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The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' are powerful undead servants of [[Nagash]] in both the [[World-That-Was]] and the [[Mortal Realms]]. The Mortarchs were all given specific titles, but not all of them are known.
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The '''Mortarchs''' were first created in the [[End Times]] by [[Nagash]] after his resurrection in '''2524 [[IC]]''' and served him throughout that campaign which finally ended the world. They numbered nine and were meant to be replacements for his original [[Nine Dark Lords]] - his most trustworthy servants in the days of old.{{Fn|1}}
  
==The World-that-Was==
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==Members==
The Mortarchs were first created in the [[End Times]] by Nagash after his resurrection in '''2524 [[IC]]''' and served him throughout that campaign which finally ended the world. They numbered nine and were meant to be replacements for his original Nine Dark Lords - his most trustworthy servants in the days of old.{{Fn|1}}
 
 
 
===Members===
 
 
Only three Mortarchs were also among the original Nine Dark Lords:
 
Only three Mortarchs were also among the original Nine Dark Lords:
 
*[[Arkhan the Black]]; the '''Mortarch of Sacraments'''
 
*[[Arkhan the Black]]; the '''Mortarch of Sacraments'''
*[[Neferata in the World-That-Was|Neferata]]; the '''Mortarch of Blood'''
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*[[Neferata]]; the '''Mortarch of Blood'''
 
*[[Krell]]; the '''Mortarch of Despair'''  
 
*[[Krell]]; the '''Mortarch of Despair'''  
  
 
The other six joined for various reasons:
 
The other six joined for various reasons:
*[[Mannfred von Carstein in the World-That-Was|Mannfred von Carstein]]; the '''Mortarch of Night''' decided his schemes were not worth undertaking after Nagash's resurrection.
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*[[Mannfred von Carstein]]; the '''Mortarch of Night''' decided his schemes were not worth undertaking after Nagash's resurrection.
 
*[[Vlad von Carstein]]; the '''Mortarch of Shadows''' resurrected from the dead (again) and only joined because Nagash promised to restore his beloved wife [[Isabella von Carstein|Isabella]] to life as well.{{Fn|1}}
 
*[[Vlad von Carstein]]; the '''Mortarch of Shadows''' resurrected from the dead (again) and only joined because Nagash promised to restore his beloved wife [[Isabella von Carstein|Isabella]] to life as well.{{Fn|1}}
 
*[[Luthor Harkon]]; the '''Mortarch of the Abyss''' joined Nagash out of boredom.
 
*[[Luthor Harkon]]; the '''Mortarch of the Abyss''' joined Nagash out of boredom.
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*[[The Nameless]] (probably [[Constant Drachenfels]]) was promised the return of his memory.
 
*[[The Nameless]] (probably [[Constant Drachenfels]]) was promised the return of his memory.
  
==Quotes==
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==See Also==
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*[https://ageofsigmar.lexicanum.com/wiki/Mortarchs Mortarchs of the Mortal Realms]
|align="center"|''We are him, and he is us. But we were all someone else, once. In us is Nagash’s power made manifest. But so too are his weaknesses. Neferata is his guile, Mannfred, his ambition, and I...I am his loyalty – to others, to this realm, to those he claims as his own. What Nagash has claimed, he will hold until time’s last gleaming, even if he must destroy it to keep it ''
 
'''~ Arkhan to [[Tamra ven-Drak]]'''.{{Fn|1}}
 
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==Sources==
 
==Sources==
 
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Warhammer: Nagash]], pg. 124
 
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Warhammer: Nagash]], pg. 124
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Grand Alliance: Death]], 2016
 
*{{Endn|3}}: [[Nagash: The Undying King (novel)]] by [[Josh Reynolds]] Chapter Seven: The Crossing
 
*{{Endn|4}}: [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/06/13/13th-june-the-mortarch-of-grief-unveiledgw-homepage-post-1/ Mortarch of Grief unveiled on the Warhammer Community webpage]
 
  
 
[[Category: Vampires & Necromancers]]
 
[[Category: Vampires & Necromancers]]
[[Category: Grand Alliance of Death]]
 
 
[[Category: Mortarchs| ]]
 
[[Category: Mortarchs| ]]

Revision as of 13:33, 1 January 2020

The Mortarchs were first created in the End Times by Nagash after his resurrection in 2524 IC and served him throughout that campaign which finally ended the world. They numbered nine and were meant to be replacements for his original Nine Dark Lords - his most trustworthy servants in the days of old.[1]

Members

Only three Mortarchs were also among the original Nine Dark Lords:

The other six joined for various reasons:

See Also

Sources