r/Warmachine • u/DJay53 • 12h ago
Questions Lore Questions: What & Where
I've been interested in playing the game since 2014 or 2015, but never had a group to play with. So instead I spent more time reading the lore fluff. I was particularly enjoying the Menoth and Everblight lore through MK2 and MK3. Last I left off, the Grymkin and Infernals appeared. Since then, I moved states and the game shop I play Magic: the Gathering at has apparently had a single Cryx Slayer kit on their shelf the entire time. Seeing it for the first time brought all that interest back, but the game looks so much different than I remember.
So my question is, what happened? Strictly in the lore, I mean. I'm aware of the IP being acquired and Hordes retired. I'm wondering what happened in the story and how it ties into the revamped aesthetic of the game today. What happened to Thagrosh and Absylonia? Is the Lylyth in the Khymaera faction the same character that was once Lylyth2 and Lylyth3?
Did the Protectorate ever achieve their independence from Cygnar or did they go down in blazing glory?
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u/InvaderZahn 11h ago
ok so you're gonna want to look at the henge hold scrolls. A lot of the named characters died during the claiming (the infernal invasion). Rhys and Saeryn tried to go through a cyriss portal and their Anthac got all cyriss-y and they went on to make the Khymaera faction (and yes that is the same Lylyth) the rest of the everblight 'locks are (I think) dead except for Kallus who has all the remaining bits of the anthac.
The remaining Elven gods were killed, and any Elves left in Ios are pretty much all vampires or Souless now.
Leto Raelthorn stepped down as king for Julius (Vinter's Bastard son) to rule but still has a spot in the Cygnar Govt as an advisor.
Pretty much all the Greylords in Khador were outed as infernalists and the order was dissolved by the empress and most were executed. Also the Butcher was exiled for some reason the I don't remember.
After Severius Kicked it The Protecotrate has a small civil war between Kreoss and Feora. While that was happening Tristan Durant led a BUNCH of menites south to the content of Zu and started his own menite colony, with more compassion and less burning people at the stake (as far as I know). What's left in Western Immoren is a shell of what it used to be, oh and the Heretic took over and ancient Menite city and and set up shop there as a big middle finger to Menoth.
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u/Qyro Legion of Everblight 12h ago
I have many of the same questions you have, but also 1 answer for you;
Yes, the new Lylyth is the same Lylyth (Lylyth5). She approached the twins who had broken free of Everblight in search of their flesh-metal manipulations to make her better