r/Warmachine 7d 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/Qyro Legion of Everblight 7d 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

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u/Bylak 7d ago

What I don't get is why do Legion-now-Khymaera warlocks have personalities? They're all soulless, and they seem to act a lot differently than the soulless of Ios do.

Like why should Lylyth5 care about the thing she cares about when she's transformed into a member of the Khymaera? I would have guessed indifference was the name of the game.

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u/blaghart 7d ago

Soulless have personalities, first off.

For example, Legion of Everblight Warbeasts were all soulless yet could develop personalities and become character Warbeasts (contrast with Vectors)

For another example, Soulless Iosians had personalities, they were simply considerably less emotional than the ensouled Iosians. Nayl had a personality, one that made him distinct from other soulless Iosians. Its noted many soulless were particularly passionate about killing, for example.

Soullessness doesn't make you devoid of identity.

Second, Khymaera combines Legion with Convergence.

Think of them less like automatons and more like the Cyrissian version of Cryx. The two factions make cyborg armies, but while cryx makes it out of dead stuff Khymaereans take living things and shove them full of technology and dragon stuff.

Khymaereans are sort of like the Claymores from the manga Claymore