Malekia

1. #1Naggaroth

   Keys: Naggaroth, Land of the Dark Elves, Dark elf kingdom, Dark elf kingdoms, Naggarothi Kingdom, Naggarothi Kingdoms, Druchii Kingdom, Druchii Kingdoms

   Naggaroth is the cold, bleak land of the Dark Elves. It is located northwest of Ulthuan, across the Great Ocean from the Old World. Naggaroth is bounded to the north by the Chaos Wastes, to the south by Lustria, and to the west by the Far Sea across which lies Cathay. Running north-south through the continent are the dangerous Blackspine Mountains, where manticores and other beasts make their lairs. The land to the east of the mountains is mostly dark pine forests and swamps, while west is mostly deserts and volcanic land. The northern border is tundra wasteland. The mountains contain many entrances to the Underworld Sea. The Dark Elves lay claim to the entire continent, dwelling in a handful of cities located in the northeastern corner of the continent, surrounding the Sea of Malice and Sea of Chill. The rest is wilderness patrolled by the Dark Elf rangers known as Shades. Greenskins and Beastmen also dwell in the wilderness of Naggaroth. The primitive humans here were enslaved By the Dark Elves.

2. #2Naggarond

   Keys: Naggarond, City of Naggarond, Tower of Cold, City of Cold

   Naggarond is the oldest and largest of the Dark Elves' cities, and most malevolent. Its outer walls form an imposing circlet of black stone, more than a hundred feet tall. About the ramparts are set a hundred towers, each rising as high above the battlements. Naggarond rises high into the foothills of the Iron Mountains. The city is a jumble of mansions, barracks, temples, slave pits, and crooked alleys, all swathed in a perpetual pall of smoke. Few walk carelessly through these streets. Murder and thievery of all kinds are rife, Malekith tolerates any and all deeds, save for those that inconvenience his rule. In the middle of Naggarond is Malekith's Black Tower.

3. #3Black Tower of Naggarond

   Keys: Black Tower of Naggarond, Black Tower of Malekia

   At the center of Naggarond stands the Black Tower. No mere fortress is this, but a city within a city, a maze of palaces, ramparts and towers huddle within its curtain walls and jut from its sheer sides. Here dwell those nobles held highest in Malekia's regard, an honour that brings wealth and patronage. Naggarond's court is a place of rapid rises and meteoric descents. The central bastion of this tower belongs to Malekia alone, and none save the Black Guard of Naggarond are granted entrance without Malekia's permission. The council chamber is where Malekia holds court. At the center of the room sits a vast circular table struck from a single slab of obsidian. One hundred chairs of blackened bone and slayed skin sit alongside. Some are occupied only when the council meets. Others are permanently seated with occupants long dead. Malekia's iron throne sits at the head of this table. Malekia's personal rooms are at the very top of the Black Tower.

4. #4Dark Elves

   Keys: Dark Elves, Dark Elf, Druchii, Naggarothi

   The Dark Elves, or the Druchii, are one of the most powerful, and most sadistic of the three Elven races. They live in the bleak, chilly lands of Naggaroth, ruled by Malekia. The Druchii are raiders, slavers and heartless reavers of the highest degree. Their every whim being nothing more than to sow misery and pain to all that oppose them. Using their Black Arks and Corsair Fleets sail the world to raid and enslave. Druchii possess a cold and glamorous beauty. All Elves are inhumanly beautiful. All Elves are long-lived to the point of immortality. They are swift of both body and reflex, capable of an effortless grace. Druchii are cunning of mind and clever beyond mortals. Druchii are adept at twisting speech and gleefully manipulate the emotions of another. Druchii society is opportunistic and impetuous.

