SECOND MILLENIUM IC

2300: Maldred of Mousillon is slain by the Red Pox and the city falls into decay. No Duke claims the castle or its lands and the Undead walk amongst the ruins.

2301: Malekith declares the Age of Vengeance and begins with preparations for a new invasion of Ulthuan, drawing on the growing strength of chaos in the world and allying with the barbaric northmen beyond Naggaroth. The High Elves are driven back from the Outer Kingdoms and are soon forced to guerrilla warfare within their own lands. The dwarf hold of Karak Vlag vanishes.

2302: The Great War against Chaos begins as the forces of Chaos march south and lay siege to the Kislevan city of Praag.[1a] Many Orc tribes are forced southwards into the Empire and World’s Edge Mountains. Some join Chaos but others attack the Chaos armies as they pass. The rising tide of Dark Magic prompts the Grey Seers to step in and call upon the Homed Rat for divine judgement over the warring clans. In a massive ceremony at Skavenblight during Vermintide, the great annual feast of the Horned God, the Grey Seers succeed in summoning an incarnation of the Horned Rat. The Clan Lords are terrified into a level of obedience and cooperation previously unthinkable as the Horned One dictates the plan they are to follow. The Council of the Thirteen Lords of Decay is completely reorganized and all hostilities are ended immediately. During the war that follows the Skaven fight the Chaos armies and the armies of the Empire and Kislev, but after several hundred years of internecine warfare the Skaven's numbers are almost exhausted. The Skaven ambush several contingents of the Empire army as it returns home and soon afterwards minor plagues are unleashed in Nuln. Talabheim and Marienburg.Teclis forges his magic sword. The Witch King is defeated at the Battle of Finuval Plain. Teclis and two other High Elf magelords depart Ulthuan to assist Magnus the Pious in the war against Chaos.

(2302 to 2320): Many small towns near the Blighted Marshes are razed or disappear altogether.

2303: Taking a celestial reading from the stars, the Slann bolster the power of the Great Warding lessening the influence of Chaos and thus aiding the Empire's famous hero, Magnus the Pious, in his Great War Against Chaos.

2304: Magnus the Pious of Nuln defeats the Chaos armies at the gates of Kislev, and is elected Emperor, reuniting the Imperial crown and ending the Age of Three Emperors. Teclis of the High Elves establishes the Colleges of Magic in Altdorf. The forces of Ostermark fight several battles with the Undead hordes of Waldakir Rahtep, before the Vampire is eventually slain by Captain Stefan von Kessel. Taking a reading of the Iztl Star, the Slann bolster the power of the Great Warding, lessening the influence of Chaos and thus aiding Magnus the Pious in the Great War against Chaos. Thorgrim Grudgebearer is crowned High King of Karaz-a-Karak and starts a campaign to retake lost dwarven lands. Naggaroth falls into civil war without Malekith's guidance. Kouran Darkhand becomes acting regent after personally slaying each of the disloyal dreadlords.

2305: Emperor Magnus the Pious abolishes the Barony of Westerland following the death (in battle) of the last Baron in 2304. He establishes the Province of Westerland and establishes a Council, appointed from the burghers of Marienburg, to govern the province.

(2308 to 2320): Third Parravon War. The Bretonnian Duchy Parravon invades the Imperial Province of Reikland. They are driven back and the Imperial army besieges Parravon for a year until Magnus manages to make a peace treaty with the king of Bretonnia.

2315: The Pirate King Draven is employed to protect merchant ships arriving and leaving Swamp Town from the pirates based in Port Reaver. He uses his power to destroy the fleets of his competitors and then sacks Swamp Town himself.

2319: Skaven warships are spotted in the Tilean sea.

2320: During the winter of 2320/21 Clan Eshin Gutter Runners make a number of raids on Imperial. Bretonnian. Tilean and Estalian warfleets at anchor in their respective home ports. The Gutter Runners use firepots and naphtha to burn the fleets with varying success. Many ships are badly damaged.

