Let me tell the tale, of a uruk known as Skak the Choker, but whom I personally call Skak the Headless.
Skak was just a grunt on patrol when I ran into him and his group at low health, but he got lucky, finished me off and got promoted as a result. I didn't think much of him at first, just another minor captain. I didn't even bother to hunt him down. But I kept running into him, because Skak was a coward, but also cunning. He rarely issued challenges or held feast, but he would often be among the audience, surprising me when I didn't expect to fight a third captain, then run when I gained the upper hand, steadily rising in power. He even finished me off a few times. I began hunting him because I found this annoying, but he still managed to escape, until one time I took him down and stabbed him in the head. But wasn't nearly enough to finish off Skak, and he later returned, a huge piece of metal bolted to his face, covering his missing eye, but again, Skak lost. Another time, Skak was in the wrong place at the wrong time as I was hunting uruk on a dominated caragore, and the beast mauled him. But still Skak lived, showing up as I was fighting my way out of a stronghold, taunting that he could survive anything I threw at him. I cut his head off. This, I thought, would be the end of him. But no.
Skak lived, but he looked nothing like the grunt that had once killed me. He had lost most of his teeth, his head was a mess of bandages covered in a burlap sack and bound with rope to keep it from falling apart. The only remaining recognisable features were his one eye and the metal that remained bolted to his head. Again I decaptitated him, thinking surely, he wouldn't survive this. But later on, there he was, now a bodyguard to a warchief. I didn't need to check twice, I could recognise that disfigured face from a mile off. Skak survived this encounter, as both he and the warchief ran, and I priortised the warchief. But now I had to kill him, so I tracked him down. Skak had developed quite the hatred for caragors after I made one maul him, so he would often demonstrate his strength by killing the beasts in front of other uruk. It was at one of these occassions that I finally found him, and cut off his head a third time.
That still didn't kill him.
Skak lived, once again executing caragors, this time in a arena in the middle of a stronghold. It was at night, during heavy rain, and it was the perfect battlefield. Skak would be enraged by the caragor, and therefore wouldn't think of running, and the fall into the arena was long enough that even if the alarms sounded, few uruks would dare jump down to us. Skak killed the caragor in seconds, before I jumped down and the main event began. Sadly, Skak had never been much of a challenge on his own, and after a quite one-sided battle, I cut off his head a fourth and final time.
I half expected Skak to come back, to hunt me down, to rise to power and try again, but no. There was no mistaking it. Skak had died his final death. It was even kind of sad, he had become a kind of rival to me, and over time, that head covered by a burlap sack and bound in rope had become iconic as the face of the one uruk who refused to die. There are captains that are more challenging, but so far, none as memorable as Skak the Headless
