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Well book is up for pre order now. Get it whilst you can.
Limited edition is £150 this time round. 3 books in it. Normal Hardback is £50.
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Got my order in. I'm very curious about the end :)
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Limited edition gone.
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Jolemai wrote:Limited edition gone.


Yep and finishes my collection :)
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Is it established nr.5 is the last?

Got the HC version, never realized ltd got an extra book.

Kudos for getting all ET books in Ltd Amboadine :D
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It is assumed to be the last, but it doesn't seem to be stated anywhere.
The thought has been 9th will pick up the storyline and advance.
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My local Games workshop manager was thinking they would do another few books for the good guys.
Because it always starts with the bad guys and then the good guys trike back.

I hope he's right.
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Well this just made Chaos even stronger.
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And people complained about the HOTEK :P
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Well and there goes Chaos' one weak point (shooting) right out the window

Now things are just getting rediculous. At some point there has to be a "Good Guy" Legion right?
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With horns and double hooves found in verminlords, Skaven and Beastmen could well be merged.
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Searinox Nagharha wrote: At some point there has to be a "Good Guy" Legion right?


Who you gonna call?

...The Bubble Marines? :P
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Bring on the Fire...
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How soon until we know the fate of our race?
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Jolemai wrote:How soon until we know the fate of our race?


I guess as soon as people get their hands on the book. I will pick mine up Saturday, but I expect the information will start to appear around Thursday.
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So major spoiler ahead if you wish to know the end of 8th.

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“And so did the world fell to oblivion.

The hungry rift in the middle of the lands of men devoured reality. It expanded slowly at first, but then it did with the hunger of a savage fire.

Invigorated, the gates at the poles broke free from their chains and joined the feast of their sister.

The peoples of the world beheld their doom and cried in desperation.

There were not two observers who saw the same. Some saw fire burning in the skies, others saw a whirlwind of icy stars, some others saw colossal tentacles and maws full of teeth drooling the very essence of chaos. Perhaps the Chaos Gods ascended their champions to daemonhood for the battles that took place amongst the flames, but it mattered little. The truth of those desperate wars was lost.

The Oak of Ages was the last to disappear. The sad driads’ song resounded beneath the pale skies while Athel Loren perished. With his passing, the Tapestry that held time and space together shrink and unraveled. Twisted by unnatural forces, it dissolved into nothingness. That terrible act of destruction could last the blink of an eye, or millennia. The Chaos Gods were not tied to time, and thus they did not notice it. Bored of their victory, they turned their backs to the destruction they had wrought, and so did the Great Game start anew in other worlds. In doing this, they did not notice the tiny dot of light that stumbled in the infinite darkness… the blazing essence of what was once a man.

He fell through the storms of absolute blackness, swinging for eons in the invisible tides. Then a shining orb appeared, the ferocious heart of a world as cold as the very abyss. Desperate, the being clung to the orb with a strength that could shake mountains. He stared firmly at the void and, from the darkness, the void stared back at him. It held tight to the sphere, regaining his lost strength. He reached with his hands, and a miracle took shape.

What would happen tomorrow? What about the untold legends and the cycle of the stars?

It truly was the End Times.

But also the beginning…”
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I'm surprised you are not waiting till you got your copy of the book.

But thanks for the update.

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@T.D - My "friend" already told me, so I just bit the bullet and read it for myself.

So a few more on the fate of our glorious King.

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Ungrim and the dwarfs defend Avenheim thanks to Gelt’s Crucible but, in the end, they sacrifice themselves while imperials and bretonnians flee. Ungrim’s slayers fight against Zhufbar’s hosts.

Nagash offers Mannfred to the elves as a sing of good will, snaring him in a prison made of death magic.

Be’lakor frees Mannfred and tells him the truth about Lileath. He is later found by Jerrod (Be’lakor’s plan all the time) and tells him the truth about Lileath. Jerrod lets Mannfred live, who then flees and calls her. She admits the truth, saying that she is the Lady of the Lake, and also that she pushed Bretonnia out of the Stone Age and saved them from the greenskins and themselves. She says that she won’t ask for forgiveness, because the sacrifice of Bretonnia was needed to create the Haven. Then Be’lakor appears when Jerrod is about to kill her. They both fight and the demon defeats Jerrod (but does not kill him), and turns to kill Lileath, but Malekith and Tyrion pop out and trap Be’lakor.

Jerrod returns to his people and tells them about the Lady. They decide not to fight alongside the treacherous elves, returning to Bretonnia. No more is known of them.

After the fall of Averheim, the Incarnates face the daemonic host. The battle is hopeless, so Lileath sacrifices willingly to Teclis in order to give him the needed power to move them to Middenheim. A titanic battle takes place there, and the incarnates travel to the caverns located beneath the city, where Archaon, the Swords of Chaos, and the 4 greater daemons with their respective hosts are waiting. Grimgor fights Arachaon and almost defeats him, but Archaon manages to kill the orc. Then Archaon faces Sigmar, the Emperor, who after a long battle defeats him, throwing him inside a rift created by the Old Ones’ artifact that the chaos guys activated to destroy the world. The surviving Incarnates, aided by Teclis (who now holds the winds of Fire and Beasts), try to close the rift. They could have succeeded, but Mannfred betrays his master (Nagash) killing Gelt. Teclis tries to absorb the wind of Metal, but fails and dies, so the rift feeds on them and sucks out all the Incarnate’s powers. Archaon appears again, climbing out of the rift, and faces SIgmar one more time. They both are last seen fighting against each other, with Ghal-Maraz being held by Archaon as Sigmar tried to smash him. Meanwhile, Malekith saves Alarielle from being crushed by debris, and then she and Tyrion turn their backs and walk away while the Eternity King dies in pain, with his legs crushed. They both look back at the growing rift while the darkness swallows them.
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seen this yet? spoiler alert? i can't do that special spoiler thing

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[+] SPOILER
THAT B*TCH!
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toots wrote:seen this yet? spoiler alert? i can't do that special spoiler thing


Just press the spoiler button and type between the square brackets, or highlight your whole post the press the spoiler button. Either will work.
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Shall we open up for abuse now?

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They are obviously allowing us to replicate the End Times on our tabletop...

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...in these closing months of the Warhammer World MKI !lol!
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I rly dont know what to think of all of this anymore. I just hope they make the new fluff work, cause as it is now I find it a rather weak ending simply stating "everybody dies! Except one man with an orb."
Tho i havent read the books yet so... maybe im missing something :P
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