The Great Maw (WAR Lore)
The Ogre culture is described as being oriented around eating, and as such, most ogres sport large guts and they worship a god known as The Great Maw. It appears to be a vast creature that was released from a comet intended to destroy the Ogre Kingdoms near Cathay, the Warhammer Fantasy equivalent of Imperial China. It ate many of the inhabitants of the Ogre Kingdoms and is said to have passed through the center of the world (it appears that another Great Maw exists in the sea on the other side of the world, in the form of a giant whirlpool that sucks in passing ships).
The ogres venerate and fear it in equal measure. The priests of the Great Maw, known as Butchers and Slaughter masters, also fulfill the roles of cooks for their respective tribes and supervise their religious holidays, which consist (mainly, and some times solely) of gigantic banquets and pit fights.
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