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Time and again, this ridiculous farce has arisen to plague our deliberations. I have confronted this lie here in the Grand Hall before, and doubtless I shall be forced to do so again as long as this foolish hysteria holds sway over our people. Know this then: I have questioned soldiers, peasants, nobles, labourers, priests, knights, merchants, witch hunters, and a few of those hardy souls most often called 'adventurers'. I have struggled amidst catacombs and sewers, risking infection or worse. I have ignored no avenue of research, and I can tell you with certainty, not one shred of proof exists that attests to the existence of these so-called 'Skaven'. Oh, there are dozens of clever forgeries to be sure, many mass-produced by clever rogues seeking to turn a quick profit by selling 'genuine' rat-men artefacts to the gullible. But of hard evidence, there is none. To think that there is an entire race of insidious rat-men running about under our streets, attempting to undermine the Empire or as the mad would have it, the world entire, yet, has managed to go completely undetected for millennia, why, the very notion is absurd. Chaos, gentlemen, is a real and dire enough threat without embellishing our problems with Skaven.: — Albrecht Kinear, Professor Emeritus at the University of Nuln