Editing Karak Eight-Peaks (section)

==History==
Trouble started shortly after the War of Vengeance; the dwarfs returned home, battle weary and weakened by their conflict with the elgi. Nature was the first to attack when volcanic activity shook the entirety of the Worlds Edge Mountains. Earthquakes and lava flow wrecked the numerous holds and tunnels the dwarfs called home, though they mostly stayed within the confines of their holds, content to batten down the hatches and weather the storm. These natural disasters would go on to cause more problems; rampaging hordes of Greenskins barreled into the Mountains from the Darklands. They sensed weakness from the dwarfs and began throwing themselves at the holds in a mad attempt to wipe the stunties off the map. Things got worse when the opportunistic Skaven rose from the dark mountainous depths to attack the dwarfs from below. Despite being surrounded on all sides by a sea of enemies, Karak Eight-Peaks remained strong.

Then the Skaven did what they did best and hatched a scheme that would ensure their control of the Karak. First they convinced the local Greenskin tribes to stop fighting one another and make a unified push against the dwarfs’ upper levels. Meanwhile the Skaven coordinated their own attacks on the lower reaches of the hold. Once they were deep enough into the Karak, the ratkin began the next phase of their plan. They poisoned the dwarfs’ water supply with warpstone shards, further weakening their grasp on the hold. Additionally, new weapons like the Warp-Fire Thrower proved to be the perfect tool in melting away the famed dorf shield walls. When the unrelenting raids from Skaven and Greenskins, and choking on their own water, proved to be too much, the reigning King Lunn made his final decree to seal off the vaults of the Karak and gave the order to abandon ship. 

Greenskins now controlled the upper and surface levels of Karak Eight-Peaks, while the Skaven controlled the lower depths. Predictably the Skaven turned on their former allies, hellbent on claiming the whole Karak for themselves. During one of their attacks, Clan Mors was able to collapse one of the upper levels, blocking the way down for the Greenskins to retaliate. The [[Council of Thirteen]] then rewarded Clan Mors by allowing them to take the fallen Karak as their new home, which they would rename to the City of Pillars.

Things weren’t looking well for the Greenskins, especially when the Night Goblins of the Crooked Moon tribe were cut in half following Mors’ ascension. Then along came an unusually cunning and charismatic gobbo who unified the rowdy Greenskins and regained a solid foothold in the Karak. That goblin would later gain a proper name, Warlord [[Skarsnik]], and his name would become infamous amongst all the World’s Edge Mountains, with an entire chapter in the Great Book of Grudges dedicated to his atrocities alone (he’s quite proud of it). Equally fearsome would be the new skaven warlord placed in charge of the Pillar City, [[Queek Head-Taker]]. Skarsnik and Queek would clash many times under the mountains, but soon a third party joined the fray. [[Belegar Ironhammer]], last descendant of King Lunn, leads a throng of dwarfs into the mountains to reclaim his ancestral home. So far they’ve managed to claim a sizable portion of the Karak’s surface, though they face stiff resistance from goblins and skaven alike. 

Such is life in Karak Eight-Peaks.

===[[The End Times]]===
When the Verminlord [[Skreech Verminking]] told all of Skavenblight to get their shit together, one of the big steps in his plan was to finally claim all of the Eight-Peaks in the name of the Horned Rat. So he approached Skarsnik and gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse; work with Queek to drive out the Dwarfs and then the Skaven and Greenskins will split the Eight-Peaks 50/50. Now Skarsnik probably knew he was gonna be backstabbed but figured he could think of a way to turn things his way like he always did, so he accepted.

Meanwhile at roughly the same time, Belegar had hired the services of famed Ogre mercenary Golgfag Maneater and his eponymous Maneaters to bolster his throng (despite the fact he was borderline broke and had promised the Ogres way more money than he actually had). However, Belegar forced Golgfag and his crew to eat/kill all of their Gnoblar companions on account of the Dawi’s “No Greenskin” policy. This put a chip on Golgfag’s shoulder, one that Skarsnik was able to exploit. The Night Goblin Warlord found out about the Maneaters and bribed them to switch sides by offering his own treasury of loot, including the lost crown of the original Dwarf Kings of Eight-Peaks.

So the final battle came and for a slight glimmer of hope, it looked like Belegar and his dawi would win...only for Golgfag to backstab him at the last minute. It was all downhill from there, ending with Belegar Ironhammer being decapitated by Queek. To no one’s surprise, the Skaven turned on the Goblins and were able to route them thanks to Skreech Verminking’s magic. Skarsnik was already planning his next schemes when the real tragedy happened.

Gobbla ate a Skaven Packmaster whole, who then clawed its way out of the great cave squig’s belly, killing him.

On that day, Skarsnik become the first Greenskin to ever feel remorse, losing any will to fight he had left. Then Skreech appeared to Skarsnik one last time, giving him a Skryre warp-bomb and suggesting he should go on a suicide mission to Karaz-A-Karak. Not to be manipulated again, Skarsnik instead activated the bomb right there and bolted…but the Skaven disarmed the bomb anyway so that did nothing. 

Oh and Golgfag Maneater somehow got out after Belegar died and joined up with Grimgor’s Beast Waaagh! to lay siege to the Chaos Dwarfs.