Who are the Skaven

Origin

A few radical Imperial scholars and university professors argue endlessly over the true origins of the Skaven race. Some have speculated that the Skaven are an off-shoot or a variant of the Beastmen, while others insist that the Skaven were not descended from Men, but an evolved and mutated version of the normal rat.

However, the most terrifying thing about this subject is that the overwhelming majority of Mankind would currently agree that there is no such thing as a Skaven, and those that dare to speak openly about such matters are often shunned by normal society, and at worst burned at the stake for such heresy.

Such denial stems from common sense. If word got out that millions of mutated ratmen lived deep below many of the Empire's cities, mass panic would soon ensue. The greatest threat to the Skaven's Great Ascendancy has always been themselves, and if the various clans were threatened by an outside force, such as the Empire united against them, the constant infighting that has held back their species would cease, and the ratmen would gain the necessary unity to drown the Old World in a seething tide of vermin.

Skaven are naturally shy, conniving, and difficult to determine, as their society and race dwell naturally in the underground tunnels far from the reach of normal observers. Along with this, Skaven would only surface during their most violent and inexplicable wars, from which once they are defeated or victorious, their armies would simply slump back to their tunnels and mysteriously disappear from sight for many decades afterward.

Expansion

Skaven are more than happy to expand silently underneath an empire without bothering the "ground Dwellers". However when Skaven are found they are usually attacked on sight and a hunt for the Undercity begins if the kingdom dares to recognize the existence of the ratmen.

In combat and warfare, Skaven will use hit and run tactics keeping the enemy off their balance. The true strength of the Skaven besides their numbers changes based on the clan specialty. From unholy plague monks to advanced weapon teams, the unique armaments of the clans are a whole new horror to discover. The clan's specialty is rarely seen when the Skaven are found, only when an empire acknowledges and goes to war with the Skaven that the ruin the Skaven can bring is brought onto the world.

Occupation

The Skaven are, if searched for, in ruins of settlements or in the undercities they create. The undercities can cripple an empire's food and economical power, however Skaven are careful to not steal too much to arouse suspicion of the Surface Dwellers. These undercities can be as big, or even bigger than the city that they are leaching off of and getting rid of one is an arduous process costing hundreds in gold, sometimes even thousands.

In ruins however, the Skaven empire is extensive and massive. Thousands of Skaven are found in the ruined settlements that Skaven inhabit, and the first building that the Skaven usually built are military buildings to continue the growth and culture that the Horned Rat wishes to see in the skaven.

Biology

The Skaven, in terms of physical appearance, look almost exactly like large bipedal rats, possessing just enough intelligence to make simple tools and converse in a developed language. The more gifted among them are able to learn complex mathematics and rudimentary engineering. Skaven have an expected lifespan of about a handful of years or less; that said, were it not for the (often violent) internal competition of their species, they might live to be in their 20's. More powerful members of Skaven society tend to live longer, even hundreds of years, due to the use of drugs, magic, or frequent use/exposure to the unstable magical substance known as warpstone.

Most have brown, often dirty or matted fur, with large fangs in the upper jaw structure, red blood-shot eyes, over-grown claws, and a naked tail growing to the size of its body length. The large majority of Skaven are normally malnourished, having scrawny arms and legs, and lacking greatly in terms of strength or weight. Though physically weaker than most races, Skaven are naturally faster, more agile, and natural diggers. As such, a Skaven can never truly go head to head with a human, and due to their cowardly nature, they will more likely run than engage in direct conflict. Only when cornered will a Skaven fight with a reckless sense of rage. Those born as white and grey-furred are prized amongst Skaven litters, as they will often become Grey Seers; the Skaven equivalent of a priest and wizard in their society.

Notable Factions

Clan Eshin

Clan Eshin is one of the Four Great Skaven Clans which specialises in the deadly and secretive arts of stealth, murder, poison and assassination learned from the exotic Far East. Of all the clans which populates the Under-Empire, Clan Eshin is by far the most secretive and hidden. This mysterious Clan has eyes and ears everywhere and its deadly operatives are scattered throughout the Under-Empire as well as secreted about within the cities and settlements of the surface dwellers. For the right price, the black-clad agents of Clan Eshin will steal any information, commit any act of ruthless sabotage or assassinate any rival with ruthless efficiency. Skaven from Eshin are loyal to Eshin and do not struggle with leadership and power struggles under the strict and discipline of Deathmaster Snikch.

