Ossiarch Bonereapers

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Grand Alliance Death Ossiarch Bonereapers

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Lore Tactics General Tactics

"The Tithe has come. Will you pay? Or will you serve?"

– Katakros

"Two can play at that game!"

– Likely Nagash after learning how Sigmar makes Stormcast

The latest addition to Nagash’s ever growing hordes, the Ossiarch Bonereapers are the result of an eons old plan by Big Bone Daddy.

Possibly inspired by the Stormcast Eternals, the Bonereapers are not mere skeletons given life by necromancy, but massive constructs of bone and countless warrior souls, marking them all look impressively robust for undead. Since the Legions of the Nagash are the mainstay, the Nighthaunt are the shock troops and the Flesh-Eater Courts are completely insane, these buff boned boys are the elite vanguard of the Grand Alliance. Given their themes of bones, undead constructs and two units being a priest and skull-throwing catapults they're the closest things we've got to Tomb Kings in AoS.

The "Tithe" is instrumental to them - This is Nagash' way of making himself the undead mob boss of all the Realms. Instead of just going out and killing shit to get their bones, the Ossiarchs give settlements a contract - Give up a set amount of bones whenever we stroll by, or face annihilation now. Understandably, most choose the former. Where the bones comes from and their quality doesn't matter; only that the Tithe is paid. Though, sometimes a particularly war-horny Leige will give impossible demands (such as detailed records of every bone in the city, including those still inside the living) or arrive early to extract the Tithe just to get a good slaughter out of it. This all proves that, while Nagash is a pragmatic sort of fellow, he'll always find a way to be a huge boney dick about it.

Forces

Angry Dooting Intensifies

• Mortek Guard: Rank and file infantry of the Bonereapers. Well armored and shielded, and with the choice of swords or spears and optional greatswords as weapons.
• Necropolis Stalkers: Morghasts with an extra pair of arms in place of wings, three extra faces and their name's ripped from the Necropolis Knights and the Tomb Stalkers. Skeletal constructs the size of Kurnoth Hunters, each one has the soul of four warriors, and switches between which one is dominant, altering their fighting style accordingly.
• Immortis Guard: Four-armed Grave Guard Tomb Guard elite skellingtons armed with a halberd in one set of hands and a shield in the other.
• Kavalos Deathriders: Essentially bony Varanguard who serve Bone Daddy instead of the Everchosen. Each one has the soul of dozens of warriors to draw on their knowledge and is proportionately arrogant.
• Mortek Crawler: Screaming Skull Catapult 2.0 with an obligatory patent-friendly rename. Also it’s powered by a bone-made hamster wheel.
• Morghast Harbingers: You know em, you love em. Nagash's original sculpted bone construct. Flying blenders armed with either halberds (take these) or twin swords (dont take these) these are you chargey bois.
• Morghast Archai: As above but these are your bodyguard bois.
• Gothizzar Harvester: A big monster construct with weapon hands and a four-armed skeleton for a codpiece that harvests bones and uses them to make new constructs on the fly.
• Mortisan Soulreaper:
• Mortisan Boneshaper: The healers of the Bonereapers.
• Mortisan Soulmason: Miniature Arkhans who are in charge of hunting and fusing souls for their various constructs. They ride into battle on boney thrones with chicken legs.
• Liege-Kavalos: Field generals with skeleton mounts placed in charge of leading the Bonereaper armies. They are forged as a cruel mockery of Sigmar’s Lord-Celestant on Dracoth.

Famous Legions

• Mortis Praetorians: The personal army of Katakros, created out of the souls of those he personally knew in life.
• Petrifex Elite: Crafted from prehistoric bones, these soldiers are known for their dim-witted klutzy behaviors as well as being a near impenetrable wall of bone.
• Null Myriad: These Bonereapers were built exclusively using the bones of the countless dead who helped construct Nagash’s Black Pyramid. They are a solemn yet prideful lot with high resilience to magic.
• Ivory Host: Outwardly, they appear as honorable warriors, but hidden away in their bodies is a monstrous frenzy that turns them into clawing slathering beasts. Fitting considering they are constructed from animal bones.
• Stallarch Lords: A cavalry centric force.
• Crematorians: These Bonereapers are burning with an internal fire to the point where some of them literally explode when killed.

Significant Skeletons

• Katakros, Mortarch of the Necropolis: In life he was the greatest strategic genius in all the Mortal Realms, and undeath has done nothing to dull his mastery of military tactics. He's been given a new body of enscrolled bone by Nagash himself which looks like a JoJo stand rather than a skeleton. He goes into battle surrounded by various attendants.
• Arch-Kavalos Zandtos: Both in life and in death, Patru Zandtos is Katakros’ most trusted lieutenant. A professional assassin turned general in life, he’s now a death-purist who wishes to “cleanse” Shyish of anything still living.
• Vokmortian, Master of the Bone-tithe: The grim tallyman in charge of recording/judging the Tithe. He carries the severed heads of those foolish enough to refuse to pay the Tithe and has a coffin on his back, making him look like a giant beetle.
• Arkhan the Black: Yeah, he's part of the army despite technically being just an "average" liche as opposed to a bone golem thing.

Spooky Melodies for your Bony Boys

• Spooky Scary Skeletons! a remix for a revamp
• The Dead March returns for AoS!

See Also

• Nagash, their god who they give their undisputed loyalty to (yes, really!)