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    =f Oy 7, SP ZA V Ls o Sg en: ii ‘ ee. ; — : eae > ~< a er Sona DESTRUGTION BATTLETOME GLOOMSPITE GITZ4 ‘THE DEEP AND DARK. UNWHOLESOME LAIRS A HISTORY OF LOONACY. Giltish Kukurs Keagnos, the End of Empires Bad Moon Bossgrass. Sneaky Spel-fingers . The Splieful Hordes The Squigs of War..... The Spider God's Brood Troggoths ofthe Realms LEGION OF PAINTING GUIDE ARMIES OF DA BAD MOON .... Allegiance Abilities. Battle Traits Enhancements... ‘Command Traits. Artefacts of Power Spell Lores Gittish Hordes... DEATH FROM BELOW... LOONATICS..........5 4 8 10 2B 14 18 18 2 24 28 30 22 4 36 a8 40 PATHTO GLORY... Loonboss on Mangler Sq Shroomsand Fungus Brews 72 Squig Herd Shroom Collection Roster..., 77 Loonboss on Giant Quests 78 Cave Squig Veueran Abilities ss1s:79 Squig Hoppers. Territories 80 Boingrot Rounders Heroic Upgrades SI Mangler Squigs Battleplan: Fange of Dankhold Troggboss Da Bad Moon, 82 Mollog Warscroll Battalions......... 84 Dankhold Troggoths Fellwater Troggoths MATCHED PLAY .. 88° Rockgut Troggoths Grand Strategies 88 Scuttleboss on Battle Tactics sve 88 Gigantic Spider. Core Battalions Sisss89 Webspinner Shaman Spider Riders WARSCROLLS... ‘Arachnarok Spider with Kragnos, the End of Empires . 90 Spierfang Warparcy Skragrott, the Loonking ......91 Webspinner Shaman oa Gobbapalooza vee? Arachnarok Spider Leonboss 94 Arachnarok Spider Madcap Shaman.............94 with Flinger... Squighoss with Skitterstrand Arachnarok Gnasha-squig. s85— Aleguzzler Gargant.. Loonboss with Bad Moon Loonshrine. Giant Cave Squig. i -Mork’s Mighty Mushroom Grinkrak the Great 96 Scrapskuttle’s Grinkrak’s Looncourt .......96 Arachnacauléron .. Zarbag. S97 Seuttletide Zarbaw’s Gite ssieee87 Malevolent Moon .... Sneaky Smuters 98 Fungoid Cave Shaman,.......98 PITCHED BATTLE Loonsmasha Fanatics. 9 Sporcsplatta Fanatics... Moonclan Shootat Moonclan Stabbas, Ripa Snarlfangs Snarlfang Riders PRODUCED BY THE WARHAMMER STUDIO ‘With thanks to The Faithful and the UK NEOs for their additional playtesting services. vista pe emo he pa hte a ver tin he charac and eet pore ats book tonaand a nla a pop iets pt nh 103 103 104 lot 105 106 107 107 Jos 108 109 10 no 1 ua 3 ua oS nis ai a7 us 8 ug 120 Rope ahs cen aye reps kink ml ren rina oy mea HEE econ poco, hp alogsng ie Ptetine Dat, Netlog bokinavat vb a Le Pe rn Fro Gera tt racer dread Gas Why et cin a ce eg of ib SRE GD aaat serene eden spayed aise add en THE GROT MENACE ‘The Gloomspite Gitzare vast and unruly conglomeration of greenskins and cave-beasts who inhabit the deepest, dankest corners of the Mortal Realms. When their leering lunar deity, the Bad Moon, reaches its zenith, they swarm from the depths and overrun the lands in a violent frenzy that brings madness and ruin to the civilised races. To the blaring of squighone pipes | thetr mate in the back to guin the and the high-pitched shricking _|-most minor advantage, or simply countless greenskins, the ‘out of boredom. Their enemies, ‘loomspite Gitz.emerge. Their _| therefore, should take caution, for anarchic armies are nothing few creatures can match a grot for shoct of bizarte: surging swarms sheer vindictiveness, Though prone of black-clad grots grasping to being pushed around by bigger crude weapons, accompanied by | creatures or preyed on by the scuttling mege-arachaids and nightmarish monsters that share loathsomecreatures dredged up | their subterrancan homes, grots 1 fromthe realms musty crannies. have akrack of scheming their way Miatshadaie® ‘The rabble-like hordes of the to the ‘op. Ifgiven an opportunity Oe i Gloomspite Gita are often regarded | to cause some mayhern they will peta aes with disdain by he wateiorsof assuredly takeit, and nothing its boggle-eyes ; ater races, for gots lack the provides them greater satisfaction glowing in the eat eT oe pee imposing brawn of orruks or than taking vengeance on the big é the veunted discipline of the uns’ that otherwise scorn them. cackling beyond the God King soldiers. Only fooh horizon! It watches however underestimates these | Like all creatures of Destruction, tus, always watching, cunning cavern dwellers, for {rots venerate Gorkamorka, the ‘end in its wake though thelr methods are ervatic | two-headed god of brutal cunning comes Boggart-the- ) and often self destructive, they | and cunaing brutality. Inthe Age Green and all that. never fail to bring devastation to | of Myth they fought as part of his Sah cveipe and their enemies, Great Waaagh!, batting both the ‘crawls through the _ beasts of the wild and, later, their Ghosh eplt tederct eel) Sorpegetie eloped dark. Twarn you, ° Bey s PP composetof the mast itiesneaks | SigmarsPantheon. Kira a the Moonshadow. keaown a rots Amoogstthe | thistime thatthe orginal prot comes for us all recosinesces, gots arctnatanty | ibe en kr separate ways ae recognisable They typicallystand.