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The Storm of Chaos was a massive narrative campaign created by Games Workshop for their Warhammer Fantasy setting, to be played by Warhammer players in the northern hemisphere summer of 2004. Like its predecessor (the Eye of Terror Campaign) and its successor (The War of the Ring Campaign), it was extremely popular, and attracted several thousand players.

The basic premise was that players of Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Mordheim, and Warmaster were invited to register the results of their games at the Storm of Chaos Website, where a tactical map of the north of the Empire existed. Upon registering a battle, one army would be counted attacker, the other defender. Depending on which side the results favoured, either the attackers or the defenders would get a little more of the map, and occasionally some side benefits.

Background

The background story of the Storm of Chaos centres on Archaon the Everchosen, the mightiest of all Chaos Warlords, for he holds the blessing of all the four gods of Chaos. Archaon can best be described as a religious fanatic; He believes that only the Chaos gods are true Gods. He is also totally absorbed with prophecies, and bases all his plans on these.

For several centuries, Archaon quested for the "Eight treasures of Chaos". According to the myths of Chaos worshippers, the one who manages to gain all of them will bring about the final triumph of Chaos. He finally managed to gain the eight treasures in the year 2521 IC. At the same time, the Chaos Warlord Surta Lenk attacked Kislev and managed to get through it and down to the Empire. He finally managed to sack the city of Wolfenburg, but was then driven out of the Empire.

At the same time, Luthor Huss, a self-styled prophet of Sigmar, had started to challenge the hierarchy of the church of Sigmar. Huss claimed that the priesthood had become corrupt and that a new, strong leader was needed. He also believed that Sigmar had been reborn.

At about this time, the hordes of Archaon attacked Kislev.

The Grand Theogonist of Sigmar, Volkmar the Grim, raised an army and went to Kislev to meet Archaon. The two armies met, and Archaon won, slaying Volkmar and destroying the sacred war altar of Sigmar. The new theogonist, Johann Esmer, was the epitome of everything that Luthor Huss was against.

As the horde of Archaon closed in, Emperor Karl Franz invited envoys from the neighbouring kingdoms, as well as representatives of the High Elves and from the Dwarfs to what he called the "Conclave of Light", where he successfully gained the support of Bretonnia, the Dwarfs and the High Elves. Huss had in the meantime found a young man named Valten who bore striking physical resemblance to Sigmar as he is described in the legends, except for a birthmark shaped like a twin-tailed comet, the main symbol of the Sigmarite church. Valten was also highly skilled in battle, and had a will-power that meant he could go on despite wounds that would be lethal in most others. Together, they had assembled an army of flagellants and were heading towards Altdorf, the capital of the Empire, where they would demand that Valten would be recognised as the reincarnation of Sigmar, ignoring the political and religious results this would have. By now, it was late spring, and Karl Franz could neither ignore nor accept Huss's demands. In the end, he proclaimed that Valten was the "spiritual heir" of Sigmar, which meant that he recognised that Valten was blessed to some degree, but that he himself remained Emperor.

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