Mount Gundabad module

Zalg, the Goblin King of Mount Gunabad  M93 : ZALG™ the Goblin-King

In the mid seventeenth century of the Third Age, the Goblin King Zalg ruled the orc tribes of Angmar and the northern Hithaeglir from his throne at Mount Gunabad. A canny and long lived warrior king, he had ruled his domain for more than a century and a half. A mighty warrior, capable of facing trolls in single combat, he was also a subtle, devious and intelligent monarch whose plots and intrigues matched those of the Angmarean lords in the low lands. He played the subservient warlord in his dealings with the Witch King of Angmar, but knew to asset his independance when dealing with the fractious northern orcish tribes.
However, Zalg’s long rule came to an end in strife and chaos. He took a consort, the half-orcish sorceress Saviga, whose whispers threatened to undermine the orcish kingdom. Her heresy was simple: that the female orcs, long the bottom of the vicious hierarchy of the orc tribes might be as capable of thinking and action as their brutish male counterparts. Such an idea threatened chaos, and eventually chaos and war came, and the rulers of Mount Gunabad fell to terrible internecine warfare. That long civil war of attrition bought Arthedain at least half a century more of survival.

Akargun the Warlock  M96 : AKARGUN™ the Warlock

Another half orc, born of a captive slave taken in an orc raid into Northman territory, Akargun was a small, sickly thing compared to the other orcs of his kin-band. He was not expected to survive long. Taken along on a raid against Thranduil’s realm, he was duly captured and imprisoned. The Elves spared him because he seemed more Mannish than Orc, and the elder Elves wondered what to do with him. They believed the most humane thing to do was keep him in captivity. In his cell, Akargun listened, carefully. And in his cell, Akargun realised that he had a talent for sorcery.
That dwimmercraft helped him escape. In the wilderness he spoke to the spirits and heard the hidden voices of the world.
He returned to Gunabad much changed. No one would not dare gainsay him. He immediately rose in status, becoming the Goblin King’s close advisor. He made a laboratory and sanctum deep within the Cloven Spire of Gunabad; he learned many things there and grew in power and ability.
Akargun saw Saviga as a rival, but later came to view her as an uneasy ally – the two half orcish outsiders, both reliant of the fickle fortunes of orcish politics for survival. They made an agreement to aid each other in the event of Zalg’s death or a civil war in Gunabad. Whether they honoured this agreement is unknown.

Bralg, The Insane, Warlord of the Twisted Spire   M102 : BRALG™ the Insane

Bralg was Zalg’s second son. Elevated to the title of Warlord by his father and given command of one of Gunabad’s armies (his older brother was also titled Warlord, and commanded a larger army).
Bralg was aggressive, sadistic, violent and unpredictable. He was probably, as his name suggests, insane, but his effectiveness as warleader and orc captain were undimmed. What humans would consider psychopathic, orcs would consider inspired.
Bralg lost his eye to a Dunedain arrow in battle (which battle is unclear, but legend recalls him eating the still living form of the archer). He carried a peculiar weapon of particular orc design: a scimitar like weapon called Snapper with a hooked blade – designed to disembowel foes.
The Warlord of the Twisted Spire was one of the loudest voices clamouring for war with Arthedain. He raided far beyond Angmar – into the Anduin vales against the Eotheod and deep into Arthedain and the lost realm of Cardolan – in search of violence, loot and war. Bralg never got his war, at least not the all out conflict he dreamed of. But he killed many Men (and many orcs) and his end, whatever it was, was likely bloody and barberous.