The Charonhydra itself is gone now, and the riots have calmed down as the trapped citizens have organized behind the city’s Watch forces. Most of the wild spells and monsters have been hunted down and/or captured, and the sinkholes to the alleged stormvault below sealed off. But the real extent of the threat was not obvious to most of the district survivors.

Whatever was happening beneath the streets while the riots raged got to such a drastic point that earthquakes were affecting the rest of Hammerhal Aqsha and magical freak storms developed. Soulbound agents sent to investigate the quarantine area uncovered all sorts of clandestine chaos agents, and evidence of something very sinister hiding in the vaults. The Lord-Commander Bastian Carthalos himself, after many portents of doom and the obvious unnatural disasters, finally led the Hammers of Sigmar down into the vaults to deal directly with the source of the threat. Gone they were, for many weeks, until the quakes subsided and the Lord-Commander returned with but a handful of survivors, and ordered all the entrances to the underground sealed shut.

The district is now secure, and reconstruction is underway. Heavy patrols watch the streets of Lavafall now and most entrances to the Stormvault below have been sealed off by mandate of the Lord-Castellant. But the shifting crust of Aqshy never stops, and finding an entrance to the Stormvault again outside the city is just a matter of time…

What went down below…

Stories from those who fought in the riots spoke of a serpentine greater daemon, a Coiled One of the Splintered Fang cults, behind the gangs of cultists and mercenaries that fed the riots: both servants of the dark gods as well as creatures of Nagash and unscrupulous warbands with a penchant for violence. Soulbound agents of the city dismantled a number of cult servants trying to spread outside the district, using the sewers and catacombs… and evidence of corruption reaching into the Council of Hammerhal, perhaps explaining the dramatic delays in providing aid to Lavafall for so long.
What exactly the Stormcast Eternals dealt with underneath the city is a mystery, but word on the streets of Lavafall says that the Coiled One still lives… (you can find its warscroll below).

As if this wasn’t bad enough, a strange miasma of poison and disease has started spreading through the magma of the Adramar Rift, to other parts of the city. The destitute, living in the ashen rift-dwellings and braving the magma rivers and cliff-mines, are the primary sufferers of this pollution. While the tremors and the freak storms have ceased since the march of the Hammers of Sigmar, this particular supernatural manifestation remains and shows no signs of going away.