[[File:Total War Warhammer 2 Lord Mazdamundi.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Yes, all the Pepe jokes have been made. No, they are not funny anymore.]]
{{Topquote|Woe to the warm-bloods who would despoil our realm, for their craving for trinkets and baubles drives them deeper into lands forbidden to them. Cast them out, show them no pity, feed their carcasses to the beasts of the jungle and leave their bones to bleach upon the golden shores of our land. Let them see that it is folly to intrude upon the domains of the [[Lizardmen]].|Lord Mazdamundi giving his official stance on foreigners to Lustria}}
{{Topquote|GET OFF OF MY PROPERTY!|Fuzzy Lumpkins}}

'''Adolf Hitler, if Hitler was a giant toad with diabetes'''

==Overview==
'''Lord Mazdamundi''', AKA '''The lord of the solar city''', '''The Big M''', '''Toad Hitler''' or '''"Mein Froggy"''' or '''The Big Toad''' is the oldest living ([[Lord Kroak|Kroak]] is technically dead) [[Slann]] mage priest in the Warhammer world and is easily the most powerful alive. He is also the most active [[Slann]] the [[Lizardmen]] have and is constantly launching wars, raids and invasions of nearby nations and races, in very un-lizardmen like actions of going on the offensive rather than sitting in the temple cities <s>sleeping</s> "meditating". He usually leads these operations from the front while riding upon his [[Awesome|Mother fucking Stegadon war-mount]] Zlaaq, charging into the thick of combat with his dinosaur crushing foes underfoot, while he un-peoples every warm-blood around him with his magic.

Mazdamundi has studied the ancient plaques of the [[Old Ones]] more than any other Slann and has come to the conclusion that before the rest of the Great Plan of the [[Old Ones]] can commence, the [[Lizardmen]] must first [[Nazi| exterminate certain races]] as they are [[Skaven|not]] [[Beastmen|part]] [[Daemons|of]] [[Goblin|the]] [[Orc|Great]] [[Chaos|plan]].

And you thought all the Hitler jokes were just bad [[/pol/]] memes.

==History==
[[File:Mazdamundi Warhammer Fantasy.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Behold the most powerful magic user in the Old World, a fat, xenophobic toad....(don't look into it too much)]]
Mazdamundi was birthed by the [[Old Ones]] with the rest of the second generation Slann, meaning that while he is not as powerful as the first generation Slann, of which [[Lord Kroak]] was part of, he is stronger and more skilled with magic than any of the Third, Fourth, or Fifth generation of Slann. Like all [[Slann]] he was created to help build the [[Old World]] in the correct vision of the Old ones, and being a second generation Slann was tasked with shaping the continents and oceans. This was all fine until [[Chaos]] decided to see if making a habit of invading the real world and killing everything would be a fun idea, and so started the Great Catastrophe, where Chaos Daemons spilled through [[Warp]] gates at the poles and invaded the [[Old World]]. All of it. Simultaneously.

The [[Old Ones]] [[That Guy|bugged out, leaving the Lizardmen to finish their work and also sort out the current Daemon problem]], so the Mazdamundi lead the forces of the [[Lizardmen]] next to [[Lord Kroak]] and the Other [[Slann]] to push Chaos out of the world. Huge battles were fought in [[Lustria]] with multiple temple cities being besieged, and the Slann found it every harder to control the magic they used, with many accidentally killing themselves trying to control it. After a few thousand years the [[High Elves]] with help from the [[Lizardmen]] where able to open the [[Great Vortex]] which siphoned [[Chaos]] from the world. The Great Catastrophe had been halted, but the Lizardmen had paid daerly for this victory, as all of the First generation Slann had perished as they were very high priority targets for the daemons. Of the Second Generation only five survived, including Lord Mazdamundi himself. The Slann slowly started rebuilding the damaged world, but Mazdamundi sat thinking to himself about the Great Plan and how it was to be carried out. Along with these others, Mazdamundi spent millennia meditating and trying to discern the Old Ones will.

