The Old WorldA chronicle of the age of legend

Art & visual archive

Gallery

A visual index of the The Old World archive — artwork for every faction, hero, unit, lore entry, book, game, and glossary term.

Allegiances

Factions18

ChaosBeastmen BrayherdsThe children of Chaos — horned herds that haunt every dark forest of the Old World, gathering at bloodstained herdstones to drag t...
ChaosChaos DwarfsThe dawi-zharr of Zharr-Naggrund — dwarfs twisted by Chaos into cruel masters of fire, iron, and slavery, who worship Hashut the F...
ChaosDaemons of ChaosThe unified daemonic legions of the four Ruinous Powers made manifest in the Old World — rage, pestilence, sorcery, and excess giv...
DestructionDark ElvesThe druchii of Naggaroth — beautiful, merciless kin of the elves, raiders and slavers who worship the Lord of Murder and serve the...
OrderDwarfen Mountain HoldsThe ancient dwarf realm beneath the World's Edge Mountains — master smiths, grudge-keepers, and unyielding warriors of the Karaz A...
OrderEmpire of ManSigmar's mortal nation — a fractious patchwork of feuding provinces bound together by faith, steel, and gunpowder into the great b...
OrderGrand CathayThe vast and ancient Dragon Empire of the far east, ruled by the immortal Celestial Dragon-Emperor and his dragon children, whose ...
OrderHigh Elf RealmsThe asur of Ulthuan — a fading golden civilization of peerless warriors and mages who hold the world's doom at bay with dwindling ...
OrderKingdom of BretonniaThe 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 pea...
OrderKislevThe harsh northern realm of Tzars and ice-witches that stands as the Old World's frozen shield, where bear-riders and winged lance...
OrderLizardmenThe cold-blooded servants of the Old Ones, spawned in the jungles of Lustria to enact a cosmic design older than history and steer...
DestructionOgre 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 t...
DestructionOrc & Goblin TribesThe green tide of the Old World — numberless tribes of brutal orcs and malicious goblins forever massing beneath crude banners int...
ChaosSkavenThe teeming ratmen of the Under-Empire beneath the Old World — a numberless, treacherous race of warpstone-worshippers who would a...
DeathTomb Kings of KhemriThe ancient god-kings of Nehekhara, cheated of their promised paradise by Nagash's great ritual and risen in bone to reclaim an em...
DeathVampire CountsThe aristocratic undead of Sylvania — a dynasty of vampire lords who rule the dead as subjects, keep the living as tenants, and ha...
ChaosWarriors of ChaosThe Dark Gods' mortal legions — Norscan, Kurgan, and Hung northmen who trade hearth and homeland for black iron and terrible gifts...
OrderWood Elf RealmsThe asrai of Athel Loren — hidden kindreds of elves bound by ancient pact to a living, hungry forest whose borders admit no trespa...

Chapters, dynasties, houses

Subfactions61

Order of battle

Units224

Heroes and legends

Characters77

Articles and guides

Lore21

Terms and places

Glossary100

Black Library

Books8

Digital campaigns

Games6