"Chaos has no one definable and measurable effect upon mortal creatures. It will always mutate and warp any physical matter it comes into contact with, that much is certain, but there are few ways to predict just what form that warping effect will take. Although we of the Old World nations -- the Empire, Bretonnia, Estalia and Tilea -- may have our own very specific notion of what the Chaos-spawned creatures we have dubbed Beastmen might look like, it would be a mistake to assume that these creatures are a truly definable and universal breed. Chaos is almost totally unpredictable, affecting the world in all kinds of bizarre and unforeseen ways, just as it is in turn affected by the world in all kinds of bizarre and unforeseen ways. Indeed, the mortal creatures of Chaos come in all shapes and forms. I have heard legends from across the world that describe races of cat-men, bird-men, lizard-men, and even strange tales of monkey warriors from the distant lands of Cathay. So the creatures that we identify as beastmen may have little in common with the Chaos species that other nations and cultures identify as beastmen."
- —Richter Kless, Liber Chaotica[4a]
The Monkey Warriors are an organisation of warrior monks under the influence of the Monkey King of Grand Cathay. Their home lies in the Mountains of Heaven.[1a][3a]
The relation of the Monkey Warriors to the Apemen that live in the Southlands is unknown.
History[]
"You are from the west...you know nothing of the Monkey Warriors, you haven't seen how they rip off heads and eat the tongues of their enemy. If you had, you'd quickly drop that mocking gaze and bow your head in terror."
- —Cathayan soldier of the Southern Provinces[1]
These warriors are known to have fought Dien Ch'ing, a servant of the Chaos God Tsien-Tsin, known in the Old World as Tzeentch.[2]
Every decade, the armies of the Everqueen of Ulthuan fight through the Indan armies to reach the Tower of the Sun to keep the green Chaos Moon of Morrslieb from encroaching further upon the world of Mallus. Troops of six-armed Monkey Warriors, along with prides of winged lions and tribes of tiger-headed Beastmen try to prevent the Asur from entering their lands.[6a]
Four-armed monkey porcelain figures believed by western scholars to depict a god sometimes find their way to collectors in the Old World.[5a]
Sources[]
- 1: Total War: Warhammer III (PC Game)
- 2: Red Thirst (Novel) by Jack Yeovil
- 3: Warhammer Fantasy Battle: Rulebook (6th Edition)
- 3a: pg. 169
- 4: Liber Chaotica (Background Book)
- 4a: pg. 250
- 5:Vampireslayer (Novel) by William King
- 5a Book 1, Ch. 2
- 6: Warhammer Fantasy Battle: Rulebook (8th Edition)
- 6a: pg. 202