Realm of Chaos

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The Realm of Chaos is effectively The Warp in Age of Sigmar, complete with the abandonment of real-world physics. Time? Gravity? A Chaos God craves not these things. It serves as the home of the four major Chaos Gods and their forces, as well as any mortals unfortunate enough to have found themselves there. It's described as a 'landscape,' but likely makes even "less" sense than the Mortal Realms do in terms of physical layout.

The Realm of Chaos is divided into domains ruled over by the Gods because Chaos might be unpredictable and messy, but it apparently likes to keep its own house in order. The Realm of Chaos itself can't be used as a playing field on the table top like the Mortal Realms, but places so corrupted by Chaos as to be indistinguishable from them are detailed in Time of War: The Blasted Wastes.

Realm of Chaos might also refer to the supplement books for WHFB, and now AoS with the soon-to-be released Realm of Chaos: Wrath and Rapture.

In-Universe

Blight City

Home to everyone's favorite rat-men, and formerly Skavenblight; it was relocated to the Realm of Chaos upon the Great Horned Rat's ascension, being dragged there by GHR himself. The city itself is a hodgepodge of factories, mines, highly dangerous machinery powered with volatile warpstone, and is just generally an unpleasant place to live. It is as much a danger to the Skaven as it is a shelter. Technically it still "is" Skavenblight but the GHR decided that it needed a face-lift after it was brought into the warp. Of course, having prime real estate in the immaterium wasn't enough for the rat men, so they dug too deep, and too greedily, and fucking sank half of their city back into reality.

Rather than being the "Oh shit" moment it would be for almost any other race, the Skaven immediately used this disaster as an opportunity to gain access to basically anywhere they want. It should be noted that this "sinking back into reality" doesn't just automatically create realm gates to the other realms. Instead, the Skaven "literally tunnel through un-reality" and are the only ones insane enough to then use said tunnels. A few hundred rat-men might be lost forever in the space between spaces, but what's a drop in the ocean, eh?

Brass Citadel

Khorne's portion of the Realm of Chaos, decorated just like the teenager power-metal fantasy that you'd expect. His domain is described as an "unending battlefield of brass and blood," with rivers of boiling blood, raging volcanoes, bloodstained fields, blackened skies, bone piles, and bloodied corpses. Thinking about it, Khorne apparently was just really into Aqshy, and decided it just needed more of a "gore" motif.

At the center of his domain, covered in spikes, blood, and visions from Todd McFarlane's trapper-keeper is Khorne's totally-not-compensating-for-anything Brass Citadel, so large that it could give Rogal Dorn a half-chub. Inside is all manner of forges, prisons, secret shrines to MLP, and of course his Skull Throne. Khorne doesn't just "let" his followers into this place, instead only allowing entrance to the defeated. Defeated followed crawl, weakened due to banishment from the physical realm, through a moat of boiling blood and disembodied screams. They then need to present to the Gatekeeper and speak their true name, and who bested them, before they're allowed to enter where (presumably) Khorne gives them a chain-axe spanking for being so thoroughly shit at daemon-ing.

Crystal Labyrinth of Tzeentch

True to form, Tzeentch wasn't content with only having a portion of the Realm of Chaos as his domain, and also had the Halosphere as his power generator and doormat. This land was called the Thousand Portals, and was just one of the outer bastions of the Crystal Labyrinth of Tzeentch. That is, until the Seraphon came along and ruined things by settling there.

The Labyrinth itself is a seemingly endless maze of glass towers, crystalline mountains, curtains of light, and lots of other shiny shit that isn't gold. Except it also has rivers of gold, in forests also made from crystal. It would be enough to completely mind-fuck your average mortal, with the landscape shifting depending on how the light touches it. In fact, everything about this place only works, or reveals its proper function, under specific and esoteric circumstances. Just as planned.

