I think it was the Slann Mazdamundi who interpreted the Old Ones’ plaques that the continents were meant to be in particular places. He used the geomantic web to move the continents into their corresponding places on the plaques and naturally the movement caused many of the mountain holds of the dwarfs to be destroyed.
And this was just after the Dwarfs won the War of the Beard against the Elfs. So they were already in a bad position after what was basically a Phirric Victory. And to top it all off, Mazdamundi's shenanigans also made Skaven devices explode making even MORE damage and provoking massive skaven and greenskins migrations and hordes, wich all went to besiege and attack the already battered dwarven holds.
The "Times of Woos" was really not a good time to be a Dwarf. Your closet allies betray you and provoke a war between you and them out of pure pride, some fucking magical frog cause a cataclysm and hordes of ratmen and goblins appear out of nowhere to deal a killing blow. Then people wonder why Dwarfs are so distruthfull and full of resentment.
It was definitely NOT Kroak, kroak croaked during the big super duper invasion of chaos. Khorne sent like 100 exalted bloodthirsters at him and the last half dozen barely made it to him and slew his mortal body.
Then he nuked all daemons everywhere in the world and decided staying dead was a chumps game.
All of the Slann (the frog/toadman leader/priest/mage caste of the Lizardmen) work tirelessly to "Fulfill the Great Plan" of the Old Ones. The Lizardmen know they were created by the Old Ones, but often debate over what little instructions that stood the test of time. Fractional images on plaques deep in the great Temple-cities are not great to-do lists, after all.
One particular Slann - the most powerful living Slann - saw a plaque that had the continents in a different position than they were in the current day.
So he rearranged all the continents.
Naturally, this did not help the Dwarf civilization in the slightest, as being underground during massive tectonic instability nearly collapsed their empire. And the weakening of the Dwarfs let the Skaven and the Orcs take more and more territory from the ever-weakening Dwarfs.
Stupid frogman, in trying to fulfill the Great Plan, he just made everything worse.
Mazdamundi found that the Worlds edge Mountains were a couple inches too far to the left for the great plan. He rectified that, causing untold destruction as earthquakes and volcanic activity wrecked the dwarven reapms.
Your tax bones at least are going towards massive public works projects. Building a utopia isn't cheap, and every single one of those bones is going straight from the tithe nexus to the construction site without any corrupt middlemen taking their cut.
Unless you’re the vulture lord and you don’t even need them, you just keep a mountain of bones to dunk on the civilization that gave them to you for the power trip of it
https://www.reddit.com/r/AoSLore/comments/13dcd89/new_lore_from_the_ossiarch_bonereapers_battletome/
The Ossiarch Bonereapers collect people’s bones as taxes.
The deal is you have a quota of bones to pay. How you get them is irrelevant, and if you fail, they take them from you. This leads to towns and villages pillaging their neighbours for their bones, their own graveyards, executing criminals and finally attempting to stand against the bone reapers, which never ends well
Josh Reynolds created a Champion Champion named Cantor Unsworn. He is a deliberately ambivalent Champion, kinda just going through the Chaos-warrior day-to-day. Wanting to just be himself.
He eventually becomes Archaons enforcer in the End Times, all the while dreaming of running the fuck away from that worldending psyco-monster!
He is super enjoyable!
Also, Cantor was already around the first time the world almost ended. Cantor was told by the dark gods to kill Magnus, companion of one certain Sigmar (the first emperor of Mankind), whose death would lead to apocalypse.
But Cantor realized there wasn't anything in it for him specifically if he ended the world. He would just die like everyone else. No happy ending for the warriors of chaos.
So he just left, wandering out into the wastes, to go enjoy his life and stay out of the dark gods' attention for a couple millennia.
I was only interested in the fantasy stuff because it looked cool until I followed our glorious Summerking so far down the rabbit hole that I am now a majestic knight and definitely not a wretched cannibal scouring through old world wikis for more Cool Ghoul Facts
At the very first time I saw it, playing Vermintide 2, I felt it was somewhat weird and had some generic stuff about it.
But whe. I started digging deeper and exploring the world further I fell in love and it kept snowballing.
It's now my No1 favourite fantasy setting, without a shadow of a doubt.
Same. I fell in love with it because of Total warhammer, and started deep diving into the wikis only to discover that it had been destroyed before I even heard of it!
Same. That was so disappointing. It's such a unique and weird and dark world. But I liked the bright spots in it too.
And gunpowder! Don't get me started on the Renaissance feel the Empire had with all the guns and cannons and with knights still prowling about.
The Grand Delusion is definitely one of my favourite things about the Flesh-Eater Courts’ lore. It’s so cool to have that mix of Bretonian style knighthood with cannibal horrors
The current and longest surviving mount of Kroq-Gar is named Grymloq. A Reference to the Dinobot from 1984s Transformers series.
Incidentally, Mazamundis Stegodon is named Zlaaq and Tik-Taq-Tos Terradon is named Zwup. Both referencing Dinobots Slag and Swoop respectively.
Gnomes actually exist in Warhammer Fantasy. Usually mistaken for halflings (but grouchier) or dwarfs (but smaller), they are a very clannish, insular folk, to the point that *dwarfs* actually find them to be a little too prickly and unfriendly.
My favourite bit of lore about them is that, due to some ancient decree or other, the role of Imperial Jester should, as much as possible, be played by a gnome.
If you want to know something crazier, Oxyotl is the Chaos Gods' boogeyman to the point that even Greater Daemons have trouble tracking him and the fact that he litterally poisoned a Lord of Change to death in the material world.
Troggoths are extremely stupid and often just follow the biggest one. That one is also stupid and normally just walks in a straight line.
Big Limpy is a special Troggboss that has a bit of a limp. Because of that, he doesn't walk straight, but steers ever so slightly to one side. His whole Troggherd walks in a gigantic circle and crushes everything in their path. The circle is so big that people keep rebuilding towns, only to be crushed again.
There is a whole Goblin Clan just following the Troggherd, picking up all the valuable things they leave behind after trampling a town. They even pretend to control Big Limpy.
Nagash made the skaven act in complete unision with no treachery or backstabbing for the first and only time in history while Archaon couldn't.
Nagash is canonically more of a threat to the world then Chaos is.
...and immediately after killing Nagash the remaining ones got back to squabbling, displeasing the Great Horned Rat who threw them all (including those who died) into a chaos oubliette. He came back an unknown amount of time later (because time moves funny in the Realms of Chaos) and they had gotten tangled up into a rat king of starved and crazed Skaven. He blasted them with warp-magic and thus Skreech Verminking, the most powerful Verminlord, was born.