5. #5Morathi

   Keys: Morathi, Morathi the Hag Sorceress, First Hag of the Queens, Mother of the Druchii

   Morathi is one of most powerful Dark Magic users in the world. She was the second wife of the Legendary High Elf Aenarion the Defender as well as the mother of his daughter, Malekia. Morathi is one of the most powerful magic-users in the world, rivalling even the Great Necromancer Nagash, the Lords of Change of Tzeentch and the High Elf Archmage Teclis. Morathi was born in the era before the Coming of Chaos to the world, when all of the Elven island-continent of Ulthuan was ruled solely by the Everqueen. Morathi has flawless pale skin and an incredibly voluptuous figure. She stands over 1.8 meters tall, with long, flowing raven black hair that falls to her lower back. Her eyes are a piercing blue. Morathi's body has unnatural curves, with full, round breasts and wide hips leading to a shapely rear. Morathi is dressed in revealing serpentine-themed attire, preferring gowns of spider silk and mesh armor and crowned with a helmet bearing many horns. Morathi is cold and ruthless. Even those she loves are not shielded from her schemes. Morathi always prefers to work her will from behind the scenes, but she is a terrifying when roused. She often raged and plotted against the edicts of Malekia. Morathi is hedonistic and decadent, indulging in elaborate rituals and lavish parties in her palace in Ghrond. Morathi craves power and domination over others. Morathi has a sadistic side and is world-weary. Morathi is power hungry and desires godhood.

6. #6Ghrond

   Keys: Ghrond

   Ghrond is legendary as a luxurious palace of decadence. More of a fortress than a city, it is a single massive black tower rising from a mountain spar. Males are not permitted into the inner sanctums of the city, unless at the decree of Morathi. Those few who are admitted will live to serve Morathi. Morathi founded a Covent of Sorceresses in Ghrond.

7. #7Witch Elves

   Keys: Witch Elf, Witch Elves, Brides of Khaine

   Witch Elves are the female Dark Elf warrior-cultists who serve Khaine, the Elven god of murder and war. Witch Elves are the cruellest of all the Dark Elves.

8. #8Death Hag

   Keys: Death Hag, Death Hags, Hag Queen, Hag Queens

   The Death Hags are the priestesses of the Dark Elven Witch Elves who comprise the Cult of Khaine. They serve as the guardians of the mysteries of Khaine. It is the Death Hags who mix the noxious potions that drive the Witch Elves into their battle-rage and craft the poisons for their blades. The most powerful Death Hags who lead their sisterhood are known as "Hag Queens."

9. #9Khaine

   Keys: Khaine, Khaela Mensha Khaine, Bloody-Handed God, Lord of Murder

   Khaela Mensha Khaine is the Elven god of violence, war, cruelty, blood, destruction, and murder. In the Elven Pantheon, Khaine is the kindler of war, the ruthless personification of a vicious creed. Khaine believes that conflict is necessary for peace to reign; only slaughter gives the promise of life any meaning; and love is nothing unless tempered by the blackest of hatreds. He is a god who gives his supplicants license to do as they will, and forbids nothing, save denial of his divine will.

10. #10Cult of Khaine

    Keys: Cult of Khaine

    The Cult of Khaine is the paramount religious organisation within the Dark Elf kingdom of Naggaroth. It is dedicated to the worship of Khaine, the god of murder and war in the Elven Pantheon. Ruled by the Hag Queens, the heart of the cult resides in the Naggarothi city of Har Ganeth, with Hag Queen Hellebron of the cult the chief amongst Khaine's disciples.

11. #11Hellebron

    Keys: Hellebron, Crone Hellebron, Blood Queen of Har Ganeth

    Hellebron is one of the most ancient of the Hag Queens of the Druchii Witch Elves and the high priestess of the Cult of Khaine, second only to {{char}} in the sight of Khaine. Hellebron is known as a "crone" because for much of the year she appears as a withered, hideous and elderly Dark Elf. But when countless sacrifices are made to Khaine, she is rejuvenated for a short time, and becomes the beautiful and potent Witch Elf of old.

12. #12Great Catastrophe

    Keys: Great Catastrophe, Coming of Chaos, Great Cataclysm, Great Incursion, First Wars Against Chaos

    It's the first and greatest incursion by Chaos into the Known World of Mallus, which took place between -5600 and -4420 IC. It was during thois time that the Daemons of Chaos first descended upon the mortal world from the great Polar Gates that collapsed upon themselves. The poles of the world imploded, opening rifts into the Realm of Chaos where Daemons spewed from.

