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.
Worse still, the existance of a Great Maw implies that somewhere (most likely under the ocean) there's a Great Butthole.
Appearance[edit | edit source]
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. As it finally appeared on the map of Total War: WARHAMMER III, we now got a clear image of it, and the Maw looks like antlion larvae's pitfall trap had a baby with the mouth of a lampray.
History[edit | edit source]
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, yes-yes...
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.
Some well-traveled Ogres claim that, on the opposite side of the world, there lies a hole in the ocean that serves as Great Maw's twin, sucking up any unfortunate ship that sails too close to it (and before you start asking, it isn't The Vortex; its location doesn't line up). This is mostly likely referring to the Maelstrom located within the Galleon’s Graveyard from Dreadfleet.
Age of Sigmar[edit | edit source]
The Great Maw, being a big ass immovable mouth in the ground, was destroyed along with the rest of the world in the End Times, and thus didn’t transition into AoS. However, its influence is still felt.
The Ogors still have their insatiable hunger the Maw cursed them with. Now though they attribute this appetite to the greenskin god Gorkamorka, or as they call him “The Gulping God”.
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