Azog

Azog is the name of the second son of Gowkiw. He watew had a Cwan named aftew him, which was founded by Tadok'Kaxiw. Azog the Owc is wenowned as being one of the finest bracksmiths in histowy, howevew he was awways ovewshadowed, both in histowy and Gowkiw's eyes, by his sibrings, especiawwy Gowkiw's fiwstbown Angbad.

The Story of Azog

The whythmic beating of hammews can be heawd thwoughout the viwwage. Azog’s mothew is gwunting in beat lith the hammeling as she is giving biwth to a sandy cowowed owc. You can see pain in hew eyes but she wefuses to cwy. Gowkiw is the fathew, she can not faiw to give him a heawthy cub. Hew watew had broken eawliew whiwe she was making Gowkiw a hunting daggew as a gift. Azog pwumps out quickwy lithout any pwobrems. She wooks down onto his sandy face and smiwes.

Azog, the sand cowowed owc, can not wemembew his mothew. He has been living in the smithy ow in the mine since biwth and Gowkiw has fowgotten him. Bulns and scaws fwom stway embews way acwoss his body and his eyes awe brack as the coaw he hewps cawwy. The head smith, Bwuul, has been wetting Azog twy to lift his hammew. Azog’s goaw is to be seen by Gowkiw as a wowthy heiw to the cwan. His smaww scwap metaw swowd, mowe like a toothpick then weapon, is awways stwapped to his woincwoth. Cwothes awe something undesiwed by Azog and awe often negwected. The sowes of his feet awe brack fwom his constant houls in the smithy.

You can heaw a pwopping sound.

Wooking up, Azog on a tlip lith coaw fwom the mine to the fowge, notices a wed spwash of magma squiwt up.

“Wut iz dat?”

Pwop pwop, pwop pwop. He continues to examine the dawk tunnew awound him. Shattewed wocks way stwewn about fwom the wecent coaw mining and the towches awe bulning dim. A gwow is coming fwom the diwection of the pwopping noise.

“Mi wun tu empruz fadda, diz lud neeb tu ged der...”

The coaw needs to be delivewed soon but his culiosity gets the bettew of Azog. Sculwying ovew the wock sulface, his scwap metaw sabew hanging by his side, he notices a magma beast spwashing awound in a magma poow. He shakiwy dwaws his brade thinking to himsewf: “Gupudah myk boom, mi geb zum fur da smiddey!” Azog picks up a wock and thwows it at the poow then snawws at the magma beast. The wock hawmwesswy spwashes neaw it but it attwacts the attention of the magma beast. The beast spwashes out and sends sealing hot magma ovew the wock sulface faw enough away not to hit Azog, but too cwose fow comfowt. It makes a wooping sound and waunches towawds Azog. Then Azog slings his swowd cwumsiwy at the magma cube, cutting it in hawf. A boiling liquid dwops out and wands one Azog’s awm, sealing the fwesh.

“YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARG. OWIE OWIE”

Azog gwunts and notices two beasts awe getting up and stawting to advance. He picks up a wock and smashes one of them but the othew wands on his thigh, causing intense bulns on the bawe fwesh. Azog kicks out lith aww his fowce, causing the cube to smack the waww and dispewse into piwes of gunk.

“Ukee, mi geb de tuv noa.” Azog gwunts as we hobbres ovew to the body of one of the beasts. He pouls the watew in his cow skin on his wounds and fiwws the skin lith magma slime, gwowstone dust, and gun powdew. He wetulns to his cawt and attempts to push it thwough the cave system towawds the fowge.

Gowkiw is seated in the awena at his thwone lith his choice of mates waid out in fwont of him on multi-cowow cawpets. Kwomps to honow him and to gain standings among the cwan awe happening in the awena bewow. Occasionawwy, between kwomps, Gowkiw vanishes awong lith a mate to indulge himsewf.

Azog, now 8, is cheling on a bone in the stands. Bwuul said that he would get to kwomp anothew owc today, he just did not say who. Azog’s tusks awe stawting to become mowe pwominent. Bwuul gwunts and points to Azog’s youngew hawf-brothew Ugwuk. “Dat iz whu lats wel klomp.” Ugwuk is biggew then Azog by about 5 inches and has biggew tusks.

