History Characters / WarhammerAgeOfSigmarGrandAllianceOrder

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* AmbiguouslyGay: Literally the only person Tahlia seems to trust is her "Partner," Katrick, who follows her without a second thought and provides her with emotional support and, in their only interaction, Tahlia calls her "My dear." Make of that what you will.

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The reconstructed soul of a great hero of the world-that-was, the Light of Eltharion now walks the mortal realms a spirit bound to a suit of armour.

A rage-filled creature of destruction, Drycha sees all non-Sylvaneth life as a threat, no matter their motives or allegiances. Gathering a band of similarly minded outcasts around her, Drycha wishes to see the Sylvaneth rule the Mortal Realms and will fight anyone who stands in her way.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Eltharion. An Elven warrior and warden of a great city who lost his family and home to a race of Orc-like [[BloodKnight Blood Knights]]. Strangely enough, Eltharion himself still exists in Age of Sigmar, albiet as sentient suit of armor, but still.

!!The Light of Eltharion
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* GodOfThunder: As the [[GodEmperor God-King]] of Azyr (the Celestial Realm associated with wind, the stars and lightning) Sigmar has mastery over storms, lightning and thunder. Sometimes know as the Thunderer, Sigmar is able to cast lightning at his enemies and lightning is one of his most prominent symbols. Sigmar's greatest warriors, the Stormcast Eternals, are also heavily associated with thunder and lightning, able to travel between realms using his celestial lightning to appear in a blinding flash of light and a peal of thunder.

* WasOnceAMan: Every Stormcast Eternal was originally a random mortal from across the Mortal Realms who died in a HeroicSacrifice "[[DefiantToTheEnd spitting in the eye]]" of the Forces of Chaos. This goes from actual warriors to random civilians, meaning that even a noblewoman who just helped shelter refugees from Chaos before giving her life to save them from a rampaging host of Chaos Warriors or a simple baker who helped feed said refugees and fought the warriors on his own with only a butcher's knife until he bled out could both become Stormcast.

* TooImportantToWalk: Since the Great Wheel is sacred above all and should not be dirtied by the filth of battle, Zenestra's palanquin is not wheeled or steam-powered, but instead carried by a pair of attendants and their raw muscle and stamina.

* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Croneseer's Pariahs, a small but growing shard of the Daughters that are unhappy with Morathi's rule, especially now that she's effectively crowned herself their goddess rather than just high priest, and backstabbed their allies in Order. Their leader, Krethusa, worships Morai Heg, the Elven goddess of witchcraft and prophecy. They've been making alliances with the Order factions that Morathi's betrayals have alienated.

* DeityOfHumanOrigin: While he never merged with a Wind in The-World-that-Was, his connection to his brother, who did, caused him to ascend to godhood in the Mortal Realms.

* AbsoluteXenophobe: The Dreadwood Glade. While all Sylvaneth have some issues getting along with other races because of their BlueAndOrangeMorality, the Dreadwood actively despise all non-Sylvaneth, and only begrudingly cooperate with them on Alarielle's orders; even that's fractious, as many are noted to swear loyalty to Drycha first and foremost.

!!Celestant-Prime, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Avenging Angel of Azyr]], [[DropTheHammer the Bearer of the World-Hammer]], [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard the First Scion of Sigmar]].

* DropTheHammer: The weapons for the Alarith Temple. The Alarith Spirit of the Mountain wields a giant two-handed one.

* DropTheHammer: Wields the Firestealers, a pair of hammers said to bring the fury of winter with every swing.

Sevireth, Lord of the Seventh Wind is a Hurakan Spirit of the Wind. He is the Seventh of Hysh's seven regal winds - Aelementors that are immortal and unstoppable, going whenever and wherever they please - and is known for being particularly for his searing anger - even by the standards of his fellow wind spirits. As such, he has acquired titles such as the Scourer, the Red Gale, and the Killing Sandstorm.

* ArcherArchetype: Favors a massive bow as his weapon; rather than calm and composed, however, he's perpetually pissed off.

