There are ancient ruins of skaven castles near Marienburg that look like rock outcroppings (e.g. Rat Rock). How were these castles constructed that they, in ruins, now look like mere rock outcroppings rather than castle blocks?
Also, the Skaven battled the Fimir in what is now the Wasteland northeast of Marienburg. This implies that the Fimir were at least equal to the Skaven in strength and technology (both supposedly used Warpstone). What would the Fimir have built, or were they just another draconic swamp race? FIMIR of course were mentioned non-specifically in the WFRP3 WITCH's SONG adventure, but didn't get any write up.
I did find the well-researched WFB book here: www.scribd.com/doc/83267090/Warhammer-Armies-Fimir
Skaven it seems, are easy to integrate into a campaign as they are string-pullers of mankind in the cities, BUT how about the Fimir? How do they command mankind? Is it through dreams and magic, extortion, bullying, troll bridges? Since they are witch-magic casters and demon worshippers, there is good potential for links to Chaos, but I'd like to know if any of you have used them otherwise.
Lastly, the other lost race of Warhammer are the ZOAT (lizard-man centaurs). They are sometimes Wood Elf allies. I think I would just use centigor stats for them in Woodland encounters.
In all three of these cases, NONE of them makes a good campaign theme as they are little more than monsters (like greenskins), which makes them nothing more than "something to be killed" (and hence why a complex write-up is unnecessary IMHO beyond what can be found in the Wiki and WarpstoneMagazine ). They are however, good string-pullers and background attachments to campaigns, encounters and local rumors.
Any thoughts on use? I'll probably work their information into a side-bar of an upcoming scenario.
jh
