Editing Warhammer: Age of Sigmar (section)

==Chaos==
[[File:Archaon Mango.jpg|thumb|center|900px|THE TIME OF THE EVERCHOSEN HAS COME AGAIN!]]
Archaon the Everchosen was tested once again by each of the Chaos Gods following the End Times, as they wanted him to turn to them as their new supreme champion he again defeated their challenges without feeling any loyalty towards them, and each granted him new powers until he was a demigod, and Incarnate of Chaos itself. Great Horned Rat attempted to give him a blessing upon joining the pantheon, but Archaon refused it and spat in GHR's face. Demigod Archaon has been given the title of "Grand High Marshall of Chaos" (so much for Chaos being Chaotic (think of him as a great khan)), and basically has free-reign to do whatever the fuck he wants for whatever reason (everything Be'lakor wanted but could never have). Interestingly, this creates an entire new position in Chaos hierarchy without it being clear if Archaon can command Chaos Gods who are not part of the Great Game, if he has supreme authority over all of the Daemon Princes, and so on. As a side note, Dhorgar changed from a Daemon horse to a $100 Daemon dragonish thing.

Slaanesh gorged himself on souls during End Times until he was so bloated he was unable to move ([[/d/|just like those creepy porn comics you've read about]]), and spent post-End Times (before or after Archaon's second ascendance isn't clear) hiding in a cave while digesting. Tzeentch manipulated Khorne into attacking the armies defending him, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIMg2Xw4_8s which allowed the Aelfs Tyrion and Malerion to kidnap him] which removed him from the Great Game while enabling them to retrieve all the souls of Elves killed in End Times and possibly even before then (some have taken advantage of the undefined explanation of exactly who the Aelfs are to say [[Eldar]] have come to a Warhammer Fantasy setting).
Slaanesh's forces, who are justifiably freaking out that their god(dess) is missing, are currently invading Ulgu in search of Malerion for clues as to where their god(dess) is. To quote White Dwarf, "THE FORCES OF CHAOS HAVE ARRIVED... BUT WHERE IS THE DARK PRINCE?" The other Chaos Gods are actually happy he/she/it is gone, but the Chaos Gods have always hated each other so that's to be expected. In reality Slaaesh is Currently trapped between the realms Ulga and Hysh and is slowing being drained of the Aelven souls it devoured by Malerion, Morathi, Tyrion and Teclis. Things were going well until Morathi double crossed the others to pull a secret spell to steal more souls than was initially allocated to her (and perhaps to get a dig at the other four). Which unintentionally resulted in the weakening of its prison and allowing Slaanesh to send out SOS on its location to its followers who are right its trail. In addition this also weakened the prison itself so its only a matter of time before it breaks loose.

After the end of the old world and his ascension, Archaon spent his time obliterating many universes and slaying kings and what not. He recieved a vision from his (apparently now un-smashed) third eye which foretold the events until the release of Age of Sigmar, with the final vision being Archaon apparently killing Sigmar (although Order fans that were unamused with ANOTHER "Chaos wins" spoiler ending to this universe noted that in Archaon's vision, Slaanesh was still gone). The Chaos Gods sent a Champion each (Tzeentch, Nurgle, Khorne, Great Horned Rat) to kill Archaon but each was defeated, with Dhorgar feasting on their souls which resulted in a Khornate head, a Tzeentchian head, a Nurglite head, and the two tails that Great Horned Rat's servants have.

Once Chaos had taken 7/8 of the Realms, with Sigmar as the only holdout, Khorne basically screamed "WILDCARD, BITCHES!" and blitzed his way into Nurgle's Garden and Tzeentch's Maze, allowing the other factions to reclaim their lands (although the Daemon-wrought damage now makes them resemble something out of [[Brütal Legend]]). Archaon's Chaos armies only defeat came at the hands of Morelion and Morathi in the Realm of Shadow, a place which now fascinates him.

Chaos continued its Saturday Morning Cartoonification when [[Be'lakor]] was killed by Seraphon, more specifically; [[Lizardmen#Skinks|Skinks]] riding pterodactyls dropped rocks on him until he popped. Although this happened in a White Dwarf battle report, and Be'lakor's model was only used to represent a generic Daemon Prince, others have defended it saying that White Dwarf has access to all Warhammer models and thus had no reason to use Be'lakor unless it was Be'lakor in narrative and a weaker model on the tabletop for balance reasons. Others have suggested it was only [[Changeling]], pulling the same trick he did in End Times. Regardless, the Seraphon still managed to close the portal. See: [[Skub]].

