"Only the most reckless individual would dare attempt to somehow pull celestial objects out of the sky… cue Ikit Claw." Total War: Warhammer 2 - 'Warpstone Tractor Beam' description card
@@honorguard7616 There was a couple of posts, one after the other, extolling the virtues of some suspicious looking website. Seems EXTERMINATUS protocols have been enacted.
If anything it’s a blessing, because he can then proceed to scurry his little furry behind around, making beautiful devices to his blackened, shriveled hearts content for the rest of time
Oh, he didn't. In fact, Ikit stole some of Nagash's stuff and seems to be fine atm since he reverse-engineered an Anvil of Apotheosis and basically made himself a Skaven Stormcast.
Tolkien, creating lore: sitting quietly, smoking a pipe. Gygax, creating lore: sitting quietly talking with friends, may be a little cheeky bit of weed smoked. GW, creating fantasy lore: *snorts Scarface amounts of coke* RATS! FUCKING CRAZY MAN RATS WITH NUKES!!!! NUKESS!!! BRING ME SOME GODDAMN HOOKERS!
Mee was first-first , come food-slave top it with stuntie blood and a pinch of elf-thing skin dust. And flay yourself of yor incompetence in the process.
The fur regrowth formula may have been a joke but I can totally see Ikit doing that. Skaven are vain little buggers and Ikit definitely has the brain power to make it work. Also, why would he not make himself an albino furred rat? They enjoy a higher position and who is more deserving of that position than Ikit Claw.
The RPM on Ikits grave spinning is in fact so great he's trying to attach a motor to it, to power a death machine, or as the skaven would put it, a machine
Another option is pigmentation damage. Bad scares can cause hair to grow back white. I got a white spot on the back of my head from falling off a motorcycle when I was four.
> semi-crippled burn victim > wears a suit of armour to hide his burns and scars and to make him more powerful > insane genius > an ego that any skaven would blush at > "master" of magic and technology > sells most of what he makes for profit > Ikit is basically Doctor Doom's fursona.
Ikit's evil laugh from Total War Warhammer is one of the greatest sounds I've ever heard and I will never get tired of hearing it! He is without a doubt my absolute favourite character from the Old World!
*"We choose to go to the Blow a chunk off the Moon. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of my energies and skills; and for things to go Boom!"*
Ikit is hands down my favorite Skaven. I hated playing as the rats in WH2 until the prophet and the warlock dlc. Ikit had the awesome workshop, he's practically a tank with magic, he gets a doomflayer or a doom-wheel and they introduced the under empire mechanic. Food was certainly easier to manage with that. Plus the doom sphere /kefka laugh "Mad? Mad? You squeak-say I am mad-mad? Yes-yes! Only mad-mad would make-bring the Doomsphere!’"
I'd presume that the shock of burning off most of his flesh and losing a bloody limb, coupled with whatever horrendous torture Ikit subjected himself to left such an impression that his hair grew back white. That, or the Horned Rat saw much potential in the young warlock and blessed him with white fur as a sign of approval.
In all honesty the artist probably picked white as a colour to help clash with his armour. It helps the fleshy bits of him stick out and acts as a nice contrast. Would be a funny side story talking about how he actually made magic hair grower and the seers came up and said pull that shit again and will make sure you roast for eternity. I would love to see how that conversation goes.
When Ikit comes across a problem, not only is his solution to blow it up more, but also to double the amount of magical, reality-breaking cocaine. Also hitting the "boom" button harder.
So I’ve just got this idea in my head now for a series of short stories about a young Ikit having built himself a teleporting machine a la Doctor Who that just randomly takes him to different places around the world, only he can’t really control it. And the majority of the stories would involve his crazy interactions with people he meets in the places he ends up, maybe collecting/stealing necessary components from other Skaven to fix his machine so he can eventually return to Skavenblight
My personal theory about Ikit's fur colour is that a former rival graciously and generously decided to donate his own coat to our esteemed engineer on his deathbed as recognition of his inherent superiority and grandeur!
4th edition back in I want to say 2001 or so was when I found out about warhammer. This little amazing bastard and skaven in general got my interest and I have loved them since. The first mock fight I tried was some clan rats and a rattling gun, I rolled and rolled and rolled killing an entire unit of lizardmen then it malfunctioned and blew away the clan rats. Finest engineers ever yes-yes.
