Category | Heroes |
Region | Grashakh |
Class | 20th barbarian |
Race | Toomrur (Taln'nazân Famine Spirit-King) |
Gender | male |
Title | Ogre Lord |
Alignment | lawful evil |
Deity | Vaprak, Rioch Tetrax (as undead) |
Birthplace | Gorkith |
Born | 26 Warper 1468 |
Undead | 16 Hollow 1531 |
Born under the evergreens of Gorkith, Morbakh was one of eight children. Father a member of the warrior clan and mother of a trade clan, their children were taught a tempered approach to the world around them saying, "war must be profitable in land, peoples, and resources gained."
In 1484, at only 16 years of age, Morbakh's army of mercenaries captured the city-state of Khatúlg. By conquest, and the youngest ever such titled, Morbakh was recognized as an Ogre Lord.
In 1511, beaten on the field by the Orchish Empire, Morbakh signed the Morbakh Ceasefire, ending the First Ogre War (1505 - 1511).
In 1531, Morbakh led an unsanctioned plundering of the Barrow of Agdúm. When his forward units began running from the area much worse for age, Morbakh and a team of seasoned adventurers entered the barrow. They passed those too frail from unnatural aging and piles of dust, soon to join. In the burial chamber of Agdúm, Morbakh succeeded in finding the item he came for, the Hoof of Gluttony. A fighting retreat, he battled Agdúm's Ghost Harem for hours. Slain at the mouth of the barrow, Morbakh was infused him with the unholy blessing of Rioch Tetrax, turning him into a Taln'nazân Famine Spirit-King.
No weapon could pierce Morbakh's fat. Two waves of gnolls were either tore apart from a bony weapon in the shape of a hind leg of an ass or had their heads bitten off. Several passes of our secret weapon, the foul dragon Argontholopus, along with a liberal dose of ranged magic, eventually drove the terror in another direction.
- Junkel, from his book the Legends of Crimson Eye - "Morbakh's Attack"