The Bare Bones
Welcome to the Animosity Weekender! … directly toward Hysh’s Iscarneth Ceraphate, a
This is a 10-day, single turn unofficial global
narrative event for Warhammer Age of Sigmar,
Warcry, and Soulbound. To participate, players will
submit up to three Reports through a provided
Google Form supporting one of two opposed
non-player characters we call Figureheads.
These Reports consist of playing games,
building and painting models, writing short stories,
and even things like drawing illustrations or
recording audio dramas. Players allocate all of their
submitted Reports to one of five Narrative Paths
(imagine a combination between “choose your own
adventure” and a tug of war). Each Figurehead
must win 3 or more of the 5 Narrative Paths to
claim victory.
The Story So Far
This event takes place immediately after
2023’s Animosity V - The Fated Blade. Having
been imprisoned in the frozen heart of a shackled
Everwinter since the Age of Chaos, the orruk
“colossa-boss” Mogrek Longblade walks the Mortal
Realms once more. His body the size of a
Bloodthirster, Mogrek’s terrible Waaagh! energy has
animated an army of Rogue Idols, great stone
gargants roughly hewn in the image of orruks.
Long ago, Mogrek boasted that he would
breach the gates of Azyr where even the Chaos
Gods had failed. Single-minded in his pursuit, with
an army of rogue idols in one fist and an Everwinter
in the other, Mogrek has led his horde upriver…
breakaway aelf fiefdom which did not embrace the
teachings of Teclis’s Reinvention.
Tasked with the Ceraphate’s defense,
Iscarneth commander Atressa Redhand has
mustered an army of volunteers to delay Mogrek’s
horde before they reach her homeland… and
perhaps even protect the Ashfall Delta until the
storm has passed.
What, Where, When?
Da Warpath begins Friday, January 5th
● Discord registration for Coalitions
● Discord access to Coalition Channels
Player Turn begins Friday, January 12th
In person events…
● AOS Grand Narrative at the Las Vegas Open
January 19th thru January 21st (Fri-Sun)
● UK players meet-up at Warhammer World
January 21st (Sunday)
Player Turn ends Monday, January 22nd
GM Turn will run through January 30th
● Unfolding Narrative will drop January 31st
Join our community!
Discord.gg/AnimosityCampaigns
The Ur-River
The Ur-River has been said to be the most ancient
of all watercourses in the Mortal Realms. Like an
ouroboros, it is believed to have no headwaters and
no outlet, instead crashing endlessly from one
realm to the next, its course constantly shifting as it
perpetually grinds a new path through the Realms.
The Ashfall Delta
The Ur-River departs Aqshy through the Ashfall
Delta, where it leaves the foothills around Ignoth's
Furnace. The wide flatlands of the surrounding
Brûlant Plains allow the river to slow and spread
out to form the delta, just before it leaves the Realm
of Fire and falls into Ulgu as the Fiammascura Gate.

