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An '''Ogre''' is a ten feet tall, and about half as wide in girth , humanoid creature, with large arms and legs, its large body topped by a snarling head (with little in the way of a neck to separate the two). A typical Ogre is usually bald as a boulder, although it is truly rare to find an ogre without any facial hair cultivated to capture what morsels that escape the ogre's mouth.
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An '''Ogre''' is a ten feet tall, and about half as wide in girth , humanoid creature, with large arms and legs, its large body topped by a snarling head (with little in the way of a neck to separate the two). A typical Ogre is usually bald as a boulder, although many of them posses a beard cultivated to capture morsels that escape the ogre's mouth.
  
 
Ogres are always hungry due to their god the Great Maw. They eat anything - and anybody - they get their hands on, including fellow ogres. Due to the harsh raising of an ogre cannibalism has become a natural part of society adding to the ogre's already fierce reputation to the other races of the old world.
 
Ogres are always hungry due to their god the Great Maw. They eat anything - and anybody - they get their hands on, including fellow ogres. Due to the harsh raising of an ogre cannibalism has become a natural part of society adding to the ogre's already fierce reputation to the other races of the old world.

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An Ogre is a ten feet tall, and about half as wide in girth , humanoid creature, with large arms and legs, its large body topped by a snarling head (with little in the way of a neck to separate the two). A typical Ogre is usually bald as a boulder, although many of them posses a beard cultivated to capture morsels that escape the ogre's mouth.

Ogres are always hungry due to their god the Great Maw. They eat anything - and anybody - they get their hands on, including fellow ogres. Due to the harsh raising of an ogre cannibalism has become a natural part of society adding to the ogre's already fierce reputation to the other races of the old world.

Most of the Ogres dwell in the Ogre Kingdoms, east of the Dark Lands, in the Mountains of Mourn, together with the Gnoblars, a greenskinned, goblinoid slave-race. Ogres also have strong nomadic tendencies and tend to take long journeys all around the Warhammer world, where they fight as mercenaries in the Dogs of War Armies or for any general who will pay them in gold or sometimes even food.

The rulers of the Ogre tribes within the ogre kingdom are called Tyrants and rule by brute force. The Ogre Butchers are their Shamans as well as their cooks, it is their job to feed their brothers and may sometimes even use them in their ingredients. They use a shamanic type of magic called Gut Magic - a gift of the Great Maw - although it can have terrible side effects when used correctly it can greatly turn a battle in favor of the ogres

The majority of adult males in the ogre kingdoms are Ogre Bulls, and these Bulls form the bulk of any Ogre horde. Some ogres have a tendency to eat indigestible things such as swords shields or even gravel. These Ogres call themselves Iron Guts,and wear cobbled together pieces of armour from various expeditions in their lives they also use large double handed weapons of various types . Ogre Leadbelchers are a relatively new addition to the ogre horde who from doing mercenary work for Chaos Dwarfs or finding them from the remains of an unlucky enemy artillery team have been able to earn themselves a cannon that they use in the form of a two handed gun and have learned to fire these guns to create havoc as well as lots of black smoke and deafening noise.

Ogre society is based upon one simple principle: if he has something you want and he dosent look like much of a challenge, you can take it. As a result all ogres are either good fighters or they're lunch.

All ogres have a club. This club is not only a valuable weapon and hunting tool, but also a symbol of status. A very poor ogre would have a club that was simply a wooden bough snapped off a tree. A tyrant on the other hand would have a large piece of hardwood or even crude metal studded and spiked with iron, and more often then not covered in blood and rust.