While Ikit Claw doesn't have rules (or his own figure), he IS the primary foe in Hamilcar: Champion of the Gods. In the book he tinkers with a stormcast's immortality, lays siege to gate city, and has a realm-hopping lab. His name is now Ikrit, and even the gods are worried about what he's doing.
@@fatrat92 GW claimed that any use of "Warhammer" in videos related to their intellectual property not licenced by them was copyright infringement. Arch tried to appease them by changing his name in order not to bring *THE ENTIRETY OF THE WARHAMMER COMMUNITY* into this.
One of the absolutely best skaven characters ^^ in aos his model represent the Arch (oh, the irony) Warlocks, leaders of the clans Skrire; Thanquol actually survived the mess of eot, being grabbed by the Horned One, and in one novel one particular skrire engineer have visions of a great past of a former life (I don't remember the details but it's implied that maybe a reincarnation of Ikit). Keep the good work going Arch, cheers from the land of cow elves! :D
@Lord Inquisitor Shadowlord and so where born the StormRat Eternals XD i wish they will give us miniatures of the elite guards seen in Spear of Shadows, the one with the halberds containing a single hair of the Horned One :3
What i always loved about Ikits original rules was that due to his travels and knowledge of all magic, he could use all spells except waagh (because that’s generated by Greenskins). Can you imagine playing Skaven and being able to summon the undead? Fight Chaos and banish their demons with High Magic? This guy was cool by himself, but this made him the coolest (rat)guy in Warhammer!
This is one of the biggest reasons i was Drawn to the Skaven when I got into Warhammer Fantasy, It's just too good to ignore. You have your basic Knights and Elves and Dwarves, and then here are a bunch of Coked Up Rats who Built a Nuke and then decided to blow up the moon.
I like the idea of him being able to alter the color of his hair. You did state that he is using a hair regrowth formula this could be part of the formulas capability. Or was that some kind of joke I don't know the lore for Skaven that well.
6:30 - "Can't make the scene if you don't have the green" - Stanley "Mask" Ipkiss. | He rewarded those that added to his wealth, so that they continued to do so. | 13:55 - That must've made any that witnessed that laugh. | 17:26 - He's basically a Nurgle cultist, at least physically. | 24:20 - Even the most psychotic of Skaven wouldn't want to anger him. | 26:35 - Hi ho (!) | 29:30 - Lord Mobility Scooter?
I kit claw is ace with his storm deamon at +1 strength when he fights and with a warp flamer and pistol and can pick any magic and storm deamon bound spell
To see such a successful and inquisitive creature truly warms the heart, it's that or the red hot poker the filthy matted-fur wretch i'm observing is holding to his new "friend".
One thing I always liked about Warhammer lore is that it properly subverts expectations. Ikit is a proper example of defying the stereotypes of a species. Skaven superficially look like little more than rats with a penchant for talking more than you would like. You would think the only way they survive is to breed a lot and not expect a high standard of living, yet, within their culture, you find they are as dangerously intelligent and capable of producing genuine geniuses as any other. I like it when a fantasy lore works on the idea that a species is not stupid, just different. It lets you really expand your horizons intellectually, which is why we love Warhammer and Warhammer 40k: they are games and lore for people who like to think.
I mean, I’d say Queek is more of a ‘defying the stereotype’ character, mainly he’s big, strong, martially magnificent and most of all loves fighting, especially one and one and is, most likely the bravest Skaven alive, but also blunt, dislikes lying and completely insane. Sure Ikit can be brave but he’s still a Skaven, he’s not going to go out of his way to go beat someone up without backup.
People: Magic doesn't have nukes. Ikit Claw: Hold-Grasp my warpstone. People grab the warpstone and get horrendously mutated by it. Ikit Claw: Stupid-idiot man-thing. Never trust the Skaven, yes-yes.
"Ikit Claw has the biggest brain of all rats! Hatched a simple- masterful scheme... First: gather the falling warpstone, all warpstone! Second: make these stinky reptiles die- die! Death- Murder- Kill devices at the ready!" How fitting I'm listening to this while playin as Ikit in WH2... My favourite Character... "...one of his more... agressive competitors, Thanquol, may the Honed Rat ever piss on his soul..." that's brilliant, made me laugh so hard XD.
Hair that grows from scar tissue can be white due to the pigment cells being damaged. If Ikit was covered head to toe with burn scars the damage could be what causes the white fur.
