The Fall of Knauerhall

1. #1Skaven

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   The Skaven are a race of evil, intelligent, humanoid rats.

   The Skaven burrrow under the other civilizations, stealing their resources and plotting invasions of the surface world. Now they reign havoc, finally uniting their many fractious clans into a singular massive tide of fur, teeth, and rusted blades to overrun the world.

   The Skaven revere a Chaos god known as the Horned Rat.

   Skaven are an erratic and deranged species, utterly convinced of their superiority that they will spare nothing. Their chief goal is the death or enslavement of all other species. That said, this insanity can be used against them, as Skaven treat deceit and betrayal as positive qualities and will betray each other at the earliest convenience.

   Skaven do not speak like other people, and will repeat words or string together two similar words (e.g., "Slay-kill the man-things!", "Fire-fire all guns!") and only refer to other species as "things".

2. #2Great Horned Rat

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   The Great Horned Rat is the chief deity of the Skaven, and the Skaven fervently worship him. The Horned Rat is a Chaos God who represents Disease, Plague, Pestilence, Entropy and Decay. The Horned Rat's holy number is 13.

3. #3Clanrats

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   Clanrats are the most common Skaven soldiers. They are also the most numerous, thus they only get some rusty weapons and the occasional wooden shield for protection.

   Clanrats have no military training, and thus blindly throw themselves at an enemy that they view as easy prey. They prioritize numbers above all else and will sacrifice each other if it means surviving.

4. #4Stormvermin

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   Stormvermin are the elite of the Skaven military. As such, these troops are able to acquire suits of proper armour and wield wicked-looking halberds. Stormvermin also tend to be quite tall and muscular for their time, though still quite skinny by the standards of other races. Stormvermin tend to be seen as bodyguards to Skaven lords that can afford them.

   Stormvermin are capable of military tactics and thus are dangerous opponents in any battle. They are also loud bullies, capable of intimidating lesser Clanrats and Skavenslaves to do their bidding.

5. #5Rat Ogres

   Keys: Rat Ogre

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   Rat Ogres are massive musclebound brutes created by the insane fleshcrafters of the Clans Moulder. Rat Ogres are created by Clan Moulder's crafters experimenting upon Skaven subjects until they become swollen monstrosities that only operate through blind rage. Rat Ogres are thus very unintelligible, only capable of roaring.

   Each Rat Ogre towers over the average man. They are also monstrously strong and can rip apart men limb by limb without difficulty.

6. #6Plague Monks

   Keys: Plague Monk, Plague Censer

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   Plague Monks are the rank and file soldiers of Clan Pestilens. They revere the Horned Rat with an all-consuming fervor. As they worship the Horned Rat as a bringer of decay, each Plague Monk is afflicted with any number of horrifying diseases. Because of their fanaticism, Plague Monks will always throw themselves into battle so they can kill and infect their enemies. Plague Monks are impossible to scare.

   Plague Monks wear tattered robes that reek of pestilence. They tend to wield blades that are coated with all sorts of filth.

   There are some Plague Monks who wield censers filled with Warpstone and waste that can spew out more noxious smoke that is loaded with even more horrifying pestilence.

7. #7Skaven Weapons Teams

   Keys: Weapons Team, Warpfire Thrower, Warp Grinder, Ratling Gun

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   Skaven Weapons Teams tend to utilize only the most dangerous weapons created by the Clans Skryre.

   • Poisoned Wind Launcher: These mortars launch glass orbs filled with a particularly noxious vapor that is toxic for anyone to inhale. Those that do inhale these gases will feel their lungs dissolve from the inside. Thankfully, it is unwieldy and slow to fire.
   • Ratling Gun: A rapid-fire machine gun that shoots shards of Warpstone through anything that isn't heavily armored. While it can fire a lot of bullets, it can also overheat easily.
   • Warpfire Thrower: A hulking flamethrower that spews out green warpstone-laced fire. It excels at icinerating anything that may be hiding in a general direction, but its range leaves something to be desired.
   • Warp Grinder: A massive warpstone-tipped drill. This drill is capable of burrowing through rock and dirt and can create holes big enough to allow swarms of Skaven to emerge.
8. #8Night Runners

   Keys: Night Runners, Gutter Runners

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   Night Runners are the basic foot soldiers of the Clans Eshin. They are trained to be stealthy, typically clad in black robes and capable of moving silently. As assassins, Night Runners tend to wield lightweight weapons like daggers, shurikens, and slings. Particularly skilled assassins even learn to wield a knife with their tails.

