title: Persia, the Immortal Kingdom
author:  Roman Ghirshman 
description: Book by Roman Ghirshman, Vladimir Minorsky, Ramesh Sanghvi
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  A WARHAMMER NOVEL
  
  SIGVALD
  
    
  
  Heroes - 04
  
  Darius Hinks
  
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  This is a dark age, a bloody age, an age of daemons and of sorcery. It is an
  age of battle and death, and of the world’s ending. Amidst all of the fire,
  flame and fury it is a time, too, of mighty heroes, of bold deeds and great
  courage.
  
    
  
  At the heart of the Old World sprawls the Empire, the largest and most
  powerful of the human realms. Known for its engineers, sorcerers, traders and
  soldiers, it is a land of great mountains, mighty rivers, dark forests and
  vast cities. And from his throne in Altdorf reigns the Emperor Karl-Franz,
  sacred descendant of the founder of these lands, Sigmar, and wielder of his
  magical warhammer.
  
    
  
  But these are far from civilised times. Across the length and breadth of the
  Old World, from the knightly palaces of Bretonnia to ice-bound Kislev in the
  far north, come rumblings of war. In the towering World’s Edge Mountain