Hammerhal is the greatest of all the free cities, and the only one that exists in two realms at once. Its Twin-Tailed halves (Hammerhal Aqsha amid the fires of Aqshy, and Hammerhal Ghyra in the teeming green of Ghyran) are bound together through the Stormrift Realmgate, so that a merchant may breakfast beside molten foundries and sup in a garden-realm the same evening. No single settlement better embodies the promise of the Age of Sigmar, that the sundered realms might be stitched back into one civilization.
Its strength is measured in banners. Hammerhal fields the proudest and most numerous Freeguilds in the realms, regiment upon regiment of pike and handgun raised from a population that dwarfs whole nations, stiffened by aelven cavalry and duardin ironbreakers. Where these armies march they do not merely win battles; they raise walls, break fields, and swear in magistrates, so that the ground they take tends to stay taken. Civilization follows the Twin-Tailed standard the way ivy follows a trellis.
That permanence makes Hammerhal the beating heart of the Cities of Sigmar: a capital in all but name, and the anvil upon which the slow, stubborn reconquest of the realms is hammered out.
Order of battle
The Hammerhal field the units of the Cities of Sigmar, a detachment from the roster:
Other Cities of Sigmar formations
Greywater FastnessA fortress-foundry rising from the marshes of Ghyran, where the sky is permanent gunsmoke and the civic anthem is the ring of hammers. Greywater Fastness arms half the free cities from its Ironweld manufactories, and its answer to every threat is the same: more cannon. The Sylvaneth have never forgiven it the forests fed to its furnaces.
HallowheartA city of wizards in the Realm of Fire, raised above a chasm of raw magic whose glow gilds every tower. Sorcery runs so close to Hallowheart's surface that even its street-sweepers carry warding charms, and the battle-wizards of its Whitefire Court wield the arcane with an aggression that unsettles allies almost as much as enemies.
Tempest's EyePerched atop the Titanspear mountain in Aqshy, Tempest's Eye keeps eternal watch over the horizon and prides itself on never being surprised. It is a city of merchants, aelven outriders, and duardin gunners that musters faster than any other free city, with Kharadron trade fleets moored above its spires.
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