Hedonites of Slaanesh – Myrmidesh Painbringers

Clad in immaculately polished armour and wielding elegant scimitars, the warriors of the Myrmidesh embody the martial pride of Slaanesh. Each member of this warlike sect is trained in the Dance of the Wailing Blade, a sword-form that enshrines killing in the most artful and agonising fashion. Myrmidesh view themselves as paragons of the battlefield, far more sophisticated than their fellow Hedonites. Such is their monomaniacal focus that they claim even to surrender self-aggrandisement, concealing their visage behind full helms. Yet this pride in their own warrior purity is a vice in itself. On the rare occasion that a killing blow is thwarted, the Painbringers emit a wail of spiteful fury, descending into a frenzy of hacking strikes. To join the Myrmidesh, an aspirant must seek out their crystalline monasteries and temples of serrated glass. Six harrowing trials, assaults on sense and form, must then be overcome – the last of which is always to ingest a concoction of hallucinogenic potions that expose them to every temptation imaginable. Only those capable of looking past all other distractions and embracing the cut and thrust of combat are permitted to name themselves as true Myrmidesh.