One of sigvalds most infamous exploits was that one time when he ravaged his way throughout the bretonian countryside with his army. He brutalized every army sent to stop him and the bretonian Dukes was unable to make sense of his seemingly random actions. Eventually the army of the favored son of the dark prince found it's target:a village who's main trade was the trade of wine making. Sigvald had the entire population put to the sword. The village was burned to the ground and the wine yards up-rooted and the ground salted. When the knights of the local Duke arrived to investigate the carnage they found a single mutilated survivor on the brink of death. The survivor told the knights that the reason for the village's destruction was that Sigvald had acquired some wine that originated from the village and it didn't live up to his refined tastes so he felt that an example needed to be made.

I hope this pops off as well as Bricky’s video explaining every 40k faction.

Kislev: Poland meets Frozen, with bears. Ogre Kingdoms: Mongol hordes, if they ate the horses instead of riding them Cathay: Fantasy Early Dynasties China Chaos: Heavy metal vikings Khorne: KILL MAIM BURN! Nurgle: If Covid was a person Slaanesh: Sex, drugs, and rock & roll Tzeentch: That guy you know who is always overthinking everything

Idk if it was retconned but Khorne wasn't pissed that Skarbrand attacked him, Khorne was pissed that Skarbrand attacked him from behind. Something Khorne sees as cowardice.

When first dating my wife I was explaining 40k and the gods of Chaos. I got to nurgle and she broke out laughing saying "it sounds like a small fluffy animal."

This reminds me when bricky did something like this for warhammer 40k it nice to have one about fantasy.

Brettonia is one of those factions that would make real life medieval french and englishmen vomit in unison, They are french, but they are centered around english folklore. Heresy to them!

Discourse, just to clarify, Kislev was at one point a playable faction for Warhammer Fantasy. They existed in 6th edition with a full ruleset, but sadly were discontinued after that point. Just wanted to point this out. Otherwise, spot on! As a huge fan of WHFB myself, I found this video to be very well done!

Oh hell yeah, I love long videos like this. Can’t wait for Fantasy to get its Old World Reboot and Unsquat Bretonnia

You missed the most important thing about Cathay! The fact that they and Nippon (originally evil factions, now are neutral for what it seems like vampires, Nehekara, orcs ecc) where the ones that trained Clan Eshin to be ninjas

I always loved the Empire vibe soooo much in WHFB. I love that they are so close to actual Renaissance and a scientific breakthrough, but they are always teetering on the edge with magic being real, superstition being rampant and so on. That period of history where we knew SOME science already (like blackpowder), but chalking up other shit to literal magic and religion is super fascinating for a dark fantasy world.

Sigmar never strived to be worshipped as a god either. He literally walked away from the imperial throne and didn't even want an emperor's level of idolization. It was the masses of people who loved and respected him dearly who immortalized and materialized him as a god long after his abandonment of the throne.

i should add something for kislev, in some of the very old lore and rpg stuff there was another breach of magic uses though they were far rarer, the hags. these were more like the hedge wizerds that are mentioned in the empire and other human nations. magic users that arent choas but they were never sactioned or adopted into the magical installations. i think they had more to do with the ungulls, and were the crazy old witch in the woods acutype. sometimes you get one rideing a giant house monster with chiken legs

Bricky and Discourse really opened my eyes about Warhammer 40K and Fantasy....by Sigmar and the Emperor, we are surely blessed

This was AWESOME!! I hope you get well soon and I am very much looking forward to part 2 of this series. Thank you!

So my painted High Elves might be usable again someday? I painted them after they destroyed WHFB... I still haven't forgiven GW for that...

Nobody expected Total War Warhammer 3 on this channel.

The point of grand cathay being made from the ground up is half-correct, as a similar treatment was done for Norsca and the Vampire Coast. Norsca drew heavily from the Monstrous Arcanum, whilst the Vampire Coast was basically made from the ground up (there was even an entirely new legendary lord invented for them)

Awesome video! I loved how you structured everything, you’ve got me ready to break out the paint!

Excellent summary video. I'm looking forward to the second part.

Cant wait for you to try and explain skaven without it becoming a 30 minute propaganda campaign. Because we all know, The children of the Great Horned Rat are the true masters of chaos because once the great game has burned all of reality and unreality to ash, the Skaven will be bickering over the ruins.

YAY! I have been waiting for a video like this!

Really enjoyed this. It was fun seeing your perspective on each of the gods and the other factions. Maybe you might cover the remaining factions in reverse order of release of Total War Warhammer? Really lean into the fact that you covered those involved in the most recent game first, and so cover those in the first game last? Probably a weird idea on my part.

