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To War!

W ar approaches once more. In the

playing games to help tell a story set in

one of our gaming worlds.

This time around, we reveal a tale

of the dangerous forests of the

Warhammer world. The Nemesis

Crown, an item of immense magical

potency, was hidden away in the deep

woods of the Empire by its creator

Alaric the Mad many long millennia

past. There, he hoped it would remain

undiscovered and the world free of the

evil he had inadvertently created.

Perhaps it would have been so,

were it not for the activities of a group

of Dwarf Miners who stumbled upon

the crown while investigating an old

mine. News of the discovery has spread

throughout the Old World, and now

armies from many nations are combing

the woods, searching for the crown,

and trying to claim it for their own.

depths of the Great Forest, at

the very heart of the Empire,

armies from all over the world are

engaged in a desperate search for one of

the greatest magical artifacts ever created

– the Nemesis Crown.

The Nemesis Crown is Games

Workshop’s latest worldwide campaign.

These multi-national happenings are your

chance to throw yourself completely into

our gaming universes and immerse yourself

in the visceral experience of tabletop war.

Each campaign has a specially written

storyline, the outcome of which your

games help decide. The hub of the

campaign is an online web site, where you

can post the results of your own battles and

edge your faction closer to victory…or

defeat. These campaigns are a great period

of hobby activity, where everyone is

Dwarf Runesmiths such as

this one are capable of

creating immensely powerful

artifacts. The Nemesis Crown

is one such item.

THE NEMESIS CROWN

Join Games Workshop’s global campaign and

lead your army to glory, as whole nations

struggle for the powerful Nemesis Crown.

Contents

The Story of the

Nemesis Crown

Nemesis

Crown Map

Using the Map

The Contested

Territories

Why We’re

Fighting

Gaming Ideas

Campaign

Details/Sign up

Council of

War Scenario

The Unquiet

Dead Scenario

Blood Beneath

the Branches

Scenario

Events & Mega

Battles in U.S.

Hobby Centers

The campaign charts the struggles of

these armies and presents a chance for

glory for one or more factions. The

campaign is also a chance for you to

meet new opponents and write a glorious

history for your own army in the blood of

your foes and perhaps make a few

friends along the way!

Throughout the period of the campaign,

there will be participation events in Games

Workshop Hobby Centers and independent

retailers as well as at larger gaming events

like Games Days. Through these events

and the games played in your own home

or gaming club, the campaign will take

shape. As the results are reported online,

the campaign’s storyline will unfold on a

weekly basis through a series of ongoing

reports and stories describing the progress

of the war as the hunt for the Nemesis

Crown intensifies. Keep your finger on the

pulse of the conflict by means of regular

web bulletins and Hobby Center activities.

While the history and setting of the

campaign is detailed here, the final result is

up to you, the gamer, to decide. Any

faction can emerge victorious, and it is

possible that there will be more than one

winner. What is certain is that the more

victories you gain for your faction, the

better its chance of winning the campaign.

You can find out more about how to

supplement. There are also more details in

White Dwarf magazine and on the internet.

But first, let us look, my liege, to the

field of battle. The fate of your army, your

honor, and maybe your people rests upon

your shoulders.

The Nemesis Crown awaits you,

somewhere within the beast-haunted

depths of the Great Forest!

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Nemesis

The

For long centuries, the Nemesis Crown has rested hidden

deep beneath the Howling Hills. Few know of its origins, of

its mad creator, or of the terrible curse that will echo down

the ages if ever it is disturbed.

A Bygone Age

Two and a half millennia ago, the Old

World was a wild and benighted land.

Savage beasts and fell beings haunted the

forests and plains, and survival for the

warring tribes of Men who dwelt there

hung ever in the balance. It was into this

savage world that Sigmar was born, and his

first great deed was the rescue of the Dwarf

King Kurgan Ironbeard from a greenskin

raiding party. Ironbeard gifted Sigmar with

a great runic warhammer – Ghal Maraz –

with which Sigmar fought against the

greenskins and ultimately united the

scattered tribes of Man.

Years later, Sigmar and Kurgan stood

together at the Battle of Black Fire Pass,

and in recognition of their great victory,

Kurgan ordered his Master Runesmith to

forge the Runefangs.

Alaric the Mad

That Master Runesmith was Alaric, creator

of some of the greatest weapons ever

wielded in battle. A century in the making,

the Runefangs were gifted to each of the

Empire’s Elector Counts. Some say that the

century Alaric spent toiling at his forge

drove the Runesmith to obsession and

paranoia. His peers considered the

Runefangs Alaric’s greatest achievement,

but the Runesmith himself refused to

accept that he had reached the height of

his art.

