The Cult of Ulric is one of the oldest and fiercest faiths of the Empire, devoted to the grim god of wolves, winter, and battle. Older even than the worship of Sigmar — who was himself a follower of Ulric in life — the cult holds that the world is a hard place that favours the strong, and that a warrior proves his devotion not with prayers but with the deeds of his sword-arm.
Its spiritual home is the city of Middenheim, where the Ar-Ulric, high priest of the faith, tends the Sacred Flame said to have been kindled by the god himself. Ulric's followers scorn fire-making by mortal means in winter, disdain retreat, and count courage the highest of virtues; his wolf-priests wear pelts and wield great hammers, blessing the frozen north's hardy warriors before battle. From the cult ride the Knights of the White Wolf, who forsake the lance for the cavalry hammer.
The cult's fortunes have waned as the worship of Sigmar spread, and the two faiths regard one another with a rivalry that shades from disdain into open hostility — for Middenheim's wolf has never willingly bowed to Altdorf's hammer. Yet where the fighting is hardest and the winter cruellest, in the northern provinces where Chaos comes howling out of the dark, the followers of Ulric stand unbroken, trusting that their stern god honours those who die with their wounds to the front.