r/Gloryhammer

If earth was Vaporized by old hooty, where was aberdeen even located for angus V to go there? And where did zargothrax put it during the newest song?

Pretty pls i think i might be the only person that actually uses this feature

So, I understand that Angus McFife V travels through dimational gateway to 1993, but where did Zargy come from? He was supposed to jump through the time space rupture, so which Zargy is this? where did he come from, in all three universes Zargothraax dies, so I don't understand how Zargy can become a protecter of the land in 1993

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Weirdly On a Quest for Aberdeen (AV) appeared and now saved to my favorites even though other songs are inactive. But Spotify outputs an error when i try to play it. Restart didn't help. There for I wonder will we get anything else before October

With Die with a Sword in my hand releasing and having Zargothrax helping Angus V this made me wonder, why was he doing this and why would they work with him? Is he just helping out of spite that Hootsman was possessed or what? Well I have a theory.

Angus II uses the amulet of justice on Zargothrax. In Die with a sword in my hand (yes I know videos are not fully canon) he struggles to cast magic it is shown and I believe this is because his pact with Kor-Virliath was broken.

I believe we will have this mentioned more in the songs Pax Galactic and Demonic Devotion. It is described on the album's store page that "majestic melodies echo through the derelict halls of an abandoned spaceship, as Angus is guided to an unexpected long-lost ally" Now the important part is unexpected. While it could just mean someone who was an ally already and just wasn't expected it could also mean someone you wouldn't expect to be an ally. And with the mention of "long-lost" it doesn't need to mean lost as in location, it could be referring to how Zargothrax was corrupted for centuries, or in other words lost.

The way I think Demonic Devotion plays into it is the description reads: "the song’s protagonist, long trapped in his own mind, trying to reconcile with the destruction in his wake" Now the thing I noted was it just says the song's protagonist and trying to reconcile. Hootsman could be a candidate here but he is still corrupted and I think that he would be unable to try and reconcile with what is happening. But if Zargothrax was uncorrupted he would probably feel guilty after everything that has happened.

Anyways I am done rambling

Gotta say, I love the back-to-back animations, but I'd also love to see a new live action music vid for the next single, hopefully

Any thoughts?

Alright, buckle up, I'm about to perform some mental gymnastics and might just win the gold medal.

So from what we've seen of the album so far, we know Angus and Zargothrax team up to defeat evil Hootsman (Hoots-Virliath, if you will)

Using the information we've been given from Ultimate Sacrifice, On A Quest for Aberdeen (confirmed to be on the album but may differ from last year's single), and Die With A Sword In My Hand, we know that Earth still imploded thanks to Hoots' aforementioned sacrifice.

This means that Terrorvortex could still plausibly happen, but how? Let's get back to that in a sec.

We clearly see Zargothrax in 1993 rather than in the "terrible past" on the other side of the wormhole. We're still also unsure whether this is an alternate timeline or a direct continuation of Space 1992. It's a sequel, of course, but it could be a sequel in the same way Album 4 is a sequel to Album 1, or Angus V arrives right during/after the events of Apocalypse 1992.

Now, here's the theory. Assuming Angus XIII doesn't die before entering the Terrorvortex in this timeline, there's still the issue of Zargothrax being in 1993. It's still very much possible that this is indeed a split timeline, but not in the way you might think.

There's a potential bridge between 1993 and the Terrorvortex timeline we may not have considered. The Hootsman. Okay, okay, hear me out:

So we know that the 1993 Hootsman is possessed by Kor-Virliath, whilst Terrorvortex Hoots is THE "ONE AND ONLY TRUE GOD" of that universe, according to his own words.

What if I told you they could be the very same Hootsman? No, I'm not saying that Terrorvortex Hoots-God is evil and actually Kor-Virliath, though I wouldn't rule out that possibility either.

Instead, picture this: in the final battle of 1993, Angus V and Zargothrax manage to exorcise Hootsman of Kor-Virliath, albeit at great cost, being;

1. Zargothrax is the one to take in the evil of Kor-Virliath, somehow being corrupted or possessed, undoing everything he's been through in the album and resetting the status quo (sounds lame, I know, but I think it'd be funny, and here comes the good part)

2. Hootsman makes an Ultimate Sacrifice again, to redeem himself. The Terrorvortex may grow unstable without Kor-Virliath's influence and may threaten to consume the universe as some sort of supermassive black hole, and Hootsman plunges into the Terrorvortex to seal it for good, inadvertently taking Kor-Virliath's place and becoming the Hootsman we see in The Fires of Ancient Cosmic Destiny.

Is it crazy? Yeah, Does it sound fun? Also yeah. Should you take this seriously? No, I hope not.