Orpheon Katakros is the Mortarch of the Necropolis and the commander of the Ossiarch Bonereapers.

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Do you like Orpheon Katakros? Compared to the other Mortys

The character is one of the neater ones, but his aesthetic doesn't do a whole lot for me. Not skeleton-y enough. Aesthetically, Neferata and Arkhan win, imo. The cool hats and stylised dread abyssals are too good to ignore. I don't think he's necessarily better or worse than any of them, because all of them are quite enjoyable in their own ways.

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New(ish) Ossiarch Bonereaper display at Warhammer World. Not a line of minis I'd invest in massively but this diorama was incredible. You can see the big man overseeing the tithe in the first image.

Broken Realms: Teclis & Lumineth Battletome

So I finished reading both now, can move on to End of Enlightenment next.

The Battletome I don’t have much to say because the additions are mostly mechanical. Glad to be introduced to two of the Tyrionic nations now, and curious to see what the other two will be, but I’m going to largely talk about Broken Realms.

Since a lot of it might be spoilers I’ll put it under a divide but to give just a sum of my overall opinion: Overall I enjoyed it and it is a very good example of doing right one thing 40k does very poorly in lore, but I do have issues with the treatment of Nagash in it. 

So, in simple terms, Broken Realms Teclis is the story of Teclis and the Lumineth successfully baiting Nagash into a trap. The end result of this trap is that the Necroquake is undone and Nagash is, at least for a time, bound in Shyish.

It is, out-and-out, a victory for the Lumineth and a major display of their agency and efficiency within the lore.

With this and the Morathi book the trend of the Broken Realms seems to be that the protagonist of the book triumphs (a normal enough trend) and unlike in 40k the protagonists can be from many different groups. I hope this means that Be’lakor, coming next, will triumph in his book as it will suck if two Order characters triumph in their books only to buck the trend once there is a Chaos Protagonist.

Overall there is a lot I like here. First of all: as a fan of the Lumineth I am of course just pleased they are depicted as competent, intelligent and capable, that goes without saying. But, there is a lot more to it than that:

I am glad that during the Lumineth invasion of the Ossiarch Empire the book is at pains to stress the Lumineth know they can’t successfully conquer the Ossiarchs, they are just launching pinpoint strikes to undermine the dread the Ossiarch’s inspire by showing that you can hit them where it hurts and live to tell about it. This stops the Ossiarchs from losing ground but still gives the Lumineth a victory.

I am glad Katakros is not present as this prevents him being served up as a Worf when he’s just started solidifying an impressive reputation for himself.

Teclis’ final plan to defeat Nagash, and that clash, in isolation, is largely fine. I agree with the overall outcome of Nagash being high on Necromancy being individually stronger than Teclis, but losing to Teclis’ use of allies and his own arrogance. Those are classic weaknesses of Nagash. So, in isolation, the final fight is fine.

Then, a major positive, is this book shows a serious thing I wish 40k could do. It gives more than one faction AGENCY!

In 40k Lore, particularly of late, NOTHING can be achieved by anyone unless it is the Imperium, or Chaos over the Imperium. All agency HAS to be connected to the Imperium and Imperium alone, often not even that, Space Marines and Space Marines alone.

The other factions can’t ever star in their own plotlines. They are always sidekicks to existing Space Marine plotlines at best.

The clearest example is, of course, the atrocious handling of the Ynnari plotline. Taking the single largest Xenos development in ages and just making it almost nothing but an excuse to write more about the Imperium whilst the Ynnari practically vanish from existence. It is incredibly depressing.

In Broken Realms: Teclis, however, we see AoS once again just do better than 40k. Stormcasts don’t show up AT ALL in this book. Sigmar either. This book gave the Lumineth their own major plotline, their own major triumph, had them achieve something Sigmar and his Stormcast had so far been unable too, and it didn’t feel the need to second them to Stormcasts or make them sidekicks.

Again; just compare how the Ynnari, and Aeldari as a whole, are treated compared to the Lumineth. It is such a breath of fresh air in AoS that more than one faction is allowed to actually be the stars of their own stories!

So what are the things I dislike? really there are two points I didn’t like:

Neferata and Mannfred continue to suck. I have said before I am bothered by how low-tier these two are presented as. Neferata’s first appearance, seemingly depicting her as being awed by a low-level Stormcast, was always annoying. Olynder and Katakros, the newest Mortarchs all have major successes and victories to their names. But these two? Two of the oldest beings alive? They suck. They just constantly fail and get shown up. This story is no different. Both Mannfred and Neferata hatch schemes and both just fail. I feel this was unnecessary. Since the overall ending is Nagash’s defeat I don’t see why Mannfred and Neferata couldn’t have been allowed smaller victories to at least give Death some triumphs in this.

