The Skaven spread across the World-that-Was like a disease, forever in a secret war with the surface world even as they betrayed their own kind as the feeling took them, until the End Times, where the Horned Rat bade his children rise as one race to conquer all the world. Thus were the Skaven born, and the Horned Rat with them. As the rain turned into hail and meteors, and the rats devoured their neighbours, the survivors of Kavzar forced their way into the dwarven hold, only to find bearded skeletons and thousands of beady red eyes looking at them from the darkness. The humans came to the dwarves a second time seeking aid, and this time were forced away by the dwarves who claimed that rats had eaten their own stores and they had nothing to offer. Fearful and in need of aid, the humans turned to their dwarven allies, who rebuffed them for the humans’ apparent weakness in the face of such simple problems. And then the bell tolled thirteen times.Įvery day the bell would toll, and every day the fortunes of Kavzar declined: rain poured without end till the fields flooded and the cattle drowned, children were born still or horribly mutated, and rats appeared in their thousands to devour what little food remained, before growing large and cruel enough to begin feasting on the citizens. Come the morning the tower was indeed complete and at its summit was a great brass bell, the doors to the tower, however, were sealed. Desperate to have the work done, the elders agreed. Then came a stranger, clad in grey, who promised to complete the tower in one night his payment, to add his own flourish to the tower. To celebrate their good fortunes and honour their gods, the people decided to build a tower, but as months turned to years turned to decades, the tower came no closer to completion and the people began to despair. Once there was a city of humans, its fields were plentiful and its trade with the nearby dwarven hold was prosperous. The story of the Great Horned Rat is also very much the story of his children, and to talk about that we must travel back to the World-that-Was, to the tale of the Doom of Kavzar. The most recent addition to the pantheon of Chaos in the Age of Sigmar, the Great Horned Rat is the God of ruin, strife, decay, ambition, and the patron God of the Skaven, his sole worshipers.
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