Fangathrak
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| Titles | World-Worm[3a] Worm Mother[7] Maw-Wyrm[6b] |
| Type | Godbeast |
| Status | Alive |
| Relatives | Wormlings (Progeny)[5a] Greatwyrms (Descendants)[6a] Rimewyrms (Descendants)[6a] |
Fangathrak the Mother Worm[6] is a segmented, worm-like godbeast that crawls across the Realm of Ghur.[1a][2] She is unique among the godbeasts as she has a Realmgate within her gullet. This is the Arcway of Ghur known as the Mawgate, an immense Realmgate leading to the Eightpoints.[2]
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History
Unknown Age
Ancient legends claim that Drakatoa, the Living Avalanche, and Fangathrak fought many times in the early days of the Realms. The location of these fights is unknown, but some claim evidence points to Bjarl as the location of at least some of those battles.[6b]
Age of Chaos
The crab-like monsters known as Crawlerforts were used to chain and bind Fangathrak the World-Worm. Each of these crab-like monstrosities had a Chaos Dreadhold upon their backs, with a godly chain attaching them to the world-worm.[3a]
Fangathrak would fiercely resist her captors and attempt to break away from her chains throughout the Age of Chaos, but she never broke free. Time and time again the Crawlerforts would yank back her fanged mouth, allowing armies of Chaos to march from the Allpoints into the Realm of Ghur, passing from the Realmgate, known as the Mawgate, hidden in her gullet.[3a]
Even while lashed to the Crawlerforts, she continued her travels across the Realm of Ghur, but was severely hampered by the six monstrosities she dragged behind herself.[3a]
Age of Sigmar
She was one of many godbeasts that Archaon sought to corrupt, and the Mawgate within her was sought by the Stormcast Eternals on the behalf of Sigmar. But their efforts were dashed during the Realmgate Wars, in the Scarlands of Ghur, when she was freed by legendary Megaboss Gordrakk and a coalition of Orruks that included the Bloodtoofs, Ironsunz, Doggrok's Choppas, and Fists of Drakka. Fangathrak and the Mawgate within her have remained outside of Chaos and Order's control ever since.[1a][3a]
She leaves a trail of destruction in her wake, known appropriately as the Wake of Fangathrak.[2]
During the Era of the Beast, Gordrakk would return for the Godbeast after the failure of the Siege of Excelsis. Using Bigteef to pound the ground in a rhythm, Gordrakk lured her to the Crawling Pits of Gharrentia where she was trapped within the granite fangs as the fissure attempted to devour the Godbeast. Fangathrak was bound by the webs of Arachnarok Spiders, who also poisoned her with their venom until the Godbeast entered a stupor. The tales of the Godbeast's capture spread across the forces of Destruction as the Fist of Gork led his hordes to a showdown with Archaon.[4a]
After the Everwinter took hold in Deathgorge in Bjarl and turned the greatwyrms hunting there into rimewyrms infected by the Everwinter's curse, the elder rimewyrms were observed to be burrowing northwards. Some speculate that this migration has the Crawling Pits as its ultimate goal - though whether this is an attempt by the rimewyrms to seek the aid of their divine primogenitor, or an attempt by the Everwinter to reach and infect the World-Worm by using its descendants as vectors, none can say.[6a]
Appearance
The World-Worm is a massive, segmented worm with a fang-ringed mouth.[2][3a] It is said that Fangathrak is so immense that she could swallow a Stormkeep whole.[6a]
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Sources
- 1: Age of Sigmar: Core Book (2nd Edition)
- 1a Gates are Lost and Held - pg. 52-53
- 2: White Dwarf January 2021
- 3: The Realmgate Wars: All-Gates
- 3a: Fangathrak, Pg. 126-127
- 4: Battletome: Orruk Warclans (2021)
- 4a: A History of Violence, Pg. 14-17
- 5: Battletome: Skaven (2022)
- 5a: Red in Fang and Claw, Pg. 12-13
- 6: Warhammer Underworlds: Wintermaw rule book
- 7: Warhammer TV: Loremasters, "Gods and Godbeasts - Deities in the Mortal Realms", 20:45