Glad to see this video and not the usual ones. Enjoyed it as well

As someone who just dips into Warhammer when a Total War Warhammer game comes out, this is exactly what I needed: A succinct lore summary without the whole "telling it as a story" stuff. Thank you :)

A fine list of enemies of the empire, apart from them Kislev boys, nothing that’s the finest guns out of Nuln can’t handle.

Kislevite: We have bears. We have ice. Me: Anything else? Kislevite: We have ice bears.

You are quickly becoming our favorite channel. My son loves your accent, lol.

They should really make a total war game about this

Hey, great video! I really hope you will cover all the races from the first two games as well!

Kislev is not just ice and bears? If only GW understood that...

Kislev was a playable miniature army in 6th edition .. with an army book and miniatures. It was before your first time playing ... in 2000

Glad you're feeling better, Discourse. Thanks for this video, I don't seem to watch enough Warhammer Fantasy or AOS to get lore videos to pop up. Take it easy, ma'am.

Oooh I can spy my slimy Nurgling babies in the timeline, thanks for featuring them! Glad you're feeling better, hope the trend continues!

Albion is canonically covered with foggy bogs, rainy moors, standing stones and chronically inbred humans and giants. That's it. Painfully close satire.

It's nice seeing you doing different kind of vids.

Awesome. I see you are the Fantasy version of Bricky. Can't wait to see more vids from you. Just one thing, unless you already knew, those two you showed when talking about the Dragon Emperor and Moon Empress are not them. Those are their Dragon children: Miao Ying, the Storm Dragon, and Zhao Ming, the Iron Dragon.

Ogres existed back in early Warhammer as well. In WFRP, ogres in the empire were solitary, mercenary types that sometimes wandered in from gods know where and took odd jobs. Ogres weren't playable, but you could run into an ogre inside the empire just fine. Ogres visiting the empire, Kislev and other places adopted the language and culture of that place in a simplified form. They were moderately bright muscle for hire. Ogre armies are like playing with an army of small monsters. Basic ogre infantry got at least three Wounds and high Toughness. An infantry block of ogres could be 5-10 dudes and whack a regiment.

You could kill someone with laughter, calling slannesh the protagonist 🤣

Love the video and the enthusiasm! More!

Fun fact: I live in Altdorf. Right next to the historic university. Yes, its a really nice little town, and every few years we have quite the renaissance fair :)

Well... this video is responsible for introducing me to the song Winged Hussars. Thanks Discourse! :)

Very excited discourse I'll be watching these vids , I've just bought some stinky skinks few other lizard men/seraphon models and I may get some bretonian at some point

Love your breakdowns of these, wish someone had explained it to me like this when I started...

11:50 Kislev also has influences from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Winged Lancers, sure, but they've also got the union between two different people, ever under siege by stronger enemies all around going on.

I played a game of Warhammer Fantasy roleplay, I played a Norscan whose ultimate destiny was to go north and find the hordes of Archaon, becoming one of his champions of Khorne. We didn't do it in game because we weren't playing a chaos game, but at the end the GM and I rolled through mutations and rewards with the chaos book, and it turns out she would have become a daemon prince lol. So I've been writing out that journey

Glad you are feeling better. So cool to see you doing some lore! What was "the tome" you were reading from?

Lovely as always

Nice video, u rly have to make part 2 about warhammer fantasy factions :)

God damn, this is such a good video. I could listen to this for hours

I'd say that the main difference between WHF and 40k is that for all the mud and lack of indoor plumbing WHF it's still a vastly more _hopeful_ setting than its sci-fantasy cousin. Actual progress is possible (and in full swing in the Empire). Human societies are for the most part dynamic and vital (Bretonnia and Cathay are major exceptions only because they're deliberately kept that way by powerful magical beings). Monsters may roam the dark woods but they're pushed back further and further with every year as civilization expands. And the various races and empires often get along quite well...the High Elves happily trade with just about anybody, the Empire and the Dwarves have a strong alliance, even the Tomb Kings are generally content to unlive and let live. There's constant skirmishes but the non-stop apocalyptic warfare you see in 40k just isn't there. Chaos incursions and big Waaghs happen, but they're separated by decades or centuries of relative peace. Compared to 40k, WHF is basically all fluffy unicorns and sunshine.

I was kinda hoping we'd see Nippon but I'm still happy we got to see some lesser known factions in the game.

An amazing video. I’m one of those weird people who don’t play or have an interest in the tabletop just the lore. I hope you make more videos like this because you do them so extremely well. Different style from Luetin09 for 40k but the breadth is there

Want wait to hear more. Please do the other armies, I miss old warhammer so much!

Hope you get well soon, just been getting over it myself

Yes! Nice to see Warhammer Fansty content, lizard men were my first army around '99-'00, good times.

1990's Cathay was Hobgoblins {east steps and beyond} and Chaos Dwarves.

