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Episode 17: Morathi-Khaine, The Goddess of Murder · The Bad Moon's Orbit

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Welcome back, everybody, to another episode of The Bad
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Moon's Orbit. I am, as always, your doom fire
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warlock, Dalton Montgomery. And I am Darien, Witch of the
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Chalk. We dear listeners, have a very
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fun episode for you today. If you are a long time listener,
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you might have noticed that after last episode we didn't
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talk about what we were going to talk about this episode.
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No, I'm left in the lurch. I have no idea, nothing
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prepared. This is something.
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So different than every other episode where I come in
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completely prepared. This is an episode that I have
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been excited to do for quite a while.
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This is a secret that I have been sitting on basically since
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we started the podcast. Something I am just so excited
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that we finally get to record and to talk about.
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So Darian, yes, today's episode is mostly going to focus on a
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single character. Yeah, this is a character who
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attentive listeners will know that we have kind of hinted at
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in other episodes or I have kind of hinted at other episodes.
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There have been a lot of. No, I'm not going to talk about
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that yet regarding this character.
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Today we are going to talk at length about this character and
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what they are doing. This character is a potential
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ally of Order, a potential ally in the fight against Chaos.
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Essential is interesting. This character is the mother of
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Dexdessa and Sinessa. Yes, you, you mentioned that and
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then you were just like, and we're going to don't worry about
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that. We're just going to go in the
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opposite direction. And I was like, OK.
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Right now, this character is someone we've met before.
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No what? Oh God.
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OK. So today we are going to talk
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about a character that is near and dear to my heart, and I've
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had to bite my tongue so many times in the recording of this
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podcast. Rather than talk about her,
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today we are going to talk about a character who is always in
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frame, but rarely the focus until now.
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We're going to talk about the only person in Age of Sigmar who
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has ever achieved godhood after the Age of Myth.
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What? OK.
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Darian. Me.
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Today. Oh, not me.
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Oh no. God Darian, not yet Darian.
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Today we are talking about the newly ascendant goddess of
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murder, Marathi Kane. Holy shit, I'm shit to fuck you
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down. The.
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Signs are all there. This is not surprising.
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Of course, who else would it be? The whole time I was sitting
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here screaming let Marathi join the club.
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Wow all these listeners who know this shit.
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I've that must have been so annoying for you.
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Every time, every time you're like, let Marathi be a God.
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I'm like, she's getting to it. Yes, today we are talking about
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the newly ascended goddess of murder, Marathi.
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Hyphen Kane. Don't forget the hyphen.
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It's like spider man. It's not, it's not a surname,
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it's the full. Name.
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Yep, it is her full name. The Shadow Queen, the Goddess of
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Blood, High Matriarch of the daughters of Cain.
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But before we talk about Goddess Marathi Cain, we have to talk
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about Marathi. Yes.
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How do we get here? We OK No, I want to play a game.
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I want to play. A Darian tries to remember what
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she can remember. So Marathi's son was Mala Keith,
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but we changed his name and he she was like, I'm going to make
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sure you're the next king of the elves basically.
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And that did not go well because they definitely murder colted
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some people and sided with some chaos guides and it all went
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straight to fucking hell. But then they needed him to,
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like, be attached to one of the winds of the magic.
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And it was which one? Olga Shadow.
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Yes, Shadow. And then everything didn't work.
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And they all end up there. And then so did Marathi.
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And they're like, that's weird. And she's like, yeah, I don't
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want to tell you guys about the time I spent with the demon, so
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I'm not. I'm just going to pretend that
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yeah, it's weird too. I don't want to fucking talk
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about it. And then they chained up Slanesh
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and she was like, you're going to need to, That's not going to
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last forever. And they're like, shut up,
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you're not in the club. And then chaos broke out.
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But Marathi and her son, whose name is not Malakitha anymore.
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It's something. Malaria.
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I got malaria and I hate it because it sounds like malaria.
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He's just. I picture Mosquito, which I
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think you've shown it to me and he does look.
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Very little mosquito. They've leaned into it, which I
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do appreciate. And so Chaos even before Sigmar
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was able to roll up with his crew of Got Storm Breakers, no.
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Storm cast Storm. Cast, thank you.
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They never got a hold in OGU because Rafi and Malaria were
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like fuck off, yes. So and then when we went to run
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things and get things in order again, we still couldn't really
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find where they were, yes. Correct.
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Previously on Dragon Ball Z, yeah.
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I mean you got it once the storm cast arrived they like get to
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Olgu. They can't find basically any of
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the Alps for the majority of the realm.
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Gay wars. Kind of our first like grand
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like epoch of. I know it's pronounced epic, but
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it's not as clear. So I gotta say epoch.
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This is a creative decision. Yeah, don't at me, Storm cast.
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Couldn't find basically any of the elf gods for the Realm Gate
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wars but we cowards right? Not Marathi, I'm sure.
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Yeah, she had her reasons. We are going to skip a little
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bit forward in the timeline to talk about this story.
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Specifically. I've.
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I've wanted to talk about Marathi's ascension to godhood
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for so long that we're actually skipping over the realm Gate
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wars and the Soul Wars the like. Yeah, that happened afterwards.
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Yeah, towards near the end of the Soul Wars, right on the
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verge of the air of the beast as the story takes.
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Place. Why are we doing this one now?
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Because I wanted to talk about Marathi ascending to godhood.
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You're like, we could have waited, but I don't want.
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To correct. Perfect.
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I love that. Go on.
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We that's probably going to be a feature going forward.
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It's also part of our because Marathi and her like daughters
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of Cain are considered part of the Grand Alliance of Order A
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Sigmar's kind of like. Sigmar's new club.
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Yeah, Sigmar's new club and I kind of want to talk about them
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a little bit together. We might not stick wholly to
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that. Like, I don't know if we're
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going to talk about like the dwarves again super soon just
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because we already talked about a lot of them previously, but we
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might catch up on them again. But yeah, Marathi is definitely
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part of the Order club. It makes sense to go to her from
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Storm Cast, even if it's not chronological.
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But yeah, Marathi Kane, well, right now just Merathi.
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Just Merathi. Just Merathi.
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During the Age of Chaos, like you said, Olgu fared better than
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most of the realms. Malaria and Merathi have
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excellent control over the round shadow magic.
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It is very hard to go anywhere in Olgu if it doesn't want you
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to. And we mentioned the last
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episode as well, the like all gate that leads from Archaeon's
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Fortress. At the all point you go through
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it and you just don't show up on the other side and it's like.
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OK, you just disappear, which is terrifying During the age of
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chaos. We know that malaria and Marathi
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can have a falling out. They were never like super chill
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with each other. They didn't like each other by
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the end of the old world either. But they were kind of working
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together during the age of myth and stuff, just as part of the
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larger, like everybody pulling their together.
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Yep, absolutely. But during the age of chaos it
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seems like Malaria is more willing to just like hide, take
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his like elves and just pull them into the shadowy places of
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the world and like chaos do whatever protect his own.
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While Marathi is more active in fighting chaos.
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Marathi's bigger. She's.
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Like it does. It doesn't matter if we hold out
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till we're the last one. If we're the last one, then
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we're the last one to fall, right?
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Like you got. You can't let yourself ever be
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the last. Absolutely.
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Marathi is pulling out all the stops on all of the skills,
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ironically, that she learned as like a head of a chaos cult.
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Yeah yeah I can't believe Sigmar didn't look at her and formally
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admired to the club from the jump.
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She is way bigger than fucking the cash over there causing
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everything to go wrong at a moments notice.
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Did he doesn't trust her and like.
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And he trusted Nagesh. No.
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And he still got invited to the club.
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That's she never even got a Jack.
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That's fair. Yeah.
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The Daughters of Cain wage just like a full on shadow war
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against chaos across the realm of Olgu.
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Entire camps of Chaos warriors disappearing in the night.
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People like messengers arriving without their cohort or they're
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like pack animals or anything with just the message that you
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need to leave like they were allowed to.
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They were allowed to live. So they can tell.
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You to go away. Yep, the daughters are on full
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operation. Is the the term used like they
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are not hiding, they are not using any of this is like a
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attempt to build strength. They are just doing what they
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are best at, which is murder. They are cultists of Cain.
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They do a lot of infiltration in chaos movements now, as in the
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old world elves can fall to Slaneshi corruption pretty
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easily, so the daughters have an easy time blending in with like
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Slaneshi cultists and gathering Intel and killing key figures.
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They will stoke chaos in the ranks, ironically by just like
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turning people against each other.
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The easiest way to fight chaos is to make it fight itself.
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They don't like each other. They.
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Don't like each other? They have friends.
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Yeah, turn all the Slaneshi cultists onto the fact that
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Zincha just trying to make inroads in the realm and boom,
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like, that's a yeah, that's a fight that you don't have to
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fight. Of everyone from Sigmar's older
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pantheon, the Daughters arguably fare the best during the Age of
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Chaos, except for like we talked about how like, orcs and ogres
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and stuff basically didn't notice the jump from the Age of
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Myth to the Age of Chaos. Their default like operation is
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already just like fighting and punching stuff and having a good
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time. Our notable exception is that
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giants refer to the Age of Chaos as the sole wars because Chaos
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has a bunch of spikes on their armor and so they were spike
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stepping on more spiky armor than previously.
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So it's not sole SOUL, it's sole Sol.
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E The soles of their feet. That's stupid.
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I like it. So giants arguably noticed the
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most, but for orcs it's just like, oh, I guess we're fighting
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people and spikes. Armor now.
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But the daughters do pretty well during the age of chaos.
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Marathi found and lives in a city kind of in the deeper
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shadows of Olgu, where it's very hard to get to even under normal
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circumstances. That city is called Hagner, and
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it is the first of the great temples of blood.
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A great name? Yep.
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Wow, what a great name. Yep, it is a temple city.
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You are only allowed to live there if you are a member of the
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Cult of Cain, of course. So it is just entirely Cain
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cultists and the occasional for logistical reasons, Marathi
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eventually let's up and there are some men in the cult of oh
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this. Is for logistical.
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Reasons, yeah, but they are few and they're relegated to only
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certain roles. Like you can't rise to the ranks
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if you're a man in the Cult of Cane.
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You just get to live here is basically what it comes down to.
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In Hagnar she starts the first of basically like training camps
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for training other like canine priestesses.
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Marathi for a long time held a pretty iron grip on like the
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rituals of Cain and stuff. All the different like miracles
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and whatnot she could perform. Because she was in.
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Possession of the heart, yes. She didn't want anyone like,
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sussing out what she was doing or potentially using that power
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that she was drawing from. And so she held off on teaching
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others the actual like religious rites of it.
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But during the Age of Chaos, it's just something she wants to
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be able to have others like call upon while they're doing their
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operations. So she.
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Bigger picture. Yes, absolutely.
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So she starts training slaughter Queens and hag Queens which.
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Are the two names. The two kind of priestly
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sorceress types for armies and also just day-to-day rituals,
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the Daughters rarely wage like open warfare.
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They prefer to do subterfuge and assassination and salty.
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And occasionally there just are times where the Daughters have
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to March to war, like kind of more traditionally when they do
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that, they haul these huge like shadow still contraptions along
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with them that are mobile ritual platforms.
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Yeah. Every canine ritual involves
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sacrifices because God of murder.
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So witch elves which are the baseline like daughters of Cain
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infantry go into the enemy ranks and they kill and anyone they
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can they subdue and they bring them back to what is referred to
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as a cauldron of blood, which is again a mobile like sacrifice
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platform. They bring anyone they can back
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to that, and the priestesses or Marathi herself perform great
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sacrifices in the name of Cain to bolster them in battle or to
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heal their wounds or to make them stronger or more ferocious
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as you do faster. Usually it's kind of a big thing
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for the Daughters aren't big on like armor because you want to
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be lithe and quick and you don't blend in well if you're wearing.
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Armor don't need armor if they can't catch you.
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Yes, the Daughters are very fast.
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We don't talk a lot of mechanics on this show, but of like armies
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and Age of Sigmar, the Daughters of Kane are one of the fastest
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and one of the deadliest, but they just don't have any armor.
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So they're not very tough, but they don't need to be if they
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kill you to death. Yep.
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They don't need to be tough if they stab you to death before
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you can get a single shot off. Yep, Marathi makes it a habit to
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personally like fight alongside the Daughters whenever there is
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a large battle you. Love a leader who's going to get
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their hands dirty with you. Part of that is probably like,
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not propaganda, but just like the image of it.