Clan Moulder

Clan Moulder is one of the Four Great Skaven Clans which specializes in the mastery of breeding, mutating, and surgically creating some of the most horrific and fearsome war-beasts to have ever existed. Such is the demand for these ferocious creations that Clan Moulder is one of the wealthiest of all Skaven Clans. While many are jealous of Clan Moulder's might, few dare to openly challenge them, not when the clan can field an entire army of grotesquely mutated war-beasts.

The loathsome stronghold of Clan Moulder, known as Hell Pit, lies deep within the Northern Wastes. The many foul creatures that roam this land provide the raw material used in the clan's breeding pits, skin forges, and flesh laboratories. The Clan Moulder spine-rune is a common brand amongst the clan's Packmasters, as are symbols of the glowing-green rat, and crude renderings of the whips and prodders used to goad the beasts that have made the clan infamous.

Indeed, the respect and awe the other Clans feel towards Clan Moulder is well-deserved. Their twisted creations enhanced Moulder’s prestige and influence in the Under-Empire, but it is whispered amongst the other Skaven that this Clan plots something else, something far more dangerous and sinister. Whatever it is, none can say with authority, but the sudden surge of new and terrifying creations spilling out from Hell Pit has more than one Skaven Clan nervous.

Skaven Units

Strom Vermin

Stormvermin are the fighting elite of the Skaven Warlord clans. They are distinguished from their scrawnier litter-matters - often standing a full head taller, with thick muscular necks and a powerful build. Most Stormvermin are marked at birth, as their size and darker fur colour is recognizable. As the largest and most aggressive, young Stormvermin-to-be typically outfight the rest of their litter for precious food. If the young warriors are particularly strong, the weakest of their litter actually become the food. Should they survive the traumatic politics and back-stabbing as their litter-pack jockeys for position, the strongest Skaven will be assigned to regiments of Stormvermin and outfitted with the best war gear. Their duties may include forming a retinue or bodyguard for anyone from a minor Chieftain to the mighty ruling Clan Warlord himself, which puts the Stormvermin at the vanguard of the army where they can ensure continued preferential treatment by fighting with ferocity and zeal for their leaders.

Clan Mors

It is Important to note that unlike other Skaven Clans, Clan Mors loyalty to the Clan goals lead to comparetively much braver skaven as long as their commanders live. This loyalty has allowed for the Skaven infantry of Clan Mors to be especially resilient. If a Skavenslave, Clanrat, or StormVermin is from Clan Mors, they gain the following Benefit.

• Hit Points are increased by 20
• SkavenSlaves and Clanrats gain a additional +1 to attack and damage Rolls
• StormVermin gain an additional +2 to attack and damage Rolls
• AC increased by 1
• Advantage against being frightened or charmed.

Clan Skryre

Warp Grinders

Warp-Grinders are a smaller and more portable version of a much larger drilling machine first devised by Clan Skryre as a means to tunnel far more quickly than a horde of slaves could ever hope to achieve.

Some of these massive constructs are larger than the grandest ships of the Empire's navy. These huge devices combine great drills with warp energies to vaporise the broken debris as the machine bores. These rare machines are seldom, if ever, seen, but a portable version can be often found on the battlefield.

The more portable Warp-Grinder opens up tunnels. Projectors gleam with warp-energy, pulverising stone and leaving a narrow and smoking passageway in its wake. Small fast-moving units can follow the device, emerging behind enemy lines to cause untold disruption. But it is a perilous trip, as the newly-bored tunnels are prone to cave-ins and the machines can suffer catastrophic meltdowns. When the Warp-grinder breaks through the surface, it will stick with the unit it is attached to, even assisting in close combat. Without the comforting presence of the parent unit, the Weapon Team will flee the battlefield.

Poison Wind Globadiers

Poisoned wind globes are glass or crystal orbs filled with deadly Warpstone gas. When thrown, the sphere shatters, releasing billowing clouds so lethal that mere skin contact can cause severe pain or even death. Breathing the vapours causes lungs to spontaneously fill with bubbling pus - a horrible and nearly instantaneous death. For this reason, Globadiers wear all manner of elaborate masks, goggles and cumbersome rebreathing apparatus in an effort to protect themselves against accidental gassing. Armour offers no protection against poisoned gas, but this does not stop the Globadiers from wearing arcane body armor underneath their robes.

Doom-Flayers

The Doom-Flayer is a motorised iron ball of whirling blades that was first deployed during the merciless underground battles against the Dwarfs of the World's Edge Mountains. Various incarnations of this Skaven killing machine with spinning, stabbing and slashing blades were used to assail the Dawi's subterranean strongholds. The first few Doom-Flayers were largely Skaven-powered, as the pushing crew generated much of the impetus needed to drive the whirling weaponry. The Skaven crew, protected by a scrap-barrier of old shields, metal-reinforced planks, and even the patched-together armour plates of fallen enemies, could just about avoid incoming missile fire and steer the device to plough into enemy lines.

