“Where was Grimnir when our warriors were dying? Where was Valaya when our children sickened? When we called out for aid in the deep places where we delved, it was not Grungni who answered our call, but mighty Hashut who delivered us in our time of need. Who are the real traitors here? Our kin who abandoned us to madness and death or we who only sought to survive against the forces of Chaos? One day there will be a reckoning and it will be the Sons of the Father of Darkness who will have the victory, not the weak willed spawn of the pathetic Ancestor Gods.”—Mordian Slagfist, Chaos Dwarf warrior
That one bit with the bowing warriors and the priests marching amongst them reminded me of that scene from Dune with the Sardaurkar and it was awesome.
I love the woman narrating. It sounds like Galadriel if she took the ring. And I love how it starts out solemnly, weakened, and helpless but gradually becomes more powerful, despotic, malicious. As if she, like the chaos dwarfs before her, is becoming less of a abandoned and lost soul and more of a pose hungry and malevolent warlord in real time.
So we had a Dune reference with the sardaukars, a LOTR one with the troops marching out of the fortress like at Minas Morgul and an elder scroll one with the forging of the Numidium!