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Flayed Ones

2020-04-19T17:47:37Z

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[[File:Flayed_one_bloody.jpg|thumb|right|400px|He almost looks cute and [[Khorne|that pleases Him]]]]

{{topquote|To those who have turned their faces away. To those who are faithless and wretched in their jealousies. To those who have denied us. To those who have denied me. I will wreak vengeance. I will wrench your souls and break your bones. I will cast hunger through your accursed existence. Down the eons, you will not forget. I will grant you this gift from love turned aside and make you like me, break you in my image as you have broken me. I shall cast the fear of myself into you and all of your kind. I am Llandu’gor. I am the hunger. I am the flayer, and from this moment, you shall be too.|The Curse of Llandu'gor the Flayer}}
{{topquote|They'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sew our skins into their clothing. And if we're very, very lucky, they'll do it in that order.|Corporal [[Firefly|Zoe Washburne]], 57th Overlanders Brigade}}
{{topquote|Some hundreds of years may have passed. I don't know. AM has been having fun for some time, accelerating and retarding my time sense. I will say the word now. Now. It took me ten months to say now. I don't know. I think it has been some hundreds of years.|Ted, I have No Mouth and I Must Scream}}

'''Flayed Ones''' are [[Necron]]s who go about wearing the bloody flesh of their victims. They are victims of the Flayer virus, a program error where they develop a desire to reclaim their flesh and blood existence [[Sons of Malice|by devouring the flesh of the living]] (And since they don't have any kind of digestive system, the eaten flesh just falls down through their ribcages).

It's the end result of the [[C'Tan]] known as Llandu'gor the Flayer, who was not sharded like the others, but completely destroyed. Still, he had enough warning to curse the Necrons who killed him to suffer the Flayer virus as a last "fuck you;" they spread the virus to others, who spread it still further, and so on for quite some time until the other Necrons caught on.

==Fluff==
Flayed Ones are basically the Lepers of Necron society, feared and ostracized for their disease. Although instead of sending them to a Leper colony, the Necrons simply try to kill them to prevent the spread of infection before it fully emerges (that's disease control in [[Warhammer 40,000]] for you); the ones that don't die (and being Necrons with the ability to self-repair even after being nuked that's most of them) end up in a weird subspace dimension where they hang out with other Flayed Ones until they sense bloody battle, at which time they warp out, kill everything with a pulse, and warp back there again once they're done. The "clean" Necrons don't mind this so much as long as the Flayed Ones fuck off as soon as the battle is up.

This new lore comes from the Fifth Edition Necron [[Codex]]. In Third Edition, Flayed Ones were just close-combat specialists who liked to play dress-up with the skins of their slain foes. The reason for this, just before the release of the 5th edition codex, was [[Grimdark|the Flayed Ones were Necrons who retained their emotions and went insane, either because of being roboticized or the hibernation protocol failed and they were forced to spend 65 million years awake and immobile I-Have-No-Mouth-And-I-Must-Scream-style]]. Unfortunately, their models and their lore were not updated well -- they went from "pray we kill you ''before'' we flay you" to "dance party."

===The Bone Kingdom of Drazak===
A nice piece of story from the 5th Edition Necron Codex tells of a legendary [[Tomb World]] named Drazak (located in the Ghoul Stars) or alternatively the Bone Kingdom. It's a world populated almost entirely by Flayed Ones, who are ruled by Valgul the Fallen, a Necron Lord who is immune to the Flayer virus. The world is devoid of living creatures, so the Flayed ones roam around fighting each other for scraps of rotten meat and bone. Every few ''months'' Valgul rises from his throne of bone and announces a Time of Bounty, where they launch fleets to raid nearby planets to collect flesh and blood of the living to sate his subject's hunger. Which leaves the questions '''a)''' Why anyone would stay on those nearby planets, '''b)''' Why nobody has performed [[Exterminatus]] upon Drazak yet and '''c)''' Why the Flayed Ones return to Drazak instead of crusading across the stars. All three questions are answered by one word: [[Grimdark]].

== On the tabletop ==

[[File:FlayedOne5th.jpg|250px|thumb|right|"I'm gonna show you the world, Herbert. Thank you for your face, by the way."]]

[[File:Screen_Shot_2016-08-24_at_2.26.08_pm.png|250px|thumb|right|Flayed one from the 6th ed. 'cron codex]]

They used to <s>mostly</s> suck. They were, and still are, Elites (one of the most competitive slots in the Necron army), they have one of the few 4+ armor saves in an army of [[MEQ]]s, they could only do close combat but only have Initiative 2, they can't take transports, and they couldn't score, though they can now, thanks to 7th Edition! What they could achieve was based on their cheap price (same price as [[Necron Warrior]]s), large squad size and their ability to [[Deep Strike]] and Infiltrate; basically, you fielded them along with Warriors and [[Scarab]] Swarms if you wanted to play Necrons horde-style...

But never again will the Flayed Ones be one of the prime examples of bad design - the 7th Edition Codex is arriving, and it heralds a new time for our favourite robot lepers. While their statline remain unchanged, they now count as having two separate melee weapons, <s>which give them 6 Attacks instead of 3.</s>(Since when the fuck does having 2 melee weapons give double the attacks? You get +1 attacks like everyone else.) This of course is pretty good, since their point cost are unchanged... But it doesn't stop there. Oh no. Not only were the Flayer Claws made separate weapons, they gained Shred and AP 5 as well. Fuck yes. Throw ten Flayed Ones into some Guardsmen and [[Rip and tear|unleash ''<s>60</s> 40'' Bolter hits with Shred]] (mmmm guardsmen my favorite). [[Troll|Remind your opponent to bring a handbroom to remove his mutilated hordes easily.]]

[[Maynarkh Dynasty]]/"Dark Harvest" supplement from [[Imperial Armor]] also fixed most of their problems their own way. They can be Troops so as not to fight for an Elites slot, being Troops gain Objective Secured, and they can buy Flensing Scarabs to re-roll failed to-wound rolls for a turn.

===8th edition===

They're okay. They're still an elites choice (and cost almost as much per model as Praetorians) but with their deep strike and +1 to morale tests for nearby enemy units they can be very useful for probing the enemy back lines. Unfortunately with the deep strike rules they're gonna need a 9" charge to get into combat on the same turn they deep strike and have only melee attacks, but if they do get into combat they can seriously fuck up [[MEQ]] and below. A full squad of FO can deal out a face-melting [[Rape|''40 attacks per turn with a re-roll to wound'']]. Take them with [[Anrakyr the Traveller|Anrakyr]] to deal out 50 attacks and watch your opponent cry as you delete his units. Still relying on making that 9" charge though (although you can reduce it to 8" if you use Anrakyr's MWBD on the flayed ones, also meaning you'll get [[Anal_circumference|50 attacks hitting on 2s]]).

== See Also ==
* [[Never Forget You]], a sad story about a Flayed One.

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[[Category:Warhammer 40,000]][[Category:Necrons]]

Video games

2020-04-19T17:34:56Z

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Video games are games played with an electronic device, instead of paper, pens, dice, boards, anything traditional, and most of the time omitting your imagination too. It is also true that they do contain amusing game mechanics, can be easily played alone, provide visual and auditory representation, and don't [[Games Workshop|cost hundreds of dollars for a few miniature visual representations]]; however, this does come at the cost of freedom, physical being, social skills, and imagination.

Many traditional or tabletop games (like WH40K and D&D) can now be played as using electronic devices to substitute for their tactile components like maps or minis, proving once again that technology continues to screw up [[Old School Roleplaying|everything that we all wished had remained as it was.]] A [[VASSAL Game Engine|virtual tabletop simulator]] has been released so you may play a tabletop game with friends out of town. Also, we have an article at [[List of Vidya Board Games]] to cover various tabletop adaptions into the digital realm.

Electronic games played by strange, [[what|electronic fa/tg/uys]] have been accepted by /tg/, so that any game can be traditional, and this media fits right in with the old [[Board Game|board games]] and Tabletop [[Wargame]]s we all know and love. Some video games are accepted and enjoyed by /tg/. Many, however, are not. Generally, video game threads, especially games with no corresponding /tg/ version/interest, belong on /v/ instead.

You'll find quite a few /v/ related articles on 1d4chan because some video games have at least some relation to /tg/ and because 1d4chan tends to draw in people who are fans of WH40K universe primarily through [[Dawn of War]], even if these people don't actually play the tabletop game. And lets be honest here, 1d4chan is as much a page for WH40K fans as it is for fa/tg/uys so these people are certainly welcome here.

==Strategy Games ==
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* Simulation/Sandbox
** '''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'''
** '''Aurora 4X, a.k.a Dwarf Fortress in space with MUCH more complicated details'''
** '''From The Depths'''
** '''Kerbal Space Program'''
** '''Medieval Engineers'''
*** '''Space Engineers'''
** '''[[Minecraft]]''', for some odd reason.
** '''[[Terraria]]''', for the same odd reason.
** '''Mount and Blade''', it's expandalone Warband, and the new Bannerlord 2. A sandbox medieval setting, you go around either being a bandit or uniting the scattered kingdoms into a grand empire or whatever. Enormous modding community means finding something thematically different if you want, including Warhammer and historical mods.
** '''Rimworld''', Dwarf Fortress ''IN SPEHSS'' except dumbed down for the casuals, which may or may not be a good thing.
** '''[[Space Station 13]]:''' Dwarf Fortress except you play as the dwarves. Has been completely fucking ruined by goons leaking into every other version of the game.
** '''[[Tabletop Simulator]]''', a virtual tabletop for playing Card Games, Board Games, RPGs, etc. online with friends. The game has multiple built-in tools for creating custom games, and the Steam Workshop has thousands of add-ons; a popular choice for playing WH40K online thanks to ripped assets from Dawn of War.
** '''[[VASSAL Game Engine|VASSAL Engine]]'''

* 4X/Grand Strategy
** '''Age of Wonders'''
** '''Civilization I-IV''' - Civilization actually was based on a board game and in a case of coming full circle, ended up creating it's own board game.
*** (Note: Civs V and VI have design issues that make them difficult to recommend in this list, and are thus explicitly not included--that being said, this exclusion is more on the basis of them being [[Skub]]ish--some people love V and/or VI, while some people hate them.)
** '''[[Disciples]]''' (series) - Heroes of Might and Magic made [[Grimdark]].
** '''[[Dominions]]''' - Civilization's and Dwarf Fortress' beautiful love child. Enjoy [[Lovecraft]]'s Father Dagon square up against Ravana from India's Ramayana as they fight for the glory of their respective gods (you and whatever other [[neckbeards]] you are playing with).
** '''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]]''' - Turn based strategy of over six main games and expansions where you control a fantasy hero and their legion of men/elves/dwarves/creatures/etc. Special mention goes to second and especially third installments.
**'''Master of Magic''': Only the oldest of neckbeards will remember this one. Take Sid Meier's Civilization. Add fantasy races with their own units, magic in the form of spells and summons, heroes and a very basic isometric battlefield when armies clash, and give hundreds of abilities to units according to their species, situation and metal they are armed with (Yes, the metal used can be mithril or adamantite if the building city has any). That's Master of Magic. Still great for when you need to scratch that 'wizard with no sense of right or wrong bent on conquering the world' itch.
** '''Masters of Orion'''
** '''[[Alpha Centauri|Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]'''
** '''Sengoku Rance''': [[Weeaboo|Hentai game spinoff]] that parodies the long-running ''Nobunaga's Ambition'' series. You play as Rance, [[Slaanesh]]'s very own [[Kharn|fun guy to be around,]] as he unifies Warring States-era Japan under his mighty [[Anal circumference|"hyperweapon."]] Despite the utterly ludicrous premise it's a solid grand strategy game, to the point that the porn is more of a reward for playing well than an end in itself. Comparing this game to Total War was a common troll on /gsg/ when Shogun II was released.
** '''Endless Space'''
** '''[[Endless Legend]]'''
** '''Distant Worlds'''
** Paradox series: This is the go-to company for nation-ruling Grand Strategy games for different eras such as '''[[Crusader Kings]]''' 800's-1400's, '''[[Europa Universalis]]''' 1400's-1800's, '''[[Victoria]]''' 1820's-1936, or '''[[Hearts of Iron]]''' 1936-1950's.
*** [http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406933979 Warhammer: Geheimnisnacht], a Warhammer Fantasy conversion for Crusader Kings II. Setting predates Winds of Chaos & End Times.
** '''Stellaris''' (Paradox's attempt to fill the gap in the market between their Grand Strategy games and traditional 4x)So much depth even without mods, it deserves a separate page. You can run *any* science fiction staple idea and none would look out of place. A civilisation of individuals ranging from unique megacorporations to generic governments, hive-minded eusocial species, robots and anything in between have each unique playstyles. It also has endgame "crises" of galaxy threatening proportions which needs elaborate teamwork to stop.
*** Excellent 40k mod for Stellaris: https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/WarhammerTotalConversion
*** And yes, there's Star Trek and Star Wars mods.
** '''[[Total War]]''' series: '''Rome Total War''', '''Medieval Total War''', '''Empire Total War''', '''Shogun Total War'''
*** Rome 1 mods: '''Call to Arms: Warhammer''' and '''Fourth Age Total War''' and Medieval 2 mods: '''[[Call of Warhammer]]''', '''Third Age Total War'''

* Real-time Strategy
** '''Age of Empires''' series. Classic RTS with a more Command and Conquer vibe then a 4X, which is more common for historical settings, though pretty much every unit has multiple counters so it tends to be a more complex game then normal fast pace RTSs. There's the original, which is a curiosity at best, the second game that is made of pure gold, Mythology that mixes up the formula well, the third which sadly is more just Mythology with guns and Online which is F2P game and also dead (unless you play Project Celeste, which is still getting updated by fans). First, Second and Mythology have really good HD remasters. First and Second have also 4k remakes (not remaster), called Definitive Editions. Second and Mythology are worth grabbing, but if you had to choose one choose 2. They are currently developing the next game in the series, AoE IV.
** '''Battlezone''', the strategy game not the arcade game. Mixture of real time strategy and hover tank combat while fighting commies on the moon. Clunky, and as balanced as a one legged hippo, but it's uniqueness, concept and immersion make it a classic. Got a second game that was tighter and better balanced but weaker plot and setting. Both got pretty decent HD remasters.
** '''[[Command and Conquer]]''', a franchise with more then four different series running at the time where you control varied forces trying to beat the crap out of each other.
** '''Company of Heroes''' and '''Men of War''' series which are basically RTSs based on the idea of commanding forces as if someone was playing a classic WW2 shooter. While there are hard counters in Company of Heroes it still focuses more on holding chokepoints, piecing defensive lines and utilizing sandbags and barbed wire. Men at War focuses on realistic damage and as such is more the ARMA to Company of Heroes Call of Duty 2.
** '''Cossacks''' series, which covers 17th and 18th century, being the closest to /tg/'s desire to have "pike and shot setting". Most notable for ability to field absolutely gigantic armies of thousands upon thousands of soldiers.
*** '''American Conquest''' is an off-shot mini-series, expanding game mechanics from Cossacks and covering the period between Cortes conquest of Aztec Empire till American Revolutionary War. An expansion is dedicated to American Civil War.
** '''Cultures''' series, but most importantly first two games. A Viking village sim
** '''Dungeon Keeper''', where you play as an evil overlord defending against pesky adventurers and goodie-two-shoes trying to conquer your dungeon, and play it like Sims on crack.
** '''Homeworld''': THE iconic space video game of the early 00's. Basically Battlestar Galactica if the Galactica was tall instead of long. Borrows heavily from the artwork of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Foss Chris Foss].
** '''Original War''', most notable for its unique mix of RPG and RTS elements, with each unit representing an individual character with own backstory, personality and set of skills.
** '''Patrician 3: Rise of the Hansa''' is pretty standard (and good) economic-transport sim, but it makes up with being related with the titular Hansa and the Baltic region during Late Medieval, which rarely show up as a setting despite being what is represented as '''the''' ISO Standard Medieval setting.
** '''Railroad Tycoon 2''' comes with absolutely amazing series of scenarios and an unique, fleshed out post-apo setting. No, not kidding. There are also dozens of fan-made maps further expanding on said setting.
** '''Rise of Nations''' and especially '''Rise of Legends''' which had a steampunk faction and a "totally not the baddies from stargate" faction
** '''The Settlers''' series
** '''[[Starcraft]]''' and '''[[Warcraft]]''': [[Skub|40K and Fantasy rip-offs respectively]], although they were so successful that from video gamers' perspective <del>the jedi are evil</del> ''GW should be paying Blizzard''.
** '''Supreme Commander'''
** '''Theocracy''', in which you control one of Mesoamerican tribes with a goal of unifying the region.
** '''Total Annihilation'''

* Turn-based Strategy
** '''[[Advance Wars|Advance Wars]]''' - It's like Panzer General but [[Anime]]. Except for '''Days of Ruin'''; that game is [[Grimdark]] and thus [[Fist of the North Star|manly]].
** '''[[Fire Emblem]]''' - Advance Wars' twin brother who likes swords and magic rather than guns and tanks. Fire Emblem has heavy RPG elements, tasking you with managing a stable of characters with limited EXP to go around and the specter of permadeath hanging overhead. ''Awakening'' and later installments are not approved for being [[Weeaboo|waifu delivery systems cleverly disguised as strategy games.]]
** '''Jagged Alliance I''' & '''II''', A PMC is you!
** '''[[King of Dragon Pass]]'''
** '''Panzer General''' - The first decent "Tabletop WW2 meets PC" back in '94, it's the second inspiration for [[Nazi Equipment]] and is the Mecca of wehraboo'ism. Spawned an entire series of games.
*** Of note from that series: '''Fantasy General''', which is, other than some rather questionable AI balancing, a fairly fun "D&D Wargame" style affair.
** '''Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale''' a Japanese game about running a shop, which sells and buys items used by dungeon-crawling adventurers. Much more engaging than it sounds and full of cutting humour. Capitalism, ho!
** '''Valkyria Chronicles''' series - JRPG fantasy world version of World War II. Quite a bit of depth and supporting cast of characters.
** The original '''[[X-Com|X-COM: UFO Defense]]'''
** The new '''[[X-Com|XCOM: Enemy Unknown]]''' and its sequel, '''XCOM 2'''.
*** XCOM and XCOM 2 mods: '''The Long War'''. Both versions add dramatically to their respective games, transforming them from comparatively quick, light experiences to fatigue-worn wars. Buckle up. Plays a lot like Valkyria Chronicles except with destructable terrain and lots of chest-high walls.

==Role-Playing Games==
*[[cRPG]]s
** '''Albion'''
** '''[[Arcanum]]: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura'''
** '''Arx Fatalis'''
** '''[[Baldur's Gate]] I''' & '''II'''
** '''Battle for Wesnoth'''
** '''Betrayal at Krondor'''
** '''Darklands'''
** '''Deus Ex''' series
** '''Dungeons & Dragons Gold Box Series'''
** '''[[The Elder Scrolls]]''' especially Daggerfall, and Morrowind
** '''[[Fallout]]''' series
** '''[[Icewind Dale]]'''
** '''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'''
** '''Might and Magic from 1 to 8, then X. [[Squats|Might and Magic 9 does not exist.]]
** '''[[Planescape: Torment]]'''
** '''System Shock''' series
** '''The Temple of Elemental Evil'''
** '''[[Ultima]]''' series
** '''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]] - ''Bloodlines/Redemption'''''
** '''Wasteland''' series
** '''[[Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord]]'''

*Modern RPGs
** '''The Banner Saga'''
** '''Dark Souls''', due to its moody [[Berserk]]-inspired atmosphere, emphasis on exploration, and [[Dwarf Fortress|merciless learning curve]]. Compelling story and characters are a major plus, also contains large amounts of death and [[RAGE]]. The tagline isn't 'Prepare to Die' for no reason.
*** To a lesser extent, the other "Souls" games ('''Demon's Souls''', '''Dark Souls 2''', '''Dark Souls 3''', and '''Bloodborne''').
** '''Deus Ex: Human Revolution'''
** '''Dragon Age: Origins''', much better than later games.
** '''Expeditions: Conquistador''' and '''Viking'''
** '''Fallout: New Vegas'''
** '''Legend of Grimrock'''
** '''Mass Effect 1 and 2'''
** '''Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor'''
** '''Pillars of Eternity'''
** '''Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic''', both games are very good
** '''[[The Witcher]]''' series

==Adventure Games==
* '''Beneath a Steel Sky''': Great cyberpunk themes and rich imagery. Released as freeware by the original developers.
* '''Blade Runner''': It's a Blade Runner game and it's one of the best things that ever happend in the genre, no need for more recommendations.
* '''Broken Sword''' series: Templars, ancient conspiracies, interesting characters and well-written plot that is mineable even for tabletop games
* '''The DIG''': A bunch of astronauts stop an asteroid from hitting earth, only to find out it's really an alien starship that whisks them to a desolate planet on the other side of the galaxy whose inhabitants - who have a huge fetish for the platonic solids - are nowhere to be found. Features a lot of really complex hard-science plot points, difficult-as-fuck puzzles, and Steve Blum as an arrogant German scientist.
* '''King's Quest: Heir Today Gone Tomorrow''': Just read the title and ask yourself what the game can be about.
* '''Monkey Island''' series: One of the most definitive things to ever happen to the genre, plus it's a great pirate-themed series that both spoofs and reaffirms a lot of cliches related with own content.
* '''Policenauts''': Early Hideo Kojima makes a game where Lethal Weapon meets cyberpunk.
* '''The Prince and the Coward''': A Polish game that can be best summed up as "ISO Standard Medieval Fantasy gets the ''Monkey Island'' treatment". An excellent fan-translation exists that manages to keep the original tone.
* '''Pathologic''' (also known as '''Pestilence''' or '''Мор. Утопия'''): a truly bizzare and unique Russian game, combining adventure, survival, role-playing and lots of nightmarish vibes. Boasts a head-ache inducting lore and a persistent world, so things roll regardless if player interfeers or not. Got a HD re-release recently with proper translation, thus non-Slavs can finally enjoy the game properly too - previous English translation was a nightmare by itself.
* '''Professor Layton''' series: A refined gentleman investigates mysteries by solving lateral-thinking puzzles. Beautiful watercolor art and solid writing, though the puzzle setups become increasingly absurd as the series goes on. A great series to mine for dungeon puzzles. Any games after the first six are not approved, due to the writing devolving into cliche anime bullshit and a distinct drop in puzzle quality after the death of designer Akira Tago.
* '''[[Star Control]]''' series: A mess of alien races in the grand tradition of Niven et al. kill the shit out of each other. First game is turn-based strategy, second game is somewhere between an RPG and an adventure game; both have a surprisingly deep arcade combat system. The second game was released as open-source software by the developers.

==Warhammer Games==
*Strategy
** The old and glorious '''[[Warhammer Epic 40,000: Final Liberation]]''', [[Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat| '''Shadow of the Horned Rat''', and '''Dark Omen''']]
** [[Warhammer: Mark of Chaos|'''Mark of Chaos''']]
** '''[[Dawn of War|WH40K Dawn of War]]''' and its [[Dawn of War II|sequel]]. As well as the [[Dawn of War III|sequel sequel]]
*** The "True-to-Tabletop" [[Dawn of War Mods|mods]] for DoW that sprung up, such as '''Firestorm over ''Kronus/Kaurava''''', the '''Closer to Codex''' mod. Really, just look at the page to see how many there are.
** '''[[Chapter Master (game)]]'''
** '''[[Mordheim: City Of The Damned]]'''
** '''[[Battlefleet Gothic: Armada]]'''
** '''[[Total War: WARHAMMER]]''' and its [[Total War: Warhammer II|sequel]]
** '''[[Man o' War: Corsair]]'''
** '''[[Warhammer 40,000: Sanctus Reach]]''' - A turn base strategy game where you playing as everybody's favourite [[Space Wolves|space wolf viking]] fighting against the Orks in Sanctus Reach. Later DLC allowed you playing as the Ork led by Da Big Red and everybody's favorite [[Imperial Guard|wall of guns]]. Also Imperial Knights, fuck yeah!
**'''[[Space Hulk]]''' in its many iterations, including [[Alien Assault|the unofficial one]].

