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Mowrog Blackfur aka Trooper KL-013449823 Veruumgoron, The Green Mother, is a large rocky moon orbiting a huge gas giant on the border of the Pelan arm. Known as Cygnet V to most of the rest of the galaxy, it is a lush, temperate world home to a variety of dangerous megafauna, and it is little surprise that the bovine-like people that evolved there were equally large and fearsome. Some generations ago first contact was made by Plisean traders; having neither the manpower nor the inclination to tame the world's rugged wilderness they settled for establishing a small trade post there, buying exotic plants and animals from the native herdsmen and hunters in exchange for offworld goods. Mowrog was born into the Great Black Herd, the herd who had the honor of controlling the territory surrounding the Plisean port. He was still merely a teenager when Vular raiders descended, razing the Plisean outpost and taking many of the natives as slaves. Like most of his herdsmates, Mowrog was captured and shipped to an unfamiliar world where the Vular pressed him into service as a slave trooper for the Imperium. Poorly equipped and poorly trusted, the slave troopers are deployed primarily as expendable shock troops and riot control in situations deemed too dangerous or too insignificant to be worth risking actual soldiers' lives. Broken down by his Vular taskmasters, Mowrog was an obedient and brutally efficient servant, traits that kept him alive long enough to become one of the slave corps' rare veterans. While slaves are allowed no rank nor honors, he was recognized unofficially by his professional commander (a mercenary goliath named Maugun Skyhammer) as his personal right-hand-man. It was in this capacity that he accompanied Maugun alone one fateful day on a routine sweep of a ghetto known for harboring rebel fugitives. Together they tracked down a known rebel sympathizer, and there Maugun did something that would change Mowrog's life: away from any witnesses, he quietly slipped the rebel family money and travel documents and blessed their departure. Mowrog, who'd had obedience to the Imperium beaten into him, immediately challenged Maugun as a traitor. But Maugun was the stronger and more experienced fighter, and he easily disarmed Mowrog and began to explain himself. He told Mowrog of the god Kord, telling the minotaur that even though he did not know Kord he still benefited from the blessings of the Lord of Battle from whom all true strength comes. According to him Mowrog's strength and prowess were no accident: he had been chosen by Kord for higher things, and it it was time for him to start acting in accordance with Kord's wishes. After securing a vow of secrecy from Mowrog, he introduced him back at the barracks to other followers of Kord, a secret network spanning the slave corps that hoped to one day rise up and throw off their shackles. Initially Mowrog listened to Maugun's teachings only because he wanted to become strong enough to personally defeat Maugun as a traitor to the Imperium. But gradually the gospel of Kord began to grow on him, and as he found himself able to tap into newfound reserves of strength he never knew existed, he became convinced that Maugun spoke truth to him. What he lacked in formal indoctrination he made up for in sheer raw belief, and he soon became one of the most devout members of the secret cult of Kord. When the Imperium raided the barracks some months later to execute Maugun as a heretic and traitor, Mowrog steadfastly refused to sell out his comrades in Kord. Maugun's executioner, a drow intelligence officer named Captain Xelar, personally interrogated Mowrog for hours in an attempt to root out Maugun's cohorts. Although it rankled him, Mowrog spoke nothing but loyalty for the Imperium and ignorance of Kord. Mowrog's performance was convincing enough to spare him execution, but the Imperium decided he was an unreliable asset and shipped him to their invasion fleets on the front lines. As fate would have it, he was assigned to the invasion of Teris. On Teris, Mowrog bided his time for a while, still pretending to be a loyal slave to the Imperium. But when rumors began spreading of an insurgent rebellion, he sensed that his moment had come. The slave barracks doubled as a formidable prison sturdy enough to contain even the strongest and most dangerous slaves, but by now Mowrog was more than any mere mortal slave: he was a vessel for Kord Almighty. His fellow worshippers had taught him how to disable the punishment circuits in his standard-issue slave equipment; with that done, it was child's play for him to overcome the guards and make his escape, trusting in Kord that he would be able to make contact with the resistance.
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