| None now recall exactly why this Novo, arrested for tround theheightofamar'schest, | happened. Those wise-gos who public disturbance } though their stooped posture recount the tale have offered a : rakes this dificult tojudge,and | multitude of explanations, ranging ‘days prior tothe Doses pen ope pocey” || fais pres Comma Goss noses tapered ears and beady Gorkamorka to-an argument over red eyes. There ate a great many | aparticularly shiny spoon that qualities the average grotlacks, blew wildly out of proportion. of conrse, Courage is one, a3 ate honour, compassion, teble ‘Whatever the ease these diverging manners, and any conception tribes were the originators of the rot subcultures thar now bedevil the realms, Those that could not For allthese laws, grotsean be | stand thelight of Hych swadled ead, Each hag a vicious streakea | themselves in back robes nd mie sie, and would happily stab | fled into the cavernous depths of hygiene. Others settled in the deep woods ind through mach lethal tria nd error ~ formed an alliance with the intelligent arachn at lurked therein, while others prowled the open steppes mou op snarling lupines. More grot subcultures rose and fell over the tries, but the Age of Chaos was to drive them into hiding, for the hunched greenskins possess a deeply ingrained sense of se preservation. As the Ruinous Poners looked set to conque reality, memories ofthe wicked Grobi Blackeap became the stu of Azyrite fables, told to frighten hildren into compliance, while nd’s already questionable ity degenerated further as centuries of isolation took their Being easily impressed creatures, grots are prone to worshipping al manner of strange entities, Th forest-dwelling ealous devotees ofthe Spider God, an arachnoid deity infused with amorka’s divine might, while all beings of Destruction harbour healthy respect for Kragnos, the End of Empires. lrthere is one supernatural entity that al grots can get behing, however, itis the Bad Moon. Wherever areening through the heaven: the diminutive greenskins feel a Lnrepressible mania filling them Along with the dullard but almost ‘unstoppable troggoths, bounding angal abominations know .quigs and giant epiders of the imal forests, hordes of frenzied rots cast aside their typic ‘cowardice and rise up to laughte nd on those eerie loonlit nights, the old fables of Grobi Black are born anew in the traumatised rainds of those who face the Cane al peered eet eee Peres nt) Warrior could not say where ae et a rr ae ed boiled up to the surface just ere uncanny lunar slow smothered er eee ee ieee ae cra eee ieee eg certainly offered plenty of oe care they did not look at the sky, Peer eed eee ce een ore ec Pomerat one ery ad Per ene er ad he could be overtaken entirely eee ened ene ee era ie ne a eee eee es oe an eee ae rs Perey need eres eee ate od Cierra Bree ea Pane ee ce ont Horkhos laughed in derision as the minders of these twitching, gibbering captives abruptly enna ren Wy een epee eee ee) eee eer ee er eer arena eee en eee i Cental eee ear ne eects et ears rere ee co ee nee tne ed Cea rc Amongst the that, lng agé a great rock drifting through the vold, and decided to take a bite ut of it, He climbed to the top of the highest mountain in all the realms and sunk his tusks into the thing, but discovered that ts cratered flesh was too tox; forhim to chomp through. The ould barely penet before splintering, causing Gorkamorka to recoil with «8 howl that echoed across reality. But the moon did not escape unchanged: it was suffused with Gorkamorks's power, the energies of wild destruction sinking into its core and granting ita savage rodimen ots there isa legend Sorkamorka spied nothing less then a god, come to bless the Another tale claims that when Gorkamorka plunged into the first ocean in an effort to devour 1h smashed his visage together with that of hi prey high an explanation for the leering oon’ reflection, the face upon the moon's surfce Others believe that the Bad Moon nd feom the spirits of 1tshamans, that itisthe ns of the warship in which Gorkamorka first sailed to the realms, or that the ancestors of the brutish teaggoths flew doven from it in strange craft now lost beneath the mountains. The Spiderfang minds addled with toxins they ingest to hoaour their Spider God, preach that the Bad Moor Across the realms, mortals whisper in fear of the Bad Moon. Where this sinister planetoid rises, madness and the upending of nature soon follow. Yet while sane beings sec it as an omen of disaster, tothe grotsit is war against the surface with its deranged magics. isa silken ogg, and that whoa it hatches the realms will be drowned in endless scuttling swarms. The Gitmobs regard it asthe eye of the vast lupine predator Big Howie, the mother of all Snarlfangs, who forever prowls between the stars seazching for vulnerable prey “The teuth is that no one has much Insight regarding the nature of the Bad Moon. What is known, however is terrifying enough. When the Bad Mooa’s passage through the heavens see descend closer tothe realms and bathe the lands in its unsettling slow. a strange mania sweeps through its worshippers. This phenomenon is known asthe Me Glopmapie, and wile it mlahe’ — ) carpetwof ghoulish