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      Gorbad is a terror incarnate. A Beast on two legs. His raids and atrocities into the realms of Rohan are almost legend. A Uruk-Hai Orc of prodigious size and strength, Gorbad is a Lieutenant of the Orc forces in the area based out of the southern Misty Mountains. Nothing gives this fiend pleasure more than the slaughter of entire villages, thus earning him his moniker, The Slaughterer. A common practice of Gorbad is a lightning raid into the village at night, overwhelming the people as they sleep, then taking the entire night to slowly flay the men alive, to make the women watch as the orcs roast their children alive eating them in front of them until finally just before dawn, they take the women in chains to their lairs, forcing them to serve them. The only sign left to point to the beast responsible for the carnage, a banner planted in the middle of the village square, a flayed skin hung upon it with the sign of Gorbad scrawled acrost it.
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Gorbad is a massive Uruk-hai and a lieutenant of the Orc forces occupying Darkhold, a fortress in the southern Misty Mountains. His sudden raids against the settlements of Rohan have made him infamous throughout the Mark.
 
Gorbad favors nighttime attacks that overwhelm villages before their defenders can gather. His warband kills or captures entire communities and leaves a grisly banner in the village square bearing Gorbad’s mark. These displays earned him the name “the Slaughterer.”
 
One such raid killed Theor and Dagian, the father and betrothed of [[Lord of the Rings/Characters/Ulfrik|Ulfrik]]. For almost a decade, Gorbad and Ulfrik have answered each other’s attacks with unmistakable signs, turning their conflict into a bitter personal hunt. Gorbad’s band has now joined another Orc party entering the Mark, drawing Ulfrik and [[Lord of the Rings/Characters/Darethor Thornfall|Darethor Thornfall]] into an alliance against him.
 
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Gorbad the Slaughterer
Gorbad the Slaughterer

Gorbad is a massive Uruk-hai and a lieutenant of the Orc forces occupying Darkhold, a fortress in the southern Misty Mountains. His sudden raids against the settlements of Rohan have made him infamous throughout the Mark.

Gorbad favors nighttime attacks that overwhelm villages before their defenders can gather. His warband kills or captures entire communities and leaves a grisly banner in the village square bearing Gorbad’s mark. These displays earned him the name “the Slaughterer.”

One such raid killed Theor and Dagian, the father and betrothed of Ulfrik. For almost a decade, Gorbad and Ulfrik have answered each other’s attacks with unmistakable signs, turning their conflict into a bitter personal hunt. Gorbad’s band has now joined another Orc party entering the Mark, drawing Ulfrik and Darethor Thornfall into an alliance against him.

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