We have reached the grand heights of the penultimate battle from Balance of Power, and this is a bit of a weird one. Tzeentchian plots are at full tilt in this battle, so pay attention…
The Story So Far
Within Chamon, the Realm of Metal, hung a sphere called Golgeth. This was an orb so dense it pulled lost magicks towards it – and yet, inside the sphere, there was a complete world called the Undervault, and people lived in settlements at the foot of Mount Kronus.
Within Golgeth, both time and gravity worked… differently, both heavily compressed and subject to swirls and eddies. Into this place, Tzeentch bound his greatest Lord of Change, Kiathanus (we have said it before, Tzeentch can be a bit of a dick), taking the daemon's true name and breaking it into nine magical sigils which were then strewn across the Mortal Realms so they could never be gathered and Kiathanus released.
Though bound, Kiathanus was not completely without power, and he whispered secrets and half-truths to the peoples of the Undervault, gradually manipulating them and sending champions out to find and release the sigils that held his name (not that they knew that this was what they were doing…). Over centuries, all the sigils were released – bar one, kept safe within Skarbrand's own prison in the Bloodkeep.
Unwittingly, the Stormcast Eternals released the sigil when they tried to claim the Brass Chain. Sigmar saw what was happening, and sent a Stormhost to ensure Kiathanus never broke free.
However, he was not the only one who saw what was happening with the sigils and a Gaunt Summoner, the Watcher King, swooped in to claim the power that would be unleashed with the release of the greatest Lord of Change.
The Watcher King was ambitious – he knew that with the secrets possessed by Kiathanus in his grasp, he could control Archaon himself and make the Everchosen do his bidding.
It was around this point that Archaon turned up, demanding to know just what the Watcher King thought he was doing. To his credit, the Watcher King's first reaction was to try to blackmail Archaon.
That so did not work…
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