Second millennium before IC

-1997: The War of the Beard begins, pitting High Elf against Dwarf, to the ruination of both.

-1974: Snorri Halfhand, son of the High King, is slain by Caledor II after challenging the Elf King in combat.[1a] The dragon Tyrennus attacks the rune forges of Karag Dron. Master Runesmith Kurgaz is slain and most of the Anvils of Doom are destroyed.

-1968: A group of Dark Elves driven way off-course by storms is forced to dock in Khemri. Nagash studies Dark Magic and proves more than an apt pupil. Having learned all the Dark Elves have to teach him, he defeats their leaders in a duel of sorcery and has the survivors entombed alive within the Great Pyramid at Khemri.

-1959: Nagash slays Thutep, the Priest King of Khemri, and seizes power in his place.

-1955: Dwarfs first meet Ogres in the World's Edge Mountains as they raid their mines. Expeditions into the Mountains of Morn are prepared.

(-1950 to -1750): Nagash begins to prolong his fading youth by distilling an elixir from human blood. He recruits certain depraved noblemen to rule under him. They start to see themselves as gods and the city's population as cattle. As their span of life extends beyond that of ordinary mortals they shun the light and seek out cool dark places to hide from the burning day. Nagash orders the construction of the Black Pyramid of Nagash, one of the largest structures ever built by man, dwarfing even the Great Pyramid of Khemri.

-1950: A wandering Dwarf clan from the Black Mountains establishes trade with the city of Tylos and eventually settles there. The city grows even faster with their help and many advances in architecture and engineering are achieved.

-1948: Athel Maraya is destroyed by a dwarf army under the leadership of Morgrim Elgidum.

-1880: According to Tilean legend, the humans of Tylos begin the construction of a great temple with Dwarf help. Work goes on continuously for the next 100 years.

-1860: A sunken pyramid rises from beneath the fleet of seafarer Lord Valdisson. A great battle is fought between the Warriors of Chaos and the city's scaly, web-fingered inhabitants. It ends when Valdisson's sorcerers summon a comet that sinks the city.

-1800: The Dragon Emperor unites the entire civilization of Grand Cathay in a great task that is to change the destiny of his nation forever. The Great Bastion, also known as the Dragon's Spine, is completed in under a century - an impenetrable fortress wall, a quarter of a mile high, that spans league upon league across the border of Cathay. In this way Cathay protects itself from Chaos invasion.

-1780: The temple is completed. Many meteors are sighted and warpstone starts to rain down on the city from Morrslieb. Within a year the city is overrun by swarms of giant mutated rats and disappears from history.

(-1750 to -1650): The Priest Kings become afraid of Nagash's power and form a great confederation against him. After nearly a century of warfare. Nagash’s power is finally broken, and he is forced to flee north. The Priest Kings of Lahmia take away Nagash’s books left behind in the Black Library at Khemri, and secretly seek to emulate his Dark Magic.

-1745: The Cult of Khaine becomes centered in Har Ganeth.

-1666: Earthquakes shake the World's Edge Mountains. Parts of the Grand Bastion collapse, allowing marauding Chaos Warriors to enter Cathay.

-1667: The Battle of Despair. A great fleet of Chaos Warriors attacks fights past the sea monsters that guard the coast and attack Naggaroth. They are defeated at Naggarond in a furious battle.

C. -1600: The first true Skaven emerge as masters of Skavenblight. They start to look further afield for sources of warpstone and begin their first experiments with magic. The tunnel system under Skavenblight is expanded to accommodate its rapidly increasing population.

-1600: The War of the Beard ends, with the death of Caledor II and the loss of the Phoenix Crown to the Dwarfs. The Dwarfs retreat into Karaz-a-Karak and refuse to fight any further, claiming victory.[1a] Nagash is overthrown by the Army of the Seven Kings. Khemri is besieged and then sacked. Arkhan is killed covering his master’s retreat. Nagash flees north to plot his revenge. His wanderings take him to Cripple Peak, a mountain by the shores of the Sour Sea. Cripple Peak contains a massive chunk of glittering warpstone, the largest in the world. Nagash begins to experiment with warpstone but so corrosive is the influence of this huge chunk of pure Chaos that Nagash is forced to use ever more potent necromantic magics to hold onto his unlife.

