Editing Kislev (section)

==[[Total War: Warhammer|Total War: Warhammer III]]==

[[File:Kislev-loading-screen-jpg.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Bears, ice, and ice bears.]]

As of February Third, Kislev has been confirmed to be one of the Core Races in Warhammer 3. The announcement has come after a series of teasers hinting at the coming of the 4 Chaos Gods, and saying that only the Bear God Ursun can save the world now. An image leak also shows what appears to be a Kislev army fighting a Khornate horde. The first game trailer for Warhammer 3 revealed Kislev as one of the main factions. This suggests that once again Kislev will have to do all the heavy lifting in saving the Warhammer World. ([[Cathay]] will be helping. Which is [[Awesome|'''not''' a criticism]].)

In fact, the whole having to act as a bulwark for the world thing is a plot point, at least in the Kislev campaign, as according to a new cinematic trailer one Kislevite Boyar by the name of Slavin Kurnz apparently got sick of having to protect the world and went full-blown [[Heresy|Heretic]] by joining up with Khorne's forces. The new gameplay trailer has shown off a LOT more bear cavalry with a bear riding patriarch of Ursun, a giant Ice Bear Elemental, a cannon called Little Grom being pulled on magically summoned ice by two ice bears (I'm sensing a theme here hbu?) shown off. Their models come from the concept art for [[Warhammer: The Old World]], showing those can be used as inspiration for game units.

Katarin was also shown along with the Tzar guard, Kossars with a new pike variant, Ungol horse archers, the winged lancers and the gryphon legion, the ice guard, and the Streltsi who wield GUN-AXES now instead of their old axe and handgun combo like the real world counter parts (the game describes how they held onto the gun for one more shot and then used it as a club so often that the army said "fuck it" and just put axe blades on them). Later after release we discovered they also had two kinds of gun armed war sleds pulled by bears, a magical snow leopard, and a new cavalry unit in the form of the Sabre wielding Kossovite Dervishes…which is an incredibly stupid name for a unit that’s from a faction based on Russia instead of say…I don’t know…Araby!

Also it turns out Kislev is even more important to the plot than even the trailers let on. Seems everything got started when Ursun got kidnapped by Be'lakor after a battle 7 years prior to the game’s start. Without his roar to break the ice and usher in spring Kislev starts to starve and dissent begins to break out throughout the kingdom. In desperation the Tzarina sends out the Ungol descended Prince [[God-Slayer|Yuri Barkov]]…who according to a short story is actually both her childhood friend and her secret lover (certainly explains why she started to let the Ungols into the nobility). Yuri sets out to find Ursun accompanied by his brother Gerik and some forces and guided by a voice he thinks is Ursun’s. However after picking up some cursed artifacts from some chaos warriors and getting mind warped by some chaotic knowledge Yuri goes mad with power and kills his own brother so as to summon some Khornate demon to aid him in killing a traitorous boyar and opening a path to Ursun. After reaching the forge of souls Yuri discovers a captive Ursun…but also learns the voice that lead him here was not Ursun but Be'lakor whose been living as an incorporeal shadow since he pissed off the chaos gods. The first demon Prince then proceeds to goad Yuri into wounding Ursun with the demon pistol Yuri took from the dead Boyar. Be'lakor then uses the blood from Ursun’s wound to regain a physical form, Yuri after nearly dying gets turned into a Demon Prince called [[God-Slayer]] by the chaos gods, a massive storm of magic breaks out throughout the world and now all the various in game factions are rushing (for one reason or another) to get to Ursun before Be'lakor can use the power from the bear’s imminent death to become a chaos god of shadows.

So grab your Vodka, mount your Bears ([[Furry|Not like that Boris!]]) and start blaring Sabaton on full blast, KISLEV HAS ARRIVED!