Ikit claw is probably the most famous skaven that I have ever personally read about and have been able to get the pleasure of playing through Total War Warhammer 2. And I find a hilarious since they said his campaign is very difficult when in reality it's probably the most easiest and most ridiculous campaign that you can play and just appear out power fantasy that you get throughout that whole campaign. What's this filthy man thing trying to take me out unleashed the nukes!! Stunted things coming at me with cannons and copters well time to unleash my whole Army of rattlin guns! Haha! Just too much fun was in that campaign though his winning condition is probably the most ridiculous and not in a fun way
Playing it now. I find it somewhat hard to expand (but that might just be because I suck) but my idea/story is that Skavenblight and surrounding ares is just Ikits "base of operations". Ikit and his army go around the world looking for treasures, loot and stuff and pop back home once in a while to get new toys and step on a few heads to make sure everyone knows who's the boss :) The world is just a big testing range for new boom-things.
MAD? YOU CALL ME MAD? BECAUSE ONLY A MADMAN WOULD INVENT-CREATE DOOMSPHERE YES-YES! BECAUSE ONLY THE MOST MAD AND SKILLED-SMART SKAVEN COULD DO WHAT I DO-DO!
A nice video, of an iconic character. Lookin at the old artwork of him, his hipsecrion where his tail is connected for some odd reason makes me think of a sleeping owl, which is ironic on a ratman ^^'
I can think 3 other possible reasons for the white fur on claw. 1 what ever medicine he used to regrow caused it. 2 he's taken to bleaching it. Or 3 he grafted some flesh fur from a white furred "donnor".
This is why you have to love this maniatic furballs. Why stop after almost burning yourself alive? One doomsday device?? Those are rookie numbers!!! Indestructible is not skaven proof. Love this bstrds.
You need to do more videos about skaven lore even if it's about smaller character's I love hearing the stories and the narration and the way you describe it
He was white furred in 4th edition too, back then white furred Skaven were marked as leaders, black were stronger and were appointed as assassins and stormvermin. Grey Seers were marked as such predominantly by their horns. Ikit's fur marked him out for greatness.
I've been pronouncing it "I (as in High) - KEET Claw" for more than two decades. Dunno if I can change now. What's that? Don't be superstitious? There's no religion or magic? The Realm of Chaos is just something science doesn't understand yet? With science and reason, we'll figure it out? I feel like I've heard this somewhere before..... *It will work-work out even better this time! Just you watch-see!*
"Only the most reckless individual would dare attempt to somehow pull celestial objects out of the sky… cue Ikit Claw."
Total War: Warhammer 2 - 'Warpstone Tractor Beam' description card
You smell that? Smells like spambots.
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@@honorguard7616 There was a couple of posts, one after the other, extolling the virtues of some suspicious looking website. Seems EXTERMINATUS protocols have been enacted.
It is almost as though a certain god of the undead blocked him from crossing over out of petulant spite for the whole pyramid thing.
If anything it’s a blessing, because he can then proceed to scurry his little furry behind around, making beautiful devices to his blackened, shriveled hearts content for the rest of time
I'm just amazed that Nagash let himself get outmaneuvered by a Skaven AGAIN...
Baron Von Mott He had no brain, so it wasn’t too surprising
Seeing what Nagash has done in AOS, I would not be surprised if this became canon.
Oh, he didn't. In fact, Ikit stole some of Nagash's stuff and seems to be fine atm since he reverse-engineered an Anvil of Apotheosis and basically made himself a Skaven Stormcast.
The man who makes Ghandi blush with how often he uses Nuclear Weapons
All Hail Nuclear Ghandi
you mean RAT man man thing
Tolkien, creating lore: sitting quietly, smoking a pipe.
Gygax, creating lore: sitting quietly talking with friends, may be a little cheeky bit of weed smoked.
GW, creating fantasy lore: *snorts Scarface amounts of coke* RATS! FUCKING CRAZY MAN RATS WITH NUKES!!!! NUKESS!!! BRING ME SOME GODDAMN HOOKERS!
I don't think you know just how _hard_ Gary Gygax partied...
*chews on warpstone as Grey Seer Arch tells stories*
Need more warpstone, quick-fast!
What taste-flavor do you want-need sir?
Mee was first-first , come food-slave top it with stuntie blood and a pinch of elf-thing skin dust. And flay yourself of yor incompetence in the process.
@@notahero8487 Stab Stab! Mine Mine. You not fit for snack. Me want green-thing liver and man-thing fries. MOVE NOW NOW.
