Ikit Claw is one of the most powerful sorcerers in the Old World, and he has dedicated his long Life to the study of all forms of magery including the spells of men, Elves and Orcs. Over the decades prior to the second Skaven civil war Ikit Claw' travelled secretly to the far flung corners of the Under-Empire. He visited distant Cathay to steal secrets from the ancient human mystics and he rifled the buried vaults of Vorshgar in the northern wastes of Naggaroth. He risked the wrath of Clan Pestilens by journeying through the steaming jungles of Lustria and visiting the monolithic ruins which have stood there since the beginning of time.[1a]