This video took a while to put together but here it is. This is one of those episodes that I've wanted to do for a long time since I read "The Doom of Kazavar". The main challenge this time was trying to represent the tale with visuals. Check out the video description for links to the talented artists that have made some awesome Skaven artwork. If I've missed someone let me know :) Hope you enjoy this video!
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What I find kinda scary is that *none* of the dark gods answered. Typically, if someone even thinks of asking the dark gods for help, the chaos gods will fall all over each other trying to answer. But here? Not even *NURGLE* answered. When not even Grandpappy Nurgle is willing to go near you, you're in serious trouble.
Nurgle’s sacred numbers=7 & 3. Adds up to ten. Subtract the other Chaos Gods’ sacred numbers: 9, 8, 6. . . -13. 13 rings= Nurgle without the other Chaos Gods. He is behind it 😉
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@@grakataclem8675 nope he just forgot to use a comma, when you drag a dwarf and then try to buy his beard off him they usually get very aggressive or so I'm told
Lewis Treadwell pretty sure that grey clad dude was a Tzeentch daemon. They probably intended to use the rats as servants but then the Skaven went and created the horned rat so the plan went to shit.
@LN Time flows in strange ways in the warp, due to this the Great Horned Rat could very much twist things in the real World even before he was created.
Was playing Total War:Warhammer 2. Pretty new to the WH Lore I was more used to the WH40K lore. I was setting about to explore new lands. My expedition arrived by ship to the western continent expecting lizardmen. Instead, I found nothing but ruins. Tried to settle in one of the cities only to find filthy ratmen. I went on a purging spree. Then I found MORE AND MORE Ratmen. To my growing horror, I slowly came to realize that the entire southern half of the west continent was filled to brim with filthy Skaven. So as I they tried to drown me with rats, I began to drown them with skeletons. (Tomb kings FTW) I've hated the existence of the Skaven ever since then. Them and their offensive ambushes and their deadly infernal weapons.
they are fun race to play, fragile if you use rattling guns and other stuff. if you want to win battles you need to fight with em dirty, on fair fights they dont do good.
@@Romellenios_Lanz_Daemos That would be worth seeing. I mean, the 3-d animating community are doing some impressive projects based on the 40k universe.
Wonder how many people heard the bells, saw the sky dark and the black rain the next day, and thought: "ok, im out! pack your things kids, we are leaving, NOW!"
I always find he grey clad stranger to be the most intriguing part of the skaven story. Was he an agent of horned rat, maybe nurgle, maybe it's 3 skaven in a trench coat but the fact he comes in and either brings forth or even creates the skaven with the bell is such a cool concept one that I'm glad is shrouded in mystery but I just want to know more about
Yeah i was dissapointed .. well made but basicly they are still clueless to their origin exccept for a myth of stranger arriving.. and there is another channel posting this video aswell but they atleast included all of the animated story and not just cut of suddenly..
@@NWA-TjalfeTooStonedToAim Yes the battle scene was cool, but it tended to drag on and focus on several things, while cool, that don't show the 'endless horde' aspect as much as a few powerful units. Seeing threeee doomwheels and then watch two go down right away had my scroogy, in game resource-frugal self flippin' out XD
Those visuals you put along with the story made it feel like I was watching a movie. The Skaven have such a sick origin story and you definitely did it justice. The timing of those bell tolls legit gave me chills.
The Skaven is by far GWs greatest achievement when it comes to fantasy its a race truly of their own and to this day is still their most unique and most well fleshed out race that they can call their own in the fantasy genre. To those who helped turn the skaven to what they are should be proud of this accomplishment. their visuals are completely their own and along with their society, religion to just how they speek and move its truly special. I would even argue that the skaven are the most iconic race GW ever created even when comparing it to 40k. I simply can't think of any other race thats as unique and as fleshed out as them.
Definitely my favorite race in the WH Fantasy universe. It's also awesome to play them in TWW because each clan offers a unique playstyle. You can sink countless hours into ratmen insanity.
frankly i find it very interesting with the skaven. their biggest threat is their cunning not their bulk. they lay traps, and experiment with the warp in hectic and dangerous ways. they are more than just beasts as the beastmen are, and yet they are so enigmatic and so much is unknown about how they exist which is even more intriguing. what is most nice for me is the mild comedic relief of the skaven. they could have invaded the surface world long before the end times but simply due to how much infighting they get into, making the empire of man look like a cohesive group, that they have just kind of been lurking in the shadows, more worried about eachother's rivals than the humans. frankly for warhammer40k, they just took the coolest parts of the tomb kings and mixed it with the skaven. strange warp green weaponry that outclasses literally everyone else? necrons. divided and always at war? necrons. mild comedic relief (see infinite and the divine) necrons. you know a faction is good when they are partially transferred into 40k
The Skaven, all comedy elements of them aside, scare me more than Chaos, Undead or Greenskins. Their crafty, insane and worse, they are everywhere. Thank Sigmar they're too busy killing each other.
@@Tucher97 cunning yes, but easily tricked into fighting one another under most circumstances, if they ever march with unity most if not all living creatures would fall, even chaos might be forever changed into what the minds of skaven deem they should be for war hammer fantasy. On another note the majority are easily frightened if there is not something scarier, like a certain daemon behind them they will flee and scatter because to a skaven unlike orcs or other beings of similar mindset, they will value their own life over winning if something worse is not waiting for their retreat.
Yeah... It even the lore canon, that if they will stop fighting each other - the world is doomed. Welp, that's how we have the Age of Sigmar now! It seems to me, that they were united at some point... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the world gone south xD
Both warhammer settings are settings of gothic horror, with great battles beeing ultimately solved by duels. Take such inflexibility as their best and worse.
"This game" It's whole universe way beyond just the tabletop, which I'm pretty sure you weren't even mentioning, probably thinking about Total War Warhammer, or Vermintide
I know, right? I was wondering why the citizens of Kasavar didn’t do the obvious thing and remove the damn bell. They had literal *months*, one would think someone would eventually say “It seems as awfully big coincidence that everything went to hell just as that bell arrived. Also, who the hell is ringing it?”
