About

[Hragged]

Many moons ago, the Butchers of the Stronghold declared that it was the will of the Maw that the details of all Ogre Tribes visiting the Stronghold should be recorded. This information is collected and placed into a vast DataBaste by the most skilled of Gnoblar scribes, preserved in the Stronghold vaults for all time.

Feel free to use the following format as a rough guide when introducing your Tribe:

Tribe Name:
Tribe Symbol (image or description):
Tyrant Name:
Tribe Background Info:

This topic is for unofficial Tribes only. Don't forget to add your Tribe's details to your profile!

[Autumna]

Tribe name: "Tribe of the Hammer Mist"

Tribe Symbol (Image or description.): An outline of an inverted hammer.

Tyrant Name: Arghelt the Silent.

Brief Tribe Background Info: Arghelt the Silent, Tyrant of the Hammer Mist Tribe makes his tribes' camp on the outskirts of the Flayed Rock in the marshes of the River Ruin. Like those of the Moonbiter Tribe, the Ogres of the Hammer Mist only attack when a certain condition occurs; fog. Stories from weary merchants attacked along the old Spice Route tell of the silence in the trees that surrounded them before rampant beasts came raining from the forest like water down a fall. Fisherman on the River Ruin tell stories of strange sightings in which an Ogre of large stature had been seen walking along the rocks of the murky coast w/ that of a being no larger then that of a Gnoblar.

[ikim]

Tribe Name: The GreatHead Tribe

Tribe Symbol: a Blu Triangle

Tyrant Name: Ikimik Greathead

Brief Tribe Background Info: The GreatHead tribe were merceneries hired by the empire; yet, when the greatheads became too big and too powerful, Duke Leopold of Middenland diceded to put an end to the hire, and to kill the greatheads.
He sent a small group of men to kill the chief of the greatheads, Mikimi, Ikimik's father, but the plan didn't quite go as planned: the men were all killed, bar one, who accidentally stumbled on a tree root, and shot a dart from his crossbow, wounding Mikimi to death.
This was the start of Ikimik's rath, who, from this episode on, has a grudge against the empire, and seeks revenge.
Yet, the revenge is not because Duke Leopold sent men to kill his father, but because such men actually killed him, 'cause Ikimik wanted to do it himself.

Recently, at a Arena of Death,held for his birthday, Ikimik managed to kill Leopold, but the word has spread, thourgh out the Empire, and the Greatheads have to live as renegades within the Empire.





cheers

[Corai]

Tribe Name: The Change Eaters

Tribe Symbol (image or description):  The Tzeentch rune with the circle at the centre replaced b y the great maw icon (image to follow)

Tyrant Name: Skryonn

Brief Tribe Background Info: Cast out from his tribe as a youth, Skryonn travelled north, only to finaly succom to the warping inlfuences of chaos, and become possessed by one of the daemons of Tzeentch. Returning to his tribe as a daemonhost, the now changed Skryonn set about manipulating the ogres into doing his bidding. He created the animated puppet Gyrathor to fulfill the traditional ogre cultural role of Tyrant and through Gyrathor, Skryonn enforces his will on the Change Eaters. Over time, the ogres in the tribe began to mutate as Skryonn had, their skin turning a dark blue and albino fur sprouting from their shoulders. Now, following a plan near incomprehensible in its complexity, the Change Eaters march to war on the Empire of Man.

Thanks
corai

[ogrebane]

Tribe Name: The Fluer di Lis tribe. Or the flower of the lake tribe

Tribe Symbol (image or description): The fluer di Lis. usually upside down but sideways works as well

Tyrant Name:Sirruh Wretched Longshanks the Tird.

Wretched campaigned heavily in Bretonnia when he was a maneater and came to respect the ways of the Bretonnians. He also liked the way they dressed in pretty blankets. So he ordered his boys to go out and collect a blanket for each of them. He has tried to instill the Bretonnian virtues into his tribe (Like Damsels for butchers) but an ogre can only go so far.

