Sigmar
 This article is a stub. You can help 1d4chan by expanding it |
Sigmar Unberogen is a hero in the backstory of Warhammer Fantasy Battle. The story goes that, some twenty-five hundred years before the "present day," a twin-tailed comet appeared in the sky on the night of his birth. The tribe to which he was born took this to be an omen, and sure enough, he did some pretty heroic things early in his life. These feats included saving some Dwarfs, who granted him a massive Warhammer called "Head-Splitter," and uniting the various tribes in his part of the world into the Empire. He crusaded against the forces of Chaos, and after fifty years, he abdicated, leaving the leaders of the various tribes to rule together; meanwhile, he went into the wilderness. Since nobody saw him die, people decided that he must have ascended into godhood, and he is now worshiped as such. This hypothesis does have something to it: priests of Sigmar do seem to get some kind of divine assistance. In life, Sigmar worshiped Ulric and wielded a hammer in emulation of him. So, Ulric is in fact the indirect reason why Warhammer is called Warhammer, which makes him the most notable divinity in the canon.
He had a reincarnation called Valten, who got assraped by Archaon and was later assassinated by a Skaven.
In Warhammer 40,000
In the current official publications of GW, there is no link between Warhammer Fantasy Battle and Warhammer 40,000, but that's never gotten in the way of the fandom, especially considering that at one point, WFB was explicitly part of the 40k universe. A recurring hypothesis is that Sigmar is one of the Unknown Primarchs. One could posit that the twin-tailed comet which heralded his birth was actually the genetor-pod falling to the Warhammer World, that his mysterious departure was him leaving to take command of his Space Marine Legion (tentatively called the Emperor's Hammers), and that the miracles credited to him are in fact the result of the God-Emperor of Mankind. Recent pieces of background, detailing Sigmar's birth and characteristics, tend to invalidate this theory, however.
Sigmar's too manly for the Emperor's pussy ass to handle anyway.