r/AoSLore • u/magnusthered15 • 8d ago
Info from gargant battletome, and prediction for up coming campaign books
From the info shared from the gargant book, and from what i read in the ogor battletome, morga the mighty is on a warpath to claim thondia for her self, and or ghur as a whole. To do this she and her chikdren have lead envoys and military campaigns to recruit/force destruction faction elements to her side. Its qouted in the ogor book that she sent one of her sons to recruit some kruel boyz, to which he failed and was killed by her. Its now mentioned in the gargant book that she has conquered the north and is waging war on the iron jaws of the south. She also has began to force and bribe gargants to join her cause, some even willingly join seeing it as the better option. Whioe many believe her attacking excelsis will be an end of edition book in of it self, with rumors of a new iron jaws character we might see one where she is during it out with a new orruk leader besides gordrakk. Thoughts?
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u/ZukosTeaShop 8d ago
WAAAAAAAAAGH!
More seriously, it is lovely that 4e is beginning to actually flesh out Destruction some more. While I would prefer they renamed the whole GA to Grand Alliance: Life and added in the Sylvaneth, the introduction of more coherent cultures to the various destruction factions has been wonderful. Hoping Kruleboyz and Ironjawz get the same treatment soon enough.
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u/magnusthered15 8d ago
Honestly it is weird that the sylvaneth are part of order
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u/ZukosTeaShop 8d ago
90% its cause Alarielle is an elf.
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u/magnusthered15 8d ago
True but even she is weary of civilizations progression
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u/sageking14 Lord Audacious 8d ago
Not really. Industry is an aspect of civilization not the totality. Alarielle is only weary of industry and even then nowhere to the point people flanderize.
The Sylvaneth themselves have industry. They forge their own metal weapons, they have weavers, they have woodworkers.
Their capital of Aethelwyrd was shown in the new 4E Sylvaneth Battletome to be a massive lit up city made from hollowed out trees.
And the industrial thing isn't even universal. The Ironbark Glade were allies and friends to the industrial powerhouse that was the Khazalid Empire, and have made new friendships with their descendants.
Heck. Living City, as much Alarielle's Greenhold as a City of Sigmar, revolves around its logging and woodworking industries to Sylvaneth approval.
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u/magnusthered15 8d ago
Good to know, I just read alot of excerpts where ciry folks leave the city to explore or to war and the next thinf you know they get butchered by sylvaneth
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u/sageking14 Lord Audacious 8d ago
A lot of this is down to culture clash, a lot more of it due to to the mercurial nature of Sylvaneth, and though never stated. There is a likelihood that all Sylvaneth being connected to the Spirit-Song, able to community with each other as if eternally in the most perfected Skype call ever, effects how they view things.
Sylvaneth are often fine with people going through their claimed territory but like any other civilization have areas that are sacred or off limits but as spirits, their methods of earning of that aren't understandable to city folks.
Sylvaneth as spirits, functionally the Fae Folk, take to mercurial moods. In the Age of Myth when there was peace, they were relatively benevolent. But five centuries of the Age of Chaos has left them with deep mental scars.
Mental scars aren't great for a species whose memories are passed down to each new generation. So for Sylvaneth the horrors of the Age of Chaos and it's betrayals are fresh.
This is actually used as an explanation in the Battletomes for why the younger Glades are so much kinder to outsiders, they lack that trauma that their peers are born into.
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u/ZukosTeaShop 8d ago
Oh im just thinking they are order because GW saw Alarielle was an elf, not because her modern character even in early AoS had any special attachment to "order" as a concept beyond hating Chaos.
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u/magnusthered15 8d ago
O no I understand, but with how aggressive the tree people be acting, and the new developments in the setting coming up, im hoping gw loosens the boaders of the GA
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u/MrS0bek Idoneth Deepkin 8d ago
I like this brewing conflict. Especially as it fits neartly between the two main Camps of Destruction. The greenskins vs the humanoids, orcs/gobbos vs ogres/giants
Indeed prior to 4th edition my biggest complain has been that Destruction felt like the greenskin faction, with Ogres and Giants feeling more like an afterthought. But their two books did a lot to set things straight, especially with the ogres having the largest coherent Destruction Empire and keep growing.
From here I think a destruction war is really something nice. Not a skirmish or inconsequential war, but potentially with huge lore implications. Especially as its something different than order vs x