The Kastelai Dynasty - Soulblight Lore

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  • @picar-is8pk
    @picar-is8pk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Imagine living your eternal unlife under the constant pressure of "i must catch my bus"

  • @joshuaturnquist5538
    @joshuaturnquist5538 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    Arkhan: "You are back Lord Nagash, time has come to punish the traitor! What should we do milord?"
    Nagash: "While I was banished I used the time to catch up on the Castlevania games I missed. I have a perfect idea..."

    • @sainfalln
      @sainfalln 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Underrated comment sir! I snorted so loud

    • @Never_heart
      @Never_heart 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      He is played hacked roms where he gets to play as Dracula winning

  • @chaostear13
    @chaostear13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    "Upward mobility under Nagash is a lie." - Vhordrai, probably.

    • @MZ-9993
      @MZ-9993 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Based Vampire?!

  • @brittontrotter4003
    @brittontrotter4003 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    People getting conquered by Kastelai:
    Wait! Don’t kill us, we will teach you our bowman skills!
    Kastelai Vampires, recoiling in disgust: hssssss, it’s worse than garlic!

  • @gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954
    @gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    The concept of an order of immortal vampire knights that spend centuries or even millennia honing their martial skill in order to be the most deadly warriors anywhere is a very compelling one. I especially like the way that the Kastelai accept vampires from any Dynasty or origin so long as they have the necessary fixation on martial excellence - it almost seems as though they are using their pursuit of warrior skill as a means of managing their beast within and the impulses the Hunger forces upon them, like a rehab facility for vampires. Not so much because they have any moral objections to draining mortals dry, but because they want to master the Hunger so that it doesn't master them. It is about self control and the power it brings, not any sentimentality about, say, humans.
    On that basis, I quite like the idea of a Kastelai dynasty Vengorian Lord vampire. A vampire who was exposed to some massively intense source of arcane energy and underwent a transformation into a monstrous form, and feared losing his mind in the process. He was able to stave off having his consciousness consumed entirely by his bestial side by finding focus in mastering combat and the arts of the blade, and so sought out the Crimson Keep and joined the Kastelai in order to always have new martial arts, sword forms, and combat techniques to master, his pursuit of martial perfection allowing him to stop his degeneration into a mindless monstrosity going any further, and thereby stabilise his physical form as well as his mind. He must still struggle with his transformed state and the bestial drives that rage within him, but he has the discipline and strength of mind to handle it most of the time. And so he fights for Prince Vhordrai and his brothers and sisters of the Order, and when he pairs his extreme warrior skill with his monstrous strength and size to slaughter his victims by the score on the battlefield, they never realise that, for him, the combat is as much calming meditation as it is savage fight to the death.

  • @brownmims2311
    @brownmims2311 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Martial arts Castelvania!

    • @dattsoon8790
      @dattsoon8790 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      good to know im not the only one that immediately thought of this with "teleporting castle" just waiting for AoS trevor and sypha to show up and break the damn thing

    • @TheCrimsonSpork
      @TheCrimsonSpork 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Blood Dragon Bloody Tears

    • @gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954
      @gregorygreenwood-nimmo4954 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It definitely feels like a nod to that legendary game series.

  • @Chase_Adams
    @Chase_Adams 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    I’ve never been this early but I just wanted to say that your lore videos have singlehandedly gotten friends of mine into Warhammer, friends I never thought would dive in. The videos themselves have brought me joy and clarity, and now sharing them has compounded that. Thank you!!

  • @vulkhanasennet9961
    @vulkhanasennet9961 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Finally the Children of Abhorash!

  • @TheGraham27
    @TheGraham27 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I love this dynasty all the way back to fantasy and the bloodknights. Theyre is just something very cool about an army of vampire knights. I 100% agree about Pronce Vhordrai's story, I think hes amazing, I think GW missed out huge in not making his own model just swap heads with a Vlzd. I've ordered my knights n cant wait to play them on the tabletop. Thanks for the Video Doug, keep up the great work!!! Have a great day!!!

  • @schwarzaj
    @schwarzaj 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Say hello to the one reason I'm getting into this army!

