Kheradruakh
Kheradruakh the Decapitator is a Dark Eldar special character, a mandrake, and just a creepy fucking asshole. Kheradruakh isn't his real name, but a title that means "He Who Hunts Heads" or "Decapitator" in the Evil dialect of Eldarese, meaning that "Kheradruakh the Decapitator" is one of those redundant translations like "chai tea." He has eyes of pure darkness, appears to be half-shadow -all mandrakes are rumored to be the descendants of true Eldar and some kind of quasi-daemonic beings that live in the space between the Warp and the Materium- and paid a haemonculus to attach a second pair of arms to him just to look more like a cross between a meth head and a trapdoor spider. Or maybe so he can jerk off while murdering people. Just, fuck, I don't even like looking at him.
Kheradruakh doesn't speak - he simply giggles like the creepy fuck he is. And yes, that does mean that THREE Dark Eldar HQ choices (Lelith Hesperax and Drazhar are the others) barely communicate, which must put the various warriors and wyches under their command in a tight spot. But unlike Lelith and Drazhar, who can at least lead by badass example, Kheradruakh wanders off on his own, GOING MARBO by teleporting in through fucking shadows because he's GODDAMN MAGIC (Level 4 Wizard -Lore of Shadow), cuts off a particular target's head, and just leaves the same way he came in. Which is a fucking area that simply doesn't have light bouncing off of it at the moment. He doesn't even go through the Warp or some in-universe plausible thing like that. He's just one of those slasher film villains that seams to teleport between jump-cuts. So yeah, he just chops a head off and pisses off, leaving all the Kabalite warriors leaderless and all the wyches shivering and ready to take a shower. In the game rules, he's so solitary that he lacks independent character and can't even join a unit of other mandrakes. Ugh, Christ, fuck this guy.
He gets paid an archon's ransom to do this, even though I'm not quite sure how people get a hold of him. Does he have an agent? A LinkedIn profile? No, he can't, because he doesn't fucking talk and Comorragh still uses Xanga. The only explanation is that he's always watching you. From any and every shadow.
The worst thing is, he collects the heads he takes and brings them back to his lair like they're Beanie Babies. He flays them with his bare hands, and examines them. With his tongue. And he's really fucking anal about it, like one of those people who can't bare to see a single smudge on the mint-condition packaging of their Yak Face action figure. He throws away all but one in a decade of killing, and puts that lucky son of a bitch on display in a little cubby hole. Despite his incredibly high standards, the chamber is almost full, making him a cross between a meth head, a trap door spider, and THE HOLOCAUST. And all these skulls are staring at a single point in the center of his lair. And holy shit, that psychic pressure is boring a hole straight through the reality of Commorragh - and remember, the Dark City is already in a nowhereland halfway between reality and hyperspace hell - into some realm of primal darkness. His disciples believe that when whatever is down there breaks through, everyone but their children/followers, the Mandrakes, is S.O.L.. Everyone in Commorragh, and then Realspace, and then possibly even the Realms of the Chaos Gods themselves will drown in a tide of crazy warlock shit out of fucking nowhere. Luckily, Mandrakes are the shittiest Dark Eldar unit and the storyline never progresses, so this dark future resides purely in the realm of speculation.
But man, really people, Kheradruakh is just the worst. Fuck that guy.
| Dark Eldar Lords and Ladies | |
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| Asdrubael Vect - Archon Tahril - Baron Sathonyx Drazhar - Duke Sliscus - Kheradruakh Lady Malys - Lelith Hesperax - Urien Rakarth | |