@@Eddy-nn7wj brah no one said anything about flowers and shit, people need to stop making it out like Warhammer or WH40K ia dark all the time. Only reason is that we are only shown those dark parts most of the time, otherwise there are parts where life is just as boring and mundane as in our world.
Just started reading the Felix and Gotrek Books, and I loved every moment of Skavenslayer. The skaven were such good villains, and damn entertaining to read, while being equal parts cartoon villain and still horrifying grimdark monsters that were terrifying to read about. They spent half the book killing and sabotaging each other, while the people of Nuln suffered their machinations. Highly recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy, it's a wonderful story
I was always a huge Skaven fan, then I read The Doom of Kasavar and now I'm just scared of them. Seriously, just imagine; You're in your home, it's late at night and stormy so it's pitch black. You're doing dishes or some other chore when you notice something move outside, looked like a person but hunched over and draped in torn dirty cloth, then another, and then three more, ten, twenty, and so on until it's just a wave of them in the street. Looking on in horror you notice one climb out of the rushing crowd onto something tall, like a lamppost or a car. It stops and gazes around before it's eyes fall on to your terrified expression, in the light you can see it's some huge rat creature with glowing green eyes, you look at each other for a while before it slinks back into the crowd. Then, you start hearing banging on your door, then all your windows, then through every single wall. I just scared myself.
Now imagine hearing the faint scratching beneath your feet. Something is digging up towards you. Skaven as an idea are absolutely terrifying. Snikch is terrifying beyond that. Queek is absolutely insane/oddly intelligent, Ikit will gladly use you and your kin for weapons testing, Throt will gladly use you for parts or eat you alive on a whim. (all will eat you too, Queek might use parts as decorations) It's the most spooky race idea in any fantasy I can think of.
@@Thulgore Snikch is the absolute scariest creature in WH Fantasy. No fortress can keep him out and no security personal can notice and stop him - if he's after you, YOU ARE DEAD.
I don't know why, but these sort of unknown horrors stories scratch at some fiber in my mind, something, that gives me this feeling of utter dread, and terror, untold horror fills me with fear like no other event fictional or not
@Don homer you'll find the children of the North do not bend and break like the fools of the empire you will deal with the sons of wolves and chaos stay out of our way and we won't take your females
Let me tell you something. I'm a big horror fan. I've seen a lot of good horror movies, a lot of bad ones, a lot of decent ones. Short ones. Long ones. """scary"""" videos on youtube, horror books you name it. This video is easily in my top 10 best horror media, no joke. It contains everything you need. Suspense, good and convincing narration, sinister depiction, an unstoppable feeling of dread, an unknown fear that can't be stopped, good audio... and all that without resorting to cheap jumpscares. I always liked your channel, but this video showed you truly stand above the rest. Great job, and keep it going!
on the tilean myth: not only did they make a tower of babel- like structure, both them and the dwarves refused to just leave their city when they had more than enough time, implying the city had an overly-materialistic lifestyle. does this part of the story come from another myth i dont know? the story makes it kind of seem like the skaven were a punishment from the gods for that city's decadence.
@@bacnguyen9304 i know, bit there is no such thing as en entire race of ratmen living beneath us, is you think so, please pay a visit to your local witch hunter.
@@kevincass9917 Hi, I'm not familiar with the tabletop game, I only played Vermintide and now Warhammer Total War. Why is it dead? Does it mean no new figures are going to be made?
@@user-dj6sk2uo8g So, Warhammer Fantasy had a massive event that would launch into its newest edition, but GW wanted to relaunch Fantasy into Age of Sigmar, which streamlined the game and made it easier to play, but unfortunately destroyed the world in the process. The figures for the tabletop were renamed and brought into Age of Sigmar, but a couple armies like Bretonnia, Tomb Kings, Vampire Counts and more were dropped completely. The Old World was completely gone, but lately GW announced they're bringing back the Old World, potentially for a new iteration of Warhammer Fantasy.
I'm so proud to be part of such an inspiring community, not only was this short film absolutely amazing, but the compilation of art, cinematics, music, gameplay, the hordes of models, it's all unbelievably cool to someone who has just gotten into Age of Sigmar and started building up their own little army!
yeah its only this church our society has been working on for decades. Its not like I´m invested in the proper completion of this Monument because it has kind of become a family tradition to work here.
You know, something I never see mentioned. Someone had to COME UP WITH THIS. You know? Some person was sitting at home or work, probably at night, and said. "I need something to spice up this world...what could I possibly bring to the table? I have horrors of the beyond, I have c'thulu, I have racism, I have tyrany, I have BDSM elves, I have monsters and orcs, I have a bunch of different races. I have a TON of problems that could be solved with half way decent or even attempted communication. What am I missing...what could I possibly add...what would fit in and not feel...out of place...Maybe...animal people? But I already have beast men...but then again...they are ludites...What more could I make? Maybe something common...something simple but preying upon the oldest fears we have. What could it be..." Just then a rat trap snaps and he hears the squeal cut short. "Oh, that'd work."
Same, luckily as the Wolf King once told us, a man can only be brave and forge his Saga when he is afraid for the cornered Wolf is the most deadly of all beasts.
I'm not going to lie, your storytelling was superb, I literally felt so anxious watching and listening. I felt like the Skaven were going to crawl out from underneath the corners of my carpet and grab me. Good job!
This video makes me evermore certain that Warhammer is not like other fantasy universes. If you like Harry Potter, you'd like to live in that world. If you're into WoW, you'd want to explore its secrets. If you are up on your Warhammer lore, you Don't want to live in Warhammer World (even more so with 40k). Between Skaven, Green Skins, all the diferent types of Undeath, and of course Chaos, as well as astronomical amounts of Racism, Despair, War, Death, Crime, etc. you'd be happy to say you lived out a single day in peace. It's absolutely amazing to read and listen about, but horrifying to think of experiencing. Either way, great video. The Narrative was great and the Visuals were On Point! This is one of the best Warhammer related Videos I've watched in a long While :D Keep up the Amazing Work!
