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Edward Delandre

Concept artist / painter

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If you ask me, the Machiavellian schemes of Tzeentch, the unimaginable power of The Emperor, the absolute sickfuckery of Slaanesh, and even the intentional confusion of The Deceiver have nothing on the Gods of the most simplistic race of all.

Gork ‘n Mork are, if you ask me, the gods that will cause the most debate on “what do they look like?” and “Which is which” and even “are they even two separate entities?” Because 40K lore intentionally leaves a lot of them vague as fuck, and for a humorously simple reason: the orks don’t fucking know either!

Seriously, ask any Ork, be he puny grott, or might Warboss, and they’ll almost all tell you, one ‘a dem bashes ya in da face, and de udduh sneaks up an’ smashez ya in da face. It’s just...not even an ork is sure which is which, namely because they may as well be the same thing.

Of course a warboss like Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka will tell you there IS a big difference and that he DOES know which is which. See, Ghazzy is quite literally the prophet of Gork. He hears his voice and his ideas, and subsequently has become the single most powerful Ork warboss since the days of WAAAGH!!! Beast. WAAAGH!!! Ghazghkull is setting up to be the next Beast WAAAGH!!! and that is really, unbelievably, fuckmassively, horribly, space shatteringly, bowel shakingly bad.

Y’see, WAAAGH!!! Beast nearly ended Holy Terra, in fact, The Beast himself grew so large, so powerful, so FUCKING INTELLIGENT, that he had ORK DIPLOMATS. Let me state again, that, as an Ork Warboss, the ork known only as The Beast became so powerful from the overwhelming Gestalt field that it is said that he was as big as a fucking Hab Block, and that the marines mistook him for a goddamn STOMPA! Not only this, but y’know how Ghazzy loves to use roks as both tansportation AND weapons? (for those of you unaware, roks are basically meteorites that have giant fucking thrusters strapped to them) Yeah, The Beast made attack MOONS.

Not only this, but any Ork aficionado knows that there are main Ork klans or tribes. These are usually regarded as The Blud Axes, The Snakebites, and Goffs, among others. The thing is, these klans started with The Beast, who designated certain boyz who were good at gettin’ shit done. On top of this, I repeat, ORK FUCKING DIPLOMATS!

I’m gonna be in all caps for this, fair warning.

THE BEAST AND HIS WAAAGH!!! BECAME SO FUCKMASSIVE THAT THE GESTALT FIELD OF EACH ORK WAS SO SUPERCHARGED THEY BECAME ESSENTIALLY FUCKING KRORKS, THE OG ORKS, THE THING THE ANCIENT ONES INTENDED TO MAKE! THESE FUCKERS WERE SO INTELLIGENT THEY LAID SIEGE TO TERRA, AND THEN SENT IN DIPLOMATS TO DISCUSS TERMS OF FUCKING SURRENDER! NO FUCKING ORK SURRENDERS OR ACCEPTS IT BUT GODDAMN THE BEAST WAS INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO RECOGNIZE THE BENEFIT OF SURRENDER FROM THE ENEMY!

Now...why am I telling you how awful the beast WAAAGH!!! was? Because WAAAGH!!! Beast failed. Why? Because for all his intelligence, The Beast didn’t have Gork or Mork to guide him. Who does? Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka does, and like I said, his WAAAGH!!! is shaping up to be even bigger.

Now, what does this actually have to DO with Gork ‘n Mork? Everything. See Ghazzy is proof that orks worship two individual gods, not mistaking one god for two. Gork is supposed to be the brutal kunnin’ of ork boyz, the guy who walks up to your face, smashes your face in with a pipe, and then uses your smashed face as a trophy. Gork is savage brutality that has intelligence behind it. Ork and intelligence isn’t synonymous, but by god their brutality is almost accidentally brilliant. Mork, on the other hand, is said to be the god of kunnin’ brutality. He’s the git who, like a goff, paints ‘isself purple, sneaks up behind a humie, and then taps him on the shoulder. With a cooking grenade. Gork and Mork’s difference is that one will scare you by sneaking up (Mork) the other will scare you by walking towards you (Gork).

Here's a commission I did recently of a battle between dwarves and orcs from the universe of Warhammer.