Chaos Invades the Empire! - Warhammer End Times Lore DOCUMENTARY
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Wizards and Warriors Channel fantasy animated documentary video series on the lore Warhammer Fantasy Battles Universe continues with an aftermath of our episode on the life and battle of Sigmar Heldenhammer ( • How Sigmar Won His Bat... ). Crisis called the End Times is upon the world and it is beckoned by the Champion of Chaos Archaon the Everchosen. In the aftermath of his conquest if the Norsca and victory over the northern Dwarfs ( • Warhammer End Times: R... ), continues its advance this time attacking Kislev ruled by the Ice Queen Katarin Bokha ( • Warhammer End Times: C... ). This opened the route towards the Auric Bastion raised by the leading wizard of the Empire Balthasar Gelt and its breaking in Ostland culminated at the battle of the Castle Rackspire, where the Empire received unexpected help from the Vampire counts in the face of Vlad von Carstein
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Thank you for the video. keep up the great work!.
Its powerfull, beautifull and easy,..but enough about Slaanesh, make me happy that i was to lazy to skip the ad
@@crewlisbon5584 Sex chariots.
When's your next Sci-Fi video?
The best section of the series, will be the last of the Grail Knights making one last charge along with the last of the Vampire Blood Knights. Imagine how the writers felt, knowing what they had to do to the universe.
Louen Leoncoeur standing alone against Ku'gath Plaguefather in the Temple of Shallya is a solid honourable mention
@@Sigismund until Louen then unceremoniously got his head sawed off by Festus (at least that’s what I remember having happened)… That was pretty stupid
@@jordinagel1184 depends on if you go with the novelization or the background book that came paired with the rules. Given that the background book is the worse of the two every time, I treat it as the more unreliable narrator and defer to the novels pretty much every time.
@@Sigismund and which of the two did Louen’s demise at the hands of Festus occur?
@@jordinagel1184 Both, but the anticlimactic decapitation is only in the background book. The novel gives a better send off. Getting killed by Festus after soloing Ku'gath isn't an issue, imo. It's the 'how' of it happening.
-Ah yes let me just trust this woman I just met
-Ah yes let me just trust this priest who tells me to kill the most trusted man in the empire
-Ah yes let me use necromancy in my kings face
-Oh no the priest was a liar?
-At least he is gone
+Ah yes let us abandon the very thing that defends us from the hoard of killing beasts whom we saw before of what they can do if they break our defense because the dude who planned it all out knows 2 necromantic spells that we know he used totally not to save our land
We aRe sO FkInG SmARt and LoGicAl...
I also love Chaos perpetually assaulting the regenerating wall
'Should we use all these ships we have? The ones that killed the Dwarf Navy and blockaded Erengrad. And just...go around the wall?'
"Nah, imma headbut the wall till it breaks"
I mean guys, Gelt's reasoning is thoroughly explained in the books. He was exhausted, frustrated and extremely scared for his Empire,his status and his life if he couldn't manage to replicate his feat in Sylvania with the Auric Bastion. He wasn't stupid, he was just an extremely proud and lonely man, in no condition to work anymore...
Let's remember that W&W hasn't covered all the undead antics thus far.
Then, it's not "a priest", it's the Ar-Ulric himself. Volkmar is dead and the new Grand Theogonist is a fanatic who hates Gelt from the get go. And the Ar-Ulric and Gelt and Gelt had developed a deep friendship for years.
And one of the reasons why Gelt was a bit mistrusted is because the raids by ship didn't stop at all. It's just that Chaos isn't a single force with a single navy, most tribes were simply land bound and didn't know about the bastion until well into Kislev. Gutrot Spume for once never once bothered assaulting the bastion via land.
I mean, I get disliking the End Times and even disliking the whole narrative direction they've taken the characters, but some of these comments are just disingenuous. There's plenty of reasons to dislike the End Times without wrongly portraying its events haha
Pizzifrizzo, The biggest one for me is the cult simply giving up on the bastion simply because felt used necromancy.
@@timberthus2562Yeah, if it's the end of the world just work with the vampires. Also Gelt used a necromancy spell to save the emperor, so what? Regardless of how dumb he was, that just shows his loyalty
@@Canadian_Zac 😂😂😂
Khornate Berserker: Blood for the blood god, skulls for the skull throne, milk for the khornfla-*head explodes*
Empire Handgunner: Handgunners a good job mate, its challenging work, outer doors and I guarantee you'll never go hungry.