It's been theorized that Nurgle's almost single-minded obsession with the Sylvaneth is because he wants to claim Alarielle as his new [[Isha|waifu]]. No word on whether this means he'll keep her as is or make her the Poxfulcrum; who was retconned from Isha to Shallya in End Times, then secretly replaced by some elf wizard called Kalara in [[Araloth|Araloth's]] Realm of Chaos excursion.

The Great Horned Rat's been doing very little on his own at first glance, mostly having Clan Pestilens work closely with Nurgle's forces in the Realm of Life. However it may be worth noting that GHR is literally the god of a race who pretty much have a monopoly on backstabbing the guy above you and taking their place, and with Slaanesh missing Nurgle is currently the weakest of the classic Chaos Gods. Based on this, there's some recurring theory that says that GHR has a backstabby-ulterior motive for getting so friendly with Nurgle.

One of the confirmed tribe names for Chaos humans is the Gjallervolk, obviously the direct replacement to the old Warriors.

Same old, same old. So to recap:
*Khorne wages war on Sigmar, all the time. The Blades represent most of them.
*Nurgle is obsessed with Alarielle, since she's sexy feral Isha, and has grown to hate all of Death as well.
*Slaanesh is missing, his forces are split between those trying to find him/her/it and those trying to replace him as "Ur-Slaanesh", the main contender for which is a [[Keeper of Secrets]] named Luxscious and [[Archaon]] since 'Everchosen' briefly touches on majority of Mortal and quite a few Daemon worshippers are using him as a 'go to' figure for veneration. On a meta-level, ''loads'' of people somehow made themselves believe that Slaanesh was being squatted altogether. Adepticon 2k19 reveal showed this was a load of crap. What's more, Slaanesh gave birth to two demigods called Dexcessa and Synessa, who directly lead Slaanesh's worshippers in their absence.
*Tzeentch is still fucking around everywhere being an annoying shit, but Games Workshop is finally letting him get shit done; he arranged for Slaanesh's capture and tricked Sigmar into losing Ghal-Maraz (Sigmar got it back but that's still something). Fun things too, he also indirectly helps Order sometimes. During the Realm of Life Campaign, Tzeentch did his part sabotaging Nurgle's plans in the Realm of Life. He wanted Sigmar to get his cities up and running so that he can extend his influence and do more plotting in those new mortal bastions. He's the Chaos God most likely to side with Order temporarily just to mess with the other Gods' plans. 
*Horned Rat is now the Great Horned Rat, a fully-fledged Chaos God. This changes ''no one's'' opinion on him, much to his chagrin.
*Archaon is the top dog in charge of all Chaos, hates and is hated/loved <3 by everyone else oh and will kill that damn Rat thinking it's one of the Gods. Archaon is simultaneously hated and loved by the mortal Chaos followers; some find him to be all a-okay, others hate him and find him to be an overly arrogant prick who should just fuck off to his precious All-Point.
*Be'lakor is still a conniving motherfucker, looking for ways to get back in the good graces of the four. He's also somewhat responsible for some of the fuckery in 3E as he managed to find a way to cut off the Stormboys from their express lane to Azyr upon dying.
*...And [[Malal]] is STILL nowhere to be seen. Natch.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju1wdQMqz9I Here is the theme song of all Chaos factions.]

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Image:Age of Sigmar Chaos.jpg|Say goodbye to [[Slaanesh]] kids, daddy/momma is goin' bye-bye.
Image:Luxscious Sigmar.jpg|"[[Fallout|The Ultra-Lux; it'll Keep your Secret.]]"
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====Beasts Of Chaos====
[[Beastmen]], monsters, and <strike>giants</strike> gargants (re)combined into a singular faction after 2nd Edition came out. Originally split into Brayherds (most beastmen along with the various Tzaangors), Warherds (bigger beastmen like <strike>minotaurs</strike> bullgors), Thunderscorn (Dragon <strike>Ogres</strike> Ogors), Chaos Gargants, Monsters of Chaos (Cockatrices, Chimeras, Razorgors, Chaos Warhounds, Jabberslythes to be precise. Though not every monster in the Monsters of Chaos faction got the Beasts of Chaos keyword for some reason) and Chaos Spawn when AoS originally launched. As a singular faction, the tags of Brayherd, Warherd, and Thunderscorn are treated the same way as Stormcast Eternal chambers, with certain units counting as battleline with the right general. Fingers crossed for other scattered factions (Skaven, Grots, etc.) to get the same recombination treatment.

