Nagash: The Man So Afraid of Death He Killed an Entire Civilisation

Nagash, the Great Necromancer, Warhammer Fantasy, the Old World, Nehekhara, the Tomb Kings, Neferata and the first vampires, the Skaven, Nagashizzar, and the Black Pyramid all come together in this deep dive into the origin of Warhammer's greatest villain. In the Warhammer world, the dead did not always walk. Necromancy had to be invented, and the lore credits one man with it: a priest-prince of Khemri, locked out of his father's throne, who learned forbidden magic from Dark Elf captives, buried his own brother alive, and finally killed every living thing in his homeland with a single spell so its corpses would march for him. This video tells the story of Nagash from the priesthood of Nehekhara to the invention of necromancy, the war of the kings, his rebirth as a Lich beneath Cripple Peak, the birth of the vampires in Lahmia, the Great Ritual, and the warpstone blade that finally cut him down. Along the way, it's honest about where the army books and the Time of Legends novels tell it differently. Whether you've marched Tomb Kings or Vampire Counts across the tabletop, or you're discovering the Old World for the first time, this is the story of the man who declared war on death, and what it cost. #warhammer #warhammerfantasy #warhammerlore