-1599: The invasion fleet of the Dark Elves lands on the northern shores of Ulthuan. Anlec is rebuilt, but the Dark Elves find themselves unable to cross the Annulii Mountains.

-1578: The Dark Elf slaver host known as the Children of the Black Lotus descends on the Black Guff tribe of Night Goblins. The Night Goblins empty their harvest of madcap mushrooms and feed it to their squigs. The resulting carnage sees an undignified retreat from the Dark Elves before the squigs turn upon the goblins.

-1563: The royal line of Numas is murdered by Prince Apophas. The populace rebels and Apophas is executed, his bones cursed to the depths of the Underworld.

-1520: Neferata creates a corrupted version of the Elixir of Life. Though she achieves immortality, the Lahmian queen is left with a terrible thirst for human blood. She eventually passes the curse to others, creating the race of Vampires.

-1501: High Elves withdraw from the Old World. Athel Loren is settled by Elf colonists who remain behind following the withdrawal of the High Elf armies from the Old World.

C. -l500: At about this time the Elves abandon the Old World and the declining Dwarf empire is destroyed by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.[1a] Orcs and Goblins pour over the lands, looting the remaining Elf cities and destroying Dwarf holds. Karak Ungor is the first Dwarf hold to fall to the Goblins, it becomes the Night Goblin stronghold of Red Eye Mountain. The Dwarfs refer to the following five hundred years as the time of the Goblin Wars, as Dwarfs and Goblins fight for possession of the old Dwarf empire. Karak Varn is flooded and then occupied by Skaven and Goblins. The isolated Dwarf mines at Ekrund in the Dragonback Mountains fall to Orcs who rename the place Mount Bloodfang. Goblins take over the Dwarf watch towers and forts throughout the Mad Dog Pass. The Dwarf gold mines at Gunbad fall to the Night Goblins. Gunbad was the richest and largest mine in the World’s Edge Mountains as well as a source of precious gems and the brilliant blue crystal rock Brynduraz or ‘Bright Stone’. It is taken over by Goblins and fortified. The Elves abandon their colonies around the Tilean Sea and return to Ulthuan.

-1500: Lord Quex enacts his realignment of the continents. The Worlds Edge Mountains are riven by earthquakes. As far as the Mage-Priests are concerned, the alignment is carried out according to the will of the Old Ones, as written on the Plaque of Otzli-Potec. The Dwarf empire in the Worlds Edge Mountains is devastated by a series of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes triggered by Skaven sorcery. The population of Skavenblight is devastated and the twelve Grey Lords arise, forming the first Council of Thirteen and the Order of the Grey Seers. The Great Machine of the Seer Order explodes. The Slann, ignorant of the newly emerged race, registered the energy and attributed it solely to their own powerful spells. To this day they have failed to make any connection. The Great Migration out of Skavenblight begins. Dwarf records indicate the first incursions of Skaven into Karak Varn, where they eventually capture most of the flooded lower levels.

(-1500 a -1350): Nagash realizes that used in small quantities warpstone can be a powerful aid to his dark sorcery. Lacking followers he begins to experiment with corpses and skeletons and succeeds in animating them. He uses his Undead slaves to excavate mines beneath Cripple Peak and to create Nagashizzar, the Cursed Pit, a giant underground fortress full of alchemical laboratories, barracks, foundries and armouries. Dust and slag from the mines soon turns the land all about to waste, creating the Desolation of Nagash. Primitive human tribesmen start to worship him as a god and this eventually leads to their devolution into the corpse-eating race of Ghouls. Within a few hundred years Nagash has built a powerful empire round the shores of the Sour Sea.

-1499: Dwarf records from many holds begin to document (and curse) their first sightings of ratmen.