  • @mattdunnaker9314
    @mattdunnaker9314 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    First of all, love your videos. Been a long time watcher.
    I just wanted to add a little clarity on Prince Vhordrei’s punishment, because it’s actually pretty horrific.
    I forget if this was from the Legion of Nagash army book, a Warhammer Community article, or head canon, but here we go.
    (Note; haven’t had chance to pick up my SBGL book yet, so if any new lore contradicts the below, please ignore me.)
    First of all; Nagash controls the manifestation of the Crimson Keep, so where and if it appears is by Bone-Daddy’s will alone.
    That’s part one.
    Part two, Vhordrei has no one to feed upon within the Crimson Keep. He is perpetually hunger. The only chance he has to feed is when Nagash manifests the Crimson Keep, conveniently in the vicinity of a target. Vhordrei, at this point, goes out to slake his thirst; and in doing so, serves the will of Nagash.
    That’s the punishment. Vhordrei’s thirst for blood has been weaponised, and in doing so, Nagash has forced Vhordrei to serve him, despite his prior betrayal. Despite whether Vhordrei would consciously choose to kill the people Nagash has set him upon; by manipulating the circumstances of Vhordrei’s condition, Nagash has removed Vhordrei’s ability to choose who or what he does.
    In addition, I would suspect, death is not an escape from Vhordrei’s cycle of starvation and being unleashed on Nagash’s foes. If Vhordrei fell in battle, he’d no doubt be re-constituted within the Keep by the will of Nagash. It will never end.

    • @sainfalln
      @sainfalln 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you! These are the kinds of comments people need! I don’t think the Soulblight Gravelords battletome went into all that detail regarding Vhordrai, and I definitely need to find my copy of Legions to check and see but I did remember there being more to Vhordrai’s story then what was presented in the book I have in front of me at present

  • @MZ-9993
    @MZ-9993 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So somehow like Blood Dragons from the Old World

  • @DayneGodwin
    @DayneGodwin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I want these to be my guys. Already bought the Crimson Court and have the old Konrad von Carstein Vampire model.

    • @jadebrunner8699
      @jadebrunner8699 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      If you bought on if the mortachs on dread abyssals and didn’t make it manfred, it’s quite easy to do a little out bashing and turn his left over pieces into a custom blood knight vampire lord.

    • @DayneGodwin
      @DayneGodwin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jadebrunner8699 I have two unbuilt, gonna make Mannfred and Neferata

    • @d-emprahexpects
      @d-emprahexpects 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Convertions!!!! Many many convertions!!!

    • @stonehorn4641
      @stonehorn4641 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's a fun army. I don't own one, but I've played 3 dynasties with my friends, and I had a lot of fun each time.
      If they are your firsy army though, they can be pretty complex at first. I hope you enjoy it, I did.

  • @johnhildenbrand2642
    @johnhildenbrand2642 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Kastelai is the entire reason I chose SBGL over any other death army, and it will be my first choice every time I feel the need to field a death army

  • @emilymcpherson6564
    @emilymcpherson6564 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    ooooo i’ve been waiting for this one

  • @93Pedersen
    @93Pedersen 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the great video!
    Kastelai is my favourite part of all Age of Sigmar lore!
    And they are taken from the 'Order of the Blood Dragon' as fare as I can read in Fantasy lore 😊

  • @dakotamoore3126
    @dakotamoore3126 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Today’s the daaaaaaay! Been looking forward to this video!

  • @crunkfuzzy
    @crunkfuzzy ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my Army and I started it a year ago. After watching this video. I love blood knights I have new and old models in my army.

  • @Kallnar
    @Kallnar 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    First of all: I absolutely love your channel. Next, I'm going hard Kastelai. I was that broke teenager who could only dream of a blood dragon army. Now? Ordered 4 boxes of blood knights and a zombie dragon. Let's do this!

  • @BaranzarCobralVOD
    @BaranzarCobralVOD 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The Kastelai Dynasty would probably be my goto

  • @TheBobcatlover
    @TheBobcatlover 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can just imagine the people like "how do we know we can trust you to let us live after we teach you our techniques?"
    *vampire raises an eyebrow and grins*
    "You can't, but you'd be dead either way"
    Also it could have been a better punishment to give Vhordrai the reigns of the keep so he can choose which realm he hops to but its always a random location and he can't ever leave the keep

  • @bulwyf2572
    @bulwyf2572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is the only bloodline I want to play. I still have my old Blood Dragon VC army. GW absolutely needs to bring Abhorash back as a Mortarch as the founding father for this bloodline.

