

Īs the Skaven capital city, Skavenblight benefits from being the largest trade hub in the Under-Empire, where hundreds upon hundreds of merchants, peddlers, and trade barges enter the city annually to sell their wares and goods, hailing from the multitude of clans that populate the vast Under-Empire. It is here, amidst labyrinthine darkness, that the Skaven scheme for supremacy, gnawing over plots for the final apocalypse of the Human race. This evil capital of a nefarious race is the veiled lair from which rule the mighty Lords of Decay, the ruthless leaders of the Skaven race. This is Skavenblight, a sprawling metropolis of endless caverns a multi-layered under-city of twisting corridors, and nightmarish squalor on an unimaginable scale. This shell of a once-glorious city of Mankind lies more than half sunken in the morass, a testimony to the corruption and ruin spread by the Children of the Horned Rat. Deep in the rotting heart of the Blighted Marsh festers the vile capital of the ratmen, the decay-ridden nexus of all Skavendom.

Through magics more powerful than the unsuspecting mortal world can imagine, the largest and most densely populated city in the world is kept secret, its locations only guessed at by the very wisest of mortal-kind. Slavery Skavenblight, also called the Great City by the Skaven themselves, is the name given by Tileans to the subterranean capital city and foul heart of the Skaven Under-Empire and the birthplace of the Skaven race.
