Plague Censer Bearer
Plague Censer Bearers are the most deranged fanatics of the Clans Pestilens. [3a]
Combat and equipment
As the name suggests, these truly crazed skaven are armed with a Plague Censer, a flail with a spiked metal ball as a head, filled with various concoctions, infused with warpstone oils and set aflame. As the bearer fights with it, flailing it around with rabid fervour, crushing bones and shattering skulls, it releases a cloud of poisonous gas that enshrouds them as well as corrodes metal, blisters flesh and infects those nearby with virulent contagion. Plague Monks are much more resistant to the effects of the noxious fumes than other, less corrupt forms of life, but even they will eventually dissolve and die. [1][3a]
Recruitment
Only the most deluded or unfortunate find themselves armed with plague censers.
Those afflicted with rotgrubs or frothblight see it has a true blessing and the noxious fumes further intensifies their feverish hallucinations of their deity and strengthens their convictions that the Second Great Withering is near. [3a][4a]
Most skaven are reluctant to become Censer Bearers, knowing that such a duty amounts to a death sentence. Some individuals accept their 'promotion' in order to escape Plague Priests' anger and to die slowly, not horribly, but many of them are chosen unwillingly such as rising Plague Monks who are seen as future rivals by Plague Priests and therefore are knocked unconscious by gangs to be chained to plague censers. Others are captives and slaves of different Great Clans given the choice between becoming a Censer Bearer or raw ingredients for the vile brews inside the censer. [3a][4a]
However when the fumes take hold Censer Bearers go into a killing frenzy and charge into enemy lines without any thought for their own safety. Even as there own flesh begins to bubble and slough, they don't stop even for a moment. [3a][4a]
Known censer concoctions
- Pus-soaked incense of pallid rotshade. [3a]
- Disease-bloated hearts of butchered, plague-riddled corpses. [3a]
- Thrice-cursed ashes from a victim of one of the Great Plagues. [3a]
- Warpstone-infused corpse juice. [4a]
- Pus extracted from bileworm larvae. [4a]
- Rancid slather of a skaven infected with one of the Great Plagues. [4a]
- Moaning ashes of a mighty Treelord trapped for unknown aeons. [5a][5b]
Miniatures
A single Plague Censer Bearer.
Sources
- 1: Plague Censer Bearer product description
- 2: Warscrolls
- 3: Battletome: Skaven Pestilens (2016)
- 3a: Plague Censer Bearers, pg. 29
- 4: Battletome: Skaven (2022)
- 4a: Devotees of Pestilens, pg. 34-37
- 5: The Realmgate Wars: Quest for Ghal Maraz
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| Units | Plague Censer Bearer - Plague Furnace - Plague Monk - Plague Priest - Plagueclaw - Verminlord Corruptor |
| Characters | Gnawscrotch - Kratsik - Merkitch - Rhaspfang - Rotfang - Pestifrious - Sepskrik - Threxiphane - Vermalanx |
| Clans | Blitus - Brakkish - Buborix - Corruptus - Feesik - Festerlingus - Grotus - Morbidus - Pustulous - Retchid - Septik - Shrok - Skab - Skrofulox - Sputix - Vomikrit - Vomix |
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