    • @nate742
      @nate742 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Abhorash hates Nagash. I’d rather he was part of his own separate faction, perhaps alongside his old bro Gilles or Breton aka the Green Knight.

    • @bulwyf2572
      @bulwyf2572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@nate742 Personally I hate Nagash too because he robs all undead of their agency. I'd kill to have Abhorash back in any way in Sigmar with his own model and rules.

  • @richarddixon1450
    @richarddixon1450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm planning to create some crimson keep themed terrain to go with my army. Was thinking towers and fortifications chained into the ground. Like some hellraiser type stuff.

  • @Drakkman1978
    @Drakkman1978 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Lorewise and tabletopwise these are my favorite

  • @freakydeakytoys
    @freakydeakytoys 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Blood Dragon fan from 5th ed WHFB now massive Death Fan boy. Kastelai is where the heart is and those Blood knights are hot 🔥 stuff.

  • @hmsapereira
    @hmsapereira 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mate... really enjoy this type of content!! Top stuff!

  • @lordhogwash8393
    @lordhogwash8393 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My number 2 favorite vamps- vampire knights!

  • @martinkitt2947
    @martinkitt2947 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love your lore videos 🍻

  • @trentlammi5279
    @trentlammi5279 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Definately my go to. Castlevania was always a favorite and this faction rings all the right bells for me.

  • @Talock2000
    @Talock2000 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am looking forward to the next one you are set to talk about

  • @laevateinx9163
    @laevateinx9163 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've never played 40k or AoS but these guys specifically really are tempting me to buy a box of Blood Knights and maybe the Soulblight starter box and really try and paint them as best I can, I used to draw a lot and I generally pick up art stuff pretty quick so maybe I'll buy a couple and try my hand.

  • @Granto0611
    @Granto0611 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm really torn apart.
    I love the Lore of this Faction, and I love Vordrai's Warscroll, but I don't want to focus on Vampires in my army, so maybe Neferata seems like a better option mechanically.
    I had a lore idea in my head for my everbuilding, mostly Deathrattle army about a civilization in a huge Necropolis, who try to hide a God of Death from Nagash. They forge Aetherchains to bind their whole city to Hysh, which keeps them from getting drawn into the Shyish Nadir, but as the Day-Night cycle travels trough the plane, the City gets drawn with the Realm of Light as well, plowing the earth below, crushing into other cities and death sub-realms.
    Well, the lore for the Castelai has a lot of correlation with this... I don't know if I want to include them in it now, that it is written in an official book.
    Have you ever felt like, if your crazy head-lore gets a similar "canon" story, it somehow becomes less interesting?
    What would you pick? The army that fits the mechanics, or the army that fits the lore?
    (Edit: typos)

    • @metatronao
      @metatronao 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Honestly, Kastelai are cool, but this concept sounds way cooler to me anyway. I love vampires and have plenty of them to field, but I also love the concept of them ruling over endless hordes of deadwalkers and deathrattle forces. Traditional VC, I guess.

    • @jakea3950
      @jakea3950 ปีที่แล้ว

      All vampire dynasties will always heavily summon. Not only is it their greatest advantage but they don't have the numbers close to fill a full.army of vampires.
      Kastelai are just melee expert vamps as opposed to say magic. For example even though mannfred was a great warrior he was a sublime mage of death magic. While Conrad was purely a warrior and almost inept at magic.
      So you can really do what you want with any dynasty to put it short because they all share the fundamentals of death magic as it's their greatest asset.

  • @BaylorCorvette
    @BaylorCorvette 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Already planning on playing this Dynasty at a tournament in June!

  • @Chocopacotaco1413
    @Chocopacotaco1413 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really love the idea of this keep. Just imagining how it appears.
    Slowly you watch ulgu pass in front of hysh. Is watching is a curtain of darkness crawls across that land and in that tiny space between night and day As it passes up across old ruins as the brief hand of dawn pulls across the veil of reality and from it a floating castle appears

  • @Salty_Sassenach
    @Salty_Sassenach 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Not updated yet is Warscroll Builder as it still has bloodlines.

  • @ahowi3698
    @ahowi3698 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Horde Mode Blood Dragons...I'm sold.

  • @Martin-kt7cp
    @Martin-kt7cp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Slaanesh approves of their dedication to combat perfection.

  • @TheBobcatlover
    @TheBobcatlover 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So I'm thinking of doing soulblight for armies on parade next year but I don't know whether to do a Kastellan "gates of the crimson keep" thing or maybe a more general soulblight on a hillside barrows kind of dealy

  • @kenhouston814
    @kenhouston814 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My bet is he has no control over the keep. He just gets flung to wherever Nagash sees the most use for him at any time

  • @marcelosilveira2276
    @marcelosilveira2276 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    that's the Dinasy I'm building an army for:
    During the final days of the Age of Myth, Knight Banneret [name pending. Place holder X] was a paragon of the knightly virtues that commanded a Lance* of some fifty knight bachelors in the defense of a small village in the erms of Azyr, far from the capital. Though not a noble per se, the local fief had long being abbandoned by it's nominal Lord, for reasons that would only late be know, and the Banneret took it upon himself to care for the fief and it's subjecs on the absence of their lord.
    On the dawn of the Age of Chaos, however, their lord would return not to lead the fief once again, but at the head of a beastmen army, a slave to darkness yet unkown, and plundered his own fiefdom until his former knights put an end to his warband and capture him. Uncertain on how to proceed, the Banneret took his former lord to the Eternal City, to face judgment by his peers, raher than his former serfs, least the regional defense be seen as an uprising.
    It was only at Azyrheim that [name pending] learned of the multiple raids all across the Mortal Realms, and of the Darkness to which his former lord served. Any question on the succession line of the fief was suspended over the more urgent matter of the defense of the Mortal Realms, to which the Banneret promptly offered his and his Lance services.
    During the many battles of Grand Alliance Order, X came to know the Blood Knights, and their martial prowess. Though a man dedicated to Sigmar, X was also a realistic man, and he saw were the war was going. Worse yet, he saw that he would not have the power to defend his homeland, already his Lance had being decimated** time and time again against the forces of the dark gods. The straw that broke the cammels back came with yet another raid at his village of birth. The Banneret was now the last of his name, and among the last of his neighbors, most of the survivors having found fate worst than death at the hand of the followers of Slaanesh.
    X detached his Lance from Sigmar's main force, and sought out the Blood Knights that he had met in the recent past and call for a pact of vassalage*** with an additional clause that he and his knights be made into Soulblights themselves, for the power to defend their people. The offer was, of course, not readly accepted, but the haughtyness with which these mortals crossed the soulblight camping site to offer such pact, together with the declaration that they had sought such soublight specifically for recognizing his martial prowess earned them a chance to fight for the vampire and prove their worthiness, to earn the Blood Kiss. Barely a handful survived the clearly suicidal orders they were given, and none had faltered against the enemy, but, perhaps more importantly, the stric training regime that [name pending] had kept before the dawn of the Age of Chaos, and the experience earned since them had ripped fruit, their martial prowess was, it self, recognized by the Soulblight, as limited by the mortal body that demonstrated it as it was. From then on, [name pending] and his Lance would fight for the Kastelai Dinasty.
    Or so it would have being. But Nagash, the Undieing King, berayed the Grand Alliance of Order. He broke his oaths to aid the mortal realms, and, by extension, he broke the suserain-vassalage pact with the banneret and his own vassals, as did any who followed the Great Necromancer. X would arrive late for the battle at Chamon that first saw Sigmar defeated, his hammer lost, though they still fought to it's bitter end, buying time for some of forces to retreat that wouldn't have had the chance otherwise. Yet, no good deed goes without punishment, and for their help, the servants of Nagash at hand ended up captured by the very forces that they came to aid. For what felt like years, these knightly soulblights were kept jailed, until, upon their release, they were informed of Sigmar's failed campaing against Shyish and of Azyr's lockdown. It was only when dealing with the paperwork-fallout of the war, that they came upon the issue of who would lead the longinque fief from which [name pending] came. None would volunteer to rule such far and irrelevant lands, and so a local leader was sought. The banneret's work ruling the fief in his lord's absense, as well as his defense against the traitor lord was noted, and his military record reevaluated, specially his vampirism, under the light of the alliance between Azyr and Shyish that existed back then, and the fact that he did came back to aid the forces of Sigmar when Nagash had ordered his forces to abandon the battle. He and his knight bachelors would be set free, and the banneret himself would be given the tittle of Baron, in accord to his duties governing the fief.
