You're fantastic dude, just started playing warhammer 2 and learning all this new lore, your enthusiasm makes it way more interesting than anyone else's lore videos I've seen.
I always imagined the Vortex as a really creative and revolutionary way of applying magical principles. I also imagine the lizardmen, Slann included, too mentally rigid to become sufficiently creative
I know this is old but couldn’t help myself, in the Thanquol novels, Temple of the Serpent, the slann character compares the universe to math, and even refers to humans and elves and skaven (Thanquol in particular) as mathematical variables to be calculated. Thanquol in particular being the variable throwing all of its calculations out of whack to the point it does some crazy ass magic - or maths.
It's interesting you mentioned that the lizardmen were late additions to the lore and as such their conflicts are far away or they do behind the scenes work. It makes them feel like the most powerful race in a way(maybe not exactly what I mean but it makes them feel powerful, which is exactly what they are. Even weakened with the loss of the old ones they are the strongest mages in the world and can do amazing things other could only dream of. I can only imagine, had Mazdammundi and the lizardmen been there during the end times could it have gone differently, would the final spell that was ruined by Mannfred have worked had Madamundi helped? Nope they just flew away in space pyramids apparently. I think, I'm still learning alot of the lore cause I'm new to the franchise. But it's interesting you mentioned tiktaq'to now that he is confirmed the free dlc character of the lizardmen, he's got a sort of small but very important role in the lore. And to hold out for months against dark elves and chaos shows how good of a leader he is. So I'm not quite as dissapointed by his surprise reveal. Cause I thought it would be Gor-rok or Nakia(even though with further thought he'd be better off as a hero unit.
@@Killeraholic Oh really? That's cool. I remembered later that this video didn't mention that Mazdammundi caused the Time of woe for Dwarves. Unless that was retconned or that was when he did the living mountain thing.
@@Admiralkirk95 As far as I know he still did. Also when Mazdamundi died, Lord Kroak just willed hinself back to life and destroyed continent sized pieces of Morrslieb that were falling down, before also dying again as I remember and then all Lizardmen that survived indeed flew away in their pyramids and the Slann became star gods in AoS... but we don't talk about AoS.
@@Killeraholic Ya that's something I've quickly learned since learning the fantasy warhammer ended, is Age of Sigmar is garbage. But thanks for explaining, glad to know he did that, I guess either I wasn't paying attention when he said that or forgot that in this video.
This is my absolute favorite video on the channel. This video is what convinced me to buy Warhammer 2 and thus got me into the lore. Been a fan ever since. P.S. its unfortunate that Mazdamundi still isnt the best spellcaster in game
Havent dicovered these lore videos until after the release of warhammer2. Im pretty impresed by how many of your predictions for the game have come true
Mazdamudi's reaction to Kadavo, you were pure gold. "Mazdamudi the humans they are back." "Alright Fcuk this!" Woe be to the Warhammer world Mazdamundi basically got up on the wrong side of the bed. Hope Tic Tac Toe was commended for his superb actions Cobra Mace could lock away the magic item for a set amount of time in multiplayer, in Single player it could be a nice minigame to destroy a lords magic item and restart the quest chain for said destroyed item. I mean we've all at some point in a campaign thought it would've been nice if i could have used high tier units for my quest or you know do a quest again...
It wasn't all Slann that conversed or could withstand the Old Ones, only first generation Slann actually saw them and conversed with them... None of the second generation (which Mazdamundi is part of), even saw the Old Ones in person
In the lore it says that even though Mazdamundi might not be the oldest Slann, he was thaught by Kroak the first of all... He knows stuff that even the other Slann do not.. And it is said that the skink who had the privilege to be Lord Kroaks assistant, knew even more than any Slann alive would ever know
"Kroak's Oracle from the days when he was alive, the Skink priest Ten-zlati, is the voice of Kroak among the Lizardmen and outranks even young Slaan as he knows secrets of the Old Ones not known even to Lord Mazdamundi" Lord Kroak was the first Slaan to be created. He is dead though, and whilst his spirit can be called to help via his dead body, it is an absolute shadow of his former self (heh). There is no way for him to reveal anything more about the old ones, hence why his little Skink fella carries such authority. So for all intents and purposes there is no 1st gen around but the idea (and body being brought out) of Kroak would stir the Lizardmen to fight much harder.
