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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9359123" data-attributes="member: 6879661">Location and TimelineIn the official timeline the City of Mordheim was struck by a twin tailed comet at midnight at the start of the year 2,000. A play on the Y2K fears that were around when the first box was released in 1999. Unfortunately it was also razed to the ground on the orders of the Grand Theogenist well before the current year. There are some other troubles with this date. Chiefly that the Colleges of Magic and particularly the Amethyst College wasn’t founded until the time of Magnus the Pious 2204. This is a pretty pivotal date for reasons I’ll come on to later. The Wizards War has just ended and the Cult of Sigmar has just gone full witch hunter with the Obsidian Edict which while very on point for Warhammer doesn’t really fit with the campaign.Place is a bit easier. Mordheim is well detailed as straddling the river Stir on the border between Stirland and Ostermark. Very close to the vampire haunted county of Sylvania. Described as the greatest city and the capital of the duchy of Ostermark. (Just N of the S in Sylvania on the map below)[ATTACH=full]365175[/ATTACH]The principle of going back before the current timeline is sound. Just maybe not as far as 2000. The Age of Three Emperors is the period from 1547 to 2304. The Empire was split with multiple Elector Counts (Each a ruler of a large chunk of the Empire) each declaring themselves Emperor. What’s more while the number of imperial claimants at any given time ranged from 2 to 7, there were three main centers. The south and western claimant supported by the cult of Sigmar. The Northern claimant supported by the cult of Ulric and the eastern claimant supported by the cult of Taal (more on him later). Conveniently the eastern provinces include Talabecland and conveniently Ostermark. It also technically includes Sylvania and covers a huge swathe of territory.A twin tailed comet is also mentioned as the sign from Sigmar that Magnus of Nuln took to begin his uprising against the demonologists that had infested his city. A precise date isn’t given but it is somewhere around 2,300 - 2303.Here’s my proposal. Magnus of Nuln saw a twin tailed comet in the sky in the year 2300. While he took it is as a sign of Sigmar’s blessing the comet actually stuck the City of Mordheim. At that time the seat of the Emperor of Ostermark and Talabecland - Ulrich von Kessel IV. The comet destroyed the city as described in the campaign book and the Emperor was lost. His younger siblings  also acted as described in the campaign book, relocating the capital to Talabheim and dying from assassination and sudden death. Only to be succeeded by lesser claimants. Ostermark is fractured into multiple small baronies and fiefs and becomes the League of Ostermark.Meanwhile Magnus of Nuln unites the Empire over the course of the next three years and goes on to defeat the great incursion of chaos. He is crowned emperor and founds the eight colleges of Magic in 2304. The Great War decimated the armies of all the elector counts and left them under strength, hungry and with all the problems that usually follow large scale warfare. Not least are disaffected soldiers left shaken by what they witnessed in Kislev and unwilling to return to their farms.The campaign itself is set 15 years after the meteor struck and I see no reason why this can’t be the same. The colleges of Magic have been established for 10 years (relatively new) and everyone has had other things on their minds dealing with the aftermath. It gives the factions time to have become established but not so long that the Mordheim problem is resolved. The city still sits there on the Northeastern edge of the Empire - a dark stain on the surrounding lands waiting to be explored.</blockquote>

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