    Though free, the knights recognized that their choice to offer their lives to the now traitor Nagash would come back to haunt them in the future, that if not today, then tomorrow they would be hunted down for what they were, rather for what the did, and they agreed to hide their nature from the serfs of the fief. For generations they faked birth and death certificates, creating an elaborate family lineage and traditions to hide their immortality, and, yet, the Baron enforced the knightly virtues among his vessels, ensuring a rulership that would keep the serfs safe, as prosperous as the land would allow them and content enough over their rulership so as to not notice the eventual anemia or accidental death brought forth by the soulblights feeding****. Though the Soulblights were to keep their nature secret, they were never to abandon their training, for Chaos had won, and new battles were inevitably going to hit on their doors at some point.
    For centuries the small village lived in peace, even growing into a town, but when the Necroquake hit, the unresty spirits of those fallen during the Age of Chaos came back to haunt their former lands, filled with bitterness against those who had escaped their fate and warped resentment brought forth by the torment of their deaths. Though the knights would dispatch of such intruders with a fraction of the losses they had faced back in the Age of Chaos, word would travel of both the Shyish attack and the inhuman prowess with which the local knights had dealt with the problem and in a matter of weaks and Inquisitor had found her way to the village***** eager for signs of vampirism. Though the Baron had hoped to distract the young Inquisitor from the truth, even venturing with her in search of any remaining malignants - or nighthaunts, as she claimed they were being called - so she would angariate the renown to prove herself, to get her own missions outside the shadown of her father after this first chance, she would eventually stumble upon incongrueties over the family lineages of the local knights, and even of the Baron himself. She could not be let off, but neither was the Baron willing to murder the inquisitor with whom he had ventured in the last months, with whom he had reawakened his desire for adventure, for combat, for glory, for riding into combat in defense of the weak and snatching victory from the abhorant claws and fangs of the monstrocities that roam the realms. So, instead, he jailed her. To her point of view it was quite a different matter entirely to be captured by the man who had faked friendship and tricked her into lesser problems to hide the monster that he was and keep her from the one chance she had to prove herself a capable inquisitor, the once chance to wander the mortal realms on her own, insead of being kept under the (somewhat) overly protective wings of her father, and inquisitor himself. it would take time for both to come to terms and find a middle ground, though the Baron would manage to show his own side of the matter, that he should be judged by his actions, not for what he was. Though she would begrudgingly accept that his vampirism itself wasn't enough reason to destroy him and would come to accpt the need for his farse, she would point out how he had betrayed himself, for as though he proclaims to follow the chivalliric code, he had long forsaken them, hiding himself among humans and stealing their blood no different than a burglar steal coins, and that despite all his argument that it was normal for nobless to collect their due from the serfs they protect, except for the nighthaunt raisen by the necroquake, it had taken her medlling in his secret for him to actually sortie forward against the threats that surrounded his fief, for him to actually protect those people beyond walls that were rarely ever attacked in any other realm if not for siege forces. whatever kindle of wanderlust had being reawakened in him after their recent quests, was now blow ablaze by the accusations of his own hipocrise. the next day, he was sadling his nightmare and reading his Lance to sortie out of Azyr, back into the fray... the Inquisitor part of his entourage, hunting for any signs that would justify her assumption of his monstrous nature, that would justify sending him to the pyre.
    It was a couple years later, in one such campaings that the young inquisitor would have met her end, in a combat against a Nighthaunt Procession, her neck escaping from the axe of a Lord Executioner, just for her ribcage to get crushed under the very same blow. Despite their past quarrels, the Inquisitor had become a key member of the warband, both on the field and on the camp. Cornered by her dieing breath, the Baron passed foreward the curse, he gave the Blood Kiss, making another of his kind and stealing her death away.