Garden of Nurgle

Papa Nurgle's home away from Ghyran, the Garden of Nurgle is an overgrown park reserve for all the disgusting but cheerful things that he brews and creates. The air alone is so toxic that any living thing, except perhaps for Nurgle worshipers, will turn inside-out the moment they breathe it in - and they'd better pray/gurgle to Nurgle for it to end at that. The place writhes with pestilent life, and Papa Nurgle even has a fortress of his own called Nurgle's Manse. It's dilapidated, crumbling, and a blight on the eyes to look at, but that's just Nurgle being the humble fellow that he is. It's here that he jauntily sings and chuckles to himself while concocting diseases that strip the skin from your dick whenever you sneeze.

Much like Nurgle himself, when Nurgle's power rises the boundaries of his realm swell and collapse. When this happens, all his fetid, nasty shit (probably literally) spills into the other Chaos Gods' realms to ruin their day.

Varanspire

Archaon's giant middle finger to the mortal realms, the Vanaspire is built on the literal doorstep of the eight other realms on the Allpoints. So confident is he in his ownership that he renamed them to the 'Eightpoints,' because Chaos is nothing if not thematic. It's so massive that its walls encroach into the mortal realms, and can be seen with the naked eye from the other realms. This angers Khorne.

The creatively named Varanguard, Archaon's personal minions, also make their pilgrimage to the Varanspire when they hear Archaon's call. Those who get an A+ in these tests earn a special spot at the big kid's table in one of Daddy Archaon's eight circles, and receive a horrific pet/horse blob/war mount thing.

On the Tabletop

While you can't fight in the actual Realm of Chaos, you can set the game in the Blasted Wastes. These are parts of the mortal realms where Chaos has taken hold and twisted the landscape, creating something not unlike the domains of the Chaos Gods. Presumably this is so Chaos players can also have a "home-ground" realm to use rules for, since playing in the "actual" Realm of Chaos would probably start with rolling a d6, and losing that many units to the eddies of the warp.

Foundry of Rage

Or is it the Foundry of Blood? The supplement seems confused. Everything is on fire, the acrid smoke and loud noises hurting your wizards' delicate eyes and ears, making it harder to cast. Khorne loves this place, and his armies do too. Seriously, if you're playing against a Khorne army on this field then you may as well concede defeat before you even start.

Blood, Brass, and Toil

After rolling to see who goes first, the two turn rolls are added together and if they total 8 or more, Khorne starts the barbecue and the forges on the board alight. Any unit within 1" of a terrain feature suffers a mortal wound, and it gets worse from there as the match progresses. With every passing round, the proximity to take a mortal wound from a terrain feature doubles and your army becomes less effective at a distance. Unless you're playing a Khorne army, in which case you can ignore basically all of this while you pound your opponent into a fine paste. All of these effects are applied before modifiers, and last until the end of the battle:

• 2nd Round: Units within 2" of a terrain feature suffer a mortal wound. Command abilities reduced to a max of 8".
• 3rd Round: Units within 4" of a terrain feature suffer a mortal wound. Units can't shoot or cast spells at targets more than 8" away.
• 4th Round: Units within 8" of a terrain feature suffer a mortal wound. Units can't shoot or cast spells at targets more than 4" away.

Call to Chaos: Path to Glory

Khorne warbands playing in the Foundry of Rage in "Path to Glory" campaigns gain one additional Favour Point if they claim a victory but lose D3 Favour if they lose. One would assume Khorne also screams at them until the flesh flies from their bones, but this isn't specified in the rules.

Foundry of Rage Triumphs

1. Brazen Skull: Equipped to a "HERO" in your army, can be "used" by shattering it at the start of any of your Hero phases. Forces your opponent to cast with only one die until your next Hero phase. Weirdly, this isn't specified as a "once per battle" use item, and could theoretically be used all the time, forever, to irritate the hell out of Tzeentch players.
2. Bloodforged Standard: Choose a unit standard, banner, or icon bearer, or a model with the keyword TOTEM. As long as that model is alive, re-roll saves of 1 for its unit.
3. Phial of Forgefire: Choose a "HERO" in your army to carry this. It can be opened once per battle and inflicts D3 mortal wounds on an enemy unit within 8".
4. Call of the Forge: Once per battle, after rolling for turn order, pick a terrain feture on the field. Every unit within 8" of it suffers a mortal wound.
5. The Crimson Watch: Once per battle, at the start of your Hero phase, roll three dice. Up to that many Bloodletters can be added to your army as a unit. Must be setup within 8" of a "HERO", and not within 3" of an enemy unit.
6. Mark of the Molten Brass: Applied to a General in your army. Each time the General piles in, roll a dice before attacking. On a 4+, each enemy unit within 3" suffers a mortal wound.

