Khrobi Slaver Gangs

Though the dark kin of the Duardin who still dwell across the mortal realms are just as doughty and tough as their estranged cousins, they are fewer in number and even more isolationist than even the Kharadron. Many of their people dwell their entire lives in their defended tower cities, toiling in the heat of the forge and worshipping at the feet of their dark God of shadow and flame. When the clanking brass banners of the Kol-Dawi are seen abroad, they are often at the head of an army of slave soldiers - znaghazi. The most numerous of these are the hobgrots - khrobi’zkha.


The khrobi’zkha are not strictly slaves, but a subject people, conquered long ago by a Sorcerer-Prophet whose name has long since been forgotten and whose graven image has been scoured from the mountainsides by millennia of dust storms. For untold years, the hobgrots have served the Kol-Dawi loyally, in exchange for lenient treatment and a place of privilege among the servile classes. This loyalty is enforced by overseers; dawi of low rank and lesser station who keep a close eye upon their greenskin charges. Slaving bands of hobgrots accompanied by their dawi masters are not an uncommon sight in the lands of order, descending in the night to drag entire villages from their beds and into shackles. It is whispered that the slaver bands are even seen in Lethis, Misthavn, and Har Kuron, trading captured slaves for food, realmstone, and more esoteric goods. Those they do not sell on are taken back to the dark towers to work and fight for the Kol-Dawi.


When arrayed for war, both dawi and khrob are outfitted with wickedly sharp shortswords and axes and light armour of beaten iron and brass. While no match for a skilled spear aelf or a hulking chaos warrior, the khrobi’zkha will grind down any foe when fighting as a horde of stabbing, slashing fury and driven on by the lashes of their enforcers. Only when the backs of an army have been broken by a sea of znaghazi will the cursed dawi themselves take to the field.