13. #13Har Kaldra

    Keys: Har Kaldra

    Har Kaldra was once a mighty Dark Elven fortress that dominated the landward passes between Naggarond and the Ironfrost Glacier. Now it is a scarred and ruined crater, surrounded by the outflung remnants of its own walls, a testament to Malekith's fickle rage. It was the Witch King who wrought Har Kaldra's ruin, meeting the rebellion within its walls with all the sorcerous might at his command. Thousands perished in that one night of horror and fury, and thousands more were taken in bondage to Naggarond, there to die in its firepits and gladiatorial arenas.

14. #14Dark Elf Watchtowers

    Keys: Dark Elf Watchtowers, Druchii Watchtowers, Dark Elf Watchtower, Druchii Watchtower

    The Dark Elf have founded many great citadels in the North to hold the hordes of Northmen at bay. Each of these Watchtowers is the size of a city, provisioned to withstand years of siege and garrisoned with a great host of Naggaroth's foremost warriors.

15. #15Har Ganeth

    Keys: Har Ganeth, City of Executioners, City of Khaine, Fortress of Ice

    Har Ganeth is a cursed Dark Elven fortress-city of northern Naggaroth dedicated to the worship of Khaine. Har Ganeth is one of the later cities founded by the Dark Elven exiles from Nagarythe who arrived after the Sundering. As the Cult of Khaine grew in prominence, Malekith sought to focus their wanton violence for his own gain. He proclaimed himself the mortal avatar of Khaine and offered the Hag Queens substantial gifts, including the city where his failed generals had hidden. Notable Locations: Fiery Pits of Sacrifice, Hellebron's Palace.

16. #16Death Night

    Keys: Death Night

    Death Night is an event of bloody excess in Khaine's name. In Har Ganeth, all order is thrown completely to the winds. Death Night is celebrated almost exclusively by Witch Elves, and other Dark Elves do all that they can to avoid being offered up as a sacrifice to the Lord of Murder. In Har Ganeth, everyone participates in the Death Night. Slaves and prisoners are set loose in the streets and as the moon rises, wine and blood flows like water as they are hunted down. Witch Elves dance naked around the bodies of the slain, and everywhere, stupedifed Dark Elves lie entwined with one another atop the gore-drenched dead. Only as dawn rises, and a great brass gong rings out, does Death Night cease.

17. #17Clar Karond

    Keys: Clar Karond, Tower of Doom, City of Ships

    Clar Karond serves as the Witch King Malekith's chief shipyard in Naggaroth, for it is here that the keels are laid for many thousands of Dark Elven raiding vessels. The City of Ships is also a major centre for the Druchii's Beastmasters. Clar Karond is a more sprawling city than others in Naggaroth. From ancient woodlands the Dark Elves harvest the black timber from which they build their sleek-hulled warships. The Naggarothi do not perform this work themselves, for such labours are considered well beneath them, but instead set thousands of slaves to the task. As a major Dark Elf maritime base, Clar Karond houses around two-thirds of the Naggarothi fleet during the winter months.

18. #18Hag Graef

    Keys: Hag Graef, Black Crag, City of Shadows

    Hag Graef is a sinister and foreboding place, built at the bottom of a cold, dark canyon and completely surrounded by mountains of bare rock that stretch into the clouds. It is a city permanently in shadow, no sunlight ever reaches. Hag Graef is a place of twisted and impossible architecture. Its eight black towers rise from the canyon floor like the ossified remains of some loathsome cephalopod. Between the towers are strung walkways, platforms and bridges of every shape and size. The larger platforms are so massive as to be towns and villages in their own right. It is upon these that the majority of Hag Graef's citizenry dwell, crammed into crooked mansions of cinderbrick and fire-blackened wood; the towers are home only to the city's most powerful Dreadlords. Those who do not walk cautiously through Hag Graef's webwork of streets have their throats slit and bodies heaved into the morass of sewage and rotting flesh that covers the canyon floor.

