Yet it endures, for mankind has a steely determination to not merely live, but thrive. But the realm is in constant turmoil, beset on all sides by enemies ferocious and foul - despised by countless foes, with even gods and their unholy followers desiring nothing more than the Empire's utter destruction.
Lying at the heart of the Old World, it is the greatest and most powerful of all the nations forged by Men. Three things make the Empire great faith, steel and gunpowder.įor two and a half millennia the Empire has formed a bulwark against the encroaching forces of Destruction.