Currently they represent the mutated and Beastly hordes of Chaos undivided. This includes anything from from Beastman to the various chaos-born monsters that they summon or enslave to use as beasts of war. Contrary to what a layman might think they do not necessarily fight for the Four chaos gods. Obviously some of their number have sworn to one of big four Chaos gods and are now worshippers but for the most part they have no real allegiance to any of the plans of the chaos gods and fight simply to destroy and tear down civilisation as its their very nature. They are one of the few forces in the Chaos Grand alliance that can be said to be largely independent of the Chaos gods or the Horned Rat and are simply fighting and spreading chaos as they are creatures of pure chaos itself, thus if their actions benefit the the four gods (and the horned rat) then good for them. Some on the other hand venerate their own god of sorts Morghur, the first Beastman. They wish to continue his plan to plunge all the Realms in endless chaos by tearing down all civilizations and erecting enough herdstones to alter reality itself. While others feel worshipping any god is itself a form of Order and follow none but themselves. Obviously they show respect and fear of the chaos gods, but they look down on the outright worship practised by other forces of chaos (like the Slaves to Darkness or Bloodbound. In there eyes this form of chaos worship is itself a form of Order and thus wrong and weak).

The Origins of the various hordes of the Beasts of Chaos is vague and their are multiple stories but it is known that they were not created by any of the Chaos gods directly (with the exception of the Tzaangors who were first created through the power of Tzcheench) and are said to have been spawned from the raw, aligned powers of chaos. Thus they see themselves as the true children of chaos unlike other followers who only follow chaos out of fear or for rewards from the Gods themselves. To them chaos and destruction is literally in their DNA and to them fighting and spreading chaos is as natural as eating or sleeping.

Currently also share the various Tzaangors with the Disciples of Tzeench.

====Blades of Khorne====
Khorne's faction, Consisting of his mortal and daemon followers.
Their Blood warriors look like Worldeaters.
Oddly enough, theirs were the only miniatures to receive approval from the Warhammer Fantasy fanbase although many have complained the new Daemon resembles something from 40k, with a hint of Alien except with a skull in its mouth. Said Daemons are the "Khorgoraths" who are mortal men so infused with Khorne's magic their skin becomes like liquid boiling blood with skulls bubbling within, and in time they come to resemble Khorne himself not unlike how Great Unclean Ones resemble Nurgle.

Some are cannibals, and consume the flesh of their foes almost exclusively (preferably while the meal is still alive interestingly enough, as it goes against many of Khorne's common themes of killing on the battlefield). Doing this, they believe, imbues them with the divine power of Khorne. This actually makes sense if you know your shit regarding the spirituality of cannibalistic practices. In fact it's rather similar to a pre-Islamic Turkic practice that held that drinking from the skull of your enemies allowed you to devour their souls and gain their power.

Khorne's initial army (in Aqshy, anyway) was led by a warlord named Khul, who wanted to become a Daemon Prince and constructed a giant pyramid of skulls in order to earn the highest possible position. He had planned to cap it with a Sigmarine skull, although in the actual battle with the Sigmarines he was not able to actually secure the skull despite killing the Sigmarine while a Sigmarine skeleton ironically blew up the pyramid. He kicked Vandus Hammerhand's gold-plated ass pretty well in Nick Kyme's ''War Storm'', so kudos to him for knocking the Sigmarines off their high fucking perch, albeit temporarily. Archaon in 'Balance of Power' did a number on Vandus by virtually cutting him in half and killing him outright which he laughed about it later after massacring the rest of his stormhost 'The Hammers of Sigmar'.

