History TabletopGame / WarhammerAgeOfSigmar

* DegradedBoss: Certain named characters from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' were turned into generic heroes when the respective battletome for their faction was released: Chakax (Saurus Eternity Warden), Gor-Rok (Saurus Sunblood), Tetto'eko (Skink Starseer), Vilitch the Curseling (Curseling, Eye of Tzeentch), Ikit Claw (Skaven Archwarlock), Krell (Wight King with Black Axe), Lord Skrolk (Plague Priest with Plague Flail), Araloth (Nomad Prince), Durthu (Spirit of Durthu), Wurrzag (Wurrgog Prophet), Skarsnik (Loonboss with Giant Cave Squig) and Skrag the Slaughterer (Slaughtermaster). Some of the old characters are half represented as equipment options for a generic hero giving it rules akin to the ones that character had in the original warscroll compendium: for example, a Skaven Packmaster can take a Rat Wolf companion becoming more like Skweel Gnawtooth. Also, the Dispossessed Warden King and the Ironweld Arsenal Cogsmith are a fusion between the Dwarf Lord/Engineer warscrolls and the ones for King Belegar and Grimm Burloksson.

* GratuitousEnglish: In the non-English versions of the game, almost all names (including all unit and faction names) except in very few cases are kept untranslated from English (for example the Silver Tower's name in French and German is still "Silver Tower", not "Tour d'Argent" or "Silberturm").

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Zigzagged with the duradin; whilst clearly based in the dwarfs from the original ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', different cultures put their own unique twists on it. The two main independent factions are the ''Fyreslayers''; religiously-motivated mercenaries with a "naked mohawked barbarian" aesthetic, [[PlayingWithFire an obsession with fire]], and who hunt for magical "ur-gold" to craft into enchanted runes that they hammer into their own flesh for power; and the ''Kharadron Overlords'', who are a race of dwarven {{Steampunk}} {{Sky Pirate}}s who practice MagicPoweredPseudoScience.

** The early battletomes (released before May 2016) were very barebones, consisting of only the warscrolls, warscroll battalions and fluff, when the game was much more casual than today (you could field whatever model you own, as could your opponent). In the middle of 2016, the gameplay received a drastic change in order to accommodate matched play: from the Sylvaneth battletome onwards, all of them have had rules for allegiance abilities, magical artefacts and spell lores, resembling army books from the old ''Warhammer''.
** Initially, the Grand Alliance books released as an updated compendium of all available units in early 2016 split apart many of the old ''Warhammer'' armies into a bunch of smaller factions, some of which had a very small quantity of units that made them borderline unplayable as standalone armies; those that did not get expanded into full armies in their own right were later fused together. For example, what once was the Vampire Counts army was separated into Deadwalkers (Necromancer and Zombie units), Deathrattle (Skeleton units), Soulblight (Vampire units), Flesh-eater Courts (Ghoul units) and Nighthaunt (Ghost units). After the Flesh-eater Courts and Nighthaunt received their own battletomes, in 2018 the remaining factions were rolled back into a single army, the Legions of Nagash (later renamed Soulblight Gravelords).

** A mercenary company consists of a small selection of thematic units, representing a group of sellswords who ply their trade across the Realms. Mercenary companies are added to your army like allies--if you're playing a Pitched Battle, you'll be taking them from the same pool of points, but all armies can hire all mercenary companies. Mercenary companies each have a special rule of their own and the Mercenary keyword, differentiating them from the normal versions of these units and giving them all a distinct feel on the battlefield.

** The old Warhammer Fantasy Skaven Clans are now types of Clans; what was once the Clan Eshin is now tens of thousands or more of Clans like Eshin, and so on with Clans Skryre, Moulder and Pestilens.
** The Ogre Kingdoms had two specific motifs that led to new factions here: their [[HorrorHunger insatiable appetites]] became the general theme of the Gutbusters, while their cold mountain-lairs and use of [[Prehistoria ice-age beasts]] serve as the Beastclaw Raiders main aesthetic.

** Subverted with the Stormcast Eternals.
* DecompositeCharacter: The old Warhammer Fantasy Skaven Clans are now types of Clans; what was once the Clan Eshin is now tens of thousands or more of Clans like Eshin.

* DropTheHammer: The favored weapons of the Stormcast Eternals, might come from their creator Sigmar, as himself has ''the'' warhammer in form of the Ghal-Maraz.

* BewareTheSillyOnes: The Greenskins are even more dangerous than before while still filling a comic relief role. Also the Aleguzzler Giants, who fight by getting drunk and going on destructive rampages through a battlefield.

* BalancingDeathsBooks: An interesting variant. Nagash tries to claim the souls of the Stormcast Eternals but is only able to claim a bit each time, which is the reason why they lose memories and emotions with each rebirth.

* PhantasySpelling: The game often uses more fantastical spellings of words associated with the various faction, including many of the classic races from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''. Elf, for example, was changed to aelf -- an alternate spelling of ælf, the Old English word for elf -- while dwarfs became duardin, and orcs became orruks.

%%* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Everybody.

* TookALevelInBadass: The Ghouls of Warhammer were little more than vermin, a weak and easily overcome foe that was used whenever the writers needed something for the characters to utterly crush and not make any of the established factions look weak. And now in Age of Sigmar they have become badass armies of flesh-eating abominations that roam the Mortal Realms, devouring everything in their path. They've bested armies of the Fyreslayer Duardin, the Bloodbringers of Khorne and even the Stormcast Eternals. Nagash, the God of Death himself, is angry that he cannot control them, since technically they aren't dead. The Ghoul Kings themselves can tame Zombie Dragons and ride them into battle, and even have Vargheists (bestial Vampires) in their service. Even their origins are a badass improvement over simply being inbred vermin, they are now the people who survived the Age of Chaos outside of Azyrheim and resorted to cannibalism to survive.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Blacktalon}}'': An animated show centered around the Knights-Zephyros Neave Blacktalon of the Stormcast Eternals.

* ''VideoGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmarRealmsOfRuin'': An RTS game Developed and Published by Frontier Developments.

* ''WesternAnimation/HammerAndBolter'': An anthology series set in the universes of Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer: Age of Sigmar.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Blacktalon}}'':