Warriors of Chaos Timeline

The following contains a list of events related to the Warriors of Chaos, using the Imperial Calendar.

Time of Woes

 * c.-5600 -- The Great Cataclysm. The polar gates collapse and Chaos enters the world. Daemonic hordes run rampant across the lands and many primitive tribes o f Men make alliances with the unholy invaders. Thus were the first Warriors o f Chaos born, and civilizations were humbled before their mighty onslaught.


 * 4420 -- The Elves o f Ulthuan complete the Great Vortex that drains much Chaos energy from the world. The Daemon hordes are banished and the Realm of Chaos retreats to the poles of the world, where it pulses like a malignant wound.


 * c.-1667-167 -- The Battle of Despair. A great armada of Chaos warships fights past the leviathans that guard the coast of Naggaroth, and hordes of iron-clad warriors make landing upon the Witch King's shores. The tower of Ghrond is besieged, and Naggarond itself is only saved when the Witch King himself enters the fray with a score of Black Dragon riders. The warbands of Chaos continue to prey upon the realm of Naggaroth for many centuries to come, until the Witch King Malekith, orders the construction of a series of jagged watchtowers to guard against their bloody incursions.


 * c.-830 -- Arbaal the Undefeated, the Destroyer of Khome, is tired of finding no foes worthy to face him in the mortal world, and rides into the Plain o f Skulls to challenge Khome himself.


 * -122 -- Ghular Festerhand ravages Loren Forest; the huge swarms o f flies that precede his advance impede the sharp-shooting Wood E lf defenders.


 * 756 -- The Hellstriders of Sharliss the Damned dart through the trees of the Bloodgrove Forest and fall upon the warherd of Graknor Manrender with flashing blows too quick for the eye to see. Within the hour, over four thousand Beastmen have been skinned alive and nailed to the surrounding trees and herdstones, their howls of agony sending Sharliss’ warriors into a blissful state of delirium.


 * 1000 -- The great Chaos citadels of Infemius and Black Rock are built in the Chaos Wastes.


 * 1393 -- The War for Karak Ghulg. Valkia the Bloody falls upon the northernmost Dwarf stronghold. One by one, the Dwarf positions are overrun by Valkia’s army of violent madmen, the shield-lines of the mountain folk smashed asunder by the charges of Blood Reaper Knights and Chaos Warriors. Valkia orders her followers to open the fallen defenders' rib cages in a grotesque practice known as the bloodraven. Khorne is mightily impressed with Valkia's gory deeds and he names her as his mortal consort.


 * 1453 -- As the warband of Ragnar Painbringer advances upon the Forest of Sighs, the trees come alive and attack the Chaos battle host. Hundreds o f Wood Elves emerge from the forest, felling swathes of fur-clad barbarians and mutant hounds in vast volleys o f bowfire. Ragnar crushes the defenders when he orders scores o f his scythed heavy chariots to the fore, pulled by snorting steeds and hulking Gorebeasts. Against this assault, the Wood Elves are trampled to bloody smears, and the walking trees are smashed to matchwood.


 * 1730 -- The rogue wizard Malofex brings a firestorm down onto the glacier that holds Kholek Suneater in his dormant state. The glacier, originally summoned by the most powerful High Elf mages o f their age to imprison the great Dragon Ogre Shaggoth, begins to melt. Kholek Suneater breaks free into the world once again, to resume his rampage of destruction.


 * 1814 -- A Skaven horde from Hell Pit emerges to loot warpstone from the Northern Wastes, bringing with them hordes of Rat Ogres and other, more horrifying, creations. The vile ratmen are butchered one and all as the warband of Decasor, Champion of Nurgle, falls upon them, his maggot-chewed chariots carving through the enemy ranks, and his trio of Manticores ripping the monstrous abominations of the Skaven horde to shreds.


 * 1846 -- The Chaos Dragon Galrauch is awakened by a great battle being fought outside his lair between Ores and the tribes of the Hung. He visits his rage on all present, killing no fewer than six Wyverns sent to slay him in aerial combat.