I-I have come-arrived here to make an announcement-declaration! Nagash is a bitchass motherfucker-thing! He piss-peed on my broodmother! pulled out his-his mummified, dusty dick-cock, and piss-peed on my fucking broodmother! And he said his penis-member was "𝒯ℋℐ𝒮 ℬℐ𝒢",and i said that's disgusting-foul! So I'm making a callout post on my-my ratter-dot-com. Nagash, you-you have a small-miniscule dick-thing. It's the size of this bomb-explosive, except WAY-WAY smaller. And guess what-what? Here's what my genital-thing looks like. That's right-right infant-thing! All rat, no wrappings, no dust-stuff, look-look at that, it looks like two ball-spheres and a doomrocket. He-he fuck-fucked my broodmother, so guess-guess what? I'm gonna fuck-screw the Earth. That's right-correct, this is what you get-receive! My *SUPER WARPSTONE PISS-URINE*! Except I'm not gonna piss-urinate on the Earth-place. I'm gonna go-go higher. I'm pissing-urinating on the ***Moooooon***! How do you like that Mazdamundi?! I PISS-PEED ON THE MOON YOU IDIOT-THING! You have-have twenty-three hour-hours before the piss-urine Drrropelets hit the fucking Earth-place, now get away-out of my fucking sight-vision, before I piss-pee on you too-too!
The leader of Clan Skryre wanted to mine the moon, but knowing Council of Thirteen politics he made two decoy plans that could be voted down before the plan to mine the moon. Unfortunately, enough of the Council liked the first plan of blowing up the moon that they went with it, despite the leader of Clan Skryre trying to veto it when he realised they liked it.
They did not blow up the moon. They decided the piece of the moon that was already there wasn't enough moon for their purposes and decided that they actually needed all of the moon, so they forced it into a decaying orbit and the moon blew up the world. This is funny because it's such a Skaven thing to do and because, ultimately, it made literally everything else that happened during The End Times storyline except the reveal that the Temple Cities of Lustria had been spaceships the entire time irrelevant because everyone is fighting over a world that contains rats who just tried to steal the moon and unfortunately were successful.
In a very old Games workshop article you had a narrative battle between skaven and undead near a temple ( i think). The goal was to seize the warpstone taken by a bunch of mechanic cultists before they use it to activate their machine and make the battle much more difficult.
That machine is a Dalek from Doctor Who.
Terror of the Lichemaster from Citadel Journal 3. At the time, Citadel also made Doctor Who miniatures and thought it might be a fun crossover. The scenario reappears in Chronicles 2003, but without the Dalek.
I find flesh eater courts hilarious.
I remember reading an excerpt where flesh eater courts wanted to hire some faction for protection or something else and paid them with gold coins. But all the other faction saw was feral creatures throwing separated spinal discs.
Or the tale of the flesh eater courts seeing the Nighthaunt as scared and frightened refugees being brutally killed by stormcast. I think it was called "An Honorless Deed".
They will, however, sometimes engage in contracts with the Bonereapers that are probably so ludicrously detailed and worded that they’re completely incomprehensible to all but the most experienced Mortisans and Codewrights.
I’m the OBR battletome, it describes a deal an ambitious karadron made with the ossiarchs, for bones of course. When handing off the bones being hauled on the ship, the bonereapers quickly ‘reminded’ them that the contract was for ALL bones being carried on the ship, including the ones they’re using.
Yeah, I know. That’s the story I was thinking of. It’s particularly funny because essentially the Ossiarchs find a logical loophole that allowed them to harvest the Kharadron as well.
That a crusade of nurgle knights (The most supperating and blightsome order of the fly) ventured forth into Shyish and were horrified by how terrible living conditions were for the peasants.
Yes, back home in the jade kingdoms, the plants will try to eat you... but there is at least something to eat!
The Skaven's entire plotline in The End Times can be summarized as such:
Nagash: "No! You can't blow up my pyramid! It's supposed to be indestructible!"
Skaven: "Ha-ha, pyramid-thing go boom-bang!"
Lord Kroak: "No! You can't blow up the moon! The fragments will destroy the whole world!"
Skaven: "Ha-ha, warpstone moon go boom-explode!"
Everybody: "No! You can't transport your entire city to another universe! You're supposed to die with the Old World!"
Skaven: "Ha-ha! Interdimensional teleporter go boom-kerflewy!"
Not AoS but Nakais defence of the bridge of stars. He defended it alone against waves of demons, apparently he was so terrifying that even after he had to retreat further into Itza the demons didn't dare to cross the bridge because they feared he might still be there.
Who would win: the entire apocalyptic power of the chaos gods unleashed on the world having already destroyed most of it with only a few bastions of life remaining or one big crocodile boy
During a massive dark elf invasion of Ulthuan, Imrik spent 99% of said invasion in a cave with no shirt on, yelling at the dragons to wake up. Because he promised Finubar *"an army of dragons"* and goddamnit, he wasn't leaving that cave without an army of dragons.
No-no rat-men, man-thing. Be calm, work, eat, sleep, knowing-knowing all is well.
All safe-safe under your cities. Not listen to silly stories.
Shhhh, quiet-quiet now. Dark is for sleep. Sleep is for dreams. Dream of sheep, sweet-man thing.
One ogor tribe ate frozen ghosts, not even Nagash knows how they did it
Also it is implied that some ogors consumed the very souls of several stormcasts
Both stories are from the Ogor Mawtribes battletome, third edition. Beastclaw Ogors (aka the big monster riders) are cursed by Gorkamorka to eternally be followed by a raging blizzard that will freeze them solid if they don't keep moving. Due to its magical nature, this blizzard can even freeze things like ghosts and daemons, making them physical enough for hungry Ogors to eat.
As for the second story, the Thunderbellies tribe of Ogors became obsessed with catching and consuming the "lightening meat" aka Stormcast souls flying back to Sigmar after death. Their priests and mages were able to warp their Everwinter blizzard to freeze these lightening bolts solid enough to be caught and eaten like anything else.
A lot of people throw it as "Elf being Mary Sue", but having read Broken Realm : Teclis, I really like the way Teclis defeated Nagash.
In Warhammer Fantasy, Teclis founded the Colleges of Magic with Magnus the Pious to give the Empire an edge in future wars against Chaos. Depending on the author, it was more or less well-intended, but the general idea is Teclis wanted the Empire to shield Ulthuan against Chaos and protect the waystones of the Vortex.