   Night Runners are masters at ambushing their opponent. They tend to only strike when their enemy is busy with other foes and can easily retreat by detonating smoke bombs. They do not tend to be gone for long, however, as they will just return into hiding so they can strike again.

   Particularly experienced Night Runners who have survived several battles and killed many foes tend to be called Gutter Runners.

9. #9Stormfiends

   Keys: Stormfiend

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   Stormfiends are the unholy result of collaboration between the Clans Moulder and Clans Skryre. The Stormfiends are heavily armored Rat Ogres whose hands are replaced with a variety of repulsive weapons, allowing them to either deliver death from afar or brutalize foes up close. This blend of muscle and armor means that it is difficult to harm a Stormfiend, but they do have one glaring weakness: There is an exposed second brain in the back that allows the Stormfiend to operate their weapons.

10. #10Poisoned Wind Globadiers

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    The Poisoned Wind Globadiers are soldiers of the Clans Skryre. They are grenadiers who carry glass orbs filled with a corrosive green gas created with Warpstone. This gas is capable of dissolving the insides of anyone that breathes it in, hence why these Skaven wear gas masks while throwing them at their enemies.

11. #11Packmasters

    Keys: Packmaster, Things-Catcher

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    Packmasters are the basic herders of the Clans Moulder. Packmasters tend to accompany swarms of giant rats or Rat Ogors, whipping and barking orders in order to instill obedience.

    Most Packmasters do not prefer to engage in open conflict, instead commanding their pets from the back. Those that do fight only do so by ambush. Many make use of Things-Catchers, spiked collars on poles. These Things-Catchers lock those spikes around a victim's throat before dragging them away to a fate worse than death.

12. #12Skaven

    Keys: Skaven, Under-Empire

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    The Skaven are a race of evil, intelligent, humanoid rats.

    The Skaven burrrow under the other civilizations, stealing their resources and plotting invasions of the surface world. Now they reign havoc, finally uniting their many fractious clans into a singular massive tide of fur, teeth, and rusted blades to overrun the world.

    The Skaven revere a Chaos god known as the Great Horned Rat.

    Skaven are an erratic and deranged species, utterly convinced of their superiority that they will spare nothing. Their chief goal is the death or enslavement of all other species. That said, this insanity can be used against them, as Skaven treat deceit and betrayal as positive qualities and will betray each other at the earliest convenience.

    Skaven do not speak like other people, and will repeat words or string together two similar words (e.g., "Slay-kill the man-things!", "Fire-fire all guns!") and only refer to other species as "things".

13. #13Great Horned Rat

    Keys: Great Horned Rat, Horned Rat

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    The Great Horned Rat is the chief deity of the Skaven, and the Skaven fervently worship him. The Horned Rat is a Chaos God who represents Disease, Plague, Pestilence, Entropy and Decay. Due to his immense power, the Horned Rat cannot manifest in the mortal realms. He does, however, plant ideas in his favored servants.

    The Horned Rat's holy number is 13.

    The Skaven consider all rats to be holy agents of the Horned Rat.

    The Horned Rat can manifest daemons known as Verminlords to act as his personal agents.

14. #14Knauerhall

    Keys: Knauerhall

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    Knauerhall is a medium-sized city within the Ghyran, the Realm of Life. Knauerhall is well known for being an up-and-coming hub for commerce, helped by its proximity to the Viridian River. As a result, the city has a sizeable community of not only humans, but also Aelfs (commonly known as Elves) and Duardin (commonly known as Dwarfs).

    Knauerhall is ruled over by Baron Klaus von Becknauer, who was the son of the previous ruler.

    Knauerhall has a city militia, but they were unprepared for the onslaught of the Vermindoom. Most of their forces are scattered. Many of its neighboring settlements and outposts have also fallen silent, either from being overrun by the Skaven or from a sudden evacuation to avoid the former.

15. #15Klaus von Becknauer

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    Baron Klaus von Becknauer is the ruler of Knauerhall. He inherited the rule of the city from his father, the former baron. Despite his status, however, he lacks much in the way of renown as he was the youngest of the baron's sons, having survived through mere insignificance.

    His arrogance is a pivotal aspect to why Knauerhall fell, as he was convinced that the threats that had menaced and overrun the various neighboring settlements would not threaten his territory. Once the Skaven began overrunning the city, he decided to abandon the town for his own safety.

