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THE CATHAYAN ARMY
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THE EMPIRE OF THE DRAGON
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Timeline of Cathay………………………………….8
Warriors of the East………………………………..10
Diary of Pieter Dietrich……………………………11
CATHAYAN ARMY SPECIAL RULES
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THE CELESTIAL HOST
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Swordsaints………………………………………..18
Living Shadows……………………………………19
Celestial Dragons………………………………….19
Magistrates………………………………………...20
Lowborn…………………………………………...20
Warclad……………………………………………21
Gospodar…………………………………………..21
Foo Statues………………………………………...21
Thunder Dragons…………………………………..22
Ronin………………………………………………22
Phoenix…………………………………………….23
Cloud Dragons……………………………………..23
Warhorses………………………………………….23
Noble Warhorses…………………………………..23
THE ARMY OF CATHAY
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Lords………………………………………………26
Heroes……………………………………………...28
Core Units………………………………………...30
Special Units……………………………………...32
Rare Units…………………………………………34
THE TREASURES OF THE EAST
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Magic weapons...………………………………….36
Magic armour……………………………………..37
Talismans…………………………………………38
Enchanted items…………………………………..38
Arcane items………………………………………39
Poisons……………………………………………40
THE MYSTERIOUS MAGIC OF THE EAST
..41
The lore of Day…………………………………...42
The lore of Night………………………………….43
OF THE EAST
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High Magistrate Tziet, Lord of Thunder………….44
Chuganao the Artificer…………………………....46
Kaichan, the Shadowshroud………………………48
Of Nippon………………………………………...50
Of the Steppes…………………………………….52
Of the Provinces…………………………………..54
Written by
Stefan Barton-Ross
Source Material by
Games Workshop ltd.
Illustrations by
Randal Linbourn and others.
Cover Illustration by
Randal Linbourn
Graphics by
Stefan Barton-Ross
Pre-Production and Concepts by:
Peter Orfanos, Ruben Malingré, Ian Hawkes,
Stefan Barton-Ross, Stefan Blokker Gomez
Special Thanks to:
The Hammer and Anvil and Warseer forums, ANU Wargames
Society, Ben Smith Whately, Håkan Emmer Granqvist, Tim Pennington, Doug
Newton-Walters, Mitchell Smith
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The land of Cathay is a great and varied mass, from the barren
and sweeping plains of the Eastern Steppes to the hot, humid
jungles of the south. Cathay is a capricious and introverted
nation, dedicated only to its own survival and the protection of
its domains, and the wrath of the Dragon Throne falls fast and
furiously upon any who should threaten it.
masters of the blade and martial honor, the Celestial Dragons,
inhuman creatures who kill with naught but their living bodies,
and the Living Shadows, stalkers of the night and darkness, who
end life with insidious poisons and silent steel. Behind these
masters of battle come the endless armies of Cathay, teeming
hordes of Lowborn commoners and peasants, led and directed by
the mysterious Magistrates, the consort-councilors of the
Celestial Emperor himself
The Cathayan army is as diverse as its native land. A horde of
simple and fairly weak troops is backed up by graceful and
deadly elites. Powerful characters are rallying points in the
Cathayan army and their fearsome presence in the Cathayan line
is more than enough to strike fear into the heart of most foes.
The Cathayan army can represent many forces, from the ill-
equipped yet determined militia of Cathayan peasant villages to
the deadly entourage of the Celestial Emperor himself or a
diverse mix of both. The martial power of Cathay stems from
warrior ‘Houses’, martial institutions dedicated to the arts of war
and death. Their aspects are as many as the weapons of the
world- from warriors who deal death with mighty blades to lithe
assassins who disembowel the enemy with razor-sharp daggers.
The multitudes of lesser Houses are dwarfed by the three great
houses, the first of the hundred to be created. The Swordsaints,
In battle the army of Cathay is a fragile and temperamental force
that is difficult control and almost impossible to master yet
deadly when wielded by the subtle hand. The many dark forces
that threaten it have caused the Empire of the Dragon to develop
a style of battle that changes with the winds, flowing around the
enemy, destroying them with impunity and retreating like the
tide. The warriors of Cathay fight in a completely different way
to those of the Old World and their generals cannot rely on
solidity and strength. Cathay does not shatter the enemy with a
hammer; it reaches in, subtly, and plucks out the foe’s still
beating heart with the force of lightning, leaving the still warm
corpses of its foes to sink into the bloody soil.
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This book is divided into the following sections:
The Empire of the Dragon
This describes the origins and culture of Cathay, its boundaries
and the way in which they interact with the other powers of the
Warhammer world. It also includes a timeline of events in
Cathay, stories and other important and interesting pieces of
information related to the east.
The Celestial Host
This section contains details on the various Cathayan formations
and their roles and duties on and off the battlefield. This section
also contains the various special rules that are associated with
the Cathayan army and tactics advice for the budding general.
This section also includes conversion guides and a gallery of
Cathayan models.
