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Games Workshop, the Games Workshop logo, www.greenronin.com Warhammer, Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, the Warhammer 1 Table of Contents TA BLE OF CONTENTS CREDITS ............................. 1 Provincial Law ..................................30 The Land .............................................68 Specialty courts ..................................30 The People .......................................... 69 INTRODU C TION .................... 3 Law Enforcement ...................... 31 Significant Places............................70 How To Use This Book ...................3 Roadwardens ..................................... 31 Example Ostermarker ................... 72 What’s Inside? .....................................3 Witch Hunters .................................. 31 Adventure Hooks ............................. 72 AFTERM A TH ........................4 Rules for Trials ........................ 31 Ostland ................................... 73 CH A PTER I: General Procedures ......................... 31 The Land .............................................73 THE LA ND A ND ITS PEOPLE ...5 Reaching a verdict ...........................32 The People ...........................................73 Geography ................................ 5 CH A PTER V: Significant Places............................74 Four Kindreds ........................... 8 Example Ostlander .........................76 CULTS OF THE EMPIRE ........ 33 Adventure Hooks .............................77 CH A PTER II: Empire Folk and Their Gods ........ 33 Reikland .................................77 HE ISTORY The Role of Superstition ............... 33 T H The Land ............................................77 Imperial Cults ..........................34 OF THE EMPIRE ................. 11 The People ..........................................80 Manann ...............................................35 Failed Promise: The Founding and the Significant Places.............................81 Morr......................................................35 First Millennium ................... 11 Example Reiklander ....................... 84 Myrmidia ............................................36 Birth Of An Empire ........................12 Adventure Hooks ............................. 84 Ranald ..................................................37 Foundations ........................................ 13 Stirland ...................................85 Shallya ..................................................38 A Dilemma .........................................14 The Land .............................................85 Sigmar ..................................................38 The Cult of Sigmar ........................14 The People ...........................................85 Taal and Rhya ..................................39 Expansion and Apogee ...................14 Significant Places............................ 87 Ulric .....................................................40 The Second Millennium:Disintegra- Example Stirlander ..........................88 Verena ...................................................41 tion and Collapse ................... 15 Adventure Hooks ............................. 89 The Reek of Decadence ..................15 CH A PTER VI: Talabecland .............................89 The Persecution of the Dwarfs...15 THE GR A ND PROVIN C ES ......43 The Land ............................................ 89 Of Plagues and Rats ......................16 Averland .................................43 The People ..........................................90 Fleeting Redemption .......................16 The Land .............................................43 Significant Places............................90 Disintegration ...................................16 The People .......................................... 44 Example Talabeclanders ............... 92 The Third Millennium: Reborn in Significant Places............................ 46 Adventure Hooks .............................94 Fire .................................... 17 Example Averlander .......................47 Wissenland ............................. 94 Emperor Magnus ............................ 17 Adventure Hooks .............................49 The Land ............................................94 Golden Age .........................................18 Hochland ............................... 49 The People .......................................... 95 Interlude ..............................................18 The Land ............................................49 Significant Places............................ 96 To The Present Day ........................18 The People ..........................................50 Example Wissenlander ................. 98 The Invasion of Archaon .............18 Significant Places.............................51 Adventure Hooks ............................. 98 The End of History? The State of Example Hochlander ......................52 CH A PTER VII: the Empire ......................................19 Adventure Hooks ..............................53 ORBIDDEN ULTS A Timeline of The Empire ......... 20 Middenland .............................. 53 F C ............ 99 The Yellow Fang ..................... 99 H A PTER OVERNMENT The Land .............................................53 C III: G Using The Cult..............................100 The People .......................................... 54 & FOREI G N REL A TIONS .......23 Ahalt The Drinker................... 100 Significant Places............................ 56 Running An Empire .................. 23 Using The Cult...............................101 The Emperor ......................................23 Example Middenlander ..................58 CH A PTER VII: The Electors ....................................... 24 Adventure Hooks ..............................58 The Place of Sorcery .......................25 Mootland ................................59 ILL MET IN BÖ G ENH A FEN ... 102 Foreign Affairs .........................26 The Land ............................................ 59 Starting the Adventure .............. 105 Bretonnia .............................................26 The People .........................................