I mean no offense, but I don't think I'd want to live in Warcraft's world either with Black Dragons, Old Gods, Undead, Naga, Demons and other things, aswell as a global crisis every other year :P
@@MrGiselbart damn straight. Imagine living in stormwind or orgrimmar. Almost every few years theirs always someone besieging the place or a giant dragon wrecking the place
Absolutely love this. With this level of editing and epic, I'd love to see lizardmen (seraphon) down the line if its not already done. The story was one I did not know and frankly, was rather biblical.
Of all the high fantasy material I consumed through the years, there's no fantasy race more vile than the Skaven. Games Workshop took the black plague concept to heart, lol And to mix steampunk tech with all the bizarre shit was a really good choice.
I often come back to this exact video over and over. The voice acting, the design, the editing and the writing is honestly just as good as the actual game. Great job every single video. You all do great work!!
the skaven are probably one of the most well crafted races ever. They are so unique and the design is flawless. They are as simple as any animal, they only want to survive and they are still full of mystery and they have complex technology. They are hiding in the shadows... waiting for the day when they will rise and the vermintide will consume everything in its path
I have a super challenge on a... sensative subject if you ever think of ending the series, (which i hope you don't cause i love them). I challenge you as your series finale, the end times with many clips from battles and fights from the total war warhammer 2 (and/or 3 if it comes out before you make a vid about it) i know several people don't like the end times but i think it would be one heck of a video series ending, but until that day comes, which i hope not, you make really awesome videos no one else thought of using total war warhammer 2 clips as part of warhammer fantasy lore videos, my point is i love your vids and keep on doing them
dude this video really got under my skin with how disturbing it felt. it feels like a straight up horror film. talk about shedding the skaven from the laughs and jokes and portraying the REAL nightmare that they really are. nicely done sir.
I asked my friend, once, why there didn’t seem to be any female skaven. He quickly told me, “we don’t talk about the female skaven.” I was confused and looked it up. We don’t talk about the female skaven.
This is my first time seeing one of your videos and I can only say this: fantastic job, dude! Your voice work is top notch and sounds very professional, like something I'd see on TV! The writing and video itself is great! Keep up the great work!
2seconds in and I'm like FINALLY someone who actually has the voice for this kind of thing. Instead of some geeky high pitched voice that drowns out the music and degrades the tone in which the video was intended.
Amazing video! One question: who exactly WAS the stranger who offered to finish the tower? Was he a champion of the Great Horned Rat? An avatar of the Rat? Or something else? What could that else be?
Fell down this rabbit hole of warhammer lore head first, most channels I've watched just seem to reading copy and pasted if o of wiki but my friend this is storytelling the only way fantasy should be told. Excellent
Wait, how sick is 17:15? These are tabletop figures, right? Must have been 1000 Skaven there. Put them together and paint them all is absolutly incredible. Also really great camera and effects work on this!
So basically the humans were like “what if we created Tower of Babel V2” then got tired of building the tower and a random was like “yo yo you need help?” But he tricked the ungí by summoning the skaven. Epic
Entirely unrelated to Warhammer oddly enough but the toll of the great bell is how I've always imagined an Onager mass driver from Halo sounding. Deep melodic clanging.
@Bao Thuy anything in 40k would kick the shit put of AoS eventually, but the Tau are one of the smallest factions in warhammer, they'd have a hell of a struggle doing it.
@Bao Thuy you seen there war machines? Not many in the AoS can match there technology. Not to mention, the Tau are shit at melee, the Skaven are fast, and they come in the millions.
Skaven are one of the most interesting races in the warhammer universe to me. They technologically both advance as man and dwarves with rideable machines and warp-flame throwers, yet a lot of the weapons they have are equal to two pieces of metal wrapped together with strips of leather. They are completely crazy and paranoid, yet the chaos gods don’t want to go near them. They are they type of race that would jump at you stab you in the back, then run away before they could know if it even killed you. They are like the ultimate glass cannon of races. I think it is super funny how even though some of them can use magic (grey seers) , they could build a giant bomb out of warpstones and blow up any city into a pile of rubble. Then they will simply move into the ruined city and live in the sewers and build down deeper and deeper. They have the best and the worst of all races at once and are still not able to be put out of existence. I love these things, even if they would love to turn my body into a sign.
Just came here to say that I have watched the video exactly 13 times over the last year. Is my favourite warhammer lore video ever and super inmersive, specially the counting of the bell tolls :D
This video took a while to put together but here it is. This is one of those episodes that I've wanted to do for a long time since I read "The Doom of Kazavar". The main challenge this time was trying to represent the tale with visuals. Check out the video description for links to the talented artists that have made some awesome Skaven artwork. If I've missed someone let me know :) Hope you enjoy this video!
Your Channel and your material is the best the only other channel that comes close is (Lorehammer LIBRARY) Please check out his vids and Perhaps colabrate with him!!🙏😆
The effort put into this has definately payed off! Great to watch and listen to. :)
I got Chills from hearing this. Yeah it's no wonder why most people hate Rats.
This was fantastic quality. Really good job.
The clip with all of the model diorama where did you find that video?
You know the situation is bad when you pray to Nurgle for salvation. You know it's even worse when Nurgle decides that he isn't getting involved.
We Powerfull are indeed yes yes
Yeah nurgle actually dislikes the Skaven because they are trying to destroy the cycle of life
We kill kill all things.
nurgle is an elder god he could easily crush the rats
@@lordiwoa5783 the chaos gods don’t really do any thing themselves
‘Build a temple’ they said.
‘It’ll be grand’ the said.
...until the rats came
Never mentioned the f***king rat infestation.