* WasOnceAMan: Every Stormcast Eternal was originally a random mortal from across the Mortal Realms who died in a HeroicSacrifice "[[DefiantToTheEnd spitting in the eye]]" of the Forces of Chaos. This goes from actual warriors to random civilians, meaning that even a noblewoman who just helped shelter refugees from Chaos before giving her life to save them from a rampaging host of Chaos Warriors or a simple baker who helped feed said refugees and fought the the warriors on his own with only a butcher's knife until he bled out could both become Stormcast.

* TheResenter: The ArcWords of the preview videos for the faction's Battletome were, "Too long have I been shunned, no longer will I be denied!" She resents her son for being rather ungrateful, the other Gods of Sigmar's alliance for distrusting, looking down on, and even pitying her, and outright despises Nagash for outing her true form to the rest of the pantheon. All of that combined doesn't hold a candle to the sheer hatred she has for Slaanesh, though, for obvious reasons. This is also the essence of her argument for why the the Idoneth Deepkin should join her in Broken Realms: Morathi; They're the Aelves that all the other Aelves look down and shun, so they should stick together.

Before the End Times, Alarielle was the the Everqueen of the High Elves, a beloved and adored leader who also served as the high priestess of the elven mother goddess Isha. Having ascended to Godhood after becoming one with the Wind of Life, she created the Sylvaneth to populate her new realm and became part of Sigmar's pantheon, but continued to pine for the lost World-that-Was. She was forced to return to her realm during the Age of Chaos when the forces of Nurgle attacked Ghyran, and came to resent Sigmar and the other gods for abandoning her land and people to their fate. In the modern day she willingly fights alongside the other forces of Order to repel Chaos, but has no interest in reforming the pantheon or, indeed, in doing much more than focusing on destroying the stranglehold that Nurgle's armies have established in her lands.

* PsychicLink: Her Broken Realms: Morathi rules put both noramal Aelven Morathi (now named Morathi-Khaine) and her Shadow Queen form on the board at the same time, with the Shadow Queen taking all the wounds for Morathi-Khaine (with her 3 wound limit still in place). The lore makes it clear that Morathi-Khaine has complete control over the Shadow Queen.

* TheResenter: The ArcWords of the preview videos for the faction's Battletome were, "Too long have I been shunned, no longer will I be denied!" She resents her son for being rather ungrateful, the other Gods of Sigmar's alliance for distrusting, looking down on, and even pitying her, and outright despises Nagash for outing her true form to the rest of the pantheon. All of that combined doesn't hold a candle to the sheer hatred she has for Slaanesh, though, for obvious reasons. This is also the essence of her argument for why the the Idoneth Deepkin should join her in Broken Realms: Morathi; They're the Aelves that all the other Aelves look down and shun, so they shoudl stick together.

* ManipulativeBastard: How Kroak defeats Kragnos in Excelsis. [[spoiler: He conjures an illusion of a group of [[ArchEnemy Draconith]], enraging Kragnos and sending him throught the Realmgate, unwittingly sending him to destroy a major Chaos Fortress.]]

* DropTheHammer: Ghal Maraz survived the End times along him, and gained new powers, but Sigmar lost it when he launched it towards an illusion. In the book Quest of Ghal Maraz, it is found again [[spoiler:and recovered]].

* SuddenNameChange: Malerion was once Malekith, the Witch-King of the [[TheFairFolk Dark Elves]] in the World-that-was. [[OutOfFocus The exact details of the change haven't been revealed as of the 2nd Edition of the game]].

* DropTheHammer: Sigmar is known for his own warhammer Ghal Maraz, and many Eternals follow his example, training in the use of Sigmarite hammers as their personal weapons.

* DropTheHammer: He was bestowed Ghal Maraz, also known as The Great Shatterer and the Skull Splitter.

* BadassNormal: The Freeguilds are composed of completely normal humans (and some aelves & duardin along with the occasional ogor mercenary or -- even rarer -- a wandering orruk who thought it'd be fun to work with the Freeguilds to get to smash up Chaos) with no special powers in a fantastical setting where humanity is severely outclassed by almost everyone else. And they hold the line against Chaos with completely normal weapons, armour, and the occasional gryphon.

* GodOfTheMoon: Teclis is often associated with the moon and his companion, Cellenar, is the Spirit oh Hysh's moon.

An Aelven warrior-cult dedicated to the Godbeast known as the Ur-Phoenix, the Phoenix Temple are dedicated to purging the Chaos from the Mortal Realms.

* LaserTargetedAmnesia: At several points Neave forgets extremely trauamatic memories that might interfere with her job. It's implied in Dawnbringer III that Lorai's secret job is to stragetically remove those negative memories with more accuracy and specificity than Reforging.

Aelven followers of Alarielle the Everqueen who fled to Azyr at dawn of the Age of Chaos, the Wanderers returned to the Mortal Realms alongside the other forces of Order during the Age of Sigmar, fighting Chaos with woodcraft and nature magic. They serve as (more or less) the ''Age of Sigmar'' counterpart to the Asrai/Wood Elves of ''Warhammer Fantasy''.

* LightningBruiser: Neave is fast enough for it to appear almost light teleportation and hits hard enough to carve her axes through full armor.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The recurrent flaws caused by the Reforging process among certain Stormcast (i.e., the loss of valuable memories from their mortal lives) are occasionally portrayed as essentially the fantasy version of being inflicted with a chronic disease/disability. Most notably, one of the main Stormcast characters in ''Broken Realms: Kragnos'' is repeatedly shown to be struggling with what can only be really described as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder body dysmorphia]] (i.e., she never feels comfortable looking at her reflection, as she always sees it as someone ''else'' and not precisely "her"), and this is later revealed to be due to how [[spoiler:she was originally just a seven-year-old girl when she was saved from [[KnightTemplar an angry Saurus]] she had accidentally stumbled into by Sigmar and put through the process of Reforging. As she never got the chance to grow into an actual adult before she was Reforged, she sees a stranger when she looks at her face because it's the face of someone she never actually was]].

* HopeBringer: The other main reason for why Sigmar created them was to be this for the oppressed denizens of the Mortal Realms. Their Modus Operandi specifically is to slay the "tyrants" of the Mortal Realms, a.k.a. the Warriors of Chaos.
* HornAttack: while they prefer to avoid combat, the Tauralons ridden by some Lord-Arcanums sport a set of ram-like horns that they can use to gouge and smash their opponents. It is said that [[DashAttack when at full charge]] a Tauralon's horns can demolish a fortress wall.

* IKEAWeaponry: The Celestar Ballista is constructed in such a way that it can be broken down and carried by the two operators.
* ImplacableMan: While they are the good guys, each one of them is a resurrectable killing machine, and so they just come back after getting killed. For instance, there is one story where they ''nearly overwhelmed'' a Chaos host composed of Chaos Champions lead by none other than [[BigBad Archaon himself]]; this was because they had portals directly opened to Azyr, which allowed them to pour fresh formations of Stormcast Eternals to the fight, have the fight been prolonged for some more time this would have allowed the Stormcast to launch recently killed forces into the fray. While they lost because the portals were closed, it's still remarkable that they almost won Chaos at his own game. In fact, an entire chamber of Stormcast Eternals can get killed and brought back to Azyr just to be reforged and redeployed a few days later to finish the job.

* MageKiller: The job of Lord-Veritants is hunting out and systematically destroying evil magic-users, with all of their special rules being tailored to counter enemy Wizards in some way.

* OldSoldier: That "Eternal" thing in their name is not a metaphor or a boast. Some of them, such as Vandus Hammerhand, can dimly remember the age before the Coming of Chaos, making them many thousands of years old. In fact, it's even implied that some of the Stormcast Eternals are the ancient ancestors to thousands of modern human tribes from across the Mortal Realms.

