Chaos Wastes
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The Chaos Wastes is a place that features in Warhammer Fantasy.
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The Chaos Wastes
Overview
The Norsca knew it as the Shadowlands but it was also called Umbra (or the Umbra Chaotica).
Locations in the Wastes included:
- Norsca :
- Hill of Bones :
- Floating Mountains :
- Karag Dum :
- Bastion Stair :
- Inevitable City :
- Challenge Stone :
- Eternal Battle :
- Folly of Malofex :
- Fortress of the Damned :
It was inhabited by various mutated forms of plant and animals along with Daemons. Unstable energies change the climate that radically causing mutations to anybody moving there.
Tribes that inhabited the region included:
- Norscan :
- Kurgans :
- Hung
Inhabitants
- Aekold Helbrass :
Notes
- The Chaos Wastes was created by Games Workshop and featured in the setting of the Warhammer Fantasy universe.
In other media
Video games
- In Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, the Chaos Wastes appeared as a map zone in the setting of the MMORPG video game. As stated in the lore, it was found north beyond the frozen Sea of Swords and the forests of Norsca with it appearing as a frigid tundra but was a realm inhabited by the followers of the Chaos Gods. Among the locations situated in the Wastes was the Inevitable City that was headed by the Raven Host who were followers of the Lord of Change.
- In Total War: Warhammer, the Chaos Wastes appear in the setting of the turn-based strategy video game. It was shown as a province that was accessible in the Old World and Mortal Empires campaign that suffered from a high degree of corruption. As stated in the lore, it was a frigid inhospital wasteland to the far north beyond Norsca that was home to the Hordes of Chaos faction and lay close to the northern Chaos Portal that was the source of magic in the world. As a result of the raw chaotic magic, the region was warped with rifts of lava opening from the ground and time glowing in strange ways whilst mutant creatures prowled the lands where mountains were twisted into strange shapes.
- In Vermintide 2, the Chaos Wastes appeared in the setting in the Chaos Wastes free update for the video game.
Appearances
- Warhammer Fantasy:
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