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ZitatAlles anzeigenI had the chance to spend
about 20 minutes with the upcoming book Age of Sigmar by A. Lanning (a
novel, not the game) that deals with the aftermath of the end times. The
prologue makes it very clear that Sigmar survives and the whole plot
takes place after the end times. Nothing that I have read suggests that
there is any time travel involved. It is just a continuation of the
story on a much broader scale. I think it is safe to say that the game
of the same name follows the story of book and doesn't establish a
totally different setting.
In the prologue Sigmar survives and pulls the winds of magics through
the gap into the warp. In the process the pure untouched currents of the
warp are tainted with the personifications of the winds - the
Incarnates. This is the birth of eight new minor gods. But most of the
book is not about sigmar or the incarnate gods directly, only three
chapters as far as I could see were written from their perspective. The
rest of the book is an ordinary fantasy adventure story. The book
follows Martellus Mann, a reikguard quartermaster who was slain in the
end times, but is reborn in Sigmarshall, the domain of Sigmar. I then
skipped some hundred pages forward so I don't know what happened in the
aftermath, but in the middle of the book, he has gathered a large party
of heroes from many realms and realities in a quest for something called
the spirit mill or soul mill or something like this. I know for sure
that there are several worlds and that the protagonist can travel from
one to the other but I didn't read a chapter where this was described in
person and I don't know if this is part of the game world. In the
middle of the books there is a huge betrayal, sigmarshall is under siege
by the armies of the chaos gods. incarnate fights against incarnate and
all are cast out from the warp. Mann starts a search for sigmar in the
believe that he was reborn somewhere. The second half of the book is set
on a world called Regalia. And here it gets interesting: Regalia is the
only area/realm/world that has a map in the book. Regalia looks like
the old world or earth and has very familiar regions and city names,
etc. But there are some huge alterations: there is no Ulthuan, but a
huge landbridge that connects Canada with Scandinavia. There are no
elven or dwarven sounding cities or lands but strange sounding names in
the Americas and Africa that don't fit any race of the old setting.
There is no empire, but lots of different states in Europe and Asia -
Nuln, Middenheim, etc are there, but Altdorf is not. There are more
things you can deduce from the map if you assume that it represents the
setting of the game, which I strongly think it does. Mann finally
arrives in the city Heldenheim that is build in the Worlds Edge
Mountains just in time to visit the crowning of emperor Karl Franz where
he announces his plan to conquer the whole world. Mann thinks that he
has found Sigmar and the book jumps to the epilog. Sigmar is chained
somewhere and starts to dwindle, but then he smiles and proclaims that
his great work to eliminate the chaos once and for all has only started.
He vows to conquer the warp.