Waaagh!

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A Waaagh! is word with several meanings. It mainly refers to the savage campaigns resulting when orruks go to war which is properly pronounced at ear-splitting volume. It is also used as a signature greenskin war cry that is used in a communal, guttural bellow. The Waaagh! energies also create various magical effects and this energy can be channeled by Shamans to unleash powerful spells.[1a]

Creation

The typical violence of an orruk invasion naturally results in a lot of bellowing, screaming, crashing and thundering which attracts even more orruks to the same location. This violence snowballs into a ramshackle crusade that can tear down an entire empire. Not all Waaagh!s are launched intentionally, in fact many civilisations have been destroyed by a Waaagh! that that started due to minor events such as an orruk nicking another’s lunch, misunderstanding a perfectly good insult, or seeing a strangely shaped cloud in the sky, as any trigger of aggression results in the biggest orruk bashing his mates into something like a military formation which then gets pointed at the nearest non-greenskin stronghold in the search for a ‘proper fight’. They are then joined by more and more hordes resulting in a massive military cmpaign.[1a]

When a Waaagh! is in full flow, it is similar to a catastrophic natural disaster. The massed orruks care not at all whether they are fighting to destroy the nations of Order, Chaos or even Death itself. There are two main reasons for orruk behaviour. The first is that the orruks believe they were made to fight and win regardless of who, how, where, when, why or what they fight, nor even which tools of war they fight with. The second reason is that orruks despise weakness, especially that part of weakness that seeks to manufacture its own strength in ways they do not understand. While some orruks are quite ingenious when it comes to making new ways of bashing, clubbing or impaling their victims, they see things like blackpowder weapons, well-made castle walls and duardin flying machines as ‘cheatin’. They despise any methods by which those smaller than themselves try to rise to the top when they should really be violently put back in their place. [1a]

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