Skavenblight

"All Tunnels leads to Skavenblight"

- a common Skaven phrase alluding to the nexus of the Under-Empire. The phrase is also used as a by-word for treachery or betrayal, as Skavens see Skavenblight as the inevitable, just as how they see betrayal is inevitable.

Skavenblight is the foul heart of the Skaven Under-Empire and the birthplace of the Skaven race. The once beautiful human city has previously been a lush and verdant plains of rich farmlands and magnificent mansions, a city that has no rivals in terms of beauty and prosperity. All that was left of the city however is in utter ruins, the farmlands turning in mush and mud as the endless rainfall and thunderstorms make the surronding fields into a great morass of stinking bogs that stretches for miles around.

As the Skavens capital city, Skavenblight is benefited with being the largest trade hub in the Under-Empire, where hundreds upon hundreds of merchants, peddlers, and trade barges going in annually to sell their wares and goods, all coming from a diverse and multi-cultural background of Clans from all over the Under-Empire. But such wealth and prosperity only attracts the worst of the Skaven race, giving way to having the greatest population of cut-throats, theives, outlaws, bandits, renegades, corrupt officials, and assassins then all the other Skaven strongholds combined. Such unrest has resulted in the City being at a constant power-struggle between untold number of fractions vying for control  of much of the citys resource and trade.

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