Editing Warhammer: Age of Sigmar (section)

== Soul Wars (2nd Edition) ==

As mentioned above, Nagash's great Necroquake shook the hell out of the fabric of the already-unstable Realms, causing two major things to happen: 

First, magic got Endless, meaning that certain very powerfull spells can now keep themselves going indefinitely, drawing on the inherently magical nature of the Realms until they are forcibly dispelled. Some spells just keep going for ages and ages, ruining whatever they can find. Some even become infamous, inviting great magic-hunting dispellers to go after them for money like bounty hunters.

The other, perhaps more important part is that the dead spirits of the Realms have gotten very restless, and very, ''very'' fucking mad. Ghosts and ghasts rise from their graves to punish the living for being so damn alive, all at the behest of [[Nagash|Skeleface el Hat Grande]], who's shaped them to ironically reflect their crimes in life. They are led by a new Mortarch of Grief, Lady Olynder. [[Sigmar]] sees Nagash's play and raises him the Sacrosanct Chamber, the guards of the Anvil of Apothesis, which recreates Stormcasts after death. This however ends up putting a strain on Stormcast forces, as they are still struggling to the solve the flaw in the Reforging process, and are essentially having to delay that mission in order to deal with these new enemies. Thus begins with the Soul Wars, with all four Grand Alliances scrambling to claim the souls of the dead released by the Necroquake for their own goals.

A more recent side effect of the Necroquake has been the revealing of the Stormvaults—repositories of extremely powerful relics and godlike entities dating back from the Age of Myth. Sigmar had been unable to destroy them, so he used powerful devices he'd "borrowed" from Teclis and modified so that they would cloud the minds of others to hide them away. The Necroquake weakened that concealment, though, and now the Grand Alliances seek to find them and gain control of their contents, either to ensure they do not get loose or to use them against Sigmar. Lady Olynder managed to break one open, containing the soul of [[Katakros]] and Nagash revealed a plan he'd been sitting on for awhile in armies of devoted augmented skeletons called the [[Ossiarch Bonereapers]].

Then Nagash makes his next big move, to capture the Allpoints from Archaon with his armies of Bonereapers. While the final assault on the Varanspire is ultimately met in failure, the Forces of Death have secured a foothold in the Allpoints, fortifying the crap out of the Shyish Realmgate, and becoming an ever present thorn in the side of the Everchosen.