For those with knowledge of the Lore

[Sc0p10n]

Is the story of the games going somewhere ?
Like they are doing their own thing or is it going to happen like the original lore ? with the end times

[JoeVonFo]

AFAIK they're straying away from end times and moving into original territory.
From what I understand the campaign will revolve around a daemonprince known as the godkiller, successfully trapping the Kislev Bear god Ursun. Won't know for sure til we get the game though :)

But CA have in general applied somewhat of a "greatest hits" approach to the games..
Repanse for instance lived and died a long time before several other legendary lords in the game

[Shoat]

What I heard about the endtimes (and even worse what comes after) I hope they don't go anywhere near that and just stay with the vague timeless warhammer fantasy world they have going now.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by JoeVonFo:

But CA have in general applied somewhat of a "greatest hits" approach to the games..
Repanse for instance lived and died a long time before several other legendary lords in the game

Games workshop tries to avoid killing off characters (well, before the new end times at least). They tend to just go missing or fade away from history, etc.

For example, Repanse was never confirmed dead as far as i know and considering that she seems to be blessed by the lady she could very well still be alive at the time of Karl's coronation.

[Shoat]

Originally posted by Garatgh Deloi:

For example, Repanse was never confirmed dead as far as i know and considering that she seems to be blessed by the lady she could very well still be alive at the time of Karl's coronation.

Or we could just accept that she's in the game for no reason other than fun and that the total warhammer series is a timeless smash-bros-like get-together of the warhammer fantasy world where people just show up and fight and there's no strict time-line and no heavy chains of old lore that it has to adhere to, that's way healthier than a weird "oh yeah this character could totally be alive in this time period and there's a tooootally legit explanation for why this character starts their campaign here or fights these guys or whatever" type of far-fetched explanation.


Sometimes things in a game are the way they are because it's a game. Not every game mechanic, decision or event has to be explained in-universe, at least not when that in-universe explanation is very far-fetched and dumb (see elite dangerous' pilot's federation, where they had to explain that every ship has the same UI by making up an all-powerful but neutral organisation that SOMEHOW forced every ship manufacturer to adhere to the exact same UI design for hundreds of years straight and no ship is even slightly different from that no matter what).

[mojito pogito]

Thank Allah that they avoid the end times and most of the storm of chaos both of those killed WHFB and likewise pissing into the wind with lore that just slaps everyone in the face would kill TWWH too

[Velber]

CA already said no end times, at least in terms of story
this is more of its own thing, like i guess you could say a parallel series of events

[SBA77]

No the story isn't going anywhere, at least nothing related to Warhammer Fantasy lore. If it does go anywhere it's probably just going to link the stories of the other two games together Bioshock style, as all three are supposedly happening at the same time. There probably isn't going to be an End Times because the fanbases hated it so much and still hold a grudge against it. If they did do The End Times it would probably drive a sizable chunk of the fanbase away, for the simple reason that they still hold a grudge.

[Kalder (Totally a Hobb)]

I assume it is their own thing, looking into the grand scheme of things every campaign objective seems to fit, WH1 tries to survive chaos, WH2 tries to keep the vortex stable so demons don't pop out of everywhere, WH3 has that demon rpince storyline that I haven't seen much as to not spoil, I think your best bet is see how it toes up with the current Table Top lore, maybe they will remake the End Times into Good Times, but turning the world into might take more than what they already have in the narrative of the trilogy, then again, we still haven't seen everything on WHTW3.

[Jack Deth]

It's fanfic/alternate reality/non canon.

So it can go anywhere.

Props to Shoat for comparing it to Smash Bros.

This is pretty much a Smash Bros game story wise. It's just an excuse to virtually push around little toy soldiers on a table. So basically non campaign pitched battles you'd find in TT.

As for the End Times the only thing they've said is they have no plans following that plot line. They've already implemented multiple aspects of the End Times (even story beats and language).

They also said they'd pull inspiration from everywhere.

Though I heavily doubt they would pull a Book Khaine (3rd book in the series release), which I loved mostly because of the amount of rage it filled the pointy eared community with.

Which to be truthful, the End Times was actually positively received by the community at large with Nagash and Glottkin, it was Khaine where it dropped into a sewer (magic rules broke the game harder than normal and the aforementioned lore beats ripping through the pointy ears club). Not to mention the novels...which were downright horrid, I mean they "shipped" Arkhan and Neferata.

[Abacus]

There is a TON of wonderful lore just on the map and knowing what it all means and it's history (for the RPG at least.)

However the story is self contained and if there is an "endtimes" aspect, it's going far from what was ever even mentioned. (there was plenty on Kislev actually in the RPG. Ie. Realm of the Ice queen)

[jonoliveira12]

It is canon, and not an "alternate reality".
It is all just pre-Endtimes.
TWW3 is actually a prequel to TWW1.

It makes no sense to go for the Endtimes, and that is always how it will always end anyway.

All the games are set before the Endtimes actually happen, and the closest game to the Endtimes is game 1.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by jonoliveira12:

It is canon, and not an "alternate reality".
It is all just pre-Endtimes.
TWW3 is actually a prequel to TWW1.

It makes no sense to go for the Endtimes, and that is always how it will always end anyway.

All the games are set before the Endtimes actually happen, and the closest game to the Endtimes is game 1.

They have confirmed that all 3 games takes place at the same time, during the reign of Karl Franz.

Since game 1 starts with Karl's coronation game 3 can't be a prequel (since if it took place before his coronation it would not be during the reign of Karl Franz).

[Abacus]

Originally posted by Garatgh Deloi:

Originally posted by jonoliveira12:

It is canon, and not an "alternate reality".
It is all just pre-Endtimes.
TWW3 is actually a prequel to TWW1.

It makes no sense to go for the Endtimes, and that is always how it will always end anyway.

All the games are set before the Endtimes actually happen, and the closest game to the Endtimes is game 1.

All 3 games takes place at the same time, starting at Karl Franz's coronation. So it can't be a prequel.

it also makes sense, as the makes are all separated during their campaign.

But that is why there has to be a "final" expansion to connect the stories. Since all three hint at a next act to the story.

[Poozer456]

all i want is some end time units and some aos units for chaos. thats all i want more units to play with.
endtimes was below average they rushed it. it couldve been a way cool thing but its GW what do you guys expect. they suck.
aos isnt bad it could be way better there are some very good stories there too. but again GW
sigh.
whatever i just want some more units to play with so i hope they add some units/heroes/lords/lore of magic from endtimes and aos.

[Poozer456]

Originally posted by Poozer456:

all i want is some end time units and some aos units for chaos. thats all i want more units to play with.
endtimes was below average they rushed it. it couldve been a way cool thing but its GW what do you guys expect. they suck.
aos isnt bad it could be way better there are some very good stories there too. but again GW
sigh.
whatever i just want some more units to play with so i hope they add some units/heroes/lords/lore of magic from endtimes and aos.

yes i quoted myself just to add

GW sucks