Severina Raine

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[[File:Severina-Raine.jpg|200px|thumb|right|She WILL enforce the Emprah's Will]]

Severina Raine is a [[Commissar]] currently attached to the 11th Antari Rifles, one of the [[Imperial Guard|Astra Militarum]] regiments fighting to defend the worlds of the Bale Stars from a [[Chaos]] cult called '''The Sighted'''.

==History==
Severina is the focus character of the short story '''Execution''', as well as the novel '''Honorbound''', both written by Rachel Harrison.

She was deployed with the 11th Antari Rifles to the Bale stars system to aid the Imperium's war effort in the system. When the regiment was ordered to attack an enemy fortress, the captain of the regiment refused saying it was a suicide mission. He apparently forgot that saying this out loud next to a Commissar is another way of suicide.<br>
Raine {{BLAM|'''*BLAMMED*'''}} the captain and then had to calm down the regiment as she had just shot their commanding officer, who was apparently quite popular with the men. She stopped the regimental uprising by stating that the captain had refused the will of the Emperor and that she was a Commissar and shooting people who refused the Emperor's will was her job. She then took command of the regiment and charged them into the fortress, where many of them died but they overcame the defenses and destroyed the fortress.<br>
She believes members of the Regiment still hold a grudge, which considering she shot a beloved commanding officer in front of his troops and then forced them into a bayonet charge that only a [[Death Korps of Krieg|Krieger]] would willingly commit to, this is probably an accurate assumption.

Although she's not the only [[Commissar Raege|female Commissar]] portrayed in [[Black Library]] fiction, she ''is'' the only one with a (limited-run, admittedly) tabletop figure to her name.

==Crunch==
GeeDubs wants those limited run models to sell, so they made rules for her. [[Skub|The fact that she got rules and an official model when characters like Cain haven't has proven divisive, to say the least.]]

She's a 36 point Commissar with an AP:-1 Bolt Pistol and a sword. Not a Power Sword, a ''[[-4 Str|normal]] sword'' with a mere AP:-1. She has the same Aura of Discipline and Summary Execution as normal Commissars, but with one bonus rule: Leading from the Front. If Severina herself is within 1 inch of enemy models, all squads in her Summary Execution range become Fearless instead. This makes her useful in close-range firefights or with melee squads in a support role, but Severina's likely dead if she gets in melee with anyone besides Tau or other Imperial Guard. This is because she doesn't hit hard and she's lacking in defensive gear (there are [[Autarch|generic Eldar]] [[Archon (Warhammer 40,000)|HQ choices]] more durable and hard-hitting than her ''without upgrades'') so the [[Aspect Warrior|list]] of [[Chaos Space Marines|things]] that can [[Necron Lord|kill]] her in [[Tyranids|melee]] is '''[[Ork|very]] [[Dark Eldar|long]]'''.

==Gallery==
<gallery>file:HonourBound.jpg|The book cover her model is based on.
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Grotesque

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[[File:DEGrotesque5th.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Dumber than an [[Ogryn]] and more destructive than an [[Ork]].]]
Grotesques are large hulking constructs of muscle and bone made by everyone's favorite flesh sculptors, the [[Haemonculi]]. The origin of a Grotesque are typically prisoners from a Dark Eldar raid often involuntarily chosen as the Haemonculus next art project or other Dark Eldar who have been unwise enough to anger a Haemonculus. The process of becoming a grotesque is extremely long and painful. The victim is injected with growth elixirs, macrosteroids, and muscle stimulants. The victim's bonegrowth is driven into hyperactivity by the injection of osseovirals, resulting in external spines sprouting from the victim. Near the end of the process, perhaps many years later, the hands of the poor victim are replaced with metal claws or dripping tubes that can eject sprays of blood-ichor. At this stage of the transformation, grotesques are mostly lobotomised and so will mindlessly obey their Haemonculus master. Last of all, the victim's horrifying face is covered with a mask of black iron.

Grotesques are essentially the Dark Eldar analogues of Imperial [[Servitors]]. The fact that they are often lobotomized than face the horrors of becoming Batman's Bane means that the Dark Eldar are surprisingly reasonable in this regard, although only in terms of absolute loyalty rather then genuine pity. This isn't a hard and fast rule, and some Dark Eldar Homunculi are known to keep their Grotesques dimly aware so as to be aware of their own suffering, though gods help the unfortunate Kabalite who sticks around if such a Grotesque shakes its bonds for even a few moments.

Perhaps most chilling of all: Almost any humanoid species in the 41st millennium could, in theory, be mutated and surgically altered into a Grotesque. While the bulk of the Grotesques seen are either other Dark Eldar or captured humans, Tau, Eldar, and even theoretically Orks could be given sufficient alterations to turn them into a Grotesque.

== Equipment ==

Some grotesques, perhaps the most ferocious of them, known as '''Aberrations''', are granted by the Haemonculi some far more deadly weapons than their claws. These weapons are usually gauntlets or other integrated weaponry, as grotesques are likely too stupid to truly wield weapons.

In war grotesques are generally used as linebreakers. Grotesques are usually sent to front line of an attack force, as they will kill relentlessly until commanded otherwise. Grotesques are also reported to sometimes fight amongst themselves. Likely, the various steroids and stimulants flowing through their bodies are what send them into these berserk testosterone fueled rampages. A grotesque that has killed its fellows usually dies, though whether at the hand of its Kabalite or Wych allies, or some other reason altogether is unknown.

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