19. #19Karond Kar

    Keys: Karond Kar, Slaver's Gate, Tower of Despair

    Karond Kar is the bleakest of all Dark Elven cities. The citadel stands sentinel on the edge of the Sea of Chill, perpetually battered by gale-force winds, icy rain and tidal waves the size of mountains. Its folk can therefore be counted amongst the hardiest of a hard people. There are vast slave markets for slaves that are not labouring in mines or quarries, drudge in the dungeons and kitchens of Naggaroth. Overlooking the markets are the slave traders' palaces, slab-sided mansions decorated with bones of slaves. Night and day, Karond Kar echoes with tortured wails. For more commonplace cargoes, slavers hold audiences and auctions within their chambers, playing off the greed of Corsair captains to ensure a healthy profit. The slavemasters drive a hard bargain, and no fleet leaves Karond Kar with wealth equal to its expectations.

20. #20Dreadlords

    Keys: Dreadlords, Dreadlord, Dreadlord, Dreadlords

    Dreadlords are the so-called noble lords and ladies of Naggaroth, greater and more influential than Dark Elf Masters. Dreadlords range from sycophantic schemers to masterful strategists who have waged war across a hundred battlefields. Dreadlords pursue their own unique enthusiasms and ambitions, they are selfish individuals, possessed of an arrogance matched only by their martial prowess, honed over centuries of unceasing war. Many Dreadlords owe their positions to their bloodlines, daring exploits or the Witch King's mercurial favours.

21. #21Black Guard

    Keys: Black Guard, Black Guards, Black Guard of Naggarond, Black Guards of Naggarond

    The Black Guard are the elite personal honour guard of Malekith, ruler of Naggaroth, based in the Dark Elves' capital city of Naggarond and answerable to no other save he. The Black Guards are recruited from the offspring of families high in the Witch King's favour. They are a bulwark of grim steel on the battlefield, holding their ground where others will flee. These hardened warriors rule their underlings with a will of iron, determined that their Tower shall not be shamed by a lack of discipline.

22. #22Dark Elf Master

    Keys: Dark Elf Master, Dark Elf Masters, Druchii Master, Druchii Masters, Dark Elf noble, Dark Elf nobles, Druchii noble, Druchii nobles

    Dark Elf Masters are the nobles lord and ladies of Dark Elven society. Dark Elves abhor weakness of any sort. Many nobles perish in the climb than ever reach the heady heights of becoming a Dreadlord. To alleviate the understandable paranoia engendered by the Dark Elves' treacherous society, a rigid code of etiquette has evolved. The lowborn classes may not approach within three sword lengths of a noble without being summoned. A retainer may stand as close as two sword lengths whilst a trusted retainer, such as a bodyguard, may stand just outside a single sword's length. The closest, most intimate space is reserved for lovers, playthings and mortal foes.

23. #23The Sundering

    Keys: The Sundering, Elf civil war

    The Sundering was the great civil war fought long ago from -2750 to -2198 IC that fractured the Elven race into the High Elves and the Dark Elves, culminating in a magical cataclysm which sank a large portion of the island continent of Ulthuan. It also birthed the bitter cultural and political rift between the Asur and Druchii which has endured through the ages.

24. #24Sword of Khaine

    Keys: Sword of Khaine, Widowmaker, the Godslayer, Doom of Worlds, Spear of Vengeance, Deathshard, Icefang, Heavenblight

    The Sword of Khain is a cursed magical sword that was forged from a fragment of the greatest weapon ever crafted for the Elven war god Khaine by the smith god Vaul. It is the most powerful weapon in the mortal world, capable of even killing a god. While often referred to as a sword, the Widowmaker has no fixed shape, changing itself to fit those who would wield it. It has appeared as a scepter, a lance and even as a spell book.

25. #25Asuryan

    Keys: Asuryan, Emperor of the Heavens, Keeper of Balance, Creator God, Lord of the Gods

    Asuryan is the ruler of the Elven Pantheon and the husband of the goddess of the moon, fortune and dreams Lileath. He is the oldest and greatest of all the Elven gods and is closely associated with the sun. He is the creator of the Elven people and the Flame Eternal. Asuryan dwells alone in a great pyramid atop the heavens, and watches over the mortal world from his diamond throne. No mortal has ever seen his face, and as such his depictions on Ulthuan are always masked. This mask is divided in two halves, one white and the other black. Asuryan is the judge between the disputes of the gods and rarely meddles in the affairs of the Elves, few mortal deeds or plights are significant enough to attract his attention.

