Elector Count of Nordland
From Warhammer - The Old World - Lexicanum
The Elector Count of Nordland is the ruler of Nordland, a province of The Empire. This noble title was usually passed on in a hereditary fashion. [3b]
Being of the fifteen Electors the counts of Nordland cast one of the votes in the election of a new Emperor. The last ruler of Nordland was Theoderic Gausser[1][2][3a]
They are de jure Princes of Marienburg but are forbidden upon pain of death to ever enter the city. [3b]
Known Counts
| known rulers of Nordland | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| name | reign | notes | sources |
| ? Salzwedel | ? | Ally of Boris Goldgather; perished alobgside him | Wolf of Sigmar (Novel), pgs. 91,93 |
| Carin Salzwedel | unclear, around 1119 | Wolf of Sigmar (Novel), pgs. 91, 93 | |
| Einrich Moltke | unclear, around 1244 | won the Battle of Beeckerhoven defeating Dieter Helsnicht | Warhammer Armies: Undead (4th Edition), pgs. 31, 48, 54 |
| Adalbert Moltke | ? - 1375 | Attempted to broker a peace between Talabecland and Stirland at his capital of Salzenmund but the gathering is attacked by Daemons of Khorne and the envoys are slaughtered, each side blames the other for the violence and the war continues. Salzenmund is left in ruins. | White Dwarf 383 (UK), pg. 71 Salzenmund (book), pg. 7-11 |
| Hjalmar the Tyrannical | 1414 - 1420 | Elected Emperor. Enthroned by a divided Electorial College and a deranged Grand Theogonist, after six brutal years he was assassinated by being skewered through the eye with a tent peg. Only Emperor from Nordland. | Drachenfels (novel), Act One, Chapter III; Act Four, Chapter II, Salzenmund (book), pgs. 9&12 Altdorf: Crown of the Empire pg. 15 |
| Alfrich Gausser | unclear, around 1988 | Attempted to rescue Debneitz from Dark Elf Corsairs. Only found the coastal fortress town in ruins and its entire population nailed to a nearby cliff, flayed. | Warhammer Armies: The Empire (8th Edition), pg. 16 |
| Theoderic Gausser | ? - End Times | current ruler | Uniforms & Heraldry of The Empire, pg.9 Warhammer Armies: The Empire (7th Edition), pg. 22 Warhammer Armies: The Empire (8th Edition), pg. 13 |
See also
Sources
- 1: Uniforms & Heraldry of The Empire, pg. 9
- 2: Warhammer Armies: The Empire (7th Edition), pg. 22
- 3: Warhammer Armies: The Empire (8th Edition)
