OOC: This has been in my head for a while, so I decided to make an omake about the various enemies of Kraka Drakk might have in "modern" Warhammer. Note that I'm assuming that we do kill Kholek, since if we don't, well, everyone in Kraka Drakk will probably be dead.
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Foes of the Dragon Hold
Life in the Karaz Ankor is to be a bastion surrounded by enemies, and the Northern Holds are no exception to this. Kraka Drakk, as the largest, wealthiest, and most prosperous Hold in the North, often spearheads battles against the Dwarfs' many, many foes. There are some foes however, that hold hatred and grudges against the Dragon Hold almost as strong and fierce as the ones it holds against them.
Trolls
While the Greenskins, Skaven, and Chaos are the enemies the Dawi hate the most for countless Holds lost and Clans destroyed, it is the Trolls that the Dwarfs have the longest history of fighting. Long before the Goblin Wars, or even the Coming of Chaos, Dwarf caravans that braved the surface risked Troll attacks, though the beings overall stupidity prevented fortified Holds from being put at risk.
Bordering the heavily populated Troll Country, Kraka Drakk has an especially long and storied history of battling this old menace. The battle against the Greedy One (a particularly powerful, intelligent, and Chaos-corrupted Troll, as well as the progenitor of the Greedy Troll sub-species) a mere few decades into the Hold's founding.
Generations of Kraka Drakk Dawi have made their names hunting the Trolls ever since, assisted by the Hold's plethora of Rune Weaponry. Most prominent are those forged by the Legendary Runelord Snorri Gift Giver, his creations imbued with an aura that strikes fear into the hearts of most Trolls. The only exception being the Greedy Trolls, who loathe the Runelord and Hold that took their progenitor from them, and many will join any force that seeks to make war upon Kraka Drakk, bringing with them warbands of their lesser kin.
Skaven
Though hardly unscathed, the Gianthome Mountains were not as ravaged by the Time of Woes as the Worlds Edge Mountains where the bulk of the Karaz Ankor inhabited, so Kraka Drakk and the other Northern holds escaped the worst of the damage. This does not mean Kraka Drakk escaped unharmed, but combined with its sheer distance, at the very least, this allowed it to largely repel the Skaven attacks launched at it.
But there is no shortage of conflict, as the main Underway route that once linked Kraka Drakk to the rest of the Karaz Ankor is now contested with Clan Moulder of Hell Pit. Gronti have battled Rat Ogres and Abominations, while heavy patrols and fortified strongpoints fend off Skaven raids, and counterattacks retake fallen positions. The escalating warfare has become increasingly costly for Clan Moulder from its more distant position away from the larger Skaven Under-Empire, while more than once, surface forays by the Throng have depleted the stock of monsters the Clan wished to experiment on.
A dream of many in the Dragon Hold is to one day make a decisive assault to burn away Hell Pit in its entirety, equalled by the desire of many in Hell Pit to see the home of the Dwarf-things plundered, their Griffon allies dragged into the depths of the workshops of Clan Moulder.
Chaos Norscans
Though the Norscans of the south have largely rejected Chaos, shielded from the Wastes by ranges of mountains, those of the northern shores have happily embraced it. While much of the hatred and grudges is between the two factions of Norscans, those aligned with Chaos will hardly pass up an opportunity to fight the Dwarfen realms. To them, a victorious siege of a Dwarf Hold promises plunder beyond anything else achievable in Norsca. It is also a swift path to glory, for it is said the Dark Gods still resent the failure to wipe the North clean during the great incursion, and will richly reward any who could succeed where the Suneater failed.
Dragon Ogres
The Dwarfs have won victories and made enemies of all the servants of Chaos. Fimir, Beastmen, Daemons, Warriors. But none hold the same loathing for Kraka Drakk as the Dragon Ogres. During the Chaos Incursion, when Daemons rampaged across the entire world, when Aenarion wielded the Sword of Khaine on Ulthuan and Grimnir created the Road of Skulls on his final journey, Kholek Suneater led the invasion of the North, the Dark Gods promising great rewards should it be razed and eternal torment should he fail.
Unfortunately for him, he failed, brought down in the final stage of the Siege of Kraka Drakk.
The loss of one of the first-born of Krakanrok the Black, a Shaggoth of such an age to have been present when the Dragon Ogres' pact with Chaos was made, was poorly received by the rest of the species. Whenever the Dragon Ogres are roused from their slumber by great lightning storms, bands will gather together under Shaggoths, seeking to both avenge their elder and redeem their species' failure in the eyes of the Chaos Gods. For their part, the Dwarfs and Griffons of Kraka Drakk are always on the hunt for Dragon Ogres. Each one hunted down while they still slumber is one less that will besiege them in the future, and one more to be added to the tally of vengeance for wrongs inflicted across the history of the North.