Mount Hedon

Slaanesh's Mortal Realms playground, completely awash with her/his/its perfume/cologne, which drives anyone that smells it insane. Except for Slaanesh units, which are so constantly dosed up on the stuff that they barely notice it anymore.

Overwhelming Fragrance

At the start of each battle round, after rolling for the turn order, players take turns marking units with six dice showing one to six on their face. Units can be marked more than once, each number can only be used once, and you stop once you've assigned all six. Once you've placed all six dice, roll a seventh; whichever unit's number matches the roll is affected by the mist. Roll two dice and add the unit's bravery, the resulting number determines what happens to the unit:

• "8 or less - Ecstatic Catatonia:" Remove the entire unit from the battlefield. Slaanesh units suffer D6 mortal wounds instead, because they like this sort of thing.
• "9-11 - Sadistic Glee:" Roll a dice for every model in the unit, on a 4+ the unit suffers a mortal wound. Slaanesh units only suffer mortal wounds on 6's.
• "12-14 - Pavane of Slaanesh:" Everyone does a little dance. For the rest of the round, the unit can't move, make attacks, cast, or use abilities. Battleshock tests for this unit are ignored. Any time the unit suffers a wound, or mortal wound, roll a die. on a 5+ (4+ for Slaanesh), the wound or mortal wound is ignored.
• "15+ - Excess of Violence:" The player whose turn it is rolls two dice and moves the unit that many inches toward the nearest enemy.

Call to Chaos: Path to Glory

Slaneesh warbands playing on Mount Hedon in "Path to Glory" campaigns gain one additional Favour Point if they claim a victory but lose D3 Favour if they lose.

Mount Hedon Triumphs

1. "Hedonic Flacon:" Choose a "HERO" to carry this. Once per battle in your Hero phase, roll two dice for each enemy unit within 6" of that model. If the result is higher than a unit's bravery, it suffers D3 mortal wounds.
2. "Obfuscatrix:" One use only ability. Choose a "HERO" to carry this. Pick an enemy unit within 12" at the start of your Hero phase and roll two dice. If the combined result is higher than the unit's Bravery, it will immediately attack the nearest friendly unit to itself, either with all of its missile weapons or all its melee weapons (the unit doesn't pile in.) Your opponent still rolls all dice, however, you get to choose who it attacks - and individual models can be targeted. A unit cannot attack itself, only other units.
3. "The Blissful Host:" Once per battle, at the beginning of your Hero phase, roll three dice. Add a unit of Daemonettes with that many models to your army. Must be setup within 6" of a "HERO" model, and not within 3" of an enemy model.
4. "Witstealer:" Choose a "HERO" to carry this. At the end of the Combat phase, roll a dice for each enemy "HERO" that was wounded but not slain by the model carrying Witstealer. On a 4+ the enemy "HERO" suffers a mortal wound.
5. "Enrapturing Gaze:" Choose a "HERO" to have this ability. At the start of each Combat phase, pick an enemy unit within 6" of the model with Enrapturing Gaze and roll two dice. If the result is higher than their Bravery, that unit can't pile in or make attacks this phase.
6. "The Silken Standard:" Choose a unit standard, banner, icon bearer, or a model with the keyword "TOTEM" to carry the Silken Standard. If your opponent takes the first turn in a battle round, the unit can destroy the standard before your opponent's turn starts. Doing this grants the unit a free turn - Hero phase, Movement, Shooting, etc. - before your opponent starts theirs. In the combat phase, only the empowered unit can attack. The unit still acts as normal during the rest of your turn.