This displays the incredible power of Ghal Maraz, as no Runelord thinks it is even possible to make a runic weapon with more than 3 runes. The weapon is stated to have either four or five extremely powerful Dwarfen runes carved into it.

What is known is that the weapon has never failed its wielder in battle.

Such was its power and the secrets of its making that not even Alaric the Mad, the legendary Dwarf Runesmith, could create a weapon rivalling its power. Such are the mysteries of the warhammer that it has even been suggested that it possesses some form of sentience, favouring some users over others. In addition to its practical use, the warhammer was also a symbol of the treaty of friendship between the Dwarfs and the Unberogen tribe of Men that led to the spread of sophisticated iron-smithing, literacy, and engineering among the tribes of Mankind that inhabited the lands of the Old World that would later become the Empire.Ĭreated by the Ancestor God Smednir, Ghal Maraz is one of the greatest weapons ever made, rivalling even the great Ancestor Weapons of old. This mighty magical weapon was gifted to the young Unberogen prince Sigmar in -15 IC, when a young Sigmar and his warband of Unberogen warriors rescued the Dwarf High King Kurgan Ironbeard from his captivity by the Orc Warlord Vagraz Headstomper and his small army of Greenskin warriors.

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