So did this city ultimately became what is known as skavenblight today?
*they
*the said*
What I find kinda scary is that *none* of the dark gods answered. Typically, if someone even thinks of asking the dark gods for help, the chaos gods will fall all over each other trying to answer. But here? Not even *NURGLE* answered. When not even Grandpappy Nurgle is willing to go near you, you're in serious trouble.
Even the Big N himself doesnt wanna mess with the Skaven...
You'd think old mate would be into plague rats
Nurgle’s sacred numbers=7 & 3. Adds up to ten. Subtract the other Chaos Gods’ sacred numbers: 9, 8, 6. . . -13. 13 rings= Nurgle without the other Chaos Gods. He is behind it 😉
@@taliellenightdream7071 thats brilliant, mwah. have a dry kiss
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Dm for tabletop warhammer game : " I figured we would start out the adventure Easy by going into the sewers and killing rats"
Players: "NO!"
it's the other way around XD
Player: I figured we would start out the adventure Easy by going into the sewers and killing rats
DM: NO
@@mobiushelldoctor1423 DM gets stabbed. A covered figure takes over. Lets continue yes yes.
@@Siegberg91 the great horned rat plan is going well-well
@@Siegberg91 That one is not dead-killed, he just sleep-rests. Come roll-play! No questions-ask! Play play!
Hm, something seems to be off with our DM tonight. Has he prepared some mischievous schemes for us to face?
You know a dwarf is dead when you threaten to drag him buy his beard and get no hot-headed retaliation.
Wrong "by" buy the way...
They definitely hate it when you drag em around then buy their beards.
@@grakataclem8675 nope he just forgot to use a comma, when you drag a dwarf and then try to buy his beard off him they usually get very aggressive or so I'm told
@@grakataclem8675 clem grakata
@@grakataclem8675 legit no one cares bro XD
I like how even the chaos god were like ' nope, ain't touching that'
Lewis Treadwell pretty sure that grey clad dude was a Tzeentch daemon. They probably intended to use the rats as servants but then the Skaven went and created the horned rat so the plan went to shit.
@@LordOmnissiah don't you hate it when your rat servants cheat on you with another god
LordOmnissiah “all as planned”
@@LordOmnissiah I thought the man in gray was the Horned Rat himself.
@LN Time flows in strange ways in the warp, due to this the Great Horned Rat could very much twist things in the real World even before he was created.
"And everyone was happy"
Skaven: Allow us-we to introduce ourselves-selves!
“HI MAN THINGS, We rise scurry up to kill slay you all!”
"Do you have a minute-moment to talk about our lord-master and savior, the great horned rat? Yes-yes!?"
YOU CAN RING MY
*[Screaming Bell Tolls]*
_BEEE-EEE-EEEEEELL_
Ring my Bell~
*[Several Screaming Bell Tolls]*
Was playing Total War:Warhammer 2. Pretty new to the WH Lore I was more used to the WH40K lore.
I was setting about to explore new lands. My expedition arrived by ship to the western continent expecting lizardmen. Instead, I found nothing but ruins. Tried to settle in one of the cities only to find filthy ratmen. I went on a purging spree. Then I found MORE AND MORE Ratmen. To my growing horror, I slowly came to realize that the entire southern half of the west continent was filled to brim with filthy Skaven. So as I they tried to drown me with rats, I began to drown them with skeletons. (Tomb kings FTW) I've hated the existence of the Skaven ever since then. Them and their offensive ambushes and their deadly infernal weapons.
Yeah me too, i remember playing as high elves, i literally allied with the bretonnia, vampire counts, dwarves, and tomb kings just for destroying them
they are fun race to play, fragile if you use rattling guns and other stuff. if you want to win battles you need to fight with em dirty, on fair fights they dont do good.
This was like a horror movie! This was absolutely stunning!!
Makes me Wonder if anyone can turned the "Doom of Kavzar" into Live action film/or animated.
@@Romellenios_Lanz_Daemos That would be worth seeing. I mean, the 3-d animating community are doing some impressive projects based on the 40k universe.
Agree everytime that that bell played sent chills donwn my back
Wonder how many people heard the bells, saw the sky dark and the black rain the next day, and thought: "ok, im out! pack your things kids, we are leaving, NOW!"
@@DarkTider Honestly I thought that too. But then I was like wait this is warhammer, if anyone did they they'd be easy pickings for beastmen
I always find he grey clad stranger to be the most intriguing part of the skaven story. Was he an agent of horned rat, maybe nurgle, maybe it's 3 skaven in a trench coat but the fact he comes in and either brings forth or even creates the skaven with the bell is such a cool concept one that I'm glad is shrouded in mystery but I just want to know more about
"Origins of the Skaven"
1:30 "How the Skaven came to be is still a mystery"
okay then
😂😂
Yea like WTF lol
Yeah i was dissapointed .. well made but basicly they are still clueless to their origin exccept for a myth of stranger arriving.. and there is another channel posting this video aswell but they atleast included all of the animated story and not just cut of suddenly..
@@NWA-TjalfeTooStonedToAim Yes the battle scene was cool, but it tended to drag on and focus on several things, while cool, that don't show the 'endless horde' aspect as much as a few powerful units. Seeing threeee doomwheels and then watch two go down right away had my scroogy, in game resource-frugal self flippin' out XD
If I told u I would gave to purge you
“Skaven? Never heard of em. Oh. That over there?? That’s Skavenblight. Don’t go there it’s dangerous.”
Those visuals you put along with the story made it feel like I was watching a movie.
The Skaven have such a sick origin story and you definitely did it justice. The timing of those bell tolls legit gave me chills.
Thanks a lot for your words man! Glad you enjoyed this episode.
@The Ass probably a lot of editing...
