Editing Warbeast (section)

=Skorne Slaves=
The [[Skorne]] make use of a wide variety of hideously tortured animals and giant humanoids to bolster their forces. The Skorne have one of the widest variety of warbeasts, since they don't have a distinct racial theme like most of the other Hordes factions. The only defining motif of Skorne warbeasts is that they are ''in fucking '''pain'''' and they want to take it out on somebody. And since they can't do it to the Skorne, they'll happily do it to anybody else. Arguably another motif is that it's ambiguous how sapient the Skorne's warbeasts are; whilst there are several very distinctly bestial races in their ranks, the Cyclops are known to be sapient, if primitive, race, and the Titans are eerily humanoid. Even the Basilisks could be more sapient than they appear; it would make sense for the Skorne's "beasts" to actually be just primitive peoples...

The favored warbeast of the Skorne armies is the Titan: a massive figure something like a four-armed [[ogre]] with the tusks of an elephant. Most Titans are organized into one of three unit categories; the heavily armored shock-troopers ("Gladiators"), mobile siege engines armed with cannons ("Cannoneers") or living walls armed with heavy armor and shields ("Sentries"). The prize of any Skorne force is to field a Bronzeback Titan, one of the great alpha males of the species. The sickest bastards amongst the Skorne like to field Agonizers, which are baby titans that have been starved and tortured until they can broadcast their suffering as a psychic malaise that disrupts spellcasting and demoralizes foes. This is the memetic "weaponized screams of a tortured baby elephant" unit.

[[Basilisk]]s are the other major warbeast of the Skorne; a race of bipedal reptiles (or possibly [[lizardfolk]]) with mystically empowered eyes. Males, known as "Drakes", are fielded for their ability to disintegrate whatever they look at, but females ("Kreas") have their eyes sewn shut, which triggers a unique ability to broadcast a mystical forcefield that can nullify enemy projectiles and paralyze those who get too close. With strong cooperative instincts, drakes and kreas are usually fielded alongside each other.

Aradus are [[ankheg]]-like giant insects native to the Skorne's homeland. Soldiers can regenerate as they feast on flesh, whilst Sentinels can spew acidic toxin.

The massive pterodactyl-like Archidon adds a fast-moving flyer with a vicious temperament to the Skorne's forces.

[[Cyclops]] are actually not "beasts", but a humanoid race of one-eyed ogres with the ability to see brief glimpses of the future. Savage, merciless and brutish, they're so barbaric that their enslavement by the Skorne is arguably a step up. Cyclopses are both captured from the wild and bred in slave populations. The more obedient and malleable are designed as "Brutes"; these are outfitted with upscaled Skorne armor and used as flanking units and bodguards. Wild-caught cyclopses are called "Savages", and are the one warbeast that the Skorne ''don't'' torture - they're bloodthirsty enough that hte Skorne found it was actally better to drug them into docility until they could be pointed at the enemy, and even when doped to the back teeth on narcotics, the beast handlers move cautiously around them. In contrast, slave-reared cyclopses are designated "Raiders"; they're trusted to be outfitted with heavy reivers (a Skorne gun) and serve as support units. Most prized of all cyclopses, but also the hardest to handle, are their magic-wielding Shamans.

Another bipedal reptilioid found amongst the Skorne's forces is the Rhinodon, a powerful brute that more or less resembles a humanoid anklyosaur. Dimwitted, cantankerous and violently responsive to even the smallest threat, Rhinodons are one of the less successful Skorne warbeasts, unless they need its raw destructive might of course.

But even a Rhinodon can be... modified. Meet the Despoiler; a blinded Rhinodon metaphysically attuned to the howling Void, surrounding it at all times with the screams of the suffering dead, a state that leaves it in a constate state of terrified fury. Part tormented warbeast, part lumbering portal to hell, its destructive prowess is enhanced by the way it empowers the mortitheurgy of Skorne spellcasters.

Razor Worms are giant burrowing carnivorous worms native to the Bloodstone Marches. Reptile Hounds are pack-hunting predatory lizards that the Skorne use like hunting dogs. Scarabs are man-sized predatory insects with voracious appetites.