Two millennia before the time of Sigmar, the Nehekharan empire flourished in the hot desert lands far to the south of the Old World. Unbeknown to its people, this mighty kingdom is about to be shaken to its very foundations, when a quest for ultimate power will damn the land and its people forever. Nagash, one of the priests of the cult of death, desires more than faith, and will stop at nothing to claim not... not even at death itself.