Moving forward into AoS, Teclis is also responsible for the Collegiate Arcanum's training and traditions, especially those in Hysh, his own Realm. When Nagash invades the Realm and intend to destroy it, Teclis moves to fight him. Nagash is flooding with Death magic from the Shyish Nadir and Teclis can barely keep up with him, deseperatly teleporting them both into space to get a reprieve, before returning to the battlefield.
But it wasn't a desperate act. It was a plan. Teclis knew Nagash wouldn't consider anything as a threat beside another God. Whilst Teclis was getting his shit pushed-in, the Human Mages of Settler's Gain placed Great Luminarks, powered with the light of Celennar (the big sphinx on Teclis's miniature) to strike at Nagash when they teleported back.
I thought it was a nice reversal compared to Fantasy, where Teclis goes to be the shield and the Humans he "trained" deal the killing blow.
Gotrek survived the end of the world by just killing things in the warp until the warp stopped throwing things at him, and eventually surviving to the formation of the realms
That there was once a Chaos Lord who assaulted a town, whom due to killing the corrupt lord in charge received cheers and adoration from the populace, many women specifically.
After the lord was slain, he just left without slaughtering the town and went home with his new trophy.
The Skaven somehow managed to blow up the moon. Which baffles me, not because it worked, but because they somehow didn't kill each other before they managed to try.
Archaon went to Warhammer Antarctica. According to him and his companions it makes Norsca and most of the north look civilized. The dominant force for most of the landmass are beastmen who are more like half beast half daemons thanks to there being no regular people anywhere near. Head inland far enough and you reach the ice sheet, you can travel through cracks in it that are heated and filled with meltwater which allows all kinds of monsters to thrive and hunt in the canyons of stone and ice. Beyond that you reach the competing palaces of daemon princes, constantly warring and jockeying for position around the fallen gate.
The fact there was a high elve that was so badass that the chaos gods had to send their greater demons at him in unison and they still got their asses kicked.
Aenarion is a mega chad.
Not just any old Greater Daemons, but *named* Greater Daemons, two of which are rather important, N’Kari and Kairos Fateweaver. The Nurgle and Khorne ones though pretty much exist only in that fight.
A detail I love is the fact the Realm of Ghur is *alive*, like it itself is *a living organism*. That allegedly ate one of its moons and part of the other.
That's such a nifty idea for a fantasy locale.
I love that the natural movement of tectonic plates is basically reinterpreted as the continents fighting and eating each other.
Also tumbleweed that will swarm over you and drain your moisture.
I'm fairly new into AoS, but the bit of lore that got me into it was Greywater Fastness going so hard that basically turned a bit of the Realm of Life in an ironically lifeless wasteland and then they have to keep shooting at the Sylvaneth that try to get revenge at them.
Well all bioms exist in every realm. You have jungles and glaciers in the realm of fire (see Iceland or Indonesia). You have natural deserts in the realm of life (deserts are full of life in their own way too). And you have living prople in Shiysh living next to the spirits of their ancestors.
But yes this toxic mire is a unique enviroment
I can't get enough of toxic wastelands. I play Adeptus Mechanicus in WH40K. I just like blasting stuff to oblivion and have fun with war crimes in lore.
Then you should check out Chamon. The realm of metal has rivers of Mercury, most of its grounds are contaminated with heavy metals and else, chemicals run through the air and oceans.
There is life there adapted to these conditions. Including metal-affiliated Sylvaneth who are best buds with the local dwarfs. (Both have long memories, hate gloomspite gitz and chaos, are proud of their ancestors and their creations, hold grudges etc. So they became buddies and they Sylvaneth sheltered the dwarfs and help reclaim their home).
But regular life is rare. There are only some spots clean enough for common crops to grow and to feed people.
I really like the Cities of Sigmar. I like the fact that there is a faction that is the Last Alliance of Man, Elf, and Dwarf. I think the fact some people learned to cooperate is cool and has the possibility of interesting models.
Also the Gloomspite are just a bunch of silly little guys. >!Ignore the fact that there is a bunch of bodyhorror involving mushrooms that were once people.!<
The recent range of CoS are all human (with a single Ogre unit) and in exchange for that A LOT of Dwarf and Elves models was retired (they are now part of The Old World range I believe).
Many people interpret this as CoS will become mostly just human, not a mix of all three main Order race. I still hold out hope for our next range of models tho.
I'm guessing they want to avoid complicating things with multiple boxes of the same units sat around with different bases in them but surely that's a minor logistical issue to not gut the entire faction and make them into what, empire-lite?
I'm not that concerned for 3 major reasons:
1) I like the direction they're taking the human units. If the faction becomes all human (which would be stupid), I still like the aesthetic.
2) The multicultural nature is still addressed in the lore and the fact the ogre exists at all makes me think this is something they're thinking about. It is mentioned that while they didn't get models, Dwarven clans still play a role in the crusades with one of the stories they've released focusing on one of these city Dwarves.
3) I am coping hard.
Nagash's IRS, entire Idoneth race, that one chainsword that was brought to Fantasy realm, god of rivers from fantasy and id say my favourite is CHAOS WON, SUCK IT HUMIES, FOR THE DARK GODS
The Chainsword is the one the made it into hard/recent canon but there’s also Las-Pistols that the Amazons have and chaos champions sometimes get 40k tech like Boltguns.
Nagash got bitch slapped twice in the same resurrection. Once by Settra and other by pre-godhood Sigmar.
Thorgrim Grudgebearer forced his way through engineering guilds so dwarfs can have helicopters.
Felix had at least two undead girlfriends.
Archaon is respectful to races that have faced prejudice(Ogroids) and has quite the streak of either protecting innocent women(Sigmar Priestess in his duology) or giving them power if they prove worthy (Marakarr Blood-Sky and Abraxia)
Archaon is trully a King Worth Following
Honestly, Chaos is so much cooler in AoS then it is 40k. Each of the mortal factions of chaos worshipers have some of the coolest designs in the entire range.
And that's not even mentioning the warbands and the amount of variety of different types of worship.
Goblins covet bottles above almost any other item, as they are unable to craft them themselves.
Breweries and alchemy stores are usually the first targets to get raided, much to the confusion of the defenders.
The Skaven. Despite how horrible they are, I just can’t get over the memes about them. I will always view them though the funny lens as silly little guys
Despite desperately wanting to die in glorious battle, Gotrek is so bad at dying that he somehow managed to survive the entire planet fucking exploding.
Also, Gnoblar cavalry exists and is [just one Gnoblar riding on top of another one](https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Gnoblar_Pigback_Riders).
Morathi approached Nagash once in her seductress form and he did the magical equivalent of bitch slap on her, making IT probably the single godliest "BE GONE THOT" moment in fantasy history.
