![]() ![]() ![]() The Shield Maiden is a creature of spiked and clawed ebony warpsteel, though aside from being covered in spiked metal, she appears otherwise to be human. Perhaps the oldest and most potent of the Blackened, known to accompany Zahak even on damnation’s respite. So far the most reassuring aspect is that she has relatively few, and rarely gathers more than a handful in one place. Through greater coordination with the Eldar we have been able to form a clearer picture of her servents. Given Zahak’s apparent interest in Ridcully, a degree of familiarity with her servants has been deemed a priority. This is not enough to fully explain the relative ease in which they pierce the veil, but it does hint at greater limits than we are presently aware of. This means that should a Blackened be slain, even by purely mundane means, they will be greatly inconvenienced, as the body they were using will likely be expensive and time consuming to reconstruct. In addition, they seem able to construct semi-permanent bodies for themselves, bodies capable of acting much like a daemonhost and enabling them to survive prolonged stints in realspace. To use a (painfully) inaccurate metaphor, they are metaphysically smaller than most demons of their potency, relying far more on skill rather than raw spiritual mass, much like a mortal does. The Eldar have shed some light on how they seem to be able to slip into the mortal plane with greater ease than typical daemons. However many seem to seek altruistic ends, more so that could be explained purely by chance. While they will universally fight Chaos wherever they encounter it they typically seem to pursue the goals they possessed as mortals, only now with infernal immortality. They seem to possess a degree of resistance to most anti-daemon techniques, though whether this is because they are altered less than most demons or yet another quirk of their nature is not known.īehaviorally the Blackened barely seem to be related. Beyond this, the Blackened share little in common with each other. Furthermore, they seem able to ritualistically devour a daemon entirely should it be bound in place, an ability that explains why so many of them seem interested in unearthing bound demons. While they cannot casually consume anything they slay, any daemon sent back to the Warp by their hands will have a portion of its essence consumed by the Blacked, the strongest Blackened typically taking the greater bite from their foes. For the most part the only universal power all Blackened Ones share is a degree of their master's hunger, though even it vary wildly among them in how strong it is and how it manifests. They typically appear much as they did as mortals, only covered in some form of black substance. Much like their lord the Blackened are wildly atypical for daemons. Known as the Blackened each of them is an ascended mortal who have managed to surpass the invisible boundary that separates even exemplars from those truly above other heroes even before receiving the blessing of their goddess. Zahak’s daemons are extraordinarily few, whether this is because of the cost of creating them or merely due to the stringent selection criteria is unclear. ![]()
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