[Teaser] Units of Warhammer- The Ogryns

Coming soon in our units of lore, The Ogyrns. Here's a teaser of the script before its video release, set to debut soon.

Speaking of cool and exciting things to come, we are aiming to release another True Size video this weekend, so be on the lookout for that! :D

For now, enjoy this teaser of the Ogryns script:

Ogryns

In the grim future of the 40th millennium, Mankind fights a desperate war of survival against the countless threats which would seek to plunge the Imperium into darkness. In this fight against the xenos races, traitor legions, and horrors from the warp, the average guardsman is given hope by its legendary Space Marines. But these are not the only towering warriors of mankind. Beyond the gene seed of the chapter houses their lies another genetic strain capable of producing hulking warriors for the front line. Forged naturally by the harsh conditions of prison planets, these are the Ogryns, brutal ab-human shock troops of the Imperial Guard.

Origins

The origin of the Ogryns lies in the mysterious, largely forgotten times of the Dark Age of Technology. During this period, Mankind first set out from Terra in great colony ships to inhabit worlds beyond the confines of the Sol System, and over the millennia humanity came to possess a vast interstellar empire that rivaled even that of the ancient Aeldari. However, as human colonization spread, they came to inhabit a wide range of different worlds and environments that were to shape their inhabitants in truly profound ways.

The people who would evolve to become the Ogryns inhabited a series of frigid, high gravity worlds with scarce resources, which were often used as prison planets by humans during the Dark Age of Technology. Over successive generations these humans adapted to better meet the conditions of their home, a process of change that was exacerbated by their millennia-long isolation caused by the Age of Strife and the fall of the ancient human empire.

When the Emperor reunited Terra and launched his Great Crusade during the later 31st Millennium, His newly founded Imperium rediscovered these barren worlds. Upon inspection, the old human populations had devolved into a series of primitive tribes warring against one another using crude weapons. This was unremarkable. What truly stood out was their anatomy which had long strayed beyond the norms of mankind's genetic pool.

The tribes which were encountered were made up not of humans as we think of them, but of hulking, savage abhumans who resembled their baseline cousins only on a superficial level, and who compensated for their tragically low cunning with exceptional physical strength and endurance. These creatures – once humans, and now both more and less than they had been – became known as the Ogryns.

The Imperium’s attitude towards such subspecies of humanity was often hostile, and several wars have been fought during its history to exterminate strains of abhumans considered too mutated to reintegrate into the rest of Mankind. The Ogryns, however, were one of the few abhuman races the Imperium deemed fit to try and reintroduce back to civilization. Although some of the brutish Ogryns were more resistant to the arrival of the Imperium, the majority of the tribes were absorbed into it with surprising speed and efficiency, viewing the coming of the Emperor almost as a lost child would see a returning parent. Craving His approval they were quick to turn their allegiances to the Father of Mankind. This was the beginning of their legendary and millennia-long service to the Imperium.