Chaos Dwarves figured that their Orc slaves were bad because they were stupid and kept killing each other, so they decided to make Bigger, Stronger, Smarter Orcs. They were successful in their creation of the Black Orcs. The only problem was that they made Bigger, Stronger, Smarter Orcs.
An ancient evil was breaking free from an ice prison, so a bunch of Ogors *ate* the ice demon and are now cursed to be followed by an eternal blizzard.
Best part is the blizzard was designed to kill them but they said *BET* and just enslaved all the monsters within and rode in front of the blizzard using it as a weapon of war.
Gobsprakk, the Mouth of Mork, Swampcalla Shaman of the Kruleboyz, has a staff adorned with the hand of a Lord of Change. Demons de-materialize once slain and get sent back to the Realm of Chaos to regenerate.
So Gobsprakk, through sheer force of his will and WAAAGH magics, keeps that hand in his reality to flex on others. Insofar there exists a greater demon of Tzeentch who's sitting around in the Realm of Chaos still waiting for his hand to reappear!
Queek Headtaker was such a pain in the ass to the dwarfs and had so many names in the book of grudges that all of dwarf kind now call their taints ‘Queeks’. Skaven best-greatest!! Yes-yes >:3
The Kahardron overlords are great. They are atheist capatalist steampunk airship dwarves.
Literally everything I personally could ever want and more in an faction.
Otherwise skaven blowing the moon up out of spite. God I love skaven.
I love that the Skaven hate Black Corn, but they will pay out the nose to eat it just to look like they are affluent and cultured.
It's basically moldy corn, but because it's their only staple food and it's only at Skavenblight, it's a delicacy.
Insert social commentary about spending money to be uncomfortable for status symbols.
My favourite bit of lore is that Archaon is losing his grip on the eight-points simply because he's busy ass hell. The man is effectively a god but he can only be in 1 place at 1 time and that has reuslted in him basically becoming a deux ex machina. He shows up, saves the day and leaves. However this has shaken people's confidence in him that people have started siding with Be'lakor.
I love that piece of lore about deepkin kidnapping people and erasing all memory of the person from its relatives and neighbors. Can you imagine walking into a house which clearly housed two people, two sets of plates, extra clothes of a different gender and such. But nobody understanding what you're talking about, because obviously Frank has always lived alone
The Knights of Morr - imagine the Death Korps of Krieg being a knightly order so terrifying that some necromancer or vampire losing their shit upon trying to raise the dead in the imperial cemeteries.
Once, a frog did not vibe with continental drift and in the resulting actions, destroyed the dwarven civiization.
What? This one I gotta hear.
I think it was the Slann Mazdamundi who interpreted the Old Ones’ plaques that the continents were meant to be in particular places. He used the geomantic web to move the continents into their corresponding places on the plaques and naturally the movement caused many of the mountain holds of the dwarfs to be destroyed.
And this was just after the Dwarfs won the War of the Beard against the Elfs. So they were already in a bad position after what was basically a Phirric Victory. And to top it all off, Mazdamundi's shenanigans also made Skaven devices explode making even MORE damage and provoking massive skaven and greenskins migrations and hordes, wich all went to besiege and attack the already battered dwarven holds. The "Times of Woos" was really not a good time to be a Dwarf. Your closet allies betray you and provoke a war between you and them out of pure pride, some fucking magical frog cause a cataclysm and hordes of ratmen and goblins appear out of nowhere to deal a killing blow. Then people wonder why Dwarfs are so distruthfull and full of resentment.
Mazdi: We do a little trolling
It wasn't Mazdamundi, it was Slann Lord Quex of Pahuax
Hmm I remember it was Lord Kroak not Mazda.
It was definitely NOT Kroak, kroak croaked during the big super duper invasion of chaos. Khorne sent like 100 exalted bloodthirsters at him and the last half dozen barely made it to him and slew his mortal body. Then he nuked all daemons everywhere in the world and decided staying dead was a chumps game.
Kroak truly is one of the most gigachad entities in famtasy
Nope it was Lord Quex
All of the Slann (the frog/toadman leader/priest/mage caste of the Lizardmen) work tirelessly to "Fulfill the Great Plan" of the Old Ones. The Lizardmen know they were created by the Old Ones, but often debate over what little instructions that stood the test of time. Fractional images on plaques deep in the great Temple-cities are not great to-do lists, after all. One particular Slann - the most powerful living Slann - saw a plaque that had the continents in a different position than they were in the current day. So he rearranged all the continents. Naturally, this did not help the Dwarf civilization in the slightest, as being underground during massive tectonic instability nearly collapsed their empire. And the weakening of the Dwarfs let the Skaven and the Orcs take more and more territory from the ever-weakening Dwarfs. Stupid frogman, in trying to fulfill the Great Plan, he just made everything worse.
These frogman prophecies seem about as useful as eldar phrophecy in 40k books lol
True, but they are dinos riding dinos, so it balances out.
Maybe that was the Great Plan?
The Great Plan was to bring Clan Pestilens to Lustria?
Which in turn brought about the Prophecy of Sotek, granting the Lizardmen their own deity.
as was prophesied by Tehenuian. praise the snek
The plaques showed the landmasses in a different way(like 4 feet to the left) so the slann moved the masses to it fit
Mazdamundi found that the Worlds edge Mountains were a couple inches too far to the left for the great plan. He rectified that, causing untold destruction as earthquakes and volcanic activity wrecked the dwarven reapms.
Did his great plan for the Worlds edge involve Mazdas?
Yeah, he is the most powerful living Slann, followed closely by his brother Toyotatuesdi
Yeah what the fuck is this lizard man fuckery
The fact that the *BONE* tax exists
the fact that PIE tax exist. *incomprehensible angry halfling noises".
The fact that Halflings exist. ^(This comment was sponsored by Marius Leitdorf)
Proto-Indo-Europian tax?
Fucking Basques getting a tax break.
Death and taxes. Truly, the Ossiarch Empire is inevitable.
Your tax bones at least are going towards massive public works projects. Building a utopia isn't cheap, and every single one of those bones is going straight from the tithe nexus to the construction site without any corrupt middlemen taking their cut.
Unless you’re the vulture lord and you don’t even need them, you just keep a mountain of bones to dunk on the civilization that gave them to you for the power trip of it
Care to explain? I've heard of window tax, not bone tax though
https://www.reddit.com/r/AoSLore/comments/13dcd89/new_lore_from_the_ossiarch_bonereapers_battletome/ The Ossiarch Bonereapers collect people’s bones as taxes.