The Skaven is by far GWs greatest achievement when it comes to fantasy its a race truly of their own and to this day is still their most unique and most well fleshed out race that they can call their own in the fantasy genre. To those who helped turn the skaven to what they are should be proud of this accomplishment. their visuals are completely their own and along with their society, religion to just how they speek and move its truly special. I would even argue that the skaven are the most iconic race GW ever created even when comparing it to 40k. I simply can't think of any other race thats as unique and as fleshed out as them.
Definitely my favorite race in the WH Fantasy universe.
It's also awesome to play them in TWW because each clan offers a unique playstyle. You can sink countless hours into ratmen insanity.
Truly only a group of british nerds could make the skavan
Probably why the skaven where the mvp of the end times.
frankly i find it very interesting with the skaven. their biggest threat is their cunning not their bulk. they lay traps, and experiment with the warp in hectic and dangerous ways. they are more than just beasts as the beastmen are, and yet they are so enigmatic and so much is unknown about how they exist which is even more intriguing.
what is most nice for me is the mild comedic relief of the skaven. they could have invaded the surface world long before the end times but simply due to how much infighting they get into, making the empire of man look like a cohesive group, that they have just kind of been lurking in the shadows, more worried about eachother's rivals than the humans.
frankly for warhammer40k, they just took the coolest parts of the tomb kings and mixed it with the skaven. strange warp green weaponry that outclasses literally everyone else? necrons. divided and always at war? necrons. mild comedic relief (see infinite and the divine) necrons. you know a faction is good when they are partially transferred into 40k
@@sovietunion7643they mashed beastmen and necrons together, then gave them the orc comedic relief.
The Skaven, all comedy elements of them aside, scare me more than Chaos, Undead or Greenskins. Their crafty, insane and worse, they are everywhere.
Thank Sigmar they're too busy killing each other.
They are cunny, ruthless, crafty, inventive, vile
So Bretonnia how are holding up?
@@Tucher97 cunning yes, but easily tricked into fighting one another under most circumstances, if they ever march with unity most if not all living creatures would fall, even chaos might be forever changed into what the minds of skaven deem they should be for war hammer fantasy. On another note the majority are easily frightened if there is not something scarier, like a certain daemon behind them they will flee and scatter because to a skaven unlike orcs or other beings of similar mindset, they will value their own life over winning if something worse is not waiting for their retreat.
Yeah... It even the lore canon, that if they will stop fighting each other - the world is doomed. Welp, that's how we have the Age of Sigmar now! It seems to me, that they were united at some point... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the world gone south xD
Oi is dat one of dem fuzzy things yappin bout being da bestest. Look out ya little git or ne and da boyz will find ya. Waaaaaagh!
You know that they were the true responsible ones for the end times And not Chaos right?
The Ordo Malleous would like to remind all of you that intelligent rats of unusual size do not exist
And if you do see one, it is just a small beastman, nothing more
Isn't Malleous more about Chaos and Daemon? Wouldn't they be treated like Aliens in the 40K? 🤔
@@Melwasul94 the order brings the hammer down on any of the enemies of man.
You speak lies
@@Melwasul94 Hard to have a dedicated agency to counter a threat you don't acknowledge exists...
I don't even play this game but dude... This is some amazing content, excelent work, a true masterpiece. Got me really into the story
Thanks for your words sir! 🙏
Both warhammer settings are settings of gothic horror, with great battles beeing ultimately solved by duels.
Take such inflexibility as their best and worse.
They have books that are pretty good.
"This game" It's whole universe way beyond just the tabletop, which I'm pretty sure you weren't even mentioning, probably thinking about Total War Warhammer, or Vermintide
@@zolwik1999 books huh? Interesting, sounds like something a bookworm like me could get into. Thx mate
Day 1
"That bell sure is loud. Should we remove it?"
"Nah. I kinda like it."
Day 13
"ARE WE STILL NOT REMOVING THAT BELL?"
No-no man thing we are going to a feast
@@Siegberg91 Yes-yes! Feast!
I know, right? I was wondering why the citizens of Kasavar didn’t do the obvious thing and remove the damn bell. They had literal *months*, one would think someone would eventually say “It seems as awfully big coincidence that everything went to hell just as that bell arrived. Also, who the hell is ringing it?”
Doom-boom!
Day 14
WHY ARE THE RATS BIGGER THAN US?
Imagine a 40k version of the Skaven with even more advanced twisted technology, mutated beasts and numbers that even rival the tyrannids.
there were skavens in 40k (hrud) but got completely changed into some eldrich horror xenos race
I mean, the Imperial Guard are the Skaven if you think about it
@@BrBetimyou watched a video and made it your opinion
literally the imperium
@@dazerrazer3018thats how opinions work.
Skaven are mentioned in the book The Great Betrayal which takes place before and during the War of the Beard -2000 IC to -1600 IC.
"Every-One was Happy"...
I thought this was Warhammer. Why is there Hapiness??!!
Because there's gotta be something there to be destroyed.
The fall is so much more spectacular when they are lifted up first.
Cause not everything is dark and edgy all the time...
@@stefan1360 and everything is not pretty and flowers all the time.. ;) absolution in these things does not exist.
@@Eddy-nn7wj brah no one said anything about flowers and shit, people need to stop making it out like Warhammer or WH40K ia dark all the time. Only reason is that we are only shown those dark parts most of the time, otherwise there are parts where life is just as boring and mundane as in our world.
This video sponsored by The Epic Rat Battles of History.
Take your damned like and GO!
every thirteen likes gives praise to the horned rat. yes-yes.
@Jose Castro grandpa nurgle is better than slaanesh.
@@ajhiep4447 You simple minded fools delude yourselves with such weak and feeble gods. Only the lord of plots deserves worship and praise
Good-Good , Blessing-hate upon the vile man-things!
@@johndanes2294 YOU WEAKLINGS DONT EVEN KNOW THE MIGHT OF KHORNE. BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD, SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
Yes-Yes, kill-eat the man-Things. Kill-eat them all!!!
