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Vampire Counts

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[[Image:WHFBVampire.jpg|right|thumb|400px|Let us go out this evening for pleasure... The night is still young!]]
{{Topquote|Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.|Sherrilyn Kenyon}}
{{Topquote|A great deal of struggle and sorrow in the world comes from misguided feelings of pride of ownership and possessiveness.|Bryant H McGill}}
{{Topquote|He roused from a joyous dream of feasting, of drinking blood and sucking warm marrow from the bone. His sons and daughters swarmed like ants upon the surface of the Earth, ripe in their terror, delectable in their anguish. He swept them into his mouth and their insides ran in black streams between his lips and matted his beard. This sweet dream rapidly slipped away as he stretched and assessed his surroundings. He shambled forth from the great cavern in the mountain that had been his home for so long.|Laird Barron}}

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTKRDZ_8Qek I reject my humanity!].

The '''Vampire Counts''' are the [[Tomb Kings|non-Egyptian]] Undead of [[Warhammer Fantasy]]. Due to them being..."heavily inspired" by the boom of [[Vampire: The Masquerade]] in the early 90's, the 1994 release of the 4th edition <strike>bit off</strike> borrowed the use of Vampiric "families" leading back to a sole "ancestor". The idea was <strike>sucked up by</strike> popular among the Warhammer community and as a result Vampires split from the mummies in 5e 1999 with the first Vampire Counts Army Book.

The Vampire Counts are your classic, blood-sucking Slavic fiends and total fucking badasses who almost took over the entire fucking Old World (Warhammer Europe) multiple times before the armies of [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|mankind]] and their [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dwarfish]] allies got their shit together. Ruthless, intelligent, strong enough to go toe-to-toe with Ogres and evil as hell (except for a few questionably neutral characters), most of the Vampire Counts in the Warhammer universe long to plunge the entire world into a holocaust of darkness and despair, ensuring that the entire land is wholly under their thumb and the foolish mortals know their place as slaves and food. Others pursue dark knowledge for its own sake, like a Lich with a good (but not great) moisturizer; some want to control the entire planet in the shadows like a far more efficient Illuminati, or simply want to tear down the motherfuckers who have it better than themselves. Regardless of motives or behavior, all Vampires suffer from a strong sense of pride and possession; servants and allied are belongings, either as tools or luxury items/pets, and a sense of camaraderie with any other being is extremely rare. But on the plus side all Vampires are free from the cycle of death (as with the right ritual ANY Vampire can be resurrected and there's plenty of downtrodden mortals clamoring to become a powerful Vampire's favorite servant) and [[Chaos]] (which can provide them blessings if served willingly but cannot actually interact with their soul; but given the aforementioned pride and entitlement, few Vampires would revere even a Chaos God as their superior and pledge any loyalty to it).

Basically it's an entire army of Gothic Horror Vampire lords, seeking to kill and conquer nations not just to appease their own massive egos and pride, but to ensure their all-encompassing need to feed. The classic intelligent monsters and consummate overlords of evil, WHFB's Vampire Counts are pretty much the best of what Vampires can be, and sure as fuck a welcome departure from [[Twilight|this shit]].

==History==
[[Image:Nagash.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Three thousand years later, still a pain in the ass.]]
A long-as-hell time ago, even by Warhammer Fantasy standards since most human history is in the living memory of Dwarfs and Elves but this story begins alongside THEIR prehistory, there was a powerful Priest of Khemri named [[Nagash]], who was such a thorough badass that he became not only the first Necromancer in Warhammer Fantasy's universe, but literally created the first undead. He learned his Dark Arts from a trio of Dark Elven Sorceresses, who taught him how to manipulate the energies of [[Chaos]] using dark rituals involving heresy and human sacrifice. He killed them in a magical duel, poisoning one, ripping another to shreds, and crushing the third before consuming their souls; many on [[/tg/]] would say this is ''the'' way to deal with an [[Elf]].

After this, there was no stopping the guy - he communed with Daemons and the spirits of the dead, seized the kingdom for himself from his brother, and used his Necromantic magic to greatly expand his own lifespan. During his tenure as King of Khemri, Nagash decided it would be an awesome idea to run the kingdom as a real-life version of [[Dwarf Fortress]], [[Grimdark|and all that it implies]]. He soon had the idea for the creation of a massive megaproject: a necropolis made of pure [[Warpstone]] AKA evil magic meth plutonium that came to be known as the Black Pyramid, so named for the black Warpstone that made it up. Suffice to say, his blatant evil scared the shit out of the other kingdoms around Khemri, and -undoubtedly jealous of his epic pyramid- they attempted to kill him. Hell, Nagash was so damn terrifying that the Skaven all united against him, which is probably the only time in history the paranoid little freaks have ever been completely united for any cause at all. Despite having an army of the dead and loyal followers like [[Arkhan the Black]], Nagash was finally deposed, though he fled and would eventually emerge once more as the first Lich, continuing to, as many threats in the Warhammer universe have, be a constant thorn in the side of the armies of man forever until the [[End Times|end of fucking time]]...[[Age of Sigmar|and beyond]].

After the fall of Nagash, the Black Pyramid went undisturbed for years, since nobody wanted anything to do with a giant monolith that was related to an insane necromancer who pretty much came within striking distance of ruling all the desert kingdoms. Eventually a spoiled princess from one of the neighboring kingdoms named [[Neferata]] who had been put in charge of interrogating Nagash's sidekick Arkhan channeled her inner Tomb Raider, breaking in and making off with some of Nagash's magic books, which were later called the Nine Books of Nagash (guess how many there were). Delving into the corrupt lore she found within the tome, Neferata discovered a recipe for the Elixir of Life, a blood-draught that would extend one's lifespan. Doing her own research on it and "refining" it alongside the now-infatuated Arkhan, she eventually created a new version of the Elixir -called the Elixir of Damnation using venom from the scorpion tails of Sphinxes- and then downed it. It almost killed her (permanently) until with Arkhan she managed to overcome the sickness and became an unliving nigh-demigod.

Later she shared it with many of her court (after killing her douchebag brother and taking the throne) which created the very first Vampires, most of whom would found their own Bloodlines by turning mortals which then inherited their strengths, weaknesses, and predilections (how generations after the first are turned isn't known, although it involves drinking the blood of their "parent" and something else since without that something else they either just become a feral brute with a short lifespan or get a pleasurable high; volume of Vampire blood drunk may be the difference). Unfortunately we don't know for certain how many or what the names of most of the other Vampire originals are since each time a complete list was given it mostly consisted of a different number of entirely different names. We know the captain of the guard [[Abhorash]] was turned and that he founded the [[Blood Dragons]], her high priest [[W'soran]] who would found the [[Necrarchs]] was turned and began to worship Nagash as a god, her younger brother [[Ushoran]] who was a diplomancing seducer was turned and would create the [[Strigoi]], her husband [[Vlad von Carsteim|Vashanesh]] (although another version names him Ankhat and states he was her attendant) was turned with him founding the [[Von Carsteins]], and Neferata herself created the [[Lahmians]]. She had a [[Cathay|Cathayan AKA not-Chinese]] Vampire who she sent on the Warhammer Silk Road to give her control of the east, and in most versions had a female attendant turned for some classic Vampire bisexual fun.

The additional Vampires in the first batch are possibly: [[Maatmeses]], [[Naamia]], [[Prince Xian Ha Feng]], [[Harakhte]], [[Zhuras]].
Maatmeses and Harakhte have their own Bloodlines, the [[Maatmasi]] and [[Jade-Blooded]] respectively which were created for the [[Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay]] supplement [[Night's Dark Masters]], but did not make it into the book and instead were released later individually; whether or not this is canon is debatable since the founders are canon to [[Black Library]]. Another unnamed seven were created after the first, and two vials were sent with Prince Xian Ha Feng to Cathay <strike>to give players a blank check to make OC Bloodlines</strike> for unknown reasons.

Naturally, this massive population boom in immortal superpowerful bloodsuckers led to problems. The seeming eternal youthfulness of Neferata and her ilk were hard enough to ignore, but the rampant feeding of their followers quickly became too much to turn a blind eye to. When confronted Neferata herself tried to forcefully convert her cousin, [[Khalida]], and failed. Suffice to say, the other armies of the desert kingdoms of Nehekhara eventually fell upon the vampires of Lahmia like sacks of thunder, and they wound up scattering, regrouping only when they met up with the now-undead Nagash in his new undead warpstone Dwarf Fortress megaproject of Nagashizzar. The Vampires quickly became generals of Nagash's armies, and, with the overpowering forces they added to Nagash's cause, turned on the combined armies of Nehekhara in vengeance, poisoning the land itself, transforming it into a realm of eternal death and began to systematically usher in what would have led to a global zombie apocalypse if not for the intervention of [[Skaven]]-brand dickery. With Nagash out of the picture -albeit temporarily- the Vampires swiftly turned to in-fighting and scattered to the far corners of the world.

But not being one to let death keep him down for long, Nagash came back, weakened, but still 1,000 years more pissed off than last time. Losing was ''not'' fun to Nagash, and so he went skele-balls deep into Reclaim Fortress Mode to retake Nagashizzar in a single night. But all of his cool artifacts, their craftundeadship being of the highest quality, had been stolen while he has napping. Marshaling another huge undead army to repossess everything that had been pilfered, he sent out word to his Vampire peeps that he was going to fuck up the [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|Empire]] next. This advance was short-lived - as [[Sigmar]] showed up, and, when Nagash called for their aid, the Vampires were too arrogant to actually help out, and Sigmar smashed him down in short order. In retaliation for this double-dickery, Nagash laid out a curse on the Vampires for this offense: for their refusal to come to his aid, they would forever be weak against the power of Sigmar. Since that time, they've been vulnerable to both sunlight and the power of faith. The Undead advance fell apart quicker than [[Boatmurdered]], and the bulk of the Vampires retreated to the lands of Sylvania, where the various Vampires would continue to follow their own agendas, not unlike [[Orks|several]] [[Dark Eldar|unrelated]] [[Chaos Space Marines|groups]] in the [[Warhammer 40,000]] universe.

There they continued to menace the armies of man with periodic invasions of undead, death, and horror for over 2,500 years. With potentially eternal life to bide their time, all they had to do was quit fucking each other over and amass their forces to wait for a [[Nagash#The End Times|supreme leader]] to unite the [[Undead_Legion|armies of undeath]] under one banner once more. I mean, [[Warhammer:_Age_of_Sigmar|what could possibly go wrong?]]

[[File:Azeroth.jpg|left|1200px|thumb|In the 8th game of the World of Warcraft series, which was the first since the current 8th editions of Warhammer Fantasy and 40K, they also advanced the storyline following the same trend, as we have an official Alliance-Horde war for the first time since Warcraft 3, in total coordination with the real world when long unsettled conflicts, such as the Arab-Israeli war, Grexit, Kim Jong-un, US-China trade war, Fascism emerging in Europe starting from Italy, Neo-ottomanism, American civil war, Monroe dogma over Nicolas Maduro and Lula and even a volcano in Hawaii erupting, are simultaneously all emerging as if we are truly living in a novel.]]

==Here be Sparkles==
[[Image:VampFB.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Fuck yes.]]
One important thing about WHFB vampires is that being turned into one does not automatically turn you evil. It does crank all your personality traits to eleven, almost to a caricature level, so for example a [[Abhorash|noble warrior]] turns into a combat maniac with a stick so deep in his ass it could be seen when he smiles, a [[Konrad von Carstein|petty bully with insecurity issues]] becomes a sadistic psychopath murder machine who does whack shit like having his own mother executed for giving birth to him without his permission, and a [[Neferata|slick politician]] turns into Machiavelian schemer who wraps entire nations in her web of multi-layered intrigues. Similarly a [[Genevieve Sandrine du Pointe du Lac Dieudonné|good person]] given the blood kiss may as well turn into unbearably saintly do-gooder going beyond reason to fight the Thirst and help innocent people. Of course vampirism does not grant the immunity to character development, and feeding on humans, having magical powers, superhuman strength, speed and immortality eventually change ''most'' to the worst, pretty much the same way normal people get mad with power. Still, if one just wants to live peacefully with human society, nothing stops him, providing they have the self discipline to resist the rampant thirst or substitute human blood with animal blood, which can do the job even if it is not as invigorating, or at least get human blood through a second hand market, such as mortuaries. Well, there are also Witch Hunters and angry mobs with torches and pitchforks, so it could take a bit of finesse to hide your vampirism. There are hundreds of vampires living peacefully in the Empire and pretty much all other human nations (except Norskans and Kurgan) - and in some places they even built their own secret societies with a thriving blood market. These vampires are not actually the part of the Vampire Count factions, and some of the bloodlines view them as traitors to vampire cause, adding one more reason for them to lay low.

Even when it comes to the "evil" vampires, most of them have much more humanity left in them than your average Chaos Lord, and are capable of acts of true selflessness and compassion, especially if it concerns their loved ones or faithful subjects. Neferata herself originally did all that fucked up shit she did out of love for her motherland, as did Ushoran, and Vlad von Karstein even sacrificed himself to save his wife. This does not, however, change the fact that they see humans as pets at best and would not mind slaughtering thousands of them to further their own goals. Still, even Manfred, who's most undoubtedly the most irredeemably evil vampire ever, is nowhere close to the kinds of evil Nagash did while he was still human.

== Vampire Bloodlines ==
* '''[[Von Carstein]]'''
The Von Carsteins are your old-school Vampires of the Dracula-inspired "I VANT TO SUCK YOUR BLOOD!" "ZEEE CHIIILLLDREEN OF THE NIIGHTTT VAT SVEET MUZIC DEY MAKE" variety, and their members are more or less parodies of nobility. Since their roots are very recent as opposed to the other major bloodlines which all began at the beginning of the vampire race, they're sort of the nouveau riche of the vampires. [[Vlad von Carstein]], the head of the family, was the one who first tainted the human aristocracy of [[Old World|Sylvania]] with undeath leading them to become the badass European Vampires they'd eventually become. Vlad took a wife (willingly) named [[Isabella von Carstein]] and set out on the first vampire offensive to conquer the [[Empire]]. The Von Carsteins are kind of unusual in that they realized that keeping the living populace safe meant easier meals. This didn't mean they eased up on being badass, however - instead, Vlad, and his [[Konrad von Carstein|first]] and [[Mannfred von Carstein|second]] "sons", violently and/or politically brought a lot of the rebellious nobles in line and actually managed to unify much of Sylvania's vampire nobility for a while during their reigns. When Vlad himself was killed by Wilhelm the Third, his wife Isabella could only keep things together for so long before Konrad, who is in many respects analogous to a WHFB version of [[Kharn]] [[Skub|(but completely and utterly stupid in a number of ways)]], quickly caused the advance to grind to a screeching halt. Konrad eventually got killed (ridiculously), and Mannfred arose, and managed to come back after two major defeats and continue trying to claim the Empire- before changing his mind and resurrecting Nagash, becoming one of his Mortarchs. Von Carsteins use all Vampire Count models in their army, making them the default faction.

* '''[[Lahmian]]'''
The Lahmians, named for the monster that drinks the blood of Children, are an almost entirely-female (although there ARE males) vampire clan, who descended from [[Queen Neferata]], the woman who started the vampires off in the first place. They are the spy bloodline, keeping humans as happy pets and living in comfortable heated estates instead of crumbling castles. They don't tend to be directly involved in big events, primarily spending their time controlling every government in the world through spies and politics and focusing on maintaining the status quo of happy, stupid, pretty humans. Having pissed off just about every other Vampire clan due to their involvement with this nonsense, Neferata's openly-vampiric followers currently occupy the once-dwarven lands of the World's Edge Mountains (Erryone is getting [[Book of Grudges|grudged!]]). Lahmian groups tend to rely more on psychological effects like Beguile as well as spellcasting, and any non-vampires in the army are ghosts that can be dismissed or skeletons that can be buried or told to lay still until given orders and be told to sit in the crypt to be passed off as inanimate ancestors when Witch Hunters come to investigate them.

* '''[[Blood Dragon]]'''
Formed by [[Abhorash]], the [[Fist of the North Star|fuckingest]] of Vampire Warriors, the Blood Dragons are the martial vampires, and fucking awesome. Honorable to a fault, though still mostly evil-as-hell, they will never refuse a challenge and excel at absolutely curb-stomping anything put against them in combat. Consummate warriors, they live to fight, and they believe that only cowards feed upon the weak - the only ones that Blood Dragons will willingly feed on are powerful warriors and monsters (from both Destruction and the Order alignments of the game). As such, they are capable of resisting the thirst better than the other clans, and, due to their badassery, are arguably one of the two favorite factions of Vampires for /tg/ in the setting.

* '''[[Necrarch]]'''
Following distantly in the footsteps of Nagash, the Necrarchs are Necromancer vampires and loremasters. Whereas other Vampires focus on sorcery, martial pride, or a mix of the two, the Necrarchs focus entirely on Necromancy and thus have vast armies of the undead at their disposal. A common joke is that they'd be studious gits and/or faggots.... If they didn't [[/tg/ gets shit done|GET SHIT DONE]]. They give even less shit about the thirst than the Blood Dragons, often being too consumed in their researches and experiments to remember about it, and as a result they look like withered corpses most of the time, and for most of them this becomes the permanent state, so even if the do start feeding properly they would not revert to human-like looks.

* '''[[Strigoi]]'''
The Strigoi are horrid-looking mutant Vampires, closer to Ghouls than traditional Vampire-kind. They not only drink their prey's blood - they go all the fuck out and devour their prey's flesh as well. They eat anything alive or un-alive, including other vampires and each other. Hated and feared even by their own kind, they are easily the kings of [[Rip and Tear|ripping and Tearing]] and have more Ghouls at their disposal than any other bloodline. Do not let the fact that they are freakish abominations convince you that they are not FUCKING BADASS. They tend to rampage wherever the fuck they want, and as a result they step on the toes of the other bloodlines a fair amount. A common tactic is for the bloodline finding them inconvenient is to send them to another bloodline to be dealt with, killing a bird and annoying another with one stone.

*'''Miscellaneous'''
There are other, smaller bloodlines. All of them are recent and not strong enough to warrant much attention. Among them are a group of vampire [[pirate]]s, vampire [[Warriors of Chaos|Norsemen]], and [[Games Workshop|bloodsucking Brits living in Albion]]. There are also two more major bloodlines that live in Ind and [[Cathay]]. The Cathayan vampires are the closest we get to "good guys" among the undead, being on generally good terms with the Dragon Emperor as long as they stay out of his way. Many of them are nobles and heroes, though they take great pains to conceal their undead nature. The Indan Vampires are worshiped as one of the many gods of that strange land, and are said to resemble wampyres.

==On the Tabletop==
''See [[Warhammer/Tactics/Vampire Counts|Tactics/Vampire Counts]]''

Originally vampires were but just a cog in the greater Undead army. But come sixth edition Undead had been schismed into two armies, with the Vampire Counts getting the lion's share while those [[Tomb Kings|fucking mummies]] made off with what scant few ranged options Undead ever had. But we all know who got the last laugh in [[The End Times|the end]].

==See Also==
* [[Abhorash]], the most badass Vampire in all of Warhammer.
* [[Vlad von Carstein]]
* [[Isabella von Carstein]]
* [[Konrad von Carstein]]
* [[Mannfred von Carstein]]
* [[Ushoran]]
* [[W'soran/Melkhior]]
* [[Neferata]]

==External Links==
[http://www.vampirecounts.net/index.php| Carpe Noctem, the main Vampire Counts army forum]

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[[Category:Vampire Counts]]

Pauldrons

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[[Image:Emperor.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Emprah]] shows off his mighty pauldrons.]]
[[Image:Epic_vladimir_tzepesci_full.jpg|thumb|right|They can clang shut over his head to deflect well-aimed arrows.]]

In the [[grimdark|grim darkness]] of the [[41st millennium|far future]]/[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle|Renaissance Europe]], there is only war. Unless you have Imperial [[Power Armor]]/Chaos Plate or Norscan Marauder's hide armor, in which case there are also '''pauldrons'''. Pauldrons are the sections of armor that cover the shoulders, and are well known for the tendency of [[Drawfag|artists]] drawing ''[[Warhammer 40k]]'' material to make them ridiculously huge. ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' armor also tends towards oversized shoulder-plates.

In the far far future... Manliness is measured in the size of your pauldrons.

It is theorized that position in Imperial society is directly related to how large your pauldrons are, as exemplified by artwork of the [[Empra]] himself, who has power armor with pauldrons so massive he cannot see over his own shoulders or raise his arms to more than a forty-five degree angle.(Imperial Power armor bypasses this inhibition by having their pauldrons being automated. Thus when an Astartes must look over his shoulders, the pauldrons will automatically lower. As for moving their limbs fluidly, one must keep in mind that the average Space Marines has tremendous physical strength, [[Serious Business|and thus would be capable of lifting his arms fluidly despite the weight of the armor.]] And the power armor is automated anyway, so they move for him at the speed of thought.)

With regards to space marines in particular, the the big round upper-arm-covering pauldrons are so ubiquitous that using a different design (see the [[Primarchs]] or [[Cypher]]'s new model) has become easy visual shorthand for 'this character is a big fucking deal'.

[[Commissar|Those unfortunate enough not to be equipped with power armor]] instead use the size of their [[hats]] in a similar manner. (although most guard regiments, particularly cadians, tend to wear pauldrons rather than more useful armour like gauntlets or legpads)

Privateer Press has copied the style of the huge pauldrons of ''[[Warhammer 40k]]'' and added comically large pauldrons to some of the characters in its ''[[Warmachine]]'' game. This is most prominent in the Khadoran army, but recent releases for the Retribution of Scyrah have challenged Khadoran pauldron supremacy. A prime example is Vlad Tzepesci, aka "Lord No-Peripheral-Vision", to the extent that the pads on Vlad's third incarnation are probably a massive [[troll]]. A few other models, like the Great Bears of Gallowswood, are certainly not innocent either. The fluff reason is supposedly to protect the head from a warjack punch, but really it's just because PP's concept artists have pauldron envy. When Warmachine: Tactics came out, a computer game set in the Warmachine world, the pauldrons actually had to be downsized so the animation team could render things like swinging an arm upward without decapitation.

==Summarised In a [[Chaos]]y Fashion==

Our enemy wears [[METAL BOXES|MEHTAL BAWKSES, DA COWHARDS, DA FUHLES!]] we... weeee shall wear ''bigger'' meatle bawkses...

==Summarised In a [[Eldar]]y Fashion==

We prefer pauldron-sized helmets. Maugan Ra loves those pauldrons though...

==Summarised in a [[Tau]] Fashion==

<span style='color:blue;font-size:100%'>''''<strike>cough' Armor envy 'cough'</strike> Actually, proportionately ours are bigger. '''</span>

==Summarised In a [[Necron]]y Fashion==

-.. --- -. .----. - ..-. --- .-. --. . - - --- -.. .-. .. -. -.- -.-- --- ..- .-. --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. .

