Continent of Asia
==Asia==
Brief SummaryEast Asia
Known Polities gathered from Canon; ==Pan-Pacific Empire== Pan-Pacific Empire (East Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands) - The Pan-Pacific Empire was a techno-barbarian state composed of the Pacific Islands and what had once been the territories of parts of East Asia, Australia and the Japanese islands that flourished during the Age of Strife. Narthan Dume, the Tyrant of the Pan-Pacific Empire, is described in ancient sources as being "half-mad/half-genius" and is considered the most infamous of all the tyrannical rulers who dominated Terra during this dark period. He was eventually defeated by the forces of the Emperor during the Unification Wars, removed from power and imprisoned within the great Imperial prison of Khangba Marwu, releasing his people from their oppression. From https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Unification_Wars: Pan-Pacific Empire (East Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands) - Narthan Dume, Tyrant of the Panpacific Empire during the Unification Wars at the close of the Age of Strife, was the most infamous of all the tyrannical rulers who dominated Terra during that dark period. He was described as "half-mad, half-genius." Although some in the Emperor's service wanted to imprison Dume in the dungeon of Khangba Marwu, he was instead executed at the urging of Constantin Valdor shortly after his capture. Many of his lieutenants, however, were imprisoned in Khangba Marwu. From https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Panpacific_Empire The Pan-Pacific Empire was a techno-barbarian state composed of the Pacific Islands and what had once been the territories of parts of East Asia, Australia and the Japanese islands that flourished during the Age of Strife. From by Artist Vanga-Vangog: In fact Panpacific Empire controls only half of a claimed territory. Occasionally on its lands are even found some small techno-barbarian states, who don't know that they are part of an empire, that is a size of a half of the world. -Vhnori- Province or Client State in the Pan Pacific Empire Vhnori - During the early years of the Great Crusade after ca. 800.M30, alliances and oaths were still fresh, untested or half-formed. Even as the Imperium of Man extended beyond the Sol System for the first time, the domains left in its wake were often of questionable stability and loyalty. Attempted rebellions and conspiracies were common. The Imperium usually put most of these insurrections down swiftly and without fanfare. However, occasionally a few rebellions required a different response; not simply subjugation but retribution. Vhnori was a Terran city enclave, a natural fortification built into the walls of a series of chasms for easy defence that had once been a part of the Pan-Pacific Empire. Vhnori had been one of the last of the tyrant Narthan Dume's domains to fall during the Unification Wars. The people of Vhnori did not take easily to the Imperial yoke, as they submitted to the Emperor's rule in sullen silence. This changed, however, with the coming of the Crimson Walkers, a cabal of psykers, gene-splicers and warlords who had once served the last great Terran tyrants of the Age of Strife. Bit by bit they had gathered followers and resources, spreading a secret web across Terra. The centre of their resurgence was Vhnori. It seemed the Crimson Walkers were determined to pull a part of Terra back into the nightmare of the recent past. When the Emperor heard of the rise of this reborn threat, He is said to have spoken three words: "Send in the Eighth!" The VIII Legion did not respond right away, as its force within the Sol System at that time only numbered a little over 500 warriors: a large force of Astartes but not one that could overwhelm a city of millions. When the VIII Legion began their campaign of fear, it started with an orbital bombardment falling from the night sky which lasted for six solar hours. Following the bombardment, the artificial darkness remained. Soon a heavy downpour thick with chemicals rained upon the millions of fearful inhabitants from the seeded clouds above. The VIII Legion arose from the abyss on jets of flame, butchering any who crossed their paths. The screams of terror and battle echoed through their drug-weakened minds. The Crimson Walkers responded by unleashing an army of mutant monstrosities, but still the VIII Legion came on, slicing abominations apart with lightning-sheathed claws. They screamed with the voices of the dead as they fought, their speaker grills shouting out the recorded sounds of suffering, pain and