NORN EMISSARY HAS BEEN FEATURED IN OFFICIAL GW MEDIA

[riverzora]

In the WarhammerTV plus app -

GUYS - THE LOREMASTERS TYRANIDS HIVE FLEET MENTIONS THE NORN EMISSARY FROM THE RUMOURS-

@25mins

“The Captain General personally engaged a Norn Emissary - a colossal bioform seemingly able to track the psychic spore of its target who had been intent on assassinating Lord Solar Leontis”

The app has screenshot protection so I can’t show the picture being shown at the same time - but it’s a big creature with a meat cleaver shaped crest on it’s front carapace and lots of claws. Not like any other model we have so quite possibly the first image of the rumoured beast!

I’ll open it up on the PC and photo the screen when I get to the computer

[jesses]

Is it artwork or a model you are describing?

[riverzora]

May 26, 2023 15:32:15 GMT jesses said:

Is it artwork or a model you are describing?

Artwork. But sort of from the point of view of the bug - so we see its face from below and behind. It might have a weirdly human arm dangling from the middle? Doesn’t that match with a rumour someone said?

I was salty about the rumours but that name being said in the Loremasters has certainly made me go HM!

[riverzora]

[acehilator]

Could be a freeform rendition of a Hive Tyrant, but the head blade and the middle arms are weird AF.

[jesses]

It's interesting looking for sure. I'm not convinced it's a new model. Just cause something has art doesn't mean it gets a model.

I'm also just pessimistic, haha. We've been wanting a plastic Titan for so long I just kinda feel like it will never happen.

[purestrain]

May 26, 2023 23:47:54 GMT jesses said:

It's interesting looking for sure. I'm not convinced it's a new model. Just cause something has art doesn't mean it gets a model.

I'm also just pessimistic, haha. We've been wanting a plastic Titan for so long I just kinda feel like it will never happen.

In the world of IP, if they want to keep it to make it later, they have to make it now or else they arent really enforcing their IP of it.

[jesses]

That lawsuit was a travesty of IP law.

That's assuming they WANT to make a model of it. Artists make up new Tyranid monsters in official artwork all the time. Remember the bio-titan in the Tau artwork that never came to pass?

Don't get your hopes up.

[riverzora]

It’s not the image so much as the narrator specifically mentioned the Norn Emissary by name, described it as colossal, and it was a name that featured in the rumours. Made me go hmm.

[creatureboi]

It is interesting that it’s a name called out in the rumours before all the official releases started. At the very least it seems to confirm that the term norn emissary wasn’t intended to represent the model we now know is the norn tyrant but whether we get an actual model for it isn’t clear. It’s almost certainly something that would be saved until codex release. The rumour could just have been from someone who has seen this artwork or press release material ahead of schedule and assumed it was a new model. It could still be just flavour text - lore writers are fairly fast and loose when it comes to creating new tyranid monsters that are not actually represented in game. Still, I’m a little more hopeful we might finally get a plastic total kit with the new codex having seen that info

[jesses]

Norm Emissary is not a name that came up first in the new rumours, it's been floating around for YEARS. Basically any time a rumour faker wanted to name a LoW model but didn't want to call it a Dominatrix, it was Norn-something. And since the Dominatrix was described as the "emissary of the Norn Queens in orbit"... well, didn't take long.

I'd LOVE to be wrong, I just don't think ya'll should get your hopes up. We've done this dance before.

[riverzora]

May 27, 2023 19:58:25 GMT jesses said:

Norm Emissary is not a name that came up first in the new rumours, it's been floating around for YEARS. Basically any time a rumour faker wanted to name a LoW model but didn't want to call it a Dominatrix, it was Norn-something. And since the Dominatrix was described as the "emissary of the Norn Queens in orbit"... well, didn't take long.

I'd LOVE to be wrong, I just don't think ya'll should get your hopes up. We've done this dance before.

Yes - but it’s NEVER before been mentioned in official media or lore. That’s what makes me go HMM

[purestrain]

It reminds me of a dimachaeron, but more toward what nids look like these days.

Might be the reason why it got the legend treatment.

Remember they said that each new dex revealed will also be coupled with a new model.

Dream time.

[swarm492]

And how do we introduce this new galactic terror? We let the custodes kill it.

Pro marketing

[omnivore]

Looks butt-ugly to me. If there is a model it’ll be a hard sell for me. I bet its hth weapons are ap -2 D3 as well 😅