The Road of Skulls

The Road of Skulls is a Frozen province introduced in Total War: Warhammer II.

In Total War: Warhammer II, this province was previously 100% controlled by Har Ganeth at the start of a campaign. The Resurgent Update made Har Ganeth playable, and changed who controlled which settlements.

Not to be confused with either the Road of Skulls or The Skull Road, two provinces added in Total War: Warhammer III.

Background[]

The Road of Skulls leads to Har Ganeth, the centre of Khaine worship in the Dark Elven empire. Ruled with an iron fist by Crone Hellebron, this is the only Dark Elven city where murder is outlawed for most of the year - the only blood spilt is done so in the name of Khaine, and sacrifice at his altar is the penalty for breaking this or indeed any law. Only on Death Night, when slaves and prisoners are let loose onto the streets, is the law lifted, and blood and wine flow equally as freely in a city-wide orgy of cruelty.

Har Ganeth is relatively isolated, reflecting the fact that it was originally built by Druchii generals after their defeat at the Battle of the Blighted Isle, refusing to go back to Naggarond so fearful were they of Malekith's wrath. It is an area particularly rich in chaotic influence - the Black Pillar is a towering shrine to the Chaos gods carved from obsidian and studded with the skulls of sacrifices. Sometimes it can be difficult to tell where the Khaine worship ends and the Khorne worship begins...

Settlements[]

Eye of the Vortex[]

Settlement	Type	Climate	Starting faction	Resources	Special buildings
Har Ganeth	Province capital	Frozen	Har Ganeth		Fiery Pits of Sacrifice, Flaming Braziers of War Hellebron's Palace, Captured Palace of Hellebron
Kauark	Minor		Ruins
Spite Reach	Minor		Ghrond	Wine
The Black Pillar	Minor		Deadwood Sentinels Ruins (if player controls Ghosts of Pahuax)

Mortal Empires[]

Settlement	Type	Port	Climate	Starting faction	Resources	Special buildings
Har Ganeth	Province capital	No	Frozen	Har Ganeth		Fiery Pits of Sacrifice, Flaming Braziers of War Hellebron's Palace, Captured Palace of Hellebron
Kauark	Minor	No		Ruins
Spite Reach	Minor	No		Ghrond	Wine
The Black Pillar	Minor	No		Deadwood Sentinels Ruins (if player controls Ghosts of Pahuax)

Immortal Empires[]

Settlement	Type	Port	Climate	Starting faction	Resources	Special buildings
Har Ganeth	Province capital	No	Frozen	Har Ganeth		Fiery Pits of Sacrifice, Flaming Braziers of War Hellebron's Palace, Captured Palace of Hellebron
Kauark	Minor	No		Da Cage Breakaz
Spite Reach	Minor	No			Wine
The Black Pillar	Minor	No			Dyes

Provinces in Eye of the Vortex

Ulthuan		Straits of Lothern · Eataine · Saphery · Ellyrion · Avelorn · Caledor · Chrace · Northern Yvresse · Southern Yvresse · Cothique · Tiranoc · Nagarythe · Phoenix Gate · Griffon Gate · Eagle Gate · Unicorn Gate

Naggaroth		Grey Guardians · Iron Peaks · Ashen Coast · The Black Coast · Shadow Wood · The Clawed Coast · The Broken Lands · Naggarond · Obsidian Peaks · The Black Flood · The Witchwood · Plain of Spiders · Red Desert · Iron Mountains · The Chill Road · The Road of Skulls · Deadwood · Ironfrost Glacier · Aghol Wastelands

Lustria		Forests of the Viper · Isthmus of Lustria · Coast of Squalls · Settler's Coast · Jungles of Pahualaxa · Jungles of Green Mist · The Creeping Jungle · Mosquito Swamps · The Vampire Coast · Northern Great Jungle · Northern Spine of Sotek · Southern Great Jungle · The Sacred Pools · River Qurveza · Central Spine of Sotek · Southern Spine of Sotek · The Lost Valley · The Forbidden Jungle · The Dragon Isles · The Turtle Isles · Copper Desert · Culchan Plains · The Capes · Headhunter's Jungle · Coasts of the Lustrian Gulf · Scorpion Coast · Volcanic Islands

The Southlands		Land of Assassins · Coast of Araby · Cobra Pass · The Great Desert · Land of the Dervishes · Land of the Dead · Great Mortis Delta · Ash River · Southlands World's Edge Mtns. · Western Jungles · Northern Red Rivers · Southern Red Rivers · Heart of the Jungle · Kingdom of Beasts · Southern Jungles · The Jungles of the Gods · Shifting Mangrove Coastline · Shifting Sands · Southern Badlands · Southlands World's Edge Mtns.

