Editing Cities of Sigmar (section)

===Broken Realms===
Two free cities played an important part in [[Morathi]]’s ploy for godhood. Misthåvn lent its Black Ark fleets to defend the High Oracle from retaliating Idoneth Deepkin and Hedonites of Slaanesh while she enacted her ritual to reach godhood. As expected though, the Scourge Privateers were merely pawns to Morathi, and to their credit they recognized this and split the second things looked dire. The second city was Anvilgard, where the now goddess Morathi-Khaine made her appearance to the ruling council of the city. She coerced the local Darkling Covens and other “dark aelves” to overthrow their masters, leading to Morathi’s annexation of the city and renaming it to Har Kuron. Sigmar did of course learn about this deceit and was just about to besiege the city and reclaim it when Morathi parlayed with the Celestant-Prime, who was leading this effort. What they agreed upon is unclear, but the conquest was not reversed, forcing the remnants of Anvilgard's forces to flee as their city became Morathi's new kingdom.

In Hysh, Settler’s Gain was ground zero for Nagash’s assault against the Lumineth Realm-Lords, sending spectral waves of Nighthaunt to crash against the city’s defenses. They were only saved when [[Teclis]] arrived and restored life to the Nighthaunt while they were flying [[Grimdark|so they would die again when they fell back down.]] Later on, the city supplied a battery of Luminarks and Hurricanums in the final duel between Teclis and Nagash, their magical attacks distracting the great necromancer just enough for the mage god and his mountain spirit allies to win the day and reverse the effects of the Necroquake.

Vindicarum was besieged by the forces of [[Be'lakor]] shortly after the First Prince collapsed every Realmgate in Chamon and released dark storms of chaos energy. The siege was a brutal affair that decimated the Hallowed Knights and Celestial Vindicators stormhosts, which was exactly what [[Be'lakor]] wanted. He didn’t want to conquer the city, but to raze it and send its occupants’ souls into the Realm of Chaos where eternal torture awaited them. That's right, the main-character Sigmarines had their effective immortality stripped away. It took the combined fleets of every Kharadron skyport led by the mysterious white-bearded Duardin called Gromthi. The First Prince was repelled...but at a heavy cost. Vindicarum’s population was obliterated, Chamon is now separated from the other Realms, and the dark chaos storms that loomed over the lands were growing.

The Ghurish city of Excelsis suffered a Tzeentchian demonic plot which inspired anti-magical sentiment and gave rise to a magic-hating Sigmarite cult. Then the Newborn twins of Slaanesh subverted the cult by playing on its leader's personal hatred of elves, culminating in a pogrom against elves that caused the survivors to leave Excelsis, while the slaughtered elves unwittingly became sacrifices to summon the two Newborn and an army of Slaanesh daemons into the city. The twins also got the Skaven to set up the sacrifices and undermine the city further. And then the newly awakened god of Earthquakes [[Kragnos]] coerced [[Godrakk]] into his service and led an entire army of Destruction towards the city. The only thing that stopped them from stomping the city flat is the arrival of Lord Kroak, the banishment of the demonic twins and the unexpected arrival of a Black Ark with the newly ascended goddess [[Morathi]]. She tracked down [[Lord Kroak]] while he tried to help the city with his magic and the two of them managed to trick Kragnos into going through a portal that drops him on the far side of Ghur and allowed the defenders to finally force the besiegers out of the city.