-1498: Orc Warlord Argor Foespikc captures the Dwarf mine at Ekrund, renaming it Mount Bloodhorn and turning its resources to the fabrication of the heaviest armour his Boyz can bear. The flooded Dwarfhold of Karak Varn comes under full-fledged Skaven attack.

-1457: The rich Dwarf mines of Mount Gunbad fall to the Bloody Spear Night Goblins, who hold it against ongoing attack from the jealous Red Face Goblins inhabiting the surrounding mountains.[1a]

C. -1450: The Lord of Decay known as Malkrit leads Clan Moulder into the Troll Country north of Kislev where they establish their stronghold that becomes Hell Pit. Lord Visktrin is mortally wounded by a Dragon in the Mountains of Mourn but instructs his successor to establish a colony in far Cathay - and so what is to become Clan Eshin passes out of knowledge for a time.

C. -1420: At least one Skaven clan is sighted in Araby.

C. -1400: The War of Cripple Peak is fought with the legions of Nagash. In exchange for warpstone mined below Cripple Peak, Skaven join forces with the Undead legions of Nagash to help lure several tribes of Orcs and Goblins into the Cursed Pit. Nagash summons a massive army of Undead and the Council of Thirteen has him assassinated.

-1399: Skaven Clan Pestilens occupy ruined Lizardman city of Quetza. Plagues spread throughout Lustria. Many cities are abandoned. Incessant war between Lizardmen and Skaven continues for centuries. A time of great tribulation is foretold in the prophecy plaques of Chaqua, but these will not be fully revealed for many centuries.

-1387: The Silver Road Wars begin between Dwarfs and Goblins. After twenty years the Dwarfs abandon the mines at Mount Silverspear to the Orcs. At their height, only one Dwarfen caravan in five survives the journey through the greenskin-infested Deadrock Gap. The mines are occupied by Warlord Urk Grimfang and known ever after as Mount Grimfang. With the loss of Gunbad and Silverspear, the Dwarfs lose their most important mines in the east and within five years they abandon the eastern fringes of the Worlds Edge Mountains altogether.

-1367: The Orc Warlord Urk Grimfang seizes control of Mount Silverspear from the Dwarfs. It is thereafter known as Mount Grimfang.

(-1300 a -1200): The Skaven are drawn by the huge mass of warpstone at Cripple Peak and launch a war against Nagash, but the Great Necromancer is now so powerful that his legions drive them back. Eventually a settlement is reached between Nagash and the Council of Thirteen. The Skaven lure several tribes of Orcs and Goblins into the Cursed Pit in return for warpstone mined below Cripple Peak.

-1250: Troll Wars. Marauding Trolls destroy numerous settlements south of Karaz-a-Karak.

-1245: From this time the Dwarfs launch a series of attacks against Goblin-held territories. They drive the Orcs from the mountains and gain control of the whole area between Karak Kadrin and Mad Dog Pass. Mount Gunbad is temporarily recaptured by the Dwarfs but then lost again. Mount Grimfang is attacked but the Dwarfs are beaten off by Orc Chieftain Nurk Ard’ed. For the next 250 years the Dwarfs consolidate their hold over the mountains, gradually reopening many of their old mines and rebuilding countless tombs of their ancestors.

-1222: A great earthquake exposes a rich seam of gromril within the Misty Mountains. Nagash forges his fabled armour from an alloy of this gromril and lead.

-1200: Alcadizaar the Conqueror is crowned King of Khemri. He binds the entire land of Nehekhara under his charismatic rule and conquers the ancient city of Ka-Sabar from the desert tribes. Nehekhara begins to prosper once more. The rebel Priest Kings who studied Nagash's works become aware of the Great Necromancer's presence and send emissaries to him. Rumour of this reaches those Priest Kings who have not taken the Dark Path, and the followers of Nagash are defeated and driven out by an alliance led by the Priest King Alcadizaar. The entire cursed city of Lahmia is reduced to ruins by Alcadizaar's forces.The treaty of Cripple Peak is marked in blood on Dragonhide and the Council of Thirteen enters into a pact with Nagash, the Great Necromancer. Worship of Tzeentch (as Chi'an Chi) becomes widespread in the nobility of Beichai.

