Editing Mortkin (section)

===The Invaders from the South===
During 2512 IC, the Norscan raids against [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|The Empire]] were particularly vicious and took a rather heavy toll, both in men and stuff nicked. This was due to the winds of magic blowing mutations and "nasty chaos stuff" down through Norsca which invigorated the tribes to do more to please their gods. Because of all the loses from the raids, the [[Elector Count]] of Ostland, [[Valmir von Raukov]], suggested a new strategy. Instead of doubling his defences like [[Nordland]], he led an expedition which sailed from [[Ostland]] and targeted key port and sea-fairing towns along the southern part of the Norscan coast. The expedition was also supposed to punch through into mainland Norsca and destroy other key elements, but the land and locals proved to be a bit much and would have required a larger force to be effective. Despite this, the expedition was a success as multiple Norscan towns had been levelled and it would take years for the Norscans to rebuild them, if they ever did. The Norscan populations reaction ranged from respect for a bunch of southlanders brave enough to go on the offensive and travel north, to anger for the Empire daring to do to them, what they do to the Empire every year.

One of the towns targeted by the Ostland campaign was [[Ulfennik]], which had been razed to the ground and when Mortkin heard of this he locked himself in his dark tower to brood. The loss of his hometown weighed heavily on Mortkin as it was another piece of his former life that had been stripped away, but along side the sorrow was an anger so deep that not even your worse nightmares could imagine, and Mortkin decided that the best thing to alleviate his grief was a spot of revenge. So Mortkin and his followers headed north to the chaos wastes to amass an great army. In the Chaos Wastes Mortkin was able to gain the favour of all four gods to lead their armies south and bring ruin to the Empire, and killed or inducted chaos lords and warbands into his host which also including the dragon and giant he bound to his service as well as a bunch of Chaos Dwarfs and a legion of Khorne [[Daemons]] led by a [[Bloodthirster]]. He also got possession of the Hellfire sword (yeah the same Hellfire sword from the [[Warhammer/Tactics/8th Edition/Warriors of Chaos|Army Book]]) and a bunch of daemons also that started to advise to Mortkin about how best to attack the Empire, advice Mortkin ignored. After amassing his host, Lord Mortkin marched his armies south collecting more Norscan tribes and Chaos warbands to his banner, further swelling his army as he entered [[Kislev]]. Multiple Ungol tribes spotted the approaching war host and got out the way to start picking off parts of the armies and warn the rest of Kislev, however Mortkin had no real desire to attack the Kislevites and his host only attacked the city of Tzeskagrad for resources and he continued his march straight into Ostland where he started to track down some [[Beastmen]] Warherds to add to his armies. His scouts found the Beastmen tribes led by Ul-Ruk the Red [[Ulric|(no relation)]], and were able to convince them to join Mortkin when their Shamans saw visions of Mortkin leading the armies of chaos south and bringing great destruction on the Empire.

With his army list finished, Mortkin smashed aside the Empire and Kislevite army that had formed to stop him and split his forces to spread out and destroy the cities of Ostland while killing as many members of the Elector counts family as he could, including Vamirs wife. Mortkin was personally chasing down the counts son as he had been one of the key members in the destruction brought to the south of Norsca and Ulfennik. Eventually Mortkin tracked him down to Volganof, the ancestral home of Vamirs family and his ancestral line, and the rest of Mortkins armies converged outside the city. Mortkin then offered the city a choice. Hand over the counts son and he would leave the city, or don't and he would raze it to the ground. The Ostlanders assumed he was bullshitting them and that he would kill the elector counts son and then attack the city, so they decided not to hand over their general and fight it out. The next day Mortkin began his attack.