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Ironskin Tribe

In the north of the Mountains of Mourn is the Ironskin tribe, a kingdom of Ogres with unparalleled ties to the citadel of Zharr Naggrund. This tribe valued iron more than gold long before they even began to trade with the Chaos Dwarfs, and typically wear black iron gut plates, have metal teeth and mix iron filings into their warpaint.[2a] It is a mark of status for an Ironskin Ogre to cover himself with iron rather than mere trinkets such as gold. After all, gold is soft and beautiful, a woman's metal, whereas iron is tough, strong and ugly, like a Bull. The Ironskin tribe believes that where an Ogre can gain much in trade from gold, a stout iron club can cut out all that confusing haggling and get straight to the good stuff.[3a]

The Ironskin Ogres are a fierce lot, known for their hard--hitting charges. The tribe's specialty is to launch massive avalanche-like attacks onto their foes, smashing into them in a single sweeping crush. During such assaults, they always seek to grab as many prisoners as they can, and then march them quickly home into their deep valley in the north-western range of the Mountains of Mourn. So prodigious and successful are these attacks that the Ironskin tribe has thus established strong ties to the citadel of Zharr Naggrund, whom they trade with to obtain their armour.[1a] With scores of Leadbelchers in their ranks, even the Ironskin Bulls adorn themselves with as much metal as they can, but it is their Tyrant, Ghark Ironskin, himself who is responsible for the tribe's fearsome reputation. Having traded slaves for decades with his Chaos Dwarf allies, Ghark rides to war in a massive fitted suit of plate mail with great curving horns, seated atop a hissing mechanical Rhinox that some whisper is possessed of a daemonic sentience.[2a]

Trivia[]

  • Alongside Leadbelchers, the Ironskins have a disporportionate number of Rhinox Cavalry.[3a]

Source[]

  • 1: Warhammer Armies: Ogre Kingdoms (8th Edition)
    • 1a: pg. 21
  • 2: Warhammer Armies: Ogre Kingdoms (6th Edition)
    • 2a: pg. 56
  • 3: White Dwarf 309
    • 3a: pg. 77,78
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