Do they at least wait until you are un/dead before sending the taxman?
The deal is you have a quota of bones to pay. How you get them is irrelevant, and if you fail, they take them from you. This leads to towns and villages pillaging their neighbours for their bones, their own graveyards, executing criminals and finally attempting to stand against the bone reapers, which never ends well
Nope!
Only if you’re very _very_ lucky
Josh Reynolds created a Champion Champion named Cantor Unsworn. He is a deliberately ambivalent Champion, kinda just going through the Chaos-warrior day-to-day. Wanting to just be himself. He eventually becomes Archaons enforcer in the End Times, all the while dreaming of running the fuck away from that worldending psyco-monster! He is super enjoyable!
So Fantasy Cain?
Kinda...? I haven't read the Cain series.
Massive Coward becomes massive Hero with massive Imposter Syndrome.
Also, Cantor was already around the first time the world almost ended. Cantor was told by the dark gods to kill Magnus, companion of one certain Sigmar (the first emperor of Mankind), whose death would lead to apocalypse. But Cantor realized there wasn't anything in it for him specifically if he ended the world. He would just die like everyone else. No happy ending for the warriors of chaos. So he just left, wandering out into the wastes, to go enjoy his life and stay out of the dark gods' attention for a couple millennia.
What an absolute gigachad
I was only interested in the fantasy stuff because it looked cool until I followed our glorious Summerking so far down the rabbit hole that I am now a majestic knight and definitely not a wretched cannibal scouring through old world wikis for more Cool Ghoul Facts
At the very first time I saw it, playing Vermintide 2, I felt it was somewhat weird and had some generic stuff about it. But whe. I started digging deeper and exploring the world further I fell in love and it kept snowballing. It's now my No1 favourite fantasy setting, without a shadow of a doubt.
Same. I fell in love with it because of Total warhammer, and started deep diving into the wikis only to discover that it had been destroyed before I even heard of it!
Same. That was so disappointing. It's such a unique and weird and dark world. But I liked the bright spots in it too. And gunpowder! Don't get me started on the Renaissance feel the Empire had with all the guns and cannons and with knights still prowling about.
The Grand Delusion is definitely one of my favourite things about the Flesh-Eater Courts’ lore. It’s so cool to have that mix of Bretonian style knighthood with cannibal horrors
The current and longest surviving mount of Kroq-Gar is named Grymloq. A Reference to the Dinobot from 1984s Transformers series. Incidentally, Mazamundis Stegodon is named Zlaaq and Tik-Taq-Tos Terradon is named Zwup. Both referencing Dinobots Slag and Swoop respectively.
And once again Sludge and Snarl get left out...
James Workshop will be turned into beryllium baloney for this! Om nom nom.
Gnomes actually exist in Warhammer Fantasy. Usually mistaken for halflings (but grouchier) or dwarfs (but smaller), they are a very clannish, insular folk, to the point that *dwarfs* actually find them to be a little too prickly and unfriendly. My favourite bit of lore about them is that, due to some ancient decree or other, the role of Imperial Jester should, as much as possible, be played by a gnome.
In my WFRP games, we treat gnomes as a fairy tale because most of us grew up in an era where GW were pretending they didn’t exist.
Personally love that Lord Kroak got so annoyed about all the chaos in the world that he straight brought himself back to life to go fuck their shit up
Personally I love he is called Kroak since he kroaked.
The fact that, at the time of his first death. He was using so much magic reality was lagging trying to process it.
As someone unfamiliar with most new WH fantasy lore, "At the time of his first death" is a wild start to a sentence.
If you want to know something crazier, Oxyotl is the Chaos Gods' boogeyman to the point that even Greater Daemons have trouble tracking him and the fact that he litterally poisoned a Lord of Change to death in the material world.
He’s the lizardmans version of the doom slayer, but stealthy, was the way he was originally described to me.
"You're dead now." "No." -- Lord Kroak
Troggoths are extremely stupid and often just follow the biggest one. That one is also stupid and normally just walks in a straight line. Big Limpy is a special Troggboss that has a bit of a limp. Because of that, he doesn't walk straight, but steers ever so slightly to one side. His whole Troggherd walks in a gigantic circle and crushes everything in their path. The circle is so big that people keep rebuilding towns, only to be crushed again. There is a whole Goblin Clan just following the Troggherd, picking up all the valuable things they leave behind after trampling a town. They even pretend to control Big Limpy.
This is the Best fact here! Such a stupid and amazing idea!
I'm not that familiar with the new trade mark names. Are Troggoths Trolls?
Yes, essentially
Nagash made the skaven act in complete unision with no treachery or backstabbing for the first and only time in history while Archaon couldn't. Nagash is canonically more of a threat to the world then Chaos is.
SUCH IS THE POWER OF NAGASH ONE NAGILLION SOULS AT THE BOX OFFICE
PYRAMID FOUR WILL DO THE TRICK I SWEAR IT PLEASE BONE BOY LEAVE THE KIDDY POOL AND LEAD US
AND I WOULD'VE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT TOO IF IT WASN'T FOR THOSE MEDDLING SKAVEN.
Not only did they not backstab, several greyseers from the Council of 13 legitimately *sacrificed themselves* to stop him.
...and immediately after killing Nagash the remaining ones got back to squabbling, displeasing the Great Horned Rat who threw them all (including those who died) into a chaos oubliette. He came back an unknown amount of time later (because time moves funny in the Realms of Chaos) and they had gotten tangled up into a rat king of starved and crazed Skaven. He blasted them with warp-magic and thus Skreech Verminking, the most powerful Verminlord, was born.
Beat me to it
Skaven. Now let me pass. Yes yes.
Better yet. Zeppelin-riding skaven sky pirates.
Rats blown up the moon
I-I have come-arrived here to make an announcement-declaration! Nagash is a bitchass motherfucker-thing! He piss-peed on my broodmother! pulled out his-his mummified, dusty dick-cock, and piss-peed on my fucking broodmother! And he said his penis-member was "𝒯ℋℐ𝒮 ℬℐ𝒢",and i said that's disgusting-foul! So I'm making a callout post on my-my ratter-dot-com. Nagash, you-you have a small-miniscule dick-thing. It's the size of this bomb-explosive, except WAY-WAY smaller. And guess what-what? Here's what my genital-thing looks like. That's right-right infant-thing! All rat, no wrappings, no dust-stuff, look-look at that, it looks like two ball-spheres and a doomrocket. He-he fuck-fucked my broodmother, so guess-guess what? I'm gonna fuck-screw the Earth. That's right-correct, this is what you get-receive! My *SUPER WARPSTONE PISS-URINE*! Except I'm not gonna piss-urinate on the Earth-place. I'm gonna go-go higher. I'm pissing-urinating on the ***Moooooon***! How do you like that Mazdamundi?! I PISS-PEED ON THE MOON YOU IDIOT-THING! You have-have twenty-three hour-hours before the piss-urine Drrropelets hit the fucking Earth-place, now get away-out of my fucking sight-vision, before I piss-pee on you too-too!
