When not waging war against the southern realms, these tribes often trade exotic furs, metals, and their service as mercenaries to employers in cities such as Marienburg. While they raid and plunder just as much as the rest of their kin, it is from these tribes that the ideals of trade and cooperation have begun to take root, albeit shakily. The southern tribes are somewhat milder than their northern counterparts. Those tribes living within the northern reaches of Norsca are often fierce worshipers of Chaos, and are the most common to take part in the Chaos Gods' wars upon the civilised world. These various Norse tribes are often nations unto themselves: possessing varying pantheons of gods, traditions, heroes and tribal dialects. They are instead divided into various, numerous tribal confederations that are as much at war with each other as they are with the Kurgan and Hung tribes to the East or the Empire to the South. Indeed, the very term 'Norscan' is an Imperial labeling. The Norscans as a single, cohesive people do not exist. Hard bitten and war like, the men of Norsca are the greatest of all the warriors of the Dark Gods. The Norscans see these alterations as the 'blessings' of their dreadful deities, which empower them to strive above and conquer all who oppose them. It is for this reason that most, if not all the tribes of the Norsca, are affected to some extent by the power of Chaos, causing their flesh to warp and mutate through the influences of their Gods, and their minds to be plunged into the darkest depths of the most violent insanity. As such, no sane Human being would be able to survive in this harsh wasteland with their sanity intact.

Norsca is a savage and brutal land, plagued by lethal winters for more than half the year, and worse, lashed perpetually by raging gales of Chaos energies howling down from the ancient ruins of the fallen Warp Gate resting at the very heart of the northern Chaos Wastes. It is the dream of nearly every member of this fierce people to ascend to the ranks of the greatest warriors to become mighty Champions of Chaos and bear the dread marks of their gods' ruinous favor. The Norsemen are, without exception, great warriors, blessed with incredible strength at arms and fearsome demeanors. The brutality of their raids have been felt as far abroad as the Witch King's baleful domain of Naggaroth and the mysterious realm of Cathay, for the men of Norsca are reckoned to be perhaps the most adept sailors and navigators in all the world unequaled by any in their courage and reckless thirst for conquest. Warlike and cruel, the Norse are the very epitome of the Warriors of Chaos fanatically devoted champions of the Dark Gods and the baneful scourge of their foes. Norsca is inhabited by a race of savage and ferocious humans known as the Norscans fur-clad warriors and berserkers of hairy brawn who sail the seas in fearsome longships in order to unleash their devastating fury upon the south.

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