Pinned comment is no funny joke, the playable Nagash faction mod for Total Warhammer II was released a few days ago and you should go play it right goddamn now. Literally as I was making the video I went “I wonder if it’s up and running yet.” Such is the power of Nagash.

"How bad could he possibly be?" "The Skaven helped a human stop him" "My God"

Nagash's story in a nutshell: "Were you killed?" "Sadly yes, but I lived"

The war between Skavendom, and Nagash in a nutshell Nagash: "There has to be an end to them, there HAS to be." Skaven: "There has to be an end to them, there HAS to be."

Poor Nagash literally only loses because his goals are too high stakes for the plot

"At one point he died, but he decided dying was cringe so he just possessed his body and kept on walking." This is the most necromancer thing anyone has ever done or thought of. "Raises every corpse on the planet. All of them." I stand corrected.

This guy's power creep isn't a hill. it's a fucking rocket.

Nagash is nice change of pace in villainy, at least in today's fiction. Everything today is "No one is a good guy, everyone and everything is gray! There is no real good and evil!!" And he comes in and just says "Hello I'm here for your bones and I'm not asking." We need more of that.

"The first time someone tried to contact him, he magically strangled them from a continent away." That's all I need to know. I love this bastard

Nagash: "I've exhausted every evil plan in my arsenal, from A to Y." Arkhan: "A to Y?" Nagash: "Yeah you know, A to Y, the alphabet." Arkhan: "What about Z?" Nagash: "Z?" Arkhan: "Yes, Z, the letter after Y." Nagash: "W, X, Y... Z! PLAN Z, HERE IT IS! JUST LIKE YOU SAID!" Arkhan: "Oh boy..." Nagash: "Oh... OH... It's EVIL! It's DIABOLICAL! It's LEMON SCENTED! THIS PLAN Z CAN'T POSSIBLY FAIL!" - Famous conversation between Nagash 'Skelepope' the Undying and Arkan the Black, shortly before the End Times

Fun Fact about how assholish Nagash is, if I remember rightly during the Age of Chaos where Chaos took over almost 100% of the Mortal Realms the lives of folks who lived in Shyish actually go noticeably BETTER. That's right it's legitimately better to submit to Chaos than it is to live under Nagash.

Remember, kids: Nagash isn't a failure because he sucks, he's just following in the long tradition of boney supervillains who continually get pretty far with schemes to fuck shit up, get thwarted and have everything undone, only to come back for more the next week. Grandpa Skeletor would be proud.

My favorite thing about Nagash is that his bonehat is almost as tall as his chest (depends of the Image). He may be the God of death, but he and the pope have their priorities right.

So basically, Nagash is the equivalent of Grim Dark Skeletor. Gets his ass kicked but always coming back

Anyone powerful enough to give Skaven the "honesty" debuff is the definition of _built different._ 🥶

"Kinda like moses but evil" broke me into laughter for no particular reason, and for an unnerving amount of time

Take note that Nagash was beaten because the Tomb King of Lhamia bought guns from Cathay so according to the Lore the dwarves could have beaten Nagash in a moment, so yes, the elves srewed It again

I like to think that when Nagash decided to relax and move his black pyramid he was thinking to himself "This time my plan is full proof. No prisoners for the Skaven to use and give warpstone knives too" then all he hears is the distant sound of Ikit laughing as his nukes go off in the pyramid

Nagash seems like the type of guy to open up a blender box at target to see what’s inside and then ask the employees to bring him another one that isn’t opened

Nagash, the Epitome of "I'm a Jerk and everybody loves me!"

I imagine fighting Nagash is like hiding behind pillars and cowering. Because if you get into his sight you get fetus deletus'ed like a poor planet in front of a supernova.

Nagash: "Oh, you're A villain all right, just not a super one." Archaon: "What's the difference?" Nagash: "Presentation!"

Archaon the everchosen: *Defets Nagash in single combat* Harry the Hammer: I raised that boy...

I had a friend who let me play his Nagash army, and he informed me about the lore of Nagash being an absolute dick head to everyone and everything. So, I decided to channel the dickish energy of Nagash myself with the hand of dust spell, and make it so they would always pick the wrong hand. The methods I used to achieved this varied from dice up the sleeves to pocketing the dice, and many many more methods are outright cheating because why play fair when Nagash wouldn't.

