Do or Don't: Lumineth Realm-Lords
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It's Elf time baby, let's gooooooo. Lumineth Do or Do because there's only do, get yourself some Elves.
0:00 - Intro
1:33 - Background Lore
9:50 - Lore Pros
16:34 - Tabletop Pros
20:00 - Straight Propaganda
22:25 - Tabletop Downsides
25:59 - Conclusion
26:32 - CRUNCHING AND BITING WE KILL FOR THE MAW
Music:
Domina - Domina
Rise of Nations - Dark Forest
Age of Empires 2 - Track 2, Track 3, Track 8
Sunless Sea - Wolfstack Docks
Age of Mythology - Chocolate Outline, Eat Your Potatoes, Slaysenflite
Halo: CE - A Walk in the Woods - Hry
Elisha Otis (1811-1861) was an inventor who developed a key mechanism for elevators. He sold this to investors and customers by a demonstration, he'd stand on a platform in a framework that would be winched up above spectators and then he'd have the cable cut. But instead of plumeting to his death, the safety mechanism would open up, push against the rails and stop the decent a moment afterwards. The basic Otis safety system is still used today.
Fascinating, thank you for educating me on elevators.
Dope
Oh, HIGH elves.
I eagerly look forward to these facts every video
My favorite thing of the safety world is that we decid how safe to make things off how worried people are about it rather than how safe it actually is
Try not to give the High Elf equivalents of your setting stupid hats challenge: impossible
The helmets of the altmer from tes aren’t that bad
I like the pointy helmets. Reminds me of the drip of Gondor.
These ones are particularly bad though, like make them have bull heads or make them pointy, don’t make them pointy with bull heads upon the top.
These helmets are badass what the fuck are you on ??
Don’t give them cowboy hats got it
"They smoke the good weed in the High Elf part of the city" -one of my past D&D DMs
Yeah, because the hippie fucks can hear your weed screaming in your pipe as you burn it!
A good DM to my knowledge and in my opinion.
Tyrion: "Teclis, we need our people to be even more like Ancient Greece this time. You can do the Athens thing and I can do the Sparta thing. And eventually they can just start founding colonies in other realms. It's literally perfect."
Teclis: "Sounds good, but we should fit some of those Japanese banners carried on the back somewhere just in case people think we're being too Greek. And uh, *flashback to when he had to ride a flying mount in Gotrek and Felix* no more giant hawks, gryphons, and dragons everywhere. I will put my foot down on this issue."
Honestly, the one thing I really do miss about fantasy elves vs AOS. I loved the bird/dragon friends haha
@@Audentior_Ito At least the Phoenixes are still around, in Cities of Sigmar.
Tyrion replies: fine all llamas, kangaroos and a literal cloud instead.
There is actually a few flying beasts, my hope is that we actually get Dragon-Phoenixes, a hybrid of both creatures, as Calvary for the Zentith temple, also they have a lot more of a Japanese influence than those banners, their architecture, armour/clothing, customs and weapons are all a perfect marriage of Eastern and Greek cultures
We still need to get fire and water elementals, high chance that we will get fenix for fire. Right now they are in Cities of Sigmar but that faction is getting axed and replaced with Dawnbringer Crusaders with new models.
So, when Settra returns in AoS I desperately want the first non chaos faction he meets to be the Lumineth. That ego-off would be legendary.
we are the lumineth you are blessed to be in our presence
i am settra, get fucked shiney
he's already back, he's a sormcast
@@TheSkullboy1996 No, he is not either of those
@@LucarioDoT yes he is, it’s in the soul wars book 👍🏻
@@TheSkullboy1996
I dont remember that book, but im going to assume you are talking about Settrus. Who is explicitly not Settra.
ah yes, the best faction. "if you don't want your town cleansed of chaos corruption in runic fire, why'd you let it get invaded?" - Teclis, Turning point Hysh
As a Fyreslayers apologist I would like to state that despite having arguably one of the worst model ranges in AOS, they are very much cool and interesting.
While I'm more of a Kharadon Overlord fan, Fyreslayers are interesting. To be taken as allied frontline.
True. The basic concept of fire-themed dwarfs aktin as pragmatic if not amoral mercenaries to revive their god is indeed interesting.
Making them all naked slayers with marginally different weapons and one hot lizard however is repetitive and boring.
Concept great, execution not so
@@hangebza6625 The worst part is that none of their models are bad, it's that there's no real variation between them. Now that's partially because they really don't have much in the first place, with only about 8 actual kits, though that's more of an overall problem in AOS. But if GW expanded the range with stuff that aren't just half naked Dwarves , Fyreslayers could be great.
