I no longer question why the Vampire Counts don't just overtake Stirland. Not even a monster would want subjects that heat up their beer before drinking it.
Please lawd make this a series. Worlds Edge Mountains, Southlands, Cathay, Ulthuan, Lustria, and the Dark Elf Lands would all make great geography lessons to start.
I'd be down for a vid on the Karaz Ankor's fallen holds. Karaks Drazh, Azgal, Eight Peaks, Zorn, Ungor, Varn, and Vlag all have some interesting stuff about them. Karak Varn in particular is interesting, as it's the only fallen hold I know of to be properly retaken before it fell to Skaven yet again. Also interesting how the Dwarf High King at the time, being an idiot, decided that splitting his forces and trying to retake two holds (Ungor, a.k.a. Red Eye Mountain being the other one) was a better use of dwarfpower than joining forces with the Zhufbar throng and going Leroy Jenkins on Karak Varn, the hold that is not only closer to Karaz-a-Karak but literally right across the lake from Zhufbar.
Speaking of series, if cavill keeps 40k lore loyal and antiWoke then the fantasy setting has the potential to not just be a hit, but a better GOT without a specific end date 🙏🏽😎
Imagine someone landing on Catachan, surviving the jungle hellscpae for a few months, emerging from the wilderness to see civilization again, and then hearing them say "well, at least it's not Stirland".
Imagine a old world TV show with a random cameo of gotrik and Felix walking out of a tavern as the show MC walks in. Quick, no interaction , just passing by yet huge fan service 😂
One thing that non-Brits might not get is that Middenland, being a country that's to the north of the capital but aren't the most north and whose inhabitants are utterly egotistical about how great their homeland is and who won't shut up about how tough they are...is a big parody of Yorkshire.
As a Chicagoan, this gave me a pleasant chuckle. 😆 I wish Tzeentch had a cool catchphrase that could be memed in a similar way to “Milk for the Khorneflakes!” , cuz after all, Illinois is famous for our Khorne products, and Chicago needs to get in on the advertising too! ;D
i live in california in a college town and honestly i live in a slaanesh ass town. college bars and frats take up a whole section of town, and since its california people have a pretty loose view on sex and pleasure.
Honestly, star wars lore got me into real life history because I eventually realized ours was the most interesting world of them all, since it inspired all the others.
there are many, many writers. Each writers bias a circle, the following writers bias slightly offset just enough. Over long enough time things get, slightly changed, misinterpreted or blatantly changed/left out. So many plot holes 🎉
A slight clarification on the part about the war between Averland and the Moot; the halflings sabotaging the bridges were a family who managed the local ferry system and had held a total monopoly over all river travel for generations, so they didn't want to give up their sweet deal. This in no way makes their behavior any less stupid. Basically, if hobbits and their traditional D&D halfling descendants are idealized British farming folk, then Warhammer's halflings are basically every negative stereotype of the British northern farming community come to life; lazy, shiftless, indolent, gluttonous, pilfering, gossiping little bastards who have literally fought civil wars over pies. They're also criminals, have a literal halfling mafia in parts of the cities, have been implied to practice cannibalism, and are just the horniest little buggers in all of the Empire.
Gentlemen gather your finest Landsknecht drip, 3/4 armour, and a Halberd and/or a Matchlock, it's time to clear the furries and hooligans out of the woods.
You may clear out the furries, but never forget that youll pay for your victory in that theyll draw very nsfw art of you engaging in horrifying sexual acts
"Destroying Stirland as the Vampires is a mercy" That's why I use Vassal Mods to force them into submission instead. Now they get to live in Stirland AND be slaves to Vampires.
Like, all of the Empire names are so on the nose. As a German I love it. Besides what was mentioned in the Video here's one more: Wissenland is the place where inventions happen. Wissen means knowledge. So Wissenland is just knowledge land or land/country of knowledge. It's great.
90% of stories take place in the Empire or involve the Empire and here I am waiting for more lore on Araby, Nippon, and everywhere else that hasn’t been touched since 3rd Ed
As a resident of Illinois who lives 45 minutes to an hour away from Chicago and has been to Springfield, Chicago, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, I would like to thank you PancreasNoWork for describing my state in the way I haven’t been able to figure out.
Averland will always be my favorite province if only for Marius Leitdorf. He's completely nuts but then Warhammer is also nuts and that means he's ahead of the game. War on the forest? Dryads. War against the lakemen? There were probably fishy beastmen in the lake. And of course, who could forget the Great Unicorn Invasion of 2519? Truly Marius Leitdorf is amongst the greatest minds in the Empire!
@@Ruthun92 that only proves the great count's strength of character! Even Sigmar himself would struggle against such bewitchments. Glory to Leitdorf! Glory to Averland!
As a european person, i find it funny to see some of the names on the maps. Litterally at 43:42 the map has names like "doodkanaal" meaning "dead channel", "Oudgeldwijk" meaning "old money district", "handelaarsmarket" meaning "merchant's market", "goudberg" which means "gold mountain/ gold heap", And finally "luigistad" which is "luigi city". Granted real names are also dumb (the river avon is litteraly "river river"), so i don't blame them, but it's funny to see anyway.
It's something I appreciate about the worldbuilding of Warhammer. The names are dumb/simple in the way that real world names are. As an American so many of the names derived from indigenous languages amount to some variation. 'People land'. Because they, local tribe, were people and they lived there. So europeans mangled the pronunciation, wrote it in latin script and stuck it on a map.
Referential humor is also prevalent in the old WH Fantasy RPG products. Most notably the Enemy Within campaign. Such as names alluding to real world historical & fictional figures, myths, movies and history in general. Given funny Germanic names in the process. A lot of winking going on.
I’d never seen that artwork of Ulric’s Thunder before and I love it. I especially love the little detail of the middenland soldier on the barrel of the canon who’s pointing into the barrel in an attempt to order the giant, meanwhile, the giant looks dumbfounded. Warhammer Fantasy is just great :)
I have a small theory about the Halfling hate. Games Workshop used to be the official distributor of TSR stuff in the UK and even published some stuff such as the original Fiend Folio so they were very familiar with D&D. Honestly, the intense hate of Halfings would make some sense if the writers played some Dragonlance games and dealt with that setting's version of the halflings, the Kender. More specifically the hated stereotypical Kender player who often stole from other party members and made massive nuances of themselves on the excuse of the kinder being described as kleptomaniacs and their character 'couldn't help it' as they screw over the party steal other people's gold, weapons, ammo, and healing items. The Kender hate really tracks with Warhammer Fantasy Halflings since they also get blamed for stealing everything not nailed down.
