Ogor Mawtribes

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Some lards being dudes.

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Rebranded as “Ogors”, everyone’s favorite balding overeating wrestlers still exist in the Mortal Realms. They are now collectively known as the Mawtribes and survive as nomadic warrior clans, traveling from realm to realm wrecking shit and eating the finest cuisine.

Within the Mawtribes exists two distinct subcultures; the Gutbusters, who are most like there traditional depiction, and the Beastclaw Raiders, comprised of the ogors who ride on beasts and had a wintery aesthetic, who somehow became cursed to produce an infinite snowstorm called the Everwinter where ever they go. Naturally, the Mawtribes fall under the Destruction Grand Alliance and have begun to worship Gorkamorka as “The Great Beast that Consumes the World” or the “Gulping God”, literally their justification for eating everything in sight. The BCR meanwhile revere the Everwinter as an aspect of their god, focusing more on ice, snow, and hunting rather than simple consumption.

Every Mawtribe moves and conducts raids according to the Mawpath, a cyclical pattern that is determined by the tribe’s Butchers and leaves massive bite-like trails across the realms.

Beastclaw Raiders

Because they were their own faction back in the early days of the game, they have their own page here. Rest assured, however, they are indeed apart of the same faction.

History

Age of Myth

Given that Ogors don’t really write down their history (save for crude cave-man like glyphs and paintings), most of their past is shrouded in a haze of exaggeration and grandiose creations myths. For example, according to Firebellies, Aqshy was created by the fiery burp of Gorkamorka after he ate a massive star. Thankfully other races have kept track of their origins, making this section possible.

Ogors, much like the Greenskins, have always existed in the Mortal Realms, living in primitive tribal cultures. When Sigmar beat the snot out of Gorkamorka, he earned the green god’s loyalty and tasked him with slaying the various warped monsters and Godbeasts of the Realms (partially to keep him and his followers out of trouble). The Ogors, though miffed they couldn’t eat humie, stuntie, or knife-ear meat, gladly followed the Gulping God in his monstrous crusade. One such crusading target where the Sky Titans of Ghyran. These colossal beings lived in floating gun fortresses above the Scabrous Sprawl and we’re famed for their usage of black powder weaponry. Gorkamorka tore into the forts with ease, and the Ogors scavenged the rubble to create the first Ironblasters and Leadbelchers. Along their rampage, they came across the weedy Gnoblars of Chamon who approached the Ogors with a deal; in exchange for protection from the bully like Orruks and Grots, the Gnoblars would serve the Ogors as a servant caste. The Ogors naturally agreed and soon colonies of Gnoblars were commonplace amongst the original Mawtribes.

At some point, the original Beastclaw Raiders did...something...and now the perpetual ice age that is the Everwinter follows them.

Age of Chaos

Following the collapse of Sigmar’s Pantheon, Ogors all across the Realms rejoiced at the chance to eat whatever they wanted again. The Mawtribes were quick to turn their rampant hunger on the abandoned humans, aelves, and duardin. Some Ogors even going as far as directly fighting under the banners of Chaos as mercenaries. Even then however, it wasn’t uncommon for an Ogor to turn on his employer should a deal be broken, such as the case with Chaos Lord Slathynex, who made the mistake of allowing his manticore to eat an Aelf. An Aelf he promised to Klugg the Flatulent of the Meatfist Mawtribe. Such a transgression was not to be taken lightly, and the Ogors consumed every last Chaos Warrior present.

One Mawtribe that gained particular notoriety was the Boulderhead, or Svard in their Beastclaw tongue. The Frostlord Braggoth Vardruk was revered by many of Gorkamorka’s followers during the Age of Chaos. He ambushed Chaos horde of the Bloodthirster Urgor`eth, drowning them underneath icy flood waters in the Gorewrack Sea of Ghur. Eventually, the Everwinter caught up with the Alfrostun, freezing them and Braggoth solid for years.

Age of Sigmar

The arrival of the Stormcast Eternals instantly affected the Ogor Mawtribes by accidentally thawing out Braggoth and company. The starved Raiders quickly fell upon their bewildered “saviors”, only to discover that these beings couldn’t be eaten. So they instead bolted and reunited with the rest of the Boulderhead Mawtribe, where Braggoth was quick to usurp control and proclaim himself Frost King.

As the Age began, the Ogors remained largely unchanged. They hired themselves as mercenaries to who ever had the meat and money, only now they had more customers thanks to the opening of Azyr’s gates. The various Mawtribes all develop unique relationships with the Sigmarines, such as the Meatfist actively avoid confrontation with the Eternals, or the Thunderbellies, who have learned how to actually consume the fleeing souls of slain Stormcast. While many Ogors found plenty to do in the Realmgate Wars, many more followed the banner of Gordrakk’s Great Waaagh!, seeing the Fist of Gork as the ultimate source of food and fun. The onset of the Soul Wars and Nagash’s Necroquake is are by the various Slaughtermasters and Butchers as “Gork’s Gutrumble”, a sign of great displeasure by their god that throws off eons old mawpaths and tears through hunting grounds. It even disrupted the Everwinter, making it even worse or causing it to up and fizzle out. The shamans insist that the Ogors must devote themselves to consuming the Realms themselves in order to reverse these dark times.

Mawtribes

Fitting the bigger scale of the setting, each one is led by an Overtyrant (Frost King, if the Mawtribe is predominately BCR) who has numerous other Tyrants (Frostlords) as vassals leading smaller tribes called warglutts (alfrostuns). The best way to think of the Mawtribes is like a fleet of ships. The Overtyrant is the admiral, controlling the whole thing, while each ship has a Tyrant as the captain, and a Slaughtermaster as the navigator.

