Mor-Tauk actually began life as two goblin brothers named, you guessed it, Mor and Tauk. Despite being brothers, the two could not have been more different. Mor, even from his youngest days was extremely inquisitive (for a goblin). His name, in fact, was not originally Mor, but since he was always bothering the older goblins and asking for more and more information, the goblins decided to change his name. Goblins though are not the most creative creatures in the world though and Mor was the name they decided on. The other young goblins hated Mor because they believed he was "sucking-up" to the elders. It was here that his second distinguishing characteristic surfaced- he was blessed by the goblin versions of the Orc gods, and despite their best attempts, the other young goblins never succeeded in getting anything to eat Mor.
Tauk was a few years younger than his brother. He was not inquisitive at all. Actually, he was a bully. And, like all bullies, he enjoyed talking about what he did and what he could do more than he actually liked doing anything. Still, as goblins go, he was a fierce fighter and managed to live a fairly good life until the tribe joined up with some Orcs. Suddenly, he was no longer much of a fighter. He did not stop talking though and the Orcs eventually decided to eat him. Rather than have that happen, Tauk fled. His brother, showing an unusual amount of compassion for a goblin, decided to go with him.
The pair wandered the mountains and were actually quite successful for a time. Eventually though, they wandered into a cave and found a foe to great for them to handle (eventually is probably the wrong word as it didn’t actually take too long to find a foe greater than two goblins). Before they could react, the Giant had grabbed Tauk. Tauk tried to fight and bit the Giant’s finger. In response, the giant squeezed and Tauk’s head, the only part of his body showing outside the giant’s hand, popped clean off. Suddenly, an even bigger giant green hand reached down, and picked up the giant.
A huge voice rumbled in the cave “Mork Wants Ya."
Mor was amazed at such a display of his power, and like all goblins, his amazement was quickly replaced by fear. He grabbed Tauk’s head and fled the cave. Away from the cave, he began a lament for his brother, but when he placed the head near his ear in the traditional goblin mourning pose (don’t ask, you really don’t want to know) he was dumbfounded to discover he could still hear Tauk’s thought (it is a well known fact that goblins cannot have more than one thought at a time) inside. Now, all his inquisitiveness as a child served him well as using his knowledge of magic and goblin anatomy, he was able to attach Tauk’s head to a new body. Unfortunately, as they were alone, the only body available was his own. Thus Mor-Tauk was born.
Mor-Tauk then spent more time wandering the mountains- getting use to the new living arrangements, setting up time schedules for the use of the body in the unlikely event that they ever found a female who was not repulsed by one of the heads, etc. Eventually they, he, who knows?, found another cave from which a silent voice seemed to call. Remembering their other experiences in caves, the single pair approached cautiously. Inside, they saw a pair of glowing crowns. Quickly, they rushed forward and each arm grabbed a different crown and plopped it on a different head. This proved to be quite fortunate (in fact, it proved to be the solution to an impossible problem) as immediately after the crowns were in place a pair of huge slobbering trolls rushed from the darkness.
Tauk, being none to bright, tried to lead the body directly into the fight. He was quite surprised when Mor did not disagree. Instead, Mor was in sort of a trance as the Crown on his head talked to him and showed him how to lead. Tauk proved less than a match for the trolls, but the Crown on his head projected a strange golden field that stopped the Trolls attacks. By the time the glow had faded, Mor had left his trance and using the Crown was able to command the Trolls to do his bidding. (You see, for any one headed creature, the trap was fool-proof as the Crown of Command would not function quickly enough to stop the Trolls from killing the wearer, and the Golden Crown would not last long enough to let him escape the cave. However, whoever designed the fool proof trap made the classic mistake of underestimating the ingenuity of complete fools.)
Thus armed and with a slobbery new pair of bodyguards (who were easy enough to command because Mor-Tauk could keep a head on each of them), Mor-Tauk returned to their tribe. Since they had left, the goblins had had a falling out with the Orcs and were much diminished in status. The Goblin chief though did not believe this to be the case. Further, he was one on the goblins that Tauk had once bullied. The tribes shaman and advisor was one of the goblins who had once plotted to feed Mor to all sorts of creatures (lovely how these things work out in stories, eh?). They had the same thought this time, and before Mor-Tauk could react and command his troll guards to protect them, he, they?, were thrown into a cage and brought before the Chief’s seat. Other goblins quickly started hauling on the ropes to raise a gate into a second part of the same cage. The Trolls meanwhile stood watching, not even moving though a puddle of drool was building up at their feet.