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Marathi's never under any true harm.
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She's still got the iron heart of.
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Cain it. Protects her from being
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seriously injured, but she it seems like she always shows up
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to what she anticipates will be the largest battle, partially so
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the daughters can see her on the frontline.
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Inspires confidence in a. Leader say like, yeah, it really
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does boost morale. Yeah, absolutely.
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Being a boss and being a leader. Yep, absolutely.
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And Techless is a fucking boss over here.
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Marathi's a leader. Something that like the enemies
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of the Daughters, any other like observers like the Daughters
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will occasionally the Daughters prefer to, like I said, solve
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conflicts without anyone knowing that there was a conflict
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happening. But there's definitely still
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times when just like civilians will witness like a fight
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between the daughters and chaos cultists or whatever.
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And they often report that while kind of modus operandi for
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Daughters of Cain is just to kill everybody, it seems like
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especially when they are fighting high-ranking chaos
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cultists and chaos armies and stuff, the Daughters have
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started getting very good at taking captives.
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So generally, even if even if they take captives during a
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battle, that just turns into one big sacrifice at the end of the
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battle in the glory of the name of Cain.
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But lots of people report the Daughters hauling off like
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high-ranking Chaos. Isn't that interesting?
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It is very interesting, but that's what we know Marathi is
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doing during the Age of Chaos. The daughters are kind of
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everywhere to the point where they build almost this kind of
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supernatural reputation. We talked during the Age of Myth
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sometimes, like. You would want a Daughter of
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Chaos in your town. Yeah, a daughter of Kane Temple.
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Yeah. Because yeah, like your your
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city might get attacked and you never even know it because the
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daughters were just. They took care of their.
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Problem during the age of chaos that goes tenfold where there
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definitely never was a daughter presence in some places where
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there was a reported daughter presence because people wouldn't
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mistake like a freak hailstorm killing stuff as like daughters
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getting them instead. Incredible.
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Huge reputation for like any mysterious death in the realm.
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The daughters did it, which like it's so good.
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I mean, when you are the cult of the God of murder, like 100%.
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So jump forward to the Age of Sigmar.
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Stormcast have arrived. They have started their
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liberation of the realms. We are going to jump a little
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bit forward. They've secured a bunch of realm
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gates. They've built what are called
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storm keeps around important realm gates.
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Those are Stormcast fortresses. Cities tend to form around those
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just because if you live in the world, literally building your
18:21
city around the supernatural immortal warrior house is like
18:25
pretty good insurance. Yeah.
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The Soul Wars happens. We're not going to talk a ton
18:32
about the Soul Wars here because I want to dedicate probably a
18:35
couple of episodes to it. But the TLDR we need to know for
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this story is that Nagash is back to full power and he's a
18:41
dipshit. He he just fully goes bad guy
18:44
again. Basically that thing we said
18:47
last time where Stormcast showed up.
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When the gashes remains, we're still just like partial remains.
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And they're like, listen, if you act out again, we're going to
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chain your ass to a star. Basically, Nagash plays nice
18:58
just long enough for him to get enough of a like, bulwark of his
19:02
own forces and do some like crazy shit that insulates him
19:05
from that consequence. And.
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Can't get at him to chain his ass to a star giant sky sized
19:12
dragon. Like it wouldn't.
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Be hard. So Nagash has basically like
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wholly recaptured Shayish and split off from the Pantheon of
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Order again just to be. His surprising no one.
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Yeah, absolutely. Like, we all knew this was
19:26
coming. It was just a matter of would he
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do it instead of helping fight against chaos?
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And the answer is yes, I'm. Going to need the NB
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Stormcaster's death deity to step up here because I'm fucking
19:38
done with Nagash's bullshit. So throughout the Realmgate wars
19:45
and part of the Soul Wars, we don't get a ton from the Alvin
19:47
gods techless reemerges to like help fight Nagash specifically
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because they have he. They have beef.
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I was going to say, they have beef, they have history.
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Techless is kind of a dipshit a lot of the time, but he does see
20:02
dealing with Nagash as partially his responsibility.
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On his. Personal level.
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Is it maybe your responsibility on a personal level?
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He's listen, we don't like tackless.
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We don't like tackless. But I will give him a point for
20:17
being like OK, this is a problem that maybe I can put more of my
20:23
attention towards. Partial credit.
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Yes, partial credit. Partial credit we really don't
20:28
get anything from we still haven't gotten like a ton from
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malaria. Again, he doesn't have a model
20:34
range. He doesn't have an army that's.
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Crazy. Yeah, right.
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How? Long has the Age of Sigmar been
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like a thing? Coming up on like 10 years,
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yeah. He's like a important figure.
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Why not? We the only thing we know.
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Show me the shadow elf. Right, we need him.
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We need him some time. The only thing we know for sure
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he's done during the age of Sigmar is he built a like sub
21:04
realm out of shadows for the storm cast.
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That's pretty cool. Yeah, that's pretty cool of
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them. It's his like contribution to
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the Alliance of Order, where it's just like I'm going.
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To kidding, I am still part of the club.
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Yeah, he's like, I'm still going to be over.
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Here either you are invited to my house but I'll send you this
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package. Do not invite me to your
21:23
Christmas party. I will send a gift.
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Yeah, you invited me. I didn't come.
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I sent a gift. Yes.
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We know that. Yeah.
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He, he built basically like it's a realm made out of shadow where
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everything is lies. The storm cast can train against
21:37
each other there without risk of injury.
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Oh. That's really cool.
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Everything is lies. What?
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A good gift. Yeah, it's a really good gift.
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We do know that he definitely, like, bugged it, like he can see
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everything that's happening inside of it at all times.
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Yeah, but we're not sure. How?
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I was going to say, we're not sure how malicious that is yet.
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If it's just like he wants to be aware.
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Yeah, he. Knows.
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Listen, he knows. Like Sir Martin isn't like,
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totally tight with him. Yeah.
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He has to. Double check and make sure what
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they're capable of in case. Absolutely.
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That's. Crazy, right, and I have I
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mentioned that just like love a shadow aesthetic, like I don't
22:11
know if I fully like I know I react positively.
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I don't know if I fully confess to like no, but I am a sucker
22:19
for a shadow aesthetic. Like in fucking has been hotel
22:23
as soon as Alistair was showing off his shadow shit, I was like,
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Oh no, Oh no, you caught me. I am defenseless, like and my
22:31
fucking draft. I have a shadow demon as one of
22:35
the protagonists. Like Oh no I am but a basic
22:39
bitch. I love a shadow aesthetic.
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It's a good aesthetic. I'm excited to see more malaria
22:45
than his shadow elves. Where are the shadow?
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Elves, demons, yeah. So.
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They're they're all going to look like mosquitoes, though.
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Yeah, right. They probably will.
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They're not going to look like sleek like I want them to.
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It's they might. Be sleek.
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I feel like fast is enough of a like malaria and Marathi
23:03
aesthetic. We'll probably get some sleek.
23:05
The Malarian was always the more like martially focused 1.
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So I bet we get like sleek armored elves.
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They're going to be the tough like elite to Marathi's.
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Like this is an extremely fast murderer.
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Yeah, I love something fast. While we're talking about like
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just like aesthetics and like trappings that get people going.
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I fucking love a fast character. I, I, I am speaking my favorite,
23:31
my absolute favorite. The Flash is my favorite DC
23:33
hero. Just a character who is
23:35
extremely fast and like no other qualities.
23:37
John's a huge fan of Lightning McQueen.
23:39
Peak Yeah, I did love that movie as a kid, that.
23:45
Was great That was super fun. It was very charming.
23:48
Like, we knock it a lot, but like, not we but like an
23:50
exercise. Like, oh, they just bought cars
23:52
for the merch. And like, they did, yeah, they
23:54
made cars and they made tons of money from it.
23:55
But also, like, an endearing message.
23:57
And then when Doc Hudson shows up at the end to like be on the
24:01
headset and like Coach Lightning, it's good lightning
24:04
like pushes the old, I think. It's good.
24:07
Here's your non Age of Sigmar take for the episode.
24:09
Pixar's Cars is good, yeah. No, we're not speaking on cars
24:13
too, but Pixar Cars is a good movie.
24:16
We're not speaking on airplanes. Pixar's Cars is a good movie.
24:22
So that's, that's really what we know about like malaria, right?
24:25
He's somewhere, he's hiding. He built a shadow boxing ring.
24:30
Shadow Dojo. Yes, the storm cat.
24:33
We do know that even before we know where like Malaria and
24:36
Morathy are, the storm cast do encounter daughters.
24:39
It's just kind of a like keep murdering people we don't like.
24:43
Please don't murder anyone we do like.
24:45
And the daughters are like, Yep, that's what we've been doing
24:49
while you're in a theater, yes. 4:50.
24:52
Four Yeah, you are the new blood that there's.
24:54
Like weird actually get to tell us what to do.
24:57
There is. We've been doing.
24:58
An element of that it's. Like we are actively the reason
25:02
that chaos hasn't taken over this whole fucking thing.
25:04
Yep. Like just to be clear.
25:06
We talked last episode how there are like humans that got left
25:09
behind. Yeah.
25:10
After Storm or Sigmar's retreat. Who see like Stormcast and the
25:16
humans that are accompanying them from Azir, not as like a
25:19
liberating force, but almost as an invasion.
25:22
Like we've been living here during the time that you fled
25:26
that we you didn't have to live through like the horrors of the
25:28
age of chaos. You don't get to now come in and
25:32
say that like this is your realm.
25:34
We do get a little bit of that from the daughters where like
25:37
Stormcast show up and it's like, oh, the true protectors of order
25:41
here to help liberate the realms and the dyers are like hello,
25:44
like not immortal here who has been doing The Dirty work for.
25:48
Yeah, and if I die, that's in game, yeah.
25:50
Like. That's yeah, I don't get swept
25:52
away and taken to fucking Warrior Valhalla.
25:55
Yeah. Like there's definitely a little
25:58
bit of yeah, yeah. Are there?
26:00
Interesting. Of the Storm cast who were
26:02
daughter of Kane. If we I don't think we got a
26:05
chance to talk about this last episode, but that's actually a
26:08
really good thing to talk about. So as far as we know and lore
26:13
and I I like this as a demarcation of the places in
26:18
which Sigmar feels a little bit more like broken after the
26:22
events of the valve for burning skies.
26:24
As far as we know nothing prevents non humans from
26:28
becoming storm cast, but also there aren't any.
26:34
Oh, that's so interesting. That is so.
26:37
Interesting. Oh no.
26:38
Yeah. Daughter, not daughter.
26:39
God of human civilization. Huh.
26:42
It's one of those, but it's it feels like a tension within
26:46
Sigmar because of the like, once Stormcast come in and they start
26:51
like founding cities and like reclaiming stuff, a lot of the
26:55
like dwarves and elves that don't fall into the other
26:57
factions find their permanent homes in like Sigmar cities.
27:02
Sigmar is still like everyone coming together, cooperating,
27:06
but he's still a person. And in the old world he was just
27:10
a human God. And the Stormcast thing, we
27:12
don't have any confirmation one way or the other.
27:15
In reality, there's probably an element of just like, we want
27:19
Stormcast to have this like readable silhouette, so they're
27:21
all going to be human adjacent. I think it's telling that Sigmar
27:26
is trying to hold this ideal of himself, like at a higher place,
27:32
but he's scared. He's just worried that he's
27:36
falling back into bad old habits because because like I said, I
27:40
think there's nothing preventing a dwarf or an elf from like
27:43
being a Stormcast. I think he just hasn't yet and
27:48
he maybe doesn't want to because he's worried for whatever
27:52
reason. Too many people that I can't
27:54
totally not necessarily control, but like account for like he's
27:59
like, I was human. I was a God of humans.
28:01
I know humans. I can make a call on humans.
28:03
I don't know what it means to be a dwarf.
28:05
I don't know what it's like to be an elf.
28:06
I can't predict what they'll do. Come live in our cities.
28:10
This is a place for the forgotten and abandoned things
28:13
and I will be your protector here.
28:17
But I don't think I'm ready to cross that bridge yet, right?
28:20
Is kind of the. Idea I won't let you be a
28:23
protector. Yes, absolutely.
28:25
Interesting. Also cities.
28:28
Tons of of Kane definitely died fighting chaos right?
28:32
Like. That big thing?
