I haven't seen a lot of people talk about some of the new tidbits in the battletome. Wanted to try and spark some discussion is all. P.s. Raptadons are pretty cool, new saurian races are always welcomed
I love to join in, but I haven't got a copy of the battletome yet... So I will get back to you later Grrr, !mrahil
Had to quote this little narrative cutout, because it's my favorite little moment in the new tome. I'm really happy the stuff raised in the Tome Celestial, that the era of the beast and cursed skies had opened the lines of communication between Sigmar's empire and the Slann, ended up being emphasized and expanded on a lot in this book. It's all in the service of the great plan, but it's really nice to see lizards interacting with other factions and species in ways that're more than just teleporting in, refusing to elaborate and then leaving. They even followed up on the "skinks act as batman in CoS, slaying chaos cultists and pinning the blame on the DoK" thing, with the Kroak/Morathi teamup in broken realms and the uptick in chaos taint within the cities making the two factions begrudgingly act in tandem to purge chaos cultists and cover it up. Expanding on the skink embassies stuff from the last tome by saying that skinks living there often have jobs within the community around them is also really fun, especially talking about how their work ethic and dedication often makes them too useful to be distrustful of- even though everything they do is ultimately in the name of collecting information and ensuring the cities develop and act as the Slann command. It even mentions that cities with skink embassies often have the highest priests of the temple (or at least the highest priests that leave the temple and interact with people) having a seat on the city's conclave to represent the seraphon's interests in governmental affairs (even though i imagine what the rest of the conclave think are "their affairs" is very far off from what they actually interfere with).
I really like the Astral Templars getting a mention there. If any Stormcast were to have a bonding with Saurus over kill counts it would be them.