The Skaven are a cruel and vicious species whose military power and incomprehensible numbers have the potential to smother all the kingdoms of the Old World, a destiny the ratmen believe is inevitable. SkavenA malevolent and diabolical race of ratmen whose warrens span a global inter-continental underground empire known in their tongue as the Under-Empire. Time and again, Greenskin hordes arise without warning and lay a great swath of destruction that has no direction or purpose other than simple violence, an ever-increasing mass of warfare that has the potential to dominate and cover the entire world in a seething green tide. Supremely violent, they exist in a permanent state of war against anything and anyone they can see. Big and mean or small and mean, these green-skinned monstrosities can be broadly categorized into two species: The large and brutish Orcs and the small and cunning Goblins. GreenskinsThe Greenskins are considered by many to be the scourge of all civilization. Now the Forces of Chaos, mortal minions of the four gods corrupted by their influence or lured to their side by promises of power, lie in wait for the right time to destroy the world and watch it burn. Having first invaded the world millenia ago only to be barely repelled by the combined might of the Elder Races, the Chaos Gods and their Daemon armies cannot easily walk through the world and are barely contained to the poles. Nagash, first of the Necromancers, was responsible for developing the malign art of raising the dead to serve a master, which indirectly contributed to the rise of the Vampires and their diverse bloodlines, who control armies of cadavers of all sorts and are megalomaniacal in their pursuit of eternal un-life.įorces of ChaosBeyond the veil of reality lies the Realm of Chaos, home to four gods so powerful one of them alone could snuff out the world and its gods along with it, and would do so gladly. The Undead are the logical result of the short-lived humans' efforts to achieve immortality, no matter the cost. UndeadThe Wind of Death blows strong in the Warhammer World, and the dead have long and bitter memories. Despite all this, they still are formidable powers, and have an important part to play in the fate of the world. In times past all of them built magnificent civilizations, grander than anything mankind has achieved so far, but millenia of strife and tragedy have inevitably led to their decline and they are now a shadow of their former selves. Thus, they tend to be far more resistant to Chaos than humans. For better or worse, they have taken a central role in balancing the fate of the world.Įlder RacesOld, declining, yet proud beyond measure, the Elder Races were present in the Dawn Times, when the first of their kind were sculpted by the hand of the Old Ones themselves. Unlike other races, Humans are a diverse species with no unifying nation, having as many corrupt and cowardly individuals as they have brave and wise heroes.
However, they have grown to be the dominant species in the world, dwarfing the Elder Races by numbers, if not sophistication. They do not remember the departure of the Old Ones or the first coming of Chaos, nor do they have the depth of knowledge and wisdom of the Elder Races. Human NationsHumans are a relatively young race.
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