28:35
Right. Also, cities of Sikmar are like
28:39
very cosmopolitan. I do want to like overemphasize
28:41
that point where like humans, elves and dwarves are generally
28:43
of like relatively equal population in a city depending
28:47
on where it's located. Obviously there's more elves in
28:49
some realms and dwarves and some realms, but also ogres.
28:53
Like, yeah, ogres, there's orcs in some cities.
28:56
They have to take measures to, like, suppress whatever stuff
29:00
they've got going on. That usually makes them a bad
29:01
fit for cities. We talked about orcs before that
29:03
of like, they'll work as like a blacksmith or another industry
29:06
that requires their strength and they'll just take a day out of
29:09
every month to go smash it in the woods because they need to
29:12
do that to like suppress that urge to destroy.
29:15
You self. Regulate ogres who live in
29:17
cities. We don't really know why, but
29:20
possibly through just like the influence of Sigmar's divine
29:23
domain, feel the effects of that and less hunger, less.
29:27
Yeah, that's. Like a thing they have to deal
29:29
with. Oh, that.
29:30
Sucks they feel less if they live in cities for long enough,
29:33
especially Sigmar's like founded cities for long enough.
29:36
They actually kind of turn into like a but they also get smaller
29:40
because they're they have less of that like beastial magic in
29:43
them. So they're they're kind of own
29:45
distinct subspecies now called city yogers.
29:48
It's kind of cute. It's a whole thing.
29:50
I like that there's a delightful miniature for the army that
29:54
represents like normal human like or normal population cities
29:59
of Sigmar just like everyday like men and women of the line.
30:03
You can get just like a normie ass figure but we don't have one
30:06
of valerian yet. Right.
30:10
I mean, OK, I'm not mad, I'm just purple.
30:13
I'm just, I'm just confused. What are our priorities?
30:18
We could have a tangent, but it's a delightful figure.
30:21
I'll probably put a picture of it in the Instagram post if I
30:24
remember, but it is just of an ogre who has a backpack on with
30:31
like a post nailed to it that's going like 10 feet up in the air
30:36
with like a little basket for a guy with a gun to stand in It's.
30:41
Very good. It's.
30:44
So good. I love stuff like that.
30:48
I love stuff like that so much The sorry I'm just going to gush
30:52
for just a second about the cities of Sigmar.
30:55
That's what the army is called the Sigmar army.
30:58
I've never seen like a mantras army that makes it really feel
31:01
like they are normal people who have been like, who have taken
31:05
the decision to like fight for their home.
31:09
There's like a big cannon unit that you can take in a city to
31:12
Sigmar army. One of the guys that runs the
31:15
can on that model is drinking a beer.
31:17
Like he's. Yeah, he's just a dude.
31:23
He's just a dude. And he wants to defend his home
31:25
like anyone else. And like, that's what's LED us
31:29
here. Yeah.
31:29
That's. Very.
31:30
Good, so good. I really like the saves of
31:32
Sigmar range. Those are pretty great.
31:34
But in the meantime, back to yes, Storm cast encounter
31:38
daughters around. They just kind of stay out of
31:42
each other's way is kind of the vibe, though.
31:44
There's some resentment there for sure, for sure.
31:48
There was probably no thank you for keeping things.
31:52
Not really. Yeah.
31:54
There's probably never an acknowledgement of the time and
31:56
effort that they put into this. It was more just of a OK, we're
32:01
here now. Yes, absolutely.
32:02
Stand aside. Citizens, thanks for keeping it
32:04
warm for us. Yeah, we're.
32:06
The. True defenders of the realms are
32:08
here. Yeah, it's.
32:09
Like fuck off. Storm, we're going to get a
32:11
little bit of that. Y'all don't even go here.
32:14
Generally, we like Storm cast again like they are.
32:17
They are defenders of the realm. They have made the ultimate
32:19
sacrifice. They're very cool eventually.
32:20
Losing themselves. Their soul is literally being
32:22
stretched apart every time. So like it's not like they're
32:25
they're they as an individual are fine.
32:29
Yes, it's just they represent, yeah, that kind of like
32:32
overbearing thing that Sigmar worked really hard to suppress
32:36
from himself during the Age of Myth, and now he is feeling more
32:39
strongly. Respectfully, it didn't work.
32:41
No, I know and that is. Nikash's fault and again, we
32:44
should have just hit his ass into a star.
32:48
Yes. When he couldn't answer his
32:50
goddamn phone. So eventually word, pretty
32:54
quickly word gets back to Marathi that like storm cast
32:57
existence. Yeah, I would.
32:58
I would be. Shocked if it took her a while.
33:00
Basically instantly feel. Like they rolled up pretty loud.
33:04
The Daughters are the most widespread spy network in
33:07
existence, and all of the report back to Marathi.
33:10
Yeah, instantly. Your inbox is just flooded 100%
33:14
with just these like blurry photographs.
33:15
What the fuck is this? I'm a suspicious of spider man.
33:19
And it it takes her a while to make contact again with like I
33:22
said, we don't really see her until mid soul wars.
33:25
And then she's doing stuff to like fight against Nagash
33:27
because he's trying to make concursions into other realms.
33:30
That's like a thing that happens in the soul wars.
33:33
Nagash tries to conquer a part of Hish which does not help the
33:36
fact that Teklas wants to like. Chain his ass to a style.
33:41
Right, but Marathi eventually goes basically to Sigmar
33:47
directly. She can't get to Azir.
33:49
Azir is impenetrable by all measures but she basically just
33:55
to prove she can. Just like shows up at a high
33:58
command table at a storm cast like Fortress personally.
34:02
The power move. Yep, she is the probably herself
34:08
also the most capable assassin or Spires like in existence so
34:12
she's. Probably there the whole time.
34:13
Yeah, she just walks through the gates.
34:14
Yeah, it just shows up and said she made it look.
34:17
Like she just teleported in the room.
34:18
She was in the room the whole time.
34:20
She was yesterday. Absolutely.
34:22
She basically goes to the Storm cast and says, Yep, this is me,
34:26
Marathi, and I want to talk to Sigmar.
34:28
I have terms she has no reservations about, like the
34:34
role she played in keeping the realms protected all this time.
34:37
Like she is not here as a like, oh, thank goodness you're here.
34:40
She's a let's discuss like your role in the defense of the
34:44
realms I've been conducting. Yeah, the part you're going to
34:48
play in my plan to get rid of chaos.
34:51
Absolutely. Also, she refers to him as the
34:54
barbarian God the whole time to keep him in line.
34:58
Power move. Such a power move.
35:02
She's such a bitch, I love her. Marathi gets that meeting with
35:06
Sigmar. I mean, yeah, of course she
35:08
does, but I'm a little surprised that he said yes.
35:10
Like obviously, but. I think he sees it.
35:13
I think he sees like, basically from the moment he found her in
35:18
the realm, Sigmar has been waiting for Marathi to do what
35:21
Nagash has done. Where Marathi has a reputation
35:24
as a betrayer, as a manipulator, as like a spy in a turncoat.
35:27
And that's why Sigmar has kept her at arm's length for so long
35:31
that every single opportunity where she could have turned on
35:35
him, she hasn't. No because she personally knows
35:39
the cost of chaos wedding like they all do.
35:43
But I would say like Sigmar does deeply from that, like collapse
35:48
of the empire of the civilization all gone and then
35:51
being alone and isolated. But Marathi being the one that
35:55
was plucked by the demon and and the chaos demon and all of that
35:59
stuff. Like, they both, I think, are
36:01
perhaps the two entities that are most acutely aware of the
36:06
consequences of failing. Again, in very different ways,
36:10
but. Marathi is the only member of
36:12
the Alliance of Order who has ever been in the realm of chaos.
36:15
Like she was taken by a chaos God.
36:17
Yes, she is most intimately aware.
36:19
Absolutely. Marathi basically says we need
36:24
to reform the pantheon of order. Like we need to get like I can
36:29
try and like Techless is reemerged at this time.
36:32
We know he's around, we can try and pull him back in.
36:35
Basically, this is our best ball work against.
36:37
It was our best ball worker against Chaos originally.
36:39
It still is. That hasn't changed, even though
36:43
Chaos happened. We need to support Alario as
36:46
much as we can because she's around during this time.
36:49
She's where our food comes. From Yep, she's managed to carve
36:51
out enough of a foothold that she is just like openly
36:54
campaigning in Iran during this time.
36:56
Yeah, she's in her like fall, like war.
37:00
The reaping, yeah, which is the reaping is what fall is called
37:03
this. Is our dread Queen Alario.
37:06
Oh yes, and she is spoilers. Ilarial has not left the Reaping
37:10
since Age of Sigmar began. Yeah, no.
37:14
She's. Going to be there forever
37:15
basically. And Matthew says not only do we
37:18
need to reform the pantheon of order, I want to be a part like
37:22
I'm not a God, but you are going to give me a seat at the table
37:26
where all the gods sit. Because I, I was the only person
37:30
who successfully led the defense of my realm during the Battle of
37:32
Burning skies. I'm the only person who
37:34
successfully led the defense of my realm during the Age of
37:37
chaos. I have never turned on you even
37:41
on the level of like I've never turned on you openly like Nagash
37:44
has nor on the like secret keeping and like not tending my
37:49
realm like Teclis did. Like in every single step of
37:53
this fight, I have been by your side.
37:55
And I want a space of the ship. Absolutely not.
37:59
No, she doesn't. I've never once done anything.
38:04
Let me list all the things I specifically did.
38:08
Rather than making a broad general statement, I'd like to
38:10
make some specifics. And we don't need broad general.
38:13
Statements. Oh God does Sigmund.
38:19
No, I think you. I think I asked this before
38:21
today in Canon. Like does he know about the
38:25
demon chained up in the basement?
38:27
No, Sigmar still does not know that Sunesh has chained up an
38:29
old Gish. OK, we're.
38:31
Back to where we're at now. She's she gets a jacket.
38:34
Yes, Yep, Sigmar agrees. Like he basically admits that it
38:38
was a mistake to keep her off the pantheon in the 1st place
38:41
even though she wasn't a God. Like he should have taken her at
38:45
her word earlier and it made of might have helped before the age
38:49
of chaos he. Probably would have been like,
38:50
by the way, Nagash is up to some shady shit.
38:52
Yeah, my girls have reported he's up to some shady.
38:55
Shit, just full acquiescence from Sigmar.
38:57
He's just like yes absolutely you.
39:00
I never thought I would say this, but you, Marathi are
39:04
probably the person I can trust the post in this moment.
39:08
So interesting. Right.
39:10
And Marathi says, excellent, like I want to talk strategy.
39:17
Like we'll, we'll, we'll get the pantheon back together.
39:20
We'll get like a big meeting here at some point.
39:23
But right now, in the moment, while I have you, let's talk.
39:26
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Per my last assassination, let's
39:31
talk strategy. Stromcast have a great hold on
39:33
actually at this point in time. They founded the city of Hammer
39:36
Hall, which is so big it stretches through the realm
39:40
gates. Yeah, she talked about.
39:42
That Yep, so strong casts have a great presence in actually they
39:46
are doing great work in Giran, aided by L'Oreal.
39:51
But even with strong cast and even with Ilarial and even with
39:56
like the cities they've managed to found in Giran, Nervos hold
39:58
on. It is so strong because Nergal,
40:01
God of life is like just baked into the realm.
40:05
That's really hard to It's like cancer.
40:08
It's just a part of the body. Marathi suggests that wow, this
40:15
is Bob. Previously they were relying on
40:17
Nagash for his mastery of the Wind of Death.
40:20
She doesn't think that they can rely on him now or in the
40:24
future. She thinks they should just burn
40:25
that bridge and try and establish their own like
40:28
Outpost. And Guy ran it to harness that
40:30
Chaishi and magic to help with the fight against Nerkel.
40:33
Interesting. She convinces Sigmar to launch a
40:36
joint assault on Chaish, led by a Storm cast and Daughters.
40:40
Yeah, Daughters, like, leading the way.
40:44
Like, that's cool. Key assassinations and espionage
40:47
so Storm cast can deliver the finishing blow.
40:49
Establish some big, like, cities in the realm and try and, like,
40:52
pry them out of Nagash's hands. Oh, boy.
40:55
Yeah. Oh.
40:56
Boy, Yeah, OK. It's.
41:00
It's. Got to be neat.
