Grungni

Grungni is the Smith-God of the duardin, ancestor-deity of metal, craft, and stalwart protection, whose hammer rang out across the Mortal Realms long before the first city rose. Patient and cunning, he measures worth not in words but in the enduring quality of a thing well-made, and holds that a true shield outlasts any promise.

In the Age of Myth, Grungni stood among the closest allies of Sigmar, and the two raised gleaming forge-kingdoms together across the young realms. It was Grungni's genius that armoured the God-King's greatest works, and duardin holds delved deep and proud beneath the mountains, their anvils never cooling. But the Age of Chaos broke that golden fellowship, and as the realms burned the ancestor-god withdrew into shadow and secret labour.

The duardin race sundered in his absence. The Fyreslayers turned instead to his brother Grimnir, seeking the god-metal ur-gold, while the sky-faring Kharadron Overlords abandoned the worship of gods altogether, trusting to aether-gold, ledger, and cannon. Yet Grungni was never idle; from hidden forges he laboured on to arm the servants of Order against the Dark.

Grungni endures as the quiet keystone of duardin faith, the maker who shelters and provides, the ancestor whose works armour a hundred armies that never speak his name. To honour him is to build well, guard fiercely, and endure, for stone and steel, patiently wrought, outlast even gods.