User blog comment:Le Rottweiler/Why does Ranger have an ax?/@comment-1496755-20150416153653/@comment-26005008-20150416155559

Whilst your belief seems reasonable, the ax is totally absent from Qtest, in which I would expect it to be found since Qtest is an early product. That’s the thing about the axe: It’s the only primitive arm that you can utilize, so it was probably conceived early on.

The Ogre was supposed to hold an axe, so you are correct in that there would have existed axe‐wielding monsters, but id decided to recreate the Ogre as a more modernised foe. Interestingly, this is the only enemy from Shub‐Niggurath that uses modern technology—probably because of time constraints.

And yes, I do appreciate a nice mystery.