Drazhar is the grasp of the Incubi of Commorragh, however he often is the Fallen Phoenix Lord – the one pupil of Asurmen to show his again on his individuals.

Today we glance upon Drazhar, Master of Blades, his shrouded previous, and the 2 warriors cults he could have based amongst the Craftworld Eldar, and Drukhari.

Drazhar, Master of Blades

Drazhar was first encountered on the gates of the Great Incubi Shrine in Commorragh. He walked straight into the shrine, chopping his manner by means of any guards who tried to cease him. When he reached the inside sanctum, Drazhar challenged the enthroned Hierarch of the Shrine. The Hierarch stepped down from his throne into the dueling circle with Drazhar and took up a battle stance. The Hierarch’s confident superiority quickly evaporated when his challenger blurred into motion. The duel took solely a few minutes till it ended with Drazhar stepping over the Hierarch’s useless physique earlier than making a small bow.

No one is aware of Drazhar’s true identification. There are not any information of him in any Incubus shrines, and nobody had heard of him earlier than he walked into the Great Shrine. Even the identify Drazhar is ceremonial, that means Living Sword.

After Drazhar had invaded the Great Shrine and killed its Hierarch, gossip and rumors began to unfold. Some say Drazhar is the Fallen Phoenix Lord, Arhra, and that Drazhar’s armor is stuffed with nothing however bone-dust. It is claimed that there is no such thing as a challenger equal to Drazhar. All who challenged him have fallen underneath his blades. Drazhar has proven no inclination to take up the place of Hierarch and even Klaivex. He is the Executioner, and exists solely to kill; nothing extra, nothing much less.

Taller and lither than different Incubi, Drazhar is quick as lightning. He wears an historical Incubus Warsuit, maybe even the unique Warsuit, which is considerably more durable than these worn by others of the sect. Drazhar makes use of demiklaives or disemboweller blades which can be utilized by lethal Klaivex Incubi leaders.

Next, we flip to Drazhar’s order, the heartless killers of Commorragh…

Incubi

An Incubus is an elite Dark Eldar warrior, mostly seen in service as an Archon‘s retinue within the discipline. Outside of fight, they act as private bodyguards, defending their shopper each second of the day.

Incubi, like Mandrakes or Haemonculi, don’t swear allegiance to any particular Kabal or Wych Cult. Instead, Incubi are educated of their darkish shrines. These obsidian crafted shrines, all presided over by Hierarchs, are thronged by patrons and aspirants desperate to steep themselves within the murderous arts. The smallest shrines have solely a handful of Incubi; the bigger ones are sprawling bastions stuffed with howling marble statues with a central shrine the place aspiring Incubi and different Dark Eldar come of their hundreds to cut price for companies or to affix the order.

Training is extraordinarily exhausting and grueling. Due to this, not each aspirant survives the coaching. These weaklings are burnt as an providing to the iron statue of Khaine on the coronary heart of every shrine. The solely technique to keep alive is to rapidly grasp all the pieces taught. Should an aspirant dwell lengthy sufficient to greatest a confirmed Incubus and take his armor, the ultimate coaching will start. Every aspirant should then kill an Aspect Warrior of the Eldar Craftworlds in single fight, shatter their quarry’s valuable Soul Stone and rebuild it right into a psychic torture machine often known as a Tormentor. After that, the aspirant will be thought of an Incubus.

Incubi are the very best warriors in Dark Eldar society. They are warrior-mercenaries residing solely to kill. Archons favor Incubi as bodyguards. They are additionally used extensively as enforcers within the metropolis of Commorragh. Many pleasure dens or smuggler’s spires have been brutally destroyed by a bunch of Incubi to ship a message to their employer’s rivals. The majority of Kabal leaders discover it too harmful to depart the safety of their lives within the fingers of a member of the identical Kabal, because the bodyguard would have ulterior motives for not sufficiently defending the Archon. Incubi, alternatively, are fully impartial in issues of Kabal hierarchy, observe the code of their contract and their Klaivex chief zealously, and are elite warriors, all of which make them excellent bodyguards. But in Commorragh, even the best blade can nonetheless typically reduce each methods.

Which, in flip, takes us to the Incubi’s Craftworld parallel Aspect Warriors, who’re uncannily related.

Striking Scorpions

The Striking Scorpions are one of many types of Aspect Warriors utilized by the Eldar, specializing in the shut fight side of the battle. They epitomize the lethal attributes of their namesake, which might sting and kill a creature many occasions its measurement. Preferring to stalk their enemy and strike at them from the shadows, they’re cruel killers who revel within the hunt and the kill.

The historical past of the Striking Scorpions is shrouded in infamy from their very starting. The founding father of their Aspect Shrine, Arhra, was lured to darkness and betrayed Asurmen and the opposite, Asurya, by bringing daemons into the First Shrine to wage struggle upon his fellow Phoenix Lords. Those loyal to Asurmen have been defeated and scattered throughout the celebs, however Arhra himself would ultimately flee into the Webway, turning into “the Fallen Phoenix who burns with the dark light of Chaos.” In his place rose Karandras, Arhra’s best pupil, who would give the Striking Scorpions their present type by tempering the murderous nature instilled by the previous grasp with the persistence essential to turn into consummate hunters. Karandras could be chargeable for spreading this new educating and putting in new Aspect Shrines on the Eldar Craftworlds.

Striking Scorpions usually are not solely among the many strongest and violent close-combat specialists fielded by the Eldar however glorious infiltrators, stalking their prey by means of the shadows earlier than falling upon them just like the wrath of Khaine himself. Compared to their closest cousins, the Howling Banshees, Striking Scorpions usually are not as swift however as a substitute more proficient at shifting by means of dense terrain, utilizing each accessible nook and crevice to lie in wait of the enemy earlier than unleashing their assault. Only these Eldar of the sturdy physique can turn into Striking Scorpions to put on their armor and wield their weapons.

Which ultimately takes us to an answer for Drazhar’s true identification:

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Arhra, the Fallen Phoenix Lord

The Fallen Phoenix was the unique Phoenix Lord of the Striking Scorpions. He turned to the facet of the Dark Eldar after the Fall of the Eldar. Arhra was final seen on Zandros in 928.M41 the place he dueled for seventeen days together with his supposed successor, Karandras. Outnumbered and unable to defeat his former grasp in fight, Karandras skillfully goaded Arhra right into a killing frenzy. At the crucial second, the Shadow Hunter was in a position to soften right into a patch of darkness and disappear fully, leading to Arhra slaughtering his personal disciples in a murderous rage.

He is believed to be the chief of the Incubi warriors of the Dark Eldar.

I consider Drazhar is the Fallen Phoenix Lord, do you?

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