My favorite way to explain Fantasy and 40k Halflings/Ratlings is “Hobbits, as described by Sauron, Gollum and Saruman; tubby little foul-mouthed thieves who don’t know how good they’ve got it.”
A fitting song for the Empire of Man. Chorus: Glory to the Empire, our steel, our pride, our stand, With Sigmar's light to guide us, we protect His land. The hammer strikes, the banners fly, and gods of war do cry, For the Empire of Man, we fight, we rise, we'll never die! Glory to Middenland, fierce wolves of winter's howl, Where Ulric's stormy breath gives might to every growl. In the city of Middenheim, the wolf pack stands so proud, With Ulric's Swords and iron hearts, they roar their oaths aloud. Chorus Glory to Averland, where golden fields do spread, Home of stouthearted knights, the bulls with banners red. Under the sun’s bright gaze, they ride to claim their fame, The Mother’s Ruin calls them forth to glory and to flame. Chorus Glory to Hochland, where the hunters stalk their prey, In the thick and misty woods, they keep the beasts at bay. Goblin Bane in hand, they snipe with deadly aim, The forests echo with their shouts, Hochland guards its name. Chorus Glory to Nordland, with the Sea of Claws in sight, The seafaring warriors, proud sons of salt and fight. Crow Feeder leads the charge, their sails cut through the storm, The waves may crash, but fire in hearts will always keep them warm. Chorus Glory to Ostermark, where the river’s blood runs deep, The Troll Cleaver's edge strikes down, its oath they keep. In grim marsh and fog, the shadows of the damned, Ostermark stands resolute, with sword and shield in hand. Chorus Glory to Ostland, the rugged lands of stone, The Brain Wounder's gleam cuts through flesh and bone. The sturdy folk, they march, defiant as the snow, No horde of Chaos shall breach their lines, no fear they show. Chorus Glory to Stirland, where the dead do rise, Orc Hewer cleaves the night, beneath Morr’s watching eyes. The swamps and crypts, they hold, the spirits whisper near, Yet Stirland’s bold defenders face their foes without a fear. Chorus Glory to Talabecland, the land of swirling mists, Where Stone Breaker shatters bones, where Taal's winds twist. The mighty river runs through valleys wide and vast, Talabecland endures all storms, its legacy will last. Chorus Glory to Wissenland, where Nuln's great cannons roar, With Blood Bringer's force, they shatter every score. The engineers of war, they craft with cunning might, In Wissenland, the guns blaze bright, a beacon in the night. Chorus Glory to Mootland, where the Halflings feast and sing, The Elder’s vote of valor to the Empire's throne they bring. Small in stature but fierce at heart, with bows they take their stand, In Mootland’s fields, they guard the hearth and till the fertile land. Chorus Glory to Reikland, heart of the Empire’s pride, Where Karl Franz rules, the Dragon Tooth at his side. The gleaming Altdorf spires reach high into the sky, With Sigmar's hammer, they forge the Empire’s cry. Chorus Glory to the Empire, from the south to northern shore, With faith, steel, and gunpowder, we answer the call of war. Sigmar’s light, forever bright, guides us through the fray, For the Empire of Man shall stand, victorious every day!
I love how the name of everything is just a description of it "realmland", "middleland". Especially Marienburg, everything is just Dutch words. Well, apart from Guilderveld, Suiddock and Ostmuur, which should be Guldenveld, Zuiderkade, and Oostmuur (in Dutch we don't really do those little things above letters much if at all, the amount/combination of the letters decides it's pronunciation, so the extra O matters a smidgen more then you may think). They mean Guildersfield, Southdock, and Easternwall respectively. Some of my favourites are: Oldmoneydistrict (Oudgeldwijk) and Knifealley (Messteeg). Hilarious! I approve of Marianburg as a Netherlands insert. Even with the typical pitfall-trope of the focus being seemingly entirely on the Amsterdam insert while we were a confederation back in the day and Amsterdam was (and still is) not the seat of political power, that is Den Haag (the Hague), it has never even been the capital of it's own province. And you miss out on cool things like the Waterlinie, or the unique politics with this approach, but everyone seems to does it, so yeah. And I've yet to fully watch the video so we'll see! Anyhows I just thought the names were very funny. Oh, and Marianburg kinda looks like Zeeland (Old Zealand, the Dutch province, the one which makes New Zealand new) if you imagine it larger and squint a bit!
Finally someone mentioned how Marienburg is basically entirely made up of straight up Dutch names! I had to scroll way longer than I thought before finding someone who mentioned it. Btw, other funny names include: Doodkanaal -> Death canal Dwergsbezit -> dwarf property Arabierstad -> Arab town Elfsgemeente -> Elf county And the best part: Luigistad -> Luigi town 😂
Yeah, I find it quite fitting that Marienburg is the not-dutch, while the Empire is the not-German. Makes their neighbouring relations even funnier. Also, some of the names not being completely right is a given, that happens a lot with the German names for imperial towns and cities as well. I suppose that's a side effect when people try to build the culture around foreign languages they don't speak themselves. Not everyone is Tolkien, it turns out. Still, I appreciate it for what it is. ^^
In yee old days, Ostland was probably the funniest Empire warband to play in Mordheim: you had a priest of Taal with hilarious prayers, the entire warband was basically one extended family, rules about toxic alcoholism giving advantages and almost all of the fighters could equip the insane two-barrels guns, which apparently, Ostlanders at large love to bits.
Another fun bit of world-building for The Empire is that almost all the towns and cities are built atop mysterious places. As mentioned Altdorf is on Elven ruins, Middenhiem is on top of a flat-topped mountain/mesa with loads of tunnels underneath (they claim Ulric cut a mountain in half to make it flat), Talabheim is built into a gigantic crater, and almost every other city has extensive sewers for lots of nasties to dwell in. Great opportunities for exploring and storytelling if you’re doing RPG, and hey, the Skaven hid a Nuke under Middenhiem if that inspires ya.