Skryre's Weapons teams

Poison Wind Mortars

Medium, Chaotic Evil

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• Armor Class 18
• Hit Points 86(6d12+30)
• Speed 30ft

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10	16	20	10	15	16
Str (+0)	Dex (+3)	Con (+5)	Int (+0)	Wis (+2)	Cha (+3)

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• Damage Immunities Poison
• Condition Immunities Poisoned
• Senses Darkvision 60ft, Blindsight 30ft
• Languages Undercommon, Common
• Challenge 9(5,000XP)

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Abilities

Warpstone Projectiles The damage of the globes increases by 1d10 for every size increase (Damage shown is for medium) and globe attacks ignore resistances and immunities to poison.

Actions

Multiattack. The Poison Wind Mortars makes Globes attacks

Globe Ranged Weapon Attack: +6, 300ft, two targets within 5ft of each other. Hit: 23(4d10+3) poison damage and the target must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw or take 10(2d10) poison damage on a failed save and be poisoned and incapacitated for 1 minute. A creature poisoned this way takes the poison damage at the start of their turn and can repeat the saving throw at the end of their turn.

Ratling Guns

The Ratling Gun is perhaps the most powerful weapon Clan Skryre has ever invented, a large, multi-barrelled death-dealing machine with the potential to change the very face of warfare in the Skaven's favour. Though a relatively new and often unreliable design, the gun has nonetheless proven itself so successful that Clan Skryre simply cannot make enough to satisfy Warlord Clans' greedy demands. Powered by Warp-steam and the prodigious working of a hand crank, the six-barrelled Ratling Gun starts to spin before unleashing its deadly payload of Warpstone bullets. Commonly, the gun requires two Skaven; one to hold and crank the Warp-steam while another aims the gun forward.

DoomWheel

Few devices sum up the blend of science and sorcery, the sheer inhuman ingenuity of the Skaven, than the infernal war machine known as the Doomwheel. At first sight the Doomwheel might seem an oddity, perhaps even comical to opponents that have not faced one before. The Dwarfs, who have suffered many wars against the Skaven, know full well the Doomwheel's measure and will direct every war machine at their disposal to blast the deadly wheel apart before it can churn close enough to pulverise the Dwarf battlelines. Indeed, Dwarf cannons will allow themselves to be overrun by the foe, willingly sacrificing themselves for their Hold in order to get off a single shot at the infernal Skaven device. When it works correctly, the Doomwheel whirs quickly across the battlefield, moving more swiftly than galloping horses. If it is going exceptionally well, the Warlock Engineer will even steer the great wheel towards the enemy. This is ideal, as the powerful Warp-lightning bolts fire out, blasting the nearest thing to shrivelled blackness, so it is best to be nearer the foe!

DoomWheel

Large, Chaotic Evil

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• Armor Class 20
• Hit Points 120(8d12+60)
• Speed 75ft, 75ft(Climbing)

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15	22	19	17	13	10
Str (+2)	Dex (+6)	Con (+4)	Int (+3)	Wis (+1)	Cha (+0)

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• Saving Throws Dex+10,Int+7
• Damage Resistances Bludgeoning, Piercing, Slashing, Poison
• Senses 60ft (Darkvision), 30ft(Blindsight)
• Languages Undercommon, Common
• Challenge 8(3,900XP)

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Abilities

Spinning Death. Any creature that starts or moves within 5ft of the Doomwheel takes 10(2d10) slashing damage.

Charger. If the DoomWheel moves at least 20ft towards a creature before attacking, it gains advantage on its Slashing Blades attack and the creature targeted must make a DC18 Strength saving throw or fall prone.

Actions

Multiattack. The DoomWheel makes two Slashing Blades attacks, it can replace one of these attacks for a Warp-Lighting attack.

Slashing Blades. Melee Weapon Attack +10, Reach/Range, one target. Hit: 18(2d12+6) Slashing Damage

Warp-Lighting Ranged Weapon Attack: +8, 60ft Range, one target. Hit: 12(1d12+6) Poison Damage and a creature within 15ft of the targeted creature must make a DC15 Dexterity saving throw or also take 12(1d12+6) damage.

