Mengil Manhide's Manflayers
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Mengil Manhide's Manflayers are one of the Regiments of Renown from Warhammer Fantasy. They are a Dark Elf mercenary band, consisting of guerilla style warriors led by the noble turned mercenary captain, who in later additions would be retconned into a cruel fiend even by Druchii standards.
Fluff
First Version
During the spring of his last year, a Dark Elf named Kraal the Hearteater, essentially an elf version of Charles Manson, gathered all the young men of his immediate family. Spells were cast, sacrifices were made, and these elves were initiated into their family cult. At the completion of the ceremony, Kraal expelled them from the forest and forbade them from returning until each had slain a human warrior or died in the attempt, a standard tradition in Kraal's family.
Mengil, Kraal's son, quickly acclimatized to his new social role despite never having left his forested home before. He found a huge Norse champion, killed him, skinned him and fashioned the skin into a cloak. Mengil found that he liked the marauding life so much that he decided against returning to his father's people and set out on a life of banditry and mayhem.
He founded a company of Dark Elves and modelled their style after his, establishing both the dress code of flayed skin over armor for of his followers and his full new name - Mengil Manhide. The company was further strengthened when Mengil joined forces with the Dark Elf renegade Champion, Ean Hawkbane, who had a large trained owl which served both in combat and as a scout.
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