Brazenhearts / Wrath-Haakon
( ‚Wrathhawken‘ )

Own Almost Emotionless Humanoid Warrior Breed

The Wrath-Haakon represent late, genetically altered descendants of once immortal high men of Morrui, who became a part of the ‚noble repentants‘ of the Galaz-Mourn, after the fall of their kind, along the course of the war of gods underneath the shattered mountain ( and the slaying of the world dragon )
Just like also the later wolf-knights of Daarhall, and the later superhumans of Templad-Doom.
And are – only by their blood-line – nonetheless at the same time relatives of the dwarves, orcs ( and elves ).

The Wrath-Haakon are High Men / Morrodain of the earth, who are also known as ‚Dark Ardath‘.
Their dark skin, their rich, dark beard growth and their thick and full hair, deep green or grey, dark or in cases also deep yellow eyes makes them look wild and at the same time sinister, externally.

Because they make – despite of a morrodainic origin – an own, almost emotionless, humanoid warrior-breed of high men, ( who are said to once be artificially changed and bred ) they are strong, robust, tall grown and perfect warriors and mercenaries.
But they are still characteristic simultaneously by an ORC-aspect, a NIGHT-ELF aspect, and a DWARVISH aspect.

Wrathhaakon are pure, barbaric fighters and soldiers, born in order to yet very soon in age perfect the arts of using weapons, IN WARS, to kill effectively and striking and to smash up hostile armies.
The highest generals / Centurio’s among them also cherish éadainic nature, comparable to old-roman combat culture, also in socially and in appearance.
Their armours are silver and red, they wear short skirts with leather flaps, light scaled chainmail shirts, helmets with red combs of fine hair and wound up sandals / copper-enforced boots, otherwise they dress up preferringly in noble, light fabrics, in form of tunica’s, in black and purple.
Their warlords distinguish themselves moreover with winged up or otherwise magnificently ornamentally decorated helmets with visir, iron, lightning-forked horns, skulls or runes, like the lightning rune, the runes of the night, unrest, war and darkness.
( Like also dragon-attributes and symbols of giant-, dwarf- and elven gods of the night, the strife-forces and the oldest war-gods )

Their NORTHERN enclaves lay in Haakanord / Hawkanorth on the claw-shaped barren stone-, rock- and ice-island of Khyrrthosh, directly before the coast of the present Terromage.
The Brazenhearts, who come from this part of the world are to parts corrupted allies of Terromage, or also mercenaries, who serve Terromage for sake of reward and worldly fee, or also – since recently – defenders of an own, free enclave, on Khyrrthosh, INDEPENDANT from Terromage and the rest of the northern world.

Their pure-blooded, dark brothers of the Hakaaris in their OWN COUNTRY - ‚Hakaariad‘ – live on Orcland in the eastern deserts in their local city fortress of Dahgobone, and rule there over a crude, cruel and in one way barbaric and violent, but also at the same time somehow high-cultivated warrior- and slave society.
In their own holy Haakendôm / ‚Hawkendome‘ there, they carry out their duels, wrangles for power and personal strives, or also determine godly decisions in form of hand-to-hand fights / battles inbetween two different parties, and – for the amusement and entertainment – also gladiator fights with gladiators out of their own rows, slaves ( and enemies of their nation or belief. )
Partly also in involvement with wild animals, monsters, giants and night creatures, which are trained to bite sharply – as also partly even lesser carrion-, Wyvern- or desert dragons...

Preferred weapons are two-hand swords / short swords, spears and axes, bastard-swords, one handed slash- and crush weapons, moon crescent helbards / lances, and small composite bows / crossbows
( shield, armour and greaves at hands and legs )

The most Wrathhaakon of the eastern deserts feel related and close above all to the orcs and the human barbarians of the east, but still they see brother races in the wolf-knights of Daarhall and the dwarves of Worvaughn.
Judgements about other humans, elves and high men depend on the grade of sophistication of their own warrior culture, political affiliation and general belief.

Pure light belief and light elves are suspicious and foreign to them.
Belief in the Great Dancing Snake ‚Suu‘ is at least looked at sceptically.
Their own deities are earth-, night-, storm-, frost- and desert deities, fire-, stone-, war- and wolf-deities.
Their main god is still the loaf of the world, the Great Dragon and Fathergod, ( out of whose rib all humanoid beings once developed, and out of whose shed blood the ‚Galaz-Mourn‘ emerged )

XOBROK-DROSS, who is simultaneously comparable to the orc-god Xobrak and the world dragon Wyrm.

Their highest own main god belonging culturally to their very original and oldest traditions is Wrathhaakon, the Brazenheart, horned war-god of the pure, dark flame ( and the self-devouring fire, of the one who holds the holy torch )

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