Aqshy, Realm of Fire
As the Ur-River flows from Hysh to Ulgu it
briefly touches Aqshy, far to the south of the Vitriol
Sea. It tumbles from the Catarhactes Realmgate in
Hysh, a vast waterfall that appears in the sky,
seemingly out of nowhere. Miles above the
mountain range sometimes called Ignoth's
Furnace, the waters of the Ur-River crash into a
broken landscape of constant volcanic activity.
Flames and smoke spew forth from the rocky
ground at random and, as the waters of the river
rush down the mountainside they become heated,
great clouds of steam and mist cloak its banks.
When the Great Volcano of Ignoth's
Furnace roared forth it’s fire into the sky it was said
to have burned so hot with the fire of Aqshy that it
tore a new way between the realms and spewed
forth into the Haixiah of Hysh… but what poured
back down into the ash column of Aqshian fire was
more than just the light of Hysh, but a mighty
torrent of the Ur-River.
Fire and water raged until at last, in the
final cough of steam, the river quenched the fires of
Ignoth's Furnace, and where once a great caldara
was, now formed a steaming lake that soon flowed
down the sides as lava once did.
Water followed the ancient courses and
soon found purchase in one great eruption, its ash
and pumice easily carved unlike the basalt around
it. Thus from the plinth of Ignoth's Furnace does the
Ur-River leave the peaks and with the ash and loose
fall of that ancient plinian eruption does it flow
down to the Vitriol Sea over the Brûlant Plains.
In time the Ashfall Delta took its current
shape: as great bastions of hardened basalt were
left standing amidst the ashy and silty meandering
delta, anything less hardy was eroded away in the
inevitable march of time and flow of water.
The ancient heart of Ignoth's Furnace still
burns, deep under where the Catarhactes falls from
Hysh, heating the Ur-River in its passing to this day.
The unwary find out the hard way that it scalds
anything it touches, unless it was born to such heat,
though it cools to merely painful levels at the delta.
It is only when the Ur-River touches the cold
currents flowing from the Fiammascura realmgate
that it becomes bearable.
Cool and Hot are the names of the tides at
the boundary, as it ebbs and flows back from the
sea - often in a swirling morass of strange weather
as more than just heat and cold mix but also as fire
and shadow twist in the waters of the Ur-River. The
delta cannot be frozen from without; it must be
frozen from within. The flow of the Ur-River’s
heated water would push all but the most dogged
ice to sea and melt any that managed to remain.
Out of the sixty or more islands in the
Ashfall Delta only five were inhabited during the
Age of Myth: Fuegorn Drift, Infurnata, Heartpyre
Nar, Flarecrux Spit and Brimnstorn. However,
these early settlements were destroyed during the
ravages of the Age of Chaos.
Fuegorn Drift
The smallest of the Ashfall Delta islands, on the
western side. Surprisingly this island was largely
untouched by the Age of Chaos, the razor sharp
cliffs and smoldering mountains hide a beautiful
secret paradise at its heart.
Ravenspite Pass - a lush fertile valley flourishing in the
rich volcanic soil.
Leadtusk Tor - smoke and ash billow from the peak of
this, the tallest of the mountains on the islands. One of
the hundreds of volcanos that give the delta its name.
Infurnata
The site of fierce battles which saw the use of
terrible weapons and and self-destructive sorcery.
The Gleaming Tower - a ruined aelven spire. Fiery
geomantic runes mark the weathered stone landscape
around it.
The Voidwell - a lightless, bottomless pit. Cold winds
whistle out of the abyssal chasm while it seems to stretch
endlessly downward.
Wildpyre Watch - a ruined watchtower, overlooking the
straits between Infurnata and Fuegorn Drift, built into the
steep and jagged cliffs.
The Blackiron Cage - a Stormvault, known in legend as
the prison of a powerful daemon.
Heartpyre Nar (LVO exclusive)
In the centre of the five largest islands, Heartpyre
Nar is the only part of the delta with Order
settlements that are currently inhabited and even
prospering.
The Troggwood - a mushroom-forest Dankhold.
Glowerhold - a sinister angular stronghold in a volcanic
wasteland.
Breakspear - a massive castle built around what is
allegedly a shard of the Spear of Mallus.
Harkdeep - a duardin brewery built into the cliffs below a
waterfall.
Stonethorn Wold - a wanderers enclave of tree-top
houses.
Runefall - a new-built Dawnbringer strongpoint on a
nexus of geomantic power.
Wyrmwater - a mysteriously abandoned Sigmarite
settlement.
Southmarches - a Stormvault with a badly failing
Penumbral Engine.
Northmarches - a Stormvault with a missing Penumbral
Engine.
Scorchbrass - a dreadhold bastion of the dark gods.
The Foreteller’s - ancient structures of crumbling stone
and twisted metal.
Turnglass - a mist-veiled labyrinth of ruined stone
structures, overgrown with ivy and moss.
Flarecrux Spit
Jutting out of the sea like a massive obsidian tooth,
surrounded by scorching waters and steep cliffs
that make it appear impenetrable. At the northern
tip of the island, a towering volcano casts an eerie
red glow across the landscape.
Hollowsoul - a lake so still and clear that it appears to be
made of solid crystal.