Instead of trying to escape though, Mor-Tauk
walked right to the gate, and the Giant Scorpion locked behind it. As the
gate was raised, Mor reached out with his Crown, while physically, Tauk
reached out a hand. The Scorpion neither struck nor retreated. Without
hesitation, Mor-Tauk climbed onto the scorpion’s back. The tribe watched
awestruck as the scorpion’s pinchers shattered the wooden bars of the cage,
then slew both the chief and his advisor. From that day, Mor or Tauk or
both have commanded the goblin tribe, which even now is growing into a
Waaagh to be reckoned with.
Mor-Tauk- 74 points (figured by taking each profile [Goblin shaman,
Goblin Hero, Goblin Lord + lvl 1 shaman abilities, and multiplying by the
fraction of time each will be available- ex. Goblin hero 33 points X 1/6
= 6 points + ...)
(+92 points- magic items [I reduced the CoC to 42 points to represent
the fact that it only functions 5/6ths of the time])
Name M WS BS
S T W I A Ld
Mor 4 2
3 4 4 2 3 1
5 (10)
Tauk 4 4
5 4 4 2 4 3(+1) 6
Mor-Tauk 4 5 6 4
4 4 4 4(+1) 6 (10)
Weapons/Armour- As he still has some spellcasting abilities, Mor-Tauk wears no armour. Tauk carries a large club, and Mor carries a dagger.
Magic Items: Mor wears the Crown of Command and rarely takes it off. Similarly, Tauk wears the Golden Crown of Atrazar. As he is a the equivalent of a lord level creature, Mor-Tauk can carry one more magic item, which cannot grant a special save (the Golden Crown only works alone). If a magic weapon is selected, it must be used by Tauk, and if wizard arcana is selected, it must be used by Mor. In either case, the item cannot be used when the other head is in control.
Special Rules-
Control Problems- Mor soon realized why more goblins
had not undergone the procedure he had performed- having someone else in
your body is annoying. Neither Mor, nor Tauk, particularly like sharing
the body, though they are quite often forced by circumstances to do so,
and usually fight for control of it. At the beginning of each Orc and Goblin
turn, roll a d6 to see who has control of the body.
1-Tauk- use the Tauk profile above, note that
the Crown of Command does not function when Tauk controls the body. WoM
cards held by Mor are not lost, but cannot be used until Mor is again in
at least partial control.
2-3- Mor- use the Mor profile above. Additionally,
Mor counts as a 2nd level goblin shaman, but draws only one spell. (This
spell is can be drawn normally, or the controlling player can choose to
have Mor carry Mork Wants Ya.) As the body was originally Mor’s he has
a greater chance than Tauk of controlling it. Note that the Golden Crown
does function in this form.
4-6- shared control. Use the combined profile
above. Mor counts as a Lvl 1 goblin shaman. The extra fighting prowess
comes at a cost, as the heads constantly insult and correct each other
about how fighting should be done. It is in this form that Mor-Tauk is
most effective. Conversely, it is also the form they hate the most. Thus,
in this form, Mor-Tauk suffers from animosity. If animosity results and
the d6 roll is a one, the heads attack each other. Roll one attack using
each head’s profile. Successful wounds are applied to the individual head,
as well as the total.
If Mor or Tauk suffers wounds, they are applied
both to the individual head and the total. If either head reaches 0 wounds,
the head is knocked out and control reverts to other head. Damage suffered
as Mor-Tauk is only applied to the total. As soon as the total number of
wounds,, including any of the self-inflicted variety, reaches 4, Mor-Tauk
is dead.
If Mor-Tauk leads a unit subject to animosity,
and both heads are in control of the body, the unit will have to make two
animosity rolls- one for the unit and one for Mor-Tauk.
In my army, Mor-Tauk is the general and he still
rides that giant scorpion and takes his two troll bodyguards into battle
with him.