Blacktalon

 Okay, so everywhere I read that those Games Workshop produced cartoon are decent, so I gave one a go, the Age of Sigmar based series Blacktalon.

And the first thing I noticed it's style feels a bit of a mix between Netflix's Castlevania and the Magic the Gathering slideshow art commercials.

 

Naeve Blacktalon is one of the Stormcast, mythical immortal warriors chosen by Sigmar to hunt evil in the Mortal Realms.  But with every reforging, the process that when they die, they get reborn in lightning, they loose some of themselves.  Yet Naeve keeps remembering things of the days before her demise, seeking anwers as why this is, as she relives in her memory their last mission against the Maggotkin of Nurgle.  By opening her memories, she discovers there was someone else at the tower where she fell, resulting in that she can stop the spread.

 

 

When a vanpire has claimed one of the Stormvaults as her fortress, she and her team must bypass a Treeman Ancient that protects the vampire. But what does this vampire, Kaelena, actually know about Naeve's past.  But when they a mission they not support, namely the assassination of an ally, the Hag Queen Vintessa, they must decide if they will follow orders.  But which dark secrets will be revealed should they allow her to live instead as they must balance both options.  They battle their way into the fighting pits where captives are being sacrificed together with barbarians as Naeve and Shakana go after the Hag Queen.  Shakana is killed by the Hag Queen for breaking the alliance, as due to the blighted skies, she might not be reforged, as Naeve slays the Queen in angry retalliation, completing their mission as a result.

 

As Naeve keeps digging in her own past as Hammerhal prepares for a massive threat, a farmer on the Realm of Life shows how it happens that a mortal would choose the gifts of Nurgle.   While Skakana is revived after all with the information of the Hag Queen, Hendrik is forced to kill Naeve as she is digging to deep.  As a result she will be reforged and have forgotten again.  But on the verge of reforging, she keeps remembering and reliving visions of her past, bringing her to the point that she must actually choose between the God-King she serves or the last grasps of her humanity.  For she learns that she isn`t one of the warrior women she feels connected to, but the Chaos Warrior that killed them.

In the meantime Hammerhal is besieged by the forces of Nurgle, as the Sylvaneth honour their vows and come to the aid of the besieged Stormcast.  But as her companions are overcome by Thysis, the root of the Nurgle attack, Naeve returns to the battle.  

Okay, so this wasn`t actually half bad, if not to say rather good.  Maybe I might look into some more of them shows, albeit probably not the 40k ones which are sadly so dominant.  But this was an enjoyable 6 episode show.