- Ungrim Ironfist
Ungrim Ironfist is a fictional character in
Games Workshop 's "Warhammer Fantasy" setting and in particular theWarhammer Fantasy Battle tabletop wargame.Ungrim is a Dwarf and the last in the line of the "Slayer Kings of
Karak Kadrin ". The line of theSlayer Kings originated in the distant past when the ancestor of the present king,Baragor , suffered a great loss(according to the Games workshop website, it was the death of his daughter at the hands of Skaladrak, a dragon who Baragor later bested in combat) which drove him to take the oath of the Slayers.This put him in the position of having two mutually exclusive responsibilities. On one hand that of a king to watch over and protect his people and on the other that of a Slayer to seek out death in combat. As a compromise he remained King but founded a haven for the Slayers in the form of a shrine to
Grimnir in Karak Kadrin. This made Karak Kadrin the home of the Slayer Cult but King Baragor had still not fulfilled the Slayer oath when he died. This made his son heir to the Kingdom and the Slayer oath andDargo become the second Slayer King. This has continued down to Baragor's five times great grandson Ungrim Ironfist.In game
In Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Ungrim is a character model that can be used as the general of Dwarf army.
References
"Warhammer Army Book: Dwarfs"; Rick Priestley Nigel Stillman; Games Workshop; 1993; ISBN 1 872372 66 X
ee also
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List of major Warhammer Fantasy characters
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