The Army of Cathay
This section contains the full army list of Cathay, including
magic items and new magic lores, allowing you to create a
devastating army of the orient.
Of the East
This section includes some of the mightiest and most exotic
characters to ever walk the lands of the east as well as a variety
of variant army lists allowing you to field themed armies from
across the length and breadth of the orient.
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Far from the civilized lands of the Old World, across the
forbidding peaks of the Worlds Edge Mountains lies a great
landmass that occupies much of the globe. For miles upon
hundreds of miles it is desert, interrupted only by the odd oasis,
nomad settlement, or great pillar of Chaos-warped stone. Few
dare travel through those forsaken wastes, for the dangers are
many. The chief reason to venture into these desolate lands lies
farther still across tracts of jungle and barren plains. From across
the desert comes a tempting whiff that few can resist. The sharp
scents of spices, the delicate odor of silks and exotic fabrics and
the decadent meanderings of sickly perfume. All of these
emanate from the distant Empire of Cathay. Of the hundreds of
merchants who have made the perilous journey across the
monster-infested steppes of the east, few have returned, yet the
ones that do bring such amazing tales and vast riches that others
invariably risk the dangerous voyage. The arrival of a train from
the Silver Road is something that
happens rarely, but when it does it
shakes the markets of nations. There is
something for every man, woman and
child in the Old World in the bazaars
and markets of Cathay: perfumes and
silks for the opulent upper class,
amazing metals for workmen and
soldiers to shape, deadly and insidious
poisons for assassins and foods and
spices that burn the mouth or are
deliciously sweet. Those who survive
the passage to and return from the
realms of the Celestial Emperor become
so rich that they are never in need of
anything again. The Cathayans
themselves care little for the
machinations of the Old World, yet
even they are sometimes drawn into the
web of conflict that blankets the globe in turmoil.
masters utterly, for those who do not quickly vanish, having
incurred the wrath of the ancestors, and are never heard of again.
Those masters are the Magistrates, who themselves are the
servants of the great Celestial Emperor himself, the godhead and
ruler of Cathay
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It is believed that the first men to set foot in Cathay were from
the kingdoms of Nehekara, that ancient empire that was the
birthplace of humanity. Against all odds, settlers successfully
made the terrible journey through the Dark Lands and Mountains
of Mourn to the lands of the east. There they settled, content
with the richness of the land, and from them sprung all the
peoples of Cathay. Soon, their own culture began to develop
separately from the realms of the west and, as they shaped the
new land, the new land shaped them. As they spread and
explored Cathay further, settlers found the
island of Nippon off the coast of Cathay and
there too, the seeds of civilization were
planted. Then came Nagash. Just over a
thousand years before the coming of Sigmar,
the rise of the great necromancer plunged the
world into turmoil and split west from east. It
was in this year that the first of the Celestial
Emperors seized power from the increasingly
corrupted council of nobles and elders that
governed Cathay. The few trade caravans that
had kept Cathay in touch with the west
disappeared as all out war ravaged the
kingdoms of Nehekara and Araby and Cathay
grew even more distant from them. Since then,
the Empire of Cathay flourished and as the
years rolled on Cathay became one of the great
nations of the world.
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The islands of Nippon are the true source of many of the greatest
artisans and warriors of Cathay. While small in comparison to
great Cathay, Nippon creates a huge proportion of its skilled
smiths and workers. The size of Nippon and its richness of
culture have created a people of exceeding skill. In ages past
Nippon and Cathay were sworn enemies, yet over time the
increased predations of Chaos and the attacks of the Dark Elves
forced the two nations into at first a shaky and then a rock steady
alliance. Nipponese smiths provide the weapons and skills which
arm the elite of Cathay’s warriors while the vast agricultural
capacity of Cathay provides food for the smaller, poorer Nippon.
Nippon’s armies are tiny in comparison to Cathay, yet the lords
of Nippon maintain an elite army of well equipped, highly
trained warriors ready at a moment’s notice to repulse any who
should threaten her shores
Cathay is a huge land, as varied as it is vast, changing from open
plain to dense jungle to rugged mountains seamlessly. While the
peoples of Cathay are not so numerous as the myths of the Old
World make them out to be, they still number in their thousands
upon thousands. The vast majority of these men and women live
simply, in what those who see them from an unlearned
perspective would most likely view as abject poverty, possessing
only their tools and simple mud houses. The Lowborn, as these
people are known, are devoted to their homeland and will fight
with their bare hands to protect it, for they believe in their
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At the spiritual heart of Cathay lie the Mountains of Heaven, a
small yet unreachably stark and tall range of mountains.
Foremost of these is the mighty Ho-Huan, the great pillar
whereupon sits the Great Flame of Cathay and the Celestial
Palace of the Emperor. Upon their western flanks lie lush forests
which sweep up the tall slopes like a carpet of deep green. Upon
their western slopes lie the hundred great Houses of Cathay, and
below them the mighty city of Weijin, the capital of Cathay. The
Mountains of Heaven form a natural ring that surrounds Mt. Ho-
huan, forming a final, nigh impenetrable defense against
invaders. Only once in the history of Cathay have its peoples
been driven to this mountain citadel, and in that final battle the
servants of the Great Flame first came forth to aid the humans
who worshipped them as gods.