The mortal humans known as bloodbound are specifically a Khornate-flavored addition called Bloodreavers. It has been noted that the Bloodreavers seem to have a mixed-race feel, suggesting the Mortals are no longer just not-Björk-Björks and not-Mongols anymore. Nonetheless, they have fair hair, vaguely Scandinavian-sounding names like "Skargan", "Hroth" (which, depending on what you read, either means "gore" or "fame" in Old Norse), Volundr, and use patronymic naming conventions, so they are basically Norscans from the Old World. However, some argue that the presence of dark-skinned people in the Bloodreavers ranks points to them being ethnically diverse. These people forget that the WoC of the original setting also had non-European people among their ranks - the Kurgan and Hung - and that this did not change the fact that the Warriors of Chaos were basically Death Metal stereotypes about Vikings. So it will likely have as much bearing here as it did there. Also, the miniature for the Exalted Deathbringer is an eight foot tall blond bodybuilder with a massive Viking beard and Death Metal hair, so yeah.

The bearded Blood Warrior miniature (the one who uses a skull as a beard clasp) has been lauded throughout the intrawebs as the best miniature in the starter set due to having the largest beard of any mini GeeDubs has ever put out, even compared to their Dwarf models.

[[Khorne|Khorne's]] new warriors all have names alluding to their deity's blood and decapitation fetish.
* Slaughterpriest 
* Bloodsecrator
* Bloodstoker
* Skullgrinder
* Deathbringer
* Red Headsman

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6LQsME4t98 Here is their theme song.]

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Image:Warriors of Chaos Space Marines.jpg|This man's beard is the longest beard in the Nine Realms. Except for Exalted Deathbringer Johann Headtaker.
Image:Games Workshop Writing.jpg|Still miss the 90's?
Image:Age Of Khornan.png
Image:Khornate Lucha!.png|LUCHA FOR THE LUCHA GOD, MASKS FOR THE MASK THRONE!
Image:Chaos Diversity.jpg|Standing fast against their homogeneous foes - the Stormfront Eternals
Image:DisgraceHammer.jpg|[[Grimdark|Some Bloodbound fork their beards with the melted fat of their victims, hence the blade-like look.]]
Image:99070201017_ExaltedDeathbringerImpalingSpear01.jpg| <strike>Perhaps</strike> The Manliest Beard Ever.
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====Disciples of Tzeentch====
Tzeentch's mortal followers and Daemon followers. Unlike the roaming hordes of Khorne and Nurgle, Tzeentch prefers to operate using cults that make their homes in civilized cities, meaning while the other gods are declining as Sigmar brings civilization to the realm Tzeentch is thriving. Their basic troops are the Kairic Acolytes, cultists who masquerade as normal citizens but in times of war use magic to transform their bodies into [[Muscle Wizard|muscle-bound ideals of the human form]]. In addition to humans sorcerers, many cults also include covens of Tzaangor beastmen (many of whom were former humans mutated by worshiping Tzeentch). The Gaunt Summoners, while not technically part of these cults, are respected enough by them that when one shows up, they follow their orders.

====Hedonites Of Slaanesh====
Since Slaanesh has been demoted, his faction is now all of his Daemons and exclusive mortal followers well before the other gods followed this model. <s>Note that [[Sigvald]] is now a generic model Chaos Lord Of Slaanesh, with no special rules</s> DISREGARD THAT, WE SUCK COCKS! Sigvald is back as a super-powered not-quite-mortal champion of the Dark Prince!

Long story short the big four Aelven gods (Malerion, Morathi, Tyrion and Teclis) managed to capture Slaanesh in a trap between the realms of light and shadow and are slowly freeing the Aelven souls it devoured. While the trap is held Morathi's attempts to steal more than her share of souls has weakened the trap and Slaanesh is slowing freeing itself and is even sending out distress signals to its followers. So yeah not like this traps going to last long. Anyways...

Most of his followers currently are still aiding Archaon and is lending their strength to the fight against Order. These are referred to as Invaders and for the most part the faction is being governed by Slaanesh's Greater Daemons who have taken up the main godly duties (bestowing boons, gifts, answering prayers etc..) while some have actually looked to worshipping Archaon as the new Slaanesh. No, seriously. They think Archaon has a personality inside him that deep down [[Moot|wants to be the little girl]]. They call this being "Placebo" (no, seriously, this is actual GW lore).

