Editing Iron Kingdoms (section)

===Toruk the Dragonfather===

[[Dragon]]s in the Iron Kingdoms are basically [[Call of Cthulhu|Elder Gods]], and as his title implies, Toruk is their progenitor and the [[Cthulhu|biggest and baddest of the lot]]. Dragons keep their heart, soul, mind, and other essential organs in the form of a rock called a heartstone aka athanc. Killing a dragon but leaving its heartstone behind just means that the dragon will generate a new body from the stone and come back for revenge. Alas, athanc is indestructible (breaking it creates [[FAIL|two dragons instead of one]]), unless eaten by another dragon. Dragons also release a terrible nature-altering radiation field known as blight. Different dragons have different kinds of blight, and Toruk's appears to be flavored towards making undead creatures. The resident undead mad scientists of Cryx have used this to create all kinds of biomechanical zombies, ghosts, ghouls etc.

Toruk has never told anyone where he came from, and there doesn't seem to be any other easy way of finding out -- the only thing people are sure of is that none of the other gods made him. We do know, however, where his progeny came from. Toruk got lonely one day and decided to cut some pieces from his heart-stone. Unfortunately, the dragons which grew from those pieces got along like a sack full of cats, since they're all driven by the inescapable desire to join their broken heartstones back together again, so they were in a constant state of war for a while. The dragon-children managed to ally for just long enough to drive Toruk off the Immoren mainland before descending back into anarchy. There are now only a fairly small number of dragon-children left in the world, and most of them seem to be biding their time until they think that they have a decent chance of bringing down all of the others. Toruk, on the other hand, seems to be perfectly content chillin' on his personal island, waiting for his babies to come to him.

Even though Toruk lives on Caen, your players will not get to kill him, any more than D&D players should rightfully get to kill the <strike>[[Tarrasque]]</strike> [[Asmodeus]]. He is [[Mary Sue|plot armored]] up to and including the wazoo. Characters who get within one mile of Toruk either die and come back as zombies or pledge undying loyalty to him before he kills them and brings them back as zombies.