Age of Sigmar background round up

[Roostmanuva]

What a helpful thread! Just reading call of archon and really enjoying it, will use this thread to decide my next purchase. Just registered to say thanks!

[Mr Mystery]

Yay!

YAY ME!

And welcome to BoLS

[Mr Mystery]

And at long last, updated to show the completed Nagash audio book series.

[Mr Mystery]

Updated once again, this time with Righteous Blood from Bladestorm.

[JamesP]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I found this a useful primer on some aspects of the AoS background and it busts some (recurring) misconceptions about the AoS universe: [URL="http://www.tronhammer.com/2016/03/age-of-sigmar-mythbusting-fluff-edition.html"]http://www.tronhammer.com/2016/03/age-of-sigmar-mythbusting-fluff-edition.html[/URL]

It also includes a very good - and hilarious - response from Josh Reynolds to the question/ whine 'but Stormcast are just Space Marines In Space In Fantasy!!!", the original of which can be found here: [URL="https://ask.fm/JoshMReynolds/answers/131488334559"]https://ask.fm/JoshMReynolds/answers/131488334559[/URL]

It's worth reading for its description of Space Marines alone: "Well, for starters, Space Marines are chosen as children, tortured by SCIENCE!, and then drafted into an eternity of being monastic murder machines whose sole purpose is to hold up the crumbling foundations of an omnicidal dystopia in the name of a rotting carcass that eats psykers like chiclets..."

[Mr Mystery]

Certainly does fit in

Good find duder!

[JamesP]

Thanks.

Josh Reynold's Ask FM is also worth a browse because he gives a lot of possibly-answers-but-possibly-very-informed-speculation about what happened during the End Times to those parts of the Warhammer Old World that didn't feature heavily in the End Times background books or novels, the same for a variety of Warhammer characters.

[Mr Mystery]

Lawks! I'm starting to fall behind!

I've now got the third part of Bladestorm, and the seventh part of Black Rift of Klaxus.

Still to be procured? Beast Thingy, and Clans Pestilens 'Legends of Age of Sigmar'

I should be all caught up over the next couple of weeks.

[grimmas]

Getting stuck into God Beasts and there is human resistance against Chaos in the Realm of fire. Which is good news it seems like as the background is expanded there's more going on in the Realms other than Chaos (of course we did already know about the Slyveneth).

Also it appears that the realms aren't "planets" but more like self contained plains of existence with multiple stella bodies contained within them, although they seem to have more in common with a Magical plain of existence like the Realms of Chaos rather than a Physical reality like the one we inhabit.

[Mr Mystery]

Yup.

Got Godbeasts to read now. Am a wee bit behind on keeping this updated, but will sort it out over the coming week