Meet the Empire Handgunner : (Tf2 Sniper Ost plays)
The End Times frustrate me immensely, there are so many dumb and tactical mistakes by characters who were otherwise strategic geniuses. Reminds me alot of the ending of Game of Thrones.
Yeah. GW didn't care enough to give it a proper story.
@@Rellana1 which was purely due to the fact they weren’t making “enough” money from it. So they figured f it we’ll destroy it all. What they failed to realize was that they simply priced the vast majority of people out of it.
@@forrestdorman4870 For sure. The prices I saw to field a decent army were stupid to the extreme.
@@forrestdorman4870 Yeah, they saw 40k making more money, so switched it to Age of Sigmar, which made it play like 40k
Then, since nobody was playing it since there was just 40k with the same mechanics, they just blew up the world and switched fully to 40k
I mean technically if they made no mistakes they will still lose.
That's the power of the writers.
Imagine being a nation so powerful that the company had to give the bad guys more plot armor just to stop you lmao
It's worse than you think xD. The first end times, Storm of Chaos was originally an ORDERTIDE. In that when it happened it was base off the actual player community results of games played and results tallied. The problem was that they released a chaos codex alongside it that was absolute shit from what I recall so Chaos did horrible with the exception of the Orcs and Skaven. So they had to bullshit their way around how Chaos got to the final battle in the first version despite losing every major battle.
In the new version they just straight up write everyone as morons because they didn't want a repeat of chaos getting assraped again.
I continue to be amazed that Humanity and its Allies refuse to actually utilize their fortresses. Like, what’s the point of building them if you’re just going to fight right outside it’s gates? If anything the fortresses seem to work against them, as they block the path of retreat. Smh
That happens in any kind of fiction, realy, and that's sad and stupid. But then in fiction, fortresses never seem to work as well as they did in real life and they get stormed within a day or so anyway...
sallying out of a fort is a real life tactic , as just holding a fort siege requires supplies , and a large army would be starved out if that happens .
@@Tommonius yeah you have a point but considering the battle covered here they were caught off guard and probably were not expecting anyone to break through the enchanted wall so I don't think they had provisions for a siege , the were surprised and had to react quickly so they sallied forth retreating to the fort only when the battle seemed lost to find refuge in the walls , but from that point on the surprise was gone and you are correct they really should have utilized their defences after that.
@syrtar Agreed, that's why I qualified "in fiction". IRL fortresses were great and even a small garrison could hold of a much larger force for months. But in fiction they always seem to fall to storm within a day or two.
@syrtar ok thats cool and all but demons dont really care about some high walls dude
and also MAGIC lmao
Gelt :- Imma prepare a bastion to save humanity .
Also Gelt :- Alright the Empire is completely unaware of the fact of the Chaos agents inside its lands . Lets forget about the bastion .
TBF, walls do crap if the eneny is already inside
@@amandag.6186jokes on gelt
The End Times are very frustrating, but your videos are not! ;)
Keep the WH videos coming guys! Thank yooou! :)
Like all terrible endings to great stories, there are moments of redemption and the culmination of excellent character building, and Vlad Von Carstein is one of them
Vlad, Gelt, Mannfred, Kurt Helborg, Festus, Nagash, Ungrim... A lot of nice moments, a pity for the elves and (mostly) the greenskins, they really got the short end of the stick for the ET.
Manfred:fuck peace and happiness *Stabs Gelt*
I must admit, I prefer this art style much more than the "realistic" looking Sigmar series.
Same
Bruh that actually had the animation of 3d porn
8:36 Shouldn't the Patriach of the Eight Colleges of Magic know better than to trust random and mysterious magic given by a mysterious figure he know nothing about and who disappeared just as mysteriously?
22:47 that's one of the (many) points i don't understand, he was too exhausted to use Chamon magic but not too exhausted to use necromancie, a magic he is less familiar with than Chamon. Go figure. Not to mention he just believe the priest of Ulric on his good word without even trying to confirm it beforehand. Even without the demon, it's not like Ulric Cult was very friendly with Sigmar Cult and thus, to the Chosen of Sigmar.
23:43 like seriously, the hordes threatens to destroy the empire, the auric bastion is the only thing stopping them, and the priests just walk away? you do wonder how dumb they can be.
is there a reason why Gelt can use both gold and necromancy? I thought humans could only use one type of magic no matter how hard they tried
@@agrippa2012 not exactly, the Dhar, the dark magic, is a conglomerat of all the winds, it's chaos in its most purest, evilest state and humans can use it. But using it is very dangerous and tend to destroy/transform/corrupt the caster which is why the elves taught humans to use only one Wind to diminish the risks.