-. . -.-. .-. --- -. ... -.. --- -. .----. - -. . . -.. .--. .- ..- .-.. -.. .-. --- -. ... --..-- .- .-.. ... --- --..-- -.-- --- ..- .... .- ...- . .-- .- -.-- - --- --- -- ..- -.-. .... - .. -- . --- -. -.-- --- ..- .-. .... .- -. -.. ... .. -- . .- -. ... . .-. .. --- ..- ... .-.. -.-- --..-- .-- .... -.-- .-- --- ..- .-.. -.. -.-- --- ..- -... --- - .... . .-. - .-. .- -. ... .-.. .- - .. -. --. .- .-.. .-.. --- ..-. - .... .. ... .-.-.- .- .-.. ... --- -.. --- -. .----. - ..-. --- .-. --. . - - .... .- - --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. . .- -. -.. .. .... --- .--. . -.-- --- ..- --. . - - .... .- - .-. . ..-. . .-. . -. -.-. .

( DON'T FORGET TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE NECRONS DON'T NEED PAULDRONS, ALSO, YOU HAVE WAY TOO MUCH TIME ON YOUR HANDS I MEAN SERIOUSLY, WHY WOULD YOU BOTHER TRANSLATING ALL OF THIS. ALSO DON'T FORGET THAT OVALTINE AND I HOPE YOU GET THAT REFERENCE.)

==Summarised In an [[Ork]]y Fashion==

<span style='color:green;font-size:115%'>'ERE BOSS, YOO WAN GET US SUM OF DEM METEL PLATES? ILL GET DA MEK.</span>

==Summarised for [[Tyranids]]==

Pauldrons are hard to get through, but when you do... pauldron wearers taste good. KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEZERGRUSHDEVOURNOMNOMNOMNOM

==Summarised by the [[Imperial Guard]]==

Armor is for PUSSIES! (and [[Ogryn#Bullgryns|Bullgryns]].)

==Summarised in [[Dark Eldar]] fashion==

Heh, you know what they say about hunks with huge pauldrons... *fapfapfap*

==The Truth==

[[File:Azeroth.jpg|left|1200px|thumb|In the 8th game of the World of Warcraft series, which was the first since the current 8th editions of Warhammer Fantasy and 40K, they also advanced the storyline following the same trend, as we have an official Alliance-Horde war for the first time since Warcraft 3, in total coordination with the real world when long unsettled conflicts, such as the Arab-Israeli war, Grexit, Kim Jong-un, US-China trade war, Fascism emerging in Europe starting from Italy, Neo-ottomanism, American civil war, Monroe dogma over Nicolas Maduro and Lula and even a volcano in Hawaii erupting, are simultaneously all emerging as if we are truly living in a novel.]]

The real, secret reason that Imperial society features such massive pauldrons is so that Games Workshop can claim that their armour is distinctive enough to justify suing the pants off any rivals/imitators/wellmeaning fans who produce anything that could be used with their products. Seriously, check [http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/12/04/52810.htm this shit out].

also: they help hide cracks and joints between the arm and the body thus allowing you to [[THIN YOUR PAINTS|cover up modelling mistakes]], or allow for a bit more flexibility in posing. In the case of Space Marines they're also vaguely evocative of a [https://s.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Xp_fCSoCMeanrQnvV02S.w--/aD04Mjk7dz0xMjYyO3NtPTE7YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b24-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/d4a7470450b43726800f6a7067008a47.jpg Papal mantle], assisting their Catholic space-monk imagery, although whether this is intentional or just a happy accident is up for debate. And, also, bigger pauldrons do make it easier to freehand sigils for custom chapters and junk.

[[File:Pauldronius.png|400px|center|thumb|'''EXTERMINATUS-PROOF''']]

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[[Category:Meme]]

Stormcast Eternals

2018-05-30T05:04:51Z

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[[File:Age Of Slugmang Banner.png|850px|thumb|center|The [[Ultramarines]] vs the [[World Eaters]]-...ohh wait, [[RAGE|wrong game.]]]]
{{topquote|To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.|Maximilien Robespierre}}
{{topquote|Much is demanded of those to who much is given.|Stormcast Saying}}

The '''Stormcast Eternals''' (sometimes also referred to also as '''Stormcunt Eternals''', '''Ground Marines''', '''Sigmarines''', '''Stormfront Eternals''' and '''Fantasy Marines''') are the primary type of soldiers used by [[Sigmar]] in order to fight Chaos during the [[Age of Sigmar]], and thus are the posterboys of the new line.

Fans of Warhammer consider them something akin to space marines given the similarities existing between their fluffs (An elite military force of engineered super-soldiers, personally designed by a god-ruler to be his warriors to combat unfathomably terrifying Lovecraftian horrors that normal men would simply despair at.) and model design (Namely thick/all-enclosing armor with huge [[pauldrons]]; Because any god ruler knows that the size of one's pauldrons is directly proportional to how awesome they are.), often using the term "Sigmarines" to refer to them. Additionally, given their non-spaceborne nature, they can also be hilariously referred to as "Ground Marines". Two more strikes for (or against, depending on your view) them are the fact that some of them have crossbows that resemble bolters and the winged ones resemble some of the Blood Angels models. Lovingly/ Despisingly referred to by some, as the Adeptus Sigmartes

==What are the Stormcast Eternals?==
[[File:Sigmarine Shield Wall.png|500px|thumb|right|We're back, [[Chaos|bitches.]]]]
'''"THEY ARE THE <s>GROUND</s> FANTASY MARINES!!!!!!!!!"''' Also, lightning hammers and thunder axes - "precursors" to lightning claws and thunder hammers.

They are made from exceptional mortal heroes taken away at the time of their death or the height of their power by the God-King [[Sigmar]] and infused with his own Divine Essence and given fancy new weapons and armour made of Sigmarite. The universal trait to all the Eternals is that they opposed Chaos whenever it appeared, though certain chambers work on minor details like faith or vengeance.

Currently there is no evidence on whether or not there are non-human Stormcast Eternals, maybe the aelfs and duardin gods don't like Sigmar taking their people's souls, or perhaps Sigmar gives priority to humans, after all, he is in a way human too, it should also be noted that all Stormcast Eternals have the human keyword, The only named characters presented so far were originally male humans, for example, it turns out the one everyone thought was a skeleton was a Prince that came from the same place as Tarsus Bullheart, on the other hand, there is a story where Sigmar cries over the fact he couldn't save a warrior maiden from getting tortured and killed by the forces of Chaos as he still hadn't completed the teleporting device which allows him to take away potential candidates for Reforging.

UPDATE: in Godbeasts it is stated that the entire Household of the Royal Victrians were spirited away and turned into Stormcast eternals, quoting it: [[Awesome|"Reforging every man and woman into Stormcast Eternals"]], there you go.

Hey Games Workshop, we know you read this wiki too, we want <S>non-human</S> (I mean, unless you wanna mess with keywords...) and/or non-male Stormcast Eternals too! Maybe we could use female Stormcast Eternals as Sisters of Battle proxies, or vice versa, whatever happens first... hold the phone, looks like they've actually given us one! Wait no it's two now!

Considering that the process of making a Stormcast is more mystical than any genetic modifications and that the person in question will still remember who they were before the Reforging, it is still possible that any non-Chaos mortal could become one, and there is even a former Chaos Champion of Nurgle that Sigmar smiled into becoming his own Champion. The only real specific that is considered is that the inhabitants of the Realm of Death tend to become Lord-Relictors, who are able to see the spirits and thus are able to anchor his kin to Sigmar's Realm of [[Azyr]].

That said, however, the Eternal part of their name is rather relative: Their souls are constantly [[Slaanesh|coveted]] by [[Nagash]] because he considers anything dead as his, and the supply of Sigmarite is technically limited as it's basically the core of the old Warhammer world. Of course this is still a lot, since Sigmar gets this mineral from the core of the World-That-Was and this was probably the same size as our own Earth, that means there is potentially up to 7 billion cubic kilometers of raw sigmarite and in all honestly Sigmar (and his benevolent benefactors Games Workshop) could probably find more if he had too. Still, each reforging takes supplies and [[Grimdark|more of the Stormcast's memories, feelings and general personality is lost]] (a time may come for Sigmar to have a [[Rip and tear|nice little chat]] with Nagash about the issue).

Aside from stomping Chaos, their main goal is uncovering the Realmgates: Portals to other Realms. By securing them, they gain another route back to Azyr or to any of the other realms, so a small retinue of Stormcasts has to stay behind to guard it, until the Freeguilds (old Empire models, [[Imperial Guard|now a unified army]]) can secure land and begin to rebuild.

[[Image:Spirehero-1.jpg|thumb|300px|left|Angharad Brightshield. She may not have the same prodigious gut as her sword (hammer?) brothers but she's still bigger and more immortal than you are. Thank you, GW!]]
Aside from all that, Stormcasts aren't actually all that holy or magical when it comes down to it; they are about as powerful physically as a Chaos Warrior, aside from the "cannot completely die" thing and due being infused with the magic of Azyr they have considerable immunity to any corrupting magical force, but can still be zapped by normal Chaos magic if strong enough. Unlike Chaos Warriors, who are fanatically devoted to Chaos and often outright insane, Stormcasts are still very much human, or whatever race they were before. And while their main portrait is of honourable warriors they still need to eat, to sleep (although, like the space marines, they can endure far more than common mortals) and have desires as anyone else (and again, the function of their peepee or vagoo hasn't been expounded on, so perhaps they can still get it on). Unlike some Chaos Warriors their armour and faceplate can be removed, although they seem comfortable wearing them to not to need to remove them for weeks on. Another trait of the Stormcasts is that not all of them were warriors during their mortal lives, instead all of them chose to make a stand against Chaos, from a general or a king to a smith, a philosopher, a baker, a housewife, a farmer or even a beggar, they faced the forces of the Dark Gods in doomed fights and were found worthy by Sigmar. [[Salamanders|They are also able to have normal lives because they are allowed to not be on permanent service, so they can gain political and herarchy positions, as well as highly entrusted professions, and hang around with mortal friends and even their descendants]].

Stormcasts see themselves as saviours first of all, trying to defend others successfully, when they had failed to do so in the past. That said, some have a tendency to get lost in revenge, seeing only the destruction of Chaos as a viable way of atoning for past transgressions. One Celestant (general) in a recent novel brooded over the fact that his entire tribe was wiped, because he didn't have the strength to beat the Chaos Sorceress who did it, thinking only manly unfeeling Batman-esque brooding would make up for it. His fellow Celestant wasn't convinced, thinking that the fear of losing, and the grieve and loss he feels should be his drive. Another Stormcast make a point to remember that most of the Chaos forces they fight only follow chaos because the Chaos Gods are all they have ever known and attempts to redeem them should be made. So at least they have different ways of thinking, which is cool. Hopefully, they won't become so /d/ivergent that Chaos can better manipulate them.

Apparently, if a Stormcast loses a piece of equipment, it isn't regenerated with them (Sigmar's teleportation magic is not absolutely infallible), so many Stormcast seeks out their old nemesis to get their things back. An Orruk Warboss cheerily mentioned taking the head of a Stormcast clean off and showing it on his back banner out of respect, knowing the 'Cast would get back at him to fight again.

TL;DR Stormcast Eternals are magical [[Necron]] [[Salamanders|bro]]-[[Lamenters|tier]] [[Celestial Lions|Space]] [[Space Wolves|Marines]] with emotions. Better yet, they have a few similarities to [[Rubric Marines]] (you know? the whole possessed armor automaton shenanigan?) only with less grimdark and more free will and actual flesh.

==Rank and Military==
When each mortal is reforged, they are immediately put into a strenuous training ritual meant to hone them into superhuman hammer-swinging engines of holy war. Once the big man is satisfied, he then groups them into Stormhosts, the equivalents of Space Marine Legions, and there they train with each other in a massive coliseum that [[Malekith|Malerion]] gifted him back when there was an alliance. These stormhosts are then broken into Chambers (Chapters) with each having several conclaves organized by specialty.

Each Host is lead by a Chamber Command, who governs each individual lesser Hosts, of which there are between 3 to 9 Retinues (squads), each with between 6 to 20 Stormcasts. For example, the Hammers of Sigmar Chamber has 301 Stormcasts of 7 Commanders, 36 Paladins, 180 Liberators, 18 Prosecutors (yep; half as many jumpies as elites) and 60 Judicators.

[[File:Azeroth.jpg|left|1200px|thumb|In the 8th game of the World of Warcraft series, which was the first since the current 8th editions of Warhammer Fantasy and 40K, they also advanced the storyline following the same trend, as we have an official Alliance-Horde war for the first time since Warcraft 3, in total coordination with the real world when long unsettled conflicts, such as the Arab-Israeli war, Grexit, Kim Jong-un, US-China trade war, Fascism emerging in Europe starting from Italy, Neo-ottomanism, American civil war, Monroe dogma over Nicolas Maduro and Lula and even a volcano in Hawaii erupting, are simultaneously all emerging as if we are truly living in a novel.]]

*'''Chamber Command:'''
**'''Lords Celestant:''' The top dogs in the chambers, these are the mightiest of heroes among the Chambers, gifted a larger portion of Sigmar's power in order to become great leaders. Some opt to fun with hammers and swords, while other find Dracoths (Large dragons that shoot lightning) to ride like horses or Stardrakes (Even massive-er dragons).
**'''Lords Relictor:''' These guys are priests, and are able to see the spiritual realm and all the spooky souls that swirl around in it. Their job is to use their skeletal relics to anchor the Stormcasts to Azyr so their souls don't accidentally end up as Daemon chow or part of Nagash's kingdom of skellingtons.
**'''Lords Castellant:''' These guys are support-based, their tests involving conquering their fears. If successful, they get a pet Gryph-hound and a special warding lantern that illuminates his fellow Sigmarines and incinerates Chaos.
**'''Knights Heraldor:''' These guys have giant horns that shoot lightning. Because STORMS. Their helmets are weirdly segmented around the mouths; assumed so the warrior inside can actually blow the fucking horn.
**'''Knights Vexillor:''' Unlike the other jobs, these guys are actually chosen in a contest. A shitton of Stormcasts enter the Coliseum, smack each other to not-quite death (The Coliseum makes sure everyone leaves refreshed because...Malerion didn't have a mood swing when he made it). The winner gets to hold an awesome standard, or a big plate with a glowing orb on it that can be used to throw around fuckin' comets.
**'''Knights Azyros:''' The closets thing to Scout Leaders, these guys have lanterns to help illuminate the realms so Sigmar can see all the way from his palace. Also, the lanterns burn chaos.
**'''Knights Venator:''' Shootier flying Sigmarines, these guys are master archers with magical arrows and own pet <s>Star-Eagles</s> Articunos. One of their Stormsurgeboltthunderblowsuperarrows can kill almost any regular leader character in one shot.

*'''Redeemer Conclave.'''
**'''Liberators:''' The ground-floor. The goons. The average Liberator is a walking tank, capable of wielding either melee weapons or shields to protect his pals from anything deadlier. They use either swords or hammers, sometimes dual wielded, or Granhammers and Grandblades. ( Bigger versions of the usual Hammers and Swords ) They also like to fuck up big monsters and villains something fierce.

*'''Justicar Conclave.'''
**'''Judicators:''' Warriors skilled with both sword and bow who put to use their uncanny shooting ability in the ranks of the Justicar conclave. They wield devastating long-range weaponry ( Skybolt Bows or Boltstorm Crossbows). Some even get luckier and get a mega-bow that fires thunderbolts. THE BOWS ARE MAGIC! YEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!! They also hit Chaos-stuff better, because fuck those guys amirite

*'''[[Gabriel Angelos|Angelos]] Conclave.'''
**'''Prosecutors:''' They're like Liberators, but they got wings. They tend to spearhead the assault with their speed, throwing either magical reforging hammers or magical reforging spears. Or they could just smash with hammer and sword weapons. Like the Liberators, they can wield big-ass weapons like two-handed axes or war hammers.

*'''Paladin Conclave.'''
**'''Retributors:''' Massive piles of Sigmarite who serve in the Paladin Chambers. These guys carry massive hammers to squash things, which has Rending +1 which can completely remove everything not a leader or monster in a turn. These guys love to pummel anything with more than one Wound, since they do two Damage standard, and can turn that into Mortal Wounds. There's really not something these motherfuckers can't do. Well okay, they don't stand up to high Rend or MW shooting, but then again that's an SE problem in general.
**'''Protectors:''' Despite the name, these Paladins only wield glaives. Glaives that are actually capable of generating magical force fields, and cut down big-ass monsters, should they get close. They are also very, very long range, so put them behind a Liberator wall and skewer that Mawkrusha something fierce while the goons get slaughtered.
**'''Decimators:''' Paladins with fuck huge axes, these things are made to make sweet murder out of hordes. These guys have a massive range on their axes, which is important - because they each get as many attacks as they have enemies within range - because fuck Reaver Hordes amirite. They are also very scary, so people take more heavy Battleshock casualties. Don't try to axe the knee of a Monster or Hero, though; with only one attack, their axes are laughably weak.

*'''Extremis Chamber'''
**'''Drakesworn Templars:''' Usually a second-in-command for a Lord-Celestant, a Templar is one of those few fortunate Sigmarines to encounter a Stardrake. Their loadout is more versatile.
**'''Fulminators:''' Paladin Protectors on Dracoths.
**'''Concussors:''' Paladin Retributors on Dracoths.
**'''Desolators:''' Paladin Decimators on Dracoths, same as the rest.
**'''Tempestors:''' Paladins with crossbows riding Dracoths.

*'''Vanguard Chamber'''
**'''Lords Aquilor:''' Paladins on Gryph-Chargers (giant wingless hippogryph-things)
**'''Vanguard Hunters:''' Liberators with small crossbows.
**'''Vanguard Raptors:''' Elite Sharpshooters with Longstirke Bows or Hurricane Crossbows (Elite Versions of Judicators). They also have aether-wings to bite and harass the enemies
**'''Vanguard Palladors:''' Liberators on Gryph-Chargers.

===Notable Stormhosts===
*'''Hammers of Sigmar:''' The first Stormhost. They wield [[Ultramarines|Blue and Gold and pride themselves on being the posterboys of AoS]]. They have no personality, as usual.
*'''Hallowed Knights:''' The fourth Stormhost. They wear silver and blue and are [[Grey Knights|pretty zealous about killing Chaos]]. They're known for their DETERMINATION and incredible faith in Sigmar, making them the ideal choice for jobs like wading through Nurgle's horrifying and disgusting kingdoms despite all the filth and plagues that pollute the lands. This Stormhost is in general one of the more popular Hosts, with their metal armors and very faith-based culture. Also, have a cool battle cry.
*'''Celestial Vindicators:''' The Sixth Stormhost . They're vengeful motherfuckers who declared vengeance back as mortals and thus are united by their grudges. Their armour is turquoise, so the blood reaaaaally stands out. They also tend to kick it with the duardin, so that's pretty cool. Also, they have a sword fetish.
*'''Celestial Knights:''' A Stormhost that is on a constant crusade to bring the light of Sigmar to all benighted lands. Pretty much these [[Black Templars|guys]].
*'''Lions of Sigmar:''' Rocking the bronze gold and purple look there is little-known about this Stormhost save for their heraldry and thunderous roar in battle. Most people auto-assume "[[Dark Angels]]" from hearing the word Lion, though the connection is iffy. The Dangles weren't the only chapter to keep to themselves to that degree.
*'''Knights of the Aurora:''' This Stormhost are claimed to strike more quickly and are masters of rapid assault and sporting the white armour with green and gold trimmings and has the need for [[White Scars| speed]].
*'''Knights Excelsior:''' This Stormhost run around in white armour with gold trimmings, not unlike the Knights of the Aurora but without the green. These guys are said to have built up a fierce reputation for totally massacring their enemies so brutally that even other Stormhosts think its a bit excessive. Their claim to fame is that they stepped up to bail the Hallowed Knights out when a Lord of Plagues was about to capture Alarielle, with their Knight-Azyros, a pretty fly badass called Diomar, personally charging the powerful Nurgle lord. They have a massive hard-on for Order and see most attempts at individuality or freedom as dangerously Chaotic. Recently featured in the Malign Portents short story collection massacring unwell civilians in their attempt to instil uncompromising authority in the Realm of Life, despite the fact these civilians were loyal to Sigmar in the first place.
*'''Astral Templars:''' If you're tired of holy knights, go no further; these fuckers have taken to like it in the Realm of Ghur, and has become one with the beasts. Their color is purple, and their armor is adorned with pelts, bloody markings and other tribal stuff. The [[Space Wolves]] to the Hammer's Ultramarines, but with less wolfs and more barbarians.
*'''Tempest Lords:''' Donning the Ultramarine blue with an addition of white shields and shoulders are the Tempest Lords. They're described as the most regal and proud Stormhost, probably because every single one of these guys was a monarch, lord, or other such noble before being chosen by Sigmar. Despite this, they're actually pretty baller and down to earth guys, being perhaps the most selfless of all the Stormhosts, flat-out seeing it as their duty to protect those less fortunate than themselves (which is basically everyone,) often inspiring downtrodden mortal tribes to break their chains and fight Chaos alongside the Tempest Lords. They're also pretty literal it seems, because Sigmar once joked that the Stormcast were each worth twelve mortal men in a fight and since then the Tempest Lords have kept count of how many kills they score before dying, taking it as a massive personal disgrace if they don't reach twelve kills. That said, they do a pretty damn good job of reaching that score, leaving them as one of the hardest Stormhosts to kill simply due to their sheer pride refusing to let them die.
*'''Anvils of the Heldenhammer''' The Anvils of the Heldenhammer are a Stormhost of the Stormcast Eternals, wearing black armor. The warriors of the Anvils of the Heldenhammer are dark and brooding, as their Reforging came as the Broken World spun sinister under a magical gloom.

===Notable Fan-created Stormhosts===

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*'''[[Forgesworn Eternals]]:''' A [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Duardin]] Stormhost wearing silver and red.

*'''Wardens of the Ember:''' A Stormhost composed of mortals who died standing firm against the most insurmountable Chaos incursions. Former priests cut down mid-prayer, standard bearers who fought and died rather than abandon their colours, musicians who played songs of hope until their very last breath - stoutness of heart is often more important than strength of sword-arm in deciding whether a mortal is bound to this Stormhost. They wear grey armour with black and orange trim, and are notably more jovial than other Stormhosts; it is not uncommon to hear rousing speeches and booming laughter as these heroes urge their mortal comrades onwards.

==Notable Stormcasts==
*'''Ghal Maraz, The Celestant-Prime:''' The alpha, the first Eternal ever forged by Sigmar. It's unknown just who he might be, but it's said he was a mighty king from the past (making people immediately guess either [[Settra the Imperishable|Settra]], or [[Karl Franz]]. Turns out he's neither). Despite how much power he put into it, the process was still incomplete, so Sigmar decided to put him in a chamber to preserve the project because he spent too much as it is. However, once he recovered Ghal Maraz, he was able to finish the process and get a giant golden angel to join the ranks. GW was then struck by retardation and instead of trying to make some cool name, just named him after his hammer, in canon the guy just don't remember who he was so he just decided to use the name of his weapon... So, maaaaaybe there is still a chance he is Karl, Settra, or Alcadizaar ( though Sigmar did take over the body of Karl Franz so there's not much chance of him also being Ghal Maraz ).
*'''Vandus Hammerhand:''' The first named hero among the Eternals, a Lord-Celestant of the Hammers of Sigmar who rides a Dracoth. Apparently, he once fought off against a Khornate Lord known as Korghos Khul as a mortal and almost died before being forged, and instead became a giant gold-plated badass instead of just a human one. He's considered the hero of the Starter Set and is responsible for finding Ghal Maraz. Also, he was the first one to tame a Dracoth.

