Editing Slaves to Darkness (section)

===Age of Myth===
Prior to the coming of Chaos the Mortal Realms were (especially compared to what came after) considered a paradise for a time. Sigmar and his Pantheon of other gods such as Nagash, Allarielle and Teclis all strove to uplift the mortal races and bring civilization to the lands. The dangerous beasts that competed with the free peoples for the lands like the dreaded Beastmen were pushed back and Gorkamorka and his hordes took great glee in getting rid of the many dangerous creatures that threatened these new civilations. In additon to confining the many godbeasts beneath the lands. However, these good times were not to last. The Chaos gods after many years had learned of the Mortal Realms and the gods of the world-that-was' survival. Returning their attention back to the Mortal Realms they began their slow but methodical encroaching into these new realities.

How they did so varied considerably, but all served the singular goal of seeping their influence into the mortal peoples. While civilization flourished during this time, many tribal cultures endured on the fringes of society, and were very susceptible to the whispers of the dark gods. Even in the nascent civiliations the arrogant, curious and corrupt inevitably began to grow more open to the dark gods will as well as hidden cults and seekers of forbidden lore multiplied. It was not simply the mortal races however, the gods themselves had grown arrogant and distant with one another, and this led to them missing the telltale sings of infiltration happening before them. Some of which was due to the gods own hand (such as tricking Gorkamorka into turning his back on Sigmar and returing to his old ways).

Eventually these varied cults and tribal groups began evoking great rituals to weaken the barrier between the realms to allow their gods in. In fact many were not even fully aware of the gods intentions, with many simply believing that they were benevolent forces offering riches or power in return for worship. The first true invasion began in Aqshy were the corrupted tribal groups summoned forth a great army of Khorne deamons into the realm, generally marking the beginning of the end of the Age of the Pantheon.

In all the other realms around this time the armies of demons poured through to attack the nascent civilizations. Nurgle’s hordes sought to claim Ghyran for themselves. Khorne’s forces ran as an unstoppable juggernaut through Aqshy. Tzeentch, through his cunning manipulations of the people of Chamon who sought to kill of a godbeast inadvertently tore open a gateway to Tzeentch’s domain. And in the lands of Hysh and Ulgu the hosts of Slaanesh pounced on the growing Aelven populations there (while also looking to find their missing diety). The gods tried to fight back, however thanks to the chaos gods manipulations they were divided and distrustful only seeking to safe guard their own realms than offer aid (though they did have invasions of their own to deal with but still), only Sigmar and Nagash could raise sufficient forces to fight the demon hordes. But this was compounded as the various mortal tribes and cults lent their forces to bolster the demon forces. Their infiltrators also working to destabilize nations for takeover. This was further worsened by the return of Archaon to lead the chaos forces. Since the destruction of the world-that-was Archaon had been preoccupied leading the chaos forces against other dimensions, but had now come to spearhead the conquest of the Mortal Realms.

As more and more realms began to become overwhelmed and isolated from eachother a disicive blow came with Archaon siezing control of the Allpoints (renamed Eightpoints) that allowed him unrestricted access to the other realms. Sigmar knew time was running out and sought to defeat the Chaos hordes in the battle of the burning skies in Aqshy. Unfortunately a betrayal by Nagash tipped the batte in Archaon's favour. Eventually Sigmar would be forced to abandon the war effort and sealed off his realm Azyr from the Chaos hordes. The other realms and remaining gods would be on their own from that point onward.