I love the idea that arch is the greatest grey seer and favorite child of the horn rat hence his most beautiful home
I remember hearing about Dr Claw. If I am not mistaking, he has a long standing rivalry with an inquisitive dwarf, one inspector Ga'Jett.
I'll get you next Time, Ga'Jett!
Go-go Ga'Jett Grudge Book!
go go gadget I am not a dwarf
My man was playing hoi4 while everyone else was playing ck2
I just always tought Ikit stuffed some fake fur onto his armour to make himself look better.
More likely he skinned a white furred Skaven and attached it.
The fur regrowth formula may have been a joke but I can totally see Ikit doing that. Skaven are vain little buggers and Ikit definitely has the brain power to make it work. Also, why would he not make himself an albino furred rat? They enjoy a higher position and who is more deserving of that position than Ikit Claw.
@@PhilosophicallyAmerican yes yes bless bless blessed I am horned rat regrew my fur and white white hehe
The RPM on Ikits grave spinning is in fact so great he's trying to attach a motor to it, to power a death machine, or as the skaven would put it, a machine
Yes yes, Ratnought well act half sarcophagus and half war-war machines!
@@Marinealver i think it'd be a bit more than 50% war machine
@@Marinealver I want to convert this now.
If we attach Ikit's corpse to a warp generator, his constant spinning would power the rest of the skaven empire.
Hearing the unbridled glee in Arch's voice, I cannot help but remember his fondness for mad scientists...
Well arch is a mad sciencetist(sorta) considering he works with robots and AI
His white fur could be the result of skin grafts from a grey seer that “volunteered” to “assist” his recovery from his burns
Another option is pigmentation damage. Bad scares can cause hair to grow back white. I got a white spot on the back of my head from falling off a motorcycle when I was four.
> semi-crippled burn victim
> wears a suit of armour to hide his burns and scars and to make him more powerful
> insane genius
> an ego that any skaven would blush at
> "master" of magic and technology
> sells most of what he makes for profit
> Ikit is basically Doctor Doom's fursona.
The living embodiment of the phrase 'I'm a genius. Oh no'
Hmmmmm....mmm..mmm
Protocol dictates my actions.
Magic makes boom boom? Yes yes!
*Man-rat-an Project Intensifies*
Ikit's evil laugh from Total War Warhammer is one of the greatest sounds I've ever heard and I will never get tired of hearing it! He is without a doubt my absolute favourite character from the Old World!
Someone made a video from TW:Warhammer 2 were he used Doomspheres under every city to blow up the world.
@@maxpower3990 Yeah, I saw that. It's pretty damn impressive!
When you're finished with Imrik, Arch, you should play an Ikit campaign.
I would recommend that Arch uses The End Times Mod. It’s quite good. And makes Ikit the greatest-best, and most explody lord.
That sounds great
Yes yes
This video has convinced me that an Arch-Ikit LP would be the greatest TWW LP ever.
Blowing chunks out of the moon. What could possibly go wrong?
Yes yes blow up the moon then kill soteck scum then elf thing and humies and finally but not least kill other skaven yes yes
No no what could go right?!
Ah, you've seen that particular The Time Machine film.
@@joshuapatrick36 obtaining the largest known magical crack rock in the warhammer fantasy universe. Obviously.
*"We choose to go to the Blow a chunk off the Moon. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of my energies and skills; and for things to go Boom!"*
Ikit is hands down my favorite Skaven. I hated playing as the rats in WH2 until the prophet and the warlock dlc. Ikit had the awesome workshop, he's practically a tank with magic, he gets a doomflayer or a doom-wheel and they introduced the under empire mechanic. Food was certainly easier to manage with that. Plus the doom sphere /kefka laugh
"Mad? Mad? You squeak-say I am mad-mad? Yes-yes! Only mad-mad would make-bring the Doomsphere!’"
I'd presume that the shock of burning off most of his flesh and losing a bloody limb, coupled with whatever horrendous torture Ikit subjected himself to left such an impression that his hair grew back white. That, or the Horned Rat saw much potential in the young warlock and blessed him with white fur as a sign of approval.
Now this is some good rat, some might even say the best rat.
You are such a massive.
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To be fair Ikit apparently survived the apocalypse, forgot his name, dissected enough sigmarines to learn how to do it himself and became Ikkrit
In all honesty the artist probably picked white as a colour to help clash with his armour. It helps the fleshy bits of him stick out and acts as a nice contrast.
