Editing The End Times (section)

===[[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|The Empire]]===
* Some time ago, a minion of Queen Neferata gave Balthazar Gelt, head of the Colleges of Magic and the Gold Order, a scroll containing information that Gelt used to create a magical set of uber anti-chaos wards; using ritual circles all around the countryside fueled by both arcane and divine magics, he created a FUCKHUGE stone wall (which contained a Great Unclean One), too high for any Chaos monstrosity to fly over and capable of healing any damage inflicted to it. This wall surrounded the borders of (what was once) Kislev and kept the hordes of Chaos out, but was constantly in danger of being breached. Seeing this, Vlad secretly gave Gelt a copy of one of Nagash's books, and Gelt was tempted to reading it. At one climatic battle where Chaos managed to breach the wall and kill all of Gelt's mystic allies, he was left with the choice between raising the dead and having a breach he could not stop. Thinking it was for the good of the Empire, he chose the former option. Having switched to Necromancy from Metal magic, he started playing with corpses and being pretty outspoken about using the undead in place of regular soldiers.  After being outed publicly, he was confronted by Aldebrand Ludenhof, the local Elector Count, whom he killed after the count tried to kill him after refusing to see things his way. The wards failed as a result of Gelt's actions (the Sigmarites refused to have anything to do with him, including helping with the wards, which as mentioned need their faith to work), the Gold Order dissolved in the wake of Witch Hunter inquisitions while the Colleges of Magic appointed a new head. Regardless, Necromancy has begun to spread through the Empire.
* Even though Storm of Chaos never happened, [[Volkmar the Grim]] was still killed by Archaon and then resurrected to serve Be'lakor as his personal standard<!--White Dwarf Weekly #28: Codex Apocrypha -->. He managed to free himself and strike down his captors with his chains before returning to the Empire. A year later, he went off to have it out with Mannfred von Carstein over the latter's leaving the Empire (a strongly-worded letter would have been just as effective). Clearly that didn't go as well as Volkmar (and only Volkmar) expected, and he was captured. In captivity he was constantly plagued with nightmares of Nagash and was brutally beaten to an inch of his life, only kept alive through magic. After putting him through the worst shit you can imagine (GW must HATE this guy), he finally was sacrificed along with Aliathra and the Fey Enchantress. During their ritual to resurrect Nagash, Volkmar's hand was chopped off and replaced by Nagash's, all [[Vecna]]-style, allowing Nagash to (very painfully) takes possession of his body, and mutating it to become the new Nagash we all know and love.  Being a daemon's flag doesn't sound so bad after all...
* The new head of the Colleges of Magic is Martak of the Amber Order, meaning one of the wizards of the Lore of Beasts is, ironically, fighting to preserve civilisation.
* The Reik is strangled by grave moss, which creeped inland during the Glotts' invasion. Strangely, no one in Altdorf thinks to attempt to burn it clear.
* Archaon immediately ordered an invasion after that to help out the recently freed Great Unclean One, led by [[Aekold Helbrass]]. Aekold, lacking the patience to follow instructions, destroyed Kislev instead sending refugees running to the Empire. Crom was sent off to a fight he'd probably die in. He also sent a very large chunk of Nurgle's champions, including three great Warrior lords and the fucking [[Glottkin]], to cut down south and destroy Altdorf. 
* As the combined forces of the Empire waited to make a stand against Crom's force, they were joined by Gelt and Vlad's massive Undead army (and his PR campaign looking for recruits) who are now keeping Archaon and the combined forces of Chaos at bay (despite some Blood Dragons having other ideas). 
* [[Karl Franz]] and Deathclaw were bested by the leader of the Blood Dragons that broke from Vlad's relief forces (who turned to Khorne worship, of all the vampires they were probably the worst ones to send up north) in solo combat against him and his dragon. After taking a sword through the chest and falling hundreds of feet to the ground and somehow surviving, he crawled his way to a Chaos camp where Deathclaw was awaiting slaughter. The two managed to make their way through the massive hordes of Chaos back to Altdorf, where he took command of the defense forces. After Louen Leoncoeur's men broke through the Chaos lines, Karl was left dying by [[Glottkin|Otto Glott]] on the Altar of Sigmar. Sigmar made him the host of the Wind of Heaven. His power then burned away all Undead, all Chaos, and even the dirt, dust, oil, weeds, the remnants of the plague victims in the quarantined districts that have been rotting away for decades, and so forth until Altdorf (what remained) was a city of light. Deathclaw fought a Chaos Spawn during the battle and has not been seen since. Since Karl Ascended has him on Deathclaw however, he likely survived. 
