Gorduz Backstabber, starting in the Tower of Gorgoth. A mage lord with robot legs (!), should focus on warmachines and start by fighting some combination of greenskins, Kislev, Dwarfs, Skaven, and Norscans. A warrior lord, he should be your generic Chorf faction and will probably start by dealing with a slave rebellion in the Plain of Zharr.Īstragoth Ironhand, starting in Uzkulak.

Zhatan the Black, starting in Zharr-Naggrund. I also think it's relatively unlikely that we'll see too much more expansion into the Dark Lands in WH2, because in a lot of cases we are inches away from major Chaos Dwarf settlements.Īlso, as a bonus, here's my guesses for the Ogres and Chorf starts: This also splits up the territory pretty evenly, though I wish more of the Mountains of Morne were there in particular, cutting off most of Greasus Goldtooth's kingdom feels like cutting Altdorf off from the Empire.

My main takeaways from doing this: the remaining territory lines up surprisingly well with existing maps of the area, to the point where I was literally able to trace most of the geographical features I added. And you can probably assume that any blank spaces are filled with either Greenskins, Skaven, or roaming Ogres. In those cases, I either went with whatever was in-game, or just with whatever I liked the most. Some locations were under ambiguous ownership.

The Northern Wastes are largely undeveloped (the name isn't even very solid, there were like 6 options I chose from), but we do have a vague idea of where the Kurgan tribes that inhabit it are. The Mountains of Morne has a number of minor locations but is largely defined by the vague locations of the Ogre tribes that live there. The Dark Lands have fairly well-defined locations, mostly Chaos Dwarf fortresses. The black lines largely represent geographical boundries, not provinces (the Plain of Zharr is a crater Zorn Uzxul is a plateau). The main sources I used were the Dark Lands map from the 4th ed Chaos Dwarfs army book ( seen here), the Mountains of Morne maps from the 8th ed Ogres army book, and the northlands map from the 7th ed WoC army book ( seen here). So, I took a shot at filling that conspicuous blank area on the top right of the Mortal Empires map with locations from the lore.

Blank mortal empires map