5:47 : "everyone was happy"
Skaven : "I'm about to ruin this whole city's career"
Just started reading the Felix and Gotrek Books, and I loved every moment of Skavenslayer. The skaven were such good villains, and damn entertaining to read, while being equal parts cartoon villain and still horrifying grimdark monsters that were terrifying to read about. They spent half the book killing and sabotaging each other, while the people of Nuln suffered their machinations. Highly recommend it to anyone who likes fantasy, it's a wonderful story
I was always a huge Skaven fan, then I read The Doom of Kasavar and now I'm just scared of them.
Seriously, just imagine; You're in your home, it's late at night and stormy so it's pitch black. You're doing dishes or some other chore when you notice something move outside, looked like a person but hunched over and draped in torn dirty cloth, then another, and then three more, ten, twenty, and so on until it's just a wave of them in the street. Looking on in horror you notice one climb out of the rushing crowd onto something tall, like a lamppost or a car. It stops and gazes around before it's eyes fall on to your terrified expression, in the light you can see it's some huge rat creature with glowing green eyes, you look at each other for a while before it slinks back into the crowd. Then, you start hearing banging on your door, then all your windows, then through every single wall.
I just scared myself.
Now imagine hearing the faint scratching beneath your feet. Something is digging up towards you. Skaven as an idea are absolutely terrifying. Snikch is terrifying beyond that. Queek is absolutely insane/oddly intelligent, Ikit will gladly use you and your kin for weapons testing, Throt will gladly use you for parts or eat you alive on a whim. (all will eat you too, Queek might use parts as decorations)
It's the most spooky race idea in any fantasy I can think of.
Essentially the plot of I Am Legend
@@Thulgore Snikch is the absolute scariest creature in WH Fantasy. No fortress can keep him out and no security personal can notice and stop him - if he's after you, YOU ARE DEAD.
I don't know why, but these sort of unknown horrors stories scratch at some fiber in my mind, something, that gives me this feeling of utter dread, and terror, untold horror fills me with fear like no other event fictional or not
@@valtersplume3726 Didn’t Gotrek duel Snikitch before meaning he’s definitely not unbeatable
39 dislikes, an unassuming number, until you divide it by three...
😱 Skaven infiltration detected
Many schemes, many plots, yes-yes!
WE ORKS WILL KRUMP YOU GITS
@Don homer you'll find the children of the North do not bend and break like the fools of the empire you will deal with the sons of wolves and chaos stay out of our way and we won't take your females
ACENDANT 173-2 mmh shnhhn, yeees yes green flesh will die die! just like man things!
Let me tell you something. I'm a big horror fan. I've seen a lot of good horror movies, a lot of bad ones, a lot of decent ones. Short ones. Long ones. """scary"""" videos on youtube, horror books you name it.
This video is easily in my top 10 best horror media, no joke. It contains everything you need. Suspense, good and convincing narration, sinister depiction, an unstoppable feeling of dread, an unknown fear that can't be stopped, good audio... and all that without resorting to cheap jumpscares.
I always liked your channel, but this video showed you truly stand above the rest. Great job, and keep it going!
5:42 "The sun smiled, men laughed, everyone was happy"
*shows picture of two of the most unhappy looking people*
on the tilean myth: not only did they make a tower of babel- like structure, both them and the dwarves refused to just leave their city when they had more than enough time, implying the city had an overly-materialistic lifestyle. does this part of the story come from another myth i dont know? the story makes it kind of seem like the skaven were a punishment from the gods for that city's decadence.
Probably were with a weird Warhammer twist to em.
The origins of the beastmen then
Reiksguard farmers got corrupted by Slaanesh fuck their goats and created the beastmen
Watch the Winds of Magic trailer for Vermintide 2
@@bacnguyen9304 xD
Beastmen are born from regular people. The mutated babes are ‘given’ to the woods
@@bacnguyen9304 i know, bit there is no such thing as en entire race of ratmen living beneath us, is you think so, please pay a visit to your local witch hunter.
5 years after the death of WARHAMMER FANTASY and 75k people watch some old world lore in a few days..... 9th edition would have been glorious.
Well do I have good news for you then. GW, has finally come to their senses and are bringing Warhammer Fantasy back!
@@zachscarbrough2727 that abomination they called "Age of Sigmar " ?
They’re bringing back the old world in a couple years
@@kevincass9917 Hi, I'm not familiar with the tabletop game, I only played Vermintide and now Warhammer Total War. Why is it dead? Does it mean no new figures are going to be made?
@@user-dj6sk2uo8g So, Warhammer Fantasy had a massive event that would launch into its newest edition, but GW wanted to relaunch Fantasy into Age of Sigmar, which streamlined the game and made it easier to play, but unfortunately destroyed the world in the process. The figures for the tabletop were renamed and brought into Age of Sigmar, but a couple armies like Bretonnia, Tomb Kings, Vampire Counts and more were dropped completely.
The Old World was completely gone, but lately GW announced they're bringing back the Old World, potentially for a new iteration of Warhammer Fantasy.
What an incredible video! My new favorite, for sure, even if it's my dumb voice doing the narration.
You killed it man! Narration was perfect. 🔥
Skrubasauras whaaat youre the one who voice the video??
You slaaaay it man
Could honestly not think of a more fitting voice. Good job
Dude quality narration quit beating yourself up.
Just narrate documentaries at this point man
I love the outnumbered rider getting swarmed while the bell loudly tolls, gives the feeling of their defeat began before the fight started
This is a great bedtime story. Also, the voice, the editing and the sound is just all perfect
The doom of kavzar is my favorite piece of warhammer fluff ever. You did it justice.
Also that diorama towards the end of the video OMG!
I'm so proud to be part of such an inspiring community, not only was this short film absolutely amazing, but the compilation of art, cinematics, music, gameplay, the hordes of models, it's all unbelievably cool to someone who has just gotten into Age of Sigmar and started building up their own little army!
THIS WAS AWESOME! The Skaven are by far my favorite race in Warhammer fantasy their lore never disappoints.
Skaven lore is one of the best
"What have we to lose?"