Lord kroak is kinda like the green knight. He is dead and not permanently around but in times of dire need his spirit will defend a temple then go away. He was so powerful that he was killed by over a dozen greater daemons protected by the chaos gods and when he died he was so magically overcharged then his spirit just left his body and kept fighting, then he obliterated his temple and the surrounding jungle
By the time they announce the old friend it will be the ancient friend. Nearly 8 weeks CA - the game needs some fresh additions. Game 2 we are looking at the earliest September - so one more bout of dlc just after an old friend would be nice considering we could be looking at nearly 5 months without any content.
Mid June maybe? So another month at least? Poor from CA imo. So, within 6 months from the Wood Elves we have had Bretonnia (granted - very good) and Isabella? I realise they release Grombrindal but many of us have had that since October. The game needs some freshness especially if we are looking at a most likely release of Warhammer 2 of September/October time. Grace has hinted for a while that an old friend will not be a LL. So most likely a Legendary Hero? Wulhart, Krell etc I'm hoping that it might be a Dogs of War pack - an old friend perhaps being mercenaries. I think they might reveal something on the anniversary of Warhammer 1 - mid May time - hopefully anyway.
Well, as far as I know, they didn't really get the difference between High Elves and Dark Elves. So their relationship can be tenuous sometimes. That, and Teclis likes to mess up with their plaques a bit too much for the Slaan's liking. x)
DavidtheDuke The fantasy franchise was doing poorly. Despite all the crap people give Age of Sigmar, it revived the franchise and is producing great sales.
Hey Isaac I really appreciate that you watch all the videos and that's why for viewers like your self I try to make it as clear as possible that you can skip the ones with *'s. However for people who haven't found my channel these videos are easier to search tend to be shorter and can serve to help the channel grow. So hope that's ok. More viewers means I can dedicate more time to the channel and more videos for you and the more regular viewers. Hope you continue to enjoy the channel.
Humans: we fought the Great War against chaos!
Lizardmen: oh that’s cute
Yep that’s about right
Mazdamundi standing looks wrong on so many levels.
Thank god i thought i was the only one
That was what made me click on the thumbnail.
"He's... walking? On the ground?"
THICC
Ya
@Gal Gréine yes all hail fat frog man
Everybody gangsta till Mazdamundi stands up to show the Saurus how to do their job.
Mazdamundis ultimate attack
That nobody can compare not even the chaos gods
Sitting on people
You're fantastic dude, just started playing warhammer 2 and learning all this new lore, your enthusiasm makes it way more interesting than anyone else's lore videos I've seen.
Some short flashing in the video starting @1:02 for folks who might be sensitive to that sort of thing.
i dont have epilepsy and it still make me unconfortable :D
Yeah sorry about that guys not sure what happened.
The Inept General thought it was my iPad lol
Hahaha stopped the vid at 20.00 to go back and check it out 🤙 excellent flash
Plot Twist: The camera is blinking.
I always imagined the Vortex as a really creative and revolutionary way of applying magical principles. I also imagine the lizardmen, Slann included, too mentally rigid to become sufficiently creative
I know this is old but couldn’t help myself, in the Thanquol novels, Temple of the Serpent, the slann character compares the universe to math, and even refers to humans and elves and skaven (Thanquol in particular) as mathematical variables to be calculated. Thanquol in particular being the variable throwing all of its calculations out of whack to the point it does some crazy ass magic - or maths.
Congratulations I am now stuck calling that skink Tic Tac Toe.
If they do the living mountains they could have high attrition rates.
Your lore and army videos are awesome, keep it up. Def appriciate the amount of time and effort you have put in to all of them =) Thank you.
5:15 enjoying that nod to hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
"So, I am going to f*** his shit up...."- Lord Mazdamundi. Love it
This is exactly how I play him in Total War
Nice video !
Very good casual style of lore-summaries. Keep it up.
