Lore & History
21 entries in the Warhammer Vermintide compendium.
The SkavenA billion eyes in the dark, and every one of them is already imagining the taste of its neThe Empire of ManA fractured bastion of humanity, fighting tooth and claw against the tide.The Vampire CountsPale knights who never truly die—unless struck down by fire, faith, or steel.The Great RiftA wound in the world through which the Skaven horde pours forth.The Dark ElvesPain is their prayer, and the Old World is their playground—a realm of screaming flesh andThe DwarfsSworn in iron, remembered in stone, and never, ever forgotten.The LizardmenBefore humanity crawled from the mud, the Lizardmen already ruled the green dark.The GreenskinsCrude, countless, and relentless — the Greenskins are the Empire's endless, grinding nightThe Wood ElvesSilent arrows in the darkening woods—guardians of a green world that refuses to die.The End TimesThe world ends not with a whimper, but with a skittering roar.The Destruction of MiddenheimThe White Wolf's city falls to vermin and ruin.The Rise of the Horned RatThe rat god stirs in the deep. The world will drown in its shadow.The Battle of HelmgartThe fortress bled, the Skaven broke, and heroes held—though the cost was writ in fire and The SkittergateA bridge of screaming warpstone, shattered by heroes who paid the toll in blood.The Red Moon of MorrsliebThe green eye of Chaos watches over the world.The Doom of Karak Eight PeaksA dwarf kingdom drowned in vermin and blood.The Founding of the Ubersreik FiveFive strangers, one burning city, endless rat-slaying.The Curse of the Black HungerA hunger that devours all, even the devourer.The Plague of Nurgle in BogenhafenA plague that nearly drowned a town in decay.The Siege of AltdorfThe day the Empire's heart was torn out.The Pact of the VermintideFive souls bound by blood and steel against the ratmen.
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