Editing Slaves to Darkness (section)

===Age of Sigmar===
The beginning of the this age began with the return of the forces of Sigmar, spearheaded by the newly created Stormcast Eternals. The great warriors forged by Sigmar and Grungi first made landfall in Aqusy and began claiming the strategically important Realmgates to allow the bulk of Azyr's armies to return while also createing vital spearheads. These events collectively became known as The Realmgate Wars. At the news of this, the various Hordes of the Slaves to Darkness began marshalling to meet these new foes. From Ghyran to Chamon, everywhere these new storm forged warriors appeared the vicious tides of the mortal followers of Chaos rose to meet them. However, the surprise invasion coupled with the tribes inability to stop their selfish infighting led to the forces of Order winning several major victories.

Eventually Archaon himself was forced to personally intervene in several of these major battles, and while he and his personal army known as the Varnaguard were nigh unstoppable, unfortunately Archaon could not be everywhere at once, often leading his disoranized vassals to be beaten back by these new challengers. Unfortunately for them Archaons attention eventually turned back to his overall goal of breaching Azyr (along with already managing several existing warfronts), which led him to essentially ignore these new beacheads of Order in the Mortal Realms while he returned to his main goals. In his absence, great fortifications were erected, often encompassing realmgates that were used as staging grounds for Sigmars conquests. With these new armies returning to the realms, the other members of the former pantheon began to return from hiding to push back against the Chaos hordes, from the [[Daughters of Khaine|Daughters of Khaine]] striking out from Ulga in numbers for the first time in centuries, to the [[Sylvaneth|Sylvaneth]] in Ghyran finally having fresh allies against the chaos corruptors. Even the Fyreslayers found cause to make treaties with the newcomers. With even former empires of the Realms seeing the chaos disruption as a chance to retake their former lands (an example being the Battari empire in Aqusy), Nagash however still refused to ally with the forces of Sigmar and forbade his followers from doing so (though some still did), and insisted on retaking his realm himself. This news was not necessarily taken badly by all the followers of Chaos. Many champions of chaos were walking their variant of the Path to Glory, and these new challengers only presented new opportunities to test their mettle and gain the attention of the Dark Gods (especially after centuries of only chasing after fearful mortals). These champions rushed to battle the newcomers with glee.

As for Archaon, he made his plan to corrupt several of the ancient godbeasts in order to smash open the gates of Azyr with these mighty beasts. A risky move, as they were powerful enough to harm even him. However, Sigmars return had only accelerated Archaons timetable, and his chance to use this gambit was closing fast. His first attempt was to corrupt the sleeping world titan Behemat in Ghyran with the help of the forces of Nurgle and the Skaven clan Pestilans. Unfortunately, this plan was thwarted by the Stormcast Eternals with the help of the Celestant Prime himself. Archaon subsequently followed up this attempt by trying to use the solar drake Ignax to bash open the gates of Azyr. Things were going well (Archaon even managing to mentally enslave the beast). However, the forces of Order had already beaten him to the punch on the godbeast, with Duardin priests implanting mystic runes onto the beast that freed her from Archaons control. The great drake subsequently abandoned Archaons venture and disappeared under the earth of Aqusy.

Archaon following this more or less abandoned any further advances on the new Azyr settlers, instead focusing his attention of putting down challengers to his rule and continuing his quest to open the gates of Azyr (its also implied he never really considered the newcomers a real threat).

Following this, the biggest major Chaos incursion against the forces of Order came with the attempted destruction of the Seeds of Hope in Ghyran. These were the founding of several major cities in the realm and many major Slaves to Darkness warbands attempted to destroy these new interlopers. After many great battles and great loss of life the chaos hordes were pushed back and the Seeds of Hope saved. While Sigmar had managed to establish many settlements throughout the realms the vast majority still remained in chaos hands. Sigmar continued to send out new crusades to raise new settlements and push back the chaos hordes little by little. This was helped along greatly with the mortal followers of Chaos warring amongst themselves just as much against the forces of the former pantheon. This situation with new cities being founded and some being destroyed by the chaos hordes continued for roughly a century, by which time approximately 1/10 of the pantheons former territory had been retaken. However, this was to be disrupted by the coming of Nagash's storm.