Clan Pestilens

Plague Monks(Censer Bearers)

Medium, Chaotic Evil

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• Armor Class 14
• Hit Points 72
• Speed 30ft

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14	20	18	19	15	12
Str (+2)	Dex (+5)	Con (+4)	Int (+4)	Wis (+2)	Cha (+1)

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• Saving Throws Con+7, Wis+7
• Skills Religion+7
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Condition Immunities Poisoned
• Senses Darkvision(60ft), Blindsight(30ft)
• Languages Undercommon,Common,Abbysal Celestial
• Challenge 7(2,900XP)

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Abilities

Plague Infestation(Pestilens Monks). Plague Monks who come from Clan Pestilens are so horribly diseased it is dangerous to be around. Any creature within 15ft of a Plague Monk must make a DC15 Constitution saving throw at the start of their turn or take 10(2d8) Necrotic Damage.

Frenzy. Plague Monks deal an extra 5 poison and 5 slashing damage on each attack while they are above 45 hitpoints.

Plague Censer. Any creature that starts or moves within a 10ft radius of the Plague Monks must make a DC16 Constituiton saving throw or take 6(1d12) poison damage and be poisoned until the end of their turn.

Warpstone Censer. Poison damage dealt by the Plague Monks bypass resistances and immunities to poison.

Actions

Multiattack. The Plague Monks makes Two Censer attacks.

Censer. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, 5ft, one target. Hit 9(1d10+4) bludgeoning damage and an additional 5(1d8) poison damage.

Plague Claw Catapults

It was in the Southlands that crude torsion devices first began hurling loathsome substances onto the foe during battle. The Plague Monks learned to deliver their pestilent payloads via catapult, the erupting splatter of deadly contents slaying targets in a toxic storm. Those splashed by the semi-congealed liquid find their skin simultaneously sloughing off in ruin and elsewhere erupting in glistening spores. Armour offers no protection against such a loathsome weaponry. Plagueclaw Catapults are great, wheeled scaffold-towers bearing catapults. Pushed into position by ragged Clan Pestilens acolytes, the claw-like arm of a Plagueclaw Catapult is winched back and unleashed to lob hideous death. The toxic semi-liquid leave a glowing streak across the sky as it arcs earthward.

Clan Eshin

Gutter Runners

Medium, Chaotic Evil

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• Armor Class 16
• Hit Points 66(7d12+24)
• Speed 45ft

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10	19	16	15	17	12
Str (+0)	Dex (+4)	Con (+3)	Int (+2)	Wis (+3)	Cha (+1)

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• Saving Throws Dex+7
• Skills Stealth+7, Acrobatics+7
• Senses Darkvision(120ft), Blindsight(60ft)
• Languages Undercommon, Common
• Challenge 7(2,900XP)

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Eshin Training. The Gutter Runners can take the Dodge action as a bonus action.

Sneak Attack. The Gutter Runner deals an additonal 16(4d6) damage of the same type that the weapon causes when the Gutter Runner has advantage on attack rolls or an ally is within 5ft of the target.

Stalk. Gutter Runners have advantage on stealth rolls and attacking does not reveal their position.

(Variant)Poison Attacks. Gutter Runners deal an additional 6(2d6) poison damage on all attacks.

Actions

Multiattack. The Gutter Runners make two Sling or three dagger attacks.

Sling. Ranged Weapon Attack: +7, 90ft, one target. Hit: 10(1d6+4) bludgeoning damage.

Dagger. Melee/Ranged Weapon Attack: +7,5ft, 60ft(Ranged), one target. Hit: 7(1d4+4) piercing Damage.

Snare. Ranged Weapon Attack: +7,5ft, 30ft(Ranged), one target. Hit: The target is restrained and their speed is reduced to 0 by a snare net. The creature can escape the net using their action to escape out of the net or by an ally creature using their action to help the creature.

Clan Eshin's Experts

Death Runner

Medium, Chaotic Evil

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• Armor Class 18
• Hit Points 76(4d20+56)
• Speed 50ft

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15	21	18	16	15	14
Str (+2)	Dex (+5)	Con (+4)	Int (+3)	Wis (+2)	Cha (+2)

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• Saving Throws Dex+9
• Skills Stealth+9, Acrobatics+9
• Damage Vulnerabilities damage_vulnerabilities
• Damage Resistances Poison
• Damage Immunities Damage_Immunities
• Condition Immunities condition_Immunities
• Senses Darkvision(120ft),Blindsight(60ft)
• Languages UnderCommon, Common
• Challenge 9(3,900)

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Abilities

Expert Eshin Training. The Death Runner can take the Dodge, Disengage, Dash, or Hide action as a bonus action.