[sushi]

Tribe Name:   The Oni Kingdoms of Nippon         

Tribe Symbol:   The great maw; Celestial Dragon: Mukade (centipede)
 
Tyrant Name:          Tojiro the devil (Red Devil’s Clan)
2nd in command:       Shishio of the Soheis (The Temple Dog Clan)

Brief Tribe Background Info: Oni is the oriental word for ogres, oni are however occasionally seen in the holy lands of Nippon and was rumored that they came from the Isles after the great light from the sky appeared. Before the unification of Nippon, daimyos of different clans where at war with each other for land and power. In times of need, some daimyos resort in hiring ogres for their army, until the time when every surviving clan have ogres in their front line. After years of war, the true Emperor of Nippon rose in power and united all the clans since the ruinous powers of the north are threatening the northern borders. Since Nippon never experienced peace for a long time, they gathered all the remaining ogres and once again appointed them to help guard and defend the northern borders of the holy land from the ruinous powers of the chaos.

[Lexy]

Tribe Name: Golddiggers tribe (or "Scrooge and his friends" if you are given the chance to ask other tribes)

Tribe Symbol (image or description):This one is still open for debate

Tyrant Name:Dor Golddigger

Brief Tribe Background Info:
The golddigger tribe spied on a dwarven miner crew long enough how to extract gold.
Though not as efficient and graceful as dwarves, they get alot of gold out of the mines, they captured from the dwarves.
Well, captured... they slew all dwarves and used their tools to start mining themselves.
The only worry now is not to appear richer then the overtyrant himself or overthrow him.

[loadmaster666]

Tribe Name: Man’gol tribe

Tribe Symbol (image or description): Blue silk pants

Tyrant Name: OG’DEI KHAN

Brief Tribe Background Info:The Man’gol tribe has had perhaps more contact with the thinling’s of Cathay than any other Ogre tribe.   This has, in turn, had influence on their spiritual beliefs that have stemmed from watching and observing Cathayan culture. (It was also seen as bad form to eat the Cathayan Warlord’s royal entourage)

Having become mercenary in nature, due to constant chaos incursions into their hunting grounds, the remnants of the tribe, after one particularly devastating invasion, found their way into the lands and subsequent pay of Cathayan Warlords.   These Warlords saw the potential for large, murderous Ogres, in support of their main battle line troops.  Over time these Ogres became well trained and lost some of their “raw” qualities. Not that one can take the Ogre out altogether.

One famous Cathayan warlord, Sin’Tsu, utilised the Ogre elite as his personal bodyguard.  During this period of employment the Ogres, then led by OB’DEI, learned weapon skills and martial prowess beyond that of normal tribal ogres.  Tactics became a decision process and the utilisation of smaller but faster units in combined attacks was practiced.   It was taught that defeat of the enemy was not just a process of bludgeoning the enemy with big weapons, but by also breaking their spirit with flank attacks and by surprise.

[Catferret]

Tribe Name:   Daemonslayers

Symbol:   Desolation Symbol (skull inside the Maw)

Tyrant:   Varga Daemonslayer (formerly Beastkiller)
 
Background:   Varga Beastkiller fought around Middenheim under the pay of the Graf during the Storm of Chaos.  When the hordes of Chaos were routed, he pursued them north and ended up in the Chaos Wastes.  He wandered around with his army which dwindled with the constant fighting leaving just his bodyguards.  He was set upon by a Daemon Prince of Khorne and engaged in a mighty duel.  He lost his right arm and an eye to the beast but was victorious and ate it's heart in celebration. He eventually found his way out of the Wastes and passed through the lands of the Chaos Dwarves.  He traded loot and slaves for them to fashion him a new arm powered by a shard of wyrdstone.  A short while later some strange scar tissue spread across his chest from the implant...  This feat combined with the horrific aura from the wyrdstone has earned him the new title of Daemonslayer.

[Orgath Dragoneater]

Tribe Name:   The Brassbelly Tribe (or Brassbellies for short)

Symbol:   Dragon Skull

Tyrant:   Orgath Dragoneater
 
Background:   Will write up later - need to fix some parts.

[LOT1LOE]

Tribe Name: The Gorechompers

Tribe Symbol: A red maw (they are also recognizable for the way they keep their own mouths perpetually smeared with blood)

Tyrant: Orgok Gorechomper

Background: Work in Progress, will post soon

[Big Chef]

Tribe Name: The Dead Eyes Tribe

Tribe Symbol: Eye skewered on a fork, all Bull's have removed one of their eyes.