Slurrywater - a blighted river that flows from the
mountain, the sulphurous waters smell extremely
unpleasant.
Scalderbright - the ruins of a settlement around a
lighthouse.
The Ebonthorn Hoard - a shattered Stormvault, crackling
with residual energy.
The Gate of Vekhos - a minor realmgate to another part
of Aqshy.
Brimnstorn
The eastern island has the only deep-water harbour
of the delta, which was once a busy trading port. It
was the point of entry for the invasion during the
Age of Chaos.
The Tarkhummar Locus - A sprawling necropolis. A maze
of winding stairways with tall stone archways looming
overhead, dark catacombs, partially collapsed tunnels,
and musty mausoleums.
Sulphurwald - A yellow-leaved forest, peppered with
crumbling stone ruins. Fog-wreathed and strangely quiet.
Emberport - As the only deep-water harbour in the delta,
Emberport was once a bustling trading hub but it was the
first place in the delta that was attacked during the Age of
Chaos. The harbour waters are littered with the
submerged wrecks of burned ships. The winding
rubble-strewn streets are cluttered with debris. Many of
the buildings were burned down but a few pockets
remain that may be habitable. A small number of
expeditions here have made their first camps in the old
harbourside area.
Hexstone - A ruined Age of Myth settlement, the
shattered buildings seem to brood with a resentful,
malevolent energy.
Mogrek’s March
Released from his frozen prison upon the
isle of Frorholm and master of the very Everwinter
which held him, Mogrek Longblade has marched
his army of Rogue Idols up the river itself like a
great road. Many grots, orruks, ogors and even
gargants witnessed his return, and it was not long
before the banners of their kind flocked to Mogrek’s
side. The stomp of the Idol’s tread upon ice
accompanied by the mad drumming of frenzied
warchanters have given Mogrek’s ad hoc army a fell
harbinger… rolling thunder.
Mogrek is both brutal and cunning; he’s
realized his Everwinter cannot claim the Delta, and
without it frozen, his Rogue Idols are vulnerable. He
will be forced to rely upon the “Longblades” at his
side to dislodge the Delta’s defenders. He must
reach a point above the Delta to see the river cooled
enough to freeze the glacier and allow his horde to
pass unhindered.
It would be nothing less than madness to stand
against him… wouldn’t it?
Atressa’s Gambit
“Mogrek is coming.” This simple statement
realized the worst fears of Atressa Redhand,
Warden of Iscarion and commander of the Iscarneth
Ceraphate’s standing army. Many years earlier, she
and her fellow Satraps had fought a bitter war of
succession to become the next Ceraph. Atressa had
lost, yet remained the Iscarneth’s greatest warrior.
Many who once opposed the new Ceraph, Dariel
the Resplendent, found positions of power in his
new government, and none higher than Atressa.
However, she understood better than
anyone that her role was a responsibility, not a
privilege. Her life had been spent fighting for her
people’s survival, and having endured the threat of
devastation from within, Atressa now faces the
threat of devastation from without.
In secret counsel with Dariel and the other
defeated Satraps Caradryas and Iden, a plan was
set in motion. Using the blackpowder innovations
of Caradryas’ people and lost technology from the
Age of Myth hidden within Iden’s vaults, they
devised the Dawnhammer Bombards, ponderous
guns of aelf design capable of killing a Rogue Idol
with a single shot.
Construction of the bombards would take
precious time, however. Dariel bid Atressa make
their people ready for war, with the hope they
might repel Mogrek until the guns’ completion.
Deliberate action was ever Dariel’s way, and Atressa
feared it would not be enough to save their people.
Leaving the Iscarneth’s standing army and
citizen militia behind, Atressa bid only volunteers to
join her. Disregarding Dariel’s frustrated demands,
she departed downriver, mustering her army en
route and bidding her “Redhands” join her in the
Ashfall Delta. She does not expect to stop Mogrek,
yet still intends to claim only victory.
Mogrek Longblade
To hear Mogrek tell it, he sprung from the tooth
Gorkamorka once chipped on Kragnos’ own shield
Tuskbreaker. Although none truly know his origins,
the “colossa-boss” is best described as primordial.
He stands the height of a gargant, with the fury of a
raging Megaboss, the appetite of a Tyrant, and the
sharp mind of a Loonboss.
Mogrek does not claim to be the hand of Gork or the
mouth of Mork. He is not the “boss trampla” or even
a boss of any kind. Mogrek is the WAAAGH! made
manifest, whose warclan are idols animated by his
rage alone.
Long ago, after Sigmar fled before Archaon in
cowardice, Mogrek boasted that he would break the
Gates of Azyr. To complete his task, he was
promised a weapon crafted by one of Grungni’s
most gifted pupils. So afraid was the Ironsage of
Mogrek possessing his masterwork that he chose
his own death rather than surrender the Longblade
and released the Everwinter contained within his
forge, locking Mogrek in ice for centuries.
With the Longblade in his right hand and an
Everwinter in his left, Mogrek Longblade spells
nothing less than doom to anything that stands
between him and the Realm of Heavens.
Atressa Redhand
