The Skaven are Warhammer's Best Faction
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what are your thoughts on star wars or star trek or mass efftect. etc etc
Make a video about fixing bretonnia. I dare you. Coward.
Ahh Skavens the Imperium in Fantasy.
What if the overlord and his son from overlord hell rising and 2 got stuck in warhammer fantasy with both of there basses on top of each other’s and with there hordes of minions and if they can’t share the same minions types then the son gets reds and greens and the father gets blues and browns just sense of what types of missions they go on son stealing important stuff and father conquering and/or killing whatever he can handle 👌❓
P.s. clan mors is the best just because numbers and queek
So the WORST faction is also the BEST, precisely because they're the WORST.
RATS RATS WE ARE THE RATS
We prey at night we stalk at night we’re the rats 🐀
IM THE GIANT RAT THAT MAKES ALL OF THE RULES
I'm da giant rat that makes all of da rules
RATS RATS WE ARE THE RATS!!!!!
RATS, RATS, WE’RE DA RATS
Im a simple Rat. I see Skaven and click it, with the corresponding "like". yes-yes
Skaven yes-yes
Yes-yes
pass-pass the warpstone dust
@@rannnoch No-No!!! The great boof-boof is mine!!!
Would you say that’s your style?
My favorite Skaven moment was one skaven accidentally being discovered by several human nobles, but due to it being a masquerade ball and all the nobles already being piss drunk, no one notices he's not wearing a costume. He uses this to his advantage to start eating rich people food.
Then Thanquol kills him because he thinks he's human.
I read this bit recently and Thanqol does realise he's a skaven after the he talks - specifically the head assassin who just messed things up for Thanqol (always the incompetent underlings...) - so takes the opportunity to give him a quick blast in revenge
I also just finished reading Skavenslayer and thought that was funny AF.
One of the few stories i actually read because that novel was translated into hungarian as well.
"ikith claw is trying to build a bomb that only hurts elves, but instead it only hurts skaven". I love skaven
I dont see a problem-issue here.
"Finally, some good food"
Skaven when he eats an entire moon's worth of warp stone
Skaven when he sees a toddler*
Me when i see* @@Invizive
Free protein
@@oogabooga1228 touché
"Finally, some good-good food-yums."
With the power of skaven tech he replaced his pancreas with a rat
This video was sponsored by Clan Moulder
it's just as good as what it replaced!
Except the rat also wants to betray and kill him.
... oh wait, so did his pancreas.
Never mind, proceed as normal.
Honestly, if you got a free rat for every organ that stops doing its job, that would be kinda nice. I mean, sure your immune system tried to nuke your ability to make something you need to live, but least you'd have a new rat friend.
Rat also has pancreas in it somewhere
I have a friend who plays our homebrew DnD as a Skaven.... Every action he commits to makes my skin crawl.
Bro there’s literally a Warhammer Fantasy RPG.
I know but I can't get a group and a GM to play it, would host one but I'm a terrible GM.
But my buddy is a good GM and has had this home brew made since 2007 and is a mix of Fantasy and 40k with a whole lot of other fictions throw in to.
@@king_enigmax1358 GMing is a skill. Like any skill, practise is the best way to improve :)
@@Ellebeebythere is? I might have to get into that.
@@bazumafoo886Warhammer started out as a table top RPG combined with w war Game before it went full war game.
You can still play it but it’s literally the oldest War Hammer media out there so it’s bearly recognizable at times.
I think my favorite part of the Skaven is that both scenarios you described are possible to have going on at the same time. A great earthquake shakes the city, and an entire city-block falls into a foreboding chasm, and suddenly disappearances start across the entire city with people going missing en masse. Terrifying from the human perspective, but from the Skaven perspective 50% of their army was just blown up in an "accident" that each of the skaven commanders was in some way partially responsible for with each of them managing to lose a large number of their supporters who they intentionally left in the blast radius to divert suspicion. Then, in order to appease their higher-ups, they begin fighting over trying to capture as many humans as possible to use as sacrifices to bribe their superiors with. But they also keep trying to kill or steal the other commander's sacrifices, meaning the entire process ends up getting scaled up to absurd levels as their self-sabotage stretches the entire horrifying death of this town out from a months-long campaign to _years_ long. With them only finally delivering the killing blow when threatened by the superiors that they'll all be turned into "slave-meat-food-things" if they don't get results. But the humans never know that the agonizing and terrifying ordeal they went through wasn't because of any intentional psychological warfare on the Skavens part, but rather their own self destructive backstabbing.