Sneak Attack. The Death Runner deals an additonal 20(5d6) damage of the same type that the weapon causes when the Death Runner has advantage on attack rolls or an ally is within 5ft of the target.

Stalk The Death Runners have advantage on stealth rolls

Actions

Multiattack. The Death Runners make two Weeping Blade attacks

Weeping Blade. Melee Weapon Attack: +9, Reach 5ft, one target. Hit: 12(1d12+5) Slashing damage and the target's AC is reduced by 1 if it is wearing armor until the start of this creature's turn.

Concealment Bombs. The Death Runner drops a bomb creating a thick smoke cloud in a 20ft radius. Eshin Skaven gain a +8 to Stealth in the smoke, and other creatures have disadvantage on Wisdom(Perception) checks. ALl creatures in the smoke are considered heavily obscured.

Eshin Triads

Some Black Skaven, such as those within Clan Eshin, are trained in the martial arts and tactics of their clan, combining the speed of their smaller kin with brawn seldom found amongst the ratmen.

Only the most devout apprentices of Clan Eshin ascend to the rank of Triad. Well-drilled and deadly, these warriors are a versatile alternative to their Clanrat and Stormvermin brethren and are best utilised behind the front ranks, excelling at exploiting gaps and weaknesses in enemy lines. While their armour is not the strongest, Triads make up for it with their covert abilities. Equipped with smoke-filled Concealment Bombs, they can stalk their opponents and strike from unexpected directions with their poisoned Guandao spears.

Clan Moulder

Mind Control

Skaven Slaves gain immunity to psychic damage and the charmed and frightened condition. The Skaven Slave also gains a +1 to AC

Nasty Inbred

SkavenSlaves gains the Charger ability

Charger.

If the SkavenSlaves move 15ft towards a creature, the target must make a DC16 Strength Saving throw or be knocked prone. If a creature fails this saving throw, the SkavenSlave gets an extra attack.

Hideous Disfigurment

Any creature that can see the the SkavenSLave must make a DC15 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened by the SkavenSlave's Hideous appereance.

Accelerated Mitosis

Roll 2d12 with the results being the mutations the Skaven Slaves obtain. If you roll Accelerated Mitosis again, roll an additional 2d12 up to 6 total mutations.

Instability

When a SkavenSlave has more than three mutations, the SkavenSlaves become unstable. at 4 mutations, the Skaven SLaves become more unstable, and finally at 6 mutations the SkavenSlaves become explosively unstable.

Wolf Rats

Many are the strange and twisted creatures that have been spawned through the warpstone-tainted meddling of Skaven Clan Moulder. Many too are thankfully rare, while others, such as the twisted Wolf Rats, have bred true and multiplied in the manner of their verminous masters, and when a Skaven slave escapes from its holding pen, it best run 'quick-quick' as its pursuers will not be far behind, the skittering and scratching of claws behind them not those of their gaolers in furious pursuit, but instead those of the packs of Wolf Rats that many a Skaven clan keeps for such bloodthirsty hunts.

These ravenous monsters are neither rat nor wolf, but an aberrant amalgamation of the two, both lean and insatiably hungry. No one, not even the Skaven Master Moulders themselves exactly know how they came into being, but they can be found almost everywhere that the Skaven infest - from the tunnels and sewers that run below the towns and cities of other races, in Skaven nest-lairs, as well as existing freely in the wild. Wolf Rats are kept by the rat men for a myriad of uses, most commonly for guarding their lairs, hunting down creatures for their hideous experiments, and even in times of famine as food, although the Skaven sent in to kill them are just as likely to end up as the Wolf Rat's next meal. The creatures can never be tamed and often break from the heavy chains used to restrain them, causing havoc throughout the clan's tunnels until they either escape once more into the wild or are hunted down themselves and destroyed.

In battle, the Skaven will unleash the slavering Wolf Rat packs ahead of their own troops as, unlike the cowardly Skaven, these beasts will readily charge headlong into an enemy - so eager are they to feast upon flesh. Fearless enough to dash into a hail of arrows, they will pounce and rip out an archer's throat before he has had time to draw his bow for a second shot. Then, tensing back on their long muscular limbs, they will leap hungrily into the ranks behind to take their fill of the bounteous feast laid before them.

Brood Horror

Brood Horror are the greatest and most bloated of the Giant Rat species, created and formed when one of the litter begins to mutate extraordinarily fast and begins to feast and devour the rest of its litter, growing at an alarming rate whilst increasing in both strength and savagery.