2321: Portents of ill-omen abound on a day that the sun that rises over Lustria is coloured jet-black. The geomantic web flickers, the Great Warding pulses weakly and the forces of Chaos attack. Daemon legions manifest across the whole of Lustria and thousands of battles take place for a blood-filled week until the true sun rises once again. Throughout the summer months Skaven warfleets make several raids along the Estalian and Tilean coasts. One fleet is engaged and destroyed by Dwarf ships from Barak Varr.

(2321 to 2399): Tilea is gripped by recurrent famines caused by plagues of mice eating the grain. Revolts result in the proclamation of republics in Remas and Verezzo.

2326: Teclis returns to Ulthuan, becomes High Loremaster of the Tower of Hoeth.

2335: Following a warning from the Elven Mages that protect Lothern, a Tilean vessel is stopped and boarded. The search by the Sea Guard turns into a battle. Rumours persist that several ratmen escaped the ship, leaping overboard and disappearing into the city.

2341: Waaagh! Gashrak descends into Athel Loren and is stopped in its tracks at the river Grismerie.

2349: A Lizardmen army from Itza marches south across the Culchan Plains. A bridge of magical energy is summoned and the army crosses to the island on which stands the Citadel of Dusk. The High Elves fear a siege, until a fleet of Dark Elf Corsairs attacks from the sea. It is only with the aid of the Lizardmen that the Corsairs are repulsed. The Lizardmen then march back north without a word to the High Elves.

2350: Arkhan the Black forms a temporary alliance with High Queen Khalida, and together they travel into Sylvania. As Khalida smites the Vampire Lord Mandregan, Arkhan recovers the Staff of Nagash from his coffin.

2355: The Battle of Cholulec. The disgraced Dwarf Engineer Sven Hasselfriesian sets out from Barak Varr in his amazing steam-powered ship, reaching the Tarantula Coast of Lustria after several months and many battles with the creatures of the deep. Sven and his companions clash with the Lizardmen at the ruins of Cholulec.

2369: On Magnus's death, the crown passes to Count Leopold of Stirland, re-establishing the electoral system.

2374: Sigvald's Folly. A large Chaos army lead by Sigvald the Magnificent lands on Ulthuan and is defeated by Eldyra.

2376: At this point, the spell that turned Lustria into a living deathtrap becomes yet more powerful, and the land's flora and fauna enter a new period of prolific and accelerated growth. The jungles become more dangerous and filled with more cold-blooded creatures than ever.

2377: The Monkey King seizes power in Cathay. He installs Warlord Kishkik of Clan Eshin as an advisor, and begins trade with the Skaven Empire.

2387: Prince Karsten of Waldenhof employs Skaven allies to undermine the walls of the invincible Castle Siegfried in Sylvania. When Karsten refuses to pay them in warpstone the Skaven steal all the children of Waldenhof instead. After this notorious event (Karsten is eventually lynched) the Skaven disappear from the surface altogether for the next hundred years, plotting, preparing and building up their numbers.

2391: Morathi orders campaigns to Lustria to gather unusual sacrifices for a ritual to gather Khaine's favor.

2393: A huge consignment of grain travelling by ship from Araby to Tilea fails to arrive. Skaven piracy is suspected but never proven.

2401: The Siege of Monte Castello; five hundred mercenaries hold out against ten thousand Orcs.

(2402 to 2405): Fourth Parravon War. Again, the duchy of Parravon invades the Reikland. This time, Emperor Dietrich IV pays them a heavy ransom to cause them to leave.

2402: Discovery of Lustria.

2403: Malekith returns from the Realm of Chaos after his defeat at the Battle of Finuval Plain.

c. 2410:: In exchange for twelve dozen wagon-loads of gold, Dwarf craftsmen build Fortress Kreighof for the Elector Count of Ostermark. However, when the Dwarfs receive their payment, they discover that they have been shortchanged by a measly two and a half pennies. They return to Kreighof with a sizable army from Karak Kadrin and raze the fortress to the ground.

2415: The Night of a Thousand Arcane Duels. Rivalries between the various Colleges of Magic result in open conflict, setting a large part of Altdorf ablaze. The Colleges are disbanded afterwards and many magisters are sentenced to death.