The rest are split between those looking to rescue Slaanesh who are referred to as Seekers and those looking to BE Slaanesh which are referred to as pretenders and are trying to pass themselves off as Slaanesh reborn.

Though currently the Seekers seem to be making progress and are currently right on Slaanesh's trail. So its likely only a matter of time before they find it and all those Greater Daemons and Mortal champions that were passing themselves off as the '''NEXT''' Slaanesh better hope their god is forgiving when it gets back.

...and then Broken Realms threw that quota a hard turn. Slaanesh might have lost some more souls in Morathi's mad quest for godhood, but its chains were loosened ever-so-slightly enough so it can spit out a "Newborn" to act as its voice....which then split off into twins to remind the realms that the Lord of Excess remains a very visible threat.

====Maggotkin of Nurgle====
The OTHER guy who gets all the new models also has his own faction, although it consists of Nurglite <strike>Warriors of Chaos</strike> Mortals and Daemons. Appeared in Black Library book Ghal-Maraz (which actually is two novellas) messing around with the realm of life, sadly for them they got most of their story getting kicked by the Stormcasts, but then again, in the End Times these guys nearly wipe out the Empire all by themselves and in the beginning of the novella they had just conquered most of the realm of life, besides they put a great fight against Alarielle, forcing her out of hiding, so all in all they are not that incompetent.

Notably has the most special characters of the four as all of his champions managed to make the transition perfectly fine, while others had to sacrifice their less-fun ones because nomodel:
*The [[Glottkin]]
*The [[Maggoth Lords]] of Icehorn Peak
*[[Gutrot Spume]]
*[[Festus the Leechlord]]

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====Slaves To Darkness====
All the generic Warriors of Chaos, plus the Daemon Prince. They're pretty tough, with warriors able to take two wounds a piece and can do some serious damage ( 2 attacks on 3+/4+, rerolling ones to hit if you take double weapons). The bargain price of this, however is fewer bodies and effectively no ranged units. That being said, there are plenty of fast attack options to bog your enemy down, a fair amount of fodder (Marauders) and a good amount of wizards, so make sure you have at least two, one for Mystic Shield, and the other for arcane bolt attacks at the start of every turn, at least.

=====Daemons Of Chaos=====
[[Fury|Furies]], [[Soul Grinder]]s, [[Daemon Prince]]s, and [[Be'lakor]]. Were left as their own little unloved factio before being folded in the STD.

=====Everchosen=====
Archaon, the Varanguard who are Chaos Lords who renounced their (insert faction god) to be one of Archaon's chosen, forever bound in service to him and him alone.

[[File:Godbeasts.jpg|thumb|400px|right|[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4vjJrGeh1c Further proof that Archaon is now powered solely by '''ANIME'''].]]

Games Workshop FINALLY decided to <s>give the often-neglected Tzeentch some love</s> throw Tzeentch a bone with the new Gaunt Summoner models (which look like techni-color Hellraiser-style Cenobites). According to GW; "Originating from deep within the Realm of Chaos, the Gaunt Summoners are powerful daemon sorcerers of Tzeentch. Archaon exerts an iron grip upon their souls - they are not only favoured by the Everchosen for their abilities, which are prodigious, but for their helpless devotion to their masters’ twisted whims. Able to twist reality with their dread incantations and engulf whole armies in deadly warpfire, the Gaunt Summoners were responsible for some of the most horrifying atrocities committed during the Age of Chaos. Only nine of these bizarre, faceless creatures exist at any one time, and it is an exceedingly rare event to see more than one appear at any time."

As for Archaon himself? As the newfound [[Meme]] indicates, he is now powered solely by '''ANIME'''.

* ''Catches a bolt of Azyr lightning in his hand and crushes it with his hand into nothingness.''
* ''His contempt is so intense that it shatters the earth beneath his feet.''
* ''His and his men's acts of butchery and slaughter caused a Lord of Change that viewed them to weep quicksilver tears of anguish.''