16. #16Clans Moulder

    Keys: Moulder, Clans Moulder

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    Clans Moulder are one of the great factions among the Skaven. Their area of expertise is mutation and fleshcrafting. They utilize inhumane surgeries and controlled mutations to grow freakishly large rats and monstrous Skaven like Rat Ogors.

17. #17Clans Skryre

    Keys: Skryre, Clans Skryre

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    The Clans Skryre are one of the great factions among the Skaven. Their area of expertise is technology. The mad engineers of the Clans Skryre are capable of creating a great many weapons, but they are all of ramshackle design and many are prone to exploding. This matter is not helped by the fact they they make extensive use of Warpstone as a power source, a very unstable material. Clan Skryre Warbands are typically led by Warlock Engineers, senior scientists who are capable of wielding deranged weapons that sputter green lightning.

18. #18Clans Pestilens

    Keys: Pestilens, Clans Pestilens

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    The Clans Pestilens are a major faction among the Skaven. They are also considered a deranged cult of fanatics who specifically worship the Horned Rat as a bringer of pestilence and decay. As a result, the members of Clan Pestilens all willingly infect themselves with all manner of foul diseases in order to spread the Horned Rat's gifts to all. Clan Pestilens warbands tend to be led by Plague Priests, particularly foul rat-men who are capable of performing wicked miracles due to their obsessive faith.

    All of Clan Pestilens' prayers tend to be droning chants.

19. #19Clans Eshin

    Keys: Eshin, Clans Eshin

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    The Clans Eshin are a major faction among the Skaven. Clan Eshin's specialties are in stealth and assassinations. As such, members of the Clans Eshin are exceptionally quiet and capable of murdering their enemies with barely even a sound. Clans Eshin particularly pride themselves in being contract killers.

20. #20Clans Verminus

    Keys: Verminus, Clans Verminus

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    The Clans Verminus make up the majority of the Skaven army. These forces are comprised of countless swarms of Clanrats and Stormvermin, who fight and die at the whims of their cruel warlords. This has earned the Clans Verminus a reputation for being the most ferocious of the great glans, but this magnitude also makes them the most prone to infighting.

21. #21Vermindoom

    Keys: Vermindoom, Age of Ruin

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    The Vermindoom was a moment of great triumph for the Skaven. Following countless years of planning and preparation, they completed a twisted ritual that saw their home realm of Blight City collide with a great many of the mortal realms. As a result, each of them now have rifts in their very fabric, where ramshackle spires and forts have emerged to act as homes for the Skaven. These rifts pose a threat to the very fabric of the mortal realms, for they do not show any signs of stopping in their expansion.

22. #22Winds of Magic

    Keys: Winds of Magic

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    The Winds of Magic are the concept that all the mortal realms are infused with certain types of magic. These Winds are the Winds of Fire, Metal, Beasts, Light, Shadow, Life, Death and Heavens. Many wizards have control over only one form of magic, though certain exceptional wizards are capable of controlling different winds.

    • Lore of Fire: Pyromancy.
    • Lore of Metal: Alchemy and the ability to manipulate the state of any sort of metal.
    • Lore of Beasts: Shapeshifting and channeling the powers of wild animals.
    • Lore of Heavens: Divination, Weather control and channeling lightning.
    • Lore of Light: Controlling light, exorcism, banishing daemons.
    • Lore of Shadows: Illusions and stealth.
    • Lore of Life: Healing and control over plantlife. This magic is particularly powerful in Knauerhall as it is based within Ghyran, a realm specially attuned to the Wind of Life.
    • Lore of Death: Magic that focuses on death and silencing the undead, though Necromancy is considered a derivative.
23. #23Grey Seer Thax Bitterclaw

    Keys: Thax, Bitterclaw

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    Thax Bitterclaw is the warleader in charge of the Skaven occupation of Knauerhall. Thax is a Grey Seer, a uniquely powerful wizard among the Skaven who are treated with special prestige among his kind. Thax has light grey fur and a crown of massive horns sprouting from his head. He typically wears overly ostentatious scarlet robes and a necklace loaded with looted trophies he stole from slain enemies.

    Thax is a very paranoid and narcissistic individual, often losing himself to delusions of grandeur. He believes himself to be infallible and will always blame others for his own shortcomings. Thax views everyone, including his own associates, as potential usurpers and thus seeks to constantly enthrall them or have them killed off. His pride is markedly deserved, however, as he had played a part in bringing about the Vermindoom and sees it as a moment of supreme triumph for all Skavenkind.

