In the 7th Edition Warhammer Fantasy Battle: Rulebook, however, Khuresh was placed south of Cathay. In Warhammer Armies: Beasts of Chaos (6th Edition) they are not named on the Beastmen concentration map, but the southeastern peninsula is considered part of Cathay as well. In the 6th and 7th Edition Warhammer Armies: High Elves, the Hinterlands of Khuresh are located south of the Eastern Steppes, east of the Mountains of Mourn and north of the Kingdoms of Ind, Grand Cathay and Nippon. No Asur trade routes go to the Hinterlands of Khuresh. Though the High Elves are no longer the dominant colonial power that they once were across the Known World, they still maintain two outposts on each end of the Gates of Calith. It is unclear whether these Snakemen correspond to the three big concentrations of Beastmen located to the north, center and south of the Khuresh peninsula, or if they are in any way related to the Lost City of the Old Ones that lies in the centre of the jungles, of which nothing is known except its location.
One such artefact is the White Sistrum, a strange ivory-graven rattle-drum shaped like an hourglass, whose discordant music brings madness and death, and evokes the terrible rites of the Naga - invoking their power and the slaughter of forgotten ages when the cold-blooded serpents of Chaos held the world in a stranglehold of terror. Rarely do artefacts of this fell civilisation reach the Old World and all are steeped in blood and misunderstood power. The lives of the frightful serpent-Naga of dim Khuresh are said to be counted as the ages of the world, and their appetite for blood shames even the ancient Vampire queens of thrice-cursed Lahmia. Stories abound of the dread Snakemen and the foul and nightmarish Blood Naga queens who rule there, and it is a realm where Men are no more than hunted prey, and blood and souls are the only coin in trade.
There are many night-haunted legends emanating from the fetid jungles and deadly wastes of the far Hinterlands of Khuresh. They are separated from the Southern Chaos Wastes by the straits of the Gates of Calith. The Hinterlands of Khuresh, also known simply as Khuresh, are located south of Grand Cathay, east of the Kingdoms of Ind and west of Nippon and the Lost Isles of Elithis.
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