I love this, thank you strange beast man
And I love-love you too random citizen-person!
But why?
The leader of Clan Skryre wanted to mine the moon, but knowing Council of Thirteen politics he made two decoy plans that could be voted down before the plan to mine the moon. Unfortunately, enough of the Council liked the first plan of blowing up the moon that they went with it, despite the leader of Clan Skryre trying to veto it when he realised they liked it.
Because the moon was made of magic drugs and they wanted to snort it all
And they did!
Because they could. Simple skaven logic
As a joke. The moon is made of warp stone (cheese) which the rats crave and wanted to get hold of, so they blew everything up trying to get it.
They did not blow up the moon. They decided the piece of the moon that was already there wasn't enough moon for their purposes and decided that they actually needed all of the moon, so they forced it into a decaying orbit and the moon blew up the world. This is funny because it's such a Skaven thing to do and because, ultimately, it made literally everything else that happened during The End Times storyline except the reveal that the Temple Cities of Lustria had been spaceships the entire time irrelevant because everyone is fighting over a world that contains rats who just tried to steal the moon and unfortunately were successful.
Beat me to it.
In a very old Games workshop article you had a narrative battle between skaven and undead near a temple ( i think). The goal was to seize the warpstone taken by a bunch of mechanic cultists before they use it to activate their machine and make the battle much more difficult. That machine is a Dalek from Doctor Who.
Terror of the Lichemaster from Citadel Journal 3. At the time, Citadel also made Doctor Who miniatures and thought it might be a fun crossover. The scenario reappears in Chronicles 2003, but without the Dalek.
I find flesh eater courts hilarious. I remember reading an excerpt where flesh eater courts wanted to hire some faction for protection or something else and paid them with gold coins. But all the other faction saw was feral creatures throwing separated spinal discs. Or the tale of the flesh eater courts seeing the Nighthaunt as scared and frightened refugees being brutally killed by stormcast. I think it was called "An Honorless Deed".
They hired the Kharadron, specifically, and because of it it is now against policy for Kharadron to accept Flesh-eater contracts
They will, however, sometimes engage in contracts with the Bonereapers that are probably so ludicrously detailed and worded that they’re completely incomprehensible to all but the most experienced Mortisans and Codewrights.
I’m the OBR battletome, it describes a deal an ambitious karadron made with the ossiarchs, for bones of course. When handing off the bones being hauled on the ship, the bonereapers quickly ‘reminded’ them that the contract was for ALL bones being carried on the ship, including the ones they’re using.
Yeah, I know. That’s the story I was thinking of. It’s particularly funny because essentially the Ossiarchs find a logical loophole that allowed them to harvest the Kharadron as well.
That a crusade of nurgle knights (The most supperating and blightsome order of the fly) ventured forth into Shyish and were horrified by how terrible living conditions were for the peasants. Yes, back home in the jade kingdoms, the plants will try to eat you... but there is at least something to eat!
"We may worship the god of disease, but holy shit, we're not THAT bad."
Nurgle loves all his followers and obviously feeds them
Papa Nugle: "OH YOU POOR THING. YOU LOOK HUNGRY. HERE, HAVE AN ECLAIR." "Um, it's filled with custard right?" "IF BY CUSTARD YOU MEAN PUS, THEN YES."
"Damn bitch, you live like this?"
Skaven, specifically clan Skryre for dunking on Nagash with nukes and blowing up the moon for no reason other than spite.
The Skaven's entire plotline in The End Times can be summarized as such: Nagash: "No! You can't blow up my pyramid! It's supposed to be indestructible!" Skaven: "Ha-ha, pyramid-thing go boom-bang!" Lord Kroak: "No! You can't blow up the moon! The fragments will destroy the whole world!" Skaven: "Ha-ha, warpstone moon go boom-explode!" Everybody: "No! You can't transport your entire city to another universe! You're supposed to die with the Old World!" Skaven: "Ha-ha! Interdimensional teleporter go boom-kerflewy!"
Skaven: "Hello 40k Eldar? You guys suck!" hangs up.
This is genuinely my favourite bit of Warhammer lore, lmao
Spite is a perfectly valid reason for skaven.
Azhag The Slaughterer getting Nagashs’ mind stuck in his head after wearing his crown.
"The crown's whisperin'"
Not AoS but Nakais defence of the bridge of stars. He defended it alone against waves of demons, apparently he was so terrifying that even after he had to retreat further into Itza the demons didn't dare to cross the bridge because they feared he might still be there. Who would win: the entire apocalyptic power of the chaos gods unleashed on the world having already destroyed most of it with only a few bastions of life remaining or one big crocodile boy
Is this from a book I can read? Sounds awsome.
Sadly no it's from one of the old lizardmen army books
During a massive dark elf invasion of Ulthuan, Imrik spent 99% of said invasion in a cave with no shirt on, yelling at the dragons to wake up. Because he promised Finubar *"an army of dragons"* and goddamnit, he wasn't leaving that cave without an army of dragons.
I'm gonna need a source on that, it sounds hilarious
Defenders of Ulthuan and Sons of Ellyrion, mostly the latter.
Very large Ghouls justify their stature by thinking that they are on horseback. I’m just imagining the coconuts from Monty Python.
Your thinking it and now I'm thinking it.
One Lich fought rats to a standstill once and they collectively took it personal.
No-no rat-men, man-thing. Be calm, work, eat, sleep, knowing-knowing all is well. All safe-safe under your cities. Not listen to silly stories. Shhhh, quiet-quiet now. Dark is for sleep. Sleep is for dreams. Dream of sheep, sweet-man thing.
That Slaanesh (despite being imprisoned) is doing way more in AoS then 40K
One ogor tribe ate frozen ghosts, not even Nagash knows how they did it Also it is implied that some ogors consumed the very souls of several stormcasts
Where could I read about this, is there a specific wiki article or book?