Imagine being so intelligent, nobody could understand what you're trying to say...
Lmao like that one episode of regular show when they drink the RigJuice
It's interesting you mentioned that the lizardmen were late additions to the lore and as such their conflicts are far away or they do behind the scenes work. It makes them feel like the most powerful race in a way(maybe not exactly what I mean but it makes them feel powerful, which is exactly what they are. Even weakened with the loss of the old ones they are the strongest mages in the world and can do amazing things other could only dream of. I can only imagine, had Mazdammundi and the lizardmen been there during the end times could it have gone differently, would the final spell that was ruined by Mannfred have worked had Madamundi helped? Nope they just flew away in space pyramids apparently. I think, I'm still learning alot of the lore cause I'm new to the franchise.
But it's interesting you mentioned tiktaq'to now that he is confirmed the free dlc character of the lizardmen, he's got a sort of small but very important role in the lore. And to hold out for months against dark elves and chaos shows how good of a leader he is. So I'm not quite as dissapointed by his surprise reveal. Cause I thought it would be Gor-rok or Nakia(even though with further thought he'd be better off as a hero unit.
Mazdamundi died destroying pieces of Morrslieb since the Skaven blew up the moon to try destroy Lustria
@@Killeraholic Oh really? That's cool. I remembered later that this video didn't mention that Mazdammundi caused the Time of woe for Dwarves. Unless that was retconned or that was when he did the living mountain thing.
@@Admiralkirk95 As far as I know he still did. Also when Mazdamundi died, Lord Kroak just willed hinself back to life and destroyed continent sized pieces of Morrslieb that were falling down, before also dying again as I remember and then all Lizardmen that survived indeed flew away in their pyramids and the Slann became star gods in AoS... but we don't talk about AoS.
@@Killeraholic Ya that's something I've quickly learned since learning the fantasy warhammer ended, is Age of Sigmar is garbage. But thanks for explaining, glad to know he did that, I guess either I wasn't paying attention when he said that or forgot that in this video.
Are the colors and brightness flickering for anyone else?
This is my absolute favorite video on the channel.
This video is what convinced me to buy Warhammer 2 and thus got me into the lore. Been a fan ever since.
P.S. its unfortunate that Mazdamundi still isnt the best spellcaster in game
Anyone else having a flickering problem on thins video
The Lizardmen launched a crusade, They couldn't get cooler than that
Amazing video thank you man.
Havent dicovered these lore videos until after the release of warhammer2. Im pretty impresed by how many of your predictions for the game have come true
Me: *sees Lord Mazdimundi standing with his "L E G S"* oh my i much rather fucking see him amputised on his throne
Mazdamudi's reaction to Kadavo, you were pure gold. "Mazdamudi the humans they are back." "Alright Fcuk this!"
Woe be to the Warhammer world Mazdamundi basically got up on the wrong side of the bed.
Hope Tic Tac Toe was commended for his superb actions
Cobra Mace could lock away the magic item for a set amount of time in multiplayer, in Single player it could be a nice minigame to destroy a lords magic item and restart the quest chain for said destroyed item. I mean we've all at some point in a campaign thought it would've been nice if i could have used high tier units for my quest or you know do a quest again...
Tictactoe is a general of the scouts of Hexoatl... He does not care of your puny military recommendations... He just does hes work
Come back❤
It wasn't all Slann that conversed or could withstand the Old Ones, only first generation Slann actually saw them and conversed with them... None of the second generation (which Mazdamundi is part of), even saw the Old Ones in person
Yes, Lord Kroak was/is first generation... He was taught by 2 different Old Ones how to weave magic, and in turn he taught Mazdamundi
Technically he is dead and cannot do anything, so no, there is no first gen around anymore
In the lore it says that even though Mazdamundi might not be the oldest Slann, he was thaught by Kroak the first of all... He knows stuff that even the other Slann do not.. And it is said that the skink who had the privilege to be Lord Kroaks assistant, knew even more than any Slann alive would ever know
"Kroak's Oracle from the days when he was alive, the Skink priest Ten-zlati, is the voice of Kroak among the Lizardmen and outranks even young Slaan as he knows secrets of the Old Ones not known even to Lord Mazdamundi"
Lord Kroak was the first Slaan to be created. He is dead though, and whilst his spirit can be called to help via his dead body, it is an absolute shadow of his former self (heh). There is no way for him to reveal anything more about the old ones, hence why his little Skink fella carries such authority. So for all intents and purposes there is no 1st gen around but the idea (and body being brought out) of Kroak would stir the Lizardmen to fight much harder.
