Young Sigmar Heldenhammer - prince of the Unberogen tribe and savior of Astofen - had
won the first of many great victories in a heroic fashion and a once-dangerous horde
of marauding Greenskins was now nothing but ashen corpses.
But there were far greater deeds to be done and many more adventures to be embarked upon
before Sigmar could create his empire and take his place as the greatest human ever
to exist.
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In the aftermath of the triumph near Astofen in -15IC, the Unberogen civilization appeared
to be on an upward track.
Agricultural production was at a surplus, freeing the craftsmen to weave great tapestries,
create lavish jewelry and train their apprentices in these and a dozen other trades.
Unberogen forges learned Dwarven secrets in the crafting of fearsome new iron equipment,
industry boomed and warriors were sent to aid the allied Endal tribe of King Marbad.
But there were also cracks in the armour.
The brother of dead Trinovantes - a young swordsman known as Gerreon accused the prince
of leading his sibling to death at Astofen.
Moreover, he bristled that his sister Ravenna loved such a man and secretly formed a pact
with the malevolent powers of Chaos in the hope of getting revenge.
But for several years yet the pattern of regular life continued - beastmen incursions were
repelled, new warriors trained and slowly but surely the foundations for Sigmar’s
envisioned empire were laid.
The course of history began to accelerate when in -9 IC, a deluge of desperate Cherusen
refugees descended upon Reikdorf from the north.
With them came emissaries from their king - Aloysis and Krugar of the neighboring Taleuten
tribe, bringing dire tidings.
6,000 daemon-worshipping Norsii warriors had landed in wolfships, cutting through all in
their path.
The envoys offered their monarchs’ sacred sword oaths1 to King Bjorn if he marched to
war with them.
Realising the Chaos marauders would come for his people next if he allowed his brother
kings to fall, Bjorn accepted the plan, ordering Sigmar to remain behind while he went north
with 3,000 men.
Sigmar, although dissatisfied at being appointed to serve as regent in his father’s stead,
proved competent in the realm of administration.
The young of his tribe began to receive education in history, geography, and other fields, while
a rotational farming system was instituted to give the people more time for other pursuits.
However, the viper was ready to strike and when Sigmar took his love Ravenna to a beautiful
spot along the River Reik, Gerreon attacked.
In the struggle, Ravenna was killed and Sigmar mortally wounded, sent floating down the river.
In the north, Bjorn and the other monarchs attacked the Norsii army, with the Unberogen
king slaying a red-armored Chaos warlord at the direction of a witch Grainne, but suffering
mortal wounds in return.
In order to save Sigmar, who was on the very brink of death, Bjorn’s spirit and that
of his son ventured together in the purgatory of the Grey Vaults, where they fought the
terrible daemons of chaos for the fate of mankind.
At the end of this aethereal clash, King Bjorn died and Sigmar woke in the company of his
companions, his physical form having been found in the river by a fisherman.
In -7 IC, the Unberogen army returned to Reikdorf in a mourning triumph.
A feast was held to honour the fall of Bjorn and the coronation of Sigmar, attended by
rulers of tribes from far and wide.
Among their number was the trident-wielding warrior-queen of the Asoborns - Freya, Krugar
of the Taleutens, Marbad of the Endals, Aloysis of the Cherusens, and Kurgan Ironbeard of
Karaz-a-Karak.
It was at this raucous meeting that King Sigmar first proclaimed his dream of empire.
Once Bjorn’s tomb was sealed, the new Unberogen ruler ordered a muster for the following year.
Then, after the spring thaw of -6 IC, Sigmar led 3,000 warriors to launch a punitive expedition
against the Norsii.
En route, he called upon the sword oaths received from the northern kings and joined their forces
with his own.
Then the kings rode to the lands of the Udoses, where they rescued a beleaguered King Wolfila
of Udoses from the northern raiders.
The Norsii were crushed in battle, and then deviously permitted to retreat to the coast
where their ships incinerated when they attempted to sail away.
With the campaign a success and Wolfila now his firm ally, Sigmar bid farewell to his
allies and marched south.
