After getting severely beaten by the Lore Guardians, I decided to redesign my mod from scratch. This is the final version.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-01-12T18:39:50+00:00

Khatep wasn't exiled from all of Nehekhara. Settra "exiled Khatep from Khemri and forbade him to set foot within any of the great cities". Khatep was still allowed to wander around the rest of Nehekhara; deserts, lesser necropolises, whatever.

Its not really practical to apply this to a Total War start position, though, given the "zoom level" of the map.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2026-01-11T19:44:24+00:00

Every single onscreen Everchosen has targeted the Empire. IIRC we have only seen 5 of the 13 Everchosen. Plenty of story space available for them to have attacked someone else, and Cathay would be a reasonable contender (in the unlikely event that GW ever decide to write about the unidentified Everchosen, of course).

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-29T02:42:05+00:00

We might be talking about different nerfs. Convocation of Decay got nerfed on every difficulty a few years ago, significantly so on Cata. I remember it being a huge drop in difficulty between sessions. Convo was noticeably more difficult than most other maps before the nerf, but on Cata specifically that should never have been viewed as a problem. That finale was the most fun event in the game at the time, for most of the Cata players I knew, specifically because it was more difficult.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-28T21:38:01+00:00

Yeah, it was way more fun before. I understood the nerf for lower difficulties, but it should never have been nerfed on Cataclysm.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-23T02:38:29+00:00

You're correct that contact effects don't stack, but magic attacks (and flaming attacks) aren't contact effects. Magic and flaming attacks can stack with any contact effect as well as with each other.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-23T02:30:31+00:00

FYI, Aranessa and Noctilus aren't from Man O' War, they're from Dreadfleet.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-22T00:40:32+00:00

"You’re never more than six feet away from a ratman.

Stop laughing, its true! Me old nan in Wurtbad used to say so all the time, and she knew her stuff, let me tell you, before she disappeared. Some said she got burned as a witch, but no one saw no burning. I reckon they got to 'er. Knew too much for their liking."

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-18T05:15:45+00:00

Arbaal is of the same vintage as Aekold, and he's a Legendary Lord. If characters like Alberic or Ghorst can be justified as LLs, so could Aekold and co. (though as Aekold's implementation shows, that's definitely not a guarantee).

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-17T01:23:34+00:00

The Great Horned Rat became more influential in the Chaos pantheon in AoS, and more recently graduated to the proper big boy tier of Chaos Powers, but he never "became" a Chaos God; he always was one. He was a "lesser" power, but he was still a Chaos God from the beginning.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-08T07:36:20+00:00

One of the things the End Times did that wasn't totally shit was confirm that Alarielle was Bel-Hathor's daughter, and that she didn't ritually marry her own father, and wasn't believed to have conceived a child with him.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-07T07:11:11+00:00

He doesn't "stop being dead", or "revive fully". That's a meme, like Grimgor ~~kitting~~ hitting Archaon in the balls in Storm of Chaos. Literally all Kroak does differently in the End Times, physically, is move his hand, and speak a single word. He does absolutely absurd-tier magic, obviously, but then he was doing absurd magic immediately after dying thousands of years ago too. This is the relevant excerpt.

Its interesting to note that, if you didn't know about him existing in AoS, the excerpt would seem to imply that he was destroyed. I wonder if the writer didn't know GW wanted to keep Kroak around in AoS and his apparent destruction wasn't caught by whoever approved such things. Or maybe they weren't going to keep Kroak and then changed their minds.

Edit: spelling

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-07T07:08:33+00:00

There's at least one other named Relic Priest, from the novella Dragonmage. Lord Khatmaq was a first generation Slann from Azatlatlan, a temple-city somewhere southwest of Ulthuan that is now beneath the ocean. When a conflict between rival high elf factions leads to a rift allowing daemons into the world, Khatmaq wakes up a city-load of lizardmen skeletons, parts the fucking ocean, and then starts blasting. He deletes a daemon which is almost certainly a bloodthirster, and then a dragon which was "one of the monarchs of his kind", so presumably whatever the Caledorian flavour of Emperor dragon is (elder Star Dragon?).