loss. When the chasms were blazing like the mouth of a mythical hell, the Drop Pods fell. The reinforcements converged on the chasms, cutting their way through the city sprawl, killing any they found. Soon, the remaining Crimson Walkers faced their doom fragmented, harrowed and cut-off from one another, until they were cornered by the figures in midnight blue Power Armour. Those who reached the blasted border surrounding the city found themselves hunted by the VIII Legion's Seeker Squads. It is said that the VIII Legion allowed many to run, before hunting them down through the long hours of the artificial night, maiming but never killing, until dragging their broken quarry back to the chasm. With Vhnori screaming and burning, the VIII Legion performed their last duty. Alive, and healed so that they were conscious, they threw the Crimson Walkers into the chasm. Then they detonated charges along the cliff edge, severing the hanging city from the cliff face, the screams of the ten millions who had sheltered from the fighting in the cliff-bound buildings reaching up to the sky as they followed the Crimson Walkers into the black depths of the Earth. The VIII Legion left the decimated city before dawn came again, cementing their reputation for the use of fear and terror as effective weapons of Imperial retribution and control. Principality of Archangelus will swear to insurgents of Vhnori, hoping for ability to restore own independence. From https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Unification_Wars: Vhnori //Mariana Trench// The Mariana Gorge is a deep ravine on Terra. In the era prior to the Age of Strife, this canyon, then known as the Mariana Trench, was at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean and was the lowest elevation of the surface of the Earth's crust. However, during the wars that engulfed the planet during the Age of Strife, much of the planet's oceans boiled away, revealing significant portions of the Gorge. In time an atheistic civilization arose along the walls of the Gorge that lasted several thousand years. By the time of the Great Crusade, this civilization had vanished, but left behind mile-high statues of its kings. Also goes by Mariana Canyon https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Mariana_Gorge Mariana Trench is now called Mariana Canyon and is jam-packed with hundreds of merged hive-cities. One of them is Vhnori, that will be the last city to fall during the Emperor's conquest of Panpacific Empire. But its citizens will not surrender internally. While Emperor's troops will fight in space, Vhnori will become a center of an extensive terrorist organization, that will raise one of the bloodiest uprising of the millenium. The city will be destroyed by a huge landslide, arose from the collapse of the canyon slopes as a result of the exposion of the powerful bomb. From by Artist Vanga-Vangog +Brotherhood of Singularity+ The Brotherhood of Singularitarianism was a sect that once existed within the Adeptus Mechanicus during ancient times. This body believed that Mankind would eventually stumble upon a technological singularity resulting in the creation of a greater-than-human intelligence. The Brotherhood sought to bring such a discovery to pass, but failed when their strongholds were stormed by Khazar. who united the Panpacific Empire against them. Its most famous member was Primus Moravec who fled to Mars, where elements of his ideology were incorporated into the Dark Mechanicum. https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Singularitarianism From Mechanicum (Novel) by Graham McNeill, From by Artist Vanga-Vangog: Brotherhood of Singularity prepares for its defeat after a long and exhausting uprising. Its leader is going to flee to Mars. ------------------------ -Jade Citadel of Hangol- From The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre, pgs. 132–135 ------------------------- ==Nei Monggol== Just a mention From Blood Games (Short Story) - Tales of Heresy (Anthology) ------------------------- fanfiction nation =Principality of Irkutsk= From by Artist Vanga-Vangog: Principality of Irkutsk is the satellite of Pan-pacific Empire. It is a huge hive-city, that fills the whole Baikal canyon.South East Asia
