Kazack

*"They’re in the woods, you know. Always there. Any time you go in the woods, chances are you’re no more than a few leagues from a Kazack camp. Mostly ’ey just takes foresters and charcoal burners, but every so often a band of ’em will come out of the trees and take a village or a town, burning and killing and looting."*

**- Ol’ Bob, peasant farmer**

The **Kazack**, also called ”**The children of Borias**” and “**Broken Kind**” are a species of Beastkind living in the mountains and woods of Koda and Trinia. The once peaceful people were trapped for eternity in the great maze that came to be called “Mazick”, or “hell”, by the Kazack. Eledor, being the one responsible, tortured their people and let then wander the maze for what seemed like many years. After their race was freed by the horned god they established Buzack-er-Razuck and would eternally purge the world from Man to please their high one. Hoping that one day he would enter Dorfus and destroy Eledor.

The men and women will be taken to the fiery pits of Uzak-Rack where Borias will feast on the blood of Man. Most Kazack live their lives in nomadic warbands. Roaming the world looking for plunder and sacrfice.

## History

### **Buzack-er-Razuk**

   *"I looked up into the sky and there I saw my doom, lithesome yet dread. What creatures were these? How many tortures would I endure before i would see the gates of Helios? A thousand wretched forms united only by a love for the Horned One, and a hatred that never ends. They brim with bitterness for the works of Man."*

**- Unknown**

The Kazack are a faul race, with the demise of all mankind as their goal. Even though they live a nomadic life and mostly divided, there is one place the Kazack call home. The mountain kingdom of “Buzack-Er-Razuk” is a mysterious place and few even dare to set foot there. We do know it’s location for some scouts have actually returned. The only full scale invasion on Razuk was by the immortal Imperator Numerius Galera in the fourth Kalpa. His army was tired and dwindling and he thought that taking the kingdom of Razuk would mean that these beasts would join his forces, so he would be able to continue his campaign into Crimland.

Though his army had already lost one third before even encountering one cloven man. The harsh mountain weather and scarce rations killed many of his men. Later skirmishes with the Kazack started costing even more lives. When the legions finally arrived at Razuk they still outnumbered the Kazack. Numerius ordered the battering ram to approach the gates, but then the gates  opened. Hordes upon hordes of Kazack ran out and swarmed the imperial legions. Numerius got out but he lost almost every last one of his men.

### **Karkanor the Voiceless**

The leader of Razuk known as the Ukaroz was Ulistor. His son Karkanor was said to take his place after the death of the Ukaroz. But unfortunate events took place. When the Kazack Khars met in Razuk to discuss the planned invasion on Ivansa, Karkanor interrupted his father, arguing with the idea of assassinating the Boyar. Ulistor was furious at his son for speaking out of turn. He pledged that Karkanor would never do so again. He imprisoned him and called upon the Kazack shamans. The shamans conducted a ritual on Karkanor which took away his voice. Making him unable to speak. After that Ulistor exiled Karkanor into the Wheeping mountains. Here Karkanor met a lonely Fenrir.

He welcomed Karkanor and told him his name was Erenwan. But he did not move his mouth while he spoke. He spoke using his mind. Erenwan blessed Karkanor with the art of mind speaking and taught him to use the gift. Karkanor returned to Razuk, three years after his banishment. He challenged his father to a Bor Kulur to decide who would take the throne of Razuk. Karkanor killed his father and chopped of his limbs. Hanging his head and torso above the gates for seven nights and days. He became known as Ukaroz Karkanor, the Voiceless leader of Buzack-er-Razuk.

## The horned god

The Kazack worship “Borias”, the horned god. Their people was once trapped by Eledor in a different plain of existence right after their creation, where they roamed an endless maze and were tortured by Eledor. Borias used his horns to break the walls of the maze and free them from their eternal suffering. This left the race forever scarred, and turned the once peaceful people into monsters. They despise Eledor like no other and taunt him with special rituals.

Borias hates the races of men and lets the Kazack sacrifice blood of men to him so he may one day enter Dorfus and kill Eledor. Which is why nations of mankind are often attacked by Kazack raiders.

## Society

*It was horrible, the way the bodies were just left there. Some were missing body parts, hands or feet or even heads. Large chunks of meat torn from their rotting flesh. A cloud of large black flies buzzed around them, shifting uneasily in the approaching night.*

*The small town of Tridentum was not to be forgotten. Never again would I, Aurelias Cordrin, let another Kazack live. To suffer another fellow man to be consumed by their bloodlust. A massacre had occurred here, with the empty streets, stained black from Man's blood or the broken glass, almost like sugar powder, that lay sprinkled about. Or the more grisly details of the fetishes, skulls bound to blackened bones, feathers and fingers tied into revolting knots. I retched at least once, feeling the weight of the death spread itself across the pavement, its own shade of bile - black.*

*My blade shining silver in the moonlight, I listened for the sound of their monstrous breathing, that heavy, savage sound that seemed to echo through the air. It was strangely absent - Kazack would normally stick around for a while after a raid, plundering the surrounding countryside in hopes of finding more food. Somehow, however, they were noticeably absent. Even if they had left to perform one of their dark rituals, the sound would have lingered on the wind, the chanting of their black words low throughout the night. Dark, twisted praises to the Horned God.*

*I felt the thing behind me, tall and terrible, with polished black horns and eyes that glowed like embers. I slashed, the blade extending from my hands, carving its way deep into the thing’s neck. Blood, stinking, foul blood, sprayed across my face, uncomfortably warm in the cold night.*

*It bellowed as loud as it could, its coarse skin oiled with blood. Far away, like the sound of a canon, I could hear the thundering of cloven feet, the grunting of Kazack, the horrible war cries of an invasion.*

*I ran, praying I could somehow find a way to notify the Prima Centuria before i was torn to shreds.*

- Written by The\_Alchemyst

Most Kazack build no cities, for order and construction are anathema to them. They roam far and wide, following the scent of fresh meat and hunting down whatever wanders into the ancient hunting grounds that the Kazack patrol. All the lands of the World of Man are regarded as these very same hunting-grounds. It has always been so, since the coming of Borias in a distant and legendary age. The Kazack are tough and strong, for they must compete with the unimaginable horrors that haunt the woods.

### **The hordes**

Razuk is the home of all Kazack. But most of them have never even said foot in the lands of Beast. No, the Kazack roam. They hunt, they raid, and they sacrifice. These nomadic bands of Kazack are simply known as hordes. Which is in turn separated in many different warbands. A horde is lead by a most supreme leader known as a Khar.

The Khar isn't chosen, he chooses himself. When a Khar gets older, weaker, or has disappointing the horde in any way, a younger and powerful Kazack will challenge his leadership and they will perform a Bor Kulur. A duel between the old Khar, and the hopeful Kazack. One must always die in a Bor Kulur. There is no mercy, nor giving up. When the challenger wins the fight, he will become the new Khar. And he will lead the horde to burn all of Mankind.

### **The Ukaroz**

Buzack-er-Razuk knows only one true leader. The Ukaroz. The leader of all Kazack. He sits of the throne of bones in the halls of Razuk. The first Ukaroz was known as Krakadok. The one who lead the Kazack away from the hot gates in the southern forests after escaping Mazick. He lead the hordes north to the Wheeping Mountains. Here, they build the great Razuk. And blessed the pits of Uzak-Rack. The eternal gate to the realm of Borias.