Verminfiends - Canon - Chimeraguard
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Here's my own omake by my own talk about the Verminlords.
Verminfiends
The first of the Horned Rat's Daemons to appear on the mortal plane were, to the misfortune of many Grey Seers who attempted the summonings, the enigmatic and proud Verminlords. Simultaneously majestic yet disgusting, powerful and cunning, with a mind filled with a series of plots, they, more than anything else, were the grand manifestation of the Skaven Underempire: awe-inspiring in power, yet horrific in its form, supremely confident in their inevitable ascension.
Nevertheless, these same traits made their summoning dangerous. So, as the End Times progressed, it was no surprise that the Grey Seers began the "search" for the Lesser Daemons of the Horned Rat. And eventually, to the dismay of the rest of the world, they found them.
They were emaciated things, as tall as an Orc Big 'Un, yet skinny to the bone, in the shape of an abnormally large, elongated Skaven. Their furred skin was threadbare, and matted with scars, pustules, and sores. Their limbs clutched rusted, serrated, faded-green blades that looked like they had been misused and abused for centuries. At a first glance, they seemed miserable, pathetic, and many dismissed as odd-looking, but hardly a threat. They were fools to do so.
In battle, it was a very different story. Their eyes went alert, their postures sharp and coordinated, their red and green eyes would pour over the lines of their foes with acuteness. In a burst of frantic speed they dash towards their targets, all pretense of weakness gone as they pinpoint the slightest weak point and pounce on it mercilessly in a storm of chittering shrieks, crawling under shield walls, lanky arms grabbing foes with unnatural strength, blades melting armor like acid, and warpstone-encrusted teeth biting into flesh. Larger creatures are beset as if by a pack of hunters, stabbing, dashing, cutting, biting.
If they are not the manifestation of the power of the Under-Empire, perhaps they are something more basic. They are the at the core of every Skaven, of the vast teeming hordes. Weak appearing, pathetic, starving, unnatural, looked down upon by their betters and individually unimpressive, and yet together possibly the greatest threat one could have the misfortune of encountering. They are savage, they are intelligent, they are relentless.
They are the Verminfiends.
OOC: As the Skaven Lesser Daemon, I wanted the Verminfiends to be call backs to what the average Skaven are at the core. The average Skaven is a starving, abused, cowardly Clanrat looked down upon as meaningless by both his superiors, and his enemies. But together, in groups, in battle, they are the relentless Vermintide, swarming around enemies, finding weak points, and plunging into them with savage fervor hidden beneath that wretched body. For all the Skaven are constantly backstabbing, one of the big things about Clanrats is the courage and ferocity they gain from being with others of their kind, even if that courage is based in their own selfishness of having others to serve as meatshields.
I'm thinking that the Verminfiends would be individually weaker than other Lesser Daemons, but they'd be better at co-ordinating in groups/packs and are more numerous. Not because they share any real brotherhood or camaraderie, but because they know that's the way to best overcome and kill their prey.
Here's my own omake by my own talk about the Verminlords.
Verminfiends
The first of the Horned Rat's Daemons to appear on the mortal plane were, to the misfortune of many Grey Seers who attempted the summonings, the enigmatic and proud Verminlords. Simultaneously majestic yet disgusting, powerful and cunning, with a mind filled with a series of plots, they, more than anything else, were the grand manifestation of the Skaven Underempire: awe-inspiring in power, yet horrific in its form, supremely confident in their inevitable ascension.
Nevertheless, these same traits made their summoning dangerous. So, as the End Times progressed, it was no surprise that the Grey Seers began the "search" for the Lesser Daemons of the Horned Rat. And eventually, to the dismay of the rest of the world, they found them.
They were emaciated things, as tall as an Orc Big 'Un, yet skinny to the bone, in the shape of an abnormally large, elongated Skaven. Their furred skin was threadbare, and matted with scars, pustules, and sores. Their limbs clutched rusted, serrated, faded-green blades that looked like they had been misused and abused for centuries. At a first glance, they seemed miserable, pathetic, and many dismissed as odd-looking, but hardly a threat. They were fools to do so.
In battle, it was a very different story. Their eyes went alert, their postures sharp and coordinated, their red and green eyes would pour over the lines of their foes with acuteness. In a burst of frantic speed they dash towards their targets, all pretense of weakness gone as they pinpoint the slightest weak point and pounce on it mercilessly in a storm of chittering shrieks, crawling under shield walls, lanky arms grabbing foes with unnatural strength, blades melting armor like acid, and warpstone-encrusted teeth biting into flesh. Larger creatures are beset as if by a pack of hunters, stabbing, dashing, cutting, biting.
If they are not the manifestation of the power of the Under-Empire, perhaps they are something more basic. They are the at the core of every Skaven, of the vast teeming hordes. Weak appearing, pathetic, starving, unnatural, looked down upon by their betters and individually unimpressive, and yet together possibly the greatest threat one could have the misfortune of encountering. They are savage, they are intelligent, they are relentless.
They are the Verminfiends.
OOC: As the Skaven Lesser Daemon, I wanted the Verminfiends to be call backs to what the average Skaven are at the core. The average Skaven is a starving, abused, cowardly Clanrat looked down upon as meaningless by both his superiors, and his enemies. But together, in groups, in battle, they are the relentless Vermintide, swarming around enemies, finding weak points, and plunging into them with savage fervor hidden beneath that wretched body. For all the Skaven are constantly backstabbing, one of the big things about Clanrats is the courage and ferocity they gain from being with others of their kind, even if that courage is based in their own selfishness of having others to serve as meatshields.
I'm thinking that the Verminfiends would be individually weaker than other Lesser Daemons, but they'd be better at co-ordinating in groups/packs and are more numerous. Not because they share any real brotherhood or camaraderie, but because they know that's the way to best overcome and kill their prey.
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