*Other
** '''[[Blood Bowl]] and its sequel'''
** <s>'''[[Warhammer Online|Warhammer Age of Reckoning]]'''</s> Shut down thanks to EA. Go play the private server version!
** '''[[Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine]]'''
** '''[[Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade]]'''
** '''[[The End Times:Vermintide]]''' and [[Vermintide 2|it's sequel]]
** '''Warhammer 40,000: [[Freeblade]]'''
** '''[[Space Hulk: Deathwing]]'''

==Miscellaneous==
* [[Roguelike|Roguelikes]]
** '''Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead''' a post-apocalyptic top-down survival game that looks like Dwarf Fortress with a texture pack and lets you drive cars into zombies.
** '''Cultist Simulator''' is a grind-heavy, card-based game about being too curious about things that no man should know about and slowly building a cult to some demonic abomination... or die trying.
** '''Curious Expedition''' which pokes fun at the pulp adventure genre; think Hollow Earth as a black comedy
** '''[[Darkest Dungeon]]''' the newest [[H.P. Lovecraft|love-craftian]] dungeon crawler with grimdark setting and overall edginess.
** '''Don't Starve''' a pretty-looking survival and exploration game that's fun with friends, and does horror like ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy''.
** '''[[Dungeon Crawl]] Stone Soup'''
** '''Nethack'''
** ''' NEOScavenger''' much like Cataclysm (gameplay, genre, even the setting is similar), an exploration hex-crawl to surpass all hex-crawls.
** '''Pathway''', the closest thing to having Hollow Earth Expedition vidya
** '''Pixel Dungeon and it's forks''' coffee break roguelike optimized for phones. FOSS so there's tons of forks. Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a very good version and is on Android Play Store and F-Droid
** ''' Sunless Sea''' and '''Sunless Skies''' Adventuring out into a WTF eldrich horror setting under the flag of Victorian Britain. Gameplay-wise, the games are just awful grinders, but it's their setting and quests that make them interesting, as long as comically dark settings are your thing.
** '''TEARDOWN''', a Space-Hulk roguelike
** '''WarpRogue''', a 40K-inspired roguelike

*Good FPS games
** '''Bioshock''' series: Bunch of retro-aesthetics crammed into FPS games with what passes as a rich plot and world-building within the genre. Arguing over its concent used to be prime [[skub]] material, now it's mostly forgotten.
** '''Borderlands 2''', a memetic lolsrandom dumb game, but special mention goes to '''Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep''' DLC, as it is a role-playing session involving main characters, with all the crazy hijinks of Borderlands involved.
** '''Crysis''', Three games provide a very moddable engine with a very versatile set of physics combined with a pretty absurdly large modding community that has among other things, created a perfectly workable Mech Warrior game out of Crysis Warhead. Even if you don't care for nanosuit action, the mods alone are worth checking out.
** '''Deep Rock Galactic''' [[Squat]]s the video game. Space Dwarfs armed with big guns go digging into a mineral rich planet infested with [[Tyranid|giant bugs]].
** '''[[Doom|DOOM]]''', '''Hexen''', and '''Heretic''': With a vibrant community because the games are easy to mod and has produced no shortage of mods (or WADs as they're called in the community (officially, the file extension 'WAD' means 'Where's All the Data?').) Interestingly, Doom was inspired by a D&D game run with Lead Dev John Carmack as the DM. Director John Romero's character recklessly gave a dark tome to a demon in exchange for the magic Daikatana which caused demons to overrun the material plane and the world to end. Visually, parts of the games (Hexen and Heretic especially) are reminiscent of a gothic dungeon.
** '''Escape From Butcher Bay''' a Riddick-licensed game that combines great stealth elements with even better combat sequences and a slight horror vibe, all in the sauce made off used future aesthetics.
** '''[[EYE: Divine Cybermancy]]''': A really weird FPS/RPG due to its cyberpunk fantasy aesthetics, almost an RPG. Extremely buggy due to being a Source Engine game that wasn't made by Valve. The developers absolutely love Warhammer 40,000, made the setting for EYE a lawyer-friendly clone of 40k, and were eventually hired by GW to [[Space Hulk: Deathwing|make the 40k game they wanted to make in the first place.]]
** '''Far Cry''' series, which has completely different tone depending on installment and is just one huge mine of ideas for extremely pulpy scenarios. Special mention goes to Far Cry 3, which pretty much reinvented the franchise, and its standalone expansion Blood Dragon, which is [[Old School Roleplaying|a hilarious parody of the 80s neon aesthetic.]] ''Primal'' and later installments are not approved for being either heavily rehashed or just completely unnecessary.
** '''Guns of Icarus''', a steampunk flying team deathmatch with set roles.
** '''Iron Storm''' - it's 1964 and the World War I is still going on, with complete stalemate perpetuated by industrialists on both sides. Your mission is to infiltrate and destroy nuclear program of the "bad" side. W40k games ''wish'' they were this good in presenting endless, sensless war.
** '''Kingdom Come: Deliverance''', a truly generic story of "from zero to hero", involving blacksmith's son climbing the social ladder of medieval society until knighthood. But what makes the game unique is the fact it's a historical RPG, set in specific area of Bohemia during a specific period with autistic levels of research behind it, providing more data about its own setting than your typical edutainment game.
** '''Penumbra series''': The easiest way to describe it is to call it modern take on At the Mountains of Madness, only set in Greenland and with massive conspiracy looming over the story. Warning, '''very''' tense horror games (while avoiding jump scares) with unique control and physics system, so it might not be your cup of tea.
** '''Quake''': At least the early games, for similar reasons for DOOM (they were both made by the same company). Quake 1 is a good and challenging FPS that takes cues from Lovecraft in terms of environments and monster designs. Quake 2 is somewhat easier, but is deliciously grimdark sci-fi; it's about fighting cyborg aliens that make more of themselves by capturing conquered races and fitting them with cybernetics/forcing them into a hivemind against their will.
** '''[[Team Fortress 2]]''', a game descended from a Quake mod now over 10 years old and still going strong, is a multiplayer FPS with a 1960s theme where players pick a team, one of 9 different classes, and battle to the death. Also, hats. Two hats in this game are 40k references, allowing you to dress your Heavy up as an Ork.
** '''S.T.A.L.K.E.R.''' series: Roadside Picnic: The Video Game. A nice combination of free roaming, excellent gunplay, tense atmosphere and really freaky lore.
** '''Thief 1 & 2''', the grand daddy of stealth games, with one of the most original settings ever created for games (a combination of industrial - but not steampunk - medieval and paganic elements). Strong story, good characters and makes you feel like a master thief indeed. Reboot from 2014 is unapproved and shunned.
** '''Wolfenstein''' series: Combines sci-fi, fantasy and World War II elements amidst the Nazi-killing.

*Good TPS games
** '''Max Payne 1 & 2''' Finest product of the neo-noir genre, especially the second game. Amazingly strong story in both games, with a lot of Norse references in the first one. Also, the game that introduced bullet time as game mechanics.
** '''Prince of Persia''', especially the ''Sands of Time'' trilogy. Accept no substitute for Arabian Nights game.
** '''Tomb Raider series''' Preferably games created by original studio, Core Design, but anything up to Underworld goes. A swift balance between serious and pulp tone, providing simple plots and a more and more complex locations. Also, good source of creative traps. Reboot from 2013 and what follows are disapproved and shunned, being just generic cover shooter.

* [[Mechwarrior]], because /tg/ loves [[Battletech]].
** '''MechWarrior I''' is lauded as a classic, and thus the best
** '''MechWarrior II''' is lauded as the best
** '''MechWarrior III''' is lauded as the most engrossing storywise, and thus the best
** '''MechWarrior IV''' is lauded as the latest and greatest, and thus the best
** '''MechCommander II''' is lauded as most like the tabletop, and thus the best
** '''MechWarrior: Living Legend''' is lauded as best for multiplayer, and thus the best
** '''MechWarrior Online''' is the worst.
* Classic console games
** '''Jet Set/Grind Radio''' seems to have enthused one orky [[drawfag]] to the highest of possible levels, make of that what you will.
** '''Conker's Bad Fur Day'''
** '''[[Metal Gear]]'''
** '''Dungeons and Dragons Order of the Griffon''', a game for the PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 set in the Grand Duchy of Karameikos. Uses Basic D&D rules versus the Gold Box games' AD&D rules.
** '''[[Samus|Metroid]]''', '''[[The Legend of Zelda]]''', '''Kid Icarus''', and '''[[Castlevania]]''' (the four games series share so much in common they deserve to be discussed together). Why? The exploration-heavy nature of the games, the feeling of growing more powerful as you collect enough gear and relics to make an adventuring party jealous, the incredibly memorable boss battles, interesting backstories (Metroid immerses you in backstory at your pace, via scans and lore pickups, leaving much up to your imagination), and providing many ideas for scifi or fantasy RPG session.

==Games that can be used to troll /tg/==
* Most other MMORPGs. [[World of Warcraft]], as the most successful to date, is especially effective. Special points to [[Star Wars: The Old Republic]] for being a massive disappointment for a popular franchise.
* JRPGs, for often recycling the same plots over and over and having identical structure. Along with of course cringy bad character designs in some cases.
* Any of the modern Final Fantasy games, [[Games Workshop|which somehow keep getting sequels despite being financial failures]]. [[This Guy|Some fa/tg/uys]] have a fondness for the early ones, mostly because [[Troll|the first one rips off D&D pretty squarely]].
* [[Evony]]
* [[Skyrim]], a fun popular well liked meme game that /v/ contrarians and neckbeards with nostalgia goggles will pretend is shit.
* Speaking of Skyrim, [[The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion|Oblivion]] is [[skub]] as for <s>/tg/</s> /v/ as well.
* [[Fallout]] 3 and 4 have similar skub issues. With the fact that Bethesda took over the series after 2 thus ensuring the new Fallouts will be completely different from the beloved originals, thus fanning the skub fire more so.
* Fallout New Vegas avoids this skub because it was developed by Obsidian, which had employees who worked on the first two games.
* Unlike the previous Bethesda RPGs Fallout 76 is actually bad. So if you want to troll people you'll have to pretend to like it. Although, it's so objectively terrible your bait will most likely seem too obvious.
* <s>Mentioning the attention Warhammer 40k games have gotten compared to Warhammer Fantasy is a sore spot for Fantasy fans.</s> With the failure that is [[Dawn of War III]] and recent success of [[Total War: WARHAMMER]] and [[Vermintide]], you could say the tables have turned. Actually DoW3 by itself is enough for trolling anyway.
* Reminding Shadowrun fans of the terrible Shadowrun FPS is not going to earn you any goodwill.
* Sonic The Hedgehog. The fans are everywhere, and the butthurt is unfathomable.
* Nintendo games have ultra-dedicated fanbases, and also hardcore haters, except for series like Metroid, Zelda, Mother, or Kid Icarus which are generally respected. Mentioning Pokemon in a positive light or stating the controller of "the best" console they released is a sex toy may cause an internet fight.
* Games with bad random number generators. Even highly approved of games like Mordheim: City Of The Damned will cause a shitstorm when someone is reminded that a supposed 95% chance to hit can result in four consecutive misses.
* No Man's Sky - such a huge waste of potential. Bringing this game up is a good troll move on /v/ as well, but everything's a good troll move on /v/.
* [[Blizzard]]. JUST. [[Blizzard]]. (''ACTIVISION'' Blizzard now, fuckers! The shit train only goes downhill from here!)

==The Game List That People Copypasta==
Every so often, someone posts on /tg/: "Wow, you guys are so smart and cool; can you recommend some [[video games]] to play for those hours when I'm not playing tabletop?". It happens so often that people have made [[copypasta]] for the occasion, even image copypasta.

You will find a lot of those games on [http://www.gog.com/ Good Old Games], DRM free, for 6 or 9 bucks. Or [[Freebooterz|for free if you pirate]], which can often be justified by the original creators leaving the development company so all the [[Profit]] goes to people who don't deserve it. Your choice.

For any video game that someone felt was good enough for a full page on this wiki, see [[:Category:Video_Games|Video Games]]

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Approved Television

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This a collection of /tg/-approved live-action television. Cartoons and animated series have been moved to [[Approved cartoons]].

==Comedy==
*'''Blackadder''': A historical comedy about the descendants of the Blackadder family, all played by Mr. Bean, with each season taking place in a different period of British history, starting in the Middle Ages and ending with the First World War. Very British yet goofy in its tone and sense of humour with plenty of in-jokes for the historians, and plenty more for those who aren't. While the first season is considered to be mediocre by pretty much everyone, the writing improves in season two and keeps getting better, with season four's finale being a a masterclass in writing [[noblebright|humour]] without sacrificing [[grimdark]]. If you ever wondered what kind of jokes would fit either of the Warhammers, look no further.

*'''Hero Corp''': A French comedy series about poking fun out of superheroes and cape stuff in general. However, rather than being some sort of obnoxious parody, it's simply a humorous take on the material, while having an assembly cast of interesting characters and balancing between self-awarness and plot-related humour. You probably know it already from the "Low Power Supers" webm that gets routinely posted in finename threads.

*'''Mystery Science Theater 3000:''' A bunch of Minnesotans with robot puppets riff on terrible movies. Achieved legendary cult classic status after being canceled (since it confused and angered the norms and behind the scenes shenanigans) and spawned the venerable [http://www.rifftrax.com Rifftrax]. Has come back from the dead on Netflix. Netflix version has some pros and cons, for example they seem to try and talk more often but in doing so their jokes became pretty lackluster, but with such a long break and with 10 ep seasons almost every movie is a hit (well, hit for this kind of show that is).

==Crime==

*'''Breaking Bad''' The story of a high-school chemistry teacher succumbing to cancer turned meth maker and his junkie ex-student sidekick. A premise made special by its excellent writing that won Bryan Cranston and the creative team 10d100 Emmys for portraying Mr. Rodger's gradual slide into a paranoid drug kingpin without any sign of seasonal decay. This is how you RP, people! Take note.
**'''Better Call Saul''' A solid spin-off series of the above. Well written, well acted, and pretty good at showing how the American legal system works. Most importantly, if you ever wondered what it takes to be a good Face, Jimmy is one of the prime examples to observe.

*'''Glina''' ["Cop"] Amazingly good Polish neo-noir series. While it starts slow, after initial few episodes it turns into a modern masterpiece of crime series. Very oldschool in style, with a wide range of different cases, juicy dialogues (or at least juicy translation) and great performances. If you ever wanted to run or play an investigation game, accept no substitute for inspiration or direct rip-off.

*'''True Detective''' First season, anyway. Southern gothic meets modern investigation meets a whole plot reference to [[Yog-Sothothery|The King in Yellow]]. Very dark and climactic series, with solid performances and a bunch of ideas how to pull a modern "investigator" type of game Call of Cthulhu struggles so badly to market.

*'''Twin Peaks''' A somewhat [[skub]]worthy entry, given David Lynch's involvement, but a worthwhile watch, nonetheless. What starts off as a fairly cheesy whodunnit about the murder of the local homecoming queen soon reveals itself to be something more in line with paranormal surrealist horror. If you're not sure how to make your [[Call of Cthulhu]] game walk the line between the supernatural and the mundane, then this is your guide. Watch seasons one & two, then the film, and then season 3 for maximum authenticity.

*'''The Wire''' Everybody else recommends it, so why not us? Grimdark crime drama about drug dealing in Baltimore. If you want a good primer on how to do [[Grimdark]] well, this is a fairly good place to start.

==Fantasy==
*'''Buffy the Vampire Slayer:''' The story of an average teenage girl who deals with all the average teenage girl things such as school, boyfriends and, eventually, college and adult life. She's also the chosen one, whose duty it is to defend the earth from demons, monsters, vampires, and whatever other nasty shit's out there. At times, the show is pretty cheesy (especially season one), at times it crosses into grimderp (like season 6), but all-in-all, it's a well-written urban fantasy show that redefined what television could be at the time it came out, and your [[World of Darkness|OWoD]] campaign will thank you for taking inspiration.
**'''Angel:''' Buffy's edgy, noir-inspired sister. Slightly darker tone with a similar style of story-telling. Like most spin-off's it's not quite as good as it's predecessor, and you can't really watch it without the original, but if you loved Buffy, but wanted a more urban flavour, this is where you go, when season four starts.

*'''Carnivale:''' A group of depression era carnies are caught up in a Manichean struggle between the forces of light and darkness. One of HBO's first experiments with high concept, high budget fantasy. Died ignominiously after two seasons due to scripting problems, audience apathy, and [[grimdark]] overload; but paved the way for those who would follow.

*'''[[A Song of Ice and Fire|Game of Thrones]]:''' [[George R. R. Martin|GRRM]]'s pet project finally made it to the small screen. Combines the epic swords and sorcery of high fantasy with the nihilistic hopelessness of quasi-medieval life. Thanks to Martin's <s>amazing</s> <s>horrible</s> [[skub]]tastic writing and HBO's massive budget, this show has gone a long way towards making fantasy "respectable". It's known for containing gratuitous amounts of sex and violence even by the standards of the source material, and got progressively chunkier after the show writers made some [[C.S. Goto|questionable characterization calls]] and also ran out of Martin's books to cannibalise, but it's not like you'll find any other fantasy show on TV that was as well-funded as this one.

*'''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys:''' Concentrated nostalgia from back in the days when fantasy shows were relegated to [[Friday]] night time slots where they couldn't harm the general public. If you're a neckbeard in your thirties, this show probably had something to do with it. It operated on a knowingly anachronistic premise and has fun with it. Kind of embarrassing by today's standards, but it pioneered everything from CGI monsters to filming in New Zealand. Resulted in its much more famous spin-off series...
**<nowiki></nowiki>'''Xena: Warrior Princess:''' Before you knew her as an uppity Cylon or an insane Roman housewife, Lucy Lawless was ''the'' leather clad, god slaying, Amazon OG. If you're a neckbeard in your thirties (or a ca/tg/irl who liked Gabrielle a ''little'' too much), you probably fapped to it. The cultural cachet of this show is so great that even underage B& that never could have seen it will recognize the character.

*'''Jumanji: The Animated Series:''' Concentrated nostalgia from the 90's and early 2000's. Pretty much what you'd want to see if Alan had stayed in Jumanji and Peter and Judy went on adventures with him. Featured many references to other works, but with a fun twist. Known for introducing other characters from the game beside Van Pelt - [[Khorne|who now hunts everyone else for sport]] - such as a mad scientist and the freaking Grim Reaper (albeit trading his scythe for a cavalier hat).

*'''Masters of Horror''': An anthology resembling more a collection of short films than your typical TV series. Each story is directed by some legend in horror business, and by general rule those fantasy-themed stories are better than the sci-fi ones. Special mention goes to "Deer Woman", "Cigarette Burns" and "Fair Haired Child". '''Warning!''' Certain episodes require hefty dose of brain bleach to forget what you've just saw (not kidding), while other are more black comedy than actual horror.

*'''西遊記 (Saiyuki, or "Monkey" if you're a filthy gaijin)''': A 1978 Japanese adaptation of Journey to the West. While this is far from being the best adaptation, it is probably one of the most widely known outside of Asia (with the exception of Dragonball), thanks in part to the BBC buying the rights and producing a cheesy and hilarious dub for it. This is probably from where your [[Weeaboo]] GM got his most insane ideas.

*'''[[The Witcher|Witcher]]''': A shoe-string budget fantasy series (still one of the most expensive productions in native Poland) about - well, who else - [[Geralt of Rivia|Geralt the Witcher]], made by Poles in 2001. The quality of episodes varies greatly, while the special effects aged like milk, but it's still a fun ride to take. This is how fantasy became for a while mainstream in Poland. Absolutely '''great''' music, which can be repurposed as a background for combat-heavy games. If you happen to get a DVD release and not just bootleg from TV, then the cinematography will be gorgeous too. Also, warning - the show was marketed abroad under "Hexer" title, as the term "Witcher" wasn't coined yet.
**'''The Witcher: America''': Netflix' own take on the now bestselling book series. Tries to be Game of Thrones, but focuses on a handful of main characters instead of the massive ensemble cast that GoT had. Has problems communicating own chronology and just like Hexer, quality of episodes varies wildly, but overall, it's fun, with Henry Cavill being surprisingly good, able to pull off the manly, yet emotionally stunted vibe. Also, lots of [[promotions|tits]].

*'''Wizards and Warriors''': A short-lived fantasy series from early 80s, mostly memorable due to being so heavily borrowing ideas and imaginery from early [[Dungeons and Dragons]] it almost ended with a lawsuit. Amazingly tacky, but still mineable in case of running old-school D&D games. And remember - those costumes won an Emmy. For real.

==Historical==
*'''Deadwood''': Another HBO series, focusing on the settlement of Deadwood and its development from mining camp to frontier town. The attempts to make the town and its world come alive are glorious. Excellent performances across the board, with the standout being Al "Fuck That Cocksucking Motherfucker" Swearengen. GMs looking for how wild and lawless frontiers can become platforms for adventurers should check this out, and steal as many subplots as you can for your [[Deadlands]] game.

*'''I, Claudius''': A BBC miniseries based on the book of the same name from 1976. While dated, both in historical accuracy and production values, it's still one of the most accurate depictions of Ancient Rome in television. Also known for fanservice to rival most modern shows.

*'''Marco Polo''': A Netflix exclusive series, Marco Polo follows the famous Italian merchant while he tries to survive in the court of Kublai Khan, the grandson of [[Genghis motherfucking Khan]]. While not historically accurate it is certainly very entertaining with war, political intrigue, and [[Slaanesh|concubines out the ass.]] Also [[Mongols]]. If anything, the character One-Hundred eyes makes the show worth the watch because of how badass he is. Seriously; a Daoist monk that Kublai blinded with a spitting cobra because he wouldn't teach his martial art to his generals. [[Awesome|And he can still kick ass while blind]].

*'''Rome:''' It's HBO so the tits and ultraviolence spigot is still wide open, but this one actually does some good world building and political intrigue on the side. Just don't try to use it as a point of reference for historical campaigns.

*'''Spartacus: Blood and Sand''' A faithful historical narrative about the third servile war and the various social pressures that precipita... phhht no I'm kidding it's wall to wall tits and ultraviolence. Despite being a relentlessly silly 300 wanna-be that had no business ever being green lit it actually managed to be a treasure trove of feels and [[awesome]], due in large part to unusually solid writing and some heroic performances by actors like John Hannah, Lucy Lawless, Craig Parker, and Peter Mensah.

*'''三国 (Three Kingdoms 2010):''' Widely regarded as the best and most accessible version of China's most famous story (essentially their Iliad). Almost a hundred hours long, epic scope, tons of actors, and legions of extras (you can buy them by the bushel over there). Almost worth it for Chen Jianbin's [http://youtu.be/l8e4LBSscVo?t=35m8s gloriously dickish Cao Cao] alone, but there's plenty of other reasons to stick around. The entire thing is available on youtube and elsewhere because CCTV could not give two shits about licensing it outside of the country.

*'''Vikings''': History's bid to gain at least a fraction of GoT audience, while also catering to reenactors, historical witzs and just about general audience, since, duh, vikings. Very well-researched and tightly written, the show comes with very high initial quality. Unfortunately, it also suffers greatly from seasonal rot after first 2 seasons and utterly pointless continuation at this point, so be warned about highly visible drop of quality with each season.

==Sci Fi==
*'''Babylon 5''': It's the future, after humanity narrowly escaped extermination in a war with the Minbari (bone headed guys who are like the Eldar with the dickishness dialed down to mostly manageable levels) it sets up a space station in neutral territory to act as a center of diplomacy to try to avert another war which gradually gets embroiled in an ancient conflict between two powerful alien civilizations. While most TV Science Fiction in the day was "this week's adventure" Babylon 5 set out to tell a grand story and (mostly) succeeded. The first space sci-fi to use CGI instead of motion control photography, so it hasn't aged that well visually.

*'''Battlestar Galactica''': In a galaxy far, far away humanity is engaged in a war with a legion of cybernetic assholes called Cylons. In a total dick move the genocidal toasters feign a peace offering and decimate the human fleet, except for a a few starships which manage to escape. Organizing under the protection of the titular Battlestar-class ''Galactica'' this ragtag refugee fleet, assuming they are the only survivors, attempts to escape to the fabled planet called [[Earth]].
**<nowiki></nowiki>Comes in two flavors: Original 1970s (Cheesetastic, but hilarious if you're into that sort of thing) and Immediate-Post-9/11-Reboot ([[Grimdark]], and actually pretty good). Both recommended, but other than initial premise, the two are '''wildly''' different. Be aware going in that the modern version has a reputation for producing an especially terrible ending for the show(even more so in some circles then even Lost!).

*'''[[Doctor Who]]''': The adventures of the universe's saddest time traveling bro. Absolutely ancient in canon and out (the show predates Star Trek by three years). Cheesy special effects, but it's got heart and (usually) good writing. It's bigger on the inside.

*'''Farscape''': Muppets in spaaaace! This show, produced by the Jim Henson company, is dark. Even media in self-professed [[grimdark]] settings rarely put their main characters through this much torment. You wouldn't think it when it starts out, the first half of the first season being notoriously cheesy, but the cheese you wade through at the start belies an intense series as every major military organization in the galaxy targets our hero for torture, [[rape|mindrape]], and death. Few stories to date put their heroes through such a gauntlet, but the audience follows John Crichton's journey from all-American hero to notorious interstellar terrorist from start to finish, rooting for him the entire way.

*'''[[Firefly]]:''' [[Traveller]] except about post-bellum Confederates '''IN SPAAAAAACE'''. Like most of the Whedonverse praising it on /tg/ will unleash a category 5 [[skub]]storm.

*'''Spellbinder''': A two-season series, or rather two thinly connected standalone series dealing with parallel worlds. Each "season" can be seen as separate story, as they only share one character (an ''extremely'' compelling villainess) and the general concept of alternative universe(s). Despite being made for kids, it's very much watchable even two decades later - think "Sliders", but good and with plot. It also comes with few pretty interesting settings with some rich world-building. A third season has been in development hell since 1998.

*'''seaQuest DSV''': Not actually approved but shows up from time to time. Basically Star Trek but on a submarine and staring that guy from Jaws. Like Star Trek, it ran for three seasons. Also like Star Trek, it was technically cancelled after every season.

*'''[[Star Trek]]''': It's Star Trek. If you<s> were born some time in the last half century you probably heard of it</s>'re not a drooling mongoloid you've heard of it.

*'''Stargate:''' At first there was a Roland Emmerich movie based around the Ancient Astronaut theory and finding a Big Ring in Egypt which can take you to another world, which was an adequate science-fiction action romp. Even so, it did well enough to get a Television series in Stargate SG-1. It changed a few things about from the movie (usually for the better) and had a rocky first season (for the worse), but after that it became one of the better science fiction series. Plenty of action, excellent characters performed by excellent actors, memorable humor and succeeds both as an episode to episode series as well as with long continuity arcs.

*'''The Expanse''': A Syfy adaptation of the novel series. Tensions are building between Earth, Mars and the Asteroid Belt when <s>[[Samus|Phazon]]</s> an unknown alien element gets discovered and throws everything out of wack.

*'''The X-Files''': All possible and imaginable conspiracy theories about aliens mixed together for the show that redefined how to even make a sci-fi themed series. Plus monster of the week plots thrown in for a good measure. The show balances between being serious, self-aware, camp and horror. Following adventures of two FBI agents, both working in a sub-division dealing with "paranormal" cases, treated by rest of the Bureau as a dead-end in the career. Even if you don't have time to watch all episodes, you can pick up at any given moment and still catch up on the go with the arc story. (ProTip for new viewers: The show worked best in the stand-alone episodes. ''Most'' of the "arc" episodes are actually fairly dull and uninspired, while the arc itself is infamous for being fake and going nowhere. This is even more apparent with the attempts at reviving the series.)

*'''The Prisioner''': A 60s classic sadly fallen into obscurity, it tells us the story of an unnamed British spy that gets kidnapped by a secret organization after resigning for motives unknown. He is moved to a place only known as "The Village", a sort of idylic place inhabited by old and brainwashed special agents of many nationalities, where noone can escape. Incredibly ambitious for its time, it tackles themes such as identity and duty, while also making the protagonist fight with his wit and smarts his captors, while at the same time they keep him trapped in The Village. If you haven't heard about it, don't worry, you've probably heard about it because it has been parodied in The Simpsons once (twice if you include Rover!).

==Unapproved But Minable==

*'''Lexx''' A truly bizarre Canadian/German science-fantasy show that is infamous for being [[promotions|overly-horny]], very cheesy and REEEEEEALLY fuckin' weird. There are some very strange, yet creative, ideas here, most of which were unfortunately too big for it's small budget. This show's got everything from; very phallic living ships, [[The God-Emperor of Mankind|magical, inter-dimensional and ever-living space emperors]] and [[/d/|people eating the faeces of the previously mentioned living ships for sustenance]], plus a lot of potential plot hooks that could easily be reincorporated. Any weird ideas you GM had for your sci-fi campaign probably came from here.