"I was there, the day Thanquol beaned The Emperor"
Hey its you good to see you here
If the Skaven were in WH40K, a skaven whacking the Emperor in the head with a folding chair would be very likely.
Skaven throw planets. Just sayin
Skaven, a race of backstabbing sociopaths. And we love them.
Jeez, that's a LOT of Starscreams...
Gonna need a lot of Toms to take care of these devious Jerrys.
@@battlion507Tom gets his fade ran by jerry on the daily we need those 3 cat goons Tom be calling up 😂
Many such cases! Sad!
They don't always backstab.. sometimes they bite out throats too.
There are suprisingly few factions in Warhammer fantasy that can't be described as "a bunch of backstabbing sociopaths"
"Not just Grabbing France or Germany from that time period and making them all mice"
RATTEN REICH INTENSIFIED
Rats are one of the few animals that will bring food to another rat without eating it himself.
Alright Pancreas, type something you wouldn't normally type if a ratman is holding you hostage to make this
Wait until he types "I don't want Morathy mommy to crush me"
Morathi is ugly.
No not man thing we don’t won’t hold man thing hostage
we don't don't!
We hold, keep no one stupid foolish man thing!
My Skaven army is 2 clawlords and 360 clan rats. I am that guy
He called it unorthodox but I disagree. Rat tide is most pure rat form.
Who would win, an army of daemons from Magic Hell
Or
Almost 400 fucking rats?
My money is on the rats.
you truly are a Skaven
I see your rat tide and I raise my gnoblar swarm. 1 butcher, 3 ogre bulls, and 900 gnoblars!
@@bentwineham1986 You're such a gnobhead. ;D
" Killing two babies with one club"
-Thanquol
40K needs Skaven.
40k already has Skaven. They call themselves 'The Imperium.'
@@failedexperiment9073 They fight-kill for the God-Emperor
@@paulenan9636 Glory to the Omnissiah-thing, yes-yes
@@failedexperiment9073 *tyranids*
Agreed. There isn't quite a faction that mirrors their absolute absurdity. Gretchin get the closest I think but they aren't nearly the same level of incompetent or more importantly comically selfish.
Great Horned Mickey is definitely worshipped by the Skaven.
Nobody in warhammer is that evil.
They ate mickey. Shat him out, overdosed his shit remains with warpstone and now we got a monster for the face of disney. Instead of creating entertainment to bring people together they create things to piss everyone off and turn everything they make into shit.
@@andrewbyrne2173 true.. they got standards.
Don't do the Great Horned Rat dirty like that, homeboy. Come on now.
Honestly with the way Disney is worshipped I have no doubt the closest 40k got to the great horned rat was with the rise of the House of Mouse. And the warp being the warp have no doubt Mickey was twisted in dark and unspeakable ways.
I can certainly say the Skaven ARE Warhammer. They always ask the question "how can we make everything worse?". Which is certainly grim and certainly dark. Also just the best memes, like enough to transcend Warhammer to be recognized outside it.
Aye, you will never not see someone using skaven-speak if a series has rat folk of any kind, regardless of their moral alignment.
The worst part of the Skaven is that they don't have Karl Franz Protector of the Empire, Defier of the Dark, Sigmar's Heir, Emperor of the South, Emperor Himself, Son of Emperors and of course the Emperor of the Empire of Man
well they do have Karl Franz Protector of the Empire, Defier of the Dark, Sigmar's Heir, Emperor of the South, Emperor Himself, and Son of Emperors and of course the Emperor of the Empire of Man, otherwise know as Krat Scratch!
This comment has the explicit consent of me, Karl Franz, Elector count of Reikland, Prince of Altdorf, Protector of the Empire, Defier of the Dark, Sigmar's heir, Emperor of the South, Emperor himself, Son of emperors, Imperial Majesty, Imperial Emperor, and Emperor of the Empire of Man.
11:17
"He wants to see if he can build a bomb that only blows up elves"
I do not see a problem with this.
Plop him in Dragonlance at any time period and he'd probably be doing everyone a favor.
I actually hate elves they're always like 400 years old and still make terrible decisions
@@ereviscale3966 What gets to me is how they can be so arrogant despite being on par with everyone else,even though they tend to have a head start of countless millennia.
