#The map of chaos series#

While the southern pole was relatively isolated, thanks to the continent on which the gate was built being surrounded by vast oceans, the northern pole was surrounded by other lands, allowing the mutated creatures and worshippers of Chaos to cause mayhem in those realms, influenced and controlled by the malevolent entities that exist in its the hellish dimension.ДЄ long-ago battlefield within the Chaos Wastes. The Old Ones, realising their colony-world was beyond saving, fled the planet in their ships, never to return. When the mechanisms of the gates were finally and fully destroyed by the catastrophic failure, the hellish otherworld of the Warp began to bleed into the physical dimension, creating forevermore the hellish Chaos Wastes. Warpstone, the solidified stuff of raw Chaos, spilled out from the tears in reality, and rained down on the planet causing even further mutations. Quickly growing uncontrollably unstable, the gates collapsed, their physical structure shattering and breaking apart, and without them in place to keep the otherworld in check, pure Chaos spilled through the ruined portals, causing widespread mutations and creating the first of the Beastmen race. However, after many millennia of efficiency, something in the mechanisms of the gates went catastrophically wrong.

#The map of chaos series#

Built from alien technology, the gates were vast, capable of transporting massive quantities of resources at a time, and were located at each pole of the planet due to the world's geomantic web, a series of channels of magical power that were necessary for the gates to function. The original purpose of the gates was one of instantaneous, inter-dimensional transportation of resources to other worlds within the Old Ones' vast, interstellar, cross-dimensional empire. 3.1 Mentioned in Tamurkhan: The Throne of ChaosДЄ portion of the Northern Wastes above Norsca.Д«uilt before the dawn of the mortal races, the Polar Warp Gates were constructed by the ancient Old Ones and their Slann servants, who travelled to the world from beyond the stars.It is the dream of any man or woman of those races to one day journey here, overcoming the challenges and indescribable horrors it has to offer, and thus ultimately submit themselves to the judgement of their Dark Gods, ascending to the vaunted ranks of the Champions of Chaos. These unholy lands are seen as a place of absolute holiness by the Norscan tribes, as well as by the Kurgans and Hung. Were a cartographer to take his compass and inscribe a circle of the area throughout the world's northern pole, the circumference lying roughly on the northern shore of the dreaded Sea of Claws, it would serve to roughly demarcate the boundaries of the Chaos Wastes. In truth, it is this and infinitely so much more, but for the sake of mortal understanding, the legend alone must suffice. It is the legendary home of immortal gods and, so it is said, of infinitely worse things: the numberless, nameless monstrosities that dwell in the eternal planes.

The Chaos Wastes, also known as the Northern Wastes, the Shadowlands or simply the Northlands, is a hellish region of barren tundra that lies far to the north of the Old World, the New World and Cathay. ' To the north lies our past, and to the north lies our future.' - Baron Fallon von Kelspar.