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After over a century of searching, Archaon had claimed the title of Everchosen. All that he needed now was a coronation. The daemon prince Be'lakor, thoughts of treachery extinguished by fear and reverence, performed the ceremony that made Archaon the Lord of the End Times, and the Everchosen immediately began mustering the largest army ever seen in the Old World. It was from that day forward that the last spark of Archaon's humanity was extinguished; from then until the end of days, Archaon, finally, fully embraced the destiny that lay before him.[6a]
The absence of the Witch King left General Kouran Darkhand, Master of the Black Guards, to take command of the city's defenses, where he fought Valkia twice in single-combat. Despite surviving the initial onslaught, there was no discernible way for the Druchii to end the siege. The stark nature of their situation fractured the Lords and Ladies of the Black Council, revealing the value of Malekith's strong hand on the tiller of the realm and their ineptitude without his guidance. When Malekith at last returned in the third month of the siege, he wasted no time. He mounted his great black dragon Seraphon and pushed back the Bloodied Horde from Naggarond's gates. However, Malekith's wrath and annoyance were apparent. With much of Naggaroth lying in ruin, and the forces of Chaos only forestalled, not defeated, he would be forced to delay his intended invasion of Ulthuan and recall the invasion fleet back into harbour to be prepared for a counter-attack.[1c]
Though nearly one-third of Malekith's army was lost on the journey, the Witch King continued on with silent determination, going as far as to isolate himself from his generals. Some forty leagues short of Ghrond, Malekith's army was blocked by a massive horde of Daemons led by a mighty Bloodthirster of Khorne. Though powerful, the Witch King could not be denied entrance, and with the daemon's defeat, Malekith entered the Tower and found his mother. Morathi told her son that the End Times were nigh and that upon the shores of Ulthaun, not Naggaroth, that his destiny awaited him. Morathi's wisdom came with a significant caveat however. Though she did not deny the finality of the hour nor the rightfulness of his quest for the Phoenix Throne, she could not sanction an invasion while Naggaroth burned behind them. She bluntly warned that should he pursue that path, should he return to the lands of his birth, it would destroy everything that had ever made him her son. Prideful to the last, Malekith abandoned his mother and gathered what remained of his entire people to set sail on a fleet of Warships so massive that it stretched from horizon to horizon. Thus, upon the same hour that Teclis banished the daemons from the shores of Ulthuan, did the last great host of Naggaroth embark upon their fleet of Black Arks. Without a backwards glance to his burning Kingdom, Malekith looked fixed upon the land of Ulthuan, determined that, this time, there would be no going back.[3b]
Days after Gilles' recoronation as Royarch, plague broke out in the southern dukedoms of Quenelles and Carcassonne. Then came the Warpstone meteors, blazing across the night sky and landing in multiple locations across the realm. Within days, mutation began to run rife amongst the populace, and Beastmen warherds by the hundreds began to ravage the lands without resistance. Shrines, villages, and towns were quickly lost, including the Dukedom of Bordeleaux's capital city after it was sucked into a Warp rift. With a quarter of their population slain, another quarter left the kingdom and sought refuge within the Empire. Seeing the horrors that had begun to plague his homeland, King Gilles summoned his heralds and declared the last and grandest Errantry War in their history. Within days, thousands of Knights had flocked to his banner, and the forces of Bretonnia began to mobilise to face the agents of Chaos in combat.[1g]
With the first two prongs of the Skaven invasion