The Border Princes is a vast region within the Old World located between the Black Mountains and Black Fire Pass to the north and the shores of the Black Gulf to the south. This region of vast wilderness is home to a multitude of petty Human kingdoms that were established by highly ambitious adventurers who sought to create a realm of their own. Many times however these adventurers usually consist of political or religious refugees from lands such as the Empire, Bretonnia, Tilea, and Kislev.
As such, these lands are infamous as the homes of a wide variety of bandits, mercenaries, cut-
throats, pirates and other lawless fugitives. Following the Battle of Black Fire Pass, human colonists during the time of Sigismund the Conqueror led a campaign of conquest towards the Empire's southern borders and fought off the Greenskin tribes that used to inhabit the lands, clearing the way for many nobles from all across the lands of the Old World to colonize and claim patches of this territory as their own. Even today the land is plagued by roaming bands of Greenskins while the so called Princes who rule these petty domains fight amongst themselves. Mercenaries of all kinds are employed to help against the Greenskins or even against rival Princes. Lands and titles often being exchanged at the stroke of a blade. An ambitious mercenary captain may find himself one betrayal away from being Prince himself.
Dotted around the landscape are towns ruined after a Greenskin attack. Sometimes they become lairs to bandits or other menaces. The dead inhabitants are a useful resource for necromancers who benefit from the turmoil and general lawlessness in the region. More often mercenaries will search these ruins to see if they can find anything of value but they usually are not the only ones with the same idea.
In the Northeast, Ulfraya is one such example of a once prosperous settlement. Overlooking the route between the dwarf strongholds and the Blackfire pass which leads to the Empire. However it is now a crumbling shell having faded much like the dwarven holds in the region.
Another ruined town is Klossi which is situated where the River Staenek and the Skull River meet. The location made it so convenient for trading by boat, that it also made it very convenient for raiders to attack from the Black Gulf. Its population now dead or departed.
The forests are wild and dangerous places, although there are many small villages situated within the woodlands. The forests serve to hide many ever present dangers, including Forest Goblins and beastmen. The deeper forests are virtually hostile territory where few humans venture.
While the region is nowhere near as populous or metropolitan as the Empire can be, the Border Princes offers a large variety of terrain on which conflict often takes place for smaller stakes. Many factions and players have the opportunity to stake a claim or influence the future and peoples of these petty states.
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