Editing Tomb Kings (section)

=== Early History ===
[[File:Tomb_Kings_Ushabit.jpg|thumb|right|200px|I think that statue just moved...]]
After the [[Old Ones]] created the various races, but before [[Chaos]] came and destroyed the [[Warp Gates]], humans (rejected as a failure by the Old Ones due to short lifespans and Chaos corruptibility) expanded throughout the world. The exact direction mankind went is unclear; the Old Ones notoriously created special environments for their creations in order to observe them, and the fact the bulk of Warhammer Africa is one giant bowl called [[Nehekhara]] suggests Warhammer Africa really is the cradle of life in the setting as much as it is real life. At any rate, the ancient being known as [[Drachenfels]] noted that before Chaos came to the world a race of dark-skinned peoples who he hated had entered his territory as they spread northwards.

Nehekharans were a dark-skinned people, as you would expect (not necessarily black, just as real Egyptians are not African and actually came from the same region as Uruk and left numerous settlements showing the slow evolution of their culture into Egyptian), with a pantheon of animal-headed gods and goddesses, as you would expect, had a massive fetish for triangles in architecture, as you would expect, who used gold in everything they did and believed that it belonged to the divine royalty, as you would expect, and were absolutely fascinated by death, which you may have predicted. On the other hand their civilization reached a level of sophistication which could rival the future Empire, with magitech allowing them to build battle automatas and flying machines. <s>They also imported firearms from Cathay, but sadly this is only seen in the Time of Legends novels</s> Only in Lahmia. It was implied that Lamasheptra who signed a risky treaty with the Cathayan in order to acquire it and used it against Nagash, who held his sister Neferem as a prisoner. The said firearm is called "dragon staff", and its "gun powder" are called "dragon powder", which the Cathayan did not share it recipe with the Lahmian, causing its supply to be extremely limited. By the time Lamasheptra died and Neferata becomes a vampire, the so called dragon powder has already been withered away in time.

Most of these advancements where lost or replaced by mortuary rites, but more of that later. For many, MANY years the Nehekharans waged wars on each other, built small empires that didn't last long outside their own lifespan, and were entombed in great monuments. During the collapse of the Warp Gates and the ensuing invasions by Chaos, Nehekhara was left completely untouched due to the MASSIVE and almost impossible to traverse mountains that circled most of the subcontinent. What didn't stop however is the flow of magic through the world, in particular the [[Shyish|Wind of Death]] which empowered the priesthood of the Nehekharan pantheon to suddenly be able to produce actual miracles.