The lords of the Fyreslayers do not lead from behind. When an Auric Runefather rides to war atop his bellowing Magmadroth, he carries with him the Grandaxe, a colossal two-handed blade of fyresteel and an heirloom of the lodge, passed down through generations of fire-forged kings.
A grandaxe is a weapon few but a Fyreslayer runefather could even lift, let alone wield with skill. Its great crescent head is heavy enough to hew through a monster's hide or cleave a mounted champion from pauldron to saddle, and it grows only more deadly for the strength of the aged warrior who bears it. Some are latched to a runefather's Magmadroth by heavy chains, so that beast and rider fight as one, the axe carving through the enemy line while the drake's molten breath sets the survivors alight.
To the fire-duardin, the grandaxe is as much a symbol of authority as an instrument of slaughter. Its haft and head are graven with the deeds of every runefather who has borne it, and the runes of ur-gold worked into the wielder's body lend the weapon a strength that borders on the supernatural. Forged in the volcanic heat of realms like Aqshy, a grandaxe embodies everything the lodges hold sacred: gold, fire, ancestry, and the unbreakable oath to see a war through to its bloody end.
The armoury continues
