Ungrim Ironfist
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Ungrim Ironfist is a fictional character in from Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy wargame.
[edit] History of the Slayer Kings
The tale of the Ironfist family is long and woeful. Many years ago Ungrim's five times great grandsire, King Baragor, suffered a great and terrible loss which drove him to take tho oath of the Slayers. What caused him to make such a sudden and drastic decision is not recorded in the Book of Grudges of Karak Kardin, nor in the record of the Kings, nor even the stronghold's Book of Days. It is commonly assumed that the cause was the death of his daughter at the claws of the great dragon Skaladrak on her way to marry the son of the High king at Karaz-a-KaraK. In any case, Baragor became the first Slayer King of KaraK Kadrin.
Torn between his two conflicting vows, the oath of a Slayer to seek out death and the oath of a king to watch over and protect his people, Baragor was unable to fulfil either properly. In the end, good dwarf sense prevailed, and he found a way to honour both his vows after a fashion. He founded the Shrine of Grimnir, the Shrine of Slayers in Karak Kadrin, and with generous donations to the cult he established a haven for Slayers from all over the Dwarven realms. Soon Karak Kadrin was acknowledged as the home of the Slayer Cult, hitherto scattered group of individuals wandering amongst the mountains.
Altrough Baragor could not fulfill his own vows while his people needed him, he could help others to do so, and as such he upheld his honour and was considered a wise and reasonable Dwarf by all concerned. Baragor died in a tunnel cave-in deep below Karak-Kadrin, his Slayer's vow still unfulfilled. His son, Dargo, inherited not only the kingdom, but his father's vow as well, and became second of a line of Slayer Kings. His 5th great grandson is King Ungrim Ironfist, the current Slayer King of Karak Kadrin.
Luckily, the son of Ungrim, Garagrim took up the Slayer Oath, and not being bound by the oath of kingship, got himself killed in heroic fashion against a massive giant breaking the oath on all future decendents of Ungrim.
