Blades of Khorne – Bloodstoker

Bloodstokers are the taskmasters and overseers of the Bloodbound throngs, charged with keeping a savage form of order amongst a warhorde’s ranks. They do so not through encouragement or chastisement but through blood and pain; each is a master with their cruel barbed whip, and the lashes they inflict direct their warriors onwards while raising their anger to incandescent levels. As befitting a member of their lord’s Gorechosen elite, a Bloodstoker is themselves a potent warrior, but they like to boast that rather than fighting with a hammer or axe, they wield the warhorde itself as a weapon. In doing so, they amass harvests of skulls far in excess of even the most ferocious personal combatant. Bloodstokers are habitually sadistic, sending warriors and beasts to their death without hesitation and revelling as their whips flay flesh from bone. Worshippers of Khorne who have known the bite of a Bloodstoker’s lash often mutter that these champions would find equal acclaim amongst the pain-cultists of decadent, despised Slaanesh. Yet a Bloodstoker acts solely to intensify the slaughter, and the boon they offer to a champion of Khorne renders them invaluable, granting them licence to inflict agony without restraint.