The Badfangs - Bonesplitterz of Aqshy, part 14

The recent reveals of Hedkrakka’s Madmob, the new Bonesplitterz for Warhammer Underworlds, inspired me to make a few more savage orruks for my Warcry warband.

So Gurkfang, Rogtoof and Legbiter have joined the Badfangs.

As usual for this mob, they all have masks made from scrap they find in their adventures through the Mortal Realms. Gurkfang's is a piece of a Kurnoth Hunter, Rogtoof has part of an Ironjawz Brute's armour and Legbiter has some kind of aelf helmet. All of them wear cowls made from bakka-lizard hide over the back of their heads and additional decorations like feathers and stone trinkets.

The Badfangs are Bonesplitterz orruks from the dry and windswept Uzmorgarg plains in the wilds of Aqshy. The Badfangs tribe have an oral tradition, myths and legends that have long been told and retold, passed down through the years, of their time as travellers among the stars. They believe that in an age long ago they roamed the cosmos, they were not natives of Aqshy but they came from some other, unremembered Realm. They chased god-beasts across the void, riding in the belly of a creature they called the ur-whale, but they crashed into the Great Parch by accident while the ur-whale was battling another god-beast.

In some versions of the stories the ur-whale was killed by the other god-beast, in other versions the Bonesplitterz accidentally killed it from inside by cutting their way out in an ill-considered attempt to get at the god-beast that was attacking it.

Whichever version they believe, they all agree that in the crash they lost their ability to travel the cosmos and they were stranded. They still carry with them a sense of adventure that continues the tradition of travelling, exploring and finding new monsters to defeat.

So, loaded up with the most potent and powerful of the magic bones the tribe has found, the Badfangs followed Wurrgog Prophet Hogrog Ug Weirdklaw, hoping to ride a god-beast through the cosmos once more. They all still wear their traditional masks, in the style of various god-beasts, to protect them from the void between Realms.

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I'm really looking forward to adding Hedkrakka and his gang to my warband, with the addition of tradition Badfangs god-beast masks of course.