"Help Me Understand Background to Age of Sigmar" Topic

I am a little lost on the new fluff that came out last year. I don't "get it." Everyone is floating around in the heavens, stars or space? Anyone with a better grasp on the new fiction?

-Old World destroyed.
-Sigmar/Karl Franz floated through space/time until he found a dragon and rode him to heaven?
-Sigmar/KF built up a new heaven or new world?
-If the world ended and everyone died how the heck are there people in the new one let alone all the famous characters?
-Somehow Chaos broke into the new heaven or new world?
-How are there battles in the heavens?
-Three new factions of Order, Death and Destruction?

Thanks for the help!

Order is the humans, dwarves, elves (including the dark elves), and lizardmen.
Death is the undead.
Destruction is orcs, goblins and ogres.

Although everything has a new (trademarkable) name. And that's all I know.

For me it never happened and I will continue to play in the "real" Warhammer world. They ruined it in a desperate bid to increase flagging sales. Not a terrible plan but it sure doesn't work for me.

I feel your pain Nazrat and I will continue to do narrative gaming set in the Old World. I just want to learn more of the realmgates or Azyr or whatever it's called. I am a loss on understanding it and am not very inclined to spend a lot of money to read the new fiction without learning more first.

Kings of War!

My Skaven refuse to acknowledge the Age of Sigmar. Therefore, I know next to nothing about the new setting. I don't feel like I'm missing anything.

Not asking about rules just the fluff.

For what it is worth, after the EoT Armaggedon the different races survived in Realms that are somewhat like worlds in-between planes of reality. Those worlds are connected to other, call them "battleground worlds", where factions meet to battle each other for their control as they would, theoretically, allow them to attack the "home worlds" of their enemies. Some races -Orcs, for instance- are neutral and actually co-operate and allied themselves with Sigmarites more than once.

That's what I remember of the fluff, but it is from the first book. I don't know how much it changed in the books that followed.

I didn't find it too engaging, so I ignore it and have choose to follow the same path that Nazrat or Jpattern.

I read too many enjoyable novels and short stories about the world to allow it all to be capriciously destroyed by some misguided marketing dude. It's all a bad, bad dream in Bobby Ewing's head… 8)=

This was bean counter dudes work, believe you me.

You old guys just don't get how great this new setting is compared to that old, stale setting. I mean really. It's called the OLD World.

Ok, I can't keep that up. :)

I'm still in the camp of "Karl Franz is a hapless tool picked by powerful Electors to prevent a strong central authority, and oh yeah, he's on his death bed." I.e. the setting of the WFRP "The Enemy Within" campaign. No hippogriff-riding hero Franz for me!

Apparently thousands of years pass and Bretonnian peasants are still shoveling you know what uphill.

It is very dysfunctional at this early stage and a lot more stories will be needed to even start connecting it all in some way that makes any real sense.

To my mind it is all very clearly designed to allow GW to copyright everything, absolutely everything and sue the pants off anyone that comes close.

Quite the explanation on the site. Rich, but to the point.
Willing to give it a try and ignore much of the seemingly mushroom induced fluff.

It is GW and there is no understanding what they do these days.

They only you to buy their overpriced miniatures.

I find the starter set a good value. As most people already have serviceable miniatures a few boxes here and there isn't going to kill me. I find any hobby purchase overpriced in the grand scheme of things. I get a certain level of enjoyment from the use of GW fantasy figs that justifies my cost. You may not.
I think Austin Martins 'overpriced' but I'm not going to carp as I have a used Ford budget. Both would get me from A to B.