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The '''Northern Wastes''' surround the North Pole. This is a frozen land covered with ice in the far north which gradually gives way to tundra and large plains. The land is peopled by the [[Northmen]], warlike and barbaric tribes who are born into the worship of the Chaos gods. During the Chaos incursions, the tribes descend as a great horde upon the civilised nations to the south. The threat from the Chaos Wastes remains constant, for when not invading as part of a great Chaos incursion, small bands pillage the civilised lands to brutally take whatever they need or desire.
 
The '''Northern Wastes''' surround the North Pole. This is a frozen land covered with ice in the far north which gradually gives way to tundra and large plains. The land is peopled by the [[Northmen]], warlike and barbaric tribes who are born into the worship of the Chaos gods. During the Chaos incursions, the tribes descend as a great horde upon the civilised nations to the south. The threat from the Chaos Wastes remains constant, for when not invading as part of a great Chaos incursion, small bands pillage the civilised lands to brutally take whatever they need or desire.
  
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* [[Agvald Forest]].{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Blasted Wastes]].{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Black Pit]].{{Fn|4}}
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* [[Black Rock]]: A bleak monument on the shore of the [[Sea of Chaos]] to countless warriors who failed and fell on the Path to Glory.{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Blighted Grove]].{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Blood Marshes]]: An strange wetland that stinks of death where blood chokes the waterways and beasts drink deep of the crimson ichor.{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Cold Mires]]: A region of stinking bogs, misty fens and poisonous swamps where lair the [[Toad Dragon]]s.{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Crystal Spires]]: Strange formations of green, purple and teal crystal which are frequented by the tribes of the Eagle splinters of the structures can be used by their sorcerers to amplify their magical prowess.{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Eternal Lagoons]].{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Forest of Decay]].{{Fn|4}}
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* [[Fortress of the Damned]]: For centuries, Chaos Champions have fought for it.{{Fn|4}}
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* [[Frostspire Mountains]].{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Heavenward Hills]].{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Mountains of Questioning]].{{Fn|4}}
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** The [[Brass Glacier]] This near-solid flow of brazen lava at time moves rapidly but never seems to actually advance across the Chaos Wastes.{{Fn|4}}
 
* [[Plains of Ash]].{{Fn|4}}
 
* [[Plains of Ash]].{{Fn|4}}
 
* [[Plains of Bone]]: A vast expanse of bone - the remains of those that sought to walk the path to glory but failed and whose deeds have long been forgotten.{{Fn|4}}
 
* [[Plains of Bone]]: A vast expanse of bone - the remains of those that sought to walk the path to glory but failed and whose deeds have long been forgotten.{{Fn|4}}
 
** [[Blood Mountain]]: A volcano that vomits forth boiling-hot blood.{{Fn|4}}
 
** [[Blood Mountain]]: A volcano that vomits forth boiling-hot blood.{{Fn|4}}
 
** [[Foetid Catacombs]]: Subterranean tunnels whose walls perpetually drip with warm ichor.{{Fn|4}}
 
** [[Foetid Catacombs]]: Subterranean tunnels whose walls perpetually drip with warm ichor.{{Fn|4}}
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** The [[Ossified Hills]].{{Fn|4}}
 
** [[Palace of Ruin]]: Claimed by many [[Chaos Champion]]s as it is the last shelter before a dangerous journey across the wasteland.{{Fn|4}}
 
** [[Palace of Ruin]]: Claimed by many [[Chaos Champion]]s as it is the last shelter before a dangerous journey across the wasteland.{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Blasted Wastes]].{{Fn|4}}
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* [[Plain of Glass]].{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Heavenward Hills]].{{Fn|4}}
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** [[Chasm of Torments]]: Crossing this area causes a traveler to be tortured by waking nightmares which drive them mad, speaking ever after of their visions of death and woe.{{Fn|4}}
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* '''The [[Proving Ground]]:''' Once four champions of the gods fought and died here, their followers erecting great monoliths to their respective gods which still watch over the battleground. Champions come here to make offerings and hopefully gain power to help them on the way to [[Daemon]]hood.{{Fn|2}}
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* [[Plain of Illusions]].{{Fn|4}}
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** [[Cliff of Beasts]].{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Proving Ground]]: Once four champions of the gods fought and died here, their followers erecting great monoliths to their respective gods which still watch over the battleground. Champions come here to make offerings and hopefully gain power to help them on the way to [[Daemon]]hood.{{Fn|2}}
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* The [[Shard Lands]].{{Fn|4}}
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* [[Shard Woods]].{{Fn|4}}
 
* The [[Shifting Monolith]]: It vanishes before reappearing, apparently at random and never in the same location.{{Fn|4}}
 
* The [[Shifting Monolith]]: It vanishes before reappearing, apparently at random and never in the same location.{{Fn|4}}
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* [[Swarvik]].{{Fn|4}}
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* [[Tower of Torment]].{{Fn|4}}
 
* The [[Twisted Tower]].{{Fn|4}}
 
* The [[Twisted Tower]].{{Fn|4}}
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* The [[Withered Forest]].{{Fn|4}}
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** [[Keldevind]].{{Fn|4}}
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** The [[Palace of Princes]] A warrior lodge where rituals and combat trials determine who will lead the followers of the Serpant in the following months.{{Fn|4}}
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** [[Vestligkyst]].{{Fn|4}}
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* [[Volcano's Heart]].{{Fn|4}}
  
 
===Southern Wastes===
 
===Southern Wastes===

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The Northern Wastes

The Chaos Wastes are the great Chaos-suffused wastelands which surround both the North and South poles of the Warhammer world.

Correspondingly, they are called the Northern and the Southern Wastes. Their creation stemmed from the collapse of the Polar Warp Gates, when Chaos first flooded into the world. The regions surrounding the poles were the most severely affected, and remain places of seething Chaos.

It is a land of desolation shrouded in unnatural darkness, irredeemably corrupted and distorted by the suffusive Chaos. Here, every law of the universe has been scattered to the wind, and the energies of Chaos visit their anarchy on the forms of every living and unliving thing. Here the Champions of Chaos and their armies fight endlessly to gain the attentions of their patron gods.

The Chaos Wastes are also known as the Shadowlands, for they lie in the shadow of Chaos itself. At the very centre of the Wastes reality gives way to the Realm of Chaos.

Hordes of Chaos

Raiding parties of Marauder tribes who dwell below the malign Realm of Chaos and worship the Dark Gods come south every year but when the Winds of Magic blow strongly, then huge armies of Chaos worshipers form. The Marauder tribes are joined by Chaos Warriors and Knights as well as monsters from the deeper wastes - they then head south to lay waste to the lands of men, Elves and Dwarfs. [3]

Locations

Northern Wastes

The Northern Wastes surround the North Pole. This is a frozen land covered with ice in the far north which gradually gives way to tundra and large plains. The land is peopled by the Northmen, warlike and barbaric tribes who are born into the worship of the Chaos gods. During the Chaos incursions, the tribes descend as a great horde upon the civilised nations to the south. The threat from the Chaos Wastes remains constant, for when not invading as part of a great Chaos incursion, small bands pillage the civilised lands to brutally take whatever they need or desire.

Southern Wastes

Surrounding the South Pole are the Southern Wastes. Containing one of the highest concentrations of Beastmen in the whole world[1], this continent is thankfully separated from all others by water.

Maps of the Chaos Wastes

Gallery

  • Part of the Northern Wastes

  • Part of the Northern Wastes

Sources

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