Note the Dragon wearing a breastplate, pauldrons, and holding a globe.

Cathay is a vast empire, the largest human nation in Warhammer Fantasy, based on the history of Imperial China and East Asian mythology.

Though staunch opponents of Chaos, their location in the Far East makes them very isolated.

Thousands of miles from potential allies, they have constructed a Great Bastion on their northern border to keep out marauding forces of Chaos.

Located in the Far East, Grand Cathay is bordered to the west by the Mountains of Mourn and Ancient Giant Lands, to the east by the Far Sea and the island country of Nippon, to the south by the Hinterlands of Khuresh, and to the north by the Eastern Steppes and Chaos Wastes.

To the southwest lies the mountainous border with the Kingdoms of Ind.

In some lore, the names of several different dragon Emperors is mentioned.

Other bits of lore say the Dragon Emperor may be immortal, or a dragon in the form of a man.

However they are also very isolated, located far from potential allies.

Contact and trade with the High Elves and human nations of the Old World has increased in recent times, but is still fairly unreliable and limited.

Between Cathay and the Old World lie great mountains, desolate Dark Lands, hostile factions.

This means Cathay has largely been forced to defend itself without outside aid.

The game draws heavily on Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a 14th-century Chinese novel which is part history, part myth, and is set in the three kingdoms period.

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