DOMAIN OF THE ORCS

Orcs exist more or less eveywhere in the Old World, the Dark Lands and Naggaroth. Naturally there are places where Orcs are relativly concentrated and others where they are rare. In the realms of Men, for example, Orcs live only in the wilderness, deep in the forests or high mounatins. From their secluded hideouts they raid and rampage over the surrounding territory. There is nowhere in the Old World where the threat of marauding greenskins is compleatly unknown.

Beyond the realms of Men, Orcs and their small Goblin kin are far more numerous, and in some places they are the dominant intelligent creature. Orcs don't have kingdoms or countries in the same way as Men do, but there are nevertheless areas where Orcs and Goblins are very definitely in control.

THE BADLANDS

Orcs and Goblins live in vast numbers between the Black Mountains and the Worlds Edge Mountains. This part of the Old World in known as the Badlands on account of it being dominated by interwarring Orc and Goblin tribes. It is from this battleground that many of the most successful Orc leaders have emerged. From the Badlands orcs move northwards into the Border Princes, a violent and battle-torn land shared by Men and Orcs, and further north still through the Black Fire Pass and into the Empire.

TROLL COUNTRY

The Troll Couyntry of north Kislev is a barren wilderness inhabitaed by brigands and monsters inclueding, as its name suggests, many wild and savage Trolls. Trolls are not the only monsters to be found there, nut they rae one of the few creatures able to thrive in this grim and hostile land. In Troll Country Chaos warbands fight each other for supreamacy and Orc armies gather strength to invade south. On numerous occisons massive Orc armies have swept down from the north, destroying the towns and cities of Kislev and invading the northern provinces of the Empire.

THE WORLD EDGE MOUNTAINS

The World Edge Mountains themselves are riddled with old Dwarf mines and the cruder tunnels of Night Goblins. The ancient Dwarf hold of Karak Ungor has become so infestedwith Night Goblins that it is now known as Red Eye Mountain. Further south, the ancient hoild of Karak Varn has become Crag Mere, infamous haunt of monsters and evil creatures of all kinds; its slopes home to Orcs and its deep tunnels the preserve of Night Goblins. Further south still the mounatins between Mad Dog Pass and the quiescent volcano of Fire Mounatin are riddled with the lairs of Goblins and Orcs. Mad Dog Pass is overlooked by the crude forts of Goblins, while Black Crag is a vast Orc stronghold which guards the western entrance to Death Pass.

THE DARK LANDS
& MOUNTAINS OF MOURN

To the east of the World Edge Mountains, over Mad Dog Pass and Death Pass, is the Dark Lands, a region of desolation inhabited by all kinds of evil creatures inclueding Chaos Dwarfs, Orcs, Goblins and especially Black Orcs. According to Orc lore, Black Orcs originated from the eastern side of the Dark Lands adjoining the distant Mounatins of Mourn. Black Orcs are certainly more common in the eastern part of their territory, in the Dark Lands themselves, and in the World Edge Mounatins adjoining the Bad Lands.

NAGGAROTH

In the far west, beyond the Old World and the Elvern Kindgdoms of Ulthuan, the Orcs and Goblins of Naggaroth are the descendants of captives taken by the Dark Elves many thousands of years ago. Orc were forced to fight for the Dark Elves in their wars against the High Elves, although in truth the Orcs took little persuading. Since that time many independent Orc and Goblin tribes have taken root in the forest and mountains of that cold land. Sometimes the Orcs ally with the Dark Elves, but they are creatures of swifting loyalties, and are equally likelyto attack their erstwhile allies and rampage through the Dark Elf lands.

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