1563 IC: The Skaven take the city of Tobaro but is recaptured by Prince Meldo Marcelli, aided by the High Elves.1435 IC: The Skaven aid Sultan Jaffar to gain power in Araby and in 1438 IC: Jaffar invades Estalia.1111 IC: The Black Plague and the Skaven Wars - The Skaven unleash plague on the Empire and then launch a full scale invasion.600 IC The First Skaven Civil War - Clan Pestilens returns to the Old World and demands a seat on the Council of Thirteen. c.100 IC The Rat and The Serpent - The war in Lustria between Clan Pestilens and the Lizardmen.17 IC: Sigmar defeats a Skaven horde in the Middle Mountains.100 IC Nagash returns and destroys Clan Rikek. 350 IC The skaven take Crookback Mountain and enslave the Night Goblins there. 700 IC The skaven breach the lower levels of Karak Eight Peaks. -1300 - 1250 IC: The War of Cripple Peak - The war between the Skaven and Nagash.-1325 IC, The Council of Thirteen dispatches 50,000 Skaven under Lord Eekrit Backbiter to claim the warstone beneath Cripple Peak.The Goblin Wars - The time when the Dwarf realm was surrounded on all sides by the Skaven and the greenskins.The rest of Skaven history is largely divided into the various wars fought with other races or among themselves. Lord Viskrin instructs Clan Eshin to travel to Cathay and build their stronghold there. įrom -1400 IC to -1300 IC the skaven wander across the world, establishing strongholds in Araby, the Darklands and the Southlands including what would become Hell Pit. The Skaven were divided into twelve groups, each of which set out to expand the Under-Empire. They called themselves the Lords of Decay and said that they were to lead the Skaven out of Skavenblight. The doors of the Temple of the Great Horned Rat opened and twelve grey-clad ratmen emerged. īack in Skavenblight, as Kavzar had been renamed, only a single building remained undamaged. Tunnels opened up beneath the Dwarf Holds through which lava from deep beneath the earth spilled up. The Worlds Edge Mountains - still recovering after the Great Realignment of the Slann - were hit hardest. Unfortunately for them the great warpstone-powered machine failed catastrophically - releasing huge waves of magical energy across the globe. Eventually they began work on a huge device that they thought would open up large rifts beneath the ground for the Skaven to inhabit. There was pressure to expand the tunnels under the city, as the surface world was too dangerous for the Skaven. Over the next two hundred and eighty years or so the newly born Skaven race grew rapidly. As the weeks went on the rain never stopped and the vermin of the city grew bigger and bolder until they overwhelmed the inhabitants of the city in -1780 IC As the bell rang for the thirteenth time lightning lit up the sky and dark storm clouds gathered. However, it is probable that they were created in the ancient city of Kavzar by a mysterious stranger who completed the unfinished temple of the gods and hung a great horned bell from the top of the tower. Little is known about the origins of the Skaven race. They controll a vast Under-Empire which reached from the Southlands to Kislev and from Estalia to the Far East. In the Warhammer world the Skaven inhabit its caves, tunnels, mines, and sewers. They are the dark side of our soul, come to destroy us for our sins.īurned at the stake, IC 1301 for pernicious declamation Rats as tall as man, and blessed with the most vile intellect and cunning. how immeasurably worse is the foul Skaven - standing on its hindlegs in foul parody of a human. Harbinger of disease, it scavenges on our waste-heaps and frightens our children. History All decent folk find the common rat repulsive.
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