But, unlike humans (at least, the better sorts), Skaven embrace this total lack of scruples or honour. Skaven are never culpable, being wholly unable to take the blame for even the most obvious and egregious errors entirely of their own making. They will, quite literally, eat each other alive. In addition to being cowardly, Skaven cheat, steal, and endlessly stab each other in the back for their own promotion. Skaven are a characterful, black parody of mankind and ultimately embody everything that is wrong with humanity, only more so. The only thing that keeps them in check is the constant internal strife between the clans that make up their society, but one day the Grey Seers, who speak for the Horned Rat himself, will unify them and lead them to inevitable victory. This is the ultimate ambition of the Skaven race. There the mighty Lords of Decay, ruthless rulers of all Skaven, sit in the Council of Thirteen, scheming and planning in preparation for the time when their armies will emerge from their subterranean realm to raze the entire surface world and rule over its ruins. Their capital is the mysterious city of Skavenblight, hidden in the centre of the foul marshes lying on the western borders of Tilea. The tunnels of their vast under-empire reach from the steaming jungles of the South Lands to the snow-covered steppes of Kislev, from the western borders of Estalia and Bretonnia to the lost realms of the Far East. The Skaven are a race of malevolent rat-men that inhabit the underground of the Warhammer world.
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