ineeetsiethe, "events walértal MEINE not carry the primal threat ofan | This half-lightis of particula backwards oF livestock giving orruk bellowing Waaagh!; the value to the moonclans, who fear birth to hideous abominations. By throat chredding shrieks, frothing and hate Hysh’s radiance as the the time the crooked vieage ofthe fervour and eye-popping delirium personified bogeyman Glareface Bad Moon rises in the heavens, ofa grot caught initsclutchesis _Frazalegit. Many grotshave since those caught in its gaze have horrifying in its own right extended this loathing to the been stretched to breaking point; storma-god Sigmar, and zealously anyone not claimed by its strange hhe Bad Moon rampages through | deface any image that bears the __mushroom-magic, transmuted the Aetheric Void ast wishes, sod’s stern, bearded visage. The into fungal abominations with smashing aside leser astronomical | moonclans’ aversion to bright Looncaps erupting from their flesh bodies with vicious glee. Only the | light leaves them at odds with and eyes, are overwhelmed by the most impressive destructive feats their Gitmob cousins, who once _ tide of green-skinned fiends that wits gaze forlong. The | regarded Frazzlegitas an equal to soon spells up from below st of Ayadah by Skea, the Bad Moon and never miss an the Loonking.selfproclaimed | opportunity to crow about how In their god's monstrous presence ‘master of grotkind was one such they dorsinated Iiysh’s luminous __grots are filled with a wild event: the rewrn of Kragnos and | plains for centuries. When the Bad fanaticism. No longer do they shy sacking of Excelsiswas another, | Moon rises,however, the grots away from danger, bt instead Gros who lived through these are able to withhold shanking charge forward setearning shell ofthe malicious delight | one another ~more orless~ and _ battle-cries, though still hoping that marked the Bad Moo achieve aform of cooperation that thelr mates are nearby to sage ast observed the carnage catch arroms for them, Bossgrots spreading across Ghur. The Bad Moon can unravel even fel the so-called ‘Clammy Hand the strongest will. Those with upon thelr shoulder, a cal to the witchsight sense its approach greatness that sets their minds first, waking ina cold sweat with | spinning with plots to ‘teach da visions of crazed bogale-eyes surface gite a lesson’. Some have swirling in thelr mind. Agitators | even insisted that the Bad Moon " flood the streets shrieking speaks directly to them, though ae Honalal resin dead aly Sragistbas ad ccc languages, ominous ditties from success predicting its erratic path HERALDS OF the Age of Myth that theycould for this claim to hold weight LOONACY not possibly know, yet spring forth | Beneath the Bad Moons ight, Beneath the Bad Moon's glare from their lips anyway. Unrest | grot truly believes that nothing light, hope and even sanity are spreads through a populace, isbeyond them. Given the havoe smothered. Day's radiance is fuelled by infestations of chitinous the Gloomspite hordes can wreak, replaced with a pale gloom in which rumoursof unnatural | there may be some truth to this FANGZ OF DA BAD MOON Oe ane eae When the Bad Moon witne ; eee eet tear een peeenr eet rear anon eae a Cee verT oa joimin, Huge, fang-shaped ractorites streak down from the sky, embedding themselves into the lands ‘Then there is oonstone' ability to absorb magi een cence eet eect ee i en eee een eet eae ete renner eee ee eee ne a cee eet ee from miles around, who soon carve them into the seek to harness this crafty power for themsclves Loonshrines that mark the entra ae eee te tent! eet eerie Ret rolten ta ete mera the presence of beings who are th cartying loonstone trinkets to’suck up da finking ee ee eee sae eres juice’. This tends to end poorly, given how the Seen et te ee een eer eee n eer Sec age et explosives wielded by their hobgrot coustas. By Bike all creatures of Destruction, grots havea close connection tothe realms, though their only ‘rendering the lands as clammy, grimy, and otherwise unpleasant to their foes. as possible. The Fra ofthe terestis east has energised their hordes, and put them on a collision course with the crusaders of Sigma While they may not consciously realise, the fllowers of Gorkamorks recognise that the wild and nasty places of the realms rust be kept that way; ‘ust’ inthatany who dispute thie are liable to yet thumped. They despise industry and learning, and have no respect for fortress walls or those flimsy things calledbooks’ | Gave as kindling). Anything that provides an advantage not derived | from one's own inherent strength ‘or cunning is anathema tothe forces of Destruction. Wis here, however, that the ‘commonality ends. While these | barbarous hordes all unconsciously fight 1o Keep the realms in their wildest state, unlike the Sylvaneth they have no concern for notions of balance; each race has an instincte view on what form nature should take, and will bratally impose ton their surroundings. The Ironjawe topple. | citiesand smash monuments so that everywhere becomes reflection