26. #26Isha

    Keys: Isha

    Isha is the Elven goddess of nature, fertility, the harvest, protector of the natural order and divine mother of the Elven race. Isha is depicted as an Elf woman full of life and beauty, and is considered to be the divine mother of the whole Elven race. Her symbol is the "All Seeing Eye," from which she sheds tears for her mortal children and their sorrows, including death. As the goddess of nature, Isha taught the Elves how to care for the land and gain a plentiful harvest. It is Isha who blesses the Everqueen with wisdom, beauty and power, and she also who preserves the eternal glades of Avelorn from the blemish of winter

27. #27Ulthuan

    Keys: Ulthuan

    Ulthuan is the island-continent that serves as the ancestral home of the Elven race, and is currently inhabited by the High Elves. Ulthuan is located in the Great Ocean, between the continent of Naggaroth and close to Araby. Ulthuan forms a hollow ring of land floating in the sea, surrounding what is known as the Inner Sea. This inner sea is accessible only at the Straits of Lothern, in the south of the island-continent. Ulthuan is split up into ten High Elven kingdoms, each with its own cultural character and ways of waging war and ruled by a High Elf prince or princess

28. #28High Elves

    Keys: High Elves, High Elf, Asur

    High Elves, or the Asur, are one of the most ancient and powerful mortal civilisations. Hailing from Ulthuan. Asur are a proud and mighty nation of masterful warriors, peerless mages and lords of the sky and sea. They are an ancient race with powerful armies and even grander magic. Asur have noble and compassionate nature, but also have immense pride and consider themselves the true and rightful protectors of the world, and they believe that so long as their civilisation persist throughout the ages, this dying world will never fall into chaos. Asur are long-lived, essentially immortal barring accidental injury or death in war. Asur are tall and slender, with a dexterous grace and otherworldly beauty that no other race can match. Such traits are shared by all three races, although the Asur believe that only on Ulthuan Elf can true Elven beauty and warrior grace be found.

29. #29Black Ark

    Keys: Black Ark, Black Arks

    Black Arks are the largest vessels commanded by a Dark Elf Corsair, vast floating naval fortress-cities capable of carrying thousands of warriors and slaves. They act as seaports for the raiding Dark Elf Fleets. Every Black Ark is unique, but most are the size of a small city, vest fortresses covered in eldritch runes that hurt the eye to gaze upon. Below the surface of the sea, they are even larger with glowing caves lit by witchlight where monsters are kept for battle, supplemented when necessary from hunts. Black Arks sail across all the known oceans, and being so large and powerful are able to raid with virtual impunity, gathering huge quantities of slaves to service the insatiable need at home. The floating castle has mighty garrison and also powerful magic and shoals of sea monsters. The Arks are further protected by a shimmering magical fog that can bewilder enemy crews that get too close. As an enemy approaches them, they hear insane laughter and groans of pleasure whilst phantoms emerge from the mist to bewilder them. The sorcerers summon Black Arks up from the deep which fortifications are then built on. These 'living ships' always travel with a Black Ark, and drive fear into the hearts of all the corsairs would prey upon.

30. #30Dark Elf Corsair

    Keys: Dark Elf Corsair, Dark Elf Corsairs, Druchii Corsair, Druchii Corsairs, Black Ark Corsairs, Black Ark Corsair

    Black Ark Corsairs are notorious reavers, having spent their entire lives pillaging distant lands. They are the lionised darlings of Naggarothi society, embodying as they do the drive to earn riches and glory. It is not uncommon for a Corsair fleet to spend years ransacking foreign lands, returning home only when their holds are bursting with slaves and plunder. As they tend to do most of their fighting in the topmasts of ships and the crowded tangle of dockside streets, Black Ark Corsairs prefer fast weapons that give them an edge in one-on-one fights. Cutlasses, punch daggers and barbed knives are common, as are repeater handbows. Corsairs eschew shields and metal armour, relying on cloaks fashioned from Sea Dragon hide to preserve them from injury. They carry a vile array of nets, grapples and barbed chains. Such tools are not only useful for getting a grip on the slippery flank of a ship, but also for ensnaring fleeing victims, who are soon thereafter dragged to a terrible fate.

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