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== Story ==

The story goes that all things that perish in the sea -- creatures, people, and ships -- make their way to the Galleon's Graveyard, a realm on the border of life and death, forming the Dreadfleet. [[Count Noctilus]], a [[Vampire Count]] with a ship called the ''Bloody Reaver'' which was [[Space Hulk|made up of shipwrecks forming a giant ship]] inside of which was a castle on a small mountain (yes, the ships in the game were of a very large scale), used a big magical ceremony to take command of the Dreadfleet, and he and his villainous allies wreaked havoc with it. He was joined by [[Skaven]] who had used warpstone and machinery to make a giant dead sea monster named Skabrus into a boat, a pissed-off [[Tomb King]] named [[King Amanhotep]] with a boat called ''Curse of Zandri'' which was a giant barge with his pyramid tomb moved onto it like a houseboat and was crewed by Ushtabi, a ghost ship called ''Shadewraith'' captained by a ghost named [[Vangheist]] that was under the power of Noctilus, and a [[Chaos Dwarf]] robot [[Daemon]] squid ship called the ''Black Kraken'' captained by Tordrek Hackhart.

Eventually, he pissed off a bunch of powerful people with huge ships from the "good" races in various ways. Their side consisted of a ship from the Cult of Sigmar called the ''Heldenhammer'' that sports a cathedral on board (yes, we have cathedral ships in Fantasy too) and a giant robot [[Sigmar]] statue at the helm which was stolen by a [[Sartosa|Sartosan]] whose family Noctilus killed for lulz, a [[High Elf]] Dragon Ship (canonically the most powerful things in the watery parts of the world in the Warhammer universe) called the ''Seadrake'' which consisted of fortified towers and live dragons, the ''Flaming Scimitar'' from [[Araby]] which was powered by djinn of different elements and was essentially a spellcaster ship, the ''Swordfysh'' which was... kinda spiky. It was crewed by a woman named [[Aranessa Saltspite]] born with [[Chaos Mutant|Chaos mutations]] giving her spiky skin and weak [[merfolk|mermaid]]-like legs. She replaced those legs with swordfish spikes, making her the only being that even [[Slaanesh]] wouldn't bang (or would he/she/it?!). Finally, the ''Grimnir's Thunder'' was a [[Dwarf]] ship which was an ironclad aircraft carrier that launched multiple zeppelin bombers whose captain Red Brokk Gunnarsson had a Grudge with Hackhart.

Canonically, as relayed in the Dreadfleet novella (by [[Phil Kelly]]), the forces of Order defeated the forces of Destruction by chasing them into the Galleon's Graveyard and sealing the central whirlpool with a massive magical explosion. The Sartosan, along with basically everyone else, died at the end. Oh, and the Arabyan turns out to be a Tzeentch wizard, who takes over the Galleon's Graveyard. Just as planned. Amanhotep survived, or at least regenerated, and eventually made his way back to Nehekhara just in time to get his ass kicked by the forces of [[Nagash]] in [[End Times]], then used as a redshirt getting his ass kicked by Chaos offscreen until the world ended and GW squatted his faction. Damn.

In an alternate universe in the [[Total War: WARHAMMER]] video game things ended differently. Noctilius and Saltspite survived, the former still controlling Galleon's Graveyard and the latter incorporating undead into her crew and generally mucking about in the Old World. Roth(main good guy that stole the Sigmar cathedral ship) has survived and is unaccounted for but has apparently lost his Moondial used to reach the Maelstrom and Heldenhammer was sunk and the Golden Magus seemingly died in this continuity, though it could simply be a ship called "Golden Magus" as the map showing it marks names of ships rather than the captains. The fate of the others in the TWW continuity is presently unknown, though Aranessa does taunt the High Elves about the High Elf prince's disappearance.