2418: The Slann Mage-Priest Tecciztec of Tlaxtlan, the City of the Moon, enacts a sorcerous ritual aimed at pushing the Chaos Moon out of its orbit. The Mage-Priest fails to muster sufficient power however. The Chaos Moon is shaken, and chunks of it split away, to fall with devastating effect upon the lands of Men across the Great Ocean. N'Kari attacks Naggarond with a daemon army to claim Malekith's soul, but is defeated.

2420: Waagh of Grom. After defeating the Dwarfs at the Battle of Iron Gate, Goblin warlord Grom leads a greenskin army into the Empire.[1a] Nuln is sacked (again). Bretonnian King Charlen announces his intention to carry the Errantry Wars east into the Border Princes and beyond. Bretonnian knights win a huge victory against Orcs at Blood River, and more settlers move east into the Border Princes.

(2420 to 2424): The Goblin Warlord Grom leads a coalition of Orc and Goblin tribes into the World’s Edge Mountains. After defeating the Dwarfs at the battle of Iron Gate the Waaagh moves into the Empire. Much of the north and east is devastated and Nuln is burned to the ground. Grom leads his armies to the sea where he builds a huge fleet and sails into the west, never to be seen again in the Old World. Years later it is discovered that Grom reached the Elven Kingdoms of Ulthuan, causing great destruction until finally defeated by the High Elves.

2422: Carcassone is ravaged by Orc raids since most of the knights are at the Errantry Wars. Many settlements are burned and the populace suffers greatly.

2424: Grom builds a huge fleet and sails to the west. He is never seen again in the Old World.

2425: Grom's fleet arrives in Yvresse, on the eastern coast of Ulthuan. He is finally defeated (and slain) in the battle of Tor Yvresse.

2429: Marienburg and the Westerland secedes from the Empire, having purchased the compliance of Emperor Dieter IV. Dieter IV is deposed in the scandal, and the crown passes to Wilhelm II, Prince of Altdorf and Count of Reikland. The Battle of Grootscher Marsh deals a decisive blow to Imperial plans to re-annex the Westerland; Dieter IV recognizes the Wasteland's independence.

2430: The Colleges of Magic are re-established.

2431: The Great Fire of Altdorf.

2433: Drycha attacks the Shrine of Taal in the Reikwald. Reinforcement is ambushed on the Altdorf-Weismund road and when the imperial army arrives, the shrine is levelled and its holiest relic, the Fang of Taalroth, stolen.

2452: Tzar Vladimir Bokha dies fighting Goblins east of Kislev. His son, Boris, inherits a nation that has done little to recover from the Great War against Chaos.

2453: Tzar Boris Bokha defeats a large army of Beastmen outside Praag, earning the title Radii Bokha. Arkhan the Black besieges Altdorf and steals the Liber Mortis from the High Temple of Sigmar.

2465: This marks the end of a ten year campaign fought in the swampy woodland off the Tarantula Coast. Many Savage Orc and Forest Goblin armies are destroyed. For his role in recovering lost ruins, the Skink Priest Tetto’eko is gifted a throne such as the Slann sit upon.

2470: The Goblin warlord Boggrub Legbiter leads the Broken Nose tribe against the Dwarfs of Karak Azul, capturing from them two might war machines, which they dub the Skull Crusher and the lead Belcher. Armed with these terrible machineries of destruction, Boggrub carves a path of destruction through the World’s Edge Mountains and into Averland.

2471: Luthor Harkon and the Dark Elves unite to raid the coastal ruins of Chokablox. During the battle, Harkon is captured and imprisoned.

(2475 to Present): Dwarf King Belegar, son of King Lunn, takes advantage of raging battles between Night Goblins and Skaven to re-enter Karak Eight Peaks. They refortify the old citadel and repel many attacks, but are themselves besieged by Skarsnik’s Crooked Moon tribe and the Skaven.