*'''Neave Blacktalon:''' The first female stormcast released for the setting. Neave Blacktalon is basically an eversor with tits, with the mentality of a vindicare.

*'''Gardus Steelsoul:''' The best (by fan-view, not author fiat) of the Lord Celestants. What makes Gardus great is that he was no great lord, but a common man. Born Garradan, he was a hospice worker (a doctor for young uns) in the port city of Demesnus. When the forces of chaos invaded the city, he worked tirelessly to heal the defenders, spending whole nights without sleep. As the forces of Khorne shattered the walls and attacked the hospital the tired hospice worker took a chandelier (showing brass balls in the process) and tried to save his patients with good old ultra violence. The rest... is history.

*'''Thostos Bladestorm:''' Footslogging Lord Celestant of the Celestial Vindicators. Impulsive jackass. Died a couple of times so now Nagash has part of his soul, he still wants to give Chaos a beating. During a recent battle with a Chaos Lord Varash, Thostos was hit with extremely powerful lighting bolt which triggered a powerful reforging and the results of it was the return of his memories, emotions and a name he once was - Prince Caeran of Wolf Keep (this happening is more proof of Nagash being made of much fail, seriously, how did this ever happen?). Apparently he is now the first Stormcast to be renewed, healed and with fresh purpose but not the last. In the final days of the Realmgate Wars he fought in the Battle for the All-Gates and crossed blades with Archaon, it went as well as you'd expect it to and Thostos is officially lost forever.

*'''Tarsus Bullheart:''' Footslogging Lord Celestant of the Hallowed Knights, leader of a warrior chamber named after him and protagonist of the Realmgate Wars audiobooks. Broody guy who's obsessed with duty and lets his hammer do the talking for him. (SPOILERS AHEAD): Once a human from the realm of Shyish called Tarsem, he lived in a place called Helstone. During the Age of Chaos he fought alongside Mannfred Von Carstein but, Manfred being Manfred, Manfred abandoned them to save his own skin and Tarsem was taken by Sigmar and reforged. Now the Stormcast Tarsus, Sigmar sends him and some of his warriors to the realm of Shyish to find Nagash and parley. Along the way they find Manfred, now a prisoner of the Khornates. They free him in exchange for his guidance and assistance in finding Nagash. After entering the underworld and an incident with the doorman, Arkhan, Nagash appears before them. This goes as well as you'd expect. After being flung across the chamber, Tarsus attacked Nagash to distract him in a successful last-ditch attempt to free the slain Stormcast Eternals' souls from Nagash's clutches. Tarsus was then killed by a VERY pissed off Nagash, who captured his soul and planned to [[Grimdark|torture as many of Sigmar's secrets from him as he could]].

*'''Ramus of the Shadowed Soul:''' Lord-Relictor of the Bullhearts warrior chamber and protagonist of the second set of Realmgate Wars audio-dramas. Once voice of reason to Tarsus and completely trusting in Sigmar and his grand plan, after Tarsus was lost to Nagash Ramus has been pressing for a mission to rescue his soul, despite the fact that at the moment Nagash and Sigmar are allies. The other Hallowed Knights are trying to get him to leave it alone and trust in Sigmar, but he hasn't been able to thus far. With Malign Portents pretty much destroying any alliance between Sigmar and Nagash, Ramus might just get his chance to rescue Tarsus after all.

*'''Tornus the Redeemed:''' Once known as Torglug the Despised, servant of Nurgle and Lord of Plagues, his soul was redeemed by Sigmar at the height of the last battle at Blackstone Summit in the realm of Ghyran when killed by Ghal Maraz, The Celestant-Prime. During his brief life as a mortal, Tornus was a righteous believer in Sigmar and his faith was unmatched by those that fought with him during the Age of Chaos against the nurgle invaders. At some point he was captured and left in a pit of filth and due to his stubbornness, faith and pride lived for many weeks only to succumb to the lies that Nurgle spoke to him during those months of captivity. Even then his soul, although corrupted and twisted, held out a spark of hope that his faith in Sigmar was not a lie and was rewarded with a chance for redemption as a Knight-Venator in services of the Hallowed Knights, [[Awesome|this is so far as we know the first comeback from Chaos ever done in any of GeeDubs franchises]].

*'''Hamilcar Bear-Eater:''' Astral Templars' Lord Castellant turned Knight-Questor. Hamilcar is, to put it short, a lovely braggart, claiming even Sigmar was impressed the result of his stormcasting, also, it seems like he has an uncanny resemblance with the God-King (So he looks like Karl Franz reborn as a barbarian?). Currently he's on a hunt for Mannfred Von Carstein over backstabbing Tarsus. Got his own series by his creator David Guymer! Did we mention he beat a gatling-gun-armed skaven killakan while under sniper fire?

*'''Steelheart's Champions:''' A Liberator Prime and his two flatmates who went into [[Warhammer Underworlds|Shadespire]] to get a cure for the Reforging issues that plague the Stormcasts, but never made it out. The Champions are Obryn the Bold, a massive dude who's into his third Reforging and has become silent and brooding as a result, and Angharad Brightshield, a female Liberator and former smith who took to smashing in faces with hammers instead of smashing swords and metal.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Ugh_Oaf_Ziggy_Scale.jpg|Compare and contrast.
Sigmarine_Stormbanner.png|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-MzNpMD1K8 GROUND MARINES! CHARGE!]
Sigmarine_by_kimplate-d92h94a.png|Only thing missing are pseudo-bolters and they're officially Sigmarines, [https://www.games-workshop.com/resources/catalog/product/600x620/99120218002_StormcastEternalsJudicators012.jpg then you remember that they do.]
THIS_IS_SIGMARON!.png|[http://1d4chan.org/images/c/cc/Cato_Fall_of_Damnos.JPG This looks oddly familiar.]
Sigmarine_Jetpacks.png|Ground Marine [[Assault Squad]]s.
Sigmarines_VS_Khorne_Again.png|In the grim darkness of the far past, there is only war.
Sigmarine_VS_Khorne.png|Ground Marines vs Chaos Ground Marines.
Stormcast_Victory.png|Victory for the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|God Empero-]]..err, [[Sigmar|God-King of man!]]
Sigbrarian.jpg|A Ground Marine Lord Relictor.
Sigmarine_Logical_Conclusion.jpg|The venerable Lord Celestant Boreale, giving one of his glorious speeches.
SpaceEternals.png|One of these is not like the others...
Stormcast_eternal_by_kinmonon.jpg|You can now have your canonical Stormcast waifu, drawn by one Kinmonon.
Female-prosecutor.png|Isn't it great that unlike Emprah Sigmar has no problems allowing girls in his elite forces?
</gallery>

==See Also==
*[[Age of Sigmar/Tactics/Edition 1.1/Stormcast Eternals|Tactics/Stormcast Eternals]]
*[[Space Marines]] - Their 40K counterparts. Compare and contrast.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmGeTjz49bo A quick overview on the stormcast eternals]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-MzNpMD1K8 Birth of the Stormcast Eternals]

[[Category: Age of Sigmar]]

Sigmar

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[[File:SigmarHeldenhammer.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Sigmar may not have the fabulous hair <strike>but he is ten times more manly than the God-Emperor.</strike> {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|HERESY!}}]]
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>I AM SIGMAR! FOUNDER OF THE EMPIRE AND SLAYER OF ORCS! - The Warcry of Sigmar perpetuating his Awesomeness</u>'''</span></div>

{{topquote|The simple act of caring is heroic.|Edward Albert}}
{{topquote|If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.|Zig Ziglar}}

'''Sigmar Unberogen''', known also as '''Sigmar Heldenhammer''', '''the Hammer of Orcs''', '''The Chosen of Ulric''', '''Sigmar Bjornsson''', is the founder of the [[Imperium of Man|Empire]], <strike>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApmVcV0a2wI| second primarch],</strike> and its current patron deity. In life, Sigmar was a chieftain of the Unberogen tribe and the son of the legendary hero '''Bjorn Unberogen'''. As a god, he is the patron of the Empire, battle, good governance, strength, shouting and warhammers. His symbols are the Warhammer, twin-tailed comet, and griffon.

It has never been satisfactorily explained why the Church of Sigmar insists that its brethren go bald when all depictions of Sigmar have long, flowing, unkempt hair.

He is bros with the Serpent God [[Sotek]] of the [[Lizardmen]] as they get together every Friday to egg the [[Horned Rat]]'s house for lolz.

It is customary to read his lines in the Legend of Sigmar in the voice Mel Gibson used to play William Wallace. This is funny because Graham McNeill is Scottish. Therefore, it will likely serve to piss him off to no end.

[[The End Times]] and [[Warhammer: Age of Sigmar|Age of Sigmar]] has Sigmar coming back. He'd ascended to godhood before his death, which also explains why the Warrior Priests hold a special sort of power, not unlike magic. However, Games Workshop finally gave Tzeentch some love, and had it that he had trapped Sigmar in the Wind of Heavens to prevent him from messing with the Chaos Gods plans. After the Vortex on [[Ulthuan]] is destroyed the Wind, under Sigmar's direction, enters the body of Emperor [[Karl Franz]] after his death. Sigmar, now in Franz's body, adjusts it to look like his old self and goes on a saving-the-good-guys-while-beating-up-the-baddies spree of awesome. After the end of the old Warhammer World, Sigmar survives the Apocalypse, and with the help of Dracothion (Sotek all along?) uses the metal core of the world-that-was as a platform to unify and civilize the realms of a reborn reality, ascending to full godhood in the process. [[Stormcast Eternals|He even gets his own elite warriors of sorts]].

[[File:Azeroth.jpg|left|1200px|thumb|In the 8th game of the World of Warcraft series, which was the first since the current 8th editions of Warhammer Fantasy and 40K, they also advanced the storyline following the same trend, as we have an official Alliance-Horde war for the first time since Warcraft 3, in total coordination with the real world when long unsettled conflicts, such as the Arab-Israeli war, Grexit, Kim Jong-un, US-China trade war, Fascism emerging in Europe starting from Italy, Neo-ottomanism, American civil war, Monroe dogma over Nicolas Maduro and Lula and even a volcano in Hawaii erupting, are simultaneously all emerging as if we are truly living in a novel.]]

==Appearance==
Unlike that [[Emperor|black-haired proto-Sumerian]] we have a good idea what Sigmar really looked like without resorting to palanquins created by zealots. Sigmar was a giant, broad muscular manly motherfucker with blonde hair that was grown too damn long, and some badass armored boots meant for stomping on the skulls of green skins and beastmen. Uniquely, he had mismatched eyes with one green and one blue.

With Age of Sigmar his hair is a clear tone of brown and he uses a long beard.

FUN FACT: Sigmar's Hammer ''Ghal-Maraz'' is THE HAMMER that is symbol of [[Warhammer Fantasy]] itself, although originally the symbol represented the Hammer of the Chaos champion, [[Harald Hammerstorm]].

==History==
===Early Life===
The Imperial Calendar (IC) which starts from his coronation by the Ar-Ulric (if you need to know, he's the Viking pope and he makes Bjorn the Fell-Handed look like a pussy) commonly places Sigmar's birth as starting from -30 IC. He was said to be born in the Reikland area in the southwest of what would later become the Empire, where the Unberogen tribe dwelt. The night of his birth was marked with the twin-tailed comet, but he found his purchase on life after being cut out of his dying mother's womb by his badass manly motherfucker of a father. In the middle of pitched battle with Orcs I might add. [[Conan the Barbarian|And if that sounds familiar to you, good. You're paying attention.]] Oddly enough, a mighty thunder-clap was also heard in the night sky. Causing various prophets to call Sigmar, "the Child of Thunder". [[Viking|And if that is also familiar to you, good. I shall make an expert of your filthy self yet.]] oh and when he was born his forehead was anointed with Ork's blood, how about that for a baptism?

In the year -15, when he was fifteen years of age, Sigmar had become a badass, bigger and stronger than his peers and was already a respected warrior ([[Conan the Barbarian|again, just like a certain Cimmerian]]). At this point, Sigmar is recorded to have gained the friendship of the great Dwarfen king Kurgan Ironbeard by saving his stunty ass from a warband of Orcs led by a MASSIVE Black Orc Warboss (for you 40Kfags, that's basically Ghazgkhull, but with a fucking axe and a pair of balls). This fight ended with Kurgan throwing the legendary Ghal-Maraz to Sigmar, which he then promptly used to smash the warboss's skull to paste. After the fight, Sigmar attempted to return the hammer, but Kurgan told him to keep it as a reward for saving his life. He also pledged the friendship of the Dwarfen kingdom to the Unberogen tribe for this act of selfless courage. Of course, Sigmar actually only went after Orcs as part of a revenge raid for their prior attack on Reikdorf, Dwarf-saving was nothing but a happy coincidence.

Sigmar's early life would also be punctuated with other grand victories such as the Battle of Astofen Bridge, where he turned back an army of 2000 Orcs. It was also the battle where he earned his shield and became a man. Yes, Sigmar was saving Dwarf Kings and raping Orc Warbosses before early manhood.

===Uniting the Tribes===
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>'''''"I SHED BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF FOUR THOUSAND NORTHERN MEN!"'''''</u>'''</span></div> -- What Sigmar was likely singing to himself when he massacred the Norse.

Sigmar would later learn the importance of unity from something his dad said. Probably a metaphor centering around wolves. In any event, combined with Alaric the Mad's warnings about "Orcs and things best not spoken of", he was inspired to bring the various disparate tribes of the Reik together. Even going so far as swear an oath, and dragging his best friends in it too for fun.

Of course, the [[Warriors of Chaos|Chaos-worshiping Norse tribes]] who came down from the Chaos Wastes decided to rape the south as they usually do. Anyone surprised? What, you? Well fuck you. They're the Norse, [[J.R.R. Tolkien|THEY KILL WHERE THEY WISH AND NONE DARE RESIST]].

Sigmar's father foolishly thought he could resist, and marched north with a massive army 10,000 strong to face the 8000 Northmen. Bjorn came off the experience with a fatal case of axe through the skull. But it was in fact a clever ploy to save Sigmar from dying to the machinations of the Dark Gods who arrayed themselves against him to destroy his dream of a united nation. [[Emperor|And if that sounds similar, it's because it is]]. Haha, disregard that, Sigmar is actually a rip-off of Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. And predates the Great Throne Vegetable by several years, thus making him the rip-off. Long story short, father and son got together in the spirit world and went on to kick the collective ass of an army of daemons, ending with Bjorn ascending boldly to Ulric's Hall. Despite getting killed fighting the Norse, Bjorn did manage to kill the Khornate Chaos Champion leading the tribes and thus narrowly prevailed in driving the Norse back. This heroic act of defiance against the Norse threat won the Unberogen the eternal friendship of the Cherusen and Taluetan tribes.

Filled with righteous [[Rage|rage]], Sigmar marched north when the wolves of the Norsii raided and slaughtered the Udoses (Iron Age Scottish Highlanders) in the area of what is now Ostland. Sigmar then massacred the Norse, thus valorously avenging the blood-geld of the Udoses in a situation somewhat similar to the Bloody Verdict of Verden, because both he and Charlemagne were basically killing people who didn't join him and didn't believe the same way he did, thus driving them to Norsca where they would nurse an eternal hatred of the south in general and the Empire in particular that makes the hatred Chaos Marines have for the Emperor look like a stuttering spark in comparison. Seriously, tribal warfare was nothing out-of-the-ordinary before Sigmar's pussy notions of unity and empires. These offenses against the Norse also serve to solidify Sigmar as an Alfred the Great rip-off, as if building his entire bureaucracy from scratch didn't already.

Concurrent with this, Sigmar also rode hard to Middenheim to fight (lightning strikes when Ghal-Maraz bites, you know) Artur of the Teutogens. It is often said that a man must find the proper balance of pride within himself. Too little, and a man will never accomplish anything in his life. Too much, and he'll do something fucking stupid, like climbing the Fauschlag. Sigmar was of the latter disposition. Sigmar, and his bodyguard Alfgeir, climbed the great mountain that held the city of Middenheim, sneaked into the building housing the flame of Ulric and there challenged Artur of the Teutogens to single combat for rulership of the tribe. Artur then managed to throw Sigmar into the Flame, but Ulric had already chosen him as his Champion so Sigmar simply walked out of it, howled like a wolf (literally) and hammered Artur's skull somewhere into his ribcage. This is commonly accepted as the point where Sigmar united the tribes. Except for the Jutones, but we'll get to them later.

===Battle of Black-Fire Pass===
So, after he brought the tribes under his banner, Sigmar set about aiding the Dwarfs in defeating one of the greatest Orc WAAAGHS! in Imperial history. People far more intelligent than I have already described said battle in various sourcebooks, so I will not attempt to match their words.

Long story short, Sigmar and the tribesmen outmuscled the Orcs and Sigmar killed the Warboss on the top of the matter with a single return-stroke of his hammer. Thus annihilating the Orc threat, helping the Dwarfs, assuring the continuity of the two peoples and proving the rightness of his ideal of Imperial unity.

===The First Emperor===
After his victory, Sigmar was crowned Emperor of the newly formed Empire and ruled his people with wisdom and courage.

Two major threats during his reign was a daemon prince leading a horde of norsii that assaulted the north of the Empire and the great Necromancer [[Nagash]], who was after some of his bling which Sigmar had. Sigmar promptly said 'FFFFFFFFFFFF UUUUUUUUUUU' to both these threats and gave his hammer some exercise on their heads. And this was with a large skaven army trying to get the upper head by assaulting the worn out Empire forces after Sigmar had defeated the chaos forces. It is reputed Sigmar took one look at the mangy ratmen, rolled his eyes to the sky in digust and set off to bring about some hammer time.

==== Nagash ====
Before Nagash's invasion, Sigmar went to give the Norseman a taste of their own medicine by raiding their frozen wood shack at Norsca, only to come back when he can't raid into further north. He later fought the necromancer at the brass keep and gotten Nagash's crown, the artifact Nagash was looking for in order to regain his power. So yeah, Nagash gather all his skeleton buddies and his vampire cunts into the heart of empire for his crown. During the raid, Nagash had kill and resurrect many warriors and generals of the empire for his wight king and meat shield, and he did it in a pattern that prevent them from reinforce to sigmar's force in order to weaken the empire army. During this time, Sigmar was finding Nagash's weakness with the help from his trusty advisor, only to find out is the crown itself. Since Nagash was only thinking about his shining crown, Sigmar pulled a bait and switch by wearing the crown, not only attract Nagash attention, but also gained immunity against Nagash's magic. During the confrontation, Sigmar smack around Nagash's puppets with his Ghal Maraz like nothing. When facing Nagash, Sigmar bait the necromancer with his own crown then gave him a taste of his hammer. [[AWESOME|The hammer, suddenly glows with magic and landed in Nagash's chest that blows him up with the energy from the ancient dwarven rune engraved on the hammer]]. With Nagash gone to the underworld, jail rape by the underworld spirits as well as the dead god Morr/Usirian, he cursed the Vampires for betray him by curse them with the vulnerability to Sigmar's faith. Vampires flee like the cowards they are after Sigmar gave them a bitch taunt by telling them they are his bitch until [[the End Times]]. The church of Sigmar as well as the witch hunter order were also founded soon after to combat the undead for the future generations.

===Abdication===
In the fiftieth year of his reign, Sigmar set aside his crown and left the Empire. He was last seen heading towards the World Edge Mountains, possibly to see the dwarfs although they have said nothing on the matter if their records hold if Sigmar did pop around for tea. No one saw Sigmar alive again and he passed into legend, a legendary hero to the Empire. The final End Times book reveals that Sigmar was raised to godhood, though Tzeentch trapped him in the great vortex.

===Rise of a God===

While heroes quite rightly are revered, in Sigmar's case it was taken to a whole new level of fan devotion. His legendary deeds inspired others and over time he came to be worshiped as a God by some loonies who should have known better (however with divine intervention in the past with Sigmar may be proof that he did join the Gods of Order who are busting their balls to keep the Dark Gods from killing and corrupting everybody).

But amazingly, their prayers were answered. Those who displayed a belief in Sigmar found he (or at least someone) was answering their prayers and the faith in the new God spread like hotcakes through the Empire.

The Church of Ulric, the current state church at the time, didn't take kindly to this and did it in a way we see in 40k... with the declaration of HERESY and burning everyone at the stake.

After a while this was stopped and both faiths were given importance in the Empire although the Church of Sigmar came to be the State Church (which shows Ulric was still trolled over).

===The Old World and the End Times===
Sigmar is the main god of the Empire and he works hard to protect his people against the ravages of darkness that threaten to overwhelm them all. This is not an easy task and the poor man gets no annual holiday. He is constantly running around putting out fires started by Chaos or other gods and it seems they won't cut him any slack anytime soon, but fortunately he probably has some back up from his own god he worshiped, the shorty ancestor Gods, aid from the High Elf Gods (probably part of Asuryaan's plan if it's true); pretty much its a jointed effort of all the Gods of Order.

During the End Times, it was revealed that Tzeentch had bound him into the Wind of Heaven shortly after his ascension. Tzeentch feared that Sigmar would grow too powerful and unite the gods of men, elves, dwarfs and orcs into the warhammer avengers. Ironically, [[Not_As_Planned|this plan almost completely backfires in his face]], as Sigmar grows more powerful thanks to being bound to the Wind, and once freed ends up uniting the Incarnates (the new gods) into the anti-Chaos avengers. When Teclis unbound the Vortex, the newly freed Sigmar invested a part of his power into his Chosen Valten (which passed into Ghal-Maraz after Valten's death) and possessed the body of the recently deceased Karl Franz to return to the world, later taking his hammer back to restore himself to his full strength. As the world ends, He and Archaon wrestle over Ghal-Maraz, and they vanish shortly before everything is destroyed.

===[[Age of Sigmar]]===
{{topquote|For in Him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form.|Colossians 2:9}}

Following his wrestling bout, Sigmar reclaimed Ghal-Maraz, but was rendered helpless as he tumbled through the void that used to be the Warhammer World. Eventually, he collided with the metal core of the old world, which apparently has transmuted into the same material as the comet which heralded his birth, Sigmarite. With the aid of the great Star Drake named [[Dracothion]], which may or may not be [[Sotek]], Sigmar restarts reality using the remaining essence of the [[Warhammer Magic|Winds of Magic]] and organized the other Incarnates into a new pantheon with himself as its leader, bringing an age of prosperity to the emerging civilizations of the Mortal Realms. Following the Chaos' invasion, he sealed the entrances into his realm of [[Azyr]], and has only recently opened it back up to launch a long planned counterattack against Chaos with his greatest creation, the demigod warriors known as the [[Stormcast Eternals]].