Would be a funny side story talking about how he actually made magic hair grower and the seers came up and said pull that shit again and will make sure you roast for eternity. I would love to see how that conversation goes.
probably along the lines of i have a magic nuke and you're within the blast radius
When Ikit comes across a problem, not only is his solution to blow it up more, but also to double the amount of magical, reality-breaking cocaine. Also hitting the "boom" button harder.
So I’ve just got this idea in my head now for a series of short stories about a young Ikit having built himself a teleporting machine a la Doctor Who that just randomly takes him to different places around the world, only he can’t really control it. And the majority of the stories would involve his crazy interactions with people he meets in the places he ends up, maybe collecting/stealing necessary components from other Skaven to fix his machine so he can eventually return to Skavenblight
Yep, that's the DnD campaign I'm running right now. Like literally that exact premise
“Run-go!!! Get to Doomwheel!!!”
I can see a massive rat engine being driven by doom wheels and ringing a bell armed with warpfire throwers and lightning cannon.
@@Marinealver Skaven: *Runs over Greater Daemon*
My personal theory about Ikit's fur colour is that a former rival graciously and generously decided to donate his own coat to our esteemed engineer on his deathbed as recognition of his inherent superiority and grandeur!
"Donate"
4th edition back in I want to say 2001 or so was when I found out about warhammer.
This little amazing bastard and skaven in general got my interest and I have loved them since.
The first mock fight I tried was some clan rats and a rattling gun, I rolled and rolled and rolled killing an entire unit of lizardmen then it malfunctioned and blew away the clan rats.
Finest engineers ever yes-yes.
"You can't just shoot a hole into the surface of Morrslieb"
Ikit: How bout i do anyway?
Saw the title, jumped right out of my seat with excitement. Skryre rule-rule!
While Ikit Claw doesn't have rules (or his own figure), he IS the primary foe in Hamilcar: Champion of the Gods. In the book he tinkers with a stormcast's immortality, lays siege to gate city, and has a realm-hopping lab. His name is now Ikrit, and even the gods are worried about what he's doing.
I would worry about someone capable of nuking you to oblivion
Intro: Arch Warhammer
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@@Venneroth #Arch40000
why did he change his name?
@@fatrat92 GW claimed that any use of "Warhammer" in videos related to their intellectual property not licenced by them was copyright infringement. Arch tried to appease them by changing his name in order not to bring *THE ENTIRETY OF THE WARHAMMER COMMUNITY* into this.
"Prohibition only ever increases demand!"
One of the absolutely best skaven characters ^^ in aos his model represent the Arch (oh, the irony) Warlocks, leaders of the clans Skrire; Thanquol actually survived the mess of eot, being grabbed by the Horned One, and in one novel one particular skrire engineer have visions of a great past of a former life (I don't remember the details but it's implied that maybe a reincarnation of Ikit). Keep the good work going Arch, cheers from the land of cow elves! :D
Leonardo Moretti no one and I literally mean no one gives a fuck about AoS lore
@@CTA12356 If that were true we wouldn't be having this conversation ^^
@Lord Inquisitor Shadowlord and so where born the StormRat Eternals XD i wish they will give us miniatures of the elite guards seen in Spear of Shadows, the one with the halberds containing a single hair of the Horned One :3
What i always loved about Ikits original rules was that due to his travels and knowledge of all magic, he could use all spells except waagh (because that’s generated by Greenskins).
Can you imagine playing Skaven and being able to summon the undead? Fight Chaos and banish their demons with High Magic? This guy was cool by himself, but this made him the coolest (rat)guy in Warhammer!
Get green-thing slaves-slaves, we will make green-green magic work-work.
Oh yay! Arch's fursona has made his return.
This is one of the biggest reasons i was Drawn to the Skaven when I got into Warhammer Fantasy, It's just too good to ignore. You have your basic Knights and Elves and Dwarves, and then here are a bunch of Coked Up Rats who Built a Nuke and then decided to blow up the moon.
Grey seer Arch has returned to us! Praise the Horned Rat! Yes-yes!
Ah, yes, Ikit Claw, the Moonbane.
Let's be honest. Either the tonic he used to regrow his hair made it white, or he dyes it on purpose just to piss off the Grey Seers.
I like the idea of him being able to alter the color of his hair. You did state that he is using a hair regrowth formula this could be part of the formulas capability. Or was that some kind of joke I don't know the lore for Skaven that well.
