For they had once ruled a mighty and far-flung empire during a time when the rest of Mankind were little more than savage barbarians. Out of all the unliving creatures that would claim dominion and royalty over the dead, only the Tomb Kings could truly claim such masterful and undisputed sovereignty. The Tomb Kings, known as the Priest Kings in their former lives, are the undying rulers of Nehekhara, an ancient civilisation of Men that formed a great and powerful empire some two thousand five hundred years before the birth of Sigmar Heldenhammer and the founding of the Empire. The icon of Nehekhara, the ancient land of the Tomb Kings. Extract from the Liber Necris, translated by Mannfred von Carstein. The Name of the one who cursed them to their existence, more than death but less than life. And sometimes, in ghastly dry voices, like the rustling of sun-baked reeds, they whisper the one word they remember from life. They haunt the shifting dunes of the breathless, windless night, brandish weapons of bronze in mocking challenge and bitter resentment of the life they no longer possess. ' In that dread desert, beneath the moon´s pale gaze, dead men walk.

Not to be confused with Tomb King (Title).

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