Genestealer Familiar

Alas poor Varik, we hardly know ye.

A Genestealer Familiar is a weird, WEIRD type of Hybrid variant used by Genestealer Cults. These tiny figures are not truly creatures of flesh, but rather constructs of the psychic might of a Genestealer Magus. Think of them as similar to the Haemonculus from Full Metal Alchemist, artificial robots made from organic flesh, blood and bone deigned to accomplish one or multiple things at once.

Should a Patriarch or Magus of a Genestealer Cult dominate a region completely, the psychic shadow that gathers around him will grow darker and thicker until it begins to coalesce. This ever-shrinking miasma hardens into a many-limbed form known as a Familiar. When the familiar is fully manifested, it skitters from its hiding place and runs to the heel of the xenoform that unconsciously created it. From that point on, it is as much a part of him as any other body part. Small and nimble, such a familiar is an excellent spy, able to scuttle through the tightest crawlspaces and report back to the cult’s leader through the potent psychic bond that links them.

Familiars are probably used to help assist a Magus in both combat and the further spread of the Cult, and is sometimes used as replaceable meatshields in times of conflict. How or why the Genestealer Magus decide to make what counts as organic robots is unknown. The process in the creation of a Familiar is a even bigger enigma, with some in /tg/ speculating that the Cult might have 'stolen' some Haemonculi technology from the Dark Eldar.