    • @marcelosilveira2276
      @marcelosilveira2276 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm still buying the warband pieces, but it is composed of a Red Banqueter warscroll battalion, having the Baron atop his entourage of fallen men at arms (he rose the skeletons of his Lance's dead men after turning into a Soulblight) as a Bloodseeker Palanquin (going to buy Kritza, cut out his rat tails and put him atop the Palanquin, in place of the "vampire lady" that comes with it), the (ex-)Inquisitor as one of the vampire lords, the Baron's right hand man, the knight he promoted to banneret after he became a Baron, which i still need to come up with a story for, as the other vampire lord, and 2 or 3 units of Blood Knights as the remaing knight bachelors of his Lance. This would put the force above 1000 points, but way bellow 2000, and I'm considering what shouls I get to fill the remaining forces, though I'm considering skeleton warriors as screening for the heroes (though 3rd edition will make them irrelevant for the Palanquin, which is why I'm reconsidering getting them) or some fast moving summonable units to use those graveyards, that will be completely useless otherwise (I was quite disapointed when i found out the SOULBLIGHT gravelords army was not a SOULBLIGHT focused army, like the nighthaunt focus on maligns and the ossiarch bonereapers focus on skeletons, but a Legions of Nagash 2.0 for which I won't be using half of the rules. A summonable unit that I would like to summon from the graveyards, instead of using a screening might help me come to terms with the "waste of rules making it a LoN 2.0 rather than giving them interesting rules for an actually vampire focused army". Yeah, i'm still a bit bitter that they spent months talking about vampire army to deliver a faction that mostly focus on buffing and summoning zombies and skeletons, rather than making them the exception or marketing the army as a Legions of Nagash remake, rather than an entirely new vampire army) but I'm still pondering which would be a better inclusion fluf/points wise, but the core of the army will be the Red Banquet battallion.
      *Lance: Military unit composed of knights. Technically a squad sized unit, but I'm using it as a platoon sized unit in the description.
      **Decimated: from the latin for "ten", meaning to reduce the force by 10, that is, a 10% casuality ratio, 1 in 10 troops dead. since WW1 there have being some uses of it as "reduce to 10%", such as in 1 in 10 men survived (rather than died), but the texts all the way from the word's creation, in Rome, all the way to WW1 refer to a 10% loss rate, and I'm using that meaning.
      ***a suseran-vassalage pact is the contract form that sustain the idea of feudalism, by default, the Vassal/Vessel will swear to fight for the other part when called to arms or when duty demands (aka: a knight fighting for his liege) while a Suseran MUST protect his vassals when they are attacked themselves. As per the warband's story, when Nagash abandonned the Pantheon, he broke his pact with the banneret, meanning that, at he warlord's eyes, Nagash was the traitor, not himself for abandonning Nagash. I'm still unsure on how Nagash ensures the undead obey him, if just leaving without saying a word would be possible, with Nagash distracted with other matters, or if it would take a strong act of will to turn against Nagash while he is "alieve", and not a pile of bones slain by the Everchosen, anyway, I described the warlord as a paragon of virtue in a foreshadow that, when Nagash betrayed the Pantheon, this paragon of chivaliric virtues, among them loyalt, would break away from Nagash (trough sheer will if need be). A Suseran-Vassal pact allows for aditional clauses particular to that contract and whatnot, and these mortals "demanded" (not quite the right words, but I can't think of any better one to describe the situation) to be made into vampires themselves as part of the pact.
      ****do a soulblight need to kill it's pray to feed on it? or would it be possible for a group of soulblights to drink "just enough" so as not to create an unusual amount of deaths by blood loss such that would bring the village into attention from entities such as the Inquisition over these deaths?
      ***** I was going to write this story - Inquisitor searching for vampires in a village while the local vampire voluntered to help her with the hiden intention of taking her anywhere other than his secret, in the hopes she would eventually leave without becoming a problem for him, just for her to end up fiding his secret anyway, but only after the two of them had already fought together, saved each other, became friends and laughed through the hardships of many adventures together, making it quite awkward for any of them to kill the other one - and publish it on the AoS community on reddit, but I got lost building up the characters, the village, than Soulblight Gravelords got announced and I ended up never writting it down. perhaps one day, though now I kind of spoiled the ending. Anyway, the army actually started here, everything else was background for this story, but I ended up with a (half-made) warband.
      not Kastelai Dinsaty per se, but a splitting branch from it that use their rules

