Editing The End Times: Vermintide (section)

== Setting ==

It's The End Times. The entire World of Warhammer is about to get torn a new one by every evil army in the setting, and it all begins right here.

The [[Skaven]] have been plotting a series of mass invasions of the surface world, and one of the first targets on their list is the Empire city of Ubersreik. Their goal: complete destruction of the city and the deaths or enslavement of its populace. Their means of accomplishing this: a huge force of [[Clan Fester]]'s unluckiest rats. Standing between the hordes of ratty death and the lives of the Empire's good and loyal citizens are five "heroes" who, for one reason or another, just happen to be passing through at the right time.

With the help of the local Grey Wizard, a quick-thinking Ubersreik tavern keeper manages to set up a magically-concealed base of resistance in the Red Moon Inn. With the streets outside covered in rats, it's up to our plucky band of misfits to save the day - by securing the Red Moon Inn from attack, making sure the rest of the resistance is properly supplied, and finally crushing the Grey Seer responsible for leading the assault and thus saving the city, in that order.

Of course, since this ''is'' The End Times, it's all basically moot in the end - while the heroes do succeed in driving Clan Fester off, the ending narration for the game mentions that, even as the citizens of Ubersreik start rebuilding the shattered city, the borders of the Empire are coming under siege. But, hey, y'know. Still pretty badass.

Now has four downloadable mission pack expansions: '''Castle [[Drachenfels]]''', which sees our heroes traveling to the titular fortress of doom to stop the Skaven from retrieving several powerful artifacts that the nasty old wizard left lying about, '''Karak Azgaraz''', wherein the Dwarfs are roused to battle and another artifact is retrieved, '''Stromdorf''', where our heroes attempt to ruin Clan Fester's search for new friends and '''Death on the Reik''', a wild goose chase after stolen books taking place first in Reikwald, and then on the titular River Reik. Shortly before the release of [[Vermintide 2]], one extra mission, '''Waylaid''', was added, which features Skaven attacking the Red Moon Inn and leads directly into the sequel. 

Fatshark has even stated that, since the game has been so surprisingly popular, Games Workshop has declared intent to make the whole thing canon. Which is cool. Also making [[Warhammer 40K: Darktide]].