Darkness has washed over the lands. Maelstroms stir in the north. Chaos Marauders march southward propelled by a terrifying, unspeakable power. A plague grips the Empire's lands, transforming its victims into ghoulish mutants. Orcs and Goblins assemble in numbers never before seen. These battle-hungry greenskins have overrun half of the Dwarfs' homelands, the Worlds Edge Mountains, and they threaten to infest the rest. Meanwhile the Dark Elves have foreseen the coming age and have taken advantage of it. Their Witch King has mobilized all Dark Elf houses in a long-awaited effort to reclaim Ulthuan, currently the home of their hated cousins, the High Elves.

Humans of the Empire, High Elves of Ulthuan, and Dwarfs of the Worlds Edge Mountains are forced to unite in an effort to preserve their homelands and drive back the darkness. Together they form the Forces of Order. Worshipers of Chaos, Dark Elves, and Orcs and Goblins converge upon their rivals to unleash an era of conflict and an epoch of death as the Forces of Destruction. It is the dawning of the Age of Reckoning.