Mazdamundi's proactive approach began when he was forced to "evict" people Lustria when they made the town of El Cavado. A bunch of pirates built a town, Skinks sent word to Hexaotl, Mazdamundi gave a telepathic order to Lizardmen armies to destroy it. This happened twice, and the third time Mazdamundi woke up fully for the first time in ages. Sick of these people getting on his lawn, Mazdamundi destroyed the town and the surrounding area with an earthquake. From then on, he took a more proactive stance. Things accelerated when a Skink Chief found sacred plaques with instructions form the Old Ones days before the Great Catastrophe. After reading them, he shared what they said; the plan of the [[Old Ones]] had gone astray and could not proceed until they had fixed the "problems" first.

Mazdamundi has spent the last few hundred years enacting his Great purpose and fixing the world of all its "problems" according to those plaques, which are 1) the extermination of all races not part of the [[Old Ones]] great plan (that is the Greenskins, Skaven, undead, Fimir, maybe trolls and all beings and creatures of Chaos... so its not all bad) and 2) returning the races that had spread out too much to their own corner of the world; all the Elves go back to [[Ulthuan]], Humans, Ogres and Halflings stay in the Old World and the Dwarves stay in the Worlds edge mountains.

When he goes out to fuck around with the other races, he encounters very few things to stop him, or even slow him down, as (considering he was originally created to shape the continents) he is the single most powerful magic user in the entire [[Warhammer]] World (death had rendered Kroak at a fraction of his former might). Seriously, he can just clap his hands and level an entire city like it was nothing. Hell, he created an entire mountain chain and enchanted it with a SINGLE THOUGHT just to troll Dark Elf invaders. No hassle, just "There are magic mountains here now, because I say so."

==[[The End Times]]==

[[Skub|Then The End Times happened]]

While meditating on the plan, all the world's movers and shakers and the gods were enacting their master plans. With the rising power hordes of Chaos daemons attacked Lustria, so armies were fighting non-stop and anti-daemon defenses were bolstered and then bolstered again. These drastic changes led to the Great Plan being debated fiercely by the Slann and Skink Priests until Mazdamundi himself abruptly woke from his meditations. He gave a short but world-shaking announcement; The Great Plan had failed and the Lizardmen had to leave the planet.

The Lizardmen beat back the daemons enough to get some breathing room, and alternated between preparing to evacuate or having more debates, but the [[Skaven]] decided to settle their ancient grudge against the denizens of [[Lustria]] and attacked the continent in full force. Their moving the Chaos moon messed with many Slann, and being otherwise focused on the daemons the Lizardmen anti-daemon defences didn't work the Skaven, who attacked multiple [[Temple cites]] simultaneously. Lord Mazdamundi fought against the [[Skaven]] when they invaded [[Lustria]], and was forced to run up and down the continent from Hexoatl to Itza fighting them. After liberating Itza, he planned to repurpose the magic of Lustria's anti-daemon defenses and its ley lines to finally wipe out the Skaven from Lustria and purge [[Skavenblight|the ultimate rat's nest]] when the ratmen decided they needed some more firepower and BLEW UP THE CHAOS MOON WITH A WARPSTONE ROCKET. Mazdamundi sensing that [[Morrslieb]] had been blown up, thinks "Fuck these rat bastards, we're leaving now!", and proceeded to order the Exodus with immediate effect. As the Lizardmen start evacuating the planet, Mazdamundi starts deleting continent sized pieces of the moon with mgic, but eventually burned up his mind from the strain and fell from his palanquin. Near death and with his magic exhausted, Mazdamundi tried to crawl to his favorite lookout spot in Hexoatl to enjoy the simple pleasure of the breeze on his face one last time, but died on the steps.

No word yet if the Big M will show up in [[Age Of Sigmar]] but here's to hoping.

