Eras
The great epochs that carve up the history of The Old World: the ages, crusades, and cataclysms that shaped the setting.
- Deep Antiquity
The Time of the Old Ones
The deep antiquity when god-like Old Ones descended from the stars to shape the world according to their inscrutable Great Plan.
- ~-4500 IC
The Coming of Chaos
The cataclysm when the polar gates collapsed and raw Chaos flooded the world, birthing daemons and damning it to eternal war.
- ~-30 to 0 IC
The Founding of the Empire
When the warrior Sigmar united the scattered tribes of men, drove back the greenskins, and forged the mightiest realm of mankind.
- 1152–2304 IC
The Age of the Three Emperors
The long interregnum of civil war and schism, when rival claimants tore the Empire apart and plague stalked the divided provinces.
- 2302 IC
The Great War Against Chaos
When a vast Chaos incursion nearly drowned the north, until Magnus the Pious rose to reunite the Empire and hurl back the darkness.
- ~2528 IC
The End Times
The apocalyptic final age, when Chaos undivided and the ratmen's treachery consumed the world in fire, plague, and total annihilation.