The Shadow Queen Is Coming To Age Of Sigmar
January 24, 2018 by brennon
As part of a teaser trailer for the approaching shadow that threatens to change the world of Age Of Sigmar, we got to learn about a returning character to the Mortal Realms. Could Morathi be coming back at the head of a new force for Games Workshop?
The trailer talks of a powerful character escaping from the maw of a terrible god and how she was forgotten by the others as she fought to protect the Mortal Realms from the threat of Chaos.
The links to the Aelf God Khaine, as well as plenty of moments which show Witch Elves and lots of serpentine women being thrown into the mix, mean that we're probably going to be seeing Morathi come back to take her place amongst the other mighty characters in Age Of Sigmar.
This could be a very neat new range of miniatures if they get them right. Witch Elves obviously bring in a lot of chances to try something new and dynamic with the models plus there's plenty of room for new monsters and more as part of her force.
I wonder how this is going to sit with Malerion and Tyrion, never mind the other forces of Order? Maybe we'll start to see more from the Aelfs as a whole and could even get a Malerion model!
What do you think?
"I wonder how this is going to sit with Malerion and Tyrion, never mind the other forces of Order?"
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I have fallen deeply in lust with the owner of that voice ……*has cold shower* …… So we have the mark of Khaine … mention that Morathi has been “changed” and …. slithered from the throat of Slaanesh , so one lamia demi god coming up. Will she play for team order ??? …. She doesn’t seem too fond of the others and the lore mentions that she has had a falling out with her son, so maybe not. as Khaine dead god or not doesn’t come across as an Order kind of bloke. Team Chaos then ?? Last time… Read more »
First time in history Slaanesh didn’t swallow 🙂
Sounds like Khaine based elf/gorgon stuffs
I’m pretty sure Morathi is supposed to be part of Order (that’s how things were left), and the images in the video seem to suggest that the Witch Elves are fighting Slaneesh type demons.
There were rumours that we were going to get 2 elf factions released this year, so if that is the case, maybe Morathi changes sides to something else? I dunno; I still think she’ll be part of order (not like the current Dark Elves are saints or anything, and they’re with Order).
Yes Malarion’s dark Aelves are with order, but she is none too fond of her son… It doesn’t necessarily follow that all Dark Aelves remain order, and does this even remains an Aelf faction … look at Sylvaneth they split the old world army and it is now now Aelf (and greatly improved … 😀 ).
Yes Morathi was part of Sigmar’s pantheon but so were Nagash and Gorkamorka and they aren’t Order
Think in D and D terms. Order, being like Lawful. Lawful Evil. You can have Order and Evil together. You can always have people even in the same faction with different motivations.
Heck Chaos and Destruction turn on each other half the time if all of the fluff is something to go by accross 40k, WHB and AoS
Sounds about right to me mage – an evil spin on Order seems like the best fit for Morathi. She had a leaning toward Chaos back in the World That Was, but she isn’t the type to forgive Slaanesh trying to eat her. Then again, reading the current slew of stories on the Malign Portents website, even the ‘good’ end of Order seems to have some elements who are totally losing the plot, what with Knights Excelsior Stormcast seemingly losing their humanity from being reforged too often, and subsequently going totally rogue and ruthlessly slaughtering human troops and civilians because… Read more »
For what I recall from WHF lore she is kind of lass to flirt with both Slaanesh and Khaine while making rules that she can ignore herself just like her son. After all she was both Sorceress and Witch Elf at same time so that she could do both use magic and use Cauldron to keep her youth. So she really liked to have her cake and eat it to.
She did indeed @mecha82 . She did fall to Chaos toward the End Times. If you ever had more than a passing interest in Warhammer Fantasy, and even if you do not like the Age of Sigmar, I would strongly advise you read Warhammer End Times Book V: Archaon
@mage I gave up on that tome on about page 20, terribly written, butchery of the lore to achieve the end goal. That is from someone who liked Nagash & glotkin, could tolerate Khaine and even managed to struggle through Thanquol.
@dags since you’re at it, would you actually recomend any of the end times books for either lore or writing respectively?
As per above really Nagash is fairly solid drawing on a lot of established and old lore ideas. It and Glotkin have good character development, Vlad in particular is very well written.
Khaine is well constructed, things start to go a little hmm, really lore wise but it does just about hold.
Okay. Thanks for the insight. As long time fan of the old Warhammer world I’ve been a bit dwarvish towards these things… 😉
A new player entering the arena for the dark side sounds like a (calypso) type character.
Say what you like about GW but they are getting much better at this trailer bussines
the woman in the video seems to need some 1on1 close quarter action *wink* *wink*.
made me laugh; surely not what was intended.
I’d say she had enough of any of that. Considering her time with the dark prince.