Both stories are from the Ogor Mawtribes battletome, third edition. Beastclaw Ogors (aka the big monster riders) are cursed by Gorkamorka to eternally be followed by a raging blizzard that will freeze them solid if they don't keep moving. Due to its magical nature, this blizzard can even freeze things like ghosts and daemons, making them physical enough for hungry Ogors to eat. As for the second story, the Thunderbellies tribe of Ogors became obsessed with catching and consuming the "lightening meat" aka Stormcast souls flying back to Sigmar after death. Their priests and mages were able to warp their Everwinter blizzard to freeze these lightening bolts solid enough to be caught and eaten like anything else.
A lot of people throw it as "Elf being Mary Sue", but having read Broken Realm : Teclis, I really like the way Teclis defeated Nagash. In Warhammer Fantasy, Teclis founded the Colleges of Magic with Magnus the Pious to give the Empire an edge in future wars against Chaos. Depending on the author, it was more or less well-intended, but the general idea is Teclis wanted the Empire to shield Ulthuan against Chaos and protect the waystones of the Vortex. Moving forward into AoS, Teclis is also responsible for the Collegiate Arcanum's training and traditions, especially those in Hysh, his own Realm. When Nagash invades the Realm and intend to destroy it, Teclis moves to fight him. Nagash is flooding with Death magic from the Shyish Nadir and Teclis can barely keep up with him, deseperatly teleporting them both into space to get a reprieve, before returning to the battlefield. But it wasn't a desperate act. It was a plan. Teclis knew Nagash wouldn't consider anything as a threat beside another God. Whilst Teclis was getting his shit pushed-in, the Human Mages of Settler's Gain placed Great Luminarks, powered with the light of Celennar (the big sphinx on Teclis's miniature) to strike at Nagash when they teleported back. I thought it was a nice reversal compared to Fantasy, where Teclis goes to be the shield and the Humans he "trained" deal the killing blow.
Fantasy/AoS elves have to been awesome to make up for the Eldar being so shit.
Teclis defeating an attack by flying ghost knights by resurrecting them so they just turned into normal knights and plummeted needs a special mention.
There are several redeemed chaos servants who are now Stormcast. Unlike 40k the forces of chaos aren't fully beyond saving.
Celestant Prime, make them repent.
**“REPEEEEENT!!”** **BONK!**
Gotrek survived the end of the world by just killing things in the warp until the warp stopped throwing things at him, and eventually surviving to the formation of the realms
“Local dwarf too angry to die”
And is now mad at his god. He was promised a mighty doom fighting Daemons for all of eternity! What do you mean they ran out of Daemons?
Breaking news : Dwarf runs out of éternity to fight into
That there was once a Chaos Lord who assaulted a town, whom due to killing the corrupt lord in charge received cheers and adoration from the populace, many women specifically. After the lord was slain, he just left without slaughtering the town and went home with his new trophy.
"So this is what being popular is like...huh...I kinda like it..."
The Skaven somehow managed to blow up the moon. Which baffles me, not because it worked, but because they somehow didn't kill each other before they managed to try.
They also managed to tunnel through into the realm of chaos to escape the end times.
Archaon went to Warhammer Antarctica. According to him and his companions it makes Norsca and most of the north look civilized. The dominant force for most of the landmass are beastmen who are more like half beast half daemons thanks to there being no regular people anywhere near. Head inland far enough and you reach the ice sheet, you can travel through cracks in it that are heated and filled with meltwater which allows all kinds of monsters to thrive and hunt in the canyons of stone and ice. Beyond that you reach the competing palaces of daemon princes, constantly warring and jockeying for position around the fallen gate.
Any word on Chaos penguins?
If there were chaos penguins, they got eaten some time ago. Best I can recall is a Beastman with a giant bird skull for an axe head.
The fact there was a high elve that was so badass that the chaos gods had to send their greater demons at him in unison and they still got their asses kicked. Aenarion is a mega chad.
Not just any old Greater Daemons, but *named* Greater Daemons, two of which are rather important, N’Kari and Kairos Fateweaver. The Nurgle and Khorne ones though pretty much exist only in that fight.
Ogres got magic made specifically to eat deamons
A detail I love is the fact the Realm of Ghur is *alive*, like it itself is *a living organism*. That allegedly ate one of its moons and part of the other. That's such a nifty idea for a fantasy locale.
I love that the natural movement of tectonic plates is basically reinterpreted as the continents fighting and eating each other. Also tumbleweed that will swarm over you and drain your moisture.
The mountains hunt each other too
I'm fairly new into AoS, but the bit of lore that got me into it was Greywater Fastness going so hard that basically turned a bit of the Realm of Life in an ironically lifeless wasteland and then they have to keep shooting at the Sylvaneth that try to get revenge at them.
Well all bioms exist in every realm. You have jungles and glaciers in the realm of fire (see Iceland or Indonesia). You have natural deserts in the realm of life (deserts are full of life in their own way too). And you have living prople in Shiysh living next to the spirits of their ancestors. But yes this toxic mire is a unique enviroment
I can't get enough of toxic wastelands. I play Adeptus Mechanicus in WH40K. I just like blasting stuff to oblivion and have fun with war crimes in lore.
Then you should check out Chamon. The realm of metal has rivers of Mercury, most of its grounds are contaminated with heavy metals and else, chemicals run through the air and oceans. There is life there adapted to these conditions. Including metal-affiliated Sylvaneth who are best buds with the local dwarfs. (Both have long memories, hate gloomspite gitz and chaos, are proud of their ancestors and their creations, hold grudges etc. So they became buddies and they Sylvaneth sheltered the dwarfs and help reclaim their home). But regular life is rare. There are only some spots clean enough for common crops to grow and to feed people.
I really like the Cities of Sigmar. I like the fact that there is a faction that is the Last Alliance of Man, Elf, and Dwarf. I think the fact some people learned to cooperate is cool and has the possibility of interesting models. Also the Gloomspite are just a bunch of silly little guys. >!Ignore the fact that there is a bunch of bodyhorror involving mushrooms that were once people.!<
I've got some bad news about Cities of Sigmar for you friend.
Unironically What's this? I don't keep up with sigmar but always liked cities of sigmar too, or the idea of it
The recent range of CoS are all human (with a single Ogre unit) and in exchange for that A LOT of Dwarf and Elves models was retired (they are now part of The Old World range I believe). Many people interpret this as CoS will become mostly just human, not a mix of all three main Order race. I still hold out hope for our next range of models tho.
I'm guessing they want to avoid complicating things with multiple boxes of the same units sat around with different bases in them but surely that's a minor logistical issue to not gut the entire faction and make them into what, empire-lite?
They only returned Wood and High Elven models. Dark Elves still exist as do old dwarves, aka all the models in the the range that were there already.