====Soul Wars====
The completion of Nagash's grand ritual led to the Necroquake reverberating across the realms, though the thankful intervention of some Skaven led to the ritual not working quite as intended. It did end up raising the dead en masse across the realms begining the titled Soul Wars by Nagash. This ended up turning out quite badly for the Slaves to Darkness tribes as it led to all the dead peoples they butchered during the Age of Chaos to return with a vengeance against them. The chaos hordes spent the itital attacks of the Soul Wars getting battered by the raised dead and newly created Nighthaunt Processions. Their forces in Shyish were greatly reduced in Shish thanks to Nagash's counter assualt, though they did claim some victories, with the Chaos warlord Thur almost managing to destroy the Mortarch Olyander with a summoned Bloodthirter, though she was ultimately saved by the arrival of Arkhan and Nagash.

With the dead rising to compound Sigmars forces, Archaon decided that he needed all the allies he could get and tasked the Gaunt Summoners with locating the missing god Slaanesh. And that they did. Archaon and his army managed to fight through to Slaanesh's prison, with Archaon finding Slaanesh imprisoned. Though he didn't appreciate the gods mocking tone he set about freeing them, even managing to destroy one of the chains holding them at bay. However, he was forced to return to the Eightpoints before completing as his home base had come under attack by the Ossairch Legions of the newly freed Mortarch Katakros and Lady Olyander (the latter even slaying the chaos lord Namon Saskarid who Archaon had left in charge), with only a few Chaos Lords such as Marakarr Blood-Sky still holding back the death legions. Knowing he would have to locate Slaanesh again as the Aelves would inevitably move the prison, he reluctantly headed back home. Though the death army had made some ground in the Eightpoints, as soon as Archaon and his main army returned the death forces were quickly routed. Even bolstered by the arrival of Be'lakor and further reinforcements. Ultimately the Death army was annilated Lady Olyander was struck down by Be'lakor and Kataros personally slain by Archaon in a duel.

The Death forces retained control of the All-gate to Shyish, but Archaon ultimately didn't care all that much. He didn't consider the Death forces a threat to him in the grand scheme of things and simply let the local chaos lords keep them contained until he decided to deal with them himself. He instead turned his attention to his latest scheme to enter Azyr.

====Broken Realms====
During the events of broken realms Archaon had tasked the Gaunt Summoners, among them Eater of Tomes, to begin harvesting a rare substance known as Varanite from the Eightpoints. This substance was the realmstone of the Eightpoints itself and was itself highly dangerous, its very presence warping and twisting everything around it (kinda like radioactive material in real world), so much so even demons feared it. Archaon, however, believed the substance could be used to breach the gates of Azyr by weakening the seals on the gate. Using wormlike chaos beasts, he began harvesting the substance. However, an infiltration by Morathi and Sigmars forces led to the destruction of the main mining operation (along with the theft of some of the Varanite by Morathi). Though the chaos forces did get to test some of their new anti-stormcast weapons during the raid.

Following up on this event, Be'lakor began making moves to gain further favour with the gods. He released Stormcast prisoners during the Siege of Anvalgard to stoke up civil wars in the forces of Order. Following this, he witnessed an interesting chain of events. The Seraphons destruction of a Silver Tower (it was a big huge space battle) in a battle he saw that its destruction would lead to a chain reaction of magical backlash that would cause Realmgates to explode and release chaos energy into the realms. Desiring to recreate this event he made an alliance with Lady Olyander (long story, true story) and besieged Vindicarum in Chamon. During the battle the realmgate was destroyed which caused a further set of chain reactions causing other nearby realmgates to collapse darkening the skies with chaos energy and cutting off the Stormcast from Azyr. This led to the decimation of both the city and the Stormhosts of the Celestial Vindicators and Hallowed Knights. Ultimately the siege was ended by the timely arrival of the Khardron Overlords and possibly Grungi. However the damage was already done with Be'lakors storm begining to spread throughout the realms.

Following this Be'lakors star was once again on the rise with the gods and the devastation in Chamon was easily one of the biggest Chaos wins against Sigmar since the Realmgate wars. However things didn't go entirely perfect. Soon after Allarielle enancted her Rite of Life (essentially her version of the Necroquake) which led to the release of the Destruction God Kragnos and the realm of Ghur releasing vast waves of Beast magic throughout the cosmos. The forces of Destruction subsequently energized like never before.

====Era of the Beast====
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