Due to the creature's reputation, Brood Horrors are highly prized by their Moulder Masters and are only traded to the greatest of the Warlord Clans, for only they have the wealth to pay for their exorbitant prices. Many pay entire fortunes of Warpstone or thousands of slaves in order to get the chance for the creature to be used as powerful mounts of war by many aspiring Skaven Warlords. Other times they are simply prodded into the battlefield and sent towards their enemies in a killing frenzy, tearing and grinding everything in their path.

Rat Ogre

The hulking monstrosities known as Rat Ogres are one of the most successful of Clan Moulder's numberless creations. The Master Moulders have found the perfect blend of death-dealing creature through a mixture of foul crossbreeding and dark sorcerous surgery. In their artificial making, many beasts are literally stitched together, the impossible feat accomplished through the fusing powers of a powerful Warpstone-derived balm, the infamous skalm. The Rat Ogre combines the speed and ferocity of a Skaven with the sheer brawn of an Ogre. Somehow the desperate hunger of both races has been magnified as well - for the Rat Ogre is truly a ravenous creature, forever seeking to gorge its fill on fresh meat. In battle a Rat Ogre pack is horrifying to behold, becoming wholly consumed by an insatiable instinct to kill, rip, and tear, and it takes a Packmaster to steer their ferocious charges. A Rat Ogre pack moves with great speed, their misshapen bodies made entirely of straining, bulging muscles, teeth, and claws. The snarling rage of a Rat Ogre pack colliding with an enemy unit resounds across a battlefield, as the towering creatures splinter shields, snap bones, and relentlessly pound any and all opposition.

HellPit Abomination

Hell Pit Abomination

Huge monstrosity, Chaotic Evil

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• Armor Class 19
• Hit Points 288(24d12+144)
• Speed 45ft

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Str (+7)	Dex (+3)	Con (+6)	Int (-1)	Wis (+2)	Cha (+1)

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• Saving Throws Con+11
• Damage Resistances Poison, Necrotic, Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from non-magical attacks
• Damage Immunities Damage_Immunities
• Condition Immunities Frightened, Charmed
• Senses Darkvision(120ft), Blindsigt(60ft)
• Languages Undercommon
• Challenge 12(8,400XP)

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Abilities

Frenzy The Abomination deals an additional 5 damage of the same damage type of an attack while it has greater than 60 hitpoints.

Regeneration(Clan Moulder Abomination). The Abomination regenerates 20 hitpoints at the start of its turn if it has at least 1 hitpoint at the start. This feature does not work if it has taken radiant damage.

Horryfing Appearance. Any creature that can see the Abomination must make a DC17 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened for one minute. A creature can repeat this saving throw at the end of their turns. Once a creature succeeds, it is immune to the Abomination's horryfing appearance for 24 hours.

Actions

Multiattack. The Abomination makes three claw attacks

Claw. Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, 10ft range, one target. Hit 17(2d10+7) Slashing damage

Stomp Melee Weapon Attack: +11 to hit, 5ft range, 15ft radius. Hit 15(3d12+7) Bludgenoning damage.

Mythical Actions

Too Horrible to Die. When the Hell Pit Horror first reaches 0 hitpoints, the Horror immedieatly regenerates 175 hitpoints and can replace two claw attacks with a stomp attack.

Leaders of the Skaven

Frenzy Queek deals an additional 10 damage of the same damage type of an attack while it has more than 100 hitpoints.

Actions

Multiattack. Queek makes Three Scimitar attacks, Queek can replace one attack with a Warhammer attacks

Scimitar. Melee Weapon Attack: +11, 5ft reach, one target. Hit 10(1d6+6) Slashing damage.

Warhammerr. Melee Weapon Attack: +11, 5ft reach, one target. Hit 12(1d10+6) piercing damage(Queek's Choice).

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Legendary Actions

Queek Headtaker can take 3 legendary actions choosing from the options below. Only one Legendary Action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. Queek Headtaker regains all spent legendary actions at the start of his turn.

Warhammer. Queek makes one warhammer attack to a creature within range.

Trophy Hunter. Queek chooses a creature he can see within 30ft, until the end of Queek's next turn, Queek deals an additional 6 damage of the same damage type as the weapon used.

Skaven Leader (2 Actions). Queek chooses a nearby Skaven, that skaven can immediately moves up to half their speed and make one weapon attack. Opportunity attacks have disadvantage due to this movement.