ofthe harsh Ghurish savaninahs, while the rime- wwreathed Beastclaw Raiders prefer looted feasting-balls encrusted with killing frost. Grots thrive in particularly environments by comparison. Ifthey had theic way, then the ‘mountain pastes would be loom and untamed the forests claustrophobic, and the caverns filled with impenetrable pockets of shadow and the skittering of tameless things. They are at home amidst damp aad mildewed caves, and relish the spread of arid fungi asd slime coated root boles Frazalegit supplanted by the madnese-inducing glow of the Bad Moon for all time. This musky paradise is known in grottich myth as the Everdank. Ibis 4 promised land to the greenskins, aplace where they will be the ones calling the shots for a change, and they worship the Bad Moon | with such frantic zeal because without its warping indluence their | gloaming wonderland cannot be tealised in the Mortal Realms, Unlike the orruks, the grote do rot feel the need to simply smash down anything that offends them or reduce the realms to an entirely barren and primitive state. Rather, they would cunningly fiddle with nature's laws until it better suits them, allowing the creepy-cravely horror of the Everdank to swallow ‘up the works of the surface races and twist them into vile, twil parodies of themselves. ot THE NATURE OF THE BEAST As creatures of Gorkamorka, ‘grots share spiritual bond with his favoured realm, Ghur. They sense its mounting rage, how it Jashes cut in the wake of Negash’s Necroquake and the efforts of the selves to neuter that cataclysm, Indeed, the Rite of Life performed ‘by the Bverqueen has stimulated naire, seeing forests writhe and ‘caverns shiver. The grots spy clammy, cloying magics and harness the swelling energies of growth for their own purposes; afterall, fertile soil that produces magisterial oaks can just as easily ‘support the quivering god- rmashrooms and seething insect nests that herald the Everdank. None can say whether the return ‘of Kragnos and the primal beat of the Great Stomp have increased the frenzy with which the Bad Moon crashes about the heavens, orifit was the Moon's escalating mania heralded the Farthquake od’ escape from his temporal prison, Perhaps it was both, for madness feeds off madness, and like the grots themselves, their planetoid god seems prone to getting worked up into a proper frenzy now and again. Whatever the reality, the Bad Moon rises across the realms with increasing regularity, the attacks of ts worshippers become more frequent and furious. Fyreslayer ‘magmaholds and skaven warren- tes that endured for centuries have heen brutally overran by the eranged greenskins, but itis the ‘crusaders of Sigmar who arguably have the mostto fear. Once, most grots would have thought better of attacking an armed column of Sigmarite ‘crusaders. But with the Gloomspite now seizing them more frequently, than ever and driving them out of their tiny minds. frothing hordes ‘of greenskins emerging from beneath the earth has become a anger all Devenbringer Crusades ‘must account for, Nor are the rots the only creatures affected | by the Era ofthe Beast. Migrating | troggherds smash through ‘marching colurans with the power and ignorance of living avalanches, sometimes forcing crusaders wildly off course in their attempts toavoid them. Meanwhile, Arachnarck spiders and other chitinous horrors driven mad by the Great Stomp have been known, to.creep up on even well-defended camps in the ni clusters of sleeping settlers or entire Ironweld forge-wagons and dragging them off to meet fell ends amidst the gloom, Even when a crusade reaches its destination, itis often the g that have the last laugh. The mystical defences erected around Sigmatite strongholds protect against attack from without but nat from below, for the shields of the guardian idols struggle to penetrate the arcanely charged ground upon which the settlers typically choose to build. This also makes building directly down difficult, for to tamper with the earth too much is to risk disrupting the careful magical balance of the geomantic nexus that powers its wards. This weakness is hardly unknown. to the brave Dawners. Duardin settlers in particular have often raised their concerns, for they remember the ancient wars against ‘grotkind that drove them out of many karaks even before the Age haos, [fa settlement is lucky, it will be able to call upon clanbands ‘of Dispossessed or Fyreslayer mercenaries to investigate any hollows discovered beneath their new outpost. Far more common, however, is that the decision is made to primarily direct the strongpoin’s limited resources to deal with potential attacks at ground level, though this often comes to haunt an outpost'srulees when itis discovered they do not have nearly enough defendets in place to repel an entire grot horde boiling up from the darkness. More than one frontier outpost has been later discovered devoid of its populace and covered in weird fungal growths, vast sinkholes where magicchannelling stractures once stood the only chae to its