As an avid historian in my free time, I admit that these videos get seen right away while the actual history video I was watching gets shoved into a playlist to finish later.
The dwarf in this video arriving to his Hold: -I have been wronged!! -What happened, Brother? -I was...I was served...Boiled BEER -By Grimnir!! THEY SHALL PAY FOR THIS!! Fetch the Book of Grudges! This cannot go unanswered!
This better be an ongoing series, my fellow Eldar enjoyer. It would be fun to learn about how supremely fucked Terra has become in 40k from a geographic perspective, and the hilarious nightmare of the continents of Ghur in AoS.
The best part about Ghur is the longer he waits to make a video each edition is gonna have Thondia & Lendu attacking eachother as they’re predator continents that move every year. The new map already shows Lendu’s claw peninsula colliding with Bjarl’s flank. Hopefully he also get Soulbound to read up on the other stuff like village meat miners who wait for Ghur’s kaijus to kill eachother before mining the bodies.
Near the end of the Stirland section: Eh... I donno, Ostermark probally still has the bottom slot for worst province. Me after the Halfling section: Sigmar preserve us... except Stirland, Archeon blowing the place up would probally be a marked improvement.
honestly i'd love to see something like this for the tomb kings because its honestly very interesting for how detailed tomb kings geography is and how the remants of their empire stretch across nehekara.
This is a more serious version of Tariffs Old World Geographic videos. Also Hoch is German for high and Hochland is lots of mountains and high ground. Subtly at its finest.
Speaking on 23:43, there is ONE thing i can think of in 40k. In the FFG only war core rulebook, there is the "Calixian infantryman's portible communications transcription device" that is said to use a staining liquid to allow soldiers in the field to transcribe communications. The fancy ones can work in space. In a game i was in I had a commisar with a best craftmanship one that came in four colors. To those that didn't carch on it's just a pen with a really fun name. The description is great and i'd recomend giving it a read if you have the book.
@khuri9030 Yeah, to make you ask even more questions, the game was an Only War game where the players were Chaos aligned. That game was strange for MANY reasons, and my commisar having a Bic 4 color was the least strange. Like the tzeeth worshiping Ogryn who thought it would make him smarter or the zombie ratings that worked liked L4D hunters. Btw said Ogryn basically became the main character and dueled with a great unclean one. Again, it was weird.
As a Stirland roleplayer I enjoyed your Video a lot :D My favorite anecdote is the one time a fellow Stirlander dropped their bread and it actually landed on the un-buttered side and they ran and called a Witch Hunter about it. Poor guy was forced to investigate a slice of break for chaos corruption :P Would have loved if you included how hard the cults of Sigmar and especially Morr go in Stirland, but hey, guess you cant fit everything into a 45min Video :)
I only last year got into fantasy thanks to you. So this is the first time I see the Marienberg map, and I realized that while most of the Empire is German HRE, Mariënberg is based on the Netherlands. The city is riddled with Canals(Amsterdam), and all the areas have Dutch names(sounds like German, not the same). The Dutch are also famed for maritime trade. Also I note that there is a neighbourgood for Nippon and Cathay, possibly refering to the Japanese Island of Dejima, the only place Dutch tradeships could dock.
the Empire just has more written about it outside of Lothern basically every Elector state and province in the Empire is more fleshed out mostly thanks to WFRP being almost entirely set in the Empire.
@@williamwhyte9697 The "place" books in WFRP 2nd ed are some of the best material in Warhammer (Sigmar's Heirs, Knights of the Grail, Realm of the Ice Queen). It's why I hate that Fantasy Flight got the license before we could get the Ulthuan book. FF's 40k stuff might have been good, but their WFRP was a massive downgrade.
@@z2ei well atleast we know C7 is doing a setting splat books for Ulthuan for Cothique surpisagly, and they are doing a another for Marianburg even got the writer of the original first edition book to come back and write some more stuff. it's odd that cubicle 7 does a way better job at it's Fantasy RPGs than it's 40k ones, kinda the opposite of FFG.
Oh, rifles had existed for centuries alongside muskets. The earliest rifles in real life most likely started in around the 14th or 15th century but mostly remained an oddity used by rich nobles and elite sharpshooters because rifles were more complex, took longer to clean and prior to the development of smokeless powder could make little practical use of their superior accuracy. Or at least that was the perception. One of the smaller triggers for the American revolution was the British crown trying to restrict access to rifles in the colonies- American sharpshooters were perfectly capable of picking off officers and artillery crews with the things which made the British, who were largely fighting with traditional Napoleonic tactics at the time, somewhat upset.
Honestly. I love this series. Despite watching dozens of Do or don'ts, most of the times re-watching them, I find this type of video so entertaining, Hell your introduction was right. I don't care about what the counteries of Earth is like but this is just captivating. Shout out to Tekking101(if anyone know him) geography IS everything.
Honestly Pancreas this has to be your master piece video. Since the release i watch this video every night to fall asleep to and i havent gotten pass Middenland, im looking forward to use this video for the next month on repeat until Ive listened to all the content. Last video which had much repeat value for me was the inquistor video. Making smooth videos people can listen to sleep to is great as theres a lot of rewatch value.
@@lokensicarius9347 Either that or said Everchosen is amassing them and they don´t have time for the monthly plundering. Either way, lack of Norscans means its only gonna get worse.
As someone currently two years into a Warhammer Fantasy TTRPG that spans the entire reign of Karl-Franz, love this vid! Helps make more of the setting easier to use for the campaign
Fun fact! Sylvania was once part of stirland! The only reason the whole province isn't a nightmarish undead nest is because even the %$&@ing vampires wouldn't go there.
46:06 At first I was like "Oh Poor Stirland, dealt the poorest hand in the empire" then I heard They heat their Ale and I had to stop with a "They do WHAT?!". Now I have to bulldoze every Ale house in Stirland in Total Warhammer on principle now.