==References==
[http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/25647700/ One of many threads.]
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Approved Movies/Old

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This is a list of /tg/ approved movies, organized into loose genres, alphabetically.

Add important details in brackets.

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==Science Fiction==

* 5th Element, The
* The Abyss
* Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
* Animatrix - short Program [animated] (how to pull certain /tg/ cliche right)
* Appleseed
* Appleseed: Deus Ex Machina
* Avalon [Japanese, with original, Polish voices - this is '''very''' important, avoid English dubbing or official subtitles like fire, they change most of dialogues into incomprehensive mess]
* Babylon A.D. [director's cut]
* Blade Runner [final cut]
* Blade Runner 2049
* Boys from Brazil, The
* Brazil
* Children of Men
* Chronicle [2012]
* Cyborg [1989]
* Dark City
* Dark Star
* District 9
* Donnie Darko
* Doomsday
* [[Dune]]
* [[Judge Dredd|Dredd]] [2012]
* Edge of Tommorow
* Enemy Mine
* Equilibrium
* Event Horizon
* eXistenZ
* Fortress [1992]
* Galaxy Quest
* Gattaca
* Ghosts of Mars
* Hell [German]
* I, Robot
* Immortal [French]
* Inception
* The Iron Giant [animated]
* The Island
* Johnny Mnemonic
* K-Pax
* Logan's Run
* Looper
* [[The Lord Inquisitor]] [animated]
* The Matrix
* Men in Black [only the first one]
* Metropolis [1927]
* Metropolis [animated]
* Moon
* Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind [animated]
* O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization [Polish] (best unofficial [[Paranoia]] movie)
* Outlander
* Pacific Rim
* Paycheck (as an exercise of handling hooks and plot devices)
* The Prestige
* Primer
* Prospect
* Red Planet
* Robocop [1987]
* Robocop 2
* Robot Jox
* Rock & Rule [animated] (preferably with Canadian dubbing, as American one simply sucks)
* Snowpiercer
* Solaris [1972, 2002]
* Source Code
* The Sphere
* Stalker [Russian]
* Star Wars [original trilogy]
* Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country, First Contact and Beyond for sure, the Search for Spock and the 2009 film if you want some more)
* Stargate [1994]
* [[Starship Troopers]]
* Strange days
* Sunshine
* Terminator
* Terminator 2: Judgment Day
* The Thirteenth Floor
* THX 1138
* Time Cop
* Titan, AE [Animated]
* Total recall [1990]
* Transformers: The Movie [Animated, 1987 version only]
* Treasure Planet [Animated]
* Twelve Monkeys
* [[Ultramarines:The Movie]] [Animated]
* WALL-E [animated]

==Horror==

* 28 Days Later
* 30 days of night
* 9th Gate
* Alien
* Aliens [preferably director's cut]
* Alien 3 [''obligatory'' director's cut]
* Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre [French] - preferably helped with the original mini-series from the 60s.
* Brotherhood of the Wolf [French]
* Cabin In The Woods
* Carrie [1976] - any sequel or remake is disapproved
* Dagon [Spanish]
* The Descent
* Dog Soldiers
* Eraserhead
* Evil Dead [trilogy]
* Event Horizon
* The Exorcist
* From Dusk Till Dawn [more of a parody than straight out horror; sequel is also worth it]
* From Hell
* The Gift [2000]
* Ginger Snaps (sequels are optional)
* Hellraiser
* The Hunger [1983]
* In the Mouth of Madness
* Interview with the Vampire (and gender-flipper Byzantium)
*The Lighthouse [2019]
* The Masque of the Red Death
* Mulholland Drive
* Nattevagten [Danish]
* Near Dark (the second half of inspiration for Vampire: The Masquerade after Interview)
* Overlord
* Pandorum
* Pitch Black
* Rosemary's Baby [1968]
* The Shining
* Silent Hill [2006]
* Split Second [1992]
* The Thing [1982]
* Virus [1999]
* Witchfinder General
* The VVitch [2015]

==Fantasy==
[[Image:97_35566_0_TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowship.jpg|right|thumb|The essential fantasy trilogy (not on the list because it's so obvious that this is a /tg/ approved movie).]]
* 10,000 BC
* The 13th Warrior
* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
* The Beastmaster
* Beowulf [animated, 2007]
* Big Trouble in Little China: Mind you, it's Urban Fantasy. Also, ''very'' 80s.
* Blade 1 & 2
* The Brothers Grimm
* Camelot [1988]
* Conan the Barbarian [1982]
* Conan the Destroyer
* Constantine
* Dragonheart
* Erik the Viking
* Excalibur
* Fire and Ice [animated]
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
* Hellboy (only the first one; the 2004 one)
* Highlander (only the first movie; "Highlander II: The Quickening" is /tg/ unapproved, but worth a watch if you just want to see an insanely bad movie and a solid lesson in how '''*not*''' to extend a setting)
* The Hobbit [animated]
* Henshi Generations FOREVER [tokusatu]
* Howl's Moving Castle [animated]
* Immortal [French]
* Ink [2009]
* Innocent Blood [1992]
* Jabberwocky [1977]
* Jumanji (both the 1995 and 2017 version).
* Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
* Krull
* Kull the Conqueror
* Labyrinth
* Ladyhawke
* The Last Unicorn [animated]
* The Last Witch Hunter
* The Legend
* Lord of the Rings [animated]
* Masters of the Universe [1987]
* Neverending Story
* Night Watch [Russian]:Hello again, Urban Fantasy.
* The Nightmare Before Christmas [animated]
* Ondine
* Pan's Labyrinth
* Princess Mononoke [animated]
* The Princess Bride
* Red Sonja
* Reign of Fire
* The Return of the King [animated]
* Ronal The Barbarian [animated]
* SAGA - Curse of the Shadow
* The Secret of NIMH [animated]
* Snow White and the Huntsman (the visuals are definitely worth enduring it)
** Same with the sequel, The Huntsman: Winter's War
* Solomon Kane
* Song of the Sea [animated]
* Secret of Kells [animated]
* Stardust
* The Thief and the Cobbler [animated, The Recobbled Cut]
* The Thief of Baghdad [1924/1940]
* Time Bandits
* Trollhunter [Norwegian]
* Underworld (first movie, rest of the franchise is purely optional)
* Vidocq [French]
* Voyage of the Unicorn [TV movie]
* Willow
* Wizards
* Wolfhound of the Grey Hound Clan [Russian]

==Comedy==
* 48 hours
* Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
* Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 (and let's pretend 3 doesn't exist)
* The Big Hit
* Big Lebowski
* Blues Brothers
* Braindead [1992]
* Buffalo Soldiers
* A Chinese Ghost Story [Chinese] (1987) - sequels are optional, remake is shunned
* Cocoon (1985)
* Coming to America
* The Cuckoo [Russian]
* [[Dark Dungeons]]
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [1998]
* A Fish Called Wanda
* Fletch
* Forrest Gump
* Fright Night [1985 & 2011]
* Futurama Bender's Game - A Futurama movie created in honor of Gary Gygax's death. Basically a parody to Dungeon and Dragons and Lord of the Ring. It also counts as a science fiction film because well, is Futurama.
* The Gamers trilogy (preferably with dice subtitles)
* Gentlemen Broncos
* Ghostbusters (1984)
* Grosse Pointe Blank & War, Inc.
* Groundhog Day
* In Bruges
* Kindergarten Cop
* Kung Fu Hustle
* Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
* The Mask
* The Men Who Stare at Goats
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail
* Monty Python's Life of Brian
* Nothing to Lose
* Tropic Thunder - all-bard party at war
* Secondhand Lions
* Shaun Of The Dead [Actually, the whole Cornetto Trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End]
* The Sister Act
* Snatch
* Space Balls
* Spies like us
* Stay Tuned
* The Sting
* Taxi [French]
* Trading Places
* Tremors
* Vabank [Polish]
* We're No Angels (both the 1955 and 1989 versions)
* What We Do In The Shadows
* Your Highness
* Zombieland

==Western==
* 3:10 to Yuma [1957]
* The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* Dances with Wolves (preferably extended edition; warning - it runs for almost 4 hours, but is well worth it)
* The Dark Valley [Austrian]
* Django [1966]
* Django Unchained [unrelated with the above]
* Dollars Trilogy [A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - preferably extended cuts]
* The Good, The Bad, The Weird [Korean] (Korean cut, not the international!)
* The Hateful 8
* High Noon
* High Plain Drifter
* Jeremiah Johnson
* The Magificent Seven [1960]
* My Name Is Nobody
* Once Upon a Time in the West
* Open Range
* Outland
* Pale Rider
* Quigley down under
* Rio Bravo
* Showdown at The O.K. Corral
* Silverado
* They call me Trinity
* Tombstone
* Treasure of the Silver Lake (along with other Winnetou films) - a warning of what happens if you have no clue how to run a western setting.
* True Grit (1969 and 2010 versions)
* Two Mules for Sister Sara
* Unforgiven
* The Wild Bunch
* The Outlaw Josey Wales
* White Sun of the Desert (Soviet "eastern")

==Action==
* Blood Diamond
* Blue Thunder
* Centurion
* The Chronicles of Riddick
* Collateral
* Commando
* The Dark Knight
* The Departed [and original Infernal Affairs]
* Die Hard 1 & 3 (and only those two)
* Elite Squad 1 & 2 [Brazilian]
* Escape from New York
* Hanna
* Hard Boiled [1992]
* Haywire
* John Wick
* Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2
* Knight and Day
* Last Action Hero
* Lethal Weapon 1 & 2 [or entire quadrilogy]
* The Long Kiss Goodnight
* Mad Max series
* Mission Impossible 3 & 4 (and only those two)
* Predator & Preadators (though they're also sci-fi. Predator 2 is optional).
* Ronin [1998]
* The Running Man
* Running Scared [2006]
* Steel Dawn
* Streets of Fire
* The Transporter ('''only''' the first one)
* True Lies
* The Untouchables
* Waterworld
* Wild Wild West

==War==
* The 9th Company [Russian] (watch original version - English dubb is just awful)
* Alexander [Final Cut version, avoid like fire theatrical cut]
* Apocalypse Now
* A Bridge Too Far
* Colonel Wolodyjowski [Polish]
* Crimson Tide
* Das Boot [extended, serialised version - takes 5 hours, worth every minute]
* The Deluge [Polish]
* Dirty Dozen
* The Dogs Of War
* Full Metal Jacket [1987]
* Fury
* Gallipoli
* Gettysburg
* Guns of Navarone
* Hell in the Pacific
* Kelly's Heroes [and it's remake/update Three Kings]
* Kingdom of Heaven [extended director's cut]
* Lawrence of Arabia
* Legionnaire
* Lone Survivor [2013] (as a case study of how and why high-level characters aren't invulnerable)
* Lord of War
* Manhunt [2012, Polish]
* Mulan [Chinese from 2009 and animated from 1998]
* Platoon
* Red Cliff [Chinese full cut]
* Sahara [1943/95, '''*not*''' the adventure flick from 2005]
* Sharpe series [TV movies starring Sean Bean]
* Soldier [1998]
* Soldier of Orange [Dutch]
* Thin Red Line
* War [2002, Russian]
* Windtalkers
* Where Eagles Dare
* Zwartboek [Dutch, '''only''' after watching Soldier of Orange]

==Crime==
* American Animals
* Black Rain
* The Casino
* Chinatown
* Crimson Rivers [French] (avoid English dubbing, it's horrible)
* Dobermann [French] (chaotic evil campaign)
* Dog Day Afternoon
* The Disappearance of Alice Creed (how to conserve details)
* Entrapment [1999]
* Escape from Alcatraz
* French Connection
* The Godfather I & II
* Gone Girl
* The Good Thief
* The Handmaiden [Korean] (just watch it, don't read anything about it)
* Heat
* Heist [2001] (all-Rogue campaign)
* Hell or High Water
* A History of Violence
* In the Shadow [2012, Czech]
* Insomnia [2002]
* Italian Job [1969 & 2003]
* Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
* L.A. Confidential
* Layer Cake
* Matchstick Men
* Money Train
* The Nice Guys
* No Country for Old Men
* Palmetto
* Payback [both theatrical and director's cut - two different films]
* Plunkett & Macleane
* Pulp Fiction
* Red Rock West
* Reindeer Games
* Reservoir Dogs
* The Score
* A Simple Plan
* Sneakers
* The Spanish Prisoner
* The Thief [1981]
* The Thieves [Korean]
* The Thomas Crown Affair [both 1968 & 1999]
* The Town [2010]
* Trance [2013]
* The Truth About Charlie
* The Usual Suspects
* The Witness [1985]

==Adventure==
* The African Queen
* Alatriste [Spanish]
* Atlantis: The Lost Empire [Animated]
* Black Robe
* Captain Blood
* Cast Away
* The Crimson Pirate [1952]
* Cutthroat Island
* Fanfan la Tulipe [1952, French]
* Flight of the Phoenix [1965/2004]
* The Ghost and the Darkness
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan [the only approved Tarzan production]
* Hidalgo
* Indiana Jones [trilogy only - outside the original 3 there are no others]
* Ivanhoe
* Janosik [2009, Polish-Slovakian co-production]
* King Kong [1933, 2005]
* King Solomon's Mines [1985]
* Kon-Tiki [Norwegian]
* Last of the Mohicans
* Le Bossu [French, 1959/1997]
* The Librarian [TV movies franchise]
* The Man Who Would Be King
* The Mummy [1999 - and only this one]
* National Treasure
* Prince of Persia
* Queen of the Desert
* Quest for Fire [1981]
* Renegades [2017] (a perfect Merc 2000 module)
* The Road to El Dorado [Animated]
* Romancing the Stone
* The Sea Hawk
* The Snow Walker
* Stand by me (how to handle atypical quest with atypical party)
* Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
* Six Days, Seven Nights
* Tintin - both the 2011 motion capture and old feature animations from the 60s (animated TV series is meanwhile approved television)
* Tomb Raider [2001] (Just bring lots of alcohol and friends)
* The Way Back

==General==
* [[Mazes and Monsters]] - The "so bad it's good"-type movie. Based on a novel by a hack writer for ''Cosmopolitan'' that assumed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dallas_Egbert_III|James Dallas Egbert III's disappearance] had something to do with gaming. Starring Tom Hanks and the World Trade Center Towers (it was made before their destruction)
* 7 Samurai
* 8MM
* Aguirre, the Wrath of God [German]
* Amadeus
* The American
* As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me [German]
* Astropia
* The Blood of Heroes/Salute to the Jugger [goes under both titles] - two words, my friend: "Walk slowly"
* Baraka [obligatory HD restored version]
* A boy and his dog
* Capricorn One
* The Cell
* The City of Lost Children
* A Clockwork Orange
* The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
* The Day After [1983]
* Dead Calm [1989]
* Death Wish [1974] (sequels are so hilariously bad they are painful to watch)
* Deliverance
* Dirty Harry (the rest of the series is optional)
* Donnie Brasco
* Dr. No
* The Dressmaker
* The Duellists
* The Fall
* Falling Down
* <s>Fight Club</s> DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS
* First Blood
* Fort Saganne [French]
* The Game [1997]
* Gangs of New York
* Geronimo: An American Legend
* Ghost Dog
* The Great Escape
* Heavy Metal [animated]
* Hero [Chinese]
* The Hidden Fortress [Japanese]
* House of Flying Daggers [Chinese]
* Humanity and Paper Balloons [Japanese]
* In The Name Of The Rose
* The Insider
* Jurassic Park
* Koyaanisqatsi (rest of the Qatsi trilogy is optional. [[Approved music|Soundtrack is also approved.]])
* The Last Valley
* Léon: the Professional
* Les Diaboliques [both French original and the remake from 1996]
* Les Samurai [French]
* The Lives of Others [German] (how to Lawful Evil)
* The Madness of King George
* Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (how to maritime)
* Miracle Mile
* The Mission [1986] (novelisation is approved literature, greatly expanding the story into TTRPG campaign territory. Also, amazing soundtrack.)
* Money Talks [1997]
* Mr Brooks
* Nick of Time
* North by North-West
* Nowhere in Africa [German]
* On the Beach [1959 & 2000]
* Once upon a time in China 1 & 2
* Papillon [1973]
* The Piano
* Ran (Japanese)
* Rashômon [1950]
* The Road
* Rob Roy
* Run Lola Run [German]
* Runaway Train
* Sanjuro [1962]
* Sense and Sensibility
* Sekal has to die [Czech-Polish co-production]
* The Seventh Seal
* Shawshank Redemption
* Six-String Samurai
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
* Sorcerer [1977, obligatory HD restored version]
* Superman [1978] & Superman 2 [1980]
* Surviving the Game
* The Sword and the Rose
* Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
* Tai-Pan
* Tasogare Seibei [Japanese]
* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
* Throne of Blood [Japanese]
* Trash Humpers
* Training Day
* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
* Unbreakable
* Vatel [French]
* WarGames
* The Wild Hunt
* Yôjinbô [Japanese]
* Zatōichi [''at least'' the 2003 film]
[[Category:Approved Media]]

Approved Movies/Old

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This is a list of /tg/ approved movies, organized into loose genres, alphabetically.

Add important details in brackets.

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==Science Fiction==

* 5th Element, The
* The Abyss
* Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
* Animatrix - short Program [animated] (how to pull certain /tg/ cliche right)
* Appleseed
* Appleseed: Deus Ex Machina
* Avalon [Japanese, with original, Polish voices - this is '''very''' important, avoid English dubbing or official subtitles like fire, they change most of dialogues into incomprehensive mess]
* Babylon A.D. [director's cut]
* Blade Runner [final cut]
* Blade Runner 2049
* Boys from Brazil, The
* Brazil
* Children of Men
* Chronicle [2012]
* Cyborg [1989]
* Dark City
* Dark Star
* District 9
* Donnie Darko
* Doomsday
* [[Dune]]
* [[Judge Dredd|Dredd]] [2012]
* Edge of Tommorow
* Enemy Mine
* Equilibrium
* Event Horizon
* eXistenZ
* Fortress [1992]
* Galaxy Quest
* Gattaca
* Ghosts of Mars
* Hell [German]
* I, Robot
* Immortal [French]
* Inception
* The Iron Giant [animated]
* The Island
* Johnny Mnemonic
* K-Pax
* Logan's Run
* Looper
* [[The Lord Inquisitor]] [animated]
* The Matrix
* Men in Black [only the first one]
* Metropolis [1927]
* Metropolis [animated]
* Moon
* Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind [animated]
* O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization [Polish] (best unofficial [[Paranoia]] movie)
* Outlander
* Pacific Rim
* Paycheck (as an exercise of handling hooks and plot devices)
* The Prestige
* Primer
* Prospect
* Red Planet
* Robocop [1987]
* Robocop 2
* Robot Jox
* Rock & Rule [animated] (preferably with Canadian dubbing, as American one simply sucks)
* Snowpiercer
* Solaris [1972, 2002]
* Source Code
* The Sphere
* Stalker [Russian]
* Star Wars [original trilogy]
* Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country, First Contact and Beyond for sure, the Search for Spock and the 2009 film if you want some more)
* Stargate [1994]
* [[Starship Troopers]]
* Strange days
* Sunshine
* Terminator
* Terminator 2: Judgment Day
* The Thirteenth Floor
* THX 1138
* Time Cop
* Titan, AE [Animated]
* Total recall [1990]
* Transformers: The Movie [Animated, 1987 version only]
* Treasure Planet [Animated]
* Twelve Monkeys
* [[Ultramarines:The Movie]] [Animated]
* WALL-E [animated]

==Horror==

* 28 Days Later
* 30 days of night
* 9th Gate
* Alien
* Aliens [preferably director's cut]
* Alien 3 [''obligatory'' director's cut]
* Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre [French] - preferably helped with the original mini-series from the 60s.
* Brotherhood of the Wolf [French]
* Cabin In The Woods
* Carrie [1976] - any sequel or remake is disapproved
* Dagon [Spanish]
* The Descent
* Dog Soldiers
* Eraserhead
* Evil Dead [trilogy]
* Event Horizon
* The Exorcist
* From Dusk Till Dawn [more of a parody than straight out horror; sequel is also worth it]
* From Hell
* The Gift [2000]
* Ginger Snaps (sequels are optional)
* Hellraiser
* The Hunger [1983]
* In the Mouth of Madness
* Interview with the Vampire (and gender-flipper Byzantium)
*The Lighthouse [2019]
* The Masque of the Red Death
* Mulholland Drive
* Nattevagten [Danish]
* Near Dark (the second half of inspiration for Vampire: The Masquerade after Interview)
* Overlord
* Pandorum
* Pitch Black
* Rosemary's Baby [1968]
* The Shining
* Silent Hill [2006]
* Split Second [1992]
* The Thing [1982]
* Virus [1999]
* Witchfinder General
* The VVitch [2015]

==Fantasy==
[[Image:97_35566_0_TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowship.jpg|right|thumb|The essential fantasy trilogy (not on the list because it's so obvious that this is a /tg/ approved movie).]]
* 10,000 BC
* The 13th Warrior
* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
* The Beastmaster
* Beowulf [animated, 2007]
* Big Trouble in Little China: Mind you, it's Urban Fantasy. Also, ''very'' 80s.
* Blade 1 & 2
* The Brothers Grimm
* Camelot [1988]
* Conan the Barbarian [1982]
* Conan the Destroyer
* Constantine
* Dragonheart
* Erik the Viking
* Excalibur
* Fire and Ice [animated]
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
* Hellboy (only the first one; the 2004 one)
* Highlander (only the first movie; "Highlander II: The Quickening" is /tg/ unapproved, but worth a watch if you just want to see an insanely bad movie and a solid lesson in how '''*not*''' to extend a setting)
* The Hobbit [animated]
* Henshi Generations FOREVER [tokusatu]
* Howl's Moving Castle [animated]
* Immortal [French]
* Ink [2009]
* Innocent Blood [1992]
* Jabberwocky [1977]
* Jumanji (both the 1995 and 2017 version).
* Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
* Krull
* Kull the Conqueror
* Labyrinth
* Ladyhawke
* The Last Unicorn [animated]
* The Last Witch Hunter
* The Legend
* Lord of the Rings [animated]
* Masters of the Universe [1987]
* Neverending Story
* Night Watch [Russian]:Hello again, Urban Fantasy.
* The Nightmare Before Christmas [animated]
* Ondine
* Pan's Labyrinth
* Princess Mononoke [animated]
* The Princess Bride
* Red Sonja
* Reign of Fire
* The Return of the King [animated]
* Ronal The Barbarian [animated]
* SAGA - Curse of the Shadow
* The Secret of NIMH [animated]
* Snow White and the Huntsman (the visuals are definitely worth enduring it)
** Same with the sequel, The Huntsman: Winter's War
* Solomon Kane
* Song of the Sea [animated]
* Secret of Kells [animated]
* Stardust
* The Thief and the Cobbler [animated, The Recobbled Cut]
* The Thief of Baghdad [1924/1940]
* Time Bandits
* Trollhunter [Norwegian]
* Underworld (first movie, rest of the franchise is purely optional)
* Vidocq [French]
* Voyage of the Unicorn [TV movie]
* Willow
* Wizards
* Wolfhound of the Grey Hound Clan [Russian]

==Comedy==
* 48 hours
* Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
* Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 (and let's pretend 3 doesn't exist)
* The Big Hit
* Big Lebowski
* Blues Brothers
* Braindead [1992]
* Buffalo Soldiers
* A Chinese Ghost Story [Chinese] (1987) - sequels are optional, remake is shunned
* Cocoon (1985)
* Coming to America
* The Cuckoo [Russian]
* [[Dark Dungeons]]
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [1998]
* A Fish Called Wanda
* Fletch
* Forrest Gump
* Fright Night [1985 & 2011]
* Futurama Bender's Game - A Futurama movie created in honor of Gary Gygax's death. Basically a parody to Dungeon and Dragons and Lord of the Ring. It also counts as a science fiction film because well, is Futurama.
* The Gamers trilogy (preferably with dice subtitles)
* Gentlemen Broncos
* Ghostbusters (1984)
* Grosse Pointe Blank & War, Inc.
* Groundhog Day
* In Bruges
* Kindergarten Cop
* Kung Fu Hustle
* Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
* The Mask
* The Men Who Stare at Goats
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail
* Monty Python's Life of Brian
* Nothing to Lose
* Tropic Thunder - all-bard party at war
* Secondhand Lions
* Shaun Of The Dead [Actually, the whole Cornetto Trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End]
* The Sister Act
* Snatch
* Space Balls
* Spies like us
* Stay Tuned
* The Sting
* Taxi [French]
* Trading Places
* Tremors
* Vabank [Polish]
* We're No Angels (both the 1955 and 1989 versions)
* What We Do In The Shadows
* Your Highness
* Zombieland

==Western==
* 3:10 to Yuma [1957]
* The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* Dances with Wolves (preferably extended edition; warning - it runs for almost 4 hours, but is well worth it)
* The Dark Valley [Austrian]
* Django [1966]
* Django Unchained [unrelated with the above]
* Dollars Trilogy [A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - preferably extended cuts]
* The Good, The Bad, The Weird [Korean] (Korean cut, not the international!)
* The Hateful 8
* High Noon
* High Plain Drifter
* Jeremiah Johnson
* The Magificent Seven [1960]
* My Name Is Nobody
* Once Upon a Time in the West
* Open Range
* Outland
* Pale Rider
* Quigley down under
* Rio Bravo
* Showdown at The O.K. Corral
* Silverado
* They call me Trinity
* Tombstone
* Treasure of the Silver Lake (along with other Winnetou films) - a warning of what happens if you have no clue how to run a western setting.
* True Grit (1969 and 2010 versions)
* Two Mules for Sister Sara
* Unforgiven
* The Wild Bunch
* The Outlaw Josey Wales
* White Sun of the Desert (Soviet "eastern")

==Action==
* Blood Diamond
* Blue Thunder
* Centurion
* The Chronicles of Riddick
* Collateral
* Commando
* The Dark Knight
* The Departed [and original Infernal Affairs]
* Die Hard 1 & 3 (and only those two)
* Elite Squad 1 & 2 [Brazilian]
* Escape from New York
* Hanna
* Hard Boiled [1992]
* Haywire
* John Wick
* Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2
* Knight and Day
* Last Action Hero
* Lethal Weapon 1 & 2 [or entire quadrilogy]
* The Long Kiss Goodnight
* Mad Max series
* Mission Impossible 3 & 4 (and only those two)
* Predator & Predators
* Ronin [1998]
* The Running Man
* Running Scared [2006]
* Steel Dawn
* Streets of Fire
* The Transporter ('''only''' the first one)
* True Lies
* The Untouchables
* Waterworld
* Wild Wild West