@@agrippa2012 Necromancy uses a type of magic called Dhar which is made of all the other types of magic squished together. It's easier to use but corrupting.
@@agrippa2012 any mage can use any magic, its just a matter of training
The Elves use all winds, but humans dont live that lomg, so they taught them a simpler version to focus on 1 wind
Gelt is the best wizard in the Empire. He could definitely learn more winds if he wanted to
For the last question, the Cult of Sigmar basically refuses to support the Bastion after Gelt’s dealings with necromancy is revealed to all, deeming the work to be heretical if it was created by a corrupted man. Even Karl Franz wishes Volkmar the Grim were still alive instead of the then-head of the church Kaslain as he may have had a different reaction to the news of Gelt.
Side note: the Order of the Templars of Sigmar, aka the Witch Hunters, persecute the entire Golden Order, the order to which Gelt belongs to, as they suspect that Gelt’s corruption reached to all of them. This allows the Amber Wizard Gregor Martak to become the Supreme Patriarch with Gelt’s absence.
Wolfram possible last thoughts: "What about that, you filthy blob? Today we're going together!"
The cult of Sigmarr really be like damn you used necromancy? Now we gotta let them kill us
16:03 Festak: "Uh Mr. Nurgle, I don't feel so good"
Can’t wait for more videos! Love this Warhammer content!
I was eating when I heard about Squarespace. I almost died choking on my laughter because of it. Well done!
Hot damn! More Warhammer Lore on a Friday? Loving this so much! Brilliant series!
And remember that before any of this happened, Nagash actually defeated an earlier Chaos invasion before the Empire knew about it. Talk about plot armor...the new God of Death id defending your realm!
16:12 ngl, those lines were straight up poetry. Good job.
Damn, next Empire playthrough, I gotta send bazillion of gold to Kislev so they can muster more armies
It was done beautifully, your channel is unrivaled truly. I hope you do more videos on Warhammer later other than the end times, other corners of the world too, like Lustria, Ulthuan, the southlands, Araby or Nehekkara, Warhammer is basically war everlasting!
I really liked this video. You manage to turn lores people are barely knowing into something of interest, with battles and politics playing a central role.
About time been waiting for you to continue this series!!!
Now Im hyped for more Bretonnia. Maybe we will get the Great Battles of Guilles
i really love this serie with Warhammer lore,please continue posting,theyre amazing
I second that I'd love them to do Vampire Wars my favourite Warhammer piece of lore and book series.
Great video! Warhammer lore is fascinating to me.
How about a bio on Karl Franz?
For gods sakes its ARRR-KAY-ON are you TRYING to annoy us??!?!?!
Amazing video! Can't wait to see what happens next
I do hope the "Storm of Chaos" gets covered someday. Fun to compare the difference when the owner isn't trying to blow up the world.
That'd be chaos losing 90 percent of the battles but somehow getting to the final battle xD
Pretty much, but if nothing else there is details on how those battles went on the old Storm of Chaos website so their is enough info to make a few videos out of it. @@thirstyserpent1079
Loving the Warhammer content
Hell yeah, brother.
Wait, I thought Castle Rasckpire was next to the Auric Bastion. Why on the map appears all the way down in Sylvania?
It’s good seeing the Empire army in action from the actual Warhammer Fantasy Battles Game. And the Vampire Counts too.
Kings and Generals/Wizards and Warriors I love your highly detailed, top-down videos depicting battles but there are several errors here. The battle itself takes place at the Ostermark village of Alderfen. The composition of the Empire and Chaos forces are a bit different too: yes, Wolfram Hertwig, Elector Count of Ostermark, leads the Empire forces and Festrak Krann, Chaos Lord of Nurgle, leads the Chaos forces but there are no Plague Toads, instead the Great Unclean One (Greater Daemon of Nurgle) Gurug’ath of the Endless Rot is present along with a Mutalith Vortex Beast, Aeson the Fallen. Also, Hertwig’s army is a mix of Middenland, Talabheim, Nordland, Wissenland and Ostermark soldiery and his Runefang is called Troll Cleaver, well known to prevent unnatural regeneration. I can go into how the battle goes down a bit differently in the book.
Also, I’m assuming that Nagash’s third and final resurrection will be covered in another video but that would go onto explain why Vlad von Carstein is back: he was killed at the end of the First Vampire War but is brought back as the Mortarch of Shadow.
Still, a great video!