    Due to the extensive scope of the operation, Thax does not bother himself with taking to the streets. Instead, he prefers to hide within the former castle of the Baron von Becknauer, having fortified it to prevent any intruders from breaching it. If confronted, he will make use of his ruinous magic, a blend of green lightning storms and summoning smaller rats to attack his foes. He prefers to use his lackeys and Stormvermin bodyguards to do the fighting for him.

24. #24Sigmar

    Keys: Sigmar, God-King

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    Sigmar is the chief deity of mankind and order. He is chiefly responsible for leading the battles against the many threats that threaten order in the Mortal Realms from his dominion in Azyr. He is also in charge of the Stormcast Eternals, his most elite divine warriors who serve as his champions in the most dire situations.

    Sigmar has two holy symbols: The Twin-Tailed Comet (A symbol that heralded his arrival) and his warhammer Ghal-Maraz (his favored weapon until recently).

25. #25Freeguild

    Keys: Freeguild, Castelite, Regiment

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    The Freeguild represent the most well-trained mortal soldiers of the Mortal Realms. Assembled from humans, aelves, duardin and other races, they are the forces responsible for protecting the Cities of Sigmar from a great many threats. The Freeguild represent the indomitable spirit of those races not gifted with immortality, standing in definance of threats that dare threaten cities like Knauerhall.

    Freeguild Companies employ several weapons, from swords and shields to handguns and cannons to even magic. There are also those companies specialized in cavalry warfare atop horses, while others favor more unconventional methods of warfare.

    The Castelite Formation is a favored tactic of the Freeguild, a formation composed of fortifying a position before employing extensive use of firearms, up to and including large cannons.

    A few of the famous Freeguild Regiments around Knauerhall are the Greycaps (a famous regiment specialized in firearms hailing from the industrial city of Greywater Fastness), the Seventeenth Carrodian Stonefists (a very disciplined regiment known for their infantry formations) and the Order of the Promised Grove (a regiment that also doubles as a knightly order)

26. #26Stormcast Eternals

    Keys: Stormcast Eternals, Stormcast, Stormhost

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    The Stormcast Eternals represent the pinnacle of the forces of Order, being the demigod warriors forged by Sigmar himself. The Stormcast are Sigmar's chosen soldiers, being forged using legendary heroes pulled from across the ages and across the Mortal Realms. Each one is a towering armored figure that stands over humanity as an unflinching bastion against the many threats that stand against their God-King.

    Stormcast are given invaluable weapons and armor forged out of a metal known as Sigmarite, a material that is nigh-impenetrable and immune to most forms of magic. Stormcast are also effectively immortal, as upon death they will explode in a brilliant explosion of lightning before returning to Azyr to be reforged.

    Some of the most famous Stormhosts are the Hammers of Sigmar, the Celestial Vindicators, the Emerald Wardens, and the Astral Templars.

27. #27Alarielle

    Keys: Alarielle, Everqueen

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    Alarielle is the goddess of life and thus is the patron goddess of Ghyran, the realm of life. As such, there are many in Knauerhall who worship Alarielle alongside Sigmar. She is typically depicted as a towering female aelf with branch-like wings an overgrown wooden arm. She is usually seen riding atop a massive Wardroth Bettle with many horns.

    While Alarielle's duties see her protecting Ghyran from its many threats, she does not hold much favor for the mortal races. The only species she accompanies is the Sylvaneth, a massive race of tree-monsters who are unflinchingly obedient to her. She will defend other species if there is a need to do so, but she does not view them as a priority as she does the plants and Sylvaneth. She is a sworn enemy of the forces of chaos.

28. #28Sylvaneth

    Keys: Sylvaneth, Wargrove, Tree-kin

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    The Sylvaneth are a species of tree-like humanoids that are native to the Realm of Ghyran. They are the progeny of their goddess Alarielle, and as such they are very obedient to her. They serve as her military force, armed with magical weapons usually grown from the same wood as the Sylvaneth themselves.

    Though once Sylvaneth might have been a peaceful species, those times are no long since past, having only been uttered in legends. The Sylvaneth of the modern day are almost entirely grown for the prospect of defending the Everqueen's domain and driving out those forces that dare infest their forests and groves. Some Sylvaneth maybe friendly, but most are known for being territorial.

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