Brakki Barka is one of the most renown Abyssal Dwarf Halfbreed champions
Biography
Most Abyssal Dwarf halfbreeds are reckoned too unruly and unpredictable of temperament to command others of their kind, resulting in them being set lose upon the foe individually or in small groups in the manner of mindless berserkers.
The one exception is the fearsome warlord Brakki Barka. So preternaturally strong is Barka, and so unending the extremes of his fury when denied, that he has risen to a station that none of his cursed kind has ever been known to hold.
He is the lord of the army of an entire temple-bastion, known as The Legion of Bhardoom
In truth, the Halfbreed lord is commander in title only, for upon the field of battle he is so consumed with rage he issues very few orders. Instead, Barka instils utter obedience in the Legion of Bhardoom by the age-old custom of slaughtering any warrior that shows the least sign of cowardice or disobedience.
This is as true on the field of battle as it is off it, and thus the Legion of Bhardoom has earned a reputation as being both utterly relentless and supremely obedient. Even the slightest transgression amongst the legion is met with uncompromising force. A warrior who hesitates in enacting Barka’s orders is crushed beneath his fearsome hooves and, if any object, their entire company is driven from the heights of Bhardoom and pitched into the raging ocean of lava at the bottom of the Abyss.
If this regime appears harsh, life is a hundred times worse for the slaves of Bhardoom. Should one slave falter in his work then he and ten others are instantly slaughtered as an example to the rest. Needless to say, the slave-masters of Bhardoom are ever searching for more unfortunates to add to their work force. In battle, the Halfbreed Lord Barka is a raging force of nature. He is impossibly strong, some claiming his bones are cast iron and his blood molten brass.
Given the nature of the magics that created the Halfbreeds in the first place, this is entirely possible. Yet, Barka’s strength and toughness far exceeds even that of his kind, meaning he is able to lift and swing a war hammer many times heavier and more deadly even than those carried by his peers. When he goes to war Barka leads from the front and while he is nominally the Lord of the Legion of Bardoom, his battle orders are a single bellow of the word ‘Bhardoom’, that roars impossibly loud over the entire field of battle – its message unmistakable.
Those Abssyals that hear Barka’s war cry cannot help but heed it, so total is his dominance over all his kind. Those enemies that hear the Halfbreed Lord’s war cry know full well that it can only herald their imminent death.
Kings of War Appearance
- First Appearance - 0.4 Mantic Journal 4 - Clash of Evil
- 2nd Edition - Kings of War – 2nd Edition Rulebook
- 3rd Edition - Kings of War – 3rd Edition Rulebook
1st Edition
Commander of Bhardoom, Brakki Barka is a mighty warrior, reckoned insanely strong even by the standards of his unnatural kind
2nd Edition
Barka leads from the front and while he is nominally the Lord of the Legion of Bardoom, his battle orders are a single bellow of the word ‘Bhardoom’, that roars impossibly loud over the entire field of battle.
3rd Edition
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