Allies Abroad

The Holy Sigmarite Empire does not stand alone as war and darkness threaten to consume it. The House of Alptraum has never been idle in matters of diplomacy, and the Emperor can count upon many friends from nations far afield.

ADLER AN ZEE
Many of the Ogre mercenary bands that have fought in the employment of the Holy Sigmarite settled in the colony of Adler an Zee. Lured initially but the region’s warmer climes, the Ogres found frontier life suited their adventurous nature.

Now that the Empire goes to war the Ogres find themselves called upon once again to fight in the name of Sigmar. The Alptraums have always proved reliable clients who pay on time, in turn for which the Ogres have time and again shown themselves staunch soldiers whose loyalty (at least to the Imperial Treasury) can always be counted upon.

But the Drazkharov shadow reaches far indeed – as the Ogres prepare to set sail from Ulrichshafen, further up the River Tiban the fortress town of Scorcio may yet prove the dagger at their back.

KARAK HARAZ

Centuries ago it was the Dwarves who toppled the ancient empire of Aquila in the bitter conflict recorded in Dwarf history as The Ghoul Wars. Few veterans still live who remember that time, but the memory of the atrocities and cruelty perpetrated by the vampire regime lingers still in the Dwarf psyche.

With Aquila’s descendants rising to power in the Holy Sigmarite Empire the Dwarves are compelled to act, lest the hardships and losses suffered in The Ghoul Wars prove to have been for naught. Perhaps more pressing, the Dwarf settlement of Karak Haraz lies scant leagues from the Drazkharov stronghold of the Krähefort. With the undead armies massing in the shadow of that forbidding citadel, can the Dwarves afford to ignore the threat?

MELLVELLON

The Dragon Lords of Mellvellon have seen their might tested and their resources drained by numerous decade-spanning wars against the Skaven hordes of Grey Seer Typhus. Yet, distant as they are from the crisis in the Holy Sigmarite Empire, the Elves still consider the Sigmarites as allies and friends. They cannot turn a blind eye in an hour of need.

Some sceptics pose a more cynical slant on Mellvellon’s interest, suggesting that the Elves simply wish to maintain a political balance and a strong Empire in the west to preserve their own foreign interests and keep in check the power of their dark cousins of Lamentation. Whatever their true motivation, Mellvellon nevertheless sends what troops she can spare to fight for the cause of House Alptraum in defence of the Empire.