ortheast of the Barren Hills lies the Talabec Border, an area of deep forest. Though dark and foreboding, the area is crossed by the Talabheim Road and the Old Forest Road, both of which carry travellers to the great city that gives the area its name.

The peoples of the region are counted amongst the canniest of woodland folk. They are trackers and hunters without equal, with a bond to the land far closer than any other people of the Empire. The region is the centre of worship of the nature god Taal, his servants offering him praises in the deep woodland groves.

Though the forest is cut back some miles from the roads, and there are several large towns and many villages set on this broad verge, the woods to the west of the region have always been feared for the mutant lairs hidden deep within. When the Green Hills were blighted by Morrsleib's spite, many twisted creatures migrated to the area ahead of the crusade against them. The descendants of these mutant monstrosities still dwell there, and emerge from the deep woods to wreak havoc on the countryside from time to time.

The forests of the Talabec Borders are also home to some numbers of Beastmen warbands, having established themselves in the woods during the last Great War Against Chaos. These await the time when the next Chaos incursion will bring their kin sweeping down from the north, allowing them to rise up as a great horde and feast upon the flesh of men.

Of late, the Beastmen of the Talabec Borders have grown more daring in their attacks along the Talabec Road and the Old Forest Road. Fortified tollhouses have been attacked, entire merchant caravans and pilgrim columns have been ambushed, the dismembered bodies hung from the forest's eaves as a grisly omen of some coming time of woe, and several villages have been burnt to the ground and their inhabitants devoured. Travelling the roads has become an expensive business, as no-one will set out without a substantial guard of heavily armed and armoured men. Despite the best efforts of the road wardens and army, the Beastmen remain a problem, causing some degree of political unrest in Talabecland as the merchant class clamour for something to be done.

Regions of the Great Forest

For information on the locations within this region, see the Warroom when it open on June 25, 2007.

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