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===[[Flesh-Eater Courts]]===
Strigoi and ghouls. Note that if you want a Strigoi Ghoul King, you still have to buy the Zombie Dragon/Terrorgheist kit or seek the internet for a good ol' Strigoi vampire. Fucking cheap sons'a... Hilariously the Varghulfs are also there, and heroes to boot.

In the new canon, the Ghouls and not-Strigoi began with [[Ushoran]] of all beings, who managed to survive the destruction of the old setting at the expense of anything vaguely resembling sanity and was imprisoned in something called the Shroudcage by Nagash. He escaped and created a kingdom of monstrous undead due to his madness being contagious, and gathered living beings from the Realm of Death to him. As a result, most of the Flesh-Eater Courts are actually still alive (Ghouls are not undead, but rather starving former peasants and soldiers that have been infected with Ushoran's delusions after consuming flesh from the feast of an Abhorrent Ghoul King where the courts foul powers gradually mutate them into Crypt Ghouls, with their appearance worsening over generations). Instead of being bestial monsters marauding the wilderness like werewolves, the Abhorrent Ghoul Kings are tragic figures like King Lear who see a court of magnificent marble and silk-wearing courtiers but instead are the scarred and tainted wearing rags. Also the Abhorrant Ghoul King grotesque appearance is explained as they are created from Ghouls instead of ordinary humans, thus why they look more primitive and repulsive, and that different strains of Ghouls present in the Flesh-Eater Courts is due to the Abhorrant Ghoul King feeding their blood directly to certain members. Thus creatingly more intelligent and/or more powerfull followers, with some of these select few eventually being given the true vampires curse and being turned into new Abhorrant Ghoul Kings who can found new insane/glorious kingdoms of their own.

Some are so delusional that some see Nagash as Sigmar, a benevolent golden deity. Some are in rebellion against him, on the side of the Carrion King. Some ally with Chaos, or other factions. Unlike the Warhammer Fantasy Strigoi who run around naked and can only used half-chewed bones and looted rusty implements as weapons, the Flesh-Eater Courts have a more Skaven-like degree of refinement but without the mad science. This is due to the Ghoul Kings being able to impose their own unique brand of insanity onto their followers, altering their perception of reality; in one story two Ghouls snarling and fighting with their claws over the entrails of an Ogre suddenly see each other as soldiers in arms, who address each other kindly and decide to share their "loot" as kinsmen as soon as their lord (who they see as a shining knight on a horse speaking with another knight) passes them. Another sees himself as a knight who has lost his sword and is forced to rely on his fists leading an army of men clad in bright livery who fight monsters, and completely ignores his own monstrous reflection in the eyes of his enemy as he tears into the neck of what is really a human begging for mercy. Thus the Flesh Eater Courts can never be persuaded that they are living a lie, as their delusion can alter itself to account for every possible situation that would otherwise reveal their true nature and appearance and all members of the court are bound to the same shared delusion. While there are a rare few who shake off the delusion, when they realize what they've done they're so traumatized they go insane and the delusion take over again.

Some manage to organize and even appear as somewhat pitifully trying to emulate what can be called "Bretonnian", but still only look like devolved creatures in tatters.

The Flesh-Eater Courts represent the only living faction in Death where the majority (barring the Abhorrant Ghoul Kings who are vampires, along with other savage vampires like Varghulfs who serve as champions/muscle) are technically alive and the only faction not directly under Nagash's control, as the Carrion King went rogue and vanished from the Realm of Death. All beings are welcome among them, and those who are foolish enough not to play along with their warped view of reality are likely to be viewed as enemies then become food that the Ghouls drag back to whatever cave, ruin, or giant corpse of a monster their Ghoul King thinks is his "palace". They have currently spread throughout the Mortal Realms and can be found almost everywhere, where they recruit from the starving, dispossessed or already cannibal (cannibal cults or tribes make excellent recruiting grounds for Flesh Eater Courts) portions of the population.

While technically part of Death, the Flesh-Eater Courts are too batshit insane to be considered loyal to any Grand Alliance- they draw from all of them, ally with all of them, and fight with all of them with no rhyme or reason. The entire rest of the Death faction is hunting down Ushoran, AKA Ushoran the Handsome, AKA the Carrion King, AKA the Rot-skinned King, AKA the Blood Rose Prince, AKA Sumeros the Summerking, AKA whatever new title his followers have given him this time. [[Cypher|He's been sighted everywhere, caught never]]. Any being with information is expected to report sightings to the Mortarchs, who dispense rewards accordingly.