Please do the same but about Border Princes. Mostly because there is so little actual informations about it and I would like to know more of actual locations in present time and not those that were in 2204 or some other timeperiod
Scale is such a big deal in making a story feel relatable. Settra fighting across continents to steal his crown back is way more compelling than hearing about the indomitus crusade. I love 40k, but in a lot of ways, the scale makes it tough to grasp. Yeah, you can warp travel anywhere and planets are treated like cities because of it.
Thank you for catering to my fantasy map autism with this video. I would love to see more, whether it's on specific cities/places or broader regions like this video!
Oddly, Ostermark usually ends up my best friends more often than not when I'm running Katarin in Whammertree. Mind you, this is because they're closer and I Want Auxiliary Outriders & Pistoliers ASAP, but...
Learning about Marienburg gets me feel it's a shame that the End Times happened before GW finally lifted its ass to reveal more about the far east of the old world. If Marienburg is the Warhammer Fantasy equivalent of the Netherlands then it would have been funny to see them go full Gekkoloniseerd on some distant islands no one actually cared at the other side of the map to make some mad profits by traiding closer to Cathay, Nippon and Ind.
At least if the last 40 years are anything to go off, GW will never make Fantasy or Space Australia There are some things the haggard swamp dwellers of Pomistan just cannot deal with
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Hello you blue loving bastard when are we getting a Thanquol video the supreme Grey Lord of Skavendom needs a video
Say Pan have you thought about doing a video about Lord Commander Dante from 40K?
😊
@@pancreasnowork9939 where Thanquol video
Is Karaz ankor next?
I feel like the people of Ostermark need to have this conversation:
"It sucks here!"
"Could be worse."
"How?"
"Could be in Stirland."
"At least we get outside visitors."
Just turn to Warhammer total war 3. They'll eventually get to it
I no longer question why the Vampire Counts don't just overtake Stirland.
Not even a monster would want subjects that heat up their beer before drinking it.
Vampire: "My drink is warm because it comes directly from the vein. You people disgust me."
They’re undead but they ain’t brain dead
Fun fact!
During the vampire wars, the undead armies went AROUND Stirland with how awful it is.
They took the long route to avoid the state.
A Stirland heating up a beer is a cardinal sin for a dwarf.
I tried hot beer in Krakow once. It was mingin
Please lawd make this a series. Worlds Edge Mountains, Southlands, Cathay, Ulthuan, Lustria, and the Dark Elf Lands would all make great geography lessons to start.
Congrats, you just predicted the channel’s direction for fiscal year 2025.
Hell yeah Geography
I'd be down for a vid on the Karaz Ankor's fallen holds. Karaks Drazh, Azgal, Eight Peaks, Zorn, Ungor, Varn, and Vlag all have some interesting stuff about them.
Karak Varn in particular is interesting, as it's the only fallen hold I know of to be properly retaken before it fell to Skaven yet again. Also interesting how the Dwarf High King at the time, being an idiot, decided that splitting his forces and trying to retake two holds (Ungor, a.k.a. Red Eye Mountain being the other one) was a better use of dwarfpower than joining forces with the Zhufbar throng and going Leroy Jenkins on Karak Varn, the hold that is not only closer to Karaz-a-Karak but literally right across the lake from Zhufbar.
This type of video is a lot more enjoyable to me than the waffling about factions and whatnot
Speaking of series, if cavill keeps 40k lore loyal and antiWoke then the fantasy setting has the potential to not just be a hit, but a better GOT without a specific end date 🙏🏽😎
Imagine someone landing on Catachan, surviving the jungle hellscpae for a few months, emerging from the wilderness to see civilization again, and then hearing them say "well, at least it's not Stirland".
The hottest hotspot is whatever inn Gotrek and Felix are staying at any given week
And double that if they are working as bouncers there
If the Ubersriek 5 are there too no one but them is surviving what happens next.
Imagine a old world TV show with a random cameo of gotrik and Felix walking out of a tavern as the show MC walks in. Quick, no interaction , just passing by yet huge fan service 😂
The hottest hotspot is in Felix's pants
@AnthonyRomero-w8u Duuuude that would be amazing ~
One thing that non-Brits might not get is that Middenland, being a country that's to the north of the capital but aren't the most north and whose inhabitants are utterly egotistical about how great their homeland is and who won't shut up about how tough they are...is a big parody of Yorkshire.
"Kind of like how Illinois is 90% Khorne and then you run into Chicago."
You're right, Chicago is more of a Tzeench place.
As a Chicagoan, this gave me a pleasant chuckle. 😆
I wish Tzeentch had a cool catchphrase that could be memed in a similar way to “Milk for the Khorneflakes!” , cuz after all, Illinois is famous for our Khorne products, and Chicago needs to get in on the advertising too! ;D
Chicago would be competently run if Tzeentch had a foothold there.
i live in california in a college town and honestly i live in a slaanesh ass town. college bars and frats take up a whole section of town, and since its california people have a pretty loose view on sex and pleasure.
@@sovietunion7643Pulling an eldar in the town, be careful.
Whot about detroit ? Nurgle hotspot ?
38:47 Ah yes, the most grim place in all of Warhammer Fantasy.
Slovenia.
Home to vampires, necromancers and Melania Trump.
Femboys are grimdark
Honestly, star wars lore got me into real life history because I eventually realized ours was the most interesting world of them all, since it inspired all the others.
Also no plot holes
@@newjerseyyouth4853 Shows what you know
@newjerseyyouth4853 oh there are still plenty of those, but at least they're interesting
@@newjerseyyouth4853 No no, the plot holes are actually worse in real life. We have no writer, and a lot of shit is just inexplicable.
there are many, many writers. Each writers bias a circle, the following writers bias slightly offset just enough. Over long enough time things get, slightly changed, misinterpreted or blatantly changed/left out.
So many plot holes 🎉
A slight clarification on the part about the war between Averland and the Moot; the halflings sabotaging the bridges were a family who managed the local ferry system and had held a total monopoly over all river travel for generations, so they didn't want to give up their sweet deal. This in no way makes their behavior any less stupid. Basically, if hobbits and their traditional D&D halfling descendants are idealized British farming folk, then Warhammer's halflings are basically every negative stereotype of the British northern farming community come to life; lazy, shiftless, indolent, gluttonous, pilfering, gossiping little bastards who have literally fought civil wars over pies. They're also criminals, have a literal halfling mafia in parts of the cities, have been implied to practice cannibalism, and are just the horniest little buggers in all of the Empire.
