Games Workshop Rumor Engine: ‘Blow Your Horn’
It’s another Tuesday and another Rumor Engine. And also a possible hint at more info about the Rumor Engine itself…
This week’s Rumor Engine is here and with it Games Workshop has let us in on a bit of lore on the mysterious Rumor Engine itself. But before we get into the origins of the Rumor Engine, let’s take a look at the picture from the future!
So what are we looking at today? Well, we’ve got a bit of a ramshackle post with various spikes tied up around it with cordage. On top of this post is a horn of some kind. However, it looks like this Horn, while from a creature, is being used as a musical horn…either that or it’s a very fancy rain catcher.
There’s lots of factions that use animal horns as instruments. So this one is kind of up in the air. Personally, I’m leaning more toward Age of Sigmar over 40k in this case. It could be an Orruk or Destruction thing. Or it could be a Beastman relic as well.
The Brayherd is calling…
The Endless Spell and this particular horn share a shocking amount of similarities, too. It’s very possible these two are from the creature or at least based off the same creature. So we’ll just have to let that idea sink in for a bit.
Rumor Engine Origins
Curiously, this week’s Rumor Engine had a bit more text to chew on this week. Let’s take a look at that:
On Friday we learned something incredible about the Leagues of Votann and their Ancestor Cores. These venerable cogitators bear a startling resemblance to the Rumour Engine kept locked in Warhammer World’s labyrinthine lower oubliette – right down to the strange bearded faces carved into the sides.
Could it be that we’ve been using an amazing relic of technology from a more enlightened age solely to take confusing close-up photos of models slated for release in three to 12 months this entire time? What priceless knowledge could truly be contained within? What secrets great and terrible percolate within the quantum datastacks of its inscrutable mind?
Basically, GW is teasing that the Rumor Engines might be an Ancestor Core. But more importantly, they also give a more solid number about the timing of these pictures with a release window of “three to 12 months” — roughly. We know that’s not entirely accurate on the back end. As we’ve still got unsolved Rumor Engines from over a year ago. Which is why we do the “where are they now” series for the Rumor Engines.
In any case this is a fun and interesting twist on the Rumor Engine’s history. At least we know it’s not a potato camera.
What do you think of this week’s Rumor Engine? What about it’s “mysterious origins?” Let us know in the comments!
