Editing House Cawdor (section)

===Stig Shamblers===
{{topquote|Some say his skin has the [[Mutant|texture of a dolphin’s]], and that wherever you are in the world, if you turn your radio to 88.4 you can [[Psyker|actually hear his thoughts]]. All we know is he's called the Stig|Proving that masked mutants existed even in M3}}

There is an oddity in House Cawdor; despite the Redemptionist Creed espousing that mutation is a sin, punishable by death, there to seem to be exceptions.

In a heavily polluted and irradiated environments, with a lack of proper nutrition and medical access; people born with deviations are remarkably common. For some reason or another, these individuals are permitted to live and thrive within the house, despite expectations to the contrary.

There is no actual method or rule as to what is considered acceptable either: Some people might be born with a gimpy leg, or an extra finger. Others might be born with dwarfism, or gigantism and clearly be different from others but do not necessarily always fall under the expected remit of "[[Mutant]]". But in cases some other acceptable individuals might indeed be true 40k mutants. It all depends on what the leaders say, and so if someone higher up in the holy chain of command says so, then you have to go with it regardless of your own interpretation of the creed.

These more extreme misfits are called "Stigs" ''(never mutants, lest it spark a riot)'' and usually come in pairs in order to overcome their particular deficiencies, such as smart with stupid, or tall with small. They are equivalent to the "Brutes" of other Houses and are often being made to lug around the heaviest equipment, or used as expendable battering rams since nobody really cares what will happen to them.