6:30 - "Can't make the scene if you don't have the green" - Stanley "Mask" Ipkiss. | He rewarded those that added to his wealth, so that they continued to do so. | 13:55 - That must've made any that witnessed that laugh. | 17:26 - He's basically a Nurgle cultist, at least physically. | 24:20 - Even the most psychotic of Skaven wouldn't want to anger him. | 26:35 - Hi ho (!) | 29:30 - Lord Mobility Scooter?
I kit claw is ace with his storm deamon at +1 strength when he fights and with a warp flamer and pistol and can pick any magic and storm deamon bound spell
“What is a left arm in the face of [knowledge]?” Edward, is that you??
“Ikit has the biggest brain of *all* rats!”
-Ikit Claw after blowing up the moon because why not.
glad you did a video on a Skaven Hero. I love the Skaven in Fantasy, they are pretty funny and crazy to fight against
To see such a successful and inquisitive creature truly warms the heart, it's that or the red hot poker the filthy matted-fur wretch i'm observing is holding to his new "friend".
One thing I always liked about Warhammer lore is that it properly subverts expectations. Ikit is a proper example of defying the stereotypes of a species. Skaven superficially look like little more than rats with a penchant for talking more than you would like. You would think the only way they survive is to breed a lot and not expect a high standard of living, yet, within their culture, you find they are as dangerously intelligent and capable of producing genuine geniuses as any other. I like it when a fantasy lore works on the idea that a species is not stupid, just different. It lets you really expand your horizons intellectually, which is why we love Warhammer and Warhammer 40k: they are games and lore for people who like to think.
I mean, I’d say Queek is more of a ‘defying the stereotype’ character, mainly he’s big, strong, martially magnificent and most of all loves fighting, especially one and one and is, most likely the bravest Skaven alive, but also blunt, dislikes lying and completely insane. Sure Ikit can be brave but he’s still a Skaven, he’s not going to go out of his way to go beat someone up without backup.
Can’t wait for Arch to do a lore video about Grey Seer Thanquol. i love that saturday morning Cartoon villain of a world ending ratman
I have missed the Skaven lore videos! I hope their are more night goblin videos to come as well, would love to learn more about Skragrott
An Arch video, : yes...
A skaven video : mmmm yes happy chittering noises
I’ve just started playing total warhammer 3 and ikit has been my favourite leader so far. Really happy to have your lore vids.
Plain and simple explaination for the white fur : his skin grew back, but without pigmentation...
Anyone else notice the Kibs trophy mounted on the wall in the back? Starting @ 0:25?
Ikit. Maybe he’s born with it. Maybe it Warpstone.
People: Magic doesn't have nukes.
Ikit Claw: Hold-Grasp my warpstone.
People grab the warpstone and get horrendously mutated by it.
Ikit Claw: Stupid-idiot man-thing. Never trust the Skaven, yes-yes.
"Warhamer"
Was this purposefully misspelled to comply with GW?
Intro kicks. Who ever did into with the bell has mine respects.
"Ikit Claw has the biggest brain of all rats!
Hatched a simple- masterful scheme...
First: gather the falling warpstone, all warpstone!
Second: make these stinky reptiles die- die!
Death- Murder- Kill devices at the ready!"
How fitting I'm listening to this while playin as Ikit in WH2...
My favourite Character...
"...one of his more... agressive competitors, Thanquol, may the Honed Rat ever piss on his soul..." that's brilliant, made me laugh so hard XD.
I always come back to these old jewels.
Council of Thirteen? Do you know how much power I'd have to give up to join the Council of Thirteen?!
Ikit is Lex Luthor confirmed.
Was waiting for this one, as well as Thanqoul.
Aah yes, more skaven lore. I'm missing reading about these guys, can't wait until the new WH fantasy book come out.
I miss the old background music from the Warhammer Total War army speculation days!
Great content as always Arch.
Hair that grows from scar tissue can be white due to the pigment cells being damaged. If Ikit was covered head to toe with burn scars the damage could be what causes the white fur.
Always takes the sting out of my pre friday night shift woes. Especially boomboom-town rats. Cheers mate
His rat-ings will go sky-up high after Arch-things good image-propaganda reel!
Still love the Caiphas Cain omnibus on the desk
"Just look at him"
Posts 9 pixel image.
*Finally.*
*More👏Fantasy👏lore👏*
*Fucking hell i missed these.*
Do more of these vids Arch.
