Talk:Skaven (Warhammer)

Yeerk

This was linked to from the species "Yeerk" from the animorphs series where it was supposed to go to a different page, if someone could make a disambiguation that'd be good. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.68.85.43 (talk • contribs) 18:30, 11 October 2005

That makes no sense at all. The two aren't remotely related. Therefore, a disambiguation page cannot be created; it's impossible to mistake one for the other, so there's no disambiguation to be done! Adam Marx Squared 09:56, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Requesting clarification

I can't find any publication details for Warpspawn. Is it fan fiction? What Warhammer material has Roysten Crow written? Thanks, 222.154.24.144 11:28, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

The Justice Project

I'm going to follow all the Warahmmer/Warhammer40k projects and articles that I can to establish the fact that no single race in either of these are "bad guys" or "good guys".

The word "evil" is a very strong word, and should not be used for anything or anyone. Certain characters and required places, but not to refer to an entire faction/race.

It's much better to say "nobody is a badguy or goodguy" than "everyone is a badguy in some way" anyway. The creators of the Games Workshop games did an excellent job in making balances between armies both in gameplay and storyline. Colonel Marksman 17:31, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Well considering the Skaven are for all intensive purposes children of Chaos that would make them "bad guys". they fight against each other granted but they are still out to dominate the rest of the Warhammer World. User: Night_Bringer

Warhammer and Warhammer 40k aren't cut and dry stories of good and evil but it's pretty clear from a lot of the fluff and the fiction that it's skewed towards humans and some armies are judged from that perspective. The Ork book, for example, has a lot of fluff written from the perspective of humans studying orkoids and the main 40k rulebook has more material on the Imperium that anything else. Just look at the 40k section on Chaos: chaos is a "taint," a "ruinous power," a "vile presence," and their quote isn't something from a Chaos perspective, it's an excerpt from the Imperial Liber Malificorum. And then in Warhammer fantasy fiction, Gotrek and Felix casts Chaos, Skaven, et al, as villains. --Jordansc 05:46, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

• GW doesn't have heroes. It just has villains and more villains. I don't think any race gets a title of Good Guy (maybe The Tau?)--ZayZayEM 12:14, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
  • GW does have heroes of the Imperium, but that's exactly the point. Instead of calling them all evil, keep it neutral. Colonel Marksman 03:23, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Possible copyright violation

I removed a large amount of content that appears to have been copied from here (an index page, content was taken from many pages). There is no indication that permission to use the content was granted on this talk page or in the edit summary. I suspect that it was copied from there instead of the other way around because the other website gives the source, the "Book of the Rat". If the content came from that book and it has not been released into the public domain or the GFDL, we cannot use it. Here is the edit that the text was added in. -- Kjkolb 11:31, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Clan Skryre or Clan Skyre

There seems to be a difference of spellings used US Games Workshop uses Skyre UK Games Workshop uses Skryre --Brat32 23:39, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

• It's a UK product, I'd suggest sticking with UK's spelling.--ZayZayEM 12:13, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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Thanks to those who have been cleaning up the in-universe perspective

It's really appreciated! [[User:scbomber (only bombs in [[netrek]]]] 04:43, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Due to it's in-universe style, I found this article to be largly useless to me. As with almost all Warhammer army articles this is written as a fictional racial history. As an article on an army in a wargame, the emphasis should be on the army, not the racial history. Perhaps someone could layout (or quote) a 'role filled by this army as compared to others' section, or a style of play section, and cut back 90% of the crap about where the first ratman may have come from. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.126.163.20 (talk) 16:20, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

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Suggestion for Disambiguation

Hello,

I'm a fan of the early 90's Demoscene, and entered a WP search for "Skaven," aka Peter Hajba, a prominent member of the group Future Crew (both of which have nice valid WP entries) but was immediately brought to the WarHammer-related page for the Skaven race. Skaven's musical influence lives on today, as he is a music developer for various game companies, including PopCap (Bejeweled, etc..) and other cherished DOS games whose names I cannot remember at the moment.

Rather than add it myself and annoying anyone, I would like to suggest adding a disambiguation page to allow users to go to the proper page they're searching for, as I didn't remember the real name of the Demoscene 'Skaven' (Peter Hajba) until I did a subsequent Google search.

-- W5i2 06:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

pronunciation

is the ska part of skaven pronounced as in scab, scar, or scathe? i use the latter, but idk. any IPAfags about? 86.157.88.15 (talk) 12:33, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

It's the third (skay-ven) going by the video games, but again we're hamstrung by GW having not (to my knowledge) having covered this officially anywhere. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 12:48, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal

Hy there. IMHO the article Skaven sign should be merged into this article and then deleted asap. Thanks. Flamarande (talk) 18:16, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

Pun

In the Clan Skyre section I found this "Their engineers are used to explain Skaven warmachines: the Ratling Gun (a warpstone-based Gatling gun with an obvious pun on rat)...". That is obvious word play but it is not a pun. A pun is only so when a homonym is used, changing the word completely does not qualify. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.240.237.172 (talk) 20:27, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Possible source

There is a draft at Draft:Skaven (Warhammer) that is otherwise useless, but it does have this: