Bloodied Track
The Bloodied Track, once known as the Gilded Track, is a long paved road that extends from the Flamespider Woad in northwestern Bataar, all the way to the Beastbridge. Much of the road passes through the Gatelands. Despite it's bloody history, the Bataari still proudly use the Bloodided Track as a trade road.[1a]
History
Age of Myth
The merchant kingdoms of Bataar build an expansive trade road extending from their cities to the Beastbridge that separates Bataar from the central reaches of the Great Parch.[1a]
Age of Chaos
Most of the kingdoms of Bataar were shattered and destroyed in the Age of Chaos by warbands from the east, nominally led by the Goretide. Many thousands of captured and enslaved Bataari were forced to walk the Gilded Track, carrying the gold that their captors believed to be worthless. This event led to the road earning it's modern name. Those Bataari that evade capture flee to the sky in the Floating Market.[1a]
Age of Sigmar
But the forces of Chaos underestimated those they dismissed as weak, as the Bataari secretly stockpiled and hid their gold. When the time was right, during Sigmar's Tempest, those Bataari that remained free enacted their Great Ruse and gathered up their hidden gold and hired many Fyreslayer Lodges of Vostargi Mont. Three bloodied years of war saw the forces of Nurgle and Khorne in Bataar decimated and those Bataari that remained in captivity freed.[1a]
With the Realmgate Wars ended the Bataari have returned to ascendancy and though warbands of Chaos still menace Bataar and much of the Gatelands are controlled by the Goretide, the Bloodied Track is once more used as a trade road. Though most who choose to travel the route will employ Hermdar Lodge mercenaries for protection.[1a]
The road is now recognized as a symbol of Bataar and many view it as proof of the Bataari's cunning and resolve.[1a]
Sources
- 1: Soulbound Core Rulebook
- 1a: Chapter Nine: The Great Parch