Found the dwarves.
@@magmos6346 during their countless millennia head start they invented twitter
now they've vowed never to go above the technology threshold ever again
poop fart poop fart
i have spoken
Actually they get ratted out.
Or they stap you the moment you close your eyes
THE EMPEROR HAS SPOKEN
Summon the poopen farten
"Close your eyes and picture the typical Skaven. They have no concept of honour, no shred of empathy, no idea of courage. No ability for self-reflection, shame, or responsibility, and anything that goes wrong is always someone else's fault."
-Cody Bonds on the average Skaven
That’s also every self-entitled millennial these days
So basically the Russian army?
@@akumaking1 You're really dunking on those minimum wage workers, bud.
@@georgethompson913 Let me see:
-starting what seemed like an easy conquest that ended up dragging for way too long to the point it wouldn't even be a pyrrhic victory
-command messing up due to incompetence and/or infighting
-powerful war machines exploding taking their crew with them into space
-rockets pulling a uno reverse card
-artillery doing friendly fire
-air defense also friendly firing (what they doing?)
-sending wave after wave of bodies to drown the enemies in corpses
-tide turning weapons (Moskva, kinzhal, T-90, etc) going down in quite silly ways
-funny speech (they got drunk)
And many more
Yup, you're right
@@elbolainas4174 Endlessly corrupt, abuses the hell out of inferiors.
Crazy? I was crazy once. They put me in a room. A underground room. With rats. Giant rats. And rats drive me crazy! Crazy? I was crazy once…
They put me in a room-apartment, a rubber-soft room-box, a container, yes-yes, with skinks and skinks make me wacky-crazy...
the insane tzeetch sorcerer trying to explain to archeon why the skaven have betrayed them
They locked me in a round room and only fed me bagels. Bagels? I love Bagels! Bagels are round, the sun is round! The sun is yellow, bananas are yellow! Bananas have spots, old people have spots! Old people live looooooong lives. Life?! That's my favorite cereal! I once bought some for 10 dollars. 10 dollars?! That's crazy! I was crazy once, they locked me in a round room and only fed me Bagels. Bagels? I love Bagels...
@@sovietunion7643change? I changed once. They put me through a rift. A chaos rift. A chaos rift with tzeentch. And tzeentch made me change! Change? I changed once…
I'm telling Smii7y you guys are stealing his thing. 😋
4:43 "There's actually some pretty significant amount of findings that show rats are supportive and reasonably kind animals, only really turning into something resembling the Skaven under the most extremely cramped and horrid conditions."
Me: _horrible Mouse Utopia flashbacks_
A small skaven army accidentally makes its way into 40K can’t get back and slowly spread and destroy a hive world and conquer out from there before the imperium can respond
rats replacing rats, nothing changes
yes-yes
let these puny man-things and orc-things KNEEL before the strength-might of SKAVENDOM
where before we fought-seeked a planet us-we rule-control hundereds of system-planets
As far as I understand Hruds were skaven of 40k before being changed in Lovecraftian mess for whatever reason. Also, tyranids already fulfill the role of endless horde of filth. I love skaven but there we will never see them in 40k probably
@@raufm.2135 Well we definitely need a faction that is basically the Skaven in 40k. I want to see giant meth crazed humanoid rats that speak funny making quick work of the Orks and Tyranids for shits and giggles
@@ZackarySchejbalCODBO2RGM2look in the undercity of hives. Youll probably find some
21:00
The Tyranids are running from the Skaven. Calling it now.
OMG!!! It'll be SO funny (and so scary, too, now that I think about it) if that were the case! xD
That or Settra. Not sure what’s worse though?
Skaven-Ratkin are fearsome-terrifying,man-things!
Fun fact, Ikit Claw is actually canon in AoS, he’s the antagonist in Hamilcar’s book.
Hes not yet done nuking the world
Rat Ironman just won't fucking die
@@phantomwraith1984sounds right for both rats and Ironman
Skaven: “Loyalty? What’s that? Is it a new type of Warp Stone?”
imagine explaining the idea of loyalty to a skaven slave and something in the warp finnally just clicks and it starts a cultural revolution in the skaven to maybe not instantly backstab their allies, allowing them to do crazy things like work as mercenaries for the above ground forces.