I appreciate you speaking up for them. But that's more so GW and CA not knowing what to really do with them probably. There is a charm to certain groups and factions having downsides and weaknesses in them. But dwarves who have bad range just sounds like bad writing. Just because they're short doesn't mean they can't topple Giants or would need to be Gotrek Gurnisson to do so with his god axe. I'm sure they're already working on it but that's no excuse for making them metaphorically lopsided on the tabletop and at best a largely support group. Or the fact that he basically made them mercenaries Dwarves could be mercenaries just like anybody. But the fact that they also took away their general independence is another issue. In the Old World they had their own ancestor gods who could aid them when times were at their toughest like Sigmar or even the Emperor of Mankind blessing his servants or giving them at least a chance against their enemies or an opportunity to escape Because that person is devoted to the imperium/empire or a hero coming into their own like Ciaphus Cain or Balthasar Gelt. Those should've also been translated into the Mortal Realms, but the only one really present is Grimnir because he was the Lord of the Slayers, hence the Fyreslayers. That and the whole “Dwarves and their Grudges” bit which was part of the reason their species was probably in decline. Too many old beards getting obsessed with getting even instead of building newer foundations.
Yes, and gotrek
"Oh wow that's some really cool lore about Alarielle, I should look that- Waaaaaaaait."
XD
Love the fact that fantasy is more laid-back than 40k everything in 40k is dying about to die or ork.
Yeah it’s really refreshing to have something just as outlandish but not grimdark and overly depressing just for the sake of it rather than any narrative motives
Agreed. It makes the darkness of the setting a lot more potent when there's well... actual light to contrast it.
While i prefer 40k, i still think it is sometimes tiresome regarding it's grirdmarkness.
40k is interesting only when the grimdark is played for satire. When it takes itself too seriously it becomes boring.
Lore tibits:
- Before the age of myth did Tyrion who soul was bounded with the wind of hysh through sheer force reborn like a phoenix from the flames as a god of light however the newly Lord Phoenix found himself alone in the realm. Feeling incomplete without his twin did the lord phoenix fought the greatest eldritch threats and traverse the farthest parts of the realm until he crossing the Luminaris Sea a sea of liquid light that girdles the edge of the realm (where magic is completely unstable and reality break down). The closer to the Realm’s Edge he roamed, the more reality faded; washed out by the sheer intensity of the light that shone there, it became little more than a pencil sketch, then a cluster of dots, then nothing more than a concept or wave of thought. Still Tyrion pushed onwards believing he hears his brother whispers even beckoning him further to the point that his very eyes the sun god melted off. Impress by his resolve the spirit of the realm itself salvage the lord Phoenix that he awoken once more back to center the realm blinded but now join by his brother Teclis the newly ascended Archmage god
- The Teclian nation of Zaitrec is said to be touch by the power of the moons cask in perpetual star-lite night skies (Imagine Nokstella from elden ring) and native elves are the most proficient magic users of all the Lumineth claiming to be capable to battle a human mage at the age of 9.
- The Tyrionic nation of Alumnia is a treacherous & monster-infested lands where the elves of these lands a born with an innated sense of adventuring and martial prowess, rasied on the stories of adventures and heroic feats of Tyrion the Lord Phoenix to a religious degree willing to go to such extremes of training and battling that their eyes glow red in intensity and/or acquire advance sensory perception (Daredevil powers without blindness) much like their Lord Phoenix.
- The Lumineth simply do not believe in passing on to an afterlife rather their souls melting and becoming one with the magic of the realm itself as a sort of nirvana state of immortality. However the Alumnia Lumineth are a rare exception choosing to passes onto the elven heavens floating in the skies of Shyish to continue their duty in these heavenly underworld
- The Zaitrec elves are nickname "the children of Teclis" for they are all adopted by the Archmage god whom mentors these elves to become wizards, ambassadors, scholars and Loreseekers whom he send out to the mortal realms (Teclis can clone himself). However despite this fatherly role he plays the Zaitrec elves religiously revere Celennar the spirit of the moon more, much to Teclis chagrin & Tyrion amusement
- N
- The Vanari Bannerblade's banner contain the icons of the Eclipsian an entity representing the singularity of enlightenment, potential, order & magic with some of those in Lumineth society believe that the Twin gods will one day join together as one upon reaching the true zenith level of pure power and enlightenment
- During the age of myth did Sigmar encounter the twin gods whom rejoice to hear that that the Azyrite civilization contained elves however disappointedly sense none full contained the same luminous soul as those of Ulthuan (hence the need of capturing Slaanesh). Despite this the twins joined the Pantheon of Order Tyrion was reunited with his former lover Alarielle (there is little of what those two said/did together) while Teclis enter a dick measuring contest with the Undying king Nagash of whom of the two is the mightier mage
- The worship of magic and the moons among the Zaitrec elves that all sort of magic is allowed to be studied in the white towers of the nation even Necromancy & the power of the WAAAGH! With only two sort of magic completely prohibited; 1) Chaos magic obviously & 2)the insanity magic of the gloomspite Bad Moon for they consider the Lovecraftian moon existence heresy & have recently communicating with the Seraphon constellations to being dealing with the Eldritch moon (recent tome say that the lizardmen have began landing on the moon)
- Before the elves inhabited the great nation Syar the Khazalid dwarves dwell in the Syar mountains and despite their differences the mighty dwarven High king Brynt made an alliance of friendship with the Lumineth so that the two races could co-exist resulting the two cultures blended together as Elven sorcery and Dwarven craftsmanship join together to constructed the nation of wonders. Syar weapons and armor are so prefect and well-crafted that even the largest elf-hating dwarf would grumble in respect
- In the Teclian nation of Iliatha does all life is place above all else for the land is full of fey gardens & enchanted forests co-existing with the Sylvaneth and the Iliatha elves place Alarielle as part of the trinity of worship. However the nation is truly (in)famous for perfection of cloning a magical art that see the host soul split apart creating a living twin of one self and during the age of myth was the prefer way to reproduce as in those times Iliatha elves would clone themselves 20-100 times until the days of the Spire where the Iliatha elves began conducting "unnatural experiments" (I don't want to know what they meant by this but that the word the say) towards their clones resulting the invasion of Slaanesh demons. As of the war of reinvention and age of sigmar does the nation strictly prohibit any sort of clone no more than twice a life time but rumor and whisper of lifting the band are spread as the armies of Greenskin & undead begin to invade in the thousands to millions
- The Chains of Slaanesh that binds the lust god are made from actual paradoxes hence keeping even a chaos god trap. One of these chain couldn't be broken unless Khorne himself break it witch the concept of helping her/him is consider one of the biggest paradoxes (arachaon manage break it with the khorne head of his dragon tho)
Thanks for the lore, I aways wanted to get into fantasy but there was a problem of bieng lack or lore, thanks
Damn that’s a lot of lore
Goddam I love AOS Lore! Thanks kind stranger for the information! Where can I go next to get information ?