41:01
Yeah. And it's Nagash is quite
41:04
powerful at this time. That's what gave him the
41:06
confidence to like, defy the Pantheon flock.
41:09
Around to find. Out, but she points to that as a
41:12
as a potential strength, the one place like Nagash has been
41:16
pushing out into other realms, the one place he's probably not
41:18
going to expect them to hit him. He's Shayish, yeah.
41:21
Literally in his heart, yeah. Yeah, Sigmar, Greece.
41:24
He thinks it's a good plan. He's going to devote Storm cast
41:27
to it. And Marathi also devotes
41:30
daughters. The daughters have a temple city
41:32
in Shaisha already because of course they do.
41:35
And they she's going to give the order, get them like ready to
41:39
March for war, kill like negashes necromancers and stuff
41:43
along the path to make the actual fight easier.
41:45
From there. Confident that's going as it
41:50
should. Marathi next plot like Techless
41:55
has reemerged recently. Tyrion has reemerged recently.
41:58
She's been in, like, loose contact with Mullerian because
42:01
of Ulgu, but she thinks it is time to reconvene a meeting of
42:06
the elven gods. She does so at Ulgesh, where
42:10
Sunesh has chained up. Yeah.
42:13
I mean, it's a good chance to double check the chains.
42:16
Good chance to remind everyone what the threat is.
42:21
Basically when she calls the meeting everyone is kind of
42:25
suspicious. Like why does Marathi want us
42:27
all in one room and she just tells them Marathi or Sunesh has
42:33
changed the weekend and they need to do something about it.
42:36
Yeah, Mullerian does not trust her still.
42:41
OK, listen, I'll say fair for Mullerian, yeah.
42:45
He knows her best. Listen, in regards to you should
42:49
let her in the God club, because everything else, absolutely.
42:53
In regards to Malarian, I think you should give your mom you
42:56
will never hear me say those fucking words.
42:59
So Malarian can decide how he's going to navigate this
43:02
relationship in his own time, in his own space.
43:04
He can protect his peace. So all the open gods meet
43:08
Malarian. The term I have here is openly
43:11
scoffs at Marathi thinking that this is all just deploy returns
43:16
to Olga does not even stay for the whole meeting.
43:19
Yeah, fine. You don't have to forgive your
43:20
mom. You can protect your own peace
43:22
also. Like where the fuck have you?
43:23
Been right. Tyrion is also distrustful.
43:27
Tyrion's our star football player.
43:30
Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's our, he's our.
43:31
I can't. He's King Arthur in my head.
43:34
Yeah, that's a good. Honestly, in my head, yeah,
43:36
that's a good. The Old world has a literal King
43:40
Arthur, but Tyrion's a good elf King Arthur.
43:44
Yeah, I talked briefly about the in the old World, there was a
43:47
Kingdom that was the whole Kingdom was just Arthurian
43:50
legend. Yeah, Britannia.
43:52
So there there is like literally just like an Arthurian figure.
43:56
Britannia kept up the King Arthur chivalric stuff for long
43:58
enough that eventually they're like blessings from the goddess.
44:01
Made them bulletproof so they could continue to exist in the
44:04
world that had like a tanks. That's very good.
44:07
Very good. Tyrion also like is distrustful
44:11
and him and techless like stay for the meeting but they don't
44:15
like settle on anything. Him and Teklas returned to hish,
44:21
but Marathi knows a person is keeping a secret and she hangs
44:25
out until Teklas comes back. She knows who's going to come
44:29
back Interesting. And what secret does she know
44:32
that Teklas is keeping? She knows how Teklas thinks.
44:38
So Teklas returns to Marathi in secret in Woolgish, doesn't tell
44:43
his brother, doesn't tell Malarian, basically to do the
44:47
same song and dance that we just saw from Sigmar.
44:50
I OK I would be shocked if he was able to tell Malarian.
44:53
Like how would he even tell Malarian if he wanted to?
44:55
Like he can't just send him a text like you're not even if he
44:58
wanted to. I'm shocked you got a hold of
45:01
him honestly. OK, saying someone dances
45:04
Sigmar, this is their terms. Yeah.
45:06
Well, more so than that. Techlist also comes back with
45:09
kind of that, like if I had trusted you sooner, maybe things
45:14
would have gone different. Interesting.
45:15
Yeah, like Tyrion is. You couldn't.
45:17
Do this with your brother. Yeah, Tyrion is our golden
45:20
armored Boy Scout. He isn't going to, like,
45:23
capitulate to someone he sees as untrustworthy because they
45:26
would. You know, he's our King Arthur.
45:29
He's not going to deal with Morgan Lafay.
45:30
Never do with. Morgan Lafay.
45:32
Except for famously that one time.
45:36
See how that worked out respectively.
45:39
And he was right. But Techless is first a
45:43
pragmatist, right? And he sees the value that
45:46
Marathi has brought to everything that's happened
45:48
since, and he it kind of feels bad that he created a worse
45:53
outcome by not trusting her sooner.
45:55
Interesting. So it's from a different
45:57
perspective. We love it when men admit
45:59
they're wrong. Yeah, it's from a different
46:01
perspective. Like Sigmar's is definitely more
46:03
of a like, I betrayed your trust as a person and this is me
46:06
trying to like amend that. Whereas techless is just like
46:10
you are a potential game piece that I was not like letting work
46:14
properly. You are a cog in the machine
46:16
that sounds. Like.
46:17
Typeless, yeah, that I hindered and it led to a worse outcome.
46:22
But he still comes back, and he still comes back with an offer
46:26
to maybe mend some of that bad blood.
46:29
He is also worried about Slush's escape, and he promises to help
46:33
Marathi on finding ways to strengthen the chains.
46:36
But in the meantime, Teklas has been developing new approaches
46:41
to the magic they used to extract Elvin souls.
46:44
And he just gives it to Marathi. Wow.
46:47
OK. Yeah, that's huge.
46:48
That is, he's been pretty tight lipped about the process up
46:51
until now. They've continued to extract
46:53
Elvin souls even throughout the age of chaos just because got to
46:56
get him out. And so now he is aware that him
47:00
and Rathi are basically the only people who know how to do it.
47:02
And he is as a sign of trust, saying it will be our like
47:06
person who does this for like the high elves and hish.
47:09
I am trusting you to be that for the elves and Olgu.
47:12
Interesting. Yeah, it's him.
47:14
Approaching Marathi is an equal thing.
47:15
He hasn't in the past. Yeah, to like no one.
47:19
Yeah, absolutely. And again, it's not really like
47:22
a genuine like want to treat you as an equal because I respect
47:26
you. It's AI, see how capable you
47:28
are, and I want that to. Give you the tools so I can take
47:31
advantage of how capable. Absolutely.
47:32
Yeah, absolutely. So we all can.
47:34
Like we we talk a lot of shit on Techlist, but he is ultimately
47:37
most concerned with the well-being of the world.
47:40
He's also a bigger picture. He's just never even once zooms
47:44
in a little. Yes, that's exactly what.
47:48
Two bigger. Pictures.
47:48
That is exactly what it is. So he gives Marathi the means,
47:54
the advanced means of extracting new souls, and he gives her like
47:59
the latest batch of souls that he extracted.
48:02
It's out of turn, it should have been his, and he just gives her
48:06
those instead. Bury the hatchet.
48:08
Like. Sign of good faith, which is
48:13
great. So while all this is happening,
48:17
Marathi leaves Olgish. Not even Marathi's spies know
48:20
about Olgish, because no one is allowed to know.
48:23
About Olgish, there's a demon in the basement.
48:26
You can't let anyone know. Marathi leaves, Olgish returns
48:29
to Hagner, and her spies bring her word from the Veron Spire,
48:33
Archaeon's fortress at the all points.
48:36
Yeah, they tell her that. So we've talked a little bit
48:39
about Realm stone. Every realm has its own physical
48:43
embodiment of what it does. Almost none of them are stones,
48:46
which is super funny. Aquagoranis the liquid.
48:49
That can carry disease. Yeah, realm of.
48:51
Light. Yeah, Carmenite, which is
48:54
Shiman's which can alloy into any other metal and just
48:58
improves it like an alloy of shamanite Gold is just going to
49:03
be tougher, more lustrous gold, stuff like that.
49:07
The all points also has a realm stone.
49:10
Oh, hey, OK. Yeah, the all points is the
49:12
connector realm. It is the realm with gates to
49:16
all the other realms and so it's realm stone.
49:21
While not used a ton in the past because it wasn't super needed
49:25
during the Age of Myth, when Archaeon extracts it and finds
49:30
it and starts utilizing it, he renames it Varanite because
49:35
Varan is archaeans like word for stuff he likes I guess.
49:38
I was going to ask. Like he yeah, his fortress in
49:41
the all points is the Varan Spire.
49:43
His most elite infant or cavalry are the Varangard.
49:46
He's like a fucking 14 year old who came up with one term he
49:52
really likes and now uses it for social media handles in like all
49:55
the thing and will still be using it in a decade.
49:57
Yes, Marathi spies returned to her that Archaeon has started an
50:02
industrial scale mining operation of Veronite.
50:06
It doesn't take a lot of like Marathi is a wizard but she's
50:10
not like super study research wizard like she's not like a
50:15
tech less. Like a.
50:17
Pursuit. She just has magic she can do,
50:20
but it doesn't take an expert to figure out that the realm stone
50:24
of like the place of connections is probably going to be pretty
50:27
good at making connections. They have been mining that
50:31
Veronite and they have been moving it to the Heaven Gate,
50:35
the All Gate that connects to Azir.
50:37
Oh yeah, we don't want. That, yes, Matthew predicts, and
50:41
her espionage layer confirms that yeah, Arcan intends to use
50:44
it to breach the Algate to Azir, Sigmar's home realm, and the war
50:49
right there and there. Yeah, that'll be bad.
50:51
Can't let that happen. No, she takes the information
50:53
directly to Sigmar, tells no one, not even Stormcast, and he
50:57
will again show a good faith like I trust you.
51:00
That operation in Shyeshi is like ongoing where they're
51:03
making like excellent headway into Shyesh already.
51:07
He says yes, we are going to launch a joint assault on the
51:12
all points and Rathy says Yep, I have, I already have daughters
51:15
at the ready. We have rolled out the cauldrons
51:17
of blood, rolled. Out the Cauldrons of Blood and
51:20
Sigmark, just like we're just move right past that.
51:23
I'm not going to comment on it. Yep, daughters sneak their way
51:27
into the all points to like establish a war base.
51:29
Storm cast arrive at the all points the same way.
51:31
They arrive everywhere on lightning bolts.
51:35
So, so, so cool. And Stormcast and Daughters
51:39
fight side by side in the all points.
51:42
There's definitely a bit of like an odd company, like comedy to
51:45
it because Daughters delight in violence.
51:48
They are cultus of the God of murder.
51:51
There is almost a gleeful performance to the way Daughters
51:54
fight. Stormcast, meanwhile, are
51:57
verging on grim. Like this is their like, eternal
52:01
obligation. Yeah.
52:03
And so the the kind of classical valor that we expect from like a
52:08
heroic vaguely nightly figure from the storm cast contrasted
52:12
against. It's like Batman fighting with
52:14
Harley Quinn, Yeah. That's an excellent.
52:16
Yeah. Just the kind of big grim
52:18
determination of like a storm cast hammer line hitting like a
52:21
group of chaos warriors and then the genuine laughter as like
52:25
daughters hit that same group of chaos warriors from behind and
52:28
start cutting throats is like, oh, that's a weird.
52:31
Like, we're just the position. Yeah.
52:34
The Serb cast find it genuinely off putting like.
52:36
They're I'm sure. Yeah, they're not used to this,
52:40
especially when the Daughters start hauling off Chaos Warriors
52:42
and slitting them open at the Cauldron.
52:45
Like, yeah, they're like then. They get faster, so yeah, they
52:50
die. They don't come back.
52:51
So I guess we're not going to question their methods.
52:55
As they are, they're cutting a swath through the all points
52:58
trying to reach the Azure Gate. They're also heading for that
53:02
big mining operation. They're hoping to like collapse
53:04
the mine tunnels, destroy a bunch of the mining equipment,
53:06
make it so that our can just can't do all this again.
53:10
The daughters kind of lead up that part of the operation.
