Maghaz

To look at him, you would not think him very dangerous at all — he is small for an Orc, with a pot belly and one bleary-white eye and one red one. He is an old Orc from the Misty Mountains, whelped in the caves under Mount Gundabad many years ago, yet he has risen to command Black Uruks from Mordor.

• The Black Adder

He triumphs through cleverness, not strength of arms. He’s seen many campaigns, and watched many a stronger Orc fall to an Elf-arrow or the spears of the Woodmen, or be torn down by other Orcs. Maghaz has learned to play his fellow Orcs off against each other, and to ingratiate himself with the dark powers.

• Leads from the shadows in Castillo de Fenbridge