Known Polities gathered from Canon; ==Yndonesic Bloc== Yndonesic Bloc (Indonesia) - The Yndonesic Bloc was a techno-barbarian state located in what was once Southeast Asia. As late as the time of the Horus Heresy in the 31st Millennium, the Yndonesic Bloc, though an integral part of the Imperium of Man, still retained a distinct regional identity on Terra. The Yndonesic Bloc was ruled by a man named Cardinal Tang, the tyrannical "Ethnarch," during the closing years of the Age of Strife before the Unification. He wished to "return the world to a pre-technological age," burning "scientists, mathematicians and philosophers" who opposed his church's views. Tang imposed a genocidal policy that consisted of forced breeding between only "genetically compatible" citizens of the Bloc, combined with a eugenics program that aimed for the pursuit of racial hygiene through the use of compulsory sterilizations and the genocidal extermination of "undesirables." Those that defied these enforced edicts were punished brutally. Imperial history would later characterise Tang's rule as one of "bloody pogroms, death camps and genocides." Tang was eventually overthrown by his own people during the rise of the nascent Imperium and was imprisoned in the notorious penal colony of Nusa Kambagan (which would later become a productive Imperial hive city). Tang tried to conceal his true identity and hide amongst the general population. But only a few days after his arrival, Tang's fellow inmates learned of his true identity and murdered the former despot. The military unit known as the Stormbird was developed by the Yndonesic Bloc and used against the Pan-Pacific Tribes during the Unification Wars. No information is available in Imperial records to identify what the Stormbird was, though it was likely a weapon used against those techno-barbarian states that allied with the Emperor's growing forces. From https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Unification_Wars: ----------------------------- -Cebu City- Wiki: Cebu is a province of the Philippines Blood Games (Short Story) - Tales of Heresy (Anthology) --------------------------------Southern Asia
Known Polities gathered from Canon; =Nagapor Territories= Referenced in The First Wall (Novel), Chapter Nineteen “Nagapur” is in idian ------------------ ==Achaemenid Empire== Achaemenid Empire (Southwest Asia) - The Achaemenid Empire was a techno-barbarian state situated in the Middle East in the area of the pre-1st Millennium Persian Empire, centred roughly in the ancient nation-state of Iran. The Achaemenid Empire is noted as being made up of "wealthy tribes" who were quick to ally with the Emperor's nascent Imperium of Man during the Unification, and therefore avoided the horrors of atomic war and invasion by the Emperor's superior armies of genetically-engineered soldiers. In addition, their genomes were uncontaminated by the inherited flaws and viral defects of other tribes caused by centuries of exposure to lingering radiation and biological warfare vectors, making them good candidates for recruitment into the newborn Space Marine Legions after the Unification was completed. Many early candidates were recruited from this state to become the first Astartes of the Thousand Sons Legion. The Achaemenids possessed a superstitious belief in the mystical power of their ancestors; emblems of Dhul-Qarnayn, the greatest of the Achaemenid kings, were often used as charms against harm by the population. one of few allies of Emperor in this war. Its population is surprisingly clean from many genetic gefects, which had affected other tribes, so many of them will be recruited to become the first Astartes of the Thousand Sons Legion. Has a strange cult of its ancestors' mystical powers. From https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Unification_Wars : Achaemenid Empire (Southwest Asia) Ref: Persia, Iran, --------------------- =Baluchistan= wiki: Balochistan is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. It is the largest province in terms of land area, forming the southwestern region of the country, ------------------------------- \\Baktria\\ Wiki: region in Central Asia. Bactria proper was north of the Hindu Kush mountain range and south of the Oxus river, covering Afghanistan. (up against the Himalayas to the west)Middle East
Known Polities gathered from Canon; //Caucasus Wastes// Ruled by the “Ethnarchy” The conquest of the of this lands will start quite early, but it will last until the end of Unification Wars, entering the number of final battles of the conflict. Practices eugenics. Middle of Asia From https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Unification_Wars: Caucasus Wastes (Caucasus Peninsula) - The Caucasus Wastes was a techno-barbarian state located in the Caucasus Peninsula of Europe. Its ruler, known as the Ethnarch of the Caucasus Wastes, was defeated by the forces of the Emperor and imprisoned in the Imperial prison in the Himalazian (Himalayan) Mountains known as Khangba Marwu, The