Nice going. You idiots sunk the entire planet and created a 5th kind of chaos daemon. Really, brilliant job on that decision.
yeah its only this church our society has been working on for decades. Its not like I´m invested in the proper completion of this Monument because it has kind of become a family tradition to work here.
"End Times" is uncanon bullshit. The Total War games are far more accurate to the setting
How this ramdom guy could have created a 5th chaos god?
You know, something I never see mentioned. Someone had to COME UP WITH THIS. You know? Some person was sitting at home or work, probably at night, and said. "I need something to spice up this world...what could I possibly bring to the table? I have horrors of the beyond, I have c'thulu, I have racism, I have tyrany, I have BDSM elves, I have monsters and orcs, I have a bunch of different races. I have a TON of problems that could be solved with half way decent or even attempted communication. What am I missing...what could I possibly add...what would fit in and not feel...out of place...Maybe...animal people? But I already have beast men...but then again...they are ludites...What more could I make? Maybe something common...something simple but preying upon the oldest fears we have. What could it be..." Just then a rat trap snaps and he hears the squeal cut short. "Oh, that'd work."
Somebody edgy...they have an "evil for the sake of evil" quality seem to only fail by Deus ex-Machina (from what I have read of them.)
This video is SO well made. Every time the brass bell rings I get chills. Really well written.
Why did I watch this before going to bed.. Now I'm scared
Same, luckily as the Wolf King once told us, a man can only be brave and forge his Saga when he is afraid for the cornered Wolf is the most deadly of all beasts.
Kill-Eat man-thing as it sleeps, yes-yes
Welcome to Tilea, gentlemen.
i really love how most of the warhammer (and 40k) franchise fans pulls out great narration to the lore telling.
that's just great work, cheers guys.
I'm not going to lie, your storytelling was superb, I literally felt so anxious watching and listening. I felt like the Skaven were going to crawl out from underneath the corners of my carpet and grab me. Good job!
The amount of friendly fire they took in this video shows up perfectly their expendableness
Best video of channel, perfect naration
Agree, would like to see more such video's
This video makes me evermore certain that Warhammer is not like other fantasy universes.
If you like Harry Potter, you'd like to live in that world.
If you're into WoW, you'd want to explore its secrets.
If you are up on your Warhammer lore, you Don't want to live in Warhammer World (even more so with 40k). Between Skaven, Green Skins, all the diferent types of Undeath, and of course Chaos, as well as astronomical amounts of Racism, Despair, War, Death, Crime, etc. you'd be happy to say you lived out a single day in peace. It's absolutely amazing to read and listen about, but horrifying to think of experiencing.
Either way, great video. The Narrative was great and the Visuals were On Point! This is one of the best Warhammer related Videos I've watched in a long While :D
Keep up the Amazing Work!
I mean no offense, but I don't think I'd want to live in Warcraft's world either with Black Dragons, Old Gods, Undead, Naga, Demons and other things, aswell as a global crisis every other year :P
Those are the staples of the "dark fantasy" genre as a whole, dude.
Warhammer or even 40k are not the darkest universes I have seen yet.
@@MrGiselbart damn straight. Imagine living in stormwind or orgrimmar. Almost every few years theirs always someone besieging the place or a giant dragon wrecking the place
Yeah. Both warhammer universes are nothing but death and destruction. But thats why i love them!
POV you're a captured Brettonian sailor captured by Druchii on your way to Hag Graef [ASMR]
Absolutely love this.
With this level of editing and epic, I'd love to see lizardmen (seraphon) down the line if its not already done.
The story was one I did not know and frankly, was rather biblical.
dude it was like listning to a horror audio book love it subbed for more
Welcome to the Channel oh Slaanesh!🙌😃
If even a chaos god likes it,evil being or not you know your doing the right thing
good turnabout, choosing a better chaos
The fact that skaven have throat singing makes them awesome
Last I heard
Skaven was a forgotten nurgal project
But that’s Just that’s what I heard from the random cultist
Just as Tzeentch planned.
Fresh-new video to watch-view, yes-yes! Great work as usual Choyer, and remember, Skaven do not exist.
If course the ratmen do not exist my friend! and I appreciate your words 🙌🙏
Only to make you unaware manthing (maniacal laugh) 🐀
Thanks so much for this. Love Skaven lore. I read the second edition cover to cover so many times it fell apart. My favourite army ever.
Thanks, now you went and made me want to buy a third Warhammer army. Thanks a lot. Seriously though, great vid.
Of all the high fantasy material I consumed through the years, there's no fantasy race more vile than the Skaven. Games Workshop took the black plague concept to heart, lol And to mix steampunk tech with all the bizarre shit was a really good choice.
I've read the story myself at least half a dozen times. But still I enjoyed it a lot, you bring it well.
I love the Skaven lore.
I often come back to this exact video over and over. The voice acting, the design, the editing and the writing is honestly just as good as the actual game. Great job every single video. You all do great work!!
the skaven are probably one of the most well crafted races ever. They are so unique and the design is flawless. They are as simple as any animal, they only want to survive and they are still full of mystery and they have complex technology. They are hiding in the shadows... waiting for the day when they will rise and the vermintide will consume everything in its path
I like the Tilean story drawing inspiration from the Norse giant who attempted to steal Freya away by building a wall around Asgard.
I have a super challenge on a... sensative subject if you ever think of ending the series, (which i hope you don't cause i love them).
I challenge you as your series finale, the end times with many clips from battles and fights from the total war warhammer 2 (and/or 3 if it comes out before you make a vid about it) i know several people don't like the end times but i think it would be one heck of a video series ending, but until that day comes, which i hope not, you make really awesome videos no one else thought of using total war warhammer 2 clips as part of warhammer fantasy lore videos, my point is i love your vids and keep on doing them
Great suggestion :) I plan on waiting for TW:WH3 befrore even attempting to do End Times . Thanks for your words and your suggestion 🙌😃
@@TheBookofChoyer i agree that waiting for 3 for the end times would be a wise decision
dude this video really got under my skin with how disturbing it felt. it feels like a straight up horror film. talk about shedding the skaven from the laughs and jokes and portraying the REAL nightmare that they really are. nicely done sir.
