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They are a very specific kind of [[Chaos Cults|Chaos Cultist]] in that they are crazed cannibals that typically gravitate together out of the madness of realizing that the primary food source in on the Hive World is other people. | They are a very specific kind of [[Chaos Cults|Chaos Cultist]] in that they are crazed cannibals that typically gravitate together out of the madness of realizing that the primary food source in on the Hive World is other people. | ||
While they devote themselves to [[Khorne]], the connection is somewhat stretched. It is | While they appear to devote themselves to [[Khorne]], the connection is somewhat stretched. It is similarly likely that their patron is a powerful daemon or a different entity altogether, acting under various other guises such as the ''Lord of Meat'' or the ''Lord of Skin and Sinew''. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
Corpse Grinders are not new to the world of Necromunda, they arise with regular frequency, in part due to the nature of hive living. Fresh food is a rarity, and agriculture is unknown on polluted hive worlds. 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 ''Soylens Viridiens''. | Corpse Grinders are not new to the world of Necromunda, they arise with regular frequency, in part due to the nature of hive living. Fresh food is a rarity, and agriculture is unknown on polluted hive worlds. 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 ''Soylens Viridiens''. | ||
The knowledge that you are eating your former colleagues and loved ones is often too much for many to handle, and they become the perfect candidates for charismatic demagogues to turn to the forces of | The knowledge that you are eating your former colleagues and loved ones is often too much for many to handle, and they 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 in cannabilism under the direction of the '''Lord of Meat''' before he was put down, though many cults have risen and fallen since then, though 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. | |||
[[Category: Necromunda]] | [[Category: Necromunda]] | ||
[[Category: Warhammer 40,000]] | [[Category: Warhammer 40,000]] | ||
Revision as of 14:22, 11 March 2020
"It is better that the masses do not know the truth behind what they consume; for many find their sanity overwhelmed by the necessity of our great work. That is what the Corpse Grinders are; weak-willed fools who have seen the truth and seek now comfort in the arms of heretics."
- – Quirinos,Mercator Pallidus
Corpse Grinder Cults are a faction within the Necromunda tabletop game, introduced in the 2019 splatbook Book of Ruin. They are a very specific kind of Chaos Cultist in that they are crazed cannibals that typically gravitate together out of the madness of realizing that the primary food source in on the Hive World is other people.
While they appear to devote themselves to Khorne, the connection is somewhat stretched. It is similarly likely that their patron is a powerful daemon or a different entity altogether, acting under various other guises such as the Lord of Meat or the Lord of Skin and Sinew.
History
Corpse Grinders are not new to the world of Necromunda, they arise with regular frequency, in part due to the nature of hive living. Fresh food is a rarity, and agriculture is unknown on polluted hive worlds. 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 Soylens Viridiens.
The knowledge that you are eating your former colleagues and loved ones is often too much for many to handle, and they 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 in cannabilism under the direction of the Lord of Meat before he was put down, though many cults have risen and fallen since then, though 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 is somehow tied to the planet, seeking its escape or to be given the opportunity to transform the world into something else entirely.