Today we’re kicking off a new part of our Total War: WARHAMMER adventure, sharing with you one of the exciting races in the game in more detail: The Dwarfs. This is the first of several features we’ll have this week looking at these feisty warriors.

Kicking things off is this biography Thorgrim Grudgebearer, High King and leader of the Dwarfs.

Thorgrim Grudgebearer is the current High King of the Dwarfs. He is a throwback to the High Kings of old – eager for new conquests, mighty in battle, and a merciless enemy. Yet upon his worn brow, there also sits a great wisdom, and he is able to uphold the ancient traditions as well as to accept (if not embrace) needed changes, such as alliances and new technology. Thorgrim is forever brooding upon how to return his people to their former glory. As the ultimate ruler of the Dwarfs, the Great Book of Grudges is entrusted into his keeping. It is Thorgrim’s avowed wish to avenge every single entry contained in that voluminous tome – an impossible task if he should live a thousand lifetimes. Yet such is his resolve that he has already helped to rejuvenate the whole of the Karaz Ankor. Tales of his deeds, and the long list of grudges already struck out, fill his grim warriors with a feeling that the Dwarfs have long done without: hope. Borne upon the Throne of Power and brandishing the Axe of Grimnir, Thorgrim is at the forefront of what the Dwarfs hope will be a great conquering – a new age of retribution has begun.