from death. - recipe for eternal life: step 1: create a new SOULLESS body. either a clone of yourself or a new construct step 2: transfer your soul from your old body into the new soulless container step 3: anchor your soul in the new body step 4: PROPERLY disintegrate your old body. step 5: repeat from step 1 until Rule 1 applies. - recipe for resurrection: step 1: prepare for your own death{ create new incarnation. prepare means for returning your soul from death } step 2: die step 3: execute prepared means and return into the new incarnation. step 4: repeat from step 1 until Rule 1 applies.
It just occurred to me: since Settra was the one who started the Mortuary Cult, wouldn’t his embalmings & runes be the weakest out of all the Tomb Kings, since it took literal centuries before they managed to perfect their techniques? 🤔
Didn't the Skaven aid Nagash in poisoning the river? He promised them warp stone in return. After Nagash suffered his defeat he fled, built up a new army, discovered warp stone and used it to strengthen him and had a really long war with the Skaven. He also almost died during that war.
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Arch with his fursona explain to us the lore of fantasy Egyptians
And a blurb about their boomer king
"Fantasy Egyptians" Yep, dead on! All the Egyptian tropes in one place.
*fantasy necrons
His fursona? Nah, dude. This is Arch's face reveal video, silly.
Normal furries: Neon wolf
Arch: Big man-rat
Fun fact, Settra the Imperishable is the only guy that wasn’t gifted with magic naturally to learn magic, why? Because he’s Settra! He challenged a god of death’s grip on his undead legions by will alone in the End Times, he’s so stubborn that Belegar Ironhammer himself would tell him to cool it down.
Given he’s absolutely shit at magic and can only deflect the most basic of magical spells on his own, and the only reason he did it was because he realised that if the Liche Priests wanted to betray him, they could since they controlled all of his undead legions. So Settra, through sheer force of will and astounding pigheadedness, learned the bare essentials so that he could keep control of his legions, permanently.
Settra is the absolute biggest badass in the Warhammer World
And the biggest asshole in the Warhammer World
He is not only too stubborn to die, but too stubborn to let his troops die...
>pigheadedness
Do I smell some trace of disrespect for mighty Settra, Great King, the Imperishable, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara, King of Kings, Opener of the Way, Wielder of the Divine Flame, Punisher of Nomads, The Great Unifier, Commander of the Golden Legion, Sacred of Appearance, Bringer of Light, Father of Hawks, Builder of Cities, Protector of the Two Worlds, Keeper of the Hours, Chosen of Ptra, High Steward of the Horizon, Sailor of the Great Vitae, Sentinel of the Two Realms, The Undisputed, Begetter of the Begat, Scourge of the Faithless, Carrion-feeder, First of the Charnel Valley, Rider of the Sacred Chariot, Vanquisher of Vermin, Champion of the Death Arena, Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert, Emperor of the Shifting Sands, He Who Holds The Sceptre, Great Hawk Of The Heavens, Arch-Sultan of Atalan, Waker of the Hierotitan, Monarch of the Sky, Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands, Champion of the Desert Gods, Breaker of the Ogre Clans, Builder of the Great Pyramid, Terror of the Living, Master of the Never-Ending Horizon, Master of the Necropolises, Taker of Souls, Tyrant to the Foolish, Bearer of Ptra's Holy Blade, Scion of Usirian, Scion of Nehek, The Great, Chaser of Nightmares, Keeper of the Royal Herat, Founder of the Mortuary Cult, Banisher of the Grand Hierophant, High Lord Admiral of the Deathfleets, Guardian of the Charnal Pass, Tamer of the Liche King, Unliving Jackal Lord, Dismisser of the Warrior Queen, Charioteer of the Gods, He Who Does Not Serve, Slayer off Reddittras, Scarab Purger, Favoured of Usirian, Player of the Great Game, Liberator of Life, Lord Sand, Wrangler of Scorpions, Emperor of the Dunes, Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions, Seneschal of the Great Sandy Desert, Curserer of the Living, Regent of the Eastern Mountains, Warden of the Eternal Necropolis, Herald of all Heralds, Caller of the Bitter Wind, God-Tamer, Master of the Mortis River, Guardian of the Dead, Great Keeper of the Obelisks, Deacon of the Ash River, Belated of Wakers, General of the Mighty Frame, Summoner of Sandstorms, Master of all Necrotects, Prince of Dust, Tyrant of Araby, Purger of the Greenskin Breathers, Killer of the False God's Champions, Tyrant of the Gold Dunes, Golden Bone Lord, Avenger of the Dead, Carrion Master, Eternal Warden of Nehek's Lands, Breaker of Djaf's Bonds and many, many more?