==Tabletop==

===7th===
Lord Mazdamundi is a near unstoppable train of [[Anal Circumference| ass rape]] in 7th. While Mazdamundi himself is not that impressive stat wise, Zlaaq gives both Mazdamundi and himself a 2+ armour save (on his own Mazda has no armour save) while having a Strength and Toughness of 6 to make him one tanky dinosaur. Mazdamundis '''Shield of The Old Ones''' gives him a 4+ Ward save and he also has the '''Soul of Stone''' magical item, which allows him to re-roll miscasts. Speaking of magic Mazdamundi is a level 4 wizard, with access to ANY of the 8 Lores of Magic and can use ALL of the Spells in the Lore he chooses, and there is no limit to the amount of dice he can use to cast spells, including his bound spell '''Ruination of Cities''', a 2D6 strength 5 hits spell that become 3D6 is the unit is in a building with the additional bonus that any unit which takes damage from this spell can only move half of their movement, although the spell can't effect flying units. While you don't want him fighting in close combat, he is also no slouch in melee as his '''Cobra Mace''' always hits first at Strength 5 and has poison attacks, in addition if the enemy unit is carrying a magical item, that item is destroyed and while that is good he has 1 attack. Additionally Zlaaq despite being a big murder dinosaur is just a basic Ancient Stegadon with out access to the Howdah weapons (because Mazdamundis fat ass is taking up all the room), meaning you are stuck with an initiative of 1, so you're primary melee abilities are going to be noticeably hindered (just stay out of combat and you're fine). He is also very expensive being 620 point to field him, limiting him to larger games, but if you do take him, woe betide any warm-bloods in your way.

===8th===
The nerf hammer was not kind to Mazdamundi. Firstly he is even more expensive now being 780 points and he has lost '''Ruination of Cities''', so is stuck with the regular spells of one of the 8 Lores of magic, oh an he only gets 2 extra dice when casting spells rather than as many as he wants and he still has no armour save of his own of his own so he needs to be mounted on Zlaaq to get a +1 armour save (3+ from Zlaaq and then 2 more points of armour from Zlaaq being a monstrous mount). Zlaaq is also still a regular ancient Stegadon, and has dropped down to a 3+ armour save, and he STILL has no bonuses like '''Impaling Charge''' despite being the largest and toughest stegadon in the Lore. It's not all bad though, he has a few extra Disciplines Of The Old Ones that give him some nice buffs, firstly he can roll 5 D6 and for every 6+ he regains a wound which does help add to his survivability, and can re-roll the first Dispel attempt of each magic phase, which is a bit narrow in usage as it would be much more effective if it was re-roll one dispel attempt each magic phase, but hey its better than nothing. He also has the ability to add/subtract 1 to all cast attempts, which should help cast the spells you really need to go off. His '''Cobra Mace''' is unchanged apart from the fact that all models in base contact with Mazdamundi must reveal their magic items and if he hits a model with one or more, they are destroyed on a 6+. He carries the '''Starburst Standard of Hexoatl''', which if you take Mazdamundi MUST be your army standard. It can be activated for 1 turn and it will blind all enemy units with 12" making them take a -1 penalty to hit, not the best but not terrible. Overall Mazdamundi can be very powerful in 8th but he is overcosted for what he does and you might be better taking a regular [[Slann]], unless you ''really'' want to play him with that model you converted.

==Total War Warhammer 2==

In [[Total War: WARHAMMER|Total Warhammer 2]] Mazdamundi became a Legendary Lord for the [[Lizardmen]] along with [[Kroq-Gar]].

Gameplay wise he starts in Hexoatl and is a buffed up Slann with access to Heavens, Light and High Magic. He can be given Zlaaq to become an extremely good tank and melee lord as well. He also gets access to his '''Ruination of Cites''' and '''Banishment'''. While [[Kroq-Gar]] is used to attack High priority targets, like monsters, elite units and enemy lords, Mazdamundi is better suited to general crowd control and infantry killing as he can point his finger at a unit of Spearmen that gave him a funny look and say "Fuck you. You don't exist anymore." as he casts '''Ruination of Cities''' on them while Zlaaq crushes another unit underfoot. Unfortunately for the amphibian fascist, the '''Ruination of Cities''' spell in the game is highly ineffective to use against a single unit since it is a wind spell that spread out in 3 random direction from whatever the player pointed at, and it is more meant for a large clump up infantries advancing towards Mazdamundi. We'll see if CA is willing to fix its eventual effectiveness, or else they will suffer the wrath of a psychic toad. To make things even worse for the warmbloods, his cobra mace gives him poison attack which, when combined with the stats of Zlaaq, gives him the same statline as the arachnarok spider. Not only that, being a slann gives him extra missile resistance as well as magic resistance, which allows him to tank warp lightning cannon shot as well as other warmblood artillery specialize against monster, effectively turning him into [[DISTRACTION CARNIFEX|DISTRACTION FUHRER FROG ON A STEGADON]].

