Alith Anar

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"Fear the shadow, fear my name, ALITH. ANAR."

– Dylan Sprouse Alith Anar

No running in my Nargarythe.

Alith Anar is a High Elf lord and the last of the Nargarythe noble bloodline in Warhammer Fantasy Battle. Also known as The Shadow King, he is the representative for the High Elf kingdom of Shadowlands, formerly known as Nargarythe, a Kingdom known for being: the former home to Malekith, the place housing Aenarion's bloody pimp mansion and Khaine's sword shrine, being the birth place of the Dark Elves and the only wasteland on Ulthuan. (AKA. a really nice place to spend your vacation.) As the last and only ruler of Shadowlands, Alith Anar is restless, ever seeking vengeance against Malekith and his Dark Elves for what they did to his homeland, to the point he had his agents and what remains of his people torture and murder any Dark Elves they could find. He excels in guerrilla warfare to the point that even Eshin Skavens have hard time fighting him as well as having shooting skills that would make Way Watchers drool over. Said shooting skill is boosted by a godly bow offered by the godness Lileath, which it is powerful enough to be considered a bolt thrower.

Past

An only child of the Anar family, Alith and his family were once the greatest supporters of Malekith, to the point of being willing to fight Morathi to help him retake Anlec. During this time Alith was betrothed to the daughter of another noble family, until they threw her lot in with Morathi (and Alith later figured out that she never loved him). Alith first showed his cleverness and skill when he infiltrated the servants of the Phoenix King's court the guise of a yuppie from Chrace to gain an audience and plead his case to the Anars (though getting this close involved help from the head chef's daughter, who he had a thing with). After Bel-Shannar's death and the massacre at Asuryan's shrine, Alith headed back home to consolidate with his family, but none of them knew Malekith was the instigator of both and conspiring with Morathi. Things got worse as every pro-Phoenix King Elven citizen on Nargarythe became the first to suffer Malekith's violent cry fest.

At the Battle of Dark Fen, many Nargarythe people loyal to the Phoenix King stood against a host of Dark Elves. Although they were outnumbered, Eothlir, Alith Anar's father was a tactical genius, such that he outmaneuvered and killed as many Dark Elves as he could with his little forces. Yet they were merely stalling for time against their inevitable defeat, where Eothlir was torn to shreds by a Dark Dragon and the loyal Elves were slaughtered with few survivors (Alith's grandfather Eoloran was captured and imprisoned in Anlec, with the threat that Morathi would let daemons feast on the souls of the other survivors if he left). After Alith Anar led what remained of the survivors back to their homes, they found their homes in ruins with many innocents dead; a sight that upset them so to the point they started to rip and tear any Dark Elves they could find. Alith Anar led his Shadow Warriors in many ambushes against Malekith's, and he was so effective at it that Caledor the Conqueror thanked Alith Anar in person after that one battle where they destroy many of the Dark Elves' reaper bolt thrower from behind.

After the Sundering turned Nargarythe into a Skaven vacation hot spot with Malekith, Morathi and the remaining Dark Elves fleeing to Naggarond, many surviving loyalist pleaded Alith Anar to become their king, and swore a blood oath that they would not rest until Malekith and his Dark Elves were dead.

Dark Elves trolling

Ever since the sundering, Alith Anar and his warriors have done nothing but fucking with Dark Elves, killing trespassers and being total loners among High Elves. One could say it is thanks to him that Dark Elves' are having trouble invading after the embarrassing atrocity that is the war of the beard or whatever vengeance those hairy short footer like to call it which gravely weakened the High Elves military to the point every Elf had to join a militia group to make it up. What's important is how Alith Anar is so good at trolling the Dark Elves that it made Loec, the trickster god, watch the ever living shit out of his every actions. Here's a list of things every High Elves should learn from him:

• Repeatedly disguising their warriors as Dark Elves to terrorize their armies and already chaotic capital city without giving a shit about its assassins, witch elves, monsters and sorcerers.
• Disguise himself to infiltrate one of Malekith's orgy parties, where he danced with Morathi (without her recognizing him) and stole both the Stone of Midnight (Aenarion's wedding gift to Morathi) and the High Prince's crown of Nagarythe (that Malekith took with him and was later renamed the Shadow Crown).
• When he found out Malekith was the bad guy, he essentially spat in his face and used the crown's time-stop ability (more on that below) to escape.
• Tricked the Witch Elves pursuing him into killing themselves by mixing poison into their berserker potions.
• After the Battle of Griffon Pass, he captured seven hundred Dark Elves and had them nailed high upon the white cliffs overlooking the narrow valley, where they hung until they died, and then their corpses hung for years afterwards until their flesh rotted and their bones tumbled into piles beside the road.
• Make other Dark Elves so afraid of uttering his name that not even Malekith is safe from this.

His broken wargear

• Stone of Midnight - The aforementioned jewel Aenarion gifted to Morathi, it cloaks its user in shadow.
• Shadow Crown - The aforementioned Nargarythe crown. It allows the user to stop time by utter "NARGARYTHE" (albeit very temporarily).
• Moon Bow - The aforementioned bow gifted by Lileath that could act as a miniature bolt thrower. It is however debatable that Lileath actually came down to give it to Alith Anar or else it could have broken her father's law (in the novel Lileath gives Alith visions that enable him to locate the bow).

Total War: WARHAMMER and Dylan Sprouse

He is featured in Total War: WARHAMMER as a FLC lord in the Queen and the Crone patch. He led the faction called Nagarythe and is an unique lord whose play style focus on killing Dark Elves and assassinating Dark Elves agents on the campaign map. His army also gets to ambush his enemies' and Dark Elves' army on attack and having accessed to a unique stance called "Shadow Realm" that lets his army bypass terrain and remain hidden. This makes him the most cunning High Elves EVER, so that he is sometimes mistaken for an Eshin Skaven lord, the fact his faction is suitable to settlement in wasteland climate reinforce this, YES-YES. In combat, his Moonbow has the power of bolt thrower and has a special attack that deals a lot of damage to anything it targets. He is also the first lord with the ability to create a clone decoy of himself. Yes. Alith Anar has master Nippon's shadow clone jutsu without ever going to Nippon. The said ability is hilarious useful to bait artillery fire and tarpit enemies cavalry but unable to deal any damage. It is however a shame that his crown doesn't actually stopped time.

What's really interesting is his VA, Dylan Sprouse, whom you Disney viewers known as Zack from The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. Dylan also expressed his love at Alith Anar for being his favorite High Elves and even once expressed a desire for playing the role of Felix in a potential Gotrek and Felix movie adaptation. Nuff said, Alith Anar's reputation just got a bit less edgy and grim, and is now the butt of that Disney show joke on the internet. As of Dylan's recent work in the vidya gaem known as Kingdom Hearts 3: remind, Alith Anar is also this Japanese Yozora guy, some final fantasy main character lookalike.

Gallery

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  His miniature

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  Now in Total War: WARHAMMER

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  Alith Anar, T-Posing to assert his dominance over the Dark Elves and Malekith.