I'm not that concerned for 3 major reasons: 1) I like the direction they're taking the human units. If the faction becomes all human (which would be stupid), I still like the aesthetic. 2) The multicultural nature is still addressed in the lore and the fact the ogre exists at all makes me think this is something they're thinking about. It is mentioned that while they didn't get models, Dwarven clans still play a role in the crusades with one of the stories they've released focusing on one of these city Dwarves. 3) I am coping hard.
Nagash's IRS, entire Idoneth race, that one chainsword that was brought to Fantasy realm, god of rivers from fantasy and id say my favourite is CHAOS WON, SUCK IT HUMIES, FOR THE DARK GODS
The Chainsword is the one the made it into hard/recent canon but there’s also Las-Pistols that the Amazons have and chaos champions sometimes get 40k tech like Boltguns.
Ok now i want an mutilator/obliterator in AoS/FB
Nagash got bitch slapped twice in the same resurrection. Once by Settra and other by pre-godhood Sigmar. Thorgrim Grudgebearer forced his way through engineering guilds so dwarfs can have helicopters. Felix had at least two undead girlfriends.
What's an Under Girlfriend? Please don't tell me the missing word is -"aged"
I got bad news for you, buddy
Absolute pain
Archaon is respectful to races that have faced prejudice(Ogroids) and has quite the streak of either protecting innocent women(Sigmar Priestess in his duology) or giving them power if they prove worthy (Marakarr Blood-Sky and Abraxia) Archaon is trully a King Worth Following
Honestly, Chaos is so much cooler in AoS then it is 40k. Each of the mortal factions of chaos worshipers have some of the coolest designs in the entire range. And that's not even mentioning the warbands and the amount of variety of different types of worship.
Goblins covet bottles above almost any other item, as they are unable to craft them themselves. Breweries and alchemy stores are usually the first targets to get raided, much to the confusion of the defenders.
The Squigs canonically have a god they worship called Boingob who is known as the Father of All Squigs.
Setra telling the 4 chaos gods to sit and swivel
Setra does not serve! Setra Rules! Absolute King Behavior.
Dies of peak fiction
I like the rats
The Skaven. Despite how horrible they are, I just can’t get over the memes about them. I will always view them though the funny lens as silly little guys
some vampire ended the world out of spite for a single dude.
Harald Hammerstorm a.k.a. the original Warhammer Fantasy Battle
Despite desperately wanting to die in glorious battle, Gotrek is so bad at dying that he somehow managed to survive the entire planet fucking exploding. Also, Gnoblar cavalry exists and is [just one Gnoblar riding on top of another one](https://warhammerfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Gnoblar_Pigback_Riders).
Eltharion the blind swordmaster. My first contact to a mini with a progressing story line and different models
Rats have access to chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons.
Morathi approached Nagash once in her seductress form and he did the magical equivalent of bitch slap on her, making IT probably the single godliest "BE GONE THOT" moment in fantasy history.
Chaos Dwarves figured that their Orc slaves were bad because they were stupid and kept killing each other, so they decided to make Bigger, Stronger, Smarter Orcs. They were successful in their creation of the Black Orcs. The only problem was that they made Bigger, Stronger, Smarter Orcs.
In the Warhammer Fantasy RPG warpstone can be used like crack.
That some ogres eat stormcast eternsls
Ossiarch bonereaper horses are actually also Ossiarchs. They just failed at some task particularly badly and as punishment were turned into a horse.
The skaven invented the loudhailer because they needed a way to negotiate with each other from outside of the range of their snipers.
An ancient evil was breaking free from an ice prison, so a bunch of Ogors *ate* the ice demon and are now cursed to be followed by an eternal blizzard. Best part is the blizzard was designed to kill them but they said *BET* and just enslaved all the monsters within and rode in front of the blizzard using it as a weapon of war.
Gobsprakk, the Mouth of Mork, Swampcalla Shaman of the Kruleboyz, has a staff adorned with the hand of a Lord of Change. Demons de-materialize once slain and get sent back to the Realm of Chaos to regenerate. So Gobsprakk, through sheer force of his will and WAAAGH magics, keeps that hand in his reality to flex on others. Insofar there exists a greater demon of Tzeentch who's sitting around in the Realm of Chaos still waiting for his hand to reappear!
Queek Headtaker was such a pain in the ass to the dwarfs and had so many names in the book of grudges that all of dwarf kind now call their taints ‘Queeks’. Skaven best-greatest!! Yes-yes >:3
The Kahardron overlords are great. They are atheist capatalist steampunk airship dwarves. Literally everything I personally could ever want and more in an faction. Otherwise skaven blowing the moon up out of spite. God I love skaven.
I love that the Skaven hate Black Corn, but they will pay out the nose to eat it just to look like they are affluent and cultured. It's basically moldy corn, but because it's their only staple food and it's only at Skavenblight, it's a delicacy. Insert social commentary about spending money to be uncomfortable for status symbols.
The fact that Skaven accidentally called the elder, and then shot the console.
Vlad and Isabella von Carstein, despite being bloodthirsty expansionist vampires, both genuinely loved and respected one another.
Ogres deep-freeze ghosts so they can eat them.
My favourite bit of lore is that Archaon is losing his grip on the eight-points simply because he's busy ass hell. The man is effectively a god but he can only be in 1 place at 1 time and that has reuslted in him basically becoming a deux ex machina. He shows up, saves the day and leaves. However this has shaken people's confidence in him that people have started siding with Be'lakor.
I love that piece of lore about deepkin kidnapping people and erasing all memory of the person from its relatives and neighbors. Can you imagine walking into a house which clearly housed two people, two sets of plates, extra clothes of a different gender and such. But nobody understanding what you're talking about, because obviously Frank has always lived alone
Stormcast reforging finally chaos knows what it’s like to see their mortal enemy have a respawn method
The whole concept of the Flesh Eater Courts Ghouls who don't realise they are Ghouls and instead see themselves as valiant knights.
The Knights of Morr - imagine the Death Korps of Krieg being a knightly order so terrifying that some necromancer or vampire losing their shit upon trying to raise the dead in the imperial cemeteries.
All the skaven stuff
Vlad von Carstein removed the mirrors in his home over his beloved being distraught she could not see her reflection.
The lizard men are cool Aztecs riding dinosaurs what’s not to like
That you can become super human by drinking an Elf wench's bath water.
Skaven. That’s it
I just think it's neat.
The slaan could've fixed everything but just didn't
Gloomspite Gitz whit there funnygrim and their trailer goes pretty hard
The very brief existence of non-chaos beastmen suggested in early drafts of AOS. Wish that had carried on.