53:12
They're better at sabotage generally and like sneaking
53:14
around and stuff. So they split off as the storm
53:17
cast, push towards the all gate to Azir, and in the midst of all
53:21
this bunch of chaos forces like divert and go elsewhere in the
53:28
realm. No one's sure what's happening
53:31
like in the actual battle but what we know from like an eagle
53:35
eye perspective is that either due to like the consequence of
53:42
Sigmar and Rathi's assault on Shyesh also like clearing out
53:46
chaos encampments, or as like a ploy because this was like a
53:51
different front that Nagash knew that forces wouldn't already be
53:54
at. Wow.
53:57
This assault on the all points is happening from Marathi and
54:00
Sigmar. A unstoppable wave of skeletons
54:05
pushes through the end gate from Shayish.
54:08
Bitch. Nigash also makes his play for
54:11
the all points in this room this.
54:13
Bitch. Thankfully the all the end gate
54:16
is like far enough away from Sigmar and Marathi's operation
54:19
that's unlikely to interfere with them, but actually kind of
54:22
creates an opening for all three of them.
54:24
Where Archaeon, who previously was fighting no battles on his
54:28
home turf, is now fighting 3 battles on his home turf.
54:32
Archaeon is not currently in the Bear Inspire, he is leading an
54:35
campaign elsewhere, but he gets the word pretty quick.
54:38
So they know they only have so much time before Archaeon
54:40
himself shows up at the Bear Inspire.
54:43
Absolutely not. So they know that they are on a
54:45
limit. And despite it definitely not
54:48
being his intent, Nagash kind of helps this operation.
54:52
Yeah. Marathi's daughters like clear
54:56
out the Veronite mines. They kill the miners, they kill
54:58
Chaos warriors, they destroyed the mining equipment.
55:01
And they report back to Sigmar basically as Stormcast have
55:05
finished taking the, like, fortress that was built around
55:10
the Azir Gate and either just like destroying the Veronite or
55:16
scattering it or taking it back to like a Zier, getting it out
55:19
of Archaeon. Yeah, we're not super sure what
55:22
happens to a lot of the Veronite, but.
55:24
I would also rename it just despite.
55:26
Yeah, right. Getting it out of Archaeon's
55:28
hands is the core thing successful Operation Storm cast
55:33
actually end up so like stormcast and daughters re like
55:37
join up as like chaos is resurging like forces pulled
55:42
from other realms to reinforce the veron Spire like showing up
55:47
the stormcast do what they are meant to and they do the whole
55:51
like we'll stay and hold them off.
55:54
A couple of memories is worth like saving mortal lives you
55:59
guys go. Yeah.
56:00
Wow. Yeah.
56:01
OK, I mean, that is fundamentally what it is to be a
56:03
storm cast, to be fair. But also like as an expression
56:06
of like reaching across the aisle of like, this is a person
56:09
we didn't even trust enough to let sit at the table for a
56:11
while. Storm cast are now willing to
56:13
give up one of their limited deaths to make sure that the
56:17
daughters who only have the one make it out alive.
56:21
Daughters retreats through the Olgu gate, which they can go
56:25
through. That's fine.
56:26
That's fine. Yeah, of course.
56:28
Not treats to the Olgu gate with the expectation that they are
56:32
returning to Hagnar. Mission complete.
56:35
Lick their wounds all that. That's not where they.
56:40
Go. There was just such a long
56:41
pause. Dolphin.
56:43
The donors do not go back to Hagnar.
56:46
OK. Also, I don't think I mentioned
56:48
explicitly but implied Marathi is part of this operation.
56:52
She goes to the Veron Spire, it's a good PR and also she's
56:56
very powerful. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
56:57
We want her there. It's good to help with the
56:59
operation so Marathi and the daughters go back through the
57:03
gate to Olgu, but they don't go to Hagner.
57:10
Where did they go, Dalton? They have another destination in
57:13
mind. Like on purpose?
57:14
Yes. OK.
57:15
I thought it was OK. OK, OK.
57:17
I mean, I'm still concerned, but OK.
57:18
Where did they go, Dalton? So we're gonna cut away from
57:21
Marathi for a second. Shit, OK.
57:23
And talk about the city of Anvilgard.
57:27
So Anvilgard is a Sigmar founded city in Olgu.
57:31
It was a concession from Marathi and Malarin originally.
57:34
Sigmar would have never been able to successfully found a
57:36
city in Olgu if they didn't want him to.
57:38
This was an early olive branch where basically like OK, you can
57:43
set up roots here and like Stormcast will help devote their
57:47
presence to protecting the area. Cool business as usual, hands
57:52
across the aisle, all that jazz. The influence of Olgu is still
57:57
strong in Anvil Port, so even though it is a city of Sigmar,
58:03
it is a full on like scoundrel pirate town.
58:07
It is devious murders and backstreets and piracy and
58:11
smuggling and all the things you'd expect of kind of a turn
58:14
of the century like bad a port such as the nature of Olga.
58:21
Olga loves it's secrets. Olga loves it's scandals.
58:24
Not all has been well in Anvil Card for a little while.
58:28
Can't imagine. Yeah, in addition to the normal,
58:31
just like, yeah, we've got chaos attacks occasionally and like
58:36
the rogues are always doing their thing and pirates come
58:39
through and whatnot. There have been a string of high
58:44
profile assassinations in Anvil part recently.
58:48
Interesting. It is interesting, isn't it, I?
58:51
Wonder why that's happening? I do wonder why that's
58:53
happening. City officials, important
58:57
religious leaders, merchants, basically anyone with a valid
59:03
claim to power is either being explicitly murdered or just
59:11
disappearing. Just disappeared you.
59:14
Know this is obviously suspicious that the usual groups
59:20
have been like investigating some of these murders.
59:22
We actually get a call out to a guy named Toll.
59:26
I don't remember what his first name is but he's a well known.
59:30
Check him off your bingo cards. They just Sigmar fans.
59:31
He's a pretty well known lore figure because he is a basically
59:35
ancient bounty hunter at this point.
59:37
We mentioned him in the Mythic Chaos episode.
59:40
He's like 160 years old but he exclusively works for Aqua
59:45
Garanis. To keep himself young.
59:48
Yes, I remember. Him Cal of our toll that's his
59:50
full name Hal of our tolls on the case and he has found that
59:57
wow everyone is aware of like the murders and stuff happening
1:00:01
they. Tend to catch the perpetrators.
1:00:04
Like obviously a bunch of shady assassinations start happening
1:00:08
in Olga, your first suspect to the Daughters, but it doesn't
1:00:11
seem like they had anything to do with it.
1:00:14
They catch the murderers and the murderers are as surprised that
1:00:19
is everyone else. Weird that someone is dead.
1:00:24
Interesting. Yeah.
1:00:25
OK, Toll concludes that they are seemingly under the influence of
1:00:29
some mind altering magics to commit these murders.
1:00:33
So this is the situation to which Marathi arrives.
1:00:38
OK, so she rolls up. Yes, OK.
1:00:40
Marathi rolls up with the Daughters, and not just the
1:00:43
daughters that were at the all points coming straight here from
1:00:46
the all points without stopping to rest beforehand, but also
1:00:52
legions of reinforcements from Hagnar.
1:00:56
Yeah. Why?
1:00:59
So they arrive under the pretense of aiding the city with
1:01:02
its current troubles. Like we hear that you've had
1:01:05
some rough assassinations here. Let's help take care of that for
1:01:11
you. But once the gates are open,
1:01:14
that falls away pretty quick. Yeah.
1:01:20
This is a city of Sycmar. It's in Morathian Malarion's
1:01:23
realm, but it has never been theirs.
1:01:26
Oh, interesting. Oh, we're just going to right
1:01:28
away, huh? Like we managed to get this
1:01:30
pretty stable and then that the first fucking opportunity.
1:01:34
And as soon as the gates are open, it becomes clear that
1:01:38
Marathi is not here to help. This is an invasion.
1:01:44
Marathi's are sweeping to Anvil Guard.
1:01:46
They start killing guards. They start taking captives.
1:01:49
It is just a if you had like an aerial shot of Anvil Guard, it
1:01:53
would look like just someone taking like a red paintbrush and
1:01:57
brushing it across the swath of the city as daughters.
1:02:00
Just take captives and explicitly don't take captives.
1:02:04
But amongst all of that, they are very careful not to kill any
1:02:11
storm cast in the city because they don't want their souls
1:02:15
going back to Azir where they can tell Sigmar what's
1:02:18
happening. The daughters paralyze or
1:02:21
incapacitate the storm cast that they can.
1:02:23
They chain them up. They throw them in like a
1:02:25
warehouse and anvil guard where they can't reforge. 0 bound
1:02:29
souls cannot let anyone know what is happening until the job
1:02:34
is done. Marathi almost instantly brings
1:02:39
Animal guard to heal. It was not ready for an invasion
1:02:42
of this size. Everyone who could reasonably
1:02:44
mounted defenses dead and the storm cast are caught off guard,
1:02:49
incapacitated, and thrown in a foot locker somewhere.
1:02:52
Right? Marathi rolls that cauldron of
1:02:55
blood that she took with her to the all points into the city and
1:02:59
the daughter start unloading called the Veronite they stole
1:03:04
from the all points where they hid it in the base of the
1:03:07
cauldron they just. Smuggled it out on the fucking
1:03:12
food cart. Underneath the blood underneath.
1:03:16
The blood. Full of pilfered veronite stolen
1:03:19
right under the nose of Stormcast and Archaeana.
1:03:21
Like those reinforcements from Hagnar do not arrive alone.
1:03:26
I mentioned that during the age of Chaos Marathi, I was taking
1:03:30
special note to kidnap a lot of high-ranking Chaos warriors.
1:03:35
They arrive with hundreds, Are they?
1:03:38
Just keeping them in a fucking ice chest.
1:03:40
Warriors, yes. Cool.
1:03:41
Barely enough to keep them alive through the forced March to
1:03:45
Anvil Guard. All of these high-ranking Chaos
1:03:50
champions just heard it around that huge cauldron of blood full
1:03:54
of Varonite. Interesting.
1:03:55
What's going? To happen next.
1:04:00
Marathi has Veronite that she's still under the pretense of
1:04:06
preventing an invasion of Azir. We don't know what Arkaeon, if
1:04:10
Arkaeon, would have reached there eventually, but we have no
1:04:13
indication that that was his current plan.
1:04:15
Marathi fabricated it to get Sigmar's help in getting to the
1:04:19
all points to steal the Veronite.
1:04:21
Oh my God. Wow, first fucking opportunity.
1:04:25
We learn that Nagash's assault on the All points was not a
1:04:30
quirk of fate. It was his end of the bargain
1:04:34
for Marathi, getting Storm cast to clear out a bunch of Chaos
1:04:38
forts in a part of his territory that he couldn't crack.
1:04:42
Marathi led the storm cast through what they thought were
1:04:46
necromancers and Nagash's own legions, but instead doing
1:04:50
Nagash's dirty work to clear Chaos out of his own realm.
1:04:55
Nothing is an accident, everything is a plan.
1:04:58
Everything in service of this, the thing that Marathi has been
1:05:02
working towards since the Age of Myth, with hundreds of Chaos
1:05:10
champions aligned around a cauldron of blood at the height
1:05:14
of Cain's power, full of Varonite, the realm stone of
1:05:21
opening pathways. Marathi takes that new magic
1:05:28
that she got from Techless, a person whose mind she has a very
1:05:33
good idea of how it works, and she opens a path into Ogish.
1:05:47
Oh no. And further into Slanesh.
1:05:53
Like into slanesh. Into slanesh.
1:05:56
OK. For the second time, more than
1:05:59
anyone in existence, Marathi leaps into the cauldron of blood
1:06:06
and reenters Slanesh. OK.
1:06:11
She is after something. I would hope so.
1:06:16
Would. She after.
1:06:19
Protected by her grand blood ritual, all of those Chaos
1:06:22
warriors sacrificed. She only took Chaos warriors of
1:06:26
Zinch, Nergel, and Corn. She is shielded by the souls of
1:06:29
Slanesh's Chaos opposites. Yeah, that'll do it.
1:06:33
Shielded by blood, shielded by the power of Cain and by the
1:06:36
Iron Heart, Marathi searches Slanesh's essence.
1:06:43
Submerged in all of those other Alvin's souls, still trapped
1:06:46
within Slanesh. OK, even with all these
1:06:49
precautions, like she cannot be here for long.
1:06:52
So she is following the light of Elvin souls by their brightness,
1:06:57
by their strength, how much of themself they have managed to
1:07:00
hold on to by this time. And she is taking them.
