Grim adventure in Warhammer: the Old World

About the adventure

This game is set in the Old World of the Warhammer system, using the brand new Warhammer Old World Roleplaying system. You gained the attention of a powerful foe with a Grim Portent. Stumbled across a secret so dangerous that its architects will stop at nothing to silence you. Unintentionally disrupted an intricate plot simply by learning of its existence. Saw too much to be allowed to live. Now you will go on to face perilous foes, defeat deadly danger, gain powerful magic to wield against the enemy - and likely accumulate an assortment of scars and injuries to prove your heroism to anyone who sees you! For there are terrors in the shadows. Dark plots. Things that must go about their fell work in secrecy, for they know their hour, though close, has not yet come. Some are abominations so terrible that most cannot bring themselves to recognise them for what they are. Others are cunning beasts or corrupted men and women who wear false smiles and tend their secrets with care. Some secrets cannot be learned, however, without them learning something of you in return, and you are one of an unfortunate few to have stumbled into the plans of monsters. Drawn into a web of horrors, you are yourselves marked, never to return to the quiet comforts of an ignorant life. You must resist this fate, for if you cannot overcome it you will never know peace, save that offered by the cold earth of Morr’s graveyards. The Old World is closer to annihilation than any realise. In the midst of what some would name a gilded age, the once-mighty Empire has grown fractured, riven by internal divisions. It looks inward and concerns itself with petty politics, its nobles distracted by the pursuit of personal grandeur. To its north, beyond the Sea of Claws, an unknown power grows — one that will soon threaten the entire civilised world. Servants of these Ruinous Powers grow daily in strength and depravity alike. For now the will of their dark masters can be heard as little more than a whisper. It will not remain so for long. Day by day, night by night, the festering servants of evil grow more daring. By the forsaken light of Morrslieb they praise their nameless gods. Ferocious Beastmen, the true children of Chaos, prowl the woods in ever greater numbers. Orcs and Goblins grow bold once more, spurred on by urges they barely understand and lack the wit to question. Vampires, who some think were driven far from the borders of the Empire, linger still. The cursed blood of Lahmia flows in the veins of more than one secretive noble or bloodthirsty warrior, and their dark hunger is slaked on those whom none will miss. As for Skaven, what are those? Never heard of them. Yet... You are based in Talagaad, a river port town on the edge of Talabheim. You have contacts from whom you can gain important information, clues and help, as well as certain assets you can draw on. Those small things, and you and your allies, are all that stand against the darkness...