Editing Medusa (section)

== Warhammer Fantasy ==
[[File:Warhammer Bloodwrack Medusae.png|thumb|Art for the Bloodwrack Medusae in 8th Edition Warhammer Fantasy]]
In [[Warhammer Fantasy]], the 8th edition update for the [[Dark Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dark Elves]] saw the release of a new unit called the Bloodwrack Medusae; former Druchii Sorceresses of Ghrond who sought to use their magic to become beautiful, until they angered the jealous goddess Atharti and were transformed into gore-slicked, painwracked monsters, with tresses of writhing serpents and a giant snake's tail replacing their lower torso. Driven mad and reduced to feral beasts, [[Morathi]] drove them from the city, but they occasionally show up alongside Druchii armies - either chained to Atharti's Bloodwrack Shrines, or having been drawn from their cavern lairs by the promise of victims to take their pain out on.

They're called "bloodwrack" medusae because their gaze attack doesn't petrify - it exsanguinates, causing a victim's blood to painfully erupt from their skin until they collapse in a gore-drenched heap.

In [[Total War: WARHAMMER]], their gaze attack is portrayed as some kind of FTL missile that blows shit up in a "blink of an eye".

They will be returning in [[Age of Sigmar]] as part of the new [[Daughters of Khaine]] faction, evidently having regained most of their sanity and now serving as the high priestesses of [[Morathi]], who is herself a Medusa right down to the petrifying gaze and snakes for hair. They are particularly close to the [[lamia]]-like Melusai.