Orks

Horde chronology: Haraak [B1.C13].
Setaharde: Unknown.
Harde: Unknown.
Anharde: Unknown.
Name Chronology: Runt [B1.C13].
Magic: Said to have the potential of developing orich abilities which have not yet manifested [B1.C13].
First mentioned: Encountered by Midnight while "fighting" Ahrasik and his party in [B1.C13].
 

"Nagrak’s path had been directed by the Albweiss itself. This was it. THIS WAS. THE. MOMENT."   [B1.C14]

Ever chasing THE.MOMENT., Nagrak writes his own destiny, if only in his head:

"He would be the first and only to wield all magic."   [B1.C14]
 

 
HE IS STUPID.

"His mind was a steel trap, yes, but the only prey ever caught in that trap was Nagrak himself. Because in the end, not only the truly cunning, but also the utterly daft see themselves as superior to their peers. The difference lies not in their conviction, but in reality. The truly cunning recognise the world for what it is and adapt, while the daft twist reality through their own, distorted perspective. They believe their own fantasies into existence.

Nagrak stood far on the wrong side of that spectrum, that his subjective self-perception had long turned into self-deception. He believed his rise was inevitable. In truth, he was more likely to be trampled underfoot than to guide anyone to glory, but he was simply too stupid to understand just how stupid he was."   [B1.C13]

In [B1.C16, Nagrak's mental landscape is described as "rock-dense all the way around, mostly filled with metaphorical mud in between, thick, slow, and prone to stagnation". His consciousness, then, is "a vast, cavernous expanse, trapped in the centre of it all and mostly hollow, save for a few stalactites of half-formed, crystallised ideas, some memory stalagmites, and countless echoing chambers repeating the same dull refrains of stubbornness and frost. For all the overwhelming mass of rock and mud that dominated his mental terrain, this cavern offered room for thought." Sometimes, a droplet of insight appears; a rare occurrence, when a mass of mental mud manages to ooze all the way through the stone, while confused associations and half-formed impressions are filtered out.

APPEARANCE - THE RUNT

“Trailing in the shadow of Gorak’s massive bulk was a younger, wiry ork. He struggled to keep pace with the krag’s relentless momentum, his steps awkward and laboured, a stark contrast to the fluid brutality of the warriors around him. While the rest of the orks were hulking masses of scarred muscle, their bodies hardened by war and the brutal cold, the youngling’s disproportionate figure was painfully thin. Thick black hair, streaked with frost, curled around his head, making it appear much too large for his frail body. His limbs were gangly and awkward and his skin had taken on the sickly, pale hue of malnourishment. He looked like a starved scavenger. His name was Nagrak. He was the runt of the Frostblade’s horde, a misfit among warriors.”   [B1.C13]

MINDSET - A DELUSIONAL MISFIT

"Yet, for all his physical shortcomings, Nagrak’s meagre frame housed a mind sharper than any blade wielded by his kin, and a fire that outshone the blind rage that fuelled the others. Where the rest were driven by innate bloodlust directed by the unwavering commands of their krag, Nagrak was driven by something higher, something far greater — a vision of purpose and potential, merged into boundless ambition.
At least, this is what Nagrak believed.
Because at one point of his misbirth existence, he had been told that the blood of an orich coursed through his veins. From that day on, Gorak had kept him close, offering protection Nagrak had never known. Where once he had been shoved aside, beaten for his frailty and mocked for his runtish size, now he stood in the shadow of the krag’s brutal authority, and that shift in fortune granted Nagrak a new sense of importance that had gone straight over his oversized head. Nagrak’s mind inflated with delusions of destiny, convinced that his future mirrored the likes of Bayazak and Tergak, the horde’s revered orichs, whose mystical insight into the forces of nature guided the warriors with a blend of wisdom and raw, elemental power."   [B1.C13]

DEVOTION

"The mountain’s will was vast and sacred — it demanded belief, not comprehension."   [B1.C14]

Nagrak is highly devoted to the Albweiss Mountains, found to freely interpret any signs that are there, as well as those that definitely are not.

"When destiny called, you did not question its origin, its danger, or its intent. Nagrak, with the kind of blind certainty that only a true believer could muster, did not hesitate to interpret divine will and answer."   [B1.C14]
His conviction to be chosen by the mountain and touched by the leads him to believe that:
"He would rise as the krag of all krags, the harbinger of the Era of Orks."   [B1.C14]

STANDING AMONGST THE HORDE

"They knew him for what he was — a harmless nuisance, an insect buzzing in their midst. Nagrak’s antics were infamous, but they went largely ignored, for Gorak had made it clear that no harm should come to the runt. As long as krag’s decree of protection shielded him, the horde let him run free and endured his presence with silent contempt. And so, like a shadow clinging to the base of a mountain, Nagrak trailed after Gorak, blissfully ignorant of just how far out of reach his ambitions truly were.

In contrast, Gorak, looking down from the metaphorical mountain peak, was acutely aware of Nagrak’s delusions. He had made the disturbing experience that the runt did not grasp hierarchies, a dangerous flaw in an ork. Unlike the others, Nagrak never knew when to be afraid, when to show submission, or when to stand down. His irritating persistence had only worsened since the orichs had taken an interest in him, and Gorak found it increasingly difficult to tolerate the runt’s presence."   [B1.C13]

Gorak would have sacrificed Nagrak to the Wronging Rock if the horde's orichs had not demanded for time to see if the runt would develop magical abilities [B1.C13].

MAGIC

While the horde's two orichs have been said to see potential for Nagrak to develop magical abilities [B1.C13], he has not yet manifested any elemental power. Still, not a day goes by that Nagrak does not believe to harbour "his moment". 

 
POSSESSIONS

▪  Leather pants with several gems sewn into them.
▪  Frostheart gem, given by Bayazak and Tergak. Lost in the Weaver King's cave in [B1.C16].
▪  Speran ember, [involuntarily] entrusted to him by Balthagar in his moment of death [B1.C13]. Also lost in the Weaver King's cave.