* ResurrectiveImmortality: Stormcast cannot die under normal circumstances. Upon death, they are warped back to Sigmar's side, Reforged, and then sent back.
* SculptedPhysique: Male Stormcast Eternals' breastplates clearly were made to look they have defined pectoral muscles. The female ones instead have their breastplates shaped like a top over the breasts with defined abdominal muscles underneath.

* ShouldersOfDoom: Massive spaulders emblazoned with the Stormhost's colours and various Sigmarite iconography.

* SuperpowerLottery: As Stormcast lose more and more of their original mortal souls to the process of Reforging, they get increasingly close to becoming divine {{Humanoid Abomination}}s and can gain odd attributes or even abilities. Some of the flaws that emerge from multiple Reforgings include [[TheQuietOne being unable to speak above a whisper]], having [[ShockAndAwe lightning literally arcing out of their eyes]], [[AlienBlood bleeding lightning in lieu of blood when cut]], ect.

* WasOnceAMan: Every Stormcast Eternal was originally a random mortal from across the Mortal Realms who died in a HeroicSacrifice "[[DefiantToTheEnd spitting in the eye]]" of the Forces of Chaos. This goes from actual warriors to even random civilians, meaning that even a noblewoman who helped shelter refugees from Chaos before giving her life to save them from a rampaging host of Chaos Warriors or a simple baker who helped feed said refugees and fought the the warriors on his own with only a butcher's knife until he bled out could both become Stormcast.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Dawnbringers III states that the entire team can see that Neave and Shakana are attracted to each other, but so long as it doesn't interfere with their duties, they let them.

* BattleCouple: With her teammate Shakana.

!!Gavriel Sureheart
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A Lord-Celestant of the Hammers of Sigmar, Gavriel Sureheart is a peerless warrior who was a slave-gladiator in his former life.

Knight-Zephyros of the Shadowhammers, Neave Blacktalon is a master huntress who slaughters her foes with twin axes.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The recurrent flaws caused by the Reforging process among certain Stormcast (i.e., the loss of valuable memories from their mortal lives) are occasionally portrayed as essentially the fantasy version of being inflicted with a chronic disease/disability. Most notably, one of the main Stormcast characters in ''Broken Realms: Kragnos'' is repeatedly shown to be struggling with what can only be really described as "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder body dysmorphia]]" (i.e., she never feels comfortable looking at her reflection, as she always sees it as someone ''else'' and not precisely "her"), and this is later revealed to be due to how [[spoiler:she was originally just a seven-year-old girl when she was saved from [[KnightTemplar an angry Saurus]] she had accidentally stumbled into by Sigmar and put through the process of Reforging. As she never got the chance to grow into an actual adult before she was Reforged, she sees a stranger when she looks at her face because it's the face of someone she never actually was]].

The majority of forces that make up the armies of the Cities of Sigmar come from the Freeguild Regiments. Consisting of humans descended from the tribes that followed Sigmar into seclusion during the Age of Chaos, the Freeguild Regiments are disciplined warriors that share the culture of the city in which they are based.

* BadassNormal: The Freeguilds are composed of completely normal humans with no special powers in a fantastical setting where humanity is severely outclassed by almost everyone else. And they hold the line against Chaos with completely normal weapons, armour, and the occasional gryphon.

* MedievalStasis: Thousands of years have passed and a world has ended, but the Free Peoples are still dressing in the exact same fashion their ancestors in the Empire of the World-that-was once did, and there's been little cultural shift in that time. One of the more ridiculous examples is their gunpowder weapons. They've had the technology to make rifles for thousands of years, but for some reason still use smoothbore barrels for everything but sharpshooter weapons. They seem to have stalled out sometime between flintlock mechanisms being introduced and matchlock ones being phased out; just the right spot to make guns common but also have melee-armed troops still a relevant presence on the battlefield.[[note]]By the start of the 18th century every European soldier had a gun [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_and_shot#Ratios (the proportion having steadily risen from 10% in 1500 to 65-80% by the 1680s)]], even if they also always carried a melee weapon as a secondary (sword, axe, or bayonet).[[/note]] In our world this period lasted about a century and a half (early 16th to mid 17th centuries), and the flintlock era itself lasted about as long (late 17th to early 19th centuries). In Europe, anyway; this period extended into the mid 19th century in most of Asia.