The moot sounds like the village in Staffordshire where I grew up 😂
I know, right? Gotta love the Moot.
It’s not cannibalism is it’s halflings eating humans
Also, wouldn’t the easier way to handle handling be to post the ogres to take them to the mounting of Mourne?
The _Warhammer_ Halflings always struck me as being based on Irish stereotypes.
Gentlemen gather your finest Landsknecht drip, 3/4 armour, and a Halberd and/or a Matchlock, it's time to clear the furries and hooligans out of the woods.
I'll go get me mallet
@@roastbeef4918 And my axe!
@@roastbeef4918 good man. A Hammer is never a poor choice, Sigmar bless it!
@vibechecker3168 in the name of Unga, I shall bunga
You may clear out the furries, but never forget that youll pay for your victory in that theyll draw very nsfw art of you engaging in horrifying sexual acts
"Destroying Stirland as the Vampires is a mercy" That's why I use Vassal Mods to force them into submission instead.
Now they get to live in Stirland AND be slaves to Vampires.
The least of what they deserve
And I thought I was the only one.
Like, all of the Empire names are so on the nose.
As a German I love it.
Besides what was mentioned in the Video here's one more:
Wissenland is the place where inventions happen. Wissen means knowledge.
So Wissenland is just knowledge land or land/country of knowledge.
It's great.
Ah, so “land of the nerds”, but in polite terms. ;D
(Seriously tho, that’s an *Awesome* name to have!)
Malekith's name basically means "bad friend", which is also pretty on the nose.
@@UGNAvalon I knew there was a reason I always liked Wissenland most
@@Loalrikowki damn ig snorri should've heeded that red flag
Thats really dumb if thats the case. Most german places are generally named after landmarks or tribes, not abstract concepts.
90% of stories take place in the Empire or involve the Empire and here I am waiting for more lore on Araby, Nippon, and everywhere else that hasn’t been touched since 3rd Ed
I’m looking forward to seeing more of Khuresh in the coming total war updates
Wait until CA cives it a spin. 😎
I wish all of the East becomes a subject of a book series.
No lore is better than bad lore. *cough*Tau'va shouldn't exist*cough*
Im spanish so of course im left wondering wtf is up with estalia
As a resident of Illinois who lives 45 minutes to an hour away from Chicago and has been to Springfield, Chicago, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, I would like to thank you PancreasNoWork for describing my state in the way I haven’t been able to figure out.
As Reiklanders say: "how does Averlander differentiates between his cattle and wife, they don't". Glory to Reikland, long live Karl Franz
Averland will always be my favorite province if only for Marius Leitdorf. He's completely nuts but then Warhammer is also nuts and that means he's ahead of the game. War on the forest? Dryads. War against the lakemen? There were probably fishy beastmen in the lake. And of course, who could forget the Great Unicorn Invasion of 2519? Truly Marius Leitdorf is amongst the greatest minds in the Empire!
Didn't know Dundee with a city in Averland.
Turns out he wasn't mad for no reason but was being bewitched by a slaanesh sorceress for decades
@@Ruthun92 that only proves the great count's strength of character! Even Sigmar himself would struggle against such bewitchments. Glory to Leitdorf! Glory to Averland!
@@aquila4460that’s a great joke lmao
Leon Todmeister's rifle name is the single best thing I've heard all day! I need that in a Fable game!
As a european person, i find it funny to see some of the names on the maps.
Litterally at 43:42 the map has names like "doodkanaal" meaning "dead channel", "Oudgeldwijk" meaning "old money district", "handelaarsmarket" meaning "merchant's market",
"goudberg" which means "gold mountain/ gold heap", And finally "luigistad" which is "luigi city".
Granted real names are also dumb (the river avon is litteraly "river river"), so i don't blame them, but it's funny to see anyway.
It's something I appreciate about the worldbuilding of Warhammer. The names are dumb/simple in the way that real world names are. As an American so many of the names derived from indigenous languages amount to some variation. 'People land'. Because they, local tribe, were people and they lived there. So europeans mangled the pronunciation, wrote it in latin script and stuck it on a map.
Marienburg is just fantasy Netherlands in a good way
If you only ever travel a days walk from your home at most then you probably only have one river to worry about anyway!
Referential humor is also prevalent in the old WH Fantasy RPG products. Most notably the Enemy Within campaign. Such as names alluding to real world historical & fictional figures, myths, movies and history in general. Given funny Germanic names in the process. A lot of winking going on.
I’d never seen that artwork of Ulric’s Thunder before and I love it.
I especially love the little detail of the middenland soldier on the barrel of the canon who’s pointing into the barrel in an attempt to order the giant, meanwhile, the giant looks dumbfounded.
Warhammer Fantasy is just great :)
I have a small theory about the Halfling hate. Games Workshop used to be the official distributor of TSR stuff in the UK and even published some stuff such as the original Fiend Folio so they were very familiar with D&D. Honestly, the intense hate of Halfings would make some sense if the writers played some Dragonlance games and dealt with that setting's version of the halflings, the Kender. More specifically the hated stereotypical Kender player who often stole from other party members and made massive nuances of themselves on the excuse of the kinder being described as kleptomaniacs and their character 'couldn't help it' as they screw over the party steal other people's gold, weapons, ammo, and healing items. The Kender hate really tracks with Warhammer Fantasy Halflings since they also get blamed for stealing everything not nailed down.
My favorite way to explain Fantasy and 40k Halflings/Ratlings is “Hobbits, as described by Sauron, Gollum and Saruman; tubby little foul-mouthed thieves who don’t know how good they’ve got it.”
@@samaritan_sys beautiful description
@@TheRealMycanthrope Ty!
Pre-Dragonlance, we just called that behavior "the party thief".
A fitting song for the Empire of Man.
Chorus:
Glory to the Empire, our steel, our pride, our stand,
With Sigmar's light to guide us, we protect His land.
The hammer strikes, the banners fly, and gods of war do cry,
For the Empire of Man, we fight, we rise, we'll never die!
Glory to Middenland, fierce wolves of winter's howl,
Where Ulric's stormy breath gives might to every growl.
