Domains: Warband honor, forge and blood, the Way of the Iron Father.
Era of ascension: Great Expansion (~3,700 BSD). Cohort: current. K'rovaxi rose as the orc tribes that survived the late Lost Ages began to differentiate from each other — Bloodreaver, Enti, Thrygun, Tytheri, Uihonaii, Glivornaxi, Hedroscobbi, Shazuihni, Tarni — and needed a patron who could be carried between them without translation. He is the one daemon every major orc lineage will name when the question is who do you owe.
Worshipped by: The Bloodreavers, Enti, Thrygun, Tytheri, Uihonaii, Glivornaxi, Hedroscobbi, Shazuihni, and Tarni orcs, each in their own dialect. The Dwelyn carry him alongside a Druidic ancestor patron from their elf-line mothers; the dual worship is taught from childhood. (The worships edge is authored downstream on the worshipper, not here.)
The Iron Father gives a brother and a weapon in the same gesture — the axe in your hand and the back next to yours are the same gift, and the oath that binds the two is what he eats. He is not the daemon of killing; that is Sainu. The two are explicit rivals in orc theology, and a warband elder will spit when Sainu's name comes up uninvoked, because Sainu takes the killing without the oath, which makes him a thief of K'rovaxi's table. The Hedroscobbi smith reads him as the forge that shaped the axe; the Tarni soul-fortifier reads him as the iron in the bone; the Shazuihni boar-rider reads him as the binding between rider and mount-brother. Each reading is correct.