The creatures of Chaos are not restricted solely to the Chaos Wastes by any means. The Old World is a vast and wild land, where cities and towns are little more than outposts of order amid a world of midnight horrors, where monsters prowl the sunless forests. The Beasts of Chaos live in warherds in the deep forests, from where they raid, fight with rival warbands and sometimes organise into armies to storm larger towns and castles.

Beastmen call themselves the Children of Chaos — many hundreds of years ago, their forebears were ordinary humans and animals who became mutated by the coming of Chaos. They turned into the half-man, half-beast forms.

All Beastmen are brutish in the extreme and much given to celebrating their victories with wild dancing, ritual head-butting, and excesses of drunkenness. They care nothing for human life and often raid lone farmsteads in the dead of night, dragging their occupants from their beds to slaughter them.