As an interesting note, Sigmar has been shown to be capable of forgiving people who have wronged him; while this may have not ended well in the case of the likes of [[Nagash]], he and his hosts have been shown to put aside vengeance if there is a chance for someone to get redeemed (they may still turn you into pulp if you try to abuse their trust, so no Horus shenanigans here), or a territory to be rescued from the grip of Chaos: good news for the Mortal Kingdoms and people who were mutated and exposed to Chaos unwillingly.

Also, he doesn't follow the public policies of the Emperor, as Sigmar accepts his title of deity and [[Lorgar|doesn't give the boot to his worshipers]], even while personally he loathes the responsibilities of god-king as he would prefer to rush the enemy and crack some skulls instead of doing all the administrative and logistic job; must be hard to manage an entire reality and a multidimensional counter-invasion.

Another cool thing about Sigmar is that he sees people on an individual basis, not just expendable statistics for some risky master plan, Sigmar feels it for YOU and each and everyone of his followers [[Awesome|and unlike Emprah he has never given up on mankind and their allies once things went ugly]].

NOTE: Don't mention this to EMPRAH fans. Most are still raging over the portrayal of him in Master of Mankind and stubbornly cling on to their image of him as a well intentioned extremist who was nevertheless a good guy at heart and whom actually gave a shit about his followers, [[Aaron_Dembski-Bowden| GeeDubs don't let the ADB ruin Sigmar's reputation too! ]]

==In Warhammer 40,000==
In the current official publications of [[Games Workshop]], there is no link between [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]], but that's never gotten in the way of the fandom, especially considering that at one point, WFB was explicitly part of the 40k universe. A recurring hypothesis is that Sigmar is one of the [[Unknown Primarchs]]. One could posit that the twin-tailed comet which heralded his birth was actually the genetor-pod falling to the Warhammer World, that his mysterious departure was him leaving to take command of his [[Space Marine]] Legion (tentatively called the [[Emperor's Hammers]]), and that the miracles credited to him are in fact the result of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]]. Recent pieces of background, detailing Sigmar's birth and characteristics, tend to invalidate this theory, however. Thank The Emperor (As In Sigmar, not the other one you bolter humping zombie worshiper).

==Trivia==
* Sigmar is an old Frankish name meaning "famous by victory". Fitting, considering his awesomeness.

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Image:EmpsVSigmar.jpg|The question isn't who wins. It's whether the merged Empires managed to maintain their plot armor.
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==See Also==
* [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|THE EMPIRE]] for the '''[[Empire|EMPIRE]]''' he founded.
* [[Azyr]], the Realm of Heavens, what he probably hoped his Empire could have become in time, and nowadays the only mortal realm free of Chaos in the setting.
* [[Ulric]] for his <s>[[spiritual liege]]</s> personal god, which according to the founder of the Church of Sigmar, He crowned Sigmar as a God, which came to the founder in a vision.
* The [[Emperor]], for his considerably less <s>competent</s> PLOT ARMORED and manly (but vastly more Gothic-and-bling) Warhammer 40,000 counterpart.
* [[Everqueen]] for his counterpart being in comparison to the 40k's EMPRAH among the [[Elves|elves.]]

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Sigmar

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[[File:SigmarHeldenhammer.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Sigmar may not have the fabulous hair <strike>but he is ten times more manly than the God-Emperor.</strike> {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|HERESY!}}]]
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>I AM SIGMAR! FOUNDER OF THE EMPIRE AND SLAYER OF ORCS! - The Warcry of Sigmar perpetuating his Awesomeness</u>'''</span></div>

{{topquote|The simple act of caring is heroic.|Edward Albert}}
{{topquote|If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.|Zig Ziglar}}

'''Sigmar Unberogen''', known also as '''Sigmar Heldenhammer''', '''the Hammer of Orcs''', '''The Chosen of Ulric''', '''Sigmar Bjornsson''', is the founder of the [[Imperium of Man|Empire]], <strike>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApmVcV0a2wI| second primarch],</strike> and its current patron deity. In life, Sigmar was a chieftain of the Unberogen tribe and the son of the legendary hero '''Bjorn Unberogen'''. As a god, he is the patron of the Empire, battle, good governance, strength, shouting and warhammers. His symbols are the Warhammer, twin-tailed comet, and griffon.

It has never been satisfactorily explained why the Church of Sigmar insists that its brethren go bald when all depictions of Sigmar have long, flowing, unkempt hair.

He is bros with the Serpent God [[Sotek]] of the [[Lizardmen]] as they get together every Friday to egg the [[Horned Rat]]'s house for lolz.

It is customary to read his lines in the Legend of Sigmar in the voice Mel Gibson used to play William Wallace. This is funny because Graham McNeill is Scottish. Therefore, it will likely serve to piss him off to no end.

[[The End Times]] and [[Warhammer: Age of Sigmar|Age of Sigmar]] has Sigmar coming back. He'd ascended to godhood before his death, which also explains why the Warrior Priests hold a special sort of power, not unlike magic. However, Games Workshop finally gave Tzeentch some love, and had it that he had trapped Sigmar in the Wind of Heavens to prevent him from messing with the Chaos Gods plans. After the Vortex on [[Ulthuan]] is destroyed the Wind, under Sigmar's direction, enters the body of Emperor [[Karl Franz]] after his death. Sigmar, now in Franz's body, adjusts it to look like his old self and goes on a saving-the-good-guys-while-beating-up-the-baddies spree of awesome. After the end of the old Warhammer World, Sigmar survives the Apocalypse, and with the help of Dracothion (Sotek all along?) uses the metal core of the world-that-was as a platform to unify and civilize the realms of a reborn reality, ascending to full godhood in the process. [[Stormcast Eternals|He even gets his own elite warriors of sorts]].

[[File:Azeroth.jpg|left|1650px|thumb|In the 8th game of the World of Warcraft series, which was the first since the current 8th editions of Warhammer Fantasy and 40K, they also advanced the storyline following the same trend, as we have an official Alliance-Horde war for the first time since Warcraft 3, in total coordination with the real world when long unsettled conflicts, such as the Arab-Israeli war, Grexit, Kim Jong-un, US-China trade war, Fascism emerging in Europe starting from Italy, Neo-ottomanism, American civil war, Monroe dogma over Nicolas Maduro and Lula and even a volcano in Hawaii erupting, are simultaneously all emerging as if we are truly living in a novel.]]

==Appearance==
Unlike that [[Emperor|black-haired proto-Sumerian]] we have a good idea what Sigmar really looked like without resorting to palanquins created by zealots. Sigmar was a giant, broad muscular manly motherfucker with blonde hair that was grown too damn long, and some badass armored boots meant for stomping on the skulls of green skins and beastmen. Uniquely, he had mismatched eyes with one green and one blue.

With Age of Sigmar his hair is a clear tone of brown and he uses a long beard.

FUN FACT: Sigmar's Hammer ''Ghal-Maraz'' is THE HAMMER that is symbol of [[Warhammer Fantasy]] itself, although originally the symbol represented the Hammer of the Chaos champion, [[Harald Hammerstorm]].

==History==
===Early Life===
The Imperial Calendar (IC) which starts from his coronation by the Ar-Ulric (if you need to know, he's the Viking pope and he makes Bjorn the Fell-Handed look like a pussy) commonly places Sigmar's birth as starting from -30 IC. He was said to be born in the Reikland area in the southwest of what would later become the Empire, where the Unberogen tribe dwelt. The night of his birth was marked with the twin-tailed comet, but he found his purchase on life after being cut out of his dying mother's womb by his badass manly motherfucker of a father. In the middle of pitched battle with Orcs I might add. [[Conan the Barbarian|And if that sounds familiar to you, good. You're paying attention.]] Oddly enough, a mighty thunder-clap was also heard in the night sky. Causing various prophets to call Sigmar, "the Child of Thunder". [[Viking|And if that is also familiar to you, good. I shall make an expert of your filthy self yet.]] oh and when he was born his forehead was anointed with Ork's blood, how about that for a baptism?

In the year -15, when he was fifteen years of age, Sigmar had become a badass, bigger and stronger than his peers and was already a respected warrior ([[Conan the Barbarian|again, just like a certain Cimmerian]]). At this point, Sigmar is recorded to have gained the friendship of the great Dwarfen king Kurgan Ironbeard by saving his stunty ass from a warband of Orcs led by a MASSIVE Black Orc Warboss (for you 40Kfags, that's basically Ghazgkhull, but with a fucking axe and a pair of balls). This fight ended with Kurgan throwing the legendary Ghal-Maraz to Sigmar, which he then promptly used to smash the warboss's skull to paste. After the fight, Sigmar attempted to return the hammer, but Kurgan told him to keep it as a reward for saving his life. He also pledged the friendship of the Dwarfen kingdom to the Unberogen tribe for this act of selfless courage. Of course, Sigmar actually only went after Orcs as part of a revenge raid for their prior attack on Reikdorf, Dwarf-saving was nothing but a happy coincidence.

Sigmar's early life would also be punctuated with other grand victories such as the Battle of Astofen Bridge, where he turned back an army of 2000 Orcs. It was also the battle where he earned his shield and became a man. Yes, Sigmar was saving Dwarf Kings and raping Orc Warbosses before early manhood.

===Uniting the Tribes===
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>'''''"I SHED BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF FOUR THOUSAND NORTHERN MEN!"'''''</u>'''</span></div> -- What Sigmar was likely singing to himself when he massacred the Norse.

Sigmar would later learn the importance of unity from something his dad said. Probably a metaphor centering around wolves. In any event, combined with Alaric the Mad's warnings about "Orcs and things best not spoken of", he was inspired to bring the various disparate tribes of the Reik together. Even going so far as swear an oath, and dragging his best friends in it too for fun.

Of course, the [[Warriors of Chaos|Chaos-worshiping Norse tribes]] who came down from the Chaos Wastes decided to rape the south as they usually do. Anyone surprised? What, you? Well fuck you. They're the Norse, [[J.R.R. Tolkien|THEY KILL WHERE THEY WISH AND NONE DARE RESIST]].

Sigmar's father foolishly thought he could resist, and marched north with a massive army 10,000 strong to face the 8000 Northmen. Bjorn came off the experience with a fatal case of axe through the skull. But it was in fact a clever ploy to save Sigmar from dying to the machinations of the Dark Gods who arrayed themselves against him to destroy his dream of a united nation. [[Emperor|And if that sounds similar, it's because it is]]. Haha, disregard that, Sigmar is actually a rip-off of Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. And predates the Great Throne Vegetable by several years, thus making him the rip-off. Long story short, father and son got together in the spirit world and went on to kick the collective ass of an army of daemons, ending with Bjorn ascending boldly to Ulric's Hall. Despite getting killed fighting the Norse, Bjorn did manage to kill the Khornate Chaos Champion leading the tribes and thus narrowly prevailed in driving the Norse back. This heroic act of defiance against the Norse threat won the Unberogen the eternal friendship of the Cherusen and Taluetan tribes.

Filled with righteous [[Rage|rage]], Sigmar marched north when the wolves of the Norsii raided and slaughtered the Udoses (Iron Age Scottish Highlanders) in the area of what is now Ostland. Sigmar then massacred the Norse, thus valorously avenging the blood-geld of the Udoses in a situation somewhat similar to the Bloody Verdict of Verden, because both he and Charlemagne were basically killing people who didn't join him and didn't believe the same way he did, thus driving them to Norsca where they would nurse an eternal hatred of the south in general and the Empire in particular that makes the hatred Chaos Marines have for the Emperor look like a stuttering spark in comparison. Seriously, tribal warfare was nothing out-of-the-ordinary before Sigmar's pussy notions of unity and empires. These offenses against the Norse also serve to solidify Sigmar as an Alfred the Great rip-off, as if building his entire bureaucracy from scratch didn't already.

Concurrent with this, Sigmar also rode hard to Middenheim to fight (lightning strikes when Ghal-Maraz bites, you know) Artur of the Teutogens. It is often said that a man must find the proper balance of pride within himself. Too little, and a man will never accomplish anything in his life. Too much, and he'll do something fucking stupid, like climbing the Fauschlag. Sigmar was of the latter disposition. Sigmar, and his bodyguard Alfgeir, climbed the great mountain that held the city of Middenheim, sneaked into the building housing the flame of Ulric and there challenged Artur of the Teutogens to single combat for rulership of the tribe. Artur then managed to throw Sigmar into the Flame, but Ulric had already chosen him as his Champion so Sigmar simply walked out of it, howled like a wolf (literally) and hammered Artur's skull somewhere into his ribcage. This is commonly accepted as the point where Sigmar united the tribes. Except for the Jutones, but we'll get to them later.

===Battle of Black-Fire Pass===
So, after he brought the tribes under his banner, Sigmar set about aiding the Dwarfs in defeating one of the greatest Orc WAAAGHS! in Imperial history. People far more intelligent than I have already described said battle in various sourcebooks, so I will not attempt to match their words.

Long story short, Sigmar and the tribesmen outmuscled the Orcs and Sigmar killed the Warboss on the top of the matter with a single return-stroke of his hammer. Thus annihilating the Orc threat, helping the Dwarfs, assuring the continuity of the two peoples and proving the rightness of his ideal of Imperial unity.

===The First Emperor===
After his victory, Sigmar was crowned Emperor of the newly formed Empire and ruled his people with wisdom and courage.

Two major threats during his reign was a daemon prince leading a horde of norsii that assaulted the north of the Empire and the great Necromancer [[Nagash]], who was after some of his bling which Sigmar had. Sigmar promptly said 'FFFFFFFFFFFF UUUUUUUUUUU' to both these threats and gave his hammer some exercise on their heads. And this was with a large skaven army trying to get the upper head by assaulting the worn out Empire forces after Sigmar had defeated the chaos forces. It is reputed Sigmar took one look at the mangy ratmen, rolled his eyes to the sky in digust and set off to bring about some hammer time.

==== Nagash ====
Before Nagash's invasion, Sigmar went to give the Norseman a taste of their own medicine by raiding their frozen wood shack at Norsca, only to come back when he can't raid into further north. He later fought the necromancer at the brass keep and gotten Nagash's crown, the artifact Nagash was looking for in order to regain his power. So yeah, Nagash gather all his skeleton buddies and his vampire cunts into the heart of empire for his crown. During the raid, Nagash had kill and resurrect many warriors and generals of the empire for his wight king and meat shield, and he did it in a pattern that prevent them from reinforce to sigmar's force in order to weaken the empire army. During this time, Sigmar was finding Nagash's weakness with the help from his trusty advisor, only to find out is the crown itself. Since Nagash was only thinking about his shining crown, Sigmar pulled a bait and switch by wearing the crown, not only attract Nagash attention, but also gained immunity against Nagash's magic. During the confrontation, Sigmar smack around Nagash's puppets with his Ghal Maraz like nothing. When facing Nagash, Sigmar bait the necromancer with his own crown then gave him a taste of his hammer. [[AWESOME|The hammer, suddenly glows with magic and landed in Nagash's chest that blows him up with the energy from the ancient dwarven rune engraved on the hammer]]. With Nagash gone to the underworld, jail rape by the underworld spirits as well as the dead god Morr/Usirian, he cursed the Vampires for betray him by curse them with the vulnerability to Sigmar's faith. Vampires flee like the cowards they are after Sigmar gave them a bitch taunt by telling them they are his bitch until [[the End Times]]. The church of Sigmar as well as the witch hunter order were also founded soon after to combat the undead for the future generations.

===Abdication===
In the fiftieth year of his reign, Sigmar set aside his crown and left the Empire. He was last seen heading towards the World Edge Mountains, possibly to see the dwarfs although they have said nothing on the matter if their records hold if Sigmar did pop around for tea. No one saw Sigmar alive again and he passed into legend, a legendary hero to the Empire. The final End Times book reveals that Sigmar was raised to godhood, though Tzeentch trapped him in the great vortex.

===Rise of a God===

While heroes quite rightly are revered, in Sigmar's case it was taken to a whole new level of fan devotion. His legendary deeds inspired others and over time he came to be worshiped as a God by some loonies who should have known better (however with divine intervention in the past with Sigmar may be proof that he did join the Gods of Order who are busting their balls to keep the Dark Gods from killing and corrupting everybody).

But amazingly, their prayers were answered. Those who displayed a belief in Sigmar found he (or at least someone) was answering their prayers and the faith in the new God spread like hotcakes through the Empire.

The Church of Ulric, the current state church at the time, didn't take kindly to this and did it in a way we see in 40k... with the declaration of HERESY and burning everyone at the stake.

After a while this was stopped and both faiths were given importance in the Empire although the Church of Sigmar came to be the State Church (which shows Ulric was still trolled over).

===The Old World and the End Times===
Sigmar is the main god of the Empire and he works hard to protect his people against the ravages of darkness that threaten to overwhelm them all. This is not an easy task and the poor man gets no annual holiday. He is constantly running around putting out fires started by Chaos or other gods and it seems they won't cut him any slack anytime soon, but fortunately he probably has some back up from his own god he worshiped, the shorty ancestor Gods, aid from the High Elf Gods (probably part of Asuryaan's plan if it's true); pretty much its a jointed effort of all the Gods of Order.

During the End Times, it was revealed that Tzeentch had bound him into the Wind of Heaven shortly after his ascension. Tzeentch feared that Sigmar would grow too powerful and unite the gods of men, elves, dwarfs and orcs into the warhammer avengers. Ironically, [[Not_As_Planned|this plan almost completely backfires in his face]], as Sigmar grows more powerful thanks to being bound to the Wind, and once freed ends up uniting the Incarnates (the new gods) into the anti-Chaos avengers. When Teclis unbound the Vortex, the newly freed Sigmar invested a part of his power into his Chosen Valten (which passed into Ghal-Maraz after Valten's death) and possessed the body of the recently deceased Karl Franz to return to the world, later taking his hammer back to restore himself to his full strength. As the world ends, He and Archaon wrestle over Ghal-Maraz, and they vanish shortly before everything is destroyed.

===[[Age of Sigmar]]===
{{topquote|For in Him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form.|Colossians 2:9}}

Following his wrestling bout, Sigmar reclaimed Ghal-Maraz, but was rendered helpless as he tumbled through the void that used to be the Warhammer World. Eventually, he collided with the metal core of the old world, which apparently has transmuted into the same material as the comet which heralded his birth, Sigmarite. With the aid of the great Star Drake named [[Dracothion]], which may or may not be [[Sotek]], Sigmar restarts reality using the remaining essence of the [[Warhammer Magic|Winds of Magic]] and organized the other Incarnates into a new pantheon with himself as its leader, bringing an age of prosperity to the emerging civilizations of the Mortal Realms. Following the Chaos' invasion, he sealed the entrances into his realm of [[Azyr]], and has only recently opened it back up to launch a long planned counterattack against Chaos with his greatest creation, the demigod warriors known as the [[Stormcast Eternals]].

As an interesting note, Sigmar has been shown to be capable of forgiving people who have wronged him; while this may have not ended well in the case of the likes of [[Nagash]], he and his hosts have been shown to put aside vengeance if there is a chance for someone to get redeemed (they may still turn you into pulp if you try to abuse their trust, so no Horus shenanigans here), or a territory to be rescued from the grip of Chaos: good news for the Mortal Kingdoms and people who were mutated and exposed to Chaos unwillingly.

Also, he doesn't follow the public policies of the Emperor, as Sigmar accepts his title of deity and [[Lorgar|doesn't give the boot to his worshipers]], even while personally he loathes the responsibilities of god-king as he would prefer to rush the enemy and crack some skulls instead of doing all the administrative and logistic job; must be hard to manage an entire reality and a multidimensional counter-invasion.

Another cool thing about Sigmar is that he sees people on an individual basis, not just expendable statistics for some risky master plan, Sigmar feels it for YOU and each and everyone of his followers [[Awesome|and unlike Emprah he has never given up on mankind and their allies once things went ugly]].

NOTE: Don't mention this to EMPRAH fans. Most are still raging over the portrayal of him in Master of Mankind and stubbornly cling on to their image of him as a well intentioned extremist who was nevertheless a good guy at heart and whom actually gave a shit about his followers, [[Aaron_Dembski-Bowden| GeeDubs don't let the ADB ruin Sigmar's reputation too! ]]

==In Warhammer 40,000==
In the current official publications of [[Games Workshop]], there is no link between [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]], but that's never gotten in the way of the fandom, especially considering that at one point, WFB was explicitly part of the 40k universe. A recurring hypothesis is that Sigmar is one of the [[Unknown Primarchs]]. One could posit that the twin-tailed comet which heralded his birth was actually the genetor-pod falling to the Warhammer World, that his mysterious departure was him leaving to take command of his [[Space Marine]] Legion (tentatively called the [[Emperor's Hammers]]), and that the miracles credited to him are in fact the result of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]]. Recent pieces of background, detailing Sigmar's birth and characteristics, tend to invalidate this theory, however. Thank The Emperor (As In Sigmar, not the other one you bolter humping zombie worshiper).

==Trivia==
* Sigmar is an old Frankish name meaning "famous by victory". Fitting, considering his awesomeness.

<gallery>
Image:EmpsVSigmar.jpg|The question isn't who wins. It's whether the merged Empires managed to maintain their plot armor.
</gallery>

==See Also==
* [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|THE EMPIRE]] for the '''[[Empire|EMPIRE]]''' he founded.
* [[Azyr]], the Realm of Heavens, what he probably hoped his Empire could have become in time, and nowadays the only mortal realm free of Chaos in the setting.
* [[Ulric]] for his <s>[[spiritual liege]]</s> personal god, which according to the founder of the Church of Sigmar, He crowned Sigmar as a God, which came to the founder in a vision.
* The [[Emperor]], for his considerably less <s>competent</s> PLOT ARMORED and manly (but vastly more Gothic-and-bling) Warhammer 40,000 counterpart.
* [[Everqueen]] for his counterpart being in comparison to the 40k's EMPRAH among the [[Elves|elves.]]

{{Empire-Gods}}

Sigmar

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{{Awesome}}
[[File:SigmarHeldenhammer.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Sigmar may not have the fabulous hair <strike>but he is ten times more manly than the God-Emperor.</strike> {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|HERESY!}}]]
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>I AM SIGMAR! FOUNDER OF THE EMPIRE AND SLAYER OF ORCS! - The Warcry of Sigmar perpetuating his Awesomeness</u>'''</span></div>

{{topquote|The simple act of caring is heroic.|Edward Albert}}
{{topquote|If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.|Zig Ziglar}}

'''Sigmar Unberogen''', known also as '''Sigmar Heldenhammer''', '''the Hammer of Orcs''', '''The Chosen of Ulric''', '''Sigmar Bjornsson''', is the founder of the [[Imperium of Man|Empire]], <strike>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApmVcV0a2wI| second primarch],</strike> and its current patron deity. In life, Sigmar was a chieftain of the Unberogen tribe and the son of the legendary hero '''Bjorn Unberogen'''. As a god, he is the patron of the Empire, battle, good governance, strength, shouting and warhammers. His symbols are the Warhammer, twin-tailed comet, and griffon.

It has never been satisfactorily explained why the Church of Sigmar insists that its brethren go bald when all depictions of Sigmar have long, flowing, unkempt hair.