==War==
* The 9th Company [Russian] (watch original version - English dubb is just awful)
* Alexander [Final Cut version, avoid like fire theatrical cut]
* Apocalypse Now
* A Bridge Too Far
* Colonel Wolodyjowski [Polish]
* Crimson Tide
* Das Boot [extended, serialised version - takes 5 hours, worth every minute]
* The Deluge [Polish]
* Dirty Dozen
* The Dogs Of War
* Full Metal Jacket [1987]
* Fury
* Gallipoli
* Gettysburg
* Guns of Navarone
* Hell in the Pacific
* Kelly's Heroes [and it's remake/update Three Kings]
* Kingdom of Heaven [extended director's cut]
* Lawrence of Arabia
* Legionnaire
* Lone Survivor [2013] (as a case study of how and why high-level characters aren't invulnerable)
* Lord of War
* Manhunt [2012, Polish]
* Mulan [Chinese from 2009 and animated from 1998]
* Platoon
* Red Cliff [Chinese full cut]
* Sahara [1943/95, '''*not*''' the adventure flick from 2005]
* Sharpe series [TV movies starring Sean Bean]
* Soldier [1998]
* Soldier of Orange [Dutch]
* Thin Red Line
* War [2002, Russian]
* Windtalkers
* Where Eagles Dare
* Zwartboek [Dutch, '''only''' after watching Soldier of Orange]

==Crime==
* American Animals
* Black Rain
* The Casino
* Chinatown
* Crimson Rivers [French] (avoid English dubbing, it's horrible)
* Dobermann [French] (chaotic evil campaign)
* Dog Day Afternoon
* The Disappearance of Alice Creed (how to conserve details)
* Entrapment [1999]
* Escape from Alcatraz
* French Connection
* The Godfather I & II
* Gone Girl
* The Good Thief
* The Handmaiden [Korean] (just watch it, don't read anything about it)
* Heat
* Heist [2001] (all-Rogue campaign)
* Hell or High Water
* A History of Violence
* In the Shadow [2012, Czech]
* Insomnia [2002]
* Italian Job [1969 & 2003]
* Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
* L.A. Confidential
* Layer Cake
* Matchstick Men
* Money Train
* The Nice Guys
* No Country for Old Men
* Palmetto
* Payback [both theatrical and director's cut - two different films]
* Plunkett & Macleane
* Pulp Fiction
* Red Rock West
* Reindeer Games
* Reservoir Dogs
* The Score
* A Simple Plan
* Sneakers
* The Spanish Prisoner
* The Thief [1981]
* The Thieves [Korean]
* The Thomas Crown Affair [both 1968 & 1999]
* The Town [2010]
* Trance [2013]
* The Truth About Charlie
* The Usual Suspects
* The Witness [1985]

==Adventure==
* The African Queen
* Alatriste [Spanish]
* Atlantis: The Lost Empire [Animated]
* Black Robe
* Captain Blood
* Cast Away
* The Crimson Pirate [1952]
* Cutthroat Island
* Fanfan la Tulipe [1952, French]
* Flight of the Phoenix [1965/2004]
* The Ghost and the Darkness
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan [the only approved Tarzan production]
* Hidalgo
* Indiana Jones [trilogy only - outside the original 3 there are no others]
* Ivanhoe
* Janosik [2009, Polish-Slovakian co-production]
* King Kong [1933, 2005]
* King Solomon's Mines [1985]
* Kon-Tiki [Norwegian]
* Last of the Mohicans
* Le Bossu [French, 1959/1997]
* The Librarian [TV movies franchise]
* The Man Who Would Be King
* The Mummy [1999 - and only this one]
* National Treasure
* Prince of Persia
* Queen of the Desert
* Quest for Fire [1981]
* Renegades [2017] (a perfect Merc 2000 module)
* The Road to El Dorado [Animated]
* Romancing the Stone
* The Sea Hawk
* The Snow Walker
* Stand by me (how to handle atypical quest with atypical party)
* Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
* Six Days, Seven Nights
* Tintin - both the 2011 motion capture and old feature animations from the 60s (animated TV series is meanwhile approved television)
* Tomb Raider [2001] (Just bring lots of alcohol and friends)
* The Way Back

==General==
* [[Mazes and Monsters]] - The "so bad it's good"-type movie. Based on a novel by a hack writer for ''Cosmopolitan'' that assumed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dallas_Egbert_III|James Dallas Egbert III's disappearance] had something to do with gaming. Starring Tom Hanks and the World Trade Center Towers (it was made before their destruction)
* 7 Samurai
* 8MM
* Aguirre, the Wrath of God [German]
* Amadeus
* The American
* As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me [German]
* Astropia
* The Blood of Heroes/Salute to the Jugger [goes under both titles] - two words, my friend: "Walk slowly"
* Baraka [obligatory HD restored version]
* A boy and his dog
* Capricorn One
* The Cell
* The City of Lost Children
* A Clockwork Orange
* The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
* The Day After [1983]
* Dead Calm [1989]
* Death Wish [1974] (sequels are so hilariously bad they are painful to watch)
* Deliverance
* Dirty Harry (the rest of the series is optional)
* Donnie Brasco
* Dr. No
* The Dressmaker
* The Duellists
* The Fall
* Falling Down
* <s>Fight Club</s> DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS
* First Blood
* Fort Saganne [French]
* The Game [1997]
* Gangs of New York
* Geronimo: An American Legend
* Ghost Dog
* The Great Escape
* Heavy Metal [animated]
* Hero [Chinese]
* The Hidden Fortress [Japanese]
* House of Flying Daggers [Chinese]
* Humanity and Paper Balloons [Japanese]
* In The Name Of The Rose
* The Insider
* Jurassic Park
* Koyaanisqatsi (rest of the Qatsi trilogy is optional. [[Approved music|Soundtrack is also approved.]])
* The Last Valley
* Léon: the Professional
* Les Diaboliques [both French original and the remake from 1996]
* Les Samurai [French]
* The Lives of Others [German] (how to Lawful Evil)
* The Madness of King George
* Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (how to maritime)
* Miracle Mile
* The Mission [1986] (novelisation is approved literature, greatly expanding the story into TTRPG campaign territory. Also, amazing soundtrack.)
* Money Talks [1997]
* Mr Brooks
* Nick of Time
* North by North-West
* Nowhere in Africa [German]
* On the Beach [1959 & 2000]
* Once upon a time in China 1 & 2
* Papillon [1973]
* The Piano
* Ran (Japanese)
* Rashômon [1950]
* The Road
* Rob Roy
* Run Lola Run [German]
* Runaway Train
* Sanjuro [1962]
* Sense and Sensibility
* Sekal has to die [Czech-Polish co-production]
* The Seventh Seal
* Shawshank Redemption
* Six-String Samurai
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
* Sorcerer [1977, obligatory HD restored version]
* Superman [1978] & Superman 2 [1980]
* Surviving the Game
* The Sword and the Rose
* Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
* Tai-Pan
* Tasogare Seibei [Japanese]
* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
* Throne of Blood [Japanese]
* Trash Humpers
* Training Day
* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
* Unbreakable
* Vatel [French]
* WarGames
* The Wild Hunt
* Yôjinbô [Japanese]
* Zatōichi [''at least'' the 2003 film]
[[Category:Approved Media]]

Approved Movies/Old

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This is a list of /tg/ approved movies, organized into loose genres, alphabetically.

Add important details in brackets.

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==Science Fiction==

* 5th Element, The
* The Abyss
* Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
* Animatrix - short Program [animated] (how to pull certain /tg/ cliche right)
* Appleseed
* Appleseed: Deus Ex Machina
* Avalon [Japanese, with original, Polish voices - this is '''very''' important, avoid English dubbing or official subtitles like fire, they change most of dialogues into incomprehensive mess]
* Babylon A.D. [director's cut]
* Blade Runner [final cut]
* Blade Runner 2049
* Boys from Brazil, The
* Brazil
* Children of Men
* Chronicle [2012]
* Cyborg [1989]
* Dark City
* Dark Star
* District 9
* Donnie Darko
* Doomsday
* [[Dune]]
* [[Judge Dredd|Dredd]] [2012]
* Edge of Tommorow
* Enemy Mine
* Equilibrium
* Event Horizon
* eXistenZ
* Fortress [1992]
* Galaxy Quest
* Gattaca
* Ghosts of Mars
* Hell [German]
* I, Robot
* Immortal [French]
* Inception
* The Iron Giant [animated]
* The Island
* Johnny Mnemonic
* K-Pax
* Logan's Run
* Looper
* [[The Lord Inquisitor]] [animated]
* The Matrix
* Men in Black [only the first one]
* Metropolis [1927]
* Metropolis [animated]
* Moon
* Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind [animated]
* O-Bi, O-Ba: The End of Civilization [Polish] (best unofficial [[Paranoia]] movie)
* Outlander
* Pacific Rim
* Paycheck (as an exercise of handling hooks and plot devices)
* The Prestige
* Primer
* Prospect
* Red Planet
* Robocop [1987]
* Robocop 2
* Robot Jox
* Rock & Rule [animated] (preferably with Canadian dubbing, as American one simply sucks)
* Snowpiercer
* Solaris [1972, 2002]
* Source Code
* The Sphere
* Stalker [Russian]
* Star Wars [original trilogy]
* Star Trek (The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country, First Contact and Beyond for sure, the Search for Spock and the 2009 film if you want some more)
* Stargate [1994]
* [[Starship Troopers]]
* Strange days
* Sunshine
* Terminator
* Terminator 2: Judgment Day
* The Thirteenth Floor
* THX 1138
* Time Cop
* Titan, AE [Animated]
* Total recall [1990]
* Transformers: The Movie [Animated, 1987 version only]
* Treasure Planet [Animated]
* Twelve Monkeys
* [[Ultramarines:The Movie]] [Animated]
* WALL-E [animated]

==Horror==

* 28 Days Later
* 30 days of night
* 9th Gate
* Alien
* Aliens [preferably director's cut]
* Alien 3 [''obligatory'' director's cut]
* Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre [French] - preferably helped with the original mini-series from the 60s.
* Brotherhood of the Wolf [French]
* Cabin In The Woods
* Carrie [1976] - any sequel or remake is disapproved
* Dagon [Spanish]
* The Descent
* Dog Soldiers
* Eraserhead
* Evil Dead [trilogy]
* Event Horizon
* The Exorcist
* From Dusk Till Dawn [more of a parody than straight out horror; sequel is also worth it]
* From Hell
* The Gift [2000]
* Ginger Snaps (sequels are optional)
* Hellraiser
* The Hunger [1983]
* In the Mouth of Madness
* Interview with the Vampire (and gender-flipper Byzantium)
*The Lighthouse [2019]
* The Masque of the Red Death
* Mulholland Drive
* Nattevagten [Danish]
* Near Dark (the second half of inspiration for Vampire: The Masquerade after Interview)
* Overlord
* Pandorum
* Pitch Black
* Rosemary's Baby [1968]
* The Shining
* Silent Hill [2006]
* Split Second [1992]
* The Thing [1982]
* Virus [1999]
* Witchfinder General
* The VVitch [2015]

==Fantasy==
[[Image:97_35566_0_TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowship.jpg|right|thumb|The essential fantasy trilogy (not on the list because it's so obvious that this is a /tg/ approved movie).]]
* 10,000 BC
* The 13th Warrior
* The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
* The Beastmaster
* Beowulf [animated, 2007]
* Big Trouble in Little China: Mind you, it's Urban Fantasy. Also, ''very'' 80s.
* Blade 1 & 2
* The Brothers Grimm
* Camelot [1988]
* Conan the Barbarian [1982]
* Conan the Destroyer
* Constantine
* Dragonheart
* Erik the Viking
* Excalibur
* Fire and Ice [animated]
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
* Hellboy (only the first one; the 2004 one)
* Highlander (only the first movie; "Highlander II: The Quickening" is /tg/ unapproved, but worth a watch if you just want to see an insanely bad movie and a solid lesson in how '''*not*''' to extend a setting)
* The Hobbit [animated]
* Henshi Generations FOREVER [tokusatu]
* Howl's Moving Castle [animated]
* Immortal [French]
* Ink [2009]
* Innocent Blood [1992]
* Jabberwocky [1977]
* Jumanji (and if you have spare time - the animated TV show too)
* Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
* Krull
* Kull the Conqueror
* Labyrinth
* Ladyhawke
* The Last Unicorn [animated]
* The Last Witch Hunter
* The Legend
* Lord of the Rings [animated]
* Masters of the Universe [1987]
* Neverending Story
* Night Watch [Russian]:Hello again, Urban Fantasy.
* The Nightmare Before Christmas [animated]
* Ondine
* Pan's Labyrinth
* Princess Mononoke [animated]
* The Princess Bride
* Red Sonja
* Reign of Fire
* The Return of the King [animated]
* Ronal The Barbarian [animated]
* SAGA - Curse of the Shadow
* The Secret of NIMH [animated]
* Snow White and the Huntsman (the visuals are definitely worth enduring it)
** Same with the sequel, The Huntsman: Winter's War
* Solomon Kane
* Song of the Sea [animated]
* Secret of Kells [animated]
* Stardust
* The Thief and the Cobbler [animated, The Recobbled Cut]
* The Thief of Baghdad [1924/1940]
* Time Bandits
* Trollhunter [Norwegian]
* Underworld (first movie, rest of the franchise is purely optional)
* Vidocq [French]
* Voyage of the Unicorn [TV movie]
* Willow
* Wizards
* Wolfhound of the Grey Hound Clan [Russian]

==Comedy==
* 48 hours
* Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
* Beverly Hills Cop 1 & 2 (and let's pretend 3 doesn't exist)
* The Big Hit
* Big Lebowski
* Blues Brothers
* Braindead [1992]
* Buffalo Soldiers
* A Chinese Ghost Story [Chinese] (1987) - sequels are optional, remake is shunned
* Cocoon (1985)
* Coming to America
* The Cuckoo [Russian]
* [[Dark Dungeons]]
* Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [1998]
* A Fish Called Wanda
* Fletch
* Forrest Gump
* Fright Night [1985 & 2011]
* Futurama Bender's Game - A Futurama movie created in honor of Gary Gygax's death. Basically a parody to Dungeon and Dragons and Lord of the Ring. It also counts as a science fiction film because well, is Futurama.
* The Gamers trilogy (preferably with dice subtitles)
* Gentlemen Broncos
* Ghostbusters (1984)
* Grosse Pointe Blank & War, Inc.
* Groundhog Day
* In Bruges
* Kindergarten Cop
* Kung Fu Hustle
* Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
* The Mask
* The Men Who Stare at Goats
* Monty Python and the Holy Grail
* Monty Python's Life of Brian
* Nothing to Lose
* Tropic Thunder - all-bard party at war
* Secondhand Lions
* Shaun Of The Dead [Actually, the whole Cornetto Trilogy: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End]
* The Sister Act
* Snatch
* Space Balls
* Spies like us
* Stay Tuned
* The Sting
* Taxi [French]
* Trading Places
* Tremors
* Vabank [Polish]
* We're No Angels (both the 1955 and 1989 versions)
* What We Do In The Shadows
* Your Highness
* Zombieland

==Western==
* 3:10 to Yuma [1957]
* The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
* Dances with Wolves (preferably extended edition; warning - it runs for almost 4 hours, but is well worth it)
* The Dark Valley [Austrian]
* Django [1966]
* Django Unchained [unrelated with the above]
* Dollars Trilogy [A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - preferably extended cuts]
* The Good, The Bad, The Weird [Korean] (Korean cut, not the international!)
* The Hateful 8
* High Noon
* High Plain Drifter
* Jeremiah Johnson
* The Magificent Seven [1960]
* My Name Is Nobody
* Once Upon a Time in the West
* Open Range
* Outland
* Pale Rider
* Quigley down under
* Rio Bravo
* Showdown at The O.K. Corral
* Silverado
* They call me Trinity
* Tombstone
* Treasure of the Silver Lake (along with other Winnetou films) - a warning of what happens if you have no clue how to run a western setting.
* True Grit (1969 and 2010 versions)
* Two Mules for Sister Sara
* Unforgiven
* The Wild Bunch
* The Outlaw Josey Wales
* White Sun of the Desert (Soviet "eastern")

==Action==
* Blood Diamond
* Blue Thunder
* Centurion
* The Chronicles of Riddick
* Collateral
* Commando
* The Dark Knight
* The Departed [and original Infernal Affairs]
* Die Hard 1 & 3 (and only those two)
* Elite Squad 1 & 2 [Brazilian]
* Escape from New York
* Hanna
* Hard Boiled [1992]
* Haywire
* John Wick
* Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2
* Knight and Day
* Last Action Hero
* Lethal Weapon 1 & 2 [or entire quadrilogy]
* The Long Kiss Goodnight
* Mad Max series
* Mission Impossible 3 & 4 (and only those two)
* Predator & Predators
* Ronin [1998]
* The Running Man
* Running Scared [2006]
* Steel Dawn
* Streets of Fire
* The Transporter ('''only''' the first one)
* True Lies
* The Untouchables
* Waterworld
* Wild Wild West

==War==
* The 9th Company [Russian] (watch original version - English dubb is just awful)
* Alexander [Final Cut version, avoid like fire theatrical cut]
* Apocalypse Now
* A Bridge Too Far
* Colonel Wolodyjowski [Polish]
* Crimson Tide
* Das Boot [extended, serialised version - takes 5 hours, worth every minute]
* The Deluge [Polish]
* Dirty Dozen
* The Dogs Of War
* Full Metal Jacket [1987]
* Fury
* Gallipoli
* Gettysburg
* Guns of Navarone
* Hell in the Pacific
* Kelly's Heroes [and it's remake/update Three Kings]
* Kingdom of Heaven [extended director's cut]
* Lawrence of Arabia
* Legionnaire
* Lone Survivor [2013] (as a case study of how and why high-level characters aren't invulnerable)
* Lord of War
* Manhunt [2012, Polish]
* Mulan [Chinese from 2009 and animated from 1998]
* Platoon
* Red Cliff [Chinese full cut]
* Sahara [1943/95, '''*not*''' the adventure flick from 2005]
* Sharpe series [TV movies starring Sean Bean]
* Soldier [1998]
* Soldier of Orange [Dutch]
* Thin Red Line
* War [2002, Russian]
* Windtalkers
* Where Eagles Dare
* Zwartboek [Dutch, '''only''' after watching Soldier of Orange]

==Crime==
* American Animals
* Black Rain
* The Casino
* Chinatown
* Crimson Rivers [French] (avoid English dubbing, it's horrible)
* Dobermann [French] (chaotic evil campaign)
* Dog Day Afternoon
* The Disappearance of Alice Creed (how to conserve details)
* Entrapment [1999]
* Escape from Alcatraz
* French Connection
* The Godfather I & II
* Gone Girl
* The Good Thief
* The Handmaiden [Korean] (just watch it, don't read anything about it)
* Heat
* Heist [2001] (all-Rogue campaign)
* Hell or High Water
* A History of Violence
* In the Shadow [2012, Czech]
* Insomnia [2002]
* Italian Job [1969 & 2003]
* Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
* L.A. Confidential
* Layer Cake
* Matchstick Men
* Money Train
* The Nice Guys
* No Country for Old Men
* Palmetto
* Payback [both theatrical and director's cut - two different films]
* Plunkett & Macleane
* Pulp Fiction
* Red Rock West
* Reindeer Games
* Reservoir Dogs
* The Score
* A Simple Plan
* Sneakers
* The Spanish Prisoner
* The Thief [1981]
* The Thieves [Korean]
* The Thomas Crown Affair [both 1968 & 1999]
* The Town [2010]
* Trance [2013]
* The Truth About Charlie
* The Usual Suspects
* The Witness [1985]

==Adventure==
* The African Queen
* Alatriste [Spanish]
* Atlantis: The Lost Empire [Animated]
* Black Robe
* Captain Blood
* Cast Away
* The Crimson Pirate [1952]
* Cutthroat Island
* Fanfan la Tulipe [1952, French]
* Flight of the Phoenix [1965/2004]
* The Ghost and the Darkness
* The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan [the only approved Tarzan production]
* Hidalgo
* Indiana Jones [trilogy only - outside the original 3 there are no others]
* Ivanhoe
* Janosik [2009, Polish-Slovakian co-production]
* King Kong [1933, 2005]
* King Solomon's Mines [1985]
* Kon-Tiki [Norwegian]
* Last of the Mohicans
* Le Bossu [French, 1959/1997]
* The Librarian [TV movies franchise]
* The Man Who Would Be King
* The Mummy [1999 - and only this one]
* National Treasure
* Prince of Persia
* Queen of the Desert
* Quest for Fire [1981]
* Renegades [2017] (a perfect Merc 2000 module)
* The Road to El Dorado [Animated]
* Romancing the Stone
* The Sea Hawk
* The Snow Walker
* Stand by me (how to handle atypical quest with atypical party)
* Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger
* Six Days, Seven Nights
* Tintin - both the 2011 motion capture and old feature animations from the 60s (animated TV series is meanwhile approved television)
* Tomb Raider [2001] (Just bring lots of alcohol and friends)
* The Way Back

==General==
* [[Mazes and Monsters]] - The "so bad it's good"-type movie. Based on a novel by a hack writer for ''Cosmopolitan'' that assumed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Dallas_Egbert_III|James Dallas Egbert III's disappearance] had something to do with gaming. Starring Tom Hanks and the World Trade Center Towers (it was made before their destruction)
* 7 Samurai
* 8MM
* Aguirre, the Wrath of God [German]
* Amadeus
* The American
* As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me [German]
* Astropia
* The Blood of Heroes/Salute to the Jugger [goes under both titles] - two words, my friend: "Walk slowly"
* Baraka [obligatory HD restored version]
* A boy and his dog
* Capricorn One
* The Cell
* The City of Lost Children
* A Clockwork Orange
* The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
* Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
* The Day After [1983]
* Dead Calm [1989]
* Death Wish [1974] (sequels are so hilariously bad they are painful to watch)
* Deliverance
* Dirty Harry (the rest of the series is optional)
* Donnie Brasco
* Dr. No
* The Dressmaker
* The Duellists
* The Fall
* Falling Down
* <s>Fight Club</s> DON'T TALK ABOUT THIS
* First Blood
* Fort Saganne [French]
* The Game [1997]
* Gangs of New York
* Geronimo: An American Legend
* Ghost Dog
* The Great Escape
* Heavy Metal [animated]
* Hero [Chinese]
* The Hidden Fortress [Japanese]
* House of Flying Daggers [Chinese]
* Humanity and Paper Balloons [Japanese]
* In The Name Of The Rose
* The Insider
* Jurassic Park
* Koyaanisqatsi (rest of the Qatsi trilogy is optional. [[Approved music|Soundtrack is also approved.]])
* The Last Valley
* Léon: the Professional
* Les Diaboliques [both French original and the remake from 1996]
* Les Samurai [French]
* The Lives of Others [German] (how to Lawful Evil)
* The Madness of King George
* Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (how to maritime)
* Miracle Mile
* The Mission [1986] (novelisation is approved literature, greatly expanding the story into TTRPG campaign territory. Also, amazing soundtrack.)
* Money Talks [1997]
* Mr Brooks
* Nick of Time
* North by North-West
* Nowhere in Africa [German]
* On the Beach [1959 & 2000]
* Once upon a time in China 1 & 2
* Papillon [1973]
* The Piano
* Ran (Japanese)
* Rashômon [1950]
* The Road
* Rob Roy
* Run Lola Run [German]
* Runaway Train
* Sanjuro [1962]
* Sense and Sensibility
* Sekal has to die [Czech-Polish co-production]
* The Seventh Seal
* Shawshank Redemption
* Six-String Samurai
* Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
* Sorcerer [1977, obligatory HD restored version]
* Superman [1978] & Superman 2 [1980]
* Surviving the Game
* The Sword and the Rose
* Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
* Tai-Pan
* Tasogare Seibei [Japanese]
* Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
* Throne of Blood [Japanese]
* Trash Humpers
* Training Day
* The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
* Unbreakable
* Vatel [French]
* WarGames
* The Wild Hunt
* Yôjinbô [Japanese]
* Zatōichi [''at least'' the 2003 film]
[[Category:Approved Media]]

Queen Neferata

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[[Image:Nef or nothing.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Although in [[Warhammer 40k]] she'd be a planetary governor with a skin condition, in [[Warhammer Fantasy]] she's one of the most powerful and evil beings outside the [[Warp]].]]
{{Topquote|A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.|Eleanor Roosevelt}}
{{Topquote|Behind every great man, there is a great woman. Behind those great women, there is me!|Neferata}}

The very first fucking vampire in a setting where vampires are still cool, which is a product of her own creation rather than a Biblical curse or demonic possession. She's something of a Cleopatra expy who's been in a lot of positions of leadership-no pun intended-then found she preferred to run things behind the scenes.

==The Legend==
During the war against [[Nagash]], there was a young princess of Lahmia in the Egypt analogue of the [[Warhammer Fantasy|Warhammer]] setting, [[Nehekhara]], named Neferatem (Neferata was the name she went by outside of Nehekhara, although later writers forgot about it and had her always called Neferata). While her [[Queen Khalida|cousin]] wore pants, rode horses, shot arrows, and prayed to the snake god, Neferata spent her time doing all of jack shit while her father lead the forces of <strike>good</strike> Order against Nagash. After her pappy died, she was put in charge of the kingdom. Her brother took command of the forces of Nehekhara and made a deal with [[Arkhan the Black]] to become necromancer bros by looting Nagash's house. Her brother Lamashizzar won the backstabbing competition and took Nagash's books home with a crippled and (re)dying Arkhan to give cliffnotes along the way. Since Neferata was already a fucking level 2 Wizard, he threw the books at her and told her to get to work as he took over the job of ordering cooks to suck face with stablehands.

Now it's well known that in order to be based on Egypt, you have to be obsessed with immortality. But she took that to new levels. Neferata found her brother's secret tutor and chatted with him. She wanted Arkhan to teach her as well, and used her charm to try and persuade him. To everyone's surprise, including her own, Neferata sympathized with the imprisoned lich and formed a genuine rapport with him that grew into something more. Instead of taking notes and translating shit for Lahmia to gain an army of Level 1 Mages she started experimenting, and actually managed to improve on Nagash's techniques. She swapped Nagash's ability to become a self-sufficient lich for eternal youth powered with fresh blood, although in a different version of the story Arkhan helped a great deal more as Sphinx venom is a key ingredient which caused the drinker to fall into a coma necessitating an assistant to finish the ritual.

