Ogor Mawtribes

The ogors are appetite made flesh: vast, slab-shouldered nomads whose god is their own hunger. They venerate Gorkamorka in his aspect as the Gulping God, the Great Devourer who gnaws at the roots of existence and will one day swallow the world entire, and their theology is magnificently simple: eating is prayer. An ogor honours his god with every bite, worships hardest at the feast after a battle, and commits blasphemy only by leaving a meal unfinished. Other races raise temples to their gods; the ogors carry theirs with them, vast and rumbling, behind the gut-plates strapped across their bellies.

Every mawtribe moves along a Mawpath: part migration route, part pilgrimage, part scar. It is the sacred line of consumption a tribe gnaws across the face of a realm, and where it passes, forests are stripped to stumps, herds vanish to bones, and cities become gnawed stone and long silence. Butchers and Slaughtermasters serve as the priesthood of this moving faith, boiling gut-magic in their cauldrons and reading omens in marrow and gristle to point the tribe toward its next great meal. Other peoples map the Mortal Realms in roads and rivers. Ogors map them in flavours, and a Mawpath is scripture written in what is no longer there.

Two great traditions share the Mawpath. The Gutbusters are the marching stomach of ogor culture: Tyrant-ruled hordes of Gluttons and Ironguts, Leadbelchers hauling looted cannon, and swirling clouds of gnoblar scavengers who follow the tribe like gulls behind a ship. The Beastclaw Raiders are its frozen edge: alfrostuns of grim riders atop mournfangs, stonehorns and thundertusks, ruled by Frostlords from the backs of beasts older than the empires they trample. Most mawtribes are a marriage of the two, gut and claw, feast and hunt, bound together by a hunger that never entirely sleeps.

The Beastclaw ride because they must. A supernatural everwinter follows at their heels, a killing cold that catches any alfrostun that lingers and entombs it in ice: the Gulping God's own breath, the ogors say, forever hungry, forever close behind. So the mawtribes never stop. They cannot be starved out, bought off or broken, because they want nothing that can be given, only what can be eaten; they are famine with legs and faith. And they believe that when the last horn blows, Gorkamorka will gulp down sun, stars and realms alike: a final feast at which the ogors, faithful to the end, fully intend to have a seat.