The armies of the Old World
The Old World Factions
From the knightly orders of Bretonnia to the ratmen beneath the world — every faction of the Old World, grouped by allegiance, with regiments, characters, and chronicle entries.
Order
Dwarfen Mountain HoldsGrand Alliance OrderThe ancient dwarf realm beneath the World's Edge Mountains — master smiths, grudge-keepers, and unyielding warriors of the Karaz Ankor, a civilization in proud decline that forgets nothing and forgives less.
Empire of ManGrand Alliance OrderSigmar's mortal nation — a fractious patchwork of feuding provinces bound together by faith, steel, and gunpowder into the great bulwark between the Old World and the dark.
Grand CathayThe vast and ancient Dragon Empire of the far east, ruled by the immortal Celestial Dragon-Emperor and his dragon children, whose jade legions and Great Bastion hold the harmony of the world against Chaos.
High Elf RealmsGrand Alliance OrderThe asur of Ulthuan — a fading golden civilization of peerless warriors and mages who hold the world's doom at bay with dwindling numbers, ancient magic, and pride worn like armour.
Kingdom of BretonniaGrand Alliance OrderThe Old World's kingdom of grail-sworn chivalry, where knights blessed by the Lady of the Lake ride to glory on the backs of a peasantry whose toil pays for every banner and every legend.
KislevThe harsh northern realm of Tzars and ice-witches that stands as the Old World's frozen shield, where bear-riders and winged lancers bleed to hold back the endless hordes of Chaos.
LizardmenThe cold-blooded servants of the Old Ones, spawned in the jungles of Lustria to enact a cosmic design older than history and steered by immortal slann mage-priests from temple-cities drowned in green.
Wood Elf RealmsGrand Alliance OrderThe asrai of Athel Loren — hidden kindreds of elves bound by ancient pact to a living, hungry forest whose borders admit no trespasser and whose arrows grant no mercy.
Chaos
Beastmen BrayherdsGrand Alliance ChaosThe children of Chaos — horned herds that haunt every dark forest of the Old World, gathering at bloodstained herdstones to drag the works of man back into the mud.
Chaos DwarfsThe dawi-zharr of Zharr-Naggrund — dwarfs twisted by Chaos into cruel masters of fire, iron, and slavery, who worship Hashut the Father of Darkness and forge their empire from smoke and screaming.
Daemons of ChaosThe unified daemonic legions of the four Ruinous Powers made manifest in the Old World — rage, pestilence, sorcery, and excess given form, spilling through the thin places of the world to make war on reality itself.
SkavenThe teeming ratmen of the Under-Empire beneath the Old World — a numberless, treacherous race of warpstone-worshippers who would already rule the world if they could only stop betraying one another.
Warriors of ChaosGrand Alliance ChaosThe Dark Gods' mortal legions — Norscan, Kurgan, and Hung northmen who trade hearth and homeland for black iron and terrible gifts, climbing the ladder of damnation toward daemonhood or spawndom.
Death
Tomb Kings of KhemriGrand Alliance DeathThe ancient god-kings of Nehekhara, cheated of their promised paradise by Nagash's great ritual and risen in bone to reclaim an empire they never agreed to stop ruling.
Vampire CountsGrand Alliance DeathThe aristocratic undead of Sylvania — a dynasty of vampire lords who rule the dead as subjects, keep the living as tenants, and have pursued the Empire's crown across three great wars.
Destruction
Dark ElvesThe druchii of Naggaroth — beautiful, merciless kin of the elves, raiders and slavers who worship the Lord of Murder and serve the immortal spite of the Witch King.
Ogre KingdomsMercenary giants of the Mountains of Mourn who worship a god-sized hole in the world called the Great Maw, and who go to war for the oldest reason of all — they are hungry, and someone else has food.
Orc & Goblin TribesGrand Alliance DestructionThe green tide of the Old World — numberless tribes of brutal orcs and malicious goblins forever massing beneath crude banners into the Waaagh!, the rolling avalanche of violence that has battered civilization since before its first walls were raised.