It is the dream of any man or woman of those peoples to one day journey there, overcoming the challenges and indescribable horrors it has to offer, and thus ultimately submit themselves to the judgement of their Dark Gods, ascending to the vaunted ranks of the Champions of Chaos. These unholy lands are seen as a place of absolute sacredness by the Northmen, including the Norscan tribes, the Kurgans and the Hung. Were a cartographer to take their compass and inscribe a circle of the area throughout the Known World's northern pole, the circumference lying roughly on the northern shore of the dreaded Sea of Claws, it would serve to roughly demarcate the boundaries of the Chaos Wastes. In truth, it is this and infinitely so much more, but for the sake of mortal understanding, the legend alone must suffice. The Northern Wastes are the legendary home of the immortal Chaos Gods and, so it is said, of infinitely worse things: the numberless, nameless monstrosities that dwell in the eternal planes. The Chaos Wastes, also known as the Northern Wastes, the Shadowlands or simply the Northlands, is a hellish region of barren tundra that lies far to the north of the Old World, the New World and the Far East where the physical world is warped by and blends with the magical energies of the Realm of Chaos until it is impossible to tell where one plane ends and the other begins. The dreaded Chaos Wastes of the far north. " To the north lies our past, and to the north lies our future."
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