Tyrant Name: Eyup Catstepper Ladderstroll Mirrorbreaker the 5 'n' 5 'n' 3rd

Brief Tribe Background Info: Heralding from one of the smallest kingdoms within the Mountains of Mourn the Dead eyes have one of the queerest tales of any Ogre to tell:

For many generations the Dead Eyes, named for their initiation ritual of searing ones own eye out and then drinking from a goblet filled with the resultant fluids, were nothing special among their Ogre peers, a long history of infighting, warfare, feasts and hunts stretched behind them, with more of the same seeming certain in their future. However all changed when on a job hired to remove a rogue wizard and his heretical enclave from the lands around Hergig a young bull called Eyup (noted as 'Eyup The Idiot' in later tales) succeeded in closing in on the foul magician and smiting him with a mighty swing of his club, just as the last mysterious words of the wizards spell were cast. Returning to his mountainous homeland Eyup learned that the former Tyrant, Gluft Rawslurper, had choked to death on a not-yet-dead Squirrel, and by utter chance Eyup had tripped over the ceremonial Gut plate hidden by butchers as a way of deciding the Tyrants successor. But this good fortune soon revealed it's inner malice, as all about his realm things were going wrong, weird things. Like a pebble who after been knocked out of place by a woodpecker caused a landslide which killed two of Eyup's most trusted Iron Guts! So it was with a forgivable sense of trepidation that they marched to war against a rising kingdom to the north, but then things took another turn; cannons misfired, huge blades shattrered and cruel magic backfired on its users, all leaving the Dead Eyes unharmed, yes it seemed that when the chips were down, the dead eyes wre invincible!
So now as a tribe of utter paranoids who quake at the sound of clattering pebbles who nontheless attempt many foolish tricks in the hopes of breaking the spell, no more than their curent Tyrant (whose endeavours have been loyally listed in his title) they go to battle eager to suffer a heroic death. Cheering comrades whose lives are ended at the end of an enemys blaes, and not the end of their table.

Sorry it's a bit long winded, I cut and pasted from the Maw Pit Sagas.

[Ghworg]

Tribe Name: The Mawguard

Tribe Symbol (image or description): A red maw, in a black circle

Tyrant Name: Slaughter-Tyrant Ghworg Gut-Maw Soulsucker Corpse-Collector

Brief Tribe Background Info:

The Mawguard are a small Tribe of Maw-fanatics who live in the ruins of the Giant Skycastles. They believe that it is their task to protect the Holy Maw from outsiders who would defile it, and so are intensely xenophobic, though they seem to have close relations with an outlawed Dark Elf House. Recently, there was great upheaval within the Tribe as the Tyrant had been killed in battle and his only offspring was a pitiful runt named Ghworg. In order to gain the strength he needed to gain control of his Tribe, Ghworg decided to make a pilgrimage to the Maw. His opponents let him go reasoning that either the Maw would destroy him or he would return in too pitiful a state to rule. However, they were wrong. What passed between Ghworg and the Maw, none can tell. But when he emerged from the Wastes, Ghworg had become a mountain of flesh and muscle, able to command the forces of Gut magic. And, instead of a gut he had a vast maw full of daggerlike teeth, his natural mouth having been fused shut. With this Maw, Ghworg was able to suck the souls from his victims, and with each soul devoured, his power grew. Using his new gifts, Ghworg took control of the Mawguard and has been their unchallenged leader to this day.

Ghworg

[Forgrim Death-Dealer]

Tribe Name: Clan Death-Dealer

Tribe Symbol: Three parallel(ish) scars down each shoulder and a scar beneath each eye

Tyrant Name: Forgrim Death-Dealer

Brief Tribe Background Info:
Clan Death-Dealer originated as outlaws from the Sky Fang Tribe after their leader Forgrim Beast-Killer had a disagreement with his tyrant. Forgrim and 10 loyal lads traveled to the Empire and took up the life of mercenaries. The tribe name comes from the tribes early days when they fought a greater-daemon of Nurgle in the southern Empire. Only the Tyrant and two loyal followers survived to tell the tale (over and over and over...). After his recovery, the clan began to grow again with new followers, each carving scars into their shoulders and beneath their eyes to resemble their Tyrant's Daemon-Killer Scars and in hope to recieve some of his furosity. The clan is now named after Forgrim's greatest feat: He dealt death its own blow.

[Borgut Face-eater]

Tribe Name: The Granitegut Tribe

Tribe Symbol: Codex Grey Mountain symbol

Tyrant Name: Vigror Mountainsmash Wallcrusher Granitegut the Momma's Boy

Brief Tribe Background Info: Hailing from the central Mountains of Mourn, the Granitegut Tribe are connsumate craftsmen, and by far the best producers of stonewear and exporters of valuable ores. This, combined with their close proximity to the trade routes and the Goldtooths, has lead them to cooperate heavily with the traders of the Silk Road. Indeed, it isn't unheard of finding stonewear marked with the distictive Granitegut symbol, a jagged tooth-like mountain carved into the bottom of the item. Tyrant Vigror and the tribe's Slaughtermaster Momma Cora rule the Graniteguts with a stony fist.

