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=The Loathsome Ratmen And All Their Vile Kin=
 * “Drexler,
 * You will find I have taken more than the usual precautions in sending this book to you, utilising a dozen different couriers so as to obscure the trail between us. It is with good reason that I do this. The man who obtained it for me is dead – found hacked to pieces in his room. It seems some at least of what Leiber says is true: the Ratmen guard their secrets jealously. Still, here is the book you requested. I hope it is of help to you in your work.
 * Yours strong in the faith of Sigmar,”
 * —Von Adler

Being an examination of the forms and nature of the race of Ratmen known also as the Skaven, with emphasis given to the grave threat posed to Humanity by their secret and unholy intrigues.

With further well-considered thoughts, theories & conjectures by the Author Wilhelm Leiber.

“Seeking by means of Reason and Learning to diminish the Darkness.”

Altdorf Press, 2313 IC




 * “I am a scholar, not a soldier. But, despite that, at its root, the work herein was born of my experiences on the battlefield. Above all else, it was born in a single night of horror, when in the company of men more noble and courageous than myself, I was confronted by creatures which conventional scholarship would dismiss as nothing more than the fancies of a halfwit. Against all odds, I survived the night. But others did not. And it is to those brave and martyred souls – men who fell in battle with horrors beyond the wit of Man – that this work is dedicated. It is my fervent hope that the wider dissemination of knowledge of the nature of those horrors might, in some small way, serve to justify the loss of so many good men's lives.
 * Hans, Erich, Wilmar, Otto, Ernst, Jurgen and Klaus, may Sigmar guard your souls. You were the finest comrades a man could have. This work is dedicated to your memory. A meagre recompense considering the enormity of your sacrifice, I know, but, sadly, the only one within my power to give.”
 * —Wilhelm Leiber, Altdorf, 2313 IC.




 * “Illustrative woodcut from the Gudenberg Edition of the Deus Sigmar, printed circa 1457 IC. Despite some anachronisms in the portrayal of Sigmar's dress, the illustrator is to be applauded for having so powerfully and movingly depicted the triumph of our God over the vile Ratmen.”
 * —From the copy of the Gudenberg Edition held in the Cathedral of Nuln: Woodcut on parchment.

Introduction

 * “At some point in his life, every man finds himself confronted by the reality of evil. The test comes in whether he is willing to face it unflinching, or turn aside and by his inaction let that evil prosper.”
 * —Witch Hunter Captain Helmut Van Hal'

I begin with a simple maxim. Any book, whether written in the name of scholarship or to serve the more humble purposes of entertainment, is as much shaped by the tale of how its author came to write it, as it is by the wider issues of truth and aesthetics; the act of creation does not take place in a void. Rather, it is forged in the crucible of the author's own circumstance and past experience. It is with this in mind that I must now begin, however briefly, by elucidating certain of the facts of my life that played an immeasurable part in the creation of the book you now hold.