He is also one of the best legendary lord picks in multiplayer, as he is extremely tanky for a wizard and dishes out a ton of damage. Most players struggle to kill Mazdamundi unless they built an army -specifically- to kill him. Or you could run Grom the Paunch and kill his entire backline just to kill him once he's isolated. Don't get into a one-on-one fight with Mazdamundi on Zlaaq, as most lords lose that fight.

==Gallery==
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File:Madzdamundi model.jpg|Mazdamundi riding his personal dinosaur, like a goddamn pimp.
File:Stoyan-stoyanov-liz-win-poster.jpg| "Commence the Purge!"
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Lord Kroak

2021-10-23T00:48:49Z

2603:8001:3500:CB:518A:4CA3:4B2C:2080: /* Total War: WARHAMMER */

[[File:Kosmic Kroak.jpg|thumb|400px|right|ribbit ribbit motherfucker]]
Before the [[High Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|Elves]], inheritors to the magic of the world, were even conceived of and before the continent of [[Ulthuan]] was raised from the seafloor, before the [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dwarfs]] were even a sparkle in the eyes of the Creators, before [[The Empire (Warhammer Fantasy)|mankind]] first walked the Earth, there was <s>Pepe, Prophet of Kek</s> Lord Kroak, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64Qq31ucGy0 Mightiest Toad].

==The Legend==
Lord Kroak (or Lord Kodak as autocorrect calls him) was the firstborn of the [[Slann]], the first race created by the [[Old Ones]] (in their own image) to aid them in shaping the planet to defeat the eventual coming of [[Chaos]]. In time, the rest of the [[Lizardmen]] were created and served under Kroak. It's possible that Kroak was the one who taught the first Elves magic at the command of the Old Ones, but it could have been any or even all of the Slann.

[[File:Kodak-graduate.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Lord Kroak giving a speech during his graduation ceremony, the man just wanted a quiet job as an Old One's clerk]]
Kroak did little in the fluff until Chaos first entered the world with the collapse of the Warp Gates, which [[Anal circumference|made the world as accessible to Chaos]] as a planet sucked into the [[Eye of Terror]]. After holding a city-spanning forcefield up for decades during the Great Catastrophe against a literally neverending tide of Daemons, he got fed up with that and turned the field into a titanic explosion that vapourised a hundred thousand of them. As the daemons promptly pulled another infinite horde out of their asses and kept coming, Kroak proceeded to pull his sleeves up and bring out the titanic apocalypse magic that should really have been reserved for the Old Ones themselves. The army book describes it as goddamn time stopping as reality itself struggled to accommodate the tide of bullshit emitting from Kroak's mind, the world around his city folding in on itself to stem the tide of daemons.

They penetrated his defences regardless, and Kroak was ripped to shreds by no less than a dozen Bloodthirsters. Doesn't matter though, as at this point he's too goddamn powerful to give a shit about being dead, and his unstoppable spirit continues to defy them. He basically becomes the singularity at this point, as the world turns blindingly bright and the daemonic horde pretty much just stops existing altogether.

The sacrifice of Kroak is what kept the bulk of the Daemon invasion from facerolling the Elves in one day, and as a result [[Caledor the Dragontamer]] had time to set up the Vortex in the center of Ulthuan. Kroak's solo efforts freed up the rest of the surviving Slann to channel their own power into Caledor's spell, hastening the weakening of Chaos. Without his efforts the Warhammer World would have been consumed in it's infancy, before man had even left their caves and discovered agriculture.