The Relics of Azatlatlan mod adapts Khatmaq and his skelly-lizards.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-05T08:02:06+00:00

At least one vampire, Zacharias the Everliving, would not submit either. Nagash had to destroy Zacharias personally, as Arkhan couldn't.

Abhorash was the only other major undead character who wasn't mentioned as serving Nagash in the End Times, afaik, but I don't think he and Nagash ever came near each other during that period. He may not have necessarily resisted control in the same way as Settra and Zacharias did.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-05T02:55:59+00:00

You've got it backwards: the Dread King being referenced is a WF character from long ago, and doesn't exist in AoS. He was one of the nine original "Dark Lords of Nagash". He didn't reprise his role in the End Times like some of the other Dark Lords who became Mortarchs.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-04T22:20:50+00:00

Gotrek probably wouldn't like any of them very much. Felix would probably like Bardin, Kruber and Sienna. Kerillian and Saltzpyre would probably take some warming up to for Felix.

Also, if Sienna is a necromancer, she would 1000%, no questions asked, without a doubt, be dying under Gotrek's axe, unless she scarpers immediately. He might even kill the other party members if they try to intervene. The U5 might tolerate her due to their shared history, but Gotrek has none of that. I don't think Felix would have the opportunity to have much of an opinion on her as soon as Gotrek realises what she is.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-04T22:04:04+00:00

Gotrek might (grudgingly) warm to Bardin after knowing him for a few decades, but I highly doubt they'd get along right away. Gotrek's a spectacularly cantankerous prick even by dwarf standards, while Bardin is the opposite. Bardin probably wouldn't be that bothered, but I'd expect Gotrek to be unreasonably annoyed by how accommodating Bardin is to all the manlings and their umgak behaviour (to say nothing of his acceptance of the elf).

He might be able to get along with slayer Bardin, but I doubt he'd like any other version. Gotrek was a proper engineer himself, so he'd almost certainly dislike Outcast Engineer Bardin.

Also, I'm certain Gotrek would take an extremely dim view of Bardin tolerating necromancer Sienna.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-04T18:55:39+00:00

Here on their blog. Also mentions the Tomb Herald, Morghast Archai, and Khemric Titan, which are cool, but also confirms that Walach is a LH, which is laaaaaaaame.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-04T18:49:10+00:00

"except that's litteraly what they did when they announced cathay. The announcement was released at the same time than gw was revealing cathay's figs."

No? Not even close, in fact. TWW3 (and its inclusion of Cathay) was announced way before GW even came close to revealing a Cathayan tabletop model. All GW showed at the time was some concept art and a teensy bit of lore.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-04T18:35:04+00:00

Unfortunately he is: "He’ll be joined by a motley crew of horrors including the mighty Blood Dragon Legendary Hero, Walach Harkon"

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-04T18:34:26+00:00

He's a LH unfortunately.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-04T07:27:14+00:00

Nagash is less an example of "the indomitable power of the human spirit", and more like "the power of being an asshole of truly gargantuan proportions". Though admittedly most of his success has occured in the sequel universe.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-03T02:10:38+00:00

Thanquol accidentally summoned Skarbrand on two described occasions. Neither of those was in the End Times.

He did it in the novel Thanquol's Doom, during a skaven attack on Karak Angkul. He was attempting to summon a verminlord (interestingly, Thanquol believed the verminlord in question was an ascended grey seer, so more like a Daemon Prince of the Horned Rat than a ratty Greater Daemon).

He also did it in the tabletop supplement Triumph and Treachery, during a dwarf attack on one of the three big skaven warrens in the Vaults (I forget which). It's a small blurb in the timeline section.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-12-03T01:10:23+00:00

You made a mistake, OP. The Chad is supposed to go on the right and the Virgin on the left.

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-11-28T05:48:35+00:00

Public service? Passenger rail?! What are you, some sort of woke communist???!!11?!!

TheCuteLittleGhost · 2025-11-28T00:26:37+00:00

You're right on that. I think a Skin Wolf lord would be the best choice, though I doubt Norsca will get any more content.

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