He is bros with the Serpent God [[Sotek]] of the [[Lizardmen]] as they get together every Friday to egg the [[Horned Rat]]'s house for lolz.

It is customary to read his lines in the Legend of Sigmar in the voice Mel Gibson used to play William Wallace. This is funny because Graham McNeill is Scottish. Therefore, it will likely serve to piss him off to no end.

[[The End Times]] and [[Warhammer: Age of Sigmar|Age of Sigmar]] has Sigmar coming back. He'd ascended to godhood before his death, which also explains why the Warrior Priests hold a special sort of power, not unlike magic. However, Games Workshop finally gave Tzeentch some love, and had it that he had trapped Sigmar in the Wind of Heavens to prevent him from messing with the Chaos Gods plans. After the Vortex on [[Ulthuan]] is destroyed the Wind, under Sigmar's direction, enters the body of Emperor [[Karl Franz]] after his death. Sigmar, now in Franz's body, adjusts it to look like his old self and goes on a saving-the-good-guys-while-beating-up-the-baddies spree of awesome. After the end of the old Warhammer World, Sigmar survives the Apocalypse, and with the help of Dracothion (Sotek all along?) uses the metal core of the world-that-was as a platform to unify and civilize the realms of a reborn reality, ascending to full godhood in the process. [[Stormcast Eternals|He even gets his own elite warriors of sorts]].

==Appearance==
Unlike that [[Emperor|black-haired proto-Sumerian]] we have a good idea what Sigmar really looked like without resorting to palanquins created by zealots. Sigmar was a giant, broad muscular manly motherfucker with blonde hair that was grown too damn long, and some badass armored boots meant for stomping on the skulls of green skins and beastmen. Uniquely, he had mismatched eyes with one green and one blue.

With Age of Sigmar his hair is a clear tone of brown and he uses a long beard.

FUN FACT: Sigmar's Hammer ''Ghal-Maraz'' is THE HAMMER that is symbol of [[Warhammer Fantasy]] itself, although originally the symbol represented the Hammer of the Chaos champion, [[Harald Hammerstorm]].

[[File:Azeroth.jpg|left|1650px|thumb|In the 8th game of the World of Warcraft series, which was the first since the current 8th editions of Warhammer Fantasy and 40K, they also advanced the storyline following the same trend, as we have an official Alliance-Horde war for the first time since Warcraft 3, in total coordination with the real world when long unsettled conflicts, such as the Arab-Israeli war, Grexit, Kim Jong-un, US-China trade war, Fascism emerging in Europe starting from Italy, Neo-ottomanism, American civil war, Monroe dogma over Nicolas Maduro and Lula and even a volcano in Hawaii erupting, are simultaneously all emerging as if we are truly living in a novel.]]

==History==
===Early Life===
The Imperial Calendar (IC) which starts from his coronation by the Ar-Ulric (if you need to know, he's the Viking pope and he makes Bjorn the Fell-Handed look like a pussy) commonly places Sigmar's birth as starting from -30 IC. He was said to be born in the Reikland area in the southwest of what would later become the Empire, where the Unberogen tribe dwelt. The night of his birth was marked with the twin-tailed comet, but he found his purchase on life after being cut out of his dying mother's womb by his badass manly motherfucker of a father. In the middle of pitched battle with Orcs I might add. [[Conan the Barbarian|And if that sounds familiar to you, good. You're paying attention.]] Oddly enough, a mighty thunder-clap was also heard in the night sky. Causing various prophets to call Sigmar, "the Child of Thunder". [[Viking|And if that is also familiar to you, good. I shall make an expert of your filthy self yet.]] oh and when he was born his forehead was anointed with Ork's blood, how about that for a baptism?

In the year -15, when he was fifteen years of age, Sigmar had become a badass, bigger and stronger than his peers and was already a respected warrior ([[Conan the Barbarian|again, just like a certain Cimmerian]]). At this point, Sigmar is recorded to have gained the friendship of the great Dwarfen king Kurgan Ironbeard by saving his stunty ass from a warband of Orcs led by a MASSIVE Black Orc Warboss (for you 40Kfags, that's basically Ghazgkhull, but with a fucking axe and a pair of balls). This fight ended with Kurgan throwing the legendary Ghal-Maraz to Sigmar, which he then promptly used to smash the warboss's skull to paste. After the fight, Sigmar attempted to return the hammer, but Kurgan told him to keep it as a reward for saving his life. He also pledged the friendship of the Dwarfen kingdom to the Unberogen tribe for this act of selfless courage. Of course, Sigmar actually only went after Orcs as part of a revenge raid for their prior attack on Reikdorf, Dwarf-saving was nothing but a happy coincidence.

Sigmar's early life would also be punctuated with other grand victories such as the Battle of Astofen Bridge, where he turned back an army of 2000 Orcs. It was also the battle where he earned his shield and became a man. Yes, Sigmar was saving Dwarf Kings and raping Orc Warbosses before early manhood.

===Uniting the Tribes===
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>'''''"I SHED BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF FOUR THOUSAND NORTHERN MEN!"'''''</u>'''</span></div> -- What Sigmar was likely singing to himself when he massacred the Norse.

Sigmar would later learn the importance of unity from something his dad said. Probably a metaphor centering around wolves. In any event, combined with Alaric the Mad's warnings about "Orcs and things best not spoken of", he was inspired to bring the various disparate tribes of the Reik together. Even going so far as swear an oath, and dragging his best friends in it too for fun.

Of course, the [[Warriors of Chaos|Chaos-worshiping Norse tribes]] who came down from the Chaos Wastes decided to rape the south as they usually do. Anyone surprised? What, you? Well fuck you. They're the Norse, [[J.R.R. Tolkien|THEY KILL WHERE THEY WISH AND NONE DARE RESIST]].

Sigmar's father foolishly thought he could resist, and marched north with a massive army 10,000 strong to face the 8000 Northmen. Bjorn came off the experience with a fatal case of axe through the skull. But it was in fact a clever ploy to save Sigmar from dying to the machinations of the Dark Gods who arrayed themselves against him to destroy his dream of a united nation. [[Emperor|And if that sounds similar, it's because it is]]. Haha, disregard that, Sigmar is actually a rip-off of Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. And predates the Great Throne Vegetable by several years, thus making him the rip-off. Long story short, father and son got together in the spirit world and went on to kick the collective ass of an army of daemons, ending with Bjorn ascending boldly to Ulric's Hall. Despite getting killed fighting the Norse, Bjorn did manage to kill the Khornate Chaos Champion leading the tribes and thus narrowly prevailed in driving the Norse back. This heroic act of defiance against the Norse threat won the Unberogen the eternal friendship of the Cherusen and Taluetan tribes.

Filled with righteous [[Rage|rage]], Sigmar marched north when the wolves of the Norsii raided and slaughtered the Udoses (Iron Age Scottish Highlanders) in the area of what is now Ostland. Sigmar then massacred the Norse, thus valorously avenging the blood-geld of the Udoses in a situation somewhat similar to the Bloody Verdict of Verden, because both he and Charlemagne were basically killing people who didn't join him and didn't believe the same way he did, thus driving them to Norsca where they would nurse an eternal hatred of the south in general and the Empire in particular that makes the hatred Chaos Marines have for the Emperor look like a stuttering spark in comparison. Seriously, tribal warfare was nothing out-of-the-ordinary before Sigmar's pussy notions of unity and empires. These offenses against the Norse also serve to solidify Sigmar as an Alfred the Great rip-off, as if building his entire bureaucracy from scratch didn't already.

Concurrent with this, Sigmar also rode hard to Middenheim to fight (lightning strikes when Ghal-Maraz bites, you know) Artur of the Teutogens. It is often said that a man must find the proper balance of pride within himself. Too little, and a man will never accomplish anything in his life. Too much, and he'll do something fucking stupid, like climbing the Fauschlag. Sigmar was of the latter disposition. Sigmar, and his bodyguard Alfgeir, climbed the great mountain that held the city of Middenheim, sneaked into the building housing the flame of Ulric and there challenged Artur of the Teutogens to single combat for rulership of the tribe. Artur then managed to throw Sigmar into the Flame, but Ulric had already chosen him as his Champion so Sigmar simply walked out of it, howled like a wolf (literally) and hammered Artur's skull somewhere into his ribcage. This is commonly accepted as the point where Sigmar united the tribes. Except for the Jutones, but we'll get to them later.

===Battle of Black-Fire Pass===
So, after he brought the tribes under his banner, Sigmar set about aiding the Dwarfs in defeating one of the greatest Orc WAAAGHS! in Imperial history. People far more intelligent than I have already described said battle in various sourcebooks, so I will not attempt to match their words.

Long story short, Sigmar and the tribesmen outmuscled the Orcs and Sigmar killed the Warboss on the top of the matter with a single return-stroke of his hammer. Thus annihilating the Orc threat, helping the Dwarfs, assuring the continuity of the two peoples and proving the rightness of his ideal of Imperial unity.

===The First Emperor===
After his victory, Sigmar was crowned Emperor of the newly formed Empire and ruled his people with wisdom and courage.

Two major threats during his reign was a daemon prince leading a horde of norsii that assaulted the north of the Empire and the great Necromancer [[Nagash]], who was after some of his bling which Sigmar had. Sigmar promptly said 'FFFFFFFFFFFF UUUUUUUUUUU' to both these threats and gave his hammer some exercise on their heads. And this was with a large skaven army trying to get the upper head by assaulting the worn out Empire forces after Sigmar had defeated the chaos forces. It is reputed Sigmar took one look at the mangy ratmen, rolled his eyes to the sky in digust and set off to bring about some hammer time.

==== Nagash ====
Before Nagash's invasion, Sigmar went to give the Norseman a taste of their own medicine by raiding their frozen wood shack at Norsca, only to come back when he can't raid into further north. He later fought the necromancer at the brass keep and gotten Nagash's crown, the artifact Nagash was looking for in order to regain his power. So yeah, Nagash gather all his skeleton buddies and his vampire cunts into the heart of empire for his crown. During the raid, Nagash had kill and resurrect many warriors and generals of the empire for his wight king and meat shield, and he did it in a pattern that prevent them from reinforce to sigmar's force in order to weaken the empire army. During this time, Sigmar was finding Nagash's weakness with the help from his trusty advisor, only to find out is the crown itself. Since Nagash was only thinking about his shining crown, Sigmar pulled a bait and switch by wearing the crown, not only attract Nagash attention, but also gained immunity against Nagash's magic. During the confrontation, Sigmar smack around Nagash's puppets with his Ghal Maraz like nothing. When facing Nagash, Sigmar bait the necromancer with his own crown then gave him a taste of his hammer. [[AWESOME|The hammer, suddenly glows with magic and landed in Nagash's chest that blows him up with the energy from the ancient dwarven rune engraved on the hammer]]. With Nagash gone to the underworld, jail rape by the underworld spirits as well as the dead god Morr/Usirian, he cursed the Vampires for betray him by curse them with the vulnerability to Sigmar's faith. Vampires flee like the cowards they are after Sigmar gave them a bitch taunt by telling them they are his bitch until [[the End Times]]. The church of Sigmar as well as the witch hunter order were also founded soon after to combat the undead for the future generations.

===Abdication===
In the fiftieth year of his reign, Sigmar set aside his crown and left the Empire. He was last seen heading towards the World Edge Mountains, possibly to see the dwarfs although they have said nothing on the matter if their records hold if Sigmar did pop around for tea. No one saw Sigmar alive again and he passed into legend, a legendary hero to the Empire. The final End Times book reveals that Sigmar was raised to godhood, though Tzeentch trapped him in the great vortex.

===Rise of a God===

While heroes quite rightly are revered, in Sigmar's case it was taken to a whole new level of fan devotion. His legendary deeds inspired others and over time he came to be worshiped as a God by some loonies who should have known better (however with divine intervention in the past with Sigmar may be proof that he did join the Gods of Order who are busting their balls to keep the Dark Gods from killing and corrupting everybody).

But amazingly, their prayers were answered. Those who displayed a belief in Sigmar found he (or at least someone) was answering their prayers and the faith in the new God spread like hotcakes through the Empire.

The Church of Ulric, the current state church at the time, didn't take kindly to this and did it in a way we see in 40k... with the declaration of HERESY and burning everyone at the stake.

After a while this was stopped and both faiths were given importance in the Empire although the Church of Sigmar came to be the State Church (which shows Ulric was still trolled over).

===The Old World and the End Times===
Sigmar is the main god of the Empire and he works hard to protect his people against the ravages of darkness that threaten to overwhelm them all. This is not an easy task and the poor man gets no annual holiday. He is constantly running around putting out fires started by Chaos or other gods and it seems they won't cut him any slack anytime soon, but fortunately he probably has some back up from his own god he worshiped, the shorty ancestor Gods, aid from the High Elf Gods (probably part of Asuryaan's plan if it's true); pretty much its a jointed effort of all the Gods of Order.

During the End Times, it was revealed that Tzeentch had bound him into the Wind of Heaven shortly after his ascension. Tzeentch feared that Sigmar would grow too powerful and unite the gods of men, elves, dwarfs and orcs into the warhammer avengers. Ironically, [[Not_As_Planned|this plan almost completely backfires in his face]], as Sigmar grows more powerful thanks to being bound to the Wind, and once freed ends up uniting the Incarnates (the new gods) into the anti-Chaos avengers. When Teclis unbound the Vortex, the newly freed Sigmar invested a part of his power into his Chosen Valten (which passed into Ghal-Maraz after Valten's death) and possessed the body of the recently deceased Karl Franz to return to the world, later taking his hammer back to restore himself to his full strength. As the world ends, He and Archaon wrestle over Ghal-Maraz, and they vanish shortly before everything is destroyed.

===[[Age of Sigmar]]===
{{topquote|For in Him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form.|Colossians 2:9}}

Following his wrestling bout, Sigmar reclaimed Ghal-Maraz, but was rendered helpless as he tumbled through the void that used to be the Warhammer World. Eventually, he collided with the metal core of the old world, which apparently has transmuted into the same material as the comet which heralded his birth, Sigmarite. With the aid of the great Star Drake named [[Dracothion]], which may or may not be [[Sotek]], Sigmar restarts reality using the remaining essence of the [[Warhammer Magic|Winds of Magic]] and organized the other Incarnates into a new pantheon with himself as its leader, bringing an age of prosperity to the emerging civilizations of the Mortal Realms. Following the Chaos' invasion, he sealed the entrances into his realm of [[Azyr]], and has only recently opened it back up to launch a long planned counterattack against Chaos with his greatest creation, the demigod warriors known as the [[Stormcast Eternals]].

As an interesting note, Sigmar has been shown to be capable of forgiving people who have wronged him; while this may have not ended well in the case of the likes of [[Nagash]], he and his hosts have been shown to put aside vengeance if there is a chance for someone to get redeemed (they may still turn you into pulp if you try to abuse their trust, so no Horus shenanigans here), or a territory to be rescued from the grip of Chaos: good news for the Mortal Kingdoms and people who were mutated and exposed to Chaos unwillingly.

Also, he doesn't follow the public policies of the Emperor, as Sigmar accepts his title of deity and [[Lorgar|doesn't give the boot to his worshipers]], even while personally he loathes the responsibilities of god-king as he would prefer to rush the enemy and crack some skulls instead of doing all the administrative and logistic job; must be hard to manage an entire reality and a multidimensional counter-invasion.

Another cool thing about Sigmar is that he sees people on an individual basis, not just expendable statistics for some risky master plan, Sigmar feels it for YOU and each and everyone of his followers [[Awesome|and unlike Emprah he has never given up on mankind and their allies once things went ugly]].

NOTE: Don't mention this to EMPRAH fans. Most are still raging over the portrayal of him in Master of Mankind and stubbornly cling on to their image of him as a well intentioned extremist who was nevertheless a good guy at heart and whom actually gave a shit about his followers, [[Aaron_Dembski-Bowden| GeeDubs don't let the ADB ruin Sigmar's reputation too! ]]

==In Warhammer 40,000==
In the current official publications of [[Games Workshop]], there is no link between [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]], but that's never gotten in the way of the fandom, especially considering that at one point, WFB was explicitly part of the 40k universe. A recurring hypothesis is that Sigmar is one of the [[Unknown Primarchs]]. One could posit that the twin-tailed comet which heralded his birth was actually the genetor-pod falling to the Warhammer World, that his mysterious departure was him leaving to take command of his [[Space Marine]] Legion (tentatively called the [[Emperor's Hammers]]), and that the miracles credited to him are in fact the result of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]]. Recent pieces of background, detailing Sigmar's birth and characteristics, tend to invalidate this theory, however. Thank The Emperor (As In Sigmar, not the other one you bolter humping zombie worshiper).

==Trivia==
* Sigmar is an old Frankish name meaning "famous by victory". Fitting, considering his awesomeness.

<gallery>
Image:EmpsVSigmar.jpg|The question isn't who wins. It's whether the merged Empires managed to maintain their plot armor.
</gallery>

==See Also==
* [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|THE EMPIRE]] for the '''[[Empire|EMPIRE]]''' he founded.
* [[Azyr]], the Realm of Heavens, what he probably hoped his Empire could have become in time, and nowadays the only mortal realm free of Chaos in the setting.
* [[Ulric]] for his <s>[[spiritual liege]]</s> personal god, which according to the founder of the Church of Sigmar, He crowned Sigmar as a God, which came to the founder in a vision.
* The [[Emperor]], for his considerably less <s>competent</s> PLOT ARMORED and manly (but vastly more Gothic-and-bling) Warhammer 40,000 counterpart.
* [[Everqueen]] for his counterpart being in comparison to the 40k's EMPRAH among the [[Elves|elves.]]

{{Empire-Gods}}

Sigmar

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{{Awesome}}
[[File:SigmarHeldenhammer.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Sigmar may not have the fabulous hair <strike>but he is ten times more manly than the God-Emperor.</strike> {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|HERESY!}}]]
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>I AM SIGMAR! FOUNDER OF THE EMPIRE AND SLAYER OF ORCS! - The Warcry of Sigmar perpetuating his Awesomeness</u>'''</span></div>

{{topquote|The simple act of caring is heroic.|Edward Albert}}
{{topquote|If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.|Zig Ziglar}}

'''Sigmar Unberogen''', known also as '''Sigmar Heldenhammer''', '''the Hammer of Orcs''', '''The Chosen of Ulric''', '''Sigmar Bjornsson''', is the founder of the [[Imperium of Man|Empire]], <strike>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApmVcV0a2wI| second primarch],</strike> and its current patron deity. In life, Sigmar was a chieftain of the Unberogen tribe and the son of the legendary hero '''Bjorn Unberogen'''. As a god, he is the patron of the Empire, battle, good governance, strength, shouting and warhammers. His symbols are the Warhammer, twin-tailed comet, and griffon.

It has never been satisfactorily explained why the Church of Sigmar insists that its brethren go bald when all depictions of Sigmar have long, flowing, unkempt hair.

He is bros with the Serpent God [[Sotek]] of the [[Lizardmen]] as they get together every Friday to egg the [[Horned Rat]]'s house for lolz.

It is customary to read his lines in the Legend of Sigmar in the voice Mel Gibson used to play William Wallace. This is funny because Graham McNeill is Scottish. Therefore, it will likely serve to piss him off to no end.

[[The End Times]] and [[Warhammer: Age of Sigmar|Age of Sigmar]] has Sigmar coming back. He'd ascended to godhood before his death, which also explains why the Warrior Priests hold a special sort of power, not unlike magic. However, Games Workshop finally gave Tzeentch some love, and had it that he had trapped Sigmar in the Wind of Heavens to prevent him from messing with the Chaos Gods plans. After the Vortex on [[Ulthuan]] is destroyed the Wind, under Sigmar's direction, enters the body of Emperor [[Karl Franz]] after his death. Sigmar, now in Franz's body, adjusts it to look like his old self and goes on a saving-the-good-guys-while-beating-up-the-baddies spree of awesome. After the end of the old Warhammer World, Sigmar survives the Apocalypse, and with the help of Dracothion (Sotek all along?) uses the metal core of the world-that-was as a platform to unify and civilize the realms of a reborn reality, ascending to full godhood in the process. [[Stormcast Eternals|He even gets his own elite warriors of sorts]].

==Appearance==
Unlike that [[Emperor|black-haired proto-Sumerian]] we have a good idea what Sigmar really looked like without resorting to palanquins created by zealots. Sigmar was a giant, broad muscular manly motherfucker with blonde hair that was grown too damn long, and some badass armored boots meant for stomping on the skulls of green skins and beastmen. Uniquely, he had mismatched eyes with one green and one blue.

With Age of Sigmar his hair is a clear tone of brown and he uses a long beard.

FUN FACT: Sigmar's Hammer ''Ghal-Maraz'' is THE HAMMER that is symbol of [[Warhammer Fantasy]] itself, although originally the symbol represented the Hammer of the Chaos champion, [[Harald Hammerstorm]].

[[File:Azeroth.jpg|left|1600px|thumb|In the 8th game of the World of Warcraft series, which was the first since the current 8th editions of Warhammer Fantasy and 40K, they also advanced the storyline following the same trend, as we have an official Alliance-Horde war for the first time since Warcraft 3, in total coordination with the real world when long unsettled conflicts, such as the Arab-Israeli war, Grexit, Kim Jong-un, US-China trade war, Fascism emerging in Europe starting from Italy, Neo-ottomanism, American civil war, Monroe dogma over Nicolas Maduro and Lula and even a volcano in Hawaii erupting, are simultaneously all emerging as if we are truly living in a novel.]]

==History==
===Early Life===
The Imperial Calendar (IC) which starts from his coronation by the Ar-Ulric (if you need to know, he's the Viking pope and he makes Bjorn the Fell-Handed look like a pussy) commonly places Sigmar's birth as starting from -30 IC. He was said to be born in the Reikland area in the southwest of what would later become the Empire, where the Unberogen tribe dwelt. The night of his birth was marked with the twin-tailed comet, but he found his purchase on life after being cut out of his dying mother's womb by his badass manly motherfucker of a father. In the middle of pitched battle with Orcs I might add. [[Conan the Barbarian|And if that sounds familiar to you, good. You're paying attention.]] Oddly enough, a mighty thunder-clap was also heard in the night sky. Causing various prophets to call Sigmar, "the Child of Thunder". [[Viking|And if that is also familiar to you, good. I shall make an expert of your filthy self yet.]] oh and when he was born his forehead was anointed with Ork's blood, how about that for a baptism?

In the year -15, when he was fifteen years of age, Sigmar had become a badass, bigger and stronger than his peers and was already a respected warrior ([[Conan the Barbarian|again, just like a certain Cimmerian]]). At this point, Sigmar is recorded to have gained the friendship of the great Dwarfen king Kurgan Ironbeard by saving his stunty ass from a warband of Orcs led by a MASSIVE Black Orc Warboss (for you 40Kfags, that's basically Ghazgkhull, but with a fucking axe and a pair of balls). This fight ended with Kurgan throwing the legendary Ghal-Maraz to Sigmar, which he then promptly used to smash the warboss's skull to paste. After the fight, Sigmar attempted to return the hammer, but Kurgan told him to keep it as a reward for saving his life. He also pledged the friendship of the Dwarfen kingdom to the Unberogen tribe for this act of selfless courage. Of course, Sigmar actually only went after Orcs as part of a revenge raid for their prior attack on Reikdorf, Dwarf-saving was nothing but a happy coincidence.