@@sovietunion7643nah one rat would just explain this to another rat then promptly be eaten
@@sovietunion7643 That already half-worked for Mors, only problem is that they're still listening to the freaking Horned Rat convincing them to takeover the world, which in no way benefits them.
@@sovietunion7643it's also why queek headtaker works so well
A loyal skaven turns out to be the most dangerous weapon
@@elegantoddity8609 mostly because they know they are stuck with him. at least 3 Mors characters in the books have indicated they think hes a horrible god but they know their lives are doomed if they don't go with it. Better be with than against and all that.
The more I learnt about the skaven the more I realized how complex and intriguing they were. Skaven have so much lore to their own that they could easily exist in their own fantasy series
Not using a picture of the holy roman empire to represent the empire but instead it's predecessor made me system reboot my brain for a sec
I couldn't tell if he was talking about the frankish-like bretonnia or the empire
Why not both? Both is good
Also one of the reasons for skaven existing is to be essentially a dark counterpart of the joke of every adventurers first quest is a rat killing quest
Elves: why should we improve our technology? We are already the best
Skaven: my thermonuclear bomb doesn't care who is the best and who is the worst
Ikit: *blows up the moon and most of the unplayable factions*
Skaven: “That still only counts as one!”
It would've been funnier if a dwarf like Thorgrim said it and immideatly writing a new grudge into the book... 😂
Another grudge. And they just killed Queek.
200k sub goal: Do or Don’t Skaven remastered. At the very least, it lets you put off doing Chaos in both settings and the Marines in 40k for that much longer
It was truly a genius move to make the most heinously evil faction a bunch of silly little guys
They aren't any more evil than most chaotic aligned factions
Imagine if the big-E woke up from the golden throne and then he goes "I am the Emperor of Mankind, yes-yes" 😅
If I learned anything from Vermintide its that I like ratmen. Also the Ubersreik 5 are beasts and deserve a book.
Or four, whatever!
4:55 I have owned rats for the past 20 years (since I was six) and I can tell you they are incredible animals, once they understand your their friend they will basically never bite will do tricks on command and will follow you around the house if you let them out.
That being said they all do have their own personalities some of them really can be rat basterds
You were basically Horned Rat for them.
@@tigertankerer I am to my rats what the skaven wished the horned rat was
" I smoke-puffing on that Great Horned Rat tail shavings pack. My rat-kin, this loud-grass will give rat ogre a mutation. Grey-seer smoke-toked and predicted fall of Karaz-a-Karak.
Grass-boof so green wood elves mistake-confuse for a great forest. "
So dank, so purple, so god damn sticky that you may not be the same again...
Pancreas - The imperium of man is awesome
-> the imperium are space skaven
-> The Skaven are Warhammer's Best Faction.
Now I wait for Kairos Fateweaver to pop out of the warp and shout The circle is complete.
I mean the Imperium of man sucks and is a shithole but its really not the Skaven. As a whole it operates like that but the actual people in the Imperium are mostly dedicated to a greater cause and not all power hungry and backstabby. They both suck but it just isn't the same feel at all to me beyond sheer numbers and being a whole infestation.
There's a bit in Grey Seer by C L Werner where an important skaven calls a meeting and asks who cocked up their latest plan. Thanquol, who absolutely was responsible, passed the buck onto an underling. The big important skaven then thanked that underling, as Thanquol's plan failing let another operation succeed. Thanquol's thought process then goes, "That bastard stole credit for my achievement! I'll kill him!"
This is the purest distillation of skaven, I love them so much.
I didn't really understand the draw of the Skaven until I read the Gotrek and Felix books. They are somehow the most hilarious and simultaneously most terrifying villains ever.
I love how in the books where they are played for laughs you forget that, if GW wanted, Skaven would make for an amazing horror story villain.
Just like the Orks!
12:25 its also a VERY skaven way to do too
skaven are LITERALLY just official fanfiction with all the good bits that comes from that, while still being actual canon its so good
I've found a post recording all the fun rules of the first editions of Age of Sigmar, my favourites are "If you talk to Konnrad von Carstein during your hero phase, reroll all 1s to hit. If Konrad talks back to you, re-roll all hits".
And "Roll two dice and add their results when using the Plea of Doom. You can't add any modifier. Result: 13 You win the battle, and are immediately branded a cheater, not that it should bother you if you're a true skaven general."
