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Honestly, the thing I enjoy most is the Ice Court. Katarina and the rest of their Ice-magic ladies are the coolest (hehe) part of the whole faction. Yeah it's neat to have people riding bears. Kossars and the like having both guns and spears and the efficiently brutal simplicity of the kingdom/faction is nice. Regional boyars in charge of villages and mostly just pay the tax for whatever structuring the kingdom needs or have people head off to war when mass defense is needed is a decent fantasy setting vibe.

But the Ice Court tho. It's similar to magically capable Bretonnian women going off to the Fay Enchantress (we'll get there eventually), or mandatory magical schooling. But as the last post mentioned, to the Empire (largely the POV faction for so much written works with the in-universe writing style GW maintains) it's a religious appointment to join the Ice Court. The frost maidens have a kind of magic drawn from the frigid north and the elemental spirits there. Arguably, it means their magic wouldn't work (or at least work as well) farther south in the warmer climates.

I'd love to see similar splinter factions or expansion on Cathay/Ind/Araby that use magic drawn from other nascient or elemental spirits on the world. It's part of what I enjoy so much about Wood Elves as well. A people whose closeness to their lands or environment drawing power from and giving power back to the place they dwell.

The fantasy Russia aesthetic is quite nice. Tzar-Era Russian (Slavic as a whole really) architecture and clothing looks cool and works great for a people in a frigid tundra landscape.

Other prominent Kislevites like Boris Ursus, Kostaltyn, Mother Ostyanka and Ulrika are also fascinating looks at the culture (As GW is actively re-writing them for the 'new' The Old World) since they cover the traditional masculine leader, the religious zealotry of the (also new) Orthodoxy, the Hag or Hedge witch perspective of the farther out areas, and finally Kislev's different perspective from the Empire on the nature of magics impacting more than just the Frost Maidens.

In all honesty, I might buy Tzarina Katarina and Ukrika miniatures if GW put some out for the eventual Kislev release (assuming they look good/nice) if only to paint and have them (since I doubt I'll wanna play Kislev as a tabletop army.).

So from the thematically relevant elements (hehe) in Kislev I definitely get historical Russian/Slavic vibes. But also elements of like Elsa or Iceman from Disney and Marvel respectively. (The most difficult thing for me as a very tabletop Role-playing oriented individual is that so few games allow for ice powers the way I want. Even the Warhammer rpg lacks anything for this D: )

I feel like I could ramble on more about Kislev but I'm going to call it here and put out my usual ask of message me, send an ask or reblog if I got anything wrong or if you just wanna chat about Warhammer.

Reblog so Bronson can go to Clifornia

Then I scrolled past a post on tumblr specifically about "can you have potatoes in a fantasy setting for no reason" that had pics of Peruvian potato farmers and asked "are you really too much of a coward to not write these people into your stories?" (the tone was probably not that accusative, I paraphrase from my own perspective of this), and something clicked in my head, and this epiphany manifested in my head as Gordon Ramsay yelling

If the culture that developed potatos, is trading with others, the spread of potatos is very likely.

living weapon adopted by a community that's come together and learned to survive and garden and create, and doesn't know how to repay them, so they just try to stand guard day and night

I actually feel really bad for Francis Customer Service. I can't be swimming alone, right?

He seemed like, in his own way, he was actually trying to get rid of them. To save them. Making a reason why they'd have to leave, preparing their meal for transport so they wouldn't be delayed...It's completely at odds with what he says later when he starts to become more manic and ends up transforming.

Even in his Bane possessed state, he seemed like his instinct towards Boy was "there's a child, I want to make him happy, I'll give him both toys", assuming the toys are just normal plastic and not also demon-possessed or something.

It seems like, going off of what he'd said, those actions and words might've been the real Francis coming through, with his mind being a mingling of that creature and his true self, leaving less and less of him over time, taking away his thoughts, personality, desires...It's completely horrific.

And O'Tolley's being what it is a twisted reflection of....He was probably just an average, poor bastard of a wage slave working as a fast food place manager to make ends meet. He probably had greater dreams than working at McDonald's O'Tolley's and they were taken away from him by the capitalist hellscape he was living in, and then completely erased by the possession.

The Sabbat Pack: Pyotr and Apeboy drank the Vampire Fascist Kool-Aid sure, but Shitbeard and Kevin both regretted their fate.

Guy: Got hoked on vampire blood by a few drops in his coffee and turned into an addict.

Wernon Fatigue: Unknowingly worked for the Wyrm even though he wanted to help people.

by Andres Rios