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Out of the near-forgotten past, from an age undreamed of, comes five barbarians born in the frozen north of Nordheim with one mission and one mission alone: to chronicle the high adventures of the Hyborian Age by the power of Heavy Metal.
In a savage union of screaming guitars, a thundering bass, pounding war drums and echoing battlecries, the war-party known as the Vanquisher has come to unleash the merciless, thrashing power of heavy metal upon the world and begin a new age of barbarism.
Ready your axes, broadswords and shields as you are taken to ancient lands of swords and sorcery, where once Robert E. Howards mighty Conan of Cimmeria roamed and treaded the jewelled thrones of the earth and saw the shining kingdoms of the Hyborian Age. Come hear the tales of the somber hills and trees of Cimmeria, the shadow-guarded tombs of Stygia in the south and the great Aquilonia, proudest kingdom in the dreaming west, among other things.
Enter Vanquisher and the Hyborian Age.
Niord of Nordheim
Vocals
Niord hails from the icy land of Asgard in Nordheim. He is the war cry that initiates the battle and his bellowing growls and piercing screams freeze the blood of his enemies as the war-party of the Vanquisher rides forth.
After witnessing the great prowess of his ally Conan of Cimmeria on the battlefields of Nordheim, he set out to gather those brave enough to fight in the Cimmerians name and to spread the word of the man who came down from the somber hills as a barbarian to one day become king of Aquilonia.
Those who know of Niords past knows that he, alongside the Aesir warriors Gorm and Horsa, were the ones who found a young Conan passed out in the snows of Vanaheim, where he had been provoked to chase Atali, the frost-giants daughter, after a long, hard battle between the Aesir and the Vanir. Maybe Niord and his party finding Conan was meant to be, for Niord seems convinced that his fate is now tied to this barbarian of Cimmeria.
Heimdal the Warlord
Guitar
A great warrior from Vanaheim who wields two battle axes painted as red as blood on sunlit snow. His cunning ways on the battlefield left him in command of the great forces the war-party of Vanquisher assembles. By the time Heimdal blows the war horn the enemies know that the battle is already lost.
Since he became Warlord he stands tall and undefeated. Only once was he defeated in bloody combat in his Vanaheim days by Conan of Cimmeria, whose last words to him were: ”Not in Vanaheim, but in Valhalla will you tell your brothers that you met Conan of Cimmeria.”.
And so, after Heimdals ascent to Valhalla, he did indeed tell his brothers of the man who slew him. And for being the last to stand on the bloody snows along with Conan, he was rewarded with life anew for his bravery. His brothers in Valhalla would grant this under one condition, though: that he would tell the rest of the world who it was that he met on that battlefield where Wulfhere’s reavers met the wolves of Bragi. And since then on, Heimdals loyalty to this cause has put aside his rivalry to the sir and made him join the chosen few who set out to do the same.
Wulfhere the Executioner
Bass
An outcast from the people, Wulfhere was left to die in the woods at birth by the elders of Asgard. He evolved his surviving skills by fighting the deadly creatures lurking deep in the darkest parts of nature, where peril waits behind every corner. He was found and accepted by his battle-companions in the war-party Vanquisher, which soon became his only pack.
The four others in this company chose to be loved by him, whose long dwelling in the wild had made him seem more like a beast than man, but all others tremble in fear upon meeting the one they call The Executioner, for a wolfs allegiance is to his pack, and no one else.
Wulfhere was in charge of a company of Aesir reavers during the battle between Heimdal and Conan in Nordheim, in which Horsa, Gorm and Niord were participating. During a Vanir ambush, all of Wulfheres reavers (including himself) fell in the end before the blades of the Vanir, whom they also ended; all except for Niord, Horsa and Gorm, who thought Wulfhere to have perished. But Wulfheres many years of living in the wild had developed his survival skills and after some time being passed out in the snows among the fallen reavers, his hardened body awoke. The presence of the war-party was long gone, but Wulfheres wolf-like senses could catch their lingering scent, making it possible for him to track down his brothers and reunite with them once again.
Horsa the Untamed
Guitar
The frozen lands of Nordheim gave birth to many brave and fierce warriors. Among them came Horsa, the sir Warrior! By steel he shreds his enemies to pieces and leaves no battle-field without covering it with the blood of his foes. And as he stands victorious so do his fellow brothers. Together they stand as one and they shall march forever on as the heavy metal barbarians of the Vanquisher.
During the battle in Nordheim between Heimdal and Conan, Horsa, along with Niord, Gorm, Wulfhere and other fighting-men had to battle their way through a Vanir ambush, in which they proved their skill in melee combat many times over and made their way through the bloody snow to find Conan passed out in the coldness of Vanaheim. And it is because of them that Conan lived.
Bragi the Berserker
Drums
For his great battle-prowess demonstrated many a time from an early age, Bragi was appointed chieftain by his people, the red-haired Vanir. He led his warriors, the wolves of Bragi, in a bloody clash against Wulfheres band of Aesir reavers on an icy plain in Nordheim – facing none other than the renowned Cimmerian himself.
Though his men all fell in the fight, Bragi would live to see another day – having suffered a mighty knock to his helmet during the battle, leaving him unconscious until the storm of blades had settled. Upon waking, he found that the Aesir leader had been spared in similar fashion, and the two agreed to a temporary truce – until the day they could settle the score in the way the gods intended it.
Bragi is quick with a blade, cunning, and a master of conflict. He has bested his elders on various occasions, and is well aware of the jealousy that so often accompanies awe in the hearts of men. Because of this, he has come to understand not only the way of the warrior, but the ever-vigilant calculations of the war tactician.
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Gorm of the Pounding Hooves
Weapon of choice: drums
From out of Asgard comes Gorm of the Pounding Hooves. Rumor has it that the many battles he took part of in his younger days, when he was yet to become a man, has caused him some sort of dementia, seeing as he always finds himself in the middle of every battle he can join, sometimes without any allegiance to anyone, it seems.
He listens only to the pounding of his heart and the drums of war, which send him back to his battle-filled past as a young boy thirsty for bloodshed and drive him to issue his punishment to all those who stand in his way. By his sides hang two maces known as The Thundering Twins, with which he cracks skulls, splits bones and crushes armor alongside his brethren in the war-party Vanquisher.
Though some doubt his words, Gorm claims to have lain half-slain on the bloody field of Wolraven as a boy and to then have seen the mythical and beautiful Atali, daughter of Ymir, the frost giant, walk among the dead in the snow. Many from Asgard say he is delirious from a sword cut on his head in his youth, but after Conan of Cimmeria claimed to have seen the same thing, people are starting to reconsider Gorms words…