You know someone is truly fucking evil when the Skaven become the good guys

I would like to point the details to the NagashxMorathi storyline, because...it's frankly hilarious, and everyone who needs to hear about Morathi being humiliated will greatly enjoy it. Basically, when Sigmar forged the Pantheon of Order out of the Incarnates and other entities of great power, Morathi got a ticket to the club, mostly so they could keep an eye on her. At this point in time, Morathi had an unpleasant time in the belly of Slaanesh and her "Big Snake" form was something she dealt with using illusions to look like the elves she always was. The first line of work for Morathi was to find a new "puppet" to seduce and manipulate, like in the old times. Of course, she couldn't pull that on Tyrion, Teclis, Alarielle, or Malekith/Malerion who...well, had enough of her. Grimnir and Grugni were Dwarven Gods, so out of the question and let's not talk about Gorkamorka. Only Sigmar and Nagash remained as candidates, so of course, Morathi chose our favorite Hammer God. Sigmar being Sigma, rejected Morathi's advances and propositions, fully aware of what she was capable of, so this Morathi ended up with no option but Nagash. Nagash, being an absolute dick and Morathi deserving it, breaks her spell of illusion in front of the entire Pantheon, turning her from the beautiful Sorceress to a rage-fulled Medusae. As they look at her, horrified and disgusted, Morathi runs back to Ulgu, preparing her vengeance and her own ascension to Godhood.

only in PancreasNoWork would you hear "Nagash is kinda like mosses but evil"

"We're Elves. We got this." - Famous last words.

In the immortal words of Zee Bashew, If it was easy to kill a necromancer, you didn’t kill him.

"Nagash was weak, witness true power!" Yeah, good luck with that, Manny.

I can just imagine Skaven saying to Alcadizaar “here here take warpstone dagger blade and stab kill bone hairless thing yes yes” and Alcadizaar just wondering what the hell was going on

Nagash made The skaven feel so afraid, that they didnt backstad their allies. Goodnes gracious.

Nagash is just a sigma, skelefying all of Nehekara is just another rule of the grind set, only sigma(r)s can become gods in Warhammer

“Nice to see his treatment of women hasn’t changed.” To be fair, if any female character deserved domestic abuse it was definitively Morathi.

Nagash probably wouldn't be too happy to hear the god of a certain race has gained a big ol power boost and is technically something of a chaos god himself

I always figured that even though Nagash was ridiculously powerful, he was still essentially a frail human. All that magic surging through him was a blessing and a curse. He wrote the books as a way to contain some of that magic in safely transportable batteries, accessible only to him as & when he needed it. This was of course well before he became the OG Bone Daddy we all know him as today

He's Gul'dan levels of "Jerk". Except instead of consorting with demons, he's a power hungry Necromancer.

"Nagash wants to Nash your ass" -His lore in a nutshell

Nagash is so edgy, he makes the chaos gods seem positively spherical in comparison. (And by edgy, I mean the quiet kind in the back of class who always wears black and never shows up to gym class)

So what I am hearing is Nagash was more dangerous in the old world as a lich before the writers said "You aren't a proper god of the dead anymore".

“At one point he died, but decided dying is cringe, and kept on walking” bruh this got me rolling XD

Bruh, Nagash wins more often then he loses. All villains do (well, almost all, look:) it's how a villain becomes a worthy enough threat to merit the heroes trying to stop them. The villain goes from successful plot, attack, battle, war whatever right up until the point where the people trying to stop them build up enough steam for that final climatic confrontation. At which point either the villain finally fails more than they can overcome, or wins and the story either has to end or the story continues because that wasn't truly the epic final confrontation was it? Yeah Nagash loses, but if Nagash only lost he'd be called Mannfred von Carstein. Nope he's Nagash; because Nagash is a legend who gets shit done and the only things that can stop him are the stuff of legends in their own right.

"Because this lich cannot do anything without being a prick about it." Nagash in a nutshell, also known as "A former human that is not only far more of a prick than the entire Skaven race, but even makes the Skaven help other races without the intention of backstabbing them later on".

