Skavenblight

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Through magics more powerful than the unsuspecting world can imagine, the largest and most densely populated city in the world is kept secret, its location only guessed at by the wisest. Deep in the rotting heart of the Blight Marshes festers the vile capital of the Skaven, the decay-ridden nexus of all Skaven. This shell of a once great city of mankind lies more than half sunken in the morass. a testimony to the corruption and ruin spread by the Children of the Horned Rat

This is Skavenblight, a sprawling metropolis of endless caverns; a multi-layered under-city of twisting corridors, and nightmare squalor on an unimaginable scale. This evil capital of a nefarious race is the lair from which rule the mighty Lords of Decay, the ruthless leader of the Skaven who sit upon The council of Thirteen. It is from here, amidst labyrinthine darkness, that the Skaven scheme for supremacy, gnawing over plots for the final apocalypse.

It would be impossible to reach the Skaven capital across the land surface, as the immense Blighted Marshes are certain death to cross. The noisome stench of the sucking mud and fetid waters rises high into the air, a vast and poisonous cover that prevents the full light of the sun from penetrating its gloom





Notes & sources

  • To date, the only one who has visited Skavenblight and left unharmed is the legendary Ogre Mercenary Golgfag Maneater
  • The former name of Skavenblight is Kavzar when it was Humans and Dwarfs living there.
  • Warhammer Armies - Skaven 7th p.16-18, p.10-12
  • Warhammer Armies - Ogre Kingdoms 8th