1:07:04
She is collecting them and gathering up all the most
1:07:08
powerful ones she can find. And then she takes what they
1:07:15
have left for herself. Of course she does.
1:07:18
Marathi pulls the essence out of all of the brightest elven soul
1:07:23
she can find, destroys them to take that into herself.
1:07:28
She robs them of their spark of divinity.
1:07:33
Oh God. And the last one, one soul that
1:07:40
she pauses on as she is doing this.
1:07:46
We don't know who it is for sure, but we get a peek at for
1:07:53
every edifice Marathi has erected around herself as being
1:07:59
this cold pragmatist, this like steely eyed high priestess of
1:08:05
murder who only acts to benefit herself and everything is a
1:08:09
pretense and everything is a plot and everything is a scheme.
1:08:12
She pauses on someone we're pretty sure is Anarion, the
1:08:21
first Phoenix, King of the Elves.
1:08:23
Oh shit. The father of her son.
1:08:25
Oh my God. And the only person she's ever
1:08:30
married? Marathi was a Suneshi Cultus.
1:08:34
And she was. A.
1:08:36
Powerful, like self liberated woman.
1:08:37
We know she had what she wanted to do with however many people
1:08:41
she wanted to do it with. She never remarried after an
1:08:43
Aryan, the cold high priestess of murder.
1:08:48
Maybe somewhere, after endless millennia, still held some love
1:08:55
for the father of her son, her first love.
1:09:01
But he is a good and noble man. And in that moment of
1:09:05
hesitation, his soul lashes out and strikes Marathi and cracks
1:09:11
that protection that she has from Slanesh.
1:09:15
She recoils in rage. She drains the divinity from an
1:09:18
Aryan soul, and she screams in rage as she flees.
1:09:28
Slanesh has like chaos starts to pour into the crack in her
1:09:33
armor. Just she reemerges from the
1:09:38
cauldron of blood, gasping for air, feeling like Slanesh's
1:09:43
presence, like digging its claws into her as she made her final
1:09:47
escape. I'm going to ask you to look at
1:09:50
the visual reference for the first time.
1:09:51
What was your recording you said?
1:09:53
Oh yeah. You'll be looking at it pretty
1:09:54
quickly. You could have been looking at
1:09:56
it before now, but I've forgotten.
1:09:58
A lot of it is just pictures of Marathi.
1:10:01
Cool pictures of Marathi. But near the end there is the
1:10:05
important one. OK.
1:10:07
Yep, I see that. Yep, if you zoom in, there's
1:10:11
also her little form standing in front of the cauldron.
1:10:14
Yeah, Marathi reemerges into the moral realms from the cauldron
1:10:21
of blood. Not as Marathi, but as the new
1:10:27
goddess of murder, Marathi Cain. And more than that.
1:10:32
This cauldron is exploding. It's super cool.
1:10:35
It's one of my favorite AOS pictures.
1:10:37
More than that, Marathi and Marathi emerge from the
1:10:43
cauldron. So we've talked about before how
1:10:46
Marathi's true form is that huge like.
1:10:50
Snake monster. Serpentine lady.
1:10:53
Yeah. But she uses shadow magic to.
1:10:55
Conceal. Yeah, for espionage and for
1:10:58
pride. Maybe it's what she used to look
1:10:59
like. That crack that an Aryan made in
1:11:03
her armor that allowed chaos to seep into damaged her soul.
1:11:08
Marathi's. Marathi's body couldn't go back
1:11:10
into Sunesh. Only her soul was in there.
1:11:13
And in that moment, Marathi's soul was split in twain.
1:11:18
Damn. OK.
1:11:20
When she re emerges into the world, part of her soul has
1:11:23
inhabited the illusion that she casts around herself and made it
1:11:27
real, and the other half has inhabited her real body.
1:11:31
So interesting, so good. Marathi, like different parts of
1:11:37
her end up in different parts of her body.
1:11:39
Marathi's cunning and subtlety and political conniving and like
1:11:47
coldness end up in her smaller, like illusory vision, vision,
1:11:53
visage. In many ways, those parts of her
1:11:55
that are illusory, that coldness, that subtlety and like
1:12:00
roguishness and her rage, the everything she has ever felt
1:12:07
about being denied godhood, about being denied the throne
1:12:10
for her son, about the fate that she spent, the time that she
1:12:15
spent in Slesh originally after the end of the world, all of
1:12:19
those raw, real parts of Marathi end up in her true half.
1:12:26
Yep. But that's not the half that's
1:12:29
good at illusions. Oh.
1:12:30
Yeah, Nope. Little Illusory Marathi comes to
1:12:36
be known as Marathi. Yeah.
1:12:39
The larger one she calls the Shadow Queen.
1:12:43
It's. Very good.
1:12:45
It's very good. It's so good Marathi reemerges
1:12:49
not into like the relative like sanctity that she started the
1:12:54
ritual under. Like the city was occupied and
1:12:57
there was still dissent, but it was largely controlled while she
1:13:01
was in Slanesh, Idaneth sensing. Yeah, I see.
1:13:06
Like in the image you can tell like all of the the daughters
1:13:08
are facing away and charging away from the cauldron and
1:13:13
there's some fish people that are like what the fuck?
1:13:16
Do you forget? About us.
1:13:17
I didn't have the originally sensing just like the
1:13:19
vulnerability of Anvilgard, like their scouts reporting back that
1:13:22
something was going down Anvilgard and seeing it as an
1:13:24
opportunity to like collect a big harvest of souls.
1:13:27
Oh yeah, they do that. Yep brought a raid against
1:13:29
Anvilgard and they do not meet the they thought we can like
1:13:33
defensive forces Vandvilgard. They meet the battle ready
1:13:38
prepared to potentially fight off Storm.
1:13:40
Cast the daughters of Cain with their newly ascendant to God.
1:13:47
We should all leave, but I see I got you at a bad time.
1:13:53
Little Marathi. Little Marathi, It's like little
1:13:57
Leona at the end of Haunted Mansion.
1:13:59
There's just a little Leona Baker whose mother says bye.
1:14:02
So make sure you come back with your death certificate.
1:14:04
Who's the actual voice of the Imagineer?
1:14:08
Who did the face model for Leona the ball?
1:14:11
That's not the same voice. They use a voice actress for
1:14:14
that. But the little Leona at the end
1:14:17
is the voice of that woman whose daughter is also an Imagineer.
1:14:21
And so when she passes by there, she can hear her mom's voice
1:14:24
coming out of the ride. Really nice, really like that
1:14:28
this. Is not like that at all.
1:14:29
No, yeah, I tried. I tried to stop cuz
1:14:33
emphatically, Little Marathi just is Marathi.
1:14:36
Like the Shadow queen is the shadow Queen.
1:14:38
Yeah, but I'm going to call her Little Marathi because that's
1:14:41
what everyone calls her. It's funny when you play her in
1:14:45
game, you have both Little Marathi and Big Marathi on the
1:14:49
table at the same time because they're different person.
1:14:51
And it's much faster to just say, yeah, I'm going to cast a
1:14:55
spell with Little Marathi instead of I'm going to cast a
1:14:57
spell with Marathi. Which Marathi?
1:14:59
Little Marathi No. I get that.
1:15:01
Absolutely. So I'm going to call her Little
1:15:03
Marathi. Little Marathi.
1:15:07
Little Marathi is honestly kind of like shell shocked when she
1:15:11
rearrive in the realm, like she is feeling all of that divine
1:15:14
power. But she is, like I said, she's
1:15:16
the secretive 1, she's the illusory 1, she's the scheming
1:15:19
one. Her first instinct is to hide
1:15:23
when she reemerges from the cauldron, but she can't do that
1:15:27
because what kind of image would that send for your new God to
1:15:31
run from a battle? Yeah, Big Morathi feels no such
1:15:35
compulsion. Big Morathi is all of that, like
1:15:39
rage that Morathi has swallowed for decades, for centuries, just
1:15:44
all coming to bear at once. Big Morathi emerges from the
1:15:46
cauldron and just starts annihilating Idneth and
1:15:50
daughters. If we're being real.
1:15:52
Like indiscriminate killing, Big Morathi can turn people to
1:15:57
stone, which I think is very funny.
1:15:58
Just. Really getting the.
1:15:59
Medusa. Yep, Yep.
1:16:03
Turning Eideneth stone, turning Eideneth into red smears on
1:16:07
pavement, using the full bulk of her like body to just smash and
1:16:14
stab. And not even like little Marathi
1:16:17
fights with like a dancer's grace.
1:16:19
She has that full daughters thing going on with that spear
1:16:21
that she wields. Big Marathi tends to as well
1:16:25
when she's more composed. But in this moment, she is just
1:16:28
murder. She is murder Incarnate.
1:16:30
She is feeling the full weight of becoming a God and she is
1:16:34
mad. Marathi Caine does not struggle
1:16:38
even a little bit, fending off the Eidenath and taking full
1:16:44
control of the city of Anvilgard and renaming it newly
1:16:49
christening it as the latest temple city in Olgu.
1:16:52
Har Quran. Har Quran honestly kind of
1:16:57
returns to business as usual. It's already a part of
1:17:01
Skullduggery. There's a bigger daughter
1:17:03
presence than there was before, but it's just another temple
1:17:06
city now. Like Marathi fully intends to
1:17:08
continue to rule from Hagner like but she stays in Har Quran
1:17:12
for a little a little bit because eventually they were
1:17:15
going to escape eventually or someone was going to come and
1:17:18
check on them. Stormcast get out, they get to
1:17:21
Sigmar, they tell him what happened and the Stormcast
1:17:24
arrive at our Quran. Yeah, unacceptable.
1:17:28
He put his trust in Marathi and she betrayed him.
1:17:32
Instantly. It was her.
1:17:34
That was planned the whole time. For her godhood.
1:17:37
For the godhood that she felt rightfully denied the only
1:17:40
survivor of the old world. That didn't get to be a God,
1:17:44
Yeah. This was.
1:17:45
Her you got snatched by everyone else, kind of came over here in
1:17:47
a different route. So like, yeah.
1:17:49
She paid her dues. She kept Old Goose safe for the
1:17:52
entire age of Chaos. She did.
1:17:54
And if this is a reward too far for her, then they can try and
1:18:01
take it back. Her reasoning?
1:18:05
Listen, we support women's rights.
1:18:06
We also support women's wrongs. Storm cast arrive at her Quran,
1:18:10
they fight Marathi for it. She fights them as Marathi and
1:18:14
the Shadow Queen in tandem, the ID NF turncoat.
1:18:19
They are always looking for divine allies away from techless
1:18:23
and they think Marathi might be their like ticket for divine
1:18:26
protection. The item that emerge from the
1:18:28
sea and help fight off the storm cast and Marathi is back in
1:18:31
call. Yep, the fighting goes for some
1:18:33
time. It reduces.
1:18:35
Current day anvil guard is like half the size of pre fight anvil
1:18:39
guard because a lot of it's just been reduced to ruin because it
1:18:43
keeps getting hit by storm cast that are lightning bolts.
1:18:47
Yeah, that'll happen. And the fighting gets so bad
1:18:51
that both sides come to the conclusion that if it goes much
1:18:54
longer, that might just not be a city after all this.
1:18:58
Eventually, the Selisten Prime arrives.
1:19:03
Our big #1 wields Gamma Raz Sigmar Stead, the first Storm
1:19:08
cast ever forged. The Selisten Prime comes to the
1:19:12
battle and the Shadow crew just tries to kill him immediately.
1:19:15
But he arrives. He does not bear arms against
1:19:19
her. He arrives not to fight, but to
1:19:26
parlay. I was going to say parlay.
1:19:30
The Selston Prime meets privately with Marathi while the
1:19:34
Shadow Queen stands vigil. No one knows the details of the
1:19:42
deal struck between Marathi Caine, Goddess of murder and the
1:19:46
Salston Prime Hammer of Sigmar. But once it is once the deal is
1:19:51
struck, Storm Cast withdraw from the city and Marathi Caine
1:19:57
receives Sigmar's blessing to retain ownership of the temple.
1:20:03
City of Har Quran What? The fuck?
1:20:07
The implication, and what we've gotten in like, writings since
1:20:10
and stuff, is that of Wow. Sigmar is furious.
