This is the kind of content that dreams are made of. Fantastic work all around!

Khuresh is the faction from the east I want to see the most.

@nurgleblessed1555

3 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@fumarc4501

3 жыл бұрын

Me three

@justintoe3005

3 жыл бұрын

For me it's the Hobgoblin Khanate and Empire of Nippon

Hey, i'm from the area of what is the real world's equivalent of Khuresh. Would definitely feel represented and hyped a lot if CA decide to add make them :v Folklore here in Thailand stresses a LOT about the Serpent king or King Naga. You will see them in literally EVERY temple. They are regarded as deities of water and are widely worshipped not only among sailors and fishermen but also landfolks. It is now part of Theravada Buddhism especially in Laos and Thailand. We have a well known mythological tale of a seven headed Naga that guards Lord Buddha while he meditates in the forest. Those who will soon be a monk will have their heads shaved and wear white clothing and they are literally called ''Naga'' as well before the main ceremony to fully become a monk.

@scholaepalatinae4988

3 жыл бұрын

Another notes, I just started planning South East Asia inspired fantasy world as well.

@AlifZabidi

3 жыл бұрын

Naga were also a key part of Malay/Javanese mythology (Buddhist and Hindu mix) before the arrival of Islam. They were water dragons/spirits linked to rivers, lakes and seas. I'm super excited to see more interest in Southeast Asian lore recently, and really hope this becomes a dlc or mod for warhammer 3

@sonath558

3 жыл бұрын

When you r talking abt Naga, Garuda should be mentioned as well, it would be a hell of a DLC

@AnArtisticToad

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting, I had no idea naga were a part of any folklore. Thought it was a pure fantasy concept.

@fumarc4501

3 жыл бұрын

A eastern race of magic/intelligent Harpies that feud with the Naga... I can see it.

Very impressive fan lore! I’ll be interested to see how Sotek, the serpent god of the Lizardmen, feels about the Naga. It always struck me as a little incongruous that the Lizardmen are utterly devoted to the Old Ones, but then Sotek comes out of nowhere and makes Tehenahuin his prophet. I could see them uniting against the Skaven, then at the critical moment, the Naga betray the Lizardmen.

If Cathay can get made from the ground up then this Nippon and Ind can get put in as well

@charlesman8722

3 жыл бұрын

They have no excuse to not put anything that wasn’t even a lore mention at this point.

@kapitankapital6580

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe, but also remember that the Southern Realms, Dogs of War and Araby never made it into the game, despite having much more on them in the lore. The inclusion of Cathay is no guarantee of these other factions making an appearance.

@limeyndixie

3 жыл бұрын

Considering these absolutely mad and glorious bastards have done pretty much all the plotting and conceptual art already, and all that’s left is the coding... yeah. No excuse, EA. Open your bottomless coffers just a smidge and give us some nichey snakey bois.

@kapitankapital6580

3 жыл бұрын

@@limeyndixie yeah exactly! All CA needs to do is fill out the roster, create some alternative models, pass it with GW, build dozens of unique skeletons, create the animations, model the textures, write out the text, get all the voice lines recorded, develop unique faction mechanics and figure out the stats for all of the units, balance them with the huge array of existing factions in the game, perform rigorous QA, code everything into the game and do the marketing. It's practically finished already!

@Troupe_Master

3 жыл бұрын

@@kapitankapital6580 Southern realms ,Dogs of war and Araby are already in a game with a mod and its done so well it looks official. They really don't need to make them at this point

A war between Snake vs Rat will be Legendary

@IVIRnathanreilly

3 жыл бұрын

@Renan UYSAL snake people will win every time because rats are so small, at biggest they can be a is maybe the size of your foot and please direct anyone that says otherwise to your local witch hunter.

@vladimirlysenko4773

3 жыл бұрын

Probably it’s gonna be sort of Lustrian wars because of environment, but with the difference: snakes are bit smarter and way more brutal - the war is gonna be really tough on ratmen, who also will become test subjects for snakemen. So if Lustrian wars is lizardmen with dangerous jungle plagues against Clan Pestilence, Khuresh wars is snakeman mad scientists against Clan Maulder) Second option: Cold War inside chaos-aligned forces

@jacobitey7088

3 жыл бұрын

it will also be based

@chutipoljalaruk7570

2 жыл бұрын

If only those rats can wield a minigun

@deaconenoch3456

2 жыл бұрын

i guess Im kind of off topic but do anybody know of a good site to watch new series online?

