An incredible skilled roleplayer with a notable history within the Warhammer universe, who has had an impact on the very setting itself, Lindsay Law! She’s written, edited, and played the Warhammer fantasy roleplay game with a finesse that Elves would envy!
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Podcast original stream date April 12th, 2023
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A Lorebeard?
This girl knows her stuff.
WAAATSUP!
Sotek, how do you find all these cool guests.
40k Beastmen are an abhuman strain that aren't necessarily evil. The Inquisition has an itchy trigger finger around them, but they don't NECESSARILY shoot them
Between Sotek interviewing warhammer people and Mira Manga doing a similar thing for 40k Im learning a bunch of cool insights that i never thought i would get
I always felt that orks weren't evil, Goblins on the other hand…
Ive very rarely seen a video wirh so much positive and wholesome energy and good vibes, love it!
Great discussion.
1:12:40 and why i dont like cult of sigmar
i will pack up my stuff and imedely go to the bretonia see you empire
1:14:00 or they corss the line and hurt empire by hunt innocent ?
1:29:00 that is amazing idea for campain
now hard part found a people wiling to play that
Really interesting stuff, especially the discussion about dwarfs.
One problem with the "nobody is absolutely evil" argument within the Warhammer world is that Chaos is real. There are plenty of things that are evil from the perspective of characters, if you're a human then Greenskins are evil, but if you're a troll they're not, but from a cosmological standpoint Chaos is evil. We know what happens when Chaos wins, the setting ends, and so even from a meta perspective anything that furthers the cause of Chaos is evil. That doesn't mean you can't have sympathetic Chaos characters, in fact they're often the best kind of Chaos characters, but the discourse from roleplaying settings like DnD about how "there shouldn't be any evil races" cannot just be copied and pasted into Warhammer, because the universe does have baked into it a tangible, demonstrable evil.
Sotek, your Lorebeards interviews have improved so much!!!
It's incredible how you bring fascinating people in each interview 👏 🙌
Interesting stuff with the elves and something to ruminate on. My personal interpretation is that none of the elves have the full picture of what the ancient elves did or how they worshipped.
Regarding Beastmen I prefer the idea that unlike mutants who have the ability to have all the emotions and ethics of humans there is something bound in a Beastmens dna that makes them how they are more then just cultural. I think it gives them a different type of tragedy then Norscans or mutants have where it is often their environment that pushes them to act like they do. With Beastmen I think the tragedy is that the Chaos Gods turned them into these creatures who wish only to hunt and destroy civilisation and perform dark acts in their name but have been discarded for more interesting toys and the Beastmen have no hope or choice into turning themselves into something different or more.
Regarding Tigermen will be interesting to see if they are offshoots of the Beastmen or are a Beastfolk race like Skaven or the Lizardmen and have a different origin.
What is the book that Loremaster of Sotek was talking about with the Beastmen?
I had exactly the same experience with struggling to figure out how to rp warhammer Elves, and asked The Rooks several times for guidance. And this is the best summary I've seen!
12:00 I was thinking about Dechala during this part to.
Linsay Lore. How would our relationships be when immortal? Haha. I ask the same thing. I would say, the emotion would be largely fabricated. So a veneer of pretense humanity for the sake of character, yet not being emotionally bound in true.
And that to project the essence of it, is alike to go toward it. So, if you are pondering on, a limited life, than purveys in circulate the acts within, and relations thereof, then the being in immortality, would be in act of playful relations, since the severity itself of being is tied to the mortality.
My two cents on this debate:
– I wholeheartly agree with the beastmen not being innatly evil or chaotic. This is my personsl stance since I first learned about them over a decade ago. I even wrote fanfic about an amber wizard trying to raise beastmen free of chaos' influence. Though a beastmen shaman attacks and kills him to prohibit his sucess.
– By the way I do not like how beastmen women are portrayed to be rare, shy and gentle. Given how brutal beastmen society is portrayed to be, no member could afford to be shy and gentle. Plus in the majority of mammal species females are the dominant sex, e.g. Matriachs leading the herd, and females choosing the mate. The stag doesn't get the female by his own, but needs to impress her enough that she allows him to mate with her, e.g. by showing his dominance against rivals. Indeed female animals are often more difficult to handle and often more dangerous than male ones, as many people working with cattle can attest.
It would have been much simpler for GW to say females live in their own herds and only come together for mating sessions (like allmost all horned mammals do). Or that they are from afar virtually indistuingishable from males. After all permanent breast and udders only exist on humans and hyperdomesticated animals like recent cow breeds. Udders are often difficult to see in most animals, if they are not having a youngling around. And noone will ask in the heat of combat whether the minotaur charging is female or not.
– as a biologist I heavily disdain the dwarfen sex ratio, due to it leading to natural extinction within a few generations as the chance of having no daughter born is so much higher than having one daughter, or gods beware more than one, which you would need to keeo your pop stable. Meaning it is the norm that the majority of families dont get a daughter and are extinct a generation after.
– Still I like the concept of clan/brother marriage as a social result of this condition. Though the ratio is still nonsense for which GW has my ire.
I love hearing about the concept of not specifically evil Norscans. I’ve always loved their aesthetic but am what you may call a chaos hater lol. I’ve loved imagining a tribe of them fending off more offensive norscan tribes