"No retreat. No mercy. No escape."
- —Thagison the Disgraced[1]
Thagison the Disgraced is a Dwarf Rune Priest who is all that remains of a once honorable Dawi clan. His is a shame so great that an entire Dwarf Hold broke beneath the weight of it. At the start of the War of Reckoning, the Dwarfs of Khazad Azril were entrusted with the task of seeing that Thagi Runebeard arrived safely at Everpeak. The ancient Runelord's vast knowledge of Runesmithing was to have ensured the successful creation of Doomstriker weapons for the Oathbearer army. It was a plan that the far-seeing eye of the Daemon Tchar'zanek could not allow to proceed uncontested.[1]
The Runebeard clan awoke in the early hours of the new moon to discover that Chaos had descended upon their hold. Tentacled Daemons and gibbering horrors brought forth from the Realm of Chaos quickly subdued the few defenders. Within minutes the great doors stood open to a vast horde armed with axes, swords, and misshapen flesh. The bloodbath which ensued decimated the Runebeard clan and cemented Khazad Azril as a place of bad omen for all time.[1]
Thagison's (thus far) fruitless search for expiation in death has hardened the once hopeful Rune Priest into a grim axe master of unparalleled skill.[1]
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- 1: Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (Cancelled PC Game)