He is said to constantly battle the Dark Gods, working to stem their malignant influence from infecting the realm of men. Two millennia hence, the Cult of Sigmar has become the most widespread and most powerful faith in all the Empire- rivalled only by the ancient Cult of Ulric, and even then only in the north. A new god, one born of mortal origins, but destined to protect his people so long as his Empire stood. Thus was born the Cult of Sigmar- men claiming that their Lord had not fallen in the East, but had ascended boldly to rule the heavens.
Within a generation after his passing, the people of his Empire clamoured around a wild-eyed friar named Johann Helstrum who proclaimed that he had borne witness to a vision of Ulric himself placing the crown of godhood upon Sigmar's brow and elevating him to join the company of the divine. Whatever the truth of these legends, the simple fact remained, the Father of the Empire had gone. He was accompanied by a great wolf on one flank and a massive boar on the other, his visage was a mask of grim determination. Upon the last year of his rule, and the anniversary of his coronation by the Ar-Ulric, Sigmar rose up from his throne and left the Empire, heading eastwards towards the Worlds Edge Mountains. Yet despite that, many challenges to the Empire's stability were faced and overcome by Sigmar's daring and leadership: the invasions of Norsii barbarians, and even the march of the Lord of the Undead, Nagash himself, whom Sigmar defeated in single-combat at the gates of Reikdorf.
For fifty years did Sigmar reign over the Empire: a golden age that was just, fair and prosperous. After Sigmar had completed the unification, he was coronated as Emperor by the Ar-Ulric himself, having been a deeply devout Ulrican in mortal life. Nevertheless, through words and deeds, Sigmar brought the tribes together while casting aside those who defied him and then, with hammer and fury, drove the enemies of mankind from his homeland. All the while, the Greenskins ravaged humanity from the East, and the Beastmen raided from the forests. The Jutones and the Endals warred with each other over land, and the Norsii made prey of all men. This was not a thing to be taken lightly, for the Thuringians and Teutogens raided the northern borders of the Unberogens, the Merogens their southern settlements. Born over 2500 years ago to the Unberogen tribe, his coming having been heralded by the twin-tailed comet Sigmar, alone of the chieftains of the 12 Human tribes whose people founded the Empire, was possessed of a singular drive to put an end to the bloody tribal conflict that had riven his people apart. Reikdorf ( Altdorf) Sigmar Heldenhammer (meaning Hammer of the Goblins in Old Reikspiel), born as Sigmar Unberogen, is the eternal patron god of the Cult of Sigmar and the Empire, as well as that realm's founder and principle war-god.
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