His spirit lives on to this day, thousands of years down the line, the ghost of his old body now just echoing the titanic destruction he unleashed upon the world. The lizardmen kind of wheel him out on his hoverchair now and then if they need to nuke somebody. The mummy of his favorite Skink rests on his throne, and even in death defends his beloved master (handling all the Close Combat for him).

Kroak's Oracle from the days when he was alive, the Skink Priest Ten-zlati, is the voice of Kroak among the Lizardmen and outranks even young Slann as he knows secrets of the Old Ones not known even to [[Lord Mazdamundi]].

tl;dr Kroak is the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] if Emps wasn't a complete and utter fail——{{BLAM|HERESY!}}.

===The End Times===
Come [[The End Times|the apocalypse]] Kroak makes the ultimate sacrifice after the Skaven, in their foolishness, destroy the warpstone moon [[Morrslieb]] and send its remains hurtling down to crash on the planet below. After Mazdamundi dies crushing most of the fragments of Morrslieb, [[Awesome|Kroak wills himself back to life. He isn't resurrected, he doesn't escape from the afterlife, he just decided to not be dead anymore and reality obliged.]] And no, he didn't use a phylactery or necromancy either (suck it, Nagash!)

Then his spirit invokes all of his power, ensuring that the devastation only affects Lustria and the Southlands; the former holdings of the Lizardmen [[Rocks fall, everyone dies|are burnt to slag and cinders and everything dies]], but the rest of the planet survives instead of being blown to bits. He also teleports some of the Lizardmen away to safety, but in the process he gets obliterated by the flames and shockwave from the impacts.

In doing this, he postponed the prophesied end of the world for a few years and, while the planet was already doomed, it may have allowed the Lizardmen temple-ships to escape safely instead of getting vaporized by the blast wave of planetary destruction. This also may have ensured the Incarnates and the core of the planet survived the Apocalypse, allowing Sigmar and the surviving Slann to colonize the Mortal Realms and eventually make the Stormcast Eternals. So yeah, Kroak probably bet for the long term.

Pretty badass for someone whose name is a frigging awful frog pun.

=== Age of Sigmar===

And in keeping with the tradition of death being only a speed bump for Kroak... He came back in Age of Sigmar and scares Chaos and Skaven players, because that's just how Kroak rolls. Ribbit ribbit you chaos bitches.

[[File:Lord Kroak AoS.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Kroak's back, baby! After eons of stagnating as a stout resin blob, GW has finally pimped out Kroak's throne to more properly suit his station.]]

As part of the Broken Realms, Kroak is not only returning to the scene as a fairly major player in Broken Realms: Be'lakor and Broken Realms: Kragnos, but he is snapping back in style. He's got a massive new model decked out with all the fineries a dead slann truly deserves and some rules (hopefully to remind Teclis who is THE wizard of the setting in case Teclis gets cocky after beating Nagash). In Broken Realms: Be'lakor, he leads a force of Seraphon in an assault on a Gaunt Summoner's Silver Tower but inadvertently destroys a connected Realmgate thus giving Be'lakor the idea to start nuking realmgates to spread Chaos everywhere. Later in Broken Realms: Kragnos he assists in the defense of the Ghurish city of Excelsis by casting a magical barrier that obliterates the giant battering ram the Orruks have fashioned out of a godbeast skull, though the attack depletes the barrier. Later with the aid of Morathi he creates a giant portal layered with an illusion that tricks Kragnos into traveling through it under the false promise of it leading the big dummy to his long-extinct kin.

==On The Tabletop==
=== Warhammer Fantasy===
Given that Lord Kroak is, well, dead, you kind of don't want to let him anywhere near a fight. He's got lackluster stats for Movement (4), Strength (3), Toughness (5), Wounds (6), and Leadership (9). Oh, and anything we didn't mention is all 1's. He's an Infantry Special Character and a level 4 wizard who knows only one signature spell; The Deliverance of Itza. This is a casting value 12+/18+/24+ direct damage spell that affects all enemy units within 12/18/24 inches and inflicts 2D6 S4 hits (3D6 for Daemons and Undead of either kind). He '''cannot''' lose this spell by any means; if it is somehow swapped, stolen or forgotten, he immediately gets it back, and an enemy caster who stole it forgets it.