[ChaosDreamer]

Tribal Name: Black Iron Tribe

Tirbal Symbol (image or description): A Cathyan Long sword made with black iron.

Tyrant Name: Tyrant Black Iron Slave Bringer

Brief Tribe Background Info:

Black Iron tribe is an offshoot of the Ironskin Tribe and therefore has close ties with Zharr Nagrond. They prefer to paid in weapons, black iron, or food. Some members have actually started to learn the arts of weapon crafting from the Chaos Dwarfs and brought this knowledge back to the tribe with Tyrant Black Iron being the first of them. While still a small clan they have began to increase in size making their mark known. Their eyes are turning onto other tribes, to incorporate them into their tribe either by allowing their strong in by will or if that fails, by force.

[X the Mad]

Tribal Name: The Iron Maw

Tirbal Symbol (image or description): Stylized ogre skull with iron jaw

Tyrant Name: Tyrr Ironmaw the Unstoppable

Brief Tribe Background Info: Medium sized tribe living in the far north. Known to have employed mammoths as mounts. Also known for their singular love of metal, with amount of metal denoting rank and staus in the tribe. Fairly mercenary tribe, but employers must pay in metal.

[Mr Marshmallow]

Tribe Name: The Beer-drinker Tribe

Tribe Symbol: A mug. And since the tyrants favorite color is pink, all of the tattoos of it are in pink, and on all the banners it's pink as well 

Tyrant Name: Borug Beer-drinker

Brief Tribe Background Info: Um.. they like beer. A lot. And... That's about as far as I've come 

[puggimer]

Tribe Name : Fire Eaters
Tribe Symbol : Maw with flames behind it
Tyrant Name : Steelgutte FireBreath
Tribe Background : While a maneater, Steelgutte FireBreath found himself in the far east of Cathay, where he discovered the wonders of their cuisine, especially the hot peppers they used to liven up their food.  Now that he has returned home and founded his own tribe, he is searching throughout the old worlde for the hottest food he can find.

[Kuzreg Tuskgutt]

Tribe Name: The Beastslayer tribe

Tribe Symbol http://img142.imageshack.us/my.php?image=beastslayersymbolfe9.png (image or description): (please forgive the dodgyness of this symbol- i whipped it up in about three minutes flat on paint. You get the idea though. The tribe's clothing/banners are generally blue, with yellow used for the symbol, markings and warpaint).

Tyrant Name: Kuzreg Tuskgutt the Beastslayer

Brief Tribe Background Info:
My Tyrant, Kuzreg, was the son of a Hunter in the Fleshwhipper* tribe. As a young ogre he inherited his father dislike for beasts, but did not inherit his "loner" attitude, and indeed had great Leadership skills. One day, the tribe's Tyrant, Lutker fleshwhipper, had his Ironguts aquire a huge chaos mammoth as a trophy. Kuzreg took an instant dislike to it. Kuzregs dislike turned to complete hatred when the thing sat on Kuzregs favourite Gnoblar, "Bolt". In a fit of Black Rage, Kuzreg charged the thing. Though it should not have been possible, a colossal battle took place, and Kuzreg single-handedly slew the creature. Wrenching out two of its tusks, he whittles them down, fastened them to his gut plate, and took the name Tuskgutt Beastslayer. For this insurrection, Lutker threw him out of the tribe and declared him a traitor. Kuzregs best friends also abandoned the tribe, choosing instead to follow him. They founded the Beastslayer tribe. Many Years later, Kuzreg returned to face Lutker once again. His tribe, which had grown large, launched a full out attack against the Fleshwhippers camp. During the attack, Kuzreg discovered the rotting corpse of his father, impaled on a large spike. He had been martyred before the whole tribe, to pay for his sons wrongs. Furious, Kuzreg wrenched his fathers hammer from the iron grip of his dead fathers hands, and sought out Lutker, slaying him and his rhinox mount in an epic battle.

Cheers ppl if you're still reading!
Kuz


*I randomly made up the name Fleshwhipper ages ago. If anyone has actually called their tribe that, sincere apologies! Message me and I'll happily change it.