Who could dislike this? It was so well done!
Probably people who are trying to deny the skaven's existance an make others deny it too
Witch Hunters.
The production value is off the charts, hot damn. I think "the Curse of thirteen" is my new favourite warhammer lore now.
I love your videos! As a new warhammer player your videos just get me deeper into the game I love the lore and the way you tell it 😻
Everyone: eww they are so gross
Me: A N G E R Y
H A M S T E R
This is truly one of the best videos i've ever watched from your channel
I asked my friend, once, why there didn’t seem to be any female skaven. He quickly told me, “we don’t talk about the female skaven.” I was confused and looked it up. We don’t talk about the female skaven.
I am a fool.
@@samueln.rnascimentodosreis6918 oh no
For those who might, thier big, fat and violent as shit and I'm ironically not talking about male skavens but the female ones
“It’s not that bad” I thought. It’s that bad.
@@nofoxgiven6561 it’s that bad
i like the voice over guy he makes it fully legit and the edits are nice to
was expecting a boring video of how the Skaven came to be, instead, I was pleasantly surprised with a horror movie type documentary of the Skaven.
This is my first time seeing one of your videos and I can only say this: fantastic job, dude! Your voice work is top notch and sounds very professional, like something I'd see on TV! The writing and video itself is great! Keep up the great work!
2seconds in and I'm like FINALLY someone who actually has the voice for this kind of thing. Instead of some geeky high pitched voice that drowns out the music and degrades the tone in which the video was intended.
Amazing video! One question: who exactly WAS the stranger who offered to finish the tower? Was he a champion of the Great Horned Rat? An avatar of the Rat? Or something else? What could that else be?
Yes-yes
Fell down this rabbit hole of warhammer lore head first, most channels I've watched just seem to reading copy and pasted if o of wiki but my friend this is storytelling the only way fantasy should be told. Excellent
do hope that this will be the Warhammer movie that we'll such a perfect intro into the series
Skaven is my main race in anything Warhammer. I love them so much! Lore, playstyle, units, aesthetic. Amazing!
Genuinely got goosebumps. This is fantastic
I'm glad! Thank you sir!🙌
Wait, how sick is 17:15? These are tabletop figures, right? Must have been 1000 Skaven there. Put them together and paint them all is absolutly incredible. Also really great camera and effects work on this!
Beautiful story telling!!!!!. Always wondered about this factions origins. Congrats as usual on another well done video!!!!
The ambience and your natural storytelling voice make your videos so good.
So basically the humans were like “what if we created Tower of Babel V2” then got tired of building the tower and a random was like “yo yo you need help?” But he tricked the ungí by summoning the skaven.
Epic
Entirely unrelated to Warhammer oddly enough but the toll of the great bell is how I've always imagined an Onager mass driver from Halo sounding. Deep melodic clanging.
You created great atmosphere, one of the best videos here, very good Job sir :D
Many thanks Samuel! 😃
I love that sound of the bell, Skaven are easily my favorite fantasy faction
@Bao Thuy anything in 40k would kick the shit put of AoS eventually, but the Tau are one of the smallest factions in warhammer, they'd have a hell of a struggle doing it.
@Bao Thuy you seen there war machines? Not many in the AoS can match there technology. Not to mention, the Tau are shit at melee, the Skaven are fast, and they come in the millions.
@Bao Thuy I figured they'd handle em as well as they handle the Tyronids, fine at a distance, but unless they kill them all at range they're fucked
BEST LORE TELLER EVER SEEN GOOD JOB I LOVE IT SOO MUCH!♥
I'am convinced that some segments are shots of a huge Warhammer fantasy battle diorama with after fx-effects added, looks amazing.
OMG, the narrators voices so breathtaking. I hope your channel will grow more.
I love how the bell wagen just cruising in the background at 20:58 :P
Amazing narration 10/10 would love to hear you in any animation and or gaming. Keep up the good work👌👍
Skaven are one of the most interesting races in the warhammer universe to me. They technologically both advance as man and dwarves with rideable machines and warp-flame throwers, yet a lot of the weapons they have are equal to two pieces of metal wrapped together with strips of leather. They are completely crazy and paranoid, yet the chaos gods don’t want to go near them. They are they type of race that would jump at you stab you in the back, then run away before they could know if it even killed you. They are like the ultimate glass cannon of races. I think it is super funny how even though some of them can use magic (grey seers) , they could build a giant bomb out of warpstones and blow up any city into a pile of rubble. Then they will simply move into the ruined city and live in the sewers and build down deeper and deeper. They have the best and the worst of all races at once and are still not able to be put out of existence. I love these things, even if they would love to turn my body into a sign.
This was absolutely amazing! Fantastic storytelling and great videography!
Thanks lot Jacob!🙏😃
Just came here to say that I have watched the video exactly 13 times over the last year. Is my favourite warhammer lore video ever and super inmersive, specially the counting of the bell tolls :D
To be honest, Those guys that wanted that big tower really had the mindset of: “size always matters”
This is one if not the best lore video I’ve seen on UA-cam you did great capturing the theme of the Skaven. Great job !!!
Really appreciate it Justin. Thanks man.
This is amazing - we need more Lore Videos!
If the Skaven ever for even 20 minutes stopped fighting each-other and decided to travel topside we would be completely helpless.
Best one yet, dude! The Skaven are my favorite race in TWWH2
I'm glad Mike!! Thank you for watching!🙂🙌
My rat Bois getting the view numbers they deserve 1M and counting as all Skaven focused videos should be
Loved this video! Great story telling and with the sound of the bell, was amazing. Like watching a horror movie. More like this please!
9:00 the bell noise sounds sooooo good