These unholy lands are seen as a place of absolute holiness by the Norscan tribes, as well as by the Kurgans and Hung. Were a cartographer to take his compass and inscribe a circle of the area throughout the world's northern pole, the circumference lying roughly on the northern shore of the dreaded Sea of Claws, it would serve to roughly demarcate the boundaries of the Chaos Wastes.
In truth, it is this and infinitely so much more, but for the sake of mortal understanding, the legend alone must suffice.
It is the legendary home of immortal gods and, so it is said, of infinitely worse things: the numberless, nameless monstrosities that dwell in the eternal planes. The Chaos Wastes, also known as the Northern Wastes, the Shadowlands or simply the Northlands, is a hellish region of barren tundra that lies far to the north of the Old World, the New World and Cathay. ' To the north lies our past, and to the north lies our future.' - Baron Fallon von Kelspar.