In all seriousness, AoS is yet to come up with a villain as cool and yet so human as Settra
Marcus Flutist did you just say settra Is a villain
Llord Elof nah, that honour in my mind still goes to Nagash. Settra is bloody harsh, but decent in comparison.
Why can't Settra play tennis? Because Settra does NOT serve!
Ok, that's a good one.
Neat...
this comment deserves more likes. lol'd
He also prefers the mountains to the beach, because he does not surf.
no
The first one too see Settra and his army awakes "please, not the belt."
"no daddy, nooooooo!"
Dozens of dynasties of hundreds of Ancient Tomb Kings: "Oh boy, I can't wait to be reborn to an eternal life of immaculate beauty and eternal rule over the beautiful lands of Nekharra!"
Nagash: *dabs*
_The darkest of magics..._
That's kind of an odd thing that apparently none of those kings during their lifetime realized the implications of ALL previous kings being resurrected as immortals. They all suspected to be supreme ruler upon awakening? Seems rather naive.
@@DeHerg well if they had whims such as defying death itself then it only makes sense they'd not even consider the possibility of previous generations of tomb-kings rebelling
@@jackvernian7779 It wouldn't even be the other kings "rebelling" during their lifetime that's the problem. They expected to be resurrected themselves(the promise that kept the mortuary cult in their privileged position), in that event they(current king->future immortal) would have no better claim to the throne than anybody else.
@@DeHerg
Whats even weirder is that they ALL knew Setra was _THE_ guy. Like... he's _THE_ guy who started the cult, he's _THE_ guy who started this quest to be immortal king of all utopia.
NONE of them made temple bigger than his! They _KNEW_ he was at the _TOP_ of the fuckin list of supreme mega god king ultra major kingly supreme rulers, to the point of NEVER attempting to 1-up him...
Yet they _ALL_ were like "Nah, _IM_ gonna be the _BIGGEST_ ruler in the new utopia - *BET* on it!"
*Tombkings are awaken and sees the hell ther home have become*
The lich priests of Nekekara "Nagash did it."
The lich priests of Nebraska?
Bruh
some newly awoken Tomb King: "Gee, Khemri looks horrible now. But at least I still got my noble armies and beautiful concubines with me."
Khatep Got yeeted by Settra
Settra's an inspiration to us all I think.
The Emperor wishes he was Settra
After all he does not serve, *he rules*
Maybe if you're a boomer
Being a selfish genocidal tyrannical thug who ruined his own society due to his titanic ego
@@AltbinariesPPK Yes.
I have one vital question: *_How much milk does these lich priests drink in order to get such strong bones?_*
Consume your calcium!
They consume 100 cows a day, whole cows
*Mortuary priest finds ancient pharaoh's bones broken*
"By using the power of Flex-Tape..."
An ancient and dark secret recipe for....
Vitamin gummies!
Pay your calcium tax
>this post made by bonereaper gang
What i like most about the Tomb-Kings was that of all the Factions to help them get rid of Nagash, the SKAVEN helped them. Granted, it was when it was either do or die and after they poisoned their great River, but the fact that the little Ratlings actually did something good is very, veeeery surprising.
Rats to the rescue
Small correction, the rats didn't poison the river, Nagash and Arkhan put the foulest curses, it was over a year's effort of curses, upon the start of the great river vitae, which was a super nile so large you could'nt see neither of the two coasts when navigating it in the middle, and turned it into the river mortis, where a single touch would kill any mortal and simply living "near" (various dozens of kilometers) would be impossible.
There was actually another reason why Nagash entombed his brother instead of getting his hands dirty. Because if you kill a man (directly), you cannot marry his widow. I am not making this up
That's an oddly specific rule in an oddly specific kingdom.
True
Damn, this video became visible about a minute ago and already there's several people correcting the spelling of priests...
*quietly abandons his plans to do the same*
The prists are far more powerful than mere priests.
da humies giva lot 'bout da korrekt spelling of da words! WAAAAGHH on words!!
