The Vampire W'soran stays with Nagash and dares his wrath, whilst the other Vampires flee to escape the Great Necromancer's anger. The Priest Kings are united under King Alcadizaar the Conqueror, and his formidable leadership defeats Nagash's first assault. Alongside other foul creatures, the Vampires lead Nagash's armies. -1163 to -1152 - Nagash declares war upon the Priest Kings of Nehekhara.-1200 - The cult of Chi'an Chi (known to the mortals of the Old World as Tzeentch) gains favour amongst the aristocracy of Beichai in far Cathay.Their arrival is described in Cathay as if they had been vomited out from the gigantic maw of the Great Black Dragon that lives coiled inside the earth. Lord Visktrin, mortally injured by a Dragon in the Mountains of Mourn, instructs Clan Eshin to establish their stronghold in far Cathay. ca -1450 to -1400 - The wandering clans establish the first Skaven strongholds in the areas later known as Troll Country, the Southlands, Araby and the Dark Lands.At the same time, sections of the Great Bastion collapse, allowing rampaging northern tribes to spill into Cathay. -1666 - The Worlds Edge Mountains are riven by earthquakes, sending much of the Dwarf empire into jeopardy.In this way Cathay protects itself from Chaos invasion. The Great Bastion, also known as the Dragon's Spine, is completed in under a century - an impenetrable fortress wall, a quarter of a mile high, that spans league upon league across the border of Cathay. -1800 - The Dragon Emperor unites the entire civilisation of Grand Cathay in a great task that is to change the destiny of his nation forever.Some scholars believe the terrible disaster that befell the Ogres was due to the displeasure of the Chaos Gods, others that the Ogres had preyed too long on the children of the Cathayan empire and that the astromancers of that land took their revenge. When the dust clears, a great fang-lined maw hundreds of leagues across dominates the lands all about. Hundreds of thousands of Ogres die in the ensuing impact. -2750 - A titanic warpstone meteorite plummets from the sky above for Cathay slams into the homelands of the Ogre tribes preying upon that great nation.Most of these tales are highly fanciful, but certainly the Empire of the Celestial Dragon must be a wondrous and rich place, but until the trade routes to the east are safe it will remain a realm of legend. Records of travellers tell of the thousand, thousand footsoldiers of the Emperor, the mystic brotherhoods of Monks who can kill you with a touch of their hand, and the strange monkey warriors living high in the Mountains of Heaven. Many strange creatures are said to live in the land of Cathay, from serpentine dragons to gigantic living stone dogs which guard the temples of the multitudinous gods of Cathay. They also bring tales of jade cities and high temples where mystics probe the movements of the heavenly bodies and the positions of the stars, of the scholars who inscribe every word ever uttered by their divine Emperor. They bring exotic spices and finest silks, gleaming gold, luxurious porcelain vases and all manner of strange and wonderful items from the Kingdom of the Dragon, glimpses of the mysterious glory of the distant and rich orient. The travellers that return from Cathay tell tales of great golden pagodas and the inexhaustible armies of the eastern despots. Only one caravan out of ten makes the trip safely. But the road is far from safe: roving bandits, steppe nomads, and the vast Hobgoblin hordes of Hobgobla-Khan who rule the steppes are an ever-present threat, and one that cannot be taken too lightly. The lure of the Silk Road is great to the merchant houses of Tilea and the Burgomeisters of the Empire, as well as the traders of Araby. It runs through the untamed steppes until its destination, the fabled land of Cathay. Only a single path travels to the east, known as the Silk Road. Past the Worlds Edge Mountains and across the Great Skull Lands, on the other side of the Mountains of Mourn and the vast steppes, begin the uncharted lands.
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