Editing Vermintide 2 (section)

== Setting ==

Vermintide 2 is set during the End Times, an indeterminate amount of time since the ending of the previous game. After falling into Rasknitt's trap (and thus letting Ubersreik fall), the Ubersreik Five (or Four, doesn't matter)  have ended up in their own castle and banded together again to face the Skaven forces of [[Clan Fester]], along with their new allies: a Chaos Warband dedicated to [[Nurgle]] known as The Rotbloods. Both forces came together as the Pactsworn, their eyes gazed on the fortress town of Helmgart (the border town Bretonnia always conquers within the first 10 turns of an Empire [[Total War: WARHAMMER]] campaign).

Lohner has dialogue indicating [[Anal Circumference|the timeline is smack dab in the middle of the End Times as Louen Leoncouer is already dead]] (Please have mercy [[Matt Ward]])! Due to the presence of a Nurgle-aligned warband, it is possible that the game is set during/after the Fall of Marienburg. The Skaven are up to their usual hijinks (Pillaging, slaughter, slavery... You know, a normal day in Warhammer). Their main objective is trying to build something called the Skittergate [https://youtu.be/uOd7HQoKxcU?t=45| (it's different from that movie which they have never seen, so how would they copy it?)], a portal between Norsca and Helmgart, explaining how the Skaven and their new allies overran the region. The Rotbloods are here to help the Skaven with murder-fucking everyone in the Reikland and bringing great death-death to poor Helmgart. Clan Fester's also out for blood as payback for Ubersreik, even though Ubersreik apparently fell anyway. 

There are a total of thirteen maps in the base campaign. These span: the town of Helmgart itself, where the heroes create a diversion at the Temple of Sigmar before the Hammerman himself purges it of vikings and rats; an Elven temple ruin in the woods where the gang uses a slow-moving puzzle to raise a magic shield; Ussingen, a farming town where the heroes rescue prisoners and later blow up a Chaos supply cache; a Nurgle-blighted canyon with a fortified Chaos Lord's tomb, which the gang destroys to stop the Rotbloods from harvesting his energy; a dense swamp, where the heroes assault the Rotbloods' main war camp and slay their leader, a Nurgle Champion; and quite a lot more besides, culminating in a double assault on the Skittergate and the Rotblood hometown in Norsca, obliterating both of them and saving Helmgart, or what's left of it. The gang is so badass that the shitty army left at Ubersreik was enough to take over while a Skaven-Rotblood alliance couldn't do jack to them. Such is life as a video game protagonist.

The ''Shadows Over Bögenhafen'' DLC has the gang end up in the titular town where they wipe out the Pactsworn a second time and keep a scary daemon sword out of Nurgle's grubby hands over three more maps. ''Back To Ubersreik'' has them enter a magic simulation of Ubersreik being run by Olesya to try to locate some mysterious runes of power in the ''real'' Ubersreik, re-defeating the Skaven in it because she's trying to keep it as "believable" as possible (and also the Rotbloods, who either found a way to break into the simulation or are part of the simulation because Olesya likes messing with our heroes), with three levels from the previous game and a secret fourth you can try out after finding runes from the past levels through a series of tedious puzzles. In the Winds of Magic DLC the Beastmen get involved because the increasingly fucked Reikland now has a meteor crash onto it, and the angry goats surge out of the woods to make a herdstone out of it. Then there's the roguelike ''Chaos Wastes'', given for free to everyone who got the game, wherein Saltzpyre sets up a pilgrimage through the wastes to assuage his waning faith.

An event for the 1 year anniversary (March 2019) gave us "A Quiet Drink," in which the party decides they've done a very good job so far, and deserve a night on the town! Worth playing just for the many custom voice lines for the utterly sloshed characters. ("Queen Kerillian demands MORE ALE!") ("It wouldn't be the same! It wouldn't have the whistle!") While the map was only available on the official realm during the event, it can still be played [https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1694820325 through a mod].

Where the storyline doesn't advance as much through the game, more details can be found on the main site's dev blogs by way of the "Franz Lohner Chronicles", where the old bartender writes down his musings about current events.