Lord Skrolk

That Lord Skrolk walks the world is an affront to nature and a sign of the power of the Great Horned Rat. Plants wither and die where Skrolk treads and the very air about him seems to congeal and darken, as if stained by his baleful presence. Skrolk is ancient, having existed many spans of even the most long-lived of his foul kind. Rather than weakening with age, he is possessed of a diabolic vitality that belies the years and the heaped diseases he carries. Indeed, he is bent and gnarled under the weight of countless corruptions. The flesh that is not hidden by his tattered shroud is leathery and covered in a layer of dripping buboes. Even worse, the mysterious hunching growths framed by the robes promise something still more virulent. Each new pox only toughens the aged Plague Monk, who has himself become a walking disease.

Lord Skrolk

Medium humanoid, Chaotic Evil

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• Armor Class 16
• Hit Points 250(22d10+132)
• Speed 30ft

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10	19	22	21	18	15
Str (+0)	Dex (+4)	Con (+6)	Int (+5)	Wis (+4)	Cha (+2)

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• Saving Throws Con+11,Wis+9
• Skills Religion+9,Arcana+10
• Damage Immunities Poison
• Condition Immunities Poisoned
• Senses Darkvision(60ft),Blindsight(30ft)
• Languages Common,Undercommon
• Challenge 15(14,000XP)

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Abilities

Plague Lord. Whenever a creature starts its turn within 5ft of Skrolk, roll a d6 as a random poison expels from Skrolk, on a 1 the creature is affected by Cybella pollen, 2 is Burnt othur fumes, 3 is Ghoul Saliva, 4 is Giant Scorpion Venom, 5 is Deathblade, and 6 is Green Dragon Bile. If a creature succeeds a saving throw against one of the Poisons, they are immune to this ability until the end of their next turn.

Frenzy. Skrolk deal an extra 5 poison and 5 slashing damage on each attack while he is above 45 hitpoints.

Warpstone Censer. Poison damage and the poisoned condition dealt by the Skrolk bypass resistances and immunities to poison.

Magic Items Skrolk has the Rod of Corruption and The Liber Bubonicus magic items equipped.

SpellCasting. Lord Skrolk is a 15th level spellcaster(+10 Spellcasting Modifier, DC19) with the following spells.

Cantrips: Poison Spray, Infestation, Toll the Dead

1st Level(4 slots): Stinging Smite, Detect Poison and Disease, Ray of Sickness, Tasha's Caustic Brew

2nd Level(3 slots): Choking Smog, Wither and Bloom, Summon Beast(Rat appearance)

3rd Level(3 slots): Fear, Protection from Energy, Conjure Animals(Swarm of rats or Giant Rats only)

4th Level(3 slots): Sickening Radiance, Guardian of Faith

5th Level(2 slots): Envenom, CloudKill, Hallow

6th Level(1slots): Disintergrate

7th Level(1slots): Irridate

8th Level(1slots): Torpor Power.

Actions

Multiattack. The Lord Skrolk makes Two Censer Attacks

Censer. Melee Weapon Attack: +9 to hit, 5ft, one target. Hit 10(1d10+5) Bludgeoning damage and the target must make a DC18 Wisdom saving throw or be frightened by Skrolk until the start of Skrolk's next turn.

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Legendary Actions

Lord Skrolk can take 3 legendary actions choosing from the options below. Only one Legendary Action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. Lord Skrolk regains all spent legendary actions at the start of his turn.

Censer. Skrolk makes one Censer attack to a creature within range.

Arcane Conduit(3 Actions). Skrolk regains a spell slot of 4th level or lower and cast a cantrip.

Horned Worship.(2 Actions) Skrolk chooses a Skaven within range, if it is not a Clan Pestilins plague monk, the Skaven magically transforms into one healing 30 hitpoints if not at maximum hitpoints of a Plague Monk. If the Skaven instead is a Clan Pestilins Plague Monk, then the Plague Monk's gain 10 temporary hitpoints. While a Plague Monk has these hitpoints, any creature that attacks the Monk within 5ft takes 10(2d10) poison damage.

Rod of Corruption

Artifact, requires attunement by a spellcaster

At dawn, any creature not infected with or under the affects of at least 3 poisons or diseases that holds this rod must make a DC21 Constitution Saving throw or be poisoned for the rest of the day and takes 18(3d12) poison damage immediately.

Atuuned. As a bonus action, the wielder's weapon becomes magical and gains a +3 to attack and damage rolls. For the next three rounds, the wielder of this rod can cast spells with a spell slot one lower than the standard spell slot(Ex: Casting 3rd level fear with a 2nd level spell slot.). 6th Level and higher spells do not gain the benefit from this feature.