After the people around her used the rare skill of common sense and realized she wasn't aging and was going through more servants than most, she realized she'd need some meatshields that weren't mooks. She picked the captain of the guard and all around badass [[Abhorash]], her high priest [[W'soran/Melkhior and Zacharias the Everliving|W'soran]], her younger brother [[Ushoran]], [[Maatmeses]], [[Naamia]], [[Prince Xian Ha Feng]], [[Harakhte]], [[Zhuras]], [[Ankhat]], Neferata's husband Vashanesh, and one other. [[Vlad von Carstein]] hints in his own novels that Vashanesh is the father of his Bloodline but all other Bloodlines said such a person never existed. Later it turned out they were full of it, as Vlad was revealed to be Vashanesh himself. (There is a canon conflict here, since the novels set in and shortly after this period never mention him.) Neferata also selected another seven. Each of them was given some of Nef's home brew, and she filled them in on their new strengths and one minor recurring habit.
She also sent some vials of the Elixir to [[Cathay]] for unknown reasons.

Everyone (except Abhorash, who was a NOFUNALLOWED kinda guy) got ultra into vampirism and swapped out the Nehekharan religion for worshiping Nagash. Neferata kept studying Nagash's books and improving her magic until she figured out how to make more (albeit weaker) vampires through a ritual rather than a potion, which saved time and kept the youngbloods in their place. She became a cougar and stuck to drinking blood from shotas like wine. The vampires mutated over time and became fucking godlike, and when they get some adrenaline (their own anyway) in them they underwent quick transformations into a more feral state with sabertooth fangs and ultra sharp fingernails and such (basically the opposite of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark).

The other Nehekharan kingdoms began to get suspicious, particularly good ol' cousin [[Khalida]] (who had became a Ranger/Paladin dedicated to the asp goddess (guess where this story is going. Just guess)). To preemptively silence her, Neferata accused HER of being a vampire (note that this was after [[Malekith]] had used a similar strategy, although arguably Neferata's way was a bit more successful since it didn't involve [[Fail|trying to use a god of justice and rulership to prove your lie is the truth]]). Khalida called her out on the fact that a grave accusation of treason and heresy with no proof against an equal from an entirely different nation meant all of jack and shit, and challenged Neferata to a duel to the death for HONOR. Even though Khalida was a mere mortal badass fighting a fucking VAMPIRE DEMIGODDESS, Khalida put Neferata into single digit HP before she got to -1 herself from a <s>low blow</s> getting stabbed in the stomach by Neferata. Neferata was forced to drink from Khalida on the spot...in front of the assembled nobles of Khemri and Lahmia. While restoring her hit points, Nef tried to turn Khalida into a vampire. Faced with the incestuous advances of her cousin (oh, and the minor issue of whatever unknown dark magic shit the sabertoothed mutant was doing), called out for the snake goddess to save her soul from damnation. Asaph (the aforementioned snake goddess) sent poison through Khalida's veins, purging the vampire [[heresy]] though Khalida still died as the purification took her life (even then there was the tiny detail of a huge stab wound in her stomach).

Later the Queen of Rasetra came to Neferata asking help with her difficult pregnancy. Knowing that if male the child would be the next king of Khemri Neferata gave the woman an infusion containing her blood and when the boy was born, claimed him as her own saying he would stay in Lahmia until he came of age and took his throne. This child was called Alcadizaar. Neferata grew to believe that Alcadizaar would become her partner and started practicing wife husbandry on him, training him in every aspect of war and statehood (while also making sure he didn't get with any other woman). However when he finally discovered the truth of Neferata's undead nature, he rejected her and fled into the wild, eventually being welcomed into a nomadic desert tribe.

Neferata continued consolidating her powerbase until Alcadizaar's tribe killed one of her vampire minions and presented his head as proof to the other kings. After this the Nehekharans realized how dangerously close things were to becoming Twilight, so they gathered their forces into a vast army and laid siege to Lahmia. Some Lahmian civilians rebelled against the vampire nobility, others gathered to Abhorash and fought against the foreigners and race traitors. Led by the newly returned and crowned Alcadizaar of Khemri the Priest Kings united and destroyed Lahmia, the entire city being reduced to rubble and most of it's vampiric aristocracy destroyed. Neferata barely escaped with her life. The city fell, despite major losses on the side of <strike>good</strike> Order.

==Exile==

Of Neferata's Eleven, only seven survived. Abhorash and Neferata separately took their minions and headed north, both finding passes through the supposedly impassible mountains and reaching the Badlands, [[Orcs & Goblins|greenskin]]-infested no man's land. Due to this she avoided the final war between Nagash and Alcadizaar that saw the rest of Nehekhara join Lahmia in becoming a lifeless ruin. She did however experience it's consequences when the newly risen Tomb Kings began to hunt down vampires. In particular her cousin Khalida, returned from the dead and filled with rage, chased her across the world.

In the absence of their leaders the vampires were left in a panic. They went their own ways along the same route Nef and Ab had taken, founding different bloodlines. When Nagash cursed the vampires with weaknesses to the sun, running water (like all old people), garlic, and other random things. Neferata and her minions caught the curse too despite not being there (although there's also the suggestion this was Sigmar's doing).

Then a fuckton of time passed while Neferata traveled the world. During that time she became a misandrist, espousing the belief that men are blood farms without worthwhile thoughts or emotions unless they kowtow to women (being effeminate, watching Sex and the City, be unthinking Sugar Daddies, that sort of thing). Eventually Neferata found herself compelled to come to the capital of the Strigoi empire, Mourkain. Here she found a kingdom that was a pale reflection of her long lost Lahmia, ruled once again by a vampiric aristocracy. It's king was her former Lord of Masks Ushoran and his vizier W'soran, who together she blamed for the destruction of her home. She had been drawn by the Crown of Nagash which was buried at the heart of the capital as had most of the others of her kind.

==Queen of Mysteries==

A group of [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dorfs]] investigating the douchebaggery of the other vampire bloodlines eventually uncovered her <strike>lesbian love den</strike> SERIOUS GROUP OF VAMPIRE LADIES DOING NOTHING WRONG. In response she had her minions slaughter the Dawi and turn them into zombies before gathering an invasion force and making their [[Dwarf Fortress]] her new <strike>love-den</strike> MANLY BASTION OF BADASSERY. The undead Dwarfs rebuilt the mines, crafted with Granite and menacing with spikes of Onyx, into an Egyptian-style palace.

Nowadays the zombies are soaked in perfume and drum while skeletons do the skeleton dance ([[Meme|''2spooky!'']]) to entertain her court. Eventually Ghouls showed up to serve her, which she spent several generations trying to exterminate before confining them to the sewers when she realized they would be great for garbage disposal. She bathes in blood (because nobody has ever made vampires do that before!) of young men, then heads off to the war room an organizes her femvamps and shotavamps (all vouched for by femvamps as their subordinates) to spy on the civilizations of the world and manipulate them into getting into wars with each other ([[Skaven]] also do this, but more capably), or rooting out rival bloodlines and wiping them out (the VonCarsteins also do this, but less capably).

Queen Neferata had one goal: make the <s>women</s> worthy mortals of the world into Lahmian vampires and the <s>men</s> unworthy mortals cattle or pampered pets. Meanwhile, her cousin Khalida (who's such a badass not even [[Settra the Imperishable|Settra]] wants to fuck with her) was a [[Tomb King|Tomb <strike>King</strike> Queen]] and wanted to purge the world of vampires and their homoerotic heresy, with Neferata at the top of her list.

Neferata's cat is her Cathayan concubine shape shifter Naamia who is in love with her (at least in the novel [[Neferata (Black Library)|Neferata]] by [[Josh Reynolds]], in all other sources the cat is simply an undead familiar named Bastet).

==End times==

Neferata was recruited to rejoin [[Arkhan the Black]] (who was still in love with her after thousands of years) and [[Mannfred von Carstein]] in their plans to resurrect Nagash. Nef followed the plan, sending one of her minions (who may be fan favourite the Vampire Genevieve) to [[Balthazar Gelt]] to manipulate him into building an anti-Chaos wall protecting the humans of the [[Old World]] (in theory so Nagash could have them all to himself). Realizing that Nagash's return meant either her servitude or destruction, Neferata sent no further aid at first. However, Neferata grew concerned that if she didn't have something to offer Nagash might destroy her out of spite. She was also antsy due to lack of knowledge about Nagash's other servants, because her spies on them were dead or trapped in Sylvania and Arkhan rarely called.

After daemons attacked her fortress Neferata decided to try and get shit done, massing the forces of the Silver Pinnacle to get a re-birthday present for Nagash; the magic power of the Dwarf gods themselves (which Neferata had accidentally discovered while backpacking across the world). Fighting her way through various greenskin tribes at Skull Chasm, she led her army to the Lost Pass of the dwarfs, a long lost treasure trove of the ancestor gods. There at the Battle of Valaya's Gate her army, supported by the Wight King Krell (who had been sent by Arkhan as a precaution), their forces defeated the throng of Karak Azul leading to the deaths of both the venerable runelord Thorek Ironbrow and the mighty King Kazador. Having secured a source of power for the returned but weakened Nagash she was inducted into the ranks of his Mortarchs, becoming the Mortarch of Blood.

Once Nagash fed on [[Valaya|Valaya's]] magic, he used the power to shroud Nehekhara in darkness so the vampires wouldn't burn in the sun (no such thing as sunblock in the Warhammer world). The assembled Mortarchs then waged war on the Tomb Kings. When Nagash led his forces south into Nehekhara Neferata was given permission to lead a force to the ruins of her long lost Lahmia. There she was once more met by Khalida and the army of Lybaras. As the two armies clashed the two undead queens dueled in the Temple of Blood in the heart of the city itself. Once more Neferata was forced to flee before her vengeful cousin. Though she failed to secure the city Neferata's expedition had performed all Nagash required of it which was to lure troops away from his main target- Khemri and his Black Pyramid there. In the end defeated the Nehekharans, bringing their skulls under Nagash's boot. In a spectacular twist of irony, Neferata and Khalida were charged to work together. As a result, they basically dropped out of End Times until the very end when Mannfred managed to completely fuck up the last chance at stopping Chaos and the world was slowly drawn into the Warp as a third Warpgate was activated in the Empire despite every non-Chaos group from Orcs to Wood Elves all working together (yeah, ET was a complete fucking mess).

Neferata and Arkhan were present at the end of the final battle, with the latter promising to fight to the last to give the former a chance to outrun the encroaching wall of solid Daemonic blackness despite her Abyssal being injured. After a parting kiss with Arkhan (who she still had some feelings for) Neferata only just made it back to the fortress in the [[Moot (Warhammer Fantasy)|Moot]] that she and Khalida had established offscreen. The Halflings and remaining humans of the Empire fled there for protection, and the undead under Khalida's command allowed them in. Neferata arrived and immediately shouted to make preparations to repel Chaos, before Khalida told her there was no point; Chaos won. Neferata instead convinced her to fight together, as Nehekharan Queens, and their assembled forces readied their weapons as the Warp overtook them.

==Age of Sigmar==

... Then [[Age of Sigmar]] happened. Nagash is an immortal god of the afterlife and gets all souls Chaos doesn't, barring the [[Stormcast Eternals]]. Since Games Workhop undid their complete reboot with identical factions reappearing, Vampires came back too. Neferata was shown alongside the other Mortarchs meaning that the entire End Times story meant jack. But since Khalida hasn't been shown and the Tomb Kings were revealed to have been Squatted, Nef at least outlived her. Neferata got her own part of the realm of death and "creatively" named it Nulahmia while also basing it's fashion and architecture off of Nehekhara's. She built an even bigger spy network and ensured that she was the top vampire. Mannfred, Ushoran, and possibly Vhordai (and definitely Abhorash if he is still alive), are the only ones who don't pay homage to her, and Neferata and Mannfred have clashed several times. She's also gotten over her misandry, as she employs male and female vampires depending on their abilities.

Later, Nulahmia came under attack from an army of mortal followers of Chaos of Slaanesh, because a Slaaneshi Chaos Lord wants her for himself, not caring that she's undead. Quite a thing to sneak past the kiddies, Geedubs! (In the novel Lords of Death, the same lord kills a beastman who tried to stop him raping it). Her forces are aided by the Stormcast Eternals and together they defeat the forces of Slaanesh. Neferata later tries to make a secret alliance with the Stormcast right under Nagash's nasal bones. After the battle (where Neferata's obsessed fan Chaos Lord falls into a pit of skeletons), Neferata is disappointed that Nagash was just dicking with the Stormcast but had to go along with it. During Malign Portents, Neferata used her manipulations and spy network to keep Tzeentch's forces occupied, undermine Sigmar's forces and spread Nagash's influence across the realms.

Not too long after, Neferata's double dealing causes Nagash to punish by putting half her city under Arkhan's rulership; Arkhan himself doesn't really want the city so leaves a vampiric vassal of his to rule in his stead. She also has to contend with rebellious nobles who want to kill her and an invading Khornate army led by the Chaos Lord Ruhok. Neferata uses her powers and schemes to play them all against each other, and ends up destroying the Khornates, rebels and much of her realm by temporarily releasing the black hole in the center of Shyish. As a result Nagash gives full rule of Nulahmia back to Neferata and she rebuilds it. Fast forward a few centuries and Neferata begins to wage war against the Khornate forces of Angaria (a name that rivals [[Angron]] in creativity) and its daemon prince ruler Graunos. The prince is oddly cunning for a daemon of Khorne, and is aided by the nearly-as-cunning deathbringer Kathag - one of the few survivors from Lord Ruhok's forces. They refuse to play Neferata’s game of manipulations and spying, [[Just As Planned|unknowingly playing right into the Mortarch of Blood’s hands]]. Through a series of infiltrations and convoluted schemes that’d make Tzeentch orgasm with joy, she managed to wipe out the entirety of Angaria by [[Awesome|dropping an entire underworld on top of the city, wiping them out just like the Skaven did to the Lizardmen]]. She followed up by duelling Graunos, and defeated the Daemon Prince by slashing his eyes, triggering Graunos' scotomaphobia which made him destroy himself when he desperately tried to use purging fire to restore his sight.

One interesting part of her character hasn't been extrapolated upon yet; whether or not she still has a thing for [[Arkhan the Black]]. Some parts hints that Arkhan isn't the same as he was in the [[Warhammer Fantasy|World-That-Was]] and may not remember Nef at all, but we don't know how Nef herself feels about this - if she cares at all, that is. Maybe the [[The End Times|coming apocalypse]] brought the sweetheart out of her for a short while.

==Lahmians==
Main article: [[Lahmian]].

Neferata's Bloodline, mostly female and in varying degrees of control of most of the factions of the world.

==Nagadron The Adevore==
The [[Dread Abyssal]] given to Neferata by Nagash in End Times. In the times of the Nehekharan gods, Nagadron resided with the other Dread Abyssals in the afterlife of men. Nagadron's job was to punish the gluttonous, ambushing selfish souls and chewing on them for all eternity. In Neferata's service, Nagadron now consumes the souls he eats, vomiting them up in smaller and smaller chunks as he gorges himself on flesh and spirit alike and eating them again (so yeah, Neferata's giant undead dragon demon is predictably a giant cat on the inside).

According to the team that produced the model, the hooded eyes are supposed to resemble a predatory [[snek]].

Nagadron was last seen in End Times re-dying from mortal wounds with its last act being carrying Neferata and the unconscious Isabella back to the fortress of Nef and Khalida, but was resurrected alongside his (apparently its a he despite always being an undead skeleton monster) master in Age of Sigmar.

==On the Tabletop==
===Old Editions===
Queen Neferata used to have a model in the game, but she suffered from [[Everqueen|Alarielle the Everqueen]] syndrome and had a badass model you wanted to use for fluff reasons, but it was pretty crap on the field and thus was unlikely to ever be used. So GW removed it, leaving the von Carsteins as the only models in Vampire Counts until the latter part of 8th edition. The original model came with a cat, who was originally a ghost cat named Bastet, referencing the aforementioned story about [[felinid]] vampires.

===The End Times===
With the addition of Nagash's campaign, Neferata makes a triumphant return to the field as a mounted model with an on-foot option (although GW makes her share a kit with [[Mannfred von Carstein]] and Arkhan the Black, the thrill of her return far outshines the insult).

Since bloodlines are gone, Lahmians are represented by gearing out your Lord and Hero vampires with Beguile and similar abilities as well as ample spellcasting. Use skeletons, ghosts, and similar minions that can be handwaved as unwanted hauntings or the bones of ancestors when the Witch Hunters come calling. Feel free to use proxies of living models from any faction you want as servants to a mortal lover/manipulated army but statted as zombies, ghouls, skeletons, or whatever. Finally, Coven Thrones. The only two bloodlines that should be using Coven Thrones are von Carsteins and Lahmians, and you better not let those lower class fuckers put more on the tabletop then you or Neferata will want to have a private chat with you...

Lahmian armies will do very well against low LD armies, and poorly against armies like High Elves with 9's across the board in Leadership.

As for the Queen of Mysteries herself, her latest incarnation hits hard and can debuff the enemy ten ways from town. She has eight Strength 5 attacks that Always Strike First at Inititative 9. Eight Strength 5 attacks are rough but always striking first takes it to another level, then you have Thunderstomp. With a combined profile with her mount, that's D6 Strength 5 hits at Initiative 9 since ASF and ASL cancel each other out. As for the Debuffs, Neferata can debuff to a level that even [[Nagash|her boss]] can't. Her Dagger of Jetl minuses 1- to the Strength, Initiative and Attack of a model that suffers an unsaved wound for the rest of the game. There's also Twilight Allure making all shooting and close combat attacks are at -1 to hit, so even a Chaos Lord will be hitting her on 5's. She also has a fun little trick of being able to, once per game, turn a character she slays in a challenge into a Vampire. If they get to keep all their gear (come on FAQ!) imagine turning Korhil or, even better, Kurt Helborg, into a Vampire.

===Age Of Sigmar===
As with the rest of the Mortarchs with fancy new models, Neferata was also reincarnated in the Mortal Realms, complete with her giant ghost-thingy mount. This leads her to a total of 11 wounds with a 4+ save and a respectable 16" flying move, though this decays as she suffers damage. She's very much at home in close combat, as all of her attacks are in 1" range. First off is Akmet-har, the Dagger of Jet, a fairly unremarkable but fast weapon that has the chance to outright murder her opponent if she deals damage (but not enough to kill them) and you roll a d6 higher than their remaining wounds. Second is Aken-Seth, a staff with considerably fewer attacks, but each one deals 2 damage with -2 Rend. Her steed can lash out with its own melee attacks, each as dangerous as the staff and with a good quantity (declining as she suffers wounds). The last weapon to be displayed is the weaponry of the various ghosts surrounding Neffy, all piddly compared to the rest, but if they roll a 6+ to hit, they deal a Mortal Wound.The rest of her rules all supplement this preference in melee - the ability to heal 2 wounds when she kills a model with her weapons, a command ability that forces enemies to rake a penalty to hit her, and a spell that lets its target ignore the rend of any weapons that hit them. As a bonus, if she kills a hero, she can also raise them as a Vampire Lord and then make them eat their former associates.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Neferata_2.jpg|Neferata's original model, looking like Elvira.
Image:Neferata Returns.jpg|Neferata's new model. Note that the [[Hat]] principle is still in effect.
Image:Neferata 3.jpg|This is what she looks like while casting.
Image:Neferata 4.jpg|This is what she looks like a minute later in melee.
Image:Neferata Book.jpg|What Neferata wears on weekends. (and when with Arkhan)
Image:Neferata-Warhammer-Age.png|Even after an apocalypse she's still got it.
Image:Nef+Ark.jpg| And Iiiiii will always love youuuuuuu...
Image:Neferata.jpg
Image:Nef Lite.jpg
</gallery>

[[Category:Warhammer Fantasy]]
[[Category:Vampire Counts]]
[[Category:Undead Legion]]
[[Category:Age of Sigmar]]

Queen Neferata

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[[Image:Nef or nothing.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Although in [[Warhammer 40k]] she'd be a planetary governor with a skin condition, in [[Warhammer Fantasy]] she's one of the most powerful and evil beings outside the [[Warp]].]]
{{Topquote|A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.|Eleanor Roosevelt}}
{{Topquote|Behind every great man, there is a great woman. Behind those great women, there is me!|Neferata}}

The very first fucking vampire in a setting where vampires are still cool, which is a product of her own creation rather than a Biblical curse or demonic possession. She's something of a Cleopatra expy who's been in a lot of positions of leadership-no pun intended-then found she preferred to run things behind the scenes.

==The Legend==
During the war against [[Nagash]], there was a young princess of Lahmia in the Egypt analogue of the [[Warhammer Fantasy|Warhammer]] setting, [[Nehekhara]], named Neferatem (Neferata was the name she went by outside of Nehekhara, although later writers forgot about it and had her always called Neferata). While her [[Queen Khalida|cousin]] wore pants, rode horses, shot arrows, and prayed to the snake god, Neferata spent her time doing all of jack shit while her father lead the forces of <strike>good</strike> Order against Nagash. After her pappy died, she was put in charge of the kingdom. Her brother took command of the forces of Nehekhara and made a deal with [[Arkhan the Black]] to become necromancer bros by looting Nagash's house. Her brother Lamashizzar won the backstabbing competition and took Nagash's books home with a crippled and (re)dying Arkhan to give cliffnotes along the way. Since Neferata was already a fucking level 2 Wizard, he threw the books at her and told her to get to work as he took over the job of ordering cooks to suck face with stablehands.

Now it's well known that in order to be based on Egypt, you have to be obsessed with immortality. But she took that to new levels. Neferata found her brother's secret tutor and chatted with him. She wanted Arkhan to teach her as well, and used her charm to try and persuade him. To everyone's surprise, including her own, Neferata sympathized with the imprisoned lich and formed a genuine rapport with him that grew into something more. Instead of taking notes and translating shit for Lahmia to gain an army of Level 1 Mages she started experimenting, and actually managed to improve on Nagash's techniques. She swapped Nagash's ability to become a self-sufficient lich for eternal youth powered with fresh blood, although in a different version of the story Arkhan helped a great deal more as Sphinx venom is a key ingredient which caused the drinker to fall into a coma necessitating an assistant to finish the ritual.

After the people around her used the rare skill of common sense and realized she wasn't aging and was going through more servants than most, she realized she'd need some meatshields that weren't mooks. She picked the captain of the guard and all around badass [[Abhorash]], her high priest [[W'soran/Melkhior and Zacharias the Everliving|W'soran]], her younger brother [[Ushoran]], [[Maatmeses]], [[Naamia]], [[Prince Xian Ha Feng]], [[Harakhte]], [[Zhuras]], [[Ankhat]], Neferata's husband Vashanesh, and one other. [[Vlad von Carstein]] hints in his own novels that Vashanesh is the father of his Bloodline but all other Bloodlines said such a person never existed. Later it turned out they were full of it, as Vlad was revealed to be Vashanesh himself. (There is a canon conflict here, since the novels set in and shortly after this period never mention him.) Neferata also selected another seven. Each of them was given some of Nef's home brew, and she filled them in on their new strengths and one minor recurring habit.
She also sent some vials of the Elixir to [[Cathay]] for unknown reasons.

Everyone (except Abhorash, who was a NOFUNALLOWED kinda guy) got ultra into vampirism and swapped out the Nehekharan religion for worshiping Nagash. Neferata kept studying Nagash's books and improving her magic until she figured out how to make more (albeit weaker) vampires through a ritual rather than a potion, which saved time and kept the youngbloods in their place. She became a cougar and stuck to drinking blood from shotas like wine. The vampires mutated over time and became fucking godlike, and when they get some adrenaline (their own anyway) in them they underwent quick transformations into a more feral state with sabertooth fangs and ultra sharp fingernails and such (basically the opposite of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark).

The other Nehekharan kingdoms began to get suspicious, particularly good ol' cousin [[Khalida]] (who had became a Ranger/Paladin dedicated to the asp goddess (guess where this story is going. Just guess)). To preemptively silence her, Neferata accused HER of being a vampire (note that this was after [[Malekith]] had used a similar strategy, although arguably Neferata's way was a bit more successful since it didn't involve [[Fail|trying to use a god of justice and rulership to prove your lie is the truth]]). Khalida called her out on the fact that a grave accusation of treason and heresy with no proof against an equal from an entirely different nation meant all of jack and shit, and challenged Neferata to a duel to the death for HONOR. Even though Khalida was a mere mortal badass fighting a fucking VAMPIRE DEMIGODDESS, Khalida put Neferata into single digit HP before she got to -1 herself from a <s>low blow</s> getting stabbed in the stomach by Neferata. Neferata was forced to drink from Khalida on the spot...in front of the assembled nobles of Khemri and Lahmia. While restoring her hit points, Nef tried to turn Khalida into a vampire. Faced with the incestuous advances of her cousin (oh, and the minor issue of whatever unknown dark magic shit the sabertoothed mutant was doing), called out for the snake goddess to save her soul from damnation. Asaph (the aforementioned snake goddess) sent poison through Khalida's veins, purging the vampire [[heresy]] though Khalida still died as the purification took her life (even then there was the tiny detail of a huge stab wound in her stomach).

Later the Queen of Rasetra came to Neferata asking help with her difficult pregnancy. Knowing that if male the child would be the next king of Khemri Neferata gave the woman an infusion containing her blood and when the boy was born, claimed him as her own saying he would stay in Lahmia until he came of age and took his throne. This child was called Alcadizaar. Neferata grew to believe that Alcadizaar would become her partner and started practicing wife husbandry on him, training him in every aspect of war and statehood (while also making sure he didn't get with any other woman). However when he finally discovered the truth of Neferata's undead nature, he rejected her and fled into the wild, eventually being welcomed into a nomadic desert tribe.

Neferata continued consolidating her powerbase until Alcadizaar's tribe killed one of her vampire minions and presented his head as proof to the other kings. After this the Nehekharans realized how dangerously close things were to becoming Twilight, so they gathered their forces into a vast army and laid siege to Lahmia. Some Lahmian civilians rebelled against the vampire nobility, others gathered to Abhorash and fought against the foreigners and race traitors. Led by the newly returned and crowned Alcadizaar of Khemri the Priest Kings united and destroyed Lahmia, the entire city being reduced to rubble and most of it's vampiric aristocracy destroyed. Neferata barely escaped with her life. The city fell, despite major losses on the side of <strike>good</strike> Order.