@@destructivepanda5226 The Battletomes is where most of the lore comes from but also various novels
End of enlightenment has a cool story of a warzone between the lumineth and Ossiarch bone reaper (who gets a cool pov of them if you are interested in death mc)
Godbane is a great novel set in Settler gain that goes into depth on the college of magic the lumineth oversee (along with a whole Aethist cult rebellion getting hands on an op super-weapon as the main story) and how strict and rigorous the tension between man and elf is in the city
My favourite piece of lore has gotta be “N”, such a cool tidbit
Oh and remember that bit about how the Realm Lords will appear before others to help defeat Chaos? Well on the same side of that coin, they're also prone to butting in on someone else's business simply because the Lumineth believe everyone else has no idea what they're doing and they CLEARLY need help from their betters.
Also they tend to have a scorched Earth policy in that once the main Chaos threat has been dealt with, there's a 50/50 chance of the elves deciding to kill everyone anyway just to be sure there is no risk of Chaotic taint (this applies to any survivors and the "allies" they came in to help).
Elvish Grey Knights huh.
the most British elves
@@bob3ironfist Nah, the elves are actually necessary.
My favorite part about Settlers Gain is that all Lumineth agree it is a unmitigated success... so much so that radical Lumineth want to accelerate its progress. The riots that have occurred there were started by certain Lumineth manipulating things behind the scene. Not to make people think the settlement was a mistake, oh no, but to rid the city of lesser elements. To accelerate the city's progress.
Honestly with the level of weird Warhammer can reach some times I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic or not and not sure what of the two is more dickiss
Damm I wonder what the umbeanth are doing
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(Meanwhile in ulgu at the citerdal)
Unfortunate prisoner to the newcomer "SHHHH don't make a noise.... those things will hear you"
Newcomer: "what things and what is this place?"
(Both prisoners hear laughter that sound more like the gurgling of a drown man combine with screams that sound of happiness)
Prisoner "an nightmare you won't wake up from"
(Shadow of unimaginable horror crawls down the corridor, the noise getting louder and louder as flesh slams on to the stone it was to horrid to be alive, yet even if it was dead what kind of magic would animate such a creature)
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Oh well I am sure it not to bad.
It’s not that I’m raging at the knife ears using stone, I’m actually quite glad that they saw the superior craftsmanship of Dwarves and want to emulate it in their childish ways.
It's like when a little kid puts on Dad's work boots, it's so cute
The knife ears finally learned how to bonk things
Finally coming around
I'm seeing too much Elf slander in here
Let's be honest they probably made it lighter to actually be able to use it.
PancreasNoWork when he sees an Elf: *N U T*
Jokes aside, Elves are dope and I enjoy them being in fantasy.
Edit: Remember folks, a dead Thalmor is a good Thalmor
The only elf type that it's good to hate
And THERE it is friends, the ugly truth.
-Heimskr
@@RageDuck942 It’s your duty as any race of the Elder Scrolls, to turn their necks 91 degrees to the side
@@kelleren4840 YOUR CHILDREN have ascended from the DUNG of man. I alone have been annointed to SPREAD my ass for you, FOR I LOVE YOU
Virgin Thalmor:
- eternally butthurt because the et'Ada had a disagreement during the creation of the world that made it imperfect
- naturally gifted mage who practises eugenics yet is somehow more vulnerable to magic
- still seething after Tiber Septim achieved apotheosis and got to chill with the gods before any Altmer could
- couldn't stop Daedra from destroying their favourite tower during the Oblivion Crisis while tribal lizard people put up a better fight just to defend a big swamp
- think they're the master race but had to ally with the Khajiit just to take on the Empire
Chad Psijic:
- just chills on an island to focus on self-improvement and understanding the mysteries of the cosmos
- so powerful that they just teleport their whole island out of the world when shit kicks off so they can keep working
- only bothers with mere mortals to inform them how crazy dangerous an artefact is and politely offers to take it off their hands without being a dick about it
Dunmer are best mer.