 * 2006-2007 -- The Battle of Lamentations. A vast Plague Fleet, so foul that it leaves the sea black in its wake, makes anchor off Bretonnia. Led by the Chaos Lord Kharan the Blighted, the legions of Khorne and Nurgle defeat the Knights of Couronne and lay siege to that city. Repanse de Lyonesse, the Damoiselle de Guerre slays Lord Kharan in single combat, and his army soon scatters.


 * 2099 -- Aekold Helbrass, Champion of Tzeentch, seeks out the legendary forge known as the Volcano’s Heart. His path across the blasted Chaos Wastes is to this day marked by the trail of unnatural vegetation that sprung up in his wake.


 * 2281-2286 -- The War of Sand and Snow. Valgar the Butcher leads his warband to the deserts of Khemri to raid the tombs of ancient kings. The Chaos horde is ambushed on its return by Settra the Imperishable. Barely a dozen Marauders make it back to Norsca, bloodied, yet rich beyond their wildest dreams. Settra leads his armies north a decade later, and skeletal legions clash with iron-clad warriors across snow-drifts and frozen glaciers until the dead have reclaimed every last gold coin.


 * 2298 -- The merciless raider Scyla Anfingrimm is brought to battle by an army o f vengeful dispossessed villagers. However, Scyla is victorious and takes the corpses of his foes as trophies, tying them to the prows of his longships as grotesque figureheads.


 * 2302-2303 -- The Great Invasion. Countless Chaos warbands unite under the banner of Asavar Kul, and a great portion o f Kislev and the Empire is ground under the heel of the Ruinous Powers. The city of Praag falls to a bitter siege and is twisted into a hellish city of Chaos. Kul’s rampage is only stopped as the armies o f the Old World, led by Magnus the Pious, defeat the Chaos Warlord at the Battle of Kislev's Gate.


 * 2302-2390 -- War in the Mountains. Valmir Aesling marshals his host at the Dwarfen hold of Kraka Drak. Unable to halt the march of the Chaos Warriors, King Silverbeard is forced to fell the mountain itself to prevent Valmirfrom invading other Dwarf holds. The ensuing avalanche buries Kraka Drak, and all within, beneath millions of tones of rock, entombing Valmir and his warriors inside the stronghold with the Dwarfs. Though it takes decades ofbitter fighting Valmir succeeds in slaughtering every last Dwarf in the doomed hold.


 * 2370 -- The Chaos Warriors of Brass Keep repel an Empire army attempting to root them out o f the Middle Mountains. The Empire’s artillery falls silent when Chimerae fa ll upon the crews and tear them to ribbons. With the artillery destroyed, the doors o f Brass Keep grind open and a tide o f frenzied warriors charge out, butchering the Empire’s soldiers to a man.

attacks, but the vile liquid causes Borkhill’s body to swell with unholy power, granting him the strength to best his monstrous foe.
 * c.2417 -- Whilst hunting the Bonegrinder Giant, Maulgrong Borkill the Bloody-handed finds the Chalice of Chaos at the base o f a jet-black monolith. As he drinks from the cup, Maulgrong


 * c.2420 -- Archaon emerges from the Altar o f Ultimate Darkness in Naggaroth, slick with the blood of the slain and with the Mark o f Chaos burning fiercely upon his brow.


 * 2457 -- Egrimm van Horstmann, High Luminary o f the College of Light Magic, is finally beguiled by the whispered promises ofTzeentch. Van Horstmann sells his allegiance to Chaos and frees the Chaos Dragon Baudros from his magical prison.


 * 2480 -- The Spawn Tide. Lord Festerlung Champion of Nurgle, forms an alliance with Vilitch the Curseling and their two warbands journey into the Mountains o f Mourn. They fa ll upon the Iron-Eye Ogre tribe but are almost destroyed as a rampaging Stonehorn tramples scores of warriors underfoot. Vilitch unleashes a great spell that mutates Festerlung and all ofhis followers to gibbering Spawn in the blink o f eye. A tide of fangs and twisted limbs rip both the Stonehorn and the Iron-Eye tribe to ribbons before they disperse into the mountains.

Source

 * : Warhammer Armies: Warriors of Chaos (8th Edition)
 * : pg. 14
 * : pg. 15

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