Aelven followers of Alarielle the Everqueen who fled to Azyr at dawn of the Age of Chaos, the Wanderers returned to the Mortal Realms alongside the other forces of Order during the Age of Sigmar, fighting Chaos with woodcraft and nature magic.

Duardin refugees who fled the fall of the Khazalid Empires, the Dispossessed keep the ancient durdin culture alive in Azyr throughout the Age of Chaos. Great builders, the Dispossessed helped construct many of the Free Cities and continue to fight the in their defence.

Fanatical worshippers of the ancient aelven deity of war and murder, the Daughters of Khaine are a matriarchal cult that originated in Ulgu, the Realm of Shadows, but has since spread across all the realms. Ruled over by the ancient and cunning Morathi, the Daughters of Khaine fight for the forces of Order due to their hatred of Chaos, and Slaanesh in particular, but they are often feared by their allies as much as by their enemies.

The Lumineth Realm-lords are the most stable and pure Aelf souls recovered from the belly of the Chaos god Slaanesh and shaped by Teclis to be the perfect recreation of the Elven civilization from the World-That-Was. Often mistaken for angelic beings of pure light, the Lumineth are a scholarly and precise people, regarding themselves as being the most advanced civilization in the Realms. Their once shining and bright civilization fell to in-fighting and civil war during the Age of Chaos, only to reunited by the brother gods Teclis and Tyrion. Now they go to war in all the splendor of bygone days, fighting alongside the towering avatars possessed by the spirits of Hysh itself.

Older than memory, existing for aeons unrecorded, the Seraphon have ever waged an unending, savage war against the forces of Chaos. Descending to strike a vengeful blow against the Dark Gods for the destruction of their beloved World That Was aeons ago, as the Age of Sigmar dawns, they seek to bring order to the Mortal Realms. Summoned by the incredible power of the Slann Starmasters, they materialize from the energy of the stars themselves - nimble Skinks, predatory Saurus and hulking Kroxigor, each intent on destroying the forces that have corrupted and darkened the Mortal Realms almost beyond repair. Wrought of purest star-magic, the Seraphon are true beings of Azyr.

The native inhabitants of the Realm of Ghyran, the Sylvaneth are the children of Alarielle, the Goddess of Life and Everqueen of the Jade Kingdoms. These otherworldly creatures are great enemies of the forces of Chaos, opposing their perversion of the natural order at every turn.

A duardin culture that originally arose in the Salamander's Spine mountain range of Aqshy, the Realm of Fire, during the Age of Myth, the Fyreslayers are a fierce, warrior race that regularly higher themselves out as mercenaries willing to fight for almost anyone for the right price. Worshipers of Grimnir, the lost duardin god of war and vengeance, the Fyreslayers are driven to seek out ur-gold, a mystical substance containing fragments of their god's divine essence.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The recurrent flaws caused by the Reforging process among certain Stormcast (i.e., the loss of valuable memories from their mortal lives) are occasionally portrayed as essentially the fantasy FictionalDisability version of being inflicted with a chronic disease or disability. Most notably, one of the main Stormcast characters in ''Broken Realms: Kragnos'' is repeatedly shown to be struggling with what can only be really described as "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder body dysmorphia]]" (i.e., she never feels comfortable looking at her reflection, as she always sees it as someone ''else'' and not precisely "her"), and this is later revealed to be due to how [[spoiler:she was originally just a seven-year-old girl when she was saved from [[KnightTemplar an angry Saurus]] she had accidentally stumbled into by Sigmar and put through the process of Reforging. As she never got the chance to grow into an actual adult before she was Reforged, she sees a stranger when she looks at her face because it's the face of someone she never actually was]].

