The Founding of Ayn'Qaahira

For the first eight days and nights of 390PC, a blue-trailed comet was seen in the skies over Palurin. On the ninth day it plunged like a colossal blade of corruscating light into the deserts to the west of Hjemland. The event was observed by scholars, mages, seers and prophets from the ziggurats of Cuitlaxaochitzin to the ivory towers of Mellvellon, but the Kaalroen Empire was the only faction to successfully locate the impact site. The Tzeentchite 'Qaahira Legion', led by a mighty desert sorceror known only as 'Utinni', discovered a new and vast crater on the edge of the desert. The area was found swarming with daemons that had burst from the warp following the explosion of magical energies. The legion moved swiftly to excise the daemonic incursion and establish control of the crater. They began building a settlement on the edge of the desert, named Ayn'Qaahira, from which to study the site of the cataclysm in order to further the schemes of the Changer of Ways.

Although the shifting sands of the desert, the myriad machinations of Tzeentch and the secrecy of the Qaahira served to keep prying eyes away from this nascent site of arcane power, the arrival of the azure comet had not been forgotten in other realms. In 408PC, an expedition of Ogre raiders was sighted in the desert, heading directly towards the crater. Riding upon a Screamer of Tzeentch bound to his will, Utinni lead his legion forth to meet the gluttonous imbeciles in battle. This thread of fate clearly did not please the Great Manipulator, for both armies were engulfed and scattered in a supernatural sandstorm before either side could strike the decisive blow. As the disoriented Ogre warband marched away to the south, Utinni retreated to fortify Ayn'Qaahira and extend his domain into the desert territory of Alluvium. The veil of secrecy remained...