Editing Ghal-Maraz (section)

==Warhammer Fantasy==
It was originally a two-handed hammer forged by the Dwarfs for the Dwarf king Kurgan Ironbeard, but the dorf gave it to Sigmar as a gift for saving his life and those of his kindwarfs from a mob of Orc Marauders. It later became the symbol of the Empire, and the favored weapon of its various Emperors. It has some kind of magical power due to the Dwarven runes engraved on its haft and head, which helped out considerably on many occasions; such as when Sigmar fought the leader of Middenland and the hammer was blessed by [[Ulric]] after said leader threw [[Sigmar]] into Ulric's flame, only for him to come back out completely unharmed, roaring like the fucking savage he was before shattering the leader's precious long sword (aka the Dragon Sword of Caledfwlch, a weapon made out of lightning frozen by a frost drake and was given by [[chaos|a stranger from across the sea]]), along with his precious skull. Another occasion was during the last battle against [[Nagash]], the Arch-Necromancer of the Warhammer world. Sigmar and the big not-quite-as-likeable-desert-daddy fought for hours, until Sigmar raised the weapon to strike, and Ghal-Maraz then began to glow faintly as the runes engraved into it reacted to Nagash’s foul sorcery. The resulting magical energy gave Sigmar’s blow power enough to knock Nagash right the FUCK OUT MAN! It is unknown if Ghal-Maraz's magic power only work against evil magic power like Chaos or Dhar, because in Valten's duel with [[Wulfrik the Wanderer]], the hammer blow literary explode the said wanderer's shield into red-burning-bits on impact, then sent Wulfrik far away as if he has just been hit by a fucking rocket launcher. For certain, Wulfrik's shield could be chaos tainted.

After Sigmar left the empire on his last adventure, the hammer was passed down from Emperor to Emperor all the way to [[Karl Franz]] who then used it to smash many Orcs at Blackfire Pass. The weapon was then passed to [[Valten]] after many people began to believe that he was the reincarnation of Sigmar himself. The abilities of the hammer itself were a closely guarded secret amongst the clerics of the Church of Sigmar, since the Hammer that Franz and Valten wielded proved to be much less potent than what was told in myths and legends (albeit still far above even some of the most powerful magical weapons known to Imperial scholars at the time), and there was hot debate over if the Ghal-Maraz still possessed by the Emperors was the original; some claiming it was a well-made forgery and the original remained with Sigmar wherever he might have gone, and others claiming historical exaggeration explained the disparity in power between myths and reality.

During [[The End Times]], Valten carried the hammer to smash many a Chaos prick (Notably: '''Crom the Conqueror, [[Wulfrik the Wanderer]]''' (peace the fuck out at Slannesh's realm, you red haired bastard!), '''Count Mordrek the Damned''' and a changeling that impersonated Gelt's disciple while on his way to Middenland. He was ultimately killed by a backstabby Vermin Lord Deceiver after being exhausted from his duel with Archaon. Ghal Maraz was in Archaon's care for a while, until Sigmar managed to reunite with his beloved hammer. He then smashed [[Ka'bandha]]'s face in with it. It allows him to outmatch [[Archaon]] in battle, but it was not enough to save Mallus (the Warhammer world), with both Sigmar, Ghal-Maraz and Archaon falling through a Warp-rift which then proceeded to consume the planet.

Both Sigmar and Ghal-Maraz managed to survive the apocalypse and were merged with the essence of the [[Azyr|Realm of Heavens]], becoming even more powerful than ever. Unfortunately, [[Tzeentch]] tricked Sigmar into throwing Ghal-Maraz into another warp-rift while trying to strike down Archaon, which ensured Sigmar's withdrawal and the coming of the Age of Chaos.

Note that the hammer's canonical appearance has the traditional medieval war hammer look, with its head composed of a heavy iron hammer head in front, and a curved spike on the other end. It '''DOES NOT''' look like a maul, which has heavy iron hammer heads on both ends. Some novel covers like to portray it as a maul, like that one cover where Sigmar fought against Nagash, which is flat out wrong. Despite it being made for a Dwarf, it's long enough to be wielded using both hands, even by Men.