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HELL YEAH! Can we get the Daughter’s of Khaine soon! I’m sorry for being pushy but they’re my favorite :)
Yes! We need Do or Don't: MILFs of Murder!
Same, I'm painting them right now funny enough.
@@Inquisitor_Lelouch I’m doing the same! But my main focus is writing- and the MC of one of my two personal projects is a Hyshian Khanite (yes it’s weird ABrbdhs)
That sounds pretty fun. I was thinking of doing something similar once I get a copy of Soulbound in the near future.
@@Inquisitor_Lelouch well hey! I would love to hear about any ideas you got! It’s always fun learning other people’s ideas
Damn I feel hurt that you would diss the Kharadron, sure we don't have many but damn I love my dwarves strapped to weather balloons
I love the idea of both dwarf factions, but they are done so poorly, half there guys hook themselves up to balloons, with the desighn decision of that being so they can hook themselves up to a ship as well, and there might as well be 2 fyreslayer models with a lot of different sculpts for one of them, the other is a magnmadrof
Even tho I’m an LRL player, I adore KO, they will be my 4th army as soon as they expand the range
@Hades_DeathGod9 if only they would expand the range, the models they have are awesome imo as they embody the silliness of warhammer but are also really well made and designed. But 14 models isn't enough
@@tiniestmonkey5915 what they need is a bioshock big daddy unit, and bigger boats, especially one specifically for just being a gunship and the Cogmunculi (clockwork robots with magic programming)
Steampunk dwarves
"Teclis just can't catch a break." Considering the shit he pulled in Endtimes, I'm all for that!
Bich gets what he deserves
We don't talk about the endtimes... too much character assassination (narratively speaking)
To clarify I believe she is based on a Sphinx a mythical creature with depictions in both Greek and Egyptian myths and legends often being the guardians of Temples and Speaker of Riddles. Depending on the depiction they are as fierce as the lions and eagles they get their animals parts from or have a kinder disposition.
One thing I really did like about the Lumineth Realm Lords line is Eltharion. Just the idea of a Ghost Armor Too Angry To Die is great.
Honestly, my favorite part about the Lumineth, aesthetically, has been the Alaric (?) Stone Mages and stuff. Love those guys with the rock-smashing hammers and the guy on the precariously balanced stone pillar. I'd totally build a little army centering around them. Maybe add some new, cool, crystalline-looking rock golems and I'd be happy.
Alarith, and you totally can and should, right now they are one of the most powerful aspects in our book
"If you think your getting past this spear wall you got another thing coming" *Laughs in gorebeast chariot doing D6 Mortals per MODEL in the unit you target*
Laughs in 5+ ward, unleash hell and emerald lifeswarm
You missed three other really cool lore tidbits.
1. Vanari hain power from how they are arranged in battle, making their battle formations works of art and symbols to grant them extra strength in battle
2. They can clone themselves. While it’s shunned and banned in most nations, other nations will just let you clone yourself.
3. The temples are some of the coolest lore in all of AoS. The mountain temple gives you all the cool stone units. To become a full member you must, dig a grave then lay in the grave, your masters will then fill it and of you can get the mountain spirits to let you breath you can will get back out. Other such fun examples of this are to jump off of hights for the wind temple, drown yourself for the water temple, etc.
1. That's silly.
2. That's silly.
3. That's silly, but I like it.
For that second point, it’s only shunned in some nations and not really banned anywhere, but yea he missed quite a bit of cool lore regarding the nations
@@philipkelly7369 nothing here is silly at all
Cool lore in Aos? Nah, all lore in Aos is crap.
@@n1ghtofthedead411 a terrible take from someone who knows absolutely nothing about the topic, truely the poster boy of the internet, thank you for your token appearance and please remove yourself before you lower the IQ’s of those around you further
Your channel was a huge reason I'm trying to get into Warhammer and I contracted a love of elves because of it. The Lumenith are probs my favorite faction across all settings atm. They are simply too cool.
Didn't their catastrophical civil war literally cause the Chaos Gods to turn around and notice the existence of the Realms, making it so that the entire hell storm that was The Age Of Chaos is literally fault of the shitelves?
He did say he was bias.
nah that it was simply that the demons of slaanesh caught notice that Slaanesh is some where in the realm where previously they were just running around headless on where they should find their goddess and were or not they should
I think its funny that the elves have giant bulls serving them considering how Slaanesh s keepers of secrets already has that sort of bull motif. You'd think they would use any other animal besides bull and crab but apparently no.
They’re more goat than bull
The music at the beginning of this video slaps hard, I'm over here busting my hardest Slavic dance moves whilst listening to Lore. Life is good!
I would like to see a Do or Don’t: Seraphon when their range refresh comes out in summer.
