Primal Hordes,
born of the Deep Places

The Beastmen are mutant beings, appearing part human and part wild animal. They form great marauding tribes of many hideous species, from the Capra goatmen to minotaur Aurox, to the giant and one-eyed Cyrox, and many more hideous kinds.

This bipedal menagerie comes from the deep places, clad in jagged plate armour, carrying brutal and cruel blades. Descending in a rabid frenzy, their desire is only to see the realms of Man fall, and for their primordial nature-gods to gain primacy once again. Recent reports have come to the Sunlit Citadel, detailing an uncontrollable swelling of the Beastfolk ranks, and hint at horrendous monstrosities that have joined the Capra in arms, under the banner of new, mysterious, leadership....

Broken Natural Order

The Capra are generally regarded as the physically weaker cousins to their Aurox counterparts. Yet, what these devious creatures lack in strength, they gain in overwhelming numbers, nimbleness, and moral depravity. Their tribal societies constantly bicker and war with each other, vying for power and control over the hordes.

The Capra’s negative tendencies were once kept in check by dominant Aurox chieftains who were able to control their ranks through their strength and natural wisdom gained through their long lifespans.

However, in recent years, the Aurox numbers have waned, and many Capra shamans and warlords have usurped power once beyond their grasp. Lately, the goat-like creatures have laid siege upon the great Northern city of Stürmenburg, coming up with devious ploys and unexpected strategies, far outside their normal capacity for intelligence...

Masters of the Herd

Grimscar the Beastlord

Master of the Herd
Grimscar the Beastlord is the warlord of
the largest tribe of Beastmen the North has
ever seen.
There have been many
beastlords who have united
tribes into feeble herds, but
none has ever accomplished
what Grimscar has among his
kind, for he possesses one thing
that all others have lacked …
ambition.
Behind his sheer bestial will
to behead and collect the skulls
of fallen enemies, Grimscar fights
for more than scavenged food and
supplies. Spurned on by the whispers
of his great shaman Graybane, he seeks
to create a bestial empire to rival that
of man, and envisions himself upon
the throne.
Through diplomacy, trickery,
and demonstrative force of will,
he has followed Graybane’s
suggestions to the word,
managing to unite the
Capra, Aurox, Centaurs,
and even the mighty Cyrox
and Ghorox, an unheard-of feat hitherto thought impossible.

Greybane the Bloodcaller

The Will behind the Warrior
Graybane the Bloodcaller is a powerful
sorcerer, head of the Capra Herd Keepers.
A devoted child of darkness, he has allied
himself with demons, bringing the taint of that
ilk to seep into the Beastmen tribes. He is gifted
with great demonic energies.
A palpable miasma of hellish sorcery
surrounds him, as he walks among the twisted
innards of the poor bastards that
writhed at his passing before
meeting their end under the
hoofs of the dreaded herd.
With patience and a cunning mind at odds
with the normal headstrong nature of his
dreaded race, Graybane retains the highest
post among the beastmen hierarchy.
Although his name is yet to be feared by
those who live towards the south, he is feared
by all Northmen as an omen and harbinger of death.

Champions of the Aurox

Mouth of Mologh

Speaker to the Old Gods

Slaughterhorn Chieftain

Aurox Warleader

Bloodbrand Matriarch

Mother of the Tribe

Rockgut Raider

A Living Battering Ram

Capra Hordes

Herd Keepers

Tribal Shamans
Capra Herd Keepers are shamans and spiritual leaders to the Beastmen.
They have no need to defend themselves from other members of the tribe,
for none would dare raise a hoof or paw against them, not even their feared
Beastlord.
Once the herds are gathered for battle, the shamans sound the horns of
chaos and lead their fellow beastmen in a frenzied state of pure
bestial vigor, their blood-curdling braying audible for
miles away, striking fear and desperation in the hearts of those in their path.

Marauders

Armoured Linebreakers
Capra Marauders are the strongest
of the goat-kin, blessed with a mighty
constitution and raw physical strength
that is rare among their kind.
They enforce their superiority upon
other lesser Capra, following in the
same steps of their prejudiced culture,
often with random acts of excessive
violence.
These specimens march at the
front ranks of the Beastmen
war parties, bleating
loudly and reveling in
the brutality and
violence of
bloodshed.

Scouts

Diminutive Outrunners
Capra Scouts roam the northern wilderness of Doaden,
scampering about through the trees, underbrush, and
rocky slopes. Chances are that when one travels
in the northern tundra, they are free from the
constant surveillance by these devious
fiends.
Trained since birth, Capra
Scouts are sent to scavenge,
observe, and report back
to the tribe so that their
hunters can pursue
their prey. In times of
war, they are corralled
onto the front lines as
they are considered
disposable until they
prove their worth.
Unfortunately, if they
do prove themselves
in battle, their reward is
usually a heavier weapon and even more front-line assignments.

