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Dwarven Berserker – Fists of Karn

As Tharnûl of Karz-Morûn, I watched them from the other side of the tunnel with a scowl. They were the escort for Karn-Vâruk's envoy, and everything about them was an insult to tradition. Ten dwarves, barely armed with leather harnesses and pieces of metal, like gladiators ready for the pit. Their appearance was a walking rejection of the Murnazdruld's discipline, a mockery of the heavy armor that represented the ancestral order.

I recognized a few of them. A lad whose clan had been struck from the records two generations ago; a forge-apprentice whose guild had been dissolved by internal disputes. They were the dispossessed, the youth who had grown up under the shadow of a failed empire and now found purpose in the feverish gaze of their new prophet. They were not soldiers; they were converts.

The alarm rang out then, a deep gong announcing an orc breach in the lower levels. My company formed the shield wall, the slow, heavy, and honorable response of our ancestors. We held them, but we were losing ground, step by step.

That was when they moved.

Without order, without formation, they surged through our ranks like a torrent. Their only war cry was not for the stone, nor for the clan, but a name they roared with savage devotion: "Karn! Karn-Dûrinûl!".

They fought with a violent joy that chilled my blood. Where we parried, they dodged. Where we protected ourselves, they broke through to sink an axe. It was not the discipline of a soldier; it was the blind faith of a fanatic forged into a weapon. The orc horde, which had pushed us veterans back, dissolved before them in a wash of blood and confusion.

When the last greenskin fell, they stopped, panting, their eyes fixed on me. In their silence, there was both a question and an answer. They were living proof that the future would no longer be written with the slow wisdom of the stone, but with the speed and fury of an unbreakable faith in a single man.

They were the Fists of Karn. And I understood that they had not come to negotiate. They had come to show us how their master's echo resonated

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Enanos Berserker – Puños de Karn

Como Tharnûl de Karz-Morûn, los observé desde el otro lado del túnel con el ceño fruncido. Eran la escolta del enviado de Karn-Vâruk, y todo en ellos era un insulto a la tradición. Diez enanos, apenas armados con arneses de cuero y piezas de metal, como gladiadores listos para el foso. Su aspecto era un rechazo andante a la disciplina del Murnazdruld, una burla a la armadura pesada que representaba el orden ancestral.

Reconocí a algunos. Un chico cuyo clan había sido borrado de los registros hacía dos generaciones; un aprendiz de la forja cuyo gremio se había disuelto por las disputas internas. Eran los desheredados, los jóvenes que habían crecido bajo la sombra de un imperio fallido y que ahora encontraban un propósito en la mirada febril de su nuevo profeta. No eran soldados, eran conversos.

La alarma resonó entonces, un gong grave que anunciaba una brecha orca en los niveles inferiores. Mi compañía formó el muro de escudos, la respuesta lenta, pesada y honorable de nuestros ancestros. Los contuvimos, pero cedíamos terreno poco a poco.

Fue entonces cuando ellos se movieron.

Sin orden, sin formación, se lanzaron a través de nuestras filas como un torrente. Su único grito de guerra no era por la piedra, ni por el clan, era un nombre que rugían con una devoción salvaje: «¡Karn! ¡Karn-Dûrinûl!».

Luchaban con una alegría violenta que me heló la sangre. Donde nosotros parábamos, ellos esquivaban. Donde nosotros nos protegíamos, ellos se abrían paso para hundir un hacha. No era la disciplina de un soldado; era la fe ciega de un fanático convertida en un arma. La horda orca, que nos había hecho retroceder a los veteranos, se deshizo ante ellos en un baño de sangre y confusión.

Cuando el último pielverde cayó, se detuvieron, jadeantes, con la mirada puesta en mí. En su silencio había una pregunta y una respuesta. Eran la prueba viviente de que el futuro ya no se escribiría con la lenta sabiduría de la piedra, sino con la velocidad y la furia de una fe inquebrantable en un solo hombre.

Eran los Puños de Karn. Y entendí que no habían venido a negociar. Habían venido a mostrarnos como resonaba el eco de su señor.

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They need to work out more, just like me. Its surprising to see dwarf berzerks with such a small biceps :D

Sebastian Hurtz


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