Special Character: A Tau army may include Anghkor Prok as a special character. If you decide to take him then he counts as one of the HQ choices for the army. If used, the army must include at least one Kroot Carnivore Squad. He must be used exactly as described below and may not be given extra equipment from the Tau Armoury.

Friend of the Tau: Anghkor Prok was instrumental in forging the agreement between the Tau and the Kroot. Because of this he is accorded great respect by the Tau. Anghkor Prok may therefore join and lead Tau

Inspirational Presence: Anghkor Prok has the ability to motivate his kindred like no other Shaper. Any Kroot unit in close combat that has at least one model within 6" of Anghkor Prok may re-roll failed to hit rolls in close combat once.

Anghkor Prok was a Kroot chief and holy man under whom the Kroot kindreds of Pech united in their struggle against the Orks. After refusing to give way to a larger Kroot at a feast table, he was given the name Anghkor Prok, a term used to describe a bull Krootox sitting intractably on its haunches. It was a name he would live up to throughout his life. Celebrated for his ferocity in battle, Anghkor Prok came to be recognised among his kindred as a visionary leader committed to preserving traditions and values of the Kroot’s way of life. Even as a youth, Anghkor Prok was a warrior of repute, and when the Orks invaded Pech, the Kroot home world, the kindreds were almost wiped out by the warlike Greenskins. More and more kindred were destroyed by the Orks in brutal raids on their homelands, until less than 50,000 Kroot were left alive on Pech. In one such attack, the supreme Ork Warlord, Dregruk Grimtooth, encircled the winter camp of Anghkor Prok’s kindred. At dawn, the Orks attacked the encampment and within minutes hundreds of Kroot were dead, many of them cut down by Ork choppas as they crossed a frozen river. Anghkor Prok would only speak of this massacre in his later years, where he talked of mothers chopped down with their infants, warriors and young killed as they fled with their families. Barely a handful of Kroot escaped the killing and, as they left their dead behind in the snow, Anghkor Prok vowed he would have his revenge.

Thus the stage was set for a bitter war between Anghkor Prok and Dregruk’s Orks. He orchestrated the most successful guerrilla war against the Orks ever fought by a Kroot leader, engaging in deadly hit-and-run attacks throughout the rest of the winter. So successful was he that the Orks were forced to construct forts throughout the heart of Kroot territory, stretching from the Kamyon Mountains in the east to the highland forests in the west, Anghkor Prok’s courage was legendary and his reputation soon spread to the other kindreds. Widely respected for his bravery and insight, he was declared Chief of the Kroot kindreds; the last, best hope for the race.

As three columns of Ork warriors moved to surround Anghkor Prok, he summoned the allied kindreds to his camp on Kaikown Mountain. There he led them in ritual feasting, offering prayers to the Great Ancestor Spirits, and slashing his arms a hundred times as a sign of sacrifice. During this ceremony, he was granted a vision in which he saw Orks falling into his camp like Kroothawk falling from the sky. Inspired by this vision, Anghkor Prok set out for battle with 5,000 warriors, surprising Dregruk’s troops and forcing them to retreat at the Battle of the Ice Fields. To celebrate this victory, the Kroot moved their camp to the Valley of the River, where they were joined by 9,000 more Kroot who had left their lands to follow Anghkor Prok. Here, they were attacked by Orks under the impetuous Warboss Rotfang, whose badly outnumbered Stormboyz first rushed the encampment, as if in fulfilment of Anghkor Prok’s vision, then made a stand on a nearby ridge, where they were utterly destroyed.

Following the victory, some Kroot Kindreds took refuge back at Kaikown Mountain, but Anghkor Prok remained to battle Dregruk. The Warlord’s outrage at this defeat brought thousands more Orks to the area, and over the next year they relentlessly pursued the Kroot throughout the highland forests. But Anghkor Prok remained defiantly elusive. Many years of fruitless war followed, with neither side able to gain a clear advantage until news reached Anghkor Prok of the return of the exiles, those Kroot who had left Pech many years before on their war spheres to ply their trade as mercenaries. Anghkor Prok was elated, believing that this event promised to rid Pech of Orks and restore the Kroot way of life. Sending word to the newly arrived Kroot, he marched at the head of ten thousand warriors to the Plain of Bones where Dregruk had his camp.

Dregruk’s army had also suffered in the intervening years. Cut off from reinforcements, his army had dwindled to a fraction of its former size. The Kroot’s consumption of dead Orks prevented their numbers from being replenished by natural means, and the lack of raw materials on Pech had limited the war machines he could construct. The Kroot fell upon his army from two directions and the battle was fierce, lasting nearly a full day. Neither side was willing to give or ask for quarter, but in the end, the Orks were defeated and their flesh consumed in a feast of celebration.

Anghkor Prok led his kindred for a further ninety years, winning many battles and, famously, swearing allegiance to the Tau empire at the sacred Oathstone before falling in battle against Ork pirates. His body was buried on the slopes of Mount Kaikown, where a carved Jagga tree marks his grave. Anghkor Prok is still venerated among the Kroot, not only as an inspirational leader and fearless warrior, but also as a Kroot whose faith in their way of life gave him prophetic insight and lent special power to his spirit.