In the city of Middenheim, the wolf pack stands so proud,
With Ulric's Swords and iron hearts, they roar their oaths aloud.
Chorus
Glory to Averland, where golden fields do spread,
Home of stouthearted knights, the bulls with banners red.
Under the sun’s bright gaze, they ride to claim their fame,
The Mother’s Ruin calls them forth to glory and to flame.
Chorus
Glory to Hochland, where the hunters stalk their prey,
In the thick and misty woods, they keep the beasts at bay.
Goblin Bane in hand, they snipe with deadly aim,
The forests echo with their shouts, Hochland guards its name.
Chorus
Glory to Nordland, with the Sea of Claws in sight,
The seafaring warriors, proud sons of salt and fight.
Crow Feeder leads the charge, their sails cut through the storm,
The waves may crash, but fire in hearts will always keep them warm.
Chorus
Glory to Ostermark, where the river’s blood runs deep,
The Troll Cleaver's edge strikes down, its oath they keep.
In grim marsh and fog, the shadows of the damned,
Ostermark stands resolute, with sword and shield in hand.
Chorus
Glory to Ostland, the rugged lands of stone,
The Brain Wounder's gleam cuts through flesh and bone.
The sturdy folk, they march, defiant as the snow,
No horde of Chaos shall breach their lines, no fear they show.
Chorus
Glory to Stirland, where the dead do rise,
Orc Hewer cleaves the night, beneath Morr’s watching eyes.
The swamps and crypts, they hold, the spirits whisper near,
Yet Stirland’s bold defenders face their foes without a fear.
Chorus
Glory to Talabecland, the land of swirling mists,
Where Stone Breaker shatters bones, where Taal's winds twist.
The mighty river runs through valleys wide and vast,
Talabecland endures all storms, its legacy will last.
Chorus
Glory to Wissenland, where Nuln's great cannons roar,
With Blood Bringer's force, they shatter every score.
The engineers of war, they craft with cunning might,
In Wissenland, the guns blaze bright, a beacon in the night.
Chorus
Glory to Mootland, where the Halflings feast and sing,
The Elder’s vote of valor to the Empire's throne they bring.
Small in stature but fierce at heart, with bows they take their stand,
In Mootland’s fields, they guard the hearth and till the fertile land.
Chorus
Glory to Reikland, heart of the Empire’s pride,
Where Karl Franz rules, the Dragon Tooth at his side.
The gleaming Altdorf spires reach high into the sky,
With Sigmar's hammer, they forge the Empire’s cry.
Chorus
Glory to the Empire, from the south to northern shore,
With faith, steel, and gunpowder, we answer the call of war.
Sigmar’s light, forever bright, guides us through the fray,
For the Empire of Man shall stand, victorious every day!
*_"We are Sigmar's heirs!!"_*
If there ever was a national anthem for the Empire, this would be it...
...I wish the End Times were not canon
@@valois6846 Search up a guy named "Miki". “Miki Warhammer songs” should work.
@@valois6846 They aren't. By Sigmar they aren't, for as long as we carry the truth with us.
End Times Delenda Est!
I’d genuinely like to see more fake geography stuff like this. Besides lore /other stuff. This is nice
Yeah this is the kind of stuff I use to fall asleep. Its very relaxing.
I love how the name of everything is just a description of it "realmland", "middleland".
Especially Marienburg, everything is just Dutch words. Well, apart from Guilderveld, Suiddock and Ostmuur, which should be Guldenveld, Zuiderkade, and Oostmuur (in Dutch we don't really do those little things above letters much if at all, the amount/combination of the letters decides it's pronunciation, so the extra O matters a smidgen more then you may think).
They mean Guildersfield, Southdock, and Easternwall respectively.
Some of my favourites are: Oldmoneydistrict (Oudgeldwijk) and Knifealley (Messteeg). Hilarious!
I approve of Marianburg as a Netherlands insert. Even with the typical pitfall-trope of the focus being seemingly entirely on the Amsterdam insert while we were a confederation back in the day and Amsterdam was (and still is) not the seat of political power, that is Den Haag (the Hague), it has never even been the capital of it's own province. And you miss out on cool things like the Waterlinie, or the unique politics with this approach, but everyone seems to does it, so yeah. And I've yet to fully watch the video so we'll see!
Anyhows I just thought the names were very funny.
Oh, and Marianburg kinda looks like Zeeland (Old Zealand, the Dutch province, the one which makes New Zealand new) if you imagine it larger and squint a bit!
Dutch funni
Finally someone mentioned how Marienburg is basically entirely made up of straight up Dutch names! I had to scroll way longer than I thought before finding someone who mentioned it.
Btw, other funny names include:
Doodkanaal -> Death canal
Dwergsbezit -> dwarf property
Arabierstad -> Arab town
Elfsgemeente -> Elf county
And the best part: Luigistad -> Luigi town 😂
Yeah, I find it quite fitting that Marienburg is the not-dutch, while the Empire is the not-German. Makes their neighbouring relations even funnier. Also, some of the names not being completely right is a given, that happens a lot with the German names for imperial towns and cities as well. I suppose that's a side effect when people try to build the culture around foreign languages they don't speak themselves. Not everyone is Tolkien, it turns out. Still, I appreciate it for what it is. ^^
0:32 I love fantechy Natchions
Faneshy neshion 🤑
He was just doing his Sean Connery impression
This video makes me want to rewatch the Old World Geography series.
I like how half the comments are "nice video" and it's barely been a minute yet.
Nice comment
@@danletko Nice reply
Nice
Nice thread. ☺️
Nice day
In yee old days, Ostland was probably the funniest Empire warband to play in Mordheim: you had a priest of Taal with hilarious prayers, the entire warband was basically one extended family, rules about toxic alcoholism giving advantages and almost all of the fighters could equip the insane two-barrels guns, which apparently, Ostlanders at large love to bits.
Stirland also apparently has terrible food, the kind of stuff to make French dream of English cuisine. (Boiled beer)
Another fun bit of world-building for The Empire is that almost all the towns and cities are built atop mysterious places. As mentioned Altdorf is on Elven ruins, Middenhiem is on top of a flat-topped mountain/mesa with loads of tunnels underneath (they claim Ulric cut a mountain in half to make it flat), Talabheim is built into a gigantic crater, and almost every other city has extensive sewers for lots of nasties to dwell in. Great opportunities for exploring and storytelling if you’re doing RPG, and hey, the Skaven hid a Nuke under Middenhiem if that inspires ya.