==Exile==

Of Neferata's Eleven, only seven survived. Abhorash and Neferata separately took their minions and headed north, both finding passes through the supposedly impassible mountains and reaching the Badlands, [[Orcs & Goblins|greenskin]]-infested no man's land. Due to this she avoided the final war between Nagash and Alcadizaar that saw the rest of Nehekhara join Lahmia in becoming a lifeless ruin. She did however experience it's consequences when the newly risen Tomb Kings began to hunt down vampires. In particular her cousin Khalida, returned from the dead and filled with rage, chased her across the world.

In the absence of their leaders the vampires were left in a panic. They went their own ways along the same route Nef and Ab had taken, founding different bloodlines. When Nagash cursed the vampires with weaknesses to the sun, running water (like all old people), garlic, and other random things. Neferata and her minions caught the curse too despite not being there (although there's also the suggestion this was Sigmar's doing).

Then a fuckton of time passed while Neferata traveled the world. During that time she became a misandrist, espousing the belief that men are blood farms without worthwhile thoughts or emotions unless they kowtow to women (being effeminate, watching Sex and the City, be unthinking Sugar Daddies, that sort of thing). Eventually Neferata found herself compelled to come to the capital of the Strigoi empire, Mourkain. Here she found a kingdom that was a pale reflection of her long lost Lahmia, ruled once again by a vampiric aristocracy. It's king was her former Lord of Masks Ushoran and his vizier W'soran, who together she blamed for the destruction of her home. She had been drawn by the Crown of Nagash which was buried at the heart of the capital as had most of the others of her kind.

==Queen of Mysteries==

A group of [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dorfs]] investigating the douchebaggery of the other vampire bloodlines eventually uncovered her <strike>lesbian love den</strike> SERIOUS GROUP OF VAMPIRE LADIES DOING NOTHING WRONG. In response she had her minions slaughter the Dawi and turn them into zombies before gathering an invasion force and making their [[Dwarf Fortress]] her new <strike>love-den</strike> MANLY BASTION OF BADASSERY. The undead Dwarfs rebuilt the mines, crafted with Granite and menacing with spikes of Onyx, into an Egyptian-style palace.

Nowadays the zombies are soaked in perfume and drum while skeletons do the skeleton dance ([[Meme|''2spooky!'']]) to entertain her court. Eventually Ghouls showed up to serve her, which she spent several generations trying to exterminate before confining them to the sewers when she realized they would be great for garbage disposal. She bathes in blood (because nobody has ever made vampires do that before!) of young men, then heads off to the war room an organizes her femvamps and shotavamps (all vouched for by femvamps as their subordinates) to spy on the civilizations of the world and manipulate them into getting into wars with each other ([[Skaven]] also do this, but more capably), or rooting out rival bloodlines and wiping them out (the VonCarsteins also do this, but less capably).

Queen Neferata had one goal: make the <s>women</s> worthy mortals of the world into Lahmian vampires and the <s>men</s> unworthy mortals cattle or pampered pets. Meanwhile, her cousin Khalida (who's such a badass not even [[Settra the Imperishable|Settra]] wants to fuck with her) was a [[Tomb King|Tomb <strike>King</strike> Queen]] and wanted to purge the world of vampires and their homoerotic heresy, with Neferata at the top of her list.

Neferata's cat is her Cathayan concubine shape shifter Naamia who is in love with her (at least in the novel [[Neferata (Black Library)|Neferata]] by [[Josh Reynolds]], in all other sources the cat is simply an undead familiar named Bastet).

==End times==

Neferata was recruited to rejoin [[Arkhan the Black]] (who was still in love with her after thousands of years) and [[Mannfred von Carstein]] in their plans to resurrect Nagash. Nef followed the plan, sending one of her minions (who may be fan favourite the Vampire Genevieve) to [[Balthazar Gelt]] to manipulate him into building an anti-Chaos wall protecting the humans of the [[Old World]] (in theory so Nagash could have them all to himself). Realizing that Nagash's return meant either her servitude or destruction, Neferata sent no further aid at first. However, Neferata grew concerned that if she didn't have something to offer Nagash might destroy her out of spite. She was also antsy due to lack of knowledge about Nagash's other servants, because her spies on them were dead or trapped in Sylvania and Arkhan rarely called.

After daemons attacked her fortress Neferata decided to try and get shit done, massing the forces of the Silver Pinnacle to get a re-birthday present for Nagash; the magic power of the Dwarf gods themselves (which Neferata had accidentally discovered while backpacking across the world). Fighting her way through various greenskin tribes at Skull Chasm, she led her army to the Lost Pass of the dwarfs, a long lost treasure trove of the ancestor gods. There at the Battle of Valaya's Gate her army, supported by the Wight King Krell (who had been sent by Arkhan as a precaution), their forces defeated the throng of Karak Azul leading to the deaths of both the venerable runelord Thorek Ironbrow and the mighty King Kazador. Having secured a source of power for the returned but weakened Nagash she was inducted into the ranks of his Mortarchs, becoming the Mortarch of Blood.

Once Nagash fed on [[Valaya|Valaya's]] magic, he used the power to shroud Nehekhara in darkness so the vampires wouldn't burn in the sun (no such thing as sunblock in the Warhammer world). The assembled Mortarchs then waged war on the Tomb Kings. When Nagash led his forces south into Nehekhara Neferata was given permission to lead a force to the ruins of her long lost Lahmia. There she was once more met by Khalida and the army of Lybaras. As the two armies clashed the two undead queens dueled in the Temple of Blood in the heart of the city itself. Once more Neferata was forced to flee before her vengeful cousin. Though she failed to secure the city Neferata's expedition had performed all Nagash required of it which was to lure troops away from his main target- Khemri and his Black Pyramid there. In the end defeated the Nehekharans, bringing their skulls under Nagash's boot. In a spectacular twist of irony, Neferata and Khalida were charged to work together. As a result, they basically dropped out of End Times until the very end when Mannfred managed to completely fuck up the last chance at stopping Chaos and the world was slowly drawn into the Warp as a third Warpgate was activated in the Empire despite every non-Chaos group from Orcs to Wood Elves all working together (yeah, ET was a complete fucking mess).

Neferata and Arkhan were present at the end of the final battle, with the latter promising to fight to the last to give the former a chance to outrun the encroaching wall of solid Daemonic blackness despite her Abyssal being injured. After a parting kiss with Arkhan (who she still had some feelings for) Neferata only just made it back to the fortress in the [[Moot (Warhammer Fantasy)|Moot]] that she and Khalida had established offscreen. The Halflings and remaining humans of the Empire fled there for protection, and the undead under Khalida's command allowed them in. Neferata arrived and immediately shouted to make preparations to repel Chaos, before Khalida told her there was no point; Chaos won. Neferata instead convinced her to fight together, as Nehekharan Queens, and their assembled forces readied their weapons as the Warp overtook them.

==Age of Sigmar==

... Then [[Age of Sigmar]] happened. Nagash is an immortal god of the afterlife and gets all souls Chaos doesn't, barring the [[Stormcast Eternals]]. Since Games Workhop undid their complete reboot with identical factions reappearing, Vampires came back too. Neferata was shown alongside the other Mortarchs meaning that the entire End Times story meant jack. But since Khalida hasn't been shown and the Tomb Kings were revealed to have been Squatted, Nef at least outlived her. Neferata got her own part of the realm of death and "creatively" named it Nulahmia while also basing it's fashion and architecture off of Nehekhara's. She built an even bigger spy network and ensured that she was the top vampire. Mannfred, Ushoran, and possibly Vhordai (and definitely Abhorash if he is still alive), are the only ones who don't pay homage to her, and Neferata and Mannfred have clashed several times. She's also gotten over her misandry, as she employs male and female vampires depending on their abilities.

Later, Nulahmia came under attack from an army of mortal followers of Chaos of Slaanesh, because a Slaaneshi Chaos Lord wants her for himself, not caring that she's undead. Quite a thing to sneak past the kiddies, Geedubs! (In the novel Lords of Death, the same lord kills a beastman who tried to stop him raping it). Her forces are aided by the Stormcast Eternals and together they defeat the forces of Slaanesh. Neferata later tries to make a secret alliance with the Stormcast right under Nagash's nasal bones. After the battle (where Neferata's obsessed fan Chaos Lord falls into a pit of skeletons), Neferata is disappointed that Nagash was just dicking with the Stormcast but had to go along with it. During Malign Portents, Neferata used her manipulations and spy network to keep Tzeentch's forces occupied, undermine Sigmar's forces and spread Nagash's influence across the realms.

Not too long after, Neferata's double dealing causes Nagash to punish by putting half her city under Arkhan's rulership; Arkhan himself doesn't really want the city so leaves a vampiric vassal of his to rule in his stead. She also has to contend with rebellious nobles who want to kill her and an invading Khornate army led by the Chaos Lord Ruhok. Neferata uses her powers and schemes to play them all against each other, and ends up destroying the Khornates, rebels and much of her realm by temporarily releasing the black hole in the center of Shyish. As a result Nagash gives full rule of Nulahmia back to Neferata and she rebuilds it. Fast forward a few centuries and Neferata begins to wage war against the Khornate forces of Angaria (a name that rivals [[Angron]] in creativity) and its daemon prince ruler Graunos. The prince is oddly cunning for a daemon of Khorne, and is aided by the nearly-as-cunning deathbringer Kathag - one of the few survivors from Lord Ruhok's forces. They refuse to play Neferata’s game of manipulations and spying, [[Just As Planned|unknowingly playing right into the Mortarch of Blood’s hands]]. Through a series of infiltrations and convoluted schemes that’d make Tzeentch orgasm with joy, she managed to wipe out the entirety of Angaria by [[Awesome|dropping an entire underworld on top of the city, wiping them out just like the Skaven did to the Lizardmen]]. She followed up by duelling Graunos, and defeated the Daemon Prince by slashing his eyes, triggering Graunos' scotomaphobia which made him destroy himself when he desperately tried to use purging fire to restore his sight.

One interesting part of her character hasn't been extrapolated upon yet; whether or not she still has a thing for [[Arkhan the Black]]. Some parts hints that Arkhan isn't the same as he was in the [[Warhammer Fantasy|World-That-Was]] and may not remember Nef at all, but we don't know how Nef herself feels about this - if she cares at all, that is. Maybe the [[The End Times|coming apocalypse]] brought the sweetheart out of her for a short while.

==Lahmians==
Main article: [[Lahmian]].

Neferata's Bloodline, mostly female and in varying degrees of control of most of the factions of the world.

==Nagadron The Adevore==
The [[Dread Abyssal]] given to Neferata by Nagash in End Times. In the times of the Nehekharan gods, Nagadron resided with the other Dread Abyssals in the afterlife of men. Nagadron's job was to punish the gluttonous, ambushing selfish souls and chewing on them for all eternity. In Neferata's service, Nagadron now consumes the souls he eats, vomiting them up in smaller and smaller chunks as he gorges himself on flesh and spirit alike and eating them again (so yeah, Neferata's giant undead dragon demon is predictably a giant cat on the inside).

According to the team that produced the model, the hooded eyes are supposed to resemble a predatory [[snek]].

Nagadron was last seen in End Times re-dying from mortal wounds with its last act being carrying Neferata and the unconscious Isabella back to the fortress of Nef and Khalida, but was resurrected alongside his (apparently its a he despite always being an undead skeleton monster) master in Age of Sigmar.

==On the Tabletop==
===Old Editions===
Queen Neferata used to have a model in the game, but she suffered from [[Everqueen|Alarielle the Everqueen]] syndrome and had a badass model you wanted to use for fluff reasons, but it was pretty crap on the field and thus was unlikely to ever be used. So GW removed it, leaving the von Carsteins as the only models in Vampire Counts until the latter part of 8th edition. The original model came with a cat, referencing the aforementioned story about [[felinid]] vampires.

===The End Times===
With the addition of Nagash's campaign, Neferata makes a triumphant return to the field as a mounted model with an on-foot option (although GW makes her share a kit with [[Mannfred von Carstein]] and Arkhan the Black, the thrill of her return far outshines the insult).

Since bloodlines are gone, Lahmians are represented by gearing out your Lord and Hero vampires with Beguile and similar abilities as well as ample spellcasting. Use skeletons, ghosts, and similar minions that can be handwaved as unwanted hauntings or the bones of ancestors when the Witch Hunters come calling. Feel free to use proxies of living models from any faction you want as servants to a mortal lover/manipulated army but statted as zombies, ghouls, skeletons, or whatever. Finally, Coven Thrones. The only two bloodlines that should be using Coven Thrones are von Carsteins and Lahmians, and you better not let those lower class fuckers put more on the tabletop then you or Neferata will want to have a private chat with you...

Lahmian armies will do very well against low LD armies, and poorly against armies like High Elves with 9's across the board in Leadership.

As for the Queen of Mysteries herself, her latest incarnation hits hard and can debuff the enemy ten ways from town. She has eight Strength 5 attacks that Always Strike First at Inititative 9. Eight Strength 5 attacks are rough but always striking first takes it to another level, then you have Thunderstomp. With a combined profile with her mount, that's D6 Strength 5 hits at Initiative 9 since ASF and ASL cancel each other out. As for the Debuffs, Neferata can debuff to a level that even [[Nagash|her boss]] can't. Her Dagger of Jetl minuses 1- to the Strength, Initiative and Attack of a model that suffers an unsaved wound for the rest of the game. There's also Twilight Allure making all shooting and close combat attacks are at -1 to hit, so even a Chaos Lord will be hitting her on 5's. She also has a fun little trick of being able to, once per game, turn a character she slays in a challenge into a Vampire. If they get to keep all their gear (come on FAQ!) imagine turning Korhil or, even better, Kurt Helborg, into a Vampire.

===Age Of Sigmar===
As with the rest of the Mortarchs with fancy new models, Neferata was also reincarnated in the Mortal Realms, complete with her giant ghost-thingy mount. This leads her to a total of 11 wounds with a 4+ save and a respectable 16" flying move, though this decays as she suffers damage. She's very much at home in close combat, as all of her attacks are in 1" range. First off is Akmet-har, the Dagger of Jet, a fairly unremarkable but fast weapon that has the chance to outright murder her opponent if she deals damage (but not enough to kill them) and you roll a d6 higher than their remaining wounds. Second is Aken-Seth, a staff with considerably fewer attacks, but each one deals 2 damage with -2 Rend. Her steed can lash out with its own melee attacks, each as dangerous as the staff and with a good quantity (declining as she suffers wounds). The last weapon to be displayed is the weaponry of the various ghosts surrounding Neffy, all piddly compared to the rest, but if they roll a 6+ to hit, they deal a Mortal Wound.The rest of her rules all supplement this preference in melee - the ability to heal 2 wounds when she kills a model with her weapons, a command ability that forces enemies to rake a penalty to hit her, and a spell that lets its target ignore the rend of any weapons that hit them. As a bonus, if she kills a hero, she can also raise them as a Vampire Lord and then make them eat their former associates.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Neferata_2.jpg|Neferata's original model, looking like Elvira.
Image:Neferata Returns.jpg|Neferata's new model. Note that the [[Hat]] principle is still in effect.
Image:Neferata 3.jpg|This is what she looks like while casting.
Image:Neferata 4.jpg|This is what she looks like a minute later in melee.
Image:Neferata Book.jpg|What Neferata wears on weekends. (and when with Arkhan)
Image:Neferata-Warhammer-Age.png|Even after an apocalypse she's still got it.
Image:Nef+Ark.jpg| And Iiiiii will always love youuuuuuu...
Image:Neferata.jpg
Image:Nef Lite.jpg
</gallery>

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[[Category:Undead Legion]]
[[Category:Age of Sigmar]]

Morghasts/Hammurai

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An undead monster created in [[End Times]] for [[Warhammer Fantasy]] (because we all like characters introduced in the epilogue).

Given they are from new Games Workshop where historical expies are dropped in favor of whatever makes a larger kit, its not surprising they aren't based on anything in particular from Egyptian mythology. The only resemblances they have are to angelic beings with a few visual cues from gargoyles.

==Lore==
After [[Nagash|Nagash's]] second defeat he sent a plague to wipe out the defenders of [[Nehekhara]], and with 90% of the living populace dead he prepared for another military invasion with even more corpses. The god Ptra, god of immortality, was enraged by the disruption of his cycle and sent his servants, fleshy beings with angel wings carrying blades forged in a star (we don't have an image of what they looked like alive, just a description of them rotting) called Hammurai to destroy him. For the Moses amount of time (40 days/nights) they battled, but in the morning of the 41st day Nagash somehow killed all of them and caused the non-bone organic material to rot off them and raised them as undead with all their former consciousness but somehow the loyalty to Ptra replaced with loyalty to Nagash (somehow). He felt they were superior to the [[Vampire Counts|Vampires]] who had just previously failed to defend him against the Nehekharan forces thanks to their arrogance and backstabbing, since the Hammurai (now called Morghasts) were already a fighting unit of servants. The polarity of the magic within them reversed from undead-destroying light to undead-raising death, and as they cut down the few remaining humans in their way they left behind even more soldiers to lead. As Nagash prepared the Great Ritual to kill everything in Nehekhara and raise it in undeath he was assassinated by the last living Nehekharan king named [[Alcadizaar]] using a [[Skaven]] blade. The Morghasts had been split between forces in the north ready to sweep over the rest of the world and the ones of the south who defended their master, who attempted to carry out his will. But the partially completed Great Ritual had succeeded in killing everything in Nehekhara and raising it from the dead, but failed at commanding their spirits; as a result EVERY SINGLE NEHEKHARAN WHO EVER LIVED arose at once, and quickly put down Nagash's loyal forces (before going to unending war with each other). Unable to overpower Nagash's enchantments, the Morghasts were trapped in tombs in a resting state (which explains why we never saw them in Warhammer prior to End Times).
Necromancers would discover the remains over the years, but thanks to the creation of the Vortex by the [[High Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|High Elves]] there was not enough magic left in the world to keep them animated. Even when Nagash returned he himself was unable to awake them.

Nagash raised them in the beginning of End Times despite the fact the Vortex hadn't been undone yet due to having slain and consumed the entire pantheon of Nehekharan gods including Ptra. They went about carrying out his will, but there's nothing particularly noteworthy that they did.

Likewise they still exist in [[Age of Sigmar]], and still aren't doing anything worth mentioning other than just kind of being part of Nagash's army.

Morghasts are divided into two groups:
* Morghast Archai are Nagash's personal guard, the ones he kept in the south during the Great Ritual. They carry spear-like blades, and serve only at the command of Nagash's highest rank servants, the [[Mortarch|Mortarchs]].
* Morghast Harbingers are the rank and file of the Morghasts, carrying two giant cleaver-like swords. They are likely the force Nagash sent to the north.

All Morghasts seem to be filled with ghosts, because that's just the End Times/early AoS design philosophy. Their armor is black, apparently the same type of "Ebony-wrought" (whatever that means) as Morikhane the Black Armour, the armor of Nagash himself (in god form, not his pre-End Times forms).

==Crunch==
===Warhammer Fantasy===
Both could be taken by either the Vampire Counts or the [[Undead Legion]] combined Vampire Counts/Tomb Kings army. Tomb Kings had no access to them, since the army was technically destroyed and made into the Legion at the start of the event while the Vampire Counts were folded in over time later.

* Harbingers
Special cateogry, 80 point Monstrous Infantry with Hover and Terror. Statline is not bad, ringing in with 5WS, three S5 Killing Blow Attacks, and 4 Wounds at Toughness 5. Their Initiative isn't too bad either, at 4. It has two Hand Weapons and Heavy Armor, so it's geared pretty well. This alone however isn't why you bring them when you could get a Sphinx. They have the special rule "Heralds of the Accursed One" which causes all friendly troops within 12 inches to take 1 less Wound from Combat Resolution damage. IT STACKS, and they're 2 or more to a Unit.

*Archai
Rare category, for 90 points you got a solid statline (S5 T5 W5 A3), 4+ and halberds. Rest of rules as Morghast Harbinger, including anti-crumbling aura. All in all, nice support unit to provide resilience to your unstable units, capable of surviving in melee, if need be. Take this if you want to save your Special points but want that buffing.

===Age Of Sigmar===

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Morghast Archai End Times.jpg|The Skelepope's Swiss Guard
File:Morghast Harbingers End Times.jpg|Leaping out of the nearest metal album cover to battle
</gallery>

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Eltharion

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[[File:Eltharion the Grim 2.jpg|thumb|400px|High Elf Batman. "WHERE'S GROM?!?"]]
{{topquote|A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.|Francis Bacon}}

Eltharion, known either as "the Blind" or "the Grim" depending on if you're going by pre or post retcon fluff, is a named character from the [[Warhammer Fantasy]] universe in the [[High Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|High Elves]] army. He is the Prince (AKA governor) of the kingdom (province) of [[Ulthuan|Yvresse]], which is perhaps the most fucked up and depressing place in the world you can be in charge of short of taking a trip through the Warp to the 41st millennium.

==The Legend==
Eltharion grew up a privileged Prince groomed for his position with ample training at the hands of Sapherian historians and tacticians including Loremaster Belannaer, and schooled in the arts of war expected of a warrior of the High Elves including archery, fencing, and mounted combat. His homeland, one of the less populated kingdoms in the modern age which had nonetheless held onto its heritage as the cultural and commerce center of the eastern lands of the Elves, was continually covered in fog and had a brisk coolness in the air compared to most of the rest of Ulthuan which was in a state of perpetual summer climate. In these conditions Eltharion was toughened, learning about survival and the importance of community in a hostile land.
After becoming a full grown <strike>man</strike> elf, he set about recapturing the lost glory of the Yvressians with a spectacularly arrogant goal; invade [[Naggaroth]]. To everyone's surprise however, he actually had a fucking PLAN to do so other than "Be more fabulous and pray to Asuryan" which had been the keystone of every prior attempt. His strategy was disrupting the messages of the Dark Elves by using his light cavalry and rangers to nail any dispatches for aid that were sent which ensured every attack was against an unsuspecting foe, as well as utilizing infiltration methods to weaken the defenses of the Dark Elves.

He was poisoned in one of his attacks, and while he lay dying he was visited by the spirit of his dead father who told him that a [[WAAAGH]] had done the impossible and landed on the shores of Ulthuan, desecrating [[Waystone|Waystones]] and slaughtering everyone within reach including himself. Tor Yvresse had been completely destroyed and it was time to kick ass and take names. He awoke fully healed from his wounds, and called off the attack to immediately rush home to Ulthuan.
Once there, he gathered as many troops as he could from the rest of Yvresse and marched on the capital. There, he found that the [[Orcs & Goblins|Goblin]] named [[Grom the Paunch|Grom the Paunch of the Misty Mountain]] had sent his shamans into the tallest tower in Tor Yvresse for unknown reasons. Riding his personal Gryphon companion Stormwing and bringing two Mages with him, he entered the tower. The spell that the Shaman was casting backfired, and Eltharion used his adept knowledge of magic to attempt to dispel the misfire effect. He received a vision while doing so, although what it entailed was never revealed by him to anyone. He exited the tower alone and from that point on never smiled, never joked, and was cold and strict while before he had been a class clown (according to Tyrion's sad recollections of their boyhood adventures).
At some point after the battle he captured Grom, tortured him, chopped him into tiny pieces, and fed him into a magical furnace from which the magically regenerative Goblin couldn't recover (this was revealed by author [[Josh Reynolds]], and since there is no official end to Grom this is the closest we get).
Shortly after the battle subsided, the armies of [[Finubar the Seafarer|The Phoenix King]] finally arrived to assist him. He told them to fuck off, swearing that Yvresse would stand by itself from then on as the 'ardiest kingdom. In the days after, Eltharion was elected to lead Yvresse and he immediately set about eradicating the greenskins from his lands to the last, cleansing every valley of every <strike>Orcgina</strike> spore left by the tribes.

The Waystones had been toppled, and would take many years to rebuild. As a result [[Daemon|Daemons]] had begun manifesting out of the raw and stagnant magic around the kingdom, born out of pure Chaos and [[Chaos Undivided|free from the will]] of any of the [[Chaos Gods]]. These horrors, coming in all possible shapes and forms, ambled towards settlements and before long only Tor Yvresse remained as the primary inhabited location in the entire region. What few scattered villages existed soon became more outpost and garrison than farming community, as an attack from horrors almost unimaginable could come at any moment.

===The Blind===
After rushing to aid the Nagarythe in defense against a Dark Elf invasion, [[Malekith]] defeated Eltharion in a fight and took him alive as the Dark Elves won the battle (no word on what happened to Eltharion's griffon Stormwing). First, Malekith had all of Eltharion's surviving soldiers lined up, with a Har Ganeth executioner standing over each one, and made an offer. Eltharion could swear allegiance to Malekith, or Malekith would have Eltharion's soldiers killed. Eltharion refused, and Malekith made good on his threat but he didn't stop there. Malekith had Eltharion taken back to Naggaroth and tortured in the most mind-breaking ways possible, although Eltharion held onto his sanity in the most stoic badass way imaginable.

Malekith, frustrated, had his eyes removed then sent what remained of Eltharion back to Ulthuan to strike fear into the hearts of the High Elves. He made a full recovery however (as this was the older lore where the Dark Elves didn't do REALLY cruel shit like make flags out of the skin of one of their own, tied to the flagstaff itself to scream in harmony with their cavalry bugles), perhaps aided by healing magic, and became a badass swordsman. He trained with the Swordmasters of Hoeth and applied the heightened hearing/smelling/tactile senses to it. While back in the early editions High Elves looked down on Dark Elves as brutish and vile cousins, Eltharion was one of the few to actually HATE them and dream of genocide against their race. He encountered Malekith in another battle and managed to wound him, the first person to do so without a magic weapon when Malekith had the Armor of Midnight. Since then Eltharion made it his life's goal to destroy Malekith.

===The Grim===
In later editions, the Blind story was retconned. Eltharion's plot dropped the Dark Elf hate and reserved that for [[Alith Anar]], instead using him as the High Elves anti-greenskin character.

After Grom was defeated and Yvresse cleansed of his race, Eltharion became reclusive. Every visitor to Tor Yvresse was viewed with suspicion regardless of why they had come. The bulk of the city was abandoned, being reclaimed by nature while only the defensible locations underwent regular upkeep. Tor Yvresse became nothing short of a [[Kobold]] Den, full of traps and ambush points which were regularly patrolled by paranoid and hateful elves that had survived the attack.
Daemons constantly invaded from every direction, appearing in the oceans and swimming to the coastal city or even within its walls.
Loremaster Belannaer and his Mages attempted to restore the Waystones of Yvresse, but the process was slow and many were forever damaged. As an alternative, the Mages set up magical defenses comparable to those of Saphery; ones that lead you in circles forever if you approached with ill intent, ones that fractured the mind of those who went off-trail, and so forth.

