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First lore preview of the Khazalite tome.

I have a lore question. As far as I understand, the Warhammer Old World is to AoS what the Horus Heresy is to 40K. It is a complete setting unto itself, but the End Times made it a different part of history that changed the setting into AoS.

Growing up in the mid-2000s, I adored the Vampire Counts, especially the Order of the Blood Dragons. I've been researching into AoS lore and how it connects to the Old World, and there's a gap in my knowledge of how the Vampire Counts became the Soulblight Gravelords.

What I know so far is that, somehow, Nagash returned to the mortal realms, and fought against a massive influx of chaos and the other mortal races as part of the services of Death. By this point, the order of the Blood Dragons had since been destroyed as a formal order during the Siege of the Blood Keep years before, but there was still an Order of Blood Knights loyal to Vlad Von Carstein.

During a siege on Chaos, Walach Harkon gave in and fell to Khorn, resulting in him being slain by Vlad Von Carstein for his betrayal. Now, during AoS, all Vampires are in service to Nagash to a larger or lesser extent, but Blood Knights do tend to keep him at arms length.

What I don't know is to what extent the Vampire Counts of old have gone, and how the Soulblight Gravelords have changed post-end times to what they are in current lore. Any help filling these gaps would be appreciated!

Hello

I'm currently reading Gloomspite by Andy Clark (my first AoS novel). In chapter 3 we're introduced to a character named Olt Shev. From what I just read, compared to the other characters, he's a savage fellow, superstitious, not used to big settlements and new technologies. He's clearly a man who's not from the cities of Sigmar.

That is what i find odd. From what I've learned of the setting, during the Age of Chaos Sigmar closed Azyr leaving a lot of people to fend for themselfs and later these people became the Slaves to Darkness.

Is this not the case for everyone who didn't make it to Azyr in time? Are there non Chaos worshippers who manage to survive the Age of Chaos without Sigmar's proctection? How? What do they believe in?

Thank you.

I've been searching for old flavor text from Age of Sigmar to get a sense of how things have changed. Booklets, Battletomes, and so on. There's shockingly little I can find online of what was actually put to paper! I'm looking for:

The 'Storm of Sigmar' Booklet (32 pages)

The Getting Started with Age of Sigmar book (96 pages)

Or other old documents that actually talk about more than just the rules. The rules, by the way, were only 4 PAGES! In it, they mention 7 realms (not 8?!) but don't go into detail about which and what they are.

It would be neat to compile 'A History of AOS' but this is all just for fun and possibly history preservation.

Is there any example of aelven characters, sigmarite or else, who serve in the military structure of the Freeguilds ? As steelhelms, marshalls, or else ?

I'm not talking about the swifthawk agents, but more human-assigned roles.

Are there any short stories, lore snippets or expanded info on these two other than what is on their warscroll lore texts?

I feel the "not main character" Vykros characters dont have enough information around them