Middenland: the Vegeta of Warhammer Fantasy. Got it!
I mean, you could say Ostland isn't a creative name, but Austria is literally called the "Eastern Kingdom" in german
Eastern realm is a more literal translation
As an avid historian in my free time, I admit that these videos get seen right away while the actual history video I was watching gets shoved into a playlist to finish later.
the next warhammer hotspots better be about the dwarfs or YOU WILL BE GETTING ANOTHER GRUDGEN
Yes, that way pancreas would return to making short format videos.
Let's be honest, it's pancreas, The Donut is probably next
The dwarf in this video arriving to his Hold:
-I have been wronged!!
-What happened, Brother?
-I was...I was served...Boiled BEER
-By Grimnir!! THEY SHALL PAY FOR THIS!! Fetch the Book of Grudges! This cannot go unanswered!
This better be an ongoing series, my fellow Eldar enjoyer. It would be fun to learn about how supremely fucked Terra has become in 40k from a geographic perspective, and the hilarious nightmare of the continents of Ghur in AoS.
Last I checked, currently only Aqshy and Ghyran have maps to look over. But yeah, I would love to hear him talk about Ghur.
AoS doesn’t exist, it isn’t real, and it can’t hurt me. You will not convince me otherwise.
@ you are on the very wrong channel then.
@ I found a map of the main region of Ghur, and the lore blurb for that section is hilarious in how all the continents are trying to kill each other.
The best part about Ghur is the longer he waits to make a video each edition is gonna have Thondia & Lendu attacking eachother as they’re predator continents that move every year.
The new map already shows Lendu’s claw peninsula colliding with Bjarl’s flank.
Hopefully he also get Soulbound to read up on the other stuff like village meat miners who wait for Ghur’s kaijus to kill eachother before mining the bodies.
Near the end of the Stirland section: Eh... I donno, Ostermark probally still has the bottom slot for worst province.
Me after the Halfling section: Sigmar preserve us... except Stirland, Archeon blowing the place up would probally be a marked improvement.
honestly i'd love to see something like this for the tomb kings because its honestly very interesting for how detailed tomb kings geography is and how the remants of their empire stretch across nehekara.
Luthor harkon like lands
This is a more serious version of Tariffs Old World Geographic videos.
Also Hoch is German for high and Hochland is lots of mountains and high ground. Subtly at its finest.
Speaking on 23:43, there is ONE thing i can think of in 40k. In the FFG only war core rulebook, there is the "Calixian infantryman's portible communications transcription device" that is said to use a staining liquid to allow soldiers in the field to transcribe communications. The fancy ones can work in space. In a game i was in I had a commisar with a best craftmanship one that came in four colors. To those that didn't carch on it's just a pen with a really fun name. The description is great and i'd recomend giving it a read if you have the book.
The commisar had a four color clicky pen????????
@khuri9030 Yeah, to make you ask even more questions, the game was an Only War game where the players were Chaos aligned. That game was strange for MANY reasons, and my commisar having a Bic 4 color was the least strange. Like the tzeeth worshiping Ogryn who thought it would make him smarter or the zombie ratings that worked liked L4D hunters. Btw said Ogryn basically became the main character and dueled with a great unclean one. Again, it was weird.
As a Stirland roleplayer I enjoyed your Video a lot :D
My favorite anecdote is the one time a fellow Stirlander dropped their bread and it actually landed on the un-buttered side and they ran and called a Witch Hunter about it. Poor guy was forced to investigate a slice of break for chaos corruption :P
Would have loved if you included how hard the cults of Sigmar and especially Morr go in Stirland, but hey, guess you cant fit everything into a 45min Video :)
I only last year got into fantasy thanks to you.
So this is the first time I see the Marienberg map, and I realized that while most of the Empire is German HRE, Mariënberg is based on the Netherlands.
The city is riddled with Canals(Amsterdam), and all the areas have Dutch names(sounds like German, not the same).
The Dutch are also famed for maritime trade.
Also I note that there is a neighbourgood for Nippon and Cathay, possibly refering to the Japanese Island of Dejima, the only place Dutch tradeships could dock.
"How does an Averlander tell his wife from his cattle?"
"He can't!"
-least based Reiklander joke
Its pretty wild that Colin didn't start this off this series with Ulthuan knowing where his biases lay.
If there is one thing he loves aa much as elves, its Karl Franz
the Empire just has more written about it outside of Lothern basically every Elector state and province in the Empire is more fleshed out mostly thanks to WFRP being almost entirely set in the Empire.
@@williamwhyte9697 The "place" books in WFRP 2nd ed are some of the best material in Warhammer (Sigmar's Heirs, Knights of the Grail, Realm of the Ice Queen). It's why I hate that Fantasy Flight got the license before we could get the Ulthuan book. FF's 40k stuff might have been good, but their WFRP was a massive downgrade.
@@z2ei well atleast we know C7 is doing a setting splat books for Ulthuan for Cothique surpisagly, and they are doing a another for Marianburg even got the writer of the original first edition book to come back and write some more stuff.
it's odd that cubicle 7 does a way better job at it's Fantasy RPGs than it's 40k ones, kinda the opposite of FFG.
I love listening to your lord videos when I’m cleaning my house
You should check out his lore videos instead, much better then his lord videos
But his lord lore videos are my favorite ones! D;
Oh, rifles had existed for centuries alongside muskets. The earliest rifles in real life most likely started in around the 14th or 15th century but mostly remained an oddity used by rich nobles and elite sharpshooters because rifles were more complex, took longer to clean and prior to the development of smokeless powder could make little practical use of their superior accuracy. Or at least that was the perception. One of the smaller triggers for the American revolution was the British crown trying to restrict access to rifles in the colonies- American sharpshooters were perfectly capable of picking off officers and artillery crews with the things which made the British, who were largely fighting with traditional Napoleonic tactics at the time, somewhat upset.