Archaon's ultimate goal is to destroy the Chaos Gods still, and while he's their greatest servant they are actually afraid that this can really happen. They continually send their greatest warriors to kill him in random encounters, but like a JRPG character he only grows stronger.
Archaon intends to claim all of the Realms in order to gain the power to destroy all of Chaos and rule over a godless kingless united Realm for eternity, but he has to be careful in doing so. He cannot kill the being who controls that Wind (Nagash as Death for example) outright or the Realm will collapse. It will only be his if he holds them until he can somehow extract the former Incarnates from them.

He fights for the freedom of all men, yet also enjoys killing and torturing all beings and comitting genocide against reality.

tl;dr Archaon is [[Malal]] now. Or the Emperor.

They have been rolled into Slaves to Darkness, which for all intents and purposes, it should’ve been apart of from the beginning.

====Legions Of Azgorh====
[[Chaos Dwarves]].

====Tamurkhan's Horde====
Pretty much every [[Forge World]] Chaos model not in Legions Of Azgorh. Kind-of considered a subfaction of Nurgle, but due to a lot of their stuff being relegated to Legends and Forge World kind of giving up on writing rules for non-specialist games, they're stuck in an odd limbo of allegiances.

====[[Skaven]]====
They still exist. They are still aligned with Chaos and are still backstabbing little shits.

The Great Horned Rat ascended as the God of Blight (no doubt annoying Nurgle since that's supposed to be his job) and the fourth major Chaos God after Slaanesh's disappearance, but only the Skaven worship him (although any rogue insane [[Necromunda|humans]] who consider it would probably be turned into Skaven, making it a self-fulfilling rule) and the other gods (along with Archaon) look down on him, seeing him as a scheming usurper rather than a true equal. He's hoping to get more power, and the Skaven do remain numerous as all fuck.

The day Horned Rat was accepted into the Four, Chaos drew Skavenblight into itself as a fifth realm in the Daemon-controlled Warp, which was renamed Blight City. In true Skaven fashion however, they dug their burrows too deep and accidently sunk Blight City halfway back into the material plane. This turned out to be a blessing as now Skaven can travel anywhere from Warp to material plane at will and bring anything Chaos friendly with them at the moment with.

Skaven thus far have only been seen supporting Nurgle militarily. But "the Great Horned Rat" will rise; given that the Great Horned Rat's M.O. is scheming and treachery and that, with Slaanesh MIA, Nurgle's the weakest of the original Chaos gods, Nurgle getting backstabbed may happen in the future.

It's also possible that, given the treacherous nature of Skaven, they may fight other chaos factions. Could this mean the Great Horned Rat is GW's attempt at a second [[Malal]]?

The old Warhammer Fantasy Skaven Clans are now types of Clans; what was once Eshin is now tens of thousands or more of Clans just like Eshin. Because there are as many Elves as the plot demands.

Skaven as a faction are only generic characters, Skaven Slaves, Thrott The Unclean, Packmaster Skweel Gnawtooth, Tretch Craventail, Lord Skrolk, Queek Headtaker, Deathmaster Snikch, and Warlord Spinetail.

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=====Skaven Pestilens=====
The plague rats in [[Clan Pestilens]]. They are shown to be working a lot with Nurgle's rotbringers into taking the realm of life.

=====Skaven Eshin=====
Sneaky motherfucker Skaven still. Formerly [[Clan Eshin]]. Turns out during the Age of Chaos Eshin managed to somehow tunnel into Sigmars outhouse in Azyr without anyone noticing...But the horned one himself decided to keep these little passages a secret from the other chaos gods. It's how he saw Sigmars counter assault coming a mile away and only committed he's most disliked servants to the battle, leaving the Skaven as the least damaged chaos faction. Hopefully Eshin got a pat on the head for that.

=====Skaven Moulder=====
[[Clan Moulder]] are still monster makers. Also have the ordinary Rat Swarms.

=====Skaven Skryre=====
[[Clan Skryre]]. Still rocking the magitek hard.

=====Skaven Verminus=====
Embodying the overwhelming numbers mentality of the Old World Skaven, this new Great Clan is comprised of the old Clanrats, Stormvermin, and Warlord models and generally represent the majority of clans without anything significant to set them apart.

=====Skaven Masterclan=====
The [[Grey Seers]]. Basically the Skaven Priesthood. NOT ACTUALLY THE MASTERS OF THE OTHER CLANS, however much they would like to be. Not a good idea to piss off a Grey Seer regardless.