Naggaroth

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Naggaroth

Naggaroth is the cold, bleak land of the Dark Elves. It is located northwest of Ulthuan, across the Great Ocean from the Old World. Naggaroth is bounded to the north by the Chaos Wastes, to the south by Lustria, and to the west by the Far Sea across which lies Cathay.

Geography

Running north-south through the continent are the dangerous Blackspine Mountains, where manticores and other beasts make their lairs. The land to the east of the mountains is mostly dark pine forests and swamps, while west is mostly deserts and volcanic land. The northern border is tundra wasteland. The mountains contain many entrances to the Underworld Sea, a vast network of caverns -many flooded- which extend under the continent and even reach as far south as Lustria. The Underworld Sea is inhabited by all manner of subterranean monsters and has only been partially mapped.

History

End Times

Naggaroth was invaded on a massive scale by the Bloodied Horde, the vast army led by the Gorequeen, Valkia the Bloody. Finally she was defeated by the Witch King but more armies continued to pour out of the northlands which reached as far as Clar Karond which was laid to waste. Har Ganeth was virtually destroyed, with only warriors of the blood god and followers of Khaine left to continue fighting each other in the ruins, Hellebron herself finally accepting the slaughter as a gift from her god.^[3]

Warlords of the Bloodied Horde launched an sea-borne attack on Karond Kar, Drane Blackblood and Lokhir Fellheart joined together to meet them in battle, destroying much of the enemy fleet but they could not stop all of them. An earthquake broke the cities walls and the Skaven emerged from below - forcing Blackblood and Fellheart to evacuate what citizens they could.^[3]

As war raged across Naggaroth, Malekith marched to Grond as Malus Darkblade made a big show of escorting the survivors of Clar Karond. Nearly a third of the Witch King's army was lost as they fought their way to the fortress-home of Morathi and when they arrived they found that it was surrounded by a vast thorn forest. They were greeted by Drusala who announced that Morathi was Hekarti reborn and she would see her son alone.^[3]

Malekith told her that We had grown fat and lazy, a herd of dull-witted beasts no longer fit for the great destiny I shall provide. Now the herd has been thinned, the weak slaughtered by the northlanders’ axes. I have you to thank for that, though I am sure you did not intend matters to unfold thus. Those who remain are warriors and survivors all. They will be my army, and Ulthuan’s ruin, for they will survive only through seizing the land that is theirs by right. The throne of the Ten Kingdoms will at last be mine.^[3]

The Witch King summoned the surviving members of the Black Council to Naggarond and told them his intention to leave their homeland to make one last attempt to retake Ulthuan. The last three cities were burned and the slaves killed so that as the last Black Arks left port, the only Dark Elves left in Naggaroth were in Har Ganeth, still fighting for Helebron.^[3]

Inhabitants

Though the Dark Elves lay claim to the entire continent, in truth the majority of them dwell in a handful of cities located in the northeastern corner of the continent, surrounding the Sea of Malice and Sea of Chill. This region was settled by the Dark Elves thousands of years ago following their defeat in the Elven civil war, and was established as their realm under Malekith the Witchking. The rest is wilderness patrolled by the Dark Elf rangers known as Shades.

Greenskins and Beastmen also dwell in the wilderness of Naggaroth. Previously, the area was inhabited by primitive humans but these were enslaved when the Dark Elves arrived.

Locations

Naggaroth forest in Total War Warhammer II

• The Dark Elves have six heavily-fortified cities:^[1]
  • Clar Karond, the Tower of Doom. ^[1]
  • Ghrond, the North Tower. ^[1]
  • Har Ganeth, City of Executioners. ^[1]
  • Hag Graef, the Dark Crag.
  • Karond Kar, the Tower of Despair. ^[1]
  • Naggarond, the Tower of Cold, is the capital of the realm. It is the stronghold and fortress of Malekith.^[1]
• Huge slave plantations grow food for the six cites. ^[1]
• Black Forests.^[2]
• Petrified Forest of Naggaroth.^[2]

Watchtowers

The Dark Elves have also built a series of Watchtowers to guard against incursions of Chaos Warriors, Beastmen and Daemons from the Chaos Wastes to the north.

Gallery

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  Old Map of Naggaroth and Ulthuan (3rd Edition)

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  Forests of Naggaroth map

Sources

• 1: Warhammer Armies: Dark Elves (4th Edition): History of the Dark Elves, pg. 8
• 2: White Dwarf 310 (UK): Dark Places of the World, pg. 114
• 3: Warhammer: Khaine, Book I: Chapter I: The Widowmaker, pg. 14-17

• Warhammer Armies: Dark Elves (7th Edition), ^{Needs Citation}