Scyla Anfingrimm, Talon of Khorne, had followed his slaughterer's instincts to the Magnusspitze, and the truest savages of Archaon's hird had followed in his murderous wake. Archaon had claimed the Temple of Ulric as his hall in the many months since he and his Norsemen had laid the city low. Fink you can hide from me in dere! The tribes of Norsca fought on, with the grim fatalistic determination of their race they hacked and slew for the glory of their hateful gods. Hello everyone, out of all the chaos lords you can choose, you could NEVER go wrong with Archaon. Ka'Bandha, Lord of the Bloodthirsters, had grown impatient with the Everchosen's obstinate desire to remain in Middenheim while blood was yet to be spilt. He bound the Greater Daemon U'zuhl into the blade, and the millennia of imprisonment have sent it insane with rage and fury. But in his death-throes, the warrior had raised the Imperial standard Valkia sought to claim and drove it through her daemonic flesh, the Daemon Prince's very momentum driving her further and further down the spear, until the heartwood shaft had shattered her unnatural spine. The gnawing rift at the heart of Mankind's domain devoured reality. Warhammer Armies: Hordes of Chaos (6th Edition), Warhammer: Champions of Chaos (5th Edition), https://whfb.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Archaon&oldid=106469, His mother's husband, Roald, arrived home in time to prevent his wife's rape by the Norse raider, His mother, Viktoria, aborted her unwanted child and cast it to the waves, Diederick caught a fever and died under Father Dagobert's care, Diederick was kicked in the head while tending Oberon in Sieur Kastner's service and died soon thereafter. They swiftly defeated the Chimera hordes guarding the higher passes where Archaon and his three companions climbed to the top of the plateau. Archaon is rumoured to have retreated to the Chaos Wastes, leaving the Empire in shambles. Yet the Northman matched the skill of their grim foes with wild bloodlust, and so many of Ungrim's slayers found the deaths they longed for atop the walls of the Averburg. If your country is not shown and you are in the EU, please select ''Rest of EU'', otherwise select ''Rest of World''. His presence unites the armies of chaos, turning the myriad armies into a single brutal force of domination. His throne forged from the bones of Ulric's priests, and the hammer of Ghal Maraz set upon it as a trophy -- a testament to the supremacy of the Dark Gods of the North over the deities of the south. Archaon delved deep into their necropolis until he found the Tomb of Morkar and the armour he sought. Noble House The skies buckled with the Three-Eyed King's fury as a bolt of sorcerous lightning sundered the skies and smote the Temple of Ulric. The Slayer King had aimed for the Chaos Spawn's head, but it had seemed that his axe-blow had instead found the hulk's massive arm -- the very one with which he now grasped him. Full Name Archaon is one of the best melee fighters in the game, and is also a decent spellcaster. Their time is past, and a new age of Chaos and dismay beckons. After learning that he was the prophesied Everchosen, Diederick hanged himself rather than become so. It has since been ret-conned. Blood oozing from the blow, senses struck clean by the hammer of the impact, the mighty griffon tumbled to earth with a muffled screech and threw his lord from the saddle. so who could? But this was to be its last. Seat of Power Sending a vanguard force under Surtha Lenk, the lands of Kislev were soon devastated. Teclis stole the flame, thus slaying the great Ulric. The city of Kislev -- that legendary bastion which shared its name with its kingdom, was taken by storm in a single night of terrifying bloodshed; its proud walls reduced to rubble, thick with screaming forests of impaled men, women and children. A single Chosen unit with great weapons is able to win against most low-level lords easily due to their incredible stats. Archaon, born Diederick Kastner, and also known as the "Three-Eyed King," the "Herald of the Apocalypse" and the "Lord of the End Times," is the thirteenth and current Everchosen of Chaos and the last high king of Norsca. [1f] Diederick presented himself at Kastner's ancestral home as one of these children, and was eventually christened Diederick Kastner, a Templar of the Knightly Order of the Twin-Tailed Orb.