This has usually occurred whenever a skaven civil war has gotten out of hand this has only occurred twice, but the restoration of the skaven as a species in the Mortal Realms could mean the Great Horned Rat's presence will be more keenly felt. However, on rare occasions, the Great Horned Rat will deem it necessary to personally interfere in the affairs of mortals.
The Great Horned Rat serves on a second council - the Shadow Council of Thirteen, forged of itself and the Verminlords - its own rat-like daemons - each representing one of the twelve main Great Clans of the skaven.įor the most part, the Great Horned Rat stays in the shadows, watching its children quarrel with one another, sabotage other species and cause general mayhem in the Mortal Realms.
Unbeknownst to the skaven, the Great Horned Rat plays much more of an active role in its children's lives than they realise - just not as expected. Since then, the Great Horned Rat has served as the symbolic leader of the Council of Thirteen - the skaven's twelve most powerful leaders, with the Great Horned Rat claiming the thirteenth seat, the most powerful on the council.
The skaven first became aware of the Horned Rat's existence following a failed attempt to expand their already substantial home - some unforeseen wrench in the works of a great tunneling machine had destroyed every building in Skavenblight, save for one - the large church in the centre of the city's ruins that housed the first Screaming Bell.įrom the church, those skaven that had survived watched as twelve grey-furred ratmen stepped out, the first Grey Seers, who proceeded to explain that they were the ones who had been chosen by the Horned Rat to lead their people, as ordained by their scabrous new deity. With the death or mutation of the city's mortal inhabitants, the skaven proceeded unopposed to overtake the ruined city's subterranean ruins, which were dubbed Skavenblight. That mortal's work - the creation of an unholy artefact known as a Screaming Bell - brought an entire city low and destroyed not only its Human and Dwarfish citizens, but also created the skaven - the end product of both mundane rats and the human children of the city being exposed to the mutating effects of warpstone. The Horned One's origins can be traced back to the World-That-Was, with the creation of its hideous people and its own birth within the Realm of Chaos due to the toiling of an unnamed mortal clad in grey. The Great Horned Rat is the fifth major Chaos God, rising to join the pantheon of the Ruinous Powers in the last days of the World-That-Was.
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