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The Old World Characters
The great figures of The Old World — their titles, deeds, and allegiances. Search by name, or filter by faction.
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ArielThe Mage QueenWood Elf RealmsThe Mage Queen of Athel Loren — an elf maiden remade as the vessel of the goddess Isha, whose grace sustains the living forest and whose grief can darken it for a season.
Asavar KulThe AnointedWarriors of ChaosThe Kurgan warlord marked by all four Powers at once — the Everchosen whose Great War Against Chaos burned Praag, besieged Kislev, and came within a wall's width of ending the Old World.
Astragoth Ironhandthe Ancient, Eldest of the Sorcerer-ProphetsChaos DwarfsThe eldest and mightiest living Sorcerer-Prophet, whose stone-turned body is hauled to the altar in a great steam-driven harness of iron and brass.
Azhag the SlaughtererThe SlaughtererOrc & Goblin TribesAn orc warboss crowned with a dead necromancer's whispering iron — half of Azhag plans campaigns of impossible cunning, and the other half just wants to hit something.
Balthasar GeltThe Golden AlchemistEmpire of ManThe gold-masked Supreme Patriarch of the Colleges of Magic — master of the Lore of Metal, whose face no one has seen and whose ambitions no one has measured.
Belegar IronhammerThe Last King of the Eight PeaksDwarfen Mountain HoldsThe rightful king of the lost hold of Karak Eight Peaks, who has sworn to reclaim his ancestors' city from goblin and ratman, and to hold it though it cost him everything.
Bertrand the BrigandThe BrigandKingdom of BretonniaAn outlaw hero who robs corrupt lords and defends the downtrodden peasantry from the greenwood, hunted as a criminal and beloved as a saviour.
Boris UrsusThe Red TzarKislevThe first and most storied Tzar of Kislev, the warrior-king who welded Gospodar and Ungol into a single realm and set it as the shield of the Old World.
Crone HellebronDeath's HandmaidenDark ElvesThe ancient Hag Queen of Har Ganeth, high priestess of Khaine who renews her youth in rivers of blood and hates Morathi above all.
Deathmaster SnikchThe DeathmasterSkavenThe deadliest assassin Clan Eshin has ever produced, the personal blade of the Nightlord, dispatched when a death must be absolutely certain.
Drazhoath the Ashenthe Ashen, Master of the Black FortressChaos DwarfsEmbittered lord of Gash Kadrak who rides the fire-bull Cinderbreath to war and spends his god-given power recklessly to conquer his way back into power.
DrychaThe Mad SpiritWood Elf RealmsA vengeful branchwraith who hates all warm-blooded creatures, elves included, and dreams of a day when the forest devours every last intruder from the world.
DurthuEldest of AncientsWood Elf RealmsOne of the most ancient Treemen in the world, a towering elder spirit whose slow-burning wrath at the wrongs done to the forest has hardened into unforgiving hatred.
Egrimm van HorstmannThe Traitor Grand MasterWarriors of ChaosThe most gifted wizard the Order of Light ever raised — and Tzeentch's patient spy within it, who stole the two-headed dragon Baudros from beneath the Pyramid of Light and fled north to his true master.
Eltharion the GrimThe GrimHigh Elf RealmsThe stern, brooding warden of Tor Yvresse, a masked champion who rides the griffon Stormwing and has never once failed in his duty, whatever it cost him.
FinubarThe SeafarerHigh Elf RealmsEleventh Phoenix King of Ulthuan — the explorer-prince who charted the world of the young races, and now steers a fading people by the clearest eyes in it.
Golgfag Maneaterthe Sellsword Tyrant, Betrayer-for-CoinOgre KingdomsThe most notorious sellsword in the ogre race — a Maneater Tyrant who has fought for every kind of paymaster, and against most of them at least once.
Gorbad IronclawIronclawOrc & Goblin TribesThe mightiest Orc Warlord the Old World has ever faced — the greenskin whose single Waaagh! came within a hair of destroying the young Empire of Man outright.
Gorduz Backstabberthe Backstabber, Captain of CutthroatsChaos DwarfsA hobgoblin Khan who has survived a career of betrayal, flattery, and knives in the right backs — and fully intends to outlive his Chaos Dwarf masters.
Gorthor the BeastlordThe BeastlordBeastmen BrayherdsThe greatest Beastlord in the history of the herds — a warlord and prophet who briefly united the scattered brayherds into a single devastating tide.
Grand Hierophant KhatepThe EternalTomb Kings of KhemriThe oldest and most powerful Liche Priest in all Nehekhara, exiled by Settra himself yet still the truest keeper of the mortuary lore that sustains the dead.
Greasus GoldtoothTribestealer, DrakecrushOgre KingdomsThe single fattest, richest, and most powerful ogre alive, who rules a hundred tribes by out-buying and out-eating every rival who ever dared oppose him.
Grimgor IronhideDa BestOrc & Goblin TribesThe most violent creature ever to swing an axe in the name of Gork — a Black Orc warboss whose only undefeated enemy is the lack of a worthy one.
Grom the PaunchThe PaunchOrc & Goblin TribesThe greatest Goblin Warlord who ever lived — a gluttonous, monstrous giant of a greenskin who built a fleet and carried the Waaagh! across the ocean to the elf-isle itself.