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[[File:Ambull.png|250px|thumb|right|The offspring of an [[Umber Hulk]] and that roach alien from Men in Black.]] | [[File:Ambull.png|250px|thumb|right|The offspring of an [[Umber Hulk]] and that roach alien from Men in Black.]] | ||
A large ape-shaped subterranean desert-dwelling beast that excavates tunnels with iron-hard claws and devours other cave-dwelling creatures with its expandable jaws. The Ambull is originally native to the death world of Luther McIntyre, but nowadays can be found across the Imperium thanks to well-meaning Magos Biologis of the Adeptus Mechanicus spreading the creatures around in attempts at domestication (apparently they taste delicious when properly cooked) however the ambulls have almost always proved to be uncontrollable, tunneling the fuck around, mincing anything that they disliked, and generally becoming an exceedingly dangerous pest on any world they end up infesting. Why nobody thought to simply lobotomize them like [[Grox]] is anyone's guess. | |||
From the description of the Ambull's physical appearance, and their knack for tunneling, there's a certain resemblance to the [[Umber Hulk]], a [[Dungeons & Dragons]] monster that predates the creation of 40k. | From the description of the Ambull's physical appearance, and their knack for tunneling, there's a certain resemblance to the [[Umber Hulk]], a [[Dungeons & Dragons]] monster that predates the creation of 40k. | ||
Revision as of 11:34, 5 January 2019
A large ape-shaped subterranean desert-dwelling beast that excavates tunnels with iron-hard claws and devours other cave-dwelling creatures with its expandable jaws. The Ambull is originally native to the death world of Luther McIntyre, but nowadays can be found across the Imperium thanks to well-meaning Magos Biologis of the Adeptus Mechanicus spreading the creatures around in attempts at domestication (apparently they taste delicious when properly cooked) however the ambulls have almost always proved to be uncontrollable, tunneling the fuck around, mincing anything that they disliked, and generally becoming an exceedingly dangerous pest on any world they end up infesting. Why nobody thought to simply lobotomize them like Grox is anyone's guess.
From the description of the Ambull's physical appearance, and their knack for tunneling, there's a certain resemblance to the Umber Hulk, a Dungeons & Dragons monster that predates the creation of 40k.
On Necromunda, they apparently like to make robotic versions of the Ambull called Ambots, though whether these are bionically enhanced Ambulls, or some insane tinkerer’s attempt to create an entirely artificial analogue for Ambulls is unclear.
Tabletop
In 2019 the Ambull will finally be coming to the tabletop, in both regular and robotic varieties, via expansions to Blackstone Fortress and Necromunda respectively.