Even during the darkest hour of the High Elves, when [[Defenders of Ulthuan/Sons of Ellyrion|a fuckhuge force lead by Malekith, Morathi, and Slaaneshi Warrior invaded Ulthuan]] he refused to aid another kingdom, answering a personal call from Finubar to save Lothern entirely by himself riding Stormwing (where he fended off Malekith and gave the dragon and rider a fair number of wounds before exiting the fight to let [[Imrik]] take over). He left unceremoniously after the battle was over without a word to anyone, to the disappointment of his boyhood friends who were also at the battle and hadn't seen him since before his invasion of the Dark Elves.

After eventually feeling that Tor Yvresse was secure enough for him to leave his city, he lead an army of his most disciplined and trusted Yvressians to Cothique to catch a ride to the [[Old World]]. Here he set about attempting to wipe out all Orcs and Goblins or to cause them to fear his race and never bother Ulthuan again, using fire magic to incinerate the earth after each battle to prevent another group from rising again. He destroyed WAAAGHs that began thousands of years ago and had battered at the doors of [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dwarfen]] Holds in all that time, allowing the Dwarfs of many locations to regain their strength and lend it to [[Thorgrim Grudgebearer]] as well as causing their race to gain a (slightly) higher opinion of the <strike>dandelion eaters</strike> Elves. WAAAGHs that had begun forming to wipe out humanity were assaulted and annihilated to the last. Everywhere the army of Eltharion marched, peace came to the land. But no matter how many he killed every day a new force of greenskins would appear on the horizon, marching into certain death.
After putting a larger dent in the greenskin population than any army or even single being had ever accomplished, Eltharion discovered that the reason the greenskin hordes had seemed endless was purely because THEY were now coming to HIM. WAAAGH after WAAAGH had pounded against his forces, and he had beaten them all. Knowledge of this had somehow spread throughout their race, and according to a Warboss he had captured almost every greenskin in the world now believed "Pointy-'eads give a proper fight." and had put fighting High Elves high on their To Do list.

Eltharion returned home, content that the bulk of the greenskin race would be lost at sea as Ulthuan is protected both by magic (intentional spells, and the raw energy surrounding it) as well as natural hazards (sea monsters even demigods can't kill, sentient islands that move to cause shipwrecks, and chaotic storms) that only (lucky) Elven navigators utilizing magic can navigate with assured success. Beyond that, the greenskins would have to fight unending Daemons to reach the shore. Then penetrate the defenses of Tor Yvresse.
There at home in his beloved city, Eltharion the Grim waited in the tallest tower of the only large settlement in his cursed region waiting for one final WAAAGH to break itself upon his knee.

===[[End Times]]===
In the End Times event, Eltharion was a major character, when he was chosen to lead the forces of Ulthuan against [[Nagash]]'s forces in an attempt to save [[Everqueen|Aliathra]] since Tyrion was needed to defend Ulthuan from surprise Slaanesh buttsex. Despite being grim and suspicious as ever, he tried to be considerate to his non-elven allies at Eldyra's and Belannar's request. In the battle he proved he was more skilled at leading an army and nearly as skilled in combat as Tyrion, kicking Mannfred's ass being his most notable accomplishment. He broke through the magical barrier around [[Arkhan the Black|Arkhan's]] Nagash-summoning ritual with his Fangsword, destroying the sword in the process. Even without it, he was still a powerful elven warrior with a gem that made him a level 2 wizard. But Arkhan was a level 4/5 wizard, so Eltharion grabbed Arkhan and slammed him against the cauldron's edge to try and break his neck. Badass as it is, taking on a lich with only one's bare hands is not the wisest idea. Arkhan grabbed Eltharion's wrist and used his Curse of Years spell to make Eltharion age until he turned to dust, Thanos-style.

Fuck.

His ghost also gave his niece and nephew his necklace and (fully restored) sword some years after the bone daddy's resurrection. This would be a good "Take up my sword" scene, but both of them <strike>worfed</strike> were unceremoniously murdered by [[Malekith]] and his right-hand minion Kouran during the Elven civil war only two books later because both of them disliked the idea of a Druchii being Phoenix King.

Many old-time High Elf players were offended and horrified at the completely shitty end to one of the original Warhammer Fantasy major characters. Most of them didn't blame Eltharion's killer Arkhan (who's another original Warhammer Fantasy character despite being added to the setting one year after Eltharion), but the writers.

===[[Age of Sigmar]]===

In Age of Sigmar [[Tyrion]], [[Teclis]], and Malerion ([[Malekith]] now a dragonman, because changing his name was easier and more likely to succeed than suing Marvel comics) attained godhood and managed to capture Slaanesh who at the time had eaten so many Elf souls from End Times that he was hiding out in a cave, too bloated to move, digesting them. These three chained up Slaanesh in the space between the realms of Light and Shadow and then disemboweled her/him/them in order to release all the delicious elf souls.
This, essentially, is why all the major elves from the world-that-was, including the 'T' twins, Caligula-dragon, [[Morathi]], and [[Alarielle]], have their own elf factions, albeit repackaged as "aelves".

Teclis tried to recreate the High Elves a few times, [[Idoneth Deepkin|with varying degrees of success]], but eventually managed to hit the mark with the [[Lumineth Realm Lords]]. With this success, Teclis then decided (for some reason) to NOT shove Eltharion into a new body, but instead into [[Rubric Marine|an animated suit of armor that will never feel anything]]. As it stands, Eltharion's spirit is considered the paragon of balance between the two castes of Lumineth (named "inventively" as Tyrionic and Teclian) , being a mage as well as a warrior. He's also now gifted with two swords, representative to the two gods of Hysh.

Also Stormwing apparently remains dead, and Teclis decided not to give him a replacement despite having a Sphinx as his own personal mount. Since Eltharion's killer, Arkhan, made it to AoS as well, one wonders if they will remember each other. Given the deja vu Mannfred and Balthasar/Balthas felt, it's possible.

==On The Tabletop==
Over the years, Eltharion has remained a questionable option to put on the tabletop. His Blind stats were much more impressive, as he was designed as a character who could fit into a unit of Swordmasters similar to the current Loremaster of Hoeth with his low level magic and high offensive stats.
Eltharion the Grim by contrast is overpriced, only ever really useful on Stormwing but thanks to cannonfire being a liability. His magic items make him durable enough to take some damage and dish it back out, although not as well as a proper generic Prince kitted out could do. In addition, his weak spellcasting does not make up for lacking a Mage or Archmage and you run into the problem of the fact you're paying for a combination melee/magic Lord while you want that split between two characters for safety and prioritization reasons.
As a result, Eltharion has spent many years mostly as a proxy model for a generic counterpart simply called "Eltharion" for narrative reasons.

The army of Tor Yvresse is similarly defeatist and confusing. His kingdom lacks any kind of unique signature unit or combination, instead relying on models from other kingdoms which is ironic given his attitude to asking favors (or answering them). His Blind version simply blended Nagarythe tactics with Saphery ones, relying on Shadow Warriors and Swordmasters with high magic and the typical Elf core to deal megafuck damage fast. The Grim seems to rely heavily on magic as well, although even in the Yvresse entry of the 8th edition High Elf Heraldry book only Spearmen, Archers, Silver Helms, Princes/Nobles, and Archmages/Mages are described as Yvressian troops. Whether this means an Yvresse list (supposedly small forces of depleted and shellshocked troops) are almost entirely Core and characters is the intention of Games Workshop or not is unknown. A list like that may explain why Eltharion was killed so quickly in End Times however...

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Eltharion and Belannaer.jpg|Artwork for Eltharion the Blind, sparring with Belannaer.
Image:Eltharion the Blind Model.jpg|Eltharion the Blind's model.
Image:Eltharion VS Shadowblade.jpg|Eltharion the Blind fighting motherfucking Shadowblade himself.
Image:Eltharion Fan Art.jpg|Fan art depicting Eltharion the Blind.
Image:Eltharion the Grim TCG.jpg|Eltharion and Stormwing art from the Warhammer Trading Card Game.
Image:Eltharion Fabulous.jpg|80's style Army Book art depicting Eltharion.
Image:Eltharion and Stormwing.jpg|Eltharion's current model, riding Stormwing.
Image:Eltharion vs Magic Barrier.jpg|(spoiler alert)... Eltharion's final moments.
File:Eltharion AOS.jpg|His new Age of Sigmar model
</gallery>

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Eltharion

2020-04-19T15:18:23Z

2406:3400:20F:FFC0:E99D:837C:62D1:278C: /* End Times */

[[File:Eltharion the Grim 2.jpg|thumb|400px|High Elf Batman. "WHERE'S GROM?!?"]]
{{topquote|A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.|Francis Bacon}}

Eltharion, known either as "the Blind" or "the Grim" depending on if you're going by pre or post retcon fluff, is a named character from the [[Warhammer Fantasy]] universe in the [[High Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|High Elves]] army. He is the Prince (AKA governor) of the kingdom (province) of [[Ulthuan|Yvresse]], which is perhaps the most fucked up and depressing place in the world you can be in charge of short of taking a trip through the Warp to the 41st millennium.

==The Legend==
Eltharion grew up a privileged Prince groomed for his position with ample training at the hands of Sapherian historians and tacticians including Loremaster Belannaer, and schooled in the arts of war expected of a warrior of the High Elves including archery, fencing, and mounted combat. His homeland, one of the less populated kingdoms in the modern age which had nonetheless held onto its heritage as the cultural and commerce center of the eastern lands of the Elves, was continually covered in fog and had a brisk coolness in the air compared to most of the rest of Ulthuan which was in a state of perpetual summer climate. In these conditions Eltharion was toughened, learning about survival and the importance of community in a hostile land.
After becoming a full grown <strike>man</strike> elf, he set about recapturing the lost glory of the Yvressians with a spectacularly arrogant goal; invade [[Naggaroth]]. To everyone's surprise however, he actually had a fucking PLAN to do so other than "Be more fabulous and pray to Asuryan" which had been the keystone of every prior attempt. His strategy was disrupting the messages of the Dark Elves by using his light cavalry and rangers to nail any dispatches for aid that were sent which ensured every attack was against an unsuspecting foe, as well as utilizing infiltration methods to weaken the defenses of the Dark Elves.

He was poisoned in one of his attacks, and while he lay dying he was visited by the spirit of his dead father who told him that a [[WAAAGH]] had done the impossible and landed on the shores of Ulthuan, desecrating [[Waystone|Waystones]] and slaughtering everyone within reach including himself. Tor Yvresse had been completely destroyed and it was time to kick ass and take names. He awoke fully healed from his wounds, and called off the attack to immediately rush home to Ulthuan.
Once there, he gathered as many troops as he could from the rest of Yvresse and marched on the capital. There, he found that the [[Orcs & Goblins|Goblin]] named [[Grom the Paunch|Grom the Paunch of the Misty Mountain]] had sent his shamans into the tallest tower in Tor Yvresse for unknown reasons. Riding his personal Gryphon companion Stormwing and bringing two Mages with him, he entered the tower. The spell that the Shaman was casting backfired, and Eltharion used his adept knowledge of magic to attempt to dispel the misfire effect. He received a vision while doing so, although what it entailed was never revealed by him to anyone. He exited the tower alone and from that point on never smiled, never joked, and was cold and strict while before he had been a class clown (according to Tyrion's sad recollections of their boyhood adventures).
At some point after the battle he captured Grom, tortured him, chopped him into tiny pieces, and fed him into a magical furnace from which the magically regenerative Goblin couldn't recover (this was revealed by author [[Josh Reynolds]], and since there is no official end to Grom this is the closest we get).
Shortly after the battle subsided, the armies of [[Finubar the Seafarer|The Phoenix King]] finally arrived to assist him. He told them to fuck off, swearing that Yvresse would stand by itself from then on as the 'ardiest kingdom. In the days after, Eltharion was elected to lead Yvresse and he immediately set about eradicating the greenskins from his lands to the last, cleansing every valley of every <strike>Orcgina</strike> spore left by the tribes.

The Waystones had been toppled, and would take many years to rebuild. As a result [[Daemon|Daemons]] had begun manifesting out of the raw and stagnant magic around the kingdom, born out of pure Chaos and [[Chaos Undivided|free from the will]] of any of the [[Chaos Gods]]. These horrors, coming in all possible shapes and forms, ambled towards settlements and before long only Tor Yvresse remained as the primary inhabited location in the entire region. What few scattered villages existed soon became more outpost and garrison than farming community, as an attack from horrors almost unimaginable could come at any moment.

===The Blind===
After rushing to aid the Nagarythe in defense against a Dark Elf invasion, [[Malekith]] defeated Eltharion in a fight and took him alive as the Dark Elves won the battle (no word on what happened to Eltharion's griffon Stormwing). First, Malekith had all of Eltharion's surviving soldiers lined up, with a Har Ganeth executioner standing over each one, and made an offer. Eltharion could swear allegiance to Malekith, or Malekith would have Eltharion's soldiers killed. Eltharion refused, and Malekith made good on his threat but he didn't stop there. Malekith had Eltharion taken back to Naggaroth and tortured in the most mind-breaking ways possible, although Eltharion held onto his sanity in the most stoic badass way imaginable.

Malekith, frustrated, had his eyes removed then sent what remained of Eltharion back to Ulthuan to strike fear into the hearts of the High Elves. He made a full recovery however (as this was the older lore where the Dark Elves didn't do REALLY cruel shit like make flags out of the skin of one of their own, tied to the flagstaff itself to scream in harmony with their cavalry bugles), perhaps aided by healing magic, and became a badass swordsman. He trained with the Swordmasters of Hoeth and applied the heightened hearing/smelling/tactile senses to it. While back in the early editions High Elves looked down on Dark Elves as brutish and vile cousins, Eltharion was one of the few to actually HATE them and dream of genocide against their race. He encountered Malekith in another battle and managed to wound him, the first person to do so without a magic weapon when Malekith had the Armor of Midnight. Since then Eltharion made it his life's goal to destroy Malekith.

===The Grim===
In later editions, the Blind story was retconned. Eltharion's plot dropped the Dark Elf hate and reserved that for [[Alith Anar]], instead using him as the High Elves anti-greenskin character.

After Grom was defeated and Yvresse cleansed of his race, Eltharion became reclusive. Every visitor to Tor Yvresse was viewed with suspicion regardless of why they had come. The bulk of the city was abandoned, being reclaimed by nature while only the defensible locations underwent regular upkeep. Tor Yvresse became nothing short of a [[Kobold]] Den, full of traps and ambush points which were regularly patrolled by paranoid and hateful elves that had survived the attack.
Daemons constantly invaded from every direction, appearing in the oceans and swimming to the coastal city or even within its walls.
Loremaster Belannaer and his Mages attempted to restore the Waystones of Yvresse, but the process was slow and many were forever damaged. As an alternative, the Mages set up magical defenses comparable to those of Saphery; ones that lead you in circles forever if you approached with ill intent, ones that fractured the mind of those who went off-trail, and so forth.

Even during the darkest hour of the High Elves, when [[Defenders of Ulthuan/Sons of Ellyrion|a fuckhuge force lead by Malekith, Morathi, and Slaaneshi Warrior invaded Ulthuan]] he refused to aid another kingdom, answering a personal call from Finubar to save Lothern entirely by himself riding Stormwing (where he fended off Malekith and gave the dragon and rider a fair number of wounds before exiting the fight to let [[Imrik]] take over). He left unceremoniously after the battle was over without a word to anyone, to the disappointment of his boyhood friends who were also at the battle and hadn't seen him since before his invasion of the Dark Elves.

After eventually feeling that Tor Yvresse was secure enough for him to leave his city, he lead an army of his most disciplined and trusted Yvressians to Cothique to catch a ride to the [[Old World]]. Here he set about attempting to wipe out all Orcs and Goblins or to cause them to fear his race and never bother Ulthuan again, using fire magic to incinerate the earth after each battle to prevent another group from rising again. He destroyed WAAAGHs that began thousands of years ago and had battered at the doors of [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dwarfen]] Holds in all that time, allowing the Dwarfs of many locations to regain their strength and lend it to [[Thorgrim Grudgebearer]] as well as causing their race to gain a (slightly) higher opinion of the <strike>dandelion eaters</strike> Elves. WAAAGHs that had begun forming to wipe out humanity were assaulted and annihilated to the last. Everywhere the army of Eltharion marched, peace came to the land. But no matter how many he killed every day a new force of greenskins would appear on the horizon, marching into certain death.
After putting a larger dent in the greenskin population than any army or even single being had ever accomplished, Eltharion discovered that the reason the greenskin hordes had seemed endless was purely because THEY were now coming to HIM. WAAAGH after WAAAGH had pounded against his forces, and he had beaten them all. Knowledge of this had somehow spread throughout their race, and according to a Warboss he had captured almost every greenskin in the world now believed "Pointy-'eads give a proper fight." and had put fighting High Elves high on their To Do list.

Eltharion returned home, content that the bulk of the greenskin race would be lost at sea as Ulthuan is protected both by magic (intentional spells, and the raw energy surrounding it) as well as natural hazards (sea monsters even demigods can't kill, sentient islands that move to cause shipwrecks, and chaotic storms) that only (lucky) Elven navigators utilizing magic can navigate with assured success. Beyond that, the greenskins would have to fight unending Daemons to reach the shore. Then penetrate the defenses of Tor Yvresse.
There at home in his beloved city, Eltharion the Grim waited in the tallest tower of the only large settlement in his cursed region waiting for one final WAAAGH to break itself upon his knee.

===[[End Times]]===
In the End Times event, Eltharion was a major character, when he was chosen to lead the forces of Ulthuan against [[Nagash]]'s forces in an attempt to save [[Everqueen|Aliathra]] since Tyrion was needed to defend Ulthuan from surprise Slaanesh buttsex. Despite being grim and suspicious as ever, he tried to be considerate to his non-elven allies at Eldyra's and Belannar's request. In the battle he proved he was more skilled at leading an army and nearly as skilled in combat as Tyrion, kicking Mannfred's ass being his most notable accomplishment. He broke through the magical barrier around [[Arkhan the Black|Arkhan's]] Nagash-summoning ritual with his Fangsword, destroying the sword in the process. Even without it, he was still a powerful elven warrior with a gem that made him a level 2 wizard. But Arkhan was a level 4/5 wizard, so Eltharion grabbed Arkhan and slammed him against the cauldron's edge to try and break his neck. Badass as it is, taking on a lich with only one's bare hands is not the wisest idea. Arkhan grabbed Eltharion's wrist and used his Curse of Years spell to make Eltharion age until he turned to dust, Thanos-style.

Fuck.

His ghost also gave his niece and nephew his necklace and (fully restored) sword some years after the bone daddy's resurrection. This would be a good "Take up my sword" scene, but both of them <strike>worfed</strike> were unceremoniously murdered by [[Malekith]] and his right-hand minion Kouran during the Elven civil war only two books later because both of them disliked the idea of a Druchii being Phoenix King.

Many old-time High Elf players were offended and horrified at the completely shitty end to one of the original Warhammer Fantasy major characters. Most of them didn't blame Eltharion's killer Arkhan (who's another original Warhammer Fantasy character despite being added to the setting one year after Eltharion), but the writers.

===[[Age of Sigmar]]===

In Age of Sigmar [[Tyrion]], [[Teclis]], and Malerion ([[Malekith]] now a dragonman, because changing his name was easier and more likely to succeed than suing Marvel comics) attained godhood and managed to capture Slaanesh who at the time had eaten so many Elf souls from End Times that he was hiding out in a cave, too bloated to move, digesting them. These three chained up Slaanesh in the space between the realms of Light and Shadow and then disemboweled her/him/them in order to release all the delicious elf souls.
This, essentially, is why all the elves, including the 'T' twins, Caligula-dragon, [[Morathi]], and [[Alarielle]], suddenly reappeared as "Aelves".

Teclis tried to recreate the High Elves a few times, [[Idoneth Deepkin|with varying degrees of success]], but eventually managed to hit the mark with the [[Lumineth Realm Lords]]. With this success, Teclis then decided (for some reason) to NOT shove Eltharion into a new body, but instead into [[Rubric Marine|an animated suit of armor that will never feel anything]]. As it stands, Eltharion's spirit is considered the paragon of balance between the two castes of Lumineth (named "inventively" as Tyrionic and Teclian) , being a mage as well as a warrior. He's also now gifted with two swords, representative to the two gods of Hysh.

Also Stormwing apparently remains dead, and Teclis decided not to give him a replacement despite having a Sphinx as his own personal mount. Since Eltharion's killer, Arkhan, made it to AoS as well, one wonders if they will remember each other. Given the deja vu Mannfred and Balthasar/Balthas felt, it's possible.

==On The Tabletop==
Over the years, Eltharion has remained a questionable option to put on the tabletop. His Blind stats were much more impressive, as he was designed as a character who could fit into a unit of Swordmasters similar to the current Loremaster of Hoeth with his low level magic and high offensive stats.
Eltharion the Grim by contrast is overpriced, only ever really useful on Stormwing but thanks to cannonfire being a liability. His magic items make him durable enough to take some damage and dish it back out, although not as well as a proper generic Prince kitted out could do. In addition, his weak spellcasting does not make up for lacking a Mage or Archmage and you run into the problem of the fact you're paying for a combination melee/magic Lord while you want that split between two characters for safety and prioritization reasons.
As a result, Eltharion has spent many years mostly as a proxy model for a generic counterpart simply called "Eltharion" for narrative reasons.

The army of Tor Yvresse is similarly defeatist and confusing. His kingdom lacks any kind of unique signature unit or combination, instead relying on models from other kingdoms which is ironic given his attitude to asking favors (or answering them). His Blind version simply blended Nagarythe tactics with Saphery ones, relying on Shadow Warriors and Swordmasters with high magic and the typical Elf core to deal megafuck damage fast. The Grim seems to rely heavily on magic as well, although even in the Yvresse entry of the 8th edition High Elf Heraldry book only Spearmen, Archers, Silver Helms, Princes/Nobles, and Archmages/Mages are described as Yvressian troops. Whether this means an Yvresse list (supposedly small forces of depleted and shellshocked troops) are almost entirely Core and characters is the intention of Games Workshop or not is unknown. A list like that may explain why Eltharion was killed so quickly in End Times however...

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Eltharion and Belannaer.jpg|Artwork for Eltharion the Blind, sparring with Belannaer.
Image:Eltharion the Blind Model.jpg|Eltharion the Blind's model.
Image:Eltharion VS Shadowblade.jpg|Eltharion the Blind fighting motherfucking Shadowblade himself.
Image:Eltharion Fan Art.jpg|Fan art depicting Eltharion the Blind.
Image:Eltharion the Grim TCG.jpg|Eltharion and Stormwing art from the Warhammer Trading Card Game.
Image:Eltharion Fabulous.jpg|80's style Army Book art depicting Eltharion.
Image:Eltharion and Stormwing.jpg|Eltharion's current model, riding Stormwing.
Image:Eltharion vs Magic Barrier.jpg|(spoiler alert)... Eltharion's final moments.
File:Eltharion AOS.jpg|His new Age of Sigmar model
</gallery>

{{Template:High Elves}}

Eltharion

2020-04-19T15:17:51Z

2406:3400:20F:FFC0:E99D:837C:62D1:278C: /* End Times */

[[File:Eltharion the Grim 2.jpg|thumb|400px|High Elf Batman. "WHERE'S GROM?!?"]]
{{topquote|A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.|Francis Bacon}}

Eltharion, known either as "the Blind" or "the Grim" depending on if you're going by pre or post retcon fluff, is a named character from the [[Warhammer Fantasy]] universe in the [[High Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|High Elves]] army. He is the Prince (AKA governor) of the kingdom (province) of [[Ulthuan|Yvresse]], which is perhaps the most fucked up and depressing place in the world you can be in charge of short of taking a trip through the Warp to the 41st millennium.

==The Legend==
Eltharion grew up a privileged Prince groomed for his position with ample training at the hands of Sapherian historians and tacticians including Loremaster Belannaer, and schooled in the arts of war expected of a warrior of the High Elves including archery, fencing, and mounted combat. His homeland, one of the less populated kingdoms in the modern age which had nonetheless held onto its heritage as the cultural and commerce center of the eastern lands of the Elves, was continually covered in fog and had a brisk coolness in the air compared to most of the rest of Ulthuan which was in a state of perpetual summer climate. In these conditions Eltharion was toughened, learning about survival and the importance of community in a hostile land.
After becoming a full grown <strike>man</strike> elf, he set about recapturing the lost glory of the Yvressians with a spectacularly arrogant goal; invade [[Naggaroth]]. To everyone's surprise however, he actually had a fucking PLAN to do so other than "Be more fabulous and pray to Asuryan" which had been the keystone of every prior attempt. His strategy was disrupting the messages of the Dark Elves by using his light cavalry and rangers to nail any dispatches for aid that were sent which ensured every attack was against an unsuspecting foe, as well as utilizing infiltration methods to weaken the defenses of the Dark Elves.

He was poisoned in one of his attacks, and while he lay dying he was visited by the spirit of his dead father who told him that a [[WAAAGH]] had done the impossible and landed on the shores of Ulthuan, desecrating [[Waystone|Waystones]] and slaughtering everyone within reach including himself. Tor Yvresse had been completely destroyed and it was time to kick ass and take names. He awoke fully healed from his wounds, and called off the attack to immediately rush home to Ulthuan.
Once there, he gathered as many troops as he could from the rest of Yvresse and marched on the capital. There, he found that the [[Orcs & Goblins|Goblin]] named [[Grom the Paunch|Grom the Paunch of the Misty Mountain]] had sent his shamans into the tallest tower in Tor Yvresse for unknown reasons. Riding his personal Gryphon companion Stormwing and bringing two Mages with him, he entered the tower. The spell that the Shaman was casting backfired, and Eltharion used his adept knowledge of magic to attempt to dispel the misfire effect. He received a vision while doing so, although what it entailed was never revealed by him to anyone. He exited the tower alone and from that point on never smiled, never joked, and was cold and strict while before he had been a class clown (according to Tyrion's sad recollections of their boyhood adventures).
At some point after the battle he captured Grom, tortured him, chopped him into tiny pieces, and fed him into a magical furnace from which the magically regenerative Goblin couldn't recover (this was revealed by author [[Josh Reynolds]], and since there is no official end to Grom this is the closest we get).
Shortly after the battle subsided, the armies of [[Finubar the Seafarer|The Phoenix King]] finally arrived to assist him. He told them to fuck off, swearing that Yvresse would stand by itself from then on as the 'ardiest kingdom. In the days after, Eltharion was elected to lead Yvresse and he immediately set about eradicating the greenskins from his lands to the last, cleansing every valley of every <strike>Orcgina</strike> spore left by the tribes.