ate, Grots relish trashing the works of Sigmar, but hold a particular loathing for the nexus syphons that draw arcane energy from the earth, Not only do these devices steal mystical power that they believe belongs to the depths, but the blue-sehite corona that surrounds them stings the troglodytes’ sensitive eyes. They delight in corrupting the devices with their grimy magics, or simply toppling them and letting their troggoth mates h them asunder. While grots and Kruleboy2 orruks shate an affinity for stagnant fens, slime-dipping chasms and other places where nature has soured and curdled, both races eye one another with warinese. As far as the smaller greenshins see it, there isa proper order to things orruks are bigger and can push them around, true, but grotsre | clever and able to manipulate the | larger brutes to their own ends. The Krulebay2, however, possess both the strength to bully the grots and the Morkish sneakiness to match them scheme for scheme. This, claim the Loonbosses and Webspinners is just not on Likewise, the Kruleboy2 view th ‘most powerful grot tribes wit contempt, believing that thelr smaller cousins should know their place beneath the ozruke callosed heels, In the reeking ‘mires and slime-sick caves of the war rages, with both sides employing increasingly convoluted schemes to prove their superior kunniat 1 realms themselves, embodiments of the Primordial elemental energies that course through the lands, they are typically neither good nor evil. However, some were unfortunate enough to have taken form beneath the Bad Moon's warping glare. On loontit fy, Migs the mad cackling po tests rears (7 echoes over the domains of mortalkind. Grots seek fervour, and have learn to drive them towards chosen targets by raisin it cacoplionies with) their crude instruments, ” forming deranged » DESTRUCTION RISING Pe Eee eras ren eee bit ofeave wal. Not Nota the rude drawings, ya giz. even if ee tet ne Peat ea rn ate Pe oe ee Perr rere aac peer ee aca lesen ag pierre mereentea Freener i reaeee Pe ren ets De Ae een eens ae etd ren aan ery a elie ce eerie peer rer ey rd peeeenee aera ee med Premera ean arene amen eer en ems Pecan enone enter pert neers ts es Pees Pe er eee ors reese een et Cao a enon ese ee gare erect Perey ed es ee ets are ome rete ee ee ae ese aeetert s pes comer re neg Peer crore nan eer en peti Perernery Tiree ernennec bret eran hefore the ‘umies, before the Great ee Rone estes Pea ee nd Bee enna pee ee a reno themselves. Kragnos ate so many Bree ee ered Ree en eae Bee ee Pena Pee eo ee a reer a aren ae fer men ea en er er eee ae pera cere ere ao Moers Ne er happened next. anyone tells you erga es een er res ee Peat oes Pere rere ee a eee pee an nos Poon ce shanked with a bunch of pointy Preee ere ore Fera long time, everyone who weren't green forgat about old tr ‘The return of Krognos has spurred Gittish tribes across the realms into a frenzy of destruction. In the ‘mouldy underways ofthe realms, crooked loon-priests known as Fungokd Cave-Shamans travel from lurklair to urklair, telling tales ofthe Earthquake God's rise and what it may portend for grotkind. ee ee Dre ees orn eed cern eee about recently, Don't recommend Pe ram een ar me eed Eee ere a ecg Roce ind the mushrooms started growin’ Pree ay Brann an ‘witen we wes hearin’ that stomp, er et are was all joining in? Course, takes pee eer ee than the Big Lada, but it the eran Poe a es er nec) Cor rea Peer rs Pea oy aerate age ere He rounded up some of the Big Lads and started stompin’ along. That's when he ran into Gordrakk een Some sayit was a close fight Tt etd this: they was bashin’ each other Peter eet) Be eee ca a all the times fed you to Bigteef or pe ae eed hhow far it went, and all ofthe other eee a eee ae eee a ee eas it was, the Loonking though tt was Peed ee ee Eeyore Pr ea the God Stomper with a bunch ees ee or bit, long enough for him to hear Brenna Without Skragrett, Gordrakk could Re ea em rates a ted by the water. You just remember Crea ea “um comes along and tells you that Pre icc eat ee ey aa See arto See pao a Se eae ne Cree ee en acd Ee ae ed peer om po en ere eee Rca tunnels under the et, andl we ain't goin’ anywhere. Course, Rragnos ee Ce eat Some say that a big sake-lady. Peery cnt a Ren aon od ors cars eee here he wants, and ihe buries Prd ans ened Dearie ea i ee ee ene ne ee Ren en a ee ee a ‘and Lizard Boyzand stunties, We ‘was waitin’ long for it to come 10 us, but maybe we forgot that we should be going out and showin’ up a eee en ens See “ felt, don't ya? You fel eer ar sa reser ey td the surface and shank some gitz? nen aor ‘much as feel that stomp, stomp, Ro ac reer en ed “Moon waitin for us to cause some trouble for a change. But remember Rone ne ea Pron eee Pra er ra etd Y THE DEEP AND DARK ‘Thehordes of the Gloomspite Gitz are drawn to those regions others deem worthless: damp holes infested with mildew and mushrooms, and caves that play host to swarms of scuttling horrors. In these seemingly 4 inhospitable depths the resourceful grots thrive, plotting hele war exainst the surface word. ‘The grots and their beastly Allies share love for the recesses of the real While other species may seek strategically valuable or resource rich territories, these creatures establish their strongholds in the tanseen depths, Even before the ‘Age of Chaos made calculated cowardice a necessity for survivel, the grots knew how to exploit being overlooked by the high and mighty. Enseonced in their hidden boltholes, they ae s the most determined retribution, while their armies can creep up to the surface through hidden tunnels whenever some bossgrot sets the notion into their head, lurklairs the deeper and more reclusive the better. The light of Hysh cannot penetrate here, 0 the eaves are lit by clusters of luminescent fungi such as Gloway Morkeyez and magically charged Looneaps, the largest urklairs have taken over abandoned Pyresiayer magmaholds, scaven warrens and even the occasional underground march once inhabited by Kruleboyz orruks, their grot denizens sustained by pools ofstagnant water and the ‘weird mushrooms they grow in their grimy pastures feom all but ‘The sheer lack of appeal in these hairs is key o their security. They are too datk and wet to grow conventional crops, and shrouded in spore-laced miasmas that clog the lungs and warp the | mind so aggressively that even « sleepy gargant will void them. | mouldy stench, They ar strewn Only the Clans Pestilensofthe | with filth, and the crooked tunnels skeyen, worshippers offoulness, | that wind between hollowed-out can stomach a grotlairforlong, | fungal structures seethe with and even then they must first invertebrate lif. Jabbering and fumigate'the caverns with rancid cackling echoes through the incense, The squechy landsabove | caverns, along with the dripping of agrothole areno placestolay | cave water from lumpen stalactites foundations, and so the greenskins | and the screeching of squig herds axe largely left 0 their own devices, | restrained within ramshackle proliferating ike fungal outbreaks | paddocks. the largest structares, until the time to strike beckons. cobbled together from whatever surface junk the grotscan get their hands on, are reserved for LLoonbosses and shansans. These are rarely more well-kept than those oftheir underlings, with shamans in particular residing amidst mounds of looted vials and boitles an incredibly precious resource for containing their | gaat ber rt talent or inctnation for laswork, Lurklairsare pervaded by LAIRS, NESTS AND HOLES Settiernenis ofthe Moonclans | azeknown as ucklairs. tis these F: saat ceverns and Be ‘Dats da problem wiv you surface gitz: ya always fink yer speshul. “Ooh, look at me, lads, I've gots a pretty feather in me cap and me hut ain’t | built above da squig drops. I'm so well-ta-do!” Well, ‘umie, just you wait until Lsnip yer Timbs off one by one and yer ‘mates are gettin’ roasted ona spit. Then we'll see who's larfin. - Zogbog, Under- Emperor of the Gloomylands ——~3———+- ‘Thelairs ofthe Spiderfang are known as nests To call these ‘Settiements is perhaps an exaggeration, for they belong more to the mega-arachnids that form the centre of the grots' warped religion than the greenskins themselves, The fist Spideriang ‘gravitated tothe deep jungles and ‘woods, places where civilisation had failed to take root and the trees huddled thick and close. Their nests are immediately recognisable for the nightmarish mass of ‘webbing that surrounds them. So thick ae these silken strands, and se tightly do they bind together crooked trees and crumbled pillars from old ruins, that they are akin to fortress walls, Any who try to hack through are swifily trapped and rendered easy prey In the depths ofthe nests, the Spiderfang brew their hallucinogenic poisons and perform strange rituals w the Spider God, as well as breed bloated invertebrates such as segmapedes to trade to their ‘Moonelan bretiren inexchange fortheir potions and concoctions. Troggoths inhabit the mos Skrapps Spills less a conventional a inhospitable airs, reeking pools fortressond more amountain of | are constantly at risk of impaling. located at the heart of ancient rusting blades, Onceit washometo | themselves an the laoted blade of the acquisitive greenskins known | some hero, or contracting diseases asjunk-grots, or Gnoblars, who | sachs lackjaw or patinflesh fromm vsrought it from stolen weapons _an infected cut, These tunnels these sites of accumu andotherlooted gubbinz. Later | extend far beyond the wildest intermittently see new troge he orruks of Ayadah claimed the | nightmares ofthe surface dwellers broods spawned through processes Spill, adding to itthe plundered _Skragrott has commanded hie no one really wants to understand, armaments oftheir brutallsed lade to connect their lurklaits to Even a Kruleboy would struggle foes. Hut when Skrageott hordes | numerous Spiderfang nests and toendure these nosi overran Avadah ina single night, troggholes, forming a network environments long eno spilling from chasmeand burnt-out of subterranean strongholds the beasts at their source, mines to