[1g]. Forged before the dawn of man, the Crown of Domination once held the Eye of Sheerian, but had since been lost to history. Adopting the name Archaon, he travelled north towards the Chaos Wastes. Perhaps I am foolish also, for I fight with no hope of victory. It was in 2420, after several years of knightly deeds in Sigmar's service, that Diederick was started down the road to damnation. Archaon was now in ascendance; Middenheim was undoubtedly the proudest conquest of the Norscans' long and storied history, for its capture was an unmatched humiliation of the weakling gods of the Empire. With that strike, the Slayer of Kings thundered into the Essence of Ghal Maraz and the hammer exploded into a thousand shards of light. Yet still, the Northern King and Emperor fought. Frenzy Wounds Physical Resistance: 10%. Diederick overheard this, and in spite of his injuries, insisted on accompanying Dagobert and Giselle on their mission to deliver the forbidden books to the Grand Theogonist at Altdorf. Diederick was raised by the priest until he was old enough . The Onslaught had devolved into little more than a wild mob of savage warriors by the time they had reached the Steilstrasse. With no recourse, Balthasar Gelt conjured a spell to transport the survivors of the Emperor's army to Athel Loren -- the last place in the world spared the fury of the Norscans, leaving only Ungrim Ironfist and the Sons of Kazakrendum to cover their retreat. Not one of the heavily armoured Norse riders had reached their enemy, having been burned to cinders by the Emperor's lightning or torn from their saddles by the griffon Deathclaw. The future of all creation would be decided, either by the Slayer of Kings or the Splitter of Skulls. Damage of missile attacks is reduced by this amount. Archaon (Formerly Diederick Kastner) Deathclaw saw the blow before his master did, and imposed himself between the Emperor and the keen edge of U'zuhl. Archaon was unafraid and marched off alone with his steed into the darkness. Base Weapon Damage:140 Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage:330 Bonus Mult. Total War: WARHAMMER Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. Archaon is the Everchosen, the favoured warlord of the Dark Pantheon. Leading a vast army of Chaos warbands united under his banner, Archaon marched on Empire from the north, while his herald, Vardek Crom, marched from the east, over the World's Edge Mountains. Valten, Herald of Sigmar and champion of the Empire, had ridden hard for Middenheim, seeking to bolster the city's legendary defences with his own mighty force. Throughout the battle, Sigmar raged at the Everchosen; lamenting that he, the son of a daughter of the Empire, might have been the sword that would have wiped the Empire clean of Chaos' taint and led humanity into a bright new age. Thus the worst had come to pass, with the Norsemen playing out the final steps of annihilation begun by their ancestors when Cormac Bloodaxe led his mighty horde upon Sigmar's empire all those many centuries ago. Join Facebook to connect with Archaon Everchosen and others you may know. He renounced the gods of the south but still affirmed his hatred for the dark gods of his father, accepting the cruel destiny engineered for him as a final means to repay the Fates for the evil they had done upon him. Archaon is a strong generalist fighter. Archaon, known also as Archaon the Everchosen, and named the "Three Eyed King," and the "Exalted Grand Marshal of the Apocalypse," is the most powerful of the Chosen of the Chaos Gods.He serves the will of four of the five major Ruinous Powers.Only the Great Horned Rat is excluded from Archaon's service, for he hates all Skaven and believes their scheming deity unworthy of his service. At their head is the Everchosen, the warrior who will lead the final, cataclysmic assault that will usher in the End Times and the reign of the Ruinous Powers. The Everchosen weathered the cold fury of Gregor Martak's spells, wading out from the arcane blizzards he conjured as though they were no more substantial than fog. Realms of old have fallen, lost beneath the fury of the northlands, or smothered by vermin from below. The intervention of Ulric, Sigmar's own deity in mortal life, who sought to repay the Everchosen for the despoiling of Middenheim and the slaughter of his worshippers, bought the God-King time to recover as the Three-Eyed King finally slew the host of Ulric's godspark and thus snuffed out the last embers of that noble deity's life. Within a matter of hours, he was able to slay hundreds of the misshapen monsters that had infested the mighty citadel, until finally his sword-arm turned numb and the ground grew slippery with the blood and gore of the fallen. The case is; I want to make an Archaon armor cosplay from warhammer fantasy, based on the Archaon model that comes out in the videogames of "Warhammer . It made the wearer invulnerable to all but the most powerful of attacks, making the wearer nigh-unstoppable in the heat of combat. vs. Buildings:1 Melee Interval:4 s Melee Reach:3 Magical Attacks:Yes With the Dwarfen warriors of Karak Kadrin, led by their mighty king Ungrim Ironfist, the Emperor