Waaagh! Azhag
Waaagh! Azhag
THE CROWN
OF SORCERY
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AZHAG ne of the most dangerous Orc
Warlords of recent history, Azhag’s
campaigns of destruction brought
and began to dominate the Orc’s
somewhat uncomplicated psyche. From
that day forth, Azhag’s primal power was
The Crown of Sorcery
the eastern provinces of the Empire to the combined with the tactical genius and
speaks to Azhag with a
brink of ruin. Azhag possessed a strange arcane fury of the ancient Liche.
voice as dry as the grave
iron helm, which appeared to give him Though he was never truly able to
and as old as the southern
sorcerous powers, and rode to battle on convince his followers as to the value of
deserts, offering words of
the back of his malodorous Wyvern, turning an enemy’s flank, the new-found
counsel and power way
Skullmuncha, directing the arcane fury insights Azhag gained from the crown
beyond the ken of most
of his crown against the foe. allowed him to make short work of the
Orcs. The crown not only
rival Warbosses who stood in his path.
grants Azhag with an The Waaagh! of the Slaughterer Prior to each battle, Azhag dictated the
otherworldy companion but
Azhag the Slaughterer was never the same plan of attack, speaking in a decidedly
has given the Orc Warlord
after he won the Crown of Sorcery in the un-Orcy voice that seemed heavy with the
a talent for death magic.
ruins of Todtheim, for the Liche Nagash’s weight of centuries, and then bellow at his
insidious spirit still clung to the artefact ladz to get moving. Such successes swiftly
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1 Kislev As if such a cunning deployment by an
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Middenheim Wolfenburg Orc were not dire enough, what
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followed would ensure Azhag’s place
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Bechafen amongst the most hated of man’s foes.
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Talabheim O S T E R M A R K Azhag drew on sorcerous powers. His
Altdorf
Mordheim Karak words bound the spirits of the recently
Kadrim slain, turning them upon their still-
living fellows. The last, doomed
defenders of Butcher’s Hill stood back-
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Nuln The Moot to-back upon its peak, battling Azhag’s
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Orcs whilst the bloody limbs of the
Water
Undead tore at them from below. So
THE EMPIRE 2512-2515 terrible was the slaughter that none
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to Azhag’s will, enslaved and forced to
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The Battle of
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Azhag’s Waaagh! 1 Butcher’s Hill rage bitter war upon their living kin.
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Skullmuncha’s belly,
usually the Wyvern’s one
weakpoint, is covered with
a large iron plate, granting
the monster formidable
protection in battle.