* ImplacableMan: While they are the good guys, each one of them is a resurrectable killing machine, they just come back after getting killed, for instance, there is one story where they ''nearly overwhelmed'' a Chaos host composed of Chaos Champions lead by none other than [[BigBad Archaon himself]], this was because they had portals directly opened to Azyr, which allowed them to pour fresh formations of Stormcast Eternals to the fight, have the fight been prolonged for some more time this would have allowed the Stormcast to launch recently killed forces into the fray, and while they lost because the portals were closed, it's still remarkable that they almost won Chaos at his own game. In fact, an entire chamber of Stormcast Eternals can get killed and brought back to Azyr just to be reforged and redeployed a few days later to finish the job.

** Both of them are elite {{Super Soldier}}s crafted by a powerful GodEmperor [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine associated with the color gold]] that are used as elite shock troops against the enemies of their god while also commonly fighting against the forces of Chaos. Both of them even look vaguely similar (in terms of being bulky, intimidating humanoids clad in PoweredArmor), are organized into similarly small armies (Stormcast have their Stormhosts, and Space Marines have their Chapters) and are mostly intended to be self-contained. Both of them are also technically trnashuman, though the Space Marines achieve this through advanced technology and science while the Stormcast achieve it through (literal) divine intervention and SufficientlyAnalyzedMagic.

* SuperpowerLottery: As Stormcast lose more and more of their original mortal souls to the process of Reforging, they get increasingly close to becoming divine {{Humanoid Abomination}}s. Some of the flaws that emerge from multiple Reforgings

* AngelicTransformation: Using sigmarite, he can turn humans into Stormcast Eternals.

--> '''Sigmar:''' Maybe war and Chaos are the only constants of reality. But I do not have to accept it, and I will fight it for all time if I must. I cannot believe this is how the realms were meant to be.

* ACommanderIsYou: Elitist/Generalist. The Stormcast Eternals are easily one of the most elite regular factions in the game (only the unusual likes of Sons of Behemat and Ogor Mawtribes will have fewer models on the table), and their roster is extremely well-rounded and can take on a variety of roles, helped by various Stormhost specialities (Hammers of Sigmar Dracoth and Draconith, Knights Excelsior Paladins, etc).
* DeaderThanDead: Any Stormcast who falls in the Realms of Chaos is gone for good, their souls unable to return to Sigmar.
%%* DeathFromAbove: Skyhosts.

* DropTheHammer: Sigmar is known for his own warhammer, and many Eternals follow his example, training in the use of Sigmarite hammers as their personal weapons.

* {{Foil}}: To the Space Marines, while their scifi counterparts are made from children often forcefully taken to be psycho-conditioned and genetically augmented to serve a doomed dystopian Imperium, the Stormcasts are all heroes saved from last stands where they fought to the very end against Chaos, then are magically empowered, and their main goal is to liberate the Mortal Realms from the grip of the Ruinous Powers. The Space Marines play their transhumanism to the hilt in that they usually tend to be considered as removed from humanity (by themselves and others), while the Stormcasts were once normal people and in many ways remain so still aside from how they're a lot more powerful than they were before. Stormcast have lost everything, know full well of the stakes (since they have experienced them), the concept of losing what they hold dear terrifies them, unlike the Marines who will wantonly throw away their lives.

* HopeBringer: The other main reason for why Sigmar created them was to be this for the oppressed denizens of the Mortal Realms. The Modus Operandi specifically is to slay the "tyrants" of the Mortal Realms, meaning the Warriors of Chaos.

* MeaningfulName: Some Stormcast abandoned their birth name in favour of another one: Vandus Hammerhand used to be Vendell Blackfist; Aventis Firestrike used to be Avante Fireson and so on.