*Please.*
Jesus christ i missed these.
I am certain there are some Skaven trying to revive Ikit with a lot of Warpstone...... they just haven't used enough yet on his corpse.
Well, he was my fav in the game. But this vid just made him claw his way into my hearth.
Ikit: "Be a god-thing? Beneath my power that would be!"
I could imagine that Ikit just dyed his furr white out of his believes to be the best Skaven in existence
Ikit claw is probably the most famous skaven that I have ever personally read about and have been able to get the pleasure of playing through Total War Warhammer 2.
And I find a hilarious since they said his campaign is very difficult when in reality it's probably the most easiest and most ridiculous campaign that you can play and just appear out power fantasy that you get throughout that whole campaign.
What's this filthy man thing trying to take me out unleashed the nukes!! Stunted things coming at me with cannons and copters well time to unleash my whole Army of rattlin guns! Haha!
Just too much fun was in that campaign though his winning condition is probably the most ridiculous and not in a fun way
Playing it now. I find it somewhat hard to expand (but that might just be because I suck) but my idea/story is that Skavenblight and surrounding ares is just Ikits "base of operations". Ikit and his army go around the world looking for treasures, loot and stuff and pop back home once in a while to get new toys and step on a few heads to make sure everyone knows who's the boss :)
The world is just a big testing range for new boom-things.
Usually not a rat-fan myself but oh boy I have been waiting for this furry ball of batshit crazy awesomness! Thanks Grey-Arch yes-yes!
A madrat scientist among other madrat scientists... what's not to love?
MAD? YOU CALL ME MAD? BECAUSE ONLY A MADMAN WOULD INVENT-CREATE DOOMSPHERE YES-YES! BECAUSE ONLY THE MOST MAD AND SKILLED-SMART SKAVEN COULD DO WHAT I DO-DO!
i only now notice Kibs head been a trophy on your wall here.
I started watching this channel years ago on the fantasy stuff this is great :)
For the white fur, there is also the possibility that it might also be an "age" thing and thinking he was an old rat at that point.
Nice another skaven video. Always loved this faction
A nice video, of an iconic character.
Lookin at the old artwork of him, his hipsecrion where his tail is connected for some odd reason makes me think of a sleeping owl, which is ironic on a ratman ^^'
*Wakes up at 8am*
Huh a new Warhammer Lore vid....
and its....Ikkit Claw!?!?
F$#@ YES!!! BEST RATMAN!!
listening to arches lore vids in the background while playing Ikit in TW2, what more can I ask for
Ikit probably just shocked himself one too many times and got white fur that way.
Hearing how much Arch likes the 4th edition skaven army book is honestly kind of cute lmao
The amount of puns in this video is ratrastofic
He is back!
I can think 3 other possible reasons for the white fur on claw. 1 what ever medicine he used to regrow caused it. 2 he's taken to bleaching it. Or 3 he grafted some flesh fur from a white furred "donnor".
I feel like Ikit in AoS would be WAY to powerful. An author did try and make him return but got shut down by GW.
"Ikit Claw is tall and white-furred, always a sign of distinction and power amongst the Skaven." - 4th edition Skaven army book.
Remember kids, don't do warpstone it can ruin your life. Test it on the slaves first.
Yes-yes, YOU, Slave-thing, come here and eat this, food yes-yes.
This is a scary ratman. And this is a scary ratman on warpstone.
This is why you have to love this maniatic furballs. Why stop after almost burning yourself alive? One doomsday device?? Those are rookie numbers!!! Indestructible is not skaven proof. Love this bstrds.
You need to do more videos about skaven lore even if it's about smaller character's I love hearing the stories and the narration and the way you describe it
There are a lot of things, but never enough new skaven lore with a thicc accent for the evening hours
More Skaven stuff! Yes-yes!:3
Your Skaven videos just hit differently Arch. We can tell you love talking about the furry bastards.
He was white furred in 4th edition too, back then white furred Skaven were marked as leaders, black were stronger and were appointed as assassins and stormvermin. Grey Seers were marked as such predominantly by their horns. Ikit's fur marked him out for greatness.
I've been pronouncing it "I (as in High) - KEET Claw" for more than two decades. Dunno if I can change now.
What's that? Don't be superstitious? There's no religion or magic? The Realm of Chaos is just something science doesn't understand yet? With science and reason, we'll figure it out? I feel like I've heard this somewhere before.....
*It will work-work out even better this time! Just you watch-see!*