Still not corrected.
My dude. Priests, not Prists...
*watches to make sure it's not Prists*
It's Liche in TWW2 as well so either Arch or CA got that wrong too. I can forgive Arch though. Dyslexia is probably a bitch when he's trying to do this stuff so mistakes I can live with.
Lich is the original, but GM can try to copyright Liche. It's not the same thing, honest judge! 🤣
@@StevenLockey
That's probably not far from the mark, lol.
And he misspelled Nehekhara too. /facepalm
English isn't his first language. Remember when he wrote Cavalry as Cavalrie
On second thought, let’s not go to Nehehkara. Tis’ a silly place.
Ha! A reference!
And the cults never at one point stopped to ask "What will happen once all these kings come back to life?" or even the kings themselves "What will happen when my father or his father comes back to life, will they allow me to rule?"
Well to be fair they kinda hoped they could make the lands a utopia before bringing everyone back. That’s not much of an excuse tho.
Yeah, that's a really weird inconsistency that GW never even thought of addressing. The natural thing would have been for each dynasty to destroy the previous dynasty's tombs. The various kings of each dynasty would probably be fine with (or at least might consider) bringing back their own granddaddy to rule barring some power-hungry exceptions. However, when the next dynasty usurps the previous dynasty and was promised to be the ruling dynasty of future utopia Nehekhara you would think that the new dynasty would ransack or demolish all the previous tombs or even simply replace all of the mummfied kings and soldiers of the previous dynasty in the tombs with their own soldiers and kings.
The only excuse is that it is such a taboo thing to the Nehekharan mind that most would never even consider destroying a fellow king's tomb, but clearly, there were exceptions.The primary example of such an exception being Nagash himself. If Nagash was so ruthless as to tax his subjects into open revolt and monopolize all the building materials despite being immortal and having eternity to complete his project, then he would obviously cannibalize the existing ancient tombs. Namely, Settra's pyramid is right next door. He would have ripped that apart to build his own monument or even simply kicked out all of Settra's stuff and just modified Settra's pyramid to be a monument to Nagash's own glory.
Or they knew damn well this was a fools errand.
Me watching the video tittle: *SO THAT'S HOW YOU WRITE "NEGHEFLAGRHA!"*
Last time I was this early Ollanius Pius just jumped in front of the Emperor to save him from Horus
Spoilers!
Actually, no, John pushed him.
They retconned him so that he didn’t actually sacrifice himself, but instead just stood there... new lore is sh!t
So as it began, so it ends! Until Nagash came back...
_Nagash upon his dark return..._
*"ITS DAT NIGGA Y'ALL LOVE TO HATE!!!"*
Bomb ass intro bro. Probably misspelled “Priests” though...
Ah, yes, the low-tech necron
*the low Tech-cron
Necrons, under the SAAAAAND!
Didn't the lore of the Tomb Kings come before the Necron retcon?
@@notinspectorgadget The Tomb Kings, known as the Priest Kings in their former lives, are the undying rulers of Nehekhara, an ancient Human civilisation that formed a great and powerful empire some two thousand five hundred years before the birth of Sigmar Heldenhammer and the founding of the Empire. Out of all the unliving creatures that would claim dominion and royalty over the dead, only the Tomb Kings could truly claim such masterful and undisputed sovereignty. For they had once ruled a mighty and far-flung empire during a time when the rest of Mankind were little more than savage barbarians.
Long ago, during an ancient and forgotten age, Nehekhara stood as a shining beacon of civilisation and Human achievement; a golden age when its cities shone with a majestic splendour, its buildings crafted from magnificent marble and limestone, its armies capable of conquering entire kingdoms. In this long-lost age, Nehekhara's mighty rulers reigned as living gods amongst men. But this great realm was destroyed millennia ago through acts of great treachery and powerful sorcery. The living of Nehekhara perished long ago in a single, mournful night, and in their absence, the dead stirred from their graves and claimed the land anew.
Even as their ancient civilisation now lies buried beneath the sand, its once verdant plains turned to searing desert and their mighty and glorious empire fractured and in ruin, the Tomb Kings have once more awoken from their deep sleep. Rising from their decrepit sarcophagi, the mummified rulers of Nehekhara awoke with eyes of burning balefire, their thirst for power, conquest and vengeance just as strong in death as in life.