And remember there are only two real factions. Lizardmen and lizard food.
@@T-ELEGRA-M_PancreasNoWork
BRO THEY HAVE FAKE PANCREAS BOTS?
Big words from a faction that got eaten by rats that don't exist
Expecting a Do or Do Not: Seraphon because that sweet range refresh, and because there's literally nothing wrong in any aspect about aztec dinosaur people riding bigger dinosaurs shooting magical lasers.
Also giant floating toad. All hail floating toad!
@@SWProductions100 *hypnotoad.
"And now for our glorious leader... *the hypnotoad."*
(entire Seraphon army starts a monotone clap)
*"All hail the hypnotoad"*
As an Elf Lover and Enjoyer, I am in a safe space, and it's nice.
Hope to see a Do or Don´t with the best faction the elves who knows how to have fun the Daughters of Khaine.
Another note: while Lumineth themselves can only ally with Idoneth Deepkin, for some reason, you can take LRL units in Cities of Sigmar on a 1 in 4 basis if you run Settler's Gain. For if you want a taste of High Elves, but don't necessarily want to run them using the LRL rules or if you don't want to spend a fortune on a full army.
Further, a reminder that while the old High Elf line is largely defunct, some pieces of it (namely the Phoenix Guard stuff) persist in CoS, along with much of the Wood Elf and Dark Elf lines. So you can have a big elf party, if you so choose. Cities of Sigmar also natively can take 1 in 4 Stormcast units, _in addition to_ the 1 in 4 LRL units you can run in Settler's Gain.
(It's worth noting that Cities of Sigmar will likely get a huge rework soon, so take this advice with a grain of salt. We have no idea how the 3rd edition battletome will work.)
This information is outdated, we can take multiple allies now, Stormcast, Sylvaneth and Daughters of khaine as well as Idoneth deepkin
@@hades_deathgod9496Mixing other units from different factions sounds awesome. Now, if they could only the Creative Assembly translate Age of Sigmar into a Total War game like they did with fantasy which includes the ability to mix units, I can't imagine any player (especially TW fans) not getting into this the moment it came out. Hell, that's not even mentioning the potential of home brewing your own personal army in multiplayer.
To be fair, blowing up a planet is a goddamn spectacle! The UNSC certainly agree since they keep blowing up Covenant and Forerunner shit.
So, did you read Hollow King, where they sacked multiple villages and suspended everyone in between life and death forever because it wouldn't move?
I despised what GW did with Eltharion during End Times. He was so awesome and badass all throughout the End Times, even delivering a beat down for the ages on Mannfred. Then all of a sudden GW were like "okay, kill him, next?!"
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE?
WHEN YOU ROCK AND STONE, YOU'RE NEVER ALONE!
17:58 I love how they basically just called a spell "The Delete Button".
I also love the Lumineth Realm-Lords. I actually like Eltharion MORE now that he's basically Alphonse Elric crossed with a Cuisinart. >w>
elves getting addicted magic crystals and then it attracts demons, gee glad to see GW is still stealing plots from other settings
Now, I may not be an elf simp, but you’re 100% right in your analysis of how AoS handles most it’s shorter races; you can either be aggressively symmetrical, have one of 3 airships, or be ancient sculpts if you wanna go green and small
Tragic
I swear to God, those Alarith and their horned helmets would make Loki say, "That's a little much, fellas!"
I hope that ending bit was a hint at the next do or don’t. The big boys are back, and this time they have a craving for blood flavored ice cream
I'm always happy to see more AoS content on the channel! This is a great video, in spite of the bias.(maybe even because of it?) Maybe it's just because I enjoy this faction, but this is one of my favorite videos of yours in recent memory. I can't wait for a video on the Tyrionic half of the army, whenever it gets released.
However, as someone who has played at least a little bit of Lumineth on the Tabletop myself, I'd say that there is one point I'd like to mention. When it comes to Tabletop Cons, you brought up that they might be *too* strong. While that is a valid point, they throw out a lot of Mortal Wounds at long range, which is inherently really powerful. They aren't the meta destroying juggernauts they were from 2020-2021. Ever since their most recent book came out and eliminated most of the egregiously unfun rules, Lumineth have been doing better from a power level standpoint, they're not bottom tier obviously, but theyre not dominating top tables either.
However, one thing I belive Lumineth as an army suffer from, even with their latest book fixing their once poor internal balance, is a lack of diversity in their builds. In order to keep their buffs up, which is nearly essential for their gameplay, they need to go first, so you often see builds hard forced into 1-drop deployment, and their only viable melee threats are the Mountain Spirits and Stoneguard with their buffs up. So alot of Lumineth strategies are either built around Stoneguard and the Mountain Cow, or Teclis and Sentinels(archers).
Now granted, there is some crossover between these builds, but not a ton, and with the nerfs to the Wind Temple Subfaction, it'll be tough to see a lot of lists built around their units.
Maybe I'm thinking too competitively, but I think until the Tyrionic half of the army is released, Lumineth will really struggle with breaking away from being the Magic Castle army.
