#2. the war of the beast was in the 32nd millenium and the galaxy has obviously changed so much since then

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Someone has definitely had this line of thought before but I am very sleep deprived and wanna write a long ass post about something.

I reblogged a piece of art of what was described as a demi-krork and in the tags I put this:

And upon some more reading I think it is very possible that this is what “The Beast“ was or, more likely, just “The Beast of Beasts” was a Krork..

For those that don’t know, The Beast was the name given to the Warbosses that led the largest WAAAGH! the galaxy has ever seen and the biggest threat to the Imperium besides the Horus Heresy. The Beast of Beasts was the biggest of these Warbosses, standing at least 10 meters tall. The Beasts were also supposedly very intelligent with at least one of them being able to fluently speak Gothic. Now of course this could just be down to Orks in general getting smarter when more and more of them are together, which naturally the largest WAAAGH! ever which included nearly every Ork in the galaxy is bound to do. However this also seems very Krorky.

Krorks were the proto-orks who were possibly made by the Old Ones near the end of the war in heaven against the Necrontyr and the C’tan. Krorks are told to have been smarter, bigger and more technologically advanced than the Orks of the 41st millenium. On top of this the Krorks also had the Orks ability to believe so hard that what they believe becomes true. We have an example of a Krork in the current state of the Galaxy in the form of something owned by everyones favourite kleptomaniacal Egyptian robo-boy Trazyn the Infinite. Trazyn has in his enourmous collection a 12-foot-tall Krork that is wearing a power armour more advanced than that of an Astartes.

The novels do however classify the Beast as “Prime Orks“ but the description of a Prime Ork is incredibly similar to that of  Krork. Smarter, better tek, psychic power and, of course, L A R G E. Lexicanum also only says that the six Lesser Beasts were Prime-Orks, however, I have not been able to verify their source since I do not own a copy of the Novel The Beast Must Die.

Also yeah someone in the comments of the post I reblogged did call it a Prime-Ork.

For the reasons of the Beast of Beasts being both smart and being at least 10 foot tall, I believe that he was a Krork. How he stayed alive for literal millenia, I have no clue but Trazyn still has his Krork ten millenia after the war of the beast so hell, why not?

#warhammer #warhammer 40K #warhammer 40000 #orks #WAAAGH! #da meanest and da greenest #Oh yeah one more thing. One of the beasts fought with Vulkan #Like one on one and THE LAST TIME VULKAN WAS EVER SEEN was fighting the beast #He rugby tackled the beast and they both fell down into the power generator of a gargant #Vulkan then managed to harness the WAAAGH! energy of the generator and with one last attack BLEW THE THING UP obliterating both of them #Like I obviously love the Orks the most but Vulkan and the Salamanders are a close second #maybe I just like green #But yeah the thing I said about writing a story with this idea still stands because 1. more orks is good #2. the war of the beast was in the 32nd millenium and the galaxy has obviously changed so much since then #my only issue is that it would prolly have to include Rowboat Grillingman and i have an irrational hatred of ultramarines #long post