Sigmar's early life would also be punctuated with other grand victories such as the Battle of Astofen Bridge, where he turned back an army of 2000 Orcs. It was also the battle where he earned his shield and became a man. Yes, Sigmar was saving Dwarf Kings and raping Orc Warbosses before early manhood.

===Uniting the Tribes===
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>'''''"I SHED BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF FOUR THOUSAND NORTHERN MEN!"'''''</u>'''</span></div> -- What Sigmar was likely singing to himself when he massacred the Norse.

Sigmar would later learn the importance of unity from something his dad said. Probably a metaphor centering around wolves. In any event, combined with Alaric the Mad's warnings about "Orcs and things best not spoken of", he was inspired to bring the various disparate tribes of the Reik together. Even going so far as swear an oath, and dragging his best friends in it too for fun.

Of course, the [[Warriors of Chaos|Chaos-worshiping Norse tribes]] who came down from the Chaos Wastes decided to rape the south as they usually do. Anyone surprised? What, you? Well fuck you. They're the Norse, [[J.R.R. Tolkien|THEY KILL WHERE THEY WISH AND NONE DARE RESIST]].

Sigmar's father foolishly thought he could resist, and marched north with a massive army 10,000 strong to face the 8000 Northmen. Bjorn came off the experience with a fatal case of axe through the skull. But it was in fact a clever ploy to save Sigmar from dying to the machinations of the Dark Gods who arrayed themselves against him to destroy his dream of a united nation. [[Emperor|And if that sounds similar, it's because it is]]. Haha, disregard that, Sigmar is actually a rip-off of Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. And predates the Great Throne Vegetable by several years, thus making him the rip-off. Long story short, father and son got together in the spirit world and went on to kick the collective ass of an army of daemons, ending with Bjorn ascending boldly to Ulric's Hall. Despite getting killed fighting the Norse, Bjorn did manage to kill the Khornate Chaos Champion leading the tribes and thus narrowly prevailed in driving the Norse back. This heroic act of defiance against the Norse threat won the Unberogen the eternal friendship of the Cherusen and Taluetan tribes.

Filled with righteous [[Rage|rage]], Sigmar marched north when the wolves of the Norsii raided and slaughtered the Udoses (Iron Age Scottish Highlanders) in the area of what is now Ostland. Sigmar then massacred the Norse, thus valorously avenging the blood-geld of the Udoses in a situation somewhat similar to the Bloody Verdict of Verden, because both he and Charlemagne were basically killing people who didn't join him and didn't believe the same way he did, thus driving them to Norsca where they would nurse an eternal hatred of the south in general and the Empire in particular that makes the hatred Chaos Marines have for the Emperor look like a stuttering spark in comparison. Seriously, tribal warfare was nothing out-of-the-ordinary before Sigmar's pussy notions of unity and empires. These offenses against the Norse also serve to solidify Sigmar as an Alfred the Great rip-off, as if building his entire bureaucracy from scratch didn't already.

Concurrent with this, Sigmar also rode hard to Middenheim to fight (lightning strikes when Ghal-Maraz bites, you know) Artur of the Teutogens. It is often said that a man must find the proper balance of pride within himself. Too little, and a man will never accomplish anything in his life. Too much, and he'll do something fucking stupid, like climbing the Fauschlag. Sigmar was of the latter disposition. Sigmar, and his bodyguard Alfgeir, climbed the great mountain that held the city of Middenheim, sneaked into the building housing the flame of Ulric and there challenged Artur of the Teutogens to single combat for rulership of the tribe. Artur then managed to throw Sigmar into the Flame, but Ulric had already chosen him as his Champion so Sigmar simply walked out of it, howled like a wolf (literally) and hammered Artur's skull somewhere into his ribcage. This is commonly accepted as the point where Sigmar united the tribes. Except for the Jutones, but we'll get to them later.

===Battle of Black-Fire Pass===
So, after he brought the tribes under his banner, Sigmar set about aiding the Dwarfs in defeating one of the greatest Orc WAAAGHS! in Imperial history. People far more intelligent than I have already described said battle in various sourcebooks, so I will not attempt to match their words.

Long story short, Sigmar and the tribesmen outmuscled the Orcs and Sigmar killed the Warboss on the top of the matter with a single return-stroke of his hammer. Thus annihilating the Orc threat, helping the Dwarfs, assuring the continuity of the two peoples and proving the rightness of his ideal of Imperial unity.

===The First Emperor===
After his victory, Sigmar was crowned Emperor of the newly formed Empire and ruled his people with wisdom and courage.

Two major threats during his reign was a daemon prince leading a horde of norsii that assaulted the north of the Empire and the great Necromancer [[Nagash]], who was after some of his bling which Sigmar had. Sigmar promptly said 'FFFFFFFFFFFF UUUUUUUUUUU' to both these threats and gave his hammer some exercise on their heads. And this was with a large skaven army trying to get the upper head by assaulting the worn out Empire forces after Sigmar had defeated the chaos forces. It is reputed Sigmar took one look at the mangy ratmen, rolled his eyes to the sky in digust and set off to bring about some hammer time.

==== Nagash ====
Before Nagash's invasion, Sigmar went to give the Norseman a taste of their own medicine by raiding their frozen wood shack at Norsca, only to come back when he can't raid into further north. He later fought the necromancer at the brass keep and gotten Nagash's crown, the artifact Nagash was looking for in order to regain his power. So yeah, Nagash gather all his skeleton buddies and his vampire cunts into the heart of empire for his crown. During the raid, Nagash had kill and resurrect many warriors and generals of the empire for his wight king and meat shield, and he did it in a pattern that prevent them from reinforce to sigmar's force in order to weaken the empire army. During this time, Sigmar was finding Nagash's weakness with the help from his trusty advisor, only to find out is the crown itself. Since Nagash was only thinking about his shining crown, Sigmar pulled a bait and switch by wearing the crown, not only attract Nagash attention, but also gained immunity against Nagash's magic. During the confrontation, Sigmar smack around Nagash's puppets with his Ghal Maraz like nothing. When facing Nagash, Sigmar bait the necromancer with his own crown then gave him a taste of his hammer. [[AWESOME|The hammer, suddenly glows with magic and landed in Nagash's chest that blows him up with the energy from the ancient dwarven rune engraved on the hammer]]. With Nagash gone to the underworld, jail rape by the underworld spirits as well as the dead god Morr/Usirian, he cursed the Vampires for betray him by curse them with the vulnerability to Sigmar's faith. Vampires flee like the cowards they are after Sigmar gave them a bitch taunt by telling them they are his bitch until [[the End Times]]. The church of Sigmar as well as the witch hunter order were also founded soon after to combat the undead for the future generations.

===Abdication===
In the fiftieth year of his reign, Sigmar set aside his crown and left the Empire. He was last seen heading towards the World Edge Mountains, possibly to see the dwarfs although they have said nothing on the matter if their records hold if Sigmar did pop around for tea. No one saw Sigmar alive again and he passed into legend, a legendary hero to the Empire. The final End Times book reveals that Sigmar was raised to godhood, though Tzeentch trapped him in the great vortex.

===Rise of a God===

While heroes quite rightly are revered, in Sigmar's case it was taken to a whole new level of fan devotion. His legendary deeds inspired others and over time he came to be worshiped as a God by some loonies who should have known better (however with divine intervention in the past with Sigmar may be proof that he did join the Gods of Order who are busting their balls to keep the Dark Gods from killing and corrupting everybody).

But amazingly, their prayers were answered. Those who displayed a belief in Sigmar found he (or at least someone) was answering their prayers and the faith in the new God spread like hotcakes through the Empire.

The Church of Ulric, the current state church at the time, didn't take kindly to this and did it in a way we see in 40k... with the declaration of HERESY and burning everyone at the stake.

After a while this was stopped and both faiths were given importance in the Empire although the Church of Sigmar came to be the State Church (which shows Ulric was still trolled over).

===The Old World and the End Times===
Sigmar is the main god of the Empire and he works hard to protect his people against the ravages of darkness that threaten to overwhelm them all. This is not an easy task and the poor man gets no annual holiday. He is constantly running around putting out fires started by Chaos or other gods and it seems they won't cut him any slack anytime soon, but fortunately he probably has some back up from his own god he worshiped, the shorty ancestor Gods, aid from the High Elf Gods (probably part of Asuryaan's plan if it's true); pretty much its a jointed effort of all the Gods of Order.

During the End Times, it was revealed that Tzeentch had bound him into the Wind of Heaven shortly after his ascension. Tzeentch feared that Sigmar would grow too powerful and unite the gods of men, elves, dwarfs and orcs into the warhammer avengers. Ironically, [[Not_As_Planned|this plan almost completely backfires in his face]], as Sigmar grows more powerful thanks to being bound to the Wind, and once freed ends up uniting the Incarnates (the new gods) into the anti-Chaos avengers. When Teclis unbound the Vortex, the newly freed Sigmar invested a part of his power into his Chosen Valten (which passed into Ghal-Maraz after Valten's death) and possessed the body of the recently deceased Karl Franz to return to the world, later taking his hammer back to restore himself to his full strength. As the world ends, He and Archaon wrestle over Ghal-Maraz, and they vanish shortly before everything is destroyed.

===[[Age of Sigmar]]===
{{topquote|For in Him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form.|Colossians 2:9}}

Following his wrestling bout, Sigmar reclaimed Ghal-Maraz, but was rendered helpless as he tumbled through the void that used to be the Warhammer World. Eventually, he collided with the metal core of the old world, which apparently has transmuted into the same material as the comet which heralded his birth, Sigmarite. With the aid of the great Star Drake named [[Dracothion]], which may or may not be [[Sotek]], Sigmar restarts reality using the remaining essence of the [[Warhammer Magic|Winds of Magic]] and organized the other Incarnates into a new pantheon with himself as its leader, bringing an age of prosperity to the emerging civilizations of the Mortal Realms. Following the Chaos' invasion, he sealed the entrances into his realm of [[Azyr]], and has only recently opened it back up to launch a long planned counterattack against Chaos with his greatest creation, the demigod warriors known as the [[Stormcast Eternals]].

As an interesting note, Sigmar has been shown to be capable of forgiving people who have wronged him; while this may have not ended well in the case of the likes of [[Nagash]], he and his hosts have been shown to put aside vengeance if there is a chance for someone to get redeemed (they may still turn you into pulp if you try to abuse their trust, so no Horus shenanigans here), or a territory to be rescued from the grip of Chaos: good news for the Mortal Kingdoms and people who were mutated and exposed to Chaos unwillingly.

Also, he doesn't follow the public policies of the Emperor, as Sigmar accepts his title of deity and [[Lorgar|doesn't give the boot to his worshipers]], even while personally he loathes the responsibilities of god-king as he would prefer to rush the enemy and crack some skulls instead of doing all the administrative and logistic job; must be hard to manage an entire reality and a multidimensional counter-invasion.

Another cool thing about Sigmar is that he sees people on an individual basis, not just expendable statistics for some risky master plan, Sigmar feels it for YOU and each and everyone of his followers [[Awesome|and unlike Emprah he has never given up on mankind and their allies once things went ugly]].

NOTE: Don't mention this to EMPRAH fans. Most are still raging over the portrayal of him in Master of Mankind and stubbornly cling on to their image of him as a well intentioned extremist who was nevertheless a good guy at heart and whom actually gave a shit about his followers, [[Aaron_Dembski-Bowden| GeeDubs don't let the ADB ruin Sigmar's reputation too! ]]

==In Warhammer 40,000==
In the current official publications of [[Games Workshop]], there is no link between [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]], but that's never gotten in the way of the fandom, especially considering that at one point, WFB was explicitly part of the 40k universe. A recurring hypothesis is that Sigmar is one of the [[Unknown Primarchs]]. One could posit that the twin-tailed comet which heralded his birth was actually the genetor-pod falling to the Warhammer World, that his mysterious departure was him leaving to take command of his [[Space Marine]] Legion (tentatively called the [[Emperor's Hammers]]), and that the miracles credited to him are in fact the result of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]]. Recent pieces of background, detailing Sigmar's birth and characteristics, tend to invalidate this theory, however. Thank The Emperor (As In Sigmar, not the other one you bolter humping zombie worshiper).

==Trivia==
* Sigmar is an old Frankish name meaning "famous by victory". Fitting, considering his awesomeness.

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Image:EmpsVSigmar.jpg|The question isn't who wins. It's whether the merged Empires managed to maintain their plot armor.
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==See Also==
* [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|THE EMPIRE]] for the '''[[Empire|EMPIRE]]''' he founded.
* [[Azyr]], the Realm of Heavens, what he probably hoped his Empire could have become in time, and nowadays the only mortal realm free of Chaos in the setting.
* [[Ulric]] for his <s>[[spiritual liege]]</s> personal god, which according to the founder of the Church of Sigmar, He crowned Sigmar as a God, which came to the founder in a vision.
* The [[Emperor]], for his considerably less <s>competent</s> PLOT ARMORED and manly (but vastly more Gothic-and-bling) Warhammer 40,000 counterpart.
* [[Everqueen]] for his counterpart being in comparison to the 40k's EMPRAH among the [[Elves|elves.]]

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Sigmar

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[[File:SigmarHeldenhammer.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Sigmar may not have the fabulous hair <strike>but he is ten times more manly than the God-Emperor.</strike> {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|HERESY!}}]]
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>I AM SIGMAR! FOUNDER OF THE EMPIRE AND SLAYER OF ORCS! - The Warcry of Sigmar perpetuating his Awesomeness</u>'''</span></div>

{{topquote|The simple act of caring is heroic.|Edward Albert}}
{{topquote|If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.|Zig Ziglar}}

'''Sigmar Unberogen''', known also as '''Sigmar Heldenhammer''', '''the Hammer of Orcs''', '''The Chosen of Ulric''', '''Sigmar Bjornsson''', is the founder of the [[Imperium of Man|Empire]], <strike>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApmVcV0a2wI| second primarch],</strike> and its current patron deity. In life, Sigmar was a chieftain of the Unberogen tribe and the son of the legendary hero '''Bjorn Unberogen'''. As a god, he is the patron of the Empire, battle, good governance, strength, shouting and warhammers. His symbols are the Warhammer, twin-tailed comet, and griffon.

It has never been satisfactorily explained why the Church of Sigmar insists that its brethren go bald when all depictions of Sigmar have long, flowing, unkempt hair.

He is bros with the Serpent God [[Sotek]] of the [[Lizardmen]] as they get together every Friday to egg the [[Horned Rat]]'s house for lolz.

It is customary to read his lines in the Legend of Sigmar in the voice Mel Gibson used to play William Wallace. This is funny because Graham McNeill is Scottish. Therefore, it will likely serve to piss him off to no end.

[[The End Times]] and [[Warhammer: Age of Sigmar|Age of Sigmar]] has Sigmar coming back. He'd ascended to godhood before his death, which also explains why the Warrior Priests hold a special sort of power, not unlike magic. However, Games Workshop finally gave Tzeentch some love, and had it that he had trapped Sigmar in the Wind of Heavens to prevent him from messing with the Chaos Gods plans. After the Vortex on [[Ulthuan]] is destroyed the Wind, under Sigmar's direction, enters the body of Emperor [[Karl Franz]] after his death. Sigmar, now in Franz's body, adjusts it to look like his old self and goes on a saving-the-good-guys-while-beating-up-the-baddies spree of awesome. After the end of the old Warhammer World, Sigmar survives the Apocalypse, and with the help of Dracothion (Sotek all along?) uses the metal core of the world-that-was as a platform to unify and civilize the realms of a reborn reality, ascending to full godhood in the process. [[Stormcast Eternals|He even gets his own elite warriors of sorts]].

==Appearance==
Unlike that [[Emperor|black-haired proto-Sumerian]] we have a good idea what Sigmar really looked like without resorting to palanquins created by zealots. Sigmar was a giant, broad muscular manly motherfucker with blonde hair that was grown too damn long, and some badass armored boots meant for stomping on the skulls of green skins and beastmen. Uniquely, he had mismatched eyes with one green and one blue.

With Age of Sigmar his hair is a clear tone of brown and he uses a long beard.

FUN FACT: Sigmar's Hammer ''Ghal-Maraz'' is THE HAMMER that is symbol of [[Warhammer Fantasy]] itself, although originally the symbol represented the Hammer of the Chaos champion, [[Harald Hammerstorm]].

[[File:Azeroth.jpg|1600px|left|center|In the 8th game of the World of Warcraft series, which was the first since the current 8th editions of Warhammer Fantasy and 40K, they also advanced the storyline following the same trend, as we have an official Alliance-Horde war for the first time since Warcraft 3, in total coordination with the real world when long unsettled conflicts, such as the Arab-Israeli war, Grexit, Kim Jong-un, US-China trade war, Fascism emerging in Europe starting from Italy, Neo-ottomanism, American civil war, Monroe dogma over Nicolas Maduro and Lula and even a volcano in Hawaii erupting, are simultaneously all emerging as if we are truly living in a novel.]]

==History==
===Early Life===
The Imperial Calendar (IC) which starts from his coronation by the Ar-Ulric (if you need to know, he's the Viking pope and he makes Bjorn the Fell-Handed look like a pussy) commonly places Sigmar's birth as starting from -30 IC. He was said to be born in the Reikland area in the southwest of what would later become the Empire, where the Unberogen tribe dwelt. The night of his birth was marked with the twin-tailed comet, but he found his purchase on life after being cut out of his dying mother's womb by his badass manly motherfucker of a father. In the middle of pitched battle with Orcs I might add. [[Conan the Barbarian|And if that sounds familiar to you, good. You're paying attention.]] Oddly enough, a mighty thunder-clap was also heard in the night sky. Causing various prophets to call Sigmar, "the Child of Thunder". [[Viking|And if that is also familiar to you, good. I shall make an expert of your filthy self yet.]] oh and when he was born his forehead was anointed with Ork's blood, how about that for a baptism?

In the year -15, when he was fifteen years of age, Sigmar had become a badass, bigger and stronger than his peers and was already a respected warrior ([[Conan the Barbarian|again, just like a certain Cimmerian]]). At this point, Sigmar is recorded to have gained the friendship of the great Dwarfen king Kurgan Ironbeard by saving his stunty ass from a warband of Orcs led by a MASSIVE Black Orc Warboss (for you 40Kfags, that's basically Ghazgkhull, but with a fucking axe and a pair of balls). This fight ended with Kurgan throwing the legendary Ghal-Maraz to Sigmar, which he then promptly used to smash the warboss's skull to paste. After the fight, Sigmar attempted to return the hammer, but Kurgan told him to keep it as a reward for saving his life. He also pledged the friendship of the Dwarfen kingdom to the Unberogen tribe for this act of selfless courage. Of course, Sigmar actually only went after Orcs as part of a revenge raid for their prior attack on Reikdorf, Dwarf-saving was nothing but a happy coincidence.

Sigmar's early life would also be punctuated with other grand victories such as the Battle of Astofen Bridge, where he turned back an army of 2000 Orcs. It was also the battle where he earned his shield and became a man. Yes, Sigmar was saving Dwarf Kings and raping Orc Warbosses before early manhood.

===Uniting the Tribes===
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>'''''"I SHED BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF FOUR THOUSAND NORTHERN MEN!"'''''</u>'''</span></div> -- What Sigmar was likely singing to himself when he massacred the Norse.

Sigmar would later learn the importance of unity from something his dad said. Probably a metaphor centering around wolves. In any event, combined with Alaric the Mad's warnings about "Orcs and things best not spoken of", he was inspired to bring the various disparate tribes of the Reik together. Even going so far as swear an oath, and dragging his best friends in it too for fun.

Of course, the [[Warriors of Chaos|Chaos-worshiping Norse tribes]] who came down from the Chaos Wastes decided to rape the south as they usually do. Anyone surprised? What, you? Well fuck you. They're the Norse, [[J.R.R. Tolkien|THEY KILL WHERE THEY WISH AND NONE DARE RESIST]].

Sigmar's father foolishly thought he could resist, and marched north with a massive army 10,000 strong to face the 8000 Northmen. Bjorn came off the experience with a fatal case of axe through the skull. But it was in fact a clever ploy to save Sigmar from dying to the machinations of the Dark Gods who arrayed themselves against him to destroy his dream of a united nation. [[Emperor|And if that sounds similar, it's because it is]]. Haha, disregard that, Sigmar is actually a rip-off of Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. And predates the Great Throne Vegetable by several years, thus making him the rip-off. Long story short, father and son got together in the spirit world and went on to kick the collective ass of an army of daemons, ending with Bjorn ascending boldly to Ulric's Hall. Despite getting killed fighting the Norse, Bjorn did manage to kill the Khornate Chaos Champion leading the tribes and thus narrowly prevailed in driving the Norse back. This heroic act of defiance against the Norse threat won the Unberogen the eternal friendship of the Cherusen and Taluetan tribes.

Filled with righteous [[Rage|rage]], Sigmar marched north when the wolves of the Norsii raided and slaughtered the Udoses (Iron Age Scottish Highlanders) in the area of what is now Ostland. Sigmar then massacred the Norse, thus valorously avenging the blood-geld of the Udoses in a situation somewhat similar to the Bloody Verdict of Verden, because both he and Charlemagne were basically killing people who didn't join him and didn't believe the same way he did, thus driving them to Norsca where they would nurse an eternal hatred of the south in general and the Empire in particular that makes the hatred Chaos Marines have for the Emperor look like a stuttering spark in comparison. Seriously, tribal warfare was nothing out-of-the-ordinary before Sigmar's pussy notions of unity and empires. These offenses against the Norse also serve to solidify Sigmar as an Alfred the Great rip-off, as if building his entire bureaucracy from scratch didn't already.

Concurrent with this, Sigmar also rode hard to Middenheim to fight (lightning strikes when Ghal-Maraz bites, you know) Artur of the Teutogens. It is often said that a man must find the proper balance of pride within himself. Too little, and a man will never accomplish anything in his life. Too much, and he'll do something fucking stupid, like climbing the Fauschlag. Sigmar was of the latter disposition. Sigmar, and his bodyguard Alfgeir, climbed the great mountain that held the city of Middenheim, sneaked into the building housing the flame of Ulric and there challenged Artur of the Teutogens to single combat for rulership of the tribe. Artur then managed to throw Sigmar into the Flame, but Ulric had already chosen him as his Champion so Sigmar simply walked out of it, howled like a wolf (literally) and hammered Artur's skull somewhere into his ribcage. This is commonly accepted as the point where Sigmar united the tribes. Except for the Jutones, but we'll get to them later.

===Battle of Black-Fire Pass===
So, after he brought the tribes under his banner, Sigmar set about aiding the Dwarfs in defeating one of the greatest Orc WAAAGHS! in Imperial history. People far more intelligent than I have already described said battle in various sourcebooks, so I will not attempt to match their words.