Also, if you were going to Clown on Ad Mech for being tough to paint, why not Lumineth? Since they have their tiny details, thin lines of armor trim depicted in gold and a predominantly white color scheme, there have alot of detail that newer painters might struggle with.
TLDR: Power level is one thing, but I think it was a tad bit oversold when compared to list diversity, which is a bit more important of a Tabletop con to mention imo.
This man single handedly made me buy 2 entire elves army one for 40k and one for AoS
Mans really walked up and said, “Have you heard of the High Elves?”
I love the Lumineth, and would collect them but for one reason: those spears are pretty much guaranteed to snap if you look at them wrong. As a result of this flaw I ended up with a Slaves to Darkness army. Ah well.
This isn’t really true, I’ve had my wardens for a long time, I have treated them poorly during building and even after with transport, I can easily bend their pike at a 45 degree angle (I have a picture) and it will bounce back into place, they are surprisingly sturdy and haven’t broken on me, nor even been bent out of shape, I’ve had the sentinels arrow heads break before those pikes
Oh thank god you said it :D Teclis beat nagash WITH help! Finally someone who speaks accurate lore.
“Accurate” he missed some things here and these
@@hades_deathgod9496 Ye he did miss stuff but the thing EVERYONE doesnt go into detail into he atleast was accurate about.
It sounds like you had a good trip to the floating crystals.
When a faction is too good they add the “mind control” as a backup
I don't think it was intentional but the way you spoke about these elfs reminded me that one of the magics of warhammer is when you have a fan of a faction they will show their love for that faction to the point where it is positively infectious, like how I feel about lizardmen 🦎, keep up the fantastic work warmblood!
14:18
DID I HEAR A ROCK AND STONE ?!
ROCK AND STONE TO THE BONE
WHEN YOU ROCK AND STONE, YOU'RE NEVER ALONE!
Me watching with a full lumineth army already. "YEEEEHHHS YESSSS YESSS"
Dude, I don’t play AoS or tabletop Warhammer, but I never miss your videos! I picked up a set of Idoneth Deepkin thrills after your video, just cause they look so dope, and their lore is so grim dark. Keep it up brah!
This was hillarious! Thank you fellow enlighten pro elf human!
With the 5th Anniversary of Vermintide 2 just around the corner, any chance we could get a nice little lore video about the characters? I know its outside the scope of the tabletop and books usually covered, *but* there is an elf among them, so that might perk up your spirits.
Very opportune timing! As of last night I decided to start doing a classic Lothern themed Lumineth army, with Lost Sword miniatures for heroes and headswaps from Etsy. I really do know nothing about the Lumineth, but in lieu of Old World happening within my lifetime this will do.
Man I don't play Warhammer, but these elf's sure do sound nice. Very nice of them to takeover their defenses too!
The few ally issue can be circumvented even more by playing a Cities of Sigmar army with Settler's Gain. That way you can have Stormcast and Cities units as well. While doing this doesn’t technically count as "allies", it's at least something.
Also you’ve got Bundo Whalebiter if you’re *really* desperate for more allies.
I for one find the Fyreslayer models and their symmetry very endearing.
I can't lie, I like elves too. In most fantasy settings, they are humans, but more, having been around for so long. They are great.
Thanks for opening my eyes to the glory of the eldar I have started a ynnari army now because of you
"...but please take int consideration that you are wrong."
That's going in the book!
Fyreslayers would be so much better with just a couple of Tweaks on their models, make the tattoos more prominent and make different slayers have different skin effects after igniting their runes, scales similar to their magmadroths for strength, hard black stone to signify defense, bright solid gold to signify magic resistance. It makes it so that they're still non armor clad berserkers but makes their designs more interesting than what we have right now
The Fire Slayer Dwarves need a Serious reworking. But they also need an alternative version of them, like do what they did with the Squats in Warhammer 40k. Originally they were the only kind until GW decided to write that over and make them their own badass faction, the Leagues of Votaan, with a separate lore. Instead of what they seem to have done here with the fire mercenary dwarves, which is mostly unimaginative. The Lumineth fighting each other Definitely had to be egged on by either Slaanesh or Tzeentch to spur them on to Elven magical nuclear war with each other. And knowing Nagash and Slaanesh were gonna show up and kick their teeth in doesn't exactly starting that boot from shattering their chompers and filling the mouth with blood. But the AoS world/setting has the gods or mortals who became Gods of several realms fracture. And the even the Elves and Humans in AoS don't directly work together when threatened by the Orruks, Demons/Worshippers, or Ratmen. And seeing how powerful and sophisticated the Lumineth have become and been designed as, it makes me Really want Settra and the other Tomb Kings to have their own “Realms”, many of them mostly being desert and jungle types or variations of it, even with snowy mountains thrown in. And make them something cool sounding like the Solar Golden Sphinx Lords or something that might be translated from Ancient Egyptian (which in these days is basically Arabic, French and Greek) with just as much arrogance or nearly as much as the Lumineth, but none more so than Settra himself who would probably swear to become the