Islands		Albion · Sartosa · The Sea of Dread · The Galleon's Graveyard · Fortress of Dawn

Provinces in Mortal Empires

The Old World

Lowlands		Reikland · Averland · Ostermark · Ostland · Middenland · Nordland · Talabecland · Wissenland · Stirland · Hochland · The Wasteland · Eastern Sylvania · Western Sylvania · The Misty Hills · Laurelorn Forest · Mootland · Solland · Parravon · Bordeleaux · Forest of Arden · Bastonne · Carcassonne · Couronne · Lyonesse · Tilea · Estalia · Western Border Princes · Eastern Border Princes · Southern Oblast · Eastern Oblast · Northern Oblast · Troll Country · Sartosa · Axe Bite Pass · Winter's Teeth Pass · Gisoreux Gap · Gryphon Wood · Forest of Gloom

Mountains		Massif Orcal · The Silver Road · The Vaults · Peak Pass · Rib Peaks · Zhufbar · Northern World's Edge Mountains · Gianthome Mountains · Southern Grey Mountains · Northern Grey Mountains · Black Mountains

Norsca		Mountains of Hel · Goromandy Mountains · Trollheim Mountains · Vanaheim Mountains · Helspire Mountains · Mountains of Naglfari · Ice Tooth Mountains

The Badlands		Southern Badlands · Blood River Valley · Western Badlands · Southern World's Edge Mountains · Eastern Badlands · Blightwater · Death Pass · Marshes of Madness

Athel Loren		Talsyn · Yn Edri Eternos · Argwylon · Torgovann · Wydrioth

Skaven Lairs		Hell Pit · Skavenblight

The Dark Lands		Plain of Bones · Gnoblar Country · Broken Teeth · The Wolf Lands · Northern Dark Lands · Southern Dark Lands

The New World

Ulthuan		Eataine · Saphery · Ellyrion · Avelorn · Caledor · Chrace · Yvresse · Cothique · Tiranoc · Nagarythe · Phoenix Gate · Griffon Gate · Eagle Gate · Unicorn Gate

Naggaroth		The Chill Road · The Road of Skulls · Deadwood · Iron Mountains · The Black Flood · Black Spine Mountains · Obsidian Peaks · The Clawed Coast · The Broken Lands · Doom Glades · The Black Coast · Titan Peaks · The Witchwood

Lustria		Isthmus of Lustria · Volcanic Islands · Northern Jungles of Pahualaxa · Southern Jungles of Pahualaxa · Jungles of Green Mist · The Creeping Jungle · Northern Great Jungle · Southern Great Jungle · Vampire Coast · Huahuan Desert · Spine of Sotek · Headhunter's Jungle · The Sacred Pools

The Southlands		Land of Assassins · Coast of Araby · Atalan Mountains · Great Desert of Araby · Shifting Sands · Land of the Dead · Ash River · Charnel Valley · Southlands World's Edge Mtns. · Devil's Backbone · Crater of the Walking Dead · Southlands Jungle · Kingdom of Beasts · Land of the Dervishes · Heart of the Jungle

Other

The Chaos Wastes (province) · Ironfrost Glacier · Aghol Wastelands · The Galleon's Graveyard · Albion · The Dragon Isles

Provinces in Immortal Empires

The New World

Ulthuan		Avelorn · Caledor · Chrace · Cothique · Eagle Gate · Eataine · Ellyrion · Griffon Gate · Nagarythe · Northern Yvresse · Phoenix Gate · Saphery · Southern Yvresse · Tiranoc · Unicorn Gate

Naggaroth		Ashen Coast · Deadwood · Doom Glades · Granite Hills · Iron Coast · Iron Foothills · Iron Mountains · Ironsand Desert · Obsidian Peaks · Red Desert · Spiteful Peaks · The Black Flood · The Bleak Coast · The Broken Lands · The Clawed Coast · The Road of Skulls · The Shard Lands · The Witchwood · Titan Peaks

Lustria		Aymara Swamps · Copper Desert · Culchan Plains · Headhunter's Jungle · Isthmus of Lustria · Jungles of Pahualaxa · Jungles of Green Mist · Jungle of Webs · Mosquito Swamps · Piranha Swamps · River Qurveza · Spine of Sotek · The Capes · The Creeping Jungle · The Gwangee Valley · The Isthmus Coast · The Lost Valley · The Night Forest Road · The Sacred Pools · The Turtle Isles · Volcanic Islands

The Southlands		Atalan Mountains · Central Jungles · Coast of Araby · Crater of the Waking Dead · Dawn's Landing · Devil's Backbone · Great Desert of Araby · Great Mortis Delta · Heart of the Jungle · Kingdom of Beasts · Land of Assassins · Land of the Dead · Land of the Dervishes · Shifting Sands · Southern Jungles · Southlands World's Edge Mountains · The Barrier Idols · The Cracked Land · The Golden Pass · The Jungles of the Gods · Western Jungles