C. 2480: Throt the Unclean returns from the Chaos Wastes with a captured Blindwrym.

2480: Constant Drachenfels is slain by Crown Prince Oswald von Königswald of Ostland.

2484: The Great Flood of the River Sol. Meissen is nearly wiped out.

2485: Borgio The Besieger makes himself Prince of Miragliano.[2a] Rise of Clan Mors.

2487: Greasus Goldtooth declares himself Overtyrant.

2488: The Battle of Death Pass. A Bretonnian army is defeated by Morglum Necksnapper. He proclaims: “Let ’em tell da King. Da east belongs to da Orcs. Da east belongs to Morglum. Da east is green.” The Bretonnian king declares the Errantry Wars at an end.

2489: The Skink Astromancer Tetto’eko stems a Skaven incursion from the ruins of Quetza, the Defiled City, redirecting a passing comet to crash down upon the centre of the city and destroy the ratmen’s nest. Battle of Villa Vennia, Miragliano defeats Remas.

2491: Heinrich Kemmler, otherwise known as the Lichemaster, finds the burial mound of the dread hero Krell and raises the Chaos Champion back to life. At the head of a powerful Undead horde the two sweep down from the Grey Mountains into Bretonnia, burning and pillaging as they go. In a wild battle at la Maisontaal Abbey their army suffers such heavy casualties that they are forced to retreat back into the Grey Mountains. Bagrian, master of the monastery of La Maisontaal in Bretonnia, infiltrates Skavenblight and steals the awesome Black Arc. The Grey Seer Gnawdoom leads a force of Skaven against the monastery and recovers the Arc during a vicious battle with the monks after allying with the Undead army of the Lichemaster Heinrich Kemler.

2495: Battle of Via Veddia, Miragliano defeats Verezzo.[2a] Gotrek and Felix meet during the Window Tax Riot in Altdorf. The pair begins to travel together and squashes a Slaaneshi cult during Geheimnisnacht.

2496: The Battle of the Cairns. Heinrich Kemmler raises an undead army and invades Athel Loren. He is defeated by Durthu and the Grail Knight, Amalric of Gaudaron, fleeing once again.

2497: The Slann lend their power to the High Elves’ Great Vortex on Ulthuan. Battle of Vittoria Viccia, Miragliano defeats Trantio.

2498: The Battle of the Jaws.[1a] Tipped off by Skaven spies, Goblin Warlord Skarsnik ambushes a Dwarf army. An Orc army is defeated at the western end of Mad Dog Pass by Dwarfs led by Duregar. Dwarfs subsequently beaten at the Battle of East Gate by the Night Goblin Warlord Skarsnik. The partially resettled Dwarf hold of Karak Eight Peaks is under constant pressure from surrounding Goblin tribes.

2499: Fritz von Halstadt, Chief Magistrate of Nuln and head of the Countess Emmanuelle’s secret police, is discovered trading warpstone to the Skaven in the sewers beneath Nuln. Grey Seer Thanquol has been feeding real information, half-truths and outright lies to the insane von Halstadt; manipulating him with the ultimate aim of starting a civil war in the Empire. The plot is exposed and von Halstadt killed but Thanquol escapes. Later the same year Thanquol returns seeking vengeance with a Skaven horde. The horde uses Nuln’s extensive sewer network to infiltrate the city and almost overrun it in a single night, being halted only by fires lit by the defenders which rage through the city. Eventually the Skaven are driven back, leaving half of Nuln in ruins. Grey Seer Thanquol swears he will have vengeance upon Nuln and its inhabitants before returning to Skavenblight to face the inquisition of the Lords of Decay.

(2500 to 2510): Orc Warlord Gnashrak unites the Orcs and Goblins of the eastern World’s Edge Mountains and leads a huge army along the Silver Road towards Karaz a Karak. The Orcs rampage through the mountains for years, causing considerable destruction and even threatening to capture the capital. Eventually Gnashrak is defeated and captured at the Battle of Broken Leg Gulley by a Dwarf army led by Lord Ungrim Ironfist of Karak Kadrin.