greatest of gods and likely will (outside of Sigmar, Techlis, Tyrion and others) but in a more neutral way like the Orruks fight everyone and Nagash hates everyone equally. But Settra would only occasionally team up with one side or another when convenient or more beneficial, sort of like the Leagues of Votaan in 40k since they're not altogether warmongers but they will fight to the bloody end if they decide on revenge or profit. They aren't entirely better than anyone else and do care about the lives of their people, but if it's out of revenge or to gain some sort of resource or riches they'd absolutely throw bodies and bombs at the problem until it's figured out. And Settra would basically become a human Chaos god similar to the Emperor of Mankind from 40k. Just more like the actual Chaos Gods in that rebirthing/reforming his champions and more high level units would take more effort than say a basic soldier type. And they'd probably have a mix of ancient Egyptian culture with huge spaceship boats and flying cities like the Black Pyramid or the Black Stone Fortresses. Each one, a megacity the size of planet or damn near it, with their own internal cultures but an overall united ideal that they serve Settra the Unperishing with their life and death. And while he shouldn't be perfectly unbeatable, the Tomb king of all Tomb Kings should probably have a buff when his troops die. Particularly when fighting the Lumineth, Idoneth, Orruks and Legions of Nagash. The Stormcast Eternals and Fyreslayers might do significant damage though. And doing all this talking about Settra makes me wish Bela'kor had his own godhood and faction as well since I think his hate for the Chaos Gods would transcend the Old World and into the Mortal Realms unless they made something happen like Karl Franz kill him in a major battle. I would have wrote it that Bela'kor was still bound to the chaos Gods. But he would also essentially carve out his own freedom from them by like separating his mind or something, so Bela'kor the Servant would still crown a Chaos Champion, but just like Nagash eating Mors and becoming the God of Death, Bela'kor could finally do what he attempted in Total Warhammer 3 - becoming a God of Shadows. And no realm would be entirely safe from his forces which would probably be mostly vampire type units stolen from Nagash since the Darkness is their friend too because most of them can't exist in sunlight or powerful light sources without burning up and dying.
Love ur vids pal, great that I found them. Cool Channel.
A welcome video my fellow Elf Simp. You should absolutely go over the love story of Allarielle and Tyrion
I can imagine the simp jokes now. for we all know Tyrion did not resist Khaine nearly as much as he resisted the urge to simp for the queen.
I know the pain of Warhammer Fantasy fans but man, AoS has some potential.
Yeah, it'll be great if they stop being so timid about specifics in the lore. Gameplay-wise, I'm VERY fond of 3rd edition so far (Bounty Hunters was dumb, but good riddance)
Unrelated aside about your pfp, I just finished Wonder Labyrinth
My favorite WH CZcamsr uploading on my favorite AOS race?!
Let the [legally-distinct a]elf simping begin!!!
Well Damn, you just made me it into Age of Sigmar, especially around the New and Improve High Elves.
Ok this needs to be said. Your videos make me miss age of mythology and wanna play it more than aos after watching
I do think it's nuts that's nuts there's like 3 kinds of elves but no mono human factions. Stormcast do not count. That's like comparing space marines to imperial guard. Really excited for the upcoming Dawnbringer Crusaders though.
Fun fact, one of their most recent known Ls were handed to them, not by Chaos, Death, or Destruction, but by a group of 5 Skinks, a Saurus Oldblood, and a nuclear bomb.
There used to be this giant Godbeast called the Beastgrave. The Aelves, led by Myari Lightcaller, went there to try and commune with it to calm it down because it was afflicted by the Katophrane Curse (Very long story, basically death can no longer stick making the mountain literally begin to starve to an agonizing state of pseudo-death). Unfortunately for Myari’s Purifiers, the Seraphon had another, superior plan. One might even call it a Great Plan. They dispatched a squad of 5 Skinks (Xepic, Huachi, Tok, the Chameleon Skink Otapatl, and the Skink Starpriest Kixi-Taka The Diviner), and their bodyguard/friend/muscle Klaq-Trok with a literal doomsday device to fucking explode the mountain instead.
Well, the Seraphon won and presumably escaped out into the Gnarlwood, where they’re presumably either waiting to go home again or reinforcing the Hunters of Huanchi while waiting for Seraphon forces to break through to Talaxis and recover the relics therein. Myari’s Purifiers were likely not so lucky, given the Hunter’s Policy of “No scales, no pulse”
This is wrong, the seraphon didn’t get to exact their plan, the mountain (was never called a godbeast) was cracked open when kragnos awakened due to the lifequake, caused by Alarielle, after Kragnos escaped, the curse was set on Gnarlwood and everyone in the mountain was allowed to escape, and they’re all immortal because of the curse, so no one died and now they’re all in Gnarlwood. But you’re right on one thing, there is a seraphon and Lumineth warband
@@hades_deathgod9496 The mountain was destroyed by the Seraphon’s doomsday weapon, the Rite of Life broke the Kataphron Curse rendering everyone mortal again. Regardless, the mountain is dead and not in Chaos’s hands which was the Seraphon’s objective, and it was not calmed by the Purifiers meaning they took the L regardless so either they took the L from the Seraphon or they took the L from Alarielle. One way or another, they took an L from a supposed ally.
