Warhammer End Times Villain Glottkin Spotted [Updated!]
October 23, 2014 by brennon
A sneaky peek at The End Times next big villain has appeared on the internet and we're finally getting a look at what Glottkin is going to look like. We also have some neat information on where The End Times is going next for Warhammer Fantasy...
Update: Check out the book and more information on this triple threat to The Empire!
Here's what we know about the story now. The Glottkin, which is made up of three brothers called Ghurk (the Beast) Ethrac (the Sorcerer) and Otto (the Warlord) has headed South from the wastes under the command of Archaon.
The story runs in parallel with that of Nagash and picks up a little after where we were left off at the end of the book at some point. Karl Franz is once again live and kicking after his unfortunate accident and is called the Ascended Karl Franz with new rules in the book.
As well as that we get word that Leon Leoncoeur is alive and new rules for fighting in cities called Streets of Death. You'll get rules for barricades, destroying buildings and the like.
You can see how massive this chap is. I love the riders and their position on the model and the actual beast himself is just stunning. Move over old(er) Grandfather Nurgle and welcome this mass of stinking muscle to the battlefield. I can't wait to see what talented bitz bodgers can do with this.
The miniature itself stands somewhere between a Orkanaut and Imperial Knight in size and looks absolutely amazing from this little shot we're getting here. It comes with two riders with one a horned warrior and the other dressed more like a caster.
Interestingly the news of this new hero comes with the added information that the next End Times book is indeed a two book slipcase affair like with Nagash but a bit slimmer than the previous tome. Lots of fluff once more and the rules separate as always.
The big battle report coming in the next issue of White Dwarf is called The Fall of Altdorf so if that's not a big bad omen for how badly things are going for The Empire I don't know what is!
What do you think of this sneaky peek?
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Truly magnificent. As I said over on Faeit though, really gutted that the same treatment won’t be dished out to the other 3 gods, as this model is effectively a new GUO. So good is the model though, I might have to contaminate my beloved mono-Khorne army with this beautiful filth…;)
That is rather impressive.
Sure not to be cheap
This may well be the must have model of the year from GW. Its been a long time I said that, grant it we all need a better look at this big fart.
… if this what they’re doing for nurgle,
can’t wait to see what they’re going to be releasing for the other chaos gods 😉
… there was that rumor a while back about somebody seeing 4 new greater demon kits 🙂
maybe they were just mistaken, and really they were these big kits 😉
i like it will be good with a nice paint job on it.I can people using it as a GUO. now what do the other gods get?
Well the standard continues, again can see an issue for those that dislike the larger models, but to me if this is the end then it should have come sooner
In part because sooner would have meant more cash for me to spend 🙁 Still maybe I will get a diseased sack for xmas this year.
Ofc if its not this that is not a good thing nor something to wish for
Love, love, love this (if you can love a Nurgle Beastie!). This whole Nurgle End Times renaissance really is killing my plans to sell of the Nurgle Warriors project I’ve just finished. Don’t often give GW much love but I do really like the way this whole End Times arc is going.
That model is just epic. As others have noted, alongside Warhammer Nurgle gamers who are doubtless even now giving effusive praise to Grandfather Nurgle for this beastie, many 40K Nurgle players might be tempted to convert a truly massive Great Unclean One from that, and then sit back and watch the chaos players of the other gods turn as green as Glottkin himself, though hopefully they will get their own giant critters in due time. For myself, i am most interested in the new Endtimes Glottkin books – I loved the rules, artwork, and in particular the lore from the… Read more »
Same for regarding the books, while I think the model is cool, I am not a chaos player so I would not pick it up but the Books, story and world developments are really exciting and if the quality of the writing and books overall is anything like the Previous End Times Volume I will be really happy with something GW have done for the 2nd time in the last decade…(first time was End of Times Volume 1)
It is sometimes strange to read the Nagash books – it is almost as if the best of old school GW somehow stumbled into a warp rift and wound up in 2014. It is so clearly inspired by the glory days of Warhammer, from the artwork to the characters chosen to the ambitious and complex storytelling and lore development. If that quality and momentum can be sustained, then the End Times series of books may well be accounted GW classics in years to come. It is unusual to see something done by GW in the modern age that is met… Read more »
Does anyone know how this links in with Tamurkhan?
It doesn’t.
Tamurkhan is non kanon as far ss GW goes.
It is an impresive model. Painted in a more diseased flesh tone it will look epic.
Speaking of Forge World. How do people think this compares with the FW GUO?
its about half the price of the GUO!
Seriously though I really like this model and i’m considering turning my back on Khorne for the sake of this model.
Acsended Karl Franz? Does this mean he’s been killed and then reborn or something? :/
I don’t know the price, but GW’s recent fantasy end times models have all been rather brilliant.
These new chaos models over the past few weeks all invoke the oldschool GW artwork, the good stuff. This really feels like I’ve been taken back in time. Fantastic.
I hope they do another print run of the 1st end times book as I’d like to pick it up as a moment in Warhammer history, even though I don’t expect or intend to play any games. That said, I prefer the older, more low fantasy, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, gritty tone to the high fantasty, earth-shattering stuff in general. And it sounds as if the chaos book exemplifies this: kill of some characters and then bring them back as super characters. Much harder to feel like things really matter when everything revolves around a few superheroes. I’ve liked the end… Read more »