Another great video do the Malazan book of the fallen series they are a fantastic book series if you don't already know of them
To anyone with no previous knowledge of Warhammer, if a lot of this lore looks stupid, trust me, it’s because it is and Warhammer fans hate it
Im still holding on to the hope that the last episode of this series will only be 2 minutes long with the narrator just saying "Chaos has won easily and that human sized rat people destroyed an entire continent, pillaged the rest of the world and also blew the moon to bits I guess".
@@cpom5075 “also Chaos won because the bald vampire decided to be a dick at the WORST possible time.”
I hear if you keep crying one day you may make youself happy, but i doubt it
@@Saintphoenix86 Are you seriously complaining about someone making fun of the event universally hated by Warhammer fans?
@@sirunklydunk8861no he’s pointing out that you continuing to complain about the outcome and writing of a fictional event won’t change anything lmao
I cannot wait for the next episode now! Why? Because I wanted to know what happened next! If anyone knows spoilers, please give them to me because I wanted to know what happened next!
Just go read the Warhammer wiki then :)
Theres a story known as storm of chaos which is a paralell story of end times you should look it up.
Could be a interesting story to do a video on.
What is the difference
My favorite faction, for the sol reason, is that he has a golden mask like Aurelian.
Excellent. Thank you
Love Warhammer Lore, JUST LOVE IT!!! if you do 40K too would be epic, Star Gate and Star Trek.
Thanks you for this vidé, it is great work
And for the first time but not the last Vlad Con Carstein comes to save the day
Pls make the next episode faster it's great 🔥
Another Warhammer video......Great !!!!!!
Awesome! Keep them coming!
Amazing, next video please! 😁
Aldebrand Ludenhof was the elector count of Hochland not Stirland.
That's simply amazing!
Loving this series.
_Welcome to Estalia, gentlemen._
Balthasar Gelt
plays Paranoid in the backround....
the downside of talking about archaon at all is we had to talk about end time
30k videos would do awesome
Thank you.
Vlad von Carstein, that's my Emperor, I will fight under him in defend the living and those who came before, and when I am slain he will raise me so that I may fight to protect once more.
Wolfram what a fckn beast of a man
These videos are my favorite, and I do not care about the economics of Mordor. Y'all are missing a lot of potential with everyone's attention on the Horus Heresy right now. None of the lore channels have ever done the Horus Heresy Campaigns from a top-down military strategy perspective. We have full maps fo the Imperium at different stages and the 9 Heresy Campaign "Black Books" are filled to the brim with information nevermind the novels. As someone who's read all the Horus Heresy and Siege of Terra novels, I would absolutley watch a series devoted to the story mapping out the movements from system to system from a military strategy perspective that y'all are so good at.
I'm a simple man, you praise the Prince, I like
The biggest plot-armor in the End Times,was that Chaos had an army of millions and millions. And I'm talking about the "human" warriors of Chaos. How did the freezing North,had a bigger population than most of the Old World and Lustria? The armies that came down to attack were seemingly endless rows of Chaos forces,each. The ones who attacked the Empire,the ones who attacked Kislev,the ones who attacked the Dark Elves...and THEN came Archaeon with even MORE Chaos. This is absolutely ridiculous.
Jup the same goes for the Skaven. They didn't win in a Skaven way. Every battle is just, they outnumbered or digged a tunnel. Done
good guy Vlad
The "End Times" was the worst mistake Games Workshop ever made - but they are too pig headed to admit it.
Agreed. AoS has gotten progressively better but that the game. The setting is STILL missing the lore richness that the old world had.
@@forrestdorman4870 We both can agree that AoS has improved over past years.
Though if you won't mind, could you elaborate "missing the lore richness"?
@@TheVergoner that’s a tough one to fully explain. The lore to put it simply is as wide as Lake Superior and as deep as a shallow creek. There’s lots of stuff and locations and named characters but it’s all fairly uninteresting to just shallow. There are nearly no maps except some that are again shallow. Few named locations except the major places. The planes are these GIANT places expanding across locations many times the size of the old world that was. But there are few named cities or towns. You don’t have grand campaigns of the past like Vlads attempt to take over the empire. Or the many invasions of Chaos before the end times. The world rarely feels lived in. There are few nations with detailed backstories. The world of AoS is filled with these grandiose feats of the gods and this age of myth but little to no detail. We really don’t know the details behind the age of chaos. Except again the MOST general of information.
Love the series!
Still don’t get how GW justifies the priests refusing to protect the empire just because Gelt used necromancy.
I swear to Chaos if you pronounce Arkhan the Black's name the way Archaon the Everchosen is mean to actually be pronounced...