I remember arkhan pissed him off once for failing and cursed him to be eaten by insects. Arkhan was immortal at the time so it was just constant unending pain.

The fucking Hand of Nagash spell is the greatest thing I've ever learned, and I demand more spells with quirky rules like that like what, didn't 40k Orks used to HAVE to shout WAAAGH in order for it to work? XD

I love how Nagash can never get a win, yet he still persists in fcking everything up. Fav character for sure xD. Also relation between skaven and Nagash is peak comedy, we need more of that

Nagash's overall history consists of the following: Nagash is being a dick, and even Archaon's BS plot armor couldn't get rid of him.

I remember reading somewhere that Nagash’s tomb in the age of Sigmar looked a bit like a massive, mountain-sized Cairn. It’s stones were supposedly weighed down by the sheer magnitude of atrocities he committed during his life, hence the “Tomb of Forgotten Moments,” since by the time the mortal realms came to be, his actions were looooong forgotten. The Chaos Gods were basically trying to guilt-trip him into insanity by sitting him in front of a screen and yelling “LOOK AT IT! LOOK HOW SHIT YOU ARE!” Little did they realize that Nagash not only learned nothing, he actively chided himself for not doing “better” in his past life and vowed to be _even fucking worse._

Sometimes we want a villain with complex motives, is somewhat or actually sympathetic, and/or is tragic some way. Other times, we want a villain who is straight up vile, malicious, and who is not just irredeemably evil but also absolutely revels in it. Both are valid options, especially when done right. I think Nagash is an example of the latter done right. Especially given his malicious creativity when it comes to all the villainous things he’s done.

This jerk is my favorite fantasy character started out as just a dude and basically becomes the God of undeath

"You're not gonna shoot a puppy are you Nagash? "Yeah in the face, why?" Nagash in a nutshell.

"Settra does not serve!" -Et Settra "Then Settra does not exist." -Nagash

I feel you could make a pretty funny meme out of “oh boy, I wonder what race of people could’ve done that!”

you know sure he's an undead abomination of a god that loses all the time, but he did start out as a dude who got screwed over by fate, and then proceeded to to abuse his negative luck values to win at unlife.

Thank you, I loved reading the Black Library series from the Warhammer money pit. Like I kind of empathized with him on some small things. But that was quickly overtaken by him being an asshole and doing some cool if not heinous shit. Which in itself is awesome. So thank you for covering my favorite faction in the best way you know how.

"Jerk" is being too nice for Nagash.

"Why did you do any of this?" "Because you see... I'm a prick!"

Nagash is like a boomerang... It doesn't matter how far beyond death you toss him, he will always come back to reenact the "Are you sure about that?" meme 😂😂😂

Nagash is not a sociopath Being a sociopath is being Nagash-like

Gotta love how now a days every villain in fiction needs to be some form of a tragic/relatable person, yet when you get older you realize that life has various flavors of Nagash-style villainy.

Had to pause at 3:10 minutes because I never thought a video about Nagash would help me realize the Sundering is basically the Horus Heresy but fantasy.

It's nice to see more AOS/Fantasy videos

Nagash is quite the character, though I wish the death faction in AoS didn't revolve entirely around him. I feel like the concept of death and every culture's afterlife is far bigger than him, but anything that comes out for death has to be tied to nagash in some way. None of the other grand alliances have that kind of narrative chain, even chaos has plenty of figureheads.

I now have the need of a Warhammer Age of Sigmar sitcom serie about Sigmar and Nagash as roommates where they constantly troll each other in a sort of “I only tolerate you because I need help with chaos/rent” relationship

Just found your channel yesterday and have been binge watching “Do or Don’t” for both fantasy (which I was always curious about) and 40k. Are you gonna do a vid about Blood Angels? I’m ready for my army of pretty vampires to get shit on lol

I imagine nagash has his own book of grudges that just says everyone currently alive and not feeding me power.

If you did not hear a distant "nyehehehe!" every single time fully skeletal Nagash appeared in this video I'm sorry you aren't fun.

Nagash has 2 modes: do something incredibly OP, or just die for a really dumb reason. This happens so many times in the books that it is frustrating.