Vault. The primary Imperial force responsible for this outcome was the early XVIII Legion of Space Marines, later known to history as the Salamanders. Although it is entirely likely that the transhuman warriors of the XVIII Legion saw action before their assault on the Caucasus Wastes, the records of these engagements being either deliberately lost, deleted or sealed at the highest level, the first open battle honour recorded for the then-as yet unmatched XVIII Legion was the Assault of the Tempest Galleries during the overthrow of the Ethnarch of the Caucasus Wastes on Terra. It would also prove to be one of the most famous early campaigns for the Legion. Even though it occurred long before the XVIII Legion's reunification with their Primarch Vulkan on Nocturne, this conflict set its seal upon the nature of the Legion and had a profound influence that remains to this day. The conquest of the Caucasus Wastes was one of the last great battles of the Unification Wars that would see the Emperor as the undisputed master of Terra, but victory did not prove easy. The mutated eugenicist-oligarchs who ruled the Caucasus Wastes presented the Emperor's forces with one of the most difficult challenges they faced in open warfare. While few in number compared to the zealots of the Yndonesic Bloc or the savage warbands of Ursh, the Caucasus Ethnarchy's power was based on scores of relic-technologies and the terrible weapons in their possession which dated back to before the Age of Strife, while its military forces ranged from the armoured, gene-augmented "Ur-Khasis" troops, roughly analogous to the Emperor's Thunder Warriors, to narcotically-enslaved covens of psykers. The Ethnarchy's strongholds were concealed kilometres deep beneath the hollowed-out mountains of the Wastes and shielded from attack from above by near-impregnable power-filed webs. An attempt by the Imperial forces to take the Ethnarchy's mountain-strongholds by storm earlier in the Unification Wars had met with bloody defeat, with the loss of almost 10,000 Thunder Warriors and more than a million other casualties, but had seen the Caucasus Wastes contained and isolated thereafter. So it was that when the hour of the Emperor's vengeance came around, nothing was to be left to chance. The forces of six entire proto-Legions of the Legiones Astartes were mustered for the final assault on the Caucasus Wastes, along with the massed forces of the Legio Custodes, with the Emperor Himself to lead them, and countless other tributary armies, mechanised battalions and warrior bands beneath the eagle-and-lightning Raptor Imperialis banner of Unification. But, of all of these, the first thrust upon which all else would depend the Emperor entrusted to the nascent XVIII Legion. Although the decision to utilise what they considered to be a largely unknown and untested unit in so vital a role was questioned by many within the Imperial command, the Emperor's will was obeyed. The XVIII would carry the assault, utilising scores of freshly created gigantic "Termite" subterranean boring machines fitted with recently acquired technology from Mars. The full force of the proto-Legion, some 20,000 Astartes strong at this juncture, was committed to what was widely believed to be a suicide mission to destroy the vast geo-thermal furnaces which provided power for the Ethnarchy's impregnable defences. These were housed far below even the subterranean strongholds, and known of only through ancient legend, in a hundred-kilometre-long string of vast, artificially-created caverns known as the Tempest Galleries for the incessant storms of flame and electromagnetic force which bled from the ancient and little-understood relic machineries. The XVIII Legion's Power Armour had been specially-modified for the extreme conditions they were to face, and was camouflaged in striated patterns of sulphur yellow and sable black. Once they were ready, the XVIII saluted their Emperor and calmly mounted the untested Martian war engines of the Mechanicum and pierced the dark earth and rock at the edge of the Wastes, disappearing into a deadly and unknown world. Soon all signals were lost, and not even the power of the Imperial psykers could penetrate the turbulent depths to maintain contact with the Space Marine assault forces. Hours stretched into days and days became weeks, and nothing was heard from the assault force while the vast army of the Emperor waited in immediate readiness for the grand attack, and no sign or signal came. Pressed by His commanders, it is said the Emperor silenced them and replied; "They shall not fail me, they will return from the fire, thus it shall