They eschew stealth and guile as the coward's way and direct their forces towards the total defeat of their enemies with stunning brutality. Bloodthirsters are masters of every tactic that leads to the spilling of blood. They are the generals and ultimate champions of the daemonic legions of the Blood God.Ĭountless Lesser Daemons march beneath them in unstoppable assaults against the enemies of their master and his chosen mortal servants. Though not as satisfying as cleaving apart a foe with a sweep of their axe, they do allow a Bloodthirster to reach and destroy even the fastest and most agile of their foes.īut the Bloodthirsters of Khorne are not simply mindless berserker engines of war. Since Bloodthirsters are obsessed with spreading death and destruction, the use of such a weapon enables them to strike down a distant foe with the shattering power of their deafening bellow. The second weapon a Bloodthirster carries is a long barbed whip which is capable of dealing death at range. These fearful weapons not only destroy a foe's physical body, but often consume their souls as well as an offering to the Blood God.
Perhaps the most powerful weapons ever created, these gigantic battleaxes can cleave an armoured main battle tank in half. The keen-edged blade is at least the height of a Space Marine, and its haft several times longer. The first is a massive daemonic battleaxe which is the iconic weapon of Khorne, forged in the heat of the rage of the Lord of War and imbued with the essence of caged Greater Daemons. The panoply of this armour is ruddy bronze or iron black, upon which the glowing-red runes of Khorne are proof against the most fearsome of psychic attacks, a fact that strikes utter horror into the hearts of the most accomplished of battle- psykers.Ī Bloodthirster's armour is also proof against the ranged weapons of the cowardly that would dare attempt to strike them down from a distance rather than engaging in righteous close combat.Īs well as their razor-sharp claws, the Greater Daemons of Khorne are known to carry two primary weapons which epitomise murder. Sections of their armour are adorned with the glowing skull Mark of Khorne as a sign of his blessing. " Gut them! Slaughter them! Slay them! Butcher them! Kill! Kill! Kill! Never stop, never tire! Keep doing the Lord's work!"Ī Bloodthirster charging headlong into battle.īloodthirsters wear ancient, ornamented armour. Their snarling maws are filled with fangs the size of mortal swords. Most hideous of all are their faces, which are bestial, almost canine, the visage of Khorne's most favoured beings in the universe. Their bodies are impossibly muscled and covered in iron-tipped barbs.įrom their backs sprout a pair of gigantic, membranous, bat-like wings, enabling them to soar over the battlefield before diving into the fiercest and bloodiest areas of battle, striking at will. Their feet are cloven and the ground burns at their passing. Their gore-flecked hides are covered in crimson fur the colour of spilt blood and their eyes are milky white without visible iris or pupil.
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Their skin is the deep red of encrusted blood. Most of these creatures stand nearly ten metres tall, whilst the mightiest of their kind are the size of a Scout Titan. In appearance, Bloodthirsters are the embodiments of fear and terror long-expressed in the ancient Terran legends of Daemons that hungered for the souls of Mankind. Only the boldest and most heroic of mortal champions would even stand the slimmest chance of survival in combat with a Bloodthirster, and an even smaller chance of victory. They are the very essence of brutality, every blow ever struck and life ever taken in anger distilled into a single, towering form of iron and sinew.Īs the living embodiments of war, rage and murder, Bloodthirsters represent the bloodiest side of warfare and are renowned as the greatest warriors amongst daemonkind. It is said that there are no more powerful masters of battle in the entire galaxy than the Greater Daemons of the Blood God and that none may stand before them. We offer you our very lifeblood! Send unto your faithful servants the means of this world's deliverance!"Ī Bloodthirster is the Greater Daemon of Khorne, and each is a manifestation of the unreasoning rage and savagery of total war.