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by Capitaneus Fractus
Wed Nov 18, 2020 5:11 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191348

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

The two are basically different canonical versions of the Warhammer world, in the same way as the events of Empire in Flames don't line up canonically with anything published since. Did it? The first publication that seem to diverge from Empire in Flames is Games Workshop's Warhammer Armies: The Em...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Wed Nov 18, 2020 4:39 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
Replies: 43
Views: 40602

Re: What and where is Zaiyon?

There is also a history to the linking of mythological dwarfs and Jewish stereotypes beyond the question of Tolkein’s inspiration and intentions. The character of Alberich in Wagner’s Ring Cycle is generally agreed to be an anti-Semitic stereotype (as well as one of the more famous dwarfs in litera...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Wed Nov 18, 2020 2:08 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
Replies: 43
Views: 40602

Re: What and where is Zaiyon?

That is not directly related, but when Rick Priestley redesigned Chaos Dwarves for WFB4, he took another Semitic strong source of inspiration: Assyrians.
by Capitaneus Fractus
Tue Nov 17, 2020 10:56 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
Replies: 43
Views: 40602

Re: What and where is Zaiyon?

I feel that is because the first edition Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay created -from a still very rough Battle universe- an universe to role play. Such kind of universe need to be quite socially developed. Dwarves who were conceived were mainly exiled dwarves within the Empire: workers, craftsmen, erud...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Tue Nov 17, 2020 2:35 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
Replies: 43
Views: 40602

Re: What and where is Zaiyon?

Middle Earth Dwarves also dragged their cultural influence on Norse mythological dwarfs (for cultural aspects) and on Jewish mediaeval communities it seems (for cultural aspects and geographical aspects) and on Greek mythological pygmies (for their characteristic size). Warhammer Fantasy inspiration...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Mon Nov 16, 2020 5:26 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191348

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

I thought it did. It wasn't translated in France (or, more exactly, the French translation which was done never get GW's imprimatur [nor even GW's refusal]). Thank you for your correction. I thought that this outset of a Chaos invasion was the outset of the Storm of Chaos... Isn't Storm of Chaos a C...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Mon Nov 16, 2020 12:47 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
Replies: 43
Views: 40602

Re: What and where is Zaiyon?

I don't know, but that is a reference to Zion ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion ) from the time Dwarves in exile in Man's Empire, were seen as Warhammer Fantasy's jewish communities. It seems that it was borrowed from Tolkien's Dwarves, rather than being a Warhammer Fantasy 's innovation on Dwar...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sun Nov 15, 2020 3:21 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119550

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

Which is pretty much the same thing that the pharaoh Akhenaton said about Aton. On that subject this short documentary (27 min) might interest some of us: Quand l'histoire fait dates : - 1350 la révolution religieuse d'Akhenaton Zahlen schreiben Geschichte: 1350 v. Chr., Mythos Echnaton Fechas que ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sun Nov 15, 2020 3:19 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: What and where is Zaiyon?
Replies: 43
Views: 40602

Re: What and where is Zaiyon?

I don't know, but that is a reference to Zion ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zion ) from the time Dwarves in exile in Man's Empire, were seen as Warhammer Fantasy's jewish communities.
by Capitaneus Fractus
Fri Nov 13, 2020 6:17 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)
Replies: 202
Views: 191348

Re: Enemy Within Updates (plus other stuff)

On Boris Todbringer, I would had preferred to get the following path in order to get settings agree: Emperor Heinrich Karl Valten Boris Franz Todbringer of the blood of Sigmar, by the grace of Gods, graf of Middenheim and count consort of Nuln, "call me Heinrich", could fit being the trina...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:22 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Enemy in Shadows - Missing text?
Replies: 19
Views: 18781

Re: Enemy in Shadows - Missing text?

Might be the EU privacy legislation. It that case it is really strange that all other companies makes it work ... I think it is more of another C7 ... strangeness. too me it looks like they have taken this chaos think a couple of steps too far.. Not only all other companies, even private users are ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Tue Oct 27, 2020 12:53 pm
Forum: 1st Edition
Topic: Who has run both enemy within and doomstones
Replies: 8
Views: 15960

Re: Who has run both enemy within and doomstones

Doomstones should only be played after TEW though IMHO, gives starting characters a chance to gain experience through TEW before going on the romp in Doomstones. An option could be to integrate Doomstones campaign into Sigmar's hammer quest (in Empire in Flames). That is to say to send adventurers ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Tue Oct 27, 2020 6:08 am
Forum: 4th Edition
Topic: Eye for an Eye 4E conversion
Replies: 43
Views: 39363

Re: Eye for an Eye 4E conversion

They have published a part of the Edge of Night (as "Lords of Ubersreik" in Rough Nights and Hard Days ). It is said they might, perhaps, also publish parts of The Enemy Within in The Horned Rat , Empire in Ruins or in their companions... Beyond that, I don't know. They seem to use WFRP3's...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Mon Oct 26, 2020 5:13 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119550

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

1. Akhenaton did forbid all other cults and established a true monotheist cult, with one unique god. Clearly, we were no longer in a frame of a polytheist regime. All other gods were declared false and their cult was forbidden. In the case of the Sigmarite-Ulrician war, only those two gods and their...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sat Oct 24, 2020 5:12 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119550

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

There isn't any disagreement between us on that part. As far as I understood your messages, the disagreement is rather on the fact that a polytheist society wouldn't realistically forbid the worship of a god of its pantheon, something that you deny while I do not. Am I correct? specifically, i'm sa...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Sat Oct 24, 2020 2:35 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119550

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

In a polytheist society, things are simpler. Gods are natural phenomenons that we know and Khaíne wouldn't be considered, alone, as being "a positive part of the political system" more than the rain, the sun, stars, wind, birds, ageing, insects, illness, the moon, birth, air, sea, death, ...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Thu Oct 22, 2020 4:13 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119550

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

i want to just lean over and point out that the sigmarite/ulrikan schism is entirely because the sigmarite church insists that sigmar is The god now and the other gods of the empire are subservient to him (with one source implying some splinter groups think that the other gods no longer exist havin...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Wed Oct 21, 2020 3:26 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119550

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

i'm not asserting a behavior in polytheism, i'm asserting a behavior in political matters, especially in empires where corruption, insular power-mongering, and outright abuse of the system are rewarded behaviors. beliefs that are not a positive part of the political system (through direct political...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Wed Oct 21, 2020 2:06 pm
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119550

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

Alleging that "[p]olitics and religion not mixing well [would be] a fairly standard foundation of human behaviour" show that you adopt a pure Abrahamic monotheistic frame of reference on politics, religion or "human behaviour", which is simply absurd to considerate polytheist pol...
by Capitaneus Fractus
Tue Oct 20, 2020 8:49 am
Forum: Sigmar’s Tavern
Topic: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?
Replies: 128
Views: 119550

Re: Is Imperial polytheism realistic?

i understand you feel you should explore how khainite worship could work, but i want to make it clear that the lore outright states that the cult of khaine is outlawed, full-stop, throughout the old world. the cult itself is simply linked inexorably to ritual murder and anti-social sentiments and r...