The Obsidian Curse

Story of the Obsidian Curse:The Obsidian Curse was founded by Yerbenar. Yerbenar was an exceptional warrior and was renowned for his small band known in the Empire as the Obsidian Curse soon the name stuck to them. Now at first the band was some chosen that Yerbenar has fought with for decades. This group wandered from battle to battle aiding in three of the great wars of the end times. After the end of the fifth war Yerbenar group started to attract new warriors until 10 years after the last war the Obsidian Curse was a warband. Yerbenar lead the warband to glory at its peak it was regarding as one of the most fearsome of the numerous warbands of chaos. All that changed when Darven Spidershield joined the band.

Darven was a good warrior but not above average, what Darven had though was a sharp and cunning mind. Darven made his own ring of loyal "friends" and started to undermined Yerbenar's authority. Darven's next act was to openly ambush Yerbenar and kill him in the middle of a battle and killed all those fiercely loyal to him after the battle which where the finest including the original men Obsidian Curse. After this all those who wouldn't stand this act (a huge fraction of the warband) left the band so in a matter of a few days the glorious Obsidian Curse was now incredibly crippled. Darven soon attracted many young warriors but and the Obsidian Curse expertly went about looting and destroying but never being found. Darven started taking huge amounts of the loot and became absorbed in his greed and they say that his commanding ability suffered severally because of his greed. The Obsidian Curse started taking more losses then they gained, some started to starve, and then the skaven and goblins started taking the spoils of all their good raids. By this point many of the members of the Obsidian Curse where very angry with Darven so when bad rumors about is beliefs came up the where accepted by almost all.

Then Zordos a newcomer rose up very quickly and Darven tried to eliminate him a few times but Zordos proved too clever for the greed consumed commander. Eventually Zordos challenged his authority and Darven didn't have the support to stop Zordos and outright tried to kill him in combat but Zordos quickly dispatched the old leader.

Zordos soon reorganized the warband promoting officers he found worthy and demoting some that where only put there by bribing Darvin. Zordos quickly had a plan to gain the loyalty of the warband, he would take down their most hated enemies; the skaven and goblins. First Zordos set out to hunt down the thieving goblins Zordos plan was simply destroy a town and when the goblins come in to get the loot send a knight to track them to their lair. After finding the location of the goblins Zordos marched his troops their. The goblins that relied on the speed and mobility of their spiders to steal from the Obsidian Curse where outnumbered and over powered when the angered warband arrived at their doorstep. This wasn't so much Zordos' first battle in command as it was a slaughter of the pathetic greenskins.

Next was the problem of the skaven who vastly outnumbered them and where a force to be reckoned with. For this battle Zordos had to prove his wroth to his men and to the world. Zordos army was weak compared to its former self with few warriors, fewer chosen, and mostly marauders. Still Zordos boldly marched to the skaven huge underground skaven city known as the Gertan of Chinrinrot, which was located under the Norselands. Zordos quickly brought in his force and caught the skaven unaware and was able to deal the skavens a good blow before they where mobilized. Before the end of the first day their was not a man of the Obsidian Curse was above ground but where running through the streets fighting the skaven defenders. The city Gertan was huge it would take weeks to walk from one side to the other and so the battle took almost a month of overrunning defensive structures, gaining ground, and holding their own in the narrow allies of the skaven city. Heroes rose and fell on both sides of this battle but on the side of Chaos the two who stood out where Zordos and Mazda-adohi striking down the countless skaven that came their way. The battle reached its climax at the Citadel, Chirinrot's palace. It was at the Citadel that Chinrinrot and his elites came out to meet the Obsidian Curse and before Chirinrot's soldiers attacked Zordos challenged Chirinrot to a duel, which he accepted. Zordos therefore saved his tired force from being attacked by the fresh forces of Chinrinrot. The forces of both sides gathered around the Citadel to witness the battle between leaders. The two lords battle and all stories say that the battle took almost a day but Zordos slayed the mighty Chinrinrot and the cowardly skaven panicked without their leader and started acting as individual troops that some times attacked each other instead of as a whole.

This assured their victory and that the massive battle had attracted some new members to the warband with the promise of slaughter and loot. So the Obsidian Curse overwhelmed Gertan looting it and leaving it a wreaked ruin. Now and the warband had fame and attracted many new members now the warband had a good amount of warriors and chosen. Now Zordos decided that the Obsidian Curse needed a safe place where the could store excess supplies. Zordos decided to increase his warbands reputation by taking the Lost Fortress of Karak Dum, but the quickest routes from the Norselands where they where currently located where blocked by formidable forces so he decided to cut his way through Empire territory and take a side route avoiding much of the danger. Before they left a large group of warriors from the Des Guardians arrived to join them and once they where a long way into the Empire.

In the Empire they rescued the Sons of War who where bound by band law to serve them till the repayed their debt. Also Zordos defeated Elector Mura in combat thus elminated his largest obstecatle. But Mura gathered a small army after his defeat and purseued Zordos forces but he Empire troops could not keep the pace of the warband. Then as the warband aporach the pass of Karak Unger a ogre army claiming that the warband had stolen a atrifact from them attacked but the attack was disaterous for the ogres. The warband quicken its pace as the ogres retreated back into the mountians and headed off before Mura's force could catch up or the ogres could attack agian. But the warband was heading striat into the force of the Karak Unger forces planning to take back what was rightfully thiers.