How do?
So currently for me, one of the most intriguing mysteries in Age of Sigmar is the new realms of the setting.
What are they, and indeed where are they?
My ponderings have thrown up a theory, which I now put to the wider community for critique and rebuttal.
Ready?
Put simply - they're the home plane of the Old Ones.
The main basis of this theory is to do with how the Old World/World That Was wound up destroyed. Namely, there was a third 'polar' gate, underneath Middenheim. Archaon cracked it open, shattering the Old World.
Now, we know from the background these gates were used by the Old Ones to travel, though exactly where was mostly theory over fact. Being gates, they had to go somewhere.
And having been sucked through such a gate, I think we have just found out where they lead to.
However, this leads me to another question - was The Old World/World That Was the experiment, or the refinement? We know the Old Ones created most of the species found, with the possible exception of the Orcs, and the definite exception of the Skaven.
Were the ancestors of Man, Elf, Dwarf etc taken from what is now called the Mortal Realms, or did they originate on the Old World?
Right, that's about it for now. Having a few beers tonight, so expect more thoughts some time tomorrow, hangover allowing.