But this was no simple trinket: this was the Crown of Sorcery, an ancient artifact of the Great Necromancer, Nagash, and the ancient Liche's insidious spirit still clung to the artifact. It is not known if Gorbad survived the encounter.ДЄn already powerful warlord who ruled over a great many tribes in the Badlands, Azhag's tale truly began after he unearthed an ancient magic crown in the ruined city of Todtheim. The remnants of Gorbad's tribe were ambushed and defeated on their way home by a Dwarf army under the King of Karaz-a-Karak. Eventually, the lack of progress and Gorbad's injury took their toll on morale, and the army disintegrated. Gorbad unleashed Wyverns upon the city, who threw the defenders into disarray but were ultimately repelled without achieving their main objective, which was to destroy the city gates.

At the fortress of Altdorf, the Waaagh! was kept at bay outside the city walls. Gorbad's army conquered the territories of Solland and Wissenland, but Gorbad himself was wounded in the fighting. The tribe marched through Black Fire Pass to attack the Empire under the Emperor Sigismund. Gorbad Ironclaw and his tribe, the Ironclaw Orcs, absorbed the Broken Tooth tribe along with the local Goblin and Night Goblin tribes, to create a massive force of Greenskin warriors. Gorbad Ironclaw, atop his vicious boar Gnarla, was the mightiest Warlord that ever lived (in the warhammer fantasy universe).

These stories center around the formation of WAAAGH!s and the resulting campaigns. Orcs & Goblins contains a number of short stories that provide an illustrative fictional history of the Orcs in the Warhammer Fantasy universe.

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