Grungni

And among the mountains, the dwarves remembered three great ancestors who stood with them during the darkest years of the invasion.

Grungni, Valea, and Grimnir.

The dwarves were well suited to endure a world saturated by magic.

Their natural resistance offered some protection from the corrupting influence of chaos, while their skill with stone and metal allowed them to establish settlements among the mountains.

Rather than wielding magic directly as the elves did, dwarves learned to bind its power into carefully crafted runes, creating weapons and objects that could contain magic in a controlled form.

Their oldest traditions remembered three great ancestor gods who guided them during these ancient years, Grungni, Valea, and Krimnir.

Prungni was remembered as the great craftsman and teacher, associated with the skills upon which dwarf civilization would be built.

Valea embodied protection and the preservation of their people.

For while battle is glorious, many fine dwarves stand to lose their lives.

But if what the priests say is true, these dwarves are assured a speedy journey to sit in honour by Grungni's side.

Enough of these musings, for there is a battle to be won, and win it you must, for if any of the filth get past your troops, and those of Barnock's, they will find your hold easy pickings, for all your forces are committed to the battle about to be fought.

In a brief discussion with Barnock, it was decided that you would be responsible for holding the southern bridge that crosses the river Rustic Now you can see the Horde.

Uh, because AOS has really relied on those old Dark Elf and Dwarf ranges, uh, to keep a lot of things that they're setting going, [laughs] which we will discuss today.

Um, Gnaivel, "Isn't Grungni still Gelt in Sigmar: Confluence?" They might as well be, but no.

Uh, based on how the [laughs] End Times went, the answer feels like it should be yes, but no. [laughs]

Yeah, so Age of Sigmar looked at the End Times and went, "Yeah, that's a thing that sort of maybe happened, whatever, yeah," and then went over time, "Ah, fuck it.

Look, if you're a Warhammer fan, we've got you covered.

But look at this cool new shit." It'd kind of gone past that, and it's instead said, "Warhammer Fantasy rocks.

We all love Warhammer Fantasy, and Age of Sigmar is a part of Warhammer Fantasy." And the short stories here show how it's a part of Warhammer Fantasy, and it's one big tapestry that has a beginning all the way back with Warhammer one, because that's where the dwarves began, back in the first edition of Warhammer, all the way through into the rejigged Herohammer, a fourth and fifth edition, where we got a lot of what we understand dwarfs are today with their various gods, Grungni, Valea are in there, and others, as we then move into the eighth edition and the world blows up, and it all gets reincorporated on the other side as Age of Sigmar.

And many of the things that were from the past are coming back in one fashion or another, and it doesn't feel like it's ashamed of Warhammer, which early editions of Age of Sigmar kinda did.