He's Cold-blooded, causes Fear, is Flammable, rides a Mage-priest Palanquin and is Unbreakable.

Eternity Guardians means he makes Temple Guard Unbreakable.

First Generation Spawning means he can cast his signature spell as many times per turn has he has the dice for, and he can choose to roll a D6 when he miscasts, with a 2+ meaning he takes a S6 hit and loses D6 power dice instead of having to roll on the miscast table. An Arcane Vassal he was using when it happened also takes an S6 hit.

The Spirit of Lord Kroak means he cannot drop below being a level 1 wizard.

His Supreme Shield of the Old Ones gives him a 3+ Ward save and his Golden Death Mask is a magical talisman that inflicts a -1 penalty on all To Hit rolls made against Kroak or a unit he has joined.

On the whole, he's a fun character hamstrung by his [[Overcosted|exorbitant points cost]].

==Age of Sigmar==
He is still kind of dead, but now he is dead for immeasurable ages which means in the battleshock phase you'd roll a d6 and add how many wounds he has taken, subtract the bravery and if it's less than 1 he is fine, if it is more than one he is dead. Not only on less than one he is fine, but he heals all of his wounds which means the only way to confirm a kill on him it to do 10 WOUNDS IN 1 TURN; and for anything that could insta-kill him - looking at you Archaon and Nagash - it only does 2D6 Mortal Wounds, so you need to roll 10 or more to kill him. He also loses his Deliverance of Itza but gets celestial deliverance which is quite similar. On a 8/9/10 (he can do the spell up to 3 times) you select 3 units, on 2 ups then they suffer d3 mortal wounds (d6 if a daemon). he's not half bad in combat doing 2d6 attacks which are fairly ok, but in spells he can really go ham. 4 spells and dispells per turn, and not half bad spells at that. Also he can summon in units of seraphon (its usually skinks) and will basically never die. He is super good and nothing can stop my little toady boy.

== Total War: WARHAMMER ==
He is finally playable!!! However, he is not a Legendary Lord but a Legendary Hero, meaning we won't be seeing him leading an army but he sure is powerful as hell. He has powerful unique spells wherein he nukes shit out of the foolish warmbloods daring to go against the Great Plan ''without'' harming his allies. This simple-but-effective spell list is: Deliverance of Itza I (powerful but weak against armor, still does a shit tons of damage) & II (much larger range and ignores armor, EVEN BIGGER DAMAGE) & III ('''''OH LORD HE CUMMING!!'''''). He also has the Supreme Shield of the Old Ones as an ability that gives your units in an area a sexy 44% all-round damage resistance, protect them from magic, missiles, physicals you named it! Oh, did I mention it's also has no winds cost? Passive effects he can get include a 5 more leadership bonus from his leadership aura than most others can get, resistances to pretty much everything aside from fire, -wound recovery time, 5% damage resistance for the entire army, causes terror, regeneration, +28 power reserve and -15 to the enemy because fuck them, and while he can't wound other agents (he instead can boost troop XP, replenish, growth or income), he can still get the ability to not only damage a settlement walls, but at rank 20 also its buildings and the settlement's level ''itself'' so even the hardiest capital daring to stand in Lord Kroak's way will become easy pickings - follow the Great Plan or get croaked, bitches

Lizardmen players who pick [[Gor-Rok]] as their faction get to play the game on faceroll mode because he starts with Lord Kroak and so the dynamic duo will plow a [[rape]]train through everything that's against the Great Plan as [[Gor-Rok]] mocks armies' pathetic attempts to kill him as Kroak fucking explodes them to atoms.

Another thing to note about him is that whenever he is doing an action, like spell casting, [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|his spirit can be seen smacking down on the foolish enemy]] even in melee combat. And if he's defeated it just shows his spirit rising up. The only bad thing that can be said about his execution in Total Warhammer is his favorite mummified skink from the tabletop is sadly nowhere to be seen.

==Gallery==
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File:6D01B275-73C4-4106-879C-072A134B73B2.png|thumb|400px|right|Deliverance of Ratteroni Pitza
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