The Waystones had been toppled, and would take many years to rebuild. As a result [[Daemon|Daemons]] had begun manifesting out of the raw and stagnant magic around the kingdom, born out of pure Chaos and [[Chaos Undivided|free from the will]] of any of the [[Chaos Gods]]. These horrors, coming in all possible shapes and forms, ambled towards settlements and before long only Tor Yvresse remained as the primary inhabited location in the entire region. What few scattered villages existed soon became more outpost and garrison than farming community, as an attack from horrors almost unimaginable could come at any moment.

===The Blind===
After rushing to aid the Nagarythe in defense against a Dark Elf invasion, [[Malekith]] defeated Eltharion in a fight and took him alive as the Dark Elves won the battle (no word on what happened to Eltharion's griffon Stormwing). First, Malekith had all of Eltharion's surviving soldiers lined up, with a Har Ganeth executioner standing over each one, and made an offer. Eltharion could swear allegiance to Malekith, or Malekith would have Eltharion's soldiers killed. Eltharion refused, and Malekith made good on his threat but he didn't stop there. Malekith had Eltharion taken back to Naggaroth and tortured in the most mind-breaking ways possible, although Eltharion held onto his sanity in the most stoic badass way imaginable.

Malekith, frustrated, had his eyes removed then sent what remained of Eltharion back to Ulthuan to strike fear into the hearts of the High Elves. He made a full recovery however (as this was the older lore where the Dark Elves didn't do REALLY cruel shit like make flags out of the skin of one of their own, tied to the flagstaff itself to scream in harmony with their cavalry bugles), perhaps aided by healing magic, and became a badass swordsman. He trained with the Swordmasters of Hoeth and applied the heightened hearing/smelling/tactile senses to it. While back in the early editions High Elves looked down on Dark Elves as brutish and vile cousins, Eltharion was one of the few to actually HATE them and dream of genocide against their race. He encountered Malekith in another battle and managed to wound him, the first person to do so without a magic weapon when Malekith had the Armor of Midnight. Since then Eltharion made it his life's goal to destroy Malekith.

===The Grim===
In later editions, the Blind story was retconned. Eltharion's plot dropped the Dark Elf hate and reserved that for [[Alith Anar]], instead using him as the High Elves anti-greenskin character.

After Grom was defeated and Yvresse cleansed of his race, Eltharion became reclusive. Every visitor to Tor Yvresse was viewed with suspicion regardless of why they had come. The bulk of the city was abandoned, being reclaimed by nature while only the defensible locations underwent regular upkeep. Tor Yvresse became nothing short of a [[Kobold]] Den, full of traps and ambush points which were regularly patrolled by paranoid and hateful elves that had survived the attack.
Daemons constantly invaded from every direction, appearing in the oceans and swimming to the coastal city or even within its walls.
Loremaster Belannaer and his Mages attempted to restore the Waystones of Yvresse, but the process was slow and many were forever damaged. As an alternative, the Mages set up magical defenses comparable to those of Saphery; ones that lead you in circles forever if you approached with ill intent, ones that fractured the mind of those who went off-trail, and so forth.

Even during the darkest hour of the High Elves, when [[Defenders of Ulthuan/Sons of Ellyrion|a fuckhuge force lead by Malekith, Morathi, and Slaaneshi Warrior invaded Ulthuan]] he refused to aid another kingdom, answering a personal call from Finubar to save Lothern entirely by himself riding Stormwing (where he fended off Malekith and gave the dragon and rider a fair number of wounds before exiting the fight to let [[Imrik]] take over). He left unceremoniously after the battle was over without a word to anyone, to the disappointment of his boyhood friends who were also at the battle and hadn't seen him since before his invasion of the Dark Elves.

After eventually feeling that Tor Yvresse was secure enough for him to leave his city, he lead an army of his most disciplined and trusted Yvressians to Cothique to catch a ride to the [[Old World]]. Here he set about attempting to wipe out all Orcs and Goblins or to cause them to fear his race and never bother Ulthuan again, using fire magic to incinerate the earth after each battle to prevent another group from rising again. He destroyed WAAAGHs that began thousands of years ago and had battered at the doors of [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dwarfen]] Holds in all that time, allowing the Dwarfs of many locations to regain their strength and lend it to [[Thorgrim Grudgebearer]] as well as causing their race to gain a (slightly) higher opinion of the <strike>dandelion eaters</strike> Elves. WAAAGHs that had begun forming to wipe out humanity were assaulted and annihilated to the last. Everywhere the army of Eltharion marched, peace came to the land. But no matter how many he killed every day a new force of greenskins would appear on the horizon, marching into certain death.
After putting a larger dent in the greenskin population than any army or even single being had ever accomplished, Eltharion discovered that the reason the greenskin hordes had seemed endless was purely because THEY were now coming to HIM. WAAAGH after WAAAGH had pounded against his forces, and he had beaten them all. Knowledge of this had somehow spread throughout their race, and according to a Warboss he had captured almost every greenskin in the world now believed "Pointy-'eads give a proper fight." and had put fighting High Elves high on their To Do list.

Eltharion returned home, content that the bulk of the greenskin race would be lost at sea as Ulthuan is protected both by magic (intentional spells, and the raw energy surrounding it) as well as natural hazards (sea monsters even demigods can't kill, sentient islands that move to cause shipwrecks, and chaotic storms) that only (lucky) Elven navigators utilizing magic can navigate with assured success. Beyond that, the greenskins would have to fight unending Daemons to reach the shore. Then penetrate the defenses of Tor Yvresse.
There at home in his beloved city, Eltharion the Grim waited in the tallest tower of the only large settlement in his cursed region waiting for one final WAAAGH to break itself upon his knee.

===[[End Times]]===
In the End Times event, Eltharion was a major character, when he was chosen to lead the forces of Ulthuan against [[Nagash]]'s forces in an attempt to save [[Everqueen|Aliathra]] since Tyrion was needed to defend Ulthuan from surprise Slaanesh buttsex. Despite being grim and suspicious as ever, he tried to be considerate to his non-elven allies at Eldyra's and Belannar's request. In the battle he proved he was more skilled at leading an army and nearly as skilled in combat as Tyrion, kicking Mannfred's ass being his most notable accomplishment. He broke through the magical barrier around [[Arkhan the Black|Arkhan's]] Nagash-summoning ritual with his Fangsword, destroying the sword in the process. Even without it, he was still a powerful elven warrior with a gem that made him a level 2 wizard. But Arkhan was a level 4/5 wizard, so Eltharion grabbed Arkhan and slammed him against the cauldron's edge to try and break his neck. Badass as it is, taking on a lich with only one's bare hands is not the wisest idea. Arkhan grabbed Eltharion's wrist and used his Curse of Years spell to make Eltharion age until he turned to dust, Thanos-style.

Fuck.

His ghost also gave his niece and nephew his necklace and sword some years after the bone daddy's resurrection. This would be a good "Take up my sword" scene, but both of them <strike>worfed</strike> were unceremoniously murdered by [[Malekith]] and his right-hand minion Kouran during the Elven civil war only two books later because both of them disliked the idea of a Druchii being Phoenix King.

Many old-time High Elf players were offended and horrified at the completely shitty end to one of the original Warhammer Fantasy major characters. Most of them didn't blame Eltharion's killer Arkhan (who's another original Warhammer Fantasy character despite being added to the setting one year after Eltharion), but the writers.

===[[Age of Sigmar]]===

In Age of Sigmar [[Tyrion]], [[Teclis]], and Malerion ([[Malekith]] now a dragonman, because changing his name was easier and more likely to succeed than suing Marvel comics) attained godhood and managed to capture Slaanesh who at the time had eaten so many Elf souls from End Times that he was hiding out in a cave, too bloated to move, digesting them. These three chained up Slaanesh in the space between the realms of Light and Shadow and then disemboweled her/him/them in order to release all the delicious elf souls.
This, essentially, is why all the elves, including the 'T' twins, Caligula-dragon, [[Morathi]], and [[Alarielle]], suddenly reappeared as "Aelves".

Teclis tried to recreate the High Elves a few times, [[Idoneth Deepkin|with varying degrees of success]], but eventually managed to hit the mark with the [[Lumineth Realm Lords]]. With this success, Teclis then decided (for some reason) to NOT shove Eltharion into a new body, but instead into [[Rubric Marine|an animated suit of armor that will never feel anything]]. As it stands, Eltharion's spirit is considered the paragon of balance between the two castes of Lumineth (named "inventively" as Tyrionic and Teclian) , being a mage as well as a warrior. He's also now gifted with two swords, representative to the two gods of Hysh.

Also Stormwing apparently remains dead, and Teclis decided not to give him a replacement despite having a Sphinx as his own personal mount. Since Eltharion's killer, Arkhan, made it to AoS as well, one wonders if they will remember each other. Given the deja vu Mannfred and Balthasar/Balthas felt, it's possible.

==On The Tabletop==
Over the years, Eltharion has remained a questionable option to put on the tabletop. His Blind stats were much more impressive, as he was designed as a character who could fit into a unit of Swordmasters similar to the current Loremaster of Hoeth with his low level magic and high offensive stats.
Eltharion the Grim by contrast is overpriced, only ever really useful on Stormwing but thanks to cannonfire being a liability. His magic items make him durable enough to take some damage and dish it back out, although not as well as a proper generic Prince kitted out could do. In addition, his weak spellcasting does not make up for lacking a Mage or Archmage and you run into the problem of the fact you're paying for a combination melee/magic Lord while you want that split between two characters for safety and prioritization reasons.
As a result, Eltharion has spent many years mostly as a proxy model for a generic counterpart simply called "Eltharion" for narrative reasons.

The army of Tor Yvresse is similarly defeatist and confusing. His kingdom lacks any kind of unique signature unit or combination, instead relying on models from other kingdoms which is ironic given his attitude to asking favors (or answering them). His Blind version simply blended Nagarythe tactics with Saphery ones, relying on Shadow Warriors and Swordmasters with high magic and the typical Elf core to deal megafuck damage fast. The Grim seems to rely heavily on magic as well, although even in the Yvresse entry of the 8th edition High Elf Heraldry book only Spearmen, Archers, Silver Helms, Princes/Nobles, and Archmages/Mages are described as Yvressian troops. Whether this means an Yvresse list (supposedly small forces of depleted and shellshocked troops) are almost entirely Core and characters is the intention of Games Workshop or not is unknown. A list like that may explain why Eltharion was killed so quickly in End Times however...

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Eltharion and Belannaer.jpg|Artwork for Eltharion the Blind, sparring with Belannaer.
Image:Eltharion the Blind Model.jpg|Eltharion the Blind's model.
Image:Eltharion VS Shadowblade.jpg|Eltharion the Blind fighting motherfucking Shadowblade himself.
Image:Eltharion Fan Art.jpg|Fan art depicting Eltharion the Blind.
Image:Eltharion the Grim TCG.jpg|Eltharion and Stormwing art from the Warhammer Trading Card Game.
Image:Eltharion Fabulous.jpg|80's style Army Book art depicting Eltharion.
Image:Eltharion and Stormwing.jpg|Eltharion's current model, riding Stormwing.
Image:Eltharion vs Magic Barrier.jpg|(spoiler alert)... Eltharion's final moments.
File:Eltharion AOS.jpg|His new Age of Sigmar model
</gallery>

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Eltharion

2020-04-19T15:17:30Z

2406:3400:20F:FFC0:E99D:837C:62D1:278C: /* End Times */

[[File:Eltharion the Grim 2.jpg|thumb|400px|High Elf Batman. "WHERE'S GROM?!?"]]
{{topquote|A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.|Francis Bacon}}

Eltharion, known either as "the Blind" or "the Grim" depending on if you're going by pre or post retcon fluff, is a named character from the [[Warhammer Fantasy]] universe in the [[High Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|High Elves]] army. He is the Prince (AKA governor) of the kingdom (province) of [[Ulthuan|Yvresse]], which is perhaps the most fucked up and depressing place in the world you can be in charge of short of taking a trip through the Warp to the 41st millennium.

==The Legend==
Eltharion grew up a privileged Prince groomed for his position with ample training at the hands of Sapherian historians and tacticians including Loremaster Belannaer, and schooled in the arts of war expected of a warrior of the High Elves including archery, fencing, and mounted combat. His homeland, one of the less populated kingdoms in the modern age which had nonetheless held onto its heritage as the cultural and commerce center of the eastern lands of the Elves, was continually covered in fog and had a brisk coolness in the air compared to most of the rest of Ulthuan which was in a state of perpetual summer climate. In these conditions Eltharion was toughened, learning about survival and the importance of community in a hostile land.
After becoming a full grown <strike>man</strike> elf, he set about recapturing the lost glory of the Yvressians with a spectacularly arrogant goal; invade [[Naggaroth]]. To everyone's surprise however, he actually had a fucking PLAN to do so other than "Be more fabulous and pray to Asuryan" which had been the keystone of every prior attempt. His strategy was disrupting the messages of the Dark Elves by using his light cavalry and rangers to nail any dispatches for aid that were sent which ensured every attack was against an unsuspecting foe, as well as utilizing infiltration methods to weaken the defenses of the Dark Elves.

He was poisoned in one of his attacks, and while he lay dying he was visited by the spirit of his dead father who told him that a [[WAAAGH]] had done the impossible and landed on the shores of Ulthuan, desecrating [[Waystone|Waystones]] and slaughtering everyone within reach including himself. Tor Yvresse had been completely destroyed and it was time to kick ass and take names. He awoke fully healed from his wounds, and called off the attack to immediately rush home to Ulthuan.
Once there, he gathered as many troops as he could from the rest of Yvresse and marched on the capital. There, he found that the [[Orcs & Goblins|Goblin]] named [[Grom the Paunch|Grom the Paunch of the Misty Mountain]] had sent his shamans into the tallest tower in Tor Yvresse for unknown reasons. Riding his personal Gryphon companion Stormwing and bringing two Mages with him, he entered the tower. The spell that the Shaman was casting backfired, and Eltharion used his adept knowledge of magic to attempt to dispel the misfire effect. He received a vision while doing so, although what it entailed was never revealed by him to anyone. He exited the tower alone and from that point on never smiled, never joked, and was cold and strict while before he had been a class clown (according to Tyrion's sad recollections of their boyhood adventures).
At some point after the battle he captured Grom, tortured him, chopped him into tiny pieces, and fed him into a magical furnace from which the magically regenerative Goblin couldn't recover (this was revealed by author [[Josh Reynolds]], and since there is no official end to Grom this is the closest we get).
Shortly after the battle subsided, the armies of [[Finubar the Seafarer|The Phoenix King]] finally arrived to assist him. He told them to fuck off, swearing that Yvresse would stand by itself from then on as the 'ardiest kingdom. In the days after, Eltharion was elected to lead Yvresse and he immediately set about eradicating the greenskins from his lands to the last, cleansing every valley of every <strike>Orcgina</strike> spore left by the tribes.

The Waystones had been toppled, and would take many years to rebuild. As a result [[Daemon|Daemons]] had begun manifesting out of the raw and stagnant magic around the kingdom, born out of pure Chaos and [[Chaos Undivided|free from the will]] of any of the [[Chaos Gods]]. These horrors, coming in all possible shapes and forms, ambled towards settlements and before long only Tor Yvresse remained as the primary inhabited location in the entire region. What few scattered villages existed soon became more outpost and garrison than farming community, as an attack from horrors almost unimaginable could come at any moment.

===The Blind===
After rushing to aid the Nagarythe in defense against a Dark Elf invasion, [[Malekith]] defeated Eltharion in a fight and took him alive as the Dark Elves won the battle (no word on what happened to Eltharion's griffon Stormwing). First, Malekith had all of Eltharion's surviving soldiers lined up, with a Har Ganeth executioner standing over each one, and made an offer. Eltharion could swear allegiance to Malekith, or Malekith would have Eltharion's soldiers killed. Eltharion refused, and Malekith made good on his threat but he didn't stop there. Malekith had Eltharion taken back to Naggaroth and tortured in the most mind-breaking ways possible, although Eltharion held onto his sanity in the most stoic badass way imaginable.

Malekith, frustrated, had his eyes removed then sent what remained of Eltharion back to Ulthuan to strike fear into the hearts of the High Elves. He made a full recovery however (as this was the older lore where the Dark Elves didn't do REALLY cruel shit like make flags out of the skin of one of their own, tied to the flagstaff itself to scream in harmony with their cavalry bugles), perhaps aided by healing magic, and became a badass swordsman. He trained with the Swordmasters of Hoeth and applied the heightened hearing/smelling/tactile senses to it. While back in the early editions High Elves looked down on Dark Elves as brutish and vile cousins, Eltharion was one of the few to actually HATE them and dream of genocide against their race. He encountered Malekith in another battle and managed to wound him, the first person to do so without a magic weapon when Malekith had the Armor of Midnight. Since then Eltharion made it his life's goal to destroy Malekith.

===The Grim===
In later editions, the Blind story was retconned. Eltharion's plot dropped the Dark Elf hate and reserved that for [[Alith Anar]], instead using him as the High Elves anti-greenskin character.

After Grom was defeated and Yvresse cleansed of his race, Eltharion became reclusive. Every visitor to Tor Yvresse was viewed with suspicion regardless of why they had come. The bulk of the city was abandoned, being reclaimed by nature while only the defensible locations underwent regular upkeep. Tor Yvresse became nothing short of a [[Kobold]] Den, full of traps and ambush points which were regularly patrolled by paranoid and hateful elves that had survived the attack.
Daemons constantly invaded from every direction, appearing in the oceans and swimming to the coastal city or even within its walls.
Loremaster Belannaer and his Mages attempted to restore the Waystones of Yvresse, but the process was slow and many were forever damaged. As an alternative, the Mages set up magical defenses comparable to those of Saphery; ones that lead you in circles forever if you approached with ill intent, ones that fractured the mind of those who went off-trail, and so forth.

Even during the darkest hour of the High Elves, when [[Defenders of Ulthuan/Sons of Ellyrion|a fuckhuge force lead by Malekith, Morathi, and Slaaneshi Warrior invaded Ulthuan]] he refused to aid another kingdom, answering a personal call from Finubar to save Lothern entirely by himself riding Stormwing (where he fended off Malekith and gave the dragon and rider a fair number of wounds before exiting the fight to let [[Imrik]] take over). He left unceremoniously after the battle was over without a word to anyone, to the disappointment of his boyhood friends who were also at the battle and hadn't seen him since before his invasion of the Dark Elves.

After eventually feeling that Tor Yvresse was secure enough for him to leave his city, he lead an army of his most disciplined and trusted Yvressians to Cothique to catch a ride to the [[Old World]]. Here he set about attempting to wipe out all Orcs and Goblins or to cause them to fear his race and never bother Ulthuan again, using fire magic to incinerate the earth after each battle to prevent another group from rising again. He destroyed WAAAGHs that began thousands of years ago and had battered at the doors of [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dwarfen]] Holds in all that time, allowing the Dwarfs of many locations to regain their strength and lend it to [[Thorgrim Grudgebearer]] as well as causing their race to gain a (slightly) higher opinion of the <strike>dandelion eaters</strike> Elves. WAAAGHs that had begun forming to wipe out humanity were assaulted and annihilated to the last. Everywhere the army of Eltharion marched, peace came to the land. But no matter how many he killed every day a new force of greenskins would appear on the horizon, marching into certain death.
After putting a larger dent in the greenskin population than any army or even single being had ever accomplished, Eltharion discovered that the reason the greenskin hordes had seemed endless was purely because THEY were now coming to HIM. WAAAGH after WAAAGH had pounded against his forces, and he had beaten them all. Knowledge of this had somehow spread throughout their race, and according to a Warboss he had captured almost every greenskin in the world now believed "Pointy-'eads give a proper fight." and had put fighting High Elves high on their To Do list.

Eltharion returned home, content that the bulk of the greenskin race would be lost at sea as Ulthuan is protected both by magic (intentional spells, and the raw energy surrounding it) as well as natural hazards (sea monsters even demigods can't kill, sentient islands that move to cause shipwrecks, and chaotic storms) that only (lucky) Elven navigators utilizing magic can navigate with assured success. Beyond that, the greenskins would have to fight unending Daemons to reach the shore. Then penetrate the defenses of Tor Yvresse.
There at home in his beloved city, Eltharion the Grim waited in the tallest tower of the only large settlement in his cursed region waiting for one final WAAAGH to break itself upon his knee.

===[[End Times]]===
In the End Times event, Eltharion was a major character, when he was chosen to lead the forces of Ulthuan against [[Nagash]]'s forces in an attempt to save [[Everqueen|Aliathra]] since Tyrion was needed to defend Ulthuan from surprise Slaanesh buttsex. Despite being grim and suspicious as ever, he tried to be considerate to his non-elven allies at Eldyra's and Belannar's request. In the battle he proved he was more skilled at leading an army and nearly as skilled in combat as Tyrion, kicking Mannfred's ass being his most notable accomplishment. He broke through the magical barrier around [[Arkhan the Black|Arkhan's]] Nagash-summoning ritual with his Fangsword, destroying the sword in the process. Even without it, he was still a powerful elven warrior with a gem that made him a level 2 wizard. But Arkhan was a level 4/5 wizard, so Eltharion grabbed Arkhan and slammed him against the cauldron's edge to try and break his neck. Badass as it is, taking on a lich with only one's bare hands is not the wisest idea. Arkhan grabbed Eltharion's wrist and used his Curse of Years spell that made Eltharion age until he turned to dust, Thanos-style.

Fuck.

His ghost also gave his niece and nephew his necklace and sword some years after the bone daddy's resurrection. This would be a good "Take up my sword" scene, but both of them <strike>worfed</strike> were unceremoniously murdered by [[Malekith]] and his right-hand minion Kouran during the Elven civil war only two books later because both of them disliked the idea of a Druchii being Phoenix King.

Many old-time High Elf players were offended and horrified at the completely shitty end to one of the original Warhammer Fantasy major characters. Most of them didn't blame Eltharion's killer Arkhan (who's another original Warhammer Fantasy character despite being added to the setting one year after Eltharion), but the writers.

===[[Age of Sigmar]]===

In Age of Sigmar [[Tyrion]], [[Teclis]], and Malerion ([[Malekith]] now a dragonman, because changing his name was easier and more likely to succeed than suing Marvel comics) attained godhood and managed to capture Slaanesh who at the time had eaten so many Elf souls from End Times that he was hiding out in a cave, too bloated to move, digesting them. These three chained up Slaanesh in the space between the realms of Light and Shadow and then disemboweled her/him/them in order to release all the delicious elf souls.
This, essentially, is why all the elves, including the 'T' twins, Caligula-dragon, [[Morathi]], and [[Alarielle]], suddenly reappeared as "Aelves".

Teclis tried to recreate the High Elves a few times, [[Idoneth Deepkin|with varying degrees of success]], but eventually managed to hit the mark with the [[Lumineth Realm Lords]]. With this success, Teclis then decided (for some reason) to NOT shove Eltharion into a new body, but instead into [[Rubric Marine|an animated suit of armor that will never feel anything]]. As it stands, Eltharion's spirit is considered the paragon of balance between the two castes of Lumineth (named "inventively" as Tyrionic and Teclian) , being a mage as well as a warrior. He's also now gifted with two swords, representative to the two gods of Hysh.

Also Stormwing apparently remains dead, and Teclis decided not to give him a replacement despite having a Sphinx as his own personal mount. Since Eltharion's killer, Arkhan, made it to AoS as well, one wonders if they will remember each other. Given the deja vu Mannfred and Balthasar/Balthas felt, it's possible.

==On The Tabletop==
Over the years, Eltharion has remained a questionable option to put on the tabletop. His Blind stats were much more impressive, as he was designed as a character who could fit into a unit of Swordmasters similar to the current Loremaster of Hoeth with his low level magic and high offensive stats.
Eltharion the Grim by contrast is overpriced, only ever really useful on Stormwing but thanks to cannonfire being a liability. His magic items make him durable enough to take some damage and dish it back out, although not as well as a proper generic Prince kitted out could do. In addition, his weak spellcasting does not make up for lacking a Mage or Archmage and you run into the problem of the fact you're paying for a combination melee/magic Lord while you want that split between two characters for safety and prioritization reasons.
As a result, Eltharion has spent many years mostly as a proxy model for a generic counterpart simply called "Eltharion" for narrative reasons.

The army of Tor Yvresse is similarly defeatist and confusing. His kingdom lacks any kind of unique signature unit or combination, instead relying on models from other kingdoms which is ironic given his attitude to asking favors (or answering them). His Blind version simply blended Nagarythe tactics with Saphery ones, relying on Shadow Warriors and Swordmasters with high magic and the typical Elf core to deal megafuck damage fast. The Grim seems to rely heavily on magic as well, although even in the Yvresse entry of the 8th edition High Elf Heraldry book only Spearmen, Archers, Silver Helms, Princes/Nobles, and Archmages/Mages are described as Yvressian troops. Whether this means an Yvresse list (supposedly small forces of depleted and shellshocked troops) are almost entirely Core and characters is the intention of Games Workshop or not is unknown. A list like that may explain why Eltharion was killed so quickly in End Times however...

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Image:Eltharion and Belannaer.jpg|Artwork for Eltharion the Blind, sparring with Belannaer.
Image:Eltharion the Blind Model.jpg|Eltharion the Blind's model.
Image:Eltharion VS Shadowblade.jpg|Eltharion the Blind fighting motherfucking Shadowblade himself.
Image:Eltharion Fan Art.jpg|Fan art depicting Eltharion the Blind.
Image:Eltharion the Grim TCG.jpg|Eltharion and Stormwing art from the Warhammer Trading Card Game.
Image:Eltharion Fabulous.jpg|80's style Army Book art depicting Eltharion.
Image:Eltharion and Stormwing.jpg|Eltharion's current model, riding Stormwing.
Image:Eltharion vs Magic Barrier.jpg|(spoiler alert)... Eltharion's final moments.
File:Eltharion AOS.jpg|His new Age of Sigmar model
</gallery>

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