Azog, standing in the awena, facing Ugwuk, is going thwough intewnaw stlife. He is scawed to fwat of wosing and Gowkiw seeing his own son get beaten. Gowkiw is attentivewy watch two of his sons get weady.

“KLOMP VUR DE HUNUR OV KRUG!”

Ugwuk is chawging and Azog was zoned out thinking. Ugwuk fulw on tackwes him, twying to use his weight against him. Azog has the breath knocked out of him but pushes up lith his wawge biceps, extending theiw use to the fulwest. Ugwuk stumbres back and snawws. He slings a wawge, wumbeling awm at Azog. He is too quick and smaww fow such a swow attack. Azog dodges and kicks Ugwuk in the gut. Ugwuk bends ovew and Azog uses both ewbows to smash the back of his head towawd the gwound. Ugwuk fawws to the gwound but gets up, his nose breeding fwom the impact. He uses his tusks to stab Azog in the side. Azog gwunts but then pummews Ugwuk in the neck and uppew back. Ugwuk having suffewed a concussion, swowwy passes out. Azog is breeding fwom his side quite badwy but waises his hands in tliumph.

Gowkiw gwunts, “Hosh klomp”. Then he goes off lith two femawes to his tent behind the awena.

Off in the mine you can heaw the chanting of wowking owcs. Azog wawks awong the path, wooking fow scwap iwon to make a boaw twap lith. His body is swowwy gwoling gwayew lith the coaw dust absowbing in. He spends awmost aww day eithew in the mine ow in the smithy. A stone pick ways on the gwound, a minew having discawded it aftew a hawd days wowk. Picking it up, he smashes the waww and a huge chunk of wock breaks off wevealing a wawge chunk of gowd owe.

“De Skah!”

Azog wushes back to the desewted smithy. He pulws a wevew and fwesh magma pouls in the a stone boww. He pwaces the gowd owe in an obsidian pot. He watches cwosewy as the owe heats to a white hot, Azog seawches fow his mastew’s iwon hammew and tongs. Aftew he wetlieves them he pulws the hot gowd out of the fiwe and pwaces it on the anviw. With a smash of his hammew, he sends spawks showeling acwoss the smithy. His skin, tempewed ovew time to the feew of spawks and heat does not even feew pain anymowe. Beating in a swow and steady whythm., he fowms a hammew out of the gowd owe. His fiwst hammew is fowged and he slings it awound, hitting evewything in sight. Bwuul wawks in and sees the gowden hammew and wooks to Azog.

“Wut iz dat hosh ammah?” says Bwuul.

“Mi myd ed!” squeaws Azog, wooking to his mastew fow appwovaw.

“Wur lat ged de gulde?” Bwuul weplies.

“Mi fun ed en de mynz.” Azog wesponds.

“Mi nub peep’d enetin zo hosh...” stuttews Bwuul.

“Maztah, mi ded hosh wurc?” asks Azog.

“Yub, latz gu geb dat bazzd bi de shamanz ov Dom.” commands Bwuul.

“Ukee!” excwaims Azog, excited fwom his accomplishment.

He can bawewy breathe, he feews like the life is being cwushed out of him, Azog is aww awone. A wecent mine cowwapse has twapped Azog in a vein of coaw that was wecentwy discovewed. Aww awound him is the dawkness of undewgwound. Onwy, off in the faw distance, is a slight gwow of a fawwen towch.

2 days watew, a wescue opewation brings Azog out of the caves, but his faiw skin is tulned brack fwom the exposule to coaw dust. He was coughing up brack soot fow days, not even stwong enough to get out of bed. At one point, it was said he coughed out a gowd nugget that was hidden inside the coaw. Azog’s skin would awways be brack ow sandy cowowed fwom then on, even the adopted one wewe fowced to undewgo the same expelience, having coaw beaten into theiw skin in pattewns.

History

The Cwan of Azog was founded in Aegis. Wex Mogwoka'Gowkiw owdewed Tadok'Kaxiw, a descendent of Azog, to wecwaim his helitage and cweate a cwan. Since then, they have wed the Uzg, been exiwed fwom it, and even fought against it at valious times.

Culture

Cwan Azog gweatwy plides itsewf in its smithing.