Editing Sigmar (section)

===[[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. As for his worshipers, Sigmar came from a culture that lived life passionately, so while he doesn't like constraining his worshipers with many rules (though he agrees some are necessary) Sigmar made strict rulings because he know how easily Chaos can corrupt passions; especially when Khorne and/or Slaanesh get involved. He also wishes for a time where he could transcend into the winds of Azyr and abandon the mortal plane, but only, in his own words "after the war is won".

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]] (or at least pretended to do so that he could manipulate others into picking up their slack).

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!]]

With Malign Portents and the Soul Wars there has been more development to Sigmar's character. In the former he discovered through Vandus Hammerhand's visions Nagash was up to something. Instead of rushing to Shysh to call the Skelepope off for this one he decided to use his cosmic powers to give his followers the means to fight back Nagash's plots. How well that went we may yet have to see in full, but that means Sigmar is now capable of long-term planning and giving someone else responsibility upon their destinies instead of just trying to save the day with a hot-blooded charge. In Soul Wars it's revealed Sigmar knew the Stormcast project had design flaws in the reincarnation procedure, but went ahead out of desperation to beat back the force of Chaos. This is a source of self-doubt and consternation for him. Nevertheless, he has taken counter-measures in the form of the Sacrosanct Chamber, again delegating responsibilities to his followers to find a solution as he simply can't deal with everything. He himself recognizes he has made many mistakes - outright saying freeing Nagash might be his biggest - and feels responsible for his own bad decisions instead of blaming others. So, yes here is a Warhammer god ''who can actually recognize mistakes and learn from them for the good of the mortal races''.

Recent events following the Necroquake include the raiding of his Stormvaults. During the Age of Myth he had created essentialy storehouses and prisons to store powerful artefacts and even entities that he didn't want runnng around. Well spoilers, the Necroquake ended up uncovering many of them which led to an armsrace from the various Grand Alliances to claim the contents within. Some issues included the forces of Nurgle claiming some black seeds that grow nighly destructive black trees that they tried to plant throughout Ghyran. And Gordrakk stealing the skull of an ancient godbeast to use as a battering ram to destroy Excelcius. Not great times.

Which was later confounded with Be'lakor unleashing the dark clouds across the realms that can make Stormcast resurrections more difficult.

Still some good news came his way with his frenemy Teclis managing to defeat Nagash and undoing the Necroquake for him (so guess he didn't actually have to get involved) and Allarielle reviving the Oak of Ages past with life now being ascendant again and likely to give Nurgle some trouble. Though this had the unfortunate side-effect of bringing Kragnos back into the realms from his imprisonment and nearly led to the destruction of Excelcis. Not to mention Morathi annexing Anvilgard. Though in the end Excelcius was saved and he has reached atleast an agreement with Morathi (though all parties with a brain knows Sigmar might still do something about her someday) and allowing her to keep the small city. Though this was in no small part to Grungi convincing everyone that Morathi is too useful to exile atleast for the time being.

With the donning of the Era of the Beast and Kragnos return whipping the forces of destruciton into a frenzy Sigmar decided that they could not be so defensive any longer. And in response new Dawnbringer Crusades are being sent out to push back the chaos and destruction hordes and expand new territories in some of the biggest mobilizations of Sigmars armies since the Realmgate Wars. This is further helped along with Grungi's return providing helpful upgrades to Sigmars stormcast. And new artefacts and technologies to help found his new cities. As always Sigmar knows the odds of taking back the realms are stacked against him, but that hasn't stopped him before.

Not bad for some [[Conan the Barbarian|classic barbarian-hero-turned-king-turned-god]] character development.