Contents:
This English hardcover book contains everything you need to lead the Nighthaunt into battle. This includes all rules, abilities, and Warscrolls for the entire Nighthaunt range. It is rounded off with background stories, many great artworks, painting guides, and a gallery of painted Citadel miniatures.
Background:
The Nighthaunt are an army of tormented spirits bound by Nagash in the realm of death. From the underworlds of Shyish, they emerge in processions, driven by hatred, remorse, and punishments that reflect their sins in life. Thus, cold-hearted murderers become brooding executioners, and false penitents become weeping lamenters. Their appearance darkens the air, bodies freeze in terror, and even thick armor offers little protection against blades not of this world.
At their head stands Lady Olynder, the Mortarch of Grief. Beside her walk figures like Kurdoss Valentian, the Craven King, and Reikenor, the Grimhailer, whose curses paralyze entire armies. The processions consist of Chainrasps, Grimghast Reapers, and spectral riders, often accompanied by Black Coaches in whose sarcophagi banished entities find form again. The Nighthaunt were unleashed in the Soul Wars when the great deathquake ripped open the graves of Shyish and Nagash's will echoed across the realms.
On the battlefield, these spirits glide through walls, drain warmth and courage from the living, and converge with the inevitability of a funeral procession. Where their banners of sorrow wave, only cold, withered flesh, and the whispers of names long since faded into legend remain.