Great Maw

The Great Maw is the primary god of the Ogres in Warhammer Fantasy Battles, the other being the volcano known as the Fire Mouth. The Ogres fear that dreadful "god", waging war and preying on every other civilisation and species in the name of that horrific deity.

Appearance

According to Ogre eyewitnesses, the Great Maw looked like an enormous crater filled with countless, great teeth and jaws, that went deep into the centre of the Warhammer world. Some claim that the Maelstorm in the middle of the Great Ocean is the Great Maw's counterpart in the other side of the world.

History

In the distant past, the Ogres multiplied from the plentiful herds in their grassy home to the east of Cathay. They were taught ironworking and how to build fires by the Cathayan people, and were hired as mercenaries. However, the Ogres started to become a threat as they feasted on peasants' children, so the Dragon Emperor summoned a meteor to burn down the Ogres' land and beasts. What was left of the Ogres' former home was reduced to the Warpstone Desert.

The surviving Ogres fled west, away from their blasted realm, where they killed and ate the weaker members of their tribes. Driven to greater hunger and cruelty by the Great Maw, the Ogres became more warlike, slaughtering their way into the Mountains of Mourn.

One of the Ogre legends mentioned about a prophet known as Groth Onefinger, who founded a cult that worshipped the Great Maw. His descendants were the Lazargh tribe, who used stones to replace the teeth that they lost. Henceforth, Ogres hurl their victims' remains into pits and cauldrons in honour of this monstrous god, and the greatest prophet of the Great Maw in recent times is Skrag the Slaughterer.