ever be." Reports claim that moments after the Emperor spoke, great tremors shook the region, their turbulence felt as far away as Gorodak and the Jade Citadel of Hangol. In their wake, the power-webs that had for so long shielded the Caucasus Wastes failed and the full force of the Emperor's wrath fell upon them to their utter destruction. The last Ethnarch of the Caucasus was dragged in chains to the Imperial prison of Khangba Marwu and the buried secrets that had been his strength were taken by the new, now uncontested Master of Terra. Of the fate of the XVIII Legion nothing was known until the closing days of the campaign when, far from the Wastes, a long-dormant volcano near Klostzatz shattered and one of the Termite machines hauled itself from the rubble carrying just over a thousand survivors from the XVIII Legion. From The Horus Heresy Book Two - Massacre, pgs. 132–135 --------------------------- \\Black Sea Basin\\ From by Artist Vanga-Vangog: “The Black Sea is the last more or less large body of water on Terra, saved at Kalagann's whim.” -------------------------------- //Kaspia// Probably the Caspien Sea ----------------------------- \\Black Sea Basin\\ From by Artist Vanga-Vangog: “The Black Sea is the last more or less large body of water on Terra, saved at Kalagann's whim.” ----------------------------- mentions as Fanfiction: -Zion- No Real Lore, Just FanFiction Israeli kingdom --------------------------- ==Arabia== No Real Lore, Just FanFictionCentral Asia
==Ursh== Ursh (Central Asia/Russia) - Ursh was a techno-barbarian state that was located in the steppes of what had once been Russia and Central Asia. Ursh was the mightiest of the techno-barbarian empires on Terra before the Unification Wars and was therefore the largest and strongest enemy the Emperor's forces had to face during that long conflict. Though Ursh was a strong empire, it was not as technologically advanced as several of the other techno-barbarian states. For example, the acquisition of superior military machines from the Nordafrik Conclaves was the main reason cited in the Chronicles of Ursh for Ursh's decision to launch that infamous ancient war against its southern neighbour. Ursh was ruled by the despot and warlord named Kalagann at the time of the Unification Wars. Kalagann was described as being of cruel character, and commanding vast armies of techno-barbarians. Kalagann was known for wearing a distinctive suit of Artificer Armour known as the Armour of Pearl, which by the time of the Horus Heresy was kept as a trophy in the atrium of the Eternity Gate of the Imperial Palace. Other high positions within the government of Ursh were all filled by military warlords including Lurtois, Sheng Khal (also known as Shang Khal) and Quallodon. Kalagann's infamous exploits were documented in the ancient manuscript called the Chronicles of Ursh, which would later be considered by Imperial scholars as a classic work of Human literature that provided valuable insight into this pre-Unification state's rise and the wars of the Ursh against the Nordafrik Conclaves. The Chronicles of Ursh mentions the influence of "primordial gods" upon Kalagann and the Ursh. Also, the sorcerous powers of Kalagann mentioned in the Chronicles of Ursh formed the main part of Ursh's military power. As such, it is highly likely that the Chaos Gods were the true lords of Ursh, and Kalagann was merely one of their puppets, manipulated to do their bidding. Despite their influence and favour, the Dark Gods failed to save Kalagann when he faced the forces of the Emperor of Mankind, which eventually resulted in the defeat of Ursh and Kalagann's death. The armies of Ursh consisted mostly of unaltered Human soldiers. Kalagann also employed powerful psykers within his armies, using their arcane abilities to unleash the foul powers of the Warp upon his enemies, including the Imperial Army. From https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Unification_Wars: Ursh (Central Asia/Russia) From by Artist Vanga-Vangog: - the most powerful and aggressive technobarbarian empire of Terra, ruled by a brutal tyrant named Kalagann. Quite bacward in technology, but compensates for this shortage by a HUGE number of troops and the ruler's connections with forces of Warp, which he uses as some kind of magical weapon. Deemed to be a Chaos Gods' puppet. =Urartu= Urartu (Asia Minor) - The Kingdom of Urartu was the last of the techno-barbarian states to be conquered militarily by the Emperor's forces and its conquest marked the end of the Unification Wars and the birth of the Imperium of Man. The Imperial historical chronicles tell that the