Long story short, Sigmar and the tribesmen outmuscled the Orcs and Sigmar killed the Warboss on the top of the matter with a single return-stroke of his hammer. Thus annihilating the Orc threat, helping the Dwarfs, assuring the continuity of the two peoples and proving the rightness of his ideal of Imperial unity.

===The First Emperor===
After his victory, Sigmar was crowned Emperor of the newly formed Empire and ruled his people with wisdom and courage.

Two major threats during his reign was a daemon prince leading a horde of norsii that assaulted the north of the Empire and the great Necromancer [[Nagash]], who was after some of his bling which Sigmar had. Sigmar promptly said 'FFFFFFFFFFFF UUUUUUUUUUU' to both these threats and gave his hammer some exercise on their heads. And this was with a large skaven army trying to get the upper head by assaulting the worn out Empire forces after Sigmar had defeated the chaos forces. It is reputed Sigmar took one look at the mangy ratmen, rolled his eyes to the sky in digust and set off to bring about some hammer time.

==== Nagash ====
Before Nagash's invasion, Sigmar went to give the Norseman a taste of their own medicine by raiding their frozen wood shack at Norsca, only to come back when he can't raid into further north. He later fought the necromancer at the brass keep and gotten Nagash's crown, the artifact Nagash was looking for in order to regain his power. So yeah, Nagash gather all his skeleton buddies and his vampire cunts into the heart of empire for his crown. During the raid, Nagash had kill and resurrect many warriors and generals of the empire for his wight king and meat shield, and he did it in a pattern that prevent them from reinforce to sigmar's force in order to weaken the empire army. During this time, Sigmar was finding Nagash's weakness with the help from his trusty advisor, only to find out is the crown itself. Since Nagash was only thinking about his shining crown, Sigmar pulled a bait and switch by wearing the crown, not only attract Nagash attention, but also gained immunity against Nagash's magic. During the confrontation, Sigmar smack around Nagash's puppets with his Ghal Maraz like nothing. When facing Nagash, Sigmar bait the necromancer with his own crown then gave him a taste of his hammer. [[AWESOME|The hammer, suddenly glows with magic and landed in Nagash's chest that blows him up with the energy from the ancient dwarven rune engraved on the hammer]]. With Nagash gone to the underworld, jail rape by the underworld spirits as well as the dead god Morr/Usirian, he cursed the Vampires for betray him by curse them with the vulnerability to Sigmar's faith. Vampires flee like the cowards they are after Sigmar gave them a bitch taunt by telling them they are his bitch until [[the End Times]]. The church of Sigmar as well as the witch hunter order were also founded soon after to combat the undead for the future generations.

===Abdication===
In the fiftieth year of his reign, Sigmar set aside his crown and left the Empire. He was last seen heading towards the World Edge Mountains, possibly to see the dwarfs although they have said nothing on the matter if their records hold if Sigmar did pop around for tea. No one saw Sigmar alive again and he passed into legend, a legendary hero to the Empire. The final End Times book reveals that Sigmar was raised to godhood, though Tzeentch trapped him in the great vortex.

===Rise of a God===

While heroes quite rightly are revered, in Sigmar's case it was taken to a whole new level of fan devotion. His legendary deeds inspired others and over time he came to be worshiped as a God by some loonies who should have known better (however with divine intervention in the past with Sigmar may be proof that he did join the Gods of Order who are busting their balls to keep the Dark Gods from killing and corrupting everybody).

But amazingly, their prayers were answered. Those who displayed a belief in Sigmar found he (or at least someone) was answering their prayers and the faith in the new God spread like hotcakes through the Empire.

The Church of Ulric, the current state church at the time, didn't take kindly to this and did it in a way we see in 40k... with the declaration of HERESY and burning everyone at the stake.

After a while this was stopped and both faiths were given importance in the Empire although the Church of Sigmar came to be the State Church (which shows Ulric was still trolled over).

===The Old World and the End Times===
Sigmar is the main god of the Empire and he works hard to protect his people against the ravages of darkness that threaten to overwhelm them all. This is not an easy task and the poor man gets no annual holiday. He is constantly running around putting out fires started by Chaos or other gods and it seems they won't cut him any slack anytime soon, but fortunately he probably has some back up from his own god he worshiped, the shorty ancestor Gods, aid from the High Elf Gods (probably part of Asuryaan's plan if it's true); pretty much its a jointed effort of all the Gods of Order.

During the End Times, it was revealed that Tzeentch had bound him into the Wind of Heaven shortly after his ascension. Tzeentch feared that Sigmar would grow too powerful and unite the gods of men, elves, dwarfs and orcs into the warhammer avengers. Ironically, [[Not_As_Planned|this plan almost completely backfires in his face]], as Sigmar grows more powerful thanks to being bound to the Wind, and once freed ends up uniting the Incarnates (the new gods) into the anti-Chaos avengers. When Teclis unbound the Vortex, the newly freed Sigmar invested a part of his power into his Chosen Valten (which passed into Ghal-Maraz after Valten's death) and possessed the body of the recently deceased Karl Franz to return to the world, later taking his hammer back to restore himself to his full strength. As the world ends, He and Archaon wrestle over Ghal-Maraz, and they vanish shortly before everything is destroyed.

===[[Age of Sigmar]]===
{{topquote|For in Him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form.|Colossians 2:9}}

Following his wrestling bout, Sigmar reclaimed Ghal-Maraz, but was rendered helpless as he tumbled through the void that used to be the Warhammer World. Eventually, he collided with the metal core of the old world, which apparently has transmuted into the same material as the comet which heralded his birth, Sigmarite. With the aid of the great Star Drake named [[Dracothion]], which may or may not be [[Sotek]], Sigmar restarts reality using the remaining essence of the [[Warhammer Magic|Winds of Magic]] and organized the other Incarnates into a new pantheon with himself as its leader, bringing an age of prosperity to the emerging civilizations of the Mortal Realms. Following the Chaos' invasion, he sealed the entrances into his realm of [[Azyr]], and has only recently opened it back up to launch a long planned counterattack against Chaos with his greatest creation, the demigod warriors known as the [[Stormcast Eternals]].

As an interesting note, Sigmar has been shown to be capable of forgiving people who have wronged him; while this may have not ended well in the case of the likes of [[Nagash]], he and his hosts have been shown to put aside vengeance if there is a chance for someone to get redeemed (they may still turn you into pulp if you try to abuse their trust, so no Horus shenanigans here), or a territory to be rescued from the grip of Chaos: good news for the Mortal Kingdoms and people who were mutated and exposed to Chaos unwillingly.

Also, he doesn't follow the public policies of the Emperor, as Sigmar accepts his title of deity and [[Lorgar|doesn't give the boot to his worshipers]], even while personally he loathes the responsibilities of god-king as he would prefer to rush the enemy and crack some skulls instead of doing all the administrative and logistic job; must be hard to manage an entire reality and a multidimensional counter-invasion.

Another cool thing about Sigmar is that he sees people on an individual basis, not just expendable statistics for some risky master plan, Sigmar feels it for YOU and each and everyone of his followers [[Awesome|and unlike Emprah he has never given up on mankind and their allies once things went ugly]].

NOTE: Don't mention this to EMPRAH fans. Most are still raging over the portrayal of him in Master of Mankind and stubbornly cling on to their image of him as a well intentioned extremist who was nevertheless a good guy at heart and whom actually gave a shit about his followers, [[Aaron_Dembski-Bowden| GeeDubs don't let the ADB ruin Sigmar's reputation too! ]]

==In Warhammer 40,000==
In the current official publications of [[Games Workshop]], there is no link between [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]], but that's never gotten in the way of the fandom, especially considering that at one point, WFB was explicitly part of the 40k universe. A recurring hypothesis is that Sigmar is one of the [[Unknown Primarchs]]. One could posit that the twin-tailed comet which heralded his birth was actually the genetor-pod falling to the Warhammer World, that his mysterious departure was him leaving to take command of his [[Space Marine]] Legion (tentatively called the [[Emperor's Hammers]]), and that the miracles credited to him are in fact the result of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]]. Recent pieces of background, detailing Sigmar's birth and characteristics, tend to invalidate this theory, however. Thank The Emperor (As In Sigmar, not the other one you bolter humping zombie worshiper).

==Trivia==
* Sigmar is an old Frankish name meaning "famous by victory". Fitting, considering his awesomeness.

<gallery>
Image:EmpsVSigmar.jpg|The question isn't who wins. It's whether the merged Empires managed to maintain their plot armor.
</gallery>

==See Also==
* [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|THE EMPIRE]] for the '''[[Empire|EMPIRE]]''' he founded.
* [[Azyr]], the Realm of Heavens, what he probably hoped his Empire could have become in time, and nowadays the only mortal realm free of Chaos in the setting.
* [[Ulric]] for his <s>[[spiritual liege]]</s> personal god, which according to the founder of the Church of Sigmar, He crowned Sigmar as a God, which came to the founder in a vision.
* The [[Emperor]], for his considerably less <s>competent</s> PLOT ARMORED and manly (but vastly more Gothic-and-bling) Warhammer 40,000 counterpart.
* [[Everqueen]] for his counterpart being in comparison to the 40k's EMPRAH among the [[Elves|elves.]]

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Sigmar

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[[File:SigmarHeldenhammer.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Sigmar may not have the fabulous hair <strike>but he is ten times more manly than the God-Emperor.</strike> {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|HERESY!}}]]
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>I AM SIGMAR! FOUNDER OF THE EMPIRE AND SLAYER OF ORCS! - The Warcry of Sigmar perpetuating his Awesomeness</u>'''</span></div>

{{topquote|The simple act of caring is heroic.|Edward Albert}}
{{topquote|If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.|Zig Ziglar}}

'''Sigmar Unberogen''', known also as '''Sigmar Heldenhammer''', '''the Hammer of Orcs''', '''The Chosen of Ulric''', '''Sigmar Bjornsson''', is the founder of the [[Imperium of Man|Empire]], <strike>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApmVcV0a2wI| second primarch],</strike> and its current patron deity. In life, Sigmar was a chieftain of the Unberogen tribe and the son of the legendary hero '''Bjorn Unberogen'''. As a god, he is the patron of the Empire, battle, good governance, strength, shouting and warhammers. His symbols are the Warhammer, twin-tailed comet, and griffon.

It has never been satisfactorily explained why the Church of Sigmar insists that its brethren go bald when all depictions of Sigmar have long, flowing, unkempt hair.

He is bros with the Serpent God [[Sotek]] of the [[Lizardmen]] as they get together every Friday to egg the [[Horned Rat]]'s house for lolz.

It is customary to read his lines in the Legend of Sigmar in the voice Mel Gibson used to play William Wallace. This is funny because Graham McNeill is Scottish. Therefore, it will likely serve to piss him off to no end.

[[The End Times]] and [[Warhammer: Age of Sigmar|Age of Sigmar]] has Sigmar coming back. He'd ascended to godhood before his death, which also explains why the Warrior Priests hold a special sort of power, not unlike magic. However, Games Workshop finally gave Tzeentch some love, and had it that he had trapped Sigmar in the Wind of Heavens to prevent him from messing with the Chaos Gods plans. After the Vortex on [[Ulthuan]] is destroyed the Wind, under Sigmar's direction, enters the body of Emperor [[Karl Franz]] after his death. Sigmar, now in Franz's body, adjusts it to look like his old self and goes on a saving-the-good-guys-while-beating-up-the-baddies spree of awesome. After the end of the old Warhammer World, Sigmar survives the Apocalypse, and with the help of Dracothion (Sotek all along?) uses the metal core of the world-that-was as a platform to unify and civilize the realms of a reborn reality, ascending to full godhood in the process. [[Stormcast Eternals|He even gets his own elite warriors of sorts]].

==Appearance==
Unlike that [[Emperor|black-haired proto-Sumerian]] we have a good idea what Sigmar really looked like without resorting to palanquins created by zealots. Sigmar was a giant, broad muscular manly motherfucker with blonde hair that was grown too damn long, and some badass armored boots meant for stomping on the skulls of green skins and beastmen. Uniquely, he had mismatched eyes with one green and one blue.

With Age of Sigmar his hair is a clear tone of brown and he uses a long beard.

FUN FACT: Sigmar's Hammer ''Ghal-Maraz'' is THE HAMMER that is symbol of [[Warhammer Fantasy]] itself, although originally the symbol represented the Hammer of the Chaos champion, [[Harald Hammerstorm]].

==History==
===Early Life===
The Imperial Calendar (IC) which starts from his coronation by the Ar-Ulric (if you need to know, he's the Viking pope and he makes Bjorn the Fell-Handed look like a pussy) commonly places Sigmar's birth as starting from -30 IC. He was said to be born in the Reikland area in the southwest of what would later become the Empire, where the Unberogen tribe dwelt. The night of his birth was marked with the twin-tailed comet, but he found his purchase on life after being cut out of his dying mother's womb by his badass manly motherfucker of a father. In the middle of pitched battle with Orcs I might add. [[Conan the Barbarian|And if that sounds familiar to you, good. You're paying attention.]] Oddly enough, a mighty thunder-clap was also heard in the night sky. Causing various prophets to call Sigmar, "the Child of Thunder". [[Viking|And if that is also familiar to you, good. I shall make an expert of your filthy self yet.]] oh and when he was born his forehead was anointed with Ork's blood, how about that for a baptism?

In the year -15, when he was fifteen years of age, Sigmar had become a badass, bigger and stronger than his peers and was already a respected warrior ([[Conan the Barbarian|again, just like a certain Cimmerian]]). At this point, Sigmar is recorded to have gained the friendship of the great Dwarfen king Kurgan Ironbeard by saving his stunty ass from a warband of Orcs led by a MASSIVE Black Orc Warboss (for you 40Kfags, that's basically Ghazgkhull, but with a fucking axe and a pair of balls). This fight ended with Kurgan throwing the legendary Ghal-Maraz to Sigmar, which he then promptly used to smash the warboss's skull to paste. After the fight, Sigmar attempted to return the hammer, but Kurgan told him to keep it as a reward for saving his life. He also pledged the friendship of the Dwarfen kingdom to the Unberogen tribe for this act of selfless courage. Of course, Sigmar actually only went after Orcs as part of a revenge raid for their prior attack on Reikdorf, Dwarf-saving was nothing but a happy coincidence.

Sigmar's early life would also be punctuated with other grand victories such as the Battle of Astofen Bridge, where he turned back an army of 2000 Orcs. It was also the battle where he earned his shield and became a man. Yes, Sigmar was saving Dwarf Kings and raping Orc Warbosses before early manhood.

===Uniting the Tribes===
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>'''''"I SHED BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF FOUR THOUSAND NORTHERN MEN!"'''''</u>'''</span></div> -- What Sigmar was likely singing to himself when he massacred the Norse.

Sigmar would later learn the importance of unity from something his dad said. Probably a metaphor centering around wolves. In any event, combined with Alaric the Mad's warnings about "Orcs and things best not spoken of", he was inspired to bring the various disparate tribes of the Reik together. Even going so far as swear an oath, and dragging his best friends in it too for fun.

Of course, the [[Warriors of Chaos|Chaos-worshiping Norse tribes]] who came down from the Chaos Wastes decided to rape the south as they usually do. Anyone surprised? What, you? Well fuck you. They're the Norse, [[J.R.R. Tolkien|THEY KILL WHERE THEY WISH AND NONE DARE RESIST]].

Sigmar's father foolishly thought he could resist, and marched north with a massive army 10,000 strong to face the 8000 Northmen. Bjorn came off the experience with a fatal case of axe through the skull. But it was in fact a clever ploy to save Sigmar from dying to the machinations of the Dark Gods who arrayed themselves against him to destroy his dream of a united nation. [[Emperor|And if that sounds similar, it's because it is]]. Haha, disregard that, Sigmar is actually a rip-off of Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. And predates the Great Throne Vegetable by several years, thus making him the rip-off. Long story short, father and son got together in the spirit world and went on to kick the collective ass of an army of daemons, ending with Bjorn ascending boldly to Ulric's Hall. Despite getting killed fighting the Norse, Bjorn did manage to kill the Khornate Chaos Champion leading the tribes and thus narrowly prevailed in driving the Norse back. This heroic act of defiance against the Norse threat won the Unberogen the eternal friendship of the Cherusen and Taluetan tribes.

Filled with righteous [[Rage|rage]], Sigmar marched north when the wolves of the Norsii raided and slaughtered the Udoses (Iron Age Scottish Highlanders) in the area of what is now Ostland. Sigmar then massacred the Norse, thus valorously avenging the blood-geld of the Udoses in a situation somewhat similar to the Bloody Verdict of Verden, because both he and Charlemagne were basically killing people who didn't join him and didn't believe the same way he did, thus driving them to Norsca where they would nurse an eternal hatred of the south in general and the Empire in particular that makes the hatred Chaos Marines have for the Emperor look like a stuttering spark in comparison. Seriously, tribal warfare was nothing out-of-the-ordinary before Sigmar's pussy notions of unity and empires. These offenses against the Norse also serve to solidify Sigmar as an Alfred the Great rip-off, as if building his entire bureaucracy from scratch didn't already.

Concurrent with this, Sigmar also rode hard to Middenheim to fight (lightning strikes when Ghal-Maraz bites, you know) Artur of the Teutogens. It is often said that a man must find the proper balance of pride within himself. Too little, and a man will never accomplish anything in his life. Too much, and he'll do something fucking stupid, like climbing the Fauschlag. Sigmar was of the latter disposition. Sigmar, and his bodyguard Alfgeir, climbed the great mountain that held the city of Middenheim, sneaked into the building housing the flame of Ulric and there challenged Artur of the Teutogens to single combat for rulership of the tribe. Artur then managed to throw Sigmar into the Flame, but Ulric had already chosen him as his Champion so Sigmar simply walked out of it, howled like a wolf (literally) and hammered Artur's skull somewhere into his ribcage. This is commonly accepted as the point where Sigmar united the tribes. Except for the Jutones, but we'll get to them later.

===Battle of Black-Fire Pass===
So, after he brought the tribes under his banner, Sigmar set about aiding the Dwarfs in defeating one of the greatest Orc WAAAGHS! in Imperial history. People far more intelligent than I have already described said battle in various sourcebooks, so I will not attempt to match their words.

Long story short, Sigmar and the tribesmen outmuscled the Orcs and Sigmar killed the Warboss on the top of the matter with a single return-stroke of his hammer. Thus annihilating the Orc threat, helping the Dwarfs, assuring the continuity of the two peoples and proving the rightness of his ideal of Imperial unity.

===The First Emperor===
After his victory, Sigmar was crowned Emperor of the newly formed Empire and ruled his people with wisdom and courage.

Two major threats during his reign was a daemon prince leading a horde of norsii that assaulted the north of the Empire and the great Necromancer [[Nagash]], who was after some of his bling which Sigmar had. Sigmar promptly said 'FFFFFFFFFFFF UUUUUUUUUUU' to both these threats and gave his hammer some exercise on their heads. And this was with a large skaven army trying to get the upper head by assaulting the worn out Empire forces after Sigmar had defeated the chaos forces. It is reputed Sigmar took one look at the mangy ratmen, rolled his eyes to the sky in digust and set off to bring about some hammer time.

==== Nagash ====
Before Nagash's invasion, Sigmar went to give the Norseman a taste of their own medicine by raiding their frozen wood shack at Norsca, only to come back when he can't raid into further north. He later fought the necromancer at the brass keep and gotten Nagash's crown, the artifact Nagash was looking for in order to regain his power. So yeah, Nagash gather all his skeleton buddies and his vampire cunts into the heart of empire for his crown. During the raid, Nagash had kill and resurrect many warriors and generals of the empire for his wight king and meat shield, and he did it in a pattern that prevent them from reinforce to sigmar's force in order to weaken the empire army. During this time, Sigmar was finding Nagash's weakness with the help from his trusty advisor, only to find out is the crown itself. Since Nagash was only thinking about his shining crown, Sigmar pulled a bait and switch by wearing the crown, not only attract Nagash attention, but also gained immunity against Nagash's magic. During the confrontation, Sigmar smack around Nagash's puppets with his Ghal Maraz like nothing. When facing Nagash, Sigmar bait the necromancer with his own crown then gave him a taste of his hammer. [[AWESOME|The hammer, suddenly glows with magic and landed in Nagash's chest that blows him up with the energy from the ancient dwarven rune engraved on the hammer]]. With Nagash gone to the underworld, jail rape by the underworld spirits as well as the dead god Morr/Usirian, he cursed the Vampires for betray him by curse them with the vulnerability to Sigmar's faith. Vampires flee like the cowards they are after Sigmar gave them a bitch taunt by telling them they are his bitch until [[the End Times]]. The church of Sigmar as well as the witch hunter order were also founded soon after to combat the undead for the future generations.

===Abdication===
In the fiftieth year of his reign, Sigmar set aside his crown and left the Empire. He was last seen heading towards the World Edge Mountains, possibly to see the dwarfs although they have said nothing on the matter if their records hold if Sigmar did pop around for tea. No one saw Sigmar alive again and he passed into legend, a legendary hero to the Empire. The final End Times book reveals that Sigmar was raised to godhood, though Tzeentch trapped him in the great vortex.

===Rise of a God===

While heroes quite rightly are revered, in Sigmar's case it was taken to a whole new level of fan devotion. His legendary deeds inspired others and over time he came to be worshiped as a God by some loonies who should have known better (however with divine intervention in the past with Sigmar may be proof that he did join the Gods of Order who are busting their balls to keep the Dark Gods from killing and corrupting everybody).

But amazingly, their prayers were answered. Those who displayed a belief in Sigmar found he (or at least someone) was answering their prayers and the faith in the new God spread like hotcakes through the Empire.

The Church of Ulric, the current state church at the time, didn't take kindly to this and did it in a way we see in 40k... with the declaration of HERESY and burning everyone at the stake.

After a while this was stopped and both faiths were given importance in the Empire although the Church of Sigmar came to be the State Church (which shows Ulric was still trolled over).

===The Old World and the End Times===
Sigmar is the main god of the Empire and he works hard to protect his people against the ravages of darkness that threaten to overwhelm them all. This is not an easy task and the poor man gets no annual holiday. He is constantly running around putting out fires started by Chaos or other gods and it seems they won't cut him any slack anytime soon, but fortunately he probably has some back up from his own god he worshiped, the shorty ancestor Gods, aid from the High Elf Gods (probably part of Asuryaan's plan if it's true); pretty much its a jointed effort of all the Gods of Order.

During the End Times, it was revealed that Tzeentch had bound him into the Wind of Heaven shortly after his ascension. Tzeentch feared that Sigmar would grow too powerful and unite the gods of men, elves, dwarfs and orcs into the warhammer avengers. Ironically, [[Not_As_Planned|this plan almost completely backfires in his face]], as Sigmar grows more powerful thanks to being bound to the Wind, and once freed ends up uniting the Incarnates (the new gods) into the anti-Chaos avengers. When Teclis unbound the Vortex, the newly freed Sigmar invested a part of his power into his Chosen Valten (which passed into Ghal-Maraz after Valten's death) and possessed the body of the recently deceased Karl Franz to return to the world, later taking his hammer back to restore himself to his full strength. As the world ends, He and Archaon wrestle over Ghal-Maraz, and they vanish shortly before everything is destroyed.