This is definitely one of the coolest fan-made projects I've ever seen. Hats off to all the guys for the effort and imagination put into the lore, the artwork, everything.

Naga are among my favorite fantasy races in every setting. This is, as Warhammer usually is, the coolest iteration of this theme. I'd really like this race to be in TW:WH3.

I'd love a campaign where you have to travel around the world being sneaky in the world roots and sacking a settlement from each race to add to your experiments (or pokemon-ing slave units for your army (slave hunter unit that when engaged and the enemy breaks both units leave, like the hunters taking the slave unit with them)) with the experimentation all leading up to making them strong enough to fight belegar or something, their ultimate rival or bringing down the slann.

Sarpa Warrior is nearly immune to disease hmm a certain grandfather of disease would love to test that out =P

plot twist: CA lowkey commissioned them to flesh out the lore and draw the concept art for a future expansion. :D Calling it now!

Since they come from the same period as the lizardmen, spawning pools and 'blessed' spawnings would be logical. Given the technologies the lizardmen use, I'd love to see them as the mad scientists with the same paint as the aloof lizardmen.

That Sarpa Infantry design looks crazy good

I would love some Khuresh!!! If they can make up a roster for Cathay, they can make up a roster and lore for the Snakemen.

If CA doesn't make these guys officially then the modders surely will! Unless Warhammer 3 is a massive failure; which I'd be shocked if that were the case.

@SpaceKnight105

3 жыл бұрын

or CA will add them to the beastmen army

@chene-aurelgaudreau1072

3 жыл бұрын

Warhammer 3 being a failure sounds like something Tzeentch would adore

@swardinc

3 жыл бұрын

yea after watching this I'm like im ready to play this faction now =)

@EzrealLux

3 жыл бұрын

I would be surprised if they will not fuck up actually, yet i hope they will finally make an almost perfect warhammer game and not something half baked.

@shanemczane6725

3 жыл бұрын

@@EzrealLux It can't turn out as poorly as Dawn of War 3 did, surely! Beyond Chaos Dwarfs and Ogre Kingdoms as guaranteed race DLC I'm curious what other races they might do past those two. I prefer race packs over lord packs any day.

Modders can literally take beastmen bodies and swap out the head mesh with the HE lion heads for the beastmen of Ind, or for these snake fellas they can put a modified salamander head on a "male-ified" medusa body. Usually mod stuff can look jank but I think modders for this game have done a particularly good job filling in the blanks CA left behind!

Looking great so far! Hope to see you do an update video when the roster is more fleshed out.

I really hope CA and GW see this and maybe make it so

@BaranzarCobralVOD

3 жыл бұрын

I would also say that this would be another opportunity to make something new like what they are doing with Kathay

The Sarpa warrior looks so sick, getting Temple guard vibes from that picture of it in almost Royal guard kinda armor I'm watching all the videos on this faction thanks for covering this @ItalianSpartacus Games Workshop totally needs to bring this faction to the universe

While I would still like for Khuresh to be a bit more grey morally; I’m starting to come around to this depiction of them. The lore already basically states that they are evil and this is a fantastic interpretation based on that idea. They’re not just fancy beastmen they’re a dark reflection of the lizardmen. I think that’s a really cool idea.

That army list video going to be filled with snake boys

So a Chariot operated by Naga, pulled by Kroxigors? I'm sold.

I remember watching this on an Alt account and I'm so grateful you introduced me to Hinterlands of Khuresh and the Snake men race. Have every faith we're getting this faction in WH3 and I cannot wait for that Day. The lore behind them is a treasure trove that CA can't ignore

Italian,...your enthusiasm is legendary, keep it up！

I could see them working well if the base Sarpa are in a position somewhere juuuuust above an Ork Boy unit. I get they use slaves, so im guessing those would fill the lower ranks, leaving the naga to be slightly more powerful and lower unit size for a more impactful presence.

