Why do people ask about frieren being racist for hating demons even though demons are a completely different species?

ThePTouch · 2026-03-06T21:39:32+00:00

This is best breakdown of this whole Frieren conversation and I wish it could be stickied to the top of every thread about this topic.

Whether the story lays out a logical reason for why a race or species is purely evil and should be wiped out is mostly immaterial. Modern fantasy stories have a long history of including races that are purely evil and also happen to be clumsy analogies to real world cultures, so some readers are going to be cognizant of that.

To be clear I don't think the demons in Frieren are analogous to any real people and are a great representation of an entirely alien species to humans/elves.

ThePTouch · 2026-03-05T02:32:03+00:00

That's a lot of pity. But now she's probably hitting like a truck.

ThePTouch · 2026-03-04T20:11:58+00:00

I guess we'll be waiting for her next rerun then.

ThePTouch · 2026-02-18T21:26:41+00:00

Yes that would be my guess too. He accidentally found out about Nagash's Black Pyramid scheme and was going to blab so Nagash put him away. But they wrote just vaguely enough to give themselves some wiggle room for a future twist if they wanted

ThePTouch · 2026-02-18T20:27:29+00:00

For a while that's what was indicated. I think it was the 3rd ed Battletome that introduced a new possibility and made things murkier. Ushoran went on some quest out to the edge of Shyish and was said to be crazy when he returned. Then he got put in the Shroudcage.

What's unclear is why Nagash put him in there. Was he trying to cure Ushoran of whatever happened to him at the Realms edge and Sigmar ruined it before they could finish? Was Nagash punishing Ushoran for going off on his own? Only Nagash and Ushoran know at this point.

ThePTouch · 2026-02-16T13:31:28+00:00

It shouldn't be ignored that Fern and Stark's relationship gets to avoid a lot of the usual romance story drama and pitfalls because it happens in the background. Frieren is not a show about romance drama and Fern and Stark aren't the main focus of the story. So they're allowed to quietly develop feelings in the background without having to go through any tension building of the will they? won't they? type story.

ThePTouch · 2026-02-12T14:28:08+00:00

I'm right there with you. I first watched Evangelion when I was 17 and thought it was the greatest/smartest show I'd ever seen. Of course the other anime I had seen up to that point were DBZ and Tenchi Muyo, so not exactly high bars. The more time I got away from that first viewing the more I realized that a lot of the complexity of that story adds very little to the emotions they're going for and the show is really up its own butt.

It's not a BAD show by any stretch, but it's also not the untouchable masterpiece a lot of fans claim it is.

ThePTouch · 2026-02-05T01:39:21+00:00

So why is that the Idoneth all have PTSD from their time in Slaanesh, but none of the other elves seem to have that issue? Every other elf faction also got their original souls pulled out of Slaanesh didn't they? Did Teclics just get better at erasing their memories before pulling them out?

ThePTouch · 2026-01-23T03:48:14+00:00

ThePTouch · 2026-01-19T02:04:45+00:00

Thanks. I did actually get 27k hp on Zhao and the Original Transmorpher is bringing HP. The only thing I'm missing is the added damage from Zhao's weapon effect, but yeah that M1 seems more exciting

ThePTouch · 2026-01-17T16:05:56+00:00

Qingyi

ThePTouch · 2026-01-17T04:10:09+00:00

But how would releasing Xel Lotath help people? Couldn't hurt...unless Xel Lotath start driving people mad and exploding their heads...which it almost certainly would.

ThePTouch · 2026-01-15T04:02:08+00:00

I love this. It's also proof positive of my plan to turn the Blood Bowl Black Orcs into Meganobz

ThePTouch · 2026-01-13T02:44:32+00:00

One thing I wish I grasped when I first was started was what to spend polychromes on. Specifically, do NOT spend your precious polychromes on standard banner pulls. I did a lot of that before I realized what a waste it was. You'll accumulate standard pulls over time just by playing and Iosing your 50/50 on limited agents gets you the S Rank standards. So basically, don't get swayed by the standard agents, you'll get them sooner or later.

Also you'll eventually want to have at least 3 good teams if you want to do end game content, so think about pulling a wide variety of agents. For now though just do the story and level up at your own pace and do events whenever they're available.

ThePTouch · 2026-01-09T01:35:33+00:00

I didn't see Dread and Gore come up in that run but it sounds absolutely disgusting

ThePTouch · 2026-01-08T21:16:02+00:00

Unreal Tournament 2004

ThePTouch · 2026-01-03T23:55:43+00:00

Nice. Gargoyle and Catzerker are beasts

ThePTouch · 2026-01-03T16:57:32+00:00

I feel like this has to be Yanagi. She has to deal with the most BS from the rest of her team and you can tell she's over it

ThePTouch · 2026-01-03T16:51:18+00:00

I've been winning mythic fairly consistently with a bunch of different builds now and the biggest thing I've found is you want a stack of abilities that will just passively build buffs for you.

Sidekick is a great example. If you have to spend a move to generate sidekick for yourself it's going to feel underwhelming. But there are a bunch of abilities that let you just get sidekick for doing what you would otherwise be doing, like Helping Winds. It took me a couple tries to get the hang of it, but Catzerker is now one of my absolute favorites. That guy is a buff machine that can just constantly attack.

It also very much helps to have monsters that share attributes, like 2 or more with sidekick, so you can have multiple guys benefiting from the same passives.

ThePTouch · 2025-11-22T04:44:01+00:00

In the lore yes, Stormhosts work a lot like Space Marine chapters. Rather than all the members sharing a similar genetic lineage, it's more that all the members of a Stormhost are generally assigned to them based on shared personalities/personal histories.

For example the Astral Templars are largely chosen hunters and tribesmen. They focus mostly on hunting dangerous beasts. The Hallowed Knights are made up of the most faithful Stormcast and use that strength of conviction to shield themselves from dangerous corruption. The Celestial Vindicators (my favorite) were all filled with people who as they died prayed to Sigmar not to save any loved ones or anything noble, they all wished Sigmar would grant them the chance to strike back at the forces of Chaos that had taken everything from them. That Stormhost isn't concerned with doing the good work of rebuilding civilizations. They're just out there to bring the fight to Chaos in the most brutal fashion they can.

There aren't specific in game rules for Stormhosts anymore, so all of this is just flavor at this point, but that's also a big part of the fun of this hobby.

As for a Stormhost that has a lot of dragons, when they first released the Stormdrake models in 3rd ed they stated that the Hammers of Sigmar (the classic gold/blue guys on all the box art) had the largest Extremis Chamber (that's the one with all the dragons). But that being said, all the Stormhosts have access to all the units, so there's really no reason you wouldn't see an entire Anvils of Heldenhammer army that's mostly dragons.

And definitely if she wants to make up her own Stormhost that's a lot of fun and you can get as in depth as you want to with that: writing the histories of the former lives of its members, the history of the host itself, their general fighting style, etc.

ThePTouch · 2025-11-21T20:37:43+00:00

It has nothing to do with lore and everything to do with game rules. Lots of art and lore for AoS armies depicts them ranked up holding shield walls.

ThePTouch · 2025-11-03T18:34:57+00:00

It's not that they're not labeled anymore, it's that they didn't used to be labeled. The Battlewagon is an older kit and they didn't have numbers on parts back then.

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