  • @benytreeide568
    @benytreeide568 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This would be the dynasty that I would pick, if I played this army.

  • @thecandlemaker1329
    @thecandlemaker1329 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now that Arkhan is dead forever and Nagash reduced to dust once again, who's stopping Vhordrai from tossing him into the realm of chaos?

  • @anotherperson2627
    @anotherperson2627 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you imagine if the Bad Moon showed up on a night with the Crimson Keep

  • @jadebrunner8699
    @jadebrunner8699 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m a little sad the vordie didn’t turn into a varghiest while in the coffin because a lack of blood mixed with realm stone corruption is how there made + it would have been really cool to have a named varghiest character

  • @etinarcadiaego7424
    @etinarcadiaego7424 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So this dude said what everyone ever except Arkhan says, "Nagash? Man, fuck that guy!"

  • @Mr_Anybody_Prime
    @Mr_Anybody_Prime 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Vhordrai reminds me of Starscream in a way.

  • @nofuxgivens2797
    @nofuxgivens2797 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Anyway you could point me.in the direction of vyrkos dynasty iconography ?

  • @bbsamik1999
    @bbsamik1999 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Im sad that aborash is not back with these guys he was so baddass

  • @solidsentinel1285
    @solidsentinel1285 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are these the guys who have the Blood Dragons knights?

  • @kiltedcripple
    @kiltedcripple 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm always intrigued when games create a sect of immortal or nigh immortal warriors who aren't statistically head, shoulders, knees and toes better than any mortal warrior of similar experience. Like, why? If the idea is that being immortal, they take more time to master a feat, because they have time, that's a fine reason why they should be statistically worse than a mortal character of the same level. If the idea is they're studying more martial arts in the same time, than they should get many additional proficienies, and likely, better actual weapons that hit for more damage. If they're the same capacity and drive for learning as we are, and the average warrior is twice as lived, they should have twice the stats: double the attacks, triple or even quadruple as many skills/feats/techniques, whatever the game system du jour is calling them, and if dude, as they're immortal or night immortal, 5 to 10 times as many hit points as a mortal character of the same level.
    Or, you change the level advancement rate, so a fine seasoned veteran of a mortal race might be 10th level, but this group's fine seasoned veterans are all 40th level or some such.
    Or you could stop painting yourself into a narrative corner with immortal characters who wild, by rights, spend their inhuman lifespans getting inhumanity good at all sorts of things. Like in double a human life span, it stands to reason a swordsman would be twice as good as a human, and so on and so on. Even adding other weapons into the mix, as you become better and better at timing, distance control, mixing feints and footwork, etc, each weapon you learn adfitionally makes you better yet at weapons you've already learned. Insight carries over into unrelated disciplines too.

  • @chalkdemon8019
    @chalkdemon8019 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really, to be honest, it’s pretty bad, the only reason they live, is because Nagash allows it. Nagash could just decide to teleport the crimson keep into the middle of Azure, or 8 points, sure Kastelai is great fighters, can they win if they’re surrounded by the strongest of their enemies? Nagash could be setting Prince Vordrai up for one last big distraction.

  • @lordkroak8457
    @lordkroak8457 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My favourite dynasty is the vyrkos but my favourite vampire is vhordrai

  • @jonathancampbell7798
    @jonathancampbell7798 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think you mixed up Arkhan and Archaon's names

  • @nicolocorbellani9807
    @nicolocorbellani9807 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The pronunciation is wrong,the name is derived from a croatian city with seven castles(kastel).it should be pronounced "kastel-eye" because the a is an open sound which doesn't exist in english

  • @dracomundo1498
    @dracomundo1498 ปีที่แล้ว

    They're fuckin Castlevania????? So sold

    • @2Tough
      @2Tough  ปีที่แล้ว

      Basically, lol

  • @WATOKALA
    @WATOKALA 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Question which court is more about throwing bodies and bodies at problems, the real skeleton horde users

  • @jadebrunner8699
    @jadebrunner8699 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is bloodkeep not the chroma on keep, my fantasy brain is rejecting the new soulblight. 😂

  • @miles2378
    @miles2378 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are vamps imune to caos?

  • @leviwatson8926
    @leviwatson8926 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    so these guys vs varenguard?

  • @Dante-ot8xg
    @Dante-ot8xg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    can only humans become vampires?

    • @Waywardpaladin
      @Waywardpaladin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, GW says the only known ones are human, but there is a rumor of an aelf one I think.

  • @niilofriden4465
    @niilofriden4465 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    .

  • @stewartthorpe2533
    @stewartthorpe2533 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    First 🙃

  • @hydra8845
    @hydra8845 ปีที่แล้ว

    All age of Sigmar lore is trash. The justification of they did it so you can make up your know lore is just lazy writing.