They have returned to reclaim that which is rightfully theirs, their legions innumerable, rising up from the scorching sand brandishing weapons of polished bronze and priceless gold. Ancient, emotionless and spiteful to all those that have slighted them, woe betide those foolish enough to stand before their silent onslaught.
Magic Necrons
4:00 In the interest of accuracy: old timey life averages were so low because mortality was so high.
Example: you have 3 brothers: one dies in his first year, one dies in some plague at 29 (shit happens, eh) and one lives to the ripe old age of 90. The average lifespan between these people is going to be (1+29 + 90) / 3 = 40.
20:00 Well thirst got him before starvation...
Setra and Big E. could have an interesting discussion about their descendants being massive disappointments.
Vlad Von Carstein: Room for one more?
This all sounds like very similar to runic magic. A highly ritualized system that would bind and pin the winda of magic to something to sustain an effect in perpetuity. They didn't have the stable system of harnessing the energy that high magic uses or the technological skill of dwarves. But just imagine the possibilities if they understood those systems and adapted them into those practices. As ever, the factions lost so much by being so very antagonistic to each other.
I knew about Liche Priests, but thanks for telling me about Lich Prists. Always great to discover new lore.
Hooded Skaven: "I-Me come on behalf-of one whom I love-hate. Arwen is perish-dying. She-thing will not survive the evil-dark that spread from Nehek-desert things. The light of the Horned One is fail-stopping. As Nagash-things power grows, her strength wane-fails. The shadow is upon us Alcadizzar-thing. The End-times has come. Man-thing, cat-fondlers ride to war but not victory-reward. You are outnumbered Alcadizzar-thing, you need-want more man-things." *Pulls out glowing green blade* _"The Fell-Blade, Flame of Skavenblight, forged from the shards of Blessed Warpstone from each of the Thirteen! The Things that can wield-use the Blade can summon-take power more deadly than any on this world! Put aside the chain-binds, become who you were meant to be Alcaddizar-thing."_
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Alcaddizar: "Just Two questions, 1. Who in Nehek is _Arwen?,_ 2. What do I do with this rancid poison blade?"
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Hooded Skaven: *As he unlocks the prison cell* "Arwen be my Elf-thing slave and of course, you use Fell-Blade to shank-stab the Nagash-thing between the ribs you feckless Man-thing..... Skaven have-got to do-think of everything around here."
Oh God...Elrond as a Skaven...now THAT’S something I wasn’t expecting to see when I got up today.
@@willrogers3793 Welcome to the Internet... We are all deviants here :D
Imagine if someone made this into a movie, I would definitely pay to see that
18:40 - What will they do for an encore, Warpstone Bomb juggling? | As Evil Mary Poppins in Doctor Who would put it "The dead outnumber the living." | 30:35 - They did everyone a favour as a by-product of their actions.
Me one of the first members of the mortuary cults: *learns about my new mission*
Also me: *goes about looking for the most fast acting and painless poison possible to use on my self because it’s a preferable fate to what settras gonna do to me when I fail*
I can feel Mortarion's disapproval from an entire genre away...
Many Necrons, however, could stand to learn a bit more. They dig the aesthetic, I hear...
Hey Arch, would you do a lore video on the Skitarri? I've been playing Mechanicus and man does it make you interested in the Tech Priests and their heavily augmented 'soldiers'
wait is that kyle's head on a plaque?
Yes.
looks nice up there
Right where he belongs!
Oh boi... it is
It's there to keep the monster in the barrel happy.
The animated reading of the lore/intro and background stuff is exemplary. Hope to see this continue.
Intro was great, keep the fantasy lore coming dude
Gonna have to watch this one twice, spent the first watch wondering what Kyle did this time to have his head mounted..
He’s Kyle that’s good enough a reason
Love the introduction it seems like your Productions are getting more and more let's go with beautiful every month or so and that my friend is awesome
Holy s#it, Arch. This is how I always imagined you: a malevolent, stuffy old irradiated horned skaven.
Only more albino. Chewing on kittens.
One might wonder if they had a way to imprison our keep a soul while waiting to bring them back. Otherwise one might wonder if the subjects souls might be reincarnated or go else where.
Arch: The true heroes of the story...
Me, having only the barest knowledge of Warhammer Fantasy: The empire, led by Karl Fr-
Arch: The Skaven!
