Editing Southlands (section)

==Warhammer Southlands==
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The '''Southlands''' are the [[Warhammer Fantasy|Warhammer World]]'s analogue to Sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile the northern half of Africa is covered by [[Araby]] and [[Nehekhara]], while the area vaguely corresponding to the Arabian Peninsula and Middle East are the [[Badlands]]. It's often stated that it's not a part of the [[Old World]], which in the Warhammer universe is mostly just Europe.

Most of it is jungles and swamps filled to the brim with [[lizardmen]] and dinosaurs... so, just a copy of [[Lustria]]. The lore explains this by saying that in the ancient past, the Southlands and Lustria were joined together (just like Africa and South America were in real life). The Old Ones sundered the continents and created the Great Ocean to make conditions more favorable for the younger races.

===Factions of the Southlands===
Besides the lizards, there is an abandoned dwarf fortress, Karak Zorn, which is rumored to be the oldest dwarf stronghold ever, and The Fortress of Dawn, an outpost established by the Ulthuani Elves.

There's also an ape-like breed of Beastmen called Apemen, and the Skaven- [[Clan Pestilens]] has their capital here, and they were accompanied by [[Clan Festerlingus]], who resided in the Mangrove Coast before Clan Moulder ordered Deathmaster Snikch to see to the destruction of Clan Festerlingus for butting in on the Warbeast market with their Ratigator experiments.

Baseless fan speculation is that the Patron God of the Apemen is the Minor Chaos God Phraz-Etar, as a reference to the "[[Frazetta Man]]" trope, started when [[Frank Frazetta]], Phraz-Etar's namesake, used to do illustrations of Ape monsters for Conan the Barbarian comics.

The Apemen are mentioned as occasionally going north into the savannahs surrounding the southernmost city of Araby, Ka-Sabar, to make raids.

Mentions of Forest Goblins and Savage Orcs living in the jungles are also made, so Greenskins have staked a claim in the jungle as well.

===Native Southlanders===
It's stated that there actually are dark-skinned humans living here as well (NOT the [[Pygmies (Warhammer Fantasy)|Pygmies]], those PR nightmares live in Lustria).

The Southlanders who live along the border of Araby were influenced by Arabyan culture, and they also intermarried with Arabyans. Aside from these, much of their cultures were unknown, but presumably primitive due to their isolation. It could be extrapolated that the Apemen of The Southlands are the result of random births (as well as their own breeding) from amongst the villages of the Southlands, much the same as expecting mothers in the Empire have to fear giving birth to Gors and Ungors.

Considering that they lived near the Lizardmen, perhaps they would had built their own cultures and kingdoms too. Alas, as with Araby, GW was more focused on the more popular factions, so this was left to the realm of [[homebrew]]. ([https://forums.totalwar.com/discussion/259707/making-up-ideas-for-warhammer-southlands Example])

It could be possible that the [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/06/01/roll-models-no-001-familiar-battlefield/#comictop darker-skinned characters] in [[Age of Sigmar]] might be descendants of surviving Southlanders who were revived along with the other humans in the Mortal Realms.

===Notable Southlander characters===
Fortunately, the writers at Games Workshop had not forgotten about the native Southlanders, so they made several notable characters among this mostly-unknown people:

* Keiti Ouala - In WFRP 4e: Enemy in Shadows Companion, she is mentioned as a merchant from the Southlands who trades jewellery, furs from local wildlife, rare spices and metals, and coffee. Keiti Ouala is also an eloquent speaker, and she likes gambling and drinking.
* Unnamed mute slave - He was mentioned as a slave who worked for the Imperial actress from Marienburg, Lilli Nissen, in the novel Drachenfels. After she was replaced by another actress after she was traumatised by the eyeless face of the bounty hunter Anton Veidt, his further fate is unknown, whether Lilli still kept him or he was released.
* Queen Nitocris of the Southlands - a vampire who used to live in the swamplands in the northeast, mentioned in the novel The Serpent Queen. She used to rule her own tribe and fend off raids from an Indish army, avenging her mother's death by killing the Khornate warriors who murdered her. [[Neferata]] turned her into a vampire and used her in the former's wars against her rival [[Khalida]]. She was slain by [[Gotrek & Felix|Gotrek Gurnisson]]. She may be a reference to Queen of Sheba, who is believed to come from Ethiopia, and is featured in many works from the Victorian Era about Africa, including ''King Solomon's Mines''.

===Gallery===
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The Southlands.jpg|The Southlands proper.
Map Southlands 1.jpg|A more detailed map of the Southlands.
Warhammer Southlanders.jpg|Native Southlanders.
Keiti Ouala.jpg|A Southlander character from the 4th Edition, Keiti Ouala, a merchant.
Keiti Ouala stats.png|Stats for Keiti Ouala.

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