Sons of Behemat

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"Be good, Little One. Or the Gargants will come to get you. Little girls who steal get chomped by the Kraken-eater. Little boys who shout and cry get stomped on by the Warstomper. And those who try to hide from the Gargants get smashed by the Gatebreaker. Be good, Little One. Not that it would help."

– Sons of Behemat teaser

The Sons of Behemat are an upcoming army for Age of Sigmar themed around the concept of giants (or gargants in copyright-speak).

History of the Gargants

While the full story of the Sons of Behemat will presumably be revealed in their battletome, one can gather a crude understanding of their history from their minor appearances in previous books.

Behemat was a godbeast (read; continent sized monster) that lived in Ghyran and became the progenitor of the gargant race. It is said the gargants were created from his vomit after he went on a binge-eating spree that caused the extinction of several species of cattle.

For a time the gargants lived in the region of Ghyran called the Harmonis Veldt. Although primitive, they were ultimately a race of noble savages who were allied to the cause of Order. This would not last, as with every single Age of Sigmar backstory you eventually reach the point where the Age of Chaos happens and everything gets ruined. The Harmonis Veldt was invaded by the forces of Nurgle, who corrupted it into what is now known as the Scabrous Sprawl. Unable to defend their homeland, the gargants were forced into hiding, where they quickly evolved to become violent, territorial creatures to protect their lands from invaders. These new degenerated gargants eventually found they had much in common with the followers of Gorkamorka, resulting in them often forming alliances, especially with the Gloomspite Gitz who can offer them barrels of fungus beer and nice dark and damp places to recover from their hangovers.

As an aside, in the Ogor Mawtribes battletome mention is made of the Sky Titans, a race of intelligent giants whose flying castles were destroyed by Gorkamorka for the crime of using their cannons to shoot down a school of megalofin (giant sky-sharks) he wanted to hunt. The ruins of these sky-castles were said to have landed in the Scabrous Sprawl. The implication is that just like in Warhammer Fantasy, the gargants are nothing but the descendants of the Sky Titans who have devolved into a primitive state.

During the Realmgate Wars, as part of Archaon's plan to corrupt the godbeasts to Chaos, he sent the forces of Nurgle and the Skaven to corrupt Behemat. The plan was for the Skaven to drill into his bones to awaken him, the Maggotkin to corrupt him with Nurgle's taint, and for him to be persuaded to join Archaon's side by being told half-truths about Sigmar killing his father, Ymnog the Grandfather of Gargants. Although the Stormcast Eternals attempted to stop this, they were too late and were forced to invoke the power of the Great Bolts, the same weapon Sigmar used to kill Ymnog, to slay Behemat. According to the Sylvaneth battletome, many of the gargants, feeling lost after witnessing the death of their god-progenitor, were taken in as allies by the Oakenbrow Sylvaneth.