In the tainted wastes of the Eightpoints, a bitter struggle rages for control of varanite – a mysterious substance infused with the liquid power of Chaos. Bubbling seams of this transmutative realmstone are dredged up from the depths within sweltering mines, where desperate workers operate tireless machinery infused with a hungry daemonic intelligence. In these places of infernal industry, warbands devoted to the Ruinous Powers fight to claim hauls of varanite, using the hellish environment itself as a weapon with which to annihilate their rivals and claim victory.