* OldSoldier: That "Eternal" thing in their name is not a metaphor or a boast. Some of them, such as Vandus Hammerhand, can dimly remember the age before the Coming of Chaos, making them many thousands of years old. In fact, it's even implied that some of the Stormcast Eternals are the ancient ancestors to thousands of modern human tribes on the Mortal Realms.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: They are made from mortal warriors taken by the God-King Sigmar, augmented with mystic energies and given fancy new weapons and armour made of Sigmarite, and are now sent out from the heavens to oppose Chaos whenever it appears. Certain types and characters have wing-shaped devices that allow them to fly, further strengthening their angelic imagery. Aside from that, Stormcasts aren't actually all that holy or magical when it comes down to it; they're about as powerful physically as a Chaos Warrior, aside from the "cannot completely die" thing. Unlike Chaos Warriors, who are fanatically devoted to Chaos, Stormcasts are still very much human, or whatever race they were before. They need to eat, to sleep and have desires as anyone else. The Eternal part of their name is rather relative: their souls are constantly coveted by Nagash, and the supply of Sigmarite is limited, with each reforging taking more supplies and more of the Stormcast's memories, feelings and general personality is lost.

* PowerCreep: The Stormcast Eternals are one of the stronger factions in the game and regually get increasingly powerful wargear and units.
* PowerOfHate: They run on hatred for the Forces of Chaos, seeing as how their followers destroyed their realms, slaughtered and subjugated their people and killed all of them. Sigmar himself encourages this, considering that he opposed Chaos for thousands of years prior to the beginning of the setting and ultimately lost to them during the End Times.
* ResurrectiveImmortality: Stormcast can't die under normal circumstance. Upon death, they are warped back to Sigmar's side, reforged, then sent back.

* ShockAndAwe: During the [[TabletopGame/WarhammerTheEndTimes the End Times]], Sigmar in addition to being an Imperial War-God also became one with Azyr, the Wind of Heavens. As a result, he gained mastery over lightning and thunder, which seems to have been passed on to the Stormcast Eternals. Though the Lord-Relictors seem to fall back more on Shyish than Azyr.

* TalkingAnimal: The Stardrakes and Dracoths, who have their own language and can also understand the tongues of the other Order-aligned races.

* TrueCompanions: Having trained for ages in Azyr, each Stormhost forms a link of camaraderie and friendship among their ranks and sometimes between them. There is one instance where a Lord-Celestant received the mission to make his chamber reinforce the beleaguered forces of another stormhost whose Lord-Celestant was being deployed for the first time against Chaos, and he was promptly goaded by members of the other stormhost to bring their inexperienced brother alive unless they demand a satisfaction, instead of getting angry at them he promised to do his utmost to bring him back as he was his friend too.
* WarriorMonk: They're giant, hammer-wielding murder-machines and their faith in Sigmar is constantly reinforced as a major aspect of their characters.

* FaceHeelTurn: The Broken Realms saga sees Morathi willingly turn against the rest of the alliance in a bid of power, forcefully annexing Anvilgard in the process.

* EvilCounterpart: The Deepkin can be seen as this to the High Elves. The High Elves are magically-inclined race who tend to be {{Noble Bigot}}s that look down on the younger races, yet still help them against the forces of Chaos. The Deepkin has none of that, and they selfishly sustain themselves and their empire at the expense of others.

* FlyingSeafoodSpecial: When the Idoneth Deepkin fight, they summon a magical ocean called the aethersea around themselves, allowing their troops and sea monsters to "swim" in the air and take advantage of their underwater training.

* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The Deepkin use memory magic to make the victims of their raid forget about them, like a dimly remembered nightmare.

* MakingASplash: The Isharann are the masters of the crushing, abyssal power of the seas.
* MeaningfulName: In-universe, "Idoneth" means "extreme seclusion", apt for a culture of aelves who concealed themselves in the ocean depths and avoided contact with the rest of the world.

* MysteriousMist: When the Deepkin enter battle, their presence generates a disorienting magical mist as part of the aethersea that lets them and their mounts act as though underwater.
* NecessaryEvil: When it comes down to it, the Idoneth aren't an evil people; they're just trying to ensure their people survive and avoid a terrible fate, and even when on soul raids they aren't sadistic; they just take the lives they need to support the latest batch of Namatari for a few decades and move on.

* AxCrazy: His centuries long imprisonment has left Sevireth wild and vicious, even other Harukan Wind Spirits fear his half-mad howls.