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Specifically so that Creative Assembly can include Grand Cathay in the game, Games Workshop has dug in and crafted more background and story surrounding the Grand Cathay. While Grand Cathay is the largest human empire found in the Warhammer world, they are relatively detached from the western side of the map and haven’t featured all that heavily in the tabletop game and lore building by Games Workshop… up until now. What’s going to be interesting is how this ties in with the world that has been constructed through the Total War: Warhammer trilogy. Grand Cathay can also lean on the mystical and supernatural in order to defend the Great Bastion, animating towering Sentinel statues, and their rulers able to turn into epic looking dragons as they fight off the forces of chaos in the reveal trailer. Ruled over by the Celestial Dragon Emperor and the Moon Empress, it is a mysterious, but militaristically advanced land with flying ships, huge ornate cannons and rocket infantry. Inspired by Imperial China, the Grand Cathay empire lies even further to the east of the Warhammer fantasy world than the Russia-inspired Kislev.