But the tombs became labyrinthine as more elaborate buildings were raised on the ruins of older ones and the rotten foundations became infested with vermin. In ancient times the Necropolis was a graveyard that became a monument to death and then a city, when the gravediggers and graverobbers set up homes and industries to exploit the wealth of corpses. The Throne is lost deep in the ancient catacombs, tunnels, ghoul warrens and tombs of the Necropolis. A vampire civil war in the catacombs, a hunt for a throne that was thought to be only a legend but that every vampire has heard of and wants for themselves – the Throne of Bones. This project is an attempt to bring some of that darkness to Warhammer and Mordheim. Not for the feint of heart, but also darkly funny. They are hideous and crude, and there is a lot of sex and violence: McNaughton’s book is one of the most graphic I have ever read. The thing I found most evocative was the descriptions of ghouls as always laughing, bullying, animalistic creatures. The book mainly revolves around the various grotesque activities of ghouls in its evocative setting – the vast ghoul-haunted graveyards and catacombs of the Crotalorn necropolis. The Throne of Bones is a Mordheim/Warhammer Fantasy project inspired by the Brian McNaughton book of the same name. Brian McNaughton, 'The Throne of Bones' It vaporizes delicacy and leaves behind only a slag of anger and lust.” Hunger is the fire in which they burn, and it burns hotter than the hunger for power over men or for knowledge of the gods in a crazed mortal. “For all their laughter, ghouls are a dull lot.
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