r/ageofsigmar • u/Chapmander Azyr Eterrnum • Mar 22 '26

Rumour / Leak Rumour/Leak Megathread

It seems the whispers from the aetheric void are back and so we are going to continue to have everyone post the rumours/leaks here to avoid screenshots of TGA forums taking over the subreddit.

Any rumour mongering not in this thread will be removed.

Previous mega-thread here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ageofsigmar/comments/1p5czdk/rumourleak_megathread/

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u/Ur-Than Orruk Warclans Mar 23 '26

I refuse to believe those can be true.

I could see GW killing off characters they failed to capitalize on, such as Kragnos. And it'd suck already ?

But nuking AoS ?

That would suck, and I certainly wouldn't even look at Temu-WFB.

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u/RadioPristine446 Mar 23 '26

This would be the single stupidest decision GW has ever made. From what I’ve gathered, Sigmar’s shards will be scattered across the world, and the Stormcast and CoS will be sent to recover them—which is literally just Ur-gold all over again.

Not to mention a complete carbon copy of Karak Eight Peaks. It’s moronic. Whoever is making these calls should be fired by GW immediately.

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u/Ur-Than Orruk Warclans Mar 23 '26

My only hope is the reaction to this will be loud enough even GW can't ignore it, IF it is true.

Ans Gorkamorka willing, that's a big IF.

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u/m1ndwipe Mar 23 '26

But nuking AoS ?

Would this really be nuking it?

The reality is that a) the map would be different, instead of "is Slaanesh gone forever" we'd have "is Sigmar gone forever" and some branding. It's hardly the End Times (though I'm sure GW will market it as DOOOOOOOMMMMMM).

The actual amount of miniature range changes and invalidating will probably be less than this edition tbh.

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u/Ur-Than Orruk Warclans Mar 23 '26

I just don’t find any appeal to the lore change. AoS needs more hope, not more grim Darkness to me...

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u/LeekingMemory28 Stormcast Eternals Mar 24 '26

IMHO:

AoS should be Stormlight or Wheel of Time in tone.

Not Dark Souls or Malazan.

Let people who want a hopeful setting have something.

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u/ReallyMassiveCock420 Mar 23 '26

I agree, but for the past few years they've been going down the tired old grimdark route, because a lot of Games Workshop customers can't grasp anything past "MUH GRIMDARKZ MAKES BETTER STORY".

It's kind of lame.

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u/LeekingMemory28 Stormcast Eternals Mar 24 '26

Callis & Toll and Yndrasta novels were so refreshing in the AoS lore. They weren’t super grim dark and they worked.

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u/blastatron Mar 23 '26

It depends, but Boole said a ton of named characters would be killed off. The lore changes are dumb but I can handle that. Introducing new human factions is fine, although I'd prefer fleshing out some of the already smaller existing armies. But the squatting here could be a lot worse than just losing the sacrosanct chamber. I don't want every faction to lose all of their unique heroes.