The Verdant Empire once stretched across the Plaguelands. It conquered and enslaved the lizard folk who were the original inhabitants of this barren land. It was made up of generations of orcish warlords who ruled over an advanced civilization of greenskins including goblins, hobgoblins, and bugbears. Eventually, this civilization grew corrupt and the warlords began to turn on one another, creating the barbaric and splintered orcish society that exists in the present day.