Edit: I have in fact found the source- White Dwarf 483. They found the mountain’s heart and destroyed the whole mountain.
Ayo, could you do a sylvaneth do or don’t? Would love itttt
The big downsides to LRL are twofold and interrelated: 1) they require a lot of different units and a great deal of finesse to operate effectively (it's not like half of the Destruction armies, where the army practically runs itself), and 2) the LRL model range is both big and EXPENSIVE.
Basically, if you're coming to AoS from the 40K side, think of Lumineth Realm-Lords as the local equivalent of AdMech in terms of starting an army (except replacing all the AdMech Not!Magic with Elf Actual!Magic). High skill ceiling, but with a similarly high skill floor. A relatively new model range that looks really cool, that you're paying a premium for.
If you want an army that's cheaper to collect and/or doesn't ask you to juggle lots of game mechanics, consider Ogor Mawtribes instead. Ate Dwarves, Ate Elves, Ate Humans, Simple As.
This video was wonderful to watch......while painting my ORKS!
More do or don't elves please
As someone who has played against the same lumineth army more than once in their previous battletome. the faction is agony to fight when played well, my stuff was debuffed into the void and the damned wind bow thing could dip in out of combat and bleed my heroes out.
Children of the twin gods! Been waiting for this one.
Lumineth is what the Ynnari should have been, at least in the lore.
So nice to finally have a faction that engages in casual crack use instead of having an entire volatile crack-based economy
As for that joke at 9:59, the only ones who don't enjoy butchering the Thalmor are zombies and other Thalmor.
And even then, I imagine some Thalmor might enjoy it, if only to settle a grudge against their fellow Thalmor.
@@SWProductions100 I stand corrected.
Would you be willing to do a video on the Disciples of Tzeentch, oh great and merciful elf lord? I’m between Lumineth and Tzeentch for all my wizardry addiction and would love advice
When are you going to do Ossiarch Bonereapers! I'm pretty sure they're basically undead constructs animated by souls smushed together in the same body.
“Elves suck” Gotrek Gurnisson
Pancreas, your welcome to argue with the Slayer, I’m not that dumb
Dawi-simp#
I just bought LRL as my first AOS army because of you, pancreas
Looking forward to this, same as Morathi and a Daughters of Khaine do or don't
I can feel it in my gut, that this broski consumes too much elf henti material.
There is such a thing as too much?
When you’re wearing your elf suit and your warpstone cuff links and belt buckle, you need your hentai to complete the ensemble.
You know people just like the elves without the whole hentai thing.
I love that you are honest about your Elf simping, and because of that I shall forgive you for it.
I love the realm lords, mainly cause at the end of the first round I can summon at least some pink horrors and if I'm lucky some flamers
Just had a tournament today and Gotrek whooped the ass of an entire Arkanaut Frigate and then annihilated the company inside in one fight phase. Never again.
Honestly elves using hammers and mauls as weapons is not too far fetched. Elves are master craftsmen too, like the dwarves. Also when you're taller it's easier to bonk someone in the head with a warhammer. What is a manlet swarf gonna do with a hammer? Break the toes? (Which is still painful)
This also ties in well with the nation of Syar, master craftsmen and workers of stone, metal and all manner of materials, they even hold crafting contests where all those in the realms are invited, and they have beaten the best dwarf craftsmen (there may or may not be bias)
you'd think the elves would like something that lets them end a fight with one well landed blow
@@SamueL-td7fb like a hammer?
@@hades_deathgod9496 a Warhammer would be better, specially in this Age of Sigmar we live in
@@SamueL-td7fb I don’t get the joke
i love when he talks for awhile and you can hear his breath running out, relatable
I really want a Seraphin one of these
in my humble opinion a kharadron overlords video would be cool
Me and my friends playing goblins, orks, and ogres: we love elves too!
Looks like meat is back on the menu Boyz!
the bgm here is highly memorable
Age of sigmar always had a weird place in my heart: on one hand by the time I realized what Warhammer is age of sigmar had already been released so I was spared the drama. On the other hand learning about what happened with the end times infuriated me by it's seer stupidly not to mention horrible early release.
Your videos have really helped found that spark I needed to really enjoy the setting and everything it has to offer. When it comes to 40k The Tau are my favourite xeno, in fantasy couldn't care less about the knife ears, age of sigmar elves have really won me over and thanks to you my love for them has only grow.
Keep up the good work god-king.
0:04 "My Primarch, have you and Yvraine been 'discussing Imperium-Ynnari relations' in your bedroom for the last several hours?"
Nor gonna lie you made me actually want to play this army over the undead armies
14:18 "Did I hear a Rock and Stone?!"
I don't even know what these guys are, watching this just to enjoy your style.
Note: They arent actually monsters on the table top.... But if you play lots of sentinels archers, use their MW stacking, and aren't "in tune" to know that the Unleash Hell command got nerfed, then you can play a shooty hedgehog that casual players wont know how to deal with. So the salt