Raiders

Herd Vanguard
Capra Raiders are the most common among the
beastmen ranks. Bred for battle and hungry for
violence, these relentless creatures inspire confidence
among their allies as they charge fearlessly against
the enemy. Most Raiders are sent to an early grave
either at the edge of enemy swords or
by the hands of their own kin. The
beastmen know no peace and
only a handful of them survive
more than a handful of winters.

Hunters

Cruel Bows
Capra Hunters are agile sharpshooters.
They closely follow behind the frontline
troops in battle, raining down a hailstorm
of arrows on enemy lines.
Outside of war, these hunters stalk the
woods near human settlements, picking
off unwary folk as they forage. When the
sun goes down, they quickly neutralize village
watchmen from the tree line in order to clear
the way for the other beastmen to raid, pillage, and capture food.

Aurox Infantry

Aurox Warriors

Beefy Fighters

Bloodfevered Brute

Rabid Berzerkers

Aurox Bludgehorns

Masters of Siege

Cloven Giants

Cyrox

One Eyed Giant
Cyrox are huge, hideously
malformed beasts with a single
eye at the center of their forehead,
leaving them with little to no
peripheral vision.
These dumb, almost brainless
creatures are coralled into war
and used as siege weapons
by the beastmen armies who
keep them under chains
and leashes, provoking and
inciting their rage. An enraged
Cyrox makes little distinction
in battle between friend or foe and will stomp its way over anything that crosses its path.

Ghorox

Slavering TerrorGhorox
are gargantuan beasts, most
often the size
of Cyrox, but
often growing up
to twice their size,
and exhibiting extreme
physical mutation.
As such, they now tower as large
as the legendary giants of the north
and are used as unstoppable war
machines of the beastmen
tribes.
It is well known that these
monstrous brutes are so blood
driven by a sheer rage that
even one Ghorox can
decimate an entire
tribe in a single
frenzied bloodlust
outburst, and the
rest of the
Beastmen
must be
careful not
to catch its
attention.
It is only the most gifted Herd
Keepers who can control and guide a Ghorox’s
relentless brutality and focus them against the
ranks of the enemy.

Bloodbranded Abominations

Yoken

Aurox Revenant

Devourer

Mad with Hunger

Hellspawn

Warped and Possessed

Quadrupedal Harriers

Armogor

Centauroid Cavalry
Armogors are twisted
Centaur beings, their war
parties rampage through
the grassy plains and valleys,
preferring the open battlefield
to the dense and difficult to
maneuver woods.
These demonic beasts have
the brutality of mind which
matches the clumsy power of
their muscular bodies.
They are bestial, snarling creatures
with a feral cunning, though their
equine features come to an end in monstrous claws instead of hooves.

Dreadgore

The Grand Swine
Dreadgore is a strange thing, a mutant abomination of the Gorehounds.
Some demonic fever has increased its size tremendously, much to the
delight of its masters. Its breath stinks of a thousand festering corpses,
and its hundred-eyed stare is the last thing many unfortunate Northmen
see before being gutted and ripped to shreds.
Dreadgore is a festering plague, its teeth as sharp as razors and its
horned tusks as deadly as iron swords. It is surprisingly agile, as fast as it
is strong, charging through enemy lines by itself and inflicting devasting
casualties to the tune of a full cavalry regiment.
Wherever it treads, this beast leaves a trail of mangled bodies for the
rest of the Gorehound herds to feast upon.

Boargores

Porcine Predators

Gorehounds

Slavering Jaws
Gorehounds are large, horrifically mutated creatures, resembling boar, hound, and
demon all at once. Their packs enter a rabid fury, rampaging through the encampments
of men in search of food. When not enough scraps are found, they turn to men, ripping
apart the armor of soldiers with their jagged teeth and tusks as easily as a knife through
bread, to chew on the soft, moist flesh beneath.
Many are the stories of their terrifying black, empty glinting eyes peering from the
tree line as they prey upon a lone patrolman, or merchant caravan, traveling in the
woods at night, shivering for their dear life at the sound of their baleful howling in the
distance.
These predatory beasts have an insatiable hunger for flesh and dreaded ferocity, which
the Beastmen put to great use in their war parties. The beastmen deliberately rear these
vicious attack beasts, training them for battle, or as guardians for their lairs, though
their savage nature can never be truly tamed.

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Bloodfever

The party is charged with tracking down a missing team of rangers that disappeared in the north while investigating Beastmen raids.

In their search, they encounter the Slaughterhorn Tribe, driven from their homelands in desperation, and torn apart by internal division.

Part One
Siege of Sturmenburg

The Beastmen descend upon the great city of Sturmenburg, capital of the North and home to thousands.

The party must join the defence on the city's great walls, and strike back against the hordes of beastly invaders.

Part Two
Siege of Sturmenburg

The terror continues, lightning rips apart the sky as thunderous booms drown out the clash of steel upon steel. The night rings loud with the roars of enraged warriors and the guttural moans dying men as their lifeblood soaks into the wet earth. The darkened sky cries, flooding the cobbled city with sheets of cold rain and sleet.

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Primal Hordes,
born of the Deep Places