The Liber Bubonicus

Artifact, Requires attunment by a cleric

This book is filled with the most deadliest of diseases ever known or will be known in the world. Any creature that reads the book that isn't connected or worships a god of disease, destruction, or poison makes a DC25 Wisdom Saving throw or go insane for one week as their mind is wracked with true pain and horror of diseases. This creature forgets all information learned from the Liber Bubonicus.

Pestilent Plague. The Liber Bubonicus has 2 charges, as an action, the wielder reads from the book and chooses a creature within 30ft that it can see. That creature must make a DC22 Constitution saving throw taking 24(6d8) poison damage bypassing immunities and resistances. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the start of each of their turns, on a success the effect ends, on a failure the creature takes poison damage again. Spent charges reset at dawn.

Ikit Claw

Chief Warlock Ikit Claw has taken Skryre’s blend of science and sorcery to entirely new levels. He was tall and white-furred before a failed experiment exploded and mangled his body, so an intricate iron mask of his own invention now covers his hairless skull and a cunningly wrought exoskeleton aids his withered left side. The iron contraption is run by a Warp-generator, a masterpiece of engineering that siphons the Winds of Magic to also power Ikit’s devilish inventions. Whirring cogs hiss and vent steam as the Chief Warlock moves, clanking like a fully armoured knight. Like all Clan Skryre Warlock Engineers, Ikit has continued to tinker, adding countless upgrades. He wields the crackling blade Storm Daemon, a modified halberd wrapped with copper wire coils set with glowing Warpstone, energised with barely suppressed power drawn from his Warp-generator.

Deathmaster Skinch

Deathmaster Snikch is the Chief Assassin and prime agent of Lord Sneek, Lord of Decay and Nightlord of Clan Eshin. His infamy is only exceeded by the mystery which surrounds his whereabouts at any particular time. Lord Sneek ensures that this is the case – as long as no one knows Snikch's location no one can truly feel safe. Deathmaster Snikch has appeared all over the Old World at one time or another, seldom being seen but always leaving his distinctive symbol traced in blood beside the decapitated heads of his victims. No one truly knows what horrors the Deathmaster has perpetrated during his long and mysterious existence. It is only on the battlefield that the Deathmaster's presence can at least be felt, stalking his victims, concealed beneath the magical Cloak of Shadows, its ensorcelled power strong enough to make a mockery of the most intricate defences. Where the stealthy tread of Deathmaster Snikch falls, no prince or warlord is safe from his blades.

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Legendary Actions

Deathmaster Skinch can take 3 legendary actions choosing from the options below. Only one Legendary Action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. Deathmaster Skinch regains all spent legendary actions at the start of his turn.

Weeping Blade. Skinch makes one Weeping Blade attack to a creature within range.

Concealment bomb(2 Actions). Skinch drops a bomb releasing smoke in a 15ft radius, 30ft high making the area around himself heavily obscured. .

Critical Weakness.(3 Actions) Skinch looks at a target and focuses his skills and energy on to that target. The next time Skinch hits the creature, that creature must make a DC19 Wisdom saving throw or take double damage from an attack. If a creature hits 0 hitpoints from this ability, the creature dies.

Throt the Unclean

Throt’s status as one of Hell Pit’s most feared Lords is evident from his ability to create and lead to battle vast numbers of bloodthirsty creatures. Exercising more control over his minions than even the most adept Packmaster, it is no surprise that he is a forerunner in advancing Clan Moulder’s status, joining many Skaven battles accompanied by his packs of warbeasts. Whenever Throt personally joins a fight he wields Creature-Killer, a modified things-catcher of his own design that can grab and throttle even beasts the size of a Rat Ogre. Additionally, Throt carries a special whip made from Minotaur hide and cured in Troll digestive juices. Even the hunchbacked and mutated things that scuttle through the warrens of Hell Pit with senses dulled fear its stinging pain.

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Remouldered(2/day). Throt chooses a Clan Moulder monster he can see, that creature regenerates 16 hitpoints at the start of the round in addition to any other regenration or healing, and the creature deals an additional damage dice when the creature attacks. This effect lasts for 1 minute and Throt can't use this ability again until after the creature dies or the effect ends.

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Legendary Actions

Throt can take 3 legendary actions choosing from the options below. Only one Legendary Action can be used at a time and only at the end of another creature's turn. Throt regains all spent legendary actions at the start of his turn.

Claw. Throt makes one Claw attack.

Vermin Valor. Throt gains 15 temporary hitpoints, these temporary hitpoints can stack if Throt uses this action again.

PackMaster.(2 Actions) Throt chooses a monstrosity he can see commanding it to move towards a creature of Throt's choice and attack. The creature commanded immediately uses its reaction to carry out this command.