-1197: Nagash is slain by Skaven treachery and his bones melted, save for his hand, which, unknown to the Council of Thirteen, crawls away to safety.

C. -1185: Ramhotep, the greatest Necrotect of Nehekhara, finishes construction of the Sepulcher of the Heavens in Quatar. As a reward, the master artisan is mummified alive and interred within this magnificent monument.

-1185: The Crag Mere Battle. Kadrin Redmane, the Dwarf Runesmith, leads an expedition into the ruins of Karak Varn where he discovers a rich vein of Gromril. Many on both sides are slain when the fighting nears the lake edge and mutated monsters burst forth to feed upon the combatants. The Dwarfs continue to mine the vein for several years and even talk of resettling the old hold.

C. -1175: An ancient human civilization battles greenskins for control of what will later become known as the Badlands. Kadon, an ancient Necromancer who has found the Crown of Nagash, helps the humans send the goblinoids fleeing to the Dark Lands. The humans build many cities; as well as burial grounds and cairns for their dead.

(-1163 a -1152): Nagash launches sudden war on the Priest Kings. The Priest Kings are now united under King Alcadizaar, and under his formidable leadership Nagash's first assault is defeated. Nagash unleashes a plague upon the land. His own Undead forces are immune but the folk of the land die in droves. A new army of Undead invades the lands of the Priest Kings and sweeps all before them. Alcadizaar is brought in chains to Nagashizzar to be tormented by Nagash.

-1151: The Great Ritual. After consuming prodigious amounts of warpstone Nagash begins the Ritual of the Waking. Sensing the danger they are in. the Skaven free King Alcadizaar, who cuts down Nagash and flees with his Crown of Sorcery. However, many of the Undead raised by the Great Ritual remain animated, spreading terror wherever they go. In Nehekhara, the War of the Kings begins as the reanimated Tomb Kings fight each other for supremacy. The war only ends when Settra leads his forces against the other kings and forces them to submit.

-1150: W'soran quits Nagashizzar with a cabal of Nagash's most powerful priests and one of the Great Necromancer’s spell books. Settra declares the beginning of the Reign of a Million Years and commands the other Tomb Kings to return to rest.

-1149: Arkhan the Black sacks the city of Bel-Aliad, precipitating what later Arabyan chroniclers will call the Wars of Death. For the next 1,000 years Arkhan raids the lands of Araby from the desert wilderness that surrounds them. The once mighty civilization that ruled these lands is reduced to a few weakened city states and a handful of desert tribes.

-1147: The body of Alcadizaar is discovered by Kadon, who wrests the Crown of Sorcery from the dead priest king’s grasp. Possessed by the spirit if Nagash, the shaman founds the city of Mourkain - meaning Place of Death – atop Alcadizzar’s burial mound.

-1136: Kadrin Redmane is killed by Orcs above Black Water leading a mule-train of Gromril ore. The Dwarf miners pull out from Karak Varn under renewed pressure from Skaven in the depths.

-1125: The Winter of Woe. The Wood Elves manage to defeat a gigantic Waaagh! that threatened the Oak of Ages. Orion and Ariel become the King and Queen in the Woods.

-1122: W’soran gives the Blood Kiss to his apprentices so that they may continue to aid him in his studies for eternity.

-1020: Ushoran arrives in Mourkain, drawn by the power of the Crown if Sorcery. He usurps Kadon and assumes control of the city, founding the kingdom of Strigos. Kadon’s Undead Empire is eventually overrun by the Orc warlord Dork Redeye.

(C. -1020 to 1000): A Waaagh! sweeps through what is now the Badlands, reclaiming it for Orcs and Goblins. The human cities are turned to rubble and Kadon is slain by Savage Orcs. The mysterious crown is carried northwards by Kadon’s few surviving disciples.

-1002: The Ogre Black Gut tribe agrees to join the Chaos host of Dletch the Merciless. The agreed wage is one human per day per ogre. Soon, Dletch's army is strongly depleted.

-1000: The Bretonni migrate into the lands that will later become Bretonnia.