Editing Valten (section)

==The Legend==
In short? A baby boy with a birthmark like a two-tailed comet on his chest gets born to a blacksmith and his wife in a Reikland village called Lachenbad. Superstitious peasants mutter about omens, but his daddy - who's also the biggest and strongest person in Lachenbad - declares he'll thump anyone who tries to lay a hand on his son. So he grows up - bigger and stronger than any of his fellows, but a likeable enough lad. Then, when he's eighteen, [[Beastmen]] attack his village, but he grabs two hammers from his dad's forge and leads the counterattack, killing the beastlord singlehandedly despite what should have been a fatal wound.

People start telling stories about him, [[Luthor Huss]] shows up, and proclaims he's the heir of [[Sigmar]], rallying faithful Sigmarites across the Empire culminating in a showdown with [[Karl Franz]] where Huss demands Karl Franz step down and make Valten Emperor. Caught between his own faith in Sigmar, his knowledge of politics and Elector Counts willing to make trouble no matter what he decides, the Emperor cleverly sidesteps the issue by decreeing Valten is Sigmar's heir, giving him [[Ghal-Maraz]], and making him leader of the Sigmarite church, but retaining his own secular power, the wisest possible choice.

In the now-aborted outcome, he gets critically wounded facing off against [[Archaon]], and is then murdered in his sickbed by [[Deathmaster Snikch]] at the behest of the [[Skaven]].

In [[The End Times]], naturally, Valten is all gearing up to be the potential savior of the Empire once again, making his first appearance defending the town of Alderfen from a rip in [[Balthazar Gelt]]'s Auric Bastion. He achieves much in the few years he is alive, including wracking up the most impressive kill count of other champions, most notably being Wulfrik the Wanderer and [[Vardek Crom]]. He ends up getting murdered by a [[Verminlord]] Deceiver as he duels [[Archaon]] in [[The End Times]]: [[Thanquol]], making the Skaven into a team of killstealing pricks.

This version of Valten is clearly superhuman, who even as a young lad beats chaos warriors and plaguebearers to death ''with his bare fists'' after a Great Unclean One breaks his blacksmith hammers. Huss was watching this and then declared Valten Sigmar's Herald. This leads to a big ceremony in Heffengen where Franz declared the man the Herald of Sigmar and gifts him Ghal-Maraz (though the whole Exalted crap doesn't happen this time around). In the Lord of the End Times novel, it is revealed that Valten held a portion of Sigmar's power in him, which transferred into Ghal-Maraz after his death (The other portion was transferred into resurrecting Karl Franz into the Incarnate of Heavens/The Emperor Ascendant). Once Sigmar reunited his power of the heavens with the power he had in Valten, he was complete once again, which in summary means that Valten was the reincarnation of Sigmar all along but was never fully able to regain his full potential due to bad shits happening in the End Times. (I mean for fucksake he even has the same Twin-Tail scar a Bloodthirster gave Sigmar back during the Time of Legends series during the battle for that same goddamn '''CITY''' slapped across his chest.)