overwhelm their rivals whose denizens the Loonking ‘0 there is little to prevent the amidst a deviously intricate series can call upon with a single troggoths beginning lumbering | of bevrayalsand murders, the Bad | shrieked command, path of destruction whenever the | Moon was so impressed that it Idiot impetus impels them. vomited a cloud of cosmic debris Many enemies have marched wo hangover | against Skrappa Spill Fyreslayer isting the light of Hysh there ito yrds, vengeful Iranjaw, even a land, permene SKRAPPA SPILL a weird lunar haze, Kharadron fleet, Thus far, the grots Many lurklairs are notorious, hhave turned back al foes. Within utoaly oneis regarded as the Surrounding Skrappa Spill sa the Spill Skragrott now schemes centre of grotkind, This nexus of otted by viscous moisture-__to.grasp lands beyond Ayadsh in sittishness ies in the continent of | sumpsand fields offoul-smelling is grimy green fst, even as he Ayadah in Chamon, and is known | mildew, Tunnels through the employs his own secretive means as Skrappa Spill stronghold of mass of sharpened steel were of determining where the Bad Loonking ‘excavated at great cost in life to Moon will next 1 ui abi abaar han UNWHOLESOME LAIRS Grots and their odious allies havea habit of finding their way into every nookand cranny, and refusing to concede an inch once they have set down their slimy roots. Whether believing their destiny ordained by the Bad Moon or simply because of their ceaseless opportunism, their presence can be felt across the Mortal Realms, Wherever one travels, they are likely closer toa lair of the Gloomspite Giz than they anticipate. Those who still naysay the existence of Grobi Blackcap and his ilk would be shocked (and not alittle unnery know the extent of their sprawling domains, for the tunnels of the {grote spread for miles beneath the realms. [fan echoing cavern or crumbling fortress looks ripe for conquest, then the grets will almost certainly have given ite go in the past. Even if driven off they are likely to eventually return, for when the Bad Moon compels them to fight, their determination is frightful to behold. Opportunists by nature, grots establish their petty kingdoms wherever {inspiration strikes, This includes close to or beneath Sigmarit ssiarch necropolis AS well as being the Inst places the Gite’ enemies expect them to be, this proximity allows the {rots to thieve all manner of treasure from their rivals, from mystical artefacts sealed in supposedly impregnable vaults to shiny bottles stored in underground warehouses tefree cities, { the Dreadholds of Chac Grots differ from orruks in that they appreciate the concept of empire Their bosses are always eager to lord it over vast stretches ofland, with supplicant Moonclan liklairs bound to thei Spiderfang cousins through the trading of fungal concoctions in exchange for venoms and warbeasts, all coming together when war calls The greatest of these loathsome domains is undoubtedly that ruled over by Skragrott in Ayadah, aland within the Spiral Crux of Chamen. ‘Avved by the thoroughness with which the Loonking hes transformed his kingdom into 2 twilit exemplar ofthe Everdank, many grot tribes hhave migrated to the Realm of Metal with similarly lofty ambitions, oF else because there's plenty of shiny scrap for them to pilfer. Chamon’s forgotten mines, abandoned duardin karaks and shimmering iron barked foresis now seethe with greenskin snfesttions, providing vicious surprises for any who come looking to plunder the realm’s mineral wealth the destruction inthe Rusted Wastes of ne ofthe Silver smumerons Chamonic realmgates~ those connected to the Tower Be siete res Best sans cfs“ Seenand fon tenance edhe = ‘This has proven both a curse and boon ‘o grotkind: carse dueto the Ahowling vortices in reality left behind by collapsed realmgates spewing Oem forth the Change God's daemons, and a boon because those portals that 8B anacames Were not claimed by Chacs tended tobe locaied inthe clammy depths ats “Anywho seek toxsse them to gain entryto the Realm of Metal must pass | through the lairs ofthe grots, and the spiteful greenskins are not known eSase or showing mercy to tespassets o- ee ed All manner of eight-legged Meer ae rr me ra oe ofthis marshland much (0 producing webs as tough as steel giders, ars OCEAN OF bake Renu eoT tn The Loonking’s fortress Ieers over Ayadah like a rusty ion god, providing Sean car stronghold and concealing his secrets Since time immemorial the Gloomspite Gitz have lurked in the dark, waiting forthe Bad Moon to bid them “spill othe surface ina wave of shrieking violence. tn the ra ofthe Beas, that lunar horror swells n power and malice and thus do the rampages ofits manic disciples become all the more devastating. 