• Meatfist: The most powerful Mawtribe around, who stain their right arm in blood to imitate their founder Grawl Meatfist. They are known for being verbose braggarts who flaunt their power nonstop. Currently led by the Overtyrant Globb Glittermaw, a Gargant-sized Ogor who is essentially the second coming of Greasus Goldtooth, being the unusually intelligent leader who teaches his people the value of material wealth. Their base is the colossal Great Gutfort in Ghur, where Globb hosts annual feasts, each year intending to outdo the last. A noteworthy warglutt of the Meatfist Mawtribe would be the Tarkan Warglutt. Native to the region of Hallost in Shyish, this roaming band of Gutbusters premiered in the Feast of Bones box set as the first enemies of the Ossiarch Bonereapers. Their Tyrant is Kagruk Kin-eater, a brash and youthful warlord who actually survived his encounter with Nagash’s pet project and swore vengeance upon the Bonereapers.

• Bloodgullet: A Mawtribe from Aqshy who are obsessed with drinking blood, to the point where they despise Firebellies as they believe all meat should be eaten raw. Maybe there's some truth to this obsession, as they have the most powerful Butchers and Slaughtermasters. They don't clean up any bloodstains on their bodies, giving them a disgusting appearance that usually causes them to be attacked on sight (which they don't mind, since it lets the food come to them). Often ally with Khorne for obvious reasons, though curiously one of their Slaughtermasters is apart of Khorgos Khul’s inner circle, despite being a wizard. And we all know how Khorne feels about them...

• Underguts: Ogors from Ulgu who dwell in underground caverns, and as such often ally with the Gloomspite Gitz. They learned to reverse-engineer Duardin gunpowder technology, so they've got the most Leadbelchers and Ironblasters. They feed on the poisonous flora and fauna of Ulgu’s caves, resulting in their skin taking on a sickly pale glow. Led by the Overtyrant Grumlog Blisterhands, they prefer to start their invasions with absurd amounts of Ironblaster and Leadbelcher gunfire, then sending in their foot soldiers to clobber any survivors. Their gnoblars have also learned to created what are basically crude grenades by shoving tiny powder kegs full of scrap and shrapnel.

• Svard/Boulderhead: The Frost King Braggoth Vardruk and his warriors were frozen alive after making themselves the biggest pain in Khorne’s ass during the Age of Chaos. Now they’ve been thawed out by Sigmar’s Tempest and now are searching for the fabled Golden Hunting Grounds of Ghur, smashing Daemon and Stormcast skulls along the way. They are recognized by a charred black right hand, their particularly savage mounts, and a megalomaniacal sense of entitlement in regards to leading all of Ogor kind. At one point, they were close allies with the Meatfist Mawtribe, but the two egos couldn’t stay allies for long, leading to the Svard War. It took multiple Mawtribes working together under the command of Overtyrant Globb Glittermaw to push back the Boulderhead from besieging the Great Gutfort. They were eventually defeated, and now the proud Boulderhead are pariahs among their kind. During the Realmgate Wars, Braggoth led a coalition of Beastclaw Raiders and Ironjawz Orruks in a siege of the Manticore Realmgate, destroying the Dreadfort established to defend it. This “Beast Hammer” as it was called has since been imitated many times by Tyrants, Frostlords, and Orruk Megabosses alike.

• Olwyr/Thunderbellies: This raiding party has been supercharged by the Chamon Sky Road. The storms that follow this Alfrostun are teeming with alchemical electricity. Their riders are feared for their startling speed, attacking much like the lightning surrounding them. Seeing as they live on the Sky Road, the Thunderbellies are often at odds with the Dragon Ogors. They have somehow developed a way to feast on the Stormcast, or lightning meat as they call them, supposedly by slurping up their souls as they shoot up to Azyr.

• Fraya/Winterbite: The reclusive masters of the Ghur Scarlands, these Ogors act more like ghosts. These Ogors live dangerously close to the heart of the Everwinter, resulting in pale skin and beards permanently encrusted with ice. They are unusually patient and rely on ambush, fear tactics, and unorthodox warfare to make up for a lack of raw power. Expectedly, Winterbite primarily makes use of Frost Sabres and Icefall Yhetees to tear apart enemies before slinking back into the icy mist.

• Sovanheng/Splintterguts: Led by Vorgurn Loshar, this clan has ravaged Ghyran ever since the War of Life, a conflict they regularly participated in. They were known to their enemies and allies as the “Fists of Winter”. Their warriors fought on both sides of the war, frequently swapping between the Sylvaneth and the Maggotkin based on who has the better food. Currently their Alfrostuns are on the warpath to meet up with the Gordrakk’s Great Waaagh!

• Olgost: Desert nomads stuck wandering the Cryptwrd wastes in Shyish.

• Ayroth: Empowered by the Fist of Gork, these BCR have become a part of Waaagh!Gordrakk. The Frostlord Hrothgur is said to be a touch insane, driven mad by the collective Waaagh! energies.

• Jarkan: An enigmatic raid led by the equally mysterious Storm Speaker, who claims to hear the words of Gork on the winds of the Everwinter.

• Vintrbad: These ogors are in service of Archaon and have been blessed by the Chaos Gods, warping their Everwinter into a storm of dark energies. They claim to still worship Gorkamorka, but their numerous Chaos tattoos and ruinous heraldry have given them a very untrustworthy reputation among fellow Mawtribes. And yes, their name does sound like "winter-bad".