Editing Daughters of Khaine (section)

===Era of the Beast===
Following this, the tentative alliance between Morathi and Sigmar was maintained, though with much more animosity than before. Morathi was allowed to retain control of Anvilgard for the moment, as Sigmar could ill afford another battlefront opening in Aqshy with the forces of Destruction on the rampage. As a show of good faith, she released all the Stormcast prisoners she'd taken unharmed (while also secretly having a look at their stormforged creation as well). In addition, any citizens of the former Anvilgard were permitted to leave to any nearby Sigmarite strongholds should they so desire. Unfortunately only a few of the citizenry were strong enough following the siege and drop in supplies after the war to make the long journey out of Har Kuron, and many of the poorer citizens had nowhere else to go anyway as their homes/livelihoods had always been in the city. So many still decided to take their chances with their new overlords.

While the Daughters' rule of the new city is tyrannical and harsh, for her part Morathi does not want to simply dominate her new subjects but hopes to win converts to her cause. To that end, she stages free arena battles to appease the masses and has Hag Queens go out and preach to the people about Morathi's divinity. However, cracks are beginning to form in her rule. Many of Anvilgard's original population did not survive the original coup, and of the survivors many were Sigmar loyalists, even among their former Scourge Privateer allies. That, combined with the Daughters and their Idoneth allies continuing to purge the surrounding countryside and coastal regions of dissenters, has fueled a growing resentment amongst humans and aelves against Morathi's authority. These once disparate groups of Freeguild soldiers, Wanderer Aelves and even Scourge Privateers have formed resistance movements who try to undermine or completely sabotage her rule.

On top of this, her taking the mantle of Khaine has not been universally accepted by her followers. Many devout Daughters of Khaine have started to see her as a usurper trying to claim the mantle of Khaine himself (the rewriting of history might have been a giveaway). One of the biggest challenges so far came from the ruling Hag Queen of the Kraith, who challenged Morathi directly upon Hag Narr itself before Morathi killed her (though this had the unfortunate side-effect of driving her opponents further underground and making them harder to root out). Even among her loyalists, some consider taking Anvilgard to be too costly in the long run, since it's put them on Sigmar's shitlist. And then members of both groups don't approve of her alliance with the Idoneth Deepkin, who many Daughters of Khaine distrust (and the feeling's mutual), and see their soul-tithe as too extreme even for them. The amount of Khainites working against Morathi has been steadily growing. Ironically, her ascending to godhood has actually caused a greater fissure in her control than when she was mortal. And it's possible Sigmar still plans to make her answer for what she did to Anvilgard; even Grungi realizes he can't act as peacemaker between them forever...

This has also been compounded with disturbing developments with Morathi herself. Witnesses have reported her apparently arguing and screaming at herself in private, and she seems to fluctuate between calm and enraged seemingly at random. Since the splitting of her soul during the Broken Realms saga her essence now resides in two separate individuals, the cunning and charismatic Morathi-Khaine and the angry and embittered Shadow-Queen, and both have been increasingly warring for dominance of their shared soul. Most disturbingly, her Shadow-Queen aspect apparently took her loss to Kragnos harder than originally thought. Feeling humiliated after being dominated in combat by the earthquake god, the monstrous Shadow-Queen in a rage smashed her way out of her own temple and made a beeline straight for Thondia in Ghur to get revenge on the Destruction god. Morathi-Khaine was highly disturbed by this incident and immediately set off with a war host in pursuit of her enraged other half (while also being very worried as her other aspect seems to be developing a will of its own).

Whatever happens things are looking to get a lot bloodier in Thondia very soon...........

While Morathi was gone Har Kuron was once again put into peril. Nagash found out about all the souls she stole from him to ascend to godhood as well as all the ones she gave to the Idoneth to make peace with them. Enraged at the theft of what he saw as his property, but far too weakened to deal with the matter himself, Nagash decides to summon Kurdoss Valentian, the Craven King, since while he’s competent he’s not one of his more powerful generals; thus he's unlikely to try anything after learning of Nagash’s weakened state (plus he knows Kurdoss is desperate to get on his good side). He then tasks Kurdoss to reclaim some souls specifically from Morathi since Nagash still doesn’t know where most of the Idoneth are located. Kurdoss ambushes the city with a massive Nighthaunt army led by both himself and Vayon of the Withered Quill, one of the dreaded Scriptors Mortis, while the majority of the city's standing army are distracted with a grand gladiatorial contest. Reaping a heavy toll on the cities civilian population (especially with the help of Kudross' personal Craventhrone Guard) they cut deep into the city, causing heavy damage. Unfortunately for the Nighthaunt the reaping of souls is cut short when the Daughters realize what’s going on and retaliate faster than anticipated, with High Gladiatrix Yelena and company chasing the Nighthaunt back into the underground catacombs and eventually pushing them out of the city. Regardless, Kurdoss succeeded in his missio by claiming many souls from both the Daughters of Khaine and Har Kuron's civilian population, while also sending a message to Morathi and her allies that Nagash was not finished with them, not by a long shot.