Editing Kharadron Overlords (section)

===Broken Realms===
The Kharadron had a relatively small, but very important role to play in the conflicts leading up to what is now called the Era of the Beast.

Their first notable involvement in the conflict was in Chamon, where a veteran Endrinmaster named Humboldsson, at the urging of a mysterious veteran Arkanaut named Gromthi, disobeyed orders and took a prototype skyship called the Redoubtable to investigate a mysterious, massive release of magical power, caused by the [[Seraphon]] and their efforts to violently sever one of the Silver Towers of [[Tzeentch]] from its connection to the realmgates, stranding the heavily-damaged [[daemon]]ic fortress in the Realm of Metal. Ironically, the Redoubtable never even got near the site where the Silver Tower had crashed to earth, as the aether-readings from the corruption of the realmgates by the surprise assault from the forces of [[Be'lakor]] so alarmed the Kharadron that they returned swiftly to the Admiralty Board.

They arrived to the Second Conference of Madralta, as the skyports met to discuss the strange corruption of Chamon's skies that was wreaking havoc on the navigation routes and the aether-gold harvests. As the representatives of each skyport bickered and argued, Humboldsson and Gromthi arrived and breached protocol by interrupting the conference, where Gromthi warned the collected Kharadron that the skies of Chamon were forming into a tremendous spiralling vortex centered on Vindicarum, something that foretold great destruction even to the aerial empire of the sky-dwarves.

Swayed by the elder duardin's words, the Kharadron came to Vindicarum's aid, driving back the forces of [[Be'lakor]] and aiding the locals in rebuilding in exchange for access to the great mass of aether-gold now swirling over the city of Vindicarum.

Amidst the remnants of one of the city’s fallen districts, Gromthi viewed the work being done with satisfaction. It was good, stalwart, neighbourly work – or so he first viewed it. Humboldsson saw it as something more mercenary: the Kharadron had not been moved by Vindicarum’s plight, not by simple sentiment. Theirs was a way of profit and survival, as it had always been. Some great sorrow seemed to come over the elderly Arkanaut, but he offered nothing to refute the claims the Endrinmaster made of necessity. Then, between one puff on his pipe and another, he was gone.

As it would later transpire, Gromthi was none less than the lost duardin god, [[Grungni]]. He would later openly reveal his return, convincing the Celestant-Prime to show clemency to [[Morathi]] for her usurpation of Anvilgard, and revealing a new type of armor for the [[Stormcast Eternals]], Thunderstrike Armor, to breach through the cursed skies created by [[Be'lakor]].

Even beyond the shocking return of their divine patriarch, Kharadron society is struggling. The corruption of Chamon's skies has drastically reshaped and scattered the currents and deposits of aether-gold, crippling the Kharadron's supply of their society's lifeblood. This is made doubly hard by the collapse of so many of Chamon's realmgates, which has disrupted their existing trade network. So the Kharadron are looking to completely rechart both sets of vital routes at the same time, which has made their presence as the premier sky-farers of Order greatly diminish.

One positive that has come of this whole mess? The return of Grungni and his urgings for his children to come together has revitalized all of the disparate duardin factions to some extent. There is greater and friendly communion between Kharadron, [[Fyreslayer]]s and the other unnamed Duardin now than there has been in a long time.