Seems like Tzeentch Heresy watching half the video so far.

Awesome video and loved all the art!

wow didnt have high hopes for the fan made lore but it actually fits really well! I really like it!

Hinterlands of Khuresh man i wise i know about them in lore

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing this!

sounds pretty cool hope it comes and soon

Reminds me Warcraft 3 the Froze Throne

CA GW Look upon this act of love and support it. Grant it your blessing to exist and later into game 3 give us this race. Give us the final cherry on top of a forgotten foe lost to time in a part of the world little is known about. Best thing about this is how much it does work. It's in an area of the world were such events could occur and no one in the Old World would know. Hell we know so little about Cathay and they have constant communication with the Empire. So a nation isolated and actively antagonistic would be like a hidden spectre. A shadow war of the elder races. Especially with the Old World and Cathay coming. These models I'd imagine would sell like warpstone cookies. We must continue to show support for this. Continue to spread the word and maybe one day. Just maybe we can all have the Naga Queens rise once more in the grand end of days.

That poor kroxigor :'( lovely concepts and lore expansion though, those guys did really well.

Very cool! Places like Kuresh are often too often overlooked. I love this fan dedication, art and worldbuilding.

Nagendra looks like Sotek, serpent blood God.

Hit me with that speculation, I love it

I'm sure we gonna get a good mod if not a release by CA. Future for Snakes looks bright

quite different from the WC Naga, thanks for the insight !

I'd sell my soul to Slaanesh for a race of Bio-alchemist snakemen. Gib me!

This is awesome

Me: Now I want Nippon and Ind Malal : why don't I have at least a mod why 😭

@chosenofkhorne2951

3 жыл бұрын

Kenji azure but still he has no good mod at least hint that he exist because the poor guy just wanted some love ❤️

@fumarc4501

3 жыл бұрын

There there Malal. There there.

subverted kroxigora , and ARMORED War hydras cause they can directly control these types of creatures would make sense. And you have to just have a giant snake lol warp stone powered laser cannons would to similar to warp lightning cannons mixed with hell cannons. Corrupted spawning pool mechanics ...if you win a battle against a certain race you get test subjects or whatever that is the cost of upgrading and outfitting your warriors. I'd have to go as far and say this faction could be the most "tailored" or customizable faction in the game. and trading with skaven should unlock warpstone weapons, including weeping blades and there dreaded ratling guns. Khalida and there god Asaph would have a very high affinity to them as well.

Games Workshops should look at this guys work and invest into the creation of an army book and lore for this region of the Warhammer World!

This looks awsome

excellente video !

They're just gonna fill khuresh with lizard men and ind with beastmen and ruins

@richardround2071

3 жыл бұрын

Probably, but moddeds like chaos Robbie have mentioned they'd like the chance to make new factions, and we have alot of serpent animations in gane for them to use

@fumarc4501

3 жыл бұрын

I want Tigermen.

@InquisitorThomas

3 жыл бұрын

I mean yes, but that doesn’t mean it’d stay that way. Nehekara and The Vampire Coast used to be generic Vampire Count Factions before their race packs.

I love that the east gets more attention

I’ve been trying to make my own version of the Snakemen. This should be interesting.

@fumarc4501

3 жыл бұрын

So far they’ve gone by a few routes I had explored. Shunned creations of the Old Ones. Corrupted by Chaos. A minor chaos entity that gained more power by their worship. Even the mutated slaves made up of other enslaved races. One thing I did think was interesting would be in Serpent Cults made up of humans that the Blood Naga use to infiltrate their societies. Think Conan the Barbarian style snakemen worshippers.

@chosenofkhorne2951

3 жыл бұрын

FUmarc in 40k they were corrupted by slannesh and they are just corrupted lizardmen maybe explore the idea of chaos corrupting all races such as the dwarf and elves that would be fun

27:54 - this lore is enough to create multiple different units, not just a single unit roaster

This seems like something for warhammer the old world

Awesome work I hope it gets. Adopted at least in part

I would love if you had human slaves sort of as skaven slaves with these.

