Editing Corpse Grinder Cults (section)

==History==
Corpse Grinders are not new or exclusive to the world of Necromunda, they arise with regular frequency, in part due to the nature of life on a Hive World. Agriculture is unknown on polluted hive worlds (except perhaps amongst the wealthiest of the elite) and fresh food is a rarity. Even constant imports from agri-worlds can't always match the demand for food. To prevent the population from starving out, Imperial sanctioned '''Corpse Guilds''' are legally entitled to collect the bodies of the dead and recycle them into more useful materials such as "Corpse Starch" or ''[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs-gocza6t8 Soylens Viridiens]'' (Subtle, GW).

Thing is, the knowledge that you are eating your former colleagues and loved ones is often too much for many to handle already. When combined with hacking apart bodies to make burgers 12 hours a day; it is enough to make all but the strongest minds crack. Therefore tired and jaded members of the Corpse Guilds become the perfect candidates for charismatic demagogues to turn to the forces of [[Chaos]].

This first Corpse Grinder cult arose before the world had even been fully brought under unified control, hinting that it may go as far back as the [[Great Crusade]] during a period called the ''Great Road War''. An Ash-Rider called '''Waz Bonepicker''' managed to unify various clans under the cannibalistic direction of the '''Lord of Meat''' before he was put down. Though many cults have risen and fallen since then, nearly all record of these uprisings has been brutally scrubbed from existence in order to conceal their presence from the Imperium. Rumours still persist, particularly in the ash-wastes which are further from suppression of the Imperium, that the "Lord of Skin and Sinew" has walked the surface of Necromunda before, or that he might be a powerful daemon that [[Caliban|is somehow tied to the planet, seeking its escape]] or to be given the opportunity to transform the world into something else entirely.

===Organization===
Despite the grimdark inevitability of eating the processed remains of your fellow citizens leading to madness, it still takes a spark to ignite the rebellion of a Corpse Grinder cult. It tends to start with one individual who will later be known as the '''Harvest Lord'''. These individuals, either by listening to the whispering voices in their head, or through the desperate pains of hunger, will succumb to the cannibal madness and forgo waiting for the final product and start eating raw flesh. The high protein diet of their former friends allowing them to become stronger than normal, but only enticing them to become hungrier and hungrier and seeking out new sources of food. Shortly afterward, they will share the revelation that "fresh food makes you healthy" with trusted individuals, and eventually a cult begins to form around them, starting to revel in the meat-eating practices. Such cults grow and grow, with the ego and power of their leader only growing with them, with the eventual end-point of the Harvest Lord becoming directly possessed by their mysterious patron and becoming the living embodiment of the "Lord of Meat".

Beneath the Harvest Lord will be any number of '''Butchers''' who lead splinter sects of their own, and may or may not be closer to the truth of their connection to the malign forces of Chaos. Beneath them sit the '''Cutters''', then '''Skinners''', then '''Initiates'''. As members of the Corpse Guilds, they would have been forced to wear masks as part of their daily duties, in order to stop them from becoming tempted by the promise of fresh meat. Clearly such precautions failed, and so with each division in the cult, they decorate their masks to signify their proximity in rank from the leader and to act as tools of intimidation when they eventually declare themselves.

Eventually the illicit whispers grow into impatient screams of [[Meatbread|MORE MEAT]]!! and they finally make themselves public. At this point the followers would have grown in number to a threatening uprising, and their members grown strong on their diets of fresh meat, and armed with various cutting and sawing tools; making them a force to be reckoned with, their main limiting factor being the fact that they are mostly a collection of madmen who eschew ranged weapons with only the lowest and "sanest" members actually remembering how triggers work.