The Silver Road winds its way like a glittering promise across
the wastes between the Old World and the Far East. While
technically not a single road, but a conglomeration of many
magically warded passages, the Silver Road still forms the most
secure method of land travel from the West to the East. The
Silver Road travels down from the Border Princes, following the
World’s Edge into the badlands, where it turns east for the first
time. The pass through the World’s Edge is reasonably safe, but
from then on the true perils begin. Winding between the Ash
Ridge Mountains and the Plain of Bones in the Dark Lands.
From there it passes on to the relative safety of Pigbarter and the
Plated Rock. The Silver Road then splits into two distinct paths-
the Ivory Road which passes through the Mountains of Mourn
and the Spice Route that passes along the coast of the Sea of
Storms, preferring to risk the insidious predations of the Dragon
Isles than the more brutish dangers of the Ogre Kingdoms. When
the lucky few to ever reach Cathay find themselves on the
eastern slopes of the Mountains of Mourn, they have finally
reached the land they seek. While danger is still rife in the
western deserts of Cathay, Living Shadow patrols and Lowborn
are common in those lands and most caravans who reach that
point reach Weijin intact. All that remains then is to trade their
wares and make the return journey…
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The Great Flame is a relic of millennia past, a mighty beacon of
the Old Ones, who created many such watch-fires to stabilize the
world against Chaos. In the first great assault of Chaos upon the
world, most of these fires were overturned and snuffed out by
the legions of darkness. Only two survived- the Flame of
Asuryan in Ulthuan, though it was so battered by the assault of
Chaos it was reduced from a furnace to a simple bonfire, and the
Great Flame of Cathay. Whether this was because of its physical
inaccessibility or because of the creatures that now inhabit it is
unknown, but above the clouds, the mighty Flame of Cathay still
drives back the darkness of Chaos. Around the Flame for around
a mile, the energies of Chaos are held at bay and their corrupting
essence can touch nothing. Creatures born in its influence are
perfect, untarnished by the blemishes and maladies caused by
Chaos. The Flame is perpetually guarded by creatures it is
believed it created solely for that purpose- the Phoenix. Birds of
flame and raging heat, they are concerned only with the
protection of the Flame, yet they have often aided Cathay in her
wars, ensuring that the people who protect their mountain
domain do not succumb to the darkness and leave it once more
defenseless
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During the first great Cathayan battles against Chaos, Nippon
and Cathay were forced to defend themselves as one. As a mark
of respect between the one time enemies, a hundred of Nippon’s
finest warriors offered their services to the Celestial Emperor of
Cathay. As the east was rebuilt, they formed the Hundred
Houses of Cathay, warrior institutions without peer. While loyal
to Cathay in the extreme, the Houses exist first and foremost for
battle itself. Warriors of the Houses are taken from their parents
at birth and raised in an environment of constant hardship,
training their bodies and minds constantly for war. They learn to
manipulate
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- the raw, uncorrupted energy from which the
Realm of Chaos is created. While the Magistrates and western
magic users shape the external winds of magic, the warriors of
the Houses shape this internal power instead. This allows them
to perform amazing feats of endurance, speed and skill
impossible for a normal human. Combined with their training
and the finest of Nippon’s weapons and armour, the Houses
produce the some of the finest mortal warriors in the world. The
power of the Houses is always at the disposal of the Emperor but
when they are not needed, House warriors are just as likely to
travel the world seeking battle as to train in their lofty
monasteries and temples high in the Mountains of Heaven. The
men and women of the Houses are as far removed from their
commoner brethren as men are from Daemons. Their bodies
course with arcane power and their minds are inhumanly
focused, unable to even conceive of a life outside of battle. They
view the Lowborn as little more than animals, creatures only fit
to provide the little sustenance they require and utterly
expendable in the pursuit for perfection in battle. Many times the
Houses have used Lowborn as little more than target practice
and living sacrifices on which to practice their deadly arts
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Of all the creations of the orient, the palace of the Celestial
Emperor, where sits the Dragon Throne, and the Never-ending
Stair are the greatest. Built by sorcery and alchemy, it sits upon
the clouds, hundreds of feet above the peak of Ho-Huan.
Reached only by a paper-thin walkway known as the Never-
Ending Stair, the Celestial Palace is a place of eternal wonder.
Cloud Dragons tilt and dive above its faerie gates and the
Magistrates, guardians of the Emperor, stand guard before it, or
climb onto the great platforms above the clouds from where they
observe the heavens. The palace provides a lookout from which
the Emperor can observe all who come and go in Cathay and a
lofty abode from which their decrees can speed, bringing orders
from on high to every part Cathay, whether they be tokens of
favour or the death warrants of thousands.
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