1:20:15
While Sigmar has sworn that we're at this is a crime Marathi
1:20:18
will pay for. Trials are a thing for the
1:20:22
future. Crimes are a luxury we can't
1:20:26
afford right now, and by all accounts, Marathi just added a
1:20:33
God to the pantheon of order. Yeah, really could use that
1:20:38
right about now. It's it's almost an extension of
1:20:41
everything that led up, even though that was all deception,
1:20:43
even though it was Marathi basically cashing in a trust
1:20:51
that she built up for a long time for disastrous
1:20:54
consequences. It's almost kind of the
1:20:57
narrative conclusion of what we saw at the beginning of this
1:20:59
story where Marathi came to Sigmar and said, I've done
1:21:04
nothing but help. You have to trust me.
1:21:06
And now, even after she has done wrong, even when he knows that
1:21:11
he can't trust her, Sigmar is still making that decision.
1:21:15
OK, let's see me trusting you. Let's see what the goddess of
1:21:21
murder can do for the fight against Chaos.
1:21:26
I put this much trust in the gash.
1:21:29
Yeah, we saw how that worked out.
1:21:32
Yep. Especially though Rathi is not
1:21:37
Nagash, and Nagash has not done one goddamn thing that you could
1:21:40
call useful for the Pantheon against the fight to Chaos
1:21:44
Rathi. We did have another God who
1:21:47
absolutely does not want chaos to.
1:21:49
Win. So like in the end of the day,
1:21:53
you again do it, like you said, at least have another God
1:21:57
against the fight against Chaos, and that's a pretty strong
1:22:00
player on the board. A thing basically no one is
1:22:04
happy with. Like Tyrion and Techlist Find
1:22:06
out and they're also livid. Yep.
1:22:09
Techlist is fucking furious but you had it coming bitch.
1:22:11
We not even mad. We get the implication that
1:22:14
Malaria might have known that. That might be why he walked out
1:22:18
of that initial meeting in Olgish.
1:22:20
He's like I will not be a part of.
1:22:21
This Yep. But yeah, like Grungy is kind of
1:22:26
on Sigmar's side. He we get the implication that
1:22:29
he might be the one that talks Sigmar into making peace because
1:22:32
he's the guy, he's the maker God, he's the he's practicality
1:22:35
made manifest basically if he's like.
1:22:38
It's like the craftsmanship is impressive.
1:22:40
You have to give her that. Yeah, perfectly executed plan I.
1:22:44
Mean, I don't think she intended for her soul to get split in
1:22:46
twain, that isn't. That Speaking of her soul
1:22:49
getting split in twain when we call Marathi Kane the mother of
1:22:53
Dextesa and Sinessa. Yeah.
1:22:55
What's up with that? When Marathi's soul got split in
1:22:57
twain, part of it leaked into Slanesh, and through that like
1:23:02
bubble of divine protection from the other gods, it did not just
1:23:05
get absorbed into Sloanesh, it got incubated and.
1:23:09
Eventually vaporizing Celine and then putting the fetus in his
1:23:14
leg. Yeah, and then it became the
1:23:16
baby Dionysus. But weirdly less weird.
1:23:19
Interesting. Yeah, that, like piece of
1:23:22
Marathi's soul, just like incubated within Sloanesh and
1:23:25
then was eventually expelled. That was the newborn that we
1:23:29
talked about in the Slaneshi episode, which was just
1:23:32
basically a huge egg that eventually hashed into Dextessa
1:23:34
and Synessa. They mirror Marathi.
1:23:38
Dextessa is cunning and conniving.
1:23:41
They are referred to as the voice of Slanesh and Synessa is
1:23:46
brutal and vicious and rage fueled and referred to as the
1:23:49
talent that was Slanesh. Is Marathi aware of this?
1:23:54
I don't know if she's aware that she caused Dexta and Sinessa.
1:24:00
Yeah, she knows they exist. Yeah, yeah.
1:24:02
They've immediately started like fighting an old.
1:24:04
Group. Yeah, yeah, they caused
1:24:05
problems, but like, is she aware?
1:24:07
I think she's probably smart enough to figure it out, I
1:24:10
think. Is that like?
1:24:11
I don't think there's been any explicit confirmation.
1:24:13
Like that probably had something to do.
1:24:16
Yeah, can't. Do anything about that now?
1:24:18
Yep, but that's that's the situation.
1:24:21
Marathi Kane. So.
1:24:23
Fucking crazy. It's so crazy.
1:24:25
Marathi. Kane Got Us a Murder pulls off
1:24:27
the ultimate A-Team style plot to ascend herself to godhood.
1:24:31
It worked it. Worked.
1:24:33
Oh, did it work? She had everyone fooled.
1:24:36
She got Sigmar on her side. She played every single person
1:24:40
in that situation and came out a goddess for it.
1:24:43
We we're almost done with this episode.
1:24:45
I just do want to talk about a couple more things because we're
1:24:47
doing the Daughter of Cain episode.
1:24:48
Marathi continues to operate basically as she has, except as
1:24:51
the new goddess of murder. She has actually upheld the
1:24:57
illusion that she is the high priestess of Cain because she's
1:25:02
built her whole organization on 4 strip of Cain.
1:25:04
She doesn't want to lose like any power of people defecting
1:25:09
and. People picking Cain over her, No
1:25:11
he is not an option. So she she still has the iron
1:25:14
heart, but what she started doing this is so funny.
1:25:18
What she started doing is she has started just like swapping
1:25:24
out statues of Cain in the temple cities with statues of
1:25:27
her and claiming that she is. They're not explicitly statues
1:25:32
of her. She is claiming that she has
1:25:34
found like, ancient religious texts about people who used to
1:25:38
worship a feminine form of Cain. She is planting.
1:25:42
Yeah, no, absolutely. Old fucking world.
1:25:45
What do you mean you found ancient where?
1:25:47
Yep she is fully so she never explicitly says oh I exactly
1:25:54
resemble a this feminine aspect of Cain from ancient times.
1:25:58
She just puts the statues out there and lets people come to
1:26:01
their own conclusions. It's very much all right,
1:26:06
pagans, you can keep doing your winter festival, but it's for
1:26:09
our God now. Yes, we have like one more named
1:26:13
character I want to talk about because I think she's extremely
1:26:15
funny. Her name is Crestula, the Crone
1:26:20
Seer. OK.
1:26:22
I need to double check her name because I don't want to get that
1:26:25
wrong. She has a model.
1:26:26
She's very great. Crethusa the Crone seer.
1:26:29
Chris, Chris. Chris Christusa.
1:26:31
Crethusa. Like Medusa, but Crathusa.
1:26:34
Crathusa, the Crone seer. She's a big crow winged lady.
1:26:38
Cool. Actually I have a picture of her
1:26:40
on my phone. That's her model.
1:26:42
I like her very much. She's.
1:26:43
Very good. She's very good.
1:26:46
She is, as her name implies, she is a seer.
1:26:49
She has the limited, limited ability.
1:26:50
She can't see into the future because that's the right
1:26:52
reserve. Don't like for Kairos, but she
1:26:54
gets visions of like secrets and stuff.
1:26:57
She's attuned to the magic of OLGU.
1:26:59
I like that. And she has started to lead kind
1:27:03
of a like apostle group within the Daughters of Cain,
1:27:08
radicalized by the insane idea that Marathi actually killed the
1:27:14
Cain and is taking his place. That's crazy, right?
1:27:19
That's that's totally crazy. How would you look at everything
1:27:22
that's happened and come to that conclusion?
1:27:26
So we do have I I like her because a she's framed as kind
1:27:32
of like a a rambling corner mad woman, but she's objectively
1:27:36
correct, right? Like she's just.
1:27:37
She's seen the fucking secrets. She knows she's right.
1:27:41
This isn't a theory. She knows she's right.
1:27:44
Just just expose. I love like a, like I said, like
1:27:47
a sandwich board sidewalk corner level doomsayer who is just
1:27:53
objectively correct about the state of the world.
1:27:55
That is extremely funny to me, but it it's an interesting
1:28:00
perspective to look at as well that.
1:28:02
But is she is she on board with Marathi like?
1:28:04
No, no. They're like fuck this.
1:28:07
OK, OK. They're an apostle group, they I
1:28:09
guess. I don't know what that means.
1:28:11
They are of the same religion, but they think that the current
1:28:13
like dogma is wrong. Thank you.
1:28:15
So the current understanding is the Morathea is the high
1:28:18
priestess of Cain, but she worships Cain.
1:28:20
And then there's this new idea being introduced that, oh,
1:28:23
Marathia actually might be like a reincarnation of Cain.
1:28:25
That is what she is trying to sell is that like, this is not a
1:28:28
thing I did, but I just happened to actually be a reincarnation
1:28:31
of Cain. You can just openly worship me
1:28:33
now. That's why she hyphenated Cain
1:28:35
onto the end of her. Name and and and Krethusa.
1:28:39
Krethusa over here is like, no, she murdered Cain and it's
1:28:42
taking his place. Krethusa is like, no, we should
1:28:45
not be worshipping Maratha. She is not our God.
1:28:48
She murdered our God and she has hijacked our faith.
1:28:52
I am a true devotee of Cain and. Doesn't exist anymore and is in
1:28:56
fact dead. She doesn't know that, but she
1:28:58
knows. She knows he's dead, but she
1:29:00
thinks they could, like, still worship him and like, draw from
1:29:03
his power. And she knows that Marathi has
1:29:06
the Iron Heart. And so that's one of her goals,
1:29:08
is to get the Iron Heart away from Marathi.
1:29:10
Interesting. I guess you get the iron heart.
1:29:11
I mean, Marathi was using Kane's power because she had that, so
1:29:14
they could get it. They could use Kane's power.
1:29:16
Like that's not totally off the table.
1:29:17
Like, Marathi still has the Iron Heart.
1:29:19
She still uses it. She can call upon Kane's power
1:29:22
herself now because it's her power.
1:29:25
But if you got the Iron Heart away from Marathi, there's a
1:29:27
pretty good chance you could just use Marathi's power because
1:29:31
it's probably just her heart now.
1:29:33
Yeah. That's fun.
1:29:34
I like it because, yeah, it gives us that flip perspective,
1:29:37
and it shows us that even though Marathi is like the master
1:29:41
schemer, master manipulator, there is a limit to how much you
1:29:44
can manipulate people. Like someone's going to see
1:29:47
through it. And so the fact that we've got
1:29:49
kind of this like religious schism brewing within the
1:29:52
Daughters, who up to this point have been this kind of ironclad,
1:29:56
like assassin order. Of like religious cells.
1:29:59
Yeah, he is fascinating, especially because it's a thing
1:30:03
that has only happened since Marathi actually achieved
1:30:06
godhood. Yeah, that's that's a lot harder
1:30:09
to just be like, yeah, it's OK. This God totally still exists.
1:30:11
It's like, no, wait, hold on. Yep, and it speaks a little bit
1:30:15
to like the metaphysical impact that stuff can have in a setting
1:30:18
like Age of Sigmar, because there's kind of also the
1:30:22
implications. The reason we're starting to see
1:30:24
cracks in the Daughters of Cain is because we've seen a split in
1:30:28
Marathi. Yeah, that also makes sense,
1:30:31
yeah. Marathi and the Shadow Queen
1:30:33
share some, like knowledge and memory and stuff.
1:30:37
They're still parts of the same soul, but they don't have to.
1:30:41
Yeah, we know that there's stuff that Marathi doesn't share with
1:30:44
the Shadow Queen and vice versa. I was going to ask.
1:30:47
Yeah, and they argue a lot. I'm sure, yeah.
1:30:51
The Shadow Queen wants to be more decisive, she wants to go
1:30:53
and strike out their enemies. And also, she's just generally
1:30:55
angrier than Marathi is. And so, yeah, I don't know.
1:31:01
I think it's an interesting. It's one of the things I like
1:31:04
when we tell these stories about these big figures and these this
1:31:07
like, Big Magic and like apotheosis to God and stuff.
1:31:10
Like characters don't change who they are through apotheosis
1:31:13
inherently. But the fact that you can take a
1:31:15
person and all parts of her are that same person, but by
1:31:18
separating them in that way, it creates tension that was already
1:31:23
there, but just one side was able to like push it down and
1:31:29
how that ripples that word into what was previously otherwise.
1:31:32
And one of them is massive and literally a goddess.
1:31:34
Yep, both of them are gods. Well, OK, just one is constantly
1:31:39
a giant Serpentine gorgon shadow Queen and the other one is
1:31:43
Little Marathi, Yes. OK, they're also inextricably
1:31:46
linked. Last game mechanic thing, I
1:31:50
promise. In game Marathi has 12 health,
1:31:54
which is kind of low actually for like a monstrous character.