2 AGE OF MYTH @ | all, retreating into the forests and its attempt to bite off Dracotbion’s | junglesand.comingto worship _head to going on ahead butting. THE GREAT she giant arachnids that prey rampage through the Herald Stars GREEN GOD uupon them. No matter where they and sending thousand prophecies Inatime before the rise ofmortal | settle, the grotsquicklydevelop awry. It is not lang before t civilisation, Gorkamorkaroams | an instinctiveawe foranewand acts rouse the ire of Si nar aad his thereslms and batters anything | ominous power marauding across fellow gods, even as Gorkamorks that gets in his way. But when he | the heavens: an entity that old rows bored with being the God ‘becomes trapped within Drakatoa, | scrolls held within the vaults of _-King's monster slayer. At last his ‘a mountain-sized godbeast Aayrdescribe as the leering moon temper snaps eatirely, and the ‘of sentient amber, ittakes the that drives men to madnes Twin. Headed God leads the ist strength of Sigmar to fie him, Great Waaagh! to rampage across the cosmos. Enthused by the possibilty of performing a back- stab of apocalyptic proportions, the grots eagerly join in, tearing down hundreds of tations and infesting the ruins with their lama, cloying magic. Ev as Sigmars Pantheon splinters, however other powers lok to rake their move Infuriated at requieing aid, and from a man-god of al things, Gorkamorka clcbhers Sigmar’ companion Dracothion the Great Drake witha mighty blow from his el before attacking his rival deity ina rage. Legends says that their cl lsts for twelve days and ‘opens plunging chasms in the crust ‘of Ghur, before the gods finally reach an accord born of mutual respect for each other's warrior spirit. Gorkamorka agrees to serve asthe beastslayer of Sigmar’s BOINGOB'S DEMISE BACK TO THE Pantheon, and fora time iscontent | Grottish myth tells of how DEPTHS hhunting the mega-fauna ofthe | Boingob, the godbeas father of | Drawn to the Moctal Realms realms. The Great Green God's | squigs,rampages through Ghyren, | through the sins of mortalkind, bestia worshippers fight with gobbling up several kingdoms in | the armies of Chacs tear down him, incliding the grots though | the process.The enraged god-squig.| the walls of reality and spill forth many are accidentally steppedon | is determined techasedown the | tospread ruin, The infernal hosts by Gorkamorka or eetenby their | light of Hysh and then devourit | appear endless, and for centurles supposed allies for their trouble. | to stop it hurting his beady eyes. | they lay waste tothe realms, A laste takes a mighty leap When the grand horde ofthe skyward there isa blazing lash | Fungoid Cave-Shamen Zigsnak LOONTALES witnessed across the realms, and_| isannibilated by Korghos Khu For reasons lost to history, ifthey | then Boingob’s smouldering skull | and his bloodthirsty Goretide, eyermade sense to begin with, the | crashesdown in theOrborean and the Bad Moon seems 0 “original rot tribes separate. They | Woods. The resulting crater retreat into the endless void, most ‘come to infest every conceivable | becomes a sacred ste to the grote decide ro cut thei losses. cenviconment, and cachtribe is__| Moonclan grots,and itissaidthat | “They disappear into their hidden Aranstormedby thelcnewhome, | tke most ferocious squigs in allthe | boltholes, abandoning any claim “The Gitmobs spread orer the realms are bred beneath that forest. | to the surface and emerging oily “plains and steppes, while the when the odds are stacked in their a | "| @ AGE OF CHAOS » | favour the troggoits, meanwhile, THE GLOOMTIME —_| respondtothe ascent of Chaos legends ofthe Bad Moon's inthe same way they respond ‘destructive appetites abonnd, from | to everything else: by standing around picking their noses, staring sgormiessly at the tortured sky, and bludgeoning anything that comes close until it stops moving TEMPTING FATE When Treentch’s daemons infiltrate the ancestor crypts of Karak Thain, one ofthe last dunrdin holdout in Gazan Zhi they got more than they bargained for. Within the eldest tombs, their gleeful displays of coruscating regi awakens the slumbering menace of Troggboss Brug and his herd, Blinking as they emerge into a kaleidoscopic firestorm, the twoggoths do something that takes thet foes completely by surprise they go forwards, With increasing desperation the daemons conjure all manner of illusions to confound the brutes, from platters stacked high with sppetsing foodstutis {0 visions ofthe paradisiel abeas: ofthe deep dark, anyway) tuoggoth underworld of Droog, ‘However, Brug and his mates keep to their trudging path. The troggoths’ advance only stops ‘when they are in the heart of the {infernal host. with Brug tbrotiling the greater daemon known as the Phantom Lord ntl it dissolves into shimmering orcane ‘mist, Though the troggoths are eventually overwhelmed by waves of wyehtire, thelr intervention gives the duardin time to evacuate {nto the clouds, founding what ‘will become the sky-port of Barak Thargar, bane of Tzeentch’s airborne hosts A SCUTTLING IN THE VOID Inthe underworld of Neferatia,a soalition of Spiderfang stalktribes known as the Grimscuttle, who are sick of the Mostarch Neferata and her minions trying to exterminate thera, get it into their heads to perform 3 ritual that will draw the Spicer God’s atention

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