And let me tell you, those were the most dangerous six months of my life.' Can you believe it? For six months straight, it was dark, the sun barely came over the horizon. 7.2 Norscan Structures and Architecture.4.1 The Glottkin and the Fall of Altdorf (2525 IC).3.7 Lord Mortkin's Invasion of Ostland (2515 IC).3.6 The Battle of Nordland Fjord (2502 IC).3.4 The War in the Mountains (2302 - 2390 IC).3.3 Invasions of Bretonnia (947 - 2521 IC).3.2 The Norse Voyages into Lustria (888 IC).2.1 The Great Invasion of the Norsii (-7 IC).Barbarous, hard-bitten and war-like, the men of Norsca are the very epitome the Warriors of Chaos. The Norscans see these alterations as the 'blessings' of their dreadful deities, which empower them to strive above and conquer all who oppose them.

It is for this reason that most, if not all the tribes of the Norsca, are affected to some extent by the power of Chaos, causing their flesh to warp and mutate through the influences of their gods, and their minds to be plunged into the darkest depths of the most violent insanity. As such, no sane Human being would be able to survive in this harsh wasteland with their sanity intact. Norsca is a savage and brutal land, plagued by lethal winters for more than half the year, and worse, lashed perpetually by raging gales of Chaos energies howling down from the ancient ruins of the fallen Warp Gate resting at the very heart of the northern Chaos Wastes. It is the dream of nearly every member of this fierce people to ascend to the ranks of the greatest warriors - to become mighty Champions of Chaos and bear the dread marks of their ruinous gods' favour. Norsemen are, without exception, great warriors, blessed with incredible strength at arms and fearsome demeanours. The brutality of Norse raids has been felt as far abroad as the Witch King's baleful domain of Naggaroth, as well as the mysterious realm of mighty Cathay, for the men of Norsca are reckoned to be perhaps the most adept sailors and navigators in all the world unequaled by any in their courage and reckless thirst for conquest. Warlike and cruel, the Norse are the very epitome of the Warriors of Chaos fanatically devoted champions of the Dark Gods and the baneful scourge of their foes. Fur-clad warriors and berserkers of hairy brawn, these wrathful barbarians sail the seas in fearsome longships and unleash their devastating fury upon the south. Norsca is inhabited by a race of savage and ferocious Men known variously as Norscans, Norsemen or the Norse. Instead, the bleak and brutal landscape is divided amongst the barbaric kingdoms and territories of many bloodthirsty and warlike tribes, ruled by dark-armoured Chaos Champions blessed by the favour of their gods, and who are thus held up as akin to royalty by their brethren. Suffused with the unholy energies of Chaos by its proximity to the ruined Warp Gate of the Old Ones that lies at the northern pole of the Known World, it is a brutal realm where no one ruler holds sway. It is bordered to the south by the frigid waters of the Sea of Claws, to the north by the Kraken Sea and the Realm of Chaos, and to the east by the roving Kurgan tribes of the steppes. Norsca is a peninsula and Human cultural region located in the far north of the Old World, lying on the doorstep of the Chaos Wastes itself.

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