Nagash was perhaps the one major antagonist who SHOULDN’T have been beat up again. Archaon, Gordrakk, any Mortarch, Sigvald, fine, but Nagash? he is the memetic loser of the Gods. Of the pantheon only one God has gotten himself ever ‘destroyed’ in a battle (Alarielle just spent so much power she retreated into a seed pod). That god is Nagash. He’s also done it TWICE now. Archaon beat his ass. Now Teclis did. Nagash also has VERY few personal triumphs. Yes, during this period, Death has done well, because Olynder bested the Celestant Prime and Katakros personally lead the first and only successful counter-invasion into Chaos’ own heartlands. But, Nagash himself? Almost every time he personally is involved in a fight it ends in failure. As always he is a bit hard to take seriously when every time, about, he’s shown his face in public its been to get his ass handed to him. Again; in isolation the actual way the Teclis v Nagash fight plays out I am fine with, Nagash is individually stronger but cannot understand the merits of friendship like Teclis, seeks to dominate rather than live in harmony, and underestimates due to his arrogance and thus is brought low by Teclis cooperating with others. That’s honestly a perfect way to structure Teclis v Nagash. But...they just had to let him have some wins himself or make it that more time passes since he got his ass kicked by Archaon. This just makes it look like Nagash really sucks at fighting.

Beyond those two complaints, overall, I still enjoy the book. If the trend holds that the protagonist of the book wins I will be pleased as we’ve had two Order books now where their characters won, so we should at least have one character from Destruction, Chaos and Death also get a win.

A last little note: we have some more info on Tyrion. Not much though. It seems in response to Archaon breaching into Slaanesh’s jail Teclis and Tyrion both went there. Teclis returned to fight Nagash, but not Tyrion. When Nagash queried this Teclis’ direct answer was to say that Tyrion couldn’t come because he was busy fighting his own battle against a foe ‘greater than Nagash’. The implication is maybe Tyrion is currently trying to keep Slaanesh suppressed alone in the Hidden Gloaming then due to the weakening wards?

At the same time an earlier segment did mention Tyrion has gone on some secret quest he set himself for and has not been seen since. So, at this stage, mostly I think it is just GW giving an explanation for why he seems so absent despite the desperate times, and writing in some plot hooks they can use for when they decide to make him. 

Katakros

Hobby Streak Day 135

Got Katakros as a gift over the holidays. Still very afraid I’m going to mess him up but here goes nothing.

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What is?

I need to know!

It's AoS, so judging by the roots above the head, I'm assuming Sylvaneth? It looks a little too big/detailed to be a generic hero though, so probably a named character. However is it normal elf sized like the Light of Eltharion? Or Allarielle sized?

It'll probably come with Broken Realms Kragnos if Kragnos himself is a woof elf/Sylvaneth unit. That means Kragnos imself would probably be the big bad unit. However, whilst the above character doesn't have a mount like Teclis/Alarielle, and they don't have a diorama like Katakros/Glutos, Slaanesh has Glutos + Sigvald + Shalaxi so factions having multiple big models isn't unheard of.

What I really want to know though, is this a new character or could this be a reborn version of Aliathra, daughter of Alarielle?

Katakros

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Katakros, Mortarch of the Necropolis 

he’s a big guy 

I’m trying to get into AoS lore and I was wondering if you had any recommendations in regards to getting into Idoneth Deepkin lore?

Idoneth don’t have to much of a presence outside of their Battletome. There’s one or two short stories, but I can't recommend them to much. They do have a nice appearance in the campaign supplement about Olynder freeing Katakros, they play the role of the main Order army alongside the Stormcast and are fairly heroic there.

The main thing to try would be Court of the Blind King, the new novel about them, but I can’t quite give my full thoughts on it first as I haven’t finished it yet and would like to finish the whole thing before speaking about it.

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What does Mannfred do to antagonize Orpheon Katakros

Has Katakros shown up in a book yet? I’m not sure, at least not anything I’ve gotten my hands on. 

So I’m gonna just go on gut feeling here and what little blurbs I have read and say that Mannfred probably taunts him by Riding Ashigaroth when/if ever they speak to both be 1) taller 2) faster and 3) remind Katakros of his death and that he’s being a big whiny baby just ride a giant skeleton horse ffs.

Beyond that, Mannfred would what he does to everyone else, and would do exactly what would annoy/infuriate himself. 

As to whether any of this is actually effective, I’m sure Katakros is more receptive to it than Arkhan. But that doesn’t say much at all.

Your Teclis review is spot on! As someone who considers themself mainly a Death player, I honestly have some very conflicted feelings. Like I went in knowing we would lose, I just sort of assumed that a book staring Teclis would be his win. But to have every bit fail was a bit harsh. So that doesn't feel good. But at the same time, Death during this Soul Wars AoS 2.0 time got 2 new updated factions with Mortarchs, and we're getting a complete update with Soulblight. So it still feels good1/2

2/2 At least on the modelling side. We got so many different updated models to mess around and play with, not to mention the cursed city box looks amazing for us, and we got good models. So overall as a Death player it at least feels good on the hobby side, which is more then I can say ever having been a Xenos player. Though yeah, if Nagash could stop being defeated then swearing vengeance for 5 minutes, would be grand.

Yeah, as I said, I feel the major misstep I disliked was just Nagash losing again. He is easily the ‘big bad’ who fails the most directly.

The Soul Wars has been good for Death on many other fronts of the Lore, Lady Olynder’s soloing of the Celestant Prime and Katakros’ successful invasion of the Eightpoints sticking out, so overall it was a good period even in the lore, it is just Nagash continues to be something of a punching bag for other characters.

As I said I don’t personally mind the book’s execution, the problem for me is the circumstances around it mean that Nagash begins to grow hard to take seriously. 

Hopefully we will see him able to defeat a peer in the future some time to cement that he doesn’t always have to lose when going up against other major faction leaders.