Great video, new subscriber 👍👍

I always loved the idea of Snakemen being chaos corrupted Lizardmen.

thinking of battle mechanics here.. imagine an in-game resource that accrues as you kill enemies. you can expend it to take control of routing enemies or let it amass. At 50% full it could provide map-wide leadership penalty to the enemy, then 75% could grant vigor boosts to your forces. 100% could then impose DPS on enemy entities below a certain leadership threshold while also granting access to a powerful ability that expends all of the resource. The faction could be very fun.

Instead of just having a single Major Chaos Demon they worship, it should reflect the polytheistic nature of India and have them worship many. Maybe say that there are hundreds or thousands of minor chaos demons in Kuresh, which gives them as much power as if they worshiped a major one without giving rise to a single rival to the main four chaos gods. Maybe each of the 12 different Naga queens worships a different demon who all have different philosophies that can be tied to unit design. For example, I think it would be cool if whatever Naga Queen has those multiple eyes has like a Diety that is a snake covered in eyes and doubles down on the multi eye motif with like the warrior snakemen having four eyes like shown, but having the casters have three eyes with the third eye in the classic middle of the forehead spot, and make all of the units in under that queen that don't have multiple eyes (like human slave conscripts for fodder) just paint the third eye on.

very well written, nice ^^

Naga, eh? Man, I bet Games Workshop regrets the thing with Blizzard to this day...

so awesome

This was really damn interesting.

Yeeesh 🐍

Iluminati!

god damn plz let this be game 3's vampire coast

so basically half lizardmen half skaven

@fumarc4501

3 жыл бұрын

Pretty much. I worry about the difference is just skin deep.

I'm from Thailand and I'm really excited to see this.

This and Araby would be perfect.

3:54 sea snek

When am I going to find time to watch this when I am grinding through the super informative 20? hours of Stellaris streams!

So they have similarities with the Dark Elves, but there isn't one individual who is responsible for their existence.

I really like the artwork. Do they all have four arms, or is that for just the Naga Blood Queens?

@fumarc4501

3 жыл бұрын

Just had a brain blast! Maybe the Old Ones made the Snakemen and Naga to poison Chaos as a venomous Trojan Horse?

Interestingly enough the naga are just corrupted lizardmen maybe the old ones left them because they were being corrupted by chaos widout the slan to protect their minds against the chaos gods

@nicovelardita8619

3 жыл бұрын

Is that info canon or just fan speculation?

@chosenofkhorne2951

3 жыл бұрын

Nico Velardita actually there is some hints since they both are born from vats of life or at least they are biologically related because I can't think of another race that reproduce like the lizardmen and naga and 40k slannesh has corrupted naga as servents

@fumarc4501

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the Snakemen and Naga were just guinea pigs themselves?

@chosenofkhorne2951

3 жыл бұрын

@@fumarc4501 make sense but would be cool if they have an interaction with slannesh because in 40k they serve her

Loved Act 3 of Diablo 2.

I really love this but idk what the chances of a faction like this being added, games 1 and 2 only had 2 race packs, game 3 will launch with either chaos dwarves or ogres getting the later soon after. There are numerous cannon factions that could take advantage of that final slot such as dogs of war, nippon, ind, and araby

Any chance you could cover the fan made Fishmen race concept similar to this called Terror of the Devilfish Shoals?

Remind me about Sultai in MTG

I hope kerish get put into Warhammer 3

Wouldn't snake armor look like a really long sock made of chainmail?

@akumaking1

2 жыл бұрын

It could be worse . . .

Just a funny thought; maybe the Snakemen could have a special interaction with Fimirs, since they are both rejected experiments of Chaos/Order ?

'sarpa' infantry what a good name, it is close to sarpe, which means snake in my language

wait so how much of this is actual lore of GW :O because this honestly already has my money XD

@happydisaster6703

3 жыл бұрын

None of it

@InquisitorThomas

3 жыл бұрын

Basically there are Snakemen in Khuresh. That’s pretty much all the official lore we have.

