Editing Ulfhednar (section)

== A New Alpha ==
In the Ulfhednar, it is tradition for each new recruit to undertake a "holmgang", or trial by combat, before they take their name. As soon as their fangs have grown in and their carapace implanted, they challenge another member of the Ulfhednar to a trial by combat. Traditionally, the combat is to first blood, and initiates challenge Blood Claws or rarely, a Grey Hunter. In rare cases, combat is fought to the death, and those initiates that survive their first kill go on to become the legendary heroes of the Ulfhednar warpacks. 

Never before has the Packmaster of the Ulfhednar been challenged to a holmgang. To do so would be suicide, for Beoulf Nidthson is a canny warrior, with thousands of years of experience in battle. Thus, it came as a shock to all, when a new recruit, freshly taken by the Harbingers from the fields of Cadia, stepped up and challenged Nidthson. 

Unarmored, and armed with nothing but the saexes that are the sidearm of the Ulfhednar, the fight lasted for hours, neither warrior giving up or backing down. The saexe-blades snapped, blood flowed freely, and the two were forced into a wrestling match. All were shocked when it was not Beoulf, but the newly made Blood Claw, that lifted his foe into the air, and dropped him to the ground. Moments later, Beoulf Nidthson's spine was shattered, and the nameless Blood Claw was nameless no longer. To the howls of his brothers, he declared himself Gripr Back-Breaker, new Packmaster of the Ulfhednar. 

Under Gripr's rulership, the Ulfhednar have changed. Still loathed by the Imperium, the Ulfhednar have begun to fight brutal wars against their former allies among the Traitor Legions. Renouncing Khorne and the Chaos Gods, they have sought out a return to the Emperor's light.