Omdra the Dread battling a great Chaos horde tens of thousands strong.
Omdra the Dread was one of the greatest Nightmare Dragons to have ever lived. Ancient beyond reckoning and whose size dwarfs even other colossal Dragons of ancient times, Omdra was considered a god amongst the denizens of the Dark Lands. Her size and power was so great, that it took tens of thousands of Chaos Dwarfs, barbarians and foul creatures of the Chaos Waste to take her down, and even then, she merely slid back into her lair to heal once more.[1a]
History[]
This monster of legend has stirred once more and its dominion has carried across the northern Plain of Bones. Its colossal black-winged shadow scatters all before it in nightmare and terror. No mere beast -- however great its size -- was Omdra, but an ancient and wicked creature with dark magics to match even the vaunted Sayl, and at whose inhuman will gargantuan Maw Wyrms rose up from the black sands to give battle alongside packs of hungry Crypt Ghouls, to whom the dragon was no less than a god, and threw themselves with savage piety against the Kurgan. In this battle were thousands slain, both Kurgan and Chaos Dwarf together, and here did the Great Chaos Spawn Garth'grak fall, and even mighty Bubebolos suffered grievous wounds as the Nightmare Dragon and its servants ambushed the horde's main column in the dead of night.[1a]
At great cost in blood and sorcery was the Dragon-god herself gravely injured and driven away to slumber beneath the bones of her dead kin, her threat to the Desolation of Azgorh broken -- at least for a time. In return for this effusion of slaughter on their behalf, the servants of Hashut honored Tamurkhan with the gift of a war-axe fit to his stature, a darkly enchanted blade to replace the Tyrant's which had shattered in the granite-hard skull of a Maw Worm in battle. Also at Tamurkhan's behest, they took the near hundred Giants that still fought with the horde and worked their arts of forge-craft and sorcery on them, encasing them in plated iron and fitting them with great hooked blades and picks, the better to scale and sunder the fortifications the horde would face when it reached its destination.[1a]