Chaos Wastes

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, there are the Northern and the Southern Chaos 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.

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. Numerous savage and barbaric human tribes live here, always fighting against each other and against the beastmen tribes. The largest of these tribes are the Kurgan and the Hung and all of them worship the Chaos gods. On occasion the tribes are united by a powerful warlord who then invades the civilized nations located further south. Almost all notable Chaos invasions began in the northern wastes.

Southern Wastes

Surrounding the south pole are the Southern Wastes. Containing one of the highest concentrations of Beastmen in the whole world, this continent is thankfully separated from all others by water.