Honestly, the plea of doom could totally make a return, it's not even a rule, it's just a fun line in the rules XD
Nobody said they had to be D6's🐀
Skaven spaceships would be absolutely bonkers! Maybe even more insane than Ork ships, since the Skaven have to at least somewhat abide by the laws of astrophysics.
I'm imagining a steam train with jet engines with a bunch of ratmen wearing Big Daddy suits
My 3d Printer: "Has many-lots rats to print! Much Cheap-thrifty resin to buy! "
Bonus points if the printer blows up in your sleep
I'm pretty sure my uncle Stephen invented the Skaven. He created a board game while employed by GW in the 80s about putting together orc warbands with cards called Chaos mauraders. In it, there are manlike rats called blightscab plaguelords, and look just like the Skaven as we know them now. Also in the game is the horned rat standard, the origin of their god too
cool
Legends say that the Imperium secretly takes notes from the Skaven in terms of their military functions.
A special jingle that goes something like this
"For Skaven treachery is a way of life."
"Nothing is more natural than death and strife."
"If you see a chance to get yourself ahead"
"You better take it now or tomorrow you'll be dead."
Approve
You are right pancreas.
It makes me smile whenever someone acknowledges the existence of the Overlord games. Easily one of my favorite series growing up. I wish there were more games about being the Big Bay Evil Guy of the setting.
I have not played a single game of Warhammer in any setting, I don‘t own a single mini, rulebook, piece of art or ever will own any of the aforementioned. The only contact I used to have with 40k was random 2am deep dives through wikis, pulling together bits and pieces of what seemed to be a fascinating world-context with cool characters and wildly dystopian stuff. Been subscribed since like day one, still not playing Warhammer, but loving everything I learned about and laughed at. Keep it up!
The Great Horned Rat approves the video, yes yes.
having both simple and deep lore and gameplay is surprisingly effective. If only we had more skaven type stuff.
This video is a good follow up to the "Imperium is the Space Skaven" video. Especially the comment about the Skaven embodying failing upwards.
The Redwall series was dope.
Praise-give to children of Horned Rat, yes-yes!
21:00 AWWW BUDDY!!! THANK YOU!
What’s your next ninja video going to be?
@@akumaking1leave the man be, the video is done when it’s done. He’s here for Warhammer, not pesky viewers.
Agreed, as much as I love Balthasar Gelt, or Karl Franz, the Skaven are just awesome.
In fantasy, the Skaven are the most serious threat, and toss out the geneva convention. You aren't Skaven, if your own losses don't exceed your enemies, but still win in the long-term.
Yet, you could totally make them have that "Saturday morning cartoon villain" vibe, and it still WORKS (just look at Thanquil).
My friend absolutely loves Queek Headtaker, and tbh I can't blame him one bit. I'd love to start a Skaven army myself, at some point. Skrolk and Ikit are my favs, tbh.
& I'm glad that in Vermintide, you can play as them in the new versus mode that's coming out, soon.
They are both silly and terrifying and they're just so fun, there's just so much you can do with them, and I think that's just great.
YES-YES! THIS MAKE-CREATES ME VERY HAPPY. LONG LIVE-BREATH GREAT HORNED RAT.
Every man-thing this, get down-flat and do 13 push ups for great Horned Rat!
Would also note "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" and the movie "The Secret of NIMH" as another Skaven influence; particularly with the high-tech, green-lightning magical rats.
At first I didn't like Skaven. But after watching this video they've gained my interest, not as a Warhammer Faction, but as a Circus.
As a Lizardmain, and Skaven hater, I can't deny Skaven are GWs best fantasy creation.
If the Skaven existed in the world of 40K then they would definitely mock and imitate the imperium’s zealotry over the emperor.🐱
Instead of a golden throne they have the warpstone throne, preserving the divine body of the Great Horned Rat (actually the corpse of the most recently assassinated Council of 13 member).
The rats somehow are able to be simultaneously the most hilarious and the most horrifying faction and that’s an incredible spread of characters and units at your disposal
I love the Skaven so much
Based and Ratpilled
I really want the skaven in Warhammer 40K
They're basically the tyranids conceptually
11:49 oh no a species full of starscreams😂😂😂😂
I want space skaven and the horned rat in 40k so bad
4:50 I can confirm this. I used to keep rats and they are some of the coolest pets I ever had. They were very social and friendly. It only sucks that they only live like 2 years
We had some rats as class pets back in grade school. A pair of them took a shine to me and any time the cage was opened on y days to clean and feed them they would jump up and move to my shoulders and not move till I had to put them away when class changed.
