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Dark Eldar - Coven of Twelve - Haemonculus
This is Mydilian, by 8th Haemonculus (9th is you include Urien). He carries with him the Aelindrachi Shaderavens, the birds that one him his rank among the Coven of Twelve. "In 703.M41 he is grievously injured somehow, but regrown by his masters in the Coven of Twelve. Seething after an imperfect regrowth that he judges to be a deliberate slight, the disfigured Mydilian gifts his masters in the Coven of Twelve with a flock of Aelindrachi shaderavens. The avian terrors are well received, for though it is rumored their caw slowly drives those who hear it insane, it would be seen as an act of cowardice to refuse them. Given the inherent strangeness of the Haemonculi, few notice that the Coven of Twelve are becoming ever more eccentric.[1] A year to the day after Mydilian’s gift, several of the Coven’s senior Haemonculi depart into a shattered spar of the webway without warning. Their clarity of thought long gone, they plunge through a forbidden gate onto a long-lost Crone World, rubbing their clammy hands in anticipation of having daemonic ‘specimens’ to experiment upon.[1] Upon a plain of burning bones the Covenites find more in the way of Daemons than they bargained for. The horizon is scarlet from end to end with the footsoldiers of the dreaded Blood God. A never-ending cycle of battle begins as the souls of the Haemonculi are claimed as playthings by Khorne himself, denying them any chance of regeneration in their Commorrite lairs. They are condemned to an endless grind of unimaginative but extremely gory deaths, whilst Mydilian and three of his peers enjoy a sudden promotion."
Posted: 21 Jul 2015
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