2502: Karl Franz is elected Emperor. It is foreseen that a device being built by the Skaven in their lair of Slagmire must not be completed. Tehenhauin is chosen to lead the assault and the Slann use magic to transport the Prophet of Sotek and his army into the Skaven den. A three year battle leads to the eventual defeat of the Skaven and the destruction of their rocket invention.

(2503 to 2507): An Orc army under Gorfang Rotgut besieges Barak Varr and later joins up with Orc and Goblin tribes led by Morglum Necksnapper to attack Karak Azul. The Orcs briefly take possession of parts of the Hold and Gorfang captures many kinsfolk of Lord Kazador.

2503: Borgio of Miragliano known as 'The Besieger' murdered in his bath with a toasting fork.

2504: Sea Lord Aislinn’s Dragonship squadron engages a ramshackle fleet near the Shifting Isles. Despite the foe’s arcane machines, the Elves triumph. The Skaven corpses that wash up on the north-east coast of Ulthuan are gathered and burnt by the shore patrols. Karl Franz enters an alliance with the Wood Elves of Athel Loren to defeat a large warherd of Minotaurs that had crossed the River Weiss. Orion saves the emperor's life and in exchange, an ambassador of the Wood Elves is admitted in Altdorf.

2505: Itinerant poet and adventurer Felix Jaeger claims to meet Mannfred von Carstein in Drakenhof Castle. Lorenzo Lupo becomes Prince of Luccini.

2506: In an ironic repeat of history, Melkhior’s apprentice, Zacharias, attempts to steal the Book of Nagash from his master. Melkhior awakes and drives Zacahrias from his tower and pursues him across the Old World.

(2509 to 2511): Tamurkhan leads a mighty invasion force of Chaos, sweeping across the Mountains of Mourn and the Dark Lands. With the aid of allied Chaos Dwarfs, he lays waste to the Border Princes and the southern provinces of the Empire.

2510: A Goblin horde led by the infamous Night Goblin Warboss, Spinny Backstab, rampages through the farmsteads surrounding Middenheim, razing to the ground over a hundred farms and villages. Backstab is eventually defeated by the celebrated Middenmarshal Kurt Heinwald, and the timely intervention of a steam tank dispatched in haste from Nuln. In the same year, the formerly unremarkable Goblin Boss Gorblum Yellowstreak dons an enchanted crown from an Orc Shaman, utilises its formidable powers of command to gather an army, and renames himself Gorblum the Magnificant. He goes on to achieve notoriety as he slaughters a Dwarf throng under King Thorgrim and rampages across half the World's Edge Mountains.

2511: Forest Goblins destroy the Empire town of Glumhof and fashion a huge totem out of the skulls of their victims.

(2512 to 2515): Orc WarlordAzhag the Slaughterer leads a huge army of Orcs and Night Goblins into the northern Empire. He is finally met and defeated at the Battle of Osterwald.

2512: The Ghoul Swarms blight Stirland. A Dark Elf army emerges from the Black Way to raid coastal ruins. Kroq-Gar and his army drive the tentacle beasts back into the sea and the Black Ark Umbral Tide is grounded by magic and destroyed.

(2513 to present): Towns and forts along both sides of the Grey Mountains begin to disappear due to Skaven attacks. The Empire and Bretonnia suspect each other. Although tensions are raised between the nations, only border skirmishes have thus far taken place.

2513: Lucrezzia Belladonna poisons her seventh husband, the Prince of Pavona.

2515: The peasant Huebald becomes the third commoner in the entire history of Bretonnia to be knighted. He dies shortly after in his first battle. Mortkin, king of the Norscans, leads a campaign of destruction against Ostland and Nordland. In the Dark Lands Tretch Craventail begins to carve himself a reputation for greatness.

2516: Khazrak One-Eye takes control over the warherds of the Drakwald and leads them against civilisation.

