Ulfenkarn
– The Cursed City –
The city was founded in the Age of Myth as Mournhold when the Ebon Citadel was constructed on the windswept island of Szargorond by Houses Altern, Vossheim, and Gaunt, three noble families from the Realm of Azyr.
For many generations both the living and the spirits of the dead lived peacefully together breeding a tough people whose strength would be sorely tested during the apocalyptic Age of Chaos.
When the Dark Gods invaded the Mortal Realms, pouring their legions into reality, Ulfenkarn, like so many other cities, found itself isolated and besieged. Eventually, it was laid to waste by Slaughn the Ravenor, a Daemon Prince of Khorne. In the aftermath, the survivors agreed to a pact with a potential saviour, one that the city and its people would regret forever.
Radukar the Wolf and his fleet saved the city but after claiming the Ebon Throne he began to surround himself with his coterie of fiends and lackeys, the Thirsting Court. However, relative peace still reigned well into the Age of Sigmar until the Necroquake swept across the realms and, Radukar was infused with great power, losing all remaining restraint. He and his courtiers went on a bloody rampage against any who might defy them, turning a fortunate few into vampires but most were merely slain and their corpses left all across the city.
Since that day the living have laboured endlessly for their cruel masters.
Rules
Additional Lore for playing within The Great Weave
In the world of the Great Weave, the city of Ulfenkarn is trapped in a magical anomaly caused by its proximity to the Shyish Nadir.
This anomaly provokes time, as well as cause and effect, to twist and pull around Ulfenkarn. Heroes that enter the city play out their twisted lives, battling to save the city from Radukar, only to exit and find things have changed. Sometimes their memories of an event change slightly, while other times their companions die, or appear back from the dead, when leaving that elusive boundary.
Locations
- Barrowmark: Scholars Hall converted by Torgillius into a horrific visceral laboratory.
- The Clot: A canal filled with blood and worse where carrion horrors hunt.
- Corpse-gardens: Graveyards and pits tended by Gorslav the Gravekeeper.
- Ebon Citadel: A mighty fortress and seat of power in the city.
- Ghiestgale: Haunted area that few dare to venture near.
- Hangman’s Copse: Former Embassy of the Sylvaneth.
- The Screaming Spires: The once noble blood children of Radukar lair here between the towers.
- Shadowed Crypt-Halls: vaults where haunting music and screams echo from within.
- Van Alten Skydocks: Once the bustling centre of trade for the city.
- The Vharngate: The stronghold of the Ulfenwatch.
Map of Ulfenkarn
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Notable Characters
Torgillius the Chamberlain
“I believe I am on the verge of a breakthrough. Bring me more subjects. And no more half-starved weaklings – the last batch didn’t even last the night.”
Gorslav the Gravekeeper
“When ye hear the scrape, scrape, scraping of Old Gorslav on his walk,
The only sound he ever makes, for he ain’t one for talk,
Flee then, fool, and hide away, and hope he don’t come take,
And bind your arms and drag ye off to bury ye awake.’
Radukar the Wolf
“In life I would have cut down all of you in the span of a single breath, and picked my teeth clean with your bones. Can you imagine what I will do with you know?”