Their bodies are drained of blood and their souls are bound by eldritch chains until the master Warpsmith is ready for the final ritual. Then, all the victims are slaughtered, though it is no merciful act.
#Huntdown the blood cleaver full#
Within the sinister and vile citadels of the Dark Mechanicum, the chosen victims are impaled in isolation, but kept from the blissful relief of death for eight full days. This enormous barbed, toothed and skull-encrusted weapon is not so much forged as birthed by an esoteric, violent and corrupt ritual conducted by a cabal of Warpsmiths. The use of the most macabre, wretched souls will result in the manufacture of a great cleaver of significant potency the stronger and more violent the captive and the more humiliating their sacrifice, the more nightmarish the weapon will become. Once taken, they are forced to fight in spike-walled pits so that the weakest are eliminated. These sacrifices are hand-picked from amongst the most odious characters in the galaxy. To satisfy the corrupt expectations of a Lord of Skulls, he may personally select the victims himself. The bitter spirits of murderers are forged within the blade and trapped forever within the fabric of its metal. It takes many vile sacrifices to complete the construction of a Great Cleaver of Khorne. As a consequence, the most skilled tactician will prioritise the destruction of a Lord of Skulls as it rumbles across a battlefield on its brass tracks, lest his tanks or troops become fodder for the Great Cleaver’s grinding mechanical blade. It has rent open the hulls of Land Raiders, slaughtering their crews, and it has ground the armoured panels of Dreadnoughts down to scrap. They have seen this brutal weapon wielded often enough to know of its capabilities.
Great Cleavers of Khorne have also been witnessed on numerous occasions by loyalist Space Marine Chapters, who are little impressed by the feeble ramblings of shell-shocked Guardsmen. Very few have survived to speak of such matters though, and such rumours are quickly put down by the Commissariat. As this weapon tears through the air to make contact with armour, it is said the sound it makes is not caused by the path of the blade itself, but rather the screams of the weapon’s trapped souls wailing for blood – a noise so loud it can be discerned over the sound of the mechanical edge. The Lord of Skulls then grinds forward, ready to absorb the remains of the victims up into the enormous pressure tanks upon its back where it will augment the boiling blood of murderers already contained within.Īround the barracks of many an Imperial Guard regiment, men talk of the effects of this cleaver on their own forces.
#Huntdown the blood cleaver crack#
Once this enormous Daemon Engine has spent its cannon, or can no longer resist its sick desire to watch thick gouts of blood fill the air, the Lord of Skulls will rumble up close to its foe and begin using this weapon to devastating effect.Ĭapable of causing severe damage to even the mightiest war engines, a Great Cleaver of Khorne will easily rip through body armour or crack the carapaces of monstrous bio-forms, and soft flesh underneath is instantly reduced to pulpy offerings for the God of Blood. Only a khornate Lord of Skulls is worthy enough, and powerful enough, to use it in combat. Immensely large and heavy, no mere mortal can hope to lift a Great Cleaver, let alone take one to battle. When activated, the Great Cleaver will erupt with eldritch power, the teeth rotating so fast as to become a blurred edge. Many metres in length, the design of each Great Cleaver is barbaric, and it features a gargantuan imitation of a Chainaxe’s sharp-toothed blade. It is a weapon forged from murder and rage - and it delivers the very same to its victims. The Great Cleaver is fully capable of cutting entire vehicles into pieces and taking out entire groups of infantry. The weapon is large enough that the Lord of Skulls can make use of it as easily as if it was a normal-sized melee weapon, and is capable of tearing apart tanks as if they were human heads. Like the Lord of Skulls that wields it, the Great Cleaver of Khorne is festooned with the remains of its victims, their skulls forever trapped within. A Great Cleaver of Khorne is a Daemon Weapon in the form of a massive Chainaxe that is wielded by the Lord of Skulls Daemon Engine.
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