2517: The Battle of Bloodpine Woods. Karl Franz clears the Reikwald Forest from Forest Goblins under the leadership of the Spiderclaw tribe. The long-lost Chameleon Skink Oxyotl mysteriously returns to Lustria, having been lost since the fall of Pahuax. This coincides with the spontaneous and unheralded spawning of Chameleon Skinks in the ruined city - the first in many thousands of years. Zacharias the Everliving leads an army of skeletons and undead dragons against Wissenland. The defenders are reinforced by a second undead army lead by a Tomb King, who aids the Empire in driving the vampire back. Throgg musters an army of monsters and declares war against the civilised world. Mallobaude gathers allies in Mousillon.

2518: Zacharias eventually hides in the Middle Mountains, but his lair is found by a Black Dragon. Zacharias slays it and uses the Dragon's carcass as a mount, returning to Melkhior’s tower and defeating his former master. The Forest Goblins are stirred up when humans encroach upon the Black Pit. The Battle for the Drakwald is begun. Lord Throt the Unclean and his army from Hell Pit fight Chaos Lord Aelfric Cyenwulf and his barbarian force. Cyenwulf later leads his army the opposite way, preferring to take on the might of Kislev rather than the mutated beasts of Clan Moulder. The term "Maneater" becomes synonymous with ogre mercenaries, with numerous false "Golgfang Maneater's" appearing around the world.

2519: With the rising of each Chaos Moon, Daemon legions march out of Xahutec once more. Only the eternal vigilance of the Saurus warriors maintains a blockade around the cursed ruin, but the bitter fighting costs many lives. Boris Todbringer loses his right eye to Khazrak. Drycha frees Coeddil from his prison. Archaon is crowned the new Everchosen by Be'Lakor. The Twin-Tailed Comet reappears in the sky, seen by many as an omen.

(2520 to Present): Skarsnik prepares to lead the Crooked Moon tribe to wipe the Skaven and Dwarfs out of Karak Eight Peaks. Grimgor Ironhide tires of slaughtering Skaven beneath Red Eye Mountain and sets off on a new trail of blood and destruction.

2520: Following rumours of activity in Drakenhof Castle, Grand Theogonist Volkmar dispatches the witch hunter Gunther Stahlberg. Once Stahlberg crosses the border of Sylvania, he is never heard from again. The Third Battle of Black Fire Pass. The hordes of Warlord Vorgaz Ironjaw are met in Black Fire Pass. Marius Leitdorf, Elector Count of Averland, is slain, but Emperor Karl Franz arrives to slay Ironjaw and rout the greenskins. The threat to Albion. Gates are opened to the island. Scar-Leader Kroq-Gar leads the first war parties to cleanse the isle of warm-bloods. Under the manipulations of Lord Mazdamundi, the climate of the isle is altered, and the start of new jungle is formed. Work begins on the founding of the new temple-city Konquata, Place of Resistance, in the interior of Albion. The Lost Plaques are recovered from the Turtle Isles by Ten-Zlati, the Oracle of Kroak. High Mage Torinubar, Mage Lord of the Gates of Calith, is mysteriously slain. None of the typical signs of Dark Elf outrages can be found.

2521: The Fire Mouth erupts after several hundred years, signalling a new ogre migration after the population within the Ogre Kingdoms has grown too large.

C. 2522: Nyklaus von Carstein, tired of the infighting of his peers, uses shadow magic to translocate his entire castle into the fabled nautical realm of the Galleon's Graveyard. There he becomes Count Noctilus, terror of the seas and commander of the fabled Dreadfleet. He is hunted down and killed in his lair by a confederation of pirate lords led by the vengeful Captain Roth.

2522: Rumours begin to circulate in Stirland that Castle Drakenhof is once again inhabited by the Undead. Screams can be heard upon the winds and ever more people are going missing. The Witch Hunters grow increasingly frantic as the name Nagash is once again whispered in the shadowed corners of the Old World. Settra the Imperishable embarks upon his great purge and begins a new age of conquest, seeking to enlarge his realm to encompass the entire world. The armies of Nehekhara mass behind him and thus the great expansion begins. The growing power of Chaos is evidenced by increasing raids on Lustria by seafaring Marauder tribes. Malagor begins a campaign of terror against the people of the Empire, killing one person of every household in