[center][h1]Rögdûl the [color=black]Black[/color][/h1][/center]
[center]or Rögdûl the [color=red]Red Chief[/color][/center]
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		[center][u]Strengths[/u][/center]
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Leadership
Battle Hardened
Abnormal Raw strength
Endurance
Extraordinarily Durable
Intimidation[/center]

[u][center]Physical Appearance[/center][/u]
[center]Height: 6'9.
Age: 25.
Build: Dense, compact muscles; bullish legs, extremely powerful shoulders and triceps.[/center]

[center][u]Personal Items[/u]
Shakatrog: a one handed blade forged from volcanic rock and reinforced with ancient blackened steel. It is said that this blade burns to the cut--it is passed on to each Red Chief of the Claw tribe.[/center]

[center][u][b]History[/b][/u][/center]

	Rogdul hails from the Red Claw tribal band of mountain orcs to the North of the mountains of Praelium. His father, Boruug the Crazed, led the Red Claw into an age of prosperity (well, as prosperous as savage Orc bands can be); the raids were plenty, the feasts were abundant, the women were wild, the small warband quickly grew into a fledgling nation. That is until the Great Scourge happened; for years, smaller Orc warbands had been waiting, gathering manpower and wresting jealous chieftans from all across the North to annihlate Boruug the Crazed and all of his progeny.
	
	Led by Khazak-dun, the twelve Northern Orc tribes amassed a small army of well over 200 and marched upon the unsuspecting Red Claw, who could foot twenty well armed soldiers at most. Men, women, children, desolated. Crazed King Boruug, as Orcish folkore later had him, fought to his last breath before he fell. Khazak and his band of traitors had not found who they had come for, Boruug's progeny: a son and daughter. Trusted guard and the Crazed's most beloved advisor, Urim the White, had gotten both to safety.

That was twenty two years ago. Today, Boruug's only heir seeks to re-establish the scattered warring Orc tribes in Praelium's Northern hills and once more bring peace. But the Northern Hills are not kind to anyone, not even savage Orcs--for the Red Claw to revive, and more importantly, [i]survive[/i] they will need allies, and many of them.

[center][color=red][h1]The Red Claw[/h1][/color][/center] 
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[center][h2]Political Structure[/h2][/center]
	[center]Clawmen and women adhere to a strict totalitarian policy insofar as the the Red Chief's word is law. He is the one who organizes all raids, handles all diplomatic matters and is responsible for the welfare of the band as a whole. He may defer powers endowed upon him to another if he so wishes, though doing so is often seen as a form of weakness amongst his kindred. The hierarchy is purportedly as such:

The Red Chief
↓
Advisor/Warchief
↓
Chief's Hand
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Tribe members[/center]

[center][h2]The Society of the Red Claw Tribe[/h2][/center]
While not as exclusive or elitist as some of its near homogenous orc tribe brothers, the Red Claw are selective about whom they allow into their ranks. One must first overcome The Kaushatar (literally translated, "The Ritual.") a series of tests which, if failed, result in death of the participant. The Red Claw, while they do raid and pillage like other Orc tribes, do not conduct raids that are random or unprovoked. Those who deign to make themselves enemies of the Claw may expect no mercy.

Concerning magic and other alien matters--the Claw are not averse to magic, if for no other reason than that the Red Chief (whomever he/she may be at the time) can allow or disallow magic practices within the walls of the Claw's foothill fortress as he or she wishes. As a result, the upper eschelon of the Claw tribe have rudimentary understanding of some elemental magic, but nothing extensive enough that would warrant him or her able to use it with any proficiency, let alone defend against it.