Ostermark

Ostermark is in the far east of the Empire, where the Emperor’s writ stops at the boundaries of wild Kislev and the kingdoms of the Dwarfs in the Worlds Edge Mountains. It is a sombre, bleak land of vast moors between two arms of the Great Forest. Snowfalls blanket the land in winter, while the spring thaw turns most of its roads into muddy quagmires. Even in summer, the sunlight seems to have a weakened, tentative quality to it, as if it is not sure it belongs there.
Ostermark is divided into four main regions. In the north, there is the arm of the Great Forest known locally as the “Gryphon’s Wood” that follows the line of the Upper Talabec and contains the province's new capital, Bechafen. In the south, along the banks of the Stir, the expanse of the Great Forest near Essen, when spoken of at all, is referred to as the Dead Wood, for the dead city of Mordheim lies in its midst. Between these two arms but south of the Brunwasser river are the central moorlands, a vast expanse of low hills, fen lands, and shallow lakes that is sparsely inhabited, save for the herds of sheep and some scattered villages. North of the Brunwasser between the Worlds Edge Mountains and the end of Gryphon’s Wood are large tracts of rolling grasslands. Well-suited to raising horses, these lands have often been fought over by Ostermarkers and their Kislevite neighbours.

Location under

The Empire