Worlds Edge Mountains
From Warhammer - The Old World - Lexicanum
(Redirected from Worlds Edge Mountain)
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.
They are known to the Elves as Saraeluii, the Mountains at the Edge of the World. [6]
History
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 now inhabited by Night Goblins and known as Red Eye Mountain. [5]
- The Vale of Bones: Skaven Lair
- Silver Pinnacle: Stronghold of Neferata and the Lahmian Sisterhood. [4]
- Peak Pass: Empire-Dark Lands pass
- Karak Kadrin: Known as Slayer Keep, a Dwarf hold south of Peak Pass. [5]
- The Rib Peaks[5]
- Oakenhammer: Dwarf outpost Northwest of Zhufbar
- Zhufbar: Greatest industrial centre of the Dwarfs and home of the Dwarf Engineers Guild.[5]
- The King's Way[6]
- Black Water [5]
- Karak Varn
- Mount Gunbad: site of former Dwarf Hold, now a Goblin lair. [5]
- Cragmere
- The Lair of Clan Ferrik. [2b]
- Moonstone Mountain: Skaven Lair
- Black Falls[7]
- 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: Capital of the Dwarf Empire, oldest, largest and best defended Dwarf Hold. [5]
- The Pillars of Grungni
- Mount Silverspear
- Deadrock Gap
- Glowpit: Skaven Lair
- Blizzard Gap[8]
- Mad Dog Pass: Leading from the Border Princes to the Dark Lands.[9]
- Troll Zags: Near the base of Mad Dog Pass
- Skullreach Cavern: Skaven Lair
- Clan Krizzor Lair[10]
- Iron Rock: Orc fortress
- Thunder Mountain: A volcano[11]
- Mount Squighorn
- The Trail of Fangs
- Groz Drung[12]
- Death Pass: Badlands-Dark Lands passage
- Karak Drazh: Former Dwarf hold, now an orc fortress known as Black Crag. [5]
- Karak Eight Peaks: A ruined Dwarf Hold nestled beneath a great valley itself surrounded by eight mountains. [5]
- The Cavern of Treaty-pacts: Skaven Lair
- Skull Chasm
- Karak Azul: Dwarf hold built into Iron Peak, famed for its smiths and mighty warriors. [5]
- 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[13]
- 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[14]
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
- 5: White Dwarf 250 (UK), The World's Edge Mountains, pg. 33
- 6: The Sundering (anthology) (Time of Legends edition): Malekith (Novel) by Gav Thorpe: Seven: An Alliance Forged, pg. 102
- ↑ Warhammer Fantasy Battle, 3rd edition, 1991, p.
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition)
- ↑ White Dwarf 343
- ↑ Warhammer: Thanquol
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition)
- ↑ Warhammer: Thanquol
- ↑ Warhammer: Thanquol
- ↑ Warhammer: Thanquol
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition)
- ↑ Warhammer: Thanquol
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition)
- ↑ Warhammer: Thanquol
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition) p.196
- ↑ Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition) p. 243