Going via an alternate route by skirting the northern edge of the Middle Mountains, the
Unberogen king came to the mountaintop fastness of perhaps the most stubborn of his brother-kings
- Artur of the Teutogens.
This king’s power was in the ascendancy just as Sigmar’s and he had chosen to use
that newfound power to ravage Unberogen lands, particularly the settlement of Ubersreik,
whilst declining to aid against the common Norsii foe.
Sigmar decided it was time to knock Artur down a peg or two.
The Teutogen monarch had grown arrogant atop his fortress-pinnacle - the formidable Fauschlag
Rock, and refused to come down to treat with the Unberogen encamped outside his walls.
Sigmar, delivering on a threat he had issued, personally climbed the sheer cliff face and
crags before slaying Artur in single combat.
By right of conquest, Sigmar thus claimed kingship over the Teutogens.
Sigmar then went home again, arriving in the summer of -5 IC.
There was barely time to rest before he leapt into action again.
When summer cooled into autumn, Sigmar assembled a tribute caravan of the highest quality warhorses,
weaponry, and armour his people could produce.
Bringing a small force along with him, the king marched into Asoborn territory and delivered
his gift to the flamehearted warrior-queen Freya.
In return for such boons, and for a night of passion with the Unberogen king, the Asoborn
charioteers of the eastern plains became firm allies with Sigmar’s people.
The year after that, Sigmar joined battle with an army of recalcitrant Thuringian berserkers
under their bellicose king - Otwin.
Amidst the fearsome clash, the ultimate outcome of which was never in doubt thanks to Unberogen
military prowess, Sigmar bested Otwin in single combat just as he had bested Artur.
The defeated Thuringian surrendered with the words “You have a heart of stone, King Sigmar,
but by the gods you are a warrior to walk the road to Ulric’s Hall with!”
With Otwin’s sword-oath now his, Sigmar returned home with the intent of resting a
while.
It was not to be.
The same witch who had indirectly saved Sigmar through Bjorn now appeared to Sigmar directly.
She warned the king of struggles to come, that followers of the chaos gods were provoking
the Greenskins into a war that would be unequalled in its scale.
It would be a war to eliminate everything Sigmar hoped to build before it could be.
The only hope was for the unity of mankind, and for that to happen Sigmar had to venture
southeast by himself, to the faraway lands of the mercantile Brigundians.
Sigmar, now in his late twenties, arrived at the Brigundian capital of Siggurdheim after
weeks of travel and presented himself before the appropriately named King Siggurd.
The ascendant warrior-chieftain put forward his idea of unity and common cause against
the evils of the world.
Wily and always in the market for profit, Siggurd requested Sigmar’s aid to rid his
kingdom of a truly ancient evil - a monstrous dragon ogre Skaranorak - a colossus of the
primordial world.
If the Unberogen king succeeded, all the better.
If he didn’t, that was the removal of a possible rival.
But when Sigmar ventured into the mountains and confronted Skaranorak, he smote the malicious
creation with Ghal Maraz and put an end to its evil forever, fulfilling his part of the
oath.
Sigmar’s reward was yet another step toward the unification he so desperately desired
for the race of man.
Not only did Siggurd offer his sword-oath in thanks, but so did the rulers of the two
tribes over which he held suzerainty - Markus of the Menogoths and Henroth of the Merogens.
By the time the Unberogen king reached Reikdorf- now a city rather than a mere town, in late
-3IC the Greenskins were already on the march.
Ostagoth lands of king Adelhard in the northeast were being laid waste, while the Merogens
and Menogoths were besieged in their great holdfasts by Orcs armies, who rampaged across
the southeast with impunity.
Realising that the Grainne’s foretelling had been true, Sigmar raised forces from his
brother-kings and launched a campaign in the east.
At last, in -2 IC, he confronted a great Greenskin host at the Battle of the River Aver, halting
its brutal advance at the cost of 10,000 warriors.
That was just the beginning.
In our next episode we will see how the war against the Orks and the Battle of Black Fire
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