warhammer fantasy

The Age of Legends Eons ago, colossal silver vessels approached a frozen world. Possessing the immense power required to traverse the vast expanse between stars, their masters forcibly displaced the world from its rightful position among the cosmos. Then, having provoked their outrage, the...

As said above, this is a thread for worldbuilding the Dawi Zhar, aka the Chaos Dwarfs - fallen and accursed cousins to Warhammer Fantasy Dwarfs. Currently we only have the old, weird editions and the Total War Warhammer 3 game to draw upon, and they leave quite a few gaps. I want to draw upon...

Chapter One - The Road to Talabheim It was an hour past sunset when someone knocked at the main gate of the Five Arrows, startling the old gatekeeper Harald out of his slumber. Grumbling angrily, and already reaching for the old hunting rifle he had propped up against the wall, Harald stumped...

"Fortune favors the infamous!" Did that also mean misfortune favors the forgotten? Unfortunately, both of that applied to you at this very moment. The last shining gold coin in your possession disappeared from your hands, plucked by the pitying barkeep when he roughly shoved a mug filled with...

You are dreaming, yet not alone. Nothing lies before you except for the inky void of absence. No sound reaches your ears, if it could be said that one could have ears in such an alien space. Memories of your waking life are distant at best, almost as if your identity is undefined or in flux...

My life began with screaming. It began with fire stoked by Fury. Under the baleful eye of the cursed moon, I was born. I know not what truly transpired, for my mind was far to young, but it is an unfortunate story told throughout the lands of man. A raid comes, steals all food, burns all...

Within the infinite expanse of the Kaleidoscope, there are equally infinite variations within the proper course of human history - divergent timelines cut away, extinguished and discarded by the Planet and the Counter Force - but they are all united by the same pivot points that resound across...

Welcome to the Empire, the greatest nation of Man! The peer of the Old World, it is through faith, steel, and gunpowder that the forces of Chaos and its ilk are opposed by the men and women of the Empire. But someone must build those great walls, and someone must invent and strive for new, ever...

=== Introduction - Planetary Modification === The Old Ones ruled an empire that spread across the breadth and width of the galaxy. Creatures of incredible power and knowledge that magic blended with every faucet of their society. The science of astronomy was synonymous with the art of...

Lurreni, home of five hundred odd souls, is the greatest city in the Border Princes. Any citizen will tell you such. The seat of the Principality of Orsini, she sits resplendent at the foot of the Black Mountains. The headwaters of the River Treblecz run through here, clear and clean as a winter...

Golden Opportunities You are a Gold Wizard of the Empire, a Journeywoman of one of the Eight Colleges of Magic tasked with protecting the Empire from its many, many enemies without, and almost as often its enemies within. Possessed with wondrous arcane power, Imperial wizards nonetheless have...

You felt like you had been walking for an eternity. It was dark all around you, a darkness that you knew that you were accustomed to, but your memories were hazy now. They had been for some time, but it was much worse now than before. You didn’t know where you were. You didn’t know how long you...

Hey, what's up everyone? Warmachine375 here and this is my first time making a crossover story between Warhammer Fantasy and Nanatsu no Taizai called "Giant of Sigmar" since this idea never left my head. I decided to go with it and that it is my first take on the Warhammer Fantasy. Synopsis...

Within the borders of the Empire of Man, the Elector Counts are among the highest of nobility, second only to the Emperor. Their word is all but law over their province's countless thousands of souls. The regions are realms besieged by a myriad of horrors. From savage Orcs, skittering Shadows...

You are a Dwarf or; for those that speak Khazalid, the language of your people, a Dawi. Specifically you are a young Thane, or Clan leader; while you were leading your clan in search of a new home you have found yourself in a strange phenomenon that has transported your Clan in a strange new...

Pain. ... Thump More pain. ... Thump, thump Something stirred, at the very edge of consciousness. ... Thump, thump, thump The stirring became more incessant, and something very deep and primal, from the innermost part of your psyche, gave up a groan. "You". That was an interesting word. "You"...

Prologue Part 1 The multiverse was big. Really big. As in unimaginably, inconceivably, infinitely, utterly beyond mortal comprehension BIG. The highest functioning mortals could only scratch the surface of what the multiverse even was, let alone what it could entail. Each and every possibility...

At the beginning of the 19th Century, the entire Old World from Warhammer Fantasy replaces the continent of Europe. Contemporary Europeans are sent to a paradise land. The transplanted Old World is 50 years before the End Times. The Winds of magic and other supernatural beings from WHF active in...

Mallus is a doomed world; there is no questioning that. Since the moment the great Polar Gates collapsed into Chaos and the monstrous Dark Gods made their eldritch mark across every shadowed and lightless place across this planet, its somber fate was painstakingly etched into the very fabric of...

In an alternate warhammer reality, distorted by the last desperate gamble of Orikan the Diviner to thwart the rise of the New Devourer's most terrible form yet and the coming of the Winds of Magic from a reality shattered by the death of the world that was; there were Dragons. The ones that...

What is a hero? Is the title defined by those bravest men and women, who slew the monster, saved the town, rescued the maiden, and, if they were truly lucky, lived happily ever after? Perhaps heroes are instead the greatest, most glorious of us all, the ones who left such an incredible mark on...

Within the great halls of the temple cities of Lustria, it was written many times what the herald of the Armageddon would be. It was Lustria that was granted the knowledge of the herald of the end, and Lustria that was charged first with the Great Plan to resist. In the many, many years since...

The Asur. The High Elves of Ulthuan. The self-professed Shield of Civilization. The Guardians of the Vortex. Upon their magically-infused island-continent of Ulthuan, most of the High Elves live their lives in relative safety and comfort, but the call of war often draws them away to risk their...

Vast is the Known World, and plentiful are its people. A land of many a sovereign nation, it has produced countless heroes that stood up to evil - from Westeros to Tamriel to the distant East, they have taken up the cause of Light and vanquished the monsters that would destroy the world entire...

The world is shaped by truly legendary men, both in antiquity, and in modernity. From Caledor Dragontamer taming the untold infinity of the Great Catastrophe, to Malekith sundering his kingdom from the berth of Ulthuan itself. From Nagash dooming what was once the brightest star of humanity to...