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For hundreds of years, the Dark Elf raiding fleets were confined to the Sea of Chaos and the Great Ocean. Then they discovered the Underworld Sea, a huge underground water system that links the Sea of Chaos to Naggaroth's Western Coast and the Boiling Sea beyond.[1a]

The Underworld Sea was discoverd by Kaledor Maglen, the lord of Hag Graef and his discovery would allow the raiding fleets of the Dark Elves to gain access to the Boiling Sea and the eastern nations of Cathay and Nippon. [2a]

A treacherous place consisting of labyrinthine mazes of dark tunnels and strange caves, and much of it has not yet been mapped by the scouts sent to explore it. Movement is dangerous even on the well-known routes, for cave-ins and flash floods are a constant danger. There are also many strange and cruelly predatory creatures that inhabit this unearthly subterranean realm, and their eyes are far more accustomed to the gloom that those of the Dark Elves on whom they prey. Such as the Cold Ones as they've been found by the Dark Elves here for the first time. Scouts have also found growing evidence of an entire civilisation deep in the depths of the caverns. [2a][1a]

The most accomplished explorers of the Underworld Sea come from the Shade tribes, mountain-dwellers who forsook the life of the bleak cities in ages past. Yet even they have only uncovered a small fraction of the Underworld Sea's secrets. Each decade brings new discoveries, and rumours abound of an entire lost civilization hidden deep within the underground caverns.[2a]

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