8" 5 4+ 2 Should a traveller stray into a graveyard or mausoleum in the dead of night, they may see an unwholesome fire burning in the gloom. This is no will-o’-the-wisp or magical illusion but the lantern of a sorcerous Guardian of Souls. These drifting creatures are nexuses of undead energy, and they form the focal point of many a Nighthaunt host. They are guardians only in that they preserve the lesser gheists from banishment back to Shyish, for Nagash still has need of their hatred in the other realms.
As mortals, these so-called guardians each dabbled in the dark arts of undeath, but after realising they trod a perilous downward spiral, they stepped away – a weakness of morality that the Great Necromancer neither forgot nor forgave. Upon their deaths, Nagash remade these former magic users as unliving conduits for the necromantic energy they once spurned. The ornate lanterns they carry invigorate the dead and gheists are drawn to them as a starving peasant is drawn to the window of a feast hall. These lesser undead are given new animus, bound into a host of ravening spirits ready to annihilate the living in the name of the Great Necromancer. | ||
MELEE WEAPONS | Atk | Hit | Wnd | Rnd | Dmg | ||
Chill Blade [Crit (Auto-wound)] | |||||||
Chill Blade Crit (Auto-wound) | 3 | 4+ | 3+ | 1 | 2 |
Passive |
KEYWORDS | HERO, WIZARD (1), INFANTRY, FLY, WARD (6+) |
DEATH, NIGHTHAUNT |
Critical hits have no effect on their own but often trigger additional effects (see 20.0 Weapon Abilities). | ||
The HERO keyword is used in the following Nighthaunt warscrolls:
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When moving flying units, move them horizontally in any direction, ignoring intervening models and terrain, and place them where you wish, so long as they are allowed to end their move on that spot. Note that some units have the FLY keyword even if that unit can’t really fly. This often represents units that bounce, bound or skitter across the battlefield so adeptly that they might as well be flying! | ||
The FLY keyword is used in the following Nighthaunt warscrolls:
Passive |
The WARD keyword is used in the following Nighthaunt warscrolls:
The DEATH keyword is used in the following Nighthaunt warscrolls:
The NIGHTHAUNT keyword is used in the following Nighthaunt warscrolls:
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Nighthaunt warscrolls:
The WIZARD keyword is used in the following Nighthaunt warscrolls:
The INFANTRY keyword is used in the following Nighthaunt warscrolls: