Beasts Of The Old World! Skin Wolves and Werecreatures
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- The old world is full of monsters! but few as insidious and creepy as the skin wolves!
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Witch hunter: oh its just a peasant.
Peasant: turns into a giant humanoid platypus.
Witch Hunter: a Were Platypus!
Peasant: Puts on witch hunter hat.
Witch Hunter: Perry the Were Platypus!
Oh fuck, you almost made me piss myself!
@@LethargicGM arch had to mention a were Platypus.
Witch*, oh illiterate one.
@@Ankhtowe i was half asleep and phone autocorrect is wonky.
It is creepier when the beast is essentially a separate entity rather than a fursuit for an already rowdy thug.
Personally I've wanted a horror series/movie set during the late stages of a genestealer takeover of a hive city for over a decade. Just imagine the potential there.
Arch PLEASE more old world monsters content! It's always great, and I can never get enough of that voice condescendingly explaining how fucked we are if we run into the creature.
I like how werewolvves look in the Howling and Dog soldiers where they are slender but muscular. They have a swimmer/track runner muscles but tall.
My theory why the Norskin versions are more muscular is no doubt due to them breeding them. Maybe there is even ones that are servants of the various chaos gods with markings and such denonating which one.
Khorne:Covered in gore, symbol tattoo all over, and has skulls on its belt.
Nurgle:Diseased looking maybe foaming at the mouth
Tzneech:Wearing feather headresses and maybe recieving an additional mutation of wings (flying werewolves would be scary shit)
Slaanesh:.......................more like furry art *shudders in horror*
Slaanesh skin wolf enters villagers hut: OwO wat diz?!
Norscans are more disciplined that Southerners give them credit for. Some set up fake villages filled with slaves so they can have young Norscans raid them as part of their training. Add that kind of discipline with their reverence for mutations and the like and a Norscan skinwolf breeding program is not impossible. It also explains how the Norscans acquired enough skinwolves to form army units of them.
This. Also the ears from the Howling. Ear position signals aggression in canids. Hard to get this across on a monster without those long pointed ears.
"breeding program" XD It's Norska, you can have a harem if you can feed them and there is no birth control.
More like they have evolutionary advantage in savage Norska. Also better access to mages that can help them figure shit out, instead of being burned at sight.
Slaanesh-aligned fleshwolf, upon being run through with several blades and stakes:
*"AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGH!!!*
...now do my ass."
I'm imagining a sub-faction of SkinWolves and other werecreatures who have somehow learned to control their inner beasts and live on the outskirts of society as defacto guard dogs.
Sounds like Dogs of War you might get out of a subquest with a random chance to procc. Perhaps with outposts being a thing in 3, there can be unique locations that can offer unique allies?
Could do. There's also the Children of Ulric. Non-Chaos werewolves said to have the blood of the Wolf God in their ancestry. They're allergic to holly instead of silver, too! :3
The were-platapus isn't real. It can't hurt you.
Arch: Were-platspus exists
Having characters in Warhammer see friends and loved ones turn in into mutants,vampires, etc. Is one aspect I see in the setting more than anything else. Really drawing out that whole conflict with the human heart sort of thing.
Bonus points for the fact being a mutant or vampire doesn't instantly turn you evil or anything. You just have every reason not to be a good person anymore.
God damn, when you said "he cuts down trees" I continued singing I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok, and I'm still singing it
Me too!
Same... But I think Arch set it up deliberately!
I might have added a twist that it wasn't the woodsman, it was one of his loved ones, so he sets out to pursue the monster only to end up killing the last of his loved ones. That's more a tragedy than a horror though...
Perhaps one or both of the grandparents living in the attic Arch mentioned when setting up the story?
I was think that too. Angry werewolf grandma sounds awesome
To restore the horror, the woodsman is "infected," by the end, without his knowledge, as himself rebuilds his life. And then one night, with his own children and grandchildren comfortable beneath him, his small shrine to lost wife besides him, when suddenly he suffers a heart attack, blacks out, and wakes up in an unknown den, in an unknown area, with Witchhunters yelling all around.
The cycle turns and turn, grinding as many beneath its uncaring surface that can fit.
@@dark_fire_ice maybe make it his sister that was the first skinwolf, because skinwolves aren't exactly comprehended in most of the warhammer world they don't know it's inheritable? IDK if being a skinwolf is "infectious."
Ran that story once as DM for a World of Darkness story,
Just started playing as the World Walkers in Total War Warhammer II, and I’ve pretty quickly learned just how much carnage these things can unleash in melee…
They are very nasty, them and the mammoths...
They more damaging in using SFO mod. However they become a somewhat glass cannon but key is somewhat. They freaking regenerate.
Love using a mod that allows Skinwolf Lords for a wolf themed army lol
In the 2e bestiary there was a random mutation that made you a “were-mutant”, where you could retain a human form and assume the mutant form at will or under duress
They go to feed the were.
They are very dangerous, but the bonds of kinship are strong
Then I truly weep for the rest of the world for us the Norsca are the ones that are blessed.
@@Marinealverblessed? Mate have you seen the things they worship?
Just a thought: Perhaps another layer of creepiness could be added to the Skin Wolves. The bigger the difference between the man and the beast inside, the more violent the transformation and the less memory is retained.
Your woodcutter remembers nothing of butchering his family, but as he becomes the monster he is trying to avenge, his memories come back, his transformations become less random, until the man is lost in the beast...
I submit that might capture the real grimdark of Warhammer!
The idea of a wolf bursting out of someone's flesh and skin, as the flesh and bone snaps and moulds into place, a new layer of skin grows and hair sprouts across the new form. Its horrifying.
I JUST REALIZED ARCH'S BEARD IS ANIMATED
WHAT!?!?!
@@Blood.Angel. IT IS
ITS ANIMATED IN THIS ONE
IT MOVES
YOU HAVE TO LOOK CLOSELY BUT THAT BLUD MOVES
@@catneko6855
YOU LIE!!!!
@@Blood.Angel. I DO NOT WATCH IT CLOSELY, IT SAGS SLIGHTLY
@@Blood.Angel. HE SPEAKS THE TRUTH! TURN UP THE RESOLUTION OF THE VIDEO!
Your experience with Dracula is very similar with mine and House of Leaves.
Mom just saw a book in english with the name that sounds pleasant and went "hey, my kid might use this to practice english"
I had a full-blown "what if I am a character that someone is reading while I read about a character that is watching a character?"
7:42 The picture you chose there is really fitting I must say, really fits the mood you're setting. :)
Work like the Hellsing movie werewolf just more brutal. Also, what of the Children of Ulric?
Exactly. They were even featured in a Gotrek and Felix short story
They arebalso mentioned in the second WHFRP ed beastiary.
I’d like to know more about the Children of Ulric.
@@fumarc4501 they’re sort of like reverse-werewolves. Instead of men who turn into wolves, they’re more like wolves who can take the form of men.
Hellsing movie was literally what I thought of
He cuts down trees, he skips and jump, he like to crush wild flowers.
I love your story. It sounds like a origin story for a "Solomon Kane"-type / Witch Hunter character.
Yes, i already planned story board etc in my head, but sadly 17century peasant houses with period correct wooden plates and full interiors etc, specially ones where you can plash blood all over are bit hard to come by these days.. also finding suitable actors with essentially zero budget would be touch, when you tell them you are going coat them in blood and visceral.. of real kind since why make effects, if you dont make them realistic for perfect effect on the viewer.. vomit if all possible, since almost none of the movies i have seen, have been able to show proper effects of torn to peaces corpse. Also there is not many who can essentially method act psychotic breakdown that would come from seeing your beloved family suddenly being torn to peaces. I think i could pull it off but there is no fucking way i would fit to role of lumberjack of the period. CGI would be one option but its extremely difficult to get right textures and mentioned visceral effects required.
To pull off what i have in my head would be expensive and time consuming effort, but i do hope someone got excited enough to pull it off. Remember to talk to ER doctors for specific information on how say guy being attacked by bear and one sucked into combine harvester looks like. What kind of damage you can expect from this kind of beast biting, slashing and crushing. Also might want to look how wolfs attack their pray, but those hunt for food.. this one hunts for sake of blood lust, so actions should be more violent, but still beastial in nature.. ou and there is plenty of videos of cartel executions etc to show human side of this beast... yeah you might want to skip the meal and give though or two on will your sanity be able to handle all that research material first.....To be put simply, you need to be able to laugh at any horror movie made and those have zero effect on you to be able to view worst parts of the humanity make manifest in this beast of blood, that shows audience what true blood lust of such being is and its effects on standard human... Its going to be messy, disturbing and take lots of effort, but guess that is the reason why you rarely see movies like that and its questionable could you even show such film on any public platform, or does it need to be spread via less well known channels that tend to not get you any money for your effort...
Totally agree on the design/art.
Dog Soldiers is my favourite werewolf design. As you say. Sickly, spindly and creepy is better than beefcake.
The emergence over transformation idea is cool too.
We need more good werewolf/dogman movies.
Dog Soldiers is one of the best movies ever
Murder mystery with brilliant hobbit serial killer, utterly convinced he is doing it for the glory of chaos and very confused chaos cultist trying to catch him before the witch-hunters purge the city. XD
I remember an old 80's or 90's movie called "Cat People", about a brother-sister pair of were-panthers. They actually had the same type of messy transformation (going both ways) as the skin wolves.
I was under the impression that werewolves in Warhammer fantasy were created when the war-god Ulrich mated with Mortal women. And it wasn't considered a curse in some parts of the Empire and kislev
Did the Gotrek and Felix novels lie to me? Or have I just breathed in too much warp dust over the course of my life?
There are/was Children of Ulrich and Sons of Ulrich (some are also werewolves because what better way to prove how they descend from Ulrich).
Children of Ulrich are werewolves and the Cult of Ulric considers it to be a curse,the Church of Sigmar considers then to be Chaos abominations, some might consider then being blessed (and this was true in the distant past) but I considering both Sigmarites and Ulricans have the view they should be exterminated even if not everyone agrees to go to such extreme.
Another line of warp dust quick! quick!
@@aazz9676 imagine wielding so much power and then losing it thanks to an accursed dwarf and his human henchman.
*It's just so unfair!*
All I say is DWARF FORTRESS. YOu don't know terror until a the dreaded WEREZEBRA attacked
More like Were elephant
@@ratmancox8569 Maybe, but I happen to have werezebras every other game
It was a 5 minute made plot but it's sure as hell better that most of what a tv spawns nowdays ...
That skinwolf tragedy with the woodcutter is absolutely top tier, a comic of sorts to tell that tale would be fantastic!
In Gotrek & Slayer they encounter a Skin Wolf clan/family. And they are a third party, there is imperium and there are chaos cultist and there is the skin wolfs hating both equally.
That little horror story arch said. Memories of my brother bear came streaming down my mind. Great movie
The dreaded were walrus.
Watch you six, before it becomes a 69
most feared of all werecreatures.
If only the Lumberjack pressed wildflowers, then it would have been okay.
hey hey now, don't need more werewolf guys in women's clothing hanging around in bars now... or do we? :3
Arch dropping vids left and right agajn and i love it
Variations you say........Such as Werehamsters, Truly terrifying.
This doesn't even have to be a Warhammer game per se, but one where you play a Witchhunter sent to your average backwoods village and have to deduce what is causing all these deaths, with various causes like Vampires, Werewolves, Mutants or Chaos Cultists would be fascinating. Like taking Phantasmagoria, with a full single player/RPG campaign.
Sounds like the Witcher, lol
@@elkpants1280 ... you know, you're damn right. We need another one of those.
@@Dogmelter42 agreed. Hope CDPR gets their shit together after cyberpunk.
I like playing with mods that allow Werewolf or werebear lords/heroes. One of of my favorites is one that gives a skinwolf lord to Middenland and a cult of ulric skinwolf units as well.
Who doesn't love werewolves? Besides the people that are mauled by them, i mean
I pictured a dude being mauled and yelling "they said you didn't exist this is the happiest moment of my life. Agh pain."
If you get mauled you'll have to learn to love them, since pretty soon you'll be one.
@@uppishcub1617or the more likely answer... your dead as thats what mauling is
One of the better, age of sigmar audio books I have actually deals with skin wolves or something similar. There it was actively some kind of chaos curse, a dawrth and his human companion had raided a tomb or temple and found an artafact on a mummified skin wolf. And this artafact started to slowly corrupt the group into skin wolves. I found it quite entertaining as save for the heros of the story working for one of the God heros of age of sigmar the story was largely bereft of the usual short comings that plague age of sigmar story wise
Oh when I tried Norsca, these were my favourite units and agent. Torn Bretonian knight to pieces right of their horses.
Honestly, I love the concept of Werewolves ever since I first played Skyrim and became one years ago. And watching this video, many many times, I've fallen in love with this concept of Werewolves in particular. And no matter how many times I watch this I never fail to enjoy it immensely. I just loved how Arch described them as "almost Wendigo" and that story he came up with is spine chilling, especially with how he concluded it with the word "outwards". How he said it is still spine chilling to me to this day. I love Skinwolves so much, and Arch is a HUGE reason why. So thanks Arch, you made a Norscan/Skinwolf fan out of me.
The rate of which videos are produced is not enough to sate me. I'd say 300% more will do, thank you.
Maybe someone dedicated himself to a wolve God, got to become a skinwolve, quit that God but can't leave, created a family with kids and one of those kids inherited his dads gift without ever knowing.
Ulric happens to be a god associated with wolves...
@@BlueSatoshi i highly doubt he would cause something like that, i mean like a god that's not so well known only few people know about, joined, and are permanently stuck to until they pass on their curse or gift onto their child.
@@BlueSatoshi if ulric does that, either the imperials smash down every statue and burn every book dedicated to him, or they simply didn't read too much about him and he actually is the cause of this problem
@@angeloluna529 Or... it could possibly be the Cult of Ulric's greatest secret in a hypothetical WFRP campaign.
Or perhaps a sect that's lost its way.
It's vague enough to work with.
Now that was a treat 🙏 thank you arch
I've had an idea about them being some sort of people who would be attuned in some way, shape or form to Ghur. Brown Wind of magic that coonects to Lor of the Beast.
In one of the early Gotrek & Felix novels, the pair encounter a tribe of werewolves fighting a blood feud against a group of humans who'd taken over an isolated castle. According to one member of the tribe, they claimed ancestry from Ursun himself.
I remeber a gortrik and felix novel in wich there was were wolf like creature wich was called a "child of Ulric".
It was described as a magical and felix had to use a warp stone dagger to kill it.
This is a super fun one. Thanks for the info. Would love as much lore on the vampires you feel like giving us as well.
This is making me wax nostalgic for one of the Gotrek and Felix novels, where they have to fight a Skin Wolf Khornate Champion. That thing was a freak.
🎶He cuts down trees
He eats his lunch
He goes to the lavatory
On Wednesday he transforms into a monstrosity🎵
8:19 - 8:33 The most horrifying realization of that person’s life. Those last 3 seconds in particular… 1 word… 1 omfg moment unlike any other.
The skinwolves transformation sort of reminds me of the wendigo transformation. The monster tears itself outside of a human host
Freaky lanky skin werewolf is the far superior version, thank you for covering them
As a fan of transformation, I approve of the topic. It makes me wonder though, if other species are affected by this as well. Would a Lizardman turn into the aforemented duck under the right circumstances or an Ork into a puny werehuman?
And although it is a different universe, I like World of Darkness reendition of werecreatures, with the Wererats, Werecrocodiles, Wereshark or Werecats.
In Storm of Magic there is a spell, well more like a perils of the Warp that turns casters into a frog. 🐸
Well, Lizardmen are _probably_ alien in origin, while Elves, Dwarves, Humans, and Ogres (and technically Beastmen as well) likely share an ancestor that was native to the Warhammer World, prior to its displacement and subsequent terraforming.
Love the lore good sir, stay warm and toasty while the northern hemisphere freezes itself solid this month, cheers
He's a lumberjack and he's ok, he sleeps all night and he works all day! He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps, he likes to press wild flowers! He puts on werewolf's clothing, and shreds his entire family!
After this, I'm in the mood to watch some Underworld
Something to please the algorithm gods
Yes Yes more word speak for the gods!
he cuts down trees....he sells the wood
am i the only person that was expecting something else?
22:50 don't forget that ware creatures live a lot longer in Norsca, giving them more chance to breed and propagate.
Reason, logic and science being more likely reasons than magick and warp fuckery.
The transformation described reminds me of the effects for the Netflix series 'Hemlock Grove'; with the wolf form eating the discarded viscera after the change. Certainly a far more primal image than simply shifting shape.
Arch, buddy...have you ever thought about writing a Warhammer horror story yourself? Because this, THIS is golden man.
Ahh , Arch always has a way with words...especially when painting an image such as this.
Hell yeah. These guys don't get enough love. Actually have that FW limited edition Skin Wolf model that I plan on using as a daemon prince.
Q the adeptus mechanicus joe rogan talking about werechimps: " bip bop, you know, those werechimps will duck you up!".
Everyone always forgets about the weretapir. :(
It is violent
violent
Never change arch
Was fully enraptured in that lovely skin wolf woodsman story, but then when the trashed rails in LA popped up, I laughed my ass off.
He cuts down trees he eats his lunch he likesto press wild flowers.
I would pay a premium price for that story with the woodcuter skin wolf!!!
Why do I imagine a variation of the Lumberjack Song involving killing all night and working all day.
Thank you for the content, great video as always!
Hey Arch might want to redo this video, everything is fine except around the 7 minute mark a picture of the California Train robberies pop up for like a minute over the picture of the skin wolf. Think you might have clicked something by accident.
Here I was thinking it was a metaphor or illustration, but I just couldn't figure out how it related. Came to the comments to see if anyone mentioned it. Lol, probably Arch working on videos for his other channel right before this one.
@@Slatersan42 That, or the skinwolf was simply looking for a shipment of doggy treats!
Werewolves, boring?! Good sir! Clearly you haven't seen them on the blood bowl field. This must be corrected!
You may want to look into the Sons of Ulric, its very similar to the Urson theory you proposed
Were-guts but with a axe
It fits perfectly
1:11 VIOLENT... we get it Arch ;)
Couldn’t it be that were creatures are just an expression of amber magic created by unknowingly mages.
More like the wind unharness just doing its own thing.
they're just puppies howling at the moon, completely normal up here in the north
What if someone was a "wererat" and then used it to infiltrate a Scaven clan?
Got stabbed into back before entering the settlement cause scaven... mission failed we get him next time..
Ah Warhammer werewolves. Quite a bit more hardcore of what you usually see
Now, here's an important question, can non-humans be a were creature in Warhammer? Are there secret groups of Skaven Skin Wolves? A secretive order of Elven Skin Wolves? Are their mole based ones among the dwarves? God this raises so many interesting questions that I will likely never get answers to.
There are certainly elven lycanthropes. They're called the The Alter Kindreds, and they're a bunch of wood elves that are even more isolationist than normal wood elves.
@@adamlakeman7240 are you saying there’s elven tree hugger furries
thanks arch... very informative
Could A halfing be a were-terrorgheist? And be dubbed "suitcase nuke" by his traveling partners?
A Were Wombat
Were-Dragon Ogre - your trigger are close-by lightning strikes
Thanks for the lore, Arch!
8:55
obvious ?
yes.
still good.
enjoyed it much
More story-tales yes yes!
Now You got me interested in WH fantasy Lore. I thought it was kiddy versions of a Table Top....
That's some dark saga ingredients
the best part of Warhammer lore fantasy or otherwise is dark , grim and unrelenting remorseless.
Really love this one. Please cover other lesser known aspects of fantasy!
This was surprisingly nice and imaginative.
Love the old world series. Also I think Warhammer is one of the few settings where they are still scary and horror like.
A wereplatypus now that something even the Spanish inquisition would not expect.
Arch you forgot Children's of Ulric .
In a first book of Gotrek and Felix - Trollslayer Felix kills one of them.