===[[Age of Sigmar]]===
{{topquote|For in Him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form.|Colossians 2:9}}

Following his wrestling bout, Sigmar reclaimed Ghal-Maraz, but was rendered helpless as he tumbled through the void that used to be the Warhammer World. Eventually, he collided with the metal core of the old world, which apparently has transmuted into the same material as the comet which heralded his birth, Sigmarite. With the aid of the great Star Drake named [[Dracothion]], which may or may not be [[Sotek]], Sigmar restarts reality using the remaining essence of the [[Warhammer Magic|Winds of Magic]] and organized the other Incarnates into a new pantheon with himself as its leader, bringing an age of prosperity to the emerging civilizations of the Mortal Realms. Following the Chaos' invasion, he sealed the entrances into his realm of [[Azyr]], and has only recently opened it back up to launch a long planned counterattack against Chaos with his greatest creation, the demigod warriors known as the [[Stormcast Eternals]].

As an interesting note, Sigmar has been shown to be capable of forgiving people who have wronged him; while this may have not ended well in the case of the likes of [[Nagash]], he and his hosts have been shown to put aside vengeance if there is a chance for someone to get redeemed (they may still turn you into pulp if you try to abuse their trust, so no Horus shenanigans here), or a territory to be rescued from the grip of Chaos: good news for the Mortal Kingdoms and people who were mutated and exposed to Chaos unwillingly.

Also, he doesn't follow the public policies of the Emperor, as Sigmar accepts his title of deity and [[Lorgar|doesn't give the boot to his worshipers]], even while personally he loathes the responsibilities of god-king as he would prefer to rush the enemy and crack some skulls instead of doing all the administrative and logistic job; must be hard to manage an entire reality and a multidimensional counter-invasion.

Another cool thing about Sigmar is that he sees people on an individual basis, not just expendable statistics for some risky master plan, Sigmar feels it for YOU and each and everyone of his followers [[Awesome|and unlike Emprah he has never given up on mankind and their allies once things went ugly]].

NOTE: Don't mention this to EMPRAH fans. Most are still raging over the portrayal of him in Master of Mankind and stubbornly cling on to their image of him as a well intentioned extremist who was nevertheless a good guy at heart and whom actually gave a shit about his followers, [[Aaron_Dembski-Bowden| GeeDubs don't let the ADB ruin Sigmar's reputation too! ]]

==In Warhammer 40,000==
In the current official publications of [[Games Workshop]], there is no link between [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]], but that's never gotten in the way of the fandom, especially considering that at one point, WFB was explicitly part of the 40k universe. A recurring hypothesis is that Sigmar is one of the [[Unknown Primarchs]]. One could posit that the twin-tailed comet which heralded his birth was actually the genetor-pod falling to the Warhammer World, that his mysterious departure was him leaving to take command of his [[Space Marine]] Legion (tentatively called the [[Emperor's Hammers]]), and that the miracles credited to him are in fact the result of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]]. Recent pieces of background, detailing Sigmar's birth and characteristics, tend to invalidate this theory, however. Thank The Emperor (As In Sigmar, not the other one you bolter humping zombie worshiper).

==Trivia==
* Sigmar is an old Frankish name meaning "famous by victory". Fitting, considering his awesomeness.

<gallery>
Image:EmpsVSigmar.jpg|The question isn't who wins. It's whether the merged Empires managed to maintain their plot armor.
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==See Also==
* [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|THE EMPIRE]] for the '''[[Empire|EMPIRE]]''' he founded.
* [[Azyr]], the Realm of Heavens, what he probably hoped his Empire could have become in time, and nowadays the only mortal realm free of Chaos in the setting.
* [[Ulric]] for his <s>[[spiritual liege]]</s> personal god, which according to the founder of the Church of Sigmar, He crowned Sigmar as a God, which came to the founder in a vision.
* The [[Emperor]], for his considerably less <s>competent</s> PLOT ARMORED and manly (but vastly more Gothic-and-bling) Warhammer 40,000 counterpart.
* [[Everqueen]] for his counterpart being in comparison to the 40k's EMPRAH among the [[Elves|elves.]]

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Sigmar

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[[File:SigmarHeldenhammer.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Sigmar may not have the fabulous hair <strike>but he is ten times more manly than the God-Emperor.</strike> {{BLAM}} {{BLAM|HERESY!}}]]
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>I AM SIGMAR! FOUNDER OF THE EMPIRE AND SLAYER OF ORCS! - The Warcry of Sigmar perpetuating his Awesomeness</u>'''</span></div>

{{topquote|The simple act of caring is heroic.|Edward Albert}}
{{topquote|If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.|Zig Ziglar}}

'''Sigmar Unberogen''', known also as '''Sigmar Heldenhammer''', '''the Hammer of Orcs''', '''The Chosen of Ulric''', '''Sigmar Bjornsson''', is the founder of the [[Imperium of Man|Empire]], <strike>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApmVcV0a2wI| second primarch],</strike> and its current patron deity. In life, Sigmar was a chieftain of the Unberogen tribe and the son of the legendary hero '''Bjorn Unberogen'''. As a god, he is the patron of the Empire, battle, good governance, strength, shouting and warhammers. His symbols are the Warhammer, twin-tailed comet, and griffon.

It has never been satisfactorily explained why the Church of Sigmar insists that its brethren go bald when all depictions of Sigmar have long, flowing, unkempt hair.

He is bros with the Serpent God [[Sotek]] of the [[Lizardmen]] as they get together every Friday to egg the [[Horned Rat]]'s house for lolz.

It is customary to read his lines in the Legend of Sigmar in the voice Mel Gibson used to play William Wallace. This is funny because Graham McNeill is Scottish. Therefore, it will likely serve to piss him off to no end.

[[The End Times]] and [[Warhammer: Age of Sigmar|Age of Sigmar]] has Sigmar coming back. He'd ascended to godhood before his death, which also explains why the Warrior Priests hold a special sort of power, not unlike magic. However, Games Workshop finally gave Tzeentch some love, and had it that he had trapped Sigmar in the Wind of Heavens to prevent him from messing with the Chaos Gods plans. After the Vortex on [[Ulthuan]] is destroyed the Wind, under Sigmar's direction, enters the body of Emperor [[Karl Franz]] after his death. Sigmar, now in Franz's body, adjusts it to look like his old self and goes on a saving-the-good-guys-while-beating-up-the-baddies spree of awesome. After the end of the old Warhammer World, Sigmar survives the Apocalypse, and with the help of Dracothion (Sotek all along?) uses the metal core of the world-that-was as a platform to unify and civilize the realms of a reborn reality, ascending to full godhood in the process. [[Stormcast Eternals|He even gets his own elite warriors of sorts]].

==Appearance==
Unlike that [[Emperor|black-haired proto-Sumerian]] we have a good idea what Sigmar really looked like without resorting to palanquins created by zealots. Sigmar was a giant, broad muscular manly motherfucker with blonde hair that was grown too damn long, and some badass armored boots meant for stomping on the skulls of green skins and beastmen. Uniquely, he had mismatched eyes with one green and one blue.

With Age of Sigmar his hair is a clear tone of brown and he uses a long beard.

FUN FACT: Sigmar's Hammer ''Ghal-Maraz'' is THE HAMMER that is symbol of [[Warhammer Fantasy]] itself, although originally the symbol represented the Hammer of the Chaos champion, [[Harald Hammerstorm]].

[[File:Azeroth.jpg|1650px|left|center|In the 8th game of the World of Warcraft series, which was the first since the current 8th editions of Warhammer Fantasy and 40K, they also advanced the storyline following the same trend, as we have an official Alliance-Horde war for the first time since Warcraft 3, in total coordination with the real world when long unsettled conflicts, such as the Arab-Israeli war, Grexit, Kim Jong-un, US-China trade war, Fascism emergerging in Europe starting from Italy, Neo-ottomanism, American civil war, Monroe dogma over Nicolas Maduro and Lula and even a volcano in Hawaii erupting, are simultaneously all emerging as if we are truly living in a novel.]]

==History==
===Early Life===
The Imperial Calendar (IC) which starts from his coronation by the Ar-Ulric (if you need to know, he's the Viking pope and he makes Bjorn the Fell-Handed look like a pussy) commonly places Sigmar's birth as starting from -30 IC. He was said to be born in the Reikland area in the southwest of what would later become the Empire, where the Unberogen tribe dwelt. The night of his birth was marked with the twin-tailed comet, but he found his purchase on life after being cut out of his dying mother's womb by his badass manly motherfucker of a father. In the middle of pitched battle with Orcs I might add. [[Conan the Barbarian|And if that sounds familiar to you, good. You're paying attention.]] Oddly enough, a mighty thunder-clap was also heard in the night sky. Causing various prophets to call Sigmar, "the Child of Thunder". [[Viking|And if that is also familiar to you, good. I shall make an expert of your filthy self yet.]] oh and when he was born his forehead was anointed with Ork's blood, how about that for a baptism?

In the year -15, when he was fifteen years of age, Sigmar had become a badass, bigger and stronger than his peers and was already a respected warrior ([[Conan the Barbarian|again, just like a certain Cimmerian]]). At this point, Sigmar is recorded to have gained the friendship of the great Dwarfen king Kurgan Ironbeard by saving his stunty ass from a warband of Orcs led by a MASSIVE Black Orc Warboss (for you 40Kfags, that's basically Ghazgkhull, but with a fucking axe and a pair of balls). This fight ended with Kurgan throwing the legendary Ghal-Maraz to Sigmar, which he then promptly used to smash the warboss's skull to paste. After the fight, Sigmar attempted to return the hammer, but Kurgan told him to keep it as a reward for saving his life. He also pledged the friendship of the Dwarfen kingdom to the Unberogen tribe for this act of selfless courage. Of course, Sigmar actually only went after Orcs as part of a revenge raid for their prior attack on Reikdorf, Dwarf-saving was nothing but a happy coincidence.

Sigmar's early life would also be punctuated with other grand victories such as the Battle of Astofen Bridge, where he turned back an army of 2000 Orcs. It was also the battle where he earned his shield and became a man. Yes, Sigmar was saving Dwarf Kings and raping Orc Warbosses before early manhood.

===Uniting the Tribes===
<div style="font-size:1.10em;font-weight:bold;font-style:bold;font-family:serif;margin-top:1em;margin-bottom:1em"><span style='color:maroon;font-size:100%'> <u>'''''"I SHED BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF NORTHERN MEN, I SHED THE BLOOD OF FOUR THOUSAND NORTHERN MEN!"'''''</u>'''</span></div> -- What Sigmar was likely singing to himself when he massacred the Norse.

Sigmar would later learn the importance of unity from something his dad said. Probably a metaphor centering around wolves. In any event, combined with Alaric the Mad's warnings about "Orcs and things best not spoken of", he was inspired to bring the various disparate tribes of the Reik together. Even going so far as swear an oath, and dragging his best friends in it too for fun.

Of course, the [[Warriors of Chaos|Chaos-worshiping Norse tribes]] who came down from the Chaos Wastes decided to rape the south as they usually do. Anyone surprised? What, you? Well fuck you. They're the Norse, [[J.R.R. Tolkien|THEY KILL WHERE THEY WISH AND NONE DARE RESIST]].

Sigmar's father foolishly thought he could resist, and marched north with a massive army 10,000 strong to face the 8000 Northmen. Bjorn came off the experience with a fatal case of axe through the skull. But it was in fact a clever ploy to save Sigmar from dying to the machinations of the Dark Gods who arrayed themselves against him to destroy his dream of a united nation. [[Emperor|And if that sounds similar, it's because it is]]. Haha, disregard that, Sigmar is actually a rip-off of Charlemagne and Alfred the Great. And predates the Great Throne Vegetable by several years, thus making him the rip-off. Long story short, father and son got together in the spirit world and went on to kick the collective ass of an army of daemons, ending with Bjorn ascending boldly to Ulric's Hall. Despite getting killed fighting the Norse, Bjorn did manage to kill the Khornate Chaos Champion leading the tribes and thus narrowly prevailed in driving the Norse back. This heroic act of defiance against the Norse threat won the Unberogen the eternal friendship of the Cherusen and Taluetan tribes.

Filled with righteous [[Rage|rage]], Sigmar marched north when the wolves of the Norsii raided and slaughtered the Udoses (Iron Age Scottish Highlanders) in the area of what is now Ostland. Sigmar then massacred the Norse, thus valorously avenging the blood-geld of the Udoses in a situation somewhat similar to the Bloody Verdict of Verden, because both he and Charlemagne were basically killing people who didn't join him and didn't believe the same way he did, thus driving them to Norsca where they would nurse an eternal hatred of the south in general and the Empire in particular that makes the hatred Chaos Marines have for the Emperor look like a stuttering spark in comparison. Seriously, tribal warfare was nothing out-of-the-ordinary before Sigmar's pussy notions of unity and empires. These offenses against the Norse also serve to solidify Sigmar as an Alfred the Great rip-off, as if building his entire bureaucracy from scratch didn't already.

Concurrent with this, Sigmar also rode hard to Middenheim to fight (lightning strikes when Ghal-Maraz bites, you know) Artur of the Teutogens. It is often said that a man must find the proper balance of pride within himself. Too little, and a man will never accomplish anything in his life. Too much, and he'll do something fucking stupid, like climbing the Fauschlag. Sigmar was of the latter disposition. Sigmar, and his bodyguard Alfgeir, climbed the great mountain that held the city of Middenheim, sneaked into the building housing the flame of Ulric and there challenged Artur of the Teutogens to single combat for rulership of the tribe. Artur then managed to throw Sigmar into the Flame, but Ulric had already chosen him as his Champion so Sigmar simply walked out of it, howled like a wolf (literally) and hammered Artur's skull somewhere into his ribcage. This is commonly accepted as the point where Sigmar united the tribes. Except for the Jutones, but we'll get to them later.

===Battle of Black-Fire Pass===
So, after he brought the tribes under his banner, Sigmar set about aiding the Dwarfs in defeating one of the greatest Orc WAAAGHS! in Imperial history. People far more intelligent than I have already described said battle in various sourcebooks, so I will not attempt to match their words.

Long story short, Sigmar and the tribesmen outmuscled the Orcs and Sigmar killed the Warboss on the top of the matter with a single return-stroke of his hammer. Thus annihilating the Orc threat, helping the Dwarfs, assuring the continuity of the two peoples and proving the rightness of his ideal of Imperial unity.

===The First Emperor===
After his victory, Sigmar was crowned Emperor of the newly formed Empire and ruled his people with wisdom and courage.

Two major threats during his reign was a daemon prince leading a horde of norsii that assaulted the north of the Empire and the great Necromancer [[Nagash]], who was after some of his bling which Sigmar had. Sigmar promptly said 'FFFFFFFFFFFF UUUUUUUUUUU' to both these threats and gave his hammer some exercise on their heads. And this was with a large skaven army trying to get the upper head by assaulting the worn out Empire forces after Sigmar had defeated the chaos forces. It is reputed Sigmar took one look at the mangy ratmen, rolled his eyes to the sky in digust and set off to bring about some hammer time.

==== Nagash ====
Before Nagash's invasion, Sigmar went to give the Norseman a taste of their own medicine by raiding their frozen wood shack at Norsca, only to come back when he can't raid into further north. He later fought the necromancer at the brass keep and gotten Nagash's crown, the artifact Nagash was looking for in order to regain his power. So yeah, Nagash gather all his skeleton buddies and his vampire cunts into the heart of empire for his crown. During the raid, Nagash had kill and resurrect many warriors and generals of the empire for his wight king and meat shield, and he did it in a pattern that prevent them from reinforce to sigmar's force in order to weaken the empire army. During this time, Sigmar was finding Nagash's weakness with the help from his trusty advisor, only to find out is the crown itself. Since Nagash was only thinking about his shining crown, Sigmar pulled a bait and switch by wearing the crown, not only attract Nagash attention, but also gained immunity against Nagash's magic. During the confrontation, Sigmar smack around Nagash's puppets with his Ghal Maraz like nothing. When facing Nagash, Sigmar bait the necromancer with his own crown then gave him a taste of his hammer. [[AWESOME|The hammer, suddenly glows with magic and landed in Nagash's chest that blows him up with the energy from the ancient dwarven rune engraved on the hammer]]. With Nagash gone to the underworld, jail rape by the underworld spirits as well as the dead god Morr/Usirian, he cursed the Vampires for betray him by curse them with the vulnerability to Sigmar's faith. Vampires flee like the cowards they are after Sigmar gave them a bitch taunt by telling them they are his bitch until [[the End Times]]. The church of Sigmar as well as the witch hunter order were also founded soon after to combat the undead for the future generations.

===Abdication===
In the fiftieth year of his reign, Sigmar set aside his crown and left the Empire. He was last seen heading towards the World Edge Mountains, possibly to see the dwarfs although they have said nothing on the matter if their records hold if Sigmar did pop around for tea. No one saw Sigmar alive again and he passed into legend, a legendary hero to the Empire. The final End Times book reveals that Sigmar was raised to godhood, though Tzeentch trapped him in the great vortex.

===Rise of a God===

While heroes quite rightly are revered, in Sigmar's case it was taken to a whole new level of fan devotion. His legendary deeds inspired others and over time he came to be worshiped as a God by some loonies who should have known better (however with divine intervention in the past with Sigmar may be proof that he did join the Gods of Order who are busting their balls to keep the Dark Gods from killing and corrupting everybody).

But amazingly, their prayers were answered. Those who displayed a belief in Sigmar found he (or at least someone) was answering their prayers and the faith in the new God spread like hotcakes through the Empire.

The Church of Ulric, the current state church at the time, didn't take kindly to this and did it in a way we see in 40k... with the declaration of HERESY and burning everyone at the stake.

After a while this was stopped and both faiths were given importance in the Empire although the Church of Sigmar came to be the State Church (which shows Ulric was still trolled over).

===The Old World and the End Times===
Sigmar is the main god of the Empire and he works hard to protect his people against the ravages of darkness that threaten to overwhelm them all. This is not an easy task and the poor man gets no annual holiday. He is constantly running around putting out fires started by Chaos or other gods and it seems they won't cut him any slack anytime soon, but fortunately he probably has some back up from his own god he worshiped, the shorty ancestor Gods, aid from the High Elf Gods (probably part of Asuryaan's plan if it's true); pretty much its a jointed effort of all the Gods of Order.

During the End Times, it was revealed that Tzeentch had bound him into the Wind of Heaven shortly after his ascension. Tzeentch feared that Sigmar would grow too powerful and unite the gods of men, elves, dwarfs and orcs into the warhammer avengers. Ironically, [[Not_As_Planned|this plan almost completely backfires in his face]], as Sigmar grows more powerful thanks to being bound to the Wind, and once freed ends up uniting the Incarnates (the new gods) into the anti-Chaos avengers. When Teclis unbound the Vortex, the newly freed Sigmar invested a part of his power into his Chosen Valten (which passed into Ghal-Maraz after Valten's death) and possessed the body of the recently deceased Karl Franz to return to the world, later taking his hammer back to restore himself to his full strength. As the world ends, He and Archaon wrestle over Ghal-Maraz, and they vanish shortly before everything is destroyed.

===[[Age of Sigmar]]===
{{topquote|For in Him all the fullness of deity lives in bodily form.|Colossians 2:9}}

Following his wrestling bout, Sigmar reclaimed Ghal-Maraz, but was rendered helpless as he tumbled through the void that used to be the Warhammer World. Eventually, he collided with the metal core of the old world, which apparently has transmuted into the same material as the comet which heralded his birth, Sigmarite. With the aid of the great Star Drake named [[Dracothion]], which may or may not be [[Sotek]], Sigmar restarts reality using the remaining essence of the [[Warhammer Magic|Winds of Magic]] and organized the other Incarnates into a new pantheon with himself as its leader, bringing an age of prosperity to the emerging civilizations of the Mortal Realms. Following the Chaos' invasion, he sealed the entrances into his realm of [[Azyr]], and has only recently opened it back up to launch a long planned counterattack against Chaos with his greatest creation, the demigod warriors known as the [[Stormcast Eternals]].

As an interesting note, Sigmar has been shown to be capable of forgiving people who have wronged him; while this may have not ended well in the case of the likes of [[Nagash]], he and his hosts have been shown to put aside vengeance if there is a chance for someone to get redeemed (they may still turn you into pulp if you try to abuse their trust, so no Horus shenanigans here), or a territory to be rescued from the grip of Chaos: good news for the Mortal Kingdoms and people who were mutated and exposed to Chaos unwillingly.

Also, he doesn't follow the public policies of the Emperor, as Sigmar accepts his title of deity and [[Lorgar|doesn't give the boot to his worshipers]], even while personally he loathes the responsibilities of god-king as he would prefer to rush the enemy and crack some skulls instead of doing all the administrative and logistic job; must be hard to manage an entire reality and a multidimensional counter-invasion.

Another cool thing about Sigmar is that he sees people on an individual basis, not just expendable statistics for some risky master plan, Sigmar feels it for YOU and each and everyone of his followers [[Awesome|and unlike Emprah he has never given up on mankind and their allies once things went ugly]].

NOTE: Don't mention this to EMPRAH fans. Most are still raging over the portrayal of him in Master of Mankind and stubbornly cling on to their image of him as a well intentioned extremist who was nevertheless a good guy at heart and whom actually gave a shit about his followers, [[Aaron_Dembski-Bowden| GeeDubs don't let the ADB ruin Sigmar's reputation too! ]]

==In Warhammer 40,000==
In the current official publications of [[Games Workshop]], there is no link between [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] and [[Warhammer 40,000]], but that's never gotten in the way of the fandom, especially considering that at one point, WFB was explicitly part of the 40k universe. A recurring hypothesis is that Sigmar is one of the [[Unknown Primarchs]]. One could posit that the twin-tailed comet which heralded his birth was actually the genetor-pod falling to the Warhammer World, that his mysterious departure was him leaving to take command of his [[Space Marine]] Legion (tentatively called the [[Emperor's Hammers]]), and that the miracles credited to him are in fact the result of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]]. Recent pieces of background, detailing Sigmar's birth and characteristics, tend to invalidate this theory, however. Thank The Emperor (As In Sigmar, not the other one you bolter humping zombie worshiper).

==Trivia==
* Sigmar is an old Frankish name meaning "famous by victory". Fitting, considering his awesomeness.

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Image:EmpsVSigmar.jpg|The question isn't who wins. It's whether the merged Empires managed to maintain their plot armor.
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==See Also==
* [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|THE EMPIRE]] for the '''[[Empire|EMPIRE]]''' he founded.
* [[Azyr]], the Realm of Heavens, what he probably hoped his Empire could have become in time, and nowadays the only mortal realm free of Chaos in the setting.
* [[Ulric]] for his <s>[[spiritual liege]]</s> personal god, which according to the founder of the Church of Sigmar, He crowned Sigmar as a God, which came to the founder in a vision.
* The [[Emperor]], for his considerably less <s>competent</s> PLOT ARMORED and manly (but vastly more Gothic-and-bling) Warhammer 40,000 counterpart.
* [[Everqueen]] for his counterpart being in comparison to the 40k's EMPRAH among the [[Elves|elves.]]

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