Me: Wait wut.
You're in the army now....
Without a funeral shroud.....
You'll never get rich,
You son of a lich,
Your in the army now.
Arch never did the Tomb Kings DLC for total Warhammer. Pity, I would have liked to see that.
he did, at least a review on it. 2 years ago.
He had an LP as Arkhan
Arch no "pecking order" TFS joke at 9:30 I'm disappointed.
Barry Bend sadly with their total cancelation of DBZ abridged they’re kind of a nonentity at this point. Their lost relevancy is while sad totally expected.
@@forrestdorman4870 well we can expect new series in the works.
Alright Maggots, here's the pecking order. It goes you, the dirt, the worms in the dirt, Settra's stool, the Lich Priests,
the Settra
Why do I imagine a Liche Priest carving into the Bones of a particular King he hated runes that when they inevitably bring him back, eventually, that he forever suffer from ED?
ED?
@@theomnissiah-9120 Erectile dysfunction -_-
Love the "new" intro and background it's just marvellous
Well that was a nice light hearted start to the weekend. I think I'll just go and have a lie down.
for some reason Settra is really good at children card games
Ah, a man of culture, I see.
Oh cool Arch is gonna talk about the ossiarchs bone... oh wait nope, tomb kings.
Good stuff as always arch.
AHACKTUALLY, people who lived past their 20's in older times IRL often lived to their 70's. Early death was the issue, not late.
Depends on the era, in ancient Rome or Egypt sure, but not in early or late medieval times where famine and disease were ravaging both the adult and young population
@@Damian-ew1vl gotta be historically illeterate for that statement to be uttered.
@@JohnJohnson-hu3um ah yes, because 50 year old peasants were commonplace
@@Damian-ew1vl they were
@@JohnJohnson-hu3um LMAO, this isn't tolkien-esque middle earth, this is shitty medieval european life I'm talking about
I "love" the fact that GW retconned that Settra was was remade as a Sigmarine
Ah thank you Arch, been waiting on some lore on Nehekhara, keep it coming ;3
The tomb Kings have concubines? That brings a whole new meaning to the word boned.
That’s a side splitter, but it needs a stronger backbone.
Love the new animated introduction, brother! Keep making great videos, and keep rocking your new fursona!
It's not an animation, dude. It's his face reveal video!
Hold up ... wasnt the great mortis river poisened by the skaven in the name of nagash? thats the first time i hear it was actually a spell from nagash himself
you known i love the way arch explains lore, it has personality and life to it and my god his voice were do i go to discuss hiring this man to do voice work for my projects
An Astartes helmet as a mushroom pot to the left, and Ciaphas Cain as book cover on the table. Arch, you cheesy rat, how you spoil us !
So... he was so impatient despite being immortal to construct his black pyramid that he would over tax his subjects to the point of rebellion... but somehow still pragmatic and levelheaded enough to not just destroy anyone who could oppose him in the belief that the others will eventually see its foolish to oppose him... something... something seems off.
by the 30 second mark I started thinking he animated his rimworld character..... our inquisitor is now a skaven...
The second he said, Nagash, i knew where he was going, i was like "oh no...."
Nagash buried Thutep alive because a murderer is forbidden to marry the victims wife. The queen in question was also the daughter of the sun whom was their sacred covenant with the gods made flesh. He murdered her son and only heir to make the elixir of damnation/eternal life and tricked Neferem (Thutep's wife) into drinking it and bound her to his will. Then he proceeded to abuse the shit out of her for hundreds of years culminating in him throwing her against the walls of Mahrak to break their covenant with the gods forever.
What a story.
To stay atop the pile, you have to adapt. _This_ adaptation was.. a welcome suprise.
The fact that airth/kibs head is mounted in the back still makes me laugh
Anyone else start breathing fast when they see a new lore video because of how excited you are?
Is there a separate set of books on Nagash and the Tomb kings other than the ones by Mike Lee? Its been awhile since I read it but there seems to be a few discrepancies between Arch's lore and those books.
Sounds like Heresy calling out the Arch like this.
I feel so alone gonna end up a big ol' pile of them bones.
So, basically, Fantasy Egypt.