successfully drove back the Tzeentchians and freed Averheim of their fury. Prince Ograx the Great, the strongest of Archaon's companions, was able to lift up one of Krakanrok's talons high enough for Archaon to retrieve the Daemonsword. Every last Dwarf not of Zhufbarak died a loathsome death that day. All around them, Norsemen and Imperial alike fell into the sodden mud, their skill having failed them. In combat with the monsters' champion, Diederick clashed Terminus against the other's weapon, breaking off a shard of warpstone that flew into his faceplate and pierced his eye. Those few of Kislev's people who still lived rallied behind the Tzarina Katarin, who had miraculously survived the slaughter of the city of Kislev. At their head is the Everchosen, the warrior who will lead the final, cataclysmic assault that will usher in the End Times and the reign of the Ruinous . Tags archaon - lord of chaos. The battle fought between them was perhaps the fiercest fought of all that were waged during the End Times. Deafening metallic clamour rang out as U'zuhl and Ghal Maraz clashed together, daemonfire and holy lightning striking out with every blow. Then there was the Eye of Sheerian, which was named after the Tzeentchian Sorcerer who discovered it. According to the Daemon Prince Be'lakor, Diederick's fate was guided by the powers of Chaos since before his birth. After claiming the Armour of Morkar, Archaon set out to retrieve the Eye of Sheerian. With tendril, pinion and snapping claw, the Bloodbeasts crushed the slayers under their mindless, bestial bloodlust. He alone has the strength and Ability the chaos gods need to turn their disorganized forces into a single horde. To be a man of the North at that time was to walk in the wake of legend itself -- Ragnar Painbringer, Sven Bloody-Hand, Engra Deathsword, Wulfrik the Wanderer, Valkia the Bloody, Sigvald the Magnificent, Scyla Anfingrimm, Valnir the Reaper and a thousand other legendary names of dark renown and terror thundered across the field, leading their tribesmen across a bloody field to face the cowardly Middenlanders who perched atop their mountain fastness dreading the wrath of the Northmen. Thus the half-Norscan warlord stood ready to fulfil his destiny and to usher at the end of all things, and in the very end, he faced the very god of his people that he had once called lord, and of all Mankind. Archaon killed Volkmar the Grim, Grand Theogonist of Sigmar, with one blow from the Slayer of Kings by unleashing the power of U'zuhl, the daemon bound within it. Some heroes battle on, too stubborn to realise all hope is lost. Faction After gaining their . At the Battle of the Monoliths, Archaon crushed an army commanded by Arch-Lector Kurt Mannfeld, consisting of Kislevites, troops from the Empire and dwarfs. Greater magic (Costs 2). Matchless warriors of the Skullrage, legendary Norsii knights said to have fought at the side of Morkar the Uniter himself, duelled with the greatest Bretonnian knights. And as the newborn Chaos Gate fed its dark hunger by disrupting the fabric of the world itself with the energies it unleashed, the two demigods struggled in a titanic contest, the ending of the world itself paling in intensity to the unimaginable hatred that stood between them. $ 9.99. Dis fortress iz now mine! With a large army of fanatical flagellants and forces from the Elector Count of Talabecland behind him, Volkmar faced the Swords of Chaos in the Troll Country and even challenged Archaon himself for a duel. He doesn't come to soften up the world he is the reason the invasion happens in the first place and the driving will behind it. Neither sun nor moon had ever touched their pallid skin and after six days and six nights of battle, the city of these creatures had been reduced to rubble. print now. And already, its precursors were being felt. He journeys with an armada of mutated, insane humans, and tears rifts in reality, releasing demons into the universe wherever he ventures. A thousand-thousand beady red eyes that watched from the shadows widened in fear as tribe after tribe of savage Norscans waded ashore. Once, twice, thrice, the former Norse champion had used Ungrim as an improvised flail, using the king to crush and shatter his very subjects. The axe bit deep, and Scyla howled in unholy rage as he instinctively threw away the Dwarf. The loss of Boris Todbringer in a foolish quest for vengeance severely weakened the great city, leaving it vulnerable to the massed Norse horde. The next treasure to be won was the dreaded demonic mount of Agrammon. Invigorated, the polar rifts slipped their ancient bounds and joined their younger sibling in its feast. Background. Thunderously did U'zuhl and Ghal Maraz clash in blows that could have shattered mountains and shook the very world