1:31:57
Feels. Low.
1:31:58
Your average like big monster character is going to have like
1:32:01
14 to 16 probably. It's a little bit low, but
1:32:04
that's because how? Many does Alario have?
1:32:06
Alario has 18 because she is the goddess of.
1:32:08
Life. Yeah, OK.
1:32:10
Alario has 18 because she's the goddess of life and she heals
1:32:13
like 2D6 of health every turn. Interesting.
1:32:16
And then she heals extra three health start of every.
1:32:18
Turn Yeah. Is there a reason you, like,
1:32:20
know this off the top of your head right now?
1:32:21
Dolphins like are so intimately familiar with these stats.
1:32:23
For the curious I play beta game against Silvaneth today that
1:32:27
maybe some of y'all will see at some point where I failed to
1:32:32
kill Alario like 4 separate times by like one health and she
1:32:39
was just full health again immediately.
1:32:43
Like I could have done like 50 less total damage that game but
1:32:47
like two extra damage in one turn and I probably would have
1:32:52
won anyway. Rathi has like 12 health in game
1:32:58
but the reason that's low is because she is the only
1:33:02
character in the game who can only take like a certain amount
1:33:06
of damage each turn. Yes, every turn of the game
1:33:09
Rathi can take a maximum of three damage, period.
1:33:13
Why iron hurt? Ironheart, I think you told me
1:33:16
this. I think I remember this.
1:33:17
Ironheart. Yeah.
1:33:18
The Ironheart protects her, so they're two turns per round and
1:33:22
five rounds per game, so 10 total turns.
1:33:25
So bare minimum. Like if you do everything right,
1:33:29
you can maybe kill Marathi like 40% of the way through the game
1:33:33
and you're not going to do everything right because he's
1:33:35
huge and terrifying and does a billion damage.
1:33:38
But if you kill either Marathi, both die.
1:33:42
That makes sense because yeah, they're still inexplicably
1:33:44
linked. They are the same soul so like
1:33:46
they could never turn on each other fully.
1:33:49
That's so interesting. And the iron Heart makes them
1:33:52
both really hard to kill anyways, even in game.
1:33:56
Like if you kill Marathi in a game of Age of Sigma, she
1:33:59
doesn't actually die if she just like slinks off returns to Olgu.
1:34:05
But yeah, in fiction, it would take an immense amount of power
1:34:08
to kill Marathi. There's I mean, as much as any
1:34:11
other gun, Yeah, it would probably take yeah, like
1:34:13
Techless or Nagash or Sigmar, like personally showing up to
1:34:17
fight her because godhood. Yeah.
1:34:19
And even then on top of that, because the iron heart of came.
1:34:24
But Marathi and the daughters of Kane are aligned with order.
1:34:27
Yes, nominally. Yeah, nominally.
1:34:29
It's one of those, there's one like we talked a little bit in
1:34:33
the last episode about the Grand Alliances and how they're not
1:34:35
literal alliances in a lot of respects.
1:34:37
They're just like similar goals. Marathi is definitely on the
1:34:40
periphery of the Grand Alliance of Order.
1:34:43
She's not like she doesn't take orders from Sigmar or she does
1:34:46
not like work alongside Storm Cast anymore.
1:34:50
No that. Would not.
1:34:53
Her and the idneth will work together.
1:34:55
Her and the silvaneth will work together.
1:34:57
Sometimes the tree people, because silvaneth are generally
1:35:02
just mostly focused on like the preservation of nature, will
1:35:06
work with the luminous still, which is fascinating.
1:35:09
To. Me.
1:35:10
Yeah, again, I think it's that Tecla and pragmatism.
1:35:13
If Sigmar's like, acceptance of like her Quran and like her
1:35:16
ascension to godhood was just like, I'm furious, but we need
1:35:20
her in this fight. Teclosis was probably also in
1:35:23
that line of just like, wow, good plan.
1:35:25
Damn. It and he's probably just like.
1:35:28
Oh shit, yeah. Also he.
1:35:30
Was I think of that. He was dealing with his own
1:35:32
stuff. He was fighting the gash wall.
1:35:33
This was going down. So he has other problems.
1:35:36
But yeah, Marathi will work alongside the Luminous still
1:35:39
again, that like kind of raw pragmatism.
1:35:42
And even though Stormcast won't willingly work alongside
1:35:45
daughters, my daughter still will show up and like, kill
1:35:49
stuff. That's Stormcaster fighting
1:35:51
because they're so. Fucking pissed when they do it
1:35:53
too. Absolutely, because Marathi for
1:35:56
all her faults does not want chaos to win.
1:36:00
So she is definitely on the periphery like the iden ether on
1:36:03
the periphery where like most of their artifactions don't want to
1:36:06
work with them because they steal souls.
1:36:07
Yeah. They're really scary.
1:36:09
And they steal souls. That's upsetting.
1:36:12
But also like Cities of Sigmar won't work with Lumina.
1:36:16
Interesting. Yeah, there is an event that
1:36:18
we'll talk about this real quick.
1:36:19
There was an event that happened that really soured that
1:36:22
relationship. There was a there's that Lumina
1:36:26
headspace of like we're going to do the big picture thing that
1:36:29
benefits everybody, even if it does real bad for people here in
1:36:33
the moment. And also some of the nations of
1:36:37
Lumina of Hish don't really hold non elves in general or non
1:36:46
luminous specifically in very high regard.
1:36:50
And so there is a incident we know of where a city of Sigmar
1:36:55
like a full on city, was flooded because the luminous needed to
1:37:00
like channel water into a space for a huge spell to like attack
1:37:04
chaos and it was just easier for them to do it rather than try
1:37:08
and organize an evacuation effort first.
1:37:11
Yeah, I also wouldn't work with the luminous anymore.
1:37:15
Correct. It's that it's definitely the
1:37:19
most I might introduce you to a fun term we have here in
1:37:21
Warhammer called the Grim derp. That's one of The thing is like
1:37:26
so obsessively or so excessively just like dark and that turned
1:37:31
stupid instead of being luminous.
1:37:35
Flooding a city of Sigmar just because it's faster than
1:37:38
organizing an evacuation effort is definitely strays into grim
1:37:42
derp for me. Like the Luminous are like
1:37:46
hardcore pragmatist, anti individualistic pragmatist, but
1:37:51
they're not that far, not in my opinion.
1:37:54
I don't know. I don't know, Teklas let his
1:37:56
niece get fucking murdered so he could corrupt and they didn't
1:38:00
stop Nagash from coming back and just kind of hindered him a
1:38:04
little bit. Yeah, that's true.
1:38:06
That's true. And it was AI can't remember
1:38:09
what limited nation it was, but it was one of the more just like
1:38:12
there's one of the limited nations that like only drinks
1:38:16
stale or only drinks like settled water and eats stale
1:38:19
bread because they think sensation is a pathway for
1:38:22
slanesh. And I think it was them that did
1:38:25
it because they just like try and deprive themselves of all
1:38:27
emotion. And so that's a very like Nope,
1:38:31
the math checks out. Flooded like.
1:38:33
Yeah, yeah. So yeah, yeah, I guess that
1:38:36
tracks. Listen, he can still be, he can
1:38:38
still be derpy as hell. And also like, yeah.
1:38:41
That tracks. Maths fucking maniacs, right?
1:38:44
But yeah, that's our thing. That's really cutting down on
1:38:47
the people he's willing to work with though.
1:38:48
And like, I don't blame him on those things.
1:38:50
But simultaneously, I mean, it's not like, I mean, they're pretty
1:38:55
big things. It's not like they're just like
1:38:57
little like infractions that ruffled some feathers.
1:39:02
Like no flooding a whole ass city and everything Marathi just
1:39:06
did. And also the IMF steel so.
1:39:09
Yeah. Which I bet the store cast
1:39:11
specifically don't love. Yep.
1:39:14
Yep, the the grand of Alliance of Order is pretty frayed.
1:39:20
Like it's again it's the most alliance of convenience out of
1:39:24
all of them. For a while in game, their thing
1:39:27
was that it was easier to like if you have a like storm cast
1:39:31
army, it is easier for you to bring some units from like
1:39:37
Luminath or some units from cities or some units from
1:39:42
carriage run overlords like sky dwarves.
1:39:45
Then it would be if you had like an orc army to bring some ogres
1:39:48
or whatever, like that was just there like a grand alliance
1:39:51
thing. But that's kind of fallen away
1:39:53
in recent as that those alliances have gotten more
1:39:56
frayed, yeah, where order doesn't have as much of A like
1:40:00
unifying identity anymore as everyone kind of approaches it
1:40:03
from their own. Very feel like this is exactly
1:40:07
the problem we had in the age of myth.
1:40:09
Everyone was just doing their own thing and when it came down
1:40:13
to it to have a grandstand it all fell apart because no one
1:40:16
had the same playbook. Listen history and also Nagesh
1:40:19
was there. History doesn't repeat itself,
1:40:22
but it rhymes but. It rhymes.
1:40:23
It's poetry. It rhymes.
1:40:27
Are going to see, especially as we get into even more like
1:40:30
current history in the Age of Sigmar, we're going to see old
1:40:33
habits coming out worse and worse.
1:40:37
Because the issue with chaos is that it is insidious and that it
1:40:43
knows what it is and that it doesn't stray from corrupting
1:40:48
the things that are good in the world.
1:40:50
Chaos has a playbook and they all hate each other, but they're
1:40:54
all using the same playbook. 100%.
1:40:59
Damn, I don't think we're going to work.
1:41:01
I don't know if this is going to work.
1:41:02
Out, guys. But for now, that is the story
1:41:07
of Marathi hyphen Kane and her ascension to godhood.
1:41:15
For this episode, I mean. That's pretty fucking sweet.
1:41:20
No, no, that was awesome. Don't worry.
1:41:22
I was gonna say we're ending on a little bit of a downward note.
1:41:23
There's phrase in the Grand Alliance of Order.
1:41:25
But hey, that was really cool. You got to give it to her.
1:41:30
The Prestige. You do, you do listen.
1:41:34
You have to give it to her. She will take it.
1:41:37
Take. It regardless, you might as well
1:41:39
give it to her, feel like you had some control.
1:41:45
Awesome. Yeah, I at time of recording, I
1:41:50
don't actually know what we're going to talk.
1:41:51
About Damn. OK, wow.
1:41:52
I've been, I've been focusing on this one, getting all my notes
1:41:56
right. So I'm not sure what we're going
1:41:57
to talk about next time. It's probably going to be
1:42:00
something more order aligned. Maybe we'll do a deep dive into
1:42:03
the Idenath, or we'll check in on what the dwarves are doing.
1:42:06
Very fascinated by the idenath. I think I would like to spend
1:42:09
some time with them if I can make a request.
1:42:10
Yeah, absolutely. I'm.
1:42:12
Terrified of them, but. Correct.
1:42:15
Yeah. Like if all of them actually,
1:42:17
yeah, I think you've only the the the factions and the
1:42:20
different things we've encountered.
1:42:21
Like I am most terrified of the Idaneth like to encounter real.
1:42:25
Like yeah, chaos sucks and all that stuff and that would be a
1:42:27
bummer. And like the blood cults are
1:42:29
rough but like the idaneth scare me existentially.
1:42:33
Yep, absolutely don't live near the shoreline.
1:42:36
Near the shoreline, Yeah. I think that I think that sells
1:42:41
it. Next episode we are going to
1:42:42
talk about the Eideneth deep kin.
1:42:44
We'll talk about a little bit of how they've been coping since
1:42:47
they've been like hiding from the world.
1:42:49
I think a lot of the like leadership structures of the
1:42:52
Eideneth are really interesting. Yeah.
1:42:53
How does they? Even work down there.
1:42:54
Yeah, absolutely. And also we're going to talk
1:42:57
about their big cool fish. Love a big cool fish?
1:43:00
You can't keep a dog at the bottom of the ocean, so look
1:43:04
forward to pet swordfish and sharks some.
1:43:06
Megalodon. Giant turtles, yeah.
1:43:09
Love it. Awesome, but until next time, I
1:43:13
have been your doom fire warlock, Dalton Montgomery.
1:43:17
And I'm Darren Smart, and I got to go make some cheese.
1:43:20
See you next time. Bye.