Khazrak One-Eye

"Powerful was its stature, tall and curving were its horns, and filled with hatred and cunning were its eyes, glowing in the night. It lashed about with a barbed whip, the touch of which cut and tore. With a roar, it pointed, and a pack of nightmare dog-beasts turned their feral attention towards me. Alas, I wished to stand and fight, yet my cowardly steed ran, and I was carried away, borne unwillingly upon its back. Could this fell Beast have been the one behind the constant raids? I know not."

- Markus Renkler, noble son assigned as squire and pistolier to the house of Middenheim. Later discharged and sent home in disgrace for cowardice.



Beastlord Khazrak, The One-Eye is amongst the most infamous of the Beastmen Warlords to have ever plagued the forested lands of the Empire. Possessing a ruthless cunning far above that of his bestial kin, Khazrak the One-eye is the most dangerous and powerful Beastlord in the Drakwald region. He has plagued the region for several years, descending without warning and then slipping away into the shadows once more. By the normal intellectual standards of Beastmen, Khazrak has a unique and adept ability to control and harness the unruly spirit of the herd and devise simple but effective battle plans in order to win his battles. He is so unlike the vast majority of his kind, with a patient and cunning mind at odds with the normal headstrong nature of his foul race. Khazrak's warband roams the Drakwald terrorising the townships and roads, and never before has a Beastman leader proven so elusive to retribution that not even the Elector Count of Middenland could ever capture and subdue the rampaging beast. No one is spared in Khazrak's attacks, his superbly trained Warhounds chasing down the few who manage to escape the warherd, tearing them to bloody scraps of bone and flesh.

Since time long lost, Khazrak was the scourge of the Drakwald for many many years, escaping retribution after retribution as the Kingdoms of Man fail one after the other to stop his murderous rampage. Being a servant of the Dark Gods himself, he was a notable participate during the Storm of Chaos event from which he and his massive warherd joined the growing armies of Archaon and his liutenents against the forces of Middenland and Hochland in the region of forest just south of the Middle Mountains. After the climatic defeat of the Chaos Hordes however, Khazrak and his warherd retreated to the forest of Drakwald once more to hide from the terrible retribution of the Imperial Armies as they hunt down the remaining Hordes into the ground. It is said that from this day, Boris Todbringer continues his hunt for the Beastmen, and would never rest until either he or the Beastlord will finally be dead.

History
After many ruthless raids against isolated groups of villages in the outskirts of the Drakwald forest, the Armies of Middenland and Middenhiem had no choice but to finally put this beast down once and for all. On several occasions the Elector Count Boris Todbringer of Middenheim has led the hunt to catch Khazrak, and once even managed to trap the Beastman near the village of Elsterweld against impossible odds. Khazrak lost his eye to the Count's Runefang in the ensuing battle but still escaped the slaughter with a handful of his herds still intact. It is said that Khazrak's eye have never truely healed, and to this day, it continually weeps blood and pus.

Such a handicap would usually prove fatal in the brutal culture of the Beastmen but Khazrak's wound has actually made him all the more fearsome. For many months afterwards he plotted and schemed in his hidden lair, and only when the perfect opportunity presented itself did he put his plan into action. With a series of daring ambushes, he lured the Count and his army into a cunning trap. Khazrak confronted the Elector Count and threw him from his horse, pinning him to the ground. With slow deliberation, Khazrak gouged out one of the Count's eyes with the tip of a horn. Khazrak allowed his foe to live, and some believe that he actually enjoys matching his wits against Todbringer, seeing it as a challenge to his skills.

Humilited beyond imagination in the eyes of his fellow Counts and Council members, the Elector has posted a bounty of ten thousand goldcrowns for Khazrak's head, an act that ensured the coming and going of many Mercenary companies for the past few months, but those few mercenary armies who have returned from the Drakwald have done so empty-handed, and often horribly mauled. The two rivals have clashed on several occasions since. Khazrak remains a dire threat to the entire north of the Empire, and his invasions are covering a wider area with each passing year, as more and more towns, forts and castles fall victim to his well-planned and devastating attacks.

Source
Wwarhammer Armies: Beastmen (7th Edition) pg 62 - 63

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