to its foundations. Already tired of their victory, they turned away from the ruin they had wrought and began the Great Game anew in other worlds and other creations. Archaon the Everchosen last edited by captainofthestars on 08/02/22 04:48PM View full history Sired by the Daemon Bel'akor on an unsuspecting woman, the man who would become Archaon began life as Diederick, and was in fact a warrior dedicated to Sigmar. Even he could not defeat such a foe, so instead, he and his companions sneaked past the titanic monster, only to find that the Slayer of Kings was clasped into its chest. To revive his brother, he would need the energies of the first and mightiest of the gods of the Empire -- Ulric himself, whose physical embodiment in the world burned as a blinding flame within the great mountain -- the fire burning above but a pale facsimile. Unsheathing his mighty blade, he slew the Greater Daemon of Tzeentch Kairos Fateweaver, beheading the abomination and taking his blood as the sacrament with which to honour the greatest of all the Dark Gods -- Khorne. Some heroes battle on, too stubborn to realise all hope is lost. Oaths to Sigmar, Grimnir and the Lady of the Lake were drowned out by bellowing roars as the berserkers called out the eight-thousand bloody names of Khorne as it finally came to be the Northlanders' time to wreak slaughter. I seek only to weaken the Dark Gods, to shake their hold upon the future. Such devastation could not come into being overnight, of course. The Beginning of the End of the Warhammer World. The Lord of the Hunt led his fellow daemons in smashing apart the forces of the Incarnates, while he himself set his burning gaze upon the Emperor himself. Attributes Only one Imperial stood resolute against the tide of northern warriors, in his hand the hammer of Sigmar himself. Above the charge of the Norscans flew the mightiest of their legendary shield-maidens -- the dauntless warrior-queen Valkia the Bloody, the "Bringer of Glory," she who carried the fallen to Khorne's halls. Suddenly, what he had taken for a mountain behind him turned over in its sleep, causing a series of earthquakes in the lands below. The two clashed and managed to slay each other's mounts. Archaon remained motionless as he beheld the slaughter of his closest knights and nodded to the Emperor. Allying with Khazrak One-Eye and the Beastmen warherds of Drakwald, Archaon managed to surround Middenheim while the rest of his armies engaged the forces of the Empire and its allies elsewhere. Valkia's spear, Slaupnir, had torn its brutal way through Ludvig's breastplate and pierced his heart, slaying him. Warbands, led by particularly bloodthirsty or foolhardy chieftains, scaled the towering edifice and managed to raid villages and besiege scattered fortresses. Let us not ask for power. Promo 2. I stand here on this mountain, and I will sit on this throne. "So soon the hour fate comes around. On the top of its withered skull sat the Crown of Domination. The Everchosen did not charge his steed now, for the Emperor was defeated. Many were the renowned warriors gathered into the ranks of the Berserker Onslaught -- the mighty Skaramor clans, the merciless warriors of Valkia's Bloodied Horde, fresh from their victory over the armies of Naggaroth in the far north, and many others whose blades thirsted for Southling blood. If the flame went out, the world would be shrouded in an everlasting winter. "I am the Final Moment made flesh. Greatest of the Dark Gods' champions, the Exalted Grand Marshal of the Apocalypse, he is the Everchosen - the doom of all. Valten taking a seemingly mortal blow, Archaon was then hit in the head by Luthor Huss but sent Huss flying with a back-hand blow. Their charge was unto the southlings as the ending of worlds, as their impact trampled hundreds of brave warriors of both the Reiksguard and Griffon Order alike into the gore-slick dirt. That terrible act of uncreation might have taken the blink of an eye, or unfolded across millennia. These included the Liber Celestia, a series of prophecies by the Tilean heretic Necrodomo the Insane. [1a] Born in 2391 IC, the baby was the death of his mother, Viktoria, and her husband . The Greater Daemon was strong, but Archaon drew strength from the Slayer of Kings and wrested the Bloodthirster's weapons away and strangled it with its own whip. Archaon, also known as Archaon the Everchosen, is a fictional character in the Warhammer franchise, leader of the forces of Chaos, and one of the primary antagonists in multiple settings and mediums owned by Games Workshop.He is considered one of the most powerful characters in the Warhammer multiverse, having brought about the fabled End Times, and is a major antagonist in Warhammer Fantasy .
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