@xenoess

3 жыл бұрын

holy hell did those guys make some damn good work then! also thank you for commenting :D

Everything was super cool and interesting until they started describing the sarpa. They sound invincible lmfao. They have chameleon skin, can breath underwater, one scratch from their blade will kill you, invulnerable to disease, regrow limbs, and the list goes on and on. What are they waiting for? Sounds like they could crush every other race with 10 sarpa lol

@fumarc4501

3 жыл бұрын

I assume they’re few in number and probably make up their military leaders.

@justaguy653

3 жыл бұрын

@@fumarc4501 I would hope you’re right, to me they sounded as “normal” or prevalent as the saurus for the lizard men.

*Shudders in Lovecraftian*

Tbh sounds good only thing I don't really like is they seem to know everything and seem to be able to do anything which just seems strange ya know being the outcast children of the old ones and all

Love this video! Sub'd

You know I wonder what happened them during the end times probable destroyed by Gregor It is massive WAWAWA

So snake folk when? Especially more snake ladies...

10:50 dude I Loved this comment

They sound like a Dark elf version of the Lizardmen.

@fumarc4501

3 жыл бұрын

Like Dark Elves and Skaven had an abomination.

Is there an approximate release date for the game yet?

More animal races should either be independent races or added to existing factions

Where did you find all this art? Aside from Artstation, of course

The Khuresh reminds me of the Skaven but magic instead of technology.

We don't talk about snake men... No noo

The art is great, but the lore seems very derivative of the other races (Experiment like the Skaven, keep humans as livestock like Vampires, follow an ancient prophecy/ritual like Lizardmen). IMO it should draw MUCH more from Southeast Asian mythology and snakes in popular culture (the snake in the garden of Eden, Ouroboros, Niddhogr, the Midgard Serpent, Kaa, Serpent Seed, Apophis, Lamia, etc.) I would have made them a creation of the Old Ones, uplifted from primitive Hydra to be shock infantry alongside the Saurus, but their bloodlust exceeded their control. Their hatred for the enemies of their creators made them genocidal, and they believed that a war was only won when their enemy had been eradicated entirely. The Old Ones deemed them not only a failure but a threat to the rest of the world, so they decided to rally Lizardmen and early-humans to exterminate them. The Nagas turn evil in part due to the betrayal of their creators, and they manage to tempt humans with forbidden knowledge of immortality in order to win many over to their ranks - they would go on to do this once again when the sorcerer Nagash saught to perfect his elixir of life and the Nagas contributed their knowledge of blood magic. The war grinds into a stalemate, requiring the Old Ones to personally intervene with arcane WMD's that turn Khuresh into a unique kind of wasteland - swamps, parasitic fungus clouds, pockets of frozen time, sinkholes and enormous caves of acid. Even the forces of chaos found no reason to venture there during the Catastrophe. This devastation is why few venture into Khuresh and why the Nagas only venture out to poach humans or acquire sacrifices, but now their population has largely recovered and they are on the verge of reverse-engineering the ancient WMD's that nearly wiped them out. They use vast quantities of blood not only to sustain their ancient god-queens but also to incubate their eggs and to fuel the ancient weapons. In their eyes, the war with the outside world never ended and only will with the eradication of all other life. But, like snakes, they are patient and have waited centuries for the opportune moment to strike. Other lore ideas like eating their own young, the ability to see the future through rituals more clearly than even the Slann or High Elves, hypnosis venom and interbreeding with humans to create impostor royal dynasties that will one day take on their true form.

@samhobbs9116

3 жыл бұрын

Bro write a story.

@TheAtlasReview

3 жыл бұрын

@@samhobbs9116 I spent ages reading through the Warhammer wiki putting together lore for potential factions, but when I put it on the subreddit nobody looked at it.

@samhobbs9116

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheAtlasReview Yea reddit sucks like that tbh.

@fumarc4501

3 жыл бұрын

Serpent Cultists. Noice

After Araby, Snakemen are tied with Indy for non book factions i want

oh no snek waifu

So the Naga will become the "coiling ones" in Age of Sigmar? 😁😁😁😁

Warhammer is.most deserving of a good mmo... egh....

Ironically the real world naga tribes are from north east india and north west myanmar.. There is so much sanskrit in this lore,.. Maha-vidya is great-study actually.. Maha-yudh is great war LOL.. nagara means city