Lord kroak is kinda like the green knight. He is dead and not permanently around but in times of dire need his spirit will defend a temple then go away. He was so powerful that he was killed by over a dozen greater daemons protected by the chaos gods and when he died he was so magically overcharged then his spirit just left his body and kept fighting, then he obliterated his temple and the surrounding jungle
Mazdamundi FTW!!
..marco columbo :DD such a lazy writing
Skaven or Tomb Kings will be the next LL or army video?
my guess would be Thaggoraki army video.
Wait why is he standing in the thumbnail he dont stand he float on his throne
The Lizardmen were a giant ret con?! That makes me so very sad. =(
When was this?
By the time they announce the old friend it will be the ancient friend. Nearly 8 weeks CA - the game needs some fresh additions. Game 2 we are looking at the earliest September - so one more bout of dlc just after an old friend would be nice considering we could be looking at nearly 5 months without any content.
Hey Shagrat65 it's looking increasingly like the old friend will probably appear as a means to promote TW:W2 maybe when pre-orders go live.
Mid June maybe? So another month at least? Poor from CA imo. So, within 6 months from the Wood Elves we have had Bretonnia (granted - very good) and Isabella? I realise they release Grombrindal but many of us have had that since October. The game needs some freshness especially if we are looking at a most likely release of Warhammer 2 of September/October time. Grace has hinted for a while that an old friend will not be a LL. So most likely a Legendary Hero? Wulhart, Krell etc I'm hoping that it might be a Dogs of War pack - an old friend perhaps being mercenaries.
I think they might reveal something on the anniversary of Warhammer 1 - mid May time - hopefully anyway.
But can the slann communicat with the Bogdanoffs?
more people should get this XD cheers mate
They ARE the Bogdanov! x)
Gotta say I appreciated Mazdamundi's thigh gap
WAAAAGH!!!!!
wrong race
I don't understand how their gonna fit Lustria, Ulthuan and Naggorath in the same map considering that Ulthuan alone is bigger than Brettonia
Resizing the map, my friend! x)
Yet they made it.
@@MatthewVanston they didn’t make it very well most of the new world continents were sliced in half and ulthuan is super tiny
@@UA-camUser-jb5zp lol
that flashing is so irritating
Oh, you covered that... My bad
What's the relation between lizard and high elves? Are they friendly?
Sometimes we’re friendly sometimes not it depends
Raul Prado amicable
Well, as far as I know, they didn't really get the difference between High Elves and Dark Elves. So their relationship can be tenuous sometimes.
That, and Teclis likes to mess up with their plaques a bit too much for the Slaan's liking. x)
hey inept general, do you believe if lord Mazdamundi can defeat Nagash?
Edit : good video!
like in 2 sec
Handsome Devil Nah, you can't claim that. Nagash is pretty much an unkillable god by the end times.
I mean before End times
and there is nothing i hate more than the end times, for me its not happened
Well the lore doesn't care what you personally believe, it happened.
DavidtheDuke The fantasy franchise was doing poorly. Despite all the crap people give Age of Sigmar, it revived the franchise and is producing great sales.
The skink link!
As someone who watches all your videos in their entirety i think these are pretty redundant. Itd be better just to put a timestamp on the original vid
Hey Isaac I really appreciate that you watch all the videos and that's why for viewers like your self I try to make it as clear as possible that you can skip the ones with *'s. However for people who haven't found my channel these videos are easier to search tend to be shorter and can serve to help the channel grow. So hope that's ok. More viewers means I can dedicate more time to the channel and more videos for you and the more regular viewers. Hope you continue to enjoy the channel.
The Inept General ah ok. When you put it that way it makes more sense, thanks for the reply.