Warhammer : Tribute to the Skaven

Skaven are the rat-men of the Under-Empire, and secret shapers of the world. Skaven live in a phenomenally vast and intricate network of underground tunnels called the Under-Empire, which extends all throughout the Old World and beyond. They hide themselves away from the eyes of surface-dwellers, emerging only to carry out their secret schemes and to gather the massive amounts of warpstone needed to sustain their magic users and the arcane machines of their warlocks. On rare occasions the Skaven clans gather in vast swarm armies to wage sudden war on other races in the name of their evil God; the Horned Rat. They were officially introduced as a new Chaos race in 1986 by Jes Goodwin. In the background of the setting the Skaven are described as a clan-based society in which the Council of Thirteen holds important significance. All Skaven pay homage to the Horned Rat, their only deity, whom they worship primarily out of fear of retribution. Skaven are portrayed as sneaky, conniving, selfish, coward