last battle of the Unification Wars, known as the Battle of Mount Ararat, was fought within the territory of Urartu atop a mountain that had once been flooded and lay underwater. During this final battle the chronicles say that the remaining Imperial Thunder Warriors were slain to a man. The chronicles recorded that the famed Thunder Warrior Arik Taranis, known as the "Lightning Bearer," raised the Banner of Lightning at the final declaration of Unity which established the rule of the Emperor of Mankind over the entirety of Terra before dying of his wounds. In truth, the Thunder Warriors were all secretly culled from existence on the Emperor's own orders after the Battle of Mount Ararat by His other servants because they were no longer necessary to His grand design and He wished to replace them with a more advanced genetic template for His genetically-engineered supersoldiers who would become the Space Marines. From https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Unification_Wars: Urartu (Asia Minor From by Artist Vanga-Vangog: The Kingdom of Urartu will become a successor of Ursh after its fall. There, near the Ararat mountain, will happen the famous battle, that is deemed to be a final clash of Unification Wars. De jure. ----------- =Akkad= The Great King of Akkad was a Terran ruler, who fought the Emperor's forces, during the Unification Wars.His elite Udug Hul were the terrors of the Upper Asiatic Basin and managed to resist the advance of the Emperor's armies. This ended in 668.M30, when the Emperor led the first of the Legio Astartes against the Great King and the Udug Hul at Samerkend. The battle ended after 10 hours, with the Emperor victorious and the Great King of Akkad's head a trophy, that hung from the belt of the Grandmaster Hector Thrane. From The Horus Heresy Book Nine - Crusade -------------------------------- \\Gobi Wastes\\ Desert ------------------------------- //Taiga// Pinewood forest From Horus Rising (Novel) Redditor "nomadic Caterpillar cities" From by Artist Vanga-Vangog: North of the Sibranian steppes streches Taiga - the last forest on Terra, inhabited by mutants and savages. ------------------------- -Irkutsk- Wiki: Irkutsk is the largest city and administrative center of Irkutsk Oblast, Russia. With a population of 617,473 as of the 2010 Census, Irkutsk is the 25th largest city in Russia by population, the 5th largest in the Siberian Federal District, and one of the largest cities in Siberia. ---------------------------- ==Terrawatt Clan== Urals/Terrawatt Clan (Ural Mountains) - The Urals/Terrawatt Clan territory was a small techno-barbarian state located in the territories surrounding the Ural Mountains of Europa that flourished during the Age of Strife. Beneath Mount Narodnya was the greatest forge of the Urals, where the toiling forge-masters once served the Terrawatt Clan during the Unification Wars. It was here that the Primarchs Fulgrim of the Emperor's Children and Ferrus Manus first met. From https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Unification_Wars: Urals/Terrawatt Clan (Ural Mountains) The Terrawatt Clan was a polity of Terra during the Age of Strife. Said to spring from the same ideology that gave birth to the Martian Mechanicum, the Terrawatt Clan's Theologiteks rulers constructed great forges in the Ural Mountains. For most of the Age of Strife the Clan existed underneath the Urals, isolating themselves and few knew of their existence. When they did reappear, many Terran warlords came to them asking for their advanced weaponry and technology. However they listened to only one, the Emperor, as he shared with them technology that dated back to the Dark Age. In exchange for the technology he shared with them, the Terrawatt Clan provided the Emperor with many weapons he would give his forces during the Unification Wars. From Vengeful Spirit (Novel) — Chapter 4 Located in the Ural Mountains in modern Russia https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Terrawatt_Clan From by Artist Vanga-Vangog: Terrawatt Clan is the first power of Terra, that has sworn to the Emperor. The country is famous for its mountain-sized forges. -------------------------- mentions as Fanfiction: ==The Union== From by Artist Vanga-Vangog: "The Union" a.k.a the First cantons - the very first territories conquered by the Emperor. At the moment he has already created his first regiments of Thunder Warriors and is preparing for a large-scale blitzkrieg against technologically backward and scattered techno-barbarian states. Ref: Nepal, bhutan, tibet ----------------------------
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