Worlds Edge Mountains
The Worlds Edge Mountains are the greatest range of mountains in the Warhammer world, stretching from the northern Old World to the Southlands, and forming a natural and insurmountable barrier between the Old World and the Dark Lands. Its tallest peaks tower almost fifty thousand feet above the plains below[1]. The great height of the mountains makes the range impassable except across the mountain passes. The whole mountain range is undercut by ancient underground passageways built by the Dwarfs which allow passage beneath the mountains.
In the distant past the mountain range was the site of the Dwarf empire. During this time numerous fortress cities known as the Dwarfholds were built into the rock in the mountains.
Known Features
From north to south:
- The Mountains of Norsca
- High Pass :Kislev - Dark Lands pass and trade route. [1a]
- Rumored location of Karak Vlag[2]
- The Bloody Spires[3]
- Karak Ungor :ruined Dwarf hold built into Red Eye Mountain[4]
- The Vale of Bones :Skaven Lair
- Silver Pinnacle: stronghold of Neferata and the Lahmian Sisterhood. [5]
- Peak Pass:Empire-Dark Lands pass
- Karak Kadrin :Dwarf hold along Peak Pass
- The Rib Peaks[6]
- Oakenhammer :Dwarf outpost Northwest of Zhufbar
- Zhufbar
- The King's Way[7]
- Black Water
- Karak Varn
- Mount Gunbad:site of former Dwarf Hold[8]
- Cragmere
- The Lair of Clan Ferrik. [2b]
- Moonstone Mountain :Skaven Lair
- Black Falls[9]
- Black Fire Pass, Empire-Border Princes passage in the southern Old World, where the Worlds Edge Mountains and the Black Mountains divide.
- Karaz-a-Karak[10]
- The Pillars of Grungni
- Mount Silverspear
- Deadrock Gap
- Glowpit :Skaven Lair
- Blizzard Gap[11]
- Mad Dog Pass :Leading from the Border Princes to the Dark Lands.[12]
- Troll Zags :Near the base of Mad Dog Pass
- Skullreach Cavern :Skaven Lair
- Clan Krizzor Lair[13]
- Iron Rock:Orc fortress
- Thunder Mountain :A volcano[14]
- Mount Squighorn
- The Trail of Fangs
- Groz Drung[15]
- Death Pass:Badlands-Dark Lands passage
- Karak Drazh:Former Dwarf hold, now an orc fortress known as Black Crag
- Karak Eight Peaks[16]
- The Cavern of Treaty-pacts:Skaven Lair
- Skull Chasm
- Karak Azul :Dwarf hold built into Iron Peak
- The Lost Archway of Valaya
- Dragon Crag
- Crooked Fangfort
- Grimmaz Drakk
- Blackgouge :Skaven Lair
- Karak Azgal
- Fire Mountain: Clan Volkn Lair [2a]
- Cripple Peak: A Mountain shattered by a warpstone meteor that became the domain of Nagash. [3a]
- Nagashizzar: The infamous stronghold of the Great Necromancer within the rock of Cripple Peak. [3a]
- The Sour Sea: An inland sea, tainted by warpstone from Cripple Peak which has killed or mutated all life within it. [3a]
- Misty Mountain
- Red Cloud Mountain
- Mortis Tarn
- Doom Mountain[17]
- Charnel Valley: A canyon pass through the mountains in Nehekhara. Before Nagash it was known as the Valley of the Kings but now it is known as the Valley of the Dead by the nomads. [4a]
- Mount Arachnos
- The Lost Plateau[18]
Sources
- 1: Realm of the Ice Queen
- 1a: Chapter I: The Land and its Peoples, pg. 7
- 2: Uniforms & Heraldry of the Skaven
- 3: Warhammer Armies: Undead (4th Edition)
- 3a: The History of the Undead, pg. 14
- 4: Warhammer Armies: Tomb Kings (6th Edition)
- 4a: pgs. 14-15
- ↑ Warhammer Fantasy Battle, 3rd edition, 1991, p.
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition)
- ↑ White Dwarf 343
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition)
- ↑ Warhammer: Thanquol
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition)
- ↑ Warhammer: Thanquol
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition)
- ↑ Warhammer:Thanquol
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition)
- ↑ Warhammer: Thanquol
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition)
- ↑ Warhammer: Thanquol
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition)
- ↑ Warhammer: Thanquol
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition)
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition) p.196
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition) p. 243
