So they constructed a terrible machine powered by warpstone to capture and bend the energies of magic, a machine that would split the rocks beneath the mountains. The antecedents of the Grey Seers planned to open a great rift beneath the earth that would provide room enough for all.
So the Skaven called upon the sorcerers to do something, to open a space where all Skaven could live and prosper. In time there were so many of them that they had to expand their tunnels even farther, but they could not burrow fast enough to create more room. Disaster at Skavenblightĭespite every obstacle, every new plague, and the ongoing scarcity of food, the Skaven thrived in the tunnels of Skavenblight. Skavenblight is believed to have been founded around -1600 IC, after the fall of the former Human city of Tylos. īagrian, Golgfag Maneater and Fassbinder the Strong are among the few non-Skaven who set eyes upon Skavenblight and managed to survive to tell the tale. Skavenblight is also where two of the most technologically advanced devices of the Skaven race are held, the Warpstone Telescope and the Warpstone Tractor Beam, both used to investigate and interact with Morrslieb. Clan Skryre and Clan Moulder have the most economic influence in the city, with their personal clan districts lively at all hours as they trade their various goods and services to any warlord with enough warp-tokens to pay. Though all the clans have at least a certain amount of foothold or influence in the great city, there is no denying that out of all the clans that make up the Under-Empire, those who dominate a grander part of the city are each held by one of the four Great Clans. Such lawlessness and civil unrest has resulted in the city being mired a constant power-struggle between untold numbers of factions vying for control over much of the city's mineral and political wealth.
īut such wealth and prosperity only attracts the worst of the Skaven race, giving incentive to the greatest population of cutthroats, thieves, outlaws, bandits, renegades, corrupt officials, and assassins than all the other Skaven strongholds combined. Īs the Skaven capital city, Skavenblight benefits from being the largest trade hub in the Under-Empire, where hundreds upon hundreds of merchants, peddlers, and trade barges enter the city annually to sell their wares and goods, hailing from the multitude of clans that populate the vast Under-Empire. It is here, amidst labyrinthine darkness, that the Skaven scheme for supremacy, gnawing over plots for the final apocalypse of the Human race. This evil capital of a nefarious race is the veiled lair from which rule the mighty Lords of Decay, the ruthless leaders of the Skaven race. This is Skavenblight, a sprawling metropolis of endless caverns a multi-layered under-city of twisting corridors, and nightmarish squalor on an unimaginable scale. This shell of a once-glorious city of Mankind lies more than half sunken in the morass, a testimony to the corruption and ruin spread by the Children of the Horned Rat. Deep in the rotting heart of the Blighted Marsh festers the vile capital of the ratmen, the decay-ridden nexus of all Skavendom. Through magics more powerful than the unsuspecting mortal world can imagine, the largest and most densely populated city in the world is kept secret, its locations only guessed at by the very wisest of mortal-kind. Agriculture ( Black Corn) Mining ( Warpstone) Manufacturing Trade Slavery Skavenblight is the name given by Tileans to the subterranean capital city and foul heart of the Skaven Under-Empire and the birthplace of the Skaven race.
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