Islands		The Great Ocean

The Old World

Norsca		Albion · Gianthome Mountains · Goromadny Mountains · Helspire Mountains · Ice Tooth Mountains · Mountains of Hel · Mountains of Naglfari · Trollheim Mountains · Vanaheim Mountains

Empire		Averland · Gryphon Wood · Hochland · Laurelorn Forest · Middenland · Mootland · Nordland · Northern Sylvania · Ostermark · Ostland · Reikland · Solland · Southern Sylvania · Stirland · Talabecland · The Middle Mountains · The Misty Hills · The Wasteland · Wissenland

Kislev		Black Blood Pass · Eastern Oblast · River Lynsk · River Urskoy · Southern Oblast · The Cursed City · Troll Country

Bretonnia		Barrows of Cuileux · Bastonne · Carcassonne · Coast of Lyonesse · Forest of Arden · Forest of Chalons · Marches of Couronne · River Brienne

Southern Realms		Eastern Border Princes · Estalia · Irrana Mountains · The Blighted Marshes · Tilea · Pirate's Current · Western Border Princes

Grey Mountains		Axe Bite Pass · Black Mountains · Gisoreux Gap · Northern Grey Mountains · Southern Grey Mountains · The Vaults · Winter's Teeth Pass

Athel Loren		Argwylon · Talsyn · Torgovann · Wydrioth · Yn Edri Eternos

World's Edge Mountains		Black Water · Deadrock Gap · Death Pass · Northern World's Edge Mountains · Peak Pass · Rib Peaks · Southern World's Edge Mountains · The Silver Road

The Badlands

Blightwater · Blood River Valley · Eastern Badlands · Eight Peaks · Forest of Gloom · Marshes of Madness · Southern Badlands · Western Badlands

Eastern Regions

The Dark Lands		Broken Teeth · Gnoblar Country · The Blasted Wastes · The Desolation of Azgorh · Scalded Delta · The Haunted Forest · The Howling Wastes · The Plain of Bones · The Plain of Zharr · The Wolf Lands · Zorn Uzkul

Mountains of Mourn		Ancient Giant Lands · Bone Road · Gash Kadrak · Ivory Road · Mountains of Mourn · Path to the East

Far East		Broken Lands of Tian Li · Cathayan Hinterlands · Celestial Lake · Celestial Riverlands · Central Great Bastion · Eastern Great Bastion · Forests of the Moon · Gunpowder Road · Imperial Road · Jade River Delta · Jungles of Chi'an · Lands of Stone and Steel · Mount Li · Nongchang Basin · Plains of Xen · Serpent Estuary · The Great Canal · Warpstone Desert · Wastelands of Jinshen · Western Great Bastion

Islands		Eastern Colonies · The Dragon Isles

The Chaos Wastes

Southern Chaos Wastes		The Abyssal Glacier · The Daemonium Hills · The Ice-Fire Plains · The Southern Wastes

Northern Chaos Wastes		Bloodfire Falls · Chimera Plateau · Eastern Steppes · Ironfrost Glacier · K'datha · Northern Wastes · Plain of Illusions · Stonesky Foothills · The Blood Marshes · The Cold Mires · The Eternal Lagoon · The Frigid Wasteland · The Noisome Tumour · The Red Wastes · The Skull Road

Other

Waterways		Frozen Sea · Kraken Sea · Northern Sea of Chaos · Gulf of Kislev · Sea of Claws · Southern Sea of Chaos · The Albion Channel · The Great Ocean · The Shard Coast · Sea of Chill · Sea of Malice · The Forbidding Coast · Sunken Lands · The Isles · The Mistnar Crossing · The Bleak Sea · Straits of Fear · The Boiling Sea · Sea of Squalls · Sea of Serpents · Straits of Lothern · Scorpion Coast · Tarantula Coast · The Vampire Coast · The Turtle Shallows · The Far Sea · Worm Coast · Mangrove Coast · The Lustria Strait · Daemon's Landing · The Churning Gulf · The Southern Straits · Gulf of Medes · Shark Straits · The Pirate Coast · The Black Gulf · Tilean Sea · The Estalia Coastline · Middle Sea · Serpent Coast · The Daemonium Coast · Shifting Mangrove Coastline · The Eastern Isles · The Sea of Dread · Eastern Sea of Dread · The Jade Sea · Lizard Sea · Sea of Storms · Straits of Nagash · The Bitter Sea · Northern Straits of the Jade Sea · The Inner Sea · Straits of Chaos