Home of the best gotrek and felix books
im upset we havent gotten a movie or tv show from this setting its been around for so long
It’ll probably never happen since it’s being overshadowed by 40k
@@wacker8888 Yeah shame
At this rate they'd just botch it horribly and ruin it if they did make a show about it nowadays though.
Hey Pancreas, could you do a do or don’t on the wood elves? They’re my favourite faction, and they’re also elves, which you like
Empire of dude. Land.
I dude land empire!
@josepmariasebastian8886 FOR THE BIG BOSS
Honestly. I love this series. Despite watching dozens of Do or don'ts, most of the times re-watching them, I find this type of video so entertaining, Hell your introduction was right. I don't care about what the counteries of Earth is like but this is just captivating. Shout out to Tekking101(if anyone know him) geography IS everything.
Honestly Pancreas this has to be your master piece video. Since the release i watch this video every night to fall asleep to and i havent gotten pass Middenland, im looking forward to use this video for the next month on repeat until Ive listened to all the content.
Last video which had much repeat value for me was the inquistor video.
Making smooth videos people can listen to sleep to is great as theres a lot of rewatch value.
As a geographer that nerds out over maps and such, combining Wah-hamma and my real life passion had me a happy chappy.
Halflings get dunked on a lot, but what's funny is that in Warhammer fantasy they absolutely deserve it.
i...pancreas, i want you know...the part about The Moot made me laugh... *For 10 Minutes*
Bro who tf hated The Hobbit that fuckin Much?!
Thank you, this does help me figure out which province to paint my empire army as.
GEOGRAPHY IS EVERYTHING!! Warhammer edition
@tekking101 would be proud
I would argue that for Nordland no Norscan raiding is Defcon 1.
Because that means they're preparing.
Yeah, I always figured it meant that they themselves have been annihilated by something worse on the way.
@@lokensicarius9347 Either that or said Everchosen is amassing them and they don´t have time for the monthly plundering. Either way, lack of Norscans means its only gonna get worse.
Finally panceas is making a video about the home of the glorius King and emperor Karl Franz
I really hope this becomes a series. Interested in seeing a video like this on Ulthuan, the Karaz Ankor, or Nehekara.
44:05 As a Dutch person I find Marienburg's naming of its interior incredibly funny and somewhat flattering.😅
You didn't have to call me out like that at 18:48... Now I'll have to call myself Heartnowork.
As someone currently two years into a Warhammer Fantasy TTRPG that spans the entire reign of Karl-Franz, love this vid! Helps make more of the setting easier to use for the campaign
Fun fact! Sylvania was once part of stirland!
The only reason the whole province isn't a nightmarish undead nest is because even the %$&@ing vampires wouldn't go there.
Great video as always, love longer content from you
Perfect video to complement my yet another Karl Franz Campaign!
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28:08 i dont know why but the dinosaur playing fetch is too damn adorable to not stare at for several seconds
I love your Warhammer lore vids both fantasy and 40k. This history/ geography lesson was indeed very fascinating
46:06 At first I was like "Oh Poor Stirland, dealt the poorest hand in the empire" then I heard They heat their Ale and I had to stop with a "They do WHAT?!". Now I have to bulldoze every Ale house in Stirland in Total Warhammer on principle now.
Nothing gets me more excited than a topographic map
Please do the same but about Border Princes. Mostly because there is so little actual informations about it and I would like to know more of actual locations in present time and not those that were in 2204 or some other timeperiod
Scale is such a big deal in making a story feel relatable. Settra fighting across continents to steal his crown back is way more compelling than hearing about the indomitus crusade. I love 40k, but in a lot of ways, the scale makes it tough to grasp. Yeah, you can warp travel anywhere and planets are treated like cities because of it.
Ha! Your intro is spot on! I hate real geography, but I love fictional geography 😂
"How does a Stirlander distinguish their cattle from their wifes?"
"They don't!"
just fyi the Wissenland (the place known for science and invention) in German means Science-land
It's more knowledge land. Science is Wissenschaft, while Wissen is knowledge.
Love your work, as always. Currently listening to this in the background while playing some WH3.
Nuln is such an engineering hub because of the extremely valuable and coveted oil found there
6:58 ohhh, Gotrek & Felix’s nod! Get your like! 😅
Men of the Stir River Patrol! This man has said heresy of our beloved Stirland! Unite and call him a Thalmor lover in return!
I actually really enjoyed this. I'd love more "and now lets talk about this place" videos!
I love my flying over The Old World videos. Keep it up and great work!
Finally, I’ve been waiting for this video for so long. Surprisingly there are almost no videos on ytb, that condense all of the empires provinces.
Thank you for catering to my fantasy map autism with this video. I would love to see more, whether it's on specific cities/places or broader regions like this video!
How dare you leave out Sylvania? It's an imperial province by right and we will take it back... one day, trust.
Man, first few seconds of the video and I'm already hooked. I love Geography.
I enjoyed this a lot more than I was expecting to Thank you wonderful time as always
Oddly, Ostermark usually ends up my best friends more often than not when I'm running Katarin in Whammertree. Mind you, this is because they're closer and I Want Auxiliary Outriders & Pistoliers ASAP, but...
this is probably a niche enough idea for a series but this is so my jam!
Loved this. Learning about the little regions in fantasy is always fun
25:56 Did you meant to say the east or rather the west of Ostermark is the safest direction?
Finally: the Fantasy spin-off of Geography Now I’ve wanted them to do for years.
There were many instances throughout this video that had my laughter turn to coughing. Very good.
Learning about Marienburg gets me feel it's a shame that the End Times happened before GW finally lifted its ass to reveal more about the far east of the old world. If Marienburg is the Warhammer Fantasy equivalent of the Netherlands then it would have been funny to see them go full Gekkoloniseerd on some distant islands no one actually cared at the other side of the map to make some mad profits by traiding closer to Cathay, Nippon and Ind.
YES! THE BEST BACKGROUND SOUND FOR THE DAY!!!❤
38:55. "You came back from the desert with a new friend, didn't you Beni"
Also, keep this series rolling, it has some potential
Fun fact:
Hochland also has a hilariously uncreative name in English.
At least if the last 40 years are anything to go off, GW will never make Fantasy or Space Australia
There are some things the haggard swamp dwellers of Pomistan just cannot deal with