When Nagash ascended to Godhood Chaos Gods: HEHEH, I’m in danger! Usirian: FUCK-

The guy who out-Skavened the Skaven in every sense of the term. If that doesn't tell you how horrifically, freakishly monstrous he is, I don't know what will.

Got give it to him he’s a self made badass unlike Archeaon who has 4 sugar daddies giving him juice.

Who knew being a necromancer is so op, you can raise from the death any enemy that falls, and if you die you can just say "no" and continue on. And you could probably bring back dinosaurs, how cool is that?

I have no idea who any of these people are, but your story telling is so sarcastic that it actually fills in all the necessary detail and is just damn fun to listen too. Dunno how you pulled it off, but miracles happen at x2 speed 👍

Imagine being so evil that the faction that literally is the chaos gods but mortal says "wait-stop, if we let him do this, *we'll* slave-rats!" and then proceed to give you the hiroshima treatment.

Finally someone makes lore content funny, interesting and presents it in a way that summarizes everything important and gives a good overview. And the cherry on top combines it with his warscroll. Well done

Love all of your videos. Love the dry humor and overall dictation. Keep it up my dude.

Great vid! Just found your channel. Subscribed! When the Khemri (aka Tomb Kings) armies were discontinued, I was disappointed because they had some of the coolest warmachines and the aesthetic of their army was awesome. But then we got the Ossiarch Bonereapers and they are so fantastic that even the basic troops (the Mortek Guard) are awesome. The warmachines (particularly the catapult crawlers) are incredible in detail. Say what you will about GW in general, they've put out a brilliant successor to the Tomb Kings armies.

Nagash has been my favorite aspect of Warhammer since I learned of him, long ago even when he only had that one miniature that represented him. And even then, with all the haters of that figure, I loved it. Giant skeleton man with necromancy go brrrrrr.

Thanks for the video! FIrst video about Warhammer taht I watched and I liked it. Love the way you tell a story!

Absolutely love the whfb and aos videos! Especially character bios like this! Id love to see more

I need a video like this for Gotrek so badly. Love this format

"It turned out that Dio was not actually dead" ~ Viva Reverie

As a WH fan that exclusively works not was interested in 40k I’m glad I came on your channel. It’s sent me down the fantasy route and I’m loving it.

I love this video man keep up the amazing work also love how u use age of mythology music my childhood game

How can a skeleton that doesn't even have a pancreas be THIS OP?

If you wrote the script for this, you should be in comedy. The jokes were funny, the actual information stuff was interesting and ALL of it was doled out with a tempo that was perfect for the material. Well done!

18:55 I was 100% expecting a Princess Bride reference here, you even did like, the whole bit; this was a complete aversion of expectations.

I appreciate the Age of Empires 2 music you used, fits very nicely.

so basically nagash is that one guy where Every skaven clan ALL OF THEM, all agree to unite and ally with their enemies just to screw him over. at this point i dont think they are afraid of him they find it too funny not to go blow up his schemes

The "Kinda like Moses but Evil" line fucking killed me hahaha

I love that for a while Sigmar and Nagash had a Goku/Vegeta relationship going on. "Hey Nagash, need help with Chaos?" "Shut the hell up Sigmar, I got this!" _five minutes later_ "Need help now?" "...yes."

Love your videos and your humor man!

Alcadizaar: Was I a good King of Nehekara? Settra: No. You were the second best.

"Malekith and his dommy mommy threw a hissy fit powerful enough to destabilize nations." Wow. An incredible series of words.

You're sense of humor and being a Type 1 brother is 10/10 BUT "Nagash is like Moses...but evil" 🤣 תודה רבה לך ✡️

"Before everyone was a skelly man but there's no pictures of that." Dude, like ANY picture of ancient Egypt.

Man what convenient timing. I just found your channel last week, and was hoping you would do some lore over the legions of the dead or seraphon. Since I wanna get into AoS.

Who do you think kicked Kabanda's ass harder? THE GOLDEN HERO OF MANKIND or SPOOKY SCARY SKELEGOD

Recognized the Greek aom theme instantly. Subbed for that alone. Oh and cool video.

I love how you always use Age of Mythology calm music to introduce your subject.