"Not Elves, the Scythians, the horse warriors of old. The Gospodars -- and therefore the Kislevites -- trace their ancestry back to them. They ruled here once, before Sainted Sigmar came. These lands were theirs. They built the towns whose ruins are said to haunt the steppes. They raised the kurgans."
The Scythians once claimed the entire Eastern Steppes as theirs before their eventual demise and disappearance from history.
The Scythians were the first of the nomadic northern barbarians of the world of Mallus, claiming all the land of the Eastern Steppes as theirs before they disappeared from history. They were thus the ancestors of the Kurgan and Gospodar people of today.[1a]
Little is known about the Scythians, other than the fact that many ruined cities within the Northern Wastes were once built by them. They also were the first to practice the tradition of creating burial mounds for their dead, a man-made hill which were named kurgans, a term that the modern day Kurgan people have used presumably because they want to hide the bones of all southerners under similar hills.[1a]
Trivia[]
The Scythians of Warhammer are clearly a reference to the real-world Scythians, an Iranian steppe tribe that lived in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe (modern-day southern Ukraine, southwestern Russia and western Kazakhstan) from the eighth century B.C. until their last remnants were destroyed by the Goths in the third century A.D.