Definitely want to get some sometime soon as pets again.
>humans thousands of years in the future: "WE INVENTED POWER ARMOR AND WARP TECHNOLOGY"
>Skaven: "..."
skaven best faction yes yes
Actually the Skaven have a third influence you didn't mention, the rats of Lankhmar. Fritz Leiber wrote a series of short sword and sorcery fantasy stories featuring the characters Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser in this big city called Lankhmar, and one of the groups they end up encouraging are the rats of Lankhmar below, an undercity of violent duplicitous bipedal rats of various sizes, from rat sizes rats to around men sized rats. They also had a council of 13 leading their society, and culturally they liked the number 13
The best Skaven lore I'm aware of is a short story from a white dwarf magazine. It's about a group of skaven breaking into a cursed tomb where their all killed by a ghost guy and the ghost guy tells the skaven leader that the skaven keep coming to this tomb and keep being slaughtered but because skaven are so stupid and selfish they just refuse to learn and keep sending more groups to the tomb. It shows how having a faction that loses and replaces its population so often will never learn a lesson
Warp stone exists…..
Skaven….
FOOD FOR MY WEAPONS AND TUMTUM
my friends judge me for loving skaven.. i can never actually find a good reason.. though i also get judged for liking berserk.. usually they bring up that theres "rape" in it.. and that argument just seems really shallow to me.
Imperial Guard are the 40k equivalent of the Skaven. Now my mind refuse to unsee it.
Skaven was my very first mini army and pretty much my entry to Warhammer and later Warhammer 40k obsession. Absolutely love Skaven in the Felix and Gotrek books too.
Basically India as a faction
Opened youtube and clicked this video faster than all the images could load.
It ain't a Pancreasnowork video without ripping on the Brettonians...and I'm here for it. Lol!!
Most skavens weaponry concepts were used to make Imperium of man gear.
I recently did genestealer cult as skaven. it works really well, showing a big horde army while also showing their big abominations and tunnelling ability through all the deep strikes you get.
They are by far the coolest idea for a faction in any setting. One the Name Vermintide is amazing sounding. The fact the can be in every undercity and the fact the search for Warp Rock cocaum is hilarious all on its own.
16:39 I like that Rocky reference 👍🏼
HERESY! SUMMON THE ELECTOR COUNTS!
Thanquol would be the guy throwing the shoe in that one project zomboid helicopter meme
Just finished listening to the Skavenslayer audiobook and I gotta say, that author & narrator combo made for one of the most delightful pieces of entertainment I've experienced in years. Go listen to it, quick-quick!
I had pet rats as a kid (mainly because my sister wanted a dog and I was allergic to literally every other household pet, so my parents found a compromise). They lived just 2.5 years and were absolutely adorable to play with. RIP Jimmy and Tank
I just think it would be neat if they added the Skaven to 40k
The leagues of votann are indeed the thing that got me into collecting warhammer. The lack of lore, stories, models, or even token inclusions in other factions stories for YEARS is a grudge of unspeakable magnitude. Excluding that one short story that was released recently where they’re doing pirate shit in a star. That was cool.
Due in no small part to your channel, I've started re-reading the Gotrek and Felix books, a series I haven't touched in almost 20 years. Having just finished Skavenslayer, I fully embrace these demented little rat men.
New rats coming soon, I’m very excited for them. I play Ossiarchs (your video on them was really great) but I want rats, because rats are fun
My absolute favorite character I’ve ever made for DnD was essentially a Skaven Warplock Engineer. It’s so fun being a little chaos gremlin that is also terrifying at times. And the other players always turn dialogue to him so they can hear Skrit speak-squeak in his funny way. The DM also threw in some “warpstone” which ended up mutating him and turned one player into a Jekyll-Hide character who occasionally turns into a rat ogre- at both very convenient and incredibly inconvenient times.
*Gets to end of video, sees supporter names, has a mini heart attack seeing my own, forgot I joined* 😂
I was literally playing my first ever skaven campaign when this came out. Great timing dude
Fritz Leiber's 1968 The Swords of Lankhmar has always been where I feel the Skaven got their inspiration from. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser is a great series that has influenced much even though most people know little of it.
I was just thinking about how I wanted to hear you talk more about the rats and of course the Great Horned Rat has blessed me this day!