Disclaimer: Warhammer belongs to Games Workshop and A Song of Ice and Fire belongs to George R.R Martin and HBO. Neither settings are mine.

SIGMAR'S CONQUEST

IT HAS BEEN 2540 YEARS SINCE SIGMAR HAS FORGED HIS EMPIRE, AND THE END TIMES HAVE BEEN AVERTED, FOR NOW.

WITH FAITH, STEEL, AND GUNPOWDER DID THE REALMS OF MAN SURVIVE, WITH THE SLAYING OF ARCHAON THE EVERCHOSEN AT THE HANDS OF VALTEN IN THE SECOND SIEGE OF KISLEV, WHO PERISHED IN TURN OF HIS WOUNDS.

WITH THIS HEROIC SACRIFICE WAS DISASTER AVERTED, AND THE COMING OF NAGASH PREVENTED BY THE TIMELY INTERVENTION OF THE EMPEROR KARL FRANZ AND SUPREME PATRIARCH BALTHASAR GELT, WHO FINALLY SLEW THE DREADED MANNFRED VON CARSTEIN, AND CONDEMNED HIS FOUL MASTER TO ONE THOUSAND YEARS MORE OF IMPRISONMENT.

SEEING THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO RISE SQUANDERED, THE VILE SKAVEN RETURN TO THEIR PLOTTING IN THE DARKEST PLACES OF THE OLD WORLD, AWAITING AS THEY ALWAYS HAVE THE COMING OF THE TRUE END TIMES.

IN A TIME OF UNPARALLELED SUCCESS SINCE THE TIME OF SIGMAR, KARL FRANZ BROUGHT HIS PEOPLE FROM THE EDGE OF DESPAIR. IN GRATITUDE FOR HIS SAVING THEIR CITY FROM THE DEPREDATIONS OF CHAOS, THE MIGHTY CITY OF MARIENBURG REJOINS THE EMPIRE, AS A FREE CITY BEHOLDEN ONLY TO THE EMPEROR. NOW IT STANDS STRONG AND PROUD ONCE MORE, IT'S ARMIES MIGHTY AND THE PEOPLE UNITED UNDER KARL FRANZ THE GLORIOUS, WHO REIGNS WITH WISDOM AND RIGHTEOUS FURY.

YET NOT ALL REMAINED AS IT WAS. IN THE TURMOIL OF THE COMING OF THE EVERCHOSEN, AN ISLAND ERUPTED FROM THE COLD SEAFLOOR IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEA OF CLAWS. THIS ISLAND CAME TO BEAR THE NAME FARTHEST GATE, AFTER THE STARTLING FEATURE THAT MAKES THIS OTHERWISE UNREMARKABLE SPIT OF ROCK SO NOTEWORTHY

NONE ARE CERTAIN OF ITS ORIGIN, YET IT HOUSES A TREMENDOUS DISCOVERY. SHIPS THAT SAIL NEAR THIS FARTHEST GATE AT A CERTAIN TIME RIGHT AT THE BREAK OF DAWN DISAPPEAR, SENT TO THE SEAS OF A STRANGE WORLD BEYOND THE VOID, A WORLD SIMILAR YET DIFFERENT FROM THEIR OWN. A WORLD INHABITED BY STRANGE GODS AND HEATHEN FOLK, WHO PLAY AN ENDLESS GAME OF THRONES.

A WORLD PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN

A WORLD THAT IS RIPE FOR CONQUEST BY THE SONS OF SIGMAR, AN EXPANSION UNSEEN SINCE THE EARLIEST EMPIRE.

A WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE

Author's note: This is the preamble I suppose you could call it, to what I intend to work on later this month when I've written more of Song of Hammers and Twin-Tailed comets. It will be AU in both universes, since in the Warhammer universe the Empire is victorious and resurgent for the first time since Sigmar, and in ASOIAF universe Robert's Rebellion was defeated. I'll obviously delineate as the story goes on. I'm intending it to be rather large scale. These are the basics

1. Ned decides to bend the knee to Rhaegar.

2. Lyanna and Rhaegar were in love and Jon is their child. (I actually personally don't like this pairing, but its admittedly a very interesting one and what I'll go with in this case)

3. Aegon and Rhaenys live, though Elia does not.

Expect to see the first chapters coming sometime before Christmas, when I get off from college for Christmas break.