I'll make the End Times look like a tuesday
IKR? i mean for the love khorne, please get it right...
@@christoffereilskov5006 What about the pronunciation of Dwarfs. It's there a reason he says it like that?
Yeah cant believe nobody is mentioning it ArchAon ffs not Archon
Can’t believe u can’t accept someone talking different from you lol it’s called different countries and accents but what would u know
Keep the warhammer coming!
"Faith, Steel and Gunpowder".
Spanish Conquistadors approves.
Only grey knight Alexis Jonus can save the empire!
damn good video
was really hoping you would do more Warhammer fantasy that isn't the end times
Ludenhof was not a elector cound of Stirland but Hochland
Please make some 40K videos as well
The end times are so brutal for our boys 😥😥
Man yall weren't kidding when you said the writing for the end times suck
More please
HE'S STILL SAYING "ARCON" ._. ITS AR-KAY-ON
Please do Warhammer 40K videos.
Isn't Ludenhof Hochland's Elector Count?
Please do one on the Gundam Universe
Maybe other animes as well; Naruto (The 5 Nations and Great Ninja Wars), Fullmetal Alchemist (the history of Amestris) or One Piece (The World Government and Pirates).
Or even Record of Grancrest War, which some consider an anime equivalent of Game of Thrones.
You guys should eventually make some videos on Gotrek and Felix, that would be awesome.
"The Dorffs" ??? What has Steven been up to this time?
So Gelt became Magnus the red now
While there are some nice things in the Endtimes, overall they are just garbage I 100% ignore. Ok, not 100%, but it was just a Chaos Invasion that got repelled, so?
Thank you for another WHFB video!
You should do a fallout version. And maybe stellaris events
Gameworkshop could make a better end times like less tactical blunders by the defenders, but nope they make geniuses character lose their braincells lol
GW: How do we destroy the most popular faction (by faaaaaar) out there?
PAID WRITERS: Lore-wise, common-sense-wise, and tournament-wise (Ordertide), they are actually hard AF to beat. It will take soooo much thinking power to devise a strategy to beat The Empire. So let's stop thinking hard and take the easy route: PLOT ARMOR baby!
GW: Make the main characters dumb AF and bury their technologically advance armies in a sea of infinite plot armor minions? WE LOVE IT! I am pretty sure the fans would love it as well. Why is it that good guys should win all the time?! Go for it!
PAID WRITERS: We will write the laziest........ I mean the greatest plot armor stuff of all time! Fans of chaos and order alike would never complain.
Fans (Chaos and Order alike) after founding out and reading the END TIMES: What piece of plot garbage is this? What have they done to these characters?
Fantastic artwork! Its nice to see some inspiration drawn from the storytelling in Total War: Warhammer. But for the love of God, learn to say Archaon correctly!!!
Are we getting a GyroGelt meme in this video?
Boo! We want the Storm of Chaos timeline!
This video is going to be painful to watch
We’re happy it isn’t the Lizardmen, chaos Dwarfs, and eastern kingdoms
Love the end times series, lotta people hate it but pleas don’t listen to them, I love the series and wanna see it thought till the end!!
There is way too much plot armor for the bad guys (how the f does Grimgor lose a duel against some random minor Chaos lord???) and people taking uncharacteristically dumb decisions to move the plot along (Tzarina: "My lands have been destroyed, my capitol is in flames, best I march to Erengrad, there is no way Chaos has reached the city by the Sea of Claws) to take this seriously. It's poorly written because GW wanted to nuke the world so they could make more money.
*Archaon not Archon
This there was a lot of happen in durney end times
WOW!
From which site can I get the Warhammer book?
The Black library,or there are some on Audible,if you like audiobooks.
Noooooooooooo.... They runing everything!!!
Glad I'm not really a fan of Warhammer fantasy or was one when this happened because this; This is a bit of a mess.
SIGMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!!!
Kislav is destroyed forever or will return again
Oh, they dead as spit. Spoilers for a ten year old event, it's called the End Times for a reason. Everyone dies, the world ends, and the Age of Sigmar table top game replaced it.
Not only Kislev, but the entire Warhammer world is soon to be destroyed.
@@drandersjiang In a cacophony of the Skavan deleting entire civilizations off screen, serious out of character moments for the big players, demon hordes in a setting that has a giant swirling Magical vortex specifically so that demon hordes can't spawn, Sigmar stealing Karl Franz's body, and the Skaven blowing up the moon with a rocket (that part is actually cool).
I really, really don't care for the EndTimes, I think it was always something better left a threat in the background