Codex

Hrugobbi

Daemon

Domains: blood-pact, ancestor-armor, the stained gear; current cohort; Bloodreaver patron of the dead worn on the living.

Type
Daemon

Domains: Blood-pact, ritual exsanguination, ancestor-armor.

Era of ascension: Great Expansion (~3,100 BSD). Cohort: current. Hrugobbi rose with the Bloodreaver shift from raiding to settled territory in Bloodwood — when a generation finally had ground to bury its elders on, and chose instead to keep them.

Worshipped by: The Bloodreaver orcs. Their warriors treat blood-stained tree sap as the worship medium; the sap is rubbed into armor plate and never washed, building up across decades until a veteran's harness is a black, glossy record of every kill and every kinsman lost. (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)

K'rovaxi is the iron; Hrugobbi is the stain. The two are not rivals — the same Bloodreaver kneels to both — but the offices are kept distinct. A new-cut helm asks K'rovaxi for the oath. The same helm, twenty years later and black to the lining, has long since passed into Hrugobbi's keeping. A Bloodreaver elder buried with his harness is buried with most of his line on him. The gear is the funeral; the warrior is the secondary remains.

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