The Principality of New Antioch

For three centuries, the Principality of New Antioch has stood at the edge of the Gate of Hell's shadow—the Home of All Our Hopes. After the ancient city's destruction in 1545, the Sword Congress of Vienna decreed its reconstruction. The fortress-city has withstood eight great sieges, its seventy-seven towers never breached, protected by hundreds of anchorites—metallic battle shrines with entombed devotees embedded in the walls.

The streets echo with hundreds of languages: Polish-Lithuanian hussars, Varangian Guard, and Church Engineers testing inventions. Factories produce tanks while foundries supply artillery battalions. In techno-laboratories, the Church creates superhuman Communicants from cloned flesh of the Redeemer. The Duke dispatches warbands into No Man's Land to gather intelligence, raid Heretic forces, and compete with Trench Pilgrims for relics and glory.