Sigmar Heldenhammer is from the warhammer mythos as the Warrior God of all humans, and later the savior of as all mortal/immortal races.
Though he wasn't born a god, he was born a man to the Ubergoen Tribe. His mother died in child birth while fighting orcs. From the baptism of orc blood his father reclaimed the infant Sigmar.
He would grow up in a hostile cold Celtic Tribal type environment. His tribe constantly fought other barbaric humans, twisted beastmen (basically an army of minotaurs), and hulking barbaric orcs (savage creatures who live for destruction, the weakest orc can lift a grown man with one arm and throw him like a boy discarding a broken play thing).
At the age of 15 the tribe considered their boys to be men (as average life expectancy was around 40-50 years at most) Sigmar began to see combat as a Soldier, in a huge fight against the orcs the dwarven King was about die against the biggest and most savage orc (likely around the size and strength of a rhinoceros). Sigmar took the hammer of the king (Ghal-mraz, a warhammer fashioned out of a comet/meteorite) and killed the beast.
Indebted, the king let Sigmar keep the hammer.
Then, still 15 years old, sigmar became the general of his tribe and lead a military campaign that ended the Ork threat that had plagued all races in their realm since before he was a child, finally accomplishing what his ancestors could not.
Then sigmar grew tired of the war and death cycle his kin had participated in for centuries and forcibly united the entire human population through a series of incredible feats:
-Combating many infamous warrior chieftains (remember this is an age of brute force and might, so these Kings are no joke some even had magical elf blades)
-climbed a large mountain with no gear then fought the impressive warrior king and beat him.
-killing a city destroying Dragon Oger (which is as messed up as it sounds)
-choking the fury from a legendary berserker.
While his empire is still being established he is forced to fight the orks as a new band has emerged bigger than ever. He pulls a battle of Thermopylae and fights at a place called blackfire pass where the orcs numbers cannot be brought to full advantage. After days of fighting and the death of a friend Sigmar is frustrated, he takes his leaders atop the mountain to oversee the battle, then tells then to watch and learn and jumps off the mountain deep behind enemy lines and begins killing hundreds of orcs. The orcs leader is so impressed he jumps on a wyvern and flies to sigmar to fight him. While still surrounded by millions of orcs, sigmar kills the wyvern then kills the orc warboss. His men are so inspired they push hard and eradicate every last orc.
After his empire is established he is attacked by chaos, an army from the north empowered by evil gods.
The basic chaos unit is a mutated barbarian with augmentations to strength and magic, or just a host of demons, the basic commander is an ancient demon empowered horror who barely remembers being human and lives solely to please his gods.
Sigmar topped all of his previous feats here but his two best are:
1. There is a demon called Skulltaker who is millennia old, he spends his time harassing legendary warriors until they agree to fight him in fair open combat. Skulltaker then beats them, steals their skull, and adds their strength to his. After millennia of gathering the strengths of legendary heroes and never losing a combat to any foe be they man, dwarf, orc, elf or demon, he is excited to challenge Sigmar. They fight for three days until Sigmar caves Skulltaker's head in sending the foul beast back to hell. When Skulltaker reforms and begins his crusades for the next 40,000+ millennia he is never beaten ever again, even versus divine enchanted futuristic super soldier demon hunters.
2. Sigmar is being attacked by a large force of chaos, his men are beaten and weary but holding. The walls of his fortress are holding for weeks. Finally a giant demon emerges for chaos, it rips the walls apart with ease and the warriors who are next to this thing are driven instantly insane and the ground around the demon is warped and corrupted by the very presence of his evil. Sigmar stands strong and fights this thing one on one as an equal, each one unable to beat the other until finally the demon is distracted and Sigmar uses the opportunity to slay him with one strike.
I should add that instead of growing old and useless, Sigmar finished establishing his empire, saw the peace of his kin, then said "good luck!" and strolled through a hell gate to find the chaos gods and kill them . His time in there isn't recorded but we can see that he eventually somehow became a god and began kicking evil god teeth. I don't think any other mortal hero can top this...
All info is here: http://warhammerfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Sigmar
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