New GW video released ; Return of Morathi!

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  1. Xasto
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    Hey y'all!

    The Age of Sigmar fb page just released a teaser video with Morathi!



    I think this is exciting as GW seems to be revamping an old faction instead of adding a new one!

    New models? New battletome? I sure hope so!
     
    Xasto, Jan 23, 2018
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    Well it must mean a new battletome at least, will it be "Daughters of Khaine" or a new faction.
     
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    ah that explains one of my questions I asked in the other thread.

    Can anyone give me a short TLDR version who the hell Morathi and/or Daughters of Khaine are and what I need to know about them to understand what is going on?
     
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    Would love it to be a unifying battletome, like ''Legions of Nagash'' is doing with death, for the different dark elves sub factions!
     
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    Possibly, time will tell.
     
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    Ok so I read about Morathi, please correct me if I am wrong. The wiki I read is a bit... rudimentary.

    - she is an elf and she is very old but she doesn't age?

    - she joined a Cult of Slaanesh and used Chaos Magic and fought her son who wanted to become king and fought alongside her enemies. At some point she didn't follow Slaanesh anymore?

    - he failed to become King although she helped him and he was hurt by some flame?

    - she survived the End Times by being trapped in some magical thing and then her son (or let's say the godlike entity he became) freed her.

    - Slaanesh ate so many souls that he/she/it is now fat and lazy and thus not very powerful?

    - they captured Slaanesh??
     
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    That last part about Slaanesh eating too many souls and being captured is true. From my understanding, he was hiding while digesting all of those souls and was therefore in a weak state, letting them capture him. It was also somehow planned by Tzeentch (as are all things, of course) but I'm not sure who/what he steered to make it happen.

    As for your other points, from what I can remember from my early AoS readings (mostly wikis too), I think you're right.

    Wasn't her son Malekith the Witch King, who fused with his mighty mount Seraphon (hello name re-using GW) and thus became Malerion, a much more powerful being?

    BTW that sounds like an interesting model to bring, could be a gigantic behemoth à la Archaon :cool:
     
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    Is that really canon AoS lore?
     
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    Yeah it seems so. Although they did a cool trick with AoS lore (at least occasionally):
    The stories are told second or third hand so you cannot really tell if you read facts or just the truth from a certain point of view. The persons telling the story might be lying, exaggerating, or being deceived themselves.
    I don't know if GW did that in 40k or older editions as well but for me it is intriguing since it always leaves some space to shift things around.
     
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    Also if I got that correctly there are rumors that Morathi will be TWO models. A normal elf shaped one and a huge snake-like model.
    Just a rumor but the guy who spread it on TGA reportedly was right with some other stuff he said so it might be true.
    If yes: Interesting.
     
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    Interesting if true. Could be some kind of powering up / transformation trigger in the rules. That would be super cool.
     
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    Hmmm if true could be the base model for a Coatl conversion
     
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    [​IMG]

    The symbol is the mark of Khaine, so it's probally Elves.
     
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    Yep that's what I assumed anyway to be honest. I expect a Dark Aelf faction lead by Morathi, merging the models of the following factions together:
    - Daughters of Khaine
    - Scourge Privateers
    - Darkling Covens
    - Order Serpentis
    - Shadowblades

    EDIT:
    That would bring a lot of ....uhhh.... ORDER to the Order Grand Alliance IMO. Then we only would need another merge for the half-dozen of "High Elves" factions
     
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    Hmmmmmmm

     
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    So Greek medusae inspired witch elves? Meh, good conversion fodder at the least
     
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    I don't know, I actually like what we've seen so far from the models, but I understand it is maybe not for everyone!
     
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    I'm honestly looking at them for sepulchral stalker conversions
     
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    They look extremely impressive thus far!
     
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    Nightbringer... Conversions into female formed sepulchral stalkers for khalida
     
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