Alaric sought a new rune, and in time,

found a variation on the Rune of Kingship

– the Rune of Ages. This rune would not

only retain and distill the wisdom of each

of its bearers and pass it on to those who

followed but also give the bearer control of

his very destiny. Any who carried the rune

would become master of his fate and that

of his entire race.

But Alaric found that no matter what

material he set the Rune of Ages upon, it

would shatter as the last blow was struck.

Stone, iron, gromril, dragon scales – all

proved too weak to contain the mighty

energies of his new Master Rune. He set

out upon a great quest to find a substance

strong enough to bear the rune’s awesome

power. For long decades, Alaric wandered

the dark roads of the Old World, through

mountains and forests. Nowhere could he

locate the material he sought. As time went

on, he became more and more obsessed,

prompting Dwarfs and men to give him a

new name – Alaric the Mad.

While passing along what is now the

Old Forest Road, which at that time, was

little more than a well-trod woodland path,

Alaric was ambushed by a band of Skaven.

Though now aged and stooped, Alaric was

a veteran of many battles and dispatched

the vile ratmen with ease. From nearby, he

felt the presence, as only a Master

Runesmith could, of some unknown but

incredibly powerful ore. He followed his

uncanny instinct. Deep beneath the

knotted roots of a twisted oak, he found a

chunk of material strong enough to hold

the Rune of Ages – warpstone. Alaric

barely hesitated before he pried the chunk

of rock out of the ground. Perhaps his once

wise mind was clouded by his

overwhelming desire to prove himself the

greatest Runesmith the world had ever

seen, or perhaps the evil of the warpstone

reached out and touched his already

weakened powers of reason.

The next chapter of Alaric’s story is

rarely told. It is said that he traveled to the

Grey Mountains, where he constructed a

mighty forge fueled by the volcanic

lifeblood of the peaks. Alaric worked upon

the weirdling ore day and night, until he

had produced a gleaming crown, upon

which was struck the Rune of Ages.

As Alaric looked upon his creation, his

mind cleared. He had been blinded by

madness and obsession. The crown would

not distill the destiny of those who wore it,

but would instead draw out even the

smallest shred of evil intent and transform

him into the vessel for all the malice of

every former wearer.

Alaric was horrified by what he had

created, but he knew that the crown could

not be destroyed. Thus, he resolved to hide

it away. He traveled to the Great Forest

and the wind-swept Howling Hills and

descended into the depths of a worked-out

2 THE NEMESIS CROWN

Crow rescue force led by Thane Grombold of the

famous Krud clan came in search of the

lost miners. During the chaos that

followed, a black-hearted Night Goblin

came upon the crown by chance,

slaughtered his fellows, and fled with it

into the forest.

Now, armies muster to retrieve the

crown, for wild rumors of its powers have

spread far and wide. The Dwarfs seek to

return it to their holds where Alaric’s

madness can be hidden for all time.

Grimgor thinks that, should he gain it, the

strongest warriors in the land will come

to fight him. The Emperor sees in the

crown an invaluable artifact of the

Age of Sigmar and believes that

its power could be harnessed

for the good of Man.

Whoever succeeds, they

will do so only at a terrible

cost in blood – a cost

each is prepared to pay

in the return for

possession of the

Nemesis Crown.

Dwarf mine from the times before the War

of the Beard. There, he sought a place in

which to hide the crown for eternity. Alaric

hewed a chamber from the living rock,

placed the crown within, and sealed the

chamber with the most potent of

warding runes.

Evil Reawakened

The crown lay hidden for many long

centuries. The chamber remained intact,

even as the mine entrance eventually

collapsed upon itself. Then, a mighty

earthquake shook the Howling Hills and

brought tales of fresh gromril seams and

wealth to be had in the area of the old

mine. A band of Dwarf miners was

dispatched to investigate. They found far

more than they had bargained for.

Discovering the uncovered mine workings,

they came upon the breached chamber.

What happened next is unclear, for only a

single Dwarf emerged, blood-splattered

and raving, into the light.

A short time later, a band of Night

Goblins, ever on the search for new cracks

and crannies to infest, came upon the

mine, where they found the insane Dwarf

and his dead companions. The lone miner

was captured by greenskins, who discerned

from his rantings that an object of great

power was to be found somewhere in their

new lair. The Goblins tortured the mad

Dwarf but could get little more from him.

Perhaps the location of the Crown would

thus have remained secret, but a Dwarf

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