Kislev haven't really had a stand-alone army, because they have always been a part/subfaction of the Empire and they have gotten plenty of coverage in those army books. So while they did not have their own army-book, you could most definitely make a purely Kislevite army. For several decades you did not see an imperial army without their iconic Knights of the white wolf and their oversized polo clubs. Until very recently, they where not the land of the bears, but the land of the Wolves, as their Primary god Ulric, is the god of wolves, war and winter. The TTRPG had even more lore on Kislev, as they had a couple of adventures set there. Like Kislev Carthay have actually had an army list, back in 2nd edition (together with Nippon), completely with warrior monks, hwacha rocket artillery and dragon cannons, they never had more than a couple of official miniatures released (mostly reused sculpts from Citadels historical Catalog), but one of the White Dwarf writers did kitbash an entire army once, giving us a pretty good look at how an army would have looked. They even got a ship in the Dreadfleet game. The rise of Nagash books also feature some lore on Cathay, as the old Khemri empire dealt with them. The ogre kingdoms are actually located just between the eastern steppes and the Dark lands, in the mountains of Morn. The eastern steppes are actually populated by the real Mongol equivalent, the Hobgoblin tribes, who ride wolves instead of horses, but are otherwise the same.

after you said "albion", an ad played for Albion Online. what sorcery is this.

"Like watching a dream die" lol how did you make me feel bad for a being called the plague father?

Hail hail I guess the thing about birds? Do I get wizards powers? Well, I guess I'm a bird nightmare now.

Glad to see you back 😉

I'm glad you are shining some light on fantasy. I always preferred fantasy over 40k personally. I'm hype about warhammer old world but at the same time I don't feel like taking out a loan to participate, hopefully something changes internally at GW when it does release.

Part 1? Ohohohoho~ Can't wait for my boney bois, reptile bois and ratty bois

Great job! Thank you for this.

Awesome vid!

Awesome video :)

Glad to hear you are starting to feel yourself again.

Archeon the Everchosen would've lost instantly if Grimgor showed up and gave his nards another good ol' fashioned kick.

Great video Discourse. Your a real trooper continuing to work while in pain. Respect…. Now go to sleep and get better damn it!😂👍❤️

Absolutely loved this... I just hope the KZfaq algorithm ( or Tzeech) favours you.... The pendant in me only wishes you would compare the Empire to 'the Holy Roman Empire' and not germany but other than that top marks... Cannot wait for part 2.

Heyyy,, Papa Nurgle is not cruel! He loves all of his subjects.

This is just what i need! Thank you

Really enjoyed this video, it´s great to see you presenting something you´re enthusiastic about :D. DOn´t get me wrong, it´s absolutely neccessary to point out when a company like GW is doing something shitty, but it would be nice to see more videos like this. Keep it up!

good stuff dude

Back in Warhammer Third Edition, they had a few mercenary units from Nippon you could field in your army if you wished.

Sick or not you sure shine with a BRIGHT light.

Hope your getting better. Thx for the video

As a non-GW player..I enjoyed this just to learn where paint names come from 😊

Ogres sounds nice 🤣 awesome video!

Excellent vidéo thanks

Yea I'd definitely watch more lore videos from you, whether it's fantasy, 40k, Aos, whateva!

I hope they will put Nippon and Indja as well.

That was great! I'm a big 40K fan but never got into fantasy. It seems like its just as dark, unhinged, and awesome as 40K!

I love The Old World/Warhammer Fantasy - been scudding about in it one way or another since 2nd edition WFB/1st Edition WFRP - love this whistlestop tour Discourse. Rock on!

supporting NI content creators, love your work

Hey thanks for the video. I love old warhammer. Sad they took it away but I like the lore throw back. Which elves for life!!

I'm a simple man- see sabaton reference, i click like.

I love the new catchphrase :D

the amount of understanding MIstress Discord has for Slaanesh is disconcerting XD

Really liked this one

Holy fudge, that's a really good analogy. Tzeentch is the youtube algorithm. I love it. Glad you're feeling better after a dose of the covid.

Used to love WHFRP and the concept of FB but could never afford the miniatures 😂 Excellent round up. Thanks

Such a great video. Love your accent btw.

Eating whilst hearing about the Slanesh breakdown was a bad idea!

"it mostly just rains."...dead.😂😂😂

You got covid ? Poor lil deer. Glad your better ! We love your videos.

Glad you are feeling a bit better. What is your favorite discontinued game?

Of course hard times create strong men. My father would break a fully grown wolf completely in half with his bare hands for a pint of beer. A puppy he would break even for a small cup. Haven't seen him in the last 15 years but he's probably breaking puppies somewhere.

next up 40k endtimes, WFB and 40k in the same AoS single universe, skaven vs ultramarines etc etc, and that's how we get squats back into 40k