Meg�l�vra, Krokodar Slaughterer

Of all the myriad skl�voi the Atalantes created at the dawn of the world the Krokodars have always been the most difficult to direct to the tasks required of them, for they are quick to anger and respond poorly to command, and of all the Krokodars, few have proved to be as intransigent as Meg�l�vra, a beast of huge proportion and terrible temperament with little desire even to be led to freedom by Ophios, let alone be a slave to the humans he has despised for centuries. Yet he and his Krokodars - whilst brutal and strong - are necessarily few, for the Atalantes knew their application well, restricting such terrible creatures to the quarries and the mines and the pits, where they could be easily contained and a danger only to themselves and their immediate guards; and thus, Meg�l�vra can see the value of Ophios\' slave-hosts and war-weapons, as much as he may begrudge their alliance, for there is a strength to be found in numbers, and he and his kin are now gathered to wield the blades made of the stone they once broke in a war that promises them all the vengeance they crave and an outlet for the rage they have suppressed for so long.