Grotesque

Dumber than an Ogryn and more destructive than an Ork.

Grotesques are large hulking constructs of muscle and bone made by everyone's favorite flesh sculptors, the Haemonculi. The origin of a Grotesque are that of prisoners from a Dark Eldar raid who are often unvoluntarily chosen as the Haemonculus next art project. The process of becoming a grotesque is extremely long and painful. The victim is injected with growth elixirs, macrosteroids, and muscle stimulants. The victim's bonegrowth is driven into hyperactivity by the injection of osseovirals, resulting in external spines sprouting from the victim. Near the end of the process, perhaps many years later, the hands of the poor victim are replaced with metal claws or dripping tubes that can eject sprays of blood-ichor. At this stage of the transformation, grotesques are mostly lobotomised and so will mindlessly obey their Haemonculus master. Last of all, the victim's horrifying face is covered with a mask of black iron.

Grotesques are essentially the Dark Eldar analogues of Imperial Servitors. The fact that they are often lobotomized than face the horrors of becoming Batman's Bane means that the Dark Eldar are surprising reasonable in this regard, although only in terms of absolute loyalty rather then genuine pity.

Equipment

Some grotesques, perhaps the most ferocious of them, known as Aberrations, are granted by the Haemonculi some far more deadly weapons than their claws. These weapons are usually gauntlets or other integrated weaponry, as grotesques are likely too stupid enough to truly wield weapons.

In war grotesques are generally used as linebreakers. Grotesques are usually sent to front line of an attack force, as they will kill relentlessly until commanded otherwise. Grotesques are also reported to sometimes fight amongst themselves. Likely, the various steroids and stimulants flowing through their bodies are what send them into these berserk testosterone fueled rampages. A grotesque that has killed its fellows usually dies, though whether at the hand of its Kabalite or Wych allies, or some other reason altogether is unknown.