It is from these men and women that an Emperor is elected in the past the realm has been blighted by a succession of corrupt leaders, or been riven with internal strife as rival Electors fought for the throne.

For the Empire is not one harmonious nation but a collective of fiercely independent provinces and city-states each led by an Elector Count - a powerful noble whose own interests often come before matters of his people or the greater good of the nation. While the Empire's vast armies are constantly caught in the swirling maelstrom of war, facing all manner of threats within and without its porous borders, perhaps its greatest foe is, and always has been, itself.

The Empire's armies are mighty with ranks of highly-disciplined troops and heavily-armoured Knights, led by valiant warrior-generals and supplemented by the arcane will of Battle Wizards and powerful machines of war. Yet it endures, for mankind has a steely determination to not merely live, but thrive. But the realm is in constant turmoil, beset on all sides by enemies ferocious and foul - despised by countless foes, with even gods and their unholy followers desiring nothing more than the Empire's utter destruction. Lying at the heart of the Old World, it is the greatest and most powerful of all the nations forged by Men. Three things make the Empire great faith, steel and gunpowder.įor two and a half millennia the Empire has formed a bulwark against the encroaching forces of Destruction.

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