Throgg

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"What the gods gifted to me can be gifted to another. I will not be the one mind in a
race of blunt, witless animals."

—Throgg, King of the Trolls[3a]

Throgg, the King of the Trolls, also once known as Wintertooth, is among the
most unnaturally intelligent of his vile kind, intent on bringing the world under the
rule of a new ice age with himself at its head.[1b]

Contents
 1 History
o 1.1 The End Times
 1.1.1 Praag
 1.1.2 Middenheim
 2 Gallery
 3 Miniature
 4 Sources
History
"It is the hubris of men to see their own destiny in all things. Von Carstein. The
Everchosen. Dead men. Exalted men. In their skin they are all still men. This... will
be the Age of the Beast."

—Throgg, King of the Trolls[3b]

Even the most lackwit child knows that Trolls are grossly stupid beasts.
Nonetheless, around the campfires of the north, there persist rumours that in the
depths of Troll Country there is an elder beast whose mutations were not just of the
body but also the mind — a Troll King possessed of a grim and malevolent cunning
who seeks to grind the realms of Man under his monstrous rule.[1b]
At the heart of an icy labyrinth strewn with the gnawed corpses of once-mighty
heroes, the Troll King, Throgg, sits brooding upon his rocky throne. No fanfare
announces his arrival, no vassals pay him tithe, and no courtiers vie for his favour.
His subjects are drooling, stinking monsters and his domain is a desolate and
wind-whipped wasteland. A filth encrusted crown rings one of the Troll King’s
tusks, a once priceless heirloom taken from a great warrior whose quest led him
only into Throgg’s gullet.[1b]
There was a time when Throgg was content purely with a life of hunting, raiding
and killing. He led his monstrous kin in ambushes and midnight attacks, each more
successful than the last. Throgg had a knack of using the harsh climate of the north
as his ally, for Trolls are quite at home in the numbing cold; to them a fierce ice-
shard blizzard is no more troubling than a light summer rain. Before long, the Troll
King became infamous, known amongst the warriors of the Old World as
Wintertooth. Every season, great and lauded heroes would ride northwards, brave
knights and adventurers, all seeking out Throgg’s lair to slay him. Every season,
the Troll King dined upon noble flesh.[1b]
One moonless night, as Throgg was picking his yellowed tusks clean with a gem-
encrusted blade, he beheld the broken bodies of his prey and began to think.
Throgg muttered to himself, his eyes burning with cold fire for several long days. If
the race of Man was so keen to fight him and his bestial subjects, then fight he
would, with all the monsters of Troll Country at his side. That night, Throgg vowed
that he would see the lands of Men despoiled in the name of the Dark Gods. He
would gather every monster, mutant and madman under his rule and march at the
head of a nightmarish horde deep into the so-called civilised lands of the south. On
his heels would come the bitter cold of winter, for where the creatures
of Chaos tread, the land itself warps and changes. Throgg would bring about an
age of ice and darkness and make all of the races of the Old World his slaves. As
the Troll King marches determinedly south, his monstrous entourage grows with
every passing day. Under Throgg’s dominion, the creatures of the hinterlands have
united into a vast army, and soon the race of Man shall feel the Troll King’s wrath.
[1b]
In 2435 IC, the Beasts of Telldros assaulted the Lair of the Troll King. They
trampled his retinue and rampaged through the villages through to Winter Pyre,
killing everyone in their path. Throgg was enraged, but the damage had already
been done by the time he could do much about it. He instead lured the Beasts out
of his territory with living bait, in the shape of a Bray Shaman, and aimed the path
of their rampage at his enemies’ camps. [2]
In 2490 IC, the Necromancer Hela Half-dead led a horde of shambling corpses into
Troll Country, slaughtering every living thing she found. Hela’s horde was
eventually intercepted and torn to pieces by Throgg and an army of Trolls. [1a]
Finally, in 2517 IC, the Troll King gathered together the monsters of the north and
began his war against the civilised world. [1a]
The End Times

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Praag
During the End Times, around 2524 IC, Throgg took Praag from Aekold
Helbrass and resisted a siege by ten armies of the Chaos forces
of Archaon the Everchosen. He then gathered many wizards from various races,
including Maximilian Schreiber, who was captured in Alderfen, and tasked them
with creating an intelligent Troll.[3]
Max Schreiber succeeded in this, gathering the life force of every single Troll in the
city through Ghyran and catalysing it with Chamon and a spark of Azyr to create a
single newborn intelligence in a Stone Troll. This left the city exposed to the
besieging armies.[3]
In the meantime, he had trapped Ulrika Magdova and starved her until she gave in
and drank Troll blood, turning her into a monster. Gotrek Gurnisson, Felix
Jaeger and Snorri Nosebiter, who had broken into the city with her and a small
warband, fought both Throgg and Ulrika in Praag's Ice Tower. Ulrika died at Felix's
hands, while Throgg fell from the top of the tower as he tried to throw Gotrek off of
it.[3]
Middenheim
Later on, however, Throgg was magically transported to Middenheim by the Chaos
Gods to defend it from the Incarnates in autumn 2528 IC, at the head of a
monstrous horde of Chaos Trolls, Forsaken, Chaos Ogres, Dragon
Ogres, Minotaurs, Ghorgons, a Slaughterbrute and a Chaos Giant.[4]
Archaon ordered him to deploy with Sigvald the Magnificent on the Great Park's
overlook and guard it against Nagash's Undead forces, but Sigvald took this as an
insult and attacked the Troll King soon after leaving Archaon's presence. However,
he was able to regenerate after what Sigvald had thought was a killing blow, and
returned to the fray intent not only on crushing the Undead, but also to slay Sigvald
for his treachery.[4]
Taking advantage of the Geld-Prince's distraught state after seeing his face
permanently damaged by Krell, and his hands destroyed by punching his foe's
skull to pieces, Throgg hit Sigvald with his stone maul, killing him instantly. As the
Geld-Prince fell lifeless across Krell's body, Throgg scowled down at the pair, and
then emptied his bladder across Sigvald's golden armour. Insult and treachery
repaid, the Troll King descended deeper into the charred trees of the Great Park
and went to claim victory for the Chaos Gods. His horde then destroyed Arkhan's
forces while Nagash retreated south. Throgg's final fate is unknown. [4]