Interestingly, in our world there was an order in Italy that claimed to be werewolves who transformed in their dreams and fought witches in the name of God. For a long time the official position of the church was that werewolves were not evil and that they could only transform on the astral plane.
"Catholic Church"
Why the fuck is the Catholic church so metal?
Sooo Powerwolf?
@@LethargicGM nah it wasn't the Catholics just some random peasants claiming that they did this Catholic peasants though
Powerwolves then.
Man back in the day of my Warhammer youth I had two factions that I made that were different they were home brew the weretooths and the web weavers were formed with creature Lore
the weretooths were skaven who got infected by a werewolf in Sylvania so these skaven where permanently transformed they had dwarven armor and carried huge battle axes they would hire themselves out as mercenaries and bodyguards every once in a while they would trick their own clan members by Moon tooth to go into Sylvania get infected to make new generations of wererats they would make their homes above ground where their howls could be heard above skaven bright
the web weavers where elves who transform into elven spiders they are a Lost colony who went deep into the Earth they found an spider egg in the deep caverns it had lush valleys and night forest's purple rivers and canyons and purple waterfalls but in their new Paradise
the skaven warlord rot tooth LED an invasion Force into their colony during the war the elven mage who was there leader suffered a huge wound but managed to push the skaven back using her life force she put it into the egg before she died she told them to take care of the egg because it was their salvation to look after it knowing the skaven would return they went deeper into the caverns and they took the egg with them they founded a new settlement area build a huge tower to protect the egg over the years
the new colony flourished but then tragedy struck as a night goblin war host came out of the shadows of the caverns casualties were mounting but the egg hatched in the tower and she was born of the body of beautiful but horrifying elf but the features of a spider her teeth was razor sharp her hair was black as midnight her for hands had razor sharp talons and her purple five eyes when she emerged from the tower her scream terrified
the night goblins where they stood in the middle of the colony settlement where the elves were holding off and then she descended on them ripping and tearing on them seening this the night goblins were terrified and retreated as the elven colonist redoubled their efforts and attack them from behind the night goblins were wiped out they looked at their new savior in shock and dismay but recognize her as their mage leader
locana she said looking at her people am proud you survived this long knowing that her people cannot survive another attack she told them that she needed a hundred of their best warriors lots of the warriors of their colony volunteered she then wrapped and weaved them into a giant web above the colony and told her people to be mindful of the skaven that are returning she descended into the web with her children and went back to sleep years went by and the colony
flourished and as foretold rotten tooth return with his skaven army but this time the colonists we're prepared and met him at the walls of the city as the battle fought for two days the skaven could not break through the walls until screaming Bell broke through their walls and breaking the minds of the elven defenders
as storm vermin in the thousands storm into the beach of the wall as everything seemed lost locana and her brood descended from the giant web above the City as webs pulled skaven into the air and then their body parts would descend back into the skaven host the skaven broken in fright as the spider host landed right into the middle of the skaven war host ripping and tearing as rot tooth try to flee but then locana use a web to pull down the screaming Bell on top of him crushing his entire body the skaven expedition never made it out of the caves alive so that was web Weaver's man
that was a lot of fluff but these were the two factions that i created when I was younger hope this interest you all in creating your own factions with creature lure
Ah the glorious man beast, one of my favorite topics.
Sauna & Arch lore.
Works every time.
Glory to lord Arch the omnipotent Blondie king of Norway, the holy algorithm, Arch is always right and Beasts Of The Old World.
How about a Mournguls lore video? You are a walking Black Library Arch and it's great to learn from you ;)
Werecreatures are always the best.
Loving the beasts of the old world series a true loremaster .
Hi Arch. Will you cover any of the creatures of the Vampire Coast like the rotting crabs?
Vampire Coast is not a GW-faction. It's made up by CA
As such, there is no Warhammer lore on the faction, except very little on some named characters
There certainly have been all sorts of people who have admitted their evil. As for taking responsibility for it, there's a reason why conversions to dogmatic religious perspectives are so much more effective than humanistic kindness in turning round criminals.
Oh, oh, maybe it's natural defense against chaos. That's why you see a increase the closer north you are. Just like the space wolves in 40k.