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"Brother-under-the-fur. Ha! Now you are brother-true. Reject false-words of seers and embrace true face of the Horned One! Bring Skrolk to the Wormstone, and you will be plague priest. Betray, and you become pus-bag."

—Lord Skrolk, accepting Apprentice Kratch into the Pestilent Faith[2a]

Skrolk, also called Lord Skrolk, and sometimes known as the "Disease-That-Walks," is an ancient Plague Monk and one of the legendary disciples of decay within the Skaven Clan Pestilens who also serves as one of its seven governing Plaguelords.

History[]

Skrolk walks the mortal world as an affront to nature and a sign of the power of the Horned Rat. Plants wither and die where Skrolk treads and the air seems to congeal and darken, as if stained by his baleful presence. Skrolk is ancient, having lived many spans more than the most long-lived of his foul kind. Rather than weakening with age, Skrolk is possessed with a diabolic vitality that belies the years and the heaped diseases he carries.[1a]

Indeed Skrolk is bent and gnarled by 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 promise something still more virulent. Each new pox only toughens the aged Plague Monk, who himself has become a disease that walks.[1a]

Lord Skrolk is one of the Plaguelords, the seven rulers of Clan Pestilens under the direct command of Arch-Plaguelord Nurglitch VII, he-who-is-tenth on the Under-Empire's governing Council of Thirteen. It was the sight of the radiant corruption of the arch-plaguelord that caused Skrolk to claw out his own eyes, as he wished to see no other vision to obscure that last glimpse of perfection. Despite these empty sockets, Skrolk moves assuredly and claims a magical sight that sees in vivid hues of decay.[1a]

Despite his seeming blindness, Skrolk's reflexes are amazing. He can catch a fly out of the air -- or rather, he could if any flies were able to enter the aura that emanates from his loathsome hide. Insects literally drop dead from the noxious fumes surrounding Skrolk, and only extreme devotees can abide his presence.[1a]

In battle, Skrolk leads from the front so he can unleash his rabid fury. He bears the Rod of Corruption, a dreadful staff of spiderwood, iron-capped with spikes and covered in writhing runes of power. Many censers hang from its chains, wafting foul vapours. Skrolk occasionally carries plague scriptures with him, and on occasion will bear one of the sacred volumes of the Liber Bubonicus, the toxic tome of ultimate disease.[1a]

In 2512 IC, Skrolk was sent to the abandoned Lizardmen temple-city of Quetza to regain a foothold for the Under-Empire in Lustria. His secondary objective, given to him by Nurglitch VII, was to take control of any remaining artefacts. First among them was the World Engine, whispered by those who escaped Quetza's destruction to have the ability to burrow holes straight into other realities, opening new vistas of conquest for Clan Pestilens and the possibility of plagues heretofore undreamt. Personally, Skrolk wished to obtain the writings of Pruxlin, to create an affliction even greater than the feared Black Plague once created by the legendary Plaguelord Puskab Foulfur.[4a]

Wargear[]

  • Rod of Corruption - The Rod of Corruption is a mighty spiderwood staff with a large flail at the end. Those that are struck or are near this unholy artefact instantly decay or die by its innate corruption.[1a]
  • Liber Bubonicus - The Liber Bubonicus is one of the most holy artefacts of Clan Pestilens, containing some of the greatest and most horrific lore concerning the creation and spread of disease conceived by these fanatic Plague Monks.[1a]

Miniatures[]

Sources[]

  • 1: Warhammer Armies: Skaven (7th Edition)
    • 1a: pg. 74
  • 2: Thanquol and Boneripper: Grey Seer (Novel) by C. L. Werner
    • 2a: Ch. 10: Shadows of Altdorf
  • 3: The End Times Vol IV: Thanquol (8th Edition)
    • 3a: pg. 47
  • 4: Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition: Lustria (RPG)
    • 4a: pg. 62

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