The Soul Wars are the vast, realm-spanning conflicts ignited by the Necroquake, fought over the ultimate prize of an age of Death: the souls of the living and the dead alike. When Nagash's catastrophic ritual flooded the Mortal Realms with death magic, the Great Necromancer moved to seize every soul in existence, and the peoples of the realms rose to deny him.
The wars pitted the tireless legions of Death, the spectral Nighthaunt and the bone-forged Ossiarch Bonereapers, against Sigmar's Stormcast Eternals and the beleaguered free cities. Battle lines were drawn not merely over territory but over the fate of the dead themselves, as Nagash's harvesters tore spirits from their rest to rebuild them into weapons, and the living fought to protect the souls of their fallen from a second, eternal servitude.
The Soul Wars mark one of the great turning points of the age, the moment when Death stepped forward to rival Chaos as an existential threat to all creation. They saw new breeds of warrior forged on every side, from Nagash's soul-reaped constructs to Sigmar's storm-blessed champions, and their battles ranged across every realm. Though the initial fury has passed, the wars reshaped the balance of power permanently, ensuring that the shadow of Nagash's ambition now falls across every other struggle in the realms.