Beastmen Timeline

The following contains a list of events related to the Beastmen, utilising the Imperial Calendar as Beastmen do not keep extensive records about their history. Additional information regarding the Drakwald is also placed here, as the forest realm holds particular significance to Beastmen activity within the Old World.

Timeline

 * 1106-1110 -- Drakwald succumbs to ever-increasing numbers of Chaos beasts. Count Vilner is slain and his Runefang is sent to the Emperor to hold until a successor claims power.


 * 1124 -- Count Mandred of Middenland rallies the plague-ravaged citizens of the Empire and drives out a massive invasion of Chaotic beasts. Folklore tells that he fights against man-sized rats (earning him the title Mandred the Ratcatcher and Mandred Rat-Slayer), though scholars later dismiss this as myth. Following this campaign he is elected Emperor, holding his court in Middenheim.


 * 1152 -- The assassination of Emperor Mandred. The Elector Counts cannot agree on a successor. Stirland and Talabecland emerge as the strongest claimants and outright war begins between them.


 * 1153-1200 -- Left unsupported, the villages and towns of the Drakwald decline and the ancient woods reclaim the land. Chaotic monsters overrun many settlements and thousands are slain by Beastmen and Goblins.


 * 1414 -- Nordland and Middenland, after centuries of intermittent war, sign an agreement to divide the contested lands of Drakenwald.


 * 1265 -- In a bid to rally support, Count Faulk of Middenland gathers an army to reclaim the Drakwald. Beastlord Kartok Great-horn leads over thirty Beastmen warbands in a temporary alliance, and destroys Faulk's force in the fourth week of its campaign. No survivors return to Middenheim, Kartok is eventually slain in a challenge by the Doombull Urgorgoth.


 * 1547 -- Count Siegfried of Middenland proclaims himself Emperor. There are now three Emperors.


 * 2025 -- The dread vampire, Vlad von Carstein, is slain by Grand Master Kruger of the Knights of the White Wolf. However, Von Carstein is seen at the head of another army within a year, and Kruger's body is found drained of blood at the base of the Ulricsberg.


 * 2302 -- Great War against Chaos. Ar-Ulric Kriestov leads an army to the relief of Kislev. Beastmen warbands attack Middenheim in their absence, and the siege is not lifted until Ar-Ulric returns at the onset of winter.


 * 2371 -- The marriage of Countess von Bildhofen of Moddenland to the first Boris Todbringer of Middeheim. Their son Berholdt becomes the first Todbringer Count of Middenland (the great-grandfather of the present day Count).


 * 2515 -- The Beast Lord Graktar destroys the villages of Gorstburg and Leitenbad. He is defeated at the Battle of Helmgart and is forced to fight a succession of challenges to maintain his position.


 * 2516-2517 -- The Beastlord Graktar is defeated in a challenge by Khazrak, who usurps leadership of the warband. Khazrak embarks on a series of bloody attacks across the Drakwald, sacking the settlements of Jagerhausen, Immelscheld, and Arenburg, and completely razing the castle of Graf Sternhauer outside Grimminhagen.


 * 2518 -- Boris Todbringer II initiates a massive purge of the Drakwald, personally taking the eye of Khazrak at the Battle of Elsterweld, who becomes known as "The One-eye".


 * 2519-Present -- Khazrak returns the favour, putting out Todbringer's right eye when he ambushes the Count's army outside Norderingen. The Count's war continues to this day, with a 10,000-crown reward on Khazrak's head.

Source

 * : Warhammer Armies: Beastmen (6th Edition)
 * : pg. 11

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