* During the battle, the forces of Chaos directed most of their efforts against the various temples of the human pantheon. Barring the powers of Sigmar in Valten/Karl Franz and the powers of Morr that were stolen by Nagash, the human pantheon is too diminished to be a factor now.
* [[Kurt Helborg]] was killed by Otto Glott in the battle as well.
* Vlad was officially made an Elector Count again after he kicked some ass initially, and his forces mopped up all the Chaos troops left outside the city. Festus was personally killed by Vlad, who then stabbed Otto with his sword which put Otto's blood into Vlad automatically, and since Otto was a champion of Nurgle it, forced him to fuck off while vomiting every minute or so. Fortunately for him, this meant that he escaped being incinerated after Franz ascended.
* Schwarzhelm and Luthor Huss, plus Valten and Ghal Maraz, are MIA from the battle in Altdorf. 
* Marienburg, Talabheim, and Altdorf are the three cities destroyed by Nurgle's forces. Altdorf is still in human hands, and although it has been partially destroyed and suffered a fair amount of population loss, it's also blessed and radiating Heavens magic.
* [[Genevieve Sandrine du Pointe du Lac Dieudonné]] is now canon, thanks to Drachy being canon again. Somewhere in the Empire, a Wuxia French Lahmian/Blood Dragon Vampire blessed by Sigmar and her epic level Bard hubby are waiting to fuck up the first Chaos or Nagashi minions who try to leave her inn without leaving a tip. She likely survived despite being Undead, as in her book series she became the champion of Sigmar temporarily and glowed in a similar manner to the way Karl did but on a one-room scale which burned away Drach's body resulting in his present bodiless state. What happened to her after Altdorf is destroyed by the skaven is unknown. 
* After the Altdorf battle, Emperor Franz gives a cryptic line saying the "rules have changed". Likely, this references the loss of Morr's afterlife, but it could mean something else entirely. ''End Times: Khaine'' reveals that Sigmar guided the Wind of Heaven to the Empire and used it to clean Nurgle's taint and Emperor Karl Franz. Seeing as the Vortex collapsed just as the battle of Altdorf was ending, he was probably talking about the rules of magic.
* Skaven led by [[Thanquol]] and [[Skreech Verminking]] undermine Nuln, stealing its supplies of blackpowder and killing most of the population.
* Altdorf later falls to combined depredations of Beastmen and Skaven. Karl Franz and Schwarzhelm lead the Bretonnians, the knightly orders and the bulk of the empire forces to Averheim, while Valten and Gregor Martak lead a diversionary force up north. 
* Boris Todbringer goes mad with obsession towards Khazrak One-eye that he abandons the defense of Middenheim to go after him, believing that his rival was the reason for the End times. They both get into a duel where Boris wins but gets ripped to shreds by the beastmen around him. 
* Archaon has taken Middenheim and killed several of the Empire's defenders. Valten, Martak and company are killed there while fighting the Skaven. Valten manages however to deliver an awesome "I pity you" speech to Archaon beforehand however. Ulric also dies after Teclis takes the flame, but he has just enough juice left to empower Martak.
* The Incarnates manage to retake Middenheim, and together with Teclis attempt to reverse the destruction to the world. Balthasar Gelt is stabbed by Mannfred however, causing Teclis to explode, which then causes the world to end. 
* Karl Franz is revealed to have become Sigmar himself during the final battle. He bonds with Deathclaw, who is killed in the final battle, and explains that when he wandered and became a god Tzeentch trapped him within the Wind of Heavens (interestingly making it possible for Vampires before End Times to utilize the powers of Sigmar himself). Sigmar also gives a speech to Archaon, lecturing him, and the two vanish into the Warp as the world ends wrestling for Ghal Maraz. 
* The Halflings of the Moot, who did nothing for End Times, flee to Sylvania along with the last of the Human race. As a giant wall of nothingness draws closer, Neferata and Khalida hold hands as their combined Old World and Nehekharan Undead armies defend the last living beings for as long as possible.