Atressa has held a blade since before she could
walk. In the years before the Spirefall, she learned
swordcraft not from meditative old masters, but by
walking the Ten Paradises and challenging those
claiming great skill to duels of honor. When the
Spirefall finally came, slaying other aelves was
hardly a novelty to Atressa.
The years since her defeat have challenged Atressa
to finally embrace life beyond violence. Her people
are the Iscarneth, an enclave of aelves who did not
embrace Teclis’s Reinvention and never became
Lumineth Realm-lords. Atressa, like all Iscarneth,
must navigate her flaws as best she is able, without
the guidance of fickle gods.
It is an independence she fiercely defends. Although
she has often struggled to relate with her fellow
Iscarneth, she has embraced them all as her people.
Under Dariel’s leadership and her protection, the
Ceraphate has prospered among broken realms.
Atressa believes the Dawnhammer Bombards will
deprive Mogrek of his greatest advantage, but she
will not sit meekly by and wait for the Longblade’s
attack. She means to ride in force against Mogrek,
his Rogue Idols, and whatever else awaits her in the
Ashfall Delta.
How to Participate
There are two ways to take part in the Animosity
Weekender:
- If you are a global player, simply join our Discord
community, scroll down until you find the
#weekender- registration channel, and ask to fight
for Mogrek or Atressa. This will give you access to
private discussion channels to better collaborate
with your fellow players!
- If you are a Las Vegas Open player, you may
choose to join our Discord community, but are not
required to do so. If you do, there is a private
channel just for our LVO attendees!
When the Weekender begins, Team Animosity will
publish a Google Form to our Discord by which
players will submit Reports. (If you are an LVO
player, Team A will Report your games for you.)
When you submit a Report, you will be asked for
your Discord username, your player character and
army’s name, the Figurehead you’re supporting,
and the Narrative Path you wish to allocate your
Report toward (details on Reports can be found
opposite). You may also include a short narrative.
Winning the Campaign
Each Narrative Path will represent one of
the five major islands in the Ashfall Delta. To claim
victory, your Figurehead must win 3 or more
Narrative Paths (details on the Narrative Paths can
be found below).
Think of your Reports as if they were a
communal blind auction. Each team has a collective
bid they place on a Narrative Path in order to win it,
with each Player chipping in what they can by way
of their Reports. Like with a real auction, you
cannot control where others place their
contribution, only your own.
Submitting Reports
Each player must choose one Narrative Path to
allocate their Reports toward, and may submit up
to a total of 3 reports to that Path. These 3 reports
may be any number or combination of Report
types. (This is unique to the Weekender.)
Report Types
- Game Reports can be any game of Age of Sigmar,
Warcry, Soulbound, or Warhammer Underworlds
that is played to its logical conclusion. Just play,
and tell us you played. (Playing a game of Total War
does not count, but using cinematic screenshots
from a Total War game to tell a story are a common
type of “Other” Report.)
- Narrative Reports can be any Short story of 500 to
1000 words (one to two pages of writing) telling the
tale of your army and character and the glorious or
nefarious deeds they enact to win the Narrative
Path. We prefer players to use Google Docs and we
remind you to set access to “anyone with the link
can view”.
- Hobby Reports are any building, painting,
conversions, terrain or WIP that relates to your
character, army, or the Narrative Path you're
submitting the Report toward. 1 hour of work is
expected as the minimum standard. Any company’s
models or 3D prints are welcome.
- Other Reports are a catch all for any number of
other artistic and creative endeavours that can be
related to the campaign. Digital or traditional
illustrations, arts and crafts, audio/visual projects,
photography, cosplay, etc. are all welcome.
AI “art” such as Midjourney IS NOT WELCOME.
Reports utilizing AI will be discarded and will not
count toward the Narrative Path to which they were
allocated.
Narrative Paths

Narrative Path 1 - Fuegorn Drift

This flank of the Delta is arguably the most
vulnerable, with what little land there is
choked by treacherous jungle. However, it
should not be disregarded that the Drift still
boasts the tallest peak in all the Delta.

Narrative Path 2 - Infernata

Already reduced to a hellscape by conflicts all
but forgotten, Infernata promises to become a
crucible for the worst meatgrinder this war has
to offer.

Narrative Path 3 - Heartpyre Nar

(LVO Exclusive!) The largest and most central of
the islands, it stands as the keystone to the
Delta.

Narrative Path 4 - Flarecrux Spit

More defensible than even its siblings to either
side, the Spit will provide nigh unassailable
high ground to whichever side can drive the
other off first.

Narrative Path 5 - Brimnstorn

Vulnerable and vital, Emberport is a crucial
rallying point for Atressa’s allies. Her defenders
will be hard to dislodge, but a defeat here
would be crippling.