*I like it*
i just noticed he has a chipas cain HERO OF THE IMPERIUM book on his desk
Hey arch! Great video! Could you please talk about the Fimir in warhammer fantasy? They’ve been kicked under an ever increasing perpetual rug and I think it’d be cool if you gave them some light in a lore video
on page 570 of nagash the immortal it states that the skaven dumped discs of god-stone into "the great tarn" from which flows "the great river" of nehekhara.
Does the story of him using the black pyramid come from the codex?
Priests. Priests. Priests.
Arch, please tell us you are more accurate when programming industrial robots...
The return of Archs true form, yes yes this pleases me
THAT INTRO!!!! :)
Arch rocking the casbah.
33:35 a chaotic battle ? Yes bloood *notice it's a battle between undead without blood or flesh*
Korn have left the tchat...
Poor Kyle.
Then again, he is used to being mounted
Who's Kyle?
Totally forgot about the new background. Looks awesome Arch!!
Holy D A M N thats a nice new intro!
Super impatient that he fucks up his plans and also super patient after being defied by his subjugated kings. Right.
Awesome as always, but i want to know if you skipped some important stuff about how Nagash learned to make the elixir of Immortality by first extracting the soul of people into himself to use magic (this he learned from the Dark elves) and how Nagash was shot in the head by gunners from Lahmia, not defeated outside the Gate of Khemri. I bet you have read 'The Rise of Nagash' which is a really good read, so you must be saving all the Juciy details for a spesific lore-video about that
He talks about the dark elve thing in an older video about the total war warhammer series.
sooooo much life waiting for Arch on the tomb kings hopefully more following this
Arch that new intro is absolutely moistening
I would listen to 100 lore videos like this , very good job fellow 👍 best part is skaven , as always yes yes
Love the intro and the tomb kings lore.
Great intro but one thing still kinda bothers me. Why the hell has that lore-obsessed Skaven-thing that book on his desk? That book is "Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium" by Sandy Mitchell. Skaven are not in W40k!
LocalHeretic 1127 indeed loyal citizen of the Imperium, we’ll have this rabble rouser dealt with in no time, Skaven don’t exist! If you see any other such foolish people report it to your local Arbites pronto
This made me nostalgic. It made me remember when Arch did Warhammer lore befor WTW
Not gonna lie, I thought the mega lore but animated was gonna appear
Immediate thumbs up on great intro for the second time
Oh god Arch has gone full project melody.
Has anyone told Nurgle about this form of eternal decay? Someone call grandfather and tell him the good news.
Superb stuff. Excellently done
Ow god i only now noticed Kyle's head mounted on the wall XD
Sick intro! I knew I loved you for something or other
Imagine if Nagash was a little bit more patient . or even a little less of a bastard.
Rule for Immortality
1) everyone dies. no exceptions. even those who are immortal will eventually die.
ways to become immortal:
1) find a way to extend your live to eternity.
2) find a way to come back from death.
- recipe for eternal life:
step 1: create a new SOULLESS body. either a clone of yourself or a new construct
step 2: transfer your soul from your old body into the new soulless container
step 3: anchor your soul in the new body
step 4: PROPERLY disintegrate your old body.
step 5: repeat from step 1 until Rule 1 applies.
- recipe for resurrection:
step 1: prepare for your own death{
create new incarnation.
prepare means for returning your soul from death
}
step 2: die
step 3: execute prepared means and return into the new incarnation.
step 4: repeat from step 1 until Rule 1 applies.
It just occurred to me: since Settra was the one who started the Mortuary Cult, wouldn’t his embalmings & runes be the weakest out of all the Tomb Kings, since it took literal centuries before they managed to perfect their techniques? 🤔
He probably got patches and updates as often as a Paradox game.
Well now, that was an impressive intro. Well done.
Man the tomb kings Enter name elder magical capabilities in the warhammer world
Embrace the fursona Arch.
One of us.
One of us.
One of us.
This new opening has my consent.
Love the new intro arch. Very impressive and creative.
Just realised Arch's trophy in the background
Didn't the Skaven aid Nagash in poisoning the river? He promised them warp stone in return. After Nagash suffered his defeat he fled, built up a new army, discovered warp stone and used it to strengthen him and had a really long war with the Skaven. He also almost died during that war.
Very educational sir You are quite the storyteller I'm just curious as to what the background music is
so....am i the only one that heard "because ofcorpse"
please make more Warhammer (non-40k) lore videos dude, i enjoy these so much more.